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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…

 
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.
Founder: Pat Mahoney
 

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

 
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.
Founder: Michael Yavonditte
 

HealthGuru is the leading site for health video on the web, ranked #1 in monthly audience, total minutes streamed, and viewing duration. Its syndication network has served over 1+ billion cumulative video views, optimized for brand sponsors, with the most comprehensive health video library covering 125+ conditions.
CEO: Josh Silberstein
www.healthguru.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
 
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
 
Ticket Evolution is a leading provider of SaaS-based ticket-reseller systems for the large events secondary market.  TE delivers optimized web services to over 475 ticket brokers, including end-to-end POS and CRM integration, inventory and e-commerce management, and API's to market seamlessly via the web's most powerful event & travel aggregators.
President: Greg Doran
www.ticketevolution.com
 

Acquired by Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) in June 2012. 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 consumer engagement.
CEO: Reggie Bradford
www.vitrue.com

 
 
WhoBet
WhoBet integrates social gaming and social currency components to popularize friendly wagers between consumers and to share with their friends. Publishing partners like Deadspin and Rotoworld are testing Whobet widgets to extend social gaming to their media properties.
CEO: Pat Mahoney
www.whobet.com
 
 

YieldMo is rethinking mobile advertising. YieldMo is leveraging the increasing use of mobile devices and how disruptive this shift will be for advertising, publishing and entertainment. The team envisions changing mobile advertising so that it adds value to advertisers, publishers and users.
CEO: Michael Yavonditte
www.yieldmo.com