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OptionsCity is a financial technology company founded in 2006 by three Chicago software professionals and friends who shared the same passion and vision for technology and options trading. Together, Hazem Dawani, Rudy Fasouliotis, and Victor Glava created a powerful, intuitive, and reliable product that would change the way traders conducted business. The founders brought their experience and drive from previous leading roles at a successful Chicago options trading company.
Oyster is the leading subscription service for books, offering readers unlimited access to over 1 million books—everything from New York Times Best Sellers and award-winners to children's titles and more. Readers can browse and discover on their own, or get expert recommendations from our editorial team. Over time, Oyster gets to know what readers like, and recommends books based on their reading habits and tastes. Oyster is available for Apple iOS, Android, Nook HD, and Kindle Fire, as well as on the web. Launched in 2013, Oyster is headquartered in New York City and is backed by Founders Fund and Highland Capital Partners.
Rubikloud is a retail intelligence platform that transforms a traditional omni-channel retailer into a modern data-driven retailer. What does this mean? Founded in 2013, Rubikloud has been quietly working with some of the world’s largest retail conglomerates and brands on revolutionizing their data capabilities. The Rubikloud platform has already processed over 20 billion in transactions from 8 countries and over 5000 stores. Rubikloud aims to help the retailer through two data transformation stages: 1) We ingest, cleanse and convert traditional data sources into the Rubikloud big data compliant format. 2) Rubikloud platform enables the retailer to deliver true promotion, product, and price personalization. Not only does Rubikloud provide the machine learning to generate the personalization campaigns, but the platform also integrates directly into the execution pieces such as the email marketing system, promotional builders, and point of sale systems. Rubikloud is based in Toronto with an industry leading team from leading open source big data contributions, machine learning disciplines, and deep retail expertise. Rubikloud has raised $8.5 million led by Horizons Ventures over the past year and is on a 200% year over year growth rate.
Italic lets individuals buy no-label nice things straight from the world`s best factories. Consumers get truly unbeatable value, factories bypass brands to earn more money, and Italic handles everything else from shipping to support.
In 2003, the Glam Media founders had a vision that was simple and revolutionary - that people will be the filters for all content and commerce for consumers. Glam pioneered the next generation media model by connecting vertical social media and brand advertisers with targeted vertical audiences online. Since its launch in 2005, it has grown to reach more than 280 million monthly unique visitors globally - and is #1 for lifestyle, #1 for women and a Top 10 US Web Property as measured by comScore. Glam has more than 4,500 premium content creators organized across multiple verticals online including Glam.com for style, entertainment & home; Brash.com for men, Bliss.com for health & wellness, Foodie for Food and Tend for Parenting. In 2011 it bought the social media pioneer Ning, which has over 100,000 social networks with a professional monthly subscription business. Glam is a technology driven media company with one of the largest brand ad platforms - Glam Adapt for premium display, rich media, social, mobile and video making it the 9th largest publisher in the US as measured by comScore. Glam Media is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices in Brisbane, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Munich, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Pune and Mumbai.