Our Portfolio Companies

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.

www.ajaxstreet.com

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

www.BlenderHouse.com

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.

www.bueda.com

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.

www.chogger.com

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.

www.cloudfab.com

Crono

The aim at Crono is to save people time.

Crono’s personal agent platform technology is developed by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, who have worked on projects with organizations such as DARPA, Boeing, Microsoft, and Sony. Crono’s technology is capable of learning user preferences, and is specifically focused on learning to act on behalf of users. Crono’s personal agent platform will enable multiple applications that automate complex interactions and tasks.

www.mycrono.com

Fooala

Fooala has created an open online ordering platform that enables restaurants to expand online presence and grow sales by accepting orders through various web-based and mobile channels. Fooala's platform includes an ordering engine that can be easily embedded in a restaurant's website, as part of an online food portal (www.collegebite.com) or as a widget on content sites or mobile devices.

GameHuddle
GameHuddle is a social gaming community that gives players an innovative way to connect with the gaming universe.

Gamers are increasingly frustrated by their inability to meet other players who fit their gamestyle, the difficulty in managing online teamplay, and the lack of relevant game reviews and news. GameHuddle provides a solution to these problems with a series of tools that help create a more personalized gaming experience for its users.

www.gamehuddle.com

InnomiNet

InnomiNet allows consumers and businesses to guard their privacy online and avoid restrictions on their Internet access. InnomiNet's first product is BitBlinder, which allows users to anonymously browse the web and transfer files using BitTorrent. By leveraging a unique architecture using a distributed network and micropayments, BitBlinder meets the need for privacy with an approach that offers a 20x reduction in cost compared to competitive technologies.

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.

www.itwixie.com

LeftRight Studios

LeftRight Studios is developing a branded gaming network consisting of entertaining mobile games and a tools platform that helps create branded games with unique marketing and promotional capabilities.

www.leftrightstudios.net

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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.

www.navprescience.com

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.

www.theresumator.com

Skill-Life
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.

www.skill-life.com

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.

www.vivolive.com

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.

www.zipano.com

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