DigitalGroundUp Inc.

Codecademy for Digital Marketing
DigitalGroundUp is an interactive technology platform that teaches digital marketing to companies (and all those who wish to learn it) through interactive software that requires users to demonstrate their mastery of a concept before moving on to the next level. ...

Packback

Pay-per-use etextbooks for $5 or less
Packback allows college students to "pay per use" for their digital textbooks by renting for $3-$5 per day, while enabling publishers to recoup revenue lost to the secondary used book market. Any money students spend on daily rentals can be directly converted towards ...

Charlie App

Make a killer impression on whoever you’re meeting.
Charlie is a tool that compiles one-pagers on the people you’re about to meet with, before you see them. An hour before every meeting in your calendar, Charlie makes sure you walk in with the intel you need to make a killer impression: breaking news on their company, ...

Infoactive

Data, meet design
Drop live data into interactive infographics and data visualizations. Filter and explore complex data by clicking on charts, without writing a single Excel function or line of code. Thousands of active users from 150 countries use Infoactive for a friendly approach ...

The National Law Review

legal news, media redistribution, looking to expand
Due to the expense of services like Lexis, Westlaw and Bloomberg there is a high demand for vetted, free, easy to find and use legal news and analysis for attorneys, entrepreneurs and business professionals. The National Law Review has the reputation of an ...

Mitre Media

Targeted Online Financial Media Company
Mitre Media Corp. operates a suite of targeted online financial media properties - including ETFdb.com, Dividend.com and CommodityHQ.com. The company’s mission is to deliver world-class, targeted financial content and tools for highly engaged users seeking actionable ...

fridaynitebYtes

Interactive Comedy Show On The Web
By combining the prime attribute of a television show – professional entertainment that attracts an audience – with the advantages of the Internet – scalability, immediacy, and interactivity, we can create an entertainment experience that responds to the needs ...

Spartz

We're the team behind OMG Facts, Dose.com, and more. Our products educate, entertain, and inspire over 45 million users every month. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, Spartz is one of the fastest-growing digital media publishers.

The Shadow Gang

Redefining Media Distribution
The Shadow Gang’s focus is to disrupt the modern media business model by redefining the way audiences are cultivated distribution channels are leveraged, money is made, and how stories are told.   Right now, the business model for media is inefficient and mostly ...

oBaz

We empower women to become fashion bloggers & tag products from over 1000 brands in posts

gDine (Group Dining Made Easy)

OpenTable meets Orbitz
ONLINE "SHOPPING" FOR GROUP DINING gDine is the easiest way to get a group together for a great meal at the city's premier restaurants. One site, tons of menu options, exclusive pricing, and easy-to-use tools that make planning and booking simple. - Book For ...

Onelinx

Interact with all your web services from one page.
Onelinx.com will streamline your e-life and web services. It will allow interaction with and connect to all of your web services on one screen with one password. Facebook, Ebay, banking, emails, Amazon, cloud services, news, etc. Finally post, share, shop, communicate, ...

Sollywood TV

Your very own Personal and Affordable Hollywood
A new online marketplace introducing a Premium Content experience that "Makes $ense" for everyone. Finally Consumers get content and services A la Carte and Personalized. But most importantly, with Sollywood TV, they get their content and services CORRECTLY priced. ...

MentorMob

Google of Learning, indexed by experts
Problem: Google doesn't index for learning. Nearly 1 billion Google searches are done for "how to" learn various topics every month, from photography to entrepreneurship, forcing learners to waste their time sifting through the millions of results. MentorMob is ...

Caterva

Engagement Automation
Caterva is pioneering Engagement Automation solutions that utilize advances in big data, machine Learning, and social analytics. Our automated solutions enable websites to drive more engagement without requiring deep technical and analytical expertise or knowledge ...

Outernet

Interactive Global Datacasting
Outernet will utilize a constellation of low-cost, miniature satellites and existing satellite infrastructure in geostationary orbit. In both cases, satellites receive content from the web through a network of ground stations which uplink content that the community ...

Jellyvision

Delightful learning & decision-making
Jellyvision helps companies explain their important (but maybe kind of complex) messages in a delightful way. We create virtual salespeople, brokers, guidance counselors, HR reps, and teachers, who have fun, personalized conversations with your customers and employees ...

CentUp

Get paid for your content. Do good.
A one-click micropayment that lets fans give small donations towards specific pieces of online content. The Kicker: Every contribution is split evenly between the author, and the donor’s favorite charity. It’s the 1-for-1 model, for content.

Red Rocket Ventures

Startup Consulting & Venture Capital
Startup consulting and venture capital. Learn more at www.RedRocketVC.com.

MyZeus

Let friends decide what you watch
We're out to make finding a movie just as much fun as watching it.

Storymix Media

Crowdsourced content and automated video creation platform (Capital Factory 2011)
Millions of videos are taken at events like your child's soccer game, SXSW, or the CES. Yet 99% of those videos are never seen, much less transformed into something of value. Enter VideoStitch. Easily crowdsource and access the video clips and photos from everyone ...

Appoet

Hyper Local Discoverability Platform CMS
What is Infused (https://infused.today)? Infused connects the digital life you live with the people and places you love. Infused is a hyperlocal broadcasting and publishing app you can use with your friends or the community around you by leaving music, art, ...

Techweek

A technology conference and festival that celebrates and enables innovation ecosystems.

Marqana

Digital Marketing Services
Opportunity: Online marketing has changed tremendously in recent years and most companies have been left behind, creating an unmet demand. Most marketing and PR firms either still use old-school approaches, or they deliver poor quality services. We know - we used ...

Visible Spectrum

cloud-based custom digital content creation technology
The splintering of the ‘mass market’ has exponentially increased unique creative treatments required for targeted marketing. VSI creates more and better treatments within existing budgets. Intuitive GUI lets anyone with Office-level skills create custom content ...

Curiosity.com

The web's best learning content.
We've aggregated and organized hundreds of thousands of the web's best learning videos and content providers so you can discover and learn something new every day.

Kumbuya

We fuel your Passions
Kumbuya is a unique social network that enables "many to many" communication among fans with similar interests. By creating and joining "camps", fans get and share links, photos, videos, stories and more to all the other members of that Camp. It’s like an online ...

UpCity (formerly DIYSEO)

Self-Serve SEO and Inbound Marketing for Small Businesses
DIYSEO makes the complex world of search engine optimization (SEO) simpler and more attainable than ever for small businesses. The web-based solution helps small business marketers break down a previously complex undertaking into easy, bite-sized tasks, while step-by-step ...

YuuConnect

The Smartphone Experience that recharges ad tech and keeps mobile consumers connected.
YuuConnect™ is a mobile engagement platform that delivers a Smartphone Experience™ through an interactive mobile recharging terminal that drives consumer behavior across the digital landscape. The platform enables brands to effectively deliver an engaging brand ...

Netgamix

Your Multimedia trivia games platform
Netgamix is the platform to allow anyone to easily create and play multimedia trivia games and share them with their social networks. The platform uses tournaments and a competitive ranking system for discovery and engagement. We aim to be relevant to expert/game ...

ContextMedia

Actionable Health Information
ContextMedia is a health information services company, building digital media technologies to deliver lifestyle education to patients when and where it improves health outcomes. The company empowers healthcare professionals to engage patients while curating content ...

YuVue

Instagram with a paycheck
YuVue is a discovery and monetization platform for user-generated photos and videos. We connect photographers, videographers and smartphone shooters with brands, broadcasters, print and Web publishers, and enable them to license their work. Our platform is built ...

HBM

VEVO/YouTube/Spotify/Pandora/MobileRoadie/OurStage - but better
HBM offers Users the ability to purchase music, merchandise and tickets; view unique content; share and customize their experience; and connect to Artists on a personal level via Web, Mobile App, or SmartTV App. Apps are free to Users, and the Website is free or ...

YourSeniorLiving

Yelp of Senior Housing - Senior Living Referrals and Reviews for Senior Facilities
Visit www.YourSeniorLiving.com YourSeniorLiving.com (“YSL”) is a specialized resource website that delivers high-quality senior living resident referrals for senior facilities offering assisted living, memory care, nursing home, and related senior care services. The ...

ConextMedia

Mass produced inexpensive, relevant, on-demand digital content.
ConextMedia was created to address the demand for the management and generation of affordable, targeted, brand compliant digital content. Our high-volume, scalable business will be the dominant global supplier of quality video to digital platforms such as digital ...

Spartz

We're turning virality into a science.
We specialize in growing viral, multi-platform digital properties. We are pioneering a model that uses predictive science to measure the viral potential of websites and apps. Nearly twenty million people access the company’s digital portfolio of websites and mobile ...

Virdocs Software

Digital content marketplace (e-textbooks)
Virdocs provides content creators with a method (HTML5, cloud e-reader) of securely distributing academic material (textbooks, custom content, etc.) to students. The Virdocs e-reader provides a secure environment with annotation tools, interactivity, and collaboration.

AdBasis

Ad testing platform
The AdBasis platform is a controlled testing environment and analytics tool for companies (brands & SEMs) to conduct A/B and multivariate tests on search, display & mobile ads.  We have built a revenue tracking system that gives companies a completely measurable ...

M.A.E.K. Entertainment

Swiss army knife of diverse media branding
The M.A.E.K. project is a branded initiative centered on the world of music and entertainment that includes several digital platforms including an online scripted 12 part mini-series, a mobile application, creative merchandise, music, and several lifestyle websites. ...

Handshake

Cross-network gaming, a new way to advertise, and editorial content in one experience.
Handshake fuses cross-network gaming, thought-provoking editorial content, and a new way to advertise into one seamless experience. We encourage our readers to go on missions, solve puzzles, and report back to us. With Handshake, you don’t just read it. You are ...

GetLusty.com

GetLusty is a platform for couples in long-term relationships to have amazing sexual relationships. GetLusty currently has 750+ articles, hand selected featured merchants and events (in Chicago as well as national and international couples retreats). We add fresh, ...

Sprk'd

Content you crave & design that converts
We grow startups and small businesses through content strategy and inbound marketing solutions (blogging, email marketing, search engine optimization, social media, web design, and more). We also lead workshops, create helpful tools, and provide one-on-one strategic ...

SORC'D

Save, Share, and Discover data that is important to you
Sorc’d is the place to find relevant, reliable and creditable information online. We provide users a simple and seamless way to save, share and discover data to make a decision, prove a point, or support a case, both personally and professionally.  Think Pinterest ...

Impossible Ventures

We do the impossible.
Welcome to Impossible Ventures™: Doing the impossible since 2010. We help startups grow uncommonly fast and invest in our own set of internal projects & ventures at Impossible Ventures™ (http://impossible.ventures). View our official blog on http://impossibleventures.net We ...

Garmental

Garmental is shoppable video content for local boutiques and brands.
Garmental is pleased to announce its newest partnership with Clicktivate Video Inc. Garmetal produces fun and educational style videos for fashion fanatics to WATCH + CLICK + SHOP directly from their desktop, ipad or mobile phone. We take shopping local to a whole ...

Bandwith

Future of Music
Future of Music.

Mantle

Movies Worth Watching
Mantle allows users to display movies they love and compare with friends via Facebook. People can rank, comment and add films to their "WatchList" so they have a digital shopping list next time they go to rent or buy a movie. Mantle is studio, medium and retail ...

Poseidon Financial

Providing world-class investment information
Our mission is to help millions of investor better allocate their investment savings to specific securities, by authoring world-class qualitative information. We excel at building 1) vast, proprietary databases of investment securities, and 2) intuitive tools ...

GronkWorks

Hearken

Tools to create original, popular content with audiences and with integrity
Hearken is an audience-driven framework and white-label platform enabling content creators to partner with the public during the reporting process, resulting in relevant and high performing content. We help media outlets cultivate, validate and measure audience ...

Block Six Analytics

Moneyball For The Sports Industry
Block Six Analytics (B6A) has created a suite of web-based applications that enables sports organizations to manage their sponsorship, media, ticketing, event, and billing activities in one platform. The Partnership Scoreboard™ is our web-based application enables ...

marketEnomics

Complete Digital & Social Media Analytics & Publishing
The analytics, publishing and reporting engine named 'marketEnomics' helps firms to manage their social media campaigns. marketEnomics platform extensively uses Facebook Insights API and social graph, twitter feeds and mailchimp API to gather intelligence on user's ...

Platformz

Platformz is a mobile device indie media search engine.
Platformz is a mobile device indie media search engine. It allows you, the fans of indie media to search the largest digital distribution platforms – Audiomack, Soundcloud and others – for artists you like along with recommendations of artists for you in the Featured ...

Hard Hat Hub

Odesk/Elance for the construction industry
Hard Hat Hub's platform matches engineers and construction professionals with companies who design, build and maintain the world's infrastructure. We create content and leverage social media and digital ad campaigns to build a robust two-sided marketplace. Free ...

Ezra's

Curated marketplace for craft spirits
Ezra’s is the first national online marketer of craft spirit and alcohol products focused on overcoming the constraints of the three tier system of alcohol distribution to vastly improve the direct information and sales linkages between distillers and consumers. ...

Rendition Multimedia

WordPress themes, plugins, security, maintenance
Rendition Multimedia is incubating several MVPs in order to identify opportunities in SaaS and/or Content Marketing.

itsashort.com

Ted Talks for short media content
How does anyone find great short media content? Youtube: too much wading, Vimeo: got to know what you are looking for. itsashort.com: its the spot! We are 'the netflix for curated short content' or a distribution platform for the best/curated short video, short ...

Vayia

360˚ Video Solution
We are building an end-to-end solution and mobile application for spherical (360˚) video. Unlike panoramic still images, spherical video bridges the gap between virtual reality and video. Our process consists of filming content with a special multi-cam rig, which ...

Tempesta Media

Managed Service Provider for Digital Content
Tempesta Media has developed a revolutionary, digital content development service for small and medium businesses. The company’s managed services consist of a technology platform, Content Quotes™, and its expert content development community, Article Document™, ...

Cosplay

DeviantArt for Costumes
Cosplay.com is a content-driven social networking site for cosplay enthusiasts, and is the largest site in its market with over 1.1 million unique visitors per month. Our user base is already 50% international. Our users create profiles, add costume detail pages, ...

Cool Van Media

Youtube meets Survivor
Our goal is to create a cross platform game (Online and TV) that allows users to own the experience similar to that of competing in a competition based reality TV show. The game starts online with unlimited players and players win their way onto the TV show by ...

iPyxel Creations

Performance Marketing Tracking, Optimization, and Automation
Our first product, POFpro, is a self-hosted, one-stop platform to manage, automate, and optimize your marketing campaigns for the Plenty of Fish advertising traffic source. The platform is fully integration with POF Ads and allows full-loop automated tracking ...

NIN Ventures

Early stage venture capital firm investing in disruptive tech startups
NIN Ventures (or NIN.VC) is a first of its kind technology venture capital fund to be raised via world wide web. NIN.VC will invest in early / growth stage financial services technology, education software, Internet and digital media, mobile communication, cloud ...

Sideproject.io

A front-end community to learn, discuss and build things on the web.
Sideproject allows you to learn what's new in web design, make friends and gives you lasting knowledge on the industry.

devHour.tv

video network for restaurants
You wouldn't go to the movies without having watched the trailer first, would you? With too many bad movies, we need trailers to help us find the good ones... Well, we feel the same way about our food! Why dare to try the unknown? Experience devHourTV and preview ...

TrendSweep

An Interactive Way To Stay Current
We offer the world a way to see what is trending in a very interactive and intuitive way. Our Website uses the full potential of what social media, images and videos can do to make a change and to educate!

IntentBuy

Integrated Customer Acquisition Solutions
IntentBuy is a performance media agency that works with advertisers to improve return on ad spend by more effectively buying digital media via direct publisher relationships, programmatic platforms, mobile ad networks and performance channels. IntentBuy was founded ...

Playoff

Engaging the Next Generation of Sports Fans.
Playoff is a new media company focused on sports and educational gaming. Our office is in Chicago, IL.

Teach To Run

We are a team of USATF and RRCA coaches offering coaching services and training plans
Countless people attempt repeatedly to run a local 5k, half marathon, or just start running to get in shape but are left with generic one size fits all running programs online and in books. Those programs often leave runners overwhelmed and injured or underwhelmed ...

Reboot Illinois

Disrupting Political Media
Reboot Illinois is a publication for and about the citizens and institutions that make up Illinois, delivering fast, original, essential content and fun analysis on the political issues facing the state of Illinois and the media industry.

Cress Media

More Engaging Digital Content
Cress Media is an Engagement Marketing company helping brands create awesome content, experiences, & interactions. With over 4 years experience learning improv and comedy writing at Second City we bring a standard of excellence to the digital content we create ...

Rovak Colorist Services

Feature Film Executive Producer
I have several excellent scripts that I am looking for funding for.

CrabbyGolightly

Pop News With Snap.
Upbeat pop news site that focuses on celebrity, TV, popular news and new social studies. Eschews most crime coverage. Politics: progressive with strong civil liberties bent. Target audience thoughtful 20 and 30somethings, but all are welcome to the party. Site ...

Masson Sports Media

Network for the Boxing and MMA Community.
MVPBOXING.COM is online boxing and MMA news aggregator, and Forum founded by Manny Masson. The site offers boxing and MMA news in english and spanish, Forum , Chat and original content and covers health & fitness and injury prevention.

Vox Populi Magazine

Recreating Digital / Print Media
VOX POPULI Magazine is the premiere luxury fashion and lifestyle publication chronicling the most exclusive in fashion, entertainment, beauty, art, culture, celebrity, and film. VOX POPULI Magazine features superior journalism and sophisticated content providing ...

Athena Arts

The internet in a nutshell
Athena Arts is primarily a blog about start ups, emerging technologies, future trends, etc. Every post on the home page is in the form of a button. Think of Athena Arts as a link caster, that take users to a different page. For example, a button might say "Inside ...

Clotheshorse

Clotheshorse is a leading destination for men’s fashion and culture on the web

Iconicast

HueTunes is a new medium for creative expression that lets you paint in music
huetunes.com

Weatherist

Moneyball for Weather
Weatherist is an online weather service that provides users with The Most Probable Forecast for their area. Weatherist scours the web for weather forecasts, grades their accuracy based on actual measurements, then generates The Most Probable Forecast for over ...

Health Freedom Network

Helping Patients Find Holistic Health Specialists By Web, Text, Phone
The Health Freedom Network's Holistic Health Referral System connects patients with the holistic health provider in their city or with the specialty they need (Example: Lyme or Cancer Expertise). In a chaotic online space, its hard to know who to trust when researching ...

ffocal

The easiest way to track and share upcoming events.
A social platform for tracking and sharing upcoming events. FFOCAL allows people to create and share curated lists of what's going on.

Chicago Press Release

Chicago press release services

Dewey

Bookmarking and Collections for Groups
Dewey is the best way to save bookmarks, create collections and share with groups. Dewey isn't just for saving bookmarks and reading them later, it's for organizing and sharing through Collections and Groups. Collections allows users to organize bookmarks by ...

Music United

Facebook + LinkedIn for Music
Music United is being created by a world class team of developers and management. Our platform offers an effective way to manage content and relationships across multiple websites that otherwise function independent of one another; ultimately, allowing our users ...

VerveLife

The Digital Music Partner for Global Brands
VerveLife is the premier digital music strategy and distribution company in the world with notable current and past clients General Mills, Quaker, Kellogg's, Mead, GoGurt, Corona, Lifetime Fitness, Budweiser, MusicNow, IMVU, Hertz, HMV, Sony Playstation, and many ...

Soul Poetry Cafe

"Original Content is King!"
Junebugnem.Com is one of the first original content Internet TV Networks for one of the highest consuming demographics in this category. It allows the consumer to see themselves in TV shows ranging from music, comedy to drama and talk shows.The customer is the ...

Ruben Digital Media

Building Homes in the Digital World
Every business today needs a strong web presence. It is no longer a luxury reserved for big companies. RDM pinpoints each client’s personality traits and company essence to replicate an in person experience on the web. My goal is to have customers connect with ...

REELFINATICS

Live To Fish. Share Your Passion.
Reelfinatics LLC is an interactive on-demand fishing entertainment platform for recreational fishermen and a totally unique directory for those providing fishing related services. Reelfinatics' directory platform is designed to give its affiliates unparalleled ...

Creative Genius

Branding & Financing
B.E.G.I.N.℠ Brand your ideas. Earn income. Generate business. Invest in yourself. Network with like-minded people.

nickvopsteele (NVS)

Motivation for sports and self-help
NVS is the host of an array of self-help and fitness products that allow you to really change your life by changing your mind and body. We make this very easy to change your life by providing you with t-shirts, "word coffee," and books to uplift your mind and body. Motivation ...

lonelybrand

A Better Digital Marketing Agency
Looking for a pragmatic, digitally fluent team of marketers to execute your big ideas and demonstrate real results so you can get back to running your business? You’re in the right place. Find out how lonelybrand leverages the six tenets of digital communications ...