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33across
33Across has built a groundbreaking marketing technology called SocialDNA™ Targeting. This technology enables clients to discover and reach the social networks that surround their brands. At its core, 33Across technology helps marketers identify high-potential prospects who are socially connected to existing customers and brand loyalists. For consumers, we offer highly relevant advertising and a more user-friendly web experience.
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9flats
9flats is a European-based marketplace for short term stay rentals, to facilitate smarter and more local travel. It is a platform for private individuals to rent shared rooms and apartments for extra income. 9flats launched in February 2011 and currently lists accommodations ranging from a place on a couch to a luxury apartment.
Website
http://www.9flats.comCEO
Stephan UhrenbacherLocation
39 Mission GmbH
Ritterstrasse 12-14
Berlin, Germany -
9Gag
9Gag is an image-based daily joke site, which centres around user-uploaded, comical images. The site had 1 billion monthly pageviews as of December 2011. The website is mainly known for recurring use of Internet memes where users can vote and comment on images, with the newest and most popular appearing in chronological order.
Website
https://9gag.com/CEO
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Ad.ly
Adly is the only social in-stream activation platform that understands celebrity trends that drive consumer engagement with a brand. Adly provides efficient creation and amplification of branded social conversations at scale, empowering brands to reach hundreds of millions of relevant consumers instantaneously. We measure consumer reactions and behaviors to earned social capital via one of the largest celebrity networks in digital, ultimately serving brands with a more robust, targeted approach to connect with consumers across various social channels and multiple devices. Based in Beverly Hills, Adly has executed 19,000+ campaigns, gaining unique expertise in helping advertisers build awareness, drive engagement and achieve ROI online.
Website
http://www.ad.lyCEO
Walter DelphLocation
8899 Beverly Blvd
Suite 909
West Hollywood, CA 90048
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ACQUIRED
Adenyo
Website
http://www.adenyo.comCEO
Tyler NelsonLocation
130 Spadina Avenue
Suite 606
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2L4 -
App Annie
App Annie is the leading app store data analytics and market intelligence provider for the iOS Store, Mac Store, and Android Store.
App Annie’s mission is to help businesses do “The Math Behind the App Stores” and make educated business decisions about the app store ecosystem through best-in-class technology infrastructure, analytics platforms, advanced statistical models and a world-class team of data engineers.
Website
http://www.appannie.comCEO
Bertrand SchmittLocation
Suite 2802, Tower D
Sanlitun Soho
8 Gongrentiyuchang Beilu
Chaoyang District
Beijing, China 100026 -
ACQUIRED
AwesomenessTV
AwesomenessTV is a tween focused Youtube Network that draws upon its founder Brian Robbins considerable experience developing successful programming for traditional media (Smallville, Varsity Blues, Nickelodeon). In the short time since its launch in the summer of 2012, AwesomenessTV has drawn close to 50MM views on its programming and over 200K subscribers.
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ACQUIRED
Babble Media
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Balcony TV
BalconyTV – “Music With A View” – is a leading, digital distribution channel for showcasing curated, short-form acoustic music concerts performed in outdoor venues all over the globe. The business was founded in Dublin in 2006 by entrepreneur Stephen O’Regan, and has grown to host a library of over 7,000 pieces of live concert footage, performed by both independent artists and more established musicians. BalconyTV has seen over 30 million video views since inception, and has expanded to include local editions in over 35 cities around the world. The site has won numerous awards, helped launch the careers of bands including “The Script,” and currently serves over 50,000 video views daily.
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BaubleBar
BaubleBar is a fashion jewelry ecommerce company. Retailers have historically used the fashion jewelry category to enhance overall margins with large markups. Designers are dissatisfied the current arrangement, since with large retail markups, retailers push lower volumes. Consumers are dissatisfied with the poor value and limited selection available in the category. BaubleBar was launched in January 2011 as a branded ecommerce platform that provides designers a new distribution channel and consumers a new retail destination.
Website
http://baublebar.com/CEO
Daniella Yacobovksy & Amy JainLocation
230 Fifth Avenue, Suite 612
New York, NY 10001
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BetterCloud
BetterCloud is the leading provider of cloud management and security tools for Google Apps. FlashPanel, its flagship product, used by over 15,000 companies and 5.5 million users worldwide, is a directory management and Google Drive security application that empowers Google Apps administrators by providing added controls, visibility, automation and more. BetterCloud also powers Ask the Gooru, which provides free Google Apps training videos and aims to further the adoption of Google Apps. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City.
Website
http://www.bettercloud.com/CEO
David PolitisLocation
299 Broadway
Suite 1310
New York, NY 10007 -
Braintree
Braintree is the fastest growing payment platform for online and mobile businesses, offering all the tools merchants need to accept payments and provide consumers a frictionless experience at checkout. Braintree provides merchants with a secure payment gateway, merchant account, recurring billing and credit card storage, as well as industry-leading customer service and an easy-to-integrate API. Braintree operates internationally, and allows merchants in North America and Europe to accept payments in over 130 currencies. Braintree’s subsidiary, Venmo, offers a digital wallet and person-to-person payment application that extends Braintree’s payment platform to consumers, making it easy for consumers to make payments on mobile devices.
Website
https://www.braintreepayments.com/CEO
Bill ReadyLocation
111 N Canal St
Suite 455
Chicago, IL 60606
1134 Crane Avenue
Suite 200
Menlo Park, CA 94025 -
ACQUIRED
Buddy Media
Buddy Media enables brands to build and deploy customized advertising campaigns across social media Web sites, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Buddy Media successfully transitioned into the recurring revenue software business from the custom development business in 2009, and in a short period of time the company’s platform has become the market leader for social media marketing. Buddy Media now powers the social media presence for over 1,000 brands globally, through both direct sales and agency channel partnerships. buddy Media also allows brands to use the detailed demographic reporting of social media in advertising that complements existing direct marketing efforts.
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Ceros
Ceros is a cloud-native content creation and distribution platform. Ceros provides brands and retailers with tools to create and distribute interactive content across desktop, mobile, and tablet devices instantaneously.
Website
http://www.ceros.comCEO
Simon BergLocation
235 West 48th Street, Suite 36J
New York, NY 10036 -
Collective
Collective is one of the largest advertising technology companies in the United States. Collective enables both brand and direct marketers to achieve superior results through sophisticated targeting technology, advanced advertising units, and proprietary media relationships.
Website
http://www.collective.comCEO
Joe ApprendiLocation
330 Madison Avenue
4th Floor
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CrowdComputing Systems, Inc.
CrowdComputing Systems, Inc. provides an AI software to complete end-to-end business processes by sourcing work from public crowds, private crowds and machine-automated workers.
Website
http://www.crowdcomputingsystems.comCEO
Max YankelevichLocation
1 Riverfront Plaza
Suite 300
Newark, NJ 07102
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Daily Secret
Daily Secret is introducing global audiences and advertisers to a popular and effective US digital media format – the curated email newsletter. Daily Secret was created to unlock the relationship between dynamic and emerging cities around the world and the people who love them. Our mission is to make the lives of its members that much more interesting by sending them one of of their city’s best kept secrets in a short, stunning email. Secrets can be anything – from a restaurant without a sign to a hush-hush event. Headquartered in Athens, Greece and New York, USA, Daily Secret publishes 27 editions in 15 cities and 6 languages, and reaches over 500,000 members every day.
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DigiSynd
Website
http://www.digisynd.comCEO
Oliver LuckettLocation
2525 North Naomi Street
Burbank, CA 91504 -
Elicit
Elicit gives marketers control over the single most-used feature on a website: the search box. With that power at your fingertips, conversion rates triple and abandonment drops by half. You’ve already paid for visitors to come to your site. Now make them customers.
Website
http://www.elicitsearch.comCEO
Adam Heneghan (President)Location
100 W. Kinzie St, Suite 200
Chicago IL 60654
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Epoxy
Epoxy is the brainchild of Juan Bruce and Jason Ahmad. Epoxy was born out of a need that Bruce saw while their to help companies producing digital media for YouTube to manage and expand their audiences. So Bruce teamed up with Ahmad, whom he knew from Stanford, as well as former Adobe and Mixpanel engineer Peter Skirko and designer Brendan Wypich. The four have since built a set of tools designed to help YouTubers optimize their publishing schedule, while also growing their audience and increasing engagement on their video networks. At a time when some of YouTube’s big multichannel networks are complaining about disappointing monetization on the site, Epoxy also hopes to help boost the amount that creators can make from their videos on YouTube.
Website
http://epoxy.tv/CEO
Juan BruceLocation
326 Indiana Ave, Suite A
Venice CA 90291
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etouches
etouches is a web‐based software as a service (SaaS) provider to the $3.0 billion global, meeting and event technology marketplace. The award‐winning software solution enables clients to realize the benefits of consolidation and control with simple web‐based tools for easy user adoption. Serving over 2,000 global event programs annually, the customer base includes top tier companies such as Volkswagen, Dell and The Financial Times.
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Extreme Reach
Extreme Reach enables advertisers and agencies to manage, execute, and track advertising campaigns across all video mediums, including broadcast, cable, web, mobile, and VOD. Extreme Reach provides a single-source solution that includes both ad serving and point A to point B delivery.
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Fanhattan
Fanhattan is an entertainment discovery service for the connected consumer, starring an immersive and revolutionary user experience — in the living room and on the go. Fanhattan inspires entertainment discovery by combining movies and TV shows with an expansive world of related content that brings entertainment to life: including reviews, ratings, recommendations, trailers, movie tickets, soundtracks, fan gear, cast and crew bios, celebrity news and more. Upon finding a movie or TV show, Fanhattan gives consumers a choice on where and how to watch across the top digital media services and beyond. By indexing on demand content, Fanhattan provides a simple starting point for discovering all the world’s entertainment. Fanhattan will initially be available on iPad, followed by other screens (big and small).
Website
http://www.fanhattan.comCEO
Gilles BianRosaLocation
4 W. 4th Avenue
Suite 401
San Mateo, CA 94402 -
Fight My Monster
Fight My Monster (FMM) is an online gaming destination (and virtual world) for kids built around collecting, trading, and fighting monsters in an educational environment. The Company is based in London, UK.
Website
http://www.fightmymonster.comCEO
Dominic WilliamsLocation
20 Milverton Road
London, UK NW6 7AS -
Fisoc
Fisoc provides products that regional, local bank, and credit unions can use to target consumers through social engagement and merchant rewards programs. Fisoc helps financial institutions increase transactions, improve account balances, and grow loan demand as they attract new customers through their BuzzBanking platform.
Website
http://www.buzzbanking.com/CEO
Jay ValanjuLocation
1005 W. 38th Street, Ste. 200
Austin, TX 78705
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Fortumo
Fortumo, founded in 2007, is the most developer-friendly mobile payments provider, enabling app and game developers to easily monetize their users through carrier billing. Fortumo has payment connectivity to over 300 mobile operators in 80 countries, including a number of exclusive direct carrier billing partnerships. With unique features like self-service signup and seamless UI, Fortumo’s mobile billing technology is used by some of the most awesome online and mobile publishers. Fortumo is headquartered in Estonia and has offices in San Francisco and Beijing
Website
http://fortumo.com/careersCEO
Rain RannuLocation
Fortumo OÜ
Ülikooli 6a
51003, Tartu
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Friendbuy
Friendbuy delivers engaging, organic and viral social media marketing for high-end brands in apparel, accessories, home and health & beauty. By offering performance-based incentives to consumers who Share, Friendbuy supercharges peer-to-peer conversations on behalf of retailers. Shoppers share products and purchases into Facebook, Twitter and over Email. When referrals lead to new purchases, sharers earn cash and other rewards. Friendbuy’s flexible reward options give shoppers a range of incentives from which to choose, allowing retailers to maximize sharing activity.
Website
http://friendbuy.comCEO
Manish GoyalLocation
9000 Sunset Blvd, Suite 710
West Hollywood, CA 90069 -
GameSalad
GameSalad brings 2D game creation for mobile and web to the masses.
GameSalad’s software client offers users a drag-n-drop editor for creating and publishing 2D games on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Web. With its GUI-based game editor, GameSalad allows consumers, regardless of programming or creative experience, to create and publish a game to the App Store and Internet.
Website
http://www.gamesalad.comCEO
Steve FelterLocation
10557-D Jefferson Boulevard
Culver City, CA 90232-3516 -
Glam Media
Glam Media is the pioneer and global leader of Vertical Media—a revolutionary new media model that combines our flagship properties with curated publisher sites and their passionate, engaged audiences. By pairing our 1400+ publishers worldwide with their large and growing properties: Glam.com for women; Brash.com for men; and Tinker.com for real-time conversations on social media sites across the Web, their vertical media model enables premium brands to connect with millions of passionate audiences online.
Website
http://www.glammedia.comCEO
Samir AroraLocation
2000 Sierra Point Parkway
Suite 1000, 10th Floor
Brisbane, CA 94005 -
HashGo
HashGo is a developer of casual games that leverage social media. The company is working on novel approaches for gaming that involve group dynamics.
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HealthPlanOne
HealthPlanOne offers an online platform for consumers to easily research and purchase individual, small group, and Medicare health insurance plans. Consumers can receive free quotes and compare features from a wide range of plans by leading national carriers. HPO provides both online and offline support from nationally licensed sales representatives who are trained to help consumers navigate the difficult process of selecting a health insurance plan.
Website
http://www.healthplanone.comCEO
William StapletonLocation
1000 Bridgeport Ave
4th Floor
Shelton, CT 06484 -
HIP Digital
Hip Digital is the leading company that enables promotions and rewards programs using premium digital content such as music, movies, ebooks, virtual goods and mobile apps.
The company works with Fortune 500 companies, such as General Mills, BofA, Citibank, Pepsi, Sprint, Budweiser, Wrigley’s, to help them increase sales and create consumer engagement through promotions and rewards with content.
Website
http://www.hipdigitalmedia.com/CEO
Baris KaradoganLocation
800 Menlo Avenue, Ste 220
Menlo Park, CA 94025
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HipSwap
HipSwap connects buyers and sellers locally. It’s a mobile and web marketplace that lets people shop the most fabulous closets, homes and stores in their neighborhood, as well as easily sell their things.
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Joyent
Joyent is the premier Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider offering cloud computing solutions worldwide since 2004. Delivering billions of page views per month, Joyent’s Smart Technologies improve performance, scalability, manageability and security for thousands of web and mobile applications. Serving a network of service providers and thousands of customers, Joyent is the only company that runs a major public cloud infrastructure, builds the technologies that power that infrastructure, and uses those technologies to enable multiple third-party public, private, and hybrid clouds.
Website
http://www.joyent.comCEO
Henry WasikLocation
345 California Street
Suite 2000
San Francisco, CA 94104 -
K2 Network
K2 Network is a leading publisher of Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG). Current titles include War Rock, Sword of the World, Knight Online and Runes of Magic. Using a free-to-play model, they have grown to over 28 million players in 160 countries, making them one of the largest networks in the Western Hemisphere.
Website
http://www.gamersfirst.comCEO
Bjorn Book-LarssonLocation
6440 Oak CanyonSuite 200
Irvine, CA 92618 -
Kingmaker
Kingmaker is an online video destination for online shows across a variety of verticals, helping people become smarter and savvier consumers. The concept focuses on educating its audience on certain products and monetizes through e-commerce instead of advertisements.
CEO
Guy GalLocation
1650 Marlay Dr.
Los Angeles, CA 90069
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Klout
Klout is the standard measurement of influence across the social web.
Klout allows users to track the impact of their opinions, links and recommendations across the social graph. Data is collected about the content users create, how people interact with that content, and the size and composition of their networks. Klout identifies influencers and provides tools for influencers to monitor their influence.
Website
http://www.klout.comCEO
Joe FernandezLocation
795 Folsom
First Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103 -
Koding
Koding is a developer community and cloud development environment where developers come together and code in the browser – with a real development server to run their code. Developers can work, collaborate, write and run apps without jumping through hoops and spending unnecessary money.
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Livefyre
Livefyre is changing the way people interact with publisher content. Designed for the social web, Livefyre replaces static comment sections with dynamic, real-time conversations that empower users and help build hyper-active communities.
Website
http://www.livefyre.comCEO
Jordan KretchmerLocation
657 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 -
LocalResponse
LocalResponse is a social advertising platform that aggregates public posts and “check-ins” across multiple platforms to help brands and businesses reach their customers. Brands and agencies use LocalResponse to leverage real-time inventory for mobile activation. Local businesses use LocalResponse to manage their customer relationships through a self-serve web interface.
Website
http://www.localresponse.comCEO
Nihal MehtaLocation
37 West 28th Street
5th Floor
New York, NY 10001
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Longtail Video
Longtail Video is the leading provider of affordable, self-serve online video solutions for anyone seeking to publish, stream, and monetize their video content. Longtail’s flagship product is the JW Player, a popular open source video and audio player for Web sites, which is actively used on over one million Web sites. The JW Player is available for Flash, HTML5, and Silverlight. To enhance the JW Player’s basic look and functionality, Longtail offers a series of plug-ins and skins for download through its AddOns library. AddOns are developed by independent developers, 3rd party partners, or in-house. They are delivered at the rate of nearly 1 billion times per month.
Website
http://www.longtailvideo.com/CEO
Dave OttenLocation
134 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
Postbus 1815
5602 CA Eindhoven, Netherlands -
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M5 Networks
Website
http://www.m5net.comCEO
Dan HoffmanLocation
245 West 17th Street
9th Floor
New York, NY 10011 -
Maker Studios
Maker Studios is one of the largest creators of episodic, entertainment-focused, web video content online. The studio provides production resources and marketing assistance to a strong roster of YouTube talent, garnering hundreds of millions of video views per month. Through its early entrance into YouTube, the Company has developed unique insights into what kind of content works best with YouTube audiences and how to cross-promote and move audiences around its network.
Website
http://www.makerstudios.comCEO
Danny ZappinLocation
5880 W Jefferson Blvd, Suite H
Culver City, CA 90016 -
Media Armor
Media Armor enables brands and retailers to drive incremental, cross-channel revenue through relevant messaging based upon who consumers are and the actions they take both online and offline.
Website
http://www.mediaarmor.comCEO
Elizabeth ZalmanLocation
596 Tremont Street #1
Boston, MA 02118 -
Merchantry
Merchantry provides cloud-based software that empowers media companies, retailers, and product manufacturers to launch and expand online marketplaces.
Website
http://www.merchantry.comCEO
Tommaso TrionfiLocation
355 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10017
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Mightybell
Mightybell is a social platform to motivate people to learn and do together in a social age. Mightybell is the first platform that brings content publishers together with their community in an engaging and interactive way and allows them to make money through subscriptions, e-commerce and advertising.
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MoVoxx
Website
http://www.movoxx.comCEO
Alec AndronikovLocation
710 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 210
Santa Monica, CA 90401 -
Nativo
The Nativo platform enables publishers to easily activate, deploy and manage native ad placements across their media properties. For marketers, the Nativo platform enables the distribution of branded content with scale, control, and relevancy. The placement is in the content well of each publisher site and marketer’s content is consumed on the site as an article- all perfectly matched to appear native on every site type and every device.
Website
http://www.nativo.net/CEO
Justin ChoiLocation
111 W Ocean Blvd, 18th Fl
Long Beach, CA, 90802
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Netsertive
Netsertive helps businesses transform online discovery into offline sales. Its high-performance Internet search and cooperative (co-op), co-branded display advertising technology ensures that local businesses are found when consumers search for brands, products and services. Most consumers go online first to conduct product research before going to a local firm to make a purchase. Netsertive’s sustained advertising campaigns are powered by patent-pending technology that actively maximizes targeted placements to drive sales opportunities to dealer channel websites.
Website
http://www.netsertive.comCEO
Brendan MorrisseyLocation
4601 Creekstone Drive
Suite 160
Research Triangle Park, NC 27703
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NewsCred
NewsCred puts content at the heart of every business. As the world’s leading content marketing and syndication platform, NewsCred provides brands and publishers with seamless access to fully-licensed articles, images and video from more than 1,500 world-class sources.
NewsCred empowers businesses to drive real revenue and engagement by delivering the content their audiences need, want and share. From niche editorial sections to social media and email marketing, NewsCred designs and builds custom content solutions with creativity, speed and scale.
Website
http://www.newscred.com/CEO
Shafqat IslamLocation
27 w. 24th St.
Suite 202
New York, NY 10010
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NiftyThrifty
NiftyThrifty.com sells high quality pre-owned and vintage clothing. Their merchandise is expertly sourced, stylishly merchandised, and painstakingly prepared to deliver the best online vintage experience possible. Based out of Brooklyn, NY, NiftyThrifty is a cutting edge company aimed at the style conscious, value conscious, and sustainability conscious urbanite who loves to look and feel good.
Website
http://www.niftythrifty.comCEO
Mark KingdonLocation
338 Berry Street
Suite 6NE1
Brooklyn (Williamsburg), NY 11211 -
Nimble TV
NimbleTV offers a cloud-based, no-hardware service that delivers subscription satellite video content anywhere, anytime, on any device, either live or time-shifted, and with infinite DVR capacity.
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Nomi
Your inbox is already overstuffed with POS reports, Category reports, the list goes on. You don’t need more analytics. You need more action. Nomi Listen provides real time actionable insight to help every level of your organization from the CMO to the store manager recognize and reward loyal customers. Nomi Measure helps you take that insight and determine what actually moves the needle for your business.
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NuOrder
NuORDER is the future of fashion wholesale for the world’s best brands and retailers. NuORDER takes the entire sales process online and mobile: orders, custom line sheets, product catalogs and inventory, as well as an exclusive marketplace for prospecting new accounts. In short, NuORDER is e-commerce for wholesale.
Website
http://www.nuorder.com/CEO
Heath WellsLocation
8455 Beverly Blvd Suite 401
Los Angeles, CA
90048 -
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Oggi Finogi
Website
http://www.oggifinogi.comCEO
Michael HymanLocation
13256 NE 20th St.
Suite 11
Bellevue, WA 98005 -
Openbucks
Openbucks enables users to pay for goods on the Internet (e.g., in-game virtual currency) using retail gift cards (e.g., Subway $25 gift card). Openbucks integrates directly with Internet merchants on their payment options page so that they can accept gift cards in addition to other forms of payment at checkout like credit cards. Openbucks currently targets game publishers but plans to expand its offering to other online merchants, including social networks and online commerce companies.
Website
http://www.openbucks.com/CEO
Marc RochmanLocation
2010 Broadway Street
Redwood City, CA 94063 -
ACQUIRED
paidContent.org
Website
http://paidcontent.orgCEO
Caroline LittleLocation
49 West 27th Street
10th Floor
New York, NY 10001 -
Parent Media Group, Inc.
Focusing on the young family marketplace, Parent Media Group’s (PMG) network of family-centric sites attracts parents at touch points that induce interactivity and loyalty. PMG’s sites offer contests, promotions, and deals from valued partners, photo galleries, social interaction and up-to-date articles, blogs and community forums. Parents gain the opportunity to explore all aspects of family life with the ease and accessibility of the web.
Their Sites Include:
www.thecutekid.com
www.canvaspeople.com
www.dealsformommy.com
www.parentsociety.comWebsite
http://http://www.parentmediainc.com/CEO
Greg Byrnes and Craig HandlemanLocation
451 Sunrise Hwy
Lynnbrook, NY -
PeopleLinx
PeopleLinx provides a scalable software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that empowers enterprise professionals to optimize their social presence and exceed their business goals using tools like LinkedIn. This customizable and flexible Social Business Optimization (SBO) software can quickly be deployed across the enterprise to provide employees with information about best practices, ongoing assessments, interactive tutorials, content libraries and other tools to help them be as effective as possible when navigating social networks for business. When integrated into the daily workflow, these features and capabilities produce tangible and measurable results across sales, marketing and human resources.
Website
http://peoplelinx.com/CEO
Nathan EganLocation
1835 Market Street
Suite 1105
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Performance Horizon Group
Performance Horizon Group (PHG) has developed a software platform that allows retailers and brands to bring their affiliate marketing programs in-house, with real-time transparency and global payment infrastructure.
Website
http://www.performancehorizon.comCEO
Malcolm CowleyLocation
New York: 55th and 6th, New York City, NY, 10019
London: 14 Greville Street, Unit LG05, EC1N 8SB
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Plain Vanilla
Plain Vanilla was founded with the plan to develop beautifully designed, user-centered and addictively entertaining games. Based in San Francisco and Reykjavik, Iceland the Plain Vanilla team includes amazing illustrators, motion artists, musicians, graphic designers and programmers who are passionate about creating amazing games. Plain Vanilla is developing QuizUp, the first multiplatform and real-time social trivia engine.
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Playdek
Playdek is a developer, publisher, and platform for the world’s best digital tabletop games.
Website
http://www.playdekgames.comCEO
Joel GoodmanLocation
2382 Faraday Avenue, Suite 140
Carlsbad, CA 92008
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Plum TV
PLUM is a national multi–platform lifestyle television network reaching over 6 million households. PLUM curates the best of the good life with programs focusing on home and real estate, décor, food and wine, style, travel and destinations, health and wellness, entertaining, art, design and culture, and more. The network focuses on the common passions of affluent consumers with original series, branded entertainment, and event and festival coverage. Consumers can tune to PLUM on cable television systems in the Hamptons, Philadelphia, Boston, Aspen, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and Telluride. PLUM programming can be viewed on plumtv.com, Hulu and Hulu Plus, YouTube.com/Plum, and social media sites.
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Precision Demand
Precision Demand is a leading provider of on-demand business intelligence solutions for direct marketers. Their products enable direct marketers to maximize the returns on their marketing investments. Precision Demand delivers value to marketers by automatically attributing post-sale customer metrics to media purchases. With the attribution complete, Lucid Commerce is able to provide dashboards that report the true ROI of every media purchase a marketer makes.
Website
http://www.precisiondemand.com/CEO
Jon MandelLocation
159 S. Jackson St.
Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98104 -
ProdThink
ProdThink does for Product Teams what Salesforce.com does for Sales Teams. It is a platform to gather & centralize product feedback, suggestions and priorities from customers & internal stakeholders on strategic features: Product Roadmap; Key Existing Features; or Planned Execution (Design, Prototypes, Beta pages, marketing materials, etc.).
Website
https://www.prodthink.com/site/demoCEO
Steven CohnLocation
242 West 30th Street, # 504
New York, New York 10001 -
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Pulse
Pulse is an elegant news reading application for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. It incorporates colorful panning story bars and fills them with content from your favorite sources. Pulse redefines news, giving you the opportunity to experience the news you desire from traditional sources, your favorite blogs and social networks – all in one interface.
Website
http://www.pulse.me/CEO
Akshay KothariJobs
http://pulse.theresumator.com/apply/5a6I9g/UIUX-Designer.html -
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Radiate
Radiate’s Content Management System is an unparalleled online publishing solution that is transforming hundreds of community newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations from “traditional media” to “new online media” success stories. Local online advertising is growing at over 40% per year and will reach $22B over the next 4 years. Radiate’s technology platform and business directory solution ensures our media partners can quickly capture a significant market share of local online advertising revenue.
Website
http://radiatemedia.com/CEO
Chris RotheyLocation
420 W. 1500 S.
Suite 200
Bountiful, UT 8401 -
Resonate Insights
Resonate was founded after a decade of research into how attitudes, values, and beliefs drive purchase decisions. By combining the right messaging, the right target consumer, and the right context, marketers can use Resonate’s tools to change minds or reinforce existing convictions.
Website
http://www.resonatenetworks.comCEO
Bryan GernertLocation
12010 Sunset Hills Rd
Suite 410
Reston, VA 20190
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Scopely
Scopely is developing social engagement games and applications that help people discover and build relationships with each other online, in real-time.
Website
http://www.scopely.comCEO
Walter DriverLocation
6615 Melrose Ave, Unit #3
Los Angeles, CA 90038 -
Skimlinks
Founded in 2007, Skimlinks is the leading content monetization platform that rewards publishers for the role their content plays in creating purchase intent. Skimlinks processes 300 million clicks a month on over 140,000 sites around the web, including Conde Nast, Gawker, AOL Europe, WordPress, Hearst Digital, Haymarket Consumer Media, Telegraph Media Group, and many more. Skimlinks is a team of 55 with offices in London, San Francisco, and New York.
Website
http://skimlinks.com/companyCEO
Alicia NavarroLocation
100 City Road
Transworld House
London, EC1Y2BP, GBR
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Sometrics
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http:// www.sometrics.comLocation
909 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Suite 860
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Sportgenic
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http://www.sportgenic.comCEO
Robert TasLocation
One Sansome Street
15th Floor
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SteelHouse
SteelHouse is an e-commerce retargeting company located in Los Angeles, CA. The Company has developed a real-time “behavioral commerce” technology to boost e-commerce conversions for any online retailer using retargeted ads (off-site) and custom offers (on-site). These ads and offers are built to push customers “over the edge” when considering a purchase online.
Website
http://www.steelhouse.comCEO
Mark DouglasLocation
5870 W Jefferson Blvd, Suite F
Los Angeles, CA 90016
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Tagman
“Tag Management System with Real-time Attribution”
A smart container for e-commerce sites, to manage online marketing tags/pixels (the pieces of code used by the digital advertising industry to track the performance of online campaigns) – and the data they provide – much more effectively, independently and with more control over privacy.
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The Huffington Post
Website
http://www.huffingtonpost.comCEO
Eric HippeauLocation
560 Broadway
Suite 308
New York, NY 10012Jobs
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TheRealReal
The RealReal is an online consignment business focused on curating and authenticating a full range of luxury products such as clothing, shoes, accessories, and jewelry. Sellers are given the option to select and send in their designer pieces with free shipping or opt to have one of TRR’s stylists go directly to a closet, price each item, and ship the pieces back to the warehouse. The Company receives items from the closets of the world’s most fashionable women and gives its members insider access to the world’s best previously owned accessories, jewelry, and clothing from well-known brands such as Louis Vuitton and Chanel, at up to 90% off of retail price.
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http://www.therealreal.comCEO
Julie WainwrightLocation
480 Gate Road 5, Suite 113
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Trunk Club
Based in Chicago, Trunk Club is a personal shopping service that will send customers a box (or “trunk”) full of clothes based on their style preferences. The clothes are handpicked by stylists, and then customers keep the items they like and send the rest back. Shipping is free both ways, and customers only pay for the clothing items they keep.
Website
http://www.trunkclub.comCEO
Brian SpalyLocation
311 W. Superior St
Suite 504
Chicago, IL 60654
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uSamp
uSamp is one of the world’s fastest growing online panel companies, providing survey panelists and technology for use in market research. The company’s web-based panel platform is transforming the management and delivery of online panels for market researchers. uSamp’s platform eliminates fraudulent, professional and duplicate survey takers while giving market researchers access to highly responsive, hard-to-reach panelists
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Viddy
Viddy is a simple way for anyone to capture, produce, and share beautiful videos with the world. Record a moment of your life, give it that cinematic look with production packs, and share it with those who matter most.
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Vitals
Vitals is the largest and most accurate physician database on the web. Vitals is free for consumers and contains up-to-date information on over 750,000 physicians across the US, including physician reviews, insurance coverage, published literature, hospital affiliation, education and medical specialty. Vitals provides consumers, through the Vitals Passport, with a comprehensive tool to manage all medical relationships.
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http://www.vitals.comCEO
Mitch RothschildLocation
1200 Wall Street West
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Vizu
Vizu provides a dashboard for brands, agencies, and publishers to measure brand lift in real time. Vizu’s AdCatalyst compares exposed versus control groups, and provides results by ad unit, frequency, and publisher website. For the first time advertisers can get statistically significant and actionable brand feedback around online ad campaigns.
Website
http://www.vizu.comCEO
Dan BeltramoLocation
185 Berry Street
Suite 4805
San Francisco, CA 94107
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WhoWhatWear
WhoWhatWear is the definitive authority for trend-setting fashionistas and their followers between the ages of 18-34. This multi-media brand, which reaches its audience through its online magazine and daily email newsletter covering the latest in celebrity fashion, runway trends, and beauty secrets, was launched by two former ELLE magazine editors in 2006 and has quickly become the essential resource among tastemakers everywhere.
Website
http://www.whowhatwear.comCEO
Katherine Power & Hillary KerrLocation
6351 Wilshire Blvd. #200
Los Angeles, CA 90048
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WideOrbit
WideOrbit provides advertising infrastructure software (primarily traffic, sales and billing systems) to television and radio broadcasters, cable and digital display networks, and handheld video.
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http://www.wideorbit.comCEO
Eric MathewsonLocation
2 Harrison Street
Suite 600
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Wochit
Digital content will soon outperform traditional news production. News will not be created by a few, select taste-makers, but instead, by endless sources with multiple points of view. Wochit is designed to fulfill that vision.
They have gathered a team of accomplished professionals, including TV production wizards and video technology experts. Boosted by partnerships that gives them access to the world’s finest, licensed content, we produce hundreds of news videos daily – about, quite literally, anything – as soon as the stories break.
Website
http://www.wochit.com/CEO
Dror Ginzberg