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Woolf
Woolf is the first global collegiate university built as software: qualified organizations - companies, nonprofits and academic groups - join as member colleges and issue genuinely accredited degrees. Licensed in Malta and carrying European ECTS credits recognized across 50+ countries, Woolf turns accreditation into an API. Its Airlock product lets education providers plug in, benchmark their learning content, and award credits that stand up to regulatory scrutiny. Founded in 2018 by former Oxford philosopher Joshua Broggi, Woolf partners with Saïd Business School (Oxford), Harvard Business Publishing and Udacity to make credible degrees faster, cheaper and portable across borders.
Gil Akos
Gil Akos is the co-founder and CEO of Astra, a payments infrastructure company that lets developers move money bank-to-bank in real time. Trained as an architect with graduate work at Columbia, he taught himself programming, then earned a stack of Udacity nanodegrees in machine learning and AI to build the company he imagined. Under his leadership Astra crossed $1 billion in lifetime payments processed and pushed past a $2 billion annualized run rate, positioning the company as connective tissue for instant payouts across vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and earned wage access.