Marc Randolph

Loyalty points today are stuck in outdated, closed-loop systems. You earn them, but they’re locked away—limited redemption options, expiry dates, and little to no flexibility. Cheeze is changing that. We’re bringing loyalty onchain, turning points into liquid assets that users can send, trade, or convert instantly. Imagine: ✅ No more expired miles—send them to a friend instead. ✅ No more scattered points—collect them all in one place. ✅ No more brand restrictions—use them when and how you want. With Cheeze, brands can issue blockchain-based loyalty points that are programmable, interoperable, and borderless. Customers get real value, while businesses gain deeper engagement, data insights, and new revenue streams. The future of loyalty is onchain. And Cheeze is making it happen. 🚀

The Solo Brands platform exists to empower beloved & unique brands, that have thriving and passionate communities, with best-in-class DTC expertise to build the next generation of customer experiences in digital commerce. We are not an “aggregator” - we are not looking for quick flips, or fleeting value. We are looking to partner with incredible, unique brands in order to help their communities create memories and connections for the next 20+ years. We offer creative and emotional lifestyle products that help our customers create memories. Our customers spend their hard-earned dollars with us in order to break away from the normal 9 to 5 and we take that honor extremely seriously. Fundamental to that is building the highest quality, most creative product that truly delivers value to our customers. Each and every brand in our portfolio exists for the sole purpose of creating complements and accessories to the best moments in life. These moments constitute the fabric of our lives. Looking back it will be the memories and connections we’ve made along the way that define us; it is our life’s work to enhance these moments and connections for our customers.

Augment CXM is defining a new category of software - customer experience management - and powering it with a patented semantic neural network. This technology ensures that our clients deliver a fantastic customer experience every time. Our client base consists of some of the most well-known brands in the world and we’ve proven to generate a 30% gain in agent efficiency, a 44% increase sales conversion rates, and a 40% growth in customer satisfaction. In 2022, Augment CXM was acquired by Sutherland, and it has since been rebranded as Sutherland Agent Success.

Dishcraft Daily is a full-service dishware delivery service that uses robotics and AI to improve sustainability, efficiency and the dining experience of food service operations. Similar to a linen service, Dishcraft Daily delivers quality, reusable dishes and flatware each day with pricing comparable to, or less than, disposable wares and in-house dishwashing.

Welcome to Chubbies. Here is what we believe. We believe in the weekend We believe that “short shorts” is a redundancy We believe in swim trunks, swim shorts, bathing suits, swim suits or whatever the heck else you wanna call ‘em because we believe that if you’ve got a pair of those on, well, you must be doing something right We believe in the right your quads have to a life of freedom and sunshine We believe in comfort We believe in our fathers - they led the way; we are but revolutionaries standing on the shoulders of amazingly mustachio’d giants in proper length shorts We believe sweat shorts are the greatest innovation in lounging since hammock cup holders were invented in the early 1780s We believe Black Lives Matter We believe Love is Love And we damn sure believe in Friday at Five Onward to the Weekend > -Team Chubbies

OpenEd offers standards aligned K-12 resources, tailored for each student based on assessment results. With over a million assessments, homework, videos, games, and lesson plans, teachers can find just the resource they need, and be guaranteed that it is standards aligned and of high quality. OpenEd has the only free formative assessment bank that teachers can assign to their students. Depending on which questions each student answers incorrectly, OpenEd returns the exact video or game the student needs to watch in order to master that specific learning objective. OpenEd also studies the effectiveness of each resource, using that to suggest the best video for each student. OpenEd is used directly by over 350,000 teachers and reaches millions of students. OpenEd's API is used by ed tech leaders such as Renaissance Learning, Microsoft, Chalkable, Agilix, Pacific Metrics and many more to add OpenEd's standard aligned resources to their own tools.

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Readyforce is the first professional network designed and built for the specific needs of college students. Currently focusing on engineering and computer science students, the Readyforce network bridges the gap between social networks like Facebook and “experienced focused” professional networks like LinkedIn. Students can: - Share professional information with peers - Find students from other schools - Find events relevant for students - Find mentors or alumni - Share and comment on articles, stories and career tools - Ask and answer career-oriented questions - Find and be found by jobs and internships For companies, Readyforce is a powerful tool for easily targeting top college students across the US for career opportunities, talent community building, marketing products or services, and branding opportunities. Companies can: - Send personal messages to students by school, major and many others - Build rich-media company profiles to attract student - Post jobs and internships - Announce and promote events of all sizes from dinners to information sessions to conferences - Announce and target specific students scholarships and competitions - Ask questions about brand reputation or recruiting practices - Share and comment on professional content & information - Build, manage and mass communicate with custom talent communities - Transform stacks of paper resumes to fully searchable and sharable profiles - Find career fairs, student run events like conference and hackathons, student associations and clubs, and school departments Readyforce is free to join.

Rafter is an established course materials management technology company whose mission is to promote student success by partnering with campuses to make education more accessible, affordable, and effective for all. Building on its course materials experience and long-term relationships with hundreds of colleges and suppliers, Rafter is redesigning and transforming how learning materials are discovered, managed, and distributed in higher education with its innovative textbooks-in-tuition solution, Rafter360®. Hundreds of campuses and over 2.7 million students have used Rafter’s technology to save nearly $700 million on textbooks. Based in San Mateo, California, Rafter was founded in 2006. More information about Rafter360 can be found at www.rafter.com/our-solutions/rafter360/

Getable helps regional and national brands acquire new customers at scale. Our in house network generates over 100,000 high intent leads per month from active buyers. Since 2008 we’ve helped B2B & B2C companies through our two divisions: Rental Force - Exclusive form & Phone leads for construction equipment rental and sales companies. Getable Home Services - Exclusive form & Phone leads for home improvement brands.

Hamilton is one of the nation’s oldest and most highly regarded liberal arts colleges. Named for its first trustee, American statesman Alexander Hamilton, it is distinguished by a rigorous open curriculum, a need-blind admission policy that ensures access to talented students with limited financial means, a deeply committed faculty, and a focus on preparing students for lives of meaning and purpose. Hamilton graduates can be found making important contributions in every professional field, and because of the College’s contribution to their success, alumni remain enthusiastically loyal.

Loyalty points today are stuck in outdated, closed-loop systems. You earn them, but they’re locked away—limited redemption options, expiry dates, and little to no flexibility. Cheeze is changing that. We’re bringing loyalty onchain, turning points into liquid assets that users can send, trade, or convert instantly. Imagine: ✅ No more expired miles—send them to a friend instead. ✅ No more scattered points—collect them all in one place. ✅ No more brand restrictions—use them when and how you want. With Cheeze, brands can issue blockchain-based loyalty points that are programmable, interoperable, and borderless. Customers get real value, while businesses gain deeper engagement, data insights, and new revenue streams. The future of loyalty is onchain. And Cheeze is making it happen. 🚀

The Truckee Donner Land Trust is a 501(c)(3) with a mission to preserve and protect scenic, historic and recreational lands with high natural resource values in the greater Truckee Donner region and manage recreational activities on these lands in a sustainable manner.

The Solo Brands platform exists to empower beloved & unique brands, that have thriving and passionate communities, with best-in-class DTC expertise to build the next generation of customer experiences in digital commerce. We are not an “aggregator” - we are not looking for quick flips, or fleeting value. We are looking to partner with incredible, unique brands in order to help their communities create memories and connections for the next 20+ years. We offer creative and emotional lifestyle products that help our customers create memories. Our customers spend their hard-earned dollars with us in order to break away from the normal 9 to 5 and we take that honor extremely seriously. Fundamental to that is building the highest quality, most creative product that truly delivers value to our customers. Each and every brand in our portfolio exists for the sole purpose of creating complements and accessories to the best moments in life. These moments constitute the fabric of our lives. Looking back it will be the memories and connections we’ve made along the way that define us; it is our life’s work to enhance these moments and connections for our customers.

Augment CXM is defining a new category of software - customer experience management - and powering it with a patented semantic neural network. This technology ensures that our clients deliver a fantastic customer experience every time. Our client base consists of some of the most well-known brands in the world and we’ve proven to generate a 30% gain in agent efficiency, a 44% increase sales conversion rates, and a 40% growth in customer satisfaction. In 2022, Augment CXM was acquired by Sutherland, and it has since been rebranded as Sutherland Agent Success.