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The Ankler is a newsletter covering the entertainment industry, offering daily scoops, commentary, and insight into the passing parade of America’s most colorful industrial spectacle. The Ankler is your entertainment industry newsletter, featuring commentary and gossip and filled with exclusive items capturing the rich and crazy pageant of life in this industry. From the Oscar race to industry moves to meltdowns in the commissary, it's going to be a daily look at the world of this industry, filled with the sorts of tidbits and points of view you cant find anywhere else in the trade realm.

Combo is a video editing platform for creators. It also allows you to trim videos, combine layers, add text, overlays, watermarks, and edit layout templates.

Customily is an e-commerce platform that allows customers to personalize products online. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in St Louis, Missouri.

Lance is a smart business banking account for the self-employed built by and for freelancers to proactively manage their backend finances. It understands the world of freelancers has become a juggling act across client management platforms and financial services - with backend tools still built for SMB needs. Freelancers deserve a mobile-first, intuitive delivery of the finances they care about the most today and the community guidance to help them grow into the future.

BigBrain is launching its BigBrain trivia game where you can win real-money prizes.

Through one simple integration to Pockyt, businesses can enable the acceptance of a growing suite of global payment methods, both online and in-store.

Merri is revolutionizing how events are designed, planned, and booked in the digital age. We are streamlining the historically non-digital live events industry through a first-of-its-kind interactive 3D platform. Our integrated workflows and collaboration tools bring venues, vendors, and event hosts onto a single platform, creating the only centralized platform for information, processes, and tools across the entire events ecosystem. We believe that planning an event shouldn't take away from the joy of whatever it is you're celebrating. Whether a wedding, non-profit gala, annual meeting, or a brand activation, Merri streamlines all of the decision making that goes into planning a flawless event — from the venue, to the menu.

Wellory is on a mission is to make healthy eating accessible and affordable.We create one-to-one relationships through a live messaging platform and build data-rich profiles of each consumer's health and behavior trends through increasingly personalized contact over time. With certified knowledge and a new approach to accountability, healthy eating is just a message away-- your very own nutrition expert in your pocket.

Transfr’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 is scaling its proprietary technology and custom services to support an evolving industry embracing a more fan-centric approach and looking to connect with Gen Z audiences. Buzzer’s technology enables partners’ D2C platforms to be lighter, faster, curated, and personalized while saving on costly manual oversight and editorial resourcing, solving for a content-saturated and disaggregated consumer environment.

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.

Balloon removes bias from group work and decision-making - across teams, both internal and external. Its platform levels the playing field and makes it possible to anonymously surface and prioritize information, feedback, and insights that companies can't get any other way.

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.

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.

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 is a media production company for the next-generation adventurer. They provide a new voice, direct from the icons themselves. They strive to energize and encourage their audience and members through educational videos, original shows, mini-documentaries, audio experiments, and community events. The company's mission of providing storytelling and education is intended to arouse something within, resulting in a simplicity of motion that draws people into living in the present.

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

World-renowned brands, agencies, publishers, and platforms rely on Veritonic’s comprehensive audio analytics and research platform to research, test, and measure the ROI of their audio assets and campaigns pre-market, in-market, and post-campaign. The resulting insight enables clients to gain confidence in their audio investment, mitigate risk through optimization, and increase their return as they engage consumers with compelling audio experiences. For more information, visit https://www.veritonic.com.

Fantasmo builds a decentralized, open source stack for indoor and outdoor 3D maps and camera-based positioning. It enables the next generation of AR, robotics and other applications converging physical and digital. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Venice, California, United States.

Shine is a developer of a self-care communication application designed to make well-being accessible. Their application is a messaging bot that gives out life advice and positive reinforcements including actionable tips based on confidence, daily happiness, mental health, productivity, and self-care audio challenges to grow on the go through sms texts on a daily basis, enabling people with anxiety and depression to get career and life advice to take proper care of themselves.

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.