Alex Shih

Venrock Associates is an Independent Venture Capital firm founded in 1969. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto.

Audible, Inc. provides audio information and entertainment services on the internet. It offers digital audio editions of books, newspapers and magazines, television, and radio programs. The firm sells downloadable audio versions of books, speeches, and spoken word performances. The company was founded by Donald R. Katz in 1995 and is headquartered in Newark, NJ.

Dstillery, Inc. is an applied data science company. It provides cross-device audience targeting platform for brands. The company was founded by Alan Murray, Joe P. Doran, Rod Hook, David Honig, Joshua Abram and Kathy Leake in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Airtime Media, Inc. provides web based video chat services. It operates a community network that showcases the video chat. The company was founded by Joey Liaw, Shawn D. Fanning and Sean N. Parker in 2010 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

Singly, Inc. operates as an open source data locker. It aggregates and stores customer's personal data from around the web. The firm's platform also allows developers to create applications on top of this data. The company was founded by Simon Murtha Smith, Jeremie Miller and Jason Cavnar in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers LLC (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers) is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Eugene Kleiner, Thomas Perkins, Brook Byers and Frank J. Caufield. The firm is headquartered in California, US.

eMusic.com, Inc. provides online digital music services. It sells downloadable audiobooks from all major audiobook publishers. The company has operations in Europe, Canada, and the United States. The company was founded by Gene Hoffman Jr., Robert H. Kohn and Gary Culpepper and is headquartered in New York, NY.

KnitMedia, Inc. provides entertainment services. Its operations include venue ownership and management, festivals and events, touring, artist management and recorded music production and distribution. The company was founded by Michael Dorf in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Zazzle, Inc. provides online retail services. It offers customized t-shirts, business cards, invitations, souvenirs and gifts. The firm's proprietary technology enables individuals, professional artists and brands, including Disney and Hallmark to create and offer unique products. The company was founded by Bobby Beaver, Jeff Beaver and Robert Beaver in 1999 and is headquartered in Redwood, CA.

Ithaka Harbors, Inc. provides education services. It serves scholars, researchers and students by providing the content, tools, and services needed to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways. The company was founded by Kevin Guthrie in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Smartling, Inc. provides enterprise translation management platform. It delivers localized websites and mobile applications through a cloud-based software platform that help clients to reach new customers. The company was founded by John L. Welde Jr. and Andrey Akselrod in 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

YouNow Media LLC operates an online personal video sharing platform that allows users to collaboratively broadcast and interact with audiences in real time. It offers a live social television platform, combining elements of reality television and social games programmed by users. The company was founded by Adi Sideman in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Tradesy, Inc. owns and operates an online marketplace for buying and selling designer fashion. The firm’s website connects sellers to like-minded buyers, provides packaging materials, recommends pricing and handles returns in the areas of clothing, bags, shoes and accessories. The company was founded by Tracy Rose DiNunzio, John Loy Hall and Sash Catanzarite in 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

N3TWORK, Inc. develops mobile games. The company was founded by Steven B. Detwiler, Alan Yu, Neil Young, Robert Stevenson and Erik Lammerding in December 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Niantic, Inc. operates as an augmented reality (AR) and mobile real-world company. Its platform, Niantic Real World, manages shared state, communication, security, mapping, and AR functionality. It powers the AR games Pokemon GO, Ingress, and Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The company was founded by John Hanke and Phil Keslin in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Uptake Technologies, Inc. develops predictive analytics platform. It serves agriculture, aviation, buildings, fleet, manufacturing, oil and gas, construction, energy and mining industries. The company was founded by Bradley A. Keywell and Eric Paul Lefkofsky in 2014 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Simbe Robotics, Inc. develops automation solutions for auditing shelves for out-of-stock items, low stock items, misplaced items, and pricing errors. Its product Tally is shelf auditing and analytics solution; one that provides retailers visibility and insight into the state of merchandise in stores. The company was founded by Jeffey Gee, Mirza Shah, and Brad Bogolea in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Arduino SRL is a open-source ecosystem for educators, makers and IoT developers. The company is headquartered in Scarmagno, Italy.

Misty Robotics, Inc. engages in manufacture and development of personal robots for the home and office. It offers Mitsy I, a developer edition prototype robot and Mitsy II, an advanced personal robot with professional grade sensors that can be programmed with the programming languages. The company was founded by Ian Bernstein in 2017 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Smash Ventures Management Co. LP (Smash Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded by Eric Garland and Evan Richter in 2018. The firm is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Azarus, Inc. develops a game challenge network that allows gamers and streamers to interact. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Reforge, Inc. is a company that offers advanced growth strategy programs for experienced tech professionals in product, marketing, data, design, and engineering. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and provides a systemic approach to iteration and idea validation to realize the goal of getting to product market fit. The programs offered by Reforge focus on building sophisticated systems of compounding growth, developing effective engineering leaders, and becoming fully data-driven with strategic experimentation skills. Additionally, Reforge teaches frameworks for building, communicating, and executing a product strategy, scaling high-quality product execution across product and engineering teams, defining a technical strategy, optimizing it based on company context, and assessing strategic tradeoffs more effectively. The company also offers programs on developing monetization strategies, managing a marketing team, driving scalable and cost-effective acquisition, and leveraging data to make smart product decisions. The company was founded by Brian K. Balfour and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Stream Captain Inc develops computer games. The American company was founded by Bradley Ross and Eric Matsumura, with Bradley Ross serving as the CEO since incorporation.

Progression Fund (Progression Fund) is a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2020 by Mark Linao and JJ Aguhob. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

OkCo, Inc. provides computer application software for searching, locating, scheduling, sharing. The company was founded by JJ Aguhob, Chris Ovitz, Colleen Russo Johnson, Ken Chung and Travis Chen and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

eMed Technologies is an American company that manufactures and distributes medical devices.

Rarible, Inc. is a leading blue-chip NFT company that operates a marketplace for NFTs. The company is based in Wilmington, DE. The platform allows artists and collectors to create, collect, and trade digital collectibles. The company was launched in 2020 by Alexei Falin and Alex Salnikov, with the goal of evolving into a fully decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Rarible offers a multi-chain, aggregated marketplace for NFTs, a self-serve marketplace builder tool, and a white-glove service for custom marketplaces.

CoinFund /Venture Capital/ (Coinfund) is a venture capital subsidiary of CoinFund Management LLC founded in 2015 by Jake Brukhman. It is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Running Tide Technologies Inc is a startup based in Maine that develops new hardware and software technologies to fight climate change by harnessing the power of the ocean. The American company focuses on three critical areas: increasing access to ultra-healthy proteins, restoring ecosystems up and down the coast, and sequestering large volumes of excess carbon from the atmosphere and oceans using kelp. Running Tide Technologies develops science-based techniques to restore ocean health. The company was founded by Marty Odlin and he has been the CEO since incorporation.

Stonks, Inc. provides a crowd-funding platform for startups and small businesses. The company is based in McLeansville, NC.