Acadia Woods Partners is an investment partnership that focuses primarily on early-stage technology companies. It was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Acadia Woods Partners

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm dedicated to the proposition that one entrepreneur's idea, with the right support, can become a business that changes the world. The company is made up of former entrepreneurs who set out to create the firm they wanted as founders. This forward-thinking team of VCs has helped companies like Lending Club change the way money is lent and borrowed, Sunrun reinvent the residential clean energy market, and Netflix revolutionizes media distribution and consumption, among many others. Foundation Capital is currently invested in more than 60 high-growth ventures in the areas of consumer, information technology, software, digital energy, financial technology, and marketing technology. These investments include AdRoll, Beepi, Bolt Threads, DogVacay, Kik, ForgeRock, Lending Home, Localytics, and Visier. The firm's twenty-six IPOs include Lending Club, OnDeck, Chegg, Sunrun, MobileIron, Control4, TubeMogul, Envestnet, Financial Engines, Netflix, NetZero, Responsys and Silver Spring Networks.

Foundation Capital

Structure Fund is an opportunistic early-stage tech fund that invests in digital media, DTC e-commerce, hospitality tech and proptech.

Structure Fund

Blue Heron Ventures is an angel investment company that provides angel investment and entrepreneurial experience to companies in the interactive entertainment and technology markets. It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Blue Heron Ventures

Interlock Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm based out of Texas and New York

Interlock Partners

Manifest is a financial firm that offers services in the fields of venture capital, private equity, and financial services. They are invests in technology-enabled services and software companies. Their investments are in growth-stage companies where there is a proven management team and a need for both capital and strategic support.

Manifest

These ideas' power will grow as a result of our platform, as well as our love and support. They'll be surrounded by collaborators and accelerators, as well as believers and supporters who have been brought in to help. The force will then begin to be felt – rumbling, violent, inertial power in the same direction, for the same purpose.

Stampede Ventures

Macanta Investments specializes in finance, information technology, media, digital media, software, and other industries. The firm invests in early-stage enterprises, growth-stage ventures, expansions, and seed financing.

Macanta Investments

Brandtech Ventures is the investment arm of The Brandtech Group (formerly You & Mr Jones), and makes venture stage investments in brandtech startup and growth businesses. The firm is particularly focused on AI, AR, Video, Voice, Data, UGC and analytics. The Brandtech Group was founded by David Jones in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.

Brandtech Ventures

BuildGroup is a software holding company that selectively invests in leadership teams with staying power. We back founders who are ambitious enough to want to make a dent in the universe and humble enough to realize they can’t do it alone. By providing permanent capital from aligned investors and avoiding forced exits, BuildGroup frees entrepreneurs to focus on serving customers instead of raising the next round. We believe that great businesses are built, not bought, and that’s why our team works side-by-side with founders to create conditions for long-term growth.  BuildGroup was founded in Austin, Texas by a team of proven builders who love nothing more than helping build and grow extraordinary companies.

BuildGroup

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.

Adobe Ventures

Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is a global provider of high-quality licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos and music to businesses, marketing agencies and media organizations around the world. Working with its growing community of over 60,000 contributors, Shutterstock adds tens of thousands of images each week, and currently has more than 40 million images and 2 million video clips available.   Headquartered in New York City, with offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, Denver, London, Paris and San Francisco, Shutterstock has customers in more than 150 countries. The company also owns Bigstock, a value-oriented stock media agency; Offset, a high-end image collection; Skillfeed, an online marketplace for learning; and WebDAM, a cloud-based digital asset management service for businesses.

Shutterstock

Prefix Capital is an early-stage, deep-tech VC that invests in foundational technologies. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Prefix Capital

Drive by DraftKings is a multi-stage venture capital firm investing in SportsTech and Entertainment. Our mission is to push the frontier of new markets and categories revolutionizing sports, gaming and media. Founding partners include DraftKings, General Catalyst, Accomplice and Boston Seed Capital.

Drive by DraftKings

The Spruce House Partnership is a firm that invests in companies.

The Spruce House Partnership

Venture capital firm investing in tech sectors

JettyCove

Shamrock Capital Advisors is an investment firm that focuses on investing in the media, entertainment, and communications sectors. It uses its proprietary network of relationships and deep industry vertical knowledge to identify companies with significant value creation potential for investment. The firm was founded in 1978 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Shamrock Capital Advisors

PROOF invests in breakout high-performing companies in growth rounds across all VC sectors except life sciences. The firm works in partnership with early stage VCs and leverages their pro-rata rights in exchange for sharing part of the upside.

PROOF

ID Fund is an investor directed fund for accredited investors bringing together the technology and private investment opportunities. Through investment aggregation and syndication, the fund is leveling the playing field, giving accredited investors the opportunity to easily invest across multiple industries. It utilizes agile, fully automated software which users can access, facilitate and manage their investments across multiple verticals and stages all from one convenient dashboard and ID Fund's feature-rich suite also includes communication tools, making it easy for investors to collaborate, allowing users to access the experience and expertise of their fellow investors. In 2017, Joseph McGowan and Dermot Bolger established it in Boca Raton, Florida.

ID Fund

eGateway Capital is a Kentucky-based venture capital firm.

eGateway Capital

VidMob

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.

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;

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Creating affordable content for the digital age

Content Creation Tools

### VidMob Revolutionizes Creative Production with AI-Driven Insights

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The Twitter Official Partner program is now six members deeper. The social network welcomed Curalate, Jebbit, VidMob, Vidsy, Animoto, Social Native today. VidMob, “a creative platform that connects marketers with a global network of expert video creators, animators and motion graphics designers.”

Giving creators the power of content monetization and audience engagement.

Creator Economy

Platforms that allow creators to share their written works and blogs.

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;

Sydney-based Canva is an online graphic design platform that allows users without extensive design experience to create designs for social media, marketing materials, presentations, and more. It also provides tools for creating static graphics, presentations, videos, websites, and printed materials.The platform’s free version provides access to over 250,000 templates and a library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, and graphics. Canva's paid plans offer additional features such as more storage, premium templates, and collaboration tools. In August 2024, Canva introduced&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240808572035/en/Canva-Unveils-Refreshed-Brand-System-Designed-For-Work">a refreshed brand system</a> signaling its shift in focus to help organizations improve their visual communication, as businesses scale their operations globally.In March 2023, Canva introduced AI-powered tools that enable users to search for design elements, get recommendations for graphics and styles, and access AI-powered design tools such as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.canva.com/magic-design/">Magic Write,</a> Magic Design, Magic Edit, and Beat Sync. The platform also introduced new features such as draw, layouts, styles, layers, and alt text support based on user requests. Previously, the company launched&nbsp;<a href="https://www.computerworld.com/article/1612736/canva-launches-whiteboards-for-graphic-designers-predesign-process.html">“Canva Whiteboards”&nbsp;</a>(August 2022), which allows users to brainstorm and collaborate with colleagues within the platform by integrating with Canva presentations.In July 2024, Canva&nbsp;<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/29/canva-acquires-leonardo-ai-to-boost-its-generative-ai-efforts/">acquired Leonardo.ai</a>, a provider of GenAI content and research, to expand its AI tools portfolio, and in April 2024, it acquired creative software company&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/26/24112277/canva-affinity-acquisition-design-software-suite-adobe-rival">Affinity</a> to make professional design tools more accessible. Other notable acquisitions included&nbsp;<a href="https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/flourish/">Flourish,</a> a data visualization tool (February 2022);<a href="https://www.kaleido.ai/b/kaleido-is-joining-the-canva-family"> Kaleido,</a> a visual AI platform (February 2021); and Zeetings, a presentation platform (April 2018).Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Canva served various notable companies including Expedia Group, Hubspot, Sony Music, Reddit, and Marriott International, and had over 135 million monthly active users globally.Canva&nbsp;<a href="https://www.canva.com/newsroom/news/getty-ai-partnership/">expanded its partnership</a> with Getty Images in August 2024 to integrate Getty's vast library of stock photos directly into the Canva platform, providing users with access to millions of premium images.&nbsp;

Canva

Grammarly is an AI-powered writing assistant that helps professionals and students communicate effectively across various platforms and devices. Developed by linguists and engineers, Grammarly uses natural language processing and machine learning to provide suggestions for improving grammar, spelling, punctuation, clarity, conciseness, tone, and overall style.&nbsp;The platform’s offerings include a free version with basic writing suggestions and premium and enterprise plans with advanced features like full-sentence rewrites, plagiarism detection, vocabulary enhancements, and brand tone consistency. It also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.grammarly.com/features#:~:text=across%20500%2C000%2B%20apps%20and%20websites">integrates</a> with over 500,000 apps and websites including Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Slack, and Notion.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In August 2024, Grammarly introduced&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240814851435/en/Grammarly-Launches-Grammarly-Authorship-to-Enable-Transparency-in-Writing-Assignments-for-the-AI-Age">Grammarly Authorship</a>, a tool enabling users to demonstrate which document parts were human-created, AI-generated, or AI-edited. This feature aimed to address challenges to academic integrity in the AI age.Key customers and partnershipsAs of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.grammarly.com/about">September 2024</a>, Grammarly had served 96% of the Fortune 500 companies, over 70,000 professional teams across various notable companies, including BlackRock, Zoom, Expedia, Salesforce, and Databricks, and over 30 million daily active users globally.Grammarly introduced a Global Channel Partner Program in September 2023 to offer enterprise AI solutions across industries. The program helps businesses provide their customers with Grammarly's AI writing support, including products like Grammarly Business and Grammarly for Education. Partners can benefit from tools such as deal registration, quote management, and enablement programs while offering customers a solution that increases efficiency and quality in written communications.Grammarly&nbsp;<a href="https://news.utexas.edu/2024/05/06/ut-partners-with-grammarly-to-guide-effective-generative-ai-use-in-higher-education/">partnered with</a> the University of Texas at Austin in August 2024 to support the adoption of GenAI within academic settings.

Grammarly

Picsart is a digital content creation platform that offers a suite of AI-powered tools for editing images, text, videos, GIFs, and logos. As of September 2024, the company offers over 300 million editable photos and templates. Picsart's AI capabilities span image generation, upscaling, object removal, background replacement, style transfer, and avatar creation.The company's flagship product,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.technology.org/2023/11/29/picsart-launched-a-new-set-of-ai-content-creation-tools/">Picsart Ignite</a>, introduced in November 2023, comprises over 20 AI tools that enable users to generate visuals, enhance existing content, and streamline creative workflows.&nbsp;In April 2024, the company<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240418403128/en/Picsart-Makes-Professional-Product-Shots-Simple-with-new-AI-Powered-%E2%80%98Smart-Background%E2%80%99-Feature"> introduced Smart Background,</a> an AI-powered photography studio that understands the subject, suggests custom backgrounds, and adds realistic drop shadows and other contextually-aware elements.&nbsp;The company has also expanded its enterprise offerings by launching API services (such as upscale, effects, photo editing, remove background, and more) and introducing platform integrations for Picsart’s suite of editing tools, including the Photo Editor SDK, Print Editor SDK, and Ads Editor SDK.Additionally, in August 2023, Picsart partnered with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230810415582/en/Most-Likely-to-Create-the-Best-Yearbooks-Picsart-and-Walsworth-Partner-to-Bring-the-Internet%E2%80%99s-Favorite-Tools-to-Schools">Walsworth Yearbooks,</a> a yearbook printer, for students to access Picsart's photo editing suite to enhance their yearbook designs.In December 2021, Picsart acquired&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211202005694/en/Picsart-to-Acquire-Computer-Vision-and-AI-Company-DeepCraft">DeepCraft,</a> an R&amp;D company specializing in computer vision and machine learning, and in July 2020, it acquired&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200722005090/en/PicsArt-Acquires-Motion-Based-Video-Effects-Company-D%E2%80%99efekt">D'efekt,</a> a company specializing in advanced motion-based video effects, to enhance its suite of visual editing tools.Key customers and partnershipsPicsart primarily caters to the fashion and beauty, real estate, food and drink, interior design, health and wellness, education, and entertainment industries. As of September 2024, its notable customers included CM Media Group, DocuPost, Popsockets, Imgur, and Mediaclip.In June 2024, Picsart announced a partnership with&nbsp;<a href="https://ux-news.com/picsart-and-getty-image-develop-their-own-artificial-intelligence-model/">Getty Images</a> to develop a custom model that would allow users to create images leveraging AI for personal and commercial purposes.

Picsart

Barcelona-based Typeform is a no-code SaaS platform offering conversational forms, quizzes, surveys, and asynchronous video solutions to help companies engage with their customers. Typeform's core product is a web-based platform that enables users to build visually appealing and engaging forms. It offers over 3,000 free templates (as of September 2024), which include customer service requests, quizzes, polls, and order forms to improve customer engagement. The software is designed to display questions one at a time, mimicking a natural conversation flow. Typeform also offers a range of customization options, including various question types, design themes, and logic flows to create personalized user experiences, letting users showcase their brands via the platform’s customizable digital canvas and content tools.The firm also offers&nbsp;<a href="https://www.videoask.com/product">VideoAsk,</a> a tool that enables users to create interactive video-based forms. Users can choose from up to nine answer types (which include net promoter score, appointment scheduling, and payment collection) to create custom experiences as well as AI chatbots that can provide contextual responses to queries.&nbsp;In January 2024, the company launched&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/typeform-launches-formless-the-ai-powered-form-builder-that-simulates-real-conversations-302037962.html">“Formless,”&nbsp;</a>a form-building tool that leverages generative AI technology from OpenAI. The tool enables users to collect structured data through two-way conversations with forms that ask and respond to questions. As of February 2024, the tool supported responses in over 120 languages.&nbsp;As of September 2024, the platform provided 300+ integrations with third-party platforms such as Slack, HubSpot, and Zapier and enables users to import, analyze, and process their data across tools like Google Forms, Office 365, Excel Online, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager.&nbsp;Key customers and partnerships<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/typeform-launches-formless-the-ai-powered-form-builder-that-simulates-real-conversations-302037962.html">In January 2024,</a> Typeform reported 150,000 paying customers, including enterprise customers such as Intuit, Hermes, Hubspot, Apple, Uber, Nike, Airbnb, and Barry’s.&nbsp;In January 2024, Typeform launched an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.typeform.com/blog/news/typeform-launches-agency-partner-program/">Agency Partner Program</a> to collaborate with creative and digital agencies to expand its reach and provide enhanced services to clients. Its notable partners include HubSpot, Klaviyo, Mailchimp, and Zapier.

Typeform

Ceros is a no-code Saas experiential content creation platform that enables users to incorporate animations, interactions, and multimedia elements into their designs using presets and templates. The company’s product portfolio includes 1) Studio, which facilitates collaboration for real-time previews across devices, version control, and file management; 2) Editor, which creates and edits interactive content, allowing for real-time collaboration, text and media editing, and publishing; and 3) MarkUp, a platform for feedback.In January 2022, Ceros acquired<a href="https://aithority.com/video/ceros-acquires-online-visual-commenting-tool-oroson/"> Oroson,</a> an online visual feedback tool, to provide, review, and resolve comments directly on content. The new features from Oroson are available in MarkUp. Additionally, in October 2021, the company acquired<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ceros-announces-acquisition-of-design-to-code-platform-avocode-301403665.html"> Avocode,</a> a design-to-code platform to improve the integration of Avocode's Open Design API, streamline the process of bringing design files from one platform to another, and further its mission of removing coding from the creative process.&nbsp;Key customers and partnerships<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ceros-announces-alison-lange-engel-as-new-ceo-302145220.html">As of May 2024,</a> the company served over 900 enterprise clients including Colliers, Getty, McKesson, McKinsey, Pepsi, and Red Bull. Its platform is used in industries such as tech, healthcare, financial services, real estate, consulting, and entertainment.The company’s notable partners through its partnership program include Highspot, Showpad, Getty Images, Noun Project, Adobe Marketo Engage, HubSpot, and Adobe Analytics.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

Ceros

Assists content writers in creating digital written media including blogs, ebooks, magazines, and journals.

Platforms & tools that assist in creating image-based content such as illustrations, diagrams, infographics, photographs, GIFs  and other image-based media

Assists in creating a variety of digital media channels including podcasts, polls, quizzes, and surveys.

Platforms for discovering and purchasing digital content. These platforms typically offer a repository of digital content

Startups providing digital asset management (DAM) services for managing assets together with workflow management tools to collaborate among internal and external team members on content creation

Platforms that provide an all-in-one solution that covers the entire content creation process. Typically also provides consultancy services covering content strategy, design, and analytics.

Platforms & tools that assist in creating video-based content including animations, vlogs, tutorial videos, commericals and other video-based content

AI-based platforms that help create written, visual, or multimedia content, including blogs, marketing posts, social media, and creative writing, based on user inputs

For written and visual content creation AI/ML is a core part of the end result

NLP automates the creation of personalized written media content for different use cases

Uses generative AI to automate the creation of personalized content across multiple media formats

VidMob

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