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Lycos was founded as one of the first search engines. In stride with the changing Internet, Lycos has gone through propitious transformations, acquiring Gamesville.com, Tripod.com, and Angelfire.com, to build the established network that it is today.
Boomerang Commerce enables omni-channel retailers to maximize revenue and margin growth while remaining competitive. Our SaaS based software rapidly analyzes, tests and deploys smart pricing strategies at scale for millions of products including private label. Led by veterans from Amazon, Adobe and McKinsey, Boomerang uses advanced machine learning and real-time data analytics to drive strategic pricing decisions. Top 100 omni-channel retailers such as Staples, OfficeDepot and web-only retailers such as Groupon Goods are using Boomerang today and realize $40M in incremental revenue and $9M in incremental margins for every $1B in revenue they run through our platform. Boomerang is named a Gartner Cool Vendor for Digital Commerce 2015 and one of the Top 50 Big Data companies in the world.
OptionsCity is a financial technology company founded in 2006 by three Chicago software professionals and friends who shared the same passion and vision for technology and options trading. Together, Hazem Dawani, Rudy Fasouliotis, and Victor Glava created a powerful, intuitive, and reliable product that would change the way traders conducted business. The founders brought their experience and drive from previous leading roles at a successful Chicago options trading company.
DogVacay is the largest and fastest growing online and mobile community of pet care providers. The company has over 20,000 vetted pet sitters across the U.S. and Canada. It`s a safe, convenient, and superior way to make sure your best friend is in good care while you’re away. All reservations include premium medical coverage, 24/7 customer support, and daily photo updates. Our sitters offer daycare, grooming, walking, and other services too. DogVacay has booked millions of stays and racked up hundreds of thousands of 5-star reviews. The company has raised $47 million in funding from top-tier venture capitalist firms including Benchmark and Andreessen Horowitz. We work in large, bright, dog-friendly office in the heart of Santa Monica just blocks from the beach. Our 90+ employees across Customer Care, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Operations, and Finance love playing with dogs at work every day! Our key investors include Benchmark Capital’s Bill Gurley (Uber, Zillow, GrubHub) and Foundation Capital’s Charles Moldow (Lending Club, Adroll). Founder and CEO is Aaron Hirschhorn, UCLA MBA and the first-ever DogVacay sitter. Visit www.dogvacay.com/press to read hundreds of articles by leading publications: USA Today, NBC, Huffington Post, FOX, WSJ, ABC, Forbes, New York Post, Inc, The Economist, and others.
method sold its first product on February 28th, 2001 – we mark this as the day we became people against dirty®. But why did two twenty-something guys start a cleaning product company? Well, we’re not exactly big fans of cleaning, but we are passionate about cleaning up a dirty business. We recognized that household cleaning, which includes laundry and hand wash, was a massive category in desperate need of a little disruption. We also had questions. Why do we pollute when we clean? Why do we use poison to make our homes healthier? And why do cleaners have to be so ugly that you hide them away or smell so bad that you hold your breath? The answer: we can do better. Leveraging two major cultural shifts in health + wellness and life styling of the home, we disrupted every aspect of the category and grew method into a green cleaning leader. Along the way, we hit #7 on the Inc. 500 list, were named the #16th most innovative company in the world by Fast Company in 2008 and became PETA persons of the year for developing the first vegan laundry products. method products can be found in Target, Lowe’s, Safeway, Whole Foods and most grocers nationwide, along with growing distribution in the UK, France, China, Japan and Australia. And the party is only getting started. In 2012, method merged with Belgian green cleaning giant Ecover, and together became the world’s largest green cleaning company. Our two brands are committed to inspiring generations of happy, healthy homes by making non-toxic products that work—for you and the planet. And we’re building a LEED-Platinum certified manufacturing plant to prove it, the first of its kind in our industry. We even formalized the name of our joint enterprise: People Against Dirty (PAD) Manufacturing. Of course, this is more than a company name, it is one of our founding principles. By pioneering a cleaner clean, we believe we can make a difference.