Meet Our Alumni
Ampled is a platform that allows music artists to be supported by their community with direct, recurring payments in exchange for exclusive content and experiences. Structured as a co-op, Ampled is 100% owned by its artists, workers, and community.
Arizmendi’s affordable housing co-op looks to share financial surplus with investors, worker-owners, homeowner hosts, and residents as well as to build a fund for accelerating housing development.
Bloc by Block News is a media cooperative and civic engagement organization with a mobile app that helps Marylanders tap into what matters most in their communities.
Brave prevents accidental overdose death by developing and deploying technological interventions to detect overdose and alert those nearby.
Carefully is a collaborative care platform that delivers an easy and free way for busy parents to share care, organize pods, co-ops, and provide mutual aid.
Driver's Seat Data Co-op enables gig workers to own and monetize the value of the data that they generate. The large scale collective data products that Driver’s Seat creates are marketed to industry and civic organizations, generating additional value that is returned to driver-members.
Expert Collective is a cooperatively owned by the academic experts on the platform, enabling those experts to build visibility towards industry, and hoping to capture a portion of the $241 billion in fees in 2018 from the over 700,000 firms that offer management and technology advisory services in the U.S.
Forty Acre Co-op is a black led farmer-owned agtech company. The co-op produces proprietary superior quality hemp seeds, partners with farmers to grow these seeds, and aggregates value-added hemp product processing to create commercial hemp and CBD products.
Guilded builds gig/contract workers’ economic and political power through a freelancer cooperative platform that provides income smoothing, contract payment-guarantees and workers benefits.
Kinfolk is the first 100% Black- and consumer-owned marketplace offering a new economic model to convert Black neighborhoods into core economic engines for building wealth.
Navajo Power Home is a solar service provider for off-grid homes on Navajo and Hopi lands. The co-op is joint venture between Navajo Power and Iluméxico and will be owned by the Native families it serves.
Money Positive is a worker-owned financial planning service focused on democratizing financial planning and building long-term financial health for everyone.
Novlr is the platform for creative writing: empowering writers to produce better work, build a readership and earn from their words.
Obran Cooperative is multi-sector staffing company owned by its workers, and focused on people of color.
Parents.coop is the world’s first milk bank owned by nursing mothers. The Co-op provides lifesaving breastmilk for preterm infants in hospitals and health care settings all across the U.S.
Radish Cooperative is an online food delivery platform owned by its workers and the consumers, couriers, and restaurants it serves.
Savvy’s platform co-op connects patients and companies to advance patient-centered care via patient surveys, studies, and other “gigs”. Savvy believes profits on patient research should also be shared back to the very patients who are providing those insights, and it also provides patients with voting rights to make sure the company never loses its accountability or focus.
StyleCrush is a member-owned online resale market offering an easy and sustainable alternative to fast fashion by filtering the endless volume of secondhand clothes into hyper relevant, personalized mini-collections.
SMAT is a tech platform that democratizes access to threat intelligence by providing easy-to-use tools for activists, journalists, researchers and the public to analyze and visualize hate and disinformation online.
Tootie’s Tempeh is a worker-owned consumer foods cooperative innovating a high protein, plant-based category—tempeh. Tootie’s is introducing a series of pre-seasoned, ready to cook tempeh products to the growing consumer market for healthy, plant-based, local, high protein, and sustainably produced and packaged foods.
The Drivers Cooperative is a driver-owned ridehailing platform in New York City. Drivers make more; customers pay less.
The Guild is a Black and Brown-led cooperative that seeds, develops, and scales cooperative real estate models supporting marginalized communities to build power, wealth, and self-determination through collective land ownership.
The Nearness is a digital community where people nurture their spirituality through small-group rituals and soulful conversations
Turning Basin Labs is a cooperative staffing agency that creates value for progressive Bay Area businesses by sourcing, placing, and supporting the best, most diverse talent. It is a permanent home for temporary workers seeking stability, and an ally to workers seeking dignified, high-road, $18+/hour work.
UPROOT Homes increases access to the financial benefits of homeownership for highly mobile professionals, beginning with our active duty military men and women.
Zebras Unite is an international, founder-led, cooperatively owned movement creating the culture, capital and community for the next economy.