Rory Parness

New Aurora Corp. provides communication software solutions. The company was founded on April 11, 1994 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Clickable, Inc. provides search and social advertising online solutions. It offers real-time performance tracking, as well as downstream engagement and purchasing behaviors tracking solutions. The company was founded by Munish Gandhi and David S. Kidder in 2006 and is headquartered in San Redwood City, CA.

Engine Yard, Inc. engages in the provision of cloud orchestration platform. It helps developers and DevOps to provision, manage, monitor, and control applications in the public and private cloud. The company was founded by Jayson Vantuyl, Lance Walley, Ezra Zygmntowicz and Tom Mornini in 2006 and is headquartered San Francisco, CA.

mxPlay, Inc. develops web applications. The private company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded by Rupen Dolasia.

Skillshare, Inc. operates an online community marketplace for knowledge sharing purposes. The firm’s main categories of learning are creative arts, design, entrepreneurship, lifestyle and technology, with subtopics covering a myriad of skills. The company was founded by Michael Karnjanaprakorn and Malcolm C. Ong in November 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Human Dx Ltd. enables and supports the development of the human diagnosis project. It collects and interprets online contributions from members of the medical, scientific, and patient communities to enable the world’s first open diagnostic system. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

goTenna, Inc. develops a communications device that enables users to use smartphones to send and receive messages and share GPS location with others even there?s no central connectivity. It offers goTenna, a cognitive digital radio combined with an app that generates its own signal and automatically coordinates with other units within range. The company was founded by Daniela Perdomo and Jorge Perdomo and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

Part of The Arena Group Holdings, Inc., Six Apart Ltd. is a company that builds websites using a powerful content management system called Movable Type. The company is based in San Francisco, CA. The company's blogging software and static publishing platform make site management easy and effective. The company was founded in 2001 by Mena G. Trott, Benjamin Trott, Ben Trott, Reid G. Hoffman. Nobuhiro Seki has been the CEO of the company since 2003.

Bay Partners LLC (Bay Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1976 by John Freidenrich. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Union Square Ventures LLC (USV) is a venture capital firm founded by Brad R. Burnham and Frederick R. Wilson in 2003. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Part of Betr Holdings, Inc., Lotus Software, Inc. is a company that develops software that helps to create interactive demos. The company is based in New York, NY. The company was founded in 1982 by Chris Schilling, Harrison Johnson. The CEO is Harrison Johnson. Lotus Software was acquired by Chameleon Intelligent Tech, Inc. on May 29, 2024.

Covestor, Inc. operates as a online investment management platform. Its platform and technology allows delivering specialized active and passive investing solutions at a lower cost and with the benefit of online convenience. Its platform give investors access to institutional style investment strategies, delivered in the security of their own brokerage accounts. The company was founded by Perry Rael Blacher, Richard Kevork Tahta and Simon Veingard in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

AMEE UK Ltd. develops platforms for quantifying greenhouse gases. It offers AMEE a search engine that provides access to various data in AMEE which enables consultants, researchers and developers to learn about methodologies and specific data required for energy efficiency analysis. The company was founded by Andrew Conway and Gavin Starks in 2007 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

HireVue, Inc. engages in the development and provision of hiring intelligence platform. Its product allows candidates for jobs to interact and respond to preprogrammed questions with webcams. The firm also provides digital interviews, digital assessments, predictive analysis, technical recruiting, and sales coaching solutions. The company was founded by Mark Newman, Chip Luman, and Ryan Money in 2004 and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT.

Foursquare Labs Inc. provides free mobile location-based social networking services. Its application Foursquare, helps users to connect to friends and locations which they have visited. The firm's application can also be used as a marketing tool for businesses, brands and agencies. The company was founded by Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai in March 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

WorkMarket, Inc. engages in the provision of SaaS solutions that help companies find, manage and pay their freelance and independent contractor workforce. It offers vendor management, background screening, competency validation, payment schedules, and tax compliance and filing solutions and also provides screen, invoices and reports customization and filing and tracking of proprietary documents. The company was founded by Scott Shaul, Jeffrey P. Leventhal, Jeffrey S. Wald and Glenn Nortman in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Wattpad Corp. offers stories over an internet website. The firm serves the people to read written works by creating a social networking and digital entertainment platform for readers and writers to discover, share and connect. Its app available on mobile devices including Google Android, iPhone, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 7, Nokia and Samsung. The company was founded by Lau Allen and Yuen Ivan in 2006 and is headquartered in Markham, Canada.

Dwolla, Inc. operates an online and mobile payments network. Its users can use the technology to send, request and accept money from anyone else, and transactions can be conducted through email, mobile devices and social media. The firm's products include bank transfer, ACH transfer API, dashboard and administration and instant account verification. The company was founded by Ben Milne and Shane Neuerburg on December 1, 2010 and is headquartered in Des Moines, IA.

Firebase, Inc. provides real-time data synchronization service designed to power collaborative applications. The firm's product allows developers to build rich, collaborative applications without the hassle of managing servers or writing server-side code. It replaces the request/response model of traditional back ends with a new approach based on data synchronization. The company was founded by James Tamplin and Andrew Lee in April 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tophatmonocle Corp. provides a web-based clicker and online homework tool. Its web-based tool allows students to use laptops, phone, and tablets to provide instant feedback to teachers through polls, quizzes, and open-ended questions. The company was founded by Michael Silagadze and Mohsen Shahini on March 17, 2009 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Publishing Point LLC publishes serialized books in digital form. The company was founded by Susan Danziger And Albert Wenger in 2006 and is headquartered in Mamaroneck, NY.

Sift Science, Inc. provides fraud and risk analytics services to online retailers. It specializes in account takeover, payment fraud, content abuse, promo abuse, account abuse, and device fingerprinting. The company was founded by Jason Tan and Brandon Ballinger in June 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Qubole, Inc. develops a cloud-based data platform for analyzing and processing data sets. It offers technical support, education and training, and product and documentation. The company was founded by Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma in 2013 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Popout, Inc. owns and operates an eCommerce store. It offers a platform that helps aggregate shipping volumes and giving customers access to cheaper shipping providers. The company was founded by Laura Behrens-Wu, Simon Kreuz, and Max M. Diez in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Stacks Open Internet Foundation, Inc. operates online community of internet owners. The company is headquartered in Anaheim, CA.

Viam, Inc. is a company that provides a platform to support every step of the robotics journey, from paper to prototype to production to scale. The company is based in New York, NY. The platform offers intuitive APIs to operate any robot, with an integrated cloud service to orchestrate deployments at scale. The company was founded in 2020 by Eliot Horowitz, the co-founder and former CTO of MongoDB. Eliot Horowitz has been the CEO since incorporation.

Jivox Corp. enagges int he provision of personalized digital marketing platform. It offers Jivox IQ, a platform designed to deliver dynamic ads at scale for programmatic media across all formats and screens. Its platform enables brand advertisers, digital agencies, and publishers to deliver highly engaging video advertisements by interactive and social sharing widgets. The company was founded by Diaz H. Nesamoney and Naren Nachiappan in 2007 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Braintree Payment Solutions LLC provides online platform for merchant payment processing. It offers businesses with an online merchant account and payment gateway to accept credit card payments. Its customers range from startups in garages to not-for-profits and largest online retailers. The company was founded by Bryan Johnson on October 13, 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

SimScale GmbH develops a web-based engineering simulation platform that simplifies the access to numerical simulation. It supports numerous simulation types including structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, acoustics, and particle phenomena. The firm?s offers community, professional, and enterprise plans which can be customized to meet the needs of any user. The company was founded by Vincenz D?lle, Johannes Probst, Alexander Fischer, Anatol Dammer and David Heiny in 2012 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Hiro Systems PBC operates as a passcard identity company which builds access control on the block chain. The company was founded by Muneeb Ali and Ryan Shea in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY.