Our Portfolio
AbeBooks.com is the world’s largest online marketplace for books, with over 100 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print titles listed for sale by more than 13,500 independent booksellers from around the world. AbeBooks has millions of customers who purchase up to 25,000 books a day from its 5 global Web sites. A true internet success story, AbeBooks has been selling books online since 1996, and is a private company based in Victoria, BC Canada, with offices in Germany and the USA. Internet Retailer magazine ranked AbeBooks at No. 70 among North American online retailers in June 2007. (Sold to Amazon in 2008)
adMarketplace is the largest alternative search network in the US. Since 2003, adMarketplace‘s platform has optimized premium Pay Per Click traffic for over 100,000 advertisers while maximizing yield across more than 350,000 web properties. adMarketplace is offered as a managed service to large marketers and agencies and as a self-serve service to advertisers of all sizes.
Barcode Hero was founded in January, 2010 as Kima Labs, Inc, by Amazon.com veterans Blake Scholl and Jason Crawford. The company’s mission is to help shoppers in physical stores, through breakthrough mobile technology. Barcode Hero is seed funded by A-list angels, including Naval Ravikant, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, and Owen van Natta.
BootUp Labs is a leading startup accelerator in North America and one of the best programs in the world for building digital media startups. Based in Vancouver, BootUp Labs helps founders and companies go “from concept to proof.”
Carrie & Danielle is a fast-growing website focused on providing practical information to women in the areas of inspiration, relationships, beauty, wealth and wellness among others. (Sold to management in 2010)
Empire Avenue is an influence stock exchange that makes social media fun – and measurable – by tying users’ virtual share price on the site to activity, reach and engagement on external social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and blogs. The more active and influential a user is on the site and around the web, the higher their virtual share price. And as a starter, you can always buy my stock!
Escapio is a leading booking platform for selected hotels. With a selection of exceptional, hand-picked hotels, Escapio provides the consumer the necessary guidance to find the absolutely best hotels in hundreds of locations (check out their hotel selections for Berlin, London or Florence).
Fitbrains develops brain games and exercises based on scientific research – think social gaming with a purpose. The Vancouver-based company has so far developed 14 social games that can be accessed on www.fitbrains.com and through a range of partner sites.
Flurry is the number one mobile application analytics solution that helps developers exactly understand how their applications are used so that they make them better and earn more money. Flurry emerged from the merger of Flurry and PinchMedia in December 2009.
Indochino is the only online fast fashion provider of tailor made formal wear. Through its close partnerships with Chinese tailors the company can produce hand-tailored and custom-made men suits at prices well below normal retail prices.
Nexopia.com is the most popular social networking utility for Canadian youth with over 1.2 million registered members and over a billion pages served per month. Always a passionate innovator, Nexopia is dedicated to developing new technologies to help young people stay connected with friends as well as express themselves in the most creative ways possible month.
Social Crowd Ventures is a Vancouver-based social media application studio that develops communities and businesses around social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Their first application was social shopping site Justbought.it.
Suite101.com is the preferred choice for freelance writers who want to build their publishing careers and reach out to over 30 million monthly readers. With 10 years online, over 100,000 articles and 700 professional, paid contract writers, Suite101.com is dedicated to delivering quality expertise and writing increasingly rare in the online world. Suite101 was the 8th fastest growing online property in North-America in October 2009, according to ComScore.
Summify is a social news reader created by former Google and Microsoft engineering interns and is one of the companies part of the Bootup Labs startup incubator program based in Vancouver, BC. Summify helps you consume your river of news in minutes, rather than hours.
TeamPages is an online tool for parents, coaches, and athletes of amateur sports teams that helps all participants stay in touch with each other and keep up to date with the team’s schedule of games and events. TeamPages provides free sports team websites for teams and athletes to post and share their athletic information such as schedules, announcements, contact information, scores, and photos.
Techvibes provides blog coverage for local technology communities, currently covering all major Canadian cities as well as Portland and Seattle. The site also offers its users an efficient way to learn about company news, local events and job opportunities. So like Techcrunch – just local!
Tripsbytips is one of the leading German-language travel communities (Reise-Community) with tens of thousands of travel tips, hotel reviews, restaurant critiques, travel blogs and photos posted by travel enthusiasts, allowing users to get real travel advice from fellow travelers.
Calgary-based Tynt is the developer of Tynt Insight, a tool that tracks user actions on websites including copy/paste and highlight to help content producers learn what content their users find most engaging. Tynt is lead by Derek Ball, a serial entrepreneur in the technology space, and is currently tracking tens of thousands of websites and billions of page views on a monthly basis.
Weddingful is the premier directory of wedding vendors that helps brides find and connect with the best vendor for their wedding and provides qualified leads to those vendors.
Yapta was founded in January 2006 with the mission to assure consumers that they get the most value out of their trip planning and pay the lowest possible price for airline tickets. Yapta’s online service monitors airfare price volatility and alerts consumers when the price on “tagged” flights decreases.
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