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GridServe provides world class, turnkey product and service solutions that deliver dependable, low cost, clean energy for the most demanding critical power infrastructure applications.

At Little Leaf Farms, they are committed to delivering the freshest, best tasting baby greens to New England salad lovers all year round. From our greenhouse in Devens, Massachusetts, they can deliver our products to stores within a day of harvest – a big difference from the majority of lettuce that is grown on the West Coast and spends a week traveling by truck to our local stores. And, the sustainable growing practices they support have been carefully developed to protect our planet. They hope you enjoy the fresh, delicious flavors of our baby greens!

Sling Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company focused on late-stage development for thyroid eye disease, aspiring to improve the lives of patients and their families.

Sionna Therapeutics was formed in late 2019, leveraging 10 years of large pharma scientific investment and expertise. Our experienced scientific team has been on a mission to fully normalize CFTR function. In the three decades since the discovery of the genetic defects that cause cystic fibrosis (CF), researchers have made remarkable advances for patients. Yet the ultimate goal of CF drug development – to fully normalize the function of CFTR, the key protein leading to the pathology of CF – has remained out of reach.

RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.

Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine is dedicated to training high-quality osteopathic physicians prepared to care for people.

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine is a private, investor-owned, free-standing, independently operated, and licensed college.

UBQ Materials transforms mixed household waste into a composite material that replaces oil-based plastics. This innovative process diverts waste from landfills and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. Manufacturers utilize UBQ™ to support sustainability and minimize reliance on finite natural resources.

Rad Power Bikes is North America's largest electric bike brand and we’re building a world where transportation is energy-efficient, enjoyable, and accessible to all. With a groundbreaking direct-to-consumer model and a radically growing team of over 700, we are democratizing ebikes and bringing the RadGrin to hundreds of thousands of riders around the world. Revolutionizing electric mobility at an unprecedented pace, Rad Power Bikes is scaling faster than ever to change the way people and goods move.

Persefoni is a Climate Management & Accounting Platform (CMAP). The company's Software-as-a-Service solutions enable enterprises and financial institutions to meet stakeholder and regulatory climate disclosure requirements with the highest degrees of trust, transparency, and ease. As the ERP of Carbon, the Persefoni platform provides users with a single source of carbon truth across their organization, enabling them to manage their carbon transactions and inventory with the same rigor and confidence as their financial transactions.

Varo Money is driven by a mission to redefine banking so it’s easy for everyone to make smart choices with their money. In one mobile app, Varo offers customers no-cost premium bank accounts and high-interest savings accounts offered through The Bancorp Bank, and tech-first features to help people manage their money more easily. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Human Interest is a 401(k) provider that makes it easy for small and medium-sized businesses to help their employees save for retirement. The company built an end-to-end technology to solve administrative and compliance problems for small and medium-sized businesses. It also offers easy and affordable employee retirement plans and helped thousands of businesses across America to offer retirement accounts to their employees. In 2015, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company was formed by Paul Sawaya and Roger Lee.

Fourth Partner Energy provides turnkey rooftop solar energy solutions for customers in India. The company specializes in manufacturing solar energy based applications and its current product portfolio includes solar lanterns, home lighting systems, solar street lights, and photovoltaic panels. Fourth Partner Energy aims to build, develop, and manage a large operating portfolio of de-centralized solar power assets in India and is positioned as a leading renewable energy services company. It strives to be a partner for sustainable change and endeavors to do so by providing products and services that improve the renewable resources available on the planet, and provide its customers with better quality at lower costs. Fourth Partner Energy is an MNRE empanelled Channel Partner and an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. It is also registered as a partner with state bodies such as RREC, TNREDC, and NREDCAP. The company was founded in 2010 by [Vikas saluguti](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vikas-saluguti), [Saif Dhorajiwala](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/saif-dhorajiwala), and [Vivek Subramanian](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vivek-subramanian-3). It is based in Hyderabad, India.

Climavision is bringing a revolutionary new approach to climate technology with weather solutions that help reduce the economic risks of climate change for companies, governments, and communities alike. It brings together the power of a high-resolution weather radar and satellite network, with advanced weather prediction modeling and decades of industry expertise. By combining lower altitude, proprietary data with cutting-edge machine learning and AI technology, Climavision's one-of-a-kind offering provides 10x higher resolution and more accurate forecasting, to address critical coverage gaps left by existing radar networks across the U.S. and drastically improve forecast accuracy.

Ceribell focuses on making electroencephalography (EEG) widely accessible, more efficient, and more cost-effective. The company creates and validates an FDA cleared instant EEG system that does not require an EEG technologist or specialist interpreter, which allows for faster results and clinical decision-making. The Ceribell EEG System can be set up by any healthcare provider in 6 minutes and offers a proprietary Brain Stethoscope function that dramatically simplifies interpretation of EEG results by converting brainwaves to sound so seizures can be detected by listening. Earlier diagnosis and focused treatment for patients with seizures, including non-convulsive seizures that can only be diagnosed with EEG, can significantly lower mortality, secondary brain injury, length of stay, and risk of complications.

Nithio Holdings is an energy finance company focused on the off-grid sector in Africa. Nithio is an energy finance platform that provides services to distributed energy service companies, capital providers, governments, and other stakeholders in the distributed solar energy sector in Africa. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Livekindly, also known as LK, is a Vancouver-based media platform dedicated to promoting sustainable living through informative content related to health, ethics, and the environment. The company publishes news articles, press releases, and features that focus on plant-based lifestyles, including vegan recipes, restaurant recommendations, and family vacation ideas. Additionally, Livekindly operates Kindmind, a service offering plant-based meal plans, shopping guides, and expert consultations. The organization is committed to transforming the global food system by collaborating with innovative poultry production companies to develop plant-based alternatives. As part of its mission, Livekindly encompasses a collective of brands that includes The Fry Family Food Co. and LikeMeat, aiming to create delicious plant-based food while minimizing reliance on animal agriculture and natural resource depletion.

Airtel Mobile Commerce BV is an Airtel Africa subsidiary that serves as the holding company for several of the company's mobile money operations in 14 African countries, including Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria. The mobile money division runs one of the continent's largest financial services. It allows users to access mobile wallets, international money transfers, loans, and virtual credit cards.

Rad Power Bikes is North America's largest electric bike brand and we’re building a world where transportation is energy-efficient, enjoyable, and accessible to all. With a groundbreaking direct-to-consumer model and a radically growing team of over 700, we are democratizing ebikes and bringing the RadGrin to hundreds of thousands of riders around the world. Revolutionizing electric mobility at an unprecedented pace, Rad Power Bikes is scaling faster than ever to change the way people and goods move.

Benevity is a Calgary-based company that provides charitable donation-management and grant-management platforms. It offers a workplace giving platform that includes custom cause portfolios and disaster response, company and user-generated volunteering, dynamic news and blog content, charitable rewards and matching incentives, centralized donation management and payroll deductions, and comprehensive reporting capabilities; consumer engagement solutions that include e-commerce and online, integrated donation management, loyalty rewards, charitable gift cards, mobile giving, and customized solutions; cloud-based employee engagement solutions; community impact solutions; and professional services, including interface design and development, charity vetting and due diligence, donation processing, international program development, custom collateral and launch planning, and customized services. Benevity's platform and products enable companies to build social responsibility, achieve business impacts from their cause marketing, community investment, workplace giving, and volunteering programs. It attracts, retains, and engages customers, employees, and partners. Bryan Lottinville, Jason Becker, and Ryan Courtnage founded it in 2008, with its headquarters in Calgary in Canada.

Element Markets is a renewable natural gas marketing and environmental commodities company that applies its diverse expertise to provide structured environmental compliance and optimization services to corporate and institutional clients. The company has a successful track record within the renewable natural gas, low carbon fuels, emissions, carbon, and renewable energy credit markets. Element Markets LLC is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Meishubao is a company which develops and operates an art education platform. Meishubao focuses on the field of art and online art education. It is committed to using science and technology to promote the progress of art, integrating digital technology into teaching, and building a new environment for aesthetic education.

Green Monday Holdings is a manufacturer of plant-based pork substitute products and frozen meals and an operator of a chain of vegetarian-focused retail outlets and cafes.

Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denying their ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.

Varo Money is driven by a mission to redefine banking so it’s easy for everyone to make smart choices with their money. In one mobile app, Varo offers customers no-cost premium bank accounts and high-interest savings accounts offered through The Bancorp Bank, and tech-first features to help people manage their money more easily. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.

Rallybio is a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to identifying and accelerating the development of life-transforming therapies for patients with severe and rare diseases. Since its launch in January 2018, Rallybio has built a portfolio of promising product candidates, which are now in development to address rare diseases in the areas of hematology, immuno-inflammation, maternal fetal health and metabolic disorders. The Company’s mission is being advanced by a team of highly experienced biopharma industry leaders with extensive research, development, and rare disease expertise.

Mines specializes in mobile-money-as-a-service platform built to address the consumer financial services gap in emerging markets. Leveraging partnerships with mobile carriers and financial switches, along with a technology stack built around artificial intelligence, cloud, and mobile technologies, the company offers banks a plug-and-play answer to the needs of the mobile consumer.

Pearl Dairy Farms is a dairy processing company in Uganda.

Varo Money is driven by a mission to redefine banking so it’s easy for everyone to make smart choices with their money. In one mobile app, Varo offers customers no-cost premium bank accounts and high-interest savings accounts offered through The Bancorp Bank, and tech-first features to help people manage their money more easily. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Frontier Markets connects India’s rural customers to products and services at their doorstep. 551 million rural customers lack access to financial, productive, durable products and services that can economically improve their lives. This is because product companies do not have deep enough infrastructure to access to rural customers; denying their ability to drive innovative solutions locally to their target rural customer. Frontier Markets drives the best selection of life-improving products and services to rural customers, while creating sustainable livelihoods for rural women. In partnership with existing SHG networks, we onboarded 4,000 women to become our digitally savvy women entrepreneurs called Saral Jeevan Sahelis. Our Sahelis use our assisted e-commerce and delivery platform, called the Meri Saheli app, to collect real-time data on customer, coordinate orders, and deliveries to earning an average of 65,000/- a year without having to leave their village, becoming local leaders, and decision-makers at home. Our local distribution hubs has a team of delivery field staff who ensure doorstep delivery daily, as well as coordinate after-sales service for product companies. This combination of high-tech and local teams, and product partnerships, has helped 700,000 rural customers access 1 million+ quality solutions in clean energy, agri, and homecare. The Meri-Saheli app was designed for rural customers and by our Sahelis, ensuring it’s easy to use. Bharat India’s digitization thrives, but to reach last-mile rural customers, an assisted solution allows for quick adoption, deep learnings, and optimal services to be delivered. Since COVID, we have partnered with 3 fintech companies to launch doorstep atm services, online payments, and financial services and leading FMCG companies to drive local essential goods doorstep deliveries. Achieving 97% conversion rates, and onboarding 2,000 new customers monthly. We have launched our 2.0 version for scale, adding AI capabilities to help Sahelis train to use the Meri Saheli app on their own. This will be a gamechanger, allowing us to partner with multiple SHG organizations at once who want to start the Saral Jeevan Initiative in their fields on their own. Our team has over 60 years of experience working in rural India in sectors like microfinance, telecom, and distribution allowing us to crack the rural last-mile challenge profitably. We envision becoming India’s largest high-tech, high touch platform delivering solutions to Bharat India connecting 100 million rural customers with 1 million digitally savvy women entrepreneurs.

Zipline is a California-based automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products. Zipline's mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. In 2014, Zipline was created to deliver medicine to those who needed it. Since then, the company has built a quick delivery drone and an autonomous logistics network. Zipline designs and tests its technology in Half Moon Bay, California. The company assembles the drones and the technology that powers their distribution.

Founded in 2015, Bankingly is a fintech company with the vision of transforming the way in which financial institutions in emerging markets promote their digital channel and, therefore, facilitate the financial inclusion of millions of people around the world. The provision of technologies hosted in the cloud, with a SaaS business model, based on the number of active users that each institution achieves, allows Bankingly clients to adjust their costs to the benefits achieved. Through a brief, optimized implementation process with high functionality and cybersecurity standards, the Bankingly platform offers a mobile application, a transactional website, a chatbot and multiple other products. Today, more than 1,500,000 people from more than 100 entities trust Bankingly's technology.

CFPA Microfinance Management Co is a small microfinance institution that focuses on the rural market. Its main purpose is to tailor micro-credit, insurance, wealth management, e-commerce and other multi-faceted services to rural low-income groups who cannot fully enjoy the services of traditional financial institutions, to help them develop their industries, increase their income, and achieve good results as soon as possible. life.

SystemOne approaches infectious disease challenges from a systems point-of-view, moving critical data to enable rapid decision-making around resource allocation, training, ROI evaluations and, most importantly, to ensure every positive diagnosis is linked to a patient and treatment is confirmed.

Ceribell focuses on making electroencephalography (EEG) widely accessible, more efficient, and more cost-effective. The company creates and validates an FDA cleared instant EEG system that does not require an EEG technologist or specialist interpreter, which allows for faster results and clinical decision-making. The Ceribell EEG System can be set up by any healthcare provider in 6 minutes and offers a proprietary Brain Stethoscope function that dramatically simplifies interpretation of EEG results by converting brainwaves to sound so seizures can be detected by listening. Earlier diagnosis and focused treatment for patients with seizures, including non-convulsive seizures that can only be diagnosed with EEG, can significantly lower mortality, secondary brain injury, length of stay, and risk of complications.

Mines specializes in mobile-money-as-a-service platform built to address the consumer financial services gap in emerging markets. Leveraging partnerships with mobile carriers and financial switches, along with a technology stack built around artificial intelligence, cloud, and mobile technologies, the company offers banks a plug-and-play answer to the needs of the mobile consumer.

DreamBox Learning is an online software provider that offers elementary mathematics education through its intelligent adaptive learning platform. Its adaptive engine looks beyond the answer to see how a student is solving problems, and adjusts accordingly to build a personalized learning path for them.

Wilderness Holdings is a group of responsible ecotourism companies, such as Wilderness Safaris and Governors’ Camp Collection, that together use responsible tourism to build sustainable conservation economies in Africa. Wilderness Safaris and the Governors’ Camp Collection operate camps and safaris in some of Africa’s best wildlife and wilderness areas across seven different countries: Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Recognising that conservation is as much about people as about the environment, the company has pursued important goals by supporting its non-profit partners, Children in the Wilderness and the Wilderness Wildlife Trust, which have helped change the face of nature-based tourism in southern Africa.

Grupo VI-DA is a leading company in the development of multimedia platforms for the Hispanic market. The company constantly adapts to the challenging digital era, offering innovative products to an increasingly demanding society, such as: Leamos,BIDI, GrandesLibros, IndieLibros, Vesvi, DualLanguage, BajaMusica, Mundo TKM.

Fourth Partner Energy provides turnkey rooftop solar energy solutions for customers in India. The company specializes in manufacturing solar energy based applications and its current product portfolio includes solar lanterns, home lighting systems, solar street lights, and photovoltaic panels. Fourth Partner Energy aims to build, develop, and manage a large operating portfolio of de-centralized solar power assets in India and is positioned as a leading renewable energy services company. It strives to be a partner for sustainable change and endeavors to do so by providing products and services that improve the renewable resources available on the planet, and provide its customers with better quality at lower costs. Fourth Partner Energy is an MNRE empanelled Channel Partner and an ISO 9001:2008 certified company. It is also registered as a partner with state bodies such as RREC, TNREDC, and NREDCAP. The company was founded in 2010 by [Vikas saluguti](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vikas-saluguti), [Saif Dhorajiwala](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/saif-dhorajiwala), and [Vivek Subramanian](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/vivek-subramanian-3). It is based in Hyderabad, India.

Cellulant is a leading multinational payments company in Africa on a mission to digitise payments for Africa’s largest economies. The company operates a one-stop shop payment innovations that enables businesses and consumers to make and accept digital and mobile payments.

Nithio Holdings is an energy finance company focused on the off-grid sector in Africa. Nithio is an energy finance platform that provides services to distributed energy service companies, capital providers, governments, and other stakeholders in the distributed solar energy sector in Africa. It was founded in 2018 and headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.

C3 AI (NYSE:AI) is a provider of Enterprise AI software for accelerating digital transformation. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products: C3 AI® Suite, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications; C3 AI Applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS AI applications; C3 AI CRM, a suite of industry-specific CRM applications designed for AI and machine learning; and C3 AI Ex Machina, a no-code AI solution to apply data science to everyday business problems. The core of the C3 AI offering is an open, model-driven AI architecture that dramatically simplifies data science and application development. Learn more at: www.c3.ai

Zipline is a California-based automated logistics company that designs, manufactures, and operates drones to deliver vital medical products. Zipline's mission is to provide every human on Earth with instant access to vital medical supplies. In 2014, Zipline was created to deliver medicine to those who needed it. Since then, the company has built a quick delivery drone and an autonomous logistics network. Zipline designs and tests its technology in Half Moon Bay, California. The company assembles the drones and the technology that powers their distribution.

ViewPoint Therapeutics is a biotechnology company dedicated to the development of treatments for diseases of protein misfolding, including cataracts. The company's crystallin stabilizers include a small molecule that is active in preclinical models of age-related cataracts via a target-based screening and optimization effort, providing physicians with drugs to prevent or reverse protein misfolding, which is implicated in numerous common disorders of aging including cataracts, presbyopia, and neurodegenerative diseases.

Varo Money is driven by a mission to redefine banking so it’s easy for everyone to make smart choices with their money. In one mobile app, Varo offers customers no-cost premium bank accounts and high-interest savings accounts offered through The Bancorp Bank, and tech-first features to help people manage their money more easily. The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Acorns is a finance company that allows individuals to round up purchases and automatically invest the change. It allows customers to automatically invest in a low-cost, diversified portfolio of exchange-traded funds offered by some asset managers including Vanguard and BlackRock. Acorns was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Digital House is a coding school where new generations of coders and digital professionals are trained to imagine, innovate, and create what they always dreamed. It was established in 2015 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dharma is devoted to helping people use data to transform their work - no matter their level of expertise. Our software makes it easy for anyone to quickly gather, understand, and act on the field-level information that drives critical business and organizational decisions. Dharma's tools are user-friendly, feature-rich, and flexible enough to work in any sector - whether that means tracking a program's performance, taking attendance in a classroom, capturing client information, or researching an epidemic.

Brava Home is a technology company specializing in IoT and domestic automation, focusing on enhancing the home experience, particularly in the kitchen. By integrating science, technology, and design, Brava Home aims to empower individuals to prepare better food at home, thereby saving time and fostering joy in the cooking process. The company offers consumer electronics and hardware designed to streamline cooking and food preparation, reflecting its commitment to improving everyday culinary experiences. Brava Home is also dedicated to building a talented team that shares a passion for food and innovation.

Dodla Dairy processes and supplies milk and value-added dairy products. Dodla Dairy offers a wide range of milk products comprising fresh milk, butter, ghee, paneer, curd, flavoured milk, doodh peda, ice cream, and skimmed milk powder. These products are conveniently packed to suit the various needs of consumers.

EVERFI operates a network for online education in off-curriculum, but highly valuable content areas such as financial literacy, student loan management, digital literacy, substance abuse prevention, and other key life skills for the 21st-century student. The company's software-as-a-service platform is designed to provide a highly engaging experience for students and features the latest technology and instructional design, including rich media, high-definition video, 3D simulations, and social networking. EVERFI partners with more than 7,000 schools, colleges, and universities in all 50 states.