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100 Top Toy Startups in United States

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This article showcases our top picks for the best United States based Toy companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Toy industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

Top United States Toy Startups

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

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The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.

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BEGiN

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BEGiN is an award-winning company offering best-in-class solutions across digital, physical, and experiential learning to kids globally.

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Superplastic

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Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company that creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation.

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Healthy Roots Dolls

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Healthy Roots is a toy company that creates dolls and storybooks aimed to teach natural hair care to young girls of color.

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CRAVE

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Crave is a lifestyle brand that offers sex toys through designed, discreet, and luxurious vibrators.

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Dame Products

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Dame Products is a sexual wellness brand with the purpose of making phenomenal sex toys.

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WOWCube® System (CubiOs Inc.)

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WOWCube system is a puzzle cube with tangible interface where virtual gameplay is controlled by physically tilting, twisting shaking.

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Pley

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Pley offers a toy subscription service.

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Toys “R” Us

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Toys “R” Us is a toy and baby products retailer, offering a wide range of products globally.

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Toybox Labs

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Unlocking the power of 3d printing for everyday people

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Ozobot

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Ozobot & Evollve is a company built around the idea that blends creative thinking with business disciplines to bring new ideas to market.

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OffLimits

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A cereal and culture brand breaking the rules, starting with breakfast.

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Jakks Pacific

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JAKKS Pacific designs, develops, produces, and markets consumer products for kids.

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TapZen

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TapZen creates unforgettable games for iOS and Android tablets.

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Tiny Earth Toys

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Tiny Earth Toys is an educational toy subscription company that offers age-based educational kits exchanged every four months.

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Seedling

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Seedling engages in creating products that encourage families to build, imagine, and play together.

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Tiggly

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Tiggly develops physical toys that interact with learning apps on iPads and other tablets.

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PlayMonster

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A Beloit, Wis.-based maker of family entertainment products like games and puzzles.

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GoldieBlox

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GoldieBlox a children’s multimedia company out to show the world that girls deserve more choices than dolls and princesses.

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Roominate

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Award-winning products inspiring open-ended, hands-on play and STEM learning/

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Mattel

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Mattel is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of toys and family products.

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Antsy labs

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Antsy Labs creates an unusually addicting and high-quality desk toy called Fidget Cube.

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SmartGurlz Inc

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As Seen on Shark Tank, the World’s first coding robot for Girls.

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Mishka AI

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Mishka AI is educational companion and kids content delivery platform in the shape of a traditional toy.

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Hasbro

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Hasbro is engaged in providing children’s and family leisure time products with brands and entertainment properties.

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EQtainment

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EQtainment is to improve emotional intelligence globally by creating fun and simple tools for practicing social skills and better behavior.

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Roll20

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Roll20 is an online platform that allows groups of friends to play tabletop games, including pen and paper RPGs and board games.

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Woobo

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Woobo is a technology company developing companion robots for kids.

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Spiral Toys

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Spiral Toys is a California-based company dedicated to developing, marketing, and selling products.

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Unruly Splats

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Unruly Splats manufactures Stompable, super-durable, programmable floor tiles with built-in lights & sounds.

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Time for Machine

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Time4Machine are exclusive mechanical models made of metal.

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Freak’n Genius

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Connecting Books, Games, and Toys to the Internet

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Boxies

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Learning toys with Augmented Reality ages 1 to 5

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LeapFrog

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LeapFrog creates award-winning educational solutions that delight, engage and inspire children to reach their potential.

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Build & Imagine

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Build & Imagine creates magnetic building sets that inspire storytelling.

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Kingdom Death

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Kingdom Death’s world is immensely deep and brutally challenging.

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Seamless Toy Company

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Seamless Toy Company develops tech-toys such as ATOMS, a plug-n’-play system that enables interactive functionality.

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ThoughtFull Toys

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ThoughtFull Toys is the inventor and creator of unique toy car products.

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Funko

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Funko is a providers of branded pop culture products to a diverse range of consumers and retail channels.

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Kidbee

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Kidbee incentivizes learning with tangible rewards.

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DXTR Labs, Inc

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DXTR Labs creates standard toys, with smart building blocks that collects data about children’s performances.

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Play Works Studio

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Play Works Studio develops science-based games for girls and boys.

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Marvel Entertainment

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Marvel Entertainment is a character-based entertainment company engaged in licensing, publishing, toy making, and film production.

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DigiPuppets

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DigiPuppets offers an engaging, educational, socially-conscious character brand and play experience specifically designed for mobile.

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Wonder Forge

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Wonder Forge offers a number of innovative, high quality games that engage players physically, socially, and creatively.

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Gengirl Media

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Gengirl Media is a toy and media company ​that aims to create brands that inspire and educate.

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Blokify

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Blokify offers 3D modeling software that enables kids to create toys they can play with virtually or physically.

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Obi

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Kickstarter is a platform that provides entrepreneurs, artists, designers and creators with a source of project funding.

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BayRu

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BayRu is an e-commerce shopping and shipping specialist and is eBay.com’s exclusive drop shipping partner.

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Fisher-Price

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Fisher-Price offers products and services that support families with young children, helping them build skills that will last a lifetime.

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Tenka Labs

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Tenka Labs develops innovative STEM toys for Makers ages 8 and up.

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Ubooly

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Ubooly offers an interactive, educational soft toy for children that can be controlled through iOS devices.

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Thinker-Tinker

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Consumer product, family technology, subscription, edu-tainment.

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Linkitz

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Linkitz makes smart wearable toys for kids.

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Fitzroy Toys

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Fitzroy Toys is the only platform designed specifically to bring together the toy industry.

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aNb Media

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ANb Media is a content and new media company that specializes in the toy, family entertainment, and licensing businesses.

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Dailysteals

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DailySteals is a daily deals website that posts product and service deals daily.

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Jazwares

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Jazwares provides toys for kids.

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Ty

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Ty is a plush manufacturer.

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Hog Wild Toys

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HOG WILD Toys is a manufacturer of toys and novels.

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Krrb Classifieds

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Krrb Classifiedsis a hyperlocal advertising website that enables users to connect with their neighbors for local and in-person commerce.

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Bleacher Creatures

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Bleacher Creatures offers cuddly plush versions of the greatest stars in sports and entertainment.

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Flycatcher Toys

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Playing Smart.

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The Paper Store

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The Paper Store is the largest family owned and operated chain of Specialty Gift Stores.

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Quic Trade

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Localized, peer to peer marketplace for physical goods

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Pressure Games

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Creating engaging, exciting toys for group and social play.

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Fuzzy Flyers

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Fuzzy Flyers is a San Francisco based startup setting out to create techy-toys for the modern kid.

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ToyWiz

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ToyWiz is an online and a retail store that offers a complete selection of toys, collectible cards, and games for its clients.

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SprintR, LLC

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Virtual Reality Input Development Company

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Step2

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Step2 operates as a branded toy manufacturer.

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MGA Entertainment

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MGA Entertainment is a manufacturer of children’s toys and entertainment products founded in 1979.

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Pet360

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Pet360 offers pet supplies online, including pet food, supplements, toys, medicines, apparel and outside gear.

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Go Retail Group

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Go Retail Group, based in Austin, Texas, is America’s premier seasonal retailer of calendar, game toy and book products.

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Clectaverse

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Clectaverse is a platform celebrating collections and collectors globally, we enable you to show off your collections and to connect

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Magnivation

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Magnivation creates the Toys of The Future – Personalized 3D Printed Smart Toys that merge Imagination with Interactive Play Experiences.

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The SmartBlock

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Smart Blocks for Building Own Robot Toys

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KidKraft

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KidKraft is a toy company that specializes in providing wooden toys and furniture.

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Build-A-Bear Workshop

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Build A Bear is a Consumer Services company located in 7401 Market St, Youngstown, Ohio, United States.

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GeoPalz

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GeoPalz is a suite of family fitness products designed to help families lead active lives.

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Gamaby

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We have a new line of multicultural dolls based on astronomy and math called the Stellar Babies.

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Alex Global Products

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Alex Brands provides high quality toys, art supplies and craft activity kits that inspire creative expression in children of all ages.

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Megalopolis

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Megalopolis is an online gaming community intended to foster a community among collectors of all varieties.

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Kids2

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Kids2 is a global consumer goods company that designs products and holistic solutions to help early-stage parents and families.

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Timbuktu Labs

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Timbuktu Labs develops an educational application that enables children to play games, read news, and view beautiful pictures.

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Redline Recreational Toys

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Redline Recreational Toys is an outdoor equipment shop provides recreational facilities & services.

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Propel

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Propel is a manufacturer and retailer of remote controlled toys.

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PupBox

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Everything new puppy owners need on a monthly basis. Puppyhood is hard, PupBox makes it easier.

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Handprint

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Handprint develops a web interface for customizing cool 3D printable toys.

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FAO Schwarz

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FAO Schwarz, founded in 1862, was once the oldest toy store in the United States.

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Fat Brain Toys

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Fat Brain Toys operates as an independent toy company.

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Eight Dimension Corporation

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Eight Dimension is an online superstore offering sporting goods, computer parts, clothing, perfumes, and party supplies.

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Digital Tech Frontier

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Digital Tech Frontier created the Popar Toy products, which use Augmented Reality (AR) technology to create an immersive reading experience.

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Hatch Early Childhood

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Hatch provides technology and instructional solutions to Early Childhood Education sites around the United States.

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Happy Toys

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Happy Toy Machine is a website that enables users to create their own custom plush toys online.

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Green Pinata, LLC

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Green Pinata is an online subscription service that rents world’s best educational and safe toys for children under 5 years.

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FatRedCouch

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FatRedCouch develops interactive applications, books, episodes, and games to connect brands, companies, and authors with new audiences.

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Tru Kids

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Tru Kids is focused on brands through traditional retails concepts in the physical and digital spaces.

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SmartBound Technologies

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Printed Interactive Books. Not apps, physical books that are touch interactive.

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Green Toys

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Green Toys is an online retail store that manufactures and supplies eco-friendly kids products and accessories.

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Workinman Interactive LLC

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Cross-platform video game developer and connected product designer (specializing in youth markets and toys).

Written by Mark Smith

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