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Bellabeat, top 5 Y-COMBINATOR company in the W14 class, is a data-centered wellness femtech company behind some of the most fashionably designed tech-powered wellness products and one of the fastest-growing wellness subscription services for women. Throughout the years, Bellabeat built the go-to wellness brand with a compelling ecosystem of solutions and services focused on women’s health. The success of the Leaf and Ivy wearables enabled the brand to expand to international markets and kickstart industry discussions on the importance of innovating in the design and development of tech products. Today, Bellabeat is leading the market shift with hyper-personalized holistic wellness offerings aligned with a women’s menstrual cycle.

THERE'S ALWAYS A BETTER HOTEL DEAL FOR YOU OUT THERE. There are hundreds of brokers, thousands of agents, millions of hotels, and an infinite number of pricing combinations in the travel industry. Until now, no travel company had the ability to use all this information together to provide better rates for travelers... Lucky for you, we are a tech company.

Crunchbase helps over 80 million investors, analysts, and dealmakers discover and act on the right private market opportunities by analyzing company activity and predicting what matters most. With Crunchbase: - Discover companies that matter at scale using the homepage, Crunchbase Scout, and search. - Make impactful decisions with proprietary Predictions and Insights on organization profiles. - Drive team efficiency, on or off Crunchbase, with exports, team administrative features, integrations, and more. - Enrich team tools and build products with private company intelligence you can’t get anywhere else. Built on the data you trust, Crunchbase closes the gap between accessing data and making business decisions with it.

NITO leverages advanced, patent-pending facial mapping technology and applies it to avatars. This allows anyone in the world, with only a few seconds calibration, to animate and control an avatar with their personal facial expressions, mannerisms and movements. People can communicate, role-play and have fun with characters of their choice while bringing their own unique gestures to the avatar. NITO blends reality and the virtual world in real time.

AlephD provides real-time solutions to publishers selling inventory over RTB. Founded in 2012 by a former Criteo executive and two data scientists and serial entrepreneurs, AlephD provides real-time capabilities to online publishers. Its solutions instantly boost digital publishers RTB revenues (Real Time Bidding) by up to 30%. The company developed real-time algorithms able to predict auction performance right before each impression is served. On behalf of its clients, AlephD chooses the best selling strategy to attract the most relevant buyers at the best price. The algorithms are fine tuned over billions of auction logs stored on a big data infrastructure. They are then applied thousands of times per second for every single impression delivered by AlephD’s customers, offering instantaneous revenue boost. AlephD equips online publishers with the same level of technology as the most advanced advertisers or demand-side solutions. AlephD leverages all the publisher data to create a level playing field in the RTB market and unlocks new opportunities for buyers and sellers.

Circulate helps publishers (Web and App), networks and SDK providers maximize their first-party data monetization strategies with one simple integration, on a privacy friendly basis. Circulate advances the science of targeting and media attribution by enabling industry partners to utilize match Data as a Service. Marketers and their agencies are empowered to provide a unified consumer experience, attribute success, prioritize marketing investments, extend their reach and personalize their content.

Hi Welcome to Tripli. Imagine you are traveling to a new city and you want to do something off the beaten path, something local, something unique and something authentic based on your true passions. The Internet is polluted with cookie cutter experiences and tour websites but you know it’s not for you. The tour companies are expensive and they deliver the same tours to hundreds of people a day. You are different and you want an experience with substance, something local and authentic, something tailored just for you by someone you are comfortable with and maybe at half the cost. You are concerned about quality of these experiences, security and safety issues, payment issues - maybe you are worried about the language barrier, or cultural issues --- and for all the right reasons. Tripli solves all of these issues. Tripli is a social marketplace platform that empowers people by enabling them to buy or sell amazing, unique and authentic local experiences to anyone around the world.

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 serves 90 of the Ad Age top 100 advertisers and global agencies, and offers the most attractive monetization platform for app developers.

Kanvas Labs is building a mobile platform that allows its users to create micro-social networks around real world experiences. It enables its users to create videos with photos and gifs or record with a custom stop motion camera. These clips can be edited with text, stickers, overlays, drawings, or music and then shared with friends and followers on the networks, as well as other social destinations such as [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook), [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter), [Tumblr](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tumblr), and [Instagram](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/instagram).

Docady is a free, simple-to-use, secure mobile app that helps you manage the documents that are most important to you and your family.

Sociocast’s Big Data platform provides businesses with predictive analytics for their high volume, time-ordered data sets. Our first solution is focused on the Advertising & Media vertical where we help data aggregators, ad networks, and ad agencies maximize the utilization of their first-party, proprietary data for advertising and media initiatives. We are integrated with 10+ companies ranging from web to mobile data owners and have shown great results in market

Vidible is a multi-platform, programmatic video exchange platform for discovering and distributing video content. It is now integrated into ONE by AOL. AOL Platforms enables the world's top marketers and media brands to reach consumers across desktop, mobile, and TV through premium experiences, programmatic buying, and performance-driven campaigns. It is the global partner of choice for leading publishers, advertisers, and agencies seeking to maximize the value of their brands online.

PrecisionDemand, formerly Lucid Commerce, is an early stage company and television media agency based in Seattle and New York. PrecisionDemand applies sophisticated analytic techniques to cost-efficiently target more impressions on advertisers' best prospects. Using their cutting-edge technology platform, PrecisionDemand is able to precision-target the TV audience and quantify the impact these targeted impressions are having on sales. This targeting leverages many hundreds of individual and household demographic and behavioral attributes. Through their revolutionary Buyometric targeting system, PrecisionDemand has been able to decrease their clients' cost-per-sale by over 25% while predicting sales volumes through multiple channels with over 95% accuracy. The PrecisionDemand team is made up of industry leading experts in media, technology, and data mining.

Convertro provides clients with actionable spend recommendations that empower them to confidently reallocate marketing from unprofitable sources to more profitable ones. Convertro accomplishes this by means of its algorithmic attribution models that meld marketing cost and conversion data, including in-store, with customer marketing exposures captured at the most granular level. This regression-based system, combined with other proprietary technologies developed in-house, affords extreme flexibility and enables Convertro to generate spend optimizations for all marketing channels that a client may leverage, whether online (PPC, SEO, display, affiliate and social, for example) or offline (such as TV, radio and direct mail). Convertro is based in Santa Monica (California), and maintains offices in New York and Israel.

Scoutmob is an Atlanta-based curated ecommerce site of more than 1,000 independent US makers and their 10,000+ products. Our primary channels of business are our own site, our wholesale program, and our retail partnerships, which include Target, Amazon, and URBN. Over the last four years, we’ve developed a proprietary marketing and distribution platform which allows us to promote our products across a wide array of partners, capitalizing on the ever-increasing appetite for authentic, distinctive, handcrafted goods that purveys the current retail landscape. In the process, we’ve refined the noise and clutter of large open marketplaces (e.g., Etsy) by creating a lifestyle-branded retail concept (think West Elm, Anthropologie) that’s composed entirely of goods produced by America’s independent makers. Our most popular categories include home décor, small-batch edibles, art, apparel, jewelry, and accessories.

At Spree Commerce, our mission is to empower the world’s sellers. Spree Commerce began as an open source e-commerce platform in 2008. The modular platform allows for easy customizations and upgrades so developers and store owners can configure Spree for their specific needs. Spree’s vibrant, international community has been an important factor in the company’s success. Almost 500 developers have contributed to the Spree platform, and it is now one of the top open source projects in the world. In 2013, the company launched the Spree Commerce hub. The hub automates backend operations for storefronts using any platform, not just Spree, including stores operated by some of the world’s largest e-commerce retailers.

Vungle is the leading in-app video platform for performance marketers. Its mission is to deliver the highest value users through engaging video ads. Advertisers depend on Vungle's LTV and creative optimization technologies, targeting, and HD video ad delivery to reach and acquire high-value users worldwide. Vungle was incubated at **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org)** in 2011.

Gravity is the world’s most advanced personalization company. When you use a website or application powered by Gravity, it adapts to create a better experience just for you. Using its proprietary Interest Graph, Gravity semantically understands each user’s individual interests, calculates the strength of those attachments over time and returns recommendations designed to optimize engagement and user experience.

Sailthru, Inc. operates a marketing technology platform that focuses on consumer interest-based personalization and automation for middle market and enterprise companies. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, Sailthru manages over 1.6 billion global consumer profiles. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of services, including high-performance email marketing, onsite personalization, mobile marketing automation, and lifecycle optimization, aimed at helping marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. Leading publishers and e-commerce companies, such as Business Insider and Rent The Runway, leverage Sailthru's capabilities to enhance revenue, improve customer lifetime value, and reduce churn. As a subsidiary of Campaign Monitor Pty Limited, Sailthru continues to innovate in the marketing technology landscape.

The ActionX platform connects the dots between mobile customer acquisition and mobile retargeting to drive transactions and maximize customer lifetime value.

Adap.tv, now a part of ONE by AOL, is transforming the way programmatic video advertising is bought and sold. AOL Platforms enables the world's top marketers and media brands to reach consumers across desktop, mobile and TV through premium experiences, programmatic buying and performance-driven campaigns. It is the global partner of choice for leading publishers, advertisers and agencies seeking to maximize the value of their brands online. For more information, please visit onebyaol.com, or follow AOL Platforms on Twitter @AOLPlatforms, Facebook at facebook.com/aolplatforms and LinkedIn at linkedin.com/organization/aolplatforms.

Vungle is the leading in-app video platform for performance marketers. Its mission is to deliver the highest value users through engaging video ads. Advertisers depend on Vungle's LTV and creative optimization technologies, targeting, and HD video ad delivery to reach and acquire high-value users worldwide. Vungle was incubated at **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org)** in 2011.

Solve Media is an advertising company. They provide brand message delivery, recall rates, and ROI for advertisers. They offer online advertising, skippable pre-roll, and internet security services. Solve Media's extensive product line ensures that they have every type of digital solution available to meet advertising or monetization requirements.

Aiguarentacar Rent-A-Car offers many locations throughout the Alghero area, including both airport and neighborhood car rental

SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies. Their technology enables the world’s most successful publishers to easily distribute engaging social content while providing them monetization opportunities across multiple social networks. Their publishing software is used by tens of thousands of journalists across the world and extends the reach and engagement of editorial content and stories to the social sphere. SocialFlow’s advertising products help publishers create new revenue streams from their social efforts. With native solutions and AttentionStream sponsored post ads, SocialFlow helps media companies leverage the unmatched scale and distribution of social channels. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow’s client roster includes half of the top 150 media companies including Condé Nast, Meredith, The Associated Press, CNN, and the BBC.

TastemakerX is where music lovers can do what they most want to do with music online: discover, listen to and share their tastes. With TastemakerX, people can discover music by exploring other people’s curated artist Collections, listen to and engage with their collected Artists on Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes, Songkick, Twitter, Instagram and other services. Let’s face it, finding music should be fun and easy, but it really hasn’t been since the days of “High Fidelity” where Jack Black and John Cusack worked in that hipster record store eons ago. Like those record store clerks, DJs on college radio stations, friends, great music critics and bloggers who thrust music upon us with a passionate urgency, TastemakerX is about people turning people onto music TastemakerX 2.0 for iOS 7 and Web launched on September 18 2013.

gdgt (parent company: PastFuture) is a consumer electronics site by [Peter Rojas](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-rojas) and [Ryan Block](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ryan-block). Rojas was the founding editor of [Engadget](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/engadget) and Gizmodo and Block was editor-in-chief of Engadget.

Sailthru helps modern marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. With over 1.6Bn global consumer profiles under management, Sailthru's powerful suite of connected capabilities – including high-performance email, onsite personalization, mobile marketing automation, and unique integrations powering new customer acquisition – drives higher revenue, improves customer lifetime value, and reduces churn. The world's most innovative publishers, including Business Insider, Refinery29 and Mashable, and the world's fastest-growing e-commerce companies, including Rent The Runway, JustFab, and Alex and Ani, trust Sailthru to help them succeed. Founded in 2008, Sailthru's exceptional group of investors include Benchmark, RRE Ventures, DFJ Gotham, Scale Venture Partners, and AOL Ventures.

Scoutmob is an Atlanta-based curated ecommerce site of more than 1,000 independent US makers and their 10,000+ products. Our primary channels of business are our own site, our wholesale program, and our retail partnerships, which include Target, Amazon, and URBN. Over the last four years, we’ve developed a proprietary marketing and distribution platform which allows us to promote our products across a wide array of partners, capitalizing on the ever-increasing appetite for authentic, distinctive, handcrafted goods that purveys the current retail landscape. In the process, we’ve refined the noise and clutter of large open marketplaces (e.g., Etsy) by creating a lifestyle-branded retail concept (think West Elm, Anthropologie) that’s composed entirely of goods produced by America’s independent makers. Our most popular categories include home décor, small-batch edibles, art, apparel, jewelry, and accessories.

Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use the Metamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Hipster is creating a real-time, visual public record of the world’s locations. Using their iPhones and Android devices, people share where they are and what they are doing by sending their friends a photographic postcard. The postcards become permanently attached to the locations they were sent from, and are forever accessible to all those who come later. Based in SOMA, San Francisco, and founded in 2010 by Doug Ludlow, Ethan Czahor, and Steffen Hoffman.

The ActionX platform connects the dots between mobile customer acquisition and mobile retargeting to drive transactions and maximize customer lifetime value.

TastemakerX is where music lovers can do what they most want to do with music online: discover, listen to and share their tastes. With TastemakerX, people can discover music by exploring other people’s curated artist Collections, listen to and engage with their collected Artists on Spotify, Rdio, Soundcloud, YouTube, iTunes, Songkick, Twitter, Instagram and other services. Let’s face it, finding music should be fun and easy, but it really hasn’t been since the days of “High Fidelity” where Jack Black and John Cusack worked in that hipster record store eons ago. Like those record store clerks, DJs on college radio stations, friends, great music critics and bloggers who thrust music upon us with a passionate urgency, TastemakerX is about people turning people onto music TastemakerX 2.0 for iOS 7 and Web launched on September 18 2013.

appssavvy is a technology company with the mission of rethinking the delivery and reception of web and mobile advertising. Focused on activity, appssavvy redefines how brands reach consumers, creates native ad experiences for publishers, and most importantly, improves advertising through data and insights about real-time behavior.

Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that protects over 1.5M sites and has processed over 8B total transactions in its 3-year history. The company's advanced risk-evaluation platform improves account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. It has proven successful at stopping fraudulent user account registrations in real-time — using a blend of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of malicious actors — for hundreds of transactions per second from many of the largest consumer Internet companies.

At Spree Commerce, our mission is to empower the world’s sellers. Spree Commerce began as an open source e-commerce platform in 2008. The modular platform allows for easy customizations and upgrades so developers and store owners can configure Spree for their specific needs. Spree’s vibrant, international community has been an important factor in the company’s success. Almost 500 developers have contributed to the Spree platform, and it is now one of the top open source projects in the world. In 2013, the company launched the Spree Commerce hub. The hub automates backend operations for storefronts using any platform, not just Spree, including stores operated by some of the world’s largest e-commerce retailers.

Sailthru helps modern marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. With over 1.6Bn global consumer profiles under management, Sailthru's powerful suite of connected capabilities – including high-performance email, onsite personalization, mobile marketing automation, and unique integrations powering new customer acquisition – drives higher revenue, improves customer lifetime value, and reduces churn. The world's most innovative publishers, including Business Insider, Refinery29 and Mashable, and the world's fastest-growing e-commerce companies, including Rent The Runway, JustFab, and Alex and Ani, trust Sailthru to help them succeed. Founded in 2008, Sailthru's exceptional group of investors include Benchmark, RRE Ventures, DFJ Gotham, Scale Venture Partners, and AOL Ventures.

Crittercism, based in San Francisco, California, is the company behind the world’s first mobile application performance management (mAPM) solution. The company’s flagship product monitors every aspect of mobile app performance, allowing Developers, IT Operations and Product Managers to deliver high performing, highly reliable, highly resourceful mobile apps. Crittercism provides a real-time global view of app diagnostics across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8, Hybrid and HTML5 apps and is used on more than 600 million unique devices and in more than 100 billion app sessions. The company’s investors include Google Ventures, Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures. Crittercism was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #2** in 2011

Impermium is a cybersecurity technology startup that protects over 1.5M sites and has processed over 8B total transactions in its 3-year history. The company's advanced risk-evaluation platform improves account management by identifying fraudulent registrations, compromised logins, and risky transactions. It has proven successful at stopping fraudulent user account registrations in real-time — using a blend of machine learning, statistical anomaly detection, and a proprietary database of malicious actors — for hundreds of transactions per second from many of the largest consumer Internet companies.

Metamarkets offers an interactive analytics platform for buyers and sellers of programmatic advertising. It gives its users the ability to see what’s happening in the media marketplaces where they operate and provides the high-speed processing power needed to gain a competitive edge. Customers such as Twitter, AOL, and Rubicon Project use the Metamarkets platform to drive their business performance through intuitive access to real-time information. Metamarkets puts the power of ad hoc data navigation and visualization into the hands of marketers. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format. The company’s leading technology aggregates, curates and values consumer interest in real time on one of the world’s largest and highest quality ad exchanges to ensure marketers reach exactly the audience they want. OpenX serves more than 30,000 of the world’s most recognized brands, more than 1,200 websites and more than 2,000 premium mobile apps.

SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies. Their technology enables the world’s most successful publishers to easily distribute engaging social content while providing them monetization opportunities across multiple social networks. Their publishing software is used by tens of thousands of journalists across the world and extends the reach and engagement of editorial content and stories to the social sphere. SocialFlow’s advertising products help publishers create new revenue streams from their social efforts. With native solutions and AttentionStream sponsored post ads, SocialFlow helps media companies leverage the unmatched scale and distribution of social channels. Founded in 2009 and based in New York, SocialFlow’s client roster includes half of the top 150 media companies including Condé Nast, Meredith, The Associated Press, CNN, and the BBC.

New York-based [Outside.in](http://www.outside.in) is an aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore different information. They attempt to do for blogging "what [Google](http://www.google.com) local search has done for the web." Outside.in makes local blogs the focal point of information access, rather than forums or reviews.Primary funding for Outside.in comes from a series of angels as well as a few VC firms. Those firms include Union Square Ventures, Milestone Venture Partners, and Village Ventures.

HuffPost is an online news provider and blog that offers coverage of U.S. politics, entertainment, style, world news, technology, and comedy. It is comprised of 80,000 bloggers and 126 million monthly visitors. In 2012, HuffPost became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. It was launched in 2005 and is based in New York, N.Y.

Goviral is a U.K.-based video platform for brands that create, syndicate, and measure contents and campaigns.

Crunched is a presentation and analytics platform that helps business professionals close more deals with deeper insights into their customers. Crunched shows you who your most valuable customers are so you can prioritize the right people at the right time with the right solution.

about.me is a platform for representing personal identity online. The service allows users to create and maintain a curated page for self-expression. about.me pages offer features including bios, contact information and buttons that link to social network content, including [Facebook](/organization/facebook), [LinkedIn](/organization/linkedin), [Twitter](/organization/twitter), WordPress, [Instagram](/organization/instagram) and more. Users can customize their profile with personal photos, custom backdrops, colors and fonts to further express their personality. Additional features including Collections, Replies, Compliments, Invite Friends, Search and more allow users to connect and further engage with others through the platform. about.me was founded in 2010 by CEO Tony Conrad, CPO Ryan Freitas and Tim Young. In February 2013, about.me was bought back from AOL by founders Tony Conrad and Ryan Freitas along with the about.me management team.

Pictela is now integrated into ONE by AOL. AOL Platforms enables the world's top marketers and media brands to reach consumers across desktop, mobile and TV through premium experiences, programmatic buying and performance-driven campaigns. It is the global partner of choice for leading publishers, advertisers and agencies seeking to maximize the value of their brands online. For more information, please visit onebyaol.com.

Unblab creates Artificial Intelligence to solve big problems. Today we’re solving Email Overload by helping Gmail users quickly find their most important emails. Unblab is an angel-funded company located in Research Triangle, NC. Unblab’s first product is Gtriage, an email overload solution for your Gmail or Google Apps inbox. Gtriage is a fast, easy way to manage Email Overload. It automatically learns which emails are important to you and then simply labels them "Important!". Gtriage gives you all the benefits of organized email - without any of the work.

Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis. TechCrunch was founded on June 11, 2005, is a blog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, TechCrunch profiles existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new webspace.

5min Media is the leading syndication platform for lifestyle, knowledge and instructional videos. Reinventing the cable network online, 5min reaches engaged and targeted audiences of passionate consumers through its network of 100s of lifestyle and niche websites. The 5min video library comprises more than 200,000 short-form videos from some of the world’s largest media companies, as well as the most innovative independent producers. Visit http://www.5minmedia.com for more information.

Thing Labs builds web-based software that makes it easy to create, share, explore and enjoy content. Founded by Jason Shellen, a former Googler who worked on Blogger and co-created Google Reader, Thing Labs is the company behind Brizzly and Plinky.

Rally Up is a social network incorporating messaging and location with increased privacy measures. Rally Up combines private microblogging with location, allowing users to share text, photos and direct message each other. Rally Up allows you to check in to the places you go. Every time you check in, your real friends are notified.

20x200 is a NYC-based e-commerce site that transforms design-minded consumers into art collectors. The site features a curated selection of affordable, limited-edition, exhibition-quality prints, which are delivered with artist-signed certificates of authenticity. Working directly with hundreds of artists—emerging, established and legendary—they release new, exclusive editions each week at prices ranging from $24 to $10,000.

Schematic Labs is a mobile technology company developing entertainment apps for Android and iOS devices.

Sailthru helps modern marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. With over 1.6Bn global consumer profiles under management, Sailthru's powerful suite of connected capabilities – including high-performance email, onsite personalization, mobile marketing automation, and unique integrations powering new customer acquisition – drives higher revenue, improves customer lifetime value, and reduces churn. The world's most innovative publishers, including Business Insider, Refinery29 and Mashable, and the world's fastest-growing e-commerce companies, including Rent The Runway, JustFab, and Alex and Ani, trust Sailthru to help them succeed. Founded in 2008, Sailthru's exceptional group of investors include Benchmark, RRE Ventures, DFJ Gotham, Scale Venture Partners, and AOL Ventures.

gdgt (parent company: PastFuture) is a consumer electronics site by [Peter Rojas](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/peter-rojas) and [Ryan Block](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ryan-block). Rojas was the founding editor of [Engadget](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/engadget) and Gizmodo and Block was editor-in-chief of Engadget.

News Site that have: News and information, including exclusive interviews with MMA stars and personalities reported by a full-time team of top MMA writers and editors, including Michael David Smith, Ariel Helwani, Michael Chiappetta, Bryan Tucker and Ray Hui; Analysis of fighters and upcoming events; Photos and exclusive videos from events; Podcasts featuring top MMA talent; Power rankings, fighter salaries, a schedule of events and the latest MMA results; MMA discussion forums for fans to discuss the latest news and events.

Patch is a community-specific news and information platform dedicated to providing comprehensive, hyper-localized coverage for individual towns and communities.

emurse is a site focused around building, managing, and getting your resume out to the right employers.

Streampad is an audio player for blogs and websites that is customizable and works on numerous platforms. The company is located in the United States and it was founded by Dan Kantor in 2005.

Socialthing synchronizes personal information and enables users to manage multiple social networking feeds from a single web dashboard. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

Since eVoice® was launched in 2000, we have been dedicated to helping small businesses manage calls more efficiently, maintain a professional image, and empower our customers with the freedom to work from anywhere. In short, eVoice® is a better way to connect. Cited by Inc. Magazine as one of the “Best Voicemail Management Services,” eVoice gives entrepreneurs and small businesses the flexibility they need to manage their communications on the go. Our service has been positively cited in Forbes, PC Magazine, Business Tech Edge, Fox News, Information Week, Biz Report, Tech Journal, Gigaom, and more. eVoice is powered by j2 Global, a cutting-edge provider of cloud-based, unified communications services for businesses worldwide. Formed in 1995, the j2 Global network provides a suite of virtual office solutions to over 11 million subscribers in over 4,700 cities, 49 countries and 6 continents. j2 operates other critical business communication services such as eFax (online fax), Campaigner (email marketing) and Keep it Safe (online backup).

Surphace (formerly Sphere) provides contextual content tools that make connections between text, video, photos and ads. Surphace helps online publishers create a more engaging reader experience leading to longer time spent on site and increased PVs per visit along with a new incremental revenue stream. Surphace is currently integrated into over 150,000 leading sites and is live on over 1.2 Billion monthly article pages across the web. Surphace's core technology is a patent-pending process utilizing Sphere’s proprietary Content Genome.™ The Content Genome™ was developed specifically to deliver high-precision, low-cost (automated) related content delivery in dynamic online publishing and news environments. Unlike many other solutions, the Content Genome™ does not require a taxonomy or training — Surphace can index any text artifacts, or media with associated text, and generate related content out of the box. Integration time on the publishers’ side is minimal, and no additional meta-data is required. Surphace has a broad range of partners including leading A-list publishers, micro-publishers and independent blogs.

Bebo is a social networking website launched in 2005. It now describes itself as "a company that dreams up ideas for fun social apps".

Founded by four friends in 2004, Goowy Media offers free Web 2.0 products Goowy Webtop and YourMinis that let people share and communicate easily on the web. Goowy Webtop includes a comprehensive set of tools for instant messaging, e-mail, calendar, news, rss, file storage, and sharing. YourMinis, the company's other product, essentially provides users with a very personalized and integrated web homepage. Prior to Goowy, the company's founders were collectively involved in two other internet startups, eShare Technologies and eAssist Global Solutions. Sold to a public company in 1999, eShare was a highly successful company that developed chat, bulletin board, and customer service software for AOL, Lycos, and others. Their other company, eAssist, was much less successful and was sold in 2004. The founders' most recent company seems to be following a more propitious path. In March 2006, Goowy was reported to have over 100,000 registered users. Goowy has also received funding from Dallas Mavericks' owner Mark Cuban, who infuses both capital and star-power to the company.

Buyat is an affiliate marketing network.

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Quigo is an ad-targeting network that provides contextual advertising services for many large media websites including ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com. Quigo is a direct competitor to Google's contextual advertising program, Adsense. Quigo [sold](http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/07/aol-buys-quigo-confirmed/) to AOL for $340 million and will become part of its Platform-A advertising solution.

New York-based Tacoda is the worlds' largest provider of behaviorally targeted online advertising services. Through TACODA Audience Networks™, brand advertisers can reach their target audiences on premium sites at substantial scale, and do it simply and cost-effectively while generating powerful, actionable audience insights. By delivering relevant messages to more than 130 million unique users across over 3,000 individual national, regional and vertical websites, TACODA simplifies behaviorally targeted buys for brand advertisers. Virtually every top 50 online advertiser has run campaigns on TACODA-enabled websites.

ADTECH, now a part of ONE by AOL, offers an integrated ad serving platform, enabling advertisers to measure, manage and serve campaigns. AOL Platforms enables the world's top marketers and media brands to reach consumers across desktop, mobile and TV through premium experiences, programmatic buying and performance-driven campaigns. It is the global partner of choice for leading publishers, advertisers and agencies seeking to maximize the value of their brands online. For more information, please visit www.onebyaol.com, or follow AOL Platforms on Twitter @AOLPlatforms, Facebook at facebook.com/aolplatforms and LinkedIn at linkedin.com/organization/aolplatforms.

Third Screen Media is Platform-A's mobile ad-serving platform and network that enables advertising on mobile devices. Its mobile solutions link advertisers, publishers and carriers on a common platform to buy and sell mobile advertising. Offering one of the world's most-respected mobile advertising networks, Third Screen Media offers best-in-class content, including [AOL's](/organization/aol) popular consumer brands and mobile applications; the largest availability of carrier on-deck mobile inventory; and a mobile network of more than 100 premium publishers representing 200+ sites. Customers and partners, including many of the world's largest marketers, agencies and media companies, rely on Third Screen Media's products and services to manage and optimize their mobile advertising campaigns.

Since 2004, Brightcove has been helping customers discover and experience the incredible power of video through its award-winning technology, empowering organizations in more than 70 countries across the globe to touch audiences in bold and innovative ways. Brightcove achieves this by developing technologies once thought impossible, providing customer support without parallel or excuses, and leveraging the expertise and resources of global infrastructure. Video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium. Brightcove is Video That Means Business.™

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GameDaily, formerly Gigex, is video game journalism site that covers game ratings and gaming-related news. GameDaily was acquired by AOL in August 2006.

Founded in 2001 and [acquired by AOL](http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/14/userplane-purchased-by-aol/) in 2006, Userplane is a hosted social discovery platform. Userplane likes to consider itself more as Social-as-a-service, backing the belief that helping its partners integrate Userplane can transform their online community and their business. The real-time messaging features of the Userplane platform empower customers to deliver rich, engaging experiences to users, connecting them with the community and the content. As a white-label service, Userplane features can be implemented in a way that preserves and enhances the integrity of the customer's brand. Competitors include [FlashComs](http://techcrunch.com/search/flashcoms), [AVChat](http://techcrunch.com/search/avchat), and [Meebo](http://techcrunch.com/tag/meebo/).

Lightningcast is a broadband software company that provides seamless content and ad insertion; stream customization and localization; campaign management and reporting; targeting and auditing; audience measurement and analytics; streaming operations and support; media management; and other enabling technologies. Companies and partners utilizing Lightningcast's platform include AOL, Disney/ABC, NPR, MTV and others.

Truveo is a video search engine acquired by AOL in January 2006. Re-launched in August of the same year, it claims to have an edge over competitors in the field of online video websites. Founded by PhDs from MIT, Truveo tackles the very difficult problem of creating metadata from video; unlike text-based content, it is very difficult to determine context of video and audio content without a human to actually view it. Truveo says it has a sharper focus on professional content: conduct a search, and commercially produced media is given priority over user-generated content. Truveo has also recently signed a deal with CBS to extend its video content capabilities to nearly 3 dozen of CBS's online radio websites. Some (of the many) competitors include: [YouTube](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/youtube), [SlapVid](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slapvid), [Vimeo](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vimeo), and [VideoEgg](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/videoegg).

Since 2004, Brightcove has been helping customers discover and experience the incredible power of video through its award-winning technology, empowering organizations in more than 70 countries across the globe to touch audiences in bold and innovative ways. Brightcove achieves this by developing technologies once thought impossible, providing customer support without parallel or excuses, and leveraging the expertise and resources of global infrastructure. Video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium. Brightcove is Video That Means Business.™

MusicNow is an online digital music collection that allows users to browse and download tracks on a subscription-based service. It was launched by Chris Gladwin in 1999 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. MusicNow was bought by AOL in November, 2005 and repackaged as the AOLMusicNow product.

Mobile technology startup, launched cellular handset platform that won the 2004 CES Design & Engineering Showcase Award.

Mailblocks was a web-based email provider that highlighted its anti-spam technology, enabled by whitelisting a user's contact list and challenging all other incoming addresses.

Xdrive is a provider of digital asset management, online storage, and file sharing services.

KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

Advertising.com, now a part of ONE by AOL, enables marketers to reach consumers via programmatic buying and performance-driven campaigns. AOL Platforms enables the world's top marketers and media brands to reach consumers across desktop, mobile, tablet and TVs through premium experiences, programmatic buying and performance-driven campaigns. It is the global partner of choice for leading publishers, advertisers and agencies seeking to maximize the value of their brands online. For more information, please visit www.onebyaol.com, or follow AOL Platforms on Twitter @AOLPlatforms, Facebook at facebook.com/aolplatforms and LinkedIn at linkedin.com/organization/aolplatforms.

KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

Singing Fish was an audio/video search engine that powered Windows Media Player search. SingingFish was acquired by AOL in 2003.

Mozilla is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization established in 1998 that focuses on promoting an open and accessible internet. Its primary product is the Firefox web browser, which supports features such as syncing and private browsing on various devices, including web, iOS, and Android. In addition to Firefox, Mozilla offers other applications like Thunderbird for email management and various tools aimed at developers and mobile users. The organization fosters a global community of volunteers and advocates who contribute to its mission by coding, teaching digital literacy, and participating in advocacy campaigns. Mozilla's efforts are structured around three main areas: shaping the internet agenda, connecting leaders in the open internet movement, and rallying citizen engagement. Through these initiatives, Mozilla aims to ensure that users remain at the center of the digital experience, empowering them with control and choice on the web.

Codeonline Ltd., a developer of interactive mobile entertainment, and Springtoys, a developer of wireless gaming technology, have agreed to merge to create what they claim will be the world’s largest wireless entertainment company. Under the terms of the agreement, the merger will be carried out through a share swap.

Moxi Digital, Inc. is a home-entertainment platform company, designs software and hardware for cable and satellite set-top boxes. Founded in January 2000 by WebTV(R) creator Steve Perlman, Moxi Digital, Inc. is focused delivering a total home entertainment solution that enhances and simplifies the consumer experience, while providing new revenue opportunities for broadband operators. The Company will fulfill this promise by providing advanced platforms, products and enabling technologies to broadband network operators such as cable, satellite and DSL providers. Moxi can provide a complete end-to-end solution including both hardware and software or specific components that are integrated into existing cable and satellite systems. The Company's first all-in-one home entertainment platform, the Moxi Media Center, is a combination digital set-top box, video and music jukebox, media server, and Internet gateway and firewall. Through this device, which costs about the same as a basic digital set-top box in a typical home configuration, operators can deliver revenue-generating video, music and data applications to subscribers. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the privately-held start-up has attracted $67 million in Series A financing from America Online, Cisco Systems, EchoStar Communications, Mayfield, Vulcan Ventures, The Barksdale Group, The Washington Post Company and Macromedia Ventures.

SkyPilot Networks is a leading provider of carrier-class broadband wireless equipment that enables service providers, municipalities, and public safety agencies to rapidly deploy cost-effective network services, including last-mile Internet access, voice over IP, Wi-Fi hotspots, video surveillance, and other wireless applications. The SkyPilot solution utilizes a patented multi-hop point-to-multipoint architecture that synchronizes high-gain directional antennas to extend reach, mitigate interference, and maximize spectral efficiency. The result is a highly scalable, reliable, and deterministic broadband wireless network that simplifies design, increases deployment flexibility, and dramatically reduces equipment and operating costs. SkyPilot has proven scalability and reliability with units shipped to customers in over 50 countries. SkyPilot is a privately held company based in Santa Clara, California.

Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational technology company primarily engaged in e-commerce and cloud computing. It operates through three main segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company sells a wide range of consumer products both through its own platforms and from third-party sellers, with retail sales accounting for approximately 75% of its total revenue. Amazon also manufactures electronic devices, such as Kindle and Echo, and provides platforms like Kindle Direct Publishing to enable independent authors to distribute their works. In addition to its retail operations, Amazon offers AWS, which includes services related to cloud computing, storage, and databases. The company runs a membership program called Amazon Prime, which offers various benefits including free shipping and streaming services. Furthermore, Amazon has ventured into advertising services and operates in the food delivery sector in India. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Amazon serves a diverse clientele, including consumers, developers, and enterprises.

InfoInterActive develops and deploys network-based enhanced services combining telephone, Internet and wireless technologies. The company markets its services through distribution and service provider partners including telecommunications companies, Internet service providers and original equipment manufacturers worldwide as well as directly to end users. InfoInterActive was bought by AOL in 2001 and has been incorporated into the AOL Halifax product.

SkyStream Networks develops market-leading networking solutions for advanced video and IP services. Our solutions enable our service provider, enterprise and federal customers to deliver enhanced video and IP services cost-effectively over wired and wireless networks. SkyStream's customers and partners include BT, Clear Channel Worldwide, Convergent Media, EchoStar Communications Corporation, Gilat, New Skies Satellites, Safeway, Telefonica and Telespazio.

Expand Networks is a technology company that helped pioneer the Wide Area Network (WAN) Optimization market. Founded in 1998, Expand Networks has grown to be the leading provider of "Virtual Proximity" solutions over the Wide Area Network. Expand Networks has more than 3,500 customers with over 40,000 units deployed and boasts the industries largest installation of over 3,000+ devices. Expand Networks "Virtual Proxmity" Experience is available Gloablly via our Network of Expand Certified Resellers, System Integrators, MSPs & OEM Partners.