> Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) is a program powered by a16z to support companies founded by out-of-network founders. The program provides support in three ways:

- Capital: Invest in the founders via The TxO Fund, a Donor Advised Fund managed by [Tides Foundation](https://www.tides.org/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=brand&utm_term=homepage&gclid=Cj0KCQjw28T8BRDbARIsAEOMBczehXjDGBM9peenA207xoaJH1ak5vgZjw-yTrR2NW2umIqVQ7vHeiAaAraaEALw_wcB).
- Content: Provide the founders with highly curated company building and executive level content via TxO University, a 16-week hybrid accelerator program.
- Community: Actively build a network around founders by introducing them to world-class mentors, advantageous corporate partners, category-aligned investors, and a cohort of other ambitious founders.

a16z does not profit from any of the returns: all returns generated by these companies go directly back into the fund. [Learn more here](http://txo.fund/).

TxO Spring '23 Demo Day

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Demo Day Features the Spring Summer 2023 cohort of TxO. Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) is a program powered by a16z to support companies founded by out-of-network founders.

ChurchSpace was founded in 2019 to help churches turn their underutilized real estate into on-demand commercial space for locals. Coined as the Airbnb for churches by the Washington Post, the two-sided marketplace connects locals to underused commercial kitchen and event spaces in churches.

Emmanuel Brown

ChurchSpace

Joe and Clara Tsai

Allison Long-Pettine

Daniel Acheampong

Benjamin Vann

We reimagine the way the world — and the cars that do the moving — moves for the better.

Guber

Founded in 2016, Technical is in our DNA. FURI is the next powerhouse sports brand delivering pro-level products, for all players. We are the first black-and-woman owned tennis company to manufacture high-performance tennis rackets, accessories and apparel. Think Apple meets the Jordan Brand.

Erick Mathelier

Michelle Spiro 

FURI

Kofi Ampadu // TxO by Andreessen Horowitz

For English Language Arts, Humanities, and Social Studies teachers and parents struggling to engage students and elevate student performance in literacy, we offer the most engaging and rigorous literacy tool, The Opus App, which converts real and
popular song lyrics into literacy tools for 5th – 12th graders! The Opus App is for the majority of teachers struggling with time-to-prepare lessons.

Sage Salvo

Words Liive

Andreessen Horowitz's Kofi Ampadu

NewSchool Venture Fund

Splitting the restaurant bill or airnbnb with friends is a huge pain where one person has to front the money and then nag the others to get paid back. splyt offers a credit card integrated witht their bill splitting app that makes it easy to split bills and collect cash from users bank accounts after fronting a charge.

luis Barrera

Gibby Steier

Eliot Smith

Companies to Watch: Founders Shaping the Future of New York Tech — Tech:NYC Blog

splyt

Google for Startups 

a16z TxO 

Gema

Nomads was founded by plus-size model and designer Taylor Long in 2019. Through her experiences on set and as a designer, she noticed the fashion industry's lack of size-inclusive, stylish swim options for bodies of all sizes. Since Nomads launch in 2020, they have been featured by Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, and Essence and have truly become a breakout brand in the size-inclusive swim space.

Taylor Long

Nomads Swimwear

Tides Foundation

KidVestors is a financial curriculum software for K-12th students. We make finance and investing simple, easy and accessible by blending culturally responsive content and entertainment through our gamified platform to help close the financial literacy gap. We accomplish this by partnering with schools, districts and financial services partners in order to serve students.

KidVestors

Financial Literacy for Kids and Teens | KidVestors Press

Kidvestors

Andreessen Horrowitz

Gener8tor

Jammaround is a secure songwriting platform that simplifies the creative process and offers solutions for data management, collaboration, and intellectual property protection. Our platform uses a proprietary file format called .jamm that offers a number of creative and security benefits for songwriters.

Brent Craige

Donovan Williams

Jammaround

PJ Morton

Tides Foundation (on behalf of a16z TxO Fund)

Thaddeus Young

Walter and Cathy Issacson

Cooper Manning

[InovCares](https://inovcares.com/about/) is a culturally sensitive virtual OB-GYN clinic for women and families of color focused on telehealth services, including specialized point-of-care testing and referrals to combat the $32.3B total maternal morbidity cost for 3.7M US births.

Mohamed Kamara

After His Sister And Aunt Died From Pregnancy Related Complications, He Developed A Virtual Gynecology Platform For Women Of Color

InovCares Grows | Google Play Academy

Driven by his sister’s death, a founder aims to help women of color get better care

InovCares

Kofi Ampadu @ Andreessen Horowitz  

Marcus Whitney @ Jumpstart Foundry