Ventures

Nest Labs has created the world’s first “smart thermostat” and continues to dominate the category it pioneered. Nest was created by two former Apple engineers with the mission to upgrade HVAC controls with 21st century technology. The Nest thermostat operates by learning a user’s temperature preference and adjusting accordingly when the homeowner is both home and away. The intelligent system is compatible with oil, gas and electric fuel types. The thermostat also produces energy history reports for constant monitoring helping to conserve energy and save money.

SyncTV has created a powerful and accessible platform for pay and live TV over the Internet. The platform provides an open, cloud-based video distribution system enabling content owners and distributors to quickly disseminate their content. The SyncTV platform provides a turn-key solution enabling Internet-connected TVs, smart phones and tablets to access, create, manage and broadcast content worldwide. In addition, SyncTV offers a suite of supplemental services that help customers monetize and support video distribution. The platform and services combine to provide a complete offering to efficiently service and usher in the video transition to Internet and wireless video-enabled devices. Intertrust acquired SyncTV from Pioneer.

Seacert Corporation Seacert Corporation provides secure digital certificates for consumer devices and computers that authenticate their integrity to other devices and services. Seacert also provides trusted root keys for Internet-based systems including media distribution and app stores. Seacert has shipped over 200 million certificates to digital TV systems around the world and is growing into new markets that include a broad variety of devices across numerous vertical markets.

whiteCryption™ has pioneered advanced mathematical techniques for protecting software from hackers. whiteCryption’s revolutionary technologies protect software by obfuscating sensitive areas of a piece of software or secrets and sensitive data in hard-to-penetrate ways. whiteCryption’s products can safeguard any software applications such as media players, enterprise apps, and mission-critical infrastructure technologies. In a world of open operating systems and networks, whiteCryption’s technologies are essential for safe operation.

Marinexplore seeks to organize the world’s ocean data into a format that is easy to search and analyze, with the goal of becoming the world’s preeminent Big Data service for industries that live from the riches of our oceans and for researchers and educators who are studying the well-being of our seas. In an era of Big Data, when 90% of the oceans are still unexplored and mobile oceanic sensors are disrupting the industry, the tools and working processes for ocean exploration have changed little over the last 15 years. Today, most public ocean data is disconnected, often archived and never used again. Professionals across the world who rely on this data are isolated from each other, and more than 80% of the exploration time today is spent on data processing. Marinexplore seeks to change this, by aggregating public and private oceanic data, and making it readily available for search and analysis.

Kiora is an innovative retail kiosk video provider for geographies with little or no Internet penetration. While the promise of Internet distribution of video is coming to life in countries with advanced Internet infrastructure, many of the world’s population centers still suffer from low bandwidth penetration. Kiora makes kiosks that can vend protected premium video onto USB sticks that can be played on a low cost set top box at the consumer’s house. Kiora provides a variety of e-commerce options and is primarily focused on the Indian market today.