MassChallenge

Procurance is a solution that helps manage the sustainability of brands, retailers, and other value-chain partners' supply chains. It combines intelligent web and mobile-based tools, developed using globally-aligned metrics and methodology for risk detection, advanced analytics that combine micro-data with satellite data (e.g. deforestation maps) to provide actionable insights to procurement, marketing, and sustainability managers.

When Every Second Matters, Aiki Shows the Way. Seamless, real-time coordination for communities and first responders using crowdsourced data, 3D interactive maps, and shared intelligence.

Matidor is a geospatial collaboration platform that helps you organize projects on a live-updating map with easy visualization, team collaboration, and management. More consultancies, project managers, and field workers now choose to use Matidor to manage their projects over spreadsheets because it leads to higher productivity and client satisfaction. Our key features to help companies stay on top of their daily workflow include a centralized dashboard showing budgets, cost reports, files & historical details. In addition, our detailed site maps & user-friendly GIS tools help eliminate collaboration hurdles between departments, improve operational efficiency, and business development effectiveness. Matidor’s map-based interface uniquely meets the needs of field companies: tasks and information relating to a physical location can be readily seen understood by both technical and business audiences due to this interface. Matidor doesn’t require the long training cycle of other industry-specific systems, and an unlimited user model opens the door to viral growth. Stickiness is built-in through historical data storage and the aforementioned network effect.

Scoutlier is the place to practice 21st century learning. Teachers can increase their impact with a platform for students to Create, think Critically, Collaborate and Communicate. Web app and mobile apps for iOS and Android allow for access to engaging assignments incorporating writing, data capture, and multimedia in the classroom and beyond -- online and offline.

Fanoramas is a platform that generates thousands of ‘in-the-moment’ photos and sends to fans to share in real time from events. We provide every fan with hundreds of personal and action photos from the big event. The Fanoramas platform provides a new space for our sponsors and partners to activate and engage with fans!

Freshspire is a mission-driven company based in Raleigh, NC dedicated to using strong technology to empower food communities.

JobStep a mission to overhaul the broken, grueling, intimidating job search process so that everyone can achieve their career potential and get access to better economic opportunities.

scrible provides a Web-based service enabling people to highlight and annotate web pages and easily save, share, organize and collaborate on Internet-based research. scrible's goal is to revolutionize how the world works online by transforming Web-based research. The Internet has become a widely used resource for all sorts of research (medical information, school papers, analyst reports, job hunting, etc.) at work, school and home. Yet, most of the world still uses outdated methods to annotate, organize and share their research (printing to annotate by hand, copying/pasting into a document, etc.). scrible aims to bring Internet-based research into the Internet Era by enabling people to annotate web pages directly in the browser and then manage that research online. scrible's service is useful for anyone researching anything on the Web, but particularly valuable for those who work in environments where the efficient flow and analysis of information is vital to daily work. scrible's Team is solving hard problems in information management that people feel everyday due to the limits of Desktop Era systems. Their mission is to help humanity work smarter in the Internet Age.

OpenField is a mobile first community organizing tool that lets organizations, political campaigns and parties, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations build power with anyone, anywhere. They offer support for multiple types of outreach including traditional canvassing, deep canvassing, blind knocking, and phone banking as well as voter registration. Their Intelligent Auto Turf Cutter turns whole cities into walkable turfs that don’t cross rivers or highways in just a few minutes while their natural language notes capture + analytics means that their customers can deep canvass and listen to their community at scale - turning thousands of individual responses into actionable insights. They are the only tool on the market to offer these features. OpenField is highly scalable - able to be used for everything from neighborhood actions to national campaigns. The tool is also easy to learn, with most users able to become proficient in how to use the product in just a few minutes, with no training. OpenField won Best Software as a Service at the 2021 Campaigns & Elections CampaignTech Awards. OpenField was founded by Arianna Trujillo-Wesler and Emily Del Beccaro. Arianna Trujillo-Wesler is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenField. With nearly 20 years of experience to her credit, she is a nationally recognized expert in community organizing, political technology, and movement building. She has been the Deputy National Data Director for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign and has worked for Wellstone Action, the AFL-CIO, the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, NationBuilder, and the Sierra Club among others before Co-Founding OpenField. Ari is a non-binary, Afro-Xicana and hails from the East Side of San Jose. Emily Del Beccaro is the Co-Founder of OpenField. A veteran of several political campaigns over the last 10 years, she is a national data expert and one of just a handful of people to have built a national voter file from scratch. She has been a key member of the data teams at both Target Smart, the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, the 2012 Obama presidential campaign, and NationBuilder before Co-Founding OpenField. Emily is a diehard sports fan, especially for teams from her hometown, Seattle.

Jaxon’s an AI platform that guides data science teams through the research-design-build process. It uses technologies like ChatGPT as a starting point to solve complex domain- and use case-specific problems. It’s the architect that comes up with the blueprints and then helps make sure users stick to the optimal path as they’re building. With a proprietary reasoning engine, Jaxon simulates model performance to explore tradeoffs and quickly figure out what will work best for each problem. With Jaxon as your guide, AI project success rates are ensured and the art of the possible is accomplished.

excelHERate enables organizations to hire based on their transferable skills and potential, not pedigree.

Ayambe is a talent matching platform that connects skilled workforce in the informal sector to people in need of their skills.

SunDo is an agriculture community platform that connects farmers and volunteers for a substantial collaborative working and creates a social impact. SunDo was founded in 2010 by Yaron Waxman.

TREND Community develops and distributes medicines. Their goal is to make life better for everyone who has a rare or chronic disease. Their technology examines social media posts to understand diseases from the viewpoints of patients and carers. It educates patients, aids in medicine and research discoveries, and helps people create their own natural histories.

Seekewa is a digital community platform that allows people and organizations to make 0% microloans to small farmers in exchange for discounts on the food produced. Through smart partnerships and technology, Seekewa helps and provides technical and business support to small farmers in a simple, straightforward and secure way. No more unnecessary middlemen, Seekewa gives full meaning to the farm-to-fork concept by bringing trust, transparency, and shared value to farmers and consumers.

Momlancers specializes in the fields of consultancy, human resources, marketing, coaching, and freelance. It features a software platform that connects talented moms with companies that promote professional and personal satisfaction.

Global technology, digital advertising and marketing. We create technology and tools that connect brands with influential content creators. We create the most influential hispanic influencer marketing platform with tools like: * Marketplace with more than 1M creators * Global Searcher of Creators ( more than 50 M ) * Profile analytics of any user in the digital universe with demographic data and fake followers * IA section with tools for the influencer marketing * Work with Fortune 500 Brands directly in the region

OpenStaff is a temporary employment network for Early Childhood Education. A simple, fast and inexpensive way to connect Centers & Teachers.

Hauoli LLC revolutionize how users interact with the world.

Savvy is a platform to share health experiences. In healthcare, they do this by giving patients direct ways to share their experiences with health innovators, and advocating that they be fairly compensated for their contributions. They empower patients to co-create new solutions, give them a sense of purpose, and help them earn money.

Aroma Insights is a Givaudan spin-off free-standing kiosk that digitally delivers aromas guided by AI to create crowd-sourced flavors and fragrances, marketing, collecting data. It can collect dynamic consumer insights data, engage and educate consumers, creates crowd-sourced products, offer personalized recommendations, and more.

TeamLift is a revolutionary AI-powered platform that automatically extracts and validates employee skills. They provide simple competence verification and predictive analytics to assist organisations in navigating transitions.

GiveTide is a charitable giving platform that connects U.S. nonprofits to mobile donors. Users can round up the electronic “spare change” on credit/debit card purchases (e.g. $0.50 on a $3.50 cup of coffee) and donate that money to any nonprofit. Users can also make one-time or recurring donations. Our mobile app has been downloaded over 18k times and is rated 4.8 on the App Store, and our platform has been featured in the App Store, the Oprah Magazine, and Inc. Magazine.

Savvy is a platform to share health experiences. In healthcare, they do this by giving patients direct ways to share their experiences with health innovators, and advocating that they be fairly compensated for their contributions. They empower patients to co-create new solutions, give them a sense of purpose, and help them earn money.

SortSpoke's artificial intelligence does the complex data extraction work that people do today. SortSpoke helps companies automate manual document processing. SortSpoke is a cloud service that learns how you classify your documents, what data you extract from them and then it does it for you.

Legably provides flexible, on-demand staffing for attorneys looking for short-term help with legal projects and client needs. Legably allows solo practitioner lawyers and small law firms to handle larger client and specialty projects by posting projects on the platform and soliciting assistance from other attorneys. Legably provides vetted attorneys who fit the profile being requested, formally hires the attorneys, and handles payroll and other administrative tasks so that they lawyers don't have to.

Today, individuals are even more inclined to volunteer and demand the opportunity from their employers. Corporations are looking to attract and retain top talent and have a renewed focus on corporate social responsibility. Swoovy’s SaaS corporate employee volunteer platform aligns corporate top-line initiatives to employee individual interests, boosting corporate social responsibility, engagement, and volunteerism for nonprofits. Swoovy makes it easy to find and register for a volunteer event (remote or in-person), connect with colleagues through shared interests, and track impact across individuals as well as for the company.

We improve the way companies do marketing, through gigsourcing and proprietary software

Gartner Cool Vendor in Data for AI and ML. Leveraging GPT-4, OpenBlender now enables anyone to effortlessly find, query and analyze all publicly available data blended with their own internal data. Users just type natural language prompts to instantly generate customizable dashboards and AI forecasts enriched with real-time external features. The power of external data is fully unleashed to uncover blind spots and insights from a myriad of disparate sources, such as news, social media, web search trends, economic, financial, ratings, reviews, mobility, geolocation, weather, and third-party vendors. Generative AI creates executive summaries explaining the insights surfaced from the enriched data, so different audiences understand the impact of external events, changing geopolitical landscapes, market sentiment, consumer needs, new business opportunities, risks and challenges. Short demo: https://youtu.be/kFJDnl-CxOw

Sixpence is a fundraising web platform and app meant to facilitate simple fundraising, through which donors can support community campaigns or organizations through roundups to the nearest dollar on their daily purchases. With Sixpence, crowdfunding is easier than ever before. Donating to campaigns can be a small part of each and every purchase that supporters make. All that campaign creators ask for is a commitment to give pennies at a time. Supporters can contribute to the things that matter to them, throughout each and every day, while just continuing their lives as usual. We are on a mission to revolutionize fundraising, build community, and ease generosity.

Seniors@work is the job platform for 50plus & retired professionals. On the platform, companies can engage senior talents for paid jobs. With the platform, we want to promote cross-generational exchange and counteract the shortage of skilled workers. In a short time, over 30,000 users have signed up. Here is our image video: https://youtu.be/Bm55W9H9zRA

Considdr (2014–2020) was a search engine that reimagined how we build, store, and update our beliefs so that they are more evidenced-based. We fundamentally rethought how best to aggregate and distill the world’s knowledge.

CrowdPlay develops a fan engagement platform to engage with live sporting events. It permits active participation in games by answering live questions during stoppages, thereby enhancing new revenue opportunities for teams and redeemable points that ensure future engagement.

HINTS Providing a solution for social media companies to instantaneously detect the spread of fake news of any medium: text, audio, or video.

Rapidly authorize and deploy proven cybersecurity solutions for Industrial Control Systems (ICS) / Operational Technology (OT)

Gala is a corporate social responsibility platform that engages employees in corporate giving. The company aims to engage everyone, everywhere, in giving that turns their values into reality; to increase the resources for those dedicated to change the world, and offer businesses and individuals an experience of joy and impact - no matter how big or small the contribution.

FanFund makes culture accessible to communities everywhere by de-risking live shows for artists and venues. It integrates fan engagement, crowdfunding technologies with advanced data analysis to provide artists and venues with vertical and geographic-specific predictive models for de-risking live performances. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Nexcv is a recruitment marketing SaaS, creating & managing targeted recruitment campaigns on multiple social networks.

Catapult is an all-in-one Request for Proposal solution that empowers procurement departments to streamline their processes through repeatable workflows and automation. With Catapult you can create and respond to new opportunities, evaluate and score responses, and, deliberate over contract terms. In addition, you can collaborate with team members over question structure or responses as you build and manage your content library to expedite RFP responses. With Catapult’s workflow automation clients have reduced the time it takes to respond by over 90% while increasing output by 66% with the same headcount. You too can experience these same results while increasing your confidence in the effectiveness of your questions or the quality of your responses for any RFP engagements in a quick and efficient manner that is unique to Catapult subscribers.

Innpactia is the home of purpose-driven investments in Latin America. The asset-management platform hosts the funds of various private market investment vehicles that generate both financial returns and social and environmental impact. Investors can identify the most suitable vehicles and subsequently monitor their portfolios through our platform, which has seen a 121% growth in assets under management and a 180% increase in transactions (YoY). https://youtu.be/9r8k9XU7VDo The founder, Juan Lozano, a serial social entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in impact finance, is supported by an experienced team in product development, finance, and growth. Innpactia is raising its Seed round ($1.5M) to increase investments from North America and Europe, exceed $2.5 million in revenue by 2026, and achieve $30M in assets under management in a market projected to reach $510 billion by 2027.

Be My Eyes is a suite of products designed on a simple premise: to harness the power of technology and human connection to assist people who are blind or have low vision to lead more independent lives. With the press of a button, the app establishes a live video connection between blind and low vision users and either sighted volunteers, company representatives or sighted co-workers. With over 5 million users across 150 countries, Be My Eyes has become the largest online community for the blind and visually impaired. Be My Eyes is on a quest to revolutionize accessible support. We are paving the way with industry leaders like Microsoft, Google, Procter & Gamble, Verizon, LinkedIn, Department of Health and Social of UK, Twitter and others, all of whom are using Be My Eyes to connect with their customers, members, citizens and employees in a more inclusive and meaningful way. The app harnesses the power of generosity, technology and human connection to help blind and visually impaired individuals lead more independent lives.

Walkli brings together the experiences of locals, travel professionals, and fellow travelers onto a single platform to help people plan what to do and where to go once they arrive at their travel destinations. Our social approach to planning urban exploration is bringing sightseeing into the 21st century.

TREND Community develops and distributes medicines. Their goal is to make life better for everyone who has a rare or chronic disease. Their technology examines social media posts to understand diseases from the viewpoints of patients and carers. It educates patients, aids in medicine and research discoveries, and helps people create their own natural histories.

EchoMe takes advantage of social media and smartphones to make the relationship between small businesses and customers ubiquitous. Their app helps customers and users share rich reviews with their friends, discover new experiences and stay in touch with the local businesses they love.

Reason8 is a service that turns conversations into summaries. We use multiple smartphones and AI patent pending approach to boost quality of speaker separation and drafting meeting summaries. We are actively working on advanced summarization, collaboration features for teamwork, and integrations with project management services and communication tools.

Abridge News is a developer of a news application designed to provide quick facts and arguments from both sides.

Crowdacure is a donation-based crowdfunding platform for life-saving, but hard to fund medical research. Researchers and active public members collaborate to unlock and drive progress. They at Crowdacure are passionate about people. They believe that lack of progress in medicine is a tragedy and it needs a plan to challenge the fundamentals. The present system has generated very little progress. It will take centuries to tackle the problem, unless they bring a major change.

We're bringing restaurants online and helping them thrive. Through empathetically designed technology, Komeeda provides the value of consolidated management of digital experiences and consumer acquisition. Through diverse service offerings (delivery, catering, cooking classes, POS, etc.), Komeeda becomes the digital marketplace for conscious consumers looking to support local restaurants ethically. We have a community-centric business-model that is affordable and provides businesses high revenue share (93%+) of their online transactions and have ownership of the consumer data.

Factico creates geolocation and data collection technologies for journalists, news outlets and citizen journalists. They specialize in mobile apps for iOS and Android devices. They have worked with news organizations, NGOs, Universities and influencers creating innovative technology that helps them reach new audiences and creating new story narratives using audio, video maps, and GPS tracking.

vox pop is a technique used by journalists which consists of interviewing people at random about their views on a given topic, the idea being to represent opinions from a generic cross section of the population. Of course, the number of people interviewed is too small to be a true representation of public opinion. Their technologies now allow us to survey hundreds of thousands of people in the time it takes a journalist to conduct a single interview. And their statistical models allow us to transform these survey data from anecdotal insights into representative statements about the public.

ScholarJet partners with employers to create online, skills-based competitions that help them screen and hire diverse talent, while also rewarding applicants with funding for their tuition or student loans. Each competition is designed for applicants to show skills that employers are looking for-- in sales, customer service, product design, software development, and more. So far, ScholarJet has created over 30 competitions with companies like Akamai, Toast, Santander, and Wayfair, to expand their talent pipelines and enhance their employer brands. ScholarJet is on a mission to help the world innovate and solve the most challenging problems by empowering those who are often overlooked.

Hive is a crowdsourcing platform for biomedical PhDs ​

Humans pick each other's brain in a chaotic and unstructured way. Putting human communication on-line does not help much, as communicating via emails, social media, and forums scales badly and stays unstructured. They propose Mindools (Doodle for ideas): a new way for a group to collect and rate contributions in a structured way. Their customers use Mindools for strategic reviews and virtual workshops but also polling and finding a common date. Their biggest Mindool have 100+ users.

CauseMatch gives nonprofits wings. Our platform leverages the excitement and empowering opportunity of matching grants to inspire a higher frequency of donors and larger gift sizes. CauseMatch’s platform “gamifies” the donor experience, allowing users to emotionally connect with the unique opportunity to have their gifts’ impact amplified thanks to matching funds. And our creative and coaching team ensure that each campaign is executed in an effective way that inspires generosity and mobilizes your support base.

AuCoDe aims to be the Google Alerts of controversies and crisis situations. By automatically analyzing social media and digital news streams using sophisticated machine learning techniques, they provide early detection of controversies and crisis situations. Their cutting-edge technology rapidly detects or predicts crisis situations, so their quantities trading customers can use these insights directly for complex trading strategies and beat their competition to the best trades.

FONDIFY is a creative Crowdfunding Company designed to reach the highest ratio in successful entrepreneurial and social fundraised projects.

NeedsList is a global marketplace connecting individual and corporate donors with NGOs to create efficiency and transparency in their humanitarian aid system. NeedsList partners with local aid organizations to identify urgent needs and uses local suppliers who can deliver needs quickly and sustainably. Supporters can donate cash, purchase products, or volunteer directly on platform. NeedsList provides clear impact metrics in real-time allowing partner organizations to track activity and outcomes. They earn revenue through commissions from affiliate suppliers and from enterprise users of the platform.

WorkAround is the accurate, scalable solution for adding human input to your data using an untapped workforce of domain experts. WorkAround's platform enables simple, quick annotation of data. Anything from classifying expenses into tax codes, annotating breast tissue to identify regions of interest, to identifying drug combinations from clinical trial reports. We have the domain experts and a platform to facilitate a simple, secure processing of customer data and annotations. Companies that using WorkAround services not only save time and get quality service, but are also contributing to a more socially just and productive world where talent knows no boundaries, opportunity doesn’t ask for status, and work is rewarded with fair pay.

Trūbadour is a platform for writing and finding poems by contemporary poets. It's the poetry network.

Alaya is a global software provider enabling companies to build a purpose-driven culture and engage employees to make an impact, one act at a time. It easily manages its purpose-driven CSR and employee engagement programs, through volunteering, giving, or taking simple actions to support sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, and wellbeing.

Knoq (formerly known as Polis) is a technology company that encourages people to talk to their neighbors. Their technology recruits, trains and guides neighborhood representatives (Knoqers) to go out into their own neighborhoods and talk to people about products and services that can make their lives better. Their platform has been used by Google Fiber, NRG, Inspire Energy, Fluent Home Security and many other direct-to-home brands. They are growing 500% YoY and are hiring 200+ people this year. They are backed by Haystack VC, Initialized, Liquid2, Fathom Capital and Background Capital. To learn more visit: www.knoq.com.

Parachute recruits, screens and trains members of the local community to be substitute teachers. Our teachers don’t just hand out worksheets, they bring their own unique talents to the classroom. Parachute Teachers are yoga instructors, dancers, photographers, chefs, scientists, and engineers. We’re Uber for substitute teachers – and our teachers are reimagining the role of the substitute.

Red Girasol Crowdfunding platform for residential and commercial solar systems in Mexico. It connects people who wish to acquire a panel system with investors willing to contribute money until they complete the amount they need to pay for it in exchange for immediate returns. For their part, residents get the benefit of paying month to month at interest rates lower than those offered by other companies in the market. The company, through an algorithm, first analyzes the light receipt that the user shares and, based on this, presents a quotation plan with different installers in agreement with Girasol. By choosing the one that best suits your needs, the resident must provide at least 10% of the total price. Then start the funding campaign and once the goal is completed, the installation happens. From there, the company charges the user's credit card the payment of the monthly payment to investors, whose interest and yield are assigned to both depending on the hitch and term selected in the case of the first and the amount contributed in the case of the second. Girasol obtains profits by charging commissions to the three actors in its network (residents, investors and suppliers). The company started its operation in 2016 in Monterrey, Nuevo León.

Yonward is a new mobile app for sharing beautiful, location aware guides that tell stories, share knowledge, and create unique experiences. Much of their content is created by their users, not curated, because they believe no one knows a place better than those who experience it every day.

CareHood is the place where caregivers go to learn what can help the people they love - and where their friends, family and community can pitch in and support them along their path. As friends and family go through challenging times, whether because of serious health conditions, accidents or disasters, or normal but trying transitions in life, they know that their community will want to step in and help, but may not know how. CareHood makes the process simple by recommending specific ways to help that are based on extensive research and consultation with medical professionals. Friends and family can build CarePackages that will make a real difference in the life of their loved ones.

Demographics, population growth and changes to government spending mean they need better ways of funding, designing and delivering services for local people. omm Cunity based organisations can support and grow local communities: they know where the need is, are plugged into the networks and understand the local histories. All vital in terms of building healthy and happy communities.

Royal Road Legends is a growing community where new and rising authors post their works, and where their readers can directly interact with to provide feedback and suggestions. For them, the most important aspects of web publishing is publicity and interactions. Hence, they do their best to ensure that every reader can find the works they are looking for; that every author - old or new - can be discovered; and that readers can provide their invaluable feedback.

Share A Dream is an interactive communication platform that connects NGOs with experts, volunteers and donors/sponsors: in short, a humanitarian marketplace. The innovation lies in answering all problems with one single web solution. While offering sponsors the opportunity to finance local projects to show their social responsibility, our business model seeks to solve the pain points of all our customers, rather than generating profit.

Jaspr is a digital platform lets people trade their talents and unneeded valuables, cash-free, with the people around them.

They have developed a chocolate bar the wins every blind tasting test - and this is what they offer. They have launched with a crowd funding campaign in Israel that broke records, and now officially opening their factory.

USEUM (useum.org) is The World's Art Museum that brings together art museums & galleries, artists and art lovers in a meritocratic spectacle. As we are not far from the day that a million followers and a billion likes will be as powerful as an art critique, the vision and the constitutional aim of USEUM is to boldly blend the authoritative awesome with the socially fabulous; empowering the art lovers and acclaiming the art professionals in a born-digital art fair where everybody celebrates art, redefining intuitively the values of the Art Market to emerge.

Searchin collects and analyzes data from the web, discovers open positions and potential candidates, and engages with both people and companies to find potential matches, all without any human intervention.

LawyerFair is a curated on-line reverse-auction platform that matches the legal needs of businesses, with efficient access to a pre-approved panel of commercial lawyers and proven experts in the field of law required, who compete for the work. Their competitive tender process drives the fairest price, with an emphasis on fixed fees. We deliver a range of detailed quotes within hours, some-times minutes, with clarity on the comparable.

Query is a marketplace focused on connecting people with specific skills with companies in need of these skills. Query was founded on the idea of hiring talent based on what they know, not on how good their resume looks. This is why they have set their online tests as the cornerstone of their company. Hiring developers has become a nightmare, which is why they set out to establish a new way to hire. Companies tell us what they need and they recommend a group of candidates that best fit their needs. They connect developers and software engineers with companies.

Powr of You is a consumer intelligence tool that connects brands and consumers to learn and earn from their digital footprint. Brands can learn about consumer behavior with a unified view across devices and platforms, driving greater marketing ROI. Consumers can manage their entire connected digital life in one place and get a share of the revenues as rewards. It's a win-win model shifting power from just traditional data providers to one that empowers consumers.

Zero Hour is helps restaurant owners find workforce in less than 5 seconds.

Konoz has 300+ teachers who create amazing (and free!) video courses, sharing their passions in subjects from Aerospace & History to Yoga & Zumba. With new teachers daily, this network will go beyond Khan Academy to #teach1billion. Teachers and students connect in a social learning platform with custom profiles, crowdfunding, messaging, and notifications. Explore their curated educational content & advanced recommendation systems which will evolve into a machine-learning driven personalized Digital Aristotle.

Describli uses the power of data and analytics to provide powerful insights to independent authors. We help self-publishing authors take control of their sales and marketing and craft the right strategy for their books. Authors can discover who is reading their books, how to find more readers like that in the future, and experiment with new marketing strategies for that audience.

Spots is an experiential search platform that connects businesses and customers in real-time. Users want real-time info from businesses (wait time, food special, private party etc). Businesses want to share but lack a dedicated channel to do so. Spots lets business share promotions, specials, events, and alerts to users in real-time. Users get access to the real-time info they want, and businesses can engage with new and returning customers and drive more people through the door. Spots helps users to find what they're looking for and gives business a dedicated channel to engage.

Amondo's publishing technology enables you to create new value from the content generated around events and campaigns - brought together via curated feeds called Imprints. Imprints can be embedded in existing platforms, amplified via social or showcased via venue screens and email. Content can be easily monetised with brand messaging, data capture and ecommerce functionalities.

Lobster is a platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users. Using pioneering AI technology, it trawls through all of the main social networks (Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, Vk, YouTube, Vimeo), along with several of the largest cloud storage providers. Billions of affordable images and videos in an instant - live, unusual and so much more authentic than stock. Each and every day, billions of images and videos are being created which are more authentic than stock photography. But it’s time-consuming to find and source something that perfectly fits your brand, media campaign or story. That’s why they created Lobster - to do the heavy lifting for you. Lobster’s Artificial Intelligence and algorithmic engineering uses image recognition alongside with metadata to find high quality (and relevant) real-time content anywhere on the planet. Content created by regular people, just going about their day to day lives - original, unusual and genuine.

UpEffect is a crowdfunding platform for companies dedicated to improving lives and the planet. We've launched products such as solar cookstoves, ethical fashion brands, clean drinking water systems, and eco-friendly bags. To date, our platform has a 100% success rate at securing funding for our campaigns, raising over £100,000 to launch products across ten countries. We offer our campaigns hands-on support to ensure that our social good companies are optimised for success. We believe that entrepreneurs with the potential to have a profound impact on the world should have the opportunity to turn ideas into real ventures. The planet’s future may be shaped by these products that may not otherwise be brought to market. Through vetting of campaigns and offering incubator-like support, UpEffect harnesses the power of crowdfunding by providing entrepreneurs with dedicated advising and the expertise needed to effectively launch a business. We give individuals worldwide the ability to start a business through access to capital, sales, and customers.

Compare and Share aims to open up the Sharing Economy via a one-stop shop for a growing global market who want to access goods on-demand rather than own them. With over £3.5 tn idle assets worldwide and 7,700 sharing sites there was no way to access or compare them. Users had to trawl each site, to find what they needed. 40% of the population say they would trade shared assets, if it were easy. Compare and Share helps these users access a world of Sharing Economy goods and services in one place. The Sharing Economy is valued at $15 bn globally, with 28% of adults participating. 40% say they would if it were easy. The market is driven by 25-34 year olds ‘Gen Share’ an addressable market of 2.68 billion. We have 32 paying car sharing and accommodation affiliates including 90% of the UK car sharing market and an inventory of over 1.4 million properties worldwide. Our Sharing Economy Directory lists 7,700 sharing sites. With minimal marketing spend, we already have 12,000 users per month.

Cahootsy is a community of like-minded enthusiasts that share opinions and best buys. their technology connects shoppers, experts and brands to create and share must haves, opinions and latest offers in one place. With the onus on peer driven recommendations Shoppers get a personalised shopping experience they trust. Brands create relevant offers that convert to sales. A reverse Groupon. Partnering with many of UK's top Brands including M&S, House of Fraser and John Lewis and an influential blogging community. The founding team are mobile industry veterans, with over 20 years combined experience, across product development, app store management, social games and start ups; their CTO hails from Tier 1 banking and trading platforms. Backed by a strong advisory team from eCommerce and FinTech including Google, ex-Notonthehighstreet, Procter and Gamble, AMEX, Barclays, Lloyds and Amazon. **Everline Future50 'Most Disruptive' UK Company** **Finalist 'High-Impact startup' MassChallenge Accelerator 2015 ** (supported by 10 Downing Street and Tech City UK, and sponsored by RBS, Unilever, Visa Europe and others)

Choosic is a music discovery app which brings users personalised music recommendations and fast playlist building in a simple and intuitive user interface. They deliver fresh and trending music from around the web straight to the people who will most likely appreciate it. They learn user preferences by serving one recommendation at a time. Fast and effortless music discovery at the swipe of a finger.

Spotlight is a mobile application that allows users to request valet service at the push of a button. When you simply want to just get where you need to be without a hassle, drop a "pin" to request valet service, and if in range of a Spotlight ‘Hotspot’, a Spotlight Parker will arrive and pick up your car within minutes. When you want your car returned, simply tap ‘pick up’ and your car will be delivered to the nearest ‘Hotspot’. Spotlight will revolutionize the way we think about parking.

Bird.i collates and disseminates the best of the world’s satellite, airborne and drone imagery in real time, in order to provide insights and data to businesses globally. The high quality, frequency and accuracy of Bird.i’s images are superior even to the likes of Google Maps, meaning that clients can efficiently monitor changes and trends on the ground, helping companies solve problems, make important decisions, gain competitive advantage and plan for the future.

OpenLab is a platform for scientists to get out of the stalls in their progress. They transform the scientific method from working mostly alone, to a social and machine-assisted system, where researchers can efficiently retrieve relevant information and suggestions. They do this by providing easy data sharing and exploration tools. Further, their tagging and machine learning system will create a searchable Research Graph of the strategies used to solve a problem.

Quickhelp strives to bridge the gap between undergraduate and graduate students by providing a platform where undergrads can access tutors on demand. Quickhelp disrupts the traditional tutor-student relationship by giving the student the power of choice and control. It's quite simple, a student would enter their course name, and then send out a help request to dozens of tutors within a set radius; numerous tutors respond to assist the tutee after which the student chooses which tutor they wish to get help from. With 15,000 active users, strategically spread across over 16 of the largest universities across the country, Quickhelp continues to expand and will keep growing. Quickhelp received 1st place in the hyper-competitive Harvard Innovation Challenge, was a Finalist in the largest startup accelerator, MassChallenge, and also a Finalist in the MIT 100K. In addition to these accolades, Quickhelp has received investments and is backed by Draft Ventures and Dorm Room Fund.

Babelverse is the first and only human powered "universal translator." 1st solution for on-demand interpretation (real time translation of spoken communication) in any language by remote bilinguals or professional linguists, in various situations, such as on-the-spot on your mobile, attending a conference, watching a video, etc.

Stickyworld helps you engage stakeholders and drive actionable results. Interactive content and flexible configuration settings enable countless use cases, in public or private, involving multiple stakeholders in different kinds of engagement processes.

HighSkillPro is an online marketplace that helps businesses find & hire top quality service providers.An online marketplace where businesses can find & hire vetted and reference-checked quality service providers for complex one-off projects. Flexibly. Globally.

Agora is a real-time engagement platform designed to enhance workflow and facilitate meaningful human connections. Established in 2014 and based in New York, the platform integrates with popular file-sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box, allowing users to edit, create, share, and collaborate on documents seamlessly. Utilizing natural language processing and machine learning, Agora builds intelligent moderation tools that improve online conversation quality by filtering out noise, thus enabling businesses to scale their ideas and create engaging user experiences. The platform also offers functionalities to predict customer urgency and churn likelihood, detect trending issues, and suggest responses to frequently asked questions, further streamlining collaboration and communication for its users.

Encore Alert (www.encorealert.com) is a proactive alerts tool for social marketers. Encore Alert surfaces up just the right social data opportunities at just the right time via elegant push alerts to digital marketers, even giving them extremely actionable recommendations on how to respond most effectively (like a Google Now for marketers). Encore Alert is used every day by mid-market brands like NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association, and is currently raising a seed round that includes DC's NextGen Angels, Max Wessel (VP of SAP), Sean Glass (Founder of HigherOne/Acceleprise), Sonny Ganguly (CMO of WeddingWire), Tyler Peterson (Head of Google Social), and Adam Riggs (President of Shutterstock).

Encore Alert (www.encorealert.com) is a proactive alerts tool for social marketers. Encore Alert surfaces up just the right social data opportunities at just the right time via elegant push alerts to digital marketers, even giving them extremely actionable recommendations on how to respond most effectively (like a Google Now for marketers). Encore Alert is used every day by mid-market brands like NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association, and is currently raising a seed round that includes DC's NextGen Angels, Max Wessel (VP of SAP), Sean Glass (Founder of HigherOne/Acceleprise), Sonny Ganguly (CMO of WeddingWire), Tyler Peterson (Head of Google Social), and Adam Riggs (President of Shutterstock).

Lobster is a platform which enables brands, agencies and the media to licence visual content directly from social media users. Using pioneering AI technology, it trawls through all of the main social networks (Instagram, Flickr, Facebook, Vk, YouTube, Vimeo), along with several of the largest cloud storage providers. Billions of affordable images and videos in an instant - live, unusual and so much more authentic than stock. Each and every day, billions of images and videos are being created which are more authentic than stock photography. But it’s time-consuming to find and source something that perfectly fits your brand, media campaign or story. That’s why they created Lobster - to do the heavy lifting for you. Lobster’s Artificial Intelligence and algorithmic engineering uses image recognition alongside with metadata to find high quality (and relevant) real-time content anywhere on the planet. Content created by regular people, just going about their day to day lives - original, unusual and genuine.

VocaliD's award-winning technology generates high-quality, natural sounding voices within hours rather than months using cutting-edge machine learning techniques, proprietary voice blending algorithms, and a crowdsourced Voicebank.

CrowdComfort offers building owners, operators, and occupants new and powerful ways to share information about comfort and maintenance issues. They work with corporations to offer their employees a simple way to report on comfort, maintenance, or safety, CrowdComfort converts that information into time-stamped and geo-located heat maps through a portal that allows simple management of buildings and operations. CrowdComfort also allows users to build their comfort profile (they call CreatureComforts) that helps their users find their most comfortable places at work, or in other public and private spaces. By streamlined occupant feedback based way to report CrowdComfort to minimize energy usage and saves valuable operational time and money.