Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore

Tala operates a mobile application that provides credit scoring and accounting tools. It leverages mobile technology and real time-data to advance individuals from the informal sector to the formal sector. The firm facilitates financial and social inclusion for businesses and low income individuals worldwide. The company was founded by Shivani Basant Siroya in April 2011 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA.

Silicon Valley Bank provides commercial banking services. It offers banking services to the hardware and infrastructure, software and internet, life science and healthcare, energy and resource innovation, private equity and venture capital, and premium wine industries. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Lingua Franca provides consultancy and training services.

Flexa Network, Inc. provides block-chain based payment services. The company was founded by Zachary Kilgore, Daniel C. McCabe, Tyler Spalding, and Trevor Filter and is headquartered in New York, NY.

PayPal, Inc. provides online payment services. It facilitates people to send money through PayPal account balances, bank accounts, PayPal Credit and credit cards. The company?s digital wallet assists to perform online transactions, in store and mobile devices. It?s a global payments platform, which offer withdraws funds and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in multiple currencies. The company was founded by Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Yu Pan, Peter Andreas Thiel, Max R. Levchin and Elon Reeve Musk in December 1998 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Raise Marketplace LLC operates an online marketplace to buy and sell gift cards. Its platform allows users to turn their unused gift cards into cash by listing their cards for sale and enables them to shop for discounted gift cards. The company was founded by George D. Bousis and Bradley Wasz on February 2, 2013 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.