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MIC Global is an embedded microinsurance provider that aims to transform the insurance industry by offering simple and relevant insurance products tailored to meet the needs of underserved and unserved markets. The company focuses on closing the insurance protection gap by delivering inclusive and affordable insurance solutions that help individuals safeguard their families and recover from financial setbacks. Through its innovative insurance technology platform, MIC Global provides a range of services, including microinsurance, underwriting, health, rent, and deposit services. The platform also features tools for dark web and credit bureau monitoring, enabling clients to design and deliver customized microinsurance products that effectively mitigate risks and support those in need.

inBanx is a company that develops a digital payments platform designed to simplify business payments and enhance financial management for organizations. Its solution allows businesses to effectively budget, manage card programs, and control spending across various divisions and departments. By providing real-time data through a user-friendly interface, inBanx leverages AI-generated insights to automate expense reporting and reduce manual workflows. The platform aims to help companies eliminate overspending and unnecessary expenditures, ultimately streamlining financial processes and reducing licensing costs.

Sora offers an automated finance tool aimed at assisting families in obtaining personalized rates for various loans, including mortgages, auto loans, and student loans. The platform analyzes users' existing liabilities and recommends refinancing options or consolidation strategies to enhance debt management. By visualizing clients' debt structures and prioritizing repayment plans, Sora enables users to streamline their financing processes, ultimately helping them minimize their overall debt burdens.

Zurp is a fintech platform that enables superfans to engage with their favorite influencers through exclusive experiences. It offers financial services without traditional banking intermediaries, allowing users to build credit responsibly.

Pinnacle Realty Advisors offers comprehensive real estate services. They specialize in brokerage, property sales, and rental services, utilizing a unique 'brokerage as a service' platform that supports agents with professional tools for a transaction fee, enabling efficient transactions tailored to individual business goals.

Exponential DeFi platform makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in DeFi yield opportunities. Anyone can become a lender or market maker with DeFi. Financial freedom is within everyone's reach when individuals have the ability to grow their wealth exponentially. Its platform helps investors assess the risk of DeFi yield opportunities so they can invest with confidence. Exponential DeFi platform was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Rocketplace is a cryptocurrency trading platform that offers commission-free trading for buying and selling cryptocurrencies. The platform also provides free weekly educational articles covering cryptocurrency, NFTs, and Web3 to help users learn while engaging with the market. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Rocketplace was founded in 2021.

Central Payments specializes in payment solutions, serving various industries including food & beverage, retail, and hospitality. They offer RiO series registers, mobile payment solutions, and other hardware. The company also provides API-driven payments technology for fintech and embedded finance businesses.

Tongo is a financial services company that provides real estate agents with quick access to their commission income through an innovative online platform. By utilizing factoring, Tongo enables its clients to receive payment for confirmed reservations almost instantly, allowing them to manage their cash flow effectively. This service is particularly beneficial for agents who need to cover everyday expenses or handle unexpected financial emergencies while under contract. Through its streamlined approach, Tongo addresses the common challenges faced by commission-based workers, ensuring they have timely access to the funds they need.

Keep Financial operates a compensation management platform designed to enhance hiring and retention strategies for businesses. The company offers customizable 'Vesting Cash Plans', providing employees with immediate access to capital while aligning compensation with business objectives and performance metrics. This approach aims to attract top talent, boost employee satisfaction, and improve overall productivity by ensuring fair and flexible remuneration structures tailored to each individual's needs.

Fullreach develops digital person-based marketing software and affiliate marketing tools tailored for real estate professionals. The platform enables advertisers to reach prospects at the individual level through real estate agents and brokers, extending the reach of a business's marketing efforts. It supports a customer acquisition as a service model, with a commission-based framework designed to align incentives with client growth. By focusing on person-centric targeting within real estate channels, Fullreach helps companies scale their acquisition programs and optimize performance via agent-driven referrals and connections.

Ovation Ventures focuses on financial wellness through the development of software that enhances users' financial health and preparedness for various life stages. Its flagship application, Paperwork, allows individuals to securely organize critical documents and create emergency plans, ensuring that families have access to essential information when needed. The platform provides step-by-step guidance on necessary documents, helping users protect their families and navigate life's uncertainties with peace of mind. By prioritizing safety and security, Ovation Ventures aims to optimize the management of private and financial information for its users.

UNest is a financial technology company based in North Hollywood, California, founded by Ksenia Yudina in 2018. The company specializes in providing an accessible digital investing platform aimed at helping families build a secure financial future for their children. UNest allows parents to open a UTMA account quickly and easily through its app, with no paperwork required. The platform offers advisor-guided investment plans, a simple gifting feature, and the ability to set up recurring contributions. Additionally, users can earn rewards through UNest Rewards.

Zebec is a protocol on Solana that facilitates continuous settlement. It enables composable transfers of value, initially focusing on Stream Payroll.

UpEquity is a technology-driven mortgage platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company focuses on improving the home-buying experience by automating the application and approval process for mortgages and refinances. By utilizing its proprietary combination of cash offers, automated underwriting, and competitive mortgage rates, UpEquity enables customers to make prompt offers and access a broader range of housing options. This approach is particularly beneficial for first-time homebuyers, helping to democratize access to homeownership. Founded by Tim Herman and Louis Wilson during their time at Harvard Business School, UpEquity aims to streamline and enhance the traditionally complex home-buying process.

Copper Banking is a fintech company focused on providing teens with practical financial education through its app and debit card. It offers real-time account snapshots, in-store/online shopping capabilities via Apple or Google Pay, and exclusive access to financial literacy content curated by experts.

Vouch, Inc. is a provider of insurance products and services specifically designed for startups and high-growth companies in the United States. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a comprehensive range of insurance solutions, including general liability, business property, directors and officers, errors and omissions, cyber coverage, crime coverage, employment practices liability, hired and non-owned auto, and fiduciary liability. Vouch operates a tech-enabled platform that facilitates access to multiple insurance carriers and provides instant quoting capabilities through its MGA brand, Corix. By integrating technology and industry expertise, Vouch aims to help startups and technology-driven businesses effectively manage risk as they scale and adapt to emerging challenges.

Watalook is a platform that facilitates beauty appointments. It connects beauty professionals with clients, offering features such as custom calendars for scheduling, client history dashboards, and personal web pages to display services. Watalook simplifies booking processes, billing, and sends automated reminders. It primarily operates in Lithuania, the UK, the US, and Norway.

Empower is a fintech company dedicated to improving access to affordable credit for everyday Americans. It offers innovative features such as instant cash advances, automatic savings plans, and low-cost credit lines to help users manage their finances effectively.

Fullreach develops digital person-based marketing software and affiliate marketing tools tailored for real estate professionals. The platform enables advertisers to reach prospects at the individual level through real estate agents and brokers, extending the reach of a business's marketing efforts. It supports a customer acquisition as a service model, with a commission-based framework designed to align incentives with client growth. By focusing on person-centric targeting within real estate channels, Fullreach helps companies scale their acquisition programs and optimize performance via agent-driven referrals and connections.

Karvi streamlines Latin America's auto market by offering a digital platform for purchasing certified pre-owned vehicles. It connects customers with a wide network of dealerships, providing real-time stock information, transparent pricing, and a simplified buying process.

Grabango develops checkout-free technology for existing brick-and-mortar stores, combining cameras, shelf sensors, and computer vision to identify items as they are picked up, count them, and add purchases to a virtual basket. Shoppers pay with a registered method on their smartphone and leave the store without waiting in line, with a receipt sent to their phone after exit. The system retrofits stores from convenience to large grocers, does not use facial recognition, and keeps data anonymized to protect privacy. Grabango was founded in 2016 and is based in Berkeley, California.

Inai streamlines global payment processes by offering a single integration point for multiple payment service providers, wallets, buy now pay later platforms, open banking providers, fraud detection tools, business intelligence services, and accounting systems. Its dashboard enables merchants to create custom workflows tailored to their specific business needs without requiring any coding.

Extend offers personalized extended warranties and protection plans for a wide range of consumer products. Its platform provides intelligent real-time optimization of warranty offers, improving conversions and generating revenue for merchants. Integrated with leading eCommerce solutions, Extend enhances the customer support experience by storing purchase details and assisting throughout the claim process.

Embed provides modern securities execution, clearing, settlement, and custody APIs for fintechs, broker-dealers, RIAs, banks, and trust companies.

Scrypt AI provides an industry leading Integrated Payables and Receivables platform that leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver fast, zero-touch invoice coding, check coding, digital payments and account reconciliation. Scrypt seamlessly integrates with deposit and payment imaging solutions as well as third-party ERPs and eSign products.

Blotout develops a consented, single-tenant customer data platform and analytics stack designed to help enterprises navigate the post-cookie era. The platform provides analytics, data management, advertising segmentation, and identity management, enhanced by artificial intelligence and machine learning, to address the disappearance of third-party cookies and identifiers. It enables clients to eliminate third-party scripts and software development kits, reduce vulnerabilities, and improve site performance and customer relationships while mitigating data loss and compliance risk.

Truehold offers a sale-leaseback service designed to provide senior citizens with an alternative housing option. The company purchases clients' homes for full value, allowing them to continue living there while relieving them of maintenance and financial responsibilities.

Mesh Payments is a financial technology company founded in 2018 by Eran Katoni and Oded Zehavi, based in New York, New York. The company specializes in providing cardless corporate payment solutions tailored for businesses operating on a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Mesh Payments offers a comprehensive spend management platform that includes features such as virtual and physical cards, real-time expense tracking, automated workflows, and detailed spend reports. This platform empowers finance managers to gain full visibility and control over expenditures, streamline the approval process, and enhance overall financial health through intelligent payment orchestration and reconciliation.

Rollfi is a fintech company that develops embedded payroll solutions. Its platform enables vertical SaaS companies, accounting firms, and banks to integrate payroll into their offerings, providing employees with flexible payment options including cash and cryptocurrency.

Harmonic Financial Technology provides banking and insurance services designed to enhance financial resilience. Its software helps users make financial decisions in line with daily life, leveraging trusted brands and personalized guidance to help individuals discover and obtain insurance products that fit their needs.

Deep Discovery applies artificial intelligence to uncover hidden patterns in global data, revealing high-risk activities associated with organized crime. It automatically generates risk assessment scores for companies and their directors worldwide, enabling banks, regulators, and journalists to identify potential financial crimes more effectively.

Syntegra operates a privacy-preserving synthetic healthcare data platform that generates synthetic data derivatives from health system information. The synthetic data matches the statistical properties of the underlying data but contains no identifiable information, enabling analytics, predictive modeling, and the creation of synthetic control groups for clinical trials without exposing patient data. The platform supports diverse data types, from health records to images and sensor streams, and is designed for secure deployment within health systems and data aggregators, meeting HIPAA and GDPR compliance. Data at rest training and containment ensure that only model parameters are transmitted off-platform, preventing leakage of identifiable information. The solution is scalable and aimed at improving patient care and clinical outcomes by facilitating research and innovation while maintaining rigorous validation and benchmarking.