Our Portfolio Companies

8020 Select

8020 Select is a curated marketplace for design.

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80 Degrees West Interior Design

80 Degrees West Interior Design, Inc. is creating an online design space which provides a new and better way for do-it-yourself consumers to collect design inspiration, organize their decorating projects and collaborate with professional interior designers.

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AJAX Street

AJAX Street has developed web-based document creation software called ExactBrand, which helps companies manage their brand message and reduce redundant design costs. The ExactBrand conversion engine automatically extracts brand assets from websites and provides them for use in print and online design. Using the ExactBrand software, brand colors, typography, images, and written content from a website can be repurposed without any further design costs. To small businesses, ExactBrand will be a virtual marketing department and to market departments, it will be a powerful tool for enforcing brand identity to increase customer awareness.

BlenderHouse
BlenderHouse creates targeted applications based on its social recommendation technology, which enables friends to exchange trusted recommendations and feedback during key life decisions.

Black Locus

Black Locus™ is a SAAS cloud-computing platform that gives small and medium online retailers a similar level of analytical sophistication as larger e-tailers currently have. For a small monthly fee, and with minimum effort, Black Locus™ will allow these online retailers to achieve significant growth by optimizing the three most important areas of their business: Pricing, Inventory Management, and Marketing.

Bueda

Bueda helps web publishers more effectively monetize their traffic by optimizing online ad placement in rich media and user-generated content via its innovative semantic matching engine. Leveraging research from Carnegie Mellon University, Bueda combines user-generated tags, existing ontologies, and semantic analysis in order to match the right advertisement to the right multi-media content. Bueda's proprietary semantic analysis platform accurately understands the relationship beween the tags found in user-generated content and those in advertisements.

CareerImp

Careerimp, Inc. is a career guidance technology company which offers Resunate, a software as a service that automatically generates job specific resumes by uploading a pre-existing resume or connecting with your LinkedIn profile.

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Chogger
Chogger is a web comic platform where users can easily view, create, and share web comics. The explosive growth in user-generated content across different media types presents an opportunity for Chogger to establish web comics as a new user-generated medium, just as YouTube did for videos or Blogger did for blogs. Despite the lack of a popular tool for creating and viewing comics, web comics have been on the rise in recent years.

CloudFab

CloudFab is an online platform that provides distributed manufacturing resources ("fabrication-as-a-service") for businesses who are creating mass customized goods across various product categories. The CloudFab system also contains tools to facilitate and enhance the quoting, ordering, and manufacturing processes.

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ComVibe
ComVibe helps property managers enhance their tenants’ rental experience with a suite of web and mobile tools aimed at increasing resident satisfaction and retention.

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Delirium

Delirium

Delirium is building Reverb, the easiest way to synchronize, share, and back-up your contact and address book information across multiple services, computers, and mobile devices.

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DeviceKnit
DeviceKnit is creating a consumer electronics content and community site focused on helping people discover new uses and connection options for their devices. Powered by its unique connection engine, DeviceKnit will unleash the hidden potential in these devices by solving the confusion caused by an increasing number of consumer electronics products and connection options.

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Devotee

Devotee provides retail businesses with a mobile loyalty program that provides their customers with more ways to earn rewards beyond traditional loyalty cards and turns them into evangelists through social media.

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GameHuddle
GameHuddle is an online, community-supplied video game rental marketplace driven by gamers passionate about playing and sharing video games. GameHuddle gives gamers a totally unique experience when renting video games online by providing a platform that allows them to earn profit from their existing video game collection, thus reducing the cost of renting to little or no money at all.

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GenevaMars

GenevaMars is creating fun and compelling interactive experiences for the iPad and other touch-computing devices that are aimed at accelerating a child's educational and developmental progress.

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iTwixie, Inc.

iTwixie is the ultimate online hangout for every tween girl. iTwixie is a challenge-drive site designed to engage today's savvier 8-14 year-old girl, allowing her to explore engaging topics and express herself through creative activities. Every article and challenge on iTwixie is purposefully designed to strengthen tween girls' character. iTwixie Insights, the research arm of iTwixie, will conduct constant analyses of user feedback and site activity to provide rich, user insights about the tween girl demographic to marketers and brand managers.

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Krowder
Krowder is a community-powered delivery platform that helps facilitate the delivery of local items.

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Levlr
Levlr is creating applications that motivate users to share more of what they are doing, beyond just their location. The Levlr platform enables rapid development of location-aware and other game mechanics into new and existing web, mobile, and desktop applications.

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MakerCraft
MakerCraft is developing a mobile app that allows people to easily design and purchase customized jewelry.

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MogiMe (formerly LeftRight Studios)

MogiMe is a mobile social network where users use their customized MogiMe avatars to meet new people, chat, socialize and play games.

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NavPrescience

NavPrescience is developing next-generation GPS applications that incorporate greater prediction and personalization capabilities. The company, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff, has developed patent-pending technologies utilizing advanced methods for learning drivers' routing preferences and predicting their destinations by observing their driving patterns. This technology enables navigation solutions that automatically adapt to each driver's navigation preferences and provide relevant information based on the predicted destinations.

NoWait
NoWait takes the frustration out of the seating process at no-reservation restaurants for both restaurants and guests by managing the waiting list via text messages. NoWait further creates the opportunity to serve mobile web content to waiting guests and automatically builds a text message marketing list for post visit engagements. The vision of NoWait is to be the OpenTable for the casual dining market by providing real-time seating availability information online for restaurants that don’t take reservations.

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Photo Synesi

PhotoSynesi is a premium online service delivering professional reviews and feedback to amateur photographers. Through individual and insightful critiques from expert photographers, it helps amateurs take better pictures and achieve their creative and technical goals – while offering the pros a new revenue stream.

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PHRQL
PHRQL (pronounced ‘freckle’) is a mobile platform that helps teenagers and young adults manage their diabetes with social networking, game mechanics and data analytics designed to engage users, improve quality of life, and reduce the cost of care.

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The Resumator

The Resumator takes the pain--and paper--out of hiring. The company's on-demand hiring platform helps employers save money on advertising jobs while dramatically increasing the speed at which they can collaboratively review submitted resumes. Employers benefit through vastly reduced job advertising costs; reduction and/or elimination of the time required to print, sort, and distribute resumes; and an easy-to-use platform for collaboration throughout the resume-review process.

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RhoMania

With its innovative decision-making platform Grail™, RhoMania seeks to give wine proprietors everywhere the opportunity to get the right wine in front of the right consumers exactly when and where the purchase decisions are being made.

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Shoefitr

Shoefitr helps online shoppers find the correct size and best fitting shoe, which reduces the high rate of returns and increases consumer confidence in shopping online. Shoefitr technology will be used on retailers’ websites to assist customers already shopping on their site and will be the basis for a comparative shopping site that allows customers to search and compare shoes by fit.

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Skill-Life (acquired by BancVue)

Skill-Life's game-based platform lets tweens earn rewards as they play cool games that teach life skills such as financial literacy, nutrition, and citizenship! The first application of the Skill-Life platform is CentsCity, an online world where youth learn financial skills ranging from balancing a checkbook to paying for college.

Tutor Technologies

Tutor Technologies delivers intelligent tutoring systems for computing education, bringing one-on-one instruction in 21st Century skills to everyone.

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VitalClip

VitalClip is creating an iPhone accessory that measures vital signs and adds context to deliver an instant and meaningful view of your well-being.

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Vivo

Vivo has developed an integrated live video marketing platform for businesses and organizations that want to use live video to enhance their online sales and marketing efforts. The platform includes a suite of integrated tools for broadcasting, marketing, and sales and allows businesses to control their branding and integrate e-commerce, advertising and other monetization tools.

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Wawadoo

Wawadoo is building a recommendation engine for events to help users answer the age-old question, “What do YOU want to do?”

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Zipano

Zipano is a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company that has developed a privacy layer that enables users of information sharing services (including social networking, location-based applications) to better control and manage with whom they share their personal information. Our unique platform offers the user better ways to express his privacy preferences and enables the user to monitor with whom his information is shared. This functionality has been shown to result in higher levels of user comfort and willingness to selectively share information as demonstrated by Locaccino.

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