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<p align="center"><strong>New App for College Students Launches at Texas Universities</strong></p><p align="center"><em>Austin-based technology company, EmBazaar, Inc., introduces Skoop </em></p><p align="center"> </p><p><strong>(Austin, Texas)Nov.3, 2014</strong>– EmBazaar, Inc., an Austin-based technology company, today introduced its inaugural app, Skoop, to Texas universities. <a href="http://www.grabskoop.com/">Skoop</a> is the only social network for college students that combinescampus-specific news and events and a student-only marketplace into a centralized platform that is specific to a given university. It is available for free in the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/embazaar-inc./id887512162?mt=8">iTunes App Store</a> and <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codebrew.embazaar&hl=en">Google Play for Android</a>.</p><p> </p><p>“We created Skoop to simplify college students’ social media experience,” said Neil Patwardhan, founder and chief executive officer of EmBazaar. <strong>“</strong>Now, there’s a single social network just for students that houses all the information they need and want to know about in one place.The app is filled with news, events and a marketplace, all relevant to a student’s specific university.”</p><p> </p><p>EmBazaar launched Skoop in a controlled beta state in mid July and in an extended beta state on Oct. 3. Following Oct. 3, EmBazaar partnered with its campus influencers, roles reserved for students who help spread the word about the app on their campuses, to host launch events at numerous Texas universities, including Texas State University, The University of Texas at Austin, St. Edward’s University, the University of Incarnate Word and Southwestern University. Other campuses using the app across the United States include University of South Carolina, Columbia; Winthrop University; and Tennessee State University.</p><p> </p><p>The app’s three key features include heartbeat, a social feed with student-only social posts and news; events, where students can view, create and RSVP to event postings of things happening on or off campus; and a streamlined marketplace for buying, selling and trading student essentials. While Skoop is available at college campuses all over the nation, its features and content remain specific to the students of a given university.</p><p> </p><p>This level of relevancy and exclusivity is supported by the app’s two-layer authentication process. In the first layer, students must register for the app with their “.edu” email address. In the second layer, students confirm registration by accessing a unique link sent to that email’s inbox.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, when students register for a Skoop account, they are not required to “friend” or follow individual users; rather, they are given access to content from all Skoop users at that university. One group that is benefitting from access to an expansive, university-specific audience is student organizations. </p><p> </p><p>“Skoop is useful to Students for Wema because it allows us to reach a broader base, attract more students to join our organization and spread the word on our cause,” said Madison Gove, UT student and president of Students for Wema, a service organization committed to raising funds for The Wema Children’s Centre in Africa. “I guarantee within five years, Skoop will be the next Facebook on college campuses.”</p><p> </p><p>Skoop has partnered with a number of student organizations like Students for Wema to help them raise awareness and funds for their various philanthropic causes.</p><p> </p><p><strong>About Skoop</strong></p><p> </p><p>Skoop for college students is a social-networking app for campus-specific news and events and a student-only marketplace. Its key features include heartbeat, a social feed with student-only social posts and news; events, where students can view and create event postings of things happening on- or off-campus; and a streamlined marketplace for buying, selling and trading student essentials.Skoop is the only social network that combines these features for college students into a centralized platform that is specific to a given university. To learn more about Skoop, visit <a href="http://www.grabskoop.com/">www.grabskoop.com</a>.</p><p> </p><p><strong>About EmBazaar, Inc.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Austin technology company, EmBazaar, builds micro social communities for large organizations. Responding to users’ hunger for personally relevant social media content, EmBazaar released its first product, Skoop, in 2014. Skoop for college students is a social-networking app for campus-specific news and events and a student-only marketplace. Following Skoop’s rollout across the United States, EmBazaar plans to create similar social communities on corporate campuses, helping large companies break down communication barriers and enhance employee loyalty.</p><p> </p><p>To meet the team behind EmBazaar, Inc., visit <a href="http://www.grabskoop.com/">www.grabskoop.com</a>. </p>
Hook Forms provides backend spam validation for Web forms. No more CAPTCHAS, complicated user experiences or spam submissions. Designed to work with any website, any platform and any style.
At Asha Labs we use Systems Thinking, strategy developed through data analysis and storytelling to help businesses (we've invested in) to grow. We provide operations support, process/financial templates, go-to-market strategy and implementation assistance. Our focus is on startups that focus on resource efficiency and/or empowerment.
<p>Real journalism for the Internet age </p>
We've engineered mobile and web technologies that work seamlessly together so online audiences can tell their own stories through video. Our mobile app is a video creation and video commenting tool that posts directly to our discussion platform online. Ask us about our current partnerships.
Peeple is a smart camera that attaches to existing peepholes and easily connects to home Wi-Fi to identify, inform, screen, and alert people to any outside presence.
<p>StoryPress is changing the world of storytelling by making it fun and easy to create, save, and share personal memories and stories. StoryPress focuses on the power of spoken word and the authenticity this brings to every story in a way unlike any other application. While telling your story, you are free to add pictures and videos along the way. The finished product is a visually stunning, media-rich story including your audio narration. StoryPress stories live on our cloud and can be listened to and enjoyed on any internet connection in the world.</p>
<p>SpeakerMatch has made the task of finding expert motivational speakers and other speaking talent so easy and so fast that you won't want to plan another event without us. Our free online system helps you easily manage all the responses you get.</p>
<p>Very succinctly: a tuple is a pairing. Our original UX and Engineering talent provided by co-founders Alec Eriksson and Andrew Templeton respectively are also a tuple. Furthermore, Tuple and our clients are each a pairing. Recursion!</p><p>At the heart of Tuple is the idea that Design and Engineering aren't so different. Both are racing towards perfect efficiency in the way they solve problems. Neither is complete with the other. In joining forces we united two halves to accomplish more than the individual sum of our parts otherwise could.</p><p>It's our goal to provide the single best resource to innovative companies; both funded start-ups and established players. In person you'll often hear us say "access over ownership" because it shouldn't be about how your talent fills out their taxes.</p>
Open Source Co-Working is a shared workspace for those in the tech industry. Nestled in the heart of downtown Austin, Open Source provides a beautiful, clean, and, most of all, comfortable place to build and collaborate. It was founded on the principle that the best creations with the most utility come from opening their development to the public.
ALTR is the only complete data control and protection solution that allows customers to know, control, and protect sensitive data, wherever it is, so they can maximize its value while minimizing the risks. ALTR simplifies and unifies data governance and security, allowing anyone the ability to confidently store, share, analyze, and use their data. Customers gain unparalleled visibility into data usage across their organization, intelligence to create advanced policies, automated data access control, and patented data security. With ALTR’s no-code cloud platform, customers can implement data control and protection in minutes instead of months. To learn more, please visit ALTR.com.
We provide a suite of mobile apps smart enough to help kids make wiser decisions on the fly – at school, at home or on their own - for effective real-time classroom behavior management and school safety. We solve complex issues for children’s social-emotional well-being with on-demand messaging that’s evidence-based, personalized & predictive.
MAKING HEALTHCARE WORK. Our work and service is based on honesty, integrity and the focus needed to make healthcare work for ordinary people. Founded in 1996 and based in Austin, Texas, The Karis Group is an award-winning healthcare professional services firm. We positively impact consumers’ experience with the healthcare system.
ICON’s 3D-printed, high-performance homes feature elevated architectural and energy-efficient designs that highlight the benefits of resiliency and sustainability with the digital possibilities of additive construction. Delivered at speed and at scale using a fleet of ICON’s Vulcan robotic construction systems, software and advanced materials, each home’s full wall system including interior and exterior walls are produced with less waste and with more design freedom.
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">ProfitFuel was acquired by Yodle in May, 2011. </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;">Yodle makes it easy for local business owners to get new customers. When you sign up for online marketing with Yodle, you set a budget you can afford, and we take care of all the details. And the best part is – you get calls and emails from potential customers. </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;">It’s really that simple. And that’s why we’re the #1 independent provider of online marketing services to local businesses in the U.S.</span></p>
<p>SnapPages allows you to create an entire website online with drag and drop simplicity. SnapPages places a lot of emphasis on not only making it easy to create a website, but also making websites that look great. There are several themes to choose from that users can customize to make their own. SnapPages also includes additional tools like a photo management system to organize and edit your photos as well as a calendering tool to make it easy to display all your upcoming events.</p><p>SnapPages takes online website creation to a whole new level. Now anyone can create and manage a professional quality website with drag-and-drop simplicity. Not only is it fun and easy, with SnapPages you'll end up with a great looking website that you can be proud of.</p><p> </p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Gowalla, a social travel guide for people on the go, is a fabulous way to share photos, places and highlights from your life with your friends. It’s also a delightful way to discover new places around you. As a company, we're a team of designers, engineers and enthusiasts who have inspired people to visit, photograph and shar over 2.5 million places around the world. </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;">Based in Austin, Texas, Gowalla was launched in 2009 by Josh Williams and Scott Raymond. The company is backed by investors like Greylock Partners, Alsop-Louie Partners and Founders Fund. They’re all decent folk you wouldn’t mind hanging out with.</span></p>
We are early stage lead investorsPrimarily first institutional capital – seed and series A investmentsOpportunistically lead compelling later stage financingsSeek to be the largest and most active investors in our portfolio companiesWe invest in exceptional entrepreneurial teams, not pre- determined sectors or business modelsWe are active, hands-on investors providing our companies with:Access to our proprietary pool of executive and technical talentCollaboration with partners with a track record of building successful companies resulting in both M&A or IPODeep network of relationships with top venture investors for follow-on financings
S3 Ventures is the largest venture capital firm focused on Texas. Backed by a philanthropic, multi-billion-dollar family for over a decade, we empower great entrepreneurs with the patient capital and true resources required to grow extraordinary, high-impact companies in Business Technology, Consumer Digital Experiences, and Healthcare Technology.
<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Forecast is a free mobile app that helps you connect with your real friends out in the real world. It’s social networking that’s actually social.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A check in tells your friends where you are now. A forecast tells your friends where you will be later. This simple change from present tense to future tense allows for many unique possibilities.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Forecasting enables:</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 20.99993896484375px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">* Serendipitous connections <br>* Analytics of intent <br>* Location & time based deals & ads</p>
