Thursday’s Fashion Tech Forum at the Navy Yard featured boldface names such as Levi’s, Tesla, Google and Dianevon Furstenberg. (Find our coverage of those heavy hitters here.) But the event also carved out space for up-and-coming startups.

Ten companies, in fact, were chosen to exhibit as “top startups” to watch in fashion and technology. Among the standouts on display: San Francisco company Prynt, a printer that produces animated photos (and, yes, they’re GIF-ready); Shanghai-based RED Marketplace, which makes an app that’s like a shoppable version of Instagram; Los Angeles–based Reify, an augmented-reality platform that lets customers learn more about products simply by hovering their phones over them and Evrnu, based in Seattle, which makes premium fabric from discarded cotton.

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