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Portfolio
Yalochat
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Yalochat is an AI platform enabling companies to interact with customers in conversational commerce on popular messaging apps.
HeadSpin
Team Member: Tim Guleri
HeadSpin is the only application performance solution providing true global visibility for any mobile environment.
Skydrop
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Logistics platform designed to simplify the shipment delivery process in LATAM.
Deep Lens
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Developing a SaaS-based precision medicine software suite for pathologists.
Appcues
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Appcues empowers non-technical teams to build in-product experiences that increase activation, adoption, and retention.
SupportLogic
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Technical support platform that leverages AI / ML to create a system of intelligence.
Omniex
Team Member: Ben Yu
Omniex is an institutional operating platform for investment managers and active traders focused on crypto-assets. They offer a complete solution for the investment and trading of crypto-assets including portfolio and order management, risk and data analytics, and connectivity and execution.
Agent IQ
Agent IQ makes banking personal again by transforming the digital banking experience through 1:1 customer interactions supplemented by state-of-the-art Conversational AI for banks, credit unions and other financial organizations.
Applitools
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Applitools is an AI-based SaaS Visual Application Testing and Monitoring Solution. Their technology validates all visual aspects of any Web, Mobile and Native app in a fully automated way.
Falcon Computing
Team Member: Ben Yu
Falcon Computing provides seamless and scalable acceleration solutions to big-data applications. It provides automated compilation tool, runtime management tool, and acceleration libraries to enable scale-able and seamless integration into existing data center infrastructures, with focus on FPGA-based acceleration.
Drop Loyalty
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Drop is a loyalty rewards app which allows customers to effortlessly earn points across a variety of relevant brands based on spend. This mobile-based platform targets millennials and is designed to fit into any lifestyle.
Bitfusion.io
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Bitfusion provides software that makes managing and using Deep Learning and AI infrastructure easy, elastic, and efficient. It provides a GPU virtualization and application management platform that accelerates applications and training time and makes it easy to manage production GPU clusters.
SLIVER.tv
Team Member: Ben Yu
Sliver.tv is the next-generation eSports Video Platform that replays and live-streams existing mobile games and new VR games in 360 video
Zaloni
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Zaloni is a data lake company that provides enterprise data lake management solutions. Their platform and software enables customers to gain competitive advantage through organized, actionable big data lakes.
Zycada Networks
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Powered by AI, the Zycada Delivery Network fingerprints and optimizes
every connection individually and in real-time to deliver the best
Quality of Experience. In less than 30 minutes, Zycada enhances any
multi-CDN, private CDN, and telco environment, requiring no code
changes or SDK.
Phenom People
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Talent Relationship Marketing and the Phenom TRM Cloud Platform connects the billions of people around the world looking for their dream job with the great companies eager to make their next phenomenal hire. Phenom People is redefining what it means to search for a job and recruit top talent.
Radius
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Radius is a professional network on a collaborative mobile platform for real estate agents and brokers powered by CRM.
Sikka Software
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Sikka Software Corporation is the leading innovator in Business Intelligence Software for the healthcare and small business communities. The company helps healthcare providers and small offices optimize their businesses via a series of cloud based applications using the Sikka Platform Cloud with artificial intelligence and predictive analytics.
LeadGenius
Team Member: Tim Guleri
LeadGenius delivers qualified leads that are ready to convert by managing the entire lead generation and outreach process for you.
Shape Security
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Shape Security provides a revolutionary new product to protect websites against the most dangerous cyber attacks.
Zimperium
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Zimperium is focused on shaping the future of mobile security by setting new standards.
Hired
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Hired runs “auctions” for a small group of hand-selected software engineers to receive job offers from top-tier VC funded companies. Hired's customers include companies like Groupon, Pulse, and Digg.
Kinnek
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Kinnek is a B2B platform that allows small businesses to request and receive customized quotes from suppliers for their purchases.
Zeta Global
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Zeta Global is a data-driven technology company that acquires and retains customers through the power of people-based, precision marketing.
Periscope Data
Periscope is a data analysis tool that unifies business data from multiple sources, enabling businesses to visualize changes and trends in their facility performance.
Nexenta
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Nexenta Systems is the world’s leading provider of Software-defined Storage solutions. The company’s flagship software-only platform, NexentaStor, delivers high-performance, ultra-scalable, cloud- and virtualization-optimized storage management.
Buffer
Buffer is the best way to drive traffic, increase fan engagement and save time on social media.
Vungle
Vungle is the leading performance marketing platform for mobile businesses looking to reach and acquire their most valuable consumers.
AgJunction
AgJunction, Inc. provides innovative hardware and software applications for precision agriculture worldwide.
Spotzer Media
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Spotzer Media provides small businesses with solutions for creating and maintaining highly visible online content. The company has produced ab online presence for more than 50,000 businesses in 16 countries.
Revionics
retail solution
Team Member: David Schwab
Revionics offers lifecycle price, promotion, and markdown optimization solutions for the retail industry. The company serves 31,000+ stores, and was a 2012 Finalist for the Red Herring 100 Global Award.
Alpine Data Labs
Acquired by: TIBCO
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Incubated at Greenplum, Alpine Data is making big data accessible and easy to use. Alpine embeds predictive analytics into every business function, enabling organizations to run on the insights that really matter.
Clip
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Mobile payments company focused on the Mexico and Latin American market.
Prelert
Team Member: David Schwab
Prelert is developing the next generation of predictive analytics for IT admins and developers. The company has created an add-in for Splunk to find anomalous activities in application and system performance.
Touch Commerce
Acquired by Nuance Communications
Team Member: Steven Williams
TouchCommerce is a leading provider of best-in-class real time customer analytics and live interaction technology to significantly increase online customer conversion and satisfaction. The company was awarded the Red Herring Top 100 for 2013.
ElasticBox
acquired by CenturyLink
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Elasticbox is a revolutionary product that aims to make cloud application development and management efficient. Elasticbox's software is currently deployed in large Fortune 500 companies across several industry verticals.
MIOX
Acquired by Johnson Matthey
Team Member: Ben Yu
MIOX develops next-generation water purification technology. The company has 1,500 installations in hundreds of U.S. communities and over 30 countries. Their award-winning on-site generation technology is safely disinfecting more than 6.5 billion gallons of water per day.
RedLock
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Deep Security Visibility & Anomaly Detection for Dynamic Environments
Novariant
Acquired by AgJunction, Inc.
Novariant's technology provides precision location and machine control solutions in applications that require a high level of accuracy, consistency, and availability. Novariant was founded in 1994 as a spinout from Stanford University.
Corrigo
Team Member: David Schwab
Provides facilities and field service management solutions in the cloud. Corrigo's software is deployed in over 15,000 organizations, from the Fortune 50 to SMB.
Code Green Networks
acquired by Digital Guardian
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Code Green Networks offers an all-in-one solution that provides content monitoring and data loss protection from insider threats and accidental misuse. The product is designed to scale from SMBs to large enterprises.
Razorsight
acquired by Synchronoss Technologies
Team Member: Steven Williams
Rated as the strongest financial assurance supplier in North America by Frost & Sullivan, Razorsight provides cloud-based analytics software for telcos to monitor network and subscriber activity.
Tempo AI
Acquired by Salesforce.com
Team Member: Ben Yu
Tempo AI leveraged years of SRI International’s artificial intelligence research and semantic technology to create Tempo Smart Calendar, a breakthrough mobile productivity application.
Social Touch
Acquired by Legend Holdings
Social Touch offers a social media suite that enables enterprises to launch and manage their marketing efforts across Chinese social networks like Sina Weibo, Wechat, and Renren.
Bina Technologies
Acquired by Roche
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Bina is a leader in the genome sequencing space, and is led by a Stanford PhD. The company's Bina Box appliance is making genome analysis faster than ever, and accessible to those without supercomputers.
Nexgate
Acquired by Proofpoint
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Nexgate is working to protect businesses’ social media accounts from spam and hijacking. The solution looks to delivers an intuitive way to find and understand your organization's social presence while matching and valuing it against its actual network.
Ooyala
Acquired by Telstra
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Ooyala provides tools for enterprises to help them stream videos online and monetize them. The company was founded in 2007 by ex-Googlers Bismarck Lepe, Balsasar Lepe, and Sean Knapp.
Wizeline
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
Wizeline is product lifecycle software powered by customer intelligence. Their solutions are designed for companies that want to apply a data-driven, customer-focused approach to the way they develop products.
Adometry
Formerly Click Forensics
Team Member: Steven Williams
Adometry is redefining marketing analytics by combining and interpreting previously silo-ed sources of big data to generate actions that improve return on advertising spend and increase sales.
Parature
Acquired by Microsoft
Team Member: David Schwab
Parature is the leading provider of web-based social and customer service software for more than 50 million end users worldwide. Parature helps clients deliver legendary customer service and to engage with their customers across multiple channels.
CSS Corp
Acquired by Columbia Capital India Advisors
Team Member: David Schwab
CSS Corp is a global technology consulting and support company that uses cutting-edge technologies to effect strategic business transformations.
Runa
acquired by Staples
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Runa provides solutions to increase conversions and maximize profits in real-time on online merchants websites. Runa's customers include eBay, PayPal, Groupon, and Rovio.
Treasure Data
Team Member: Tim Guleri
Treasure Data leverages the power of big data to transform business. The company's vision is to become the cloud analytics hub for businesses to transform big data into immediate value.
WebCollage
Team Member: Steven Williams
Founded in 1999, Webcollage has quickly become the industry standard for publishing rich product information to retailer web sites. The company is a provider of enhanced online merchandising solutions to over 1,000 manufacturers.
SenSage
Acquired by KEYW
SenSage offers patented event data warehouse solutions that provide actionable results from massive amounts of log and event data. More than 400 customers have deployed SenSage solutions to reduce security, fraud and compliance risks.
Marathon Technologies
Acquired by Stratus Technologies Inc.
Marathon Technologies Corporation provides fault-tolerant and disaster recovery software solutions for physical and virtual servers.
DynamicOps
Acquired by VMware, Inc.
Team Member: Mark Fernandes
DynamicOps develops cloud automation and management solutions. The company's software has been recognized at VMworld 2012 as the best of Public and Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies.
Multigig
Acquired by Analog Devices
Multigig develops state-of-the-art technologies for solving system-level timing problems. Mulitigig's proprietary and patented RotaryWave technology forms the foundation for barrier shattering, energy efficient, low cost timing products targeting.
Core Audience
FKA Red Aril, Acquired by Hearst Corp
Core Audience developed the industry's first data management platform built for brands. Their platform enables brands to profit from audience targeting and site personalization.
Approva
Acquired by Lawson Software, an Infor Affiliate
Approva is the leading provider of continuous controls monitoring software and is the industry standard for three of the five largest audit and advisory firms.
CarWale
Acquired by Axel Springer
CarWale offers a complete consumer-focused service that includes content and tools for exhaustive research, pricing and marketplace information. The site is one of the most viewed automotive sites in India.
Makara
Acquired by Red Hat
Makara enables organizations to provision, deploy, manage, monitor and scale their Java and PHP applications on both public and private clouds. Makara tools allow users to easily undertake application scaling, rightsizing, rollback and monitoring tasks of running apps.
American Fiber Systems
Acquired by ZAYO Group
American Fiber Systems offers metropolitan fiber optical networking infrastructure, dark fiber, and transport services. AFS has deployed more than 1.2 million miles of high-capacity, high-bandwidth cables.
ElasticSearch
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine capable of solving a growing number of use cases. As the heart of the Elastic Stack, it centrally stores your data so you can discover the expected and uncover the unexpected.
MakeMyTrip
NASDAQ: MMT
Team Member: Tim Guleri
MakeMyTrip.com is India’s leading online travel company. Founded in 2000, it was created to empower the Indian traveler with instant booking and comprehensive choices.
Greenplum
Acquired by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC)
Greenplum is a leader in the data warehousing space, focusing on providing software for large cloud computing infrastructures.
Meru Networks
NASDAQ: MERU
Meru Networks develops and markets wireless infrastructure solutions that enable the All-Wireless Enterprise. Its products deliver wireless service fidelity for business applications to major Fortune 500 enterprises, universities, healthcare organizations and government agencies.
Simplify Media
Acquired by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG)
Simplify Media is a developer of streaming media software. Their software makes it easy for anyone to remotely access, play and share their personal digital media.
Digital Media Group
Acquired by Acquired by VisionChina
Digital Media Group is the leader in China's subway mobile television advertising market. The company operates in subway transport systems in Beijing, Chengdu, Chongqing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Tianjin.
Opalis Software
Acquired by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Opalis Software provides IT process automation software to help automate and streamline workflow processes within the data center. The company was founded in 1998 by a former HP executive.
Axentis
Acquired by CCH Incorporated
Axentis is the market’s most robust, configurable, comprehensive compliance management system. Their software provides a unique, Risk-Driven Compliance Management's strategy to rapidly, accurately and cost-effectively identify and mitigate all of your compliance-related risks.
Astra Business Services
Acquired by Central Credit Services
Astra Business Services has developed a breakthrough combination that unlocks more value from your receivables. Astra’s combination includes an executive team with extensive experience in financial services and high-value collections professionals.
DNN
Acquired by ESW Capital
Team Member: Tim Guleri
DNN has developed the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET.
ClearApp
Acquired by Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL)
ClearApp offers performance, application change, and SOA performance management solutions for J2EE-based composite applications to enterprises.
AuthenTec
Acquired by Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL)
AuthenTec is a leading provider of mobile and network security. Their encryption technology, fingerprint sensors and identity management software are deployed by mobile device, networking and computing companies.
SourceFire
NASDAQ: FIRE
Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7 billion, provides enterprise threat management solutions for IT infrastructures. The company serves a broad spectrum of customers and organizations in over 180 countries, including some of the world’s largest enterprises.
SyChip
Acquired by Murata Manufacturing (NASDAQ: MRAAY)
SyChip provides Radio Frequency (RF), Integrated Circuits (ICs), and chip scale modules for the wireless Internet appliance market, reducing time-to-market, increasing performance and improving reliability.
Micro Power Electronics
Acquired by Weston Presidio
Micro Power Electronics is an FDA registered supplier of custom battery systems for the portable medical, rugged handheld computing, and data collection equipment markets. The company has a proven track record of technical excellence, quality solutions and award-winning service.
Permeo Technologies
Acquired by Blue Coat Systems (NASDAQ: BCSI)
Permeo Technologies is a leading provider of remote access and information protection solution for mobile workers. Permeo has helped more than 250 of the world's largest companies secure their information and protect their assets beyond the borders of their enterprise.
360Commerce
Acquired by Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL)
360Commerce's platform provides point-of-sale, inventory management, returns management and workforce management software for retailers.
FrontBridge
Acquired by Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT)
FrontBridge is a global provider of comprehensive secure messaging services.
Net6
Acquired by Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS)
Net6's technology is a vendor of SSL VPN, providing a single point of access from any device to any IT resource over an SSL secure connection. The technology provides on-demand access to both voice and data across virtually any screen size.
Theravance
NASDAQ: THRX
Theravance is a biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of internally discovered product candidates and strategic collaborations with pharmaceutical companies.
NP Photonics
Acquired Solus MicroTechnologies, Inc.
NP Photonics was founded in 1998 as a spin-off of the renowned University of Arizona's Optical Sciences Center. Today the company designs and produces optical light sources for sensing, medical, and research and development markets.
Stratacom
Acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO)
StrataCom is a leading supplierof Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay high-speed WAN switching equipment. StrataCom's ATM product is a key technology underlying the world's communications systems in the 1990s and 2000s.
Amerigroup
NASDAQ: AMGP
Currently serving more than 2.7 million members in 13 states nationwide, Amerigroup offers solutions that improve health care access and quality for members. Amerigroup manages publicly funded health programs.
OnLink Technologies
Acquired by Siebel Systems (NASDAQ: SEBL)
OnLink's e-commerce software provides interactive guidance and tailored recommendations for online customers.
Intuitive Surgical
Intuitive Surgical is the global leader in the rapidly emerging field of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery. Since its inception, the company has consistently provided surgeons and hospitals with the tools needed to improve clinical outcomes and to help patients return to active lives.
Arthas.com
Acquired by Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO)
Arthas.com provides Web-based and person-to-person electronic payment services. Its platform lets individuals electronically exchange money and pay bills online.
Vertel
NASDAQ: VRTL
Vertel is a leading provider of convergent service management mediation solutions. Vertel’s high performance solutions enable customers to quickly and cost effectively introduce new services, networks and OSSs while leveraging existing investments.
Interact Commerce
NASDAQ: IACT
Interact Commerce engages in the development, distribution, and support of business management software for SMBs. The company’s products include SalesLogix, the customer relationship management software and ACT!, the contact management software.
ConvergeNet
Acquired by Dell Corporation (NASDAQ: DELL)
ConvergeNet provides centralized SAN management for heterogeneous environments.
Active Software
NASDAQ: ASWX
Active Software provides security and infrastructure solutions, as well as, technical and business development consulting services. The company was founded in 2003 by a group software industry veterans.
Saleslogix
Acquired by ACT!
Saleslogix is the CRM platform of choice for companies strategically focused on customer engagements. Saleslogix is designed to deliver purpose-built, cost-effective solutions for the mobile world.
Terayon
NASDAQ: TERN
Terayon Communication Systems is a vendor of equipment to broadband service providers for delivering broadband voice, video and data services to residential and business subscribers.
Fatbrain.com
NASDAQ: FATB
Fatbrain.com was a leading online bookseller specializing in professional and technical titles for the corporate marketplace.
FaxSav
NASDAQ: FAXX
FaxSav is a service provider that offers low-cost, worldwide fax-over-IP services to business users.
Healtheon
NASDAQ: HLTH
Healtheon develops and markets Internet-based on-line health care and benefit information and services.
Micromuse
NASDAQ: MUSE
Micromuse is a leading provider of network management software to monitor and manage sophisticated technology infrastructures. Micromuse served companies like AOL, British Telecom, and NCR.
ATMI
NASDAQ: ATMI
ATMI is a leader in high performance materials, materials packaging, and materials delivery systems for use in the manufacture of microelectronics devices worldwide.
Quinta
Acquired by Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX)
Quinta is a developer of technology to boost the performance of sophisticated computer disk drives.
Digital Generation Systems
NASDAQ: DGIT
Digital Generation is the world’s leading ad management and distribution platform. The platform connects over 12,000 global advertisers and 5,000 agencies with their targeted audiences.
Combinet
Acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO)
Combinet provided telecommuters and remote offices with high-speed remote access to enterprise networks. The company was founded in 1988 and was based in Sunnyvale, California.
Intuit
NASDAQ: INTU
Intuit is a leading provider of financial and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants and individuals. In 2013, Intuit was ranked on Fortune's list of World's Most Admired Software Companies for a tenth straight year.
On Assignment
NASDAQ: ASGN
On Assignment is a leading global provider of in-demand, skilled professionals in the growing technology, healthcare, and life sciences sectors, where quality people are the key to success. The company was was founded in 1985 and has branch offices.
Centex Telecommunications
NASDAQ: CNTX
Centex Telecom is a preferred reseller of all ESI phone systems and equipment, which include PBX phone systems, VoIP business phone systems, SIP phone systems and key phone systems.
Teradata
NYSE: TDC
Teradata is the global leader in data warehousing and analytic technologies that make smart companies smarter. The company serves some of the most prominent companies in the world such as Coca Cola, 3M and British Airways.