Red Carpet Ready
The Webby Awards are the Internet's highest honor, with categories for everything from Mobile Apps to Podcasts to Digital Streaming. Novel Effect took home the Webby for Best Mobile Integrated Experience:
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May 16
Best in Business Bronze Winner!
Novel Effect is pleased to have been named a Bronze Winner for Start Up of the Year in this year's Best in Biz awards.
Novel Effect Goes to Shark Tank!
The entire Novel Effect team is excited to share that we’ll be featured on Season 9 episode 6 of ABC’s Emmy-Award winning show, Shark Tank at 9|8c October 29th. Storytime with Novel Effect is sure to make a splash!
We launched Novel Effect just over two years ago, to help every parent unlock the magic hidden between the pages of a favorite book. This summer, co-founders Matt and Melissa Hammersley had the chance to pitch our family focused, voice interactive reading app to the Sharks, including guest Shark and founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely. Read more
Internet Round Up: Pirate Edition
Rrrrrr, Mateys! It’s time for another edition of Internet Round Up on today, the most talk-like-a-pirate of days! Here’s some of our latest and greatest news coverage from around the world, the internet, and the seven seas – and as an added treat at the end, we’ve thrown in some fun pirate-y stuff for you to enjoy! Read more
Building the Future
AT&T Foundry, Ericsson, and RocketSpace have put together have put together a report on the FUTURE! The Report entitled “The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Consumer Experience” includes…. NOVEL EFFECT!
They’ve selected us as one of the startups building the future, and it’s pretty awesome to know that what we do can help build young readers for generations to come. Read it here.
Thanks for the honor, AT&T Foundry! And thanks to you for using Novel Effect to make storytime magic!
PS – check out The Monster’s Monster added to the app today!
Powered by Techstars
Exciting news! We’ve been selected as one of the nine companies for Amazon’s first Alexa Accelerator, Powered by Techstars. We start this week and will be spending the next three months hard at work.
Here’s what CEO Matt has to say: “We are ecstatic to join forces with Amazon’s Alexa Accelerator and Techstars to scale our unique experience worldwide. It’s a real thrill. The vision of Novel Effect and the Alexa Accelerator is a perfect fit to bring new voice-activated entertainment to a global scale.”
The program culminates on October 17th with a Demo Day, where we will present to investors, mentors, technology leaders and community. It’s a really cool honor to be able to say that we’re Novel Effect, powered by Techstars.
