A. H. Belo Corporation

Rivet Smart Audio is an internet radio news application and platform that delivers personalized local, national, and world news. Users can tune into custom, topical playlists with the company’s enterprise API for businesses. Featured by Apple as “The Best in Bite-Sized News Application,” Rivet News Radio is available on iPhone, Android, and car platforms. Rivet News Radio was founded in December 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Distribion is a marketing solution software company that offers a web-based platform designed to simplify the management of distributed marketing organizations. The platform enables clients to effectively manage their brand by providing tools for content management, campaign execution, and analytics. It allows corporate and local marketers, as well as field sales and marketing partners, to create, store, localize, manage, and measure marketing communications across various channels. By empowering producers and franchises with the dynamic customization of corporate collateral, Distribion addresses the complex needs of its clients and enhances their marketing capabilities.

Vertical Nerve are a digital optimization agency focused on producing measurable results for their clients through programs specifically designed to acquire more traffic and convert more visitors into sales and leads. They draw from 17 years of success helping businesses realize more ROI from their digital channels.

Rivet Smart Audio is an internet radio news application and platform that delivers personalized local, national, and world news. Users can tune into custom, topical playlists with the company’s enterprise API for businesses. Featured by Apple as “The Best in Bite-Sized News Application,” Rivet News Radio is available on iPhone, Android, and car platforms. Rivet News Radio was founded in December 2013 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Digital Air Strike is the leading social media technology, social recruiting, digital engagement and lead response company that helps businesses internationally increase social engagement in digital and social environments while generating measurable ROI. A pioneer in digital response, social marketing and online reputation management, Digital Air Strike deploys industry-specific mobile apps, software and managed service platforms to monitor, improve and manage consumer engagement for thousands of businesses in the United States and Canada including seven of the largest automotive manufacturers. More information is available at www.digitalairstrike.com and www.facebook.com/digitalairstrike.

Homesnap is an online mobile platform dedicated to real estate services for agents, brokers, and consumers. It offers a mobile app that leverages a specialized database, integrating Multiple Listing Service (MLS) data, property tax records, census data, and geographic boundaries to enhance the home search experience. As the public-facing brand of the Broker Public Portal, Homesnap aims to create a national consumer home search experience characterized by simplicity and usability. The platform provides detailed listings, instant access to school attendance zones, property lines, and property history, along with customized news feeds and notifications for real-time information. This comprehensive approach enables users to efficiently explore homes and engage in discussions about properties in one unified space.

Digital Cyclone is a provider of weather information software that specializes in mobile applications designed to deliver location-based weather information. The company's software solutions enable users to access real-time weather data tailored to their specific geographic locations, enhancing decision-making for various activities and industries. By focusing on mobile technology, Digital Cyclone aims to make accurate and timely weather information easily accessible to users, fostering better preparedness and responsiveness to changing weather conditions.

Digital:Convergence allows media companies, manufacturers and virtually all organizations to link their printed or broadcast content and advertisements as well as their products directly to web pages deep within their websites. The company's technology, which includes the :CueCat device and :CRQ software, takes a broadcast viewer or reader of print media directly to relevant information on the Internet. The :CRQ software responds to a proprietary digital signal called a "cue" that is transmitted. Digital:Convergence became on of the first .dotCom era Unicorns (even before the term was coined). Scheduled for it's IPO lead by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, ING Barings LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC and Bear, Sterns & Co. Inc. The IPO was registered to share an initial 10,000,000 shares at a price which could go as high as $40. The IPO was pushed due to weakening markets and then the company became part of the huge .dotCom market crash. The company was shuttered, however a new company was formed - lead by founder Jovan Hutton Pulitzer; to insure the patents and the technology survived. Those patents matured and are now one of the most financially successful patent portfolios ever created.

Digital:Convergence allows media companies, manufacturers and virtually all organizations to link their printed or broadcast content and advertisements as well as their products directly to web pages deep within their websites. The company's technology, which includes the :CueCat device and :CRQ software, takes a broadcast viewer or reader of print media directly to relevant information on the Internet. The :CRQ software responds to a proprietary digital signal called a "cue" that is transmitted. Digital:Convergence became on of the first .dotCom era Unicorns (even before the term was coined). Scheduled for it's IPO lead by Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, ING Barings LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC and Bear, Sterns & Co. Inc. The IPO was registered to share an initial 10,000,000 shares at a price which could go as high as $40. The IPO was pushed due to weakening markets and then the company became part of the huge .dotCom market crash. The company was shuttered, however a new company was formed - lead by founder Jovan Hutton Pulitzer; to insure the patents and the technology survived. Those patents matured and are now one of the most financially successful patent portfolios ever created.