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Affordit helps customers purchase popular products using affordable weekly payments.

Customers purchase popular items by submitting a down payment and making subsequent weekly payments. Purchases are made using a customer's debit card or checking account information tied to their regular bank account. Each week a payment is automatically withdrawn until the purchase period is over. There are no hidden fees or obligations. Affordit customers own their products completely.

Affordit was founded by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter. Wil has launched 6 Internet companies prior to Affordit, including Swapalease.com, the world's largest auto leasing marketplace, the Go BIG Network, the largest community of startup companies and investors, and Blue Diesel, one of the first interactive ad agencies, which he founded in 1994 and is now part of Inventive (VTIV).

Circle Street is a smart platform to drive in-store traffic for retailers. Based in Los Angeles, Circle Street's founders have spent the last 10 plus years working on technology and media solutions for merchants of all sizes. Circle Street was founded to provide merchants better tools to promote their business. Circle Street’s founders, executive team and technology leaders come from Apple, Yahoo!, Mediacom, Quantum Loyalty Systems, Ripple TV, Andersen Consulting, Global Crossing and AboveNet. They are committed to building a world-class product for world-class merchants of all sizes.

Docstoc is the premier online business for the best quality and widest selection of documents used to start, grow, and manage your professional life and small business. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents with the world, and serves as a vast repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded.

Docstoc also provides technology through various APIs and Widgets to help facilitate the sharing and promotion of documents across the web. The site has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media (http://docstoc.com/embed-documents)

Docstoc, Inc., was founded by Jason Nazar and Alon Shwartz. The company was selected in September of 2007 to debut its product at the prestigious TechCrunch40 Conference. The platform was subsequently launched to the public in October 2007.

Docstoc is a venture backed company (Rustic Canyon and CrossCut Ventures) and received funding from the co-founders/investors in MySpace, LowerMyBills, Mp3.com, PriceGrabber and Baidu. The company is located in Santa Monica, CA.

GraphEffect, a social marketing software company, enables companies to seamlessly integrate and manage their advertising and conversational marketing programs on a single platform.

Large brands orchestrating multiple marketing agencies can use GraphEffect’s collaboration tools to coordinate their efforts and measure bottom line impact. The company’s platform is designed to work with any current or future social media channel, with the first release focusing on Facebook.

Founded in 2010 by James Borow and Clark Landry, the company has offices in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago.

GumGum is the world’s largest in-image ad platform and a Quantcast Top 10 Platform, reaching 130 million unique visitors and serving billions of in-image ads per month.

GumGum was founded in 2007 as a service used by publishers to license photos. The company made a pivot in 2009 when the team realized website publishers were losing valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of an in-image ad network. This groundbreaking model gives publishers a completely new monetization stream and provides brands the opportunity to reach highly targeted mass audience

Today, hundreds of the Internet’s premier websites, including Time Warner Inc., Hearst Corporation, Internet Brands Inc. and Glam Network rely on GumGum to turn photographs into lucrative interactive experiences by overlaying text, banner or Flash ad units on top of the images. For advertisers, GumGum’s proprietary image recognition and targeting technology helps garner relevant engagement through highly targeted campaigns that yield 20 times the click-through rate than traditional ad platforms.

GumGum is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Michelle Phan has inspired countless girls around the world through her beauty video tutorials on YouTube. Every day, the question Michelle gets asked the most is: “What are the right products for me?”

With infinite beauty product combinations in the marketplace, choosing the best items for your needs can be a challenge! That was why Michelle created MyGlam. Michelle and her team of stylists have selected products they love, for you to try.

Each month, subscribers will receive a beautiful Glam Bag with deluxe samples and full-sized beauty products. Members can watch and play along with the stylists with the same products that they are using. All for only $10 a month.

Postcard on the Run is an easy-to-use mobile application that allows users to take a photograph from their mobile phone, personalize it with a message and their own signature, and send it as a physical postcard anywhere in the world. With POTR, users can instantly create high-quality custom postcards for friends and family using enhanced customization tools including built-in GPS location map stamps from users location, the ability to add scents to postcards and direct integration with users contacts through the new Postal Gopher technology exclusive to POTR. POTR is available as a free download for iOS and Android.

Pulpo Media is a leading Hispanic media and technology company that offer advertisers online media as well as a proprietary technology platform, to efficiently and individually engage Hispanics across the web. Pulpo is ranked by comScore Media Metrix as the No. 1 Spanish Primary and No. 2 Bilingual Hispanic online media provider in the U.S., and rated by Quantcast as the No.1 online media provider in Mexico.

The executive team and investor backers behind Pulpo Media combined have a proven record of building successful online media companies such as: AOL, Apple, Doubleclick, Facebook, Google, IAC/Ask, Lowermybills, Shopzilla, Turn, and Yahoo.

Headquartered in Berkeley, CA. with offices in Latin America, Pulpo Media is privately held. Learn more at www.pulpomedia.com.

Skuffle is a stealthish startup based in San Francisco, CA

ShoeDazzle is a Los Angeles-based online personalized styling and retail service that features reality shoes. Members pay a set monthly fee in exchange for a pair of shoes that are selected by Hollywood stylists.

StyleSaint is the place to Create, Curate and Collect the things you worship as Editor-in-Chief of your own Stylebooks. You've got a story to tell, say it in Style.

StyleSaint is a Venice, CA based fashion technology, media and commerce company.

Trazzler provides travel recommendations within reasonable driving distance, fostering investment in local economies and encouraging more frequent, shorter trips. As you explore Trazzler, your interaction with the site is fed into an algorithm that creates travel suggestions tailored to your Travel Personality and location. Writing contests are an important component of Trazzler’s community and content strategy.

The seed of Trazzler was created in the original Twitter offices by a former Odeo employee, Adam Rugel, along with travel writer John Vlahides (Lonely Planet, Conde Nast…), Biz Stone, and Adam Weller. The original site was 71miles.com In 2008, Trazzler was awarded an fbFund grant to develop a Facebook application. Today, co-founder Biz and Cheryl Rosner provide a steady stream of vision and support as board members, Megan Cytron heads Trazzler’s editorial team, and we recently closed a seed round of funding spearheaded by SV Angel and including AOL Co-Founder Steve Case, Founder Collective, CrossCut Ventures, AOL Ventures, Jack Dorsey, and Dave Morin.

Verve is the leader in local mobile advertising. We manage the largest local mobile ad network in the US, driven by our differentiated technology, that helps local media companies monetize their mobile inventory and enable advertisers to reach a valuable, premium audience where they work, live, play, and grow.

Our network consists of only the highest quality local media companies, including the mobile outlets of traditional local media providers as well as digital-only local and hyper-local publishers.

Verve- Monetizing Local Mobile Media.

Zadspace Inc., a Norwalk, Connecticut is a software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based platform that enables retailers to deliver targeted advertisements on 4x 6 color labels affixed to packages shipped to consumers.

Ze Frank Games is a social games company that is still in super secret stealth mode