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AdChina operates the leading technology-driven integrated internet advertising platform in China. Founded in Silicon Valley, the platform comprises software and related services that effectively integrates advertisers with publishers and delivers advertisements across different ads formats and different internet access devices. The core component of the platform, the AdChina AdManager system, tracks available advertising space from publishers, processes orders from advertisers, analyzes audience data and matches advertisements to their target audience almost instantaneously across the entire range of AdChina’s publisher base. AdChina extended the reach of AdManager system by providing AdChina Demand Platform (ADP), a demand-side platform for advertising agencies and advertisers and AdChina Supply Platform (ASP), a supply-side platform for publishers that operate in online or mobile channels.

Adify provides the technology and back office services necessary for companies to run their own online ad networks. Adify is a self-service ad network for companies interested in developing their own ad networks. The service allows a publisher to negotiate ad rates, and to reject an advertiser if not interested.

AirXP is building a cross-platform low-bandwidth video phone for mobile devices.

AliBaba is Hangzhou-based group of Internet-based e-commerce businesses that includes online web portals, online retail and payment services, a shopping search engine, and cloud-computing services.

The Apple Pie Capital crowdfunding platform enables franchise businesses to efficiently raise capital. Apple Pie matches potential funders with opportunities so that franchisees can raise the start-up capital required to open their business. Apple Pie has a strong founding team combining hands-on crowdfunding and franchising experience.

Artillery is bringing console quality gaming experiences to modern browsers using the latest HTML5 technology. Artillery’s world class team is comprised of former Google and Facebook engineers focused on solving seemingly impossible game development hurdles and includes long standing and high ranking gaming and eSports community members.

Bazaarvoice is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that turns social media into social commerce for the world’s best global brands by enabling authentic customer-powered marketing.

Blue Talon is a security company that helps business owners safeguard sensitive data and get the maximum value out of it. The problem BlueTalon addresses is the need for various business users to access certain data while keeping other data, which resides in the same storage, secure. Blue Talon will allow business owners and data officers to identify and curate their data assets and maximize value while addressing security concerns.

Boxed is a mobile app for ordering bulk-size items at wholesale prices and delivering them to your doorstep without having to go to a warehouse store. Boxed provides a discovery-based shopping experience that offers a curated selection of products. Boxed aims to bring mobile discovery to the shopping experience.

Cie Studios combines compelling user experiences with cutting-edge technology to build next generation interactive entertainment and rich Internet applications. Cie Studios projects include large multiplayer online games, online advertising software, social networking tools, Facebook applications, iPhone applications, and online 3D visualization tools.

Cruise Automation is redefining the automotive experience by developing autonomous cruise control for highway driving. Cruise’s solution controls steering, braking and accelerating without the need for driver input. Cruise’s world-class team is comprised of MIT engineers focused on disrupting the automotive industry.

DogTime Media, Inc. operates a vertical media community focused on pet owners. It provides services to advertisers, 525 publishers, and over 565 bloggers. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Dynamic Signal’s VoiceStorm Platform creates a new people powered marketing channel for your brand so it’s easy to partner with employees, fans, and customers, on social to get your message in front of more of the right people.

Flycast was an online ad network co-founded by our partner Rick Thompson in 1996. The company combined unsold advertising space, mostly on small-to medium-sized sites, and used its AdExchange software to match available space with marketers’ needs. Flycast IPO’d in 1999, raising $74.4 million. It was acquired by CMGI in 2000 in a stock-for-stock deal worth ~$740 million.

Fun+ is dedicated to bringing more fun to your online tour. With passion and energy, Fun+ has been one of the fastest-growing gaming companies in the world. Everyday, millions of people around the world play Fun+ games with their family and friends.

Funzio is a leader in developing breakout social games for Facebook, Google+, and mobile. Funzio envisions a future where people can play immersive games together whenever and wherever they are. Funzio has joined forces with GREE, a leading mobile social gaming network with over 140 million users. With a focus on building engaging games with strong social features, the two companies look to a future where the entire world can play great games together in one place. Funzio’s current titles – Crime City, Modern War, and Kingdom Age – have become big hits with more than 10 million players. Funzio’s team has joined the executive team at GREE, which has developed and published games at Zynga, Storm8, Electronic Arts, and Hi5. The company is headquartered in San Francisco’s China Basin.

Grand Cru was founded in 2011 by six Finnish game industry veterans. We are out to revolutionize mobile and social gaming.

Grow Mobile provides a single mobile ad buying solution across multiple ad networks and traffic sources with transparent ROI analytics and optimization. We offer a campaign creation and management wizard, which will allow advertisers to create mobile ad campaigns and run them across our large number of partner networks. We’ll also show attribution of how your marketing dollars are being spent and mapping ROI data back to each networks and traffic source. This allows for fast and more efficient campaign management and optimization for companies to better spend their money and scale spends with ad networks. Simplified mobile marketing.

Hall helps teams and companies communicate in real-time. Our all-in-one unified communications app has everything your company needs to communicate and get things done. There are thousands of companies using Hall, from small businesses to the world’s largest enterprises like Amazon and Nike. Professionals love using Hall to communicate.

The “Groupon for Apps”, Iddiction’s App-o-Day feature helps curate recommendations from the App store, and allows users to download them for free. Rick Thompson sits on the board.

Idle Games launched at TechCrunch disrupt in 2012. It is a cloud-based, synchronous gaming platform, with the goal of being “the Pixar of social games.” The company’s first title was ‘Idle Worship.’ Rick Thompson is chairman and co-founder, along with COG1 Founder Jeffrey Hyman as CEO.

Kihon specializes in micro-transactional games with integrated social features. iOS titles include: “Baby Monkey,” “SketchPhrase,” and “Dojo Danger.” BabyMonkey reached over 1.2 million downloads. Kihon games range from freemium to premium; casual to core; single player to asynchronous multiplayer. Prior to Kihon, the team of veterans made large-scale micro-transactional Facebook game titles for Sony Online Entertainment. Key members of the team also brought the award-winning game “PoxNora” to market.

Kurbo Health is creating mobile and web-based tools for children and their families to fight childhood weight problems. Working with experienced university-based pediatric weight loss programs, Kurbo is creating intelligent mobile apps and coaching to help millions of overweight and obese children get their weight under control.

Kurbo has a strong founding team combining (a) hands-on experience financing, building and managing outstanding technology and consumer companies, (b) proven success treating children with weight problems and (c) demonstrated ability evangelizing family-friendly media and markets.

Midverse Studios is a leading provider of mobile casino games with its award-winning Bingo Run and Slots Run titles on Google Play and Amazon stores. The company was founded in 2012 by serial entrepreneurs Rizwan Virk and Mitch Liu, who started Gameview Studios in 2010, which was acquired by DeNA. Virk and Liu pioneered virtual currency monetization on Facebook at Tapjoy/Offerpal in 2006.

MomentFeed is a location-based marketing platform that enables brands to interactively engage with their customers at the local level on a global scale. We do this by providing an integrated solution for managing Facebook, Foursquare, Google, Instagram, and Twitter. Our customers see immediate and dramatic improvements in their social metrics that increase revenue and reduce customer acquisition costs.

Monetate drives billions of dollars of revenue every year for some of the best-known brands in the world, including Best Buy, QVC, Godiva, and OfficeMax. The company’s comprehensive product suite and conversion expertise enable marketers to deliver a more relevant customer experience with unprecedented agility.
Leading marketers rely on Monetate’s cloud-based browser technology to achieve a new level of speed and control, allowing them to run 16 times more optimization campaigns compared to industry averages. The Monetate Agility Suite includes advanced products for testing, merchandising, targeting, and cross-channel consistency, providing an opportunity to bypass IT restraints and react in real time to customer demands. Monetate also helps marketers implement best practices and drive online revenue through its expert strategic services and content publishing teams.

The Nativo platform enables publishers to easily activate, deploy and manage native ad placements across their media properties.

For marketers, the Nativo platform enables the distribution of branded content with scale, control, and relevancy. The result is higher performance and deeper user engagement with advertising that’s less intrusive.

Peixe Urbano is a website that helps people explore the best things to do in each city. It was the first company to introduce the daily-deal concept to Latin America, in March of 2010, giving rise to a boom of startups in Brazil and other countries in the region. Today, in addition to daily deals, Peixe Urbano also offers an online reservations and food delivery solution, with the goal of providing a complete platform through which local merchants can grow their businesses and people can enjoy the best local products, services and activities. In January of 2012, it was named “The Best International Startup of the Year” during the Crunchies Awards in San Francisco, CA. Peixe Urbano is backed by leading global investment firms: Benchmark Capital, Monashees Capital, General Atlantic, Tiger Global Management, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and T. Rowe Price Associates.

Pepperdata’s founding team has been working with big data since long before it was Big Data. At companies like Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, and Inktomi, we’ve seen from the inside the huge impact that comes from effectively and rapidly making use of massive amounts of data. Now we’re working to unleash that power for everyone, not just the few companies that can afford to build it themselves.

Phoenix Labs is a PC gaming startup based in Vancouver focused on bring high quality hardcore games to a hardcore audience. The team is comprised of ex-rioters who worked on League of Legends – they are hardcore gamers that have only worked on hardcore games.

Playdom, acquired by Disney, is a game developer with a focus on social, online games. The company has a number of popular titles on the iPhone, Myspace, and Facebook.

Founded in January of 2011, Red Robot was started by social and console gaming veterans who sought out a new way to innovate in mobile games. Red Robot seeks to transform the way players share, discover and converse with one another on the worlds first location-based gamer network R2. Our creative goal is allow gamers everywhere to play the planet.

Rumble Entertainment was founded in 2011 with a mission to create the most engaging and fulfilling online game experiences on the planet. All of our games are free-to-play and available across your favorite devices and social networks. We are unique in our focus on the gamer audience and our exacting standards around quality gameplay. Our passion is to create experiences that surprise and delight our players. By combining the best of AAA game design with free-to-play accessibility, we believe we will change the way gamers play together. Rumble both develops its own games, and invests in and publishes games by third-party developers.

Slice provides the simplest way to keep track of everything you buy online.

By keeping purchase information organized and accessible, Slice is able to present actionable information to consumers when they need it. After signing up, the app automatically pulls information from electronic receipts within email and organizes it in one place for quick, easy reference – all while keeping personal information private and secure.

Originally Afterlive.tv, SnappyTV offers a suite of tools that enable organizations of all sizes to edit, share, and archive live video and TV programming completely within the cloud. SnappyTV merges what viewers just saw on TV or a live stream with their real-time social messages. The result is the viral sharing of video clips merged with social messaging which turns fans into marketers by allowing them to show their friends the best video moments from the broadcast – resulting in significant real-time promotion for live tune-in and traffic back to your web and social media properties. SnappyTV offers a rights-friendly platform with front end mobile and web applications that connect to a content owner’s website so all traffic and streams are directed to a content owner. In addition, content owners can integrate with existing advertising networks to sell pre-roll or other video advertising within the clip stream for additional sales opportunities.

SocialShield analyzes both public and private posts for risky and inappropriate activities by strangers and online friends so that you don’t have to friend your kid on Facebook and spend hours searching for details about their online activity. It works like an alarm service, notifying parents if there is anything to be concerned about–suspicious friends, photos your kids are tagged in, comments on their photos, any language mentioning gangs, violence, suicide, sex or drugs, and signs of cyberbullying. SocialShield gives the insight needed to parent kids more effectively. The company was acquired by German security specialist Avira in 2012.

Super Evil Megacorp is developing core games for tablet, mobile and other emerging platforms.  With deep technical, design, and operational expertise, we marry AAA production values with visceral multiplayer gameplay.  We hope core gamers can finally stop asking the question “Where are all the good games on mobile?”

Udemy helps students make moves. Whether you want to get promoted, break into a new industry, start a company, further a passion, or just accelerate your life, Udemy helps you learn from the amazing instructors in the world, so that you can get there and get there faster.

A wide range of experts teach on Udemy today, including New York Times best-selling authors, CEOs, celebrities, and Ivy League professors. These expert instructors have taught over 600,000 students on Udemy, helping them learn everything from programming to yoga to design to photography and more.

Experts leverage Udemy’s course creation platform to build online courses using video, PowerPoint, PDFs, audio, zip files and live classes. Courses can be published as either free or paid. Instructors keep 70% of the revenue from the sales of their paid courses.

Viki is a global TV site that streams TV shows, movies and other premium content, translated into more than 150 languages by a community of avid fans. With over 1.5 billion videos viewed and nearly 325 million words translated, Viki uniquely brings global prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners.

Wild Needle, acquired by Zynga, was building the next generation of incredibly fun, incredibly social, mobile games.

Xyo is a company that re-imagines how people discover apps.

As our internet usage shifts towards mobile, app stores are becoming the focal point of content discovery. Yet, today most users only find apps from the top shelf – in app stores 10% of apps get 90% of downloads. App stores in their current state do not enable users to find the apps they want and are not aware of users’ situational and social context. Their future has to be re-invented in order for us to take full advantage of our phones, tablets, TVs and other appliances.