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Dedicated Devices

Series A in 2004

Dedicated Devices is a leading manufacturer of reliable whole home media systems. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Micron Electronics, Inc. and the company is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

PerfectServe

Series C in 2012

PerfectServe, Inc. develops secure communications and collaboration platform for the healthcare industry in the United States. The company's platform offers solutions that include clinical communication, provider scheduling, nurse communication, medical answering service, patient and family communication, COVID-19, and secure messaging. It offers PerfectServe Synchrony, a communications and collaboration platform that enables physicians, nurses, and other care team members to interact among themselves. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Knoxville, Tennessee.

mophie

Venture Round in 2006

mophie, inc. designs and manufactures mobile battery cases. The company provides battery cases, battery and storage products, universal batteries, belt clips, docks, and cables and adapters; and wireless charging bases for iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X. It markets and sells its products through stores and retailers, as well as online in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Tustin, California. It has operations in California, Michigan, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and China. As of September 4, 2007, mophie, inc. operates as a subsidiary of mStation Corporation.

StyleCaster

Series A in 2011

StyleCaster is the leading digital media & technology platform for fashion, beauty and lifestyle. Through four owned and operated properties, as well as the newly patented Makeover Solutions technology, StyleCaster enables women to discover and share their style. StyleCaster works with brands to re-create the native advertising approach, in order to engage with women who care about the way they look and feel.

Telemetric

Series A in 2002

Telemetric Corporation provides wireless communication and information solutions for the utility industry. The company offers a suite of communications hardware, network services, and software to deliver communication solutions. Telemetric Corporation was founded in 1999 and is based in Boise, Idaho. As of July 1, 2009, Telemetric Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sensus Metering Systems (Bermuda 2) Ltd. As of June 30, 2009, Telemetric Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Sensus Metering Systems (Bermuda 2) Ltd.

OpenLogic

Venture Round in 2011

OpenLogic helps enterprises maximize these benefits and safely use open source software by providing support, governance, provisioning, consulting, and training solutions.

Carefx

Series A in 2003

Carefx's main solution "Fusionfx" helps close information gaps between hospital/IDN CIO and CMIO and healthcare IT departments. Fusionfx is able to help "synthesize disparate data into clinically relevant, user-centric workflows." The solution aims to connect the data points and make it comprehensive/understandable fo patients, payers, clinicians, and the compliance agencies who seek such information.

Sulia

Series B in 2013

**Sulia is a subject-based social network that connects you to the top social sources on subjects you care about.** We all have interests that we're extremely passionate about. Whether it's our family, a sports team, breaking news, Hollywood gossip, a hobby, a career, or a political issue, we obsess over our interests everyday. However, with an endless number of sources talking about an endless number of subjects, it's nearly impossible to find the best sources to follow to across your interests. And, even if you were able to identify the top sources, sifting through all of their content is maddeningly time-consuming. We built Sulia to address these problems (which were driving us mad too). Sulia’s subject-based structure of social channels connects trusted sources and enthusiasts on shared interests across thousands of subjects, including breaking news and events. How? We use a combination of network managers and sophisticated algorithms to identify the best-regarded sources across thousands of subjects. We then dynamically filter content from those sources, regardless of where it's created (a blog, a social network, a media site, through Sulia's publishing system, etc.), into high-quality, realtime social channels. The result is streams of timely content from trusted sources that is always on-topic, readable, and relevant. People use Sulia everyday to discover new sources and engage with their interests. Sulia is backed by leading media and technology investors, including: -- Firstmark Capital: Rick Heitzmann -- Village Ventures: Matt Harris, Bo Peabody -- IA Capital Partners: Roger Ehrenberg -- Founder Collective: Chris Dixon -- SV Angels: Ron Conway -- Mark Gerson, Founder, Gerson Lehrman Group

Health Guru Media Inc.

Series C in 2009

Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways: - Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most to today's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions. - Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects. - Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies.

HTG Molecular Diagnostics

Series A in 2002

HTG Molecular Diagnostics is a leading provider of molecular-based technology solutions for gene expression profiling, miRNA, siRNA and mRNA measurement for translational medicine and diagnostic applications. The Company's qNPA molecular technology platform is well-suited for reliably detecting small, yet important, changes in gene expression levels in a variety of sample types. Privately-held HTG is based Tucson, Arizona.

GlycoFi Inc.

Series C in 2005

GlycoFi is a biotech firm that develops biotherapeutics based on the glycan optimization technology. The firm aims to develop its own pipeline of therapeutic proteins and team with other drug-makers to develop products. GlycoFi has developed a protein manufacturing process using yeast-based glycolysation where the resulting proteins can be used in drug development. GlycoFi was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Lebanon, New Hampshire. As of June 6, 2006, GlycoFi, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Merck & Co. Inc.

DataBanq Inc.

Series A in 2006

DataBanq Media provides search marketing solutions for third party advertisers and publishers. The company's owned and operated media properties provide hundreds of advertisers with vertically segmented and localized customer acquisition opportunities. The company's proprietary publishing platform provides third party publishers with search-friendly social media and user generated content modules, in addition to an effective ad platform to monetize traffic. DataBanq provides search engine optimization consulting & custom search marketing services for clients looking to maximize their online marketing efforts.

Outside.in

Angel Round in 2007

New York-based [Outside.in](http://www.outside.in) is an aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore different information. They attempt to do for blogging "what [Google](http://www.google.com) local search has done for the web." Outside.in makes local blogs the focal point of information access, rather than forums or reviews.Primary funding for Outside.in comes from a series of angels as well as a few VC firms. Those firms include Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, and Village Ventures.

Dedicated Devices

Series B in 2005

Dedicated Devices is a leading manufacturer of reliable whole home media systems. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Micron Electronics, Inc. and the company is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

TopTenREVIEWS

Series A in 2008

TopTenREVIEWS provides detailed product reviews, side-by-side comparisons, helpful buying guides, articles explaining how to get the most out of a product, and an easy way to get it.

OpenLogic

Series A in 2005

OpenLogic helps enterprises maximize these benefits and safely use open source software by providing support, governance, provisioning, consulting, and training solutions.

Dwolla

Series D in 2014

Dwolla, Inc. develops application program interface (API) solutions that facilitate bank transfers, manage customers, and verify bank accounts. The company offers Access API that enables users to link bank accounts and initiate transfers within their platform. It also provides Dwolla Dashboard and Admin, an intuitive interface for managing customers, viewing transactions, and finding business trends. Dwolla, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

CellzDirect

Venture Round in 2002

CellzDirect, Inc., a bioscience company, provides cell products and contract laboratory services to bio/pharmaceutical companies. It focuses primarily on drug metabolism and toxicology. CellzDirect serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and chemical companies, as well as various academic and governmental agencies. The company has a facility in Austin, Texas. CellzDirect, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. As of January 31, 2008, CellzDirect, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Life Technologies Corporation.

NativeEnergy, Inc.

Series A in 2007

NativeEnergy is an expert provider of carbon offsets, renewable energy credits, and carbon accounting software. The company's services offer carbon offsets, renewable energy credits, and carbon accounting software that calculates carbon footprint and helps to add more renewable energy to the grid, enabling businesses and individuals to finance wind, water, biogas, solar, and other carbon-reducing projects with environmental benefits.

HotRoof

Venture Round in 2001

HotRoof is a software company that offers media customization and fulfillment technologies. The company is based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

GutCheck

Series B in 2013

GutCheck is a marketing research company that specializes in the fields of online market research, on-demand consumer insights, and one-on-one online interviews. The company offers a qualitative platform that enables companies, businesses, and organizations to their target audience. GutCheck was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Sulia

Venture Round in 2010

**Sulia is a subject-based social network that connects you to the top social sources on subjects you care about.** We all have interests that we're extremely passionate about. Whether it's our family, a sports team, breaking news, Hollywood gossip, a hobby, a career, or a political issue, we obsess over our interests everyday. However, with an endless number of sources talking about an endless number of subjects, it's nearly impossible to find the best sources to follow to across your interests. And, even if you were able to identify the top sources, sifting through all of their content is maddeningly time-consuming. We built Sulia to address these problems (which were driving us mad too). Sulia’s subject-based structure of social channels connects trusted sources and enthusiasts on shared interests across thousands of subjects, including breaking news and events. How? We use a combination of network managers and sophisticated algorithms to identify the best-regarded sources across thousands of subjects. We then dynamically filter content from those sources, regardless of where it's created (a blog, a social network, a media site, through Sulia's publishing system, etc.), into high-quality, realtime social channels. The result is streams of timely content from trusted sources that is always on-topic, readable, and relevant. People use Sulia everyday to discover new sources and engage with their interests. Sulia is backed by leading media and technology investors, including: -- Firstmark Capital: Rick Heitzmann -- Village Ventures: Matt Harris, Bo Peabody -- IA Capital Partners: Roger Ehrenberg -- Founder Collective: Chris Dixon -- SV Angels: Ron Conway -- Mark Gerson, Founder, Gerson Lehrman Group

Medical Metrx Solutions

Series B in 2003

Medical Metrx Solutions, Inc. (formerly Medical Media Systems) is a medical technology and services company providing diagnostic quality 3-D virtual models of patient anatomy built from CT and MR scan data using the company’s proprietary modeling software. The company’s models — which contain more precise quantitative measurement information than competitors’ offerings — are provided to interventional radiologists and vascular surgeons who use them for pre-operative planning and post-operative surveillance of their patients’ conditions. The company was acquired by AIG Altaris Health Partners in 2005.

Zipmark

Seed Round in 2011

Zipmark Inc. provides a platform that offers invoicing, billing, and payment services for businesses. It enables merchants and other people to send and receive money. The company also offers Zipmark Deposit for bank deposits. Its platform can be integrated into website or application. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

NativeEnergy, Inc.

Venture Round in 2011

NativeEnergy is an expert provider of carbon offsets, renewable energy credits, and carbon accounting software. The company's services offer carbon offsets, renewable energy credits, and carbon accounting software that calculates carbon footprint and helps to add more renewable energy to the grid, enabling businesses and individuals to finance wind, water, biogas, solar, and other carbon-reducing projects with environmental benefits.

CallMiner

Venture Round in 2005

CallMiner provides speech analytics solutions for improving agent performance. With 14 years of industry leadership and over 2 billion hours of conversations mined, they are able to deliver exceptional value to customers by delivering highly effective, usable, and scalable speech analytics solutions. CallMiner helps businesses and organizations improve contact center performance and gather key business intelligence by automating their ability to listen to every customer interaction. Founders Gallino, LaCoursiere and Brown incubated CallMiner in 2002. Since then they've established a global footprint and have offices throughout the U.S. and U.K. CallMiner strives to maintain an organizational agility that allows them to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the market. Over 300 customer-requested features have been implemented into their products and their software services team brings extensive product knowledge and years of hands-on best-practice expertise to each customer engagement. CallMiner is agnostic to the source system that captures data, supporting integration with all market-leading call recorder, chat, and email systems and popular social networking sites.

Purch, Inc.

Series A in 2008

Purch is a digital publishing and marketplace platform uniquely positioned at the intersection of content, commerce and customer. By combining in-depth product reviews, comparisons, and services with industry leading publisher tech, Purch creates a seamless connection between intent-based buyers and sellers. The company generates more than $1billion annually in facilitated commerce through its tech, shopping, lifestyle and SMB brands, including Tom’s Guide, Top Ten Reviews, ShopSavvy and Business.com. With more than 1,200 product categories, Purch is #1 for buying advice for more than 100 million people each month.

Goji

Series B in 2010

Goji is an American online insurance agency, combining smart tech with human expertise to find you the right policy at the best price. Goji combines human expertise with smart technology to match customers with the right coverage at the best price. Since 2007, Goji has helped hundreds of thousands of Americans compare rates from top brands and buy the policy that's best for them. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

LicenseStream

Series B in 2008

LicenseStream provides enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. They automate today's manual licensing processes. LicenseStream is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production, and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan partner include Omnicom, Visible World, and online advertising agencies.

Biostorage Technologies

Series A in 2007

BioStorage Technologies is the premier, global provider of comprehensive sample management solutions for the bioscience industry BioStorage Technologies, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is privately held and headquartered in North America in Indianapolis, Indiana with an additional full-service site in Europe near Frankfurt, Germany. Their mission is to provide their clients with world class, biorepository services, exceeding clients’ expectations of service, value and quality while setting the industry standard for the storage, management & logistics of samples.

DigiSynd

Seed Round in 2008

DigiSynd is an outsourced packaging, syndication, and marketing solution that enables digital studios and other content creators to get the most value out of their content online. The company uses time-honored storytelling techniques and valuable lessons from traditional media, but applies them in a medium of online communities, virtual experiences, interactivity and user-generated content. The company was founded by Oliver Luckett and Rob Maigret who previously worked together at [Revver](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/revver).

Quirky

Series A in 2010

Quirky is a developer of a crowdsourced invention platform that engages participants to collaborate in every aspect of product creation. It is a new type of socially developed product company founded with the vision of making invention accessible. Headquartered in New York City, Quirky brings game-changing products to the marketplace through interaction between its active online global community and Quirky’s expert product design staff, bringing to life ideas from their earliest stages to store shelves. Quirky was founded by Ben Kaufman, who is also the company’s CEO. Quirky is Kaufman’s third entrepreneurial venture. He previously founded Mophie and Kluster. Kaufman founded Quirky on the belief that ordinary people have extraordinary ideas, and that invention should be accessible to everyone. Any of Quirky’s community members can become an inventor or influencer by submitting ideas and helping to determine which products Quirky will design, manufacture, and sell. Inventors who submit ideas that are then created and influencers who contribute to those ideas share in royalties based on product sales. The company solicits ideas for new products via Quirky.com and its iPhone app. Once an idea is submitted, the Quirky community vets it, praises it, critiques it, and votes for their favorites, many of which will eventually be made by the Quirky design team and sold online and in stores. A prospective inventor can submit an idea to Quirky, and there is no limit on the number of invention ideas that a person can submit. When determining which products to make, Quirky considers factors such as uniqueness, manufacturing complexity, and intellectual property rights, yet they are committed to working on ideas both big and small that make life better. In 2016, the Quirky platform relaunched under new ownership.

Goji

Series D in 2014

Goji is an American online insurance agency, combining smart tech with human expertise to find you the right policy at the best price. Goji combines human expertise with smart technology to match customers with the right coverage at the best price. Since 2007, Goji has helped hundreds of thousands of Americans compare rates from top brands and buy the policy that's best for them. The company is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Metamarkets

Seed Round in 2010

Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use the Metamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Daz 3d

Series A in 2007

Daz Productions, Inc., doing business as Daz 3D, develops 3D models and 3D software solutions. The company provides 3D models and content for movies, video games, and comic books. It also sells its products online. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Clinicient

Venture Round in 2007

Clinicient is an information technology company that provides software-enabled revenue cycle management solutions for outpatient rehabilitation clinics. The company offers physical therapy software that provides patient scheduling, clinical documentation, revenue management, and management reporting services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

IZEA

Series B in 2007

IZEA operates the premier online marketplace that connects brands with influential content creators. IZEA creators range from leading bloggers and social media personalities to A-List celebrities and professional journalists. Creators are compensated for developing and distributing unique content on behalf of brands including long form text, videos, photos and status updates. Brands receive influential consumer content and engaging, shareable stories that drive awareness.

Persystent Technologies

Series A in 2003

Persystent offers a personal computer life cycle management solution that automates desktop and laptop availability and compliance. Their products serve the manufacturing, technology, healthcare, insurance, government, finance, and education industries.

Dwolla

Series C in 2013

Dwolla, Inc. develops application program interface (API) solutions that facilitate bank transfers, manage customers, and verify bank accounts. The company offers Access API that enables users to link bank accounts and initiate transfers within their platform. It also provides Dwolla Dashboard and Admin, an intuitive interface for managing customers, viewing transactions, and finding business trends. Dwolla, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Extreme Reach

Series B in 2010

Extreme Reach is revolutionizing the business aspects of content production and creative asset management for the media, entertainment and advertising ecosystem. In addition to being the leader in commercial Talent & Rights management and the 3rd largest EOR in the US, ER has transformed the way advertisers control the deployment of their creative and how the media sources those ads to execute campaigns. The company’s creative asset workflow platform, AdBridge™, is built upon a decade of innovation and integrates all the paths and processes required by today’s complex media landscape. The company proudly serves the best and biggest brands, studios, agencies, production companies, media destinations, performers and rights owners. With over 200,000 platform users, $2 billion in payroll annually and nearly four million creative assets in its care, ER frees content producers and the teams involved in ad campaign execution from the mundane so they can make magic happen.

GutCheck

Series C in 2014

GutCheck is a marketing research company that specializes in the fields of online market research, on-demand consumer insights, and one-on-one online interviews. The company offers a qualitative platform that enables companies, businesses, and organizations to their target audience. GutCheck was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado.

Babble

Series A in 2009

Babble is a magazine and online community site that offers information and lifestyle content for urban hipsters. It covers beauty, home, food, travel, entertainment, parenting, and more. Babble was founded by Alisa Volkman and Rufus Griscom in December 2006 and is based in New York, USA.

Zipmark

Seed Round in 2013

Zipmark Inc. provides a platform that offers invoicing, billing, and payment services for businesses. It enables merchants and other people to send and receive money. The company also offers Zipmark Deposit for bank deposits. Its platform can be integrated into website or application. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in New York, New York.

Health Guru Media Inc.

Series A in 2007

Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways: - Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most to today's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions. - Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects. - Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies.

Persystent Technologies

Series B in 2005

Persystent offers a personal computer life cycle management solution that automates desktop and laptop availability and compliance. Their products serve the manufacturing, technology, healthcare, insurance, government, finance, and education industries.

Pump Audio

Series A in 2007

Pump Audio is a new kind of agent for independent musicians, digitally connecting them with buyers in the mainstream media. With Pump Audio, artists can license their music into productions without giving up any ownership, while TV and advertising producers can discover new music ready for use. With a growing catalog of tens of thousands of songs, all by independent artists from around the world, customers access music through Pump's innovative search software and delivery services, the Soundtrack Service online, and the PumpBox™, which is currently on the desktops of thousands of creative professionals worldwide.

Optasite

Series B in 2005

Optasite engages in the acquisition and development of telecommunications tower sites in the United States. It offers wireless consulting services. The company's services also include site leasing and colocation, tower acquisition, and site development. It serves broadband wireless providers, including wireless carriers, as well as other customers in the telecommunications industry, such as the FCC licensed carriers, government agencies, public safety organizations, private enterprises, and two-way radio services. Optasite, Inc. was formerly known as Pinnacle Site Development, Inc

UpSnap

Series B in 2004

UpSnap provides highly-targeted, data-driven mobile and intent-based advertising to attract the ideal audience for brands big and small. Combining first-party proprietary data and real-time analytics, UpSnap goes beyond location to deliver site agnostic and results-driven campaigns that produce qualified, engaged customers. UpSnap tailors each campaign to align with unique business goals, delivering the right customers for more meaningful exposure and better business results.

TxVia

Series C in 2009

TxVia offers the most advanced transaction processing technology for emerging payments and financial services, as well as comprehensive supporting services. Its solutions encompass the full scope of consumer, corporate and government payment applications. TxVia enables electronic payments with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model, a fully customizable solution that supports its clients' specialized processing needs. TxVia clients, which include some of the largest payments companies in the world, realize significant time-to-market, cost, scalability, reliability and security benefits from its customâ€”rather than one-size-fits-allâ€”platforms.

LicenseStream

Series A in 2007

LicenseStream provides enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online in minutes. They automate today's manual licensing processes. LicenseStream is the market-leading licensing automation platform partner for global advertising, content production, and content delivery businesses. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan partner include Omnicom, Visible World, and online advertising agencies.

OnDeck

Series C in 2011

OnDeck launched in Australia in 2015 to solve a major issue facing small businesses: efficient access to capital. They use cutting-edge technology to evaluate businesses based on their actual performance, not solely business owners’ personal credit scores. Ultimately, this makes it possible for us to responsibly expand access to credit. As a result, businesses are able to spend their time where it provides the most benefit—on their customers and on growing, rather than looking for a small business loan.

SimpleReach

Seed Round in 2012

SimpleReach is the #1 way for brands to measure and improve content ROI. By bringing together hundreds of data sources across websites, social channels, and publishers into the world's largest content data cloud, SimpleReach enables brands to understand how their content drives business outcomes everywhere. Leading content marketers like Intel, Chase, and Home Depot rely on the SimpleReach platform to generate actionable insights that improve the impact of their content creation and distribution. Learn more at www.simplereach.com

Streetmail.com

Venture Round in 2001

Driving Business Through Email Marketing. For more than 10 years.

BlueTarp Financial

Private Equity Round in 2013

BlueTarp Financial is a B2B credit management company serving over 2000 suppliers since 1998. BlueTarp pays suppliers upfront for their sales and protects them from credit risk so they can fund the growth of their business. Suppliers can customize their program by choosing to manage customer interactions as they do today, or select a full-service option where BlueTarp handles customer service and collections. They can also grow sales with options for up to 90-day terms, credit lines up to $1M, and a loyalty rewards program. Their SmartView™online tools give suppliers full transparency into customer buying and payment activities. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Portland, Maine.

GetWellNetwork, Inc.

Series B in 2005

GetWellNetwork, Inc. develops precision engagement software solutions to help hospitals get patients more involved in their care process. The company offers Patient Care solution, a care model that combines tools, processes, and people to activate patients in their care; GetWell Practice, a digital patient check-in; GetWell Inpatient, a solution to offer integrated entertainment and patient education to engage patients and families; Getwell Go, a solution that allows providers to deliver personalized care in real time; GetWell Rounds+, a digital rounding and customizable surveys; GetWell PEI, a person engagement index that helps providers understand each person’s capacity to be engaged; and GetWell Insights, a solution which empowers care teams with information and insights to adjust care plans. The company caters to health care providers, pediatric hospitals, and government organizations. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Purch, Inc.

Series B in 2011

Purch is a digital publishing and marketplace platform uniquely positioned at the intersection of content, commerce and customer. By combining in-depth product reviews, comparisons, and services with industry leading publisher tech, Purch creates a seamless connection between intent-based buyers and sellers. The company generates more than $1billion annually in facilitated commerce through its tech, shopping, lifestyle and SMB brands, including Tom’s Guide, Top Ten Reviews, ShopSavvy and Business.com. With more than 1,200 product categories, Purch is #1 for buying advice for more than 100 million people each month.

Handmark

Series B in 2006

Handmark develops applications for Android, Blackberry, Palm, and Window mobile platforms. Its solutions include games, personalization solutions, and ringtones. Its applications cover areas, such as multimedia, utilities and tools, sports, business and productivity, fitness and health, news and information, reference, and entertainment.

Handmark

Series A in 2005

Handmark develops applications for Android, Blackberry, Palm, and Window mobile platforms. Its solutions include games, personalization solutions, and ringtones. Its applications cover areas, such as multimedia, utilities and tools, sports, business and productivity, fitness and health, news and information, reference, and entertainment.

Kluster

Seed Round in 2008

Kluster is the brainchild of the team behind iPod accessory firm Mophie, and is built on the idea that the wisdom of crowds can help influence effective product design, event planning, advertising and marketing initiatives, and academic decisions Project administrators are invited to define their project within Kluster, at which point community members submit ideas. Participants are compensated with predetermined rewards from their projects by the project administrator, and Kluster charges a 33% fee on top of that reward. In 2009, the team at Kluster began working on [Quirky](/organization/quirky).

Spirus Medical

Series B in 2007

Spirus Medical is a developer of advanced care medical devices for the gastrointestinal and cardiovascular markets. The company’s product portfolio includes the Endo-Ease Discovery and Dexterity Steerable Introducer.

Babble

Series B in 2010

Babble is a magazine and online community site that offers information and lifestyle content for urban hipsters. It covers beauty, home, food, travel, entertainment, parenting, and more. Babble was founded by Alisa Volkman and Rufus Griscom in December 2006 and is based in New York, USA.

SimpleReach

Series B in 2017

SimpleReach is the #1 way for brands to measure and improve content ROI. By bringing together hundreds of data sources across websites, social channels, and publishers into the world's largest content data cloud, SimpleReach enables brands to understand how their content drives business outcomes everywhere. Leading content marketers like Intel, Chase, and Home Depot rely on the SimpleReach platform to generate actionable insights that improve the impact of their content creation and distribution. Learn more at www.simplereach.com

TxVia

Series D in 2010

TxVia offers the most advanced transaction processing technology for emerging payments and financial services, as well as comprehensive supporting services. Its solutions encompass the full scope of consumer, corporate and government payment applications. TxVia enables electronic payments with a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) delivery model, a fully customizable solution that supports its clients' specialized processing needs. TxVia clients, which include some of the largest payments companies in the world, realize significant time-to-market, cost, scalability, reliability and security benefits from its customâ€”rather than one-size-fits-allâ€”platforms.

Quirky

Venture Round in 2006

Quirky is a developer of a crowdsourced invention platform that engages participants to collaborate in every aspect of product creation. It is a new type of socially developed product company founded with the vision of making invention accessible. Headquartered in New York City, Quirky brings game-changing products to the marketplace through interaction between its active online global community and Quirky’s expert product design staff, bringing to life ideas from their earliest stages to store shelves. Quirky was founded by Ben Kaufman, who is also the company’s CEO. Quirky is Kaufman’s third entrepreneurial venture. He previously founded Mophie and Kluster. Kaufman founded Quirky on the belief that ordinary people have extraordinary ideas, and that invention should be accessible to everyone. Any of Quirky’s community members can become an inventor or influencer by submitting ideas and helping to determine which products Quirky will design, manufacture, and sell. Inventors who submit ideas that are then created and influencers who contribute to those ideas share in royalties based on product sales. The company solicits ideas for new products via Quirky.com and its iPhone app. Once an idea is submitted, the Quirky community vets it, praises it, critiques it, and votes for their favorites, many of which will eventually be made by the Quirky design team and sold online and in stores. A prospective inventor can submit an idea to Quirky, and there is no limit on the number of invention ideas that a person can submit. When determining which products to make, Quirky considers factors such as uniqueness, manufacturing complexity, and intellectual property rights, yet they are committed to working on ideas both big and small that make life better. In 2016, the Quirky platform relaunched under new ownership.

Outside.in

Series B in 2009

New York-based [Outside.in](http://www.outside.in) is an aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore different information. They attempt to do for blogging "what [Google](http://www.google.com) local search has done for the web." Outside.in makes local blogs the focal point of information access, rather than forums or reviews.Primary funding for Outside.in comes from a series of angels as well as a few VC firms. Those firms include Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, and Village Ventures.

Metamarkets

Series C in 2015

Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use the Metamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Simple

Series A in 2010

Simple is a web and mobile application that unifies various accounts into one accessible bank card. Rather than making money from different fees, Simple plans to split the net interest margin with its partner banks (the difference between the rate they lend at and the rate they pay to depositors), thus eliminating the incentive to push more confusing products at consumers. Simple has more than 100,000 customers, processed $1.7 billion in annual transactions last year, and experienced 330% customer growth. Simple was launched by Alex Payne, Shamir Karkal, and Josh Reich in January 2009 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

Sulia

Series A in 2012

**Sulia is a subject-based social network that connects you to the top social sources on subjects you care about.** We all have interests that we're extremely passionate about. Whether it's our family, a sports team, breaking news, Hollywood gossip, a hobby, a career, or a political issue, we obsess over our interests everyday. However, with an endless number of sources talking about an endless number of subjects, it's nearly impossible to find the best sources to follow to across your interests. And, even if you were able to identify the top sources, sifting through all of their content is maddeningly time-consuming. We built Sulia to address these problems (which were driving us mad too). Sulia’s subject-based structure of social channels connects trusted sources and enthusiasts on shared interests across thousands of subjects, including breaking news and events. How? We use a combination of network managers and sophisticated algorithms to identify the best-regarded sources across thousands of subjects. We then dynamically filter content from those sources, regardless of where it's created (a blog, a social network, a media site, through Sulia's publishing system, etc.), into high-quality, realtime social channels. The result is streams of timely content from trusted sources that is always on-topic, readable, and relevant. People use Sulia everyday to discover new sources and engage with their interests. Sulia is backed by leading media and technology investors, including: -- Firstmark Capital: Rick Heitzmann -- Village Ventures: Matt Harris, Bo Peabody -- IA Capital Partners: Roger Ehrenberg -- Founder Collective: Chris Dixon -- SV Angels: Ron Conway -- Mark Gerson, Founder, Gerson Lehrman Group

Makeover Solutions

Series A in 2007

Makeover Solutions, Inc., a marketing company, provides Web-based virtual makeovers. The company builds online communities for women users interested in beauty and beauty care conversations. Its Personal Makeover helps companies to create an online relationship with their customers. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in New York, New York.

Metamarkets

Series A in 2011

Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use the Metamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Optasite

Series A in 2004

Optasite engages in the acquisition and development of telecommunications tower sites in the United States. It offers wireless consulting services. The company's services also include site leasing and colocation, tower acquisition, and site development. It serves broadband wireless providers, including wireless carriers, as well as other customers in the telecommunications industry, such as the FCC licensed carriers, government agencies, public safety organizations, private enterprises, and two-way radio services. Optasite, Inc. was formerly known as Pinnacle Site Development, Inc

UpSnap

Series D in 2007

UpSnap provides highly-targeted, data-driven mobile and intent-based advertising to attract the ideal audience for brands big and small. Combining first-party proprietary data and real-time analytics, UpSnap goes beyond location to deliver site agnostic and results-driven campaigns that produce qualified, engaged customers. UpSnap tailors each campaign to align with unique business goals, delivering the right customers for more meaningful exposure and better business results.

Travora Media

Series C in 2010

Initially founded as Travel Ad Network in 2003, Travora Media Inc. (www.travoramedia.com) represents the next generation of travel media and information, with hundreds of travel style websites and mobile apps and 26 million qualified travelers under its umbrella. Travora offers exclusive publisher representation across all stages of the travel lifecycle to publishers like Viator, Rand McNally, Let's Go, Wanderfly, GuidePal and much more. This exclusivity brings turnkey revenue solutions for travel publishers, and total access to a 100% Travel Qualified audience across local, social and mobile platforms for brands. Travora Media, headquartered in New York City, has received funding from Rho Ventures, Village Ventures, and StarVest Partners. The company was sold to MediaShift on Feb 11, 2013.

SimpleReach

Series A in 2014

SimpleReach is the #1 way for brands to measure and improve content ROI. By bringing together hundreds of data sources across websites, social channels, and publishers into the world's largest content data cloud, SimpleReach enables brands to understand how their content drives business outcomes everywhere. Leading content marketers like Intel, Chase, and Home Depot rely on the SimpleReach platform to generate actionable insights that improve the impact of their content creation and distribution. Learn more at www.simplereach.com

Carefx

Series B in 2005

Carefx's main solution "Fusionfx" helps close information gaps between hospital/IDN CIO and CMIO and healthcare IT departments. Fusionfx is able to help "synthesize disparate data into clinically relevant, user-centric workflows." The solution aims to connect the data points and make it comprehensive/understandable fo patients, payers, clinicians, and the compliance agencies who seek such information.

Perfinity Biosciences, Inc.

Series A in 2005

Perfinity Biosciences, Inc., specializes in tools for protein sample preparation. The company product portfolio includes immobilized enzymes, affinity reagents, optimized buffers, methods and software. It offers Soluble Smart Digest which is an active, highly stable soluble trypsin for fast, reproducible digestions, Mag Beads which are specifically designed with proteomics applications in mind, QuicPrep (Quantitative ImmunoCapture and Proteolysis Enhanced Protein Analysis) which is a combined immunoaffinity/trypsin digestion platform that employs immobilized avidin, Protein A, or Protein G and thermally stable trypsin to deliver immunocapture and proteolysis in a single tube, Flash Digest which is an active, highly stable immobilized trypsin reactor for fast, reproducible digestions, Workstation which is a multi-column apparatus that automates protein separations and mass spec sample preparation. The company was formerly known as QuadraSpec, Inc. and changed its name to Perfinity Biosciences, Inc. in March 2010. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Purch, Inc.

Series A in 2010

Purch is a digital publishing and marketplace platform uniquely positioned at the intersection of content, commerce and customer. By combining in-depth product reviews, comparisons, and services with industry leading publisher tech, Purch creates a seamless connection between intent-based buyers and sellers. The company generates more than $1billion annually in facilitated commerce through its tech, shopping, lifestyle and SMB brands, including Tom’s Guide, Top Ten Reviews, ShopSavvy and Business.com. With more than 1,200 product categories, Purch is #1 for buying advice for more than 100 million people each month.

Travora Media

Series A in 2008

Initially founded as Travel Ad Network in 2003, Travora Media Inc. (www.travoramedia.com) represents the next generation of travel media and information, with hundreds of travel style websites and mobile apps and 26 million qualified travelers under its umbrella. Travora offers exclusive publisher representation across all stages of the travel lifecycle to publishers like Viator, Rand McNally, Let's Go, Wanderfly, GuidePal and much more. This exclusivity brings turnkey revenue solutions for travel publishers, and total access to a 100% Travel Qualified audience across local, social and mobile platforms for brands. Travora Media, headquartered in New York City, has received funding from Rho Ventures, Village Ventures, and StarVest Partners. The company was sold to MediaShift on Feb 11, 2013.

OpenLogic

Venture Round in 2006

OpenLogic helps enterprises maximize these benefits and safely use open source software by providing support, governance, provisioning, consulting, and training solutions.

HTG Molecular Diagnostics

Series B in 2005

HTG Molecular Diagnostics is a leading provider of molecular-based technology solutions for gene expression profiling, miRNA, siRNA and mRNA measurement for translational medicine and diagnostic applications. The Company's qNPA molecular technology platform is well-suited for reliably detecting small, yet important, changes in gene expression levels in a variety of sample types. Privately-held HTG is based Tucson, Arizona.

Health Guru Media Inc.

Series D in 2011

Healthguru.com is the destination site for health video on the web with 99 million views per month (comScore Video Metrix, August). Our unique approach to health education was developed specifically for the video audience and is differentiated in three key ways: - Category Focus: Healthguru.com focuses on the health topics that matter most to today's audience, including: diet and fitness, mental & emotional health, sexual health, pregnancy, baby health, drugs & alcohol, as well as information on more than 125 different health conditions. - Medium: The modern health consumer seeks out an immersive, rich media experience on the web, and video has proven to be a more engaging medium. Healthguru.com has the largest health video library online, and interactive applications to offer our audience the experience it expects. - Editorial Approach: World-class information providers know that creating truly engaging content is the way to ensure that information becomes learning. That's why Healthguru.com is dedicated to making our content as interesting and, when relevant, entertaining, as it is useful. All Healthguru.com content is created or selected by our editorial team and is rigorously reviewed for medical accuracy, objectivity and balance. While we do accept advertising on our site and may distribute content via third party sites, Healthguru.com does not endorse products, services or companies.

Attensity

Series B in 2003

Attensity is a provider of corporate insight solutions based on proprietary data contextualization for Global 1000 companies. As a pioneer in natural language processing and sentiment analysis, Attensity’s solutions identify relevant and accurate information from multi-channel data sources using highly sophisticated and patented semantic technologies, analytics and context based discovery. Using Attensity’s integrated solutions, enterprise companies can interpret and “understand” massive amounts of structured and unstructured data from many different sources, thereby helping to improve the customer experience, manage brand equity, enhance revenue, mitigate business risk, and help inform business strategies.

Eatingwell Media Group

Seed Round in 2002

The EatingWell Media Group is a fast-growing, independent communications company producing an award-winning national consumer magazine, high-quality food and nutrition-related books, a content-rich website, e-mail newsletters, and serving content to strategic partners with other electronic media.

Extreme Reach

Series A in 2009

Extreme Reach is revolutionizing the business aspects of content production and creative asset management for the media, entertainment and advertising ecosystem. In addition to being the leader in commercial Talent & Rights management and the 3rd largest EOR in the US, ER has transformed the way advertisers control the deployment of their creative and how the media sources those ads to execute campaigns. The company’s creative asset workflow platform, AdBridge™, is built upon a decade of innovation and integrates all the paths and processes required by today’s complex media landscape. The company proudly serves the best and biggest brands, studios, agencies, production companies, media destinations, performers and rights owners. With over 200,000 platform users, $2 billion in payroll annually and nearly four million creative assets in its care, ER frees content producers and the teams involved in ad campaign execution from the mundane so they can make magic happen.

Phreesia

Series B in 2007

Innovative point-of-service platform drives efficiency and profitability throughout your organization

Trefis

Series A in 2010

Trefis is a stock analysis service that breaks down a stock price by the contribution of a company's major products and businesses. The model allows users to change underlying assumptions by simply dragging lines on charts forecasting the future price of the products, their future expected market share, etc. Every time you change an assumption, the price target changes accordingly.

Outside.in

Angel Round in 2007

New York-based [Outside.in](http://www.outside.in) is an aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore different information. They attempt to do for blogging "what [Google](http://www.google.com) local search has done for the web." Outside.in makes local blogs the focal point of information access, rather than forums or reviews.Primary funding for Outside.in comes from a series of angels as well as a few VC firms. Those firms include Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, and Village Ventures.

Persystent Technologies

Series C in 2008

Persystent offers a personal computer life cycle management solution that automates desktop and laptop availability and compliance. Their products serve the manufacturing, technology, healthcare, insurance, government, finance, and education industries.

GetWellNetwork, Inc.

Series C in 2009

GetWellNetwork, Inc. develops precision engagement software solutions to help hospitals get patients more involved in their care process. The company offers Patient Care solution, a care model that combines tools, processes, and people to activate patients in their care; GetWell Practice, a digital patient check-in; GetWell Inpatient, a solution to offer integrated entertainment and patient education to engage patients and families; Getwell Go, a solution that allows providers to deliver personalized care in real time; GetWell Rounds+, a digital rounding and customizable surveys; GetWell PEI, a person engagement index that helps providers understand each person’s capacity to be engaged; and GetWell Insights, a solution which empowers care teams with information and insights to adjust care plans. The company caters to health care providers, pediatric hospitals, and government organizations. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

BlueTarp Financial

Series B in 2007

BlueTarp Financial is a B2B credit management company serving over 2000 suppliers since 1998. BlueTarp pays suppliers upfront for their sales and protects them from credit risk so they can fund the growth of their business. Suppliers can customize their program by choosing to manage customer interactions as they do today, or select a full-service option where BlueTarp handles customer service and collections. They can also grow sales with options for up to 90-day terms, credit lines up to $1M, and a loyalty rewards program. Their SmartView™online tools give suppliers full transparency into customer buying and payment activities. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in Portland, Maine.

Vico Software

Series B in 2009

Vico Software, provides software and services to the building construction industry in Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. The company offers Vico Office Suite, a construction-oriented 5D BIM environment; Vico Office Client that publishes 3D models from BIM authoring tools, as well as enables the client to integrate and merge multiple models from various BIM sources; and Vico Takeoff Manager that generates the accurate model-and location-based quantity takeoffs derived from 3D models. It also provides Vico Cost Planner, a cost calculation, estimating, and value engineering module; Vico Cost Explorer, which provides constant and online feedback about the status of project budget; Vico Office Online Training Program, an e-learning platform that is designed to guide the client through the Vico Office Platform; and Vico Doc Set Manager that collates and compares drawing set pages with a mouse click. In addition, the company offers project services delivery, service packages, and implementation and consulting services. Its software solutions are used by building owners, general contractors, and construction managers. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Boulder, Colorado with additional offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Hungary.

uPlayMe

Series A in 2007

Meet people, share music and enjoy discovering new entertainment using uPlayMe's free download. Just register and download uPlayMe (it takes less than 15 seconds on a cable-modem) install and that's it! As you play music and videos, uPlayMe finds people who are listening and watching the same entertainment as you. Meet people, connect with them, visit their pages on other sites like MySpace or just find and discover new entertainment! Fall Out Boy, Britney Spears, Beyonce, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, Eminem, Tupac, 50 Cent, Moby, U2, Nickelback, Madonna, Metallica, Three Days Grace, Nelly Furtado, Linkin Park, Danity Kane, Carrie Underwood, Jay-Z are just a few of the artist people around the world are listening to. People just like you are playing these artists and artists you've never heard of. Want to meet people, connect with them, share music and talk about your musical interests? uPlayMe is the way to do it! uPlayMe is a desktop entertainment discovery tool and instant messaging client mash-up and no other program is quite like it! It's simple to install and setup. All you have to do is continue enjoying your digital entertainment. In fact, it does all the work for you. Just think of it as an ambitious entertainment matchmaker who's always trying and discovering new things. So go ahead, meet new people, connect with them, share music and discover new entertainment. It's what the Internet was made for!

Dwolla

Series B in 2012

Dwolla, Inc. develops application program interface (API) solutions that facilitate bank transfers, manage customers, and verify bank accounts. The company offers Access API that enables users to link bank accounts and initiate transfers within their platform. It also provides Dwolla Dashboard and Admin, an intuitive interface for managing customers, viewing transactions, and finding business trends. Dwolla, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in Des Moines, Iowa.

Carefx

Series B in 2005

Carefx's main solution "Fusionfx" helps close information gaps between hospital/IDN CIO and CMIO and healthcare IT departments. Fusionfx is able to help "synthesize disparate data into clinically relevant, user-centric workflows." The solution aims to connect the data points and make it comprehensive/understandable fo patients, payers, clinicians, and the compliance agencies who seek such information.

OnDeck

Series B in 2008

OnDeck launched in Australia in 2015 to solve a major issue facing small businesses: efficient access to capital. They use cutting-edge technology to evaluate businesses based on their actual performance, not solely business owners’ personal credit scores. Ultimately, this makes it possible for us to responsibly expand access to credit. As a result, businesses are able to spend their time where it provides the most benefit—on their customers and on growing, rather than looking for a small business loan.

IZEA

Series A in 2006

IZEA operates the premier online marketplace that connects brands with influential content creators. IZEA creators range from leading bloggers and social media personalities to A-List celebrities and professional journalists. Creators are compensated for developing and distributing unique content on behalf of brands including long form text, videos, photos and status updates. Brands receive influential consumer content and engaging, shareable stories that drive awareness.

AmpliMed Corporation

Series A in 2004

AmpliMed Corporation focuses on the development of small-molecule oncology drugs. Its products include Amplimexon, a small molecule that causes cancer cells to stop dividing and ultimately to die; Amplizone that has demonstrated efficacy in the treatment of solid tumors in animal tumor models; and benzimidazole Series: benzimidazole analog small molecules that expressed tubulin binding activity in yeast and mammalian cells. The company’s products are used to treat pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, malignant melanoma, ovarian cancer, and multiple myeloma. AmpliMed Corporation was founded in 1989 and is based in Tucson, Arizona.

Metamarkets

Series B in 2012

Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use the Metamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.