Twilio provides a telephony infrastructure web service "in the cloud", enabling web programmers to integrate real-time phone calls into their applications. Twilio's simple, powerful API minimizes the learning curve required to build advanced, reliable voice communications applications that solve critical business needs. Twilioʼs simple Pay-As-You-Go pricing model, means customers pay for capacity only when they need it, not before. Voice applications written on Twilioʼs cloud solution scale transparently, eliminating programming, operational and contra

The company's mission is to analyze and organize the world's next generation DNA sequence data. Founded by Stanford scientists experienced in the fields of DNA sequencing and computational methods for DNA analysis, the company is building a universal platform for processing, analyzing, visualizing and managing DNA sequences on a scalable cloud computing infrastructure.

Dolores Labs is building a platform for human computation in the form of a labor market for microtasks. Dolores Labs makes it possible for companies to cost effectively perform tasks which are easy for a human to do, but often difficult for a computer to do. By building a statistical layer which provides guarantees on performance and accuracy of human labor pools, Dolores Labs makes it possible for companies to crowdsource their high-volume recurring tasks quickly, reliably, inexpensively and scalably. For more information visit http://www.doloreslabs.co

K9 Ventures is a true “early stage” venture fund that provides funding and support for concept-stage and seed-stage technology companies. The fund is focused on startups located in the San Francisco Bay Area that have technical founders, a core technology product, a clear path to revenue, can be capital efficient and where K9 can add value.

Refocus Imaging is taking the next big step in digital photography by transforming the camera into a powerful computational platform. A Refocus Imaging camera captures the entire light field entering the lens, not just an ordinary image. By using computational photography it processes the light field to produce pictures, implementing in software what the conventional camera and lens must do physically in hardware. Using the power and economics of software, computational photography removes the physical constraints of camera and lens systems. A Refocus ca

Acquired by LinkedIn.

CardMunch is a mobile business card transcription service. It uses your phone to scan a business card. Real workers then transcribe and verify the information on the card and it is returned to your phone as a contact within minutes. Check it out at http://bit.ly/cardmunchfree

Acquired by Hospira (NYSE: HSP)

TheraDoc is a clinical informatics company that develops and implements electronic surveillance systems for injury detection and prevention to transform the quality and safety of patient care—in real-time. Theradoc's software helps clinicians improve infection prevention and management as well as reduce adverse events.

Netspoke was acquired by Premiere Global Services (NYSE:PGI).

iMeet, Inc. merged with Boston-based Netspoke

Laminar was acquired in October 2001 by Quest Software (Nasdaq: QSFT)

SneakerLabs, a company which developed live-interaction software solutions for the Web, was acquired in March 2000 by San Mateo, California based Octane Software which in turn was acquired by San Mateo, California based E.piphany, Inc. (Nasdaq: EPNY).