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Sapphire Ventures
Sapphire Ventures (stylized as SAPPHIRE) is a venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, Austin, and London. The firm is considered one of the world's premier venture capital firms. The firm primarily invests in Series B through IPO technology companies, as well as tech-focused early stage venture firms, seed, and Series A early-stage sports, media, and entertainment start-ups. Notable Sapphire-backed companies include 23andMe, Alteryx, Auth0, Block (Square), Box, Current, Degreed, DocuSign, Fitbit, IAS, JumpCloud, Kaltura, Linkedin, Livongo, Looker, MuleSoft, Monday.com, Paytm, Ping Identity, Sumo Logic, Wise (TransferWise). History The firm was founded in 1996 as the venture capital arm of multinational software conglomerate SAP and spun out as an independent company in 2011, rebranding to Sapphire Ventures in 2014. At the time, Sapphire Ventures managed $1.4 billion and had invested in more than 125 companies, with 10 companies going public and 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Capital
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology. The typical venture capital investment occurs after an initial "seed funding" round. The first ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
23andMe
23andMe Holding Co. is a publicly held personal genomics and biotechnology company based in South San Francisco, California. It is best known for providing a direct-to-consumer genetic testing service in which customers provide a saliva sample that is laboratory analysed, using single nucleotide polymorphism genotyping, to generate reports relating to the customer's ancestry and genetic predispositions to health-related topics. The company's name is derived from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a wild-type human cell. The company had a previously fraught relationship with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) due to its genetic health tests; as of October 2015, DNA tests ordered in the US include a revised health component, per FDA approval. 23andMe has been selling a product with both ancestry and health-related components in Canada since October 2014, and in the UK since December 2014. In 2007, 23andMe became the first company to begin offering autosomal DNA tes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LinkedIn
LinkedIn () is an American business and employment-oriented online service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Launched on May 5, 2003, the platform is primarily used for professional networking and career development, and allows job seekers to post their CVs and employers to post jobs. From 2015 most of the company's revenue came from selling access to information about its members to recruiters and sales professionals. Since December 2016, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft. LinkedIn has 830+ million registered members from over 200 countries and territories. LinkedIn allows members (both workers and employers) to create profiles and connect with each other in an online social network which may represent real-world professional relationships. Members can invite anyone (whether an existing member or not) to become a connection. LinkedIn can also be used to organize offline events, join groups, write articles, publish job postings, post photos and vide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaltura
Kaltura is a New York-based software company founded in 2006. Kaltura operates in four major markets: Cloud TV (that is, OTT) for operators and media companies, online video platform (OVP) offered mostly to media companies and brands looking to distribute content or monetize it, Education Video Platform (EdVP) offered to educational institutions, and Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) for collaboration, communications and marketing. History Early history Kaltura was founded in the fall of 2006 and was launched at the TechCrunch40 industry event in San Francisco on September 18, 2007, and won the People's Choice award based on a vote of the conference's attendees.Mark HendricksonKaltura Wins Spot as 40th Company at TechCrunch40TechCrunch, September 18, 2007 At that time, the company had 20 employees, and had received $2.1 million in funding from business angels and Californian VC fund Avalon Ventures. On December 21, 2007, Kaltura won the People's Choice award (over 250,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JumpCloud
JumpCloud is an American enterprise software company headquartered in Louisville, Colorado. The company was formally launched in 2013 at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield with its announcement of an automated server management tool. JumpCloud’s cloud based directory as a service platform is used to securely manage users identity, devices, and access across things such as VPN, Wi-Fi, Servers and workstations. History JumpCloud received a seed round of funding of $1.2 million in December 2012, and a $3 million Series A round in January 2014. The company completed Series B funding in August 2015 with a $4.3 million investment. In November 2017, JumpCloud raised an additional $20 million series C round. In May 2019, JumpCloud raised a series D round of financing of $50 million. In November 2020 it closed a $75 million Series E funding. In January 2021, the company added $25 million to its Series E financing, closing the round at $100 million. In September 2021, JumpCloud announced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Integral Ad Science
Integral Ad Science (IAS) is an American publicly owned technology company that analyzes the value of digital advertising placements. Integral Ad Science is known for addressing issues around fraud, viewability and brand risk, as well as TRAQ, a proprietary media quality score. The company evaluates the quality of online ad placements between media buyers and sellers. It creates products for agencies and marketers, programmatic players and media sellers. Integral is a member of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and works with the "Brand Integrity Program Against Piracy" initiative by the Trustworthy Accountability Group. Integral Ad Science was founded in 2009 by Will Luttrell, Helene Monat, Foster Provost, Bryan St. John, Josh Attenberg and Kent Wakeford; with initial investment from Coriolis Ventures. It was originally named "AdSafe Media". The company is headquartered in New York City and has locations in Chicago, San Francisco, Berlin, London, Paris, Singapore, Melbourne, Syd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitbit
Fitbit (stylized as fitbit) is an American consumer electronics and fitness company. It produces wireless-enabled wearable technology, physical fitness monitors and activity trackers such as smartwatches, pedometers and monitors for heart rate, quality of sleep and stairs climbed as well as related software. The company was acquired by Alphabet, Inc. in January 2021. In 2019, Fitbit was the fifth largest wearable technology company in shipments. The company has sold more than 120 million devices and has 29 million users in over 100 countries. History The company was founded as Healthy Metrics Research, Inc. in San Francisco, California on March 26, 2007 by James Park ( CEO) and Eric Friedman ( CTO). In October 2007, it changed its name to Fitbit, Inc. In January 2015, the company successfully defended against a trademark lawsuit from Fitbug. On March 5, 2015, Fitbit acquired fitness coaching app developer Fitstar for $17.8 million. In June 2015, the company became a public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DocuSign
DocuSign, Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that allows organizations to manage electronic agreements. As part of the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, DocuSign offers eSignature, a way to sign electronically on different devices. DocuSign has over 1 million customers and hundreds of millions of users in more than 180 countries. Signatures processed by DocuSign are compliant with the US ESIGN ActELECTRONIC SIGNATURES IN GLOBAL AND NATIONAL COMMERCE ACT ''Federal Trade Commission'' June 2001 and the European Union's regulation, including EU Advanced and EU, Qualified Signatures. In April 2018, DocuSign filed for an |
Degreed
Degreed is an education technology company. Degreed is based in San Francisco, CA, with offices in Salt Lake City, UT, New York, London, Brisbane, Australia, and Leiden, The Netherlands. History David Blake, David Wiley, and Eric Sharp founded Degreed in March 2012. In November 2012, Degreed launched an early Beta to 20,000 users who joined as 'Founding Scholars' to the platform In January 2013, following a crowdfunded launch, Degreed launched to the public. In the fall of 2014, the company launched the Degreed for Enterprise platform. In March 2016, Degreed acquired European education technology startup, Gibbon. In June 2018, Degreed acquired New Yorkbased online learning provider, Pathgather. In December 2019, Degreed acquired London-based total talent platform, Adepto. In August 2022, Degreed partnered with EasyGenerator allowing authors to publish, maintain, and update e-learning courses from EG directly to Degreed. Reception According to the director of Georgetow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finco Services
Finco Services, Inc. is a New York City-based financial services and software development company (FinTech) operating its mobile banking unit under the name Current. It was founded by Stuart Sopp June 2015. In 2020, the ''Wall Street Journal'' reported a valuation of $750 million, and reported that Current "is the latest beneficiary of this trend oward mobile consumer banking. Like competitors Chime and Square, It was also the beneficiary of the 2020 COVID pandemic, which drove consumers away from brick-and-mortar alternatives. As of April 2021, its valuation stands at $2.2 billion. Operations Financial At launch, the company's target market was teenagers. Services include downloadable software that enables peer-to-peer money transfers, and processing electronic fund transfers, including credit cards, electronic checks and debit cards. On December 12, 2019, the company applied for patent 16424341 / 20190378121, "Cryptographic Technology Platform And Methods For Providers T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box (company)
} Box, Inc. (formerly Box.net) is a public company based in Redwood City, California. It develops and markets cloud-based content management, collaboration, and file sharing tools for businesses. Box was founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie and Dylan Smith. Initially, it focused on consumers, but around 2009 and 2010 Box pivoted to focus on business users. The company raised about $500 million over numerous funding rounds, before going public in 2015. Its software allows users to store and manage files in an online folder system accessible from any device. Users can then comment on the files, share them, apply workflows, and implement security and governance policies. History The idea for Box.com started in 2003 with Aaron Levie, who was a business student at University of Southern California. He wrote a paper for school on the industry for storing digital files online and started developing the Box service in 2004. In 2005, Levie dropped out of school to work on Box full-time with long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
