Peter C. Horan

The Nile Project, Inc. provides online travel planning services. It offers tools which enable travelers to discover destinations and find local attractions and events, as well as build a customized itinerary. It provides traveling information such as restaurants, hotels, shops, nightlife ideas, insider tips and expert suggestions, destination reviews, ratings, and awards. The company was founded by Josh Steinitz and John Monson in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Goodmail Systems is the creator of CertifiedEmail™, the industry's standard class of email. CertifiedEmail provides a safe and reliable means for consumers to easily identify authentic email messages from legitimate commercial and nonprofit email senders. Each CertifiedEmail is sent with a cryptographically secure token that assures authenticity and is marked in the inbox with a unique blue ribbon envelope icon, enabling consumers to visually distinguish email messages which are real and sent from email senders with whom they have a pre-existing relationship. Available to email senders meeting strict standards for best practices and low complaint rates, it is the only class of e-mail available that assures delivery of all opt-in e-mail messages to the inbox, with links and images automatically rendered intact, and embedded multi-dimensional applications like CertifiedVideo™ for streaming video, yielding measurable improvements in e-mail effectiveness. CertifiedEmail has been adopted by seven of the nation's top 10 email mailbox providers and is in use by 500 commercial, government and non-profit senders. It is supported in North America and Europe by a wide network of email platforms and service providers.

International Data Group, Inc. engages in the provision of technology media, data, and marketing services. It offers lead generation, multimedia marketing, consulting, and knowledge hub. The firm also provides online media, events and conferences, print publishing, lead-generation services, global marketing solutions, and market research. The company was founded by Patrick Joseph McGovern in 1964 and is headquartered in Framingham, MA.

IAC Search & Media, Inc. provides search technology and interface design services. It delivers information retrieval products through a portfolio of web sites, portals, and downloadable applications. The company's search based portal brands include Ask.com, Ask for Kids, Bloglines, Evite, Excite, iWon, and MyWay. The company was founded in 1996 and is located in Oakland, CA.

Pluck Corp. offers integrated community platform for retailers, brands and publishers. It gives these organizations everything they need to build unique social experiences. The firm enables users to rate, review products, services and provides forums, a discussion application for open-ended conversation and interaction, as well as provides Q&A configuration, unread post tracking, managed subscription notifications, integrated polls, and other services. The company was founded in 2003 by Andrew Busey and David E. Panos and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Apture, Inc. provides products that let readers find and explore contextual and relevant information from the Web. The company was founded by Can Sar, Jesse Young and Tristan Harris in July 2007 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Function(x), Inc. provides an online destination for entertainment news for millennial women, covering the latest in television, music, and pop culture. It operates its business through three segments: Wetpaint, Choose Digital and DDGG. The Wetpaint segment is a media channel reporting news stories and publishes information content covering top television shows, music, celebrities, entertainment news and fashion. The Choose Digital segment provides a business-to-business platform for delivering digital content, including music, movies, TV shows, eBooks and audio books. The DDGG segment offers a business-to-business operator of daily fantasy sports. The company was founded by Robert F.X. Sillerman in July 1994 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Twelvefold Media, Inc. operates as a data company and provides online advertising services. The company was founded by Jeffrey Glover, Todd Parsons, and Mitch Ratcliffe on November 29, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Halogen Media Group believe in the power of the authentic and social web. Their mission is to help prestige brands leverage these independent publishers and their audiences to create brand consideration and preference. They are obsessed with hand-picking the most authentic and influential publishers on the web, creating advertising solutions that integrate content, social sentiment and brand messaging, delivering high engagement and social currency for the brand. They intend to stay focused on what they know: creating and executing influencer media campaigns across the authentic and social web for prestige brands.

Adzerk, Inc. provides Ad serving technology for publishers and networks. The firm supports banners, video, native, and custom units. The company was founded by James Avery in 2009 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Answers.com Corp. operates as a free, ad-supported Internet search services that supply users with editorial content covering different topics. The firm's platform leverages the sizable reach of the top-20 comScore site Answers.com, along with its cloud-based solutions from ForeSee, Webcollage, and ResellerRatings to enable businesses and organizations to engage with customers at every interaction point, drive investment decisions from customer insights, and deliver content that powers the customer experience. The company was founded by Christopher J. Sims, David Karandish, Mark A. Tebbe, and Robert S. Rosenschein in 1999 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

Manifest Commerce, Inc. operates an advertising platform. It helps online retailers leverage Facebook Open Graph as an effective marketing channel. Its products include SocialWire Connect, which lets marketers turn the actions to its customers which are taking on sites into sharable moments on Facebook. The company was founded in 2011 by Robert Buch, Selcuk Atli and Deniz Oktar and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Halogen Guides LLC operates as a advertising and media company.. The company was founded in 2005 and was headquartered San Francisco, CA.

WYBS, Inc. provides online advertising services. The company was founded by Wayne K. Yamamoto, Benjamin T. Smith and Doug Kilponen in 2005 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Purch Group, Inc. provides digital content and services. The firm offers mobile advertising and desktop advertising products. The company was founded by Jerry Ropelato, Alfred Vericel, and Michael Eltzroth in 2003 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Net2tv Corp. provides streaming television services.

SocialChorus, Inc. engages in provision of an advocate marketing platform for employees and brand ambassadors. Its all-in-one web and mobile platform makes it easy for employees and ambassadors to actively participate in brand’s content marketing, social selling, social recruiting, and employee engagement initiatives. The company was founded by Nicole Alvino, Gregory Shove, Jonathan Cohen, and John Eaton in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Outdoor Project, Inc. provides online adventure and travel activities. It offers hiking, campsites, cabins, and parks. It also provides detailed trailmaps and photography. The company was founded by Aron Bosworth, Tyson Gillard and Jared Kennedy in 2013 and is headquartered in Portland, OR.