IOTA Foundation

IOTA The Backbone of IOT is here. The main innovation behind IOTA is the Tangle, a revolutionary new blockless distributed ledger which is scalable, lightweight and for the first time ever makes it possible to transfer value without any fees.

CloudQuant

The Incubator for Trading Strategies. CloudQuant is the first free cloud-based exchange trading strategy simulation engine where you create your own trading algo, you own the algo, and we fund the execution of the algo.

Angelstreet

<p>Provider of an Internet-based private capital marketplace.</p>

ACTIV Financial Systems, Inc.

<p>Financial market data vendor delivering complete market data systems, full market data management and global coverage.</p>

True Partners Consulting LLC

<p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li><p>True Partners Consulting is a tax and business advisory firm that combines a fresh approach to tax services with well-known expertise.</p></li><li><p>TPC serves as its clients’ advocate.&nbsp; TPC’s employees combine passion and talent with intelligent problem solving to help each client realize their financial goals.</p></li><li><p>TPC provides an atmosphere for its employees that celebrates and promotes collaboration, responsiveness and innovation.</p></li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

TextHog

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="p1">Texthog is a service to track your budgets and expenses online.&nbsp;</p>

The Deal League

<p>Deal flow matters.<br><br>Get market intelligence for early stage, growth capital, and middle market deals.<br><br>Proprietary and brokered deals for venture capital, private equity,&nbsp;investors, public and private companies, family offices, lenders and advisors</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

TechMoola.com

<p><span><strong><a href="http://www.techmoola.com">TechMoola.com</a></strong> is a leading online platform for startup companies to do&nbsp;technology-focused&nbsp;project fundraising. We enable inventors and tech&nbsp;entrepreneurs to crowdfund capital needs as well as crowdsource to build a base for marketing, new partnership and clients. As featured in&nbsp;</span><i>Crain&#39;s Chicago Business</i><span>,&nbsp;</span><i>The Huffington Post</i><span>,&nbsp;</span><i>The Economist</i><span>&nbsp;and others.&nbsp;</span></p> <p>Unlike other popular sites which feature &quot;technology&quot; but actually host artistic ventures or design projects/products that mainly are additions/accessories to existing products, we focus exclusively on novel, innovative, homegrown, American technologies. We insist on the most innovative technologies and inventions for our site and indeed there is a lot out there that can benefit from a crowdfunding platform such as ours.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Who are we?</strong></p> <p>Our company was founded by scientists and social entrepreneurs and we feel crowdfunding is the future in empowering small businesses and new inventors to bring innovation back to our country and economy.</p> <p>Our main goal is to empower people with ideas, reward risk-takers and make society better by giving people a chance to materialize their dreams through the power of crowds.</p> <p>The world needs innovative solutions to our most pressing problems and there are good, capable, smart people out there working on them. With <a href="http://www.TechMoola.com">TechMoola.com</a>, we hope to bring innovation back to our country, society, economy and the world that we depend on and are deeply connected to.</p> <p><strong>What we do</strong></p> <p>The power of democracy has come to the funding world in full scale. It is a quiet revolution that&#39;s been taking place over the past 2 years, one that is redistributing power from the hands of the privileged elite such as banks, high net-worth individuals and venture groups to the everyday man who can use his own common sense and judgment of societal needs and not bottom-line profit considerations to fund, promote and be associated with something that is important to them and which they feel will make a difference in their interdependent and interconnected world. From here on out, patronage will no longer be the privilege of the wealthy any more. With sites like <a href="http://www.TechMoola.com">TechMoola.com</a>, anyone can be the patron of an invention as long as it is funded through a crowdfunding service.</p>

StarBlock.com

Entrepreneurial platform for crowd ranking, model validation and sourcing capital relationships. Ideas + Mentors + Capital = GDP growth

Smart Mobile Solutions

<p id="u442-5">Smart Mobile Solutions is a creative software development company based in the Greater Chicagoland Area. We are an innovative leader in the development of mobile apps for different mobile devices. Our company also provides software development, R&amp;D, prototyping, integration with other software systems, QA and consulting.</p><p id="u442-6">&nbsp;</p><p id="u442-10">For more information, go to <a class="nonblock" href="http://www.smartmobilesolutions.com">http://www.smartmobilesolutions.com</a></p>

Cornerstone Angels

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Cornerstone Angels is a membership-based private investment group composed of successful entrepreneurs and business executives. The group seeks to provide financial capital, mentorship, and advisory support to high growth organizations. The company will consider opportunities nationally, but is focused on the greater Midwest given its Northbrook, IL base.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">The group invests across sectors with particular interest within Software, Media &amp; Entertainment, Mobile, Manufacturing &amp; Industrial, Consumer/Retail &amp; Food/Beverage, Business Services, Healthcare Services and CleanTech. We do not currently invest in Life Sciences, Biotech, or Real Estate.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Our goal is to provide our financial and mentor capital to help build a dynamic entrepreneurial and investor community in the Midwest, though we do consider opportunities across the country. To work towards this goal, we target opportunities which can grow quickly into large sustainable businesses, and which will fuel innovation and job creation within our region.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">We target companies raising $500K to $3MM. Our sweet spot for initial investment is in the range of $100K to $500K. With these considerations, we are either involved as a single party in a small round or as part of a larger round. Based on the specific financing needs, our investments have ranged from as little as $10k up to ~$1MM, and through our network and alliances with multiple investment parties, we can be helpful in bringing together syndicates of several million dollars.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Cornerstone Angels is a member of the Angel Capital Association and is active in collaboration and syndication with Angel groups nationwide. We actively support companies and entrepreneurs under funding consideration by making introductions to other parties as relevant and based on interest.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Through our efforts since our launch we have built a portfolio of 31 companies.</span></p>

Independence Equity Management, LLC

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Independence Equity is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in companies commercializing technologies that improve resource utilization.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial; line-height: 18px;">The inspiration for the Independence Equity Fund stems from observations made by its founding partners while building, advising and investing in early-stage companies during the last decade. These observations include the growing demand for and depletion of natural resources; the ability of entrepreneurs to solve such problems through innovation; and the inefficiency of capital markets in financing early-stage technologies, especially within the Fund’s targeted investment theme (see criteria). The Fund seeks to capitalize on these observations by providing entrepreneurs with capital to commercialize their innovations and create long-term capital appreciation.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial;">&nbsp;</p>

Fiscal Fin

<p>Financial Guidance. Simplified.</p><p>Disrupting the way individual investors find financial advisors. Allowing users to search, screen and hire the best professional based on their preferences.</p>

Harvest Exchange Corp

<p>Harvest brings the world's investors together</p><ul><li>Connect with over 800 financial firms including the largest Investment Managers in the world.</li><li>Access more than 15,000 investment ideas and perspectives while sharing your own with friends and followers.</li><li>Manage your own simulated real-time long/short portfolio to build your investment track record, or to simply learn more about investing.</li></ul>

50/57 FUND

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">How do you grow your money and outperform the major indices without risk to principal? The new 50/57 Fund is designed to create a safe, worry-free investment allocation in the equity market that enables investors to grow capital in bull markets, hedge their investment in bear markets, and generate long-term cumulative returns far exceeding the S&amp;P 500 benchmark over the long-term.&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">The 50/57 fund strategy since its 2008 inception has generated almost four times the cumulative returns of the S&amp;P 500 with half of the risk (76.16% vs.19.47%).&nbsp;</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">Previously, the 50/57 fund was exclusively used as an proprietary hedging strategy for the long-only SML Capital Activist Fund (2008-2013).</span></p>

ClearNDA

<div>ClearNDA was developed to address the challenges in NDA negotiation for investment banking and has proven to be applicable in contract negotiations in most industries. &nbsp;When negotiating legal agreements there are often version control issues and there is no certainty that a document wasn’t changed prior to being signed by a counterparty. This problem is magnified when dealing with multiple NDAs across multiple organizations (as is currently done in investment banking, private equity and real estate). &nbsp;We want to minimize the potential for risk and reduce the the time people spend on tedious work.&nbsp;</div>

InHub

<p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">InHub lets investment professionals and fiduciaries complete the traditional request for proposal process in an efficient way, saving lots of time and money.</span></p>

Red Leaf Capital

<div class="product_desc editable_region" style="margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="show" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 1.07692em; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Bitcoin is maturing from a hobbyist experiment to a serious financial instrument. Institutional investors, traders, and money managers want access to trading tools and services to connect themselves with the bitcoin economy. Those services do not exist and this is preventing many of them from trading bitcoin.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">We are building an SEC registered broker dealer that can transact in bitcoin for institutional customers. Our team of industry veterans is building a brokerage that will allow US based fund managers to actively trade bitcoin across multiple trading venues from one account. Red Leaf Capital will provide institutional customers with custodial account services, statements, third party valuation, and access to bitcoin lending.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Red Leaf Capital is not an exchange or a payment processor. We are building a brokerage where world class proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and money managers can trade across multiple exchanges.</p></div></div></div><div class="subtitle tech" data-tips_selector="tech" style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 1.39286em; font-size: 1.07692em; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">TECHNOLOGY</div><div class="editable_region tech" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="show" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-size: 1.07692em; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The technology that Red Leaf uses is relatively straight forward for those involved in the electronic trading business. It breaks out into two major components. Order routing and management, and back-office accounting.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Customary electronic trading operations operate what is known as a FIX gateway. This allows customers to send orders and receive confirmations and transaction data in real-time using an industry standard FIX protocol. Once an order is sent into our gateway, we will check it against several measures including checking the overall risk of the customers account and other high-frequency trading checks. Then depending on the type of order it is routed out to the appropriate exchange. The "order router" is a common phrase used in electronic trading to describe the technology that determines where and how an order is routed. We have extensive buy-side and sell-side experience building order routers.</p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</p></div></div></div><div class="tech_tags g-form" data-existing="[{&quot;id&quot;:4251665,&quot;new_taggable_field&quot;:&quot;tags_tech&quot;,&quot;new_taggable_id&quot;:361884,&quot;new_taggable_type&quot;:&quot;Startup&quot;,&quot;new_tag&quot;:{&quot;display_name&quot;:&quot;FIX Protocol&quot;,&quot;slug_url&quot;:&quot;https://angel.co/fix-protocol&quot;}},{&quot;id&quot;:4251666,&quot;new_taggable_field&quot;:&quot;tags_tech&quot;,&quot;new_taggable_id&quot;:361884,&quot;new_taggable_type&quot;:&quot;Startup&quot;,&quot;new_tag&quot;:{&quot;display_name&quot;:&quot;FIX Order Management&quot;,&quot;slug_url&quot;:&quot;https://angel.co/fix-order-management&quot;}},{&quot;id&quot;:4593636,&quot;new_taggable_field&quot;:&quot;tags_tech&quot;,&quot;new_taggable_id&quot;:361884,&quot;new_taggable_type&quot;:&quot;Startup&quot;,&quot;new_tag&quot;:{&quot;display_name&quot;:&quot;Bloomberg Lp&quot;,&quot;slug_url&quot;:&quot;https://angel.co/bloomberg-lp-1&quot;}}]" data-field="tags_tech" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="association_container" style="margin: 1.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;</div></div><p>&nbsp;</p>

Backersphere

<p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.9999389648438px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">For innovative or social impact startups and backers, Backersphere is the only managed crowdfunding ecosystem that provides open access to equity and the crowd.</p><p style="margin: 14px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.9999389648438px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">For Startups&nbsp;<br>* Find your crowd to leverage crowdsourcing, crowd-based social media marketing, and 100s or 1000s of early adopters and evangelists.&nbsp;<br>* Equity crowdfunding provides financing on exceptional terms and gives the crowd “skin in the game.”&nbsp;<br>* Backersphere manages all investments directly. Tap into the crowd without chasing down 100s or 1000s of individual signatures.</p><p style="margin: 14px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, freesans, 'liberation sans', 'numbus sans l', sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20.9999389648438px; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">For Backers&nbsp;<br>* Change the world by funding and contributing your talents, social networks, and enthusiasm to startups with innovative products, services, or social impact missions.&nbsp;<br>* Equity crowdfunding means backers share financially in the success they help create.&nbsp;<br>* Backersphere manages all investments directly. Get access to equity in screened and vetted startups with as little as $25 and no special knowledge, net worth, or income requirements.</p><p class="no-styles">&nbsp;</p><p class="no-styles">&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

Chicago Trading Company

Chicago Trading Company is a highly analytical, team oriented derivatives trading firm that employs a dynamic, disciplined approach to trading across a variety of products and strategies. We take decisive action to position ourselves at the forefront of the financial markets.