2022 Vintage

Space Flight as Cost Effective as Airplanes — Stoke’s smaller rockets will be capable of daily flight and fully reusable, a stark difference from the current players. The focus on quick turnaround times will further reduce costs. At scale, Stoke will deliver payloads to orbit at 20x lower cost than today’s rockets.

Allowing Blockchain Networks to Talk to Each Other — LayerZero is building the core messaging protocol to power cross-chain communications between blockchains. The company is building a trustless protocol that lets users send tokens or any kind of message in a single transaction across apps that live on different chains.

Robotic Crawlers and 10,000x Better Data for Maintaining Critical Infrastructure — Gecko Robotics provides a suite of wall-climbing robots to carry out industrial inspections and a cloud-based data platform to enable customers to manage their infrastructure.

Out-of-the-Box Tournament and Betting Infrastructure for Games — Triumph is building a software developer kit (SDK) that allows game developers to easily embed tournaments and betting into their games, in a few simple lines of code. Triumph’s SDK handles tournament hosting, matchmaking, payment, arbitration, and compliance with no additional configuration.

Serverless Database for Developers — Neon is the first open-source, fully-managed, multi-cloud Postgres as a service. Neon separates storage and computation to make on-demand computational scalability possible through its cloud-native storage subsystem which essentially is a serverless version of Postgres.

The Next Generation of Wearable Neural Interfaces for the Mass Market — Combining the latest breakthroughs in the field of neuroscience, AI, and hardware, Wispr AI is creating the world’s first wearable devices that will literally read our minds — enabling us to control machines with our thoughts.

Robot Excavators and Bulldozers — Fully-autonomous construction and earth moving machinery to unlock planetary-scale infrastructure projects.

Anti-Aging for Dogs — Loyal is the world’s first consumer and anti-aging animal pharma company, with the core thesis to increase a dog’s healthspan and lifespan by delaying the onset of age-related diseases.

The AWS and Shopify for On-Demand, Automated Work — Magic is building the future of automated work with a platform to get high-quality work done rapidly by qualified workers, leveraging proprietary technology and overseas labor pools.

AI-Powered Camera System for Businesses — Spot AI is the simplest way to move video security to the cloud making it easy to see, search, share, and manage all security cameras across all  business sites. Works with all existing camera brands, installs in minutes, and requires almost zero IT work to get it up and running.

Data That Moves at the Speed of Startups — The first crypto-powered, incentive-aligned social network, powered by the world's best professional database for startups. Social tokens let people invest in the career of others.

#1 Software Solution in the Ketamine Treatment Space — Osmind is the leading software solution for practitioners of legal psychedelic-assisted therapy, helping the industry revolutionize healthcare for 14M+ people with treatment-resistant mental illnesses.

The eBay and Amazon for Digital Assets and NFTs — Magic Eden is building the premier marketplace for Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) and digital collectibles. focused on offering affordable NFTs that are accessible to the mass market, as opposed to competitors which have traditionally been focused on high-value NFTs on Ethereum.

High Performance Micro-Learning Platform — Learn to Win is a micro-learning platform to unlock and disseminate tacit “last-mile” knowledge within teams and organizations. The company’s platform makes it easy for line managers to codify role and company-specific knowledge and deliver it via bite-sized lessons for employees.

Talent Agents for Tech Professionals — Free Agency is creating the next generation of hiring platforms that puts the job candidate, rather than the employer, at the center. It’s bringing Hollywood-style talent representation to the rest of the business world through its tech-enabled talent platform and network of certified talent agents.

Viral All-in-One Event Planning Platform — Starting with weddings, Joy has built an intuitive and personalized platform to handle all aspects of your big day, providing website design/hosting, gift registries, guest management, online event hosting, planning, collaboration and other tools.

Turing is an AI-based platform that allows companies to quickly and easily hire remote engineering talent from across the world. Turing leverages ML/AI to find talent, evaluate their skills and company fit, match them with companies and help manage production to ensure fit. Turing’s plan is audacious–make hiring engineers as simple as spinning up a server through AWS.