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Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.

Footprint is an onboarding platform that solves KYC, Security, Auth, and Fraud with five lines of code. By utilizing novel technologies such as nitro enclaves, passkeys, and app clips, Footprint has helped companies generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in customer LTV by boosting their conversion while also preventing fraud attacks through propriety deterministic signals.

Column Tax is a platform enabling mobile banks and Fintech companies to offer top-tier tax features to their end-users.

Parcl is a blockchain-based real estate platform that allows users to invest in a digital square foot of physical real estate.

Co:Create powers dynamic growth for NFT projects and Web3 brands.

Diagram is a tool for design. They are reimagining UI design in the era of generative AI. They also provide a magical design tool powered by AI. The builders, creatives, and prototypers are looking to grow individually and together. They create radically powerful tools to improve the lives of UI designers.

Union54 is a debit card issuing API for fintech and corporates. Union54 allows any software company to issue debit cards to their customers without needing any bank or credit card processor. It provides BIN sponsorship., transaction processing, and settlement. Founded in 2020, Union54 is based in Lusaka, Zambia.

Goals is a provider of an online football game. Goals is a multiplayer-first football game primarily for PC and consoles that offers a way for gamers to own in-game digital assets as they play.

SwayID's next-gen identity verification platform revolutionizes how brands engage with the modern consumer -- the creator-consumer -- an emerging category of consumer spawned by the pandemic comprising 200M+ (and rapidly growing) content creators spanning every platform from TikTok and Instagram to YouTube and Twitch. By leveraging authoritative data sources, SwayID offers real-time verification of these creators, ensuring that exclusive brand offers and experiences are both authentic and financially empowering. Our proprietary instant verification process not only boosts the integrity of brand promotions but also integrates seamlessly within an organization’s existing brand experience, enhancing creator-customer loyalty and advocacy while minimizing churn. The result? A significant increase in lifetime value from a brand's most valuable customers. At the heart of SwayID's value proposition is a universal ecosystem that empowers verified creators with unprecedented access to exclusive discounts and streamlined monetization opportunities from a growing network of leading brands. This ecosystem isn't just expansive; it's designed to be mutually beneficial, fostering a vibrant community where each new creator and brand accelerates economic equity for all. The magic of SwayID lies in its network effect: as the community of creators and brands expands, the ecosystem becomes increasingly rich with opportunities, driving a self-reinforcing cycle of engagement, loyalty, and mutual growth. Through SwayID, brands and creators alike find a common ground to thrive, pushing the boundaries of traditional marketing and loyalty programs and setting a new standard where brands and creators grow stronger, together.

Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a scalable open platform that allows forest projects of any size, from around the world, to Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) their forestation data. Through OFP, individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and governments are able to create transparent, immutable, proof-of-impact data that is comprehensively verified by a network of independent experts. OFP is creating the foundation for more inclusive, scalable, and data-backed financing mechanisms for nature-based climate solutions.

Disco develops an AI-driven partnership platform that makes recommendations to consumers across brands. It operates as a network of brands that work together to learn more about their customers, increase merchandising distribution, and lower customer acquisition costs.

We’re making it easy to discover, join and participate in web3 communities, also known as "DAO’s". Starting by simplifying DAO onboarding. We’re creating a clear, unified experience for connecting a wallet, choosing a membership type, and token purchasing. We’ll be integrating membership status & approval on-chain to create the best source for who is in which DAO.

Austin-based Captain Experiences makes booking outdoor sports trips quick and easy. Focused first on fishing, our mission is to unlock the outdoors for everyone, and we do it through our no-hassle booking experience online, and our Damn Good Guides in the field. Whether it’s fly fishing Montana’s backcountry, chasing blue marlin out of Kona, Hawaii, or stalking tailing redfish in our Texas homewaters, if you can dream it, you can do it in just a few quick clicks with Captain. Leading investors including Andrew Chen at a16z, Goodwater, Not Boring, and Looking Glass back us in making our passion our profession and we hope you'll join us.

Wayfinder, developed at the Stanford University d.school, offers a comprehensive K-12 curriculum that goes beyond social-emotional learning to equip students with essential future-ready skills. Rooted in research, Wayfinder's curriculum focuses on Self-Awareness, Adaptability, Empathy, Collaboration, Agency, and Purpose. These skills aim to bridge the gap between classroom learning and real-world applications, preparing students for lifelong success. Wayfinder is designed to build meaningful connections, enhance student engagement, and improve school climate. It includes the Waypoints assessment suite, which provides real-time insights into student growth, enabling targeted instruction and timely interventions. The program's flexible implementation options work across settings and grade levels, and it integrates seamlessly with all major learning management systems. Wayfinder has been positively received by both students and teachers since 2015, with significant improvements reported in student engagement, social awareness, and sense of purpose​ post-implementation. The program has served students from over 65 countries across the globe, including major US districts like Omaha Public Schools, Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Portland Public Schools, and The School District of Philadelphia. Recently, Wayfinder received the highest possible program designation from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the highest possible Learning Rating from Common Sense Education.

Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment (IDE) built for cross-platform collaborative coding. With assistance from more than 50 programming languages, it can be utilized to construct apps and websites via a browser on any working system or system (together with cell), with the added skill to share initiatives and create communal workspaces, and grant entry to containers for executing code. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Parcl is a blockchain-based real estate platform that allows users to invest in a digital square foot of physical real estate.

Composer allows users to build, test, and manage automated investment strategies without writing a line of code. the company was founded in 202 and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Merge is one API to add hundreds of integrations to your product. Merge’s platform makes secure data access easy by offering Unified APIs across key software categories, including HRIS, accounting, CRM, file storage, and more. Merge handles the full integrations lifecycle — from an easy initial build taking just weeks, to providing integration observability tools ensuring customer delight, and fully owning the maintenance of integrations. Thousands of companies use Merge to power their integrations, enabling them to unblock sales, reduce customer churn, accelerate time to market for new products, and save engineering costs and resources. Merge is backed by $75 million in funding from Accel, NEA, and Addition. Merge was founded in 2020 by Shensi Ding and Gil Feig and is proudly built in San Francisco, New York City, and Berlin.

Plus is a software company that captures, views, and shares current data from any source. Customers are using Plus to visualize their customer funnel and operations across disconnected tools, communicate with partners and suppliers, and automate recurring updates. Take a "Live Snapshot" of any website or application — don't worry about APIs, integrations, etc. — to turn data into live insights that stay updated, and share it with the team, partners, customers, and other collaborators.

On Deck is a platform serving the many strands of identity that unite ambitious people around the globe. Their ever-growing community and action-oriented programming will help the people to get there—fast. On Deck will up-level career, launch, and scale big ideas, or make lifelong friends.

Gilded’s mission is to empower a more global, connected workforce through the adoption of web3 technology. Gilded helps organizations scale with an end-to-end decentralized operations solution that eliminates the complexity of crypto payments and financial reporting. Founded in 2018, Gilded’s 130 customers include crypto startups, NFT marketplaces, P2E guilds, DAOs, miners, and accounting firms.

The future of commerce is everywhere.

SkillMagic's AI finds the best learning from the entire Internet and re-organizes it so anyone can learn anything efficiently.