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Riffage.com, based in Palo Alto, California, was founded by Ken Wirt, the strategic visionary behind Diamond Multimedia's ground-breaking Rio portable MP3 music player. Our mission is to revolutionize the way music is distributed by using the Internet to allow bands to communicate directly with -- and sell music to -- their fans. Unlike some other sites, Riffage.com is staffed by people who genuinely care about music -- musicians, former radio DJs, record company veterans and rabid fans. We think you'll see the difference. On the site, Riffage.com offers a large selection of authorized digital music, both for free as well as for purchase via download from the Internet. The ability to purchase single songs by download -- or even buy an entire physical CD -- from the comfort of a home, office, school or any "connected" location, makes Riffage.com an enticing alternative to shopping at a physical retail outlet. One of the biggest obstacles for most Internet music fans is finding music they like. Among the key features differentiating Riffage.com from the growing ranks of online music distributors are its unique personalization tools, which "learn" an individual's preferences as he or she uses the site. As a result, Riffage is able to quickly begin sending users recommendations about music that will appeal to them. Riffage.com has also rapidly developed into an active online community where fans of similar -- and even diverse -- musical tastes can meet to discover and discuss independent artists and their music. Musicians will find that Riffage.com offers an impressive roster of services, using the Internet as a direct marketing and distribution channel straight to the consumer. As a result, Riffage is successfully supplanting the traditional music industry paradigm of artist-label-distributor-retailer. Through Riffage.com, artists can deliver their music to fans either via direct downloads or by plugging into Riffage's turnkey e-commerce system for selling physical goods. And thanks to a state-of-the-art, daily updated system for reporting current sales, rankings and customer lists, band members are always just a mouse click away from accessing this important information. To increase awareness and improve communications with their fans, musicians can tap into Riffage.com's site to publish and promote upcoming concert dates, music previews, artist news and band merchandise, as well as use Riffage to help manage fan contact lists. Bands can also host live chats and discussion boards through Riffage.com, and are eligible to participate in company-generated promotional activities and events.

Affero Lab Participações S.A., through its subsidiaries, provides corporate learning and employee training solutions for customers in Brazil and internationally. The company’s products include PLUG.IT, a platform to manage the learning process for larger and disperse group; customized learning solutions and educational logistics; and leadership, first-time manager, and trainee and intern programs. It also offers sales training and consulting services. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with additional offices in São Paulo and Juiz de Fora Brazil; and Dublin, Ireland.

Founded in 2000, University of Toronto Asset Management Corporation is a non-profit organisation which oversees the investment of the University of Toronto's three asset pools that includes: The Endowment Fund, The Pension Master Trust and The Expendable Funds Investment Pool.

Babel Bank operates in the blockchain sector. The company is based in Iraq.

UCloud Technology Co., Ltd. researches and develops cloud computing technology platform solutions. The company offers cloud computing products, such as IaaS, PaaS, big data circulation platform, and AI service platform solutions. It also provides products in the areas of data analysis, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of things; security, safety compliance, enterprise application, and management and monitoring; and hybrid and private cloud solutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Shanghai, China.

UniversityNow, Inc. provides online educational services. It operates a network of schools that provides higher education programs for working adults who want to earn associate’s, bachelor’s, or master’s degree from universities in the United States. The company also offers a learning platform that enables students, faculty, and administrators to focus on learning. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. UniversityNow, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of National University System.

Electives is an enterprise learning startup out of MIT that loves to delight employees through unique learning experiences. We provide live classes for employees (taught by interesting experts) and after each session, employees receive thoughtful follow up content to help combat the forgetting curve. Our classes cover a range of topics: new manager training, communications, team building, negotiations, innovation, resiliency, diversity, equity, and inclusion and more. And our teachers include top professors, authors, CEOs, judges, Olympians, FBI Agents, improv comedians, anti-racism thought leaders, and more.

Hoolai Games was founded in 2008 by CEO Qiao Wanli and President Jian Huang. As the leading developer and publisher of social Web and mobile games in China, Hoolai Games has quickly grown its diverse portfolio of Web, PC, and mobile games, which include Hoolai Three Kingdoms, War of Immortals, Hoolai Poker, and Checkmate. For gamers by gamers, Hoolai Games delivers entertaining cross-platform games that players can enjoy anywhere. Headquartered in Beijing, Hoolai Games has offices in Shanghai, Tokyo, Guangzhou, Taipei, and Silicon Valley.

Ada is a global health company founded by doctors, scientists, and industry pioneers to create new possibilities for personal health. Ada’s core system connects medical knowledge with intelligent technology to help all people actively manage their health and medical professionals to deliver effective care. Ada is proud to collaborate with leading health systems and global non-profit organizations to carry out this vision. The #1 medical app for 130 countries, almost 20 million assessments have been completed since its global launch in 2016.

Bijak is a developer of B2B platform for agricultural commodities that gives buyers and sellers better prices, increased working capital and optimized logistics. Bijak is a business-to-business trade platform for the agricultural sector in India that enables traders, wholesalers, and food processors to keep a ledger of their transactions, access transparent pricing, optimize logistics, and improve their working capital cycles.

Smashing Ideas, Inc. operates as a digital media agency in the United States. The company engages in producing content for the youth market. It offers Websites, games, mobile applications, ePublishing, and youth marketing services. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Seattle, Washington with additional offices in Portland, Oregon; and the United Kingdom. As of May 2, 2011, Smashing Ideas, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Random House, Inc. As of June 18, 2018, Smashing Ideas, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Luxoft Holding, Inc.

involve.ai organizes all customer data and interactions in a single dashboard so you can quickly predict customer health, stop customers from leaving, and expand them to increase revenue

DramaFever Corp. distributes online video and international televised content for customers worldwide. The company engages in streaming movies, documentaries, and TV shows on demand with professional subtitles. Its library also includes Korean dramas, Latin American telenovelas, a range of Asian TV shows and movies, and kids programming in multiple languages. The company also provides advertising opportunities. DramaFever Corp. was founded in 2009 and is based in New York, New York. As of October 31, 2014, DramaFever Corp. operates as a subsidiary of SoftBank Internet and Media, Inc. As of February 29, 2016, DramaFever Corp. operates as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc..

LexinFintech Holdings is an online consumer finance platform for educated young adults in China. As one of China's leading financial technology companies, Lexin integrates its e-commerce-driven installment finance platform, Fenqile, with advanced risk management technologies, the Company's Dingsheng online investment platform, and the Company's Juzi Licai online investment platform for individual investors, to create a comprehensive consumer finance ecosystem. The Company utilizes technologies including big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence to enable the near-instantaneous matching of user funding requests with offers from the Company's more than 30 funding partners, which include commercial banks, consumer finance companies, and other licensed financial institutions. By serving the credit needs of China's educated young adults, Lexin helps its more than 20 million registered users to enjoy a better quality of life through the use of better credit.

CDNOW.com was an online retailer. The company was founded in February 1994 by twin brothers Jason Olim and Matthew Olim of Ambler, Pennsylvania. Initially launched as a telnet service in August 1994, CDNow became a retail website in September 1994 far earlier than most of the dot.com retailers that gained notoriety after 2000.

Jusbrasil brings thousands of individuals and lawyers every day together by providing them with the most comprehensive set of legal data. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Founded in 2007, WizIQ is one of the world’s largest cloud based education platforms. Over 400,000 educators have leveraged WizIQ to deliver learning services to 4 Million+ learners across 200 countries. WizIQ’s award winning Virtual Classroom solution that enables online delivery of live instructor-led learning, has received acclaim from education service providers from around the world. The WizIQ Online Academy Builder represents an evolutionary leap in education technology by empowering education service providers to set up their own customized academies within minutes. Online Academy Builder is designed to increase learner engagement through cutting-edge features, such as mobile learning, video streaming, live online classroom, discussion boards, assessments, insights and analytics. By taking away the complexities of development and the burden of setup costs and server infrastructure this solution allows educators to focus on what they know best. Besides, the in-built e-commerce capability enables them to monetize their services and rapidly expand their reach to newer markets.

Raven Tech is a startup which focus on artificial intelligent, big data and the next generation operating system. Besides, Raven Tech is the fifth alumni of Microsoft Venture Accelerator and the only one startup team from mainland China in Y Combinator W15.

Udacity provides online education courses alongside its partners. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS and Android developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and delivers credentials endorsed by employers. David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

Learnship has globalized traditional face-to-face language training with a proprietary distance learning technology and has created an innovative Live Teaching Method for online training. The German company’s mission is to help employees communicate in foreign languages in their everyday working life, with highly customized and effective trainer-based online training. With their product, Learnship has established itself as an effective alternative to face-to-face onsite training, generating significant cost savings and ROI for clients without compromising on teaching quality. Meanwhile, courses are taught successfully in more than 75 countries around the world at approximately 2,000 European and American corporations.

Penguin Random House Canada is the Canadian division of Penguin Random House, the world’s most global trade book publisher which was formed on July 1, 2013, upon the completion of an agreement between Bertelsmann and Pearson to merge their respective trade publishing companies, Random House and Penguin, with the parent companies owning 53% and 47%, respectively. Penguin Random House comprises the adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction print and digital trade book publishing businesses of Penguin and Random House in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa, and Penguin’s trade publishing activity in Asia and Brazil; DK worldwide; and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial’s Spanish-language companies in Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, and Chile. Penguin Random House employs more than 10,000 people globally across almost 250 editorially and creatively independent imprints and publishing houses that collectively publish more than 15,000 new titles annually. Its publishing lists include more than 70 Nobel Prize laureates and hundreds of the world’s most widely read authors. In Canada, Penguin Random House Canada is comprised of Penguin Canada and Random House of Canada, trade publishers and distributors of books from their sister imprints in the U.S. and the U.K.

Club Factory built an integrated supply chain from manufacturers to consumers for cross-border e-commerce. They scan the whole Internet to find factories which sell on Wish/Ebay/Amazon, and bring consumers the best prices.

Licious is a path breaking concept in the Indian Food industry; aimed at solving the perennially existing problem of finding safe, delectable, trustworthy fresh meat in India. The company builds a world-class enterprise that's bound to upgrade the way the company procures, sells, buys, and consumes meat in India.

Mojiva Inc. is the parent company of the Mojiva, the mobile ad network and the Mocean Mobile, the mobile ad serving platform. It is led by a team of advertising and media veterans from Google, DoubleClick, Yahoo, Nokia and AdMob, with more than 100 years of collective experience in mobile marketing and technology. Mojiva, Inc. provides products and solutions that not only fuel the mobile advertising marketplace by bringing mobile ad buyers together with mobile content sellers, but that also solve unique challenges in the mobile marketing space. Solutions include tools to market your products and services to mobile users, monetize your mobile content, enable your global ad sales team to capitalize on an expanded media mix, control your inventory, or mobilize the brands your agency is working with.

As of May 30, 2001, myplay, Inc. was acquired by Bertelsmann AG. Myplay, Inc. is an online digital music service that provides consumers with a centralized storage capability along with the ability to access their personalized music collection from any location worldwide from multiple devices such as a laptop or desktop computer, a hand-held PDA or cellular phone. Myplay, Inc. has strategic partnerships with listen.com, Tunes.com, and Emusic.com. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Redwood City, California.

Synergis Education provides educational services designed for college and university leaders who are not satisfied with the status quo. It develops on ground, online, and hybrid degree programs to serve the non-traditional adult learning population. The company offers integrated services, including marketing and enrollment management, academic program and instructional design support, technology integration and course delivery, student retention support and placement, student accounting, and additional services; and EdVantage Learning System that co-develops associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degree curricula with its partner institution; and EdVantage Information Systems, a solution that manages a set of technologies, processes, and services. It partners with non-profit, traditional colleges, and universities. The company was formerly known as Academic Partners University and changed its name to Synergis Education in May 2012. Synergis Education was founded in 2011 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.

Musicbank, www.musicbank.com, will provide on-demand access to and portability of consumers' personal music collections. musicbank will allow users to access, listen to and manage their personal music collections via the Web without having to upload the content. Financial backers include Atlas Venture, Bertelsmann Ventures, Bonaventure Investments Ltd and Universal Music Group. Prior to its fall 2000 launch, musicbank has secured licensing agreements with BMG Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment, and an exclusive retail partnership with Virgin Megastores. Michael Downing and Pierce Ledbetter founded musicbank in 1999. The Company is based in San Francisco.

Udacity provides online education courses alongside its partners. It offers nanodegree programs such as front-end and senior web developer, full stack web developer, data analyst, machine learning engineer, iOS and Android developer, programming introduction, tech entrepreneur, iOS app development beginning, Ruby beginning, and 2D mobile game developer courses. Udacity's online courses teach the skills that industry employers need and delivers credentials endorsed by employers. David Stavens, Mike Sokolsky, and Sebastian Thrun founded it in 2011, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

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.

Club Factory built an integrated supply chain from manufacturers to consumers for cross-border e-commerce. They scan the whole Internet to find factories which sell on Wish/Ebay/Amazon, and bring consumers the best prices.

IndiaProperty.com provides in-depth information on buying, selling and renting out properties in India. It has partnered with leading media organisations to provide prompt and reliable service to customers through various channels and to enhance better visibility and increase responses. IndiaProperty.com is a part of Consim Info Pvt. Ltd, India's leading Internet company. Consim is Red Herring's Global 100 Winner, and also majors in other verticals like Matrimony, Jobs and Classifieds.

Headquartered in Redmond, WA, imandi.com was formed by Microsoft alumni Raghav Kher and Eric Johnson in November 1998. At Microsoft, Kher was Director of Strategic Business Decisions and orchestrated the company's acquisition of Hotmail, while Johnson was a lead developer within Microsoft Research for several leading-edge applications. Kher's proven expertise in marketing and business development complements Johnson's track record in software innovation.

Relias Learning offers online training to senior care, health and human services, corrections, and intellectual and developmental disabilities organizations. It’s their mission to help clients achieve the highest quality practice and accreditation standards with online learning and compliance programs. Though the name Relias Learning is new, they’ve been delivering online training programs to organizations with specialized needs since 2002. By bringing together Silverchair Learning Systems, Essential Learning, Care2Learn, Hospice Education Network, and Advanced Training Solutions, they provide their clients with a wealth of courses and dedicated support to meet their compliance needs. Strong partnerships with leading advocacy and professional organizations enable us to create engaging, relevant, and timely learning experiences. Their intuitive user interface makes learning enjoyable.

Synergis Education provides educational services designed for college and university leaders who are not satisfied with the status quo. It develops on ground, online, and hybrid degree programs to serve the non-traditional adult learning population. The company offers integrated services, including marketing and enrollment management, academic program and instructional design support, technology integration and course delivery, student retention support and placement, student accounting, and additional services; and EdVantage Learning System that co-develops associate, baccalaureate, and graduate degree curricula with its partner institution; and EdVantage Information Systems, a solution that manages a set of technologies, processes, and services. It partners with non-profit, traditional colleges, and universities. The company was formerly known as Academic Partners University and changed its name to Synergis Education in May 2012. Synergis Education was founded in 2011 and is based in Mesa, Arizona.

HotChalk is a leading provider of education technology and services. The Silicon Valley company partners with universities to provide turnkey solutions that put degree programs on line. HotChalk solutions incorporate all phases of the education lifecycle and deliver industry leading student retention and graduation rates. HotChalk operates the largest global network of free education content on the Internet through the HotChalk Education Network. The company believes all people should have access to education, and is on a mission to make meaningful education outcomes available to everyone, everywhere. To learn more, visit HotChalk.com.

Scroll is creating a sustainable experience that puts amazing content in front of engaged users without all the noise. They want to pierce filter bubbles and leverage economic models that can afford uncomfortable truths. It's time to escape the distraction economy and focus on what's important again.

Bidu is an online recommendation, comparison and marketplace portal for insurance and financial services. The company helped millions of consumers compare the prices and benefits of several types of insurance, including auto, travel, home, life, and health insurance, in addition to a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financing options, and loans. Our mission is to help people make smart financial decisions throughout their lives by way of our technology and objective and content. Bidu was named Best of Insurance 2017, of the magazine Revista. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Napster offers the ultimate in interactive music experiences, creating better ways to discover, share, acquire and enjoy the universe of music — anytime, anywhere. The Napster service is the easiest way to find, discover and enjoy the universe of music — online, on the go and in the living room. With unlimited, on-demand access to music from a web browser, smartphone and home entertainment devices, Napster lets you enjoy music your way anytime, anywhere. The service is available at www.napster.com in the U.S. and is also available in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. A wholly owned subsidiary of Best Buy, Inc. (NYSE: BBY), Napster is headquartered in Los Angeles.

Skyrocket Your Online Sales. We help SME's, Manufacturers, Creative People and Service Providers setup their brand online and get sales from their own stores and also from other sales channels.

eGroups, Inc. provided a gathering place on the Internet for groups to send and receive emails, schedule meetings, share files and photos, or have private group chats. eGroups, Inc., was formerly known as FindMail Communications, Inc., and changed its name to eGroups, Inc., in March 2000. eGroups, Inc., was incorporated in 1998 and was based in San Francisco, California. On August 31, 2000, eGroups, Inc. was acquired by [Yahoo! Inc.](/organization/yahoo), and its technology was subsequently incorporated into Yahoo! Groups.

Bidu is an online recommendation, comparison and marketplace portal for insurance and financial services. The company helped millions of consumers compare the prices and benefits of several types of insurance, including auto, travel, home, life, and health insurance, in addition to a variety of financial products, such as credit cards, financing options, and loans. Our mission is to help people make smart financial decisions throughout their lives by way of our technology and objective and content. Bidu was named Best of Insurance 2017, of the magazine Revista. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Dashbot is a conversational analytics platform that enables brands and developers to increase engagement, user acquisition, and retention through actionable insights and tools. In addition to standard metrics like engagement and retention, Dashbot provides chatbot specific metrics like sentiment analysis, conversational analytics, and AI response effectiveness, as well as the full chat transcripts. Dashbot also provides tools to take action on the data like it's Live Person Takeover of chat sessions and Push Notifications for re-engagement. Dashbot supports Facebook, Alexa, Google Home, Slack, Kik, Twitter, webchat, and any other conversational interface.

Pepperfry is an online home and lifestyle shopping store selling products with cash on delivery facilities. The company's aim is to be a one-stop shop for customers seeking to spice up their home. Pepperfry was founded in 2012 by Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

UniversityNow, Inc. provides online educational services. It operates a network of schools that provides higher education programs for working adults who want to earn associate’s, bachelor’s, or master’s degree from universities in the United States. The company also offers a learning platform that enables students, faculty, and administrators to focus on learning. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California. UniversityNow, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of National University System.

Liquid Digital Media, Inc. provides custom solutions for Internet media delivery to content owners and online retail merchants. Its services include video and audio encoding in WMA, WMV, and MP3 formats; windows DRM encryption; metadata management; image processing/conversion; content hosting/storage; distribution and fulfillment; activity and sales reporting; and physical/digital tie-ins. The company services also include catalog distribution, download management, windows media DRM licensing, fulfillment API, customer service/tech support, reporting/reconciliation, merchandising, front end design and development, integration with existing store fronts and user interfaces, and application and tool development. Liquid Digital Media, Inc. was formerly known as Liquid Audio. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California

Saavn is an Indian digital music service, transforming how people around the world access and experience music on a daily basis. Saavn’s unique combination of Internet radio and on-demand music capabilities, coupled with proprietary social features like music tagging and music chat, deliver one of the richest media experiences available on mobile and Web today. Saavn has over 20 Million monthly active users and is currently accessed in more than 150 countries. Saavn currently has 35 Million+ tracks in 14 languages: Hindi, English (India only), Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Bhojpuri, Urdu, Rajasthani and Odia. The company has 900+ label partnerships and growing, including T-Series, Tips, YRF, Saregama, Eros, Universal, Sony, and Warner Music. The company's award-winning iOS and Android mobile products include phonetic search, dynamic bit-rate streaming, global native ad-serving, and industry-leading design. With Saavn Pro, users can listen to music ad-free and offline. And through partnerships with Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Shazam, Saavn reaches more music fans than any other South Asian music service. Saavn was founded in 2007, and has offices in New York, California, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Bangalore. For more information, visit www.saavn.com or corporate.saavn.com.

UCloud Technology Co., Ltd. researches and develops cloud computing technology platform solutions. The company offers cloud computing products, such as IaaS, PaaS, big data circulation platform, and AI service platform solutions. It also provides products in the areas of data analysis, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of things; security, safety compliance, enterprise application, and management and monitoring; and hybrid and private cloud solutions. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Lagou.com operates a recruitment website and offers staffing services. The company’s clientele includes Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba Group, SINA, JD.com, Beijing Xiaomi Tech, and Zhaopin.com. Lagou.com was founded in 2013 and is based in Beijing, China.