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First responder tracking during emergency events has never been a significant priority. For nearly 50 years, fire departments have relied on the archaic whiteboard and word of mouth to keep track of their emergency service teams when in the field. 3AM Innovations has responded to this issue through the creation of a firefighter tracking system designed to save the lives of first responders. Their situational tracking system actively tracks and locates first responder members inside a building in real-time, enabling firefighters to increase their situational awareness and improve their safety.
Artificial intelligence is the key to solving human and business needs. AI.Reverie makes artificial intelligence and machine learning training affordable, swift, and productive through synthetic data. Their suite of synthetic data and vision APIs help businesses across different industries train their machine learning algorithms and improve their Artificial Intelligence applications for smart cities, sustainable farms, and smart homes, enabling clients to customize a virtual world that generates synthetic data and simulations.
The barrier to music composition has been spectacularly broken. Amper Music has developed a music composition platform designed to let users create and customize original pieces. The company offers a subscription-based AI music composition, performance, and production platform, enabling users to instantly create and customize original, royalty-free music for their content without needing any prior experience in composition. Users can set a mood, length, BPM, and tweak pieces to perfection.
An extensive public charging network is now available for electric vehicles in all 50 states. ampUp has enabled drivers, hosts, and fleets to charge stress-free. AmpUp’s technology gives businesses and property owners the ability to efficiently manage multiple charge stations and locations on one platform. Advanced features, such as smart scheduling, dynamic access control, and energy optimization, provide site hosts with more flexibility and affordability for their charger investment.
Unlock your full fishing potential through ANGLR an online fishing application designed to track and record details of fishing adventures. The application keeps track of all relevant information related to a fishing trip, including cast locations, bait or tackle used, weather conditions, and the number of catches. Whether you’re planning a weekend or simply looking for boat ramp access, recording a trip or logging a catch, or simply determined to improve, the ANGLR platform makes it possible.
Musical expression is now accessible to all. Artiphon has developed instruments to help create songs with intuitive gestures like tapping, sliding, and waving. Artiphon has built-in speakers and can switch between guitar, violin, piano, and drums at the press of a button. It's the first MIDI controller that lets you strum, bow, tap, slide, and drum any sound on a single interface. The Artiphon design enables users to have a digital instrument that adapts to the way they play.
Artificial intelligence can be used to reduce and maximize the energy that businesses use in daily operations. Aspinity has developed neuromorphic all-analog signal-processing circuits designed to extract relevant data from the physical world. The company's circuits leverage new developments in artificial intelligence and machine learning to focus on early cues before turning on higher power processing and data analysis, ultimately reducing consumed power by an order of magnitude over existing systems, thereby enabling businesses to reduce the system power requirements for always-on sensing applications.
The various uses of an API extend past just speech recognition. Assembly AI has developed a speech recognition system designed to automate audio transcriptions. Their system uses artificial intelligence to upload industry-specific words, names, or phrases for transcription of streaming audio in real-time, enabling developers to build customized chat interfaces easily, quickly, and inexpensively. Their systems also operate with 99.9%+ uptime making them highly scalable.
To make the most compelling stories, one needs to empower a diverse and passionate set of creators. Atypical Artists is an an-all-in-house production studio that has cultivated fresh narratives across a wide breadth of entertainment mediums from a core background of fiction podcast storytelling. Atypical Artists team’s expertise in making audio drama podcasts from soup to nuts makes Atypical Artists uniquely poised to help push the medium even further and bring audio storytelling to a whole new group of listeners.
Connect everywhere, anywhere, with no background noise. Audeze is a California-based high-end audio manufacturer delivering the most accurate sound reproduction available today. Audeze products are engineered with the latest innovations in materials science and technology matched with precision craftsmanship to produce an astonishingly dynamic and immersive sound. Their commitment to research and development is reflected in every facet of Audeze’s products.
Clinics need more than just a video conferencing platform. Beam has given users a suite of marketing and customer service capabilities alongside a HIPAA compliant HD video platform to help them build a thriving virtual line of business. Beam Health combines telehealth with payment processing, patient registration, patient marketing, custom promotional content, and world-class customer support to give your clinic’s telehealth offering the look and feel of a billion-dollar tech company. They are the world’s only Telehealth solution where clinics can set up an account on their own in 90 seconds.
Creating quality content, entertainment, and community engagement is at the center of Beastcoast’s vision of the esports community. Beastcoast is a professional esports team representing 30 of the world’s most talented video gaming competitors and influencers. They are a content engine, marketing agency, and pro team all wrapped into one. The company emphasizes quality content, entertainment, and community engagement while also focusing on scalability, near-term profitability, and sustainability at the forefront of its strategy.
Culturally relevant and unique perspectives can be brought to life through narrative audio storytelling. Best Case has created several audio narratives in a nonfiction and scripted series. Best Case brings together creators from film, documentary, television, and theater - surrounding them with seasoned audio collaborators to make quality original audio series'. Best Case's CEO Adam Pincus is an award-winning creative executive with a background that includes scripted and nonfiction television series, movies, documentaries, and digital and branded content.
What’s good for the planet should be good for your wallet. Bluedot allows for you to charge and earn rewards on EV driving with a single card. Track all your EV expenses and earn cash back wherever you spend. Bluedot card works at over 1000 public charging stations in California and provides up to 20% cash back as Oxygen Points any time you pay with Bluedot. Bluedot is dedicated to providing smart electric vehicle (EV) charging solutions for smart cities and SME owners. They re-define the EV driver experience and reshape the way private and corporate fleet companies join the e-mobility movement.
Life is better Live. BoxCast has developed a video streaming platform designed to help in broadcasting events. Their video streaming platform has easy-to-manage archives, privacy options, and data integration features, enabling businesses to deliver a quality experience to their viewers. BoxCast also has advanced hardware compression, which is far superior when encoding live video. Further, their expert customer service team is always available to help.
Centered on revolutionizing video. C360 Technologies develops original 360 technologies that deliver high-quality, non-stitched immersive video products. C360's live output is utilized for broadcast and OTT platforms, delivering multiple HD-SDI outputs directly to the broadcast backhaul for live television events while simultaneously putting out a 4K stream to OTT platforms for distribution across AR/VR/XR applications. Their technology has been utilized by major sports leagues and news networks such as Fox Sports, CBS Sports, ESPN, TNT, NASCAR, NFL, NHL, UFC, and major brands like Google and Intel.
It's your turn to go fishing. Plan your perfect fishing charter with Captain Experiences. Captain Experiences makes booking high-quality fishing charters and outdoor sports guides quick and easy. Users can visit captainexperiences.com to find their ideal trip and book with real-time availability so they can focus on fun with family and friends. Captain Experiences specializes in the outdoors and offers all users a comprehensive "Damn Good Guide" sourced by the community to ensure an unforgettable, memorable time.
Explore your fishing passion. CatchCo provides fishing supplies intended to serve the needs of the fishing industry. CatchCo makes products, content, and shopping experiences that include fishing tackle, bait, rods, and reels, among the other products, through a subscription-based mystery box every month, enabling customers to buy fishing gear and kits online. Their vision is for every angler in America to discover something great, memorable, or unexpected through one of CatchCo’s brands.
In a stagnant audio space, Clubhouse is working to build the next iteration of audio. Clubhouse is an audio chat that functions as a space for casual, drop-in conversations with friends and others around the world. Users can go online anytime to chat with the people they follow, hop in as a listener, and hear what others are talking about. Interested parties can get an invite by joining Clubhouse’s waitlist or by receiving an invite from current members.
K-pop has burst onto the global stage. DIVE Studios has produced podcasts for K-pop fans, Asian Americans, and audiences who appreciate Asian arts and culture. The network’s growing podcast programming features artists such as Eric Nam, Tablo of hip-hop group Epik High, Jae of the group Day6, and Jamie Park, with several more artists and K-pop groups joining the network in the near future. The network is credited with bringing the phenomenon of K-pop to the podcast medium.
A queer, disabled Black woman-owned multimedia production company, network, and creative agency—making progressive, fresh and fierce media content. Domino Sound is a podcast studio that aims to bring equity to the world of podcasting by promoting acceptance, inclusion, and awareness through authentic storytelling. They have produced original shows and branded podcasts and provide production services to clients. Their slate includes Food 4 Thot, Akimbo with Seth Godin, Raising Rebels, Scream, Queen!, The Color Grade, and The Cheat Code.
On a mission to help us feel human again in today’s connected world through Books, TV & Film, Podcasts and more. Dot Dot Dot represents what’s next in humanity’s relationship to technology. They are building a media company for the Web3 era and prioritizing what that will mean for creators, inclusivity… and the future of communication.
Rising up or falling mightily, wrestling with the status quo leaves a mark. Double Elvis Productions has developed wildly entertaining original content and experiences while creating a platform for artists and modern storytellers. Double Elvis Productions focus on music and pop culture. Their initial slate of projects is four music-focused podcasts in partnership with iHeartMedia and as part of iHeartRadio Original Podcasts, including the recently launched Dear Young Rocker.
The world of comic books has never been more accessible. Dreamer Comics has produced several podcast episodes detailing the trials and tribulations of comic book publishing. Every week host Omar Spahi interviews comic book creators including writers, pencilers, inkers, colorists, letterers, editors, and executives to understand the stories behind the images. They dive deep into what to do to get your comic book created, published, and sold to fans.
Headphones are now the most widely used form of listening to media. Dysonics has developed audio technology designed to change the headphone listening experience. Their technology builds on over fifteen years of research in psychoacoustics and sound modeling by a team of visionaries who have worked with UC Davis, Stanford University, University of Texas, Microsoft, Adobe, Live Nation, and more. Dysonics captures and reproduces room acoustics using a custom 360° microphone array to collect multiple binaural recordings simultaneously, enabling listeners to have physically accurate sound propagation and reception.
Want to manage your own experience business? Easol has provided an all-in-one toolkit for Experience Creators. A travel and experiences marketplace intended for creative entrepreneurs and independent brands. The company's platform tools help discover and book unique trips, yoga retreats, trail running weekends, and music festivals by balancing human curation with clever algorithms, enabling travelers to go to exciting places of their choice.
Bring clarity, accuracy, and speed to lifesaving missions. Edgybees has developed a first response application designed to enable AR (Augmented Reality) on high-speed platforms like drones and cars. Their application creates realistic and immersive experiences that layer three-dimensional visuals over live videos from fast-moving cameras mounted on cars, aerial platforms, or body-worn accessories to stream videos and data, thereby enabling military and emergency businesses with unparalleled situational awareness to maximize the effectiveness of aerial operations.
The workforce of the future requires a greater understanding of employee skills and talent development. Current talent systems do not provide adequate or actionable insights into employee skills and proficiencies. As a result, companies are unable to optimize their workforce, maximize employee retention, or provide effective training. Through machine learning-based skills inference, EmPath has provided the workforce of the future with a greater understanding of employee skills and talent development. The proprietary software helps companies discover employee skills, match the skills to their current job and future roles, and recommend coursework to close skills gaps.
Fire & EMS have been reimagined. First Due has developed an online data sending platform designed to protect the lives of firefighters. Their platform programmatically gathers information from online and offline sources, translates that data into an easy-to-consume format and makes it accessible to first responders at the time of dispatch on any device. First Due also offers location and scene data to firefighters, enabling them to make concise decisions. First Due automatically aggregates critical information on every structure in your response area, so you have pre-plans on every structure within weeks with no effort from your team.
Get stronger and faster with a fitness plan that fits you. Fitbod has developed a fitness training application designed to offer personalized workout plans. Their application uses machine learning to analyze users' workout data to build a real-time strength-training plan tailored to users' physical capability, available equipment, and fitness goals, enabling users to maximize the use of indoor gym equipment and workout easily. Fitbod fills in the sets, reps, and weight for each exercise based on strength-training best practices. As you get stronger or master exercises, Fitbod adapts to push you a bit harder in your next workout.
Dive deep into stories from around the world. Frequency Machine has produced an extensive array of cinematic narratives and travel shows. Every project explores an astounding story. Sometimes that’s a single episode format filled with fascinating tales from around the world — beer smuggling in Jerusalem, Game of Thrones conflict tourism in Belfast, doomsday prepping in Helsinki. Sometimes that’s a multi-episode arched series that unveils a thrilling story — like the exploits of the greatest conmen the world has ever seen.
Community-driven video content at scale simple. Gather Voices has developed a video relationship management platform designed to promote brands through the voices of their customers. Their platform integrates with existing social media, video, and customer relationship management platforms to provide user-generated content directly from donors, advocates, customers, and constituents to personally help a brand, enabling organizations to improve their engagement with customers, to lower the cost of video content production and to easily publish videos within their network.
The high costs of aerospace radar architecture have made it inaccessible for most commercial applications to date. General Radar has developed and built cost-effective, cutting-edge radar hardware and software products for the autonomous vehicle, aerospace, and defense sectors. The team has developed four generations of radar and one lidar system that have allowed them to aggressively cost-reduce an Aerospace radar by 20x and is now delivering solutions to a variety of problems in both the commercial and defense space.
The UK’s leading digital manufacturing market place. Geomiq connects ambitious engineers with a network of experienced, hard-working, and highly vetted manufacturers from all over the globe. Whether you’re looking for injection molds, rapid prototypes or large quantities of specialist precision parts, Geomiq can connect you with the right manufacturer for the job.
Speak to your audience in a way they’ll listen. Giide has developed an audio creation and publishing platform that aligns with the way modern media companies and large enterprises communicate. They give everyone in an organization the ability to create, publish, share, and track hyperlinked interactive audio. Giide’s platform has double the analytics output of traditional audio or podcasts. With their help, one can track more than bookmarks and shares.
The future is electric. Across industries companies are adopting electrification in their products. H3X Technologies is ahead of the game. They have manufactured high-performance integrated motor drives for electric aircraft and innovated a new and more efficient stator coil. Their design is revolutionizing the electric market and pushing the advancement of electric aircraft propulsion, creating a more sustainable aviation industry with cleaner energy.
The world's only real-time vehicle network dedicated to safety. HAAS Alert has developed a mobile vehicle-to-vehicle platform designed to deliver preemptive notifications to motorists. Their platform provides cities with real-time traffic information through existing mobile networks and gives motorists a warning that pops up on the car dashboard or smartphone home screen when emergency vehicles are approaching, enabling motorists to get access to traffic updates and drive more efficiently.
The future doesn’t have to be one in which we are all faceless consumers transacting with cold and indifferent corporations. Web3 enables a different future, placing brands at the precipice of a new era of commerce. For the first time, brands have an opportunity to transform the relationship they have with their customers and build a new one rooted in shared incentives, reciprocity, and community. To help brands take advantage of this opportunity, Hang was built — a no-code platform for seamlessly creating and managing Web3-powered membership programs. At Hang NFT-powered memberships turn customers into stakeholders. Hang’s vision is to be the fabric between brands and consumers — no matter where customers are in the digital or physical world, brands will enable them to earn, be rewarded, and come together with Hang.
Real-time sea navigation guidance is now available. Hefring Marine has devised technology for intelligent boat and vessel navigation. Their solution makes use of operational and sensory data to provide direct feedback to operators and systems to better optimize controls, motions, speed, and route with the goal of improving safety for crew and passengers, reducing damage to craft and equipment, and operational and fuel efficiency. Hefring Marine is intended for a varied range of vessel types, from commercial to leisure, as well as to improve the operations of autonomous vessels.
The easiest to use cellular platform for IoT allows the internet everywhere for everything. Hologram has devised a connectivity platform designed to connect devices, capture data, and manage a fleet. Their platform uses its cloud-friendly cellular network to: connect any device to the internet, interact with the device, and route incoming and outgoing messages, enabling enterprises to grow their businesses and projects to simplify the process of building connected hardware that works everywhere.
Grow your Cannabis sales with daily retail market intelligence. Hoodie is the Leader in Real-time Cannabis Product Assortment & Pricing Intelligence. Hoodie Analytics provides users with an indispensable partner that keeps an eye on the market, a network with access to the best people, and data processing to get an advantage over the competition. You can focus on running your business and Hoodie will get the operational insights needed to outgrow the pack. Hoodie enables dispensaries and brands to make efficient and profitable business decisions through their timely data and insights. They also empower consumers to make faster, more informed purchases by connecting them to the right product, brand, and dispensaries.
Two lesbians chatting about non-traditional families. If These Ovaries Could Talk has created a podcast where two lesbians chat about making babies and non-traditional families. Each episode highlights and normalizes LGBTQ families for the rest of the world to see as well as acknowledging that they’re just like other parents who are trying not to yell at their kids when they refuse to put their shoes on and we're 25 minutes late for school. Prominent guests such as Judy Gold, Iowa State Senator Zach Wahls, Staceyann Chin, Ophira Eisenberg, and Bravo TV’s The Abbys.
The Future of Flight. Impossible Aerospace has developed a long-range electric aircraft intended to be used as a fully electric alternative to commercial aviation. Their aircraft are equipped with optical and thermal sensors, and use an electric commercial-grade drone with a flight time of up to two hours, enabling the aviation industry to get affordable public safety equipment.
For far too long, professional audio innovation has lagged, limiting the full potential of sound. While advancements in technology have optimized existing solutions, audio is desperate for innovation. Insoundz has created an audio tracking technology designed to provide actionable audio intelligence during live events. Their technology captures and delivers audio from sporting events in the stadium which provides the thrill of watching a live game, enabling users to enrich the home/mobile viewing experience.
K4 Mobility builds secure digital platforms and unifies communications technologies to harness the power of the internet for maritime. They specialize and have deep experience in mobile satellite and terrestrial communications, having pioneered the In-flight connectivity market. K4 Mobility prides itself on creating the best customer experience and making a significant difference in the lives of those who sail the seas.
Telling the kinds of stories in which we can actually see ourselves. Kerning Cultures Network has produced podcasts focused on celebrating and promoting Middle Eastern culture. They are the first venture-funded podcast company in the Middle East. Their podcasts are a digital revival of the region’s long standing oral storytelling tradition. As children of the Middle East, we’ve grown up with media that doesn’t represent us. Kerning Cultures’ current line-up includes both English and Arabic podcasts, across genres, producing quality media that speaks to Arab youth in both languages.
Remove background noise and experience HD Voice with a single application. Krisp has developed a machine-learning-based speech enhancement technology designed to turn background voice audio into crisp audio. Their technology automatically recovers lost sound packets during network transfers, mutes background noise, turns low bitrate audio to high-definition audio, and makes the voice louder, helping contact centers, telecommunications, conferences, critical communications, and others to turn their existing audio devices into HD communication devices.
Create, we'll do the rest. LANDR has developed an instant online audio mastering software designed to refine and polish finished stereo mixes. Their audio mastering software uses machine learning technologies that are applied to sound engineering and delivered as a platform, enabling musicians to mix tracks for the studio without an engineer and the freedom to create, learn, collaborate, master, and release music online. Creators can also partner with LANDR and get their music on Spotify, Apple Music, and every major streaming service.
Choose from over 30,000 events and find your next physical challenge. Let’s Do This has established a marketplace to discover and book endurance and outdoor mass participation sporting events. They are on a mission to help more people discover epic experiences than any other community on the planet. Whether one is looking for a 5k fun run or a double Ironman triathlon, Let's Do This lists more mass-participation sports events than any other website on the planet. These include running, triathlon, cycling, obstacle racing, swimming, and many others.
Follow your team with on-demand news, interviews, and perspectives from experts that really know your favorite team inside and out. Locked On Podcast Network has covered the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL teams, as well as leading major college sports teams and conferences. They also produce league-wide podcasts covering the major sports leagues and have some of the industry’s top-ranked draft and fantasy sports podcasts. Locked On publishes over 140 daily podcast shows with 600 podcast episodes every week, generating more than 8 million+ listens per month.
Get to market faster with Losant’s IoT platform. Losant has developed a platform designed to help teams quickly and securely build complex real-time data. Their platform uses open communication standards to provide connectivity from one to millions of devices and provides powerful data collection, aggregation, and visualization, enabling clients to empower seamless integration of connected and non-connected devices. With real-time stream processing and batch processing capabilities, users can create dynamic experiences and perform complex analytics.
Immerse yourself in a romantic comedy in the time it takes to jog a mile, do the dishes, or take a bath! Meet Cute has created a podcast focusing on romantic comedies. They produce and distribute original romantic comedies in podcast form that focus on providing the happiness and hope that have become synonymous with the timeless genre. Meet Cutes are short rom-coms that take you from Meet Cute to Happily Ever After in 15 minutes. Listen to Meet Cute, your audio best friend, for stories that inspire hope.
Solar-powered wireless routers are the future of energy. Most Mesh networks lose too much throughput to be useful at scale, however, the Mesh++ self-powered hardware doesn't, so you can cover hundreds of acres before laying cable. Mesh++ has provided a solar-powered wireless communication solution intended to bring affordable wireless networking to underserved groups. Mesh ++’ solar-powered routers use mobile processing power to deliver a high-speed WiFi connection to outdoors and public places routers. Their cellular chipsets pack four times as much computing ability as the average router, allowing them to manage complex routes without slowing you down.
Earn miles for all of your travel. Miles is an application that has empowered anyone to earn miles automatically for all forms of travel and commute. You can then redeem your miles from retailers like Walgreens. Similar to a frequent flier program, but for all forms of transportation, they deliver value for every mile traveled, across every mode of transport, anywhere in the world. Whether by car, plane, train, bus, boat, bicycle, or on foot, the app effortlessly awards users’ travel. Miles can be saved or redeemed at any time.
Delivering live audio to every listener's phone. Mixhalo has developed an audio platform designed to conduct live events. Their platform is a scalable wireless technology that streams quality audio directly to the attendees' phones and headphones at concerts of all kinds, enabling event organizers to give audiences real-time audio experiences. MIXhalo makes events more inclusive and productive by transforming an attendee’s phone and headphones into an interpretation device.
Leverage the true power of the cloud to streamline your digital media operations with MOLTEN Cloud. Molten has developed a cloud infrastructure platform designed to simplify digital media operations. Their platform has real-time insights and automation tools for rights management, content, and licensing management, enabling clients to have a powerful infrastructure for digital media that protects rights, distributes content globally, and verifiably accounts for every penny earned.
AI for everyone! Mycroft had developed an open-source voice assistant platform designed to handle operating systems. Their platform is an artificial intelligence-based software that offers natural language processing capability paired with an open-source and open-hardware approach, enabling users to handle their electronic items through voice. Mycroft may be used in anything from a science project to a global enterprise environment.
Command your day. Your favorite brands can help. Native Voice has developed a software SDK for audio device manufacturers to provide access to all voice services with as little as one line of code. Native Voice is the on-demand voice services library for access to the brands you rely on every day to help you get more done. Do more using just your voice. Start commanding your day with the Native Voice beta app.
A new era of battery technology is here. Natrion engineers safe, high-performance, highly scalable solid-state battery technologies facilitating the introduction of mass market-viable electric vehicles and renewable energy. Clean energy means cleaner power systems, by blending both ceramic and polymer materials in their solid-state battery, Natrion is able to fuse all the best properties and none of the worst creating a more efficient and thermal resistant composite. Natrion prioritizes clean, renewable energy and believes better batteries stand at the core of these advances.
Enabling rapid analysis and management of the world’s largest datasets. Ocient has created a big data platform intended to offer a rapid analysis of the world's largest datasets. Their platform works on large datasets that are measured in tens of terabytes, petabytes, or exabytes with trillions or quadrillions of rows, as well as focuses on engrossing billions of rows per second, filtering and computing aggregate results at rates up to trillions of rows per second, enabling organizations to harness the untapped power of large datasets, at scale and speed.
Transforming how artists and fans connect through the power and intimacy of audio. Osiris Media has created deeper connections for music fans, by creating/curating music, culture podcasts, experiences, and helping like-minded advertisers get in front of engaged customers
The fastest way to find spare parts and DIY components. Partium works to enable users to search for a spare part by simply taking a picture; empower technicians from day one to find the right part; and introduce a fast, intuitive, and reliable way to search for parts. Partium’s Enterprise Part Search solution is ready to be integrated into your existing systems such as ERP, CMMS, AMS, FSM, etc. thanks to the Partium SDK and APIs that access your bill of materials and catalog data. You can also pilot their solution with the ready-to-use Partium App for Android and iOS.
Quantify weight room performance. No strings attached. Perch has provided velocity-based training services intended to quantify complex and functional movement exercises. Their services use cameras attached to weight racks to track bar velocity, power output, and bar path without disrupting weight room workflow along with offering analysis and reports of daily and longitudinal trends, enabling athletes to optimize workouts, regulate training loads and monitor fatigue. Perch is used by the world’s most elite athletic organizations to optimize performance, manage fatigue, profile athletes, and quantify daily readiness.
Periodic’s booking platform and your creativity. Power your business with custom booking. Periodic has developed an online custom booking platform designed to offer real-time transactions and resource management. Their platform offers real-time bookings and makes it easy for any organization to take scheduling and reservations to the web including the ability to build forms, send messages, and process payments that allow to book and purchase services online with a shopping cart like experience, thus bringing e-commerce to services, enabling customers to manage multiple locations and coordinate the schedules of large teams.
Enabling a safer, more connected roadway. Pi Variables has developed a sequential warning lamp system intended to enhance road safety and traffic guidance via innovative hardware, software, and design-focused systems. The company's technology and mechanical design are network architectures including ICS sequential flare, ICS landing zone kit, sequential barricade lamps, remote control, and cone top lamps, enabling the transportation industry to use a reliable system on the roadway.
Get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness experience without the price tag. Playbook has developed a fitness platform intended to connect wellness and fitness experts to anyone and anywhere. Their platform helps health, wellness, and fitness creators share their freshest content, diet charts, and exercise routine with fans, followers, and clients, enabling users to avail fitness tips at a low cost.
Investing in media companies that leverage audio as a core strategy to drive audience, brand, and revenue. They provide startup and growth capital resources and expertise to help audio and podcast ventures accelerate their success. If you are a talented, ambitious podcaster building a creative, profitable, and impactful business, Podfund is your source for startup and growth capital, resources, and expertise.
Give clients one unified account to make payments. Portal has developed an all-in-one commerce solution. Empowering entrepreneurs to start virtual professional service businesses with one app enabling CRM, Billing, File Sharing, Messaging, Knowledge Base, and Landing Page. Amplify your brand by letting clients log in to your own website to send messages, share files, make payments, and more.
Deliver rich and actionable real-time data to your internal users, owners, and stakeholders. Portside has modernized reporting & analytics platforms for private aviation, including individual and corporate aircraft owners. Aircraft owners can manage expenses, flights, documents, and taxes with ease and make better financial decisions with Portside's digitized aviation. The Portside Platform is a suite of modern cloud-based applications for business aviation. Depending on the size and complexity of your flight department, you can use the entire Portside Platform, or integrate the systems you use today.
Put artists and creators first. Pushkin has developed several premium content podcasts in a collaborative environment. Their shows include Gladwell’s Revisionist History, Michael Lewis’s Against the Rules, Laurie Santos’ The Happiness Lab, and Broken Record, in which hosts Malcolm Gladwell, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview some of the biggest names in music. They partner with some of the most interesting creative minds in the world to produce podcasts that will inspire curiosity and incite joy.
With thrilling stories, immersive sound, and actors you love, QCODE podcasts are like nothing you’ve heard before. QCODE has created and supported several immersive podcasts. They are focused on working with creators to originate and innovate stories in audio format. Their shows include Blackout (starring Rami Malek), Carrier (featuring Tony and Grammy winner Cynthia Erivo), The Edge of Sleep (starring YouTube creator Mark Fischbach aka “Markiplier”), and their most recent release, The Left/Right Game, with Tessa Thompson.
We love podcasts and podcasters. Radio Public’s tools and resources assist brand-new and experienced podcasters alike. RadioPublic has developed an online podcasting platform designed to aid listeners to discover, engage with, and reward creators of stories, podcasts, and other audio. Their platform integrates tools that include embedded web audio players, native podcast applications, podcast marketing websites, and methods for direct listener monetization, enabling podcasters to grow and succeed with their new and upcoming content.
Be heard. Record. Share. Get noticed. Rapchat has developed an application that enables anyone to record and share songs from their phone. Their social network drives connectivity and collaboration while its mobile recording studio helps artists make incredible content that they would not have otherwise been able to make before. They have a variety of beats and instrumentals from the top producers around the world. All sorts of genres, types, and vibes to fuel your next masterpiece.
Data is the result of instrumentation. Start there to find the best solution. Reality AI has designed tools to create optimized feature sets for machine learning on signal inputs. Their tools offer common transforms on raw data, parametric statistical features, and peak analysis, and binary pattern and texture analysis, enabling clients to have accurate and computationally efficient classifiers, predictors, and anomaly detectors. Reality AI also turns sensor data into TinyML models + optimized hardware, then deploys them on the Edge.
Automated logistics, cold chain, and inventory management. Reelables are thin film bluetooth labels that allow for temperature tracking, active beaconing, and tracking of devices all from thin RFID labels with a robust 40m range. Designed to be integrated into a logistics or tracking system with a low-level API. Reelables keep track of inventory, assets, and orders. They're paper-thin, printable as media in direct thermal printers, and stick to shipments, boxes, or assets just like ordinary barcode labels. Supercharge your logistics.
The revolution in voice is happening on Alexa, Siri, and Google. Revery Media has developed AI-driven narratives and podcasts to build engaged audiences around IP with a clear path to adaptation in TV, film, and location-based entertainment. They are focused on producing a premium scripted fiction audio series. Revery marries Hollywood talent with innovative storytelling and premium sound design. They believe that once you add story, personality, and advanced technology entertainment to interactive voice, you can create a place where you and your audience or customer can have a continuous, entertaining, and engaging conversation, that’s ready 24/7.
A better way for subcontractors to generate, manage, and track construction bid proposals. RhinoDox has created a construction bid and proposal management platform that creates data and process automation that allows subcontractors to generate bids with greater consistency and faster. They manage, store, process, and provide document conversion and media storage services.
Be prepared for the transformation of workplaces. Roby has developed a chat/voice-enabled software designed to simplify ticket management and deflect repetitive requests. Their software is a smart help desk solution that handles all requests, automates repetitive tasks, eliminates miscommunications, and reduces the resolution time, thereby enabling businesses to make their offices smarter and increase employee satisfaction. Hybrid working environments are the future, and we are prepared.
Rollick fuels industries. This is next-level relationship marketing. Rollick has connected manufacturers, dealers, and finance/insurance providers with in-market consumers in the Powersports, RV, and Marine industries to deliver a seamless customer journey. Their solutions include new customer acquisition, enterprise lead management, customer experience/loyalty, and marketing automation. In addition, the company has rapidly built its GoRollick.com outdoor recreational vehicle buying marketplace to include a nationwide network of dealers, over 80 manufacturers, and an affinity partner network with access to over 250 million high-quality customers.
The easiest way to sell aircraft parts. Rotabull is a fast, simple, and connected platform for modern sales teams. Rotabull has developed a platform designed for selling aircraft parts. The company's platform connects all aircraft-related e-commerce activities from multiple marketplaces on a single platform, enabling clients to save on listing fees and time. They are the digital backbone for aircraft parts businesses, and 90% of airlines globally have bought from businesses using Rotabull.
Enterprises need a robust and practical means to scale training efforts, especially in a remote world. Scope AR is a global leader in developing augmented reality (AR) solutions and products for industrial clients focusing on field maintenance, manufacturing, and training. Scope AR is revolutionizing the way enterprises work and collaborate by offering a visual knowledge base where companies deliver work instructions and remote assistance on a single, integrated AR knowledge platform, WorkLink, so workers can get expert guidance when and where needed.
Control Boats and sea vessels remotely. Sea Machines has developed autonomous control and dynamic vessel management systems designed for remote control. Their systems consist of self-driven control and navigation technology to feature real-time sea data, remote payload control, obstacle avoidance, remote communications, and machinery condition monitoring among other solutions, enabling businesses to remotely drive their workboats and other commercial surface vessels with improved productivity and efficiency as well as safe operations in hazardous environments.
Make decisions at the speed of data. Sentenai has developed an artificial-intelligence-powered data fusion infrastructure created to quantify risks, uncover anomalies and identify threats. Their data virtualization platform automates data integration for continuous analysis instead of relying on manual data integration and rigid analytical models, thereby, providing organizations with a complete view of all their systems and making agile decisions by generating actionable insight from operational data.
Instantly get every stat. ShotTracker has developed a digital platform designed to provide data analysis to improve athletic skills. Their technology has been used throughout the NBA and NCAA to track and improve performance! ShotTracker consists of three components: ShotTracker-enabled ball, player sensors, and anchors in the rafters. Their platform comprises a net sensor, wrist sensor, and mobile application that automatically captures statistical and performance analytics for an entire team in real-time during practice to facilitate overall basketball improvement, enabling coaches to make fact-based adjustments and strategies in a hassle-free manner.
Less fuel, more money. SixWheel is an electric add-on to your existing truck that converts it into a hybrid. Unlike competitors, it does with no upfront costs and no downtime. It simply hitches to your truck via its fifth wheel hitch. SixWheel can save you 20-30% on fuel costs. It does this through proprietary hybridizing technology that allows it to take on as much as 90% of the propulsion of your tractor. SixWheel saves you time and money providing a 200 mile range and three minute SixWheel exchange time.
Open your ears, expand your mind. Sonoro Studios has created the world's best audio content in Spanish. We support leading Latinx voices and stories that inspire and empower. Sonoro's offices in the US and Mexico serve the 500 million people around the world who speak Spanish. They collaborate with world-class storytellers to create content across a range of verticals that can be distributed broadly. Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and media executives, the company is backed by leading investors, including Lerer Hippeau, Founder Collective, and Podfund.
Previously, there was no one platform to create, host, and distribute your podcast to listeners anywhere, on any device. Sounder helps creators of all sizes tap into the power of Audio Intelligence to fuel podcast growth—expanding their audience and driving revenues for their content. Founded in 2019 by former Google and Spotify executives, Sounder brings discoverability, community, and ease to the podcast industry.
Hear the impossible. Soundskrit has developed bio-inspired microphones designed to offer improved audio capture in consumer devices. Their microphones can dynamically locate and separate sound sources in challenging environments and isolate desired sounds with no added distortion, enabling users to have improved speech recognition and sound localization as a new suite of features for consumer electronics.
Today digital audio is everywhere…and everyone is listening. Your brand needs to be in front of listeners, but creating compelling audio isn’t easy to do. That’s where SpokenLayer comes in. SpokenLayer has provided an application platform intended to provide voice-driven media for virtual assistants and connected devices. Their platform transforms written stories into audio stories within a second as well as produces, distributes, and monetizes voice experiences, enabling advertisers and brands to build smart speakers and engage audiences with them.
Go remote for smarter support. Streem has developed on-demand customer support and collaboration platform intended to provide instant support through mobile and web. Their platform employs augmented reality, computer vision, and machine learning to capture information such as brand model, serial number, measurements, and angles for saving notes and images through a digital toolbox, enabling clients to quickly diagnose, and quote a customer's inquiry and provide remote support.
Exercise whenever and wherever you want with Studio’s help. Health has never been so easy. Studio has provided audio-based group running classes intended to help people to stay fit and healthy. Their classes include a mix of instructors with motivating playlists to offer strength training, metabolic conditioning, and high-intensity interval training, enabling users to pick the class from the closest gym and find a useful workout session.
Get rewarded for sharing your favorite brands. Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok make billions off of their user's posts, and the Swaypay App exists to cut the creators into those earnings. Swaypay re-routes ad dollars back into the consumer's pocket by democratizing influencer perks for all. Creators and social media users can earn up to 100% cashback on their favorite products by posting them on TikTok.
Gain a competitive edge with on-demand insights that drive data-backed decisions to build customer loyalty and maximize profit. SwiftIQ has developed a consumer behavioral analytics platform intended to connect data and enable insights across the retail ecosystem. Their consumer behavioral analytics platform offers advanced analytics, supplier collaboration, and predictive tools for large retailers and their vendors to collect, analyze and share insights on demand across billions of basket-level transactions and customer records, enabling clients to maximize profitability and enhance the shopper experience.
Human conversations are messy. Symbl’s APIs are simple! Symbl has developed a conversational Intelligence API platform intended to empower developers to eliminate the complexity of creating conversation-driven experiences and provide untapped insight and action through human-to-human discussions. Their platform helps to empower developers to analyze voice/text conversations and extract actionable outcomes in real-time contextually, enabling clients to identify actionable insights across domains and channels in real-time.
Collaborate efficiently and easily. Synap Software Labs has provided a customer relationship management platform intended to make it easier to share information and collaborate. Their management platform is a cloud-based cross-platform tool that provides data sharing, collaboration, and analytics services, enabling clients to manage their teams better. In 2018, Synap merged with Imagineer Technology Group, a leading provider of investor relations and fund marketing software to the asset management industry.
Since the invention of the moving coil speaker, the cone diaphragm has dominated the way speakers produce sound. Tectonic has developed a flat-panel speaker system designed to offer quality audio for automotive and professional consumers. Their systems leverage bending wave modes to produce sound vibrations through its patented distributed mode loudspeaker and balanced mode radiator products, enabling customers to enjoy music in high definition. From headphones perfect for audiobooks to crystal-clear interaction with a smart home speaker, deliver a better sound experience for your customers by integrating Tectonic products into your latest innovation.
Never take call notes again. Tetra has created a note-taking tool that captures and summarizes spoken conversations. Simply invite bot@asktetra.com to an upcoming call on your calendar and we'll dial you just before it starts. Or, create a call whenever in Tetra’s web app. Accept and merge Tetra's call as soon as your meeting starts. Tetra will start transcribing right away. Read, listen to, and search your notes in Tetra’s web app once Tetra is done transcribing.
Camping starts here. Find camping for tents, trailers, RVs, and cabins with reviews and photos from campers like you. The Dyrt has provided a campground search and review application designed to offer reviews and information on campsites. Their application offers guidance for adventure trips, camping contests, and camping games, enabling users to review campgrounds, earn points and win prizes. You can also plan your next summer trip with Dyrt’s PRO trip planner.
News made fast, fair, and fun in just 10 minutes. The NewsWorthy has provided a wide variety of the day's news in less than 10 minutes each weekday. Award-winning broadcast journalist and former CBS news reporter Erica Mandy is on a mission to help people stay informed in a convenient, unbiased, and less depressing way with the daily news podcast. The NewsWorthy has been named a ‘Best Podcast’ by Harper's Bazaar, recommended as a ‘Best News App’ by Fast Company, featured as a ‘Can't Miss’ podcast on Stitcher, and more.
Bringing products to life with visual technology, Threekit makes product customization and visualization easy. Their software unifies 3D configuration, Virtual Photography, and Augmented Reality so customers can easily interact with products and adjust them to their specifications. Threekit enhances the customer experience by providing real-time modifications to both product and price simultaneously. Threekit is revolutionizing the eCommerce experience, offering customers an innovative and sustainable new way to shop.
This is the future of fitness. Tonal has created a digital weight platform intended to deliver a smooth weight lifting experience using magnets and electricity. Their platform eliminates the need for traditional weights by delivering pounds of resistance in a device fitting in a flatscreen with sensors to correct form and a touch screen display that keeps track of workouts in real-time, enabling users to have access to full-body fitness at home-from legs to chest-without the hassle of changing machines.
Make any audio and video searchable, editable, and shareable. Trint has developed an automated transcription platform designed to unlock the power of speech. They use artificial intelligence to automatically transcribe the spoken word in 31 languages, making it easy to find the moments that matter for all types of content creators. Trint enables large and small media companies, marketing firms, corporations, universities, and individuals to connect for seamless, fast, and secure content creation.
Clean, normalize, and match records in record time. Enrich data on the fly. Publish in minutes. Unifyd Insights has developed a context-aware system that uses machine learning and natural language processing to normalize and connect your datasets. More importantly, Unifyd maps to external party datasets via a centralized graph that connects all participants to perform a marketplace function. Sourcing data for enrichment is done in a zero-code environment where internal data experts collaborate with technical staff to publish insights in minutes or hours, not weeks or months.
A community that helps creatives fulfill their dreams. Unmistakable Media has created emotional and thought-provoking podcast listeners. Eliminate the feeling of being stuck in your life, blocked in your creativity, and discover higher levels of meaning and purpose in your life and career. Listen to deeply personal, insightful, and thought-provoking stories from the world’s leading thinkers and doers including best-selling authors, artists, peak performance psychologists, happiness researchers, entrepreneurs, startup founders, artists, venture capitalists, and even former bank robbers. Guests have included Tim Ferriss, Seth Godin, Justine Musk, and more.
Build next-level audio and video experiences. Voxeet has developed a real-time collaboration platform that enables WebRTC with the only highly secure, crystal clear 3D surround-sound, audio, and video experience. The API library also enables screen sharing, presentation mode, broadcasting, call recording, translation, messaging, scheduling, and more. Now operating as Dolby.io. Featuring Dolby Voice technology, users get access to advanced audio processing capabilities, including spatial audio, noise suppression, and dynamic audio leveling, to create custom experiences that are more lifelike, productive, and enjoyable than ever before.
Have fewer meetings. Yac has developed a voice collaboration platform designed to conduct meetings without physical presence. Their platform offers asynchronous meetings, screen sharing, and voice messaging, enabling users to stay in sync without interruption or monopolizing each other's time. Yac works alongside the tools your team uses today. Instead of scheduling a Zoom or typing endless Slack messages back and forth, condense that conversation into a few voice messages or async screen-shares. Your team will thank you.
Give your camera superpowers. Zensors has developed AI-powered visual sensors intended to enable smart and reactive spaces through cutting-edge computer vision technologies. They provide a single camera combined with state-of-the-art machine learning technology, enabling users to replace dozens of IoT type sensors and receive actionable data using an existing camera investment. Whether you are a cafe or city, factory or fairground, Zensors can digitize your physical environment in seconds, turning spaces into smart, reactive experiences. You can use cameras to answer questions, stay informed, and streamline your operations, without deploying any new IoT sensors.
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