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Based in San Francisco, Bitwise is one of the largest and fastest-growing crypto asset managers. As of May 7, 2021, Bitwise managed over $1.5 billion across an expanding suite of investment solutions. The firm is known for managing one of the largest crypto index funds (OTCQX: BITW), the first crypto industry ETF (NYSE: BITQ), and pioneering products spanning DeFi, Bitcoin, Ethereum as examples. Bitwise focuses on partnering with financial advisors and investment professionals to provide quality education and research. The team at Bitwise combines expertise in technology with decades of experience in traditional asset management and indexing—coming from firms including BlackRock, Blackstone, Facebook, and Google, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Bitwise is backed by leading institutional investors and asset management executives, and has been profiled in Institutional Investor, CNBC, Barron's, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal.
Galaxy Digital (TSX: GLXY) is a tech-driven financial services and investment management firm that provides institutions and direct clients with a full suite of financial solutions spanning the digital assets ecosystem. Galaxy Digital operates five synergistic business lines: Trading, Asset Management, Principal Investments, Investment Banking, and Mining. Galaxy Digital's CEO and Founder is Mike Novogratz. Galaxy Digital is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Chicago, San Francisco, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, the Cayman Islands (registered office), and New Jersey. Our mission is to drive systems change through technology. Today, we are primarily focused on digital assets, cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, and how these technological innovations will drastically alter the way we store and transfer value.
BlueCrest Capital Management was founded in 2000, focused on fixed income macro trading. The firm has now developed into one of the largest global alternative asset managers, with offices in London, Geneva, Jersey, New York, Miami and Singapore.
Rocket Money (formerly known as Truebill) is a leading personal finance app with a mission to empower people to live their best financial lives. We offer our 3.4 million members a unique understanding of their finances and a suite of valuable services that save both time and money -- ultimately giving them a leg up on their finanical journey. Members can manage their subscriptions, lower their bills, build budgets and automatically set aside money to reach their savings goals. We've saved our members $245 million and counting. In late 2021, we were acquired by Rocket Companies (NYSE: RKT) for $1.275 billion with the goal of creating a centralized destination for consumers to manage their entire financial lives. As paying premium members more than doubled year-over-year in July 2022, we announced our new name, Rocket Money. At Rocket Money, we believe we can do our best work operating as a team. We are committed to using our experience at work to support our own and each other's personal growth journeys. If you are someone who enjoys solving hard problems, likes collaborating and is passionate about our mission; let's talk. We hire from all industries and look for a diverse set of experiences in our talent. To see our open roles go to www.rocketmoney.com/careers.
Beam helps leading mission-driven ecomm brands like Instacart, Parade, MATE The Label, For Days, Josh Rosebrook, Roots Canada and 100+ more build community and lift sales around shared values, not transactional discounts. We let customers make part of each purchase go to a supported nonprofit they choose from a curated set of options reflecting the brand’s values. As customers track their impact towards goals as a community, like funding 100 hours of free therapy for Queer and Trans teens, our platform builds connection and lifts LTV. We lift AOV by 15%, boost conversion by 11%, and convert 30% more customers to make a second purchase within 90 days
At Wingspan, we're revolutionizing the payroll landscape by crafting an all-in-one platform tailored specifically for independent contractors and their businesses. Our game-changing solution streamlines onboarding, payments, and compliance for flexible workforces of any size, from solo entrepreneurs to large enterprises. With an impressive $14M Series A funding led by a16z and a total of $23.5M raised, we are backed by top-tier VCs and industry leaders such as the CEOs and founders of Warby Parker, Harry's, Allbirds, and Flatiron Health. Our 20,000+ members and hundreds of enterprise clients are a testament to our commitment to excellence. As we surge towards processing over a billion dollars in contractor payments by year-end, we stand out in the crowded payroll space through consolidation and simplification. Wingspan's unified approach automates contractor workflows, simplifies compliance requirements, and attracts top talent by offering seamless onboarding, instant payouts, and unmatched benefits.
V iking Global Investors LP (“Viking”) is a global investment firm founded in 1999. We employ a fundamentals-driven investment approach to managing over $40 billion of capital across long/short, long-only, public/private hybrid and private-only strategies. Across our funds, our primary goal is to provide investors with best-in-class performance. We believe operational excellence is essential to our management of the capital with which we have been entrusted. We have approximately 240 employees, including 52 investment professionals, across five offices: Greenwich, New York, Hong Kong, London and San Francisco. We seek to attract people who exhibit our Firm’s core values of intellectual honesty, analytical rigor, continuous improvement, individual accountability and integrity. Viking is registered as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
At Goose Financial, Inc., we're working on something we believe in. We're building tools that allow people moving countries to carry their financial credibility with them. Simply put, we help verify and translate newcomers financial history, regardless of where they're coming from.
Social Finance is a national impact finance and advisory nonprofit. We work with the public, private, and social sectors to create partnerships and investments that measurably improve lives. Since our founding in 2011, we have mobilized $350 million in new investments designed to help people and communities realize improved outcomes in education, economic mobility, health, and housing. In addition to managing the investment program funded by the Google Career Certificates Fund, our economic mobility portfolio includes the UP Fund, place-based Pay It Forward Funds, and the Dreamers Graduate Loan Fund. Learn more at socialfinance.org.
Anchorage Digital was founded in 2017 to advance institutional participation in digital assets. With an emphasis on security and usability, we provide the technology, infrastructure, and tools that make it easy for institutions across the world to participate in crypto. Our team brings together the brightest minds from security, finance, and distributed systems to build the infrastructure of a new financial system. We’re looking to diversify our team with people who are humble, creative, and eager to learn.
Arch solves many of the problems facing active alternative investors / LPs: collecting K-1s; logging into the various web portals; and tracking performance, cash flows, and metrics across their investments. We replace the spreadsheets, manual labor, and antiquated systems used by most investors, family offices, and investment advisors.
Founded in 2018, TIFIN creates engaging wealth experiences to improve financial lives through AI and investment intelligence (II) driven personalization for the advised or self-directed investor. We deliver this through our investment communities and marketplace Magnifi (https://www.magnifi.com/) and TIFIN Wealth (https://www.tifinwealth.com/), a collection of personalization and intelligence capabilities for wealth managers and other intermediaries. Learn more about us at https://tifin.com/.
DailyPay, Inc. is transforming the way people get paid. As the industry’s leading on-demand pay solution, DailyPay uses an award-winning technology platform to help America’s top employers build stronger relationships with their employees. This voluntary employee benefit enables workers everywhere to feel more motivated to work harder and stay longer on the job, while supporting their financial well-being outside of the workplace. DailyPay is headquartered in New York City, with operations throughout the United States and in Belfast.
Alexandria Technology is an AI Natural Language Processing firm that turns massive amounts of text into actionable data. We’ve built the most sophisticated NLP engine in the industry, allowing us to deliver higher accuracy and stronger performance versus industry peers. We provide investment professionals an information edge that translates to higher alpha and better Sharpe ratios within their investment portfolios.
The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm. Academic culture. Real world challenges. The excitement of a startup with the resources of an industry leader. Whatever brings you here, this is a place where extraordinary and diverse minds come together.
The Bliss Group is a full-service marketing communications firm with deep expertise in business & professional services, financial services and health care. The agency’s leading-edge offerings unlock value for clients as data, technology and storytelling converge in B2B and B2C marketplaces. The firm’s teams are based in New York and Austin. For more information, please visit TheBlissGrp.com
Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Patreon, Dashlane, Udacity, Wise, Sony Electronics, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how. We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re number 9 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and on Glassdoor’s list of Top 10 fintechs to work for. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. So, join us to build tomorrow, today. We're proud to be certified as a Great Place to Work in the USA, with 89% of colleagues agreeing that this is a great place to work. That's 30% above average. Find out more about our team here: https://www.checkout.com/careers
PDT, which stands for Process Driven Trading, was founded by Peter Muller in 1993 as a proprietary trading group within Morgan Stanley. In 2013, after establishing a 19-year track record finding inefficiencies in financial markets, the group spun out of Morgan Stanley to become an independent investment management firm, PDT Partners. Today we are a leader in the field of quantitative finance, known for our rigorous scientific, systematic, and model-driven approach to investing, with multiple billions in assets under management. Peter Muller, Founder and CEO, and a small group of managing partners lead around 200 scientists, engineers, and professionals in New York and London.
Kafene is a cutting-edge digital platform used by thousands of merchants at the point of sale to help offer underserved consumers more flexible purchase options through transparent lease-to-own (LTO) agreements that help retailers of furniture, appliances, electronics, tires, and other goods meaningfully broaden their addressable market. Kafene utilizes more than 20,000 data inputs in tandem with best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to underwrite, approve using efficient risk-based pricing, and enable payment in a near-instantaneous manner, while creating a best-in-class customer experience.
When we started Melio, we wanted to totally reinvent the way businesses pay each other. More than an efficient accounts payable tool, we’ve created a digital B2B payment platform that not only saves time but also improves cash flow. With Melio, you choose exactly how you pay and get paid, and stay on top of invoices for good. Every transaction is simple and seamless. We’re proud to help our growing community of businesses spend more time with their customers—and less time with their books.