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Customer Problem: There are 162 million used vehicles on the road today equipped with complex maintenance systems but without embedded telematics or diagnostic connectivity. Consumers driving these vehicles may see a check engine light go on in their car, but they are dependent and distrustful of the mechanic. Dealers are in the dark, having zero awareness or information about the issue. Resultantly, dealers are leaving money on the table from missed service revenue and OEM customer loyalty incentives. Solution: CarForce has developed a complete end to end solution that leverages after market telematics to provide real time updates on the health of consumer vehicles. Service centers now have the ability to see service opportunities in real time enabling them to serve their customers by having first right of refusal, order parts more quickly, and offer their customers an on-demand concierge experience. Management: CarForce was founded by Jessika Lora, the former Head of Automotive Partnerships and GM of eBay’s Vehicles C2C business. While at eBay Motors, the world’s #1 automotive marketplace, she managed strategy and operations for a $7.3 billion dollar business and led the turn around of eBay’s $1.6 billion dollar consumer-to-consumer vehicle sector with double-digit growth. She developed her results driven track record as a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting and is a Stanford BS and MS graduate with 10+ years of automotive and e-commerce experience.

CommonEdits allows independent artists to find and participate in high quality productions with other musicians. Through the use of Creative Commons Licensing they provide a unique Music 2.0 experience where the fans help curate their content. How it works: Vocalists find instrumentals for any genre and create their own finished version of a song. Once uploaded, CommonEdits tracks fan interactions via downloads, streams, and social media shares to determine which artists make their home page. Artists who prove traction will receive increased support such as radio interviews, features with major artists, as well as marketing and distribution assistance.

Explica is a digital media start-up, a destination site covering the latest sports, music, and gaming news. Its target audience is the 18 to 35-year-old millennial male readers every month. The company's proprietary content engine enables writers to craft engaging and interactive digital stories. It was established in 2016 by Vip Sitaraman in Austin, Texas.

Wrapify is an omni-channel advertising company for brands powered by the gig-economy. With a powerful combination of OOH, digital, and the gig economy, Wrapify empowers Fortune 500 brands to reach audiences in an omnichannel environment while delivering measurable, actionable analytics to prove its effectiveness. This high-recall ad tech platform combines the impact of out of home advertising with the scalability, targeting, and accountability of digital. Brands including AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Salesforce reach and engage audiences that interact with Wrapified vehicles across channels and devices, driving awareness, attribution, and conversion. It enables brands to target and scale ad campaigns nationwide, across screens and channels, as well as access to data in real-time to measure performance. 200,000+ drivers in the US use the Wrapify app to earn extra income simply by driving. Founded in 2015 and recently named #309 on the 2019 Inc. 500, Wrapify is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Supreme Golf, in association with CBS Sports Digital, offers the world’s largest inventory of golf tee times, providing golfers the ability to search and book over 16 million tee times at more than 12,000 golf courses in 41 countries. Supreme Golf owned booking sites include SupremeGolf.com and GolfBook.com, which are also available on iOS and Android. Partner sites include Golf Digest, CBSSports and GOLF.com. Supreme Golf works closely with golf course owners and operators to provide technology, marketing and business solutions to help manage their facilities. Leading management companies such as Century Golf Partners, Arnold Palmer Golf Management, American Golf Corporation and Hampton Golf, and golf courses such as the world-famous PGA West, The Citrus Club, Walt Disney World Golf and PGA Member owned Trophy Club of Apalachee are just a few of the courses who leverage Supreme Golf’s software and business solutions. Our business solution's team is made up of the brightest, and most knowledgeable minds in golf who are experts in advanced revenue and cost management. Previously only available to large golf course management companies, Supreme Golf offers business solutions to all golf course owners to help maximize revenue Our advisors and investors include business leaders such as Carl Sparks: former CEO of Travelocity, Sam Gilliland: former CEO of Sabre, Jeff Gerttula: EVP of CBS Interactive, Jay Bockhaus: board member for Venture for America and former advisor to the Board of Nicklaus Companies, Jeff Hinson: board member of Live Nation and Windstream, and others. CBS Interactive is an equity investor and member of the board of Supreme Golf. Supreme Golf is an equity owner and member of the board of foreUP Software.

Gazoo provides hardware and software that adds hundreds of compute cores to industry standard servers. This functionality covers a broad range of leading business applications. Today, the HPC industry is transforming from traditional hardware-based deployment models to software-based, and ultimately, cloud- based. Gazoo’s virtualized portfolio of solutions leverage NFV and SDN technologies for deployments on cloud-based infrastructure. Our patented High Performance Virtual Machines (HPVMs) allow more complex applications to be virtualized and moved to standard server architectures, and their compute intensive functions accelerated. At Gazoo we invent, perfect, patent, and license software solutions that accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC).

Wrapify is an omni-channel advertising company for brands powered by the gig-economy. With a powerful combination of OOH, digital, and the gig economy, Wrapify empowers Fortune 500 brands to reach audiences in an omnichannel environment while delivering measurable, actionable analytics to prove its effectiveness. This high-recall ad tech platform combines the impact of out of home advertising with the scalability, targeting, and accountability of digital. Brands including AT&T, Coca-Cola, and Salesforce reach and engage audiences that interact with Wrapified vehicles across channels and devices, driving awareness, attribution, and conversion. It enables brands to target and scale ad campaigns nationwide, across screens and channels, as well as access to data in real-time to measure performance. 200,000+ drivers in the US use the Wrapify app to earn extra income simply by driving. Founded in 2015 and recently named #309 on the 2019 Inc. 500, Wrapify is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Knocki is an innovative device that turns any surface into a control interface, allowing users to manage their smart home functionalities with ease and convenience. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, Knocki enables quick interactions without the need for traditional switches, buttons, or smartphone apps. Users can simply tap or knock on surfaces to perform various tasks, such as receiving notifications when someone knocks on the door or ringing a misplaced phone. The device is compatible with a wide range of automation tools and smart home APIs, including IFTTT, Wemo, and Nest, offering users a customizable experience through a smartphone app. By providing a seamless way to control multiple functions, Knocki enhances the smart home experience, making it more intuitive and accessible.

Customer Problem: There are 162 million used vehicles on the road today equipped with complex maintenance systems but without embedded telematics or diagnostic connectivity. Consumers driving these vehicles may see a check engine light go on in their car, but they are dependent and distrustful of the mechanic. Dealers are in the dark, having zero awareness or information about the issue. Resultantly, dealers are leaving money on the table from missed service revenue and OEM customer loyalty incentives. Solution: CarForce has developed a complete end to end solution that leverages after market telematics to provide real time updates on the health of consumer vehicles. Service centers now have the ability to see service opportunities in real time enabling them to serve their customers by having first right of refusal, order parts more quickly, and offer their customers an on-demand concierge experience. Management: CarForce was founded by Jessika Lora, the former Head of Automotive Partnerships and GM of eBay’s Vehicles C2C business. While at eBay Motors, the world’s #1 automotive marketplace, she managed strategy and operations for a $7.3 billion dollar business and led the turn around of eBay’s $1.6 billion dollar consumer-to-consumer vehicle sector with double-digit growth. She developed her results driven track record as a management consultant for Deloitte Consulting and is a Stanford BS and MS graduate with 10+ years of automotive and e-commerce experience.

Smartly analyze your input with Natural Language Processing (NLP) powered by IBM© Watson technology. Their cloud-based engine dynamically generates high quality keywords for all types of study aids in seconds so you can study faster and smarter. Study faster and smarter with the PrepFlash photo option. Simply take a picture of the text you wish to study and let PrepFlash do the rest. Create flashcards from news articles, journals or other useful web pages by copying the URL and pasting it into PrepFlash.

Family members and their little ones communicate in-person through play. When apart, we use Skype and FaceTime which reduces our relationships to short conversations that leaves kids disengaged. Kinskii makes games that lets families connect over any distance. Our technology uses video chat to put your faces onto customizable characters to make the experience as close to playing in-person as possible.

TargetVision is changing the way that people think about shooting, hunting, and training. The company has created a unique combination of camera systems and software that is redefining the shooting experience. The system makes the sport more inviting to aspiring shooters, provides avid shooters with the ability to hone their skills more efficiently, and has gaming features everyone can enjoy with their friends. TargetVision sells hardware accessories to both gun ranges and individual shooters. All of the products work on a universal platform and provide a seamless way for any user to benefit from the software whether at home or at the range. TargetVision charges gun ranges a monthly software subscription fee for each device they own. The company also sells an upgraded version of its software to shooters who wish to have a more extensive feature set on their mobile device.

Knocki is an innovative device that turns any surface into a control interface, allowing users to manage their smart home functionalities with ease and convenience. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, Knocki enables quick interactions without the need for traditional switches, buttons, or smartphone apps. Users can simply tap or knock on surfaces to perform various tasks, such as receiving notifications when someone knocks on the door or ringing a misplaced phone. The device is compatible with a wide range of automation tools and smart home APIs, including IFTTT, Wemo, and Nest, offering users a customizable experience through a smartphone app. By providing a seamless way to control multiple functions, Knocki enhances the smart home experience, making it more intuitive and accessible.

Gazoo provides hardware and software that adds hundreds of compute cores to industry standard servers. This functionality covers a broad range of leading business applications. Today, the HPC industry is transforming from traditional hardware-based deployment models to software-based, and ultimately, cloud- based. Gazoo’s virtualized portfolio of solutions leverage NFV and SDN technologies for deployments on cloud-based infrastructure. Our patented High Performance Virtual Machines (HPVMs) allow more complex applications to be virtualized and moved to standard server architectures, and their compute intensive functions accelerated. At Gazoo we invent, perfect, patent, and license software solutions that accelerate High Performance Computing (HPC).

Prepify provides free, gamified SAT & ACT prep and helps connects students of promise directly with top colleges to increase economic diversity on college campuses.

reQwip is a hyper-local marketplace where individuals or shops can buy and sell cycling and triathlon gear in Austin, TX. Created by students at The University of Texas at Austin, they'll be expanding into additional cities and sports in the months ahead. Their ultimate goal is to make sports gear more affordable and accessible by becoming your de facto search bar for buying, selling, renting and even donating sports gear. Listing an item on reQwip can be performed with any internet-enabled device and should take as little as 60-90 seconds. Just snap some photos, enter a description and price and VOILA! your item is posted. You can even receive credit card payments at no additional cost. If you aren't in Austin, share your email address and location and they'll keep you in the loop with reQwip's expansion plans! Happy riding :-)

AskU builds a service that allows universities (and other institutions) to manage student questions, and make it easy for students to get answers. They've launched their first service AskAgs.com in their test market at Texas A&M University with great success, and have successfully engaged over 24,000 students.