Our Investments

Current Portfolio

10gen
AMEE
Auxmoney
Boxee
Brewster
C2FO
Canvas
CircleUp
Codecademy
Coinbase
Covestor
Disqus
DuckDuckGo
Duolingo
Dwolla
Edmodo
Etsy
Flurry
Foursquare
Funding Circle
GetGlue
Hailo
Heyzap
Kickstarter
Kik
Kitchensurfing
Lending Club
Meetup
Return Path
Science Exchange
Shapeways
Sift Science
Simulmedia
Skillshare
SoundCloud
Stack Exchange
Targetspot
Tasty Labs
Tumblr
turntable
Twilio
Twitter
Wattpad
Work Market
YieldMo
YouNow
Zemanta

10gen

10gen sponsors the open source MongoDB project, and provides commercial support for MongoDB. MongoDB (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open-source, schema-free non-relational database. It brings together the best...
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AMEE

AMEE catalyses change in carbon emissions by providing benchmarks for measurement, tracking, collaboration and reporting. AMEE is complementary to and can facilitate smart grids, information systems, legislative frameworks...
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Auxmoney

Auxmoney is a two-sided, peer-to-peer marketplace for consumer credit. Anyone can invest into the platform, which enables German consumers to seek loans in amounts up to 20,000 Euros....
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Boxee

Boxee is the first social media center, an open-source software platform for entertainment across computers or traditional living room devices. Boxee's TV-like interface lets users enjoy personal videos,...
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Brewster

Brewster is your personalized address book that replaces the age-old A-to-Z contact list with one that understands your relationships. Brewster re-imagines what an address book should do for...
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C2FO

C2FO is the global market for working capital and risk-free profit. The C2FO market is the only working capital exchange that allows companies to optimize their working capital...
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Canvas

Canvas is a community platform for sharing and playing with media, built for modern web browsers. Canvas was founded in 2010 by Christopher Poole, and is based in...
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CircleUp

CircleUp is an online marketplace where accredited investors find free access to select private investments, easy tools to identify and diligence companies, and online transaction capability to make...
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Codecademy

Codecademy was created out of the frustrations Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski felt with learning how to program. Tired with less effective text and video resources, Ryan and...
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Coinbase

Coinbase is a platform that makes it easy for consumers and merchants to use the digital currency Bitcoin. This includes ease in buying and selling of Bitcoin, secure...
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Covestor

Covestor, an SEC-registered investment advisor, provides the world's largest online Investment Management platform. It offers a managed account service, previously only available to those with millions of dollars...
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Disqus

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...
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DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a general purpose search engine that is intended to be your starting place when searching the Internet. DuckDuckGo was solo-founded by Gabriel Weinberg in February 2008...
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Duolingo

With Duolingo you learn a language for free while helping to translate the Web. Duolingo was started by Luis von Ahn and Severin Hacker in order to remove...
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Dwolla

Dwolla is a new payment network that works with your financial institution to offer a cheaper, safer, and overall better payment experience. The company was founded in 2008...
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Edmodo

Edmodo is a social learning network for teachers, students, schools and districts. Edmodo provides free classroom communication for teachers, students and administrators on a secure social network. Started...
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Etsy

Etsy is an online marketplace which focuses primarily on buying and selling handmade items. The site was launched in June of 2005 and the company is based in...
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Flurry

Flurry offers cutting-edge analytics, deployment and monetization tools for mobile application developers. Its services platform is offered free to application developers allowing them to better save money, increase...
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Foursquare

Foursquare is a mobile application that helps you find new ways to explore your city. foursquare helps you meet up with your friends and lets you earn points...
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Funding Circle

Funding Circle is an online marketplace to help businesses find fast finance, and investors get better returns. There are no middlemen, no banks, and no lengthy delays. Instead,...
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GetGlue

GetGlue is a social network for entertainment, with more than 10M new unique ratings and check-ins for tv shows, movies, music and books every month. GetGlue users rate...
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Hailo

Founded by three taxi drivers and three internet entrepreneurs, Hailo is a mobile application and taxi driver community that enables passengers to hail a licensed taxi with just...
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Heyzap

Heyzap is building the largest community of mobile gamers. Heyzap was founded by Jude Gomila and Immad Akhund in January 2009 and is based in San Francisco, CA...
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Kickstarter

Kickstarter is a platform for funding creative projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, food, publishing and more. The site was launched in late April...
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Kik

Kik Interactive is all about sharing and connecting. Kik Messenger is a cross-platform application that allows real-time instant messaging for individuals and groups, as well as photo sharing....
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Kitchensurfing

Launched in March of 2012, Kitchensurfing is an online marketplace that connects cooks of all kinds with people who love to eat. Whether it's dinner for two or...
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Lending Club

Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors so that both can benefit financially. Lending Club opened in 2007 with one...
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Meetup

Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting...
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Return Path

Since 1999, Return Path has helped some of the world's most successful companies use email more effectively. They began with the notion that there was a better way...
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Science Exchange

Science Exchange is a community marketplace for scientists to list, discover, access and pay for scientific services from institutions around the world. Science Exchange was created by a...
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Shapeways

Shapeways is the world's leading 3D printing marketplace and community. The startup harnesses 3D printing to help anyone make and share their designs with the world, making product...
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Sift Science

Sift Science uses advanced machine learning to predict various types of payments fraud, such as when a user will be likely to cause a chargeback because of a...
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Simulmedia

Simulmedia is a New York City-based media marketing company dedicated to improving the effectiveness of program promotion on television. The company is pioneering the development of predictive technology...
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Skillshare

Skillshare is a community marketplace to learn anything from anyone. The company was founded in 2010 by Michael Karnjanaprakorn and Malcolm Ong and is based in New York...
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SoundCloud

SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals that makes sharing & receiving music simple and efficient. SoundCloud puts your sound at the heart of communities, websites...
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Stack Exchange

Stack Exchange is a network of more than 100 question-and-answer sites on diverse topics from programming to photography and gaming. Each site is committed to providing a forum...
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Targetspot

Targetspot is the largest internet radio advertising network, delivering high-impact, targeted and measurable advertisements across top-tier distribution partners such as CBS RADIO, AOL Radio, Yahoo LAUNCHcast, Entercom, Saga...
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Tasty Labs

Tasty Labs is building social software that's designed to be useful. The company was founded by Joshua Schachter, Nick Nguyen, and Paul Rademacher and is based in Mountain...
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Tumblr

Tumblr is a web service that enables simple creation of a tumblelog. A tumblelog is a short-form blog that often consists of mixed media and multiple posts that...
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turntable

turntable lets you play music together with your friends and other people online. Each DJ takes a turn playing a song and the entire virtual room hears the...
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Twilio

Twilio provides a web-service API for businesses to build scalable, reliable communication apps....
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Twitter

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...
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Wattpad

Wattpad is the world's largest community for discovering and sharing stories. It's a new form of collaborative entertainment that connects readers and writers across all genres of creative...
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Work Market

Work Market is an online marketplace that allows employers and workers to connect and get work done. The company is the latest startup founded by serial entrepreneur Jeff Leventhal and...
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YieldMo

YieldMo (previously Hashable) recently pivoted into a mobile advertising technology platform. The company is focused on native mobile ads. YieldMo was founded by Mike Yavonditte....
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YouNow

YouNow is a social television platform allowing anyone to broadcast live, in front of an audience, from any webcam or mobile device. The programming is curated by the...
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Zemanta

Zemanta is a service that's focused on helping the blogger/content creator make the process of creating their content simpler and easier. As you write, Zemanta processes all of...
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Past Investments

Behance

Behance is empowering the creative world with the leading online platform to showcase and discover creative work. Designers and other creatives from across industries use Behance to gain...
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Bug Labs

Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without...
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Clickable

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...
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Delicious

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...
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FeedBurner

FeedBurner (acquired by Google), founded in 2003, enables bloggers, podcasters and commercial publishers such as Reuters and USA TODAY to reach millions of subscribers in more than 190...
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Indeed

Indeed is a search engine for jobs. In one search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from hundreds of websites. Indeed.com includes all...
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InfoNgen

InfoNgen 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...
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Oddcast

Oddcast is the leader in user-personalized viral marketing. The company provides end-to-end solutions powered by proprietary video, photo, voice and avatar web service platform, enabling brands to amplify...
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Outside.in

Outside.in (acquired by AOL) is the leading hyperlocal content and advertising platform used by millions of consumers and thousands of local bloggers and publishers each month. Outside.in monitors...
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Tacoda

TACODA (acquired by AOL) was founded in April of 2001 by David Morgan, the founder and former CEO of Real Media. Since late 2002, TACODA has provided software...
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Tasty Labs

Tasty Labs is building social software that's designed to be useful. The company was founded by Joshua Schachter, Nick Nguyen, and Paul Rademacher and is based in Mountain...
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Wesabe

Wesabe was an easy-to-use, web-based tool that gave members a better understanding of how they spend money. The Wesabe community shared tips and advice to help each other...
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Zynga

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...
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