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<li class="artistswanted"><h3>Artists Wanted</h3><p class="hidden">We see an accelerating trend toward the empowerment of individual creators of things. Be it art, music, design or devices, the web enables the amplification of individual efforts to a degree that was previously impossible. Artists Wanted is furthering this trend with their service, <a href="http://see.me">See</a>, which connects and enables collaboration between creatives across disciplines and around the world. They will play an increasingly important role in helping individuals not only get discovered, but discover just how far they can go with their creations.</p></li>
<li class="betabrand"><h3>Betabrand</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://www.betabrand.com/">Betabrand</a> is an online-only clothing company that designs, manufactures, and releases new fashion inventions every week&mdash;thanks to collaborations with all sorts of local and world wide designers. We first talked to Betabrand in the summer of 2009 and, although we loved what they were doing, we passed on an investment. Chris Lindland, the founder, then raised less money from some angel investors and increased the company&rsquo;s revenue to what we would have expected from a much larger investment. So when we looked at Betabrand again in late 2010, we had to invest.</p></li>
<li class="bitly"><h3>Bitly</h3><p class="hidden">Before Twitter or Facebook popularised them, URL shorteners were being played with by alpha geeks. Then social services started changing the way we share and discover information. Links became the currency of this new social economy. <a href="https://bitly.com/">Bitly</a> has developed a stack of services to help brands, media companies and individual users unlock the value of a link, regardless of where and how it&rsquo;s shared.</p></li>
<li class="bloom"><h3>Bloom</h3><p class="hidden">We have a long history with the founding team of <a href="http://bloom.io/">Bloom</a>. We&rsquo;ve known Ben and admired Tom&rsquo;s work for years. Jesper was our first summer Associate at OATV. But, we never found an opportunity to back them in anything until they started talking to us about Bloom. Collectively, the Bloom founding team are some of the leading minds in big data visualizations, generative art and interaction design. Their vision for Bloom was to pair their expertise with the new wave of computing devices coming to market. Rather than simply shoehorning existing web content into these new form factors, Bloom is actively inventing the data models, visualization metaphors and playful interactions that will define the post-PC era. We love using everything they&rsquo;ve built and we think a lot of other people will too.</p></li>
<li class="bloom inactive"><h3>Bloom</h3><p class="hidden">We have a long history with the founding team of <a href="http://bloom.io/">Bloom</a>. We&rsquo;ve known Ben and admired Tom&rsquo;s work for years. Jesper was our first summer Associate at OATV. But, we never found an opportunity to back them in anything until they started talking to us about Bloom. Collectively, the Bloom founding team are some of the leading minds in big data visualizations, generative art and interaction design. Their vision for Bloom was to pair their expertise with the new wave of computing devices coming to market. Rather than simply shoehorning existing web content into these new form factors, Bloom is actively inventing the data models, visualization metaphors and playful interactions that will define the post-PC era. We love using everything they&rsquo;ve built and we think a lot of other people will too.</p></li>
<li class="chartbeat"><h3>Chartbeat</h3><p class="hidden">We got to know the <a href="http://chartbeat.com/">Chartbeat</a> team around the time that we invested in Bitly. They shared office space. What Bitly was doing to track realtime link data, Chartbeat was doing to track realtime click data on publisher websites. A future that includes a publisher&rsquo;s ability to learn and adapt content to its users in realtime is a pretty exciting one to us.</p></li>
<li class="chumby inactive"><h3>Chumby</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://www.chumby.com/">Chumby Industries</a> was birthed at Foo Camp in the summer of 2005 by alpha geeks who wanted to create a hackable WiFi consumer device. The long-term vision extended beyond a single device to a future full of wireless connected devices in our homes and lives. Open source hardware hackers, however, failed to flock to the Chumby device, and with the launch of the iPhone in 2007, the bar for the success of a consumer device was set even higher. The company wound down in early 2012. Bunnie Huang, one of its co-founders, talks about the lessons he learned <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/30/makes-exclusive-interview-with-andrew-bunnie-huang-the-end-of-chumby-new-adventures">here</a></p></li>
<li class="codecademy"><h3>Codecademy</h3><p class="hidden">Just as the move from the farm to the factory required developing a new world view and skill set, the transition from our analog past to our digital future is requiring a similar shift in understanding and skills. <a href="http://codecademy.com">Codecademy</a> is an effort to take anyone from a standing start to a basic understanding of computer coding via their online tools. If that same person wants to push deeper and develop into a full fledged computer programer, Codeacademy can help them do that too. As this global shift to code based economies unfolds, we think the potential impact of their tools is staggering.</p></li>
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<li class="scienceexchange"><h3>Science Exchange</h3><p class="hidden">There are many reasons for stalls in scientific breakthroughs, but limited access to lab facilities and experimental expertise shouldn't be among them. Today's scientists have much to do, but are often time and resource constrained. <a href="http://scienceexchange.com">Science Exchange</a>'s solution to this problem is a science-as-a-service marketplace where researchers can post the projects they needed completed, and providers can fulfill those requests. This new marketplace has already facilitated over 1,000 transactions that each move the advancement of scientific discovery forward in large and small ways. We believe they have an opportunity to become a huge marketplace. But more importantly, they will become a marketplace whose work will have a huge impact on our society.  And we’re thrilled to be working with them to build it.</p></li>
<li class="seeclickfix"><h3>SeeClickFix</h3><p class="hidden">When we began looking closely at the emergent trend of Gov 2.0, it was clear that real change to government was going to have to come from the outside in. That is why we found the <a href="http://seeclickfix.com/">SeeClickFix</a> model so compelling. Any citizen, anywhere in the world, can start reporting non-emergency issues directly to their local governments without that locality needing to have signed up. The positive results can be seen on city streets across the country. We love to fund companies that literally make the world a better place.</p></li>
<li class="sherpaa"><h3>Sherpaa</h3><p class="hidden">The face of healthcare is changing rapidly. Employers must make tough decisions about how to manage costs, and employees must navigate new high-deductible health plans. <a href="http://sherpaa.com">Sherpaa</a> guides each customer through the complicated landscape of healthcare and insurance providers. It aims to deliver a human experience enhanced by technology, via a network of like-minded modern medical practitioners.</p></li>
<li class="sight machine"><h3>Sight Machine</h3><p class="hidden">When we were re-introduced to Nathan Oostendorp, one of the co-founders of Slashdot, we were immediately excited by his vision of a platform for analyzing the physical world using computer vision, off-the-shelf components and analytics in the cloud. Sight Machine helps traditional industries solve important problems, from critical insights into operational safety to the quality of products coming off the assembly line. At the intersection between the Industrial Internet and the 3rd Industrial Revolution, we’re proud to back a company that will disrupt the manufacturing industry.</p></li>
<li class="sonicliving inactive"><h3>SonicLiving</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://sonicliving.com/hi">SonicLiving</a> was born as a concert listing service. When Gabe pitched us the original idea it fell flat. But, we were intrigued with the team and stayed close as their bigger opportunity unfolded. What convinced us to get off the fence and into the trenches was a stack of products targeted at getting people off the couch, away from the computer and connecting in real life around all kinds of events. The SonicLiving event stack is in use by major music artists, movie studios, TV shows and consumer facing web services.</p></li>
<li class="strobe inactive"><h3>Strobe</h3><p class="hidden">When Charles Jolley wrote the original version of the Sproutcore open source project, there was no iOS, no Android, no WP7 and no modern browsers on any mobile devices. But as Sproutcore evolved it was clear the project and its contributors saw the power of the mobile web as a delivery mechanism for rich native-like consistent experiences, regardless of the device or OS they were delivered on. <a href="http://www.strobecorp.com/">Strobe</a> is taking Sproutcore to the next level and offering a suite of services and utilities that deliver on the promise of mobile web across any and all devices.</p></li>
<li class="opencandy"><h3>SweetLabs</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://www.sweetlabs.com/">SweetLabs</a> was founded with a simple premise; help developers get their software discovered and help them make money. That guiding premise has helped shape the company and the decisions they make. We like that. The founders know what it takes to build big businesses having taken their last company public. We like that too.</p></li>
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<li class="artistswanted"><h3>Artists Wanted</h3><p class="hidden">We see an accelerating trend toward the empowerment of individual creators of things. Be it art, music, design or devices, the web enables the amplification of individual efforts to a degree that was previously impossible. Artists Wanted is furthering this trend with their service, <a href="http://see.me">See</a>, which connects and enables collaboration between creatives across disciplines and around the world. They will play an increasingly important role in helping individuals not only get discovered, but discover just how far they can go with their creations.</p></li>
<li class="betabrand"><h3>Betabrand</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://www.betabrand.com/">Betabrand</a> is an online-only clothing company that designs, manufactures, and releases new fashion inventions every week&mdash;thanks to collaborations with all sorts of local and world wide designers. We first talked to Betabrand in the summer of 2009 and, although we loved what they were doing, we passed on an investment. Chris Lindland, the founder, then raised less money from some angel investors and increased the company&rsquo;s revenue to what we would have expected from a much larger investment. So when we looked at Betabrand again in late 2010, we had to invest.</p></li>
<li class="bitly"><h3>Bitly</h3><p class="hidden">Before Twitter or Facebook popularised them, URL shorteners were being played with by alpha geeks. Then social services started changing the way we share and discover information. Links became the currency of this new social economy. <a href="https://bitly.com/">Bitly</a> has developed a stack of services to help brands, media companies and individual users unlock the value of a link, regardless of where and how it&rsquo;s shared.</p></li>
<li class="bloom"><h3>Bloom</h3><p class="hidden">We have a long history with the founding team of <a href="http://bloom.io/">Bloom</a>. We&rsquo;ve known Ben and admired Tom&rsquo;s work for years. Jesper was our first summer Associate at OATV. But, we never found an opportunity to back them in anything until they started talking to us about Bloom. Collectively, the Bloom founding team are some of the leading minds in big data visualizations, generative art and interaction design. Their vision for Bloom was to pair their expertise with the new wave of computing devices coming to market. Rather than simply shoehorning existing web content into these new form factors, Bloom is actively inventing the data models, visualization metaphors and playful interactions that will define the post-PC era. We love using everything they&rsquo;ve built and we think a lot of other people will too.</p></li>
<li class="bloom inactive"><h3>Bloom</h3><p class="hidden">We have a long history with the founding team of <a href="http://bloom.io/">Bloom</a>. We&rsquo;ve known Ben and admired Tom&rsquo;s work for years. Jesper was our first summer Associate at OATV. But, we never found an opportunity to back them in anything until they started talking to us about Bloom. Collectively, the Bloom founding team are some of the leading minds in big data visualizations, generative art and interaction design. Their vision for Bloom was to pair their expertise with the new wave of computing devices coming to market. Rather than simply shoehorning existing web content into these new form factors, Bloom is actively inventing the data models, visualization metaphors and playful interactions that will define the post-PC era. We love using everything they&rsquo;ve built and we think a lot of other people will too.</p></li>
<li class="chartbeat"><h3>Chartbeat</h3><p class="hidden">We got to know the <a href="http://chartbeat.com/">Chartbeat</a> team around the time that we invested in Bitly. They shared office space. What Bitly was doing to track realtime link data, Chartbeat was doing to track realtime click data on publisher websites. A future that includes a publisher&rsquo;s ability to learn and adapt content to its users in realtime is a pretty exciting one to us.</p></li>
<li class="chumby inactive"><h3>Chumby</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://www.chumby.com/">Chumby Industries</a> was birthed at Foo Camp in the summer of 2005 by alpha geeks who wanted to create a hackable WiFi consumer device. The long-term vision extended beyond a single device to a future full of wireless connected devices in our homes and lives. Open source hardware hackers, however, failed to flock to the Chumby device, and with the launch of the iPhone in 2007, the bar for the success of a consumer device was set even higher. The company wound down in early 2012. Bunnie Huang, one of its co-founders, talks about the lessons he learned <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/30/makes-exclusive-interview-with-andrew-bunnie-huang-the-end-of-chumby-new-adventures">here</a></p></li>
<li class="codecademy"><h3>Codecademy</h3><p class="hidden">Just as the move from the farm to the factory required developing a new world view and skill set, the transition from our analog past to our digital future is requiring a similar shift in understanding and skills. <a href="http://codecademy.com">Codecademy</a> is an effort to take anyone from a standing start to a basic understanding of computer coding via their online tools. If that same person wants to push deeper and develop into a full fledged computer programer, Codeacademy can help them do that too. As this global shift to code based economies unfolds, we think the potential impact of their tools is staggering.</p></li>
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<li class="scienceexchange"><h3>Science Exchange</h3><p class="hidden">There are many reasons for stalls in scientific breakthroughs, but limited access to lab facilities and experimental expertise shouldn't be among them. Today's scientists have much to do, but are often time and resource constrained. <a href="http://scienceexchange.com">Science Exchange</a>'s solution to this problem is a science-as-a-service marketplace where researchers can post the projects they needed completed, and providers can fulfill those requests. This new marketplace has already facilitated over 1,000 transactions that each move the advancement of scientific discovery forward in large and small ways. We believe they have an opportunity to become a huge marketplace. But more importantly, they will become a marketplace whose work will have a huge impact on our society.  And we’re thrilled to be working with them to build it.</p></li>
<li class="seeclickfix"><h3>SeeClickFix</h3><p class="hidden">When we began looking closely at the emergent trend of Gov 2.0, it was clear that real change to government was going to have to come from the outside in. That is why we found the <a href="http://seeclickfix.com/">SeeClickFix</a> model so compelling. Any citizen, anywhere in the world, can start reporting non-emergency issues directly to their local governments without that locality needing to have signed up. The positive results can be seen on city streets across the country. We love to fund companies that literally make the world a better place.</p></li>
<li class="sherpaa"><h3>Sherpaa</h3><p class="hidden">The face of healthcare is changing rapidly. Employers must make tough decisions about how to manage costs, and employees must navigate new high-deductible health plans. <a href="http://sherpaa.com">Sherpaa</a> guides each customer through the complicated landscape of healthcare and insurance providers. It aims to deliver a human experience enhanced by technology, via a network of like-minded modern medical practitioners.</p></li>
<li class="sight machine"><h3>Sight Machine</h3><p class="hidden">When we were re-introduced to Nathan Oostendorp, one of the co-founders of Slashdot, we were immediately excited by his vision of a platform for analyzing the physical world using computer vision, off-the-shelf components and analytics in the cloud. Sight Machine helps traditional industries solve important problems, from critical insights into operational safety to the quality of products coming off the assembly line. At the intersection between the Industrial Internet and the 3rd Industrial Revolution, we’re proud to back a company that will disrupt the manufacturing industry.</p></li>
<li class="sonicliving inactive"><h3>SonicLiving</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://sonicliving.com/hi">SonicLiving</a> was born as a concert listing service. When Gabe pitched us the original idea it fell flat. But, we were intrigued with the team and stayed close as their bigger opportunity unfolded. What convinced us to get off the fence and into the trenches was a stack of products targeted at getting people off the couch, away from the computer and connecting in real life around all kinds of events. The SonicLiving event stack is in use by major music artists, movie studios, TV shows and consumer facing web services.</p></li>
<li class="strobe inactive"><h3>Strobe</h3><p class="hidden">When Charles Jolley wrote the original version of the Sproutcore open source project, there was no iOS, no Android, no WP7 and no modern browsers on any mobile devices. But as Sproutcore evolved it was clear the project and its contributors saw the power of the mobile web as a delivery mechanism for rich native-like consistent experiences, regardless of the device or OS they were delivered on. <a href="http://www.strobecorp.com/">Strobe</a> is taking Sproutcore to the next level and offering a suite of services and utilities that deliver on the promise of mobile web across any and all devices.</p></li>
<li class="opencandy"><h3>SweetLabs</h3><p class="hidden"><a href="http://www.sweetlabs.com/">SweetLabs</a> was founded with a simple premise; help developers get their software discovered and help them make money. That guiding premise has helped shape the company and the decisions they make. We like that. The founders know what it takes to build big businesses having taken their last company public. We like that too.</p></li>
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