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Lapse is a social disposable camera app. The app lets close groups recreate the magic of old-school disposable cameras by taking 36 snaps to ‘rolls’ in private group chats.

Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform designed to facilitate local conversations and connections among neighbors. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to cultivate a kinder, more connected world by enabling residents to engage with each other, local businesses, services, and community news. The platform includes features such as Help Map, which allows users to offer assistance to vulnerable neighbors, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nextdoor serves neighborhoods globally, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and several other countries. The company is privately held and has received investment from notable firms, reinforcing its mission to foster real-world connections and community support.

Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.

Common Room is a developer of community marketing software aimed at enhancing the connection between organizations and their communities. The platform employs sophisticated signal capture and AI-powered activation agents to identify and enrich information about individuals and accounts. This enables go-to-market teams to effectively target, engage, and convert potential customers. By fostering authentic relationships and promoting collaboration and communication, Common Room empowers users to build thriving and engaged digital communities.

Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibility into what’s working. Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity.

Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content. Our social broadcasting platform makes it simple for people to create their own shows and watch new interactive content with friends. We feature content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment from partners like FOX Sports, ESPN, BIG EAST Digital Network, DreamHack, Riot Games, and top entertainers, athletes, and gamers. Caffeine has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying, hate speech and racism. Find Caffeine in the App Store and Google Play. Learn more at www.caffeine.tv.

Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content. Our social broadcasting platform makes it simple for people to create their own shows and watch new interactive content with friends. We feature content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment from partners like FOX Sports, ESPN, BIG EAST Digital Network, DreamHack, Riot Games, and top entertainers, athletes, and gamers. Caffeine has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying, hate speech and racism. Find Caffeine in the App Store and Google Play. Learn more at www.caffeine.tv.

Mammoth Media is redefining entertainment for the mobile-first generation. Mammoth is the first to produce, distribute and monetize original entertainment apps for the moments of micro-boredom in daily life, and in doing so, delivers revenue, brand value and data-driven insights to content owners and advertisers. Mammoth is the studio behind Yarn, the innovative micro-storytelling platform with stories delivered as text messages. Yarn has become a dominant destination for short-form storytelling with a total of 60 million stories and 8 billion messages read to date. The average user reads 4 times per day for 2 minutes per session totaling 56 minutes in their first week. Users spend 82,000 hours per week reading Yarn stories. Wishbone is Mammoth’s tap-to-vote social networking app where users generate polls and side-by-side comparisons. On Wishbone a total of 80 million cards have been created. The app has an average of 352 million votes per month and a total of 18 billion votes cast to date, reaching 2 million teen girls (12-16) every month. Both Yarn and Wishbone are consistently ranked in the Top 100 App charts in the United States and have collectively touched more than 30% of United States Generation Z and Millennials.

Caffeine is a new kind of broadcast company focused on the creation and distribution of live, interactive content. Our social broadcasting platform makes it simple for people to create their own shows and watch new interactive content with friends. We feature content at the intersection of gaming, sports, and entertainment from partners like FOX Sports, ESPN, BIG EAST Digital Network, DreamHack, Riot Games, and top entertainers, athletes, and gamers. Caffeine has a zero-tolerance policy for bullying, hate speech and racism. Find Caffeine in the App Store and Google Play. Learn more at www.caffeine.tv.

The San Francisco-based startup launched out of stealth today to offer users different channels, or “islands,” through which they can organize a game of volleyball, share class notes, or simply create a support group.

Change.org is the world's largest social change platform, boasting over 150 million users across 196 countries. It empowers individuals to initiate campaigns, gather support, and collaborate with decision-makers to effect change in their communities. The platform focuses on social justice petitions, allowing users to advocate for various causes. As a certified B-corporation, Change.org is committed to creating a positive impact. The organization has attracted investment from notable figures such as Bill Gates, Arianna Huffington, and Richard Branson, as well as the Omidyar Network, founded by eBay's Pierre Omidyar.

HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.

Discord is a communication platform that provides voice, video, and text services for individuals and communities to connect and interact. Initially designed for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as hiking clubs, art communities, and study groups. The platform enables seamless communication through voice-over-internet protocol and instant messaging, accessible on both desktop and mobile devices. This versatility allows users to engage with friends and communities effectively, whether for leisure or collaborative activities, without compromising performance during gaming or other online interactions.

Houseparty is an internet company based in San Francisco, California, that operates a social networking platform focused on enhancing online communication through empathy. Founded in 2011, the company specializes in live video streaming and interaction. Its mobile application allows users to engage in group video calls with friends, facilitating real-time communication and social interaction. By integrating with popular social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, Houseparty enables users to share and influence live video content, creating a unique space for connecting with others.

HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.

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Founded in 2014, by creator Alex Zhu and longtime friend, Luyu Yang, musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing and discovering short videos. Every day, millions of teens use musical.ly as an outlet to express themselves through singing, dancing, comedy, and lip-syncing. The app celebrates creativity with videos recorded in 15 seconds or less that are shared across the musical.ly community. More than half of U.S. teens are users of musical.ly. Since first being made available in October 2014, musical.ly has hit #1 in the iOS App Store for free apps in 20 countries - including the United States. In 2017 Musical.ly was acquired by ByteDance subsidiary Toutiao, and in 2018 Musical.ly was merged into ByteDance subsidiary TikTok.

Project September is a mobile shopping app that allows a deeper, more immediate connection between fashion and design influencers, their audiences and the brands they love. For the first time ever, consumers can bridge the gap between online shopping and social browsing by tapping an image to instantly make a purchase. It takes advantage of the rapidly growing wave of user-generated fashion content to create a beautifully immersive experience that users don’t want to end. The visual shopping platform is designed as a shoppable, digital magazine spread, where individuals share their work and direct their followers to where an item can be purchased. The app allows users to discover and immediately shop fashion and beauty images pulled directly from social media platforms like Instagram or Pinterest. Project September was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, USA.

Evertoon's product lets users customize avatars using a photograph to look like themselves, friends, or celebrities. Users input emoji to animate the avatars. In just a few minutes, they can make a movie to put onto YouTube, Facebook, or SMS. Millions of people have stories in their heads, and Evertoon unlocks them by making it simple for anyone to create a movie.

Discord is a communication platform that provides voice, video, and text services for individuals and communities to connect and interact. Initially designed for gamers, it has since expanded its user base to include various groups such as hiking clubs, art communities, and study groups. The platform enables seamless communication through voice-over-internet protocol and instant messaging, accessible on both desktop and mobile devices. This versatility allows users to engage with friends and communities effectively, whether for leisure or collaborative activities, without compromising performance during gaming or other online interactions.

Beep is a fully loaded chat app for the younger generation that allows you to add creativity and fun to your voice messages.

Sochat is an iOS and Android mobile messaging application and connection platform. It allows its users to publish groups nearby with a PIN to quickly gather up and share GIFs, photos, videos, disappearing messages, and drawings among its users. It also allows sending songs and YouTube videos, play rock paper scissors game, and poll friends and groups. Sochat is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Lukens Orthwein.

HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.

Telepathic, Inc., operating under the brand name Hooked, is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 that focuses on innovative storytelling for young audiences. The company has developed a mobile reading application that presents stories in the format of text message conversations, aimed at making reading engaging for teens. Recognizing a significant opportunity in the mass-market fiction space, Telepathic seeks to create a mobile-first experience that appeals to the Snapchat generation. In addition to its flagship product, Hooked, the company has also developed AutoRap, a music application that has reached a wide audience. Telepathic's founders, Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, bring extensive experience from the mobile app industry and have a vision to expand storytelling across various platforms, including apps, video, and virtual reality.

Founded in 2014, by creator Alex Zhu and longtime friend, Luyu Yang, musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing and discovering short videos. Every day, millions of teens use musical.ly as an outlet to express themselves through singing, dancing, comedy, and lip-syncing. The app celebrates creativity with videos recorded in 15 seconds or less that are shared across the musical.ly community. More than half of U.S. teens are users of musical.ly. Since first being made available in October 2014, musical.ly has hit #1 in the iOS App Store for free apps in 20 countries - including the United States. In 2017 Musical.ly was acquired by ByteDance subsidiary Toutiao, and in 2018 Musical.ly was merged into ByteDance subsidiary TikTok.

STAND Technologies, Inc. operates a mobile-first crowdfunding platform designed to connect individuals with causes they care about, fostering a sense of community and engagement. Founded in 2014 and based in Mill Valley, California, the company aims to inspire users to take action through a social experience that facilitates connections over shared values and philanthropic interests. STAND's platform allows users to donate to various social causes, enhancing their ability to make a positive impact in their communities. The company received seed funding in 2015 to support its mission of promoting compassion and action among its users.

Gather also lets users post videos to a group or individual and get reactions from them, but it differs from Samba in that it also lets users offer links to articles and then asking for reactions to the article. It’s a hybrid of Snapchat Stories and Samba in that way.

Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform designed to facilitate local conversations and connections among neighbors. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to cultivate a kinder, more connected world by enabling residents to engage with each other, local businesses, services, and community news. The platform includes features such as Help Map, which allows users to offer assistance to vulnerable neighbors, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nextdoor serves neighborhoods globally, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and several other countries. The company is privately held and has received investment from notable firms, reinforcing its mission to foster real-world connections and community support.

Social Point is a leading developer of social games, founded in 2008 by Andrés Bou and Horacio Martos. The company creates engaging mobile games that foster social interaction, with a user base exceeding 45 million monthly active players on platforms like Facebook, Android, and iOS. Social Point has gained recognition for several successful titles, including Dragon City, Monster Legends, Social Empires, Social Wars, and World Chef. The games often incorporate elements such as breeding, crafting, and resource management, allowing players to connect through social media and their own mobile social network. With a commitment to innovation, Social Point continues to develop new games to enhance its portfolio and engage its growing audience.

If You Can is a computer software company that develops games that helps children to develop their social and emotional intelligence. It features social and emotional learning skills which includes managing emotions, such as frustration, disappointment, and showing empathy for others. The company was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Jelly HQ is a technology company that offers a human-powered discovery and search engine focused on image-based queries. Founded in April 2013 by Biz Stone and Ben Finkel, Jelly allows users to ask questions by uploading photos, leveraging social networks to facilitate responses. The platform is designed to connect individuals and utilize a loosely distributed network of people to provide answers, resembling the decentralized neural structure of a jellyfish, which serves as the company's emblem. Through this innovative approach, Jelly aims to enhance the way users seek information and interact with their social circles.

Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service for building personal social networks with up to 150 contacts. Currently Path Places. Path Talk and Path sold to Daum Kakao May 28, 2015. Path brings people closer together. Guided by the belief that mobile technology will fundamentally change the cultural, social, and economic landscape, Path focuses on simplicity, quality, and privacy to provide the best mobile personal networking service in the world. Path was designed with the people they love, closest friends, and family in mind.

Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform designed to facilitate local conversations and connections among neighbors. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to cultivate a kinder, more connected world by enabling residents to engage with each other, local businesses, services, and community news. The platform includes features such as Help Map, which allows users to offer assistance to vulnerable neighbors, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nextdoor serves neighborhoods globally, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and several other countries. The company is privately held and has received investment from notable firms, reinforcing its mission to foster real-world connections and community support.

Messageme.com is to provide an emotionally engaging communication experience that's fun, lightweight and ubiquitous. Messaging revolves around a simple loop: users send messages and respond to messages. Social gaming showed that there are ways to tweak the experience around this loop to increase its performance drastically by influencing the emotions surrounding reciprocal interactions. They believe there is a large opportunity to provide a new level of engagement and excitement in messaging apps by applying these techniques and philosophies. MessageMe had also been courted by Snapchat as well as an app maker out of Europe, Truecaller. And, after earnouts, the price that Yahoo paid to acqui-hire MessageMe is between $30 million and $40 million.

Jelly HQ is a technology company that offers a human-powered discovery and search engine focused on image-based queries. Founded in April 2013 by Biz Stone and Ben Finkel, Jelly allows users to ask questions by uploading photos, leveraging social networks to facilitate responses. The platform is designed to connect individuals and utilize a loosely distributed network of people to provide answers, resembling the decentralized neural structure of a jellyfish, which serves as the company's emblem. Through this innovative approach, Jelly aims to enhance the way users seek information and interact with their social circles.

Messageme.com is to provide an emotionally engaging communication experience that's fun, lightweight and ubiquitous. Messaging revolves around a simple loop: users send messages and respond to messages. Social gaming showed that there are ways to tweak the experience around this loop to increase its performance drastically by influencing the emotions surrounding reciprocal interactions. They believe there is a large opportunity to provide a new level of engagement and excitement in messaging apps by applying these techniques and philosophies. MessageMe had also been courted by Snapchat as well as an app maker out of Europe, Truecaller. And, after earnouts, the price that Yahoo paid to acqui-hire MessageMe is between $30 million and $40 million.

Storytelling today means crowding around someone's phone as they describe their photos. Shadow Puppet bring that show&tell experience online by letting you share a voice-over with an animated slideshow of your pics. Built with Greylock money by Carl Sjogreen, the Googler who sold travel startup Nextstop to Facebook, Shadow Puppet let you talk people through everything from vacations to app demos.

Toro is built by Red Hot Labs in San Francisco, California, the team behind Farmville and Castleville for Facebook. Founded in March of 2012, Toro/ Red Hot Labs is a group of former app developers and product managers now focused on arming app developers of today with the tools they always wished they had. Toro's mission is to bring best-in-class mobile marketing to everyone. We accomplish this by guiding app companies through the process of setting up and optimizing marketing campaigns. All of our marketing plans run on the Facebook advertising platform.

Polar is a super-fast and easy way to create and vote on great-looking photo polls. Get their free iPhone app. Polar is developed by Input Factory.

Social Point is a leading developer of social games, founded in 2008 by Andrés Bou and Horacio Martos. The company creates engaging mobile games that foster social interaction, with a user base exceeding 45 million monthly active players on platforms like Facebook, Android, and iOS. Social Point has gained recognition for several successful titles, including Dragon City, Monster Legends, Social Empires, Social Wars, and World Chef. The games often incorporate elements such as breeding, crafting, and resource management, allowing players to connect through social media and their own mobile social network. With a commitment to innovation, Social Point continues to develop new games to enhance its portfolio and engage its growing audience.

Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform designed to facilitate local conversations and connections among neighbors. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to cultivate a kinder, more connected world by enabling residents to engage with each other, local businesses, services, and community news. The platform includes features such as Help Map, which allows users to offer assistance to vulnerable neighbors, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nextdoor serves neighborhoods globally, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and several other countries. The company is privately held and has received investment from notable firms, reinforcing its mission to foster real-world connections and community support.

Spindle, Inc. is a company based in Marco Island, Florida, that specializes in payment-processing services for merchants through its Catalyst Gateway. In addition to processing payments, Spindle acts as an agent and independent contractor, connecting merchants to other payment processors and earning ongoing fees based on the volume of transactions. The company primarily serves small and medium-sized businesses. Additionally, Spindle offers a geo-restricted mobile app that delivers information and updates on public events and locations shared on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

Nextdoor, Inc. operates a social networking platform designed to facilitate local conversations and connections among neighbors. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to cultivate a kinder, more connected world by enabling residents to engage with each other, local businesses, services, and community news. The platform includes features such as Help Map, which allows users to offer assistance to vulnerable neighbors, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nextdoor serves neighborhoods globally, including in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and several other countries. The company is privately held and has received investment from notable firms, reinforcing its mission to foster real-world connections and community support.

Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service for building personal social networks with up to 150 contacts. Currently Path Places. Path Talk and Path sold to Daum Kakao May 28, 2015. Path brings people closer together. Guided by the belief that mobile technology will fundamentally change the cultural, social, and economic landscape, Path focuses on simplicity, quality, and privacy to provide the best mobile personal networking service in the world. Path was designed with the people they love, closest friends, and family in mind.

Instagram is a popular photo-sharing application that allows users to capture images, apply filters, and share their content across various social networks, including Facebook and Twitter. Founded in 2010 by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in San Francisco, California, the platform enables users to express themselves creatively and discover new interests through visual content. Instagram is designed for both iOS and Android devices, offering a range of customization options for photos and videos. Acquired by Facebook in 2012, Instagram has evolved into a significant social media platform, facilitating connections among users while also addressing challenges related to content, such as the use of hashtags for various communities.

Cloze, Inc. is a relationship management platform that consolidates various professional connections, including emails, social networks, and contact information, into a single, organized view. Founded in 2012 and based in Wellesley, Massachusetts, Cloze automatically updates users' address books and manages their interactions with contacts and companies, eliminating the need for manual data entry. The platform captures and organizes all communication history—such as emails, phone calls, meetings, and social media interactions—while employing advanced data science to highlight important relationships and prompt users to engage with their network. By providing a comprehensive overview of every interaction, Cloze enhances users' ability to maintain and strengthen their professional relationships efficiently.

Backplane is a platform that allows like-minded people to connect across their shared interests. Our first community was around Lady Gaga's LittleMonsters.com, and is almost a million strong. They believe that consumers and brands want more meaningful ways to connect and engage with each other online. they are partnering with the world's best brands to create authentic community.

WhoSay Inc. is a media management platform designed for high-profile personalities in film, television, music, and sports, enabling them to manage interactions with fans through social and mainstream media. By offering an invitation-only platform and applications, WhoSay allows over 2,000 celebrities to maintain direct connections with their audiences across various channels, including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. The company serves influencer marketing clients and helps brands engage with fans through authentic storytelling and targeted content marketing. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Germantown, New York, with an additional office in Beverly Hills, California, WhoSay operates as a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. Following its acquisition in 2018, WhoSay continues to provide unique marketing solutions by leveraging celebrity influence to enhance brand visibility and engagement.

Tumblr is an online publishing platform designed to enable users to connect, express themselves, and discover content. It allows individuals to share a variety of media, including text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos, from various devices such as browsers, phones, desktops, or via email. This functionality facilitates the creation of short-form blogs, making it easy for users to post and engage with multimedia content.

Gowalla is a company based in Austin, Texas, that focuses on creating social games played in real-world locations. Launched in 2009, it offers an award-winning mobile app and website, which serve as a social guide to popular places and cities worldwide. The platform features an extensive collection of guides to cities, parks, and regions, curated by both the Gowalla community and experts from organizations such as Disney and National Geographic. This allows users to easily share and discover photos, experiences, and recommendations while on the go, fostering a sense of connection among friends and families. Gowalla's innovative approach to blending social interaction with real-world exploration has garnered attention and support from various prominent investors.

Chirp Interactive was a provider of social media applications that developed products designed to keep users connected with their networks across various social media platforms. One of their notable offerings was Chirpscreen, which allowed users to discover friends' content and activities on social websites through a customized interactive screen saver. The company integrated feeds from popular sites such as Flickr and Facebook, with plans to incorporate additional social media platforms. Chirp's products competed with similar offerings in the market. However, the service has since been discontinued, and the team has transitioned to work at thePlatform, a video distribution solution owned by Comcast.

AwarenessHub is a data-powered social marketing software suite that help identify prospects across the social web & win more deals. It’s cloud-based suite leverage data science to rapidly model and score the profiles & signals across the social web. The result is segmented lists of individuals who can be hyper-targeted for 1-to-1 social marketing programs resulting in a tremendous lift in MQL’s, pipeline and sales conversions. Past and present customers leading brands in the B2B and B2C space including some of the worlds most well-known brands. Headquartered in Boston, MA, AwarenessHub is privately held and is funded by business leaders from the software, marketing and start-up community.

Constant Contact is a digital marketing platform that provides a suite of services aimed at helping small businesses and nonprofit organizations enhance their online presence and customer engagement. Founded in 1998, the company specializes in email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online surveys. Its user-friendly and affordable tools allow over 500,000 clients to create personalized communications that resonate with their audiences across various digital channels. By simplifying the marketing process, Constant Contact enables small organizations to build professional brands, attract customers, and foster stronger relationships. The company also collaborates with leading providers in the online marketing space and encourages developers to engage with its API and contribute to its App Marketplace, further extending its capabilities.

Meta is a social technology company that facilitates connections among individuals, communities, and businesses. Originally founded as Facebook in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg in Menlo Park, California, the company rebranded to Meta on October 28, 2021, to reflect its broader focus beyond social networking. Meta operates various applications and services, positioning itself as a leader in the social media landscape, with over 1.32 billion monthly active users. The company has continuously evolved, integrating features that enhance user engagement and community building. Meta's strategic initiatives also include partnerships aimed at advancing marketing and commercial efforts in the digital and mobile sectors. As it explores new technologies, including virtual and augmented realities, Meta aims to redefine how people interact and share experiences online.