Mark Fischer

Mark leads a hardware team at Google X working on a confidential robotics project.

Mark was previously an engineer at Industrial Perception Inc (IPI), a startup that Google acquired in 2013 that applied novel sensing and robotics technologies to address applications in the logistics industry. He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University where he was a finalist for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, focusing on autonomous vehicles.

Kristen Morrissey Thiede

Kristen is the Chief Executive Officer of First Step Project.

Prior to First Step Project, Kristen lead the business development and corporate strategy for Starry. Kristen spent 14 years at Google, leading business development and content licensing for Google Fiber and early-stage efforts across Google's global portfolio, including Google.org's Crisis response team to Haiti, Chile, and Pakistan, and the launch of AdSense for Content and distribution efforts globally. She holds a BA in political science from the University of the South.

Adam Singolda

Adam Singolda is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Taboola, the leading discovery platform, serving over 550 million unique users monthly. Taboola is one of NYC’s largest and fastest growing tech companies.

Taboola has raised over $157M since launch in 2007. Most recently the company raised $117M in a round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, joined by Yahoo! Japan, Comcast, Advance Publications, among others. Prior to founding Taboola in 2007, Adam developed his analytical skills while serving as an officer in an elite mathematical unit of the Israeli National Security Agency.

Wayve

Stealth Autonomous Vehicles

Wayve is rethinking the technical approach to autonomous vehicles. Using the latest ideas from computer vision, machine learning and reinforcement learning, Wayve believes this approach will deliver the world safe and trustworthy autonomy.

RunwayML

Power your creativity with artificial intelligence

Runway democratizes the power of machine learning and artificial intelligence for all. Use Runway to discover, create, and use artificial intelligence capabilities in your creative work. Start rethinking what's possible.

Osaro

Osaro is a deep reinforcement learning technology company specializing in AI software for industrial robotics automation.

Osaro is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company developing products based on proprietary deep reinforcement learning technology. The company’s patent pending technology automatically processes large amounts of unstructured data and efficiently learns complex control tasks.

DeepGram

Search Engine for Speech

DeepGram uses artificial intelligence to recognize speech, search for moments, and categorize audio and video. Try it on calls, meetings, podcasts, video clips, lectures—and get actionable insights from an easy to use API.

AI.Reverie

AI.Reverie is a simulation platform that trains AI to understand the world.

AI.Reverie's simulation platform generates synthetic data to help businesses improve their machine learning algorithms.

CrowdAI

CrowdAI provides scalable and high-quality image annotation.

CrowdAI combines machine learning, computer vision and human intelligence to maximize value for self-driving car, automated drone and satellite image companies.

Sense360

Competitive intelligence for the physical world.

Sense360 is an insights firm that leverages anonymous, always-on location and survey data from a panel of more than 2 million consumers to provide the most granular and actionable restaurant & retail intelligence in the industry.

Stealth Animation & Machine Learning company

Stealth mode

Stealth Active Learning Company

Active Learning Company

Stealth Automation Resolution Company

Stealth Company focused on helping companies solve the final 10% of automation across robotics, machine learning, and computer vision.

Jim Stengel

Jim is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Jim Stengel Company, a think tank and consultancy conducting proprietary research, generating thought leadership and applying a new ideals-driven framework to drive business growth in today’s global economy.

Jim is also the former Global Marketing Officer of Procter & Gamble and a former member of the Board of Directors of AOL and Motorola, and a former advisory board member of MarketShare. Jim is widely known for leading innovation and for his commitment to building leading-edge marketing capabilities. In 2011, he was named to the first-ever Fortune® Executive Dream Team, and has been named multiple times by Advertising Age as the number one “Power Player” in marketing.

Jason Harinstein

Jason Harinstein is the Chief Financial Officer at Flatiron Health.

Jason was previously the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Groupon. Prior to Groupon, Jason was Director of Corporate Development team at Google, Inc. and led several major transactions, including the acquisitions of DoubleClick, ITA Software, Invite Media, Feedburner and Teracent; investment and subsequent sale of a 5% stake in AOL; and the sale of Performics.

Jeffrey Hollander

Jeffrey co-founded Seventh Generation. He built the fledgling company into a leading natural product brand with sales of over $150 million. Jeffrey is now the CEO and Founder of Sustain, a fair-trade, all-natural condom company.

Jeff's passion for the environment and corporate responsibility is evident in each of his seven books, including “The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win” (2012) and his most recent, “Planet Home: Conscious Choices for Cleaning & Greening the World You Care About Most.” Jeffrey is also the former Chair and a current member of the Greenpeace US Board of Directors as well as co-founder and Board Chair of the American Sustainable Business Council. He is also on the Boards of Practice Green Health, Health Care Without Harm, and Verité, a leading workers’ rights organization.

Mary Ann Belliveau

Mary Ann Belliveau is the Head of Brand Partnerships at Reddit. Previously she was the Director of Sales at Twitter, where she led the national sales team across the Health and Wellness and Financial Services sectors. At Twitter, she was responsible for the growth and development of Twitter’s Health and Wellness practice. This team works with advertisers and agencies to build and execute measurable, targeted and creative online campaigns.

Mary Ann is a digital media veteran, with over 20 years of business development and operational experience. She specializes in developing sales, organizational and operational strategies for companies. Prior to Twitter, Mary Ann joined Google in 2002, where she was a founding member of Google’s Industry Development and Marketing Team. Mary Ann was also responsible for hiring many of Google’s sales and business leaders.

Max Bulger

Max advises software private equity investors on new investments, sector strategy and portfolio value creation

Prior to his role advising investors, Max spent five years in early stage product management, at CiBO Technologies, Button and Wildcard. Max started his career as a product manager at eBay-PayPal, working on personalization API's for mobile developers. He holds a B.S. in Cognitive and Brain Science from Tufts University, has held a number of odd jobs in the food and restaurant world, and splits his time between Rhode Island and California.

Jon Kaplan

Jon Kaplan is Head of Global Sales at Pinterest.

Formally, Jon oversaw Google’s U.S. advertising sales and operations team. Jon also worked with Google’s product organization to develop solutions that respond to industry and customer challenges, including products such as Google Wallet, Google Travel and Google Advisor. Prior to this role, Jon led Google’s US Financial Services practice. Jon joined Google in 2003 from Economist.com, where he on the founding team and served as Director of Sales and Operations in North America.

Talkspace

Affordable, anonymous therapy with professional and licensed therapists

Therapy for the way we live today. Affordable, anonymous therapy with professional, licensed therapists, wherever and whenever you need help. Talkspace's mission is to make a billion people happy. With their Unlimited Messaging Therapy, users have access to a licensed, professional therapist 24/7--no appointment needed! At talkspace.com, therapists specialize in helping people to overcome challenges, guide you on your life journey.

Tia

Tia is a personal, private chat-based women's health advisor.

Tia launched their first product in June — a free, personal, private women’s health advisor app — an answer to the one-size-fits-all WebMD answers common when Google-ing your health. Made with doctors, but designed to feel like chatting with a friend, Tia is a trusted confidante for data-driven birth control recommendations, cycle tracking, and all those sexual health questions that are difficult to say out loud.

Zipdrug

Zipdrug's mission is to make it easy for everyone to get their medications, when and where they want them

Zipdrug is an on-demand prescription delivery service available online and through mobile applications. Patients simply enter payment and delivery details; snap a photo of their insurance card and in one simple click, a HIPAA-trained Zipdrug messenger is dispatched to deliver the prescription(s). First orders are always free. Zipdrug automatically applies any available discounts to the patient's medications further reducing costs as a part of its service. The service is available for both one time and recurring prescriptions. Zipdrug will deliver from any pharmacy.

Ease Central

The best way to manage employee benefits, onboarding, and compliance

EaseCentral enables agents to easily set up and manage HR and benefit administration on behalf of their clients. Third-party implementation is simply not needed. Their team is equipped to train insurance agents and their staff to quickly and effectively manage their entire book of business using EaseCentral.

Boost Biomes

Engineering microbiomes for a sustainable future.

Boost Biome's unique approach to improving microbiome function is through their proprietary discovery platform that uses high throughput sequencing, selective enrichment, and advanced informatics to identify microbial products with important commercial roles. They are first using their platform to enhance agriculturally relevant microbiomes. They are focused on developing safe and effective naturally-occurring microbes and consortia which can manage diseases of high-value crops.

Noteworth

Collaborative Care infrastructure providing support to evidence-based care and empowering the patient-centered model.

Noteworth's software product continuously and remotely collects patient data from connected FDA-approved medical devices, wearables and apps.

Clear Genetics

Clear Genetics addresses the severe shortage of genetic counselors and develops software that provides personalized, meaningful and clear genetic information for patients.

Clear Genetics assists physicians and patients through personalized treatment. ClearGenetics is using machine learning and natural language processing to serve this market by automating a large percentage of the work done by genetics counselors, allowing their genetics counselors to serve many more patients than they traditionally could.

Vitae Industries

Vitae Industries is building 3D printing technology that helps pharmacies make personalized medications on-demand that are fast and affordable.

Vitae’s technology, The AutoCompounder, automates the process of making custom dose tablets or gummies at the push of the button. The machine allows individuals to customize the dose of each batch or tablet and to seamlessly switch between gummy and tablet forms on the same system. Vitae’s dose verification is completed after each run to ensure reliable, high-quality products every time.

Stealth Embryo Synthesis Company

Stealth

Halcyon Health

Recovery that keeps patients at the center, wherever they are.

Halcyon Health is an integrated, evidence-based SUD treatment program focused on long-term care.

Stealth Embryo Analysis Company

Mark Fischer

Mark leads a hardware team at Google X working on a confidential robotics project.

Mark was previously an engineer at Industrial Perception Inc (IPI), a startup that Google acquired in 2013 that applied novel sensing and robotics technologies to address applications in the logistics industry. He received his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University where he was a finalist for the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, focusing on autonomous vehicles.

Gokul Rajaram

Gokul is the Product Engineering Lead at Square.

Gokul is the former Product Director of Facebook Ads, where he drove the product roadmap and execution for Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to Facebook, Gokul was the Product Management Director for AdSense at Google, where he helped conceive and grow the AdSense product to a multi-billion dollar product line. Gokul was the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chai Labs Inc., which was acquired by Facebook. Gokul

Katherine Oliver

Katherine is a founding Principal of Bloomberg Associates, a consultancy firm established by Mike Bloomberg to provide both strategic and practical advice to cities worldwide.

Katherine oversees the media and technology portfolio, advising cities on economic development and public communications strategies, while helping them harness the power of media and technology to improve government services. Katherine has a long history of working alongside Mike Bloomberg, first as General Manager for Bloomberg Radio & Television, and then in government where Mayor Bloomberg appointed her as Commissioner of Media & Entertainment for New York City, a position she held from 2002-2013.

Kristen Morrissey Thiede

Kristen is the Chief Executive Officer of First Step Project.

Prior to First Step Project, Kristen lead the business development and corporate strategy for Starry. Kristen spent 14 years at Google, leading business development and content licensing for Google Fiber and early-stage efforts across Google's global portfolio, including Google.org's Crisis response team to Haiti, Chile, and Pakistan, and the launch of AdSense for Content and distribution efforts globally. She holds a BA in political science from the University of the South.

Mindy Grossman

Mindy is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc.

Prior to Weight Watchers, Mindy was the Chief Executive Officer of HSN, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSNI) and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. A 35-year veteran of the retail and apparel industries, Grossman joined IAC, HSNi’s former parent company, in 2006 as CEO of IAC Retail. In 2008, she took the company public and became the CEO of HSNi. Prior to joining IAC, she served as a Global Vice President at Nike, Inc., overseeing its $4 billion apparel business. Earlier career highlights include serving as President and CEO of Polo Jeans Company, Vice President of New Business Development at Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, President of Chaps Ralph Lauren, and Senior Vice President of Menswear for Warnaco, Inc. In 2013, Forbes magazine named Mindy one of the world’s 100 most powerful women, an honor she has received three times. In 2011, she was named Corporate Innovator of the Year at the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Florida Awards, and was recognized as one of Fast Company’s Top 100 Most Creative People in Business. In both 2010 and 2011, Mindy was ranked by the Financial Times as one of the top 50 women in world business. Mindy serves on the boards of the National Retail Federation, Bloomin’ Brands and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

MODE

Enabling Hardware as a Service (Haas) for leading hardware companies

MODE connects existing hardware products to the internet and helps hardware companies to operate SaaS for particular enterprise verticals to serve their customers.

Pluot

Big-Screen Video Conferencing for Creative Teams

Pluot combines a hardware and software system to give small businesses access to the same quality of video-conferencing services that companies could expect to see in the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies.

remot3.it

remot3.it provides a direct secure tunnel connection, that talks TCP/IP

remot3.it's mission is to become the “DNS” for the Internet of Everything and provide the software and services necessary to securely connect devices across the Internet. Their products and services already power products by name brand companies with products available in mass retail.

Nectar

Self Replenished Living

Nectar solves the large information gap within the trillion-dollar consumer packaged goods and alcoholic beverage industries, with a new generation of connected devices that power automatic replenishment and data-driven insights.

Bionaut

Nanomedicine robots

Bionaut’s vision is to transform medical treatment into an anatomically precise, safe and deterministic process. They enable direct physical access to any anatomic location in the body using remote-controlled miniature robots (Bionauts™), establishing them as a leading medical modality.

Ono Food Co.

Ono is building robotic systems to revolutionize the way we eat.

Ono is on a mission to create and serve delicious meals with high-quality ingredients at an affordable price.

Fort Robotics

Safe Wireless for Smart Machines FORT Robotics builds wireless control systems for dangerous machines.

Fort Robotics is building a wireless platform to ensure human safety around dangerous machines in construction, agriculture, manufacturing, warehousing, transportation, mobile robotics, and more.

Culture Biosciences

Fermentation On Demand

Cultur'es vision is to make biomanufacturing a digital experience: they want running bioreactors to be as easy as running code in a data center. They've developed a digital biomanufacturing platform to enable scientists to run, monitor and analyze bioreactors faster and more conveniently than traditional approaches. They've built it from the ground up by integrating automated bioreactors, robotic sample handling, and cloud data monitoring and analysis.

Stealth Ocean Energy Company

Stealth company focused on hydrogen energy generation

Compound

Compound is an open-source protocol for algorithmic, efficient Money Markets on the Ethereum blockchain.

Compound is a decentralized protocol which establishes money markets with algorithmically set interest rates based on supply and demand, allowing users to frictionlessly exchange the time value of Ethereum assets.

Cryptokitties

Cryptokitties is the world's most successful blockchain game.

CryptoKitties is a game centered around breedable, collectible, and oh-so-adorable creatures called CryptoKitties! Each cat is one-of-a-kind and 100% owned by you; it cannot be replicated, taken away, or destroyed.

Blockstack

Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized, server-less applications.

Blockstack's stack of open protocols on top of the bitcoin blockchain allows developers to build decentralized apps without the need for servers, cloud storage, identity systems or built-in payments infrastructure.

Mattereum

Mattereum creates smart contracts with the legal force of natural language contracts.

Mattereum is an infrastructure project for legally-enforceable smart contracts, enabling the sale and lease of physical property and other transfers of rights in assets.

ORCHID

The Orchid Protocol is the decentralized, open-source technology for an Internet free from surveillance and censorship.

The Orchid protocol uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet.

NuCypher

NuCypher leverages the power of proxy re-encryption to bring private data to public blockchains.

NuCypher KMS is a decentralized Key Management System (KMS) that addresses the limitations of using consensus networks to securely store and manipulate private, encrypted data. It provides encryption and cryptographic access control, performed by a decentralized network, leveraging proxy re-encryption

Arbitrum

Scaling Ethereum

The ideal scaling solution for many DeFi apps Arbitrum Rollup can scale any Ethereum contract. Enjoy the fully trustless security of the underlying blockchain.

Casa

Casa is the best personal key system on the planet.

Casa gives users full control of their private keys with 24/7 premium support. Casa's novel approach to key management protects your wealth against theft, natural disasters, accidents and more.

Kadena

Kadena offers enterprise and public blockchains that combine unparalleled speed, scalability and security.

Kadena's proof-of-work public blockchain Chainweb offers unparalleled transaction processing speed, scalability, security and their own smart contract development language designed to be read and understood by anyone with a very modest level of technical proficiency.

Livepeer

Peer to peer video services. Incentivized.

Livepeer is creating a scalable Platform as a Service for developers who want to add live or on-demand video to their project. They are building p2p infrastructure that interacts through a marketplace secured by the Ethereum blockchain to fit the requirements of today's DApp developers.

Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.

Defined

The front page of DeFi

Defined is a data platform for the open web that empowers users to query on-chain data and interact across multiple blockchains and DeFi protocols. Their long-term goals go beyond creating a suite of tools for traders: we want everyone engaging with DeFi to start their journey with Defined.

Computable

Computable is building a decentralized data marketplace for artificial intelligence applications

Computable is building a permissionless protocol that lets anyone easily construct online data markets in any domain and in the process, making blockchain networks compatible with machine learning computations.

Gem

Gem’s blockchain application platform transforms how companies and industries connect to solve impossible problems.

Gem’s blockchain application platform transforms how companies and industries connect to solve impossible problems. By connecting companies to shared infrastructure, industries can eliminate data silos and orchestrate cross-industry workflows. Gem’s platform applies blockchain technology to identity, data, logic and network management across multiple industries, including finance and healthcare. The result is GemOS, an operating system for global computers.

Gokul Rajaram

Gokul is the Product Engineering Lead at Square.

Gokul is the former Product Director of Facebook Ads, where he drove the product roadmap and execution for Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to Facebook, Gokul was the Product Management Director for AdSense at Google, where he helped conceive and grow the AdSense product to a multi-billion dollar product line. Gokul was the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chai Labs Inc., which was acquired by Facebook. Gokul

Anish Acharya

Anish is Vice President of Product Management at Credit Karma.

Anish was Founder and CEO of Snowball, which he sold to Credit Karma in December 2015. Anish sold his first company to Google in 2010. While at Google he served as a Partner at Google Ventures. He also led the Google+ Mobile product team, where he managed Google’s social efforts for mobile and tablet devices. Prior to Google, he co-founded SocialDeck Inc. in 2008 and served as its Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Software Developer, driving core platform and distributed systems efforts at Amazon.com.

Joe Proto

Joe Proto is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Transactis, part of his three decades as a senior executive and successful entrepreneur.

Prior to Transactis, he launched REMITCO, a payments company acquired in 2000 by First Data, as well as Financial Telesis (CashFlex) which was acquired in 1992 by CoreStates, now part of Wells Fargo. Joe is a director at SpendSmart Payments Company (SSPC: OTC) a fast growing loyalty platform with 5M digital subscribers. He is Co-Chair of the Consumer Payments Advisory Committee of the Payments Innovation Council as well as a member of the Board of Advisors at the National Automated Clearinghouse Association (NACHA).

Jim McCann

Jim is a highly successful entrepreneur whose vision and energy have helped grow 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, the company he founded in 1976, into the world’s leading florist and gift company.

Jim recognized early on the enormous potential in providing on-the-go consumers with the ability to express themselves and connect with the important people in their lives through top quality floral gifts combined with exemplary, personal service. Jim is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Willis Group Holdings Limited and a board member at Gruppo Lottomatica.

Mario Shiliashki

Mario Shiliashki is the Chief Executive Officer of PayU EMEA.

Before joining PayU Mario was Senior Vice President and Group Head of Global Emerging Payments at MasterCard. Prior to MasterCard, Mario was the Managing Director of PayPal in Asia, where he launched PayPal in Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Vietnam, growing the business to over $100M in revenue. Mario is a Board Director at Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Economics from Bryant University.

Jon Kaplan

Jon Kaplan is Head of Global Sales at Pinterest.

Formally, Jon oversaw Google’s U.S. advertising sales and operations team. Jon also worked with Google’s product organization to develop solutions that respond to industry and customer challenges, including products such as Google Wallet, Google Travel and Google Advisor. Prior to this role, Jon led Google’s US Financial Services practice. Jon joined Google in 2003 from Economist.com, where he on the founding team and served as Director of Sales and Operations in North America.

PayJoy

Consumer finance for the next billion

Over a billion people would love a way to pay for electronics over time, and PayJoy's technology makes that possible. Payjoy changes up-front purchases into pay-as-you-go monthly installments. The company's unique technology locks devices unless a monthly payment is made, improving customer payment rates. This allows them to offer financing for hundreds of billions of dollars of products such as smartphones, washing machines, TVs, and air conditioners, bringing a modern middle class lifestyle to people around the world for the first time.

Finova Financial

Better Digital Alternative to Traditional Title Loans

Finova Financial, (“Finova”), is a socially responsible online lender using modern technology, advanced analytics, and a transparent fee structure to transform the traditional $5.3 Billion U.S. Auto Title Lending industry.

Transactis

Transactis provides banks and merchants with SaaS-based billing, payment, and loyalty products.

Transactis transforms traditional paper billing and payment processing by enabling businesses of all sizes to replace paper bills, statements, invoices, payments and documents with more efficient digital alternatives.

Lenddo

Lenddo enables the emerging global middle class to build their creditworthiness and access local financial services.

Lenddo is the world's first online community that empowers the emerging middle class to use online social connections to demonstrate their creditworthiness and access affordable, life-improving financial services.

Gokul Rajaram

Gokul is the Product Engineering Lead at Square.

Gokul is the former Product Director of Facebook Ads, where he drove the product roadmap and execution for Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to Facebook, Gokul was the Product Management Director for AdSense at Google, where he helped conceive and grow the AdSense product to a multi-billion dollar product line. Gokul was the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chai Labs Inc., which was acquired by Facebook. Gokul

Mary Ann Belliveau

Mary Ann Belliveau is the Head of Brand Partnerships at Reddit. Previously she was the Director of Sales at Twitter, where she led the national sales team across the Health and Wellness and Financial Services sectors. At Twitter, she was responsible for the growth and development of Twitter’s Health and Wellness practice. This team works with advertisers and agencies to build and execute measurable, targeted and creative online campaigns.

Mary Ann is a digital media veteran, with over 20 years of business development and operational experience. She specializes in developing sales, organizational and operational strategies for companies. Prior to Twitter, Mary Ann joined Google in 2002, where she was a founding member of Google’s Industry Development and Marketing Team. Mary Ann was also responsible for hiring many of Google’s sales and business leaders.

Max Bulger

Max advises software private equity investors on new investments, sector strategy and portfolio value creation

Prior to his role advising investors, Max spent five years in early stage product management, at CiBO Technologies, Button and Wildcard. Max started his career as a product manager at eBay-PayPal, working on personalization API's for mobile developers. He holds a B.S. in Cognitive and Brain Science from Tufts University, has held a number of odd jobs in the food and restaurant world, and splits his time between Rhode Island and California.

Kristen Morrissey Thiede

Kristen is the Chief Executive Officer of First Step Project.

Prior to First Step Project, Kristen lead the business development and corporate strategy for Starry. Kristen spent 14 years at Google, leading business development and content licensing for Google Fiber and early-stage efforts across Google's global portfolio, including Google.org's Crisis response team to Haiti, Chile, and Pakistan, and the launch of AdSense for Content and distribution efforts globally. She holds a BA in political science from the University of the South.

Adam Singolda

Adam Singolda is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Taboola, the leading discovery platform, serving over 550 million unique users monthly. Taboola is one of NYC’s largest and fastest growing tech companies.

Taboola has raised over $157M since launch in 2007. Most recently the company raised $117M in a round led by Fidelity Management and Research Company, joined by Yahoo! Japan, Comcast, Advance Publications, among others. Prior to founding Taboola in 2007, Adam developed his analytical skills while serving as an officer in an elite mathematical unit of the Israeli National Security Agency.

Xperiel

Xperiel is making the physical world digitally interactive, bringing the Real World Web (RWW) to life

Xperiel's technology helps companies harness the magic of industry-changing apps like Uber, Starbucks, and Pokemon Go, where the physical world meets the digital.

Agrilyst

Intelligence platform for indoor farms

Agrilyst is the intelligence platform for indoor farms, and helps greenhouse operators run their operations more efficiently by pulling in data from sensors in the greenhouse and information about crop yields and other metrics.

Digital Genius

DigitalGenius brings practical applications of deep learning & artificial intelligence to customer service operations of large companies.

DigitalGenius brings practical applications of deep learning and artificial intelligence into customer service operations of leading companies. Its "Human+AI" Customer Service Platform combines the best of human and machine intelligence enabling companies to deliver on increasing customer expectations.

Ease Central

The best way to manage employee benefits, onboarding, and compliance

EaseCentral enables agents to easily set up and manage HR and benefit administration on behalf of their clients. Third-party implementation is simply not needed. Their team is equipped to train insurance agents and their staff to quickly and effectively manage their entire book of business using EaseCentral.

Catalyst

Catalyst is a Customer Success Platform.

Catalyst is a Customer Success Platform that helps to reduce churn, increase productivity, and improve customer experience. Catalyst believes in growing revenue organically and taking such good care of customers, you turn them into your best salespeople.

Braze

Braze empowers marketers to manage the life cycle of their customers and increase mobile engagement

Braze is the global leader in Mobile Marketing Automation. The company is empowering marketers to increase mobile engagement through intelligent, data-driven decisions. Its suite of services empower brands to solve app abandonment and manage the customer lifecycle beyond the download. Employing robust user profiles, rich customer segmentation, and multi-channel messaging (push notifications, in-app messages, email, News Feed), brands can effectively cultivate relationships with their customer base.

Movable Ink

Movable Ink is a provider of agile email marketing technology

Movable Ink clients can use any email service provider to deliver dynamic content that changes, in real-time, according to the context of each individual customer. More than 300 innovative companies including ASOS, Shop Direct, Auto Trader UK, and Tesco use Movable Ink to Market in the Moment and optimise their email campaigns to drive ROI.

LotusFlare

Making mobile internet more accessible

LotusFlare works with leading operators and OTT players to drive user growth, working with leading Mobile Operators around the world.

Gokul Rajaram

Gokul is the Product Engineering Lead at Square.

Gokul is the former Product Director of Facebook Ads, where he drove the product roadmap and execution for Facebook’s advertising products. Prior to Facebook, Gokul was the Product Management Director for AdSense at Google, where he helped conceive and grow the AdSense product to a multi-billion dollar product line. Gokul was the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chai Labs Inc., which was acquired by Facebook. Gokul

Elliot Breece

Elliott is a Founder in Residence at Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator. Previously, Elliott was a Product Manager for YouTube and Google Play focusing on music products.

Prior to Google, Elliott was the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Songza, which was acquired by Google in July of 2014. Before co-founding Songza, he co-founded Amie Street, a digital music store with demand-based pricing. Elliott's an alum of Brown University and a native of Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Hollander

Jeffrey co-founded Seventh Generation. He built the fledgling company into a leading natural product brand with sales of over $150 million. Jeffrey is now the CEO and Founder of Sustain, a fair-trade, all-natural condom company.

Jeff's passion for the environment and corporate responsibility is evident in each of his seven books, including “The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win” (2012) and his most recent, “Planet Home: Conscious Choices for Cleaning & Greening the World You Care About Most.” Jeffrey is also the former Chair and a current member of the Greenpeace US Board of Directors as well as co-founder and Board Chair of the American Sustainable Business Council. He is also on the Boards of Practice Green Health, Health Care Without Harm, and Verité, a leading workers’ rights organization.

Robby Stein

Robby Stein is a Director of Product Management at Instagram.

Robby leads the consumer product team across sharing: Stories, Feed, Live, Direct, Camera, and Profile. Previously Robby led mobile product at Yahoo! after the company acquired the startup he founded, Stamped in 2012. He was previously at Google for 4 years. While at Google, Robby managed signups and product launches for Gmail and most recently was Product Manager for the Ad Exchange. He built the first Stamped prototype in his NYC apartment and graduated from Northwestern University.

Jon Kaplan

Jon Kaplan is Head of Global Sales at Pinterest.

Formally, Jon oversaw Google’s U.S. advertising sales and operations team. Jon also worked with Google’s product organization to develop solutions that respond to industry and customer challenges, including products such as Google Wallet, Google Travel and Google Advisor. Prior to this role, Jon led Google’s US Financial Services practice. Jon joined Google in 2003 from Economist.com, where he on the founding team and served as Director of Sales and Operations in North America.

John McAteer

John McAteer is the Vice President of US Sales, Retail, and Technology at Google.

In addition, McAteer works directly with Google’s product organization to ensure that the company's Retail and Tech client’s interests/needs are being met. Prior to joining Google, McAteer was VP, Sales and Merchandising, for PriceGrabber Inc. McAteer is an emeritus Board Member of Shop.org and graduate of Cal State Sacramento, with degrees in Finance and Economics.

Baron Davis

Baron Davis is a two-time NBA All-Star. Upon entering the NBA, Davis formed his own foundation, Rising Stars of America which conducts basketball camps and sponsors AAU teams.

Baron is an investor in companies such as VitaminWater and PopChips. He is also renowned for producing the film, “Crips and Bloods: Made In America,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Davis also recently launched The Network of Champions (The NOC), teaming with Google to create a premium sports and entertainment channel on YouTube.

Brian Lee

Brian is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of BAM Ventures.

Brian is the former Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of The Honest Company (Honest.com). Prior to starting The Honest Company, Brian was also a Co-Founder of ShoeDazzle.com, and before that, the Co-Founder of LegalZoom.com.

Away

Founded by Jen Rubio and Stephanie Korey, Away is looking to bring a high-end portfolio of luggage products to the masses.

Away creates special objects that are at home on the road—that carry you forward, making your trip easier, and in a small way, your life better.

Indiegogo

The world's funding engine

Indiegogo empowers people around the world to fund what matters to them. As the largest global crowdfunding platform, campaigns have launched from every country around the world with millions of dollars being distributed every week due to contributions made by the Indiegogo community.

Rebag

Rebag purchases high-end designer handbags for cash

Rebag aims to create a seamless selling process for pre-owned luxury products. Users can submit pictures on www.rebagg.com or the Rebag app to receive a free and guaranteed quote within one business day. The company offers complimentary pickups in NYC, and free shipping boxes across the US. Sellers receive payment within 2-3 business days of receipt. The company is based in NYC and employs a team of 30. All handbags are thoroughly checked for authentication and quality. The curated selection is resold at a significant discount on www.trendlee.com, the luxury e-commerce site operated by the company.

Modsy

Modsy allows you to see and shop inspirational designs and decor within the context of your own home

Modsy allows you to see inspirational designs and decor within the context of your own home, and shows you ideas for your space before you make any changes. Modsy helps new homeowners, remodelers, and renters create ideal, personalized design

Wanderu

Wanderu is a ground travel meta-search website that helps travelers find and book inter-city bus and train travel in North America.

Wanderu offers bus, train and city travel guides on its site, plus details of routes and more. The company, which competes with Busbud and GotoBus, plans to build its own brand going forward, rather than license its data to others. That data, however, is valuable. Because many in the bus industry didn’t have their own APIs, Wanderu had to partner with companies in order to gain access to their data and then build their system from scratch.

Thrive Market

Thrive Market is an online retailer with over 2,500 high-quality healthy foods, vitamins, home goods, and beauty supplies.

Thrive Market is an online shopping club on a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone. Thrive Market members can buy the best-selling healthy foods and natural, wholesome products in everyday sizes, always 25-50% retail prices, delivered right to their door. And for every paid membership, Thrive Market donates a free membership to a family in need.

Allset

Allset takes all the waiting out of eating at restaurants

Allset takes all the waiting out of eating at restaurants. It allows anyone to book, order & pay for their lunch at local restaurants before arrival. The app can save diners up to 30 minutes of time that is usually spent waiting for a table, food & check. Allset helps local restaurants bring in new customers during mid­-week lunchtimes, increase table turnover by cutting dining time in half, and serve corporate clients for business meetings and employee lunches.

Ample

Ample is a nutritious, full meal in a bottle prepared from premium, real-food ingredients.

Convenient and portable, requiring less than 1 minute of preparation. Ample is a complete meal with 24g of protein, just 4 grams of sugar, fiber and probiotics for digestive health, organic greens for micronutrients, and healthy fats from coconut macadamia and chia seed. Ample is free of GMOs, corn, soy, gluten, and artificial sweeteners.

Trusted

Trusted was acquired by Care.com in 2018.

Trusted built a marketplace for high quality child care, whenever and wherever parents need it.

Indio

Indio brings traditional commercial insurance brokers into the digital age.

Indio is a workflow management platform that brings traditional commercial insurance brokers into the digital age. Indio’s platform automates the manual processes of retrieving quotes from different carriers and processing insurance applications from clients. Indio meaningfully reduces the operational overhead required to run a traditional insurance agency, allowing brokers to focus more on sales and relationship management.

Sayspring

Sayspring was acquired by Adobe in 2018.

Sayspring enabled anyone to prototype voice-enabled apps without code. Sayspring's product allowed users to design, test and iterate through the planning and mapping out of user experiences for voice applications.

Zodiac

Zodiac was acquired by Nike in 2018.

Zodiac was a leading consumer data analytics firm that revolutionized how companies understood their customers through accurate, actionable predictions of consumer behavior.

UpCounsel

The world’s largest virtual marketplace connecting business leaders and in-house counsel with quality outside counsel

UpCounsel provides small and medium businesses with an alternative to expensive and slow legal services through an online platform and an all-star virtual lawyer community. UpCounsel is working with thousands of entrepreneurs and companies to increase the quality and speed of legal services while dramatically reducing costs.

Stowaway Cosmetics

Stowaway Cosmetics offers cosmetics in different sizes for travel-sized makeup kits

Stowaway Cosmetics offers cosmetics in different sizes for travel-sized makeup kits. It offers beauty balms, concealers, lipsticks, eyeliner, mascara, and more.

TapCommerce

TapCommerce was acquired by Twitter in 2014.

TapCommerce specialized in mobile app retargeting and driving revenue & engagement beyond the install.

Chango

Chango was acquired by Rubicon Project in 2015.

Chango was a programmatic advertising company, purpose-built for the marketer.

Tapad

Tapad was acquired by Telenor in 2016.

Tapad is the leader in cross-device content delivery.

Songza

Songza was acquired by Google in 2014.

Songza was a music streaming and recommendation service offering curated playlists based on the time of day or a user's mood or activity.

Mass Relevance

Mass Relevance was acquired by Spredfast in 2014.

Mass Relevance developed and offered cloud-based software for media and entertainment sectors.

Stamped

Stamped was acquired by Yahoo! in 2012.

Stamped was a fun and useful way to record and share all of your favorite things -- restaurants, books, movies, music and more.

Thinknear

Thinknear was acquired by Telenav in 2012.

Thinknear was a location technology company and full-service mobile advertising platform.

Fetchback

Fetchback was acquired by GSI Commerce in 2010.

FetchBack provided retargeting services to companies by showing advertisements to consumers who previously visited their website.

Nearbuy

Nearbuy Systems was acquired by RetailNext in 2013.

Nearbuy Systems was a SaaS-based platform providing Wi-Fi infrastructure for brick-and-mortar retailers.

RayV

RayV was acquired by Yahoo! in 2014.

RayV was a web platform that allows users to create video playlists and broadcast them online.