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Afroland
AfroLandTV is an OTT streaming media platform for Pan-African TV shows and movies. The company's platform helps to stream movies and television content from African American, African, Black-European, Afro-Latino and the Caribbean sources. The content is distributed on a range of platforms, including Peacock and Xumo.
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- AfroLandTV Now Available on Xumo and other platforms
- Where Are They Now: 6 Accelerator Alumni Who Did Big Things in 2021
- Comcast Announces Exclusive Premiere Of Founding In Color
- Now Streaming: Black Films From Around the Globe, Thanks to AfroLandTV
- Demo Day 2020: Startups Present Innovations, Partnership Deals Following LIFT Labs Accelerator
- Comcast NBCUniversal Selects 11 Startups for Third Annual LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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alive5
Alive5 helps organizations, including Comcast Business, create the best messaging experiences with their audiences. The company uses chatbot technology to engage with customers through website live chat, SMS, and social, all in one team inbox.
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- Mentoring Startups Brings Fresh Lens to Complex Problems
- “Life-Changing Experience” in Accelerator Helps alive5 Transform Digital Messaging for Businesses
- 6 Reasons to Stop What You’re Doing and Apply to Our Startup Accelerator Now
- Applications Now Open For Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered By Techstars
- Demo Day of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars, Showcases 10 Companies in Inaugural Class
- Messaging Meets Payments with alive5
- Startups Selected for Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Beam Health Group
Beam Health is focused on providing lightweight telemedicine solutions for healthcare providers. The company's application lets patients speak with their physicians whenever and wherever they are and offers an end-to-end telemedicine experience for healthcare providers, without having to download an application.
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Butter
Butter Insurance connects communities of business operators to give them access to modern property and liability insurance at a significantly lower cost than other insurance providers. Butter Insurance is addressing the 30M neighborhood businesses that pay over $140B in annual insurance premiums.
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Cast
Cast is an automation platform that uses AI-generated personalized content to help companies scale growth and revenue from existing customers. Cast connects customer insights to actionable recommendations and practical advice at scale, enabling customer-facing teams to understand data and automate growth, revenue, and referrals.
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Charisma
Charisma.ai is a technology that helps creatives develop interactive narratives. It enables audiences to be cast inside experiences and speak to characters to hyper-personalize the narratives to each individual in real-time. Charisma is working with a number of different parts of the business, including Sky and Universal Destinations and Experiences, to bring characters to life through interactive experiences.
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Coactive
Coactive brings structure to organizations’ unstructured image and video data by automatically analyzing at scale to understand what’s inside the content and make it searchable. Coactive is working with Comcast to leverage its video analysis capability to create personalized content for viewers.
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Conservation Labs
Conservation Labs is a smart water meter that provides consumption insights, custom conservation recommendations, and leak detection.
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Covatic
Covatic is a private-by-design SDK solution for cross-platform connected advertising and marketing. It offers 100% addressability and detailed audience segmentation with an ‘on-device’ approach which means no cookies, personal IDs, or logins—no personal data is exposed. They are working with a range of teams across Comcast, NBCUniversal, and Sky.
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- Startup Mentorship Keeps Kevin Greenwald at the Forefront of Advertising Innovation
- Demo Day 2020: Startups Present Innovations, Partnership Deals Following LIFT Labs Accelerator
- Covatic Delivers Personalized Content While Keeping Data Private
- Comcast NBCUniversal Selects 11 Startups for Third Annual LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Cue Audio
CUE provides an offline, network-free communications protocol using ultrasonic audio. See what the Power of Sound can do for you.
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- Ready for LIFToff? Connecting Enterprise-Ready Startups With Comcast NBCUniversal
- How CUE Audio Makes the World More Accessible With Data-Over-Audio
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Diana AI
Diana AI is a plug-and-play search, voice-driven, and AI-powered data platform that delivers business insights from natural language requests. Users interact with Diana AI, in plain English both typed or spoken, enabling them to ask simple questions and get insights from their data in seconds.
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- VIDEO: LIVE@LIFT – Fundraising Through Uncertainty
- Comcast CTO Matt Zelesko Gets a Jolt of Energy by Mentoring Startups
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Have a Conversation With Your Data With Diana AI
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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edisn.ai
edisn.ai delivers interactive and personalized content to sports fans by applying its AI-powered player recognition engine to live video streams in real time. The team launched a pilot project with Comcast’s Watch with Xfinity platform to deliver interactive content for football games and will leverage this capability for other kinds of content going forward. They are also in pilot discussions with [NBC10/Telemundo 62 Philadelphia] for sports and news content, and with Universal Pictures for entertainment content.
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- Where Are They Now: 6 Accelerator Alumni Who Did Big Things in 2021
- Where Are They Now? 8 LIFT Labs Accelerator Alumni Thriving With Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- This Personalized Fan Experience is Changing How People Watch Sports
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Eino
eino is a cloud-based AI solution for automated and efficient network capacity planning management. eino's software streamlines the ongoing workflow of capacity management by predicting user experience and revenue streams, analyzing network failures and growth opportunities, and determining the optimal optimization or upgrade solution. eino has worked with Comcast Business and Comcast's Wireless Strategy team.
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Employee Cycle
Employee Cycle is a human resource analytics dashboard designed to gain actionable workforce insights. The company leverages the accessibility of application programming interfaces from a wide variety of HR systems. It combines disconnected workforce data from different systems into one user-friendly platform, enabling clients to view, track and analyze all their people data in one place.
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- Eight Startups Announce Pilots or Agreements with Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky following 2021 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Employee Cycle’s Data-Driven Platform Powers Human Resources
- Meet the 11 Startups Selected for the 2021 NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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eyecandylab
eyecandylab enables content creators to build engaging and interactive AR-experiences on video, driving user engagement and monetizing it by uniting all devices into one seamless experience. The company offers a revolutionary AR solution for broadcasters and content producers to add an interactive component to their video content. By pointing AR-enabled smartphones or tablets at any video screen, the interaction layer is overlaid on the core content, harmonizing them into a singular, seamless experience. They were acquired in 2023 by Accedo.
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- Applications Now Open For Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered By Techstars
- Demo Day of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars, Showcases 10 Companies in Inaugural Class
- How eyecandylab is Bringing Augmented Reality to TV
- Startups Selected for Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Fade
Fade Technology is a content-agnostic in-video commerce platform intended to monetize video and advertising content. The company's platform allows in-video purchases from movies, shows, and ad products on streaming services and digital publishing platforms, enabling viewers to make in-video purchases directly.
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GameOn App Inc.
GameOn partners with sports, media, and entertainment companies to launch brand-building, revenue-generating NFT-based games. The company helps brands to engage, retain and monetize audiences by driving participation in the economic cycle of NFT gamification.
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- Where Are They Now: 6 Accelerator Alumni Who Did Big Things in 2021
- As More Move to Miami, Startups Seize the Moment
- Comcast NBCUniversal Selects 11 Startups for Third Annual LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Why Comcast’s VP of Entertainment Technology Loves Mentoring Startups
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Your Next Sports Obsession? This Simple Yet Addicting (and Free) Prediction App
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Glow Up Games
Glow Up Games is a game studio centering on innovative storytelling about black and brown joy. The company seeks to build beautifully crafted mobile-first titles for the new gaming majority.
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- D.C.’s Collaborative, Creative Startup Ecosystem: a Virtual Visit
- Demo Day 2020: Startups Present Innovations, Partnership Deals Following LIFT Labs Accelerator
- Meet the Women Giving the Gaming Industry a Much-Needed Glow Up
- Comcast NBCUniversal Selects 11 Startups for Third Annual LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Holodia
Holodia is the developer of a virtual reality technology intended to create immersive and adaptable virtual reality for the fitness and sports industry. The company provides a VR fitness software platform that offers multi-sport immersive VR training and merges gaming and fitness leading to enhanced user engagement.
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- Eight Startups Announce Pilots or Agreements with Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky following 2021 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Work Up a Virtual Reality Sweat With Holodia
- Meet the 11 Startups Selected for the 2021 NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Honeycomb Credit
Honeycomb Credit is a first-of-its-kind small business loan crowdfunding platform where businesses can borrow funds from their own customers and fans. With nearly $10m already deployed to small businesses across its platform, Honeycomb is connecting businesses to an untapped source of investment capital: their community. Honeycomb is at once expanding access to capital for businesses underserved by traditional finance and turning everyday people into local small business investors.
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HUSSLUP
HUSSLUP enables creators in media and entertainment to build a diverse global community through personal profiles with verified credits, vouchers, and encrypted creative samples. Users can connect with each other and create and share annotated contact lists organized by project. HUSSLUP is LinkedIn for the entertainment industry.
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- Event Replay- Diversity Beyond Recruiting: Building Your Holistic DEI Strategy from StartOut
- New Talent Platform Connects Creatives With Movie & TV Producers
- Eight Startups Announce Pilots or Agreements with Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky following 2021 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Meet the 11 Startups Selected for the 2021 NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Imaginario
Imaginario AI is a video creation platform that streamlines the content creation process. The platform uses contextual AI to make video content searchable down to the scene level. Users can search for scenes inside long videos and find specific shots to edit for clipping moments, shortening clips, adding logos and color palettes, and generating sketches for ideation, enabling creative artists and content developers to turn their video catalogs into engaging short-form content.
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INVISICARE
INVISICARE offers older adults and their caregivers a solution for safe home aging leveraging a technology that removes the issue of usability, the main barrier to digital solutions adoption by the aging population.
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- Ready for LIFToff? Connecting Enterprise-Ready Startups With Comcast NBCUniversal
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Inworld
Inworld is a platform that enables developers and creators to build AI-driven virtual characters and deploy them into their immersive experiences, such as games, virtual worlds, interactive content, and training. Inworld is working with Comcast NBCUniversal, Sky, and other business units on proofs of concept that leverage their technology to create interactive, animated characters and personalized experiences for sports.
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Kidas
Kidas is a software that helps parents protect their kids online, by monitoring gameplay for potential harassment, bullying, or online predation. The system alerts parents about potentially dangerous activities in their child's digital life and provides education and best practices around online safety.
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- Where Are They Now: 6 Accelerator Alumni Who Did Big Things in 2021
- Demo Day 2020: Startups Present Innovations, Partnership Deals Following LIFT Labs Accelerator
- Ron Kerbs’ Startup, Kidas, Protects Kids Online Without Invading Privacy
- Comcast NBCUniversal Selects 11 Startups for Third Annual LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Startup That Monitors Online Bullying Raises $2M
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Kosmi
Kosmi is an entertainment platform designed to make online hangouts easy. The company's platform allows users to create a chat room for playing games, watching videos, and socializing through video, voice, and text chat, enabling users to meet and communicate.
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KYD Labs
kyd labs is a Web3 live event ticketing platform powered by the Solana protocol. The platform enables promoters, venues, and artists to increase revenue through ticket resale royalties, unlock robust loyalty through progressive rewards to drive purchases in and outside of venues, and enable venue, artists, and event organizers to receive same-day payouts with 0% merchant fees.
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LLUNA
LLUNA is the TeamOS for modern employers. The company combines personal operating profiles and smart dashboards that seek to build high-performing teams by increasing connection, effectiveness, and productivity for individuals, teams, and companies. TeamOS is designed to deliver real-time insights through comprehensive Team Boards powered by personal operating profiles (POPs). By showcasing team dynamics, TeamOS helps leaders more effectively manage and empowers teams to optimize their ways of working. Lluna is piloting its platform with a number of teams across Comcast and NBC.
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- LLUNA Fosters Belonging and Motivation for Hybrid or Remote Teams
- All Eleven Startups in the 2022 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator Announce Partnerships with Comcast, NBCUniversal, or Sky
- Comcast NBCUniversal Selects 12 Startups for Fifth LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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LootLocker
LootLocker is a game backend-as-a-service designed to unlock the tools needed to build, ship, and run a variety of games. The company's service provides pre-made game features and live operations tools regardless of genre, scope, and engine, enabling all game developers to develop and manage engaging cross-platform games.
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- Game Designers Rejoice: LootLocker’s Tools Help Build, Run, and Ship Games
- Eight Startups Announce Pilots or Agreements with Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky following 2021 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Meet the 11 Startups Selected for the 2021 NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Messy.FM
Messy.FM is an all-in-one podcasting solution for businesses and brands, such as Comcast, to create podcasts with a DIY episode creation software, and then share them on a secure, SSO-enabled private employee listening platform.
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- Randi Zuckerberg’s Key to Success? A “Well-Lopsided” Life
- Startup Advice: 10 Best Tips from 2019
- 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting a Podcast
- Comcast CTO Matt Zelesko Gets a Jolt of Energy by Mentoring Startups
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Inside Molly Beck’s Bold Plan to Take Podcasting Mainstream
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Monterey AI
Monterey AI accelerates product development by synthesizing and analyzing unstructured data from multiple sources, including user feedback, support tickets, social media mentions, and call logs, enriched by business and behavioral metrics. Monterey is working with a number of teams at Comcast to bring scalable and actionable product analytics solutions company-wide.
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Moone
Moone is an AI assistant that analyzes free-form text feedback from employees to provide individualized action plans for employees and actionable insights for managers to increase team satisfaction.
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Mtion Interactive
Mtion connects video game live streamers to their fans through interactive 3D experiences in VR and on the web, enabling streamers to get their own virtual production stage to stream from and for their fans to interact with.
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Nagish Inc.
Nagish provides AI-powered real time captioning. The company's soution is able to convert text-to-speech and speech-to-text in real time to be used by as a communication platform for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
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- More Accessibility For Deaf Community With Nagish
- Eight Startups Announce Pilots or Agreements with Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky following 2021 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Meet the 11 Startups Selected for the 2021 NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Neon Wild
Neon Wild is a family entertainment platform designed to help children star in their own immersive stories. The company's platform is built on a universe of imagination and requires only a picture for character transformation, enabling users to have a safe, educational experience and fun way to spend screen time. They are working with Dreamworks Animation on new experiences for children.
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NICKLpass
NICKLpass is a digital, multi-team pass that grants instant access to elite news platforms (Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Business Insider, Wired, Techcruch, and more). The company is a subscription-based content management platform that gives access to news articles, research reports, videos, and data from multiple sources with one login, enabling clients to manage their news reports in a hassle-free manner.
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- VIDEO: LIVE@LIFT– Why The World Needs Entrepreneurs More Than Ever
- Applications Open for the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Sick of Hitting Paywalls? Get Your Teams All the News they Need with NICKLPass
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Andrei Papancea, Vlad Papancea, & Peter Szerzo
New York City, NY
NLX
NLX is a conversational AI platform built for enterprises enabling automated, measurable, and highly scalable customer experiences across channels. Comcast's Customer Experience team is piloting NLX's technology to transform interactive communications with customers across a range of platforms.
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NNEXT
Nnext is a neural search engine intended to power AI applications. The company offers an open-source database tailored for ML applications that stores the useful intermediate outputs of ML applications not captured by current database solutions.
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Orai
Orai is an AI-powered app for practicing presentations and getting instant feedback on areas of improvement through interactive, fun lessons and detailed analysis of recorded speech, tracking and insights.
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- More than 200 Founders Sound Off on Building Startup Ecosystems
- When You’re In, You’re Family: A Look at Philadelphia’s Startup Culture
- Portfolio
- 6 Reasons to Stop What You’re Doing and Apply to Our Startup Accelerator Now
- Applications Now Open For Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered By Techstars
- Demo Day of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars, Showcases 10 Companies in Inaugural Class
- Orai: The Cure for Public Speaking Phobias
- Startups Selected for Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Paco
Paco is an intelligent workflow assistant that helps teams eliminate distractions, capture to-dos and tasks from multiple communication channels allowing employees to focus on their work. The Comcast Technology, Product, Xperience team has launched a proof of concept with Paco. Paco is currently addressing the $3B customer success platforms market which is growing 25% year over year.
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- Paco Puts the Success into Customer Success
- Eight Startups Announce Pilots or Agreements with Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky following 2021 Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Meet the 11 Startups Selected for the 2021 NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Parallux
Parallux is a powerful 3D authoring tool that enables brands and creators to design and host virtual spaces without any technical background or expertise. Squarespace for the Metaverse.
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Percepta
Percepta provides support to the automotive, mobility, and auto-adjacent markets by creating frictionless experiences for their customers. The company's global contact center solutions focus on delivering seamless customer experiences across every touchpoint, from engaging with customers during the pre-sales decision making stage to managing and resolving concerns. The company was acquired by ADT in 2020.
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Polycade
Polycade turns video games into in-person social events with an engaging, connected arcade console and a curated, digital gaming platform. After successfully raising $120k above a $20k ask on Kickstarter, the company reached over $750,000 in sales, without any marketing. Their active pilot customers include WeWork, Grubhub, and Comcast Business.
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- Where Are They Now? 8 LIFT Labs Accelerator Alumni Thriving With Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising
- The Arcade System Steve Aoki, Lil Jon and Juelz Santana Can’t Stop Playing
- Exit Interview: Polycade Poised to Disrupt Gaming After Comcast NBCUniversal Accelerator
- Hey, Startups! Need Elevation? Meet the Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Team at SXSW!
- 6 Reasons to Stop What You’re Doing and Apply to Our Startup Accelerator Now
- Applications Now Open For Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered By Techstars
- Demo Day of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars, Showcases 10 Companies in Inaugural Class
- Introducing Polycade: The Retro Arcade of the Future
- Startups Selected for Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Portl Media
Portl is the personalized entertainment platform for rideshare vehicles today and autonomous vehicles tomorrow. After an initial test in Toronto that drove 89% user engagement, the company has signed content and advertising deals with partners including Vice and Nestle and will soon be piloting in cities in the US, including Philadelphia. Portl also negotiated a deal with a major telco provider to activate hundreds of thousands of tablets on the telco’s network nationwide through 2023.
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- Applications Now Open For Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered By Techstars
- Demo Day of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars, Showcases 10 Companies in Inaugural Class
- Bringing Entertainment to Rideshares and Driverless Cars: Welcome to the World of Portl Media
- Startups Selected for Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Reality Defender
Reality Defender’s proprietary deepfake and AI-generated content detection helps enterprises, governments, and platforms prevent associated risks across audio, video, images, and text. They are piloting their technology with NBCUniversal, including exploring solutions to secure outbound NBCUniversal content in the public space.
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Ashray Malhotra, Shivam Mangla, & Nisheeth Lahoti
San Francisco, CA
Rephrase.ai
Rephrase.ai leverages generative AI to create lifelike digital avatars, making video creation as simple as writing text. With their personalization software, businesses can connect with customers on a one-on-one level by delivering personalized videos at scale for sales, marketing, and customer education purposes. Comcast's Customer Experience team is collaborating with Rephrase.ai on a pilot project that utilizes their technology to create personalized customer education videos.
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respeecher
Respeecher uses AI technology to transform voices, allowing one person to speak in the voice of another. During the program, Respeecher built relationships with partners that cover over 75 percent of the U.S. entertainment box office and over 40 percent of the audiobooks market. They were also able to improve their product, which now requires five times less time for converted speech delivery.
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- Where Are They Now? 8 LIFT Labs Accelerator Alumni Thriving With Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising
- Lombardi Super Bowl Ad Features Voice Technology by LIFT Labs Alum Respeecher
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Ryff
Developer of artificial intelligence-based imaging technology software designed to integrate the future of brands. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence and visual computing to identify, place, and replace products within streaming content, enabling creators and advertisers a flexible platform to change, alter or replace any object, person, or background in a video frame.
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Seenspire
Seenspire visualizes fresh & engaging content sourced, curated & delivered by the first streaming service for public TV’s, in spaces where people work, wait and buy. Today Seenspire is reimagining the way we consume content in the home, by introducing the always-on MediaCanvas for your Home TV, which can be used as a "Continuous Information Hub" in ambient mode. The MediaCanvas does not require your full attention, but is still informative, entertaining and personalized.
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Sequel
Sequel provides white-label technology that powers virtual connections, hybrid live events, and elevated networking in a branded experience. Beginning with Demo Day, Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs will use Sequel to power its virtual events, while the Comcast Town Hall team is helping to extend the technology to all internal teams looking to hold interactive, virtual events. In addition, Comcast is piloting the Sequel networking hub as an everyday platform for community and networking for employees. During the past two months, the team has started over 50 projects with companies like TIME and Brand Minds.
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- Where Are They Now: 6 Accelerator Alumni Who Did Big Things in 2021
- Demo Day 2020: Startups Present Innovations, Partnership Deals Following LIFT Labs Accelerator
- Goodbye Screen Fatigue: This Startup Makes Virtual Events Engaging and Interactive
- Comcast NBCUniversal Selects 11 Startups for Third Annual LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
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Seshie
Seshie is a marketplace of expert guides offering live and virtual team-building experiences for organizations to increase employee morale and build company culture. During the program, teams from across Comcast NBCUniversal, as well as from companies such as Penn Mutual and Hawthorne, have booked virtual experiences through the Seshie platform, which now features 100+ virtual experiences.
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SoLo Funds
SoLo is a marketplace community allowing members to easily access and supply short-term funds for immediate needs. SoLo is an online community where members can request and fund short-term needs. SoLo launched in 2018 with the goal of providing an alternative to short-term loans that were non-predatory, simple, and community-driven. Since then, they've processed over 100,000+ loans and redefined lending for 300,000+ users. Today, they're driven to newheights, but grounded in the same hope and mission: to build a community that enables financial autonomy for all.
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Sporttrade
Sporttrade is a financial exchange for sports. Since the start of the accelerator, Sporttrade has signed a letter of intent with an institutional trading entity, which has agreed to be a designated market maker on the Sporttrade exchange when it launches.
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- Where Are They Now: 6 Accelerator Alumni Who Did Big Things in 2021
- Startup That Lets You Trade Sporting Events Like Stocks Raises $36 Million
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Struct Club
Struct Club elevates how music-inspired fitness instructors choreograph and deliver classes. The team welcomed its first paying customers, piloted the platform in the Comcast Technology Center’s Fitness Center, and maintained 10 percent weekly growth of instructors on average. The company launched a wave of new features as well as a partnership with the Women in Fitness Association, called Struct Scholars, to accelerate the careers of diverse emerging women in the fitness industry.
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- Why Comcast’s VP of Entertainment Technology Loves Mentoring Startups
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Struct Club: Changing Fitness Classes One Song at a Time
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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TakeShape
TakeShape is a mesh layer to connect 3rd party applications to the JAM stack by combining services and data into a single endpoint. The company's product allows developers import and edit the data from connected services, combine the data from multiple services together and add new managed fields.
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The GIST
The GIST is a women-founded and operated sports media brand seeking to level the playing field in sports journalism through website, newsletter, podcast and social presence.
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- The GIST, a Sports Community For Women, Partnering With NBA, Fanduel, and Raising Seed Round
- Where Are They Now? 8 LIFT Labs Accelerator Alumni Thriving With Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising
- Why Comcast’s VP of Entertainment Technology Loves Mentoring Startups
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- Sports News For Women and By Women: Welcome to The GIST
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Trapica
Trapica is an AI-based targeting optimization and marketing automation platform for social network marketing campaigns that help businesses, including Comcast, to acquire and engage with their most valuable customers, while providing powerful go-to-market intelligence insights about brands audiences and competitors.
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- Where Are They Now? 8 LIFT Labs Accelerator Alumni Thriving With Corporate Partnerships and Fundraising
- 6 Reasons to Stop What You’re Doing and Apply to Our Startup Accelerator Now
- Applications Now Open For Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered By Techstars
- Demo Day of Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars, Showcases 10 Companies in Inaugural Class
- Say Goodbye to Wasted Social Media Ad Dollars with Trapica
- Startups Selected for Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Uncanny
Uncanny is the first-ever, real-time production AI for livestreaming, turning streamers into broadcasters.
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- Startup Provides “Core Infrastructure” to Turn Live Streamers Into Pro Broadcasters
- The Future of Esports? Inclusion, Mobile Gameplay and Intense Training
- 11 Tech Founders Debut Elevated Startups Following Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, powered by Techstars
- The ‘Gym Equipment’ for eSports is Powered by Pivan Interactive’s AI
- Startups Selected for Second Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator, Powered by Techstars
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Visura
Visura is platform for publishers to license visual content from freelancers, a website builder for content creators, and a catalog of images for sale. Visura operates a two-sided marketplace for visual storytellers executed via SaaS and D2C services, community, and a global curated marketplace.
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WorkChew
WorkChew is an online platform designed to turn dynamic restaurants into safe workspaces with discounted eats. The company's platform provides affordable co-working spaces along with food, drinks, and tools including high-speed and reliable wifi, enabling professionals with savings on food and beverages and access to essential co-working services all without the high cost.
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Wscripted
Wscripted’s goal is to expedite producers' and studios' discovery of diverse writers and content, thereby expanding opportunities for those writers. They are developing a technology that can quickly summarize narratives and are exploring opportunities to work with NBCUniversal to understand how a tool like this can potentially be helpful in their review of writers’ materials.
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Zoog
Zoog is a visual communications platform that allows family members to interact with each other in a fresh and fun way. With Zoog, anyone can read stories, sing songs, and more while creating a stunning video, all with the push of a button. The company's platform offers an asynchronous communication experience to bring books to life using built-in AR masks, filters, sound effects, and animations, enabling people to create meaningful family moments. They have worked with Dreamworks Animation to create new experiences for children and families.
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