The Atavist: New York City

The Atavist app offers a new kind of nonfiction storytelling. Each monthly issue contains one nonfiction story, longer than a magazine article but shorter than a book, reported and written by skillful, award-winning nonfiction authors. Each comes with a full audiobook, video, maps, timelines, interactive graphics, and much more. The Atavist app is free to…

GoodPoint Co: New York City

Good Point PR & Consulting supports the growth of businesses that deeply consider their impact on the environment, employees, consumers and neighbors. Founder Jessica Saba and her team help thought leaders tell their stories to become public figures with the hopes of inspiring others to improve their choices. Our clients strive to continuously improve their…

Backspaces: New York City

Backspaces is a free iPhone app that lets you tell stories with photos and text. Browse interesting topics like #history or #travel, follow other great storytellers and add your own story. Join more than 60,000 storytellers from all over the world. From the Street Banditos of Indonesia to amazing iphoneographers to the Imam of Kuwait’s…

Shelby TV: New York CIty

Shelby TV and their awesome SXSW product: although still in private beta, Shelby.tv is quietly building the best place to discover and share video.  To show off some of their take on a lean-back video experience, they’ve launched http://sxsw.shelby.tv for the folks who can and especially for those who can’t make it to this year’s…

Flockd: New York City

To scale community, Marissa, a co-founder of Green Spaces in NYC and her friend Janice launched Flockd, an analog product for connectivity and productivity, inspired by the coworking movement and social concerns. It’s Marissa’s dream to create a new way for people to connect offline. It is Janice’s dream for everyone to live ‘on purpose’…

Asi Lang: New York City

What’s your historical connection to Los Angeles and New York? I grew up in Los Angeles and lived there till the age of 18 when I moved to Boston for school.  But NY always held my heart and I spent as much of my Boston career as possible down in NYC.  I pretty much knew…

Supertouch Group: New York City

Supertouch was founded in 2007 as a collaboration between the experiential marketing company, Interference Inc., and technical artists, Lit Studios. This combination of interactive marketing layered with technology was an experiment focused on building more accessible and engaging environments than had previously been created. We asked ourselves, what do creators want to do with tech…

Sherpaa: New York City

Sherpaa was founded by Dr. Jay Parkinson and Cheryl Swirnow when the need of a real change in healthcare became all too evident. Though so many great companies and individuals were working to make health accessible, we knew going above and beyond meant making everything work together. The solution: a centralized and real-time command center…

Small Girls PR: New York City

As an agency that enables their clients to be more personable with consumers, it’s no wonder that Small Girls PR is eponymously named.  With co-founders Mallory Blair and Bianca Caampued standing at 5’3” and 5’0” respectively, the small but mighty firm has come to represent brands as big as Pinkberry, Flavorpill and Google since opening…

WeWork: New York City

Starting just three years ago, WeWork has grown from a concept in late 2009 to ten buildings and over 3500 members in 2013. WeWork provides boutique office space, coworking, shared workspace, shared desks, collaborative work space and unique services to the startup community of small businesses and entrepreneurs. WeWork is a platform that empowers small…

The New Media Advocacy Project: New York City

The New Media Advocacy Project (N-Map) advances human rights and social justice by using digital video and other media to strengthen legal advocacy in courts, legislatures, and communities. N-Map’s lawyers and media professionals help advocates integrate new technology directly into their legal strategies, enabling them to win their cases and achieve their clients’ goals effectively…

Wakefield Media: New York City

Wakefield is one part content, publishing a daily email in two editions (NY and National) and one part an events platform. Their emails serve as a short startup/tech discovery guide, connecting people with interesting companies, products, and jobs. Uncubed, their tech hiring fair, is now in four cities and has become a broader tech conference…