Accel, formerly known as Accel Partners, is an American venture capital firm. Accel works with startups in seed, early and growth-stage investments. The company has offices in Palo Alto, California and San Francisco, California, with additional operating funds in London, India and China.
Zhura, merged with screenwriting competitor Scripped as of March 28, 2010, is a free web-based screenwriting software application for writing and formatting screenplays to the film industry standard, as well as other formats. Zhura allows users to collaborate on scripts in public or in private groups and used Creative Commons Licensing for all work in the public workspace.
Scripped was an online screenplay services company offering three services: script writing, script registration, and script coverage. Scripped did not facilitate collaboration among screenwriters. It combined with Zhura in 2010. According to Techcrunch, Scripped had more than 60,000 writers as of March 2010.
Redpoint Ventures is an American venture capital firm focused on investments in seed, early and growth-stage companies.
Chris Dixon is an American internet entrepreneur and investor. He is a general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and previously worked at eBay. He is also the co-founder and former CEO of Hunch, a website.
SeatGeek is a mobile-focused ticket platform that enables users to buy and sell tickets for live sports, concerts and theater events. SeatGeek allows both mobile app and desktop users to browse events, view interactive color-coded seatmaps, complete purchases, and receive electronic or print tickets.
HomeAway is a vacation rental marketplace with more than 2,000,000 vacation rentals in 190 countries listed on its website. It operates through 50 websites in 23 languages through which it offers rentals of cabins, condos, castles, villas, barns, and farmhouses. Founded in February 2005 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, the company became a publicly traded company in 2011. Expedia acquired HomeAway on December 15, 2015.
Fiverr is an online marketplace for freelance services. Founded in 2010 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, the company provides a platform for freelancers to offer services to customers worldwide.
numberFire is a privately held company that offers statistical analysis of data around sporting events and sports fans, targeting fantasy sports players, digital media, writers, teams, and leagues. The site boasts over 700,000 subscribers and partnerships with ESPN, NFL, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and SB Nation.
Stipple is an Internet technology company founded in 2010 that provides a platform that allows the tagging of people, places, and objects inside of images.
PeoplePerHour is a UK-based company whose function is as an online platform giving businesses access to freelance workers.
Crosslink Capital is a leading early-stage venture capital firm with over $2.0B assets under management that invests in consumer and enterprises businesses. Crosslink Capital was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California and Woodside, California.
Baseline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that focuses on seed and growth-stage investments in technology companies. The company was the first seed investor in Instagram, an early investor of Twitter and has been called "one of Silicon Valley's most successful--and smallest--investment firms" by Forbes. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures.
Tokopedia is an Indonesian technology company specializing in e-commerce. It was founded in 2009 by William Tanuwijaya and Leontinus Alpha Edison. It is an Indonesian unicorn along with ride hailing company Gojek, travel service firm Traveloka, e-commerce Bukalapak and fintech company OVO.
UpCounsel is an online marketplace for legal services that enables users to find and hire attorneys via their site. The company, which is based in San Francisco, California, USA, was founded in 2012 and initially provided its service to users in California and New York. UpCounsel has fully launched its service in California, New York, Illinois, Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado.
Codementor is an online platform providing instant one-on-one help for software developers by utilizing screen sharing, video and text chat, in order to replicate for users the experience of having a mentor for code reviewing, debugging, and online programming. The company is based in Taipei, Taiwan and San Francisco, California.
Trip by Skyscanner is a local discovery and travel research application and website headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company was acquired by Skyscanner, a subsidiary of the Ctrip Group.
Toptal is a global remote company that provides a freelancing platform that connects businesses with software engineers, designers, and business consultants. The company has no headquarters.
Reedsy is a British online author services firm based in London which serves as a bridge uniting authors and publishing freelancers in the self publishing industry. The firm has no physical office location but operates remotely via cloud computing. In 2019 the firm has a staff of 25, and has 150,000 authors in its community and 1,500 editors and designers and marketers and ghostwriters. The firm takes a 20% cut of each contract between authors and freelancers.
