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The Vendry is a digital marketplace and professional community for the events industry. By joining The Vendry, event professionals get free access to RFP tools that help them source venues and vendors for their events, an exclusive jobs board, discussion forums and networking opportunities, and other resources to keep up with industry news and seek inspiration for their own events. As of September 2021, The Vendry has over 17,500 members and has helped plan thousands of live and virtual events.

Ethyca provides engineered solutions that assist businesses in saving time, reducing costs, and minimizing operational risks related to data privacy. The company focuses on building automated data privacy infrastructure, making it easier for developers and privacy teams to ensure compliance in their products. Ethyca's privacy engineering platform allows engineers to seamlessly integrate privacy features into any system they develop.

OpenWeb is a social engagement platform for people to elevate an open exchange of ideas across communities online. The platform utilizes AI and machine learning to incentivize healthy dialogue, decrease toxicity, and create thriving, engaged communities. OpenWeb works with more than 700 top-tier publishers and hosts 100 million active users each month. OpenWeb is on a mission to democratize and improve conversations online. Founded in 2012, OpenWeb has over 100 employees in New York City and Tel Aviv and is backed by world-class investors including Insight Partners, AltaIR Capital, ScaleUp, Norma Investments, and Index Ventures.

Aiera is an event intelligence and insights platform that leverages adaptive deep learning to enhance active fundamental investment strategies. Using advanced linguistics and predictive modeling, Aiera offers investment managers and other professionals the ability to automatically and proactively monitor all public earnings calls and events in real-time, as well as across broker research, media, SEC filings, and meeting notes.

boostr is a CRM management software that offers ad sales management services to its users.boostr features forecasting, delivery pacing, pipeline management, sales activity, revenue management, and client and contact management. Delivery pacing offers notifications regarding ad campaigns. Pipeline management offers automation services to its users. Sales activity offers client activity capture services.

Braavo is a financial solutions company focused on mobile app and game businesses. The company offers non-dilutive funding options that don't require giving up ownership. Braavo also provides analytics tools to help app businesses track performance and make data-driven decisions.

Jebbit has built the world’s first declared data platform. Our platform enables marketing and sales teams to create beautiful, mobile experiences aimed at capturing the most important consumer data an enterprise needs. Instead of relying on third-party data which is often highly inaccurate and incomplete, enterprise brands use Jebbit to capture consumer intentions, motivations, and preferences. Customers include travel, ecommerce, and sports brands such as Cathay Pacific Airways, LifeLock, and the New England Revolution. Jebbit was named one of the Top 25 Most Promising Companies in the World by CNBC, the Best Tech Culture in Boston 2016, and its cofounders are Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees. To learn how you can get started with a declared data strategy, visit www.jebbit.com.

The Hustle is the most trusted source for business news. We use our no nonsense voice to explain the latest in business, startups, tech, and whatever else is happening in this outlandish world of ours.

Parsec is the first platform to sell media using attention metrics. It's a rewarding product to work on as it solves a real problem in the industry: the way we transact media misaligns incentives between publishers and advertisers, and creates poor experiences for readers. Parsec was created by a group of senior advertising execs and seasoned entrepreneurs who've built agencies, digital publishers and ad tech companies. We're headquartered in NYC and have offices in Los Angeles, Chicago and London.

Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way.

Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. The Curbside app searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasingly mobile centric customers.

The Muse is a job search and career development platform that helps candidates discover and land jobs that fit their skills. The Muse provides professional advice for candidates exploring their options, job searches tailored to personal priorities, company profiles that go behind the scenes at an org, and more. It helps companies build a more informed candidate pipeline and strengthen their employer brand through authentic storytelling content and targeted job postings. The Muse is the go-to destination for the next-gen workforce to research companies and careers. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Confide is a messaging platform that relies on public and private encryption keys to keep messages secret while they’re in transit. With encrypted, self-destructing, and screenshot-proof messages, Confide gives users the comfort of knowing that their private communication will now truly stay that way.

Eleven James is a membership brand that is introducing a modern luxury experience. Through a subscription model, the company lets members select and wear the world’s most beautiful timepieces for a few months at a time, allowing them to discover, explore, and play in a world of luxury that has been restricted by the burdens of commitment and ownership. The company has pioneered a first-of-its-kind consignment channel for this asset class, creating a unique supply that reflects a diversity and depth of luxury timepieces unmatched and untapped by traditional wholesalers and retailers.

Shake is a mobile-first application that allows users to create, sign, and send, plain English and legally binding agreements from their phones. Shake was founded in 2012 by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and investors. They have decades of startup and executive leadership experience at companies such as Google, Spotify, AOL, BuzzFeed, and RRE Ventures.

Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. The Curbside app searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasingly mobile centric customers.

Optimal Inc. is the leading social media advertising and analytics platform. Optimal helps brands and advertisers manage social advertising campaigns in real-time with its media acquisition and optimization platform and proprietary analytics tools.

Taboola is a content discovery platform that connects people with content they may like but never knew existed. It is serving over 360 billion recommendations to over 1 billion unique visitors every month on some of the Web’s most innovative publisher sites, including USA TODAY, Business Insider, Chicago Tribune, and The Weather Channel. Headquartered in New York City with R&D in Israel, Taboola also has offices in Pasadena, London, and Bangkok. Publishers, marketers, and agencies leverage Taboola to retain users on their sites, monetize their traffic, and distribute their content to drive high-quality audiences.

Perfect Audience is a retargeting platform that allows businesses to bring back lost customers and get more sales effortlessly. It offers advertisers a powerful, easy-to-use SaaS platform to retarget audiences across the web, Facebook and Twitter.

Yext (NYSE: YEXT) is the leading digital presence platform for multi-location brands, with thousands of customers worldwide. With one central platform, brands can seamlessly deliver consistent, accurate, and engaging experiences and meaningfully connect with customers anywhere in the digital world. Yext’s AI and machine learning technology powers the knowledge behind every customer engagement, automates workflows at scale, and delivers actionable cross-channel insights that enable data-driven decisions. From SEO and websites to social media and reputation management, Yext enables brands to turn their digital presence into a differentiator. To learn more about Yext, visit Yext.com.

Moat is a free search engine for display ads. Moat also offers heatmap analytics and resources for creative. Online ads tend to be transient: visible one second and gone the next. Whether you want to see the ads from a particular brand, discover new advertisers, or get inspiration from innovative creative campaigns, the need for a centralized ad search is evident. Enter: Moat. Moat Ad Search is a search engine that focuses entirely on ads instead of other kinds of online content. Similar to traditional search engines, its results are compiled using a web crawler that is specifically tuned to look for ads on the web and index them for later retrieval. Moat also accepts submissions from advertisers and agencies that wish to have their ads included.

Boost Media is a fastest growing B2B SaaS companies in Silicon Valley, and they are committed to going public. They're hiring across the company in all roles. Join them as they revolutionize the digital advertising industry. They raised their Series A in December of 2012 and their Series B in June of 2013. Boost Media is an enterprise solution for optimizing ad creative at scale across Search, Social, Display & Mobile. The Company focuses on optimizing for enterprise advertisers and generates substantial improvements in conversions-per-impression for customers. Today, Boost is trusted to drive optimization and insights for over $300 million in advertising spend across networks and premium publisher sites such as Google, Microsoft+Yahoo Bing Ads and Facebook.

DoodleDeals is a discovery and daily deal site serving families with offers up to 90% off children's classes, museums, birthday parties, entertainment and more. DoodleDeals.com is in partnership with Diapers.com however there are also distribution partnerships with other major media companies, ecommerce businesses and marketing services businesses that have access to large databases. Through this distribution network, they distribute their top quality daily deals to millions of users throughout the United States.

GoCrossCampus (and later PickTeams) was the flagship product of GXStudios, a venture-backed company founded by four Yale students and one Columbia student active 2007 to 2010. GXStudios was one of the early players in the online social gaming space. As a new type of massively multiplayer, rivalry-based game, GoCrossCampus (GXC) was one of the biggest gaming crazes in the college world, involving hundreds of thousands of simultaneous players and reaching millions of students. Over half of all students on many college campuses played, and GXC inspired many players to recruit friends in cafeterias and dormitories to join a virtual battle, elect commanders, chat with teammates and foes in real-time, oust spies, and attend war strategy council meetings in their basements, libraries and dorm rooms. All of the games were team-based tournaments, typically featuring multiple teams representing different affinity groups (colleges, high schools, sports teams, geographies, etc.) facing off asynchronously (as in GoCrossCampus) or in real-time (as in AlphaBlitz and Pocket Towers). These games were fueled by team spirit, taking sports and college rivalries beyond the playing field and onto every student's laptop. GoCrossCampus, the company's flagship game, was a strategy game of territorial conquest in which opposing schools competed online to conquer each others' campuses. With the launch of PickTeams (a team-based social gaming platform), three new real-time multiplayer games were developed. In AlphaBlitz, players raced to find the most words in a grid with the fastest team winning. In PocketTowers, teams cooperated to build defenses and send waves of attackers at others teams in a "tower defense" style of play. In DomiNation, players competed in a rapid-fire "lightning" version of GoCrossCampus, set on a number of fun, themed maps. In addition to college campuses, GXStudios also took on the world of corporate teambuilding events. The GoCrossCampus concept was expanded into a team-based exercise specializing in connecting virtual workforces through strategy gaming, boosting office morale, encouraging cross-team communication — eventually creating a new program called GoCrossOffice. GoCrossOffice was played by employees at companies worldwide, including Google, Vivendi, Digitas and others. Unfortunately, the recession of 2008-2009 took its toll on GXStudios as well as ad and sponsorship budgets across the board. Rather than raising more capital and rebooting the business model, the management team decided to shop assets, license their IP, and wind down operations. GXStudios was one of the first companies to come out of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute (YEI), a Yale University entrepreneurship initiative co-founded by GoCrossCampus creators Brad Hargreaves, Sean Mehra, and Jeff Reitman. Matthew O. Brimer currently runs the NYC alumni affiliate of the institute. YEI continues to create awesome startup companies to this day.

Ikonisys is transforming diagnostic medicine by enabling early, accurate and non-invasive disease detection. Through a unique combination of technology and science, Ikonisys is dedicated to helping physicians and researchers realize the promise of rare cell detection to give patients the best chance of managing their disease.