Boulevard
Series C in 2022
Boulevard is the premier salon and spa management platform designed to streamline operations, increase sales, and delight customers. Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, the company’s all-in-one platform includes client self-scheduling, CRM, marketing, custom reporting, and integrated payment processing. Boulevard delivers an intuitive, modern SaaS solution to an industry traditionally underserved by technology, helping them unlock their full potential. Boulevard is based in Los Angeles and was founded in 2016 by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos.
Mercantile
Venture Round in 2022
Mercantile offers premium credit card services specifically designed for small and medium-sized businesses. By providing these financial products, the company aims to empower business owners to compete effectively against larger corporations. Mercantile's credit cards not only help businesses manage their payables, but also create new high-margin revenue opportunities through program dividends. This focus on enhancing the financial resilience of smaller enterprises positions Mercantile as a valuable partner in a market predominantly governed by larger players.
Okendo is a customer content marketing platform that enables brands to leverage customer-generated content to enhance their marketing efforts. The company offers a suite of integrated tools designed to capture and showcase customer experiences, including product ratings, reviews, photos, videos, and questions and answers. By facilitating the management and analysis of this content, Okendo helps brands build shopper trust, drive conversions, and optimize customer lifetime value. Its platform empowers businesses to create highly personalized marketing communications and improve overall customer experiences, making customer insights a central component of their marketing strategies.
Xmov is a company that specializes in developing artificial reality animation solutions, focusing on virtual human and content creation tailored for enterprise users across various Metaverse applications. The company employs advanced motion capture, animation, and artificial intelligence technologies to deliver customized interactive solutions for diverse business scenarios. Additionally, Xmov creates a comprehensive infrastructure for 3D virtual content production, providing full-stack technology and product services aimed at facilitating education, employment, and the development of virtual world platforms. Their innovative approach spans multiple sectors, including entertainment, cultural tourism, e-commerce, finance, education, healthcare, and communications, establishing a multifaceted ecological development model.
Linktree is a social media startup company that offers a platform to enhance the internet presence of influencers and e-commerce stores. They help brands, artists, publishers, agencies and influencers better control their presence online. They are a team of developers, designers, marketers, and biz ops, committed to equipping content creators with the best tools for getting their work seen.
Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform that provides tools for creating engaging forms, quizzes, surveys, and asynchronous video solutions, allowing companies to foster meaningful interactions with their audiences. Launched in 2012 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with a presence in San Francisco, Typeform facilitates over 500 million digital interactions annually. The platform integrates seamlessly with various business-critical tools, such as HubSpot and Slack, enhancing its utility for users. Typeform's application combines the conversational flow of real-life interactions with the data collection capabilities of web forms, resulting in a more natural user experience. The company employs a distributed workforce of over 450 people globally, focusing on delivering mobile-optimized forms for diverse business applications.
Crossing Minds
Series A in 2021
Crossing Minds is an innovative platform that specializes in delivering personalized recommendations to enhance online discovery and user engagement. Founded by experts in artificial intelligence, the platform utilizes advanced deep learning techniques and comprehensive taste analytics to understand human behavior. By employing methods such as collaborative filtering and extensive data analysis, Crossing Minds offers businesses tailored recommendations that prioritize customer privacy. The company's goal is to help clients connect with their customers more effectively and enable individuals to discover products that resonate with their interests, ultimately fostering loyalty and enhancing user experience.
Okendo is a customer content marketing platform that enables brands to leverage customer-generated content to enhance their marketing efforts. The company offers a suite of integrated tools designed to capture and showcase customer experiences, including product ratings, reviews, photos, videos, and questions and answers. By facilitating the management and analysis of this content, Okendo helps brands build shopper trust, drive conversions, and optimize customer lifetime value. Its platform empowers businesses to create highly personalized marketing communications and improve overall customer experiences, making customer insights a central component of their marketing strategies.
Glossier, Inc. is a direct-to-consumer beauty company that specializes in manufacturing and selling a variety of skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the company emphasizes community engagement and content-driven experiences to enhance the shopping journey for its customers. Glossier offers a diverse range of personal care items, including skincare lotions, body lotions, fragrances, and foundation kits, catering to the needs of consumers inspired by everyday women. Their products are primarily sold online and are accessible in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Additionally, Glossier operates a showroom in New York City and maintains a blog that features interviews with models, makeup artists, and influential figures, along with beauty advice and product insights aimed at empowering customers to understand and engage with beauty more effectively.
Quix
Pre Seed Round in 2021
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Common Room
Series B in 2021
Common Room is a developer of community marketing software aimed at enhancing the connection between organizations and their communities. The platform employs sophisticated signal capture and AI-powered activation agents to identify and enrich information about individuals and accounts. This enables go-to-market teams to effectively target, engage, and convert potential customers. By fostering authentic relationships and promoting collaboration and communication, Common Room empowers users to build thriving and engaged digital communities.
Linktree is a social media startup company that offers a platform to enhance the internet presence of influencers and e-commerce stores. They help brands, artists, publishers, agencies and influencers better control their presence online. They are a team of developers, designers, marketers, and biz ops, committed to equipping content creators with the best tools for getting their work seen.
Boulevard
Series B in 2020
Boulevard is the premier salon and spa management platform designed to streamline operations, increase sales, and delight customers. Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, the company’s all-in-one platform includes client self-scheduling, CRM, marketing, custom reporting, and integrated payment processing. Boulevard delivers an intuitive, modern SaaS solution to an industry traditionally underserved by technology, helping them unlock their full potential. Boulevard is based in Los Angeles and was founded in 2016 by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos.
Common Room
Series A in 2020
Common Room is a developer of community marketing software aimed at enhancing the connection between organizations and their communities. The platform employs sophisticated signal capture and AI-powered activation agents to identify and enrich information about individuals and accounts. This enables go-to-market teams to effectively target, engage, and convert potential customers. By fostering authentic relationships and promoting collaboration and communication, Common Room empowers users to build thriving and engaged digital communities.
Common Room
Seed Round in 2020
Common Room is a developer of community marketing software aimed at enhancing the connection between organizations and their communities. The platform employs sophisticated signal capture and AI-powered activation agents to identify and enrich information about individuals and accounts. This enables go-to-market teams to effectively target, engage, and convert potential customers. By fostering authentic relationships and promoting collaboration and communication, Common Room empowers users to build thriving and engaged digital communities.
Boulevard
Series A in 2019
Boulevard is the premier salon and spa management platform designed to streamline operations, increase sales, and delight customers. Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, the company’s all-in-one platform includes client self-scheduling, CRM, marketing, custom reporting, and integrated payment processing. Boulevard delivers an intuitive, modern SaaS solution to an industry traditionally underserved by technology, helping them unlock their full potential. Boulevard is based in Los Angeles and was founded in 2016 by Matt Danna and Sean Stavropoulos.
RetentionForce
Pre Seed Round in 2019
RetentionForce is an all-in-one marketing software for small and medium businesses. The state-of-art marketing solution uses conversational technologies/chatbots in Facebook Messenger. The software helps to attract, engage and retain clients via the loyalty program, referral program, customer reviews and feedback collection tool, SMS and Messenger marketing, marketing automation, and more. The result-oriented platform is incredibly easy-to-use, but at the same time it covers all the main marketing needs of the small and medium businesses, that heavily depend on repeat customers RetentionForce minimizes the manual work needed with set it forget it automations and ready to use content templates making it perfectly suitable for small businesses’ needs. DESIRE The system combines 10 tools that seamlessly and automatically work together specifically designed for online and offline businesses. The platform is highly customizable; the businesses can choose to use either of the features or integrate the entire system of powerful marketing tools for sustainable growth. Start from a free plan, and continue to grow with RetentionForce plans and packages, as we have the right solution for every stage of your business.
Trustpilot
Series E in 2019
Trustpilot is a global review platform that enables consumers to share and discover reviews of businesses, fostering a transparent marketplace. With over 58 million reviews covering more than 270,000 domains, it serves as a valuable resource for individuals making purchasing decisions. The platform offers companies tools to harness consumer feedback, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive business improvement. Trustpilot's reviews attract over 3 billion views monthly from users worldwide, reflecting its significant reach and influence. Headquartered in multiple cities, including Copenhagen, London, and New York, Trustpilot employs around 700 individuals from diverse backgrounds, emphasizing its commitment to a multicultural work environment. The company's mission is to bridge the gap between consumers and businesses, ultimately creating better experiences for all stakeholders involved.
Glossier, Inc. is a direct-to-consumer beauty company that specializes in manufacturing and selling a variety of skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the company emphasizes community engagement and content-driven experiences to enhance the shopping journey for its customers. Glossier offers a diverse range of personal care items, including skincare lotions, body lotions, fragrances, and foundation kits, catering to the needs of consumers inspired by everyday women. Their products are primarily sold online and are accessible in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Additionally, Glossier operates a showroom in New York City and maintains a blog that features interviews with models, makeup artists, and influential figures, along with beauty advice and product insights aimed at empowering customers to understand and engage with beauty more effectively.
Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform that provides tools for creating engaging forms, quizzes, surveys, and asynchronous video solutions, allowing companies to foster meaningful interactions with their audiences. Launched in 2012 and headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, with a presence in San Francisco, Typeform facilitates over 500 million digital interactions annually. The platform integrates seamlessly with various business-critical tools, such as HubSpot and Slack, enhancing its utility for users. Typeform's application combines the conversational flow of real-life interactions with the data collection capabilities of web forms, resulting in a more natural user experience. The company employs a distributed workforce of over 450 people globally, focusing on delivering mobile-optimized forms for diverse business applications.
Crossing Minds
Seed Round in 2017
Crossing Minds is an innovative platform that specializes in delivering personalized recommendations to enhance online discovery and user engagement. Founded by experts in artificial intelligence, the platform utilizes advanced deep learning techniques and comprehensive taste analytics to understand human behavior. By employing methods such as collaborative filtering and extensive data analysis, Crossing Minds offers businesses tailored recommendations that prioritize customer privacy. The company's goal is to help clients connect with their customers more effectively and enable individuals to discover products that resonate with their interests, ultimately fostering loyalty and enhancing user experience.
Teemo is a drive-to-store marketing platform that focuses on enhancing retail advertising by leveraging insights into offline consumer behavior and algorithmic learning. The company aims to generate measurable in-store visits, addressing the primary marketing challenge faced by retailers in various sectors, including retail, quick service restaurants, automotive, and grocery. Since its co-founding in 2014 by individuals with backgrounds from Google and Criteo, Teemo has attracted over 100 clients who seek effective strategies to increase foot traffic to their stores. The platform also provides performance tracking and optimization features, along with valuable customer insights, enabling businesses to refine their marketing efforts. Teemo's growth has been supported by significant investments from notable venture capital firms.
Glossier, Inc. is a direct-to-consumer beauty company that specializes in manufacturing and selling a variety of skincare, makeup, body, and fragrance products. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New York, the company emphasizes community engagement and content-driven experiences to enhance the shopping journey for its customers. Glossier offers a diverse range of personal care items, including skincare lotions, body lotions, fragrances, and foundation kits, catering to the needs of consumers inspired by everyday women. Their products are primarily sold online and are accessible in several countries, including the United States, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Additionally, Glossier operates a showroom in New York City and maintains a blog that features interviews with models, makeup artists, and influential figures, along with beauty advice and product insights aimed at empowering customers to understand and engage with beauty more effectively.
Notonthehighstreet
Series E in 2016
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.
Intercom, Inc. is a customer communication platform designed for web and mobile businesses, facilitating personalized interactions with customers at scale. The platform allows teams to engage with their audience through various channels, including websites, mobile applications, and email. Intercom offers several key products: Acquire for real-time website chat, Engage for targeted onboarding and retention messaging, Learn for customer feedback collection, and Support for customer assistance within applications. With a global customer base exceeding 25,000 organizations, such as notable companies like Atlassian, Amazon, and Lyft, Intercom processes over 500 million messages each month, reaching more than 600 million active users. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an office in Dublin, Ireland, Intercom is dedicated to transforming customer service through effective messaging and automation.
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.
Optimizely
Series C in 2015
Optimizely, Inc. operates a website optimization platform that offers A/B testing, multivariate testing, and website personalization, catering to both technical and non-technical users. The platform facilitates data-driven decision-making through experiments that enhance user engagement and conversion rates. It integrates web content management, digital experience software, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics into a single solution, making it accessible to a diverse range of clients, including agencies, e-commerce businesses, and small enterprises. Optimizely serves a global clientele, with a presence in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain, among other countries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company also has offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Austin. Optimizely functions as a subsidiary of EPiServer AB.
CreativeX
Seed Round in 2015
CreativeX is a developer of a visual communication platform that aims to enhance understanding in visual marketing. The company's innovative platform analyzes images and videos by applying relevant tags to the content, which are then cross-referenced with brand guidelines and the performance of digital advertisements. This data-driven approach enables clients to make informed creative decisions and maximize the effectiveness of their visual content. Utilizing artificial intelligence technology, CreativeX strives to demystify the complexities of visual marketing, allowing businesses to better understand and improve their visual strategies.
Trustpilot
Series D in 2015
Trustpilot is a global review platform that enables consumers to share and discover reviews of businesses, fostering a transparent marketplace. With over 58 million reviews covering more than 270,000 domains, it serves as a valuable resource for individuals making purchasing decisions. The platform offers companies tools to harness consumer feedback, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive business improvement. Trustpilot's reviews attract over 3 billion views monthly from users worldwide, reflecting its significant reach and influence. Headquartered in multiple cities, including Copenhagen, London, and New York, Trustpilot employs around 700 individuals from diverse backgrounds, emphasizing its commitment to a multicultural work environment. The company's mission is to bridge the gap between consumers and businesses, ultimately creating better experiences for all stakeholders involved.
navabi is striving to become global leader in plus size fashion. navabi carries the largest assortment of brands for plus sizes globally and established their own brands. Their website, www.navabi.co.uk offers the style-savvy plus-sized customer unprecedented access to the newest looks of the season from european cutting edge plus-size labels via worldwide express delivery. The pages of navabi feature weekly fashion editorial, weekly updated products and unique video presentations for each collection with style recommendations.
Socialbakers
Series C in 2014
Socialbakers is a leading social media management platform that serves thousands of enterprise brands and small to medium-sized businesses globally. It utilizes the largest social media data set in the industry to provide analytics and optimization services, enabling brands to measure and compare the effectiveness of their social marketing campaigns. With over 2,500 clients across 100 countries, Socialbakers tracks approximately 10 million social profiles on all major social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and others. Established as a Facebook Marketing Partner in 2011 and a Pinterest and LinkedIn Marketing Partner in 2017, Socialbakers is dedicated to helping brands ensure that their social media investments yield measurable business outcomes.
Trustpilot
Series C in 2014
Trustpilot is a global review platform that enables consumers to share and discover reviews of businesses, fostering a transparent marketplace. With over 58 million reviews covering more than 270,000 domains, it serves as a valuable resource for individuals making purchasing decisions. The platform offers companies tools to harness consumer feedback, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive business improvement. Trustpilot's reviews attract over 3 billion views monthly from users worldwide, reflecting its significant reach and influence. Headquartered in multiple cities, including Copenhagen, London, and New York, Trustpilot employs around 700 individuals from diverse backgrounds, emphasizing its commitment to a multicultural work environment. The company's mission is to bridge the gap between consumers and businesses, ultimately creating better experiences for all stakeholders involved.
navabi is striving to become global leader in plus size fashion. navabi carries the largest assortment of brands for plus sizes globally and established their own brands. Their website, www.navabi.co.uk offers the style-savvy plus-sized customer unprecedented access to the newest looks of the season from european cutting edge plus-size labels via worldwide express delivery. The pages of navabi feature weekly fashion editorial, weekly updated products and unique video presentations for each collection with style recommendations.
Notonthehighstreet
Series D in 2013
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.
Yub is an innovative offline affiliate network based in Mountain View, California, specializing in helping retailers and restaurants track consumer behavior from online interactions to actual purchases. By leveraging the online affiliate model, Yub facilitates a seamless connection between online engagement and in-store transactions, allowing businesses to effectively drive foot traffic and sales without requiring any integration or upgrades. The company offers user-friendly promotional options for consumers, positioning itself to transform how brick-and-mortar establishments attract and retain customers.
Enfore is a business platform that offers a suite of user-friendly applications designed for smartphones, tablets, and personal computers. Founded in 2009 by Marco Boerries, Enfore aims to empower small businesses by providing them with access to tools and insights typically available only to larger companies. The platform enhances productivity and communication by integrating point-of-sale capabilities with sales, production, procurement, delivery, reservation, and financial tools, thereby supporting both offline and online operations. By leveraging innovative hardware and software solutions, Enfore seeks to level the playing field for small businesses, enabling them to remain competitive in an increasingly connected world.
Trustpilot
Series B in 2012
Trustpilot is a global review platform that enables consumers to share and discover reviews of businesses, fostering a transparent marketplace. With over 58 million reviews covering more than 270,000 domains, it serves as a valuable resource for individuals making purchasing decisions. The platform offers companies tools to harness consumer feedback, aiming to enhance customer experiences and drive business improvement. Trustpilot's reviews attract over 3 billion views monthly from users worldwide, reflecting its significant reach and influence. Headquartered in multiple cities, including Copenhagen, London, and New York, Trustpilot employs around 700 individuals from diverse backgrounds, emphasizing its commitment to a multicultural work environment. The company's mission is to bridge the gap between consumers and businesses, ultimately creating better experiences for all stakeholders involved.
Socialbakers
Series B in 2012
Socialbakers is a leading social media management platform that serves thousands of enterprise brands and small to medium-sized businesses globally. It utilizes the largest social media data set in the industry to provide analytics and optimization services, enabling brands to measure and compare the effectiveness of their social marketing campaigns. With over 2,500 clients across 100 countries, Socialbakers tracks approximately 10 million social profiles on all major social platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and others. Established as a Facebook Marketing Partner in 2011 and a Pinterest and LinkedIn Marketing Partner in 2017, Socialbakers is dedicated to helping brands ensure that their social media investments yield measurable business outcomes.
Notonthehighstreet
Series D in 2012
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.
Groupalia
Series D in 2011
Groupalia is an e-commerce platform that offers discounted flash sales on leisure packages, services, food, and other products in Spain and Italy. Leisure-related services offered by the platform include daily deals ranging from restaurants, spas, gyms, events, adventures, and more. Deals are sold through coupons which buyers receive by email enabling them to print and hand the coupons to the suppliers on the day of consumption. Groupalia provides consumers with the opportunity to buy attractive services at reduced prices and helps suppliers benefit by enabling them to ensure higher volumes, occupancy rates, and brand awareness. Groupalia was launched in May 2009 in Barcelona, Spain.
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.
Factual is the location data company the world’s most valuable brands and tech companies trust to understand and intelligently grow their businesses. Factual provides product and engineering teams, marketers and data analysts access to the world’s most trusted, accurate and comprehensive data on places and people worldwide, transforming products, advertising and businesses with data that puts everything in context.
Notonthehighstreet
Series C in 2010
Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.
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.
GroupSpaces
Venture Round in 2010
GroupSpaces Limited is a London-based company that offers an online platform designed for managing membership groups, including clubs, charities, professional associations, and alumni networks. Established in 2007, the platform provides a range of features for group leaders, allowing them to organize member records, send newsletters, host forums, manage events, and collect membership fees. With a user base exceeding one million memberships, GroupSpaces aims to simplify the management of various organizations by enabling them to promote their activities online effectively. The company was founded by David Langer and Andy Young, who sought to improve their own experiences managing groups during their time at university. GroupSpaces serves a global customer base and is supported by various investors.
UberMedia
Series A in 2010
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.
Criteo, headquartered in Paris, is a prominent player in the digital advertising sector, specializing in commerce marketing. Founded by a group of innovators, the company leverages machine-learning technology and extensive data to deliver effective marketing solutions. Criteo enables retailer advertisers to implement multichannel and cross-device campaigns in real time, providing real-time analysis of return on investment. This capability allows clients to adjust their marketing strategies dynamically to enhance performance. Additionally, Criteo offers tools for retailers to manage their ad inventories and optimize yield, supporting measurable results for its clients. With a workforce of over 2,800 employees, Criteo continues to drive growth and innovation in the ad-tech industry.
Mediasurface
Venture Round in 2001
Mediasurface plc specializes in the development and marketing of web content management software, primarily serving clients in the United Kingdom and extending its reach to Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the United States. The company offers a range of products, including Morello, a web content management system designed for creating and managing intranets, extranets, and websites; Immediacy, which enables non-technical users to handle content and administrative tasks on their websites and intranets; and Pepperio, tailored for smaller businesses to facilitate website management. Headquartered in Newbury, the United Kingdom, Mediasurface operates as a subsidiary of Alterian plc as of July 2008.
Mediasurface
Venture Round in 2000
Mediasurface plc specializes in the development and marketing of web content management software, primarily serving clients in the United Kingdom and extending its reach to Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the United States. The company offers a range of products, including Morello, a web content management system designed for creating and managing intranets, extranets, and websites; Immediacy, which enables non-technical users to handle content and administrative tasks on their websites and intranets; and Pepperio, tailored for smaller businesses to facilitate website management. Headquartered in Newbury, the United Kingdom, Mediasurface operates as a subsidiary of Alterian plc as of July 2008.