Averi
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.
Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growth operation in one seamless experience.
Klaatch
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Klaatch develops a social community platform focused on fostering connections among older adults. Its platform employs predictive analytics and human intervention to match individuals based on shared interests, offering diverse activities and experiences that help reduce loneliness and strengthen communities.
MARK Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2021
MARK Labs Inc. offers a data‑analytics platform that helps nonprofits, donors, and impact investors measure, analyze, and report social and environmental outcomes. The system tracks grant‑making and sustainability programs, visualizes activity flows, and provides ESG risk and opportunity insights through AI‑driven analysis of public, private, and alternative data. Clients use the platform to assess investment performance, improve transparency, and communicate impact to stakeholders. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with an additional office in London.
Social HorsePower
Convertible Note in 2021
SocialHP is a shared social media marketing calendar for teams. We make it dead simple for your team to get social with pre-approved, bite-sized posts that are ready to share. Our built-in tools measure your success. Take the work out of social and watch your team thrive.
ShowUs
Convertible Note in 2021
ShowUs develops an online streaming network focused on esports coverage and gaming franchises. The company hosts interactive video talk shows on a proprietary platform that connects esports athletes, media members, and content creators with fan communities, enabling interactive content around major esports moments and calendars. It provides opinionated analyses and credible insights on popular esports titles, players, and franchises, helping fans engage with the scene through informative commentary and community-driven discussions.
Continuum
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Continuum is a pioneering learning platform that focuses on vocational education by offering short, engaging courses in a format similar to TikTok videos. As the first tokenized learn-to-earn platform, it incentivizes both content creators and learners through the earning of cryptocurrency and NFTs for their participation and engagement. The platform is accessible on various devices, including web, iPhone, and Android, and serves a global audience, with users in 107 countries. By making vocational learning fast, enjoyable, and socially interactive, Continuum aims to enhance educational accessibility and foster a vibrant community of learners.
Allt
Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2016, Allt Inc. develops a platform that connects streaming services, media devices, and social networks, enabling users to interact with their viewing experience live. Its technology filters content for each application on connected devices, providing relevant information without the need for manual search.
Endorsify
Venture Round in 2020
Endorsify, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed to facilitate connections between brands and influencers. Founded in 2016, the platform allows influencers to create profiles that brands can explore to identify suitable partnerships for their marketing campaigns. Endorsify offers various features, including a network for content creators, a pricing model for influencer-generated content, and tools for effective communication regarding campaign details. Additionally, the platform includes a campaign strategy calculator and options for fully managed campaigns, enhancing the overall influencer marketing experience for brands.
Motivote
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Motivote partners with organizations to enhance voter engagement through its digital platform. This platform employs research-backed strategies like social accountability and planning tools to empower individuals to navigate US elections, while automating communications and data insights for program managers.
Hellofriend
Venture Round in 2019
Hellofriend Inc., established in 2017 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, operates a social networking platform focused on daily social activities. The company's core business is a social ordering platform that enables users to order ahead at local businesses, pay via the app, invite friends to order together for exclusive rewards and points collection, and communicate through an in-app messaging system and friends feed. Hellofriend also offers tools such as contactless in-store ordering and payment, mobile ordering, and guest loyalty programs to support local businesses in today's competitive market. The company has received backing from notable investors including Harvard Innovation Lab, Lighthouse Labs (Capital One), Accathon Capital, Right Side Capital Management, and CounterPointe Ventures.
Answerable
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Answerable enables brands to engage in conversational commerce at scale via trusted advocates. Its platform dynamically routes consumer queries to knowledgeable individuals from among the brand's employees, customers, or advocates, ensuring authentic and personalized interactions.
Lumanu
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Founded in 2016, Lumanu develops a digital platform connecting companies with brand ambassadors. It offers solutions like SocialCert for influencer content sharing, Content Manager for ingesting content, and SmartBoost for creating ads using influencer creatives. Serving brand marketers, performance marketers, agency marketers, and creators/influencers, Lumanu operates from Oakland, California with an additional office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Bottlespark
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Bottlespark, Inc. is a company based in Burlington, Vermont, that specializes in designing and developing a software platform connecting online influencers with advertisers and sponsors. Founded in 2017, Bottlespark operates as an advertising network, facilitating a digital marketplace that allows advertisers to engage with influencers and content creators effectively. The platform provides tools for measurable performance-based advertising and branding visibility, enabling advertisers to scale their outreach and optimize their marketing efforts. Through its services, Bottlespark supports both advertisers and content creators in achieving their objectives within the digital advertising landscape.
Cloud Campaign
Convertible Note in 2019
Cloud Campaign, Inc. is a software company that provides a social media management platform specifically designed for marketing agencies. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with an additional office in San Francisco, the company enables agencies to efficiently manage multiple brands on social media. Its platform offers features such as simplified content scheduling, in-depth analytics, automated client reporting, and collaborative workspaces, which help agencies streamline processes like client approvals and content creation. By enhancing operational efficiency, Cloud Campaign allows marketing agencies to manage more clients effectively, optimize their service offerings, and increase profitability.
Hovercast
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hovercast is an entertainment company focused on enhancing audience engagement through its innovative platform for interactive live streaming. The company's services enable brands, media organizations, musicians, and politicians to create customized experiences that incorporate audience feedback and participation. Hovercast's platform includes a variety of interactive features such as polls, comments, gameplay, and custom integrations, allowing clients to integrate the voice of their audience seamlessly into live events. In addition to its core offerings in audience engagement, Hovercast operates within the realms of the internet of things, marketing, and social media, providing comprehensive solutions that leverage software and SaaS technologies.
StoryTap
Pre Seed Round in 2018
StoryTap is a technology company that specializes in video automation. Its platform enables businesses to create and distribute user-generated video content, enhancing website sales by over 30%. The platform uses AI for guided video collection and automated editing, integrating seamlessly with websites and social media.
Rapid Replay
Seed Round in 2018
Rapid Replay is a technology company that specializes in video capture and sharing solutions tailored for the sports sector. It offers a platform that enables users to create, organize, and publish short-form video highlights from youth, high school, and amateur sports events. The application facilitates instant sharing of these highlights, allowing users to easily distribute content across various social media channels. By leveraging user-generated content, Rapid Replay enhances the visibility and engagement of local sports teams, making it easier for fans and communities to access and enjoy sports stories online.
Fangage
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Fangage is a social engagement platform designed to connect fans with their favorite celebrities by offering personalized digital autographs. The platform allows users to upload photos for celebrities to sign, which can then be downloaded, printed, and shared on social media. This service provides fans with authentic, personalized memorabilia, enhancing their connection to the celebrities they admire. Through real-time authentication, Fangage ensures that these digital autographs are genuine, creating memorable experiences for fans and facilitating a unique form of interaction between them and the celebrities.
Flikshop
Convertible Note in 2018
Flikshop facilitates connection between individuals and incarcerated loved ones by offering a mobile app and website service. Users can create personalized postcards with photos and notes for $0.99 each, including postage, which are then mailed via USPS to any prison inmate in the U.S.
Altru
Convertible Note in 2018
Altru Labs Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in a mobile-first platform designed to enhance employer branding and improve the candidate experience through employee-generated content. The platform enables businesses to create authentic content at scale by leveraging their employees, allowing organizations to attract, convert, and retain talent effectively. Altru's solutions include features that facilitate communication between candidates and current employees, enabling potential hires to gain insights into the company culture before interviews. Additionally, the platform supports training and onboarding through interactive video sessions and social distribution of content. As a subsidiary of iCIMS, Inc., Altru is committed to transforming the recruitment process by providing a personalized digital experience for candidates, ultimately helping businesses tell their unique stories through the voices of their employees.
The Clear Cut
Convertible Note in 2018
The Clear Cut is a New York-based company that specializes in creating and selling customized diamond engagement rings. It offers a unique concierge service that allows consumers to design their own rings through personalized curation and expert guidance. By focusing on one-to-one personalization, The Clear Cut aims to enhance the diamond shopping experience, addressing the traditional challenges in the industry. The company has cultivated a strong community, engaging over 75,000 followers on social media, and facilitating purchases through various channels including Instagram, email, texting, and in-person appointments. The Clear Cut is committed to empowering a new generation of consumers by providing access to hand-crafted, custom-designed rings that are modeled after celebrity styles, all while ensuring affordability.
Pundit
Convertible Note in 2018
Pundit, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company established in 2015 that operates an online platform and marketplace for artwork. It enables users to publish, sell, comment on, promote, and purchase art, fostering a vibrant community for creators and art enthusiasts alike. Pundit has also developed a range of consumer and social applications, which facilitate the discovery and sharing of digital stickers in both 2D and augmented reality formats. The company has partnered with notable global intellectual property owners and brands, including Disney and Paramount Pictures, to launch successful marketing campaigns and innovative products. Pundit’s applications have garnered significant user engagement, amassing over 1 million users across platforms. The company has received recognition for its innovative approach, being featured in prominent startup competitions and earning accolades such as "Coolest College Startup" by Inc. and recognition at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Agora
Convertible Note in 2017
Agora is a collaborative platform based in New York, established in 2014, that facilitates file sharing and teamwork by integrating popular cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive, and Box. It enables users to create, edit, and collaborate on documents in one centralized location, addressing challenges related to remote work and cross-team communication. Additionally, Agora leverages machine learning and natural language processing to derive actionable insights, enhancing its social media networking applications which are focused on idea sharing and conversation. The platform provides a unified interface for managing various tasks, including email, calendar, notes, and media, fostering connections amongst users and promoting community engagement.
HypeHash
Convertible Note in 2017
HypeHash Inc. is a company based in Wilmington, Delaware, that operates a platform focused on monetizing hashtags and social trends. Established in 2017, HypeHash leverages the network effects of hashtags to enable the creation and sale of on-demand merchandise linked to trending topics on social media. The platform provides a marketplace for both virtual NFTs and physical products, allowing designers and social influencers to capitalize on trending themes. It also offers real-time analytics and creative tools, facilitating collaboration between product sellers and fans who share common interests. By integrating social data and stories, HypeHash fosters an environment where users can co-create and engage with the latest trends.
Gatsby
Convertible Note in 2017
Gatsby is a developer of an online community management platform that provides promotional services for brands through micro-influencer collaborations. The platform offers custom-branded tools and facilitates the review of social profiles, enabling brands to effectively engage with their target customers. By leveraging various marketing tools, Gatsby aims to enhance online campaigning and help clients influence consumer behavior at scale, positioning itself as a leader in the evolving landscape of digital marketing.
Wave Sports + Entertainment
Convertible Note in 2017
Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company dedicated to serving the next generation of digital sports fans. With a portfolio of over 30 media brands, it creates and distributes engaging sports-related content across various platforms, including Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube, reaching more than 500 million Gen Z and Millennial fans monthly. The company focuses on building original content, fostering talent, and developing products tailored to digitally native audiences. Additionally, Wave operates a full-service agency that specializes in public relations, social media, creative services, and influencer marketing, leveraging its expertise to enhance engagement and interaction with fans. Its content consistently ranks among the most highly engaged across social media platforms, reflecting the company's commitment to innovation and audience connection in the sports and entertainment industry.
Elliot
Convertible Note in 2017
Founded in 2017, Elliot is a technology company based in New York. It develops platforms for e-commerce management and social media, enabling businesses to streamline operations and athletes to engage with fans.
Heartbeat
Seed Round in 2017
Using our unique software and devoted team at Heartbeat, we pair the best content creators with like-minded brands who share a love for the same products and services. The result is a genuine connection that develops into long-lasting relationships.
Community
Convertible Note in 2017
Community is a messaging and engagement platform that enables two-way, direct communication between influencers, brands, public figures, creators, artists, and their audiences at scale. The platform connects businesses and organizations with consumers through a secure channel, including a unique 10-digit phone number, and aims to facilitate authentic interactions while addressing data privacy concerns and reducing the toxicity often associated with traditional social media.
Flye
Convertible Note in 2017
FLYE, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in a real-time, location-based social engagement and analytics platform. The platform enables brands and businesses to execute geo-targeted social media campaigns and provides tools for monitoring social media trends, engaging with influencers, and analyzing the impact of social reach. FLYE employs advanced audience analysis techniques, creating a detailed profile known as the Audience Fingerprint, which captures audience demographics, locations, and interests. By utilizing machine learning, the platform identifies social media profiles that align with these fingerprints, allowing brands to engage their audience more personally and relevantly. Through its innovative approach, FLYE aims to enhance the effectiveness of digital marketing strategies and maximize campaign reach for its clients.
Thread Genius
Convertible Note in 2017
Thread Genius, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing and operating a visual search and recommendation platform tailored for the fashion industry. Founded in 2015 and based in New York, the company utilizes advanced algorithms and computer vision technology to identify objects and recommend similar items, enhancing the shopping experience for users. Its visual search engine serves lifestyle brands by analyzing consumer behavior on social media and other platforms, facilitating targeted customer discovery. This approach helps retailers and brands effectively reach the right audiences, thereby improving marketing efficiency, reducing costs, and increasing returns on investment. As of January 2018, Thread Genius operates as a subsidiary of Sotheby's.
Octi
Convertible Note in 2016
Octi is the world’s first augmented reality social platform where reality merges with the metaverse and empowers anyone to create vibrant content with digital objects and scenes, rewarding creators with virtual and physical goods from leading brands. Octi’s independent Los Angeles-based team builds and combines the latest in machine learning, computer vision, and AR technologies to deliver the killer applications of the future.
PartyWith
Convertible Note in 2016
PartyWith is a mobile application that facilitates connections among individuals who enjoy nightlife and social events. Initially launched as "Party with a Local" to help travelers engage with locals, the app has evolved to serve a broader audience, allowing anyone to discover and join parties regardless of their location. The application provides users with information on upcoming events at nearby clubs and restaurants, including alerts about ticket availability, guest capacity, invitation passes, and discounts. By enabling both locals and travelers to find and enjoy nightlife experiences, PartyWith fosters social interactions and friendships in various settings.
Paranoid Fan
Convertible Note in 2016
Founded in 2011, Paranoid Fan develops a social mapping application that enhances fan experiences at sporting events. Its platform enables users to locate venues, find tailgates and watch parties, share updates via text or multimedia, and discover celebrity sightings. Additionally, it offers real-time map customization and interactive venue reviews.
Preesale
Convertible Note in 2016
Preesale is a mobile-based ticket management application founded in 2015 and based in Liege, Belgium. It enables event organizers to efficiently sell tickets and access cash flows prior to their events, distinguishing it from traditional ticketing platforms. Preesale's application integrates seamlessly with Facebook, allowing users to create targeted ticket sales in under five minutes. The platform enhances revenue opportunities for organizers by providing tools to track sales analytics and communicate with attendees through SMS. Additionally, it offers a streamlined entry process, allowing ticket scanning via smartphones with free applications for both iPhone and Android. Preesale's mission is to improve visibility and accessibility to events, making it a valuable resource for event organizers seeking to optimize their ticketing processes.
UCiC is a developer of a social content platform that allows users to request real-time photos or videos of current events and weather from individuals around the world. The platform incorporates location recognition technology, enabling users to earn reward points by sharing images or videos of their surroundings on social media. By facilitating global interaction through visual content, UCiC aims to enhance the way people experience and engage with current events and environmental conditions.
Skopenow
Seed Round in 2016
Skopenow, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing a people search engine for social media investigations aimed at detecting fraud. Its analytical search engine provides fraud detection and risk evaluation services, primarily serving the insurance and legal sectors. The platform utilizes open-source intelligence to generate comprehensive analytical reports based on a person's name and location, offering profiles, photos, and relevant locations. This capability allows organizations to efficiently identify fraudulent activities within social media and the broader open web.
Donut Media
Seed Round in 2016
Founded in 2015, Donut Media is a digital media company based in Los Angeles, California. It creates and distributes engaging video content for automotive enthusiasts across various platforms using proprietary technology and a curated network of influencers.
Spatial.ai
Seed Round in 2016
Spatial.ai is a location data company that utilizes artificial intelligence to analyze social media conversations, aiming to understand human movement and experiences in urban environments. Founded in 2015, Spatial.ai recognized the untapped potential of the emotional and social data inherent in cities. By employing ethnographic research techniques alongside data engineering, the company seeks to reconnect data with the human experience. Its platform tracks and categorizes behavioral patterns based on core human needs, integrating diverse data sources into a cohesive model. This enables clients to predict and influence customer behavior through a real-time social media segmentation system, providing valuable insights into how people interact with their surroundings.
Tapglue
Convertible Note in 2016
Tapglue is a developer of an online application engagement platform that focuses on enhancing app engagement and user retention by adding a social layer to applications. With over twenty years of experience in product, growth, and engineering across notable tech companies, Tapglue aims to simplify the integration of social features, enabling mobile developers to implement these within hours. The platform allows users to create personal profiles, connect with friends, and engage more deeply with the application, thus leveraging network effects to foster community growth and maximize user interaction. By providing a plug-and-play experience, Tapglue offers developers a streamlined solution to enrich their apps and enhance user engagement.
Nozzle
Convertible Note in 2016
Nozzle is a digital marketing platform based in Lehi, Utah, that specializes in developing analytical tools for rank tracking and marketing data management. Founded in 2014, the company provides a comprehensive suite of services including brand tracking, competitive analysis, reputation management, and automated data collection and reporting. Nozzle's software enables marketing agencies to enhance their service offerings by delivering intelligent recommendations and flexible scheduling options. By focusing on the dynamic nature of search and social media landscapes, Nozzle aims to address the challenges faced by traditional marketing software providers and position itself as a leader in integrated marketing solutions.
SocialCapital
Convertible Note in 2016
SocialCapital is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing an artificial intelligence platform focused on generating personality insights from social and online behavior. Founded in 2015 by Temitope Alabi and Obed Eugene, the company employs advanced algorithms to analyze public social data, including tweets and blogs, to create accurate personality profiles. By tokenizing textual input and utilizing psycholinguistic analysis, SocialCapital enables brands and employers to better understand their users and identify suitable candidates for job positions. The insights provided by its platform aim to enhance user engagement and improve recruitment processes through data-driven personality assessments.
AdvisorConnect
Convertible Note in 2016
AdvisorConnect is a platform designed to accelerate sales for financial advisors and insurance agents. It uses AI-driven technology to automate workflows, analyze network data in real-time, and facilitate strategic decision-making in product marketing and content.
Heartbeat
Convertible Note in 2016
Using our unique software and devoted team at Heartbeat, we pair the best content creators with like-minded brands who share a love for the same products and services. The result is a genuine connection that develops into long-lasting relationships.
Switchboard Live
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Switchboard Live Inc. is a Philadelphia-based company that operates a live video streaming and syndication platform designed to connect advertisers and brands with targeted audiences across various online channels. Founded in 2014 and previously known as Joicaster Inc., the company offers a cloud-based product that streamlines the distribution of multiple live streams to social media platforms and web pages through a single unified dashboard. Its solutions, including Producer and Joicaster, cater to diverse content creators in sectors such as entertainment, government, gaming, worship, sports, podcasts, and keynotes. By facilitating the management of live streams throughout their entire lifecycle—from preparation to execution and post-event—Switchboard Live enables users to enhance viewer engagement and grow their audience effectively.
Clyp
Convertible Note in 2015
Clyp, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in online audio software, enabling users to record, share, embed, and upload audio files. Founded in 2014 and based in Austin, Texas, Clyp offers a platform tailored for musicians to easily collaborate and receive feedback on their work, whether it be a simple guitar riff or a complete music track. The service is accessible via a web interface as well as iOS and Android applications, attracting a community of approximately one million monthly users and generating over two million monthly listens. Clyp's platform allows users to convert music files into shareable links, facilitating seamless sharing while maintaining high audio quality for both streaming and downloading. The company has gained recognition in the music community, with notable users, further solidifying its role as a valuable resource for musicians.
Pomika
Convertible Note in 2015
Pomika turns images into inspirational online shopping experiences.
They use proprietary image recognition DeepDNA to find the exact products inside images that you love and they even recommend you other products with a similar look.
Starting by integrating with Instagram they allow anyone to transform pictures into micro e-commerce sites with details of the products displayed in them.
They make Instagram Shoppable.
Yonder
Convertible Note in 2015
Yonder LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Austin, Texas, develops an application designed to help brands contextualize online information. The company aims to define the authentic internet category by providing cultural context to information as it circulates online. Yonder believes that adding this context is essential to prevent the dehumanization of information, which can contribute to issues such as fake accounts, misinformation, and disinformation. By striving to enhance the flow of information, Yonder seeks to foster a more trustworthy and open digital environment, countering trends of information gatekeeping and mistrust.
Social Status
Angel Round in 2015
Social Status Inc. is a social media intelligence platform based in Mountain View, California, that supports businesses and brands in analyzing their social media presence, particularly on Facebook. Founded in 2015, the company provides tools for various sectors, including automotive, education, finance, food and beverage, government, health and fitness, real estate, retail, sports, telecommunications, and travel, as well as media, art, and entertainment. By enabling marketers to quantify the impact of their social media marketing efforts, Social Status helps clients optimize their strategies and enhance their online engagement. The company operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.
In/spree
Convertible Note in 2015
In/ Spree is an influencer management platform. They allow brands to discover and make connections with influencers for their campaigns. The influencers get a chance to work with brands and get paid. Their network has influencers in travel, food, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, and others.
Tribe
Convertible Note in 2015
Tribe is a social networking platform founded in Australia in 2015 by Jules Lund, which has expanded its operations to the U.K. in 2017 and the U.S. in 2019. The platform enables marketers to efficiently generate branded content by connecting them with a diverse pool of creators. Brands can access Tribe's services through an annual subscription or on a pay-per-use basis. This model allows everyday creators to monetize their content by collaborating with brands they are passionate about. Tribe has established partnerships with over 6,000 brands, including major names like Unilever and Amazon, facilitating the creation of more than 1,000,000 pieces of branded content across numerous campaigns.
Decisive
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Decisive is a social content analytics platform designed to assist brands in measuring, understanding, and benchmarking the effectiveness of their social media content. Recognizing the necessity for brands to evolve into content companies, Decisive offers tools that enable brands to assess their content performance across major social media platforms using a unified content score. The platform also provides insights into audience sentiment regarding the content and facilitates comparisons with competitors' content. Additionally, Decisive's mobile advertising capabilities support brands in devising strategies based on user engagement, ultimately enhancing customer reach and impact in the digital landscape.
Pundit
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Pundit, Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company established in 2015 that operates an online platform and marketplace for artwork. It enables users to publish, sell, comment on, promote, and purchase art, fostering a vibrant community for creators and art enthusiasts alike. Pundit has also developed a range of consumer and social applications, which facilitate the discovery and sharing of digital stickers in both 2D and augmented reality formats. The company has partnered with notable global intellectual property owners and brands, including Disney and Paramount Pictures, to launch successful marketing campaigns and innovative products. Pundit’s applications have garnered significant user engagement, amassing over 1 million users across platforms. The company has received recognition for its innovative approach, being featured in prominent startup competitions and earning accolades such as "Coolest College Startup" by Inc. and recognition at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Hooks
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Hooks Technologies Inc. is a Chicago-based company that designs and develops a mobile application focused on delivering timely notifications and alerts across a variety of interests. The app allows users to create and customize push notifications for topics such as television, music, sports, social media, weather, and more. By providing users with the ability to configure alerts on subjects that matter to them, Hooks aims to enhance the way individuals stay informed about events and updates relevant to their lives. Incorporated in 2015, the company continues to innovate in the realm of personalized notifications.
Growth Geeks
Pre Seed Round in 2015
Growth Geeks Inc. is a marketing services company established in 2014 and located in Bonita Springs, Florida. The firm specializes in providing skilled marketing professionals, known as "growth geeks," who possess expertise across various aspects of modern marketing. These services include paid traffic, content marketing, social media management, data scraping, and analytics. By leveraging this diverse skill set, Growth Geeks aims to assist businesses in enhancing their growth potential and achieving their marketing objectives. The company recognizes the increasing demand from millions of companies worldwide for effective marketing strategies and professionals capable of driving significant business transformation.
Flytedesk
Convertible Note in 2015
Flytedesk operates a platform that facilitates multi-channel advertising campaigns targeting college students. It enables advertisers to buy, manage, and automate ads across various channels such as print, digital, radio, television, and experiential media on campuses nationwide.
StyleSage
Seed Round in 2015
Founded in 2013, StyleSage operates an online platform that leverages AI and machine learning to provide competitive intelligence for fashion retailers and brands. Its platform monitors pricing, social signals, trends, and competitor activities, enabling users to optimize product mix, pricing strategies, and marketing efforts.
TheGreatOut
Convertible Note in 2015
TheGreatOut is a digital performance platform dedicated to enhancing the marketing capabilities of businesses in the outdoor sector, including fishing, hunting, and adventure guiding. Based in Austin, Texas, the company provides a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline operations and improve customer engagement. Its offerings include outfitter websites, a Contact Manager Application for direct communication, and a Social Referral Tool for sharing trip photos with clients. Additionally, the platform features a Booking Calendar to manage client appointments and payments, an Email Engage Engine for marketing communications, and a Payment Engine for transaction processing. The Guide Manager Tool facilitates information sharing with guides, while the Tradeshow Application aids in lead capture. The Image Manager allows businesses to organize and share photos with customers effectively. Overall, TheGreatOut focuses on helping outdoor businesses generate leads, enhance customer loyalty, and efficiently manage their operations.
Spoon University
Convertible Note in 2015
Spoon University is an online food publication platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, specifically designed to address the needs of college students. The platform serves as a daily food resource, offering a variety of simple recipes, local restaurant reviews, and food-related news tailored for millennials. By providing localized content and lifestyle stories, Spoon University enables college students to discover and share culinary experiences and knowledge, fostering a community centered around food.
Stream.io, Inc. specializes in developing an open-source platform that enables the creation of customizable newsfeeds and messaging applications. The company provides a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow product teams to implement chat features and activity feeds tailored to their specific needs. Its offerings include flat feeds for displaying followed content, aggregated feeds for grouping similar content, notification feeds for site alerts, and profile pages for user activity storage. Stream's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, healthcare, dating, education, and social networking, facilitating community engagement. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Stream’s products are recognized for their scalability and security, serving over a billion end-users globally.
AdHusky
Convertible Note in 2015
Founded in 2012, AdHusky specializes in automated Facebook advertising solutions for financial service firms. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company enables businesses to create targeted campaigns and reach specific audiences.
Sidelines
Convertible Note in 2014
Sidelines, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that operates an online community designed to connect informed content creators with their audiences, particularly within the realm of sports. Founded in 2010, Sidelines amplifies writers' voices by featuring their work on premium digital publications and facilitates engaging discussions on content publishers' sites. Additionally, it allows brands to target specific demographics by sponsoring authentic discussions. The platform also functions as a social network for sports enthusiasts, enabling users to follow their favorite teams and share opinions, photos, videos, and articles with friends and fellow fans.
Later
Convertible Note in 2014
Later is a social media management platform that enables collaboration among managers and creators. It offers partnerships with major social platforms like Meta, TikTok, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest. The company specializes in developing high-performing content and facilitating authentic collaborations to reach new audiences, increase engagement, and achieve predictable ROI.
Affectly
Pre Seed Round in 2014
Affectly is a Boston-based software development company that specializes in an automated donor engagement platform designed for data-driven online fundraising. The platform enables nonprofit organizations to enhance their fundraising campaigns by identifying engaged followers and leveraging their influence to attract new supporters. By analyzing donor history and social media behavior, Affectly's technology helps organizations target potential donors who are likely to be sympathetic to their causes. The platform also offers tools to track and measure the impact of supporter engagement, combining factors such as giving history and social media influence to optimize fundraising efforts.
Lassy Project
Convertible Note in 2014
Lassy Project, Inc. is a technology company that has developed an online application aimed at assisting parents and guardians in quickly notifying their local communities about missing children or at-risk adults. Founded in 2012 and based in Longmont, Colorado, Lassy Project offers a free service that allows users to send immediate alerts via text messages and social media with the push of a button. This prompt communication mobilizes a trusted network of family, friends, and neighbors, enabling swift community involvement in the search efforts. The application is designed to harness the power of community support, enhancing the chances of locating missing individuals effectively.
Wellhire
Convertible Note in 2014
Wellhire is a Boulder, Colorado-based company founded in 2013 that operates an online job search platform designed to streamline the hiring process for employers and job seekers. The platform simplifies the recruitment process by allowing employers to assess job candidates directly from job postings, without initial meetings. Wellhire's tools evaluate candidates' knowledge and skills, conduct social media checks, and facilitate comparisons between applicants, ultimately reducing the time, cost, and effort involved in finding suitable hires. By helping job seekers identify appropriate job opportunities, Wellhire aims to make the hiring decision process more efficient for employers and improve overall employment outcomes.
Naritiv
Convertible Note in 2014
Naritiv Inc. is a marketing and analytics company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in connecting brands with influencers on Snapchat. Founded in 2012, Naritiv leverages its mobile media platform to create engaging content and build large audiences for brands, generating over 20 billion views per month through its owned channels. The company offers a customized social content network and provides technology solutions that facilitate the development and management of Snapchat campaigns. Additionally, Naritiv equips its partners with analytics and reporting tools to enhance audience growth and measure campaign effectiveness across multiple platforms, including Twitter and Instagram.
Shareable Social
Convertible Note in 2014
Shareable Social, Inc. is a content marketing platform based in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2013. The company specializes in helping businesses enhance their brand visibility through effective social media management. By posting daily content on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, Shareable Social creates a consistent online presence for its clients. The tailored content is both engaging and informative, aimed at promoting organizations and their products to a broad audience. This active social media strategy increases client engagement, web traffic, and overall brand awareness, allowing businesses to effectively manage their online reputation and reach their target demographics.
Pubble
Convertible Note in 2014
Pubble is a developer of a Q&A-focused web platform that enables clients to create and manage live question-and-answer communities. The company offers versatile solutions tailored to various needs, including simple "Ask Me Anything" plugins, community-supported FAQ pages, and live event Q&A features. Pubble's platform integrates seamlessly with clients' existing websites, blogs, social media pages, and mobile applications. By capturing detailed data on user interactions, Pubble helps clients gain insights into audience engagement, allowing them to enhance customer interaction and build a deeper understanding of their audience at scale.
Magnific
Convertible Note in 2014
Magnific is an online platform that specializes in creating original written content, leveraging a network of over 750 writers. The company not only produces unique articles but also employs strategies to enhance the virality of this content, achieving over six million page views on their managed sites in early 2014. In addition to content production, Magnific offers social media services and seeks innovative monetization strategies for the content they generate. Their software effectively connects readers, writers, and curators, providing comprehensive content and marketing solutions for corporate clients.
Good Audience
Convertible Note in 2014
Good Audience is a United States-based company specializing in social media marketing services that help businesses effectively engage with their target audiences. The company offers a platform that incorporates intelligent automation technologies to facilitate brand engagement and campaign creation. Good Audience focuses on delivering organic outreach, allowing potential customers to discover and connect with brands without intrusive advertising. Its services include intelligent targeting, social strategy, active content posting, and cross-promotion, all designed to convert interested social media users into loyal fans. By enabling startups to tap into their desired demographics, Good Audience helps them enhance their visibility and establish a meaningful online presence.
SocialSign.in
Seed Round in 2014
SocialSign.in enables businesses to connect with guests via free WiFi, transforming it into a customer relationship platform. It allows end-users to access guest WiFi using social media credentials, helping businesses grow mailing lists, improve social media engagement, and drive app downloads. The company's proprietary software provides network authentication services and collects valuable visitor data for industries such as live entertainment, sports, real estate, and hospitality.
Narvii
Convertible Note in 2014
Narvii creates a mobile community platform for long-tail interests, organizations, and brands. It specializes in the fields of enterprise applications, enterprise software, and mobile apps.
It was founded in 2009 and is based in Medford, Massachusetts.
Inside Social
Seed Round in 2013
Inside Social is an early-stage technology company based in Seattle, Washington, specializing in social media analytics. Founded in 2012 by Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins, the company provides a social marketing platform that enables large brands and e-commerce businesses to enhance their social marketing strategies. By tracking critical metrics related to social sharing and conversions, Inside Social delivers meaningful insights that help clients optimize their return on investment. Its platform focuses on key performance indicators such as revenue, customer loyalty, and lifetime value, allowing brands and advertisers to make data-driven decisions that improve their overall marketing effectiveness.
Sparktrend
Seed Round in 2013
Sparktrend is a company that specializes in image search and analytics software, aimed at enhancing social media marketing strategies. By utilizing advanced image and text analysis technology, Sparktrend helps marketers understand the underlying reasons why certain types of content achieve higher levels of consumer engagement on social media platforms. Unlike traditional analytics that focus solely on what content performed well, Sparktrend delves into the "why," offering insights that enable marketers to create more effective content. Founded by a team with experience in managing the Bing.com Image Search team, the company combines expertise in product management and software development. Sparktrend is recognized for tackling complex challenges in content analysis, providing valuable tools that assist marketers in optimizing their digital marketing efforts.
PayMins
Seed Round in 2013
PayMins provides an easy way to accept mobile phone payments by creating a sales page and then posting the link on social media or websites.
Hull
Convertible Note in 2013
Hull Inc. is a developer of a SaaS-based marketing platform designed to help brands engage and profile their customers effectively. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with an additional office in Paris, the company offers a solution that aggregates customer data from various channels, including email marketing, websites, and mobile applications, into unified consumer profiles. This integration allows businesses to synchronize their customer data seamlessly and enhance their marketing efforts without the need for extensive coding. Hull also operates as a Facebook marketing partner, simplifying the complexities of digital marketing and facilitating connections between brands and their customers through targeted marketing initiatives. By providing real-time data access, Hull empowers companies to create personalized customer experiences and gain valuable insights to drive growth.
Prediculous
Seed Round in 2013
Prediculous develops social fantasy sports games that connect fans and brands through authentic interaction. They are building social sports games for all fans across mobile and web. The company produced the first second-screen prediction game for a major football game, the 2012 BCS Championship.
Prediculous was founded in 2010 and is based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Jukely
Pre Seed Round in 2013
Jukely Inc. is a music information service based in Brooklyn, New York, that provides members with access to a variety of concerts, parties, and DJ sets each month. Founded in 2012, the company utilizes a platform that analyzes users' music preferences and social connections to facilitate connections with friends and enhance their concert-going experience. Jukely's services are accessible through its website, mobile application, and social media platforms, allowing users to easily discover and share events. By leveraging data on music taste and social interactions, Jukely aims to increase attendance at live events, benefiting both concert promoters and music enthusiasts.
Klooff
Pre Seed Round in 2013
Klooff is a sharing platform designed for pet lovers, enabling users to capture and share their pets' best moments through photos and videos. The application allows pet owners to submit content featuring their pets, such as unique behaviors or amusing activities, and provides a community-curated voting system that showcases the most engaging submissions in a Daily Top 10 List. This global social platform fosters a community among pet enthusiasts, allowing them to interact and celebrate their pets in a creative and entertaining manner.
WeeSpring
Seed Round in 2013
Founded in 2012, WeeSpring is a social shopping platform for new and expecting parents. It enables users to share advice on baby products by comparing items within categories based on friends' experiences.
Conspire
Convertible Note in 2013
Conspire tells you exactly how to get the best introduction to whoever you want to meet—a customer, employer or investor.
By analyzing email data, we understand who knows each other and how well. We score each relationship to recognize the difference between a close colleague and someone you met at a conference for five minutes. With this understanding, Conspire finds the strongest path of connections in your extended network to any person or company you're interested in.
Your network is bigger and more powerful than you think. Conspire unlocks it for you.
Conspire
Seed Round in 2013
Conspire tells you exactly how to get the best introduction to whoever you want to meet—a customer, employer or investor.
By analyzing email data, we understand who knows each other and how well. We score each relationship to recognize the difference between a close colleague and someone you met at a conference for five minutes. With this understanding, Conspire finds the strongest path of connections in your extended network to any person or company you're interested in.
Your network is bigger and more powerful than you think. Conspire unlocks it for you.
Storytime Studios
Seed Round in 2013
Storytime Studios, Inc. is a Massachusetts-based company founded in 2012 that specializes in developing an animated messaging application designed for smartphones and tablets. The company's flagship product, the SKIT! app, enables users to create animated shorts, including memes and remixes, using their own photographs alongside a variety of ready-to-use backgrounds, props, and stickers. The app features several tools such as StoryStarter, which helps users generate ideas for their skits; SKIT! Outfits, which allows users to dress up their friends; SKIT! Text, for adding custom phrases; and SKIT! Gallery, which facilitates photo importing and image searching. This user-friendly platform encourages creativity and collaboration, making it an ideal choice for both children and adults to share animated video messages within the community. Users can easily share their creations via social media or through direct messaging, offering a fun and engaging way to tell stories and express themselves.
Prolific Works
Seed Round in 2012
Prolific Works is a developer of an online publishing platform that connects authors with readers, facilitating the promotion and visibility of their literary works. The platform enables authors to engage with their audience by providing tools for marketing, including sneak peeks and bonus content. By fostering these connections, Prolific Works helps authors build their following and effectively reach new readers, allowing them to concentrate on their writing while enhancing their overall visibility in the market.
Appetas
Seed Round in 2012
Appetas is a provider of a restaurant marketing platform designed to establish a strong online presence for individual and small chain restaurants. The company offers a technology solution that enables restaurant owners to create visually appealing websites, mobile sites, and social media profiles featuring their actual menus, hours, and locations. Recognizing that many restaurant owners find existing online marketing options complex and costly, Appetas simplifies the process, allowing restaurants to go online almost instantly. The platform empowers owners to make updates independently or choose a full-service option, ensuring they can effectively market their establishments without significant time or financial investment. Appetas reaches its customers through established partner channels, making it a trusted resource for restaurant marketing needs.
Linksy is an online marketing platform that allows businesses to effectively communicate and promote their messages through social media channels. By providing a suite of marketing tools, Linksy facilitates connections between marketers, employees, customers, and fans, enabling them to share content seamlessly across various social networks. The company's focus is on empowering individuals to amplify brand messages and engage with wider audiences, ultimately enhancing marketing efforts and fostering stronger relationships within the digital landscape.
Nveloped
Seed Round in 2012
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Leanplum
Pre Seed Round in 2012
Leanplum Inc. is a mobile marketing platform that specializes in enhancing engagement for brands through a unified, multichannel approach. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York, London, Bulgaria, and Amsterdam, Leanplum enables businesses to optimize their mobile applications and marketing efforts. The platform offers a range of services including messaging, automation, app editing, personalization, A/B testing, and analytics, allowing product teams to conduct real-time optimization tests and analyze results effectively. Renowned global brands such as Tinder, Grab, Tesco, and Zynga utilize Leanplum to orchestrate integrated campaigns that foster customer loyalty and drive growth. By transforming data into actionable insights, Leanplum helps companies understand user needs, delivering relevant experiences that enhance brand engagement and establish long-term customer relationships.
Maptia is an online media platform focused on storytelling and fostering empathy through the sharing of personal experiences. It enables users to document their journeys by creating maps of the places they have visited, accompanied by blogs and visual narratives. This platform encourages individuals to share their stories and photographs, facilitating a deeper connection with the cultural and natural wonders of the world. By promoting diverse perspectives, Maptia aims to raise awareness about significant global issues and empower users to contribute to a more informed and engaged society.
Birdbox
Seed Round in 2012
BirdBox, Inc. is a company based in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in online storage, cataloging, and display services for user-generated photos and videos. Founded in 2012, BirdBox provides a platform that facilitates the sharing and collection of photos among groups, making it simple for users to upload images directly from their smartphones and invite friends to contribute their own. The service allows users to organize memories from events such as holidays and parties in a single, accessible location. Additionally, BirdBox enables users to comment on and like photos, as well as download images shared by others, ensuring a streamlined and private photo-sharing experience tailored for groups.
Shopsy
Convertible Note in 2012
Shopsy is the place to shop for products discovered on Instagram.
From big brands to small boutiques, there are tens of thousands of retailers on Instagram. There are also thousands of fashion bloggers on Instagram who promote products from these retailers, but are unable to monetize from doing so.
When Instagram users want to purchase a product posted by a retailer or fashion blogger on Instagram, they are forced to the retailer’s web-based application only to encounter a tedious and usually-abandoned search for that product.
There is currently no efficient process that lets Instagram users purchase products that they come across on Instagram, resulting in retailers losing out on revenue opportunities.
Shopsy is the only platform that lets Instagram users purchase products that they see on Instagram. By building into Instagram’s API, Shopsy will provide the 150+ million Instagram users with a simple product discovery and purchase process.
Shopsy lets anyone create content by posting an Instagram photo of a product with a website URL of where the product can be purchased. Shopsy pulls the user’s Instagram social content, including followers, following, likes, and comments. Put simply, Shopsy allows anyone to convert a retailer’s Instagram followers into sales.
Shopsy will also offer its users the ability to search for products or shops. Content creators will also be able to share their products to Facebook and Twitter, as well as promote their shops to Instagram.
FaithStreet
Convertible Note in 2012
FaithStreet is a social network tailored for faith communities, enabling them to connect and engage with their members. The platform features a directory of churches, allowing users to post prayer requests, share church programs, and offer support to one another. Additionally, FaithStreet facilitates online donations, providing tools for individuals to set up both recurring and one-time contributions through web, mobile, or text options. This innovative approach aims to enhance the way faith communities raise funds and foster growth, ultimately strengthening their connections and outreach.
Pickie is a personalized shopping application designed specifically for the iPad, which innovatively blends the features of a magazine and a catalog. The platform curates content based on users' personal styles, favorite brands, and trending products from various retailers and social media feeds. By offering a tailored catalog shopping experience, Pickie empowers users to discover products that resonate with their preferences while ensuring that the content remains actionable. The app has garnered recognition, being listed among the top 25 applications and selected as one of the '10 Essential Apps' in the catalogs category of the app store.
Poptip is a conversation analysis platform that helps brands and media fully understand public opinion in real-time and make decisions quickly based on that opinion. The platform simultaneously empowers the public’s voice and turns their opinions into actionable data. Poptip’s clients include L’Oreal, NBA, ESPN, NFL, Spotify, Budweiser and Yoplait. The New York-based company was founded in 2012 by Kelsey Falter. Poptip has raised $2.4 million to date in funding notably from Lerer Ventures, SoftBank Capital and RSE Ventures. For more information, please visit www.poptip.com.
Rewind Me
Seed Round in 2012
Rewind Me Inc., established in 2005 and headquartered in New York City, specializes in aggregating data from various digital tracking and sharing platforms such as Foursquare, Facebook, TripIt, Fitbit, RunKeeper, and Netflix. The company's primary service, The Rewind.Me App for iOS, transforms users' check-in activities into a personal tool and facilitates social interaction by unlocking the value of this aggregated data. By doing so, Rewind Me enables individuals to manage and monetize their digital history as a new personal asset on their iPhones.
Libboo connects buzzers (readers who love to share and talk about books) with books they'll enjoy, to create the next digital bestseller and help talented authors get discovered. Buzzers get rewards such as free ebooks, and increase their influence by sharing great writing with their friends and followers via social media, email, and other online channels.
Good&Co
Convertible Note in 2012
Good&Co Labs Inc. is a developer of a self-discovery engine and social networking application aimed at helping professionals find fulfillment in their careers and personal lives. The company offers tools such as Culture Fit Jobs, which assists users in understanding their strengths and preferences through quizzes, and Good&Co Teamwork, which provides personality assessments to enhance collaboration among coworkers. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, California, with additional offices in Boston, London, and Lviv, Good&Co has amassed a significant user base, boasting over 1.5 million profiles and an extensive psychometric database. This platform combines engaging user experiences with scientific assessment to address challenges in employee retention and hiring by ensuring cultural compatibility between individuals and organizations.
Vidmaker
Seed Round in 2012
Vidmaker is a collaborative online video editing platform that enables users to create and manage videos in real time with others, regardless of location. The platform allows seamless integration with popular cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and Google Drive, facilitating easy access to video, image, and audio files. Users can collaborate on projects and share their completed videos on Vidmaker's platform or directly to YouTube. By simplifying the video editing process and enhancing teamwork, Vidmaker caters to individuals and groups looking to produce high-quality content efficiently.
Averi is an AI-powered marketing management platform that combines proprietary AI models for marketing strategy and content creation.
Design modern strategy, analyze massive amounts of data, create endless content from ads and social posts to blogs and whitepapers, build perfect-fit teams of marketing experts, and manage your entire growth operation in one seamless experience.