Brian Laung Aoaeh, Cfa

AboveBoard is a startup building a global securities trading system on top of Ethereum tokens. The company is run by an experienced entrepreneur and programmer who has worked with globally distributed teams.

Virgil Security, Inc., makes every software developer into an applied cryptologist. Virgil provides password-free authentication, encryption, distributed immutable data storage via Blockchain, and verification of data, devices, and identities that is quickly and easily integrated into developer products. Virgil provides this via a cloud-based service in combination with open sourced libraries that are available for desktop, embedded (IoT), mobile, and cloud / web applications with support for a wide variety of modern programming languages. • Finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America <​http://bit.ly/VS-RNHA> • One of "region's hottest emerging companies"​ for Cooley LLP's Capital Call DC <​http://bit.ly/VS-Cooley> • TiE50 Top Start-up Winner at TiEcon 2016 <​http://tiecon.org>. • Top 40 DC-area innovators in the cyber community by Trending40.com. • Showcased at the 9th Annual Crunchies Awards as "one of the most interesting, creative & successful"​ 2015 Startup Alley exhibitors by TechCrunch Disrupt. • Finalist for a Timmy Award as DC’s Best Tech Startup by Tech in Motion <​http://bit.ly/VS-TiM> • One of five "innovative seed & growth-stage cybersecurity companies with outsized potential to transform the trillion dollar mobile space"​ by CTIA Startup Lab <​http://bit.ly/VS-CTIA> • One of the sixteen hottest up-and-coming early & seed stage technology companies in the Mid-Atlantic by the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association <​http://bit.ly/VSBuzz2015> • One of the Southeast’s thirty-six most innovative startups by 36|86’s Village 36 <​http://bit.ly/Village36> • One of the Top 10 area startups by 36|86’s Southern Series <​bit.ly/Virgil-3686> • One of Cybersecurity Ventures “500 Hot Cybersecurity Companies to Watch in 2015” • Graduate of the Fall 2014 cohort of the MACH37™ <​http://Mach37.com> cyberaccelerator program #SecureTheFuture #NoMorePasswords #EncryptEverything #SecuredByVirgil

Navisens™ motionDNA™ locates mobile devices indoors, underground & outdoors. No WiFi. No GPS. No beacons. Bloomberg Business Top 50 startup of 2017!

Wedding Spot is the first online site that allows users to search, price, and compare hundreds of wedding venues. Working directly with venues, Wedding Spot gathers all the information required to allow newly engaged couples to easily search for venues based on budget, location, style, and guest count. Users can "build out"​ their ideal wedding day by selecting specific services and options to see a price estimate and then book a venue viewing appointment with one click of a button. Wedding Spot’s proprietary technology enables wedding venues to manage their entire wedding booking process on its platform, including acquiring customers, organizing content, and marketing inventory. Launched in August 2013, Wedding Spot is based in San Francisco, CA and is backed by leading angel investors. Wedding Spot now covers northern and southern California, as well as New York and the recent addition of Hawaii. For more information, please visit www.wedding-spot.com. May 2019: Cvent acquires Wedding Spot! https://www.wedding-spot.com/press/

Built on Google award winning research, Seen reconstructs events from their social data on the real time web. Seen lets anyone understand how a story is unfolding as it happens and summarizes it into an easily digestible guide and timeline after the fact. Seen is a radical new way to experience and time-shift events you care about.

Feed Media Group (FMG) is for businesses that need licensed popular music to create the most engaging customer experiences in their digital apps and physical spaces. Unlike navigating complex, time-consuming negotiations with music labels and publishers, FMG’s proprietary streaming platform and SDKs deliver pre-cleared music—compiled by the industry’s best curators—complete with user analytics, payments to rightsholders, and legal indemnification for our customers. Feed.fm powers music for the world’s leading brands including American Eagle Outfitters, Mayo Clinic, Mirror, Nautilus and Tonal; and up-and-coming startups use Adaptr to create unique music-based experiences. Our music partners include Warner, BMG, and Kobalt. Learn more at feedmediagroup.com.

TechStyleOS is the globally integrated Operations and Services provider behind some of the fastest growing online fashion brands in history, including Fabletics, Savage X Fenty, JustFab, ShoeDazzle, and FabKids. With capabilities spanning technology, data science, supply chain management, fulfillment, customer service, and more, we help brands launch, scale and grow—across product categories and geographically. From predictive analytics to data-driven marketing and attribution, our unique approach is powered by our proprietary, end-to-end tech platform that enables the brands we serve to deliver a level of personalization, value, and satisfaction that are unrivaled in the fashion industry.

Ayehu has been acquired by Resolve. Named by Gartner Cool Vendor IT Process Automation, Ayehu’s No-Code Intelligent Automation and Orchestration platform use drag-and-drop visual workflow designer to automate IT tasks in minutes. This saves 90% of the time spent remediating incidents, delivers a 55% cost reduction on repetitive manual tasks and cuts ticket by more than 70%. Ayehu’s 200+ Enterprise customers, including F500 companies such as Pitney Bowes and multinational MSPs such as Cognizant and Accenture, are using Ayehu’s platform for its digital labor, increasing their operational efficiency by sending robots to work.

BitVault is now Gem. Learn more at https://gem.co/ Bitvault provides Bitcoin companies with a robust and secure API to simplify Bitcoin security, and provide developers with the fastest, easiest way to integrate Bitcoin into their products and services. Our Bitcoin wallet solution uses the most advanced features of Bitcoin, including deterministic wallets, multisignature transactions and multi-factor authentication to create the most secure wallet on the market.

The Bouqs Company is an online flower retailer founded by John Tabis and Juan Pablo Montúfar that delivers flowers and plants fresh from eco-friendly, sustainable farms to doorsteps nationwide. Tabis, a brand and strategy executive formerly with Disney, and Montúfar, a third-generation farmer, started The Bouqs Company in November 2012 to radically disrupt the $100B global floral industry through a modern brand, responsibly-sourced flowers and a vertically-integrated supply chain. Headquartered in Marina del Rey, CA, The Bouqs Company connects farms and florists with consumers, and disrupts the traditional supply chain by eliminating unnecessary stops along the way. In turn, this model enables a superior product and redefines the experience and economics for both consumers and producers alike.

Drync has been the leader in mobile commerce for beverage alcohol since 2008, building builds best-in-breed white label native mobile commerce apps for beverage alcohol retailers. Drync's platform is proven to convert users to buyers 8x better than desktop websites and increase retailers'​ top-line revenue by 4%. Drync also provide data analytics and to all sides of the beverage alcohol trade and offers measurable mobile promotions that reach a highly engaged audience for brands.

Founded in Norway with offices in London, New York, NY and Raleigh, NC, Filip Technologies develops products and services that keep families in touch. Our first product, FiLIP is the world's first wearable phone and smart locator for kids. FILIP's patent-pending design and technology combines GPS, Wi-Fi and cellular capabilities to keep parents and kids connected at the push of a button. All features are controlled from an app on the parent's smartphone. FiLIP is available on AT&T at att.com/filip, AT&T stores nationwide and select Target, Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores.

Yhat (pronounced Y-hat) is a data science and decision management platform that lets data scientists create, deploy and integrate real-time insights into any business application without IT. Using the Yhat platform, data scientists can use their preferred scientific tools (e.g. R and Python) to develop analytical projects in the cloud collaboratively and then deploy them as highly scalable real-time decision making APIs for use in customer- or employee-facing apps. Yhat was founded in 2013. The founding team previously held positions at OnDeck, comScore, MITRE, Cloudera, Blackboard, AppNexus, and GuideSpark.

Considered one of New York City’s fastest growing mobile-first companies, Jump Ramp is the leader in delivering innovative promotions, rewards and instant winning experiences through free mobile casual gaming. Connecting consumers with our top partners in mobile gaming, commerce, branding and product discovery. We are backed by premiere VCs including SoftBank Capital, Bullpen Capital. Founders Collective and LeadEdge Capital. Our flagship app Lucktastic launched on Android in 2014 and has quickly built an engaged, enthusiastic and loyal customer base attracting nearly 10 million installs in the US on Android and iOS. Lucktastic is consistently ranked in the top 3 within the lifestyle category on the Google Play Store alongside brands like Tinder, Zillow, and Starbucks as well as top 10 respectively in the Apple Store. With a dominant social footprint that includes nearly 2 million Facebook fans, the Lucktastic brand has a reach that extends 12 million weekly unique American consumers. We have a strong focus on extending our brand and becoming a household name in the US. Jump Ramp looks to grow a network of apps and innovative content beyond our flagship app with an eye on expanding to Asia and other International markets. Jump Ramp prides itself on being a close-knit team with nearly 40 employees, and looking to double in the next 18 months. We look for talent that thrives in an innovative entrepreneurial environment, is excited about consumer products that touch millions of Americans and who embrace our exciting diverse NYC culture. We’re not afraid to move fast and break things as we release, launch, iterate, update and announce - sometimes all in the same day! So if you thrive on solving problems in the mobile space that have never been tackled before, come join our team! #AlexBetancur #TonyVartanian #RickBusch #VincentMeyer #JeremyStrauser #SudhirVallamkondu #RyanSafarian #AlexTarrand

Sound Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SPI) is developing therapeutics that will enable doctors and patients to prevent and treat various forms of hearing loss. Sensorineural hearing loss is the third largest disease in the industrialized world and affects 50 million Americans. Estimates from the NIH and the CDC place the total annual costs of hearing loss at approximately $50 billion per year in the U.S. alone.

Recast Capital is a 100% women-owned venture capital platform that invests in and supports top-tier emerging fund managers, with a focus on diverse partnerships. The platform was founded by seasoned, institutionally-trained fund investors Courtney McCrea and Sara Zulkosky, and built to drive returns and create change in the venture industry. The core of the platform is a fund-of-funds providing LPs diversified exposure to top-performing emerging, diverse managers (US-based, Fund I-III), as well as access to a pipeline of tomorrow’s industry-leading franchises. As strong complements to the fund-of-funds, the platform also includes a tuition-free, virtual educational program called the Enablement Program, providing learning and development for emerging venture managers (109 funds have participated to date) and Recast Accelerate, a new program to support women- and nonbinary-led emerging managers in venture, including educational programming and $100k to be leveraged in support of their fund backend operations. Both the Enablement and Accelerate programs are powerful differentiators for Recast, helping Recast support more of the community than just those that it can invest in.

The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. Our vision is to create a world free of poverty on a livable planet. We are not a bank in the common sense; we are made up of two unique development institutions owned by 189 member countries: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). Each institution plays a different but collaborative role in advancing the vision of inclusive and sustainable globalization. The IBRD aims to reduce poverty in middle-income and creditworthy poorer countries, while IDA focuses on the worlds poorest countries. Their work is complemented by that of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Together, we provide low-interest loans, interest-free credits and grants to developing countries for a wide array of purposes that include investments in education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture and environmental and natural resource management.

The National Association of Investment Companies was founded in 1971. Our 175+ member firms collectively manage more than $447 billion in assets under management. NAIC is the largest trade association of diverse-owned alternative investment firms in the U.S. NAIC is focused on increasing the flow of capital to high-performing diverse-owned investment managers often underutilized by institutional investors by connecting managers to capital, developing skills and competencies, providing data and insights, and propelling careers. Our industry-leading programs and initiatives focus on strengthening the diverse-owned alternatives sector and positioning it for future success.

Genius Guild, a Chicago-based venture capital firm building a new kind of venture platform focused on creating a world where everyone gets alpha—Investors, Founders, and Communities. We invest at the intersection of the five social determinants of health (SDOH): healthcare access and quality; social and community factors; economic factors; education access and quality; and neighborhood and built environments. From urban electric car charging stations to primary care clinics that center the chief decision maker in families to seeding investment funds with innovative diverse investors, Genius Guild invests in innovations that improve the health and wellbeing of diverse communities. We look for high growth companies with scalable business models, and exceptional founders.

nvp capital is a seed stage, globally investing venture capital firm that backs bold founders building the next generation of enterprise software. For more information visit nvpcap.com