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AbeBooks.com is the world’s largest online marketplace for books, with over 100 million new, used, rare, and out-of-print titles listed for sale by more than 13,500 independent booksellers from around the world. AbeBooks has millions of customers who purchase up to 25,000 books a day from its 5 global Web sites. A true internet success story, AbeBooks has been selling books online since 1996, and is a private company based in Victoria, BC Canada, with offices in Germany and the USA. Internet Retailer magazine ranked AbeBooks at No. 70 among North American online retailers in June 2007. (Sold to Amazon in 2008)

adMarketplace is the largest alternative search network in the US. Since 2003, adMarketplace‘s platform has optimized premium Pay Per Click traffic for over 100,000 advertisers while maximizing yield across more than 350,000 web properties. adMarketplace is offered as a managed service to large marketers and agencies and as a self-serve service to advertisers of all sizes.

chloe + isabel is a dynamic and socially innovative jewelry brand designed to connect women through a modern-day social-shopping experience. A destination for fashion-loving, creative and confident women, chloe + isabel believes that today’s women deserve jewelry as exceptional as they are.

Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools. Edmodo provides classrooms a safe and easy way to connect and collaborate, offering a real-time platform to exchange ideas, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices.

Empire Avenue is an influence stock exchange that makes social media fun – and measurable – by tying users’ virtual share price on the site to activity, reach and engagement on external social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and blogs. The more active and influential a user is on the site and around the web, the higher their virtual share price. And as a starter, you can always buy my stock!

Escapio is a leading booking platform for selected hotels. With a selection of exceptional, hand-picked hotels, Escapio provides the consumer the necessary guidance to find the absolutely best hotels in hundreds of locations (check out their hotel selections for Berlin, London or Florence).

Flurry is the number one mobile application analytics solution that helps developers understand exactly how their applications are used so that they make them better and earn more money. Flurry emerged from the merger of Flurry and PinchMedia in December 2009.

GoInstant is the first shared web browsing service. Within just a few seconds and with no downloads or plugins, users can share an interactive browsing experience. GoInstant’s unique technology unleashes new business opportunities to improve customer support and enhance sales on the web.

GrowLab is an early-stage, startup accelerator. It provides entrepreneurs with seed funding, office space and four months of intensive mentorship through a global network of successful startup veterans.

IndieGoGo is the world’s leading self-serve open-funding platform.  Anyone in the world with a dream to make their idea a reality can easily create a campaign to raise money, offer perks and maintain 100 percent ownership.

Indochino is the only online fast fashion provider of tailor made formal wear. Through its close partnerships with Chinese tailors the company can produce hand-tailored and custom-made men suits at prices well below normal retail prices.

Julep is social commerce company that creates innovative and healthy nail polishes, hand and foot care products. Julep is also a community of women celebrating other women in unison and inspiring each other.

Kima Labs was founded in January 2010 by Amazon.com veterans Blake Scholl and Jason Crawford. The company’s mission is to help shoppers through breakthrough mobile technology. The most current project by the company is Deal Flow. Kima Labs is seed funded by A-list angels, including Naval Ravikant, Ron Conway’s SV Angel, and Owen van Natta.

Nexopia.com is the most popular social networking utility for Canadian youth with over 1.2 million registered members and over a billion pages served per month. Always a passionate innovator, Nexopia is dedicated to developing new technologies to help young people stay connected with friends as well as express themselves in the most creative ways possible.

RewardLoop is a universal consumer loyalty network for the mobile age. Its patent-pending customer loyalty technology, which prints secure, transaction-identifying rewards program barcodes (QR codes) on bills and receipts, can measurably increase revenue 5% or more for independent and chain merchants.

SilkStart helps membership organizations grow and succeed by giving them a complete SaaS solution of membership management, events management, and private social networking.

Smore makes it easy for anyone to create beautiful, effective online flyers — highly designed single-page websites with a clear purpose, like marketing an app, promoting an event or selling a product. The company’s vision is to bring great design and professional marketing tools to the mass market.

Sparkbuy is the “Kayak for consumer electronics” making it really easy for consumers to compare laptops (and soon other consumer electronics like televisions) based on the criteria which are important to them. The company is led by Dan Shapiro who previously founded Ontela. (sold to Google in 2011)

Suite101.com is the preferred choice for freelance writers who want to build their publishing careers and reach out to over 30 million monthly readers. With 10 years online, over 100,000 articles and 700 professional, paid contract writers, Suite101 is dedicated to delivering quality expertise and writing increasingly rare in the online world.

Summify creates a beautiful daily summary of the most relevant news from your social networks, and delivers it to you by email, web or mobile. Summify was founded by Cristian Strat and Mircea Pasoi, two young “hacker entrepreneurs” from Romania who came to Vancouver to build their company. (sold to Twitter in 2012)

TeamPages is an online tool for parents, coaches, and athletes of amateur sports teams that helps all participants stay in touch with each other and keep up to date with the team’s schedule of games and events. TeamPages also provides registration and communication solutions for leagues and clubs.

Techvibes is “Techcrunch for Canada” and provides blog coverage for all Canadian technology communities. The site also offers its users an efficient way to learn about company news, local events and job opportunities.

Tripsbytips is one of the leading German-language travel communities (Reise-Community) with tens of thousands of travel tips, hotel reviews, restaurant critiques, travel blogs and photos posted by travel enthusiasts, allowing users to get real travel advice from fellow travelers.

Tynt is the developer of Tynt Insight, a tool that tracks user actions on websites including copy/paste and highlight to help content producers learn what content their users find most engaging. Tynt is currently tracking tens of thousands of websites and billions of page views on a monthly basis. (sold to 33across in 2012)

Unbounce is a self-serve hosted service that provides marketers doing paid search, banner ads, email or social media marketing, the easiest way to create, publish & test promotion specific landing pages without the need for IT or developers.

Vivity Labs develops life-relevant gaming experiences across multiple platforms, including Mobile, Web and Social. They create top-quality casual brain games and lifestyle technologies that push the envelope and make a difference in people’s lives.

Wattpad is the best place to discover and share stories. It is a new form of entertainment where you can interact and share stories across text, video, images and through conversations with other readers and writers. Call it the YouTube of books.

Weddingful is the premier directory of wedding vendors that helps brides find and connect with the best vendor for their wedding and provides qualified leads to those vendors.

Yapta was founded in January 2006 with the mission to assure consumers that they get the most value out of their trip planning and pay the lowest possible price for airline tickets. Yapta’s online service monitors airfare price volatility and alerts consumers when the price on “tagged” flights decreases.