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Blumberg Capital
Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with entrepreneurs to innovate and build technology companies. The firm specializes in leading Seed and Series A rounds collaborating with angel investors, other venture capital firms and strategic partners. Blumberg Capital is headquartered in San Francisco with team members in Tel Aviv, Miami, and New York. Blumberg Capital was founded in 1991 by David J. Blumberg. The firm's investments typically range from $500,000 to $5-million with additional amounts reserved for follow-on funding. Blumberg Capital invests in early stage capital efficient technology companies in North America, Israel and Europe which are automating the white collar economy by merging big data and artificial intelligence (AI), integrating IT and healthcare, transforming the automotive industry from a product to service, FinTech, PropTech, InsureTech, building data businesses with growing barriers to entry, such a marketplaces, orchestrating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CaseStack
CaseStack is an American company that provides supply chain management (SCM) services, including warehousing, transportation, and supply chain management software (SCMS) to consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs). It uses a proprietary software as a service platform for its collaborative retailer consolidation programs. CaseStack has been recognized in Food Logistics' Top 85 3PL Providers, Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies 100 Great Supply Chain Partners and Inbound Logistics' Top 100 3PL Providers. History CaseStack was founded in 1999 by former Procter & Gamble executive, Dan Sanker. CaseStack began with a headquarters based in Santa Monica, California, and added another in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2007. CaseStack offers three distinct technology editions for logistics services: a Transportation Edition for clients who outsource only transportation services; a Logistics Edition that includes warehousing; and an Enterprise Edition for clients who integrate with their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SQream DB
SQream is a relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) from Nvidia. SQream is designed for big data analytics using the Structured Query Language (SQL). History SQream is the first product from SQream Technologies Ltd, founded in 2010 by Ami Gal and Kostya Varakin in Tel Aviv, Israel. SQream was first released in 2014 after a partnership with an Orange S.A. in Silicon Valley. The company claimed Orange S.A. saved $6 million by using SQream in 2014. SQream is aimed at the budget multi-terabyte analytics market, due to its modest hardware requirements and use of compression. SQream is also the basis for a product named GenomeStack, for querying many DNA sequences simultaneously. A US$7.4M investment of venture capital was announced in June 2015. It is an example of general-purpose computing on graphics processing units, alongside Omnisci and Kinetica. The company applied for patents, encompassing parallel execution queries on mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parse
Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is the process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal grammar. The term ''parsing'' comes from Latin ''pars'' (''orationis''), meaning part (of speech). The term has slightly different meanings in different branches of linguistics and computer science. Traditional sentence parsing is often performed as a method of understanding the exact meaning of a sentence or word, sometimes with the aid of devices such as sentence diagrams. It usually emphasizes the importance of grammatical divisions such as subject and predicate. Within computational linguistics the term is used to refer to the formal analysis by a computer of a sentence or other string of words into its constituents, resulting in a parse tree showing their syntactic relation to each other, which may also contain semantic and other information (p-values). Some parsing algori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nutanix
Nutanix, Inc. is an American cloud computing company that sells software, cloud services (such as desktops as a service, disaster recovery as a service, and cloud monitoring), and software-defined storage. History Nutanix was founded on September 23, 2009 by Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron and Ajeet Singh. In early 2013 Aron left Nutanix to start Cohesity, a privately held computer data storage company. Venture capital firms invested $312.2 million over five rounds of funding in Nutanix. The company reached a $1 billion valuation by 2013, which made it known as a " unicorn startup". It raised $140 million in a Series E round of financing in 2014, valuing the company at approximately $2 billion. Nutanix's backers included Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, and Blumberg Capital. Nutanix filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in December 2015, reporting a net loss in its fiscal year ending July 2015 of $126 million. In August 2016, Nutanix announced it had acquired Pern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namogoo
Namogoo Technologies Ltd. is a Digital Journey Continuity software as a service platform, that autonomously adapts to each customer visit in real-time, that helps improve online customer journeys and business results for global retail brands. Namogoo's Customer Hijacking Prevention identifies and blocks unauthorized ad injections from diverting online shoppers to competitors. Namogoo's Intent-Based Promotions predicts and individualizes the minimum promotion for each visit — synchronizing customer intent with company business goals. History Namogoo was founded in August 2014 by entrepreneurs Chemi Katz and Ohad Greenshpan. In December 2014, the company launched its Customer Hijacking Prevention platform, which detects and blocks malicious content and unauthorized ads injected onto visitor sessions. In September 2014, Namogoo received an initial funding round of $6 million — led by Blumberg Capital and Inimiti Capital. In April 2017, Namogoo opened its Sales Headquarters in Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lendio
Utah-based Lendio (formerly Funding Universe), founded in 2011 by Brock Blake and Trent Miskin, is a free online loan marketplace in the U.S. targeting small business owners. History Founded in 2006 as FundingUtah, , it became FundingUniverse and, by 2011, Lendio. CEO Blake has served in that role to each. In 2017, Lendio became a member of the Innovative Lending Platform Association, a trade organization that supports online lending and service companies assisting small businesses. Lending platform Lendio's platform reviews metrics including the business's financial projections, use of funds, industry, and monthly revenue to find loans option for borrowers. The platform uses a series of questions to predict which loan type will most likely match a business owner's qualifications. Each borrower is also assigned a funding manager to answer questions through the entire process. Lendio's online application process takes an average of 15 minutes to complete, compared with an average ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HootSuite
Hootsuite is a social media management platform, created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system's user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube and TikTok. Based in Vancouver, Hootsuite has close to 1,000 staff members in 13 locations, including Toronto, London, Paris, Sydney, Bucharest, Milan, Rome and Mexico City. The company has more than 16 million users in over 175 countries. History In 2008, Holmes needed a tool to manage multiple social media networks at his digital services agency, Invoke Media."Ivan Fernandes, MediaCom Global Director, Social Media Technology, interviews Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hoots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fundbox
Fundbox is a working capital platform based in San Francisco that offers credit and payment solutions to small businesses. Founded in 2013, the company innovates technology to help optimize cash flow for small businesses. History The concept for Fundbox was partially inspired by co-founder Eyal Shinar's mother, who struggled with late payments at the employment agency she owned and operated in Israel. Founded by Yuval Ariav, Eyal Shinar, and Tomer Michaeli in 2013, it operated for a year in stealth mode before becoming available to the public in 2014. After launch, it announced it had received $17.5 million in funding from investors led by Khosla Ventures. As of November 2021, the company has received a total of $410 million in funding and a valuation of $1.1 billion, including $100 million in funding led by Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan. Services Fundbox offers working capital products to small businesses. Its primary offering is a revolving line of credit to manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EVoice
eVoice is a telecommunications service owned by j2 Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:JCOM). The company manages incoming and outgoing calls using virtual phone numbers. The service was initially founded by Wendell Brown, Mark Klein, and Craig Taro Gold in 2000 and re-launched in March 2010 with an expansion of services that include both individual, personal uses as well as services for businesses. Overview As of 2020, eVoice provides toll-free and local phone numbers to subscribers in the United States and Canada. The phone number is chosen by the user from available numbers in selected area codes. Based on how the user then configures the service, the user can then answer calls placed to the eVoice number on devices/phones owned by the subscriber. Users must have an established phone service in the United States or Canada to answer incoming calls. The virtual phone number allows subscribers to remain accessible regardless of location. A competitor to eVoice is Google Voice. eVoice provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronics For Imaging
Electronics for Imaging, Inc. (EFI) is an international company based in Silicon Valley that specializes in digital printing technology. Formerly located in Foster City, California, the company is now based in Fremont. On July 1, 2015, EFI entered the textile printing marketing with the acquisition of Italian digital textile company Reggiani Macchine. On June 16, 2016, EFI acquired Optitex, a 3D digital workflow provider. EFI was founded in 1989 in San Francisco by Israeli businessman Efi Arazi and is known for producing the Fiery print server, a raster image processor used throughout the printing industry. On April 15, 2019, EFI announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Siris Capital Group, LLC in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.7 billion ($37 per share). On January 5, 2022, EFI announced it had completed a sale of its eProductivity Software ("EPS") print and packaging software business to Symphony Technology Group. Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DSP Group
DSP Group, Inc. was an American company that manufactured chipsets for VoIP, multimedia, and digital cordless applications. Founded in 1987 with headquarters in San Jose, California, DSP Group employed over 400 people at three US sites and offices in Germany, Scotland, Israel, India, Hong Kong and Japan until it was acquired by Synaptics. History DSP Group was founded in 1987 by Davidi Gilo, who served as the company's CEO and chairman until 1993. DSP Group developed the world's first telephony answering device (TAD) speech processor in 1989. The company entered the digital cordless industry with the acquisition of Advanced Micro Devices' (AMD) 900 MHz technology in 1999, and the subsequent development of 900 MHz narrow-band cordless and 2.4 GHz multi-handset technology. In 1993 one of the company's co-founder and its CTO Shabtai Adlersberg started a new company AudioCodes, with the initial investment provided by the DSP Group. AudioCodes become a provider of VoIP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
