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Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other - in print, in person, and online. Created in 1952 by photographers and writers as "common ground for the advancement of photography," Aperture today is a multiplatform publisher and center for the photo community. From our base in New York, we produce, publish, and present a program of photography projects, locally and internationally.
Powerhouse Animation is a full service creative agency that produces work for a variety of industries including TV, film, video games, advertising, and corporate explainer videos.
Roku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and Roku TV™ models are available around the world through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with TV OEMs and service operators.
Chive Media Group is a multi-platform digital media and eCommerce company. The company’s flagship brand, theCHIVE, is home to the world’s funniest photo galleries and viral videos, reaching more than 20 million people each month and amassing over 5 billion content views annually. theCHIVE has built an incredible online/offline community through its focus on being a positive escape on the internet. The company’s eCommerce site, The Chivery, is a content-driven commerce site that has sold over 5 million t-shirts and apparel items since its launch in 2011. The company’s 501(c)3 Chive Charities has raised over $19M through flash-donation campaigns for orphaned causes. Most recently, theCHIVE teamed up with Project Venkman to revolutionize the world of NFTs and introduce solutions to the blockchain and how it interacts with eCommerce and community engagement. theCHIVE's first NFT project, the Bill Murray 1000, quickly topped the charts at Coinbase and became the "blueprint for all future celebrity NFTs" according to Forbes. We are here to entertain the masses and help people.
GigFinesse is a music tech start-up founded in New York City. In just three years, we’ve grown from DIY shows on NYC rooftops to managing venues in multiple metropolitan areas across the United States. Our mission is simple: to disrupt the live music industry by reinventing how venues and artists connect. Our AI-powered platform, combined with our hands-on talent-buying team, puts together shows that help our artists grow and our partnered venues thrive, night in and night out.
<p>Tugg is a web-platform that lets YOU bring the movies you want to your local theater.</p>
We started Double Dog as a way to prove out our smart contracts platform. And then we got addicted to the experience and the community that emerged behind the app. We envision Double Dog to become a totally new form of social interaction.
Technology and the media are interwoven, and just like industries before it, MediaTech is emerging to address the fast-moving pace of technology and the impact on the resulting media economy. Though giants like Facebook, Spotify, Netflix, and Epic Games, have led the way in media technology, the sector is still surprisingly underserved and media is still riddled with problems. Those seizing opportunities to invest and harness change in media technology, while matching consumer demands, will own the market evolution. Access a community of people who matter, gain education and resources to learn what works, leverage platforms and tech to help build, and promote how you're evolving media. Plug into the MediaTech community. Showcase how you've been evolving media, foster startup innovation through education and mentorship, and explore the future of media. Be the first to discover our community of startups and partners. Investment comes in many forms - be a mentor, discover our portfolio, learn trends and insights to invest in the future of media innovation.
WOS, Inc. provides content, commerce, and community for all things hunting, fishing, shooting, and outdoors. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Austin, Texas.
The Texas Tribune is the only member-supported, digital-first, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.
The world's first live events subscription marketplace across music, film, food & wine, theater, tech & innovation and more. Enjoy thousands of events locally and globally for one monthly fee.
Plot Guru is a mobile application that makes watching television more interactive. It allows viewers to compete with each other through real-time games and trivia while watching their favorite shows. Plot Guru is played alongside streaming TV – it syncs with the show being viewed, sending users game content relevant to what's happening on-screen.
<div><div><span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Simply Better TV™ helps consumers save money by providing a low-cost alternative to cable and satellite TV.</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><br style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">As a full-service "cord-cutting" installation service, Simply Better TV™ can install an easy to use system that delivers over-the-air, streaming, and on-demand movies and TV shows for a fraction of the cost of other services providers. </span><span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Simply Better TV™ customers have access to all of their local broadcast channels, streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, video-on-demand services for newly released movies, and even their favorite cable TV channels like ESPN, CNN, the Disney Channel and more - all in one box controlled with a single remote control. And, they can watch that content on virtually any screen including TVs, computers, tablets, and mobile devices.</span><br style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><br style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; widows: 2;">Give us a call today for a free quote, or visit our website to discover how you too can start enjoying a Simply Better TV™ experience.</span></div></div><div> </div>
ShowUp is a curated platform for independent film. It serves to increase visibility for filmmakers and foster investment in their work with audience UpVoting. The simplified video feed allows users to customize the types of content they watch, and enhances discoverability.
Zenger is the world's first digitally native wire service. It has more than 40 full-time editors spread across New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Mumbai, Vienna, and Nairobi. Zenger has more than 2,300 registered journalists reporting from 109 countries. Its customers include Forbes, Newsweek, and hundreds of newspapers, radio, and television stations across the United States. Zenger also has assembled the nation's largest network of African-American news outlets. Zenger News is a product of Z News Service, Inc., a Delaware corporation, domiciled in Austin, Texas.
MEET GRAFLR: WE'RE DEEPENING THE ARTIST-FAN CONNECTION GRAFLR is a simple smartphone app, that artists can use to digitally sign any fan or selfie photo, based on proximity to the artist during live appearances with the option to mint those images into royalty-sharing NFTs. Artists just set up a profile, open the app and then get on with the show. Fans choose to discover artists and when in proximity to an artist have the option to have their photos signed or, to pick up a digital collectible that has been shared by the artist. Fans can collect and then mint their images to NFTs, with royalty sharing built in between the fan and the artist, generating income for the artist for the lifetime of their signed assets.
Knowingly is an Austin-based Internet publishing startup.
Weeve solves many of the social and logistical barriers millennials face when coordinating in-person events, making it easier to maintain deeper face-to-face relationships. Using preference data and availability, Weeve finds the perfect event for you and your friends, wherever you are.
<p>TotalFratMove.com is the #1 comedy destination on the internet among college undergrads, according to the 2011 Youth Trends Lifestyle Report. It embodies the hilarious "frat" comedy that we at GRANDEX came to love back in college. TFM offers a satiric and often unabashedly blunt genre of comedy from the perspective of America's privileged youth.</p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Cheggin is a social app that brings friends together to share the excitement of watching sports in real time. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Live sporting events are the most watched television programs in the world and over 50% of sports fans who use social media to follow sports now do so during the game. Yet there's no social network dedicated to connecting friends while watching sports. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">We're working to create a better real-time social sports experience. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">With Cheggin you can remotely check-in to sports games and socialize with others who are also checked-in. Checking in alerts your friends that a game is going on and vice-versa. Our homescreen is an activity feed which helps you visualize who's watching what game and which ones are buzzing. Once checked in you can support your team, cheer, boo and banter, access game statistics and enjoy integrated gaming elements that add a new dimension of fun to being a fan. This makes for an easy and fun way to coordinate your social sports life.</span></p>
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