Roam Media Inc. operates an online community called ROAM, designed for explorers and adventurers. Founded in 2017 and based in Boulder, Colorado, the platform allows members to share their adventure stories, experiences, and reports. It facilitates creative exchanges through ideas for social media takeovers, videos, films, and interviews, as well as photo essays and opinion pieces. Additionally, the community serves as a space for members to showcase their videos, fostering connection and collaboration among adventure enthusiasts.
New Stance is a creative, brand-centric marketing agency working alongside talent and brands to realise their true media value . New Stance put data at the heart of every decision, working closely with their clients to tailor individual bespoke strategies to align with their short and long term objectives.
JUST Water is a company that specializes in bottling natural spring water sourced from the Glens Falls watershed in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Glens Falls, the company prioritizes environmental sustainability by using a bottle made primarily from renewable plant resources. The bottle features a paper-based body, while the shoulder and cap are made from responsibly sourced sugarcane. This innovative design significantly reduces carbon emissions, achieving a 74% reduction compared to typical plastic bottles. JUST Water is committed to responsible sourcing and packaging, ensuring that its product is 100% spring water with no additives, thereby promoting both community impact and environmental stewardship.
Producer of distilled spirits intended to offer flavored new liquids and experiences from traditions across the globe. The company specializes in maximizing flavor creation, extraction, and precision fermentation for flavor and its product range includes varieties of wines, rarities, and sparkles manufactured out of oysters, roasted chicken skin, smoked juniper, bergamot, and fruit pith, enabling consumers to taste the new flavor in alcoholic drinks.
Nested operates a real estate platform that aims to simplify the home-selling process for homeowners. By offering cash advances to facilitate the purchase of a new home while simultaneously managing the sale of their current property, Nested provides sellers with certainty and control over their transactions. The platform guarantees that homes will be sold within 90 days, addressing common issues such as unclear valuations and unreliable estate agents. Nested's approach is designed to alleviate the stress associated with selling a home, ensuring that clients receive the best possible price for their property while helping them secure their desired new home within their preferred timeline.
Twelve A.M. Media Limited is a creative studio based in London, United Kingdom, that specializes in engaging youth audiences through innovative marketing strategies. Established in 2016, the company offers a range of services including content creation, in-house production and distribution, brand development, and social media strategy. Additionally, it provides market research, cultural analysis, event planning, and outdoor activations. Twelve A.M. collaborates with brands to integrate contemporary millennial perspectives into their digital content and campaigns, ensuring relevance in a rapidly evolving market. The agency emphasizes strategic partnerships and influencer programs to enhance brand visibility and engagement.
Hypit Limited is a London-based company that has developed a social discovery platform designed to enhance users' experiences by allowing them to hype, collect, discover, and share recommendations. Founded in 2015, the platform enables users to find new activities and events through recommendations from friends, effectively bringing word-of-mouth suggestions online. Hypit also features Hypit HQ, which showcases exclusive live performances by emerging talent in the United Kingdom, further enriching the user experience. The platform addresses the common inconvenience of seeking suggestions, ensuring users remain informed about their friends' favorite activities and interests.
The brain child of George Burgess, Gojimo was born in 2009, when George became frustrated with the lack of quality educational apps. With help from his teachers he started Gojimo, which quickly became a success amongst his fellow students. Whilst at university, George formed relationships with the world’s top educational publishers, bringing premium content to Gojimo from the likes of Oxford University Press and McGraw-Hill Education. It soon became apparent that being a full-time student whilst running a successful company was pretty much impossible and George dropped out of university to dedicate his time to Gojimo in 2013. The company has since secured backing from some of Europe’s top investors, including Index Ventures and JamJar Investments, the consumer venture fund started by the amazing founders of innocent drinks. In March 2017, Gojimo was acquired by Telegraph Media Group.
PureWow is a digital publication focused on enhancing women's lives through engaging lifestyle content. With the motto "Elevate the Everyday," it curates a variety of topics, including fashion, beauty, wellness, food, and home, ensuring that readers receive relevant and appealing recommendations. The platform serves as a reliable source for discovering the latest trends and must-have items, akin to a knowledgeable friend providing personalized advice. PureWow delivers its content across multiple platforms, including its website, mobile devices, email, and social media, allowing readers to access information conveniently. It features both national articles and localized editions in cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, catering to regional interests and showcasing unique local finds. Additionally, PureWow offers specialized editions that focus on specific themes like recipes and finance, further enhancing the personalization of the reader experience.
MyShowcase is an innovative beauty retailer that connects customers with independent beauty brands through a network of Stylists. These Stylists host private events in homes and offices, offering a personalized shopping experience. By emphasizing entrepreneurship, MyShowcase not only provides a unique distribution method for its brand partners but also empowers women to establish their own businesses by becoming Stylists. This approach allows customers to discover and explore a curated selection of beauty products in a friendly and informal setting, whether in-person or online.
Grabble is an online shopping application launched in May 2013 in London, United Kingdom, designed to help users discover hand-picked fashion items daily. The platform allows users to browse, save, and purchase apparel and accessories from various retailers, offering a personalized shopping experience. Users can create wishlists, recommend products to friends, and receive alerts for sales, enhancing their engagement with the platform. By organizing products and brands into tailored stores, Grabble provides a convenient way for consumers to explore a wide range of fashion options and make purchases directly through the app.
MikMak helps brands better understand consumers by connecting digital investments to online retailer insights. It offers a dashboard that aggregates the eCommerce customer journey across any number of digital channels and retailers. Brands get standardized reporting and benchmarks, so users can act on unbiased insights in real-time. It was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
BeautyCon, LLC is a community-focused organization based in Los Angeles, California, that connects a diverse global network of content creators, celebrities, fans, and brands within the beauty and fashion industry. Founded in 2013, BeautyCon operates as a conference and content portal where fans can engage with online influencers and learn about the latest trends and advice. The company emphasizes the celebration of individuality and self-expression through beauty, challenging traditional standards and embracing imperfections. BeautyCon also offers subscription boxes that feature beauty and lifestyle products, as well as accessories and apparel. Its initiatives, including Beautycon Festivals and Beautycon Digital platforms, foster meaningful connections among creators and audiences, promoting a shared enthusiasm for beauty as a form of self-expression.
Bitposter ltd. operates an automated trading platform for out of home advertisers, media owners, and agency buyers in the United Kingdom. Its platform enables clients to plan using a set of variables or data, explore individual site performance, and negotiate with the media owner using a private messaging service; and automatically connects media owners to media buyers, and digital and international agencies. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional location in Belarus.
Picfair Limited operates an online image marketplace that enables users to buy and sell images. Founded in 2013 and based in Stanmore, United Kingdom, Picfair allows photographers, both amateur and professional, to upload their images, set their own prices, and retain copyright ownership. The platform features a diverse library of images sourced from photographers in 44 countries, catering to various clients, including banking websites and travel agencies seeking unique stock imagery, as well as publishers needing images for editorial and promotional purposes. Picfair's service simplifies the licensing process, allowing users to access images for personal uses such as prints and presentations.
ClassPass Inc. provides an online fitness class booking service. It offers an online subscription service that provides access to a network of boutique fitness studios and gyms, including cycling, Pilates, yoga, strength training, dance, martial arts, and more. ClassPass Inc. was formerly known as Classtivity Inc. and changed its name to ClassPass Inc. in March 2014. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in New York, New York. It has locations in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Oceania.
Contented Group Ltd. is a digital marketing service provider based in London, United Kingdom, specializing in the creation of short-form video content for publishers and brands. The company develops an always-on video studio that offers tailored video solutions, enhancing the owned video output for its clients. By leveraging a team of creative professionals, Contented produces engaging video content that is adaptable for multi-platform delivery. Its client portfolio includes notable brands such as Capital One, Xbox, and JD Sports, reflecting its capability to support diverse marketing needs and increase audience reach.
Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago.
SBTV is an online platform that provides its users with news on media. The platform enables its users to watch, read, and listen to news and updates in music, sports, comedy, fashion, business, games, and gadgets. It allows its users to watch music videos and interviews and read about interviews, reviews, features, events, and competitions. SBTV was launched in 2006 by Jamal Edwards MBE and is based in London.
Recently named to Fast Company’s list for the World's Most Innovative Companies in 2017, Clique is a global media, marketing, and consumer brands company. Through its brands—Who What Wear, MyDomaine, Byrdie, CollegeFashionista, and Obsessee—CMG combines the power of data science with its expert editorial team to create content and products that millennial women and Gen Z girls crave. CMG’s two key marketing offerings, CMG Studios (an in-house creative agency) and INF Network (representing 55+ top bloggers and influencers), deliver integrated and native advertising programs, all while inspiring consumers to discover and shop. In early 2016, CMG launched its first clothing, shoes, and accessories line exclusively with Target under the Who What Wear brand, and it continues to be a top performer for the mega-retailer.
Blis is the global leader in real-world intelligence. We specialise in understanding real, human behaviour by analysing vast quantities of mobile location data. This gives businesses a uniquely powerful tool: the truth about what people actually do, to improve consumer engagement and deliver measurable sales uplift.
Our Smart Platform provides unmatched transparency, accuracy and scale through three proprietary technologies: SmartPin, Smart Scale and Smart Places. This enables more effective planning, activation and measurement for marketers and business decision makers alike, fuelling the next generation of insight-driven marketing.
With 33 offices across five continents, Blis works with the world’s largest and most customer-driven companies across all verticals including Unilever, Samsung, McDonald's, HSBC, Mercedes Benz and Peugeot, as well as every major media agency to reach over a billion mobile devices a year.
Pinterest, Inc. operates as a visual discovery engine, enabling users to find inspiration across a range of interests, including recipes, home décor, travel, and creative projects. Launched in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the platform allows users to save and organize images on personalized boards, facilitating the discovery of ideas tailored to individual tastes. Users can follow others and re-post or "pin" items, fostering a community of creativity and sharing. With over 150 million monthly users, Pinterest serves as a popular tool for visual bookmarking and inspiration, employing more than 1,000 people to enhance user experience and engagement.