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Allvision IO, Inc. develops platform that aggregates multiple sources of 3 dimensional data. The platform backed by machine learning and cloud computing provides analysis to derive actionable information. Allvision IO, Inc. provides asset detection and tracking; mobility maps; and compliance information to users. It caters to transportation, engineering, infrastructure, government, and insurance industry. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

As of January 3, 2019, Windsor Circle, Inc. was acquired by WhatCounts, Inc. Windsor Circle, Inc. provides Software-as-a-Service customer retention software for the retail industry worldwide. The company offers a Software-as-a-Service marketing automation platform for retailers to drive customer loyalty, retention, and revenue through their marketing campaigns. It provides personalized, automated, and segmented data-driven campaigns including, lifecycle marketing, loyalty and retention, product recommendations, product replenishment, cart recovery, and browse abandonment and more; and predictive marketing services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

ChoiceWORX, Inc. operates as an automation software firm for IT operations. Its products include apptinuum; which provides an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) platform that enables intelligent automation of end-user support and device management; and robotinuu, an AI platform that manages robotic automation environments across the endpoint, application, and infrastructure layers. Its solution enables companies to reduce costs, improve worker productivity, and reduce dependence on human labor. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

PunchList was founded by a contractor and a real estate agent to solve a consistent pain point in the real estate transaction: completing inspection repairs fast, with quality, and with consistency from job to job. Building from their early success in their home base of Charleston, SC, their growing team of licensed contractors and support specialists now help thousands of agents and their clients across the US.

Automated Insights is a provider of content automation services. It is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first public natural language generation template engine. Wordsmith allows users to generate human-sounding narratives from data, making it easy to produce millions of personalized reports, articles, and narratives in the time it takes to write just one. The Wordsmith platform helps companies in data-driven industries, including financial services, e-commerce, real estate, business intelligence, media, and many others, achieve content scale, efficiency, and personalization. More than 200 customers, including Allstate, The Associated Press, Edmunds.com, the Orlando Magic, and Yahoo! use Wordsmith to generate more than 1.5 billion pieces of content per year.

Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

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.

Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Royalty Exchange is an online platform for buying and selling royalties and a member company of Techstars Music Accelerator. It offers a centralized, open marketplace to conduct royalty auctions, bringing transparency to a historically private process. The result maximizes value for royalty owners and provides a standardized and secure alternative investment opportunity for buyers and investors.

Fenris Digital develops a cloud-based platform for global property and casualty insurers. The company provides solutions, which includes digital solutions, data foundations, decisioning support, and design thinking solutions. It offers AI-based analytics engine and scoring for streamlined underwriting results. It also offers TouchQuote, a white-labeled mobile-first quoting platform. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Glen Allen, Virginia.

PunchList was founded by a contractor and a real estate agent to solve a consistent pain point in the real estate transaction: completing inspection repairs fast, with quality, and with consistency from job to job. Building from their early success in their home base of Charleston, SC, their growing team of licensed contractors and support specialists now help thousands of agents and their clients across the US.

Axial Exchange Inc. develops a remote patient/population health monitoring and communications platform. It provides continuous real-time insight of community’s health interest, goals, data, and behavior. Axial Exchange Inc. was formerly known as Axial Project, Inc. and changed its name to Axial Exchange Inc. in October 2009. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. As of July 14, 2015, Axial Exchange Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IngagePatient, Inc.

PunchList was founded by a contractor and a real estate agent to solve a consistent pain point in the real estate transaction: completing inspection repairs fast, with quality, and with consistency from job to job. Building from their early success in their home base of Charleston, SC, their growing team of licensed contractors and support specialists now help thousands of agents and their clients across the US.

At Key, we're creating a world where real estate is a source of prosperity and freedom for everyone. Our patent-pending approach makes urban living possible again, free from the burdens of commuting, cost-prohibitive down payments, and the inflexibility that comes with a 25-year mortgage.

Distil Networks specializes in bot detection and mitigation focused on stopping automated attacks to make the web more secure. With Distil, users can automatically block 99.9% of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. Distil web security defends websites against web scraping, competitive data mining, account takeovers, transaction fraud, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, and denial of service. Distil API Security protects public and partner-facing APIs against developer errors, integration bugs, automated scraping, and web and mobile hijacking. Distil Analyst Managed Service brings human intelligence to the science of bot mitigation.

Pangea.app, Inc. operates a platform that connects companies with college students for freelance projects. Its platform acts as a marketplace that allows companies to communicate directly to students, pay via a payment gateway, and rate their performance to promote accountability. Pangea.app, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

InsightFinder provides innovative machine learning technology to unlock the value in IT operational data, from performance metrics to textual log files, finding root causes for deviations from normal behaviors and recurring patterns, as well as predicting future events and outages, involving your staff only when necessary and appropriate to do so. InsightFinder’s core technologies and patent-pending solutions are available via online subscription or on-premise deployment.

Biospatial, Inc. designs and develops an online cloud-based platform to alert its users regarding anomalous events related to human health and the biosphere. The platform ingests data, processes inbound data records using machine learning, and offers data feeds to end users. It offers web-based interfaces to enable users to visualize data, generate reports, and control user access. Biospatial, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

SortSpoke's artificial intelligence does the complex data extraction work that people do today. SortSpoke helps companies automate manual document processing. SortSpoke is a cloud service that learns how you classify your documents, what data you extract from them and then it does it for you.

Finmark is financial planning software for startups; making it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash. The platform takes complex financial concepts and calculations and distills them down into a simple to use interface so companies can easily update, inspect, and share their financial metrics. Companies, from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, rely on Finmark to align teams, drive collaboration, reduce costs and resources, and build the next generation of great startups. Greg Lissy, Jeremy Neuberger, and Rami Essaid founded the company in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2020.

Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Distil Networks specializes in bot detection and mitigation focused on stopping automated attacks to make the web more secure. With Distil, users can automatically block 99.9% of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. Distil web security defends websites against web scraping, competitive data mining, account takeovers, transaction fraud, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, and denial of service. Distil API Security protects public and partner-facing APIs against developer errors, integration bugs, automated scraping, and web and mobile hijacking. Distil Analyst Managed Service brings human intelligence to the science of bot mitigation.

Automated Insights is a provider of content automation services. It is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first public natural language generation template engine. Wordsmith allows users to generate human-sounding narratives from data, making it easy to produce millions of personalized reports, articles, and narratives in the time it takes to write just one. The Wordsmith platform helps companies in data-driven industries, including financial services, e-commerce, real estate, business intelligence, media, and many others, achieve content scale, efficiency, and personalization. More than 200 customers, including Allstate, The Associated Press, Edmunds.com, the Orlando Magic, and Yahoo! use Wordsmith to generate more than 1.5 billion pieces of content per year.

First is a software company that uses artificial and predictive intelligence on when and why people move to predict sales and marketing. It brings predictive marketing to real estate. Fundamentally changing how service providers find their next customer. They discover when and why people will buy or sell a house, so they can connect realtors with new clients at the perfect time. Thus, the company predicts who will sell by tracking 700+ signals across 214 million people nationwide.

Ceterus, Inc. develops Web-based accounting and financial reporting solutions. It offers Ceterus Edge, an accounting software that gives access to financial, peer-benchmarks, key performance metrics, and daily balances from various connected devices; and Ceterus Tax, a tax preparation software. The company serves restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, education, and beauty companies. Ceterus, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Charleston, South Carolina with an additional office in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

A team of experienced Triangle, NC entrepreneurs are building the World's first on-demand smartphone-powered technology-enabled mobile car wash and detailing service. Schedule your wash in under a minute using our app or website and we come to you! All payment and communication is handled via the app so that it is super-convenient. Also at Spiffy we care deeply about the environment and all of our washes are 100% eco-friendly. We recycle 100% of the water and leave zero run-off.

A team of experienced Triangle, NC entrepreneurs are building the World's first on-demand smartphone-powered technology-enabled mobile car wash and detailing service. Schedule your wash in under a minute using our app or website and we come to you! All payment and communication is handled via the app so that it is super-convenient. Also at Spiffy we care deeply about the environment and all of our washes are 100% eco-friendly. We recycle 100% of the water and leave zero run-off.

PunchList was founded by a contractor and a real estate agent to solve a consistent pain point in the real estate transaction: completing inspection repairs fast, with quality, and with consistency from job to job. Building from their early success in their home base of Charleston, SC, their growing team of licensed contractors and support specialists now help thousands of agents and their clients across the US.

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.

Second Nature is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing air filters. It offers a web-based platform that enables people to purchase online its services include shipping, installation, and maintenance that helps their client to improve their indoor air quality and protect the HVAC system. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in North Carolina, United States.

Second Nature is a consumer goods company that specializes in providing air filters. It offers a web-based platform that enables people to purchase online its services include shipping, installation, and maintenance that helps their client to improve their indoor air quality and protect the HVAC system. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in North Carolina, United States.

Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Klearly Analytics, Inc. operates a SaaS-based prescriptive intelligence platform for B2B companies. It offers Klearly, a platform that uses data science and machine learning to help sales and marketing teams to quantify their impact on revenue, and get prescriptive, actionable recommendations on future activities. The company’s Klearly turns data into actionable insights to make marketing and sales decisions. Klearly Analytics, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Oncoscope, Inc. operates as a medical device company. It develops optical imaging systems for epithelial tissues in the oral cavity, esophagous, stomach, colon, lung, cervix, and bladder. Its systems provide in vivo measurements of the diameter and density of cell nuclei. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Ceterus, Inc. develops Web-based accounting and financial reporting solutions. It offers Ceterus Edge, an accounting software that gives access to financial, peer-benchmarks, key performance metrics, and daily balances from various connected devices; and Ceterus Tax, a tax preparation software. The company serves restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, education, and beauty companies. Ceterus, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Charleston, South Carolina with an additional office in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Sift MediaSift Media is leveraging advanced AI and machine learning algorithms to hyper-target app install ads for its clients. They sift through 50 billion mobile ad requests daily, leveraging advanced AI & machine learning algorithms to hyper-target app install ads for our clients. To date, Sift has served 40B+ mobile ads and delivered 25M+ app installs for thousands of advertisers. In January 2016, Sift announced $3.25 million in funding led by Wakefield Group, with participation from Piedmont Capital, Alerion Ventures, IDEA Fund Partners, and several angel investors.

Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Argyle Software provides a Social Media Marketing Solution that enables marketers to generate more prospects, qualify more leads, and create greater engagement across their social base. Argyle Social integrates with Pardot, Marketo, and soon with Silverpop as well, to provide marketers with the only way to tie social in to the efforts of the rest of the marketing department. Hundreds of mid-sized businesses - including Uservoice, Backupify, Sharefile, and Global Giving - rely on Argyle to power their social media marketing programs.

Sarda’s disruptive voltage regulator products significantly improve the energy efficiency of cloud computing systems, enabling them to keep up with the Internet's exponential growth.

As of January 3, 2019, Windsor Circle, Inc. was acquired by WhatCounts, Inc. Windsor Circle, Inc. provides Software-as-a-Service customer retention software for the retail industry worldwide. The company offers a Software-as-a-Service marketing automation platform for retailers to drive customer loyalty, retention, and revenue through their marketing campaigns. It provides personalized, automated, and segmented data-driven campaigns including, lifecycle marketing, loyalty and retention, product recommendations, product replenishment, cart recovery, and browse abandonment and more; and predictive marketing services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

A team of experienced Triangle, NC entrepreneurs are building the World's first on-demand smartphone-powered technology-enabled mobile car wash and detailing service. Schedule your wash in under a minute using our app or website and we come to you! All payment and communication is handled via the app so that it is super-convenient. Also at Spiffy we care deeply about the environment and all of our washes are 100% eco-friendly. We recycle 100% of the water and leave zero run-off.

Our mobile-first, real-time feedback platform captures true audience sentiment, increasing participation and conversions. We are personalized, two-way feedback for the mobile generation.

Automated Insights is a provider of content automation services. It is the creator of Wordsmith, the world’s first public natural language generation template engine. Wordsmith allows users to generate human-sounding narratives from data, making it easy to produce millions of personalized reports, articles, and narratives in the time it takes to write just one. The Wordsmith platform helps companies in data-driven industries, including financial services, e-commerce, real estate, business intelligence, media, and many others, achieve content scale, efficiency, and personalization. More than 200 customers, including Allstate, The Associated Press, Edmunds.com, the Orlando Magic, and Yahoo! use Wordsmith to generate more than 1.5 billion pieces of content per year.

Reveal Mobile, Inc. operates a platform that provides location-based advertising and analytics across multiple industries. It offers VISIT Local that provides foot traffic attribution, location-based analytics, and audience building for agencies, media companies, and brands. The company also provides VISIT Match that provides instant audience scale for locations, analytics, and products. In addition, it offers VISIT Data, a customizable location-data solution for enterprise products and analytics platforms. The company provides solutions in the areas of agencies, brands, digital out of home, media companies, and data driven companies. Reveal Mobile, Inc. was formerly known as StepLeader, Inc. and changed its name to Reveal Mobile, Inc. in March 2015. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Reveal Mobile, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CBC New Media Group, LLC.

Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Poppy is a tech-enabled, managed marketplace in the $13 billion flower industry. We're solving the pain of discovering and purchasing high-quality, affordable wedding and event flowers for customers, providing good jobs for independent floral designers, and sourcing directly from the best flower farms. We're using technology to modernize a labyrinthine, analogue purchasing experience and using machine learning and computer vision to improve the customer experience.

Payzer is a North Carolina-based financial technology company that offers an all-in-one financial tool which helps contractors grow their businesses and exchange money with ease. Its mobile and cloud-based platform allows customers to accept credit and debit cards, and electronic checks in the field or at the home office with real-time tracking across their organizations. It also allows its users to provide instant financing up to $55,000 using a mobile phone, tablet, or personal computer as well as control purchases by giving employees Visa debit purchasing cards. Payzer was established in 2014.

Impossible Objects is a developer of a 3D printing technology used to make objects from sheets of kevlar, carbon fiber, and fiberglass. Its composite-based additive manufacturing (CBAM) technology combines high-performance polymers like nylon and PEEK with long-fiber carbon and fiberglass sheets to deliver complex parts at production speeds and volumes that enable clients to churn out parts that are ready to use in cars, planes, computers, and more. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois.

Klearly Analytics, Inc. operates a SaaS-based prescriptive intelligence platform for B2B companies. It offers Klearly, a platform that uses data science and machine learning to help sales and marketing teams to quantify their impact on revenue, and get prescriptive, actionable recommendations on future activities. The company’s Klearly turns data into actionable insights to make marketing and sales decisions. Klearly Analytics, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

71lbs helps small and medium businesses save money on shipping by providing analytics and reporting tools to help businesses understand their costs. We have been in the parcel shipping business for decades. We have shipped thousands of packages, negotiated many shipping contracts, and also worked for the major parcel shipping carriers. After all of our time in the industry, we have become all too familiar with the differences of their shipping services, their strengths and also their weaknesses. We bring all this experience to help you. We have used all that what we know to simplify shipping for you. We help you understand your shipping costs. We help you save money on shipping.

Mati Inc. produces and sells energy drinks in various flavors. It offers MATI, an energy drink that is brewed from plants, fruit juice concentrates, water, and other products. The company sells its products through wholesalers, retail outlets, and wholesale food stores in North Carolina; and Durham, Orange, Person, Vance, Granville, Franklin, and Warren counties, as well as online. Mati Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Durham, North Carolina. As of April 27, 2020, Mati Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NOBL Beverages.

As of January 3, 2019, Windsor Circle, Inc. was acquired by WhatCounts, Inc. Windsor Circle, Inc. provides Software-as-a-Service customer retention software for the retail industry worldwide. The company offers a Software-as-a-Service marketing automation platform for retailers to drive customer loyalty, retention, and revenue through their marketing campaigns. It provides personalized, automated, and segmented data-driven campaigns including, lifecycle marketing, loyalty and retention, product recommendations, product replenishment, cart recovery, and browse abandonment and more; and predictive marketing services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Distil Networks specializes in bot detection and mitigation focused on stopping automated attacks to make the web more secure. With Distil, users can automatically block 99.9% of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. Distil web security defends websites against web scraping, competitive data mining, account takeovers, transaction fraud, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, and denial of service. Distil API Security protects public and partner-facing APIs against developer errors, integration bugs, automated scraping, and web and mobile hijacking. Distil Analyst Managed Service brings human intelligence to the science of bot mitigation.

BrightDoor Systems, Inc. develops and delivers customer relationship management (CRM), mobile application, interactive kiosk, marketing, and sales software solutions for single and multifamily developers, homebuilders, and new home brokers. It offers BrightDoor Central, a CRM and marketing system that delivers typical lead management and others; BrightDoor Kiosk, to transform a discovery center, model home, or leasing gallery visit into a sales experience; and BrightDoor Mobile, a solution that engage with sellers with the buyers. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. It also operates a client service office in Costa Mesa, California.

iContact LLC offers email marketing software and solutions for small and medium businesses worldwide. The company offers iContact, a software that serves the needs of high-volume senders, professional marketers, and businesses new to email; iContact Pro, an email marketing tool for the modern marketer; and iContact for Salesforce for sending mass email and tracking results with CRM. iContact LLC was formerly known as Broadwick Corporation and changed its name to iContact LLC in June 2007. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina with additional offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, and China. As of January 22, 2019, iContact LLC operates as a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc.

Distil Networks specializes in bot detection and mitigation focused on stopping automated attacks to make the web more secure. With Distil, users can automatically block 99.9% of malicious traffic without impacting legitimate users. Distil web security defends websites against web scraping, competitive data mining, account takeovers, transaction fraud, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle attacks, digital ad fraud, and denial of service. Distil API Security protects public and partner-facing APIs against developer errors, integration bugs, automated scraping, and web and mobile hijacking. Distil Analyst Managed Service brings human intelligence to the science of bot mitigation.

Social Solutions has developed a results-oriented software to relate efforts of the social service industry to their evaluation and performance. They called the software "Efforts to Outcomes Software" or ETO Software®. In 2000, Social Solutions was launched to promote the benefits of relating efforts to outcomes to improve the effectiveness of social service delivery. Since making ETO Software available, it has been adopted by thousands of human service organizations and government agencies throughout the U.S. and Canada. Today, Social Solutions not only provides ETO Software®, but also a variety of ETO Sevices to assist organizations in their "ETOlution." Additionally, They engage in a wide array of advocacy efforts intended to build awareness and transform the way in which human services are delivered, funded, and evaluated.

A team of experienced Triangle, NC entrepreneurs are building the World's first on-demand smartphone-powered technology-enabled mobile car wash and detailing service. Schedule your wash in under a minute using our app or website and we come to you! All payment and communication is handled via the app so that it is super-convenient. Also at Spiffy we care deeply about the environment and all of our washes are 100% eco-friendly. We recycle 100% of the water and leave zero run-off.

LiveSource’s cloud-based supplier collaboration suite specializes in strategic sourcing and supplier performance management, as well as the facilitation of all supplier interactions up and down the supply chain. LiveSource focuses on global manufacturers in highly regulated and complex manufacturing industries and a majority of its revenue is derived from the automotive and aerospace industries.

Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

CloudTags created a flexible data-driven pop-up ecosystem that engages customers on their smartphones with no app using sonic frequency sound. Retailers can sign up for a day, week, or month at locations. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Finmark is financial planning software for startups; making it simple for companies to manage their runway, hiring, and cash. The platform takes complex financial concepts and calculations and distills them down into a simple to use interface so companies can easily update, inspect, and share their financial metrics. Companies, from pre-revenue to pre-IPO, rely on Finmark to align teams, drive collaboration, reduce costs and resources, and build the next generation of great startups. Greg Lissy, Jeremy Neuberger, and Rami Essaid founded the company in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2020.

They give your people actionable insights and motivational messages based on their performance using microgoals™ similar to health trackers that breakdown insurmountable goals into achievable hourly and daily activities. They also replace generic coaching based on "gut-feel" with specific, individualized, and motivational coaching based on data.

Canopy is a landscaping company that uses technology for consumers to purchase and schedule lawn maintenance services. It uses technology to streamline operations and improve communications in order to provide an exceptional employee and customer experience. The company provides lawn care and landscaping, from weed control and fertilization to mowing and maintenance, in an environmentally responsible and intelligent fashion. Canopy Lawn Care was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.

Social Solutions has developed a results-oriented software to relate efforts of the social service industry to their evaluation and performance. They called the software "Efforts to Outcomes Software" or ETO Software®. In 2000, Social Solutions was launched to promote the benefits of relating efforts to outcomes to improve the effectiveness of social service delivery. Since making ETO Software available, it has been adopted by thousands of human service organizations and government agencies throughout the U.S. and Canada. Today, Social Solutions not only provides ETO Software®, but also a variety of ETO Sevices to assist organizations in their "ETOlution." Additionally, They engage in a wide array of advocacy efforts intended to build awareness and transform the way in which human services are delivered, funded, and evaluated.

Ceterus, Inc. develops Web-based accounting and financial reporting solutions. It offers Ceterus Edge, an accounting software that gives access to financial, peer-benchmarks, key performance metrics, and daily balances from various connected devices; and Ceterus Tax, a tax preparation software. The company serves restaurants, fitness, wellness, retail, education, and beauty companies. Ceterus, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Charleston, South Carolina with an additional office in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Lucerno Dynamics' breakthrough system can dynamically detect, quantify, and record with high-fidelity the presence of radiolabeled biomarkers in tissue quickly, safely, and inexpensively. This technology has potential human applications in assuring the quality of PET injections, measuring arterial input function non-invasively, assessing inflammation, monitoring therapy response of superficial tumors, and several others. Related technology has been developed for use in animal research for preclinical evaluation of compounds. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.

As of January 3, 2019, Windsor Circle, Inc. was acquired by WhatCounts, Inc. Windsor Circle, Inc. provides Software-as-a-Service customer retention software for the retail industry worldwide. The company offers a Software-as-a-Service marketing automation platform for retailers to drive customer loyalty, retention, and revenue through their marketing campaigns. It provides personalized, automated, and segmented data-driven campaigns including, lifecycle marketing, loyalty and retention, product recommendations, product replenishment, cart recovery, and browse abandonment and more; and predictive marketing services. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Durham, North Carolina.

Reveal Mobile, Inc. operates a platform that provides location-based advertising and analytics across multiple industries. It offers VISIT Local that provides foot traffic attribution, location-based analytics, and audience building for agencies, media companies, and brands. The company also provides VISIT Match that provides instant audience scale for locations, analytics, and products. In addition, it offers VISIT Data, a customizable location-data solution for enterprise products and analytics platforms. The company provides solutions in the areas of agencies, brands, digital out of home, media companies, and data driven companies. Reveal Mobile, Inc. was formerly known as StepLeader, Inc. and changed its name to Reveal Mobile, Inc. in March 2015. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Reveal Mobile, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of CBC New Media Group, LLC.

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.

Silbo Inc. operates as a marketplace that connects sports games with sports officials. Its application helps game providers to schedule, pay, and communicate with officials. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Raleigh, North Carolina.

iContact LLC offers email marketing software and solutions for small and medium businesses worldwide. The company offers iContact, a software that serves the needs of high-volume senders, professional marketers, and businesses new to email; iContact Pro, an email marketing tool for the modern marketer; and iContact for Salesforce for sending mass email and tracking results with CRM. iContact LLC was formerly known as Broadwick Corporation and changed its name to iContact LLC in June 2007. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina with additional offices in Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, and China. As of January 22, 2019, iContact LLC operates as a subsidiary of j2 Global, Inc.

Switchboard is a live video, social media management platform that helps Creators, Producers, and Brands to manage their live streams, create workflows, that extend reach to online audiences and social connections. Switchboard develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of live streaming activations to social video platforms and broadcast destinations. We are always looking for innovative ways to simplify the "how you do live" process by combining best in practice tools and technology. Switchboard Live Inc. was founded in February 2016, ​headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.