Bernhard Gold

Pinger, Inc. provides voice messaging services for mobile phones. The firm offers voicemail, text, and picture messaging services. It provides communications products for iphone, iPod touch, iPad, and Android users around the world. The company was founded by Gregory S. Woock, Joseph K. Sipher and Elliot Anderson Rohde in April 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Cooliris, Inc. provides mobile and Beamlt messenger application. It offers LiveShare a consumer-facing product which is a free real-time media sharing application for mobile and web. The company was founded by Soujanya Bhumkar, Josh Schwarzapel, Mayank Mehta and Austin Shoemaker in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments GmbH (DTSI) is the wholly-owned venture capital arm of Deutsche Telekom AG (FR: DTE) in Germany. Founded in 1997, the firm invests in young companies which demonstrate economic and technological synergies with the business units of Deutsche Telekom and show considerable growth potential. It is headquartered in Bonn and supported by T-Venture of America, Inc. in Foster City, California.

Kwarter, Inc. provides real-time gamification platform. It offers the most powerful and flexible solution to increase TV viewer engagement, advocacy, and loyalty. The company was founded by Carlos Diaz and Sam Hickmann on April 4, 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Pie Digital, Inc. provides a cloud-based software services management platform for broadband and premium service providers. Its distributed service platform consists of three key components: Pie Home, Pie Tech and Pie Base. Pie Home is a consumer facing desktop and mobile device application. It eliminates support calls and improves customer satisfaction by simplifying and automating network and device management and problem resolution. Pie Home allows consumers to manage their networks and devices both inside the home and from their mobile devices. Pie Tech is a customer service representative (CSR) application. Customer service representatives use Pie Tech to view, diagnose and control the consumer environment beyond the gateway, inside the home LAN. Pie Tech eliminates time-consuming discovery helping the CSR to quickly identify and resolve support issues. Pie Tech reduces call duration, increases ticket closure rates and reduces truck rolls. Pie Base is a secure, cloud-based knowledge management system for service providers to aggregate and mine subscriber data, indentify product and service up-sell opportunities, and improve customer support. The firm's platform is the only solution that works securely and efficiently inside the home gateway to tackle the support challenges created by the explosion of home networks and network connected devices. The company's Telco-grade architecture combines a secure cloud knowledge base with consumer and call center applications. Pie Digital was founded in 2003 by Jeffrey Hansen, Drew Banks and John A. Barnhill and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

ShareThis, Inc. provides access for social web communities which make online sharing easy. It offers campaign delivery and optimization, audience segmentation and targeting, analytics, and real-time social reactions. The company was founded by Timothy Schigel and David E. Goldberg in 2004 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.