• Share Rocket Inc

  Participated · Series A · Jan 2017

  Share Rocket provides broadcasters and digital publishers with benchmarking, market intelligence, and actionable insights to quantify social media equity. Its core product delivers proprietary ratings metrics and performance scores, real-time insights, and daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly scorecards benchmarked against peers. The platform is used by newsrooms and management to measure reach and influence and has been validated by large local broadcasters. Share Rocket is described in the article as becoming the standard rating system for comparative social influence. CEO Chris Kraft said the company is focused on growth and committed to working alongside clients to enhance its real-time solution and drive improved performance and social ROI. The company announced a $5 million Series A financing led by Tribune Media, with Fox Television Stations and Capitol Broadcasting also investing.

• Reveal Mobile

  Participated · Equity · Jul 2015

  Reveal Mobile provides a mobile platform for app publishers and developers to understand and target their mobile audiences using patent-pending algorithms. The platform enables marketing across demographics, real-world and digital interests, location, and political affiliation. Initial partners include Capitol Broadcasting Company and WSI, the professional division of The Weather Company. The company reports a customer base spanning over 600 mobile applications. Led by CEO Brian Handly and based in Raleigh, NC, Reveal plans to use new funds to hire additional engineering, data science, and business development staff. The company closed an oversubscribed $750K financing round to support these growth initiatives.

• Philo

  Participated · Series B · Jun 2015

  Philo operates an on‑campus internet TV service that delivers live TV streams, a network DVR, search, sharing and mobile access to students. The company places its hardware on campus or at local cable head-ends to convert existing cable or satellite feeds to IP video. Philo partners with distributors including Direct TV, Dish and Comcast and is live at a couple dozen U.S. universities. It is expanding its collection of on‑demand content and improving social features to enable students to share links to programs. Philo started with students as early adopters and expects potential expansion beyond the college market over the next 12 months. The company is relocating from Cambridge to San Francisco and hiring to grow its 28-person team. Philo (formerly Tivli) provides universities a secure, cost-effective IP television solution that streams live TV to students' devices while reducing external bandwidth needs. Its service includes a cloud-based DVR offering hours of recording, unlimited simultaneous channel recordings, a built-in guide and a sleek interface. Philo is rolling out integrations with TV Everywhere and on-demand products like HBO GO, plus interactive content and social media features. The company began in a Harvard dorm room when co-founders Tuan Ho and Nicholas Krasney built the first streaming service and has since expanded to Yale, the University of Washington, Wesleyan and other campuses. The renaming to Philo and new feature rollouts follow a $6.3M Series A that the company says is fueling rapid expansion. CEO Christopher Thorpe framed the rebrand as a signal of the company’s continued growth and commitment to delivering television to the next generation of students. PHILO operates a social television platform that lets viewers "check in" to shows and interact with programming and other viewers. Its web and mobile platform supports social interactions around live and time-shifted TV content. The company has launched v.1.2 of its iPhone and iPod Touch app, which adds support for check-ins to time-shifted television content. Apps for BlackBerry and Android are noted as still in development. PHILO has also debuted a social TV web application at www.playPHILO.com. The company recently completed a financing of an undisclosed amount.

• Photofy

  Participated · Equity · Oct 2014

  Photofy provides a social content creation app for iOS and Android that enables users to enhance captured photos and stock backgrounds using professionally designed graphics, stickers, typography and frames. Its library of pre-designed content spans over 250 categories, from birthdays to babies. The company is launching Photofy 3.0, which adds new features such as “Experiences” and dedicated channels for brands. Photofy is available for free on the Apple App Store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore. Leadership includes President Jon LaNasa and Creative Director Jesse Flores. The company raised $1.0M in the reported round and intends to use the funds to grow the team on the sales and marketing side.

• Tivli

  Participated · Series A · Jul 2013

  Tivli delivers multi-channel live, time-shifted and on-demand TV to students on their devices with a sleek interface, built-in guide and DVR. The service provides cost-effective, secure video distribution over universities' existing data networks. Tivli is rolling out integrations with TV Everywhere and on-demand products such as HBO GO, plus interactive content and social media features. The company began in a Harvard dorm room and was incubated by Harvard Student Agencies, the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, Summer at Highland, Fresh Pond Partners, and the Harvard Innovation Lab. After its initial launch at Harvard, Tivli expanded to Yale, Texas A&M, the University of Washington, Wesleyan, and other campuses. The company says the new funding will be used to fuel expansion in the university market and other operational and strategic initiatives.

No current team members are available.