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Brief is to foster healthy discourse by rethinking the way we read the news.

Revue Holding B.V. is a Netherlands-based company that specializes in content marketing tools designed to assist users in curating and distributing newsletters via email. Founded in 2015 and located in Utrecht, the platform enables users to aggregate content from various sources, create aesthetically pleasing newsletters, and engage their audiences effectively. It offers features that allow users to add links, images, and personal commentary, making the newsletter creation process simple and efficient. Revue caters to a diverse clientele, including experts, startups, and individuals from various fields such as technology, music, and food, fostering a vibrant community of content creators. The company emphasizes the importance of aesthetics and user experience in its offerings, aiming to provide a visually appealing and user-friendly platform for all types of users.

Gnip provides social media data for customers in sectors such as social media monitoring, business intelligence, government, and finance. The company customers deliver social media analytics to over 95% of the Fortune 500. It also delivers more than 120 billion real-time social data activities each month, providing access to data from dozens of sources. Gnip was founded by Eric Marcoullier in March 2008 and is based in Boulder, Colorado with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Washington.

Posterous, founded in the summer of 2008 and incubated by Y Combinator, is a platform dedicated to simplifying the blogging experience. It allows users to create and manage blogs with ease, akin to sending an email, which has attracted over 15 million monthly users. The introduction of Posterous Spaces has enhanced its offering by providing intuitive privacy controls, enabling users to share their content selectively across various platforms. Through its innovative approach, Posterous aims to streamline the blogging process and improve how individuals share their thoughts and experiences online.

Julpan is a provider of a social networking platform focused on analyzing information sharing on the social web. The company studies the evolution of stories and public reactions to them, generating valuable data that reveals current interests and trends. By examining these dynamics, Julpan identifies popular topics and assesses the quality of content being shared, thereby offering insights into user engagement and preferences.

Bagcheck, a sharing and discovery platform. Bagcheck allows people to share and discover what's inside your “bags”. People can comment on and share lists of the stuff they use and why. By ‘bags', the startup refers to any sort of curated list or collection. For example, people can post a collection of photography gear or what their favorite cooking tools are.

BackType is a marketing intelligence platform that aids brands and agencies in assessing the business impact of social media. The company operates a search engine that allows users to find, follow, and share comments from blogs and social news sites. Additionally, BackType offers features that enable users to search query results through RSS feeds and emails. With its technology, BackType supports social functionalities for over 100 organizations, including notable entities such as The New York Times, Slideshare, and Automattic, the creators of WordPress.