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Clara is a financial technology company focused on simplifying home mortgage financing for individuals and families. By leveraging advanced technology, Clara aims to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and personalization of the mortgage origination process. Its online lending platform facilitates an easy and streamlined experience for consumers, allowing them to secure home financing quickly and clearly. In addition to its mortgage offerings, Clara also provides a suite of financial tools designed for businesses, including corporate expense management solutions, corporate cards, and bill payment services. This comprehensive approach enables both consumers and businesses to manage their financial needs with greater ease and control.

Yummy develops a food delivery app that operates across Latin America. The app allows users to order and pay for their orders through their mobile application or website platform and offers different payment methods such as foreign credit cards and cash, that conveniently enable users to enjoy their food at a location of their choice. Vicente Zavarce founded Yummy in 2020 and has its headquarters in San Francisco, California, United States.

earnJARVIS is a crypto investment platform that helps retail investors and businesses access the full breath of the crypto economy by automating asset and yield management.

Proof is an identity-assured transaction management platform that verifies identities and secures digital transactions. It offers digital trust by verifying identities and securing transactions, ensuring protection for businesses and their customers.

Starburst is the analytics engine for all data. Their platform queries data across any database, is instantly actionable for data-driven organizations to lower the total cost of infrastructure and analytics investments, and prevents vendor lock-in, enabling clients to overcome the complexity of data movement and copies.

Chipper Cash is a financial services company that features a software application platform that enables free instant cross-border mobile money transfers in Africa as easy as sending a text message. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rain is a fast-growing early wage access and financial wellness benefit vendor globally. With operations in the U.S., Brazil, and India, Rain provides a voluntary employee benefit that is free for employers to implement. Rain integrates with payroll and timekeeping vendors to create a seamless process with almost zero work for the employer. Through Rain, not only can employees access their pay any day of the week (instead of waiting the traditional two weeks for payday), but they can also take advantage of a free pay card, the ability to instantly access tips after a shift, and other financial wellness tools such as a credit score builder and financial literacy materials. Rain also can offer deep discounts on dozens of other voluntary benefits such as prescriptions and dental care. Employers win by having one of the leading employee benefits that workers are asking for and by seeing reductions in turnover and increases in job applications.

Natural Fiber Welding develops a circularity platform producing sustainable materials from plants. Its multi-material platform serves a wide range of industries from fashion and footwear to automotive and upholstery. Its technology embeds seamlessly into existing supply chains, enabling iconic brands to design and scale products with high-performance, plastic-free materials.

Anduril Industries is a defense product company that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance. Anduril commits top technical talent to solve complex national security challenges. The company is building the next generation of technology that will aid and protect those who serve on the front lines defending the nation and its interests. Andurils' mission is to develop innovative technology that enables America and its allies to maintain global leadership now and into the future.

Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financial advisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships. Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.

Shogun Enterprises is a financial technology platform for home improvement.

Cinchona acquires, incubates and develops great ecommerce brands. We are backed by leading investors and our team has deep expertise in ecommerce, technology, and M&A. We are building an ecosystem of e-commerce entrepreneurs. For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.

Aimi is advancing the evolution of music by combining the power of human creativity with intelligent technology to create continuous, ever-evolving, unscripted sonic experiences that empower artists, listeners, and businesses alike. The Aimi platform reimagines music creation and connection and opens new avenues for artists and listeners to express and experience music. Its interactive royalty-cleared software application and future-forward creator tools prioritize the creative genius of artists, protect their intellectual property rights, and credit their contributions. Aimi’s framework ensures businesses can shape listening experiences suited to their goals while adhering to the highest standards of integrity.

Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. Airtable helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.

Stripe, Inc. is a global technology company that provides application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools designed to facilitate online payment processing for businesses. Its comprehensive platform includes solutions for payments, subscriptions, fraud detection, and data analytics, among others. Stripe's offerings, such as Stripe Connect for routing payments, Stripe Radar for fraud prevention, and Stripe Checkout for seamless transaction processes, cater to a diverse clientele ranging from startups to established enterprises. The company also addresses financing challenges faced by online businesses through Stripe Capital, which offers fast and flexible funding options. With operations in multiple countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Singapore, Stripe aims to simplify financial infrastructure and support the growth of internet-based businesses, thereby contributing to the overall economic landscape of the digital economy. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Stripe has established partnerships with leading technology firms to enhance its service capabilities.

Flutterwave provides a payment infrastructure for merchants and payment service providers. They offer an online marketplace for businesses to list their products and services for sale. They provide payment tools, including a smart payment ordering system for businesses to accept payments.

Astra is a rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery and launch services. It offers online reservations for payload deliveries to both sun-synchronous and low-inclination orbits. Astra also offers dedicated launch services of 50kg-150kg payloads to 500km SSO reference orbit in 2020 and 2021. The company focuses on providing cost-effective and frequent access to space for small satellite payloads. Astra aims to simplify the process of launching payloads into space by developing lightweight and agile rockets that can be found from various locations. Astra has been actively conducting launch campaigns to demonstrate its capabilities and improve its technology. As with any ambitious space venture, Astra has faced its fair share of challenges and setbacks in developing and launching rockets.

Fantasmo builds a decentralized, open source stack for indoor and outdoor 3D maps and camera-based positioning. It enables the next generation of AR, robotics and other applications converging physical and digital. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Venice, California, United States.

Astra is a rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery and launch services. It offers online reservations for payload deliveries to both sun-synchronous and low-inclination orbits. Astra also offers dedicated launch services of 50kg-150kg payloads to 500km SSO reference orbit in 2020 and 2021. The company focuses on providing cost-effective and frequent access to space for small satellite payloads. Astra aims to simplify the process of launching payloads into space by developing lightweight and agile rockets that can be found from various locations. Astra has been actively conducting launch campaigns to demonstrate its capabilities and improve its technology. As with any ambitious space venture, Astra has faced its fair share of challenges and setbacks in developing and launching rockets.

Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases. Airtable helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.

Palantir Technologies offers a suite of software applications for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing information. Palantir software allows analysts within and between government organizations to collaborate and analyze large quantities of data. The company's software platforms are designed to help organizations, particularly in the fields of government, defense, finance, healthcare, and other industries, make sense of large and complex data sets.

Bakkt is a trusted digital asset platform that enables consumers, businesses and institutions to buy, sell, store and spend digital assets. Bakkt’s platform, now available through the Bakkt App and to partners, amplifies consumer spending and bolsters loyalty programs, adding value for all key stakeholders within the Bakkt payments and digital assets ecosystem. Launched in 2018, Bakkt is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Citizen is a free mobile application that notifies its users with safety alerts and real-time incident updates. Emergency services and community activists alike hail the app as a ground-breaking development in personal and community safety. It is a powerful force for good that has evacuated people from burning buildings, diverted school buses from nearby terrorist attacks, and in many instances has helped reunite missing persons and pets with their families. Citizen provides you with alerts sourced from the latest 911 data. The alerts are accompanied by live stories, real-time updates, and user-generated content to provide you with the information you need so you know what’s happening around you rather than having to wonder why police are on your corner or there are helicopters above you. Today, millions of people across the United States have downloaded the app and use it to keep themselves, their families, and their friends safe. The app operates across a growing list of US markets, including significant user bases in NYC, SF, Los Angeles, Chicago, and more metro areas.