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Affordit helps customers purchase popular products using affordable weekly payments.

Customers purchase popular items by submitting a down payment and making subsequent weekly payments. Purchases are made using a customer's debit card or checking account information tied to their regular bank account. Each week a payment is automatically withdrawn until the purchase period is over. There are no hidden fees or obligations. Affordit customers own their products completely.

Affordit was founded by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter. Wil has launched 6 Internet companies prior to Affordit, including Swapalease.com, the world's largest auto leasing marketplace, the Go BIG Network, the largest community of startup companies and investors, and Blue Diesel, one of the first interactive ad agencies, which he founded in 1994 and is now part of Inventive (VTIV).

Circle Street is a smart platform to drive in-store traffic for retailers. Based in Los Angeles, Circle Street's founders have spent the last 10 plus years working on technology and media solutions for merchants of all sizes. Circle Street was founded to provide merchants better tools to promote their business. Circle Street’s founders, executive team and technology leaders come from Apple, Yahoo!, Mediacom, Quantum Loyalty Systems, Ripple TV, Andersen Consulting, Global Crossing and AboveNet. They are committed to building a world-class product for world-class merchants of all sizes.

Docstoc is the premier online business for the best quality and widest selection of documents used to start, grow, and manage your professional life and small business. Docstoc provides the platform to upload and share documents with the world, and serves as a vast repository of free and for purchase legal, business, financial, technical, and educational documents that can be easily searched, previewed and downloaded.

Docstoc also provides technology through various APIs and Widgets to help facilitate the sharing and promotion of documents across the web. The site has popularized the use of embedding documents throughout the blogosphere and mainstream media (http://docstoc.com/embed-documents)

Docstoc, Inc., was founded by Jason Nazar (bio) and Alon Shwartz (bio). The company was selected in September of 2007 to debut its product at the prestigious TechCrunch40 Conference. The platform was subsequently launched to the public in October 2007.

Docstoc is a venture backed company (Rustic Canyon and CrossCut Ventures) and received funding from the co-founders/investors in MySpace, LowerMyBills, Mp3.com, PriceGrabber and Baidu. Its outside legal counsel is DLA Piper. The company is located in Santa Monica, CA.

GameCrush enables the monetization of online social interactions. Launching with multiplayer gaming, GameCrush users can create profiles that include a wide variety of content tools such as text chat, interests, pictures, blogs, video clips, and more. The GameCrush platform enables a class of users to choose who and what to play while offering another class a way to financially benefit within the social context of gaming. Users can also play for a charity or social cause. Upon the completion of a game, users can rate their experience with those who receive higher ratings being rewarded with increased site visibility.

GraphEffect provides social display optimization services across Facebook, Facebook applications and Facebook Connect websites through the GraphEffect platform. The company specializes in driving social actions, in particular ‘likes’, and was founded in 2010 by James Borow and Clark Landry.

GumGum is the world’s largest in-image ad-network.

Skuffle is a stealthish startup based in San Francisco, CA

Pulpo Media is a leading Hispanic media and technology company that offer advertisers online media as well as a proprietary technology platform, to efficiently and individually engage Hispanics across the web. Pulpo is ranked by comScore Media Metrix as the No. 1 Spanish Primary and No. 2 Bilingual Hispanic online media provider in the U.S., and rated by Quantcast as the No.1 online media provider in Mexico.

The executive team and investor backers behind Pulpo Media combined have a proven record of building successful online media companies such as: AOL, Apple, Doubleclick, Facebook, Google, IAC/Ask, Lowermybills, Shopzilla, Turn, and Yahoo.

Headquartered in Berkeley, CA. with offices in Latin America, Pulpo Media is privately held. Learn more at www.pulpomedia.com.

ShoeDazzle is the leading online fashion brand delivering personalized monthly shoe, handbag and jewelry selections to members by its team of top celebrity stylists. Each recommendation speaks to au courant fashion trends and is selected based on each member’s own distinctive sense of style. The company, which was founded by Brian Lee, Robert Shapiro, MJ Eng, and Kim Kardashian, who serves as the site’s Chief Fashion Stylist, was launched in March 2009 and now boasts nearly one million Facebook fans. ShoeDazzle, the first and most successful online styling service, allows members to experience the personalized service of shopping on Rodeo Drive at an affordable cost. ShoeDazzle’s no-obligation monthly membership cost of $39.95 includes the stylists’ service, your choice of a pair of shoes, a handbag or a jewelry set, and free shipping both ways with easy returns. Visit http://shoedazzle.com for more information.

Exploring the world on Trazzler is like window shopping. Skip the trips that don't appeal to you, but save the ones you like. As you do, your one-of-a-kind taste for travel will inform smarter recommendations tailored to your Travel Personality. While you will certainly find exotic getaways and the stuff of travel fantasies while exploring Trazzler, most of Trazzler's recommendations are within reasonable driving distance, fostering investment in local economies and encouraging more frequent, shorter trips. Trazzler partners with CVBs and hotels for getaway travel deals and writing contests.

Verve monetizes local mobile media. Our solutions help local media companies monetize their mobile inventory and enable advertisers to reach a valuable, premium audience where they live, work and play. Over 1000 local publishers use the Verve platform to manage their mobile advertising businesses and help make their sales teams more effective. In addition, we bring incremental revenue to our publishers through our relationships with national advertisers, who value the Verve network’s high quality local media companies, including the mobile outlets of recognized local media brands as well as newer digital-only local and hyper-local publishers. It is a brand-safe, editorially-driven, high-quality and transparent environment with market-leading targeting, creative and reporting capabilities. Only Verve has assembled such an extensive national footprint of high quality local media. Verve is located in Encinitas, CA and Bethesda, MD. For more information, visit www.vervewireless.com.

Zadspace has created a new form of highly targeted, dynamically generated direct marketing that places ads on the boxes that are shipped to consumers. The company is working with some of the leading advertisers in the world. The company’s equityholders include DFJ – Frontier and Lester Wunderman. Mr. Wunderman is an advertising executive widely considered as the creator of modern-day direct marketing.

Ze Frank Games is a social games company that is still in super secret stealth mode