Ambient Devices
Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.
Using patented processes developed at Ambient and MIT Media Lab, the Ambient platform aggregates, scrubs, packetizes, transmits, and decodes data. Our standards allow development of technology that no longer feels like technology. This “polite technology” requires no computer or technical infrastructure to operate, allowing the technology to be transparent.
By implementing the Ambient platform, wireless technology becomes as easy to use as a clock. When technology becomes transparent the opportunities for implementation expand to many customers and situations where technology is not typically found. Like clocks, ambient displays can be embedded in everyday objects to provide glanceable access to the information customers care about most.
Proterix Bio
Proterix Bio does quantitative serology testing and CoVID-19. The company provides instruments and consumable, multiplexed biochips for nano-scale detection of cells and proteins. These ultra-sensitive biosensors are capable of measuring cells or proteins in small numbers and low concentrations.
Catalist LLC
Catalist, a data services company based in Washington, DC, serving the progressive community. It maintains and constantly updates a complete national database of over 265 million persons in the U.S. representing 358 TB of data and provides a high volume matching service operating at over 1 billion matches per month. Catalist brings easy to use web based tools and a high quality voter database of all voting-age individuals in the United States to progressive, not-for-profit organizations, advocacy groups and campaigns.
DevPost
ChallengePost, the official online “challenge platform” of the United States government, enables people and organizations to challenge the public to solve problems and accomplish goals collectively. A challenge can increase awareness, foster participation, and generate innovation.
Chromis Fiberoptics
www.chromisfiber.com Our strength is the design and manufacturing of high performance polymer optical fibers. Our core technology is a versatile, low cost method for extrusion manufacturing of graded-index polymer fibers directly from bulk raw materials. This technology not only allows us to save labor and increase flexibility by avoiding preform-based manufacturing, it also greatly increases productivity in comparison to conventional GI-POF manufacturing methods. In addition to our platform manufacturing technology, our team has extensive experience in measurement and characterization of high-performance POF. Our researchers have been responsible for several seminal publications elucidating the fundamental mechanisms that govern optical polymers material properties and performance of graded-index POF.
Comixology
www.comixology.com is a great success story in the Rose Tech Ventures portfolio. Acquired by Amazon several years ago, it has become Amazon’s comics division, and the gold standard in online graphic publishing. Since 2007 comiXology has been developing the technological infrastructure to bring comics into the digital mainstream and expose new audiences to the rich history and culture of the industry. Through partnerships with top comic book publishers (Marvel, DC and 35+ independent publishers), their own mobile and web apps, hosting over 4000 digital titles, comiXology has become a leader in comic book proliferation.
BrandWatch
Brandwatch merged with Crimson Hexagon, a Rose Tech Ventures portfolio company,
We bring structure and meaning to the voices of billions.
Brandwatch helps you to understand the people of the world in ways you didn’t think possible. No matter how fast things change, our technology follows in real-time. We’re the difference between leading the way and getting left behind..
Concierge Choice
Concierge Choice is a healthcare service company assisting physicians throughout the United States transitioning in their practices to Concierge Care. Patients joining a doctor’s CCP program pay an annual membership fee to receive a comprehensive screening physical performed by their physician that goes beyond the scope of most regular physicals. The revenue from this program allows the doctor to gradually reduce his or her practice size and increase the time spent with participants in the program.
Critical Mention
Critical Mention is a leading provider of real-time, web-based TV search and broadcast monitoring services that help companies track their brand mentions on TV and gain mission-critical intelligence. Utilizing its proprietary technology to turn TV into a searchable business-intelligence resource, the Company’s TV Search platform, CriticalTV™, allows customers to be instantly alerted when their keywords or brands are mentioned on TV, view video clips and text within seconds of airing, as well as perform archival searches. Critical Mention presently serves hundreds of clients in the corporate communications, financial services, professional services, non-profit, and government sectors including many Fortune 500 companies.
Domdex
Domdex collects user search data from premium sources to allow publishers to target advertisements to consumers more specifically using this information on their site. The combination of Domdex’s industry leading privacy technology, universal third-party ad integration, integrations with top-twenty-five publishers and the data providers’ high new-user and conversion rates allows any publisher to target ads more precisely. Having collected over 180 million user profiles in its early pilot test, Domdex finally brings search ad revenue beyond the search engine.
eJamming
eJamming, Inc connects the world’s musicians to each other and their fans over the Internet via streaming audio and digital (MIDI) music data in real time and in synchrony due to the company’s patented technology so they can create, collaborate, write, record, teach and learn together for professional and business purposes, as well as to jam together for relaxation and to broadcast live performances
Email Data Source
Email Data Source is the only independent, unbiased provider of push marketing data. We collect, analyze, catalogue, and archive thousands of daily email marketing messages, and provide clients with actionable intelligence they need to increase ROI on their email programs. Our more than 70 clients—small, medium, and large businesses alike—represent every part of the email industry, from advertising agencies and direct marketers, to email service providers and affiliate managers.
Headquartered in New York City, USA, Email Data Source was incorporated in 2005 and has a database of more than 4,500,000 emails dating back to 2003.
FASTTAC
FASTTAC, is the developer of the FAST Document Control and Mobility System (DCMS) which provides a cutting edge solution for construction drawing and document sharing, annotation and communication. FAST DCMS synchronizes information among a project’s team to support capturing, managing, and sharing information, emails and faxes, ultimately improving productivity, cutting costs and reducing document confusion and its intrinsic related risk. FAST DCMS is currently being used by contractors and building teams on projects from coast to coast in the United States.
Gust
Gust provides the global platform for the sourcing and management of early-stage investments. Gust enables skilled entrepreneurs to collaborate with the smartest investors by virtually supporting all aspects of the investment relationship, from initial pitch to successful exit. Gust is endorsed by the world’s leading business angel and venture capital associations, and powers over 750 investment organizations in 65 countries. More than 125,000 start-ups have already used the platform to connect and collaborate with over 35,000 individual accredited investors. The company was founded in 2004 under the name Angelsoft and is privately held. Gust is based in New York, New York, with a development center in Vancouver, British Columbia, and European office in Paris, France.
Inn Road
innRoad is the first technology company to address the needs of independent hoteliers for an efficient, affordable solution that seamlessly integrates bookings, global distribution, property management and marketing all on a single, easy-to-use platform. Building on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery, low-cost subscription pricing and knowledgeable customer support, the company is revolutionizing the way hotel owner and operators manage their properties over the Internet – and helping them increase profits.
KoolSpan
KoolSpan provides Security, Authentication and Remote Access in a single package without servers. The company’s patent-pending Smart Card-based system has simplified complex network security issues using a Lock and Key approach. KoolSpan’s SecurEdge allows enterprises to build secure wired or wireless networks with incredible ease, interoperability and an unmatched low total cost of operation. With the KoolSpan system in place, companies negate the chance for security breaches and bottlenecks by automatically authenticating the user and not the computer. There is no costly infrastructure to manage, no back-end servers and authentication is done at the edge of network, where implementation and security are most effective. Smart Card VPN remote access is possible from nearly any point on the network.
LearnVest
LearnVest.com, a major success in the Rose Tech Ventures portfolio, was acquired by Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company in a major, nine-figure acquisition, At the time of the acquisition it was the leading personal finance and lifestyle website for women. Since its debut as a TechCrunch50 Company in September 2009, LearnVest has helped over one million women gain control of their finances. LearnVest provides trusted content, tools, and support to help women tackle their finances at each stage of life.
LinkStorm
www.linkstorms.com The power of Linkstorm is to link and deliver customized data to any user, anywhere, in a fraction of a second - increasing discoverability and conversion. Today, advertisers who need its ability to accelerate customer engagement, increase online conversions, and to improve reporting of online results and behaviors are discovering Linkstorm. LinkStorm is a Registration Agency and Internet services firm dedicated exclusively to implementing and promoting the use of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). The DOI provides a unique, permanent link between any type of digital information-including text, music, photos, video, software and databases-and the web site of the creators who own that information. Content Directions helps companies tag their content with DOIs, issues publisher prefixes and registers DOIs and their associated metadata. The company also co-develops applications that support tracking, distribution, copyright protection and e-commerce functions.
Mashery
Mashery a major portfolio succes story through its acquisition by TibCo, is the leading provider of web services and API management solutions enabling software-driven companies to unlock and accelerate their web services channel. With its on-demand, fully hosted solution, Mashery takes away the cumbersome process and plumbing around managing web services. Mashery provides all the ingredients required to get web services up-and-running quickly, easily and successfully while ensuring that they will scale: usage/access management, tracking, metrics, commerce, performance optimization and developer/community tools all come pre-packaged. Mashery enables web services providers to focus their time, resources and capital on building their core software, not on creating web services management infrastructure.
Panjiva
Acquired by S&P Global, Panjiva’s mission is to make it easier for companies of all sizes to do business across borders. As a first step, we are helping apparel companies identify which overseas suppliers they can trust. Our approach to this task is unique: we leverage a wide variety of quality data sources to rate apparel suppliers around the globe. Behind each Panjiva Rating is a detailed scorecard that evaluates suppliers along key dimensions. By comparing supplier scorecards, our subscribers can determine which suppliers are right for them.
Founded in 2006, Panjiva is based in New York City’s Fashion District. Panjiva is led by five entrepreneurs—Josh Green, James Psota, Ricci Wolman, Zhuowei Lei, and Noah Daniels—who bring together knowledge and contacts from the worlds of fashion, technology, and global trade.
Performline, Inc.
PerformLine is an online performance marketing company focused on providing advertisers with the highest quality leads through lead generation and cost-per-acquisition (CPA) marketing. Our refined lead management processes, combined with our proprietary technologies, enable us to deliver the highest quality leads with scalable volume. PerformLine generates both consumer requests for more information, as well as completed conversions for advertising partners. Our pay-for-performance model is virtually risk-free for advertisers, as they only pay for completed transactions. We leverage search engine marketing and media buying technologies, combined with landing page optimization expertise, to convert traffic into the highest quality leads in a variety of verticals.
Pond5
Pond5 is the world’s first web-based stock footage marketplace -– a revolutionary new way to buy and sell stock footage on the web. It’s a place for video, film and television producers to find great, downloadable, royalty-free footage for use in their productions, and to license their own work for use by others. It’s also a place to connect, collaborate and create for a global community of moving image artists.
SetJam
SetJam, acquired by Google, was founded in June 2009, with the goal of making online TV easy. The company’s Data Integrity Engine set a new standard for online TV and movie listings, and its innovative data productsradically simplified the integration process.
Zero-G
Space Adventures is the world’s premier private space exploration company and the only company currently providing opportunities for actual private spaceflight and space tourism today. Using proven equipment and working side-by-side with professional astronauts and cosmonauts, they are the first and only space exploration company to send private clients to space, their clients having cumulatively spent nearly a thousand hours aboard the International Space Station.
TalkShoe
TalkShoe is a service that enables anyone to easily create, join, or listen to Live Interactive Discussions, Conversations, Podcasts and Audioblogs. These hosted Community Calls can be discussions, conversations, talk shows and podcasts. Recorded Community Calls can be listened to, downloaded, or subscribed to. And if your Community Call becomes popular, you can make money too. We provide the complete answer including live interactive software, conferencing, ShoePhone, chat room, player, widgets, storage, bandwidth, ads, directory listing, and technical support, all for Free.
Trazzler
Trazzler provides travel recommendations within reasonable driving distance, fostering investment in local economies and encouraging more frequent, shorter trips. As you explore Trazzler, your interaction with the site is fed into an algorithm that creates travel suggestions tailored to your Travel Personality and location. Writing contests are an important component of Trazzler’s community and content strategy.
Viddler
Viddler is a video site that allows users to upload, enhance and share their video from their browser. The site charges premium fees to users who want to use upgraded features, and also allows users to upload in bulk, add deep tags at specific times during videos and record directly from their webcam.
Say Media
SayMedia offers a comprehensive solution—technology, content, and monetization—that will make your community video-ready quickly and easily. Both flexible and robust, the SayMedia media platform will meet the needs of your community. Everyday we deliver millions of impressions to users across leading social networking environments, video sites and gaming applications. We develop rich user profiles that enable advertisers to start with the right audience. Our unique video advertising formats and targeting approach deliver higher engagement rates for brands and more relevant ad experiences for consumers. We believe that advertising on the internet is about giving users control. We invite them to engage with the advertisers content on their terms. This philosophy to advertising is summed up by our mantra “Nice Works”.
33across
33Across is developing breakthrough technology that helps social media companies increase their revenue, by unlocking hidden data from social interactions.
Wellgood LLC
WellGood LLC is a fast-growing consulting and marketing firm providing strategic planning, sponsorship, web implementation, and marketing services to help nonprofits fulfill their missions. Its executive team has extensive experience at such organizations as Wolfensohn, Arquitectonica, McKinsey and IBM.
Our current focus is on a new donation portal, ChangingThePresent.org, which uses the basic principles of modern business to make charitable giving transparent, efficient and social. It will change not just how money is raised, but also how nonprofits fit into people’s lives. The goal is to make giving something that happens not just as a transaction, but as a way of expressing and sharing one’s own values and interests with others.