• PacketZoom

  Participated · Series A · Nov 2017

  PacketZoom combines a content delivery network with an application performance management tool to speed up and optimize app delivery on mobile devices. The company offers a free SDK that provides developers with analytics and network-related performance alerts, giving insight into activity on end-user devices and cellular networks. Its paid product, Mobile Expresslane, generates revenue via pay-per-volume pricing and promises 2–3× faster downloads while reducing network errors. PacketZoom addresses mobile-specific issues like timeouts and packet loss by adapting how servers handle lost packets to reduce errors. The company was founded in 2013 and released its product in 2016 after a 2015 seed round. In the 18 months since launch it has 68 paying customers, including Sephora, Glu Mobile and East Side Games, and competes in a market where Cloudflare recently acquired competitor Neumob. PacketZoom is a San Mateo, CA–based mobile content delivery network that provides a CDN for mobile publishers and developers. Its technology boosts app performance across verticals including gaming, media, retail and travel by eliminating last-mile roadblocks tied to a user’s geographic location and type of mobile network. The company is led by new CEO Shlomi Gian. PacketZoom raised $4.3m in funding and said it will use the proceeds to scale operations. The article does not disclose revenue, user counts, or other operating metrics.

• Transifex

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2015

  Transifex commercialized an open-source localization project into a cloud-based SaaS that centralizes target content in a single repository, ingesting updates via APIs, a Transifex Client, and CMS plugins. The platform provides a collaborative workspace for developers, in-house translators, third-party agencies, community translators and machine-translation services so localized content is part of the release cycle. It has been adopted by open-source projects such as Fedora, Django and Firefox and counts 400+ customers across more than 40 countries, translating into over 150 languages. Customers named in the article include Atlassian, Coursera, Eventbrite, SoundCloud, Strava, Waze and Vodafone. The company runs a development office in Athens and has its headquarters in Menlo Park (Silicon Valley), and it plans to double its engineering team in Athens this year. To date it has raised $6.5 million in total financing. Transifex provides a worldwide localization platform that enables developers and marketers to create, publish and manage translations of frequently updated website content. The company offers its tools free to the Open Source community and counts projects such as Bitcoin, Creative Commons, Firefox, OpenStack and Tor among its users. Customers include Atlassian, Coursera, Eventbrite, Strava, Vodafone and Waze, with presence in more than 30 countries, over 17,000 projects and 170,000 users localizing content in more than 150 languages. Founded in 2009 by CEO Dimitris Glezos, Transifex has developed technology for continuous localization and recently launched Transifex Live, a patent-protected product now in public beta. The company plans to use the new funding to expand platform capabilities and further develop Transifex Live. Transifex is currently hiring.

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