101 Top New York City Internet Companies and Startups of 2021

July 24, 2021
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This article showcases our top picks for the best New York City based Internet companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Internet industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top New York City Internet Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

Outbrain

Outbrain

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Outbrain provides a recommendation platform to connect advertisers to open web consumers.

BuzzFeed

BuzzFeed

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BuzzFeed is a cross-platform digital media company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience.

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Betterment

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Betterment is a goal-based online investment company, delivering personalized financial advice paired with low fees and customer experience.

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Birchbox

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Birchbox is a New York-based online subscription service that specializes in makeup and other beauty related products.

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Popshop Live

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Popshop Live is a mobile live streaming marketplace where talented individuals can create and host their own shopping channel.

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Andela

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Andela is a global talent network that connects companies with engineering talent in emerging markets.

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Updater

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Updater is a technology company that develops technology to help consumers relocate to the United States.

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Elevate Brands

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Elevate Brands buys consumer Amazon FBA brands and elevates them to their full potential.

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Justworks

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Justworks provides small and medium-sized businesses with simple software and expert support for payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance.

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WayUp

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WayUp connects students with jobs during and after college — from summer internships to part-time gigs to full-time jobs after graduation.

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MediaMath

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MediaMath develops and delivers digital advertising media and data management technology solutions to advertisers worldwide.

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JOOR

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JOOR is an online global fashion marketplace, connecting brands and retailers.

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Hive

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Hive is a productivity platform that drives companies to work forward.

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Giphy

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Giphy is an online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover GIFs.

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Pietra

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Pietra is a business-in-a-box platform that provides Creators all the tools they need to build a business.

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NS1

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NS1 is an internet company that provides accurate control over application delivery that values interaction with customers.

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Grafana Labs

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Grafana Labs is an open source software platform built to support monitoring, visualization, and metric analytics.

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Tornado

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Nvstr is now Tornado! Backed by Marc Lore, Alex Rodriguez & Dave Portnoy. Advancing our mission of financial wellness.

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Fi

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Fi is a provider of next Generation of Smart Dog Collars.

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RealBlocks

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RealBlocks is a technology platform that delivers online access to alternative investments.

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Innovid

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Innovid is the only independent omni-channel advertising and analytics platform built for television.

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LivePerson

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LivePerson provides real-time intelligent customer engagement solutions that help companies enhance the relationship with their customers.

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Artsy

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Artsy is the largest online art marketplace with more than 1 million artworks by over 100,000 artists.

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Entera

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The premier full service SaaS + Services platform for professional single-family real estate investors

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Citizen

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Citizen is the No. 1 public safety app in the U.S., with a mission to make the world a safer place.

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InVision

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InVision provides a design collaboration platform for startups, corporations, and design agencies.

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Lusha Systems Inc

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Search Less. Sell More. Lusha is a B2B prospecting and contact data solution loved by over 500,000 sales pros and 120,000 organizations.

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Stacks

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Stacks is an app development company which builds bitcoin app, smart contracts, and digital assets.

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Freshly

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Freshly delivers gourmet ready-made meals, prepared and delivered at the door.

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TripleLift

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TripleLift is the programmatic technology company for native, branded content and OTT.

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Vitally

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Vitally is a customer engagement platform for B2B SaaS companies to drive a world-class customer experience and eliminate churn.

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Zola

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Zola is a wedding company that reinvents the wedding planning and registry experience.

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Sweeten

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Sweeten reinvents how homeowners and companies hire quality construction labor nationwide, providing platform tools and payment protection.

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TransparentBusiness

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TransparentBusiness is a SaaS platform designed to increase remote workforce and freelancer productivity.

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Atari

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Atari produces, publishes, and distributes interactive entertainment software for gaming platforms.

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Quartz

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Quartz is a digitally native news and online media outlet for business people in the new global economy.

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Catchpoint

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Catchpoint is a leading digital experience intelligence company.

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Avanan

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Avanan uses advanced AI to protect your cloud email and collaboration suites

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Commsor

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Commsor is your community operating system. Unlock insights, measure impact, and build a community-led company.

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Industrious

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Industrious is a premium flexible workspace provider that redefines the workplace experience.

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Hinge

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Hinge is a social discovery network helping users meet new people through an application.

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MakeSpace

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MakeSpace is an on-demand storage company that makes it easy to order, store, and retrieve physical belongings.

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Brigit

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A financial health app helping every American build a brighter financial future.

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CommonBond

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CommonBond is a financial technology company that is focused on higher education.

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PandoLogic (formerly RealMatch)

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PandoLogic provides programmatic job advertising solutions powered by predictive analytics, machine learning, and A.I.

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Unified

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Unified equips marketers with information and intelligence they need to make the best decisions about their social advertising investments.

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UtilizeCore

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UtilizeCore is a neural network-based platform enables subscribers to procure subcontractors, and deliver quality service.

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Grailed

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Grailed is a NYC-based peer-to-peer marketplace company.

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Zeel

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Zeel delivers on-demand massage from vetted therapists.

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Teads US

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Teads US invented outstream video advertising and is the no.1 video advertising marketplace in the world.

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Remesh

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Remesh offers an AI-powered platform that enables users to have live conversations with their customers at scale.

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Bayshore Networks

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Bayshore is the cybersecurity leader for the Industrial Internet. Bayshore’s policy-based Gateway enables applications for IoT platforms.

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AppNexus

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AppNexus operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising.

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Geneva

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An online home for groups, clubs & communities of all shapes & sizes

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Behalf

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Behalf’s mission is to empower commerce for businesses large and small with well-priced, on demand payment tools.

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Pallet

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Infrastructure for community driven hiring markets

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Kalshi

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Kalshi built a new financial exchange for traders to trade on their opinion and hedge everyday risks.

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Moda Operandi

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Moda Operandi is a platform for emerging fashion designers and retailers.

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Biz2Credit

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Biz2Credit is a digital-first provider of small business funding and offers its Biz2X Platform to help financial institutions manage risk.

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Fundera

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Fundera is a marketplace for small business financial solutions.

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Canary

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Canary is a NYC-based company and a subsidiary of Smartfrog & Canary Group, a Consumer IoT SaaS business and one of the fastest-growing Consumer IoT category leaders. The company’s mission is to enhance consumer’s lives by making modern technologies useful, easy, affordable and safe – IoT for everyone.

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Sure

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Sure is an insurance technology company powering API based digital insurance programs for the world’s most recognized brands and carriers.

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Wibbitz

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Wibbitz is an automated video creation company that empowers any team to produce professional short-form video.

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Pypestream

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Pypestream is conversational artificial intelligence built for scale.

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Glitch

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Glitch is the friendly community where everyone builds the web.

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HUMAN

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We are a cybersecurity company that protects enterprises from bot attacks to keep digital experiences human.

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The Muse

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The Muse is an internet company that offers an online career platform that provides job listings and advice to people.

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System

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System Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation that builds software to help the world see and solve anything as a system.

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MealPal

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MealPal is a subscription service that provides members with affordable daily lunch options from restaurants near where they live or work.

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PulsePoint

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PulsePoint is a technology company using data to accelerate healthcare marketing.

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Refinery29

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Refinery29 is a digital media and entertainment company dedicated to inspiring young women to live an informed and well-rounded life.

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Vettery

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Vettery is the trusted hiring marketplace that connects top talent with growing companies.

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Batch

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Batch is a QR code-driven software startup powering the fastest shopping experience brands can offer their customers.

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Credly

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Credly is a platform for verifying, sharing, and managing digital badges and credentials.

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Svrf

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Svrf makes 3D searchable, shareable, and accessible everywhere

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Pilot

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Pilot is a fiber-optic ISP that raises the bar for telecom and provides better business internet.

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Yieldmo

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Yieldmo is a digital advertising technology company that increases the value of advertising inventory for buyers and sellers.

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Cylera

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Cylera is a healthcare IoT cybersecurity and intelligence company used to protect healthcare organizations.

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The Org

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The Org is a professional community to explore organization charts for public and private companies.

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INTURN

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INTURN is an enterprise solution providing custom solutions to efficiently convert slow-moving and excess inventory.

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Moxie

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Moxie is an online fitness platform that provides its users with fitness routines and online instructors.

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HODINKEE

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HODINKEE designs watches and is a media and retail platform providing a point of view on industry news and releases.

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AlefEdge

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AlefEdge is the leader in the Edge Internet, delivering the power of the 5G Edge to developers through EdgeNet and The 5G Edge API.

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Meetup

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Meetup brings people together in thousands of cities to do more of what they want to do in life.

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EX.CO

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EX.CO is a technology company used by brands & publishers to turn content into engaging and interactive experiences driving results.

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Anchor

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Anchor allows anyone to record or upload high-quality audio, host unlimited episodes, and distribute everywhere with just one click.

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PeopleDoc

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PeopleDoc is a Cloud-based HR Service Delivery platform enabling organizations to effectively manage HR operations and communications.

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The Players’ Tribune

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The Players’ Tribune is a content and technology platform developed by athletes for athletes to connect them with fans through storytelling.

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Spring

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Spring is a retail company that sells a wide range of items from apparel to home and garden items.

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Unacast

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Unacast built the Real World Graph® and is the leading transparent and contextualized location data platform

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Feedvisor

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Feedvisor is an algorithmic pricing and revenue intelligence platform for online retailers.

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Colle Capital Partners

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Colle Capital is a data focused and opportunistic global technology venture fund.

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YouNow

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YouNow is the world’s first live social network, empowering users to broadcast themselves from anywhere in real time.

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DASHUB

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A global online automotive marketplace

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The Browser Company

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We’re reinventing the web browser. A browser that’s not just faster, but also more personal, focused, creative… and maybe even more fun.

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Mack Weldon

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Mack Weldon is an e-commerce company that sells men’s underwear, t-shirts, and socks.

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Augmented Intelligence (AUI)

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Augmented Intelligence (AUI) is a tech company based in NYC with locations in Tel Aviv and Ramallah. Visit aui.io for 50+ open positions.

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BrandTotal

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Agile Marketing Intelligence. Uncover your competition’s marketing strategy and get the better of them.

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Realm

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Get more out of your biggest asset. Realm shows you what your home could be worth & how to access more of its potential.

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Dstillery

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Dstillery is a custom audience solutions company building your best audiences with Custom AI models.

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Fraud.net

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The Future of Fraud Prevention – fraud detection, intelligence augmentation, and live-streaming visualizations.

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