Jan Dvorak

Meteor Development Group (MDG) is a company founded by Geoff Schmidt and Matt DeBergalis.

The company is behind the Meteor.js framework, a full-stack JavaScript framework, which got famous for its ease, accounts system and real-time functionality. Many prominent JavaScript community members started their career with Meteor. Other projects like Chromatic, turned into Storybooks.

For revenue the company developed Galaxy hosting services which offer an easy deployment and management of Meteor applications.

In 2016 MDG started working on Apollo, a GraphQL implementation. This turned out to be more popular than Meteor at the time and by 2019 majority of the company resources were focused on Apollo. This lead to Meteor and Galaxy being sold to Tiny Capital in October 2019.

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Visual Novels are a storytelling medium that is available on computers and mobile devices. The most common Visual Novels differ from classical novels in their incorporation of sounds, music and pictures. Visual Novels range from simple click through stories to a fully interactive games.

Visual Novels are most often associated with Japan, which has several companies dedicated to their production, and erotic content. Popular Japanese Visual Novels were adopted into anime. Outside of Japan Visual Novels are often produced by hobbyist using the Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine which allows the creation of Visual Novels to anyone who has basic programming knowledge.

Creative writing is a loosely defined term that encompasses writing that is not professional, journalistic, academic or technical. Most recognizable is the emphasis on narrative and characters, although poetry and poetics also fall into this category.

Due to the looseness of the definition, it is possible for writing such as feature stories to be considered creative writing, even though they fall under journalism, because the content of features is specifically focused on narrative and character development. Both fictional and non-fictional works fall into this category, including such forms as novels, biographies, short stories, and poems. In the academic setting, creative writing is typically separated into fiction and poetry classes, with a focus on writing in an original style, as opposed to imitating pre-existing genres such as crime or horror. Writing for the screen and stage--screenwriting and playwriting--are often taught separately, but fit under the creative writing category as well. Creative writing can technically be considered any writing of original composition. In this sense, creative writing is a more contemporary and process-oriented name for what has been traditionally called literature, including the variety of its genres.

With the proliferation of personal computers new forms of creative writing started to emerge incorporating new elements like sounds, pictures and interactivity.

• Action
• Character
• Conflict
• Dialogue
• Genre
• Narration
• Pace
• Plot
• Point of view
• Scene
• Settings
• Style
• Suspense
• Theme/Motif
• Tone
• Voice

• Autobiography/Memoir
• Creative non-fiction (Personal & Journalistic Essays)
• Children's books
• Drama
• Epic
• Flash fiction
• Graphic novels/Comics
• Novel
• Novella
• Play (theater)
• Poetry
• Screenplay
• Short story
• Dialogues
• Blogs
• Visual novels
• Game stories

Twenty Billion Neurons is a technology company using artificial intelligence to create a digital assistant that is headquartered in Berlin, GermanyGermany and was founded in 2015 by Roland Memisevic, Dr. Ingo Bax, Florian Letsch, and Dr. Christian Thurau. The companies digital assistant offers the following features: advanced gesture & action recognition, natural conversation, touchless interaction, face-to-face conversations. Their digital assistant requires a GPU-powered computer with a camera and microphone, and uses the Unity game engine for 3D rendering.

ARC Angel Fund is a venture capital and private equity firm making seed and early stage investments primarily in software, information technology, Internet, technology enabled services, business services, digital media, mobile, and healthcare IT companies operating in the north east and mid-atlantic areas. The ARC Angel Fund is headquartered in New York CityNew York City, New York and was founded in 2010 by David Freschman, Michael Kelly, Ed Reitler, and Joe Rubin.

The Brightback platform gives businesses a platform for managing, standardizing, and automating their customers subscription canceling process while attempting to keep them as customers. Features the Brightback platform offers are the ability to identify at-risk customers, target specific customers segments, engage each at-risk customer with a personalized cancel page, view metrics and generate real-time alerts, use customer data to offer business insights, and save workflows across different applications. Brightback integrates with the following applications: Intercom, Salesforce, Segment, Slack, Tontango, ZapierZapier, and Zendesk.

In Florida, residents have opposed proposals by Oxitec to release their mosquito strain. In September 2019 the U.S. Environmental Protection opened a monthlong window for public comments on releasing Oxitec’s mosquitoes in Florida and TexasTexas.

Dissolve is an online marketplace for royalty-free and rights-managed content and is headquartered in CalgaryCalgary, AB. Canada. The company licenses stock footage and stock photography for use in commercials, television shows, documentaries, advertising, and social media to customers worldwide.

From 2009 to 2011, Kelvin was the CEO of Legendary East Ltd and Orange Sky Golden Harvest Entertainment Ltd. Over the years, Kelvin has served and advised on the board of multiple companies, including Shunwei Capital Partners (ChinaChina), Brave Entertainment (S. Korea) and Kabushiki Kaisha Hyakusen (Japan). In 2013 Kelvin acquired the Hong Kong and Singapore outlets of the bankrupt music retail chain HMV. Within AID Group, Kelvin is also the chief investment Officer of AID Partners Technology Holding Ltd, Principal Partner of AID's private equity fund and non-executive director of HMV Digital China Group Ltd

Their portfolio has included iconic brands such as Starbucks, Zulily and New Relic and unicorns like Auth0, Cohesity, TuroTuro and Outreach. Trinity Ventures has 111 exits.

ARC Angel Fund is a hybrid angel group and venture fund typically making investment between $50,000 and $250,000 in early stage companies with revenue and evaluations under $5 million. Each GP makes decisions based on the decisions of an executive committee comprised of volunteer members that oversee the ARC Fund, and is responsible for preparing companies to present their businesses to the founding team of ARC Angel Fund. Notable investments made by ARC Angel Fund include: Kanvas, Uptown Network, Human Demand, Nulabel Technologies, Statsocial, OfferMobi, UpNextUpNext, Prognos, Benestream, YieldMo, and Sustain Natural.