Kiln creates an enterprise-level pledge platform and provides one-click pledge services for encrypted assets. It develops validator-independent APIs and services to enable multi-provider staking. Digital assets can be staked wherever they are held, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. As the industry evolves and the need to integrate multiple stakeholder players becomes apparent, Kiln is in an excellent position to act as an aggregator and accelerate it. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.
Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.
Highlight is a platform for collecting, creating, and trading digital artifacts.
Mirror is a developer of a publishing platform designed for creators, communities, and DAOs. Their platform specializes in expanding the toolkit to support community management, robust governance tools, dynamic tokens, and NFT marketplaces.
Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.
CrowdAI enables anyone to create high quality, custom machine learning models to analyze imagery and video—no data science background or coding required. Our full-stack solution to machine learning provides all the tools necessary to go from raw pixels to structured data and insights relevant to your specific needs. CrowdAI’s platform streamlines the process of creating and deploying machine learning models, making it approachable and intuitive to anyone in the enterprise. The models created on our platform aren’t just for reports and charts: by putting them into a production environment, you can use real-time data to make real operational decisions.
Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. Kalshi’s markets cover a wide range of topics including economics, international affairs, media and entertainment, climate/weather, and public health. Because Kalshi’s market topics can be more specific than other instruments like stocks or bonds, investors can get direct exposure to the events and trends that they are interested in. For example, a Kalshi market on whether a certain free trade agreement will be signed can help retail investors get exposure to emerging markets and fluctuations in international trade. Website: https://kalshi.com
Infracost sits in your engineering workflow and tells you and your engineers how much code changes will increase cloud costs before changes are deployed.
Affirm is a financial technology services company providing installment loans to consumers at the point of sale. The company was founded with the goal to create honest financial products and services that empower consumers and improve lives. It aims to revolutionize the banking industry to be more accountable and accessible to consumers. Today, Affirm provides shoppers with an alternative to traditional credit cards at the point of sale, giving them the flexibility to buy now and make simple monthly payments for their purchases. Unlike payment options that have compounding interest and unexpected costs, Affirm shows customers upfront exactly what they’ll pay each month—with no hidden fees and no surprises. Affirm partners with over 2,000 merchants to give shoppers the option to pay with Affirm at checkout, including well-known brands across retail, including home furnishings, travel, personal fitness, electronics, apparel and beauty, and more.
When it comes to hiring, there are lots of resources to help managers get more candidates. But on average, only 1 in every 300 of these candidates actually get hired. Hiring managers and recruiters end up taking a robotic, brute force approach to sourcing - the kind of approach top talent hates. Managers are increasingly finding that the simplest and most personable way to attract talent starts with their network. The best candidates want to work for great people, not faceless companies. Sharing open roles on places like LinkedIn, Slack, and Twitter unlocks enormous potential for a personalized recruiting approach across a curated talent pool, but these referrals are difficult to track across platforms and end up lost in the shuffle. We are changing that. After more than a decade of building teams and products at high-growth consumer tech companies like Instacart, Snapchat, and Uber, Maddy and Janelle turned their attention to creating collaborative tools for hiring managers and recruiters to source candidates from a wider range of networks and communities - while staying human.
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Powder is a startup that helps to share video clips of favorite games, follow people with the same interests and interact with them.
Thisopenspace is a platform for emerging and global brands to interact with their customers through physical space.
Braavo is a financial solutions company focused on mobile app and game businesses. The company offers non-dilutive funding options that don't require giving up ownership. Braavo also provides analytics tools to help app businesses track performance and make data-driven decisions.
Carta is a transfer agent for private companies that enables seed-stage to pre-IPO companies to manage equity electronically with the participation of their shareholders, employees, auditors, and legal counsel. It digitizes paper stock certificates along with stock options, warrants, and derivatives to create a real-time image of who owns what at a startup.
CrowdAI enables anyone to create high quality, custom machine learning models to analyze imagery and video—no data science background or coding required. Our full-stack solution to machine learning provides all the tools necessary to go from raw pixels to structured data and insights relevant to your specific needs. CrowdAI’s platform streamlines the process of creating and deploying machine learning models, making it approachable and intuitive to anyone in the enterprise. The models created on our platform aren’t just for reports and charts: by putting them into a production environment, you can use real-time data to make real operational decisions.
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Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased. Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California.
CrowdAI enables anyone to create high quality, custom machine learning models to analyze imagery and video—no data science background or coding required. Our full-stack solution to machine learning provides all the tools necessary to go from raw pixels to structured data and insights relevant to your specific needs. CrowdAI’s platform streamlines the process of creating and deploying machine learning models, making it approachable and intuitive to anyone in the enterprise. The models created on our platform aren’t just for reports and charts: by putting them into a production environment, you can use real-time data to make real operational decisions.
Projector, founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile notification platform aimed at enhancing product experiences for developers and product teams. The company focuses on creating collaborative tools for visual communication, enabling users to integrate videos, GIFs, social media, and presentations into their applications. By facilitating visual storytelling, Projector helps teams expand their creative capabilities beyond traditional app boundaries.
Roofstock is an online marketplace for investing in leased single-family rental homes in a transparent and low-friction way. The company provides its clients with research, analytics, and insights to evaluate and purchase independently certified properties at set prices. It enables its investors to treat their real estate investments more like stock portfolios, focusing on asset allocation, rather than researching, and buying vacant homes that need to be repaired and leased. Founded in 2015, Roofstock gets its funding from Bain Capital, Ron Conway, Khosla Ventures, Marc Benioff, and other investment companies. It is headquartered in Oakland, California.
Crowdpac is the first crowdfunding platform designed for politics helping candidates, organizations, and ordinary citizens fund the change they want to see. They use the best technology and objective data to boost political participation, helping citizens to vote, by understanding the candidates on their ballot; to fund political change through crowdfunding tools, and helping anyone run for office by raising money and mobilizing support independent of big donors and special interests. It was founded is 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Wholeshare is an online marketplace for sustainable and organic food. Our investors in the food space call us "Whole Foods for the 99%". Only one quarter of the US lives in an area that can support a store like Whole Foods because of the volumes needed to run a natural foods supermarket with 25K products. However, demand for sustainable products is widespread (>$100B/yr) and rapidly growing. Wholeshare enables consumers in every US geography to buy sustainable food at wholesale prices through shopping as a group. Wholeshare members shop for their groceries online and receive products directly from natural food distributors and local food hubs. By tapping into existing wholesale networks, our members are able to save money and get access to foods that they might not have in their communities. Wholeshare's group-based model solves the last mile problems that have plagued food distribution. We recently started offering 25K products nationally through a partnership with UNFI, the largest natural food distributor in the US. Our sales from that offering has been increasing 65% month-over-month since August, and our total sales currently average about $170K per month. We are proud to have been funded by venture investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel, 500 Startups, and BoxGroup, as well as several impact investors with deep expertise in the food space.
Point is a home equity platform that helps homeowners access equity financing in exchange for a fractional share of the future value of their homes. With a Home Equity Investment, homeowners can eliminate debt, get through periods of financial hardship, and diversify their wealth. For investors, Point provides access to a previously untapped asset class in the residential real estate space.
Boostable provides a cooperative digital advertising solution that enables ecommerce marketplaces, retailers and platforms to offer digital advertising as a service. Boostable offers a revolutionary model where costs, data and resources are strategically shared between companies to efficiently power high-performing digital ad campaigns. Boostable’s leadership team hails from some of the industry’s most well-respected digital advertising organizations including Amazon, Facebook, MediaMath, Turn and Merkle. Boostable is funded by leading investors such as Y Combinator, SV Angel, 500 Startups, Omidyar Network, and Morado Ventures.
Headquartered in San Francisco, California, HandUp aims to partner with non-profit human services organizations to raise money online. These organizations can fundraise for things like special programs, client needs, and program and operational expenses. With HandUp, users can donate to a specific person via their web profile or SMS, learn about their story and needs, and hear updates on their progress. Fulfillment partners and retailers on the ground ensure members use donations on basics like food, clothing, and housing. The company was founded in June 2013.
Patreon is a membership platform that makes it easy for artists and creators to get paid. It operates a platform that enables content creators, as well as artists, to be able to fund their work. It's Patreon.com, a communications platform, enables connection between users and makes various accessible content, including videos, photographs, images, artwork, graphics, audio clips, comments, data, text, software, scripts, projects, other material and information, and associated trademarks and copyrightable works. Patrons pledge to support artists and creators on a recurring basis for each work created, empowering a new generation of creators the ability to make a living off of their passions.
Crowdpac is the first crowdfunding platform designed for politics helping candidates, organizations, and ordinary citizens fund the change they want to see. They use the best technology and objective data to boost political participation, helping citizens to vote, by understanding the candidates on their ballot; to fund political change through crowdfunding tools, and helping anyone run for office by raising money and mobilizing support independent of big donors and special interests. It was founded is 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
AngelList is a platform that connects startups, angel investors, and job-seekers, aiming to democratize the investment process. Founded in 2010 by Babak Nivi and Naval Ravikant and headquartered in San Francisco, AngelList facilitates fundraising, recruitment, and product launches for startups. The platform has a significant impact on the startup ecosystem, having funded numerous companies and made hundreds of thousands of introductions between job-seekers and startups. It operates several subsidiaries, including AngelList Venture and AngelList Talent, and has a portfolio that includes over 20 unicorns. Additionally, AngelList has supported the launch of more than 100,000 products, playing a crucial role in shaping the future of technology.
Launched in early 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, FlightCar connects visitors who need cars at the airport with locals looking to park them. By making it convenient and enjoyable for anyone to experience traveling in an original way at a great value, FlightCar saves travelers money, creates a more interesting experience, and offers a practical and novel new option for a collaborative community of travelers.
FundersClub focuses on Seed and early stage investments. Investments include Coinbase, Instacart, Flexport, Le Tote, Teespring, Memebox, GitLab. FundersClub is the world's first online venture capital platform. Backed by Y Combinator, First Round Capital, Spark Capital, Intel Capital, Draper, Andreessen Horowitz, Felicis Ventures, and more; FundersClub Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in the United States.
NewHive is a web platform and DIY self-publishing tool that encourages users to develop their creative expression.
BackerKit simplifies the post-campaign fulfillment process by helping project creators handle all the realities of crowdfunding. It allows its clients to survey, collect data, accept pre-orders, and process pledges for fulfillment. BackerKit was founded in 2012 by Rosanna Yau and Maxwell Salzberg and is based in San Francisco, California.
Neighborland operates as a public engagement platform designed for government agencies, developers, and civic organizations. Its software is a solution designed for planners to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way. Over 3 million people have participated in Neighborland, and its partners’ projects have yielded over $3 billion in social and economic impact.
Gumroad owns and operates an online service through which users can buy and sell digital goods such as design templates and source codes.
Endorse enables consumer product companies to market at the individual shopper level and shoppers to earn rewards for staying loyal to their favorite brands. Endorse closes the online-to-offline purchase loop and ties an online brand to proven retail sales in the real world, whenever and wherever people shop.
Cardspring is creating an application platform that will allow Web and mobile developers to write applications for credit cards and other types of payments. Cardspring attaches itself to the payment network in a secure fashion on one side, and on the other it presents itself as a platform for developers to create payment apps via Web-standard APIs. It is a bridge between the two networks. These applications could include things like electronic coupons, loyalty cards, virtual currencies, or yet-to-be-imagined commerce apps.
Humble Bundle's award-winning team has raise over $75 million for charity. They empower you to pay what you want for downloadable content and choose where your money goes. They now have over 7M customers accessing their platform. Humble Bundle was founded in March 2010 by Jeffrey Rosen and John Graham, and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
DRAFT is a daily fantasy sports company (DFS). On DRAFT, players do simple drafts (unlike the salary cap format) just like the ones they do at the beginning of their season long leagues, but lasting one day or week, and taking only minutes to complete. DRAFT brings DFS back to what it should have been, a simple, fair and fun game, that was designed for this regulatory environment -- with player's chances of winning on DRAFT being almost 3X better than on FanDuel or DraftKings. DRAFT is backed by Upfront Ventures, The Chernin Group and more.
Crowdbooster is an internet company that allows advertisers and content creators to transact in sponsored content.
Star.me is a platform that facilitates rich and deep engagement for brands and celebrities, including Imogen Heap, iJustine, Michael Buckley, and many more. Star.me provides fans with opportunities for participation in the form of missions, games, custom rewards, and fun.
Blippy is a social commerce platform that allowed users to share credit card purchases with friends. Blippy closed down in 2011, but the company pivoted and launched Tophatter.
Betaworks is a New York-based startup studio and venture capital firm founded in 2008. It focuses on building and investing in early-stage technology companies, primarily in sectors such as B2B, B2C, SaaS, gaming, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. The firm operates as a tightly linked network encompassing ideas, people, capital, and products, aiming to foster innovation and create a more connected world. Betaworks typically makes seed-stage investments ranging from $150,000 to $200,000, often collaborating with other investors in syndicates. The firm is known for its hands-on approach, working closely with startups that align with its vision, and has been involved with notable companies like Giphy and Instapaper. Betaworks also provides thematic investment and mentorship programs to support entrepreneurs in developing their business ideas.
Wikia, the developer of Fandom, is a global entertainment media brand dedicated to serving the interests of fans across various pop culture domains. The platform allows users to explore, contribute to, and celebrate their favorite fandoms, promoting interaction through the collaborative addition and updating of content. Fandom is recognized as a trusted source for in-depth information and insights on entertainment, offering a blend of fan-expert knowledge and original content across multiple platforms. This focus on community engagement enables both personal and collective creativity, making Fandom a vibrant hub for fans to connect and share their passions.