Michael Dorian Bach

Masthead Venture Partners LLC (Masthead Venture Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997. The firm is headquartered in Danvers, Massachusetts.

Pictela is a global platform for distributing definition brand content. The platform reaches over 120 million consumers worldwide and supports 1 billion impressions per day. With Pictela, brands can deliver high definition video, photos, text and more. Since launching in 2009 with Disney and American Idol, Pictela has experienced rapid growth with clients across retail, CPG, automotive and entertainment categories. Pictela technology has been certified by Time Inc., The Wall Street Journal, Scripps Networks, Glam Media, Hearst, Rodale, Undertone and Thomson Reuters, among others. Pictela is based in the Flatiron District of New York City, the heart of the New York tech sector. The company is led by senior media and technology executives and backed by prominent venture capital investors.

Getabl, Inc. provides consumer-to-business texting services. It is a service that replaces the phone conversation with a universal chat utility that allows consumers to send text messages to businesses and the business to reply by text message in real-time. The company was founded by Milenko Beslic, Bryan Lennett and Mark Slater in May 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Talla, Inc. provides artificial intelligence powered service desk to human resources, information technology and other internal service teams. The company was founded by Rob May in 2015 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Avalon Ventures Management LLC (Avalon Ventures Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 1983 by Kevin J. Kinsella. The firm is headquartered in La Jolla, California.

Backupify, Inc. provides online backup solutions. Its products include google apps backup, office 365 backup, salesforce and social media backup, pricing and cloud to cloud backup. The company was founded by Vikram Chadha, Robert May and Dharmesh Shah in November 2008 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Redbooth, Inc. provides platform to share tasks, discussions, files, group chat and high definition video conferencing. It provides Teambox, a work management solution for freelancers, self-employed, small business owners, and large teams that allows individuals within and outside of an organization to work together in a social setting. The company was founded by Pablo Villalba Villar in 2008 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.

Pubmark, Inc. operates a platform for readers to discover deals on acclaimed e-books. Its platform features various e-books that range from mysteries to biographies, romance to cookbooks, and children’s books to science fiction. The company was founded by Joshua J. Schanker and Nicholas M. Ciarelli in 2012 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. designs, develops, and sells systems software products for PCs, peripherals, and information appliances. It develops basic input/output systems (BIOS), the software that loads a computer's operating system each time it is turned on. The company was founded by Rich W. Levandov in 1979 and is headquartered in Campbell, CA.

Selectable Media, Inc. provides premium video advertising solutions for brands and publishers. Its services utilize proprietary technology to enable consumers to unlock digital content and services in exchange for viewing and interacting with brand advertising. The company was founded on February 16, 2005 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Averon US, Inc. develops and operates automated mobile security applications. The firm offers Direct Autonomous Authentication (DAA) which provides instant and frictionless authentication. It serves the banking, e-commerce, and government markets. The company was founded by Wendell Brown and Lea Tarnowski in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Primer Technologies, Inc. develops artificial intelligence software which provides digging, compiling and summarizing data. The company was founded by Sean William Joseph Gourley and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Skycatch, Inc. develops drone platform for commercial logistics applications. It offers high precision package, explore1 drone and base station, data viewer solutions. The company was founded by Christopher Bumgardner and Christian Berney Sanz in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Digital Economy Ventures (Digital Economy Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2014 by Rich Levandov and Zak Levandov. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Alpha-Beta Technology, Inc. engages in the discovery, development and commercialization of novel carbohydrate-based products for the prevention and treatment of infectious disease. It develops a novel class of immune modulation pharmaceutical products composed of complex carbohydrates and is discovering and developing new anti-fungal diagnostics and drugs. In addition, Alpha-Beta has developed a rapid in vitro diagnostic to detect and monitor systemic fungal infections and has an anti-fungal research program to discover direct inhibitors of fungal cell wall synthesis. It is in the development stage and is devoting substantially all of its efforts toward product research and development, raising capital, marketing products under development, clinical trials and manufacturing. The Company was founded on March 2, 1988 and is headquartered in Worcester, MA.

Expo Communications, Inc. provides consumer-generated video product reviews. It distributes informative video content for digital points of purchase viewable at expotv.com, retail websites, youtube, facebook, manufacturer sites. The company was founded by Daphne Kwon and William Hildebolt in 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Carolus Therapeutics, Inc. develops novel products for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. It company focuses on therapeutic strategies to noninvasively monitor and disrupt proinflammatory interactions of chemokines, and prevent or reverse inflammation associated with an array of human diseases, including atherosclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, sepsis, organ transplantation, and cancer. The company was founded by Jay Lichter, Jürgen Bernhagen, and Christian Weber in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Afraxis, Inc. operates as a contract research organization (CRO), specializes in preclinical efficacy evaluations (in vivo and in vitro), neurotoxicity evaluations, and structure-efficacy relationship (SER)-driven medicinal chemistry. It develops Afraxis ESP, an enhanced spine analysis platform that quantifies the morphology and maturity of synaptic dendritic spines, which are fundamental to information processing by neural synapses in the brain. The company was founded by Jay B. Lichter, Carmine Stengone, Susumu Tonegawa and Ben Vollrath in 2007 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Kinvey LLC provides a Backend as a Services platform for mobile apps. The firm offers Kinvey that enables developers and IT with the next generation platform for delivering enterprise applications; and mBaaS, a mobile health solution for healthcare providers, payers, and pharmaceutical/biotech and life sciences companies for its mobile and responsive web applications. The company was founded by Sravish Sridhar and Morgan Bickle in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

The Watson Technology Group LLC provides investment services. The company was founded by Matt Watson in 2003 and is headquartered in Leawood, KS.

JDRF T1D Fund (JDRF T1D Fund) is a venture capital subsidiary of JDRF International founded in 2011 by Sean Doherty. The firm is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Orion Labs, Inc. engages in the development of a voice platform. The company was founded by Jesse Robbins, Greg Albrecht, and Roger Wood in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Chart.io, Inc. provides cloud business intelligence services. The company offers tour, embedding, data sources and security products. It enables business users to explore complex and disparate data in real time. The company was founded by Dave Fowler, David Beyer, Daniel Levine and Justin Davis in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Conjur, Inc. provides access control solutions for IT applications and cloud computing. Its cloud based privileged access security platform secures, manages and monitors secrets and access controls for cloud and web based environments. Its solutions include automated access management, Security for DevOps, Compliance for modern IT, hybrid cloud security, microservice authorization, secrets management and source control orchestration and authorization for windows cloud. The company was founded by Elizabeth Lawler and Kevin Gilpin in 2012 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.

Simulmedia, Inc. provides video advertising technology platform. The firm offers its products under the categories of other technology and video. The company was founded by David R. Morgan in 2008 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nexaweb, Inc. develops application modernization software solutions. It provides products and service which simplify and transform client/server applications. The firm’s products include Nexacro and Nexaweb platform. The company was founded by Coach K. Wei in February 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Software.com, Inc. designs applications to give the ability to manage, update and optimize the software and applications. Its devices include Mac, Windows, iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod) and Android. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.

Part of Live Microsystems, Inc., Mobilee, Inc. is a company that provides wireless internet services. The company is based in Chestnut Hill, MA. Mobilee was acquired by NMS Communications Corp. on April 11, 2001.

Sitrion, Inc. provides social network services for marketing solutions. Its services encompass collaboration, communication facilitation, productivity, and worker knowledge propelling. It offers one employee aap and one smart architecture for internal communications, for operations and for field based employees. The company was founded by Gregory A. Reinacker in 2004 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

Intercasting Corp. provides mobile social networking services. Its flagship ANTHEM 2.0 platform, wireless carriers and device manufacturers can add instant messaging, email and social networking to their offerings. The company was founded by Derrick Oien, Shawn Conahan, Bruce G. Worman and Tom Demas in June 2004 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

Vivify Technologies, Inc. develops legacy application modernization solutions. It transforms PowerBuilder, Visual Basic and other client server applications into modern web solutions. The firm’s MDT framework, based upon the model driven development approach to application modernization, minimizes risk and maximizes return on investment. The company was founded on February 4, 2000 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.

Standing Cloud, Inc. provides application development system and deployment tools. It operates as platform-as-a-service that enables cloud users to deploy, manage, customize, and develop applications on a variety of cloud services and with several programming languages. The company was founded by Dave Jilk, Steve Buck, and Joel Wampler in 2009 and is headquartered in Boulder, CO.

Nanigans, Inc. provides digital and mobile advertising software. Its services includes predictive optimization, business intelligence, workflow automation and cross-channel and cross device. The firm’s Ad engine enables marketers to automate the labor-intensive process of delivering social ads at scale and overcome the challenges involved in optimizing for revenue generating customers and return on ad spend. The company was founded by Denton Claude and Ricardo C. Calvillo Jr. in 2010 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Memrise Ltd. provides online learning tool. It offers languages, arts and literature, math and science, natural world, history and geography, professional and careers, entertainment and trivia courses online. The company was founded by Greg Detre, Benjamin William Whately and Edward Cooke in 2010 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Tapad, Inc. provides mobile advertising network services. The firm offers The device graph which allow marketers to understand, monetize, and measure their audience in a unified way across all connected devices. It also provides advertising solutions, creative showcase, data solutions, programmatic advertising, and cross-device attribution. The company was founded by Dag Liodden and Are H. Traasdahl in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cheezburger, Inc. operates a website that offers social humor and entertainment content. The firm provides entertainment memes, images, videos, news, and advertising services. The company was founded by Ben Huh and Emily Huh in 2007 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Liquid Machines, Inc. provides enterprise rights management solutions. The company was founded by James Schoonmaker and Mike D. Smith in 2001 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.