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Were In The Business Of What Ought To Be The business of doing, creating, and building the world the way we see fit. We seek out the transformational opportunity, making it better, more useful, more valuable. At PEAK6, we activate what is into what ought to be through world-class technology, operational excellence and purposeful design. Headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade Building, PEAK6 is not your typical investment firm. While trading got us our start and still powers our center, we quickly realized that our vision was to embrace and empower today’s consumer through technology, simplifying processes, improving performance and creating new wealth.

FinTech Collective is a global, early stage venture capital firm backing entrepreneurs who are rewiring the way money moves through the world. Founded in 2012 with offices in New York City and London, the firm has deep experience investing across capital markets, wealth and asset management, banking, lending, payments, insurance, and DeFi. The managing partners of FinTech Collective met in their mid 20’s and helped build, scale, and successfully exit four fintech businesses. Backed by some of the world’s leading institutional investors, FinTech Collective manages over $800m in regulatory assets. Over the last decade the firm has had 10 exits, taken one company from pitch deck to public markets and invested in 96 portfolio companies including well known firms such as Anyfin in Stockholm, Flutterwave in Lagos, IMMO in London, Minu in Mexico City, Mondu in Berlin, Simetrik in Columbia, and several important businesses in NYC including MoneyLion, NYDIG, Ocrolus, Quovo (acquired by Plaid) and Vestwell. The firm publishes a weekly newsletter, delivered every Saturday, which provides a tightly edited rundown of global fintech news, along with a bit of original analysis (available at fintech.io/newsletter).

NFX is a venture firm exclusively focused on pre-seed & seed stage startups.

The MBA Fund is a venture capital firm that helps founders from the top startup-producing universities create legendary companies.

Were In The Business Of What Ought To Be The business of doing, creating, and building the world the way we see fit. We seek out the transformational opportunity, making it better, more useful, more valuable. At PEAK6, we activate what is into what ought to be through world-class technology, operational excellence and purposeful design. Headquartered in the Chicago Board of Trade Building, PEAK6 is not your typical investment firm. While trading got us our start and still powers our center, we quickly realized that our vision was to embrace and empower today’s consumer through technology, simplifying processes, improving performance and creating new wealth.

Originally founded in 2018 in a dorm room at Duke University by three college students, Zogo has since flourished into an industry leader in financial education. Its award-winning suite of products offers bite-size modules and tangible incentives to make financial literacy education accessible, fun, and rewarding. • Zogos standalone app: offers 800+ short-form lessons and gamified rewards to engage learners • Zogo Classroom: integrates powerful classroom management tools into Zogos innovative educational content to impact students in high schools and colleges • Embedded Zogo: a mobile banking integration that provides comprehensive financial wellness objectives in tandem with education Zogo partners with 250+ financial institutions in all 50 U.S. states to help them educate, engage, and empower their communities. The innovative fintech also supports HR departments in providing comprehensive employee benefits that promote financial wellness. Zogos engaging app has garnered over 1.5 million users and won numerous industry accolades, including "Best of Show" at Finovate Fall 2019 and the NACUSO 2019 Next Big Idea Competition. Bolun Li, Founder & CEO of Zogo, was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021. Zogo is headquartered in Austin, Texas. To learn more, visit zogo.com.