MassChallenge is a global nonprofit startup accelerator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 2009. It supports early-stage entrepreneurs from various industries, including technology, healthcare, and finance, by providing mentorship, resources, and networking opportunities. With locations in countries such as Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, and Texas, MassChallenge operates a non-equity model, allowing startups to retain full ownership while benefiting from expert guidance and connections. The accelerator conducts various programs tailored to specific sectors, such as MassChallenge HealthTech and MassChallenge FinTech, which facilitate partnerships between startups and established enterprises to drive innovation and market growth. Through its extensive global network, MassChallenge aims to strengthen the innovation ecosystem and empower high-potential startups to create meaningful impact.
Messagebird For Africa: Sendchamp provides Communication APIs & CRM for developers & businesses to reach their customers via different messaging channels such as SMS, Email, Voice, Whatsapp, and other digital messaging channels. Our APIs and No code tools help businesses in Africa from the stage of Customer Onboarding, Customer Engagement, Customer Service & Customer Retention.
Pro Indie Music
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Pro Indie Music measures artists’ growth and gives tailor-made opportunities and services through a mobile app, helping indie artists how to grow fast and easy. We teach to independent artists everything they need to know about the music industry and how to make business with their music. For Labels and managers we offer an end-to-end solution for artists development using IA. We have a monthly subscription model , a $20.2B USD market and a yearly growth of 180%. We have customers from Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile and Peru since the release of our mobile app in april 2021.
Discoverfy
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Discoverfy is a Product Discovery SaaS made for retailers & e-commerce. After an easy integration, they are able to show their full catalog in an innovative way, which allows collecting data from what's happening in their online stores. Users are guided into their best match while receiving recommendations, turning the shopping experience into something fun.
Fanorama Social Media
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Fanoramas is a platform that generates thousands of ‘in-the-moment’ photos and sends to fans to share in real time from events. We provide every fan with hundreds of personal and action photos from the big event. The Fanoramas platform provides a new space for our sponsors and partners to activate and engage with fans!
Hue
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Hue is a software as a service platform that finds and incorporates real video evaluations into the marketing channels and websites of e-commerce companies.Hue enables businesses and retailers to incorporate TikTok-style shoppable films on their e-commerce websites, giving customers confidence to add to cart.
Qortex
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Qortex is an intelligent video analytics company that specializes in helping brands effectively distribute video content across various platforms, including the web, connected TV, and in-game environments. The company leverages its patent-pending, AI-enabled technology to enhance video analysis, allowing users to quickly and accurately search, categorize, and curate significant video moments at scale, irrespective of factors such as volume, time, language, or context. Qortex's platform empowers brands and enterprises to transform meaningful video insights into actionable experiences and business outcomes. By utilizing artificial intelligence, it connects advertisers with contextually relevant moments in videos and facilitates the monetization of social videos, enabling users to create and manage sponsored content across social media platforms while collaborating with publishers and brands to deliver scalable in-video experiences.
Habu
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Habu is a marketing data operating system that enables brands to enrich first-party data in a privacy-first world. Its data operating system generates value analytics from controlled datasets. With Habu, brands can build a durable data foundation and drive multi-channel personalization with automated privacy compliance. The company is based in San Francisco and has offices in Boston and New York.
BrandMe
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Global technology, digital advertising and marketing. We create technology and tools that connect brands with influential content creators. We create the most influential hispanic influencer marketing platform with tools like: * Marketplace with more than 1M creators * Global Searcher of Creators ( more than 50 M ) * Profile analytics of any user in the digital universe with demographic data and fake followers * IA section with tools for the influencer marketing * Work with Fortune 500 Brands directly in the region
Snaptivity
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Snaptivity is the next-generation experience technology in a connected events space that is changing the way people enjoy the live sporting & music events. Snaptivity captures candid fan emotions using robotic cameras that are triggered automatically at key moments of excitement by AI and IoT sensors performing crowd analysis. Snaptivity is an innovative platform for driving fan engagement and enhancing fan experiences at live sporting and music events. Snaptivity captures the ecstatic, high-fiving, scarf-waving fans and delivers these photos straight to their smartphones in real-time. Snaptivity helps teams and clubs increase sponsorship revenue by adding a new stream of media to engage with fans. Brands can reach people at scale, in a targeted, emotional and personalised way, creating significant implications for both sponsorship and e-commerce.
Momlancers
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Momlancers specializes in the fields of consultancy, human resources, marketing, coaching, and freelance. It features a software platform that connects talented moms with companies that promote professional and personal satisfaction.
GetIn
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Getin specializes in retail analytics by providing a web-based reporting portal that measures in-store traffic and consumer behavior. The platform delivers valuable data and insights that help retail store owners optimize various aspects of their business, including labor management, marketing performance, merchandising strategies, and real estate investments. Additionally, it enhances customer engagement by sending brand loyalty messages, coupons, and discount offers to shoppers in shopping malls, thereby influencing their purchasing decisions. Through its innovative solutions, Getin aims to improve the overall effectiveness of retail operations.
SmartFish
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
SmartFish offers quality marine products to the market and contributes to good fishing management and sustainability. It markets seafood products that have a sustainability guarantee, reducing the number of intermediaries and seeking that more steps in the value chain remain in the cooperatives. It also negotiates with cooperatives with an open book policy to make the profits transparent at each link in the chain.
Smeetz
Seed Round in 2020
Smeetz SA is an online booking platform based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in the leisure and entertainment industry. Founded in 2016, the company offers a comprehensive suite of solutions designed to streamline event organization and promotion. Its platform incorporates AI-powered tools for sales, marketing, reservation management, ticket booking, and distribution. Smeetz employs dynamic pricing strategies and data analytics to help venues optimize revenue and enhance operational efficiency. The platform also includes features such as a booking widget, cross-channel sales, access control, payment methods, and customizable ticket solutions. By unifying commerce and embedding financial tools, Smeetz aims to transform the customer experience in the leisure sector, enabling businesses to thrive in a competitive environment.
Abeja Reyna
Grant in 2019
Abeja Reyna specializes in the online production and marketing of honey-based products. The company manufactures natural beauty care items that harness the beneficial properties of honey, known for its moisturizing, antibacterial, and antioxidant qualities. Their products are crafted using honey nutrients and are free of parabens, ensuring a focus on organic and sustainable ingredients. By emphasizing the health benefits of honey, Abeja Reyna aims to provide consumers with effective and environmentally friendly options in personal care.
Waterdata
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Waterdata is a company that specializes in AI-driven data analytics and dynamic pricing solutions, aimed at helping retailers enhance their marketing strategies and revenue management. By utilizing advanced artificial intelligence, Waterdata's platform enables businesses to convert their data into actionable insights, facilitating automated marketing actions that are both profitable and efficient. The company's technology focuses on addressing the complexities of demand variability, allowing enterprises to optimize the balance between supply and demand. Through its cross-industry dynamic pricing model, Waterdata assists organizations in tackling revenue management challenges by analyzing customer behavior and market trends.
Soy Agencia
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Soy is a digital marketing company that provides services to SMBs by freelancers. Their services include UX, UI, e-commerce, marketing, web flow, no-code development, fintech, proptech, medtech, edtech, market research, product management, product-market fit, market intelligence, and MVP.
Cambas
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
We improve the way companies do marketing, through gigsourcing and proprietary software
TALENT ON DEMAND
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Talent On Demand is a consulting agency. They serve businesses and the human resources sector. It offers consulting, executive search, marketplace, marketing, finance, and product design.
eMazing-retailing
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Emazing Retailing is a marketing researcher that provides customer insights for businesses. They offer a tool that recreates specific e-commerce scenarios. They provide this using traditional market research surveys. They also deliver market research tools.
Perkzilla
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
PerkZilla offers tools, tips, tricks, and growth knowledge to give the brand the upper hand in an ultra-competitive marketplace. They contribute to the continuous growth of brands without spending any money on advertising.
Roog
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
ROOG operates a social marketing and e-commerce platform designed to connect consumers with small businesses in underserved communities. The platform addresses essential needs of small businesses, including targeted marketing, promotions, customer reviews, and analytics. By offering incentives and facilitating hyperlocal deliveries, ROOG enhances community engagement and helps amplify the presence of minority-owned businesses. Customers can easily locate these businesses within their communities, promoting safer shopping experiences and increasing sales opportunities through mobile orders and purchases. Overall, ROOG aims to foster a supportive ecosystem for both small business owners and conscious shoppers.
NeuroApplied
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
NeuroApplied Ltd. is a marketing research company based in Hadera, Israel, founded in June 2016. The firm specializes in customer-focused marketing by exploring the collective subconscious of consumers. Utilizing machine-learning analytics and neural-network computing, NeuroApplied's platform incorporates online picture games to collect data that reflects customers' associative subconscious responses. This SaaS-based platform features an intuitive dashboard that presents insights in a visually engaging and nonintrusive manner. The services offered include brand equity assessment, tracking of brand properties, crisis management, and decision support, all designed to help brand managers understand and quantify consumer perceptions effectively.
Nexcv
Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Nexcv is a recruitment marketing SaaS, creating & managing targeted recruitment campaigns on multiple social networks.
Digital Onboarding
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Digital Onboarding Inc. develops a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform aimed at simplifying the new account activation process for banks and credit unions. Founded in 2015 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company offers an automated onboarding solution that enhances customer engagement by providing tools for seamless communication across multiple channels. Its platform facilitates the adoption of account-related services such as direct deposit and online bill pay by sending personalized email and SMS reminders that guide users through their financial journey. This approach not only improves activation rates but also helps financial institutions foster stronger, more profitable relationships with their customers and members. Digital Onboarding was previously known as Salesbrief Inc. before its rebranding in 2017.
Konnecto
Grant in 2018
Konnecto is a New York-based company that develops a software as a service (SaaS) platform aimed at enhancing brand engagement with customers across various social media environments. Founded in 2015, Konnecto offers a prescriptive marketing platform that provides consumer brands with daily recommendations to boost online sales by analyzing competitors' consumer journeys and identifying vulnerabilities in the path to purchase. The platform focuses on delivering consumer insights, such as preferences and attitudes, while ensuring user privacy. By collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources, Konnecto helps brands, including notable clients like Coca-Cola and MyHeritage, gain a comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior. This intelligence supports companies in crafting effective marketing campaigns and improving their overall customer engagement strategies.
Decidata
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Decidata specializes in providing marketing software that enables brands to effectively manage and optimize their advertising campaigns across various channels. Their proprietary technology offers real-time analytics for television commercials, allowing clients to detect, monitor, and analyze their impact. By synchronizing TV advertising with digital marketing efforts, Decidata helps companies integrate their online and offline strategies seamlessly. This innovative approach includes features for comparing, buying, and controlling campaigns, ultimately enhancing advertisers' ability to maximize returns on their investments.
Socialyte
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Socialyte is a marketing agency based in Albany, New York, specializing in connecting brands with a curated network of 500 influential tastemakers. These tastemakers represent branded media across over 60% of the world's leading personal style blogs, as well as prestigious digital platforms for publications such as Vanity Fair, Glamour, and Teen Vogue. Socialyte develops and manages tailored digital marketing programs that address the specific needs of various brands, allowing them to effectively engage their target audiences and enhance purchase intent. The agency has successfully executed over 500 native advertising campaigns for a range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies and prominent fashion and beauty brands.
Brightbites
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Brightbites operates a marketing and research platform designed to assist food manufacturers in accessing targeted consumer insights. By offering a subscription service, Brightbites delivers monthly food boxes to consumers, encouraging them to evaluate products and provide detailed feedback in exchange for rewards. This approach enables manufacturers to gather valuable demographic data and insights from specific consumer segments through a streamlined testing process. Brightbites aims to facilitate actionable market research at significantly reduced costs, supplying companies with essential documents and results during different stages of product development.
T-TIME PRODUCTIONS
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
T-Time Productions produces unique programming and content for various media platforms. They provide services for television, online, mobile, and streaming. They offer services to the departments of programming, production, marketing, and sales.
Echome
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
EchoMe takes advantage of social media and smartphones to make the relationship between small businesses and customers ubiquitous. Their app helps customers and users share rich reviews with their friends, discover new experiences and stay in touch with the local businesses they love.
Heepsy
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Heepsy is a developer of an influencer marketing platform used to connect agencies and brands with influencers. The company helps businesses to discover and connect with Instagram influencers for their campaign and brands can search for influencers on the basis of campaign theme, location, followers, engagement rate, and others. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Bilbao, Spain.
MirrAR.io
Non Equity Assistance in 2018
MirrAR.io drives up engagement and increase sales for innovative fashion brands. With turnkey integration, existing websites allow immersive experience with augmented reality. Immersive experience drives up to 25% conversion rate on website trials, north of 37% increase in sales and compelling customer advocacy. We are strong advocates of responsive customer experience.
Socialease
Grant in 2017
Socialease is AI software that turns SMEs social & digital media communication challenge into a simple and efficient marketing opportunity. Socialease your personnal assistant to manage all your social networks.
QueMesa - Half-price fine dining
Grant in 2017
QueMesa is a platform for Restaurants Owners to manage and regulate their capacity using promotions. Restaurants can offer better promotions to attract customers during their empty times. This in turn attracts more customers. Their Admin Portal provides real-time statistics and reservation details and allows Owners to update their public Restaurant Profile at any time. There's only one requirement to be on the QueMesa platform: Each restaurant has to offer at LEAST 1 table with a 50% discount per day at any time.
Adhark
Grant in 2017
Adhark is an image performance software company that quantifies design to elevate brand performance. The Adhark Platform uses patented artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to understand the visual preferences of consumer audiences, guide creative decision-making, and deliver marketing success through enhanced imagery. Adhark also developed and maintains the I-Score™, which is relied on by creative and marketing professionals to evaluate the resonance of imagery. Headquartered in Boston, Adhark’s award-winning application of AI technology demystifies the impact of creative art, exposing a variety of unforeseen visual stimuli that ignite engagement. Join the Adhark Community and be a part of the movement: www.adhark.com.
infinight
Grant in 2017
infinight was conceived to make the whole nightlife experience better for everybody. For the party-goers, we built a mobile and web platform to find the best bars, clubs and events, while being able to buy tickets, book tables in one click and enjoy happy hour deals. For venue owners, we created the first nightlife specific ticketing and marketing platform that enables them to increase their conversions and save precious time. In other words, infinight is nightlife, but made better.
Pouch
Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Pouch is a free browser extension designed to streamline the online shopping experience by automatically locating and displaying valid voucher codes and discounts for users. It simplifies the often tedious process of searching for promotional offers, allowing shoppers to access the best deals from over 3,000 stores in the UK without navigating away from the page they are on. By eradicating the need for manual code entry, Pouch saves users both time and money, enhancing their overall online purchasing experience.
Powr of You
Grant in 2016
Powr of You Ltd. is a consumer intelligence platform based in London, United Kingdom, that enables users to build and manage their online footprint. Established in 2014, the company connects brands and consumers, facilitating insights into consumer behavior across various devices and platforms. By providing a unified view of digital interactions, Powr of You enhances marketing return on investment for brands while allowing consumers to take control of their connected digital lives. Users benefit from a revenue-sharing model that rewards them for their data, creating a mutually beneficial relationship that empowers consumers and shifts the balance of power from traditional data providers to individuals.
SmarterQueue
Grant in 2016
SmarterQueue is a social media management tool tailored for small businesses, marketing teams, and social media managers. It offers a comprehensive suite of features that allows users to curate, schedule, publish, and analyze their social media content efficiently. By automating the content calendar and utilizing categorized queues, SmarterQueue helps users achieve an optimal mix of content types while enhancing engagement through the automatic repetition of posts. This functionality enables businesses to reach new audiences and recycle evergreen content effortlessly. Additionally, the platform allows for easy customization of posts across various social networks, ensuring adherence to best practices in social media marketing without requiring significant effort.
History Bombs
Grant in 2016
History Bombs aims to make history an enjoyable subject for students by producing engaging short-form history videos and tailored written resources, developed under the guidance of a former OFSTED inspector. Since its inception in October 2016, the company has successfully sold its educational materials to schools in the UK, USA, Australia, and France. Their online learning platform provides a comprehensive range of study materials, courses, and quizzes on various historical topics, allowing teachers and students to access information without the need for traditional textbooks. Currently, History Bombs is focused on enhancing its sales and marketing strategies to achieve greater market penetration.
MayoreoTotal.com
Grant in 2016
MayoreoTotal.com is an innovative online grocery platform that aims to transform the wholesale grocery market in Mexico, valued at approximately 20 billion USD. The company focuses on serving corporates, retail stores, and restaurants by providing a web-based shopping solution that offers a diverse range of grocery products at competitive prices. By facilitating a shift from traditional offline purchasing to a streamlined online experience, MayoreoTotal.com enables users to buy groceries quickly and efficiently, enhancing convenience and accessibility in the wholesale distribution channel.
Describli
Grant in 2016
Describli uses the power of data and analytics to provide powerful insights to independent authors. We help self-publishing authors take control of their sales and marketing and craft the right strategy for their books. Authors can discover who is reading their books, how to find more readers like that in the future, and experiment with new marketing strategies for that audience.
Amondo
Seed Round in 2016
Amondo's publishing technology enables you to create new value from the content generated around events and campaigns - brought together via curated feeds called Imprints. Imprints can be embedded in existing platforms, amplified via social or showcased via venue screens and email. Content can be easily monetised with brand messaging, data capture and ecommerce functionalities.
Store Level
Grant in 2016
StoreLevel offers next-generation omni-channel solutions. Audit, panels and field surveys to ensure the effectiveness of your marketing strategies in a precise manner, on a large scale and at a national level.
Mintrics
Grant in 2016
A SaaS based Social Video Analytics & Intelligence Platform that empowers publishers to double their viewership by making data driven decisions
RAIS
Grant in 2016
We help D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster by providing software, intelligence and expertise. Our Customer Data Intelligence Platform creates a genuine single point of truth, for every customer, by consolidating and deduplicating each data point. This enables brands to: • Quickly diagnose performance of marketing activity, accelerating the ability to test, learn and optimise. • Identify true VIPs and create strategies that build and track their engagement • Easy revenue forecast modelling, so brands know what it'll take to hit whatever revenue targets they're trying to achieve in seconds. • See how recent activity impacts predicted Customer Lifetime Value, so they can stop, continue or adjust to optimise acquisition. Our CRM personal data fields tool takes multiple customer data sources as inputs and uses customised logic to create rich metadata that can be used to personalise campaigns. This enables brands to: • To trigger, segment and personalise communications via their existing email marketing tools • Use multiple sources of customer data to increase personalisation, not just that which sits in a duplicated state within the e-commerce platform.
Konnecto
Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Konnecto is a New York-based company that develops a software as a service (SaaS) platform aimed at enhancing brand engagement with customers across various social media environments. Founded in 2015, Konnecto offers a prescriptive marketing platform that provides consumer brands with daily recommendations to boost online sales by analyzing competitors' consumer journeys and identifying vulnerabilities in the path to purchase. The platform focuses on delivering consumer insights, such as preferences and attitudes, while ensuring user privacy. By collecting and analyzing data from multiple sources, Konnecto helps brands, including notable clients like Coca-Cola and MyHeritage, gain a comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior. This intelligence supports companies in crafting effective marketing campaigns and improving their overall customer engagement strategies.
Lobster
Seed Round in 2016
Lobster is a platform that facilitates the licensing of visual content directly from social media users to brands, agencies, and the media. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Lobster searches major social networks and cloud storage providers to access billions of authentic images and videos. This service addresses the challenge of sourcing relevant content for media campaigns by streamlining the process of finding high-quality, real-time visuals. By employing image recognition and metadata analysis, Lobster identifies original content created by everyday individuals, offering an alternative to traditional stock photography. This approach not only enhances the authenticity of visual storytelling but also simplifies the content acquisition process for users, allowing them to showcase their work without copyright concerns.
Satsum
Grant in 2015
Satsum provides a beautifully designed customer experience management software that helps companies to increase loyalty and referrals. Their technology intelligently aggregates customer feedback across multiple touchpoints and analyse it using machine learning. Their mantra is "No more bad feedback forms". All their surveys are beautifully designed and optimised for cross platforms interactions. This boosts response rate, helps brands to convey their message even after purchase, and eventually form more meaningful relationships between companies and their customers.
MOTIV Intelligence
Grant in 2015
MOTIV Intelligence is an advertising technology company that focuses on automating the marketing process. The company utilizes user behavioral data collected from mobile devices to deliver personalized advertisements to website visitors who abandon their shopping carts without making a purchase. By leveraging this data, MOTIV Intelligence aims to enhance engagement and conversion rates for businesses, ensuring that potential customers receive tailored marketing messages that resonate with their interests and behaviors.
Feelter
Grant in 2015
Feelter operates as an innovative online product review platform that enhances the e-commerce experience by integrating social information with product offerings. The platform collects and curates real-time data on various products, filtering out spam and other unwanted content to provide users with comprehensive insights, including mentions, photos, and videos. By analyzing customer behavior, Feelter enables potential buyers to make informed purchasing decisions, ultimately increasing engagement and conversion rates on e-commerce websites. The company's focus on maximizing the inherent business potential of site traffic helps retain visitors longer, facilitating a smoother path to purchase.
Moteefe
Grant in 2015
Moteefe is an e-commerce platform established in 2014 that empowers individuals and businesses to create and sell customized merchandise through social media. It offers a comprehensive print-on-demand service that supports entrepreneurs of all sizes, from individual creators to larger retailers, in transforming their creative designs into marketable products quickly and efficiently. Moteefe's platform allows users to launch their own white-labeled stores or sell directly through their websites, minimizing upfront investment and promoting entrepreneurship. By facilitating the design and sale of custom clothing and merchandise, Moteefe enables users to reach a global audience and monetize their creative ideas.
Small Fry
Grant in 2015
Small Fry creates economic opportunity in urban communities by employing talented lower-income youth, aged 17-24, to drive local small business growth online. They harness virtual apprenticeship to train and employ youth to optimize the web presence of small businesses through a spectrum of services including social media and search engine marketing. Youth earn income and gain skills that lead to career mobility while small businesses get affordable online marketing to save time and build revenue.
Encore Alert
Seed Round in 2015
Encore Alert (www.encorealert.com) is a proactive alerts tool for social marketers. Encore Alert surfaces up just the right social data opportunities at just the right time via elegant push alerts to digital marketers, even giving them extremely actionable recommendations on how to respond most effectively (like a Google Now for marketers). Encore Alert is used every day by mid-market brands like NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association, and is currently raising a seed round that includes DC's NextGen Angels, Max Wessel (VP of SAP), Sean Glass (Founder of HigherOne/Acceleprise), Sonny Ganguly (CMO of WeddingWire), Tyler Peterson (Head of Google Social), and Adam Riggs (President of Shutterstock).
Lobster
Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Lobster is a platform that facilitates the licensing of visual content directly from social media users to brands, agencies, and the media. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Lobster searches major social networks and cloud storage providers to access billions of authentic images and videos. This service addresses the challenge of sourcing relevant content for media campaigns by streamlining the process of finding high-quality, real-time visuals. By employing image recognition and metadata analysis, Lobster identifies original content created by everyday individuals, offering an alternative to traditional stock photography. This approach not only enhances the authenticity of visual storytelling but also simplifies the content acquisition process for users, allowing them to showcase their work without copyright concerns.
Encore Alert
Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Encore Alert (www.encorealert.com) is a proactive alerts tool for social marketers. Encore Alert surfaces up just the right social data opportunities at just the right time via elegant push alerts to digital marketers, even giving them extremely actionable recommendations on how to respond most effectively (like a Google Now for marketers). Encore Alert is used every day by mid-market brands like NASA, WeddingWire, Georgetown University, and the Consumer Electronics Association, and is currently raising a seed round that includes DC's NextGen Angels, Max Wessel (VP of SAP), Sean Glass (Founder of HigherOne/Acceleprise), Sonny Ganguly (CMO of WeddingWire), Tyler Peterson (Head of Google Social), and Adam Riggs (President of Shutterstock).
Faze1
Grant in 2014
Faze1 is a data-driven outbound marketing platform designed specifically for the home services and home improvement industries. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enables small and medium-sized businesses to effectively find, reach, and track their customers. By integrating consumer demographics and location-based data, Faze1 enhances traditional marketing strategies, allowing manufacturers, distributors, and contractors to engage more effectively with residential customers. The platform provides brand-approved and dealer-ready content, facilitating improved communication and outreach efforts. Ultimately, Faze1 aims to increase sales productivity by helping businesses implement more informed and targeted marketing campaigns.
Grapevine
Grant in 2014
Grapevine provides a full range of marketing services to help clients connect with their target audience and reach more customers. They provide services for influencer marketing, social analytics, video marketing, youtube advertising, Instagram advertising, and Facebook advertising. Grapevine scales integrated digital marketing campaigns quickly by amplifying influencer content, paid advertising, social media, events, e-commerce, creative, and other channels.
Later
Convertible Note in 2014
Later is a social media management service that focuses on influencer marketing and provides a link-in-bio tool. Founded in 2014, the company has evolved from its origins in influencer marketing to become a comprehensive platform that facilitates collaboration among social media managers, influencer managers, and creators. Later offers partnerships and integrations with major social media platforms, enabling marketers to produce high-performing content and engage authentically with audiences. The platform aims to simplify the process of achieving consistent success on social media by promoting genuine content creation and collaborations. In 2024, Later and Mavrck unified their operations under a shared vision to empower individuals to monetize their creativity. Later is committed to building a Social Revenue Platform that fosters community engagement and drives reliable performance and growth for its users.
onthebar
Grant in 2013
Onthebar is a marketing platform designed for the bar industry, providing a unique service that transforms bar staff into effective brand advocates. The platform enables bartenders to communicate with their regular patrons in real-time, informing them about their schedules and events at the bar. This service allows bar-goers to stay connected with their favorite bartenders and friends, while also accessing exclusive menus and making informed decisions about where to socialize. Onthebar has gained traction with prominent brands in the beverage industry, enhancing their marketing efforts by leveraging personal interactions within bars.
OfferLogic (Acquired by Rokt)
Grant in 2013
OfferLogic is a marketing technology company that helps B2B brands reach its exclusive SMB audience. With an unprecedented partner network, series of owned and operated websites, OfferLogic is an important marketing-lever for companies targeting small businesses. OfferLogic capabilities uniquely combines both a demand-side & sell-side platform. Small businesses benefit from smart offer recommendations during their lifecycle whether just starting out, up & running, or growing.
ZoomTilt
Seed Round in 2013
ZoomTilt, Inc. is a media technology company based in Somerville, Massachusetts, that operates a community and marketplace focused on screenwriting for branded video entertainment. It provides a platform for screenwriters to engage in writing exercises, receive feedback on their scripts, and access advice on online video strategy. The company specializes in connecting advertisers, agencies, media companies, and content creators with top-tier creative talent, enabling them to produce engaging video content. Additionally, ZoomTilt offers content measurement analytics, predictive A/B testing, and innovative video distribution services, helping clients create video marketing campaigns that are memorable, shareable, and effective. Founded in 2012, ZoomTilt was previously known as CrewTide, Inc.
Veenome
Seed Round in 2012
Veenome automatically translates videos into data at a very large scale to help Ad Networks and Publishers lift their CPMs through targeting, reduce fraud through viewability detection and eliminate brand safety/objectionable content concerns. Specifically the data that we create from these videos includes: IAB Category, IAB Subcategory, Brand Safety Category, Viewability(Player size, player page position, autoplay and muting detection), Duration, Player Size, Media Size, Media Type, Media URL, Page URL and FPS
Social Made Simple
Grant in 2012
Social Made Simple is a media marketing tools and services. By combining their platform with a team of dedicated marketing experts they offer affordable full-service social media services to small businesses at scale. They reach their target market through a combination of their sales and marketing efforts, via Whitelabel partnerships with large companies already providing marketing tools and services like directories and email marketing providers, and through a network of smaller affiliates like local marketing agencies.
Redeemr
Debt Financing in 2012
Redeemr is a social loyalty program that works with Facebook, Twitter, and many more social media sites. The SF-based startup lets SMBs, brands, as well as celebrities develop repeated fan engagement on various social media sites and utilize their social presence to fans into customers for their business by rewarding their social as well as customer loyalty.
Vsnap
Grant in 2011
Vsnap to make their customers feel special. It’s a simple system to record, share and measure short video messages, as a more personal alternative to text or email. Receiving a vsnap feels like the modern version of the handwritten notes your mom likes to send. That’s why the customers you vsnap take action 41% more than email recipients, and why they usually gush about your business to their networks. Vsnap is free, and you can use it from your smartphone, tablet or computer.
SMAK
Grant in 2011
Smak puts professionals in control of their communication by turning email and social network clutter into relevant and insightful conversations. Smak increases responsiveness to key clients, improves sales, and automates tedious CRM tasks. Their unique technology makes it easier to deal with communication overload and see clearly which relationships can be leveraged for new business opportunities. Their current customers include recruiters, financial advisers and real-estate agents.
FredRover
Grant in 2011
FredRover is a free, community-driven site devoted to helping you find mobile games, media, tools and business software. FredRover helps consumers discover apps while visiting their favorite websites and gives developers access to wider pools of interested users. We۪ve developed a proprietary algorithm that generates app recommendations that are delivered to consumers in two ways: We partner with web publishers to serve a widget that displays apps relevant to the content of a webpage and we operate a destination website and email service that ingests user information and delivers personalized recommendations.
messageAMP
Grant in 2011
MessageAMP's purpose is to project the marketing messages of small, medium, and enterprise size B2B/B2C companies across several widely adopted digital channels such as social, mobile, email and the web.
Invup
Grant in 2011
Invup makes community involvement engaging for employees and cost effective for companies. Save time You deserve better than spreadsheets and paper forms! Invup makes community involvement management fast and easy! Boost motivation Your organization's good deeds leads to higher motivation, higher productivity, lower turnover rate and to a better impact on society. Improve image Connectivity to social media sites automatically gives social recognition to your positive actions and encourages your friends and colleagues to give back as well.
Her Campus Media
Grant in 2011
Her Campus Media is a leading media company focused on serving and empowering college and GenZennial women. It operates a diverse portfolio that includes Her Campus, College Fashionista, Spoon University, InfluenceHer Collective, and Her20s, effectively reaching this demographic through various channels. The company is supported by a robust on-campus chapter network and hosts proprietary events such as Her Conference®, College Fashion Week®, and CF Clubhouse, which foster community engagement and professional development. Her Campus Media also provides a marketing platform that allows clients to engage with specific audiences through tailored content and experiential advertising. With a commitment to empowering the next generation of women, the company has successfully launched numerous team members into esteemed positions within the media and marketing sectors.
SocMetrics
Grant in 2011
SocMetrics, Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company that offers a web-based self-service platform designed for agencies and brands to enhance their marketing efforts. Founded in 2010, the platform allows users to identify existing influencers and promising advocates, engage target audiences, and effectively communicate desired messages. It also facilitates the monitoring and analysis of campaign return on investment. By leveraging social media, SocMetrics aids businesses in various marketing initiatives, including product launches, lead generation, and crisis response. As of July 2017, SocMetrics operates as a subsidiary of Grapevine Logic, Inc.
Olapic
Seed Round in 2011
Olapic is a visual marketing platform that helps brands reach their consumers visually. With Olapic, users can collect, curate, create, and activate visual content, driving brand engagement to new heights. It is an enterprise, all-in-one user-generated, influencer, and short-form video content platform that provides content and scale users need while ensuring it’s optimized across all its marketing channels. It was established in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.
Honor Our Troops
Grant in 2010
HOT provides veterans with an opportunity to save money while helping other veterans.Proceeds from the sale of HOT discount cards is donated to the HOT Foundation.HOT business members increase their sales by offring discounts to veterans.Branded as a HOT member, businesses will be recognized by HOT card members and also by the public at large as being "veteran friendly.HOT Inc. is a for profit company with a non-profit affiliate.
Pushpins
Grant in 2010
Pushpins is a mobile coupon application that offers consumers immediate access to digital coupons and rewards. By scanning the barcodes of products in grocery stores, users can easily obtain discounts and promotions tailored to their purchases. The app aims to enhance the shopping experience by making savings more accessible and convenient for users.
InStream Media, Inc.
Grant in 2010
InStream Media, Inc. is a targeted marketing technology company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, founded in 2007. The company specializes in providing marketing services for brands and retailers, utilizing its SmartConnect software to deliver ads to customers at the point of sale. This software takes into account various factors, such as store location, time of day, and customer purchase behavior. InStream Media offers a range of services, including SmartConnect Receipts, SmartConnect eReceipts, targeted advertising, loyalty programs, and marketing analytics. By partnering with national retailers and Fortune 100 brands, InStream enhances customer engagement and influences sales through real-time, targeted marketing initiatives. The company's clients include notable names such as TimeInc., Kraft, Purina, and Unilever.
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