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Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new and function like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.

Centrical employee engagement and performance management solutions help companies motivate employees to exceed their own KPIs. It does this by blending advanced gamification with personalized microlearning and real-time employee performance management. Centrical's platform produces improvements like +12% employee productivity, +20% average deal values, +30% faster onboarding, and +12% customer satisfaction KPIs for multinational enterprises in consumer-packaged goods, business process outsourcing, financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecommunications, and travel & hospitality, among others. Centrical's technology platform can be easily integrated with all leading enterprise systems. The company has offices in New York, and Ra'anana, Israel. For more information please visit www.centrical.com.

PsiQuantum is a developing quantum computer that uses photons as qubits. It’s an approach that differs fundamentally from the implementations of the current leading players in the field.

Amarna Therapeutics B.V. develops viral vector based therapeutic platform and vaccines. The company offers SVac, a viral vector platform. Its areas of focus include allergies, genetic disorders, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. The company has strategic partnerships with Fundación Medina, Batavia Bioservices B.V., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Amarna Therapeutics B.V. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Leiden, the Netherlands.

WETHENEW, SAS operates an e-commerce site that retails sneakers, accessories and apparels. The company's brands includes Yeezy, Nike, Air Joordan, Adidas, New Balance, Converse, Fear of God, and Balenciaga. The company also retails branded street wears including, Jordan x Off-White, Supreme, and Travis Scott-Cactus Jack . The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Suresnes, France.

Pave provides real-time compensation transparency tools that track, measure, and communicate the total compensation of employees. Pave allows users to make smarter comp decisions and eliminate spreadsheets, powered by real-time integrations with HRIS, ATS, and Cap Table.

Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform. Trouva is one of the most exciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).

Online delivery service transforming the way people buy groceries and home essentials

Norbert Health’s vision is to deliver the world’s first home medical pod, that monitors the health of families using contactless sensors - no wearables, no buttons, no physical interaction with a device. Our product senses key vital signs including heart rate, breathing rate and temperature, providing a real time and historical view of the users health. Our pod will also alert family members and caregivers to incidents and abnormalities such as falls, lack of activity, social interactions or erratic sleep patterns.

Jus Mundi operates a search engine for public international law and investor-state arbitration. It provides sets of documents rendered by courts and tribunals of investor-State arbitration, international trade law, and law of the sea. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Paris, France.

Clippings is an online source for furniture and lighting, where you can discover and buy over a million products from 850 high-end design brands including Vitra, Knoll International, Flos, HAY, Gubi, Moroso, Normann Copenhagen and many more. It's the go-to destination for product discovery – already used by thousands of interior designers to specify furniture and lighting for their projects, and by thousands of customers buying that perfect piece for their own home.

Fisker Automotive was an American company known for producing the Fisker Karma, which was one of the world's first production luxury plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. It debuted at the 2008 North American International Auto Show, and the first deliveries were in 2011. Production of the Fisker Karma was suspended in November 2012 due to the bankruptcy of its battery supplier A123 Systems, with about 2,450 Karmas built since 2011 and over 2000 cars sold worldwide. In February 2014, Fisker Automotive's Karma vehicle design, tooling, and a manufacturing facility in Delaware were purchased by Chinese auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group.

Lyst is a global fashion search platform used by 70 million shoppers every year. Offering over 4 million fashion products from 11,000 of the world’s leading fashion brands and stores, Lyst brings together the widest inventory in luxury and contemporary fashion online. The company has raised $60 million to date, and is backed by range of all-star investors including 14W (Moda Operandi, Reformation), Accel Partners (Facebook, Spotify), Balderton (Yoox Net-A-Porter Group), Draper Esprit, part of the Draper Venture Network (Hotmail, Skype), and the teams behind LVMH, Michael Kors, Oscar de la Renta, and Tory Burch.

Netatmo SAS designs, manufactures, and distributes electronic products. The company also offers personal weather station and accessories, which includes rain gauge and wind gauge. Its product allows user to track indoor and outdoor environment, such as indoor temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, noise pollution, and humidity in the home; and transmit data wirelessly to view on their smartphones, tablets, or computers. The company also offers security cameras welcome for indoor, and presence for outdoor, and accessories. It also offers products, such as tags, indoor security siren, and smart smoke alarm. The company also develops Netatmo rest private application program interface (API), a solution that allows a third party application to access recorded data of a specific weather station. It sells its products through its website, computer and mobile software, and through retailers worldwide. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. As of December 31, 2018, Netatmo SAS operates as a subsidiary of Legrand SA.

Unmade Limited designs and delivers knitwear, scarves, and jumpers for men and women. Its products are available through its store in London, as well as online in the United Kingdom and internationally. Unmade Limited was formerly known as Knyttan Limited and changed its name to Unmade Limited in September 2015. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

UPMEM is implementing the first scalable, programmable and efficient Processing-In-Memory (PIM) solution for the datacenter. In server architectures, Big Data processing performance is limited by data movements. UPMEM solution accelerates 10+ times data-intensive applications with an innovative solution based on a large number of programmable co-processors located next to the data.

Via is a re-engineering public transit company that develops and provides on-demand public mobility solutions for commuters. The company transforms public transit, from a regulated system of rigid routes and schedules to a fully dynamic, on-demand network. Via's mobile app connects passengers who are headed the same way, allowing riders to seamlessly share a premium vehicle. The platform operates in the United States and in Europe through its joint venture with Mercedes-Benz Vans, ViaVan. Via's technology is deployed worldwide through partner projects with public transportation agencies, private transit operators, taxi fleets, private companies, and universities, integrating with public transit infrastructure to power cutting-edge on-demand mobility. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, United States.

KLIKsee develops innovative ad-tech solutions for Smart-TV and Mobile video platforms with the mission to revolutionize the way media companies and publishers are delivering ads and interactive contents to their audience.

Nest Labs is a home automation producer of programmable, self-learning, sensor-driven, Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats, smoke detectors, and other security systems. It introduced the Nest Learning Thermostat in 2011 as its first product. The Nest Protect smoke and carbon monoxide detector was then introduced in October 2013. After acquiring Dropcam, the rebranded Nest Cam was introduced in June 2015.

Normal is a tech company that develops and manufactures custom earbuds and 3-D print headphones. The company's headphones are composed of two major parts: an inner plastic portion that houses the sound driver and a 3-D printed arm that fits precisely in the ears. Normal was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Beam is a software startup that collects their thoughts and experience through the Internet. The company is creating an app that will automatically generate notes summing up and classifying the knowledge they'd gathered while browsing. These notes could ultimately be shared with other Beam users to help enrich. Beam was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Mantra: Shopcade is leading the convergence of content and commerce, so consumers can keep up with latest news and shop related items all in one place. What we are: Shopcade is a tech platform that specializes in promoting the trendiest products, showcasing the latest content features and engaging socially with consumers. Shopcade not only acts as a publisher and marketplace, but we also drive user engagement with personalised content that helps to boost both brand awareness and sales conversion based on customers' preferences. Shopcade has been acquired by Lagardere Active in January 2017 and no longer operates on a stand-alone basis. From a tech standpoint, we are passionate about data marketing performance and partner with platforms on projects such as for example: DEV OPS - backend optimisations, performance analysis, and troubleshooting - cloud infrastructure and agile dev best practices MOBILE - mobile API design / specifications SOCIAL & PERSONALISATION - Provide ability for users to create, share, and buy from wish lists - Provide email and/or push notifications - Implement sharing widgets - Enable Instagram tag matching - Run Facebook campaigns for retailers SEO Boost impressions and improve click through rate by - product tagging with microformat - sitemap creation & auto-updating - Page load optimisations ANALYTICS - User acquisition tracking and performance reports - A/B testing - Google Tag manager to allow marketing team to better make use of retargeting - Monitor click behavior and improve click through rate of campaign landing pages

Clippings is an online source for furniture and lighting, where you can discover and buy over a million products from 850 high-end design brands including Vitra, Knoll International, Flos, HAY, Gubi, Moroso, Normann Copenhagen and many more. It's the go-to destination for product discovery – already used by thousands of interior designers to specify furniture and lighting for their projects, and by thousands of customers buying that perfect piece for their own home.

Unmade Limited designs and delivers knitwear, scarves, and jumpers for men and women. Its products are available through its store in London, as well as online in the United Kingdom and internationally. Unmade Limited was formerly known as Knyttan Limited and changed its name to Unmade Limited in September 2015. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Riskified designs an e-commerce fraud-prevention technology that turns fraud management into a growth engine for online retailers. Its e-commerce technology offers machine learning algorithm and proprietary behavioral analytics that protects the bottom line and customer experience as well as offers an adaptive approach to stay ahead of the constantly changing fraud landscape, enabling merchants to protect themselves from fraud and offer better customer experience, lowering overhead and maximizing their revenue.

Formlabs Inc. designs and manufactures 3D printing systems for engineers, designers, and artists. It also offers standard, castable, flexible, tough, and dental SG materials; and PreForm software, a software that prepares models for printing on Formlabs printer The company’s products are used in engineering, manufacturing, education, entertainment, dental, jewelry, healthcare, and audiology. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts with additional offices in Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Hungary, and North Carolina.

Hardware Club is a venture capital firm specializing in seed stage and start-up investments. The firm seeks to make investments in the hardware-related industry with a focus on digital health, artificial intelligence, new sensors, connected buildings, smart transportation, and consumer hardware. It is geographically agnostic. The firm typically invests between $0.5 million and $1.5 million in the companies. Hardware Club is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Taipei, Taiwan; Tokyo, Japan; and San Francisco, California.

Cleeng is the leading Subscriber Retention Management (SRM™) platform. Its data-driven technology is deeply connected with the subscriber journey and improves the overall identity and access management (IAM), billing, offer management, churn intelligence and customer care capabilities. Historically, Cleeng has been specializing in the online video market and mastered video monetization since 2011. Cleeng’s modular, API-based suite is used by market-leading brands like Foxtel, Hearst, McFit, Sky and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Graphcore Limited, a hardware systems company develops intelligent processing units. It offers IPU-Accelerator cards, which can be plugged into a server to accelerate machine-learning applications; and IPU-Appliance products that provide enhanced performance to deliver inference systems supporting various users or provide faster training. Graphcore Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; London, United Kingdom; Oslo, Norway; and Beijing, China.

DriveNets Ltd. develops software solutions for communications service provider networks. It offers Network Cloud, a software-centric routing infrastructure that provides a routing stack, data-path control, central management capabilities, and interfaces to third party tools through standard northbound interfaces. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Ra’anana, Israel with an additional office in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Anki, Inc., a consumer robotics and artificial intelligence company, engages in the manufacture of artificial intelligence based products. It offers Vector, a home robot; and Anki Overdrive, a battle racing systems, including Cozmo, a play robot. Anki, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Cleeng is the leading Subscriber Retention Management (SRM™) platform. Its data-driven technology is deeply connected with the subscriber journey and improves the overall identity and access management (IAM), billing, offer management, churn intelligence and customer care capabilities. Historically, Cleeng has been specializing in the online video market and mastered video monetization since 2011. Cleeng’s modular, API-based suite is used by market-leading brands like Foxtel, Hearst, McFit, Sky and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Procure Ai - Supplier Relationship Intelligence Our mission is to enable companies to run the world’s most intelligent procurement – human and artificial.

Graphcore Limited, a hardware systems company develops intelligent processing units. It offers IPU-Accelerator cards, which can be plugged into a server to accelerate machine-learning applications; and IPU-Appliance products that provide enhanced performance to deliver inference systems supporting various users or provide faster training. Graphcore Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; London, United Kingdom; Oslo, Norway; and Beijing, China.

Pave provides real-time compensation transparency tools that track, measure, and communicate the total compensation of employees. Pave allows users to make smarter comp decisions and eliminate spreadsheets, powered by real-time integrations with HRIS, ATS, and Cap Table.

Applicaster Ltd., through its SaaS-based Zapp platform, provides broadcasters a flexible way to launch and maintain video applications. The company’s Zapp platform enables broadcasters and content owners to launch an application service or select interactive television (TV) modules to integrate into existing applications. It provides tools, technology, and integrations to make their channels, shows, and stars available in new ways on new devices. The company offers mobile TV applications; interactive production to create cross-screen viewer engagement; disruptive tools and content game changers; advertising dimensions; data and analytics; and cloud infrastructure. The company was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel with additional offices in New York, New York; Miami, Florida; Los Angeles, California; and London, United Kingdom.

Foursquare subsidiary, managing Asia-Pacific including Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.

Zoov is a proven electric bicycle-sharing service that naturally integrates into public areas thanks to its compact and easy to install parking system. Ideal for travelling quickly and freely with minimal effort, Zoov provides better service for companies, schools and other communal spaces within the town. Zoov will be launching in Paris-Saclay this September and in several conurbations over the next months.

Tulip Interfaces, Inc. designs and develops shop floor applications for the manufacturing industry. The company offers applications that combine the data streams from sensors; create digital work instructions; visualize relevant information in real-time; and connect the existing shop floor equipment and operator inputs in real-time. It serves consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, apparel, and medical devices industries. Tulip Interfaces, Inc. was founded in 2012 and is based in Somerville, Massachusetts.

Netatmo SAS designs, manufactures, and distributes electronic products. The company also offers personal weather station and accessories, which includes rain gauge and wind gauge. Its product allows user to track indoor and outdoor environment, such as indoor temperature, carbon dioxide concentration, noise pollution, and humidity in the home; and transmit data wirelessly to view on their smartphones, tablets, or computers. The company also offers security cameras welcome for indoor, and presence for outdoor, and accessories. It also offers products, such as tags, indoor security siren, and smart smoke alarm. The company also develops Netatmo rest private application program interface (API), a solution that allows a third party application to access recorded data of a specific weather station. It sells its products through its website, computer and mobile software, and through retailers worldwide. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. As of December 31, 2018, Netatmo SAS operates as a subsidiary of Legrand SA.

Remedee is a new concept of "e- drug" for pain management. This innovative wearable, is based on an breakthrough technology that stimulates the release of endorphins in the brain. After 6 years of research in the medical department of the French Army and at CEA-Clinatec, we demonstrated a significant reduction of pain perception and the feasibility of making this technology mobile and available to everyone. Remedee adresses the 20% of worldwide population suffering from chronic pain.

Tempow is research and design company focused on pushing the limits of Bluetooth technology. Their first product, the Tempow Audio Profile (TAP) is an updated Bluetooth protocol allowing any Bluetooth chip to stream audio on multiple Bluetooth audio outputs simultaneously. It is a 100% software solution, and works with any brand of Bluetooth speaker on any chip. The company closed a Series A round of venture funding led by Balderton Capital, and has global partnerships that bring Tempow-enhanced Bluetooth to millions of around the world. Tempow is headquartered in Paris, France with extended operations in Seoul, Korea and Shenzhen, China. Tempow is partnering with leading semiconductor companies.

iskn is a consumer electronics company that develops and markets the slate for smart drawing. iskn is the leading pioneer in AUGMENTED INTERACTION thanks to its technology representing 24 international patents based on 60 years of deep tech R&D expertise in magnetometry at the world-renowned CEA LETI. The company’s primary mission consists in enriching the experience and facilitate interaction with the digital world by bringing back emotion through the use of day-to-day physical objects. This has already come to life by turning any pencil into a digital one with the widely adopted SLATE, and the yet to come disruptive REPAPER graphic tablet.

Cleeng is the leading Subscriber Retention Management (SRM™) platform. Its data-driven technology is deeply connected with the subscriber journey and improves the overall identity and access management (IAM), billing, offer management, churn intelligence and customer care capabilities. Historically, Cleeng has been specializing in the online video market and mastered video monetization since 2011. Cleeng’s modular, API-based suite is used by market-leading brands like Foxtel, Hearst, McFit, Sky and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

GIROPTIC has developed and patented a unique real-time image fusion process from multiple sensors. On May 20th 2014, GIROPTIC launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its first consumer product: the GIROPTIC 360cam. In 45 days, the startup raised over $1.4 million, thus becoming France’s largest crowdfunding campaign. GIROPTIC paves the way to a new 360° era, for consumers and professionals, where photos and videos won’t be limited to a single frame.

iskn is a consumer electronics company that develops and markets the slate for smart drawing. iskn is the leading pioneer in AUGMENTED INTERACTION thanks to its technology representing 24 international patents based on 60 years of deep tech R&D expertise in magnetometry at the world-renowned CEA LETI. The company’s primary mission consists in enriching the experience and facilitate interaction with the digital world by bringing back emotion through the use of day-to-day physical objects. This has already come to life by turning any pencil into a digital one with the widely adopted SLATE, and the yet to come disruptive REPAPER graphic tablet.

Noa (previously Lock8), is the first of its kind – a global bike-sharing platform based on an innovative lock and tracking system that allows organisations of all sizes to roll out an easy, affordable and scalable bike-sharing program. Users are able to find and unlock bikes using their smartphones, and bikes are secured through GPS tracking.

keepMED develops a device for treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, a disorder characterized by repetitive episodes of upper airway obstruction that occur during sleep.

Beam is a software startup that collects their thoughts and experience through the Internet. The company is creating an app that will automatically generate notes summing up and classifying the knowledge they'd gathered while browsing. These notes could ultimately be shared with other Beam users to help enrich. Beam was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Graphcore Limited, a hardware systems company develops intelligent processing units. It offers IPU-Accelerator cards, which can be plugged into a server to accelerate machine-learning applications; and IPU-Appliance products that provide enhanced performance to deliver inference systems supporting various users or provide faster training. Graphcore Limited was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Bristol, United Kingdom with additional locations in Palo Alto, California; London, United Kingdom; Oslo, Norway; and Beijing, China.

ChicTypes is a curated online personal shopping service for men, providing them with a unique offering matching men’s specific needs: outfits are curated by dedicated personal shoppers based on customers’ tastes, and the selection is conveniently sent at home for free. This innovative model creates a new distribution channel for menswear, with average baskets four times higher than in traditional e-commerce as well as a strong customer fidelity. In only two years, the company managed to build France’s #1 player in online curated menswear shopping, achieving two million euros in revenue in 2014 and a double digit month to month growth in 2015.

keepMED develops a device for treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, a disorder characterized by repetitive episodes of upper airway obstruction that occur during sleep.