海角社区国产精伦 (Nasdaq: WBD) and Acme Innovation today announced the inaugural cohort for its new accelerator program Collider On The Lot, which provides entrepreneurs with connections to investors, executive-level education, and the opportunity to partner with 海角社区国产精伦 and Acme to explore new business models utilizing emerging technologies.
The promising startup companies, ranging from media platforms to software developers and digital marketplaces, demonstrated innovative, future-forward strategies for engaging fans of beloved brands and elevating digital experiences across the industry during the program鈥檚 kickoff event in September 2023 on the 海角社区国产精伦 lot in Burbank, CA.
Selected from hundreds of applicants, Collider On The Lot鈥檚 official cohort includes:
Feature is leading a transformative shift in the media landscape, leveraging blockchain and proprietary technologies to revolutionize content marketing, engagement, and loyalty. As a next-generation media platform, Feature鈥檚 Smart Content converts passive viewers into engaged fans. By connecting creators and brands to their audiences, Feature is increasing marketing returns and creating deeper customer relationships. To learn more about their technology and projects, visit .
Flawless is a leading technology company pioneering the generative AI revolution in film and entertainment. Flawless empowers storytellers to achieve their visions by providing groundbreaking post-production tools, trained entirely upon legitimately sourced data, within a breakthrough rights management system that guarantees artist consent and compensation. Honored among TIME Magazine鈥檚 Best Inventions, Flawless is the world鈥檚 first platform offering responsible, cinema-quality GenAI tools at scale all while protecting the rights and interests of creative talent in front of and behind the camera. For more information on Flawless and demonstrations of its technologies, visit .
Flickplay is the destination to buy digital toys and discover games and social experiences connected to them. Leveraging their mix-reality commerce and community platform, Flickplay is partnering with some of the biggest entertainment platforms in the world to commercialize digital toys, and empower fans to engage with their favorite characters in their everyday experiences. Redefining play time with their digital toys, and connecting communities of fans all around the world. For more information, please visit .
Fr0ntierX鈥檚 software provides enterprises with intelligent data. The proprietary verification suites鈥搃ncluding data, identity, and interaction鈥搖tilize blockchain technology and artificial intelligence to ensure information is verified, secure, and auditable. These analytics improve business logic and allow for more profitable and strategic decision making. For more information, please visit .
Hexagram creates worlds, developing experiences and technology to bring interactive narratives and characters to life at a level of detail never before thought possible. Their proprietary world platform has already found partners and customers in branded media and some of the biggest names in entertainment and technology. For more information, please visit .
INFLUENCE by The London Fund enables creators and IP holders to generate venture returns by transforming media to equity. Through its proprietary ECHO CHAMBER (TM) technology, INFLUENCE (r) created the world鈥檚 first fifth generation media channel with over 270 billion potential impressions. For more information, please visit .
Inworld provides a suite of tools that enable AI-powered gameplay. Inworld NPCs exhibit complex and lifelike behaviors, increasing player engagement and immersion. Distinct character personalities can be configured in minutes. AI NPCs express personalities through multimodal AI designed to mimic the full range of human expressions. For more information, please visit .
Koobrik is an innovative automated development tool that revolutionizes the way producers, studio executives, and talent representatives interact with film/TV scripts, books and the associated data. Koobrik streamlines screenplay data management to ensure that all creative data is captured, enabling entertainment executives to read more scripts, discoverstories they want to produce, and keep pace with the ever-evolving speed of the culture. For more information, please visit .
Mod.io is the leading user-generated content (UGC) solution for game studios and publishers, pioneering official UGC support across PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, mobile, and VR. Since launching in 2018, mod.io has gone live in more than 160 games, and powers millions of UGC installs daily. Mod.io offers an automated, scalable, easy-to-implement platform for studios seeking to harness UGC in their game. The results are long-term player engagement, and a pathway to creator economies. For more information, please visit .
Mojito, through their APIs, helps brands increase engagement, acquire new customers, and increase revenue. Mojito powers this with Web3 tech that鈥檚 invisible to, and seamless for, end customers. For more information, please visit .
New Canvas is an award-winning, next-generation media company that produces and publishes immersive entertainment for digital-first audiences with an unapologetic focus on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for the Metaverse. New Canvas is focused on developing content and formats to help drive mainstream adoption of immersive media. For more information, please visit .
Quivr is a decentralized social network that gives users access to authentic communities while owning their real online identities. For more information, please visit .
Reveel is a payment solution for the collaboration economy. Their revenue share protocol & on-chain account infrastructure allows brands to automate accounting operations, facilitating payouts to creators, collaborators & partners. For more information, please visit .
鈥淐ollider On The Lot underscores our commitment to fostering the next generation of visionaries,鈥 said Bruce Campbell, Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer at 海角社区国产精伦. 鈥淲e鈥檙e looking forward to the unparalleled growth and advancements this program will provide for both 海角社区国产精伦 and companies announced here today.鈥
Moving forward, the official cohort will be guided by Acme Innovation and have the opportunity to collaborate with 海角社区国产精伦 to develop future approaches to creating transformative digital experiences, empowering new storytelling formats and content production opportunities, and engage fans of iconic IP and brands across multiple platforms.
鈥淲e鈥檙e exploring innovative approaches that will lead to long-term, lasting changes in what this business looks like,鈥 said Mark Ross, CEO of Acme Innovation. 鈥淭here is a tidal wave of technological disruption happening, and we have a golden opportunity to determine how to implement these new technologies in a responsible and thoughtful manner.鈥
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