Austin Ventures is a venture capital and private equity company that specializes in partnering with talented executives and entrepreneurs to build companies. It was founded in 1984 and headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Austin Ventures

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies, including Uber, Square, and Warby Parker. Through custom-built software, incredible in-person experiences, and a host of other unique services, First Round helps tiny companies get big while constantly reimagining the role of venture capital. It offers a growing number of services and products to help founders build companies from scratch. First Round has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

First Round Capital

Constantin Partners is a seed and early-stage venture fund focused primarily on seed-stage software and internet infrastructure companies. Constantin is typically the first money institutional money into a company - either with or immediately after the friends-and-family round.   Over the past 10 years of investing, the portfolio has included such companies as Bazaarvoice, Tripwire Security Systems, EzRez Software, Coremetrics, Experience Project, and Garage Technology Ventures.

Constantin Partners

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology. It invests in potentially, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies.

Battery Ventures

KG Investments is a private family office fund focused on investing in technology companies through direct investments and secondary loans. This approach is guided by its extensive background of building and investing in technology-related companies over the last 20 years.KG Investments also invests in uncorrelated professionally managed Hedge & Private Equity funds as a Limited Partner looking for unique differentiated opportunities.  It was founded in 2006 and is based in Scottsdale, Arizona.

KG Investments

Bazaarvoice

Bazaarvoice is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company that turns social media into social commerce for the world's best global brands by enabling authentic customer-powered marketing.  They achieve that by first letting consumers create and share ratings, reviews, questions, answers, and stories about products and brands on client websites. They then syndicate that content across the Web and through the channel to reach shoppers wherever they are.  This customer-generated content has a tremendously positive influence on purchase decisions. It is also rich with customer intelligence, which they analyze and provide to their clients so they can make real-time, information-based decisions that affect all aspects of their business — marketing, product R&D, and operations.  This strategy of putting customers at the center of your business helps you achieve measurable results across your entire enterprise.

<div><p>Bazaarvoice delivers a people-first approach to advanced technology that connects thousands of brands and retailers to the voices of customers. Its solutions center on collecting content, driving customer conversions, amplifying content, and optimizing strategies. Additionally, its solutions are geared toward collecting content, driving revenue, scaling brands, obtaining actionable insights, and building loyalty. Bazaarvoice is trusted by over 11,500 brands and retailers. It serves the apparel and accessories, consumer electronics, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, and health and beauty industries. The company’s operations span the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific region. It was acquired by Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2021.</p></div>

Harnessing the power of social influence to fuel online sales

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    Bazaarvoice delivers a people-first approach to advanced technology that connects thousands of brands and retailers to the voices of customers. Its solutions center on collecting content, driving customer conversions, amplifying content, and optimizing strategies. Additionally, its solutions are geared toward collecting content, driving revenue, scaling brands, obtaining actionable insights, and building loyalty. Bazaarvoice is trusted by over 11,500 brands and retailers. It serves the apparel and accessories, consumer electronics, consumer packaged goods, food and beverage, and health and beauty industries. The company’s operations span the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific region. It was acquired by Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2021.
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    Hootsuite is a Canadian platform that allows marketers to manage social media campaigns across a range of popular channels including Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Youtube, and Twitter from a single dashboard. The platform provides automated campaign scheduling and boosting, a unified platform to respond to customer comments as well as analytics tools to monitor and evaluate the success of campaigns. Through acquisitions, the firm has expanded its product offerings to include conversational commerce solutions including Heyday AI, a customer conversational platform, and Central, a customer inquiry management platform for social media channels. The firm had more than 210,000 paid users as of October 2021.
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    GRIN is a creator management platform specialized for influencer marketing. Its platform has solutions for brands to help discover creators by providing a network base of social media users and allows creators to email and ship products as well as engage in content repurposing. It also offers a comprehensive range of reporting tools. Features of the platform include reporting and analytics, discovery and recruitment,  and content management. In addition, the firm's platform integrates with ecommerce and payment solutions to provide product seeding and payment solutions. GRIN’s clientele includes Lorna Jane, Tonal, L’Oreal, Bellami, Cotton On, Legendary Foods, Organifi, Rockstar Energy Drink, and Black Rifle Coffee Company.
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    Viewpoints is a consumer review and product ranking website that helps customers shop smarter based on consumer reviews. Its website has nearly one million reviews written by over 250,000 contributors. The firm translates these unfiltered, authentic end-user insights into product intelligence in the form of scores, rankings, and recommendations. The company offers reviews under the kitchen appliances, laundry and cleaning, home and garden, bath, health, money, babies and kids, and beauty categories. Its solutions are used by a number of global brands including Hamilton Beach, Dove, Cuisinart, Tide, Whirlpool, Progressive, Serta, and Weber.
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    NTWRK is a livestream shopping platform that offers a platform for retailing goods and interacting with consumers in real time. The mobile-based video platform uses brand partnerships and special product drops to create shopping-related content that targets Gen-Z and Millennial users. It features famous brands and creators on its platform through live episodes that showcase sneakers, sports memorabilia, fashion, art, and collectibles. NTWRK recently began investing in original shows in order to improve engagement and has built multiple sets to carry out its polished programming initiatives. The firm has attracted investments from Goldman Sachs and Kering, the owners of luxury brands including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, and Bottega Veneta.
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NTWRK

Increases transparency of the effectiveness of social commerce by providing solutions for attribution and measurement

Relevant for social chatbots segment that uses AI/ML to provide automated responses to customers

Creates virtual assets for Metaverse stores and marketing on metaverse platforms

Social media platforms such as Snap are developing AR solutions for live shopping experiences

Platforms for curating and displaying customer reviews, recommendations, and product and service feedback on a brand or independent sellers' social media pages and websites.

Bazaarvoice

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