INVESTMENTS

  • Acquia
  • Acquia
    Acquia provides value-added software products and services for the Drupal social publishing system. With over two million downloads since inception, Drupal is used by web developers worldwide to build compelling websites. Diverse organizations use Drupal as their core social publishing system, including media companies, non-profit organizations, and publishers.
  • AMEE
  • AMEE
    AMEE is a web-based service (API) that combines measurement, calculation, profiling and transactional systems, representing emissions data from 150 countries and regions. As a neutral data aggregation platform, AMEE’s vision is to enable the measurement of the “Carbon Footprint” of everything on Earth. AMEE aims to assist with the development of energy and carbon as a global currency, assisting governments and companies that need to account for and trade internationally in CO2 emissions.
  • bit.ly
  • Bit.ly
    Bit.ly is an URL shortener that allows users to share and track links. It is available on the web, through bookmarklets, and via an open API. When users share URLs with bit.ly, they're able to view real-time traffic to their links, analyze location and referrer data, and track statistics and trends.
  • Chumby
  • Chumby Industries
    Chumby Industries was birthed at O'Reilly's FOO camp in the summer of 2005 by alpha geeks who wanted to create a WiFi enabled device for the consumer market. The Chumby device acts like a clock radio, but is designed to be open, flexible and hackable. It uses the wireless Internet connection to fetch cool widgets (like Flickr photos, clocks, news information and video podcasts) from the Chumby web site.
  • Devver
  • Devver
    Devver offers cloud-based testing and code quality tools to agile software teams. By running code on many computers at once, Devver can assess the quality of code many times faster than existing tools that run on single computers. In addition, Devver is building features that will reduce setup and configuration time, enable easy scheduling, generate rich reports, and make it simple to share data between local and distributed team members. Devver's tools significantly enhance developers' productivity by enabling them to code more and wait less.
  • Foursquare
  • Foursquare
    Foursquare is a mobile application that helps its users keep-up with their friends while using game mechanics to encourage and reward users for experiencing new things. It possesses elements of friend-finder, social city-guide, social-game, all of which harnessed in a single application. At the heart of Foursquare is the concept of "checking-in", a process whereby a user opts-in and actively shares his location information to earn points and badges. Foursquare is a service for finding friends, navigating the city and rewarding oneself for discovering bars, restaurants, venue tips & recommendations.
  • Good Data
  • Good Data
    Good Data enables businesses to perform data analytics in real-time through a secured space where teams can access, share and collaborate on the data that drives their business. By combining the reach of Web 2.0 with cloud computing, Good Data is delivering for its customers a new generation of collaborative analytics via an online business intelligence platform built entirely on the cloud.
  • GameLayers
  • Grouply
    Grouply instantly and automatically upgrades Yahoo Groups, Google Groups and other old-style email lists and message boards into modern online communities, providing group members and managers with a consolidated, improved interface to all their groups. Grouply adds time-saving and social features to help users keep up with their groups more efficiently and get to know fellow group members better.
  • Instructables
  • Instructables
    Instructables is a service for showcasing and collaborating on DIY projects ranging from home improvement to hardware hacking, and crafting to cooking. The Instructables community is a growing group of passionate people who share what they do and how they do it. Instructables aims to become the de facto platform and marketplace for the DIY economy.
  • Local Dirt
  • Local Dirt
    Local Dirt is an online local food marketplace that enables farms, farmer markets, distributors, restaurants and consumers to buy and sell "value-added", non-commodity agricultural products.
  • Open Candy
  • OpenCandy
    The OpenCandy network enables software creators to recommend other software they believe deserves more visibility and/or might be a great fit for their users. Software creators can also make their applications available to be recommended by others, increasing their distribution. The software in our network and the recommendation experience is held to a high bar of quality, user experience and security standards.
  • OpenX
  • OpenX
    OpenX is the world's most popular adserver with the the web's largest community of ad space owners. Tens of thousands of websites use OpenX to make money from online advertising. Publishers get complete control of banners and campaigns along with a highly sophisticated tracking system for gathering statistics, all from the one simple screen interface.
  • Parakey
  • Parakey
    Parakey eliminates the complexity of the operating system's file system by reimaging the computing experience. (Acquired by Facebook)
  • Path Intelligence
  • Path Intelligence
    Path Intelligence uses open source, software defined radios to gather data from and interact with mobile devices in new and innovative ways. Their first product, FootPath, monitors foot traffic flow on behalf of property owners and retailers to provide detailed analytics that significantly impact advertising, retail layout, shopping center tenancy mix, and even building design.
  • Satisfaction
  • Get Satisfaction
    Get Satisfaction is people-powered customer service for everything! It's a Web service that cultivates customer communities around companies and their products, providing businesses the tools to build stronger relationships with their customers and free them from repetitive support tasks. Get Satisfaction's open discussion-based system allows companies, their customers and partners to work together to answer questions, identify problems and bugs, share great ideas for how to make products better, and connect in unexpected ways.
  • TripIt
  • TripIt
    TripIt is an itinerary management service that helps travelers organize and share all the components of trip, no matter where they book. The TripIt "Itinerator" creates a master travel itinerary by processing all of the traveler's forwarded email booking confirmations. TripIt then helps travelers share their plans with friends, family and colleagues. Through its API, TripIt serves as an information platform for the travel industry. By enabling websites and applications to collaborate and share information in new ways, TripIt is creating an ecosystem of products and services designed to streamline and improve the travel experience.
  • Wesabe
  • Wesabe
    Wesabe provides a Web-based tool that gives members a better understanding of how they spend, and links them to a community dedicated to helping each other get more for their money. Wesabe aggregates and analyzes financial transaction data from members' bank and credit card accounts, and delivers customized, money-saving tips based on members' actual purchases. These tips come from other members, allowing everyone in the Wesabe community to benefit from its collective wisdom.

    Wesabe provides tools to automatically download users' financial information from their bank and credit card accounts, and securely sends that data to Wesabe, where it is stored privately. Individuals now have an clear view of their own spending, and can edit and tag (group into categories) their purchases. The edits made by community members benefit all of the participants, so that each person can take advantage of edits and tags that other people have entered. Members immediately see tips on how to get more for their money, matched to where they spend. Wesabe also has a 'goals' section, which allows members to share strategies and progress with people working towards a common financial goal.
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