Above Average is a multi-channel producer of digital comedic content, founded and incubated by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. The Company produces branded and original short-form comedy videos offering a unique combination of marquee comedic talent sourced through its SNL “ecosystem” relationships, rising comedic talent, and a growing network of original content creators and collaborators.
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Affinity’s patented technology structures and analyzes millions of data points across emails, calendars, and third-party sources to offer users the tools they need to automatically manage their most valuable relationships, prioritize important connections, and discover untapped opportunities. The platform also offers a holistic view of users’ networks in a centralized, automatically updated database without any manual upkeep.
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Alto is a Nashville-based financial technology company that launched its next-generation self-directed IRA platform in 2018 to make it easy for individuals to access and invest in alternative assets using their retirement funds. The first of its kind, Alto’s platform streamlines the process for investors, investment funding portals, and investment sponsors alike.
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Armstrong is a robotics company creating the future of kitchens.
AutoLeap is a Toronto-based company that provides an all-in-one, cloud-based auto repair management software to help shop owners better understand, manage, and grow their business — from scheduling appointments to managing technicians and generating invoices. The Company is modernizing the auto repair industry, which is underserved by technology with thousands of shops still using manual, paper-based processes to run their operations. AutoLeap is led by a team of seasoned executives that bring a proven playbook from their prior venture in the HVAC space to build a category defining business.
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Bellhop is the nation’s first tech-enabled moving platform, which not only streamlines the move-day process but also ensures customers are matched with the most-qualified movers and drivers in their area. The Company is committed to refining the experience of moving by recruiting friendly, hardworking people and using technology to connect them with customers in a seamless way.
Forbes / Dec 18 2018
Boulder Care provides medical treatment and long-term support for people attempting to manage and overcome substance use disorders. The Company’s clinicians follow evidence-based Medication-Assisted Treatment (“MAT”) protocols, which utilize medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapies. Boulder also provides a broad spectrum of ancillary support services to its patients including peer recovery support, social services support and broader case management services. The Company has a particular focus on caring for a chronically underserved Medicaid patient population by contracting with state-level Medicaid Managed Care Organizations under value-based care frameworks.
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Brandable is a next-generation consumer products studio that partners with strategic influencers to build the next great consumer products brands. The Company is focused on key categories including toys, wellness, and food & drink to develop relevant, millennial-minded brands from the ground up that have real demand and marketplace fit.
Pulse2.0 / Jul 11 2019
Clippings’ platform provides the interior design industry with new ways to source products and manage projects from inspiration to installation. The London based startup is building technology to develop smarter streamlined processes that reduce the time, friction, and cost required for interior designers to discover and source products for commercial and residential projects.
Clippings was acquired by Material Bank in August 2021.
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Compass is a real estate brokerage firm, built on an integrated technology platform that increases agent productivity and offers consumers a cross-device, cohesive, end-to-end service, from the initial search to the final signature. The Company’s technology provides leverage in lead generation and workflow management, increasing margins as compared to traditional real estate brokerages. The platform also provides unique insights about agents, customers, and the market, further enabling Compass to optimize its funnel and improve the customer experience.
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Curology is an end-to-end prescription skincare company that uses its technology platform to acquire and treat patients for acne and related blemishes. The Company was founded by two dermatologists who felt that the way these conditions are treated by medical professionals is highly inefficient with respect to both access and pricing. Curology enables consumers to engage with a medical professional online and receive prescription medication that is created specifically for their skin condition.
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DemandStar is an open marketplace platform for the $1.5 trillion local government procurement industry. The Company reduces the friction for governments and businesses to transact by providing free access to a shared supplier base and powerful electronic bidding workflow tools. DemandStar was acquired by GTY Technologies in December 2022.
Geek Wire / Dec 06 2022
Digitour is an emerging media and entertainment company that creates and produces IRL (“in real life”) social media experiences. The Company has developed a proprietary talent model to identify and recruit emerging young stars from YouTube, Vine and Instagram for their events, most of whom have already cultivated a sizeable and passionate following.
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The Ergatta Rower is the first product to successfully combine cardio equipment and interactive gaming content for home use. The rower offers members a competitive, motivating and full-body workout on an elegant cherrywood machine fit for your living room.
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EVRYTHNG works with Fortune-1000 consumer product manufacturers to make any product connected by creating and managing an “Active Digital Identity” (“ADI”) for that product. The Company offers a platform-as-a-Service model that allows enterprise customers to manage the ADIs of their products and then facilitate and manage digital transactions involving those products. Through ADIs, brands can track and analyze usage, foster customer interaction, and engagement, and provide value-added services that drive loyalty. EVRYTHNG was acquired by Digimarc Corporation in January 2022.
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Farfetch is an online marketplace that connects independent, luxury fashion boutiques with high-end consumers around the world. The company carefully curates its network offline stores, based in places like Paris, New York, Helsinki and Honolulu, and provides them the infrastructure (e.g., inventory management, tracking, photography, customer service) and audience to sell online. Featured products come from designer brands as well as up-and-coming designers.
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Fi builds cutting edge technology to elevate the relationship between dog parents and their dogs. Since launching the first LTE‑M enabled GPS tracking collar in 2019, Fi has empowered millions of dog parents with insights about their dogs behavior and whereabouts. Able to locate dogs nationwide from anywhere in the world, Fi has already saved thousands of dogs’ lives by providing accurate GPS tracking and real time escape notifications to dog parents. The Fi smart collar also enables parents to monitor the health of their dogs and compare their activity to other dogs on the Fi network. With Fi, dog parents make sure their best friends live their best life.
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Flite is a data-driven, programmatic creative solution that provides technology for advertisers and publishers to build creative, set up campaigns, test / optimize media, and measure results. The subscription-based product also integrates third-party applications (e.g., Twitter, Instagram) directly into online ad units, enabling customers to leverage content across marketing channels, at scale. Flite provides marketers with the ability to respond in real-time to performance data and current events, updating their paid media with the most relevant content.
Recode / Dec 19 2016
Gigya is a leader in the customer identity and access management market. The Company helps companies turn unknown site visitors into known, loyal, and engaged customers. More than 700 of the world’s leading enterprises, including 50% of the comScore top 100 US web properties, rely on Gigya to build identify-driven relationships with over 1.1 billion customers while powering scalable, secure, privacy compliant customer identity management.
TechCrunch / Sep 24 2017
Ginger brings high-quality mental health support within seconds to those in need. Through the Ginger app, members can connect with our team of coaches via text, 24 / 7, 365 days a year. For those in need of additional support, a therapist or psychiatrist can be added to their care team for video sessions. Millions of people have access to the Ginger on-demand mental health system through their work with employers, health plans, and other partners.
Ginger merged with Headspace to create Headspace Health in October 2021
Fast Company / Aug 25 2021
GrayMatter Robotics is a robotics platform that combines AI-powered software with off-the-shelf industrial hardware to create vertically integrated solutions for manufacturers with high-mix, high-variability production lines across a wide range of verticals. The Company’s platform generates meaningful return-on-investment (“ROI”) for customers compared to manual labor or legacy robotics solutions through a combination of reduced labor costs, improved production quality, and better utilization of process consumables. GrayMatter’s near-term focus is on surface treatment use cases, such as sanding, polishing, blasting, buffing, spraying, coating, and grinding and can work on a range of materials including fiberglass, wood, and metal alloys.
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Headspace is the world’s most accessible and comprehensive digital mental health and wellbeing platform. Headspace will democratize mental health and wellbeing so people around the world are supported by a full spectrum of affordable care. Ginger and Headspace have come together to combine their mindfulness and meditation tools rooted in science; coaching, therapy, and psychiatry made accessible with technology; and personalized brand experiences that people love. The platform has a global reach including more than 2,700 enterprises and health partners, 100 million lives touched, and access in more than 190+ countries.
Advance Venture Partners became an investor in Headspace as part of Ginger’s merger with Headspace.
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HyTrust develops workload IT security solutions focused on securing private, public, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. The Company’s software mitigates security and operational risks that customers face when pursuing cloud and virtualized data center transformations including governance and encryption. HyTrust has been widely deployed by Global 2000 customers and top government agencies, with a strong market presence in financial services, healthcare, and government verticals.
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IfOnly is a marketplace for incredible experiences. From unique everyday offerings with local experts to once-in-a-lifetime connections with lauded luminaries, IfOnly provides access to a curated selection of extraordinary experiences that benefit worthy causes around the world.
Techcruch / Apr 04 2018
isocket provides a technology platform designed to simplify the direct advertisement sales process. The Company’s platform automates the manual steps like order execution and monitoring, enabling premium publishers and advertisers to do more business directly and at ease.
Wall Street Journal / Nov 17 2014
Joor is a wholesale fashion marketplace that allows brand and retailers to connect and transact digitally. The Company has put the entire wholesale buying process online to enable brands and retailers to drive incremental revenue, cut costs, improve their customer experience, and analyze performance through data analytics.
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Material Bank is a marketplace for design professionals and brands in the architecture and design industry, providing the fastest and most powerful way to discover and sample materials. The revolutionary platform powers complex searches across hundreds of brands in seconds. Samples ordered by midnight (ET) are delivered in a single box by 10:30 AM the next day — always free for design professionals. With a rapidly growing community of members, Material Bank is the easiest way for brands to connect with thousands of vetted design professionals in the specification process.
Advance Venture Partners became an investor in Material Bank as part of Material Bank’s acquisition of our portfolio company Clippings
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Mediamorph is a provider of cloud-based management software for participants in the digital video content and distribution supply chain including studios, networks, and operators. The Company’s cloud-based enterprise software and data services help customers optimize content exploitation, maximize revenues, and better understand licensed-content value. Mediamorph improves the management of and insight into financial, rights, and consumption information, while streamlining data through customers’ systems and supply chains.
Mediamorph was acquired by Whip Media Group in October 2019.
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Moda Operandi is a trusted flagship insider, offering unprecedented access to the runway for this season and next. The Company is the only online retailer allowing clients to preorder next season’s looks straight from the runway while also offering expertly a curated in-season boutique. Moda Operandi’s stylists provide the most bespoke services in luxury shopping, attending to clients’ every need, from expert styling advice to tailored wardrobe recommendations.
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Modsy is a software-enabled interior design platform that uses advanced 3D rendering technology to create realistic visualizations of living spaces and furniture. The Company’s technology ingests photographs provided by customers to create life-like room models and populates these models with suggested layouts and furniture designs based on a customer’s style preference. Customers can then modify the layout and furniture choices and purchase items across brands through the website.
House Beautiful / Jul 22 2019
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Furniture Today / Apr 30 2018
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MONOQI is the online destination for hand-picked design. Since 2012, the Company has dedicated itself to collecting hard-to-find and limited-edition design products. MONOQI has an international team searching the globe for the best contemporary design, making strong curatorial selections presented on its flash-sale platform.
TechCrunch / Jan 26 2012
Morning Consult is a global data intelligence company delivering insights on what people think in real time. By surveying tens of thousands across the globe every single day, Morning Consult is unmatched in scale and speed: It determines the true measure of what people think and how their decisions impact business, politics and the economy. Industry leaders rely on Morning Consult’s proprietary technology and analysis for real-time, intelligent data to transform information into a competitive advantage.
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Nativo provides a technology platform for native advertising to publishers and marketers, enabling the delivery of highly curated brand content served within publishers’ editorial streams, matched to the look and feel of the specific property or publication, and fully integrated with and consumed on the publisher’s site.
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Newscred is the global leader in enterprise content marketing. The Company’s content marketing platform provides actionable insights and streamlines processes for content marketers to tell exceptional stories that drive measurable results.
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TechCrunch / Sep 02 2015
Newsle develops a news aggregator that tracks people in the news. The Company’s news discovery engine enables users to follow published content about people they’re connected to and following on social networks.
Forbes / Jul 14 2014
Openly is a Boston-based premium homeowners insurance company. Its centralized platform offers comprehensive coverage using advanced pricing models. Founded by industry veterans in 2017, Openly is dedicated to delivering modern and transparent homeowners insurance and empowering independent agents across America.
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Parsley Health is the leading national provider of holistic personalized medicine services across telemedicine, diagnostics and in-person care. Parsley’s unique approach blends cutting-edge testing, nutrition, wellness and prevention with conventional medicine. It is the first and only vertically integrated digital health solution for reversing chronic disease and optimizing health. Founded in 2016, Parsley’s Centers are located in New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco and fully-digital telemedicine services will be available nationwide in early 2020.
BusinessWire / Apr 10 2024
PebblePost invented a platform, Programmatic Direct Mail®, that enables brands to convert online shoppers into buyers with meaningful direct mail. The Company uses real-time online interest and intent data to send personalized direct mail that influences at-home purchase decisions and drives conversions across all purchase channels. The patent pending digital-to-direct mail platform integrates segmentation, campaign management, advanced targeting, product, analytics, and optimization.
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Rent the Runway is a fashion company with a technology soul. Powered by a transformative business model, proprietary technology, a unique reverse-logistics operation and some of the smartest people on earth, the Company is in a position to challenge old systems and rewrite new rules. By giving people access to remarkable luxury experiences, Rent the Runway is changing the meaning of ownership — and revolutionizing retail in the process.
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Brit+Co / May 31 2018
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Sawyer is bringing children’s activity inventory online and building a destination for parents to manage their children’s activities, schedules, and overall development. The Company also develops an online booking and payment solution designed for children’s activity provides, including features such as scheduling, commerce, and customer management.
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Taboola has built the world’s largest and most advanced discovery platform delivering personalized recommendations to over one billion users every month, on many of the web’s most innovative and highly-visited websites. Thousands of leading publishers, marketers, and agencies utilize Taboola’s predictive technology to increase user engagement, monetize their traffic, and distribute their content to engaged audiences across the web.
Tegus is the leading provider of primary business and market intelligence for key decision makers. Tegus conducts research and collects data to produce the largest and most comprehensive primary information platform available, enabling clients to discover answers to their most challenging questions faster and more efficiently than anywhere else. The company serves more than 1,000 customers worldwide, including investment firms, corporations, and consultancies.
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Unified helps marketers make informed and impactful decisions with the industry’s only business intelligence platform purposely designed for social advertising. With experience collecting and enriching over 1 billion dollars of social investment data, Unified is passionate about providing Fortune 2000 brands and agencies greater transparency into their many teams, tools, and strategies. The Unified Platform and service teams are specifically built to ensure data quality, optimize investments, and answer critical business questions.
UrbanSitter has built a trusted online marketplace in the childcare space, offering an online platform dedicated to matching families and childcare services providers in major metropolitan areas across America. The Company enables parents to screen caregivers and post short-term and long-term job opportunities, manages the scheduling and payment of caregivers, and provides a forum for families to share feedback on caregivers.
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Vestiaire Collective is a luxury resale marketplace where consumers can buy and sell pre-owned designer clothes and accessories. Unlike other pre-owned marketplaces, the Company is heavily involved in curating, verifying, and shipping goods that are sold through the platform. Vestiaire employs a quality control team that assess 100% of items sold on the platform.
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Visible Measures develops a digital video platform that uses MRC-accredited metrics and patented technologies to power an analytics suite with one-of-a-kind capabilities for measuring not only total viewership, but also how much time users spend with ads.
Whip Media’s market leading enterprise software platform centrally connects data, processes and teams throughout the digital distribution journey. Powered by proprietary data and predictive insights, the Company enables the world’s top entertainment organizations to efficiently distribute, control and monetize their TV and movie content to drive revenue and direct-to-consumer growth. The company’s newest innovation, the Whip Media Exchange is a next-generation content marketplace that makes global film and TV content licensing faster and more efficient.
Advance Venture Partners became an investor in Whip Media as part of Whip Media’s acquisition of our portfolio company Mediamorph.
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