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Green Check Verified provides a cloud-based regulatory compliance platform and RegTech solution for cannabis-related businesses and financial institutions. Its software-as-a-service platform includes compliance monitoring and reporting tools that enable cannabis operators to demonstrate and share their compliance history, and to access traditional banking services. The company aims to enable secure, transparent, and verifiable banking for cannabis industry participants by supporting safe transactions and legitimate commerce for banks and credit unions serving high-risk clients. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in North Haven, Connecticut.

PathogenDx specializes in DNA-based pathogen testing for botanical, food, and agricultural markets. Its core product is a microarray-based test that enables labs to conduct multiple tests simultaneously, reducing time and cost compared to traditional methods. The company's technology also simplifies sample preparation, further enhancing efficiency.

Willow Industries, LLC is a technology company based in Denver, Colorado, specializing in the decontamination of cannabis and hemp. Founded in 2016, the company provides a unique solution for post-harvest microbial decontamination through its patent-pending machine, WillowPure. This machine employs ozone-based oxidation to effectively reduce harmful contaminants such as mold, yeast, mildew, Aspergillus, Salmonella, and E. Coli, without compromising the flower's medicinal properties, aroma, potency, or visual appearance. In addition to its decontamination technology, Willow Industries offers consulting services related to compliance, regulations, and testing procedures, as well as evaluations of dry and curing rooms.

comScore, Inc. is an information and analytics company that specializes in measuring audiences, consumer behavior, and advertising across various media platforms worldwide. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products and services, such as Media Metrix and Mobile Metrix for measuring web and app performance, Video Metrix for tracking digital video consumption alongside TV metrics, and Plan Metrix for consumer lifestyle insights. Additionally, comScore offers validated Campaign Essentials, which ensures the visibility and safety of digital ad impressions, and Campaign Ratings for evaluating cross-platform campaigns. Its offerings also include TV Essentials, StationView Essentials, and OnDemand Essentials for understanding viewing patterns and transactional tracking. Furthermore, the company provides analytics and optimization tools for advertising campaigns and brand protection. comScore's capabilities extend to movie reporting and analytics, delivering insights into box office performance and audience trends. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, comScore serves over 3,200 clients across more than 75 countries, positioning itself as a leader in audience measurement and analytics.

comScore, Inc. is an information and analytics company that specializes in measuring audiences, consumer behavior, and advertising across various media platforms worldwide. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products and services, such as Media Metrix and Mobile Metrix for measuring web and app performance, Video Metrix for tracking digital video consumption alongside TV metrics, and Plan Metrix for consumer lifestyle insights. Additionally, comScore offers validated Campaign Essentials, which ensures the visibility and safety of digital ad impressions, and Campaign Ratings for evaluating cross-platform campaigns. Its offerings also include TV Essentials, StationView Essentials, and OnDemand Essentials for understanding viewing patterns and transactional tracking. Furthermore, the company provides analytics and optimization tools for advertising campaigns and brand protection. comScore's capabilities extend to movie reporting and analytics, delivering insights into box office performance and audience trends. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, comScore serves over 3,200 clients across more than 75 countries, positioning itself as a leader in audience measurement and analytics.

Bigfoot Interactive is a company specializing in email communications and marketing analytics. Since the industry's inception, it has been a major innovator, establishing many original philosophies and best practices still widely used today. Bigfoot Interactive offers a range of technology platforms for email communication, from full-service broadcast to enterprise-level integrated solutions. The company also provides professional services including list acquisition, strategic consulting, creative design and production, data solutions, and analytics/modeling to help clients achieve maximum results.

comScore, Inc. is an information and analytics company that specializes in measuring audiences, consumer behavior, and advertising across various media platforms worldwide. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products and services, such as Media Metrix and Mobile Metrix for measuring web and app performance, Video Metrix for tracking digital video consumption alongside TV metrics, and Plan Metrix for consumer lifestyle insights. Additionally, comScore offers validated Campaign Essentials, which ensures the visibility and safety of digital ad impressions, and Campaign Ratings for evaluating cross-platform campaigns. Its offerings also include TV Essentials, StationView Essentials, and OnDemand Essentials for understanding viewing patterns and transactional tracking. Furthermore, the company provides analytics and optimization tools for advertising campaigns and brand protection. comScore's capabilities extend to movie reporting and analytics, delivering insights into box office performance and audience trends. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, comScore serves over 3,200 clients across more than 75 countries, positioning itself as a leader in audience measurement and analytics.

Vindigo is one of the industry's leading mobile media companies. The company publishes and distributes mobile media through a network of partnerships that includes all tier-one U.S. wireless carriers, with combined reach of more than 140 million mobile subscribers. Vindigo sells mobile content including wallpaper, ringtones, local information, maps, news, entertainment and sports. Vindigo also provides a full suite of mobile marketing solutions to more than 100 advertisers including Cadillac and MasterCard. Vindigo is a wholly owned subsidiary of For-Side.com, one of the largest mobile media companies in the world. Vindigo understands the mobile user—and consumers love our products. Since 1999, millions of subscribers have downloaded our content, and Vindigo continues to deliver fun and easy-to-use mobile media services to consumers today. To learn more about how to add life to your phone, or how to extend your brand to mobile media, contact us today.

Based in San Francisco, PlanetOut Partners is the premier online community services and media company serving gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and their families and friends. The company's two largest online portals, Gay.com and PlanetOut.com, leverage the distribution power and reach of the Internet to provide products and services to more than 4.3 million consumers each month (DoubleClick DART) and more than 2.4 million registered members. The Gay.com portal offers an extensive global network that provides interactive services including chat, message boards, email, Kleptomaniac ecommerce services and original content channels. The Gay.com network includes sites in the U.S., France, the United Kingdom, Latin America, and Italy. The PlanetOut.com portal offers premium services such as the popular PersonalsPlus matchmaking service, as well as news, entertainment, travel, Kleptomaniac ecommerce services, Internet radio, online cinema and advice columns. PlanetOut.com has key distribution partnerships with America Online, Netscape, ICQ, Yahoo, RealNetworks, CompuServe, MSN and other major Web companies.

PlanetOut, Inc. is a leading global online media company serving the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered, or LGBT, community, a market with reported buying power of approximately $485 billion annually in the United States alone. Their network of websites, including their flagship websites Gay.com and PlanetOut allows their members, or those visitors who registered on their websites by providing them with a name, e-mail address and other personal data, to connect with other members of the LGBT community around the world. According to Nielsen NetRatings, in June 2004, Gay.com ranked second in terms of average time online per person and sixteenth in terms of visits per person among all websites measured. They generate most of their revenue from subscription fees for premium membership services that they offer in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish to their members who identify themselves as residing in more than 100 countries. They also generate revenue from online advertising and e-commerce targeted to the LGBT community.

PortalPlayer is a fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, specializing in the design, development, and marketing of comprehensive platform solutions for the consumer electronics industry. The company offers a system-on-chip platform that integrates a central processing unit, memory interfaces, and various other components. This technology supports manufacturers in creating feature-rich personal media players and notebook computers with secondary displays. By providing both hardware and software solutions, PortalPlayer enables its clients to deliver advanced media playback capabilities in their products.

comScore, Inc. is an information and analytics company that specializes in measuring audiences, consumer behavior, and advertising across various media platforms worldwide. The company provides a comprehensive suite of products and services, such as Media Metrix and Mobile Metrix for measuring web and app performance, Video Metrix for tracking digital video consumption alongside TV metrics, and Plan Metrix for consumer lifestyle insights. Additionally, comScore offers validated Campaign Essentials, which ensures the visibility and safety of digital ad impressions, and Campaign Ratings for evaluating cross-platform campaigns. Its offerings also include TV Essentials, StationView Essentials, and OnDemand Essentials for understanding viewing patterns and transactional tracking. Furthermore, the company provides analytics and optimization tools for advertising campaigns and brand protection. comScore's capabilities extend to movie reporting and analytics, delivering insights into box office performance and audience trends. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, comScore serves over 3,200 clients across more than 75 countries, positioning itself as a leader in audience measurement and analytics.

SportsYA is a sports portal that caters to the Hispanic market by providing comprehensive news and content related to sports, video games, and esports, as well as tourism, technology, and economic analysis. The company specializes in producing and broadcasting sports and radio content in both Spanish and English, covering a wide range of sports, including esports, baseball, basketball, boxing, football, soccer, and bullfighting. Through its diverse offerings, SportsYA aims to engage and inform Latin American and Hispanic communities, ensuring they have access to relevant and timely sports information and analysis.

AppGenesys, an eInfrastructure management services provider, focuses on the complex process of staging, systems testing and deploying Web initiatives for Fortune-class clients. The company offers a scaleable suite of standardized hardware and software management solutions that accelerate implementation and improve site performance. AppGenesys manages clients' Internet infrastructure operations through a global framework. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., AppGenesys was spun-out of iXL Ventures' managed network services business with $50 million in funding from a dynamic investor coalition comprising Chase Capital Partners, DynaFund Ventures, Flatiron Partners, Inktomi Corporation, Kelso & Company, NeoCarta Ventures and Softbank Venture Capital.

Powerful Media, Inc. operates an online portal Inside.com which provides business-to-business online information services to the entertainment and media industries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

MercadoLibre operates the leading e-commerce and fintech platform in Latin America, offering MercadoLibre Marketplace for online buying and selling, MercadoPago for payments both on and off its marketplaces, and complementary services such as MercadoCredito lending, MercadoEnvios logistics, MercadoLibre Classifieds, MercadoShops hosted store software, and MercadoClics advertising. The company serves about 218 million active users and one million active sellers across 18 countries, and generates revenue from various streams including fees, payments processing, advertising, and subscriptions. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Buenos Aires, it provides an integrated solution that connects buyers, sellers, and merchants through its platform.

Scout Electromedia is a consumer wireless company dedicated to creating innovative lifestyle products. Through user-centric product design, stable technology and critical content, Scout is pioneering a new space in the wireless industry termed "Electromedia". Grounded in the belief that technology should be enabling, not frustrating, Scout creates wireless products that are intuitive, reliable, useful and fun. Working with a variety of partners, Scout is committed to leading the development of consumer-friendly products that add value to people's lives.

Answers’ mission is to connect businesses, organizations and consumers with the right answers. The Answers Platform comprises a suite of cloud-based solutions that enable companies to engage their customers throughout the entire customer lifecycle, helping both brands and consumers alike make better-informed decisions about products and services. The key components of the platform - content publisher, customer analytics and advertising solutions via the top-20 comScore site Answers.com - enable brands to engage their customers in dialogue at key moments of their decision-making journey, across multiple channels and devices.

Alacra, Inc. is a provider of compliance workflow, reference data, and business research solutions, catering primarily to financial institutions, professional service firms, and corporations. Established in 1996 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in London, the company was originally named Data Downlink Corporation before rebranding in 2001. Alacra offers innovative tools that aggregate and filter critical business information from over 75 premium publishers and a curated selection of more than 3,000 web-based sources. Its solutions support clients in conducting regulatory searches and streamline customer identification, due diligence, and credit investigations. By delivering user-ready results, Alacra helps its clients stay informed about their customers, prospects, investments, and competition, thereby enhancing business development and operational efficiency. The company employs over 60 professionals specializing in content, technology, sales, and marketing.

Vindigo is one of the industry's leading mobile media companies. The company publishes and distributes mobile media through a network of partnerships that includes all tier-one U.S. wireless carriers, with combined reach of more than 140 million mobile subscribers. Vindigo sells mobile content including wallpaper, ringtones, local information, maps, news, entertainment and sports. Vindigo also provides a full suite of mobile marketing solutions to more than 100 advertisers including Cadillac and MasterCard. Vindigo is a wholly owned subsidiary of For-Side.com, one of the largest mobile media companies in the world. Vindigo understands the mobile user—and consumers love our products. Since 1999, millions of subscribers have downloaded our content, and Vindigo continues to deliver fun and easy-to-use mobile media services to consumers today. To learn more about how to add life to your phone, or how to extend your brand to mobile media, contact us today.

FusionOne is a technology company specializing in mobile content portability, enabling users to transfer and synchronize information between mobile devices. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in San Jose, California, with an additional office in Tallinn, Estonia, FusionOne's software allows subscribers to store, manage, and transfer various types of mobile content, including contacts, photos, messages, and purchased items. The company's solutions support millions of users across major carriers worldwide, facilitating the organization of address books through a unified interface and promoting sharing across different social networks.

Expression Engines is a leading provider of end-to-end direct e-mail marketing solutions, specializing in enhancing online marketing investments for businesses. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services that includes the integration of graphics into e-mails and strategies aimed at improving customer acquisition and retention rates. By leveraging direct marketing expertise and innovative technology, Expression Engines adopts a full-service approach to help clients achieve higher revenue through effective and cost-efficient online marketing efforts. The company's flagship product, Favemail, exemplifies its commitment to delivering high-response marketing solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of its clients.

The New York Times Company is a leading American media company that publishes The New York Times and operates a broad portfolio of digital properties. It distributes news, information, and entertainment through a daily newspaper and more than 50 websites, and it has historically issued multiple print editions. The company maintains strong reporting across sections including News, Opinions, Business, Arts, Science, and Sports, with digital platforms such as NYTimes and smartphone apps extending its reach. Headquartered in New York and founded in 1851, it also licenses databases and provides digital archives through its digital unit. Revenue comes mainly from subscriptions and advertising across print and digital properties. The company is organized into segments including New York Times Group and The Athletic, reflecting its mix of traditional publishing and digital sports media.

Electron Economy is a commerce enabler that focuses on integrating essential components of commerce operations for both traditional and e-business companies. It collaborates with clients to design, deploy, and manage their e-commerce operations by combining advanced technology, expertise, and managed services. The company's Internet Transaction Operations Network, known as Internet TONE, provides an open and extensible platform that allows businesses to utilize shared services and infrastructure for their e-business needs. Additionally, Electron Economy offers E-Commerce Operations Management services on the Internet TONE, delivering outsourced management solutions that seamlessly connect online storefronts with back-end logistics processes, including order processing, customer engagement, warehousing, fulfillment, shipping, and delivery. Through its supply chain event management services, the company enhances the management of funds, goods, and information, enabling manufacturers and distributors to accelerate time to market, reduce costs, boost revenue, and improve customer satisfaction.

Gay.com is the largest online community of gay men. Gay.com is the best gay dating website for gay men looking for a connection. Discover local gay guys in their free gay chat rooms where singles mingle in the digital world. Make virtual reality an actual reality in the world’s largest online community of gay guys. Millions have logged onto their free gay website to find romance, love, and more with other local gay men. Browse hot bodies as well as the hottest news that is relevant to members of the gay community.

Internet Appliance Network is a marketing and media services company.

Quixi is a personal bandwidth company that enhances the personal bandwidth levels of its subscribers through innovative services. In addition to its core offerings, Quixi has developed a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform designed to streamline the management of customer data. This platform features a user-friendly phone-based service that includes live sales support representatives who assist in capturing, updating, and retrieving CRM information. The data collected is seamlessly integrated into clients' existing CRM systems, allowing businesses to maximize the value of their CRM investments and improve overall efficiency.

SmallWorld.com (www.smallworld.com) is the largest independent developer of online fantasy sports games and is host to one of the "stickiest" sites on the Internet. Founded in 1994, Small World was recently ranked by Media Metrix as the number one fastest growing web site and by Nielsen Net Ratings as the stickiest site on the Internet. They will soon offer new games that expand beyond sports into other areas of interest, including politics.

UBO is a next generation media company that provides a unique on and off-line cultural and commercial platform for the Urban Mindset. UBO defines the Urban Mindset as a global community that shares common interests in music, arts, sports, and fashion and establishes trends for the emerging worldwide market. UBO aggregates this community by providing a network of vertical properties for the creation and distribution of cutting-edge music, animation, information, sports, events, live-action series, as well as direct access to urban cultural icons and celebrities. UBO aims to be the leading destination for both producers and consumers of the Urban Mindset.

SportsYA is a sports portal that caters to the Hispanic market by providing comprehensive news and content related to sports, video games, and esports, as well as tourism, technology, and economic analysis. The company specializes in producing and broadcasting sports and radio content in both Spanish and English, covering a wide range of sports, including esports, baseball, basketball, boxing, football, soccer, and bullfighting. Through its diverse offerings, SportsYA aims to engage and inform Latin American and Hispanic communities, ensuring they have access to relevant and timely sports information and analysis.

Submarino is an online seller of Spanish- and Portuguese-language books, CDs and toys.

PlanetFeedback is a developer of an online community platform that facilitates effective communication between consumers and businesses. The company enables brands and enterprises to gather, analyze, and utilize consumer feedback in real-time, enhancing customer service and reducing operational costs. By leveraging the power of the Internet, PlanetFeedback supports businesses in understanding consumer sentiments, thereby fostering improved engagement and satisfaction.

Mainspring is a consulting firm that designs and develops digital business strategies. It focuses on digital technologies, business optimization, and technology enablement. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company was formerly known as Mainspring Communications Inc.

MercandoLivre.com is an e-commerce technology company providing solutions to individuals and companies buying, selling, advertising, and paying for goods online. It serves millions of users and creates a market for a wide variety of goods and services in a safe and efficient way. The platform is among the top 50 in the world in terms of page views and is a retail platform with unique visitors in each country, which it operates according to metrics provided by comScore Networks. MercandoLivre.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Santana De Parnaíba.

Kozmo.com is an online delivery service that specializes in providing a wide range of products, including groceries, entertainment, food, and convenience items. The company is known for its rapid delivery model, aiming to deliver orders within approximately 30 minutes. By leveraging the internet for its operations, Kozmo.com offers customers a convenient solution to access everyday necessities and entertainment without the need to leave their homes.

Starbelly.com is a U.S.-based company specialized in promotional products. It manufactures branded t-shirts, key chains, and coffee mugs for promotions by client companies. Starbelly.com was co-founded by Eric Lefkofsky and [Brad Keywell](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/brad-keywell) in 1999. It was sold to Halo Industries in 2000 before filing for bankruptcy.

Alacra, Inc. is a provider of compliance workflow, reference data, and business research solutions, catering primarily to financial institutions, professional service firms, and corporations. Established in 1996 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in London, the company was originally named Data Downlink Corporation before rebranding in 2001. Alacra offers innovative tools that aggregate and filter critical business information from over 75 premium publishers and a curated selection of more than 3,000 web-based sources. Its solutions support clients in conducting regulatory searches and streamline customer identification, due diligence, and credit investigations. By delivering user-ready results, Alacra helps its clients stay informed about their customers, prospects, investments, and competition, thereby enhancing business development and operational efficiency. The company employs over 60 professionals specializing in content, technology, sales, and marketing.

Acurian provides solutions needed to recruit, enroll, and retain patients for clinical trials. The company offers recruitment feasibility, site identification and selection, patient recruitment and retention, and cancer solutions. Acurian was founded in 1998 and is based in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

Yahoo! GeoCities was a free web hosting provider that launched in 1994. GeoCities offered a free website and all the tools required to build a hosted, dynamic personal site, and it was one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Yahoo! officially shut down GeoCities on October 26, 2009.

Yahoo! GeoCities was a free web hosting provider that launched in 1994. GeoCities offered a free website and all the tools required to build a hosted, dynamic personal site, and it was one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Yahoo! officially shut down GeoCities on October 26, 2009.