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Customers.ai is the easy-to-use B2C outbound marketing and sales automation platform designed for marketers and business owners.
Yogi is a SaaS tool that companies use to track and quantify customer feedback. As companies push to become more customer centric, the amount of customer feedback that these organizations obtain has grown exponentially. But at the end of the day, turning this data into actionable insights is still a struggle. Some of the most recognizable brands in
the world still rely on 100% human effort to put together and make sense of things like reviews, survey results, and user interviews. With Yogi, we’re setting out to fix this. Yogi uses AI and Natural Language Processing to take the unstructured data from these disparate sources and analyze them at a level previously not possible, diving deeper into what customers are talking about, how they’re reacting to it, and what this could mean for business.
Aavenir’s next-gen Source-to-Pay suite revolutionizes age-old procurement processes by using the latest Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing technologies to reduce cycle time, yet offering insightful best practices suggestions based on historical data.
Unwrap.ai is building tools to help companies that create digital experiences be more customer centric by easily collecting qualitative customer feedback (e.g. bug reports, support cases, NPS surveys, app store reviews) and automatically turning it into actionable insight. The high-level idea is to unify all of this feedback into a central hub and use NLP to automatically cluster, tag, and track feedback over time to give product owners a sense of top customer needs and instantly identify changes in customer behavior.
Pearly is the dental financial engagement platform that boosts practice profitability and keeps patients smiling.
Forward thinking dental practices trust Pearly to boost collection rate, accelerate cash flow, generate subscription revenue from uninsured patients, save valuable staff time, and deliver a modern financial experience to patients.
FoodReady establishes food safety and quality management system certification programs, trains you to implement the programs in parallel with automated software, and works with you to pass audits or inspections.
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HeyTutor is an online platform connecting tutors, students, and agencies hyper-locally. HeyTutor improves outcomes by making the market accessible to tutors, and efficiencies attainable to agencies.
Snag is a mobile convenient store that delivers everything from your favorite snacks to school supplies in about 10 minutes. By using electric scooters and bikes as our means of transportation, we are able to more efficiently and sustainably complete deliveries. Currently serving college communities in California, Colorado, Kansas, and Ohio.
Lionize's platform uses artificial intelligence to make finding and managing Creators your new superpower. Lionize turns hours of work per week into minutes.
CLIQ is here to make it easier for you to experience the outdoors—and to make it more comfortable. With over $1.5 million raised from Indiegogo backers, Southern California’s flagship product, the CLIQ CHAIR (formerly GO CHAIR), is the only portable chair that folds down to the size of a water bottle and pops open with a click. You never know when a can’t-miss moment is going to happen, but you can always be ready to go with CLIQ CHAIR.
Flip is an AI-powered voice automation platform that allows brands to thrive over the phone — offering great support at a fraction of the cost through a personalized Alexa-like experience.
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Guava is a patient-centric app that helps people organize and take control of their health by tracking their medical records, lab tests, fitness devices, and more.
Designalytics provides the industry's first system for maximizing design-driven brand growth. Our syndicated data lays the groundwork by detailing the current design performance for your brand and your key competitors. Next, on-demand testing for prospective designs helps you select the option with the greatest sales potential.
Our unique insights are crafted using peer cohorts and B2B technology vendors, providing unprecedented visibility into industry best practices and blueprints for future growth.
HealthArc enables comprehensive virtual healthcare by combining procurement and management of devices, intelligent clinical software for patient care, and a clinical team specializing in chronic diseases.
Prior Investments
Procore Technologies, Inc. provides cloud-based construction software to clients across the globe. Using its award-winning suite of project management tools, hundreds of thousands of registered Procore users manage all types of construction projects including industrial plants, office buildings, apartment complexes, university facilities, retail centers, and more.
Surfline/Wavetrak, Inc. specializes in providing live and predicted ocean weather information, editorial content, and consulting services to consumers, businesses, and government agencies worldwide.
Headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, the Company is focused on enabling its customers to pursue peak surfing, marine, and fishing experiences through the Surfline.com, Buoyweather.com, and Fishtrack.com brands on the web and mobile platforms.
HG Insights is a proven and trusted source of sales and marketing intelligence data.
HG Insights uses advanced data science to provide B2B companies a better way to analyze markets and target prospects to achieve remarkable results in their marketing and sales programs. We offer the most comprehensive technographics in the industry, indexing billions of unstructured documents each day to produce a detailed census of the technologies companies use to run their business. This is powerful information you can use to out-market, out-sell, and outgrow your competition.
SMS Assist is one of America’s fastest-growing technology companies and is revolutionizing the multisite property management market with a network of over 20,000 subcontractor Affiliates and 140,000+ client locations, all using the SMS proprietary technology platform.
This technology allows radical transparency of all services performed, so every service is done on time and on budget for our growing list of national and Fortune 500 clients. We aren’t just technology experts. SMS Assist has a 24/7 operational command center at its Chicago headquarters, staffed by highly trained project managers and subject-matter experts focused on delivering knowledgeable, responsive service for every client need.
Simple Mills began out of a necessity and a desire for food that is simple, healthy, and delicious.
In her very own living room in North Carolina, Katlin made the very first Simple Mills muffin mixes one-by-one, using intentional ingredients that made her feel great.
Now based in Chicago, Simple Mills continues the tradition of baking with love. The brick walls, big windows, and mini kitchen of our little office are still where our baking innovations come from. Occasionally, however, we’ll stop to laugh at the weird stuff, get excited about accomplishments big and small, or break out the kombucha and have a dance party.
Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. more than 9,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.
Meetup's mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.
Learn more on the Meetup HQ Blog.
Acquired by WeWork in 2017.
Kate Farms began with determined parents and a formula developed to save their young daughter who was failing to thrive. This simple yet transformative idea of a formula that heals has grown into a family of medical nutrition formulas that help many discover new possibilities.
Today doctors, dietitians, parents, caregivers, and those with medical and dietary needs are empowered with the choice of a new formula. It’s the nourishment that makes you feel good because we all deserve nothing less.
Thankful is an A.I. Agent that deflects 20-50% of your inbound queries -- the repetitive tasks -- leaving your agents more time to solve difficult and interesting issues.
Thankful works directly in your helpdesk and sees tickets as they arrive. Just like your agents, if Thankful knows how to handle a ticket, it begins a conversation where it collects information, looks up customer records, enforces business rules before replying in your brand voice.
WELL is making patient communication simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.
WELL is the trusted communication platform that connects patients to healthcare organizations via text, phone, email, and live chat. We believe that talking to a healthcare provider should be as simple and easy as talking to friends and family.
WELL is used by some of the world’s most innovative and well-known healthcare organizations to improve staff efficiencies through dramatic reductions in call volume and no show rates, unify outreach across software applications, and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
COR is a profitability and project management tool with artificial intelligence that predicts delivery delays and money loss without interfering with your team’s daily work.
Besides being the most user-friendly management tool for assigning tasks, recording hours worked, and collaboration between team members, COR also recommends what to do, with whom and when ensuring that tasks are delivered on time and maintain expected profitability margins.
It doesn’t matter where your collaborators are, COR provides context for every communication, keeping the flow of messages and related files for each task, project, and client through process automation. Forget about misunderstandings and watch the deliveries and advances of your team in real-time.
Uploading tasks and hours is an unnatural process any company tries to avoid. Through machine learning, COR automates workflows with pre-loaded project templates and suggested hours. This generates processes in companies, enabling them to climb the ladder while adopting the tool naturally.
Creative agencies like Ogilvy, Y&R, BBDO, DDB, Havas, Dentsu, McCann, FCB, among others, use COR to predict profits, allocate resources, and minimize delays.
Boulevard is an intelligent scheduling solution and comprehensive point of sale system that increases revenue and lowers costs for salons, spas, and other appointment-based businesses.
Boulevard was founded with the fundamental belief that personal care should be convenient for all. Our mission is to maximize the potential for salons and spas, as well as the clients they serve.
Developed in collaboration with industry-leading owners and operators, our scheduling, point of sale, and conversation platform was carefully designed to drive revenue, automate workflows, and convert customers from visitors into valuable, long-term clients. By facilitating a better, personalized experience across every transaction and interaction, Boulevard’s technology not only helps salons and spas to survive but thrive.
As a venture-backed startup based in Los Angeles, we are innovating at the intersection of luxury and lifestyle. We are thoughtfully unapologetic about challenging the status quo in pursuit to help people become the best version of themselves. We use technology, design, and style to unleash the untapped potential in all of us, drive real results, and we're just getting started!
Xeno is a biopharmaceutical company pioneering a novel class of therapeutics to address large unmet needs in metabolic diseases. Lead program, XEN-101, is a first-in-class, oral formulation designed to shift the gut microbiome to the weight-loss associated state induced by Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery.
Xeno is developing a first-in-class pharmacotherapy to mimic the surgery-induced microbiome shift and weight loss from Gastric Bypass Surgery.
XEN-101, Xeno's lead product candidate, is an oral-pill formulation designed to deliver molecular oxygen to the lower gut, and thereby mimic the microbiome shift and weight loss induced by Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) surgery.
To date, XEN-101 has shown profound weight loss efficacy in human subjects and animal models.
Snapwire's mission is to enable people with a passion for photography to thrive doing what they love.
Snapwire connects a new generation of creators with businesses and brands that need on-demand creative imagery. Buyers post requests on Snapwire, and creators submit photos that match. Buyers get custom photos that elevate their projects and creators earn money doing what they love.
Learn more about how Snapwire works for creators and for buyers.
Teamworks is the leading ATHLETE ENGAGEMENT™ platform, built by athletes, for athletes. Our software and app make everything easier for elite athletic teams – from scheduling and communication to sharing files and managing travel. We help more than 3,000 elite athletic teams connect and collaborate so they can focus on winning.
Whistle believes there is a better way to run your hotel. A more efficient, less invasive way where guests are engaged from booking through departure. We're passionate about what we do, and our mission is to help hotels achieve it. We focus on bridging the gap between your guests and your team, simplifying the experience for everyone involved. Through our software, Whistle’s goal is to become the digital front desk for your hotel, reducing the workload of your staff while elevating the guest experience.
IntentX's mission is to infer user intent and monetize through engaging offers at scale.
This led them to develop solutions like native commerce marketplaces, native cashback platforms, and skill marketplaces that blur user transitions across the purchase journey.
By partnering with them, you’ll create incremental revenue streams while influencing inspired readers at scale and close the loop with actionable results.
TeamStormIt is a time-tested tool for rapid innovation. Innovators achieve success by solving tough problems. TeamStormIt to find the best solutions to any problem through a simple, proven process that allows all ideas to be heard.
Ditto provides a fast way for friends to socialize around common activities. It’s a bridge to get you from where you are to where you want to be. Using geolocation and lightweight messaging, Ditto facilitates real-world social connections and gets users off their phones and out in the world. Ditto strengthens current friendships, rekindles old friendships, and allows users to find new friends through the Discover feature.
Ditto is social, NOT media.
We provide advisory to Imgflip as well, but have not invested.
Graphiq's mission is to drastically simplify the process of obtaining the world's knowledge. We turn complicated data into vivid and contextually-rich visualizations and knowledge products.
Everything we do is built upon our Knowledge Graph, the world's deepest and most interconnected collection of data points and contextual information on the internet. It's made up of 120 billion data points, describing 1 billion entities across 1,000+ collections. Our Knowledge Graph relies on thousands of public and private data sources and a dedicated team of 60+ researchers and data scientists who continuously maintain, relate, and develop it.
Every day, millions of people interact with our Knowledge Graph through our vertical search engines. The world's leading journalists enrich their articles with our authoritative visualizations. Enterprise customers gain direct access to our Knowledge Graph to make their products more compelling and interactive.
Graphiq was acquired by Amazon in 2017.
1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. is a floral and gourmet foods gift retailer and distribution company in the United States. It was one of the first retailers to use a 24 x 7 toll-free telephone number and the Internet for direct sales to consumers.
Nine Star features SoCal's best selection of skate, surf, snow, and BMX gear, clothing, and footwear. Nine Star carries Burton, Channel Islands, Volcom, RVCA, Krew, Libtech, O'Neill, Nike SB, and more.
DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google which develops and provides Internet ad serving services. Its clients include agencies, marketers (Universal McCann, AKQA, etc.), and publishers who serve customers like Microsoft, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Motorola, L'Oréal, Palm, Inc., Apple Inc., Visa USA, Nike, Carlsberg among others. DoubleClick's headquarters is in New York City, United States.
IBM Internet Security Systems, formerly Internet Security Systems, and often known simply as ISS or ISSX (after its former NASDAQ ticker symbol) is a security software provider founded in 1994. The company was acquired by IBM in 2006.
Intercomputer Communications Corporation was a microcomputer to mainframe inter-connectivity company that achieved annual revenues of $35 million before being acquired by DCA in 1992.
Flexplay Technologies, Inc. is a developer and supplier of limited-life optical media technology. Flexplay time-limited DVDs offer unlimited, perfect-quality DVD playback in any standard DVD player, but only within a pre-set viewing window that begins when the user opens the sealed Flexplay DVD package. Shortly after the viewing period elapses, the Flexplay DVD becomes unplayable and can be safely recycled or discarded.
Campus Explorer believes that everyone deserves a fulfilling education, no matter the name or place. We think that given the proper tools, anyone shopping for college or continuing education can find the perfect fit.
Pinnacor, Inc., formerly ScreamingMedia, Inc., provides information and analytical applications to financial service companies and global corporations. It delivers information-based applications and tools, as well as customized data and news packages that help businesses serve their external and internal clients. Pinnacor's solutions include market data and investment analysis tools for financial service firms; critical business information for the enterprises; and personalized portal applications and messaging services for wireless carriers and Internet service providers. It serves brokerage firms, asset management firms, investment banks, credit card companies, and other consumer finance and real estate financing companies. The company was founded in 1993.
Travidia is a digital advertising company with the most complete and sophisticated marketing tools for the online advertising segment of business websites. Travidia’s tools create marketing and revenue opportunities by combining ROP, special sections, classifieds, pre-prints and inventory into one online venue. Travidia has worked with many national retailers and media groups for over seven years to develop this retail-centric, online marketplace, which enhances online revenue opportunities.
Hotjobs.com provided tools and advice for job seekers, employers, and staffing firms. It was acquired by Yahoo in 2002, then acquired by Monster Worldwide, owner of its major competitor Monster.com in 2010—leading to its merger with Monster. com and eventual closure.
Local Market Launch has developed proprietary technology, methods, and relationships that allow us to distribute enhanced business data to these digital channels very easily and cost effectively. Our proprietary technology creates, corrects, and claims business-listing profiles across thousands of digital portals on behalf of the business, providing each business location with an easy to use interface to monitor and update the listings as needed.
Our mission is to simplify the foundational process of local presence management. We provide our user-friendly trupoint synchronization technology platform to automate and manage local presence and business listings management solutions across all digital channels. Our SMB and brand products are sold through our digital agency, newspaper group, and yellow page publisher partners.
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