Azteco simplifies the process of obtaining Bitcoin so that anyone anywhere can understand and use it. The Azteco solution is a merchant platform where vendors can sell Bitcoin through a system of familiar and simple-to-use 16-digit voucher codes. Simple to use retail Bitcoin is the missing link to where it will sweep across the entire globe. It is the final step that will onboard billions of people to global e-commerce, and Azteco addresses this market perfectly.
Stakes is a social wagering platform for NFTs that transforms sports betting into a more social activity. It is based in New York, USA.
Community Gaming is the all-in-one esports competition platform, offering cutting edge infrastructure to key industry stakeholders. Through its seamless UX, plus highly scalable and efficient blockchain payment technology, the platform equips players, guilds, competition organizers, and game developers with the tools they need to create, facilitate, and participate in esports tournaments. Community Gaming believes in Earnings for Everyone, where the massive gains of the wider esports and gaming industry are decentralized and accessible via web3 technology to reward action and time.
Oorbit is the world’s fastest, cheapest specialised cloud & grid compute platform powering Gaming, AI and beyond. Oorbit's ACIT (advance compute infrastructure technology) platform helps game studios and AI companies utilise cloud computing for streaming/rendering and other applications at 50% lower price and faster performance.
Rarify is currently working on making a service where minting and selling digital assets can become a non-hassle for industries such as music, gaming, applications and entertainment.
OpenNode offers the most accessible way for e-commerce businesses to process bitcoin payments. With an easy-to-use plug-in solution that includes payment infrastructure APIs for developers and the fastest payment processor capacity on the market, OpenNode enables new payment models and instantaneous settlements for businesses and consumers alike. By bridging the gap between blockchain and the rest of the world with a simple payments platform that is accessible to all, OpenNode is helping to create a borderless future where everyday transactions are paid for with bitcoin and fiat interchangeably.
Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Building micro on-ramps between Web 2.0 apps & web3
SwanBitcoin is the best place to buy Bitcoin with your bank account using automated savings plans. Bitcoin Investing Made Easy. Buy automatically every week, month, or paycheck, starting with as little as $5. Build Your Stack Timing the market is hard. Our weekly, paycheck, or monthly savings options steadily convert your dollars to Bitcoin savings. We buy more when the price goes down and less when the price goes up. Over the last three years, saving $25 per week in Bitcoin turned $3,900 into $8,926. Protect Your Wealth Dollars have lost 90% of their purchasing power since 1950 as politicians printed more of them. Bitcoin’s fixed supply makes it the best way to save your money. How It Works A simple savings app that does all the work for you. 1) Link any major US bank account. 2) Buy Bitcoin weekly, monthly, or every paycheck. 3) Bitcoin automatically delivered to your wallet or stored for free with a secure licensed and regulated custodian. Join us and start saving Bitcoin today.
Doorvest is a full-service real estate investing platform that helps busy working professionals own passive income rental homes. The company is an end-to-end rental home investing platform that helps individuals own real estate to generate passive income and build equity. Its platform assists in investing in cash flowing rental homes by properly identifying, planning, purchasing, and owning lease houses that enable users to unlock homeownership, passive income, and equity by investing in properties online.
Established in 2014, Bitwage is the leading provider of Bitcoin, stablecoins & cryptocurrency payroll solutions. Employees and freelancers can choose to be paid in their preferred mix of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and local currencies.
Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Turing leverages advanced AI and expert human data to help companies build smarter, better-performing AI systems, train and fine-tune LLMs, and develop enterprise-ready GenAI applications to drive innovation and accelerate the advancement of AGI. Its platform uses automation to source, vet, and match developers with organizations based on technical skills and project requirements. Turing serves businesses across various industries, helping them scale their engineering teams efficiently. The platform streamlines hiring, onboarding, and management processes for remote developers.
Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet. They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoin while maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!
Turing leverages advanced AI and expert human data to help companies build smarter, better-performing AI systems, train and fine-tune LLMs, and develop enterprise-ready GenAI applications to drive innovation and accelerate the advancement of AGI. Its platform uses automation to source, vet, and match developers with organizations based on technical skills and project requirements. Turing serves businesses across various industries, helping them scale their engineering teams efficiently. The platform streamlines hiring, onboarding, and management processes for remote developers.
The future of commerce is everywhere.
Percent has created the modern credit marketplace, empowering investors, borrowers, and underwriters with innovative technology to increase the speed and velocity of transactions at a fraction of the cost. The company’s core infrastructure delivers public market efficiencies to the analog private credit market by powering the sourcing, structuring, syndication, surveillance and servicing of private credit transactions from beginning to end. Founded in 2018, Percent’s platform is becoming the market standard for asset-based and corporate lending, powering over $1.2 billion in transaction volume in a multi-trillion-dollar private credit industry. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com and follow the company on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Turing leverages advanced AI and expert human data to help companies build smarter, better-performing AI systems, train and fine-tune LLMs, and develop enterprise-ready GenAI applications to drive innovation and accelerate the advancement of AGI. Its platform uses automation to source, vet, and match developers with organizations based on technical skills and project requirements. Turing serves businesses across various industries, helping them scale their engineering teams efficiently. The platform streamlines hiring, onboarding, and management processes for remote developers.
Bitcoin cold storage and financial services that put you in control of your keys. Our suite of financial services include multisig vaults, a trading desk, bitcoin-backed loans, and bitcoin IRAs. No matter your experience with bitcoin, our team of bitcoin experts will help you get set up with confidence.
Fold is an application that combines personal finance management with Bitcoin, allowing users to buy, sell, and manage their Bitcoin and dollars seamlessly. Users can earn up to 1.5% back on eligible purchases when they utilize the app, enhancing their financial returns while managing cryptocurrency. For premium members, Fold offers a no-fee experience on transactions, making it a compelling choice for avid Bitcoin users.
Alto Solutions delivers an easy-to-use, automated process for investing in alternatives with IRA savings. It aims to democratize alternative asset investing. AltoIRA offers an easy-to-use investing platform that empowers everyday investors to diversify their IRAs by investing in alternative assets such as private equity, venture capital, real estate, loans, and cryptocurrency. Offering Traditional, Roth, SEP, and Crypto IRAs, Alto is bringing alternative investments to the mainstream. Everyday investors can now easily and cost-effectively access their retirement savings to invest in assets once reserved solely for high-net-worth individuals. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee.
Staked operates the most secure, performant, and cost-effective block production nodes for decentralized PoS protocols on behalf of institutional investors. Our multi-tier signing and listening node architecture delivers stakeholders the ideal combination of security, scalability and decentralization.
Good Money is a digital banking platform that provides banking and financial services that will be owned by its customers and will invest 50% of profits to actively protect the environment and fight for social justice.
Coinmine One is the first all-in-one crypto miner for everyone.
NowRx is a technology-enabled pharmacy that uses proprietary pharmacy software, robotics, AI, and last-mile logistics to provide free same-day delivery of prescription medications. The company's pharmacy management system, QuickFill (v3.5), is one of the only pharmacy management software systems designed for same-day delivery that has been certified by the nation’s leading health information network, Surescripts Health Alliance Network. Surescripts connects NowRx’s QuickFill directly to more than 1.5 million physicians across the U.S. Powered by its DEA-certified micro-fulfillment pharmacies and hyper-efficient operations, as of July 2020 NowRx has delivered over 200,000 medications to 28,000+ customers.
SKALE Labs is a blockchain scalability platform that provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts. SKALE acts as a middle-ware layer which provides high-speed consensus and empowers dApps to run smart contracts at the rate of millions per second on platforms such as Ethereum, EOS, and other Smart Contract Blockchain platforms. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network that is run using the SKALE utility token which is staked by dApps and supported by SKALE Mining nodes.
The Hedera hashgraph platform will offer a distributed public ledger that enables anyone to easily develop globally decentralized applications. Developers can build secure, fair, blazing-fast decentralized applications on top of the Hedera hashgraph platform.
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Codex is the decentralized title registry for the $2 trillion arts & collectibles (“A&C”) ecosystem, which includes art, fine wine, collectible cars, antiques, decorative arts, coins, watches, jewelry, and more. Powered by the BidDex native token, the Codex Protocol is open source, allowing third party players in the A&C ecosystem to build applications and utilize the title system. Codex’s landmark application, Biddable, is a title-escrow system built on the Codex protocol, which solves long-standing challenges in auctions: non-performing bidders, lack of privacy, and bidder access.
nCent Labs is an information technology company that offers to create incentive networks through a novel blockchain protocol that offers a decentralized design and auditability properties to establish the integrity of the protocol. They provide the correct incentives and allow markets to form and become focused on shipping robust code.
Augmate offers an IoT and wearable device management platform that allows organizations to develop end-point solutions, bringing the power of IoT, blockchain, and AI to the world. The company's goal is to connect all things with the same powerful simplicity of wearables. The company's blockchain-based protocol-agnostic platform provides growth that enables enterprises to manage IoT devices. It aggregates sensor data through a secure network of wearable devices and beacons. To optimize conditions for safe and productive actions, it manages the distribution of information across a workforce. The company's current hardware partners are Google Glass, Vuzix, Epson, Uvex, Recon Instruments, and Optinvent. Augmate was founded in 2013 and is based in New York.
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Archblock, formerly known as TrustToken, Inc., operates a platform for creating asset-backed tokens that facilitate global buying and selling. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company aims to provide a seamless way to tokenize various assets, enabling the conversion of physical assets like gold into digital tokens. Its flagship product, TrueUSD, is a stablecoin that can be redeemed on a 1-for-1 basis for US dollars. Archblock employs a team with diverse backgrounds from prestigious institutions and companies, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, and major financial and tech firms. The platform is designed to align incentives among participants while ensuring compliance with fiduciary standards and creating a transparent audit trail of asset management.
Bolt is on a mission to democratize commerce. Bolt strengthens retailers’ relationships with their customers by unlocking secure, logged-in, lightning-fast checkouts. The company’s rapidly growing network of one-click-checkout-ready shoppers visits Bolt merchants as if they are return customers. Hundreds of retailers including, REVOLVE, Casper, Badgley Mischka, and LVMH brand Benefit Cosmetics leverage Bolt to offer their shoppers the seamless checkout experiences they’ve come to expect across the internet. Bolt was established in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman, Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.
Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data. It uses advanced blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner. They enable a decentralized platform and network that connects providers and consumers of valuable data, while providing open access for developers to build services. Ocean Protocol was founded in 2017 and is based in Singapore.
Tari Labs mission is to steward the most useful decentralized platform that empowers anyone to create digitally scarce things people love.
Private Equity Round in 2017
Hut 8 Corp. is a cryptocurrency mining and Blockchain infrastructure company established through an exclusive partnership with Bitfury, one of the world’s leading Blockchain technology companies. Hut 8 Corp. currently owns bitcoin mining data centers representing 24.2 MW and 165 PH/s that are in operation or under construction, with a pipeline of acquisition and development opportunities across North America. Hut 8 Corp. is led by a team of industry experts to provide investors with exposure to Blockchain processing infrastructure and technology along with underlying cryptocurrency rewards and revenue from transaction fees.
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Blockstack is a decentralized computing network that puts users in control of their data and login. It’s the easiest way to build decentralized apps that can scale. Blockstack enables engineers to build secure, privacy-focused applications: users are in control of their data instead of storing it with large tech companies. Over 120 independent developer teams have built apps on Blockstack.
Equity Crowdfunding in 2017
Balance.io is a personal finance tool designed for macOS, offering users a straightforward way to monitor their traditional financial accounts directly from the Mac menubar. Available through the U.S. Mac App Store, Balance leverages an API from Plaid, which connects to numerous financial institutions and addresses regulatory and security concerns related to accessing users' financial data. The application features a user-friendly interface, making it easy for individuals to manage their finances effectively.
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Filecoin is a data storage network and electronic currency based on Bitcoin.
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
0x is an open protocol that facilitates low friction peer-to-peer exchange of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain.
Accern is the leading NLP company empowering enterprises to develop industry-specific solutions. Offering a comprehensive NLP platform, models, data, and chat tailored for multiple industries, the company accelerates time-to-value for leading organizations across Financial Services, Government, and beyond. With a streamlined no-code workflow complemented by pre-built taxonomies, over 50,000 classification models, and access to billions of rows of public data, Accern is revolutionizing operational efficiency across the global workforce. Accern's remarkable achievements have earned it a notable position in Gartner®'s 2023 Hype Cycle™ for Data Science, Machine Learning, and Emerging Technologies in Banking, as well as recognition by Fast Company as one of the Next Big Things in Tech. Trusted by elite data teams from global leaders like Capgemini, UniCredit, Interactive Brokers, Mizuho Bank, and Standard Bank, Accern facilitates the building and deployment of NLP solutions at scale. Headquartered in New York, NY, Accern is honored to be recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 company. The company has raised $40M from esteemed institutional investors including Fusion Fund, Tribe Capital, Shasta Ventures, Allianz Strategic Ventures, Mighty Capital, and many others. For more information about Accern, please visit www.accern.com.
Grabango is a checkout-free technology for existing, large-scale grocery, and convenience stores. Grabango is working with billion-dollar global retailers to retrofit existing stores to make waiting in lines a thing of the past. They just raised $39M in Series B funding, and we are excited to accelerate the growth of their team and their store deployments to deliver on their mission to eliminate lines and save people time. With Grabango, shoppers choose their items as usual, and then skip the line by scanning a code in their Grabango app on the way out. Our solution uses computer vision technology to identify items as they are picked up. It counts those items and sends the receipt to the shopper’s phone after they leave the store. Grabango delivers a seamless shopping experience that is becoming the global standard. Driven by passion to improve peoples’ daily lives, our technology brings computer vision and machine learning to existing brick-and-mortar stores by processing the interactions between people and products. We are the first and only company to successfully retrofit checkout-free technology into an existing store and work with high accuracy in a dynamic, real world environment. No facial recognition technology is used and all data is anonymized to protect customer privacy. Founded in 2016, Grabango is based in Berkeley, California.