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Jerry is a technology-driven platform that helps drivers manage car ownership. It uses an AI-powered insurance comparison engine to simplify finding affordable car insurance and also enables refinancing auto loans, tracking driving scores, and gaining transparency into maintenance and repair costs. By combining insurance, financing, maintenance, and safety insights, the service aims to streamline the ownership experience for U.S. customers. The platform serves more than five million users and seeks to provide clarity and efficiency in choosing coverage, arranging loans, and understanding vehicle costs.

Convoy, Inc. operates an online marketplace that provides digital freight network services, enabling users to book local and regional trucks on demand for transporting goods of various sizes. Founded in 2015 and based in Seattle, Washington, Convoy utilizes technology and data to enhance efficiency and reduce waste in the trucking industry, which faces significant challenges such as empty truckloads and high carbon emissions. The company facilitates instant quotations, online booking, automated loading suggestions, and online payments, while also offering a mobile application for real-time shipment tracking and status updates. By optimizing its connected network of carriers, Convoy aims to lower costs for shippers, increase earnings for drivers, and contribute to environmental sustainability by minimizing carbon waste.

Bobbie is a baby formula delivery startup that sells direct-to-consumer and offers a subscription service to parents across the US. It exists to build a parenting culture of confidence, not a comparison, where every parent is supported in the feeding choice that is right for them and their baby. Bobbie's formulation complies with all FDA regulations, is created with pasture-raised milk from Organic Valley farms, and is the only infant formula to receive the Clean Label Project's Purity Award as well as Pesticide Free Certification.

Founded in 2010, WATT Fuel Cell Corporation specializes in developing and manufacturing solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) stacks and systems. These operate on readily available fuels like propane, natural gas, JP-8, and diesel to manage renewable power sources. The company offers hybrid SOFC systems that combine hydrocarbon fuels with solar or wind technologies for optimized power output, energy storage, and fuel consumption. WATT serves marine and RV, emergency response, military, and remote power sectors.

Rill Data is a business intelligence platform that simplifies analytics by combining a SQL-based data modeler, an in-memory real-time database, and a metrics dashboard into a single product. It enables real-time operational dashboards and metrics-first modeling for data-driven decisions, allowing analytics teams, product managers, and finance professionals to explore time-series data, monitor costs, and optimize campaigns. The platform supports BI-as-code and deployment workflows to accelerate the path from data to dashboards, offering a faster, easier alternative to complex BI stacks.

CelLink designs and manufactures high-conductance, large-area flexible circuits and backplanes for power electronics and solar applications. The company develops flexible conductive backplanes that integrate busing, fusing, voltage and temperature monitoring into a single circuit, enabling efficient power and data transmission. Based in Belmont, California, CelLink serves applications including batteries, LEDs, wire harnessing, and solar cells, aiming to provide reliable, scalable power-management solutions at an affordable price.

ConnectRN, Inc. is a technology-driven company that operates an online platform designed to connect healthcare institutions with qualified nursing staff. Incorporated in 2014 and based in Newton, Massachusetts, the platform enables hospitals and healthcare providers to communicate effectively with available nurses through an alert system that notifies them of open shifts via mobile devices. In addition to facilitating job placements, ConnectRN provides tools that streamline communication between nurses and nurse managers, ensuring that staffing needs are met efficiently. The company aims to enhance the nursing community by offering access to opportunities, support, and a network that fosters collaboration among clinicians.

Parthenon Therapeutics is inventing a novel class of anti-cancer therapies that reprogram the tumor microenvironment (TME). The interplay between cancer cells and their surrounding microenvironment is relevant in drug development as manycancers use the TME to build barriers that shield immune system attack. One approach, PRTH-101, breaks these barriers to overcome recalcitrant cancers. Based on research, the company is designing a portfolio of drug candidates to treat the right patients at the right time.

Founded in 2017, Dutchie is a comprehensive technology platform that streamlines cannabis dispensary operations, facilitates safe consumer access, and promotes societal change through cannabis legalization.

Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market. It allows every connected device to help balance the grid, and get paid for it and access wholesale markets through a single API and help build the flexible, renewable grid of the future. Leap aims to make global energy markets accessible to anyone, starting with demand response and expanding into generation and ancillary services. Leap was founded by Thomas Folker and Remco Van Den Elzen.

Founded in San Francisco in 2019 by Francesco Wiedemann, Ludwig Schoenack, and Nikolaus Volk, Kyte is a technology and operations company specializing in on-demand car rentals. Customers can access vehicles for durations ranging from days to months, with services including car cleaning and refueling.

A platform making it easy for real estate professionals to find and use the more than $100b in annual real estate incentives; saving time and money on deals. Our current geographic coverage is New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Florida, Washington D.C. and Virginia. We are located at the Columbia Startup Lab, are currently in Lowenstein Sandler's VentureCrush FG as well as Shadow Ventures Incubator and have recently completed Accelerate 2020 with Bowery Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

Rocket Dollar enables individuals to unlock their retirement funds (IRA/401(k)) for investment in alternative assets like real estate, cryptocurrency, startups, private equity, and more, while preserving tax benefits.

Jerry is a technology-driven platform that helps drivers manage car ownership. It uses an AI-powered insurance comparison engine to simplify finding affordable car insurance and also enables refinancing auto loans, tracking driving scores, and gaining transparency into maintenance and repair costs. By combining insurance, financing, maintenance, and safety insights, the service aims to streamline the ownership experience for U.S. customers. The platform serves more than five million users and seeks to provide clarity and efficiency in choosing coverage, arranging loans, and understanding vehicle costs.

Dwolla, Inc. is a financial technology company based in Des Moines, Iowa, established in 2010. The company specializes in providing application program interface (API) solutions that streamline bank transfers and facilitate customer management, enabling businesses to integrate account-to-account payment capabilities seamlessly. Dwolla's modern API allows users to connect bank accounts and initiate transfers efficiently, giving businesses the ability to program payments for same-day, next-day, or real-time processing directly to bank accounts. Their offerings also include the Dwolla Dashboard and Admin, which provides users with an intuitive interface for managing customer relationships, monitoring transactions, and analyzing business trends. By leveraging Dwolla's technology, organizations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies can enhance their cash flow, improve operational efficiency, and navigate the complexities of payment networks with greater ease.

Camus Energy empowers electric utilities with real-time grid awareness, day-ahead forecasting, coordinated control of distributed energy resources, and long-term planning insights. Its platform enables utilities to predict and proactively manage local network capacity, right-size infrastructure investments, and reliably serve new loads.

Clearco is an online financial platform that offers growth capital to e-commerce and B2B companies. It uses proprietary software and data science models to identify high-growth funding opportunities, providing funding in exchange for a steady revenue share of earnings.

GOAT Group operates as a global marketplace for authentic sneakers, apparel, and accessories. Founded in 2015, it offers products from over 350 brands through its platforms GOAT and Flight Club, with thirteen physical locations serving 170 international markets.

uLab Systems Inc. is a technology company specializing in digital dental treatment planning for orthodontists. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an additional office in Shanghai, China, uLab has developed a sophisticated software platform that allows orthodontists to create customized treatment plans and aligner movement strategies. The company's proprietary technology employs artificial intelligence and fully automated features, enabling orthodontists to efficiently generate chairside treatment plans in under five minutes. This innovation not only streamlines the treatment process but also helps in reducing lab fees and expediting the delivery of custom aligners. Through its solutions, uLab Systems enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of orthodontic care.

Epic Games is an American video game and software company that develops games for PC, consoles, mobile devices, augmented reality, virtual reality, and the Web. It licenses and provides its Unreal Engine technology to other developers, enabling the creation of high-fidelity, interactive experiences. The company operates a digital storefront that allows developers to publish, distribute, and monetize games and 3D content, supporting cross-platform compatibility and scalable performance across PC, console, mobile, and immersive devices.

uLab Systems Inc. is a technology company specializing in digital dental treatment planning for orthodontists. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, with an additional office in Shanghai, China, uLab has developed a sophisticated software platform that allows orthodontists to create customized treatment plans and aligner movement strategies. The company's proprietary technology employs artificial intelligence and fully automated features, enabling orthodontists to efficiently generate chairside treatment plans in under five minutes. This innovation not only streamlines the treatment process but also helps in reducing lab fees and expediting the delivery of custom aligners. Through its solutions, uLab Systems enhances the efficiency and effectiveness of orthodontic care.

Founded in 2009, ThredUp operates as an online consignment store for women's and kids' apparel, shoes, and accessories. It facilitates buying and selling of new and used items, promoting sustainability by extending the lifecycle of clothing.

FirstString Research, Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, dedicated to discovering and developing therapies for inflammation-based medical conditions. Established in 2005, the company focuses on addressing unmet medical needs by mitigating excessive inflammation, calming inflamed tissues, and restoring the body’s natural healing processes. FirstString Research is advancing a pipeline of therapeutic products derived from its exclusive worldwide license of connexin-technology from the Medical University of South Carolina. This technology includes a portfolio of peptides that modulate junctional proteins essential for intercellular communication. The company is currently progressing its lead product, Granexin Gel, a topical formulation, through three Phase II clinical trials aimed at scar reduction and the treatment of chronic wounds.