| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Marc Witzke |
Chief Technology Officer | Profile |
In 2003, the Glam Media founders had a vision that was simple and revolutionary - that people will be the filters for all content and commerce for consumers. Glam pioneered the next generation media model by connecting vertical social media and brand advertisers with targeted vertical audiences online. Since its launch in 2005, it has grown to reach more than 280 million monthly unique visitors globally - and is #1 for lifestyle, #1 for women and a Top 10 US Web Property as measured by comScore. Glam has more than 4,500 premium content creators organized across multiple verticals online including Glam.com for style, entertainment & home; Brash.com for men, Bliss.com for health & wellness, Foodie for Food and Tend for Parenting. In 2011 it bought the social media pioneer Ning, which has over 100,000 social networks with a professional monthly subscription business. Glam is a technology driven media company with one of the largest brand ad platforms - Glam Adapt for premium display, rich media, social, mobile and video making it the 9th largest publisher in the US as measured by comScore. Glam Media is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Brisbane, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Pune and Mumbai.
Avangate, a Francisco Partners portfolio company, is the digital commerce provider that enables the new services economy, helping Software, SaaS and Online Services companies to sell their products and services via multiple channels, to acquire customers across multiple touch points, to increase customer and revenue retention, to leverage smarter payment options, and to maximize sales conversion rates. Avangate`s clients include ABBYY, Absolute, Bitdefender, Brocade, FICO, HP Software, Kaspersky Lab, Telestream and many more companies across the globe.
DropShip Commerce is the scalable online platform for integrating and managing drop ship partners, inventory, data, and orders. By handling the exchange of data through a single connection and integration point, DropShip Commerce helps trading partners streamline operations, generate more sales, and fulfill more orders using the virtual supply chain. The last 15 years have seen wave after wave of disruption in B2C e-commerce. Meanwhile the B2B supply chain has remained largely the same: still driven by old technology and software based on product push and predictive supply chain models. The result is retailers and their supply chain software are struggling to respond to an industry that has evolved in a consumer-driven, omni-channel, product-pull age. At DropShip Commerce, we believe that the B2B supply chain is now on the precipice of a revolution. We believe there is a better way for retailers and brand manufacturers to do business together: A way that makes it easier to collaborate and respond to consumer-driven demand. A way where virtual product catalogs, real-time inventory, and consumer-direct order processes are areas where businesses thrive, rather than labor in IT quagmires. We believe the survivors of this revolution will create truly collaborative trading partner relationships that win long term customer loyalty. Those that do not adapt will not survive. Though the supply chain revolution will ultimately expand far beyond just drop shipping as the world adapts, the business pains related to virtual product, inventory, and order data place drop shipping in the heart of the current predicament and drive us to build great software that will accelerate and enable the inevitable next wave of commerce disruption: The Demand Chain.
Oyster is the leading subscription service for books, offering readers unlimited access to over 1 million books—everything from New York Times Best Sellers and award-winners to children's titles and more. Readers can browse and discover on their own, or get expert recommendations from our editorial team. Over time, Oyster gets to know what readers like, and recommends books based on their reading habits and tastes. Oyster is available for Apple iOS, Android, Nook HD, and Kindle Fire, as well as on the web. Launched in 2013, Oyster is headquartered in New York City and is backed by Founders Fund and Highland Capital Partners.
Roadster enables transparent car buying 100% online through dealership websites, in-store applications and at roadster.com. Roadster dramatically improves the car-buying process, significantly increasing dealership sales efficiency while ensuring buyers save time and get a fair and transparent deal. With unmatched industry expertise and complete knowledge of market pricing, lease and finance rates, and incentives and rebates, Roadster finally makes online car buying a reality.