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OctoAI (formerly OctoML) was a Seattle-based AI inference platform founded in 2019 as a University of Washington Allen School spin-out of the Apache TVM project. The company originally focused on machine-learning model optimization and compilation across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators, and in June 2023 launched a generative-AI SaaS inference…

Admission Table (admissiontable.com) was a study-abroad and overseas-education counseling platform founded in 2013 by Manish Katyan and Duleep Deosthale, offering real-time student counseling, university admissions guidance, scholarships, financing, and online test preparation for the SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, and IELTS.

Abe AI was a conversational-AI platform for banks and credit unions, delivering a financial virtual assistant (chatbot and voice) across web, mobile, SMS, and smart-speaker channels so consumers could check balances, track spending, and bank by natural language.

Adap.tv was a global programmatic video advertising platform founded around 2007 and backed by Redpoint Ventures, offering brands, agencies, and publishers tools for planning, executing, and measuring video ad campaigns programmatically, including real-time bidding (RTB), audience targeting, campaign management, and analytics through its Pathway…

Amodo was a European connected-insurance and telematics company founded in Zagreb, Croatia, that helped insurers and brokers build and distribute personalized usage-based insurance (UBI) products.

AnswerSoft, Inc. was a privately-held computer-telephony integration (CTI) software company based in Richardson, Texas. Its Concerto product line automated interactions between telephony systems and business applications, covering smart screen pop, intelligent call routing, data mining, and early internet-enabled call centers.

Cask Data, Inc. was the enterprise big-data startup, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, that built and open-sourced CDAP — the Cask Data Application Platform — a framework for building and running data analytic applications and data pipelines on Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes, and the cloud.

Blue Vision Labs was a London-based computer-vision company that built the first city-scale augmented reality cloud — crowdsourcing centimetre-accurate 3D maps of entire cities from images captured by car-mounted smartphone cameras, then letting developers use visual positioning to place shared and persistent AR content that every device sees in…

E-Stamp Corporation (eStamp) was a dot-com era Internet-postage company, a Canaan Partners seed-stage portfolio company that competed with Stamps.com to let users buy and print official U.S. Postal Service postage online.

Frame Technology Corp. was a software company that developed FrameMaker, a structured desktop-publishing and technical-documentation authoring application widely used for long, complex documents. Founded in the 1980s and taken public, Frame Technology was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1995; FrameMaker continues today as an Adobe product.

Velocity was an Israeli DevOps / site-reliability-engineering startup that helped engineering teams move faster — originally by letting developers spin up on-demand, fully isolated, production-like development environments, and later by applying AI to automate SRE and major-incident-response workflows so engineers could focus on solving problems…

uRoam, Inc. (1999-2003) was a Canaan Partners-backed security company that built FirePass, a clientless SSL-VPN appliance for "radically simplified remote access" to enterprise applications from any browser.

Orative Corporation was an enterprise software company that built conferencing and collaboration software for mobile business users, offering a client-server product to manage conversations, collaborate with colleagues, filter unwanted calls and notifications, and access personal and corporate directories.

VSS Monitoring was a network packet broker (NPB) vendor founded in 2003, known for its vBroker appliance range and the vMesh architecture that meshed up to 256 packet brokers into a fault-tolerant network-visibility fabric for monitoring and security tools.

SOASTA was a web and mobile performance-testing company known for CloudTest (cloud-based load and performance testing) and mPulse (real user monitoring / RUM). It was surfaced as a portfolio company of Canaan Partners and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichment.

Terbium Labs was a Baltimore-based dark web data intelligence and digital risk protection company (founded 2013) best known for Matchlight, a fully private, automated platform that used patented data-fingerprinting to detect a customer's sensitive data (PII, credentials, intellectual property) as it appeared for sale or leak across the open, deep…

Dapper was an advertising-technology and web-data company founded in 2006 by Jonathan Aizen and Eran Shir, seed-funded by Accel. It ran two surfaces: Dapper Ads, an intent-driven dynamic-ad product that pulled live product and inventory data from an advertiser's own site into targeted creative without IT integration; and open.dapper.net (the "Dapp…

Cogito Corp was a Boston-based real-time artificial-intelligence company that provided emotional-intelligence and conversation-guidance software for contact-center agents, analyzing voice signals during live phone calls to coach agents in the moment and surface customer-experience and agent-wellbeing insights.

MobileIron was a pioneer in mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility management (EMM), later unified endpoint management (UEM), securing mobile devices, applications, and content for enterprises with capabilities such as Zero Sign-On, Mobile Threat Defense, and secure connectivity.

mSpot was a mobile cloud-based content service provider founded in 2004 by Daren Tsui (CEO) and Ed Ho (CTO) and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company offered a cloud music locker that let users upload their music library and stream it from PCs, Macs, iPhone, iPad and Android devices, alongside a full-length movie rental service with…