• Mediamorph

  Participated · Equity · Feb 2012

  Mediamorph provides a cloud-based enterprise software and data management platform that streamlines the digital media supply chain. Its platform helps companies manage contracts and content rights, track content consumption, and enable data-driven decisions to maximize revenues. The company’s solutions are used by Hollywood’s major studios, national television networks, and video service operators. Led by CEO Rob Gardos and co-founder/chairman Shahid Khan, Mediamorph plans to use the new funding to expand its technology platform and grow the organization. The company has support from established strategic and venture investors and operates from New York City. Mediamorph provides a cloud-based platform to manage digital distribution, offering data management and analytics for the media and entertainment (M&E) industry. Its services include digital and cross-platform audience measurement, contracts and rights management, and accounting and royalty automation. The platform is used by major Hollywood studios, television networks and video service operators to collect and manage rights, avails, performance and deal data. The company intends to use the funds to hire new people to further scale the business. Leadership is listed as CEO Rob Gardos and CFO Kent Jarvi. Mediamorph provides cloud-based software and managed services to content creators, programmers and distributors. Its core products include cross-platform media tracking, audience measurement and analytics, and rights and royalties management services. The company's integrated modules enable media companies to sell, program, distribute, track, analyze, optimize and monetize content globally across content types and business models. The solution handles TV shows, movies, games, apps, books and magazines across individual sales, rentals, subscriptions and ad-supported models on online, mobile, tablet, connected TV, game console and eBook reader platforms. In February 2012 Mediamorph raised an additional $8M to support expansion into new industry segments and international markets. Customers include Cablevision, E! Networks, HBO, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Starz and Warner Bros. MediaMorph, founded in 2007 and led by CEO Mike Sid, provides SaaS tools and integrated modules for cross-platform content distribution management, tracking, analysis, optimization and monetization. The company’s platform helps media companies sell, program, distribute, track and monetize content globally across multiple business models and platforms. Current clients include E!/G4/Style Networks, HBO, Sony Pictures and Warner Bros. MediaMorph has offices in Los Angeles and London and has entered a strategic relationship with United Talent Agency for business development and growth opportunities. Financially, the company raised an additional $2.0m from new and existing private investors, bringing total capital raised to date to $3.5m. The company is positioned to leverage the new capital and the UTA relationship to pursue growth with major media clients.

• Onavo

  Participated · Series B · Jan 2012

  Onavo makes a money-saving, data-compressing mobile app that runs in the background to monitor users' mobile data usage. When a user accesses data the app routes traffic in a compressed format through Onavo's cloud servers before the data reaches the carrier, effectively acting as a proxy. On iOS the company says the app can compress data by up to 80%; the Android version currently only warns users about data-hogging apps and does not compress data. The product is aimed at price-conscious consumers and travelers who want to reduce mobile data costs. The company and its solution are positioned as potentially compelling to carriers as well as consumers given exponential mobile data growth. Onavo recently raised new funding (details below). Onavo offers a data‑shrinking iOS app that reduces users' mobile data consumption. In its first 20 days since launch the app saved users approximately 500 GB of data. The service processed traffic from more than 30,000 different apps during that period. Onavo has seen particularly strong demand from travelers aiming to save on roaming and from domestic users with capped plans. The app was also released for iPad. Financially, the company announced a $3M Round A led by Sequoia Capital with participation from Magma Venture Partners.

• mFoundry

  Participated · Equity · Dec 2011

  mFoundry offers a SaaS mobile banking platform that enables banks, credit unions and other providers to deliver mobile banking options and payments to customers. The company powers services for more than 500 banks and credit unions and supports clients like Starbucks' Card Mobile. New investors committed to collaborate with mFoundry on developing tailored payments products and expanding payments opportunities. mFoundry plans to incorporate MasterCard mobile payments technology, including PayPass and NFC, into its offerings for banks. The $18M round brings the company's total funding to $40M and will be used to develop payments-related mobile products and services targeted at financial institutions and mobile network operators. The company is positioned to capitalize on rapid growth in mobile banking usage, as noted by comScore data cited in the article.

• Zenverge

  Participated · Series D · Sep 2011

  Zenverge is a Santa Clara, California–based fabless semiconductor company that develops advanced content networking ICs built around its patented ZEN architecture. Its ICs are deployed in operator gateways, media servers and cloud infrastructure to enable pay-TV services and a ubiquitous TV Everywhere experience. The company supports streaming of live and recorded content to tablets, smartphones, game consoles and streaming clients, as well as seamless wireless TV and optimized DVR storage. Led by CEO Amir Mobini, Zenverge focuses on content networking solutions for home media gateways and related digital media devices. The company closed an $11M financing to support a revenue ramp and to enhance its portfolio of content networking ICs for the home media gateway market. Zenverge is a Santa Clara, California-based fabless semiconductor company focused on Advanced Content Networking ICs built around its patented ZEN architecture. The company describes the ZEN architecture as a core technology for next-generation digital media devices. Led by CEO Amir Mobini, Zenverge closed a financing (amount undisclosed) to support its growth. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate deployment of media gateways through its list of tier-1 operators. Zenverge also plans to accelerate its roadmap of higher-performance ICs and lower-cost system solutions. No operating metrics or revenue figures were disclosed in the article. Zenverge develops Advanced Media ICs built around the patented ZEN architecture to power next‑generation digital media devices such as HDTVs, Blu‑ray recorders, set‑top boxes, multimedia NAS devices, headless gateways, media streamers and movers, portable device adapters, PCs and network video equipment. Led by CEO Amir Mobini, the company supplies silicon targeted at cable, telco and satellite markets and intends to develop unified solutions for those markets. Following the financing, Zenverge plans to use the proceeds to accelerate support and growth, expand adoption of its existing products, develop unified solutions for cable, telco and satellite markets with Entropic, and continue its development activities. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California. Its core product strategy centers on the ZEN architecture as the foundation for its Advanced Media IC lineup. No operating metrics were disclosed in the article. Zenverge develops Advanced Media integrated circuits for consumer and professional applications. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California. It closed a $30M Series C round to support growth. Zenverge will use the new capital to ramp production and expand marketing and development activities. The funding is intended to broaden the company’s product offerings. Ken Lawler of Battery Ventures joined the company’s board in conjunction with the financing.

• Vivotech

  Participated · Series C · Jun 2011

  ViVOtech builds NFC payment software, contactless readers/writers, smart posters, and transaction-management infrastructure that enable short-range mobile payments. Its readers are deployed at major retailers including McDonald’s, Home Depot and Whole Foods and in taxi cabs. The company has shipped nearly one million NFC payment readers to 328 U.S. customers and 181 international customers and says it has shipped over half of the NFC payment terminals installed by merchants globally. Its technology is licensed by other companies and was used in Google Wallet’s NFC rollout; ViVOtech also teamed with the carrier joint venture Isis. The company reported sales in the “double-digit millions” as of last year. While ViVOtech says it stands to benefit from NFC growth, the broader consumer adoption of NFC payments remains uncertain. ViVOtech develops NFC payment software and systems, including payment software, NFC smart posters, contactless readers/writers, over‑the‑air card provisioning and transaction management infrastructure. The company has installed more than 800,000 NFC systems in 35 countries and its readers are deployed at retailers including McDonald's, Home Depot and Whole Foods as well as in taxi cabs. Its technology is frequently licensed by other companies and merchants to enable mobile payments, and Google used ViVOtech's technology for Google Wallet. For merchants that want to accept Google Wallet payments, ViVOtech provides NFC point‑of‑sale readers and has worked with Google, merchants and POS software vendors to integrate NFC readers with existing POS software. Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported the company has 80% of the U.S. market for NFC readers and sales in "double‑digit millions." ViVOtech says the new funds will be used for further international expansion in Asia and other markets, and the company has reportedly been looking at an IPO in 2012. VivoTech builds infrastructure for wireless credit-card transactions, enabling payments via radio-frequency credit and debit cards and some mobile phones. The company has sold 470,000 payment terminals across 35 countries. It is developing systems to enable the same wireless payments in taxis, vending machines and ATMs. VivoTech is based in Santa Clara, Calif. Financially, the company added $8.6 million to a third round of funding that is now $40 million and has been open since 2007. Previously the company had raised $52 million; its backers include Alloy Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Gotham, First Data, Miven Ventures, NCR, Nokia Growth Partners, Motorola Ventures and Citigroup.

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