Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave. It is a 100% open-source project using the Unlicense. It has been built by a global team of software developers, crypto enthusiasts, and security experts. It has not yet been audited.
Classy, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates an online and mobile fundraising platform designed for nonprofit organizations and social enterprises globally. Established in 2006, Classy provides an integrated solution for various fundraising needs, including crowdfunding, peer-to-peer campaigns, and direct donations. The platform also supports event ticketing and registration while offering features for branding and customization. Additionally, Classy integrates with Salesforce to enhance fundraising management. The company emphasizes user support through strategy consultations, website design services, and priority assistance. Classy also promotes social innovation by hosting events like the Collaborative and Classy Awards, which recognize excellence in the sector.
The Light Phone II is phone for human, providing utility and peace of mind we’ve become accustom to with our smartphones, while eliminating the distractions and stress of social media, news, or email
Tap is a marketplace connecting water consumers with water dispensers. They offer to create a zero-waste drinking water network. They allow consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the internet. They build software that connects water to the Internet.
Naked Labs is a Silicon Valley-based startup focused on3D scanning, computer vision, and human-centered design. It uses infrared light to capture a 3D body model, which is visualized on the Naked app. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Airfoil Capital is an investment consulting firm that helps individual and institutional investors invest in cryptocurrencies. The guidelines help new investors store their assets securely, evaluate risk factors, and make fully informed investment decisions.
Bird operates a micro-mobility platform that offers electric vehicle-sharing services, aiming to provide affordable and sustainable transportation solutions to communities worldwide. The platform enables users to create profiles, facilitating the sharing of personal electric vehicles, including electric bicycles. By coordinating with cities, Bird enhances access to environmentally friendly local transport, thereby contributing to the reduction of traffic congestion and promoting responsible alternatives to traditional motor vehicles.
HONK is an innovative roadside assistance platform that uses both technology and a unique business model to turn what used to be a day-ruining catastrophe into nothing more than a bump in the road. Customers can order directly from HONK via mobile web or our app to find a nearby professional and track the location and ETA of their tow truck in real-time. Roadside assistance professionals work with HONK to receive payment quickly and grow their businesses on their own terms. Insurance companies, auto OEMs, and fleets use our transparent platform and fully managed contact center to reduce wait times by over 50%, improve customer satisfaction, harness their roadside assistance data and receive industry leading NPS scores.
Rehinged delivers a proprietary AI platform that transforms billions of external data points into actionable intelligence. Our SaaS model eliminates the need for companies to build expensive data science teams and delivers a completely new method for them to gain real-time intelligence about their market.
Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enabling enterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis.
Qualified is the most effective platform for evaluating and training world-class engineers. Utilizing real-world assessment methodology we enable companies to identify high-performing hires.
Poncho is a weather cat that tells you the weather and a whole lot more. The most popular chatbot on Facebook Messenger and one of the top weather apps in the App Store. Poncho is based in New York and has recently raised money from some of the top VC firms. Using the latest bot technologies we've built in house, our mission is to create and deliver the most engaging content on messaging and other hardware platforms.
All of Minbox is real-time, including comments. Engage others in conversation on a file or in a project. Or click on an image to leave an annotation. Simply type the @ symbol and a menu will appear to mention any of your team members. Draw their attention to something specific anywhere in the app.
Zealot Networks is a digital-first media company that focuses on empowering creators and entrepreneurs by providing a wide range of production, distribution, and business services. The company aims to facilitate the growth of influencers and businesses by bridging the gap between traditional media and emerging digital platforms. Zealot Networks pursues its goals through strategic acquisitions, partnerships, and joint ventures with innovative companies led by successful entrepreneurs who align with its vision. By offering diverse revenue opportunities and development support, Zealot Networks fosters an ecosystem that enables creators to thrive in the digital landscape.
Classy, Inc. is a San Diego-based company that operates an online and mobile fundraising platform designed for nonprofit organizations and social enterprises globally. Established in 2006, Classy provides an integrated solution for various fundraising needs, including crowdfunding, peer-to-peer campaigns, and direct donations. The platform also supports event ticketing and registration while offering features for branding and customization. Additionally, Classy integrates with Salesforce to enhance fundraising management. The company emphasizes user support through strategy consultations, website design services, and priority assistance. Classy also promotes social innovation by hosting events like the Collaborative and Classy Awards, which recognize excellence in the sector.
Visage is a developer of a content creation platform for creators to create effective and on-brand graphics to engage audiences of any size. Its platform helps marketers to create branded visual content optimized for the distribution of channels that are important to their business that enables businesses to maintain brand consistency and work efficiently. It was established in 2014 and is based in Irvine, California.
HONK is an innovative roadside assistance platform that uses both technology and a unique business model to turn what used to be a day-ruining catastrophe into nothing more than a bump in the road. Customers can order directly from HONK via mobile web or our app to find a nearby professional and track the location and ETA of their tow truck in real-time. Roadside assistance professionals work with HONK to receive payment quickly and grow their businesses on their own terms. Insurance companies, auto OEMs, and fleets use our transparent platform and fully managed contact center to reduce wait times by over 50%, improve customer satisfaction, harness their roadside assistance data and receive industry leading NPS scores.
WedPics is a mobile and web-based photosharing app created specifically to capture the entire wedding experience. Available on both iPhones and Androids, guests can share their photos to one single album for the Bride and Groom, solving the universal problem for Wedding Couples everywhere. WedPics is fully interactive with the ability to comment, "Love" and share with existing social networks. They’ve included 5 custom filters to make every guest a personal wedding photographer on these special occasions. For those who choose to capture these special moments on traditional digital cameras, they can upload their photos via the web directly to the Wedding Couple’s WedPics album. WedPics replaces the need for the archaic, low-quality use of disposable cameras and brings Weddings into the era of smartphone/mobile technology. WedPics is developed by Deja mi Inc., a Raleigh, North Carolina based mobile/web photo app development company. Their initial app, also named "Deja mi," allowed users to explore and discover venues around them-through crowdsourced content-in real-time. The team's focus shifted in early 2012 to a more niche market: weddings. Shortly after they launched WedPics.
HONK is an innovative roadside assistance platform that uses both technology and a unique business model to turn what used to be a day-ruining catastrophe into nothing more than a bump in the road. Customers can order directly from HONK via mobile web or our app to find a nearby professional and track the location and ETA of their tow truck in real-time. Roadside assistance professionals work with HONK to receive payment quickly and grow their businesses on their own terms. Insurance companies, auto OEMs, and fleets use our transparent platform and fully managed contact center to reduce wait times by over 50%, improve customer satisfaction, harness their roadside assistance data and receive industry leading NPS scores.
Dollar Shave Club is a lifestyle brand and e-commerce company that invents and delivers smart, affordable products to make lives easier. Through an exclusive R&D process that includes botanicals and chemists, the company makes all its own products at affordable prices. Dollar Shave Club was founded in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
Codewars helps you to improve your development abilities by practicing with your peers on code katas that challenge and push your coding practice. Codewars is a user-generated project. They write kata to teach various skills, solve kata with solutions that enlighten others, and comment with constructive comments.
Triage integrates the SaaS tools you use everyday. Quickly connect your services, Triage syncs everything important into one mobile feed.
GoSpotCheck, Inc. offers a Software-as-a-Service platform designed for field-based teams to efficiently conduct surveys, audits, and reports. With its web and mobile applications, the company enables businesses to utilize their employees to gather real-time retail intelligence. This information is presented on a web dashboard, allowing managers to identify trends and address urgent issues swiftly. GoSpotCheck's solutions encompass a range of applications, including audits and inspections, field sales performance, merchandising, food safety, and asset management. The company serves various industries, including consumer goods, retail, healthcare, and facilities management. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Denver, Colorado, GoSpotCheck operates as a subsidiary of WorldAPP, Inc. since December 2020.
Betaworks is a New York-based startup studio and venture capital firm founded in 2008. It focuses on building and investing in early-stage technology companies, primarily in sectors such as B2B, B2C, SaaS, gaming, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. The firm operates as a tightly linked network encompassing ideas, people, capital, and products, aiming to foster innovation and create a more connected world. Betaworks typically makes seed-stage investments ranging from $150,000 to $200,000, often collaborating with other investors in syndicates. The firm is known for its hands-on approach, working closely with startups that align with its vision, and has been involved with notable companies like Giphy and Instapaper. Betaworks also provides thematic investment and mentorship programs to support entrepreneurs in developing their business ideas.
Active Mind Technology is a software development company. Makers of GameGolf, a wearable GPS and motion sensing Golf Shot Tracking System. It allows its users to view all their stats on your cell phone as they play or after their round. It was founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Colingo was founded in 2011 to break down barriers to personal, social, and economic opportunities by teaching people around the world to speak English. Colingo offers a live, online English school with teacher-led group conversation classes, personalized skills-training and private tutoring. Through its live video classes, Colingo provides a personalized path to English fluency for global professionals who have a basic understanding of English, but lack the confidence and skills to speak in conversational settings. Offered 24 hours a day, Colingo's classes blend authentic conversation about contemporary topics with structured skills training and assessment of over 70 core grammar and pronunciation skills. An average class size of three to five provides an intimate, low-pressure environment where students can gain comfort and confidence while improving core skills and receive feedback.
Ripple provides one frictionless experience to send money globally using the power of blockchain. It offers a global real-time payment system that enables banks and financial institutions around the world to directly transact with each other without the need for a central correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making, a solution enabling enterprises to gain access to cross-currency liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives, and in-depth market analysis.
Puddle is the first tool for credit in the US that anyone can use – not based on your credit score, but based on people that trust you.
SendHub is the Phone System for the Mobile World. There's no hardware, setup is instant and it scales elastically with a single click. Users are given a phone number in any area code, they can use from any device: Web, iPhone, Android, Feature Phones and via our API. Businesses can add lines for everyone on their team for free, with complete transparency and powerful analytics on every aspect of your telecommunication. Additional Features: Auto Attendant, Call Transfer, Company Directory, Contact Sharing, Voicemail Transcription, Text Marketing & Group Texting, Free Internal Communication.
Videolicious is the pioneer of video automation, transforming personalities into powerful messages for enterprise b2b sales and marketing organizations.
Clarity connects entrepreneurs with experts, over the phone, for advice on their business challenges. Clarity is a marketplace that connects entrepreneurs with top advisors & industry experts to conduct market research, get strategic business advice, or learn a specialized skill to help them grow their business. With over 30,000+ verified experts from the top cities in the world - most of which are very successful entrepreneurs (i.e Mark Cuban, Eric Ries, Cameron Herold) - available for a call, why would you get advice any other way?
Dekko was founded on the belief that society is entering an amazing transition in how they experience their technology. Smartphones and Tablets have ushered in the first taste of a "Post-PC" world, where their ability to connect to each other and to their favorite online services is mobile. They are beginning to experience entertainment, contextual information & personal interactions through natural interfaces that are not just "tiny screened PCs". Multi-sensor devices and The Internet of Things will provide the hardware foundation for true mobile operating systems. They are moving away from intermediated interfaces driven by keyboards and mice towards more natural and direct touch and voice interactions. Their most engaging sense, vision, will also experience a new natural interface, as content is placed in the world, in a truly believable manner.
Republic Project is a rapid rich media innovator whose intuitive, easy-to-use creative production toolset enables the fastest deployment of Facebook Rich Media Posts. Republic Project’s responsive ad serving technology ensures consistent rich media performance across all mobile screens and platforms. Republic Project is part of DG MediaMind -- the largest media-independent third party ad server – allowing brands to manage, serve and analyze their Facebook rich media campaigns alongside all other display channels within MediaMind’s award-winning campaign management platform. Built for brands/agencies/studios to reach the new social/mobile audience without the complexities and cost of traditional media solutions. Backed by Google Ventures, Venture51, EchoVC and several prominent Angels.
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Tracks.by lets artists launch new music and videos. Using the launch campaigns on the Tracks.by platform, artists can turn every music and video release into an opportunity to get likes on Facebook, find fans that love them, and go viral.
Videolicious is the pioneer of video automation, transforming personalities into powerful messages for enterprise b2b sales and marketing organizations.
Space Monkey is an affordable subscription-based data storage solution that is taking the cloud out of the datacenter, creating a faster and more durable way to store data from any device. Space Monkey combines the benefits of local hardware storage and cloud storage by providing a device that stores one terabyte of online storage. Space Monkey provides central access and sharing from anywhere in the world, and from any device including iOS and Android mobile devices, Windows, Mac and Linux clients, as well as any other web browser enabled technology. Founded by entrepreneurs, Clint Gordon-Carroll and Alen Peacock in July 2011, Space Monkey is headquartered in Midvale, UT, a suburb of Salt Lake City. For more information, please visit: www.spacemonkey.com
MediaSpike provides a native monetization platform for applications, with a focus on social and mobile games. For application developers, integration involves using one of the MediaSpike SDKs to interact with the MediaSpike backend. Brands and agencies can then search by several parameters for appropriate placements through the MediaSpike dashboard. Placements are made by selecting an available placement, uploading the appropriate asset(s), previewing the placement and then submitting the placement to the developer through the MediaSpike dashboard. Once submitted a placement is reviewed and approved by the developer. Analytics for live placements are tracked and viewable through the MediaSpike dashboard.
Betable is the world’s first platform that enables any developer to legally offer real-money play in their games and apps on any platform or device. Betable is licensed by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission and Alderney Gambling Control Commission to offer support and infrastructure to developers to legally integrate real-money gambling into their mobile and social games and applications. Betable provides world-leading security, fraud protection, player location, identity and age verification and account monitoring to keep players’ funds safe and to ensure responsible gaming. Betable was founded in 2008 in London, United Kingdom. It also is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
SendHub is the Phone System for the Mobile World. There's no hardware, setup is instant and it scales elastically with a single click. Users are given a phone number in any area code, they can use from any device: Web, iPhone, Android, Feature Phones and via our API. Businesses can add lines for everyone on their team for free, with complete transparency and powerful analytics on every aspect of your telecommunication. Additional Features: Auto Attendant, Call Transfer, Company Directory, Contact Sharing, Voicemail Transcription, Text Marketing & Group Texting, Free Internal Communication.
Trigger, a San Francisco, CA-based company that has just launched its cross-platform mobile development framework targeted at web developers who want to be able to create native mobile apps.
Fanium is a sports technology company that develops fantasy sports applications for mobile devices. It was founded by Grant Gurtin when he was a junior at Brown University. Since the company was founded in 2011, Fanium has developed a suite of apps that has evolved the way that people consume their sports and fantasy content. By aggregating expert Twitter accounts and creating a unique keyword search technology, Fanium has sought to use social media advances as a key component of its products, and maintains a forward-thinking philosophy when it comes to attacking the mobile space. In 2012, Fanium began development on the first fully mobile football application. In the summer of 2013, Fanium released the first ever mobile Canadian Football League fantasy game, Fantasy Canadian Football, for iPhone. CFL fans and active players alike have embraced the game, resulting in attention from major media sources such as Yahoo! Sports and over 85 percent user retention from week-to-week. On August 6, 2013, Fanium will release Fanium Fantasy Football to Android and iOS devices. This game will be the first fully-mobile seasonal NFL fantasy experience.
Incredible Labs, Inc. are the creators of a mobile anticipatory assistant named [Donna](http://don.na). The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.
From free legal documents to discounted rates with outstanding attorneys, LawPivot is here to help every step of the way. Since 2008, LawPivot has helped over 20 million small businesses and families create legal documents, engage with local attorneys and confidently protect their future.
LaunchRock is an online platform that allows users to create viral "Launching Soon" pages equipped with sharing tools and analytics. Founded in 2011 during Philadelphia’s Startup Weekend, the platform enables users to quickly design landing pages that can capture interest and grow an audience. By incentivizing users to share information about projects through email and social media, LaunchRock enhances marketing efforts for its clients. The company is headquartered in Walnut, California, and focuses on helping users effectively engage early adopters and streamline their website launch processes.
Explore the World Through your Interests. Meeps is a place to share and talk about your interests with others around the world. People connect because of shared interests, not shared offices or high schools. Meeps allows you to find real people that share real interests, in real time.
Zaarly is an American private company focused on developing a proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered market platform.
Ginzametrics makes enterprise SEO and Content Marketing simple and easy to manage. The most scalable SEO platform on the market, Ginzametrics serves the needs of advertisers, agencies and ecommerce companies in over 120 global markets. The Ginzametrics platform manages millions of keywords across large site portfolios. The SEO dashboard makes it easy to optimize content for all major search engines. Ginzametrics integrates with Google Analytics, Omniture SiteCatalyst and more to provide engagement insights for organic search. The API enables SEOs and agencies to automate site provisioning and analytics at massive scale. Ginzamarkets, Inc. has received funding from Y Combinator, 500 Startups and other investors and is based in San Francisco, CA, with additional offices in Raleigh, NC, Japan and Europe.
DemandSphere is the result of the evolution and growth of GinzaMetrics, an enterprise search and content marketing platform with clients around the world in a variety of organizations and roles.The changes to the marketing landscape and, by extension, the roles that marketers play, has meant constant updates to data and insight needs by our users. Where SEO, content, email, social, paid, display, offline, and other channels once lived separately there are growing connective ties between online and offline experiences, and onsite and offsite content needs.
Getaround empowers users to instantly rent and drive great cars shared by people in their city. Cars can be rented by the hour, or the day, with a $1M insurance policy and 24/7 roadside assistance included. By using its app, people skip the lines and paperwork at traditional rental car counters, and the hassle of buying and maintaining a car. Powered by Getaround ConnectTM, the patented connected car technology, Getaround creates a fun and safe carsharing experience is without the need to meet the car owner, carry an access card, or coordinate picking up a car key. People share everything from a Prius to a Tesla and earn thousands in extra income each year, offsetting the high cost of car ownership while also making a positive impact on the environment.
Life360 is a platform for today’s busy families, bringing them closer together by helping them better sync, communicate with, and protect the people they care about most. Their mobile app provides millions of families in over 140 countries with services such as private location sharing, location history, drive details, crash detection, roadside assistance and help alerts through our free and paid membership subscription. Life360 has raised +$100M from Bessemer Venture Partners, DCM, Fontinalis Partners, BMW iVentures, Allstate, Bullpen Capital, Founders Fund (FF Angel), Launch Capital, Kapor Capital, and 500 startups. Founded in 2008, Life360 is based in San Francisco with offices in San Diego, Las Vegas, and Ft. Lauderdale.
Manpacks.com is a web-based service for the delivery of men's essentials, including underwear, razors, condoms, grooming and other products from top-name brands such as Calvin Klein, Champion, Gillette, Saxx, Grooming Lounge, and PACT. Scheduled deliveries occur on 3-month intervals with customers managing their service via dashboards where they modify upcoming orders, delay shipments, or "ship now" to receive products right away.
Embedly provides a platform and suite of tools to make embedding and previewing links simple. Embedly helps publishers and consumers manage embed codes from more than 100 Websites and APIs, including YouTube, Flickr, Ustream, Picassa, Hulu, Twitpic, Quantcast, and CrunchBase. It automatically convert links from these sources into embedded media on the fly.
ToutApp builds software to empower sales teams so they can become revenue generating machines. Companies like Citrix, ProCore, XO Group uses ToutApp to generate more pipeline, close deals faster, and forecast more accurately.
DoubleDutch develops event management software for the events industry worldwide. It provides live engagement platform that includes applications, integrations, and performance metrics which, allows orchestrating live events; and online event registration solution that enables to create custom event registration pages, collect registrant information and payments online, manage pre-event activity and correspondence, and optimize registrant data. DoubleDutch offers solutions for external events, internal meetings, and associations. It serves customers ranging from brands to local association for their external and internal corporate meetings, tradeshows and expos, associations, and conferences. Lawrence Coburn and Pankaj Prasad founded DoubleDutch in 2010, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California and additional offices in Phoenix in Arizona and Amsterdam in the Netherlands. It operates as a subsidiary of Cvent as of June 10, 2019.
Kiip is a rewards network and mobile application that offers rewards from brands and companies for virtual achievements. It has received $15.4 million in total funding to date from Relay Ventures, Interpublic Group, Hummer Winblad, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, CrossLink Capital, and others. Kiip was Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.
DailyWorth is the leading multi-platform financial media company for women who want more — more net worth, more self worth, and ultimately, more joy.
The Graphicly platform offers automated self-publishing by converting, distributing and promoting image-based digital content across the most popular consumer mobile and eBook marketplaces including the Apple iOS Newsstand and iBookstore, Barnes & Noble NOOK Color, Amazon Kindle store, Facebook and many others, while streamlining the work flow, reducing production costs significantly and providing authors and publishers detailed real-time analytics. As the only platform that optimizes image-based content, Graphicly is uniquely poised to take advantage of the $23 billion publishing market, including the more than 300,000 self-published authors expected to produce a graphical work this year.
ecomom.com is the brainchild of parents and professionals who saw an unexplored area of parenting and shopping and wanted to bridge the gap between making healthy choices and making easy choices. ecomom.com provides comprehensive, eco-conscious, e-commerce and social shopping which is centered around making it easy to make mindful decisions about the products parents choose to put on, in and around their children and families. ecomom.com also provides relevant information for moms as well as other trusted expert opinions from organizations like Healthy Child Healthy World, and professionals in pertinent parenting fields such as health, nutrition, fitness and mindful living. ecomom.com makes purchasing products, essential to the development of healthy children and families, accessible and effortless.
From free legal documents to discounted rates with outstanding attorneys, LawPivot is here to help every step of the way. Since 2008, LawPivot has helped over 20 million small businesses and families create legal documents, engage with local attorneys and confidently protect their future.
TekTrak is a mobile security company based in Los Angeles, CA. TekTrak developed security applications for mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) that allow users to track their device, if it gets lost or misplaced, as well as secure any private or sensitive information stored on the device. TekTrak is available for iOS and Android devices.
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.
EToro is a social trading and investment network that allows users to trade currencies, commodities, indices, crypto assets, and stocks. It is a multi-asset investment platform that empowers people to grow their knowledge and wealth as part of a global community.