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Developer of an interactive content marketplace platform designed to provide a gamified content experience that allows people to test their knowledge in a fun and fair environment. The company offers a business-to-business model that embeds tech into other people's sites, apps, TV shows, and podcasts with artificial intelligence summarizes the content and makes it interactive without humans and helps individuals to place bets on their favorite brands, celebrities, musicians, and companies, enabling users to put their knowledge of mainstream culture and content to good use.

Developer of an all-in-one commerce & content platform designed to serve as a bridge between existing Web2 services and the Web3 ecosystem. The company's platform helps the creator turn their personal website into a creative library & digitally-native commerce platform, and expands the accessibility of Web3 to all creators, enabling them to build an interactive website, portfolio, or link-in-bio in minutes for every drop.

Cubbo is a startup that focuses on repurposing distressed real estate assets (e.g., unused brick-and-mortar outlets or abandoned strip malls) and turning them into spaces suited for new industries, such as urban micro-fulfillment spaces for online retail.

Credit card, rewards, and deposits all in one.

Flyp is a company that operates an artificial intelligence platform focused on reselling used goods. It facilitates the sale of second-hand clothing by connecting individual resellers with a decentralized network. The platform provides automation software and supply chain management systems that empower these resellers to turn used items into cash. By enabling both enterprises and consumers to liquidate their items efficiently, Flyp aims to simplify the resale process and create a more sustainable marketplace for pre-owned goods.

Developer of a SaaS platform designed to connect companies directly to consumers. The company's platform offers new insights and converts one-time buyers into loyal customers, also captures first-party data, fosters trust and drives consumer action and marketing materials into immersive digital experiences, enabling businesses to collect valuable zero-party consumer data.

Playhouse is a mobile application focused on enhancing the experience of discovering real estate. The app allows users to browse video listings of properties for sale, providing clear insights into various real estate options. By integrating property and neighborhood data with an engaging full-screen video feed, Playhouse enables customers to explore homes and their surroundings in a more dynamic and informative manner. This approach aims to simplify the real estate search process and improve consumer engagement with available properties.

LEX is a commercial real estate securities marketplace. A real estate fintech company, delivering a revolutionary new solution to the illiquidity problems facing real estate owners and investors through a new real estate investment platform.

A subscription online platform that makes it 10x easier for investor groups to collaborate, formalize, bank, pool capital, and buy private investments together. Common financial goals include Single-Family Rental real estate and Vacation Homes. The team is based in Columbus, OH, and led by seasoned entrepreneurs with deep expertise in marketplaces and payments. Travis Smith (Enterprise Payments @ Jack Henry), Zach Bowers, (FuelDrop, Founder), Josh Wilson, Larry Scott (ScriptDrop Founder), Kerry Dixon, Ph.D. (OSU, Professor), and Pete Kight (CheckFree, Founder/CEO $4.5B exit to Fiserv)

Cart.com is an integrated ecommerce platform that supports brands and distributors in enhancing their online operations. The company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including business planning, merchant financing, order fulfillment, and marketing solutions. By providing these tools, Cart.com enables clients to effectively manage their online businesses, fostering growth and improving the fulfillment of customer commitments. This unified approach to commerce and logistics helps businesses of all sizes scale their operations and increase revenue.

The community-building and wellbeing platform for the modern workforce

NewtonX, Inc. is an online marketplace that operates as a B2B market research company, founded in 2016 and based in New York. It connects professional services firms and financial institutions with senior professionals, particularly in the fields of corporate, management consulting, and investment. The company uses advanced technologies, including the NewtonX Graph and a machine learning-based Matching Algorithm, to facilitate real-time access to expert knowledge. This platform enables users to conduct large-scale quantitative surveys, qualitative interviews, and long-term consultations, while also offering customized research plans. By leveraging its sophisticated algorithm, NewtonX provides clients with instant access to verified business expertise, enhancing their ability to gather insights and make informed decisions.

Online rental marketplace providing owners with all the tools they need to rent out items around their home and allows renters to rent out items in their city.

Developer of data-driven software tools designed to connect e-commerce sellers with automated optimization strategies, business-building services, and access to growth capital. The company offers e-commerce businesses a suite of tools and applications to propel them forward and partners with leading platforms to further boost the company's financial health, raise capital, and explore exit opportunities, enabling e-commerce businesses to meet the specific needs and challenges of the online marketplace and DTC ecosystems.

GrubMarket, Inc. operates an online marketplace that connects sellers of food and related items with customers, offering a wide range of products at wholesale prices. The marketplace features organic, vegan, gluten-free foods, fresh produce, snacks, beverages, pantry items, home goods, health and beauty products, as well as items for babies, pets, and specialty diets like non-GMO and paleo. GrubMarket sources products from local farms, fisheries, commercial kitchens, certified home kitchens, and restaurants, ensuring a diverse selection for its customers. Additionally, the company provides a Software-as-a-Service platform for food delivery services and has developed GrubMarket FarmBox, a gaming application. Founded in 2014, GrubMarket is headquartered in Newark, California, with an additional office in San Francisco.

Operator of grocery company intended to supply fresh organic premium products. The company offers a range of products including meat, seafood, eggs, dairy, and fruits from local suppliers, farmers, butchers, bakers, and fishermen which are transported to the fulfillment center where they are packed in bags, boxes, and coolers, providing consumers with quality and fresh goods at affordable rates.

MakerSights Inc. is a product intelligence software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in providing product development solutions for consumer brands in the retail industry. The company's platform allows brand partners to effectively gauge customer demand for upcoming products and concepts by analyzing preferences for styles, colors, and product attributes. Through predictive analysis, MakerSights helps businesses forecast product sales, track shifts in consumer behavior, and identify both popular and underrated products. This information enables brands to make informed decisions throughout the product creation process, ultimately optimizing their resources and enhancing product design based on customer insights.

ShopShops is a livestream shopping platform that connects consumers with brick-and-mortar retailers across the globe, allowing users to shop from diverse stores directly through their mobile devices. Founded in 2016 by Liyia Wu, the company operates from its headquarters in New York City and Beijing. The platform offers an interactive experience, enabling customers to browse efficiently by location and access authenticated products from various brands and stores. By breaking down geographical barriers, ShopShops provides a unique shopping experience that combines curation and interaction, allowing fashion-savvy consumers to explore global retail offerings conveniently and affordably.

Connecting Shoppers with verified Travelers to deliver products by renting the traveler’s unused luggage space.

Sanctuary Ventures, Inc. is a company that develops and operates a digital platform catering to younger audiences interested in astrology, tarot, and supernatural experiences. Founded in 2016 and based in Venice, California, Sanctuary provides a variety of mystical products and services, including daily personalized horoscopes, real-time birth chart readings, and insights from professional astrologers. The platform aims to deliver illuminating experiences, helping users navigate existential questions through cosmic insights and personalized forecasts. By curating a community around these mystical themes, Sanctuary engages millennial audiences seeking guidance and understanding in their daily lives.

Alpha'a, Inc. is an online retail platform based in New York that specializes in connecting companies with visual arts through a business-to-business (B2B) marketplace. Established in 2014, Alpha'a addresses the challenges of sourcing art for commercial spaces by offering a wide range of customizable art pieces without holding inventory. The platform allows artists from around the world to license their artwork and facilitates dropshipping of limited edition prints across three continents. This innovative approach enables businesses to access quality art at competitive prices, enhancing their design concepts. With a significant addressable market in the interior and hospitality sectors, Alpha'a leverages its global reach to create a steady revenue stream for artists and art institutions. The company differentiates itself by providing customizable solutions that meet the specific needs of clients, ensuring that each artwork purchased includes perpetual copyright. Led by experienced professionals with extensive backgrounds in finance and the art market, Alpha'a aims to revolutionize the way businesses procure art while supporting creators globally.

We are a mission-driven PBC creating tools for the truthful and secure exchange of information through video. We developed a technology we call Certified Reality(tm) which authenticates the time and place of each video and prevents tampering. Our solution is as simple as it is foolproof: tethered content. Our first application is yaza, a map-based video storytelling app that realtors use to record immersive home and neighborhood tours. The authenticity of these narrated tours builds trust with remote buyers and helps realtors sell more homes. It is a realtor-centric market network that combines the viral nature of social messaging with a marketplace that becomes defensible at scale due to network effects. Trends in e-commerce point to the rise of social selling and market networks, where trusted friends or influencers guide purchases rather than star ratings by strangers. The real estate market invented social selling, with Realtors being the original influencers. Yet, ironically, most proptech business models count on cutting realtors out. Yaza is different. We put realtors front and center, a unique approach that is winning praise from customers and industry press alike. ( www.yaza.io/press ) Beyond the experience of our team, our secret sauce is the aforementioned Certified Reality. It has enabled new use cases around remote property management and allows us to reach international buyers and properties, currently untapped by existing proptech leaders. Try yaza free on the App Store here: http://bit.ly/yazaApp

Discover local, home-based talent in your town and beyond on the West Tenth app. West Tenth is an all-in-one marketplace, connecting consumers with custom services and goods in their own community. Scroll through the storefronts in our digital Main Street to find incredible independent talent, organized by distance from you. West Tenth connects you with local makers and doers who love to collaborate with you to provide just what you need. When you’re transacting with small, home-based businesses, anything is possible! Need a custom-decorated birthday cake? A personal trainer who will come to your house? Design or marketing work for your business? West Tenth is the place to find all that and so much more.

LEX is a commercial real estate securities marketplace. A real estate fintech company, delivering a revolutionary new solution to the illiquidity problems facing real estate owners and investors through a new real estate investment platform.

Operator of an online end-to-end supply chain platform intended to help brands create and launch private labels. The company's platform assists clients to carry out functions like product selection, sourcing and logistics allowing them to create commercial eyewear representing their brand identity, enabling businesses to get new products to market faster at low production costs.

Orchard transforms the way people buy and sell their homes by bringing simplicity, convenience, and certainty to the process. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, and easy. Traditionally, homeowners who are looking to purchase their next home face a stressful and uncertain process - they have to either sell their old home first and move twice or buy as a contingent buyer and risk not getting their dream home. Orchard solves this problem by enabling homeowners to buy before they sell. With Orchard, customers secure their dream home first using Orchard's cash, while having the certainty of selling their old home with Orchard - all for the same fee as a traditional broker. Orchard is transforming the end-to-end home buying experience with an AI-powered home search and a modern, all-digital mortgage and closing. Orchard is headquartered in New York City and offers its services in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas.

Place Technology is a venture-backed software company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2018. It focuses on creating innovative applications on the Salesforce Platform that streamline business operations for technology and service companies. The company's offerings include a SaaS-based financial forecasting and business planning platform that provides subscription management, automated billing, accurate revenue recognition, and enhanced visibility into pipeline and quotas. Place's platform accelerates accounting workflows and integrates accounting data with sales and service data, enabling businesses to improve operational efficiency and make informed financial decisions. By combining the sophistication of packaged software with the adaptability of spreadsheets, Place delivers a flexible solution tailored for SaaS and professional services, allowing organizations to effectively manage growth and navigate financial complexities.

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Enable International Limited specializes in rebate management software and serves as a collaboration platform aimed at enhancing the performance of B2B deals. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, the company provides tools that facilitate the negotiation of deals, central management of trade agreements, and oversight of receivables. By promoting financial transparency and operational efficiency, Enable seeks to transform how B2B deals are structured, managed, and evaluated, ultimately fostering mutually beneficial growth for all parties involved in trading relationships.

Hungry Marketplace, Inc. operates a mobile food marketplace that connects food enthusiasts with local chefs, providing a platform for ordering made-to-order meals. Founded in 2016 and based in Arlington, Virginia, the company delivers fresh-cooked meals across the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Hungry specializes in catering by offering a diverse selection of curated menus from independent chefs, primarily serving businesses seeking quality office lunches. The company has successfully raised significant funding, with a notable Series B round led by prominent investors, enhancing its ability to expand its services. Committed to community welfare, Hungry's "Fight Against Hunger" initiative donates one meal to those in need for every two meals purchased, while its "WeRecycle" program emphasizes environmental sustainability through the use of biodegradable utensils. With plans for rapid expansion into additional U.S. cities, Hungry aims to become a significant player in the $60 billion catering market.

EquipmentShare provides online construction equipment rental services, catering primarily to contractors. The company offers a wide range of equipment, including aerial work platforms, power tools, vehicles and trailers, and various specialized machinery for agriculture, landscaping, and construction tasks. Founded in 2014 and based in Columbia, Missouri, EquipmentShare has expanded its presence with additional locations in the United States and New Zealand. The company also develops proprietary technology to enhance productivity in the commercial construction sector, providing tools for fleet management that include insurance verification, background checks, and payment processing. This technology enables contractors to make informed decisions about equipment and fleet management, promoting a more connected and efficient job site.

Orchard transforms the way people buy and sell their homes by bringing simplicity, convenience, and certainty to the process. Simplifying it, to the way it should have always been; fair and true to market, straightforward, and easy. Traditionally, homeowners who are looking to purchase their next home face a stressful and uncertain process - they have to either sell their old home first and move twice or buy as a contingent buyer and risk not getting their dream home. Orchard solves this problem by enabling homeowners to buy before they sell. With Orchard, customers secure their dream home first using Orchard's cash, while having the certainty of selling their old home with Orchard - all for the same fee as a traditional broker. Orchard is transforming the end-to-end home buying experience with an AI-powered home search and a modern, all-digital mortgage and closing. Orchard is headquartered in New York City and offers its services in Colorado, Georgia, and Texas.

LandscapeHub is dedicated to streamlining the B2B procurement process in the Landscaping Industry. Buyers and suppliers increase efficiency, expand their networks and gain valuable market knowledge and insights by using LandscapeHub.LandscapeHub is a digital, B2B marketplace connecting buyers and suppliers within a central online platform.LandscapeHub represents quality suppliers across the country, aggregating their available inventory and pricing, empowering buyers with a “one stop shop” buying experience.

EquipmentShare provides online construction equipment rental services, catering primarily to contractors. The company offers a wide range of equipment, including aerial work platforms, power tools, vehicles and trailers, and various specialized machinery for agriculture, landscaping, and construction tasks. Founded in 2014 and based in Columbia, Missouri, EquipmentShare has expanded its presence with additional locations in the United States and New Zealand. The company also develops proprietary technology to enhance productivity in the commercial construction sector, providing tools for fleet management that include insurance verification, background checks, and payment processing. This technology enables contractors to make informed decisions about equipment and fleet management, promoting a more connected and efficient job site.

Katapult Group, Inc. is the leading omnichannel point-of-sale payment platform, providing alternative purchase solutions for retailers and consumers. Our cutting-edge technology integrates seamlessly with online platforms, enabling our retail partners to expand their customer base, increase sales, and grow revenue. Katapult's consumer-centric focus ensures a quick application and approval process, transparent terms, and tailored payment plans. Katapult associates with hundreds of retailers across the United States, with merchant support teams, marketing insights, and suggestions for continued success.