Participated · Series B · Sep 2018

Jianke is an online B2C pharmacy and healthcare services platform founded in 2006 and based in Guangzhou, China. The company offers 680,000 SKUs and provides a set of healthcare advisory services. It has cumulatively served over 100 million customers and holds the full set of B2B and B2C pharmaceutical distribution licenses (A+B+C). Jianke has formed strategic partnerships with healthcare leaders such as Abbott and Gilead Sciences. The company intends to use proceeds from its latest financing to continue expanding its business reach.

Led · Series C · Apr 2018

QingKe is an online platform that provides life services centered on long-term rental apartments. Founded in Shanghai in 2012 by Jin Guangjie, the company leverages Internet and IoT technologies to drive management and operational efficiency. QingKe currently manages more than 70,000 rental units. The company has expanded its presence to Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Suzhou and Jiaxing. QingKe recently completed a Series C equity financing exceeding US$100 million. Prior investors named in earlier rounds include SAIF Partners, Fortune Capital and Newsion Venture Capital.

Led · Series C · Jun 2013

Wego operates a travel metasearch across about 600 airline carriers and 400,000 hotels and has added Travelmob’s ~400,000 home‑rental listings to its search. The site charges business clients based on referrals and successful transactions, while advertising currently contributes about a third of revenue. The company mines user search and booking data to create audience segments for corporate clients and to augment display ads and its ad‑bidding exchange. Wego plans to use new funding to hire roughly 20 marketing staff, a couple of data scientists, and about 12 country development managers, and to push expansion in the Middle East. The company was founded by Ross Veitch and Craig Hewett, is eight years old, has about 100 staff globally (about 50 in Singapore), and is headquartered in Singapore with offices in Australia, Indonesia, India and Dubai.

Led · Series B · Aug 2011

Taboola provides the “Around The Web” and “Recommended For You” content recommendation widgets seen on publishers such as The Atlantic, Business Insider, and Mail Online. The company says it now delivers more than 200 billion monthly content recommendations to 550 million users. Taboola was founded in 2007, is headquartered in New York, and maintains its research and development team in Tel Aviv. Its product work has shifted from desktop to a mobile-first focus, and the company is working to map data from mobile devices, social media sites, and apps. Top priorities cited by management include expanding into more international markets, including China. The company competes with Outbrain in the content-discovery space. Taboola operates a content recommendation platform and analytics suite that delivers roughly 200 billion content suggestions to about 550 million users each month. Its widget and related tools are free for publishers; Taboola monetizes via a CPC marketplace that charges per click. The company reports about $200 million in annual revenue and has been profitable for six consecutive quarters. Product capabilities include editorial push tools, A/B headline testing, product recommendations (via its Perfect Market acquisition) and publisher analytics. Taboola is investing in personalized recommendations by device and location, expanding into more international markets, adding more native advertising and mapping context for mobile and app traffic, and pursuing acquisitions to accelerate growth. Taboola uses its EngageRank™ technology to connect people with content they may like. Its platform is used by publishers to recirculate their own traffic via personalized on-site content recommendations. Taboola also operates a marketplace that enables publishers, brands, and agencies to acquire traffic and users by recommending third-party content across its network of publishers. The company completed a $15M Series D funding round and intends to use the capital for international expansion and development efforts. Taboola was founded in 2007 by CEO Adam Singolda and is based in New York City; the company is hiring. Taboola offers a video recommendation platform that appears as a widget on publisher sites, surfacing related videos from publishers and Taboola’s network of content creators. The company shares ad revenue between content creators and publishers, taking a cut. Its service is used by more than 300 publishers, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Hearst, and Gannet, recommending over half a billion videos per day to more than 130 million users each month. Taboola is headquartered in New York City with R&D offices in Israel and currently has 40 employees. The company plans to double headcount over the next year, expand internationally in markets where it already has partners, and extend recommendations to new devices via APIs for iOS, Android and Xbox Live. Total funding to date is $25 million after the latest round. Taboola provides a turn-key product that offers video recommendations to publishers and integrates with platforms such as Brightcove and Ooyala. The service surfaces related videos and tailors recommendations to users using extensive analytics, scoring each video with an "EngageRank." Taboola says its recommendations can drive as much as 2.5 times more video watching on Bloomberg. Notable clients include the New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and Bloomberg. The service now generates 250 million recommendations per day across its publisher partner sites. Financially, the company has raised $15 million to date following the latest $9 million round.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2011

Taykey’s core product is a trends-discovery engine and real-time programmatic advertising solution that mines data from thousands of online sources to find what’s trending for specific audiences and automate media buying. The company has launched a new marketing platform to broaden applications of its real-time advertising solution across social media content, audience insights and market analytics. Taykey links to leading ad platforms and existing media platforms so trends-based insights can be activated everywhere. The company executed more than 1,000 real-time advertising campaigns and reports revenue growth of 600% since January 2013. Its customer roster includes many Fortune 500 brands — AT&T, Verizon, Procter & Gamble, Disney, Marriott, MasterCard, Microsoft, Google, Starbucks and Toyota — and seven out of 10 of the top U.S. advertisers are Taykey clients. Taykey operates a media-buying platform that allows brands to deliver ads based on topical interests. The company is based in New York and Israel and was founded by CEO Amit Avner. In 2013 to date the company has run over 100 campaigns. Taykey raised $6m in its third funding and said it will use the proceeds to expand its team with hires across sales, engineering, ad operations and product. Tenaya Capital participated in the financing alongside existing investors Sequoia Capital, SoftBank Capital and Marker. Following the round, Adam Klee joined as VP of Media Operations overseeing client services, technical account management and ad operations, and Carmit Tevet-Kuzy joined as VP of Finance. Taykey builds a real-time social-ad targeting platform that identifies trending topics among specific audience groups and serves ads to those interest-based audiences. The company determines what people are interested in from public social media signals and responds with Facebook ads, promoted Twitter trends, or search ads. Taykey aggregates anonymous data from about 150 social media services, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, and Digg. Advertisers are charged on a cost-per-action basis, with outcomes ranging from cost-per-like to redemption of an offer. The product aims to move ad targeting from broad demographics to interest-driven audiences by discovering what is trending for particular groups and acting in real time. CEO Amit Avner leads the company as it scales its targeting and ad placement capabilities following recent funding.