Bigstep.com is a cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes. It enables businesses, large and small, to get started with a production-ready big data environment in just a few clicks, all in the Full Metal Cloud, purpose built for big data. Bigstep.com was founded in 2013 by Lucas Roh, serial entrepreneur, and founder of Hostway Corporation and Affinity Global. It is headquartered in London and operates infrastructure in the U.K. and Germany.
Videolicious is the pioneer of video automation, transforming personalities into powerful messages for enterprise b2b sales and marketing organizations.
Wanderful Media is a retail-focused mobile media company – engaging 160MM US consumers via their shopping apps, mobile and regional networks. Wanderful Media owns and operates Find&Save, CoffeeTable, the Wanderful Mobile Network and the Wanderful Regional Network. Wanderful Media is an independent company financed by a powerful group of media companies, including Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Community Newspaper Holdings, Cox Media Group, The E. W. Scripps Company, Gannett Co., GateHouse Media, Graham Holdings Company, Hearst Corporation, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group, and The McClatchy Company.
Wanderful Media is a retail-focused mobile media company – engaging 160MM US consumers via their shopping apps, mobile and regional networks. Wanderful Media owns and operates Find&Save, CoffeeTable, the Wanderful Mobile Network and the Wanderful Regional Network. Wanderful Media is an independent company financed by a powerful group of media companies, including Advance Digital, A. H. Belo Corporation, Community Newspaper Holdings, Cox Media Group, The E. W. Scripps Company, Gannett Co., GateHouse Media, Graham Holdings Company, Hearst Corporation, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group, and The McClatchy Company.
EdSurge is the leading site for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. They help educators discover the best products for their students; they inspire developers to build what educators and learners need; they help investors understand the emerging market. EdSurge is regularly cited as the most influential brand for education technology news and information. EdSurge hosts the most comprehensive database of edtech products, companies, and topics online in addition to more traditional daily reporting of news in the education technology ecosystem. It also runs a vibrant jobs board for entrepreneurs and educators. Alongside its online presence, EdSurge hosts the San Francisco education technology meetup, a robust nationwide series of Summits, a high-profile awards program called the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards. It is also hosts a service called Edtech Concierge, designed to support education leaders in choosing tools. The organization itself is operated as a technology-journalism hybrid, employing equal parts technologists, educators and journalists. The company's goal is to promote the smart adoption of education technology through impartial reporting on products and news, research, online community building and services, events and tools. EdSurge is a venture-backed company that has also received grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
ExecOnline delivers transformational learning experiences to corporate leaders. Through partnerships with business schools such as Berkeley Haas, Chicago Booth, Columbia, Tuck at Dartmouth, Duke CE, IMD, Ivey, MIT-Sloan, Stanford GSB, Wharton, and Yale, the e-learning company provides leadership courses. As a Forbes “Technology Company to Watch,” its proprietary online ecosystem combines the engagement of on-campus study with the convenience of online education, through dynamic, high-impact experiences tailored to the unique strategic, innovation, and operation concerns of corporate executives. In 2012, Stephen Bailey, Mark Ozer, Barry Goldberg, and Julia Alexander co-founded the company in New York, New York.
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.
Ongo is a premium, one-stop destination for news. The site compiles some of the most trusted, best news brands today - such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, USA Today and Associated Press - in one comprehensive online destination. Ongo is ad-free to improve user experience, and it combines a relevance engine with actual human editors in order to highlight both the top news stories of the day and interesting pieces that readers might otherwise miss. In a basic subscription, viewers have access to roughly 800 stories per day. The site has published a total of over 1,000,000 stories since it launched in January of 2011. The Ongo website also has easy tools for users to customize their experiences. Users can create news playlists with the "My Topics" feature, which highlights all the news about one topic on a single page. Readers can also share and discuss stories via email, Facebook, Twitter or through private groups called Clubs. (Members of Clubs do not necessarily need to subscribe to Ongo.) And readers who are on the go can "clip" stories in order to read them later. In only a basic subscription, viewers have access to roughly 800 stories per day. The site has published a total of over 1,000,000 stories since it launched in January of 2011. Since its launch, Ongo has more than doubled the number of publication options available on the site. It now offers over 50 publication options, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Slate and the Boston Globe. It also underwent a redesign of its homepage in June of 2011, introducing new navigation and features such as "The Day in Photos," ""The Must Reads," "Top News" and "The Watercooler." Unlike news aggregates like Google News, the Huffington Post, Flipboard or Zite, Ongo has finance- and content-based partnerships with established media companies. Ongo received its a total of $12 million in first-round funding from the New York Times Company, the Washington Post Company and the Gannett Company. It is also the only one of these aggregates to contain no advertisements. In addition to a website, Ongo currently has an iPad app and a mobile site available. The iPad app was favorably reviewed by USA Today in July of 2011, with the review complimenting the app's sleek, user-friendly interface and the variety of publications available.
Kima Labs is a startup founded by Amazon veterans Blake Scholl and Jason Crawford. Their first product is the mobile app Barcode Hero.
iCurrent is a personalized news and information service that lets consumers stay current across their interests. iCurrent provides a regular information experience that includes discovery and delivery of the full range of current content including general news, professional content, and personal interests. The front page experience automatically prioritizes and organizes content from tens of thousands of newspapers, magazines, and blogs. iCurrent also delivers top items to email and is expanding to mobile, social apps, and alternative web experiences. iCurrent's personalization approach, which they call user-driven personalization, focuses on enabling and rewarding active user participation. Users create and adjust channels by searching for topics they are interested in right then or by accepting recommended topics and sources. They can also select from thousands of channels created by editors and other users. The constant and incremental adjustment is designed to keep the service tuned to a user's interests as they evolve. iCurrent was founded in 2006 by Ramana Rao, Yossi Acrich and Moshe Cohen. Rao was a co-founder of Inxight, a Xerox PARC spinout focused on text analytics and information visualization that was acquired by Business Objects.
Fab sells everyday design products online in the United States, Canada, and Australia. It offers various products in the categories of furniture, kitchen and dining, bed and bath, art, jewelry, and personal accessories, as well as home products. Bradford Shane Shellhammer, Deepa Shah, Jason Goldberg, Nishith Shah, and Sunil Khedar founded Fab in February 2009, with its headquarters in New York City. Fab operates as a subsidiary of PCH International as of March 3, 2015.
socialmedian helps people easily discover and share news with their social networks. On socialmedian, users can create and join topical "news networks" on any topics. Users can also follow news clippings of people in their social graph, and be followed. The site also enables users to share news in/out of their social networks. The service aggregates news articles from around the web, which are filtered by topic. Users can pre-define which keywords and topics they'd like to receive news on, and they can also submit articles to the site by using a bookmarklet. Stories can be viewed either in chronological order or according to popularity on the network. A more thorough description of the site can be found [here](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/socialmedian_personalized_news_filter.php).
COURSEADVISOR IS an online research directory for postsecondary education, career training, and professional development. They offer more than 5,000 programs through nearly 300 accredited colleges, vocational/technical schools, professional training centers, and universities.
Tribe is a social network started in the San Francisco bay area. Tribe is similar to social networks like [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) and [MySpace](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/myspace), but allows users to create their own personal networks with other users; forming "tribes." Anyone may register as a new tribe user, and may then define their immediate network of friends, either by choosing from existing members or by inviting new members to join. Each of these users may in turn define their own network of friends.
Slate is an online magazine that offers analysis and commentary about news, politics, technology, and culture. It was created by Michael Kinsley in 1996.
Tribe is a social network started in the San Francisco bay area. Tribe is similar to social networks like [Facebook](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/facebook) and [MySpace](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/myspace), but allows users to create their own personal networks with other users; forming "tribes." Anyone may register as a new tribe user, and may then define their immediate network of friends, either by choosing from existing members or by inviting new members to join. Each of these users may in turn define their own network of friends.
Moxi Digital
Venture Round in 2002
Moxi Digital, Inc. is a home-entertainment platform company, designs software and hardware for cable and satellite set-top boxes. Founded in January 2000 by WebTV(R) creator Steve Perlman, Moxi Digital, Inc. is focused delivering a total home entertainment solution that enhances and simplifies the consumer experience, while providing new revenue opportunities for broadband operators. The Company will fulfill this promise by providing advanced platforms, products and enabling technologies to broadband network operators such as cable, satellite and DSL providers. Moxi can provide a complete end-to-end solution including both hardware and software or specific components that are integrated into existing cable and satellite systems. The Company's first all-in-one home entertainment platform, the Moxi Media Center, is a combination digital set-top box, video and music jukebox, media server, and Internet gateway and firewall. Through this device, which costs about the same as a basic digital set-top box in a typical home configuration, operators can deliver revenue-generating video, music and data applications to subscribers. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the privately-held start-up has attracted $67 million in Series A financing from America Online, Cisco Systems, EchoStar Communications, Mayfield, Vulcan Ventures, The Barksdale Group, The Washington Post Company and Macromedia Ventures.
iBlast is a digital distribution network that uses powerful transmitters of local TV stations to broadcast rich media content directly to home computers, digital set-top boxes, and other receiving devices. Digital media such as movies, movie trailers, games, music and software are broadcast wirelessly to PCs, TV set-top boxes, and other receiving devices such as personal video recorders, game consoles, and MP3 players. iBlast will offer content companies a highly cost-effective, scalable network for the distribution of popular digital content. iBlast will provide consumers with an abundance of new content delivery services and products. iBlast aims to make receiving digital content as fast and easy as watching TV.
Aiming to transform how broadcast media leaders engage and interact with their audiences, Internet Broadcasting offers scalable publishing solutions that power digital growth and strengthen consumer relationships. Internet Broadcasting solutions include an innovative SaaS-based web publishing platform, original and syndicated content, and the IB Digital Agency, one of the largest digital advertising agencies. Internet Broadcasting has had a long-term focus on serving local television companies with award-winning websites and services. Leading media companies such as Hearst Television, E.W. Scripps, CNN, The Washington Post Company's Post-Newsweek Stations and Turner Broadcasting are clients. Founded in 1996, Internet Broadcasting is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn. For more information, visit ibsys.com.
Invertica Inc. is a developer of a direct marketing platform.
ZonaFinanciera.com, an online supermarket of financial products and services for Spanish and Portuguese speakers worldwide
InterSurvey.com, create and match great domain platforms like the survey platform with talented people, applications and resources to build successful, value driven, web-based businesses quickly.