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Slyce is a platform that specializes in marketing automation, analytics, and visual search technology for brands and retailers. Founded in 2012, Slyce offers tools that enable brands to manage digital content for brand ambassadors more effectively, moving away from traditional methods like emails and spreadsheets. Its capabilities extend to content management, workflow optimization, and analytics, allowing brands to leverage ambassador-generated content and streamline social media posts. Additionally, Slyce's visual recognition technology facilitates the identification of objects through images, videos, and audio, alongside features such as QR code and barcode scanning. This technology empowers retailers and brands to enhance customer engagement and maximize returns by enabling shoppers to make purchases at the moment of inspiration. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Slyce aims to deliver comprehensive solutions that improve marketing efficiency and customer targeting.

atSpoke helps everyone work smart and fast with modern, seamless internal ticketing. Employees get immediate, convenient, and personalized access to internal knowledge and support. IT, HR, and Support teams deliver high quality service and maintain accountability while easily scaling to meet demands.

Fortanix is building a new security category with its Runtime Encryption(R) technology using Intel SGX. Just like encryption today protects data at rest and data during motion, Runtime Encryption(R) keeps keys, data, and applications completely protected even when infrastructure has been compromised and even root users are malicious. Fortanix's Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS) is a next-generation cloud-native solution for your enterprise encryption needs. It offers key generation, management, distribution, encryption-as-a-service, HSM, KMIP, and tokenization all rolled in as a single product with the highest possible level of security and cloud scale. Available as both FIPS certified appliance and a globally available SaaS (with Equinix's strong SLA), SDKMS offers incredible simple central management, server-side load balancing, central tamper-proof logging, RESTful APIs, and Runtime Encryption(R) plugin to run custom code. Fortanix's Runtime Encryption(R) Platform allows customers to bring any docker container and run them securely inside Intel SGX without any modification. It allows customers to share data with each other without losing control of the data, run analytics on sensitive data, run applications securely in the remote cloud, move PII-heavy sensitive data to the public cloud, etc. Fortanix's Enclave Development Platform (EDP) allows customers to write Rust code to run natively as SGX enclaves. Supported by the mainline Rust compiler, developers find EDP as the easiest and the most secure way of developing new applications. In a short time, Fortanix has developed a strategic partnership with Equinix and IBM cloud and counts multiple F50 companies as its customers. Fortanix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and also was runner-up in RSA Innovation Sandbox among 500+ security companies where judges called it the "holy grail of security". Fortanix has more than ten patents pending its innovation.

StackShare is a community that helps developers and engineers discover and compare software tools. Our vision is to transform how SaaS tools and infrastructure are bought and sold. Choosing SaaS and cloud infrastructure tools is difficult. If you’re a developer looking for a hosting solution, you have hundreds of options and no clear way to sift through them all. We’ve built a community of developers, engineers, CTOs, and VPEs that recommend, review, and share their technology stacks. They have significant buying power and a need for tooling and infrastructure services, from startups to large enterprises. The options they have are confusing and increasing in number by the day - they’re desperate to get help choosing the right solutions. StackShare lets technologists see all the best tools and services, who are using them, and why.

Paysa is a firm that has a personalized & up-to-date compensation transparency source that helps employees understand their market compensation and help achieve it in the labor market.

Aporeto offers comprehensive cloud-native security for containers and microservices. It secures all workloads across any infrastructure with identity-based access control for a Zero Trust posture. Aporeto was founded in 2016 and is based in San Jose, California.

Next Force Technology is building an on-demand service for businesses, focused on a large and critical area that is untapped. It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Haystack TV is the leading OTT news service featuring video news content from 150+ content partners including Bloomberg, AP, CBS, Hearst, and TV stations nationwide. Haystack TV is consistently the top-rated news service on connected TV platforms such as Apple TV, Roku, and Android TV. Google selected Haystack TV as the “Best TV Experience” for the 2017 Google Play Awards together with Netflix and RedBull TV.

Cassette is the best way to record, transcribe & search important conversations like user interviews, meetings, lectures and video calls.

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OpsClarity is a performance monitoring solution for modern applications and data infrastructure that helps DevOps and engineering teams to continuously visualize, understand and troubleshoot their complex and distributed business-critical applications and infrastructure. Built by alumni from Yahoo, eBay, Facebook, Twitter and Google, OpsClarity is the only solution that can dynamically adapt to and learn every component of a company’s modern fast data application and infrastructure and extract key insights needed to maximize performance and agility..

MediaSpike provides a native monetization platform for applications, with a focus on social and mobile games. For application developers, integration involves using one of the MediaSpike SDKs to interact with the MediaSpike backend. Brands and agencies can then search by several parameters for appropriate placements through the MediaSpike dashboard. Placements are made by selecting an available placement, uploading the appropriate asset(s), previewing the placement and then submitting the placement to the developer through the MediaSpike dashboard. Once submitted a placement is reviewed and approved by the developer. Analytics for live placements are tracked and viewable through the MediaSpike dashboard.

LearnUp specializes in the fields of online education, job skills training, job placement, and employment. It empowers job seekers to achieve their career goals its coaching platform to streamline hiring, reduce turnover, and drive long-term business impact. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Flutter is a startup company that develops gesture recognition technologies. The company received early-stage funding from Y Combinator and was acquired by Google on October 2, 2013. Its first product, Flutter app, utilizes gesture recognition technology over a built-in webcam and enables users to control iTunes, Spotify, VLC, and QuickTime using hand gestures. Flutter was founded by Mehul Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal in 2010 and is based in California, United States.

Concept.io is the creator of Swell Radio, a delightful mobile app that streams personalized audio news and information. Swell helps users discover new content and expand their minds on the go. Concept.io strives to connect people with ideas and knowledge efficiently so we can all be more productive with our time. Concept.io is a technology startup funded by top-tier venture firms. The founding team consists of experienced entrepreneurs with a successful track record.

Appurify provides mobile test automation on real devices. Mobile development teams at some of the world’s most prominent companies turn to Appurify’s platform to automate testing, debug and optimize the performance of their applications. The results are better apps, faster launch cycles and improved app store reviews. Appurify is based in San Francisco with backing from Google Ventures and other leading investors. For more information, visit http://www.appurify.com.

Provider of voice, data and managed information technology services for small and medium business markets. The company moves business communication into the Cloud, replacing legacy phone lines, on-premise hardware, and private branch exchange equipment with better connections in the business, over Quality of Service (QoS) managed internet connections.

Verbling is an e-learning platform that offers language lessons with professional teachers with the use of video chat. Verbling’s mission is to empower people all over the world to become fluent in a foreign language. Verbling Video connects its users directly to a teacher without needing external apps or tools. Today, Verbling teachers are available 24/7/365, covering all timezones globally. All Verbling teachers are vetted to meet rigorous standards. The average student rating of a teacher is 4.9/5. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Firebase is Google's mobile platform that develops apps that grow users base on iOS, Android, or the Web. Firebase is used by >1,000,000 developers and is made up of complementary features that you can mix-and-match to fit your needs including Free & unlimited Analytics, a Realtime Database, User Authentication, Crash Reporting, Push Notifications, and more.