Ascend Ventures, based in New York, is a venture capital firm that historically focused on early-stage and special situation technology companies across North America. Founded in 2000, the firm aimed to partner with ambitious entrepreneurs to facilitate rapid value creation and growth in their ventures. Ascend Ventures specialized in data-centric companies and provided both financial and operational support to its portfolio companies. However, the firm is currently in the process of winding down its operations and liquidating its remaining portfolio, having made its last investment in 2012.
Xembly is a developer of an artificial intelligence-based productivity platform focused on enhancing meeting efficiency. The platform utilizes intelligent automation, including robotic process automation, to streamline various aspects of the meeting process. This includes delegating tasks such as scheduling, note-taking, and tracking assignments. By automating these functions, Xembly helps businesses navigate scheduling conflicts and create comprehensive meeting agendas, ultimately aiming to boost workforce productivity.
SafeDigit operates as a data marketplace specializing in the regulation of access to sensitive information. The company provides a comprehensive solution for data access control, utilizing APIs and advanced encryption techniques to ensure secure data management. Data owners can store their information encrypted with the industry-standard AES 256 algorithm, while retaining control over access through a token-based authentication system. These tokens can be issued to customers and revoked at any time, allowing data owners to manage permissions effectively. SafeDigit’s infrastructure supports multiple users with varying permission levels, and continuous monitoring and auditing of access ensures transparency and security. This model enables data owners to charge customers based on API usage, creating a flexible and accountable environment for data sharing.
At PongoAI we are changing the way small to medium-sized businesses collect, receive, share, and analyze feedback. We enable smaller businesses to access the same AI-powered experience management tools used by Fortune 500 companies.
OXIO Corp is a technology company that provides a carrier-as-a-service platform aimed at brands and enterprises seeking enhanced mobile data connectivity. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Paris and Mexico City, OXIO offers a cloud-based solution that integrates the wireless services of multiple providers. Its platform features a programmable mobile infrastructure that allows clients to unbundle traditional telecom services, enabling them to create a customized wireless experience for their customers. Through its B2B SaaS offering, OXIO delivers actionable intelligence and analytics, empowering organizations in sectors such as finance, government, media, and travel to optimize their connectivity solutions and drive value.
BearTax is an easy to use cryptocurrency tax software for individuals and accountants to calculate gains and file taxes on capital gains. BearTax is integrated with major cryptocurrency exchanges via secure APIs and file uploads. It can consolidate trades, review missing sources, match buys and sells smartly and can calculate gain-loss information. BearTax works with USA, Australian, Japanese and Canadian tax periods, support their native currencies. With a global user base, it aims to become the platform of choice for accountants and individuals dealing with crypto taxes.
Knapsack is a platform that streamlines the process of creating and managing design systems for digital products. It enables users to design, develop, document, deploy, and scale their design systems efficiently. By integrating design and development workflows, Knapsack serves as a single source of truth for digital experiences, facilitating the creation of everything from simple buttons to complex shopping cart functionalities. The platform allows for the synchronization of designs with code, enabling users to view components in context and manage multiple brands and templating languages in one place. This functionality accelerates the shipment of code, ensuring adherence to accessibility and brand standards while allowing product teams to create consistent, reusable experiences across various websites and applications. Additionally, Knapsack exposes these digital experiences as APIs, enabling simultaneous updates and innovations across all platforms.
Level Builds financial services for the new economy. They collectively have decades of experience designing and delivering innovative financial services designed around specific needs. With complementary skills and knowledge, they have built Level technology to support an outstanding customer experience and provide the banking services you deserve.
Cased is an early-stage startup focused on enhancing workplace safety through its innovative enterprise software platform. This platform offers essential visibility and control for businesses, enabling them to manage and safeguard sensitive information effectively. Cased's technology includes features such as search capabilities, GeoIP lookups, and measures for protecting personally identifiable information. By ensuring that organizations can monitor critical events and maintain compliance, Cased aims to empower companies to operate securely in a live application environment.
Aerolane is an innovative logistics company established in 2021, focused on delivering shipments quickly and affordably, comparable to ground transport, through advanced aerial technology. By unlocking aircraft capacity, Aerolane enhances the productivity, efficiency, and sustainability of cargo flights. The company specializes in middle-mile air logistics services, catering to government, commercial, and defense sectors, and also engages in direct technology sales. With a team that possesses extensive experience in logistics and aviation, Aerolane aims to transform air freight operations, providing significant benefits to consumers and businesses alike.
Included is a platform designed to enhance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) within organizations by providing comprehensive employee analytics. The platform gathers and analyzes demographic data throughout the employee lifecycle, offering insights into performance and engagement. By leveraging a machine learning-driven projection engine, Included identifies trends and generates actionable recommendations to help organizations improve their DEI initiatives. This all-in-one solution enables companies to effectively measure their diversity efforts, track progress, and connect with their workforce, ultimately supporting the scaling of their diversity programs and enhancing employee retention.
Developer of a video editing platform designed to record and edit customer testimonials. The company's platform offers self-service tools and studio-quality production to source authentic customer videos and provides in-platform editing tools to transform raw footage into clips for testimonials, and case studies, helping organizations drive revenue across the customer journey.
Groopit offers a collaboration platform aimed at enhancing organizational efficiency by facilitating real-time data collection and management for teams that may not be directly employed by the organization. The platform enables users to report data quickly via mobile devices and supports multi-group implementation and integration with enterprise systems through APIs. This allows organizational leaders to align employees, streamline communication, and enhance visibility across various functions. With a solid team and early customer traction, Groopit has established its presence in the market and is actively pursuing funding to further its development and outreach.
Outbound AI is a technology company located at the Rensselaer Technology Park in Troy, New York. It specializes in developing advanced solutions that integrate cloud-based dialing and email technology with powerful data insights to support B2B sales teams. The company also focuses on conversational AI aimed at automating back-office healthcare tasks. Its AI cloud leverages a unique real-time inference engine, enhancing accuracy and transparency in healthcare workflows. By combining these technologies, Outbound AI provides comprehensive tools that improve efficiency and effectiveness in both sales and healthcare environments.
Developer of a commercial real estate origination platform designed to significantly reduce back-and-forth requests between borrowers, brokers and lenders. The company's AI-powered platform empowers mortgage brokers to securely collect, evaluate and place loan requests with lenders, also instantly creating an executive summary and connecting brokers with qualified lenders through their intelligent matching algorithm and AI, enabling commercial mortgage brokers and lenders to save time and close more loans.
Battlesnake is a platform that allows people who wanted to know and try programming in a fun way. Battlesnake is used to learn new technologies, improve their skills, and have fun with friends and colleagues.
Journey Foods is a bold, machine learning-powered software platform for food companies. The company builds enterprise technology that improves product monitoring and development for CPG companies, ingredient suppliers, and manufacturers. With a focus on saving companies money and time, Journey Foods' tools accelerate innovation to improve their decision-making and operations with AI nutrition and supply chain insights embedded in integrative software. Journey Foods IO software enables food companies to quickly grow from new ideas, or new improvement, to commercialization by configuring desired consumer preferences, generating improved product formulations through ingredient tagging, receiving automated compliance and supply chain insights on nutrition and sustainability indicators, and seamless integrations to global ERP tools. The JourneyAI industry 4.0 solution gives management teams significantly faster data to make better strategic decisions and increase the ease of monitoring products for the 3 trillion dollar packaged foods market. The Journey Foods database retains an extensive and standardized database to extract data from millions of ingredients for algorithms to dynamically analyze and methodically recommended optimized portfolio recommendations based on pricing, supply chain, and nutrition parameters. To date, the company has established a database comprised of over 1 billion ingredient insights and learnings from our in-house prototyping product ‘Journey Bites’.
Solo is an innovative platform designed to support app-based gig workers by addressing the challenges of pay instability and professional uncertainty in the gig economy. With over 60 million individuals engaged in gig work, Solo leverages data analytics to offer insights and tools that help workers optimize their time and manage multiple jobs effectively. The platform provides city-level pay and performance benchmarks, including hour-by-hour earnings predictions, and ensures transparency in market pay rates. Additionally, Solo offers services that help workers bridge income gaps when earnings fall short, empowering them to achieve greater financial stability and reach their personal financial goals.
Vouched develops patent-pending AI (CV/ML) to visually verify identity and onboard users in seconds. Vouched works with companies in regulated and sensitive industries including healthcare, real estate, gig and sharing, retail, operations and logistics, and financial services and banking, among others. Vouched has identified hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. It is proficient in hundreds of ID types, including all IDs in the U.S., Canada, Vietnam, and Great Britain, as well as passports for 30+ countries.
Hest Outdoors brings the comforts of home to the outdoors. The company develops and delivers high performance and well-designed product to improve enjoyment and experience outdoors.
Keepe Up, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that has developed a mobile application designed to connect users with qualified technicians for on-demand home repairs. Founded in 2014, the app allows users to request services by taking a picture and describing the issue, streamlining the process of finding and hiring a handyman. Keepe operates as a B2B marketplace, catering to property management firms, home warranty companies, and real estate investment trusts (REITs), offering an efficient solution for obtaining estimates, completing repairs, and managing payments. Available in multiple cities across the United States, Keepe aims to simplify home repair services for both businesses and homeowners, facilitating quick access to maintenance professionals.
Candidate, Inc. operates as an online staffing and recruiting company. The company operates an online marketplace that incentivizes every person to be a recruiter for their network. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
The future of agriculture is transparent. We envision a thriving agricultural system where Producers earn a living income, which empowers resilient communities and ecosystems. Buyers can connect directly with producers, bridging the gap between source and consumer. Consumers know producers' stories, and make informed choices about purchases. We give consumers full transparency into the agricultural value chain by working closely with our producer members to tell their story and that of their products, utilizing blockchain traceability and high quality digital media.
Ganaz Inc. is a workforce management platform specifically designed for the agriculture and food manufacturing sectors. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the company provides tools that facilitate recruitment, retention, communication, onboarding, training, and payment for workers. Its application connects employers with deskless workers, allowing for the management of multiple conversations, automatic translation between languages, and the organization of workers into groups. Ganaz aims to enhance the well-being and prosperity of both workers and industries by addressing common challenges faced by employers and employees.
Bean Box, Inc. is a Seattle-based company specializing in coffee subscription and gift services. Founded in 2014, the company offers subscribers a selection of gourmet coffee roasts from top-rated local roasters, ensuring freshness by shipping whole beans within 48 hours of roasting. Each month, customers receive a curated box containing four hand-picked artisan coffee samples, allowing them to explore a variety of flavors. Bean Box aims to connect coffee enthusiasts with high-quality, locally-roasted coffees, facilitating the ability to reorder in larger quantities. Through its subscription model, the company delivers freshly roasted coffee directly to consumers' doorsteps, enhancing the coffee experience with convenience and quality.
Makara, our mission is to enable organizations to provision, deploy, manage, monitor and scale their Java and PHP applications on both public and private clouds, such as Amazon EC2 and VMWare-based clouds, with zero modifications. Makara offers both on-demand and on-premise solutions, including specialized solutions for service providers.
Developer of a data streaming processor designed to transform stream processing, making it accessible and flexible for all users. The company supports workloads powering industrial internet-of-things, finance, consumer technology and cyber security, enabling clients to connect to hundreds of data sources and use the entire ecosystem of data processing libraries.
Journey Foods is a bold, machine learning-powered software platform for food companies. The company builds enterprise technology that improves product monitoring and development for CPG companies, ingredient suppliers, and manufacturers. With a focus on saving companies money and time, Journey Foods' tools accelerate innovation to improve their decision-making and operations with AI nutrition and supply chain insights embedded in integrative software. Journey Foods IO software enables food companies to quickly grow from new ideas, or new improvement, to commercialization by configuring desired consumer preferences, generating improved product formulations through ingredient tagging, receiving automated compliance and supply chain insights on nutrition and sustainability indicators, and seamless integrations to global ERP tools. The JourneyAI industry 4.0 solution gives management teams significantly faster data to make better strategic decisions and increase the ease of monitoring products for the 3 trillion dollar packaged foods market. The Journey Foods database retains an extensive and standardized database to extract data from millions of ingredients for algorithms to dynamically analyze and methodically recommended optimized portfolio recommendations based on pricing, supply chain, and nutrition parameters. To date, the company has established a database comprised of over 1 billion ingredient insights and learnings from our in-house prototyping product ‘Journey Bites’.
Developer of a birth control optimization test designed to help determine which method of birth control is the best fit for anybody in order to minimize side effects. The company provides medically actionable scientific insights to find the right type of birth control, enabling women to proactively optimize their health-from birth control to fertility, and beyond.
A Kids Book About is a publishing company that specializes in creating books for children, focusing on topics that resonate with young readers. Founded in 2019, it is based in Portland, Oregon. The company aims to address important themes and experiences through its curated collection, fostering meaningful conversations between children and their caregivers. By emphasizing relatable content, A Kids Book About seeks to empower children with knowledge and understanding of various subjects in an accessible manner.
Taqtile, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in developing cloud-based augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed-reality (MR) solutions aimed at enhancing the productivity and safety of front-line workers. The company's flagship platform, Manifest®, offers an intuitive, cross-platform solution that allows subject matter experts to capture and document essential knowledge without the need for extensive programming or consulting. This platform enables the creation and distribution of job instructions, providing workers with immediate access to critical information and step-by-step guidance from experienced technicians. By facilitating knowledge sharing and collaboration, Taqtile's technology helps organizations improve operational efficiency and reduce errors across various industries.
Automaton Marketing, Inc. is a company based in Kirkland, Washington, founded in 2018. It specializes in developing Atomatest, a platform designed for business-to-business marketing campaigns and integration testing. This innovative platform empowers business users to test landing pages, campaigns, and integrations without requiring coding skills, thereby addressing quality and monitoring challenges common in software-as-a-service environments. Automaton enables users to automate monitoring, test multiple personas and variations, and set recurrence to ensure optimal performance. By focusing on marketing, advertising, privacy compliance, analytics, and sales, Automaton aims to deliver DevOps-style quality assurance and monitoring tailored for business users, filling a critical gap in the market where over 30% of SaaS technology selection and integration is performed by non-engineering personnel.
Provider of acquisition and software suite services to brands intended to help underperforming brands grow into profitable businesses. The company offers its companies various services related to marketing, operations, and strategy and indulges in long-term businesses with strong competitive advantages, enabling companies to turn around their businesses and achieve their growth goals.
Funl is a revenue operations platform built for RevOps teams at B2B SaaS companies, allowing them to finally connect the dots between marketing, sales, and customer success. The platform also provides a GTM data platform that delivers a single source of truth for all their GTM data, along with end-to-end full-funnel insights and analytics so their marketing, sales, and customer success teams can work seamlessly together. Funl also delivers a platform that can be used by RevOps teams at SaaS and subscription-based businesses, both big and small - think of it as an operating system for revenue. It was founded in 2020 by Matt Volm and Ganesh Sridharan in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Rock Paper Coin, Inc. is a digital platform aimed at enhancing collaboration between couples and event professionals in the wedding industry. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Lake Oswego, Oregon, Rock Paper Coin offers a modern solution for processing contracts, invoices, and payments, addressing the outdated practices prevalent among many wedding vendors. As the wedding industry, valued at approximately $74 billion in the U.S., faces increasing demands for digital experiences from Millennial and Gen Z couples, Rock Paper Coin facilitates the selection, engagement, management, and payment of vendors through its platform. This initiative represents a significant step toward modernizing wedding planning and improving efficiency within one of the world's oldest traditions.
LO3 Energy, Inc. owns and operates Pando, a marketplace solution that connects energy suppliers to customers. The company’s services help clients to create, deploy, and monetize energy products and customer services. It serves retail customers in utility and energy sectors. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
The future of agriculture is transparent. We envision a thriving agricultural system where Producers earn a living income, which empowers resilient communities and ecosystems. Buyers can connect directly with producers, bridging the gap between source and consumer. Consumers know producers' stories, and make informed choices about purchases. We give consumers full transparency into the agricultural value chain by working closely with our producer members to tell their story and that of their products, utilizing blockchain traceability and high quality digital media.
Level Builds financial services for the new economy. They collectively have decades of experience designing and delivering innovative financial services designed around specific needs. With complementary skills and knowledge, they have built Level technology to support an outstanding customer experience and provide the banking services you deserve.
Level Builds financial services for the new economy. They collectively have decades of experience designing and delivering innovative financial services designed around specific needs. With complementary skills and knowledge, they have built Level technology to support an outstanding customer experience and provide the banking services you deserve.
Level Builds financial services for the new economy. They collectively have decades of experience designing and delivering innovative financial services designed around specific needs. With complementary skills and knowledge, they have built Level technology to support an outstanding customer experience and provide the banking services you deserve.
Iteratively, Inc. is a Seattle-based company, established in 2019, that specializes in business data analytics software aimed at ensuring clean and consistent digital analytics across teams and platforms. The platform helps product managers align the organization on customer data, while assisting developers with features such as autocompletion, inline documentation, and automated testing for analytics. Additionally, it supports analysts by facilitating the accurate capture of product analytics from the outset. Key functionalities of Iteratively's software include tracking and verification of product analytics, ensuring correct event capture across various teams, and automating the generation of a type-safe tracking library. By streamlining the process of instrumenting analytics, Iteratively enables clients to save time, reduce errors, and derive actionable insights for better-informed decision-making.
Arbol is launching an insurance marketplace that connects weather exposed agricultural entities with capital providers like insurers and asset managers. Arbol’s parametric insurance platform removes information asymmetry and reduces administrative costs by leveraging objective data from satellites and weather stations.
Recurrent Motors, Inc. specializes in analyzing electric vehicle (EV) batteries and providing detailed reports that assist car dealers and private buyers in purchasing used electric cars. Founded in 2020 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company offers tools that assess battery health, life expectancy, and current maximum range of EVs, addressing the complexities involved in understanding these factors as vehicles age. By delivering non-invasive tests and leveraging a national database of vehicle data and history, Recurrent enables informed decision-making for both dealers and consumers. Additionally, the company provides personalized monthly battery analyses for EV owners, enhancing their understanding of their vehicles' performance over time.
Developer of an online childcare enrollment platform designed to make childcare accessible for everyone. The company's platform gathers data about daycare for parents to choose from and tools such as waitlist management, calendar management, tour management, payment management, and automatic seat offers, enabling working parents to find quality child care and keep families in the workforce.
OXIO Corp is a technology company that provides a carrier-as-a-service platform aimed at brands and enterprises seeking enhanced mobile data connectivity. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Paris and Mexico City, OXIO offers a cloud-based solution that integrates the wireless services of multiple providers. Its platform features a programmable mobile infrastructure that allows clients to unbundle traditional telecom services, enabling them to create a customized wireless experience for their customers. Through its B2B SaaS offering, OXIO delivers actionable intelligence and analytics, empowering organizations in sectors such as finance, government, media, and travel to optimize their connectivity solutions and drive value.
Fabric is a cloud-based e-commerce development platform that enables businesses to create tailored online shopping experiences for both direct-to-consumer and B2B markets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with additional offices in Vancouver and Bengaluru, the company offers a range of services, including an infrastructure platform for software as a service, personalized digital content, product information management, and multi-channel order management. With its open and modular design, Fabric allows brands to implement solutions quickly, enhancing performance and supporting growth while replacing outdated legacy systems. Notable clients such as BuildDirect, ABC Home & Carpet, GNC, and Universal Lacrosse rely on Fabric for its intuitive applications that cater to retail buyers, planners, and marketers.
Attunely produces a machine learning model for debt collection, decreasing waste, and improving recovery yield. The company has developed behavioral and economic models trained and tested on over 100 million interactions and decades of collection history. It offers a proven, compliant, and trustworthy machine learning platform that makes the recovery of receivables easy, seamless, and profitable.
Attunely was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
WhyLabs is an AI observability company focused on creating a seamless interface between humans and AI applications. It has developed a platform designed to analyze both structured and unstructured data from AI models, enabling comprehensive monitoring and analysis. The platform can process terabytes of data efficiently while continuously tracking data in real-time at various levels of detail. It monitors model accuracy, detects concept drift, and investigates model behavior across key segments. This functionality allows data scientists to identify and address potential issues proactively, ultimately saving time and preventing disruptions for businesses and their customers.
Panda AI Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in artificial intelligence solutions focused on natural language processing. Founded in 2020, the company offers a B2B platform designed to simplify workflows by integrating various tasks and applications. By enabling teams to communicate more effectively and stay aligned, Panda AI aims to enhance overall productivity within organizations.
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Arbol is launching an insurance marketplace that connects weather exposed agricultural entities with capital providers like insurers and asset managers. Arbol’s parametric insurance platform removes information asymmetry and reduces administrative costs by leveraging objective data from satellites and weather stations.
Journey Foods is a bold, machine learning-powered software platform for food companies. The company builds enterprise technology that improves product monitoring and development for CPG companies, ingredient suppliers, and manufacturers. With a focus on saving companies money and time, Journey Foods' tools accelerate innovation to improve their decision-making and operations with AI nutrition and supply chain insights embedded in integrative software. Journey Foods IO software enables food companies to quickly grow from new ideas, or new improvement, to commercialization by configuring desired consumer preferences, generating improved product formulations through ingredient tagging, receiving automated compliance and supply chain insights on nutrition and sustainability indicators, and seamless integrations to global ERP tools. The JourneyAI industry 4.0 solution gives management teams significantly faster data to make better strategic decisions and increase the ease of monitoring products for the 3 trillion dollar packaged foods market. The Journey Foods database retains an extensive and standardized database to extract data from millions of ingredients for algorithms to dynamically analyze and methodically recommended optimized portfolio recommendations based on pricing, supply chain, and nutrition parameters. To date, the company has established a database comprised of over 1 billion ingredient insights and learnings from our in-house prototyping product ‘Journey Bites’.
Insurdata Corporation, established in 2017 and based in Broomfield, Colorado, offers innovative desktop and mobile solutions tailored for property-specific data. The company serves insurance and reinsurance underwriters by providing high-resolution, peril-specific exposure and building-level risk data. Utilizing advanced technology such as mobile augmented reality and 3-D model creation, Insurdata enhances the risk assessment process through its platform, which captures and scores risk data globally. This enables clients to make informed decisions related to pricing, underwriting, and portfolio management by prioritizing peril-specific exposure data that may affect their existing portfolios and risk appetites.
MetaSoul, through its subsidiary Emoshape Inc., specializes in advanced artificial intelligence solutions that enhance the emotional intelligence of machines. The company has developed an Emotion Processing Unit (EPU), a microchip that enables devices to understand and respond to human emotions, facilitating more natural interactions. This technology is applicable across various sectors, including robotics, self-driving vehicles, virtual reality, and consumer electronics. By enabling machines to exhibit emotional awareness and develop unique personalities based on user interactions, Emoshape aims to bridge the gap between humans and intelligent objects. The company's innovations are designed to promote positive human-machine relationships, which are essential for the broader acceptance of AI and robotics in everyday life.
Dolly, Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects users with local truck owners for providing moving, delivery, and hauling services. It offers Dolly, an app that connects vetted pick-up truck owners with people who need moving, delivery, and hauling services. The company’s services include apartment move, retail store delivery, labor only move, storage move, craigslist and offer pick-up and delivery, small business move, junk removal, and donation pick-up and drop-off. Dolly, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Astrapi Corporation specializes in the design and implementation of innovative spiral-based signal modulation communication systems. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company offers a range of engineering services, including the design of spiral-based waveforms, simulation modeling, and integration support for users' system designs. Astrapi also focuses on intellectual property licensing, research and development, and commercial licensing services. The company's unique approach to signal modulation, which utilizes complex spirals, has demonstrated significant performance improvements over traditional circular modulation methods, both theoretically and through software simulations. These advancements include effective band-limiting with pulse-shaping filters and considerations for various noise types, enhancing the robustness and efficiency of communication systems.
FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse. FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market.
MetaSoul, through its subsidiary Emoshape Inc., specializes in advanced artificial intelligence solutions that enhance the emotional intelligence of machines. The company has developed an Emotion Processing Unit (EPU), a microchip that enables devices to understand and respond to human emotions, facilitating more natural interactions. This technology is applicable across various sectors, including robotics, self-driving vehicles, virtual reality, and consumer electronics. By enabling machines to exhibit emotional awareness and develop unique personalities based on user interactions, Emoshape aims to bridge the gap between humans and intelligent objects. The company's innovations are designed to promote positive human-machine relationships, which are essential for the broader acceptance of AI and robotics in everyday life.
Arbol is launching an insurance marketplace that connects weather exposed agricultural entities with capital providers like insurers and asset managers. Arbol’s parametric insurance platform removes information asymmetry and reduces administrative costs by leveraging objective data from satellites and weather stations.
Fresh Chalk, Inc. is a platform designed to facilitate the sharing of recommendations for various professionals, including those in home improvement, health, and beauty. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with additional operations in Austin and Houston, Texas, as well as Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, Fresh Chalk addresses the challenge of obtaining trustworthy recommendations. The platform allows users to compile and access a curated list of suggestions from their personal network, making it easier to find reliable local professionals when needed. This approach aims to provide a more dependable alternative to generic online reviews, ensuring that users can connect with service providers recommended by people they already trust.
Crowd Cow, Inc. is an online retail platform based in Seattle, Washington, that connects customers with small family farms to purchase high-quality meat products directly. Founded in 2015, the company specializes in offering a variety of meats, including beef, pork, lamb, chicken, and seafood, allowing customers to select specific cuts and quantities tailored to their preferences. By partnering with independent farmers and aquaculture operators, Crowd Cow ensures that its offerings are crafted with care and delivered straight to customers' doors. This approach not only supports local agriculture but also provides consumers with convenient access to premium meat products.
Wrench, Inc. is a mobile auto repair service provider that offers a wide range of car and truck repair services at customers' homes and offices. Founded in 2015 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company operates additional offices across several states, including Arizona, California, Florida, and Texas. Wrench specializes in services such as alternator and battery replacement, brake system repairs, diagnostic services, oil changes, and various other automotive repairs. The company also facilitates online appointment booking to enhance customer convenience. Wrench's mobile mechanics cater to the needs of both individual customers and fleet management, providing accessible and efficient automotive maintenance solutions.
OXIO Corp is a technology company that provides a carrier-as-a-service platform aimed at brands and enterprises seeking enhanced mobile data connectivity. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Paris and Mexico City, OXIO offers a cloud-based solution that integrates the wireless services of multiple providers. Its platform features a programmable mobile infrastructure that allows clients to unbundle traditional telecom services, enabling them to create a customized wireless experience for their customers. Through its B2B SaaS offering, OXIO delivers actionable intelligence and analytics, empowering organizations in sectors such as finance, government, media, and travel to optimize their connectivity solutions and drive value.
OXIO Corp is a technology company that provides a carrier-as-a-service platform aimed at brands and enterprises seeking enhanced mobile data connectivity. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Paris and Mexico City, OXIO offers a cloud-based solution that integrates the wireless services of multiple providers. Its platform features a programmable mobile infrastructure that allows clients to unbundle traditional telecom services, enabling them to create a customized wireless experience for their customers. Through its B2B SaaS offering, OXIO delivers actionable intelligence and analytics, empowering organizations in sectors such as finance, government, media, and travel to optimize their connectivity solutions and drive value.
Groopit offers a collaboration platform aimed at enhancing organizational efficiency by facilitating real-time data collection and management for teams that may not be directly employed by the organization. The platform enables users to report data quickly via mobile devices and supports multi-group implementation and integration with enterprise systems through APIs. This allows organizational leaders to align employees, streamline communication, and enhance visibility across various functions. With a solid team and early customer traction, Groopit has established its presence in the market and is actively pursuing funding to further its development and outreach.
Infinite io, Inc. is an innovative company focused on transforming the data storage landscape. Based in Austin, Texas and established in 2012, it offers the NSC-110, a network-based storage controller designed to optimize data management for organizations. The company's software efficiently migrates inactive data to cloud storage while retaining frequently accessed data on-site, allowing users seamless access to their information. This approach addresses the significant challenge of managing the exponential growth of inactive data, which often consumes a large portion of IT budgets. Infinite io’s technology combines Flash memory with cloud storage, enhancing performance for active data while offering a cost-effective solution for the ever-increasing volume of stored information.
LO3 Energy, Inc. owns and operates Pando, a marketplace solution that connects energy suppliers to customers. The company’s services help clients to create, deploy, and monetize energy products and customer services. It serves retail customers in utility and energy sectors. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Portland, Oregon.
MetaSoul, through its subsidiary Emoshape Inc., specializes in advanced artificial intelligence solutions that enhance the emotional intelligence of machines. The company has developed an Emotion Processing Unit (EPU), a microchip that enables devices to understand and respond to human emotions, facilitating more natural interactions. This technology is applicable across various sectors, including robotics, self-driving vehicles, virtual reality, and consumer electronics. By enabling machines to exhibit emotional awareness and develop unique personalities based on user interactions, Emoshape aims to bridge the gap between humans and intelligent objects. The company's innovations are designed to promote positive human-machine relationships, which are essential for the broader acceptance of AI and robotics in everyday life.
Insurdata Corporation, established in 2017 and based in Broomfield, Colorado, offers innovative desktop and mobile solutions tailored for property-specific data. The company serves insurance and reinsurance underwriters by providing high-resolution, peril-specific exposure and building-level risk data. Utilizing advanced technology such as mobile augmented reality and 3-D model creation, Insurdata enhances the risk assessment process through its platform, which captures and scores risk data globally. This enables clients to make informed decisions related to pricing, underwriting, and portfolio management by prioritizing peril-specific exposure data that may affect their existing portfolios and risk appetites.
StoryFit Inc. offers artificial intelligence insights and machine learning solutions for the book publishing, movie, and television production industries. The company’s products include StoryFit Metadata and StoryFit Analytics, which enables the publisher to analyze the metadata using artificial intelligence and provide insights related to audience targeting, reader personas, writing evaluation, faceted comps, and informed marketing intelligence. StoryFit Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Astrapi Corporation specializes in the design and implementation of innovative spiral-based signal modulation communication systems. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company offers a range of engineering services, including the design of spiral-based waveforms, simulation modeling, and integration support for users' system designs. Astrapi also focuses on intellectual property licensing, research and development, and commercial licensing services. The company's unique approach to signal modulation, which utilizes complex spirals, has demonstrated significant performance improvements over traditional circular modulation methods, both theoretically and through software simulations. These advancements include effective band-limiting with pulse-shaping filters and considerations for various noise types, enhancing the robustness and efficiency of communication systems.
MetaSoul, through its subsidiary Emoshape Inc., specializes in advanced artificial intelligence solutions that enhance the emotional intelligence of machines. The company has developed an Emotion Processing Unit (EPU), a microchip that enables devices to understand and respond to human emotions, facilitating more natural interactions. This technology is applicable across various sectors, including robotics, self-driving vehicles, virtual reality, and consumer electronics. By enabling machines to exhibit emotional awareness and develop unique personalities based on user interactions, Emoshape aims to bridge the gap between humans and intelligent objects. The company's innovations are designed to promote positive human-machine relationships, which are essential for the broader acceptance of AI and robotics in everyday life.
MetaSoul, through its subsidiary Emoshape Inc., specializes in advanced artificial intelligence solutions that enhance the emotional intelligence of machines. The company has developed an Emotion Processing Unit (EPU), a microchip that enables devices to understand and respond to human emotions, facilitating more natural interactions. This technology is applicable across various sectors, including robotics, self-driving vehicles, virtual reality, and consumer electronics. By enabling machines to exhibit emotional awareness and develop unique personalities based on user interactions, Emoshape aims to bridge the gap between humans and intelligent objects. The company's innovations are designed to promote positive human-machine relationships, which are essential for the broader acceptance of AI and robotics in everyday life.
IfOnly is a marketplace for incredible experiences. From unique everyday offerings with local experts to once-in-a-lifetime connections with lauded luminaries, IfOnly provides access to a curated selection of extraordinary experiences that benefit worthy causes around the world. Members enjoy amazing experiences that help them do something incredible every weekend. Engage with athletes, epicureans, artists, musicians, designers, and others who inspire shared interests, foster lasting memories, and benefit impactful causes. Luminaries can share their talent and build their business on the IfOnly marketplace. From meeting premium clientele to promoting their experiences in a curated, safe environment, top luminaries trust IfOnly to help them build their brand while benefiting important causes. At IfOnly, we believe that life is not about buying things, it's about the extraordinary experiences we remember and share. So, what’s your IfOnly?
Keepe Up, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that has developed a mobile application designed to connect users with qualified technicians for on-demand home repairs. Founded in 2014, the app allows users to request services by taking a picture and describing the issue, streamlining the process of finding and hiring a handyman. Keepe operates as a B2B marketplace, catering to property management firms, home warranty companies, and real estate investment trusts (REITs), offering an efficient solution for obtaining estimates, completing repairs, and managing payments. Available in multiple cities across the United States, Keepe aims to simplify home repair services for both businesses and homeowners, facilitating quick access to maintenance professionals.
FreightWaves is a data and content forum that provides market participants with near-time analytics on the state of the freight market. The company offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. The company's SaaS product, SONAR, is a freight market analytics tool and dashboard, aggregating billions of data points from hundreds of sources to provide the fastest data in the transportation and logistics sector. The platform is mode agnostic and has time-series and geo-based data from all modes of freight, including truck, rail, ocean, air, and warehouse. FreightWaves was founded to provide transparency and risk-management products to the freight markets. As a provider of aggregated data-sets across the North American freight markets, FreightWaves' SaaS platform helps companies take action based on the signals in the market.
Omise Co., Ltd. operates an online payment platform designed for both web and mobile applications, enabling users to easily transfer funds, process refunds, and store customer payment information for future transactions. Founded in 2013 and based in Bangkok, Thailand, Omise aims to simplify the online payment experience, particularly in markets like Thailand, Japan, and Singapore, where traditional payment processing can be cumbersome. The platform provides a range of processing solutions that facilitate seamless payment acceptance for businesses, including credit and debit card transactions and bill payments through various banking methods. Omise also offers APIs for developers to integrate payment functionality into their applications. The company prioritizes security and has achieved compliance with PCI-DSS standards, ensuring that transactions meet the requirements of major payment networks. By addressing the challenges of online payment processing, Omise seeks to create a reliable and user-friendly solution for both merchants and consumers.
Lumate, LLC is a technology company that specializes in a mobile advertising platform focused on programmatic buying. Founded in 2008 and based in Saint Louis, Missouri, with a satellite office in Rolla, the company offers a range of products designed to enhance audience targeting capabilities for advertisers, ad networks, and media buyers. Its key offerings include AdTrade, a bidding engine that incorporates context into mobile advertising while analyzing user behavior; AdMotive, a self-service portal that allows customization of ad reach; and DataWell, an API and SDK for publishers seeking to monetize audience data. Lumate's platform addresses gaps in the mobile advertising supply chain by leveraging geo-location and real-time bidding technologies, thereby enabling effective engagement with target audiences.
Dollar Shave Club is a lifestyle brand and e-commerce company based in Santa Monica, California, founded in 2012. It specializes in personal grooming products for men, offering a wide range of items including razors, blades, shave butter, aftershave liquids, face washes, and wipes. The company operates on a subscription model, allowing customers to receive these products regularly at affordable prices. Dollar Shave Club develops its offerings through a unique research and development process that incorporates botanicals and input from chemists, ensuring quality while keeping costs low. This innovative approach aims to simplify grooming for its customers.
Infinite io, Inc. is an innovative company focused on transforming the data storage landscape. Based in Austin, Texas and established in 2012, it offers the NSC-110, a network-based storage controller designed to optimize data management for organizations. The company's software efficiently migrates inactive data to cloud storage while retaining frequently accessed data on-site, allowing users seamless access to their information. This approach addresses the significant challenge of managing the exponential growth of inactive data, which often consumes a large portion of IT budgets. Infinite io’s technology combines Flash memory with cloud storage, enhancing performance for active data while offering a cost-effective solution for the ever-increasing volume of stored information.
Ruby Rockets specializes in producing non-GMO snack foods, particularly non-dairy frozen fruit and vegetable pops. The company aims to transform the snack and grab-and-go food categories for children and families by offering healthier alternatives. Its product line features eight flavors, including Rock-It Red, Galaxy Green, and Meteorite Mango, all crafted to provide a delicious yet nutritious option. Ruby Rockets emphasizes the use of organic ingredients, ensuring that its offerings are free from added refined sugars, chemicals, and artificial sweeteners. By focusing on accessible and healthy dessert options, the company caters to health-conscious consumers seeking enjoyable snacks for themselves and their families.
Mogreet, founded in 2006 and acquired by Payvia in 2013, is a leading text message marketing platform that specializes in delivering branded rich media to mobile devices through MMS. Based in Venice, California, Mogreet provides services to various sectors including entertainment, media, retail, consumer products, healthcare, and real estate, enabling them to reach a global audience of 2 billion consumers across over 175 countries. The company developed Mogreet Express, a self-service MMS messaging platform designed for small businesses to enhance customer engagement through multimedia messages. Additionally, Mogreet offers APIs that allow developers to integrate SMS and MMS messaging capabilities into their applications, facilitating the delivery of high-quality video, images, and audio. Originally starting as a mobile greetings service, Mogreet has evolved into a comprehensive mobile messaging platform that supports a range of media formats, making it a key player in mobile marketing solutions.
StrikeIron specializes in Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), providing a comprehensive suite of data quality solutions through its cloud platform, IronCloud. The company offers services such as address verification, email verification, phone validation, phone append, SMS text messaging, and sales tax solutions, catering to a diverse range of industries. Its web services can be seamlessly integrated into various applications and systems, enhancing data accuracy and communication efficiency. Additionally, StrikeIron's solutions are pre-integrated with prominent platforms, including Salesforce and Magento, allowing for streamlined deployment and use. The company aims to support businesses in improving their data management and communication processes through its innovative cloud-based offerings.
Mogreet, founded in 2006 and acquired by Payvia in 2013, is a leading text message marketing platform that specializes in delivering branded rich media to mobile devices through MMS. Based in Venice, California, Mogreet provides services to various sectors including entertainment, media, retail, consumer products, healthcare, and real estate, enabling them to reach a global audience of 2 billion consumers across over 175 countries. The company developed Mogreet Express, a self-service MMS messaging platform designed for small businesses to enhance customer engagement through multimedia messages. Additionally, Mogreet offers APIs that allow developers to integrate SMS and MMS messaging capabilities into their applications, facilitating the delivery of high-quality video, images, and audio. Originally starting as a mobile greetings service, Mogreet has evolved into a comprehensive mobile messaging platform that supports a range of media formats, making it a key player in mobile marketing solutions.
Send Word Now is the worldwide provider of enterprise communications services. Their easy-to-use, web-based and mobile solutions are deployed by businesses, government agencies, universities and non-profit organizations to ensure fast, effective communication when it is needed the most. Send Word Now was founded in 2001, by a group of individuals who recognized the need for immediate, reliable and multimodal crisis communications after the tragedies of September 11, 2001. Since that time, organizations across the globe have faced a multitude of natural and man-made disruptions, creating a heightened focus on business continuity, regulatory compliance, security and the ability to audit information flow. Further, today’s borderless business environment and increasingly mobile workforce have surfaced new needs for operations-focused communication and collaboration. Send Word Now is successfully transforming the way organizations communicate globally, both for emergency situations, and for every day, time-sensitive interactions. Their enterprise-class emergency notification system is capable of transmitting tens of thousands of voice and text messages in minutes, while providing a full audit trail for after action reporting and follow-up. Their mobile conferencing, collaboration and workflow solutions keep employees informed and connected to the people and information they need. And, everything is backed by their 100% Uptime reliability guarantee, and unmatched 24x7x365 customer support. In emergencies, or every day. When rapid, effective communication is essential for success, rely on Send Word Now for innovative, secure and reliable notification and collaboration solutions.
DimensionU, Inc. develops interactive multiplayer video games aimed at enhancing core skills in mathematics and literacy among K-12 students. Founded in 2003 and based in Richmond, Virginia, the company, formerly known as Tabula Digita, offers a range of educational games that integrate curriculum content with engaging gameplay and rewards. These games are utilized in over 70 school districts across the United States, including major systems such as New York City Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, and various districts in Florida and Texas. By focusing on academic and strategic skills, DimensionU's games provide students with an innovative way to practice and improve their learning in key subjects.
Playboox, Inc. is a sales enablement consultancy and software company that specializes in developing cloud and mobile sales playbooks, tools, and training solutions. It helps clients capture and standardize their sales organizations' best practices and processes. The company offers a sales playbook application integrated with Salesforce.com, allowing salespeople to access effective strategies to advance and close specific deals. Additionally, Playboox Playmaker is an on-demand software solution designed to standardize and enhance sales practices and tools. The company serves clients across the United States and Europe and aims to improve sales performance and management effectiveness while accelerating the onboarding process for new hires. Established in 2005 and based in San Francisco, Playboox was previously known as SalesEdge, Inc.
[Channel M](http://www.channelm.com) is a provider of content and advertising for out-of-home video in North America. The Company produces video content that engages and entertains each demographic specific to its retail and lifestyle venues. The Company's network of channels provides marketers the ability to reach a variety of demographics with television advertising, in-store signage, product integration and national promotions. As of April 2008, Channel M's network includes 20,000 locations and Channel M is offering marketers access to 7,500 locations with monthly traffic of over 100 million. The Company's clients include national retailers such as Macy's, Ashley Furniture, Homestores and Blockbuster. Source:[Channel M](http://www.channelm.com)
Wimba is a developer and provider of collaborative learning software solutions tailored for the education sector, including Further and Higher Education as well as K-12 institutions. The company offers a range of software tools designed to facilitate online classes, meetings, and training sessions. Additionally, Wimba provides publishing services and solutions that are commonly utilized in academic publishing, enhancing the learning experience and promoting effective communication in educational environments.
Send Word Now is the worldwide provider of enterprise communications services. Their easy-to-use, web-based and mobile solutions are deployed by businesses, government agencies, universities and non-profit organizations to ensure fast, effective communication when it is needed the most. Send Word Now was founded in 2001, by a group of individuals who recognized the need for immediate, reliable and multimodal crisis communications after the tragedies of September 11, 2001. Since that time, organizations across the globe have faced a multitude of natural and man-made disruptions, creating a heightened focus on business continuity, regulatory compliance, security and the ability to audit information flow. Further, today’s borderless business environment and increasingly mobile workforce have surfaced new needs for operations-focused communication and collaboration. Send Word Now is successfully transforming the way organizations communicate globally, both for emergency situations, and for every day, time-sensitive interactions. Their enterprise-class emergency notification system is capable of transmitting tens of thousands of voice and text messages in minutes, while providing a full audit trail for after action reporting and follow-up. Their mobile conferencing, collaboration and workflow solutions keep employees informed and connected to the people and information they need. And, everything is backed by their 100% Uptime reliability guarantee, and unmatched 24x7x365 customer support. In emergencies, or every day. When rapid, effective communication is essential for success, rely on Send Word Now for innovative, secure and reliable notification and collaboration solutions.
ITM Software delivers the only truly integrated approach to IT Business Management - one solution and one system of record for comprehensive visibility, coordination and control across IT functions. Serving as the glue connecting the traditional silos of IT information, ITM enables increased transparency, better decisions, more effective spending, and improved business alignment. The company has a single focus on serving the business management needs of IT organizations. Lead by former CIOs and IT leaders, ITM Software brings a unique perspective to the management challenges facing IT today. This experience base, combined with a world-class software development team, translates into products and best-practice expertise that bring a business-centric approach to managing IT. At the core of the ITM offering is the ITM Business Suite, an integrated solution comprised of six components addressing the most critical areas of IT Business Management including people, processes, vendors, assets, financials, projects, and regulatory compliance. Coupled with the ITM Business Suite, the company provides best practice expertise and a proven methodology for helping clients define business objectives and develop and execute on a plan to achieve them. This unique combination of software products and management expertise enables CIOs to drive down IT costs, and increase the bottom line through improved alignment with the business objectives of the enterprise. Founded in 2001 by former CIOs, the Company serves IT organizations within Fortune 2000 corporations, government agencies and universities. ITM Software is privately held and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
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