news / 08.09.17
When it Comes to Cybersecurity, Companies Need Force Fields, Not Walls
Respond CEO Mike Armistead sounds the alarm about a fatal flaw in every major company's cybersecurity.
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Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
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adRise is the largest connected TV content distribution and monetization platform.
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Ebates (acquired by Rakuten) rewards consumers with cash back on purchases while providing access to thousands of coupons, discounts, and deals.
ForUs is fixing retirement in America, one small company at a time. A financial technology shop that’s expanding Americans’ access to 401K.
Homesuite is an online marketplace for furnished housing. HomeSuite makes money from a user committing to a unit.
Kik lets you connect with friends, groups, and the world around you through chat.
Motif is an online trading platform built around you and your insights. Built for the way you see the world.
Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations. Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations.
Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
Aquion Energy's patented Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) technology is a unique saltwater battery chemistry made from abundant, nontoxic materials.
Autogrid empowers winners of the energy world.
Azure Power’s mission is to be the lowest cost energy producer in the world.
EnerNoc offers technology-enabled energy management solutions for utilities and grid operators that deliver energy.
Sentient Energy designs and builds the MM2 line monitor for use by electric utilities worldwide.
Silver Spring Networks offers Smart Energy Platform™, enabling utilities to improve energy efficiencies, enhance services, and reduce costs.
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Auxmoney allows you to borrow money today. Private investors fund your loan in seconds - you can get money in the next 48 hours.
BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized block chain platform powering crypto-currency applications reliably and at-scale.
ForUs is fixing retirement in America, one small company at a time. A financial technology shop that’s expanding Americans’ access to 401K.
Guardian Analytics provides real-time omni-channel fraud prevention solutions to protect online, mobile, wire and ACH channels.
LendingHome combines technology with an experienced team to create a seamless, transparent mortgage process for homebuyers, realtors, and investors.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
Motif is an online trading platform built around you and your insights. Built for the way you see the world.
Ondeck is a technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing to small- and medium-sized businesses.
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Cliqr (acquired by Cisco) provides application defined cloud management. Cliqr makes the cloud all about the application, not the infrastructure.
Carbon Black (acquired by Carbon Black, inc.) leads a new era of endpoint security.
Coverity (acquired by Synopsys) finds critical defects and security weaknesses in code as it’s written.
Cyphort is transforming malware security to advance your business agility from next generation advanced persistent threats.
Fastback Networks provides mobile infrastructure to deliver new services and tap new markets for mobile applications.
ForgeRock develops open source identity management solutions for the enterprise and government organizations.
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PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook) enables private computing in the cloud by validating and securing OpenStack servers.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
SpringCM is an enterprise content management company providing cloud document management and workflow solutions for businesses.
Venafi is the Immune System for the internet, protecting the foundation of all cybersecurity—keys and certificates—so they can’t be misused.
ZeroStack provides IT resources without IT overhead. We have built a new cloud model that combines public-cloud-like operations with on-premises infra
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Homesuite is an online marketplace for furnished housing. HomeSuite makes money from a user committing to a unit.
LendingHome combines technology with an experienced team to create a seamless, transparent mortgage process for homebuyers, realtors, and investors.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
Ondeck is a technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations. Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations.
Wevorce offers web-based technology and a community of trained attorneys, counselors, and other experts to help couples divorce amicably.
adRise is the largest connected TV content distribution and monetization platform.
AdRoll is creating the most effective and cost efficient form of marketing for businesses of all sizes since the advent of search marketing.
Aggregate Knowledge (acquired by Neustar) offers a customer an exact science to pinpoint where to reach highest performing customers in one platform.
Conviva addresses the changing business of television with a big data platform enabling online video providers to deliver the best viewing experience.
Custora is a predictive marketing platform built for e-commerce teams. Our software analyzes data to predict how customers will behave in the future.
FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast) provides enterprise level solutions to enable the video industry to thrive in an increasingly complex ecosystem.
Immersv is a virtual reality discovery and advertising platform, founded by the team that created the largest app distribution platform on facebook.
Only InsideView embeds all three essential elements of actionable market intelligence into your sales and marketing workflow.
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TubeMogul [TUBE] is going to revolutionize video advertising.
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Guardian Analytics provides real-time omni-channel fraud prevention solutions to protect online, mobile, wire and ACH channels.
Only InsideView embeds all three essential elements of actionable market intelligence into your sales and marketing workflow.
Localytics' goal is to help customers build stronger relationships with their mobile and web app users through our analytics and marketing platform.
Mode Analytics provides online services for analyzing data.
Moxie is changing the way eCommerce is done by anticipating what customers want, and engaging with them through the entire digital journey.
Phantom is the 1st Purpose-Built, Community-Powered Security Automation & Orchestration Platform.
Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
Trufa delivers True Finance Applications, employing big data and predictive analytics to help companies unlock cash.
Visier is a cloud-based analytics platform enabling HR professionals to answer critical workforce strategy questions.
Yozio is a mobile growth engineering company providing an advanced analytics, organic growth marketing platform for mobile marketers.
ZeroStack provides IT resources without IT overhead. We have built a new cloud model that combines public-cloud-like operations with on-premises infra
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The Way to Design
It's a journey, a creative expedition -- and this book to help you find your way.
news / 08.07.17
The Design Revolution in Consumer Tech
In his latest for the Wall Street Journal, Steve explains how design has become indispensable to tech now and for the dawning “ambient computing.”
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Ashu Talks Scaling on SaaStr
If you’re a SaaS founder in need of advice on how to scale your company, look no further – Ashu explains it all.
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How Technology Will Change Over the Next Decade
What emerging technologies are likely to be mainstream in the next ten years? Joanne weighs in.
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Paul on CNBC
Paul Holland was one cool (bearded) cat on CNBC! On Squawk Alley to discuss Snap's lows, Uber's woes, & Disney-from-Netflix goes.
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