Traditional boundaries between work, home and leisure have blurred thanks to the Internet. Distance is no longer a barrier. At the same time consumers have a louder voice in determining what technologies get adopted at home, in the workplace or on the go. That's why MDV backs technology entrepreneurs who foster greater interaction or unleash new ways to communicate, create or consume regardless of where it occurs. |
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Carrier IQ enables mobile carriers, device manufacturers and service providers to improve their offerings based on direct insight into the customer experience. Deployed on over 90M devices from 12 leading vendors worldwide, Carrier IQ is the leading provider of Mobile Service Intelligence solutions that use the mobile phone to provide detailed metrics in a highly secure environment. Founded in 2005.
Finsphere is creating a global ecosystem, designed around its interoperable, strong authentication platform, to provide identity validation functionality, and early warning of identity theft to consumers. Its Mobile Identity Protection (M.I.P.) platform is a privacy enhancing technology that validates identities in a variety of uses and can be used today to protect nearly five billion consumers worldwide. Founded in 2007.
VirtuOz delivers intelligent, multilingual virtual support and sales agent solutions to online businesses tasked with dramatically reducing support costs, while improving customer satisfaction. Through significant developments in artificial intelligence and natural language processing, VirtuOz allows ubiquitous, personal and natural interaction between humans and Internet-based services - VirtuOz support and sales agents - on a 24/7 basis.
AudienceScience (formerly Revenue Science) is a technology-centric media company focused on the science of online marketing. AudienceScience is the only company worldwide to offer both an audience technology platform and a targeting marketplace, recording billions of behavioral events daily and reaching over 385 million unique Internet users. AudienceScience technology empowers Web publishers, marketers, networks, exchanges, and agencies to create intelligent audience segments to connect people with relevant advertising driving the transition to data-driven audience marketing online. Founded in 2000.
doxo is pioneering the way for people and providers to connect and go paperless, breaking customer adoption barriers and saving businesses billions of dollars in printing, paper and postage costs. The company is led by executives who have driven businesses that processed billions of dollars in consumer mobile and Internet transactions. Founded in 2008.
hi5 is one of the world's largest and fastest growing social entertainment sites. With more than 63 million unique visitors every month, hi5 is a top 20 website globally, and the number one social site in dozens of countries across Latin America, Europe and Asia. The service is available in more than 50 languages, delivering localized content, games and other applications to users worldwide. Founded in 2003.
Infusionsoft, the leader in Email Marketing 2.0, helps small businesses grow fast with targeted email marketing that responds and adapts to customer behavior. Infusionsoft is the first company to combine email marketing and CRM in a single system for a simple and powerful next-generation solution, enabling small businesses to target their marketing like never before. The web-based software also combines e-commerce and powerful automation tools with its intelligent email marketing to deliver a true small business growth suite.
IronKey's award winning products and services combine the world's most secure flash drive with the world's most powerful USB management software. The company's USB flash drives bring the power of authentication, encryption, identity management and privacy to businesses and consumers in 23 countries. IronKey's management software and associated services allow enterprises of all sizes, government agencies, the military, and other organizations to take back control of the mobile data that has been leaking out of their organizations due to the uncontrolled proliferation of USB drives. With IronKey, organizations centrally administer, remotely manage, and enforce policies on thousands of devices located anywhere in the world. Founded in 2005.
Proofpoint secures and improves enterprise email infrastructure with solutions for email security, archiving, encryption and data loss prevention. Proofpoint solutions defend against spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information, encrypt sensitive emails and archive messages for retention, e-discovery and easier mailbox management. Proofpoint solutions can be deployed on-demand (SaaS), on-premises (appliance), or in a hybrid architecture for maximum flexibility and scalability. The company's products provide future-proof messaging security using Proofpoint MLX technology, an advanced machine learning system developed by Proofpoint scientists and engineers. Founded in 2002.
RingCube is the leading provider of the managed virtual workspace. The company's innovative virtualization software platform, vDesk, enables enterprise users to securely access their complete desktop computing experience from any Windows PC anywhere in the world. With vDesk, organizations can increase user productivity, lower desktop management and support costs, and eliminate the performance and resource overhead commonly found with legacy virtualization approaches. Founded in 2004.
Rocket Fuel Inc. is building the first intelligent ad serving technology platform that combines the best of social, behavioral, contextual, geographical, search and other data sources to understand consumer interest and intent. Rocket Fuel was founded by veterans from Yahoo!, DoubleClick, Epiphany, and salesforce.com to make marketing easier and more effective for advertisers, help publishers get the most value out of their inventory, and give consumers a personalized and relevant online experience. Founded in 2008.
Shutterfly is an Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service. It provides high quality products and world class services that make it easy, convenient and fun for consumers to preserve their digital photos in a creative and thoughtful manner. Founded in 1999.
Visible Measures provides new capabilities and metrics that allow Internet video publishers and advertisers to understand audience behaviors and more accurately predict and analyze the success of Internet video programs. The company works closely with customers and partners to provide high value, high impact solutions to the challenges of audience valuation and content monetization. Founded in 2005.
Wordnik has the most complete map of the English language, and information for more than nine million English words. It is using that information to create new ways to unlock the value of digital content with its Smartwords open standard. Smartwords will enable access to all forms of digital content using words as connectors. It benefits publishers and consumers alike by facilitating better, more personalized discovery of digital content.
Genius.com, creator of SalesGenius, is the leading on-demand provider of real-time, 1-to-1 marketing solutions for sales and marketing professionals, empowering them to connect with prospects and close deals through their corporate Web sites.
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