Creations

We founded or co-founded each of these companies.

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Cornerstone

Cornerstone began with a goal of improving access to education on a global basis. Decades later, with thousands of employees in over 25 countries servicing over 7,000 clients and 75 million subscribers, Cornerstone has delivered over two billion courses around the world. Cornerstone was a cloud computing pioneer as one of the first Software as a Service companies to achieve scale, and today is the world’s leading talent management company, helping people in 192 countries to realize their potential.

Founders

Adam Miller

Perry Wallack

Steven Seymour

CEO

Adam Miller*
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Himanshu Palsule

First Invested

1999

Exit

IPO/Acquired

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Instil

Instil empowers nonprofits with the tools they need to deepen relationships with their community, grow revenue and maximize their impact. Our holistic solution is built on decades of experience in the worlds of both technology and philanthropy. Designed by nonprofit leaders and developed by top engineers, Instil is purpose-built to unlock the potential of every nonprofit to change the world.

Founders

Adam Miller

Kirsten Mass Helvey

CEO

Adam Miller

First Invested

2020

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Groundswell

Groundswell democratizes philanthropic giving for the other 99%. As both a fintech platform and a SaaS solution, Groundswell makes charity an employee benefit that unlocks a company's purpose by decentralizing corporate philanthropy and giving users the power of a personal foundation in the palm of their hands.

Founders

Jake Wood

Adam Miller

Joe Marchese

CEO

Jake Wood

First Invested

2021

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Cultivations

We have worked closely with management as an advisor or director to build each of these companies.

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Aimmune developed the first FDA-approved treatment for food allergies. Today, Aimmune Therapeutics is a Nestle Health Science company that aspires to be a global leader in developing innovative medicines to treat, prevent, and manage food, gastrointestinal, and metabolic-related diseases for those with few or no treatment options. Aimmune was built on the belief that families deserve standardized, regulatory-approved, science-driven treatments that help them to better manage these conditions.
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ALL3D provides services and solutions for you to create, customize, distribute and monetize your 3D models, virtual showrooms and photography for valuable experiences such as ecommerce and advertising across any device. ALL3D's mission is to revolutionize the home goods and improvement industry where products are virtually designed, created, customized, showcased and sold, even before any physical product is manufactured or shipped, enabling manufacturers and retailers to shift from physical-first to a virtual-first, sustainable solution, and giving consumers the ability to customize and personalize home products, reducing returns, waste of materials, lowering carbon footprint and a happier planet.
Acquired
Comparably's mission is to make workplaces transparent and rewarding for both employees and employers. A leading employee review website and the only platform showcasing workplace culture, salary, and corporate brand reputation data.
Acquired
Ellevation is an information technology company that features a web-based software platform specifically designed for ELL designers and English learners. Ellevation Education is an indispensable partner to school district administrators, teachers, and students across the United States, who use our products to manage complex program requirements, build the capacity of teachers to serve multilingual learners, and empower the students with the academic language necessary for success in schools.
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Memori is an open-source, SQL-native, framework-agnostic memory engine transforming enterprise AI experiences at lower cost and higher efficiency.
Acquired
myKaarma delivers a mobile-first communications platform that allows car dealerships to offer consumers easy access to, and modern communication with, their service department. In one solution, dealers can offer their customers the ability to call, text, or email, approve service work, and understand charges. The platform also provides direct access to the dealership service advisor to improve the consumer experience while lowering dealership service costs.
Acquired
Rightsline provides software solutions to media and entertainment companies who need to track the full lifecycle of licensing and distribution around the world. C Clients span across film, television, music, and publishing, but all have one thing in common; the need to track the licensing deals they've done, when they expire, and what the terms and payments need to be. Leveraging cloud technologies and bringing an intuitive UI, Rightsline can handle any size library and any level of rights complexity.
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Ryl Tea™ is a 0 sugar, 0 calorie, perfectly sweetened, 100% recyclable tea made with its proprietary Ryl™ Polyphenol Technology – a rare combination of traditional sweet iced tea flavors and functional benefits of steeped tea.
Samplead gives enterprise sales teams an outbound solution that actually works. Samplead's trigger-based platform mines micro-level insights from the forums where your prospects actually hang out, then turns them into timely, personalized messages – you hit send.
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Fresh, organic and nutritious baby food. Farm to face, recipes thoughtfully designed with your child's needs in mind.

Curations

We have been passive investors in each of these companies, often because they were later stage investments, but we are always at the ready to provide guidance and support.

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