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Featured Companies

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Loopt
Loopt, based in Silicon-Valley and backed by leading venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates, has created an interoperable social-mapping service that allows individuals to use their location to discover the real world around them – enabling them to find and enjoy the people, places, and events that mean the most right here and now using their mobile phones.
With Loopt, individuals will always know who’s around, what to do, or where to go.
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W06

Wufoo
SaaS
Online form builder.
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W07

Heysan
Community
Free messaging on mobile phones.
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S08

Posterous
Email
Dead simple blogs by email.
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S09

Bump
Bump, Flock, Photoroll (unreleased) => Google Photos.
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Cardpool
Cardpool is a gift card exchange marketplace where anybody can buy, sell, or trade their new or pre-owned gift cards.
Customers can buy gift cards up to 30% off their face value, sell their gift cards for up to 90% of their face value in cash, trade their gift cards for an Amazon.com Gift Card, or donate their gift card to charity. Cardpool provides free shipping for both buyers and sellers, a 100-day return policy, and policy of only selling gift cards that have no expiration date and no monthly fees.
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Creative Market
Marketplace
Marketplace for graphic design assets.
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W10

Optimizely
Marketing
The first all-in-one operating system for marketing.
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S10

FutureAdvisor
Fintech
The online financial management service for everyone.
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Tutorspree
Education
Online tutoring marketplace.
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Codecademy
Education
The leading online learning platform for technical skills.
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W12

FarmLogs
Analytics
Software that helps farmers operate more profitable businesses.
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LendUp
Fintech
LendUp is a socially responsible company on a mission to redefine…
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Make School
Education
Make School is redesigning college for the 21st century. Students…
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Pixelapse
Design
Github for designers. We automatically keep track of revisions of…
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The Muse
Marketplace
The Muse is values-based job search & hiring for 7M+ monthly.
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Clever
Education
The platform that powers technology in the classroom.
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W14

Chargehound
FinOps
Automate your chargeback dispute process. (Acquired by PayPal)
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W14

SketchDeck
Operating system for creative agencies.
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Wit.ai
Developer Tools
Natural Language for Developers --Wit is an API that makes it easy…
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W15

Raven Tech
Our vision is to build the next generation of iOS or Android, to…
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S15

Triplebyte
SaaS
Intelligent technical hiring.
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S16

CrowdAI
Machine Learning
CrowdAI is the world's leading no-code platform for vision AI.
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S16

Saleswhale
Artificial Intelligence
Saleswhale is an automated sales assistant that follows up with your…
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S17

Honeydue
Fintech
The simplest way for couples to manage money, together.
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W18

Atrium
LegalTech
Modern law firm for startups powered by proprietary technology.
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W18

Storyline
B2B
Create Alexa Skills without coding.
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W20

Milo
Artificial Intelligence
The Family AI - a copilot for parents to tackle the invisible load of…
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S21

Opkit
SaaS
AI phone calls for the US healthcare industry.
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W21

Squire.ai
Artificial Intelligence
Never code alone.
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W23

Booth AI
Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce.
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W24

Delve
SaaS
AI that makes compliance effortless.
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