SupporTrends is adding value to consumer feedback by analyzing large volumes of unstructured customer service and support events. Our technology allows quantitative analysis of large-scale trends within product lines, brands, and industries that would previously have been difficult or impossible to identify.
Hands In offers a payment solution that allows groups of consumers to pay together online, addressing the common issue of one member having to cover the entire cost upfront. By integrating its technology into various e-commerce websites and portals, Hands In facilitates simultaneous payments for group expenses, enhancing the purchasing experience for consumers. This innovative approach not only reduces friction in online transactions but also benefits merchants by increasing conversions, average transaction values, and overall marketing reach. The company aims to streamline group payments, ensuring that no individual is left out of pocket when making shared purchases.
Cohley is a content generation platform that connects brands with vetted creators and photographers to facilitate the production of diverse and actionable content. Through its software, clients can post campaigns that outline their content goals, allowing creators to apply with a clear understanding of timelines, deliverables, guidelines, and compensation. This process helps brands efficiently select creators and gather thousands of rights-approved videos, photos, and text reviews, which are stored in centralized Content Libraries for easy activation across digital channels. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Cohley aims to support brands in generating high volumes of quality content while driving data-informed strategies at a reduced cost.
Share My Change is a web-based application that focuses on enhancing fundraising for retailers through location-based commerce tools. The platform transforms the traditional donation box into a digital fundraiser, allowing supporters to contribute spare change easily via a mobile application. This innovation not only simplifies the donation process but also enables retailers to generate funds more effectively, supporting both their charitable initiatives and customer engagement.
Developer of employee engagement and culture-building platform designed to keep distributed teams connected and engaged. The company's platform features a wide range of fun virtual events and activities that bring teams together and power employee engagement, regardless of location, it creates consistent cultural experiences for diverse, distributed teams from onboarding and employee recognition, to team offsite, helping companies to attract and retain their top talent by keeping their employees happy, healthy, productive and engaged.
Developer of a music design application designed to reform the remote audio collaboration process by closing the feedback loop. The company's application group samples based on how they sound and allows for time-coded comments to let collaborators pinpoint exactly where the track needs work, enabling musicians and audio content creators to improve collaboration efficiency.
Motivote is a civic engagement platform focused on enhancing social impact and mobilizing networks for campaigns, causes, and organizations. The company has developed a product that utilizes behavioral nudges to promote higher voter turnout across various election levels. By incorporating elements such as gamification, incentives, and peer accountability, Motivote enables users to create networks that support civic action. The platform facilitates pledging, sends tailored reminders, and verifies votes, making the voting process more enjoyable and accessible. Through these innovative features, Motivote aims to foster greater participation in democratic processes and empower individuals to engage actively in civic responsibilities.
Cohley is a content generation platform that connects brands with vetted creators and photographers to facilitate the production of diverse and actionable content. Through its software, clients can post campaigns that outline their content goals, allowing creators to apply with a clear understanding of timelines, deliverables, guidelines, and compensation. This process helps brands efficiently select creators and gather thousands of rights-approved videos, photos, and text reviews, which are stored in centralized Content Libraries for easy activation across digital channels. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Cohley aims to support brands in generating high volumes of quality content while driving data-informed strategies at a reduced cost.
Drugviu combine data from FDA clinical trials, with physician and pharmacist expertise plus demographic relevant crowdsourced reviews to give you and your family trusted medication information. They have intentionally focused on Asian, Black, Latino and Native American populations because these groups have traditionally been underrepresented in medicine starting with clinical trials to measuring outcomes. They strongly believe everyone is important and everyone’s experiences matter. They believe that information is power not just for one’s self but when shared can really change communities.
We enable brands to engage in conversational commerce at scale via trusted advocates. Two billion consumers use chat to engage with brands and make purchase decisions. Failing to respond fast enough results in a lost sales and customer churn. A huge component for customer experience is conversational commerce. Leading chat platforms (FB messener, Whatsapp, Wechat) and enterprise software (SFMC, LiverPerson, ZendDesk) ensure that brands are always on and always connected. How can a brand respond at scale with authentically when consumers wanted advice from a person? AI/Chat bots are great for standardized questions based on catalogue data or FAQ's but what consumer actually want is advice from someone knowledgeable. AskAPro is the first distributed chat platform allowing brands to engage in chat at scale (think Uber/Quora) through trusted advocates which are routed in real-time from customers, employees, and brand advocates. Our patented platform if the first to systematically help brands onboard employees, customers, and advocates and dynamically route questions based on specific use cases. Using a mytrustscore ranking system our platform get smarter over time identifying the person to answer questions not unlike how Uber/Lyft look for the right driver.
Motivote is a civic engagement platform focused on enhancing social impact and mobilizing networks for campaigns, causes, and organizations. The company has developed a product that utilizes behavioral nudges to promote higher voter turnout across various election levels. By incorporating elements such as gamification, incentives, and peer accountability, Motivote enables users to create networks that support civic action. The platform facilitates pledging, sends tailored reminders, and verifies votes, making the voting process more enjoyable and accessible. Through these innovative features, Motivote aims to foster greater participation in democratic processes and empower individuals to engage actively in civic responsibilities.
We enable brands to engage in conversational commerce at scale via trusted advocates. Two billion consumers use chat to engage with brands and make purchase decisions. Failing to respond fast enough results in a lost sales and customer churn. A huge component for customer experience is conversational commerce. Leading chat platforms (FB messener, Whatsapp, Wechat) and enterprise software (SFMC, LiverPerson, ZendDesk) ensure that brands are always on and always connected. How can a brand respond at scale with authentically when consumers wanted advice from a person? AI/Chat bots are great for standardized questions based on catalogue data or FAQ's but what consumer actually want is advice from someone knowledgeable. AskAPro is the first distributed chat platform allowing brands to engage in chat at scale (think Uber/Quora) through trusted advocates which are routed in real-time from customers, employees, and brand advocates. Our patented platform if the first to systematically help brands onboard employees, customers, and advocates and dynamically route questions based on specific use cases. Using a mytrustscore ranking system our platform get smarter over time identifying the person to answer questions not unlike how Uber/Lyft look for the right driver.
Worky.ai is a software platform designed to enhance communication and performance tracking for remote teams. It provides a streamlined solution that helps eliminate clutter by focusing on key messages and decisions. The platform integrates with popular applications such as GitHub and Jira, allowing it to automatically retrieve data to deliver comprehensive insights into employee performance. Additionally, Worky.ai features real-time capabilities that enable organizations to recognize and reward employees for timely task completion, thereby promoting individual growth and fostering a positive work culture. By combining effective communication tools with performance analytics, Worky.ai aims to support the success of remote work environments.
Community Benchmark is a company that specializes in developing a data aggregator platform focused on the wine industry. Its platform utilizes proprietary algorithms to gather and analyze business information and insights relevant to wineries and related businesses. By measuring the relative success of tasting rooms, Community Benchmark provides anonymized, personalized metrics that help individual wineries identify opportunities in new wine markets. This approach enables wineries to make informed decisions based on actionable data, enhancing their competitiveness in the industry.
JoinEight People Powered is an AI-driven, data-centric platform that gathers, syncs and learns from the sourcing behavior and delivers better engagement, at any scale.
Instant Teams, Inc. operates a remote workforce supplier and management platform designed to connect companies with untapped talent pools. The company's platform, known as Arti, allows hiring managers to define their talent needs and timelines, facilitating the matching of pre-qualified, native English-speaking professionals to various projects. In addition to talent sourcing, Instant Teams offers a comprehensive management platform that includes features for payroll, compliance, time tracking, and reporting. The company is particularly focused on supporting the military community and has established partnerships with the Department of Defense to place skilled professionals who often have transient lifestyles. Founded in 2016 and based in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, Instant Teams aims to enhance the future of remote work by providing businesses access to agile marketing, administrative, and operational talent.
Hovercast is an entertainment company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It specializes in developing an audience engagement platform that empowers users to interact with live streams through various interactive features. These features include polls, comments, gameplay, and custom integrations, allowing brands, media companies, musicians, and politicians to create and personalize branded motion graphics that incorporate audience feedback. By focusing on interactive live streaming, Hovercast enhances the connection between creators and their audiences, making it easier for them to engage in real time.
Cohley is a content generation platform that connects brands with vetted creators and photographers to facilitate the production of diverse and actionable content. Through its software, clients can post campaigns that outline their content goals, allowing creators to apply with a clear understanding of timelines, deliverables, guidelines, and compensation. This process helps brands efficiently select creators and gather thousands of rights-approved videos, photos, and text reviews, which are stored in centralized Content Libraries for easy activation across digital channels. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, Cohley aims to support brands in generating high volumes of quality content while driving data-informed strategies at a reduced cost.
Pulse Q&A Inc. develops an artificial intelligence based platform that provides crowdsourced data for technology executives. It offers Pulse Q&A to test messaging and positioning in real time before campaign launches for a new product launch or a message refresh. The company’s platform is used to make and shape decisions by enabling users to create questions and serve it to peers, customers, or prospects, and collect data. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Rapid Replay is the video technology that brings user generated content to businesses. Rapid Replay delivers crowd sourced video highlights of youth, high school, and amateur teams directly to the channels where they matter most.
Companies rely on data about their customers to make informed decisions, but running focus groups and traditional research campaigns is costly and slow. Groundwork is a platform that helps marketers design effective research studies, recruit and access vetted respondent panels, and deploy surveys at scale via chatbot.
RumbleSum is a software company focused on enhancing social capital within organizations through an employee engagement platform. This platform encourages community building among employees by offering flexible mobile challenges that align with corporate values and personal interests. Activities include trivia games, physical challenges, and charity drives, fostering interaction and camaraderie among employees across various departments and management levels. By promoting engagement and connection, RumbleSum aims to improve employee retention and facilitate conflict resolution within the workplace.
At Mergeable, we’re building a place where everything from the small details to the big picture are organized and visible to the whole organization. We are working to create a culture that is radically transparent, where our team can have thoughtful disagreement and safely exchange ideas. We believe in that next-generation organization will be driven by customer success and the technology that enables that transformation will lead the way. Similar to our internal culture at Mergeable, our external mission is to optimize processes and make them more transparent for everyone, no matter their level of technical expertise.
CrowdForce is a company that operates an offline distribution network focused on market research and financial services. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CrowdForce leverages mobile technology to facilitate the mass adoption of digital, cryptocurrency, and financial services. The company collaborates with businesses, banks, digital wallets, multinational organizations, NGOs, and government agencies to effectively reach underserved populations in various communities. By providing innovative solutions and a global agent network, CrowdForce aims to enhance access to essential services and drive engagement in financial literacy and technology adoption.
Agora is a real-time engagement platform designed to enhance workflow and facilitate meaningful human connections. Established in 2014 and based in New York, the platform integrates with popular file-sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box, allowing users to edit, create, share, and collaborate on documents seamlessly. Utilizing natural language processing and machine learning, Agora builds intelligent moderation tools that improve online conversation quality by filtering out noise, thus enabling businesses to scale their ideas and create engaging user experiences. The platform also offers functionalities to predict customer urgency and churn likelihood, detect trending issues, and suggest responses to frequently asked questions, further streamlining collaboration and communication for its users.
SpotCrowd developing technology to help make an impact on one of the biggest crimes & safer retail environment tomorrow. Shoplifting is one of the biggest crimes in the world. It costs retail stores in the USA $35 Billion dollars each year and thieves are often unpunished. They make it their mission to work everyday make a real change by bring more justice and deterrent to steal into the retail industry, making stores a safer place.
Sourcify, Inc. is an automated sourcing platform that facilitates the connection between businesses and overseas factories for product manufacturing. Founded in 2017 and based in San Diego, California, the platform allows users to submit project specifications, including product requirements and designs, approve samples, initiate production, and receive finished products. Sourcify has gained recognition as a rapidly growing solution in the sourcing industry, supporting numerous companies in their manufacturing needs globally. The company is backed by YCombinator, highlighting its innovative approach to streamlining the sourcing process.
Botnik is a collaborative community of writers, artists, and developers focused on creating unique and innovative content through the use of artificial intelligence. The group operates Botnik Studios, which showcases the diverse work produced by its members. The company's AI-assisted humor application features predictive, idiom-specific keyboards that analyze a wide range of human-generated content. This technology allows users to generate distinctive comedic material by leveraging advanced algorithms. Botnik is open to all individuals interested in exploring the intersection of creativity and technology.
Farmcrowdy is an agric-tech platform that gives Nigerians the opportunity to participate in Agriculture by selecting the kind of farms they want to sponsor. They use the sponsor’s funds to secure the land, engage the farmer, plant the seeds, insure the farmers and farm produce, complete the full farming cycle, sell the harvest and then pay the farm sponsor a return on their sponsorship. While this farm process is ongoing, the farm sponsors are able to keep track of the full-cycle by getting updates in text, pictures and videos.
Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks. Heartbeat has matched the millennial generation’s natural passion for self-promotion with a turn-key solution for brands to engage Ambassadors at scale.Coordinating large-scale Ambassador campaigns used to take 6 months.
Gather is a SaaS company providing external data and infrastructure your company needs. They provide data scientists and product teams easy access to a wide breadth of external data sources and the infrastructure to manage them so they can uncover and monitor important external metrics, make better decisions and build smarter products.
Ask Lorem is a software development company based in New York, founded in 2016. It operates an on-demand freelance marketplace that connects non-technical business owners with skilled web developers and designers around the globe. This platform enables users to find high-quality freelance assistance quickly, often in less than ten minutes. By facilitating these connections, Ask Lorem aims to empower modern business owners and promote the freelance economy as a viable future of work. The company has received funding from prominent investors, including Flybridge Capital and Techstars.
CityCop Inc. is a technology company that has developed a social GPS application aimed at enhancing community safety. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, with additional offices in São Paulo, Brazil, and Montevideo, Uruguay, the platform allows users to report crimes and receive real-time alerts about criminal activities in their neighborhoods. By facilitating communication among users, CityCop empowers individuals to protect themselves and their communities, making it easier to stay informed about safety issues in areas of personal concern, such as homes, workplaces, and schools. This innovative approach to crime prevention aims to create a more vigilant and connected community.
Bamba Corp. is an online data collection platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2012. The company specializes in facilitating data gathering for various sectors, including market research, education, health, government, infrastructure, and retail. Bamba allows organizations to conduct surveys and collect insights from users worldwide through its cloud-based platform, which can be accessed easily via web browsers. This innovative approach addresses the inefficiencies of traditional paper-based data collection methods, which are often costly and time-consuming. Bamba enhances response rates by incentivizing participants with mobile airtime, available in 122 countries. By leveraging data from SMS, web, and social media, Bamba provides businesses with cost-effective and high-quality consumer insights, enabling them to better understand and reach their target markets.
Conductor is a developer of a mobile application that enhances public transit experiences by providing reliable and accurate transit directions. The application utilizes crowdsourced data to generate dependable maps and real-time predictions, allowing commuters to stay informed about traffic conditions and route statuses. With its focus on simplifying and improving the reliability of public transit, Conductor aims to help users navigate their journeys more effectively.
Getro is a quickly scaling start-up building white-label job boards and talent networks for venture capital funds and startup accelerators across the world. Customers use our platform to save time when making high-value introductions between portfolio companies and professionals in their networks. As a remote company operating from 7 countries, we understand remote work and are constantly investing in our team by encouraging autonomy, clear communication, and discipline. We’ve recently closed our seed round and are prepared to scale our offering with current customers as we develop new products.
UCiC operates a social content platform that enables users to request and share photos or videos of current events and weather from around the globe. The platform incorporates location recognition technology, allowing users to earn reward points by uploading discoveries of places they encounter. This interactive approach fosters a real-time exchange of visual information, connecting users through shared experiences and observations.
OnFrontiers, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a web-based platform designed to facilitate connections between businesses and top professionals in various fields. Founded in 2013, OnFrontiers offers a software as a service (SaaS) solution that allows users to manage their networks of experts and access an extensive marketplace of knowledge. This platform enables organizations to engage with specialists on a wide range of topics quickly, helping them to make informed decisions, enhance agility, and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets. By leveraging expert insights, businesses can save time and costs while fostering a robust network of expertise.
Boon Company, Inc. operates a referral marketplace designed to connect job seekers and employers through a unique engagement network. Established in 2014 and based in Culver City, California, Boon's platform allows job seekers to create online portfolios, integrate with LinkedIn, apply for jobs, and track their applications. For employers, it facilitates posting job openings, identifying candidates, and streamlining the hiring process. Boon utilizes social and psychological engagement techniques alongside data science to enhance its referral recruiting engine, which significantly increases the number of referred candidates. Its powerful matching algorithms identify suitable candidates and engage employees effectively, while custom rewards and gamification encourage participation. Additionally, the platform provides deep integrations and analytics dashboards, making referral recruiting a cost-effective strategy for companies seeking to hire top talent from their networks.
Seed&Spark is an entertainment platform for conscious consumers. Synthesizing subscription streaming with the next evolution of crowdfunding, Seed&Spark delivers truly diverse content for audiences and sustainability for artists. Seed&Spark is built to address the business problems in entertainment that cause the social problem of lack of diversity and representation. Their subscribers not only get to watch an award-winning slate of movies and shows they can't find anywhere else, they also get to vote to fund a new project each month. All the movies and shows on Seed&Spark are actively increasing representation in front of and behind the camera.
Bamba Corp. is an online data collection platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2012. The company specializes in facilitating data gathering for various sectors, including market research, education, health, government, infrastructure, and retail. Bamba allows organizations to conduct surveys and collect insights from users worldwide through its cloud-based platform, which can be accessed easily via web browsers. This innovative approach addresses the inefficiencies of traditional paper-based data collection methods, which are often costly and time-consuming. Bamba enhances response rates by incentivizing participants with mobile airtime, available in 122 countries. By leveraging data from SMS, web, and social media, Bamba provides businesses with cost-effective and high-quality consumer insights, enabling them to better understand and reach their target markets.
AncestorCloud Inc. is an online platform that facilitates connections between family researchers and professional genealogists or local helpers. Founded in 2013 and based in Provo, Utah, the platform allows users to submit requests for various genealogical services, including archive lookups, record pickups, translations, local photographs, and custom research assistance. Users can interact with potential helpers who respond to their inquiries, creating a collaborative environment for family history exploration. By bridging the gap between those seeking genealogical information and those who can provide it, AncestorCloud enhances the research experience for individuals tracing their family lineage.
Balloon removes bias from group work and decision-making - across teams, both internal and external. Its platform levels the playing field and makes it possible to anonymously surface and prioritize information, feedback, and insights that companies can't get any other way.
CareerLark Inc., founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, offers a platform designed to facilitate micro-feedback among coworkers, aiming to replace traditional annual performance reviews. By enabling continuous feedback, CareerLark enhances employee productivity and engagement in real-time. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing productivity tools, such as Slack, allowing employees to receive and provide feedback within their usual work environment. Additionally, CareerLark employs machine learning to analyze performance data, assisting organizations in effectively managing and retaining their workforce.
We source photographers for local events and deliver edited photos back within 24 hours.
MyCrowd, Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in crowdtesting for websites and mobile applications. Founded in 2013, it offers a flexible and diverse quality assurance (QA) testing platform that allows users to conduct self-service and on-demand testing. By leveraging a global crowd of testers, MyCrowd aims to provide fast, accurate, and cost-effective testing solutions. The platform integrates information from various existing portals, enabling users to enhance device coverage and accelerate their time-to-market.
Heartbeat is a platform for millennial women to join, provide feedback to, and promote brands via their personal networks. Heartbeat has matched the millennial generation’s natural passion for self-promotion with a turn-key solution for brands to engage Ambassadors at scale.Coordinating large-scale Ambassador campaigns used to take 6 months.
Clyp, Inc. is a platform that enables musicians to record, share, and collaborate on audio files. Founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, Clyp offers a web-only product as well as applications for iOS and Android. The service allows users to upload music, create shareable links, and receive feedback from the Clypster community, making it a valuable resource for music creators. With notable users and a growing community, Clyp attracts approximately one million monthly users and facilitates over two million monthly listens. The platform is designed to support high-quality audio streaming and downloading, catering to both amateur and professional musicians seeking to enhance their work.
Lightboard is your designer-in-the-cloud for marketing and sales material. Their account managers, designers, and software are tuned to efficiently deliver small projects with spectacular results. Stop wrangling freelancers. Let us do the work.
Matcherino, Inc. is a technology company that provides a crowdfunding platform specifically designed for esports tournament organizers and game publishers. Founded in 2015 and based in Bellevue, Washington, Matcherino enables these stakeholders to manage tournaments effectively while connecting them with brands for monetization opportunities. The platform offers tools to enhance tournament prize pools, allowing fans to contribute through the purchase of custom game content and participating in sponsor-driven initiatives. Additionally, Matcherino facilitates financial services, including prize pool escrow and compliant distribution of winnings, ensuring transparency and proper documentation. This support empowers professional players and community organizers to engage their audiences and foster a thriving esports ecosystem.
Peruse offers natural language question-answering solutions for business documents. The service intercepts incoming questions, extracts potential answers from Dropbox and Box documents, and delivers them to user preferred platforms. Peruse was launched by Luke Gotszling in 2014.
Remesh Inc. operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates live conversations with customers or employees, allowing users to engage with up to 1,000 participants simultaneously. Founded in 2013 and based in the United States, the company focuses on gathering and analyzing audience responses in real-time. This technology enables organizations to quickly collect valuable insights and opinions, empowering them to make more informed business decisions. By integrating artificial intelligence with market research, Remesh provides a unique solution for advertisers and brands to understand the collective thinking of their target audiences, thus enhancing their ability to communicate effectively and respond to consumer needs.
Red Fox Clan is community where gamers share what the love and hate about games. They use this data set to inform product and marketing decision for major gaming brands.
Flipcause, Inc. offers an on-demand fundraising platform designed to assist small and startup nonprofits in raising funds efficiently. The software integrates various fundraising tools, including payment processing, donor management, event ticket sales, and volunteer registration, all accessible through a centralized dashboard. This allows nonprofits to customize their fundraising capabilities according to their needs, facilitating increased supporter engagement and operational efficiency. The platform captures and organizes donor information, enabling organizations to manage communications and analytics with ease. Flipcause serves a diverse range of causes, including education, health, and community service, and supports organizations, schools, and socially conscious businesses with valid tax IDs. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, Flipcause aims to empower nonprofits by providing an affordable, user-friendly solution that requires minimal technical expertise.
UniqueSound is a Paris-based platform founded in 2014 that connects professional composers, sound designers, and other sound creatives with clients seeking their services. The platform allows users to create portfolios to showcase their work, facilitating direct hiring by various clients, including global brands, advertising agencies, and production companies. UniqueSound serves as a comprehensive marketplace for sound creatives, leveraging a worldwide network to enhance visibility and opportunities for its users. Since its inception, the platform has expanded its reach, including participation in notable accelerator programs like Techstars in New York City. Through this initiative, UniqueSound aims to create an engaging environment where both composers and clients can collaborate effectively.
Conatix is reinventing business research, helping companies to do market, investment and strategic research better, faster and cheaper. Conatix is building a semi-automated business intelligence system based on recent advances in machine learning to enable companies to discover, source, structure and share previously unstructured data and information from outside their organizations. The system will be licensed to companies to use for all of their research work on a per-month, per-seat online knowledge management as a service (KaaS) basis. Conatix disrupts the business research value chain: rethinking online search and discovery, organizing the research process, creating a system that learns, and iterating the process to create knowledge that scales. Companies need to do more than one-off keyword searches using an advertising-driven consumer search tool. Conatix does not just sell a technical solution to the narrow problem of internet search, or a search engine. Conatix sells an end-to-end business system solving a business problem to a business customer, developed in response to a real business need.
OUTRO is a referral automation platform that enhances the process of making and receiving referrals for sales, recruiting, and networking. By utilizing an algorithm, OUTRO streamlines the referral process, connecting organizations with potential clients, employees, partners, and investors from both their immediate networks and the broader OUTRO community. The platform enables users to create specific requests for introductions, which are facilitated through a Triple Opt-in process that ensures all parties involved pre-approve the introduction. This approach fosters high-quality, personalized referrals from trusted connections. OUTRO's Pro version offers features such as unlimited user licenses, extensive referral capabilities, contact data enhancement, and integration with CRM systems. The platform is designed to help businesses generate leads, recruit talent, and engage with their networks efficiently.
Sidelines, Inc. is an online platform that connects informed content creators with their audiences, focusing on enhancing engagement through premium digital publications. Founded in 2010 and based in San Francisco, the company allows writers to showcase their work while providing content publishers with expert discussions that are integrated into their sites. This approach not only amplifies the voices of content creators but also enables brands to effectively target their desired demographics through sponsored content that fosters authentic discussions. Sidelines operates a social network for sports fans, where users can engage with fellow enthusiasts by sharing opinions, photos, videos, and articles about their favorite teams, further enriching the community experience.
Fancred Inc. is a social platform designed for sports enthusiasts to enhance their sports credibility and connect with other fans. Founded in August 2012 and based in Brookline, Massachusetts, the platform allows users to share opinions, photos, videos, and articles related to their favorite sports. It facilitates the consumption of sports information and community interaction, enabling fans to capture and discuss their favorite sports moments. Through its mobile application, Fancred provides features that allow users to follow their preferred teams, access relevant content, and build their reputation within the fan community based on their passion and knowledge of sports.
Crowsnest operates a software platform that allows smart devices to connect with various software applications, effectively monitoring internet-connected products to identify potential failures. By utilizing a rule engine, Crowsnest analyzes streams of real-time IoT data to detect complex patterns, enabling companies to receive alerts about product issues, often before customers are aware of them. This proactive approach allows businesses to take immediate action, such as sending automated contextual customer service emails in response to detected failures. The platform's capability to perform real-time complex event processing on large volumes of streaming device data enhances enterprises' ability to manage and respond to intricate event sequences as they occur.
LiveStories drives outreach and better decisions using civic data—how communities live, learn, work, and play. Its all-in-one data platform makes it easy to analyze local data, get benchmarks, and create interactive stories. Its customers span government, public health, and business, including the AARP, Gates Foundation, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, California Health and Human Services Agency, Maricopa County, and many local health departments.
WorkBright is a cloud-based HR software solution for companies with the seasonal, contingent, and high-turnover workforces. It moves the traditionally tedious, paper-heavy process of onboarding a new employee to one that the employee can complete from their phone, tablet, or laptop before their first day of work. Employers can easily stay organized and compliant with an intuitive dashboard to manage their employee files.
It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.
Lassy Project is a free service that gives parents and guardians the ability to notify an entire local community about their missing child or at-risk adult in seconds. With the single push of a button that sends a text alert, parents and guardians can mobilize a trusted group of family, friends, and neighbors immediately to help with their search. This group of community members is called their “network” and they are the most important asset users have if a loved one goes missing. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado.
Pubble is a web platform that specializes in creating live question-and-answer communities, offering a range of solutions tailored to various needs. Its services include an “Ask Me Anything” plugin, community-supported FAQ pages, and live event Q&A features. Pubble's platform is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing websites, blogs, Facebook pages, and mobile applications. By utilizing Pubble, clients can effectively build, manage, and analyze their audience engagement, gaining valuable insights into visitor interactions. This capability allows organizations to enhance customer engagement and foster a more interactive community experience.
Magnific operates an online platform specializing in content creation and viral marketing. Drawing from a diverse pool of over 750 writers, the company produces unique original content tailored for various audiences. Magnific not only generates this content but also employs strategies to enhance its visibility and engagement, achieving substantial traffic with millions of page views on its managed sites. In addition to its content writing services, Magnific offers social media marketing solutions to corporate clients, helping them effectively connect with their target audiences. The company continuously explores innovative monetization strategies for its content, positioning itself as a key player in the digital marketing landscape.
Good Audience is a U.S.-based company that offers online services aimed at helping brands connect with active social media users. The company specializes in intelligent targeting, social strategy, campaign creation, active content posting, and cross-promotion to enhance brand engagement. By utilizing advanced automation technologies, Good Audience supports startups in discovering their target market and converting social media users into loyal followers. Their approach emphasizes organic growth without relying on aggressive advertising tactics, allowing users to engage with brands voluntarily. This combination of services enables businesses to effectively reach their audience and build meaningful connections.
Sundar, Inc. operates a curated digital platform that facilitates material discovery and supplier sourcing for the apparel and design industries. Founded in 2013 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company connects creative professionals with quality materials and qualified vendors globally. By offering centralized digital catalogs, advanced search features, and data-driven recommendations, Sundar enhances the sourcing process for both emerging and established designers. The platform promotes collaboration between material research, design, and production teams, streamlining the discovery and sampling of textiles and raw materials. Recognized with awards from prestigious organizations and featured in notable publications, Sundar has established itself as a key player in modernizing the apparel supply chain, which has traditionally been antiquated and opaque. The company has received backing from top venture capital firms and has roots in respected incubators such as MIT and Techstars.
WorkMob structures freelance projects for a successful outcome.
Praiseworthy is a developer of customer experience management software that enables businesses to collect feedback about their employees through a streamlined process. After a customer makes a purchase at a Praiseworthy-enabled store, they receive an SMS with a link to a brief survey regarding their interaction with the sales representative. This feedback is then accessible to the representative and their manager via an intuitive dashboard, allowing for real-time monitoring and analysis. Over the past three years, Praiseworthy has expanded its reach significantly, growing from 7 stores to over 1,300 across the United States, and surveying more than 2 million customers annually. The company's platform not only facilitates individual employee reviews but also provides data-driven insights that help businesses enhance sales performance and foster employee development within the $161 billion corporate training market.
Pansieve is the maker of cuecard, a tool which brings together the power of mobile devices and web services to gather data on customized digital forms and consume the information on them. It transforms the field data gathering and processing activity into a powerful tool to keep a pulse on the business.
ProtoExchange is an outsourcing marketplace for hardware development. The platform matches the world's best hardware engineers to clients who are looking for on-demand hardware assistance. The platform works by matching Engineers to client projects. ProtoExchange ensures the engineer and client are a good fit to increase the success rate for each project. Similarly, they set the prices across the network, removing price competition and encouraging top talent to participate in the marketplace. As a result, clients can accelerate hardware development while minimizing overhead; engineers can expand on their hardware capabilities, engage in relevant projects, and earn income without undercutting their own services.
Sparktrend enables social media marketers to understand what type of content drives consumers in social media. Marketers use Sparktrend to help define their social media strategies for creating better content. -- How Are We Different -- Instead of focusing only on what happened on social media, we focus on the why. Using our image & text analysis technology, we explain why certain types of content have higher engagement with customers. We are the only product that’s tackling this incredibly technically challenging problem. -- Team -- 3 co-founders that ran the Bing.com Image Search team with backgrounds in product management, front-end and backend development. Computer science & Management science grads from University of Waterloo / Carnegie Mellon University Techstars Seattle Startup Accelerator - class of 2013
Synack, Inc. provides a crowdsourced security platform for penetration testing. It offers Synack that enables customer data integrity, privacy, and confidentiality. The company’s military-grade virtual private testing environment platform allows the global security community accessible to enterprises and engages global security researchers to test systems in virtual private testing environments, as well as provides secure manual security assessment. Synack, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Redwood City, California.
Peerby B.V. is a Dutch startup founded in 2012, based in Amsterdam, that operates Peerby Go, a peer-to-peer sharing platform. This service allows users to rent and borrow items from neighbors, facilitating resource sharing within local communities. The platform can be accessed online, through mobile devices, or via social media, enabling users to easily connect and exchange goods. Initially launched in Amsterdam, Peerby is actively expanding its reach to other areas, promoting sustainable consumption and fostering community engagement.
SocialCrunch LLC, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in building a behavior graph of individuals online. The company focuses on gathering information that aids businesses in creating relevant marketing content by utilizing insights derived from audience data. SocialCrunch offers services in deep profiling, data capture, and trend research, enabling brands and agencies to unlock significant human insights. As of January 2015, SocialCrunch operates as a subsidiary of Tastebud Technologies, Inc.
coUrbanize Inc. operates an online community engagement platform that connects real estate developers and municipal planners with local residents. Founded in 2013 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the platform allows developers and urban planners to share project information through visualizations and descriptions while facilitating feedback and discussions with community members. By providing a suite of online tools for communication and reporting, coUrbanize helps project teams enhance public engagement, streamline the feedback process, and ultimately increase the likelihood of project approval. The platform aims to save time and reduce costs associated with development projects by fostering a collaborative environment between developers and the communities they serve.
Conspire tells you exactly how to get the best introduction to whoever you want to meet—a customer, employer or investor. By analyzing email data, we understand who knows each other and how well. We score each relationship to recognize the difference between a close colleague and someone you met at a conference for five minutes. With this understanding, Conspire finds the strongest path of connections in your extended network to any person or company you're interested in. Your network is bigger and more powerful than you think. Conspire unlocks it for you.
Conspire tells you exactly how to get the best introduction to whoever you want to meet—a customer, employer or investor. By analyzing email data, we understand who knows each other and how well. We score each relationship to recognize the difference between a close colleague and someone you met at a conference for five minutes. With this understanding, Conspire finds the strongest path of connections in your extended network to any person or company you're interested in. Your network is bigger and more powerful than you think. Conspire unlocks it for you.
Ziptask is an online outsourcing service that simplifies project management for small and medium-sized enterprises. By leveraging a network of expert project managers, Ziptask acts as an intermediary between businesses and crowd labor marketplaces, streamlining the outsourcing process. The platform facilitates the onboarding, assessment, and management of projects ranging from $1,000 to $10,000, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget. Project managers utilize a suite of collaboration and communication tools to enhance efficiency and minimize the complexities often associated with outsourcing. This approach provides businesses with a seamless, one-click solution for managing their projects while reducing associated risks and costs.
Cont3nt.com operates as a real-time marketplace for entrepreneurial media and visual journalism. The company’s Web-based tool allows freelancers and citizen journalists to connect with publishers to sell and distribute their content, such as photos and videos in real-time globally. Its platform also enables media distributors to upload multimedia content, determine licensing and pricing, and sell to publishers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Dulles, Virginia.
Prolific Works operates an online publishing platform aimed at connecting authors with new readers. The platform facilitates visibility for authors, allowing them to promote their work effectively and build their audience. By offering features such as sneak peeks and bonus content, Prolific Works enables authors to engage with their existing fans while attracting new ones. This approach allows authors to focus more on their writing while enhancing their marketing efforts and reaching the right readership.
Apptentive, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in mobile customer engagement and feedback analytics. Founded in 2011, Apptentive provides a platform that enables businesses to understand and retain their customers by facilitating two-way communication. Its software integrates seamlessly into mobile applications, allowing brands to engage with users through in-app messages, surveys, and ratings prompts. By capturing customer sentiments and feedback, Apptentive helps companies enhance user experiences, drive app downloads, and improve customer loyalty. The platform is utilized by numerous well-known brands, including Buffalo Wild Wings, eBay, and Viacom, and is designed to support millions of customer interactions each month, ultimately enabling businesses to build stronger relationships with their customers.
Linksy helps busy marketers tap their employees, customers, and fans to spread their message on social sites.
Maptia is dedicated to fostering empathy through storytelling. They aim to provide a platform for those who document and capture the world around them, bringing them together to create a lasting record of life on Earth; so that people everywhere can experience the cultural and natural wonders of our planet, can feel more connected to the biggest issues facing the world today, and can be empowered to create a better future.
Group Photo Albums: From holidays and parties to vacations and topics of interest, Birdbox is the easiest way to share and collect photos with groups of people. Choose which photos to share and invite friends to contribute theirs, all in one place.
Features:
• Upload photos right from your phone.
• Collect photos with groups of friends.
• Share comments and add likes to photos.
• Download photos your friends share.
• Keep photos private between you and your friends.
VerbalizeIt, Inc. is an international crowd-sourced translation company based in New York, founded in 2011. It operates a cloud-based translation platform that connects businesses and travelers with a global community of over 25,000 vetted translators, facilitating real-time translation services. The platform offers a range of solutions, including live conversation interpretation, document translation, website and mobile localization, as well as video and audio file subtitling. VerbalizeIt delivers translations in 150 languages, enabling brands to maintain and enhance their communication across various mediums. As of May 2016, VerbalizeIt has been a subsidiary of Smartling, Inc.
FaithStreet is a social network for faith communities to post prayer requests and church programs, offer support, and make online donations.
Smallknot Inc. operates an online crowdfunding platform based in Brooklyn, New York, facilitating investments in local small businesses. Founded in 2012, the company enables customers to discover small business campaigns within their neighborhoods that are seeking funding for expansion or new ventures. In return for their investments, individuals receive various incentives, including goods, services, discounts, and special perks. Smallknot aims to strengthen community ties by connecting local investors with businesses, promoting economic growth at the grassroots level.
Poptip is a conversation analysis platform that helps brands and media fully understand public opinion in real-time and make decisions quickly based on that opinion. The platform simultaneously empowers the public’s voice and turns their opinions into actionable data. Poptip’s clients include L’Oreal, NBA, ESPN, NFL, Spotify, Budweiser and Yoplait. The New York-based company was founded in 2012 by Kelsey Falter. Poptip has raised $2.4 million to date in funding notably from Lerer Ventures, SoftBank Capital and RSE Ventures. For more information, please visit www.poptip.com.
Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they'll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and other online channels.
Vidmaker is a collaborative online video editor that makes it easy to work with video anywhere and with anyone. Users can work together in real time with video, images and sound from services like Dropbox and Google Drive, and effortlessly share their projects either on Vidmaker's video platform or YouTube.