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36 relations: Augmented reality, Boston, Business Insider, California, Cruise Automation, Dick Costolo, Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), First Round Capital, Forbes, Foursquare, Fred Wilson (financier), Ingress (video game), Initial public offering, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Massachusetts, New York City, Niantic (company), Oculus, Oculus VR, Pokémon Go, Private equity, Privately held company, San Francisco, Slack Technologies, SV Angel, TechCrunch, The Boston Globe, The Wall Street Journal, Tumblr, Twitter, Union Square Ventures, Venture capital, Warby Parker, Yahoo!.
Augmented reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment whose elements are "augmented" by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Business Insider
Business Insider is an American financial and business news website that also operates international editions in the UK, Australia, China, Germany, France, South Africa, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Spanish and Singapore.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Cruise Automation
GM Cruise LLC, commonly referred to as "Cruise" or "Cruise Automation," is an American driverless car company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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Dick Costolo
Richard William "Dick" Costolo (pronounced) was the CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015; he also served as the COO before becoming CEO.
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Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur)
Evan Clark Williams (born March 31, 1972) is a U.S. computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who has founded several Internet companies.
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First Round Capital
First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine.
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Foursquare
Foursquare is a local search-and-discovery service mobile app which provides search results for its users.
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Fred Wilson (financier)
Fred Wilson (born August 20, 1961) is an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger.
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Ingress (video game)
Ingress is a location-based, augmented-reality mobile game developed by Niantic.
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Initial public offering
Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.
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Jack Dorsey
Jack Patrick Dorsey (born November 19, 1976) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.
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Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born Jorgensen; January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.
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Lerer Hippeau Ventures
Lerer Hippeau (LH) is a seed stage venture capital fund based in New York City.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Niantic (company)
Niantic, Inc. is an American software development company based in San Francisco, which is best known for developing the augmented reality mobile games Ingress, Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter: Wizards Unite.
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Oculus
An oculus (plural oculi, from Latin oculus, 'eye') is a circular opening in the center of a dome or in a wall.
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Oculus VR
Oculus VR is an American technology company founded by Palmer Luckey, Brendan Iribe, Michael Antonov and Nate Mitchell in July 2012 in Irvine, California, now based in Menlo Park.
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Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go is an augmented reality (AR) game developed by Niantic for iOS and Android devices, initially released in select countries in July 2016.
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Private equity
Private equity typically refers to investment funds organized as limited partnerships that are not publicly traded and whose investors are typically large institutional investors, university endowments, or wealthy individuals.
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Privately held company
A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.
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San Francisco
San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.
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Slack Technologies
Slack Technologies, Inc. (originally Tiny Speck) is an American software company founded in 2009 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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SV Angel
SV Angel is a San Francisco-based angel investment firm, which helps startup companies with business development, financing, M&A and other strategic advice.
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TechCrunch
TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.
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The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.
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Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
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Union Square Ventures
Union Square Ventures (USV), is an American New York-based venture capital firm, that manages assets totaling $1 billion as of March 2016.
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Venture capital
Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).
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Warby Parker
JAND, Inc., doing business as Warby Parker, is an American online retailer of prescription glasses and sunglasses, based in New York City.
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark_Capital
