Last year Architel began investing in various early stage startups through a fund managed by our partner and friend David Cohen. The list of investments has grown to eight and we have a feeling these companies are destined for success (what do you think?):

Twilio - Investment Date: 5/12/09 – Provides a web-service API for business to build scalable, reliable communications apps.

DEBT|MARKET – Investment Date: 7/24/09 – World’s first marketplace for consumer loan portfolios.

isocket - Investment Date: 8/05/09 – Open platform for all forms of advertising with goal of bringing open web to advertising industry.

Next Big Sound - Investment Date: 9/18/09 – On-line analytics and insights for the music industry.

SendGrid - Investment Date: 11/13/09 – Cloud based service that delivers emails on behalf of companies to increase deliverability and scalability.

RETEL – Investment Date: 12/2/09 – Surveillance video analytics for stores and restaurants.

SimpleGeo - Investment Date: 12/09/09 – Ready-to-use location infrastructure.

Graphic.ly - Investment Date: 12/23/09 – Digital content delivery platform for comics and other forms of publishing.