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VidMob offers a content and workflow management platform for digital advertising. The company’s product portfolio includes 1) Creative Scoring, which evaluates digital creative content, 2) Creative Studio, which allows users to create and refine ad content, and 3) Creative Analytics, which offers insights into ad performance.&nbsp;As of September 2024, VidMob's platform integrated with digital channels such as Google, Meta, Amazon Ads, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snap, Pinterest, Hulu, and Reddit.&nbsp;In October 2021, the company acquired<a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/10/28/2322872/0/en/VidMob-Has-Agreed-to-Acquire-Chiligum-to-Add-Creative-Automation-to-its-Intelligent-Creative-Platform.html"> Chiligum, an advertising technology company,&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;to expand its offerings.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, the company’s notable customers included Johnson &amp; Johnson, Meta, Burger King, Diageo, and ABInBev.&nbsp;

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Captions is a developer of an AI-enabled platform for video content creation. It offers a suite of tools allowing users to produce studio-grade videos including digital avatars, intelligent video editing capabilities, instant dubbing, audio correction, and automated captioning. A standout feature of Captions' platform is AI Creator, a proprietary tool that generates engaging "talking videos" entirely through AI. This solution has found widespread application among small businesses, enabling them to create organic social media posts and advertisements. It also offers AI Edit, a one-tap video editing solution, and Lipdub, a model that generates natural lip movements and body language.In November 2024, Captions&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36651">acquired</a> AI-powered digital canvas platform AlpacaML, to enhance its capabilities in generative video technology.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company had over 10 million downloads for its mobile app alone as of July 2024.&nbsp;

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Writer AI offers "full-stack"&nbsp; large language models (LLMs) that enable businesses to integrate AI into content creation and business functions like marketing, sales, HR, and operations. Writer's platform includes customizable language models that can be fine-tuned for specific industries and use cases. The platform allows customers to connect the AI models to their own business data sources to improve research, fact-checking, and question-answering abilities.&nbsp;Its flagship model, Palmyra, comprises three models: Small (128 million parameters), Base (5 billion parameters), and Large (20 billion parameters) for tasks such as content generation, research, question answering, and data analysis.In July 2024, Writer introduced two new LLMs <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32211">named Palmyra-Med-70b and Palmyra-Fin-70b </a>for healthcare and financial services.Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s notable customers include Intuit, United Healthcare, UiPath, Spotify, L'Oreal, Uber, and Accenture.&nbsp;

Writer is a full-stack generative AI platform that helps businesses use large language models to generate writing and content that can be used across different departments, including operations, products, sales, human resources, marketing, and more. Its platform provides an integrated system of LLMs, graph-based RAG, AI guardrails, and development tools for organizations to deploy AI apps and workflows that deliver impactful return on investment.

World Labs creates an AI platform for visual data processing that is similar to that of humans. The company specializes in developing advanced AI systems that operate within three-dimensional (3D) environments, both virtual and real-world. Their core service revolves around building Large World Models (LWMs), which allow AI to perceive, generate, and interact with the world in 3D space.

Captions is an AI-powered creative studio developing a video creation and editing platform for content creation. It offers software solutions to enhance video production, including automatic subtitle generation, eye contact correction, language dubbing, and video clip extraction to simplify the creative process.

MagicSchool provides various AI tools to assist teachers with their diverse tasks. It is a comprehensive platform designed to support teachers in multiple facets of their profession, including lesson planning, assessment creation, differentiation, communication, and beyond. Utilizing over 60 AI tools, it generates original and tailored educational content, feedback, and recommendations.

Polycam is a 3D creation tool company that develops a sensor app to capture 3D scans of objects. Its tool for photorealistic 3D asset creation is used to capture, document, edit, and share digital 3D content. Its sensors use computer vision and artificial intelligence technology such as a colorization engine to create 3D objects and spaces.

LucidLink is a developer of a cloud-native file service that connects creative teams working on shared data sets across distance. The company's Filespaces provides best-in-class security and high-performance scalability to run file-based workloads on object storage for maximum efficiency and productivity.

VidMob is the world's leading platform for Intelligent Creative. We provide an end-to-end technology solution for all of a brand’s creative needs. It is an integrated platform combining AI-powered creative analytics with a production workflow system connected to a global network of expert creators. VidMob’s platform dramatically improves ad campaign ROI through actionable creative insights, faster creative turnaround, better performing ads and streamlined workflow.   We are the only company in the world to receive a certified creative marketing partner badge from every major social and digital platform. A portion of every dollar VidMob receives is used to fund pro bono creative services for non-profits through the 501(c)(3) VidMob Gives.

Founded in 2003, Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance.  Around the time that people first put their whole music library in their pockets, and just before we could all pause and record live TV, we started using data to help our clients detect patterns of spend errors and misuse. Over the last two decades, we’ve pioneered and led the industry in artificial intelligence, comprehensive data-driven solutions, and quality delivery.  Oversight is AI in Action: Oversight is anchored by a team of professionals who have helped to commercialize network and operating system security; who have secured the largest financial networks in the world; and who have helped to audit some of the most sensitive and mission-critical applications in the world. The Oversight team has revolutionized the way Management, Boards, Auditors, and Shareholders approach ongoing regulatory compliance and the underlying costs and benefits.

PlayJam's core mission is to bring affordable gaming to the big screen. To that end, they have developed and operate a built-for-TV games platform that currently powers casual games on over 90 million Smart TV devices worldwide. In doing so, they have created one of the largest, most vibrant casual game network around.   In 2013, PlayJam announced support for Android and launched GameStick - the world's most portable TV game console. Working with leading TV and STB manufacturers, the company is licensing its underlying technology that will afford every household access to rich, affordable games the whole family can enjoy.

Bunchball is the market leader and visionary in gamification. Bunchball enables organizations to improve business performance throughout their ecosystem by creating highly active and loyal customers, employees, and partners. Bunchball’s comprehensive suite of innovative cloud-based solutions empowers companies to engage and motivate, leading to improved employee productivity, customer loyalty, audience engagement, and ROI. Bunchball’s world-class customers include Adobe, HP, Cisco, MTV, Comcast, LiveOps, VMware and Hasbro. Based in Silicon Valley, Bunchball's investors include Granite Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, Northport Investments, and Correlation Ventures. For more information, visit www.bunchball.com, our blog at www.gamification.com, or follow @bunchball.

TuVox, Inc. provides speech application solutions and contact center solutions for inbound and outbound calls. Its applications and solutions handle various call types, including natural language call routing, customer support triage and product support with knowledge voice, solutions that integrate with live agents, contact center solutions supporting multiple centers, and outbound notification solutions. The company offers on demand hosting services; managed services, such as turnkey application support, monitoring, grammar tuning, VUI tuning, content updates, project management, quality assurance, and live call transcription; and design center services. It also provides development and CTI integration, customer support and maintenance, and training services. In addition, the company offers TuVox On Premise, which provides ongoing turnkey application support; and TuVox On Demand Portal, which provides access to control applications and make applications changes. It serves telecommunications, financial services, healthcare, high technology, and retail industries, as well as enterprises in media and publishing, travel, and energy sectors.

FORA.tv helps users find, enjoy, and share videos about the people, issues, and ideas changing the world.  FORA.tv presents the web's largest collection of videos drawn from live events, lectures, interviews, and debates going on all the time at top universities, public forums, think tanks and conferences.  FORA.tv has partnered with hundreds of organizations to bring provocative and compelling video content for free, and pay-per-view, to audiences around the world.  FORA.tv was founded in 2005 and is funded by a select group of investors including William R. Hearst III and Adobe Ventures.

Convio, Inc. provides on-demand software and services that enable nonprofit organizations (NPO) to raise funds, influence public policy, and support their missions by leveraging the Internet to build relationships with constituents in North America. It offers Constituent360 platform, an online constituent relationship management (eCRM) solution, which includes a suite of on-demand software modules for fundraising, advocacy, email marketing, and Web content management. The Constituent360 allows NPOs to view constituent behavior by tracking online activities, including online donations, purchases, page visits, event registrations, surveys, and advocacy activities. The platform also provides query and reporting tools to enable clients to retrieve and analyze this information to design online fundraising and advocacy campaigns. In addition, the company offers DataSync software, which enables synchronization of constituent information between Constituent360 and its clients' offline donor databases. Further, it provides fee-based Internet strategy and interactive services to help clients in their online programs, account management services, deployment services, and client support and education services.   The company, formerly known as ShowSupport.com, Inc., was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

MobiTV delivers live and on-demand video to any screen, connecting media reliably and securely anytime, anywhere, on any device. The company’s end-to-end platform delivers a true TV everywhere experience that helps service providers reduce time to market and control costs associated with the deployment and operation of high concurrency, multiple platform services. MobiTV’s connected media solutions solve the complexity of delivering video across networks, operating systems, and devices while managing associated rights. The company efficiently optimizes for network conditions to deliver multiscreen media services that center on empowering the viewer. MobiTV’s connected media solutions are tailored for IPTV operators, as well as mobile TV and over-the-top customers including AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Sprint, T-Mobile, TELUS, US Cellular, and Verizon among others.

Movaris, Inc. offers solutions to integrate and manage financial close and other governance, risk, and compliance processes. The company's Movaris Unity application suite includes Enterprise Risk Manager that allows corporations to document and manage identified risk in the organization; GRC for use in the enterprise to address compliance, risk, and performance management initiatives; Account Reconciliation, which enables financial organizations to track and review account reconciliation tasks during the financial close process; Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance that manages various SOX activities by documenting various controls, testing, and remediation, as well as assigns tasks to individuals and delivers audit trails; and Financial Close, which enables financial organizations to track and review financial close tasks during the auditing and reporting processes. It also provides OneClose e-Binder that creates a system of record for various close, reconciliation, and compliance activities, as well as enables management and auditors to retrieve various documents to reconstruct a financial period; and OneClose Platform, which assigns tasks to performers and reviewers, as well as integrates account reconciliations with SOX compliance testing and financial close activities. In addition, the company offers implementation, training, and on-going support services. It serves financial services, insurance, manufacturing, technology, consumer goods, retail and distribution, media, energy, transportation, health, and medical industries. The company was formerly known as Paper2net and changed its name to Movaris, Inc. in 2001. Movaris, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in San Jose, California. As of February 14, 2008, Movaris, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Trintech Group plc.

Arcot Systems, Inc. offers authentication and digital signing solutions to protect and verify digital identity. The company offers TransFort for Issuers that enables authentication for card holders and merchants; TransFort for Merchants, which enables authentication of cardholders that enroll in 3-D secure; RiskFort that blocks fraud in real-time; WebFort and ArcotID software-only authentication solutions; A-OK On-Demand that provides security for authentication process; and SignFort, which enables organizations to replace â€˜print and signâ€™ methods with streamlined process for signing and approving documents. The company provides solutions for consumer portal protection, FFIEC compliance, identity management, Internet threat protection, SAFE biopharmaceutical compliance, and VPN authentication. It helps financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, and e-shopping sites to prevent online fraud and identity theft.   The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with a technology center in Bangalore, India.

Kollective Technology operates as an enterprise content delivery network provider. Its cloud-native enterprise peering platform leverages existing network infrastructure to offset bandwidth constraints and deliver Live Events, Video on Demand, and software via SCCM. The company is headquartered in Bend, Oregon.

Biz360, Inc. is an information-services company focused on transforming information to help businesses make better decisions. They use technology to aggregate, measure and analyze news media and consumer opinion information from a vast amount of traditional and social media sources (i.e. print, broadcast, websites, blogs and message boards) to yield invaluable insights which enable marketing and media executives to better understand, reach and motivate their target audiences.  Biz360 is distinguished by its broad, global network of content sources, superior leading-edge analytical expertise and outstanding service & support — which enables us to deliver to their clients the most accurate, relevant and insightful information/metrics in the most flexible, consumable formats.

Above All Software (formerly BAM Software) is pioneering point-and-click software that enables the rapid assembly of composite applications that are based on existing information resources such as enterprise applications, legacy systems and database procedures. With no programming and no changes to existing systems, both business and technical users can assemble solutions that integrate critical business functions like sales, finance and manufacturing.

Kinecta Corporation was a content syndication company.

HAHT Commerce, an award-winning provider of demand chain management applications was acquired by Global eXchange Services, a leading provider of B2B integration solutions in February 2004.

AvantGo, Inc. provides software and services that enable and enhance the use of Internet-based content and corporate intranets to mobile devices, including personal digital assistants and Internet-enabled phones. The company licenses its AvantGo M-Business Server products and AvantGo mobile applications products to help its customers provide their employees, customers, suppliers, and business affiliates with easy access to business information. The AvantGo Mobile Internet service allows individuals to access Internet-based content and applications, and gives content providers and other businesses a new medium for reaching and interacting with new and existing customers. In February 2002, AvantGo was chosen by Microsoft for the participation in the Microsoft Mobility Partner Advisory Council. AvantGo provides solutions for the Microsoft Windows Powered Pocket PC 2002.

Shutterfly manufactures and retails personalized products primarily in the United States, Canada, and the European Community. It operates through three reportable segments: Shutterfly Consumer, Lifetouch, and Shutterfly Business Solutions.  The Shutterfly Consumer segment provides products, such as portraits, cards, and stationery items, professionally-bound photo books and yearbooks, personalized gifts and home décor products, and calendars and prints; and mugs, ornaments, candles, pillows, and blankets through the Shutterfly, Tiny Prints, and Groovebook domains, as well as rents photographic and video equipment under BorrowLenses brand. The Lifetouch segment offers photography services for schools, preschools, and retail stores the under the JCPenney portrait brand at approximately 400 retail studios, as well as churches and other groups.  Shutterfly Business Solutions provides direct marketing and other end-consumer communications, as well as just-in-time and inventory-free printing services. Christopher North and Eva Manolis founded it on September 1, 1999, with its headquarters in Redwood City in California.

CoVia Technologies is a pioneer of business-to-business Internet workplace solutions.

As experts in broadcast and real-time data transport, Digital Fountain software optimizes the delivery of digital media over any network. Their technology eliminates the common limitations associated with digital media distribution solutions over both private and public networks, maximizing their customers' existing infrastructure investments, and enabling expanded revenue opportunities.

As of April 22, 2002, NetClerk Inc. was acquired by Builders Information Group Inc. NetClerk is an application service provider (ASP) for requesting, submitting and storing permits and related forms usually ralated to electricians, plumbers and mechanical contractors. The company's flagship product, PermitCentral, provides one online system for contractors to access and submit non-planned, over-the-counter permits.

Cascade Systems is a provider of e-Merchandising solutions.

Virage is the leading provider of software products and application services that enable media and entertainment companies, enterprises, and consumers to publish, manage and distribute their video content over the Internet or intranets. Our products and services enable Internet users to find and use the video content they want, and then to interact with it in a way that is familiar and comfortable to them. Additionally, we increase the value of video to content owners by transforming their video assets into engaging web experiences that incorporate on-demand viewing, targeted advertising, community building and e-commerce.

Digimarc is a leading innovator and technology provider.  Based in Beaverton, Oregon (USA), Digimarc enables businesses and governments worldwide to enrich everyday living with the means to identify all forms of content, including audio, video and imagery. We develop solutions, license intellectual property and provide development services to business partners across a wide range of industries.  OUR VISION All of Digimarc’s solutions reflect a unified vision: to enrich everyday living via pervasive, intuitive computing. We accomplish this by creating a new means of communication ‒ based on digital watermarking technology ‒ that can be embedded into media and objects, allowing computers and digital devices to see, hear and engage with the world around them much like people do. The result is that consumers and organizations can easily access digital content when, where and how they want it.  There are tens of billions of digitally watermarked objects already in use today, and hundreds of millions of devices that can detect them and respond — but that’s just the beginning. Digimarc is partnering with industry leaders worldwide to make intuitive computing a reality by bringing convenience, simplicity and enhanced experiences to users’ interactions with media and the physical world.  DIGIMARC TECHNOLOGY AT WORK Digimarc and its partners offer a wide range of applications available today:  Link from print-to-web and instantly access relevant information or content online from a handheld digital device, like your mobile phone. Communicate ownership, copyright and other details about your digital images and how you can be contacted. Authenticate content and objects to confirm they are genuine, unaltered and from an authorized source. Monitor broadcasts and Internet distribution of television programming in geographical markets or over the Internet for market research and rights management. Identify and manage content by giving it a persistent digital identity that can be used to easily locate, filter and track it, and determine where it leaves its authorized distribution path. Deter counterfeiting and piracy by facilitating content copyright communication, filtering and forensic tracking, and by providing controls over the recording, playback or copying of content. Secure and authenticate credentials enabling identification issuers to increase security as well as reliably authenticate them at various points of inspection.

Adobe Ventures invests in early-stage technology companies that align with Adobe's strategic interests. They support startups in fields like AI, machine learning, digital media, and enterprise solutions. The fund seeks companies with strong leadership, innovative technologies, and scalable business models to foster growth and synergy with Adobe’s products.

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