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Knowre is an education technology company delivering personalized and engaging learning experiences to students around the globe. Its technology identifies individual student learning gaps and fills those gaps through algorithmically generated curricula and interactive, scaffolded support. Knowre further enhances learning by providing students with an engaging and fun learning environment, and teachers with actionable and comprehensive data. Knowre partners with schools, private education companies, and other corporations with the goal of helping students reach their full potential. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Catalog Spree is the personal digital mall that lets consumers browse catalogs and lookbooks, discover new brands and share products and trends. The award-winning iOS app brings the fun of window shopping to the iPad and iPhone, connecting consumers with the brands they love in a personalized, one-stop mobile shopping experience.   Catalog Spree’s visually engaging, full-page lookbooks allow consumers to quickly and easily flip through pages to browse and shop fashion and products on an iPad or iPhone (also available on the web). The app features more than 350 catalogs and lookbooks from top-tier brands including Fab, Forever 21, Macy’s, Nordstrom, Stella & Dot, Target, The Land of Nod, and TOMS Shoes.  Catalog Spree works with retailers to publish digital versions of print catalogs, create custom lookbooks with its all-digital publishing platform and distribute content to over 100 million targeted shoppers on the web through its partnership with Google.

Neuralitic Systems' helps mobile service operators understand the mobile data user behaviours that influence data service adoption, so that they can automatically uncover new trends and habits and dynamically leverage these emerging behaviours to ignite data revenue growth.

Anomalous Networks is the pioneer and leading provider of Real-Time Telecom Expense Managementâ„¢ software solutions that allow small to large businesses to better manage the cost and security risks of deploying carrier-based mobile technologies and eliminate â€œBill Shockâ€.  The company's Telicost, Telicost-Mobile and Telicost-Lite solutions support leading mobile device platforms such as BlackBerry, BlackBerry PlayBook, iPhone, iPad, Windows Mobile, Android, 3G Modems, M2M solutions from companies such as Sixnet and Sierra Wireless, and Embedded Devices such as laptops containing the Qualcomm GOBI chipset among others.  Anomalous Networks has recently been certified by AT&T and its Telicost solution is currently Bell Mobility's best-selling mobile solution. For more information, visit www.anomalousnetworks.com.

Viewdle (www.viewdle.com) is the only independent mobile-focused visual analysis company.  Viewdle enables the camera to inspire new social experiences and effortless communication.  Viewdle is creating new user experiences in mobile gaming, social networking, social media, advertising and marketing, with the introduction of computer vision and recognition technologies to consumer products. Its best-of-breed recognition technology has been developed by its global research and development team, which includes nine PhDs.  Available Viewdle products (http://viewdle.com/products/index.html):  - SocialCamera, a face recognition-based photo-socializing product for Android phones (http://viewdle.com/products/mobile/index.html) - ViewdleUploader, a  face recognition-based photo tagging product for Facebook on the desktop pc (http://viewdle.com/products/desktop/index.html) - ViewdleSDK, a face recognition SDK for augmented reality, video, and photo solutions across multiple device platforms

Aepona Ltd. provides application-led products and services to telecommunications operators worldwide. Its Universal Service Platform allows service creation and implementation to be carried out within the service network from underlying network resources. Aepona, Ltd. serves customers in Europe, North America, and South East Asia.   The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Belfast, United Kingdom. Aepona Ltd. is a former subsidiary of ApiON Ltd.

Transpera is a mobile technology company that provides a comprehensive platform for monetizing videos on mobile phones.    Transpera services online content owners, network operators and advertisers by providing their patent-pending advertising platform and bridging technology -- an all-in-one style solution for connecting the necessary pieces involved in successful and profitable mobile video deployments.    Transpera powers mobile video services for internet video brands including MTV Networks, Discovery Networks, Fox Reality Channel, the Travel Channel, CBS News, Associated Press, AccuWeather.com, Revision3, Next New Networks, Break.com, maniaTV, eBaumsworld and Zoovision among others.

Xobni (the word 'inbox' spelled backwards) makes your inbox and address book smarter.  First launching to the public in 2008, Xobni and its Smartr product suite, discover all the people you've ever emailed, called or texted, and creates complete and social profiles that are instantly searchable.  Profiles include a photo, job title, company details, email history as well as updates from your contacts on [LinkedIn](/organization/linkedin), [Facebook](/organization/facebook), and [Twitter](/organization/twitter). Products for Gmail, Android and iPhone are available under the Smartr brand, and Xobni is available for Outlook and [BlackBerry](/organization/blackberry).

SocialDeck was founded in 2008 with the vision of enabling ''anywhere, anytime, anyone'' gaming. The company has launched several titles for the iPhone, Facebook, and BlackBerry using its social gaming platform technology, which enables simultaneous game play across multiple mobile devices and social networks. SocialDeck's technology also facilitates viral content discovery, distribution and monetization.

Digital advertising is driven by two overwhelming trends: the strategic role of mobile and the critical role of programmatic technologies to drive efficiency and liquidity. Nexage is at the forefront of both of these macro trends, leading and shaping the premium mobile advertising market through a set of firsts. Nexage was the first-to-market with mobile RTB; mobile private exchange; an exchange-based data solution, Nexage Connect; and the most robust brand safety solution in the market, Nexage Protect. Nexage has translated first-to-market advantage, creating a range of programmatic markets that allow premium publishers and buyers to design and operate markets that best enable them to accelerate their business, whether that is through an open exchange, private exchanges, or programmatic guaranteed markets. Nexage’s data solution, Nexage Connect, creates a powerful and efficient data model to deliver behavioral, contextual, location, identifier, and privacy data to buyers and their agency clients to improve targeting and retargeting, while enhancing the value of publishers’ audience.   Nexage serves customers on a worldwide basis with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco and London. Come visit us at www.nexage.com or follow us on Twitter @Nexage.

WorldMate is a global leader in the field of itinerary management and mobile travel services. The WorldMate product and platform are the most sophisticated, comprehensive and widespread mobile travel itinerary management services worldwide.    WorldMate has over 10 millions of mobile users and manages millions of itineraries in over 20 languages worldwide. The WorldMate app provides users with a convenient and centralized location for managing all aspects of their travel plans. WorldMate's patent-pending technology, branded TripCatch, automatically identifies (catches) incoming travel-related emails and updates the traveler's itinerary and mobile calendar.    The WorldMate app is widely-accessible and can be downloaded on any iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows device. It has received numerous industry awards, including 2012 EyeforTravel's Winner of The Best Mobile Travel App  ,Android Market Editor's Choice award, 2011 Meffys Best Blockbuster App Winner, the 2010 NBTA/WSJ Business Travel Innovation Award, Engadget Best Apps (for both iPhone and Android), 2009 AlwaysOn Global 250 Winner, ANDREWSEYBOLD Most Innovative Consumer Application, among others.   WorldMate works with a wide range of partners, including device manufacturers and travel providers, and markets directly to consumers through a variety of channels and means of distribution. As a testament to our successful business model, WorldMate boasts customers such as travel industry giants American Express Business Travel, as well as Research in Motion (the manufacturer of BlackBerry devices).   WorldMate is a privately-held enterprise by the world's largest travel management company, Carson Wagonlit Travel. CWT is a global leader in the managed travel market, and services the travel needs of thousands of client companies.  WorldMate, Inc. was founded in 2000. It is headquartered in San Francisco and has an R&D center in Tel Aviv. WorldMate is a small company with the agile dynamics and environment of a start-up, while also being one of the largest direct to consumer Israeli companies. WorldMate is a strong, well-recognized and highly appreciated brand throughout the global mobile and travel industry. With a strong commitment to improvement, our goal is to make WorldMate even bigger and stronger, to reach more users and to make traveling a more effective and efficient experience.

BlackBerry Partners Fund is a $150 million venture capital fund focused on applications and services including mobile commerce (payments, advertising, retailing and banking), vertical and horizontal enterprise applications, communications, social networking, location-based applications and services (navigation and mapping), media and entertainment, and lifestyle and personal productivity applications for the BlackBerry® and other mobile platforms.

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