True Ventures

Message Bus is an infrastructure apps company offering a suite of messaging utilities beginning with email. The startup is currently working with a group of trusted, vetted companies to build a scalable, dependable engine ensuring the highest deliverability of email. Message Bus is putting an emphasis on opening up previously opaque data silos to give companies important insights into their applications and businesses.

The Metamarkets platform operates at massive scale to bring transparency and rationality to an opaque and highly inefficient global digital media market. The company aggregates billions of electronic media transactions in order to deliver dynamic price data, proprietary price and volume aggregations, and comprehensive analytic media market views to sell-side media principals.

MindBites is a self-publishing platform and social marketplace for instructional content that enables people to share their unique knowledge, skills, and passions through audio and video lessons, earning money for themselves or for charity. The result is a unique community of discovery with content that simply can’t be found anywhere else.

MoviePass is a subscription service that allows customers the freedom to attend movies in theaters at a fixed monthly price through a mobile app. The company is currently in stealth mode. Stay tuned for more information!

Orabrush, Inc. manufactures and sells tongue cleaners for humans and pets. It serves customers through Wal-Mart stores in Utah, as well as online. The company has used a very strategic social media campaign to sell one million tongue cleaners through the Internet and is currently available in 50 retailers in five countries.

PayNearMe combines a a payment network and technology platform to enable businesses across a wide range of industries to serve consumers who do not have access to a credit or debit card, or who simply prefer to pay with cash.  We serve customers in ecommerce, direct response, transportation, entertainment, insurance, loan servicing, and collections, among other categories. By enabling consumers to pay with cash, PayNearMe expands the markets that these businesses can serve.

Plancast is a web application that allows users to create inclusive, location-based plans and share them with friends via Facebook and Twitter. Users can see what their friends are planning in the upcoming weeks, where they will be, and can opt to join in the plan without a formal RSVP.

Pose captures and enhances the in-store shopping experience. Pose is a mobile shopping app that allows users to add products to a personal style feed, share their finds and start a conversation. The Pose platform provides unique opportunities for brands and retailers to connect with consumers in-store and to promote product engagement.