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They help you understand online conversations and community performance. Their research team has provided brands with valuable social media insight since 2003. With ten years experience, they've seen platforms and trends come and go, but they've continuously adapted their methodology to meet the changing digital environment. Their approach is built on extracting value from social media data, using a unique combination of human analysis and technology, to make all their output truly actionable. They operate in over 50 languages and across all industries. They work directly with brands, but also through a network of channel partners. Their headquarters are in London, UK and their technology centre in San Diego, California.

FounderFuel is a mentor-driven venture accelerator that helps early stage startups raise seed capital. FounderFuel has accelerated more than 80 companies over the past 6 years. Its alumni have raised over $50M in financing from top firms such as Spark, Accomplice, Accel, and YC. Backed by Real Ventures, FounderFuel's 3-month intensive program is supported by a network of mentors, founders, alumni and partners. The program is designed to help startups refine their vision, build their product and perfect their pitch with the help of its all-star mentor network.

Moonlighting, Inc. operates a freelance hiring platform, which connects freelancers, entrepreneurs, and small businesses for hiring for short to long-term jobs, projects, and tasks. The company creates virtual platform to its users. It also provides blockchain supported platform and a full turnkey solution with a suite of tools to empower millions of independent workers worldwide. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

LaunchBox Digital is a venture capital firm specializing in angel, seed, and early stage investments. The firm focuses on web and mobile businesses and all digital platforms. It invests between $15,000 and $30,000 in each company. The firm seeks a four percent to eight percent equity stake in each portfolio company. LaunchBox Digital hosts an accelerator program every fall, in which successful applicants will receive funding and guidance to take their big ideas from concept to market. Those chosen will receive seed funding and a 12 week business building program in [Raleigh/Durham, NC] where they will refine their ideas with the help of mentors and advisors.

We back world-class entrepreneurs building game-changing companies, connecting them to local and national ecosystems and helping guide them through their next stages of evolution. The firm invests throughout the life-cycle of early-stage companies and provides stage-appropriate capital and support for the founders it backs. Real believes that VCs should play a role in accelerating the creation of world-class tech ecosystems by providing support beyond the companies for whom it writes cheques. It’s this collaborative mindset that inspires Real to launch initiatives that lay, or build upon, the foundations of rapidly growing tech hubs in Canada, and wherever else the firm may go.

CardStar is a privately-held software company developing mobile applications that connect membership and rewards cards to smartphones. It is a solution for managing digital versions of its users’ plastic loyalty cards, reward cards, and club membership cards on their phone. The company allows its consumers to access scannable-cards from within a single app and enabling merchants to tailor mobile deals and information to their customers. CardStar was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, M.A.

Imagine K12 is a startup accelerator that provides support and funding to tech companies focused on the education market. Starting a company is hard, and the education market presents unique challenges. At Imagine K12 we have a singular goal: improving your company’s chances of success. We do this through a combination of strategic advice, mentorship, seminars designed to help founders make better decisions, highly engaged networks of entrepreneurs and educators, and $100,000 of initial funding.

PopUp is like Twitter for places - With the PopUp App, you follow people and brands and their messages are delivered to you not on a timeline, but automatically to your phone, at physical locations as you move through your day. Only the most relevant info about where you are, from the friends and brands you trust, is delivered to you. And you can then create popups, too, and leave them for your friends and followers for them to discover. The PopUp App and APIs allows anyone - a person, a brand, an advertiser, a content publisher - to create content that is delivered to their audience at a specified location.

Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Active Mind Technology, Inc. designs and creates a digital tracking device to track and display golf rounds with stats, trends, and information. Its system enables golf players to record, track, and display every club used, shot taken, and distance covered in each round of golf with useful stats, trends, and information; and upload, replay, and share their rounds and achievements with their friends. It serves customers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional office in Galway, Ireland.

Millennial Media has now been acquired by AOL. Millennial Media is the leading mobile ad marketplace, making mobile simple for the world’s top brands, app developers, and mobile web publishers. The company's data and technology assets enable advertisers to connect with target audiences at scale, while driving monetization for publisher and developer partners. Millennial Media boosts AOL's global, mobile capabilities and scale across ONE by AOL for advertisers and agencies, and offers the most attractive monetization platform for app developers.

[Bandsintown](http://www.bandsintown.com/home) is the No. 1 concert discovery app on iOS, Facebook and Android, connecting you to your favorite artists so you never miss another live show. The app syncs with your music libraries and pushes concert alerts to you when your favorite artists are touring nearby. [Bandsintown Manager](http://www.artists.bandsintown.com) is a free app avail on Facebook, iOS and Android app for touring artists, allowing musicians to update their tour dates from the road and communicate directly with their fans.

CardStar is a privately-held software company developing mobile applications that connect membership and rewards cards to smartphones. It is a solution for managing digital versions of its users’ plastic loyalty cards, reward cards, and club membership cards on their phone. The company allows its consumers to access scannable-cards from within a single app and enabling merchants to tailor mobile deals and information to their customers. CardStar was founded in 2008 and is based in Boston, M.A.