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Valore, the collection of brands you see today, began in 2006 with SimpleTuition, a leading online student loan comparison engine that has helped more than 10 million families pay less for college. Shortly after our launch, Kiplinger’s named us one of the 25 best financial services websites on the web. This confirmed the obvious: that our goal of helping students get an affordable education was timely, essential, and urgent. Ever since then we’ve been launching products like PayBackSmarter and SmarterBucks, making it easier for people nationwide to get debt-free faster and for less. But tuition costs and student loans are only half the battle, so in 2012 we turned our attention to the high cost of textbooks. We were lucky enough to meet our match in a company called ValoreBooks—the online marketplace that saves students up to 90% on the cost of textbooks—and have been inseparable ever since. Together we’ve built a comprehensive set of tools and the online textbook marketplace you see before you today, which has and will continue to save students millions of dollars. Yet our mission is ongoing. We’ll continue to search for new ways to help students get an affordable education.
SweetLabs is a software distribution company.
Distil Networks, the global leader in bot detection and mitigation, is the first easy and accurate way to identify and police malicious website traffic, blocking 99.9% of bad bots without impacting legitimate users. Distil protects against web scraping, brute force attacks, competitive data mining, online fraud, account hijacking, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, and downtime. Slash the high tax that bots place on your internal teams and web infrastructure and make your online applications more secure with API security, real-time threat intelligence, a 24/7 security operations center, and complete visibility and control over human, good bot, and bad bot traffic. Distil, a TechStars alumni, was founded in early 2011 and is headquartered near Washington D.C. in Arlington, VA and has offices in San Francisco, SF, Raleigh, NC, London and Sweden.
At first glance betaworks seems to be a loose organization of people that do many things -- but in reality we are building products that when combined together form a strong network, and eventually a media company for this century. We believe we’re better at what we do — building and operating companies — because of the open ecosystem of builders around us. Our investment portfolio includes Tumblr, Twitter, Kickstarter, as well as up-and-comers like RapGenius, Grand St., Branch and IFTTT. To us, seed investing means ""first money in"" -- so our typical investment size is $100,000-200,000. We usually invest as part of a syndicate of angels and early-stage VCs. Our requirements from an investment perspective are simple, though narrow. Investments must be early-stage, heavily tech-focused, and have a working (public or private) prototype. We are a powerpoint-free zone.
Industry leading eCommerce fraud prevention and detection software that reduces false positives with a guaranteed decision and chargeback protection.