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2012
Bring your creative projects to life. Buy ready-to-use design content from independent creators around the world.
Investor
2012
StraighterLine is the leading provider of high-quality, affordable, online courses that help learners earn college credit and meet their professional goals. Each year, 150,000 learners take one of StraighterLine’s 215 courses to upskill into new careers or earn credit from over 2,000 colleges and universities worldwide. StraighterLine works with institutions and corporate partners to provide their students and employees with flexible education options that allow them to work and learn at their own pace. Visit https://www.straighterline.com for more information.
Our History
StraighterLine was founded by Burck Smith in 2008 to provide a high-quality, low-cost alternative to the rising cost of college and to help save students a significant amount of money on the cost of their degree. Today 2,000+ colleges and universities have accepted StraighterLine courses for credit.
Our mission: Advance education by empowering learners to reach their college and career goals.
WHY STRAIGHTERLINE?
• Flexible College Courses and Credits: StraighterLine offers online, asynchronous general education courses that learners can complete on their schedule.
• Wraparound Student Support: A StraighterLine membership includes free eTextbooks, 24/7 tutoring, test proctoring, student support, and an online writing center.
• Academic Excellence: All StraighterLine courses go through an intensive quality review process by the American Council on Education (ACE) and are recommended for ACE CREDIT transfer.
• Credentials for In-Demand Careers: The ChildCare Education Institute, A StraighterLine Company, has helped hundreds of thousands of childcare professionals reach professional development and certificate goals.
• Workforce Readiness: StraighterLine works directly with corporate clients and as part of the EdAssist by BrightHorizons education network to meet workforce training needs.
Investor
2012
Launched in 2011, Estimize is an open financial estimates platform designed to collect forward looking financial estimates from independent, buy-side, and sell-side analysts, along with those of private investors and academics.
By sourcing estimates from a diverse community of individuals, Estimize provides a more accurate, more timely, and more representative view of expectations compared to sell side only data sets which suffer from several severe biases.
Currently, 100,000+ analysts contribute to Estimize, resulting in coverage on over 2,200 stocks and 80 economic indicators each quarter. The Estimize consensus has proven more accurate than comparable sell side data sets over 70% of the time and by 15% on average.
Contributors to the Estimize platform receive free access to view our data in return for their honest pseudonymous contributions. Estimize manages the honesty and quality of contributions via several machine learning algos and behavioral models, along with a human layer of review (human brains are still useful!). Estimize scores and ranks analysts, providing them with an easy way to store, benchmark, and measure their own accuracy.
Estimize represents the market’s true consensus, with our data regularly referenced in notable financial media sources such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Street, Forbes, Barron’s, Investors Business Daily and Business Week, amongst others.
Our clients include institutional managers running fully systematic quantitative strategies, fundamental managers running quantamental, long/short, and long only strategies, as well as macro investors and vol traders. Our data sets and factor models can be purchased via our real time API/FTP, or our front end platform which includes advanced analytics, screening tools, and emails.
In 2021, Estimize merged with alternative data provider ExtractAlpha.
Investor
2011
Jeeng is bringing the power of AI and data intelligence to digital publishers with our proprietary solutions for driving audience engagement and revenue. Our dynamic team of automation and data experts is delivering transformative data-driven engagement strategies to the fast-changing publishing industry.
Our unique content personalization solution is the only one of its kind that leverages first-party, opt-in data to help publishers build loyal, engaged, 1:1 subscriber relationships. With our platform, publishers can end their reliance on the walled gardens of search and social media and move beyond cookies to more accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.
Named a Fast Growth Icon, an Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Company, a Crain’s Fast 50 and Red Herring 100 Winner, Jeeng fuels the multichannel messaging strategy for over 700 publishers, including The Atlantic, Crain’s Harper Collins, and Vox Media. With a proven track record for growth, we’ve seen a solid 165% CAGR over the last 5 years, and we invest heavily in R&D with over 50% of our global team working directly in technology development.
Investor
2011
ownerIQ is the @InmarInc Data and Media Plaform focused on leading the data market’s evolution towards transparency, relevancy and choice. ownerIQ brings the most valuable consumer data to market– explicit shopping and purchasing data from retailers and brands– to power a new data economy: The Second-Party Data marketplace. Second-party data is sourced transparently from the marketing partners a brand is already working with, or brands that share data with non-competitive brands in exchange for compensation. This new market provides better quality data inputs to power all marketing tactics, and enabling fundamentally new marketing tactics, such as enabling a brand’s retail partners to leverage the brand’s data to support sell-through. Voted Best Data Management Platform by Digiday, ownerIQ directly ingests data on consumer engagement with a brand’s website, e-commerce transactions, off-line transactions and CRM data and enables that data to be shared with marketing partners within platform according to the brand’s preferences regarding security and usage. Over 1,500 partners are active in ownerIQ’s second-party platform and 700 of these partners share their data with other brands. Additionally, over a thousand of these partners are buyers of second-party data using it to activate media and drive marketing outcomes. In 2017 ownerIQ was named to the the Inc. 5000, received Digiday’s Signal Award for Best Data Management Platform and was recognized by The Boston Business Journal as one of the 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies. ownerIQ was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA and has offices in NYC, Chicago and Seattle.
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2012
Investor
2012
Bring your creative projects to life. Buy ready-to-use design content from independent creators around the world.
Investor
2012
StraighterLine is the leading provider of high-quality, affordable, online courses that help learners earn college credit and meet their professional goals. Each year, 150,000 learners take one of StraighterLine’s 215 courses to upskill into new careers or earn credit from over 2,000 colleges and universities worldwide. StraighterLine works with institutions and corporate partners to provide their students and employees with flexible education options that allow them to work and learn at their own pace. Visit https://www.straighterline.com for more information.
Our History
StraighterLine was founded by Burck Smith in 2008 to provide a high-quality, low-cost alternative to the rising cost of college and to help save students a significant amount of money on the cost of their degree. Today 2,000+ colleges and universities have accepted StraighterLine courses for credit.
Our mission: Advance education by empowering learners to reach their college and career goals.
WHY STRAIGHTERLINE?
• Flexible College Courses and Credits: StraighterLine offers online, asynchronous general education courses that learners can complete on their schedule.
• Wraparound Student Support: A StraighterLine membership includes free eTextbooks, 24/7 tutoring, test proctoring, student support, and an online writing center.
• Academic Excellence: All StraighterLine courses go through an intensive quality review process by the American Council on Education (ACE) and are recommended for ACE CREDIT transfer.
• Credentials for In-Demand Careers: The ChildCare Education Institute, A StraighterLine Company, has helped hundreds of thousands of childcare professionals reach professional development and certificate goals.
• Workforce Readiness: StraighterLine works directly with corporate clients and as part of the EdAssist by BrightHorizons education network to meet workforce training needs.
Investor
2012
Launched in 2011, Estimize is an open financial estimates platform designed to collect forward looking financial estimates from independent, buy-side, and sell-side analysts, along with those of private investors and academics.
By sourcing estimates from a diverse community of individuals, Estimize provides a more accurate, more timely, and more representative view of expectations compared to sell side only data sets which suffer from several severe biases.
Currently, 100,000+ analysts contribute to Estimize, resulting in coverage on over 2,200 stocks and 80 economic indicators each quarter. The Estimize consensus has proven more accurate than comparable sell side data sets over 70% of the time and by 15% on average.
Contributors to the Estimize platform receive free access to view our data in return for their honest pseudonymous contributions. Estimize manages the honesty and quality of contributions via several machine learning algos and behavioral models, along with a human layer of review (human brains are still useful!). Estimize scores and ranks analysts, providing them with an easy way to store, benchmark, and measure their own accuracy.
Estimize represents the market’s true consensus, with our data regularly referenced in notable financial media sources such as Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, The Street, Forbes, Barron’s, Investors Business Daily and Business Week, amongst others.
Our clients include institutional managers running fully systematic quantitative strategies, fundamental managers running quantamental, long/short, and long only strategies, as well as macro investors and vol traders. Our data sets and factor models can be purchased via our real time API/FTP, or our front end platform which includes advanced analytics, screening tools, and emails.
In 2021, Estimize merged with alternative data provider ExtractAlpha.
2011
Investor
2011
Jeeng is bringing the power of AI and data intelligence to digital publishers with our proprietary solutions for driving audience engagement and revenue. Our dynamic team of automation and data experts is delivering transformative data-driven engagement strategies to the fast-changing publishing industry.
Our unique content personalization solution is the only one of its kind that leverages first-party, opt-in data to help publishers build loyal, engaged, 1:1 subscriber relationships. With our platform, publishers can end their reliance on the walled gardens of search and social media and move beyond cookies to more accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.
Named a Fast Growth Icon, an Inc. 500 Fastest-Growing Company, a Crain’s Fast 50 and Red Herring 100 Winner, Jeeng fuels the multichannel messaging strategy for over 700 publishers, including The Atlantic, Crain’s Harper Collins, and Vox Media. With a proven track record for growth, we’ve seen a solid 165% CAGR over the last 5 years, and we invest heavily in R&D with over 50% of our global team working directly in technology development.
Investor
2011
ownerIQ is the @InmarInc Data and Media Plaform focused on leading the data market’s evolution towards transparency, relevancy and choice. ownerIQ brings the most valuable consumer data to market– explicit shopping and purchasing data from retailers and brands– to power a new data economy: The Second-Party Data marketplace. Second-party data is sourced transparently from the marketing partners a brand is already working with, or brands that share data with non-competitive brands in exchange for compensation. This new market provides better quality data inputs to power all marketing tactics, and enabling fundamentally new marketing tactics, such as enabling a brand’s retail partners to leverage the brand’s data to support sell-through. Voted Best Data Management Platform by Digiday, ownerIQ directly ingests data on consumer engagement with a brand’s website, e-commerce transactions, off-line transactions and CRM data and enables that data to be shared with marketing partners within platform according to the brand’s preferences regarding security and usage. Over 1,500 partners are active in ownerIQ’s second-party platform and 700 of these partners share their data with other brands. Additionally, over a thousand of these partners are buyers of second-party data using it to activate media and drive marketing outcomes. In 2017 ownerIQ was named to the the Inc. 5000, received Digiday’s Signal Award for Best Data Management Platform and was recognized by The Boston Business Journal as one of the 50 Fastest Growing Private Companies. ownerIQ was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Boston, MA and has offices in NYC, Chicago and Seattle.
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