Unit 410

Unit 410 is an experienced team of security, infrastructure, and cryptocurrency engineers. We empower the largest stakeholders to use their crypto in secure and novel ways. To do so, we build institutional-grade systems and solutions for secure network participation. Before Unit 410, we’ve worked at companies like Coinbase, Google, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. We’ve long believed in the potential of cryptocurrency and are excited to continue pushing forward the state of the art through industry-leading key generation, encryption, and network participation. As we engineer systems and solutions, we often find pieces that we think should exist. So we build them, and whenever possible share those back with the community.

Horizen Labs

Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that provides the best tools to build blockchains and applications for real-world use cases with privacy options, low transaction fees, and configurable revenue models.

Token Metrics

Token Metrics is a cryptocurrency investment research platform that’s driven by machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company was founded by Ian Balina in 2017 as he traded his way from $20,000 to more than $5 million, logging all his trades in a public-facing spreadsheet that drew more than a million unique visitors per month. Ian’s Moneyball-style approach to crypto investing now forms the basis of the Token Metrics platform, which now helps thousands of customers around the world profitably play the crypto markets.

Unchained

Founded in 2016, Unchained is a top 10 bitcoin platform in the US by assets that has helped thousands of individuals and businesses truly own their wealth by holding bitcoin keys. Unchained's collaborative custody model allows clients to access financial services while continuing to have the benefits of self-custody, the ultimate consumer protection in these uncertain times.

Transmute

Transmute digitizes trade documentation in a way that is cryptographically verifiable and traceable across an entire logistics ecosystem. The company’s approach combines decentralized identifier (DID), verifiable credential (VC), and blockchain technology with existing cloud-based systems to eliminate the paper hassle of trade docs and provide unprecedented visibility into customers’ supplier networks by effectively memorializing trade data at every step in a products’ journey from point of origin to point of import and beyond.

Gigster

Gigster lives and breathes to unleash innovation at a global scale. This mission is only realized by enabling a fluid workforce that both democratizes and elevates all that is possible. By offering fully managed, on demand teams across multiple disciplines such as AI, ML, Blockchain, IoT, and others Gigster helps customers innovate at the speed of light. Founded in 2014 Gigster has completed over 5,000 projects with some of the largest companies in the world. Third party research firm, Constellation Research, completed a study that showed Gigster’s model: 30% efficiency in staffing, 60+% lower delivery risk, and a 3.6x higher customer satisfaction score than other software development firms.

Fortress IO

Fortress Trust is a tech company on a mission to unlock the benefits of blockchain for every business, industry, and creator. That starts (and scales) with Web3 infrastructure - the underlying technology Fortress has built to help shift from Web2 to Web3, wherever our partners may be on their blockchain, NFT, or crypto journey. Specifically, Fortress is purpose-built to deliver financial, regulatory, and technology infrastructure to the rapidly emerging ePayments and Web3 spaces. The company provides financial services, including compliance, payments, custody, trustee-of-assets, escrow, crypto liquidity, and other services.

CognitiveScale

CognitiveScale pioneered the concept of ‘Trusted AI”, paving the way for responsible Enterprise AI development worldwide. Backed by 164 AI patents, the Cortex platform empowers data scientists and citizen developers to build, understand and analyze intelligent, transparent & trusted AI systems using any data, on any cloud. By simplifying the development, deployment and management of AI systems, CognitiveScale is revolutionizing how organizations across industries–healthcare, financial services, insurance and digital commerce– engage with customers, optimize services and deliver on bottom line goals—all while protecting them from business risk. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, CognitiveScale is recognized by the World Economic Forum for positively impacting business and society through AI with active investment from Norwest Venture Partners, Intel Capital, IBM Watson, M12 (Microsoft Ventures), and USAA.

Multicoin Capital

Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. Since founding the company in May 2017, we have become one of the preeminent investment firms in crypto. We are widely recognized in the space for our research and analysis, exceptional deal flow, and strong brand. We also have pioneered token economic models, introduced new valuation methodologies, and challenged long-standing assumptions that the crypto ecosystem takes for granted. Today, we work on behalf of long-duration capital, including endowments, venture capital funds, family offices and funds of funds across our hedge fund and venture fund products. To learn more, please visit https://multicoin.capital/.

Tradeblock

Founded in 2019, Tradeblock's mission is to give people the power to use their kicks as currency and trade their sneakers with a growing community of passionate sneakerheads. Over tens of thousands of members use Tradeblock each month to explore new inventory and collections, find their grails, and negotiate offers. Tradeblock is defined by our unique culture – one that emphasizes community building. We're not just another sneaker company. We're here to change the game and bring back the love of the hunt. Visit our website at www.tradeblock.us to learn more and follow us on Instagram @tradeblock.us. We're available for download on both iOS and Android.

SkyGrid

SkyGrid, a Boeing, SparkCognition company, is powering the next generation of aviation. As the only airspace management system built on AI and blockchain, we’re solving the industry’s biggest challenges integrating unmanned aircraft in the global airspace and executing autonomous operations. Our AerialOS™ monitors, predicts, and adapts to changes in airspace traffic, environment conditions, and vehicle health to intelligently route, synchronize, and manage unmanned aircraft. Based in Austin, Texas, SkyGrid is enabling a wide variety of commercial drone operations from package delivery to emergency assistance.

Immersed [Techstars '17]

We're partnered with Facebook (Meta) & Microsoft to build VR Offices! Users teleport into a private/distraction-free virtual workspace while spawning up to 5 virtual monitors (on mac, pc, and linux), and as soon as they want to collaborate, co-workers can join them! These immersive work experiences provide higher focus levels allowing people to get more time back in the day. Users also enjoy a more aesthetically pleasing "office", a more collaborative environment, as well as a truly portable workstation (bring your workstation to your couch or back porch). With the increasing prevalence and quality in augmented reality, Immersed is also positioning itself to be the primary remote work productivity app when mainstream AR adoption is introduced to glasses.

LGND.ART

LGND.io is an e-commerce and interactive platform builder delivering the revolutionary benefits of blockchain through consumer-friendly technology built for mass adoption. Our family of art and music NFT-brands strive to connect and introduce creators to their fans through unique experiences and interactions. LGND.io is composed of the curated, fine art NFT website LGND.art, and the new music NFT platform, LGNDmusic.com, launching January 2023. A little more about us: LGND.art is built by artists, for artists. The LGND ecosystem enables dynamic interaction and trade between high end collectors and a curated roster of best-in-class artists that are helping to build the future through our eco-conscious blockchain technology. www.lgnd.art LGNDmusic.com launches in January 2023 and is a music and collectibles platform for the broad market; that brings fans into an immersive NFT-based ecosystem that connects them with their favorite artists and creates discovery of emerging talent.

Rokfin

Rokfin's mission is to develop the world's best platform for creators to monetize content. Rokfin uses a practical application of blockchain technology to seamlessly compensate creators for the customers they bring, help retain, and the network effects they generate. The Rokfin team previously developed FloSports, a leading OTT, subscription sports platform consumed by several hundred million fans worldwide. Rokfin's founding executives include experts in consumer marketing, content acquisition, product development, data science/analytics, and recent graduates from Penn University.

Tend

We’re Tend, the world's first neobank powered by the social engine of its membership. We exist to create financial wellbeing together, empowering our community to build the next generation of financial services with us. Our interactive platform will be launching in the U.S. and Mexico in 2Q21, beginning with a mobile banking app that comes with all the good stuff and none of the headaches of other financial institutions. A Tend membership means access to amazing perks and rewards, like up to 15% cashback on everyday shopping, up to 10% cashback on travel, a referral program that pays you monthly (you heard that right), and much much more. Need to transfer money? You got it. Build your credit? Yep. Send money abroad? We’ve got you covered.

Vytalyx

Advancing Health Through Cognitive Technologies™ VYTALYX vī‘ tal‘ iks‘ | the state of being strong and active; energy We use the power of Augmented Intelligence, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics to analyze an unprecedented amount of data to personalize your health - all through decentralization, cryptography and utilization of blockchain. Imagine a world............. Where AI and blockchain converge to create a singular source for the optimization of your health. Where you can track your health and predict, in real-time, what your next action should be. Where we arm health professionals with large amounts of data to drive the best possible outcomes for you. Where an unparalleled array of information is processed to create products and services personalized to you. Where we tokenize the personalization of your health. This is where your life is personalized, optimized and tokenized. This is the future. This is Vytalyx.

STEEM

Steem is a social blockchain that grows communities and makes immediate revenue streams possible for users by rewarding them for sharing content. It’s currently the only blockchain that can power real applications via social apps like Steemit.

Core Scientific

We mine digital assets because we believe blockchain is more than just another disruptive technology. It’s an opportunity to reshape our institutions to be more fair, inclusive, and sustainable. We self-mine with a 100% carbon neutral footprint, and to date, 55-60% of our electricity comes from sustainable power, including solar, wind, and hydro. We take sustainability in our self-mining seriously.

Royal

Royal enables anyone to own a piece of their favorite songs to earn royalties alongside the artist. We believe in artists' freedom. Royal opens the door for artists to retain independence and creative control as fans fuel their careers.

Spydra

Spydra is a revolutionary blockchain platform that serves as the ultimate solution for asset tokenization. With its cutting-edge technology and advanced features, Spydra enables enterprises to migrate their data seamlessly while ensuring enhanced security, transparency, and efficiency. Asset tokenization refers to the process of converting real-world assets, such as properties, artworks, or financial instruments, into digital tokens on a blockchain network. This process allows for fractional ownership, increased liquidity, and easier transferability of assets. Spydra acts as the backbone for this tokenization process, providing a secure and scalable platform for enterprises to tokenize their assets. One of the key strengths of Spydra lies in its ability to power large-scale data migration for enterprises. It offers a next-generation data migration solution that facilitates the seamless transfer of massive amounts of data onto the blockchain. This feature is particularly valuable for enterprises that deal with vast volumes of information and need a robust platform to ensure smooth and efficient migration. By leveraging blockchain technology, Spydra brings several advantages to the asset tokenization process. Firstly, it ensures enhanced security by utilizing the immutability and decentralization of blockchain networks. This means that once an asset is tokenized on the Spydra platform, its ownership and transaction history are recorded on the blockchain, providing an unalterable and tamper-proof record. Secondly, Spydra promotes transparency by offering a decentralized ledger system. This allows stakeholders to verify the authenticity and legitimacy of asset tokenization transactions, fostering trust and reducing the risk of fraudulent activities. Moreover, Spydra emphasizes scalability, enabling enterprises to handle a large number of tokenized assets efficiently. Its infrastructure supports high transaction throughput, ensuring that enterprises can tokenize and transfer assets quickly and seamlessly. Overall, Spydra positions itself as the ultimate blockchain platform for asset tokenization. Its advanced technology, combined with its focus on data migration and enterprise-level scalability, makes it an ideal choice for organizations looking to leverage the benefits of tokenization while ensuring the security and efficiency of their operations.