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Dapper Labs
Founded in 2018
CEO: Roham Gharegozlou
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SoFi
Founded in 2011
CEO: Anthony Noto
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Online personal finance company and bank, SoFi, leverages modern financial products and services to help its customers invest, borrow, and save their money in innovative new ways. With a mission to help its clients achieve financial independence, the San Francisco-based SoFi was launched to offer more affordable loans to students taking on debt for college studies. Receiving US $ 3bn in total funding across its lifespan, the finance company has struck deals with Barclays and Morgan Stanley to create a bond backed by peer-to-peer student loans, resulting in the first securitisation of these loans to receive a credit rating. SoFi’ s services now extend to saving for home ownership, retirement plans, and more.
Founded in 2018, Dapper Labs brings NFTs into the gaming and entertainment industries, helping open up a whole new frontier in the digital asset space. The company, which is based in Vancouver, aims to bring consumers“ closer to the brands they love, building engaged and exciting communities for them to contribute to, and producing new pathways for them to become creators themselves”. Notably, Dapper Labs is best known for being the company behind CryptoKitties – a series of unique virtual cats that users collect, trade and use to play games in the so-called‘ KittyVerse’. The team behind CryptoKitties claim it’ s one of the first blockchain games but insists they’ re not trying to build the future but just“ trying to have fun with it”.
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