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Aptitive is a Chicago-based IT consulting firm with solutions focusing on the management, design, and development of data-centric projects. Our high-aptitude consultants bring innovative technology solutions to your business problems.

INVISR

INVISR is a NYC-based fintech company focused on delivering solutions to the banking and lending industries. After years of experience as software implementation consultants we created Polystack: an AWS-based app development platform we utilize to deliver industry tailored solutions.

Markit Digital

Markit Digital provides the tools and intelligence investors need to successfully navigate the complexities of global financial markets across devices.

Leaf Group

Leaf Group, parent company Graham Holdings, is a diversified consumer internet company that builds enduring, creator-driven brands that reach passionate audiences in large and growing lifestyle categories, including fitness and wellness (Well+Good, Livestrong.comand MyPlate App), and art and design (Saatchi Art, Society6 and Hunker).

Aquant

Aquant's Service Intelligence platform gives field service teams the AI-powered tools they need to accurately troubleshoot business challenges as well as problems out in the field. Using a combination of Service Language Processing and Machine Learning, service leaders obtain actionable insights into the state of their organization, enabling them to make data-driven decisions. It also equips technicians with the knowledge they need to diagnose and repair an issue on the first visit, subsequently improving customer interactions and reducing costs.

Levelset

Levelset’s mission is to empower contractors to always get what they earn. Levelset’s products help millions in the construction industry each year to make payment paperwork and compliance easier, get cash faster, monitor the risk on jobs and contractors, and better understand payment processes and rules. The results are faster payments, access to capital, and less surprises. Backed by investors like Horizons Ventures, S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures, Operating Venture Capital, and Brick & Mortar Ventures. Levelset is headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, with offices in Austin, Texas, and Cairo, Egypt, and is over 200 employees strong. Learn more at www.levelset.com.

Algorand

Algorand is building the technology to power the Future of Finance (FutureFi), the convergence of traditional and decentralized models into a unified system that is inclusive, frictionless, and secure. Founded by Turing Award-winning cryptographer Silvio Micali, Algorand developed a blockchain infrastructure that offers the interoperability and capacity to handle the volume of transactions needed for decentralized finance (DeFi), financial institutions, and governments to smoothly transition into FutureFi. The technology of choice for more than 500 global organizations, Algorand is enabling the simple creation of next-generation financial products, protocols and exchange of value. From a technical perspective, Algorand created the world’s first pure proof-of-stake foundational blockchain. Beyond the elementary requirement of an open, public network, Algorand’s technology enables a set of high performing Layer-1 blockchains that provide security, scalability, complete transaction finality, built in privacy, Co-Chains, and advanced smart contracts that are essential in a FutureFi world. Algorand's unique pure proof-of-stake consensus mechanism provides the security, scalability, decentralization, speed and finality needed as financial systems modernize.

Respondology

Respondology offers a solution for brands of all industries to safeguard their online reputation on social media platforms in real-time. Our technology strategically hides any toxic comments in 22 languages that could negatively impact their paid, organic, and influencer social marketing campaigns. Respondology is the only solution that combines a customizable filtering dashboard, generative AI, and human moderation to provide you with the most powerful and effective moderation platform to safeguard your online reputation on social media platforms in real-time, 24/7/365.

Oshkosh Corporation

Oshkosh Corporation is an industrial technology company that builds some of the industry’s toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We serve our everyday heroes – soldiers, firefighters, people working at great height, environmental and refuse workers – through incredible technology. And with a portfolio of leading brands, we can uniquely take innovation from one brand and apply it across our portfolio.

Jellysmack

Jellysmack is the global creator company that detects and develops the world’s most talented video creators. Our proprietary video data and optimization technology drive massive social audience growth for creators, unlocking new revenue streams and amplifying monetization. Jellysmack is currently home to 10 of the biggest social media channels like Beauty Studio, Oh My Goal, Gamology, and House of Bounce plus over 550 influential Creators like MrBeast, Bailey Sarian, Derek Deso, Brad Mondo, and so many more. Our incredible team optimizes, operates, and distributes creator-made video content to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube. Jellysmack unlocks each creator’s full potential. How high can you go?

Boxed

Boxed is an e-commerce retailer and an e-commerce enabler. Our mission is to help the world stock up through our technology. We operate an e-commerce retail service providing bulk pantry consumables to businesses and household customers. This service is powered by our own purpose-built storefront, marketplace, analytics, fulfillment, advertising and robotics technologies. We further enable e-commerce through our newly developed Software & Services business, Spresso offering customers in need of an enterprise-level e-commerce platform access to our end-to-end technology.

Beamery

Beamery’s Talent Lifecycle Management platform empowers companies to understand the skills and capabilities they have, build more agile workforce plans, and attract, retain, upskill and redeploy their workforce. With Beamery, organizations are able to navigate change at speed, retain critical skill sets, foster DE&I and build the workforce of the future.

Primary.com

Primary is a gender-non-prescriptive, inclusive kids clothing brand started by Galyn Bernard and Christina Carbonell in 2015. The company was founded on the idea that kids clothing should be affordable, feel amazing, and be free of logos and slogans so that all kids can truly shine. Our customers are incredibly passionate about our mission, leading to strong repeat metrics and one of the highest NPS scores in the industry (85+). We are laser-focused on building a strong, sustainable and profitable business, and hiring the best people to help us get there. Our company values kind and thoughtful self-starters who can think strategically and then work collaboratively with people across the organization to produce high-quality outcomes. We are also a very change-friendly group of people, and are always seeking fresh points of view to uncover ways we can improve our products, processes, and team culture.

Enervee

Enervee is in the business of helping people and the planet. We’re a mission driven company here to help people choose affordable efficient products that reduce energy use, utility bills, and CO2 emissions at scale. Our solutions bring together the best in data science, behavioral science, digital product design, and marketing to make efficiency for all a reality.

Quickbase

Founded in 1999, Quickbase has since become the leading no-code platform for complex project portfolios. Its platform empowers its more than 6,000 customers to see, connect, and control their processes, applications, software, and data all in one centralized location. Named an Inc’s Best Businesses of 2022, see for yourself why Quickbase is at the forefront of business-led innovation at Quickbase.com. Quickbase – All together now.

Marqeta

Marqeta powers innovative payment solutions for many of the apps and services you enjoy daily. Our open API card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for industry-leading companies such as Square, Coinbase, J.P.Morgan, and Uber, to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real-time. We are a team of industry experts and technology innovators who take a dynamic approach to solving challenging problems. Marqeta is certified as a 2021-2022 Fortune Great Place to Work, highlighting our company culture and open and collaborative work environment. We power possibilities for our customers and each other by bringing the brightest talent together to do the best work of our lives.

Immersed [Techstars '17]

We're partnered with Facebook (Meta) & Microsoft to build VR Offices! Users teleport into a private/distraction-free virtual workspace while spawning up to 5 virtual monitors (on mac, pc, and linux), and as soon as they want to collaborate, co-workers can join them! These immersive work experiences provide higher focus levels allowing people to get more time back in the day. Users also enjoy a more aesthetically pleasing "office", a more collaborative environment, as well as a truly portable workstation (bring your workstation to your couch or back porch). With the increasing prevalence and quality in augmented reality, Immersed is also positioning itself to be the primary remote work productivity app when mainstream AR adoption is introduced to glasses.

Coinme Inc.

At Coinme, our goal is to improve the financial lives of everyone by providing easy and ubiquitous access to consumer financial services built on blockchain technology. In order to accomplish this, Coinme is building out the world’s largest physical cash onramp to cryptocurrencies with a mobile-first digital bank-like experience.

Alty

We're Alty, and for over 14 years, we've been assisting our clients in elevating their digital interactions with users and crafting products that make a meaningful difference in various aspects of their lives. We take pride in our portfolio of 200+ projects, which includes collaborations with esteemed international companies like VISA, Mastercard, GTBank, MAIB, ABA Bank, OTP Bank, and many others. Notably, we pioneered Ukraine's first neobank, monobank, where we not only designed the entire interface but also received international acclaim with a Red Dot Design Award in the "Best Design" category. Today, Alty stands among frontrunners in banking and fintech product development within the CEMEA region. We're actively expanding our expertise into other domains, such as travel, e-commerce, and communications, with the aim of enhancing user experiences on a global scale. Our ambitious mission is to impact the lives of 1 billion people worldwide, transforming their perception good digital products by creating the exceptional ones. Let's innovate for the future together!

ReviewTrackers

ReviewTrackers is the award-winning customer feedback software that helps businesses measure and transform the customer experience. The platform collects review data from 100+ review sites to surface customer insights that enable brands to listen, comprehend and make data-driven decisions about what their customers truly need or want.