LifeLock, Inc. (“LifeLock”), headquartered in Phoenix, AZ, is an industry leader in identity theft protection. Lifelock provides a number of consumer benefits including fraud alerts, free credit reports and removal from junk mail lists. Additionally, Lifelock offers Walletlock, a system that replaces lost or stolen items (credit cards, bank documents, social security card, insurance cards, check books, etc.) at no additional cost.
www.lifelock.com
KBC Partners Internet Fund I Investment: 4.9% equity interest
Buddy Media, Inc. (“Buddy Media”), headquartered in New York, NY, is a leading developer of applications for emerging new media platforms, such as Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites. Buddy Media helps brands deliver social media solutions for its client’s brands by identifying a social media strategy that integrates the features and values of a brand, building the social solutions that drive brand interaction and end customer engagement. Buddy Media client’s social applications operate seamlessly across multiple platforms including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Clients include Reebok, SeaWorld and Charles Schwab.
www.buddymedia.com
KBC Partners Internet Fund I Investment: 0.3% equity interest
AdaptiveBlue, Inc. (“AdaptiveBlue”), headquartered in New York, NY, is a provider of internet personalization and “smart” browsing technologies that improve internet search efficiency. Its “Glue browser” add-on automatically connects users to sites and other internet services they regularly visit on-line. The browser allows the user to see what other users think about books, music, movies, etc., regardless of the site they are visiting. AdaptiveBlue is a development stage company.
www.getglue.com
KBC Partners Internet Fund I Investment: 10% equity interest
Big Head Labs, Inc. is primarily known for its product, Disqus. Disqus is a platform service for blog comments that enables bloggers to upload and track others’ comments to their blogs on an interactive real-time basis. The technology allows users to seek other commentators who share like opinions. Disqus has recently also added a video comment feature as the result of a partnership with Seesmic Inc.
www.disqus.com
KBC Partners Internet Fund I Investment: 2% equity interest
Covestor, Inc. (“Covestor”) has created a portfolio sharing platform service that allows tens of thousands of proven self-directed investors to share (on an anonymous basis in return for a fee) their real trades with other investors who want to follow them and measure their success. The site provides real time statistics for any individual’s portfolio, such as annualized returns, thereby highlighting to the public the most prolific and successful self-directed investors in specific industry sectors. Covestor’s revenue model is based upon the opening of brokerage accounts by members of the public, who want to match trades of successful investors they are following, and the charging of a trading fee.
www.covestor.com
KBC Partners Internet Fund I Investment: 1% equity interest
TubeMogul, Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, CA develops proprietary “load and track” distribution and analytics technology for use by various media organizations to distribute and analyze video across the Internet. The technology allows publishing and distribution of a video across all major web-based video sharing sites from a single upload. The software provides rich analytical information through aggregating video-viewing data from each source to track when, where and how often Internet videos are being watched, as well as tracking the level of a viewer’s engagement to a watched video through its unique ‘In Play’ Platform.
TubeMogul is rapidly becoming the industry standard for on-line video analytics and has deals in place with major industry players such as Brightcove, Blip TV and endorsements from clients such as The While House.
The Company successfully completed a $3 million Series B Financing in the second quarter of 2009.
www.tubemogul.com
KBC Partners Fund I Investment: 3.3% of equity.
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