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Pluralis Research operates as an AI start-up that uses decentralized training to create open-source AI.

Anon is building the infrastructure to unlock the potential of AI applications by providing a secure way for billions of agents to authenticate and operate across the internet. By leveraging user-permissioned authentication, Anon handles secure credential collection, 2FA handling, CAPTCHAs, IP proxying, and more to deliver reliable integrations for services that don't have APIs. With Anon, developers can embed an SDK in their application and use the API to authenticate users, manage user sessions, and take actions on behalf of users across popular sites on the internet.

Kiosk offers on-chain assets that are essential for social media clients that build feedback loops between assets and communities.

Neynar is a developer platform that allows users to own, read, and write form web3 social.

Presto is a software platform to power magical charging experiences for fleets, mobility providers, and businesses.We believe that access to reliable and affordable charging is the key to unlocking mass electrification and fighting climate change.

SuppCo helps people find health supplements, manage supplement routines, and track their health.

We remove atmospheric carbon for a fraction of the cost while increasing crop yields. Our process is highly efficient, increases soil health, and repurposes post-industrial waste. Then we sell the carbon credits to companies and split revenue with our regenerative growers. With a world-class team leveraging expertise in soil chemistry, agronomy, geochemistry, machine learning, and logistics, we are engineering the most cost-effective, and scientifically rigorous solution to enhanced rock weathering at scale. 🌎 🌾 🚜

Daylight is an Application Programming Interface (API) for collecting Web3 benefits.

Revel.xyz is a Web3 personal media collecting and trading platform, forming communities around shared assets and people.

The Machines were a professional wrestling stable who performed in the World Wrestling Federation in 1986. The team consisted of well-known WWF wrestlers working under masks which strongly resembled that worn by Super Strong Machine in New Japan Pro-Wrestling at the time; leader André the Giant had faced Hirata and two other Strong Machines during tours of NJPW in 1984, getting the idea for the masks. The gimmick was very much tongue-in-cheek, as the identities of the masked men were obvious to the fans but frustrating to heels when they were unable to prove them. The Machines was the last tag team Capt. Lou Albano managed in the WWF until he returned in 1994 to manage The Headshrinkers.

Blackbird Labs is a web3 hospitality technology platform that should directly connect restaurants and customers.

Logseq is a privacy-first, open-source knowledge base that works on top of local plain-text Markdown and Org-mode files. Use it to write, organize and share your thoughts, keep your to-do list, and build your own digital garden.

Algofi is a blockchain-based decentralized crypto lending platform based on Algorand. The company's platform enables users to purchase cryptocurrency and earn interest without the use of a bank or centralized custodian.

The communications protocol for web3, WalletConnect brings the ecosystem together by enabling wallets and apps to securely connect and interact.

XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Paragraph allows its users to sign up using their wallets, email addresses, or both. To encourage growth and keep your most valued subscribers informed, send token-gated newsletters and issue gated NFT drops. Paragraph uses web3 social networks like Farcaster as hooks. Your post automatically pulls in discussion from web3 and allows your web3 social followers to subscribe to your newsletter. Paragraph was established in 2021.

primitives is a new social platform that allows anyone to unleash their creativity. dive in to discover new creators, mint and share work, build collections, and join communities. on primitives, everyone is a creator.

Led by emotion scientists and AI researchers, Hume AI is building the foundations of empathic AI. The company conducts large-scale psychology studies and provides unbiased training datasets and machine learning models capturing a wide range of emotional behaviors in the face, voice, and body. It provides these resources to partners seeking to build empathic technologies that prioritize and serve human emotional-well being, including digital assistants, mental health monitoring apps, therapeutic social robots, and more. Hume’s mission is to pave the way for an ethical, human-centric future for AI, ensuring that as technology gets smarter it remains aligned with our goals.

Slope enables any B2B platform to offer Buy Now, Pay Later by handling the lending, underwriting, debt collection while fully paying out immediately to the platform once the product or service ships.

Farcaster is a social network that helps coders, fitness enthusiasts, and meme makers find people based on their interests. The company focuses on increasing daily active users and adding developer primitives to the protocol, such as channels and direct message delivery. It aims to create a decentralized social network that allows users to communicate directly without the need for intermediaries.

Molten Industries develops clean technology with the goal of decarbonizing the hydrogen market. The company's technology generates the most affordable and environmentally friendly hydrogen.

Consensus is an ad-free, specialized search platform that delivers everyday people better scientific information using AI.

Noya's mission is to accelerate the transition of industry to a sustainable existence. Every day, we're making progress towards this mission with a CO2 capture process that utilizes existing industrial equipment to pull CO2 out of the air. Noya takes the CO2 pulled from the atmosphere and re-packages it for sale to industrial CO2 consumers. To achieve a future free of excess emissions, Noya is partnering with industrial equipment owners to deploy this carbon capture process onto their equipment. As the world's only distributed direct air capture company, Noya will lead the reversal of climate change and the development of the technology that will ensure a long, fruitful existence for humans on Earth.

Remora is a semiconductor company that captures carbon emissions from semi-trucks. Remora's device captures the carbon emissions from a semi-truck. They sell the captured carbon dioxide to concrete producers and other end users, helping companies earn new revenue while meeting their climate commitments. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Livonia, Michigan.

Anthro is reimagining the future of energy storage. We are an advanced materials company developing solutions to some of the biggest problems facing the battery-dependent electrified future. Spun out of Stanford University, we’ve created high-performance batteries with structural integrity and total safety. Today, our customers use our flexible batteries to create advanced wearable electronics and medical devices with unprecedented functionality. Tomorrow, our ruggedized batteries will safely enable an electrified future. Anthro is proudly supported by world-class investors and a wide range of government grants. We are a group of pioneers, reimagining batteries to create a smarter, cleaner tomorrow.

Mundi is the first financial services platform for exporters and freight forwarders. Export to the whole world and collect your cash invoices easily and digitally.

Viam is a robotics company that aims to build products that helps people's daily life. The company was founded in 2020 by Eliot Horowitz and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Alife develops artificial intelligence tools to assist physicians in increasing a patient's chances of pregnancy success. The company has a mission of helping people have healthy children and connects fertility specialists to patients to assists with IVF. Alife Health was founded in 2020 by Paxton Maeder-York and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

The Daybreak Health startup uses a mobile app to connect teens to teen-specialized therapists. Daybreak Health specializes in providing online counseling services, especially for teens, helping to stabilize their mental fitness.

Jam is a new in-the-flow company that turns any website into a collaborative document. The company allowing developers and designers to track issues and make suggestions quickly and simply. The web of collaboration apps invading remote work toolkits has led to plenty of messy workflows for teams that communicate in the language of desktop screenshots and DMs. The platform supports Slack, Jira, GitHub, Asana, Loom, and Figma, with a few more in the immediate pipeline. Founded in 2020 by Dani Grant and Mohd Irtefa.

Bolster is an on-demand executive talent marketplace that helps accelerate companies’ growth by connecting them with experienced, highly vetted executives for interim, fractional, advisory, project-based, or board roles. Bolster also provides on-demand executives with software and services to help them manage their careers as independent consultants and provides startup and scaleup CEOs with software and content to help them assess, benchmark, and diversify their leadership teams and boards.

Sora is a private online middle and high school. Sora’s world-class faculty leads one-of-a-kind live classes, transforming today's students into tomorrow’s changemakers. Students truly have a say in their education in terms of what they study, how they learn a subject, and in what format they can demonstrate their knowledge. Sora’s full-time school program is accredited by Cognia, WASC, and approved by the NCAA.

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Karat provides a credit card tailored for creators and influencers, enabling them to grow and manage their businesses. Its Karat Black Card aims to aid high-income creators with a credit card suited to their needs. This is because banks don’t always understand the creator business model which can include unpredictable monthly income and a variety of revenue streams and thus prevents burgeoning creators from accessing capital.

Wren is a web app that helps live carbon neutral by accounting for and offsetting CO2 emissions. It aims to build tools that help everyone act against climate change. Starting with a subscription service has the added advantage of funding their future work. They believe the most effective way we can build a team to tackle this problem is to build a sustainable business. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

UNIGRID develops sustainable and affordable sodium-based batteries using abundant materials. They aim to put a battery into every home, the grid, and other distributed energy storage applications. They use dense Na-alloy and a non-flammable electrolyte, which led to high energy density and improved safety.

Zanskar develops a predictive platform informed by massive data for discovering previously unknown geothermal resources. Its platform includes subsurface characterization technology and massive data sets, enhancing and reducing risk in the exploration of geothermal resources.

Humane Genomics is a virus development platform that develops artificial viruses to cure diseases. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

Sofar Ocean Technologies OpenROV Inc. designs and manufactures accessible ocean sensing and exploration tools. The Company creates pervasive sensor networks to understand and monitor ocean environments, as well as provides critical data for ocean enthusiasts, industry, and conservation. Sofar Ocean Technologies serves customers in the United States.

Radiant develops the first portable, zero-emissions power source that works anywhere.

Uniswap is the largest decentralized exchange (or DEX) operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It allows users anywhere in the world to trade crypto without an intermediary.

Dapper Labs, Inc. is a gaming company. The Company offers blockchain based gaming experience and digital collectibles such as basket ball, rugby, football, fights, and other games. Dapper Labs serves customers worldwide.

Parallel is an investor identity company that works directly with investors and investment platforms to simplify the onboarding and verification process. Investors who are already using Parallel are able to sign up and share all of their investor credentials with a single click. Parallel works with... Read more

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Dune Analytics is the Ethereum-centric analytics platform that makes on-chain crypto data accessible and consumable. The company was founded by Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen in 2018 and is headquartered in

Coinbase Ventures operates as a venture capital firm. The Company invests in early stage startups within the financial services sector. Coinbase Ventures serves clients worldwide.

Abridge helps people stay on top of their health, one conversation at a time. It helps people capture the details of their care so they can follow through on doctors’ recommendations and gain more peace of mind throughout their health journey.

SmartHop, LLC provides software solutions. The Company designs and develops automotive software which automates the route planning and dispatching decision-making process for truckers on the road.

Stedi is a global network for exchanging B2B transactions in a standard format. It provides companies with a free digital mailbox on the Stedi network, giving any company the ability to quickly connect and transact with its trading partners without having to go through painful point-to-point implementations.

Polygon is a platform for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development and web3. Its growing suite of products offers developers easy access to all major scaling and infrastructure solutions: L2 solutions (ZK Rollups and Optimistic Rollups), sidechains, hybrid solutions, stand-alone and enterprise chains, data availability solutions, and more. Polygon’s scaling solutions have seen widespread adoption with 7,000+ applications hosted, 1B+ total transactions processed, ~130M+ unique user addresses, and $5B+ in assets secured.

Provider of an online platform intended to streamline the development of mini-grids in emerging markets. The company's online platform manages how mini-grid data is analyzed and communicated via software tools, data analytics and marketplaces, enabling mini-grid project developers to connect with in... Read more

PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.

Shortwave helps you email smarter and faster using your existing Gmail account, so you can not only be more productive, but actually enjoy your inbox.

David Energy is a new kind of retail electricity provider. They bring electricity supply and demand response together to keep things simple and to save you money on your bill.

Leap is a marketplace for Distributed Energy Resources to participate in the energy market.

BlockTower is a crypto and blockchain investment firm that uses trading, investing, and portfolio management to this digital asset class.

Algorand, LLC provides software solutions. The Company designs and develops digital currency and transactions platform to address the blockchain scaling challenges. Algorand offers its services in the United States.

Modern Fertility provides heatlh care testing services. The Company offers fertility testing services. Modern Fertility serves patients in the State of California.

Possible Finance is a consumer finance company that offers access to capital and a guided path toward long-term financial health. It focuses on helping communities break the debt cycle and unlock economic mobility for generations.

Polychain Capital LP operates as a venture capital firm. The Company manages a crypto hedge fund that invests in blockchain technology and early token sales. Polychain Capital serves clients in the United States.

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A new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. Numerai manages an institutional grade long/short global equity strategy for the investors in our hedge fund. We transform and regularize financial data into machine learning problems for our global community of data scientists. In December 2015, we created the world’s first encrypted data science tournament for stock market predictions. The most accurate and original machine learning models from the world’s best data scientists are synthesized into a collective artificial intelligence that controls the capital in Numerai’s hedge fund. We reward outstanding contributions from the data science community in USD, paid out in ether.

PayJoy Inc. provides consumer finance. The Company offers a pay-as-you-go technology solutions that allows consumers to transform the purchases of consumer electronics into monthly installment plans. PayJoy serves customers worldwide.

Props is an AI-based content marketing platform for brands and independent creators.

Outschool Inc provides web-based services to find books and learning activities.

From innovation to the environment, invest in what matters to you. With Stash, you can invest in a selection of stocks and ETFs that is carefully curated by our investment team based on expense ratio, trading liquidity, and risk profile.

CoverWallet, Inc. provides consulting services. The Company consults and offers quotes on multiple insurance products. CoverWallet serves customers in the State of New York.

Nurx Inc. develops a mobile health platform that provides access to a range of every day medications from contraceptives to travel meds and refills. The company provides doctor prescription and review services. Its platform enables users to automatically refill and renew prescriptions.

The Challenge: 67% of American women wear sizes 14+-that’s 100 million women. Yet this majority is systematically underserved by the retail industry. The plus size community faces paltry options, unwelcoming environments, and a lack of representation-all adding up to a disappointing experience with style. Our Vision: Style freedom through a life well-lived The Dia&Co Solution: Dia&Co is the only retail service dedicated to meeting the plus size community’s full range of style needs. We’re applying the best of data and technology to serve women who have been ignored for far too long-from developing the shopping experiences she’s always wanted, to building community platforms that inspire her, to ensuring she sees herself represented in the world around her. Our Approach - Representative Retail: Dia&Co is a company built around a customer, not a business model. Our community leads the way, and we meet their unique needs by creating products and experiences across three comprehensive areas of service: Commerce: Curated access to the best-fitting Style and Active apparel (led by Dia&Co’s beloved owned brands), fully equipping her to express herself through style. Customized shopping experiences to remove the stress around fit, for a joyful and fabulous experience. Community: Platforms to foster deep connections between members both of offline and online, offering a place for her to be celebrated and to celebrate others through style. Change: Campaigns to create lasting change by combating stereotypes and biases. Advocacy to increase representation of our community outside the Dia ecosystem, so she can see herself reflected in style.

Filecoin is a data storage network and electronic currency based on Bitcoin.

Founded in early 2014, Pilot provides internet and network products so businesses can focus on the work they love. Our quality is our contract, and we're relentlessly dedicated to delivering the fastest, most reliable office internet at competitive prices. We believe working with your ISP should be easy, which is why we offer no contracts and 24/7 support. Interested in joining the cause? As our network continues to grow, we need more internet fanatics on the team who share a passion for changing telecom from the inside out.

Protocol Labs, Inc. is a research, development, and deployment lab for network protocols. The Company creates software systems that tackle significant challenges, aiming to solve them with new technology breakthroughs, great user experience design, and an open-source approach to creation. Protocol Labs serves clients in the United States.

DroneBase, Inc. provides drone services. The Company offers aerial images and video shooting for commercial and residential real estates, construction, insurance, and telecommunication sectors. DroneBase serves customers worldwide.

Blockstack is a new internet for decentralized apps. As a team, we develop and scale the open-source Blockstack software alongside members of the Blockstack community. Keep up with our work here: https://blog.blockstack.org/

Splice is a cloud-based music creation and collaboration platform which includes a sample library, audio plug-ins on a subscription basis, integrates with key digital audio workstations (DAWs) to offer automated online backup with version control, online and offline collaboration as well as visualization of the creation process..

Helium was founded in 2013 by Shawn Fanning, Amir Haleem, and Sean Carey, with a mission to make it easier to build connected devices. The company is backed by ... Khosla Ventures, FirstMark Capital, GV (formerly Google Ventures), HSB/MunichRe Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Multicoin Capital, and others. See More

Casetext Inc. operates as a public legal research tool and online community. The Company provides an open online searchable database of legal documents annotated by attorneys and experts. Casetext serves customers in the United States.

Clarifai Inc provides advanced image recognition systems for detecting near-duplicates and visual search. Its image recognition systems recognize various categories, objects, and tags in images, as well as find similar images. The company's image recognition systems allow finding similar images in large uncategorized repositories.

Assembly, Inc. operates as social networking site. The Company offers a platform that connects developers, designers, and creative professionals to create software applications.

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Coinbase is the easiest and most trusted place to buy, sell, and manage your digital currency.

Justworks Inc. provides business support services. The Company offers payroll, benefits, and contractor payments for starting, growing, and managing businesses. Justworks markets to business throughout the United States.

Veniam is a technology startup focused on building large WiFi mesh networks using moving vehicles like city buses or taxis. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California and was founded in 2012. The Company received 4.9 million dollars in 2014 in a funding round from True Ventures, USV and Cane Investments. Veniam's technology is being used in Porto's city buses with about 230,000 users with onboard units (OBUs) installed on over 600 buses, taxis and garbage trucks. They aim to equip many moving things with wireless hotspots creating a mesh that could be used to build sensors to turn the city smarter.Each vehicle is equipped with a NetRider, a multi network unit with Wi-Fi (802.11p), DSRC, GPS and 4G/LTE connectivity.

Kitchensurfing, Inc. provides e-commerce services. The Company develops and maintains an online platform for listing and contacting chefs for private dining events. Kitchensurfing serves customers in select cities throughout the United States and Germany.

Brilliant’s mission is to inspire and develop people to achieve their goals in STEM - one person, one question, and one small commitment to learning at a time.

Carta (formerly eShares) is an ownership and equity management platform trusted by thousands of founders, investors, and employees.

goTenna (goTenna Inc) is a Brooklyn, New York-based startup that designs and develops technologies for off-grid and decentralized communications. goTenna devices pair with smartphones and, through intelligent mobile ad hoc networking protocols, enable users to send texts and share locations on a peer-to-peer basis, foregoing the need for centralized communications infrastructure of any kind.

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YouNow develops a live social network, combining elements of reality TV and social games. The Company offers a platform that allows users to watch live broadcasts, chat and meet new friends, or broadcast live to grow your social circle. YouNow conducts business in New York, New York.

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Turntable.fm is a social music service made in New York City. It's addictive so don't use it if you want to get any work done. The NY Times said, \'The hottest new club isn’t in Los Angeles or New York. It’s on a Web site called Turntable.fm, where big-headed cartoon characters populate the D.J. booth.\'​ We have some amazing career opportunities for a founding team of Python engineers in NYC. You've got to have incredible technical chops, the ability to solve the problems that come with designing a large-scale consumer-facing app and thrive in the dynamic environment of a true start-up. Check out the Careers tab! - Turntable.fm / Play Music Together!

Sift is the leader in Digital Trust & Safety, empowering companies of all sizes to unlock revenue without risk. Sift prevents fraud with industry-leading technology and expertise, an unrivaled global data network, and a commitment to building long-term partnerships with their customers. Twitter, Airbnb, and Twilio rely on Sift to stay competitive and secure.

CircleUp is a financial technology company based in San Francisco that focuses on consumer goods startups. Since its official launch in April 2012, CircleUp has helped several consumer companies raise equity including Back to the Roots, Halo Top Creamery, Little Duck Organics, Rhythm Superfoods and others. General Mills has an investment fund that is partnered with CircleUp to invest in companies listed on the platform.

Ghost is the marketplace that connects leading retail brands with surplus distribution partners. Ghost combines real-time data with intelligent solutions to help brands monetize their excess inventory discreetly and sustainably. By providing liquidity, protection, and transparency, the Ghost platform serves as the backbone for retailers to diversify and optimize their inventory lifecycle.

Science Exchange, Inc. develops and operates a marketplace for science experiments. The Company offers a community marketplace for scientists to list, discover, access, and pay for scientific services from institutions around the world. Science Exchange markets its services worldwide.

Code Climate Inc. provides software solutions. The Company offers solutions to consolidates the results from a suite of static analysis. Code Climate serves customers in the State of New York.

Firebase is a platform developed by Google for creating mobile and web applications. It was originally an independent company founded in 2011. In 2014, Google acquired the platform and it is now their flagship offering for app development.

Hailo was a British technology platform that matched taxi drivers and passengers through its mobile phone application. Founded in London in 2011, the Hailo taxi service was available in 16 cities (as of December 2013).

Sidecar is helping fuel the next generation of e-retail with technology that supercharges e-commerce marketing. We work with retailers across nearly all verticals, including Top 15 merchants in the U.S. and worldwide. Our Vision: Deliver intelligent technology that allows retailers to connect with people looking for their products, drives better performance, and makes their jobs easier. Our Mission: We believe that artificial intelligence is the future of retail marketing. As retail evolves, the lines between devices, channels, and consumer experiences continue to blur -- bringing retail marketers face to face with increasingly complex decisions that rely on increasing amounts of data. Sidecar delivers the technology retail marketers need to harness that data to execute performance marketing campaigns that perform better, don't require daily, tactical decision making, and can evolve along with you. Stay connected with the latest research and commentary by and for retail marketing leaders at: discover.getsidecar.com Follow us on social: -Twitter: https://twitter.com/getsidecar -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getsidecar/