Portfolio

AdaptiveBlue builds tools to enhance the browsing experience. By leveraging a top-down approach to the semantic web, AdaptiveBlue maps web pages to semantic objects, which are used to increase efficiency, offer contextually relevant actions, and aid memory. The company was founded in 2006 by Alex Iskold. Alex is the founder of Information Laboratory (acquired by IBM) and a contributor at Read/Write Web.

Bug Labs is developing BUG, an open, modular, consumer electronics web services + hardware platform. Designed for the general audience, not just the technically inclined, Bug seeks to bring to the world of hardware gadgets what the Internet, open source, XML and web services have brought to the world of software and media. The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Semmelhack, the founder of Antenna Software.

Clickable is an online solution that makes creating and managing online advertising simple and effective. Clickable provides an intuitive interface to view search marketing performance across a broad range of networks, including Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter and others. With Clickable, advertisers are empowered to self-manage their ad buying, yielding transformational results. Clickable was co-founded by David Kidder and Munish Gandhi.

Covestor allows its members to create public, verifiable track records from public equity trading data. Using this trading data, members can follow high performers' trades and replicate their portfolio. Covestor was founded by Rikki Tahta and has offices in London and New York.

Disqus gives publishers a better way to manage comments while also making comments more interactive and engaging for readers. Disqus was created by Big Head Labs, which was founded by Daniel Ha and Jason Yan, and is based in San Francisco.

Etsy is an online marketplace which focuses primarily on buying and selling handmade items. The site was launched in June of 2005 by a small team of passionate programmers. Etsy grants sellers their own personal storefronts where they may list items for a small fee and showcase their handcrafted goods.

Indeed is a search engine for jobs - with a radically different approach to job search. In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from hundreds of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages - and we continue to add new sites every day.

With the familiar look and feel of general search engines, Indeed makes it easy for you to drill down by keyword and location to jobs that fit your requirements precisely. You may save your searches and have jobs delivered to you by email alert, MyYahoo, or other RSS feed readers. If you have a MyYahoo account, for example, your saved Indeed job search may be added at the click of a button.

Instant Information is a financial information services company providing collaborative solutions to the financial industry. The management team includes the founders of Multex, whose highly regarded offerings helped to redefine the financial information and research marketplace. Instant Informations' new product - TouchPoint - offers an innovative approach to connecting financial professionals to the ideas, information, analytics, and individuals they depend on effectively and efficiently.

Oddcast develops and distributes avatar (conversational character) software products. Oddcast's core technology, the VHost™, enables companies to improve business results and consumers to communicate using customizable talking avatars. The Oddcast VHost™ platform is the industry-leading solution, serving over 5,000 businesses and millions of consumers worldwide. All of Oddcast's products are Web-based, ASP-hosted and can be delivered to any device in low or high bandwidth environments. The company's partners and clients include Coca-Cola, CBS, ESPN, ICQ and McDonalds.

Outside.in is a way to discover the conversations that are going on in a neighborhood—whether that's where you live, where you work, or where you want to be. Outside.in delivers local knowledge by leveraging local sources of information such as placeblogs, town papers, and geotagged blog posts. Steven Johnson, co-founder of Plastic and prominent author, launched Outside.in in October 2006.

Targetspot is an advertising platform that enables small businesses to advertise their products and services via Internet radio in a self-serve model. Ads can be targeted on a local or national scale. Doug Perlson is the founding CEO of Targetspot.

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging site that allows users to post their latest updates. An update is limited by 140 characters and can be posted through three methods: web form, text message, or instant message. Twitter was co-founded by Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone out of the offices of Obvious Corp in March of 2006. They are located in San Francisco, California.

Tumblr is a web service that easy to express yourself online in beautiful style. With Tumblr a user can create a tumblelog. A tumblelog is short-form blog that often consists of mixed media and multiple posts that flow together; the result is often a stream of consciousness of the author. Tumblr is located in New York, and the Founder and CEO is David Karp.

Founded in December 2005, Wesabe is an easy-to-use, web-based tool gives members a better understanding of how they spend money. The Wesabe community shares tips and advice to help each other make better financial decisions. Wesabe was co-founded by Jason Knight and Marc Hedlund and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Zynga is the largest social gaming company on the web. They build games that run inside social networks and leverage the social graphs that users have already built in social networks to let users play against their real friends online instead of strangers. Zynga was founded by Mark Pincus in 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Del.icio.us (Acquired by Yahoo!) was created in 2003 by Joshua Schachter as a way to organize and share his online content consumption. After opening up the service to allow other users to do the same, the service grew to 100,000 users. Del.icio.us, the leading “social bookmarking” service, allows users to “tag” websites, categorizing them with their own personal descriptions. Since the tags are public, any user can discover new content by searching the aggregated list of links associated with any tag in the system, as well as subscribe to it via RSS. Tagging is quickly becoming a widely used method for navigation and discovery on the web.

FeedBurner , founded in 2003, enables bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers such as Reuters and USA TODAY to reach millions of subscribers in more than 190 countries. FeedBurner’s advanced feed management technology delivers subscription services for publishers large and small to grow their reach, measure their audience and monetize their content. The company is headquartered in Chicago with resellers in Europe and Asia.

TACODA was founded in April of 2001 by David Morgan, the founder and former CEO of Real Media. Since late 2002, TACODA has provided software and services to media companies to enable them to target advertising based on consumer behavior on their web sites. Today, TACODA serves 35 media companies with over 2700 Web sites reaching over 75% of the US Internet audience. In late 2004 TACODA shifted its focus from providing software and services to media companies to offering behaviorally targeted advertising directly to marketers through its network of media partners.