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As co-founder and CEO of Mammoth Biosciences, Trevor is focused on creating the world’s first CRISPR-based platform for disease detection, taking impactful CRISPR technology out of the lab and into the hands of doctors and consumers.Using proprietary CRISPR technology licensed exclusively from UC Berkeley, the company’s first product aims to democratize disease detection with a credit-card sized, point-of-care test for fast, easy, and affordable detection of multiple conditions at once, for use both in the hospital and at home.

Founded in 2015 with the mission of delivering access to consumer finance and smartphone technology to people in emerging markets worldwide, PayJoy has raised over $30M in capital to date. Using PayJoy software, a would-be customer can give a store their driver’s license, Facebook identity and a phone number, and PayJoy will front up to 80% of the cost of a phone at 50% to 100% interest. And while that number may seem high, it’s lower than the up to 500% annual interest that customers would pay using other lenders [1]. The company has helped tens of thousands of consumers in emerging markets, across the U.S., Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa, and India.[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/12/18/with-4-3-million-payjoy-is-ensuring-smartphones-land-in-the-hands-of-the-next-2-billion/

Checkr aims to provide a technological solution to a human resources challenge. Founded by two software engineers, the advanced background check technology offers companies of all sizes a better understanding the dynamics of the changing workforce, bringing transparency and fairness to their hiring, and ultimately building a better future for workers.

OpenInvest is a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) dedicated to using technology to bring honesty and transparency to financial services, while making socially responsible investing easy and more accessible. Josh spent the prior six years at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where he managed the Sustainable Finance Program. Josh has worked in the past with the Rainforest Alliance, Root Capital, and Conservation International in various capacities. He holds an MBA from NYU Stern, where he was a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship, and a BA from Harvard University.

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In 2010 Jason founded Marqeta as the world’s first fully documented, open API issuer processor platform, built from the ground up with no legacy infrastructure. Today, the Marqeta Platform has been designed and engineered using the best open-source technologies and modern hardware available. Marqeta delivers the most modern credit, debit and prepaid cards for many of the most well-known companies in the world.Originally Aired: Monday, November 26, 2018