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Antenna Analytics, founded in 2020 and based in New York, specializes in market measurement and analytics services that focus on purchase behavior and subscription metrics. The company caters to various sectors, including video and audio streaming services, digital media subscriptions, and applications related to dating and fitness. Its analytical platform leverages customer transaction data to deliver valuable insights on growth, churn rates, and customer retention. By providing these metrics, Antenna Analytics aids subscription-based businesses in enhancing their measurement capabilities and fostering direct, long-term relationships with their clientele.

Yuansfer is a cross-border payment gateway for brands and retailers who want to unlock sales opportunities to Chinese consumers. It seamlessly integrates Alipay and WeChat Pay to streamline checkout processes both online and in-store, increasing conversion and reaching new customers.

TRANSFR VR’s core technology is a dialogue system between the trainee and our virtual coach. This unique VR apprenticeship model lets trainees move at their own pace and provides strategic, specific feedback to help them learn from their mistakes and master the skills they need to successfully perform their job.

Buzzer Media Inc. operates a mobile platform that focuses on delivering notification-driven live sports streaming. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company aggregates sports rights and content, providing custom notifications to enhance the viewing experience for fans. Buzzer aims to simplify the discovery of live sports moments, enabling users to seamlessly transition between different leagues and games. Through its subscription services, Buzzer caters to the personalized preferences of sports enthusiasts, facilitating immediate access to live events.

BoomTV is an Esports entertainment platform that provides tools to automate score tracking, streaming, and generating event hubs. Their mission is to enable communities to easily produce and partake in virtual Esports. At the core of it all is our self-driving Esports technology layer that provides a one-button solution for anyone to create, participate, and/or spectate Esports content.

Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas to blanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.

Forge.AI's platform performs real-time monitoring of global information and is transformed and enriched by NLP technology and Knowledge Base before being syndicated into structured and machine-readable data feeds, allowing clients to access structured information that is written for human consumption.

Roam Media Inc. operates an online community called ROAM, designed for explorers and adventurers. Founded in 2017 and based in Boulder, Colorado, the platform allows members to share their adventure stories, experiences, and reports. It facilitates creative exchanges through ideas for social media takeovers, videos, films, and interviews, as well as photo essays and opinion pieces. Additionally, the community serves as a space for members to showcase their videos, fostering connection and collaboration among adventure enthusiasts.

Upcomer is a new platform for esports fans to stay updated and engaged with esports. We're building a new kind of esports community and our mobile apps are currently rated 4.8/5 from 5K+ ratings. Try our product at www.upcomer.com

Veritonic, Inc. is a marketing analytics platform based in New York, specializing in commercial sound and serving the advertising industry. Founded in 2015 by Andrew Eisner and Scott Simonelli, the company provides artificial intelligence-driven metrics and marketing response data to measure, compare, and test various audio elements, including music, voiceovers, jingles, and audio logos. Veritonic's services encompass online testing, analytics, and workflow management, enabling users to make data-driven decisions, measure emotional responses, and gather both qualitative and quantitative insights. The platform facilitates benchmarking of brand progress and allows users to efficiently manage, save, and share audio tracks, thereby enhancing their marketing strategies.

Fantasmo Studios, Inc. develops decentralized and open source stack software solutions for indoor and outdoor 3D maps and camera-based positioning. It offers Camera Positioning Standard, a solution that is used in cities and indoor that does not require any infrastructure, such as satellites, beacons, and radios. The company’s solutions are used in micro mobility, robotics, mobile, and auto applications. Fantasmo Studios, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Walnut, California.

Shine is an award-winning self-care app and community for people with anxiety & depression. Our approach to wellness: It isn’t pricey, preachy, or privileged. We pride ourselves on being accessible, actionable, and non-shamey—we believe personal growth starts with accepting who you are today. Our members take care of their mental and emotional health daily with the freemium Shine app. It delivers a new motivational message and meditation each day, plus features a library of 500+ meditations to help them cope with specific feelings and situations. Our premium members also get real-time advice from other Shine members in our private Shine Squad digital community—it’s peer-to-peer support that reminds them they don’t have to go it alone. In just two years since launching, our app already has over 10,000 5-star reviews (1 in 3 call Shine “life-changing”), we were named one of the best self-care apps of 2018 by Apple, and we’ve seen that increased use of Shine is correlated with decreases in both anxiety and depression by up to 35%. Our team is awesome. Our community is incredible. Our movement is massive. And this is just the beginning.

Co–Star is powered by AI that merges NASA data with the insight of human astrologers.Co–Star facilitates new ways to relate to others. It’s a filter to express what can be hard to say of emotions and reactions, strengths and weaknesses, pasts and futures. It’s a tool to connect meaningfully with friends and lovers or to tread lightly with strangers and enemies.

Overtime Sports Inc. is a New York-based company that focuses on enhancing the sports experience for younger audiences. Founded in 2016, it has developed an application that allows users to film and edit highlights of school and amateur sporting events, incorporating features like slow-motion to showcase key moments. This application enables users to create a professional-looking feed of sports content. In addition to its digital offerings, Overtime also markets a range of merchandise, including clothing items like skullies, socks, shirts, and snapbacks, through its online store. The company has garnered significant investment from notable venture capital firms and prominent figures in the sports industry.

Epics.gg's mission is to provide the next generation of fans the rush, satisfaction, and long term value of collecting trading cards for their favorite esports teams, players, and influencers while also providing an integrated marketplace and trading system enabling users to buy, sell and build the ultimate collections.