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2017
We believe in empowering creators and communities through strategic capital allocation and pioneering business ventures.
Investor
2015
Founded in 2014, ShapeShift is an internationally renowned cryptocurrency trading platform. It is guided by four business principles, all of which focus on serving users: security & self-custody, free trading & high liquidity, 24/7 customer service, and an effortless user experience.
The ShapeShift Platform allows users to buy crypto with fiat, trade, track, and secure their crypto through a simple web interface. Learn more about ShapeShift at ShapeShift.com.
See all of our available positions here: ShapeShift.com/careers
Investor
2015
Royalty Exchange is the leading online platform for buying and selling royalties. We offer a centralized, open marketplace to conduct royalty auctions, bringing transparency to an historically private process. The result maximizes value for rightsholders and provides a standardized and secure alternative investment opportunity for buyers and investors.
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2012
Lumenix is a leading provider of progressive building technologies and solutions, currently serving and trusted by thousands of clients nationwide. Lumenix remains committed to its vision of providing continuous value creation for building owners through green initiatives, sensors, smart devices and inter-connectivity. Lumenix and its wholly owned subsidiaries have business lines in LED lighting and retrofit, building controls and automation, sensors, hardware and software. Since inception, Lumenix has led disruptive change in the building technology industry through innovative technology and solutions, unique business models and alternative financing strategies. In addition to being actively engaged in CSR efforts within communities across the country, Lumenix provides project experts specializing in providing customized solutions for each building, and in helping clients deploy solutions across their portfolios in healthcare, commercial, residential, industrial and retail sectors.
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2024
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2024
Vertical Data delivers full-stack AI for enterprises, offering turnkey hardware, financing, colocation, and managed services to power your success. We’re your single partner for deploying high-performance compute solutions, purpose-built for the AI-driven future—especially at the edge.
Our mission? Simplify AI adoption for enterprises - with a focus on edge deployments in underserved markets where traditional providers fall short. We source cutting-edge AI hardware (delivered in days, not months), provide flexible financing to ease upfront costs, secure AI-ready colocation capacity, and offer managed services for reliability and uptime. From edge inference to large-scale deployments, our solutions scale with you.
We tackle the toughest challenges in AI deployment - from hardware shortages to data center capacity issues - through in-house expertise and partnerships with OEMs, data centers, and financing partners.
Whether you’re in technology/telecom, oil & gas, healthcare, or beyond, we’ll identify your AI use case, provision the optimal stack, and manage it end-to-end. Our custom appliances (launching 2025) will further enhance edge capabilities like AI vision and inference.
Ready to unlock AI’s potential? Visit verticaldata.io or message us for a consultation.
With Vertical Data, enterprises get a seamless, full-stack solution to drive results.
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Nov 2021
We believe that Layer 2 solutions are the future of the blockchain markets and we intend to be the leading blockchain infrastructure company, helping to power the most mission critical layer two and side chain networks like Polygon (Matic), Loom, and many more.
Layer 2 Ventures secures these networks by bonding their native tokens to the network via enterprises grade custody, validator partnerships, liquidity mining and in-house technology
We plan to acquire, stake and manage worlds largest network of Layer 2 digital assets.
Layer 2 Ventures will be a high margin, cashflow positive business from day one that scales infinitely, allowing us the ability to explore other potential revenue streams.
LAYER 2 ASSET PORTFOLIO
Layer 2 Ventures will acquire, stake and manage worlds largest network of Layer 2 digital assets. Through our partnerships and industry connections, we will be able to acquire assets efficiently and identify key opportunities within the Layer 2 ecosystem.
YIELD FARMING
Yield farming refers the process of providing liquidity to a DeFi protocol in return for yield. Layer 2 Ventures will be able to provide liquidity via our assets.
LIQUIDITY MINING
Liquidity mining is a subset of yield farming. The main difference is that liquidity providers are compensated not just with fee revenue but also the platform’s own token.
Co-Founder
Sep 2021
CARBON CREDITS ON THE BLOCKCHAIN - Easy. Secure. Transparent.
We are a publicly listed company, trading in Canada (TSX Venture: MKT) and the U.S. (OTCQB: MKTDF)
DeepMarkit is making it simple to access the rapidly growing Voluntary Carbon Markets on the blockchain through our proprietary platform MintCarbon.io, accessible to everyone, everywhere, at any time.
We are working with industry leading third-party carbon project verifiers, Verra and Gold Standard, to ensure only the highest quality projects are listed on our platform.
MintCarbon.io is an accredited platform that has been secured by Quantstamp and uses the low-emission Polygon network as its backbone.
Co-Founder
Jun 2021
Polymesh is an institutional-grade permissioned blockchain built specifically for regulated assets. It streamlines antiquated processes and opens the door to new financial instruments by solving regulatory challenges with public infrastructure around identity, compliance, confidentiality, governance, and settlement.
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