Participated · Equity · Nov 2018

You.i TV provides a product platform that helps development teams unify their app strategy and build video-first, cross-platform applications from a single code base. The platform supports the full development lifecycle — concepting, development, compiling, testing and deploying — across mobile devices, set-top boxes, game consoles and streaming devices. It enables teams to build personalized experiences quickly and to engage users, create customers and fans. Customers named in the article include A+E Networks, AT&T, WarnerMedia, NBA, Warner Brothers, National Geographic and Fox. You.i Engine has been licensed across major industry genres, including entertainment, kids, sports and news. The company was co-founded by Jason Flick and Stuart Russell and is based in Ottawa, Canada. You.i TV offers You.i Engine, a platform that enables brand owners to design, develop, and deliver immersive, branded video applications from a single code base across multiple device types. The engine powers popular apps including Sony Crackle, Rogers Communications' shomi SVOD service, Corus Entertainment, and several Turner brands such as TNT, TBS and the forthcoming FilmStruck direct-to-consumer app. Turner has begun standardizing application development on the You.i Engine platform, and the product has been licensed across entertainment, kids, sports, and news sub-segments. The company says its platform delivers high-quality user experiences, faster development velocity, and compelling total cost of ownership, which has driven global licensing deals. To respond to growing demand, You.i TV plans to accelerate product delivery, enhance its app-designer workflow IP, and expand its partner channels. The company is privately held and serves TV and media companies worldwide.

Participated · Series B · Jun 2017

Samba TV delivers an AI-driven media intelligence platform that unifies measurement and audience targeting across every screen for advertisers and media companies. Its technology ingests first-party data from millions of opted-in connected televisions and billions of web signals in more than 50 countries, creating a real-time view of the full consumer journey. The company is rolling out "Agentic AI" advertising infrastructure meant to replace traditional, fragmented buying approaches with unified, real-time optimization. Recent strategic partnerships position Samba as a measurement provider to global DSPs, SSPs, and major platforms such as TikTok and Snap. With fresh growth capital in place, management plans to accelerate its AI product roadmap, scale international operations, and continue a history of opportunistic technology acquisitions. Financially, Samba TV has obtained access to up to $60 million of non-dilutive debt, giving the firm additional flexibility without issuing equity.

Participated · Series D · Mar 2017

Bustle is an independent digital media property for millennial women covering news, celebrity, culture, lifestyle, politics, fashion and beauty. Led by CEO Bryan Goldberg, the site reaches 50 million unique readers a month and works with over 200 major brand advertisers, including Adidas, Smartwater, H&M and Del Monte. The company operates Bustle and its sister site Romper. In January Bustle launched the Bustle Trends Group to collect surveys and primary data on millennial consumers; its first report is scheduled for publication in May. The company plans to use new funding to grow Bustle and Romper's reach among millennial consumers and to expand video, platform strength, and its commitment to news and politics coverage. Bustle is a digital media property led by CEO and founder Bryan Goldberg that targets millennial women. The site covers breaking news, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion & beauty, relationships, and related topics. Launched in 2013, Bustle has a global audience of over 45 million monthly unique visitors. The company recently launched Romper, a destination for and written by millennial parents. Bustle will use the funds to accelerate growth and to expand its editorial and video departments. It also plans to continue building its sales and brand offerings. Bustle is a digital news site focused on content for and by women, covering news, fashion, entertainment and related topics. The company was launched in 2013 and is led by Founder and CEO Bryan Goldberg with Kate Ward as Managing Editor. Bustle reports more than 20 million readers. The site plans to use new funding to accelerate growth, expand and invest in its editorial team, and build out its sales and brand offerings. Bustle is based in New York City. Recent financing activity reflects an effort to scale both editorial and commercial operations.

Participated · Equity · Dec 2016

Dynamic Signal provides an employee communication and engagement platform that helps enterprises inform, engage and measure employee audiences across channels and devices. The company plans to use new capital to expand in EMEA and support global customer growth. Dynamic Signal already serves roughly 20% of the Fortune 100 and is available to nearly four million employees across six continents in 100 countries. The business has reported more than 60% year‑over‑year sales growth, 100% year‑over‑year headcount growth, and consistent 3x year‑over‑year growth in EMEA. Customers cited in the articles include Volvo Group, Sage, Oracle, Sky, O2, JPMorgan Chase, Procter & Gamble, Intel and Humana. The company has also achieved EU‑U.S. and Swiss‑U.S. Privacy Shield self‑certification. Dynamic Signal offers a platform that streamlines and measures all types of employee communication and content, including native content and integrations with systems of record and collaboration tools. The platform supports integrations with HRIS, CRM, SSO/Identity Management, intranet providers and social/collaboration tools such as Facebook, Slack and Yammer. The company has introduced DySi Open, personalized newsletters, surveys (including Employee NPS and pulse surveys) and native video broadcasting to expand customer capabilities. Led by CEO and co-founder Russ Fradin, Dynamic Signal intends to use the new financing to expand the platform’s capabilities and hire new people. The company is based in San Bruno, CA and also has offices in Seattle, Chicago, London, New York and Silicon Valley. Prior to this round the company had raised $88.0M in total funding. Dynamic Signal provides an enterprise-grade communications platform that lets companies inform, engage, and empower employees with timely, relevant content across channels and devices. The platform integrates with tools like Facebook Messenger, Slack and Yammer to meet employees where they already work. Hundreds of large global enterprises use the service, including 85 of the Fortune 500, across 21 countries and 19 languages. The company says its product improves employee productivity, engagement, and advocacy. Dynamic Signal will use new funding to expand international operations and increase investment in engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success to serve its growing enterprise customer base. Founded in 2010 and based in Silicon Valley (San Bruno, Calif.), the company has attracted a broad set of strategic and financial backers. Dynamic Signal provides VoiceStorm, a people-powered marketing platform that lets brands partner with and leverage the social reach of employees, fans and customers. VoiceStorm includes reporting, analytics and ROI dashboards to enable marketers to track and measure employee and customer advocacy programs. Customers span entertainment & media, consumer packaged goods, financial services, fashion & beauty, and high tech, including Hitachi Data Systems, Salesforce, Deloitte, IBM and Gamestop. Founded in 2010 and based in San Bruno, California, the company plans to use new capital to accelerate growth and to acquire PaperShare. Dynamic Signal closed a $12M Series C and has raised over $33M to date. The acquisition of PaperShare is intended to combine content marketing efforts directly with lead generation and sales. Dynamic Signal provides an enterprise Brand Amplification Platform that functions as social CRM to identify high-value fans, bloggers, and influencers, recruit them, and build one-to-one relationships across social channels. The platform supports content marketing and consumer engagement programs and has attracted clients across entertainment, financial services, consumer packaged goods, fashion/beauty, healthcare, automotive, advocacy, and high tech. Clients using the platform have reported an 8x increase in brand engagement, a 20x increase in sharing and amplification, and a 400x increase in social media brand impressions. Founded in 2010 and based in San Bruno, California, Dynamic Signal is delivered as enterprise marketing SaaS. The company plans to use the new funds to strengthen sales and marketing, continue investing in engineering, and grow its client support organization to service an expanding client base. Its customer roster includes top companies across multiple verticals and the company emphasizes tools and data that help marketers measure social ROI.

Led · Series C · Apr 2016

Kamcord operates a video network that lets people broadcast gaming action and other smartphone screen activity from their tablets and phones. The company is shifting to an "appcasting" strategy to let users livestream non-gaming apps such as Tinder, Instagram and other mobile experiences. Kamcord aims to expand beyond gaming to attract non-gaming viewers and grow its audience, which the article reports at 1 million viewers. It monetizes streams through virtual goods called "stars"—priced up to $80—that viewers buy for broadcasters, with Kamcord splitting the proceeds; the product currently does not run ads. Kamcord partners with existing online creators, including musical artist Redfoo and makeup creator Wengie, and has rebranded its site around topics like sports fans and YouTube reactions. Following the latest raise, its total funding stands at over $37 million. Kamcord is a mobile video game recording service that allows players to capture and share gameplay clips. Its core product integrates with game developers to surface recorded gameplay content in players' native languages. The company opened an office in Japan and plans a major expansion across Asia, beginning with Japan and then moving into China and South Korea. To support that growth it intends to triple headcount from 23 employees to somewhere in the 60s within a year. Kamcord has raised funding to support this expansion, including a recent Series B. For China it expects to use different infrastructure than Amazon Web Services, which isn’t ubiquitous there. Kamcord offers a developer SDK that enables mobile games to record, share and view in-game videos. The product debuted in 2012 as the world’s first mobile gameplay recording solution. Users now share one video every two seconds; over 1 million videos were shared in the last month, users have shared 5 million videos total, and more than 3 billion videos have been recorded since launch. Kamcord says it will invest in better discovery of mobile gaming content, including within its own apps. The company sees Asia as a major growth market and plans to leverage investor relationships to make inroads with developers there. The platform’s traction and usage metrics underpin its efforts to expand distribution and content discovery. Kamcord offers a developer SDK that lets mobile players record and share video of in-game sessions and view others’ clips on Kamcord.com. The team is adding social features — profiles and commenting — to turn Kamcord.com into a destination for mobile gaming content. The company is YC-backed, runs an 11-person team, and has built its in-game recording into over 115 games. Users have recorded one billion game sessions since the startup launched last year. Management says an Android version of its developer tools is in progress. Financially, the company had previously accrued just north of $1.5 million in capital and recently closed an additional seed round; the team has largely deferred monetization while it builds usage, though it has signaled potential future ad or brand-revenue plans. Kamcord offers a lightweight SDK that lets mobile gamers record in-game footage and share clips (notably to YouTube) with minimal impact on gameplay. The company opened its SDK about four months ago and has seen rapid adoption: the number of games using Kamcord has more than doubled and recordings jumped from three to seven videos per second in two weeks. Kamcord is focused on polishing its iOS SDK as the immediate priority while planning Android support in the coming year. The team is small and is being deliberate about engineering resource allocation as it scales the product. Kamcord plans to use its recent seed funding to cover payroll and expand the team, including hiring a designer and “locking down the team” for 2013.