Baynote (Cupertino, CA)
Founded in November 2004, Baynote is the technology leader in on-demand content guidance software for business websites and web applications. Baynote makes all online initiatives more effective with its patent-pending UseRank™ technology that dramatically improves lead generation, customer support and visitor analytics.
EdgeCast Networks CDN (Los Angeles, CA)
EdgeCast Networks offers a superior, cost-effective global content delivery service which gives customers a competitive advantage in the delivery of digital media. Edgecast's world-class content delivery platform provides customers the cost benefits and flexibility of controlling their own content delivery network while liberating them from bandwidth contracts, capital investments and operational hassles. EdgeCast offers live and on-demand video streaming, website acceleration, game and music delivery, global storage solutions, and custom dedicated hosting solutions.
Elemental Technologies (Portland, OR)
Founded in 2006, Elemental Technologies is the leading provider of massively parallel video processing solutions for enterprise video customers. Elemental's products use off-the-shelf, programmable graphics processing units (GPUs) for compute-intensive video processing tasks.
EMN8 (San Diego, CA)
EMN8 has combined point-of-purchase automation with real-time graphics rendering to provide its customers with customized self-ordering terminals. The company's point-of-purchase terminals incorporate touch-screen ordering in a real-time, interactive, entertaining audio and video environment. The technology also allows customers to conduct transactions in multiple languages and to select multiple payment options, such as cash, credit or debit.
Fanzter (Collinsville, CT)
Founded in June 2007, Fanzter, Inc. is a new media development company that creates popular consumer Internet products. Fanzter's first product, Coolspotters.com, is an online service that makes it easy to discover and buy the products, brands, and fashions being used by your favorite celebrities.
Fastclick (Santa Barbara, CA)
Fastclick is a leader in online advertising services, providing progressive direct response and branding opportunities to online and off-line clients. Fastclick provides revolutionary optimization technology and revenue strategies customizable to each advertiser and publisher. Fastclick AdServer provides industry-leading ad-serving technology, equipping customers with the tools and information they need to effectively manage their online advertising activity for superior marketing results. Fastclick completed its initial public offering in April, 2005 (NASDAQ: FSTC).
FreeWheel (San Mateo, CA)
FreeWheel offers the most formidable system for digital video ad management and monetization. FreeWheel's platform arms premium content owners and distributors with comprehensive tools and services they need to manage ad sales rights across their growing video syndication opportunity set.
Greystripe (San Francisco, CA)
Greystripe distributes ad-supported mobile games and applications and is the largest mobile in-game advertising network. Greystripe's AdWRAP technology enables mobile content publishers to gain advertising revenue by serving ads through their games allowing advertisers to reach a new mobile audience, and consumers to download great games for free. The AdWRAP system currently serves ads into more than 500 mobile games and applications supporting over 1,000 handset models. Greystripe reaches millions of mobile game players through its online portal GameJump.com, through the mobile web at wap.gamejump.com, and through its AdWRAP Catalog Program.
Ground Truth (Seattle, WA)
Ground Truth delivers precise, timely and actionable mobile intelligence required for operators, advertisers and publishers to measure, optimize and grow their businesses. As the sole provider of actual usage data aggregated from millions of subscribers using True View™, a patent-pending census-based methodology, Ground Truth sets the benchmark for Mobile Internet measurement.
Iridigm Display Corporation (San Francisco, CA)
Iridigm has developed a revolutionary new reflective color flat panel display for the mobile device market. The company's iMoD Matrix, based on MEMS technology, yields ultra-low power displays viewable in any lighting condition. Iridigm's display technology offers the potential to optimize the wireless platform for rich media interactivity. Iridigm was acquired by Qualcomm, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOM) in September, 2004.
Kapow Technologies (Palo Alto, CA)
Kapow Technologies is the expert in harvesting mashable public and private web intelligence with software that turns the Web into the world’s largest database. Based on the Company’s patented, visual scripting method, the Kapow Mashup Server powers solutions in reputation management, competitive intelligence, asymmetric intelligence, content aggregation, content syndication, content migration, SOA enablement and business automation - at a fraction of the time and cost compared to traditional software methods.
Kyte (San Francisco, CA)
Kyte is a game changing social communications platform that lets anyone, from consumers to major recording artists, instantly deliver a rich social media experience to multiple destinations simultaneously, including websites, social networks and blogs, mobile phones, and even IPTV set-top boxes. For content creators, publishers and mobile operators, Kyte provides new revenue opportunities and viral distribution channels through an engaging social communications experience.
MediaBank (Chicago, IL)
MediaBank is a leading provider of integrated procurement technology and advanced analytics to the advertising industry. MediaBank solutions allow for unprecedented cross-media analytics and intelligence through superior planning, buying, workflow and data warehousing tools. The cornerstone of MediaBank's solution is the MediaBank O|X platform, offering buying, financial, and workflow tools across all media types.
MerchantCircle (Los Altos, CA)
MerchantCircle helps local merchants connect with one another to build a community network that can compete with large enterprises by teaming together to provide great deals and insights for local customers. MerchantCircle provides a new and affordable way for merchants to acquire customers.
Move Networks (American Fork, UT)
Move Networks delivers broadcast-quality streaming over the Internet for leading broadcasters and media publishers through end-to-end video delivery services. From video capture and ingestion through the final viewing experience, Move Networks puts video and brand in the best possible light and provides complete measurement and reporting on the actual viewing experience for every single session.
Passenger (Los Angeles, CA)
Passenger® is the technology leader in on-demand Customer Collaboration. Through Passenger-powered Customer Collaboration, companies gain insight, drive innovation and build advocacy. Passenger combines leading social networking, collaboration and analystics technologies into a single intuitive platform, delivered Software-as-a-Service.
Photobucket (Denver, CO)
Photobucket is the premier standalone photo and video sharing site, with a large and active user base around the world linking billions of personal photos, graphics, slideshows and videos daily to hundreds of thousands of Web sites. In addition to linking content, Photobucket users share their personal digital media by email, instant messaging, and mobile devices.
Playdom (Mountain View, CA)
Founded in 2008, Playdom is a leading social game platform publisher. With more than 42 million monthly active users, Playdom boasts the #1 title on MySpace, and has a fast-growing presence on Facebook and iPhone with hit games such as Social City and Sorority Life. Playdom was acquired by The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) in July 2010.
Popular Media (San Francisco, CA)
PopularMedia helps advertisers and publishers multiply the impact of their online ad campaigns and significantly increase user engagement by wrapping standard online display ad units with an interactive social media layer. PopularMedia's Influencer Ad Platform allows marketers to create engaging online experiences that invite consumers to share content, products, and offers with their network of friends, relatives and colleagues. PopularMedia was acquired by StrongMail in June 2009 .
Pure Digital Technologies (San Francisco, CA)
Pure Digital Technologies is a pioneer in developing simple, affordable digital imaging solutions for the mass market. Its award-winning product portfolio includes the world's only one-time-use digital video and still cameras as well as the revolutionary Flip Video family of digital camcorders. The Flip, Flip Ultra, and Flip Mino is available in over 10,000 retail locations including Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, Sam's Club, Target, Toys 'R Us, and Wal-Mart. Pure Digital Technologies was acquired by Cisco (NYSE: CSCO) in May 2009 .
Quigo Technologies (New York City, NY)
Quigo develops proprietary ROI-based search solutions that facilitate online content-targeted advertising and search engine marketing. These technologies form the basis for Quigo's product offerings: AdSonar Exchange, a content-targeted advertising marketplace for advertisers and publishers and FeedPoint, a search engine marketing solution for advertisers and search engine marketing agencies. Quigo was acquired by AOL (NYSE: TWX) in December, 2007.
RazorGator (Los Angeles, CA)
RazorGator is the recognized leader in providing clients with the ability to buy and sell tickets to any event on the planet – from the Super Bowl and World Series to a U2 concert, the hottest Broadway or London shows, the National Finals Rodeo or the next home game to your favorite team. RazorGator provides the most trusted, most comprehensive global event experience available today by providing access to Hard-to-Getsm tickets, travel and concierge services, corporate hospitality and more.
Rosum Corporation (Redwood City, CA)
Rosum has developed a technology which monitors the analog and digital television signal to provide accurate, dependable mobile positioning. The system architecture possesses fundamental advantages including high reliability, low cost, low power usage, and both indoor & outdoor tracking.
Scrapblog (San Francisco, CA)
Scrapblog is enhancing social media by empowering consumers to create and publish rich content from the Web to the Web. Through its multimedia scrapbooking service, users can mix-in their photos, videos, audio, text and other creative elements in an environment that is truly drag-and-drop easy.
Sometrics (Los Angeles, CA)
Sometrics helps publishers monetize free-to-play games, virtual worlds, and social applications with the industry's most advanced offer platform and payment manager. Publishers gain a new revenue source that enhances existing payment methods, and increases conversions among paying users. Uniquely, the platform gives publishers full control, total transparency, and comprehensive customer support.
Vobile (Santa Clara, CA)
Founded in 2005, Vobile is a leading provider of video content identification and management products and services. Its core VideoDNA™ content identification technology enables fully automated identification, tracking and management of any video content with high performance, accuracy and scalability. With a portfolio of solutions, Vobile is revolutionizing the video industry, and powering the new Internet video economy.
Voodoovox (North Adams, MA)
VoodooVox develops technology to turn phone calls into revenue-generating opportunities. The VoodooVox In-Call Network is integrated into hundreds of call publishers, including calling cards, 411 services, radio stations, VOIP providers, and various Voice 2.0 applications. Through the VoodooVox In-Call Network, brands and marketers have new ways to engage consumers, and service providers earn increased revenue from their calls.