Investments

Citrusleaf was founded in 2009 by database and networking industry veterans to build an optimal data storage and management system to handle the vast volumes of data created by the Internet age. Citrusleaf delivers reliability, linear scalability and exceptional real-time performance for high volume, data intensive web-scale and mobile businesses. Citrusleaf is in production use today, powering user-data storage solutions for real-time bidding for digital advertising. Common deployments are terabytes of data, billions of objects, and 100K- plus transactions per second with sub-millisecond latency.

Cleversafe offers a secure, reliable, cost-effective data storage solution that scales to exabytes and beyond today. With Cleversafe’s model, data is sliced and dispersed across servers. As a result, there’s no data redundancy. Cleversafe’s slice-and-disperse technology delivers significantly higher levels of confidentiality, data integrity and availability than existing architectures. Since only a predefined threshold of slices is needed to retrieve the data, individual servers or entire locations can be down—and data can still be accessed. And because data is sliced and scrambled, the data is inherently private and secure. In fact, access to individual slices doesn’t compromise the original content. And only you are in control of reassembling data.

Crowdcast is a leader in Enterprise Collective Intelligence. The company's product aggregates a company's team intelligence to deliver insight and unbiased forecasts related to their projects and initiatives. The company uss a combination of prediction markets and discussion forums to highlight risks and opportunities earlier, enabling a more agile, efficient organization.

Dijit Media is creating the ultimate second screen experience for watching TV. The company¹s first product, the Dijit Universal Remote and TV Show Guide App is available for iOS and Android devices, and transforms smartphones and tablets into easy-to-use personalized remote controls and TV program listings. The App also enables Social TV features, integrated program search, filtering, and discovery, as well as lookups from Netflix, Wikipedia and YouTube, and more coming soon. Dijit Media is a San Francisco-based venture-backed startup. The app is available for download at www.dijit.com.

Eat Metrics is developing a system that allows brick and mortar retail businesses to calculate and improve the lifetime value of their customers. The system connects customer acquisition strategies to in-store transactions and delivers analytics and automated tools to improve return rate.

Elastic Intelligence provides data access, integration, and reporting as a service. It hosts a variety of easy-to-use reporting and analytics tools that take the place of the query languages, report writers, connectivity software and other capabilities that work for the enterprise data that is scattered across disparate SaaS providers. With Demand Reports – our SaaS reporting solution – it’s easy to securely connect, extract, and analyze information from your hosted applications.

Framehawk products enable your customers, employees, partners and clients to engage in fully mobile business (with 100% data security and full access management) using the iPad/iPhone, the XOOM/DROID, and any other tablet or smartphone. We allow access to your applications and websites from any mobile device instantly, enabling them to run effectively anywhere there is the barest minimum of a 3G wireless network connection.

FunSockets is creating a SaaS platform for multiplayer gaming, using HTML5 as the basis for providing game developers broader access to customers and for providing users the opportunity to play games with other people regardless of which device(s) they use to play the games.

Gowalla is a location-based social network. Gowalla helps you keep up with friends, share your favorite places and discover the extraordinary around you. Users "check in" at Spots in their local vicinity, either through a dedicated mobile application or through the mobile website. As a reward users will sometimes receive virtual "items" from check-ins.

GridSpeak Corporation provides the wholesale electricity market with a workflow, transactions, and analytics platform that enables the most cost effective management of real-time physical and virtual electricity acquisition, delivery, bidding and trading.

iControl started with intelligent sensors and ended up with integrated product suite that provides an adaptive, multimode communications architecture and products for worldwide tracking and monitoring of remote assets. This enables "Anytime, Anywhere" Asset Visibility and Tracking.

Justin.tv is the largest live video site in the world with an audience of over 30 million viewers who watch more than 60 million hours of video per month. Recently, Justin.tv has expanded to take on two new challenges: Socialcam - the easiest way to share mobile videos with friends and TwitchTV - the largest competitive video gaming broadcast network in the world.

Kidlandia is developing a digital playground for kids -- safe, secure, and delightful. The company's mission is to delight, inspire, and connect kids and families wherever they play. Kidlandia provides customers with their own personalized worlds through an ecosystem of physical and electronic media that tell “the story of you” and increase confidence and self-worth. A leader in the virtual-to-real market, Kidlandia’s innovative personalized entertainment platform engages the imagination through nurturing play, creativity, and interaction with family and friends. Founded in 2008, Kidlandia’s team of talented engineers, designers, and business professionals share a passion to bring delight and meaning to the lives of children and their families.

Moonshoot has developed a system to teach English to children in countries where that is a priority. The company’s mission is to spark English language learning in children everywhere. It launched its service in Japan in May 2010, and is planning to launch in China in Fall 2011. Moonshoot makes learning English fun and exciting for children by using online educational games, based on curriculum developed by an Advisory Board of Professors from Stanford University, MIT, and University of Hawaii. The children also connect with English Teachers on-line to review and practice their english speaking. Moonshoot’s first release starts with a concrete goal of helping young child 4-7 build a vocabulary of 600 words, 200 phrases, that will enable them to read up to 50 classic children’s books. In China the curriculum will also address children 7-11 and align with the educational standards set by the Ministry of Education for learning English. Moonshoot's approach is engage the children in a fun exciting on-line world, then immerse them in the words and phrases that they will need, to successfully master English. An assessment engine lets the student and parent know how they are doing at any time.

Ness Computing launched its first app in late August, 2011, called Ness, on the iPhone. Ness gets to know its users well enough that it can recommend restaurants that the user is likely to want to go to, based on proximity, prior restaurants, and tastes as well as the tastes of their social graph. The company will expand its system to recommend other activities like nightlife, shopping, concerts, and so forth.

Net Power & Light is a stealth company based in the Presidio of San Francisco.

Netwitness developed and sold an advanced monitoring platform that provided actionable intelligence about security of networks. NetWitness solve a wide range of challenging information security problems including: insider threats, zero-day exploits and targeted malware, advanced persistent threats, fraud, espionage, data leakage, and continuous monitoring of security controls. Alsop Louie Partners was an investor in the SeriesA round of financing for the company. The company was sold the RSA subisidiary of EMC Corp. in June, 2011.

NewMentor started life as a services company that curated highly reliable medical information. The company has grown into a leading medical information solutions provider to the healthcare industry. The company is currently focused on transforming vast resources of medical literature and evidence-based guidelines into customized, manageable healthcare information solutions through rigorous application of subject matter expertise, editorial processes, and technology.

Next Big Sound is the leading provider of online music analytics and insights, tracking hundreds of thousands of artists across all major web properties (YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Last.fm etc.). For the first time, professionals in the music industry can track an artist's popularity through web traffic, unit sales and radio data alongside social media networks to measure results and gain actionable insight. The Next Big Sound Premier platform allows the measurement and granular visualization of fan density, sales and site traffic in powerful graphs, by geographic region, as well as weekly email reports to help inform decisions. Next Big Sound works with a variety of businesses ranging from the world's largest record labels to independents, marketing agencies and managers.

Phizzle is a mobile marketing technology company providing audience engagement solution to grow fan loyalty, drive monetization and harness brand equity. Only Phizzle has the unique combination of tools that enhance your brand through real-time, mobile interaction. Partnering with digital and media agencies, publishers, wireless carriers and brand advertisers, Phizzle delivers an array of mobile advertising solutions.

With extensive industry experience servicing brand-name sports franchises such as the New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers; entertainment venues such as the world-renowned Madison Square Garden, broadcast companies such as Fox Sports Net, retail establishments such as the prestigious Westfield Shopping Centers and mobile carriers, Phizzle is the provider of choice to boost mobile marketing programs.

In a world where everyone is mobile and brands require more from their marketing campaigns, Phizzle creates an effective, easy and simple solution for brand engagement and interaction -- anytime, anywhere.

Qwhisper makes sense of users’ social content and lets them explore it in new and intuitive ways. Qwhisper is just beginning to reveal what it is working on to the public.

Redux leverages the talents of your friends, interesting curators, and influencers to help you discover entertainment you’ll love.

Resilient Network Systems has built a nationwide Trust Network, enabling secure, sensitive information to move freely around the Internet while giving the owner of the information control over its access and use. Resilient's three software products – an Access Server to allow information and applications to connect to the Trust Network, a Trust Broker to enforce policies and an Identity Broker to resolve identities in real-time -- work together to create a safer and more trusted open platform for Internet communication and commerce.

Ribbit Inc. developed a reliable, scaleable platform for managing mobile voice communications on the existing PTT infrastructure. The company was sold to BT Corp. (formerly known as British Telecommunications) in May 2008. Alsop Louie Partners was the Series A investor in the company in 2006.

Ruckus Media Group is a family entertainment company focusing on the development of interactive storybooks that encourage young imaginations to grow. Launched in September 2010, Ruckus is home to 20 mobile storybook applications, including Spot the Dot by pop-up legend and best-selling author, David A. Carter; Best App award finalist, A Present for Milo; and The Velveteen Rabbit: told by Meryl Streep. In addition to original and classic interactive stories, Ruckus has established key partnerships with several high profile intellectual property companies, including Hasbro (My Little Pony, Transformers Prime, Chuck and Friends) and Rabbit Ears (Pecos Bill: told by Robin Williams, John Henry: told by Dezel Washington) to create a new and distinctive mobile family entertainment brand. The company is in the process of developing a breakthrough learning platform.

Smith & Tinker refocused on mobile iOS game development in 2010 and announcing a licensing agreement with Marvel. The recently released KAPOW! lets players take on the role of Wolverine, Spiderman, Thor and others to fight villain bots like Magneto and Dr. Doom. Smith & Tinker plans to build a portfolio of mobile game franchises from licenses, but will also continue to develop games unique to Smith & Tinker.

Sportgenic aggregated web sites covering individual sports, such as running, traithlon, or golf, into a specialized ad network that provided sports and consumer products brands unique access to an enthusiastic audience. The company was acquired by Glam Media in 2008.

TopSchool built the first SaaS student administrative system in higher education to address the key aspects of the student lifecycle. The company's Student Lifecycle Management (SLM) system goes beyond the capabilities of traditional college student information systems, and includes a customizable student portal, easy-to-use CRM and SIS components, and an intelligent reporting suite. Institutions can easily manage all student information from recruiting through retention in a central location, and they can deliver more student services more efficiently. The TopSchool system gives student-centric institutions the power to direct their own administrative tools, empowering them to drive growth, reduce costs and meet accountability requirements.

Zephyr wants to measure life anywhere. The Bio Harness™ measures critical vital signs (ECG, heart rate, breathing rate, skin temperature ) and contextualizes the information with the individual’s physical activity, using an accelerometer (activity and posture). Smart Fabric sensors are comfortable to wear and available in strap or clothing form. Radio interfaces such as smart phones and tactical radios transmit the data to those who care and need to make critical decisions based on an individual’s physiological status.