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Hone is a content marketing and native advertising technology company.

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01.01.2015

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Hone provides content creators, publishers, and brands with tools to produce interactive visual quizzes, surveys, and polls that have social value, while creating a premium monetization channel. Their platform enables easy branding and distribution across mobile, online, and social platforms, leading to conversions and insightful audience data. Hone's interactive content fuels editorial, activation, conversation, and research by asking questions with images and text. It equips brands and publishers with tools to create fun content that yields powerful consumer insights, building positive brand affinity, driving conversions, and activating social virality. Hone offers an entertaining and enjoyable user experience while harvesting sophisticated consumer insights, with high start and completion rates.
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Alec Emmons
Alec Emmons

Alec Emmons

For at least 15 years, Alec has creatively fused traditional, digital and arcane concepts together. Sometimes, even on purpose. Possessing a lifelong passion of the esoteric and aesthetic, his work has appeared on TV, Film, Billboards, online, in-store displays & packaging, posters, CDs, Vinyl LPs, and virtually anywhere else that could benefit from having a designed element. Previous work: Kleiner Perkins-backed BlueOak Resources, Peter Thiel-backed Modern Meadow; IAC/Electus-backed dumbdumb, Capitol Records, Atlantic Records, Rhino Entertainment, WMG, UMG, Sony Music, Wal*Mart, VIACOM properties, JWT, RocNation, ABC, FOX, Time, Inc. and Conde Nast.

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Andrew Heckler
Andrew Heckler

Andrew Heckler

Hone's Heckler has a diverse entrepreneurial and investor background spanning the clean technology and digital media spaces. In addition to his position at Hone, Heckler also serves as founding partner and chairman of Brightfield Energy, a clean energy business, and is a partner at Workhouse Capital, an early stage investment technology fund. He entered the clean tech investor space as a consultant at Sequoia Capital. Previously, Heckler has been responsible for an array of investments, including Plain Vanilla Games, the studio behind QuizUp, the fastest growing iPhone game in history; Useek, a video advertising platform; Black Book, a digital magazine; and Modern Meadows, a company developing novel biomaterials.

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Alec Emmons

Alec Emmons

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Andrew Heckler

Andrew Heckler

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