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Munivestor, Inc. Integrates with Ownera’s SuperApps Platform, Connecting Municipalities Directly to Global Institutional Investors

The municipal bond market moves $400 billion a year. For most U.S. cities and investors, the process has been too costly, too complex, and too exclusive. Munivestor, Inc. is changing that.

NEW ORLEANS — Munivestor, Inc., an online financial marketplace connecting cities to the capital they need and investors with opportunities to fund real projects, announced its integration with Ownera’s SuperApps Platform, giving municipalities on its platform direct access to a global network of institutional investors.

The U.S. municipal bond market funds the infrastructure of schools, roads, water systems, clean energy, and affordable housing. More than $4 trillion in outstanding municipal securities reflects decades of public investment, with a market record of $516 billion issued in 2025. Yet the traditional model for bringing those bonds to market has underserved the majority of the 50,000 plus municipalities eligible to participate. 

Munivestor is reinventing the $4 trillion municipal bond market to create better access to capital for municipal governments by enabling them to raise capital directly from investors of all sizes, in coordination with their key advisors and regulated market partners. The company’s unique combination of traditional processes and modern financial technology offers cities a capital markets experience unavailable in today’s municipal marketplace. Resulting in enhanced issuer control, investor access, and capital flows to the school construction, clean energy, affordable housing, and resilient infrastructure projects that communities everywhere depend on. 

“Municipal finance hasn’t kept pace with the capital needs of American cities. The traditional model works for large issuers, but the majority of municipalities need something different — lower costs, broader investor access, and a transparent process built for how markets actually work today,” said Damon Burns, Founder & CEO of Munivestor, Inc. “Through Ownera’s SuperApps Platform, Munivestor is now accessible to institutional investors across a global financial network that already processes over $5 billion in monthly trading volume.”

All bond offerings on the Munivestor platform are conducted in accordance with applicable federal securities laws through a registered broker-dealer partner, ensuring full regulatory compliance throughout the issuance process.

Ami Ben David, Founder & CEO of Ownera, commented, “Munivestor demonstrates the breadth of what the SuperApps Platform is designed to enable. This isn’t just another asset class on the network – it’s proof that institutional-grade tokenization infrastructure can serve markets that traditional models have underserved for decades. Every SuperApp deployed on the platform expands the opportunity set for every participant already connected. That’s the network effect we’re building.”

Municipalities, investors, and bond advisors can visit munivestor.io to get started. Participants on Ownera’s network can access Munivestor directly through the SuperApps Platform at superapps.ownera.io.

About Munivestor, Inc.

 Munivestor, Inc. is an online financial marketplace connecting cities to the capital they need and investors with opportunities to fund real projects. The platform enables municipalities of any size — cities, counties, school districts, utility authorities, and public development agencies — to design, market, and sell bonds directly to investors without relying on the traditional underwriting model, instead leveraging a digital issuance process in coordination with regulated market participants. By digitizing the full bond issuance lifecycle, Munivestor lowers costs, expands investor reach, and brings transparency to a process that has long been inaccessible to smaller issuers and everyday investors. The platform serves municipalities, bond investors of all sizes, and market professionals including municipal advisors and bond attorneys. Digital bond auctions on the Munivestor platform are conducted through a registered broker-dealer partner. For more information, visit munivestor.io.

About Ownera

Ownera is a UK fintech and global leader in digital asset interoperability, connecting financial market infrastructure to enable major financial institutions to seamlessly trade, settle and manage tokenized assets across any blockchain, legacy ledger or network with institutional-grade security and compliance. The company’s use of open-source FinP2P technology combines routers that provide seamless interoperability and atomic settlement across multiple chains and asset classes, orchestrating over $5 billion in monthly trading volume between counterparties and their regulated service providers (including custodians, broker-dealers, transfer agents, cash providers and lenders). Ownera’s SuperApps Platform unlocks advanced use cases through best-in-class applications including intraday repo, collateral mobility, public and private markets distribution and trading, and real estate fund mobility – driving unprecedented liquidity and market efficiency in institutional digital finance. For more information, visit www.ownera.io 

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Announcing the Inaugural Class of Techstars New Orleans powered by J.P Morgan

By Melissa Pegus, Managing Director of Techstars New Orleans powered by J.P. Morgan

Techstars New Orleans powered by J.P. Morgan is excited to announce its inaugural class of eleven category-leading startups. Our team spent months speaking to thousands of startups from all over the world who are building the future of commerce technology, consumer brands and platforms, creator economy technology, and climate tech. 

Over the next 13 weeks these founders will be immersed in our hybrid program that will take them from a kick-off retreat in New Orleans, to TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, and Afrotech in Austin, and the balance of time will be spent tapping into our global network and resources in an inclusive and equitable virtual format.

This class highlights J.P. Morgan and Techstars’ dedication to supporting historically underserved founders. J.P. Morgan believes that diversity and inclusion are key drivers of innovation and growth, and will be offering an integrated suite of services to founders in the accelerator beyond the 13-week program, including banking, wealth management, and advisory solutions, to support their growth and success.

In addition to our founders we have some awesome new members in our team: 

Tami Nelson

Irvin Lopez 

Without further ado, let’s meet the Techstars New Orleans powered by JP Morgan Class of 2023:

Commerce Technology

Airyvl (New York, NY)

Mark Thayer (Founder)

For airlines that struggle with delays and missed flight opportunities, we use a probabilistic algorithm, and historical and continuous data from credit card customers to improve aircraft utilization through more accurate and available customer demand to increase revenue opportunities with fewer flights.

Grocerylist (Jamaica)

Rory Richards & Jermain Morgan (Co-Founders)

A comprehensive consumer platform that allows individuals in the USA, UK, and Canada to send remittances to their loved ones throughout LATAM and the Caribbean in the form of groceries. 

HeadOffice (Jamaica)

Khary Sharpe (Founder)

For Accountants and Entrepreneurs throughout Latin America and the Caribbean that need localized support managing taxes & payroll in non-us denominations.

Monocle (New Jersey)

Amir Sigari (Founder)

An operational co-pilot for ecommerce COOs

PipeOps (Nigeria)

Samuel OgbonyomiTaye Joseph & Alex Idowu (Nigeria)

PipeOps is built for Software Engineers, Early stage startups, and SMEs that need an accessible, user-friendly, and cost-effective tool to setup and manage their cloud infrastructure.

Ticket Avengers (Detroit, MI)

DeAngelo Smith

Ticket Avengers’ platform increases local government and attorney revenue, making it easy for people to pay their bills. PayPal for fines or fees! 

Consumer Brands and Platforms

Gently Soap (Atlanta, GA)

Kristen Dunning (Founder)

Gently Soap is an innovative clean body care company that aims to bring joyful bathing experiences to those with sensitive skin through the use of science-backed, proprietary herbal infusions. 

PopViewers (New York, NY)

Chris Witherspoon (Founder)

PopViewers is a content discovery platform delivering next-level customer sentiment to studios, content creators, and brands. 

Creator Economy Technology

Cyphr (Jamaica)

Dylan Brennan (Founder)

For musicians that are denied access to a career due to funding, location and gatekeeping, we remove those barriers to entry by allowing them to create, collaborate and earn income directly on their smartphones using Cyphr.

Audioland (Austin, TX)

Dima Abramov & Sergei Baranov (Co-Founders)

Audioland is the Substack for audio, effortlessly transforming creators’ AI-generated texts into monetizable content.

Climate Tech

Munivestor (New Orleans, LA)

Damon Burns (Founder)

For cities seeking access to capital to build better communities, Munivestor’s Municipal NFT marketplace allows cities to customize municipal securities for sale directly to investors.

#Techstars New Orleans powered by J.P. Morgan