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Black Semiconductor develops graphene-based photonics integrated directly onto electronic chips, converting electrical signals to optical signals to enable faster, lower-power chip-to-chip communication. Its CMOS-compatible technology targets data centers and semiconductor manufacturers seeking to overcome bandwidth and latency limits in computing.
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Black Sheep Coffee is a specialty coffee chain operating coffee shops that serve specialty-grade Robusta and 100% arabica blends, Norwegian waffles, and signature drinks like ceremonial-grade matcha. It runs locations across the UK, US, and Middle East and offers a loyalty rewards app.
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Black Sheep Foods develops protein substrates and ingredients for hybrid and plant-based food products, sold to food manufacturers, meat processors, retailers, and plant-based brands as private-label and white-label solutions.
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Black Stone Minerals is an owner of oil and natural gas mineral and royalty interests, holding a mineral acreage position of over 20 million acres across more than 40 U.S. states and 60 productive basins. The company evaluates acquisition targets and promotes prospects to industry operators to attract development capital onto its acreage.
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Black Swan Living is a locally owned property management company that offers rental homes — including apartments, townhomes, and single-family homes — across more than 25 communities in Rochester, Minnesota, many within walking distance of the Mayo Clinic. It manages over 2,000 pet-friendly rental properties for residents in the Rochester area.
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Black Unicorn Factory is an accelerator that guides small businesses and overlooked founders toward going public through direct listings on national exchanges like Nasdaq, covering entity structuring, SEC filing, compliance, and market readiness as an alternative to venture capital. It focuses on Black, women, veteran, immigrant, and community-based founders, and runs a "Follow Me For Equity" program that lets everyday people earn stock through task-based participation.
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Blackbaud provides software for the social good sector, serving nonprofits, foundations, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and companies managing corporate impact programs. Its product category covers fundraising, financial management, and related tools for mission-driven organizations.
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Blackbear is a platform that matches companies with vetted specialists and freelance professionals for scoped projects or interim roles, covering fields such as marketing, sales, engineering, IT, finance, data, and sustainability. It defines each need as a Statement of Work, provides a shortlist of screened specialists within five business days, and handles contracts and payments.
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BlackBeltHelp provides an AI-powered helpdesk and multimodal support platform for higher education institutions, offering 24x7 student and staff support across phone, SMS, live chat, and email/ticketing. Its Agentic Studio lets institutions build AI-driven support workflows with a drag-and-drop builder and integrations to CRM, SIS, IAM, ITSM, and LMS systems.
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Blackbird.AI operates Constellation, a narrative intelligence platform that uses AI to detect and analyze disinformation, misinformation, and deepfake-driven "narrative attacks" across social media, news, and the dark web. It serves brands, corporations, and national security organizations to protect them from financial, reputational, operational, and physical harm.
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Blackbird provides an onboarding and KYC/compliance platform for investment firms and funds, using smart forms, adaptive workflows, and reusable pre-verified investor data to speed up client onboarding. It centralizes KYC across teams and jurisdictions, integrates with CRMs, fund admin portals, and document storage, and offers white-labeled deployment with encryption and permission controls.
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Blackbird Coffee supplies automated coffee machines, premium whole-bean coffee, and ongoing maintenance service to businesses and offices in Denmark on a pay-per-cup model. The company uses AI-powered monitoring to track consumption and arrange automatic refills, with remote technical support.
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The Blackbird Academy is an audio engineering school offering hands-on, mentor-driven training in studio and live sound engineering, taught by professional engineers and guest lecturers. Based inside Blackbird Studio in Nashville, TN, it prepares aspiring engineers, producers, and music professionals for careers in the audio industry.
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Blackbird Foods makes plant-based foods including seitan, crispy tofu, battered wings, and frozen pizza, sold direct to consumers via shipping. Its products are vegan, dairy-free, and cholesterol-free, and its pizza is made in NYC.
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Blackbird Foundation offers grant-based funding to young people aged 18-25 in Australia and New Zealand pursuing passion projects (Protostars program), and to organizations working to develop creativity in young people (Believers program). The foundation provides $1,000 grants to individuals and $5,000-$25,000 grants to organizations, with a focus on creative and exploratory work.
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