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Giving creators the power of content monetization and audience engagement.

Creator Economy

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 Community offers a message-based service where celebrities, influencers, and musicians can directly engage with their fans via text messages, photos, videos, and voice messages. Initially launched as Shimmur in 2017, the business had raised roughly USD 7 million during 2015-2017. However, it did not succeed, leading to the relaunch of Shimmur as Community in 2018, with the support of Hollywood talent manager Guy Oseary and famous actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher. 
 
 
 Community was launched in July 2019 and has multiple celebrities, politicians, and artists (&ldquo;community leaders&rdquo;), such as Jennifer Lopez, Barack Obama, Kerry Washington, the Jonas Brothers, and Jake Paul using the platform to communicate with fans privately. Community leaders will be given a phone number which they can use to communicate directly to one or many fans based in North America without advertisements or algorithms. The platform&rsquo;s pricing is based on audience size, where community leaders pay a monthly fee ranging from less than USD 100 to several thousand. Community leaders can monetize by using the platform to sell merchandise bundles, rally the fanbase, and leverage the direct communication tool to promote shows and projects.
 
 
 By January 2020, the company had amassed around 500 community leaders, of which 25% were prominent celebrities with large audiences, and the rest were creators, athletes, authors, entertainers, and public figures, with over 200 million Community texts sent. As of August 2020, the company claims that the number of community leaders has increased to 2,000, exchanging 2 million texts daily (celebrity and fans collectively), and as of September 2020, it has almost 20 million members on its platform. However, in 
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 In its last funding round (April 2021), the company raised USD 40 million from Salesforce Ventures. 
 
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 UK-based Komi is a link-in-bio platform that provides a central hub (a unique Komi domain) for content creators, musicians, athletes, celebrities, and other creative talent to promote their projects such as podcast episodes, YouTube videos, and music albums. The platform also contains back-end tools, which allow for creators' products sold on Shopify to be linked directly to the platform, alongside tools for the data collection on total views, earnings, and average click-through rates. As of January 2023, the platform was invite-only, and it had planned to launch to the public within 2023.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Several celebrities including musicians Elton John, Usher, and Meghan Trainor; actors Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey; and model Taylor Hill use the platform.&nbsp;
 
 
 The startup partnered with platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Snapchat, Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Twitch, and Shopify, enabling users to integrate all their content and products. As of January 2023, the company mentioned that it has connected over a billion followers to creators on the platform.
 
 
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 In July 2023, the company raised 
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Technologies that automate and optimize building operations using data-driven insights.

Smart Building Technology

Blink Identity is a company that provides a privacy-focused facial recognition technology for access control and identification purposes. Their system utilizes proprietary biometric facial recognition software combined with specialized hardware to accurately identify individuals at full walking speed, even in varying lighting conditions. The technology does not store photographs; instead, it converts facial images into unique encrypted templates for comparison against enrolled templates securely stored in an encrypted database.
Blink Identity offers a "VIP Lane" service at venues, allowing streamlined entry for guests who have enrolled by providing their name, email address, and a forward-facing photograph taken with their cellphone camera. This photograph is converted into a template and associated with the user's ticket or event details. At the venue, high-speed machine vision cameras capture images of attendees, convert them into templates, and match them against the enrolled templates, facilitating expedited access while preventing fraud.
The company prioritizes data security and privacy, adhering to strict policies and procedures. In April 2022, Blink Identity successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) two Type one audit, demonstrating its commitment to maintaining robust security controls for data processing and handling.

Harnessing the power of social influence to fuel online sales

Social Commerce

NTWRK is a curated live video shopping platform that offers exclusive access to limited-edition products across various categories like sneakers, streetwear, collectibles, and more. It revolutionized the ecommerce industry by combining live streaming with online shopping, creating an engaging and interactive experience for consumers.
NTWRK's platform allows customers to watch live streams hosted by influencers, celebrities, or brand representatives who showcase and discuss the featured products. During these events, viewers can interact through live chat, ask questions, and make purchases seamlessly without leaving the video stream. This innovative approach provides transparency, fosters a sense of community, and creates a sense of urgency and exclusivity around the products on offer.
Since its inception in 2018, NTWRK has partnered with renowned artists, brands, and personalities such as Post Malone, Lewis Hamilton, BLACKPINK, and Takashi Murakami, offering their fans unprecedented access to exclusive collaborations and limited releases. The company has been at the forefront of the live stream shopping industry, which is estimated to reach USD 68 billion in sales by 2026 in the US alone.
In February 2024, NTWRK acquired the popular youth culture media company Complex, marking a significant step in its evolution. By merging Complex's content and reach with NTWRK's ecommerce platform, the combined entity aims to create a comprehensive digital hub for "superfan" culture, encompassing commerce, digital media, and music.
Key customers and partnerships
Through its strategic partnership with Universal Music Group (UMG), NTWRK gained access to industry-leading music labels like Interscope Geffen A&M (IGA) and Capitol Music Group. This collaboration allows NTWRK to deliver exclusive collaborations and cultural experiences directly to passionate music fans, deepening the connection between artists and their audiences.
Notable partnerships include exclusive collaborations with BLACKPINK x Murakami and the Interscope 30th Anniversary vinyl collection, featuring dialogues between visual artists like Damien Hirst, Kehinde Wiley, and Ed Ruscha, and iconic Interscope artists from the past three decades.

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Liquid Death is the first bold, hilarious beverage focused on health and sustainability, and it is one of the fastest-growing non-alcoholic beverage brands of all time. They take the healthiest beverage available (water) and package it in infinitely recyclable tallboy cans that can compete with the fun marketing of unhealthy brands in energy drinks, beer, and junk food. In addition, Liquid Death donates 10% of its profits from each can sold to nonprofits that work to eliminate plastic pollution and provide clean drinking water to those in need.

Komi is a personalized website page builder tool that connects influencers and celebrities. It provides a central hub or ''home on the internet'' for content creators, musicians, athletes, celebrities, and other creative talent and personalities to customize a landing page that promotes their latest podcast episode, YouTube video, music album, merch drops, tour dates, meet-and-greet opportunities, social media accounts, and so on. A Komi-powered landing page enables creators of all levels to natively consolidate all of their offerings into a beautiful, fully-personalized hub.

R e m beauty is established to provide the resources which need to bring most vivid, unlimited, and creative aspirations to reality.

Turn is a reusable cup system for events and businesses. TURN (formerly Globelet)- We gamify recycling and reuse. They are the partners of Nestle, AbInBev, WM, and more. Turn's capture-and-reuse technology started in Australia and New Zealand in 2012, becoming one of the world's first reuse providers. Turn eliminates single-use plastic cups at large-scale events across Australia, US, and Europe. The TURN system includes reusable products such as cups, reverse vending bins that collect all products post-consumer use through a customizable incentive system, and fully autonomous and mobile washing systems engineered specifically to wash, rinse, and sanitize reusable products on-site or in close proximity. As you can imagine, there is a huge customer acquisition data play available here, as the TURN system encompasses both software and hardware offerings.  Returnable is the new reusable.

Community is a new social engagement platform that makes two-way communication between influencers and their followers simple, effective, and scalable. It connects businesses, brands, governmental and public personalities, creators, singers, celebrities, and others to their consumers at scale via a unique 10-digit phone number.

Kingdom of Mind is an event project management organization that specializes in producing experiences. It also specializes in the production of impactful music and arts events. Unafraid to do things differently, they apply a project management approach to bring audiences closer to themselves.

NTWRK is the definitive Video Commerce platform developed specifically for Gen Z and Millennials. NTWRK's innovative model of daily exclusive product drops, live videos, celebrity talent, native purchases and social distribution creates a high energy and wide-reaching experience for brands and users. NTWRK was launched in October 2018. Since launch, the platform has experienced meteoric growth and has received investments from some of the most successful entrepreneurs, brands and influential entertainers in the world including Live Nation, Foot Locker and Main Street Advisors, whose investors include Jimmy Iovine and LeBron James.

Octi is the world’s first augmented reality social platform where reality merges with the metaverse and empowers anyone to create vibrant content with digital objects and scenes, rewarding creators with virtual and physical goods from leading brands. Octi’s independent Los Angeles-based team builds and combines the latest in machine learning, computer vision, and AR technologies to deliver the killer applications of the future.

Blink Identity uses advanced identity technology to build next generation access control. Our technology identifies people at a full walking speed and we provide live entertainment venues with advanced tools to manage their space while giving fans faster and easier entrance to an event. Who likes standing in line? Nobody.

YellowHeart the pioneer of Web3 ticketing. With a full suite of apps, YellowHeart's technology is best in class.

Everfest lets you buy tickets and earn rewards at any festival. Fans buy tickets to earn reward points they can redeem for free tickets and upgrades at that festival, future occurrences or entirely different festivals. Premium members earn points faster and get sweet bonus rewards. It's the world's first cross-festival rewards program. This aggregated rewards model is common in many industries – think Hotels.com, Kayak, Fandango – but we are uniquely positioned to bring it to festivals. The technology we are building is extendible beyond festivals to any form of live event. We also build tools for the full festival ecosystem. In addition to giving festival organizers another channel for ticket sales, we connect vendors, artists, sponsors and volunteers to make every piece of the festival market network hum. Founded in 2014, Everfest is based in Austin, TX, and is backed by investment from Live Nation and ATX Seed Ventures.

Blockparty is a fast-growing hospitality and entertainment business that partners with sports and music properties to develop pop-up fan communities inside and outside venues. By combining strategic partnerships with temporary infrastructure, mobile technology, and an obsession with customer service the Blockparty team has created the ultimate street-to-seat experience for fans nationwide. Founded in 2014, Blockparty is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Within is the premier destination for innovative, entertaining, and informative story-based virtual reality and augmented reality. We bring together the best immersive experiences from the world's finest VR/AR creators—from gripping tales set in worlds of pure imagination to documentaries taking you further inside the news than ever before.  Within supports all major headsets, including Oculus Quest, Rift, HTC Vive, Sony PlayStation VR, and Samsung Gear VR. To get started experiencing our ever-growing roster of content, just download our app for iPhone or Android today.

Bkstg was founded by tech and music entrepreneurs to reinvent the way artists and fans connect by creating a new form of direct relationship that’s never existed before.

Doppler Labs was founded in 2013 with the mission to make computing more immersive and human. Here Active Listening,  Doppler Lab’s first digital product, was named TIME magazine’s Best Invention of 2015. In February 2017, Doppler Labs released Here One, the evolution of Here Active Listening and the first 3-in-1 wireless smart headphone, delivering premium sound quality, Smart Noise Cancellation, and Speech Enhancement

Lockerz has rebranded its corporate name to Ador - Based in Seattle, Ador is the leader in rewarded social expression, striving to revolutionize the way the world discovers and consumes products and content. With a membership community of millions in 195 countries, Ador rewards its members with PTZ® (points) for engagement and following, including collecting, sharing, shopping, and influencing their friends. Members use PTZ to drive down the prices of fashion, beauty, home decor, electronics, and entertainment in the Ador Store. Ador was founded by former technology and retail executive Kathy Savitt and is backed by Liberty Media Corporation, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, and Live Nation Entertainment.

Team Market Group is in the hospitality industry. Their collective, consisting of award-winning restaurants, bars, and entertainment venues, develops, designs, and curates each brand in-house. They manage the listed companies' management as well as their marketing and advertising in order to establish credibility within the brand in the market.

Live Nation Entertainment is a producer, promoter, and seller of live concert tickets for artists and fans.

<div> Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: LYV) is the world's leading live entertainment company. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, Live Nation was formed in 2010 through the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. The company operates through three main segments: Concerts, Ticketing, and Sponsorship &amp; Advertising. Its Concerts division promotes live music events, operates entertainment venues, and manages music artists. Ticketmaster, its ticketing platform, provides ticket sales and distribution services. The Sponsorship &amp; Advertising segment connects brands with the company's live event audiences. In 2023, Live Nation reported record results, with revenue increasing 36% to USD 22.7 billion and operating income rising 46% to USD 1.07 billion compared to 2022. The company hosted over 145 million fans across more than 50,000 events globally. Live Nation invested over USD 13 billion in artists in 2023, making it the largest financial supporter of musicians in the industry. Live Nation continues to expand its global presence, with a growing focus on international markets. In 2023, 50% more international acts were represented in the company's top 50 tours compared to five years ago. The company is also investing in its venue portfolio, with plans to open new large theaters and international arenas. For 2024, Live Nation expects continued growth across its businesses. As of mid-February, ticket sales for Live Nation concerts were up 6% year-over-year, with 57 million tickets sold for shows in 2024. The company anticipates double-digit operating income and adjusted operating income growth in 2024, with profitability expected to compound by double-digits over the next several years. </div>

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Marketplaces and related solutions for selling goods and services online

Ecommerce Platforms

C2C and B2C ecommerce platforms that enable users to sell a range of goods and services via their online marketplace (e.g., eBay, Amazon).

B2B ecommerce platforms that enable businesses to sell a range of goods and services aimed mainly at other businesses. These companies mostly provide wholesale/bulk purchases (e.g., DHgate, Lightinthebox).

B2C ecommerce platforms that enable businesses to sell specialized product categories (including electronics, fast fashion, or books) via their online marketplace (e.g., Trendyol, Asos, Bookshop).

Ecommerce solutions providers that offer software for customizable ecommerce and other websites or specific modules embedded in websites such as digital experience intelligence and ecommerce management support (e.g., Shopify, CommerceIQ).

Companies that buy and grow ecommerce brands on ecommerce marketplaces (e.g., Thrasio, OpenStore, Moonshot Brands).

Companies that use GenAI as a core part of their product offering for ecommerce platforms

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