

Funding and Mentors for New Media's Brightest Stars

Newsle tracks people in the news. Newsle finds articles about you, your friends and colleagues, and anyone else you care about and notifies you minutes or hours after they're published. Newsle combs the web continuously, analyzing over 1 million articles each day - every major news article and blog post published online, as well as most minor ones. Newsle's core technology is its disambiguation algorithm, which determines whether an …
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SnappyTV offers a robust suite of tools that enable organizations of all sizes to edit, share, and archive live video and TV programming completely within the cloud. The SnappyTV platform enables organizations to rapidly create, distribute and measure real-time promotional messaging delivered via social media channels. We estimate that two billion social media messages per month are related to content seen on TV. Messages are sent by the …
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Annotating the web: Lyrics, poetry, literature, the Bible, political speeches, legal texts, science papers. Building a community that will continue to expand beyond rap into all cultures.
From: Marc Andreessen - Why Andreessen Horowitz is investing in Rap Genius
I'm delighted to announce that Andreessen Horowitz is investing $15 million in Rap Genius.
Given that Rap Genius is a web site where people explain rap lyrics, and given that my …
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Rally (www.rally.org) is an online fundraising platform that helps anyone with a cause raise money, share their story and connect with new supporters.
Rally offers personalized, easy-to-use social fundraising tools for passionate individuals, groups, nonprofits and political candidates. Rally gives each cause a place to share stories, photos, videos and updates with supporters specifically at the point of donating. Rally uses the power of social …
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Optilly / InstallMonitizer, manages web analytics and fixes a company's conversion funnel to capture more business and build a stronger customer base. From there, companies utilize the advance optimizers based on historical data to find metrics that yields the highest ROI. InstallMonetizer helps software developers generate additional revenue from their installations. Most software developers lose revenue from 95% of their free/trial installs. We …
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SCVNGR is part game, part game platform. Playing SCVNGR is all about going places, doing challenges and earning points. Players discover cool new places, find fun new things to do, share their activity with friends and can even earn virtual (and sometimes real-world) rewards! Individuals and institutions can build on SCVNGR by adding custom challenges at their favorite places!
SCVNGR's newer product, LevelUp lets you pay for retail transactions …
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Identified is a data and analytics company that pioneered the development of the Identified Score. Identified Score is a measurement of how in demand your professional background is to companies right now. Thousands of companies and tens of thousands of people access Identified Scores each day to evaluate professionals for recruiting, sales, networking, background checks, and a number of other purposes.
Over 50 million professionals have …
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The Buddy Platform delivers a scenario focused cloud hosting solution for mobile applications, including:
Geo-Location Data User Accounts User Meta Data Application Meta Data Photo Albums Friends Lists Messaging Push Notifications & WP7 Live Tiles Developing a killer mobile application is challenging enough as it is, without having to also build cloud infrastructure to support features like online accounts, global “high scores” …
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Ark.com is a search engine for people. With Ark, you can search for new people, old classmates, new business contacts, and even your friends. With over a billion socialnetwork profiles indexed, and using a modern architecture, Ark provided the most comprehensive people search engine in the world.
Find new people
Search 1 billion+ people based on more than 30 filters, such as location, high school, college, employment, interests, and …
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Scan connects the real world with the digital universe through mobile technologies like QR codes, NFC, image recognition and more. In less than a year since the release of its app, Scan has seen more than 10 million downloads from the App Store and Android Marketplace and is currently being used in more than 77 countries around the world.
Scan recently announced it is taking QR codes to the next level with the introduction of Scan Pages, …
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The Transmedia Capital (TMC) investment strategy is focused on early stage companies in the digital media market. Targeted categories within the digital media market include: social media, analytics, social gaming, mobile platforms, advertising, video technology, content distribution and search. We are seasoned operators that have worked within the digital media, entertainment and advertising industries, which provides invaluable insight when we are evaluating deals, and is also very attractive for entrepreneurs that want to leverage our expertise and relationships. We have established strategic partnerships with brands and advertising agencies that will help us accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies. Our brand and agency relationships have yielded huge benefit for our portfolio companies including investment and revenue generating partnerships. We are very selective when choosing our investment opportunities and we are very confident that we can add significant value to the companies that we add to the Transmedia Capital family. If you don't believe us, ask our CEOs.
Newsle tracks people in the news. Newsle finds articles about you, your friends and colleagues, and anyone else you care about and notifies you minutes or hours after they’re published. Newsle combs the web continuously, analyzing over 1 million articles each day – every major news article and blog post published online, as well as most minor ones. Newsle’s core technology is its disambiguation algorithm, which determines whether an article mentioning “John Smith” is about the right person.
As online news proliferates, professionals are struggling to stay informed without becoming overwhelmed. Today’s professionals have hundreds or thousands of social connections whose activities are relevant to their business. Newsle is the leading online provider that keeps them up-to-date on relevant news from across their networks. As part of this investment, Newsle plans to aggressively grow its development team and expand product offerings.
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