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HackerPulse is a technology company that leverages artificial intelligence to create comprehensive, data-driven profiles of software engineers. It aggregates information from various developer-focused platforms like GitHub, HackerNews, and StackOverflow, as well as academic papers and other online sources. This data is used to help engineers showcase their skills and for companies to efficiently filter and evaluate talent, addressing the challenge of identifying top engineering talent.
Blingg
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Blingg is a subscription-based privileges platform for Brand partners and Corporate clients that curates the best brands, exclusive offers, rewards, and trials.
Recall.ai
Seed Round in 2022
Recall.ai is a software Development company.
Natilus
Venture Round in 2022
Natilus Inc., founded in 2016 and based in San Jose, California, develops innovative aircraft drones for freight forwarding. Co-founded by Aleksey Matyushev and Anatoly Starikov, the company aims to revolutionize the freight transport industry through advanced technology and design, leveraging a team with extensive experience in various aviation sectors. Natilus seeks to reduce air freight costs, making goods more affordable and enhancing global trade by connecting underdeveloped regions. The market for autonomous cargo aircraft is estimated to exceed $280 billion, and Natilus projects that its cost-effective solutions could expand the total addressable market to $470 billion. The company’s drones utilize carbon fiber composites and existing engine technology, allowing for efficient operation with standard air cargo containers. Its product line includes several models tailored for varying ranges and capacities, providing a comprehensive solution for transport and delivery companies.
HireSure
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hiresure.ai enables businesses to interact with job prospects more effectively. Compared to traditional communications and offer letters, the platform provides a more visually appealing and engaging style for offer letters, corporate information, and other company-related material.
Circuit Mind
Seed Round in 2022
Circuit Mind Limited, established in 2018 and based in London, United Kingdom, specializes in automating the design of electronic circuit boards using artificial intelligence. The company's innovative platform streamlines the design process, allowing engineers to efficiently create reliable and faultless circuit boards while reducing costs and time. By leveraging advanced technology, Circuit Mind simplifies the requirements for circuit board design and delivers final designs that are ready for manufacture, enhancing the overall effectiveness of electronic circuit design.
Oto Health
Seed Round in 2022
Oto builds digital therapeutics for tinnitus. There are 390 million people with intrusive tinnitus around the world. Our mission to help them, by providing science-based therapy, that is accessible to all.
WherEX
Seed Round in 2022
wherEX is an e-sourcing and supplier engagement platform designed to connect businesses with suppliers globally. By leveraging machine learning, the platform analyzes procurement data to provide insights into supplier performance and cost-saving opportunities. It facilitates a transparent bidding process, allowing companies to request products and services while receiving competitive bids from qualified suppliers. This approach fosters competition and transparency in negotiations, ultimately reducing risks and costs associated with enterprise commerce. The platform aims to enhance procurement efficiency for Supply Chain and Procurement teams, ensuring that businesses have access to optimal supplier options.
Canix
Series A in 2022
Canix is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2018, that specializes in developing automation solutions for the cannabis industry. The company offers next-generation ERP software tailored for medical and recreational cannabis cultivators and extractors. Its platform aims to streamline operations by providing tools for day-to-day management, ensuring compliance with state regulations, and facilitating revenue-driven decision-making. Canix's software features barcode scanning, on-site integration and training, a customizable interface, and continuous phone support, all designed to enhance operational efficiency and reduce administrative burdens. By leveraging advanced technology and a comprehensive dataset of pricing, yield, and inventory information, Canix is establishing a robust technical foundation for the cannabis sector.
PeopleBox
Venture Round in 2022
PeopleBox is a company that specializes in digitizing the recruitment process through its candidate tracking system. By automating various aspects of hiring, such as standardizing resumes, conducting interviews, and storing interview notes in the cloud, PeopleBox enhances efficiency for businesses. The platform enables rapid communication with candidates through keyword searches, streamlining the entire hiring experience. This digital transformation not only saves time and resources for employers but also improves the experience for potential candidates.
Payflow
Series A in 2022
Payflow is a financial platform that offers a unique employee benefit by providing instant access to earned salaries, thereby enhancing employees' financial well-being. Founded in 2020 and backed by Rocket Internet, the company operates from Spain. Payflow's service allows employees to access their earnings without affecting the company's cash flow or complicating payroll processes. This approach not only improves employee productivity and engagement but also helps organizations manage their financial operations more effectively. Through its platform, Payflow aims to support both employees and employers in achieving better financial management.
Uplinq
Pre Seed Round in 2022
With a first of its kind solution, Uplinq leverages billions of statistically validated data sets, to support a small business lender’s assessment of the credit worthiness of their business customers, within their existing credit processes. Uplinq is the first, global credit assessment & scoring platform for small business lenders. Uplinq empowers lenders to approve and manage risks on loans they would have otherwise declined based on traditional loan underwriting criteria, while incorporating environmental, market & community data to better understand the specific loan applicant. It’s Credit Assessment as a Service. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Rownd
Seed Round in 2022
Rownd is a provider of cloud-based data privacy management software aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The company's platform allows clients to manage and oversee their data usage through an intuitive portal, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations. Additionally, Rownd helps businesses streamline their authentication processes, allowing customers to choose how and where authentication occurs across various digital channels, including websites, blogs, landing pages, web applications, and mobile apps. By aligning authentication efforts with user experience, Rownd enhances the overall effectiveness of its clients' applications while maintaining a strong focus on data privacy.
Leal
Series A in 2022
Leal is a leading SaaS platform in Latin America focused on AI-driven customer engagement, enabling retailers to enhance customer acquisition, retention, and lifetime value through automation and personalization. Its offerings include a Customer Data Platform, which aggregates and analyzes customer behavior to inform marketing strategies, and a Campaign Management Suite that automates engagement through channels like email, SMS, and WhatsApp. The platform also features a Customer Experience Module for measuring customer sentiment and a Loyalty & Rewards Engine that supports various incentives to encourage repeat purchases. Leal's API-First Infrastructure allows seamless integration with existing technology systems, boasting over 350 integrations with major POS, ERP, eCommerce, and payment processors. Trusted by global brands such as Subway and Chevron, Leal manages millions of transactions across Latin America, helping retailers leverage data to boost revenue. The company is backed by notable investors including Rakuten and top Silicon Valley firms.
HypaHub
Venture Round in 2022
HypaHub is a software company specializing in bioinformatics solutions. It offers a data science platform that assists scientists in building data applications and performing data analytics. The platform provides essential infrastructure and toolchain integration, facilitating seamless analytics and global collaboration. By leveraging innovative technologies and artificial intelligence, HypaHub simplifies the processes involved in accessing and analyzing bioinformatics and biomedical data. This enables users to enhance their understanding of biomedicine while addressing customer inquiries through various communication channels, including phone, email, and online applications.
Acquicent
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Acquicent was a financial technology company that operated a marketplace for investors to buy shares in museum-grade collectible assets, such as vintage cars and fine art. By fractionalizing these treasure assets, Acquicent provided liquidity to asset owners, including museums and institutions, allowing them to maintain possession, control, and majority ownership of their valuable items. The company ceased operations in December 2024.
Konvi
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Konvi is a European crowdfunding platform that facilitates partial ownership of high-yielding luxury assets. The platform allows users to invest in rare and valuable goods, offering greater potential for value appreciation compared to traditional asset classes. By enabling portfolio diversification through access to these exclusive assets, Konvi connects investors with industry experts and luxury funds globally. This approach provides a unique opportunity for individuals to gain exposure to lucrative investment options within the luxury market.
Ashby
Series B in 2022
Ashby is a developer of recruitment software specifically designed for high-growth companies. The company offers an enterprise-grade platform that streamlines the hiring process, making it more effective for company leaders, recruiters, and hiring managers. By providing a user-friendly solution, Ashby enables organizations of various sizes to enhance their recruitment strategies and meet their growth objectives more efficiently.
Cortina
Seed Round in 2022
Cortina operates a marketplace platform that enables online retailers, brands, and marketplaces to expand their product offerings without assuming inventory risk. The platform allows brands to sell products from various suppliers directly on their websites, enhancing their customer experience by providing complementary items. For marketplaces, Cortina improves operational efficiency while minimizing inventory-related risks. Its technology facilitates seamless connections to numerous brand suppliers, integrating real-time inventory, pricing, product descriptions, and images into the partners’ online storefronts. The company is technology-agnostic, supporting a variety of e-commerce and back-end systems. With a team experienced in retail and e-commerce from notable companies, Cortina offers guidance on marketplace best practices, vendor agreements, onboarding processes, and other essential activities to ensure successful implementations for its clients.
Correcto.
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Correcto is a developer of software that enhances communication in the Spanish language through a SaaS-based platform. The company's technology employs artificial intelligence to identify grammatical errors and improve writing clarity. By analyzing each sentence, Correcto's software provides corrections for spelling, suggests stronger sentence structures, and offers alternatives for verb tenses. This capability helps both consumers and businesses ensure their written communication is effective and accurately conveys their intended message, ultimately fostering greater confidence in their communications.
Powerhouse AI
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Powerhouse AI offers automated processes that turn warehouses into powerhouses, such as counting pallets and boxes, supporting cycle counting, reading bar- and qr-codes, checking correct placement, supporting stocktakes and audits, supporting goods received, and providing audit reports.
CozmoX AI (YC W22)
Pre Seed Round in 2022
CozmoX AI is an end-to-end platform for creating and deploying AI voice employees that can truly replace repetitive human roles at enterprise scale. Just as AWS revolutionized cloud computing, we're transforming how businesses build AI workers - complete with natural voice interactions, task automation, and learning capabilities. Our platform enables companies to rapidly deploy AI employees who can handle customer service, sales, administrative tasks, and more, with the ability to speak naturally, understand context, and execute complex workflows. With CozmoX AI, you can build, test, and scale your AI workforce in days instead of months, while maintaining enterprise-grade security and full control over your AI employees' capabilities and learning. We are backed by Y Combinator, Dubai Future District Fund, Goodwater Capital, Rebel Fund and leading global investors.
Olympian Motors
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Olympian Motors is an electric vehicle startup based in New York, focused on revolutionizing the automotive industry with its innovative modular manufacturing system. This approach significantly reduces tooling and labor costs by over 80% and accelerates production lead time by approximately 60%, decreasing the design-to-production cycle from more than four years to just six months. Currently manufacturing electric vehicles in Brooklyn and Detroit, Olympian has an annual production capacity of 320 vehicles and plans to expand this to 20,000 by 2025. The company's vehicles emphasize aesthetics and minimalism, utilizing materials such as steel, wood, and post-industrial recycled components, while avoiding plastic and toxic chemicals. Olympian's Operating System (OOS) enhances user experience with a minimalistic and intuitive cockpit design. The company's electric vehicles are pending traffic approval from regulatory authorities, positioning them as a forward-thinking choice for environmentally conscious consumers.
KabCash
Seed Round in 2022
KabCash is a company focused on creating accessible digital payment solutions and credit options for Mexico and Latin America. It has developed social lending software that aims to establish an alternative financial system in the region. This software streamlines the financial process by automatically calculating monthly repayments, monitoring financial portfolios and loans, and managing accounts and loan requests from a single platform. Users can instantly create one-time-use virtual credit cards, which can be repaid in installments, making financial transactions safer and more convenient. KabCash's mission is to enhance financial accessibility and safety for its users in Mexico and LATAM.
Empowerly
Venture Round in 2021
Empowerly, Inc. is an education technology company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in providing personalized college counseling and tutoring services for students in grades 7-12, as well as transfer and graduate students. The company utilizes a data-driven approach and a team-based model to connect students with trained counselors who tailor guidance to meet individual needs. Empowerly's platform focuses on college application counseling, helping students navigate the admissions process and enhance their chances of acceptance into their desired universities. By prioritizing personalized support, Empowerly aims to empower students to achieve their academic and career aspirations.
Taiv
Seed Round in 2021
Taiv Inc. is a Winnipeg-based company that specializes in designing targeted content and advertisements for businesses. Founded in 2018, the company operates a web application that enables users to modify content or schedule advertisements effectively. Taiv's innovative approach allows it to replace generic commercials on live television with more relevant advertisements, particularly benefiting bars and restaurants. By combining proprietary hardware and software, Taiv enhances the advertising experience during commercial breaks, allowing businesses to promote special events and products more effectively, thereby increasing customer engagement and sales.
Tablevibe
Seed Round in 2021
Tablevibe is a company that assists restaurants in managing commission-free pickup and delivery orders through their own websites and applications. By focusing on attracting new direct customers, enhancing online ratings, and increasing customer lifetime value, Tablevibe provides a comprehensive solution for restaurants. The company offers a set of appealing benefits, including no fixed costs, no setup fees, and no commissions for the first $60,000 in orders. Additionally, restaurants retain ownership of all customer data and can utilize professional delivery services at a low flat fee. This approach significantly reduces costs for restaurants; for instance, they can save up to 72% in fees on a typical $35 order compared to leading delivery apps. Furthermore, Tablevibe features a user-friendly performance dashboard that allows restaurant clients to monitor customer feedback and ratings, enabling them to make informed improvements over time.
Activeloop
Seed Round in 2021
Activeloop offers a cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the management and scaling of data pipelines for machine learning applications. Their flagship product, Deep Lake, serves as a specialized database for artificial intelligence, optimized for deep learning and large language model applications. It allows users to store a variety of data types, including text, images, audio, and videos, in a single location, while providing capabilities such as data streaming, version control, and vector search. Deep Lake simplifies the deployment of enterprise-grade LLM-based products and integrates seamlessly with popular tools like LangChain and Weights & Biases. The platform is serverless and capable of handling datasets of any size, making it suitable for organizations working on complex machine learning projects. Activeloop counts notable companies such as Bayer Radiology and Matterport among its users. The founding team comprises individuals with backgrounds from prestigious institutions like Princeton and Stanford, along with experience from industry leaders like Google and Tesla.
Lapzo
Seed Round in 2021
Lernit is a learning experience platform based in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, that specializes in providing organizations with tools to enhance employee development through engaging micro-content. Founded in 2017, the platform allows users to access short learning courses anytime and on any device, focusing on skill development rather than traditional long-form content. It also features functionalities for tracking goals, evaluating performance, and training staff, specifically targeting businesses in Latin America. This approach aims to empower organizations to improve their teams' capabilities and achieve their objectives effectively.
Pideaky
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pideaky is a payment and collection platform focused on enhancing cash flow for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). It combines embedded finance solutions with artificial intelligence to streamline the onboarding and underwriting processes, achieving speeds six times faster than traditional methods. The platform also facilitates quicker payment collections, improving efficiency by three times compared to human operators. Additionally, Pideaky offers a point-of-sale solution that digitizes business operations, allowing for better organization and tracking of sales and inventory. By updating catalogs and enabling online payment operations, Pideaky helps businesses increase their revenue through digital transformation.
Kurios
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Kurios is a Y Combinator-backed company that specializes in delivering cohort-based online courses focused on digital business skills for professionals and companies in Latin America. The company offers training programs in areas such as Product Management, Growth, and Digital Management, instructed by experts from leading global tech firms. Kurios serves major enterprises in the region, including Walmart Mexico, Femsa, Coppel, Bancolombia, BCP, and Alicorp. By providing flexible and interactive training, Kurios aims to equip clients with the necessary skills to thrive in the digital landscape and achieve significant business outcomes.
Tribute
Seed Round in 2021
Tribute is a media platform that makes it easy to create a collaborative video montage that can give as a gift on any important occasion. The platform is harnessing the power of video to revolutionize the gift and greeting card industries. They transforming the way people celebrate the people they care about on important occasions. Their platform automates the invitation, organization, and editing process so users can create a professional quality video without spending a large amount of their time or dime. Tribute was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Cortex Sustainability Intelligence
Series A in 2021
Cortex Sustainability Intelligence is a developer of building analytics software aimed at reducing carbon emissions in commercial buildings, which account for a significant portion of global emissions. The company's machine-learning platform provides insights into equipment performance under various operating conditions by analyzing meter data, billing history, occupancy levels, and weather forecasts. This information equips building owners and operators with the necessary tools to enhance operational efficiency, improve tenant comfort, and achieve sustainability goals. By offering a cost-effective solution that avoids the need for expensive equipment investments, Cortex helps its clients increase asset value while mitigating potential penalties from regulatory bodies.
Instacrops
Series A in 2021
Instacrops is an AgTech company based in Santiago, Chile, founded in 2014. It specializes in developing a management and forecasting platform that provides farmers with tailored information derived from various agro-climatic data. The platform offers real-time monitoring of soil and microclimatic conditions, enabling farmers to optimize irrigation, manage pest and disease detection, and maximize fertilizer use. Through a combination of advanced software and IoT technologies, Instacrops delivers actionable insights and critical decision support to enhance crop yields. The system generates preventive alerts and online reports in graphical formats, along with forecasts communicated via email and SMS, ensuring that farmers receive timely and relevant information for effective farm management.
Distrobird
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Distrobird is an engagement tool that helps businesses manage their sales processes efficiently by consolidating various communication channels into a single platform. It offers functionalities for email and SMS sequences, inbound and outbound calls, shared inbox management, form tracking, and lead routing. By automating manual tasks associated with managing leads and closing sales, Distrobird enhances the productivity of sales teams and provides valuable insights into each prospect’s journey through the sales funnel. The platform also delivers prospect data and sales intelligence, facilitating improved customer engagement through various messaging formats, including emails, text messages, and social media posts. Distrobird aims to support small businesses in increasing revenues and optimizing their return on investment.
WeWeb
Seed Round in 2021
WeWeb is a low-code front-end builder that facilitates the rapid development of web applications for businesses. The platform offers a visual interface similar to Webflow, allowing users to integrate their existing data and authentication systems seamlessly. It supports connections to various back-end services, including REST APIs and SQL databases, enabling users to fetch and send data to other systems like CRMs and applicant tracking systems. By simplifying the website-building process, WeWeb empowers developers to create customized web solutions that are accessible to non-technical users, enhancing efficiency in the delivery of web products.
Vardo
Venture Round in 2021
Vardo provides services that are focused on reinventing communication amongst software development teams. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
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