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B2B | 280 North is a web application company based on their proprietary application framework, Cappuccino. Along with Objective-J, Cappuccino provides a complete toolkit to develop rich web applications. It's modeled after a p… | 11 | |||
We build communities through massively multiplayer mobile games | B2B | Proudly recognized as one of CANADA'S TOP SMALL & MEDIUM EMPLOYERS for 2018! Mission: We build communities. Surrounded by mountains and water in beautiful Vancouver, BC, we are smart people who like smart people. W… | 75 | ||
B2B | Public profile enrichment pending. | — | Patrick Swieskowski | ||
Consumer | Deluux aims to become distributed Facebook, or inverted Ning, by relocating the center of people's online identities to their websites, which exist outside of any one social network. The service will facilitate the distr… | 2 | |||
B2B | FathomDB offers databases as a service, taking care of many of the day-to-day tasks database administrators have to deal with and letting them focus on more complex issues. | — | |||
Enabling developers to build and run applications in the cloud. | B2B | Heroku, a Salesforce company and industry pioneer in platform as a service (PaaS), enables developers to build and run applications entirely in the cloud. Heroku provides companies from startups to Fortune 500 enterprise… | 300 | ||
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B2B | Joberator was formed to tackle head-on the growing challenges and connection-gap issues in the STEM employment and recruitment marketplace. Our goal is to help the right talent and right employers connect together throug… | 2 | |||
Consumer | Kirkland North is taking an infectious campus-wide game that it ran at Yale and Harvard last year and spreading it to other campuses around the country. The game, called Turf, pits sections of campuses against each othe… | 2 | |||
Pioneers of mobile social gaming. | Consumer | Live data powers everything we do—from our global, multiplayer mobile games to our mobile ad buying to our live data ecosystem, Satori. MZ is creating new futures for people, enterprises, cities, and countries. The possi… | 501 | ||
Consumer | MightyQuiz powers a collection of user generated quiz questions that can be answered and rated on-site or through a distributable widget. | 2 | |||
Online mixtape service (create and share mixtapes). Launched as part… | Consumer | Mixwit describes itself as a combination of Slide and iTunes. While it has more ambitious plans, it currently provides an easy way to make sharable mix tapes with songs found through MP3 search engines Seeqpod and Skream… | 2 | ||
Simple third-party app patching and deployment for Windows. | B2B | The BaseShield App Store is a distribution platform for Windows software. Users can download and install applications with one click, and each application runs in its own secure virtual space. It is an open platform w… | 2 | Patrick Swieskowski Sascha Kuzins | |
Edit and enhance online video. Acquired by Google in July 2008. | Consumer | Omnisio was founded in 2007 by Ryan Junee, Simon Ratner and Julian Frumar, and was subsquently acquired by YouTube in July 2008. Omnisio enabled users to annotate and share videos from any website, and enabled markup of … | — | ||
Take Back Control of your Time | B2B | RescueTime helps you set boundaries, protect focused work time, and achieve work/life balance by shedding light on how you spend your time, improving your focus, and helping you find more time for the things that matter … | 15 | ||
B2B | Snaptalent powers a distributed job advertisement network primarily meant for developer listings. Job ads submitted to Snaptalent are displayed on the service's participating websites. A unique feature about the network… | 2 | |||
Consumer | SocialBrowse is a Firefox extension for sharing links. It has been described as "a Twitter for links". | 2 | |||
social micropayments | Fintech | Tipjoy was a simple, social payments engine that allowed merchants to sell digital content and features, charities to raise money for causes, and individuals to give money to one another. Tipjoy was a Winter '08 Y Com… | 2 | ||
Better PhoneGap. | B2B | Trigger makes the $15Bn mobile application market accessible by web developers. It's the simplest way to build amazing mobile apps using the best of HTML5 and native. Trigger has raised $1.8M in seed funding from top Si… | 11 | ||
B2B | Wundrbar wants to improve upon the search bar experience by providing users with powerful inline commands. The idea is reminiscent of YubNub but Wundrbar strives to appeal to a larger audience and to incorporate function… | 2 | |||
Consumer | YumDots wants to be the go-to mobile application for finding places to eat when out on the town. Its emphasis on using interactive maps to display information about local restaurants makes it more efficient than other mo… | 2 | — |