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Inirv Labs, Inc. is a consumer electronics company based in Durham, North Carolina, focused on enhancing kitchen safety and automation through innovative smart technology. Founded in 2016, Inirv develops smart stove knobs that replace traditional knobs, allowing users to monitor and control their stove remotely via a connected application. The product includes features such as automatic burner adjustments, cooking time settings, and reminders for cooking tasks. Additionally, it integrates with other smart home systems to improve cooking efficiency and safety, with built-in technology designed to turn off the stove in unsafe conditions. Inirv's solutions aim to revolutionize kitchen interactions, promoting a safer cooking environment while addressing common household challenges.

Beach Box is a company that specializes in portable storage solutions designed to securely hold personal belongings. Their product functions as a portable safe, speaker, and USB charging station, allowing users to store valuables while enjoying music. Equipped with GPS and geofencing technology, the Beach Box provides alerts if it is moved beyond a designated area, enhancing security. Additionally, the box features four cameras on each side, further deterring theft and ensuring the safety of stored items. This combination of functionality and security makes Beach Box a practical choice for individuals looking to protect their personal belongings in various environments.

GoCoach is help to get solid advice from professional career coaches. GoCoach, they know that growth is fundamental to the happiness of all human beings. It is their mission to make it easy for everyone to grow in their careers, unlock their potential, and achieve greater happiness. They envision a world where people have the tools they need to grow in a transparent, safe, and supportive work environments. By making career growth accessible, they are investing in a happier, more empowered world.

Freeing Returns is a B2B merchandise returns platform that focuses on helping retailers combat returns fraud through a cloud-based return management system. The platform employs advanced technology to analyze customer data, including loyalty programs, transactions, and social media activity, to assess the risk of fraudulent returns. By providing tools for fraud detection and prevention, Freeing Returns enables retailers to minimize financial losses associated with returns fraud. Additionally, the platform allows customers to schedule their returns conveniently, reducing wait times and improving the overall return experience. Through its Returns as a Service™ model, retailers can outsource their merchandise return processes, streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency. The company was founded by a team of experts with extensive experience in retail technology.

Parrot is a mobile commerce platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company specializes in providing a digital shopping experience through its mobile payment platform, which facilitates direct product sales to customers. Parrot's offerings include text transactions, targeted recommendations, and enterprise-grade security. The platform aims to enhance e-commerce by enabling conversational commerce via SMS, allowing clients to optimize their customers' mobile shopping experiences effectively.

ParrotMob enables mobile revenue growth for DTC e-commerce brands with its all-in-one SMS payments platform.

ParrotMob enables mobile revenue growth for DTC e-commerce brands with its all-in-one SMS payments platform.

Inirv Labs, Inc. is a consumer electronics company based in Durham, North Carolina, focused on enhancing kitchen safety and automation through innovative smart technology. Founded in 2016, Inirv develops smart stove knobs that replace traditional knobs, allowing users to monitor and control their stove remotely via a connected application. The product includes features such as automatic burner adjustments, cooking time settings, and reminders for cooking tasks. Additionally, it integrates with other smart home systems to improve cooking efficiency and safety, with built-in technology designed to turn off the stove in unsafe conditions. Inirv's solutions aim to revolutionize kitchen interactions, promoting a safer cooking environment while addressing common household challenges.

Film Connx is the job marketplace for film that connects studios to vetted local crew. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

MyTotem is a visual content platform that specializes in AI-powered design solutions, enabling clients to create customized branding options tailored to their specific industries. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, MyTotem's platform integrates smart design software with social media management tools, utilizing data algorithms to enhance the branding experience. The company's primary offering is an AI branding feature that captures and personalizes visual aesthetics for users, equipping them with the necessary resources to effectively launch and manage their businesses. Through its innovative approach, MyTotem aims to streamline the digital development process for its clients while fostering creativity and engagement with their target audiences.

Aleria helps companies improve recruitment strategies, increase employee satisfaction and loyalty, achieve diversity goals and drive business performance. To get started, our Inclusion Assessment can identify the unique opportunities that exist within your organization.

Young King Hair Care is a Georgia-based brand specializing in natural hair care products designed specifically for boys with textured hair. The brand aims to empower young males by encouraging them to embrace and celebrate their unique hair. Its product line includes a leave-in conditioner, an essential oils blend, and a curling cream, all formulated with plant-based ingredients such as shea butter, marshmallow root, grapeseed oil, avocado oil, and argan oil. These products are free from harmful chemicals like phthalates, sulfates, and parabens, promoting healthy hair growth and enhancing the confidence of multicultural boys. Young King Hair Care is committed to redefining young male grooming through quality, safe, and effective hair care solutions.

Ethnic District is an online destination to shop Afro-centric beauty, homeware, textiles, and specialty food products. It has a curated selection of over 600+ products from the best ethnic brands worldwide. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Black Oak TV focuses on digital media, film, television, video streaming, and content such as black web series. They created short films, TV shows, movies, and more to check out on their website, YouTube, Facebook, and IG. Their company has offices in Los Angeles, New York City, and Oakland.

U SCOPE Technologies is a B2B SaaS technology solution provider that develops software and mobile applications geared to assist businesses that inspect residential and commercial properties specifically designed to provide them a more safe and efficient process of collecting property data. By utilizing emerging technological advances, U Scope offers solutions that revolutionize the methods used to conduct property inspections either on-site or remotely with their virtual inspection mobile and desktop platforms. U Scope also leverages computer vision and AI technology within its virtual inspection camera to usher a new era of image and data recognition for inspecting building structures that may be damaged or might be at high risk. The company strives to help industry professionals estimate smarter, faster, and more efficiently by offering affordable and reliable mobile inspection equipment and tools to safely and efficiently scope property damage to complete a final repair assessment. Our first revolutionary product, the PHOTO iD app, is a property inspection camera that essentially allows property inspectors to capture and label their inspection images in a more streamlined fashion with just a single touch of their mobile device’s camera screen, therefore, allowing them to eliminate the drawn-out process of labeling countless images after each inspection and literally saving them hours every day. By utilizing our app, users can simply aim and shoot while taking their images on the fly, which allows them to inspect an average of 2 to 3 more properties on a daily basis in the same timeframe, thus increasing their bottom line and providing a better customer experience.

ArtzyBella is a socially responsible art studio based in East Point, Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated to enhancing mental health through creative expression. Founded in 2016, the company provides a monthly subscription box filled with curated art activities designed to integrate art into personal wellness routines. In addition to the subscription service, ArtzyBella offers virtual art classes and therapeutic art workshops, fostering a supportive environment for individuals seeking to improve their mental well-being. The studio also plays a vital role in the community by creating job opportunities for aspiring creative professionals and local artists, thereby promoting both artistic engagement and social responsibility.

Air Charter Business is an aerospace company that offers typical commercial and passenger service to individuals. The company provides excellence in products and services to the air charter aviation community that surpasses their customers’ expectations. It also provides efficient, customer-focused brokerage-service, and delivering excellent customer care in air charter and air charter aircraft needs. Air Charter Business was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Jetsetter Chic provides chic, clean, and conscious solution-based products to aid avid female travelers with their health, wellness, and safety throughout their travel journey. Their products help with stress, skin dryness, anxiety, jetlag, bloating, insomnia, and hygienic cleanliness associated with travel. Jetsetter Chic focuses on sustainably sourced and clean ingredients in formulating clean beauty and wellness products that help with these areas. Products are sold separately or as a personalized curated subscription box. Jetsetter Chic was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Quaint Revolt is a lifestyle publisher at the intersection of niche-media and concept retail for a global creative audience. Publishing. Commerce. Culture Publishing Quaint Revolt launched in 2014 as an online blog exploring indie creative culture through digital content. Three years later, the brand evolved into an authority that disrupts media and democratizes the creative economy. QR centers Afro-diasporic perspectives that reflect contemporary art discourse, aesthetics, and cultural production, by amplifying emerging disruptors traversing the arts, design, music, and visual culture. Quaint Revolt publishes quarterly print zines sold exclusively online in The Quaint Shoppe. Learn more about contributing to our next issue at www.qrmedia.co. Commerce - Quaint Shoppe A conceptual retail space to shop quarterly collections of specialty goods and exclusive collaborations with multidisciplinary creatives. Shop all collections online in The Quaint Shoppe. Culture - Agency + Experiences We partner with creatives and brands from across the world to provide intimate and impactful experiences. QR thoughtfully curate artist talks, panel discussions, exhibitions, and events that facilitate Diasporic arts discourse, visual culture, and creative commerce. Services The Quaint Revolt Team is comprised of creative thinkers, scholars, and change-agents with a wide range of experience in the arts and media. We work with artists, writers, and creative entrepreneurs to expand their media presence, connect with our readers, and market to niche audiences. Consult with QR for: · Media Strategy & Planning · Targeted and Editorial Advertising · Writing and Editing: Artist Statements, Art Books/Zines, · Collaborative Projects & Activations Quaint Revolt was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Boulo Solutions creates a platform that bridges professional women and goal-driven companies who hire talent for project-based work or roles. It surfaces a hidden workforce for career-focused employers: committed women who accomplish more while finding healthy work and life integration. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.

Ligne Roset Atlanta is a furniture company that designs and manufactures household furniture, lighting, accessories, and textiles. The company also provides a wide collection of high-end contemporary furniture and complementary decorative accessories, lighting, rugs, textiles and occasional items. It invites consumers to revel in a contemporary and design-forward lifestyle. Ligne Roset Atlanta features ergonomic designs with five densities of foam combined to make the frame. The company's foam construction and quilted covers make each piece both visually attractive and very comfortable. Ligne Roset is based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Black Travel Box LLC is an online retailer specializing in personal care products designed for travel. Established in 2017 and based in Denver, Colorado, the company offers a range of hair, skin, and body products that prioritize convenience and portability, ensuring a hassle-free experience at security checkpoints and minimizing mess during travel. The product formulations and packaging are tailored to meet the unique needs of travelers, enabling them to maintain their beauty routines on the go. In addition to personal care items, Black Travel Box also provides gift cards, further enhancing its customer offerings.