Mobile Sector Investments
CURRENT MOBILE INVESTMENTS
M*Metrics is building a
syndicated research framework to provide benchmark data for the wireless
data sector. It was co-founded by Seamus McAteer, a leading research analyst
covering the mobile sector, and Will Hodgman former President of Jupiter
Media Metrix and EVP of Nielsen//NetRatings.
Thumbplay, Inc. is a leading online
platform of mobile entertainment content. The company aggregates, promotes
and delivers mobile content directly to members via Thumbplay.com. The site
offers ringtones, wallpapers, games and text-based services through a
membership-based, community experience. Thumbplay, headquartered in New
York, was founded by CEO Are Traasdahl and Executive Vice President,
Marketing Evan Schwartz.
LimeLife,
based in San Francisco’s Bay Area, is the only publisher of wireless
content exclusively focused on the women’s market. The company’s products
are forging innovations in the mobile industry based on unique insights
about what women seek in mobile entertainment. Products include lifestyle
tools, entertaining mobile games, Sleek & Chic™ fashion wallpapers and
original Daily Dose and text messages. LimeLife distributes its mobile
offerings through the company’s relationships with multiple wireless
carriers, including AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, as well as from the company’s
web site.
Reaxion is a market-leading mobile game
publisher who develops games that are always connected, community-based, and
fun to play. Every day, thousands of active mobile gamers use Reaxion's
community platform, Gamarama, to connect to other gamers, compare
high-scores and find new fun things to do with their phone. Using its own
community-based technology and expert in-house developers, Reaxion has
successfully taken Paramount, Warner Music Group, and Nickelodeon's licensed
content to the mobile market. Reaxion's integrated licensing and marketing
approach seamlessly unites fans with their favorite brands and mobile
communities. Its own successful self-published titles include Minigolf 2,
Mahjong Deluxe, and Solitaire Top 12 Multipack.
REALIZED MOBILE
INVESTMENTS
Vindigo is the leading developer
of personal navigation applications for delivering location-based content
and services to wireless
and mobile devices.
Vindigo’s
proprietary technology and network of content partners enables
it to offer compelling and comprehensive location-based applications
to carriers and
consumers, via
Palm Powered™ handheld computers, Pocket PC computers, and
Internet-enabled mobile phones including BREW™ and GSM handsets.
Vindigo allows people to explore, enjoy, and connect to the world
around them.
Vindigo was acquired by For-Side (JASDAQ: 2330)
WiderThan delivers groundbreaking mobile Internet products, solutions
and services. Its applications, content and services enable wireless
carriers to provide a broad range of mobile entertainment, such as ringback
tones, music-on-demand, mobile games, ringtones, messaging and information
services, to their subscribers.
WiderThan went public on the Nasdaq and was subsequently acquired by Real Networks.
Ztango is the proven market leader in combined wireless Messaging and Multimedia solutions. Wireless networks that cover more than 90% of U.S. wireless subscribers utilize Ztango's products, including Inter-carrier SMS Messaging, Ringtones, Graphics and Premium content services.
Ztango was acquired by WiderThan in October 2004
Salsa Systems provides software
development tools and expertise for companies who wish to build mobile applications
quickly and cost
effectively.
Salsa was acquired by BroadBeam Corporation
Broadband/Web 2.0 Sector Investments
CURRENT BROADBAND/WEB 2.0 INVESTMENTS
AtHoc provides enterprise-class,
network-centric alerting systems for emergency notifications, force
protection readiness, anti-terror warnings and critical communications.
AtHoc offers a broad set of alerting solutions for the government/defense
agencies and commercial enterprises, including IWSAlerts™ for
Network-Centric Emergency Notifications; C2Alerts™ for Targeted User Alerts
in Command & Control / C4I Operations Center; KMAlerts™ for Knowledge and
Intelligence Dissemination; and EmployeeAlerts™ for Corporate Emergency
Communications. AtHoc has partnered with Microsoft, Northrop Grumman and IBM
to bring these notifications solutions to the enterprise market. Customers
inclue The U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Air Force, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Boeing, eBay and Juniper Networks.
OpenAir offers a suite of
PSA (professional services automation) services to streamline business administration
and enhance profitability
for small
businesses and solo practitioners. The services provide an
easy to use, convenient way to track time, record expenses, maintain
project and client information,
and create quality invoices ... all on the web. By eliminating the
complexity of buying, installing, learning and maintaining software,
OpenAir enables
business professionals to focus their time on revenue-generating
activity and business growth. Headquartered in Boston, MA,
OpenAir is committed
to providing a new network of small business professionals with continuous
resources and support.
SkyAuction.com is a direct-to-consumer travel auction website. The
founders of SkyAuction have over twenty-five years of experience in
the travel industry
both creating and managing a wide range of business all engaged in
the sale and delivery of travel, tours and transportation services.
REALIZED BROADBAND/WEB 2.0 INVESTMENTS
Equator Technologies provides
the world’s highest performance VLIW processors for computation-intensive
digital imaging, media and
communications applications.
The company’s Media Accelerated Processor (MAP) Series ProcessorTM
architecture is programmed in 100% high-level “C” language,
enabling the rapid development of high-performance, flexible,
media-intensive systems. The
recently announced
BSP-15 is the world's fastest digital signal processor.
Equator
was acquired by PixelWorks (Nasdaq:PXLW)
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Representative companies from our first fund include:
AsiaNet Corp. is a leading Asian developer and operator of Internet media,
technology, and e-commerce operations. With its investments and acquisitions,
AsiaNet is creating a carefully structured network of interacting Internet
companies that share significant direct operational, technical, and marketing
synergy.
AsiaNet was acquired by Littauer (KOSDAQ: 20860)
Deal Pilot is a leading comparison shopping service that uses proprietary
technology to uniquely track the bottom line lowest prices on books,
music and videos
sold over the Internet. Termed the “Next-Generation Shopbot” by
the New York Times, Deal Pilot is a service of Muenchhoff & Janz GmbH,
an innovative German Internet-based company, which has set its main focus
on Internet software
robots and comparison shopping systems.
DealPilot was acquired by Shopping.com.
DotCast’s mission and focus is the design, deployment and operation of
a distributed high-speed data network that cost-effectively delivers
rich-media
content from
third parties to PCs, televisions, and other Dotcast-enabled Internet
appliances. With a network that can cost-effectively reach every
household that receives
a television signal, Dotcast will be positioned to offer its network
as a broadband delivery channel for high-profile media, portal,
e-commerce, advertising
and
communication service partners.
Dotcast was acquired by Disney.
eAgents brings choice and convenience to the web community. Users select
from a range of providers including MSNBC, Hollywood.com, Women.com, the
New Yorker and other leading brands. eAgents then delivers a single
customized e-mail daily.
eAgents was acquired by AmericanGreetings.com, the interactive and mobile subsidiary of American Greetings Corporation (NYSE: AM)
IT-radar.com is a business-to-business
Internet marketplace that brings together companies that provide IT services
(solutions, consulting
and staffing) with
Clients who buy those services. Both sides of the IT services buying/selling
equation benefit greatly from IT-radar.com, the eMarket where much of the
“friction’ is
eliminated, and an enhanced process enabled.
IT-radar was acquired by TechRepublic, an independent subsidiary of Gartner Group, Inc. (NYSE: IT and ITB)
Provide
Commerce (formerly Proflowers) is a collection of branded websites each offering high quality, perishable products shipped directly from the supplier to the consumer and designed specifically around the way
consumers shop. Proprietary technology allows Provide Commerce to eliminate multiple intermediaries from the legacy supply chain, thereby realizing significant cost advantages and higher margins.
Provide Commerce went public on (NASDAQ: PVRD) and was subsequently acquired by Liberty Media.
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