current portfolio

adMarketplace is the largest alternative search network in the US. Since 2003, adMarketplace‘s platform has optimized premium Pay Per Click traffic for over 100,000 advertisers while maximizing yield across more than 350,000 web properties. adMarketplace is offered as a managed service to large marketers and agencies and as a self-serve service to advertisers of all sizes.

chloe + isabel is a dynamic and socially innovative jewelry brand designed to connect women through a modern-day social-shopping experience. A destination for fashion-loving, creative and confident women, chloe + isabel believes that today’s women deserve jewelry as exceptional as they are.

Clarity is a web service that makes it easy for anyone to get great advice from those who’ve been successful in the past. Never before has it been this easy to seek out qualified advisors and connect with them over the phone in a fashion that respects the value of a person’s time.

Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools. Edmodo provides classrooms a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate, offering a real-time platform to exchange ideas, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices.

Empire Avenue is an influence stock exchange that makes social media fun – and measurable – by tying users’ virtual share price on the site to activity, reach and engagement on external social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and blogs. The more active and influential a user is on the site and around the web, the higher their virtual share price. And as a starter, you can always buy my stock!

Escapio is a leading booking platform for selected hotels. With a selection of exceptional, hand-picked hotels, Escapio provides the consumer the necessary guidance to find the absolutely best hotels in hundreds of locations (check out their hotel selections for Berlin, London or Florence).

Flurry is the number one mobile application analytics solution that helps developers understand exactly how their applications are used so that they make them better and earn more money. Flurry emerged from the merger of Flurry and PinchMedia in December 2009.

Frank & Oak gives modern men a simple and personalized way to shop for clothes online. Founded in February 2012 by serial entrepreneurs Ethan Song and Hicham Ratnani, the vertically integrated brand designs, manufactures, and sells Frank & Oak premium clothing and accessories.

GroupTalent is a talent-as-a-service platform that matches corporate projects and hiring managers with proven technical team members on-demand, filling positions in days that have often been sitting open for months.

GrowLab is an early-stage, startup accelerator. It provides entrepreneurs with seed funding, office space and four months of intensive mentorship through a global network of successful startup veterans.

IndieGoGo is the world’s leading self-serve open-funding platform. Anyone in the world with a dream to make their idea a reality can easily create a campaign to raise money, offer perks and maintain 100 percent ownership.

Indochino is the only online fast fashion provider of tailor made formal wear. Through its close partnerships with Chinese tailors the company can produce hand-tailored and custom-made men suits at prices well below normal retail prices.

Instacanvas is a marketplace allowing users to buy and sell Instagram photos as canvas art. The company is one of the fastest growing startups in Southern California.

Jobber is a business management software for the field service industries that allows businesses such as landscapers, painters or contract cleaners to easily manage their business from any web browser. The product offers CRM capabilities, task and calendar management, job tracking, crew scheduling, automated quoting, invoicing and more.

Julep is social commerce company that creates innovative and healthy nail polishes, hand and foot care products. Julep is also a community of women celebrating other women in unison and inspiring each other.

RewardLoop is a universal consumer loyalty network for the mobile age. Its patent-pending customer loyalty technology, which prints secure, transaction-identifying rewards program barcodes (QR codes) on bills and receipts, can measurably increase revenue 5% or more for independent and chain merchants.

SilkStart helps membership organizations grow and succeed by giving them a complete SaaS solution of membership management, events management, and private social networking.

Smore makes it easy for anyone to create beautiful, effective online flyers — highly designed single-page websites with a clear purpose, like marketing an app, promoting an event or selling a product. The company’s vision is to bring great design and professional marketing tools to the mass market.

Suite101.com is the preferred choice for freelance writers who want to build their publishing careers and reach out to over 30 million monthly readers. With 10 years online, over 100,000 articles and 700 professional, paid contract writers, Suite101 is dedicated to delivering quality expertise and writing increasingly rare in the online world.

Talentbuddy is a friendly, fast and reliable way to test software engineers. Companies use it to improve the quality of candidates that make it to the in-person interview while reducing the amount of time that their engineers must invest in the hiring process.

TeamPages is an online tool for parents, coaches, and athletes of amateur sports teams that helps all participants stay in touch with each other and keep up to date with the team’s schedule of games and events. TeamPages also provides registration and communication solutions for leagues and clubs.

Techvibes is “Techcrunch for Canada” and provides blog coverage for all Canadian technology communities. The site also offers its users an efficient way to learn about company news, local events and job opportunities.

tindie is a marketplace for makers to buy and sell their creations. It is like a 21st century online crafts fair connecting the world’s small, hardware businesses with customers all over the world.

Top Hat Monocle is the leading mobile classroom participation provider, making the classroom experience competitive, rewarding and active for students in almost 200 universities worldwide by turning students’ cell phones and laptops into tools for in-class learning.

Tripsbytips is one of the leading German-language travel communities (Reise-Community) with tens of thousands of travel tips, hotel reviews, restaurant critiques, travel blogs and photos posted by travel enthusiasts, allowing users to get real travel advice from fellow travelers.

Unbounce is a self-serve hosted service that provides marketers doing paid search, banner ads, email or social media marketing, the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages without the need for IT or developers.

Vivity Labs develops life-relevant gaming experiences across multiple platforms, including Mobile, Web and Social. They create top-quality casual brain games and lifestyle technologies that push the envelope and make a difference in people’s lives.

Wattpad is the best place to discover and share stories. It is a new form of entertainment where you can interact and share stories across text, video, images and through conversations with other readers and writers. Call it the YouTube of books.

Weddingful is the premier directory of wedding vendors that helps brides find and connect with the best vendor for their wedding and provides qualified leads to those vendors.

Yapta was founded in January 2006 with the mission to assure consumers that they get the most value out of their trip planning and pay the lowest possible price for airline tickets. Yapta’s online service monitors airfare price volatility and alerts consumers when the price on “tagged” flights decreases.