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Germ Network develops a secure messaging application focused on user control, privacy, and multifaceted identity management. Its app offers features like multiple editable profile cards, end-to-end encryption, instant messaging, and friend card annotation, ensuring users' privacy and autonomy.

Sunbird is a developer of a communication application designed to enhance messaging experiences. The application allows users to send messages through various platforms, including iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, SMS, and more, all within a single unified inbox. This integration eliminates the common issue of differing message formats, providing a seamless messaging experience regardless of the platform used. Sunbird emphasizes user security by offering end-to-end encryption and ensuring that user data is not stored on its servers, thus prioritizing privacy and confidentiality. Additionally, the application includes features such as two-factor authentication to further enhance security while maintaining ease of use.

MindRight Health, Inc. is a Newark, New Jersey-based company founded in 2019 that offers mental health coaching via text messaging. Its mission is to promote health equity by providing accessible and inclusive mental health care, particularly for communities of color and low-income families. MindRight partners with healthcare payers and providers to deliver culturally responsive coaching, assigning users to personal coaches who offer support year-round. This approach aims to create a continuum of care that addresses the unique needs of youth and communities that often avoid traditional clinical services due to stigma and limited access. Additionally, MindRight provides its partners with real-time data on community mental health needs, which helps in predicting and preventing mental health crises.

Genies empowers individuals to create personalized digital avatars for expression across social media and messaging platforms. It offers tools for users to design avatars, avatar fashion lines, worlds, and interactive experiences, enabling brands to drive engagement through exclusive digital goods.

Upaway is a travel agency app that offers on-demand trip support, combining travel organization tools with personalized assistance. The platform enables users to securely store and collaborate on travel-related documents, ensuring easy access across various trips and travel plans. It provides human trip support, assisting customers in finding suitable accommodations, making eco-friendly travel choices, and addressing issues such as lost luggage or flight delays. Additionally, Upaway delivers personalized safety updates for every destination, enhancing the overall travel experience and ensuring that customers can navigate their journeys with confidence and ease.

Holler is a conversational media company focused on creating and delivering content that makes peer-to-peer messages more engaging and effective. Powered by Suggestion AI Technology, Holler surfaces relevant content to users at the right moment to enhance communication. The company combines technologists, digital animators, and media veterans to support the creation and delivery of content across messaging platforms, handling large-scale messaging volumes. Holler Studios operates as a full-service animation production studio and creative agency that develops original animation and characters for brand campaigns and television advertising.

Citus Health Inc. is a New York-based company that develops a digital health platform designed for post-acute care providers. Known as Call Bell, the platform facilitates secure and real-time collaboration among patients, family caregivers, healthcare professionals, and community service providers. It offers a range of features including HIPAA-compliant messaging, electronic signature capabilities, scheduling tools, supply capture, and patient education resources. Founded in 2016, Citus Health aims to enhance the accessibility and efficiency of high-quality care, enabling providers to optimize patient experiences and improve financial outcomes through streamlined workflows and remote patient support.

Founded in 2015, Avochato develops customer relationship management software focused on mobile messaging. Its platform enables business teams to communicate with customers effectively through features like live inbox, personalized broadcasts, multimedia messages, and automated surveys.

Knowmail is a developer of a personalized artificial intelligence platform designed to enhance the email and messaging experience for users. The company's AI engine learns individual work habits to help users focus, save time, and improve overall efficiency. Knowmail's platform identifies and prioritizes important emails, summarizes lengthy messages, synchronizes appointments, and enables the distribution of one-click messages to relevant groups. By streamlining communication, Knowmail aims to alleviate the burden of excessive and unproductive emails, ultimately allowing users to achieve a better work-life balance and increased productivity.

Teckst, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a text messaging platform designed to facilitate real-time, human-to-human communication between brands and their customers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables businesses to send and receive text messages seamlessly, integrating with popular CRM systems such as Zendesk, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics. This integration allows support agents and sales representatives to manage SMS and chat communications directly within their existing workflows, enhancing customer engagement and operational efficiency. Teckst's mobile application ensures that all messages sent on the go are recorded in the CRM for comprehensive visibility and tracking. The platform is utilized by various leading brands across multiple industries, including ESPN, Lyft, and T-Mobile, to drive sales, build customer loyalty, and improve brand engagement. In December 2019, Teckst became a subsidiary of LiveVox, Inc.

Ori is an AI-powered navigator that bridges the gap between care teams and their patients. We’re on a mission to fix healthcare by transforming the patient experience through artificial intelligence and mobile messaging to drive the triple aim of healthcare. We are a rapidly growing digital health startup backed by folks who helped fund and build incredible companies including Higher One, General Assembly, TrackMaven, Contactually, Simple Contacts, Hologram and many others.

Teckst, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a text messaging platform designed to facilitate real-time, human-to-human communication between brands and their customers. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the platform enables businesses to send and receive text messages seamlessly, integrating with popular CRM systems such as Zendesk, Salesforce, and Microsoft Dynamics. This integration allows support agents and sales representatives to manage SMS and chat communications directly within their existing workflows, enhancing customer engagement and operational efficiency. Teckst's mobile application ensures that all messages sent on the go are recorded in the CRM for comprehensive visibility and tracking. The platform is utilized by various leading brands across multiple industries, including ESPN, Lyft, and T-Mobile, to drive sales, build customer loyalty, and improve brand engagement. In December 2019, Teckst became a subsidiary of LiveVox, Inc.