San Francisco, CA Apsalar is a mobile behavioral targeting & analytics platform for iOS and Android. The company's user-level analytics enables mobile app developers to optimize conversion, increase retention & monetization, and enhance user experience within their apps.
Lending Club
San Francisco, CA Lending Club is an online financial community that brings together creditworthy borrowers and savvy investors so that both can benefit financially. Lending Club opened in 2007 with one simple mission: create an alternative to banks that offers both borrowers and investors a great rate.
Axcient Mountain View, CA Axcient offers a complete data protection solution for backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery that offers unprecedented ease of use and uptime. Axcient was named one of the 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors for 2010 by CRN.
Avalanche Technology Fremont, CA Avalanche is a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company that is developing Spin Programmable Memory (SPMEM), a non-volatile ultra low power high speed magnetic memory technology.
iBahn Denver, CO iBahn is the world's most reliable and respected provider of digital information and entertainment for the hospitality industry. iBahn servers hoteliers in more than 40 countries globally.
Milyoni Pleasanton, CA Milyoni delivers a new shopping experience in social networks known as Conversational Commerce®. Their new Facebook applications convert fans into customers and viral promoters of products to produce the best ROI in social media.
NetBase Mountain View, CA Next-generation semantic technology applied to the internet and social media properties, allowing brands understand consumer sentiment over time. NetBase was named one of the "Hottest Silicon Valley Companies" of 2010 by Lead411.
Public Mobile Toronto, Canada Formed in 2008, Public Mobile is a new Canadian wireless entrant that received its license to provide talk and text services to 19 million Canadians across Ontario and Quebec commencing in the fourth quarter of 2009.
YottaMark Redwood Shores, CA In the grocery industry, the Company's service (offered under the HarvestMark brand) has become the leading food traceability system in the U.S. The Company was awarded the Red Herring Global 100 Award in 2009.
Kortec Ipswitch, MA Kortec provides advanced co-injection molding systems for the plastics and packaging industries. In 2003, Kortec ranked 58th in the Inc. 500 list of America's fastest growing private companies.
Stipple
San Francisco, CA Picture tagging that allows publishers to label and share any person, place or thing in the photos on their site giving users a new layer of content, commerce and information on top of their photo content.
SoonR Campbell, CA Software that enables on-demand access to files and email from any computing or mobile device.
Inxent Wilmington, Delaware
Provides a real-time transaction processing platform to automate every aspect of loyalty programs for credit card issuers, loyalty program operators, merchants, and brand owners, from real-time reporting to delivering rewards at the point of sale.
Tactus Fremont, CA
Provides a new dimension to touchscreens by enabling real, physical buttons that rise up from the surface on demand, and then recede back into the screen, leaving a perfectly flat, transparent surface when gone.
FlashSoft Mountain View, CA FlashSoft offers an all-software solution that enables you to use any standard SSD as a high-performance memory cache in the server, to economically increase application performance and scalability. The company was acquired by SanDisk for an undisclosed amount in February 2012.
Cotendo Sunnyvale, CA Content Distribution Network (CDN) and Site Acceleration Services provider and an innovator of software-focused CDN technologies. The company was acquired by Akamai for $268 million in December 2011.
Lexar Fremont, CA Lexar is a leading provider of flash memory cards and other memory devices. The Company went public on the NASDAQ in late 2000 and was acquired by Micron Technology for approximately $700 million in 2006.
GuardianEdge San Francisco, CA GuardianEdge is a leading provider of endpoint data protection for corporations and government clients. The Company was acquired by Symantec for a little over $70 million in June 2010.
Okena Waltham, MA Okena developed intrusion detection and prevention software for enterprises. After quickly growing revenues and establishing its technical leadership, the Company was acquired by Cisco Systems for over $150 million in April 2003.
Parakey Mountain View, CA Founded by two brilliant young engineers, Parakey was developing a platform for applications merging desktop and web-based data. The Company was acquired for an undisclosed amount by Facebook in July 2007.
Nexabit Malborough, MA Founded by leaders in the world of networking, Nexabit developed multi-terabit switches and routers. The Company was acquired by Lucent Technologies (now part of Alcatel-Lucent) for approximately $900 million in July 1999.
iPass Redwood Shores, CA
iPass is the leading provider of remote access wired and wireless connectivity solutions for enterprise customers. The Company went public in July 2003 (NASDAQ: IPAS).
Avasta San Francisco, CA Avasta was an early provider of advanced operations management software for enterprise applications. The Company was acquired by Navisite in February 2003 (NASDAQ: NAVI)
MolecularWare Cambridge, MA
MolecularWare developed software for optimizing the management and analysis of genomics information. The Company was acquired by CalbaTech (now known as LifeStem International) in October 2003.
Masergy Communications Plano, TX Masergy is a leading provider of wide area networking services for enterprise customers. The company was acquired by ABRY Partners in July 2011.
RealTravel Palo Alto, CA RealTravel provides one of the leading travel information and blogging sites for consumers. The Company was voted "Best of the Web for Trip Planning" by BusinessWeek and one of the "twelve essential travel sites" by Forbes. The Company was acquired by UpTake Networks in November 2010.
BuyandHold.com New York, NY BuyandHold.com offers online equity portfolio management for consumers. The Company was acquired by Fahnestock & Co. in March 2002.
Certicom Mississaugua, Canada Certicom is a leading provider of information security software and services for wireless security. Certicom went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in December 1995 and was aquired by Research in Motion in early 2009.
GigaLogix Oakland, CA GigaLogix has developed software for accelerating web services to wire speeds using existing computing resources.
Fatbrain.com Santa Clara, CA
FatBrain streamlined management and distribution of business information, enabling delivery in digital and/or hardcopy format directly into the hands of employees, partners and customers. The Company went public in November 1998 and was acquired by Barnes & Noble in November 2000.
Sharewave El Dorado Hills, CA ShareWave developed high performance WiFi equipment for consumers, including broadband gateways and controllers. The Company was acquired by Cirrus Logic in October 2001.
Omnimark Technlogies Ottawa, Canada
Omnimark developed distributed load and application management software for enterprises. The Company was acquired by Stilo International PLC in April 2001.
Inxent
FlashSoft
Cotendo
Lexar
GuardianEdge
Okena
Parakey
Nexabit
iPass
Avasta
MolecularWare
BuyandHold.com
Certicom
GigaLogix
Fatbrain.com
Sharewave
Omnimark Technlogies