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ALTA is the Top of the World company’s new name. ALTA focuses on supporting companies by providing tailored solutions to help them succeed in the most innovative and technology-rich sector of the economy.

ALTA

We help build foundations for great businesses with a support platform providing founders at all stages with what they need, when they need it.

The House Fund is a pre-seed and seed stage venture capital fund investing in Berkeley's top student, faculty, and alumni startups. It helps build foundations for great businesses with a support platform providing founders at all stages with what they need, when they need it. It is working with exceptional founders to build the next generation of Berkeley’s top startups through our affiliated venture fund (The House Fund), accelerator program (The House Residency), and student community.

The House

1kx is an early stage token fund built upon the above thesis. Run by two former technology founders Lasse Clausen and Christopher Heymann, its mission is to be the most founder friendly and helpful source of early stage capital for tokenized projects.

Prysmatic Labs is a team of blockchain engineers committed to scaling Ethereum. We are implementing a sharding client for Ethereum 2.0. Currently, blockchains do not scale. With Ethereum receiving over a million transactions per day, the network is desperate for a solution that will help sustain its massive growth and adoption. We are building out a full featured sharding client, allowing the system to process transactions at over 10x - 100x of its current speed!

Prysmatic Labs

AngelList is where the world meets startups. Find a great startup job, invest in a startup, or raise money, build their teams, and launch their products.

Over $750M raised by over 2,000 startups. Over 10k matches/week between job seekers and companies.

Substantial learning and network building opportunities due to the places that AngelList and Product Hunt hold at the center of the startup ecosystem.

AngelList

We're a student-run organization at UC Berkeley dedicated to serving the Berkeley and greater East Bay crypto and blockchain communities.

Blockchain at Berkeley

Spark Capital takes risks on exceptional founders and the products they design. We believe the world can never get enough magical products and experiences. Making them requires a balance of art and technology, as well as a maniacal focus on delivering joy to the people who use them. We believe amazing products can create markets, not just find market fit. The people who make those products are creative, high-energy and are more often than not on a mission. They are technologists with the heart of an artist. Spark partners with visionary entrepreneurs who are driven to move people with the products and experiences they create. We invest in companies at all stages of their life cycle. Our most recent funds include a $400 million early-stage venture fund and a $600 million venture growth fund. In total we have $3 billion under management. We have offices in San Francisco, Boston and New York.

Spark Capital

Amino Capital (a.k.a. zPark Capital) is a venture firm based in Palo Alto, focusing on seed to growth-stage investments in big data, and data-driven technologies, including but not limited to IoT, medicine/genomics, AI/BI, drone/UAV, Fintech, security and infrastructure.

Amino Capital

BLOCKCHAIN.com is the world’s most popular way to buy, sell, and trade crypto. Trusted by millions since 2011 with over $800 Billion in crypto transactions.

BLOCKCHAIN

Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage companies, and both consumer and enterprise technology companies. To date, a16z has raised $7.1B, across seven funds, including the $650M Bio funds.

a16z is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process; we know what it’s like to be in the founder’s shoes. The firm is led by general partners who are former founders/operators, CEOs, or CTOs of successful technology companies, and who have domain expertise ranging from biology to crypto to distributed systems to security to marketplaces to financial services.

We aim to connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, industry experts, and others in the technology ecosystem. We have built a network of experts including technical and executive talent; top media and marketing resources; Fortune 500/Global 2000 companies; as well as other technology decision makers, influencers, and key opinion leaders. a16z uses this network as part of our commitment to help our portfolio companies grow their business, so our operating teams provide entrepreneurs with access to expertise and insights across the entire spectrum of company building.

ALTA

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