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Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. designs, develops, publishes, and distributes handheld electronic information products. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Burlington, NJ.

NCM Services, Inc. provides software design and engineering services to the mobile and handheld device industry. It develops operating systems, related applications and wireless server technology. It provides full software lifecycle development and support, including design specification, software development, project management and quality assurance. The company has worked on a variety of operating systems and environments, including Symbian, WinCE, Palm, RIM, Linux, Unix and Java. In addition, it has an understanding of wireless data technologies, including GSM, GPRS, CDMA and 1XRTT. NCM Services changed its name from Geoworks Corp. in May 2010. The company was founded by Brian P. Dougherty in 1997 and is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

Idealab Corp (Idealab) is a venture capital subsidiary of Idealab Holdings LLC founded in 1996 by Bill Gross and Marcia Goodstein. The firm is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Palm, Inc. manufactures handheld computing device products. It provides mobile products that help people to stay connected with their family, friends and colleagues, access and share information. The firm sells their products through Internet, retail, reseller and wireless operator channels and at Palm online stores. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

LiveOps, Inc. provides cloud contact center and customer service solutions. It offers various call types and channels, including customer service call center, outbound services interactions, inbound sales interactions, lead generation interactions, and self-service interactive voice response capabilities. The firm also provides cloud contact center solutions such as LiveOps Engage, LiveOps Voice and LiveOps Insight. LiveOps serves the financial, health, insurance, retail, marketing and media industries. The company was founded by William J. Trenchard in 2000 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Posit Science Corp. provides brain training software. It offers brain fitness programs, insight and memory. The company was founded by Michael Merzenich in July 2002 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Yapta, Inc. develops and provides online travel management services. The firm specializes in airfare price tracking, hotel price tracking, dynamic price tracking technology, airfare and hotel rates and travel spend analytics. The company was founded by Brett Allsop, Thomas G. Romary, Ryan Allsop, Amy Terrell, Eric Anderson and Aaron Hill in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Mint Software, Inc. provides online money management services. It offers debt management, expense tracking, investment and budget management, mutual fund, IRA, and financial planning services. The company was founded by Thomas Aaron Patzer in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Invite Media, Inc. operates as an advertising technology company. It is a demand-side platform that enables advertisers, agencies and agency trading desks to use real-time bidding to buy and optimize online media. The company was founded in April 2007 by Zachary W. Weinberg, Michael Provenzano, Scott Becker and Nathaniel S. Turner and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PerformLine, Inc. provides compliance monitoring and campaign verification products and services for advertisers, agencies, publishers, and advertisement networks. The firm offers PerformMatch, a compliance platform that focuses on automated compliance monitoring and assessment. The company was founded by Alex Baydin in 2008 and is headquartered in Morristown, NJ.

DNAnexus, Inc. develops a cloud-based data analysis and management platform for DNA sequence data. It engages in the provision of cloud-based solutions for large-scale Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) data management and analysis. The firm offers a centralized hub for managing data, collaborating with other scientists, sharing tools, and accessing diverse reference datasets, including genotypic and phenotypic data. The company was founded by Serafim Batzoglou, Andreas Sundquist and Arend Sidow in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

SimpleGeo, Inc. engages in the provision of location information for application developers. It offers geographic information systems and locations based services that feeds geographical information to mobile applications. The company was founded by Joe Stump and Galligan Matthew in May 2009 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.

Looker Data Sciences, Inc. provides business intelligence software services. It develops software that focuses on the intersection of economics and engineering. The firm's solutions specialize in cohort analysis, transaction sequencing, customer lifetime value, customer lifetime transactions, distribution analysis, behavioral analysis, supply chain analytics, and digital marketing. It serves eCommerce, Media, Ad Tech, SaaS, Healthcare, Gaming and FinTech industries. The company was founded by Lloyd W. Tabb, Marc Randolph, and Ben Porterfield in 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA.

Sproutling, Inc. develops wearable devices for babies that help moms and dads to monitor newborn babies at all times. It provides sensor systems designed to wrap around a baby's ankle to monitor signs through parent's mobile devices. The company was founded by Chris A. Bruce and Mathew Spolin on July 1, 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Part of eBay, Inc., Half.com, Inc. is a company that provides online personal trading in an auction format. The company is based in Lincoln, NE. The company was founded by Mark R. Harrington, Josh M. Kopelman. Half.com was acquired by eBay, Inc. on July 11, 2000 for $263.57 million.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

MBI, Inc. provides direct marketing services for consumer goods. Its products include sports collectibles, jewelry, postage stamps and sheets, coins, stadium replicas, timepieces, gold collector cards, and home decor items. The company was founded by Ralph Glendinning and Ted Stanley in 1969 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Omidyar Network LLC (Omidyar Network) is a venture capital, a subsidiary of Omidyar Network Commons LLC founded in 2004 by Pierre Omidyar and Pam Omidyar. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

G.O. Corp. operates as a processor of fresh, pre-cut fruits and vegetables. It offers salads, soups and entrees. The company was founded by Patricia Greene and Marylou Owen in 2004 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

DoubleVerify, Inc provides online media verification solutions. It offers technology solutions for agencies, marketers, publishers, and ad networks running online ad campaigns. The firm also provides audit and verification of online advertising transactions. The company was founded by Oren Netzer and Alex Liverant in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Japan External Trade Organization is a government-related organization that works to promote mutual trade and investment. It promotes foreign direct investment (FDI) into Japan; assists business expansion of developing countries; contributes to trade policies and economic partnerships; and researches developing economies. The company was founded on October 1, 2003 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Dreamit Ventures LLC (Dreamit Ventures) is a venture capital and accelerator firm founded in 2008 by David Bookspan, Michael Levinson and Steve D. Welch. The firm is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA with an office in New York, NY.

Radius Intelligence, Inc. provides marketing software solutions. It offers data stewardship, outbound marketing and prospecting, lead-scoring, and account-based marketing. The company was founded by Adrian Druzgalski, T. Noah Hayes, and Darian Shirazi in October 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Founder Collective Management Co. LLC (Founder Collective) is an Independent Venture Capital firm is founded in 2009 by Eric Paley, Chris Dixon, Bill Trenchard, Mark Gerson, Micah Rosenbloom and Zach Klein. The firm is headquartered at New York City with an additional office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Manifest Commerce, Inc. operates an advertising platform. It helps online retailers leverage Facebook Open Graph as an effective marketing channel. Its products include SocialWire Connect, which lets marketers turn the actions to its customers which are taking on sites into sharable moments on Facebook. The company was founded in 2011 by Robert Buch, Selcuk Atli and Deniz Oktar and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.