Myles Blumberg

The Future of Content Licensing

Our mission at NeoCharge is to reduce the barriers to electrification to make sustainability more accessible. NeoCharge provides easy access, education, and guidance around home electric vehicle (EV) charging. NeoCharges flagship product, the Smart Splitter, is saving EV drivers an average of $2200 on installation with 4/5 customers avoiding the need to get a multi-thousand dollar electric panel upgrade. The Smart Splitter plugs directly into existing 240-volt outlets and can be used to share two EVs on one circuit or share an electric dryer and an EV for easy charging access.

Paggo es una plataforma que permite a emprendedores y pequeñas empresas a digitalizar sus cobros a través de links de pago, códigos QR y POS.

At Hoplark we brew tea like a craft beer, with the sophisticated flavor of hops but without the alcohol or calories. Hoplark was born during to a trip to a local brewpub in 2016 that, we admit, was probably a bad idea. Dean took his best friend, Andrew to try a great new beer he had found. The problem was that Dean had 5 days left on his first round with the Whole30 diet. After years of trying, Dean had finally found a diet that worked. He was 50 pounds overweight and desperate for a solution, so he did not order a beer that day. The hoppy aroma of Andrew’s double IPA made him realize how much Dean missed that sophisticated flavor of a great beer that really didn’t exist without the alcohol and calories. It was tough, but he stuck to his commitment. We immediately started talking about how to add delicious hop flavors to something low calorie and healthy like tea. It took about 18 months and hundreds of admittedly terrible HopTea batches before we made a product that we were proud of. It was important to us to brew it with actual organic tea leaves and use real hops, not extracts. HopTea also had to not rely on sugar to cover up off flavors, it had to let the hops shine. We launched in May of 2018 at a farmer’s market in Denver, Colorado. To our first-time customers, HopTea is completely unexpected, but yet surprisingly familiar, with connections to craft beer, tea and sparkling beverages. Our customers showed us that HopTea is much more than a beer replacement, it is an experience in its own right. Due to the many fans that keep on buying our product at grocery stores, restaurants and farmers markets we decided to build our own Hoplark brewery and taproom in Boulder, Colorado. We will open our doors to the public in early 2019. We are committed to creating innovative, healthy beverages made the right way and hope you will join us in this journey. Cheers, Andrew and Dean

​Bridgesplit is an specialty asset-based lending platform that enables marketplaces, custodians, and other asset management platforms to offer financing to their customers. Business and consumers use Bridgesplit to access flexible and affordable financing collateralized by assets underserved by banks like high-grade spirits, IP, climate assets, collectibles, and more. Bridgesplit was founded in 2021 by an experienced team of engineers and traders on a mission to leverage technology to create an efficient and transparent marketplace for asset-based financial products. Bridgesplit is backed by Jump Capital and Coinbase Ventures.

B2B marketers use Metadata’s Marketing OS to drive more revenue without all the manual and repetitive work. From running paid campaigns to personalizing web experiences to optimizing everything to revenue – Metadata automates all of this. This means less time spent on low-value tasks and more time spent on strategy, creativity, and driving revenue.

We started this company with a single vegetable (the Shishito pepper) and a big goal: to build a modern-day farming company focused on making fresh food accessible to everyone. At Ark Foods, we believe that vegetables are the ultimate food. If grown right, they don’t need much help to taste good. You’ll find our vegetables are a bit offbeat, and our Clean Label Eats are made only with ingredients you (and your great-grandma) can pronounce. We have a deep respect for the art of farming that runs from generation to generation. Growing up with parents in the citrus industry, CEO Noah Robbins founded Ark Foods in 2013 with a mission to follow in those family footsteps, but with a twist: to diversify the traditional farming models found in big agriculture. Upon discovering a love for Shishito peppers, he got to work bringing curious vegetables to the masses. Today, we spend our time growing vegetables From our Farms up and down the East Coast and crafting our signature Clean Label Veggie Bowls and Salads in crave-worthy, plant-based flavors in our NJ facility. Look for us at Whole Foods Market, Walmart, Costco and other leading retailers.

Osprey Funds offers common sense solutions to digital asset investing. We provide low-cost and secure access to crypto, with easy IRA and other tax-preferred account availability. Crypto, no wallets, keys, or storage required. ospreyfunds.io/disclosure

App Academy is a coding school that offers online and on-campus software engineering programs with no tuition cost until you are hired. The career changing outcomes that App Academy has produced since being founded in 2012 is a major reason why it’s considered the most respected code school in the industry. App Academy has graduated more than 5,000 alumni. Average salaries are $105,000 in San Francisco, $90,000 in New York, and $80,000 nationally. App Academy understands the skills that make a successful software engineer, and more importantly, how to teach them to you. If you don’t succeed after completing the program, you pay nothing, and that’s how it should be.

Brightland makes artfully-crafted ingredients to help pour on a little bit of the good life. Best known for our iconic olive oils, we source all of our products directly from small, family farms in California and Hawaii. With a passion for art both inside and outside the kitchen, we make it our mission to bring beautiful tastes, objects, and experiences to the everyday. Find us at Brightland.co and on IG @wearebrightland.

GEM is a consumer nutrition company on a mission to transform human and planetary health through the power of food as medicine. Our core product is The GEM Bite, the first ever real food multivitamin, packed with 20+ whole-food vitamins, minerals, superfoods, prebiotics, and probiotics for foundational health. Join us on our journey to bring delicious nutrition to all and build a healthier food system.

AON3D - Industrial Additive Manufacturing Solutions 3D print high performance parts in the world’s most advanced thermoplastics and composites, including PEEK & ULTEM™, for aerospace, R&D, automotive, and industrial applications. The M2+ printer is the fastest and most affordable way to get strong, high-performance parts in the hands of engineers and designers. We help drives value chain efficiency, from product development to manufacturing.

Fresh Bowl is revolutionizing the way people eat. Fresh Bowl is a vending machine that is stocked daily with fresh-prepared salads, snacks, beverages and signature smoothie bowls. Fresh Bowl is the first vending machine of its kind to be completely sustainable (zero-waste glass jars) and have the ability to dispense acai bowls! First locations in NYC, more coming soon!

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Our mission at NeoCharge is to reduce the barriers to electrification to make sustainability more accessible. NeoCharge provides easy access, education, and guidance around home electric vehicle (EV) charging. NeoCharges flagship product, the Smart Splitter, is saving EV drivers an average of $2200 on installation with 4/5 customers avoiding the need to get a multi-thousand dollar electric panel upgrade. The Smart Splitter plugs directly into existing 240-volt outlets and can be used to share two EVs on one circuit or share an electric dryer and an EV for easy charging access.

Paggo es una plataforma que permite a emprendedores y pequeñas empresas a digitalizar sus cobros a través de links de pago, códigos QR y POS.

At Hoplark we brew tea like a craft beer, with the sophisticated flavor of hops but without the alcohol or calories. Hoplark was born during to a trip to a local brewpub in 2016 that, we admit, was probably a bad idea. Dean took his best friend, Andrew to try a great new beer he had found. The problem was that Dean had 5 days left on his first round with the Whole30 diet. After years of trying, Dean had finally found a diet that worked. He was 50 pounds overweight and desperate for a solution, so he did not order a beer that day. The hoppy aroma of Andrew’s double IPA made him realize how much Dean missed that sophisticated flavor of a great beer that really didn’t exist without the alcohol and calories. It was tough, but he stuck to his commitment. We immediately started talking about how to add delicious hop flavors to something low calorie and healthy like tea. It took about 18 months and hundreds of admittedly terrible HopTea batches before we made a product that we were proud of. It was important to us to brew it with actual organic tea leaves and use real hops, not extracts. HopTea also had to not rely on sugar to cover up off flavors, it had to let the hops shine. We launched in May of 2018 at a farmer’s market in Denver, Colorado. To our first-time customers, HopTea is completely unexpected, but yet surprisingly familiar, with connections to craft beer, tea and sparkling beverages. Our customers showed us that HopTea is much more than a beer replacement, it is an experience in its own right. Due to the many fans that keep on buying our product at grocery stores, restaurants and farmers markets we decided to build our own Hoplark brewery and taproom in Boulder, Colorado. We will open our doors to the public in early 2019. We are committed to creating innovative, healthy beverages made the right way and hope you will join us in this journey. Cheers, Andrew and Dean

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, fintech and games spaces. a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners, many of whom are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services. We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building. https://a16z.com/portfolio/ https://a16z.com/podcasts/ https://a16z.com/videos/ http://a16z.com/subscribe See Disclosures: https://a16z.com/disclosures/