MAX is an exchange and clearinghouse for the purchase and sale of residential mortgage loans. The MAX Exchange efficiently connects qualified buyers and sellers of mortgage loans by providing standardized rules and regulations, independent loan reviews, ongoing loan, and servicing surveillance, and a fair, efficient, and enforceable dispute resolution process. MAX's innovative and powerful trading platform delivers a scalable transaction management system, a transparent and liquid marketplace, and improved flexibility in execution. The company was founded in 2009 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
DreamSpring, a nonprofit organization, provides microfinance and small business lending services to entrepreneurs and small businesses in Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Texas. It helps entrepreneurs and business owners generate income, build assets, create jobs, and achieve financial well-being through business ownership. DreamSpring was formerly known as Accion and changed its name to DreamSpring in June 2019. The organization was incorporated in 1993 and is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc. is a financial services company that offers debit card solutions designed specifically for children, enabling parents to instill financial literacy from an early age. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Greenlight provides a mobile application that allows parents to manage their children’s spending by designating specific stores where the Greenlight debit card can be used. This patent-pending technology empowers families to create teachable moments around earning, saving, spending, and giving. By focusing on convenience and safety, Greenlight aims to help parents raise financially savvy children while also expanding its network across the United States.
Movius Interactive Corporation specializes in cloud-based enterprise mobility solutions, primarily offering a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that extends telecommunication services to mobile devices. This platform includes pre-packaged applications and application programming interfaces, catering to the development needs of businesses. Movius addresses corporate compliance requirements while enhancing productivity, allowing users to manage and analyze their mobile communications effectively through dedicated work phone lines on any device. The company provides support and training services to telecommunication providers, businesses, and end-users both in the United States and internationally. Founded in 1999 and originally known as IP Unity Glenayre, Movius Interactive is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia, with additional locations in Silicon Valley, Bengaluru, Dubai, Madrid, and Johannesburg.
Ionic Security, a data security platform, provides access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management. Ionic Security (formerly Social Fortress) enables the use of cloud services by protecting sensitive data anywhere it travels and wherever it resides, whether on the corporate network, in the cloud or on mobile devices. The first unified data security platform of its kind, Ionic Security takes a comprehensive approach to secure data in today’s borderless enterprise by providing access control, intellectual property monitoring, data encryption, and policy management, without proxies or gateways or changes in user behavior. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and is backed by leading venture firms such as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, TechOperators, and ff VC as well as industry experts Christopher Klaus, Ken Levine, Phil Dunkelberger, and Dr. Paul Judge.
digitalundivided (DID), a social enterprise founded in 2013, takes an innovative approach to economic empowerment by encouraging women of color (WOC) to own their economic security through entrepreneurship. Based in Atlanta, DID is the primary pipeline for WOC into innovation-focused entrepreneurship, helping founders raise over $25 million in outside funding. Their current programming is built upon the success of DID’s FOCUS Fellow (FF) program (2012-2014), which provided support for WOC entrepreneurs. FOCUS started as a day-long workshop in 2012 and expanded to a virtual accelerator program in 2014. In 2015, DID started the #ProjectDiane data initiative and use insights gained from the on-going project to build the BIG Incubator program and the BIG Innovation Center in Atlanta. The first cohort of BIG graduated in January 2017. The second BIG Cohort started in spring 2017.
As of October 1, 2008, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. was acquired by J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. is an investment banking, securities trading, and brokerage firm. Bear Stearns & Co. is involved in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, fixed income sales and trading, asset management, and institutional equities. The company also provides trading and research, private client services, derivatives, foreign exchange and futures sales and trading services. It serves governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals. Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in New York City. It has offices in the United States, London, Beijing, Dublin, Herzliya, Hong Kong, Lugano, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.