Ted Briscoe

GlobalStreams, Inc. provides video communications hardware and software solutions. The firm’s services include consulting, engineering, installation and financing. Its products includes GlobeCaster Systems which assists companies and broadcasters to produce, present and deliver their own studio-quality broadcasts via television, cable, satellite and the Internet. The company was founded by Jason Loyet and Brian E. Skiba in July 2000 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, MO.

Vibe Solutions Group, Inc. offers hosted web services. Its products include Vibe Journal.com, Pyro.TV, Media Widget, Video Mail, Video Mail Professional, and Video Phone. The firm serves the broadband providers, online communities, hardware/software manufacturers, and media content companies. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

iLexIR Ltd. provides software consultancy services. It specializes in text analytics, mining, classification, and search applications. The firm offers natural language processing solutions. The company was founded by John A. Carroll and Ted Briscoe and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.

Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk); Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp, a joint venture); Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com); Bloglines (Bloglines.com); Excite (excite.com); iWon (iwon.com); My Search (mysearch.com); My Way (myway.com); My Web Search (mywebsearch.com) and Teoma (teoma.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the search technology Teoma, proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies.

TeraVista Systems provides consulting, technology solutions and managed services to organizations in the environmental, carbon and energy verticals. The company provides corporations with a unique toolset of technologies that streamline their environmental and energy practices, thereby saving time and money. Its patent-pending CarbonTrax software is designed to automate the verification, validation and aggregation of carbon credits for all aggregation companies and financial institutions. The company is seeking funds to complete the development of the CarbonTrax software, as well as build out a second application for remote monitoring of carbon offsets called CO2Feed.

Nidus Investment Partners LP (Nidus Investment Partners) a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by Vicki A. Gonzalez, Duke Leahey and Mich B. Hein. The firm is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.