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There's more to the Washington, DC region than the Federal Government: We're a thriving community of entrepreneurs, engineers, developers, designers, and technologists working hard to make the next big thing. And we want you.
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Our Startups
Living Social
LivingSocial is the social commerce leader behind LivingSocial Deals, a group buying program that invites people and their friends to save up to 90 percent each day at their favorite restaurants, spas, sporting events, hotels and other local attractions in major cities. LivingSocial has an extensive user base of more than 85 million.
GeniusRocket
GeniusRocket is a Curated Crowdsourcing Company. GeniusRocket delivers brilliant, rich, creatively captivating media. Our creative community is comprised of the brightest talent in the industry and is ready for you with fresh, innovative ideas that’ll breathe life into your project.
OPower
OPOWER is an energy efficiency and Smart Grid software company that helps utilities meet their efficiency goals through effective customer engagement. Using cutting edge behavioral science and patent-pending data analytics, the OPOWER platform enables utilities to connect with their customers in a highly targeted fashion, motivating reductions in energy use, increased program participation and overall customer satisfaction.
clearspring*
The leading provider of social distribution solutions connecting online publishers and advertisers to audiences on the social web.
Hello Wallet
HelloWallet is a wealth-boosting application designed to help its members manage their day-to-day finances, build savings and plan for the future. HelloWallet is 100% independent from financial institutions and provides completely unbiased guidance. The app is primarily distributed through Fortune 500 and other employers as an HR benefit for employees. For $8.95/month, individuals may also have access.
EverFi
From Financial Literacy and Student Loan Default Prevention, to Digital Literacy and Health and Nutrition, EverFi brings the latest in new media to solve these critical problems in states from coast to coast.
Webs
Webs, Inc. is the world’s largest website-building solution serving over 50 million users, where anyone can easily create a website (with free web hosting) and access useful small business applications to improve business productivity and operations.
Koofers
Koofers, Inc. is a social learning company transforming higher education through student-driven, intercollegiate collaboration. Founded in 2008, Koofers empowers students to help each other learn by providing open and free access to: course materials, class and professor ratings, study aids and more.
Klaggle
Klaggle helps retailers leverage the revenue value of crowd commerce by providing product ratings and review content that is based on the collective wisdom from millions of consumer reviews and interactions. Klaggle organizes and syndicates that knowledge for the benefit of retailers and their customers.
TeamGantt
TeamGantt is an easy to use web based gantt chart. It allows users to quickly create gantt charts online and invite others to collaborate with them. It’s a super simple project management tool.
MODwedding
MODwedding is a wedding resource for the modern couple: people who manage, organize and share their personal and professional lives online. Services include designer themed wedding website and tools that track RSVPs, guest lists and registries online; as well as manage photos, reminders, and updates.
Cost2Drive
Cost2Drive makes it easy to calculate the cost of driving anywhere in the US based on real time gas prices along a route.
PlayPass
PlayPass is an extension in your web browser. After installation, you can shop on your favorite sites for products you’ve been meaning to buy, but have been waiting for a discount. Instead of adding to your cart, play a quick game. The higher your score, the more you save! Redemption is instant, automatic, and safe. We never have you give your address or credit card to us. Simply shop!
Poshbrood
Poshbrood, a hip upscale family travel website that has researched, identified, visited, and vetted chic and luxurious family travel.
Grasshop
Grasshop offers individuals grassroots organizing, advocacy and social media tools. It’s free.
Mobdog.com
Your most convenient and trusted networks for buying, selling and sharing are all around you: your school, company, office building, kids’ school, church or neighborhood. Mobdog is here to help you build them or connect to all in a single cumulative view, with our private and hyper-local classifieds solutions. We help you to be your own “Craig” and build your own “List.”
Seva Call
Seva Call specializes in local business-to-consumer marketing. Seva Call is alluring and effective to both local businesses and consumers. We match companies to consumers by allowing local businesses to pre-screen a potential consumer’s needs over the phone for free. If interested, the local business will be connected to the waiting consumer in real-time.
WeddingWire
WeddingWire.com, the nation’s leading technology company serving the $70 billion wedding industry, is the only online wedding planning resource designed to empower both engaged couples and wedding professionals. WeddingWire has helped over 8 million people plan their wedding through its cutting-edge planning tools and directory of over 200,000 local wedding pro’s.
Metro Business Media
Metro Business Media is an online business publication and economic data source created to feature the world of business and development in the entire DC and Baltimore Areas.
demandmart
Market once, market everywhere with demandmart, an on-demand intelligent marketing and engagement system that automatically helps small businesses find, capture and convert local customers across the web. demandmart combines an action-focused web presence with automated calls to action, and local marketing tools such as search engine listings, e-mail marketing and coupons to make it easy and affordable for small businesses to: promote their business across the web, find local customers, capture leads and appointments, and market to existing customers.
TaxiMagic
Taxi Magic makes taxi booking easy. We’re a free mobile service directly integrated with taxi dispatch systems nationwide. Users can book taxis from a mobile phone or the Web with a few quick taps, track the taxi’s arrival, charge the ride to a credit card and expense the trip with an e-receipt.
SpeakHub
SpeakHub provides fresh information about professional speakers. We understand that meeting planners are challenged for a good way to find/rate/book speakers. SpeakHub matches speakers to events and we will simplify the process of booking too. Meeting Planners will have the opportunity to rate speakers, tag them, and share speaker pages with their colleagues.
Capital Management Consulting
Capital Management Consulting, LLC (CMC, LLC) is your partner through the evolution of your corporate and digital lifetime. Our business approach strikes the balance between technology, operations, and marketing and helps customers integrate these fundamentals into their existing infrastructure. We work both in the federal and commercial sectors and are a proven commodity with an award-winning track record of success.
The Green Job Bank
The Green Job Bank is the leading search engine for green jobs. The search
engine crawls the web daily to provide the most current listings available
from thousands of employers, recruiters, trade associations and non-profit
organizations. Job seekers can search by keyword, by company name and by
location. The site features hundreds of green employer profiles, enabling
job seekers to research easily the green companies for which they want to
work.
Goodzer
Making it easier for consumers to find every item they want in every brick and mortar store, at the best price, in real-time and importantly, closest to them.
LogiXML
LogiXML is the smart choice for Business Intelligence, giving you more power and more choice with less effort. It’s simple to start creating Web-based dashboards in hours, reports in minutes and analysis on demand, without complex pricing schemes or user fees. Easy to connect, quick to build and intuitive to use, LogiXML empowers everyone to get the most value from their data – no matter where it resides.
EduCare
EduCare is a socially responsible online education company that focuses on providing online tutoring to K-12 and college students. EduCare strongly believes that good education should be a right – not a privilege – so with every tutoring session completed by a student, we help another child in need by donating school supplies through our Global Education Movement.
Tales2Go
Tales2Go is an award-winning mobile app that gives teachers and parents instant and unlimited access to over 1,400 audio stories from leading publishers and storytellers to play in the classroom, car, at home or on-the-go.
Deals For Deeds
Deals For Deeds is a pioneer in the social commerce space, infusing a non-profit fundraising platform into the daily deal model. They aim to connect socially conscious businesses and non-profit organizations with like-minded consumers in a fun, meaningful, and productive way. Often described as a “Groupon for good”.
Hippocourses
Hippocourses continuously checks the status of your courses and sends you an e-mail notification when the status changes.
Knowlera Media
Knowlera Media is the leading creator of professional-quality, lifestyle-focused video content for distribution via Web and broadcast television. Driven by our in-house staff, and managed network of nearly 6,000 professional producers across the country, we’ve created a growing library of more than 12,000 videos featuring world-class experts. Our videos are presented to audiences numbering in the tens of millions each month through our website www.MonkeySee.com, and hundreds of other syndication partners.
Root Orange
Root Orange helps small businesses find and convert more local customers using geo-targeting technology. Our tools are first-of-their-kind, yet affordable for all local and regional businesses.
Hillcrest Labs
Hillcrest Laboratories has created the first pointer-based, interactive media system for TV. Hillcrest Labs enables CE and peripheral manufacturers, service providers, and internet content companies to deliver the most visually engaging and intuitive way to access, discover, and interact with digital media throughout the home.
Friendlylook
Friendlylook is a singles social network which enables it’s members to efficiently discover and meet interesting singles through a network of friends. It’s more comfortable than old style online dating, and mirrors how singles socialize and meet in real life. It’s social, fun, private and entirely FREE!
Starfish Retention Solutions
Starfish Retention Solutions believes that all students deserve a chance to complete their academic goals. As a leading provider of student success systems, Starfish® harnesses the power of the academic community to engage, motivate and graduate more students – securing valuable tuition revenue for academic institutions. Specifically, Starfish helps institutions identify at-risk students in real time, enabling instructors and advisors to communicate concerns they have about a student’s performance, while connecting students to the support resources designed to help.
Zenoss
Zenoss is the leading provider of IT operations management products for the next generation datacenter. Zenoss Enterprise is a single, integrated product that monitors the entire IT infrastructure where ever it is deployed – physical, virtual, or in the cloud. With a community of over 100,000 users, Zenoss products monitor over one million network and server devices daily and have been used in over 25,000 organizations in 180 countries around the world.
HireOrbit
HireOrbit helps people find happier jobs and helps employers hire better fit candidates. We do this by extending employee referral programs outside the boundary of the company and provide a way to manage and track the process.
Netuitive
Netuitive provides predictive analytics software for IT. Netuitive replaces human guesswork with automated mathematics and analysis to forecast, identify and resolve IT performance issues before they impact quality of service.
Common Curriculum
We’re creating a website that helps organizations, school districts, and publishers put their curriculum online and connect to the teachers that use it.
MotionSoft
Motionsoft is a SaaS and financial services company providing business management solutions for consumer service industries. We focus on developing turnkey business solutions which allow our customers to fully integrate their CRM and payments system in order effectively manage their prospects, maintain their existing relationships and generate actionable business intelligence and communication information.
Down4Lunch
Down4Lunch connects professionals who have never before met for face-to-face networking over lunch, during other breaks in their workday, or while on business travel to help forge relationships leading to careers and business opportunities. Members participate in this free service by 1) describing their professional background and interests, 2) setting search parameters of professionals they wish to meet, and 3) creating time- and place-specific lunch (or breakfast, coffee, whatever) invitations for other members to accept.
verdeHOUSE
verdeHOUSE promotes & markets unoccupied real estate by transforming properties into nontraditional venue space for events. We match events to spaces & coordinate use.
Decision Lens
Decision Lens develops decision-making software that enables organizations to make complex decisions more effectively and efficiently. Our collaborative software platform structures decisions, quantifies intangible factors, and evaluates choices to help organizations reach their goals.
Intelligenx, Inc
Intelligenx is a next generation industrial grade search and analytics company that enables organizations to get the most value out of their information assets. Websites around the world use Intelligenx products to service billions of search and data queries quickly and without the hassle of clunky IT infrastructure.
CoupleSpark
CouplesSpark.com is an online community for anyone in a committed relationship. Here at CouplesSpark.com, we believe relationships are great and we are devoted to creating a fantastic resource to help make your relationship phenomenal!
Venga
Venga is a mobile marketing platform for the restaurant and bar industries. We enable restaurateurs to reach new and existing customers in real time with all their great dynamic content (specials, events, offers). Consumers use our totally customizable mobile apps to find out what’s happening in their city.
Keen Guides
Keen Guides is a travel app that provides location-based, accessible videos about places.
SolarTown
Climate change is the greatest planet-wide challenge of our time. SolarTown was established to be part of the solution, offering clean energy generation systems powered by the sun for everyone interested in low-cost, renewable energy.
Spark Street Digital
Spark Street Digital produces awesome live webcasts at reasonable prices.
Intridea
Intridea offers a full range of web services: web application design and development, mobile application development for all major mobile platforms, and enterprise collaboration solutions. Our reputation for delivering clean, robust applications, and ingenious, aesthetic designs and has won us a long list of clients including Fortune 100 companies and small, agile startups with just an idea sketched on a napkin. Founded and based in Washington D.C., the Intridea team is made up of some of the brightest software engineers, web developers and designers around.
GoFivo
Gofivo is a self-serve platform that gives businesses the tools to create, manage and distribute limited time, limited quantity promotions. Promotions are distributed to customers through Gofivo’s mobile enabled site, user-customizable email and text message alerts, and popular social networking sites.
Contactually
Contactually is an e-mail based relationship management system for sales and business development teams and professionals. We monitor your email and keep track of your relationships, stepping in wherever we can to assist.
CardHub
CardHub.com is both a leading and innovative credit card marketplace and home to the largest gift card exchange on the Web. Thousands of people on a daily basis use Card Hub’s unique and proprietary tools to quickly compare credit cards and prepaid cards, buy and sell gift cards and educate themselves on myriad personal finance topics.
Feedlooks
Feedlooks is an all-in-one solution for following blogs and tweets. With Feedlooks users can follow any RSS or Twitter feed, share interesting posts using a variety of services, and discover related content. Additionally, posts are seen in full visual glory, without leaving the app. And it’s free!
Influential
Influential is a hip creative agency based in Washington DC. We love what we do, and it shows in everything we produce. We spend a lot of time thinking about how people use websites, engage with social media, and interact with the brands we create. We add whimsy into everything we do, something we like to call “Element W.”
StartUpHire
StartUpHire is the job search engine dedicated to recruiting exceptional talent to promising emerging growth companies. Our mission is to connect talented individuals to exciting career opportunities at startup companies and to accelerate the team building process for companies and their investors. These are some of the most rewarding careers on the planet, but they historically have been difficult to identify.
Invincea
Invincea is a venture-backed software company that is bringing strong desktop security to companies with Invincea Browser Protection and Invincea Document Protection.
Checklists
Use Checklists to improve quality, consistency, and efficiency for tasks you or your team perform more than once. Set up a Checklist in less than a minute and use it every time to ensure consistent results. Schedule Checklists for recurring tasks to increase team efficiency and view an audit trail of progress. Proven results from using checklists (with a lower c) exist in industries as diverse as health care to top restaurants to airplanes. How will they help you?
clarabridge
Clarabridge’s sentiment and text analytics software enables companies to achieve an universal view of their customer feedback by transforming text-based customer feedback into valuable insight. When analysis includes as many listening posts as possible, companies gain a more universal view of the customer with qualitative analytics that can be utilized across the spectrum of departments in your organization.
PageLime
PageLime is a hosted Content Management System (CMS) for designers, web agencies, and web developers. It allows you to manage text, images, and documents on your site by logging into the web-app, no matter where the site is hosted.
Employee Insight
We help you hire better by:
- Creating better job specification and descriptions
- Capturing candidate assessment against that specification
- Improving fit with the dimension of the job other than skill and experience
Personal
Personal is a secure digital platform that helps you organize information about your life and direct who gets access to it.
Shopsy
Shopsy is a shopping engine that puts consumer goods in context. We use your Style DNA to deliver head-to-toe outfit recommendations that you can search, filter, lock in items, dynamically REMIX by price or color in seconds, and of course save, buy and share.
Fanspeak
Fanspeak.com is a social networking website for diehard sports fans of ANY team to have a voice in many ways and interact with other fans. Whether you’re a sports blogger yourself, or just a fan with something to say, Fanspeak.com is the place for you! You can now also be a FWB…Fan With Benefits! We have discounts, prizes, rewards and more just for being an active member of Fanspeak.com! And best part…its 100% FREE!
Tutor Assignment
Tutor Assignment is a community marketplace for anyone to find quality tutors. All of our tutors have been verified as experts in the courses they are tutoring (we require them to submit a transcript with proof of A in course). Students may book tutoring appointments online and all scheduling and payments are facilitated through the Tutor Assignment marketplace.
Bravery Corporation
Bravery Corporation is a leading brand development and digital marketing firm that connects brands with people. At Bravery, changing minds and changing behavior happens through public relations, great design, and digital innovation. We put smart people with expertise in communications strategy, technology, and design in a room together to create the best solutions for our clients, whether we are implementing a large-scale PR campaign, building a mobile or web identity, or developing a new brand from the ground up.
What's the Deal
What’s the Deal is a DC-based group buying site that offers daily deals and free weekly Happy Hours at different locations around the city. Launched in 2009, WTD works with local publishers such as Washingtonian Magazine to help promote local businesses and offers more than just a “website where you can buy coupons”. Unique DC promotions include whiskey dinners, free restaurant lunches, weekly raffles and more.
CYNCZ
CYNCZ provides “VAR / OEM ready”, “cross platform”, “infrastructure product” for “automatic” address book and contact data aggregation, consolidation and “two-way” synchronization. For individual and business subscribers, CYNCZ solves the nightmare of managing unmanageable address books and contact data by providing “automatic self-updating” address book on all contact data sources, including emails (Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo mail, etc.), CRM (Salesforce, Dynamics etc.), mobile phones (Blackberry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, etc.) and social networks (facebook, LinkedIn, etc.), and help subscribers to access most up-to-date contact data on any device, at any time.
SnappCloud
Provides a simple, complete, secure solution to effectively promote, bill & manage bundles of consumer & small business cloud services through branded app stores.
CVCertify, LLC
Think Carfax for your Resume – a patented solution with a social twist. Job boards bring reach without trust and social networks bring trust without reach beyond your first tier connections. We’re going to alter the means by which companies hire and individuals go about seeking matches with employers and greatly increase efficiencies in the Online Recruiting space.
RollStream
RollStream is a leader in enterprise community management, transforming business-to-business communities in the same way social software solutions have transformed professional and personal networks. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product addresses these problems by optimizing B2B relationships through a powerful collaboration platform that includes master data management, robust communications tools, and process applications.
Just Dev It
Just Dev It is a 700+ member organization of web/mobile developers, creative, entrepreneur, start-ups, and other professionals identifying ways to collaborate on each others ideas, products, and services.
StartSomeGood
StartSomeGood empowers people from around the world to become social innovators. SSG connects social entrepreneurs with the financial and intellectual capital they need to transform an idea for good into a tangible project for good.
ZoomSafer
At ZoomSafer we develop innovative software to help corporate fleet operators minimize risk and liability associated with employee use of mobile phones while driving.
GiftGoRound
GiftGoRound offers a place for family and friends to coordinate gift giving. It’s a gift registry not tied down to any one store.
Locl.ly
Locl.ly is a leading destination for information on companies, products, technology and content on all things “Geo.” The site focuses on geosocial services, geolocation apps, location based services and what they mean for consumers.
http://locl.ly/
Clearly Innovative
Clearly Innovative has extensive experience with mobile application development on android, iOS and Blackberry using the Titanium Appcelerator Framework. We solve problems for large enterprises, government agencies and startups.
InnoEngineer
InnoEngineer Inc. offers quick access to a vast pool of talented engineers and a streamlined environment for completing projects successfully and efficiently. InnoEngineer.com is already functioning with 345 engineers registered. A project owner posts a project for bid, engineers bid on the project, and, once a project is successfully completed by a selected engineer or group of engineers. Engineers provide education, experience and skills in their searchable profiles and are rated by past project owners to help new project owners to make a selection.
InfraTrac
InfraTrac is a product protection company, keeping brands and customers safe from fakes and mistakes. InfraTrac uses spectroscopy to detect and prevent counterfeiting of high value formulated and regulated substances including pharmaceuticals, chemicals and consumer products. In hospitals, InfraTrac helps pharmacists prevent medication errors by checking for “Right Drug, Right Dose.”
SharedStatus
SharedStatus provides free web tools for managing projects for a team of people. Far too many people spend their lives stuck in wasteful status meetings and writing up detailed status reports when they could be getting real work done. We provide simple tools to solve that problem.
Boss Rocket
Boss Rocket offers daily deals for small businesses. Discounts include all the things it takes to start and run a small business: accounting, bookkeeping, consulting, graphic design, legal, marketing, office supplies, printing, software, subscriptions, training, websites, etc.
MedClimate
MedClimate offers solutions to patients, providers and payers to streamline the patient experience and increase the quality of care by reducing error and waste to save time and money.
Think Tank Creative
Think Tank Creative is a Washington, D.C. based graphic design firm specializing in publications, brochures, corporate collateral, event marketing, websites and mobile applications.
Two-Side Brain
This company is dedicated to my goal of reshaping Washington D.C. metro area into a vibrant startup playground. Startups can pitch your ideas to the whole world, investors can tell us about your “sweet spot”, and mentors can share your knowledge with entrepreneurs.
Skyfer
Skyfer is a real-time mobile marketplace enables you to connect with local professionals and service offerings near you. Send your service requests or offers, ask for help when needed and exchange information with people nearby in real-time.
Ozmosis
Ozmosis provides the only enterprise grade knowledge management and social collaboration software platform designed exclusively to support the healthcare industry’s highly nuanced and complex clinical requirements.
Thankfulfor
Thankfulfor.com offers users their own daily gratitude journal and the ability see what everyone else is Thankfulfor in a public gratitude stream.
MyType
MyType features psychology quizzes to give you rich visual and verbal feedback about your personality and values. Compare your results to friends, family and colleagues. Get to the bottom of that most important question: what type of person are you? As you learn more about yourself, MyType gets to know you too, and uses that knowledge to help you discover people and things that you enjoy.
http://mytype.com
DealPal
DealPal combines top products with brand-name subscription services to give consumers the guaranteed lowest prices on the web. All of our services enhance the functionality of the products we sell. And because the service providers want you to try their subscriptions, they help us pay for our discounts, making our great deals possible.
Natural Insight
Natural Insight provides a web-based platform for real-time task management to retailers and merchandisers. Our hosted solution has extensive tools for workforce communication, remote data collection, and execution management, to get the right person, in the right place, at the right time.
giv.to
Giv.to is a social engagement and fundraising platform that turns the links you share with your readers into opportunities to market your cause or campaign.
Inside Job
InSide Job connects you to helpful people at places you want to work next by giving you access to where people have interviewed, worked, or are currently employed.
FastCustomer
Companies make it hard to reach a real person while telling you how truly “important” your call is. Next time you need help, just tell us who you’d like to talk to and we’ll have them call you.
Interactive Strategies
Interactive Strategies creates comprehensive and integrated online programs. By understanding the complex relationship between strategy, design, messaging, technology and marketing, we deliver measurable results for our clients. Contact us to learn how we can help you!
NationalField
NationalField is the social reporting platform for non-profits, political campaigns, and the social sector. NationalField allows users to report and share data in realtime, opening up data to more users so that they can make better strategic decisions at every level of their organization.
TurboBridge
TurboBridge provides HD-quality audio conferencing. Save on conference calls with simple toll or toll-free dial-in, Skype or SIP access and reinforce your brand on every call.
Ringio
Ringio is a CRM-friendly phone solution for small businesses that love their customers and want to improve the quality of their phone interactions. Our clients report higher sales, happier customers and more productive employees. Ringio’s rich calling service creates great first impressions and gives you the freedom to work from anywhere.
TheMovieTracker
The Movie Tracker is a tool for cataloguing movies you’ve seen or movies you own. Based on your viewing or ownership history, ratings, and movie characteristics we make accurate recommendations for other movies to see and users to communicate with.
MyWebCareer
What’s your Career Score? Hiring decisions and business interactions are increasingly guided by the use of online reputational data. MyWebCareer is the free service that helps you discover, evaluate and monitor your Online Brand.
LeagueApps
LeagueApps is the leading platform for powering recreational sports leagues. Sports organizations can quickly create their own privately branded sites, optionally integrating with their existing websites, and easily configure a comprehensive array of league management features to suit their particular needs.
Hy.ly
Social CRM for Customer Care on Twitter & Facebook. Hy.ly features tools to monitor, care and respond to your customers; micro-blogging and ticketing systems for your team; a dashboard for sentiment analysis, root-cause analysis and team performance for executive leadership; and, a secure customer portal for your customers to describe their problems in more than 140 characters and connect to your CRM data.
TwitChamp
TwitChamp uses a top secret algorithm to determine Twitter users with the most “Mojo” — one battle at a time!
CampusSplash
CampusSplash is a network of websites and applications for motivated high school and college students. From admission predictions to dorm reviews, CampusSplash makes getting into college and succeeding once you’re there oh so much easier.
OurParents
OurParents is a free elder care directory, focused on assisting adult children with aging parents find the right care solution that meets the parents’ and family’s unique needs. Our goal is simple: to be a resource always on the side of families, as they face difficult decisions about their loved one. While other sites on the web are essentially sales channels for care providers, at OurParents, we are dedicated to the mission of finding the best options available for a family.
DCDining
No matter how much restaurant expertise we have, when looking for something specific, we’re forced to weed through internet reviews or expensive travel guides, both of which contain outdated — or even worse, inexpert or incorrect — advice. You have unique tastes, preferences, and needs when it comes to dining.For less than the price of one overcooked entrée, you’ll have the confidence of knowing that your night out has been arranged just for you.
myImpact.org
myImpact.org is an online platform and Twitter application for volunteers to record, share and track their impact. Our mission is to enhance and extend citizen service through social media.
Sponto
Sponto is a mobile social network for college students to publish, discover and detect social events and parties.
WebDevelopmentGroup
Web Development Group, a trusted web implementation group servicing commercial, not-for-profit, and government agencies. Our team brings an innovative vision to each project and we collaborate with our clients to develop social media friendly websites while implementing Drupal, WordPress and Joomla content management system to manage the new web infrastructure.
ProConIt
ProConIt is a social media website and community that helps users evaluate any subject: be it an issue, decision, idea, thought… anything, in a better way. By laying out arguments in a logical manner, and incorporating crowdsourced suggestions and weight values, ProConIt provides a new way to aggregate and analyze information, called Procons. What’s more, Procons are embeddable on any website, for use with media, blogs, politics, entertainment, product reviews, you name it. As a website or individual, you can use a Procon anytime you want better information or feedback on a given topic.
YaSabe.com
YaSabe is a bi-lingual local business directory specifically designed for US Hispanics. We enable consumers to search in Spanish and to stay connected with their local Hispanic community in terms of culturally relevant businesses and events such as restaurants, food, music, and more. We enable great local businesses to reach the 30M online Hispanics – the segment of the US population growing most rapidly online (3x faster than the general market).
DubLabs
We help you unleash the potential of your network using social, mobile & local technologies.
CardStar
CardStar Inc. is a privately held software company developing mobile applications that perpetuate the use of loyalty cards and mobile coupons. The CardStar application consolidates membership and rewards cards on smartphones — letting consumers access scannable cards from within a single app and enabling merchants to tailor mobile deals and information to their customers.
Parature
Parature makes customer service and social media engagement easy. Our web-based technology serves organizations in a wide variety of industries worldwide. With over 800 clients and more than 16 million end users, Parature is among Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Software Companies and the recipient of numerous product, technology, and leadership awards.
AppTap
AppTap is an app recommendations and advertising platform helping consumers, app developers, and web publishers cut through the clutter of the app stores. Our platform helps websites boost user engagement and revenue by adding contextually relevant app recommendations. Our ad network enables app developers to promote their apps to a large audience of app consumers across our publisher network
Urgnt.ly
Urgnt.ly instantly matches people in need with nearby service providers who are able to help right away. From leaks to locks, if it’s urgent it’s Urgnt.ly.
Canvas
We are to Paper Forms what Kindle is to Books. Canvas makes it extremely easy to find, customize and publish data collection apps for your business to Smartphones, Tablets and Netbooks/PC’s. Canvas replaces paper forms and surveys, improving paper consumption, eliminating redundant data entry and reducing excess processes for businesses and mobile professionals. Simple, Easy and more affordable than Paper.
Replyz
Replyz taps into the Twitter stream, enabling people with questions to get replies in real-time and to find and join conversations that matter to them. The result is a better chance of getting helpful replies to your questions. And by providing helpful replies, people and organizations can build their brands and their following.
GetSpontaneous
GetSpontaneous is the fastest way to find awesome activities near you. We’re an event recommendation engine that gathers events from across the web, organizes them for easy search, and personalizes them so you see stuff you actually want to attend.
Brazen Careerist
Brazen Careerist is giving professionals a fun and completely different way to network. The site translates offline networking events into an efficient online networking experience to help you meet new people and build relevant relationships for your career.
SB Nation
SB Nation is the largest and fastest-growing network of fan-centric online sports communities. From the beginning, we’ve focused on developing the highest quality grassroots sports sites on the web—recruiting only the most respected bloggers and writers to build their communities at SB Nation and empowering passionate fans to engage in the conversation.
SimpleTix
The most complete e-Ticketing and Event Registration app on the web. Build amazing interactive seating charts. Sell multiple tickets, products, memberships and donations in a single order. Can be designed to match your existing website, re-branded and white labeled!
Rankpad
Rankpad is a web 2.0 platform where users rank things in a vast number of categories: from “top NFL quarterbacks ever”, to “best iPhone apps”, and a world in between. It is fully integrated with social networks and media, being the only place on the web where ranking becomes social.
Social Tables
Social Tables is an event planning platform that helps you build an active community for your guests. It has powerful seating chart technology, social network integration, and importing guests from other sites is a breeze.
Audax Health
Audax Health Solutions is an innovative health technology company that helps consumers easily manage every facet of their health while getting connected AND having fun at the same time. Our revolutionary product Careverge is a community oriented and intelligent site that represents the best of the social web and healthcare technologies specifically adapted for the privacy and security requirements of healthcare. All of our solutions provide a personalized, fun and engaging experience that improves health, one member and one decision at a time.
YouEye
YouEye is an online user testing service with webcam powered eye tracking. Test a any website and know where users are looking with our gaze track visualizations. Review screen capture video for every user tested and listen to their audio commentary. Learn from heatmap visuals and html element analytics where users are clicking. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Yahoo use these technologies and tools to optimize their sites at a cost of hundred of thousands of dollars, but YouEye brings you these services for less than $100 a month.
Resume Everywhere
Resume Everywhere is dedicated to helping everyone find job possible by offering a service to synchronize their resume data between job sites and social networks. And we do it for free.
Pushr
Pushr helps businesses increase revenue, enhance customer engagement, and grow brand awareness via the power of SMS text messaging. It allows users to send SMS messages to customers with a click of a button. If you know how to fill out a form or have ever bought anything on Amazon, you’ll feel right at home.
Unscatter
Unscatter.com is a project with the goal to simplify internet use by bringing the various sites you may use all together, as well as providing convenient access to sites you may not be using yet. Currently focused on internet search, powered by the likes of Blekko, Bing, Topsy, Facebook and Twitter, in the future there will be new products for news, social and location sharing as well. Unscatter.com brings it all together.
Mingle360
Mingle360 is the first service to bridge the gap between face-to-face connections and the social Internet at live business events. Our portfolio of services are designed to exponentially increase the number of connections a person makes with people and businesses at their event. Peer to peer networking is facilitated via the company’s patent-pending MingleStick product. The Company’s MingleStation product provides an industry-first lead retrieval solution. Combined with our web application, we offer event organizers numerous sponsorship and revenue opportunities.
iBiquity Digital
iBiquity Digital is the developer and licenser of HD Radio™ Technology, which is transforming AM and FM broadcasting with vastly increased number of channels, drastically improved sound quality and an array of new data services.
STRUCTO
Structo is a cloud data API that allows developers to build applications faster. At core, Structo is a cloud database. Rather than interacting with it as a database, developers define their data models, fields, and validations in our API, and then get full RESTful API to build their applications on. Good for mobile/web/backend apps.
Fastrack Media
FastrackMedia is the leading social media management and digital content strategy consulting firm specialized in the Hispanic market.
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