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Developer of a decentralized protocol designed to augment smart contracts with off-chain computers. The company's platform offers a suite of tools and services that allows running computations on a decentralized network of computers and verifying the results and industries such as finance, healthcare and supply chain management to orchestrate and verify any computational workflow, integrating any combination of L1, L2 and middleware, enabling customers to build secure, transparent and tamper-proof applications and processes.

Aingel is an analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to identify promising startups and connect them with suitable venture capitalists. The platform features an interactive dashboard and a VC match report that assesses both startups and investors based on over one hundred criteria, incorporating historical data to enhance investment decision-making. By facilitating faster fundraising, Aingel aligns founders with investors who are most likely to provide value and show interest in their business ideas. The platform is utilized by leading data-driven venture capital firms, banks, and fintech companies through its APIs, which streamline the process of startup discovery and analysis. Established in 2016, Aingel is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Minima is a developer of a decentralized blockchain platform that is designed to function as an open and cooperative ecosystem for the metaverse. The company's ultra-lean blockchain protocol can be entirely housed on mobile or IoT devices, empowering users to operate fully constructed and validating nodes. This innovative approach aims to create a scalable and inclusive environment, allowing every user to participate in the blockchain network without the need for extensive resources. Minima's focus on accessibility and efficiency positions it as a unique player in the blockchain landscape.

Provider of a decentralized finance protocol intended to create permissionless asset management tools and services. The company redeploys LP into yield farms and swaps tokens into supported ones, and provides borrowers with options to repay their debt using advanced financial principles of modern portfolio theory, enabling users to have more control over their financial transactions.

Concordium is a privacy-focused blockchain for enterprises and governments, and the first project to have an innovative user identity layer built-in at the protocol level. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Concordium utilizes smart contracts and the cryptographic concept of zero-knowledge proofs, wherein users can verify that something is true without physically seeing the evidence. Designed to integrate with existing financial and business systems that must authenticate users’ identity on a day-to-day basis, Concordium has also been created to meet regulatory approval. While the data about network participants is anonymized on-chain, the platform retains the ability to revoke anonymity in a decentralized process only if requests are made by a legal authority. Concordium’s mainnet is due to launch in early 2021, with its incentivized testnet having already attracted plenty of interest.

The Sentinel Network has the ability to host open-source distributed & decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is private, their communications are not being logged, and that not even the application creator has access to any of their data.

YIELD App is a decentralized finance (DeFi) banking platform.

Operator of a cryptocurrency derivatives platform designed to facilitate simplified access and trading of derivative products. The company's platform permits trading of perpetual swaps, futures, and future swaps, and exotic and customized options with minimalization of system overloads, and auto-scaling, enabling traders and investors to operate and manage digital assets with liquidity.

Akash Network operates a cloud computing platform that connects organizations with excess computing capacity to users in need of such resources. By creating an open marketplace, Akash facilitates the deployment, security, and scaling of digital applications, allowing enterprises, software innovators, and SaaS companies to efficiently manage their workloads. The platform simplifies code deployment and offers tools for configuring, monitoring, and managing containerized applications. Additionally, it provides a federated control plane that enables seamless application deployment across various cloud providers, helping users to optimize costs while enhancing operational efficiency.

Aingel is an analytics platform that leverages artificial intelligence to identify promising startups and connect them with suitable venture capitalists. The platform features an interactive dashboard and a VC match report that assesses both startups and investors based on over one hundred criteria, incorporating historical data to enhance investment decision-making. By facilitating faster fundraising, Aingel aligns founders with investors who are most likely to provide value and show interest in their business ideas. The platform is utilized by leading data-driven venture capital firms, banks, and fintech companies through its APIs, which streamline the process of startup discovery and analysis. Established in 2016, Aingel is headquartered in San Jose, California.

The Graph is a protocol designed for building decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS using GraphQL. Incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a decentralized indexing and query layer for the decentralized web. Developers can create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which applications can query to access blockchain data. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, POA, and IPFS, with plans to expand to additional networks. A hosted service is available to help developers begin building on the platform, while a decentralized network is set to launch soon. Approximately 1,700 subgraphs have been deployed for various decentralized applications, including notable projects like Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland.

CasperLabs LLC is a company that develops an open-source blockchain platform based on a proof-of-stake consensus protocol. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Diego, California, CasperLabs focuses on creating a blockchain environment that facilitates real-world applications while ensuring usability, cost-effectiveness, decentralization, and security. Its CBC Casper protocol enables the development of software solutions in WebAssembly, and the company provides services related to network decentralization, consensus, and smart contract security. By removing barriers to mainstream blockchain adoption, CasperLabs aims to create an equitable foundation that empowers individuals and supports future innovations. The platform is designed to meet the operational needs of businesses, enhancing transparency and efficiency in transactions for companies and governments globally.

Althea is a protocol designed to enhance internet access by allowing individuals and communities to establish their own networks, thereby acting as independent Internet Service Providers (ISPs). The system facilitates negotiation between networks and devices to optimize internet bandwidth, which reduces inefficiencies and removes intermediaries in both mobile and fixed broadband markets. Primarily focused on wireless networks, Althea employs small antennas placed on rooftops to disseminate signals, enabling antenna owners to earn income. Participants can join existing Althea networks and contribute equipment to augment network capacity, receiving compensation in return. This innovative approach empowers users to create competitive internet options within their communities.