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Heartrate is a Web3 health platform that creates an exercise + sleep health program driven by blockchain technology.

Compass News is a subscription-based journalism platform powered by an AI editor that makes you smarter, quicker.

ReadUp is a non-profit reading app that is built for readers to help them spend more time actually reading the articles. There are no filter-bubble algorithms. They open, and everyone sees the same great articles.

Kerning Cultures is building the premier Middle East podcast network. As audio media becomes mainstream in other international markets, we're defining the space for the Middle East and North Africa. Our inaugural show produces radio documentaries from the Middle East for regional and global audiences.

nēdl (as in, 'needle in the haystack') is a Google-backed AI powered audio platform. We transcribe, monetize, & amplify words as they are spoken so Listeners can search them by keywords in real-time. Creators can start a live call-in radio show in seconds and share a custom URL with followers so they can get text alerts & listen live & even without the app.

Ovee is a digital health companion and dashboard for people with vaginas. We connect people to medically vetted content, curated products, aggregate medical records in a central location, and provide a supportive community to help people navigate their sexual & reproductive health. Our users are able to understand their bodies, then take actionable steps all in one digital platform––faster and less anxiety inducing than a typical google search.

In The Room connects with people and communities nearby. The app allows its users to see and connect with individuals at networking events, get togethers, or any place they woukd like to connect.

NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term. NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies, including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social. NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.

Create 360 videos and 360 GIFs in seconds, with or without a 360 camera, and share them instantly with friends and followers on Pie.

At Drop, we are building what we believe will be the future of discovery in immersive computing. Based in San Francisco, California, we are an HTC portfolio company that has built an immersive internet searching and browsing experience for virtual and augmented realities. In other words, it's the "Google Chrome for VR/AR."

Discors is a San Francisco-based startup that seeks to change how people stay informed on stories that matter. The company was founded by Basil Enan and Akber Malik in September of 2014 and released its first iPhone app, Discors News, to the public in June 2015.

Ballstar is an online community that enables basketball enthusiasts to interact with each other. The website provides its users with information and statistics on leagues, teams, players, courts, referees, and fans. In addition, it enables its users to post scores, records, and discussions with others.

This. is where you find and share the best entertainment, art and journalism on the web. Follow the people you trust, give thanks for their links and share the links you love. Each user can share just 1 link a day.

Discors is a San Francisco-based startup that seeks to change how people stay informed on stories that matter. The company was founded by Basil Enan and Akber Malik in September of 2014 and released its first iPhone app, Discors News, to the public in June 2015.

TreePress started in response to challenges Adrienne experienced in her classroom: an acute lack of playscripts available for schools. These issues were only ripples of a bigger problem: a fractured, broken publishing model. Theatres, playwrights and teachers have long written inspiring material, yet are unable to publish and distribute it because it doesn’t meet the commercial profile of a professional stage. Administration costs prevent publishers from capitalising on the "long tail" of publishing - high volume, low value transactions that schools require. This fractured ecosystem has compromised the quality of performing arts: lowering education outcomes, the creative economy and our cultural identity.

KiraKira3D is a First 3D Modeling Mobile Application. They are redesigning the way girls learn engineering, through online 3D printing classes. They offer a rich and unique experience with their 3D printed packages, combining both the online 3D print class + the tangible 3D printed reward. More broadly, KiraKira is an online community of learning, making and sharing. Through their 3D modeling and printing lessons, they teach engineering commands and transferrable skills to various STEM disciplines and careers, including but not limited to architecture, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and industrial design.

Scout combines science fiction and journalism to bring weekly online dispatches on the future of technology. They’re building a platform that gives individuals the power to create their own model of the future and to play through possibility with a community of brilliant thinkers.

We've built a platform for gaming studios and an app for a parents, turning contention into cooperation. Games get a bad rap, and parents struggle to keep up with changes in technology. Free to play is a great model, but it does have it's problems. Our parent app let's parents set limits on spend, giving their kids an allowance, while visualizing the type of games their kids are playing and the ability to reward them, we also share their achievements and will monitor time. Itavio gives parents ease of use, a set-it-once hands free allowance. No more gift cards and constant nagging. It's a way for them to know what their kids are doing in game and is exclusive to the sector! We give gaming studios for the first time the ability to form better relationships with parents, identify a potential paying player and the ability to set the right price for their customers. This inside view of a player's wallet helps them increase revenue and allows for informed re-engagement efforts.

Menagerie makes it easy for modern couples to collaborate, organize and choose their wedding professionals, all in one place. Menagerie is part of the Matter VC Accelerator, Class of 2016.

Thankroll is a service that offers a way for fans of artists, blogs and others to support those products and services through a widget that appears on blogs' or artists' site.

Hoodline, Inc. is a media technology company based in San Francisco, California, that operates an online portal focused on hyperlocal news discovery across 40 cities in the United States. Founded in 2014, Hoodline leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to transform raw data into thousands of automated local stories and videos each month. The platform, known as Atlas, analyzes vast amounts of unstructured data to identify and validate significant local signals, while also aggregating content from numerous partner publications to enhance its offerings. Hoodline's innovative technology allows for precise location tagging and contextualization of news stories, facilitating a tailored user experience. The company collaborates with various partners, including major media outlets and tech companies, to integrate its content recommendations into their platforms. Hoodline operates as a subsidiary of SFist and is supported by prominent investors, including Greylock and Disney.

Stringr is the only company to combine video acquisition with a GenAI powered complete remote production SaaS solution – streamlining video workflows around the world. Stringr's award-winning cloud-based video platform serves over 1,000 global broadcast news and online media customers, supported by a proprietary network of 140,000+ videographers stationed across the United States and top international locations. Stringr also houses the largest video news archive with over 1.7 million videos available. All this, combined with daily live pool feeds, weather content and original stories, Stringr offers broadcasters more custom news video than any other solution. Stringr was incorporated in 2013 and is based in New York, NY

Enwoven empowers organizations to combine important assets and context together in the form of dynamic narratives and flexible knowledge bases. Companies create valuable ideas, thoughts and insights that get lost everyday. We work with brands like the NY Times, Coca-Cola, Reebok, Campbell's, Avis, and Procter & Gamble to help them document brand history, marketing campaigns, innovation, important initiatives, company culture and much more.

Nuzzel is a professional news discovery service used by many of the top influencers in media, technology, and finance. Nuzzel was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, Fast Company, and Time Magazine. Nuzzel is backed by top Silicon Valley investors including Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Homebrew, Lowercase Capital, Uncork Capital, Marc Benniof, and Max Levchin.

News Deeply is an innovative network of theme-driven information and community platforms, convening engaged, knowledgeable and passionate audiences.

LocalData is a cloud-based mapping platform that helps cities and communities make data-driven decisions by capturing and visualizing street-level information in real time. Public sector and non-profit professionals use LocalData to quickly collect and map street-level qualitative and quantitative data. Design custom map-based surveys, manage data online and instantly visualize geospatial data without a data expert.

Eureka king enables publishers to maximize the life-time value of their users across web and mobile, by delivering actionable, responsive and sequential user notifications throughout the user journey. In 2014, companies spent $46 BN to acquire traffic to their websites. However, less than 10% of traffic yielded long-term value for the businesses. We engineered Eureka King to guide your visitors through a deliberate user journey, mapped for maximum value. Eureka King's behavior-tracking engine analyzes users actions and intent in Real-time to deliver optimal user-prompts. Our dynamic user-prompts adapt to the users' journey and enables publishers to intelligently promote a product, encourage signups, transact payments, and a variety of transactions customized for the publisher’s needs. Using our SaaS platform, clients were able to boost conversion rates by 3x, and retention rates by 2x. Clients include KQED, The Associated Press, IDEO, PBS MediaShift etc

NEEDMADE is an iOS application that matches top-level freelancers with the people who want to hire them.