Sumay Parikh

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Domestic Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm was founded in 1987 and provides debt and equity services including underwriting, M&A advice, securities dealing and brokerage and trade execution. Their client base ranges from large global institutional investors to hedge funds at the cutting edge of innovation in the industry.

University of Southern California is a private research university that mainly offers undergraduate, graduate & other higher education. The university was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Boku Network Services AG provides payment solutions for online merchants. Its solution areas include payment processing, mobile marketing campaigns, and customer relationship management. The firm design mobile applications that cover content management, web-based reporting, and short message service dialogues. The company was founded by Ingo Lippert, Christian Hinrichs and Armin Barbalata on March 1, 2000 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Tech Coast Angels, Inc. (Tech Coast Angels) is an angel firm founded in 1997 by Luis Villalobos. The firm is headquartered in Irvine, California.

Part of Sinon Invest Holding GmbH, mobile messaging solutions (mms) GmbH provides mobile messaging solutions. The company is based in Vienna, Austria. mobile messaging solutions (mms was acquired by Sinon Invest Holding GmbH from VeriSign, Inc. on February 05, 2009.

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Holdings LLC provides brokerage and investment advisory services to individual investors, small-to-medium sized businesses and institutions. It offers investment alternatives including financial, wealth planning services, annuity and other insurance products, credit and other lending products, cash management services, retirement services, trust and fiduciary services. The company is headquartered in Purchase, NY.

Honey Science Corp. provides browser extension that automatically finds and applies coupon codes at checkout for different online shopping websites. The company was founded by George Ruan and Ryan Hudson in 2012 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

BofA Securities, Inc. is a registered broker-dealer subsidiary of NB Holdings Corp., ultimately held by Bank of America Corp. (NYSE: BAC). Headquartered in New York, the firm was founded in 2015 and offers trade execution, trading or brokerage services to institutional clients.

Big Idea Ventures LLC (Big Idea Ventures) is venture capital firm founded in 2018 by Andrew Ive. The firm is headquartered in New York.

DNABlock, Inc. is a company that provides a massively collaborative creativity tool called replikant for web3. The company is based in Los Angeles, CA. The tool allows distributed teams to create bespoke, high-quality, digital 3D avatars, videos, games, and even cinema-quality productions in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional animation and visual effect studios. The company's pipeline, combined with advanced machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and sentiment analysis, is their recipe for engaging, real-time, interactive, digital beings and the future of immersive entertainment. DNABlock enables web3 creator communities to design and mint NFT collections of truly custom photorealistic 3D avatars, environments, and cinema-quality animated content with no code or animation knowledge. DNABlock was founded by Anthony Kelani and Luc Shurgers, and Anthony Kelani has been the CEO since incorporation.

5G Open Innovation Lab LLC is an applied innovation ecosystem that brings together corporations, academia, and government institutions with early and later-stage startups to develop new capabilities and market categories that will transform the enterprise. The private company is based in Kirkland, WA and was founded by Jim Brisimitzis. The lab provides startups with access to open platforms and markets needed to create, test, and deploy new use cases and innovations for 5G and 5G-enabled technologies, including artificial intelligence and edge computing. The lab also delivers actionable knowledge and market insight to help its partners and member companies deliver value to customers and grow their revenue and leadership positions.

WF World Fund Management GmbH (WF World Fund Management) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Founded in 1958, Merrill Lynch Piece Fenner & Smith, Inc. is an SEC registered broker/dealer located in New York City. The firm is a subsidiary of BAC North America Holding Co. and their ultimate parent is Bank of America Corp. (NYSE BAC).