1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2020: The Tuesday Company, Washington DC

Digital first supporter engagement tools are increasingly becoming a necessity for nonprofits, especially to engage younger supporters. Winner of the 1Mby1M-Blackbaud Social Good Startup Challenge, The Tuesday Company has built a supporter engagement platform called Team to help nonprofits activate volunteers, grow membership, and raise money through the power of friend-to-friend outreach and digital organizing. The current state of pandemic has injected an acute urgency to its clients who have gone from seeing digital first supporter engagement and Team as something they should implement to something they must implement now.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2019: SourceScrub, San Francisco, CA

SourceScrub at its core is a business intelligence database surrounded by a platform that allows the user to find companies or investment opportunities that meet a given criteria. Its main value proposition is that its platform can help uncover founder-owned businesses that either aren’t very active in marketing or have yet to transact.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2019: Kodable, Sunnyvale, CA

Kodable provides a complete plug-and-play curriculum that offers children all the tools they need to learn to code.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2019: Amplify.ai, Palo Alto, CA

According to Statistics MRC, the global contact center market was estimated to be $26 billion in 2018. Amplify.ai claims to be the industry’s first and only AI-driven engagement platform that amplifies customer engagement with immersive and persistent conversations. Its end-to-end platform offers tools to measure, optimize and manage the full lifecycle of a brand experience.

Best of Bootstrapping: Cinedigm Acquires Bootstrapped 1Mby1M Company Future Today for $60 Million

Exciting news: Future Today, a One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) incubated company, has been acquired by entertainment distributor and digital-network operator Cinedigm for $60 Million.

Buy Side

The acquisition is seen as evidence of Cinedigm “making a big new leap into online video” according to Variety, with Future Today being an ad-supported VOD network that operates over 700 free, over-the-top channels.

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2019: Neeman’s, Hyderabad, India

Rising affluent population and demand for designer and comfortable shoes is boosting the footwear market in India. The footwear market is poised to continue its strong growth momentum supported by growing awareness about the latest trends and consciousness among consumers, more involvement from omni-channel retailing and increased trust in branded footwear. Neeman’s is a niche e-retailer that manufactures multi-purpose, comfortable shoes using natural and sustainable fibers with minimal carbon footprint. >>>

1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2019: Bakkbenchers, Mumbai, India

With improved bandwidth, proliferation of smart phones, and the increasing ubiquity of super-fast Internet connections across India, patterns for online content consumption have been changing. Maker of viral hits like Honest Eve Teaser and Demonetized Opinion, Bakkbenchers Entertainment is a technology-enabled, socially distributed digital entertainment company that caters to these changing trends in online video content in India. >>>

Arka Venture Labs Partners with 1Mby1M to Accelerate Indian B-to-B Cloud Startups

Arka Venture Labs and the One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator announce a partnership to benefit Indian B-to-B cloud startups by together offering access to deeper connections into Silicon Valley and comprehensive startup mentoring.

Arka Venture Labs brings together three venture firms who provide the initial capital and open their networks to the benefit of their portfolio companies: Blume Ventures, BGV (Benhamou Global Ventures), and Emergent Ventures.

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