Influential is an A.I. social data and conversion platform that partners with IBM Watson for influencer marketing and technology. Leveraging a network of over 1 Million social media influencers, Influential's technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services. Through strategic partnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential's Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestlé, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. With offices in Los Angeles, NYC, and Las Vegas, Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, INC., Fox News, Entrepreneur, Entertainment Tonight, HLN, Good Morning Britain, The Street, and Huffington Post. Influential specializes in Social Data, Demographics, Digital Media, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Enterprise Technology, Ad Tech, Native, Mobile, Traffic, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Creating Conversations, User Generated Content, Virality, Worldwide Trends, Organic Messaging, Mobile Apps, e-Commerce, Contest Entries.
HouseCanary is a technology company revolutionizing the residential real estate investment and lending ecosystems with professional-grade home valuation products. It's over four years of real estate data that drives the analytics and value forecasts in the industry, generating instant, actionable insights. Insights are delivered via app or API. The company's technology utilizes Python, AWS, Redshift, PostgreSQL, R, Pandas, NumPy, PostGIS, Django, Flask, AngularJS, React, Swift, Ansible, Terraform, DynamoDB, S3, Aurora, Node, Express, Tile38, Lua, Go, CloudSearch, C, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, FreeIPA, Memcached, Fluentd, SQS, SNS, CFEngine, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, and Swift. HouseCanary was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Influential is an A.I. social data and conversion platform that partners with IBM Watson for influencer marketing and technology. Leveraging a network of over 1 Million social media influencers, Influential's technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services. Through strategic partnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential's Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestlé, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. With offices in Los Angeles, NYC, and Las Vegas, Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, INC., Fox News, Entrepreneur, Entertainment Tonight, HLN, Good Morning Britain, The Street, and Huffington Post. Influential specializes in Social Data, Demographics, Digital Media, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Enterprise Technology, Ad Tech, Native, Mobile, Traffic, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Creating Conversations, User Generated Content, Virality, Worldwide Trends, Organic Messaging, Mobile Apps, e-Commerce, Contest Entries.
The Bouqs Company is an online flower delivery service founded by college classmates John Tabis and Juan Pablo Montúfar that delivers flowers fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms around the world to doorsteps across the country. Tabis, a brand and strategy executive formerly with Disney, and Montúfar, a third-generation farmer, started The Bouqs Company in late 2012 to radically disrupt the $100B global floral industry through a modern brand, responsibly-sourced flowers and a vertically-integrated supply chain. Headquartered in Venice, CA, The Bouqs Company connects farms and a curated network of artisan florists directly to consumers, and disrupts the traditional supply chain by eliminating overhead costs like warehouses, importers, distributors, auctioneers and more. In turn, this model enables a superior product and redefines the experience and economics for both consumers and producers alike.
Lyft is a transportation company that designs, markets, and operates a mobile application connecting drivers with passengers who request rides. The app also facilitates payment. Additionally, it allows riders to schedule rides up to seven days in advance. Lyft primarily focuses its services on college, university, and corporate communities.
Equity Crowdfunding in 2015
Influential is an A.I. social data and conversion platform that partners with IBM Watson for influencer marketing and technology. Leveraging a network of over 1 Million social media influencers, Influential's technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services. Through strategic partnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential's Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestlé, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. With offices in Los Angeles, NYC, and Las Vegas, Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, INC., Fox News, Entrepreneur, Entertainment Tonight, HLN, Good Morning Britain, The Street, and Huffington Post. Influential specializes in Social Data, Demographics, Digital Media, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Enterprise Technology, Ad Tech, Native, Mobile, Traffic, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Creating Conversations, User Generated Content, Virality, Worldwide Trends, Organic Messaging, Mobile Apps, e-Commerce, Contest Entries.
FinTech Global Markets is an tech-enabled investment bank that empowers companies to publicly fundraise from everyone, including accredited investors, international investors and the crowd. FlashFunders has built the technology and regulatory infrastructure to facilitate any type of distributed securities offering (including Reg A+, Reg D and Reg CF). As a registered Broker-Dealer, Clearing Firm, Funding Portal and Transfer Agent, FlashFunders is an end-to-end resource for companies raising capital. FlashFunders was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.
DarkLight develops cybersecurity AI software that fuses sensor data and client context. The company was founded to bridge the gaps and help organizations realize the full potential of AI.
Influential is an A.I. social data and conversion platform that partners with IBM Watson for influencer marketing and technology. Leveraging a network of over 1 Million social media influencers, Influential's technology powers seamless talent discovery, comprehensive brand safety, and creative and execution services. Through strategic partnerships with first and third-party data providers, Influential's Optimized Paid Media offering enables bespoke targeting and measurement solutions, including both online and offline attribution, such as sales lift, TV tune-in lift, foot traffic, as well as brand lift studies. Influential works with Fortune 500 brands, including Walmart, McDonald’s, Pepsi, NFL, Nestlé, General Mills, Toyota, Samsung, and Sony Pictures. With offices in Los Angeles, NYC, and Las Vegas, Influential is a developer partner of IBM Watson, a strategic partner of WME and Oracle, and a Facebook and Instagram Marketing Partner. Influential has been featured in Forbes, WSJ, Ad Age, Venture Beat, INC., Fox News, Entrepreneur, Entertainment Tonight, HLN, Good Morning Britain, The Street, and Huffington Post. Influential specializes in Social Data, Demographics, Digital Media, Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Enterprise Technology, Ad Tech, Native, Mobile, Traffic, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, Creating Conversations, User Generated Content, Virality, Worldwide Trends, Organic Messaging, Mobile Apps, e-Commerce, Contest Entries.
Introducing mJoose technology. The mJoose 3-in-1 case, developed by MoJoose, Inc. a California-based accessory designer and manufacturer, ensures smartphone users stay connected by solving the world-wide weak cell signal challenge. Their patented breakthrough signal-amplifying technology helps deliver a reliable cellular connection with every call. The smallest, most affordable signal-amplifying device of its kind, mJoose picks up where a regular cell signal ends. Their flagship products are Apple and Samsung smartphone protective cases including a battery extender. But their roadmap extends across smartphones, tablets, laptops, and many wired communication devices improving a detectable cell signal two to five bars.
Manalto offers a cloud-based software-as-a-service business (‘SaaS’) that provides a complete end-to-end, scalable, social content management solution to enable a business to establish a customised, centrally managed Facebook presence enabling local engagement at scale. An organisation is able to commercially engage and manage its Facebook community and customers in real-time, from a single, intuitively-designed dashboard. The web-based interface has core inbuilt capabilities to align to key enterprise operational, risk and governance frameworks, and brand management practices. Manalto’s core Enterprise Solution gives an multi outlet/product organisation or franchise group the capability to establish a scalable and hierarchical multi-page, multi-tab Facebook presence. We regularly work with enterprise to integrate specific, advanced customisation, such as transactional functionality, and also enable a solution to deliver even greater scale.
Private Equity Round in 2011
Noveda Technologies, Inc. develops and provides Web-based energy monitoring solutions for conventional and renewable energy systems. The company’s products include SunFlow Monitor, a tool that provides real-time monitoring of renewable energy production and use; EnergyFlow Monitor, a tool that provides real-time energy monitoring and management capabilities to assist the user to optimize building performance and move forward to net-zero energy; Carbon Footprint Monitor, a tool that engages in real-time monitoring of the carbon footprint and displays real-time impact of facility on the environment; and a real-time water monitoring platform. The company was founded in 2006 and headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey.
FanDuel, launched in July 2009, is the undisputed leader in the one-week fantasy sports industry. Offering fantasy sports for NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL FanDuel targets the 30+ million adult fantasy sports players in North America. Players draft fantasy sports teams at any time of the season in head-to-head or multi-player contests, paying an entry fee for each contest and vying for cash prizes. In 2013 the company awarded over $150m in prizes and is on course to award over $400m in 2014. The company currently has over 100 employees and is headquartered in New York.