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“Bump”, A vehicle safety and security platform that aims to solve for systemic risk, protects consumer privacy and rewards safety to reduce costs.

Lastwall is a leader in identity security and quantum resilience, trusted by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) since 2017 and the Government of Canada. With a mission to secure identity, strengthen critical infrastructure, and enable quantum-safe innovation, Lastwall is redefining identity security for the modern era - protecting defense, government, and critical infrastructure from evolving cyber threats. Its advanced solutions integrate public key infrastructure (PKI), Zero Trust architecture, and quantum-resilient cryptography to deliver proactive, password-free authentication and future-proof security. As traditional security perimeters dissolve, identity has become the new front line of defense. Lastwall prevents credential-based attacks, post-breach lateral movement, and protects against emerging quantum threats, ensuring mission-critical systems remain secure. Learn more at www.lastwall.com

Recent evidence has shown that young adults entering the workforce are ill equipped to handle the challenges needed to complete tasks that require problem solving and teamwork. Regardless of grade point averages, following directions, and test taking skills, they fall flat in independent thinking, managing a project, and self directed initiative. The skills necessary to be successful in today’s world require critical thinking and collaboration. Schools and even States saw this as a jumping off point to rethink how to assess students holistically, with a focus on process of thinking. Novare saw this shift in education and understood that teachers, administrators, students, and even parents were going to need support in understanding, organizing, assessing, and tracking, thus Novare’s platform was created. Many schools are adopting new standards necessary for 21st century skills and Novare’s platform empowers teachers to build, organize, and manage differentiated learning. This allows a better understanding of where a student performs and how to individually challenge them. Novare began in 2012 and has currently been deployed in schools in California and Iowa. As Novare grows, it will always adhere to three core objectives: INNOVATE Novare is a new way of looking at students, focusing on the whole child and providing opportunities to investigate and evaluate problem solving. It supports innovative ways of teaching. EDUCATE Novare maintains that best practices for learning is through reflection and revision. Novare focuses on a tool that tracks performance in order to foster improvement and growth over time. COMMUNICATE Collaboration is how Novare differs from other LMS’s. Our tool enables collaboration and communication across classrooms, between teachers, administrators, and of course, parents, seamlessly and with ease.

DropThought’s Instant Feedback Platform empowers companies, brands, and marketers to engage with their customers and employees in real-time to gather, respond, and analyze feedback that leads to improved experiences and higher satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores. Instant feedback can be gathered through DropThought in three ways: via its mobile app, embedded API integrations, and on-site using tablet devices. DropThought’s Analytics Dashboard and Manager mobile app can instantly notify managers and brands to feedback reported in the moment, to enable immediate responses, insights, and resolution. DropThought’s text analytics solution allows businesses to see customer experience metrics over time and quickly identify opportunities to improve. Companies can also easily select and promote customers’ positive instant feedback on social channels.

Krome Photos'​ mission is to level the playing field for all businesses with a fast, affordable, and creative photo editing and design service that optimizes product images based on what sells or drives customer engagement. In a few hours and for about the cost of a movie, Krome can take phone photos and turn them into white/listing images, lifestyle images, infographics or ads. Now any business can get custom creative images for all their products and advertisements. Small and medium businesses can continue to expand digitally effectively and efficiently. In addition, Krome provides beautiful and creative family photo editing services. Families use Krome for the important photos they print and share including holiday cards, new baby images, and social media posts. Krome photos uses a proprietary, AI-driven platform that connects trained human editors across the globe to any digital photo submitted and therefore, is available 24/7 seven days a week. In addition, Krome has data on the millions of photos already edited so data-driven recommendations are made to get photos that sell and great images to print and share on social media. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Krome can transform family, personal and corporate images with the easiest, fastest and most affordable photo editing service available.

Cignifi big data platform is the first to develop credit risk and marketing scores using mobile phone data. Over 80% of adults globally use or own a mobile phone. Cignifi enables digital lenders, insurers and e-commerce merchants to onboard and serve millions of new customers who have little or no traditional data. Cignifi is backed by leading venture investors and led by a management team with significant data analytics, financial services and global business experience.

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Ever since its inception back in 2011, Gift Card Spread has been on a mission to provide its users with a convenient platform to buy and sell discounted gift cards. We strive towards helping our customers shop better and smarter by tapping the unleashed potential of discounted gift cards. Our aim is to show our customers how exactly can they maximise their savings and strike amazing deals with gift cards. At Gift Card Spread, with absolutely hassle-free processes and a prompt delivery system, we believe in going that extra mile for our customers. Sellers can easily sell their unwanted gift cards for cash via our platform and buyers can purchase discounted gift cards of their choice and save a great deal. Based In Chicago, IL, Gift Card Spread deals in gift cards from among 700+ celebrated brands across the United States. Every day has a 'Eureka’ moment and we simply seize it. At Gift Card Spread, we want the best for our customers because we believe, there’s absolutely nothing beyond you!

Bharosa was founded by Thomas Varghese, a research scientist and a serial entrepreneur by background, in 2003. Don Bosco Durai and Jon Fisher later came on board as co-founders. The premise was simple in that the existing authentication technologies were not satisfactory and not very difficult to compromise. No authentication technology can really provide its full and intended security benefits unless the computer and computer network are re-designed from the grounds up. This is because originally, Computers were designed for Computing and Networks for Communication. It is the Internet revolution which has brought these insecure systems together as one system and these days one can hardly be separated from the other. Yet security is still an after-thought in such systems. The Bharosa platform provides a two-way trust between the end user and vice-versa to operate within a compromised (phishing, pharming, keyloggers, malware, etc) environment. Oracle acquired Bharosa within three years of its incorporation as they were the leaders in their space and succeeded in securing some of the top financial institutions, health-care research organizations and some large eCommerce and SAAS offerings in the industry. Bharosa's products renamed to Oracle Adaptive Access Manager (OAAM) is now part of the Oracle Identity Management product suite that provides protection for businesses and their customers through strong yet easy-to-deploy multifactor authentication and proactive, real-time fraud prevention. Oracle acquired the company "Bharosa" which means 'trust' in the Hindi language to extend Oracle's ability to offer its customers comprehensive web-based access management solutions. Combined with Oracle's identity management products, these innovative solutions deliver the next generation of adaptive, risk-based access management providing its customers with a comprehensive set of tools to protect and manage access to their assets..

“Bump”, A vehicle safety and security platform that aims to solve for systemic risk, protects consumer privacy and rewards safety to reduce costs.

Lastwall is a leader in identity security and quantum resilience, trusted by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) since 2017 and the Government of Canada. With a mission to secure identity, strengthen critical infrastructure, and enable quantum-safe innovation, Lastwall is redefining identity security for the modern era - protecting defense, government, and critical infrastructure from evolving cyber threats. Its advanced solutions integrate public key infrastructure (PKI), Zero Trust architecture, and quantum-resilient cryptography to deliver proactive, password-free authentication and future-proof security. As traditional security perimeters dissolve, identity has become the new front line of defense. Lastwall prevents credential-based attacks, post-breach lateral movement, and protects against emerging quantum threats, ensuring mission-critical systems remain secure. Learn more at www.lastwall.com

Recent evidence has shown that young adults entering the workforce are ill equipped to handle the challenges needed to complete tasks that require problem solving and teamwork. Regardless of grade point averages, following directions, and test taking skills, they fall flat in independent thinking, managing a project, and self directed initiative. The skills necessary to be successful in today’s world require critical thinking and collaboration. Schools and even States saw this as a jumping off point to rethink how to assess students holistically, with a focus on process of thinking. Novare saw this shift in education and understood that teachers, administrators, students, and even parents were going to need support in understanding, organizing, assessing, and tracking, thus Novare’s platform was created. Many schools are adopting new standards necessary for 21st century skills and Novare’s platform empowers teachers to build, organize, and manage differentiated learning. This allows a better understanding of where a student performs and how to individually challenge them. Novare began in 2012 and has currently been deployed in schools in California and Iowa. As Novare grows, it will always adhere to three core objectives: INNOVATE Novare is a new way of looking at students, focusing on the whole child and providing opportunities to investigate and evaluate problem solving. It supports innovative ways of teaching. EDUCATE Novare maintains that best practices for learning is through reflection and revision. Novare focuses on a tool that tracks performance in order to foster improvement and growth over time. COMMUNICATE Collaboration is how Novare differs from other LMS’s. Our tool enables collaboration and communication across classrooms, between teachers, administrators, and of course, parents, seamlessly and with ease.

DropThought’s Instant Feedback Platform empowers companies, brands, and marketers to engage with their customers and employees in real-time to gather, respond, and analyze feedback that leads to improved experiences and higher satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores. Instant feedback can be gathered through DropThought in three ways: via its mobile app, embedded API integrations, and on-site using tablet devices. DropThought’s Analytics Dashboard and Manager mobile app can instantly notify managers and brands to feedback reported in the moment, to enable immediate responses, insights, and resolution. DropThought’s text analytics solution allows businesses to see customer experience metrics over time and quickly identify opportunities to improve. Companies can also easily select and promote customers’ positive instant feedback on social channels.

Krome Photos'​ mission is to level the playing field for all businesses with a fast, affordable, and creative photo editing and design service that optimizes product images based on what sells or drives customer engagement. In a few hours and for about the cost of a movie, Krome can take phone photos and turn them into white/listing images, lifestyle images, infographics or ads. Now any business can get custom creative images for all their products and advertisements. Small and medium businesses can continue to expand digitally effectively and efficiently. In addition, Krome provides beautiful and creative family photo editing services. Families use Krome for the important photos they print and share including holiday cards, new baby images, and social media posts. Krome photos uses a proprietary, AI-driven platform that connects trained human editors across the globe to any digital photo submitted and therefore, is available 24/7 seven days a week. In addition, Krome has data on the millions of photos already edited so data-driven recommendations are made to get photos that sell and great images to print and share on social media. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Krome can transform family, personal and corporate images with the easiest, fastest and most affordable photo editing service available.