The/Studio is a destination for businesses, organizations, and individuals to easily manufacture custom products. The company is a manufacturing platform that makes manufacturing accessible to anyone. Their network of factories gives you the ability to manufacture products, and their technology makes it simple – no MOQs, quick turnaround times, competitive pricing, and guaranteed trust in your supply chain. All on a cloud-based management platform. The/Studio was founded by Joseph Heller.
The/Studio is a destination for businesses, organizations, and individuals to easily manufacture custom products. The company is a manufacturing platform that makes manufacturing accessible to anyone. Their network of factories gives you the ability to manufacture products, and their technology makes it simple – no MOQs, quick turnaround times, competitive pricing, and guaranteed trust in your supply chain. All on a cloud-based management platform. The/Studio was founded by Joseph Heller.
ZenBusiness is the easy, all-in-one platform and trusted partner that provides small business owners with the tools, services, and expert guidance they need to start, run, and grow a successful business. ZenBusiness has consolidated business formation, compliance, banking, bookkeeping, and marketing tools into an intuitive, personalized dashboard. Think of it as the operating system for small business success. Customers can protect their liability, manage money, and establish their online presence–all with one login. What sets ZenBusiness apart is the combination of its innovative technology with live human support. ZenBusiness goes above and beyond traditional customer support with a team of experts who provide true guidance via phone, chat, and email. Dedication to customer success also includes weekly community webinars, helpful office hours, and even a concierge service. ZenBusiness is committed to simplifying the complex challenges of small business ownership, relentlessly focused on helping people from all walks of life beat the odds and achieve success on their own terms. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and became a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) to demonstrate its commitment to social impact and inclusivity. ZenBusiness encourages employee volunteer work by offering workers time and opportunities to be of service in their local communities. They have partnered with Mavs Business Assist, giving diverse entrepreneurs free access to knowledge, tools, and support. The company offers a $5K grant program to give selected small business owners much-needed capital. It is the only business formation partner in the Small Business Digital Alliance initiative ("SBDA"), a national initiative of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), alongside such companies as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. ZenBusiness's commitment to excellence has solidified them as trusted partners in their customers' business journeys, embodying the spirit of innovation, collaboration, and success.
Ross & Snow is the brainchild of four good friends (the “shoe dogs,” each a longtime veteran of the footwear industry) coming together one evening for wine, laughter and a discussion about the current state of footwear quality. We wanted to see mountain-inspired footwear that was also perfect for the city, footwear that is both functional and craveworthy, footwear that’s made in a family-owned Italian workshop but designed with American edge. We wanted to produce the kind of shoe or boot we would want to wear all day, the kind that takes us seamlessly from a chilly morning’s breakfast meeting all the way through to drinks in our favorite bar.
AdQuick is a marketplace to buy and sell outdoor advertising. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Stedi is building the world’s only API-first clearinghouse. By offering modern API interfaces alongside traditional real-time and batch EDI processes, Stedi enables both healthcare technology businesses and established players to exchange mission-critical transactions. Stedi has raised $92 million from Addition, Stripe, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and other top investors.
Print Syndicate is an apparel and home goods company that offers its consumers access to timely, curated, and well-designed products that allow them to express who they are. The company's design team interprets and converts social trends into digital designs, which are then printed on objects including apparel, phone cases, and housewares. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
The new way to create and get things done. The print shop, reborn. Celebrating empathy, love, passion, and creativity.
Arylla is a company focused on making counterfeit goods a thing of the past. Arylla uses invisible ink to help resellers of luxury goods verify authenticity. Luxury brands partner with Arylla to apply the ink during production in exchange for a share of the revenue. Arylla is the first platform that enables luxury brands to monetize the resale of their products while fighting to reduce the number of counterfeits being sold online.
Stedi is building the world’s only API-first clearinghouse. By offering modern API interfaces alongside traditional real-time and batch EDI processes, Stedi enables both healthcare technology businesses and established players to exchange mission-critical transactions. Stedi has raised $92 million from Addition, Stripe, Union Square Ventures, First Round Capital, Bloomberg Beta, and other top investors.
Arka is a custom packaging solutions company that enables its customers to source packaging or fulfillment online. It offers packaging services which are customized to its clients’ needs and include proofing and production paperwork. The company operates and maintains a network of worldwide package manufacturers and fulfillment centers, and communicates with them on behalf of their customers. Its client portfolio includes e-commerce and D2C businesses locally and internationally. Founded in 2015, Arka is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Bow & Drape is an e-clothier that allows women to design their own clothing. With a few clicks, Bow & Drape guides its shoppers to flattering silhouettes that they can easily modify into unique clothing, using hand-selected silhouettes, colors, and trim. Once the customer decides on her design, her item will be made for her in the USA and shipped to her doorstep.
AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users (startups, merchants and small agencies) save up to 70% of the manual work needed to setup a Facebook Campaign and improve their performance up to 40%. The other players in the space are super sophisticated tools that only work best with a lot of training and/or very high volumes of Ad Spending. Our strength: AdEspresso is dead simple and blazing fast. We empowers users to quickly split test every aspect of their Facebook Campaigns. In a couple minutes users can create hundreds of Ads, testing everything from the creativity to the targeting. Once the campaign is created, simple yet meaningful analytics allow to understand what is performing best and optimize their campaigns both manually or automatically.
Asana is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of work management and productivity. It helps teams orchestrate their work, from small projects to strategic initiatives. Asana service is a web and mobile work management platform designed to help teams organize, track, and manage work. Teams can create projects, assign tasks, set deadlines, and communicate directly .
Fandeavor started out focused on sports travel and is expanding to concerts, festivals and leisure travel. Fandeavor has deep technology integrations allowing travelers to book customizable dynamic packages that include everything from airfare, hotel, airport transportation, event transportation, tickets, unique things to do before, during or after the event and even local attractions.
Ring is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a line of preventative outdoor security doorbells and cameras. It is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to prevent burglaries and keep homes around the world safe. The company was established in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
Ice.com is one of the leading e-commerce website that sells diamonds, engagement rings, watches, earrings and all other types of jewelry. It raised $47 million from Polaris Venture Partners and Ignition Partners. The online retailer opened its doors in 1999 and has grown to annual sales of $83.4 million.
Launched in 2013, Exact Media has more than doubled its distribution each year. Unlike traditional methods of direct mail who offer unqualified deal-seekers with junk mail and free offers, Exact Media finely targets active online purchasers based on their actual purchases and other clearly-defined criteria. This results in high conversion to purchase - which, after all, is the goal of any trial program. With offices in New York, Toronto and Cincinnati, Exact Media works with top brands and retailers throughout North America and Asia. Stay tuned for news on our further global expansion. The Exact Media team is a combination of young leaders and experienced veterans in the e-commerce and consumer marketing space.
fluttrbox delivers a real-time experience for Infrastructure Management and Marketing. Removing the complexities of resource allocation for on site monitoring (purchasing of equipment, hiring a team, dealing with regulation, organizing the infrastructure data, documentation). Using small aerobotics (UAVs), they're able to rapidly aggregate data on your infrastructure and deliver this data back to you through their platform.
The Renewal Workshop partners with the world’s best- loved brands and retailers to renew their “unsellable” returns and excess inventory.
The Mill is a place to test your ideas. It starts with a $5k investment in entrepreneurially-minded people.
THE PROBLEM High quality and healthy foods are in high demand. Everyday discerning shoppers are wanting to supplement their normal grocery purchases with top-quality local products. For that demand there are only a few options and none of them are ideal for most consumers. The consumer must try to find time in their busy schedule to travel to a farmers market. Consumers can shop at a high end grocery store like Whole Foods where the quality is good but most products still aren't coming from local sources. There are other local options available like CSA boxes but they do not combine choice, quality, and convenience. THE SOLUTION The Find Veggies solution is connecting busy consumers with locally made, quality products. Consumers can shop, check out, and have them delivered. Very simple and convenient for their active busy lives. Our solution helps the farmers market vendors. Currently vendors and farmers have limited ways to get the word out about what products they have for sale. They are busy creating or growing their products all week and don't have time or knowledge to market their goods. Find Veggies will act as the marketing arm for the vendors by driving more customers to them and increasing sales. THE COMPETITION We know there are others in the fresh vegetable business. Many high end retailers like Whole Foods and Spouts. Many cities have CSA boxes however these do not allow you to pick what you want and when you want them. Some startups have tried to solve the farm to phone problem but Find Veggies approach is different. We are not replicating warehouses or grocery stores. We simply extend the sales beyond the farmers market stall.
Bow & Drape is an e-clothier that allows women to design their own clothing. With a few clicks, Bow & Drape guides its shoppers to flattering silhouettes that they can easily modify into unique clothing, using hand-selected silhouettes, colors, and trim. Once the customer decides on her design, her item will be made for her in the USA and shipped to her doorstep.
1.5 billion people worldwide live with chronic pain, and the best option they have are drugs like Vicodin that have terrible side effects and make people feel sick. ENSO has developed the first opioid-free, wearable device clinically proven to solve pain better than Vicodin. It works by delivering a patented electrical stimulation treatment that relaxes the muscles and calms the nerves wherever it is applied, and it's all controlled via an app on your smartphone. Enso is being used to solve chronic and acute pain at over 100 medical centers in the US such as Stanford, Harvard and Cedars-Sinai. The device is covered by the VA Hospitals and workers compensation insurance plans and is expected to be covered by major commercial insurance plans by 2021.
Radius Agent is an online real estate brokerage focused on helping agents succeed. Agents keep 100% of their commissions while getting 100% support from the Radius team. Agents can use our tools even if they’re with another brokerage. Radius Agent features a 71,000+ social network of real estate agents, a referral marketplace to receive referrals, and an ISA that vets leads into buyer-ready clients.
Zora is a technology alternative to property management companies. By giving landlords a comprehensive applicant score, tools to automate listings and organize viewings Zora makes landing and keeping great tenants easy.
Mizzen+Main creates the next great American brand and bring innovation to classic menswear. Combining advanced performance fabrics with a refined, traditional style, we have changed the way men approach this staple of their wardrobe with a shirt that is moisture-wicking, wrinkle-free, has four-way stretch and requires no ironing or dry cleaning. Our product has been on MSNBC, ESPN, NBA TV, and Good Morning America and been profiled in The New York Times, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, and many style blogs. Having started with our signature performance dress shirt, Mizzen+Main has continued to incorporate innovation in the world of menswear with a growing product collection that also includes henleys, denim, and blazers. We are committed to keeping our product American made and are proud to have kicked off our “Shirt for a Start” program to both hire veterans and give paid job training opportunities.
Our mission is to make dance the next big sporting and fitness category. We've built our own proprietary video player that makes learning dance easy and fun. Our instructors have danced with major artists or shows including Justin Timberlake, Justin Bieber, BTS, NBC’s "World of Dance”, and “America’s Best Dance Crew”.
LittleBits is an open source library of over 60 electronic modules that snap together with magnets allows users to view, download, and share designs and make their own Bits through the use of prototypes. Deluxe kit, Smart home kit, Arduino coding kit, Synth kit, hardware development kit, and workshop set are some of the electronics learning modules provided by littleBits. LittleBits was launched by Ayah Bdeir in 2011 and is operated from New York, United States.
Bungalow Clothing is an internet company based out of Calle Laguna del Marquesado Nª 19, Nave 16 Edificio Adriana 1ª Planta, Polígono Industrial La Resina (Villaverde), Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.
Zipline is a California-based automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products. Zipline's mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. In 2014, Zipline was created to deliver medicine to those who needed it. Since then, the company has built a quick delivery drone and an autonomous logistics network. Zipline designs and tests its technology in Half Moon Bay, California. The company assembles the drones and the technology that powers their distribution.
FanDuel, launched in July 2009, is the undisputed leader in the one-week fantasy sports industry. Offering fantasy sports for NFL, MLB, NBA, and NHL FanDuel targets the 30+ million adult fantasy sports players in North America. Players draft fantasy sports teams at any time of the season in head-to-head or multi-player contests, paying an entry fee for each contest and vying for cash prizes. In 2013 the company awarded over $150m in prizes and is on course to award over $400m in 2014. The company currently has over 100 employees and is headquartered in New York.
Thrive Market was founded in 2014 with a mission to make healthy living easy and affordable for everyone. As an online, membership-based market, we deliver the highest quality, healthy and sustainable products at member-only prices, while matching every paid membership with a free one for someone in need. Thrive Market carries over 5,000 organic and non-GMO products, and offers 70+ filters and values, allowing you to shop by diet and lifestyle. Over the last 4 years, Thrive Gives has raised over $3.5M to fund food access and environmental sustainability causes. In March 2020, Thrive Market launched a COVID-19 Relief Fund, To date, raising over $1M and supporting over 30,000 families affected by the pandemic.
umano is an experiential shopping platform, created to showcase a kid’s drawing as a work of art and connect consumers with the inspiring stories behind our unique products. Our social mission is to empower kids to unleash their creativity.
Zirtual provides dedicated, U.S. based, virtual assistants for busy professionals. From managing a hectic calendar to creating travel itineraries and supporting business needs, Zirtual's relationship-based model allows each client to build lasting connections with their dedicated assistant, or ZA. Zirtual offers flat rate, monthly and annual plans that require no long-term commitment.
ThreadLab is a data-driven men's clothing platform used to offer convenient and customer-friendly clothing service. The company offers men casual and formal clothing such as shirts, t-shirts, and trousers of different brands that enable customers to avail of low-cost clothing made of fine material. Its mission is to bring eco-conscious and socially positive consumption in front of mind for a cleaner and healthier planet. ThreadLab was founded in 2012 and is based in San Rafael, California.
Wildfang is a fashion and lifestyle company dedicated to providing a centralized place for women to find menswear-inspired clothing. Wildfang was launched in February of 2013 with actress Kate Moennig, musician Hannah Blilie, and soccer pro-Megan Rapinoe serving as brand ambassadors.
Zora is a technology alternative to property management companies. By giving landlords a comprehensive applicant score, tools to automate listings and organize viewings Zora makes landing and keeping great tenants easy.
Headquartered in Downtown Las Vegas, Rolltech is a global competition platform that allows bowlers to track their scores and stats in real-time and foster connection with bowlers around the world. With active users in more than 3,800 bowling centers and 45 countries, Rolltech's mission is to change the way the world plays, watches, and interacts with the sport of bowling. An exclusive technology partner of the PBA, Rolltech is currently auto-enabled in centers throughout the US. Rolltech auto-enabled centers have access to a powerful analytics platform and real-time communication tools for their bowlers, facilitating a lasting connection between bowler and center. Visit rolltechbowling.com for more information.
HashRabbit provides safe and reliable digital asset mining for enterprise clients. The company was incorporated in 2014.
Wedgies offers a social polling service that helps publishers collect survey respondents directly within social media streams. The company was founded in April 2012 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Yoi offers a range of SaaS-based HR tools for line managers, enabling them to access and deliver best practices, assessments, and reports from their inbox. They focus on onboarding, engagement, performance management, development, training, and more. The company was founded by June 2013 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
Beep Networks develops and offers cloud-connected wireless sensors which can be used to track locations (GPS), temperature, moisture, pressure, altitude, and motion. It was founded in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.
LaunchKey is a multifactor authentication (MFA) and realtime authorization platform that leverages the mobile devices end-users already own for password-free login, 2-step verification, step-up and adaptive authentication, realtime transaction authorization, on-demand identity verification, multi-party approval, and more -- all through one unified solution that virtually any online or connected application can leverage. It is now a part of iovation, an online and mobile fraud prevention and advanced device-based authentication. Learn more about LaunchKey MFA: https://www.iovation.com/launchkey-mfa
Bungalow Clothing is an internet company based out of Calle Laguna del Marquesado Nª 19, Nave 16 Edificio Adriana 1ª Planta, Polígono Industrial La Resina (Villaverde), Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.
WithMe™ focuses on three primary solutions for commerce, including WithMe Business, Financial and Retail. WithMe Business provides solutions that simplify how you manage your most critical everyday operations. Products such as Invoicing, Collaboration, and Apps are specifically designed for business owners that value their time and money. WithMe Financial solutions are designed to help grow your business and manage your cash flow. Our team of former business owners and financial experts have created products to simplify making and receiving payments online, including PayWithMe™ guaranteed payments and Fast Pay which gives owners upfront capital for invoices before they're due. WithMe Retail is changing life for retailers while evolving an entire industry. We're innovating the next generation of retail products and experiences that retailers value and connected customers want. From in-store to out in the world, we're making shopping more personal. Learn more at with.me
SBC SF Program is the office of small business for San Francisco, California.
Strapping is a fashion and lifestyle brand for gay men.
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eMotorWerks is the creator of JuiceNet - a market-leading IoT platform that organizes distributed networks of electric vehicle charging stations into multi-megawatt Virtual Power Plants providing critical demand flexibility services to utilities and grid operators. The company’s mission is to attain control of 100% of EV charging load using its innovative driver engagement tools and a disruptive business model based on recurring revenues and third-party project financing. With 8,000+ of its own charging stations in operation, access to 50,000+ stations from its partners, and access to the entire installed base of 500,000 EVs through its innovative IoT charge adapters and relationships with leading OEMs, eMotorWerks is the largest aggregator of EV charging load today and has contracts with all three largest California utilities to provide energy services from that capacity.
Print Syndicate is an apparel and home goods company that offers its consumers access to timely, curated, and well-designed products that allow them to express who they are. The company's design team interprets and converts social trends into digital designs, which are then printed on objects including apparel, phone cases, and housewares. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Columbus, Ohio.
Hammerhead believes in a world where cyclists can use sophisticated, integrated software to achieve their athletic potential and enhance their rides.
Buffer is a social media management software startup for growing brands and connecting with their customers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.
WithMe™ focuses on three primary solutions for commerce, including WithMe Business, Financial and Retail. WithMe Business provides solutions that simplify how you manage your most critical everyday operations. Products such as Invoicing, Collaboration, and Apps are specifically designed for business owners that value their time and money. WithMe Financial solutions are designed to help grow your business and manage your cash flow. Our team of former business owners and financial experts have created products to simplify making and receiving payments online, including PayWithMe™ guaranteed payments and Fast Pay which gives owners upfront capital for invoices before they're due. WithMe Retail is changing life for retailers while evolving an entire industry. We're innovating the next generation of retail products and experiences that retailers value and connected customers want. From in-store to out in the world, we're making shopping more personal. Learn more at with.me
Fresco is the only technology that seamlessly brings appliances, home cooks, and recipes together. Partnering with the world's biggest appliance makers like BOSCH, Electrolux, GE Appliances, Instant Brands, Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, and Thermomix, Fresco knows that almost no kitchen has appliances from a single brand. The KitchenOS–Fresco's neutral, cross-brand platform–is the seamless way consumers interact with their kitchen through whatever interface or appliance they choose. Fresco delivers an effortless cooking experience by connecting dots in the kitchen. Founded in 2012, Fresco currently operates globally and has offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Zaragoza, Spain. To learn more visit: https://frescocooks.com/
HashRabbit provides safe and reliable digital asset mining for enterprise clients. The company was incorporated in 2014.
Walls360 is a provider of an online platform used to offer wall graphic products. Its platform offers on-demand wall graphics, custom promotional products that enable artists, brands, and digital content partners to get wall murals, posters, kids walls, video game wall graphics, art, and design wall graphics. It creates on-demand wall graphics and custom promotional products for artists, designers, photographers, and brands from around the world.
WiseBanyan is the world's first free financial advisor. It helps people save and invest for their goals, starting with their very first dollar --- for free. Launched in 2014, WiseBanyan provides automated goal-based investing and automated financial planning, all with no minimums. Today, there are over 25,000 people using it to save and invest over $5.5 billion in goals.
Mizzen+Main creates the next great American brand and bring innovation to classic menswear. Combining advanced performance fabrics with a refined, traditional style, we have changed the way men approach this staple of their wardrobe with a shirt that is moisture-wicking, wrinkle-free, has four-way stretch and requires no ironing or dry cleaning. Our product has been on MSNBC, ESPN, NBA TV, and Good Morning America and been profiled in The New York Times, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, and many style blogs. Having started with our signature performance dress shirt, Mizzen+Main has continued to incorporate innovation in the world of menswear with a growing product collection that also includes henleys, denim, and blazers. We are committed to keeping our product American made and are proud to have kicked off our “Shirt for a Start” program to both hire veterans and give paid job training opportunities.
Swift Navigation is a technology company that provides precise positioning solutions for automotive advanced driver-assistance systems. The company was founded in 2012 to make GPS positioning technology more accurate and affordable. Today Swift Navigation has gained a reputation for defining a new category of GNSS systems as the industry’s first low-cost, high-accuracy real-time kinematics (RTK) receiver. Its GPS and GNSS positioning products are available at a fraction of the price of the competition and deliver 100 times better accuracy than the GPS in a cell phone. Swift Navigation’s technology benefits a multitude of industries and applications—including autonomous vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision agriculture, robotics, surveying, and space. With its innovation and technology honored by Inc.’s and Forbes 30 Under 30 lists, Swift Navigation is enabling a world where fields farm themselves, drones fly safely and autonomous transportation can take you home. Swift Navigation provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi, Multi, and Duro / Duro Inertial receivers, Starling, Positioning Engine, and Skylark Cloud Corrections Service.
Founded in August 2012 Hossein Kash Razzaghi, Jeremy Merle, and Craig Johnson, and Michael Pan, Fancred's mission is to unite the world's sports fans by creating a new way to consume sports information and interact with other fans and members of their community.
Zady.com is a shopping platform and lifestyle destination for consumers who care about the origins of the items they purchase. Co-founded by Soraya Darabi (Foodspotting; The New York Times) and Maxine Bédat (The Bootstrap Project), Zady is a New York-based e-commerce brand that will provide customers with information about the conscious consumer movement and the option to purchase beautifully-constructed goods on its website, and later, its iPad application. The items available for purchase were created with craftsmanship and artisanship, qualities that have been sacrificed in a world of cheap prices and fast production. Just as Whole Foods sparked a movement based on the belief that consumers should question where food comes from, Zady is creating a new vision for shopping and is at the forefront of conscious consumerism, which demands transparency for sourced products. Manufacturing transparency is at the heart of Zady; every item sold is from a designer who is conscious of where and how their products are made. Each product is personally vetted by Zady’s founders, using criteria for sustainability, including whether the product is locally-sourced, handmade, uses high-quality raw materials, is environmentally-conscious, or made in the U.S.A. The brands are required to sign a contract verifying the location of the company, the manufacturing city, and the source of the raw materials. However, consumers won’t need to compromise style for a clear conscience. All products sold on Zady are high-quality, timeless in style, and are build to last, withstanding fleeting seasonal trends and the short life-spans of poorly-made “fast fashion” items. As such, Zady will be the arbiter of authenticity-meets-taste for this generation of conscious consumers.
Surf Air is the nation’s first All-You-Can-Fly private air travel membership, providing frequent regional business and leisure travelers with a sophisticated and hassle-free air travel experience that saves valuable time and money. The company operates Pilatus PC-12s in executive interior configuration to and from convenient airports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Metro Area, Santa Barbara, and Truckee Lake Tahoe, with service to additional locations to follow. Prospective members can take advantage of pricing as low as $1,599 per month prior to September 1, at which point membership prices will increase as part of the new service offering. Membership options include Individual, Friends & Family, Group, and Business Memberships.
Problem: No way exists to track analytics for physical books, games, and toys beyond the point of sale. Solution: We're building Campfire, an Ecommerce platform for immersive audio/visual experiences around physical products.
Mouth Foods is an online destination for small-batch foods. It features products such as beverages, condiments, candy, snacks, spreads, and other foods from hundreds of talented makers around the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Ring is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a line of preventative outdoor security doorbells and cameras. It is on a mission to reduce crime in neighborhoods and empower consumers by creating a Ring of Security around homes and communities with its suite of smart home security products: Ring Video Doorbell, Ring Video Doorbell Pro, Ring Stick Up Cam, and the new Ring Floodlight Cam. With these security devices, Ring has created the neighborhood watch for the digital age and continues to prevent burglaries and keep homes around the world safe. The company was established in 2012 and is based in Santa Monica, California.
AdEspresso is a SaaS tool that allows to quickly create, analyze and optimize your Facebook Ads in an incredibly simple way. If you're not an enterprise you need two things: a) simplicity, to quickly get it done, b) automation, to save time. On average our users (startups, merchants and small agencies) save up to 70% of the manual work needed to setup a Facebook Campaign and improve their performance up to 40%. The other players in the space are super sophisticated tools that only work best with a lot of training and/or very high volumes of Ad Spending. Our strength: AdEspresso is dead simple and blazing fast. We empowers users to quickly split test every aspect of their Facebook Campaigns. In a couple minutes users can create hundreds of Ads, testing everything from the creativity to the targeting. Once the campaign is created, simple yet meaningful analytics allow to understand what is performing best and optimize their campaigns both manually or automatically.
Fond is a SaaS platform that seamlessly consolidates employee rewards and recognition processes into one easy-to-use solution. With Fond, employees and managers can recognize each other, redeem rewards, access exclusive corporate discounts, and measure success so HR departments spend less time managing programs and more time driving results. Fond is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Learn more at https://www.fond.co.
WiseBanyan is the world's first free financial advisor. It helps people save and invest for their goals, starting with their very first dollar --- for free. Launched in 2014, WiseBanyan provides automated goal-based investing and automated financial planning, all with no minimums. Today, there are over 25,000 people using it to save and invest over $5.5 billion in goals.
Mizzen+Main creates the next great American brand and bring innovation to classic menswear. Combining advanced performance fabrics with a refined, traditional style, we have changed the way men approach this staple of their wardrobe with a shirt that is moisture-wicking, wrinkle-free, has four-way stretch and requires no ironing or dry cleaning. Our product has been on MSNBC, ESPN, NBA TV, and Good Morning America and been profiled in The New York Times, Esquire, The Wall Street Journal, Men’s Health, and many style blogs. Having started with our signature performance dress shirt, Mizzen+Main has continued to incorporate innovation in the world of menswear with a growing product collection that also includes henleys, denim, and blazers. We are committed to keeping our product American made and are proud to have kicked off our “Shirt for a Start” program to both hire veterans and give paid job training opportunities.
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.
Skycatch builds technology to autonomously capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data to provide companies with an accurate visualization of the physical world. It is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world. They use a combination of hardware, software, and artificial intelligence to deliver high precision data at unprecedented speed and ease of use. It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.
They are building a customer-oriented, premium-yet-accessible, all-in-one solution manufacturing solution for small volumes of plastics, metals, and circuit boards - plus rework, final assembly, and fulfillment - that doesn’t exist anywhere else. When you visit, you’ll notice Factorli cares - they are a passionate, creative team, driven by our love of building beautiful products. They are dedicated to our Downtown Las Vegas community and the local 18b Arts District neighborhood where they live and work.
Surf Air is the nation’s first All-You-Can-Fly private air travel membership, providing frequent regional business and leisure travelers with a sophisticated and hassle-free air travel experience that saves valuable time and money. The company operates Pilatus PC-12s in executive interior configuration to and from convenient airports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Metro Area, Santa Barbara, and Truckee Lake Tahoe, with service to additional locations to follow. Prospective members can take advantage of pricing as low as $1,599 per month prior to September 1, at which point membership prices will increase as part of the new service offering. Membership options include Individual, Friends & Family, Group, and Business Memberships.
Dragon Innovation (acquired by Avnet in 2017) provides solutions for the fastest, simplest, and safest way for companies to manage manufacturing complex products at scale. Founded in 2009 by the leadership team at iRobot who launched and scaled the first 4MM Roomba®s, Dragon Innovation has deep experience with high-volume electro-mechanical products. Our customer portfolio, encompassing both early stage and established companies, includes Ring, Dropcam, Shopify, SharkNinja, American Kennel Club, Sphero, Makerbot, reMarkable, Theragun, Coravin, and many more of the top name brands in innovative technology. Dragon’s team—located in Cambridge, MA, Seattle, WA, Shanghai, China, Shenzhen, China, Hong Kong, HK, and Amsterdam, The Netherlands—focuses on the path from Prototype to Production with unmatched human expertise that simplifies and de-risks the New Product Introduction (NPI) process. Over the last decade, Dragon Innovation has been a manufacturing partner to hundreds of companies producing millions of quality products on time and on budget.
CoolChip specializes in Kinetic Cooling, a category based on disruptive technology transforming electronics cooling that is transforming the electronics cooling industry. Solutions Powered by Kinetic CoolingTM offer unprecedented performance across acoustics, form factor, and cooling. By partnering with CoolChip, consumer electronics and enterprise manufacturers have the opportunity to unleash innovation and deliver next-generation products for their customers. CoolChip was founded by MIT engineers in 2011 and is the exclusive provider of Kinetic CoolingTM technology. The company holds an extensive intellectual property portfolio and is based in Boston, MA.
The Shelf is a profitable and rapidly growing Influencer Marketing startup. We're solving a critical business goal for our customers: reaching their target audience, capturing their attention, and creating loyalty for their brand. Achieving this goal is getting harder day-by-day: a) traditional ads don't work (more than 300MM ad-blockers have been installed) b) consumers are on their mobile phones and on social media c) consumer attention is getting shorter with billions of new content created/shared d) new brands/products are providing better, cheaper options e) social media platforms constantly change their marketing algorithms f) and the list goes on.... The Shelf is a pioneer of Data-Driven Influencer Marketing. We’re on a mission to help our customers achieve their goals by creating authentic stories (which don't look like a traditional ad), which are then told by the right influencers (not just TV celebrities but everyday people who are authentic, relatable, and have an audience relevant to the brand), and are then finally delivered on the right time and right place (online medium). Our core differentiation is the technology that we have built to discover, analyze, and index millions of Influencers as well as building a data-driven model to identify the core building-blocks of a successful campaign. We are proud to call many Fortune 500 companies, agencies, and startups as our clients. TheShelf was part of **[AngelPad](http://angelpad.org) #6** in 2013.
Bia is a multisport GPS watch built for women with SOS alert button, wireless upload, fast-loading GPS, sleek design.
Understory is a weather infrastructure and analytics company that detects rain, hail, wind, and other weather events directly at the earth’s surface, where the risk to life and property is greatest. Understory builds and operates weather networks that are comprised of patented RTi weather stations, which are full-stack, rugged, tamper-proof, maintenance-free, precision weather solutions. The stations measure 50,000 times a second and power a cloud-based artificial intelligence core that stitches the measurements together to provide an unprecedented understanding of weather events. These weather networks have completely wireless data transmission and provide research-grade hail, wind, rainfall, temperature, humidity, evapotranspiration, and growing degree unit accuracy at a fraction of the cost of any other solution on the market. Understory’s technology has been perfected for worldwide deployment and is posed to radically change the way weather is understood globally. It was founded in 2012 and is currently based in Madison, Wisconsin.
Moveline is a developer of a web-based platform used to assist people to search movers for shifting their stuff. Moveline makes it easy for couples, families, employees, and people preparing for a move to quickly gather the information they need to save money, prevent headaches, and make smarter moving decisions.
Other Machine develops software and hardware products focused on digital desktop manufacturing. Its proprietary product, Othermill, is a portable desktop CNC mill that enables users to create 2D and 3D objects out of durable materials such as wood, metal, and plastic using digital designs. Users can create enclosures, inlay, mechanical parts, stamps, models, molds, and more. Other Machine was founded by Sarah Tappon and Saul Griffith in 2013, and is based in San Francisco, California.
Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers while generating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
Normal is a tech company that develops and manufactures custom earbuds and 3-D print headphones. The company's headphones are composed of two major parts: an inner plastic portion that houses the sound driver and a 3-D printed arm that fits precisely in the ears. Normal was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Headquartered in Downtown Las Vegas, Rolltech is a global competition platform that allows bowlers to track their scores and stats in real-time and foster connection with bowlers around the world. With active users in more than 3,800 bowling centers and 45 countries, Rolltech's mission is to change the way the world plays, watches, and interacts with the sport of bowling. An exclusive technology partner of the PBA, Rolltech is currently auto-enabled in centers throughout the US. Rolltech auto-enabled centers have access to a powerful analytics platform and real-time communication tools for their bowlers, facilitating a lasting connection between bowler and center. Visit rolltechbowling.com for more information.
Many of us spend a good portion of our waking hours at desks, using computers and other devices to communicate and collaborate with the world around us. At Stir, we feel that there’s an incredible opportunity to reimagine the desk as something that is powerful, life-changing and even lovable. The Stir Kinetic desk is just that. Stir is a smart, connected desk that moves from sitting to standing, learns from you and responds, and tracks extra calories burned.
Banjo saves lives and reduces human suffering by delivering critical and life-saving information in seconds.
Surf Air is the nation’s first All-You-Can-Fly private air travel membership, providing frequent regional business and leisure travelers with a sophisticated and hassle-free air travel experience that saves valuable time and money. The company operates Pilatus PC-12s in executive interior configuration to and from convenient airports in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles Metro Area, Santa Barbara, and Truckee Lake Tahoe, with service to additional locations to follow. Prospective members can take advantage of pricing as low as $1,599 per month prior to September 1, at which point membership prices will increase as part of the new service offering. Membership options include Individual, Friends & Family, Group, and Business Memberships.
Fashion Project is the first designer shopping experience featuring exclusive apparel, shoes, and accessories that are generously donated by style icons, celebrities, and philanthropists from around the world. The majority of each sale is donated to charity. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
YouNoodle was founded by Rebeca Hwang and Torsten Kolind in 2010, funded by an international group of business angels. The company was spun off an ambitious project started by Bob Goodson and Kirill Makharinsky in 2007 with support from Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Max Levchin (PayPal) and Charles Lho (Amicus Group), our founding investor and Chairman of YouNoodle today. This project also spawned Quid (Goodson) and indirectly Ostrovok (Makharinsky). YouNoodle is run by a dedicated team of 10 different nationalities, all based in YouNoodle’s eclectic basement office in SOMA, San Francisco.
Fresco is the only technology that seamlessly brings appliances, home cooks, and recipes together. Partnering with the world's biggest appliance makers like BOSCH, Electrolux, GE Appliances, Instant Brands, Kenwood, LG Electronics, Panasonic, and Thermomix, Fresco knows that almost no kitchen has appliances from a single brand. The KitchenOS–Fresco's neutral, cross-brand platform–is the seamless way consumers interact with their kitchen through whatever interface or appliance they choose. Fresco delivers an effortless cooking experience by connecting dots in the kitchen. Founded in 2012, Fresco currently operates globally and has offices in Dublin, Ireland, and Zaragoza, Spain. To learn more visit: https://frescocooks.com/
At Spree Commerce, our mission is to empower the world’s sellers. Spree Commerce began as an open source e-commerce platform in 2008. The modular platform allows for easy customizations and upgrades so developers and store owners can configure Spree for their specific needs. Spree’s vibrant, international community has been an important factor in the company’s success. Almost 500 developers have contributed to the Spree platform, and it is now one of the top open source projects in the world. In 2013, the company launched the Spree Commerce hub. The hub automates backend operations for storefronts using any platform, not just Spree, including stores operated by some of the world’s largest e-commerce retailers.
Quarterly is somewhat of an outlier, having created a design-oriented subscription service and accompanying web platform, which allows anyone to sign up and receive curated, physical gifts from influential contributors like President of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda, Behance Founder Scott Belsky, and Alexis Ohanian of Reddit, Breadpig, and Hipmunk fame by mail. Quarterly is a new way to connect with the people you follow and find interesting. They spend so much of their lives connecting with people online that they forget the value of tangible interactions that happen in the real world. Quarterly wants to bridge that gap by allowing anyone to subscribe to influential curators and receive physical items in the mail from them. It’s like a magazine, but instead of receiving words on a page, their subscribers receive actual items that tell a compelling story crafted by the curator.
SoundFocus was founded with the goal of building revolutionary audio processing technologies to empower millions of people to hear better in their everyday lives. SoundFocus lets you hear music in full fidelity when listening to your iPhone or iPod Touch by tuning the audio to your hearing pattern and compensating for the sound frequencies you do not hear well.
PandoDaily is a web publication offering technology news, analysis, and commentary, focusing mainly on Silicon Valley and startup companies.
Dunwello is a professional tool designed to help you be both happy and productive at work. It’s free for anyone within a company to launch and use. The Boston startup 'why' – the belief that every person at every company should be both happy and productive."
Tealet is an online farmers market for tea. Independent tea growers are connected directly to their retail and wholesale buyers. Tealet serves as a transparent supply chain platform that provides optimized online marketing, international logistics, and low costs payments via cryptocurrency. Tealet is a portfolio company of Vegas Tech Fund, 500 Startups and Blue Startups.
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.
CultureIQ provides culture management software and services to help organizations measure, understand, and strengthen their company culture. CultureIQ was developed with the goal of giving every employee a voice and providing organizations the tools to listen. With customizable surveys, actionable insights, reporting tools, and data-driven solutions, the company enables companies to actively manage their culture to drive employee engagement and success.
Bow & Drape is an e-clothier that allows women to design their own clothing. With a few clicks, Bow & Drape guides its shoppers to flattering silhouettes that they can easily modify into unique clothing, using hand-selected silhouettes, colors, and trim. Once the customer decides on her design, her item will be made for her in the USA and shipped to her doorstep.