Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a large number of startups twice a year. It created a new model for funding startups. Twice a year, the company invests a small amount of money ($150k) in a large number of startups. The startup accelerator works intensively with the companies for three months, to get them into the best possible shape and refine their pitch to investors. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day when the startups present their companies to a carefully selected, invite-only audience.

Y Combinator

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services, healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

Sequoia Capital

Formerly known as Youniversity Ventures, Y Ventures focuses on the internet consumer space and works primarily with students and first-time entrepreneurs. The three founders of the fund are Jawed Karim, Kevin Hartz, and Keith Rabois. Jawed was a co-founder at YouTube and was one of the earliest engineers at PayPal. Kevin co-founded Eventbrite, a popular event registration service. Kevin was also co-founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an international money transfer company providing service in over 30 countries. Keith leads business development and strategy for Slide. Prior to Slide, Keith ran business development and advertising sales for LinkedIn. The firm is no longer actively investing.

Y Ventures

We're Acequia Capital, a company and partnership with roots in New Mexico. We're industry partners and systems thinkers who love supporting founding teams in most fields.

Acequia Capital (AceCap)

Craft Ventures is an early-stage and growth venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies. Craft Ventures aims to support and scale innovative companies in various sectors including consumer, enterprise, and financial services. They often invest in companies with a strong founding team, a clear vision, and a scalable business model.

Craft Ventures

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY). It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

Greylock

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Their experience spans helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe Scale. Over the last 30 years of investing, their core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with a founder-first approach have driven our strategy. They are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. They support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging networks to help them propel their businesses forward.

SV Angel

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in seed, start-ups, early, mid-stage, growth, and late-stage. It prefers to invest in the social media business and technology sector with a focus on software, back-end infrastructure, the infrastructure of the Internet, cloud computing, enterprise software and services, consumer, business Internet, mobile-Internet, consumer Internet, cloud computing, data storage, social network browsers data-storage, consumer electronics, networking functions, software related biology, biotech, and medicine companies at the intersection of computer science and life sciences with a focus on digital therapeutics, cloud technology in biology, and computational medicine.

Andreessen Horowitz

General Catalyst is a venture capital firm that provides early-stage and growth equity investments. The company provides ongoing momentum that accelerates ideas, careers, and companies toward standout success.

General Catalyst

DST Global is an investment firm that funds late-stage ventures in the internet industry. Its investments include some of the world’s fastest-growing and most valuable companies. DST Global has offices in Menlo Park, New York, London, Beijing, and Hong Kong. The firm was founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, Saurabh Gupta, John Lindfors, Rahul Mehta, and Tom Stafford.

DST Global

A-Grade Investments is a venture capital fund founded by long-time friends Ashton Kutcher, Guy Oseary, and Ron Burkle to opportunistically invest in technology start-up companies.

A-Grade Investments

Axel Springer Digital Ventures is Axel Springer Groups' early-stage investment arm in Europe and in the US. The investment focus is on classified ad models / marketplaces, marketing models and companies in the digital publishing space.   Drawing upon the network and resources of one of Europe's leading largest media companies, Axel Springer Digital Ventures wants to be a value-add partner to companies that are complementary or disruptive to Axel Springer's business.  Axel Springer Group, founded in 1946, is Europe’s largest digital publishing house with leading positions in the European print and digital content as well as in the digital marketing and classifieds segments.   Based on the historically strong positions of BILD and DIE WELT in the German newspaper segment, Axel Springer has embarked on a determined growth strategy to digitize and internationalize its business already more than a decade ago. Axel Springer's digital media revenues in more than 40 countries worldwide already contribute almost 70 percent of total revenues today (compared to 2% in 2006).

Axel Springer Digital Ventures

Tuesday Capital (formerly known as CrunchFund) is a seed stage focused venture firm that invests in information technology enabled companies. In 2019 CrunchFund was rebranded as Tuesday Capital.

Tuesday Capital

Founders Fund is a venture capital firm that invests at every stage in companies building revolutionary technologies. It has been investors, founders, and early employees of prominent technology companies. It has historically invested in a wide variety of sectors, including aerospace, artificial intelligence, advanced computing, energy, health, and consumer Internet.

Founders Fund

TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a family of funds. TPG Capital is a private equity firm. The firm specializes in providing growth capital to firms in the consumer, healthcare, business services, internet, digital media & communications, software, and enterprise technology sectors. The company also makes real estate investments.

TCV provides capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry. It also provides management teams with data-driven insights, sector expertise, access to world-class talent, and connections with category leaders.  Founded in 1995, the Silicon Valley-headquartered firm has invested more than $14 billion in over 350 growth-stage technology companies to date. Some of its most prominent portfolio company exits include Airbnb, Facebook, Netflix, Peloton, and Zillow.

T. Rowe Price is an investment management firm dedicated to funding technology startups. The firm serves individuals, financial intermediaries, and institutions and offers a full range of investment strategies across a broad spectrum: debt, equities, and private equities.

T. Rowe Price

137 Ventures is a San Francisco-based growth-stage venture firm with an innovative investing model. The fund has a flexible mandate with an emphasis on structured transactions with founders, senior executives, early investors and early employees at venture-backed companies with proven business models. With more than $850 million of assets under management, the firm invests in companies across a broad range of areas including: space exploration, digital health, financial technology, enterprise SaaS, and consumer internet.

137 Ventures

Dragoneer is an investment firm that focuses on disruptive businesses and experiences at the intersection of public and private markets. The firm seeks to invest in seed, early-stage, growth, and later-stage businesses. The firm was founded in 2012 by Marc Stad and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Dragoneer Investment Group

Smile is Asia’s leading platform that builds internet businesses with passionate entrepreneurs. We partner with fast-growing companies for their expansion and invest in disruptive companies. Business Building We build and operate companies across multiple domains such as digital media, consumer internet, SaaS and more. We operate Tyroo, APAC’s Largest Multi-Screen Performance Network and SingleInterface, a location-based marketing company for multi-location enterprise retail brands. Some notable ones are as follows: -> Quasar sold to WPP -> SVG Media sold to Dentsu Aegis Network -> Squad Digital sold to Scan Group Partnerships (Katalyzers) We partner with fast growing technology companies to expand their business overseas. Our partnerships include Airbnb, WPP(Prodigi/Hogarth India), WPP Africa and more Investments We enable entrepreneurship by investing in disruptive companies. Our investments include Letsbuy.com, HackerEarth, Scoopwhoop, Yumlane, Rapido, Wealthy, The Man Company, Bira 91, Little Eye Labs and more Say Hello! info@smile.co.in

Smile Group

ACME Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm that invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms. Its purpose is to support those founders who choose to take their capital.  The firm was founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ACME Capital

General Atlantic is a private equity firm that provides capital and strategic support for growth companies. General Atlantic combines a collaborative approach, sector-specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon, and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to build market businesses.

General Atlantic

Founded in 2001, Tiger Global Management, LLC (“Tiger Global”) is a New York-based investment firm pursuing a long-term approach to investing in leading, global public and private companies that leverage technological innovation. Tiger Global’s public equity business includes fundamentally oriented long/short, long-focused and crossover strategies, targeting investments in high-quality, public growth companies. The private equity business invests in early through late stage companies that pursue innovative approaches to new and existing industries, building on over 20 years of experience investing in hundreds of businesses in more than 30 countries with more than 90 portfolio company IPOs. With a strong track record investing across sectors and stages, Tiger Global aims to be a thought partner to companies and their management teams across their lifecycle in public and private markets. The Firm’s mission is to generate world-class returns for its investors and to do so in a way that makes its employees, partners and portfolio companies proud.

Tiger Global Management

Founded in 2005, Hillhouse is a leading global investment management firm, active across public equity, private equity, real estate and private credit. The firm invests over a long-term horizon and partners with exceptional entrepreneurs to deliver sustainable value creation for quality companies. Hillhouse is a full life-cycle private equity firm, investing for the long term across opportunities in the healthcare, business services, consumer, and industrials sectors. The firm manages capital on behalf of global institutions such as non-profit foundations, endowments, and pensions.

Hillhouse Investment

Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm specializing in investing in early-stage, growth, and incubation companies. The firm continues that legacy, investing in founders with bold ideas that span industries and continents, partnering with them from inception to IPO and beyond to maximize the potential of their ideas. They also focus on early computer firms using their devices and programming and service companies. It also invests in the digital, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Kleiner Perkins

Fidelity is a privately owned investment management firm that serves a wide range of clients. It offers services including IRAs, 401(k) rollovers, annuities, discount brokerage, retirement planning, estate planning, wealth management, securities execution and clearance, and life insurance. Fidelity serves individual investors, businesses, financial advisors, and institutions. The firm manages equity, fixed-income, and balanced mutual funds, and invests in public equity and fixed-income markets worldwide. It also conducts in-house research to inform its investment decisions.

Fidelity

Horizons Ventures focuses on investing in disruptive and technology-focused start-ups. The firm was founded in 1999 and is based in Hong Kong. Some of the latest exits are Skype, Siri, Facebook, Summly, and Waze.

Horizons Ventures

Temasek Holdings is a lender provider. The company offers debt financing and focuses on transforming economies, increasing middle-income populations, developing comparative advantages, and emerging champions. Financial services, transportation, industrial, consumer, real estate, telecommunications, media, technology, and life sciences are among the industries served by the firm.

Temasek Holdings

CBC, founded by Dr. Edward Suning Tian in 2006, is a China-based private equity firm focusing on TMT investments. With its extensive industry expertise , CBC has been regarded as one of the most influential investors in the Internet and technology space in China, leading many exceptional investments in both the Enterprise and the Consumer Internet sectors. CBC leverages its operational background to create significant value for its portfolio companies. CBC currently manages multiple USD and RMB funds with a total AUM of over USD 2 billion and has built a strong portfolio consisting of leading industry companies such as 21Vianet, AsiaInfo, Longshine, Qiniu, Fraudmetrix, Dianping, Focus Media, Oriental Pearl, Babytree, Ximalaya, and Wacai.

CBC Capital

Slow Ventures is a community built on the collective experience and fueled by curiosity, Slow understands the entrepreneurial journey. Investing at the center of technology and on the edges of science, society, and culture, Slow gives founders the resources, connections, experiences, and empathy required to build strong, sustainable companies.

Slow Ventures

Wellington Management focuses on investment management. The company applies its full resources to meet the needs of the institutional clients they serve. Their investment approaches span equity, fixed income, currency, commodity, and alternative markets. They also offer asset allocation, multi-manager, and speciality approaches.

Wellington Management

Baillie Gifford is an independently owned investment management firm. It is owned and run by 39 of its senior executives, who operate as a partnership, a structure that has endured for over a century and provides stability for clients and motivation for employees. It enables them to manage the business for the future as well as the present, with an emphasis on genuine long-term thinking rather than lurching haplessly between short-term targets.

Baillie Gifford

MVP is a principal investor and advisory specializing in the secondary market for private venture-backed technology companies. MVP pioneered the institutionalization of this once-democratized asset class. Since 2010, the partners at MVP VC have been integral in the institutionalization of the Direct Secondary market. We are pioneers in this space, and the partners have collectively engaged in more than $10B of primary and secondary venture investments. Our belief is that Direct Secondaries are the evolution of the Secondary LP investing strategy established in the early 1980s and should be treated accordingly. MVP differentiates itself through its unique research and ability to streamline the secondary process by being a principal and advisory to private companies and their shareholders, as well as GPs and LPs. This is accomplished by bringing together the full expertise of our Secondary as a Service™ platform, investment banking expertise, research team, and the All-Star Funds (~$1B AUM Jan 2022).

Manhattan Venture Partners (MVP)

Groupe Arnault SAS is a principal investment firm. The firm seeks to hold stake in companies and is owned and controlled by Mr. Bernard Arnault. Groupe Arnault SAS was founded in 1978 and is based in Paris, France.

Groupe Arnault

Notable Capital is named for the founders we invest with, the ideas they pursue, the causes they champion, and the remarkable companies they build. Notable is a U.S.-based venture capital firm focused on early-to-growth stage companies in cloud infrastructure and business and consumer applications across the U.S., Israel, Europe, Latin America, and select go-global opportunities. Notable portfolio companies include Affirm, Airbnb, Block, Brightwheel, Drata, Handshake, HashiCorp, Ibotta, Orca Security, Quince, Slack, Slice, StockX, Stori, Vercel, Zendesk, and more.

Notable Capital

FirstMark is a venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm's mission is to partner with exceptional entrepreneurs who are changing the world by solving meaningful problems. FirstMark has proudly backed founders of remarkable businesses like Pinterest, Shopify, DraftKings, Discord, Airbnb, and dozens more.

FirstMark

CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, invests in remarkable companies transforming the fields of consumer products and services, enterprise tech, cybersecurity, fintech, cryptocurrency, and transportation tech. CapitalG partners with growth-stage companies in their transition from startup to scale-up through hands-on assistance from its in-house growth team and connections to Google's engineering, product, marketing, sales, and people operations experts worldwide. More than 2,500 Googlers and Alphabet leaders have already engaged with CapitalG portfolio companies, including Airbnb, Collibra, CrowdStrike, Curated, DCG, Duolingo, Freshworks, Gusto, ID.me, Lyft, Robinhood, Stripe, UiPath, Whatnot, among others.

CapitalG

Altimeter Capital is a technology-focused investment firm based in Menlo Park, CA and Boston, MA.  Altimeter manages a long/short public equity fund and growth-stage private capital funds.

Altimeter Capital

Glade Brook Capital Partners focuses on companies in the technology, media, telecom, and consumer sectors.  Glade Brook specializes in technology growth equity, the Firms' experience investing across private and public markets, and a network of company management teams, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders foster unique deal flow.  It was founded in 2011 by Paul Hudso.

Glade Brook Capital Partners

Geodesic Capital is a venture capital firm that provides mid and later-stage investments to firms in the consumer technology industry. They assist entrepreneurs who are expanding into Asia, beginning with Japan. They provide unrivalled access to senior-level executives, partners, and government officials that portfolio firms require to prosper abroad.

Geodesic Capital

Seek Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests globally in technology and internet companies through their growth phase.

Seek Ventures

ICONIQ Growth partners with exceptional entrepreneurs and leaders who drive global impact and change. The firm is inspired by visionaries defining the future of their industries by building company cultures that endure. ICONIQ Growth has a unique investment platform harnesses the power of ICONIQ Capital’s vibrant ecosystem of founders, pioneers, and business leaders with the goal of delivering tangible value and amplifying our portfolio companies’ success from early growth stage to IPO and beyond. ICONIQ Growth’s portfolio of innovators includes Adyen, AirBnB, Alibaba, Alteryx, Automattic, BambooHR, Braze, Chime, Collibra, Coupa, Datadog, Docusign, Gitlab, Marqeta, Miro, Procore, Red Ventures, Relativity, ServiceTitan, Snowflake, Sprinklr, Truckstop, Uber, Wolt, and Zoom, among others.

ICONIQ Growth

Silver Lake is a global technology investment firm focused solely on making large-scale investments in leading technology companies. They are partners to world-class management teams that seek to use their capital and expertise to build and extend their market leadership. seeks to formulate its investments to enable growth and frequently employs conservative capital structures designed to drive aggressive investment in new initiatives, innovation, and business expansion. Their core investment thesis is that the technology industries represent an extraordinary yet under-exploited target for large-scale private investments. The firm also seeks to cultivate proprietary or specialized investment opportunities not typically available to generalist investors. It devotes its full scope of talent and intellectual capital to the singular mission of investing in the world’s technology, technology-enabled businesses, and related growth businesses. Silver Lake was established in 1999 by David Roux, Glenn Hutchins, Jim Davidson, and Roger McNamee and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Silver Lake

Sixth Street Partners is a financial services company that provides solutions for companies. Their solutions include healthcare, digital media, fund, real estate, and market solutions. Their market solutions platform provides products for markets, market investing, and market solutions.

Sixth Street

Cube is the family office founded by the Rancilio family in 2013, after the sale of the espresso machine company founded in 1927 by our grandfather Roberto. The Rancilio family managed its company for three generations, during the course of which it became a leading global espresso producer. After selling the family business, we created Rancilio Cube. Cube focuses on venture, growth and impact investments, and makes both direct and fund investments. With regard to direct investments, we invested in companies such as Lyft (made in 2015, we consider it as our ''cornerstone'' venture/growth investment), Sennder, N26, SpaceX, Airbnb, Wise, 23andme, Uber, Flexport, Deliveroo, SumUp, Capsule, Coursera, Lyst, Omaze, Prodigy Finance, Taboola, Applause, Reef, Rapyd, Logz.io, Tier, Toast, Bnext, Treedom, Casavo and many more.  Cube also makes limited partner investments in international VC funds: examples include Pelion, Earlybird DE, Cherry Venture, Foundation Capital, Khosla, NEA, Lake Star, Hoxton Venture, Hetz, Glilot, Cavalry, Bessemer, Omega, Blue Lion, TCV, Firstmark, Seedcamp, Holtzbrinck, OWL, Better Tomorrow, Zetta, DST, Jackson Square Venture, GSquared, Speedinvest, Target GlobaI, Aspect Ventures, Oxford Science Innovation, Triodos Organic Growth and other funds. From 2022 we are a fully compliant investment company for professional investors. We got an embedded global network, with a particularly deep and wide set of relationships in the Us/European investment and corporate markets. Cube goes out of its way to open up its networks for the benefit of the companies and funds in which it has invested.

Rancilio Cube Sicaf

Times Internet builds premium digital products that simplify and enhance the everyday lives of people.  We are India’s largest digital products company with presence in a wide range of categories across news, entertainment, marketplaces and transactions. Many of our products are market leaders and iconic brands in their own right. TOI, ET, Cricbuzz, Gaana, MX Player, Dineout, Indiatimes, MensXP, iDiva, NBT,  Gradeup among others are products that bring you closer to your interests and aspirations.  Website - http://www.timesinternet.in Industry - Internet  Company size - 1,001-5,000 employees Headquarters Gurgaon, Haryana  Type - Privately Held  Founded 1999  Specialities e-commerce, Advertisement Solutions, News and Entertainment, Start-up acceleration, Music streaming services, AdTech, Merger & A, Acquisition, Sports, Classified, and Startup Investment

Times Internet

Bull & Bear is a diversified global macro fund that allocates to a range of investment vehicles and proprietary discretionary strategies. The Fund capitalizes on the moderate to low correlations of the component strategies and offers the potential to provide strong risk-adjusted returns in a variety of market environments. The Fund's previous private equity investments include SpaceX, Neuralink, Airbnb, Palantir, Headspace Health, Synaps DX, Decision Sciences International Corporation, Verishop.

Bull & Bear

Airbnb

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

Wingspan is a payroll, benefits, and onboarding platform that focuses predominantly on companies relying on independent contractors. Wingspan aims to consolidate various tools used by mid-market businesses into an all-in-one platform that links payroll, benefits, and onboarding for freelancers. It provides onboarding and management tools, performs background checks, and enables same-day payments. Employers get automated workflows for generating and filing contractor 1099 tax forms and can offer contractors discounted insurance through the platform. Wingspan also uses AI and machine learning to streamline tasks like categorizing expenses.The contractor benefits offered by Wingspan include tax withholdings and payments; income and expense tracking; invoicing; and health, vision, and dental insurance. Wingspan also offers concierge support for financial and legal issues as well as telemedicine and prescription savings. The platform’s onboarding services include automated compliance with tax and other regulations and transparent payment services.Wingspan uses a subscription-based business model, generating revenue per monthly active payees (MAPs), priced at USD 8-10 per month per individual.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsAs of March 2023, Wingspan claimed to have hundreds of enterprise clients and over 20,000 members on the platform. The company serves a broad and diverse customer base that relies on freelancers as a critical part of its workforce.The platform offers integration with accounting software like QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, NetSuite, FreshBooks, and Zoho Books, as well as HR software like Gusto HR, ADP, Rippling, Namely, BambooHR, and DocuSign. Wingspan allows for Single Sign-On (SSO) and Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) through a single set of credentials such as okta and Google. The platform also enables users to sync invoices, payables, and contractors from their existing project management systems like Airtable and Google Sheets. Moreover, Wingspan provides an open API for custom integrations.Funding and financialsIn <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17119">March 2023</a>, Wingspan raised USD 14 million in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The fresh funds were allocated for product expansion and hiring, as it planned to double its 20-person team by the end of the year.

Facial recognition delivers incredible convenience to consumers, as well as serious risks.

Facial Recognition

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 ID.me provides a digital wallet and identity verification services. It puts users in control of data and how they use the digital wallet to access benefits and services. The company offers a range of services, including Digital Wallet that allows access to government services and benefits; Identity Verification; Government Services; Discounts and Cash Back providing big discounts and cash backs from over 5,000 stores; and Prescription Services that enable savings of up to USD 95 per prescription through the Rx Card.
 
 
 
 
 ID.me operates on a B2B and B2C sales model. It provides special discounts for military personnel, nurses, teachers, medical providers, first responders, and EMT and government employees. Moreover, any savings obtained through the ID.me Rx Program cannot be combined with insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and other discounts in a single transaction.
 
 
 
 
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 ID.me has partnerships with 31 states, multiple federal agencies, and over 500 name brand retailers. Moreover, it has over 112 members and is accepted by more than 600 partners. Shopify is considered to be the company&rsquo;s largest partner. Meanwhile, it serves a customer base across the retailers, healthcare, financial services, and travel and leisure industries, as well as government agencies. Apple, Amazon, Yeti, Lenovo, and Ford are among ID.me&rsquo;s customers.
 
 
 
 
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 ID.me raised USD 132 million from its latest funding round in April 2023. This was a Series D round led by Viking Global Investors, and the funds raised were used to build the company&rsquo;s secure digital identity network.
 
 
 
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Alternative Living

Zeus Living is a furnished corporate housing provider operating in major cities across the US, including San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Seattle, Washington DC, and New York. The company offers professionals the flexibility to live in different locations without sacrificing the comforts of home. Zeus Living primarily caters to business travelers, relocating employees, and individuals requiring short-term housing solutions for extended stays of 30 days or longer.
Zeus Living's accommodations include apartments, houses, and condominiums, outfitted with amenities like high-speed WiFi, in-unit laundry facilities, handpicked furnishings from reputable brands, and essential household items. The company's operations teams provide 24/7 support for property maintenance and special requests, ensuring a seamless living experience for residents.
As of October 2019, Zeus Living had a portfolio of 1,600 homes across its operational markets. Since its inception in 2015, the company has served over 27,000 residents. Zeus Living has established partnerships with companies such as Bird, ServiceTitan, HackerOne, and Samsara to provide corporate housing solutions.

Travel Tech

The Dutch company, Tiqets, offers a platform that allows users to book tickets to museums and attractions such as studio tours, zoos, historic buildings, and stadiums and arenas located across Europe, the US (expanded in 2017), South America, and APAC (2018). The platform allows flexible cancellation options on all of its venue offerings and offers travellers a curated list of top museums and attractions based on their ratings, along with seasonal deals and early-bird discounts. Bookings can be made via a web browser or the Tiqets mobile app (launched in 2016).The company also offers B2B revenue solutions through its “Tiqets for Venues” platform, geared toward museums and attractions. The platform consists of merchandising tools to increase yield per customer, a booking engine to manage visitor capacity, and a ticketing solution to manage revenue. In July 2020, the company updated its booking engine with new options, including time-slot-based ticketing, dynamic pricing for off-peak days, and free reservations for members. In exchange for using the Tiqets booking engine, Tiqets charges tour operators from a performance-based revenue share model. From this, average commissions amount to 8%–12%, based on each ticket sale.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Tiqets had sold more than 40 million tickets through its platform, while its mobile app was downloaded by more than 3.9 million users. Key customers for the Tiqets for Venues platform include leading museums and attractions such as Guggenheim, Albertina, and Casa Batlló.Partnerships with Big Tech firms include that with Apple (November 2021), allowing iOS users to book tickets directly on Apple Maps, and Google (September 2018) to offer admission tickets from Tiqets for museums and attractions via Maps, Search, and Google Assistant to users. Inventory integrations included that with Klook (September 2022), Trip.com (July 2022), bookingkit (April 2021), and Ticketbar (March 2021). Other partnerships included that with KLIA Ekspres (June 2019) and QYER (October 2018).

Samara is a home services company that provides home renovation, interior design, and architectural services.

Wingspan is a platform for freelancers to manage income, benefits, and taxes. Its platform sends invoices with tools that make receiving payments easier, automatically handles bookkeeping and expenses, and finds tax deductions.

Nestment streamlines the co-buy process for groups of friends and family who want to purchase property together. They help groups leverage their collective buying power and realize their dreams.

Trala is a developer of a music education application used to teach users to play the violin. Its application offers tutorials, daily lessons, and real-time feedback on mistakes, and its advanced signal processing technology recognizes chords in a busy intersection, providing users with a convenient, affordable, and effective way to learn the violin. The app gives instant feedback on mistakes through signal processing and has thousands of video tutorials from famous violinists. It was founded in 2017 and has its headquarters in Chicago, Illinois.

ID.me simplifies how individuals prove and share their identities online. The ID.me secure digital identity network has more than 72 million members with over 145,000 new subscribers joining daily,  including 29 states, 10 federal agencies, and over 500 retail brands. The company provides identity proofing, authentication, and group affiliation verification for organizations across sectors. ID.me technology meets federal standards and the company is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 conformant credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is the only provider with video chat and is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity.

Zeus Living is a property management company, rents furnished housing properties to startups, students, and companies in the Bay Area, Seattle, Los Angeles, and the District of Columbia. It also manages furnished properties on behalf of property owners.

Tiqets is a ticketing platform where visitors can find, buy, and use tickets for museums and attractions. The company providing travelers with hassle-free entrance and with instant and mobile tickets. It also connects travelers with instant, last-minute, mobile tickets to top museums and attractions all over the world. Tiqets allow museum-goers to buy e-tickets ahead of time on their smartphones without having to wait in long lines. It also offers museums and attractions technology that helps increase onsite conversion and marketing tools to encourage customers to become repeat visitors. The company has successfully connected the largest venues in European, the US & Middle East.  Tiqets was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and with offices in London, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Philadelphia, Tokyo, Vienna, Rome, Paris, Seattle, Barcelona, and Las Vegas.

Atlas Obscura is an online magazine and travel company that catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations via user-generated content. The editorial articles comprise a mixture of features and news articles on topics including history, science, and food, in addition to travel and exploration, as well as hosting a collaborative, definitive guide to the world's most obscure places. Author Joshua Foer and documentary filmmaker and author Dylan Thuras founded it in 2009 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Lyric designs accommodations for business travelers. They design, install, and manage in-house they created a housing solution built for real estate. They help owners and managers of rental properties.

OYO is a global platform that aims to empower entrepreneurs and small businesses with hotels and homes by providing full-stack technology products and services that aims to increase revenue and ease operations; bringing easy-to-book, affordable, and trusted accommodation to customers around the world. OYO offers 40+ integrated products and solutions to patrons who operate over 157K hotel and home storefronts in more than 35 countries including India, Europe, and Southeast Asia. OYO was founded by Ritesh Agarwal, one of the first Asian residents to be accepted to the Thiel Fellowship (started by Paypal founder Peter Thiel). OYO operates a unique business model that helps its patrons transform fragmented, unbranded and underutilized hospitality assets into branded, digitally-enabled storefronts with higher revenue generation potential and provides its customers with access to a broad range of high-quality storefronts at compelling price points.  Owners and operators of over 157K storefronts use the OYO platform to manage all mission-critical aspects of their business operations. OYO’s comprehensive, full-stack technology suite integrates more than 40 products and services across digital sign-up and onboarding, revenue management, daily business management and D2C stacks into two flagship patron applications, Co-OYO and OYO OS. This enables patrons to have a significant digital presence across OYO’s extensive distribution network.   OYO customers can book storefronts through OYO’s own D2C channels and through indirect channels with third-party OTAs. The OYO App offers a variety of digital tools to guide customers throughout their journey, including discovery, seamless booking, pre-stay assistance, cancellations, digital check-ins as well as in-stay and post-stay services. With over 100 mn downloads, the OYO App was the 3rd most downloaded travel app in 2020. OYO Wizard, OYO’s loyalty program, has 9.2 million members and is the second largest loyalty program run by a travel or food brand in India, by subscriber base.

The Wing is a network of work and community spaces designed for women with locations in New York, California, and Washington, D.C. The Wing’s mission is the professional, civic, social, and economic advancement of women through the community.

The NYS Rural Housing Coalition. is a network of rural housing professionals who work toward a common goal: to design, develop, finance, build and manage affordable housing to meet the diverse needs of rural New Yorkers Members share their knowledge and expertise to attain this goal.

GMHC is a not-for-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization committed to national leadership in the fight against AIDS. We provide prevention and care services to men, women and families that are living with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS in New York City. We advocate for scientific, evidence-based public health solutions for hundreds of thousands worldwide.

Women In Need is a provider of shelter and services for homeless families in NYC. Since 1983, Win has been helping homeless New York City women and their children transform their lives through a progressive and holistic approach that doesn’t simply provide a hand out, but a way out. Win’s life-changing process starts with safe, clean housing and includes vital programs and services – developed to break the cycle of homelessness, so the women and children who are caught in the cycle can look forward to a brighter future.

The New York Immigration Coalition aims to achieve a fairer and more just society that values the contributions of immigrants.

The New York Mortgage Coalition (NYMC) is a nonprofit collaboration of financial institutions and community housing agencies focused on expanding the opportunity for responsible and sustainable homeownership to minority, and low and moderate income individuals and families in the five boroughs of New York City, as well as the surrounding counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, and Westchester.   NYMC supports its neighborhood-based nonprofit members in their pre-purchase counseling, post-purchase education, and financial literacy programs. Coalition members provide the public with access to the tools to achieve the dream of homeownership including information on competitive, fixed-rate loans, closing cost grants, and down payment assistance. NYMC also supports its member agencies who play a leading role in preserving homeownership offering informational workshops and one-on-one counseling to troubled homeowners through foreclosure prevention programs.

CSNYC’s mission is to ensure that all of New York City’s 1.1 million public school students have access to a high-quality computer science education that puts them on a pathway to college and career success.

Abyssinian Development Corporation is a non-profit community development corporation dedicated to building the human, social and physical capital of Harlem. Founded in 1989, Abyssinian Development Corporation is a not-for-profit comprehensive community and economic development corporation dedicated to building the human, social, and physical capital in Harlem. In 1987, Reverend Dr. Calvin O. Butts, III encouraged The Abyssinian Baptist Church parishioners to work to rebuild this community brick by brick and block by block. From that time, ADC has grown into a nationally renowned entity at the forefront of the community development field. ADC has leveraged over $600 million of investments in the Harlem community, and has over 130 employees.

AirTripStay is a service company which supports your residential accommodation business introduction and operation. The company provides services in management agency, preparation, and setup. They also offer tools that can be centrally managed such as multiple account management, guest management, vacant room and calendar management, cleaning automatic arrangement and check-in management. AirTripStay upport the creation of the account of Airbnb and the creation of the introduction sentence that appeals to the attractiveness of the room. It also offers financial support for the introduction of interiors, furniture, home appliances, and rental.  AirTripStay is based in Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Our mission is to power the world’s best restaurants, using technology to imagine the future of hospitality. We serve 5,000 restaurants globally. Our customers discover the amazing world of restaurants thanks to our content-rich website and innovative mobile app. Our diners are insiders, and we love having them at the table.

Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the Internet. The company connects travelers seeking authentic experiences with hosts offering unique, inspiring spaces. Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes the process of listing or booking a space effortless and efficient. With 4,500,000 listings in over 65,000 cities in 191 countries, the company offers the widest variety of unique spaces for everyone at any price point around the globe.

<div> Airbnb is an online community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through mobile phones or the internet. The company connects travelers seeking authentic experiences with hosts offering unique, inspiring spaces. Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes the process of listing or booking a space effortless and efficient. With 4,500,000 listings in over 65,000 cities in 191 countries, the company offers the widest variety of unique spaces for everyone, at any price point around the globe. The company was co-founded in August 2008 by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California. </div>

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Companies that provide communal-living (co-living) spaces with separate or shared living spaces.

Companies that function on an owner-operator model or as a third party platform to provide fully furnished apartments/ houses for rent as a "ready-to-live" service for customers either on a month-to-month basis, or shorter/ longer stays as decided by the customer.

Companies that construct tiny or micro homes, often with reduced building/ assembly times with added eco-friendly elements.

Companies that construct mobile tiny or micro homes which can be attached to a vehicle to be transported.

Companies that develop housing that is designed to withstand and mitigate the impact of natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornadoes using resilient building materials or special features.

Companies that develop solutions which support alternative living styles with solutions such as multipurpose and manoeuvrable furniture, modular sleeping pods, smart motorized storage solutions etc.

Platforms to search, compare, plan, and/or book flights, hotels, buses, trains and travel packages.

Platforms to search, compare, plan, and book alternative lodging in privately owned properties, including apartments and homes

Platforms to search, compare, plan, and book tours, events, and other travel-related recreational activities

Providers of corporate travel management solutions that help businesses with planning, controlling, tracking, and reporting on business travel activities, as well as distribution solutions and B2B booking engines

Car rental and ride-sharing solutions for long-distance travel

Providers of battery-powered luggage products equipped with technologies such as USB charging, built-in scales, TSA-approved locks, and real-time location tracking via GPS and cellular networks

Providers of technology-enabled solutions to enhance the guest experience, such as contactless and automated check-in services.

Providers of technology-based solutions for accommodation providers, tour/experience operators to optimize revenue and operations.

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NYSE-listed EV charging company, ChargePoint, is collaborating with Airbnb to offer packages that allow US-based Airbnb hosts to easily buy and set up EV charging facilities. A dedicated website containing ChargePoint hardware, charger management software, installation and support services will be available for hosts. Guests can utilize the ChargePoint app to charge their electric vehicles.
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 In <a href="https: 
//sp-edge.com/updates/29225"> April 2024 </a> , ChargePoint also partnered with Jumptech, an electrification installation management platform. The two companies aim to provide an efficient home charger installation experience for fleet ChargePoint customers and reduce the average time from charger order to installation.

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