Accel is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with additional offices in San Francisco, London, and Bangalore. The firm specializes in early and growth-stage investments, focusing on sectors such as cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), consumer products, enterprise solutions, information technology, healthcare, fintech, security, media, and business services. Accel is dedicated to supporting a global community of entrepreneurs, identifying and backing those with the potential to drive the growth of next-generation industries. The firm's portfolio includes notable companies like Atlassian, Dropbox, and Facebook, showcasing its commitment to fostering innovation and growth in the technology landscape.
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Pratik Agarwal
Principal
Radhika Ananth
Vice President and Investor
Casey Aylward
Partner
Mahendran Balachandran
Partner, India
Julien Bek
Principal
Luca Bocchio
Partner
Andrei Brasoveanu
Partner
Katie Brown
Investor
Abhinav Chaturvedi
Partner
Ethan Choi
Partner
Miles Clements
Partner
Adrian Colyer
Venture Partner
Kevin Comolli
Partner
Anand Daniel
Partner
Ben Dooley
CFO
Peter Doyle
Investor
Sameer Gandhi
Partner
Martin Gibson
Technology Investor
Graham Hutson
Investor
Sara Ittelson
Partner
Dinesh Katiyar
Partner
Shekhar Kirani
Partner, India
Richard Kotite
Vice President
Gagan Kumar
General Partner
Daniel Levine
Partner
Ping Li
Partner
John Locke
Partner
Zhenya Loginov
Partner
Arun Mathew
Partner
Jonathan Mendelson
Investor
Subrata Mitra
Founder
Gonzalo Mocorrea
Investor
Vasant Natarajan
Partner
Vas Natarajan
Partner
Harry Nelis
Partner
Nate Niparko
Partner
Rachit Parekh
Investor
Vijaysai Patnaik
Associate
Prashanth Prakash
Co-Founder and Partner, India
Varun Purandare
Principal and Investor
Ben Quazzo
Investor, Venture and Growth
Rafael Quintanilla Loeillet
Early-Stage Investor
Tim Rawlinson
Investor - Growth
Tracy Sedlock
Chief Operating Partner
Manasi Shah
Vice President and Investment Team Member
Sarthak Singh
Investor
Ryan Sweeney
General Partner
Charles Tananbaum
Investor
Humza Tariq
Investor
Jonathan Turner
Partner
Cecilia Wang
Vice President and Investor
Matt Weigand
Partner
Eric Wolford
Venture Partner
Ivan Zhou
Partner
Richard Wong
Partner
Bruce Golden
Partner
Steve Loughlin
Partner
Barath Shankar Subramanian
Senior Analyst
David Waltcher
Investor
Past deals in Marketing
The Good Glamm Group
Venture Round in 2024
The Good Glamm Group gathers and markets various beauty and personal care brands. It searches for sustainable and cruelty-free beauty companies to invest in and helps with advertising them under their existing digital spaces. The Good Glamm Group is based in Pune, India.
Arcane
Seed Round in 2023
Arcane Intelligence is an AI Copilot that accelerates marketers.
Fibr
Seed Round in 2023
Fibr is an innovative AI-powered platform focused on addressing the growing challenge of customer acquisition costs in the digital marketing landscape. As traditional marketing methods become less effective due to the decline of third-party cookies and stricter privacy regulations, Fibr offers advanced personalization solutions to enhance marketing interactions. Its flagship tool, Web Pilot, generates personalized landing pages for various forms of communication, ensuring each user experience is tailored to individual preferences, which significantly boosts engagement and conversion rates. Additionally, Fibr's AI Blocks facilitate the adaptation and repurposing of successful content across multiple formats and channels, maintaining relevance in marketing messages. By enabling businesses to deliver cohesive and on-brand experiences at scale, Fibr helps optimize marketing expenditures and effectively reduce customer acquisition costs. This strategic approach allows companies to navigate a cookie-less future while improving the efficiency and impact of their marketing efforts.
Uniqode
Series A in 2023
Uniqode, previously known as Beaconstac, is a cloud-based platform that specializes in QR Code generation and mobile marketing solutions. It connects the digital and physical worlds by utilizing QR codes, NFC tags, Bluetooth beacons, and geofencing technology. The platform serves over 50,000 businesses across various sectors, including consumer goods, hospitality, retail, and real estate, enabling them to enhance customer engagement and optimize operational efficiency. By leveraging innovative proximity marketing principles, Uniqode allows companies to deliver personalized and context-aware experiences to their customers, facilitating direct interactions and fostering brand loyalty. The platform also aids in assessing the return on investment for physical marketing channels while significantly reducing marketing costs.
YouShd
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Youshd is the first programmatic influencer marketing solution that helps brands and retailers automates and democratizes the overall influencer marketing process.
Mason
Seed Round in 2022
Mason is a no-code, headless content toolkit that streamlines the creation, editing, and organization of graphic designs for eCommerce storefronts. By leveraging AI and an API-based infrastructure, Mason enables brands to efficiently produce personalized content, such as videos, GIFs, and high-quality product images. This capability allows brand content teams to maintain a consistent and engaging shopping experience across diverse channels, including webstores, apps, and social media platforms. Mason's platform is designed to facilitate scalable creative production, allowing clients to concentrate on developing original ideas and effectively bringing them to market.
Passionfruit
Seed Round in 2022
Passionfruit is bringing together the next generation of leading independent marketing talent and providing a digital home where they can work, learn and earn, so startups and enterprises can work with them on-demand.
Invoca
Series F in 2022
Invoca, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in AI-powered call tracking and analytics, focusing on enhancing marketing and sales through actionable insights from customer conversations. Its platform provides tools for measuring and optimizing inbound calls, allowing marketers to achieve detailed campaign attribution and understand caller intent. The company offers a suite of call intelligence solutions, including voice analytics, a real-time engagement engine, and integrations with major marketing and sales applications. Invoca's products, such as the voice marketing cloud and machine learning algorithms, empower businesses to enhance their customer interactions and drive revenue growth. The company serves a wide range of sectors, including consumer and business-to-business markets, and has established partnerships with prominent brands such as AutoNation and Verizon. Founded in 2007 and based in Santa Barbara, California, Invoca has expanded its presence with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.
RetainIQ
Seed Round in 2022
RetainIQ is an e-commerce marketing company founded in 2021 and headquartered in Wilmington, DE, that specializes in helping global brands enhance their online sales. The company offers a platform that allows businesses to segment their customer base and deliver personalized messages powered by artificial intelligence. This capability enables brands to create tailored experiences for their customers at scale, ultimately aiming to improve customer conversion and retention rates. Through its innovative approach, RetainIQ empowers businesses to effectively engage with their audience and drive sales growth.
Wizard
Series A in 2021
Wizard is a New York-based commerce technology startup founded in 2021 that focuses on transforming e-commerce through conversational artificial intelligence (AI). The company develops software solutions that enable brands to sell and market their products directly via text messaging. This innovative approach allows clients to engage customers more effectively, resulting in higher conversion rates compared to traditional e-commerce methods.
Gem
Series C in 2021
Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.
Commercetools
Series C in 2021
Commercetools GmbH is a Munich-based company that specializes in providing a cloud-native platform for Commerce-as-a-Service, tailored for various retail channels. Founded in 2006, it offers a suite of products that includes cart and order management, marketing tools, internationalization, and integration services, among others. The platform is designed to meet the demands of diverse industries such as fashion, beauty, and food and beverage, allowing businesses to engage customers through multiple touchpoints, including smartphones and point-of-sale systems. Commercetools' composable architecture enables brands to create customized digital commerce experiences rapidly and flexibly, accommodating the fast-evolving consumer preferences and market trends. Recognized as a leader in enterprise commerce technology, the company supports major global brands, equipping them to scale their operations effectively while minimizing technical risks. With additional offices in Berlin, Jena, Amsterdam, London, and Durham, commercetools continues to drive innovation in digital commerce solutions.
Mensa Brands
Venture Round in 2021
Mensa Brands is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build and scale digital brands. Mensa brands are investing working capital picking up equity in other D2C startups and scaling their brands' presence online. Its platform helps expertise in driving growth, product, merchandising, technology, supply chain, product, and access to global markets that help founders get a lucrative financial exit. At the same time, they transform their business through a successful partnership.
Mensa Brands
Series A in 2021
Mensa Brands is an investment firm that partners with entrepreneurs to build and scale digital brands. Mensa brands are investing working capital picking up equity in other D2C startups and scaling their brands' presence online. Its platform helps expertise in driving growth, product, merchandising, technology, supply chain, product, and access to global markets that help founders get a lucrative financial exit. At the same time, they transform their business through a successful partnership.
Pyn
Seed Round in 2021
Pyn is a human resources company based in Sydney, New South Wales, that focuses on enhancing employee communications through innovative marketing techniques. Founded in 2019, Pyn specializes in employee engagement, human resources, and training by offering a communication tool that personalizes interactions and conveys relevant workplace information. The platform utilizes strategies such as scheduling and automated triggering to ensure that employees receive timely and meaningful messages, thereby cutting through the noise of excess communications. Pyn's approach aims to improve overall employee engagement and satisfaction by delivering pertinent information at critical moments.
Squarespace
Venture Round in 2021
Squarespace is a website building and e-commerce platform designed to help entrepreneurs and micro businesses create and manage their online presence. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products, including website design, domain registration, e-commerce tools, and marketing resources. Users can access various features such as scheduling capabilities, email marketing, and member areas for paid content. In addition, Squarespace provides design tools tailored for social media and video content, enhancing users' ability to engage with their audience. Following its acquisition of Tock in 2021, Squarespace has expanded its services to the hospitality sector, offering software for reservations, take-out, and event management, thereby broadening its customer base and capabilities.
Wrogn
Series F in 2020
Wrogn is a youth-oriented fashion brand known for its diverse range of apparel, which includes casual wear, denim, shirts, t-shirts, jackets, and accessories. The brand offers a portfolio that features both men's and women's clothing under names such as Wrogn, Imara, Ms.Taken, Single, and Wrogn Active. Gaining significant popularity in India, Wrogn appeals to the younger demographic with its trendy designs and quality offerings, bolstered by the endorsement of prominent cricketer Virat Kohli. The brand has successfully expanded its presence through both online and offline retail channels, fostering a loyal customer base across the country.
Pyn
Seed Round in 2020
Pyn is a human resources company based in Sydney, New South Wales, that focuses on enhancing employee communications through innovative marketing techniques. Founded in 2019, Pyn specializes in employee engagement, human resources, and training by offering a communication tool that personalizes interactions and conveys relevant workplace information. The platform utilizes strategies such as scheduling and automated triggering to ensure that employees receive timely and meaningful messages, thereby cutting through the noise of excess communications. Pyn's approach aims to improve overall employee engagement and satisfaction by delivering pertinent information at critical moments.
Gem
Series B in 2020
Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.
Freshworks
Series H in 2019
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Invoca
Series E in 2019
Invoca, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in AI-powered call tracking and analytics, focusing on enhancing marketing and sales through actionable insights from customer conversations. Its platform provides tools for measuring and optimizing inbound calls, allowing marketers to achieve detailed campaign attribution and understand caller intent. The company offers a suite of call intelligence solutions, including voice analytics, a real-time engagement engine, and integrations with major marketing and sales applications. Invoca's products, such as the voice marketing cloud and machine learning algorithms, empower businesses to enhance their customer interactions and drive revenue growth. The company serves a wide range of sectors, including consumer and business-to-business markets, and has established partnerships with prominent brands such as AutoNation and Verizon. Founded in 2007 and based in Santa Barbara, California, Invoca has expanded its presence with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.
Mason
Funding Round in 2019
Mason is a no-code, headless content toolkit that streamlines the creation, editing, and organization of graphic designs for eCommerce storefronts. By leveraging AI and an API-based infrastructure, Mason enables brands to efficiently produce personalized content, such as videos, GIFs, and high-quality product images. This capability allows brand content teams to maintain a consistent and engaging shopping experience across diverse channels, including webstores, apps, and social media platforms. Mason's platform is designed to facilitate scalable creative production, allowing clients to concentrate on developing original ideas and effectively bringing them to market.
CleverTap
Series B in 2019
CleverTap is an engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate individualized experiences throughout customer lifecycles and craft tailored journeys that last over time. It provides comprehensive analytics that covers every aspect of the customer lifecycle, allowing businesses to measure and optimize experiences in real-time. Additionally, CleverTap incorporates advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, which enhance decision-making by delivering insightful and prescriptive recommendations, ensuring that brands can respond effectively to customer needs.
Gem
Series A in 2019
Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.
Wrogn
Series E in 2018
Wrogn is a youth-oriented fashion brand known for its diverse range of apparel, which includes casual wear, denim, shirts, t-shirts, jackets, and accessories. The brand offers a portfolio that features both men's and women's clothing under names such as Wrogn, Imara, Ms.Taken, Single, and Wrogn Active. Gaining significant popularity in India, Wrogn appeals to the younger demographic with its trendy designs and quality offerings, bolstered by the endorsement of prominent cricketer Virat Kohli. The brand has successfully expanded its presence through both online and offline retail channels, fostering a loyal customer base across the country.
Freshworks
Series G in 2018
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Wrogn
Venture Round in 2017
Wrogn is a youth-oriented fashion brand known for its diverse range of apparel, which includes casual wear, denim, shirts, t-shirts, jackets, and accessories. The brand offers a portfolio that features both men's and women's clothing under names such as Wrogn, Imara, Ms.Taken, Single, and Wrogn Active. Gaining significant popularity in India, Wrogn appeals to the younger demographic with its trendy designs and quality offerings, bolstered by the endorsement of prominent cricketer Virat Kohli. The brand has successfully expanded its presence through both online and offline retail channels, fostering a loyal customer base across the country.
CleverTap
Venture Round in 2017
CleverTap is an engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate individualized experiences throughout customer lifecycles and craft tailored journeys that last over time. It provides comprehensive analytics that covers every aspect of the customer lifecycle, allowing businesses to measure and optimize experiences in real-time. Additionally, CleverTap incorporates advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, which enhance decision-making by delivering insightful and prescriptive recommendations, ensuring that brands can respond effectively to customer needs.
Gem
Seed Round in 2017
Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.
OPAL
Series B in 2016
Opal Labs Inc. is a marketing collaboration platform based in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2009. The company provides an online platform that enables organizations to effectively plan, create, view, edit, and approve their brand marketing content. By promoting alignment among marketing teams, Opal facilitates strategic campaign creation, streamlines the review process, and enhances content management, thereby reducing complexity and breaking down silos within organizations. The platform integrates seamlessly with various distribution methods, allowing teams to work together more efficiently and achieve successful marketing outcomes.
Freshworks
Series F in 2016
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Visto
Private Equity Round in 2016
Visto is a technology company focused on enhancing transparency, interoperability, and accountability in digital advertising. Its Visto Enterprise Advertising Hub serves as a vendor-agnostic platform that consolidates the entire ad tech stack into a single, user-friendly interface. This platform enables brands, media companies, and agencies to manage execution partners effectively, optimize advertising spend, measure performance, and leverage analytics to improve operational efficiencies and return on investment. Additionally, Visto's solutions facilitate the unification of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, allowing users to control audience reach and frequency while coordinating messaging across various media channels. Through its offerings, Visto aims to provide clarity and control in data-driven advertising.
Invoca
Series D in 2016
Invoca, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in AI-powered call tracking and analytics, focusing on enhancing marketing and sales through actionable insights from customer conversations. Its platform provides tools for measuring and optimizing inbound calls, allowing marketers to achieve detailed campaign attribution and understand caller intent. The company offers a suite of call intelligence solutions, including voice analytics, a real-time engagement engine, and integrations with major marketing and sales applications. Invoca's products, such as the voice marketing cloud and machine learning algorithms, empower businesses to enhance their customer interactions and drive revenue growth. The company serves a wide range of sectors, including consumer and business-to-business markets, and has established partnerships with prominent brands such as AutoNation and Verizon. Founded in 2007 and based in Santa Barbara, California, Invoca has expanded its presence with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.
Qubit
Series C in 2016
Qubit is the leader in highly persuasive personalization at scale. Leading ecommerce companies work with Qubit to transform the way they understand and influence their customers in order to increase revenue, build loyalty and improve marketing efficiency. By combining rich customer data, deep learning technology and advanced segmentation capabilities, the Qubit Customer Influence Engine can precisely match customers with the widest range of personal, online experiences to influence behavior at scale. Qubit is trusted to deliver real impact to the bottom line for the biggest brands in ecommerce including Ubisoft, CafePress, Topshop, Shiseido, and Emirates. Across the global Qubit customer base, $600 million worth of online sales are influenced over a typical week. To date, we have received over $76 million in funding from Goldman Sachs, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, Balderton Capital and Salesforce Ventures.
CleverTap
Series A in 2015
CleverTap is an engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate individualized experiences throughout customer lifecycles and craft tailored journeys that last over time. It provides comprehensive analytics that covers every aspect of the customer lifecycle, allowing businesses to measure and optimize experiences in real-time. Additionally, CleverTap incorporates advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, which enhance decision-making by delivering insightful and prescriptive recommendations, ensuring that brands can respond effectively to customer needs.
Collectabillia.com
Series B in 2015
Collectabillia.com is a celebrity commerce company offering a platform to fans to own memorabilia personally autographed by their icons as well as fan merchandise. It launched its auction platform during the 2012 season of the IPL partnering with master blaster Sachin Tendulkar exclusively to auction limited edition merchandise post his historical ‘hundredth, hundred’. Collectabillia’s objective is to extend the global market of memorabilia into India, allowing the ownership of personalized merchandise along the same lines as that of art, numismatics, and philately. Promoted by Anjana Reddy, a sports enthusiast and national level badminton player, and backed by the Accel Partners of the Angry Birds and Facebook fame, Collectabillia’s goal is to connect celebrities and their ardent fans. Incorporated in 2011, the company is headquartered in Bengaluru.
Freshworks
Series E in 2015
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
TUNE
Series B in 2015
TUNE, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform for managing marketing partnerships across mobile and web channels. The TUNE Partner Marketing Platform offers flexible solutions for building and optimizing partner programs, enabling marketers to enhance performance and mitigate risks. The company's services include migration, onboarding, development, and consulting, all aimed at maximizing return on investment through comprehensive performance marketing and attribution analytics. TUNE's clientele includes a diverse range of notable brands, and it has established strategic partnerships with various industry players to enhance its offerings. Founded in 2009 and formerly known as HasOffers, TUNE operates as a subsidiary of Perseus Operating Group.
Qubit
Series B in 2014
Qubit is the leader in highly persuasive personalization at scale. Leading ecommerce companies work with Qubit to transform the way they understand and influence their customers in order to increase revenue, build loyalty and improve marketing efficiency. By combining rich customer data, deep learning technology and advanced segmentation capabilities, the Qubit Customer Influence Engine can precisely match customers with the widest range of personal, online experiences to influence behavior at scale. Qubit is trusted to deliver real impact to the bottom line for the biggest brands in ecommerce including Ubisoft, CafePress, Topshop, Shiseido, and Emirates. Across the global Qubit customer base, $600 million worth of online sales are influenced over a typical week. To date, we have received over $76 million in funding from Goldman Sachs, Accel, Sapphire Ventures, Balderton Capital and Salesforce Ventures.
Hootsuite
Series C in 2014
Hootsuite is a social media management platform that assists businesses in engaging with their customers across various social networks. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to simplify marketing efforts, enhance sales, and improve customer service. Users can create, schedule, publish, and manage their content and advertising campaigns from a single, secure web-based dashboard. This functionality allows organizations to efficiently manage multiple profiles, discover and schedule effective content, and gain insights into relevant data and trends, ultimately facilitating better connections with their audience.
CleverTap
Seed Round in 2014
CleverTap is an engagement platform designed to assist brands in maximizing customer lifetime value by creating personalized experiences that foster customer retention. The platform enables businesses to orchestrate individualized experiences throughout customer lifecycles and craft tailored journeys that last over time. It provides comprehensive analytics that covers every aspect of the customer lifecycle, allowing businesses to measure and optimize experiences in real-time. Additionally, CleverTap incorporates advanced artificial intelligence capabilities, which enhance decision-making by delivering insightful and prescriptive recommendations, ensuring that brands can respond effectively to customer needs.
Freshworks
Series D in 2014
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Krux
Series B in 2014
Krux helps companies deliver personalized commerce, media, and marketing experiences to the right people, in the right way, at the right time across all devices, browsers, and operating systems. Krux’s cloud-based data management platform (DMP) unifies people data from multiple screens and sources into a single view of the individual, analyzes the data to understand each individual’s preferences, and activates the data across every channel (desktop, mobile, social, display, web, set-top) in real time. Founded in 2010, Krux interacts with over two billion browsers and devices worldwide, serves over 20 billion page views per month, and processes more than 1.5 billion CRM records per month. Krux is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco with offices across four continents. Krux clients such as Kellogg, Time Warner, and Meredith have achieved a 10x return or higher on their investment. Follow Krux on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.
Konotor
Seed Round in 2014
Konotor is a user engagement platform based in Chennai, India, that facilitates two-way communication between mobile application users and businesses. The platform enhances mobile apps with a rich messaging inbox, allowing for personalized and contextual interactions. It offers segmentation capabilities and event-driven messaging tools, enabling businesses to effectively engage specific user cohorts for purposes such as marketing, re-engagement, feedback, and customer support. As of December 2015, Konotor operates as a subsidiary of Freshdesk Inc. and is available for both iOS and Android platforms.
Origami Logic
Series B in 2014
Origami Logic, Inc. is a marketing analytics company based in Mountain View, California, that offers a platform for measuring and optimizing marketing campaign investments across various channels. Founded in 2011, the company provides solutions that enable marketers to unify and analyze vast amounts of data from both online and offline marketing efforts, including web, email, social media, search, and video. By allowing users to search and organize their data in real-time, Origami Logic helps teams understand their marketing performance and identify areas for improvement. The company serves a diverse clientele, including well-known brands such as Procter & Gamble, HP, JCPenney, Intel, and Omni Hotels. In 2019, Origami Logic became a subsidiary of Intuit Inc. and is backed by prominent investors such as Accel Partners, Icon Ventures, NextWorld Capital, DAG Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Invoca
Series C in 2014
Invoca, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in AI-powered call tracking and analytics, focusing on enhancing marketing and sales through actionable insights from customer conversations. Its platform provides tools for measuring and optimizing inbound calls, allowing marketers to achieve detailed campaign attribution and understand caller intent. The company offers a suite of call intelligence solutions, including voice analytics, a real-time engagement engine, and integrations with major marketing and sales applications. Invoca's products, such as the voice marketing cloud and machine learning algorithms, empower businesses to enhance their customer interactions and drive revenue growth. The company serves a wide range of sectors, including consumer and business-to-business markets, and has established partnerships with prominent brands such as AutoNation and Verizon. Founded in 2007 and based in Santa Barbara, California, Invoca has expanded its presence with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.
Uniqode
Series B in 2013
Uniqode, previously known as Beaconstac, is a cloud-based platform that specializes in QR Code generation and mobile marketing solutions. It connects the digital and physical worlds by utilizing QR codes, NFC tags, Bluetooth beacons, and geofencing technology. The platform serves over 50,000 businesses across various sectors, including consumer goods, hospitality, retail, and real estate, enabling them to enhance customer engagement and optimize operational efficiency. By leveraging innovative proximity marketing principles, Uniqode allows companies to deliver personalized and context-aware experiences to their customers, facilitating direct interactions and fostering brand loyalty. The platform also aids in assessing the return on investment for physical marketing channels while significantly reducing marketing costs.
Freshworks
Series C in 2013
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Nomi
Series A in 2013
Nomi is an omni-channel marketing platform that assists retailers in enhancing customer engagement and optimizing the return on investment from their marketing and store operations. It effectively analyzes and measures the impact of various marketing initiatives by quantifying visitor traffic generated by campaigns and calculating the lifetime value of newly acquired customers. The platform evaluates store performance by determining how well retailers convert potential customers into actual buyers, identifies underperforming staff, and assesses the impact of training and management investments on customer behavior. Additionally, Nomi provides a comprehensive view of the customer conversion funnel, enabling retailers to anticipate the health of their stores and address operational issues before they affect profitability. Founded in September 2012 and based in New York, Nomi was established by Marc Ferrentino, Corey Capasso, Wesley Barrow, Peter Quintas, and Robert Balousek.
Vox Media
Series E in 2013
Vox Media is a prominent media company that specializes in creating, publishing, and distributing online content tailored to young adults globally. Founded in 2012, it operates a diverse portfolio of brands, including SB Nation, which focuses on sports and fan communities; The Verge, a technology publication; Polygon, aimed at adult gamers; Vox.com, which covers news and interests; Eater, centered on food and dining; Racked, which focuses on shopping, beauty, and fashion; Curbed, dedicated to real estate and home; and Re/code, a tech business publication. Additionally, Vox Media encompasses Vox Creative, a division that develops marketing narratives for brands, and offers advertising services through Vox Advertising and the Concert advertising solution. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in New York City, Vox Media is committed to sustainable editorial practices and responsible industry leadership.
Hootsuite
Series B in 2013
Hootsuite is a social media management platform that assists businesses in engaging with their customers across various social networks. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to simplify marketing efforts, enhance sales, and improve customer service. Users can create, schedule, publish, and manage their content and advertising campaigns from a single, secure web-based dashboard. This functionality allows organizations to efficiently manage multiple profiles, discover and schedule effective content, and gain insights into relevant data and trends, ultimately facilitating better connections with their audience.
Visto
Venture Round in 2013
Visto is a technology company focused on enhancing transparency, interoperability, and accountability in digital advertising. Its Visto Enterprise Advertising Hub serves as a vendor-agnostic platform that consolidates the entire ad tech stack into a single, user-friendly interface. This platform enables brands, media companies, and agencies to manage execution partners effectively, optimize advertising spend, measure performance, and leverage analytics to improve operational efficiencies and return on investment. Additionally, Visto's solutions facilitate the unification of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, allowing users to control audience reach and frequency while coordinating messaging across various media channels. Through its offerings, Visto aims to provide clarity and control in data-driven advertising.
Shopmium
Series B in 2013
Shopmium is a mobile shopping service that provides consumer brands with a platform to connect directly with consumers. Through its mobile application, Shopmium offers special promotions and coupons that are delivered to users' smartphones. The service enhances the shopping experience by leveraging rich media and appealing product presentations, allowing brands to effectively engage their audience. By focusing on mobile couponing and promotions, Shopmium facilitates a direct relationship between brands and consumers, making it easier for users to access exclusive offers and discounts on various products.
TUNE
Series A in 2013
TUNE, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing a cloud-based platform for managing marketing partnerships across mobile and web channels. The TUNE Partner Marketing Platform offers flexible solutions for building and optimizing partner programs, enabling marketers to enhance performance and mitigate risks. The company's services include migration, onboarding, development, and consulting, all aimed at maximizing return on investment through comprehensive performance marketing and attribution analytics. TUNE's clientele includes a diverse range of notable brands, and it has established strategic partnerships with various industry players to enhance its offerings. Founded in 2009 and formerly known as HasOffers, TUNE operates as a subsidiary of Perseus Operating Group.
Booyah
Series C in 2013
Booyah is the market leader in real-world & location–based gaming. The company is founded on the premise that "where you play matters" and creates compelling, innovative mass-market games and entertainment products that have been enjoyed by tens of millions of worldwide. By integrating real-world signals into its portfolio of products, Booyah is more than a games company…literally changing how people play and delivering more personal, more social & more meaningful ways for gamers of all ages to play & interact with their friends & the world around them. Booyah has partnered with leading consumer brands including H&M, Pantene, Olay, Paul Frank, Disney, Subway, Adidas, MTV and others to connect engaged gamers with the products they love. To learn more about advertising & sponsorship opportunities, click here. The company draws its creativity and inspiration from the mobile, consumer web, social and traditional gaming space with a leadership team drawn from the world’s top interactive companies including Electronic Arts, Blizzard Entertainment, Glu Mobile, Crowdstar, LucasArts, Kabam and Insomniac Games. Booyah is financed by Accel Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers’ iFund.
Kekanto
Series B in 2013
Kekanto is a social network that facilitates the exchange of reviews and recommendations regarding various places and services. Founded in 2010 and based in São Paulo, it serves as a community platform for individuals who enjoy exploring their city, sharing their opinions, and connecting with others. Kekanto's software functions as a city guide, utilizing a social discovery engine powered by local insights. This enables users to access updates on attractions and venues while engaging with the community through comments and reviews. The platform aims to enhance the experience of discovering and enjoying local offerings.
Spotify
Series E in 2012
Spotify Limited is a leading digital music-streaming service that offers users on-demand access to a vast library of songs across various devices, including computers, mobile phones, and home entertainment systems. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify allows users to search for and discover music from friends, artists, and celebrities, while also enabling them to create, share, and edit playlists collaboratively. The platform includes features like personalized recommendations and radio playlists based on users' listening habits. Spotify operates on a freemium model, with revenue generated primarily from its premium subscription service and a secondary ad-supported service. As of 2023, the company boasts 602 million monthly active users, with a significant portion of its revenue derived from subscriptions. Additionally, Spotify provides tools for artists to promote their music through advertising and social media integration.
Origami Logic
Series A in 2012
Origami Logic, Inc. is a marketing analytics company based in Mountain View, California, that offers a platform for measuring and optimizing marketing campaign investments across various channels. Founded in 2011, the company provides solutions that enable marketers to unify and analyze vast amounts of data from both online and offline marketing efforts, including web, email, social media, search, and video. By allowing users to search and organize their data in real-time, Origami Logic helps teams understand their marketing performance and identify areas for improvement. The company serves a diverse clientele, including well-known brands such as Procter & Gamble, HP, JCPenney, Intel, and Omni Hotels. In 2019, Origami Logic became a subsidiary of Intuit Inc. and is backed by prominent investors such as Accel Partners, Icon Ventures, NextWorld Capital, DAG Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
NextRoll
Series B in 2012
AdRoll is a digital marketing platform focused on helping direct-to-consumer brands enhance their online presence and drive sales. It offers a suite of tools for digital advertising, including retargeting, email marketing, advanced tracking, and product recommendations. By leveraging machine learning and integrated data, AdRoll enables businesses to create personalized advertising campaigns tailored to their audience's behavior, thus maximizing the return on investment from their online marketing efforts. The platform serves a diverse range of companies, providing them with the necessary resources to grow in the competitive e-commerce landscape. Headquartered in San Francisco, AdRoll is a part of NextRoll, a marketing technology company dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for businesses worldwide.
Collectabillia.com
Series A in 2012
Collectabillia.com is a celebrity commerce company offering a platform to fans to own memorabilia personally autographed by their icons as well as fan merchandise. It launched its auction platform during the 2012 season of the IPL partnering with master blaster Sachin Tendulkar exclusively to auction limited edition merchandise post his historical ‘hundredth, hundred’. Collectabillia’s objective is to extend the global market of memorabilia into India, allowing the ownership of personalized merchandise along the same lines as that of art, numismatics, and philately. Promoted by Anjana Reddy, a sports enthusiast and national level badminton player, and backed by the Accel Partners of the Angry Birds and Facebook fame, Collectabillia’s goal is to connect celebrities and their ardent fans. Incorporated in 2011, the company is headquartered in Bengaluru.
Locbox
Venture Round in 2012
Locbox Labs provides local businesses everything they need for marketing in an all in one solution.
Freshworks
Series B in 2012
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Shopmium
Venture Round in 2011
Shopmium is a mobile shopping service that provides consumer brands with a platform to connect directly with consumers. Through its mobile application, Shopmium offers special promotions and coupons that are delivered to users' smartphones. The service enhances the shopping experience by leveraging rich media and appealing product presentations, allowing brands to effectively engage their audience. By focusing on mobile couponing and promotions, Shopmium facilitates a direct relationship between brands and consumers, making it easier for users to access exclusive offers and discounts on various products.
Freshworks
Series A in 2011
Freshworks Inc. develops innovative software solutions designed to enhance customer engagement for businesses of all sizes. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company provides a suite of software-as-a-service products that cater to various business functions. Its offerings include Freshdesk for customer support, Freshsales CRM for sales management, Freshservice for IT service management, and Freshteam for recruitment and employee management. Additionally, Freshworks provides tools like Freshchat for customer interaction, Freshmarketer for marketing automation, and Freshcaller for cloud-based telephony. The company's solutions enable organizations to acquire, engage, and retain customers while offering a comprehensive view of customer interactions. Freshworks has a global presence with offices in multiple countries, including India, the UK, Australia, Germany, France, Singapore, and the Netherlands. Its commitment to delivering user-friendly software ensures a quick return on investment for its clients.
Kekanto
Series A in 2011
Kekanto is a social network that facilitates the exchange of reviews and recommendations regarding various places and services. Founded in 2010 and based in São Paulo, it serves as a community platform for individuals who enjoy exploring their city, sharing their opinions, and connecting with others. Kekanto's software functions as a city guide, utilizing a social discovery engine powered by local insights. This enables users to access updates on attractions and venues while engaging with the community through comments and reviews. The platform aims to enhance the experience of discovering and enjoying local offerings.
Krux
Series A in 2011
Krux helps companies deliver personalized commerce, media, and marketing experiences to the right people, in the right way, at the right time across all devices, browsers, and operating systems. Krux’s cloud-based data management platform (DMP) unifies people data from multiple screens and sources into a single view of the individual, analyzes the data to understand each individual’s preferences, and activates the data across every channel (desktop, mobile, social, display, web, set-top) in real time. Founded in 2010, Krux interacts with over two billion browsers and devices worldwide, serves over 20 billion page views per month, and processes more than 1.5 billion CRM records per month. Krux is a venture-backed company headquartered in San Francisco with offices across four continents. Krux clients such as Kellogg, Time Warner, and Meredith have achieved a 10x return or higher on their investment. Follow Krux on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+.
Uniqode
Series A in 2011
Uniqode, previously known as Beaconstac, is a cloud-based platform that specializes in QR Code generation and mobile marketing solutions. It connects the digital and physical worlds by utilizing QR codes, NFC tags, Bluetooth beacons, and geofencing technology. The platform serves over 50,000 businesses across various sectors, including consumer goods, hospitality, retail, and real estate, enabling them to enhance customer engagement and optimize operational efficiency. By leveraging innovative proximity marketing principles, Uniqode allows companies to deliver personalized and context-aware experiences to their customers, facilitating direct interactions and fostering brand loyalty. The platform also aids in assessing the return on investment for physical marketing channels while significantly reducing marketing costs.
Spotify
Series D in 2011
Spotify Limited is a leading digital music-streaming service that offers users on-demand access to a vast library of songs across various devices, including computers, mobile phones, and home entertainment systems. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Spotify allows users to search for and discover music from friends, artists, and celebrities, while also enabling them to create, share, and edit playlists collaboratively. The platform includes features like personalized recommendations and radio playlists based on users' listening habits. Spotify operates on a freemium model, with revenue generated primarily from its premium subscription service and a secondary ad-supported service. As of 2023, the company boasts 602 million monthly active users, with a significant portion of its revenue derived from subscriptions. Additionally, Spotify provides tools for artists to promote their music through advertising and social media integration.
UberMedia
Series B in 2011
UberMedia’s diverse suite of products process billions of social, demographic, and location signals daily to understand and influence modern consumers with the most accurate business decision science. Targeted mobile advertising campaigns reach beyond generic visibility to solve real-world business objectives, including customer conquests, improved in-store visits, and increased sales. UberMedia delivers dynamic advertising solutions for Fortune 500 companies across retail, automotive, entertainment, and consumer markets. Recognized as a pioneer in targeted mobile advertising, UberMedia was listed as Fast Company’s “50 Most Innovative Companies” and The Wall Street Journal’s Top “50 Startups.” UberMedia is headquartered in Pasadena, CA as a network company of Idealab, a world-renowned operator of leading technology businesses. For more information, visit www.ubermedia.com.
myThings
Series C in 2010
myThings Inc. specializes in providing customized programmatic advertising solutions, particularly in the realm of personalized display advertising. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company has established itself as a leader in conversion-driven advertising, significantly boosting sales for top online retailers across various markets, including Europe, the US, and Asia. myThings employs advanced techniques such as retargeting, pre-targeting, and look-alike targeting, achieving over 150% uplift compared to industry standards. The company personalizes over a billion banner impressions each month and manages more than half a billion real-time bidding (RTB) requests daily, utilizing extensive data analysis to optimize bid predictions. Its client base features prominent European online retailers, and myThings has received recognition for its innovative contributions to the advertising sector, including awards for excellence in affiliate marketing and rankings among the fastest-growing digital media companies in Europe.
BuyFi
Seed Round in 2010
BuyFi is a payment analytics and customer marketing platform that transforms credit card data into actionable insights for businesses. It offers three primary products designed to enhance customer engagement and streamline marketing efforts. UMarket enables merchants to provide personalized rewards based on customers' purchasing behaviors, automating the process to enhance sales without additional effort from business owners. BInsights delivers valuable analytics derived from credit card transactions, allowing small businesses to gain a deeper understanding of their customer base. BeSocial simplifies social media management by allowing businesses to schedule posts across multiple platforms from a single interface, facilitating the sharing of content and promotional offers while enabling performance tracking and reputation management across various online channels. This comprehensive approach helps businesses improve customer acquisition and retention, ultimately driving sales growth.
Vox Media
Series C in 2010
Vox Media is a prominent media company that specializes in creating, publishing, and distributing online content tailored to young adults globally. Founded in 2012, it operates a diverse portfolio of brands, including SB Nation, which focuses on sports and fan communities; The Verge, a technology publication; Polygon, aimed at adult gamers; Vox.com, which covers news and interests; Eater, centered on food and dining; Racked, which focuses on shopping, beauty, and fashion; Curbed, dedicated to real estate and home; and Re/code, a tech business publication. Additionally, Vox Media encompasses Vox Creative, a division that develops marketing narratives for brands, and offers advertising services through Vox Advertising and the Concert advertising solution. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in New York City, Vox Media is committed to sustainable editorial practices and responsible industry leadership.
Squarespace
Series A in 2010
Squarespace is a website building and e-commerce platform designed to help entrepreneurs and micro businesses create and manage their online presence. The company offers a comprehensive suite of products, including website design, domain registration, e-commerce tools, and marketing resources. Users can access various features such as scheduling capabilities, email marketing, and member areas for paid content. In addition, Squarespace provides design tools tailored for social media and video content, enhancing users' ability to engage with their audience. Following its acquisition of Tock in 2021, Squarespace has expanded its services to the hospitality sector, offering software for reservations, take-out, and event management, thereby broadening its customer base and capabilities.
Booyah
Series C in 2010
Booyah is the market leader in real-world & location–based gaming. The company is founded on the premise that "where you play matters" and creates compelling, innovative mass-market games and entertainment products that have been enjoyed by tens of millions of worldwide. By integrating real-world signals into its portfolio of products, Booyah is more than a games company…literally changing how people play and delivering more personal, more social & more meaningful ways for gamers of all ages to play & interact with their friends & the world around them. Booyah has partnered with leading consumer brands including H&M, Pantene, Olay, Paul Frank, Disney, Subway, Adidas, MTV and others to connect engaged gamers with the products they love. To learn more about advertising & sponsorship opportunities, click here. The company draws its creativity and inspiration from the mobile, consumer web, social and traditional gaming space with a leadership team drawn from the world’s top interactive companies including Electronic Arts, Blizzard Entertainment, Glu Mobile, Crowdstar, LucasArts, Kabam and Insomniac Games. Booyah is financed by Accel Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers’ iFund.
Groupon
Series C in 2010
Groupon operates online local commerce marketplaces that connect consumers with merchants by offering discounted goods and services in North America and internationally. The company provides a wide array of deals, including those related to events, health and wellness, food and drink, home and garden, automotive services, and travel options such as hotels and airfare. Groupon also features various consumer products, including electronics and apparel, available through its platform. It allows customers to browse and purchase deals via websites, mobile applications, emails, and social media. Merchants benefit from customizable deal campaigns and payment processing solutions. Groupon generates its revenue primarily through commissions from transactions conducted on its platform, including sales made through digital coupons. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Groupon has been active since 2008, evolving from its original name, ThePoint.com, Inc.
Groupon
Series B in 2009
Groupon operates online local commerce marketplaces that connect consumers with merchants by offering discounted goods and services in North America and internationally. The company provides a wide array of deals, including those related to events, health and wellness, food and drink, home and garden, automotive services, and travel options such as hotels and airfare. Groupon also features various consumer products, including electronics and apparel, available through its platform. It allows customers to browse and purchase deals via websites, mobile applications, emails, and social media. Merchants benefit from customizable deal campaigns and payment processing solutions. Groupon generates its revenue primarily through commissions from transactions conducted on its platform, including sales made through digital coupons. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Groupon has been active since 2008, evolving from its original name, ThePoint.com, Inc.
Noosh
Series C in 2009
Noosh is the provider of marketing and procurement software for managing print and related marketing spend. For over ten years, NewlineNoosh has provided its print procurement software-as-a-service, Noosh, to enterprises and print outsourcers, enabling them to drive down print costs, improve visibility and control, and ensure brand consistency. Based in Silicon Valley, we have offices throughout North America and enjoy partnerships with leading print outsourcers around the world to support global print procurement deployments. Our customers include prominent large enterprises in the financial services, consumer products, retail, government and other sectors. Our unique approach to managing print procurement is powered by our Noosh software, the most widely used technology for managing print, direct mail, point-of-sale (POS), branded promotions and related products. Noosh uniquely addresses the requirements of its customers by streamlining two critical print management processes - the procurement and financial “source to pay process” and the marketing “design to delivery process,” thereby providing unparalleled efficiency, visibility, and control which results in significant cost savings and efficiency improvements throughout the print supply chain. With Noosh, everyone involved in the print procurement process, including marketing managers, agencies, print buyers and suppliers, easily interact on the same system using a web browser.
Vox Media
Series B in 2009
Vox Media is a prominent media company that specializes in creating, publishing, and distributing online content tailored to young adults globally. Founded in 2012, it operates a diverse portfolio of brands, including SB Nation, which focuses on sports and fan communities; The Verge, a technology publication; Polygon, aimed at adult gamers; Vox.com, which covers news and interests; Eater, centered on food and dining; Racked, which focuses on shopping, beauty, and fashion; Curbed, dedicated to real estate and home; and Re/code, a tech business publication. Additionally, Vox Media encompasses Vox Creative, a division that develops marketing narratives for brands, and offers advertising services through Vox Advertising and the Concert advertising solution. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in New York City, Vox Media is committed to sustainable editorial practices and responsible industry leadership.
Visto
Series B in 2009
Visto is a technology company focused on enhancing transparency, interoperability, and accountability in digital advertising. Its Visto Enterprise Advertising Hub serves as a vendor-agnostic platform that consolidates the entire ad tech stack into a single, user-friendly interface. This platform enables brands, media companies, and agencies to manage execution partners effectively, optimize advertising spend, measure performance, and leverage analytics to improve operational efficiencies and return on investment. Additionally, Visto's solutions facilitate the unification of the programmatic advertising ecosystem, allowing users to control audience reach and frequency while coordinating messaging across various media channels. Through its offerings, Visto aims to provide clarity and control in data-driven advertising.
StumbleUpon
Series A in 2009
StumbleUpon is a content discovery platform that helps users find new and interesting web and mobile content tailored to their preferences. With over 25 million users, the service allows individuals to explore, share, and provide ratings and reviews on various web pages. Additionally, StumbleUpon offers a Paid Discovery platform that enables brands, publishers, and marketers to promote their stories and products to a broader audience. By recommending personalized content, StumbleUpon aims to inform, entertain, and surprise its users while facilitating engagement with a diverse range of online material.
Pontis
Series C in 2009
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.
Vox Media
Series A in 2009
Vox Media is a prominent media company that specializes in creating, publishing, and distributing online content tailored to young adults globally. Founded in 2012, it operates a diverse portfolio of brands, including SB Nation, which focuses on sports and fan communities; The Verge, a technology publication; Polygon, aimed at adult gamers; Vox.com, which covers news and interests; Eater, centered on food and dining; Racked, which focuses on shopping, beauty, and fashion; Curbed, dedicated to real estate and home; and Re/code, a tech business publication. Additionally, Vox Media encompasses Vox Creative, a division that develops marketing narratives for brands, and offers advertising services through Vox Advertising and the Concert advertising solution. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in New York City, Vox Media is committed to sustainable editorial practices and responsible industry leadership.
Vox Media
Venture Round in 2008
Vox Media is a prominent media company that specializes in creating, publishing, and distributing online content tailored to young adults globally. Founded in 2012, it operates a diverse portfolio of brands, including SB Nation, which focuses on sports and fan communities; The Verge, a technology publication; Polygon, aimed at adult gamers; Vox.com, which covers news and interests; Eater, centered on food and dining; Racked, which focuses on shopping, beauty, and fashion; Curbed, dedicated to real estate and home; and Re/code, a tech business publication. Additionally, Vox Media encompasses Vox Creative, a division that develops marketing narratives for brands, and offers advertising services through Vox Advertising and the Concert advertising solution. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in New York City, Vox Media is committed to sustainable editorial practices and responsible industry leadership.
myThings
Series B in 2008
myThings Inc. specializes in providing customized programmatic advertising solutions, particularly in the realm of personalized display advertising. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company has established itself as a leader in conversion-driven advertising, significantly boosting sales for top online retailers across various markets, including Europe, the US, and Asia. myThings employs advanced techniques such as retargeting, pre-targeting, and look-alike targeting, achieving over 150% uplift compared to industry standards. The company personalizes over a billion banner impressions each month and manages more than half a billion real-time bidding (RTB) requests daily, utilizing extensive data analysis to optimize bid predictions. Its client base features prominent European online retailers, and myThings has received recognition for its innovative contributions to the advertising sector, including awards for excellence in affiliate marketing and rankings among the fastest-growing digital media companies in Europe.
NextRoll
Series A in 2008
AdRoll is a digital marketing platform focused on helping direct-to-consumer brands enhance their online presence and drive sales. It offers a suite of tools for digital advertising, including retargeting, email marketing, advanced tracking, and product recommendations. By leveraging machine learning and integrated data, AdRoll enables businesses to create personalized advertising campaigns tailored to their audience's behavior, thus maximizing the return on investment from their online marketing efforts. The platform serves a diverse range of companies, providing them with the necessary resources to grow in the competitive e-commerce landscape. Headquartered in San Francisco, AdRoll is a part of NextRoll, a marketing technology company dedicated to delivering innovative solutions for businesses worldwide.
Pontis
Series B in 2007
Pontis operates through its primary product, the Marketing Delivery Platform (MDP) for Communication Service Providers (CSPs). This marketing software system supports real time, automatic execution and fulfillment of personal and contextual marketing activities across platforms and customer touch points. By constantly tracking customers behaviour, preferences and response to offers; automating dynamic execution of marketing activities in response to these parameters; and allowing event-based, contextual dialogue with customers; the Pontis MDP has been proven to deliver Mobile, TV and fix line service providers double digit improvements in ARPU, service adoption and customer retention, while improving customer experience.
Medio
Series B in 2006
Medio is a company that specializes in optimizing mobile customer acquisition, retention, and monetization through a cloud-based analytics platform. By utilizing predictive models, Medio offers personalized recommendations and tailored marketing strategies to enhance customer engagement for mobile operators and publishers. The firm collaborates with notable brands such as Rovio, Verizon, and T-Mobile to improve customer experiences and maximize lifetime value. Founded in September 2004 and headquartered in Washington, United States, Medio is privately owned by several investment firms, including Accel Partners, Trilogy Equity Partners, Frazier Technology Ventures, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
myThings
Series A in 2006
myThings Inc. specializes in providing customized programmatic advertising solutions, particularly in the realm of personalized display advertising. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, the company has established itself as a leader in conversion-driven advertising, significantly boosting sales for top online retailers across various markets, including Europe, the US, and Asia. myThings employs advanced techniques such as retargeting, pre-targeting, and look-alike targeting, achieving over 150% uplift compared to industry standards. The company personalizes over a billion banner impressions each month and manages more than half a billion real-time bidding (RTB) requests daily, utilizing extensive data analysis to optimize bid predictions. Its client base features prominent European online retailers, and myThings has received recognition for its innovative contributions to the advertising sector, including awards for excellence in affiliate marketing and rankings among the fastest-growing digital media companies in Europe.
Offermatica
Series A in 2005
Offermatica Corporation develops and markets a Website content testing and performance optimization platform. The company develops software to test, measure, and optimize Internet marketing and advertising campaigns. It provides multivariate promotion testing, form and landing page optimization solutions for online advertisements, onsite merchandising, electronic mail campaigns, and pay-per-click listings. The company has strategic alliances with Coremetrics, DigitalGrit, Fathom Online, Outrider, and Bolt | Peters User Experience. Its clientele include Monster.com, ELOAN, Intuit, ESPN, Circuit City, Polo.com, Timberland, Sharper Image, Verisign, CNET, and Forbes.com. The company was formerly known as Fort Point Partners, Inc. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in New York, New York and London, United Kingdom. As of December 13, 2007, Offermatica Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Adobe Systems Inc.
Noosh
Series B in 2005
Noosh is the provider of marketing and procurement software for managing print and related marketing spend. For over ten years, NewlineNoosh has provided its print procurement software-as-a-service, Noosh, to enterprises and print outsourcers, enabling them to drive down print costs, improve visibility and control, and ensure brand consistency. Based in Silicon Valley, we have offices throughout North America and enjoy partnerships with leading print outsourcers around the world to support global print procurement deployments. Our customers include prominent large enterprises in the financial services, consumer products, retail, government and other sectors. Our unique approach to managing print procurement is powered by our Noosh software, the most widely used technology for managing print, direct mail, point-of-sale (POS), branded promotions and related products. Noosh uniquely addresses the requirements of its customers by streamlining two critical print management processes - the procurement and financial “source to pay process” and the marketing “design to delivery process,” thereby providing unparalleled efficiency, visibility, and control which results in significant cost savings and efficiency improvements throughout the print supply chain. With Noosh, everyone involved in the print procurement process, including marketing managers, agencies, print buyers and suppliers, easily interact on the same system using a web browser.
Noosh
Series A in 2003
Noosh is the provider of marketing and procurement software for managing print and related marketing spend. For over ten years, NewlineNoosh has provided its print procurement software-as-a-service, Noosh, to enterprises and print outsourcers, enabling them to drive down print costs, improve visibility and control, and ensure brand consistency. Based in Silicon Valley, we have offices throughout North America and enjoy partnerships with leading print outsourcers around the world to support global print procurement deployments. Our customers include prominent large enterprises in the financial services, consumer products, retail, government and other sectors. Our unique approach to managing print procurement is powered by our Noosh software, the most widely used technology for managing print, direct mail, point-of-sale (POS), branded promotions and related products. Noosh uniquely addresses the requirements of its customers by streamlining two critical print management processes - the procurement and financial “source to pay process” and the marketing “design to delivery process,” thereby providing unparalleled efficiency, visibility, and control which results in significant cost savings and efficiency improvements throughout the print supply chain. With Noosh, everyone involved in the print procurement process, including marketing managers, agencies, print buyers and suppliers, easily interact on the same system using a web browser.
Responsys
Series E in 2003
Responsys is a marketing cloud software and services company based in San Bruno, California, with a global presence. Established in 1998 and acquired by Oracle in 2013, Responsys specializes in enabling brands to effectively manage their digital marketing relationships. Their flagship product, the Responsys Interact Marketing Cloud, allows businesses to design, execute, and manage comprehensive email and cross-channel marketing campaigns. By integrating customer data analysis with targeted interaction systems, Responsys empowers enterprises to automate and personalize their marketing efforts at scale. This approach helps organizations deliver the right marketing messages across various platforms, including email, mobile, social media, and web, thereby enhancing customer engagement and competitive advantage.
Responsys
Series C in 2001
Responsys is a marketing cloud software and services company based in San Bruno, California, with a global presence. Established in 1998 and acquired by Oracle in 2013, Responsys specializes in enabling brands to effectively manage their digital marketing relationships. Their flagship product, the Responsys Interact Marketing Cloud, allows businesses to design, execute, and manage comprehensive email and cross-channel marketing campaigns. By integrating customer data analysis with targeted interaction systems, Responsys empowers enterprises to automate and personalize their marketing efforts at scale. This approach helps organizations deliver the right marketing messages across various platforms, including email, mobile, social media, and web, thereby enhancing customer engagement and competitive advantage.
Responsys
Series B in 2000
Responsys is a marketing cloud software and services company based in San Bruno, California, with a global presence. Established in 1998 and acquired by Oracle in 2013, Responsys specializes in enabling brands to effectively manage their digital marketing relationships. Their flagship product, the Responsys Interact Marketing Cloud, allows businesses to design, execute, and manage comprehensive email and cross-channel marketing campaigns. By integrating customer data analysis with targeted interaction systems, Responsys empowers enterprises to automate and personalize their marketing efforts at scale. This approach helps organizations deliver the right marketing messages across various platforms, including email, mobile, social media, and web, thereby enhancing customer engagement and competitive advantage.
Noosh
Venture Round in 1999
Noosh is the provider of marketing and procurement software for managing print and related marketing spend. For over ten years, NewlineNoosh has provided its print procurement software-as-a-service, Noosh, to enterprises and print outsourcers, enabling them to drive down print costs, improve visibility and control, and ensure brand consistency. Based in Silicon Valley, we have offices throughout North America and enjoy partnerships with leading print outsourcers around the world to support global print procurement deployments. Our customers include prominent large enterprises in the financial services, consumer products, retail, government and other sectors. Our unique approach to managing print procurement is powered by our Noosh software, the most widely used technology for managing print, direct mail, point-of-sale (POS), branded promotions and related products. Noosh uniquely addresses the requirements of its customers by streamlining two critical print management processes - the procurement and financial “source to pay process” and the marketing “design to delivery process,” thereby providing unparalleled efficiency, visibility, and control which results in significant cost savings and efficiency improvements throughout the print supply chain. With Noosh, everyone involved in the print procurement process, including marketing managers, agencies, print buyers and suppliers, easily interact on the same system using a web browser.
Responsys
Series A in 1999
Responsys is a marketing cloud software and services company based in San Bruno, California, with a global presence. Established in 1998 and acquired by Oracle in 2013, Responsys specializes in enabling brands to effectively manage their digital marketing relationships. Their flagship product, the Responsys Interact Marketing Cloud, allows businesses to design, execute, and manage comprehensive email and cross-channel marketing campaigns. By integrating customer data analysis with targeted interaction systems, Responsys empowers enterprises to automate and personalize their marketing efforts at scale. This approach helps organizations deliver the right marketing messages across various platforms, including email, mobile, social media, and web, thereby enhancing customer engagement and competitive advantage.
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