BlackSheep Ventures

Spoki is a business-to-business (B2B) company that specializes in WhatsApp-based customer communication. It offers a conversational platform enabling businesses to engage customers throughout their journey, from marketing and sales to support. Key features include bulk messaging, integration with e-commerce, marketing automation tools, and CRM systems, as well as automation and chatbot creation. Spoki aims to enhance businesses' customer communication, mirroring the success they achieve with email campaigns.

Kleecks is a computer software company specializing in SEO, digital marketing, software development, and consulting services. It has developed an enterprise optimization platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance website performance and drive business growth. By focusing on generating immediate increases in organic traffic, conversions, and revenues, Kleecks provides clients with a technology-driven solution designed to minimize reliance on human intervention. This innovative approach allows businesses to lower costs, accelerate their time-to-market, and ultimately enhance their overall revenue potential.

Qapla' Srl is an Italian company founded in 2014, based in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, that offers an online platform designed for tracking shipments and enhancing customer satisfaction for e-commerce and other commercial activities. The platform allows users to import and manage their shipments, communicate with clients, and set up communication flows, while also translating courier statuses into 12 standardized updates that follow shipments from departure to delivery. By integrating tracking for all couriers into a single interface, Qapla' enables businesses to monitor deliveries and provide progress reports to customers, ultimately reducing customer support costs and improving post-shipping marketing and communication efforts.

Shop Circle is a technology company that develops AI-powered tools for Shopify-based businesses. Its platform empowers independent brands within the Shopify ecosystem by providing solutions for customer engagement, operational efficiency, and conversion optimization.

Anonymised is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that specializes in providing marketers with tools to effectively reach their target audiences and assess the performance of advertising campaigns while prioritizing user privacy. The company develops a comprehensive identity and data management solution that utilizes federated AI technology, allowing for privacy-preserving marketing practices. Anonymised offers features such as personalized content access, targeted advertising, data measurement, customer analytics, and customer discovery, all while ensuring that personal data remains on the consumer's device. This approach enables clients to enhance audience engagement without compromising the privacy of users.

Nexoya AG is a Zurich-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in marketing analytics. The company offers a platform designed to provide insights into marketing data and actionable recommendations for enhancing marketing performance through artificial intelligence. By aggregating Key Performance Indicators from various tools such as Google Ads and Facebook, Nexoya's platform evaluates the optimal allocation of advertising budgets across different channels. The features of the platform include predictive analytics, cross-channel reporting, anomaly detection, and campaign optimization, all aimed at helping clients maximize their return on advertising spend and achieve better results from their marketing strategies.

Roibox is a technology-driven company specializing in data solutions, particularly in the realm of location-based advertising. It offers a SaaS platform that integrates extensive geo-diagnostic capabilities to optimize marketing strategies. By analyzing a vast array of data points—drawing from first-party, campaign, and socio-economic sources—Roibox identifies and rectifies discrepancies in the marketing funnel. This comprehensive approach allows marketers to enhance the performance of their advertising campaigns while saving valuable time. Roibox's innovative map-based solutions cater to various consumer needs, leveraging technology to provide actionable insights that improve marketing efficacy.

AdTonos is a programmatic audio advertising platform that connects advertisers with publishers, offering a marketplace for various ad placements, including pre-rolls, mid-rolls, and real-time ad replacement for live streaming. The platform enables advertisers to access a large audience of over 15 million unique online audio listeners globally, with the capability of delivering up to 200 million ad playouts each month. By transforming traditional advertising methods into targeted, data-driven campaigns, AdTonos allows brands to effectively engage with audiences across multiple digital audio channels, including podcasts, radio, and music streaming services. The company is supported by the UK’s Department of International Trade for global expansion and holds memberships in industry organizations such as IAB UK and IAB Europe, enhancing its presence in the audio advertising market.

iGenius specializes in developing artificial intelligence models and applications tailored for regulated industries. Its flagship product, Crystal, serves as a data intelligence virtual advisor that simplifies the interaction between people and data across various sources, including marketing, CRM, sales, and IoT. This customizable software enhances productivity by analyzing and interpreting data, making insights accessible through natural language. Crystal is designed with robust security features to meet the stringent requirements of highly confidential and mission-critical use cases, earning the trust of Fortune 500 companies. Additionally, iGenius is collaborating with NVIDIA to develop Colosseum, a large-scale AI supercomputer.

Anonymised is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that specializes in providing marketers with tools to effectively reach their target audiences and assess the performance of advertising campaigns while prioritizing user privacy. The company develops a comprehensive identity and data management solution that utilizes federated AI technology, allowing for privacy-preserving marketing practices. Anonymised offers features such as personalized content access, targeted advertising, data measurement, customer analytics, and customer discovery, all while ensuring that personal data remains on the consumer's device. This approach enables clients to enhance audience engagement without compromising the privacy of users.

Scibids Technology SAS is a Paris-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in developing solutions for media buyers to enhance the real-time bidding process in digital advertising. Its customizable artificial intelligence platform automates algorithmic trading for marketing professionals, enabling them to optimize bids and budget allocation across various strategies. Scibids' technology is designed to drive significant improvements in performance and scalability within addressable paid media channels, all while maintaining a focus on user privacy by avoiding reliance on third-party cookies or personal identifiers. The company operates independently and collaborates with a diverse ecosystem, including leading demand-side platforms, global media agencies, and major brands, to advance the effectiveness of digital media campaigns.