StepChange is building a state-of-the-art urban sustainability platform that helps these environmentally conscious consumers to calculate, understand and track their environmental footprints using sophisticated science-based techniques. We guide our users through personalized missions to reduce their environmental impact, provide them with targeted opportunities to financially support best-in-class sustainability projects in their community (tree plantation, carbon capture, etc.) and offer curated access to certified sustainable brands.
Our Precious is a C2C secondhand purchasing solution that makes delivery trade safe and convenient.
SuperLoyal is a developer of a web3 multi-brand loyalty platform designed to enhance engagement among community-driven brands. The platform facilitates collaboration, enabling brands to pool resources, acquire customers, and expand into new markets. It also allows for the sharing of data and analytics within the community, fostering an environment where brands can co-create experiences that resonate with the passions of their audiences. This approach aims to drive customer loyalty and strengthen the connection between brands and their communities.
HITMKR is a developer of a music collaboration platform designed for creatives in the music industry. The platform emphasizes collaboration and project management, offering workflows that create a unified and streamlined experience for users. By facilitating the exploration, purchase, and engagement with brands, HITMKR aims to enhance the creative process for individuals and businesses alike.
Chippit is a social savings app that allows people to access affordable capital, save for a shared goal, and borrow interest-free. Chippit enables people to invite and save money faster with their friends and family, as well as borrow money at 0% interest to make purchases. Chippit users can form a savings pool of up to ten friends and set savings goals together. The group can use the savings pool to make interest-free loans to one another as well as purchases from the group account.
Trace is an Australian-based consumer subscription service focused on carbon offsetting, designed to simplify the process of achieving a carbon-neutral lifestyle for individuals and businesses. The platform enables users to measure their carbon footprint at no cost and provides educational resources on reducing emissions. Additionally, Trace facilitates carbon offsetting by verifying carbon reduction projects, making it easier for clients to engage in effective and rewarding environmental actions. Through its user-friendly digital experience, Trace aims to promote sustainability and empower users to take meaningful steps toward carbon neutrality.
Heat operates a digital shopping platform that focuses on sustainable fashion by offering surplus luxury items through a curated collection delivered as mystery boxes. This innovative approach creates an immersive shopping experience characterized by elements of surprise and suspense. Customers can discover exclusive new season and archival pieces from various fashion brands, which not only enhances their wardrobes but also promotes sustainability. Heat’s model emphasizes value-added products, allowing consumers to engage with luxury fashion in a unique and responsible manner.
Break the Love unlocks access to recreational tennis and racquet sports. It is a mission-driven marketplace where people can discover and book group based tennis activities on public and private courts while creating new revenue streams for independent providers such as coaches, former athletes, and current athletes supporting them to do what they do best which is helping them play the sport of a lifetime and have fun doing it. By unlocking access through group based training and simplifying the learning, training, and competing experience for players, Break the Love is democratizing and enhancing the experience of playing sports, inspiring more people to get outside, connect with their communities, and channel their inner athlete.
Kitcod developed a Social-as-a-service API that provides in-app social engagements for mobile apps and websites, helping developers to easily add pre-built social+ features with a few lines of code to increase in-app engagement, reduce churn, and improve sales. We're building the world's most impactful in-app social infrastructure. Bringing in-app social engagement to your existing Apps, with fully customisable UI kits, carefully designed APIs for different industries and use cases. Kitcod developed a Social-as-a-service API that provides in-app social engagements for mobile apps and websites, helping developers to easily add pre-built social+ features with a few lines of code to increase in-app engagement, reduce churn, and improve sales. Social Strikes back again, as per a16z - we are just building those social superpowers with tech. The future is Social, the world is heading for more decentralised social interactions. The best version of every consumer product is the one that’s intrinsically social. Nearly every category of the company will eventually make the fateful transition from single-player to multiplayer, from company-driven to community-driven, from individual to social. - D'Arcy Coolican from Andreessen Horowitz. Let's build in-app experiences that drive engagement and increase transactions on your Apps Go Social+, Go Kitcod
Developer of a mobile marketplace application designed to connect individual chefs with colleagues at workplaces. The company's platform allows users to buy and sell home-cooked meals to each other and discover new flavors and meals, enabling colleagues to meet and engage across teams in a natural way.
Cloud Cycle is focused on transforming the concrete industry by addressing the significant waste and carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Each year, over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, contributing to approximately 10% of global CO2 emissions, with around 5% of that concrete going to waste. Cloud Cycle has created an innovative on-truck device and sensor array that integrates with a cloud-based platform to ensure concrete meets specifications, thereby minimizing waste. When surplus concrete does occur, the company operates a marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, helping to mitigate losses. By leveraging advanced technology, including the Internet of Things and machine learning, Cloud Cycle enhances the quality control of concrete deliveries and facilitates interventions to reduce operational costs and emissions. The company's goal is to save the industry billions while aiming for a reduction of global CO2 emissions by 1%.
We are the only company that exchanges your airline tickets automatically when your purchased tickets go down. We then send you the airline credit for the difference.
Operator of a user-generated content (UGC) platform intended to help brands build trust, boost engagement, and drive sales by engaging end-users in communication. The company's platform monetizes through subscription-based pricing plans and allows brands to collect photos, video, and audio, manage and publish content on any channel, and automate rights management with digital signatures from content creators, enabling marketers to handle the entire campaign workflow and content creators to connect with their favorite brands and assist in generating authentic user-generated content.
Ituloh!
Pre Seed Round in 2021
The first video commerce app for Indonesia! Ituloh is a localized, community-based visual recommendation engine activating millions of KOLs while allowing shoppers to complete the loop from browsing, discovery to purchase across lifestyle categories.
RecycleSmart is a waste management company based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2012. It operates a recycling application that provides users with information on proper disposal methods and locations. The app enables users to schedule local recycling services and book pickups for various materials. RecycleSmart focuses on recycling soft plastics, clothing, e-waste, and other difficult-to-recycle items, assisting both households and businesses in minimizing the amount of recyclable materials that are sent to landfills.
StoryTiling is a consumer application that leverages anthropological science to assist individuals in capturing their life stories through videos and narratives. The app enables users to document their memories and share them with family and friends, fostering stronger connections and relationships. By providing a fun and engaging platform for storytelling, StoryTiling allows families to preserve the essence of their experiences in a meaningful way.
It is quite difficult to dispose of your used phones in a responsible, easy, and eco-friendly way. This is one reason why the average person has two or more of these devices, just wasting resources and losing value in a drawer. We believe that there is a real opportunity to collectively make them #worthmore. Every year over 1 billion kr worth of used phones finds their way into drawers across Denmark alone. Our aim is to collect, reset, refurbish, and resell as many devices as possible, then use their collective value to drive meaningful impact within sustainability and climate action. We set out to build a platform that informs people what it takes to build their devices, why they should care…what actions can reduce their impact, and be the place where they can take these actions.
Oamly is an online platform that simplifies home furnishing by providing personalized interior design solutions tailored to individual tastes and budget constraints. Its innovative algorithm generates complete design proposals along with curated purchase recommendations, making it easier for users to find and acquire furnishings that suit their needs. The platform allows users to seamlessly explore, select, and purchase items from various brands, enhancing the shopping experience. Additionally, Oamly fosters a community-driven approach by enabling users to share design projects and collaborate with friends and family. The business operates on an affiliate marketing model, earning fees from suppliers for transactions while remaining free for users. This scalable model minimizes risk by eliminating the need for inventory or shipping logistics, positioning Oamly as a user-friendly tool for transforming houses into dream homes.
Reebelo is a prominent marketplace in the Asia-Pacific region that specializes in pre-owned technology devices. Based in Singapore, with additional offices in Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia, Reebelo aims to reduce electronic waste by promoting a circular economy for refurbished electronics. The platform allows consumers to purchase a variety of products, including smartphones, tablets, and desktops, at significantly lower prices, often saving up to 70%. Additionally, Reebelo offers flexible rental options for devices, catering to diverse consumer needs. The marketplace emphasizes sustainability by providing thoroughly reviewed secondhand electronics along with extended warranties, ensuring a reliable and risk-free shopping experience for customers.
CoLogic aims to transform logistics in the construction industry, driving efficiency, CO2 reduction and safety by letting you track the location of your construction transports in real-time, improving communication, transparency, profits and increasing safety. Its software fetches and integrates GPS location data from various fleet tracking providers, including a stand-alone phone app, offering a unique and live service to material suppliers and construction firms.
Communyco is a social media platform designed specifically for content creators in various fields, such as baking, cooking, painting, and gardening. The platform facilitates the establishment of online creative communities where creators can connect, collaborate, and communicate with their followers. By offering features such as workshops, referral fees, and profit-sharing opportunities, Communyco aims to enhance the growth and profitability of its users. Additionally, the platform allows creators to share their challenges, receive peer advice, and engage in brainstorming sessions, fostering a collaborative environment that supports the development of new projects and goals. Through these initiatives, Communyco seeks to empower content creators and help them effectively manage their creative endeavors.
Cove Living Pte Ltd is a co-living company based in Singapore that specializes in providing flexible rental solutions for tenants. Established in 2018, Cove focuses on creating comfortable and stylish shared living spaces, including flatshare rooms and private studios, which are thoughtfully furnished and located in prime city areas. The company leverages technology to streamline the rental process, offering a digital and hassle-free booking experience. Cove's properties come equipped with essential amenities such as furniture, Wi-Fi, and housekeeping services, ensuring a convenient living environment for its residents. By prioritizing the needs of renters and offering adaptable rental contracts, Cove aims to enhance the rental experience while maintaining affordability.
High-performing remote teams don’t spend their days on video calls. Make your team’s work visible, connected to objectives and facilitate more asynchronous discussions - all with fewer meetings.
A B2B marketplace, allowing SMEs to find projects to compensate for their emissions.
Break Sports
Pre Seed Round in 2020
We are on a mission to empower anyone to become an athlete. We are doing this by building and online destination for players to discover and connect with competitive and recreational sport activities through one platform.
Break the Love unlocks access to recreational tennis and racquet sports. It is a mission-driven marketplace where people can discover and book group based tennis activities on public and private courts while creating new revenue streams for independent providers such as coaches, former athletes, and current athletes supporting them to do what they do best which is helping them play the sport of a lifetime and have fun doing it. By unlocking access through group based training and simplifying the learning, training, and competing experience for players, Break the Love is democratizing and enhancing the experience of playing sports, inspiring more people to get outside, connect with their communities, and channel their inner athlete.
Reebelo is a prominent marketplace in the Asia-Pacific region that specializes in pre-owned technology devices. Based in Singapore, with additional offices in Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia, Reebelo aims to reduce electronic waste by promoting a circular economy for refurbished electronics. The platform allows consumers to purchase a variety of products, including smartphones, tablets, and desktops, at significantly lower prices, often saving up to 70%. Additionally, Reebelo offers flexible rental options for devices, catering to diverse consumer needs. The marketplace emphasizes sustainability by providing thoroughly reviewed secondhand electronics along with extended warranties, ensuring a reliable and risk-free shopping experience for customers.
Respaces is the marketplace for flexible workspaces – where Real Estate owners and tenats easily can monetize unutilized space and companies easily access productive workspaces for any occasion, anywhere, anytime.
Trace is an Australian-based consumer subscription service focused on carbon offsetting, designed to simplify the process of achieving a carbon-neutral lifestyle for individuals and businesses. The platform enables users to measure their carbon footprint at no cost and provides educational resources on reducing emissions. Additionally, Trace facilitates carbon offsetting by verifying carbon reduction projects, making it easier for clients to engage in effective and rewarding environmental actions. Through its user-friendly digital experience, Trace aims to promote sustainability and empower users to take meaningful steps toward carbon neutrality.
We are on a mission to create unique neighbourhoods that empower human connection and enable people to live a more fulfilled urban life. We rethink how cities work by creating neighbourhood networks of convenient and connected spaces to live, work and play. We design, develop and operate these spaces through human and machine potential, creating walkable neighbourhoods for mixed-use communities, with a positive impact on people and place. Neighbourhood - Live well together.
A platform designed to consume & create audio courses.
Single-use-plastic is a human addiction. We’re here to break that addiction by offering refills for all your toiletries and cleaning products, minus all the plastic packaging.
Reebelo is a prominent marketplace in the Asia-Pacific region that specializes in pre-owned technology devices. Based in Singapore, with additional offices in Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia, Reebelo aims to reduce electronic waste by promoting a circular economy for refurbished electronics. The platform allows consumers to purchase a variety of products, including smartphones, tablets, and desktops, at significantly lower prices, often saving up to 70%. Additionally, Reebelo offers flexible rental options for devices, catering to diverse consumer needs. The marketplace emphasizes sustainability by providing thoroughly reviewed secondhand electronics along with extended warranties, ensuring a reliable and risk-free shopping experience for customers.
Arkive brings circularity to the beauty industry by digitizing the value chain.
RecycleSmart is a waste management company based in Sydney, Australia, founded in 2012. It operates a recycling application that provides users with information on proper disposal methods and locations. The app enables users to schedule local recycling services and book pickups for various materials. RecycleSmart focuses on recycling soft plastics, clothing, e-waste, and other difficult-to-recycle items, assisting both households and businesses in minimizing the amount of recyclable materials that are sent to landfills.
Developer of a mobile marketplace application designed to connect individual chefs with colleagues at workplaces. The company's platform allows users to buy and sell home-cooked meals to each other and discover new flavors and meals, enabling colleagues to meet and engage across teams in a natural way.
Homespring B.V. is a furniture-as-a-service company based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, founded in 2019. It offers a subscription model that allows customers to rent furniture for a low monthly fee, providing flexibility to swap, return, or purchase items as desired. Homespring caters to both individual consumers and businesses, enabling them to choose from a selection of designer furniture for various living spaces. Customers can select the duration of their subscription, making it easier to furnish their homes or offices according to their needs and preferences. The company started in the Netherlands and is in the process of expanding its services across Europe.
Cloud Cycle is focused on transforming the concrete industry by addressing the significant waste and carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Each year, over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, contributing to approximately 10% of global CO2 emissions, with around 5% of that concrete going to waste. Cloud Cycle has created an innovative on-truck device and sensor array that integrates with a cloud-based platform to ensure concrete meets specifications, thereby minimizing waste. When surplus concrete does occur, the company operates a marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, helping to mitigate losses. By leveraging advanced technology, including the Internet of Things and machine learning, Cloud Cycle enhances the quality control of concrete deliveries and facilitates interventions to reduce operational costs and emissions. The company's goal is to save the industry billions while aiming for a reduction of global CO2 emissions by 1%.
Cove Living Pte Ltd is a co-living company based in Singapore that specializes in providing flexible rental solutions for tenants. Established in 2018, Cove focuses on creating comfortable and stylish shared living spaces, including flatshare rooms and private studios, which are thoughtfully furnished and located in prime city areas. The company leverages technology to streamline the rental process, offering a digital and hassle-free booking experience. Cove's properties come equipped with essential amenities such as furniture, Wi-Fi, and housekeeping services, ensuring a convenient living environment for its residents. By prioritizing the needs of renters and offering adaptable rental contracts, Cove aims to enhance the rental experience while maintaining affordability.
Cloud Cycle is focused on transforming the concrete industry by addressing the significant waste and carbon emissions associated with concrete production. Each year, over 10 billion tons of concrete are produced globally, contributing to approximately 10% of global CO2 emissions, with around 5% of that concrete going to waste. Cloud Cycle has created an innovative on-truck device and sensor array that integrates with a cloud-based platform to ensure concrete meets specifications, thereby minimizing waste. When surplus concrete does occur, the company operates a marketplace that connects sellers with potential buyers, helping to mitigate losses. By leveraging advanced technology, including the Internet of Things and machine learning, Cloud Cycle enhances the quality control of concrete deliveries and facilitates interventions to reduce operational costs and emissions. The company's goal is to save the industry billions while aiming for a reduction of global CO2 emissions by 1%.
Homethings specializes in producing eco-friendly household cleaning products designed to promote sustainability. The company offers refillable cleaning solutions, starting with non-toxic, effervescent tablets that effectively remove bacteria from surfaces. Alongside these cleaning tablets, Homethings provides refillable glass bottles, allowing consumers to reduce their reliance on single-use plastics. By focusing on practical and environmentally conscious products, Homethings aims to make home cleaning both efficient and sustainable.
Vembla offers customers a unique digital platform with a vast selection of groceries and everyday goods from local retailers. The hyperlocal model used allows customers to receive their deliveries within 60 mins through environment-friendly modes of transport.
xNomad is an online marketplace based in Stockholm, Sweden, that facilitates the connection between brands, e-commerce stores, and entrepreneurs seeking short-term retail space. Established in 2019, the platform streamlines the process of browsing and booking commercial pop-up locations. By leveraging data on foot traffic, demographics, and customer engagement, xNomad assists clients in selecting optimal store locations and evaluating the effectiveness of their pop-up experiences. This technology-driven approach enables users to create and manage pop-up stores with greater ease and efficiency, enhancing their retail strategies.
SecondBody operates a unique platform that facilitates communication between individuals through the bodies of two strangers. This innovative approach enables users and their partners to meet and interact in a human-centered manner, replacing conventional technology-driven methods of remote communication. By allowing information to flow through intermediary individuals, SecondBody provides businesses with a unified means of understanding and managing client interactions. This model aims to enhance the quality of communication and foster deeper connections, positioning SecondBody as a distinctive player in the realm of sales training and client engagement.
Allihoop is a technology-enabled co-living brand that focuses on providing flexible urban living solutions for young professionals. The company offers an all-inclusive co-living experience where members have their own studio apartments while sharing common areas with other residents. This model provides essential utilities such as water, heating, electricity, high-speed WiFi, and digital services, along with cleaning and maintenance support. By creating a sustainable living environment, Allihoop enables professionals to settle in quickly, allowing them to concentrate on their personal and professional pursuits.