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Naval Ravikant

Naval Ravikant is an angel investor, podcaster, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO and cofounder of AngelList and the founder of several other technology companies such as Epinions, Vast.com, MetaStable, The Hit Forge, and Genoa Corp.

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Synex Medical

Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology.

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Capsule Social

Capsule Social is a decentralized publishing platform where writers can share their stories and knowledge without compromising their integrity.

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Buck Stash

Buck Stash is a company founded in 2020.

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Kabata

Kabata is a fitness platform intended to provide workout equipment, gamified progression, and data-driven coaching.

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Curio

Curio is a the NFT tool you'll enjoy using founded in 2021 by Sean Dadashi.

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Kine Protocol

Kine is a decentralized protocol which establishes general purpose liquidity pools backed by a customizable portfolio of digital assets.

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Fashinza

New Generation Supply Chain And Product Development Platform For Fashion Industry. No matter where you are! We provide one stop solution from design to delivery.

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Branch (virtual HQ)

Branch is an information technology company that is building a virtual headquarters for remote teams.

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Vibe Bio

Vibe Bio is a community of patients, scientists, and partners committed to identifying, funding, and developing promising treatments for rare diseases. Joins us!

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Sunscreen

Sunscreen is a privacy engine of the new web.

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Stacks

Stacks is a layer-1 blockchain solution that is designed to bring smart contracts and decentralized applications (DApps) to Bitcoin (BTC).

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AtoB

The trucking and logistics industry provides the backbone of the economy. But the payments infrastructure on which it runs is from the past century and broken.

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Axelar

Axelar is a universal interoperability platform that connects blockchains through a decentralized network and an SDK of protocols and APIs.

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Weekend Fund

Weekend Fund is a venture capital and angel investing firm focused on making early stage investments.

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Perplexity

Perplexity AI is a company developing an AI-based search engine platform.

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Quell

Quell is a fitness game developers founded in 2020 by Cameron Brookhouse, Lorenzo Spreafico, Doug Stidolph and Martin Tweedie.

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Udemy

Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 80,000 courses and 24 million students.

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Teachable

Teachable is a company that allows users to create and sell online courses.

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Mercury

Mercury is a company making banking products for startups based in San Francisco and backed by a16z.

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Wheels Labs

A company offering a shared electric scooter mobility platform.

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Hero (healthcare company)

A company offering a smart medication management device that is headquartered in New York City, New York and was founded in 2012 by Kal Vepuri and Kut Akdogan.

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Fluther

Fluther is a San Francisco-based company founded by Ben Finkel.

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BranchOut

BranchOut is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010.

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Chartable Holding

Chartable Holding is a New York-based company.

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Visual.ly

Visual.ly is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2011.

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Shyp

Shyp was a technology enabled shipping company that operated in the years 2013-2018.

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LegalReach

LegalReach is a company founded by Avlok Kohli.

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Scan (company)

Scan was a company and a mobile app that allowed users to create and download QR codes. It was acquired by Snap Inc. in December 2014.

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Incident Tech

Incident Tech develops an instrument called the gTar that enables an interactive music entertainment experience to anyone without any kind of previous musical knowledge.

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CardPool

CardPool is an Irving, Texas-based company founded in 2009 by Anson Tsai.

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LearnBoost

LearnBoost is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 by Guillermo Rauch, Thianh Lu and Rafael Corrales.

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Sosh

Sosh is a San Francisco-based social media company founded in 2010 by Vivek Patel, Rishi Mandal and Rod Begbie.

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Stipple (company)

Stipple is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010.

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Hitpost

Hitpost is a company founded in 2009 by Aaron Krane.

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Tilt (company)

Also known as Crowdtilt, Tilt is a company providing crowdsourcing platform that allows users to pool funds for their causes online. It participated in the W12 cohort of Y Combinator.

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Circle of Moms

Circle of Moms is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2008 by Mike Greenfield.

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Profitboss

Profitboss is a chat company founded by Adam Guild.

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Opzi

A social games for iOS and Android development company. It participated in the S10 cohort of Y Combinator

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MediaSpike

MediaSpike is a company founded in 2012 by John McCrea, Blake Commagere and Daniel Dodd.

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GiveForward

GiveForward is a Chicago-based company founded in 2008.

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Mesmo.tv

Mesmo.tv is a company founded by Davin Miyoshi, Jesse Hull and Debarshi Kar.

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Pipe (company)

Pipe is a financing platform for SaaS companies based in Los Angeles.

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StarkWare

StarkWare is an Israel-based blockchain company developing systems for proof of computational integrity and solutions for scalability and privacy for blockchains.

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Optimizely

Optimizely is an American multinational internet and technology corporation. It builds customer experience optimization software for enterprises.

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Locu

Locu is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company founded by Rene Reinsberg, Marc Piette and Marek Olszewski.

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Blockstack

Blockstack is a full stack internet platform for building decentralized apps.

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MagiC

Magic is a company providing a 24/7 SMS based on-demand personal assistant service.

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OpenDoor

OpenDoor is a San Francisco-based real estate technology company offering virtual and streamlined real estate buying and selling founded in 2014 by Keith Rabois, Eric Wu, JD Ross and Ian Wong.

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Uber

Uber Technologies Inc. is a transportation network company (TNC) headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Chai Biotechnologies

Chai Biotechnologies (also known as Chai and Chai Bio) is a biotechnology company building real-time PCR, qPCR and devices that detect pathogens, speciate meat and genotype DNA.

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Heyzap

Heyzap is a mobile advertising platform that was acquired by Fyber for $45m in 2015. It was founded in 2008 and was located in San Francisco, California.

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Postmates

Postmates is a food delivery service company operating a network of couriers for local goods delivery.

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Notion

Notion is a software company offering a platform for writing, planning, and organizing note-taking.

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500Friends

500Friends was a company developing loyalty marketing programs for brands and retailers. The company was acquired by Merkle in 2014.

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Farmeron

Farmeron developed a cloud-based dairy herd and farm business management software.

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SuperRare

Super Rare is a smart contract platform for cryptocollectables.

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bloXroute

BloXroute is a blockchain scalability infrastructure service called a Blockchain Distribution Network (BDN). It is a layer-0 infrastructure that sits beneath the blockchain layer and does not require changes to consensus or protocol of the blockchain with the goal of increasing block propagation speed and efficiency.

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Airhouse (company)

Airhouse is a San Francisco-based software company developing an e-commerce operations solution for direct-to-consumer companies.

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Deepnote

Deepnote is a company that has created an online platform for data scientists. It was founded in 2019 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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Hebbia

Hebbia is a research search engine.

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Eight Sleep

Eight Sleep is a sleep fitness company in New York City founded in 2014 by Massimo Andreasi Bassi, Matteo Franceschetti and Alexandra Zatarain.

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OpenSea

OpenSea is an online marketplace for buying and selling cryptocollectibles. The company is located in New York City and was founded in 2017.

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dYdX

DYdX is a company that has a decentralized trading platform for margin trading, borrowing, and lending.

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X

X (formerly Twitter) is a social media and microblogging platform founded in 2006.

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Unstoppable Domains

Unstoppable Domains is a company that offers alt-route domain names based on blockchain technology.

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Agoric

Agoric is a proof-of-stake (PoS) chain utilizing secure JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi.

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Chia Network (blockchain)

Chia Network is a decentralized peer-to-peer blockchain protocol relying on proof of space and proof of time concepts for achieving consensus.

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Metafy

Metafy is a platform that enables online players in the world to monetize their talent through 1:1 coaching and courses.

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Monad

The high-performance layer 1 blockchain for the next generation of decentralized applications.

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Chaos Labs

Chaos Labs is an on-chain risk management platform founded by Omer Goldberg.

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leto.xyz

leto.xyz is a send crypto like never before founded by Serafim Korablev.

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SnapLogic

SnapLogic is a San Mateo, California-based software development company offering an enterprise cloud integration platform.

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Descript

A company offering an audio word processing platform that enables editor and producers to edit sound files while a writer would edit its lyrics.

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Flyby

he company's proprietary and certification-grade hardware and software products integrate with off-the-shelf dronesto provide autonomous drone delivery capability for previously non-autonomous drones, enabling its subscribers to get their food from their desired restaurant delivered on time without contact during the pandemic.

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ANCHOR

Anchor Protocol is a Terraform Labs DeFi tool for staking, lending and borrowing. Mainly known for ~20% APY on UST staking.

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Avalanche

Avalanche is a Brooklyn-based smart contracts platform in the blockchain industry.

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Replit

Replit is a San Francisco-based IDE and software development environment company making a browser application platform for coding in over fifty programming languages.

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Siren Markets

Siren Markets is a San Francisco-based decentralized finance company founded in 2020.

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Mina (blockchain)

The world’s lightest blockchain, creating a private gateway between the real world and crypto.

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Magic

Magic is a plug and Play Auth & Key Management founded in 2018 by Sean Li.

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Muse.ai

A company focusing on artificial intelligence applied to video search.

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21.co

21.co is a company founded in 2018.

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9GAG

9GAG is a cross-platform digital and social media network. It participated in the S12 cohort of Y Combinator.

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A Thinking Ape

A Thinking Ape is a company founded in 2008 by Wilkins Chung, Kenshi Arasaki and Eric Diep.

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AeroFS

AeroFS provides file syncing and sharing platform for enterprises.

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After School (company)

After School is a San Francisco-based location-based service company founded by Cory Levy.

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AirHelp

AirHelp is a company providing an online legal service helping air passengers get compensation from airlines when their flight gets cancelled, delayed or overbooked. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

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Alation

Alation is a Redwood City, California-based company founded in 2012 by Venky Ganti, Aaron Kalb and Satyen Sangani.

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Artsy (website)

Artsy is the largest online art marketplace with more than 1 million artworks by over 100,000 artists.

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Attune

Attune is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based insurance company founded in 2017.

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Beautylish

Beautylish is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 by Nils Johnson, Vu Nguyen and Sameer Iyengar.

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Bitwise Asset Management

Bitwise develops funds, indexs and insights into cryptocurrency investing. Bitwise is a crypto index fund manager for individuals, investment managers, and institutions navigating cryptocurrency.

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BlackJet

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Bonafide

Bonafide is a company founded in 2011 by Mike Greenfield.

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Betterbounces.net

Betterbounces.net is a Louisville, Colorado-based company founded in 2013 by Tom Bartel.

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Breezeworks

Breezeworks is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012.

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Cambrian Genomics

Cambrian Genomics is a biotechnology company developing technologies to synthesize DNA. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and was founded in 2011.

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Change.org

On Change.org, people everywhere are starting campaigns, mobilizing supporters, and working with decision makers to drive solutions.

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Clearbit

A business intelligence company offering a platform made to help companies analyze customer information to lower fraud and increase sales.

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ClearTax

ClearTax is a financial technology company providing solutions for income tax filing, GST and mtual fund investments. It participated in the S14 cohort of Y Combinator.

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Color Genomics

Technology company which provides genetic tests and analysis directly to patients and employers. The product focuses on genes that indicate risk for heart disease, cancer, and that affect medication response.

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Codecademy

Codecademy is a company providing a platform based on web and mobile that teaches digital skills to users. It participated in the S11 cohort of Y Combinator.

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CryptoKitties

CryptoKitties is a game built on the Ethereum blockchain in which users can collect and trade virtual kittens.

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Dapper Labs

Dapper Labs is a software developer that creates blockchain-based video games and platforms.

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Descomplica

Descomplica is a Brazil-based company founded in 2011.

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Dil Mil

Dil Mil is a social media company founded in 2014.

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Earn.com

Earn.com was a company that made a platform for digital currency services. It was acquired by Coinbase in 2018.

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Estately

Estately is a company founded by Galen Ward.

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Fairy

Fairy is a company founded by Avlok Kohli.

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Famous

Famous Studio was developed to help designers create, publish, and manage ads, pages, videos, apps, articles, and slides.

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Feedjit

Feedjit is a Seattle-based company.

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Foursquare

Foursquare is a technology platform that specializes in location intelligence that can be utilized to unlock insights for business solutions and consumer products, through a deep understanding of location.

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Getable

Getable is a San Francisco-based company founded by Tim Hyer.

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Getaround

A company with a car-sharing platform and hardware. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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Gigster

B2B company providing on-demand software developers, designers, and product managers.

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Gumroad

Gumroad is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012 by Sahil Lavingia.

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Haven, Inc.

Haven, Incorporated is a global trading company based in San Francisco.

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Height (company)

Height is a New York-based company founded in 2018 by Michael Villar.

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Hipset

Hipset is a San Francisco-based celebrity company founded by Michael Chase Sechrist, Bryan Kim, Erik Smith and Mazy Kazerooni.

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3Gear Systems

3Gear Systems is a Foster City, California-based company founded by Robert Wang, Kenrick Kin and Christopher Twigg.

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Adku

Adku is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2010 by Ajit Varma, Jesse Shieh and Carlos Whitt.

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Abacus Labs

Abacus Labs company developing Abacus, a mobile application for simplifying expense-management system for employees and managers. It participated in the W14 cohort of Y Combinator.

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Dribbble

Dribbble is a design community website founded by Rich Thornett. It allows creative professionals to submit design content.

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FastCustomer

FastCustomer is a company founded in 2011 by Aaron Dragushan, Stephanie Hay, Mark Quezada and Paul Singh.

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Fieldbook

Fieldbook is a San Mateo, California-based company founded in 2013.

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Flipagram

Flipagram allows users to create and share compelling, visual stories with the music they love.

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Flowdock

Flowdock is an Helsinki-based company founded in 2009.

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Framed Data

Framed Data is a company designing and building data science tools and predictive analytics solutions for businesses.

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Frederick

Frederick is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014.

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Friend.ly

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Hive7

Hive7 is a game development company.

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Yammer

Yammer is a San Francisco-based social enterprise company founded by David O. Sacks.

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Hitch

Hitch is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2022.

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Velocity (hospitality company)

Velocity is a London-based company.

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Remind (company)

Remind is a company founded in 2011 by Brett Kopf.

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Polymarket

Polymarket is a prediction market on the Ethereum blockchain

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Vercel

Vercel is a company founded in 2015 by Guillermo Rauch.

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Anchorage Digital

Anchorage Digital is a global regulated crypto platform that provides institutions with integrated digital asset financial services and infrastructure solutions.

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Via Protocol

Advanced Cross-Chain Liquidity Aggregation Protocol and cross-chain NFT sale.

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Honeybook

The leading clientflow management platform that makes it easy for independent businesses to professionally sell and deliver their services online

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PopSQL

A technology company providing a collaborative SQL editor for development teams.

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Numerai

Numerai is a hedge fund with stock market trades determined by crowdsourced artificial intelligence models. The best models receive rewards in the form of a cryptographic token called Numeraire (NMR) on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Logseq

Logseq is a company founded in 2021 by ZhiYuan Chen.

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Umbrel

Umbrel is a company founded in 2020 by Luke Childs.

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TipTop

TipTop is a United States-based company founded in 2022 by Bastian Lehmann.

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Filecoin

Filecoin is a blockchain-based storage and cryptocurrency created by Protocol Labs backed by an application token.

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Gitcoin

Gitcoin is a blockchain company founded in 2017 by Scott Moore.

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Risk Harbor

Risk Harbor is a risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi) that utilizes a completely automated, transparent, and impartial invariant detection mechanism to secure liquidity providers and stakers against smart contract risks, hacks, and attacks.

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OpenBB

OpenBB is a New York City-based developer of a financial terminal intended to offer investment research for investment professionals, including market makers, traders, and equities professionals.

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Siren

A distributed protocol for creating, trading, and redeeming fully-collateralized options contracts for any ERC-20 token on Ethereum.

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Causal (company)

Causal is a London-based company developing a business planning platform offering automated reporting, forecasting, financial modeling, and business plan development.

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Entropy

Entropy is a decentralized asset custody protocol founded in 2021.

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Apex

Company founded by Naval Ravikant in the industries of fitness and health

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Vast (company)

Vast is an Austin, Texas-based company founded in 2017 by Naval Ravikant.

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