LAS VEGAS — The last round of startups selected to participate at the 2018 NAB Show in Las Vegas has been cemented, giving them a chair at SPROCKIT—the global marketplace that curates, connects and fosters collaboration between top market-ready startups and media, entertainment and technology companies.
Participants are vetted and selected based on their potential to offer real solutions to challenges in today’s evolving market that many established media and entertainment companies face.
The startups will be featured in the SPROCKIT Hub in the Innovation Pipeline, located in the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Additionally, the participating startups will have the opportunity to connect with SPROCKIT corporate members, including FOX Networks Group, Google, Hearst Television, Samsung NEXT, TEGNA, Univision and Verizon Digital Media Services at SPROCKIT Sync meetings throughout the year.
“The SPROCKIT community continues to strengthen as we add more industry game-changers,” said SPROCKIT founder and CEO Harry Glazer. “In the last five years, SPROCKIT companies have completed hundreds of partnership, funding and acquisition deals, and raised hundreds of millions of dollars to inject the media and entertainment industries with innovative solutions. Congrats to the 2018 class!”
The final round of startups are as follows:
•Barometric offers unified measurement with a single pixel solution
•Connekt advances television advertising with AI-driven technology
•Overcast HQ provides management solutions with augmented intelligence that streamline how companies review, approve and collaborate on video
•Promethean.TV allows broadcasters to serve intelligent commerce and engagement opportunities to viewers in real time
•Stainless Code generates live metadata for media automation and next-generation experiences through breakthrough AI
•Streann is a proprietary software as a service platform that is reinventing content distribution, engagement and monetization with patent pending digital advertising technology
•Tellyo allows rights holders to easily create and share unique stories from live content
•Teltoo increases the quality of livestreams and optimizes delivery costs using software-only, decentralized video delivery technology
•Wicket Labs delivers actionable insights to media companies with shifting audiences in the evolving television marketplace
SPROCKIT is a global marketplace that curates, connects and fosters collaboration among leading media, entertainment and technology companies and world’s top market-ready startups to bring innovative products, services and revenue models to market. Since its launch in 2013, more than 125 emerging companies have participated in SPROCKIT, experiencing numerous successful funding rounds, partnerships and acquisitions. The 2017 cohort raised more than $237 million in funding, including more than $100 million after joining SPROCKIT. For more information, visit www.sprockitglory.com.
