CitySearch developed online community guides, building its content from the contributions of editors, community members and local businesses. The company merged with Ticketmaster Online in September 1998 and went public later that year. It is currently a division of IAC/Interactive Corp.

Founded 1995

www.citysearch.com 

Commission Junction was a pioneer in affiliate online marketing. By matching a wide range of information and entertainment sites with advertisers seeking to target messages to their visitors, they helped establish the pay-for-performance ad model as a foundation for many businesses. They became part of the ValueClick family of online marketing companies in 2003.

Founded 1999

www.cj.com 

Compete, Inc. is an online market research firm that creates value for consumers and marketers. Compete's research is powered by millions of people who share their online behavior to create a more trusted, transparent and valuable internet. Leading companies turn to Compete to understand how consumers consider, buy and engage with their own and rival brands and rely on Compete to impose the return on marketing investments.

Founded 2000

www.compete.com 

Shortly after Idealab launched eToys, it quickly became the preeminent online seller of children's products. During the 2000 holiday season, it was the second most trafficked site on the Internet with over 21 million visitors. Despite its bankruptcy in 2001, the company had built such strong brand loyalty among customers that the name and web site were purchased by KB Toys, which continues to operate online under the eToys name.

Founded 1998

Idealab conceived Free-PC as an opportunity to deliver free PCs to consumers, with the costs fully borne by advertising revenue. After providing free computers and Internet access to 20,000 customers in just a few short months, the company was acquired by eMachines.

Founded 1999

Idealab launched GoTo.com and introduced the concept of paid search to the Internet. The company went public in 1999 and in 2001 became Overture Services. Two years later, the company was acquired by Yahoo! Today this business model is the underpinning of the $8 billion search market dominated by Google and Yahoo!.

Founded 1998

www.overture.com 

HomesDirect quickly became the largest online auction site for foreclosed properties with more than 10,000 homes sold per month. It was acquired by eBay in 2001.

Founded 2000

Infogate began life with the release of a free software application that centralized information on PC desktops and allowed users to keep track of real-time stock quotes, news, and other items while working with other applications. Infogate's assets were acquired by AOL in 2003.

Founded 2001

Insider Pages is the Yellow Pages written by friends — a local search engine built around the concept that the best way to find a local business is through a personal recommendation. The Insider Pages community has written over 500,000 user-generated reviews of local businesses across the USA. The company was acquired by CitySearch/IAC in 2007.

Founded 2004

www.insiderpages.com 

Intranets.com was started to provide on-demand collaboration services — an "instant intranet" — for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. By the time it was acquired by WebEx Communications in 2005, it had amassed over 300,000 paying subscribers and 10,000 corporate sites.

Founded 1999

www.intranets.com 

NetZero was one of the first companies to offer free, ad-supported dial-up Internet services. It expanded its services with low-cost access in 2001. In that same year, it merged with Juno Online Services to form United Online. United Online is publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange (Nasdaq: UNTD).

Founded 1999

www.netzero.net 

New.net launched to provide more logical web address ending suffixes such as .travel and .shop. By partnering with Internet service providers to enable these new addresses to be recognized, the company sought to expand the market for web addresses and make it easier for users to find sites of interest. The company was acquired by Vendare Media (now Connexus) in 2004.

Founded 2001

www.new.net 

PETsMART.com's roots are with Pet.net, which was started by Idealab as an independent pet e-commerce business. In 1999, Pet.net entered into a strategic relationship with PETsMART, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) the leading retailer of pet supplies and services in the US. Through this partnership the company became the category leader by delivering an exceptional online experience and value and was the sole survivor of the hotly contested online pet sector. The company was acquired by PETsMART, Inc. in 2002 and remains the leading online destination for pet lovers.

Founded 1998

www.petsmart.com 

Lifescape Solutions introduced Picasa, a digital photo organizer for the PC that was widely reviewed as the best product on that platform. The company later added the Hello service, which enabled real-time sharing of photos along with the ability to chat with other users at the same time. The company was acquired by Google in 2004.

Founded 2002

picasa.google.com 

Stirling Cycles was formed to make the use of Stirling-based gensets pervasive at the consumer level by offering reliable units at a fraction of the cost of competitors. The company was acquired by Infinia Corporation in 2007.

Founded 2005

www.infiniacorp.com 

The DotTV Corporation was established to provide Internet users with an additional set of addresses ending in the extension .tv. By licensing the rights to this top-level domain from the country of Tuvalu, DotTV was able to open up logical names and email addresses for myriad companies and individuals associated with the entertainment industry. The company was acquired by VeriSign in 2001.

Founded 2000

www.tv 

Tickets.com is a leading provider of tickets for sports and entertainment events worldwide. The company builds private label Ticketing Gateways^sm to enable live entertainment organizations with e-commerce distribution platforms and sells tickets directly to consumers.

Founded 1997

www.tickets.com 

Wedding Channel was launched to be a central resource for couples about to be wed. The site attracts millions of unique visitors each month and contains the bridal registries of a wide variety of retailers. WeddingChannel.com merged with The Knot in 2006.

Founded 1997

www.weddingchannel.com 

AirWave is a leading provider of specialized tools to centrally manage large, multi-vendor wireless LAN, mesh, and WiMAX networks. AirWave's management software is used by many Fortune 500 companies as well as hundreds of IT organizations spanning the education, finance, government, healthcare, hospitality, technology, manufacturing, and retail markets. AirWave operates as a division of Aruba Networks since the company was acquired in March 2008.

Founded 2000

www.airwave.com 

Aptera Motors is building lightweight, low cost composite electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles that are safe and reliable. By employing patent pending low cost composite manufacturing methods and cutting edge computational fluid dynamics, the company's first car, the Aptera typ-1 will be available for under $30,000.

Founded 2006

www.aptera.com 

Connexus is the premier online, performance-driven marketing platform, offering a diversified, multi-channel approach to connect advertisers with their target customers. Its innovative approach delivers scale, flexibility and performance to advertisers and publishers across all online advertising formats. Connexus features a multi-channel network with broad reach and an array of proprietary sites that deliver qualified customers directly to advertisers. Connexus, founded in 1999, is the union of Vendare Media and Netblue.

Founded 1999

www.connexuscorp.com 

Cooking.com is the leading online superstore for all things related to cooking. In addition to offering a complete assortment of kitchenware products, including all the top brands, they provide recipes and articles from numerous sources including Cook's Catalog, Cooking Light and Food and Wine.

Founded 1998

www.cooking.com 

Desktop Factory has developed a breakthrough desktop 3D printer with capabilities similar to traditional rapid prototyping systems costing tens of thousands of dollars more. Combining high performance and low cost in a desktop size, this printer will allow three-dimensional printing to become pervasive in business, schools and homes.

Founded 2004

www.desktopfactory.com 

Energy Innovations' mission is to deliver cost-effective, grid-competitive solar electric power. It is currently developing the Sunflower, the first high-concentration PV system designed for commercial rooftop and adjacent ground-mounted applications. The company expects its first commercial systems to be delivered in 2008.

Founded 2001

www.energyinnovations.com 

eSolar's breakthrough heliostat and control technologies make electricity generation from large scale solar thermal plants cost-competitive with fossil fuels. With mirrors that are 100 to 300 times smaller than conventional designs, eSolar's product affords substantial advantages, including a 50 percent cost reduction.

Founded 2007

www.esolar.com 

Evolution Robotics develops state-of-the-art technologies in the areas of visual pattern recognition and autonomous navigation and partners with original equipment manufacturers worldwide to integrate those technologies into new and more intelligent products.

Founded 2001

www.evolution.com 

Evolution Robotics Retail, a subsidiary of Evolution Robotics, Inc., develops intelligent products and solutions for the retail industry. The company's flagship product is LaneHawk™, a visual scanner for preventing bottom-of the-basket loss.

Founded 2005

www.evoretail.com 

Infinia's mission is to improve the quality of life by changing how the world generates and uses energy. Having developed and delivered innovative Stirling engines and generators since 1985, the company's technology is at the core of residential combined heat and power appliances currently being commercialized worldwide.

www.infiniacorp.com 

Internet Brands is a leading operator of media and e-commerce sites for "large ticket" consumer purchases, such as cars, real estate, mortgages, and travel. The company began life as CarsDirect (www.carsdirect.com), now the leading multi-brand online car buying service, providing new and pre-owned automobiles and related products and services.

Founded 1998

www.internetbrands.com 

Newbury Networks is the provider of the industry's first and only location-based management and security solutions that enable IT/Security professionals to locate, manage and secure WLANs. Newbury's award-winning products provide unprecedented security through its patented location-based tracking and perimeter security capabilities.

Founded 2001

www.newburynetworks.com 

Partsearch Technologies is a leading provider of Outsourced Parts Management (OPM) solutions. The company works closely with its clients to transform their businesses utilizing technology, content and deep industry and process expertise, enabling them to significantly improve customer loyalty, drive revenue and profit growth and reduce operating expenses.

Founded 2001

www.partsearch.com 

Perfect Market, Inc. is an automated search engine marketing company that helps online publishers monetize content. The company maximizes the profitability of publishers' pages by adjusting the amount spent with each traffic partner as calculated by Perfect Market's proprietary algorithms through a closed loop feedback system. The high degree of automation provided by their patent-pending SEMgine™ technology is the key to profitably monetizing content that would otherwise remain invisible to Web searchers.

Founded 2007

www.perfectmarket.com 

Snap Technologies, operator of Snap.com, is dedicated to getting users to results they really want faster. Snap.com delivers superior relevance and visual, rich and interactive search results to broadband users, and offers risk-free, flexible Cost-Per-Action advertising with unmatched ROI to advertisers. The company's Snap Shots service is an open platform for delivering contextually relevant content such as stock quotes, streaming audio or video, product information and more, directly to users as they browse the web.

Founded 2004

www.snap.com 

X1 Technologies' mission is to change the way corporate information is accessed and acted upon by end users. The company pioneered fast-as-you-type searching, intuitive interface, file and email previewing, the ability to save searches, and the ability to act on the found email or files. X1 is now available in both desktop and enterprise editions.

Founded 2003

www.x1.com