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Elevate Labs, LLC, based in San Francisco, offers a mobile application that serves as a personal brain trainer, focusing on enhancing various cognitive skills. The app features training activities that target areas such as memory, processing speed, communication, and analytical thinking. Users benefit from a personalized, game-based training program that adapts over time to their performance, thereby promoting continuous improvement. Elevate has gained recognition for its effectiveness, receiving accolades such as Apple's App of the Year in 2014 and Google Play's Editor's Choice. Since its launch in May 2014, the app has been downloaded over 21 million times, helping more than 50 million individuals improve their cognitive abilities and communication skills through engaging and interactive exercises.

Wanderfly is a platform designed to help users discover and share personalized travel recommendations, recognizing that individual travel preferences vary widely. By leveraging social connections through Facebook friends and Google Contacts, Wanderfly provides tailored suggestions for hotels, restaurants, and activities, making travel planning more personal and enjoyable. The company is supported by notable venture capital and angel investors, as well as a team of distinguished advisors, ensuring a robust foundation for its innovative approach to travel. Through its user-friendly platform, Wanderfly aims to inspire and simplify the travel experience for its users.

RewardsForce provides SAAS solutions for loyalty and rewards to underserved markets using our dynamic web-based platform. RewardsForce products include AnteUpdates, an iPad application for casinos and card rooms that assists floor managers and pit bosses with managing their rewards club. AnteUpdates transforms the iPad into a mobile customer service device and is praised by casinos as the easiest way to manage a loyalty program.

Crowdbooster is an internet company that specializes in social analytics software aimed at enhancing social media marketing efforts. The platform enables advertisers and content creators to effectively transact in sponsored content while providing tools to measure and optimize their social media strategies. By offering insights into the best times to share content and the most effective audiences to engage, Crowdbooster helps marketers make informed decisions to improve their outreach and overall effectiveness in the digital landscape.

Rackup leverages behavioral economics to disrupt the $100B gift-card market and, more generally, the prepaid market. Fun, fast and thrilling, Rackup.com features a revolutionary gift card auction where winners always get more than they pay for. Rackup promotes customer engagement, drives traffic to retailers and increases revenue. Rackup’s team is lead by Marc Rochman and is supported by a Board that includes Prof. Paul Milgrom, one of the most prominent experts in auction theory, and Prof. Dan Ariely Author of “Predictably Irrational”. Rackup places prepaid back at the center of marketing strategies and will change forever the way people buy.