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Agile Media Network Inc. engages in the conversational marketing business in Japan. It is involved in the advertisement distribution agency and information service businesses using the Internet; and Internet related system development, Internet related seminars and event, and publishing businesses. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Exo is a producer and provider of protein bars made from cricket flour. Its protein bars are a combination of cricket flour with organic ingredients such as raw cacao, dates, almond butter, and coconut to create a bar that is high in protein, low in sugar, nutritionally dense, and packed with omega 3 fatty acids, iron, and calcium that enable users to get sports bar that is free of sugar, gluten, grains, dairy, soy, and artificial preservatives. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Cue is a revolutionary device for tracking health information at the molecular level. For the first time, consumers can track 5 key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cue app reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.

Alp, Inc. engages in the development of technology solutions to solve the problems related to company monetization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Two Bit Circus, Inc. is an entertainment company that invents and installs out-of-home physical amusement circus in California. It also offers Park as a Platform program to enable game developers to create location-based entertainment. The company features games, interactive amusement, stage shows, aerialists, food, and more. It also sells T-shirts, stickers, and clown noses online. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Hoodline powers hyperlocal content discovery across the US. Hoodline’s technology platform, Atlas, analyzes terabytes of unstructured data, identifies and validates the best signals, and through a combination of editorial, machine learning and data science, creates thousands of automated local stories and videos each month.

Sensai is a Content Analytics platform for Sales, Operations, and Finance teams. Analysts use Sensai to find and trend emerging concepts within enterprise repositories and from public and private feeds. Sensai features novel methods of clustering and tuning results so that users can quickly test theories, quantify and iterate on patterns in the data.

CLUE, Inc. develops drone automation software. The company’s offerings include DroneRoofer, a software for exterior roof inspection, construction surveying, and roof area calculation through drones; Drone Construction Management, a software that enables remote construction inspection and offers cloud collaboration on the images captured through drone; and Drone View-kun, a software for photography of condominiums and properties through drones. CLUE, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

LiveLike Inc. provides a live streaming platform that allows broadcasters to stream regular and interactive content to its end users on mobile and virtual reality. It develops a sports viewing platform to watch live sports; allows users to replay sports and commentary; and offers sports statistics. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Gurugram, India.

Shuttl exists to take the pain away from the daily commute. Currently, the company provides an app-based office shuttle service to make daily commute safe, reliable, affordable and dignified for everyone. The future of mass transit, according to us, will be shared, eco-friendly, tech-enabled commute. Shuttl is the future of public transport. It's a mobile-based minibus service aimed at making your daily commute more convenient. Their vehicles are air-conditioned and operate with high frequency on fixed routes freeing you from the hassles of existing public transport options at a very economical price point.

LiveLike Inc. provides a live streaming platform that allows broadcasters to stream regular and interactive content to its end users on mobile and virtual reality. It develops a sports viewing platform to watch live sports; allows users to replay sports and commentary; and offers sports statistics. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Gurugram, India.

Survios is a virtual reality company that creates groundbreaking interactive content powered by cutting edge immersive technology. It is composed of a team of dreamers, makers, artists, thinkers, and gamers. It's focus is all about engaging games., immersive tech and unparalleled presence. Nathan Burba, James Iliff and Alexander Silkin launched Project Holodeck as an interdisciplinary effort at the University of Southern California’s Games program. From Project Holodeck they founded Survios, and continue to focus on virtual reality gaming and immersive technology.

Exo is a producer and provider of protein bars made from cricket flour. Its protein bars are a combination of cricket flour with organic ingredients such as raw cacao, dates, almond butter, and coconut to create a bar that is high in protein, low in sugar, nutritionally dense, and packed with omega 3 fatty acids, iron, and calcium that enable users to get sports bar that is free of sugar, gluten, grains, dairy, soy, and artificial preservatives. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Techtouch, Inc. develops TechTouch, an intuitive website user manual. The company’s software is used in enhancing system education for employees; supporting burden reduction; and promoting system utilization. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Play is enthusiasm. At one time, card games and Pokemon, which were addicted to childhood, were just enthusiasm for us. It's fun and exciting to forget the time when you're crazy. Let's make a sigh that can be such an enthusiasm. Create a product that produces enthusiasm. Enthusiasm to the world. "Asobica Innovation to the world" Asobica is a company that evolves boring things and old industries using technology and the power of the Internet (Asobica).

12traits is the missing piece to understanding human behavior in digital environments.

Pretia Technologies, Inc. designs and develops augmented reality based gaming software. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

NextBit Systems Inc. designs and manufactures android smartphones and accessories. It sells its products online. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of January 30, 2017, NextBit Systems Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Razer Inc.

Cue is a revolutionary device for tracking health information at the molecular level. For the first time, consumers can track 5 key health and lifestyle indicators: inflammation, vitamin D, fertility, influenza, and testosterone in just minutes, at home. Cue sends the data via Bluetooth 4.0 to the user's smartphone, where the free Cue app reveals the interplay of activity, food, and sleep shaping the user at a molecular level.

Victorious empowers creators to distribute all of their multimedia content in their own apps, interact more deeply and directly with their fan communities, and unlock new revenue streams. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Loom.ai is enabling a new era of virtual communication through the creation, animation and sharing of personalized, 3D avatars. Based in San Francisco, and an alumni of the Y Combinator Fellowship, the Academy Award-winning team has created a best-in-class solution powered by deep learning, computer vision and visual effects. In just seconds, Loom.ai can take a single photograph and transform it into a fully representative, 3D avatar as personalized as the individual by recognizing the many nuances that make each face unique. Animatable and expressive in real-time, these avatars can be used to power current and future applications in mobile messaging, entertainment, AR/VR, e-commerce, video conferencing, broadcasting and more. For more information, visit www.loom.ai Loom.ai has received funding from DHVC, Dentsu Ventures, Zach Coelius’ AngelList syndicate, GREE VR Capital, Presence Capital and Anorak Ventures.

Headquartered in Palo Alto, Arraiy is building the premier AI-driven production platform for the motion picture and television industry. Arraiy is collaborating with major studios, industry veterans, and award-winning artists to re-invent the filmmaking process with machine learning at its foundation. With its products, Arraiy seeks to enhance the creative freedom of storytellers and unlock the next generation of visual storytelling.

Founded in 2012, Jibo is widely known for creating the eponymous robot, Jibo: the first social robot for the home. Jibo is built to interact and communicate with the people around him, and he uses advanced Natural Language Understanding (NLU) along with speech and facial recognition to forge relationships with his family. Jibo, Inc. officially launched Jibo to the public in 2017 after nearly three years of intensive development and optimization. The company is privately held and headquartered in Boston.

MacroFab is a marketplace for electronics manufacturing from prototype to high scale production. Their platform is re-shaping the $480B contract manufacturing market by transforming the experience from a manual, time-intensive, and error-prone process performed by large teams of people, into a real-time, streamlined, and connected software-driven experience while providing access to unlimited factory capacity in North America. The platform also uploads a PCB board design, gets an instant quote and the board is printed in the company's factory, enabling startups, manufacturers, and enterprises to design, customize and automate the PCB manufacturing process and save time, effort and money. Macrofab was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, United States.

Clear Labs harnesses the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS) to simplify complex diagnostics for clinical and applied markets. By creating the only fully-automated platform that brings together DNA sequencing, robotics and cloud-based analytics, Clear Labs democratizes genomics applications to deliver increased clarity. Clear Labs’ turnkey platform accelerates outcomes and improves accuracy - from food-borne pathogens to infectious diseases, including SARS CoV-2. With a novel approach, Clear Labs is helping the world better understand, track and mitigate tomorrow’s novel pathogens.

Cheddar is the post-cable news, media, and entertainment company. Cheddar broadcasts live on SlingTV, Hulu Live, YouTube TV, Philo, Twitter, Facebook Watch, Pluto, Xumo and more. Watched live by more than 6.5M people each month, Cheddar also garners hundreds of millions of organic video views monthly across Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social & distributed video platforms. Cheddar currently broadcasts two live video news networks: Cheddar, a business news network covering the most innovative executives, founders, products, and technologies transforming our lives and economy; and Cheddar Big News, a fast-paced, young, non-partisan general news and headline news network. The company broadcasts from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, its street-level studio in the glass corner of the Sprint Store in the Flatiron Building, WeWork in Los Angeles, and the White House. Cheddar was founded by Jon Steinberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of BuzzFeed from 2010 to 2014.

Twist Bioscience Corporation, a synthetic biology company, manufactures and sells synthetic DNA-based products. The company’s DNA synthesis platform enables the manufacturing of synthetic DNA by writing DNA on a silicon chip. It offers synthetic DNA-based products, including synthetic genes, tools for sample preparation, antibody libraries for drug discovery and development, and DNA as a digital data storage medium. The company has a collaboration agreement with ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd. Twist Bioscience Corporation was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.

Fiddler enables users to create AI solutions that are transparent, explainable, and understandable. Its Explainable AI Engine enables data science, product, and business users to understand, analyze, validate, and manage their AI solutions, providing transparent and reliable experiences to their end-users. Fiddler Labs aims to make AI trustworthy for all enterprises. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Mysten Labs creates foundational infrastructure to accelerate the adoption of web3. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Roforco is building a game publisher on Roblox. We help indie creators bring their vision to life, bigger and better by combining their games with our professional resources, skills and industry proven best practices. Tom and Brain are both technical founders with a lifetime of Roblox game development behind them (across 3 billion play sessions and 20+ titles) Previously, they created a games company together grossing $500,000 of revenue in 6 months. Roforco has already developed and published 6 games, totalling 63m play sessions and around 6,5M MAU. They have also created a top 50 game, peaking at 15,500 CCU and average a 90% like ratio across our portfolio. In 2022, Roforco worked with brands such as Unilever, Sunsilk and Cosmopolitan.​ Learn more at roforco.com

FOLIO Co.,Ltd. develops web based asset management platform. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.