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Valar Ventures Management LLC (Valar Ventures) is a venture capital firm founded in 2010 by James Fitzgerlad and Andrew McCormack Peter Thiel. The firm is headquartered in New York.

The Thiel Foundation awards grants to groups that empower people to improve their lives, champions organizations and individuals who expose human rights abuses and authoritarianism. It programs include The Thiel Fellowship, Breakout Labs and Imitatio. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Bridgetown 3 Holdings Ltd. is a blank check company, which engages in effecting a merger, share exchange, asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company was founded on January 4, 2021, and is headquartered in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

Crescendo Equity Partners Ltd. (Crescendo) is a private equity firm founded in 2012 by Matthew Danzeisen and Lee Ki-Doo. The firm is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

Artivest Holdings, Inc. provides digital platform for private investment managers and investors. The firm offers technology-driven investment platforms for fund managers, wealth managers, and independent advisors. It offers private equity and venture capital funds. The company was founded by James David Waldinger in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

TruMid Holdings LLC provides banking and financial services. The company was founded in by Michael Sobel and Ronald M. Mateo in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.

SPAR Technology Corp. provides investment services. The company is headquartered in West Hollywood, CA.

Harvard University engages in the provision of teaching and research. It has twelve degree-granting Schools in addition to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, offering a global education. The university was founded in 1636 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

Judicata, Inc. engages in the provision of software tools for lawyers. It offers software applications for legal data analysis, management and research sectors. The company was founded by Itai Gurarim, Adam Hahn and Blake Masters in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Novo Platform, Inc. operates an online portal which provides application programming interface for banking services. The company was founded by Tyler McIntyre and Michael Rangel in 2016 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Stash Financial, Inc. develops an application that allows consumers to choose investments based on their interests, beliefs, and goals. Its application allows consumers to buy fractional shares; and curates investments from professional fund managers and investors. The company was founded by David Ronick, Brandon Krieg and Ed Robinson in 2015 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Even Responsible Finance, Inc. develops a mobile money management application. It was founded by Quinten Farmer, Ryan Gomba, Cem Kent and Jon Schlossberg in 2014 and is headquartered in Oakland, CA.

iText Group NV is a Belgian software company that provides a Java and .NET PDF SDK library to create, manipulate, and edit PDF documents. The company is based in Ghent, Belgium, and has subsidiaries in Belgium. The company also offers pdfRender, an iText Core add-on that allows users to generate images from PDFs. Recently, the company has been working on integrating blockchain technology into their products to store digital signatures in a blockchain instead of in the PDF document. It was founded by Bruno Lowagie, and Gary Peter Fry has been the CEO of the company since 2020.

Part of Bank of America Corp., Banc of America Securities Asia Ltd. is a Chinese company that provides securities brokerage services. The company is based in Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Duke University is an academic university that offers undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. It also has publications and research services. The university was founded in 1838 and is headquartered in Durham, NC.

Seasteading Institute is a private company that aims to reimagine civilization by building floating cities with significant political autonomy. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded by Patri Friedman. The company believes that nearly half of the world's surface is unclaimed by any nation-state, and many coastal nations can legislate seasteads in their territorial waters.

LAZR, Inc. produces sensor technologies for autonomous vehicle industry. The firm is fueled by group of optimists and problem solvers. The company was founded by Austin Russell and Jason Eichenholz in 2012 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL.

1517 Fund (1517) is an venture capital firm founded in 2015 by Danielle Strachman and Michael Patrick Gibson. The firm is headquartered in Telluride, Colorado.

Alloy Therapeutics LLC is a biotechnology ecosystem company that democratizes access to tools, technologies, services, and company creation capabilities for discovering and developing therapeutic biologics. The company's lead offering is the ATX-GX™ platform, a human therapeutic antibody discovery platform consisting of a growing suite of proprietary transgenic mice strains. Through a community of partners across academia, biotech, and the largest biopharma, Alloy is a leader in bispecific antibody discovery and engineering services, utilizing its proprietary ATX-CLC common light chain platform integrating novel transgenic mice and phage display. Founded in 2017 and privately funded by visionary investors, Alloy is headquartered in Hanover, NH, with European labs in Switzerland. The company was founded by Errik B. Anderson, who has been the CEO since incorporation.

ChemomAb Ltd. develops novel chemokine blocking therapies for inflammatory and fibrotic disorders. It specializes in the development of proprietary monoclonal antibodies, directed towards novel targets, for the treatment of immune-mediated and fibrotic disorders including orphan indications. The company was founded by Adi Mor and Jacob George in 2011 and is headquartered Tel Aviv, Israel.

Enclear Therapies, Inc. develops and manufactures novel device-based therapies to treat patients. The firm device is developed to treat and halt the progression of neurodegenerative diseases by removing toxic proteins known to drive pathology. The company was founded by Anthony R. DePasqua, Jonathan J. Fleming, Kasper Roet, William B. Gormley and Kevin Eggan and is headquartered in Newburyport, MA.

ATAI Life Sciences AG operates as a holding company, which is a global biotech company builder. The company was founded by Christian Angermayer, Lars Christian Wilde, Srinivas G. Rao and Florian Brand in 2018 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Invicta Medical, Inc. operates as a medical technology company that develops wearable device for treatment of sleep apnea and snoring. Its device detects and treats disturbed breathing through electrical stimulation. The company was founded by Steven T. Kent and Harold Kent in 2013 and is headquartered in Portola Valley, CA.

Citibank NA engages in the provision of banking services. It offers retail and commercial banking; credit cards; banking, capital markets, and advisory; markets and securities services; private banking; and treasury and trade solutions. The company was founded on June 16, 1812 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Massachusetts Financial Services Co., dba MFS Investment Management (MFS), is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm was founded in 1924 and is a subsidiary of Sun Life of Canada (US) Financial Services Holdings, Inc., ultimately held by Sun Life Financial, Inc. (TSX, NYSE: SLF) in Canada. The firm provides investment advisory and sub-advisory services to a range of institutional clients and pooled investment vehicles. MFS is a responsible investor and signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI).

Paradox, Inc. operates recruiting platform. It offers candidate and employee care, interview scheduling, virtual hiring events. The company was founded by Aaron Matos and Olivia Matos in 2016 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ.

Wick News Corp. publishes newspapers. The firm publishes magazines which include advertising, sports news, and internet marketing. The company is headquartered in Sierra Vista, AZ.