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$9.0m
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Tendermint is now Ignite. Tendermint was the core contributor to the Cosmos blockchain network.
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$799.8m
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A bank offering online banking services with no user no bank fees, and an option to receive direct deposit up to two days early. Chris Britt and Ryan King founded Chime in 2013, and the company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
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- Ryan King ****@chime.com
- Chris Britt (entrepreneur) *****@chime.com
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$72.2m
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Arzeda is a biotechnology and software company designing custom microorganisms for industrial applications through computational enzyme design, protein optimization, and metabolic engineering.
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- Alexandre Zanghellini *********.***********@arzeda.com
- Walter G. Rakitsky ******.********@arzeda.com
- Eric Althoff ****.*******@seattlechildrens.org
1
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$50.0k
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Pembient uses advances in biotechnology to fabricate horn and other wildlife products to combat the threat to endangered species.
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9
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$307.0m
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Forge, formerly Equidate, is a company that offers a marketplace for private stock liquidation.
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- Sohail Prasad ******@forgeglobal.com
- Gil Silberman ***@equityllp.com
- Samvit Ramadurgam ******.**********@forgeglobal.com
11
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$1.9b
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Impossible Foods is a plant-based meat company making meat and dairy products that are made to look and feel like animal products by manufacturing heme, the oxygen binding molecule found in blood, using engineered yeast grown in bioreactors.
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3
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$900.0k
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Pitney Bowes is a Stamford, Connecticut-based company founded in 1920 by Walter Bowes.
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8
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$406.4m
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Bolt Threads is a biotechnology company that makes high performance fabrics and materials using biology.
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- Dan Widmaier linkedin
- David Breslauer linkedin
- Ethan Mirsky ********@alum.mit.edu
3
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$34.0m
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Parallel Finance is a decentralized lending and staking protocol on Polkadot and Ethereum.
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$3.8b
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Klarna is a financial technology company providing e-commerce payment solutions for merchants and shoppers.
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- Sebastian Siemiatkowski *********.*************@klarna.com
- Victor Jacobsson **********@klarna.com
- Niklas Adalberth linkedin
4
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$110.1m
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Coinhouse is the developer of an investment platform for cryptocurrency assets.
10
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$1.3b
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Brex is a credit card company that issues corporate credit cards with no security deposit.
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- Henrique Dubugras ********@brex.com
- Pedro Franceschi *****@brex.com
9
Funding Rounds
$81.5m
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Kasisto is a company that develops conversational AI for financial institutions.
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- Zor Gorelov ***.*******@kasisto.com
- Sasha Caskey *****.******@kasisto.com
- Ruth Brown ****.*****@kasisto.com
3
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$137.0m
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Upstox is an India-based investment platform founded by Shrini Viswanath, Ravi Kumar, Kavitha Subramanian, and Raghu Kumar.
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- Ravi Kumar ****.*****@upstox.com
- Kavitha Subramanian *******.***********@upstox.com
- Shrini Viswanath
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$875.5m
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C3 AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence software company providing a family of integrated products for accelerating digital transformation.
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$3.2b
Money raised
Bolt, previously Taxify, is a technology start-up and developer of an on-demand transportation platform.
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- Markus Villig ******.******@bolt.eu
- Martin Villig ******@garage48.org
7
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$711.5m
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Perfect Day Foods (formerly Muufri) engineered yeast capable of producing the proteins found in cows milk. They use these proteins to make their own line of animal-free dairy products.
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- Ryan Pandya ****@perfectday.com
- Perumal Gandhi *******.******@perfectday.com
- Isha Datar ****@new-harvest.org
1
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$1.2m
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Artificial intelligence company who uses models and IBM's Watson in the management of their AI Powered Equity Fund ETF (AIEQ) and AI Powered International Equity ETF (AIIQ)
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- Chida Khatua *****@equbot.com
- Art Amador ***@equbot.com
- Chris Natividad linkedin
4
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$118.5m
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Juicero was a company founded in 2013 that produced and sold an expensive juicer called the Juicero Press, along with fresh produce packets. The company closed after it received extensive negative press regarding its simplistic machine in contrast with its high cost.
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9
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$1.1b
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Circle is a peer-to-peer payments technology company that is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and was founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville.
2
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$15.6m
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Protera is a biotechnology company that works with protein engineering to address challenges in food, agriculture, the environment, and human health.
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- Francia Navarrete Utreras *******@proterabio.com
- Leonardo Alvarez ********@proterabio.com
9
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$20.3m
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New Wave Foods is a biotechnology company developing plant-based shellfish food products. The company is based out of San Francisco, California and was founded in 2015 by Dominique Barnes and Michelle Wolf.
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1
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$12.5m
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A bio-based chemical manufacturer focusing on human and animal nutrition, health, and materials markets.
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$100.9m
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AppZen is a San Jose, California-based company that provides an AI-based auditing platform for finance teams.
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- Kunal Verma *****@appzen.com
- Anant Kale *****.****@appzen.com
- Rajeev Gubbala ******.*******@appzen.com
5
Funding Rounds
$58.2m
Money raised
Shelf Engine is a Seattle-based software company and developer of an automated prediction ordering platform for food retailers, intended to reduce food waste.
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- Stefan Kalb ******.****@shelfengine.com
- Bede Jordan ****@shelfengine.com
9
Funding Rounds
$37.5m
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Finless Foods is a biotechnology company producing cultured marine animal food products through implementing cellular agriculture and manufacturing technologies.
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- Michael Selden
- Michael Selden linkedin
- Brian Wyrwas *****@finlessfoods.com
4
Funding Rounds
$390.0m
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An Israeli startup company that is working to make sustainable "animal-free" cell-based meat products available at the local level by adapting the distributed manufacturing model
8
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$220.0m
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Just, Inc. (formerly known as Hampton Creek) is a food technology company developing and selling plant based food products around the world.
4
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$119.8m
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Aleph Farms is an Israeli cellular agriculture start-up founded by Didier Toubia and Shulamit Levenberg in 2017 developing technologies for culturing meat products into 3D structures.
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Key people:
- Didier Toubia ******.******@aleph-farms.com
- Shulamit Levenberg ********.*********@aleph-farms.com
6
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$898.4m
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Wise, previously TransferWise, is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus.
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- Taavet Hinrikus (entrepreneur)
- Kristo Käärmann ******@transferwise.com
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$646.9m
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Socure is a New York City-based developer of an identity verification and fraud risk solution.
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- Johnny Ayers ******@socure.com
- Sunil Madhu *****@socure.com
8
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$551.0m
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Eat Just is a San Francisco based food technology company founded in 2011. The company is known for its bean-based egg substitute called Just Egg. Eat Just also produces egg-free mayonnaise.
4
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$580.8m
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Upside Foods is a San Francisco-based company making cultured meat products. The company was founded by Uma Valeti, Nicholas Genovese, and Will Clem.
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- Uma Valeti ***@upsidefoods.com
- Nicholas Genovese linkedin
- Will Clem linkedin
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$1.9b
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Apeel Sciences is a company that develops treatments to prevent spoilage of fruits and vegetables using molecules naturally found in peels, which maintain moisture and keep out oxygen.
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- James Rogers *****@apeel.com
10
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$1.1b
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Deel is a technology company offering a human resources management system solution for businesses working with global remote contractors.
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- Alex Bouaziz ****.*******@deel.com
- Shuo Wang (entrepreneur) ****@deel.com
- Ofer Simon
1
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A Canadian food biotech company focused on the development of hypoallergenic peanuts
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7
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$638.8m
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TradingView is a platform which provides instruments for publication and the viewing of trading ideas.
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- Stan Bokov ******@tradingview.com
- Denis Globa ******@tradingview.com
1
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$5.0m
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Vertalo is a digital transfer agent that connects and enables a digital asset ecosystem, offering primary capital formation, on-chain share registry, and access to secondary liquidity.
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- Dave Hendricks ****.*********@vertalo.com
- William Baxter (entrepreneur) *******.******@vertalo.com
- Gautam Gujral ******.******@vertalo.com
9
Funding Rounds
$312.9m
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Prosper is an online peer-to-peer lending marketplace connecting people who want to borrow money with individuals and institutions who want to lend money.
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$90.0m
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Strapi is a company offering an open-source headless content management system (CMS).
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- Jim Laurie
- Pierre Burgy ******@strapi.io
- Aurélien Georget ********@strapi.io
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$2.5b
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N26 is a is a mobile banking company headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
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- Valentin Stalf twitter
- Gino Cordt ****.*****@n26.com
- Maximilian Tayenthal **********.*********@n26.com
9
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$378.4m
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Bitso is a cryptocurrency exchange for buying and selling Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash, TrueUSD, Decentraland, Golem, and Basic Attention Token.
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- Daniel Vogel (entrepreneur) ******@bitso.com
- Ben Peters (entrepreneur) ***@bitso.com
- Pablo Gonzalez (entrepreneur)
3
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$7.0m
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Polarity is a computer software company. It has developed a system that analyzes the contents of users' computer screens and gives them real-time access to information without affecting their existing workflow.
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- Joseph Rivela ******.******@polarity.io
- Paul Battista ****@polarity.io
- Edmund Dorsey ******@polarity.io
12
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$1.7b
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Revolut is a London-based Fintech startup and bank offering mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange services.
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- Nikolay Storonsky *******.*********@revolut.com
- Nik Storonsky ***@revolut.com
- Vlad Yatsenko
6
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$200.0m
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A software company making a workplace email communication platform for remote and office work.
4
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$295.0m
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Califia Farms makes plant-based dairy products (primarily almond based) such as plant-based milks, plant-based creamers, juices, and dairy-free probiotic yoghurts. The company was founded in 2010 by Greg Steltenpohl and is located in San Joaquin Valley, California.
4
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$126.0m
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Mercury is a company making banking products for startups based in San Francisco and backed by a16z.
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- Immad Akhund *****@mercury.com
- Max Tagher ***@mercury.com
- Jason Zhang *****@mercury.com
2
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$21.0m
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Planet A Foods is a cocoa-free chocolate maker founded in 2021 by Sara Marquart.
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- Sara Marquart ****@qoacompany.com
- Maximilian Marquart ***@forplaneta.com
1
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$100.0m
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Matrixport is a cryptocurrency financial services platform enabling users to earn, invest, trade, loan and purchase crypto assets.
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5
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$104.5m
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A cellular agriculture company making fresh and frozen cultured seafood products.
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- Christopher Somogyi
- Chris Dammann ********@bluenalu.com
- Lou Cooperhouse ************@bluenalu.com
11
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$185.7m
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D-Wave Systems is a Canadian company that designs and manufactures quantum computing and superconducting electronics, and AI software.
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- Bob Wiens
- Eric Ladizinsky
- Geordie Rose *******@snowdropquantum.com
9
Funding Rounds
$363.2m
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Tala is a financial technology company with a mobile application to manage personal loan. Founded in 2011 and has headquarters in Santa Monica, California.
4
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$45.5m
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HireEZ, formerly Hiretual, is a Mountain View, California-based developer of an artificial intelligence-powered recruitment platform to help companies find employees.
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- Steven Jiang ***********@hireez.com
- Xinwen Zhang ***********@hireez.com
1
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$300.0m
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BGI is a life science and genomics organization following a development model of research, production and application.
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11
Funding Rounds
$256.5m
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Meatable is a cellular agriculture company making 100 percent clean meat products.
4
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$102.5m
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ScaleFactor is an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company offering services in bookkeeping and accounting.
6
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$34.7m
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Investing tool and Public Benefit Corporation that emphasizes social responsibility.
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- Phillip Wei **********@gmail.com
- Conor Murray (finance) linkedin
- Joshua Levin linkedin
13
Funding Rounds
$655.6m
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Chainalysis is a company that provides tools for cryptocurrency analysis, compliance, and investigation.
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- Jonathan Levin (entrepreneur) ********.*****@chainalysis.com
- Jan Møller linkedin
- Michael Grønager linkedin
10
Funding Rounds
$1.1b
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Starling is an UK-based mobile-first digital banking startup.
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12
Funding Rounds
$25.2m
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Platform allowing individuals to invest in small companies for equity or annual returns.
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- Ammy Carmichael
- Darren Westlake ******.********@crowdcube.com
- Becca Lewis
12
Funding Rounds
$507.3m
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Acorns is an Irvine, California-based micro-investing company allowing users to round up consumer purchases and invest the change.
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1
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$71.0m
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Yapstone provides flexible and customizable payment solutions.
7
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$114.3m
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Geltor is a cellular agriculture company making essential proteins, such as collagen and gelatin, using microbes in their own bio-fermentation recombinant protein production facility.
12
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$914.3m
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GoCardless is a payments company that developed global payments network based on the bank to bank payment systems. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator
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- Matt Robinson (entrepreneur) ****@gocardless.com
- Tom Blomfield linkedin
- Hiroki Takeuchi ******@gocardless.com
8
Funding Rounds
$161.4m
Money raised
SmartAsset is a financial technology company that provides automated personalized financial advice. It participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.
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- Michael Carvin (co-founder of SmartAsset) *******@smartasset.com
- Philip Camilleri **********@smartasset.com
6
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$138.2m
Money raised
Mosa Meat is a Dutch start-up company that makes and commercializes clean meat, meat made by growing animal cells directly rather than slaughtering animals.
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- Peter Verstrate *****.***@cytovale.com
- Mark Post ****@mosameat.com