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WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.

SweetEscape Pte Ltd owns and operates an online platform for photographer to connect with travelers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Jakarta, Indonesia.

Leading online fashion platform in Europe, Miinto is one of Scandinavia’s fastest growing eCommerce businesses. Founded in 2009, we are now connecting online shoppers, boutiques, and brands in 7 European markets. Miinto was founded in 2009, and today we are over 150 people based in our head office in Copenhagen and in our regional offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Zurich. ‪We’re all passionate about our work and take great pride in shaping the future of a more sustainable fashion industry. We’re driven ‪by our strong belief in the power of digital to re-connect consumers with local shopping and invent a true omnichannel ‪consumer experience. We work with the most passionate and skilled in-house specialists in IT, digital marketing, and customer experience to build a truly personal and inspiring shopping experience for every one of our customers.

Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes. Rockets of Awesome is reinventing the way parents shop for kids by leveraging technology, data, brand, personalization, and exceptional merchandise.

Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

WaitWhat is a media invention company that invents boundary-breaking and profitable media properties that change the cultural landscape. It creates and owns premium, original, genre-defining content. The company also creates media properties that can scale horizontally beyond its first format. By contrast, WaitWhat creates new categories with their content, at production values that have become the reference point for quality. The company develops, produces, and distributes wholly-owned media properties with the specific purpose of creating new genres, categories, and formats of content that scale.

Quit Genius is a digital behavior change platform for addictions with industry-leading quit rates. Founded in 2017 by medical doctors, the program for tobacco, e-cigarettes, alcohol and substance use disorder uses a disruptive model to deliver best practice care via digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), expert coaching, a connected breath sensor and easy access to proven medication.

Recount Media is a fast-growing startup focused on high quality journalism and short form video with a simple mission; No Bullshit, No Bad Faith, In 5 minutes or Less. Our flagship show, The Daily Recount, is a daily recap that remixes television news to tell you the stories that matter in politics without wasting your time or insulting your intelligence. We are building a radically new media platform across mobile apps and the web that will change the way news is consumed.

Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Matera brings together lawyers, accountants and web developers to enable co-owners to manage their own building.

Bloom and Wild Limited packages and delivers letterbox flowers in the United Kingdom. It delivers various collections of flowers through letter boxes and handtied bouquets as a gift to friends and families. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Skillshare is an online learning community with thousands of inspiring classes for creative and curious people, on topics including illustration, design, photography, video, freelancing, and more. The company's community offers classes on any type of skill, from baking cupcakes to raising startup capital to varying fields in design, business, and technology, enabling members to harness their creative power and learn skills in an enhanced way. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York.

Leading online fashion platform in Europe, Miinto is one of Scandinavia’s fastest growing eCommerce businesses. Founded in 2009, we are now connecting online shoppers, boutiques, and brands in 7 European markets. Miinto was founded in 2009, and today we are over 150 people based in our head office in Copenhagen and in our regional offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Zurich. ‪We’re all passionate about our work and take great pride in shaping the future of a more sustainable fashion industry. We’re driven ‪by our strong belief in the power of digital to re-connect consumers with local shopping and invent a true omnichannel ‪consumer experience. We work with the most passionate and skilled in-house specialists in IT, digital marketing, and customer experience to build a truly personal and inspiring shopping experience for every one of our customers.

Zapp provides on-demand delivery services. It is building the future of convenience with a full-stack approach to on-demand essential items, 24/7, delivered in minutes. It is backed by the worlds leading investors and our team has scale-up and exit experience at companies such as Amazon, Jumia, Deliveroo, Tesco, Stuart, and Just Eat. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Kent, United Kingdom.

Zapp provides on-demand delivery services. It is building the future of convenience with a full-stack approach to on-demand essential items, 24/7, delivered in minutes. It is backed by the worlds leading investors and our team has scale-up and exit experience at companies such as Amazon, Jumia, Deliveroo, Tesco, Stuart, and Just Eat. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Kent, United Kingdom.

Rockets of Awesome is a direct-to-consumer kids' apparel brand, designing and selling over-the-top clothes. Rockets of Awesome is reinventing the way parents shop for kids by leveraging technology, data, brand, personalization, and exceptional merchandise.

Leading online fashion platform in Europe, Miinto is one of Scandinavia’s fastest growing eCommerce businesses. Founded in 2009, we are now connecting online shoppers, boutiques, and brands in 7 European markets. Miinto was founded in 2009, and today we are over 150 people based in our head office in Copenhagen and in our regional offices in Oslo, Stockholm, Warsaw, Amsterdam, and Zurich. ‪We’re all passionate about our work and take great pride in shaping the future of a more sustainable fashion industry. We’re driven ‪by our strong belief in the power of digital to re-connect consumers with local shopping and invent a true omnichannel ‪consumer experience. We work with the most passionate and skilled in-house specialists in IT, digital marketing, and customer experience to build a truly personal and inspiring shopping experience for every one of our customers.

Oddbox is London's first and only wonky and surplus veg box delivery scheme. Oddbox is a social impact business fighting food waste in UK’s farms with innovative solutions and our first solution is London’s first wonky fruit and veg box scheme. We buy fresh, wonky & surplus produce for a fair price directly from local farms and markets and deliver them in a weekly subscription box scheme to South London's homes and Central London's offices at 30% cheaper than similar box services. We donate 10% of our produce to charities that fight food poverty

Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.

Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

felmo GmbH develops an application software that allows users to book veterinary services at homes and its practices. Through its platform it provides services, including common treatments and examinations, lab/diagnostics, surgical interventions, vaccinations, labeling (implanting a chip), euthanasia and funeral, consultation and advisory services, grooming and maintenance, and travel arrangements. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

M.Gemi is a new kind of luxury brand handcrafting shoes in the most well-regarded, family-owned artisan factories across Italy. M.Gemi introduces new, limited edition styles every week, and sells directly to consumers, which allows us to offer our shoes at surprisingly attainable prices. They believe that old-world luxury craftsmanship is perfect. But they also believe a revolution is in order. It’s why they’re doing things differently – starting with shoes.

Etsy is an e-commerce site and a smartphone application for buying and selling handmade and vintage items. Users can find products in the categories of clothing and accessories, jewelry, craft supplies and tools, weddings, entertainment, home and living, kids and babies, vintage, and more. Etsy was launched by Robert Kalin, Haim Schoppik, Jared Tarbell, and Chris Maguire in June 2005 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Vinted operates an online marketplace intended to make second-hand the first choice. Its platform offers a peer-to-peer marketplace for girls and women to buy, sell, and swap clothes with an online chatting feature, enabling users to shop with ease at low cost.

Priceza is the leading Product Search Engine and Price Comparison shopping site in SEA currently operating in 6 countries: Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Vietnam with over 5 Million shoppers using Priceza every month. The service helps consumers to compare prices from the most comprehensive online shopping stores attracting millions of consumers to Search for Products, Compare Prices, and then Priceza drives Real Buyers back to the stores of merchants. Their Mission is to provide the most useful information about shopping to consumers anywhere in the world.

kukua designs and develops a chain of mobile game application which helps children between 5 to 10 years of age to learn reading, writing, and math. The company develops the application under the brand name SEMA. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Recount Media is a fast-growing startup focused on high quality journalism and short form video with a simple mission; No Bullshit, No Bad Faith, In 5 minutes or Less. Our flagship show, The Daily Recount, is a daily recap that remixes television news to tell you the stories that matter in politics without wasting your time or insulting your intelligence. We are building a radically new media platform across mobile apps and the web that will change the way news is consumed.

TFC's mission is to empower women to be proud in their womanhood, by reinterpreting long overlooked and underestimated categories around female health - starting with the period and postpartum products. The company's signature product is a subscription of organic and sustainably-packaged period products that fits through the letterbox. To accelerate change TFC uses its online platform to educate around female health, and its provocative marketing to create awareness. Examples include the "One Girl One Cup" or the award-winning "Tampon Book" campaign, which played a central role in reducing the sales tax on period products in Germany, effective as of Jan 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/no-luxury-book-containing-tampons-is-runaway-hit TFC is based in Berlin and was founded in 2018 by Ann-Sophie Claus and Sinja Stadelmaier.

Bloom and Wild Limited packages and delivers letterbox flowers in the United Kingdom. It delivers various collections of flowers through letter boxes and handtied bouquets as a gift to friends and families. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

HungryPanda Limited delivers Chinese food and groceries. It operates an online B2C platform accessible via Web, desktop, and mobile applications that list a range of Chinese restaurants and supermarkets. The company also provides comprehensive payment channels for both our consumers and merchants. It also advertises companies on application. HungryPanda Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

BaubleBar is changing how women shop for fashion jewelry. By offering on-trend styles and contextualizing them with strong editorial references, the company is quickly becoming the first go-to retailer within the $22bn fashion jewelry industry. BaubleBar’s core differentiating factor is its fast speed to market, recognized through its unique sourcing capabilities. The company leverages this by using real-time data to merchandise and design based on current market dynamics and consumer taste preferences. Coupling this with the high-touch customer experience and strong social media reach, BaubleBar is redefining how women think of fashion jewelry brands. BaubleBar (formerly Eight1Six) was founded by Amy Jain and Daniella Yacobovsky in 2010 and has raised $15.6 million in equity financing to date. The Company most recently raised $10 million in Series B funding, in a round led by Burch Creative Capital, the investment firm headed by retail and fashion veteran Chris Burch. Other leading investors in the Company include Accel Partners, Greycroft Partners, Aspect Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Founder Collective, and Lerer Media Ventures.

Blitsy, Inc. operates as an online retailer of arts and crafts. The company also offers craft suppliers with digital promotion services. Blitsy, Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. As of November 13, 2017, Blitsy, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Nicole Crafts LLC.

StashAway is a wealth management platform design to build and protect your wealth. It personalizes financial planning and portfolio management for the vast range of needs of retail and accredited investors alike. Its risk-management investment strategy, ERAA® (Economic Regime-based Asset Allocation), is designed to maximize clients’ long-term returns while keeping each individual customer’s specific risk exposure constant through changing economic cycles.

SHOWROOM Sp. z o.o. engages in online retailing of clothes. It offers summer wear, shoes, bags, accessories, jewelry, underwear, and cosmetics for man, woman, and child. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. As of March 7, 2019, SHOWROOM Sp. z o.o. operates as a subsidiary of Miinto ApS.

Bloom and Wild Limited packages and delivers letterbox flowers in the United Kingdom. It delivers various collections of flowers through letter boxes and handtied bouquets as a gift to friends and families. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.

Coc Coc operates an online search engine in Vietnam. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone. By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.

Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone. By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.

Zilingo was founded in 2015 by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor with a vision to use technology to put fair and efficient business within everyone’s reach. Up until now, the fashion industry has favored a select few - if you had social, human and financial capital, you could get anything done. But we believe the future of fashion belongs to everyone. By using smart, technology-led solutions to bridge the gap between creators and producers, we’re re-imagining the fashion industry to make it accessible, connected and transparent for all. Find out more on business.zilingo.com.

Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowing the customers to sell their cars. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.

Notonthehighstreet.com is the leading curated online marketplace connecting the best small creative businesses, with the world. The brand has gained the trust and loyalty of its customers through offering an alternative to the High Street: a curated product selection with unique designs, high-quality craftsmanship and inspiring stories behind the people that make them. Customers choose to support small creative businesses and therefore contribute to building the great creative talent and community of artisans across the United Kingdom. Shopping with Notonthehighstreet.com is an opportunity for customers to be a conscious consumer, bringing human values back into retail and enabling the things they buy to say something about who they are. Founded in 2006 by Holly Tucker MBE and Sophie Cornish MBE, the brand has experienced exceptional growth with gross sales in 2014 reaching £127 million and delivering a compound growth rate of 135% since launch. Under the leadership of newly appointed CEO Simon Belsham, there is renewed energy and focus on building a brand that will captivate customers for decades to come by supporting Partners’ growth and innovation. With a team of over 200 at its headquarters in Silicon Upon Thames, South West London, Notonthehighstreet.com is backed by venture capitalists Venrex Investment Management, Index Ventures, 83North, Industry Ventures and Eight Road Ventures.

TFC's mission is to empower women to be proud in their womanhood, by reinterpreting long overlooked and underestimated categories around female health - starting with the period and postpartum products. The company's signature product is a subscription of organic and sustainably-packaged period products that fits through the letterbox. To accelerate change TFC uses its online platform to educate around female health, and its provocative marketing to create awareness. Examples include the "One Girl One Cup" or the award-winning "Tampon Book" campaign, which played a central role in reducing the sales tax on period products in Germany, effective as of Jan 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/21/no-luxury-book-containing-tampons-is-runaway-hit TFC is based in Berlin and was founded in 2018 by Ann-Sophie Claus and Sinja Stadelmaier.

SHOWROOM Sp. z o.o. engages in online retailing of clothes. It offers summer wear, shoes, bags, accessories, jewelry, underwear, and cosmetics for man, woman, and child. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. As of March 7, 2019, SHOWROOM Sp. z o.o. operates as a subsidiary of Miinto ApS.

Bloom and Wild Limited packages and delivers letterbox flowers in the United Kingdom. It delivers various collections of flowers through letter boxes and handtied bouquets as a gift to friends and families. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Hmlet Pte. Ltd. provides manages shared, short-term accommodation for tech professionals. It collects rent on behalf of landlord and provides services for AC, electrical failures, and water damages. The company’s products includes furniture and interiors. Hmlet Pte. Ltd. provides master, regular, and pocket rooms on rent. It caters to international technology professionals. Hmlet Pte. Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Singapore with additional locations in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Sydney.