Thomas Rush

GridPlus creates products that enable mainstream use of digital assets and cryptocurrencies. We are hardware, software, and cryptocurrency experts building the foundation for a more efficient and inclusive financial future. The GridPlus Lattice1 and SafeCards use uncompromising security to enable the most secure cryptocurrency storage ever created. GridPlus products form a new, fully integrated infrastructure stack for the burgeoning world of cryptocurrencies. GridPlus proudly designs and engineers its products in Austin, Texas.

We help issuers and issuance solution providers to offer the full variety of financial assets faster and with easier integration.

Tassat Group, Inc. is a N.Y.-based technology company that is the leading provider of private blockchain-based, real-time solutions for commercial banks including TassatPay, which enables banks to provide their corporate clients with instantaneous, secure, real-time payments 24/7/365. TassatPay has become the most trusted blockchain-based platform for the banking industry and its B2B clients with more than $1.4 trillion in secure, real-time transactions to date. Tassat has added Smart Contracts and Fedwire functionality to make TassatPay a one-stop shop for B2B Payments. Tassat was honored with a 2021 Google Cloud Customer Award for innovation in financial services. For more information, visit us at www.tassat.com, on Twitter or on LinkedIn.

Investing at the intersection of frontier technologies

Hydra is the world’s first fund of funds investment DAO, an investment organization focused on investing in other investment DAOs. We not only want to deploy capital but also help incubate and equip communities with their own investment capabilities. Through the experience of operating MCV, we bring our network, operating experience, and reputation to help communities with domain knowledge, expertise, and deal flow to become self-sustainable capital allocators. Hydra aims to: ● Invest in other investment DAOs ● Help communities launch their first investment DAOs from scratch ○ Set up contributor incentives models and coordination frameworks ○ Guidance on how to work with legal, tax, and accounting service providers ○ Coaching first-time investors on how to invest/build up a venture portfolio ● Coach DAO communities on how to operate an investment DAO: ○ We’ve built up a community of investment DAO operators who are able to coach and advise early-stage DAOs and have built up an operational manual on how to run an investment DAO aka. MCV’s ‘Book of Rituals’ We will invest in investment DAOs and communities that are both legally wrapped and cryptonative investment organizations, that span the following areas: ● Domain-specific focuses such as P2E, DeFi, cross-chain, web3, music, metaverse, virtual beings, DeSci, and social - ideally in emerging markets to become the first community investment organization in those ecosystems. ● Emerging social networks that have unique deal flow and talent access such as company/school/org alumni networks, novel social graphs, or other affinity communities. ● Operational expertise such as service DAOs: legal, auditing, engineering, design, recruiting and talent, or other professional expertise. ● Technology ecosystems such as L1s and L2 Ethereum scaling protocols.

GridPlus creates products that enable mainstream use of digital assets and cryptocurrencies. We are hardware, software, and cryptocurrency experts building the foundation for a more efficient and inclusive financial future. The GridPlus Lattice1 and SafeCards use uncompromising security to enable the most secure cryptocurrency storage ever created. GridPlus products form a new, fully integrated infrastructure stack for the burgeoning world of cryptocurrencies. GridPlus proudly designs and engineers its products in Austin, Texas.

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)

Outlier Ventures was the worlds largest web3 startup accelerator. Now, we fund agentic systems directly and are building the open protocols needed to coordinate capital, work, and ownership in the era they enable. Founded in 2014, we backed the first known DeAI and DePIN investments — Fetch.ai and IOTA — years before those categories had names. Today, with 400+ portfolio companies, were building the next chapter. The Post Web Our flagship thesis argues the browser-mediated internet is disappearing — not gradually, but structurally. Read the research at outlierventures.io/postweb Conviction Markets Our latest initiative is Conviction Markets — an open, permissionless protocol for coordinating capital, work, and ownership. Interested? Sign up to the waitlist at → convictionmarkets.io