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Terranova is rewriting the adaptation playbook by reshaping terrain itself. We do this with robots the size of cars that inject a wood slurry deep underground. This terraforming process precisely lifts properties out of their flood zones with no surface disturbance. This elevation is permanent and provides proactive protection for all types of infrastructure, wetlands, and new development projects. Our three robot and one mothership system can lift an acre by a foot every day, enabling rapid post-flood recovery. Please contact us at contact@terranova.inc for a quote on your elevation project.

Indigov is a communication platform designed to help elected officials and government departments respond and reach out to constituents in a timely and personal manner.

Biofire Technologies is on a mission to give gun owners better tools for reducing preventable gun injuries and deaths, especially among children. We believe our technology, combined with a best-in-class customer experience, will define the future of firearms safety for the next generation. Our mission-driven approach has earned support from the firearm community, the tech world, and the media. Biofire employees are world-class engineers who have designed and tested firearms, medical devices, robots, cars, satellites, rockets, and supersonic jets. What unites our team is our commitment to safety and reliability that we bring to our work every day. Since CEO Kai Kloepfer founded Biofire in 2016, the company has won respect and accolades from gun owners and supporters who believe in technology’s potential to help reduce firearm accidents, criminal misuse, suicides and other tragic outcomes.

Redefining the delivery of mental health services for pediatric and adult populations through best-in-class, highly accessible care. InSite works with hundreds of schools to provide vertically integrated wraparound care, mental health services, and technology solutions to support the well-being of students.

Rain is the leading financial health platform tackling the $1.9 trillion problem of employee disengagement caused by financial stress. We help employees move from paycheck-to-paycheck to financial resilience through responsible earned wage access, budgeting tools, spending analysis, and wealth-building features. We have already paid out $3 billion in earned wages to 3.5 million employees across 1,200 employers—including McDonalds, T-Mobile, Cava, and Marriott—cutting turnover, improving attendance, and strengthening workforce financial health.

Healx is a mission-driven technology company pioneering the next generation of drug discovery in order to bring novel, effective treatments to rare disease patients around the world. There are more than 10,000 known rare diseases that affect 400 million people across the globe, but only 5% of those conditions have an approved treatment. By combining frontier AI technology with deep drug discovery and development expertise, Healx can accelerate the pace, increase the scale and improve the chance of success of rare disease treatment development in order to meet this huge unmet need and have unprecedented patient impact.

AOA Dx is leading a revolutionary breakthrough in early-stage cancer detection, leveraging the transformative potential of AI and our proprietary biomarker technology. At the heart of this innovation is our GlycoLocate platform, a multi-omics approach powered by lipids, metabolites and proteins. This platform is setting a new gold standard in the quest for life-saving early cancer diagnostics. We are now advancing AKRIVIS GD™, a cutting-edge liquid biopsy test designed specifically for the early detection of ovarian cancer.

Tyme Group is a multi-country digital banking group, focused on serving consumers and SMEs in emerging markets. Headquartered in Singapore, with a technology and product development hub in Vietnam, Tyme designs, builds, and operates digital banks for the mass market, providing access to affordable, quality financial services for consumers and small businesses across the economic spectrum. Across the Group, Tyme now serves almost 12 million customers. About TymeBank (www.tymebank.co.za) TymeBank is currently one of the world’s fastest-growing digital banks, with over 9.1 million customers since launching in February 2019. The bank is founded on simplicity, transparency and affordability and is designed to make digital banking accessible and affordable to all South Africans across the economic spectrum. TymeBank hit profitability in December 2023, making it the first digital bank on the African continent to become profitable - and is the fastest to profitability standalone digital bank globally. About GoTyme (https://www.gotyme.com.ph) GoTyme Bank is regulated by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and is a joint venture of Tyme, a multi-country digital banking group, with members of the Gokongwei Group of companies, namely Robinsons Land Corporation and Robinsons Retail Holdings, Inc. GoTyme Bank aims to unlock its customers’ financial potential with the convenience and security of digital banking. With a high-tech / high-touch approach, GoTyme Bank combines the ease of immediate account opening with a personalized debit card released through kiosks located in shopping malls throughout the Philippines, plus the power of self-serve financial solutions accessible through an intuitive “all in one” banking app. These, along with other industry-leading offerings, set GoTyme Bank on track to revolutionize banking in the Philippines. GoTyme Bank launched in October 2022 and is about to record its 3 million customer market.

When it comes to food, we all deserve better. You, us, and the planet. Enter Starday—a next-gen food conglomerate built for the 21st century. With a focus on sustainability, health, and data, we make delicious food with quality ingredients that reflect what we all want to be eating. Meet our brands: alldayflavors.com, gooeysnacks.com, and eatcozumi.com

Transcelestial is building the future of Internet Distribution. The ultimate goal is to build a space laser network to deliver a step-change in internet connectivity globally. This will be the fastest way to bring the rest of the world up on the bandwidth and connectivity curve. Right now, we are using the same technology on the ground as a "wireless fibre optics" in a product called CENTAURI. CENTAURI is our mass-produced network device which leverages our proprietary Wireless Laser Communication Technology to create a wireless distribution network between buildings, traditional cell towers, street-level poles and other physical infrastructure. It is the size of a shoe-box, weighing less than 3kg and capable of delivering true fibre-like speeds to customers at fraction of the cost of traditional fibre. There are two versions of devices available - 1 Gbps Full Duplex (4G & Enterprise ready) and 10 Gbps Full Duplex (5G-ready).

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first — ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

We invest in transformative deep-tech ventures across space-tech, robotics, energy, compute, and communications — sectors where breakthrough innovation accelerating the rise of space as the next industrial frontier.

Get cash from your home equity with no interest, no monthly payments, no added debt. QuantmRE is a real estate finance platform that originates and funds Home Equity Agreements. This new financial tool enables qualifying homeowners to get a cash lump sum from their home equity with no monthly payments, no interest and no added debt. A Home Equity Agreement is an equity based solution - its not a reverse mortgage, its not a loan and its not a line of credit. Instead of charging interest, we take a share of the current equity together with a share of the appreciation if the value of the home goes up. We also share in the potential downside risk if the home decreases in value. People who have been turned down for a loan or mortgage can still qualify for a Home Equity Agreement and get cash from their home equity, again with no interest and no monthly payments. In many cases the homeowner has up to thirty years to sell their home or to refinance the agreement. Our plan is to help unlock hundreds of millions of dollars of equity for homeowners, providing them with much needed cash with no interest, no monthly payments and no added debt. The QuantmRE platform has also been designed to enable a wide range of investors to fund these Home Equity Agreements, including retail investors. Our platform has been designed to be a secondary market exchange where investors can build, model, manage and trade individual portfolios of fractionalized Home Equity Agreements .

Guac is a savings and rewards platform that acts as a value-added service for our bank and financial service partners. Guacs partners use Guacs digital tools to create a deeper bond with their customers while significantly reducing cost and driving sales.  Guac Benefits: - Automated Savings - The Best Rewards & Loyalty Program - Earn Money partnerships/Money Hacks - Credit Monitoring & Building Guac provides banks and enterprises with a UI that allows their customers to capture savings and engage with loyalty benefits. Customers choose rewards from 1,000+ premier brands through Guac’s marketplace, and enterprises/banks can build bespoke rewards specific to their services and customers.

Robots that make delicious coffee and more

Contingency Fee Business Litigation Lawyers Not all the big law firm lawyers are at big firms. At Stueve Siegel Hanson, our team of Kansas City, Mo based trial lawyers were groomed at top law schools and nationally prominent law firms and use cutting edge legal skill in an environment that lets us focus on winning efficiently and effectively. Our Alternative to Hourly Billing: Results-Based Fee Structures that Suit Your Business Goals America’s businesses – both large and small – for years have placed their faith in the hands of law firms whose interests may be different from those of clients. Law firms can have mixed incentives because of an hourly billing system that focuses more on the time spent than the result achieved. Cases lost slowly result in higher fees than cases won quickly. But at Stueve Siegel Hanson, we conduct business litigation differently. In every case, we will offer you a contingency fee arrangement in which our fees vary based on the result we achieve for you. Even in cases with difficult facts. Especially where your business is on the line. This results-based fee structure means our trial lawyers have the same interests you do. Succeed for you and we succeed ourselves. Fail you and we fail ourselves. Just as you and your management are compensated for providing real value to your business, so are we.

ROCK CHALK! If youre a KU founder, investor, or supporter of Jayhawk entrepreneurship, follow us to stay connected and be part of this exciting inflection point. The University of Kansas has quietly become a force in the entrepreneurial world — and now, for the first time, there’s a venture fund designed to match its ambition! Meet The Hill Fund: the first and only venture capital fund dedicated to backing KU-connected founders. Named after “The Hill” upon which the KU campus was built, our fund is based on a simple but overdue idea: Jayhawks are building category-defining companies, and it’s time the venture world paid attention. WHY NOW Since 2016, thirteen KU-connected startups have had billion dollar-plus exits, a staggering figure that puts the Jayhawk network on par with powerhouse tech ecosystems. And yet, this founder community has been largely untapped by traditional venture firms. Its time to change that! We offer inside access to the KU ecosystem, a broad network of innovators who now have a fund dedicated just to them. OUR MISSION Our mission is to deliver top-tier venture returns by investing in the best KU startups, while strengthening the legacy of innovation at the University of Kansas for decades to come. We’re not just deploying capital. We’re building an engine to surface, support, and scale the next generation of KU-connected companies — from late seed through Series A. JAYHAWKS INVESTING IN JAYHAWKS The Hill Fund is backed by a variety of limited partners including many prominent KU alumni. We invest in KU-connected founders, which includes startups led by alumni, faculty, staff, and students, as well as those licensing KU tech or closely affiliated with the university in other ways. CALL TO ACTION The Hill Fund is actively evaluating late seed and Series A opportunities. If you’re a KU-connected founder building something exceptional, or an investor looking to invest in or collaborate with the fund, contact us!

Terranova is rewriting the adaptation playbook by reshaping terrain itself. We do this with robots the size of cars that inject a wood slurry deep underground. This terraforming process precisely lifts properties out of their flood zones with no surface disturbance. This elevation is permanent and provides proactive protection for all types of infrastructure, wetlands, and new development projects. Our three robot and one mothership system can lift an acre by a foot every day, enabling rapid post-flood recovery. Please contact us at contact@terranova.inc for a quote on your elevation project.

Indigov is a communication platform designed to help elected officials and government departments respond and reach out to constituents in a timely and personal manner.

Biofire Technologies is on a mission to give gun owners better tools for reducing preventable gun injuries and deaths, especially among children. We believe our technology, combined with a best-in-class customer experience, will define the future of firearms safety for the next generation. Our mission-driven approach has earned support from the firearm community, the tech world, and the media. Biofire employees are world-class engineers who have designed and tested firearms, medical devices, robots, cars, satellites, rockets, and supersonic jets. What unites our team is our commitment to safety and reliability that we bring to our work every day. Since CEO Kai Kloepfer founded Biofire in 2016, the company has won respect and accolades from gun owners and supporters who believe in technology’s potential to help reduce firearm accidents, criminal misuse, suicides and other tragic outcomes.