Josh Goldman

Ask Jeeves, Inc. provides consumers and advertisers with information retrieval products across a diverse portfolio of Web sites, portals and desktop search applications. Ask Jeeves' search and search-based portal brands include: Ask Jeeves (Ask.com and Ask.co.uk); Ask Jeeves Japan (Ask.jp, a joint venture); Ask Jeeves for Kids (AJKids.com); Bloglines (Bloglines.com); Excite (excite.com); iWon (iwon.com); My Search (mysearch.com); My Way (myway.com); My Web Search (mywebsearch.com) and Teoma (teoma.com). Ask Jeeves also owns the search technology Teoma, proprietary natural language processing technology, as well as portal and ad serving technologies.

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital division of Norwest Partners founded in 1961. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with additional offices in Mumbai and Herzliya.

NearbyNow, Inc. provides online marketing services. It offers a multichannel marketing tool to convert online shoppers to in-store buyers. The company was founded by Scott Dunlap on March 1, 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Sojern, Inc. provides data-driven traveler marketing platform that utilizes programmatic buying and machine learning technology. It offers Traveler Platform, Media Solutions, and RevDirect for Independent Hotels. The company was founded by Duane E. Woerth, Carey Rademacher-Gille, William E. Fisher and Gordon Whitten in September 2007 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

RetailMeNot, Inc. engages in the provision of strategic promotions, deals, and discounts through online and in-stores. It offers promotions, cash back offers, advertisements, discount eGift cards, and circulars. The company was founded by G. Cotter Cunningham on October 27, 2006 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

ModCloth, Inc. operates an online fashion and clothing retail business. It offers dresses, tops, bottoms, swimwear, outerwear, intimate apparel, tights and socks, and shoes; and vintage clothing and accessories for women. The firm also provides bags and accessories that include jewelry, sunglasses, hats, hair accessories, scarves, gloves, belts, umbrellas, and beauty products; and gifts for men and women, and gift certificates. The company was founded by Eric C. Koger and Susan Gregg-Koger in July 2002 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Akimbo Systems, Inc. provides internet delivered video entertainment programming services. It offers encoding and content aggregation services. The company was founded by Jim Funk and Steve Shannon in 2002 and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.

PremierGuide, Inc. provides search based Internet solutions. The company offers services to newspaper publishers, television channels, radio stations, and city portal operators. It was founded by Jonas Almgren and Malcolm Lewis in January 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

mySimon, Inc. operates a shopping website. The company helps consumers shop online and find the best values for anything sold on the web. It offers deals on automobile accessories, electronics, home appliances, clothing and many more. mySimon is located in San Francisco, CA.