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Esther Dyson

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Investments & Board Seats

These lists are as accurate as possible, but startups tend to change their structure, status and even names over time. Happy to receive updates/corrections from anyone involved!

* publicly traded companies

Investments plus Board Seats

Avanlee Care (chair) BAMF Health Medesk PressReader (formerly NewspaperDirect) *SWVL

Health Investments (many using AI)

4D Healthware Abridge.ai Alden Scientific Applied Proteomics Big Health Brainify Cherish Health Circadia Circadian-OS *Clover Health Crohnology Devoted Health Eligible Epernicus/Trial Networks Function Health (through acquisition of Ezra) Genomera GeriJoy Hawthorne Effect HealthEngage Health Loop HealthRally HealthTap *Hinge Health (through acquisition of Enso Relief) Ilara Health (Africa) Keas *LB Pharma Litmus Health Lucidify Medesk (Russia → UK) *MedicalAlgorithmics (Poland) Medivo Nanowear Neurogeneces NextSense New Life Solution (through acquisition of MeQuilibrium) Nuna Health Nurture Health *Omada Health OpenWater Patients Know Best (UK) Praava Health (Bangladesh) Rasello (Tanzania) Resilient Networks Systems Shotsy Solera Startup Health (started as Organized Wisdom) Supportiv Syllable Tocagen Turbine Valkee (Finland)

Tech/AI Investments

AdKeeper *Alphabet (formerly Google) Amicus *Block (formerly Square) *Bloom Energy Cognitive Match Crowdbooster Daivergent Devpost *EPAM ESAI.ai *Eventbrite Factual Fancy Flattr Fluidinfo GoodData GOQII *Grasshopper Bancorp GridPoint / 21st Century Utilities Ji Grahak Mobility Solutions Knack LeDunia (Kenya) Linkstorm Linqia Litmus Health Localized Nomanini Oradian (Croatia) PressReader (Canada) RallyPoint School Loop Skygrid Sojo Studios Sparked Technorati Trusted ID *Uber (via acquisition of Social Bicycles) *UIPath You.com Zedo Zeta *Zillow

Other: Aerospace/Logistics/IRL Investments

Agritecture Icon Aircraft (acquired) Item.farm LensDetect Makhers Studio *Voyager Holdings (via acquisition of NanoRacks) Space Adventures *SpaceX Trella WorldView ZeroG

Current Nonprofit Boards

Past Boards and Investments (selected)

Board Seats (past)

23andMe (left before SPAC/IPO, ultimately acquired by founder) Eventful.com (acquired by CBS) Evernote (acquired by Bending Spoons) IBS Group (transferred my role to Swiss subsidiary Luxoft, left when acquired by DXC Technology) Medscape (now owned by WebMD) Meetup Inc. (acquired by WeWork; now owned by Bending Spoons) Proofpoint (met my own term limits) Voxiva (acquired by Welltok) WPP Group (exceeded term limits, served 2000-2014) XCOR Aerospace (filed for bankruptcy) Yandex (resigned early 2022) and its non-Russian successor Nebius (NBIS) (2023-2024)

Closed Investments (Selected)

Airship Ventures (RIP) Brightmail (acquired by Symantec) Boxbe (acquired by eDataSource) del.icio.us (acquired by Yahoo!) Dopplr (acquired by Nokia) Dotomi (acquired by ValueClick) Dulance (acquired by Google) Facebook (IPO; sold mostly to fund Wellville) Fathom Technology (acquired by EPAM) Flickr (acquired by Yahoo!) Flourish Labs (dissolved) Graphisoft (acquired by Nemetschek) Jana (closed) Kurbo (acquired) LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft) Mashery (acquired) Medico (acquired by Everyday Health) Medspace (now part of WebMD) Medstory (acquired by Microsoft) MeQuilibrium (acquired) MetaCarta (acquired by Nokia) Nest Health (dissolved) Netbeans (acquired by Sun Micro) Nickels (dissolved) ParaGraph International (acquired by Silicon Graphics) Payperks (closed) Plazes (acquired by Nokia) Postini (acquired by Google) Powerset (acquired by Microsoft) RealTravel (acquired by Uptake) Sugarwork (acquired by DECIDR) Vizu (acquired by Nielsen)

Russian Investments (past)

AlterGeo Ostrovok Scala TerraLink VitaPortal Yandex Zingaya

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