True Partners
True backs great people pursuing great markets. We work for our entrepreneurs, and we’re proud of our portfolio. Below are our currently active investments, our past portfolio can be found here.
Acai
Enterprise Technology
Acai Solutions is a new, pure-play, capital markets consulting company for the financial services market. Consulting capabilities revolve around four major subject matters: Enterprise Data Management, Order Management and Electronic Trading, Risk and Regulatory Services, and Trading and Transaction System Services.
Automattic
Internet Communications
These guys want to make the Web a better place (Toni Schneider from True is one of them). In addition to the well-known WordPress open source blogging tool, they are working on Akismet, an adaptive blog spam protection service, and WordPress.com, a hosted blogging platform.
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BrightRoll
Internet Advertising
BrightRoll is building the Internet’s Video Advertising Network. The company helps a rapidly growing list of video sites monetize their high volume video traffic by connecting their users with branded and direct response advertisements before, after and within video streams. The company is based in San Francisco and was founded in January 2006.
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BrightRoll blog
Tod Sacerdoti’s blog
Datacraft
Software
Datacraft Solutions designs, develops, and markets automated supply chain solutions (digital Kanban) to manufacturing clients around the world. Utilizing a SaaS solution business model, extremely short implementation time, and cutting edge technology, Datacraft customers are able to achieve an ROI previously unheard of in the manufacturing world.
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DigitalSports
Internet
DigitalSports is an entirely new approach to an old problem - how to distribute ultra-local high school sport and youth club activity content across the web, but yet support it by local advertising. Utilizing a distributed, grass roots franchise business model, DigitalSports’ cutting-edge, nationwide network of locally managed community sports and activities websites solves this problem.
Filtrbox
Blog Search & Discovery
Filtrbox eases the pain and complexity of staying in-the-know by providing more knowledge with less noise. The Filtrbox service allows business users to discover and process increasing amounts of web-based information more productively and efficiently.
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GigaLogix
XML Infrastructure
GigaLogix is a technology infrastructure company targeting the rapidly emerging growth markets of XML messaging, Web Services, and SOA applications. It has designed and developed an XML parsing engine that routes XML traffic at a very low latency and with incredible speed.
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GigaOm
Online Publishing/Digital Media
Om Malik, senior writer for Business 2.0 has created a highly influential technology news community and weblog. GigaOm represents an emerging model of technology journalism.
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GoodReads
Internet
GoodReads’ mission is to improve learning and reading throughout the world by making reading fun again. GoodReads allows users to share their passion for books, authors, and reading through forums, reviews, collections, and recommendations.
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GoodReads blog
Otis’ Personal blog
Hive7
Online Gaming
Hive7 operates a portfolio of social web games for casual users built on top of a proprietary, patent-pending, AJAX technology platform. Hive7 properties include the open web world of Hive7.com, as well as products for social networks such as MySpace and Facebook.
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Kurtosys
Software
Kurtosys develops and markets financial reporting software to large customers in the financial services sector. The Kurtosys software, sold as a service, enables global financial organizations to unify data across applications and create scalable solutions for the entire reporting process, including data acquisition and storage, complex workflow, and high quality end report construction and delivery.
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Meebo
Internet Communications
Meebo brings IM everywhere. Meebo is a fully web-based IM application that lets users access all major IM networks through meebo.com and also enables users to embed IM on their own web page.
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MindBites
Internet
MindBites is a self-publishing platform and social marketplace for instructional content that enables people to share their unique knowledge, skills, and passions through audio and video lessons, earning money for themselves or for charity. The result is a unique community of discovery with content that simply can’t be found anywhere else.
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MRN
Commerce
MRN is a family of business-to-business internet retail sites. Each niche site focuses on products within the office, construction, education, medical or assistive technology industries. MRN forms partnerships with suppliers offering on-site service & installation, marketing, sales, customer service, and interactive design.
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Let’s Blog Education
Let’s Blog Construction
Let’s Blog Office
scanR
Mobile Technology
scanR enables camera phones and digital cameras to scan, copy and fax. Using scanR, people can turn paper into useful digital information in a few simple steps. The scanR service cleans photos of whiteboards, documents and business cards; extracts the printed information; and delivers a digital file to your email, contact manager, or fax.
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SendMe
Mobile Entertainment
At SendMe, we’re all about fun for your phone. SendMe, Inc. is a leading developer and provider of direct-to-consumer mobile entertainment products with a “triple-redundant” backend to ensure that we’re always open for business. We have ubiquitous coverage across all major US mobile operators, and our services will work on 100% of all handsets so that SendMe’s services are accessible to all of the nation’s 200+ million mobile users.
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SingleFeed
Internet Communications
SingleFeed is an online self-service data feed management, submission, and optimization company. No matter what level of experience you have with data feeds, Brian and his team can save merchants time and money working with the shopping comparison engines. SingleFeed has created a single data feed which covers all the required fields and most important optional fields for Shopzilla, PriceGrabber, Shopping.com, Yahoo! Shopping, NexTag, Smarter.com, and Become.
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Comparison Engines
LoveYourFeed
Spectrum Bridge
Software
Spectrum Bridge Inc. is focused on providing a new wireless communication system technology to allow real time auctioning of radio spectrum. The company’s unique, patented technology will create a new paradigm for the efficient use of wireless spectrum for enterprises, consumers, public safety, and defense users. Spectrum Bridge plans to make radio spectrum a commodity, by creating a real time market for spectrum owners and users to exchange spectrum in a structured and policed environment.
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Three Rings
Online Gaming
Three Rings is a leading developer of persistent world online games, including Puzzle Pirates, Bang! Howdy, and Whirled.
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VodPod
Software
VodPod creates video aggregation software that collects assets from over 700 web video destinations into personal video collections or “pods” with a single click. VodPod represents an important new generation of online video software that helps filter and manage the rapidly expanding stores of online video content.
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VoxPop
Casual Gaming
VoxPop’s casual gaming platform enables publishers and advertisers to take existing editorial and creative assets and turn them into fun and addictive games for their audiences.
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What we want you know
Our portfolio consists of innovative companies in fast growing markets.
We have relationships with most of the established players in the internet, software, and media markets.
Our fund size allows for long term investment support.
We back great teams, and we work hard to help them win.
What it means to you.
Teams in our portfolio are experiencing the same challenges that you will face.
True's industry relationships are valuable.
You get the energy, commitment, and focus of a small team with the resources of a large fund.