SELECTED PORTFOLIO COMPANIES
Azigo, Inc., Boston
www.azigo.com
Azigo has developed a powerful user-centric identity management and personalization platform that has the potential to revolutionize the way individuals interact with web sites and how web sites use personalization (including targeted advertising, special offers, loyalty and rewards) to monetize their content and services. Azigo's next-generation technologies enable people to access content and transact personalized services with publishing, e-commerce, banking and other sites over mobile and desktop devices while maintaining user control and privacy over the collection and sharing of their personal data. [news]
Hui She Shang (The Luxury Club), Shenzhen, China
www.huisheshangcorp.com
The Luxury Club offers Chinese consumers authentic, brand-authorized luxury goods -- including beauty and cosmetics, watches and jewelry, fashion accessories, wines and spirits -- through its online store at www.huisheshang.com and through targeted marketing and promotional campaigns. The Luxury Club has a strategic marketing partnership with Taobao Mall (wholly-owned by the Alibaba Group), the leading online shopping destination in China. The Luxury Club co-founder and Chairman, Francis Gouten, was previously the CEO of Richemont Group Asia Pacific. Parkview led the seed round and was joined by Mousse Partners [news].
Netpulse, Inc., San Francisco
www.netpulse.com
Netpulse provides an innovative interactive media platform for fitness centers and active lifestyle consumers. The Netpulse platform provides a customizable entertainment experience that offers live HDTV, on-demand video and music, iPod/iPhone connectivity, personalized workout data and more. The platform enables media companies and advertisers direct access to a highly engaged and desirable audience that is often difficult to reach with traditional media. [press]
Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc., New York (NASD:NSSI.OB)
www.network-1.com
Network-1 acquires and licenses intellectual property to maximize its value for the benefit of its investors and of the original inventors. Its current focus is on its Power over Ethernet (PoE) patent portfolio. PoE is a rapidly growing technology that enables deployment of next generation services such as Voice over IP, wireless access, and security monitoring with lower costs, greater control and enhanced reliability. [news]
Reachable, Inc., Palo Alto and Salt Lake City
www.reachable.com
Reachable (formerly 7 Degrees) is a social network analytics company with a proprietary graphing engine. Reachable lets users leverage their network of contacts to more easily connect with other people in order to close sales, perform reference checks, or find relationships between people or companies. The proprietary underlying technology can store billions of relationships; can infer non-obvious relationships; and can find connections and network structures faster than any other database technology on the market today. Reachable is optimized for salespeople, recruiters, fundraisers and job seekers, and is integrated into Salesforce.com, Oracle® CRM On Demand, and JobScience. [news]
Stipple Inc., San Francisco
www.stippleit.com
Stipple organizes information around the content of images and enhances the way people interact with those images, in turn unlocking significant new revenue potential for publishers. The company offers a suite of products that enable commerce and search to occur within images on any website or mobile application. Stipple powers accurate image search and its information and commerce layer turns ordinary images into storefronts. Stipple’s customers include leading publishers, photo agencies, brands and a growing community of passionate social shoppers. [financing] [news]
TurningArt, Boston
www.turningart.com
TurningArt is like NetFlix for original fine art, allowing members to rent original works of art with the option to purchase. Turning Art has been named among the best of Boston start-ups. [press]
Quadriserv, Inc., New York
www.quadriserv.com
Quadriserv launched an electronic clearinghouse to allow hedge funds and institutions to borrow and lend securities through an anonymous matching engine. The securities lending business is one of the most lucrative, most opaque and least automated business activities on Wall Street, offering a significant opportunity for an independent clearinghouse to change the market structure.