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Citadel is a global investment firm built around world-class talent, sound risk management, and innovative leading-edge technology. For thirty years, Citadel’s hedge funds have delivered meaningful and measurable results to top-tier investors around the world, including sovereign wealth funds, public institutions, corporate pensions, endowments and foundations. Citadel Securities is an award-winning global market maker that helps meet the liquidity needs of asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies, and public pension programs. We offer a broad array of fixed income and equity products, utilizing a unique set of capabilities and tools designed to drive down the cost of transactions. We strive to provide the most efficient execution and highest caliber of client services, making markets more fair and accessible for all.
InterSystems is the leading provider of data management solutions for healthcare, financial services and logistics. We serve our customers from 37 global office locations, and our software is in use in over 80 countries around the world. InterSystems supports data-driven startups that improve the lives of people around the world. We invest in pre-seed and seed level startups in healthtech, fintech and supply chain that use InterSystems technology in their product. Reach out to InterSystems team to learn more!
Y Combinator is the world's top startup accelerator. Twice a year, YC funds a batch of startups at the earliest stage. Each startup receives a $500,000 investment, a network of founders, and personalized advice from partners who previously founded successful startups. Top YC alumni include Stripe, Airbnb, Doordash, Instacart, Cruise, Twitch, Dropbox, and Scale AI.
The Solana Foundation is a non-profit foundation based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to the decentralization, adoption, and security of the Solana network. For more information, please visit https://solana.org/.
TERRA makes it easy to connect your app to wearables, through a single API. Connect to WHOOP, Oura, Garmin, Freestyle Libre, Peloton, Apple Watch, Google Fit, and any other healthtech integrations.
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is a community of scientists from MIT and IBM Research dedicated to pushing the frontiers of artificial intelligence and translating breakthroughs into real-world impact. Founded in 2017, the Lab works with industry to translate fundamental science into applications that solve immediate problems in the business world and beyond. The Lab currently manages a research portfolio of more than 80 projects, with an emphasis on data-driven, deep learning approaches to understanding language and the visual world and techniques for making large-scale AI systems more efficient and robust. The Lab is also developing AI systems for healthcare and a variety of decision-making applications. In all of its work, the Lab is committed to building trustworthy and socially responsible AI systems.
Eth.id is an app that provides the easiest way to get started on Web3. It provides a universal domain that works on both ENS and browsers accompanied by a Squarespace for crypto website builder. Developers can create a variety of apps on their Eth.id profile using the easy-to-use API. Download Eth.id from the app store to claim your free MIT domain today!
thatgamecompany is a game studio dedicated to creating timeless interactive entertainment that inspires human connection worldwide. We have produced critically acclaimed and highly successful games with global players reaching over 250 million downloads. Our games include Journey, Flower, Flow, and most recently Sky: Children of the Light.
Hudson River Trading brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading. At HRT we come from all sorts of backgrounds: mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics, and engineering. We’re a community of self-starters, motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automated trading. We’re friends and colleagues, whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code. We embrace a culture of togetherness that extends far beyond the walls of our office.
Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world.
Every day, billions of people connect with their favorite brands to shop online, play games, share ideas, manage money, and so much more. They may not know it, but Akamai is there, powering and protecting life online. Over 20 years ago, we set out to solve the toughest challenge of the early internet: the “World Wide Wait.” And we’ve been solving the internet’s toughest challenges ever since, working toward our vision of a safer and more connected world. Akamai Connected Cloud — our massively distributed edge and cloud platform — makes it easy for businesses to develop and run applications and workloads, while we put experiences closer to users and keep threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences. Our suite of leading cloud computing, security and content delivery services are helping global companies make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.
The NEAR protocol is a sharded, proof-of-stake, layer-one blockchain that is simple to use, secure and scalable.
P2P machine learning protocol that incentivizes participants to train and operate machine learning models in a distributed manner. By interconnecting neural networks on the internet, Bittensor aims to create a global, distributed, and incentivized machine learning system.
Warp is building a new version of the command-line terminal. It’s faster, backwards compatible with zsh/fish/bash, and designed to work like a modern app. Our most popular features include: command entry is a full fledged text editor, AI features to translate natural language into Linux/Unix/other commands, command discovery, a full redesign of console input and output into blocks.
ElevenLabs is a voice AI research & deployment company with a mission to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. ElevenLabs creates the most realistic, versatile and contextually-aware AI audio, providing the ability to generate speech in hundreds of new and existing voices in over 20 languages. As a technology research company, ElevenLabs is at the forefront of developing new cutting-edge voice AI. We deploy the most advanced models and features accessible via web app or API to a user base from creators to publishers and beyond. Our mission is to make on-demand multilingual audio support a reality across education, streaming, audiobooks, gaming, movies, and even real-time conversation.
Backflip AI is a seed-stage generative AI startup funded by Andreessen-Horowitz, Kevin Scott (CTO @ Microsoft), Ashish Vaswani (inventor of the Transformer/Attention is All You Need) and other A-list investors. We're building a new tool that pairs humans and 3D generative AI to enable a level of creation that neither can do alone. Our technology will change design in the physical world (automobiles, buildings etc) and the digital world (video games, movies, metaverse). Backflip was founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneurs and MIT alumni David Benhaim and Greg Mark. Previously, David and Greg cofounded and scaled Markforged from a garage to a $2.1B IPO. Collectively our team has shipped products to every major organization on the planet - from Meta, Amazon and Disney, to SpaceX and Boeing, to the DoD and even to the International Space Station. Our current team is composed of former engineers from MIT (including HackMIT), Scale AI, Stripe, and Markforged.
Lantern is a Y Combinator W2024 startup, and we have created a PostgreSQL database extension to store vector data and build AI applications.
Rockstar Games, Inc. is an American video game publisher based in New York City.
RunPod is the most affordable GPU cloud provider for AI developers. Spin up an on-demand GPU cluster in a few clicks, use our AI Endpoints to run inference on generative AI models, or create your own custom Serverless API endpoint for inference.
Since its inception in late 2006, the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) has become MIT’s hub for energy research, education, and outreach. Through these three pillars, MITEI plays a catalytic role in accelerating responses to the many challenges facing our global energy system. MITEI’s mission is to develop low- and no-carbon solutions to efficiently, affordably, and sustainably meet global energy needs while minimizing environmental impacts, dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and mitigating climate change.
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices worldwide. We hire smart, humble people who love to solve problems, build systems, and test theories. You'll learn something new every day in our office -- whether it's connecting with a colleague to share perspectives, or participating in a talk, class, or game night. Our sucecss is driven by our people and we never stop improving.
Sia is a decentralized blockchain technology that secures storage transactions with smart contracts, creating a more reliable and affordable storage offering when compared to traditional cloud providers. The Sia network is maintained by the Sia Foundation, a non-profit entity.
As the world’s premier foreign intelligence agency, the work we do at CIA is vital to U.S. national security. We collect and analyze foreign intelligence and conduct covert action. U.S. policymakers, including the President of the United States, make policy decisions informed by the information we provide.
CareYaya Health Technologies is a social enterprise and applied research lab focused on advancing health equity for aging populations. Our flagship product is a free tech platform that connects elders in need of companion care with local healthcare students; elders receive affordable, quality care while students gain valuable direct patient care experience! We're building intergenerational relationships across America, using technology and human capital innovation to solve the largest problems in healthcare, and exploring new applications of artificial intelligence to help people better manage caregiving, aging, and serious illness.
