data-economy
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DrumWave Inc.
DrumWave Inc. is a Mountain View, California technology company building the financial rails for a new data economy - one where personal and corporate data is treated as an owned, savable, tradable asset. Its flagship dWallet platform and Data Savings Account let individuals and companies store certified data, exchange it with consent, and earn income from it, much like a bank account for the information people generate every day. Founded in 2015 and led by Brazilian-American entrepreneur Andre Vellozo, DrumWave gained attention for launching its Data Savings Account at Money20/20 USA in 2024 and for partnering with Brazil's state tech firm Dataprev on what is billed as the world's first national data monetization program.
Dom Wong
Dom Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Pogo, a New York startup rebuilding the data economy by paying people directly for their own data. What began as 'Honey for the real world' - an app that rewards users for sharing location, email, and transaction history - has grown into an AI-powered consumer research platform that lets brands interview hundreds of purchase-verified shoppers within an hour. With 3M+ opted-in users, visibility into roughly 1 in every 150 American shopping trips, and over $30M raised, Wong has turned the question 'why don't people get paid for their own data?' into a business ranked the #1 loyalty app in America by Newsweek two years running.
Spencer Greene
Spencer H. Greene is a General Partner at TSVC (清谷资本), a certified women- and minority-owned seed-stage venture firm in Los Altos, California built on the Tsinghua Entrepreneur and Executive Club network. He leads the firm's healthtech practice after three decades as an operator, M&A executive, and two-time founder in Silicon Valley. Greene holds patents across graphics, networking, and encryption; ran M&A at Juniper Networks (buying the kinds of startups he now backs); and developed the 'Design for Exit' framework to help founders understand what makes them genuinely acquirable - not just successful.