Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners is a prominent venture capital firm, founded in 1911 and based in Redwood City, California. With approximately $4 billion in assets under management, the firm invests globally in startups across various sectors, including consumer, enterprise, healthcare, information technology, and deep tech, from seed stage to growth. Bessemer's partners are dedicated to supporting founders by providing guidance and resources throughout the company's lifecycle. The firm has a notable track record of backing early-stage investments in companies such as Pinterest, Skype, and Twitch, and has played a significant role in the development of 117 IPOs, including notable names like Twilio and LinkedIn. With funds targeting a range of sectors, Bessemer Venture Partners exemplifies a commitment to fostering innovation and building enduring businesses.

Anurag Begwani

Investor

Kent Bennett

Partner

Tom Berger

Partner

Charles Birnbaum

Partner

Sam Bondy

Investor

William Burgin

Partner

Sara Byrne

Partner and CFO

Aparna Chaganty

Investor

Morgan Cheatham

Vice President

Justina Chung

Vice President

David Cowan

Partner

Brian Cramer

Operating Partner

Mary D'Onofrio

Partner

Byron Deeter

Partner

Sameer Dholakia

Partner

John Drake

Investor

Mike Droesch

Partner

Jeff Epstein

Operating Partner

Adam Ferrara

Partner

Libbie Frost

Investor

Andrew Geisse

Operating Partner

Talia Goldberg

Partner

Bob Goodman

Partner

Alexa Grabelle

Investor

Sandy Grippo

COO and Partner

Sofia Guerra

Vice President, Cambridge office

Vishal Gupta

Managing Director, Partner

Tess Hatch

Partner

Andrew Hedin

Partner

Sachin Jain

Investor

Nithin Kaimal

COO

Eric Kaplan

Investor

Stephen Kraus

Partner

Ethan Kurzweil

Partner

Lindsey Li

Vice President

Grace Ma

Investor

Maha Malik

Investor

Bhavik Nagda

Investor

Aditya Nidmarti

Investor

Bob O'Neil

Venture Partner

Darsh Patel

Investor

Anant Vidur Puri

Partner

Caty Rea

Vice President

Raj Sabhlok

Operating Partner

Jason Scheller

Investor

Yael Schiff

Vice President

Andrew Schmitt

Investor

Madeline Shue

Investor

Scott Smith

Operating Partner

Robert Stavis

Partner

Mayo Stuntz

Operating Partner

Vatsalya Tandon

Investor

Janice Teng

Vice President

Christopher Wan

Vice President

Bryan Wu

Partner

Alex Yuditski

Investor

Moksha .

Investor

Past deals in Social Media

Alloy

Series C in 2021
Alloy Online is a prominent digital media and marketing company based in New York, catering primarily to the 12-34 demographic. It operates as an e-commerce destination site and apparel cataloger for teens, combining a robust online shopping experience with a highly trafficked community platform that features interactive elements such as email, chat, and social networking. Additionally, Alloy's services include nontraditional media programs that effectively reach targeted consumer segments through various channels, including interactive and display advertising, direct mail, content production, and educational programming. By focusing on entertainment and lifestyle trends, Alloy Online provides its audience with inspiration and recommendations across a range of interests, including shows, movies, health, and fitness.

SoleSavy

Series A in 2021
SoleSavy is building the next generation of paid communities and marketplace. Our mission is to make collecting sneakers accessible and bring like-minded communities together.

SoleSavy

Series A in 2021
SoleSavy is building the next generation of paid communities and marketplace. Our mission is to make collecting sneakers accessible and bring like-minded communities together.

PearPop

Series A in 2021
Pearpop is the marketplace for social collaborations between the teeming hordes of musicians, craftspeople, chefs, clowns, diarists, dancers, artists, actors, acrobats, aspiring celebrities, and actual celebrities.

Yotpo

Series F in 2021
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

Pager

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pager is a New York-based software platform founded in 2020 that focuses on enhancing the way individuals capture and share their digital experiences. The platform allows users to generate interactive screenshots from various online sources, including Spotify, Netflix, Instagram, Twitter, and articles, effectively treating these screenshots as visual representations of their digital lives. By automatically linking these images to their source URLs, Pager simplifies the process of curating and sharing visual collections. This functionality empowers creators to concentrate on producing valuable content for their audiences while facilitating an intuitive and visually engaging sharing experience.

Bettermode

Seed Round in 2020
Tribe is a computer software company that offers a cloud-based platform empowering the new generation of online communities. It integrates with messengers and social media and helps its users to amplify the vibe around their business by allowing them and their customers to create content. The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada.

Alloy

Series B in 2020
Alloy Online is a prominent digital media and marketing company based in New York, catering primarily to the 12-34 demographic. It operates as an e-commerce destination site and apparel cataloger for teens, combining a robust online shopping experience with a highly trafficked community platform that features interactive elements such as email, chat, and social networking. Additionally, Alloy's services include nontraditional media programs that effectively reach targeted consumer segments through various channels, including interactive and display advertising, direct mail, content production, and educational programming. By focusing on entertainment and lifestyle trends, Alloy Online provides its audience with inspiration and recommendations across a range of interests, including shows, movies, health, and fitness.

Yotpo

Series E in 2020
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

Alloy

Series A in 2019
Alloy Online is a prominent digital media and marketing company based in New York, catering primarily to the 12-34 demographic. It operates as an e-commerce destination site and apparel cataloger for teens, combining a robust online shopping experience with a highly trafficked community platform that features interactive elements such as email, chat, and social networking. Additionally, Alloy's services include nontraditional media programs that effectively reach targeted consumer segments through various channels, including interactive and display advertising, direct mail, content production, and educational programming. By focusing on entertainment and lifestyle trends, Alloy Online provides its audience with inspiration and recommendations across a range of interests, including shows, movies, health, and fitness.

ScaleMonk

Series A in 2019
ScaleMonk helps mobile-first companies scale distribution while maintaining a target return. By collecting post-install data from its clients, ScaleMonk is able to optimize in real-time the ad spend that goes to different campaigns across hundreds of mobile advertising channels.

Yotpo

Series D in 2017
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

Fam

Convertible Note in 2017
Fam's mission is to build products that revolutionize the way teens and millennials communicate. They believe in a calculated combination of live group video and group chat messaging to execute this. It is the world’s first group video chat app for iMessage, with over 7 million users. Their app instantly connects with the family and friends closest to its user through group video calling, right from their iPhone, and Android text message app.

Social Tables

Series B in 2016
Social Tables, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that serves the hospitality, events, and catering industries. Founded in 2011 and based in Washington, D.C., the company provides a comprehensive platform that includes sales and catering CRM software, management tools, interactive floor plans, and lead capture services. Its solutions facilitate the booking and management of events for hoteliers and event managers, while also enhancing the connection between sales and operations for caterers. By streamlining the event planning process—covering aspects such as floor plan design, seating chart creation, and guest engagement—Social Tables aims to simplify and enhance the experience for event professionals. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cvent, Inc. since October 2018.

Yotpo

Series C in 2016
Yotpo Ltd. is an eCommerce marketing platform that provides companies with tools to leverage user-generated content for marketing purposes. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in New York, Boston, and London, Yotpo helps brands like Patagonia and Gymshark gather customer reviews, photos, and videos, which can enhance marketing, referral, and loyalty programs. The platform integrates various solutions, including customer reviews, loyalty programs, and SMS marketing, to foster direct-to-consumer growth. By acquiring companies like Swell Rewards and SMSBump, Yotpo has expanded its offerings to include loyalty and referral capabilities. The platform is compatible with major eCommerce systems such as Shopify and Magento, allowing businesses to utilize data-driven insights to improve customer experiences and relationships.

SmashFly Technologies

Series B in 2016
SmashFly Technologies’s award-winning Total Recruitment Marketing Platform enables talent acquisition teams to attract, engage, nurture and convert candidates into qualified applicants using a centralized management system that automates and measures recruiting strategies and programs. Customers use SmashFly to unite their previously disconnected recruiting tools into an integrated software platform for Job Distribution, Candidate Relationship Management (CRM), Talent Networks, mobile-responsive and SEO-optimized Career Sites, Employee Referrals, Social Recruiting and Recruiting Analytics. Used to target pre-applicants in the front-end of the talent acquisition process, SmashFly integrates with any applicant tracking system (ATS) to provide unparalleled, real-time analytics on the sources that produce the best hires for the organization.

Popular Pays

Series A in 2015
Popular Pays, Inc. operates a platform that connects brands with content creators to facilitate the production of custom content. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional location in New York, the company offers a marketplace where brands and creators can collaborate effectively. Its platform includes features like a brief builder, creator profiles, in-app messaging, and API integrations, which streamline communication and campaign management. Popular Pays also has an in-house developed iOS app for creators and a dashboard for brands, providing tools for direct interaction and robust analytics. Additionally, the company partners with social media platforms, enhancing its service offerings for brands looking to engage with creators across various channels.

Pinterest

Series G in 2015
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Pinterest

Series G in 2015
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Wikia

Series D in 2014
Wikia, the developer of Fandom, is a global entertainment media brand dedicated to serving the interests of fans across various pop culture domains. The platform allows users to explore, contribute to, and celebrate their favorite fandoms, promoting interaction through the collaborative addition and updating of content. Fandom is recognized as a trusted source for in-depth information and insights on entertainment, offering a blend of fan-expert knowledge and original content across multiple platforms. This focus on community engagement enables both personal and collective creativity, making Fandom a vibrant hub for fans to connect and share their passions.

Social Tables

Series A in 2014
Social Tables, Inc. is a cloud-based software company that serves the hospitality, events, and catering industries. Founded in 2011 and based in Washington, D.C., the company provides a comprehensive platform that includes sales and catering CRM software, management tools, interactive floor plans, and lead capture services. Its solutions facilitate the booking and management of events for hoteliers and event managers, while also enhancing the connection between sales and operations for caterers. By streamlining the event planning process—covering aspects such as floor plan design, seating chart creation, and guest engagement—Social Tables aims to simplify and enhance the experience for event professionals. The company operates as a subsidiary of Cvent, Inc. since October 2018.

Pinterest

Series F in 2014
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Simply Measured

Series C in 2014
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform that assists marketers in maximizing their effectiveness by providing insights from various social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Tumblr. The platform enables over 100,000 marketers, including 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies, to identify opportunities, plan social campaigns, optimize their activities, and report on their outcomes. Simply Measured is uniquely certified by Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, ensuring it delivers reliable insights from these popular platforms. Its robust analytics solution features visual dashboards that facilitate easy sharing of data across organizations, helping companies demonstrate the value of their social media efforts. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Simply Measured has received recognition as a fast-growing company and employs more than 130 staff members.

Main Street Hub

Series B in 2014
Main Street Hub, Inc. is a marketing automation and CRM platform designed to support local businesses by integrating social media, customer reviews, and email marketing. Founded in 2009 and based in Austin, Texas, the company provides a do-it-for-you marketing solution that combines visual and text content with engagement data and machine learning to enhance customer acquisition and retention. Main Street Hub serves a diverse range of industries, including hospitality, automotive, health and wellness, retail, and home services. The company has garnered recognition as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. and has built a customer base of over 7,000 local businesses, publishing more than 8 million messages online. Main Street Hub operates as a subsidiary of GoDaddy Inc. and employs over 500 individuals dedicated to fostering vibrant local economies.

Pinterest

Series E in 2013
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Twitch

Series C in 2013
Twitch is a leading social video platform dedicated to gamers, with over 100 million users engaging monthly to broadcast, watch, and discuss video games. It serves as a crucial hub for the video game ecosystem, connecting game developers, publishers, media outlets, esports events, and user-generated content. By facilitating both live and on-demand video distribution, Twitch has established itself as a central player in the gaming community and entertainment industry. Its popularity is underscored by recognition as one of the largest websites in terms of peak internet traffic, solidifying its role as the epicenter of social video for gamers.

Discoverly

Seed Round in 2013
Discoverly is a tool to navigate and employ your social data. It's about time we put social to work.

Pinterest

Series D in 2013
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Simply Measured

Series B in 2013
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform that assists marketers in maximizing their effectiveness by providing insights from various social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Tumblr. The platform enables over 100,000 marketers, including 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies, to identify opportunities, plan social campaigns, optimize their activities, and report on their outcomes. Simply Measured is uniquely certified by Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, ensuring it delivers reliable insights from these popular platforms. Its robust analytics solution features visual dashboards that facilitate easy sharing of data across organizations, helping companies demonstrate the value of their social media efforts. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Simply Measured has received recognition as a fast-growing company and employs more than 130 staff members.

Wikia

Series C in 2012
Wikia, the developer of Fandom, is a global entertainment media brand dedicated to serving the interests of fans across various pop culture domains. The platform allows users to explore, contribute to, and celebrate their favorite fandoms, promoting interaction through the collaborative addition and updating of content. Fandom is recognized as a trusted source for in-depth information and insights on entertainment, offering a blend of fan-expert knowledge and original content across multiple platforms. This focus on community engagement enables both personal and collective creativity, making Fandom a vibrant hub for fans to connect and share their passions.

Twitch

Series B in 2012
Twitch is a leading social video platform dedicated to gamers, with over 100 million users engaging monthly to broadcast, watch, and discuss video games. It serves as a crucial hub for the video game ecosystem, connecting game developers, publishers, media outlets, esports events, and user-generated content. By facilitating both live and on-demand video distribution, Twitch has established itself as a central player in the gaming community and entertainment industry. Its popularity is underscored by recognition as one of the largest websites in terms of peak internet traffic, solidifying its role as the epicenter of social video for gamers.

Pinterest

Series C in 2012
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Pinterest

Series B in 2011
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Pinterest

Series A in 2011
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.

Supernova

Seed Round in 2011
Supernova, formerly known as Viddy, offers a platform for users to easily capture, enhance, and share videos. It allows individuals to record significant moments and instantly transform them into visually appealing videos. The platform provides cinematic production packs for the creation of high-quality clips, which can be shared with a single click on popular social media networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Supernova fosters meaningful interactions by enabling users to receive feedback from friends and family on their creations. Additionally, it features real-time video discovery, encouraging exploration within a dynamic community. The company emphasizes creativity, inspiration, and personal expression in the realm of mobile video sharing.

Millennial Media

Series D in 2011
Millennial Media Inc. specializes in mobile advertising solutions for advertisers and developers both in the United States and internationally. The company provides a platform that enables advertisers to reach targeted audiences across various mobile devices, offering tools to manage and analyze campaign performance. Key offerings include a demand side platform that connects advertisers directly to inventory, a premium mobile advertising exchange, and tools for creating ad content. For developers, Millennial Media supplies software development kits that facilitate different ad formats, along with mediation tools, ad serving capabilities, and detailed analytics on ad revenue. Additionally, its proprietary technology, MYDAS, identifies unique users and targets ads based on interests, behaviors, and locations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Millennial Media has positioned itself as a significant player in the mobile advertising landscape, enhancing AOL's mobile capabilities following its acquisition.

Involver

Series C in 2010
Involver is the web's most trusted social marketing platform, supporting 700,000 brands and agencies who manage audiences of more than 1.6 Billion fans. Involver provides marketers with everything they need to create rich experiences across the social web. Involver SML is the World's First Markup Language For Social Media, enabling front-end developers to create rich social experiences. Our Audience Management Platform is the most effective way for agencies and their clients to publish, monitor, measure, and manage social media content across multiple social networks from one central dashboard. Involver also has over two dozen applications built specifically to help marketers engage their audiences across the social web. Involver is a Facebook Preferred Developer and a technology provider for Facebook's internal marketing team (having built campaigns for the World Cup, Stories, US Elections, and many other projects). We're helping many of the world's biggest brands expand their influence through social media. Learn more at www.involver.com.

Simply Measured

Seed Round in 2010
Simply Measured is a social analytics platform that assists marketers in maximizing their effectiveness by providing insights from various social media networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Tumblr. The platform enables over 100,000 marketers, including 50 percent of the Interbrand 100 companies, to identify opportunities, plan social campaigns, optimize their activities, and report on their outcomes. Simply Measured is uniquely certified by Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr, ensuring it delivers reliable insights from these popular platforms. Its robust analytics solution features visual dashboards that facilitate easy sharing of data across organizations, helping companies demonstrate the value of their social media efforts. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Simply Measured has received recognition as a fast-growing company and employs more than 130 staff members.

Millennial Media

Series C in 2009
Millennial Media Inc. specializes in mobile advertising solutions for advertisers and developers both in the United States and internationally. The company provides a platform that enables advertisers to reach targeted audiences across various mobile devices, offering tools to manage and analyze campaign performance. Key offerings include a demand side platform that connects advertisers directly to inventory, a premium mobile advertising exchange, and tools for creating ad content. For developers, Millennial Media supplies software development kits that facilitate different ad formats, along with mediation tools, ad serving capabilities, and detailed analytics on ad revenue. Additionally, its proprietary technology, MYDAS, identifies unique users and targets ads based on interests, behaviors, and locations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Millennial Media has positioned itself as a significant player in the mobile advertising landscape, enhancing AOL's mobile capabilities following its acquisition.

AccessSportsMedia.com

Series B in 2008
Access Sports Media (formerly Access 360 Media) is a multi-platform media network that connects young adult consumers (12-34) with the products they seek. Access Sports Media works with national advertisers to reach this audience and leading young adult retail chains to create fully integrated marketing programs that combine in-store, online, and mobile media elements.

LinkedIn

Series D in 2008
LinkedIn is a leading professional networking platform that facilitates business connections, job searches, and client acquisition for its members. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, it enables users to build and engage with their professional networks while accessing shared knowledge and insights. The platform offers mobile applications across various operating systems, allowing users to connect on-the-go. LinkedIn provides a range of services, including talent solutions that help organizations find and hire qualified candidates, job advertising for enterprises, and premium subscriptions for individuals to manage their professional identities. Additionally, it features a self-service advertising platform for businesses to target and reach its members effectively. Through these offerings, LinkedIn supports professional networking and career development, making it a vital resource for both job seekers and employers.

Fuego Nation

Series A in 2008
Fuego Nation was founded to build a social platform for the engagement, expression and discovery of individual passions. By deploying next-generation, 3D-like web interfaces to large, highly scalable and targeted social communities, the company believes its communities of passion will better meet the discerning needs of adult audiences. Additionally, the approach will provide an ideal platform for lifestyle brands to showcase their products in a high production quality environment and in a context that more seamlessly conveys the social value and meaning of their product.

Smilebox

Series B in 2007
Smilebox, a division of Perion Network (NASDAQ: PERI), provides interactive, animated online cards, invitations, and slideshows direct to consumers at smilebox.com and through creative SaaS solutions that connect eCommerce, marketing automation and CRM platforms to the Smilebox SDK.

Millennial Media

Series B in 2007
Millennial Media Inc. specializes in mobile advertising solutions for advertisers and developers both in the United States and internationally. The company provides a platform that enables advertisers to reach targeted audiences across various mobile devices, offering tools to manage and analyze campaign performance. Key offerings include a demand side platform that connects advertisers directly to inventory, a premium mobile advertising exchange, and tools for creating ad content. For developers, Millennial Media supplies software development kits that facilitate different ad formats, along with mediation tools, ad serving capabilities, and detailed analytics on ad revenue. Additionally, its proprietary technology, MYDAS, identifies unique users and targets ads based on interests, behaviors, and locations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Millennial Media has positioned itself as a significant player in the mobile advertising landscape, enhancing AOL's mobile capabilities following its acquisition.

SelectMinds

Series A in 2007
SelectMinds specializes in networking and referral technologies that assist businesses in nurturing relationships with current and former employees while fostering a strong corporate community. Its platform includes SelectMinds TalentVine, which enhances social sourcing and simplifies the referral recruiting process by utilizing the networks of existing employees. Additionally, SelectMinds AlumniConnect facilitates the creation of secure online communities, enabling organizations to maintain connections with alumni. The company serves a diverse clientele, including prominent firms such as J.P. Morgan, IBM, and Lockheed Martin. With its cloud-based application, SelectMinds leverages social networks for efficient employee recruitment and provides tools for automating the recruiting process.

LinkedIn

Series C in 2007
LinkedIn is a leading professional networking platform that facilitates business connections, job searches, and client acquisition for its members. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, it enables users to build and engage with their professional networks while accessing shared knowledge and insights. The platform offers mobile applications across various operating systems, allowing users to connect on-the-go. LinkedIn provides a range of services, including talent solutions that help organizations find and hire qualified candidates, job advertising for enterprises, and premium subscriptions for individuals to manage their professional identities. Additionally, it features a self-service advertising platform for businesses to target and reach its members effectively. Through these offerings, LinkedIn supports professional networking and career development, making it a vital resource for both job seekers and employers.

Millennial Media

Series A in 2007
Millennial Media Inc. specializes in mobile advertising solutions for advertisers and developers both in the United States and internationally. The company provides a platform that enables advertisers to reach targeted audiences across various mobile devices, offering tools to manage and analyze campaign performance. Key offerings include a demand side platform that connects advertisers directly to inventory, a premium mobile advertising exchange, and tools for creating ad content. For developers, Millennial Media supplies software development kits that facilitate different ad formats, along with mediation tools, ad serving capabilities, and detailed analytics on ad revenue. Additionally, its proprietary technology, MYDAS, identifies unique users and targets ads based on interests, behaviors, and locations. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, Millennial Media has positioned itself as a significant player in the mobile advertising landscape, enhancing AOL's mobile capabilities following its acquisition.

Wikia

Series B in 2006
Wikia, the developer of Fandom, is a global entertainment media brand dedicated to serving the interests of fans across various pop culture domains. The platform allows users to explore, contribute to, and celebrate their favorite fandoms, promoting interaction through the collaborative addition and updating of content. Fandom is recognized as a trusted source for in-depth information and insights on entertainment, offering a blend of fan-expert knowledge and original content across multiple platforms. This focus on community engagement enables both personal and collective creativity, making Fandom a vibrant hub for fans to connect and share their passions.

AccessSportsMedia.com

Series A in 2006
Access Sports Media (formerly Access 360 Media) is a multi-platform media network that connects young adult consumers (12-34) with the products they seek. Access Sports Media works with national advertisers to reach this audience and leading young adult retail chains to create fully integrated marketing programs that combine in-store, online, and mobile media elements.

NextMedium

Series B in 2006
NextMedium, Inc. is an advertising platform that specializes in product placement for marketers and entertainment content providers. Established in 2004 and based in Los Angeles, the company offers a system called Embed, which facilitates the buying, selling, and measurement of product placements in television, film, and online video content. This platform allows marketers to access inventory that aligns with their campaign goals and provides analytics to evaluate the effectiveness and value of their integration efforts. NextMedium has formed strategic partnerships with notable entities such as NBC Universal, MTV Networks, and BET Networks, enhancing its reach and service offerings. As a subsidiary of Brand Affinity Technologies, Inc., NextMedium aims to help advertising companies monetize their audiences by delivering contextually relevant advertising across various entertainment mediums.

Wikia

Series A in 2006
Wikia, the developer of Fandom, is a global entertainment media brand dedicated to serving the interests of fans across various pop culture domains. The platform allows users to explore, contribute to, and celebrate their favorite fandoms, promoting interaction through the collaborative addition and updating of content. Fandom is recognized as a trusted source for in-depth information and insights on entertainment, offering a blend of fan-expert knowledge and original content across multiple platforms. This focus on community engagement enables both personal and collective creativity, making Fandom a vibrant hub for fans to connect and share their passions.

Octave Digital

Series D in 2001
Octave Digital is a specialist in digital and social media marketing, while also providing advanced audio and multimedia conferencing solutions. The company focuses on delivering reliable and scalable communication systems tailored for service bureaus, carriers, and enterprises. Their offerings include voice conferencing, wireless communication, presence technology, speech recognition, and voice over IP (VoIP) services. By catering to both current and future applications, Octave Digital aims to establish a new standard in the telecommunications industry, serving domestic and international clients with affordable group communication solutions.

Octave Digital

Series C in 2000
Octave Digital is a specialist in digital and social media marketing, while also providing advanced audio and multimedia conferencing solutions. The company focuses on delivering reliable and scalable communication systems tailored for service bureaus, carriers, and enterprises. Their offerings include voice conferencing, wireless communication, presence technology, speech recognition, and voice over IP (VoIP) services. By catering to both current and future applications, Octave Digital aims to establish a new standard in the telecommunications industry, serving domestic and international clients with affordable group communication solutions.

Octave Digital

Series B in 1999
Octave Digital is a specialist in digital and social media marketing, while also providing advanced audio and multimedia conferencing solutions. The company focuses on delivering reliable and scalable communication systems tailored for service bureaus, carriers, and enterprises. Their offerings include voice conferencing, wireless communication, presence technology, speech recognition, and voice over IP (VoIP) services. By catering to both current and future applications, Octave Digital aims to establish a new standard in the telecommunications industry, serving domestic and international clients with affordable group communication solutions.
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