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Adsafe Media uses computational neurosciensce and bleeding edge pattern recognition technology to analyze billions of Internet URLs to interpret text, image and video content with the goal of protecting brand advertisers from inappropriate adjacencies.
 
Appnexus is an enterprise cloud computing firm that provides infrastructure building blocks to deploy and manage high availability applications quickly, securely, and reliably primarily to the online advertising industry. The CEO is Brian O'Kelly, a co-Founder and CTO of RightMedia. Investors including Khosla Ventures, First Round Capital, Venrock; Kodiak Venture Partners and Marc Andreessen.
 
ChallengePost's mission is to harness innovation through a prize model. It is an online marketplace where unsolved consumer and corporate problems can reach skilled problem solvers. The Board of Directors includes Steve Wozniak, the Co-Founder of Apple Computer.
 
Dimestore Media is a new kind of digital media company providing advertisers with a true set of engagement metrics. Dimestore can instrument any online advertising campaign to provide rich engagement and transactional data. The company's founders include David Moore and Scott Cohen who founded 24/7 RealMedia. The co-CEOs is Doug McFarland who led business development at Advertising.com and EyeBlaster and also served as the CEO of ScanScout.
 
Jango is a social music service that lets consumer create and share custom radio stations. With over 30 million monthly unique visitors in the US, and 300 million monthly page views, Jango has the biggest reach of any other music property in the world. Jango, consumers can play the music they want online, legally and free. Jango is licensed by ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and SoundExchange.
 
Media6° provides major brand marketers with revolutionary analytics and marketing insight that help deliver the right message to the right consumer. The algorithms and methods used by Media6°'s patent pending technology are based on a familiar phrase: "birds of a feather flock together." The firm's CEO is Tom Phillips a member of the original management team at Starwave Corporation, where beginning in 1993 he led the teams that developed ESPN.com, NBA.com, NFL.com, Ticketmaster.com, ABCNews.com forming the first family of vertical Internet media properties. In 1998, Tom became CEO of Deja.com and sold that company to Google and eBay in 2001. Immediately prior to joining Media6°, Tom held a number of senior roles at Google where his duties included overseeing the DoubleClick integration and, subsequently, establishing Google's Search & Analytics team to pioneer new uses for Google data on behalf of Google's largest advertising clients.
 
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