IDMA Capital

Venture Capital

The Pitch

Entrepreneurial Boardgame
Objective: Communicate the premise of graphic design and make it accessible to everyone, especially non-creatives, and create a product that helps us form a community, collaborate, and invent, exactly what I believe design intends to do. Solution: A game that ...

inubar

Design for Pets
Well-designed pet products should not be hard to find. inubar is a curated marketplace connecting pet owners with artisan suppliers to make it easy to find well-designed pet essentials across Bedding, Dining, Toys & Accessories. We introduce new products every ...

PERCH

A beautiful workspace made easy
The way we work is changing fast: 30 million Americans work outside of the traditional office every week, and within 2 years this will double to 60 million. And as we transition out of the office, the workspace purchase transitions with us. But the aisles of Staples ...

Slidebean

Presentations that design themselves
Slidebean is a simplified presentation tool that lets users create slides in a fraction of the time they would normally spend on Power Point. By separating content from design, users can focus on what they want to say while the rest is taken care of automatically. Our ...

Piccsy

Flipboard x Google Images x Pinterest. Piccsy helps you discover the images you love.
Piccsy helps you discover the images you love. Image discovery is fragmented and distributed across a web of sources that has become impossible to navigate. Piccsy solves the discovery/fragmentation problem by identifying streams of interest that are important ...

eLearning Mind

Engaging corporate learning
We design and develop eLearning experiences for the world's largest companies.

StrongArm Technologies

Increasing the Performance of the Workforce
StrongArm Technologies was founded by two designers who built our vision for the future of work.  We empower productivity and greater safety for industrial workers that have received little benefit from the great technologies of our time.  As professional athletes ...

The Pixel Revolt

The Pixel Revolt is a digital creative boutique agency based in New York, NY.
The Pixel Revolt is a digital creative boutique agency that helps businesses grow their brand & interact with their customers through innovation in Strategic Marketing, Design, Digital Media and Application Development. When we're not working on transforming ...

Gertrude

Meetup for art
Gertrude is the world's network for art. We make it easy for anyone to post and join intimate events to learn, discuss and collect art. With more than 120 curators and 12,000 guests in 16 cities, Gertrude is the largest  in ­person network for art in the world. Why ...

TED

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading - through TED.com, our annual conferences, the annual TED Prize and local TEDx events.

Ceros

Collaborative design platform
Ceros empowers designers and marketers to create, distribute and analyse, rich, engaging content experiences that work everywhere, with out the need to code.

Curio Road

Moneyball for fashion. Next-gen brand that uses data to find & scale superstar designers
Curio Road is the best way to discover inspiring indie, vintage and handmade designs online.

Collaborizm

Intelligent matchmaking platform for aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, & creatives.
Collaborizm is a social network and intelligent matchmaking platform designed to break down the collaborative silos that exist in society. The platform does this by matchmaking aspiring entrepreneurs, makers, creative people and others based on the elements that ...

Awesome

Design Agency for Startups (www.awesomenyc.com)
Awesome is a design agency specializing in handcrafting beautiful and engaging UI & UX designs for tech startups. We design everything from MVPs to full-scale products, and as startup founders ourselves, we have the experience to help bring those designs to fruition—whether ...

Behance

To empower the creative world to make ideas happen.
The leading online platform to showcase & discover creative work. Creative professionals update their work in one place to broadcast it widely and efficiently. Companies explore the work and access talent on a global scale.

app.itize.us

a curated presentation of the best produced and designed mobile applications available
Consider the vast amount of apps in the app store currently, also consider your personal network and their friends who use apps. We collect the best of the best apps and write reviews, then you and your discerning app consuming friends don't have to do all the ...

Pod Design

We create anything that wants to be beautiful.
POD Design ®, established in 2003, is a Brooklyn based international design studio. Specializing in design, architecture, industrial design and interior design, POD Design creates exciting, innovative solutions that empower and delight. Brooks Atwood actively ...

datavisual

Web-based tool for designers to easily create data visualizations.
Our mission is to make data visual for everyone. Using our simple user interface we empower individuals and organizations to easily create and share beautiful visualizations. Perfect for designers, journalists, researchers and bloggers with limited programming ...

Working Not Working

Airbnb for Freelance Creatives
Working Not Working is a real-time network that broadcasts the availability of talented freelance creatives to companies looking to hire them. Created by freelancers, for freelancers, Working Not Working is here to streamline the freelance game for everyone.

Freshthrills

Helping startups get Branding, UX and UI design right from the start.
We offer high value product design services to early-stage companies. Brand Strategy We help you define and articulate your product and brand story. Practically speaking, we help you identify and design your products to win over customers, teach you how to interact ...

L+R

The merger of Strategy + Aesthetics
L+R is a Brooklyn-based user experience and creative agency that merges strategy and aesthetics. This means we combine research, observation and analysis with exploration, intuition and creativity to produce engaging design solutions. We've applied our philosophy ...

StyleTrek

Social Commerce for Emerging Designers
StyleTrek is a community of fashion enthusiasts who support emerging designers worldwide. Designers are crowd sourced and submitted by fashion bloggers, editors, cognoscenti. Think Groupon meets etsy meets Threadless for fashion. Our team filters and curates ...

RUKUS

Redefining Direct Marketing with Video Personalization
RUKUS.io is connection. A simple to use video creation technology serving brands with tools that create stunning personalized marketing videos that are automatically customized to each individual customer. As a result, end users experience a sense of acknowledgement, ...

InVisionApp

Prototyping & Collaboration for Design Teams
InVision is the world’s leading design collaboration platform. We enable companies of all sizes to discover the power of design-driven product development. That’s why designers, product managers, marketers and other stakeholders at so many of the world's most ...

Hatch Hub

Fab.com meets Quirky
There are market places for handmade goods and solutions for mass market sales. However no one has successfully developed a market place for quality designer products made in small batches. OUR OFFER • A market place to connect designers and customers to create ...

LayerVault

Simple version control for designers.
LayerVault is a tool for web and graphic designers who need advanced design workflow tools. It is a cloud-based version control system that provides the best way to store, version, and present design work. Unlike other services, our product is built specifically ...

Artsy

Spotify for the Art World
Artsy’s mission is to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. We are an online platform for discovering, learning about, and collecting art. Our growing collection comprises 125,000+ artworks by 25,000+ artists from leading art ...

Yapp

Simplest way to create and publish a mobile app
Yapp is the easiest way to create and instantly publish a mobile application for events, groups, promotion, small business, and more. Yapp empowers you to look like a tech guru and design goddess without having to be one.

Fab

Fab is Everyday Design. People use Fab to discover everyday design products at great prices, to connect with the world's most exciting designers, and to share their favorite design inspirations.

Cartrdge

A community for the people making video game industry
Cartrdge is a community where the members of the video game industry can profile themselves, portfolio their work and connect with each other.  We're bringing the space together by making it easy for our users to sign up, share their work and skills, and give ...

Genetic Ink

The Art Meets Science Company
Genetic Ink collaborates with leading artists and engineers to create unique fine art from biological data. Founded by neuroscience researcher, Kishan Bhoopalam, Genetic Ink is the first company to create true DNA Art, artist-driven, gallery-quality art from sequenced ...

Mancel Studios

Design/Animation studio with a culture & service that builds relationships & grows brands
Our number one goal is to provide the best design services ranging from branding, motion/animation, video, and product design, that helps our clients tell their story better. We believe in building strong relationships and growing a brand based on a company's authentic ...

dsgnfix

Search and discovery app for design lovers
dsgnfix is a free search and discovery app that connects design lovers to the art, architecture, shops and experiences that inspire them. There are two ways to search the user-generated content: VIP curated lists from leading and recognized voices in the art and ...

Hatch Jewelry

A curated marketplace for independent Jewelry designers
Hatch Jewelry is showcasing great independent design talent. We highlight the designers behind the designs and all designs are made in limited numbers. We also work with talented designers to help them manufacture and sell their designs, leveraging new 3D production ...

Inventway LLC,

Startup, that innovates & markets its own innovative projects.
We are company with a proven ability to generate new ideas, and to constantly improve on already existing products. Our portfolios include new web ideas and services, royalties-based products, and innovative technologies. Our most project ready for investors is ...

PopLocal

Online platform to connect boutiques & designers w/ stylish & socially conscious shoppers.
PopLocal is an online platform to connect independent boutiques and designers with stylish and socially conscious shoppers. Boutiques and designers post fabulous collections and design savvy shoppers get to purchase thousands of unique items whether they’re in ...

dhomain llc

luxury inflatable housing
Based in NYC, dhomain designs, manufactures, rents and supports the dhomeTM, the world’s first luxury habitat combining the physical amenities of a luxury hotel room with an inflatable bubble. Patented, eco friendly and all weather, the dhome is easily transportable ...

The Design Gym LLC

Learning By Doing
The Design Gym empowers people with the tools to create change. We offer classes and workshops on creative problem solving, design thinking, and collaboration for both students and organizations. We then create opportunities for our community to work with real ...

Pemberton

We make the internet more human.
Pemberton is a creative studio focused on design and creative direction for the internet. We specialize in consumer products, digital experiences, and holistic brand identities. High and low brow. New and old wave. Studio, consultancy, workshop, laboratory. NYC ...

Perks Consulting

A digital brand and marketing consultancy: Think Like A Brand. Act Like A Startup.
Perks Consulting is a digital brand and marketing consultancy that transforms the way companies adapt and innovate in today’s rapidly changing digital economy. We are dedicated to transferring digital and strategic competence to our clients. Each of our offerings, ...

Agnus Dei

A multimedia art project incorporating fashion, sculpture, film, and performance.
Agnus Dei is a multimedia art project incorporating fashion, sculpture, film, and performance.

Logoworks

We are the leading logo design company who create high quality logos for your new business.

18faubourg

eco-friendly & high-tech outdoor & urban furnitures
At the begining we have developp and registred patents for the eco-conception & eco-friendly furniture, to developp smart city project we are continuing our research & developpement and start to developp a living urban furniture, the idea is to geolocalize it, ...

F&T Creative

Design Agency for Startups
F&T Creative is a boutique design agency based in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We specialize in helping startups & brands identify market opportunities and build the momentum they need to launch and grow successfully.

Designedin

An exclusive community of design students, alumni, faculty & employers coming together to learn, teach and work on real-world projects.

Q Designs

Bringing style & technology together like it's 2050
Q Designs is a consumer technology company that creates beautiful, world-class technology centric products. Seamlessly integrating technology with an unmistakable iconic design, Q Designs products are stylish, effortless and extraordinarily useful. The company ...

Power Light and Sound Company, Inc.

A companion for your smartphone.
Glowdeck was designed around one goal: making life in the connected world easier. Glowdeck features a wireless charging surface, Bluetooth sound and data, an LED light system, and a wifi-connected display. "Streams" - our new notifications OS - harmonizes those ...

Well Crafted

Well Crafted is the portfolio that gives back.
Showcase your best work on any device and empower your design community. You deserve a portfolio that just works on any device. Your contribution makes a big difference – it helps improve your portfolio, and 10% goes directly back to designers.

Oree

We craft memorable technology products from the finest natural materials
Our collection currently addresses the PC peripherals and smartphone/tablet induction charging segments. The first object was a portable wireless keyboard made from a single piece of premium wood (Maple or Walnut) that works with any tablet, smartphone or PC equipped ...

UBATUBA

We bring high-end art and design to the world
We provide architects and interior designers a large database of contemporary and vintage art and desgin including furniture, sculpture, photography, painting to satisfy their client needs. Also, give access to consumers exotic designs with a focus on a Brazilian ...

Quirky Inc

Making invention accessible.
We are Quirky. We make invention accessible. We believe that the best ideas in the world aren’t actually in the world--they’re locked in people’s heads. Quirky brings new consumer products to market every week. Some of the best industrial designers, mechanical ...

Artisastartup

A Kickstarter for Artists & Startups
We fund the projects that other platforms will not fund. * ArtIsAStartup can be used to raise money for causes, whether it's the Red Cross or a scholarship, or for "fund my life" projects, like tuition or bills. * Projects with long-term goals - each campaign ...

The Working Assembly

NYC creative collective
We are The Working Assembly, a NYC based creative collective comprised of designers, storytellers and makers. We create memorable experiences between brands and people. We grow startups into thriving brands—from launch to production—as well as take existing concepts ...

Fab.com

E Commerce Design Store
Work ♥ Fab's mission is to brighten people's lives with design. Fab offers a collaborative work environment, employee discounts, and the ability to help lead and influence a fast growing global company. At Fab you will experience: The chance to work with ...

Ideaboard

Github for ideas. The best way to create and collaborate on ideas.

Harry's

Direct-to-consumer men's grooming brand
We sell high quality men's grooming products directly to our customers through our site, harrys.com.  To date we have developed both razors and complimentary shaving supplies such as foaming shave gel and after shave.  The razors are among the best in the world. ...

F & W Consulting

Efficient and Economical Startup Branding

Butterscotch Labs

Product Design Studio focused on mobile consumer products
Butterscotch Labs is a product design studio focused on creating mobile consumer products. More coming soon...

Imari

Task-Driven + Human-Centric Design Holdings (Design Lead/Mobile Berkshire Hathaway)
We have two products in the pipeline but for protection would talk offline around specifics. Imari concepts and creates human-centric, task-driven, lightweight mobile applications. Applications that address everyday needs and complex scenarios through the distillation ...

Beauty Today

nude magazine for contemporary libertines
Beauty Today is a print magazine for the contemporary libertine that explores the body through nude photography, erotic fiction and illustration. Founded by three female artists, in 2011, Beauty Today has self published two issues with the goal of recontextualizing ...

ED01

Project Recess

Ed Tech Consultancy & Design Firm

Deckd Media

Advertising and Marketing
Deck'd Media is a branding, marketing and design agency. 

Lumens Design Group

Your Creative Partner
We work with you as a creative partner to produce beautiful and effective solutions. We have over a decade of experience in fashion, mobile and digital media We help clarify marketing goals, anticipate your needs and always deliver exceptional results.

Sianey LLC

Art Direction, Design and Animation
A New York-based designer and animator with a background in print media, Sianey Montes de Oca currently manages projects from conception and design to final production. Fluent in English and Spanish, Sianey Montes de Oca has earned numerous Gold Addy awards for ...

Unique Property

Lascaux Co. (acquired by Etsy)

Fabian Schmid Photography + Design

Nice to meet you, my name is Fabian Schmid. I'm a young Swiss based in New York. I have an addictive passion for photography and illustration design as well as a big interest in web design. I offer realization and consulting in the following fields: Photography ...

Lamplighter Labs

Bringing digital products to life
http://www.plowz.com http://www.otrme.com http://www.garfieldstriviaparty.com More at: http://LamplighterLabs.com

Pattern Pod, LLC

Online Martha Stewart : Istock meets DIY
Pattern Pod has 3 brands : Pattern Pod provides it's users with a wide array of royalty free seamless patterns that can be applied to a variety of products, allowing you to personalize everything from your curtains to your ipod case! Pattern Plus is the membership-only, ...

Imari

Task-driven design holdings (Berkshire Hathaway for mobile apps)
We have two products in the pipeline but for protection would talk offline of around specifics. Imari concepts and creates human-centric, task-driven, lightweight mobile applications. Applications that address everyday needs and complex scenarios through the ...

Designer Pages Online

Designer Pages is the best way for architects and designers to find products in architecture and interior design.

Ponticlaro

Busy building the world's best apps, websites and platforms.

AKBD- Affordable Kitchens & Bath Design

Kitchen & Bath Showroom
Many of us decide to refurbish or remodel our homes, whether for necessity or for the new look it will provide. How do we go about choosing the company that ultimately becomes the pivot that takes on and completes the project we have in a timely, quality labor ...

mepadi

mepadi stems from the radiant streets of New York City, a place that feeds its inspiration permanently, and provides a platform of opportunity upon which it acts. Situated in an equally impressive city, Berlin serves as home base to the company, in order for its ...

Thumb Labs

Mobile Design/Development Agency
Thumb Labs is a Mobile Design/Development Agency, founded in 2009 and based in New York City, that specializes in creating stylish and innovative applications.

Studio Archipel

Concept & Design for New Media
Studio Archipel is a design studio that partners with startups to design & build their products.

Tattoo Crowd

Crowdsourced Tattoo Design - 99Designs of Tattoos
Tattoo Crowd allows users to describe their perfect tattoo and have artists compete to design their perfect tattoo. We help tattoo enthusiasts flesh out a basic tattoo idea into a beautiful tattoo design ready to get inked at any tattoo shop nearby.

Dering Hall

Joe Doucet Studio

Design is the difference.
Design led thinking. Product innovation. Brand creation. We utilize design to solve business problems and bring brilliant ideas to life from conception through to creation.

Coral Studios

Marketing and design firm that builds off culture.
LEGONYC is a creative marketing firm specializing in fashion and media. Founded in 2012, we do everything you need us to: marketing, branding, web design, digital strategy, graphic and logo design, videography, events, consulting, and creative direction. LEGONYC ...

The Creatives' World

Identity Design, Marketing and Image Strategy Development by The Creatives'
Development of an EcoSystem that promotes creative work and project accomplishments in the areas of Innovation, Arts and Technology. Creative partnerships based club-structure including exclusive groups such as advertisers, artists, inventors, brand and image makers. ...

DigitalKick

DigitalKick is an award winning independent design agency located in New York City

Breese Style, Inc.

original, fresh, awesome clothing for casual guys.
Breese is a brand dedicated to designing original, fresh, awesome clothing for casual guys. Committed to delivering creative new styles for men around the world, Breese strives to bring forth something fresh and new in to the mens market. - Shorts - Tees - Scarves - ...

Matter

Development and design firm focused on rapid production of extraordinary user experiences.
Matter is a software development and design services firm focused on rapid production of extraordinary user experiences. We make tools which vastly increase the speed at which mobile and web software can be produced.

Nikita Prokhorov Graphic Design

Graphic designer specializing in identity development, branding, typography, and lettering
I am a graphic designer with 10+ years of experience. My forte is identity development, branding, typography, and lettering. If you are a startup that need a strong visual identity to be noticed in the marketplace, I am the person to talk to.

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