Microsoft

Microsoft is a multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells software products and services. Its offerings include the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office suite, server products like Windows Server and SQL Server, business solutions such as Dynamics, cloud services through Azure, hardware devices like Surface and Xbox, and online advertising platforms.

Lillian Barnard

CEO and Board Member

Abhilasha Bhargav-Spantzel

Partner Security Architect

Alexia Cambon

Senior Director, Research

Shinesa Cambric

Principal Product Manager

Puneet Chandok

Corporate Vice President of Microsoft India and South Asia

Roberto Croci

Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups MEA

David Dennis

Principal Program and Product Manager

Scott Guthrie

Executive Vice President, Cloud + AI Group

Philip Meyer

Partner Technology Strategist - Hosting and Cloud

Brandon Middaugh

Investor

Satya Nadella

CEO

Takeshi Numoto

EVP and CMO

Mohammed Saleh

Health Director

Brian Schultz

Director, Corporate Development

Emilia Zarei

Founder and CEO

Past deals in Business Intelligence

DeepQuery

Non Equity Assistance in 2025
DeepQuery is an AI automation company that offers AI agents for business process automation and operational efficiency.

Blip

Series C in 2024
BLiP is driven by an ambitious target: to be the greatest tool available to simplify procedures and combine the best ideas.

Global Health Opinion

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Global Health Opinion Inc. is a healthcare technology company that operates a SaaS platform designed to enhance patient care and optimize hospital operations worldwide. The company's core service is facilitating global second opinions and peer reviews, connecting patients and healthcare providers with a vast network of leading medical experts. This process involves a secure, streamlined submission of medical records, followed by detailed, actionable insights from top specialists. Additionally, the platform offers tools for healthcare professionals to engage in peer reviews, fostering professional growth and supporting clinical decision-making. For hospitals and public health organizations, the company provides solutions to enhance operational efficiency and access to global health trends and expert opinions. The platform is built on advanced, secure, and scalable cloud technology, incorporating AI and machine learning algorithms to enhance decision-making processes. Global Health Opinion Inc. aims to empower patients, support healthcare professionals, and improve healthcare outcomes globally.

Stern Tech

Seed Round in 2024
We created a revolutionary SaaS platform for human behavior analysis: AI x Psychology to understand human behavior in real time. Use cases: Marketing, Education, eMeetings, Healthcare, Automotive, Retail, Sport. See our partnership with Renault and STMicroelectronics : https://stern.consulting/sterntech-h1stvision.mp4

Ema

Series A in 2024
Ema offers a Universal AI employee designed to automate complex workflows and improve productivity within organizations. Utilizing the Generative Workflow Engine, Ema integrates seamlessly with enterprise applications, allowing users to delegate repetitive tasks efficiently. The platform combines multiple AI models to ensure accuracy and security, making it a valuable asset for various business functions such as customer support, HR, and finance.

Meeranda

Grant in 2024
Meeranda, a technology company, specializes in AI-driven solutions for businesses. Their flagship product is a real-time, human-like AI agent, available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace and AppSource, which enhances employee and customer interactions, improves operational efficiency, and boosts return on investment. This AI tool caters to both small and medium-sized businesses, as well as large multinational corporations, providing a personalized and engaging experience for users worldwide.

ActionPoint

Non Equity Assistance in 2024
Conversation processing platform that records any meeting or call from any application on any device, extracts relevant information using different templates (Agile, Sales, HR etc.) and saves it in a project based structure that is searchable via a chat interface.

Z-Score Health

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Z-Score Health is a forward-thinking healthcare company leveraging technology to offer personalized preventive care. Their approach integrates comprehensive health risk assessments using a sophisticated SaaS platform and mobile applications, focusing on areas like women's health, geriatric care, and sexual health. WE emphasize patient satisfaction and convenience, aiming to make healthcare more accessible and effective through technology.

ReXLytics

Seed Round in 2024
ReXLytics is the pioneer in the first cross-functional integrated hybrid work management cloud software platform, ReXLytics offers customers an unparalleled suite of Hybrid Work solutions that have been architected holistically from day one. Our unified offering arms organizations with unprecedented visibility, control and prescriptive insights across all facets of the hybrid work paradigm. With ReXLytics, enterprises are empowered to future-proof strategic decision making, maximize productivity and collaboration, boost talent retention and recruiting, and simplify complex regulatory sustainability compliance - transforming enterprise cross-functional operations in support of today's dynamic workforce. ReXLytics products supporting Enterprise Hybrid and Remote Work include: ReX'Carbon for Scope 3 Sustainability, ReX'Office for Facilities Utilization AI Optimization, ReX'Remote for Remote Digital Experience Optimization, ReX'Engagement-AI for Managers and HR, ReX'Executive for Leadership.

inQ Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2024
inQ aims to revolutionize productivity at both the individual and corporate level through AI-integrated tools and a proprietary OS-scoped AI RPA 3.0 agent deployment system for redundant tasks, saving cutting-edge companies valuable time and money companies valuable resources and allowing humans to do what they do best: innovate.

LEGOAI

Grant in 2023
LEGOAI is an AI-powered analytics platform that translates business requirements into executable machine language, delivering explainable and accurate insights. It automates technical dependencies to reduce manual data-analysis effort and accelerates the deployment of analytics use cases. The platform includes a natural language interface, enabling easier interaction and faster workflow while maintaining transparency in results. By mapping business needs to data processing, LEGOAI supports scalable analytics across complex datasets and aims to boost productivity and speed without compromising trust.

VitVio

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
VitVio is a technology company that specializes in enhancing the efficiency and safety of hospital operating rooms. It uses advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence to track workflows, staff movements, and equipment positioning in real-time. This data-driven approach helps hospitals increase the number of surgeries performed daily, reduce delays, improve communication, and decrease infection and readmission rates. By optimizing surgical processes, VitVio enables hospitals to improve profitability and reduce waste in surgical tools.

Third Ray

Non Equity Assistance in 2023
Third Ray Inc. is a forward-thinking SaaS data solutions and professional services company dedicated to meeting the evolving needs of enterprises. At the heart of our offerings is Hallmark AI, a state-of-the-art Generative AI-based platform designed to streamline data analytics and business intelligence across diverse sectors. Hallmark AI enables enterprises to effectively manage and capitalize on their data assets, whether structured or unstructured, spanning documents, audio, and video content. Through advanced AI integration, the platform provides real-time, actionable insights that support informed decision-making and the optimization of key business functions. Our technology addresses complex challenges such as corporate governance, risk, and compliance management, as well as supply chain optimization. Hallmark AI also plays a pivotal role in revolutionizing remote training through augmented reality and in supporting large-scale cloud-based curricula for remote learning environments. By automating enterprise processes and compliance procedures, and by precisely classifying and reporting Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Hallmark AI delivers measurable outcomes for our clients. The platform is particularly valuable to teams in sales, marketing, and investment, enabling them to navigate vast amounts of content distributed across various channels to make strategic decisions and gain valuable customer insights. At Third Ray Inc., we are committed to innovation and excellence, helping our clients navigate the digital landscape with confidence.

Luca

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Luca is an innovative platform designed for enterprise retailers, utilizing artificial intelligence to enhance pricing strategies. Founded by individuals who previously developed pricing technology at Uber, Luca addresses the challenges retailers face in optimizing pricing decisions. The platform identifies potential revenue and profit opportunities, provides intelligent recommendations for price adjustments, and significantly reduces the time required for pricing analysis. By offering machine learning-based insights into customer price sensitivities, Luca enables retailers to achieve precise margin and revenue goals tailored to their specific business objectives. Supported by notable investors, Luca aims to transform the way retailers approach pricing, empowering them to leverage sophisticated tools for better financial outcomes.

Accetion

Grant in 2023
Accetion is a technology company specializing in Artificial Intelligence solutions. It focuses on Augmented Intelligence, a model that combines human expertise with AI to enhance decision-making and learning processes. The company offers services such as automation consulting, cloud migration, invoice data extraction software, and AI & ML consulting to help businesses streamline operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Accetion works closely with Microsoft and is committed to responsible AI practices.

Starseed

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Starseed is an innovative company specializing in artificial intelligence solutions for business intelligence and counterfeit detection. The Starseed AI platform leverages advanced large language models and multi-modal foundation models to deliver predictive, generative, and regenerative AI capabilities, particularly in the field of external cybersecurity. Its proprietary real-time AI technology is adept at recognizing events, trends, risks, and threats within public data. Additionally, Starseed's multi-modal fusion AI integrates and synthesizes information across diverse formats, including text in 150 languages, images, video, sound, and machine-generated data. As an official partner of Microsoft, Starseed positions itself at the cutting edge of AI-driven security and data analysis solutions.

FinanceGPT Labs

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
FinanceGPT Labs is a developer of an AI-driven quantitative analysis platform designed to empower financial professionals and individual investors. The company's cloud-based solution simplifies complex financial analysis, making it accessible without the need for coding expertise. It caters to a diverse range of users, including asset managers who seek to streamline research and portfolio construction, investment analysts looking for deeper insights from extensive datasets, and hedge funds or proprietary trading firms that require efficient development and backtesting of trading strategies. By leveraging artificial intelligence, FinanceGPT Labs provides critical datasets related to country and industry metrics, macro performance, and company analytics, enabling users to optimize returns and manage risk effectively.

Vistalworks

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Vistalworks offers risk-scoring technology that identifies illegal products and sellers operating online. It warns consumers of potential harm before purchase, provides intelligence to law enforcement agencies, and aims to prevent illegal transactions by supplying seller risk scores to banks and payment providers.

Minit

Acquisition in 2022
Minit is a technology company specializing in process intelligence software that aids organizations in analyzing, monitoring, and enhancing their internal processes. By automating the analysis of business workflows, Minit's software enables users to discover process bottlenecks, identify improvement opportunities, and conduct financial and business hours-aware analyses. This results in significant efficiency improvements, potentially reaching up to 30%, which can translate into substantial cost savings for businesses. Minit's client base is global, with a strong presence in Europe and an expanding footprint worldwide. The company, a spinoff from GRADIENT ECM, aims to make complex processes transparent and provide actionable insights across various industry sectors. Minit has garnered recognition for its innovative solutions, receiving multiple awards, including the BPM Next Innovation Award and the BPM Hot Vendor designation. Through its technology, Minit empowers organizations to enhance productivity and uncover cost-saving opportunities in their operations.

The Awareness Company

Venture Round in 2022
A technology firm specializing in AI-powered data analytics platforms. It processes data from diverse sources to provide real-time insights, helping businesses optimize operations, reduce costs, and enhance sustainability.

Clear Software

Acquisition in 2021
Clear Software, LLC specializes in developing solutions that enhance business efficiency by simplifying interactions with enterprise software, particularly SAP. Founded in 2012 and based in Zionsville, Indiana, the company offers a range of tools designed to streamline workflows and automate business processes. Its flagship products include ClearUI, a web application that consolidates multiple SAP processes into a single interface, and ClearXL, an Excel-based tool that facilitates data uploads to SAP. Clear Software's intelligent automation platform extends beyond SAP, integrating with various applications such as Oracle EBS and Salesforce to optimize core business processes, reduce data entry errors, and improve overall operational efficiency.

Inclusology

Seed Round in 2021
Inclusology is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform focused on enhancing workplace inclusivity for all employees. The company provides tools that allow clients to customize diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) assessments and automate performance benchmarks. By conducting engagement surveys, Inclusology supplies human resources professionals with critical data that helps identify and address unfair workplace practices. This data-driven approach enables organizations to improve employee retention, recruitment, and overall growth by eradicating discrimination and fostering a more equitable work environment.

Predictiva

Grant in 2021
Predictiva is a company that provides an artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance financial trading and investment management using advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. It offers solutions that cater to various financial assets, focusing on optimizing decision-making in complex financial markets. By leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, Predictiva aims to deliver predictable profits while minimizing risks, enabling users to engage in a more accurate, data-driven approach to trading. The platform is accessible to users without a background in AI or data science, utilizing autonomous machine learning algorithms to simplify the trading process and enhance financial intelligence for traders and investment managers.

Predictiva

Grant in 2021
Predictiva is a company that provides an artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance financial trading and investment management using advanced Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. It offers solutions that cater to various financial assets, focusing on optimizing decision-making in complex financial markets. By leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, Predictiva aims to deliver predictable profits while minimizing risks, enabling users to engage in a more accurate, data-driven approach to trading. The platform is accessible to users without a background in AI or data science, utilizing autonomous machine learning algorithms to simplify the trading process and enhance financial intelligence for traders and investment managers.

Akari

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Akari is a technology company dedicated to digital inclusivity, aiming to improve how people work, communicate, and access essential tools through innovative solutions. With over 20 years of collective experience in the tech industry, Akari focuses on providing cloud services that support organizations in harnessing technology for individual employee empowerment. Their offerings include Microsoft Teams applications, security workshops, training in Azure fundamentals and Power BI, as well as a change management center of excellence. By addressing the gap for female-led organizations in technology, Akari emphasizes digital transformation and real-life impact, delivering substantial change for some of the UK's most prominent companies.

Baobab

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Baobab Connect is an online legal platform designed to facilitate access to justice by connecting users with legal professionals. The platform offers tools for tracking referrals, managing remote teams, and measuring impact. It enables lawyers to create engaging video-based tutorials, empowering individuals to resolve many of their own legal issues. With a focus on security and privacy, Baobab Connect aims to streamline the process of seeking legal assistance while enhancing the overall user experience.

Movere

Acquisition in 2019
Movere, established in 2008 and based in Bellevue, Washington, specializes in cloud migration planning and ongoing IT environment optimization through its SaaS platform. The company's solution provides comprehensive data discovery, assessment, migration, and optimization capabilities, empowering businesses to gain accurate insights into their entire IT environments within a single day. This visibility enables enterprises to confidently manage and control their environments across diverse platforms, applications, and geographical locations as they evolve digitally. Movere's platform also aids IT administrators in understanding how data center tools are utilized, facilitating informed decisions when transitioning to public cloud services.

Agolo

Venture Round in 2019
Agolo is a technology company that builds an artificial intelligence driven platform to create real-time summaries from unstructured information. The platform leverages machine learning and natural language processing to convert messy data into a clean entity-graph based data store, powering enterprise use cases such as GenAI applications, large language models, RAG pipelines, business intelligence dashboards, support-site augmentation, and enterprise search. By providing concise, contextual summaries, the solution helps improve product quality, reduce support costs, and enable faster detection of emerging issues. The company, originally known as Ninoh, is based in New York.

Agricompas

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Agricompas is a developer of an agricultural data analytics platform that provides essential knowledge to growers and decision-makers in the agricultural sector. The company specializes in collecting and processing data related to economic, technical, social, and environmental processes that are crucial for agricultural production systems. By leveraging insights from crop federations and research institutes, Agricompas helps agronomists and farmers make informed decisions to optimize sustainable production. The platform aims to enhance productivity and profitability for farmers while simultaneously reducing environmental impacts and improving socio-economic conditions within the agricultural community.

PriceSynergy.IO

Seed Round in 2018
PriceSynergy.IO is a Microsoft backed Startup, Gathering billions of price points, advertising positions and reseller metrics for products sold online, We deliver powering actionable insights for brands and resellers globally.

PaperVault

Acquisition in 2018
PaperVault is the innovative platform that turns invoices into digital information.

Bonsai

Acquisition in 2018
Bonsai offers an AI platform that empowers enterprises to build and deploy intelligent systems. By completely automating the management of complex machine learning libraries and algorithms, Bonsai enables enterprises to program AI models that improve system control and enhance real-time decision support. Businesses use these models today to increase automation and improve operational efficiency of industrial systems including robotics, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, energy and utilities. Based in Berkeley, CA, Bonsai is backed by leading investors including NEA, Microsoft Ventures, ABB, Samsung NEXT and Siemens.

MintM

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
MintM Inc. is a technology company that develops a cloud-based digital signage platform aimed at enhancing customer engagement. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, MintM offers Magnet, an intelligent signage and kiosk software that supports various applications including digital signage, visual merchandising, brand activation, and omnichannel marketing. The company's solutions cater to a diverse range of sectors, including retail, health and beauty, food and beverages, and banking and finance. By leveraging computer vision technology, MintM provides tools for real-time measurement, analysis, and automation, enabling businesses to optimize their customer interactions and operational efficiency.

Cycle Computing

Acquisition in 2017
Cycle Computing LLC is a software development company specializing in high-performance computing solutions and data management. Founded in 2005 and based in Stamford, Connecticut, it offers a suite of products that facilitate the deployment, automation, and management of computing resources across various environments, including cloud, internal grids, and virtualized setups. Its flagship products include CycleServer, which streamlines grid-related tasks for users and administrators, and CycleCloud, a comprehensive orchestration platform that enhances computational productivity for large-scale applications. The company serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized businesses, government research organizations, and academic institutions, both domestically and internationally. Cycle Computing also provides enterprise support, installation, training, and professional services, ensuring that clients can effectively utilize its software solutions. As of August 2017, Cycle Computing operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

APEX Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
APEX Technologies, based in Shanghai with offices across China and the US, specializes in real-time customer data technology and artificial intelligence. The company develops two key platforms: Nexus, a data collection, processing, and activation system for marketing channels and customer service tools; and IQ, an AI and machine learning platform for predictive analytics. APEX serves over 300 mid to large enterprises in finance, travel, automotive, ecommerce, and retail sectors.

Sensors Data

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Sensors Data, founded in 2015 by Sang Wenfeng, a former technology manager at Baidu's big data department, specializes in big data analysis services. The company offers an advanced user behavior analysis platform that includes eight analytical models designed for multi-dimensional cross-analysis. This platform enables clients to gain a deeper understanding of user behavior, assess marketing effectiveness, and optimize product experiences. By providing professional consulting services, Sensors Data assists over 300 companies, including notable clients such as bike-sharing service Ofo and fitness app Keep, in improving operational efficiency and deriving actionable insights from user interactions.

Dfocus

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
DFocus Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, specializes in cloud-based software solutions for workspace planning and management. The company is a leader in smart space and smart building management, utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) technology, high-precision sensors, and big data analytics to enhance workspace efficiency and reduce costs for enterprises. DFocus serves over 200 clients, including nearly 100 Fortune Global 500 companies such as Microsoft, Huawei, and Alibaba. Additionally, the company collaborates with notable organizations and institutions, including Tongji University and Gensler, to establish industry standards and practices, further solidifying its position as a key player in the real estate sector.

Ekuaibao

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Ekuaibao is a developer of an online enterprise consumption and reimbursement management platform tailored for corporate clients. The company focuses on managing corporate claims and expenses, offering services that include professional ordering, cost control, and reimbursement management. Its platform is designed to assist organizations in efficiently handling employee cost reimbursements, business travel planning, and other cost management operations. By providing innovative invoice management solutions, Ekuaibao aims to help companies reduce operational costs and enhance overall efficiency.

Kyligence

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Kyligence Inc. specializes in big data analytics, offering an intelligent data platform that simplifies analysis from on-premises to cloud environments. Its flagship product is the Kyligence Analytics Platform, providing sub-second query latency and simplified analytics for business users. Additionally, it offers KyBot for monitoring and optimizing performance, and Apache Kylin, an open-source distributed analytics engine supporting large datasets.

Intentional Software

Acquisition in 2017
Intentional Software Corporation’s mission is to make the world’s knowledge more accessible and useful. They are creating the next generation of knowledge work by combining knowledge processing with group productivity. Their focus is to improve productivity and accelerate innovation by empowering knowledge workers to work more effectively with software programmers.

Dfocus

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
DFocus Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2015 and headquartered in Shanghai, China, specializes in cloud-based software solutions for workspace planning and management. The company is a leader in smart space and smart building management, utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) technology, high-precision sensors, and big data analytics to enhance workspace efficiency and reduce costs for enterprises. DFocus serves over 200 clients, including nearly 100 Fortune Global 500 companies such as Microsoft, Huawei, and Alibaba. Additionally, the company collaborates with notable organizations and institutions, including Tongji University and Gensler, to establish industry standards and practices, further solidifying its position as a key player in the real estate sector.

Talmix

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Founded in 2016, Talmix operates a leading global marketplace connecting businesses with independent business talent on demand. Its platform offers direct sourcing of expertise for projects and interim assignments, facilitating strategic initiatives and specialized solutions. With over 1,000 corporate users and 60,000 registered talents, Talmix provides convenient access to top-tier consultants while maintaining operational efficiency.

CoScale

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
CoScale is a developer of a comprehensive performance monitoring platform tailored for production environments. The platform continuously tracks servers, containers, and applications, providing insights into their effects on user experience and key business metrics. By employing automated anomaly detection and contextual insights, CoScale simplifies the monitoring and troubleshooting processes for its users, enabling proactive responses to performance issues that could adversely impact business outcomes. The platform is designed for use by DevOps engineers, application owners, and business professionals, all of whom aim to enhance digital performance by ensuring faster and more reliable websites and applications. This ultimately leads to improved user experiences and increased conversion rates.

InsideSales

Series D in 2017
InsideSales is a company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of sales teams. By utilizing a data intelligence engine, the platform accelerates revenue growth through improved visibility and strategic engagement. It seamlessly integrates with existing CRM systems, automatically capturing valuable insights from buyer interactions. These insights are delivered directly to sales representatives within their workflows, helping them prioritize daily activities, focus on the most promising accounts and contacts, and optimize engagement throughout the sales funnel. This approach enables B2B sellers to connect with potential buyers at the most opportune moments, ultimately driving sales success.

True AI

Grant in 2017
True AI Limited is a London-based artificial intelligence company founded in 2015, specializing in the development of software that utilizes deep learning algorithms to enhance customer service operations. The company's flagship product, TypeGenie, is designed to improve customer experience by automating responses in customer service interactions. This semi-automatic system learns from conversations, providing reply suggestions to service agents and streamlining chat management across various channels. True AI's innovative approach is built on extensive research and leverages advanced learning techniques to optimize the efficiency of customer support services.

Maluuba

Acquisition in 2017
Maluuba Inc is a technology company based in Waterloo, Canada, that specializes in designing and delivering deep learning applications for natural language processing. Founded in 2011, the company focuses on enhancing machine capabilities to comprehend and interact in human-like ways through advanced algorithms, including deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques. Maluuba's applications allow users to search for weather, events, and locations, as well as manage alarms and calendars while facilitating social connections. The company aims to improve computer systems' understanding of language through innovations in machine reading comprehension and dialogue understanding, ultimately striving to enhance decision-making capabilities akin to those of the human brain. Maluuba operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, collaborating with prominent organizations across various sectors, including communications, technology, and professional services.

Bitpower

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Bitpower is a financial technology company based in Shenzhen, specializing in quantitative techniques and the development of professional software for asset management. The firm focuses on enhancing decision-making processes for hedge funds, asset management companies, and brokers by providing SaaS-based solutions. These solutions integrate quantitative investment and research strategies, facilitating accurate evaluations of transaction behavior, back testing, data distribution, and rapid development of trading strategies. Since its inception, Bitpower has attracted significant investment from notable angel and institutional investors, and it has garnered multiple awards in venture competitions. The company boasts a team of over 20 highly educated professionals, all with backgrounds in financial institutions, and aims to redefine traditional financial systems through its innovative Elastically Financial Cloud Service projects, which leverage Microsoft Azure to modularize and enhance asset management systems.

Cycle Computing

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Cycle Computing LLC is a software development company specializing in high-performance computing solutions and data management. Founded in 2005 and based in Stamford, Connecticut, it offers a suite of products that facilitate the deployment, automation, and management of computing resources across various environments, including cloud, internal grids, and virtualized setups. Its flagship products include CycleServer, which streamlines grid-related tasks for users and administrators, and CycleCloud, a comprehensive orchestration platform that enhances computational productivity for large-scale applications. The company serves a diverse clientele, including Fortune 500 companies, small and medium-sized businesses, government research organizations, and academic institutions, both domestically and internationally. Cycle Computing also provides enterprise support, installation, training, and professional services, ensuring that clients can effectively utilize its software solutions. As of August 2017, Cycle Computing operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Metric Insights

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Metric Insights, Inc. is a provider of a push intelligence platform that helps businesses manage and make sense of their data. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with a development facility in Kyiv, Ukraine, the company specializes in connecting key performance indicators from various sources, including business intelligence tools, big data, and SaaS applications. Its platform empowers users by alerting them to significant changes in their metrics and uncovering anomalies that require attention, facilitating informed, data-driven decision-making. Metric Insights offers solutions across various sectors, including big data, healthcare, and human capital, designed to streamline data management and enhance operational efficiency.

DataRPM

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
DataRPM Corporation is a provider of a cognitive data science platform that automates machine learning for enterprises, available both on-cloud and on-premises. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with additional offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Bengaluru, India, DataRPM specializes in predictive analytics, particularly in the areas of predictive maintenance for the industrial Internet of Things. Its platform connects to data lakes and conducts various machine learning experiments, identifying patterns, anomalies, and influencing factors to create predictive models. This enables organizations to enhance operational efficiency, reduce maintenance costs, and optimize resources. Catering primarily to Fortune 500 companies, DataRPM aims to empower users as citizen data scientists through an intuitive natural language interface, facilitating digital transformation across diverse sectors. As of 2017, DataRPM operates as a subsidiary of Progress Software Corporation.

Shareablee

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Founded in 2012, Shareablee operates an online platform offering data-driven insights for brands' social media performance. Its platform enables competitive benchmarking, measures brand-consumer interactions, and provides psychographic insights across multiple platforms.

Grwo

Seed Round in 2016
Grwo is a provider of customizable white-label software designed to enhance and strengthen the emotional connections between brands and their customers. The software employs proven methods of feedback and motivation to cultivate deeper engagement, allowing marketers to access actionable psychographic data. This data includes insights on demographics such as age, gender, and location, enabling brands to develop more effective marketing strategies. Grwo's solution is tailored to align seamlessly with an organization's brand identity, making it an integral part of their marketing efforts. Through its innovative approach, Grwo helps clients amplify customer relationships and foster brand loyalty.

Glisser

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Glisser Ltd. is a London-based technology company founded in 2014 that specializes in web and mobile software solutions for presentations. The platform enhances traditional PowerPoint presentations by enabling audience interaction through mobile devices. It offers a customizable solution that integrates slide sharing, audience response systems, and analytics, allowing users to engage participants effectively during events, training sessions, and classrooms. Glisser's tools are designed for virtual and hybrid events, facilitating high levels of audience participation and interactivity. Its clientele includes notable organizations such as KPMG, Pfizer, Informa, Facebook, and Uber, reflecting its capability to support events of various scales, from focused training sessions to large gatherings of up to 150,000 attendees.

Framed Data

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Framed Data is a technology company specializing in transforming business data into actionable insights. It harnesses machine learning to develop an analytic marketing platform that identifies high-value users, predicts user behavior, and monitors user retention. By training, optimizing, and storing production models in the cloud, Framed Data offers predictions through an API, thereby reducing the need for extensive infrastructure. Additionally, the company provides user-friendly dashboards and scenario analysis tools that help businesses understand the key factors influencing important metrics. Through its innovative approach, Framed Data empowers organizations to make informed decisions based on comprehensive data analysis.

Datary

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Datary is a data marketplace that facilitates the exchange and purchase of data tailored for data scientists, small and medium enterprises, and consultants. Established in 2014 by founders Fernando Saiz and Daniel Jadraque, the company is headquartered in Madrid, Spain. Datary specializes in providing socioeconomic, real estate, and industrial data, supporting businesses in their projects by offering tools for downloading, processing, and visualizing data. By enabling informed decision-making, Datary assists enterprises and investment funds in maximizing the potential of both internal and external data resources.

Linknovate

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Linknovate is a company that specializes in leveraging science and big data to identify new technologies and facilitate connections among industry leaders. By providing a platform that streamlines the discovery of experts and innovations globally, Linknovate aims to enhance the Open Innovation process and support intelligence in emerging markets. The company's services are designed to help organizations expand their networks and access valuable insights, ultimately fostering collaboration and growth in various sectors.

Mention

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Founded in 2012, Mention provides a comprehensive media monitoring tool for enterprises and agencies. Its application offers real-time alerts on brand mentions across the web and social networks, featuring anti-noise technology and data expert tools.

ClicData

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
ClicData is a cloud-based dashboard and business intelligence platform that provides reports, dashboards, and collaborative workspaces to help organizations manage and visualize data. The service enables users to connect data from multiple sources, build live dashboards with drag-and-drop indicators, and receive alerts, supporting data sharing across teams and clients. It is designed for small and medium-sized businesses and serves industries including banking and finance, logistics, pharmaceutical, health, retail, education, and hospitality. Founded in 2008, ClicData is headquartered in Lille, France, with offices in Seattle, Washington; Scottsdale, Arizona; and Toronto, Canada, and maintains data centers in France and Canada.

GrowingIO

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
GrowingIO is a prominent analytics platform provider based in Beijing, China, established in May 2015 by Simon Zhang, Dingding Ye, Justin Chen, Yuanming Shan, and Jonathan Wu. The company specializes in helping businesses drive growth through data insights. GrowingIO's platform enables customers to track user behavior data across apps, mini-apps (such as WeChat), and websites, build dashboards, and analyze quick insights. By providing real-time behavioral data and efficient management of core business indicators, GrowingIO empowers companies with data-driven information to support their growth strategies.

YunBaoXiao

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
YunBaoXiao, also known as Beijing Rushu Technology, is a company based in Beijing, China, specializing in the development of a cloud-based receipt generator platform aimed at streamlining the reimbursement process for enterprises. The platform enables businesses to track and manage expenses efficiently, facilitating the submission of records for policy reminders. This functionality allows organizations to navigate financial reimbursement and approval issues with ease, ultimately enhancing the overall efficiency of their expense management processes.

AbleCloud

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
AbleCloud is a leading provider of IoT cloud platforms, specializing in delivering advanced solutions for hardware developers. The company created Matrix, the first PaaS development platform for the Internet of Things in China, designed to facilitate the rapid and cost-effective implementation of IoT devices. Matrix is recognized for its certification from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, underscoring its credibility in the market. Additionally, AbleCloud developed Inspire, a big data analysis platform tailored specifically for IoT, which enables users to uncover insights and transform data into value. The company also offers Genius, a comprehensive business platform that enhances remote visual management and streamlines collaboration for IoT enterprises. With a focus on the Internet of Vehicles and smart home devices, AbleCloud ensures stability, multi-device access, and robust remote management capabilities for its clients.

Knomos Knowledge Management

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Knomos specializes in advancing legal research through an interactive web application that integrates machine learning and data visualization. The platform is designed to help users search, organize, and create legal information by transforming unstructured text from legal documents into structured data. This innovative approach allows users to visualize legal concepts, making it easier to identify and focus on the most relevant information. By fostering collaboration, Knomos enables users to share insights within their knowledge networks, thereby enhancing the legal research process and providing clients with curated content. Ultimately, Knomos aims to shift legal research from an individual task to a collective endeavor, promoting a deeper understanding of legal materials.

simMachines

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
simMachines, Inc. is a Chicago-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in machine learning software designed to provide insights into the reasons behind predictions. Their technology focuses on delivering similarity-oriented solutions for advanced analytics, enabling users to discover patterns and anomalies in both structured and unstructured data. By emphasizing transparency, simMachines allows organizations to understand the "why" behind predictions, which helps ensure compliance with stringent Artificial Intelligence auditing standards. Their product offerings include verifyAI, a platform for developing dynamic predictive segmentation, and personifyAI, a web-based subscription service leveraging location-based mobile signals for behaviorally-based segmentation. The company's algorithms facilitate real-time recommendations, thereby enhancing marketers' ability to create personalized and relevant consumer engagements while driving efficiency and innovation across various applications, including marketing, fraud detection, and compliance.

Defined.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Defined.ai facilitates the trading of high-quality, ethically sourced datasets through its platform. It offers comprehensive services for data collection, annotation, and validation, empowering AI developers and organizations to access reliable data for model training.

Affinio

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Affinio develops a marketing intelligence platform that leverages the interest graph to understand consumers. Its platform enables users to discover audience segments, analyze cultural fingerprints, and generate data-driven creative strategies. Serving brands, agencies, media companies, and publishers worldwide, Affinio's solution covers areas such as audience, influencers, content, advertising, research, and competitors.

Percolata

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Percolata is a Palo Alto-based startup that provides an innovative hardware and software platform designed to help retailers optimize in-store customer traffic and staffing. By utilizing technologies such as video, audio, and mobile fingerprinting, the company employs artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to forecast foot traffic and sales on an hourly basis. This allows retailers to align their staffing levels with customer demand, enhancing operational efficiency. Percolata's solution can lead to significant improvements in sales performance, with reported increases of up to 30%, while also reducing costs associated with both understaffing and overstaffing.

Event Zero

Acquisition in 2016
Event Zero Pty Ltd, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Eight Mile Plains, Australia, specializes in online content management and software solutions aimed at enhancing IT service operations. The company offers a platform that encompasses data management, business consulting, and interactive article publishing, along with conferencing services. As an independent software vendor, Event Zero focuses on providing products that deliver insights and intelligence, particularly for Microsoft Lync unified communications and green IT initiatives. In 2016, Event Zero became a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation, further enhancing its capabilities within the technology sector.

MoBagel

Grant in 2015
Founded in 2015 by AI scientists from Stanford and UC Berkeley, MoBagel develops cloud-based software for automated machine learning. Its flagship product, Decanter AI, empowers data scientists and business analysts to build accurate predictive models using a visual interface. Serving industries such as banking, finance, retail, manufacturing, telecom, and government, MoBagel has headquarters in San Jose, California, with additional locations in Asia.

Kelsen

Venture Round in 2015
Kelsen is a Berlin-based company founded in 2014 by Sergio Aragon that specializes in providing intelligence solutions for the legal industry. Utilizing big data and machine learning, Kelsen offers an online legal search service platform that enables users to obtain real-time answers to legal questions. The company's technology learns from user ratings, continually enhancing the accuracy of search results with each query.

Talent Rank

Venture Round in 2015
Talent Rank is a talent-recruitment platform that offers an innovative app environment for candidates to demonstrate and enhance their business skills through interactive simulations. Users engage in real-world scenarios that involve navigating actual market conditions and interacting with virtual stakeholders, allowing them to test their judgment and decision-making abilities. This platform provides employers with objective data to assess candidates' skills, interests, and potential, facilitating the selection and assignment of talent based on measurable competencies. By focusing on practical experience and quantifiable results, Talent Rank aims to improve the hiring process and help organizations secure skilled and efficient employees.

Adxstudio

Acquisition in 2015
Adxstudio Inc. is an application development company that specializes in web content management solutions for the Microsoft platform. Founded in 1998 and originally known as AppDepot Web Services Inc., the company is headquartered in Regina, Canada, with additional offices in Calgary, Toronto, and Redmond, Washington. Adxstudio offers products such as Adxstudio CMS, which enables organizations to deploy websites, and Adxstudio xRM, a suite of web portal accelerators designed for integration with Microsoft Dynamics customer relationship management tools. Its services encompass website consulting, design, development, hosting, training, and support. The company caters to a diverse range of industries, including business services, healthcare, finance, education, and technology, as well as public sector organizations and advertising agencies. In 2015, Adxstudio became a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

ITjuzi

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
ITjuzi is a Chinese company established in 2013, headquartered in Zhongguancun, Beijing. It operates an online platform offering comprehensive data on companies and business information. The company's core service involves maintaining a structured database focused on startup and investment intelligence, facilitating access to global M&A, private equity, and venture capital deals for its clients.

Beagle

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Beagle Inc., established in 2013 and based in Kitchener, Canada, operates a cloud-based productivity tool that leverages artificial intelligence for contract analysis. The platform assists small and medium-sized businesses by enhancing purchasing power, providing insights to executives, and supporting legal teams. It achieves this by employing an AI engine trained to understand and interpret contractual semantics, thereby improving efficiency, accuracy, and risk mitigation in decision-making processes.

Digime

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Digi.me's technology allows consumers to gather together their personal data and share it on their terms with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange. They are distribution partners for the likes of Toshiba and Lenovo and are working with world-leading businesses in health insurance, finance, pharma and FMCG.

qDatum Data Exchange

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
qDatum offers B2B solutions for commercial data sharing. They provide both a Data Marketplace, for open commercial data sharing, and a Data Store SaaS, for private commercial data sharing. Companies interested in monetizing their data assets, accessing relevant data, or data exchanges with selected partners use qDatum's solutions to manage these operations with an enterprise-grade, dedicated, secure system.

Pointr

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Founded in 2014, Pointr Limited develops a cloud platform that provides actionable business intelligence for customers. The company specializes in indoor location technology, working with Fortune 500 companies to create reliable and intuitive location experiences across large buildings such as retail stores, workplaces, hospitals, and event venues.

Beagle

Venture Round in 2015
Beagle Inc., established in 2013 and based in Kitchener, Canada, operates a cloud-based productivity tool that leverages artificial intelligence for contract analysis. The platform assists small and medium-sized businesses by enhancing purchasing power, providing insights to executives, and supporting legal teams. It achieves this by employing an AI engine trained to understand and interpret contractual semantics, thereby improving efficiency, accuracy, and risk mitigation in decision-making processes.

Slope

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Slope is a software company that specializes in providing tools for collaboration, workflow management, and review and approval processes related to business content production. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Washington, Slope's platform enables users to efficiently manage campaigns, client projects, and other initiatives by organizing deliverables, assigning tasks, and setting deadlines. The solution allows for file uploads, storage, and sharing, while facilitating feedback and approval collection from both internal and external collaborators. It accommodates various multimedia files and includes features such as time-coded comments and image annotations. Slope's offerings are particularly beneficial for marketing managers, content marketers, video producers, creative managers, graphic designers, and creative agencies, both domestically and internationally. The company was established out of the founders' desire to streamline the cumbersome processes they experienced while working in a creative agency, leading to the development of a comprehensive software solution designed to enhance the management of creative work.

Outleads

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Outleads is a technology company that specializes in optimizing online advertising by utilizing offline activity data. Its patented technology integrates information from various sources, including CRMs, contact centers, and marketing automation platforms, and channels this data to analytics platforms such as Google Analytics. This allows advertisers to target leads who have shown interest in their products through phone calls or chats but did not complete a purchase, as well as those who engaged with email campaigns without taking further action. By providing insights into customer interactions, Outleads helps clients effectively retarget potential customers and enhance their advertising strategies. The company supports integration with prominent contact center software, facilitating a seamless flow of information for improved marketing outcomes.

Rexter

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Rexter, LLC is a company based in Altadena, California, that specializes in developing a professional relationship management application designed to enhance and manage professional connections. The platform integrates data from users' emails, calendars, contacts, and phone calls to create a comprehensive relationship history for each individual in a user’s network. Utilizing a scientific algorithm, Rexter prioritizes these relationships based on user-defined goals and key contacts, enabling professionals to effectively mobilize their networks to achieve specific objectives. This cloud-based solution serves as a robust tool for business executives and sales professionals, providing insights into which contacts are most likely to contribute to business success and guiding networking efforts accordingly. Rexter was previously known as Graphight.

Datazen Software

Acquisition in 2015
Datazen Software Inc., established in 2002 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, specializes in mobile business intelligence and data analytics solutions. The company develops tools and user interfaces, offering advanced data visualization technology to enable users to gain insights from their data anytime, anywhere, and across various devices. Its flagship product, Datazen, is a mobile data analytics software that serves organizations worldwide. Additionally, it provides a Windows 8 application for creating and publishing dashboards based on Excel, cloud, and enterprise data sources, along with a Publisher application for designing dashboard layouts optimized for different screen sizes. As of April 14, 2015, Datazen Software operates as a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation.

Slope

Seed Round in 2015
Slope is a software company that specializes in providing tools for collaboration, workflow management, and review and approval processes related to business content production. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Washington, Slope's platform enables users to efficiently manage campaigns, client projects, and other initiatives by organizing deliverables, assigning tasks, and setting deadlines. The solution allows for file uploads, storage, and sharing, while facilitating feedback and approval collection from both internal and external collaborators. It accommodates various multimedia files and includes features such as time-coded comments and image annotations. Slope's offerings are particularly beneficial for marketing managers, content marketers, video producers, creative managers, graphic designers, and creative agencies, both domestically and internationally. The company was established out of the founders' desire to streamline the cumbersome processes they experienced while working in a creative agency, leading to the development of a comprehensive software solution designed to enhance the management of creative work.

TruRating

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Founded in 2013, TruRating develops a point-of-payment ratings system that enables customers to provide immediate feedback about businesses upon payment. This system offers an online dashboard for businesses to monitor genuine customer ratings and publish them on their profile page. TruRating serves various sectors including sole traders, SMEs, corporates, and venues globally.

InsideSales

Series D in 2015
InsideSales is a company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance the productivity and effectiveness of sales teams. By utilizing a data intelligence engine, the platform accelerates revenue growth through improved visibility and strategic engagement. It seamlessly integrates with existing CRM systems, automatically capturing valuable insights from buyer interactions. These insights are delivered directly to sales representatives within their workflows, helping them prioritize daily activities, focus on the most promising accounts and contacts, and optimize engagement throughout the sales funnel. This approach enables B2B sellers to connect with potential buyers at the most opportune moments, ultimately driving sales success.

i7 Networks

Venture Round in 2015
100% Agentless & non-intrusive way, we provide security to BYOD-enabled Enterprises by detecting & fingerprinting all personal devices, complete security scan & analysis of the devices, protecting Corporate Network from BYOD specific infections and intrusions and doing a thorough granular access control using device attributes as well as Apps. Detailed Value proposition: 100% Agentless-way (ZERO-Touch) of detecting all personal devices, secure quadrupled fingerprinting (US patent-pending), DPI & thorough security scan & analysis (Vulnerability check, associated risks, thorough BYOD specific intrusion alerts, Device compromise check (jailbroken, rooted), BYOD specific network behavioral analysis to see patterns, anomalies & zero-day attacks.), posture check (anti-malware software is installed on the device? latest signatures?) and then deny infected personal device connecting to the network as well as do a thorough granular access based on device attributes as well as apps. We do it irrespective of how you get onto the network - from Corporate Wi-Fi or VPN. We also detect enterprise-worry apps (such as dropbox, box.net, Facebook etc.) on the wire and we can even stop them. We also provide granular access control based on any of the attributes of the devices that we discover (such as macid, ip address, OS, OS version, SSID, office location, time, form factors, device class & type & manufacturer etc.) – all done at real-time! We protect BYOD-enabled Enterprise from the BYOD specific threats. We have developed lot of technologies which are mobile specific and are innovations by itself be it "Agentless discovery & fingerprinting" of all personal devices or the malicious/intrusion detection which are specific to again BYOD. "We are the Homeland Security for you Enterprise!!" To Know and to Protect! Protect your Corporate Network & Assets from infections that personal devices of your mobile-workforce pick up on the field.

ProHance

Venture Round in 2015
ProHance is a global operations management platform that focuses on enhancing organizational efficiency and optimizing employee utilization. It is utilized by Fortune companies to gain deep insights into employee and team performance, enabling them to unlock the full potential of their human capital. The platform offers a modular, SaaS-based approach that allows for the measurement of time and effort contributions through over a hundred customizable reports. With more than 130,000 users across 19 countries, ProHance has been instrumental in delivering productivity gains of 15% to 30% within three months of implementation. By providing visibility and actionable analytics, ProHance helps organizations view their operations holistically, identify collaboration opportunities, and streamline resources, ultimately fostering a more agile and customer-centric operational framework.

Beagle

Seed Round in 2015
Beagle Inc., established in 2013 and based in Kitchener, Canada, operates a cloud-based productivity tool that leverages artificial intelligence for contract analysis. The platform assists small and medium-sized businesses by enhancing purchasing power, providing insights to executives, and supporting legal teams. It achieves this by employing an AI engine trained to understand and interpret contractual semantics, thereby improving efficiency, accuracy, and risk mitigation in decision-making processes.

Heroic.ly

Venture Round in 2015
Heroic.ly is an online marketing platform based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in enhancing retail marketing through its advanced recommendation engine. The company analyzes various factors, including regions, consumer behavior, and product performance, to identify growth opportunities. By providing insights on the optimal combination of products, regions, and advertising networks, Heroic.ly helps marketing organizations maximize sales and address consumer demand effectively. Additionally, the platform offers valuable customer-centric insights, such as predicted revenue and cost per acquisition targets, facilitating a deeper understanding of the marketing funnel in real time.

Vizir

Venture Round in 2015
Founded in France in 2015, Vizir specializes in developing conversational interfaces. They collaborate with major corporations to create advanced chatbot programs and have developed a SaaS product since 2016 for clients to build or manage their own robots.

Digime

Seed Round in 2015
Digi.me's technology allows consumers to gather together their personal data and share it on their terms with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange. They are distribution partners for the likes of Toshiba and Lenovo and are working with world-leading businesses in health insurance, finance, pharma and FMCG.

Kelsen

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Kelsen is a Berlin-based company founded in 2014 by Sergio Aragon that specializes in providing intelligence solutions for the legal industry. Utilizing big data and machine learning, Kelsen offers an online legal search service platform that enables users to obtain real-time answers to legal questions. The company's technology learns from user ratings, continually enhancing the accuracy of search results with each query.

Talent Rank

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Talent Rank is a talent-recruitment platform that offers an innovative app environment for candidates to demonstrate and enhance their business skills through interactive simulations. Users engage in real-world scenarios that involve navigating actual market conditions and interacting with virtual stakeholders, allowing them to test their judgment and decision-making abilities. This platform provides employers with objective data to assess candidates' skills, interests, and potential, facilitating the selection and assignment of talent based on measurable competencies. By focusing on practical experience and quantifiable results, Talent Rank aims to improve the hiring process and help organizations secure skilled and efficient employees.

Equivio

Acquisition in 2014
Equivio Ltd. is a software company specializing in text analysis solutions for the legal sector, particularly in the domains of electronic discovery, data retention, and information governance. Founded in 2004 and based in Rockville, Maryland, Equivio offers a range of products designed to manage data redundancy and enhance document management processes. Its offerings include NearDuplicates for identifying similar documents, EmailThreads for reconstructing email conversations, and Equivio Zoom, an integrated platform for predictive coding and analytics. Other tools such as Relevance, Compare, and Themes facilitate document relevance assessment and content analytics. The company serves a diverse clientele, including government agencies like the U.S. Department of Justice and various law firms, often collaborating through a network of over 80 e-discovery service providers. Equivio operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, providing robust support to its users in navigating complex data management challenges.

POWZY

Seed Round in 2014
POWZY provides a full solution for loyalty programs and customer relationship management. The mobile marketing technology engages and entertains consumers by adding game mechanics to loyalty programs, providing a professional, easy-to-launch and affordable solution to even the next door flower shop. They provide customer acquisition, engagement, and cross-industry purchase behavior analytics to B2C Companies. POWZY real-time bidding platform enables the value exchange between advertisers (who pay only for accomplished branding actions) and developers (who monetize their mobile apps and games, profiting from the non-paying users). It delivers 30 seconds of consumer attention, guaranteed.

Scanalytics

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
Founded in 2012, Scanalytics specializes in measuring customer movement patterns within physical spaces such as retail stores and events. Utilizing proprietary IoT sensors, the company collects and analyzes data on consumer behavior to optimize space utilization, marketing campaigns, and workforce scheduling.

EverString

Series A in 2014
EverString, established in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in a predictive analytics platform designed for B2B companies. Its cloud-based SaaS solution identifies and engages customer prospects by tracking and analyzing user data patterns, developing custom predictive models, and monitoring prospect behaviors to reveal intent. The platform offers predictive scoring, demand generation, and targeted advertising, aiding clients in building new pipelines and enhancing conversion rates. As of November 2020, EverString operates as a subsidiary of ZoomInfo Technologies Inc.

qDatum Data Exchange

Venture Round in 2014
qDatum offers B2B solutions for commercial data sharing. They provide both a Data Marketplace, for open commercial data sharing, and a Data Store SaaS, for private commercial data sharing. Companies interested in monetizing their data assets, accessing relevant data, or data exchanges with selected partners use qDatum's solutions to manage these operations with an enterprise-grade, dedicated, secure system.

Profoundis Labs

Venture Round in 2014
Profoundis Labs develops Vibe, a business intelligence application designed to enhance prospect research for sales and marketing teams. Vibe aggregates and curates essential information about potential customers, streamlining the research process and significantly reducing the time sales professionals spend on this task. By integrating seamlessly with existing customer relationship management (CRM) systems, Vibe appends valuable personal, professional, and social insights to CRM records, eliminating cumbersome data entry challenges. Additionally, the platform regularly checks for updates, ensuring that sales teams always have access to the most current information. This comprehensive approach addresses key inefficiencies in the sales process, enabling professionals to focus on building relationships and closing deals.

Myriada Systems

Venture Round in 2014
Myriada enables groups of experts to forecast any price, rate or indicator with extraordinary accuracy. The patent-pending technology suite is applicable to any long-short investment strategy where positions are generally held for more than an hour. Myriada achieves this versatility by harnessing an existing resource - the predictive ability of the analysts/traders within a hedge fund, trading house or prop desk. This approach improves the team’s existing, individual-centric forecasting techniques by incorporating collective intelligence. On the Myriada platform, a fund’s employees and members of their network are transformed into prediction engines - and these human predictions can also be combined with the output of computational models. By rapidly collating all estimations via weighted aggregation, Myriada generates rich, visually intelligible collective forecasts. For each, the group signal is statistically guaranteed to be more accurate than the average individual prediction, and is usually better than any individual. The power of correctly harnessed collective intelligence was empirically demonstrated with a 90-day macro multi-security trading strategy which yielded a Sharpe score of 3.66. Myriada is launching with the Financial Times on December 1st 2014.

Capptain

Acquisition in 2014
Capptain is a developer of a response marketing tool aimed at enhancing user engagement and retention for mobile and web applications. The company provides a platform that analyzes user behavior in real time, allowing marketers and customer relationship managers to segment users based on their interactions with the app. By utilizing targeted push notifications tailored to user behavior, Capptain enables clients to foster continuous customer interaction and ultimately improve their return on investment for mobile and web applications. Through its innovative approach, Capptain helps businesses better understand their users and refine their marketing strategies.
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