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Elixir is a decentralized protocol that facilitates algorithmic market-making across both centralized and decentralized exchanges. It is designed to enhance composability for integrations, allowing retail users to engage in market-making activities and potentially earn profits. Additionally, Elixir provides projects and trading venues with access to active market-making services for their trading pairs, thus promoting liquidity and efficiency in the market. The protocol emphasizes computational security, ensuring that transactions and market activities are conducted safely and reliably.

Prisms VR is a STEM education platform based in San Francisco, California, founded by Anurupa Ganguly. The company specializes in creating immersive educational experiences using virtual reality technology. Its software features modules designed to provide realistic 3D environments that facilitate problem-solving and enhance understanding of complex concepts. These modules support content remediation and reinforce lessons learned in class, making them valuable for both in-person and remote learning settings. The platform aims to assist teachers and parents in teaching and fostering spatial thinking skills in students, ultimately enriching the educational experience.

Boundless Life is a company based in Montreal, Canada, founded in 2021, that specializes in creating travel communities for families, particularly digital nomads. The business provides thoughtfully designed communities in picturesque locations worldwide, featuring location-independent private homes, co-working spaces, and a school system focused on experiential learning. Additionally, Boundless Life incorporates recreational hubs tailored to local cultures, allowing families to connect with one another while exploring diverse environments. By offering these services, the company facilitates sustainable travel experiences that enrich the lives of families and promote cultural immersion.

Sparkwise is an online learning platform that focuses on enhancing professional skills through interactive group challenges. It addresses the limitations of traditional training methods, offering a more engaging and effective alternative to conventional eLearning modules. The platform facilitates real-time, multiplayer learning, allowing users to participate in hands-on practice and collaboration. Sparkwise’s approach has resulted in over 95% completion rates, significantly higher than typical eLearning programs, with users reporting that the platform is both engaging and relevant to their daily tasks. Developed by a team of former leaders from McKinsey and Minerva, Sparkwise aims to make impactful learning accessible to all employees, aligning their development with personal passions and professional goals.

Chainstarters is an optimized cloud infrastructure helping the development community save time and money as they build and scale innovative technologies. We are driven to knock down obstacles that limit creativity, and our platform empowers software developers to deliver revolutionary outcomes. Chainstarter’s proprietary solution removes the need for dev-ops altogether, and it streamlines and bundles the technologies we know and love. The outcome? Agencies and engineers are saving up to 75% in development costs while decreasing the product development lifecycle by over 50%.

Prof Jim is an educational platform founded in 2020 and based in Sunnyvale, California, that aims to transform the education sector through the use of artificial intelligence. The platform offers a variety of online courses designed and managed by AI, providing students with enhanced learning experiences. This innovative approach enables learners to acquire knowledge effectively from home, particularly during challenging times such as the pandemic. Prof Jim's commitment to leveraging technology in education positions it as a forward-thinking entity in the evolving landscape of online learning.

Humanly.io is a hiring platform that specializes in screening and scheduling job candidates through an AI-based system. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Humanly engages with candidates visiting a company’s job pages and social media, facilitating their qualification and addressing their inquiries. This innovative technology allows organizations to enhance candidate conversion rates across various recruitment channels while significantly reducing the time spent by human resources on each open role. With its focus on efficiency and automation, Humanly streamlines the hiring process for businesses, making it easier to manage candidate interactions at scale.

Upright Education is an educational platform founded in 2021 and based in Burlington, Vermont. The company collaborates with colleges and universities to address the technology skills gap and prepare adults for future employment opportunities. It offers a range of courses in high-demand areas such as software development, UX and UI design, front-end coding, client-side scripting, database development, agile development, and design thinking. By providing these digital workforce programs, Upright Education empowers students to acquire essential skills that align with the needs of employers across the country.

Brite is an educational platform focused on empowering communities to teach coding to children. It offers a comprehensive curriculum, tools, and resources, incorporating interactive gaming elements to engage young learners and enhance their coding skills. By supporting educators, academies, and community organizations, Brite aims to make computer science education accessible and enjoyable, enabling users to teach coding in an effective and entertaining manner.

A marketplace funnel that drives activity across a suite of high-value Web3 products and services to promote the advancement of Web3 and onboard the 5B+ people not yet native to crypto

Upstock is a cloud-based equity management platform founded in 2015 and based in Norway. It offers a comprehensive solution designed to enhance collaboration among founders, investors, and team members by replacing traditional stock option systems with a more efficient and equitable model. The platform provides a framework that helps organizations manage equity distribution and increase financial runway at a low monthly cost. A key feature is its dynamic performance-based equity dashboard, which is designed to motivate stakeholders by aligning their interests with the long-term success of the company. Upstock also incorporates automatically updated best practices tailored to various regulatory environments, along with legal documentation to mitigate potential taxation issues associated with stock options and restricted stock units. The platform has been in limited beta testing and was set to launch publicly in 2019.

We are a trusted healthcare solutions provider integrating culture and technology to source diverse participants for genomic research and clinical trials

Level Builds financial services for the new economy. They collectively have decades of experience designing and delivering innovative financial services designed around specific needs. With complementary skills and knowledge, they have built Level technology to support an outstanding customer experience and provide the banking services you deserve.

Level Builds financial services for the new economy. They collectively have decades of experience designing and delivering innovative financial services designed around specific needs. With complementary skills and knowledge, they have built Level technology to support an outstanding customer experience and provide the banking services you deserve.

Continuum is the all-in-one platform for solo creatives to run a thriving freelance business from anywhere. Made for freelance creatives with all the tools you need to flourish as a freelancer.

Developer of a gamified online learning platform designed to empower students to positively navigate their social world. The company's platform offers various services, including one-of-a-kind speeches, interactive workshops, school curricula, brand consulting, and a digital educational forum for parents, enabling students to learn assertive ways to handle the drivers of their social development.

Tribute Company develops a workplace mentorship application aimed at enhancing mentorship for women. Founded in 2018 and based in Seattle, Washington, Tribute offers an enterprise SaaS platform that connects employees through shared life experiences and stories. This platform facilitates the creation of corporate mentoring programs, allowing for real-time access to knowledge sharing and micro-mentorship, which fosters team collaboration and productivity. By simplifying the mentorship process and providing employers with valuable insights, Tribute promotes a more authentic way for employees to discover and connect with mentors. The company focuses on addressing the needs of a diverse workforce while demonstrating the effectiveness of diversity and inclusion initiatives within organizations.

Next Gen supports the world’s greatest entrepreneurs to overcome obstacles and chase their dreams. We are Next Gen HQ, a business hub for entrepreneurs. In everything we do, we believe that while entrepreneurship may be daunting and complicated, the freedom to control your own path makes it worth it. That’s why we serve entrepreneurs by cultivating the resources, education, mentorship, and community they need through events, media, services, technology, and capital. Our business hub energizes entrepreneurs, accelerating their momentum towards success. We’re proud to guide a powerful community of leaders who are committing their lives to a purpose greater than themselves.