Ethan Austin

Director

Sarah Bain

Managing Director

Tré Baker

Managing Director

Sylvain Carle

Mentor

Marcelo DoRio

Business Mentor

Tim Dorr

Managing Director

Tom Emrich

Mentor

Jordan Fliegel

Managing Director

Hugh Mc Girr

Program Manager

Terry Gold

Managing Director

Alisha Golden

Investment Lead

Kirstin Hunter

Managing Director

Matthew Jaeh

Managing Director

Adam Johnson

Mentor

Tariq Khan

Mentor

Matt Kozlov

Managing Director

Ryan Kuder

Managing Director

Raphaele Leyendecker

Managing Director

Taylor McLemore

Managing Director

Bob Moczydlowsky

Managing Director

Bruno Morency

Managing Director

Marie Moussavou

Chief Portfolio Services Officer

Yi Ming Ng

Mentor

Zach Nies

Managing Director

Hilla Ovil-Brenner

Managing Director

Melissa Pegus

Managing Director

Julie Penner

Program Director

Adrian Petersen

Mentor

Martin Schilling

Managing Director

Jason Seats

Partner

Ted Serbinski

Managing Director, Mobility

Mike Sherbakov

Mentor

KJ Singh

Managing Director

Oyin Solebo

Managing Director

Vijay Tirathrai

Managing Director

Caroline Tosbath

Associate

Kartik Varma

Managing Director

Jenna Walker

Managing Director

Anne Wellington

Managing Director

Morris Wheeler

Lead Mentor

Past deals in Market Research

Heatseeker

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Heatseeker is a business that provides growth hacking services, specializing in helping startups test and learn in the market. They have developed a competitive analysis tool powered by artificial intelligence, which enables high-growth companies to swiftly enter the product market and gain valuable insights about their business and market.

Reelist

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Reelist develops a video-first platform for companies to recruit skilled trades and frontline workers directly from social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Its AI-driven technology enhances candidate engagement, reduces hiring inefficiencies, and enables customers to attract top talent from the next generation.

CivicSync

Pre Seed Round in 2023
CivicSync specializes in AI-driven survey technology for market research firms. Its platform uses web browsing and social media data to create virtual respondents, mirroring real individuals' opinions. This enables swift, accurate, and representative survey results, addressing challenges of low response rates and skewed demographics.

Munivestor

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Founded in 2012 and headquartered in New Orleans, Munivestor is a financial software company dedicated to transforming the municipal bond market. Its flagship product, Munivestor Tracker, monitors databases and the internet for events to protect investors from losses, primarily serving retail financial advisers and community banks.

Peerkat

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Peerkat is a comprehensive data tool and infrastructure for brands, specializing in helping them understand users, increase engagement, and drive growth in their Web3 strategies.

Airtime

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Airtime provides a collaborative user research platform that streamlines the collection and analysis of user feedback. It enables the easy capture of relevant user profiles for product feedback and curates insights from a feedback database to inform product decisions. The platform helps product teams build and manage a panel of users, captures what consumers feel, love, or hate about a product, and supports collaborative note taking to drive necessary changes. By connecting product teams with users and surfacing unbiased, actionable insights, Airtime supports faster, evidence-based product development.

aVenture

Pre Seed Round in 2022
aVenture is a venture capital research platform that empowers investors to make informed decisions. It provides comprehensive data and insights on startup companies, investors, and key leadership, enabling users to assess potential deals, market size, traction, and competitive landscapes. The platform also offers data confidence tools to evaluate the accuracy of available insights.

Curated For You

Venture Round in 2022
Curated For You is an e-commerce platform that provides customer intelligence for online businesses. It measures consumer motivations using social-scientific measurement and theory, leveraging machine vision and natural language processing to predict perceptions at scale. The platform delivers product recommendations, contextual personalization, curated collections, on-site search, and SEO to optimize the shopping experience for clients.

Rwazi

Venture Round in 2022
Rwazi is an AI-driven market intelligence platform that enables global brands to access zero-party consumer data. This data includes purchasing habits, preferences, and routines, helping businesses drive revenue and expand their reach. Rwazi's mobile and web app facilitates consumers worldwide to share their shopping journeys, aiming to enhance product accessibility and affordability in local markets.

WeStock

Venture Round in 2022
WeStock is a company that operates a crowd stocking platform, enabling shoppers to request products at their local retailers. The platform serves as an intermediary between customers and brands, streamlining the product request process for both parties. By facilitating this interaction, WeStock helps users discover new and emerging brands while providing businesses with valuable data sets to understand consumer preferences and engage with potential audiences more effectively.

Spade AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Spade AI leverages generative AI to synthesize market and competitive data, providing B2B teams with rapid insights to adapt to changing landscapes. It aims to disrupt the $81 billion market research industry by delivering real-time intelligence.

Rwazi

Non Equity Assistance in 2022
Rwazi is an AI-driven market intelligence platform that enables global brands to access zero-party consumer data. This data includes purchasing habits, preferences, and routines, helping businesses drive revenue and expand their reach. Rwazi's mobile and web app facilitates consumers worldwide to share their shopping journeys, aiming to enhance product accessibility and affordability in local markets.

Attenex

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Attenex offers consumer startups DIY research, guided by experts. A Techstars backed company.

Vinter

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vinter develops and operates the Vinter Indexes, a family of financial benchmarks designed to underlie financial products, with a focus on thematic indexes that capture the nascent digital asset industry. It provides index services, including customizable indexes, calculation, maintenance, and regulated reference rates, to ETF issuers, fund administrators, and index providers, enabling them to track a wide range of digital assets and exchange-traded products. It is described as a leading digital asset index provider in Europe, serving industry leaders in the emerging digital asset market.

Remesh

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Remesh operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates real-time conversations with customers or employees at scale. It enables businesses to understand their audience better by engaging up to 1,000 people simultaneously and analyzing responses in real-time.

Peekage

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Peekage is a personalized product sampling platform that enables consumer brands to conduct targeted at-home product trials. By analyzing over 200 attributes of shoppers, the platform categorizes individuals based on their shopping habits and preferences. This data-driven approach streamlines the collection of feedback, allowing brands to effectively match qualified shoppers with their products. Peekage's tools help increase brand awareness, boost sales, and gather early market feedback, while fostering brand loyalty through a gamified two-way communication channel with consumers. This comprehensive platform also supports retargeting efforts based on shopper behavior, providing clients with valuable insights and enhanced market visibility.

Cortex

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Cortex is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that leverages artificial intelligence to assist marketing executives in understanding the effectiveness of their visual content. With brands projected to spend significant amounts on visual content, many face challenges in accurately assessing what resonates with their audiences due to reliance on outdated methodologies like focus groups and A/B testing. Cortex addresses this critical issue by providing marketing strategists with advanced market research and visual intelligence, utilizing AI and machine learning to enhance decision-making and optimize visual performance.

SkyWatch

Series A in 2020
SkyWatch is a company that offers a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, it has developed a satellite data intelligence platform that aims to make satellite data accessible to a wide range of users. The platform enables developers to integrate Earth observation data into their applications and workflows efficiently, supporting various applications such as crop monitoring, market prediction, tracking of ships and airplanes, and measuring global warming. By providing tools for data analysis and access to remote sensing datasets, SkyWatch empowers users to leverage satellite data for diverse purposes.

asgard.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Asgard is a market intelligence company that specializes in utilizing an AI-powered detection and matching engine to assist businesses in tracking market activities and identifying potential leads. By analyzing buying signals from various companies, Asgard helps its clients find suitable leads, target them at opportune moments, and personalize their interactions. This approach enables clients to generate, qualify, and efficiently reach the leads necessary for improving their sales processes.

WeStock

Pre Seed Round in 2019
WeStock is a company that operates a crowd stocking platform, enabling shoppers to request products at their local retailers. The platform serves as an intermediary between customers and brands, streamlining the product request process for both parties. By facilitating this interaction, WeStock helps users discover new and emerging brands while providing businesses with valuable data sets to understand consumer preferences and engage with potential audiences more effectively.

Versus Africa

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Versus is a tool that combines online and offline consumer data to give brands actionable and competitive insight for the African market. Working with global clients both within Africa and beyond, we seek to help brands have a better understanding of the African consumer.

SkyWatch

Venture Round in 2018
SkyWatch is a company that offers a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, it has developed a satellite data intelligence platform that aims to make satellite data accessible to a wide range of users. The platform enables developers to integrate Earth observation data into their applications and workflows efficiently, supporting various applications such as crop monitoring, market prediction, tracking of ships and airplanes, and measuring global warming. By providing tools for data analysis and access to remote sensing datasets, SkyWatch empowers users to leverage satellite data for diverse purposes.

A Retail Space

Pre Seed Round in 2018
A Retail Space, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates an online platform designed to assist users in locating commercial real estate opportunities through data-driven insights. The company focuses on serving brokers and corporate real estate professionals by offering comprehensive property research and real-time data analysis features. Through its platform, A Retail Space aims to enhance decision-making processes in the commercial real estate sector by providing valuable insights and resources tailored to the needs of its users.

MapYourProperty

Pre Seed Round in 2018
MapYourProperty is a Toronto-based company that specializes in big data visualization for urban planning and development. Founded in 2015, it offers an online mapping application that aids users in identifying properties with development potential by analyzing various environmental and land use indicators. The platform allows users to search property addresses and access digital maps, zoning information, and due diligence reports. Additionally, it highlights key zoning restrictions, development permits, and regulatory and environmental constraints specifically for Toronto and York Region. By simplifying the planning and development process, MapYourProperty enables real estate developers to make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.

NeuroApplied

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2016, NeuroApplied is a market research company that specializes in studying the collective subconscious of customers. It uses machine learning analytics and neural networks to analyze online picture games, providing clients with valuable insights into their customers' associative thoughts through its intuitive SaaS-based platform.

Remesh

Series A in 2018
Remesh operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates real-time conversations with customers or employees at scale. It enables businesses to understand their audience better by engaging up to 1,000 people simultaneously and analyzing responses in real-time.

Edison.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Edison.ai is a company focused on transforming retail experiences through its innovative cashier-free store management platform. Utilizing artificial intelligence, image analysis, and advanced motion sensors, the platform automates the shopping process by analyzing product images and facilitating seamless financial transactions. Additionally, Edison.ai offers a range of advertisement services that include market research, social media analytics, and big data analytics. By combining these capabilities, the company provides store owners with essential infrastructure that enhances operational efficiency and enables effective consumer engagement.

SkyWatch

Seed Round in 2018
SkyWatch is a company that offers a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, it has developed a satellite data intelligence platform that aims to make satellite data accessible to a wide range of users. The platform enables developers to integrate Earth observation data into their applications and workflows efficiently, supporting various applications such as crop monitoring, market prediction, tracking of ships and airplanes, and measuring global warming. By providing tools for data analysis and access to remote sensing datasets, SkyWatch empowers users to leverage satellite data for diverse purposes.

Grips Intelligence

Seed Round in 2018
Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that provides insights to manufacturers, retailers, and investors to identify growth opportunities. By leveraging transactional intelligence data, it helps optimize online sales performance and unlock growth potential. The platform also converts website signals into actionable outputs, supporting website categorization and cross-domain product mapping. With machine learning-enabled analytics, Grips Intelligence delivers data-driven performance insights for e-commerce brands and online retailers, enabling more informed marketing and merchandising decisions and helping users enhance pricing, assortment, and channel strategies.

PopCom

Seed Round in 2017
PopCom designs, manufactures, and distributes touchless vending machines, primarily serving regulated retail sectors such as pharmaceuticals, alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Data Nerds

Series A in 2017
Data Nerds is a Canadian company that specializes in providing comprehensive real estate and property data through an advanced API. Established in 2013 and based in Kelowna, British Columbia, the company offers a wide range of property-related information, including detailed property records, ownership history, sales and tax information, building permit history, and property valuations. Additionally, Data Nerds supplies neighborhood information encompassing health statistics, crime data, demographics, local schools, and natural disaster risks. The company aims to simplify real estate for consumers and businesses by aggregating and standardizing data, making it accessible through its API and various products.

Data Nerds

Seed Round in 2017
Data Nerds is a Canadian company that specializes in providing comprehensive real estate and property data through an advanced API. Established in 2013 and based in Kelowna, British Columbia, the company offers a wide range of property-related information, including detailed property records, ownership history, sales and tax information, building permit history, and property valuations. Additionally, Data Nerds supplies neighborhood information encompassing health statistics, crime data, demographics, local schools, and natural disaster risks. The company aims to simplify real estate for consumers and businesses by aggregating and standardizing data, making it accessible through its API and various products.

RefineAl

Seed Round in 2017
RefineAI is a market research platform tailored for video content creators. It provides insights that help creators understand audience reactions to their videos in real-time. The platform features a straightforward workflow that allows users to create, publish, and measure viewer responses without the necessity of traditional lab-based focus group testing. This innovative approach enables video creators to gather valuable feedback and refine their content more effectively, enhancing their ability to engage with audiences and improve video performance.

PopCom

Pre Seed Round in 2017
PopCom designs, manufactures, and distributes touchless vending machines, primarily serving regulated retail sectors such as pharmaceuticals, alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.

Grips Intelligence

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that provides insights to manufacturers, retailers, and investors to identify growth opportunities. By leveraging transactional intelligence data, it helps optimize online sales performance and unlock growth potential. The platform also converts website signals into actionable outputs, supporting website categorization and cross-domain product mapping. With machine learning-enabled analytics, Grips Intelligence delivers data-driven performance insights for e-commerce brands and online retailers, enabling more informed marketing and merchandising decisions and helping users enhance pricing, assortment, and channel strategies.

Grips Intelligence

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that provides insights to manufacturers, retailers, and investors to identify growth opportunities. By leveraging transactional intelligence data, it helps optimize online sales performance and unlock growth potential. The platform also converts website signals into actionable outputs, supporting website categorization and cross-domain product mapping. With machine learning-enabled analytics, Grips Intelligence delivers data-driven performance insights for e-commerce brands and online retailers, enabling more informed marketing and merchandising decisions and helping users enhance pricing, assortment, and channel strategies.

SkyWatch

Seed Round in 2017
SkyWatch is a company that offers a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, it has developed a satellite data intelligence platform that aims to make satellite data accessible to a wide range of users. The platform enables developers to integrate Earth observation data into their applications and workflows efficiently, supporting various applications such as crop monitoring, market prediction, tracking of ships and airplanes, and measuring global warming. By providing tools for data analysis and access to remote sensing datasets, SkyWatch empowers users to leverage satellite data for diverse purposes.

Data Nerds

Seed Round in 2017
Data Nerds is a Canadian company that specializes in providing comprehensive real estate and property data through an advanced API. Established in 2013 and based in Kelowna, British Columbia, the company offers a wide range of property-related information, including detailed property records, ownership history, sales and tax information, building permit history, and property valuations. Additionally, Data Nerds supplies neighborhood information encompassing health statistics, crime data, demographics, local schools, and natural disaster risks. The company aims to simplify real estate for consumers and businesses by aggregating and standardizing data, making it accessible through its API and various products.

Remesh

Angel Round in 2016
Remesh operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates real-time conversations with customers or employees at scale. It enables businesses to understand their audience better by engaging up to 1,000 people simultaneously and analyzing responses in real-time.

Alpha Exchange

Seed Round in 2016
Alpha Exchange Ltd is an online platform that serves the capital markets community by connecting various participants, including buy-side investors, sell-side brokers, independent research providers, industry specialists, and investor relations teams. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, the company facilitates the sharing of institutional investment information, enhancing the decision-making process for investors. It offers tailored solutions that help buy-side clients manage their research inflows, while also enabling research providers to engage with a global audience of investment managers and financial institutions. Additionally, Alpha Exchange supports investor relations by providing access to shareholders and facilitating connections with potential investors worldwide. As of November 2017, Alpha Exchange operates as a subsidiary of Visible Alpha, LLC, continuing to innovate in the field of investment knowledge exchange.

SkyWatch

Seed Round in 2016
SkyWatch is a company that offers a digital infrastructure for the distribution of Earth observation data and derived intelligence. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, it has developed a satellite data intelligence platform that aims to make satellite data accessible to a wide range of users. The platform enables developers to integrate Earth observation data into their applications and workflows efficiently, supporting various applications such as crop monitoring, market prediction, tracking of ships and airplanes, and measuring global warming. By providing tools for data analysis and access to remote sensing datasets, SkyWatch empowers users to leverage satellite data for diverse purposes.

Bamba

Seed Round in 2016
Bamba Corp. is an online data collection platform based in Nairobi, Kenya, founded in 2012. The company specializes in facilitating data gathering for various sectors, including market research, education, health, government, infrastructure, and retail. Bamba allows organizations to conduct surveys and collect insights from users worldwide through its cloud-based platform, which can be accessed easily via web browsers. This innovative approach addresses the inefficiencies of traditional paper-based data collection methods, which are often costly and time-consuming. Bamba enhances response rates by incentivizing participants with mobile airtime, available in 122 countries. By leveraging data from SMS, web, and social media, Bamba provides businesses with cost-effective and high-quality consumer insights, enabling them to better understand and reach their target markets.

UXTesting

Seed Round in 2015
UXTesting, Inc. is a company focused on enhancing user experience through mobile testing tools and user behavior analysis. Founded in 2014 and based in Menlo Park, California, UXTesting provides a platform that facilitates communication among developers, designers, and product managers. Its services include live video sessions during testing to capture user interactions before application crashes, as well as tools like flow charts and heat maps that help visualize tester behavior. The company aims to help enterprises and design agencies gain valuable insights into user experiences, ultimately improving usability and efficiency. UXTesting participated in the Techstars Cloud program, graduating in early 2016, and has gained recognition for its innovative approach to user testing.

Remesh

Seed Round in 2015
Remesh operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates real-time conversations with customers or employees at scale. It enables businesses to understand their audience better by engaging up to 1,000 people simultaneously and analyzing responses in real-time.

AppInsight

Seed Round in 2015
AppInsight is a UK-based software directory curated by experts to assist enterprises in selecting optimal tools for their operations.

ThriveHive

Seed Round in 2015
ThriveHive is a digital marketing agency specializing in small business growth. It offers a comprehensive Guided Marketing Platform that helps clients define business goals and implement tailored solutions optimized for return on investment (ROI). ThriveHive manages all aspects of marketing campaigns, allowing businesses to focus on core operations. The platform tracks online and offline activities, including direct mail, advertisements, email, social media, videos, and advertising words, providing custom toll-free and local numbers for lead capture and sales monitoring.

Remesh

Seed Round in 2014
Remesh operates an AI-powered platform that facilitates real-time conversations with customers or employees at scale. It enables businesses to understand their audience better by engaging up to 1,000 people simultaneously and analyzing responses in real-time.

1Q

Seed Round in 2014
1Q is a mobile research platform that enables brands to obtain real-time consumer feedback and insights through a pay-per-response model. This approach incentivizes targeted individuals to respond swiftly and accurately, allowing businesses to engage with a global audience via mobile devices. The platform facilitates the distribution of questions, surveys, polls, promotional offers, and coupons directly to users' phones, enabling brands to gather candid feedback and make informed decisions. 1Q is committed to transforming the landscape of marketing and market research by providing tools that respect respondents while rewarding them for their participation. Users can view responses in real time, analyze results, and segment data based on specific profiling criteria.

Magnific

Seed Round 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.

1Q

Pre Seed Round in 2013
1Q is a mobile research platform that enables brands to obtain real-time consumer feedback and insights through a pay-per-response model. This approach incentivizes targeted individuals to respond swiftly and accurately, allowing businesses to engage with a global audience via mobile devices. The platform facilitates the distribution of questions, surveys, polls, promotional offers, and coupons directly to users' phones, enabling brands to gather candid feedback and make informed decisions. 1Q is committed to transforming the landscape of marketing and market research by providing tools that respect respondents while rewarding them for their participation. Users can view responses in real time, analyze results, and segment data based on specific profiling criteria.

FeedPack

Seed Round in 2013
FeedPack is a developer of a customer analysis platform that focuses on enhancing the customer experience for businesses. By providing tools such as QR codes for product attachment, the platform facilitates the collection of customer feedback and preferences, allowing companies to better understand and meet their customers' needs. FeedPack’s solutions include real-time analytics, which help businesses react swiftly to service and product performance. The company emphasizes personalized, customer-centered approaches that enable rapid identification of trends and informed decision-making, ultimately driving growth and improvement in customer satisfaction.

SocialCrunch

Seed Round in 2013
SocialCrunch LLC is a consumer web application that specializes in building a behavior graph of individuals on the Internet. Founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, the company focuses on collecting and analyzing data to assist businesses in creating market-relevant content. By capturing detailed consumer profiles and conducting trend research, SocialCrunch provides valuable insights that enable brands and agencies to better understand their audiences. As of early 2015, SocialCrunch operates as a subsidiary of Tastebud Technologies, Inc.

WeeSpring

Pre 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.

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.

Ripl

Pre Seed Round in 2012
What is Ripl.io? Ripl.io is a bit like an online talent agency blended in with the Neilson rating system. It’s a place where the web’s most popular content sharers/curators can measure, tune, and learn to grow their popularity. Ripl.io connects its users with the brands they’re excited about, giving them opportunity to monetize their social media efforts. More specifically, Ripl.io gives you great web analytics for your Pinterest Boards and Flipboard Magazines, with more platforms on the way. Based on the topics you post about, the size of your audience, and the location you reside in, you may also get the opportunity to make a living just by continuing to share interesting and exclusive information online. Why is Ripl.io a good idea? Currently there aren’t very many options for online curators to make a living with their ability to mine internet gold. Which, unfortunately, means that they’re less likely to continue to spend hoards of time helping the rest of them tame the noisy web. Ripl.io is meant to incentivize and support the amazing work of their favorite pinners, posters and flippers. How did you come up with Ripl.io? Ripl.io was birthed within the world of online advertising. Which I still feel funny saying, and always get a few eye-rolls when I do. I came up in the professional world of online display advertising and microsites. Trust me, I’m as hopeful for change as you are. I was astonished by the budgets being invested in creating brand advertising through boxes, their old friend the “banner ad”. At the risk of being dramatic, It’s a bit like the tobacco industry. All the research and studies prove the harmfulness, yet the industry trucks on. It kept me up at night. There had to be a better way to tell the world your brand’s story. So I picked the brains of the smartest people I knew in the industry, and was happy to see I wasn’t the only one thinking about this problem, or brainstorming a solution. As an avid user of social media, and a hopeless early adopter, I was blown away by the popularity and usefulness of content aggregation sites. My obsession started with Digg, Reddit and Break, and then grew towards Pinterest and Flipboard. They’ve been witness to the rapid growth of the online world, it’s vastness is staggering, these sites added sanity. The hubs grew from the spokes. Online curation became somewhat of a celebrity. Overnight, everyday Janes and Joes could have millions of eager fans drooling over their Pin Boards. Trends on these sites influence more than their entertainment habits, they influenced their purchasing habits. I pawn over the top sneaker-head boards, ready to see what the freshest fruit Nike has to offer is.. and clicking through with card in hand. They inadvertently stumbled across the soul of the brands they love. Pictures and words drawn from real-life experiences and fostered through the fulfillment of a product’s promise. By immersing myself in the thought process of the brand marketer, then stepping back as a consumer, I recognized that the key to online marketing wasn’t shouting from your store-front, plastering fancy tag-lines everywhere, or hiring expensive celebrities.. it’s in the hearts of your advocates. Your fangirls and fanboys. Whether your business is just getting started, or an established gorilla in its industry, they’ve proven that participating and encouraging your brand’s online advocates are your most effective channels for marketing. It starts with amazing products, continues with simple yet effective branded content, and is then amplified through your brand’s top tastemakers. Who’s Ripl.io for? Ripl.io is for anyone who’s excited to grow and cultivate a social media audience. Whether you aspire to be, or are currently renowned as, a subject matter expert, Ripl.io can help you better understand how well received your content sharing is by your online community. Ripl.io is a place for brands to learn who their biggest online advocates are. Get insights on what your audience cares most about and how to better meet their needs and expectations for things like branded entertainment, product insights, and feedback. Find Ripl.io online @ https://ripl.io. If you have any questions, comments, or just want to hear more about Ripl.io, please contact me at hello@ripl.io.

Bizible

Seed Round in 2012
Bizible, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2011 that specializes in marketing attribution and planning software for business-to-business (B2B) organizations. The company provides a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables businesses to connect their marketing efforts directly to revenue outcomes. Bizible's technology tracks marketing interactions across various channels and unifies data from customer relationship management (CRM) systems, web analytics, and advertising networks. This comprehensive approach allows companies to gain insights into their marketing return on investment (ROI) and customer lifetime value (LTV). Bizible's offerings include revenue attribution tools that leverage machine learning to enhance marketing decisions and revenue planning capabilities for scenario analysis. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including higher education, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing, and has established partnerships to integrate its analytics platform with other tools, notably Salesforce.com, to enhance the alignment of marketing and sales efforts.

SocialSci

Pre Seed Round in 2012
SocialSci is an online platform tailored for academic researchers to conduct scientific surveys and in-lab studies. Founded in 2009 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the platform facilitates the design of surveys through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to create and manage unlimited surveys and responses. It also features a built-in recruitment system that incentivizes participation through a point system while effectively screening out repeat participants. SocialSci is utilized by colleges and universities across the United States, bridging the gap between traditional research methods and modern technological practices in participant recruitment and data collection.

1Q

Pre Seed Round in 2012
1Q is a mobile research platform that enables brands to obtain real-time consumer feedback and insights through a pay-per-response model. This approach incentivizes targeted individuals to respond swiftly and accurately, allowing businesses to engage with a global audience via mobile devices. The platform facilitates the distribution of questions, surveys, polls, promotional offers, and coupons directly to users' phones, enabling brands to gather candid feedback and make informed decisions. 1Q is committed to transforming the landscape of marketing and market research by providing tools that respect respondents while rewarding them for their participation. Users can view responses in real time, analyze results, and segment data based on specific profiling criteria.

SocialSci

Venture Round in 2012
SocialSci is an online platform tailored for academic researchers to conduct scientific surveys and in-lab studies. Founded in 2009 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the platform facilitates the design of surveys through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to create and manage unlimited surveys and responses. It also features a built-in recruitment system that incentivizes participation through a point system while effectively screening out repeat participants. SocialSci is utilized by colleges and universities across the United States, bridging the gap between traditional research methods and modern technological practices in participant recruitment and data collection.

Poptip

Seed Round in 2012
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.

Urtak

Seed Round in 2011
Urtak is a collaborative public opinion platform that enables users to pose yes or no questions, which are answered by participants, creating an interactive environment for gauging public sentiment. Once a question is answered, users can immediately view the distribution of responses in the form of a pie chart, facilitating real-time feedback. The platform also allows users to search and browse previously answered questions, making it a valuable resource for opinion research. Urtak's tools are designed to help users gather insights on various topics, engage audiences, and respond to current events effectively. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Brea, California, Urtak serves as a bridge for understanding collective opinions and fostering community engagement.

SocialSci

Angel Round in 2010
SocialSci is an online platform tailored for academic researchers to conduct scientific surveys and in-lab studies. Founded in 2009 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the platform facilitates the design of surveys through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to create and manage unlimited surveys and responses. It also features a built-in recruitment system that incentivizes participation through a point system while effectively screening out repeat participants. SocialSci is utilized by colleges and universities across the United States, bridging the gap between traditional research methods and modern technological practices in participant recruitment and data collection.

SocialSci

Funding Round in 2010
SocialSci is an online platform tailored for academic researchers to conduct scientific surveys and in-lab studies. Founded in 2009 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the platform facilitates the design of surveys through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to create and manage unlimited surveys and responses. It also features a built-in recruitment system that incentivizes participation through a point system while effectively screening out repeat participants. SocialSci is utilized by colleges and universities across the United States, bridging the gap between traditional research methods and modern technological practices in participant recruitment and data collection.

SocialSci

Seed Round in 2010
SocialSci is an online platform tailored for academic researchers to conduct scientific surveys and in-lab studies. Founded in 2009 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the platform facilitates the design of surveys through an intuitive drag-and-drop interface, allowing users to create and manage unlimited surveys and responses. It also features a built-in recruitment system that incentivizes participation through a point system while effectively screening out repeat participants. SocialSci is utilized by colleges and universities across the United States, bridging the gap between traditional research methods and modern technological practices in participant recruitment and data collection.
Spot something off? Help us improve by flagging any incorrect or outdated information. Just email us at support@teaserclub.com. Your feedback is most welcome.