MetricStory

Based out of Seattle, we founded Metricstory in 2015 to allow eCommerce teams to spend more time doing what they love. We understand that the majority of eCommerce professionals began their careers in the industry to creatively solve challenging marketing problems, not spend their time mulling through data.

People Pattern

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">People Pattern has developed the first self-learning segmentation &amp; user classification technology that leverages insights from both open &amp; proprietary data to engage the right audience segment with the right message at the right time. People Pattern’s unique approach is built on a foundation of large-scale machine learning algorithms that correlate audience social media activity and off-line user profile data from sources such as customer loyalty programs. Through its innovative technology, the company is able to gain insights and a much deeper understanding of audience segmentation than was previously possible.&nbsp;</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;">People Pattern is a venture-backed corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas. In December 2013 People Pattern completed our Series A funding, led by Mohr Davidow Ventures.</span></p>

Cheggin

<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.&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;</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>

MerlinCryption

<p>MerlinCryption develops infrastructure security software, delivering advanced encryption, authentication, and random data generators, for Cloud, VoIP, eCommerce, M2M, and USB hardware. The company focuses in critical-need verticals, including financial services, healthcare, and military.&nbsp;<br><br>Forward-looking encryption technology secures data against the three known and critical risk factors, which are inherent in today’s encryption. Fortified with stealthy ASBE 2008 bit -2GB variable-key length cryptosystem, MerlinCryption solutions protect against current cyber threats, and position clients with their ‘next-generation security’ already in place.&nbsp;<br><br>The encryption defeats attack by cryptanalysis, incorporates passwords up to 64KB, and eliminates expensive PKI, which significantly decreases the cost and labor of key management.&nbsp;<br><br>Breakthrough embedded platforms and hardware protect the integrity of data-at-rest, data-in-motion, data-in-use, and data-in-change as it is created, viewed, edited, shared, stored, and moved across communications channels and in the Cloud.&nbsp;<br><br>The encryption is BIS approved for export, OFAC compliant, and enables clients with HIPAA and HITECH compliance.&nbsp;<br><br>MerlinCryption is headquartered in Austin, TX with east coast offices in New York City and Charleston, SC. The company is a Woman Owned Business.&nbsp;<br><br>MerlinCryption is changing the way the world protects data and secures connectivity</p>

Starmount

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Starmount software solutions bring the richness of the Web and the power of mobile into the store, where retailers can create more personalized, relevant and dynamic interactions with customers. From a multi-channel engagement platform to in-store mobile selling, our retail solutions transform the store environment to a more connected, engaging shopping experience.&nbsp;</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;">Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Starmount works with a diverse client base of leading retailers around the world.</span></p>

Taecho Group LLC

<p>Taecho group is a network of artists and communicators. We have a particular pride in building socially conscious projects.</p>

Audio Press

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.99993896484375px;">Audio Press is a better way to consume the news and content that matter most to you. While we normally spend hours sifting through headlines to find a few gems, Audio Press does the work for you by summarizing the important stories for you. Audio Press then sends you an audio file with all of your news read aloud by a professional voice actor.</span></p>

Tech Ranch

Founders matter and Tech Ranch is dedicated to moving entrepreneurs forward in the early stages of their startup. We encourage you to signup for a development program, learn from our blog and participate in events to help find your why. Starting and growing an idea into a business requires having the right people, information and tools.

Quality Thrives

<p>Started by two young entrepreneurs in Austin, Texas, Quality Thrives aims to provide an inside look at the passion, dedication, and motivation of everyday entrepreneurs by conducting 250 documentary-style interviews in various cities across the country.</p>

Gridmates

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;">Gridmates brings peer to peer energy sharing in the first cloud platform to eliminate energy poverty | Connect with energy.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;">We have a bright vision. Imagine a world where people everywhere could give a small portion of their available energy to others in need.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;">Gridmates was founded to expand on and execute this vision and create the world's first cloud platform that enables peer-to-peer energy sharing. Gridmates brings an energy cloud platform and ecosystem to eliminate energy poverty!&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;">Started from post doctorate scientific research on optimization and game theory, Gridmates Inc. is an innovator that offers Smart Grid 3.0 software and cloud services to utilities and non profit organizations.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.7272720336914px; line-height: 17px;">Utilities around the world can use Gridmates cloud platform a

FuelSignal

<p><a href="http://fuelsignal.com">FuelSignal</a> is a free app and loyalty program that offers members the most current and accurate fuel prices, exclusive discounts on fuel and purchases, and the ability to earn points for your next visit. Use the FuelSignal app to receive special in-store offers from your favorite convenience store and check your loyalty point balance directly from your app to start saving.&nbsp;</p><p>Our goal is to create a large and happy community of drivers to spread the fuel savings. We hope you will share your positive experience and spread the word to your friends and family. Please give us 5 star ratings if you love this app! "Like" our Facebook page and "Tweet" about FuelSignal.</p><p>FuelSignal was chosen as the&nbsp;<a href="https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2014/11/20/ford-announces-app-pursuit-hackathon-winner-at-2014-los-angeles-.html">Ford&nbsp;Connected Car-Connected City App Pursuit Challenge</a> winner at the LA Auto Show on November 20^th, 2014. Team FuelSignal leveraged Ford’s SYNC^®&nbsp;AppLink^™&nbsp;and data from the City of Los Angeles to create an innovative app allowing users to sign up and receive discounted gas prices and earn loyalty credits for use at gas stations<br><br>FuelSignal is currently in beta launch phase and only available in Austin, TX. FuelSignal is an&nbsp;<a href="http://ati.utexas.edu/" target="_blank">Austin Technology Incubator&nbsp;</a>startup, a wing of University of Texas.</p>

QuickLeaser

<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.5;margin-top:10pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">QuickLeaser is an online database for leases and subleases.&nbsp;</h1><p class="no-styles" dir="ltr">Our goal is to provide the most user-efficient, comprehensive database for finding homes, condos and apartments for rent, and connecting roommates. We hope QuickLeaser will be a tool for renters to research and price out their favorite properties, then visit the property with their preferred leasing agent or locator.</p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-089296d2-35b4-c2a6-73fd-35460eb9dd70"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">We want you to find the best rental for you. You know what you want and you know your price range, now with QuickLeaser you know your options. We want to empower our users with the ability to find the perfect lease for them every time. </span></span></p>

G-51 Capital Management

<p>G-51 Capital Management is&nbsp;a premier, early stage venture capital firm that specializes in creating high value for our portfolio companies and delivering top returns to our investors. We&nbsp;lead Series A investments with $250k to $1 million and we syndicate Series A up to $3 million per round. We often syndicate our Series B investments&nbsp; with large institutional venture capital firms to provide the capital companies need to meet revised milestones or to extend their operational runway.&nbsp;<br><br>G-51 provides the sound experience, deep knowledge, and funding support that entrepreneurs and large venture funds need to close the operational, technical and financial gaps that open during the early process of building long-term commercially viable businesses.&nbsp;&nbsp;Based in Austin, Texas,&nbsp;G-51 invests nationally in the software, hardware, internet and cleantech sectors.</p>

Innovate Wireless Health

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">IW Health develops and deploys a customized prescription adherence platform solutions for people with chronic illness. By increasing medication adherence, we drastically cut direct health care costs for employers and insurers, as well as increase revenue for retail pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies. We help improve patient healthy outcomes, within the chronic illness communities.</span></p>

WhatsBusy

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Time is the most valuable thing we own. Nobody lying on their deathbed wishes they had more money. Yet by the time we turn 70 we will have wasted three years of our lives waiting. Why do we waste so much time?&nbsp;</span></p><p><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 shouldn't have to. WhatsBusy was created to make each minute of our day count. Our consumer products enable consumers to discover when places will be busy. Our business products enable businesses to better manage supply and demand. We create the transparency so you can empower your decisions.</span></p>

Spreadster

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Spreadster is a mass video distribution service. We help brands and content owners achieve maximum audience reach by spreading their content to more than 50 video and social platforms in the world. Sign up at http://spreadster.com to find out what we can do for you.</span></p>

Appconomy

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Appconomy operates a global platform that increases app revenue, designed for brands, retailers, service providers, local merchants and mobile carriers. With powerful commerce and community services from its AppWallet™ technology, the Appconomy platform creates a simple way for CxOs and other business leaders to add AppCommerce functionality to apps, including: daily deals &amp; coupons, loyalty &amp; rewards programs, and&nbsp;</span><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;">social network &amp; private group sharing. The AppWallet™ is a cloud-based offering, initially focused on the US and China markets.&nbsp;</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 hire high capacity, high velocity, creative thinkers with an entrepreneurial mindset. If you're ready to help create the future, follow us on Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter. Or send us a hello at [email protected].</span></p>

Totus Solutions

<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);">TOTUS Solutions™ is the leading provider of Outdoor Lighting Based Security Platforms. TOTUS Security Platforms™ incorporate optimized LED lighting, megapixel IP surveillance, multi-day media storage, and secure wireless communications in a single solution. Our purpose-built security platforms are designed to transform passive surveillance into Active Deterrence™ to help prevent and deter crime instead of just recording it while it occurs.</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);">The company provides its security solutions to critical infrastructure, university campuses, military installations, and mass transit stations and bus stops. Its products are deployed along pedestrian walkways, streets, roadways, campuses, parking areas, and perimeters of critical infrastructure. The company serves federal, state, and local government agencies; and private institutions.</p>

Bigwig Games

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Bigwig Games. Big Business, Big Fun!</span></p>

Rêv Worldwide

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Our world is complex. Rêv’s dream is simple. We believe everyone in the world deserves the same access to trusted payment solutions that allow them to play a part in today’s mainstream economy.&nbsp;</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;">More than 2.5 billion people currently lack such access.&nbsp;</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;">That’s why we’ve built a global network designed specifically to innovate cutting-edge, end-to-end payment solutions that bring financial empowerment to underserved markets. Rêv’s processing platform allows us, and our partners, to achieve standardization and consistency worldwide while seamlessly adapting to local currencies, customs, languages and laws.&nbsp;</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;">Whether delivering mobile payment solutions in Latin America, prepaid cards in India or reload networks in Europe, Rêv meets the unique challenges of serving each country’s unbanked and under-banked populations with speed, relevance and integrity.&nbsp;</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;">Rêv is headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas and operates in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.</span></p>