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Aardvark (acquired by Google)
GOOG

San Francisco, CA

Aardvark is a new search service that leverages Internet communication tools and your expanded circle of friends to speed you answers to subjective queries, when opinion is more important than hard facts.

Adara Media

Mountain View, CA

Adara Media offers a loyalty audience platform that enables top brands to monetize and nurture their loyalty program customers online and helps advertisers reach exclusive, qualified audiences. Using proprietary loyalty data, Adara Media enables advertisers to reach real individuals, ensuring authenticity while maintaining complete anonymity. Adara Media's brand partners then gain ancillary revenue streams and the ability to deepen their relationships with loyalty consumers through targeted offers and consistent communication.

Adchemy

Redwood City, CA

Adchemy is revolutionizing the world of online customer acquisition. Adchemy is the first company to truly combine data on the Web with advanced scientific algorithms to give marketers powerful products designed to increase qualified users and reduce acquisition costs.

Bill.com, Inc.

Palo Alto, CA

Bill.com is a web-based service that automates tedious, time consuming bill workflow, bill payment, and business document filing tasks while keeping all of your information synchronized with popular accounting systems.

Blippy, Inc.

Palo Alto, CA

Blippy is a social network where people share and discuss the things they buy. Blippy's mission is to build community around everyday purchases, making them more meaningful and useful.

Bubbli

Bubbli provides spherical photographs.

Done Right! (Acquired by LendingTree)
TREE

Pasadena, CA

Launched in 2004, Done Right! currently maintains online home improvement professional service directories across the nation. The little orange book was first introduced in San Diego in 2005, then Denver, Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth and Chicago were also added in 2007. Since that time, the Done Right Directory® has added 33 markets across the US, bringing the total to 38.

Ebates

San Francisco, CA

Ebates is a next-generation Internet shopping portal, which gives its members cash back when they shop online.

Evite (acquired by IAC)
IACI

Pasadena, CA

Evite is an online invitation service that was acquired by the Ticketmaster division of InterActiveCorp.

Gravity

Santa Monica, CA

Gravity is building the internet’s Interest Graph by enabling people to come together around shared interests and engage in meaningful conversations.

Guru

San Francisco, CA

Guru combines the right mixture of science, technology, and human interaction, to deliver objectively qualified talent better, faster, and at a dramatically reduced price compared to traditional staffing firms.

Jaxtr (acquired by Sabse Bolo)

Menlo Park

Jaxtr has become the world's largest social communications company. Over 10 million people in 220 countries use jaxtr to receive calls from people visiting their social networking pages, to make calls to their friends and family worldwide and to get to know fellow jaxtr members on café jaxtr, the world's largest talk network.

Listen (acquired by Real Networks)
RNWK

San Francisco, CA

Listen is the leading independent music service provider that creates, bundles, and distributes world-class content and media delivery applications online. Listen's primary product, Rhapsody, is the only service that seamlessly integrates high-fidelity on-demand playback, professionally programmed Internet radio, rich contextual music information, and extensive editorial recommendations into a single application. Listen was acquired by RealNetworks in 2003.

Livemocha

Bellevue, WA

Livemocha is the world’s largest language learning community, with millions of members from over 200 countries. Livemocha is redefining language learning, with interactive online courses that use simple social networking with native language speakers to provide tips for improvement.

Luminate, Inc. (formerly Pixazza)

Mountain View, CA

Luminate (formerly Pixazza) generates incremental revenue for companies by "visual commerce enabling" the images directly on their web site.

Memolane

Memolane is a digital platform collecting and connecting your activity on the Internet.

Ohai

Developing the next big thing in accessible, massively multiplayer online games.

Openlane (acquired by KAR)

Mesa, AZ

AutoTradeCenter provides web-based software, technology and related services to the automotive remarketing industry. Core AutoTradeCenter services are online auctions and related support; statistical analysis, forecasting and predictive modeling; and related consulting, training and remarketing support.

PayCycle (acquired by Intuit)
INTU

Palo Alto, CA

PayCycle is a small business payroll ASP. PayCycle dramatically reduces the complexity and cost of payroll management for accountants and their small business clients.

PayNearMe

Palo Alto

PayNearMe enables consumers to pay conveniently with cash for a wide variety of goods and services from leading companies in e-commerce, direct response and catalog marketing, consumer finance and beyond at a local store, starting with more than 6,000 7-Eleven stores across the United States.

RelayRides

San Francisco, CA

Neighbor-to-neighbor carsharing.

Reputation.com

Redwood City, CA

Services that protect online reputations.

SAY Media, Inc. (formerly VideoEgg)

San Francisco

SAY Media is a modern media company, the evolution of VideoEgg as it continues its mission to make online advertising better. SAY Media helps advertisers engage today’s social consumer through rich content experiences while helping creators monetize their work and grow their audiences. The company connects paid and earned media to deliver brand messages to an online audience of 345 million across display and mobile.

Shopping.com (acquired by eBay)
EBAY

Brisbane, CA

Shopping.com, the leading shopping search engine and the fifth largest shopping service in the world, is made up of the combined entities of Epinions and Dealtime.

Six Apart (acquired by SAY Media)

San Francisco, CA

Six Apart Ltd. is the company behind the Movable Type publishing system and the TypePad personal weblogging service. Six Apart's sole focus is to create tools that enable millions of individuals, organizations and corporations to participate in the web's full potential by publishing their ideas on the Internet with simple, yet powerful software and services.

SnagAJob

Richmond, Virginia

SnagAJob is the world’s only company totally devoted to fulfilling the dreams of hourly workers and those who employ them. SnagAJob has an online community of over 25 million hourly workers, and helps them live more fulfilling lives by finding right fit positions quickly and easily—while also providing other support services to meet their unique needs. SnagAJob helps employers create better workplaces through efficient and effective talent sourcing, as well as a suite of integrated management tools that make it easier to assess, select, hire, manage and train their hourly employees.

StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites. As you click Stumble!, we deliver high-quality pages matched to your personal preferences. These pages have been explicitly recommended by your friends or one of 6 million+ other websurfers with interests similar to you. Rating these sites you like, automatically shares them with like-minded people – and helps you discover great sites your friends recommend.

Swoopo

Germany

Swoopo is an internet company with a unique, worldwide business model. We are the creators of “Entertainment Shopping“ on the internet, and, one of the first companies to combine e-commerce and entertainment.

Technorati

San Francisco, CA

Technorati provides search and notification services for active content on the Internet. Technorati monitors over 1.8 million sources (weblogs, RSS) with over 10,000 new sources added each day.

Tickle (acquired by Monster)
MWW

San Francisco, CA

Tickle (formerly Emode) is a member services company that fulfills the consumer's need for connection to friends and family with data-driven services centered on the individual. Attracting more than 3 million members strictly through word of mouth, Emode has quickly become a model for successful viral marketing. Tickle was acquired by Monster Worldwide in May of 2004.

Topica

San Francisco, CA

Topica provides turn-key solutions for email newsletter publishers, from multinational media companies to individuals publishing news about a hobby or interest.

Trumba

Seattle, WA

Trumba is creating a new type of calendar service -- the connected calendar -- that connects all the different aspects of our users' lives -- work, family, community and fun--into one easy-to-use and access calendar, and keeps people connected to others through the events they share.

WePay

WePay helps group collect and manage money.

Zulily

Seattle, WA

Zulily is a members-only sale Web site offering daily limited-time deals for moms, babies, and kids