Shah Hafizi

BloomTech, Inc. is an education company that offers online programs in web development and data science. The company is based in San Francisco, CA and was founded in 2017 by Austen Allred, Deborah Arlene Bloom, and Ben Nelson. The company's curriculum is designed to meet the evolving talent needs of employers, and learners graduate with real-world experience working on cross-functional teams to build production-ready apps. The company partners with The Mom Project, a talent marketplace that helps mothers and caregivers re-enter the workforce or improve technical skills. BloomTech provides a tuition refund guarantee and scholarships for prospective software engineers to advance equity in tech by removing barriers to education and tech careers. Austen Allred has been the CEO since 2017.

Coin Metrics, Inc. is an investment research and holding firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was co-founded by Timothy “Tim” Rice and Nicolas “Nic” Carter in 2017 as an open-source project to determine the economic significance of public blockchains. Coin Metrics provides crypto financial intelligence, network data, market data, index and network risk solutions to institutions touching crypto assets.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

Volt Capital (Volt Capital) is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm founded in 2007. The firm is headquartered in California.