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Campuswire is a real-time messaging platform designed specifically for college classes, aimed at enhancing communication between students and educators. The platform facilitates class discussions, question-and-answer sessions, and announcements, ultimately optimizing the teaching and learning experience. By integrating both synchronous and asynchronous messaging features, Campuswire promotes increased student collaboration and simplifies educators' workflows. Its user-friendly interface, inspired by social media, enables professors to efficiently share important information, engage in online discussions, and privately communicate with individual students. Through its innovative approach, Campuswire is committed to addressing challenges in educational communication and fostering a more collaborative learning environment.

Create helps companies ship new products 10x faster through a code generation system that lets them share the code for common use cases and access to a global pool of developers supercharged with this system.

Bloom is a dating community that creates a secure online environment for sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture individuals. Based in Oakland, California, and initially known as Together, this YCombinator-backed startup focuses on facilitating social connections through organized group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom arranges meetups involving 6 to 8 participants, fostering a welcoming atmosphere. The platform emphasizes a strong culture of consent and relies on referrals, ensuring that users can safely and comfortably engage with new friends and partners.

Bloom is a dating community that creates a secure online environment for sex-positive, gay, and edge-of-culture individuals. Based in Oakland, California, and initially known as Together, this YCombinator-backed startup focuses on facilitating social connections through organized group dates in parks. Members specify their preferences for potential partners, and Bloom arranges meetups involving 6 to 8 participants, fostering a welcoming atmosphere. The platform emphasizes a strong culture of consent and relies on referrals, ensuring that users can safely and comfortably engage with new friends and partners.

Arkive operates a decentralized museum of culture that is curated by a global community of members. The organization focuses on collecting, exhibiting, preserving, and contextualizing cultural artifacts from various centuries. By building a diverse collection, Arkive aims to facilitate dialogue, enhance education, and foster a deeper appreciation for human culture. This initiative allows art lovers and the general public to engage with and enjoy a wide range of artistic and cultural expressions from around the world.

Brkaway is a platform that facilitates connections between brands and content creators, focusing on the production of short-form video content tailored for social media channels such as TikTok and Instagram Reels. By providing software that streamlines the content creation process, Brkaway allows brands to efficiently acquire the video material they require while ensuring that creators are compensated for their work. This model not only enhances the collaboration between brands and creators but also simplifies ongoing branded content production, making it accessible and effective for both parties involved.

Moonlight is a social space for transformative rituals between friends and practitioners. The exploration of facets of themselves by archetypes and visual storytelling, and this therapeutic ritual, offer perspectives that can be life-changing.

Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias trainings.

People love creation and sharing apps. Instagram lets everyone feel like a pro photographer. TikTok lets everyone feel like a filmmaker. But why isn’t there an app that lets everyone feel like a music producer? MashApp's mission is to make music creation fun for non-musicians. We believe one way to do that is to let people play with their favorite music. We think people have always done this through DJ'ing, mix tapes, mashups and karaoke. We believe that new A.I. technologies will take this type of musical play to another level. We want this new creative play to be a great experience for fans and artists. You can mashup popular songs, share your creations with friends via messaging apps, listen to mashups from the MashApp community, and follow your favorite creators.

Scenery is a collaborative video editor on the web for teams creating videos together. The company was founded in 2020 by the team behind Jumpcut and SnappyTV.

Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias trainings.

Loop Team is a virtual office that brings the best parts of an office environment to distributed teams to help them communicate faster and more effectively, capture and disseminate face-to-face discussions in an asynchronous way, and stay more connected than ever.

illume is the platform for celebrations that reimagines group cards and presents for communities all over the community. They are here to make every occasion simpler than ever by finding thoughtful and impactful presents that will benefit both local communities and small businesses. They create meaningful connections between communities and within communities. Their goal is to make it simpler than ever to spread optimism, love, and gratitude.

Range Labs Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance team collaboration and synchronization. Its primary product, Range, integrates various platforms such as GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Docs, and Calendar, allowing users to manage schedules, track personal accomplishments, and view tasks in a centralized location. Range also facilitates communication through features like check-ins, objectives, and notifications, helping teams stay aligned and informed. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including individuals, managers, organizations, and both engineering and design teams, with a focus on fostering healthy, inclusive, and creative work environments.

Campuswire is a real-time messaging platform designed specifically for college classes, aimed at enhancing communication between students and educators. The platform facilitates class discussions, question-and-answer sessions, and announcements, ultimately optimizing the teaching and learning experience. By integrating both synchronous and asynchronous messaging features, Campuswire promotes increased student collaboration and simplifies educators' workflows. Its user-friendly interface, inspired by social media, enables professors to efficiently share important information, engage in online discussions, and privately communicate with individual students. Through its innovative approach, Campuswire is committed to addressing challenges in educational communication and fostering a more collaborative learning environment.

The Cru Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2018 that offers a networking platform specifically designed for women. It provides peer coaching services aimed at facilitating personal and professional development. By creating a supportive environment where like-minded individuals can collaborate, The Cru enables women to connect, share experiences, and help one another achieve their goals. The platform simplifies the networking process, allowing users to focus on their growth and advancement.

Co-Star is an AI-powered astrology application that combines data from NASA with insights from human astrologers to provide users with personalized horoscopes. The platform utilizes proprietary technology to algorithmically generate insights into individuals' personalities and futures. Co-Star aims to facilitate meaningful connections among users, offering a unique way to express emotions and understand strengths and weaknesses. By providing a tool for self-reflection and interpersonal relationships, the application enables users to engage more deeply with friends, lovers, and even strangers.

Loop Team is a virtual office that brings the best parts of an office environment to distributed teams to help them communicate faster and more effectively, capture and disseminate face-to-face discussions in an asynchronous way, and stay more connected than ever.

Co-Star is an AI-powered astrology application that combines data from NASA with insights from human astrologers to provide users with personalized horoscopes. The platform utilizes proprietary technology to algorithmically generate insights into individuals' personalities and futures. Co-Star aims to facilitate meaningful connections among users, offering a unique way to express emotions and understand strengths and weaknesses. By providing a tool for self-reflection and interpersonal relationships, the application enables users to engage more deeply with friends, lovers, and even strangers.

Campfire is an online platform designed to foster supportive community groups for individuals facing various life challenges. It connects small groups of 5 to 10 people who share similar experiences, allowing them to build meaningful relationships through weekly video meetings and private chats. The platform aims to provide a safe space for users to seek help and share their emotional and mental stress, promoting well-being and connection among participants.

Range Labs Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017. The company offers a suite of tools designed to enhance team collaboration and synchronization. Its primary product, Range, integrates various platforms such as GitHub, Jira, Asana, Google Docs, and Calendar, allowing users to manage schedules, track personal accomplishments, and view tasks in a centralized location. Range also facilitates communication through features like check-ins, objectives, and notifications, helping teams stay aligned and informed. The company's solutions cater to a diverse clientele, including individuals, managers, organizations, and both engineering and design teams, with a focus on fostering healthy, inclusive, and creative work environments.

WorkFlowy, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and offers WorkFlowy, an organizational tool designed to enhance productivity and organization. This versatile application allows users to create hierarchical lists and serves various purposes, including managing personal to-dos, collaborating on team projects, taking notes, writing research papers, and planning events. Its intuitive interface enables users to utilize it as an alternative to traditional text editors and spreadsheets, making it easy to capture and organize thoughts, project plans, and meeting notes. WorkFlowy is favored for its simplicity and effectiveness, allowing individuals to keep their ideas organized throughout the day.

Dream provides useful collaboration in virtual reality, allowing users to work with their team just as they would in real life. The company was founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California.