Think Tomorrow ~ Today 2009
A Private Company & Venture Capitalist Summit
May 11 ~ 13, 2009
The Ritz-Carlton
Half Moon Bay, CA
Stars of Tomorrow Presenting Companies
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Mahi de Silva Chief Executive Officer |
| AdMarvel makes mobile advertising work by enabling mobile publishers and carriers to easily source, provision, manage and track advertising from virtually any ad network or direct sourced advertising inventory. As the leading trusted third party in mobile advertising, AdMarvel works with mobile publishers, carriers, ad networks and advertisers to optimize advertising inventory and deliver higher revenue. AdMarvel also provides 3rd party ad serving solutions to agencies and advertisers so they can more effectively track performance and validate consumer engagement with their mobile ad campaigns. AdMarvel services work across mobile web, WAP, SMS, MMS, in-application (iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Java), idle-screen and video modalities. For more information, visit www.AdMarvel.com. | |
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Aaron Finn Chief Executive Officer |
| AdReady, Inc. was founded in 2006 by a team of Internet veterans to transform the way businesses advertise online. As the first online self-service display ad solution, AdReady enables marketers, of any size, to design and deploy online display ads based on industry best practices. Marketers have access to AdReady's data-rich library of original ad themes, real-time ad customization tools, an intuitive Web-based interface and detailed reporting on all performance aspects of their advertising campaigns. Headquartered in Seattle, AdReady is backed by Bain Capital Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Madrona Venture Group. | |
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Michael Turner Chief Executive Officer |
| Alert Logic is the industry's leading provider of cloud-based IT compliance and security solutions. Alert Logic's solutions provide organizations with the easiest way to secure networks and comply with policies and regulations. Their on-demand platform utilizes software-as-a-service to deliver the benefits of rapid deployment, zero maintenance, and no upfront capital costs. As a result, Alert Logic customers benefit from easy and affordable network security and compliance. Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Alert Logic is changing the way IT compliance and security solutions are designed, delivered, and utilized. | |
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Jeff Hirsch Chief Executive Officer |
| AudienceScience (formerly Revenue Science) is a technology-centric media company focused on the science of online marketing. AudienceScience is the only company worldwide to offer both an audience technology platform and a targeting marketplace, recording billions of behavioral events daily and reaching over 385 million unique Internet users. AudienceScience technology empowers Web publishers, marketers, networks, exchanges, and agencies to create intelligent audience segments to connect people with relevant advertising driving the transition to data-driven audience marketing online. Delivering behaviorally targeted campaigns since 2003, AudienceScience serves more targeted ads worldwide than any other company for clients including Financial Times, Gannett, Jumpstart Automotive Media, New York Times Digital, NikkeiNet, Reuters.com, The Guardian.co.uk, Univison.com, and Wall Street Journal Digital. | |
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Dean Drako President & CEO David Faugno Chief Financial Officer |
| Barracuda Networks Inc. built its reputation as the worldwide leader in content security appliances by offering easy to use and affordable products that protect organizations from email, Web and IM threats. Barracuda Networks has leveraged its success in the security market to offer networking products that improve application delivery and network access as well as world-class solutions for message archiving, backup and data protection. Coca-Cola, FedEx, Harvard University, IBM, L'Oreal, and Europcar, are amongst the 70,000 organizations protecting their networks with Barracuda Networks' solutions. Barracuda Networks' success is due to its ability to deliver easy to use, comprehensive solutions that solve the most serious issues facing customer networks without unnecessary add-ons, maintenance, lengthy installations or per user license fees. Barracuda Networks is privately held with its headquarters in Campbell, Calif. Barracuda Networks has offices in 10 international locations and distributors in more than 80 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit www.barracudanetworks.com. | |
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Ken Saunders Chief Financial Officer |
| Bazaarvoice helps global organizations collect, display, and amplify consumer-generated product reviews, community Q&A, and personal experiences. This content inspires consumer confidence, enhances business integrity, and drives manufacturers and retailers to create better products and services based on direct consumer input. | |
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Dave Robbins Chief Executive Officer |
| Founded in 1997, BigFix®, Inc. is the leading provider of high-performance enterprise security and systems management solutions. BigFix revolutionizes IT infrastructure management by replacing fragmented collections of single-purpose tools with the industry's only unified management platform that consolidates up to 18 security, IT compliance, decision support, and green computing functions. With it's single-agent - single console architecture, BigFix streamlines compliance processes, automates critical tasks, and significantly reduces costs for securing and managing Enterprise IT infrastructures: both fixed and mobile. A global portfolio of leading education, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail organizations has installed BigFix on millions of computers. Industry awards and distinctions include multi-year inclusion in the Deloitte Silicon Valley "Fast Fifty" high-growth companies list, recognition as a "Visionary" in the 2009 Gartner PC Lifecycle Management & Endpoint Protection Magic Quadrants, multiple SIIA "Codie" awards, and numerous independent magazine product review "Best Buy" and "Editor's Choice" designations. | |
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Nils-Holger Henning Chief Commercial Officer |
| Founded in 2002, Bigpoint is Europe's dominant developer and publisher of multiplayer, browser-based online games. The Company has developed and deployed 26 games, which are available on its own portal at www.bigpoint.com, as well as globally through media partners including NBC Universal, Viacom (MTV Europe), Pro7/ SBS, Bertelsmann (RTL, M6), Orange, Telefonica, AOL, Yahoo and others. Bigpoint.com considers itself to be a Web 2.0 game portal and is home to a community of millions of gamers. We deliver content for free with revenue sharing (no license/ upfront fee). The company is offering the games in more than 20 languages around the world. Bigpoint has more than 240 employees globally and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Based in New York City, Bigpoint, Inc., is the North American subsidiary of Bigpoint GmbH. Further B2B information you can find on www.bigpoint.net. | |
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Omar Tawakol Chief Executive Officer |
| BlueKai created the first online data exchange designed with consumer transparency and control in mind. By aggregating valuable shopping and research activities across the Internet, BlueKai is building the world's largest database of true intenders. Unlike ad networks, BlueKai does not sell ads or impressions, it simply provides data on-demand for marketers, ad networks or publishers to boost the quality and scale of ad targeting initiatives. Data providers earn revenue in a privacy friendly way. The BlueKai Registry enables consumers to see what marketers know about them, edit their online preferences and gain rewards in charitable donations. The privately-held company is based in Bellevue, WA and is a recipient of the AlwaysOn 2009 OnMedia 100 award as a Technology Innovator in Advertising. For more information, visit www.bluekai.com. | |
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Elizabeth Blair Chief Executive Officer |
| Brand.net is the first online advertising network focused exclusively on Brand advertising. The Brand.net team has a combined 50+ years of online Brand advertising experience with leading online publishers. The company's deep online display advertising expertise, supported by its innovative technology, guarantee that Brand advertisers and agencies will reach the right target in the right context, efficiently and measurably. Since trafficking its first campaign in May 2008, Brand.net has worked with dozens of online Brand advertisers on over 50 campaigns. In 2008, over 60 percent of total revenue was generated from campaigns with the top 15 U.S. advertising spenders, and over 80 percent was generated from campaigns with the top 100 U.S. advertising spenders. In the past year Brand.net has worked with leading Brand advertisers in the automotive, entertainment, CPG, finance, retail, technology, telecommunications and travel vertical markets. Brand.net was founded in 2007 and has offices in New York, Chicago and Silicon Valley. For more information, visit www.brand.net. |
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Tod Sacerdoti Cheif Executive Officer |
| BrightRoll is the world's largest video advertising network, having served billions of advertisements since it was founded. The company helps major brands and agencies execute "smart video ad campaigns" across the industry's leading publishers. BrightRoll works with ad agencies, brand advertisers and top publishers on proprietary campaign execution, inventory management and advertising delivery technology. The company is focused on matching quality advertisers with quality publishers and has standard-setting transparency and targeting capabilities. | |
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Harold Lewis Chief Executive Officer |
| Since its inception in 1992, Brightside Academy has been providing early care and education services for ages 6 weeks to 12 years. Operating in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, there are currently 50 locations and 6400 children on a daily basis. The Brightside Academy program is academic based. As early as toddler age the children are learning in a classroom environment. Education in combination with healthy living (a premiere food program and daily physical activity) will enable bright futures the students. |
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Shawn Riegsecker Chief Executive Officer |
| Launched in 2001, Centro was created to make the buying and selling of online media easy. Now Centro services hundreds of national, regional and local agencies offering thousands of local online publishers an opportunity to showcase their sites to our agency partners. Our proprietary technology streamlines the process of planning, negotiating, trafficking and billing so agencies can devote more resources to strategic thinking for their clients. With more than 8,500 digital media companies indexed in Transis, its automated media buying and execution software, agencies can place their campaigns in the most contextually relevant and respected sites in front of highly engaged consumers. We are a partner to agencies as well as to media companies. We will continue to create technology and provide services that make this complex and growing world of online media easier to navigate as well as more efficient and profitable for everyone. For more information, visit www.centro.net. |
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Keith Gibson Chief Executive Officer |
| Colibria is the leading global provider of new generation messaging and social networking solutions. Colibria's award-winning technology enables operators and service providers to deploy enhanced messaging and presence services. Colibria technology opens up potential new revenue streams for operators and provides a compelling experience for the user. Colibria is uniquely positioned to bring the social networking phenomena to the mobile world, with a suite of modular server and client products and a strategic focus on convergence and IMS technology. Colibria provides scalable, future-proof solutions for mobile instant messaging, real-time social networking and value-added content services. Colibria's Instant Messaging and Presence (IMPS and SIP/IMS) offering is the product and service trial standard for interoperability testing, helping drive standards across the world. Founded in 2000, Colibria has offices worldwide and is the provider of choice for enhanced messaging deployments and powers mobile communities throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America with a total addressable subscriber base in excess of 350m. |
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Jeff Pancottine Chief Executive Officer |
| Daptiv delivers on-demand business software to manage work. Daptiv's solutions streamline project collaboration and give unprecedented visibility into business performance. Daptiv's 600+ Customers include BP, Honeywell, ChasePaymentech, La Poste and Virgin Blue. | |
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Shawn Colo Founder and Head of M&A |
| Demand Media is the leader in distributed social media powering 3 billion conversations every month. From providing the best of breed social media technology to our brand partners that also power our own owned and operated sites to our disruptive content creation studio that enable millions of users engage through relevant content and passionate communities. Our products make it possible for thousands of businesses to grow by providing social media solutions that consumers really desire. | |
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Patrick Peyton Chief Executive Officer |
| Through innovative, clean technology solutions, Despatch's Solar and Carbon Fiber divisions are playing a significant role in the effort to positively affect climate change. Despatch partners with leading solar manufacturers to provide the tools and technical expertise required for processing highly efficient, low-cost solar cells. Carbon fiber manufacturers around the world are using Despatch technology to produce super-strong, lightweight composite material for use in fuel-efficient vehicles and aerospace and wind energy applications. Despatch's Thermal Technology division has been providing advanced thermal processing solutions to manufacturers throughout the world for the last 100 years. This division offers original equipment for critical applications in cutting-edge vertical markets such as healthcare and electronics. Despatch is a company driven by the challenge of providing advanced technology solutions for a sustainable future. | |
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Trip Hawkins Chief Executive Officer |
| Digital Chocolate is one of the world's most efficient producers of high-quality, original games across mass-market platforms. With offices in San Mateo, Helsinki, Bangalore, and Barcelona, the company offers more than 60 award-winning games, including Tower Bloxx and AvaPeeps, with a focus on social and mobile play that is offered globally over both wired and wireless networks. Digital Chocolate was founded in 2003 by CEO Trip Hawkins, who was also the founder and CEO of Electronic Arts. In addition to leading the industry in awards for its mobile games, the company has itself won more than 10 awards in the last two years including Best Game Developer of the Year from both IGN.com and Mobile Entertainment and inclusion in The Red Herring Global 100. For more information, please visit www.digitalchocolate.com/iphone. | |
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John Chubb SEVP Business Development |
| EdisonLearning is the nation's leading public school innovator and partner for school districts and charter schools serving more than 350,000 children in 24 states and the UK. We work with school leaders and communities to provide solutions that inspire students to think, learn, and succeed - and prepare them to meet their full potential and the expectations of the 21st century workplace. | |
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Bill Zerella Chief Financial Officer |
| Force10 Networks is an industry-leading provider of reliable next generation infrastructure solutions for enterprise data centers, global wireless and wireline service providers, top supercomputing environments and iconic Internet brands. Force10's products deliver the scalability, reliability and application awareness required to ensure cost-effective delivery of content from the enterprise or converged network to the mobile business user or consumer while delivering a higher level of performance at a lower total cost of ownership. The Company supports a direct and multi-tier sales channel relating to "go-to" marketing, strategic partners, and third-party distribution channels. Force10's sales and marketing regions are Europe, Asia, and the Americas. |
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Larry Freed CEO & President |
| As the leader in online customer satisfaction measurement, ForeSee Results captures and analyzes online voice of customer data to help organizations increase sales (both online and offline), customer loyalty, and recommendations. Using the methodology of the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), ForeSee Results identifies the improvements to websites and other online initiatives with the greatest ROI. With over 33 million survey responses collected to date and benchmarks across dozens of industries, ForeSee Results offers unparalleled expertise in customer satisfaction measurement and management through the strategic web channel. ForeSee Results works with hundreds of clients across a wide variety of industries, including: retail, financial services, consumer products, media/entertainment, healthcare, hospitality, manufacturing, government and non-profit. Examples of clients include Best Buy, Citi, Kellogg's, Forbes.com, Cleveland Clinic, Starwood Hotels, 3M, Social Security Administration and AARP. ForeSee Results, a privately held company, is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan and on the web at www.ForeSeeResults.com. |
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Ken Goldman Chief Financial Officer |
| Fortinet was founded in 2000 by Ken Xie, the visionary founder and former president and CEO of NetScreen, later sold to Juniper for more than $3.5 billion. The company is privately held and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with customer support, development and sales facilities throughout North America, Europe and Asia to ensure continuous customer success. Our management team is unmatched in experience within the network security marketspace and has received the largest amount of industry awards from business and trade publishing organizations. The company's position as the leading privately-held network security systems supplier has been validated by approximately $100 million in funding from the industry's leading venture capital firms. Fortinet sells its system and subscription service products through a network of selected system and distributors and resellers worldwide. Our thousands of global customers include service providers, enterprises and small businesses. For more information, visit www.fortinet.com. |
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Bob Nunn Chief Executive Officer |
| Fulcrum Microsystems is a fabless semiconductor company utilizing technology based on advanced research conducted at CalTech by the Company's founding team. With its FocalPoint family of 10GE switching devices, Fulcrum is redefining datacenter interconnect by delivering fully-standard switching solutions that shatter all established benchmarks for high performance, low latency, integration, and power efficiency. With well over 100 FocalPoint design wins, Fulcrum has proven the virtues of its technology foundation and the ability of its team to delver complex silicon products. Also, with commercial products shipping in volume, Fulcrum has proven its ability to deliver complete solutions and to support customers during their system design, bring-up, and production ramp. | |
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David Bradford Chief Executive Officer |
| Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fusion-io is a leading provider of enterprise solid-state technology and high-performance I/O solutions that unlock a world of possibilities for performance-starved applications, closing the gap between processing power and storage performance. The increasing demand for a next generation solid state storage technology is driven by advancements in computer processors which, following Moore's Law, have grown exponentially in performance. Mechanical disks, on the other hand, follow Newtonian Dynamics and experience lackluster performance improvements, introducing a performance gap. Ushering in a new era of silicon-based storage, Fusion-io offers several magnitudes of breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of today's traditional disk-based storage systems. The company's ioMemory architecture creates a new tier in the memory hierarchy - one that has 100 times the capacity density and 10 times the capacity per dollar of DRAM. NAND flash-based ioMemory makes it possible to have terabytes of near-memory-speed storage within each node - bringing extremely large memory problems and I/O bound analysis to a new level of cost effectiveness. Founded in 2006 by a team of experts with successful track records in the fields of transaction processing, high performance networking, storage and superclusters, computing and image processing, Fusion-io's executive team has a long history of building companies that deliver game-changing and innovative technologies to the marketplace. |
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David Thompson CEO & Co-Founder |
| Genius.com, creator of the award-winning GeniusPro™ and Genius Enterprise™ SaaSsolutions, is the leading on-demand provider of B2B demand generation and marketing automation solutions that enable frontline sales and marketing professionals to quickly identify and connect with their best prospects, without IT. Genius solutions enable personalized email campaigns, automated lead nurturing, and website visit tracking and deliver website visit results to both marketing and sales in real time, dramatically improving demand generation, lead qualification, and sales connect rates. Genius.com is a privately held company funded by Accel Partners, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Emergence Capital, and Walden International, with headquarters in San Mateo, CA. For more information, visit www.genius.com or email info@genius.com. |
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Craig Sherman Chief Executive Officer |
| Founded in 2003, Gaia Online is the leading online hangout for teens and young adults. More than 7 million users visit Gaia every month to make friends, play games, watch movies in the virtual theaters, and participate in an active online community. With fully customizable profiles and digital characters, Gaia Online is a place where teens can create their own space and express their individual style. For more information, visit www.gaiaonline.com. | |
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Ray Johnson CEO & President |
| Infinite Power Solutions, Inc. (IPS)—a U.S.-based, clean-technology company—is the global leader in developing, marketing and manufacturing solid-state, rechargeable thin-film micro-energy storage devices for a variety of micro-electronic applications. Founded in 2001, IPS is privately held with corporate headquarters and manufacturing facilities in the western suburbs of Denver, Colo. The company has completed the build-out of the world's first volume manufacturing facility dedicated to the production of its revolutionary thin-film micro-energy cell (MEC™) products (often referred to as thin-film batteries). IPS has recently commenced pre-production activities at this state-of-the-art facility to address growing demand among customers in the wireless sensor, active RFID, powered smart card, medical device, consumer electronics, automotive and civil/military/aerospace markets. Additional information about IPS is available at www.InfinitePowerSolutions.com. | |
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John Edmunds Chief Financial Officer |
| Inphi delivers analog intensive integrated circuits with the world's highest performance, best signal integrity and lowest power for processing extremely fast data in demanding communication, computing and consumer systems. | |
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Joshua Hong Chief Executive Officer |
| GamersFirst, a service of K2 Network, is a global leader in online game publishing and one of today's most popular Free2Play® online game and social portals for gaming enthusiasts. Serving over 28 million players in the western hemisphere, GamersFirst.com is where gamers gather to decide the price of the games they love to play—even when that price is "free." Powered by GamersFirst CONNECT; the end-to-end game publishing, game operations, rapid game deployment, community system platform. GamersFirst currently features the hit games War Rock, Knight Online, Sword of the New World and future hits such as Parabellum, Victory, GoGo Racer and Taikodom. |
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Pat Sueltz Chief Executive Officer Joe Consul Chief Financial Officer |
| LogLogic® (www.loglogic.com) is the leader in log management, compliance management and security management solutions designed to improve accountability and lower costs for organizations of all sizes. LogLogic's unique open log management platform enables customers to collect, search and store 100 percent of IT log data for a comprehensive fingerprint of past and current activity across any organization. Powered by the industry's leading open log management platform, LogLogic's business applications correlate user activities and event data in real-time for a unique integrated approach to security event management, database security management and compliance management with industry and government regulations. | |
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Greg Young President & CEO |
| Luxtera Inc. is the worldwide leader in the field of Silicon CMOS Photonics. A fabless semiconductor company, Luxtera is harnessing the benefits of Si-CMOS Photonics technology by uniting the high-performance of fiber optics with the low-cost and high-volume manufacturing advantages of mainstream silicon CMOS fabrication. Luxtera is the first company to successfully overcome the complex technical obstacles involved with integrating high-performance optics directly with mainstream silicon CMOS electronics, bringing direct "fiber to the chip" products to the volume markets. We are on the vanguard of creating tremendous value in the semiconductor, networking, computing, and consumer electronics industries. Founded in late 2001, Luxtera is based in Carlsbad, California. The company is years ahead of its competition with a defendable IP portfolio. Luxtera has filed over 112 patent applications, of which over 80 have been issued. The company is now engaged with leading companies in the Data Communications, Enterprise Computing, Defense, and Consumer Electronics industries. Financial investors include August Capital, New Enterprise Associates, Sevin Rosen Funds, Lux Capital, and Advanced Equities. |
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Ben T. Smith, IV Chairman & Co-Founder |
| Launched in 2006, MerchantCircle is the largest social network of local business owners in the nation, combining social networking features with a customizable web listing that allows local merchants to attract new customers. More than 15 million MerchantCircle business listings across the country are easily accessed on major search engines. Currently, over 750,000 merchants on the MerchantCircle network upload pictures, blog, create coupons and newsletters, and connect with other merchants. In addition to its free services, MerchantCircle offers a portfolio of online advertising services including Search Engine Marketing, Website Directory Submission, Web Content Creation, Instant Website Development and Business Verification Services. MerchantCircle is located on Main St. in downtown Los Altos, Calif., and is funded by Rustic Canyon Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Disney's Steamboat Ventures, and IAC. Learn more at www.MerchantCircle.com. |
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Erick Hachenburg Chief Executive Officer |
| Metacafe® — Entertainment That Connects Metacafe® is the world's leading independent online video site. We connect consumers with the entertainment content they love and brand advertisers with the consumers they serve. The company is teaming with content creators including top movie studios, music labels, professional sports leagues, television networks and best-of-the-web production firms to deliver an exceptional entertainment experience to its more than 46 million unique monthly viewers, 11 million of them in the U.S.[1]. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Tel Aviv. For more information — and millions of entertaining videos — visit www.metacafe.com. |
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Bob Farell Chief Executive Officer |
| With a focus on enterprise visibility, resource optimization, efficiency and agility, Metastorm offers market-leading software for enterprise and business architecture (EA), business process analysis (BPA), and business process management (BPM). As an integrated product portfolio, Metastorm Enterprise allows organizations to improve business results by better aligning strategy with execution. By combining the power of these three disciplines onto a common platform, Metastorm is helping organizations worldwide focus on the right business improvements, instill stronger governance, and accelerate time to value. For more information and success stories on organizations powering strategic advantage with Metastorm Enterprise, visit www.metastorm.com. | |
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T.M. Ravi CEO & President |
| Mimosa Systems delivers next-generation information management solutions. Mimosa NearPoint™ is the industry's most comprehensive solution unifying archiving of email, file system and SharePoint with recovery and storage management. Mimosa NearPoint ensures litigation readiness and content security, while ensuring email continuity and leveraging cost-effective technologies to optimize email storage costs. Mimosa is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, recognized for its competencies in networking infrastructure solutions, ISV/software solutions, and advanced infrastructure solutions. Mimosa was founded in 2003 and is based in Santa Clara, California, with offices in Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, China, Australia, and India. | |
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Michael Connelly Chief Executive Officer |
| Mosaica Education manages 77 charter schools, serving 18,000 students in eight states and the GCC countries of Qatar and UAE. Mosaica is an Inc. 500 honoree and a multi-year member of the Inc. "Inner City 100," which honors the fastest-growing urban businesses in America. It was Number 1 in 2005 and is the only company to have placed in the top five three years in a row. Because of the superior educational achievement of its students — the average student's academic achievement has improved 34% while enrolled in a Mosaica school — Mosaica and its schools have received numerous honors, including having been recognized as an "Educational Innovator" by the United States Department of Education. The Company was co-founded by a husband-and-wife team in 1997. Dr. Dawn Eidelman is Mosaica's Chief Education Officer, and her husband, Gene Eidelman, is President. The Company's CEO, Michael J. Connelly, joined in 1998. |
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Major Horton Chief Financial Officer |
| Nirvanix's mission is to ease the burden of storage management for organizations while enabling secure and reliable access to data worldwide. Our goal is to work collaboratively with clients to understand their storage, access and retention requirements and execute the right strategy to meet these needs while extending the life of existing storage and networking assets. Headquartered in San Diego, California, Nirvanix is privately held and has raised more than $23 million in funding from world-class investors including Intel Capital. Nirvanix's customers range from Internet start-ups to Fortune 10 organizations and include Arizona State University, Nero, and The Planet among others. |
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Anu Shukla Chief Executive Officer |
| Offerpal Media is the first "Managed Offer Platform" for social applications, online communities, social games, virtual worlds and the Apple iPhone. The company's turnkey platform allows publishers to monetize their traffic through targeted and relevant advertising offers, generating publisher revenues at a network-wide average of $75 per day for every 1,000 Daily Active Users. At the same time, advertisers can tap into Offerpal Media's expansive network to reach more than 50 million highly engaged and targeted consumers. Based in Fremont, CA, and backed by top-tier venture capital firms, Offerpal Media features an experienced management team with deep roots in online advertising, personalization, and optimization technologies. For more information, visit www.offerpalmedia.com. | |
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Marc Zionts Chief Executive Officer |
| Based in La Jolla, California, Ortiva Wireless ("Ortiva") was founded in 2004. Ortiva provides video optimization to mobile operators who offer streaming video and TV services to subscribers. Dr. Sujit Dey, the Founder of Ortiva Wireless and its CTO, remains a professor with the University of California, San Diego where he developed the company's core technology. Ortiva has approximately 70 employees, and is funded by Artiman Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Mission Ventures, Comcast Interactive Capital and a tier 1 mobile operator. Ortiva has announced customer wins with Vodafone Portugal and Mobix Interactive, a SeaChange Company. To date, Ortiva Wireless has raised $27 million in private equity capital. | |
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Scott Coons Chief Executive Officer |
| Perceptive Software creates enterprise document management, imaging and workflow software for organizations in a broad range of industries worldwide. Since 1995, the company's unique approach to product development and services has produced cost-effective solutions that leverage an organization's existing technology investments. ImageNow, the company's flagship product, puts key documents at business workers' fingertips, saving their organizations time and money, and eliminating the drain on efficiency that comes from manual business activities. Used by more than 2,000 organizations in 30 countries, ImageNow lets users efficiently capture and organize virtually any document type, then route and retrieve a precise page with a single click from within any business application at the moment it's needed. ImageNow is deployed rapidly, expanded easily and adopted quickly by both technical and non-technical users, equating to a rapid, demonstrable return on your investment. Headquartered in suburban Kansas City, Perceptive Software's creative and innovative work environment promotes collaboration and teamwork among employees. During four consecutive years (2003-2007), the company was named one of Kansas City's Best Places to Work based on employee responses to a survey conducted by the Kansas City Business Journal. |
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Sebastian de Halleux Co-Founder & CEO |
| Playfish is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social games companies. The company combines creativity, innovation and originality to create games for friends to play together over social platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo!, iPhone and iPod Touch. Playfish's mission is to change the way people play games by providing more social and connected experiences. Each of the company's seven games has been a top 10 hit on Facebook, including Pet Society, which is the platform's most popular game and loved by more than 11 million people every month. Playfish is backed by Accel Partners and Index Ventures, and has offices in London, San Francisco, Beijing and Tromso, Norway. | |
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Paul Auvil Chief Financial Officer |
| Proofpoint, Inc. provides SaaS and on-premises solutions for email security, email archiving, email encryption and data loss prevention. Proofpoint solutions use the latest advances in cloud computing, virtualization and machine learning technologies to stop spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information, encrypt sensitive emails and to archive messages for retention, e-discovery and easier mailbox management. | |
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Konrad Feldman Co-Founder & CEO |
| Quantcast is a new breed of audience service, focused on helping buyers and sellers quantify the real-time characteristics of digital media consumers against which they can activate addressable advertising solutions. Quantcast provides publishers, marketers and agencies unmatched capabilities to measure, organize, discover and transact based on directly-measured traffic and inferred audience data. Unlike other audience measurement services, Quantcast is based on inference modeling which combines directly-measured traffic data from Quantified Publishers with a variety of sample-based audience reference points. The data volumes powering Quantcast's services are dramatically larger than traditional panel-based audience approaches - with over 150 billion new media consumption events being logged and processed monthly. The result is the ability to deliver rich audience-based profiles, near real-time, for media assets with as few as just a few hundred unique viewers. Quantcast was launched in 2006 by a team of engineers and mathematicians committed to advancing the digital media industry. For more information, visit www.quantcast.com. |
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James G. Beldock President & CEO |
| ShotSpotter, Inc. is the leading developer of mission-essential acoustic surveillance systems. Its flagship product, the ShotSpotter Gunshot Location System® (GLS), pioneered the use of wide-area acoustic surveillance coupled with audio analytics for public safety, homeland security, and military applications. Our customers rely on the ShotSpotter GLS to provide them with acoustic event awareness and accurate actionable intelligence to aid their development of proactive anti-crime strategies and operations. Currently, 41 cities and counties nationwide, use ShotSpotter GLS data and analytics to drive intelligence-led policing and targeted tactical anti-crime operations and programs. Customers consistently credit the ShotSpotter GLS with producing arrests and weapons confiscations. | |
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Jeff Weiser Head of Strategy and Analytics |
| SGN is the largest developer of social mobile networking games and applications. SGN's current stable of advanced games has generated more than 12 million downloads on the iPhone and iPod Touch. iBowl, the company's most successful game, was recently named #6 on Apple's Top 20 Apps of All Time list and has 24% market share on the iPhone and iPod Touch. | |
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Jim Marshall President & CEO |
| Spectrum K12 School Solutions Inc. is the leading provider of special education and IEP software serving 11% of the U.S. K-12 student population including 20 of the top 100 school districts. Our patented software and professional development has influenced the learning in districts representing more than 5 million students in 29 states. We bring together critical resources from technology, business, and education as we focus on Response to Intervention (RTI), IDEA compliance, Medicaid recovery, process engineering and outcome tracking for the K-12 marketplace. Spectrum K12 helps school districts close the achievement gap for special education and at-risk students through more effective management of the individualized learning process for all students receiving special services or interventions. Working collaboratively with districts of all sizes, we deliver scalable, easy-to-use software solutions that lift the administrative burden from education professionals so they can focus on the most important part of their work: educating children and improving student achievement. |
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Paul Pluschkell Chief Executive Officer |
| Spigit is a purpose built social networking tool used by leading companies to connect their employees, customers and business partners for idea and innovation discovery. By employing game theory, currency, idea trading, rewards, and rich dynamic reporting Spigit allows you to get the most out of your key assets. | |
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Ed Evans Chief Executive Officer |
| Stelera Wireless was formed two years ago to address the broadband needs of underserved and unserved towns in rural America. Long before any talk of stimulus bills, Stelera was developing a model and building a test bed in rural Texas. Using the latest high speed packet access technology for data only services, Stelera is delivering a customer experience far superior to either DSL or Cable Internet access at a very attractive price with the added benefit of mobility. Now, on the air for over a year, Stelera has exceeded all penetration estimates and has begun to build out network across its licensed area. Using AWS licenses acquired during the recent spectrum auction and low interest loans from the Department of Agriculture's Broadband Loan Program, Stelera will build 55 cities this year and over 100 more next year. The licenses we own today cover over 6 million potential customers. |
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Teemu Huuhtanen President, North America, Sulake Inc. |
| Habbo (www.habbo.com) is a richly colorful, multi-dimensional virtual community and game environment for teens. Users join by creating a fully-customized online character called a Habbo. From there, they can explore many public hangouts, play a variety of games, connect with friends, decorate their own hotel rooms, and have fun through creativity and self-expression. Since its launch in 2000 by Sulake, an interactive entertainment company that specializes in developing, publishing and distributing multiplayer online communities and games, Habbo sites have been introduced in 31 countries on six continents, with more than 129 million Habbo characters created and more than 11.7 million unique users each month. |
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Nick Magliato Chief Executive Officer |
| Trust Digital is the leading provider of enterprise mobility management software for government organizations and Global 2000 companies. IT organizations rely on Trust Digital's solution to cost-effectively secure, rapidly deploy and centrally manage their smartphones. Trust Digital simplifies how IT administrators and help desk specialists implement policies, assist users and enforce compliance for mobile applications. As mobile workers rush to get the latest devices like the Apple iPhone and Google Android, Trust Digital's Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) platform gives IT the ability to secure and centrally manage a variety of devices through audits and help desk capabilities, while blocking non-compliant smartphones from accessing a company's network. With a customer roster of over 125 enterprise organizations including major government agencies and healthcare providers, Trust Digital has helped organizations expand their use of mobile enterprise applications. |
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Tomas Isaksson Chief Executive Officer |
Venturi Wireless is the trusted leader in broadband data service optimization for mobile and wireless operators worldwide. Venturi optimization provides improved end-user experience and lower costs for network operators through:
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David Wright Chief Executive Officer |
| Verari Systems is an industry leading provider of energy efficient, high density and high availability blade-based storage and compute solutions for today's "green" data center. Verari offers a comprehensive suite of blade servers, blade storage, rackmount systems, modular data centers (i.e., containers) and object storage management systems that enable industry leading power efficiency, density and reliability with reduced operating expenses, maximum floor space utilization and the best TCO available. | |
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Doug Fieldhouse President & CEO |
| With headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and operations centers in Europe and China, Vesta has been an innovator and worldwide leader in electronic payment solutions since 1995. The company enables secure transactions for goods and services through a variety of channels, including the Internet, the phone, retail point of sale, and industry-leading mobile commerce applications. The company is the only one that can guarantee the transactions it processes. | |
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Robert Seaver Chief Executive Officer |
| Vivox is the leading provider of voice chat services for online games and virtual worlds. Supporting over 12 million users in more than 180 countries and delivering over 2 billion minutes of voice chat per month, the Vivox Network is the world's largest voice network for gamers. Through a unique mix of technology, expertise and unique functionality, Vivox provides high quality voice chat to gamers wherever they play on multiple platforms - PC, MAC, PS3, browser or mobile device. Advanced functionality and revenue building features, such as voice fonts and audio ad delivery, allow games to grow revenue as well as build their communities. Vivox is strengthening community, increasing reach and growing revenue for its customers including CCP Games, Icarus Studios, Linden Lab, NCsoft, Realtime Worlds, Sony Online Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast. |
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Christopher Cabrera Founder, President & CEO |
| Xactly Corporation is the market leader in on-demand sales performance management. The company's flagship product, Xactly Incent, enables sales and finance executives to design, implement, manage, audit and optimize sales compensation management programs easily and affordably. Xactly helps companies improve operational performance, optimize sales effectiveness, proactively manage risk and compliance, and maximize profits. The Xactly family of products is used by sales and finance executives, compensation analysts, sales operations and sales professionals across a variety of industries, ranging from SMBs to large enterprises. For more information, visit www.xactlycorp.com or call 1-866-GO-XACTLY. | |
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John Kunze Chief Executive Officer |
| Xoom provides online money transfer services. The Company offers a range of options to send and receive money as cash pickup, bank deposits, and home delivery, as well as receive money in local currency or US dollars. The company enables individuals to send money from an Internet-enabled computer to friends, family, and businesses in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, and Vietnam. | |
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Jed Nachman VP of Sales |
| Yelp is a website that connects people with great local businesses. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in July 2004. Since then, Yelp communities have taken root in major metros across the US, Canada and the UK; Yelp drew an audience of more than 20 million unique visitors in March 2009. Yelpers have written more than 5.5 million local reviews, making Yelp the fastest growing US local guide for real word of mouth on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and dentists. | |
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Mark Pincus Founder and CEO |
| Zynga's mission is to connect the world through games. Launched in January 2008, Zynga is the #1 social gaming company and application developer across social networks. Combining a passion for technology, a love of games and a desire to play them with our friends, Zynga has created some of the most fun, social and contagious games on the web. Zynga has something for everyone: casino games, word games, board games, role playing games and party games which can be found on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, Hi5 and iPhone. | |