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The future of storytelling We are building a new film studio and streaming platform for digital-first storytellers and their audience who are hungry to support them.https://www.creatorplus.com/

Halogen Ventures is an early stage venture capital fund focused on female founded consumer technologies.We believe in hands on attention and plug each of our portfolio companies into a strategic network of advisors, investors and accelerators in the greater venture community. With a focus on consumer, we also add value in the entertainment, marketing and PR space to further the footprint of our brands.https://halogenvc.com/

As of July 2021, Marcia is currently the Chair of the board of the Angel Capital Association (ACA). She also founded and leads the Growing Women's Capital group within the ACA working to get more funding to women-led early stage companies. Prior to her role as chair she was the co-chair of the Marketing and Membership committee.The ACA is a collective of accredited angel investors, North America's most prolific early-stage investment class. The association is the largest angel professional development organization in the world. ACA provides an insider perspective that can help an investor make smart investment decisions.https://www.angelcapitalassociation.orghttps://www.marciadawood.comhttps://www.mindshiftcapital.comhttps://www.marciadawood.com/the-angel-next-door-podcast

Barry Dean is an award-winning songwriter turned wheelchair technology founder. As CEO of LUCI, a company reimagining mobility for power wheelchairs, Barry sets the strategic vision and leads the company towards its goal of providing security, stability and connectivity for power wheelchairs. He founded the company with his brother, Jered, in 2017 with hopes of building a smarter solution for his daughter Katherine and all power wheelchair riders.  He is a founding writer at Creative Nation Music, Recording Academy (GRAMMY) Nashville Chapter Governor, and has previously served two terms as a board member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Prior to becoming a songwriter, he led market strategy and product development for a leading education technology company.  Barry lives in Nashville, Tenn. https://luci.com

Tend is a member-driven, digital personal finance platform that offers innovative money tools to help make finding financial wellness easier, faster and more human. A banking collective built around the fundamental concepts of community, co-creation and rewards, Tend offers a new kind of banking experience, empowering members to take control of their own finances - all in one place. Tend’s banking services are provided by nbkc bank, Member FDIC in the US, and INVEX Banco in Mexico. To learn more, visit www.tend.money or www.tend.mx or follow along on Instagram at @tendmoney.

About Jonah MyerbergJonah Myerberg is a Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Desktop Metal where he is responsible for leading the technical direction of Desktop Metal’s 3D printing solutions.Prior to joining Desktop Metal in 2015, Myerberg held senior positions with a variety of organizations focused on high performance battery development, including Renovo Auto and Boston Impact, which he founded, and A123Systems. At A123Systems, Myerberg established and led the motorsports business unit which focused on the development of high-performance batteries. His products were adopted by the majority of Formula One teams including McLaren, Force India, Mercedes Benz, RedBull and other high profile motorsports teams like the Porsche 919 team which won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 2015 and 2016. He was also a race engineer for Porsche on the 919 team and for Mahindra Racing on their Formula E team.  Myerberg earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University and his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and

Skyline Robotics has a vision.The company is leveraging artificial intelligence and advanced robotics to deliver a smarter, faster automated work future.Skyline’s flagship product, Ozmo, is the world’s first robotic-armed window cleaner. The smart, automated service robot targets high-risk skyscraper windows and has proven to clean six times faster than traditional window washers without missing a spot.But Skyline is setting its sights higher than skyscrapers. The company is innovating to deliver cutting-edge robotic solutions to meet the needs of tomorrow’s smart cities and global workforces today.https://www.skylinerobotics.com/

Medha Parlikar is on a mission to make block chain the platform for doing business in the future.  Future proofing and de risking how businesses use public block chain is a fundamental goal of the company C-Suite to adopt. The CasperLab platform Highway is designed for businesses to customize and tokenize block chain content including patents, stock, human resources, supply chain and more.According to Medha, “It’s not a scary technology.  We are de-risking the Block chain for the enterprise. The time is now for businesses to adopt and not be left behind.”By 2023, Gartner Research states blockchain will be poised for mainstream adoption en route to generating $3.1 trillion in new business value by 2030, according to Gartner. By 2023, blockchain will support the global movement and tracking of more than 2 trillion dollars in goods and services.Medha is paving the way for an entire new generation of C suite to change how they do business.The future of block chain is now.  Businesses need to make the shift quickl

Lak Ananth is an Indian American venture capitalist who has spent much of his career focused on identifying industry changing disruptions and acting on them as an investor or acquirer. He is the author of Anticipate Failure: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Navigating Uncertainty, Avoiding Disaster, and Building a Successful Business, a practical guide for business leaders on the most common patterns of failure in innovation, featuring never-before-heard stories on how some of the most successful founders and executives in the world have navigated failure to get to success. He is the founding CEO and Managing Partner of the global venture capital firm Next47 which is backed by Siemens AG and partners with the best entrepreneurs to help them build companies that will change how the world works. Lak has spent his career in service to the entrepreneurial pursuit. In addition to running Next47, he serves on the board of several companies that he has helped to grow beyond $1B valuations. As an investor and board member

Lamah is one of Libya's leading information technology companies. We provide solutions to better connect and improve the lives of Libyans, and beyond.Makani, Lamah's application, is the country's first digital addressing system, and now has 1 million+ registered addresses.https://lamah.com/

Coinos is an open source bitcoin web wallet, point of sale, ecommerce marketplace and exchange platform. Development started in Vancouver in September 2012 as a way to provide local merchants with a convenient way to accept bitcoin payments.The feature set has grown over the years to accomodate a wide variety of use cases with the goal of making it as easy as possible for anyone to get started using Bitcoin quickly, cheaply, and securely.Anyone can download the source code and host their own instance of the platform backed by their own bitcoin, liquid or lightning nodes, or reach out and we'll gladly set this up for you.Once signed in, you can create both custodial and non-custodial wallets within your account. The default custodial wallet allows funds to be deposited on any of the bitcoin, liquid or lightning networks and seamlessly withdrawn over any other network without any conversion process or fee.Using a non-custodial wallet means keys are generated client-side in your browser so we never have access t

Founded in 2014, Lukka is a trusted, blockchain-native technology company that delivers leading products for the crypto asset ecosystem. Lukka bridges the gap of traditional finance and the crypto world and is actively working with the world's largest financial institutions to help institutionalize crypto. The Lukka team provides retail investors and traders with essential tools and resources such as tax reporting software, portfolio management tools, and educational databases and research and offers insight into how both institutional and retail traders navigate the crypto ecosystem. Lukka’s premier solutions enable the transformation of distributed and decentralized data into auditable information within a highly scalable and secure SOC 1 Type 2 infrastructure. Robert Materazzi is the CEO of Lukka. Prior to joining Lukka, he served as Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, specializing in large risk, regulatory, and cybersecurity driven technology implementations for traditional financial institutions and fore

EonLabs is a fintech startup that focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital finance, specifically in the blockchain space. It is developing the Enigma trading system, which integrates with existing exchange APIs, and leverages the power of machine learning models to autonomously trade in various financial markets. This trading system is then licensed out to fund managers who use it to achieve above average gains for their investors.https://www.eonlabs.com/

DataStax is the open, multi-cloud stack for modern data apps. DataStax gives enterprises the freedom of choice, simplicity, and true cloud economics to deploy massive data, delivered via APIs, powering rich interactions on multi-cloud, open source and Kubernetes.DataStax is built on proven Apache Cassandra™ and the Stargate™ open source API platform. DataStax Astra is the new stack for modern data apps as-a-service, built on the scale-out, cloud-native, open source K8ssandra™.DataStax powers modern data apps for 500 of the world’s most demanding enterprises including The Home Depot, T-Mobile, Intuit and half of the Fortune 100.https://www.datastax.com/

I lead the Mobility and Energy Transition practice with a focus on all things EV, Autonomy, and Energy Infrastructure.Drake Star Partners is a global investment banking firm serving the technology, media and communications sectors (TMC) with offices in New York, London, Paris, Munich, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, Geneva, and partners offices in Singapore and Dubai. The firm focuses on M&A and corporate finance for its clients worldwide. Drake Star Partners has completed over 400 transactions since 2004, 70% of which are cross-border.http://www.drakestar.com

QP is the world's first premium messaging app designed for creators-of-all-kinds. Whether you send messages or post content to social media, you are a content creator and have the right to protect your privacy while staying in full control of your own data.- Control your own content, even after it’s been sent: With QP you can delete or edit messages after you’ve sent them without letting the receiver know that you did. As the publisher, you no longer need to hand off control of your message to the person you’re sharing it with.- Choose what personal information you want to share and with who: The QP app lets you control who sees personally identifying information like your phone number, email, IP address and profile picture. In fact, you can decide not to share any of your personal details at all.- Create separate profiles and decide how you want to be seen: QP enables users to create personalized profiles depending on the audience type. Customizing multiple profiles allows you to brand yourself more specific

WaveSense has pioneered Ground Positioning Radar™ (GPR) for autonomous features and self-driving vehicles, allowing vehicles to localize and determine their precise location when other sensors fail. By using an ultra-wide band radar to create a 3-D map of the road's unique subsurface , WaveSense’s technology is unaffected by adverse weather or terrain conditions, GPS availability, and other common barriers faced by autonomous vehicles today.By adding WaveSense’s GPR, automakers can enhance vehicles with more reliable and accurate ADAS features—including autonomous parking and active lane keeping—safeguarding the automated driving experience.WaveSense provides accurate localization data that’s always available, with feature density that’s differentiated and stable over a long period of time, and unimpacted by common hurdles faced by AVs.https://wavesense.io

Enfusion is a leading global provider of native SaaS-based investment management technology solutions and services that enables clients to operate from a single golden source of data from the front-office to the back. A platform to boost agility, Enfusion delivers award-winning software, managed services and analytics to more than 500 investment managers and hedge funds from eight offices spanning four continents.https://www.enfusion.com

At Shopalyst, we are re-imagining how digital consumers discover and purchase products they love. We are building the technology and data infrastructure that help friction free purchases from any digital moment that inspires shopping.https://www.shopalyst.com

Corel products enable millions of connected knowledge workers around the world to do great work faster. Offering some of the industry's best-known software brands, we give individuals and teams the power to create, collaborate, and deliver impressive results. Our success is driven by an unwavering commitment to deliver a broad portfolio of innovative applications – including CorelDRAW®, MindManager®, Parallels®, and WinZip® – to inspire users and help them achieve their goals.https://www.corel.com