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Buffr offers easy payment solutions to access business or payday loans.Buffr offers to easily streamline your P2M and P2P payments with QR Code Payments.

leaseClub is a marketplace for community-based peer-to-peer leasing.

Genuino is a sports technology company based in Italy that specializes in transforming sports memorabilia into certified assets. The company’s innovative platform allows users to buy and sell game-worn apparel directly through a peer-to-peer system. Utilizing blockchain technology, Genuino has established a certification protocol that authenticates and certifies match-worn apparel, ensuring its legitimacy. This approach not only provides provenance and ownership evidence for each piece but also enhances trust between consumers and brands. Genuino supports its operations with proprietary web and mobile applications, complemented by Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which facilitates bidding on authenticated game-worn items. Through its focus on transparency and data integrity, Genuino aims to reshape the landscape of sports memorabilia.

TANGapp is a community network of local businesses, non-profits, and united in their desire to help everywhere. It is a mobile transaction and payment app that operates on an international peer-to-peer basis. It uses to send and receive money.

Cat in a Flat is a cat-loving, cat-sitting community that connects cat owners with trusted and insured cat sitters in their neighbourhood. Its mission is to help cats stay in the comforts of their own home while the owner is away. No more stress, no more catteries, no more guilt. Cat in a Flat is a start-up in the sharing economy using geo location search, notification system, online booking calendar and mobile payment. Each sitter can set their own rate and has their own well designed web page as part of our system - like a digital business card. Cat owners can review, rate and share the best sitters and build long-lasting cat-loving relationships. Cat sitters undergo all the checks and are required to write a full, personal profile.

Seekewa is a digital community platform designed to facilitate 0% microloans to small farmers, enabling them to access financing directly from individuals and organizations. In exchange for these microloans, farmers offer discounts on their produce, fostering a direct connection between consumers and agricultural producers. The platform emphasizes the importance of trust and transparency by eliminating unnecessary intermediaries, thereby enhancing the farm-to-fork experience. Additionally, Seekewa provides technical and business support to smallholder farmers, helping them to effectively manage their agribusiness activities. Through its innovative approach, Seekewa aims to create a sustainable model that benefits both farmers and consumers by promoting shared value and community engagement.

A virtual marketplace expanding the frontiers of renewable energy. Power2Peer’s blockchain-secured app-based energy marketplace—P2PConnect—is about opening up entirely new market segments to the reach of renewable generation. For community members unable to pursue the long-term investment of a rooftop solar panel or wind farm installation, buying locally sourced clean energy is an easy and affordable way to buy into the sustainability movement. Corporate clients and small businesses alike will see immediate value and branding upside in offsetting their carbon footprints with energy that’s there even when the main grid goes down. Our equity crowdfunding campaign attracted over 150 investors, and we are now hard at work on the next phases of development for the P2PConnect marketplace.

ORKA provides mental wellness videos accessible and affordable by combining 24/7 peer support.

TripBuddy is a software development company that specializes in creating a mobile application for ride-sharing. The platform is designed to connect individuals, particularly students without access to cars, who share common travel destinations. By facilitating carpooling and enhancing connectivity among users, TripBuddy aims to provide a convenient and efficient transportation solution. The company focuses on addressing the challenges of commuting and traffic by promoting shared travel options.

Penguino Travel is a peer-to-peer platform focused on enhancing the travel experience for families, particularly those traveling with children. The service addresses common challenges parents face, including planning, packing, and discovering family-friendly destinations. By connecting traveling families with local residents, Penguino provides personalized recommendations for hotels, restaurants, and activities tailored to children. The platform also offers an online store where parents can purchase travel gear and essentials, streamlining the preparation process. Ultimately, Penguino Travel aims to save families time and money while empowering them to embark on memorable adventures with confidence.

Carengo is a Peer-to-peer carsharing service: existing car owners make their car available for others to rent for short periods of time through a digital platform. Carengo provide its users 3 main benefits: 1) Affordable prices. 2) Simplicity of usage. 3) Vast selection of cars concentrated in the desired area.

Token Labs building technology that enables two people, anywhere in the world, to send money to each other instantly and at very low costs. Utilizing digital currency, they are able to provide users with a platform to send cheaper cross-border remittances than any option currently available, and due to the way their software is designed, they're able to do so with much less regulatory overhead than traditional remittance / peer to peer payment services.

Swap is a P2P payment app to send money to anyone on your contact list, any bank account and any debit card number.

Y2Y Harvard Square, a student-run overnight shelter, employs a youth-to-youth model to provide a safe and affirming environment for young adults experiencing homelessness. Y2Y guests will have opportunities to collaborate with service providers, other youth experiencing homelessness, and student volunteers to create sustainable pathways out of homelessness and develop skills for long-term success. Y2Y provides opportunities for both guests and volunteers to become the next generation’s leading advocates for youth-driven solutions to homelessness.

Girls Health Champions is an innovative, peer-to-peer education model where adolescent girls in India are trained to directly educate their peers about these important health topics, including nutrition, mental health, gender-based violence, menstruation, and reproductive health. Their peer educators ("Champions") are trained in focused curriculum which were created in partnership with leading pediatricians, psychiatrists, obstetricians and gynecologists, educational specialists, and school teachers in both the United States and India.

Jaspr is a digital platform lets people trade their talents and unneeded valuables, cash-free, with the people around them.

Cypher App is a peer to peer social network platform where anyone can open up and share secrets, build networks, support others, and connect to support organizations.

Storemates is a brand new concept in self storage. They help you to find accessible storage space in other people’s homes who have unused space. This allows storage seekers to save huge amounts of money compared to paying for expensive commercial self storage. They also help those with a bit of additional space earn a little extra money by putting their unused space to good use.

Share A Dream is an interactive communication platform designed to connect non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with experts, volunteers, and donors in a humanitarian marketplace. By providing a comprehensive web solution, it addresses various challenges faced by its users, including NGOs seeking support and sponsors looking to demonstrate social responsibility through local project financing. The platform also emphasizes employee engagement by facilitating social networking for volunteering services and community involvement. Rather than focusing solely on profit generation, Share A Dream aims to alleviate the pain points of its customers while promoting collaboration and social impact.

Splitzee is a team money collection application that enables its users to easily organize and collect money from teammates for league dues, equipment, uniforms, outings, and gifts. It also allows its users to send reminders and disburse funds. It helps save time and money as well as reduce social awkwardness for teams and their managers. The application encourages team managers to set up funds around shared objectives, invite teammates to participate, help teammates make transactions among themselves, and ultimately use the aggregated funds to buy the things they want. Splitzee was launched in 2012 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Compare and Share aims to open up the Sharing Economy via a one-stop shop for a growing global market who want to access goods on-demand rather than own them. With over £3.5 tn idle assets worldwide and 7,700 sharing sites there was no way to access or compare them. Users had to trawl each site, to find what they needed. 40% of the population say they would trade shared assets, if it were easy. Compare and Share helps these users access a world of Sharing Economy goods and services in one place. The Sharing Economy is valued at $15 bn globally, with 28% of adults participating. 40% say they would if it were easy. The market is driven by 25-34 year olds ‘Gen Share’ an addressable market of 2.68 billion. We have 32 paying car sharing and accommodation affiliates including 90% of the UK car sharing market and an inventory of over 1.4 million properties worldwide. Our Sharing Economy Directory lists 7,700 sharing sites. With minimal marketing spend, we already have 12,000 users per month.

AirPooler’s mission is to fix what we call the "mobility paradox" -- despite enormous technological progress, the actual experience of getting around is still basically a huge hassle. We do so via a marketplace where pilots of light aircraft with extra seats can list their flights and people going to the same places can arrange to fly with them in exchange for sharing the costs. Since passengers pay only their share of actual costs,, they gain a level of mobility and convenience previously reserved for the very few, at a tiny fraction of traditional private air. Ride-sharing is popular among pilots but in practice quite difficult to do due to the complexity of FAA rules on cost-sharing; as a result most seats go unfilled today. Our technology estimates trip costs and passenger shares accurately and in full compliance with regulations and handles all logistics and backend issues, including payments, thus making ride-sharing irresistibly easy and affordable for all involved.

[Spill](http://www.spillnow.com) is a confidential network for sharing life advice. People "spill" their guts confidentially at SpillNow.com and get advice from other people who have been through similar situations. Advice-givers share wisdom, empathy, and support while they earn points toward becoming the next Dear Abby, Dan Savage, or Ann Landers. Popular among college students--particularly females--Spill has expanded to 150 colleges in the US and 13 countries worldwide. The site recently added groups for high school students, adults, military veterans, and entrepreneurs. A [TechStars](http://www.techstars.com) 2011 company and the [2012 winner of the Global Social Venture Competition](http://www.gsvc.org/finals-conference/2012_winning_teams/), Spill crowd-sources peer support in an effort to bring empathy to the masses.

Splitwise, Inc. is a company that offers an expense-sharing platform designed to help users manage and organize shared expenses, including rent, bills, travel costs, and various transactions. Founded in 2011 and based in Providence, Rhode Island, Splitwise provides both a mobile application and a web-based tool that allows users—such as roommates, couples, friends, and families—to easily track who owes what. The platform consolidates all shared expenses and outstanding debts in one place, ensuring transparency among users. Additionally, it sends monthly reminders about dues and offers fairness calculators, which utilize crowdsourced data to provide neutral advice on expense-sharing situations.

ELF empowers underprivileged students in Sri Lanka to achieve greater access to education. As its main approach, ELF has developed a unique peer-to-peer Micro-Scholarship Model that connects sponsors from around the world with students, creating a sustainable funding source for the students' education. In addition, ELF focuses on other complementary models to provide a more holistic solution to the problem. ELF is also focused on replicating its scholarship model in other developing countries.

Swarmplistic’s mission is to foster self-organized communities and provide them a means of making positive change in the world. Ideas are contagious, and they’re going to be the glue that holds them together

Turo Inc. operates an online peer-to-peer car rental marketplace that connects local car owners with travelers seeking to rent vehicles. Founded in 2009 and based in San Francisco, California, the platform allows owners to list their cars for rent, offering a diverse selection of vehicles at competitive prices. Travelers can choose from various options for local pickup, city delivery, and airport delivery. This model not only provides convenient access to cars for renters but also enables owners to generate income from their vehicles. Turo aims to create a community of trusted hosts and guests, facilitating a seamless car-sharing experience.