Founders: David Porter, Remi Gabillet
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: 8tracks.com
Type of business: Internet Radio

8tracks is internet radio created by people, not algorithms. Those who know and love music curate an online mixtape with 8 or more tracks, including title, art and tags. Listeners select from more than 650,000 playlists for any mood or occasion, from every genre and country, providing an unparalleled source for music discovery. In November 2012, nearly 5m active users streamed more than 12m hours on the network.

Founders: Ash Ashutosh
Headquarters: Waltham, MA
Website: actifio.com
Type of business: Data Management Virtualization

Actifio™ pioneered the industry’s first storage system optimized for managing copies of production data, eliminating redundant silos of IT infrastructure and data management applications. Actifio introduced virtualization into data management and has helped liberate IT organizations and services providers of all sizes from vendor lock-in and the management challenges associated with exploding data growth. Actifio is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. with offices around the world.



Founders: Naithan Jones, Michael Hsieh
Headquarters: Kansas City, Kansas
Website: aglocal.com
Type of business: Healthy Web Based Marketplace

AgLocal’s founders (CEO Nait Jones and CTO Mike Hsieh) are using the web to create a novel channel for our food to go from the farm to the fork. AgLocal is a web based marketplace and platform that facilitates the buying and selling of responsibly raised and healthier meats, by using a network of independent food distributors to match small family owned farms with restaurants and other retailers.

Founders: Brian Chesky
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: airbnb.com
Type of business: Travel Marketplace

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world – online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 19,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions.

Founders: Silvia Doundakova, Pam Kingston
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: alexandvon.com
Type of business: Social Commerce Platform

alex+von is a social commerce platform that connects small consumer brands with women social sellers, who sell their products via home parties, 1-on-1 & online. We unlock the Avon model for brands, giving them instant reach and credibility through our army of social sellers.

Founders: Derek Collison
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: apcera.com
Type of business: Cloud

Next Generation Cloud Platform

Founders: Dalton Caldwell & Bryan Berg
Founded: Early 2010
Website: app.net
Type of business: Social Network

App.net is a subscription-based, ad-free, social network and API, a home for meaningful interactions and a platform for developers to build on. App.net is out to become the pipes that power the social web, opening up its API to the creativity of independent software developers. App.net users already have access to over sixty high-quality applications – built by outside developers – that enable new connections and communication. App.net was founded around trust: developers can rely on the API, users own their data, the business model is transparent, and users are the customer (not the product).

Founders: Sunny Gupta, Kurt Shintaffer, Paul McLachlan
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Bellevue, WA
Website: apptio.com
Type of business: IT Cost Transparency Software

Apptio is a provider of on demand IT Cost Transparency solutions. Apptio’s IT Cost Transparency solutions are designed to provide greater visibility into the cost, utilization and operations of IT products and services so that businesses can identify ways to reduce IT costs, make better IT decisions and benefit from more proactive IT Demand Management. Capabilities include template driven IT cost modeling, interactive reporting and analytics, and business facing IT demand management.

Founders: Ankur Pansari, Ian Langworth, Mark Logan
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: artillery.com
Type of business: Gaming Experience on the Browser

Artillery aims to bring the core gaming experience to the browser. The modern browser is the new console — browser are already capable of delivering very high quality gaming experiences to the users and their capabilities will only get better with time. We’re gamers, engineers and artists. We’ve dreamed of Zelda dungeons, screamed at Halo, and reached the top echelons of competitive StarCraft. Imagine magical gaming experiences like these but only a click away.

Founders: Dustin Mokovitz, Justin Rosenstein
Founded: 2009
Website: asana.com
Type of business: Enterprise collaboration software

Asana builds enterprise-level collaboration software, or a Collaborative Information Manager. For their software, Asana is developing an in-house programming language called Lunascript for writing rich web applications more efficiently.

Founders: Jefferson Rabb, Evan Ratliff, Nicholas Thompson
Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY
Website: atavist.com
Type of business: Digital Mobile Publishing

Atavist is a media and software company at the forefront of digital, mobile publishing. The company’s mission is to enable the next generation of multimedia storytelling, reaching readers across mobile devices and the web.

Atavist’s unique “create once, publish everywhere” platform allows publishers and authors to make rich, layered, multimedia stories—and publish them in a mobile app, on the web, as an ebook, or as a magazine. The company built this flexible cloud-based platform to power The Atavist, their award-winning publishing venture. Atavist’s software is now used by clients including TED Conferences, Pearson, and The Paris Review for their digital publishing needs. This year, Atavist will be opening up the platform to everyone—allowing authors, creators, and storytellers to publish anything, everywhere.

Founders: Matin Tamizi, Mahmoud Abdelkader, Jareau Wade
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: balancedpayments.com
Type of business: Payments API

Balanced is a white-label payments API that offers processing, escrow, and payouts in one simple integration. Online marketplaces and advertising networks use Balanced to handle the compliance, risk, infrastructure, and vendor management headaches that usually come along with integrating a payments system, but Balanced can be used by eCommerce models of all kinds to make payments suck less.

Founders: Logan LaHive
Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Website: bellycard.com
Type of business: Universal Loyalty Program

Belly is a universal loyalty program that offers unique and exceptional rewards to local businesses through a single customer loyalty card. Belly replaces traditional ‘Buy 10, Get 1 Free’ punch cards with a rewards platform that is tailored to each business’ personality, connecting customers on a much more personalized level to the places they already love. Customers can use a physical card, iPhone App or Android App to scan in on the provided in-store iPad to earn points at every store where Belly is accepted. These points can then be redeemed for creative and customized rewards at each individual location. Belly works with each business to design rewards that are one-of-a-kind and representative of that store’s distinct personality, creating a more engaged user base and ultimately improving customer retention.

Founders: Tony Gauda, Kevin Blackham
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: bitcasa.com
Type of business: Infinite Cloud Storage

Infinite cloud storage, accessible across all your devices.

Founders: Dev Patel, Harmeek Singh Bedi, Soren Riise
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: bityota.com
Type of business: Big Data Accessibility

BitYota was founded in late 2011 on the guiding principle that data is a critical asset for all companies in today’s fast-paced world. Companies want to use information at a much higher frequency and get timely answers to complex queries for faster decision-making. We recognize that this is a critical market need. We are data geeks with 35+ years of Big Data experience at Yahoo!, Oracle, Informix, Veritas/Symantec, BMC, Tibco, Twitter and Salesforce. “Big Data” today translates to either “Big Cost” or “Big Headache” or both for everyone who has to deal with it. “Big Headache” is caused by a scarcity of specialized skills needed to integrate today’s Big Data technologies, which in turn are incompatible with the mature analytics ecosystem. “Big Cost” because companies have to evaluate uniquely engineered, prohibitively costly systems which were not designed for Cloud deployment and second-guess users on the value of data upfront. Our vision is to make data and analytics accessible to all. There’s a revolution underway and we’re taking sides. We want to create a data platform that enables everyone – from data scientists and engineers to SQL savvy analysts, business and product users, to understand their data, to build better products/services, and create new avenues of growth and productivity. We think this benefits us all. Ours is a SaaS approach that is accessible by both analysts and developers, fits into an existing ecosystem of BI and multiple data sources, and scales affordably with needs.

Founders: Caleb Sima, Adam Ely
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: bluebox.com
Type of business: Data Security

Provide control & visibility of corporate data on mobile for the enterprise.

Founders: Mark Britto
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: boku.com
Type of business: Mobile Payments Platform

BOKU is creating the standard for online payments using your mobile phone, making it easy to pay for digital goods and social experiences across the web. With a strong focus on reliability and security, BOKU’s goal is to bring bank-grade payments technology and mobile users together on the web, creating a trusted, viable and accessible market for consumers, publishers and carriers alike.

Founders: Aaron Levie, Dylan Smith
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: box.net
Type of business: Cloud content management

Box is transforming the way organizations ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500s share and manage all their information in the cloud. Box’s cloud content management platform makes it easy for its 5 million end users to share and collaborate from anywhere, on any device, while also providing the security, visibility and reporting capabilities required by IT departments. The Box Apps Marketplace includes integrations with leading cloud solutions like Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite and Jive, making Box content accessible across business applications.

Headquarters: Cupertino, CA
Founders: Gaurav Banga, Simon Crosby, Ian Pratt
Website: bromium.com
Type of business: Intersection of virtualization and security

Founders: David Lieb, Andy Huibers, Jake Mintz
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: bu.mp
Type of business: Mobile Interactions

Bump is a mobile application that lets phones connect and interact by physically bumping. One of the top 10 mobile apps of all time, Bump makes your phone usable in the real world, letting users share photos, music, apps, connect on social networks, and more by just bumping phones.

Founder: Christopher Poole
Founded: 2010
Headquarters: New York, NY
Website: canv.as
Type of business: Community platform

Canvas is a community platform for sharing and playing with media, built for modern web browsers.

Founders: Jason Wang, Richard Din, Andy Zhang
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: trycaviar.com
Type of business: Online food ordering and tracking

Caviar is the easiest way for consumers and businesses to order food from favorite local eateries with the ability to live-track the order on a map. Browse a picture menu, place the order, and Caviar will deliver within 1 hour or scheduled for later.

Founders: Pravin Kothari
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Website: ciphercloud.com
Type of business: Cloud Security

CipherCloud, is the leader in cloud information protection, and provides cloud encryption and tokenization gateways to enable organizations to securely adopt cloud applications by eliminating concerns about data privacy, residency, security, and regulatory compliance. CipherCloud’s groundbreaking gateway encrypts sensitive information in real time, before it’s sent to the cloud, using operations-preserving encryption and tokenization technology without impacting usability or the application in any way. The CipherCloud product portfolio supports popular cloud applications out-of-the-box such as Salesforce, Force.com, Chatter, Google Gmail, Microsoft Office 365, and Amazon AWS. Additionally, CipherCloud Connect AnyApp and Database Gateway enable organizations to extend data protection to hundreds of third-party cloud and private cloud applications and databases.

Founder: Evan Reas, Shubham Mittal, Prasanna S.
Founded: 2010
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: lal.com
Type of business: Local interactions

Circle is the way for college students to interact with their classmates around them.

Founders: Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, Vaibhav Nivargi
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: clearstorydata.com
Type of business: Big Data

ClearStory Data is focused on enabling self-driven big data exploration. ClearStory Data is making it easy for business users to gather and explore big, diverse, dispersed data from databases, Hadoop and the web for more intuitive insights.

Founders: Gary William Flake
Headquarters: Bellevue, WA
Website: clipboard.com
Type of business: Online Saving and Sharing

Clipboard is the best way to save and share anything online. Clipboard allows you to save content from the web in a way that no other service does – users can clip all or portions of web pages while retaining layout, images, text and functioning hyperlinks and videos. Clips, which are private by default, can be saved on the web or on an iPhone or iPad. Users can create boards privately, co-curate within groups privately or share publically on social networks. Clipboard also allows you to import local content, specifically images and text files, and create rich text notes online. Regardless of the project, Clipboard is the best way to clip news articles, organize research, and plan your next project or vacation. Over time, Clipboard becomes a reflection of a user’s digital identity on the web.

Founders: Drew Perkins (CEO), Shlomo Rakib (CTO), Jeff White (CBO), Mark Stalica (VP Sales)
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Website: cohere.net
Type of business: Cable Provider Infrastructure

Cohere Networks is redefining how cable networks are built.

Founders: Todd Papaioannou, Jonathan Gray, Nitin Motgi
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: continuuity.com
Type of business: Big Data Platform

Continuuity delivers the industry’s first Big Data application fabric, fueling the next generation of Big Data applications by making it fast and easy for any developer to build, deploy, scale and manage Big Data apps. Continuuity offers a unified experience across the entire application lifecycle from development to DevOps. By providing pre-packaged building blocks with higher level APIs, Data Libs, tooling and documentation, Continuuity makes creating Big Data applications blazing fast. The cloud-based Continuuity AppFabric, the next generation application serving platform, is built on top of Hadoop open source components and shields developers from the complexity of Big Data and cloud infrastructure. With visually rich UIs, elastic scalability at the touch of a button and push-button app deployment from the developer’s local machine to the cloud, Continuuity shifts the focus from infrastructure creation to business value creation. Built by a team that has worked on and run some of the biggest, most sophisticated Big Data systems in the world, Continuuity is the future of Big Data application development.

Founders: Ramana Jonnala (CEO), Andrew Warfield (CTO), Keir Fraser (Chief Architect)
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Website: convergent.io
Type of business: Enterprise Infrastructure

Comprised of a founding team with decades of deep storage and virtualization experience, Convergent.io is an enterprise infrastructure startup redefining how storage resources are delivered in the software-defined datacenter for rapid flexibility and high-performance. Based in Silicon Valley and Vancouver, BC, Convergent.io is assembling a world-class team of storage, networking and virtualization architects, engineers and UX developers.

Founders: Jared Heyman
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: crowdmed.com
Type of business: Online Healthcare

CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. After 4 years of development and refinement, CrowdMed’s patented prediction market technology can suggest diagnoses to real-world medical cases that have stumped doctors for years. Instead of relying on individual physicians, CrowdMed harnesses the collective intelligence of hundreds of Medical Detectives (MD’s) to produce astonishingly accurate diagnoses in just hours.

Founders: Damon Grow, Matt Moore, Alex Han
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: crowdmob.com
Type of business: Mobile Advertising Network

CrowdMob is a performance-based mobile advertising network that contextually targets users when they’re seeking entertainment and highly motivated to find new apps. Whether they’re waiting to board a flight, sitting in a movie theater, or bored at the doctor’s office, we funnel these highly engaged, captivated users to your app.

Founders: James Beshara, Khaled Hussein
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: crowdtilt.com
Type of business: Online Money Pool

Crowdtilt is the easiest way for groups to pool money online. Since its launch in 2012, Crowdtilt has been used to pool money for everything from group birthday gifts, football tailgates, house parties to charitable fundraisers, community projects, and much more. More importantly, using the Crowdtilt API, anybody can build their own crowdfunding website or integrate group payments in their website.

Founders: Paula Long, John Joseph
Headquarters: Nashua, New Hampshire
Website: datagravity.com
Type of business: Data Information

“Turning Data into Information” is DataGravity’s mission. Businesses need to react faster and understand the value of critical information that is contained in the massive amounts of data they generate and store each day. The ability to gain valuable insights in a timely manner is the new business challenge and many advances in Big Data applications and Business Intelligence are evolving to provide solutions.  The DataGravity team is working hard to create the next generation of information technology. We are throwing out the status quo and working from a virtually clean sheet of paper. The result of our team’s hard work and dedication will change the way people think about and manage their data while supporting a new wave in the consumerization of IT by giving end users the power to harness the richness of the data around them.

We are staying quiet about the full details of our solution for now. We have full confidence and a strong track record in our ability to build a great company where people are constantly inspired to achieve.

Founders: Aaron Hirschhorn
Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
Website: dogvacay.com
Type of business: Online Pet Sitter Service

Don’t abandon your dog in a cage at the kennel! With DogVacay.com you can find a trusted host to watch your dog as a member of the family. Humans save 50% compared to the kennel and dogs get individual attention and a “vacay” of their own. We provide extensive pet-sitter quality control, a comprehensive insurance policy, online scheduling, and daily photo updates for ultimate peace of mi

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Founders: Ben Milne
Headquarters: Des Moines, IA
Website: dwolla.com
Type of business: Secure online money movement

Dwolla is creating the best way to move money. Powered by an accessible web-based platform and its revolutionary “free or 25 cent flat-fee” per transaction pricing model, the network offers a new approach to security, consumer privacy, and payments. The software securely uses the Internet and users’ existing bank accounts to turn mobile phones, computers, social communities, and even physical locations into a secure network that bypasses traditional card and check systems. This allows friends, families, businesses, even governments and enterprises to electronically send and receive funds with one another, like cash, but without the fees and constraints of traditional debit and credit cards.

Founders: Tom Wong and Amit Saxena
Headquarters: Menlo Park, CA
Website: eventley.com
Type of business: Business Event Platform

Eventley’s an engagement platform for business events. Every company organizes events to sell to, satisfy and engage audiences. Eventley helps their marketing and sales teams get closer to their prospects and customers than they ever thought possible. With our single, integrated event platform, Eventley takes the headache out of managing events so marketers can focus on engaging attendees with matching logic, social and mobile tools. Passive attendees become active fans, marketers become heroes, sales can sell more, and executives gain visibility into their customers across one or multiple events.

Founders: Jason Goldberg
Headquarters: New York, NY
Website: fab.com
Type of business: Design E-Commerce

Fab.com is the fastest growing e-commerce company on the planet.  Each day, Fab.com presents its members with an exclusive collection of design sales across dozens of categories ranging from home products to jewelry to artwork to apparel to workplace to toys and outdoors products, all at up to 70% off of retail prices.



Founder: Mark Zuckerberg
Founded: 2004
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: facebook.com
Type of business: Social Networking Service

Facebook is a social networking service and website with more than 500 million active users. Fundamental features to the experience on Facebook are a person’s Home page and Profile. The Home page includes News Feed, a personalized feed of his or her friends updates. The Profile displays information about the individual he or she has chosen to share, including interests, education and work background and contact information. Facebook also includes core applications – Photos, Events, Videos, Groups, and Pages – that let people connect and share in rich and engaging ways. Additionally, people can communicate with one another through Chat, personal messages, Wall posts, Pokes, or Status Updates.

Founders: Gil Elbaz
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA
Website: factual.com
Type of business: Factual was founded to provide open access to better structured data. And that means developers can build more innovative apps, publishers can access high-quality content, and ultimately, everyone, can make better decisions.

The company provides a platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a directory of California restaurants, a database of endocrinologists, or a list of American Idol finalists. It provides smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data. And this data can be used through widgets and APIs to help application developers and content publishers be more innovative and productive.

Founders: Michael Rubin
Headquarters: Jacksonville, FL
Website: fanaticsinc.com
Type of business: Sports Retailer

Fanatics, Inc. is the creation of e-commerce visionary and former Chairman and CEO of GSI Commerce, Michael Rubin. The result of combining Jacksonville-based Fanatics with GSI’s former online licensed sports merchandise business and Dreams, Inc. has made Fanatics one of the world’s largest online retailers of officially licensed sports merchandise. With projected sales to top $1 Billion in 2013, Fanatics provides the ultimate shopping experience to sports fans by offering hundreds of thousands of officially licensed items via its Fanatics (www.fanatics.com) and FansEdge (www.fansedge.com) brands as well as the largest selection of sports collectibles and memorabilia through Fanatics Mounted Memories (www.mountedmemories.com). The company also powers the e-commerce sites of all the major professional sports leagues including the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, and PGA, as well as all major media brands such as ESPN, NBC Sports, CBS Sports and FOX Sports. In addition, Fanatics operates e-commerce sites for over 100 collegiate and professional team properties.

Founders: Navneet Dalal (Co-founder & CEO) , Mehul Nariyawala (Co-founder)
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: flutterapp.com
Type of business: Gesture Based Interaction App

Flutter is revolutionizing touch-less gesture based interaction. We detect gestures via webcam and allow you to use those to control iTunes, Spotify, Rdio, Keynote, YouTube, Netflix, etc. Our app was recently featured in Best of 2012 in Mac App Store list, and we’re just getting started…

Founders: Dennis Crowley, Naveen Selvadurai
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: NYC
Website: foursquare.com
Type of business: Social Networking

Foursquare is a mobile application that makes cities easier to use and more interesting to explore. It is a friend-finder, a social city guide and a game that challenges users to experience new things, and rewards them for doing so. Foursquare lets users “check in” to a place when they’re there, tell friends where they are and track the history of where they’ve been and who they’ve been there with.

Founder: David Flynn
Founded: 2006
Headquarters: Salt Lake City, UT
Website: fusionio.com
Type of business: Flash storage

The increasing demand for a next-generation, solid-state storage technology is driven by advancements in computer processors which, following Moore’s Law, have grown exponentially in performance. Mechanical disks, on the other hand, follow Newtonian Dynamics and experience lackluster performance improvements, introducing a performance gap.

Ushering in a new era of application-centric, solid-state storage solutions for the enterprise, Fusion-io is revolutionizing the way database, application and system administrators architect their data centers. The company is closing the gap between processing power and storage needs by delivering breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional disk-based storage systems. Now, the performance of an entire disk array can be placed inside a server.

Fusion-io’s executive team has a long history of building companies that deliver game-changing and innovative technologies to the marketplace. Fusion-io was founded in 2006 by a team of experts with successful track records in the fields of transaction processing, high-performance networking, storage and superclusters, and computing and image processing.

Founders: Tim Hyer, Kevin Halter, Ludo Goarin
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: getable.com
Type of business: Online Rentals

Getable connects people with their favorite products on-demand from trusted rental establishments. Getable provides any store that rents items, from tuxedos to bicycles, with the tools to move their business online. The company serves the equipment rental industry, an $85B space with a wide selection of inventory across the U.S. Getable makes it possible to do more with less.

Founders: Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, Scott Chacon
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: github.com
Type of business: Software Development

GitHub helps people build better software, together.

Founders: Roman Stanek, CEO and Founder
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: gooddata.com
Type of business: Collaborative Analytics

Good Data uses cloud computing to deliver a business intelligence solution as an on-demand service. A central component of Good Data is collaborative analytics, making it easy for users to collectively reach and share insight.

Founder: Andrew Mason
Founded: November 2008
Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Website: groupon.com
Type of business: Local daily deals

Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 565 cities around the world. By promising businesses a minimum number of customers, Groupon can offer deals that aren’t available elsewhere.

Groupon brings buyers and sellers together in a fun and collaborative way that offers the consumer an unbeatable deal, and businesses a large number of new customers. To date, it has saved consumers more than $300 million and generates millions in revenue for the businesses it features.

Founders: Eddy Lu, Daishin Sugano
Headquarters: Venice, CA
Website: grubwithus.com
Type of business: Group Meal Host

Grubwithus is a community where friends and future friends create and join group meals. Grubwithus meals are hosted at restaurants and typically have 6-10 people at each table. Each individual pays in advance through Grubwithus for a set menu that is served family style. Most meals are themed or hosted by a Grubwithus Group to help bring together interested and similar people as well as to guide initial conversation topics at the meal. Grubwithus also allows users to create their own meals. User created meals are fully designed by the users while the logistics and coordination are handled by Grubwithus. These meals can be public or private: public meals can be viewed by the entire community and appear just like any other Grubwithus meal, while private ones — such as birthdays, bachelorette parties, and such — can only be seen by those who have been invited by the organizer.

Founders: Linden Tibbets, Alexander Tibbets, Scott Tong
Headquarters: San Francisco, California
Website: ifttt.com

IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: if this then that.

Founders: Andrew Rubin, PJ Kirner, Alan Stokol
Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA
Website: illumio.com
Type of business: Cloud Security

Cloud security company currently in stealth mode.

Founders: Kevin Systrom
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: instagram.com
Type of business: Mobile photo sharing

Instagram is a photo sharing application. It allows you to quickly take pictures, apply a filter, and share it on the service or with a number of other services.

Founders: Manav Mital, Hariharan Kolam, Raghu Venkat
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: instartlogic.com

Instart Logic provides a cloud-based service that enables web publishers to deliver an interactive and more immersive Web experience even over congested mobile and WiFi networks. Instart Logic empowers publishers to bring to life a new generation of web applications and drive increased customer acquisition and revenue.

Founders: Dr Greg Raleigh, Charles Giancarlo
Headquarters: Redwood City, CA
Website: itsoninc.com
Type of business: Mobile Service Delivery Platform

Co-founded by wireless and networking industry pioneers Dr. Greg Raleigh and Charles Giancarlo, ItsOn Inc., is introducing a revolutionary new way for mobile services to be delivered, purchased and used by consumers and businesses. The company is building direct-to-consumer services and cloud-based solutions that will serve the needs of both mobile service and content providers.

Founders: Alex Asseily and Hosain Rahman
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: jawbone.com
Type of business: Products and Services for the Mobile Lifestyle

For more than a decade, Jawbone has developed products and services for the mobile lifestyle unparalleled in their innovation, ease-of-use and sophistication of design. The company is the creator of the award-winning and best-selling premium ICON Bluetooth headset; the inventor of NoiseAssassin® technology, the world’s first and only military-grade noiseeliminating technology; JAMBOX, the first intelligent wireless speaker and speakerphone; as well as THOUGHTS, a free mobile service that allows users to utilize their voice in a new way. A 2010 IDSA Design of the Decade winner, Jawbone is committed to delivering innovative products that improve the mobile lifestyle through ever-changing software and wearability. Jawbone is privately-held and headquartered in San Francisco.

Founders: Jane Park, Kate MacDonald
Headquarters: Seattle, WA
Website: julep.com
Type of business: Beauty Company

Founded by former Starbucks and BCG executive Jane Park, Julep is one of the fastest growing beauty brands in the country. Julep was born from the belief that beauty is about connection; a celebration of the bond between girlfriends. Leveraging the expertise gained in their four boutique nail parlors in the Seattle area, Julep has created a line of the most effective, toxin-free beauty products and the latest limited-run nail colors. Julep launches more than 200 new products each year – more than any other beauty company – incorporating the real-time feedback of its online fans. The wildly popular Julep Maven beauty subscription program features full sizes of Julep’s growing beauty products offerings, including skin care and color cosmetics. To further their mission of empowering and connecting women, Julep’s Powered by Girlfriends™ project donates a portion of proceeds from every sale to organizations that support women.

Founders: Daniel Mattes
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: jumio.com
Type of business: Online and mobile credit card payments

Jumio® Inc. offers next generation online and mobile credit card payments validation and ID verification products for retailers, financial institutions and governmental agencies. Designed to increase revenue, reduce fraud, and streamline customer experiences, Jumio utilizes patent-pending computer vision technology to validate and facilitate transactions while providing unprecedented levels of consumer convenience and data security.

Jumio’s Netswipe® enables customers to scan their cards in online and mobile checkout resulting in increased revenue and reduced fraud for the merchants. Netverify™ supports real-time ID verification in over 60 countries to help clients meet a variety of know-your-customer requirements.

Founders: Kevin Wang, Adi Rathnam, Matt Zitzmann
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: kamcord.com
Type of business: Mobile Game Play Video

Kamcord allows users to record and share a video of their mobile gameplay.  Developers integrate Kamcord into their mobile games to drive more downloads.

Founders: Babur Habib, Osman Rashid
Website: kno.com
Type of business: Education Hardware

Kno, Inc. is an education software company on a mission to “Change The Way Students Learn.” We believe engagement is a leading indicator of learning success and grades are a lagging indicator. So we have partnered with over 80 leading publishers to offer more than 200,000 interactive titles that make learning more engaging, efficient, and social for students. They are the same books, only smarter. Each Kno eTextbook is packed with interactive features, assessments, and social sharing tools to engage students at the point of learning. And the Kno platform provides administrators and teachers with the tools they need to easily assign, manage, and monitor their digital learning content and assessments at an enterprise level.

As part of Kno’s commitment to “Do Well, Do Good,” Kno has created the Kno for Good program, a partnership with DonorsChoose.org, to provide $1 for every purchase made through Kno towards a classroom in need.

Founded in 2009, Kno, Inc. has emerged as a leader in education software. Kno, Inc. has received funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, FLOODGATE and GSV Capital, and is based in Santa Clara, California.

Founders: Michael Buckwald, David Holz
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: leapmotion.com
Type of business: Motion-Control Technology Software Development

Based in San Francisco, Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world’s most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology. Leap Motion’s first product, the Leap Motion controller, will be available in early 2013. Leap Motion is 200 times more sensitive than existing motion-control technology, making it the first product to let users navigate and interact with computer applications using natural hand and finger movements. Leap Motion was founded in 2010 by Michael Buckwald and David Holz.

Founders: Franklyn Chien, Joe Woo, Anthony Wu
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: learnsprout.com
Type of business: Application Programming Interface

LearnSprout represents the latest thinking and best practices behind the development of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and has built the first universal API for K-12 education. By building a single integration that works across multiple student information systems (SIS), LearnSprout has solved one of the longest-standing problems in edtech, opening the door to a world of student engagement data that until now, has been locked away, inaccessible to not only K-12 administrators, but also aspiring edtech developers. By tapping into live student engagement and performance data, LearnSprout is uniquely positioned to act as the conduit for real-time data integration between a school or district’s student information system (SIS) and all other edtech solutions. Now, integration projects that used to take a district or school days or even months, can be done in a matter of minutes. Free to schools and districts, LearnSprout Connect is the easiest and most secure, FERPA compliant method for integrating an SIS within the edtech ecosystem. LearnSprout was founded by Google, Facebook and Microsoft alumns Anthony Wu, Franklyn Chien and Joe Woo and supported by Andreessen Horowitz, Formation 8, Code for America and Imagine K12.

Founders: Alexis Ringwald and Kenny Ma
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: learnup.me
Type of business: Training and Hiring Aid

LearnUp helps employers pre-train and hire entry-level workers

Founders: Sasha Orloff, Jacob Rosenberg
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: lendup.com
Type of business: LendUp is a better alternative to payday loans.

LendUp exists for the 15 million working Americans who do not have access to traditional bank credit and turn to alternative lenders. Many of these people were looking for a simple fix to a short-term financial problem, but ended up trapped in long-term debt caused by hidden fees, costly rollovers and opaque terms and conditions.

LendUp loans are a stepping stone towards better credit. Setting the standard for financial transparency along with a combination of gamification, education and laddering micro-loans, LendUp offers a new type of lending product exclusively online and on a mobile device, so they are safe, convenient and easy to use.

At LendUp we believe there are two types of financial products: chutes and ladders. Ladders help people up, chutes push people down. One of our core values is that every product we offer at LendUp is a ladder, measured by the long-term financial wellbeing of our customers. LendUp loans are a stepping-stone towards better credit, and all the products we offer are in service of commitment to getting our customers to a better financial state.

Founders: Gee-Hwan Chuang, James Fong
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: listia.com
Type of business: Social Marketplace

Listia is a social marketplace where people can easily trade goods with each other online or from a mobile device. Our goal is to help users unlock the value stored away in their closets and garages without the hassles and fees associated with traditional marketplaces.

Founders: John Hering, Kevin Mahaffey, James Burgess
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: lookout.com
Type of business: Smartphone Security

Your smartphone is vital to your work and everyday life. Lookout provides award-winning security to protect you from viruses, malware and spyware, the ability to backup and restore your data, and tools to help locate lost or stolen phones. Lookout’s unique cross-platform, cloud-connected applications are designed to be lightweight and efficient while delivering the best protection possible. Our Mobile Threat Network scans applications worldwide, allowing us to find and stop threats before they ever become a risk to you — so you can rest assured that you’re protected from the threats that can get between you and your phone, automatically. All in a friendly, easy to use app. Lookout products are available on the Android and iOS platforms.


Founders: Dr. Ren Ng
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: lytro.com
Type of business: Photography Technology

In a time when everyone thought the single purpose camera was a thing of the past, Lytro has made a dramatic breakthrough that revolutionizes the experience of photography. Founded in 2006 by CEO Ren Ng, the first Lytro light field camera offers photographic capabilities never before possible, such as focusing a picture after it’s taken, and creates interactive living pictures that can be enjoyed by friends and family online. For additional information, visit Lytro.com.

Founder: Alfred Chuang
Founded: 2008
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: magnet.com
Type of business: Enterprise Social Software

Magnet offers a comprehensive cloud solution to create, distribute and manage enterprise-grade mobile apps. Magnet enables customers to build applications that reliably and securely integrate with back-end systems, and address mobility challenges such as limited connectivity, transaction processing and caching.

Founders: Yoram Novick
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, CA
Website: maxta.com
Type of business: Infrastructure Software

Maxta is a well funded stealth-mode startup developing a disruptive infrastructure software solution to enable the realization of a cost-effective, scalable, and agile Software-Defined Datacenter.

Founders: Arjun Sethi, Alex Chee, Vivek Tatineni, Justin Rosenthal
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: messageme.com
Type of business: Mobile Communication Service

MessageMe is a communication service that helps facilitate different mediums of communication in a simple mobile experience. A fundamental feature to the experience on MessageMe is a person’s profile. MessageMe includes core mediums – Photos, Videos, Voice, Money, Music and Groups – that let people connect and share in rich and engaging ways. “The Medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan

Founders: Geoff Schmidt, Matt DeBergalis, Nick Martin
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: meteor.com
Type of business: Web App Development

Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you’re an expert developer or just getting started.

Founders: Pete Kim
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: mightyhive.com

MightyHive is currently in stealth mode.

Founders: Joshua Buckley
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: minomonsters.com
Type of business: Mobile Gaming Company

MinoMonsters is a new kind of entertainment company, using mobile gaming to create new IP. Our first product is a monster collection and battling brand.

Founders: Suhail Doshi, Tim Trefren
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: mixpanel.com
Type of business: Data Analytics

Mixpanel’s mission is to help the world learn from its data. We’ve built the most advanced analytics platform for mobile & web, growing the number of actions we analyze to over 6 billion every single month. Our platform empowers individuals and businesses to explore their data instead of reading canned reports. Every day, some of the leading companies in gaming, e-commerce, social networking, and media are surprised by what they learn from Mixpanel and ultimately are in a better position to make strategic decisions.

Founders: Raj Shah, Rob Seger, Vishaal Hariprasad
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: mortasecurity.com
Type of business: Advanced Network Defense

Advanced Network Defense

Founders: Jim Gilliam, Joe Green, Jesse Haff
Headquarters: Los Angeles, CA
Founded: 2009
Website: nationbuilder.com
Type of business: Community Platform

NationBuilder is the world’s first Community Organizing System: an accessible, affordable, complete software platform that helps leaders grow and organize communities to achieve great things.

Founders: Steve Mullaney, Marin Casado, Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: nicira.com
Type of business: Virtualization Software

Nicira Networks is accelerating the transformation to cloud infrastructure by delivering software that virtualizes the network. Based on the innovative Network Virtualization Platform (NVP)™ architecture, Nicira solutions provide unprecedented network flexibility and control for service provider and enterprise data centers, leading to dramatically improved scalability, service velocity and costs.

The company was founded by networking research leaders from Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley, and is led by proven entrepreneurs in networking, virtualization and security.

Founders: Todd McKinnon, Frederic Kerrest
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: okta.com
Type of business: On Demand Identity Management

Okta is the market leading on-demand identity and access management service that enables enterprises to accelerate the secure adoption of their web based applications, both in the cloud and behind the firewall. Okta delivers a complete solution addressing the needs of IT, end users, and business leaders; no customization required.

With a catalog of pre-integrated applications and deep integration with Active Directory, Okta provides IT centralized user provisioning, access management, and reporting. Every end user gets a personalized, single sign-on home page for all of their applications, and business leaders get the insight they need to maximize ROI and track compliance.

Okta’s initial service is built on a secure, reliable and extensible on-demand platform that will serve as the foundation upon which a core set of services will be delivered to eliminate cloud adoption barriers and unlock the potential of the cloud for enterprises everywhere.

The Okta team has built, deployed, and supported market leading, on-demand and enterprise software solutions from companies including Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, PeopleSoft, Microsoft, Sun, and HP.

Founders: Jeff Stein, Dean Allemang
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: opendataregistry.com
Type of business: Financial Risk Management

Climate change has dramatically increased the price volatility of 12 high-risk agricultural commodities upon which $5 trillion of consumer goods depend. Open Data Registry’s (ODR) supply chain intelligence solutions help consumer brands implement innovative financial risk management and sourcing strategies to produce more environmentally sustainable consumer goods at higher profit margins than their conventional alternatives. ODR’s demand-driven solutions are also helping fuel growth in the global supplies of certified sustainable commodities — including cotton, palm oil, soy, sugar, cocoa, coffee, and forestry products — to mitigate agriculture’s contribution to climate change.

Founders: Alex Solomon, Andrew Miklas, Baskar Puvanathasan
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: pagerduty.com
Type of business: 911 for IT

PagerDuty is “9-1-1 dispatch” for IT, helping operations engineers and developers resolve IT system problems as quickly as possible. PagerDuty aggregates errors from all of your IT monitoring tools and handles the people part of the equation: alerting (via phone, SMS or email), on-call scheduling and automatic escalation of critical incidents.

Founders: Ryan Donahue, Matt Rowe, Ashton Kutcher
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: pickwickweller.com
Type of business: Luxury Fashion

Pickwick & Weller is a vertically integrated online fashion brand that designs, manufactures and sells luxurious tees and wardrobe basics – for less.

Founders: Ken Elkabany & Aaron Staley
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Santa Clara, CA
Website: picloud.com
Type of business: Cloud Computing Platform

PiCloud offers an on-demand cloud computing platform that is easy to use, highly elastic, and free of data lock-in. With PiCloud’s unique serverless architecture, developers can instantly leverage the compute power of public and private clouds without having to manage, maintain, or configure virtual servers for batch processing,high performance computing, and scientific computing applications.

Founders: Vijay Balasubramaniyan, Mustaque Ahamad, Patrick Traynor
Headquarters: Atlanta, GA
Website: pindropsecurity.com
Type of business: Fraud Enterprise Solutions

Pindrop Security provides enterprise solutions that detect and protect against phone-based fraud. Pindrop’s acoustic fingerprinting technology detects fraudulent calls and authenticates legitimate callers, helping customers eliminate financial losses and reduce operational costs. Pindrop’s breakthrough technology is the first of its kind to fingerprint individual phone calls, providing verification of caller provenance and combating Caller ID spoofing. Recently named one of the 10 Most Innovative Companies at the 2012 RSA conference, Pindrop’s solutions help companies feel more confident in the security of phone-based financial transactions.

Founders: Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, Evan Sharp
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: pinterest.com
Type of business: Consumer

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard that lets you organize and share the things you love.

Founders: Kyle Wong, Awad Sayeed, Miraj Mohsin, Jeff Chen
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: pixlee.com
Type of business: Photo Marketing

Pixlee helps companies market using authentic customer photos. Its vision is to replace stock imagery with highly targeted user-generated content. Pixlee makes it simple to collect customer photos across existing social media platforms, curate them in a centralized location, and publish them on your website and other social media platforms. Pixlee helped the San Francisco 49ers with their 2013 Superbowl campaign and has worked with other clients such as Ultra Music Festival, Yamaha and Linsanity the Movie. Using these customer-submitted photos, brands in all verticals have increased traffic and sales up to 100%.

Founders: Ben Werther
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Website: platfora.com
Type of business: Big data

Platfora is the first company to harness the potential of Hadoop so that any business user can explore, interact with, and derive insight from massive data sets, and all via an intuitive and dynamic interface.

Founders: Joe Reisinger & David Soloff
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: premise.is
Type of business: Big Data

Premise is real time data for a streaming global economy. We build machinery to organize, measure and index the collective enterprise of the human race.

Founders: Rohin Dhar, Omar Bohsali
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: priceonomics.com
Type of business: Fraud Enterprise Solutions

The price guide for everything.

Founders: Stephen Russell, Ron Palmeri
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: prismskylabs.com
Type of business: Visual Intelligence and Analytics

With a simple download, Prism Skylabs transforms any video camera into a visual intelligence and analytics tool that can be accessed from any device. Prism Skylabs adds new features to existing video infrastructure, including real-time mobile access, next-generation analytics, and infinite cloud storage. Through the power of the cloud, Prism Skylabs creates stunning and information-rich visualizations of customer dwell time, footpaths, occupancy, and even product lift. Prism Skylabs leverages big data to compare long-term trends and provide on-demand reports that offer key insight across any number of locations.

Founders: Pablo Fuentes, Sean Falconer
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: proven.com
Type of business: Mobile Job Application

Mobile job applications for Craigslist.

Founders: Ari Tuchman, John Stockton
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: quantifind.com
Type of business: Breakthrough data oriented search capability

Quantifind Inc. has developed a new paradigm for Business Intelligence solutions that lets you learn things from your data that you didn’t know to look for. Whether you are interested in uncovering leading indicators of breakthrough clinical cancer trials, strategizing for novel applications of fuel cell technologies or discovering predictive indicators of mortgage defaults, quantiFind analytics can help you see things in ways the competition hasn’t thought to.

The quantiFind engine automatically extracts data from unstructured content, contextualizes the data, and derives meaning from large scale data aggregation. This approach can discover which metrics the corpus itself thinks are important, and these learned metrics are unbiased by how the industry is used to thinking about the topic.

Founders: Carl Muirbrook and Barney Pell
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: qpme.com
Type of business: Unified Mobile Parking Technology

Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, privately-held QuickPay Corp. is a leading provider of unified mobile parking technology. QuickPay provides a cloud-based mobile parking access and revenue control system that integrates with any legacy parking infrastructure, enabling parking and transit owners and operators to unify their assets under a single low-cost, fast-deploy mobile payment platform. For consumers, QuickPay’s mobile apps enable users to find, access, and pay for parking, with convenience and a wide variety of benefits. For more information please visit: http://www.qpme.com.

Founders: Ben Kaufman
Headquarters: New York, NY
Website: quirky.com
Type of business: Social Product Development

Quirky is a social product development company that brings new consumer products to life through its online collaborative platform. Quirky’s global community of 300,000 plus creative individuals collaborate with its in house team of designers and engineers on all aspects of product development. The company develops, manufactures, and distributes its community developed products to its national retail partners including Target, Staples, Office Max and Bed, Bath and Beyond. Quirky shares its revenue back with its community through royalties from the sales of their products. Quirky is redefining the way people think about product development and making invention accessible to the masses.

Founders: Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, Mahbod Moghadam
Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY and Malibu, CA
Website: rapgenius.com
Type of business: Texting

Crowd-sourced annotation of all texts.

Founders: George Kalogeropoulos, Ning Liang
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: rentmetrics.com
Type of business: Real Estate Technology

RentMetrics is a real estate technology company that tracks residential rental markets at a granular, local level in real time. The data and analysis that RentMetrics produces is used by property managers, owners, lenders and investors to inform and support the decision-making process for setting rents, evaluating rental potential, quantifying risk and assessing the value of capital improvements.

Founders: Slava Akhemechet, Michael Glukhovsky
Founded: 2009
Website: rethinkdb.com
Type of business: Database optimized for flash storage

RethinkDB is designed to be extremely fast, and implements powerful features that are cumbersome and inefficient with rotational storage. Today’s databases heavily optimize to account for high seek latency—the time it takes for a rotational drive’s platter to move. RethinkDB takes full advantage of solid-state drives, making traditional data storage layouts unnecessary

Founders: Eric Vishria, Tim Howes
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: rockmelt.com
Type of business: Internet Browser

RockMelt is providing a fundamentally better Web experience by re-imagining the browser around how you use the internet today.

Founders: Elizabeth Iorns, Ryan Abbott, Dan Knox
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: scienceexchange.com

Science Exchange is an online marketplace for science experiments. Our mission is to improve the efficiency of scientific research by making it easy for researchers to access experimental services and expertise across institutions.

Founders: Brian Lee & MJ Eng
Headquarters: Santa Monica, CA
Website: shoedazzle.com
Type of business: Personalized Social Commerce

ShoeDazzle.com offers customized boutique shopping online for women who love shoes and fashion. Our clients receive a personalized showroom every month, brought to them by our team of celebrity stylists, featuring on-trend shoes, handbags, clothing and more. All items are designed by ShoeDazzle, manufactured exclusively in limited runs, and offered at a price that lets you indulge: starting at $39.95. Just take a fun style quiz to see your personal style profile and prepare to feel pampered and beautiful.

Founders: Olga Vidisheva, Peter Delahunty
Headquarters: New York, NY
Website: shoptiques.com
Type of business: Online Boutique

Shoptiques.com aggregates the world’s best boutiques allowing women to virtually jet set from Paris to New York and shop local one of a kind finds.

Founders: Phillip Liu and Karthik Rau
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Website: signalfuse.com

Management and monitoring for modern applications.

Founders: Rajesh Ramanand, Michael Liberty
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: signifyd.com
Type of business: Secure Payment Platform

Signifyd is a standalone platform for frictionless payment validation. By bridging the gap between online and offline identity, Signifyd is changing the way e-commerce merchants do fraud screening, making it faster, simpler, and more accurate.

Founders: Laura Mather, Mike Eynon
Headquarters: Menlo Park, CA
Website: silvertailsystems.com
Type of business: Web Session Intelligence

Silver Tail Systems is a leading provider of web session intelligence and protects the world’s leading websites against fraud and cyberattacks at the navigation layer. Silver Tail Systems’ award-winning solutions are made possible by the unmatched expertise of its management and technology teams, who bring deep experience, know-how and personal commitment to protect their customers’ businesses against online cybercrime and fraud.

Founders: Christian Wiklund, Niklas Lindstrom
Headquarters: San Francisco, Ca.
Website: skout.com
Type of business: Mobile Social Networking

Founders: Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis
Founded: 2003
Headquarters: London
Website: skype.com
Type of business: VoIP Software

Skype is a peer-to-peer Internet telephony service that is free for Skype-to-Skype calls. The service also allows Skype users to call mobiles and landlines, and vice-versa. Skype has special charge plans for non-Skype-to-Skype calls. Skype is expanding from its traditional computer-based calls to mobile applications. Skype was founded by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis who were also the founders of the file sharing application Kazaa and the peer-to-peer television application Joost. Skype is different than other VoIP services in that it uses a peer-to-peer model instead of a server-client model.

Founder: Guarav Dhillon
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Website: snaplogic.com
Type of business: Data integration

SnapLogic transforms how companies connect business applications, both on premise and in the Cloud. SnapLogic customers can connect any combination of applications and data sources with a radical improvement in cost and performance over traditional integration solutions. An independent integration company, SnapLogic reduces vendor lock-in, providing an open extensible solution.

Founders: Nick Koshnick, Justin White, Mike Preiner
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: Solum.ag
Type of business: Agricultural Hardware and Software

Founders: Israel Cidon, Asaf Cidon, Madan Gopal
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: sookasa.com
Type of business: Security and Data Management

Sookasa is a security and data management layer on top of cloud services like Dropbox that keeps your business compliant and your users happy. Sookasa lets businesses leverage the productivity gains of popular consumer cloud services by securing and providing compliance for sensitive business files.

Founders: Adam Bonnifield, Michael Mayernick
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: spinnakr.com
Type of business: Online Business Application

Spinnakr transforms the dead, static website into a living application that understands and responds to its different visitors. It’s magically easy to use, but powerful enough to transform how business is done online.

Founders: Patrick Collison
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: stripe.com
Type of business: Online Payment

Stripe is the best way to accept payments online.

Founders: G.D. Ram Ramkumar, Keshav Menon, Dominic Hughes
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: concept.io

Swell (by concept.io) is like Pandora for news and information. It’s the new way to listen to audio on the go. Swell uses a ground breaking algorithm that taps a person’s listening history and social profile to serendipitously match content with their interests.

Founders: Matthew Riley, Quinlan Hoxie
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: swiftype.com
Type of business: Search Engine Control

Swiftype makes it simple to add fantastic search to your website or mobile app. With powerful features designed for both technical and non-technical site owners, Swiftype is unique in that it gives you detailed control of your search engine through a web-based dashboard — re-order results via a drag-and-drop interface for specific queries, edit pages that are indexed, and view detailed analytics to inform further optimizations.

Founders: Joshua Schachter, Paul Rademacher, Nick Nguyen
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: tastylabs.com
Type of business: Social software

Founders: Tony Rizzo, Christian Ghoerghe
Headquarters: San Mateo, CA
Website: tidemark.net
Type of business: Analytics Technology

Tidemark thinks that it’s time to rethink analytic applications. It’s time for self-reliant applications for every user, not more meaningless reports that no one reads. It’s time for actionable, predictive, collaborative applications that cut across transactive business processes, not more applications that create new silos. It’s time for cloud-based, community-managed applications that become smarter through the power of the network.

Founder: Suli Ali and Ian Spivey
Founded: 2009
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: tinyco.com
Type of business: Mobile Social Games

TinyCo makes fun, engaging social games that are played on mobile devices like iPhone and Android phones. Our games live in persistent worlds where players can play for hours or just for five minutes while waiting for the bus. TinyCo’s goal is to lead the way in making mobile games more fun, and more fun to play with your friends, for years to come.

Founders: Gordon Mangione
Headquarters: Bellevue, WA
Website: tipbit.com
Type of business: Digital Database Personalization

At tipbit, we automate insight. We compare activity across your devices with your personal, digital universe: email, files, meetings, contacts and social media. We perform the analysis, make inferences, and display a sorted, relevant synopsis of the information that matters most to you … at the moment you need it. tipbit: know what matters.

Founders: Sol Lipman, Ethan Nagel, Simon Batistoni
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: tomfoolery.com
Type of business: App Development

Tomfoolery, Inc. builds crazy, beautiful, and useful apps for people to use at work. Our apps are mobile first, primarily iOS and Android, but offer light-weight web interfaces as well. We are based in San Francisco, CA and are committed to Work Awesome.

Founders:Rotem Perelmuter, founder and CEO
Website: topprospect.com
Type of business: Social networking for recruiting market

Founders: Taso Du Val, Breanden Beneschott
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: toptal.com
Type of business: Social Commerce Platform

A highly curated marketplace for top software engineers and quality companies.

Founder: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams
Founded: March 2006
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: twitter.com
Type of business: Social Networking and Microblogging

Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations.

At the heart of Twitter are small bursts of information called Tweets. Each Tweet is 140 characters in length, but don’t let the small size fool you—you can share a lot with a little space. Connected to each Tweet is a rich details pane that provides additional information, deeper context and embedded media. You can tell your story within your Tweet, or you can think of a Tweet as the headline, and use the details pane to tell the rest with photos, videos and other media content.

Founders: Meredith Perry
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: ubeam.com
Type of business: Wireless Device Charging

uBeam transmits power over the air to wirelessly charge electronic devices. The company seeks to enable a world where device charging is a seamless and untethered experience. It will be the Wi-Fi of energy.

Founders: Craig Walker, Brian Peterson, John Rector, Alex Cornell
Headquarters: Pleasanton, CA
Website: uberconference.com
Type of business: Visual Conferencing

ÜberConference provides a rich visual interface for conference calls. Simple, visual, and free to use, it’s audio conferencing done right.

Founders: Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Website: udacity.com
Type of business: Higher Education

Our mission is to bring accessible higher education to the world. We seek to empower our students to develop their skills through learning by doing and to advance their education and careers. We believe that higher education is a basic human right, and it should be available to everyone, everywhere, and any time. And we strive to develop education that is fun, engaging, and effective.

Founders:  Michael Litt, Devon Galloway
Headquarters: Kitchener, ON, Canada
Website: vidyard.com

Vidyard is the video marketing platform.
In short, Vidyard powers video marketing campaigns by providing advanced analytics, A/B Testing, YouTube integration and lead-capture/lead-scoring via integration with CRM, lead-scoring and marketing automation platforms.

Founders: CEO Razmig Hovaghimian
Website: viki.com
Type of business: Collaborative Translation

Viki is a leading international video site with TV shows, movies and other premium content, translated into more than 150 languages by a community of avid fans. With over 1 billion videos viewed and nearly 200 million words translated, Viki uniquely brings global prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners. Viki also syndicates its shows with fan-generated subtitles to partners such as Hulu, Netflix and Yahoo!.

Founders: Ronald Creon
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: volio.me
Type of business: Interactive Video App

Volio™ interactive experiences are a new medium in which personalities in pre-recorded video engage their audiences in a dialogue. Volio apps can be entertaining, informative or educational. By simply talking, the user participates and guides the experience. Used by media creators, brands, marketers and entertainers to drive deeper audience engagement, with a wide range of uses to come.

The first Volio App called “Talk to Esquire” was created in collaboration with Esquire Magazine. Available on the App Store for iPad and iPhone.

Founders: Art Agrawal, Dongyi Liao
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Website: YourMechanic.com
Type of business: Mechanics Marketplace

Imagine when you have a car problem, a top rated mechanic comes to your home or office, fixes your car, and it cost you 30-50% less than shops and dealers. Sounds crazy, right? We are making that happen. We are disrupting the car repair market by creating a marketplace for top mechanics (peer to peer disruption of a large antiquated market).

Founders: Ze Frank
Founded: 2010
Website: zefrank.com
Type of business: Games

Stealth mode.

Founders: Darrell Cavens and Mark Vadon
Headquarters: Seattle, Wa
Website: zulily.com
Type of business: Daily Deal Site for Moms

zulily is the leading daily deals site for moms, babies and kids. Membership is free and zulily sales launch daily, filled with quality clothing, toys, décor and more. Top brands are offered alongside boutique brands, giving moms the chance to outfit their families with unique finds. Founded in 2009, zulily has become a global shopping destination. zulily is headquartered in Seattle, with offices in Reno, Columbus and London.

Founders: Anthemos Georgiades
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Website: zumper.com
Type of business: Apartment Rental Platform

Zumper is building a more efficient and transparent platform for apartment rentals.

Founders: Mark Pincus, Michael Luxton, Eric Schiermeyer, Justin Waldron, Andrew Trader, and Steve Schoettler
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: San Francisco
Website: zynga.com
Type of business: Network of gaming applications

At Zynga, our mission is to connect people through games. We make social games that are free and accessible for everyone to play.

Every day millions of people interact with their friends and express their unique personality through our games, which range from harvesting plants to baking apple pies to playing poker. Zynga was founded in January 2007 named for his late American Bulldog, Zinga. Loyal and spirited, Zinga’s name is a nod to a legendary African warrior queen.