500 Global 2012

Operator of a performance management platform intended to create effective managers, highly engaged employees and high-powered organizations. The company's platform offers a research-backed performance tracker focused on forwarding growth and performance for each individual, enabling clients to monitor their employee's performance via mobile applications effectively.

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Provider of a cloud based presentation platform. The company delivers mobile technology for employees to watch video presentations, answer quizzes to test their knowledge, and to create their own presentations to share. The company also provides real-time analytics to employers on completion rates and comprehension.

Operator of an online marketplace designed to find online workshops, summer camps, and after-school classes for kids. The company's marketplace helps to compare schedules from different providers, read reviews from other families, and register online to streamline operations and get additional bookings to shop for camps and kids' nights out, enabling parents to book with one registration form, and read parent reviews and coordinate with friends.

Provider of a closed-loop reporting and automation platform designed to know return on ad spend. The company's reporting and automation platform is a self-serve cross-network online advertising platform which helps to create and manage campaigns across networks as well as automate the workflow, enabling enterprises to measure the performance of Ads, gain full insight into their campaign performance and streamline campaign optimization.

Developer of a vertical marketplace and commerce destination designed for babies and driving purchase decisions. The company platform utilizes robust proprietary data, patented technology, and unbiased editorial guidance, it recommends expert-tested products to those starting their parenting journey, and registries connect new parents and a community of family and friends who help plan, prepare, and shop for a child's arrival, enabling client with smooth purchasing experience for parents.

Provider of subscription based platform designed to supply treat boxes for dogs. The company's treat boxes are themed boxes which includes innovative toys, all-natural treats and chews, enabling dog owners to give best treats to their dogs.

Provider of an online portal designed to create and display multi-media portfolios. The company's online portal provides an online application, enabling users to create social community for local venues and activities.

Provider of subscription-based collection of lifestyle products intended to offer uniquely standalone goods for men. The company's products include a collection of lifestyle products that are limited edition products packaged together in a box driven by a specific story or theme in the areas of style, grooming, food, drink, and gear, enabling men to have a club membership and personalized mix of products based on their interests.

Provider of website that connects people with financial advisors. The company connects advisers with advice seekers for one on one calls.

Operator of a wealth management platform intended to expand access to quality financial advice. The company's platform offers account aggregation that automatically discovers assets, to provide a portal that reaches out to deliver value to clients by eliminating traditional reporting tasks and operational burdens, enabling financial advisors to increase their revenue and gain more clients.

Provider of a topic-based platform designed to foster and encourage intellectual discussion. The company's topic-based platform helps people to engage in online conversations based on topics of common interest, enabling users to stay connected with other members and remain updated on their favorite topic.

Developer of a temporary phone number generator application designed to give users the power to take control of their communications and personal data. The company's application aids users to get as many numbers as they want, use each as a private line on their mobile phones and keep numbers indefinitely or burn numbers they no longer need, enabling users to obtain and manage additional phone numbers for voice, SMS and MMS communications.

Provider of services to improve search engine marketing. The company uses high frequency bidding and real time tracking to give its customers the most value for their subscriptions. It also offers an artificial intelligence, which looks at keyword search historical trends.

Operator of an online graphic design platform intended to democratize access to design and visual communication. The company's platform offers drag-and-drop features and professional layouts to consistently design graphics through a vast collection of professionally designed layouts to personalize the design with a stock library of photographs, illustrations and imagery, enabling companies and users to design presentations, and social media graphics with appropriate layouts.

Provider of an online parents communication platform. The company provides a web-based platform for group communication that allows parents to communication with various groups, including classrooms, PTAs, school communities, scout troops, sports teams, and groups of family and friends.

Developer of a continuous delivery automation platform designed to offer automated testing and continuous integration tools to clients. The company's platform helps to rapidly code for web and mobile applications by automating the build, test and deploy process at scale, enabling clients to detect and fix bugs before they even reach customers.

Provider of a financial management tool for monitoring and analyzing cloud expenses. The company's platform aggregates expenditures into accessible and comprehensive reports that identify and allocate cloud costs using the most accurate, precise data in real-time thus scale efficiently and confidently with enterprise-scale analysis and machine learning which empower teams to optimize and be agile while staying accountable recommendations via SMS and email.

Provider of a cross-platform, cross-device messaging service to businesses. The company's platform provides SMS-like messaging services that run across all mobile devices in real-time.

Developer of a real estate data platform designed to provide timely, analyst-reviewed commercial lease, sales, and property details. The company's platform gathers and quality checks lease and sales contracts from professionals, enabling lenders, landlords, and investors to close business by focusing on meaningful networking and accurate analyses.

Developer of an online business management platform designed to manage the financials, stocks, and contacts of a company. The company's platform helps micro and small businesses in financial management, sales management, inventory management, invoicing, and billing, enabling entrepreneurs to focus on expanding their businesses and maximizing their profits.

Developer of a learning management system intended to help provide training through an enterprise web application. The company's platform delivers and manages all types of training that help to automate course registration, grading of assignments, email reminders, surveys, and reports for online and in-person training courses, enabling clients to create courses and assign tests for their employees.

Developer of an consumer finance education and recommendation platform designed to provide credit score information and recommendations. The company's platform offers saving recommendations based on data comparisons as well as financial education and access to free tools, such as the credit report card and credit card statistics, enabling users to monitor and manage different aspects of their credit financial health.

Developer of an online recipe publishing platform. The company provides a social platform for chefs, food bloggers and home cooks to connect, share ideas and food secrets.

Developer of data-free connection technology and platform built to remove the data cost barrier and increase user engagement. The company's platform uses a reverse billing model that enables us to deliver content from websites, applications, and dedicated IP addresses to users at no mobile data cost to them, even with no airtime or data balance, enabling clients to ensure seamless internal communication, client outreach, member connection, and commercial publishing.

Making sense of social data. (Acquired by SimplyMeasured.)

Operator of an e-learning platform intended to prepare for college entrance exams. The company's platform offers free access to pre-recorded classes, live classes, online monitoring as well as online lessons for subjects like mathematics, physics, and chemistry to help people achieve their goals through affordable and quality education, enabling students to learn at their own pace as well as prepare and clear other entrance exams at low cost.

Developer of an online digital payment platform intended to manage fleet expenses and allow users to make secure, simple e-payments. The company's platform monitors all transactions in real-time and accesses insights for the fleet's fuel-related tasks saving costs and improving operations, enabling drivers, fleet managers, finance departments and owners to receive data accuracy, transparency and simplicity and manage their fleet effectively.

Developer of an artificial intelligence-based healthcare platform designed to empower patients with the information they need to make healthcare decisions. The company's platform focuses on doctor discovery, telemedicine, and cashless services and enhances the end-to-end healthcare journey, enabling patients to optimize healthcare outcomes and costs.

Provider of technology platform that converts photos into storefronts. The company provides a Web and mobile application to create shoppable, trackable photos, and operates a Web-content bank enabling brands to release monetizable images directly to publishers.

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A platform to plan, book and manage global and group travel.

Provider of office lunch services intended to offer workplace food programs and support local restaurants. The company platform leverages its vertical software platform and combines it with food from local, regional, and national restaurants to provide restaurant-based meal services and top-rated restaurants that visit and serve in the office lobby or company breakroom, enabling employees to find delicious, authentic restaurants and enjoy them at work.

Provider of an online social network platform to connect entrepreneurs. The company provides an online dating platform that enables entrepreneurs to connect, share and help potential Co-Founders, advisors and professionals and skilled individuals.

Provider of cloud telephony tools. The company offers cloud telephony and SMS API tools used to connect calls and messages through the cloud.

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Provider of an online honeymoon registry designed to help couples discover, plan and book their dream travel experiences. The company's platform helps in creating honeymoon-related profiles, with crowdsourcing tools to raise funds for their nuptial-related getaways and also includes a mobile application, enabling couples to share memories of their trip with their audience, as well as a mailing service to send out thank-you notes.

Developer of a digital gift card wallet application. The company offers a platform for managing digital gift cards from mobile phones by allowing its users to upload, buy and redeem gift cards in stores or online.

Developer of a property inspection platform designed to inspect, monitor, and analyze the performance of real estate assets. The company's platform allows for undertaking mobile inspections, work order management, and remote monitoring and is used for inspecting residential real estate, commercial buildings, cruise ships, ski resorts, food, and fire safety, enabling apartment operators to have real-time visibility and control of operations.

Operator of an investment research and financial media company intended to offer hedge fund quality research for everyday investors. The company's services include fundamental and industry-specific research, customized research, macro morning calls, company and industry-specific real-time updates, conference calls, corporate access, field trips and virtual portfolio management, enabling clients to get investment ideas through quantitative, bottom-up, and macro analysis with an emphasis on timing.

Provider of relationship application designed to create meaningful connections among people who seek real relationships. The company's dating application provides an alternative to swipe culture by creating smart matches and natural conversations among people who are on the same page and helps to meet people, through friends in a secure way, enabling users to expand their social network by meeting the friends of their friends.

Gives businesses everything needed to hire & manage W2 contractors.

Provider of a cloud-based e-commerce platform intended to integrate, manage and optimize merchandise sales. The company's cloud-based e-commerce platform connects inventory management services, third-party logistics providers and wholesale distributors to provide a seamless link from an e-commerce platform to one or many fulfillment points to automate inventory, orders and shipment updates enable retailers and branded manufacturers to work in a flexible way.

Developer of administration software. The company is engaged in the development of automated means of accountability to integrate the curriculum and mission standards of private schools and non-profit organizations.

Provider of an advocacy and engagement marketing platform designed to help companies discover, nurture, and mobilize their advocates to accelerate sales and increase customer lifetime value. The company's platform captures customer enthusiasm and uses it to turbocharge marketing and sales efforts for more rapid and profitable revenue growth, enabling advocates to convert prospects into customers and new customers into successful customers.

Developer of a web and mobile-based ticket booking application designed for users to buy tickets for events in local areas. The company's application provides reviews, commentary, celebrity interviews, and trailers and offers users the ability to buy tickets in advance, enabling customers to decide and choose tickets for events and plays that suit their interests.

Provider of hotel booking application designed to help in last minute hotel bookings. The company's hotel booking application provide details of hotels and helps to book at a lower rate, enabling users to book hotels with a click at last moments.

Developer of an online book summarization application designed to provide key insights into books in readable and audible formats. The company's application sums up and provides analysis, key takeaways, and insights from bestselling non-fiction books in text and audio format, enabling users to read or listen to and understand the concepts of their favourite books.

Operator of an online beauty platform intended to inspire individuals and offer beauty ideas. The company's platform contains articles, videos blogs, and retail personalized products through their monthly membership subscription, enabling users to get tools to define their own definition of beauty and feel confident.

Provider of an online review management platform intended to bring the culture of reviews to the emerging world, empower individuals and enrich online local content. The company's online review management platform includes a million places listed from ten cities generating tens of thousands of reviews, enabling users users to interact better with places in their cities.

Owner and operator of a mobile advertising platform. The comapny uses mobile interaction information of users to send them relevant offers.

Developer of a backend analytics infrastructure designed to help developers in every industry leverage data in new and inventive ways. The company's platform can capture event data and embed custom dashboards in any application, giving developers the flexibility and extensibility of a custom analytics stack, without the hassle and risk of managing big data infrastructure.

Provider of a cloud-based printing ecommerce software intended to help print service providers set up online stores to optimize business. The company's cloud-based printing ecommerce software is an easy-to-use, zero-maintenance hosted service that lets printing companies sell online, accept and inspect files and manage all customer communication, billing, scheduling and shipping, enabling printing companies transit to online retail through subscription-based, on-demand service while reducing costs, increasing efficiency and improving relationships with existing customers.

Operator of a three dimensional cloud-platform company. The company provides a three dimensional rendering platform that enables users to collaborate while rendering and finalizing three dimensional content. The platform operates on an open API, allowing developers to create their own applications via their API library.

Provider of an online platform that aggregates news about products in verticals such as movies, electronics, video games and cars. The company provides product news before it's launch.

Online auto and business insurance. (Acquired 2013)

Developer of order management system for small and medium sized businesses. The company develops management system with a mobile sales application enabling user's business to capture, track and process orders anywhere in real time.

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PrProvider of social media marketing services. The company helps businesses create custom Facebook fan pages and timelines to engage customers.

Developer of an online test preparation platform designed to erase examination anxiety from students. The company's platform provides test-prep services to students preparing for standardized examinations with the use of short-form video snippets allowing them to practice real problems using mobile applications and online study material, enabling students to prepare for their examinations in fast and easy manner, with the help of mobile and computer devices.

Developer of a content marketing platform designed to create and deliver engaging marketing campaigns. The company's platform combines design, web-publishing, and analytics tools in a single interface that can enhance any existing site to create, publish and optimize content for their landing and product pages, enabling clients to enrich their sites, increasing engagement, conversion, and revenue growth.

Operator of an influencer marketing platform designed to connect brands with people. The company's platform helps to build a marketing network with full campaign management capabilities and influencer CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tools, enabling clients to create authentic experiences and persuasive repurposable content.

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Provider of an online global health portal. The portal allows users across the globe to gather and share locally-relevant health care information.

Operator of a collaborative intelligence platform intended to connect teams to unlock their potential, increasing the innovation capacity of the enterprise. The company creates a culture of effective collaboration where everyone is connected, contributing, and empowered to deliver business-driving outcomes, helping teams of organizations, universities, schools, and non-profit organizations that depend upon a digital workspace to share ideas and understand problems together.

Developer of the patient social network platform in chronic health intended to help communities of people better manage conditions. The company's platform creates disease-specific social networks and helps to get referrals and share tips with other people who are personally facing chronic conditions, enabling patients to see around corners with access to medically-approved content, safe support, and connections to thousands of other patients going through the same thing.

Provider of open-and-go lessons designed to increase curiosity among children regarding science subjects. The company's open-and-go lessons reach children through elementary school teachers to develop a scientific understanding, enabling children to investigate their questions.

Developer of a SaaS based point of sale designed to automate workflow. The company's platform helps in scheduling appointments, social bookings, growth marketing, staff, and listing management along with detailed analytics reports, enabling businesses to improve sales and productivity.

Provider of a creative computer programming platform designed to teach children the art of coding. The company's creative computer programming platform teaches skills like developing animations, mobile games, creating music, crafting e-books and building fictional robots, enabling children to build application and games, mod Minecraft, control robots, and even learn JavaScript and Python at the age of 7.

Developer of cloud-enabled, environment-sensing computers. The company's open-source, home-automation system allows users to connect a variety of sensors to the Internet.

Developer of a web-based learning platform designed to improve the grammar and writing skills of young students. The company's platform generates a set of questions based on topics from sports teams to TV shows to pop icons, identifies grammatical and other errors in the answers provides appropriate tutorials and follow-up exercises, and offers teachers a detailed breakdown of each student's strengths and weaknesses, enabling fresh talents to improve their writing skills in a way that's engaging and authentic as compared to the traditional method of relying solely on study materials.

Provider of personalized news and curated newsletters designed for busy professionals. The company's platform continuously scans a lot of news publications and tracks how stories are being shared on social networks every day, and provides customized feeds to users based on preferences, providing influencers in media, technology, and finance sectors to save time and stay informed.

Provider of analytics tools intended to offer analytics, insights and measurement services for the evolving Public Relations (PR) industry. The company's platform helps businesses showcase the impact of their PR efforts through a streamlined public relations measurement software, enabling companies to understand the impact of PR on business objectives and increase overall PR performance through applying big data.

Developer of a content marketing platform designed to personalize branded content across websites, email, paid media and more, The company's content marketing platform uses machine learning technology that automatically surfaces the most personally relevant content to the visitors across channels and continually improves content recommendations of the visitors to keep them coming back and reading more of the content. enabling brands to build strong content-based relationships, provide measurable audience and content insights and drive quantifiable results.

Provider of platform that publishes digital books for iPads and iPhone.The company designs e-books which readers can touch, watch, listen and read.

Developer of e-commerce logistics platform designed to track supply chains and orders. The company's application uses an open application programming interface (API) to integrate with major marketplaces and shopping cart platforms, enabling merchants to streamline their shipping and inventory management across all their sales channels so they can focus on growing their business.

Provider of an online platform to sell movie tickets. The company offers a mobile application to sell tickets, while aggregating movie-related content and providing showtime information through its network of sites.

Developer of a mobile gaming platform designed to develop games that can be played with family. The company's platform makes use of comic book art to develop and publish integrated comic book and character-driven story-lines, enabling gamers worldwide to play games with storytelling experiences.

Mobile applications for the construction industry.

Provider of a web marketing platform intended to help businesses to build more customer relationships in a faster way. The company's platform generates data about audiences, analyzes how the promotions are being utilized and organizes the customer lists for additional follow-through, enabling clients to grow in terms of revenue.

Developer of an online education platform intended to assist students to learn anytime, anywhere, at their own pace. The company's online education platform provides an e-learning resource in a quiz format which allows users to create their own quizzes via a content-distribution process and engages various users worldwide, enabling users to learn in a fun way.

Provider of an online community designed to help parents have more fun with their kids. The company's online community focuses on offering ideas that are aspirational and actionable and also connects families with localized points of interests, enabling parents to do fun things with their kids and to identify their specific interests through various demographic filters, and essentially connect with a virtual tour guide.

Provider of a real-time messaging application designed to bridge the communication gap in primary education. The company's real-time messaging application schedules reminders ahead of time, as well as coordinates the logistics of school-related activities, enabling teachers, parents, students and administrators in K-12 schools to communicate with each other.

Republic Project offers a cloud-based ad platform that makes it easy to scale campaigns, meet demand, and optimize performance in real time.

Provider of an employee referral software designed for employee engagement. The company's referral platform helps to find suitable candidates for organizations through employee engagement in referrals, enabling employers to increase employee retention.

Simple Business SMS. SMBs to Large Enterprise.

Provider of a video making platform designed to connect businesses of all sizes with success in the video first world. The company's platform offers over 2,000 video designs made by professional video designers and proprietary video editing & rendering technology to promote video ads on Facebook and Instagram, enabling anyone to make visually stunning and ROI generating video ads in minutes.

Provider of iPhone and iPad games for children. The company offers an iOS application and plush toy with voice recognition capabilities that allow children to play educational and interactive games.

Developer of claims management software designed to transform the end-to-end claims process through digitization and intelligent automation. The company's software offers electronic intake of FNOL, data investigation, technology-assisted investigation, claims assessment, and digital payment processing for settlements, enabling companies to have access to cloud-native services in claim settlement processes.

Developer of a cloud-based hospitality software designed to create successful face-to-face events. The company's software offers a collaborative platform that is used by planners and property professionals to connect with each other, enabling clients to come together online to create and manage events from any location on any device.

Provider of an alternative service to conference calls for both web and mobile users. The company provides a conference calling services with a visual interface, which uses a personal and business link instead of a phone number for conference calls.

Developer of a mobile parking application designed to make parking facilities future-proofed, cities more accessible and the world more connected. The company's application connects parking lots, parking garages, and valet services and exchanges data and payments, enabling customers to reserve parking spots, compare rates, and find open parking.

Provider of an online source for daily deals. The company's product enables websites and applications to build with deals.

Developer of an online platform designed to help people to discover products and brands they love. The company's platform operates a website that sells software, application and digital tools that offers information published through daily media, enabling clients to reach to their relevant audience and improve their revenue streams for publishers.

Developer of subscription-based software designed to synchronize commerce and climate. The company's subscription-based software provides sophisticated weather guidance in a one-stop shop that blends objective temperature output with numerical guidance for the full spectrum of temperature probabilities up to 40 days in advance, enabling energy producers, commodity investment firms, food shippers, auto manufacturers, and retailers to avail weather updates and facilitate more efficient transactions.

Acquired by Carlyle. Edtech and other technology

Developer of mobile-based application designed to edit videos. The company's mobile-based application offers multimedia editing platform that allows to select video clips and combine them into a single film complete with transitions and music, enabling people and developers to make travel movies, wedding videos, promo ads and property virtual tours.

Provider of an online marketplace designed to sell construction supplies. The company's online marketplace offers drop shipping and contractor-level pricing services along with hardware and building supplies, enabling general contractors to procure building materials.

Developer of an online portal designed to connect readers with writers and comic artists. The company's platform allows creators to publish their work on the website and app, helping creators gain an audience and readers with new content.

Operator of an online retail platform designed to connect tea buyers directly with small family farms around the world. The company's platform uses technology and media to help people learn about a variety of teas, and offers videos from tea gardens and detailed profiles of farms, allowing customers to browse, preview, and purchase teas from individual growers.

Developer of interactive digital content platform designed to offer games and study materials for children. The company's platform develops an educational application that helps children to play games, read news and view pictures online, enabling users to make their children learn, grow and have fun at the same time.

Provider of an eCommerce site and social media page created to share Japanese otaku culture products and news with the world. The company's eCommerce site and social media page work directly with manufactures and independent creators to provide an authentic and curated selection of merchandise and popular news, enabling Japanese pop culture fans to receive the latest in otaku culture.

Developer of a personal finance manager and bank data aggregator application designed to get personal finance past spreadsheets and graphs. The company's budgeting application tracks and manages a person's daily expenses, as well as organizes their bills and budget, enabling individuals to find out where their money is going and how to keep their finances in shape with the help of infographics.

Operator of an online peer-to-peer marketplace for fashion. The company provides an online marketplace to connect sellers to like-minded buyers and provides packaging materials, shoes and accessories. In addition, it recommends pricing and handles returns.

Operator of an online retail platform intended to provide classic and all-American lifestyle products. The company operates as an e-commerce platform selling clothing, accessories, home decor items, and gift products, enabling customers to get all types of home accessories and gift products under one roof at reasonable prices.

Provider of an image recognition and visual listening platform. The company uses advanced image recognition and artificial intelligence technologies to identify image-based risks and opportunities while analyzing user-generated photos in social channels, enabling brands to understand how their products are consumed and visualized by users in their daily lives.

Developer of a third-party risk and attack surface management platform designed to reduce cyber risk, prevent breaches, and protect customer data. The company's platform combines third-party security ratings, security assessment questionnaires, and threat intelligence capabilities to give businesses a full and comprehensive view of their risk surface, enabling clients to continuously improve cybersecurity ratings, detect data exposures, and control risks.

User retention as a service. Drip email

Developer of a video production application designed to capture and share videos. The company's application offers video shooting and editing with a diverse range of filters and effects using iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android devices, enabling customers to record every special moment of life in a special way.

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Provider of domain data via the API. The company provides domain availability and advanced WHOIS data output.

Provider of hassle-free marketing optimization tools. The company uses customers web analytics and shopping cart data to teach companies how to get more traffic, leads and sales.

Provider of an online platform designed to offer personalized wine subscription service. The company's online platform helps to discover and buy wine easily, enabling users to get 4 bottles of wine delivered at their door every month.

Provider of mobile marketing services. The company provides consumer intelligence platform that drives services such as couponing, friend referrals, on-pack activations.