Portfolio Companies

A new media publishing company.

Provides simple, intuitive online planners to help students and families manage the college financial aid process.

Acquired by Google (NASDAQ GOOG)

AppJet is the company and technology behind EtherPad, the popular online collaborative word processor.

Helping groups work together effectively.

Tools to track, manage, and research asthma.

BeCouply helps couples have epic social lives. We make it fun and easy for couples to discover date ideas and date spots, capture special moments, and connect with couple friends.

bit.ly allows users to shorten, share, and track links (URLs). Reducing the URL length makes sharing easier.

Acquired by Klout

An early stage location-based service that helps people connect with their neighbors and mobilize their local communities.

Acquired by LinkedIn (NASDAQ  LNKD )

CardMunch – Business Cards Solved.

Acquired by Blackhawk Network

Cardpool is a service that allows anyone to buy, sell, or trade their gift cards in a safe and secure environment.

Catchafire provides talented individuals with meaningful pro bono experiences in order to build capacity for social good organizations.

Chirply makes beautiful and unique paper goods based on designs submitted by the community.

Fresh finds. Parent tips. Delivered monthly.

Help each other out. Make some money. Right now!

Your Personal Image Detective.

Acquired by SuccessFactors (NASDAQ SFSF)

Social networking technologies are profoundly changing the way people connect with family and friends. At work, though, email and IM are still the dominant online communications media. Social networking technology will be at the heart of the next generation of enterprise collaboration.

Acquired by Yahoo (NASDAQ YHOO)

From its inception, Dapper has provided easy-to-use technical solutions for quickly creating Widgets, Google Gadgets, and Facebook Apps — leading to its flagship product, Dapper Dynamic Ads.

DemoLesson is an online hiring platform that utilizes state-of-the-art technology to empower educators to market themselves like never before! Not only that, but the innovative features of the site drastically improve schools’ ability to efficiently and effectively hire the best educators possible for their students.

Interactive education. For every platform. For everyone.

Watch the things you care about – home, pets, family – with Dropcam Wi-Fi Video Monitoring Cameras. Pair Dropcam HD with the optional cloud recording and analysis service so your video stays safe, secure, and offsite.

ePals is the largest and fastest growing K-12 online community for meaningful learning. More than half a million educators and millions of learners across 200 countries and territories safely connect, collaborate and build community.

Federated Media supports independent website authors and audiences, by connecting them to marketers in an ongoing and robust conversation that feeds everyone involved.

Next generation blended college for transitioning military.

Acquired by Demandforce

Flowtown helps businesses engage with their customers and connect with influencers everywhere in the social web.

Formlabs is developing an affordable high-resolution 3D printer to enable designers, engineers, and makers to easily realize their dreams in beautiful physical form.  Formlabs’ product fuses a novel additive manufacturing technology with a unique design-centric approach to achieve an incredible user experience yet to be seen in 3D printing.

Acquired by Google (NASDAQ GOOG )

Simple single serving social networks.

Easy, Social Fundraising.

A smart response to the mortgage crisis.

Your online investment advisor.

Get Satisfaction is a direct connection between people and companies that fosters problem-solving, promotes sharing, and builds up relationships.

Big Data, Better Health.

Handpicked recipes personalized for you.

Groundcrew lets organizations coordinate around real-time, real-world
needs using mobile phones and social media.

Hello, Chair’s Appsaurus makes finding incredible apps easy.

Hipster is a fun way to help uncover the vast amount of information about real world locations that isn’t yet available online.

Humanoid offers computer programmers a reliable way to use human intelligence in software applications

inDinero monitors the financial health of your business so that you can focus on what matters. Easy business finance, small business accounting, and cashflow planning.

Inkling is the world’s first end-to-end platform for mobile learning content.

InternMatch connects students with amazing internship opportunities.

Life360 is the place families go to stay safe.

Linden Lab was founded in 1999 by Philip Rosedale to create a revolutionary new form of shared experience known as Second Life^®. Second Life is a 3D virtual world created by its Residents (people like you) that’s bursting with entertainment, experiences, and opportunity.

Magoosh is an online education company with an initial focus on standardized test preparation.

MightyMeeting is a mobile collaboration service. Users can store presentations in the cloud and access them anytime and anyplace from their mobile phones and tablets.

Awesome mobile learning games for foreign languages and other subjects.

Modria is building the justice system for the internet

Motion Math creates learning games for mobile, transforming math’s stumbling blocks into delightful game experiences.

Planet smart banking.

Omada Health is using human-centered design and connected-health technology to build an online program for the prevention of type 2 diabetes.

A/B Testing you’ll actually use.

OVIA uses  the power of video to provide a more human approach to finding the best talent making  the hiring process more effective.

PayNearMe was created to help consumers who have the will and money to make online purchases but lack a mechanism for doing so.

Peel brings a personalized TV guide to your iPhone®, iPad™, or iPod touch®.

The new, free way to Q&A for classrooms.

Acquired by Twitter

Posterous is the dead simple way to put anything online using email.

Where skilled people earn jobs.

At Red Rabbit, we believe good nutrition is essential to a child’s growth, health and happiness. That’s why we work hard every day to introduce farm-fresh and organic products to kids’ diets – and peace of mind to schools and parents.

Seventh Generation is committed to becoming the world’s most trusted brand of authentic, safe, and environmentally-responsible products for a healthy home.

Unleash the community hidden inside your app!

Easy, social, online volunteering for busy people.

Acquired by InMobi

Sprout Builder is a visual authoring studio that allows creative professionals to quickly and easily create branded, rich-media content and widgets.

Sunglass.io is a browser-based platform enabling easy collaboration around 3D content.

Twilio provides a simple yet powerful way to build highly scalable telephony applications.

Uber is an on-demand request tool for a private driver.

New Charter University (UniversityNow) was founded by educators, entrepreneurs and technologists who are deeply committed to providing everyone with the opportunity to improve their lives through education.

The world’s largest community for sharing infographics and data visualizations.

Sleep less. Feel better.

Wavii automatically creates social content in real-time from news, blogs, and tweets across the web.

Wikia is a fast growing consumer publishing platform where millions of passionate fans come to discover, create and share a shocking abundance of information on thousands of topics.

Acquired by LastPass

Xmarks was founded in 2006 under the original name Foxmarks. Our bookmark sync browser add-on is one of the most popular in the world with over fourteen million downloads and counting.

Acquired by Mixbook

Yobongo is a new way for people to communicate with people nearby.