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TriLite creates and manufactures small projection displays. TriLite solutions use cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and proprietary, multi-parameter software to create laser beam scanning devices with unheard-of size, weight, and image quality. The company uses software-first architecture for its laser beam scanner

Silicon Valley Open Doors 2016 Pitch Competition - Second Runner-up Witlee is a commerce platform for influencers, who've built an audience and inspire purchases through their engaging content. By implementing e-commerce best practices, we help this underserved market grow both their audience and revenue significantly. The problem we are solving-->> Online retailers excel at the bottom of the purchase funnel: search and decision, but fail in inspiration and browse. Consumers visit retail sites with a product in mind, and never browse the inventory retailers try to promote and expose. Online influencers have really figured out inspiration. They have a dedicated audience that comes for inspiration and ends up purchasing based on what they read and see. But the whole shopping experience for these influencers is based on simple text links, lacking all the standard best practices we're used to in e-commerce experiences (similar items, hotness signals, recommendations, search or browse paths). Our solution-->> Witlee bridges that gap by providing the best e-commerce solution for influencers today. We provide influencers with a retail standard, e-commerce storefront that's fully based on their images, and implement all the current e-commerce best practices across desktop and mobile. Our Witlee store is a fully automated solution that creates an intuitive shopping experience for their audience. Their great content, and our store, enhances conversion and engagement tremendously.

PastureMap helps ranchers and farmers make profits building healthy grasslands. The company builds a global regenerative agriculture movement that is restores soil health, sequestering carbon, and provides clean water while feeding local communities.

Espresa is the world’s first Culture Benefits® platform that includes a suite of integrated tools with a modern digital experience that people love. Supporting HR and people teams, Espresa drives workplace culture through employee experience and engagement programs such as rewards and recognition, employee resource groups, wellbeing and fitness, challenges and achievements, reimbursements and allowances, and meetups and event scheduling. Discover how Espresa makes heroes out of HR teams while engaging people, wherever they are. Espresa is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Learn more at Espresa.com The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Gooddler enables systemic change through effective collaboration to maximize the impact of humanitarian action.

Mozio is an airport ground transportation search engine. We help you travel that final mile from the airport to your final destination. Mozio originated out of founder David Litwak's travels, where he was constantly frustrated by flying into new destinations and realizing he had no clue how to actually get into the city. Mozio aggregates all the local taxis, limos, public transit, shared-ride shuttles, airporters, rideshare etc. to help you navigate all the local options and make sure you get the best deal. We have raised a small seed round from Amidzad Partners, and a few angels, one of whom is the Chairman of the Board @ Orbitz. We are super excited to make this dream a reality!

Ittavi, Inc. was the original creator of SupportPay, a payment platform designed to assist single, divorced, separated, and blended families in managing their financial relationships. The platform enabled parents to handle child support and shared expenses, facilitating direct communication and transactions between them. Users could track expenses, store receipts, dispute items, and process payments through the application. However, Ittavi, Inc. was liquidated in early 2018, and its assets, including SupportPay, were acquired by Smart Family Tech, Inc., which now operates the platform.

Silo is a platform for professional helpful communities. Silo allows professionals to connect, share unpublished opportunities and help others with intros, advice and more. On Silo professionals can meet their peers, discover insider opportunities, benefit from trusted networks and help others to help themselves. Silo was launched in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.

zyBooks was started in 2012 by Smita Bakshi and Frank Vahid. Frank is a Computer Science and Engineering professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Smita, prior to her 10 years in the high-tech industry, and was a UC Davis Electrical Computer Engineering professor.We started zyBooks to help college STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) students graduate. More than half of STEM students don't achieve their STEM degrees, and many students are tripped up by their early STEM classes. Part of the problem is the huge mismatch between today's students and traditional (and increasingly expensive and bloated) textbooks, forcing instructors to teach with one hand tied behind their back. Meanwhile, the real power of the web for learning—interactivity—has barely been tapped. So, we started creating zyBooks—STEM material native for the web—using "less text, more action." zyBooks have minimal text, and instead consist of question sets, animations, interactive tools, and embedded homework, so students can learn by doing. We developed a platform to author, deliver, and continually support and improve zyBooks, vowing to always do right by the student and instructor. We keep prices as low as possible, provide the best support we can, and make the zyBook platform easy to use for students and instructors. zyBooks are collaboratively authored by talented teams of professors, content developers and software engineers. Professors include Roman Lysecky (University of Arizona), Sandy Irani (UC Irvine), and Andre Knoesen & Raj Amirtharajah (UC Davis). Starting with just a handful of universities in 2012, our computer science and engineering zyBooks are now used at over 200 colleges and universities and a few dozen high schools.

Their story started with a group of young professionals who struggled with how hard it was to find art for their home. They were tired of the generic, cookie-cutter posters, and desired something more meaningful. But, they didn’t know how where to start - galleries were intimidating, online sites overwhelming, and the pricing of it all was a confusing black box. Why did it have to be so hard to Be Original? At the same time, they thought of their friends and family who were artists - making beautiful art, but they had to abandon their creative talents so they could pay the bills. Something just didn’t make sense. After continuing to ask questions, they realized they were not alone, so they started to build, test, and tinker until…they launched ARTtwo50 in July 2013. Nine months later, May 1, 2014, ARTtwo50 was reborn as Vango along with the launch of a smaller version of their iPad app on the iPhone. The reason they changed from 'ARTtwo50' was that they wanted a name that was catchy and did not box us in on price. Given that they are a marketplace, they mashed up things that take two people (Tango) and key components of their app (Visualization). ‘Vango’ just came out and they loved the sound and energy.

BuildersCloud makes sharing, accessing and working with construction documents incredibly easy. Top construction industry leaders have endorsed BuildersCloud for: •document and communication exchange between offices/field •patent-pending technology to process data in cloud (creates zero-latency in exchange of information) •instant SMS, Web, and Email sharing of critical updates (mobile, PC, tablets) •PDF, image and photo collaboration tools •remote productivity controls •customer-friendly and intuitive design

OwnerListens provides real time, location aware, private messaging between businesses & customers. 1. Text messaging (SMS/IM) is people's preferred form of communications, esp Millenials 2. Businesses & customers can't effectively engage in two way messaging because businesses don't have tools to handle real time text messaging effectively, particularly when the best first responder is an on site employee such as at hotel or store 3. OwnerListens builds to tools capture, route and effectively respond to customer texts 4. OwnerListens also provides analytics & reporting that uncover performance improving insights about employees & customers Businesses love OwnerListens because responding to text messages: 1. Is cheaper than phone calls 2. Reaches customers while on site, responding and salvaging revenues/relationships at first point of contact 3. Delights customers & increases NPS and LTR (likely to recommend) 4. Holds employees accountable with time, date & location stamped reports

Ittavi, Inc. was the original creator of SupportPay, a payment platform designed to assist single, divorced, separated, and blended families in managing their financial relationships. The platform enabled parents to handle child support and shared expenses, facilitating direct communication and transactions between them. Users could track expenses, store receipts, dispute items, and process payments through the application. However, Ittavi, Inc. was liquidated in early 2018, and its assets, including SupportPay, were acquired by Smart Family Tech, Inc., which now operates the platform.

All of Minbox is real-time, including comments. Engage others in conversation on a file or in a project. Or click on an image to leave an annotation. Simply type the @ symbol and a menu will appear to mention any of your team members. Draw their attention to something specific anywhere in the app.

TranscribeMe develops an audio search and transcription platform designed to make audio content searchable and shareable, by converting speech to text. The platform utilizes it's proprietary micro-tasking technology to produce a speaker identified transcription from complex audio that involves multiple speakers and overlapping conversations, by processing pieces of audio in parallel, enabling medical professionals, corporations, conferences, writers, podcasters, and academics to monetize their audio content by transcribing it to word-for-word text. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

GetGoing is a venture-backed San Francisco startup changing the way people travel by making it more fun and affordable. Our goal is to help leisure travelers discover new getaways, save big (up to 40%) and travel more. We are working with major airlines and hotels to revolutionize the travel industry while delivering the best experience and prices to our users. Currently, we fly to over 2000 destinations worldwide. Our proprietary pricing method helps airlines fill unsold seats (up to 20% of available seats) by selling to discretionary, price-sensitive leisure travelers. To purchase a ticket on our website, customers need to select two destinations and commit to a non-refundable purchase. During the flight selection process, customers can choose arrival and departure times, flight duration, and the number of stops. GetGoing selects one of the destinations, revealing it to the customer after processing the booking and payment. Since our model requires destination flexibility, we ensure that our sales exclude business travelers, those visiting friends and family, and non-flexible leisure customers. We have eight U.S. and international patents and keep expanding our intellectual property portfolio with innovative pricing, search and customer segmentation methods.