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WIE Network - digital media e-commerce content syndication professional networking

WIE Network

Ted meets Oprah. Media and merchandise for career women.
Women are a growing powerhouse in the workforce, yet the needs of professional women are not being met by the current marketplace WIE is a diversified media and merchandising company targeting modern career women with conferences, content and retail We've already ...

nextSociety - mobile B2B professional networking

nextSociety

network smarter
nextSociety transforms human interactions by building the most intelligent networking assistant for enterprises and professionals. We inspire people employees by making their social connections relevant for their professional and personal objectives. We enable ...

Alchemy - SaaS B2B collaboration professional networking

Alchemy

Google Group meets Rapportive for professional organizations
It *sucks* to slave over a task only to later learn somebody unexpected could've helped you. Alchemy is the simplest tool for a community to help itself. *** How Alchemy works: *** Once a week, each user receives an email asking what they need help with that ...

DuckTest - recruiting professional networking

DuckTest

Find jobs without your boss finding you
DuckTest is a social platform where professionals and recruiters connect. DuckTest gives users discretion over how their personal information is shared, which enables: 1) open and honest connections between users about jobs, careers, and employers 2) protection ...

ScriptShow.com - mobile e-commerce professional networking digital entertainment

ScriptShow.com

Linkedin for the entertainment industry
ScriptShow connects the content creators of the four main industry sectors (Art,Literature,Music,Film) and the consumers that are constantly hungry for new content in an online community that inspires creativity, independance, and collaboration. ScriptShow's ultimate ...

Treatings - marketplaces bridging online and offline professional networking collaborative consumption

Treatings

iPhone app that makes professional networking pleasant
Treatings is a community where everyone is open to meeting over coffee to share ideas and opportunities. The free iPhone app leverages your professional experience, current interests and favorite coffee shops to suggest people in your city to chat with. It's a ...

Pintact - mobile contact management professional networking events services

Pintact

Networking Accelerated
Pintact accelerates networking by letting users instantly and securely exchange always up-to-date contact information with one person or many simultaneously. Pintact combines business networking and contact management with the goal of making it simple and efficient ...

Workfolio - blogging platforms human resources professional networking career management

Workfolio

Making people visible
Based on years of research, Workfolio develops products and services that empower professionals be more visible and get the most from the work they do. Our flagship product is an application which allows anyone to easily create a distinctive website for their work ...

Links League - sports social commerce events professional networking

Links League

Golf organization for business professionals
Links League provides a platform for business professionals to expand their professional networks in a more enjoyable way through regularly scheduled events at top golf courses in the New York metropolitan area.

Quick Meet Me - mobile private social networking online dating professional networking

Quick Meet Me

LinkedIn, Meetup & Dating • One Instant Solution
Mobile App / Website that allows users to connect with anyone in the network locally. Using LBS / GPS technology, similar interests, and privacy abilities - you can meet someone instantly that is nearby. Friends, Business or Dating - Quick Meet Me is designed ...

Parlor - communities hospitality professional networking

Parlor

Private members club
At 23 Billion dollars, the market for private clubs is substantial. However, this traditional industry is facing three major points of change: millennials are the largest consumer generation and are reaching an age when they join clubs, club consumers have higher ...

DealSheet - enterprise software financial services information services professional networking

DealSheet

Enterprise marketing for law firms and investment banks
DealSheet is an online marketing platform that helps investment banks and law firms to win new business. Transaction advisors spend $4 Billion on marketing every year, but most still rely on offline, inefficient tactics to source new business leads. With DealSheet, ...

Betobe

Visual networking for b2b
If you run a company you know the importance of not only promoting yourself but your business as well. Betobe lets you create an interactive graphic map of your companies network where you can see how your company relates to others. No infinite feeds of meaningless ...

wireLawyer - lead generation private social networking legal professional networking

wireLawyer

Transactional service network meets the largest virtual law firm in the world.
In a marketplace saturated with consumer facing legal products, wireLawyer is an online B2B platform built by lawyers for lawyers. With its smart document database and curated Q&A, wireLawyer enables small to mid sized law (SMLs) to operate like Big Law- in essence ...

EsqSocial - social media B2B legal professional networking

EsqSocial

The Professional Network for Attorneys
EsqSocial is a vertical B2B professional networking platform for attorneys with social networking nuances. EsqSocial has three separate and distinct revenue streams: (i) the referral sharing network, (ii) the legal services marketplace, and (iii) the legal recruiter ...

elloBEE - professional networking

elloBEE

Network Efficiently
elloBEE is designed with ‘Lean Thinking’ and is an efficient, seamless, and a simple way for actively connecting with the right people without having to use business cards. Seek out talented individuals with the right skill sets, at the right time, anywhere, on-the-go ...

Braincupboard - social media professional services knowledge management professional networking

Braincupboard

Pinterest for business thinking
A cross between Pinterest and dropbox. Helping professionals store and leverage knowledge. Curating business thinking to make us all cleverer.

Think You, Inc. - social media location based services private social networking professional networking

Think You, Inc.

Streamlining how the world gets connected online.
youPass streamlines how people get connected online. Link with people, live-stream or quick share contact information, and connect in the apps you already use. Like other social networks, you can search for links using any of the contact information you already ...

IndustryGraph - SaaS enterprise software professional networking

IndustryGraph

Ingram Micro meets LinkedIn for Cloud Technology Vendors
Free business development platform for consulting firms, professionals, freelancers and vendors—build a network to get client referrals and grow new business.

Bizzabo - e-commerce events professional networking

Bizzabo

Event Success Platform
Bizzabo is an award-winning event tech startup with offices in New York and Tel Aviv. Our Event Success Platform is used by thousands of events worldwide, which are attended by millions of professionals. Our vision and passion is to make events more successful ...

ArtPort - digital media social media professional networking entertainment industry

ArtPort

LinkedIn for artists
ArtPort is a social network and digital portfolio-building platform for artists. Totally customizable, simple to create, and even easier to share, our digital portfolios aggregate your work from across the web in just a couple of clicks. We help artists grow professionally--collaborating, ...

Collabodate - messaging professional networking creative industries mobile application

Collabodate

Connect with talented people through one-page Skill Cards.
Collabodate is a mobile skill search & chat app. Users showcase their best skills in tiny SkillCards that can be categorized, searched, shared, and used as invitations for chatting with other talented individuals. Collabodate reimagines the social web as a place ...

Canvita - recruiting professional networking customer support tools

Canvita

driving customer loyalty with engaging profiles
Canvita makes it easy to showcase a company's best asset - their people.We are turning the boring professional first impression into dynamic and engaging profiles and team pages. The "about page" is the 2nd most viewed page on most company sites but not being maximized. ...

Caliber - mobile social media private social networking professional networking

Caliber

Private professional network to meet new people and form quality relationships
Connect with professionals who match your interests. Caliber is a fun way to meet new professionals and create new relationships by casually browsing highly personalized lists of the most talented people in the tech industry. - Privately say who interests you ...

Natasha's Court - ventures for good personal data training professional networking

Natasha's Court

N*C organizes data to help workers create sustainable, actionable career plans.
N*C organizes data to empower individuals with the practical knowledge to make career transitions without losing ground. We diminish the skills gap by preparing workers for change. Our customized snapshot lets workers realistically assess their ability to compete ...

Nixie - education social media platforms professional networking creative industries

Nixie

The Creative World. Reimagined. Re-Connected.
Designed for the future by forward thinkers, Nixie aims to bring the creative world together like nothing else has. Human interaction, cross-discipline collaboration, portfolio construction, and appreciation. Gain exposure, find career opportunities, compete and ...

Dateworking - blogging platforms online dating professional networking personal branding

Dateworking

Illuminating how dating and networking can not merely coincide, but mutually progress
Some people use dating to find their one true love. Others use dating as a direct means to sex. Dating sites, however, are increasingly capable of helping you build a solid network of friends and contacts throughout your city and around the world. Need to fly ...

PostRomCom.com - advertising exchanges education professional networking Social Network

PostRomCom.com

First startup comedy --> next-gen variant of LinkedIn --> eBay of customized education
1.0 form of Post-Romantic Comedy (PRC): serial novel. 180 pages written; 4 more chapters outlined. Early chapters double as an equity-crowdfunding pitch. Adapts my business plan for establishing the eBay of customized education (EoCE). BigTech execs praised previous ...

Knozen - mobile games professional networking psychology quantified self

Knozen

We're bringing personality to the internet
Wouldn’t it be great if we knew what people liked about us? Knozen is a mobile app to discover and share personalities with your friends. We use fun, free, social games, in a unique new way, to show people’s personalities, so that you can let people know ...

CoffeetheApp - ios human resources professional networking hr tech

CoffeetheApp

Professional Networking for Jobs
Coffeetheapp is a mobile community of hiring managers & job seekers. We want to make job search social!

MerchantFuse - e-commerce events professional networking event management

MerchantFuse

E-commerce for trade shows
MerchantFuse is a platform that enables exhibition organizers to engage their attendees year round. Check out http://shop.ibslasvegas.com http://shop.americanmadeshow.com

SEAL Future Fund - education ventures for good nonprofits social fundraising professional networking

SEAL Future Fund

A non-profit providing resources to equip Navy SEALs for success in the civilian world.
Navy SEALs are among the most highly trained individuals in the world. This fact is marked by their mental and physical ability to excel under extreme conditions while executing tasks whose outcomes are weighed against life and freedom. These individuals are required ...

Cardcloud - mobile events professional networking

Cardcloud

Cardcloud is your online business card.
Cardcloud on your phone allows you to share online, social business cards with anyone through 3 taps of your finger, and aims to be a network that collects contextual information around new contacts. Download our first app at http://cardcloud.com/iphone RWW: ...

NetEasy - social recruiting professional networking

NetEasy

Location and interest based networking
Students and professionals have increased mobility these days. At every place they visit there might be some old friends from school or some new alumni connections that are willing to help them with their professional needs and possibly form lifelong relationships. ...

WireBig - communities networking events professional networking

WireBig

Networking Venue
Wirebig is a group networking platform, a disruptive way of making the most beneficial networking connections in online communities and gatherings. Homepage for organizing online events and networking all participants before live gatherings such as conferences ...

Shapr - my people are your people - professional networking

Shapr - my people are your people

The 1st professional social discovery app- based on the mutual sharing of trusted contacts
Shapr is the simple way to grow authentic business relationships – through the people you really know and trust. Share your network in a collaborative space. Discover relevant and interesting people – one step away – and get connected with context and credibility. • ...

The Creative Finder - search professional networking creative industries creative

The Creative Finder

A global platform for creative content, collaboration and discovery.
The Creative Finder is a global platform for creative content, collaboration, and discovery. We are a marketplace for businesses to hire creatives, and is the pioneer that enables the proper use of copyrighted content online. http://www.thecreativefinder.com Named ...

Ohours - marketplaces professional networking

Ohours

Ohours builds relationships through face-to-face conversations
Open hours help you meet new people, connect over shared interests, and structure your time together - so you spend more time with people and less on logistics. Ohours can be in person or by video chat, so you get to know each other whenever, wherever works ...

EventBrowsr.com - sales automation events professional networking social search

EventBrowsr.com

Helping you find the events you want to attend
EventBrowsr.com helps you find the (networking) events you want to attend, and make the most out of attending them. We aggregate all events and build rich attendee lists for these events by identifying the attendees and matching them with their LinkedIn profile ...

Hakka Labs - social media platforms professional networking software engineering

Hakka Labs

Project networking and reputation for engineers
Hakka Labs is building the first project networking and reputation platform for software engineers. Developers love to talk about their craft, but require more context and filtering than are currently offered by existing platforms to establish quality connections ...

The House - events private social networking professional networking

The House

Soho House meets Aspen Institute
The House curates powerful and game changing conversations among influential leaders across sectors. Conversations are focused on generating innovative business solutions, exploring new approaches, and taking action. Core offering is intimate gatherings and dinners ...

Switch - social recruiting recruiting professional networking

Switch

Job discovery for people with jobs
Switch is reinventing the job marketplace one smartphone swipe at a time. Specifically designed for in-demand, start-up-friendly candidates -- engineers, product developers, designers, marketers and salespeople -- Switch provides a means to browse interesting positions ...

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