Companies selling directly to consumers: apps, games, media and news publishers, and consumer brands, as opposed to software sold to businesses.
Popular Consumer Apps products used by Consumer & Media
Developer of an instant messaging application intended to communicate easily. The company's cloud-based application includes group chatting, documents sharing, message encryption, cloud storage and message synchronization across iOS, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux among other platforms, enabling users to stay connected with friends and family without a hassle.
communication platform designed for gamers, but it has since expanded to other communities and users as well.
Hopper is a mobile app that leverages big data and machine learning to predict and analyze airfare
Founded in 2019, Glance is a consumer technology company that operates disruptive digital platforms including Glance, Roposo, and Nostra. Glance’s ’smart lock screen’ inspires consumers to make the most of every moment by surfacing relevant experiences without the need for unlocking their phones, downloading apps, or searching for content. Glance Lock Screen is currently available on over 450 million smartphones worldwide. Roposo is a LIVE platform that is revolutionizing live experiences, through a unique, immersive, creator-led approach. Nostra is the largest gaming platform in India and Southeast Asia, offering gamers engaging ways to discover, play, watch, learn and compete. Headquartered in Singapore, Glance is an unconsolidated subsidiary of InMobi Group and is funded by Jio Platforms, Google, and Mithril Capital. For more information visit: https://glance.com https://www.roposo.com https://www.inmobi.com
Cleo AI is a company specializing in the development of a financial services application. The primary function of this application is to provide users with detailed insights about their financial status and suggest personalized financial products, thereby aiding them in enhancing their savings. This innovative application harnesses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to offer these services.
digital library and subscription service
Popular Consumer Brands & Retail products used by Consumer & Media
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Quince is a curated online marketplace that sells high-quality fashion and home goods at radically low prices—direct from the factory floor. The company pioneered a manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) retail model in which factories produce inventory on demand and ship their goods directly to consumers' doorsteps, cutting out financial and environmental waste. Quince is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and partners with more than 100 top manufacturers around the world and has raised $142 MM in funding to date.
Powering the on-demand food economy. Kitopi is the world's leading state-of-the-art, managed cloud kitchen platform. Kitopi enables restaurants to open delivery only locations by providing the necessary infrastructure and software with minimal capital expenditures and time as well as taking care of the entire customer experience journey: receiving and processing orders, cooking, delivery operations and managing customer feedback.
Your custom order is one of a kind, and so are we. Nowhere else can you find the design resources, real people, and dependability that make Custom Ink special. We offer a better way to design and order custom t-shirts for your group, company or event. Whether it's one shirt or tens of thousands, Custom Ink's service is unmatched. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Northern Virginia, we are a dynamic and forward-thinking company. We strive to treat our customers, vendors, and co-workers as we would want to be treated and have a strong sense of innovation and individual responsibility. We've been named to Inc. Magazine's "Inc. 500" list of America's fastest-growing private companies and have also been recognized as a "Great Place to Work" by Washingtonian Magazine.
ZOE is a nutritional science start-up with a mission to empower people to make confident choices about their diet. The name ZOE means "life," reflecting our commitment to helping individuals live their lives to the fullest through a combination of scientific research, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Our diverse team addresses various challenges in product development, engineering, data analysis, logistics, and user interface/usability to enable customers to uncover their unique biological responses to food. We are a team of builders and lifelong learners, united by a shared passion for using our skills to make a positive impact. Since our establishment in 2017, we have expanded our team from 5 to 60 exceptional individuals. Our innovative products, insights, and guidance have been featured in numerous well-known media outlets, and we are just getting started. If you are interested in joining us, we are currently hiring and would be delighted to hear from you at https://joinzoe.com/careers.
Leverages ratings and reviews to improve brand products and develop a better understanding of demand
Popular News & Media products used by Consumer & Media
Atmosphere is the world's leading streaming TV service for businesses, offering original, audio-optional TV channels. There is a channel for every business and mood. Atmosphere's TV channels fill the void for businesses in a world dominated by linear cable TV suited for at-home viewing. No cable carrier has addressed the need for TV programming that doesn't require audio or the love of sports to be enjoyed. Atmosphere's founders recognized that TV for business was broken and they set out to fix it. Closed-captioned talking heads, news and reality TV on mute is no way to watch TV in businesses. So Atmosphere set off to conquer an entirely new class of TV programming: audio-optional streaming TV. Businesses can now run their own marketing promotions both within their venues and outside of them by utilizing Atmosphere Ads, and keep the content fresh with custom playlists! Atmosphere was incubated under Chive Media Group and spun out in 2019.
SmartNews is a news aggregation and discovery platform that uses machine learning algorithms to curate news articles from various sources. The company was founded in 2012 in Japan and has since expanded its operations to the United States. SmartNews aims to provide its users with a personalized and relevant news experience by analyzing user behavior and interests to deliver stories that are most likely to be of interest to them. The platform is free to use and generates revenue through advertising. As of 2021, SmartNews has over 20 million monthly active users worldwide and has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing news apps in the United States.
GenAI.Works was founded on the principle of providing knowledge to everyone during the AI wave, helping people discover, learn, and grow in one of the most interesting times in modern history. We founded GenAI.Works with the goal of helping society make sense of AI and harness its power for good, fostering prosperity in this once-in-a-lifetime moment. With GenAI.Works, we formed the view that society is in the early days of understanding how to apply AI and ventured to create the world's most active, trusted, and engaging knowledge hub on this topic. Given the rapid rise, advancement, and growth coming from generative AI and its myriad of applications to every industry and job, they aimed to create a new foundation for growth. GenAI.Works realized that a community of trust had to be established to foster learning, growth, and a sense of belonging around the technology to accelerate advancement. This community would accept all ideas, not just those privileged or funded to carry the torch.
Good Ads Matter is a platform that celebrates the best Ads and Ad-makers around the world. From a curation of excellent creativity to collaborations with various filmmakers.
Provider of a consumer engagement platform designed to deliver insights about audiences and brands. The company's platform facilitates opinion-votes across thousands of granular lists and generates a data set of associations among opinions by offering advertising opportunities in display, branded and sponsored video, mobile and social media amplification, enabling brands and companies to micro-target ads and get opinion-based crowd-sourced rankings.
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC), based in Norwalk, CT and founded in 1972, is the world's leading business to business and integrated marketing media company, servicing niche markets within the communications and technology industries.Reaching in excess of 3.5 million readers worldwide each month, TMC creates highly targeted, content-driven communities, serving as the world's primary educational and news resource in the communications and technology fields - including VoIP, IP communications, telecom, contact centers, and CRM.TMC's print, online, and in-person media properties serve these rapidly-growing and dynamic technology and communications industries, providing actionable, mission-critical information which influential decision-makers demand when selecting products and services.
Popular Online Marketplaces & Classifieds products used by Consumer & Media
Sulekha is an India-based technology platform connecting consumers with expert service providers across categories including home improvement, events, education, and professional services. Founded in 2007 by Satya Prabhakar, the company operates a marketplace model in which service providers pay subscription fees to receive matched, verified consumer leads, while consumers use the platform at no cost. Sulekha also maintains a presence among non-resident Indians outside India and operates a US-facing events business. The company generated roughly $200,000 in its first year of operation and crossed $1 million in revenue around 2010. A 2015 projected revenue target of $30 million was missed by approximately 25 percent. As of the March 2021 interview, Sulekha had raised $40 million in total funding and reported approximately 40,000 to 50,000 active paying service providers on the platform. COVID-19 dealt a severe blow to the business, with sales dropping 80 percent in March 2020 as lockdowns froze the service-sector SME market. Monthly consumer demand, which had reached 1.1 to 1.3 million service requests before the pandemic, fell to 600,000 to 800,000 matched requests per month during the COVID period. Prabhakar said he expected demand to recover to 1.5 million monthly requests within three months of the interview and projected the US events market, a key revenue segment, would not fully recover until 2023.
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Empowering restaurants and small food makers to ship nationwide.
Developer of an online hotel and resort booking platform designed to offer access to resorts and hotels for the pool, spa, fitness and activities. The company's platform provides the entire system for hotels to benefit from a significant new revenue channel which includes inventory and pricing management, online booking, revenue data and reporting, marketing and full guest support, enabling locals and travellers to enjoy leisure amenities at amazing hotel properties without needing to book a room.
PadSplit is a two-sided marketplace for co-living and shared housing, founded in 2017 by Atticus LeBlanc as a public benefit corporation headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company connects cost-burdened renters with private rooms and furnished units in shared homes, charging hosts an 8% take rate on completed transactions plus the first ten days of each new stay as a marketing recovery fee. As of the May 2026 interview, PadSplit reported gross transaction revenue exceeding $250 million annually, growing at 70% year over year for approximately three years. The platform lists roughly 34,000 units across 40 states, with approximately 25,000 occupied at the time of recording. The company has raised approximately $40 million in total equity across a Series A in 2019 and a Series B in 2021, and most recently closed a debt facility with ORIX in 2026. LeBlanc declined a hypothetical all-cash acquisition offer of $150 million, citing the company's mission to address the affordable housing crisis.
Shareplay is a Chennai, India-based marketplace that unlocks idle sporting infrastructure at private and public schools, allowing community members to book courts and grounds by the hour through the shareplay.in platform. Founded in December 2019 by Shyam Sundar Rajamani and his co-founder Raghu, the company targets the roughly 100,000 private schools across India and an estimated five to ten times that number of public schools, most of which sit empty after 3 PM. As of mid-2022, Shareplay operated across 15 venues covering 22 sports, generated between $10,000 and $20,000 per month in revenue, and had accumulated a customer database of 1,500 paying users, with 500 to 600 returning each month. The company reported being operationally profitable and raised a $70,000 pre-seed round at a $1 million valuation, selling under 7% equity to three friends and one unnamed incubator. The business is transitioning from a fully staffed, revenue-share model with schools toward a software subscription model priced at approximately $30 per month per school, with optional staffing services sold as an add-on. Rajamani told Latka in August 2022 that Shareplay aimed to reach 25 to 30 venues within four to six weeks and 80 to 100 school partners by the end of December 2022.
Popular Video Games products used by Consumer & Media
The Sandbox is a decentralized, community-driven platform, where creators can make voxel assets and gaming experiences and monetize them on the blockchain.
Kumu is a livestreaming app built for GenZ & Millennial Filipinos. Our Social TV, virtual gifts economy, and live commerce platform empowers thousands of Filipino content creators around the world. We have been downloaded in over 55 countries and have over 6 million registered users since launching in August 2018.
Voice AI games on smart speakers, TVs, and mobile
Arkadium is a New York company that makes and publishes free browser games, such as Mahjong Dimensions and Word Wipe, played on Arkadium.com and on partner sites including The Washington Post, AARP and USA Today. Married couple Kenny Rosenblatt and Jessica Rovello founded it in 2001; he is CEO and she is executive chair. It earns money from advertising, subscriptions, in-game purchases, game licensing and publishing other developers' games, and Rosenblatt wrote in October 2024 that it generates more than $20 million a year in revenue. Arkadium took $5 million from Edison Ventures in 2013 and bought the investor out in 2018. In 2026 it launched GameLab, which uses its gameplay data to train and test AI models.
Our platform enables creators to build experiences, games, and worlds…
now.gg is a mobile cloud company headquartered in Silicon Valley aimed at revolutionizing the Cloud gaming experience for both gamers and game developers. It operates a cloud distribution platform for mobile and browser games and is the third-largest mobile game distribution platform after Apple App Store and Google Play.