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Kompyte is a competitive intelligence tool designed to respond in real-time to its users’ competitors' online strategies. It is designed to learn about its users’ competitors’ online strategies in real-time, and respond to them in an easy and affordable way. Kompyte's competitive intelligence software enables businesses to collect, organize, analyze, and act on competitive changes in their market. Kompyte reinvents the way businesses use intelligence to drive sales, marketing performance and product strategies. Serving thousands of product, marketing and sales roles in over 20 industries, across the globe, Kompyte compiles over 3.5T data points a year. Founded in 2014, Kompyte is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Barcelona and Austin.

strongDM manages and audits access to servers and databases. It provides a single platform to control access to any database for employees, vendors, and cloud-based tools. The company was awarded in the Strata+Hadoop World Audience Favorite in 2016. It was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Burlingame, California.

Say Media, Inc. is a digital publishing company that specializes in creating, distributing, and monetizing content through its innovative Tempest platform. This platform supports independent content creators in building engaged communities across various consumer interests such as Style, Living, Food, and Tech. Say Media offers services that enhance audience engagement, such as AdFrames, which are interactive media ad units, and Portable Creative, which allows for flexible advertising across different platforms. The company reaches over 400 million people globally, providing brands with effective ways to connect with these audiences. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and other locations, Say Media operates as a subsidiary of TheMaven, Inc. since 2018.

Indicative, Inc. offers an intelligent analytics platform designed to enhance customer acquisition, conversion, and retention for web and mobile businesses. Founded in 2013 and based in New York, the platform integrates various data sources to create a comprehensive view of customer behavior. Its key features include dashboards, segmentation, funnels, cohorts, and a data manager, enabling businesses to monitor critical performance indicators in real time. By providing actionable insights, Indicative helps organizations optimize their customer engagement strategies effectively.

Collectively is a venture-backed, international team of software professionals dedicated to making work more human.

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LearnVest, Inc. is a personal finance and lifestyle platform designed specifically for women, based in New York. Founded in 2007, the company offers a comprehensive website and mobile application that provide educational content, tools, and financial planning services. Users can access information on budgeting, managing student loans, and planning cost-effective gatherings, while also utilizing features to track expenses, build custom budgets, and securely link financial accounts. LearnVest emphasizes interactive and educational resources, including articles, checklists, and financial tools, to empower women in managing their finances. The company operates on a subscription model that includes a setup charge and a monthly fee for access to financial planners, enhancing its commitment to personalized financial education and support. Acquired by Northwestern Mutual, LearnVest continues to focus on delivering relevant financial insights and fostering a collaborative community among its users.

Drop.io was a platform designed for private media sharing, allowing users to create "drops" for easy and secure exchange of various types of media, including photos, videos, audio, notes, and documents. Users could generate drops with minimal effort, requiring just a couple of clicks, and access them through various channels such as the web, email, phone, fax, and widgets. The platform emphasized privacy, enabling users to control the accessibility of their drops without needing to sign up for an account. Each user received 100MB of free storage, with options for additional tiered storage available for a fee, reaching up to 25GB. In 2010, Drop.io was acquired by Facebook, marking the end of its independent operations.

LearnVest, Inc. is a personal finance and lifestyle platform designed specifically for women, based in New York. Founded in 2007, the company offers a comprehensive website and mobile application that provide educational content, tools, and financial planning services. Users can access information on budgeting, managing student loans, and planning cost-effective gatherings, while also utilizing features to track expenses, build custom budgets, and securely link financial accounts. LearnVest emphasizes interactive and educational resources, including articles, checklists, and financial tools, to empower women in managing their finances. The company operates on a subscription model that includes a setup charge and a monthly fee for access to financial planners, enhancing its commitment to personalized financial education and support. Acquired by Northwestern Mutual, LearnVest continues to focus on delivering relevant financial insights and fostering a collaborative community among its users.

KidZui provides a browser that appeals to kids and only lets them navigate certain pre-approved areas of the web.

Comixology, founded in 2007, has transformed the comic book and graphic novel industry by providing a cloud-based digital comics platform that allows users to discover, purchase, and read a diverse library of comic books, graphic novels, and manga. Its platform, known as Comics by Comixology, is accessible on various devices, including iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and the web, offering an immersive reading experience. Comixology also supports brick-and-mortar retailers with tools and services to enhance their offerings. The platform has achieved significant popularity, often ranking as a top-grossing app in the iTunes App Store and being preloaded on Amazon's Kindle Fire. With a monthly subscription service, Comixology aims to make comic books more accessible to a global audience, fostering a wider appreciation for the medium.

LearnVest, Inc. is a personal finance and lifestyle platform designed specifically for women, based in New York. Founded in 2007, the company offers a comprehensive website and mobile application that provide educational content, tools, and financial planning services. Users can access information on budgeting, managing student loans, and planning cost-effective gatherings, while also utilizing features to track expenses, build custom budgets, and securely link financial accounts. LearnVest emphasizes interactive and educational resources, including articles, checklists, and financial tools, to empower women in managing their finances. The company operates on a subscription model that includes a setup charge and a monthly fee for access to financial planners, enhancing its commitment to personalized financial education and support. Acquired by Northwestern Mutual, LearnVest continues to focus on delivering relevant financial insights and fostering a collaborative community among its users.

Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

Good Health Media is an online Health and Medical ad network that provides brands with health condition audiences like Diabetics, High Cholesterol sufferers etc. Using a process called ConditionMatch GHM tracks and targets the most frequent visitors to this niche health content. GHM can then re-target these in market audiences if desired. GHM has a consumer and health care professionals Channel.

Magnetic Media Online, Inc. is a digital marketing and artificial intelligence company headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in major U.S. cities and locations in Europe and Canada. Founded in 2008, the company specializes in providing a marketing platform that utilizes advanced data analytics to help enterprises, brands, and agencies enhance their advertising strategies. Magnetic's solutions include a media buying platform, audience targeting through its Magnetic Live Audiences, and various forms of advertising such as video, connected television, and cross-device advertising. The company's offerings leverage unique data resources, including purchase intent data from over 450,000 partner sites and behavioral insights from a billion active devices, to effectively assist marketers in attracting, retaining, and re-engaging customers.

33Across Inc. is a technology company that operates a social sharing and content discovery platform, focusing on enhancing consumer attention through automated advertising solutions. Founded in 2007 and based in New York, the company offers several key products, including SocialDNA Targeting, which helps clients identify social networks related to their brands, and BRAND GRAPH, which predicts potential consumers based on social and interest data. Additionally, it provides Social Personas, a real-time solution that captures social activity and demographic insights, and the Real Platform, which ensures ad quality by verifying viewability and preventing fraudulent traffic. 33Across aims to assist marketers in identifying high-potential prospects connected to existing customers while enabling publishers to effectively monetize their inventory, particularly in a cookieless environment. The company has additional offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Salt Lake City, and Chicago.

nimbit, inc. is a Framingham, Massachusetts-based company offering career management solutions for independent artists and labels through Web-based services. Clients include Blind Boys of Alabama, Al Kooper, Guster, State Radio, and more.

PerformLine is a RegTech company that provides an omnichannel compliance platform designed to help enterprises mitigate regulatory risk and ensure brand safety. The platform integrates scalable tools and intelligent automation, enabling organizations to monitor and manage compliance across various consumer interaction channels, including digital, voice, chat, email, and social media. By delivering automated compliance systems, PerformLine empowers compliance teams with the insights and resources necessary to act on regulatory risks effectively. This approach allows companies to save time and reduce costs associated with compliance activities across different departments and channels.

Socialbomb's platform connects your audience’s mobile phones, blu-ray players, computers, and connected devices to their friends and the things they love. Every brand manager wants to build apps that will kickstart conversations across the world's Facebook pages, Twitter streams and iPhones. Socialbomb helps developers and creatives build those apps. They provide a single API that communicates with many social networks at once, so developers can spend their time on the core application instead of programing for each individual service. The Socialbomb engine is a RESTful API that lets customers exchange data dynamically with specific services. They push data to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and other social networks, and then pull information back into their customers' applications for richer features and more meaningful analytics. The Socialbomb API can provide detailed feedback about which content users like, comment on, and share. They also provide a web‐based administration and analytics suite to manage and measure the apps running on their platform. Customers can add publication channels, edit the services they make available, and review user activity metrics.

Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

Mashery is the world's leading provider of API technology and services. We have helped over 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Hoover's, Klout, Associated Press, Rdio, and Travelocity—take advantage of APIs to build new revenue channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery's unique, holistic approach to API management encompasses working with clients to craft profitable platform strategies, ensuring fast, reliable API access, and facilitating relationships with our network of developers. Since Mashery was founded in 2006, we have built a global API delivery network that supports 60,000 active apps built by over 200,000 developers. In May 2013, we officially became a part of Intel Corporation.

Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.

Ambient Devices provides a complete solution to offer wireless products to consumers that make tangible interfaces to digital information. Today, this solution includes: the Ambient Information Network™-a back-end service delivery infrastructure and wireless network; and the Ambient Device Design™-a set of hardware specifications to turn everyday objects (like pens, watches, and clocks) into glanceable wireless information devices, customized and branded by product companies.

TalkShoe, Inc. operates a Website with user generated live and recorded (podcast) voice and audio content. The company offers TalkShoe, a service that enables users to create, join, and listen to live group calls, conversations, discussions, interactive podcasts, and audio blogs. Its service allows people to use voice and text chat to talk with people with similar interests around the world to discuss various topics, including business, computers, sports, religion, politics, music, arts, science, travel, and more. The company serves talkers and listeners, and bloggers and podcasters. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Wexford, Pennsylvania. As of May 2, 2016, TalkShoe, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of iotum inc.

Instinctiv, Inc. is a company that specializes in designing and developing music management and discovery applications for both desktop and mobile platforms. Founded in 2007 and based in New York, Instinctiv is known for its flagship product, the Instinctiv Player, which allows users to sync their music libraries across devices using its innovative Everyware cloud technology. The player features tools such as Identifi for song identification and Instinctiv Shuffle for smart playback, enhancing the overall music experience. Additionally, the Instinctiv Player is available for Android and Maemo, offering a comprehensive music management solution. In 2012, Instinctiv was acquired by SoundCloud, further expanding its reach in the music technology space.

KoolSpan, Inc. is a provider of secure communication solutions that enable businesses and consumers to make phone calls and send text messages with enhanced security. The company specializes in end-to-end encryption for voice and messaging services across multiple smartphone platforms, including Android and iPhone. KoolSpan’s offerings include TrustCall Native Enterprise for policy enforcement and seamless encryption, as well as TrustCall for Government, which focuses on secure classified communications. The company also provides various deployment options such as TrustCall Global Service and TrustCall Hybrid. With a strong emphasis on security, KoolSpan addresses the vulnerabilities associated with intellectual property and sensitive information, serving a diverse clientele that includes government agencies and enterprises across numerous industries worldwide. KoolSpan is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has been operational since 2003.

Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

Wirewize is a product of CE Interactive, a New York-based software and services company that has developed the definitive platform to help users manage, support, improve and simplify their consumer electronics experience. CEI represents the next generation of support services, and provides its solutions to consumer electronics retailers, manufacturers, service providers and consumers. CEI's unique information delivery technologies provide cross-brand model specific support solutions at all critical customer touch points; on the retail floor, through a call center help desk, through a service or installation event, and by the customer directly over the web.

Mashery is the world's leading provider of API technology and services. We have helped over 175 top brands—including USA TODAY, Comcast, Hoover's, Klout, Associated Press, Rdio, and Travelocity—take advantage of APIs to build new revenue channels, speed time-to-market, and spur innovation. Mashery's unique, holistic approach to API management encompasses working with clients to craft profitable platform strategies, ensuring fast, reliable API access, and facilitating relationships with our network of developers. Since Mashery was founded in 2006, we have built a global API delivery network that supports 60,000 active apps built by over 200,000 developers. In May 2013, we officially became a part of Intel Corporation.

Magnify Net provides cloud-based video content sorting solutions. The Company enables websites to curate, upload, aggregate, and sort video content by relevance and context for their users. Magnify Networks employs search engine optimization and marketing techniques to monetize video content and place ads relevant to individual consumers.

KoolSpan, Inc. is a provider of secure communication solutions that enable businesses and consumers to make phone calls and send text messages with enhanced security. The company specializes in end-to-end encryption for voice and messaging services across multiple smartphone platforms, including Android and iPhone. KoolSpan’s offerings include TrustCall Native Enterprise for policy enforcement and seamless encryption, as well as TrustCall for Government, which focuses on secure classified communications. The company also provides various deployment options such as TrustCall Global Service and TrustCall Hybrid. With a strong emphasis on security, KoolSpan addresses the vulnerabilities associated with intellectual property and sensitive information, serving a diverse clientele that includes government agencies and enterprises across numerous industries worldwide. KoolSpan is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has been operational since 2003.

KidZui provides a browser that appeals to kids and only lets them navigate certain pre-approved areas of the web.

Ugobe is formerly the parent company UGOBE is behind Pleo, a lifelike Camarasaurus robot that displays distinct emotional and developmental behaviors. Pleos weigh about 3.5 pounds and measure 21 inches from head to tail, and retailed for $349. The Pleo is full of infrared and motion sensors that detect how the Pleo is being interacted with, and speakers to help the robot make its emotions known. After Ugobe filed for bankruptcy, [Jetta Company Limited](/organization/jetta-company-limited) relaunched PLEO as part of its [Innvo Labs](/organization/innvo-labs) subsidiary.

Say Media, Inc. is a digital publishing company that specializes in creating, distributing, and monetizing content through its innovative Tempest platform. This platform supports independent content creators in building engaged communities across various consumer interests such as Style, Living, Food, and Tech. Say Media offers services that enhance audience engagement, such as AdFrames, which are interactive media ad units, and Portable Creative, which allows for flexible advertising across different platforms. The company reaches over 400 million people globally, providing brands with effective ways to connect with these audiences. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, with additional offices in New York and other locations, Say Media operates as a subsidiary of TheMaven, Inc. since 2018.

Jingle Networks is a prominent provider of advertising and technology solutions focused on voice and mobile business search. The company connects businesses with consumers ready to transact by leveraging a robust new media channel within the growing business search market. Jingle Networks offers tailored solutions for carriers, network operators, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and small businesses. Its services enable thousands of national brands and local businesses to utilize brief in-call audio or text advertisements to attract new customers during phone calls or online searches. The company's innovative technology has made it a preferred choice for network operators and telecom carriers. Jingle Networks is also known for creating the free directory assistance service 1-800-FREE411, allowing consumers to obtain phone numbers without charge. This service is funded by short, targeted advertising messages that play while the caller waits for information. Founded by experienced professionals in advertising and technology, Jingle Networks continues to deliver effective solutions for building brand awareness and maximizing business search outcomes.

eJamming, Inc. specializes in online music collaboration software, enabling musicians to perform together in real time from various locations around the world. Their primary offering, eJamming AUDiiO, is a software-as-a-service platform that allows users with a computer and broadband connection to network and jam together, enhancing collaboration, social interaction, and music education. Musicians can connect via a VOIP feature, facilitating communication during sessions. This innovative technology supports a diverse range of digital instruments and can be accessed through a client available for both Mac and PC. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Davenport, Florida, eJamming provides a unique solution for musicians looking to collaborate and connect despite geographical barriers.

Brownbag operates as a customer-focused platform that enables users to discover a wide array of products and services tailored to their daily needs. It emphasizes a comprehensive selection, competitive pricing, efficient delivery, and stringent quality control to enhance the user experience. In addition to catering to consumers, Brownbag offers a robust e-commerce platform for sellers, facilitating their access to a broader market. The company also plays a significant role in the crowdsourcing news landscape, connecting ordinary citizens and citizen journalists with major news networks, thereby allowing them to share stories and insights on various topics, including politics, culture, and entertainment. This dual approach not only satisfies consumer demands but also enriches the news ecosystem by amplifying diverse voices.

KoolSpan, Inc. is a provider of secure communication solutions that enable businesses and consumers to make phone calls and send text messages with enhanced security. The company specializes in end-to-end encryption for voice and messaging services across multiple smartphone platforms, including Android and iPhone. KoolSpan’s offerings include TrustCall Native Enterprise for policy enforcement and seamless encryption, as well as TrustCall for Government, which focuses on secure classified communications. The company also provides various deployment options such as TrustCall Global Service and TrustCall Hybrid. With a strong emphasis on security, KoolSpan addresses the vulnerabilities associated with intellectual property and sensitive information, serving a diverse clientele that includes government agencies and enterprises across numerous industries worldwide. KoolSpan is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has been operational since 2003.

Gust is a global platform dedicated to supporting the founding, incorporation, and operation of scalable, high-growth companies. It provides tools and resources for entrepreneurs to navigate corporate legal requirements, equity formation, and funding throughout their business lifecycle, from startup to exit. The platform connects over 500,000 early-stage ventures with more than 75,000 accredited investors across 191 countries, facilitating collaboration and capital raising opportunities. Gust also powers over 2,000 investment organizations in 157 countries, enhancing the early-stage investing ecosystem. Founded by David S. Rose in New York City, Gust aims to streamline the entrepreneurial process and foster connections between startups and investment groups worldwide.

[Critical Media Inc.](http://www.criticalmediainc.com) develops end-to-end digital video solutions to capture, monetize, distribute and syndicate content online. The company's three business units—[Critical Mention](http://www.criticalmention.com/web/index.php), [ClipSyndicate](http://www.clipsyndicate.com/) and [Syndicaster](http://syndicaster.tv/)—provide robust solutions for corporations, publishers and media organizations to leverage video content. Its real-time broadcast capture infrastructure is the underlying technology of Critical Mention, a dynamic, real-time broadcast monitoring platform. Utilized by 25% of the Fortune 100, Critical Mention provides access to over 15,000 hours of keyword searchable, digitized news broadcasts from 4 continents. Focused on building the world's largest ad-supported repository of fully searchable, authoritative video news and information, ClipSyndicate offers publishers an unmatched distribution platform. Critical Media's most recent addition, Syndicaster offers broadcasters and content owners a comprehensive video ecosystem—a streamlined solution to upload, edit and publish, syndicate and monetize its video assets online. Critical Media was founded in 2002 under the name Critical Mention by Sean Morgan, one of the founders of Screaming Media—the largest text syndication company on the Internet now owned by Dow Jones, Inc.—and is headquartered in New York City. For more information please visit www.critical-media.com.

KoolSpan, Inc. is a provider of secure communication solutions that enable businesses and consumers to make phone calls and send text messages with enhanced security. The company specializes in end-to-end encryption for voice and messaging services across multiple smartphone platforms, including Android and iPhone. KoolSpan’s offerings include TrustCall Native Enterprise for policy enforcement and seamless encryption, as well as TrustCall for Government, which focuses on secure classified communications. The company also provides various deployment options such as TrustCall Global Service and TrustCall Hybrid. With a strong emphasis on security, KoolSpan addresses the vulnerabilities associated with intellectual property and sensitive information, serving a diverse clientele that includes government agencies and enterprises across numerous industries worldwide. KoolSpan is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and has been operational since 2003.