Drew Silverstein

We connect people around the world from schools to art museums to refugee camps to foster understanding, empathy, and fruitful collaborations across distance and difference. We do this through immersive life-size videoconferencing environments called Portals. Reach out to us if you want to bring the world to your community, and connect your community more deeply to the world.

We connect people around the world from schools to art museums to refugee camps to foster understanding, empathy, and fruitful collaborations across distance and difference. We do this through immersive life-size videoconferencing environments called Portals. Reach out to us if you want to bring the world to your community, and connect your community more deeply to the world.

Common Tide empowers founders who are dedicated to building exceptional companies, despite the high personal and financial risks of startup life. By enabling founders to pursue ambitious goals without risking their entire financial future, we’re creating a more sustainable and supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem. Common Tide was created to provide VC-backed startup founders with a way to diversify their financial risk while building their companies. By allowing qualifying founders to invest a small percentage of their own equity into a shared fund, Common Tide transforms the founder’s personal stake into part of a diversified portfolio. This tax-advantaged approach helps founders avoid the “all-or-nothing” financial outcome that often accompanies startup life. Beyond to financial diversification, Common Tide cultivates a powerful community of like-minded founders who provide mutual mentorship and guidance. By bringing together driven entrepreneurs in a collaborative network, we strengthen each founder’s journey, making it easier to navigate the challenges of building a successful company.

Amper’s mission is to enable anyone to express themselves creatively through music regardless of their background, expertise, or access to resources. Amper builds tools powered by our Creative AI to help people create and customize original music. We are a team of engineers and musicians bringing human know-how to AI music composition, performance, and production. Using our proprietary sample library and datasets, our technology is built from the ground up with an emphasis on high quality music through the fusion of music theory and AI innovation. Our system is composed of over one million individual samples and thousands of unique instruments. Recorded by hand, every sound in Amper is sculpted with meticulous attention to detail. We have offices in downtown Manhattan and Santa Monica.