Gary Lauder

HeyWire, Inc. develops cloud-based communication platform. Its products include live text agent for sale force, business messenger and mobile messaging platform. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

ActiveVideo Networks, Inc. provides a web-based programming platform. It offers CloudTV, a cloud-based software platform that enables service providers, and content aggregators to virtualize CPE functions in the cloud for the purposes of delivering next-generation user interfaces, online content, and interactive advertising for television to set-tops and connected devices. The company was founded by Leo W. Hoarty in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Promptu Systems Corp. provides voice recognition and natural language understanding technology. It engages in the provision of recognition base search and navigation services for mobile phones. The firm’s products are developed in collaboration with major automotive manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers and Smart TV OEMs to ensure privacy, security, scalability and speed. The company was founded by Jeff Shukis, Paul M. Cook, Robert T. Nendza, Jay R. Macintosh and Alan Chase in 2000 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA.

Lauder Partners LLC (Lauder Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1986 by Gary Lauder. The firm is headquartered in Atherton, California.

OnLive, Inc. is the pioneer of high-performance cloud gaming, delivering real-time interactive experiences and rich media through the Internet, with the world's first instant video game on demand platform, the OnLive Game Service. With groundbreaking, patent-pending video compression and network hosting technology, OnLive harnesses cloud computing to provide the power and intelligence needed to instantly deliver the latest, high-end games titles directly to TVs via a sleek, inexpensive MicroConsole, or on PCs and Macs. Founded by noted technology entrepreneur Steve Perlman (WebTV, QuickTime), and spun out of Rearden, the media and technology incubator behind MOVA (a wholly-owned OnLive subsidiary at www.mova.com), Ice Blink Studios and Moxi, OnLive spent seven years in stealth development before officially launching in March 2009. OnLive technology is backed by over 100 patents and patents pending. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Net2tv Corp. provides streaming television services.