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Social Mama is a mobile solution for moms to network and meet up. Moms need moms friends for sanity and advice and it is awkward and difficult to find these connections. With a algorithm, geo location and profiles that tell a mother's life story, Social Mama is able to connect like-minded women together. Social Mama is a product that empowers females through connections, where motherhood is a commonality.

555 Comic brings characters and their stories to life on Twitter and Instagram. Stories are written through the use of GIFs to express emotions. Each character in a story has their own individual Twitter account. The stories also contain clues that can be added in the blogs and videos uploaded by various characters building engagement with audiences in real-time.

Problem: We share opinions, emotions, everything. The world is going social, but TV is left behind. We have proof that there is a strong desire to share what is on TV: A Facebook study has shown that for some sports events 82% of Instagram posts contain screenshots of TV. The behavior of sharing TV content is there, but the way of doing it is way too hard. People have to stand up in front of the screen and make photos with reflections and strange angles. But when people do go to this trouble, it creates a major problem for the media as rights holders. They lose control of their content. They lose the ability to monetize those moments. Solution: Snapscreen makes watching TV and its content socially shareable You simply open the browser (or app) on your phone, snap the TV screen (works perfectly from a long distance), that takes you to that exact moment in the broadcast/ stream, you reverse forward or backward to the moment you want to share, clip up to 30sec and share where you want all in high definition and perfect audio. The content clipped also has the ability to be top and tailed with graphics or pre/ post roll. Everything is measurable. Snapscreen is a B2C mobile web app in the US (launch Sep 2020 for the elections) and B2B component (SDK) that gets integrated into apps and websites of our customers in media.

PeakMetrics delivers insights to create actionable, real-time predictions of how messages will develop and spread online. We do this by aggregating both social and traditional media and then utilizing machine learning to extract behavioral trends from the millions of unstructured, cross-channel datasets. PeakMetric’s is battle-tested on some of the most complex media issues today – from crisis management situations to combating state-sponsored disinformation. Our clients include some of the world’s largest brands, advertising and government agencies.

Introwise is a social platform for events and their communities

Lena develops a social event information application software designed for senior citizens. The company specializes in developing an app that introduces seniors to events they love in their own communities. It enables users to connect to social circles, and encourage them to participate in activities through gamified rewards.

Shimmur is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable.

Shimmur is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable.

Babbler, founded in 2013 by sisters Hannah and Sarah, is a pioneering platform designed specifically for media relations. Hannah, with a background in digital strategy from companies like Coca-Cola and Microsoft, and Sarah, an experienced public relations professional, created Babbler to facilitate real-time communication between brands and media professionals. The platform enables users to share news, files, and messages instantly, enhancing engagement and interaction within media communities. Babbler has garnered recognition for its innovative approach, winning the French Microsoft Imagine Cup in 2013 and being featured in Challenges Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Best Start-ups to Invest In. It has also attracted significant investment from notable entities in the PR and advertising sectors.

Babbler, founded in 2013 by sisters Hannah and Sarah, is a pioneering platform designed specifically for media relations. Hannah, with a background in digital strategy from companies like Coca-Cola and Microsoft, and Sarah, an experienced public relations professional, created Babbler to facilitate real-time communication between brands and media professionals. The platform enables users to share news, files, and messages instantly, enhancing engagement and interaction within media communities. Babbler has garnered recognition for its innovative approach, winning the French Microsoft Imagine Cup in 2013 and being featured in Challenges Magazine’s list of the Top 100 Best Start-ups to Invest In. It has also attracted significant investment from notable entities in the PR and advertising sectors.

UCiC operates a social content platform that enables users to request and share photos or videos of current events and weather from around the globe. The platform incorporates location recognition technology, allowing users to earn reward points by uploading discoveries of places they encounter. This interactive approach fosters a real-time exchange of visual information, connecting users through shared experiences and observations.

Social Lender is a lending solution based on social reputation on mobile, online and social media platforms.

Sponsokit GmbH operates a platform where companies learn how to collaborate with social media creators. Its platform also helps brands and e-commerce shops reach German millennials. The company is based in Berlin, Germany.

Fabriq is a company based in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2019, that focuses on enhancing social wellness through its online application, fab-rik. This tool is designed to help users prioritize and maintain connections with important individuals in their lives, free from the distractions of traditional social media. The application offers features such as customizable groups, notes, reminders, and goal-setting for daily activities, including steps, calorie intake, and screen time. By providing touch-base timers and tracking capabilities, Fabriq aims to assist users in strengthening their relationships and improving their overall social health.

Grapevine Logic, Inc. specializes in YouTube influencer marketing, connecting brands and agencies with content creators for effective sponsorship opportunities. The company offers a platform that enables marketers to book creators and analyze campaign performance, while also allowing brands to track sales, signups, and overall engagement. Grapevine Logic facilitates this collaboration through a dashboard where brands can submit creative briefs to its marketplace, receiving pitches from pre-qualified creators who promote their products or services for a fee. With a network of over 177,000 creators generating more than 6 billion monthly views, Grapevine Logic provides a comprehensive solution for brands seeking to leverage influencer marketing. Founded in 2011 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, Grapevine Logic operates as a subsidiary of Seven Stars Cloud Group, Inc.

SocialCapital is a San Francisco-based company that leverages artificial intelligence to create personality profiles from individuals' social and online behavior. By analyzing data from various public digital sources, such as tweets and blogs, the platform helps brands and employers gain insights into user characteristics and preferences. The company utilizes a method that tokenizes text and compares the tokens against a psycholinguistics dictionary to derive personality scores across different categories. Founded in 2015 by Temitope Alabi and Obed Eugene, SocialCapital aims to enhance the hiring process by providing employers with accurate profiles of potential candidates, thereby facilitating better matches for job opportunities.

HelpSocial is help companies to bring the capabilities from digital communication channels like social media and messaging apps into the platforms used in customer service centers. Many companies have asked us for help with phasing automation into these channels via artificial intelligence-backed bots and machine learning systems. Their platform has unique functionality that gives the AI bot the ability to remember customers and understand the larger context of their comments, while reducing the amount of training time needed for forming conversational responses.

Contactable is a database that enables its users to find journalists by their topics of interests. It also enables them to review previously written content of the listed journalists.

Numerous, Inc. develops a mobile dashboard/application that allows users to follow and share numbers (via Twitter, Facebook, and more). Its application also enables users to configure notifications to alert with changes or conversations. The company’s dashboard provides updates on stock prices, weather, steps taken, miles driven, calories consumed, event time, or distance from home. It offers its application on iPhone and iOS devices. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Shareable Social is a content marketing platform that helps businesses build their brand through social media. We create a consistent online presence for our clients by posting daily content on their Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages. It's basically like putting your social media content on auto-pilot. This active social media presence provides our clients with increased visibility, web traffic, client engagement and brand awareness.

Good Audience provides online services to reach and get the brand, product, or service in front of various active social media users. Its services include campaigns, intelligent targeting, social strategy, active content posting, and cross promotion. The company is based in the United States.

SocialSign.in, Inc. offers wireless internet access at various venues such as grocery stores and theaters, facilitating connections between businesses and their customers. Founded in 2011 and based in Greenwich, Connecticut, the company provides a platform that allows users to log in with their online accounts to access personalized offers and promotions. Through its services, customers can connect via different internet-enabled devices and engage with businesses, enhancing customer relationships. SocialSign.in helps venues grow their marketing reach by building customer mailing lists, improving social media engagement, and driving app downloads. Additionally, the company offers valuable metrics on customer behavior, such as visitation frequency, which are typically challenging and costly for physical venues to obtain. Their proprietary software also supports network authentication for partners and organizations, optimizing guest Wi-Fi networks for commercial use.

Inside Social is an early-stage technology company, allowing users to measure and increase the impact that social sharing has on the metrics that drive its business. It has built a social marketing platform that helps large brands and e-commerce companies do better social marketing.Inside Social improves social media’s full potential by tracking the metrics that really matter all the way through to downstream conversions, resulting in meaningful and actionable insights. It was founded in 2012 by Brewster Stanislaw and Joey Kotkins. It is based in Seattle, Washington.

Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform empowering large consumer brands to build a base of authentic advocates, activate them, and learn from their behavior to increase word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy. It specializes in the fields of finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

SocialCrunch LLC, founded in 2012 and based in Chicago, Illinois, specializes in building a behavior graph of individuals online. The company focuses on gathering information that aids businesses in creating relevant marketing content by utilizing insights derived from audience data. SocialCrunch offers services in deep profiling, data capture, and trend research, enabling brands and agencies to unlock significant human insights. As of January 2015, SocialCrunch operates as a subsidiary of Tastebud Technologies, Inc.

Boxella helps consumers track important information and alerts about their big-ticket purchases throughout the lifecycle of those products.

Ripl was launched in October 2015 with the mission of helping small businesses and influencers succeed in the realm of digital marketing. A key part of finding that success is having the ability to create compelling visual and social media content. The application allows users to integrate their own photos into professionally-designed templates to create animated video posts. With simple customization options for text, colors, and music, Ripl makes it easy for users to create engaging posts on the go. In January 2016 the company introduced Ripl PRO, a premium plan for small businesses and other social media power users. The monthly PRO subscription unlocks access to the full library of animated post layout design templates and additional features such as custom brand integration, music track overlays, and content post scheduling. In 2017 the company released its Android mobile app. In 2018 the company launched its Web application for use on laptops and desktop computers.

Linksy helps busy marketers tap their employees, customers, and fans to spread their message on social sites.

Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform empowering large consumer brands to build a base of authentic advocates, activate them, and learn from their behavior to increase word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy. It specializes in the fields of finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

We are the CRM for your career. We help people leverage their entire social graph to connect with the right people, in the right way. Our users get off the networking sites and into the coffee shops where real connections happen. They track their meetings in a simple, directed process that helps them land a job they love.

Seamless Receipts enables retailers to interact with customers through email and social media.

Sparkcloud introduces you to awesome people who are around you, in real time. They provide tools that allow developers to more easily create their own "real world" social apps, ranging from urban gaming to location-based dating.

Crowdly is an advocate marketing platform empowering large consumer brands to build a base of authentic advocates, activate them, and learn from their behavior to increase word-of-mouth promotion and brand advocacy. It specializes in the fields of finance, social media, advertising, and social media marketing. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Captimo fuels social video campaigns for brands and fans on mobile and Facebook. Captimo’s mobile-video app helps users share their experiences socially with their favorite brands. With Captimo, brands can increase activity on their Facebook pages, and their fans can engage in a new, creative way. Users can shoot video via their mobile phones, tag their friends and location and even add in-video comments before automatically uploading the video to Facebook. Captimo’s innovative gaming mechanics make shooting, sharing and socializing video fun and rewarding. Captimo's mobile/social video apps are available for iPhone, Android and Facebook.

The best way to discover events and activities with friends.

Postling is a tool that helps small businesses face the daunting task of social media marketing. Brought to you by the founders of Etsy.com, Postling lets users publish content simultaneously to the major social media platforms, including blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. In addition, users can read and respond to comments left by readers. Small business owners told the Postling team that they would be willing to pay for a social media marketing tool that saves them time and spares them from learning how to navigate yet another website. They listened and created Postling.

Seamless Receipts enables retailers to interact with customers through email and social media.

J-Squared Media builds social games that are distributed across popular social networks like Facebook, Myspace, and Bebo. J-Squared Media is a [TechStars](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/TechStars) company.

Socialthing, founded in 2007 and based in Boulder, Colorado, offers a platform that allows users to synchronize personal information and manage multiple social networking feeds from a single web dashboard. The service simplifies the process of handling various social media accounts, enabling users to streamline their online interactions and maintain a cohesive digital presence.