Lowercase 140

Liftopia, Inc. owns and operates a platform, Liftopia.com, which retails ski lift tickets on the Web. It sells lift tickets, rentals, and lessons at various alpine resorts in North America. Its platform enables alpine resorts to sell advance purchase, date specific tickets, rentals, and lessons. Liftopia, Inc. was formerly known as Liftopia Holding Corp. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Based in New York, Kickstarter is an online crowdfunding platform and community that enables artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators to raise funds for various community projects focused on movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, technology, fashion, food, design, and photography. Individuals who back these projects are offered tangible rewards and one-of-a-kind experiences in exchange for their pledges. Kickstarter applies a 5% fee on the total amount of the funds raised and their payments processor applies an additional 3–5% fee. The platform was launched in April 2009 and is based in New York, U.S.

Hello, Chair Inc. was founded in 2006 by Luke Iannini, Mike Jacobs and Kevin Corcoran to explore opportunities in applied machine learning and internet advertising. After receiving funding from Y-Combinator in 2007, we produced Adpinion, one of the first advertising networks to utilize user feedback to drive personalized targeting.

Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud version of WordPress. Automattic hosts and supports all WordPress.com sites ensuring that there is continuous and strategic development of the software available to its users. Automattic also supports WordPress.com VIP, a premium service designed for large-scale enterprises. WordPress.com VIP combines the benefits of WordPress.com and the ability to run custom code. In addition, WordPress.com VIP offers companies a robust CMS and 24/7 service.

Zencoder is web-based [video encoding software as a service](http://zencoder.com), designed to quickly convert any video into web and mobile compatible formats. It is for web sites and applications that accept uploaded videos and need to encode them to standard formats.

Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to effortlessly collect, manage, analyze, and share information. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology and data-driven insights to public safety. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City.

Streak is the only CRM integrated entirely within your Gmail inbox, and works alongside all your other G Suite applications. It can be used to track any business process including sales, partnerships, support, hiring, deal flow, and much more. Streak also includes a powerful set of email tools including email tracking, send later, snoozing, mail merge, and more.

Comparably provides the most accurate and comprehensive compensation and culture data, to understand employees' true value and needs to make work better.

Founded in 2009, CE is a Canadian-based clean energy company leading the commercialization of groundbreaking technology that captures CO₂ directly from the atmosphere, and synthesizes it into clean, affordable transportation fuels. From a pilot plant in Squamish, B.C., CE has been removing CO₂ from the atmosphere since 2015 and converting it into fuels since December 2017.

Viro Media, Inc. develops a software application for developers to create and publish virtual reality applications. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

The Company provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators (collectively, “General Users”) and for registered users who are tournament organizers (“Tournament Organizers”). The Company provides a platform for enabling connections between General Users and Tournament Organizers and for the collection of payments with respect to the sale of tickets, registrations, merchandise, and services for, and the solicitation of donations with respect to, events registered on the Site from General Users.

Wizeline is a global product development company that helps its clients solve their biggest challenges with design and technology. Wizeline helps technology leaders build innovative end-to-end products that capture new markets, disrupt business models, and leverage data. Over 100M people use products designed and developed by Wizeline every day. With Silicon Valley DNA and exceptional global talent, Wizeline has built a practice uniquely equipped to this task.

Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts and episodes, offering users an option to share, subscribing, and downloading them that enable clients to deliver powerful and engaging stories while expanding their brand outreach. Gimlet Media was founded in 2014 and is Brooklyn, New York.

Flirtey provides drone delivery service of retail and e-commerce items to consumer homes. It is driven by a mission to improve lifestyles by making delivery instant for everyone. The company was the first to conduct an FAA-approved drone delivery in the U.S., the first to perform a fully autonomous drone delivery to a home and the first to launch a commercial drone delivery service. Flirtey was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Reno, Nevada.

Bitly is a link management platform that helps brands deliver and measure their marketing efforts across all channels. Through branded bitlinks, mobile deep linking, and omnichannel campaign tracking, the platform offers a complete marketing solution to drive customer experiences. Using HTTP 301 redirects for its links, companies can use their own custom domains to generate shortened links. This allows the company to push brand awareness on services such as Twitter but use the Bitly engine to generate the shortened URLs and track marketing metrics. Bitly was launched in July 2008 and is based in New York, United States with additional offices in San Francisco and Denver.

TalentWorks is job interview matching platform

Snowball is your beautiful new notification center for Android. It takes all the awesome stuff from all the apps on your phone and puts it in one place. Now you can get things done without opening a million apps. Less apps, more action! UNIFIED INBOX: Receive and reply to messages from Facebook, WhatsApp, SMS, Line, Telegram, Email from *one* place TRAVEL ASSIST: See Uber and Lyft prices and times when you have to be somewhere PRIORITY NOTIFICATIONS: Hide annoying notifications, never miss awesome ones Highlights - Never miss another phone call, message, email, or calendar reminder - Fast reply to messages from WhatsApp, SMS, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Line + more - Heads-up notifications for important messages & notifications - Sounds and vibrations only play for important messages & notifications - Works with Android wear

Automattic is the company behind WordPress.com and WordPress.com VIP, the cloud version of WordPress. Automattic hosts and supports all WordPress.com sites ensuring that there is continuous and strategic development of the software available to its users. Automattic also supports WordPress.com VIP, a premium service designed for large-scale enterprises. WordPress.com VIP combines the benefits of WordPress.com and the ability to run custom code. In addition, WordPress.com VIP offers companies a robust CMS and 24/7 service.

Twilio, the developer platform for communications, is reinventing telecom by merging the worlds of cloud computing, web services and telecommunications. With Twilio, developers and businesses make communications more contextual by embedding voice, video, messaging, and authentication directly into applications. Businesses such as Uber, Box, DocuSign, Nordstrom, Coca-Cola, Walmart, and Home Depot trust Twilio to power their communications.

Locu helps local businesses be found. When businesses add their street address, phone number, hours of operation, and menus / service lists to Locu, Locu gets them on the map in front of over 200 million potential customers online. Instead of having to use multiple sites to manage their business listings and showcase their products and services, businesses can update just once with Locu, and Locu will publish changes in real-time to their web and mobile sites as well as to partner sites including Yelp, Foursquare, OpenTable, YP, TripAdvisor and Facebook.

Poll Everywhere is the world's largest real time web, SMS, and Twitter polling service that lets users submit votes or comments to a PowerPoint or Keynote slide. It is a modern alternative for expensive hardware audience response clickers. The first code commits were in 2007, then in 2008 Poll Everywhere was accepted into Y Combinator. Since then we've bootstrapped our way to becoming the world's largest real time polling platform.

Vidme is a Los Angeles-based online video sharing platform.

WUT, Inc. develops social messaging application that allows users to send anonymous, ephemeral messages to their friends. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Quirky is a developer of a crowdsourced invention platform that engages participants to collaborate in every aspect of product creation. It is a new type of socially developed product company founded with the vision of making invention accessible. Headquartered in New York City, Quirky brings game-changing products to the marketplace through interaction between its active online global community and Quirky’s expert product design staff, bringing to life ideas from their earliest stages to store shelves. Quirky was founded by Ben Kaufman, who is also the company’s CEO. Quirky is Kaufman’s third entrepreneurial venture. He previously founded Mophie and Kluster. Kaufman founded Quirky on the belief that ordinary people have extraordinary ideas, and that invention should be accessible to everyone. Any of Quirky’s community members can become an inventor or influencer by submitting ideas and helping to determine which products Quirky will design, manufacture, and sell. Inventors who submit ideas that are then created and influencers who contribute to those ideas share in royalties based on product sales. The company solicits ideas for new products via Quirky.com and its iPhone app. Once an idea is submitted, the Quirky community vets it, praises it, critiques it, and votes for their favorites, many of which will eventually be made by the Quirky design team and sold online and in stores. A prospective inventor can submit an idea to Quirky, and there is no limit on the number of invention ideas that a person can submit. When determining which products to make, Quirky considers factors such as uniqueness, manufacturing complexity, and intellectual property rights, yet they are committed to working on ideas both big and small that make life better. In 2016, the Quirky platform relaunched under new ownership.

Getable, Inc. provides an online rental service that enables consumers to search, compare, and rent equipment online. It enables clients to rent product in various categories, such as electronics and appliances, fashion wear, furniture and home goods, party and event supplies, sports and leisure products, storage and space solutions, tools and equipment, vehicles, and trade and conferences equipment. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lumi is a packaging supply chain platform for online brands, from small businesses to leading companies shipping millions of orders per month. Digital-native brands such as MeUndies, Threadless, Primary, and thousands of others rely on Lumi to supply unique and cost-effective unboxing experiences using their wide array of boxes, mailers, tape, and paper products available both custom-branded and plain. The Lumi Editor turns designs into production-ready artwork simplifying the traditional process of getting artwork proof. The Lumi Dashboard allows companies to quickly manage and re-order the supplies they need. Lumi works directly with factories around the world to produce and ship goods at competitive prices across a wide variety of manufacturing and printing techniques.

Dynasty Marketplace, Inc. develops artificial intelligence based software for real estate business. It enables individuals and institutions to buy and sell fractional ownership of individual properties on a liquid exchange. The application enables users to transform any email or phone number into a complete person with over 85 actionable data points. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Venice, California. As of January 7, 2019, Dynasty Marketplace, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AppFolio, Inc. As of January 7, 2019, Dynasty Marketplace, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of AppFolio, Inc..

The Company provides software to improve the Smash experience for streamers, players, tournament attendees, and spectators (collectively, “General Users”) and for registered users who are tournament organizers (“Tournament Organizers”). The Company provides a platform for enabling connections between General Users and Tournament Organizers and for the collection of payments with respect to the sale of tickets, registrations, merchandise, and services for, and the solicitation of donations with respect to, events registered on the Site from General Users.

Businesses on Stripe rank access to capital as their biggest obstacle to growth. Traditional lenders aren’t set up to serve internet businesses, typically requiring lengthy applications, complex collateral obligations, and fixed payment schedules. They built Stripe Capital to cut through the red tape. Their goal is to provide access to fast, flexible financing that helps online businesses invest in growth.

1000memories is the new shoebox for your old photos. 1000Memories allows people to organize, share, and discover old photos and memories and set up family trees.

MakeSpace aims to make storage convenient and consumer-friendly, creating a tech-enabled storage experience. Customers pay only for the space they need, and schedule pickups, drop-offs, and other services through an app and digital photo inventory. The company is now available in 31 markets across North America.

Getable, Inc. provides an online rental service that enables consumers to search, compare, and rent equipment online. It enables clients to rent product in various categories, such as electronics and appliances, fashion wear, furniture and home goods, party and event supplies, sports and leisure products, storage and space solutions, tools and equipment, vehicles, and trade and conferences equipment. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ranker, LLC operates as a digital media company provides rankings online. It offers rankings on people, such as actors, celebrity facts, historical figures, musicians, and politicians; entertainment, which include anime, gaming, movies, music, and TV; sports that include athletes, baseball, basketball, football, and soccer; culture, including food, relationships, travel and thought provoking; and channels. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Mindie is a new way to share life through music video, in seconds. Choose the track of your choice and record video while the music is playing! Any video gets insanely better with music.

VHX Corporation provides technology for businesses to create custom video experiences across various platforms and connected devices. Its video distribution platform allows creators to sell their work from their own Websites directly to their fans. The company enables publishers to sell films, TV shows, comedy specials, live concert footage, lectures, web series, fitness, education, and more. It serves video producers, agencies, distributors, and networks. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Brooklyn, New York. As of May 2, 2016, VHX Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Vimeo, LLC.

Vidme is a Los Angeles-based online video sharing platform.

At StyleSeat, our mission is to help people look and feel their best. We are on the path to achieving this mission by being the go-­to platform for consumers to discover, book, and pay for beauty and grooming services (hair stylists, colorists, nail artists, estheticians, barbers, etc). We are also the premiere solution for all independent professionals in the industry to run and grow their business. We have powered over 100 million appointments booked and $7B in revenue for small businesses and are on the path to much more.

SimpleGeo provides a ready-to-use location infrastructure that makes it easy to ad location-aware features to applications. The company was founded in 2009 by [Matt Galligan](/person/matt-galligan) and [Joe Stump](/person/joe-stump) and was acquired by [Urban Airship](/organization/urban-airship) in October 2011.

At StyleSeat, our mission is to help people look and feel their best. We are on the path to achieving this mission by being the go-­to platform for consumers to discover, book, and pay for beauty and grooming services (hair stylists, colorists, nail artists, estheticians, barbers, etc). We are also the premiere solution for all independent professionals in the industry to run and grow their business. We have powered over 100 million appointments booked and $7B in revenue for small businesses and are on the path to much more.

Threadflip is building a social marketplace that changes the way women shop for clothes and style their wardrobes, creating a peer-to-peer shopping experience that is delightful, collaborative and inspirational, as well as efficient and cost-effective. Threadflip closed in Jan. 14, 2015 but has partnered with Le Tote.

Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approved borrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking. Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

RescueTime, Inc. offers business time management software. It provides RescueTime, a Web-based time management and analytics tool that captures attention data from computer users and provides analytics to help them understand how they spend their time on the computer. The company offers its product in a software-as-a-service model. RescueTime, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Happy Returns, Inc. provides in-person returns for online shoppers. It develops a network of Return Bars, kiosks, that enables shoppers to return items in-person and get an immediate refund. The company then ships the item back to the e-commerce companies. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Binti, Inc. operates a platform for parents to fill their home study paperwork online. It provides access to a network of social workers and agencies to conduct home visits, as well as to help parents navigate the adoption process, including adopting home study preparation, international guides, and financing resources. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Oakland, California.

Stensul is transforming the way enterprise marketers work. Our email generation platform is centralized, scalable, and pre-configured to each brand. By bypassing all of the back-and-forth with designers, developers and QA, marketers can focus on crafting content that inspires and delivers real results. Build emails in our platform, and then instantly send them out through your ESP or Marketing Cloud. With stensul, marketers are reimagining what’s possible with email.

Next Games is a free-to-play developer based in Helsinki, Finland. Our priority is to create compelling and easy gameplay experience. It specializes in games based on entertainment franchises, such as movies, TV series, or books. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Helsinki, Southern Finland.

Hyper is a new video magazine for iPad with a clear less is more approach. With daily editions of only 6 to 12 hand-picked videos and a beautiful, minimalist design, Hyper simply provides the best of the newest every day.

Victorious empowers creators to distribute all of their multimedia content in their own apps, interact more deeply and directly with their fan communities, and unlock new revenue streams. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Liftopia, Inc. owns and operates a platform, Liftopia.com, which retails ski lift tickets on the Web. It sells lift tickets, rentals, and lessons at various alpine resorts in North America. Its platform enables alpine resorts to sell advance purchase, date specific tickets, rentals, and lessons. Liftopia, Inc. was formerly known as Liftopia Holding Corp. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in San Francisco, California.

DailyBooth lets users follow their friends and update them in real-time through the use of pictures and status updates.

Joymode, Inc. offers leisure equipment for periodic and short-term use on rent. It enables users to reserve and rent tents, sleeping pads, stoves, headlamps, etc. The company offers its services through its mobile applications and related services. Joymode, Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Dubsmash, Inc. develops and operates a web-based hosting, communications, and content creation platform and mobile application. The company offers a micro-video-entertainment application, which allows content creators to create and share dubbed sound recordings, videos, information, text, graphics, or related content. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

North Technologies Inc. designs and develops mobile applications. Its product includes Tiiny, an application to share small photos and videos with friends that automatically delete after 24 hours; and watchville, an application with news and features for watch enthusiasts. North Technologies Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 9, 2015, North Technologies Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BOTH Media LLC.

Omnity, Inc. develops and distributes a semantic search and discovery solution. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Mobcrush, Inc., a technology and entertainment company, develops a live streaming application and community for gamers. It offers Mobcrush, a mobile application that connects gamers worldwide. The company’s application enables users to create and broadcast the gameplay live from the phone or tablet; watch and hang out with creators and tune in for epic events and eSports competitions; and connect and chat with a community of players that love the same games. Mobcrush, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Kixer is a mobile advertisement network that enables premium content publishers to better monetize the mobile web through an ad inventory. Kixer helps web publishers enter the growing user acquisition marketplace, while providing application developers with the opportunity to attract a highly-engaged user base through its distribution outlet. Its technology improves personalized application recommendations, maximizing ROI for its users. Kixer is operated from Burbank, California.

Reserve Media, Inc. provides a digital dining concierge service for restaurants and diners. It provides Reserve, a service that enables customers to find various restaurants; and restaurants to accommodate more diners. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston. As of November 2, 2018, Reserve Media, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Resy Network, Inc.

Nurx is a healthcare services company offers at-home STI testing, treatment for genital and oral herpes, and emergency contraception. Nurx offers patients transparent pricing and judgement-free care whenever and wherever works best for them. Nurx believes everyone should have the freedom to live well and be in charge of their healthcare decisions, regardless of their circumstances.

Microblogging

Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approved borrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking. Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Backup technology provider for cloud-based data, offering archiving, search and restore solutions for online services

Backup technology provider for cloud-based data, offering archiving, search and restore solutions for online services

Boundless Mind, Inc. offers artificial intelligence platform for behavior design to help people be healthy, wealthy, happy, and wise. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California. As of October 16, 2019, Boundless Mind, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Thrive Global Holdings, Inc.

Electric Imp, Inc. operates an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for connectivity, security, and lifecycle management solutions for businesses. The company’s platform offers security, connectivity, cellular, cloud, IoT lifecycle, manufacturing implementation process, deployment and operation, and integration solutions, as well as impOS software for the company’s hardware modules. It also provides retrofit, asset management, asset tracking, monitoring and control, predictive maintenance, security critical, auto replenishment, and connected commerce solutions. In addition, the company offers hardware technology, hardware product services, cloud platforms, analytics and applications, and system integration and software services. Further, it sells breakout boards, IoT related products, prototyping accessories, and other products online. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Los Altos, California with an additional office in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Slack Technologies, Inc. operates Slack, a business technology software platform in the United States and internationally. Its platform brings together people, applications, and data, as well as sells its offering under a software-as-a-service model. The company was formerly known as Tiny Speck, Inc. and changed its name to Slack Technologies, Inc. in 2014. Slack Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Mark43 creates the next generation of law enforcement software that allows police to effortlessly collect, manage, analyze, and share information. It is on a mission to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. Its intuitive software delivers cloud-first technology and data-driven insights to public safety. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in New York City.

Bellhops, Inc. provides truck, trailer, storage unit, or mobile storage container loading and unloading services, as well as and heavy lifting services. The company offers its services through applications and online platform that connect athletic students with people and businesses needing moving help and lifting labor. It handles small and medium scale moves. The company serves the United States citizens. Bellhops, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Workflow connects your apps and services together to automate things you do every day. The company also builds DeskConnect: the missing link between your devices.

DIGITALGENIUS, INC. develops artificial intelligence software solutions for customer service operations. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Today, the Handshake community includes 17 million students and young alumni at over 1,000 colleges and universities — including 120+ minority-serving institutions. They connect up-and-coming talent across all 50 states with nearly 500,000 employers recruiting on Handshake — from every Fortune 500 company to thousands of small businesses, nonprofits, startups, and more. Handshake is democratizing opportunity and ensuring college students have the support they need to find a great job and kick-off a meaningful career regardless of where they go to school, what they choose as a major, and who they know. Handshake’s network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increase student employment Handshake has raised a total of $155 million dollars with $80 million most recently raised in Q4 of 2019. We've had the support from GGV, EQT Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Spark Capital, True Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. In addition, Handshake has received support from social impact investors, including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Omidyar Network, Reach Capital, among others. Handshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England.

Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approved borrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking. Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

vidIQ is the first YouTube audience development and management suite that helps brands and agencies grow their views and subscribers. vidIQ is an end-to-end solution that assists YouTube marketers at every step of their workflow, including uploading their videos at the best time of day, connecting brands with their top influencers, YouTube SEO, monitoring viewer and engagement analytics across Twitter and Facebook, bulk description editing, comment moderation, and Facebook fan page syndication. vidIQ was founded in January of 2012 by ex-Viddler founder Rob Sandie, Todd Troxell, and James Cross. It is backed by some of the biggest names in angel investment, including Mark Cuban, Scott Banister, and David Cohen, among others.

InboxQ is a browser extension that delivers a persistent stream of questions from Twitter directly to you. There is no better way to engage with potential customers than by using your expertise to help them solve their problems.

Formspring is a startup that helps people find out more about each other by sharing interesting & personal responses. Formspring encourages people to get to know each other better in a simple and fun way. It starts by directly asking people original questions in anticipation of their entertaining or revealing responses. Responses can range from straightforward to surprising and can lead to understanding something more about the people you know or find interesting. Whether you are curious to know more about a college you are applying to, the movies your friend likes, or the stories of someone you respect, on Formspring, you can have fun, share insights, and relate to one another in a new way.

Turntable.fm is a project of [Seth Goldstein](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/seth-goldstein) and [Billy Chasen](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/billy-chasen), the two guys who brought us [Stickybits](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stickybits). Users in each dance room has an avatar and can chat with each other. Users can create their own playlist and get up in the DJ booth to battle it out. Turntable.fm a social music platform that encourages hanging out with people and discovering music. If a DJ is playing a song you like, you can add it to your playlist, buy it on iTunes, find it on Last.fm, or launch Spotify. In November 2013, Turntable announced they would be shutting down turntable.fm to focus on their live events platform.

Bytegain, Inc. develops and operates a platform that provides custom real-time predictions about the behavior of users that are interacting with client's website. The company's product uses deep learning that enables client's to keep customer engagement high, improve recommendations and monetization, and to find more customers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Los Altos, California.

Artillery is a team of passionate gamers that is turning the modern web browser into a gaming console using HTML5 technology. Artillery's team is comprised of a brain trust of former Google and Facebook engineers focused on solving seemingly impossible game development hurdles and includes long-standing and high ranking gaming and eSports community members. It was founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California.

Medium is a social publishing platform that allows anyone to share ideas and perspectives that matter. For writers, Medium offers simple creation tools combined with a larger distribution network. For readers, Medium allows people to follow people and topics that matter to them and receive a personalized feed of content every day. Readers can join in the conversation by highlighting, recommending, or responding to posts. It was founded n 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Complex Polygon, Inc. is a product studio that designs, builds, develops, and launches mobile applications for the purpose of bringing people closer together. Its products include Tag and Swipe. Complex Polygon, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of July 14, 2017, Complex Polygon, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Uber Technologies, Inc.

Zeega is a cloud-based platform to create and share interactive videos. It curates music, pictures, GIFs, and more from a range of websites to help its users create their own interactive and engaging stories. The platform allows its users to express themselves by combining personal moments with popular culture. Zeega was launched in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Stensul is transforming the way enterprise marketers work. Our email generation platform is centralized, scalable, and pre-configured to each brand. By bypassing all of the back-and-forth with designers, developers and QA, marketers can focus on crafting content that inspires and delivers real results. Build emails in our platform, and then instantly send them out through your ESP or Marketing Cloud. With stensul, marketers are reimagining what’s possible with email.

InVenture is an innovative, fast-paced mobile technology start-up, that provides a credit scoring and reporting platform to financial services institutions in emerging countries.

InVenture is an innovative, fast-paced mobile technology start-up, that provides a credit scoring and reporting platform to financial services institutions in emerging countries.

Shape is a platform for people analytics. It brings together people data from disparate sources across an organization, and provides comprehensive reporting, insights, and predictions on that data. Leading companies use Shape to help their people do their best work.

GroupSpaces Limited provides a self-serve online platform for managing membership groups, such as clubs, hobbies, charities, professional associations, alumni networks, and more. Its platform enables group leaders and committees to organize member records, send email newsletters, host forums and email discussions, organize events and sell tickets, collect membership fees, and more. The company serves customers worldwide. GroupSpaces Limited was founded in 2007 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Trustify, Inc. operates an on-demand technology platform that helps to connect and hire private investigators in the United States. The company offers real-time observation and digital monitoring services. It also provides services in the areas of background checks, social and digital media analysis, and real-time observations for staffing; finding witnesses, serving papers, locating assets, and collecting evidence for law; and workman's compensation, scene investigation, liability, witness identification, property and casualty, recorded statements, surveillance, subrogation potential, fact of loss, and SIU support services for insurance businesses. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Arlington, Virginia.

Creating, Sharing and Celebrating the World's Visual Language

The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE) is creating an SEC-regulated national securities exchange designed to align great companies and long-term investors with the shared goal of value creation. They have assembled a world-class team of experts and advisors located in New York, San Francisco, and DC with deep expertise in finance, regulation, law, and technology. The LTSE seeks to end the twenty year decline in the number of public companies in the United States by creating a new listings venue that serves issuers (companies) and investors and prioritizes long-term value creation. The LTSE was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Tala is a mobile technology and data science company that is oriented around financial services in emerging markets. More than 2 million people have borrowed through Tala’s smartphone app, which provides instant credit scoring, lending, and other personalized financial services in emerging markets. Tala provides personalized loans to approved borrowers and builds digital credit history. The company provides instant loans through a mobile app where the entire process happens, from loan application to funds release and status tracking. Tala was founded on October 1, 2011, and is the global team is headquartered in Santa Monica, with additional offices in Nairobi, Manila, Dar Es Salaam, Mexico City, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Kolors is a technological platform that focuses on providing intelligent intercity mobility of bus transportation in the region.

Dubsmash, Inc. develops and operates a web-based hosting, communications, and content creation platform and mobile application. The company offers a micro-video-entertainment application, which allows content creators to create and share dubbed sound recordings, videos, information, text, graphics, or related content. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Synervoz Communications Inc. develops Switchboard, a voice-based communication application that lets users listen to music and talk with friends when the headphones are on. Its application enables remote teams to communicate and users set permissions on who can reach them and when can they be reached. The company’s application is compatible with mobile phones (iOS and Android), web applications, and desktop (Windows and Mac). Synervoz Communications Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Ingleside, Canada.

Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts and episodes, offering users an option to share, subscribing, and downloading them that enable clients to deliver powerful and engaging stories while expanding their brand outreach. Gimlet Media was founded in 2014 and is Brooklyn, New York.

Mobcrush, Inc., a technology and entertainment company, develops a live streaming application and community for gamers. It offers Mobcrush, a mobile application that connects gamers worldwide. The company’s application enables users to create and broadcast the gameplay live from the phone or tablet; watch and hang out with creators and tune in for epic events and eSports competitions; and connect and chat with a community of players that love the same games. Mobcrush, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Santa Monica, California.

Triller, Inc. develops and operates AI-powered music video app and talent discovery platform that allows users to create professional-looking videos. Triller, Inc. was formerly known as Mibblio, Inc. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Los Angeles, California. It has additional offices in Miami, Florida; Paris, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. As per the transaction announced on October 22, 2020, Triller, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Proxima Media LLC.