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Aprende Institute
Basis Exited
Betterfly
Bitso
Booking Pal
Botmaker
Burnt Finance
Caliza
Celo
Circle
Coinbase DIRECT LISTING ON NASDAQ
Credix
Dapper Labs
DEUNA
Domain
ECO
English Central
Flow
Fortscale Sold to Dell RSA
Hamsa
Illumio
Iterative Health
Joyride
Ledn
Lemon Cash
LiveIntent
Merama
Meru
Migo
Molten
NextDoor Publicly listed through SPAC
Nexu
Nonco
Open Forest Protocol
Origami
Parfin
Pattern Ag
Rain
Revelo
Rubicon
Rumi
Satellogic IPO ON NASDAQ
Snips Sold to Sonos
Sprinklr IPO ON NASDAQ
Strike
Teya
Udacity
Valora
Viagogo
Worthix
XP Health

Aprende Institute

Miami, USA aprende.com

Aprende Institute is a platform built to allow Spanish speakers, in US and Latin America, to learn vocational skills in order to empower them for economic advancement. Courses are divided into 5 schools (Culinary Arts, Wellness, Trade Skills, Beauty and Fashion and Business and Entrepreneurship).

Exited

Basis

New York, USA basis.io

Basis is a price-stable cryptocurrency based on an algorithmically-regulated monetary policy. Basis has the potential to take crypto mainstream enabling distributed apps, the formation of credit markets, the toppling of hyper-inflationary dictatorships, and more. Location: New York, USA

Betterfly

Santiago, Chile gobetterfly.com

Betterfly is an insurance brokerage company which offers a proprietary life insurance product for companies to offer to their employees. The product is unique in that it combines incentives towards good behavior and well being; and socially oriented rewards

Bitso

Mexico City, Mexico bitso.com

Bitso is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows users to buy and sell bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Bitso specializes in the fields of bitcoin, fintech, and blockchain. Its platform enables its users to make payments using their mobile and other devices. Bitso was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Mexico City, Mexico

Booking Pal

Irvine, USA bookingpal.com

BookingPal provides a global distribution system and a centralized booking platform for vacation rental properties. It allows owners/managers of vacation rental properties, timeshare resorts, campgrounds and RV parks worldwide to increase their online presence and number of bookings.

Botmaker

Buenos Aires, Argentina botmaker.com

Botmaker is an artificial intelligence platform that automates conversations between people and businesses on chat and voice channels. The company makes it possible for companies to deploy advanced chatbots for sales, prospecting, brand building, content distribution and customer service.

Burnt Finance

New York, USA burnt.com

Burnt Finance is a fully decentralized NFT auction protocol that allows users to mint and trade assets in an entirely permissionless ecosystem.

Caliza

United States caliza.co

Caliza provides an API that allows fintechs around the world to open synthetic USD accounts (digital dollar accounts backed by fiat-pegged stablecoins), enabling customers to provide their users access to the USD digital economy.

Celo

San Francisco, USA celo.org

Celo aims to build a more inclusive financial system by developing an open-source, reserve-based, programmable crypto stablecoin protocol. By doing so, Celo aims to unlock several financial use cases that are currently impossible due to high transaction costs and the limiting nature of the global financial system to an unbanked global population of 1.7 billion. The company's vision is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions for prosperity for all.

Circle

Boston, USA circle.com

Circle is a global fintech and crypto company that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments, commerce and financial applications worldwide. Circle is also the creator of USDC, a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to US dollars with more than $20B in market cap that empowers Circle's platform to offer a best in class product suite for consumer and corporate clients with the end goal to bridge the gap between crypto and the fiat world.

DIRECT LISTING ON NASDAQ

Coinbase

San Francisco, USA coinbase.com

Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. The company’s mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

Credix

Antwerp, Belgium credix.finance

Credix is rethinking and rebuilding how debt capital markets should work. It combines the most scalable web3 infrastructure including proprietary, highly scalable algorithms and innovative smart contract logic to provide institutional investors the experience and opportunities they’ve been looking for. Credix enables high quality loan originators around the world to access previously untapped capital in a matter of days, in a digital and regulatory compliant platform.

Dapper Labs

Vancouver, Canada dapperlabs.com

Dapper Labs was spun out of Axiom Zen, a consumer-focused innovation studio and venture builder, to accelerate the adoption of blockchain technology by mass consumers. After having developed CryptoKitties, the famous decentralized application built on top of Ethereum, Dapper is now building Flow, a general-purpose, programmable blockchain protocol that allows developers to build thriving applications on blockchain.

DEUNA

Palo Alto, California deuna.com

DEUNA's platform handles payment orchestration, paymnet processing, fraud prevention and life cycle management based on actionable user real-time analytics

Domain

New York, USA domainmoney.com

Domain is the first crypto neo-bank, focused on offering a broad range of high quality services, built by an experienced team. They built a platform to deliver serious control to customers, making it easier to invest across asset classes. They provide highly useful investment tools, coupled with world-class security and live customer agents.

ECO

San Francisco, USA eco.com

Eco provides a digital global cryptocurrency platform that can be used as a payment tool for daily-use transactions. Eco’s mission is to reimagine not only how consumer financial products work — but also to reimagine money itself.

English Central

Arlington, USA englishcentral.com

EnglishCentral aims to become the premier, web-based conversational English language learning destination for desktop and mobile users. The company focuses on helping users with their spoken English, using proprietary speech recognition technology that listens to users’ speech and scores it based on pronunciation and syntax.

Flow

Vancouver, Canada onflow.org

Flow is a fast, decentralized, and developer-friendly blockchain, designed as the foundation for a new generation of games, apps, and the digital assets that power them. It is based on a unique, multi-role architecture, and designed to scale without sharding, allowing for massive improvements in speed and throughput while preserving a developer-friendly, ACID-compliant environment. Flow power games such as NBA Top Shot and was created by Dapper Labs.

Sold to Dell RSA

Fortscale

Palo Alto, USA fortscale.com

Fortscale helps security professionals by automating insider threat detection and investigation. Fortscale’s User Behavior Analytics (UBA) solutions combine expertise from the Israeli Defense Force’s elite security unit, advanced machine learning, and big data analytics to create a solution that provides rapid detection and response to malicious user behaviors.

Hamsa

San Francisco, USA hamsa.com

Hamsa is a smart B2B payment cross-border payments and trade finance network. The blockchain smart real time payments is enabled due to three main pillars: smart contracts - that guarantees the compliance, reconciliation and working capital issues -, credit tokens - that solve the liquidity problem - and trust score - measuring the creditworthiness of B2B companies.

Illumio

Sunnyvale, USA illumio.com

Illumio is a data center and cloud security company led by veterans with deep experience in virtualization, networking and security hailing from industry leaders. Illumio’s Adaptive Security Platform (ASP) is completely independent of underlying infrastructure and delivers visibility and control over workloads running in any data center or cloud environment.

Iterative Health

Boston, USA iterative.health

Iterative Health is a company that is using AI to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, primarily leveraging computer vision to augment clinical decisions in Gastroenterology.

Joyride

Palo Alto, California onjoyride.com

Joyride is a web3 modern publishing platform for game creators. Joyride aims to offer casual game developers a comprehensive platform allowing them to transition from the current to the blockchain model, with all the tools needed on iOS, Android, and Unity to build, publish, and scale blockchain games.

Ledn

Ontario, Canada ledn.io

Ledn is an emergent crypto-banking platform focused on lending and borrowing products for digital assets. Ledn’s crypto products and differentiated geographic focus target an underserved customer base with growing demands for crypto banking services. Weak local currencies, limited access to banking infrastructure and dominant Latam market positioning place Ledn in a strong position to capitalize on the Latam market’s secular and macro tailwinds.

Lemon Cash

Buenos Aires, Argentina lemon.me

Lemon is a crypto startup within the fintech sector born in Argentina. Its objective is to expand the cryptocurrency revolution throughout Latin America with a focus on usability and financial inclusion. Lemon Cash, its main product, is a virtual wallet to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, send and receive money and receive crypto profits every week.

LiveIntent

New York, USA liveintent.com

LiveIntent solves a universal problem faced by publishers, advertisers and agencies: How to effectively sell and buy email ad inventory. LiveIntent for Publishers (LFP) combines a powerful prediction engine with an ad management and targeting facility that works in the inbox making real-time ad serving a possibility for the first time.

Merama

Mexico City, Mexico & São Paulo, Brazil merama.io

HQ in Mexico and Brazil, Merama seeks to become the largest e-commerce product business in Latin America. The company invests in and partners with some of the best and category-leading merchants of the region, using Merama's experienced team, access to low-cost capital, and comprehensive experience in operations, growth, portfolio of digital brands, and proprietary technologies, to fuel additional and sustainable growth.

Meru

Mexico meru.com

Meru is a company that offers same-day or next-day automobile after-sales product delivery and services across Mexico. It aims to enhance the experience of car repair for mechanics and end-users. The company provides its convenient services through various channels, including its website, mobile app, call center, and third-party e-commerce platforms. By leveraging these platforms, Meru enables mechanics and customers to access a wide range of automotive products and services efficiently, ensuring timely delivery and enhancing the overall car repair experience.

Migo

San Francisco, USA migo.money

Founded in Lagos, Nigeria, Migo is building the commerce network for informal economies around the world. As a B2B2C credit enabler, Migo provides credit underwriting infrastructure to enterprise customers that wish to extend loans to their customers. The company intermediates local balance sheet lenders looking to deploy credit and its enterprise partners (generally merchants, banks, telcos, and fintechs), who own a diverse set of distribution channels with which they interact with their client base (USSD short code, mobile app, website, POS terminal, ATM, Cards, etc.).

Molten

Boston, USA molten.co

Molten is building an end-to-end integrated infrastructure for digital media by providing solutions ranging from storage, to content and rights management, distribution, encoding, and payments in a single platform. The company’s main goal is to support film studios in their transition to the cloud by helping them visualize, manage, distribute, and trade content rights in a single platform.

Publicly listed through SPAC

NextDoor

San Francisco, USA global.nextdoor.com

Nextdoor is a free private social network for your neighborhood. The network only allows you and your neighbors to communicate online bringing back a sense of community to the neighborhood. It’s the latest way for neighbors to talk online and improve their sense of communal living.

Nexu

Mexico City, Mexico nexu.mx

NEXU is a financing platform for car dealerships in Mexico, transforming the automotive financing landscape for dealerships and vehicle buyers. NEXU's point of sale platform provides seamless and immediate financing experience to previously served and to underserved car buyers.

Nonco

São Paulo and Mexico City nonco.com

Nonco is building a 21st century brokerage that combines cutting-edge technology with exceptional service for corporates ans ECPs. Nonco offers its services through a unique non-custodial approach that leverages multiple counterparty risk-mitigating settlement mechanisms.

Open Forest Protocol

Zug, Switzerland openforestprotocol.org

OFP is a web3 protocol designed to improve speed, scalability, quality and economics of carbon verification. It comes in the form of a DAO challenging forestry carbon credit MRV (Monitoring, Reporting and Verification) using blockchain technology in contrast with the centralized incumbents (Verra, Gold Standard).

Origami

Delaware, USA joinorigami.com

Origami is building DAOs for the most valuable networks in the world. They are developing tools and processes that solve problems now inherent to DAOs, helping companies successfully build and grow one.

Parfin

London, UK parfin.io

Parfin connects traditional and digital finance into a secure and unified platform, bridging the Brazilian financial industry to the global crypto markets. The Parfin platform is a technology infrastructure for institutional clients to seamlessly manage and operate digital assets and traditional currencies across a wide set of digital asset exchanges, brokers, custodians and banks. The company is prepared to support the transition of financial markets infrastructure into the digital assets space, including crypto, security tokens (STOs) and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).

Pattern Ag

Emeryville, USA pattern.ag

Pattern Ag is a company that provides soil microbiome analysis and recommendations for input optimization and increase crop productions. The company’s vision is to engineer a novel, sustainable approach to agriculture by becoming the world’s most successful developer of agricultural biological inputs and precision agriculture intelligence by mapping the genomes of thousands of unique species of soil bacteria.

Rain

New York, USA rain.agency

Rain allows developers to build cross-platform (think Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Assistant, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Native 1st party integrations) voice skills. With VOXA, its open source voice software, Rain is one of the pioneering Voice & Conversational AI companies allowing technology, innovation, and marketing teams within Fortune 500 companies to roll-out their own voice skills and offering.

Revelo

Miami, USA revelo.com

Revelo offers the largest online talent platform for U.S. companies to source, hire, and manage Latin America-based remote software developers. In addition, their end-to-end solution includes management of payroll, benefits, taxes, and local compliance on behalf of companies.

Rubicon

Atlanta, USA rubicon.com

Rubicon is a cloud-based, full-service waste and recycling company focused on sustainability. Rubicon provides affordable waste and recycling solutions for businesses seeking a smarter, sustainable alternative.

Rumi

San Diego, USA rumi.ai

Rumi is revolutionizing the way teams conduct meetings with its AI-powered platform. The company's AI assistant works in real-time to enhance meeting productivity and focus. With features like real-time catch-up, action items, and post-meeting summaries, Rumi ensures that no crucial details are missed.

IPO ON NASDAQ

Satellogic

Buenos Aires, Argentina satellogic.com

Satellogic’s goal is to enable a real-time understanding of our planet. By monitoring changes in real time on a planetary scale, Satellogic is transforming our relationship with the planet, helping us tackle the most pressing challenges, and creating a new layer of worldwide awareness. Satellogic will democratize access to space-based services by dramatically reducing the barriers to obtain real-time satellite data.

Sold to Sonos

Snips

Paris, France snips.ai

Snips is an artificial intelligence voice platform that runs on the edge, without sending any voice data to the cloud. Snips' embedded voice AI technology offers enterprises and developers offline and private-by-design conversational interfaces to animate interactions with products. With enterprise-grade performance and cloud-level accuracy across a wide range of hardware integrations on a low-power footprint, the Snips voice assistant simplifies human interactions with connected devices.

IPO ON NASDAQ

Sprinklr

New York, USA sprinklr.com

Sprinklr develops and markets a social software platform, also called Sprinklr, that provides social media marketing, social advertising, content management, collaboration, advocacy and social media monitoring for large enterprises.

Strike

United States strike.me

Strike allows users to send and receive payments anywhere, instantly, for free. Strike is built on top of the Bitcoin Lightning network – the largest global, interoperable, and open payments standard. Strike believes that open payment networks enable universal participation in the financial system, ushering in a new digital economy with truly borderless money transfers.

Teya

London, UK teya.com

Teya (fka SaltPay) is a payment service and software provider, arming local businesses with the technology they need to automate and grow. It was founded in 2019 with the goal to create affordable, fast and secure payment solutions that can help small and medium-sized businesses to manage and grow their operations better.

Udacity

Mountain View, USA udacity.com

Udacity’s mission is to bring accessible, affordable, engaging, and highly effective higher education to the world. It believes that higher education is a basic human right, and seeks to empower our students to advance their education and careers. Education is no longer a one-time event but a lifelong experience; it should be less passive listening (no long lectures) and more active doing; and it should empower students to succeed not just in school but in life.

Valora

San Francisco, USA valoraapp.com

Valora is a mobile-first crypto wallet native to the Celo Platform, available on both iOS and Android devices. Valora makes blockchain useful and accessible even on the most basic smartphones, enabling 6 billion smartphone users worldwide to reliably save, send, and spend crypto as easily as sending a text message.

Viagogo

Geneva, Switzerland viagogo.com

Viagogo is the largest global online event ticket marketplace for secondary buyers and sellers. Viagogo was established to provide a secure online ticket marketplace that allows consumers to buy and sell tickets to sports, music, theatre and comedy events.

Worthix

Atlanta, USA worthix.com

Worthix is a software bundled scientifically designed customer survey which gives businesses the power to drive customers to positive decisions by pinpointing influencing factors. The company also provides access to its auto-analyzed reports packed with insights. Its questionnaire qualifies the influencers of customers’ decisions using the algorithm.

XP Health

San Francisco, USA xphealth.co

XP Health allows companies to offer eye benefits to their employees, from on-site eye exams to frame design and manufacturing.

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