Functional search for apps

Quixey is the search engine for apps. Quixey searches all types of apps – mobile, web, desktop and browser apps. The team invented a new type of search, Functional Search, specifically for apps. There are millions of tools that can help you throughout your day but you can’t use them if you can’t find them. Functional Search empowers you to search by answering the simple question, “What do you want to do?” and finds apps that meet your needs.  Quixey forms partnerships to power search on the platforms and devices you use.

Local business on a whole new level (Acquired by Groupon)

Zappedy powers revolutionary applications that help brick and mortar merchants better understand, attract and retain customers. Using data gathered from a mixture of direct feeds and credit card aggregators, Zappedy enables next-generation commerce, entertainment and mobile advertising applications that recognize customers’ offline purchases as well as their online activities.

Start your own fundraiser

Crowdrise is about giving back, raising tons of money for charity and having the most fun while doing it. Crowdrise is a unique blend of online fundraising, crowdsourcing, social networking, and contests.  Crowdrise was founded by internet entrepreneurs Robert and Jeffrey Wolfe, producer/activist Shauna Robertson and actor/activist Edward Norton.

Recreating wealth management technology

Addepar is recreating the infrastructure that powers global wealth management. Addepar’s technology increases efficiency, transparency, and sophistication within the global investment industry, thwarting fraud and furthering meritocracy in one of the most important areas of the global economy.

Awardly recently emerged from Innovation Endeavors’ Runway program. They are developing a decision support tool to help high school students make healthy decisions, and be rewarded for it.

Where things happen 

Shaker brings social networks to life by allowing people to interact in real time in a shared environment, making the online social experience of hanging out with friends and meeting new people, feel natural finally.

Improving physical outcomes following survival of critical illness

Niveus Medical is an early stage company focused upon improving physical outcomes following survival of critical illness. Niveus has developed proprietary technologies to maintain functional capacity during long periods of immobilization. By preventing weakness and debilitation, Niveus’ technologies will simultaneously improve patient outcomes while saving both hospital and healthcare system costs.

Treat friends and family to their favorite local restaurants

Treatful is the easiest and most convenient way to treat your friends & family with personalized, online gift certificates to their favorite local restaurants. We partner with desired local restaurants to allow their customers to send instant and secure online gifts. We are a team of entrepreneurs that are passionate about local businesses and the benefit that they provide to our communities. Our goal at Treatful is to better connect consumers and local businesses with a fun, easy to use platform for searching, identifying and purchasing local business gift certificates to be delivered instantly to your friends and family.

Protecting your money

BillGuard, a personal finance security startup recognized by O’Reilly Media as the “2011 Big-Data Startup of the Year”, has developed a groundbreaking new approach to identifying unwanted and unauthorized charges on consumer credit card bills. BillGuard alerts consumers to hidden charges, billing errors, misleading subscriptions, scams and fraud using advanced big-data mining algorithms to harness the collective knowledge of millions of consumers posting billing complaints online and flagging transactions on their electronic bills. With BillGuard, if a charge on your bill is flagged or complained about by anyone else, you also get an alert. This crowdsourcing methodology is similar to that of anti-spam services for email and has yielded great results. BillGuard has saved its users nearly $500,000 in only 4 months of beta testing.

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BillGuard Office

Advisors of Bill Guard are the founders, CEOs and backers of companies such as McAfee, Verisign, LinkedIn, Skype and Twitter.

PharmaSecure is a global innovator in drug authentication technologies and software, creating effective solutions to ensure consumers receive authentic medications from trusted pharmaceutical manufacturers in emerging markets.

Answers from 6,000 U.S. licensed physicians. No waiting room

HealthTap is an Interactive Health Network that is revolutionizing the way patients and physicians interact. We connect you with thousands of U.S.-licensed physicians providing quick answers to health questions – anytime, anywhere, for free. HealthTap’s web and mobile applications enable 24/7 access to personalized, relevant, trusted health information, helping you find the best care and make better decisions about your health and well-being. Physicians and practices participate on HealthTap to better serve existing patients and connect with new ones, while demonstrating their expertise, building their reputation and helping people everywhere.

HealthTap’s experienced team of engineers and doctors have built health and mobile applications that have served hundreds of millions of people. HealthTap’s rapidly growing Medical Expert Network includes nearly 6,000 of leading physicians in 82 specialties from top institutions like Stanford, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins, and from leading hospitals and private practices across the country.

All your purchases in one place

Slice is the best way to organize your online shopping. By developing new ways to automatically track, organize and manage purchases, the company helps shoppers stay organized and save time.

reBloom is a new way to help your body sleep.  It is a natural, drug-free 2.5oz beverage that is clinically proven to improve sleep.  Originally created for the founder’s wife, who was in desperate need of sleep, but could no longer handle Ambien’s™ side effects, reBloom is now used by thousands across the country.

Online analytics for the in-store experience

Nearbuy provides micro-location solutions that increase revenue, enhance the brand experience, and reduce operating expense at a cost that makes business sense. Using data from infrastructure that you already have in place, Nearbuy’s innovative, patent-pending LocalEyes technology delivers real-time location information within three feet of accuracy for people carrying any mobile device.  This micro-location data makes it possible to create new levels of service for shoppers with personalized, sticky mobile commerce applications, capture valuable shopping insights, or optimize location-dependent business processes such as warehouse management. 

Watch your back 

ZERO2ONE recently emerged from Innovation Endeavors’ Runway program. The founding team of Stanford graduates (a physician, a serial entrepreneur, and an engineer) spent 6 months full-time with the charge to explore bold business opportunities that can change the world.  Their first product, LUMOback, is a mobile solution that helps you keep your back strong and healthy. LUMOback extends the computing power of smart phones to our bodies by creating small wireless sensor adhesives that measure and monitor your posture in real time. The technology includes proprietary pattern recognition algorithms that interpret movement & behavior wrapped in an engaging framework to encourage small behavior changes that yield dramatic improvements in health.

Beauty product discovery

Beautylish was founded in February 2010 with the goal of improving the way that everyone discovers and learns about the beauty products that they use everyday.

Personalized video advertising

EyeView enables personalized video advertising. EyeView’s technology allows networks, creative shops and publishers to build and publish video ads with dynamically changing scenes. With EyeView, advertisers leverage data to supply local, relevant and more effective video advertising.

At Gogobot, our goal is to help you plan the perfect trip by tapping into the travel knowledge of your social networks and among travelers like you. Discover the amazing spots your friends have been to and share yours in the Gogobot Passport, a great-looking showcase of your travels and resource for fellow travelers. An award-winning site, Gogobot has been one of the most talked about examples of innovation in the travel space since its public launch in December 2010.

Making things happen

Any.DO is revolutionizing what you can accomplish on your mobile device. Imagine being able track your to-do list, and even execute the multi-faceted items in one sitting. Any.do’s core technology is the Task Execution Platform. It was developed to actually understandwhat you want to do. It gets to know you, and understands your personal needs and intentions, and matches them with the most relevant solutions based on your social graph, task history, context, location and more.

Redefining affordable luxury

Oohilove redefines the concept of affordable luxury. Oohilove is an eCommerce site where members can obtain the latest designer accessories at up to 98% off retail.  Oohilove was acquired by Entertainment Shopping, a company funded by August Capital and Wellington Partners.

Social-based Professional Search 

Identified is a professional search engine. Using the power of social data on Facebook, Identified’s proprietary search technology helps professionals connect with other professionals, companies find employees, and users find future employers. Identified assigns each user a professional “relevance score”, derived from a user’s educational background, work experience, and network. Institutions like companies and universities are also scored using this algorithm; each institution’s score is the weighted average of the scores of its members.

We’re turning voice to insight at the speed of sound. Saygent is a voice response and analysis platform powered by crowdsourcing that excels at understanding how people really feel.

Tap into your customers’ passion 

VideoGenie combines three of the strongest marketing dynamics available: (1) video – the preferred medium for both marketers and consumers, (2) word-of-mouth recommendations – the most influential messaging channel, and (3) data-driven targeting and social propagation – the most efficient distribution. Combined on a single technology platform, these allow brands to tap into their customers’ passion in a way that drives awareness, engagement and revenue. Each video is client-approved and automatically evaluated for optimal targeting and distribution. Clients use VideoGenie for testimonials, product reviews, contests, and social stories that are simple for consumers to create and for brands to manage.

Connecting the global freelance community

DoNanza is the home of the global freelance community. It provides a full eco-system enables freelancers to better manage all their business activities from one place. It offers a comprehensive service providing an eco-system that enables freelancers to better manage all their business activates from one dashboard. The platform enables freelancers to find jobs, create their own professional homepage and consume 3rd party applications for promoting and managing their business. 

The Etsy of cloud services

Mashape is an API marketplace where service providers and individual developers can instantly make available an API to their audience, with infrastructure and traction since day one; while third party developers can use and call through a single interface any software component listed in Mashape. We are the “Etsy of Cloud Services”. We give “APIzation”, infrastructure and traction of any app/component/service that runs somewhere on a server. We’re a frustration-free online marketplace for developers that want to distribute, sell, manage or use any kind of service via API.