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Crowded is a fintech company that specializes in digital banking solutions tailored for membership groups. Its platform streamlines financial management by offering tools for online officer handovers, group expense tracking, payment collection, and donation management. Crowded's embedded finance platform reduces the need for multiple fund transfers between different platforms, enhancing security and giving group leaders full control over their funds. The company aims to simplify financial transactions, allowing groups to concentrate on their core missions rather than administrative tasks.

Momentum is a behavioral-driven fundraising platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Oakland, California. It enables users to make automatic donations that turn everyday activities into opportunities for charitable giving. By allowing individuals to set predefined giving rules, the platform facilitates donations to a selection of trustworthy nonprofit organizations aligned with users' interests, such as adding a percentage to their restaurant bills to support those in need. Momentum focuses on donor stewardship and impact tracking, ensuring that users can easily contribute to meaningful causes while managing their day-to-day tasks. The company emphasizes evidence-based charity recommendations to maximize the effectiveness of donations.

Ownify operates a real estate platform that enables fractional ownership of single-family homes for both first-time buyers and real estate investors. The service allows qualified first-time buyers to purchase homes through fractional ownership with zero debt terms, reducing upfront costs while preserving homeownership opportunities. At the same time, socially conscious investors can buy fractional stakes in the same properties, sharing rental income and potential home price appreciation. The platform aims to build equity, foster stability in local communities, and align investments with fair terms and social impact.

Prime Trust LLC, based in Summerlin, Nevada, is a technology-driven trust company that offers innovative solutions for trust and custodial services. By developing software that serves as a financial infrastructure, Prime Trust enables fintech and digital asset companies to streamline their operations. As a chartered and regulated financial institution, it is subject to oversight by the banking commissioner’s office at the Financial Institutions Division. Prime Trust holds a diverse range of assets, including cash, stocks, bonds, cryptocurrencies, real estate, and private business interests. The company acts as a custodian and trustee for various personal and corporate trusts, playing a significant role in the crowdfunding industry. It collaborates with individuals, corporations, legal professionals, and investment advisers to provide specialized custodial, escrow, and trust services.

Poolit is a direct-to-consumer investing platform enabling access to top-tier venture and private equity managers for individual investors.

AlphaFlow, Inc. is a technology-driven investment company based in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in New York. Founded in 2015, AlphaFlow operates an online investment platform focused on real estate assets, specifically providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors and accredited individuals. The platform underwrites loans from residential real estate lenders nationwide, utilizing over 50 evaluation factors to identify optimal investment opportunities. By automating best practices in investment management, including diversification and data analytics, AlphaFlow allows investors to benefit from a simplified and intelligent approach to real estate investing without the high fees associated with traditional methods. This enables clients to build and manage diversified investment portfolios across multiple states and loan types, offering access to previously inaccessible asset classes while generating high-income streams through debt-based real estate investments.

LEX Markets Corp., established in 2018 and based in New York, operates an online platform for trading shares of individual commercial real estate assets. It facilitates both accredited and non-accredited investors to buy and sell shares, with investments starting at $250 and no lockup periods. The company specializes in taking commercial buildings public through single-asset IPOs, making it possible for a broader range of investors to access the real estate market. LEX Markets' platform is powered by Nasdaq technology, ensuring robust, low latency, and high-performance trading features.

Tribevest is an online platform facilitating collaborative investment groups. It simplifies processes like pooling capital and buying private investments together, with a focus on real estate ventures such as single-family rentals and vacation homes.

Rares.io operates a social investing platform that enables individuals to invest in the sneaker culture through fractional ownership of rare and collectible sneakers. By offering shares in specific sneakers, Rares eliminates the need for buyers to contend with traditional purchasing challenges, such as long lines or online bots. The platform provides educational resources, including videos and tools, to help users understand the value of their investments based on the unique stories and attributes of each shoe. Sneakers are made available through Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), allowing users to buy and trade shares after the IPO closes. This model not only facilitates investment but also encourages community engagement among sneaker enthusiasts, enabling users to connect, share insights, and trade with one another. By fostering a social environment, Rares.io seeks to create a marketplace that reflects the culture and excitement surrounding sneaker collecting.

Yieldstreet is a management platform that provides retail investors access to income-generating investment products. Founded in 2015, It gives individuals access to alternative investments that have traditionally been off-limits to the average investor. With over $2.5 billion invested across multiple asset classes, Yieldstreet is changing the way people generate passive income by lowering and removing the barriers that historically kept these lucrative opportunities far out of reach. In 2013, founders Milind Mehere and Michael Weisz were frustrated that many investment strategies were typically reserved only for institutions and the ultra-wealthy. Typically, the average investor was left to choose between the stock market and bonds with falling yields - with few options in between. Asset-based investments had longer hold periods and a higher barrier of entry, keeping them well out of reach of accredited investors — even more so for unaccredited investors. As a result, they decided to leverage the growing fintech disruption to give more people access to these previously restricted alternative investments. Milind’s background in building companies combined with Michael’s decade-plus experience in investing and fund management formed the core of Yieldstreet. Passion for their investors and employees as well as a willing embrace of innovation, has been part of Yieldstreet’s identity from the beginning. Each decision to leverage a new technology, or investment strategy, or originate a new deal is made to put investors first. That drive has propelled Yieldstreet across all 50 states, crossing $100M invested in less than eight quarters, with the $1B milestone coming only three years later. In 2019, Yieldstreet’s membership had grown to 100,000, and a savings account for members was launched. Yieldstreet, since its launch in 2015, has not deviated from its goal to change investing for the better, nor has it slowed down. Yieldstreet was ranked number 46 on the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies and has been recognized by Built In as one of the Best Places to Work. Yieldstreet today delivers wealth generation options and alternative investments for more than 330,000 investors and has returned more than $1.3 billion in principal/interest. Many alternative investment platforms only focus on one asset class, such as real estate or art. Yieldstreet’s offerings, accessed through cash or a low-fee IRA, cover a wide range of asset classes — art, real estate, legal, corporates, consumer, and commercial, via single investments or funds. Yieldstreet also offers its members short-term notes on offerings with a hold period between 3 and 6 months, which generally boast higher interest rates than money markets and CDs. Yieldstreet is headquartered in New York and has offices in Brazil, Greece, and Malta. Michael Weisz serves as President and Milind Mehere serves as CEO. Together, they manage a team of more than 140 employees, all working toward Yieldstreet’s one goal: to change the way people invest for the better.

SolidBlock Ltd is a company that offers a comprehensive platform designed for real estate developers and fund managers to facilitate fundraising through digital securities. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Jerusalem, Israel, SolidBlock focuses on the intersection of finance and real estate, providing innovative solutions in tokenization and fintech. The platform enables users to efficiently connect with investors, streamlining the process of raising capital for various real estate projects.

Sēkr is a crowdsourced mobile platform making every step of the outdoor travel planning experience easier, safer, and more social. The company is creating an inclusive community through access to 50K+ campsites, including the nation’s largest database of free campsites, and local outdoor events.

Omaze operates a unique online platform that combines fundraising for charitable initiatives with exciting prize experiences. It hosts auctions where donors can bid for chances to win once-in-a-lifetime opportunities such as celebrity encounters, luxury items, or exclusive travel packages. Omaze provides comprehensive services including marketing, content creation, technology support, and fulfillment to facilitate these experiences while raising funds for various causes.