The GSV Constellation
The constellation is our network of enterprises from across the innovation ecosystem. We’ve brought this group together to provide us with superior ideas, information, introductions, intelligence, and insights.
In addition to their relationships with GSV, these complementary organizations also collaborate in peripheral circles and initiatives, fortifying their value to each other and the growth economy.
GSV Asset Management
GSV Asset Management is a multi-fund investor in the world’s fastest growing companies, primarily focused on five key growth themes: Education Technology, Social/Mobile, Cloud and Big Data, Internet/Marketplaces, and Sustainability. Based in Silicon Valley, with offices in New York City and Paris, GSV has unparalleled experience in the global growth ecosystem, with Co-Founder & CEO Michael Moe recognized as one of the preeminent global authorities on growth investing.
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EdSurge
EdSurge is an internet company hoping to revolutionize education. They report the latest news from entrepreneurs, educators, and investors in the hope of bringing education to a point where it isn’t only done in the classroom. They share information vital to many people including trends, available jobs, opportunities, and events. With this they hope to make education something that is happening continuously, and not just for a few hours a day.
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GSV Advisors
GSV Advisors is helping shape the future of learning. The company is dedicated to connecting education entrepreneurs and growth companies with valueadded, strategic investors and partners to enable them to become the next market-leading businesses. Leveraging deep domain expertise, relationships and entrepreneurial experience, its principals provide merger, strategic advisory, private placement services and capital. In many ways, the firm is a “modern merchant bank”—transforming the legacy of private equity capitalization in manufacturing by focusing on today’s dynamic, tech-driven education space.
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Ozy Media
Ozy hopes to create a new, different way of delivering news. Their mission is to bring the consumer the vital information that is needed in daily life in order to help them better understand the world around them. One such program offered is The Presidential Daily Brief, in which they give only the most important and interesting stories of the day. With Ozy, they hope to bring the world to a more educated and engaged level in daily life.
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AlwaysOn
AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network (www.aonetwork.com). In 2004, AlwaysOn became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, bloggers, and advertisers like no other media brand.
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Early Shares
EarlyShares is a new and revolutionary way to crowd fund startups. They bring investing in early stage startups to the internet, making funding easier for both the companies and the investors. The companies have the choice whether to sell equity, or simply give convertible debt, once again making the decision to use EarlyShares much easier. With EarlyShares, anyone can invest in any company, without any hassle
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Brandlift
Brandlift designs thoughtful identities and communications programs for growth-oriented companies. Balancing sharp strategic focus with bold, expressive hooks, the agency is known for delivering “creative capital”—purposeful marketing platforms that have a lifting effect on clients’ reputations and performance. From an indispensible brand foundation, to websites and applications, collateral, advertising and campaigns, Brandlift humanizes companies and products, positioning them to attract more customers and forge profitable, lasting relationships.
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RedEagle Ventures
Red Eagle Ventures is a private equity firm based in San Francisco, which is led by Mr. David Pottruck, former Chief Executive Officer of Charles Schwab.
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Arizona State University
Arizona State University is part of GSV’s Education Innovation Summit, in which new ways to revolutionize education are discussed. The last Education Innovation Summit featured 190 influential speakers from the global EdTech ecosystem, discussing important and new developments in education.
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NASDAQ Private Market
NASDAQ Private Market makes it simple for private companies to handle equity through a cloud-based system. It gives a method to digitize and control the entire equity program of a private company. This allows streamlined management of any equity related function. It also gives a method for current and potential investors to access important information about the company.
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Silicon Valley Data Science
Silicon Valley Data Science hopes to bring the benefits of big data and data science to the average company. They offer many different services in order to get the company up and running with big data, from advisory services providing education and investigation, to full scale production teams. With Silicon Valley Data Science, smaller companies will soon have the full benefits of big data.
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Whiteboard Advisors
Whiteboard advisors teaches anyone who wishes to learn about policy. They provide research and strategy to many people, including investors, philanthropists, government leaders, and entrepreneurs seeking an understanding of the education policy and business environment. They have a highly qualified team hoping to help companies and individuals learn.
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GSV Sustainability Partners
GSV Sustainability Partners (GSV SP) is a transformative finance company that leverages the rapid global adoption of proven sustainable products, thereby delivering meaningful customer savings through a more effective use of energy, water, and waste. With this framework, GSV Sustainability Partners is pioneering Sustainability as a Service™ — the green tech sector’s own “SaaS”. The vast majority of building and vehicle owners do not have the budget to implement sustainable upgrades despite GSV SP will help building and vehicle owners purchase sustainable upgrades, capitalizing on compelling, low-risk paybacks.
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GSV Financial Group
GSV Financial Group (GSV FG) is a collective of financial firms delivering access and consistency that are tough to find. GSVFG operates in two primary verticals: 1) Capital Formation, and, 2) Capital Preservation and Appreciation. Whether as a principal investor through GSV Ventures or as a financial advisor through GSV Securities, the capital formation business provides growth capital for the world’s most compelling, fastest-growing companies. GSV Investment Advisors employs a sophisticated asset allocation approach to capital preservation and appreciation, coupled with analytical investment screening and selection criteria to help its institutional and private wealth clients achieve their financial goals.
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StormWind Studios
StormWind offers a new way to learn through interactive videos. This has not only been applied as an education tool for students, but also as a tool to teach employees how to act in certain situations. The interactive video that shows how someone reacts to choices made by the student offers a much better and more effective learning experience than a teacher telling you the results of an action. They hope to harness this and revolutionize education.
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GSV Capital
GSV Capital Corp. (NASDAQ: GSVC) is the first publicly traded security focused on venture-backed, rapidly growing companies leading the way in their respective markets. GSV Capital enables all kinds of investors to access the tremendous value of VC-backed growth companies that is created prior to public offerings. The seasoned management team, led by CEO Michael Moe, utilizes its strong Silicon Valley network, private company research, and two decades of investing experience to provide a diversified and liquid structure for the emerging growth investor.
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BizEquity
BizEquity is the world’s largest provider of business valuations, having valued over 25 million companies globally. BizEquity urges entrepreneurs and business leaders to discover, monitor, and optimize the value of their organization. It’s arguably the single most important question about a commercial entity: What’s it worth? With the first and leading online business valuation engine—including over 60 patents and inventions (granted or pending)—BizEquity’s proprietary algorithmic valuation system can enable any online visitor to know what their business is worth in a matter of minutes.
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GSV IQ
GSViQ provides research and insights into the world’s fastest growing companies and sectors, pushing clients to broaden their thinking, investigate opportunities, challenge assumptions, validate instincts, and reaffirm decisions. With deep roots in the global growth ecosystem, GSViQ delivers industry and market reports, business valuations, content, and custom research. But it’s far from another giant consulting agency. The firm leverages a progressive model with unique perspective and access, designed to optimize quality, efficiency, and client ROI.
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CorpU
CorpU is an innovative new form of talent development that utilizes research, advice, and education. They are creating a method to connect through online communities to teach, learn, generate ideas, solve problems, and capture knowledge. The fact that CorpU is a cloud-based program allows employees from all levels to partake in the talent development courses, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional courses.
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GSVlabs
GSVlabs accelerates global innovation by launching centers of excellence around important trends in the growth economy, such as Big Data, Ed Tech, Mobility, and Sustainability. We offer a 72,000 square foot campus at the epicenter of Silicon Valley, along with diverse programs to help innovators thrive. We empower a community of founders, mentors, corporate innovators, universities, and government development agencies who are redefining the future. Over 90 companies currently call GSVlabs home.
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GSV Media
GSV Media is bringing insights and the newest business news to consumers. They focus their news on new and emerging business opportunities including Cloud and Big Data, Education Technology, and Sustainability.
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Maven
Maven is an online professional network and knowledge marketplace that provides the fastest way to source expertise. Maven users tap into a vast global network of subject matter experts (“Mavens”) from every industry. The result is that Maven helps professionals gain quick insights and address critical business challenges of all sizes in a fraction of the time and at a much lower cost than traditional consulting. Maven’s expanding product portfolio includes electronic surveys, telephone consultations, extended consulting, intelligence markets, and internal knowledge communities.
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4c
4C is a big data company that analyzes and tracks relationships between companies and their consumers. More than 20 years of research has gone into finding new ways to map and analyze the behavior and brand affinity for many different audiences. They use their innovations in mapping behaviors for a variety of large companies so that they can gain insights into how their customers react to different situations. 4C also offers a social ad platform designed to reach specific audiences in order to build a more engaged following on Facebook and Twitter.
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The GSV Constellation
The constellation is our network of enterprises from across the innovation ecosystem. We’ve brought this group together to provide us with superior ideas, information, introductions, intelligence, and insights.
In addition to their relationships with GSV, these complementary organizations also collaborate in peripheral circles and initiatives, fortifying their value to each other and the growth economy.
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