Adzerk
Adzerk's APIs enable publishers to build their own native ad server, driving new revenue while cutting down build time by 90%. They power the native ads of many user-first brands, including Reddit, Imgur, and Wattpad.
Antenna
Antenna is an engagement platform that allows users to react to anything on the web. In a matter of seconds, the platform allows publishers and retailers to understand audience sentiment from thousands of reactions to text, images, videos, products, and more.
Challenged
Challenged is a social media video platform for influencer marketing and engagement.
CommonBond
CommonBond is a tech-enabled lender that helps lower the cost of student loans. Created for those frustrated by high rates and poor service.
CrowdTunes
CrowdTunes works with their clients to design playlists that match and support their client's brand and personality so that every customer gets the right experience.
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Epifany
Epifany uses short mobile surveys to gather the right information and feedback from the right people at the right time — painting a clearer picture of who your customer is and what their experience is like.
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First
First uses predictive analytics and machine learning to help you reach movers before your competition.
FitMetrix
FitMetrix is the performance tracking solution designed to help our clients utilize data to help with member retention and to see real results from their clients.
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Freedom
Freedom helps you be more productive by blocking distractions across all your devices, including your computers and mobile devices.
Groundfloor
Groundfloor is the first microlending community for real estate. We open the market for non-accredited investors to back independent builders with short-term secured loans.
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InvestiQuant
InvestiQuant (iQ) is an innovative financial technology company that leverages the extraordinary advances in technology and decades of trading experience to help investors achieve their financial goals.
Lonerider
Lonerider is one of the fastest growing breweries in the Southeastern US crafting high quality and award winning Ales for Outlaws.
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Mati
Beginning in a Duke University dorm room, MATI founder and CEO Tatiana Birgisson started brewing highly caffeinated teas to stay productive. One thousand three hundred and seventy four recipes later (give or take), MATI Energy is the best selling energy drink in stores throughout the Southeastern U.S.
Offline
Offline is the fastest growing way for millennials to find curated events, places and things to do in Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte and Nashville. In our current cities, 1-in-3 college-educated millennial women with iPhones use Offline.
Original Chop Shop
The Original Chop Shop believes that eating well makes us happier people - good food should do more than taste good, it should make you feel good, too.
Panaceutics
Panaceutics, Inc. has developed a patent pending, on-demand manufacturing system to deliver personalized therapies, ranging from wellness formulas to combinatorial drug therapies.
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Perkville
Perkville is the #1 customer loyalty program in the health and fitness space, offering point-based rewards that drive referrals, improve retention and increase spend per member.
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Photofy
A robust, mobile-first content creation tool that combines 10 different apps into one, for both consumers and business users. Photofy is one of the most powerful social content creation tool in the world!
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RivalHealth
RivalHealth is the first fitness-based corporate wellness platform that captivates employees with daily exercise and nutrition coaching then sustains engagement through social challenges, incentives and outcomes using the patent-pending RivalRating® measurement system.
RocketBolt
RocketBolt's contact tracking platform helps sales teams identify interested prospects who fell out of their sales pipelines and expertly times followups to efficiently capture lost revenue from valuable lead lists.
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Ruggles Green
Formed in late 2008, Ruggles Green is Houston’s first Certified Green Restaurant™. Ruggles Green is owned and operated by Hargett Hunter Capital Partners.
scanCandy
scanCandy is a scanning app that provides users with a fun and easy way to engage with their mobile phones.
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Second Nature
Second Nature began in 2012 as a company called FilterEasy. The mission was simple: make replacing air filters as convenient as possible. As of 2019, the company has raised $11.4 million in total funding. With such incredible growth comes the desire to expand, to reach untapped markets, and to offer something beyond air filters. That’s why, in the summer of 2019, FilterEasy became Second Nature.
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St. Roch
St. Roch Fine Oysters + Bar embraces the spirit of their namesake New Orleans' neighborhood where Chef Sunny Gerhart's family hails from. St. Roch offers the finest oysters, ingredients and Carolina produce they can find, prepare them with a touch of Sunny's past kitchens, and serve with energy and warmth.
Veeto
When you spend money for any product or service and later regret it, you can Veeto it to get your money back.
Youbetme
A social betting app that lets you bet on anything with your friends, including sports and pop culture. Turn life’s everyday events into bettable moments.
