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LifeWeb 360 Built a Social Network for the Moment Nobody Wants to Post About - Then Found Its Real Customer
A class project became a gentler alternative to the obituary page, then a surprisingly effective alumni-engagement tool. LifeWeb 360's path from free family memorials to HistoryIT's MemoryPort is a case study in letting the strongest use case rewrite the business.
Gravyty
The Boston company teaching universities and nonprofits how to raise more money with less busywork - by handing fundraisers an AI that writes the first draft.
Almabase
The alumni engagement and fundraising platform helping schools and universities turn thousands of graduates into donors - without adding a single staff member.
Hustle
Hustle is a San Francisco-based text and mobile messaging platform built for one-to-one conversations at scale. Founded in 2014, it lets organizations reach supporters, students, members and voters through peer-to-peer texting, broadcast SMS, a voice dialer and in-message video - with humans, not autodialers, pressing send. Widely used by political campaigns, nonprofits, higher-education fundraising teams and labor unions, Hustle has powered more than a billion messages and, since April 2026, is independent and employee-owned.