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When it comes to defining Dace Venture’s investment strategy the entrepreneurs we are partnering with, and the companies they are building, tell the story best. While we collaborate with our portfolio teams to apply venture capital and operating experience, their success ultimately belongs to them…

 
auctionPAL helps enterprises and consumers maximize their income by turning unwanted inventories and items into cash. Customers can utilize either powerful SaaS solutions or end-to-end liquidation services. auctionPAL combines Web-enabled technology with expert knowledge, analytics and fraud protection in an easy workflow.
President: Andrew West
www.auctionpal.com
 
Cartera Commerce, formerly Mall Networks, is the leading provider of merchant-funded loyalty shopping solutions that increase revenue, strengthen customer loyalty, and improve member engagement. Industry leaders including Chase, Upromise, Verizon, Delta and USAA rely on Cartera to build loyal, profitable customer relationships.
CEO: Tom Beecher
www.cartera.com
 
CityVoter builds image-based city guides for leading media companies interested in enhancing the local relevancy of their websites and strengthening their relationships with their online communities.
CEO: Josh Walker
www.cityvoter.com
 
Collecta
Collecta enables publishers to harness real-time content inside web sites and mobile applications, by integrating filtered streaming results from its broad base of social media, established news, and unique content sources. Collecta has powered content for CNET, NewsCorp’s MySpace, StarTribune and thousands of others.
CEO: Gerry Campbell
www.collecta.com
 

EveryScape is the real world, online. EveryScape’s platform enables immersive, 3D, photo-realistic experiences of cities and towns, streets and sidewalks, buildings and interiors. Consumers can gather information on stores, services and attractions, interact with advertiser offers and contribute reviews.
CEO: Jim Schoonmaker
www.everyscape.com

 
Exit41 provides web, Facebook, mobile and voice-enabled “social ordering” as part of its loyalty marketing SaaS platform for leading restaurant and hospitality service firms around the globe. Spanning North America, South America, Eastern Europe and Middle East, channel partners include Americana, Cara, Micros and Xpient.
CEO: Chet Barnard
www.exit41.com
 
Hashable
From the creators of Tracked.com, the #Hashable service is a “personal CRM” service for individuals and brands to promote introductions and track real-world connections in social networks both online and via smartphones. Hashable also enables a synchronized directory between social addresses on Twitter and Facebook to email.
CEO: Michael Yavonditte
www.hashable.com
 

Howcast Media merges the personality of user-generated content with professional studio quality to create engaging how-to videos and new opportunities for viewers, producers, distributors, and advertisers. Emerging filmmakers can utilize their technology to gain experience, exposure & income.
CEO: Jason Leibman
www.howcast.com
 
LocaModa’s platform enables consumers to interact with digital screens in public spaces by making a "remote control" out of any phone, on any carrier. Publishers and advertisers can use this new interactivity and commerce to target consumers via out-of-home social-networking, gaming, music and information services.
CEO: Stephen Randall
www.locamoda.com
 
Panraven offers a multimedia service which allows people to chronicle and communicate their life experiences through vibrant, expressive stories that can be viewed and shared online and printed in high-quality professionally bound books.
CEO: Frode Eilertsen
www.panraven.com
 
Rapleaf delivers innovative and effective social-graph data to help advertisers find the right audiences and media publishers serve more personalized content. Rapleaf's services help top F2000 brands in retail, travel, auto, banking, insurance and other sectors gain consumer insight, plan online media and manage fraud risk.
CEO: Auren Hoffman
www.rapleaf.com
 

Vitrue empowers the most trusted global brands to engage with their customers through social media. Vitrue delivers turnkey social marketing campaigns and industry leading expertise for Fortune 1000 brands, agencies and publishers to create powerful two-way dialogues with customers and measurable results.
CEO: Reggie Bradford
www.vitrue.com