The Future of Money & Technology Summit is pleased to partner with organizations who are leaders in their industries. If you’d like to get YOUR company involved as a sponsor at The 8th Future of Money & Technology Summit in Spring 2020, please submit a sponsorship inquiry here.
New Alchemy is a boutique strategy and technology advisory and investment group specializing in tokenization. One of only a handful of companies able to offer a full spectrum of guidance from tactical technical execution to high-level theoretical modeling, New Alchemy provides technology, token game theory, security audits, and ICO marketing, strategy, and facilitation to the most innovative startups and tokenization projects worldwide.
Our attorneys, located in San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, with affiliated firms in New York City and Nashville, provide a broad array of advisory, transactional and litigation services including drafting and review of entertainment industry contracts, sale and licensing of content, intellectual property registration and management, entity formation, venture financings and mergers & acquisitions transactions. Our depth and breadth of experience in the entertainment and technology sectors enable us to provide our clients with access to significant contacts and resources that would otherwise be unavailable to them. Our team of experts have top-tier legal credentials and real-world business experience. We are lawyers, entrepreneurs, advisors, catalysts and connectors.
MT Digital Assets is a leading blockchain technology and cryptocurrency fund based out of Los Angeles California.
We help investors maximize returns while providing familiar access to cryptocurrency markets and blockchain companies. Our managed portfolio allows you to focus on your strengths while we focus on growing your capital.
The first crypto-currency invoice financing platform! Hive Project provides new financial liquidity to small businesses by leveraging blockchain technology, giving them a range of crypto-currency based financing options.
Dash is Digital Cash You Can Spend Anywhere. Use Dash to make instant, private payments online or in-store using our secure open-source platform hosted by thousands of users around the world. At Dash’s core is a unique fully-incentivized peer-to-peer network. Miners are rewarded for securing the blockchain and masternodes are rewarded for validating, storing and serving the blockchain to users. Masternodes represent a new layer of network servers that work in highly secure clusters called quorums to provide a variety of decentralized services, like instant transactions, privacy and governance, while eliminating the threat of low-cost network attacks. https://www.dash.org
PolySwarm is a decentralized anti-virus and cyber threat intelligence market made possible by Ethereum smart contracts and the blockchain. PolySwarm incentivizes rapid innovation in the $8.5B/yr cyber threat intelligence space with precise economic incentives that reward a global community of security experts for timely and accurate malware identification. https://polyswarm.io
ValiMail has developed the world’s first cloud service that fully automates email authentication, giving our customers brand and fraud protection across 4.8 billion mailboxes worldwide. ValiMail enables organizations to stop phishing attacks, control shadow email, and improve the reputation of their email domain. ValiMail’s patented, standards-compliant technology provides the only zero-administration solution to enable trusted email for the enterprise. Customers include Uber, Fannie Mae, Yelp, Twillo, Time Warner, Square, OpenTable, and City National Bank. Founded in 2015, ValiMail is based in San Francisco and is backed by Shasta Ventures, Flybridge Capital Partners, and Bloomberg Beta.
Plug and Play is a global innovation platform. We connect startups to corporations and invest in over 150 companies every year. Since inception in 2006, our programs have expanded worldwide to include a presence in 22 locations globally giving startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond. With over 6,000 startups and 180 official corporate partners, we have created the ultimate startup ecosystem in many industries. We provide active investments with 200 leading Silicon Valley VCs, and host more than 365 networking events per year. Companies in our community have raised over $6 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits including Danger, Dropbox, Lending Club, PayPal, SoundHound, and Zoosk.
All Public Art disrupts the art market with a robust, peer-to-peer trading platform utilizing blockchain technology to eliminate counterfeiting and intermediary price manipulation. Having been in development since 2015, this platform is perfectly poised to capture the flourishing online art market.
The Omega One platform will ?provide traders, ?investors ?and ?institutions ?with ?a ?decentralized and ?automated ?trade execution ?system ?that ?intelligently ?implements ?their ?trades ?across ?the ?world’s ?crypto exchanges, ?shielding ?them ?from ?counterparty ?risk ?and ?significantly reducing the transaction cost of trades. By radically ?increasing ?the ?liquidity ?of ?crypto ?markets, ?Omega One is ?laying ?the ?foundation ?for ?their maturation ?as ?an ?asset ?class ?and ?building ?the ?financial ?system ?of ?the ?future. By creating trading intelligence and eliminating the information asymmetry from the market and managing its own balance sheet, Omega One will provide trust ?and ?mediate ?risk ?between ?its ?members ?and ?the crypto ?markets.
https://tokenreport.com is a financial data service for cryptocurrency, serving both institutional and retail investors with actionable and comprehensive information on tokenizations worldwide.
Quantchain provides the tools and incentives that allow the engineering profession to shift from a collection of centralized silos into a self-aware global network of decentralized Oracles adjudicating physical risk in real world systems. This is accomplished through a novel proof-of-stake blockchain, cryptographic token incentives, and multi-agent game mechanics to configure human ingenuity into the form of an asset. Where FinTech, InsurTech, and EngTech can use the same analysis tools, the liquidity of knowledge asset will increase across the economy. The result will be a fundamentally more efficient global project delivery system capable of tackling the world’s most challenging problems.
RightRound was created out of the successful Internet services delivered at SXSW including attendee WiFi, video streaming, and event production since 2005. Internet technology has an increasing role in events of all kinds. RightRound is the effort to provide the successful solutions that have been used at SXSW, SF MusicTech Summit, and others.
YouNoodle is a growing global network for startups and an end-to-end digital platform used by some of the biggest brands, universities, governments and more, to create, manage, and judge startup competitions. YouNoodle has created a global talent network of over 100,000 startups across more than 600 competitions and has become a premier resource for expanding access to the best ideas and brightest talent across the globe.
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NerdFest is a mini-comicon-style event and celebration of “nerd culture,” combined with networking,
food & drinks from the “8-Bit Brunch,” comedy, speakers, panels, performances, exhibitors – comics, gaming, film & TV series, makers, AR, VR, transmedia, drones, music, tech, 3D printing and more. www.RevengeoftheNerdfest.com
2015 Sponsors
LendUp Technologies, Inc. builds technology to expand credit access and choice. LendUp Technologies, Inc. is an affiliate of Flurish, Inc. dba LendUp. Its proprietary technology provides credit building loans that are lower cost, transparent, and available on any smart phone or computer. LendUp is located in downtown San Francisco and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors such as Y-Combinator, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz Seed Fund, Startfund, Data Collective, Kapor Capital, Eagle Cliff Partners, Susa Ventures, SVAngel, Thomvest Ventures, Founders Coop, AFSquare, among other highly regarded angel investors and entrepreneurs. For more information, visit https://www.lendup.com.
QTS is a national provider of data center solutions and managed services. The company offers a complete, unique portfolio of core data center products, including custom data center (C1), colocation (C2) and cloud and managed services (C3), providing the flexibility, scale and security needed to support the evolving infrastructure demands of web and IT applications.
As the world’s largest provider of Relationship Business Management (RBM) services, Zuora empowers businesses to build subscription models that keep customers consistently engaged in longterm relationships. Our cloud-based technologies help companies create relevant and memorable subscriptions experiences. But it’s way more than just subscriptions—it’s the new world of happy business.
Elevate’s innovative online credit solutions provide immediate relief to customers today and help them build a brighter financial future. The company is committed to rewarding borrowers’ good financial behavior with features like interest rates that can go down over time, free financial training, and free credit monitoring. Elevate’s suite of groundbreaking credit products includes RISE, Sunny, and Elastic. The company is privately held and is backed by respected Silicon Valley venture capital firms including Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures.
Acquia helps financial organizations exceed digital expectations with an open platform and the agility to unite applications across platforms to create personalized and relevant connections with their customers anytime, anywhere.
WatchMyBit is a streaming video platform that enables micro-payments as low as 9 cents using Bitcoin. We strengthen the creator-fan relationship by passing the vast majority of funds to the creators. Artists can split their payment to all team members automatically, and cash out to any currency and gift cards. Fans enjoy ad-free videos while supporting the artists they love more directly and effectively. We enable many new revenue generating models.
The Lagunitas Brewing Co. was not so much an act of ordinary ‘foundling’ as it was willed into being by the unspoken desire of supportive beer-lovers in Northern California after which they continued to nurture their creation and urged us forward to fulfill the unifying needs of that same beer-loving diaspora from coast to coast and beyond. It is good to have friends!
Universe helps event organizers sell tickets, promote, and manage events online. Working with Universe will help you grow your audience, and sell more tickets.
Fathom Law is a business and technology law firm advising entrepreneurs, growth companies and investors in the technology, media, entertainment, life sciences and financial services industries. a wide range of industries. We provide full service representation across the business spectrum, from formation to financing to exit, and everything in between. We deliver sophisticated legal and business advice with outstanding service to achieve our clients’ strategic objectives.
BounceChat – Share Here, Share Nearby! Bounce photos, links & events to people nearby & around the world. From 100 miles (places), 1 mile (events), 10 miles (city), 100 miles (area) and around the world (galactic).
Innovation data, insights, and custom research. Venture Scanner enables corporations to research, identify, and connect with the most innovative technologies and companies. We do this through a unique combination of our data, technology, and expert analysts.
There’s healthy. There’s tasty. Then there’s healthy and tasty. At KIND, we believe you deserve both—we call it our brAND philosophy. That’s why you’ll find all of our snacks are pretty much the nirvana of healthful tastiness. What began with just 8 bar varieties in 2004 has grown to over 22 bars and 6 Healthy Grains snackable clusters, and a multitude of new recipes being perfected and refined to our standards in the KIND kitchen. So whether your snacking style is choosy or adventurous (or a little bit of both), here’s something to celebrate: we’ll always be thinking up new ways to delight your taste buds and keep your body happy.
RightRound was created out of the successful Internet services delivered at SXSW including attendee WiFi, video streaming, and event production since 2005. Internet technology has an increasing role in events of all kinds. RightRound is the effort to provide the successful solutions that have been used at SXSW, SF MusicTech Summit, and others.
Reviewr (formerly Pitchburner) is a web-based application used to inspire entrepreneurs through engaging competitions.
CoinTelegraph is a completely independent publication covering cryptocurrency, the blockchain, decentralized applications, the internet of finance and the next gen web. We offer the latest news, prices, breakthroughs and analysis with emphasis on expert opinion and commentary from the digital currency community.
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