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Headquartered in New York City, Random House Ventures LLC (RHV) is the wholly owned e-investment subsidiary Random House, Inc., a division of Bertelsmann AG.

Vindicia, Inc. provides payment management services to online merchants. Its services include subscription billing, microtransactions, digital content, chargebacks, marketing, one time payments and austomer acquisition. Vindicia was founded by Gene Hoffman and Mark Elrod in 2003 and is headquartered in Redwood City, CA.

RoyaltyShare, Inc. provides web-based royalty processing and digital content management solutions for the global entertainment industry. The firm offers a suite of on-demand services dedicated to simplifying the increasingly complex digital sales process. Its service include metadata management, managing sales and distribution information, calculating royalties and generating royalty reports. The company was founded by Robert H. Kohn, Steve Grady and Scott Holcombe in 2005 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

LicenseStream, Inc. provides licensing and royalty payment automation platform for media and businesses. It offers a platform that allows owners of digital content to license, transact and monitor all forms of electronic media. The platform both significantly extends the reach and revenue potential of companies already licensing their content online and establishes new revenue streams for companies looking to digitize and distribute their traditional, analog material. The firm also enables customers to detect and curb unauthorized usage of their content. The company was founded by Iain Scholnick, Jeffrey A. Shear, Joe Caccamo, and Scott Lipsitz and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Random House, Inc. publishes books, periodicals and ebooks. It produces hardcover, paperback, audio, electronic and digital formats for adults, young adults and children. The Company was founded by Bennett Cerf, Donald S. Klopfer and Christopher Coombes in 1927 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Simon & Schuster, Inc. engages in the publication of fiction and non-fiction books. It offers a wide range of genres and formats for children and adults both audio and in print. The company was founded by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster in 1924 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Penguin Group, Inc. publishes books in both hardcover and paperback editions, for adults as well as children. The company was founded on March 18, 1985 and is headquartered in Delaware.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments Inc. (Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments) is a venture capital subsidiary of Bertelsmann SE & Co KGaA founded in 2006. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Boston Academic Publishing, Inc. publishes academic textbooks in print and electronic format. The firm offers various categories of textbooks such as business and economics, mathematics, sciences and professional and applied sciences. The company was founded by Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.