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Confidential, Do Not Distribute Updated 4/10/2017 About 1871 1871 is the home of nearly 500 early-stage, high-growth digital startups and more than 1,500 members supported by an entire ecosystem focused on accelerating their growth and creating jobs in the Chicagoland area. Visit www.1871.com for more information. Located in a 140,000 square-foot space over three floors in The Merchandise Mart, 1871 has more than 400 current mentors available to its members, as well as more than 80 partner corporations, universities, education programs, accelerators, venture funds and other organizations that make its extensive matrix of resources possible. For more on our partners, visit www.1871.com/about/partners, or become a partner by reaching out to bizdev@1871.com. About the 1871 Pipeline Report Capital is a key part of enabling growth among early stage startups. At 1871, many of our 500 startups are actively fundraising, and we think it is useful to regularly highlight these companies and the opportunities they offer for the investment community. In the following pages you will find a list of 1871 member startups which operate across multiple industries and are currently fundraising. This report is organized by the size of the raise. If you would like to connect with any of these companies directly, please contact bizdev@1871.com and we will make an introduction.

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Size of Raise: $50,000 - $150,000

AAG Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: AAG creates software to empower event planners to develop programs and connect with attendees. Website: www.apps4meetings.com

DigitalGroundUp Industry: Marketing Tech, Ed Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: DigitalGroundUp solves the challenge of learning digital marketing by providing online interactive courses that teach digital marketing in an experiential way for college students, new hires and business owners. Website: www.digitalgroundup.com

Digital4Startups Industry: Marketing Tech, Ed Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Digital4Startups solves the difficulty of selling products and services to consumers (B2B or B2C) in a cost-effective manner by being a full-service digital marketing agency and providing top-quality digital marketing services and education at affordable prices to businesses of all sizes. Website: www.digital4startups.com

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Get20 Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Get20 helps service providers convert more leads by distributing consumer requests across many providers at once; the first available provider can connect to a consumer through Get20’s mobile app within seconds. Website: www.get20.com

Katie Lord Inc. Industry: Marketing Agency Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Katie Lord Inc. is a creative design agency that makes ideas happen with ultimate transparency and flexibility by using a point system tied to client tasklist, timeline and budget. Website: www.katielord.com

Umby Industry: Consumer Goods Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Umby is a designer umbrella company where each umbrella sold supports insurance for a family in need and protects them for their next rainy day. Website: www.umby.co

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Size of Raise: $150,000 - $250,000

For True Foodies Only Inc. Industry: Food Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: For True Foodies Only is a trusted social media community platform that promotes the best restaurants, chefs and sommeliers in the world, making the culinary world more accessible for foodies everywhere. Website: www.truefoodies.com

Natural Me Beauty Industry: Consumer Goods Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Natural Me Beauty helps health-conscious consumers discover and purchase healthy products by providing them with a marketplace for beauty, home and lifestyle brands that are environmentally friendly and free of toxic ingredients. Website: www.naturalmebeauty.com

Size of Raise: $250,000 - $500,000

Bev Analytics Industry: Analytics Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: BevAnalytics conducts market audits in bars and restaurants using its pics-to-data platform for the alcoholic beverage industry. Website: www.bevanalytics.com

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Faam Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Faam helps brands organically reach their target audiences on mobile and social platforms through their proprietary influencer sourcing process. Website: www.faam.us

Olfactif Industry: Consumer Goods Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Olfactif solves the problem of consumer access to niche perfume by providing a subscription sampling service and discounted pricing for thousands of fragrance lovers. Website: www.olfactif.com

One Me Industry: B2B2C Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: One Me is a personal identity management platform that enables organizations to access personal data directly from their consumers, which can be used for marketing and deep personalization. Website: www.oneme.io

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OpenAirplane Inc. Industry: Travel, Transportation Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: OpenAirplane provides travel for regional trips by matching people with pilots and planes on-demand. Website: www.openairplane.com

WatchTower Industry: Insurance Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: No Description: WatchTower solves the problem of a high cost and low exchange value distribution process within the group employee benefit industry by offering a distribution platform that connects and facilitates value exchange between RFP stakeholders for group insurance brokers and insurance carriers. Website: www.watchtowerbenefits.com

Size of Raise: $500,000 - $1,000,000

ChoreRelief Industry: 2-sided Marketplace Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: ChoreRelief is a SaaS-based platform and mobile app that connects consumers with service providers who do chores and small projects around the house like cleaning, handy-work and yard work. Website: www.chorerelief.com

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ConceptDrop Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: No Description: ConceptDrop matches organizations with creative talent through their digital marketplace and resource management software. Website: www.conceptdrop.com

Dance Card Ventures Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Dance Card Ventures provides insight into marketing efficacy for medical device companies through its marketing automation and lead-conversion platform. Website: www.dancecardrx.com

DesignerShare Industry: Consumer Goods Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: DesignerShare is a peer-to-peer marketplace for women to rent out their designer clothing and accessories to one another, all while connecting through a safe and reliable platform. Website: www.designershare.com

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Kannatopia Industry: Social Media Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Kannatopia helps modern consumers, medical marijuana patients and cannabis businesses with the issues they face by providing a safe social media platform and web application. Website: www.kannatopia.com

Project Toe Industry: Health & Wellness Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Project Toe solves the feeling of loneliness for those going through a life struggle by connecting them with people going through a similar experience through their free mobile app. Website: www.projecttoe.com

SetuServ Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: SetuServ is a text analytics company that solves customer feedback analysis by combining artificial intelligence with human intelligence for B2C companies. Website: www.setuserv.com

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Sit Back Host Industry: Real Estate Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Sit Back Host solves problems associated with short-term rental sites (e.g. Airbnb) such as key hand-off, guest support and cleaning by managing and optimizing every step of the process for property owners. Website: www.sitbackhost.com

Smync Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Smync solves social marketing problems of organic reach and consumer trust by identifying and activating advocates, influencers and employees and measuring real business results for mid to enterprise-size brands. Website: www.smync.com

Story Street Labs Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Story Street Labs is an online community where Millennials read and share short-form creative stories. Website: www.storystreetlabs.com

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TheSocReports Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: TheSocReports exists to help personal brands gain more quality followers by furnishing weekly, highly curated and actionable social media insights. Website: www.thesocreports.com

WedMony Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: WedMony solves the stress of wedding planning by providing project management tools and an online community that connects users to vendors and provides engaged couples with real wedding inspiration, advice and support from other couples through their digital network. Website: www.wedmony.com

Size of Raise: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000

BrokerSavant Industry: Real Estate Tech, B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Series A Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: BrokerSavant is a B2B SaaS that uses optimized machine learning and natural language processing technology to semi-automate contract diligence for the commercial real estate industry. Website: www.brokersavant.com

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CFX Markets Industry: Financial Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: No Description: CFX Markets solves the issue of liquidity in the alternative asset market by creating a centralized trading platform for the millions of investors currently locked into these assets. Website: www.CFXtrading.com

Content Carnivores Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Series A Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Content Carnivores is a digital marketing and automation platform used to create, measure and distribute content yielding unprecedented ROI from social networks. Website: www.contentcarnivores.com

Heretik Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Heretik solves inefficiencies during legal contract review by leveraging machine learning to explore, identify and act on critical contact data. Website: www.heretik.io

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mwseq Industry: Entertainment Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Description: The mwseq app introduces the new music industry to mainstream, leveraging their Digital Social Media Music Marketing (DigSoMMM™) Algorithm to connect online independent artists with their super fans so the artist can monetize digital content. Website: www.mwseq.com

Parallel Works Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: No Description: Parallel Works solves the limited accessibility and usability of high performance computing by delivering a platform that enables the creation of large-scale modeling and simulation solutions and the means to deploy them on HPC for engineers and scientists across industrial fields. Website: www.parallelworks.com

Pay Your Selfie Industry: Marketing Tech Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: No Description: Pay Your Selfie solves market research inadequacies through ethnographic consumer surveys for CPGs, brands and agencies, speeding insight to innovation. Website: www.payyourselfie.com

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PeopleVine Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Series A Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: PeopleVine is a comprehensive platform that helps users operate their businesses and engage with their people (customers, members, fans, etc.) through built in B2C CRM, sales, marketing and loyalty toolsets. Website: www.peoplevine.com

Size of Raise: $2,000,000 - $5,000,000

Binfer Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Seed/Angel Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Binfer solves the problem of easily, quickly and securely transferring data of any size and quantity by its direct device-to-device data transfer technology that can move information between people or machines without storing it on any third party/cloud servers. Website: www.binfer.com

Ladiv Corporation Inc. Industry: B2B SaaS Type of Raise: Series A Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Ladiv Corporation provides recruiting companies with a new way to find the best talent by helping candidates discover every key aspect of the recruiting company and their potential future employer at an early stage in the recruitment process. Website: www.ladiv.us

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Size of Raise: $5,000,000+

Parknav Industry: Transportation Type of Raise: Series A Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Parknav solves drivers’ problem of finding on-street parking by producing and delivering precise data about availability of parking to car manufacturers to transmit to their vehicles. Website: www.parknav.com

Breakwater Chicago LLC Industry: Entertainment Type of Raise: Series B Looking for a Lead Investor: Yes Description: Breakwater Chicago solves offshore and wintertime entertainment in Chicago by providing an 80,000 square foot "floating island" vessel that will operate 1.5 miles offshore in Lake Michigan during the summertime and will be shore-side under a transparent dome during the winter months, providing Chicago with its next iconic attraction. Website: www.breakwaterchicago.com