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Exosphere Fitness is a gym that makes fitness more accessible for all by bringing the benefits of resistance training into homes.

OpenField is a mobile first community organizing tool that lets organizations, political campaigns and parties, nonprofits, and advocacy organizations build power with anyone, anywhere. They offer support for multiple types of outreach including traditional canvassing, deep canvassing, blind knocking, and phone banking as well as voter registration. Their Intelligent Auto Turf Cutter turns whole cities into walkable turfs that don’t cross rivers or highways in just a few minutes while their natural language notes capture + analytics means that their customers can deep canvass and listen to their community at scale - turning thousands of individual responses into actionable insights. They are the only tool on the market to offer these features. OpenField is highly scalable - able to be used for everything from neighborhood actions to national campaigns. The tool is also easy to learn, with most users able to become proficient in how to use the product in just a few minutes, with no training. OpenField won Best Software as a Service at the 2021 Campaigns & Elections CampaignTech Awards. OpenField was founded by Arianna Trujillo-Wesler and Emily Del Beccaro. Arianna Trujillo-Wesler is the Co-Founder and CTO of OpenField. With nearly 20 years of experience to her credit, she is a nationally recognized expert in community organizing, political technology, and movement building. She has been the Deputy National Data Director for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign and has worked for Wellstone Action, the AFL-CIO, the 2008 Obama presidential campaign, NationBuilder, and the Sierra Club among others before Co-Founding OpenField. Ari is a non-binary, Afro-Xicana and hails from the East Side of San Jose. Emily Del Beccaro is the Co-Founder of OpenField. A veteran of several political campaigns over the last 10 years, she is a national data expert and one of just a handful of people to have built a national voter file from scratch. She has been a key member of the data teams at both Target Smart, the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign, the 2012 Obama presidential campaign, and NationBuilder before Co-Founding OpenField. Emily is a diehard sports fan, especially for teams from her hometown, Seattle.

Caulys enables anyone to grow their own fresh, tasty, and environmentally friendly fruits and vegetables at home. They offer indoor farming, eco-friendly farming, vertical farming, and urban farming.

Enable anyone, novice or experienced, to discover nature and the outdoors, through facilitating camping and other outdoors activities and services, in a simple, honest and friendly way.

Bridger Helmets is an outdoor and sporting goods company that provides bike and snow sports helmets.

Caulys enables anyone to grow their own fresh, tasty, and environmentally friendly fruits and vegetables at home. They offer indoor farming, eco-friendly farming, vertical farming, and urban farming.

Austin-based Captain Experiences makes booking outdoor sports trips quick and easy. Focused first on fishing, our mission is to unlock the outdoors for everyone, and we do it through our no-hassle booking experience online, and our Damn Good Guides in the field. Whether it’s fly fishing Montana’s backcountry, chasing blue marlin out of Kona, Hawaii, or stalking tailing redfish in our Texas homewaters, if you can dream it, you can do it in just a few quick clicks with Captain. Leading investors including Andrew Chen at a16z, Goodwater, Not Boring, and Looking Glass back us in making our passion our profession and we hope you'll join us.

Home Outside is the leading leading visualization platform for the $171B US landscape industry. We have been using technology to democratize landscape design for a decade, including the first mobile app for landscape design which has over 500K users. We enable some of the biggest brands in the industry to maximize revenue with AI and AR. We launched the world's first AI landscape designer in April 2022.

Dimpora produces eco-friendly functional membranes for the outdoor textile industry. The 2D products involve a conventional lamination of the dimpora membrane onto a textile. The waterproof fluorine-free membrane is mainly based on polyurethane and undergoes a template removal approach to create the necessary porosity, thus achieving excellent breathability. Dimpora vision is to provide sustainable solutions for performance wear in order to enjoy nature in its fullest, without damaging it. The company's mission is to innovate and develop the next-generation functional and sustainable high-performance membranes for outdoor enthusiasts.

Blipic is a social and discovery app created to grow and connect the active outdoor community. Blipic encourages users to stay active and healthy. It help them uncover exciting destinations, outdoor events and group activities right in their own backyard. Discover cycling tours, group runs, snowboarding trips, and premium hikes. Share your experiences with the community, and bring people together who have a similar affinity for the great outdoors. Discover Blipic. Adventure. Mapped.

AquaSprouts® designs and manufactures gardening appliances to bring the revolutionary principles of aquaponic and hydroponic farming into the home, office, and classroom.

Greenastic is the first eco-friendly platform to design and create gardens, balconies or terraces. With products specifically tailored to each client.

The Spaces to Go platform allows private rec facilities such as sports complexes, schools, YMCAs and Boys & Girls Clubs to publicize their available space to social, sports and fitness groups through an easy-to-use public-facing app. They allow access to basketball courts, fields, pools and more with search, booking, and payment.

CNATURE is a social enterprise that has designed a mobile application for the identification of plants and animals, simply by snapping a photo. Their vision is to offer an innovative solution for nature lovers around the world and they are dedicated to connecting the community to nature. They have experienced the frustration when using field guides, forums and social network groups, and understand that there was a gap. There was no application that combined content, community and technology of nature and their surroundings in one place. Now, there is an application that will allow you to discover nature in an easy, accessible and enjoyable manner. In order to get an invitation to try their private beta version of the application please use the contact form on their website.

Naturebytes is bringing a different emphasis to this tech-plus-education space. It’s aiming to combine hackable technology with a mission to spark kids’ curiosity in the great outdoors. And given kids’ dictionaries have this year been jettisoning nature-related words such as acorn and buttercup, and adding in tech terms like broadband and ‘cut and paste’, there are perhaps signs technology risks becoming a little all consuming for ‘digital natives’.

Shoot (www.shootgardening.com) is your ultimate one-stop garden planning toolkit with a database of over 35,000 plants. Free daily demos https://shootgardening.easywebinar.live/professionals. NEW SketchUp planting planner plug-in coming soon! Register your interest https://articles.shootgardening.com/shootplantplanner Shoot was launched in 2005 by Nicola Gammon and is based in London.

Bon Hiver Freebase Binding System enables riders to disengage and remove the back binding from the board.

Roof For Two has a developed a lightweight, portable canopy that will protect riders from inclement weather making their travel comfortable. It costs the price of only two helmets and takes 90 seconds to remove and fold into a portable form. Potential customers have expressed great satisfaction in its utility.