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Atavist

Atavist software enables you to quickly and easily tell your story through digital apps, ebooks, and magazines. It seamlessly integrates multimedia across mobile devices and the Web. Atavist lets you publish anything, everywhere.

Captricity

Captricity is an award-winning cloud-based service that turns paper information into digital data more easily, quickly, and cheaply than existing alternatives. The company was founded in 2011 by Kuang Chen and Jeff J. Lin. For more information, please visit http://captricity.com/press-center.

Chute

Chute is dramatically lowering the cost of collecting visual media and converting it into usable information. 

Gui.de

Gui.de is a new engaging format for online news that gives all publishers, from bloggers to large news companies, the ability to offer their audiences a video experience

Own Local

Own Local sells digital media services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) in partnership with local news publishers, enabling publishers to leverage their local brand and provide a one-stop shop for SMB digital services and improving revenue for small and regional publishers in particular.

PolicyMic

PolicyMic is an online media network that redefines engagement with the news. On PolicyMic, the more you respond to articles, share your ideas, and accumulate credibility from others, the more you'll be able to do and say. PolicyMic has built a unique, dynamic, growing community with diverse political viewpoints that encourages ongoing discussion and engagement.

Public Stuff

PublicStuff is a New York City based startup that has created a mobile-friently SaaS system which lets citizens make real-time requests to their local governments for public services.

Signalnoi.se

To help newsrooms optimize editorial decision making by providing a dashboard that tracks stories through social networks and across competitor sites.

SnagFilms

SnagFilms is a company dedicated to ubiquitous distribution of non-fiction (documentary) and independent films. The company enables better, faster and cheaper distribution of this content, broadening the audience for the films and generating additional revenues for the filmmakers, who can then go on and create more films.

SnipSnap

SnipSnap is a mobile app that enables users to scan, share and redeem coupons with their mobile phones.

Submittable

Submittable enables publishers to collect, review and charge for submissions of text, video and pictures, providing better, more timely responses to audience generated content.

Umbel

Umbel is an audience measurement company that uses big data from social and other sources to dramatically increase digital publishers’ understanding of their audience and online advertising revenue. Umbel does this by correlating audience social information with web analytics and other data to create real insight into who the audience is, what they like and who might be interested in reaching them.

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