Symmetrical Ventures

Bark is a software company founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in parental control monitoring. Its platform employs machine learning and data science to detect various online threats faced by children, including cyberbullying, sexting, suicidal ideation, and other signs of distress. Bark aims to empower parents by providing them with actionable insights and alerts regarding their children's activities on social media, text messaging, and email accounts. By focusing on potential issues rather than overwhelming parents with all content, Bark fosters a trusting relationship between parents and children while helping to ensure a safer online environment. The company's services include content monitoring, screen time management, and web filtering, all designed to address the digital dangers that children encounter.

Alloy Online is a prominent digital media and marketing company based in New York, catering primarily to the 12-34 demographic. It operates as an e-commerce destination site and apparel cataloger for teens, combining a robust online shopping experience with a highly trafficked community platform that features interactive elements such as email, chat, and social networking. Additionally, Alloy's services include nontraditional media programs that effectively reach targeted consumer segments through various channels, including interactive and display advertising, direct mail, content production, and educational programming. By focusing on entertainment and lifestyle trends, Alloy Online provides its audience with inspiration and recommendations across a range of interests, including shows, movies, health, and fitness.

FinTech Studios was founded in 2014 by Jim Tousignant, previously co-founder and President of Multex, a leading online research and financial information platform that went public in 1999 and achieved a market cap of $1.5 billion. FinTech Studios' AI-based apps, big-data analytics and collaboration tools discover and analyze relevant content from millions of online sources and proprietary databases with powerful AI-based search technology, providing the most timely and relevant market intelligence and insight for investors, financial professionals and business executives.

Bark is a software company founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in parental control monitoring. Its platform employs machine learning and data science to detect various online threats faced by children, including cyberbullying, sexting, suicidal ideation, and other signs of distress. Bark aims to empower parents by providing them with actionable insights and alerts regarding their children's activities on social media, text messaging, and email accounts. By focusing on potential issues rather than overwhelming parents with all content, Bark fosters a trusting relationship between parents and children while helping to ensure a safer online environment. The company's services include content monitoring, screen time management, and web filtering, all designed to address the digital dangers that children encounter.

Sober Grid is digital health company focused on the chronic disease management of substance use disorders (SUD). Covering all chemical dependencies including but not limited to opioid use disorder (OUD), Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), and Cocaine Use Disorder. The application has been adopted in over 170 countries and has been used over 20 million times. The solution was developed in partnership with researchers from Harvard Medical School and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine with support from the National Institutes of Health. Researchers at UPenn Perelman School of Medicine found that the use of the Sober Grid app correlated with lower relapse rates. At its core the app uses a unique community based approach for chronic disease management. While including proven concepts such as the use of contingency management when giving app members in app badges as rewards for their sobriety achievements. The apps large user base and strong engagement metrics help provide large data sets that enable the Sober Grid predictive analytics to help predict an impending relapse risk. Depending on risk level a coach reaches out and delivers an intervention. Improving the overall heath outcomes by reducing relapse rates with the combined use of AI and human connection. - - Sober Grid Mobile App is a geo-social software application for iOS/Android smartphones. Sober Grid provides users with a GPS locator interface, direct messaging and newsfeed functionalities, certified and cost effective coaching with both regularly scheduled and crisis driven on demand access 24/7, daily educational and inspirational literature, daily quests for users to complete and maintain a consistent habit of focusing on getting healthier, and social supports in a single platform. Sober Grid allows users to find other sober people nearby: in their neighborhood, in an airport, on a cruise ship, and traveling for business or pleasure. Sober Grid provides an instant social network for sober people in recovery, a group that numbers more than 23 million in the United States alone.

Gameflip is an innovation focused technology company creating the commerce engine for the gaming Metaverse enabling all ecosystem participants including gamers, creators, brands, and developers to connect, safely conduct commerce and mutually share the benefits. Led by serial entrepreneurs and veterans in the technology and gaming industries, the team specializes in building safe, secure and highly scalable platforms for transacting digital assets (NFTs), digital goods and services. Since launching in 2015, its 6 million loyal community members have safely transacted over $120M on the Gameflip Platform. By combining its simple and intuitive platform with blockchain technology that delivers transparent ownership and playable NFTs, Gameflip is making NFTs accessible and safe for the mainstream. The Gameflip Platform utilizes environmentally friendly and sustainable technology that captures the benefits of blockchain technology without all of its complexities. Transactions within the Gameflip Platform are fully secure using fiat or cryptocurrencies, do not require mining or gas fees and have built-in regulatory compliance. Gameflip is located in the San Jose Bay Area and is backed by savvy gaming investors including Bullpen Capital, GoAhead Ventures, Lightbank and PlayNext.

Sarah Flint is an American luxury brand dedicated to quality and attention to detail. The company specializes in offering silhouettes, flats, sandals, pumps, and boots for women via their online and offline stores. Sarah Flint’s shoes are made with fit and function in mind for women who are out in the world with places to be and things to accomplish. Sarah Flint was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, NY, United States

True Link is a diversified financial services firm dedicated to protecting and increasing our customers' independence and quality of life. True Link provides greater independence and autonomy to people who are at financial risk when engaging with the world.

Bark is a software company founded in 2015 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, specializing in parental control monitoring. Its platform employs machine learning and data science to detect various online threats faced by children, including cyberbullying, sexting, suicidal ideation, and other signs of distress. Bark aims to empower parents by providing them with actionable insights and alerts regarding their children's activities on social media, text messaging, and email accounts. By focusing on potential issues rather than overwhelming parents with all content, Bark fosters a trusting relationship between parents and children while helping to ensure a safer online environment. The company's services include content monitoring, screen time management, and web filtering, all designed to address the digital dangers that children encounter.

redIQ transforms static property data into actionable intelligence. Using sophisticated data parsing and processing tools, we allow clients to quickly and accurately extract the vast troves of rent roll and operating data from the files they receive in seconds rather than hours. This data is immediately aggregated and analyzed using cutting-edge data visualization tools to provide unique insights. Clients can then share controlled subsets of that information in a dynamic, easy-to-consume format. It was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

The emotional ride through the cancer journey can sometimes be rough. CanSurround can help. CanSurround is an exceptionally personalized, innovative web and mobile experience for individuals living with cancer. We focus exclusively on helping people learn to reduce needless distress and create emotional well-being. CanSurround provides information and inspiration to guide participants toward choices that foster personal growth and healing. By nurturing a trusted relationship with every user, CanSurround helps anyone affected by cancer (patients and their loved ones) to build resilience, gain confidence, better navigate the cancer experience, and let go of some of their fear and worry. Peace is our purpose.