Work Market
Work Market is a new venture that is building a modular web platform designed to power anyone or any business to efficiently deliver and manage labor and services.
Tashtego
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Triggit
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ExtensionFM
ExtensionFM is a browser extension for Chrome that turns the entire web into your personal music library. As you browse, ExtensionFM runs in the background organizing every MP3 file you come across, building a music library for you. ExtensionFM will continue to check the sites you’ve visited, adding new music for you to listen to every day.
ExtensionFM was founded by Dan Kantor, Charles Smith and Marshall Jones and is based in New York City.
gdgt
PastFuture, Inc. is the parent company of gdgt, a social gadget platform that enables you to connect with the community through your gadgets, and connect with your gadgets through the community. It’s a place for you to engage with your devices and hang out with people who are as passionate about their gear as you are.
IPWireless
IPWireless broadens the horizons of 3GPP, the world’s preeminent mobile standard, to support a range of compelling new applications and untapped global spectrum bands. With its complete end-to-end 3GPP solutions, including chipsets, devices, and complete network solutions, the Company enables mobile operators and other new wireless entrants from the government, consumer electronics, and other sectors, to deliver a new generation of wireless services. The company’s proven high-performance mobile broadband solutions have been deployed by a set of marquee customers around the globe in both the commercial and government markets including T-Mobile, New York City’s Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT), and some of the first 700MHz deployments in the United States. IPWireless’ award winning mobile broadcast solutions have been tested by some of the largest mobile operators in the world, and allow device, chipset and network vendors to accelerate their offerings for Integrated Mobile Broadcast (IMB), the GSMA endorsed mobile broadcast standard.
Aviary
Aviary is a pioneer of a creative application suite in the cloud. With a suite of digital creation and editing software available as an online service, Aviary offers a simple and cost-effective solution for creators of all genres – from graphic design to audio editing – to express their creative talents and participate in the burgeoning market for digital goods. Aviary’s founders are well established in the online art community, having previously founded the popular art competition website, Worth1000.com. Based in Long Island, NY, Aviary is backed by Spark Capital, Bezos Expeditions and a prominent network of investors, including angel investors Reid Hoffman and Joi Ito.
Altius Education
Altius Education partners with academic institutions to help them unlock the potential of their existing curricula. By establishing separate legal entities and providing them with the key financial and strategic resources, Altius Education is able to transform academic institutions’ existing curricula into fully-formed online college programs. The company’s strategy is to identify gaps in the postsecondary education market and leverage partnerships, capital, online learning capacity and marketing experience to create focused college programs to serve market needs. Altius Education has proven success with its initial college, Ivy Bridge College, which provides innovative online associate degree programs with unparalleled access to mentoring and support and transferability to four-year colleges and universities.
Linkwell
Linkwell is building the largest audience of condition specific individuals in partnership with health care insurance companies. Linkwell enables health care insurance companies to positively change behavior of their members while letting brand markets reach highly qualified individuals.
Boxee
Boxee is the first social media center, an open-source software platform for entertainment across computers or traditional living room devices. Boxee’s TV-like interface lets users enjoy personal videos, music, and photos as well as content from Internet services like Hulu, CBS.com, Last.fm, Flickr, etc. In addition, users can share information about what they’re watching with friends so they can find it legally and enjoy it too. All this, from within a visually driven interface that makes media come to life.
Verivue
Verivue is an early stage company developing advanced networking solutions for the distribution of digital media services. The Company’s executives and founders are all experienced and successful entrepreneurs with extensive background in the design, development and marketing of innovative products for the service provider market segment.
Twitter is a new kind of communication utility inspired by the concept of a status or “away” message. Updates of 140 characters or less are shared in real-time among networks of individuals through Twitter over a variety of existing services around the world. Twitter currently works over Mobile Texting (SMS), Instant Message, Social Networks and other web sites, and hundreds of specialty applications built on an open API. For more information please visit twitter.com.
Tumblr
Tumblelogs are the refreshingly simple new way to share anything you find, love, hate, or create.
Tumblr is a web service that makes it easy to express yourself online in beautiful style. With Tumblr a user can create a tumblelog. A tumblelog is short-form blog that often consists of mixed media and multiple posts that flow together; the result is often a stream of consciousness of the author. Tumblr is located in New York, and the Founder and CEO is David Karp.
Kateeva
Kateeva is committed to making Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) based displays the dominant flat panel display technology.
thePlatform
Headquartered in Seattle, thePlatform is an industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions. The company’s flagship product, thePlatform Media Publishing System (MPS), is a comprehensive solution for media, entertainment and enterprise customers. With thePlatform MPS, customers can publish digital media anywhere - over any network, to any device. Leading customers include ABC News, Amp’d Mobile, Bank of America, CNBC, Comcast, Court TV, GoTV Networks, Microsoft, National Geographic, Scripps Networks, The Wall Street Journal Online and Verizon Wireless. Custom feature enhancements and seamless systems integration are a simple matter using thePlatform’s Web services MPS-SDK.
ThePlatform was acquired by Comcast in 2006.
SendMe
SendMe, Inc. is a leading provider of “direct-to-consumer” mobile entertainment, offering the broadest selection of mobile subscription services available online in the US. Whether it’s interactive mobile trivia, the latest ringtones and wallpaper, mobile sweepstakes or one of its many other services, SendMe is focused on delivering the best wireless entertainment content and experiences straight to consumers.
Founded in June 2006, SendMe’s venture capital financing comes from Spark Capital, True Ventures, Amicus and a select group of angel investors/advisors. For more information please visit www.SendMe.com.
Next New Networks
Next New Networks is TV for the Internet. As the leading independent producer of online video Next New Networks creates, packages, brands, markets and syndicates some of the Web’s most popular regularly scheduled and episodic programming. Since its inception in March 2007, the company has launched over twenty networks, and its programming has been viewed more than 500 million times. Headquartered in New York City, Next New Networks is privately held.
Menara Networks
Menara Networks is an early stage company developing unique products that greatly simplify the layered optical networks. Leveraging our team’s extensive and complementary expertise, we have developed fundamental and proprietary innovations. Menara products enable optical networks with far superior performance and fewer network elements. They provide equipment vendors with unique opportunities for expanded addressable markets and new revenues; and translate into simplified network engineering rules, faster service turn-up, and significant reduction in the capital and operational expenditures for service providers.
For more information, see www.menaranet.com.
OneRiot
OneRiot, formally Me.dium, is a realtime search engine. OneRiot prioritizes its search results based on their current social relevance, delivering fresh news, stories, blogs and videos for any topic as they emerge on the web.
Mandalay Media
Mandalay Media is a development stage company created by leading executives from the entertainment and investment industries and co-chaired by Peter Guber and Rob Ellin. Mandalay Media will be focused on building a strategic combination of new media distribution and content assets. Twistbox Entertainment will be the foundation for Mandalay Media’s mobile and interactive offerings. Twistbox has direct on-deck distribution with over 100 mobile operators, operates in more than 40 countries and has products and services including video rich WAP sites, mobile TV and in-house developed mobile games that reach more than one billion handsets.
KickApps
KickApps, located in mid-town Manhattan provides a highly scalable, fully hosted application service for major media, content and corporate websites. Does your website KickApps?
Intune
Intune Networks is a leading supplier of optical networking technology based on tuning colours of light. This technology enables consumers to tune circuits on demand to deliver triple play services to their homes, such as HDTV, Internet, Peer-to-Peer and Voice Services.
Inform
Inform provides market leading products and technology solutions that allow publishers to automatically create editorial quality, contextual links to news, related articles, and customizable topic pages. The highly relevant links point to content on publishers own sites, in their archives, as well as anywhere else on the Web. Inform structures and organizes massive amounts of unstructured content for any media company. The Inform solution allows readers to spend more time and view more pages ultimately leading to additional revenue opportunities for the publisher.
OMGPOP
OMGPOP is a platform that enables the creation and distribution of fun, arcade style, multi-player games. OMGPOP syndicates it’s content across leading gaming sites and social networks, ensuring that everybody can be a little less productive everyday
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Covestor
Covestor is the world’s largest online investment management platform. It empowers everyday people to experience returns comparable to those of proven investors.
Bug Labs
Bug Labs is developing BUG, an open, modular, consumer electronics web services + hardware platform. Designed for the general audience, not just the technically inclined, Bug seeks to bring to the world of hardware gadgets what the Internet, open source, XML and web services have brought to the world of software and media. The company was founded in 2006 by Peter Semmelhack, the founder of Antenna Software.
Admeld
AdMeld solutions blend advertising operations and agile software development to drive advertising revenue for online publishers.
Adap.tv
Adap.tv makes the most of online video advertising. Through its flagship offering, Adap.tv OneSource, the first open and universal video ad platform, publishers can seamlessly monetize and increase the quality and success rate of online video advertising across all networks and all formats. With a single point of control, publishers can match their online video inventory from a collective sum of ad networks based on contextual analysis and past viewer behavior.
8D World
8D World is the creator of Wiz World Online (www.wizworldonline.com), a virtual world focused on teaching English as a Foreign Language to the world’s 1 billion English learners in a highly motivating environment.
5min
5min Media is the leading vertically focused Internet video company. 5min reaches an audience of over 30 million unique viewers a month and is the #1 video company online (comScore) in the following categories: Food, Home and Garden, Auto, Health, Video Games, Beauty/Fashion, Travel, Technology, and Pets. With a managed library of over 200,000 vertically segmented professionally produced videos, 5min’s proprietary VideoSeed technology accurately matches the most relevant video to the right page across the Internet.
