Richard Levandov

Avalon Ventures Management LLC (Avalon Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Kevin J. Kinsella. The firm is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Simulmedia, Inc. provides video advertising technology platform. The firm offers its products under the categories of other technology and video. The company was founded by David R. Morgan in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Intercasting Corp. provides mobile social networking services. Its flagship ANTHEM 2.0 platform, wireless carriers and device manufacturers can add instant messaging, email and social networking to their offerings. The company was founded by Derrick Oien, Shawn Conahan, Bruce G. Worman and Tom Demas in June 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Zynga, Inc. provides social game services. It develops, markets and operates social games as live services played on mobile platforms such as Apple's iOS operating system and Google's Android operating system, and social networking sites such as Facebook. It offers Chess with Friends, Crazy Cake Swap, Draw Something, FarmVille, Gems with Friends, Ice Age: Arctic Blast, Looney Tunes Dash, Speed Guess Something, What's The Phrase, Wizard of Oz Magic Match, Yummy Gummy, Free Slots, Black Diamond Casino, Hit It Rich, Zynga Poker and Willy Wonka Slots. The company was founded by Mark Jonathan Pincus on April 19, 2007, and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

Pictela is a global platform for distributing definition brand content. The platform reaches over 120 million consumers worldwide and supports 1 billion impressions per day. With Pictela, brands can deliver high definition video, photos, text and more. Since launching in 2009 with Disney and American Idol, Pictela has experienced rapid growth with clients across retail, CPG, automotive and entertainment categories. Pictela technology has been certified by Time Inc., The Wall Street Journal, Scripps Networks, Glam Media, Hearst, Rodale, Undertone and Thomson Reuters, among others. Pictela is based in the Flatiron District of New York City, the heart of the New York tech sector. The company is led by senior media and technology executives and backed by prominent venture capital investors.

Backupify, Inc. provides online backup solutions. Its products include google apps backup, office 365 backup, salesforce and social media backup, pricing and cloud to cloud backup. The company was founded by Vikram Chadha, Robert May and Dharmesh Shah in November 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Cloudant, Inc. provides data hosting and analytics software solutions. The firm provides globally distributed database-as-a-service (DBaaS) for loading, storing, analyzing, and distributing operational application data for developers of large and/or fast-growing web and mobile applications. Its DBaaS is a managed service that helps developers eliminate the delays, costs, and distractions inherent in working with databases and their administrators, while providing unmatched scalability, availability, and performance. The company was founded by Alan Hoffman, Adam Kocoloski and Michael Miller in 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Standing Cloud, Inc. provides application development system and deployment tools. It operates as platform-as-a-service that enables cloud users to deploy, manage, customize, and develop applications on a variety of cloud services and with several programming languages. The company was founded by Dave Jilk, Steve Buck, and Joel Wampler in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Shelby TV, Inc. engaged in online video services. The firm provided a platform for discovering and watching videos shared on social networks such as Face book and Twitter. The company was founded in 2010 and was headquartered in New York, NY.

Nexaweb, Inc. develops application modernization software solutions. It provides products and service which simplify and transform client/server applications. The firm’s products include Nexacro and Nexaweb platform. The company was founded by Coach K. Wei in February 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Liquid Machines, Inc. provides enterprise rights management solutions. The company was founded by James Schoonmaker and Mike D. Smith in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Pubmark, Inc. operates a platform for readers to discover deals on acclaimed e-books. Its platform features various e-books that range from mysteries to biographies, romance to cookbooks, and children’s books to science fiction. The company was founded by Joshua J. Schanker and Nicholas M. Ciarelli in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Memrise Ltd. provides online learning tool. It offers languages, arts and literature, math and science, natural world, history and geography, professional and careers, entertainment and trivia courses online. The company was founded by Greg Detre, Benjamin William Whately and Edward Cooke in 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Cheezburger, Inc. operates a website that offers social humor and entertainment content. The firm provides entertainment memes, images, videos, news, and advertising services. The company was founded by Ben Huh and Emily Huh in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Chart.io, Inc. provides cloud business intelligence services. The company offers tour, embedding, data sources and security products. It enables business users to explore complex and disparate data in real time. The company was founded by Dave Fowler, David Beyer, Daniel Levine and Justin Davis in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Vivify Technologies, Inc. develops legacy application modernization solutions. It transforms PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and other client server applications into modern web solutions. The firm’s MDT framework, based upon the model driven development approach to application modernization, minimizes risk and maximizes return on investment. The company was founded on February 4, 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Conjur, Inc. provides access control solutions for IT applications and cloud computing. Its cloud based privileged access security platform secures, manages and monitors secrets and access controls for cloud and web based environments. Its solutions include automated access management, Security for DevOps, Compliance for modern IT, hybrid cloud security, microservice authorization, secrets management and source control orchestration and authorization for windows cloud. The company was founded by Elizabeth Lawler and Kevin Gilpin in 2012 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Redbooth, Inc. provides platform to share tasks, discussions, files, group chat and high definition video conferencing. It provides Teambox, a work management solution for freelancers, self-employed, small business owners, and large teams that allows individuals within and outside of an organization to work together in a social setting. The company was founded by Pablo Villalba Villar in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Orion Labs, Inc. engages in the development of a voice platform. The company was founded by Jesse Robbins, Greg Albrecht, and Roger Wood in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Getabl, Inc. provides consumer-to-business texting services. It is a service that replaces the phone conversation with a universal chat utility that allows consumers to send text messages to businesses and the business to reply by text message in real-time. The company was founded by Milenko Beslic, Bryan Lennett and Mark Slater in May 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. designs, develops, and sells systems software products for PCs, peripherals, and information appliances. It develops basic input/output systems (BIOS), the software that loads a computer's operating system each time it is turned on. The company was founded by Rich W. Levandov in 1979 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Nanigans, Inc. provides digital and mobile advertising software. Its services includes predictive optimization, business intelligence, workflow automation and cross-channel and cross device. The firm’s Ad engine enables marketers to automate the labor-intensive process of delivering social ads at scale and overcome the challenges involved in optimizing for revenue generating customers and return on ad spend. The company was founded by Denton Claude and Ricardo C. Calvillo Jr. in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Selectable Media, Inc. provides premium video advertising solutions for brands and publishers. Its services utilize proprietary technology to enable consumers to unlock digital content and services in exchange for viewing and interacting with brand advertising. The company was founded on February 16, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Smyte, Inc. provides fraud control services on social networks. The company was founded by Josh Yudaken, Julian Tempelsman, and Peter William Hunt on November 20, 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Talla, Inc. provides artificial intelligence powered service desk to human resources, information technology and other internal service teams. The company was founded by Rob May in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Averon US, Inc. develops and operates automated mobile security applications. The firm offers Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA) which provides instant and frictionless authentication. It serves the banking, e-commerce, and government markets. The company was founded by Wendell Brown and Lea Tarnowski in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Joy Life, Inc. provides wedding website and application. Its website and applications enable users to add photos, choose wedding colours and fonts, invite guests, send and store RSVP information and send messages. The company was founded by Michael Dorian Bach, Vishal Joshi and Kaiwalya Kher in 2014 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Skycatch, Inc. develops drone platform for commercial logistics applications. It offers high precision package, explore1 drone and base station, data viewer solutions. The company was founded by Christopher Bumgardner and Christian Berney Sanz in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Primer Technologies, Inc. develops artificial intelligence software which provides digging, compiling and summarizing data. The company was founded by Sean William Joseph Gourley and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Tapad, Inc. provides mobile advertising network services. The firm offers The device graph which allow marketers to understand, monetize, and measure their audience in a unified way across all connected devices. It also provides advertising solutions, creative showcase, data solutions, programmatic advertising, and cross-device attribution. The company was founded by Dag Liodden and Are H. Traasdahl in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Digital Economy Ventures (Digital Economy Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Rich Levandov and Zak Levandov. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.