Martin Tobias

Loudeye Corp. distributes, manages, and promotes digital media services. The company's services include application development, content acquisition, archiving, fulfillment, and distribution. The company also offers services for encoding media content and metadata content creation. Loudeye was founded in 1997 and is located in Seattle, WA.

Cloudmark, Inc. provides messaging security software. Its cloudmark security platform delivers instant security and control across diverse messaging environments, enabling communications service providers to create a safe user experience, protect revenue and safeguard their brand, while streamlining infrastructure and reducing operational costs. The firm's other products include cloudmark authority, cloudmark sender intelligence, GSMA spam reporting service, cloudmark server edition, and cloudmark activefilter. The company was founded in September 2001 by Vipul Ved Prakash and Jordan Ritter and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Imperium Renewables, Inc. produced biodiesel refining. The firm produced biodiesel from feedstock oils and glycerin, a by-product of biodiesel. Its biodiesel was used as alternative fuel in cars, trucks, ships, trains, and planes. The company was founded by John P. Plaza in 2004 and was headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Kashless, Inc. is a software developer creating solutions to enable reuse, recycling and local marketplaces. The company believes reuse, recycling and local marketplaces should be as rich in advanced ecommerce and community features as the best paid goods marketplaces. No more clumsy bulletin boards or e-mail group lists. An advanced, modern ecommerce platform for reuse that is environmentally aware. The company calls it ReCommerce. By providing a comprehensive platform for reuse, Kashless extends the useful life of products, diverts significant amount of items from the waste stream, encourages local consumption, and reduces raw material resource demand. The platform quantifies the benefits of ReUse (carbon, GHG, tons of waste, etc.) so that brands, municipalities, organizations and individuals can demonstrate the value to stakeholders. Kashless, Inc. operates a demonstration ReCommerce reuse portal at kashless.org, white label versions of the platform in SAAS model, and a suite of web services that enable ReCommerce. Kashless provides a superior ReCommerce marketplace for the existing buyers and sellers in the market as well as a platform for extending the reach of ReCommerce into social networks, search engines, communities and other ecommerce marketplaces.

Ignition Venture Partners (Ignition Venture) is a venture capital firm subsidiary of Ignition Partners Group founded in 2000 by Cameron Myhrvold, Jonathan D Roberts, Jon Anderson, and John Ludwig. The firm is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

E8 Management LLC (E8 Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2006 by Nate Silverman and Martin Tobias. The firm is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Upgrade Labs, Inc. operates as a biohacking health and fitness facility which utilizes technology to help members reach their physical, cognitive and cellular performance through unique training and wellness programs. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.