YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST
These are the companies KPG Ventures has helped climb the mountain. It is a privilege to play a role in their success.
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Ribbit is working with the best and brightest technology and business leaders to build Silicon Valley's first phone company. Acquired by BT. |
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Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video, Photos, and Ads from across the Web. Acquired by AOL. |
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Teracent is a pioneer in dynamic ad serving and optimization solutions that allow marketers to leverage the full potential of their investment in media buys and targeting strategies. Acquired by Google. |
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Sportgenic is the fastest growing ad network of sport enthusiasts online, with more than 20 million unique users per month. Acquired by Glam. |
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BrightRoll is building the Internet’s Video Advertising Network. The company helps a rapidly growing list of video sites monetize their high volume video traffic by connecting their users with branded and direct response advertisements before, after and within video streams. |
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ClipSync is pioneering the "real-time group interaction" (also known as social TV) market for entertainment and media consumption, competition and discussion on the internet. |
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AmpliFIND Music Services is a new company aiming to raise the bar on next generation digital music support services. AMS creates cutting-edge B2B technology solutions for managing next generation entertainment products -- from mobile phones to consumer electronics. The company's technology is fast becoming the play-listing and music identification technology of choice among mobile and consumer electronics products manufacturers. |
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GlobalMojo is currently in stealth mode. |
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Lexy is the 3rd leg to the emergent social media stool - together with Facebook and Twitter - supporting both creators of short-form Text & Audio media and the broad-base of consumers who listen to and engage with them. With it's market-making "Create once, post anywhere" mobile publishing platform, Lexy gives voice, literally, to the world's most interesting conversations with the world's most interesting people. On your mobile phone or all across the web. |
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Ludic Labs creators of Diddit. Diddit™ -- you are what you do -- a site where people discover new life experiences, get credit for activities done, share personal stories and connect with others like them. |
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NileGuide helps customers discover and connect to the most satisfying and relevant travel experiences by providing trustworthy, insightful content, personalized travel recommendations, and by making travel easy to plan and organize. |
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National Payment Card Association is at the forefront of a new national payment system that substantially lowers merchants processing cost compared with the current fees charged by credit and debit card companies. |
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OrcaOne is based out of New York, and provides a payment processing alternative for Social Networks, Online games, Participation TV shows, and other social media. |
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PowerFile Inc. is the innovator in archive appliances for long-term storage of digital content and assets. |
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SezWho is a universal profile service for social web that engages your community and enables content discovery. |
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SingleFeed is an online self-service data feed management, submission, and optimization company. |
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Sociable Labs produces plug-ins that allow e-commerce sites to capture the value of their extensive but disorderly social networks of consumers, and translate that value directly into measurable sales increases. Sociable Labs does this through systemaic, iterative, and comprehensive testing of a wide range of social plug-in feature sets. |
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Solariat is a conversational marketing company that can find consumers searching for information in social media and point them to the information they're seeking. |
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Teleplace creates virtual collaboration environments for businesses that enable teams to communicate and collaborate in ways that weren’t possible before, including VOIP, chat, video, applications, and documents. |
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TuneUp Media is the company behind the TuneUp Companion, currently the world's most popular iTunes plug-in. The TuneUp companion is available for iTunes, with support for other major media players planned for the near future. |
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Wowd is the people-powered search, discovery and recommendation network that harnesses the "wisdom of crowds" in real-time, using human judgment to deliver the freshest, most relevant content from the deep web. Wowdemploys a unique peer-to-peer architecture that provides personalized recommendations and results, and puts each user back in control of their privacy by eliminating the need to share information with central servers. |
Headlines
- Solariat Launches Publically
August 5, 2010 - Glam acquires Sportgenic
July 26, 2010 - BrightRoll Selected by AlwaysOn as an AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner
July 22, 2010 - Nile Guide acquires Localyte Platform and Community
May 11, 2010 - Google Acquires Teracent
November 23, 2009 - TuneUp in The Wall Street Journal
July 16, 2009 - KPG Funds Four Promising Tech Companies
March 10, 2009 - KPG Announces Close of Second Fund
November 12, 2008 - Dave Hills Joins KPG Ventures
October 14, 2008 - BrightRoll Selected as Best Video Ad Network at Streaming Media Awards:
September 26, 2008 - TuneUp Media in the San Francisco Chronicle
September 14, 2008 - BT Acquires Ribbit
July 29, 2008 - AOL Acquires Sphere
April 15, 2008