AudioShake employs AI to distinguish between music and speech, enhancing interactivity and accessibility in audio content. Major and independent labels, music publishers, film studios, artists, and app developers leverage the company's technology for sound separation and lyric transcription. This spans various applications, including sync licensing, immersive mixes, emerging audio uses in UGC, gaming, streaming, voice synthesis, sports, localization, and beyond. Winner of the Sony Demixing Challenge, AudioShake's patented, industry-leading technology is used by major labels, music publishers, film production studios, and more.
Resolve uses data-informed insights to act as a Guardian Angel for patients with excessive medical bills - stepping between them and hospitals and insurance companies to significantly lower the amount that they owe. The company audits, reviews, and negotiates medical bills to identify errors and problems. Resolve was founded in 2019 and is based in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Belay is a collaborative financial research platform that manages the risk of investments. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
A marketplace connecting retailers with the best flexible retail associates – on demand.
Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs.
ianacare is on a mission to encourage, empower, and equip working family caregivers with resources & communities, so no one has to do it alone. ianacare is the front door to navigating all the care in the home across all stages of caregiving, connecting every layer of practical and emotional support in an easy-to-use experience for working family caregivers.
Polymer is a data governance and privacy platform for third-party SaaS applications such as Slack, Dropbox, Gdrive, Zendesk, Zapier, and many others. This protects against data loss and cyber breaches. The solution provides a single pane of glass to configure, permission, and track usage of sensitive data across the organization to become PII, PHI,HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA compliant.
Backed by the world’s top AI leaders and trusted by the largest global brands, Netomi is the leader in customer experience AI for enterprises. Netomi provides multimodal and omnichannel Sanctioned Generative AI, ensuring brand-safe conversations at scale with built-in AI governance controls for accuracy, security, and data privacy. Our innovative AI deployment guarantees cost savings, operational efficiencies, and boosts in customer satisfaction, loyalty, revenue, and profitability. Netomi’s no-code solution deploys in weeks, scales automatically, and offers comprehensive tools for non-technical users to easily manage CX AI at scale. This results in a lower total cost of ownership, faster time to market, and reduced reliance on developer resources. Founded in 2016, Netomi leverages the latest AI developments to enhance customer experience, empowering brands with high-quality automated support and tools to augment human agent teams. In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, Netomi makes it easy for brands to meet rising customer expectations and deliver exceptional service.
Databento makes it simpler and faster to access financial market data. Founded by traders and engineers from world-class quantitative hedge funds, Databento's self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data. Users have the flexibility to only pay for what they use, or opt for flat-rate pricing. Databento's servers are hosted in the colocation facilities of various trading venues for low-latency and high-fidelity data capture, directly from the source.
Beacon's goal is to improve human health by applying artificial intelligence to brain activity. Beacon Biosignals delivered EEG reports with unprecedented speed and accuracy, eliminating adjudication with enhanced inclusion/exclusion criteria.
Almanac is the most powerful platform for async collaboration. A modern doc editor with version control to manage changes across docs and automated workflows for reviews, revisions, and suggestions. Built to give innovative companies, distributed teams, and the world's most ambitious people power, organization, and transparency—so they can can collaborate with focus and speed. Join us in a world with less meetings and messages!
Complete Specialty Solutions provides in-house specialty solutions to general dentist offices through our unique combination of clinical, business and operational support delivered as an integrated and turn-key solution.
Dorothy is revolutionizing the disaster recovery industry through data and technology, ensuring that no one affected by disaster has to navigate the process alone. Our mission is to empower individuals with a fair, fast, and straightforward recovery by connecting them with dedicated recovery specialists, helping them rebuild their lives quickly and effectively.
The ALMANAC Lab is a full deployment of the ALMANAC Smart City Enablers which can be used to experiment with IoT in a Smart City context. Use their components when building YOUR IoT solution, here at the ALMANAC-Lab. You can experiment with the OPEN data they are publishing, or add your own. If you prefer, download their platform, and get started with things like storage, messaging, security in just a few seconds. Their components can be used individually, or together as a comprehensive Reliable Smart Secure Internet of Things for Smart Cities platform.
Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs.
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Boundless operates in two distinct sectors: education and immigration services. In the education sector, Boundless Learning, Inc. offers an online platform that provides a wide range of study materials, including content in subjects such as accounting, biology, history, and computer science, along with quizzes and PowerPoint templates. The platform aims to enhance the accessibility and utility of open educational resources for students. In the immigration sector, Boundless empowers families by offering tools, information, and personalized support to help them navigate the immigration system efficiently and affordably. The company's platform connects immigrants with resources, including access to immigration lawyers and online filing options. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Boundless has expanded its focus to include immigration services since its inception in 2017, with headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
Databento makes it simpler and faster to access financial market data. Founded by traders and engineers from world-class quantitative hedge funds, Databento's self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data. Users have the flexibility to only pay for what they use, or opt for flat-rate pricing. Databento's servers are hosted in the colocation facilities of various trading venues for low-latency and high-fidelity data capture, directly from the source.
Lob automates direct mail for modern businesses. More than 7,000 companies use Lob’s APIs to move faster and create new growth opportunities. Lob’s APIs dramatically reduce mail processing time, reclaiming thousands of hours and improving data quality. One in four households in the U.S. have received mail generated through Lob’s platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lob is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, First Round Capital and Polaris Partners.
Brave Care operates beautiful primary and urgent care clinics just for kids in Oregon & Texas. The BraveCare.com website and mobile app provide pediatric advice to parents nationwide to support them in helping their kids reach their full potential.
Scope is an Implementation-as-a-Service platform that scales and reduces the cost of implementations. With Scope's all in one implementation management platform and expert network, companies can now expand their market, increase time to value and reduce churn with or without their own implementation talent. Started in 2019, Scope is defining the market for implementation as a service.
Expectful is a mental health app designed to assist women before, during, and after pregnancy. With research-backed results, Expectful creates a highly effective, low-cost, and easily accessible tool to help soon-to-be and new moms in navigating the physical, mental, and emotional aspects of every stage of the reproductive journey. It offers a non-pharmacologic, low-cost solution for reducing prenatal and postpartum stress and improving maternal and infant outcomes.
CapWay is a fintech startup that provides financial access, opportunities, and resources through digital banking to the financially underserved and overlooked - including the unbanked, underbanked, working poor, and those fed up with the traditional banking system.CapWay is providing the tools, access, and opportunity needed for the marathon to financial health and generational wealth.
Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs.
Scope is an Implementation-as-a-Service platform that scales and reduces the cost of implementations. With Scope's all in one implementation management platform and expert network, companies can now expand their market, increase time to value and reduce churn with or without their own implementation talent. Started in 2019, Scope is defining the market for implementation as a service.
Almanac is the most powerful platform for async collaboration. A modern doc editor with version control to manage changes across docs and automated workflows for reviews, revisions, and suggestions. Built to give innovative companies, distributed teams, and the world's most ambitious people power, organization, and transparency—so they can can collaborate with focus and speed. Join us in a world with less meetings and messages!
Goodpath is a virtual clinic specializing in treating the most chronic conditions: Behavioral Health, MSK, Diabetes, Digestive & Sleep
ianacare is on a mission to encourage, empower, and equip working family caregivers with resources & communities, so no one has to do it alone. ianacare is the front door to navigating all the care in the home across all stages of caregiving, connecting every layer of practical and emotional support in an easy-to-use experience for working family caregivers.
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Treno is a venture-backed startup. The company started in 2019 and is headquartered in New York.
Airspace Link digitizes local airspace for urban air mobility. It provides government, citizen, and business drone solutions to support local government airspace management, fostering citizen empowerment, and business innovation through consumer and b2b air logistical support and services. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Detroit, Michigan.
Databento makes it simpler and faster to access financial market data. Founded by traders and engineers from world-class quantitative hedge funds, Databento's self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data. Users have the flexibility to only pay for what they use, or opt for flat-rate pricing. Databento's servers are hosted in the colocation facilities of various trading venues for low-latency and high-fidelity data capture, directly from the source.
Brave Care operates beautiful primary and urgent care clinics just for kids in Oregon & Texas. The BraveCare.com website and mobile app provide pediatric advice to parents nationwide to support them in helping their kids reach their full potential.
Brave Care operates beautiful primary and urgent care clinics just for kids in Oregon & Texas. The BraveCare.com website and mobile app provide pediatric advice to parents nationwide to support them in helping their kids reach their full potential.
The ALMANAC Lab is a full deployment of the ALMANAC Smart City Enablers which can be used to experiment with IoT in a Smart City context. Use their components when building YOUR IoT solution, here at the ALMANAC-Lab. You can experiment with the OPEN data they are publishing, or add your own. If you prefer, download their platform, and get started with things like storage, messaging, security in just a few seconds. Their components can be used individually, or together as a comprehensive Reliable Smart Secure Internet of Things for Smart Cities platform.
Orthly was founded with a defiant spirit and a bold proposition: to transform the way we get smiles and offer it at an incomparable price, and in the process make the world a little happier. By eliminating expensive office overhead costs, working directly with a world-class manufacturer, and delivering straight to the patient, Orthly provides doctor-prescribed invisible aligner treatment that combines convenience and superb quality at less than half of the usual price.
Almanac is the most powerful platform for async collaboration. A modern doc editor with version control to manage changes across docs and automated workflows for reviews, revisions, and suggestions. Built to give innovative companies, distributed teams, and the world's most ambitious people power, organization, and transparency—so they can can collaborate with focus and speed. Join us in a world with less meetings and messages!
Catch is redesigning benefits to put people at the center of their own financial stability and security. For freelancers, contractors, and workers without access to employer benefits, Catch automatically handles tax withholding, builds long-term investment savings, and provides critical insurance products. In creating a personalized safety net, Catch envisions a world where individuals can leverage data-driven curation and timely insights to gain full agency over changing needs.
Wade & Wendy offers machine intelligence personalities that aim to make hiring more human. It was launched by Josh Brandoff, Adrian von der Osten, and Drew Austin in June 2015 and is based in New York, United States.
Backed by the world’s top AI leaders and trusted by the largest global brands, Netomi is the leader in customer experience AI for enterprises. Netomi provides multimodal and omnichannel Sanctioned Generative AI, ensuring brand-safe conversations at scale with built-in AI governance controls for accuracy, security, and data privacy. Our innovative AI deployment guarantees cost savings, operational efficiencies, and boosts in customer satisfaction, loyalty, revenue, and profitability. Netomi’s no-code solution deploys in weeks, scales automatically, and offers comprehensive tools for non-technical users to easily manage CX AI at scale. This results in a lower total cost of ownership, faster time to market, and reduced reliance on developer resources. Founded in 2016, Netomi leverages the latest AI developments to enhance customer experience, empowering brands with high-quality automated support and tools to augment human agent teams. In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, Netomi makes it easy for brands to meet rising customer expectations and deliver exceptional service.
Simplifeye develops patient engagement and communication software for patient management and productivity. They provide services to practices across the retail healthcare landscape.
Everbloom is a decentralized exchange which utilizes the blockchain for settlement.
Simplifeye develops patient engagement and communication software for patient management and productivity. They provide services to practices across the retail healthcare landscape.
Dandy is modernizing the $400B global dental industry with end-to-end software and manufacturing solutions. More than 2 million people already have a Dandy product—and we’re just getting started. From placing an order to delivering a highly customized restoration, we power the entire workflow for dental practices. By combining proprietary technology with world-class manufacturing and operations, Dandy helps practices deliver high-quality, consistent, and affordable outcomes—a smile their patients are proud of.
Pienso is a machine-learning platform for non-programmers. Pienso’s end-to-end Intelligent Development Environment allows non-programming experts to create and train their machine-learning models without the need for external support.
The San Francisco-based startup launched out of stealth today to offer users different channels, or “islands,” through which they can organize a game of volleyball, share class notes, or simply create a support group.
VIDA is an e-commerce platform that takes advantage of direct-to-fabric technology resulting in the large scale production of unique apparel from designers around the world. With this process, any submitted design can go from sketch to completion in a week with any of VIDA's ten manufacturers. With this process, any submitted design can go from sketch to completion in a week with any of VIDA's ten manufacturers. By carefully selecting its partnerships, VIDA is bridging the gap between artists and consumers while promoting socially responsible fashion. By carefully selecting its partnerships, VIDA is bridging the gap between artists and consumers while promoting socially responsible fashion.
Nimble is a Web Based SaaS platform that helps small businesses attract and retain customers by enabling their team to work more effectively together and stay top of mind with their prospects and customers. Nimble was designed to enable small business to attain the same benefits larger companies have achieved with their CRM strategies without the associated costs and complexities. Nimble CRM combines the power of relationship management, unified conversations/communications, social media tools, and team Collaboration under one roof. Nimble keeps you and your team organized and allows more effective communications between your company and its contacts from one centralized SaaS platform regardless of what they are using: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, IM, text message or email.
Backed by the world’s top AI leaders and trusted by the largest global brands, Netomi is the leader in customer experience AI for enterprises. Netomi provides multimodal and omnichannel Sanctioned Generative AI, ensuring brand-safe conversations at scale with built-in AI governance controls for accuracy, security, and data privacy. Our innovative AI deployment guarantees cost savings, operational efficiencies, and boosts in customer satisfaction, loyalty, revenue, and profitability. Netomi’s no-code solution deploys in weeks, scales automatically, and offers comprehensive tools for non-technical users to easily manage CX AI at scale. This results in a lower total cost of ownership, faster time to market, and reduced reliance on developer resources. Founded in 2016, Netomi leverages the latest AI developments to enhance customer experience, empowering brands with high-quality automated support and tools to augment human agent teams. In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, Netomi makes it easy for brands to meet rising customer expectations and deliver exceptional service.
Entrypoint promises an unparalleled immersive web experience with unique applications for everyone from publishers to advertisers to retailers. Creators use our intuitive software to add custom, interactive experiences layered on top of their pre-recorded live-action footage, animations, and 360 livestreams. This enables imaginative storytelling, advertising, and e-commerce possibilities. Once finished, the experience lives on a simple URL, enabling it to be viewed on smartphones and desktop and shareable through social networks. While consumers engage with the content, extensive consumer engagement data is collected to help content-producers make their stories even more compelling.
IrisVR, part of The Wild, is a leading brand for immersive design review and collaboration. IrisVR's flagship product, Prospect, is used by BIM and VDC teams, design firms, and engineers who coordinate 3D models and implement design and construction processes. Because Prospect integrates with Revit, Rhino, Navisworks, SketchUp, and other 3D tools out of the box, you can instantly create an immersive VR experience that allows you to present to clients and work more effectively with your team. The software is compatible with the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and Windows MR headsets. Prospect is available for a free trial at www.irisvr.com. IrisVR was founded in 2014, and was acquired by The Wild in 2021.
cielo24 delivers searchable captions for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, and entertainment markets. Their industrial grade platform creates high quality, searchable data from unstructured media including indexes, transcripts and captions. Their specialty is delivering highly integrated, customized, scalable solutions for their clients at high quality, low cost and speed. They focus on professional Internet media helping their clients deliver ROI for online media by extending reach, content discovery and equal access compliance. They provide all their products and integrations for a single low per minute price with no setup fees.
cielo24 delivers searchable captions for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, and entertainment markets. Their industrial grade platform creates high quality, searchable data from unstructured media including indexes, transcripts and captions. Their specialty is delivering highly integrated, customized, scalable solutions for their clients at high quality, low cost and speed. They focus on professional Internet media helping their clients deliver ROI for online media by extending reach, content discovery and equal access compliance. They provide all their products and integrations for a single low per minute price with no setup fees.
Shibumi is a cloud-based enterprise application that provides the work management, collaboration, and performance measurement necessary to deliver successful business initiatives and optimize results. The company is focused on what customers need to execute business activity ranging from a single key initiative to an enterprise business improvement program. It reduces the need for time-consuming manual effort compiling status, impact, and results and helps get teams back to their most important job executing. Shibumi helps teams stop spending the majority of their week in meetings and accelerate their actions with a focus on measurable results. The application is easy to use, intuitive interface, that requires little or no training means that any user can focus on getting work done rather than endless stakeholder reporting. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States.
Noble Markets is the next-generation banking platform that provides post-trade technology for OTC markets.
Backed by the world’s top AI leaders and trusted by the largest global brands, Netomi is the leader in customer experience AI for enterprises. Netomi provides multimodal and omnichannel Sanctioned Generative AI, ensuring brand-safe conversations at scale with built-in AI governance controls for accuracy, security, and data privacy. Our innovative AI deployment guarantees cost savings, operational efficiencies, and boosts in customer satisfaction, loyalty, revenue, and profitability. Netomi’s no-code solution deploys in weeks, scales automatically, and offers comprehensive tools for non-technical users to easily manage CX AI at scale. This results in a lower total cost of ownership, faster time to market, and reduced reliance on developer resources. Founded in 2016, Netomi leverages the latest AI developments to enhance customer experience, empowering brands with high-quality automated support and tools to augment human agent teams. In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, Netomi makes it easy for brands to meet rising customer expectations and deliver exceptional service.
The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn App displays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
CapLinked, Inc. (https://www.caplinked.com/) is a developer of cloud-based information control software used by companies to manage their transactions and due diligence workflow. In a fast-moving and competitive business environment, companies and bankers alike need virtual data room (VDR) technology that’s dependable and easy to use. They’ve found the answer in CapLinked. CapLinked’s fintech platform is used to securely share information between firms and manage multi-party interactions during complex transactions and projects. Dubbed the “go-to place for setting up and closing deals” by the Wall Street Journal, the CapLinked platform includes three distinct product lines that serve the needs of its diverse client base: 1) an enterprise application for larger firms with complex needs and large quantities of data; 2) self-serve accounts for smaller clients who need to safeguard limited amounts of information; and 3) an application programming interface (API) for clients who need to embed robust information security capabilities in their own applications.
The San Francisco-based startup launched out of stealth today to offer users different channels, or “islands,” through which they can organize a game of volleyball, share class notes, or simply create a support group.
The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn App displays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
Wade & Wendy offers machine intelligence personalities that aim to make hiring more human. It was launched by Josh Brandoff, Adrian von der Osten, and Drew Austin in June 2015 and is based in New York, United States.
cielo24 delivers searchable captions for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, and entertainment markets. Their industrial grade platform creates high quality, searchable data from unstructured media including indexes, transcripts and captions. Their specialty is delivering highly integrated, customized, scalable solutions for their clients at high quality, low cost and speed. They focus on professional Internet media helping their clients deliver ROI for online media by extending reach, content discovery and equal access compliance. They provide all their products and integrations for a single low per minute price with no setup fees.
IrisVR, part of The Wild, is a leading brand for immersive design review and collaboration. IrisVR's flagship product, Prospect, is used by BIM and VDC teams, design firms, and engineers who coordinate 3D models and implement design and construction processes. Because Prospect integrates with Revit, Rhino, Navisworks, SketchUp, and other 3D tools out of the box, you can instantly create an immersive VR experience that allows you to present to clients and work more effectively with your team. The software is compatible with the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest, and Windows MR headsets. Prospect is available for a free trial at www.irisvr.com. IrisVR was founded in 2014, and was acquired by The Wild in 2021.
Unikrn is an e-sports wagering service that provides a legal place to gather, game, and bet on e-sports. The company owns a network of gaming communities that reach millions of gamers in over 100 countries. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington
Mezzobit's audience optimization platform enables first-party publishers and marketers to regain control of their audience data, while improving the efficiency of web/mobile data collection and sharing. The Mezzobit platform addresses data leakage control, privacy management, spider/bot protection, and ultimately mobile data collection, built on the foundation of an advanced tag management system that is offered for free for websites of all sizes. An independent non-profit affiliate, DataNeutrality.org, sets the data management rules for Mezzobit and provides continuous compliance and reporting back to customers. This "closed loop" data and privacy management solution creates a level of transparency and accountability that should be required of any partner handling key enterprise data.
Unikrn is an e-sports wagering service that provides a legal place to gather, game, and bet on e-sports. The company owns a network of gaming communities that reach millions of gamers in over 100 countries. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington
CapLinked, Inc. (https://www.caplinked.com/) is a developer of cloud-based information control software used by companies to manage their transactions and due diligence workflow. In a fast-moving and competitive business environment, companies and bankers alike need virtual data room (VDR) technology that’s dependable and easy to use. They’ve found the answer in CapLinked. CapLinked’s fintech platform is used to securely share information between firms and manage multi-party interactions during complex transactions and projects. Dubbed the “go-to place for setting up and closing deals” by the Wall Street Journal, the CapLinked platform includes three distinct product lines that serve the needs of its diverse client base: 1) an enterprise application for larger firms with complex needs and large quantities of data; 2) self-serve accounts for smaller clients who need to safeguard limited amounts of information; and 3) an application programming interface (API) for clients who need to embed robust information security capabilities in their own applications.
Brainscape is an adaptive mobile education platform that is changing the way people study just about any subject. Founded by cognitive neuroscientists, engineers, data junkies, and executives from the education industry, Brainscape is building the foundations of a comprehensive "knowledge graph" that is helping people learn nearly any topic more efficiently. Brainscape allows professors, thought leaders, and top students to create "smart flashcards" in the Brainscape format and share them within their schools, organizations, and the rest of the world. Brainscape is already installed on several million iOS devices across the K-12, higher ed, corporate training, and lifelong learner markets. The team has developed a successful freemium SaaS revenue model that allows power users to purchase access to advanced content and features. Brainscape's ultimate goal is to map the world of knowledge into bite-sized, learnable chunks -- an initiative it calls the Knowledge Genome Project.
Lob automates direct mail for modern businesses. More than 7,000 companies use Lob’s APIs to move faster and create new growth opportunities. Lob’s APIs dramatically reduce mail processing time, reclaiming thousands of hours and improving data quality. One in four households in the U.S. have received mail generated through Lob’s platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lob is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, First Round Capital and Polaris Partners.
Inkshares is a social platform that conflates the mechanics of crowdfunding with the distribution of traditional publishing to change the economics of book publishing. The authors submit book ideas and the readers share them, collaborate with authors, and pre-order their books. They publish books that hit their pre-order goal. Votes are cast with money as pre-orders, readers end up subsidizing their production costs. This greatly reduces their risk profile, meaning if a book doesn’t sell, the worst they can do is break even. Inkshares probes for hits without losing money. And it’s because of this model that they can pay authors 50% of gross revenue for print sales and 70% for ebook sales.
We bring together some of the brightest and most successful minds in the industry to help early stage companies grow into thriving businesses. As a team, we apply uniquely created strategies to help accelerate growth and give our portfolio companies a competitive edge. Some of the value we add comes from our knowledge and experience in the many areas of advisement, and the high level of connections we bring to the table. We only seek to work with compelling companies that have great teams, awesome products, and industry disruptive models.
Bond is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco that focuses on supporting visionary founders of high-growth Internet companies throughout their innovation and growth cycles. Launched in January 2019, Bond is a spinout of the Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund and was founded by Mary Meeker along with Mood Rowghani, Noah Knauf, and Juliet de Baubigny. The firm aims to invest primarily in the information technology sector, providing resources and support to help emerging companies thrive.
Shibumi is a cloud-based enterprise application that provides the work management, collaboration, and performance measurement necessary to deliver successful business initiatives and optimize results. The company is focused on what customers need to execute business activity ranging from a single key initiative to an enterprise business improvement program. It reduces the need for time-consuming manual effort compiling status, impact, and results and helps get teams back to their most important job executing. Shibumi helps teams stop spending the majority of their week in meetings and accelerate their actions with a focus on measurable results. The application is easy to use, intuitive interface, that requires little or no training means that any user can focus on getting work done rather than endless stakeholder reporting. It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States.
The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn App displays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
Circa is an innovative online platform that specializes in delivering news tailored specifically for mobile devices. Recognizing the shift in how consumers access information, the company has developed a unique format that offers concise and engaging news updates, enhancing the mobile user experience. By reimagining the way news is produced and consumed, Circa provides a comprehensive yet straightforward approach to content that resonates with the increasing number of individuals who rely on mobile for their news. Founded in 2011 by Matt Galligan, Ben Huh, and Arsenio Santos, Circa aims to transform the traditional news experience into one that is intuitive and effective for mobile users.
Boxes is a home for collectors and a place to keep your collections with you always, organized and searchable. You can find great collections owned by others and socialize with a community of people that share your interests. Sell and trade your things when you're ready and shop hundreds of thousands of items owned by collectors, artists, shops and more. Download Boxes for iPhone today http://box.es/download
Lob automates direct mail for modern businesses. More than 7,000 companies use Lob’s APIs to move faster and create new growth opportunities. Lob’s APIs dramatically reduce mail processing time, reclaiming thousands of hours and improving data quality. One in four households in the U.S. have received mail generated through Lob’s platform. Headquartered in San Francisco, Lob is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, First Round Capital and Polaris Partners.
Nimble is a Web Based SaaS platform that helps small businesses attract and retain customers by enabling their team to work more effectively together and stay top of mind with their prospects and customers. Nimble was designed to enable small business to attain the same benefits larger companies have achieved with their CRM strategies without the associated costs and complexities. Nimble CRM combines the power of relationship management, unified conversations/communications, social media tools, and team Collaboration under one roof. Nimble keeps you and your team organized and allows more effective communications between your company and its contacts from one centralized SaaS platform regardless of what they are using: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, IM, text message or email.
Circa is an innovative online platform that specializes in delivering news tailored specifically for mobile devices. Recognizing the shift in how consumers access information, the company has developed a unique format that offers concise and engaging news updates, enhancing the mobile user experience. By reimagining the way news is produced and consumed, Circa provides a comprehensive yet straightforward approach to content that resonates with the increasing number of individuals who rely on mobile for their news. Founded in 2011 by Matt Galligan, Ben Huh, and Arsenio Santos, Circa aims to transform the traditional news experience into one that is intuitive and effective for mobile users.
tbh is a developer of a mobile application designed to provide anonymous feedback to friends. The company's mobile application facilitates asking or answering questions, open text fields and invite abuse when combined with anonymity, enabling users to say things without repercussions and feel better about themselves from the positive feedback on social networks.