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Angel Investor
2022
Puffer is an Ethereum infrastructure company building liquid staking, UniFi based rollups, and pre-confirmation AVS, empowering institutions and individuals to participate in Ethereum’s future with scalability, transparency, and decentralization.
Investor
Apr 2017
Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service and a leader in offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 500+ trusted pentesters, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely.
Investor
2017
Visbit is a visual technology company enabling 360-degree videos and VR content to be easily streamed and viewed at the highest possible quality across multiple platforms. With its patented Visbit View-Optimized Streaming (VVOS) technology, Visbit offers content publishers and app developers the world's first all-in-one streaming service that can deliver and play 4K to 12K resolution 360-degree VR videos without noticeable latency over regular Wi-Fi and LTE for mobile and eventually all VR headsets. The service is made of a publisher portal for content management and BI analytics, a VR cloud for transcoding, streaming via CDN and hosting, and VR player SDKs across all mobile and Web VR platforms.
The company was founded in 2015 by Dr. Changyin Zhou and Elaine Lu, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA. For more information go to www.visbit.co.
Investor
2017
8th Wall is an award-winning computer vision software company that makes it possible to build interactive, immersive content that can be experienced on any device—no app required. With the world’s largest augmented reality platform, 8th Wall supports billions of devices globally and has been used by developers, agencies and creative studios to create AR activations for brands across industry verticals including retail, food and beverage, travel and tourism, automotive, fashion, sports and entertainment. 8th Wall has powered WebAR experiences for top brands such as Nike, Porsche, Sony Pictures, Burger King, General Mills, British Gas, Heineken, McDonald’s, Swiss Airlines, Toyota, Red Bull, Adidas, COACH and more. Learn more about 8th Wall at www.8thwall.com.
LP Investor
2017
Polychain invests in protocols and companies in the blockchain space, advancing the global adoption of cryptocurrencies.
Investor
2016
The global operating system for freelance labor. Backed by Y Combinator, Matrix Partners, and Index Ventures.
Seed Investor
2016
THETA.tv (fka SLIVER.tv) is the next-generation esports entertainment platform powered by blockchain technology.
Based in San Jose, CA, the company is backed by top-tier Silicon Valley VCs and Hollywood media investors and is on a mission to transform the interactive esports entertainment industry.
Angel Investor
2016
Rippling is a workforce management system that eliminates the friction from running a business. Today, most companies struggle with everything from routine tasks, like running payroll, to cross-functional planning, like aligning on headcount. That’s because all their data related to people, processes, and systems is scattered in a hundred places.
Rippling has every application you need to run your business—from applicant tracking and payroll to IT and expenses—in one place. But unlike other systems, Rippling sits on top of a unified platform. Data flows dynamically between Rippling’s applications, giving every team a shared source of truth, the power to automate processes, and access to the insights they need. This allows your business to execute better, faster.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock.
Get help: rippling.com/contact
Licensing details: https://app.rippling.com/licensing
Investor
2016
Virgil Security, Inc., makes every software developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil provides password-free authentication, encryption, distributed immutable data storage via Blockchain, and verification of data, devices, and identities that is quickly and easily integrated into developer products. Virgil provides this via a cloud-based service in combination with open sourced libraries that are available for desktop, embedded (IoT), mobile, and cloud / web applications with support for a wide variety of modern programming languages.
• Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America <http://bit.ly/VS-RNHA>
• One of "region's hottest emerging companies" for Cooley LLP's Capital Call DC <http://bit.ly/VS-Cooley>
• TiE50 Top Start-up Winner at TiEcon 2016 <http://tiecon.org>.
• Top 40 DC-area innovators in the cyber community by Trending40.com.
• Showcased at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards as "one of the most interesting, creative & successful" 2015 Startup Alley exhibitors by TechCrunch Disrupt.
• Finalist for a Timmy Award as DC’s Best Tech Startup by Tech in Motion <http://bit.ly/VS-TiM>
• One of five "innovative seed & growth-stage cybersecurity companies with outsized potential to transform the trillion dollar mobile space" by CTIA Startup Lab <http://bit.ly/VS-CTIA>
• One of the sixteen hottest up-and-coming early & seed stage technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association <http://bit.ly/VSBuzz2015>
• One of the Southeast’s thirty-six most innovative startups by 36|86’s Village 36 <http://bit.ly/Village36>
• One of the Top 10 area startups by 36|86’s Southern Series <bit.ly/Virgil-3686>
• One of Cybersecurity Ventures “500 Hot Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2015”
• Graduate of the Fall 2014 cohort of the MACH37™ <http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program
#SecureTheFuture #NoMorePasswords #EncryptEverything
#SecuredByVirgil
Investor
Sep 2015
Track code in iOS and Android apps with our software similarity web service. Discover code quality, origin, and intent with our in-depth scan. Our patent-pending analysis engine can match up code and find variants, cross-platform.
See our public report on SDK marketshare at http://sourcedna.com/stats
Investor
Mar 2015
Watch hundreds of local and global news channels.
Haystack News is your go-to for news, from local coverage to global current events. It’s the best way to watch a variety of coverage, all in one place, and absolutely free.
Choose the categories, sources and topics that matter most to you to customize your newscast.
Explore channels like Business and International News with stories from only the most trusted news channels, including ABC News, CBSN, Newsy, AP, CNET, Euronews, Cheddar, CBC, Bloomberg, and more local news coverage than any other streaming service.
Take a deep dive into important topics and trends with dedicated channels that bring coverage from all over the world together in one convenient spot.
Connect to the world around you with Haystack News.
Investor
2015
Vango is the fastest growing marketplace for original art. The iPhone & iPad app is designed to make buying original art easy and affordable. Vango recommends original art tailored for each user. Artists start selling for lower price points and unlock higher price points they more they sell. Each piece of original art comes from Vango's growing community of 5000+ US-based artists.
Vango is the only mobile marketplace that lets you see original artwork hanging on your wall before you buy it. After a user takes a picture of their space with the app, Vango recommends unique pieces based on the colors of the room and the user’s artwork size preferences. The user can then browse through recommended artwork as it virtually hangs on their wall. The app also seamlessly integrates with popular social networks, so the user can easily get feedback from their friends before they buy.
In a competitive and confusing art market, emerging artists struggle with how to sell their work at a fair price, and how to market themselves to potential new customers. On the other side of the market, Vango found users want to buy original art, but they do not know where to start looking for high quality pieces at affordable prices.
Download the app and start discovering original art today
Please visit us at:
Vangoart.com
vng.io/discover-art
twitter.com/vangoart
Instagram.com/vangoart
pinterest.com/vangoart
facebook.com/vangoartapp
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2022
Angel Investor
2022
Puffer is an Ethereum infrastructure company building liquid staking, UniFi based rollups, and pre-confirmation AVS, empowering institutions and individuals to participate in Ethereum’s future with scalability, transparency, and decentralization.
2021
2017
Investor
Apr 2017
Cobalt is the pioneer in pentesting as a service and a leader in offensive security services. We are focused on combining talent and technology with speed, scalability, and expertise. Thousands of customers and hundreds of partners rely on the Cobalt Offensive Security Platform, along with 500+ trusted pentesters, to find and fix vulnerabilities across their environments. By enabling faster pentest launches, real-time collaboration with pentesters, and seamless integration with remediation workflows, we help organizations identify critical issues and accelerate risk mitigation so they can operate fearlessly and innovate securely.
Investor
2017
Visbit is a visual technology company enabling 360-degree videos and VR content to be easily streamed and viewed at the highest possible quality across multiple platforms. With its patented Visbit View-Optimized Streaming (VVOS) technology, Visbit offers content publishers and app developers the world's first all-in-one streaming service that can deliver and play 4K to 12K resolution 360-degree VR videos without noticeable latency over regular Wi-Fi and LTE for mobile and eventually all VR headsets. The service is made of a publisher portal for content management and BI analytics, a VR cloud for transcoding, streaming via CDN and hosting, and VR player SDKs across all mobile and Web VR platforms.
The company was founded in 2015 by Dr. Changyin Zhou and Elaine Lu, and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, USA. For more information go to www.visbit.co.
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