Virtualitics Inc is a data analytics and visualization company based in Pasadena, California, founded in 2015. The company specializes in machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced 3D visualization through its flagship product, the Virtualitics Immersive Platform. This platform provides enterprises with a collaborative virtual environment and desktop experience, enabling users to uncover actionable insights from their data. The technology behind the platform is rooted in over a decade of research at the California Institute of Technology and NASA/JPL. In addition to its core offerings, Virtualitics also provides expert advisory services in machine learning, helping organizations leverage data for better decision-making.
Built Technologies, Inc. is a provider of cloud-based construction loan administration and draw management software designed to enhance risk management, productivity, and customer experience in the construction lending sector. The platform offers features such as file management, custom draw workflows, and integration capabilities, allowing lenders, borrowers, builders, developers, consultants, and inspectors to collaborate effectively. By digitizing the draw management process, Built reduces construction loan risks, increases loan profitability, and simplifies compliance for a diverse range of clients, including small, regional, and national lenders across the United States. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, the company was previously known as DataFi, LLC before rebranding in 2015.
Social Mobile® is a vertically integrated consultancy and OEM that specializes in designing Android-powered smart solutions for the enterprise market. Social Mobile designs, develops, and deploys turnkey solutions that enable its clients to bring mobile devices to market quickly and efficiently. Enterprises, Mobile Operators, National Retailers, Hospitality Institutions, Distributors, Governments, and Educational Institutions have partnered with Social Mobile to bring their product from concept to market. Founded in 2011, Social Mobile has quickly become a leader in delivering the latest technology and is agile enough to meet the dynamic and ever-changing demands of the wireless industry. With extensive experience and industry knowledge, Social Mobile has successfully deployed over 11 Million smart devices across Europe, USA, Canada, Africa, and Latin America. Social Mobile’s strength lies in its ability to offer its clients a true end-to-end supply chain solution. Social Mobile is privately owned and has presence and/or operations in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen. Social Mobile is a Google Mobile Services (GMS) Partner, Authorized Android zero-touch OEM, Android Enterprise Partner, & Approved Android EMM Partner.
Auxmoney GmbH operates an online marketplace for peer-to-peer lending, facilitating loans between private consumers and investors. Founded in 2007 and based in Düsseldorf, Germany, the platform offers a variety of loan options, including instant loans, installment loans, and loans for specific purposes such as education, vacations, and business start-ups. In addition to personal loans, auxmoney provides services such as factoring, credit lines, and commercial real estate financing. The platform allows investors to participate by funding loans, creating a bank-free borrowing system that benefits both borrowers and lenders.
Illuminate Financial Management LLP is a venture capital firm established in 2014 and headquartered in London, United Kingdom, with an additional office in New York. The firm specializes in investments within the financial technology sector, focusing on companies that address challenges in financial services, particularly in compliance, regulation, and connectivity. Illuminate Financial targets early-stage investments, including Series A and seed financing, typically committing between $0.25 million and $3 million for a stake of 5% to 20% in its portfolio companies. While the firm invests globally, it places a significant emphasis on opportunities within the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States. With deep domain expertise and a robust industry network, Illuminate Financial serves as a trusted partner, guiding its portfolio companies through the complexities of their early development phases.
LiquidX Inc. operates an electronic marketplace focused on trade finance assets, facilitating transactions among a diverse range of participants, including corporations, banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and insurers. Established in 2015 and headquartered in New York with additional offices in London and Singapore, LiquidX provides a transparent platform that enables users to trade risk and invest in financial instruments such as receivables, payables, and letters of credit. The company's technology platform enhances the origination, financing, and distribution of trade finance assets, allowing clients to access capital markets effectively. With a broad seller base that includes credits from major global companies and a buyer base comprising large banks and asset managers, LiquidX aims to deliver optimal price execution and streamline working capital solutions.
Arteria AI applies artificial intelligence to the drafting, negotiation, and analysis of contracts.
Konfio is a financial technology company based in Mexico City that focuses on providing online financial solutions for micro entrepreneurs and small to mid-sized enterprises. Founded in 2013, it offers a range of services including fixed-rate loans, short-term business credits, working capital loans, and online payment solutions. Additionally, Konfio provides a corporate credit card, a loyalty program, and business productivity software tools to enhance growth and operational efficiency. The company aims to support the financial needs of its clients through innovative digital banking solutions and has established itself as a key player in the Mexican fintech landscape.
UrbanFootprint, operating as Calthorpe Analytics, Inc., specializes in urban planning software that provides comprehensive insights for various stakeholders. Its platform includes features such as Base Canvas for mapping existing conditions, a Data Library for location-specific insights, and a Scenario Toolkit for analyzing land use and policy scenarios. Additionally, the software offers Analysis Modules for evaluating current and future land use and Mapping and Cartography Tools for data visualization. UrbanFootprint serves a diverse clientele, including urban planning and design firms, environmental analysts, NGOs, academic institutions, real estate developers, and public agencies. Founded in 2014 and based in Berkeley, California, the company aims to empower users with state-of-the-practice analytical tools that facilitate effective decision-making in urban planning, mobility, sustainability, and other critical areas.
Job&Talent operates as an on-demand staffing marketplace designed to enhance the flexibility and transparency of the labor market. The platform addresses the growing demand from companies for adaptable hiring solutions while simultaneously working to reduce global unemployment. As the labor market shifts towards greater flexibility, workers often find themselves in precarious employment situations. Job&Talent offers a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) model that aims to create a mutually beneficial environment for both employers and employees. The company has established a presence in several countries, including the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, with plans for expansion into France and Italy.
MQube is a fintech company operating in the mortgage industry. Driven by data, artificial intelligence and deep machine learning, MQube have developed a platform that delivers mortgages with certainty and control. MQube can produce a legally binding mortgage offer in hours (subject to valuation), weeks quicker than market norms, reducing inefficiencies and offering customers better outcomes.
Amberdata Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for monitoring, analyzing, and securing both public and private blockchains. Founded in 2017 and based in West New York, New Jersey, the company offers tools, APIs, and SDKs that cater to traders, investors, developers, and wallet providers. By consolidating validated blockchain and crypto market data from major exchanges into a unified platform, Amberdata enables its clients to build data-driven applications that enhance their competitive edge. The platform supports various functionalities, including research, trading, risk management, and compliance, and allows for the integration of historical data through multiple protocols. This comprehensive approach equips financial institutions with the necessary infrastructure to engage in digital asset markets effectively.
Crowdz provides invoice-financing opportunities to companies in global supply chains—a $9 trillion market that SMEs traditionally have been excluded from. The need for such financing is greater than ever before. Some 93% of all supply-chain participants are SMEs, and half of these suffer cashflow shortages as they wait for 90 to 120 days or more to be paid. Crowdz’s global invoice auction solves this problem by directing competitive, low-cost financing to SMEs while offering high returns to funders seeking better investments.
FundGuard Inc. develops and operates artificial intelligence powered and cloud based investment funds operating system platform. It operates FundGuard, a platform that helps asset and fund managers to administer investments across mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, insurance, and pension. The company’s FundGuard is a SAAS platform to automatically resolve exceptions, detect unstructured financial anomalies, identify potential frauds, and recommend ways to improve operational KPIs. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Nubank issues, administrate, processes, and transfers payments related to post-paid credit cards and equity investment in other entities. It serves clients in Brazil. The company launched its proprietary loyalty rewards program ("Nubank Rewards"), as well as a digital account ("NuConta") that is already used by more than 17 million people. In Cristina Junqueira, David Velez, and Edward Wible founded EO2 Solucoes de Pagamento on May 6, 2013 that became Nubank in on June 25, 2013. It has its headquarters in São Paulo in Brazil.
TransFICC Limited is an e-trading technology company based in London, specializing in low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2016, the firm addresses the issue of fragmentation within these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates multiple execution venue APIs into a single connection. This allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect seamlessly while TransFICC manages the connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures that price updates are processed rapidly, helping clients to compete effectively against high-frequency trading firms. TransFICC also provides precise microsecond timestamps for price and order messages, which create an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By simplifying the integration process when execution venues update their APIs, TransFICC facilitates easier upgrades compared to traditional enterprise systems, thereby enhancing market access for its clients.
Capitolis Inc. is a technology provider that offers an online software-as-a-service platform designed for banks and financial institutions to enhance their capital management and improve economic performance. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Tel Aviv, Capitolis focuses on addressing constraints in capital markets, particularly in equities and foreign exchange. The platform enables financial institutions to optimize their balance sheets and improve liquidity by facilitating the sourcing of capital for trades from other institutions with substantial balance sheets. By connecting market participants, Capitolis seeks to transform business efficiency and create collaborative solutions that allow clients to leverage under-utilized capital, ultimately capturing new growth opportunities.
Ramp is a technology company based in New York that specializes in corporate credit cards and spending management solutions for businesses and startups. Founded in 2019, Ramp's corporate card offers tools for tracking expenses and gaining insights, alongside cashback rewards for purchases made at various retailers. The company aims to streamline corporate spending by providing higher card limits, automated expense management, and seamless integration with accounting systems. Ramp was founded by the team behind Paribus, known for facilitating automated savings on online purchases. Additionally, Ramp Holdings, an entity with a longer history, focuses on video management and delivery solutions, enabling organizations to optimize video content through advanced search, delivery, and monetization capabilities. Originally established in 1948 and based in Boston, this subsidiary of Raytheon BBN Technologies utilizes innovative technologies such as speech-to-text and natural language processing to enhance video experiences across numerous industries.
Carvana Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates an e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars in the United States. Its platform allows customers to research and identify a vehicle; inspect it using company’s 360-degree vehicle imaging technology; obtain financing and warranty coverage; purchase the vehicle; and schedule delivery or pick-up from their desktop or mobile devices. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona.
Sharegain Ltd. is a fintech company based in London that operates a securities lending platform tailored for pension funds, insurance companies, and other asset managers. Founded in 2015, Sharegain aims to transform the securities lending market by enabling financial institutions to unlock additional income from assets they or their clients already possess. The platform provides an automated solution that allows private banks, asset managers, fund managers, and online brokers to lend their stocks, bonds, and ETFs, thereby democratizing access to the $2.5 trillion securities lending industry. Through its innovative approach, Sharegain helps investors discover the hidden value within their portfolios and generate extra revenue.
SIMON Markets LLC develops an online distribution platform for financial professionals that focuses on structured investments. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.
Hopper Inc. is a travel technology company that has developed a mobile application leveraging big data to predict and analyze airfare and hotel prices. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York, New York, and Sofia, Bulgaria, Hopper assists travelers in securing the best deals by providing timely notifications when flight and accommodation prices reach their predicted lowest points. By offering data-driven travel recommendations, Hopper enhances the booking experience for users, enabling them to make informed decisions and save money on their journeys.
Superpedestrian, Inc. is a transportation robotics company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that specializes in the development of lightweight electric vehicles, particularly electric scooters and bikes. Founded as a spin-off from MIT, the company has invested over five years in creating its proprietary Vehicle Intelligence system, which enhances the safety, reliability, and performance of its products. The flagship product, the Copenhagen Wheel, serves as a platform for developers to create various applications, while the LINK scooter, designed for shared fleets, employs this advanced technology to autonomously monitor and address potential malfunctions. This system allows the scooters to detect issues like battery fires and brake failures in real-time, significantly reducing the likelihood of accidents and operational downtime. By automatically disabling scooters that cannot self-protect and generating detailed service tickets, Superpedestrian improves rider safety and reduces maintenance costs for fleet operators. The company sells its products through retailers and online, operating in multiple markets across the U.S. and Europe.
Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedented transparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency.
Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a financial technology firm that is modernizing the equity capital markets (ECM). CMG connects investors and underwriters via a neutral platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, unrivaled transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 100 buy side firms representing $12 trillion in AUM and 15 investment banks.
Started in 2016 by a group of educators and technologists in California, Wonderschool offers a platform where people can start infant and toddler programs and preschools out of their homes. Wonderschool supports experienced educators and childcare providers to start their own childcares or preschools out of their homes, whether they live in apartments, condos, or homes that they rent or own. Wonderschool provides assistance with licensing, program setup, marketing and everything in between. The company’s software platform allows teachers to manage their students, parents, and their program from one dashboard. Along with this, Wonderschool has built a marketplace for parents to search Wonderschool programs, schedule visits, enroll their children, and make payments. It’s been proven time and time again that children should start developing cognitive, motor, behavioral, and social skills from as early as 6 months and Wonderschool is committed to increasing families’ access to high quality care and learning environments for children.
Full Harvest Technologies, Inc. operates a business-to-business platform that connects large farms with food companies, facilitating the sale of surplus and imperfect produce. Established in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company addresses the significant issue of food waste in the United States, where approximately 20 billion pounds of produce are discarded annually due to strict retailer standards regarding appearance. By creating a marketplace for this unutilized yet perfectly edible produce, Full Harvest aims to provide farmers with an additional revenue stream while helping food businesses reduce costs. The platform utilizes proprietary technology and an innovative supply chain model to enhance sustainability in the food system, ultimately benefiting both producers and consumers by minimizing waste and promoting the availability of affordable, healthy food options.
Household Capital Pty Ltd is a financial services firm based in Melbourne, Australia, founded in 2016. The company specializes in providing retirement funding solutions that enable senior Australians to access and borrow against their home equity. By offering longevity income products, Household Capital aims to assist seniors in maintaining their quality of life and living independently in their own homes.
PadSplit is an affordable housing tech startup that provides a house-sharing service for the workforce. It offers a platform that aligns incentives among residents, property owners, and communities to make affordable housing possible for the private market. The company uses shared living to make housing more affordable for low-income, empowering them to build savings and transform their lives. Atticus LeBlanc established the company in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.
Greenlight Planet Inc develops and manufactures solar lighting and energy devices. It manufactures solar lighting devices, including solar lamps, solar lanterns with mobile charger, and home energy systems. The company offers its products through a network of distributors and it also offers its product online. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with additional offices in Mumbai, India; and Nairobi, Kenya.
The Mom Project, Inc. is a digital marketplace that connects women with companies seeking to fill various roles across fields such as marketing, finance, technology, and project management. Founded in 2015 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the platform serves a community of over 275,000 professionals and more than 2,000 companies, focusing on helping mothers stay active in the workforce. The Mom Project not only provides job opportunities tailored to the needs of working mothers but also offers companies insights into their workplace practices regarding women, along with recommendations to improve conditions for mothers and their employees. By facilitating connections and advocating for better workplace policies, The Mom Project aims to create a more supportive environment for women and redefine career trajectories that align with their personal goals.
AlphaSense, Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in developing an AI-powered search engine for market intelligence. Founded in 2007, AlphaSense provides a platform that enables research professionals to efficiently search, navigate, and analyze various data sources, including filings, research, news, and other disclosures. This technology utilizes artificial intelligence and natural language processing to identify relevant insights from diverse and fragmented data sets, helping users gain critical business insights quickly. The company serves over 1,000 enterprise clients across multiple industries and geographies. With a workforce exceeding 240 employees, a significant portion of whom are dedicated to product development, AlphaSense also has offices in London, Helsinki, Pune, and other locations in the United States.
TailorMed Medical Ltd. is a health technology company that specializes in financial navigation systems designed to assist patients and healthcare providers in managing medical expenses. Founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel, TailorMed offers a comprehensive platform that automates financial processes, identifies patients at financial risk, and connects them with tailored funding opportunities. Its key products include TailorMed Financial Navigation, which streamlines financial operations for healthcare centers; TailorMed Financial Insights, a reporting dashboard that tracks key performance indicators; and TailorMed Pharmacy, which simplifies the ordering and billing of medications based on individual treatment plans. By leveraging advanced algorithms and a robust data set, TailorMed aims to reduce patient financial toxicity and improve efficiencies throughout the treatment lifecycle.
StackShare, Inc. develops a cloud-based discovery platform that lets users to find software development tools and cloud infrastructure services. It offers solutions in the areas of application and data, including libraries, application hosting, languages and frameworks, data stores, and assets and media; mobile, payments, analytics, application utilities, and communications; DevOps for monitoring build, test, and deployment solutions; and business tools for back office support, sales, and marketing design collaboration. The company allows startup companies to describe about the technology they use. StackShare, Inc. was formerly known as Leanstack, Inc. and changed its name to StackShare, Inc. in March 2015. StackShare, Inc. was founded in 2013 and is based in San Jose, California.
Amberdata Inc. is a provider of a cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform designed for monitoring, analyzing, and securing both public and private blockchains. Founded in 2017 and based in West New York, New Jersey, the company offers tools, APIs, and SDKs that cater to traders, investors, developers, and wallet providers. By consolidating validated blockchain and crypto market data from major exchanges into a unified platform, Amberdata enables its clients to build data-driven applications that enhance their competitive edge. The platform supports various functionalities, including research, trading, risk management, and compliance, and allows for the integration of historical data through multiple protocols. This comprehensive approach equips financial institutions with the necessary infrastructure to engage in digital asset markets effectively.
Jetty is a financial services company on a mission to make renting a home more affordable and effortless for everyone.
Jetty's solution helps property managers increase lease conversion, reduce bad debt, and streamline operations. For the renter, Jetty lowers the barrier to entry, saving residents thousands of dollars on move-in costs. Jetty was founded by Mike Rudoy and Luke Cohler in 2015 and is headquartered in New York.
ICON is an advanced construction technologies company using 3D printing robotics, software and advanced materials to shift the paradigm of homebuilding for all of humanity.
Pathstream is a web-based platform for teaching in-demand tech skills for work. Pathstream partners with industry-leading tech companies and higher education institutions to transform digital skills learning. The company's platform allows students to immediately access pre-configured, project based instruction, realistic workplace simulations, and on-demand coaching.
Recycle Track Systems (RTS) is changing the way companies manage waste and recycling by combing technology with high-touch service to make disposal easier, smarter and more responsible. RTS helps companies easily track and optimize their pickup, from on-demand removal to fully integrated waste management solutions. Using this data insight, RTS empowers companies with visibility into their waste habits and tangible figures on their climate impact to improve their waste and recycling practices. RTS is a certified B-Corporation, reflecting its dedication and commitment to meeting stringent standards of environmental transparency and performance.
Contour is building the world’s open trade finance network. By focusing on collaboration and leveraging new technologies we are dissolving the barriers to seamless trade. Our networks of banks, corporates, services and partnerships enable the instant flow of trusted data across the world’s trade routes and current fragmented ecosystems.
BondEvalue is a Singapore based Fintech company that focuses on Asian bond markets. Unlike equities which have already been digitally disrupted, bonds have remained unchanged for decades, with private bank clients unable to access live prices. We envision using our deep domain expertize to level the playing field for them via the simplicity and convenience of an App.
Intelligent supply chain management company.
Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services. The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As a practitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation. Bo Zhang and Wei Cheng established the company in 2012 in Beijing, Beijing.
Auxmoney GmbH operates an online marketplace for peer-to-peer lending, facilitating loans between private consumers and investors. Founded in 2007 and based in Düsseldorf, Germany, the platform offers a variety of loan options, including instant loans, installment loans, and loans for specific purposes such as education, vacations, and business start-ups. In addition to personal loans, auxmoney provides services such as factoring, credit lines, and commercial real estate financing. The platform allows investors to participate by funding loans, creating a bank-free borrowing system that benefits both borrowers and lenders.
Capitolis Inc. is a technology provider that offers an online software-as-a-service platform designed for banks and financial institutions to enhance their capital management and improve economic performance. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Tel Aviv, Capitolis focuses on addressing constraints in capital markets, particularly in equities and foreign exchange. The platform enables financial institutions to optimize their balance sheets and improve liquidity by facilitating the sourcing of capital for trades from other institutions with substantial balance sheets. By connecting market participants, Capitolis seeks to transform business efficiency and create collaborative solutions that allow clients to leverage under-utilized capital, ultimately capturing new growth opportunities.
GENESIS Global was originally started by a team of industry leaders in the Global Financial Markets space with extensive experience in front to back trading technologies across multiple asset classes and business lines. The members of their management and advisory team have held senior global management roles at investment banks around the world and at trading technology software vendors. Extensive experience with global financial technology vendors.
They have a simple strategy, to be a global FinTech company providing best in class solutions and services which are in line with their client’s needs, goals and expectations. They have a disruptive framework technology and business model to achieve this strategy.
Swixx Biopharma fully represents biopharma companies in the CEE. It is designed to fully replace biopharma, OTC, and medical device multinationals’ subsidiaries or business units in those countries, or therapeutic areas of CEE, that the multinational chooses not to enter, or to exit. The company was founded in 2014 and is registered in Baar, Switzerland. It has 100%-owned affiliates in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH operates an online platform for booking tours, attractions, and activities worldwide. The company offers tourist services online via the Internet and mobile applications. GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH was founded in 2009 and is based in Berlin, Germany with additional offices in North America and Europe.
Solidatus provides a simple, intuitive and fresh web-based application that gives you the ability to rapidly map, visualise and share the flow of data through your organisation. Whether used to support regulatory lineage, GDPR or the simplification of system landscapes, Solidatus is uniquely designed to build your end-to-end data map faster than anything else.
Crux Informatics Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, provides data processing and management services through its cloud platform. The company facilitates reliable data exchange between suppliers and consumers, ensuring that businesses receive the data they need in a timely and efficient manner. By collaborating directly with data suppliers and serving a diverse range of consumers, Crux promotes economies of scale that enhance industry efficiency. Its platform offers flexible delivery methods and prioritizes high levels of service and security, enabling companies to access data at a lower cost and in a user-friendly format.
HQLAᵡ is a financial technology innovation firm that leverages R3’s distributed ledger technology, Corda, to provide liquidity management and collateral management solutions for institutional clients in the global securities financing markets. HQLAᵡ and Deutsche Börse Group formed a strategic partnership for the creation of a joint operating model that provides market participants with improved collateral mobility across a fragmented securities settlement eco-system.
Altro, formerly known as Perch, is a fintech company based in Los Angeles, California, that offers a mobile platform designed to help users enhance their credit scores. Founded in 2019, the app enables users to convert common recurring expenses, such as subscriptions and rent, into creditworthy data points that contribute to their credit history. Currently available on iOS, Altro plans to launch an Android version in the near future. The company recently graduated from Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch and has successfully raised $2.5 million in its latest funding round.
Factory OS, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells modular re-locatable apartment buildings, shelters, and residential homes. The company specializes in off-site building construction. It offers modular buildings, multi-family residential homes, prefabricated townhouses, modular apartments, modular condominiums, affordable modular homes, modular office buildings, office complexes, real estate sales offices, modular bank branches, and retail location buildings. Factory OS, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vallejo, California.
4G Capital, founded in 2013 and based in Nairobi, Kenya, specializes in providing instant access to credit for small businesses in Africa, particularly targeting the informal market. The company offers unsecured debt funding and financial literacy training tailored for micro-enterprises, including micro-business owners, rural traders, and female entrepreneurs. With a focus on enhancing sustainable growth, 4G Capital employs proprietary machine learning technology to gain insights into traditionally underserved sectors, allowing them to design scalable credit products that align with their clients’ financial circumstances. Clients can access loans via mobile money in under two minutes, facilitating quick and efficient funding. The company addresses the significant finance gap faced by micro and small enterprises in Africa, which often struggle to secure credit due to stringent collateral requirements. 4G Capital has achieved impressive metrics, including a collection rate exceeding 94% and a notable increase in client revenues. With operations in Kenya and Uganda, 4G Capital is expanding its reach across the continent, aiming to positively impact over 1 million people while fostering financial literacy and business success.
Access Fintech is an innovative risk management service for banks and buyside firms. The service helps firms track the trade lifecycle and get a true sense of prioritized risk, across an increasing number of systems. Access FinTech brings together fintech providers and in-house technology, orchestrating the interaction of the distributed providers and creating a single visual display of the risk of financial transactions in a global sharable view.
GENESIS Global was originally started by a team of industry leaders in the Global Financial Markets space with extensive experience in front to back trading technologies across multiple asset classes and business lines. The members of their management and advisory team have held senior global management roles at investment banks around the world and at trading technology software vendors. Extensive experience with global financial technology vendors.
They have a simple strategy, to be a global FinTech company providing best in class solutions and services which are in line with their client’s needs, goals and expectations. They have a disruptive framework technology and business model to achieve this strategy.
BioCatch offers a range of behavioral authentication and threat detection solutions for web and mobile applications. Available as a cloud-based solution, BioCatch collects and analyzes more than 2000 cognitive parameters to generate unique user profiles. Organizations use the platform to continuously authenticate users during their online sessions, protecting against cyber threats and fraudulent activity, such as account takeover and RAT-in-the-Browser (RitB), remote access, and automated account manipulation. BioCatch was founded in 2011 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts,
CloudMargin Ltd. offers a cloud-based collateral and margin management platform designed for financial institutions of various sizes, including brokerage firms, banks, asset managers, pension funds, and insurance companies. Established in 2014 and headquartered in London, the company utilizes a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model to assist clients in meeting regulatory deadlines while minimizing collateral management costs. The founding team, with extensive experience in collateral management, OTC derivatives, and capital markets, sought to improve existing solutions that were often perceived as overpriced and inefficient. CloudMargin aims to provide effective collateral management solutions accessible to all market participants, regardless of their size or status, earning the trust of clients through its industry expertise and commitment to innovation.
Capitolis Inc. is a technology provider that offers an online software-as-a-service platform designed for banks and financial institutions to enhance their capital management and improve economic performance. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Tel Aviv, Capitolis focuses on addressing constraints in capital markets, particularly in equities and foreign exchange. The platform enables financial institutions to optimize their balance sheets and improve liquidity by facilitating the sourcing of capital for trades from other institutions with substantial balance sheets. By connecting market participants, Capitolis seeks to transform business efficiency and create collaborative solutions that allow clients to leverage under-utilized capital, ultimately capturing new growth opportunities.
PadSplit is an affordable housing tech startup that provides a house-sharing service for the workforce. It offers a platform that aligns incentives among residents, property owners, and communities to make affordable housing possible for the private market. The company uses shared living to make housing more affordable for low-income, empowering them to build savings and transform their lives. Atticus LeBlanc established the company in Atlanta, Georgia in 2017.
Solidatus provides a simple, intuitive and fresh web-based application that gives you the ability to rapidly map, visualise and share the flow of data through your organisation. Whether used to support regulatory lineage, GDPR or the simplification of system landscapes, Solidatus is uniquely designed to build your end-to-end data map faster than anything else.
Quassar Capital is a firm with a broad presence in the US, founded in 2012, which manages $23.6 billion in assets. Our people have extensive experience in various fields such as applied mathematics, statistical methods, financial markets, as well as advanced programming with a quantitative approach, which has allowed a sustained growth in recent years always betting on the most innovative technology and which is reflected in the excellent results towards our investors. Delivering high-quality returns requires unwavering focus, continuous adaptation to dynamic conditions, and the active pursuit of market opportunities. To achieve this, we invest significantly in technology and infrastructure and bring together diverse perspectives and approaches.
Capital Markets Gateway (CMG) is a financial technology firm that is modernizing the equity capital markets (ECM). CMG connects investors and underwriters via a neutral platform that delivers integrated ECM data and analytics, unrivaled transparency, and workflow efficiencies. Providing a digital system of record for firm-wide deal activity, CMG helps clients make more timely, better-informed decisions. Launched in 2017 by a team of ECM practitioners, the CMG platform is currently relied upon by nearly 100 buy side firms representing $12 trillion in AUM and 15 investment banks.
CEMEX is a Mexico-based company primarily involved in the manufacturing of cement and related construction materials. It produces and distributes a wide range of products, including cement, clinker, ready-mix concrete, aggregates, concrete blocks, roof tiles, and concrete pipes, operating in numerous countries such as the United States, Spain, Egypt, and the Philippines. CEMEX also focuses on innovation through its Research Group, which manages research and development initiatives to create sustainable construction solutions. Additionally, CEMEX Ventures, the company's corporate venture capital arm, emphasizes urban development and technological advancements in the construction sector, fostering collaboration with startups, universities, and other stakeholders to enhance project financing and connectivity within the industry.
Spark Systems is an exciting new Fin-Tech startup funded by industry veterans, we are the first high tech solution provider for institutional forex trading that is originated in Asia. We aim to build world class FX trading platform to serve a growing Asia financial hub. As early member of the firm you will be involved from the very beginning of building something truly special, and will be duly rewarded with a fast-track career.
TransFICC Limited is an e-trading technology company based in London, specializing in low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2016, the firm addresses the issue of fragmentation within these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates multiple execution venue APIs into a single connection. This allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect seamlessly while TransFICC manages the connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures that price updates are processed rapidly, helping clients to compete effectively against high-frequency trading firms. TransFICC also provides precise microsecond timestamps for price and order messages, which create an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By simplifying the integration process when execution venues update their APIs, TransFICC facilitates easier upgrades compared to traditional enterprise systems, thereby enhancing market access for its clients.
komgo SA operates a distributed ledger technology platform for commodity transactions. The platform digitalizes the trade and commodities finance sector. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Geneva, Switzerland.
OilX Limited is a London-based startup founded in 2018 that specializes in developing an analytical platform for the oil sector. The company combines oil industry expertise with data science to provide real-time insights into the global supply-demand balance of oil. By integrating various data sources, including satellite and shipping information, OilX delivers actionable intelligence and data-driven market research tailored for traders and analysts. The company has engaged in a beta testing phase with multiple clients, aiming to refine its offerings and enhance the value of its platform in the oil market.
Aiera, Inc. operates a platform that focuses on research automation and event intelligence for institutional investors. The company provides real-time analysis across individual equities, industry categories, and investor themes, enabling users to monitor public earnings calls and other significant events. Aiera employs adaptive deep learning, advanced linguistics, and predictive modeling to enhance investment strategies, allowing professionals to receive timely alerts, including recommendations and target prices for equities and crypto assets. Founded in 2016 and based in New York, Aiera's solutions help users maximize value from existing analyst resources and streamline workflows in investment decision-making.
Digital Asset develops distributed ledger technology intended to build distributed, encrypted straight through processing tools. Its technology offer tools for digital ledgers to track and settle digital and mainstream financial assets in a cryptographically secure environment, enabling the financial services industry to improve their efficiency, security, compliance and settlement speed.
Addressing inefficiencies in the marketplace across multiple communication channels, DirectBooks will simplify the primary issuance process through the use of structured data and streamlined communications. The new service will increase the efficiency and accuracy of deal workflow information among market participants by disseminating it through a robust communication platform that can be integrated into underwriter and investor systems to better connect underwriters and their clients.
Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedented transparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency.
Factory OS, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells modular re-locatable apartment buildings, shelters, and residential homes. The company specializes in off-site building construction. It offers modular buildings, multi-family residential homes, prefabricated townhouses, modular apartments, modular condominiums, affordable modular homes, modular office buildings, office complexes, real estate sales offices, modular bank branches, and retail location buildings. Factory OS, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vallejo, California.
Cosaic is a software developer based in Charlottesville, Virginia, established in 2012 by Megan Read, Dan Schleifer, and Terry Thorsen. The company specializes in creating financial charting software and a smart desktop platform, prominently featuring its ChartIQ product. This financial visualization platform enables clients to design responsive and interactive charting experiences tailored for brokerages, individual traders, institutional trading desks, and financial portals. Cosaic focuses on HTML5 financial charting and data visualization tools, ensuring compatibility across various platforms, including mobile, web, and desktop. The company has established partnerships with multiple organizations, including Xignite, OpenFin, StockTwits, Estimize, Autochartist, and Thomson Reuters, to enhance its offerings in crowdsourced analytics and market insights.
Enterprise Fintech Platform: T-REX’s mission is to make complex capital markets more liquid through enhanced transparency and efficiency. In order to facilitate growth in complex asset classes, T-REX aims to continuously build effective market-relevant financial infrastructure that allows complex markets to be more robust through unprecedented transparency. T-REX is the financial and risk analytics platform for complex asset classes: increasing standardization, efficiency, and transparency. Through its enterprise SaaS platform, T-REX unlocks hundreds of billions of dollars currently seeking investment through modules that combine analysis across assets, loans, bonds, and other capital structures. Before T-REX, the value of the assets was opaque, non-standard, and manually evaluated one asset at a time. With T-REX, industry participants can now efficiently invest in, securitize, and manage portfolios of assets with complete transparency.
Better Holdco, Inc. is a digital mortgage lending company based in New York that offers a streamlined online platform for residential clients in multiple states across the U.S. Founded in 2016, Better.com focuses on providing a transparent and efficient home-financing experience by eliminating commissions, fees, and traditional branch appointments. The company offers a variety of mortgage options, including fixed and adjustable rates for conventional and jumbo loans, as well as refinancing services. In addition to mortgage lending, Better.com features a digital marketplace that provides competitive quotes from various insurance providers and connects clients with leading real estate agents. Since its inception, Better.com has facilitated $7.9 billion in home loans and $1 billion in insurance, aiming to democratize access to home financing.
Better Holdco, Inc. is a digital mortgage lending company based in New York that offers a streamlined online platform for residential clients in multiple states across the U.S. Founded in 2016, Better.com focuses on providing a transparent and efficient home-financing experience by eliminating commissions, fees, and traditional branch appointments. The company offers a variety of mortgage options, including fixed and adjustable rates for conventional and jumbo loans, as well as refinancing services. In addition to mortgage lending, Better.com features a digital marketplace that provides competitive quotes from various insurance providers and connects clients with leading real estate agents. Since its inception, Better.com has facilitated $7.9 billion in home loans and $1 billion in insurance, aiming to democratize access to home financing.
Access Fintech is an innovative risk management service for banks and buyside firms. The service helps firms track the trade lifecycle and get a true sense of prioritized risk, across an increasing number of systems. Access FinTech brings together fintech providers and in-house technology, orchestrating the interaction of the distributed providers and creating a single visual display of the risk of financial transactions in a global sharable view.
Privitar is an enterprise software company with a global client-base across North America, Europe, and Asia. The company is the development and adoption of privacy engineering technology enabling its customers to innovate and leverage data with an uncompromising approach to data privacy. Its software is designed to allow clients to analyze potentially sensitive data while respecting customers’ privacy and confidentiality, resulting in the ability to leverage large, sensitive data sets while ensuring compliance with regulations and ethical data principles.
Privitar was founded in 2014 and is based in London, UK.
Private Equity Round in 2018
Airtel African operations are owned by Bharti Airtel Limited, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa. The company offers mobile voice and data services, fixed line, high speed broadband, IPTV, DTH, turnkey telecom solutions for enterprises and national and international long distance services to carriers. Bharti Airtel has over 200 million customers (November 2010) across its operations, including 50 million in Africa. Airtel is driven by the vision of making mobile communications affordable for all to give people the freedom to meet their daily challenges and to drive economic and social development. Airtel is making a positive impact in the communities in which it operates through extending its networks to rural areas and through its education initiatives.
Crux Informatics Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, provides data processing and management services through its cloud platform. The company facilitates reliable data exchange between suppliers and consumers, ensuring that businesses receive the data they need in a timely and efficient manner. By collaborating directly with data suppliers and serving a diverse range of consumers, Crux promotes economies of scale that enhance industry efficiency. Its platform offers flexible delivery methods and prioritizes high levels of service and security, enabling companies to access data at a lower cost and in a user-friendly format.
TransFICC Limited is an e-trading technology company based in London, specializing in low-latency connectivity solutions for the fixed income and derivatives markets. Founded in 2016, the firm addresses the issue of fragmentation within these markets by offering a unified application programming interface (API) that consolidates multiple execution venue APIs into a single connection. This allows clients, including banks and asset managers, to connect seamlessly while TransFICC manages the connectivity with electronic trading venues. The company's technology ensures that price updates are processed rapidly, helping clients to compete effectively against high-frequency trading firms. TransFICC also provides precise microsecond timestamps for price and order messages, which create an audit trail that supports best execution practices. By simplifying the integration process when execution venues update their APIs, TransFICC facilitates easier upgrades compared to traditional enterprise systems, thereby enhancing market access for its clients.
QC Ware, Corp. develops enterprise applications for quantum computers, offering hardware-agnostic software solutions that address challenges in combinatorial optimization and machine learning. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Paris, France, the company provides a graphical web application that serves various sectors, including finance, deep learning, network and cybersecurity, and hybrid computing platforms. Its software is designed to enhance efficiency beyond traditional high-performance computing solutions, making it suitable for enterprise, government, and academic clients.
Reliance Jio Infocomm is a company providing wireless telecom products and services. The Company offers voice, data, and messaging services, as well as distributes smartphones and hotspot devices. Its areas of research, development and new service deployment include blockchain, artificial intelligence, open source platforms, IOT, data analytics, and next-gen cloud services.
Zymeworks Inc. is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Vancouver, Canada, that specializes in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biotherapeutics, primarily for cancer treatment. The company’s leading candidates include ZW25, a bispecific antibody currently undergoing Phase I and II clinical trials targeting various cancers, and ZW49, a bispecific antibody-drug conjugate in Phase I trials for advanced HER2-expressing cancers. Zymeworks employs advanced computational biotechnology techniques, utilizing proprietary molecular modeling and high-performance computing to optimize therapeutic antibodies and other protein-based therapeutics. The company has established strategic partnerships and collaborations with several major pharmaceutical firms, including Merck, Eli Lilly, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, among others, to enhance its research and development efforts. Founded in 2003, Zymeworks continues to focus on developing innovative solutions for cancer and other serious diseases.
Oodle Car Finance is a car finance company that match-makes customers with UK's best car dealers to deliver great car buying experiences. They are breaking the mould of lending in the used-car market by merging search and finance into one seamless digital process. This rapid, blink-and-you-miss-it, online procedure matches our customers with their perfect cars, the UK’s best car dealers and affordable finance.They believe they can achieve their ultimate mission to create a best-in-class consumer experience, where customers reap the benefits.
Crux Informatics Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, provides data processing and management services through its cloud platform. The company facilitates reliable data exchange between suppliers and consumers, ensuring that businesses receive the data they need in a timely and efficient manner. By collaborating directly with data suppliers and serving a diverse range of consumers, Crux promotes economies of scale that enhance industry efficiency. Its platform offers flexible delivery methods and prioritizes high levels of service and security, enabling companies to access data at a lower cost and in a user-friendly format.
Pagaya Investments (Pagaya) is a financial technology company reshaping the asset management space using machine learning and big data analytics to manage institutional money. With a focus on fixed income and alternative credit, Pagaya offers a variety of discretionary funds to institutional investors including pension funds, insurance companies, and banks. Pagaya’s unique technology platform — Pagaya Pulse — runs on a suite of artificial intelligence technologies and state-of-the-art algorithms to deliver a consistently high and scalable performance edge. The company was founded in 2016 by seasoned finance and technology professionals with offices in New York and Tel Aviv.
Broadcom Inc. is a prominent global technology company specializing in the design and development of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions. With a legacy rooted in the technical innovations of AT&T/Bell Labs, Lucent, and Hewlett-Packard, Broadcom offers an extensive portfolio of over 6,500 products targeting key markets, including wireless communications, wired infrastructure, industrial and automotive electronics, and consumer computing. Its semiconductor offerings encompass both analog and digital devices, serving applications such as cellular phones, data networking, enterprise storage, and renewable energy systems. In addition to its semiconductor business, Broadcom also provides critical software solutions that enhance scalability, agility, and security for large enterprises and government entities. As a result of strategic mergers and acquisitions, Broadcom has established itself as the sixth-largest semiconductor company worldwide, generating over $30 billion in annual revenue and leveraging its engineering expertise to meet the evolving needs of its customers.
Behavox Ltd. specializes in compliance surveillance software, catering primarily to the capital markets sector. Founded in 2014 and based in London, with additional offices in St Petersburg and Tokyo, Behavox offers solutions such as Behavox Compliance, which monitors employee activities and assesses risk, and Behavox Voice, which analyzes voice recordings with features like multi-lingual support. The company's enterprise platform consolidates various data types into a single data lake, enabling users to apply machine learning for detecting misconduct and insider threats. Behavox's technology leverages advanced algorithms and machine learning to continuously enhance detection capabilities. The company aims to address complex challenges in financial services through sophisticated engineering and innovative applications of academic research.
Crux Informatics Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, California, provides data processing and management services through its cloud platform. The company facilitates reliable data exchange between suppliers and consumers, ensuring that businesses receive the data they need in a timely and efficient manner. By collaborating directly with data suppliers and serving a diverse range of consumers, Crux promotes economies of scale that enhance industry efficiency. Its platform offers flexible delivery methods and prioritizes high levels of service and security, enabling companies to access data at a lower cost and in a user-friendly format.
AUTO1 Group is a used-car marketplace with its own certified and diversified inventory and a technology platform that allows buyers and sellers.
AUTO1 is aimed primarily at the used car trade. By connecting buyers and sellers through technology the company enables consumers as well as dealers to trade seamlessly. Sourcing from all channels including OEMs and dealerships. AUTO1 Group owns business units like AUTO1.com, Autohero.com or wirkaufendeinauto.de. AUTO1 Group operates in almost 30 countries and continues to expand rapidly.
Kensho Technologies, Inc. provides analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data visualization systems to global banks and investment institutions. It develops Kensho Financial Analytics Software that deploys scalable analytics systems across the commercial institutions. It also offers artificial intelligence (AI) software called Kensho Applied Mind. The company also operates a national security division called Koto. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It has additional offices in New York, New York; McLean, Virginia; and Pacific Palisades, California. As of April 8, 2018, Kensho Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc.
BDO Unibank, Inc. is a leading full-service universal bank based in Makati City, Philippines, offering a comprehensive array of banking products and services to both corporate and retail clients. Its offerings include traditional loan and deposit products such as savings, checking, and time deposit accounts, as well as personal, auto, home, and small and medium enterprise loans. The bank also provides a variety of insurance products, remittance services, and trade facilities. In addition to these services, BDO Unibank engages in investment banking, offering loan syndications, underwriting, and financial advisory services. Its investment management arm manages separate client-focused portfolios and various mutual funds. With a robust branch network and extensive automated teller machine presence, BDO Unibank is well-positioned to serve the diverse financial needs of its customers across the Philippines. The institution has evolved since its incorporation in 1967 and continues to expand its services to meet the growing demands of the market.
Axoni is a New York-based technology firm focused on capital markets, specializing in distributed ledger solutions. Founded in 2013 by experts in distributed ledger technology and cryptography, Axoni serves major financial institutions and capital markets service providers. The company's offerings include the deployment of distributed ledger technology, custom smart contract development, and advanced analytics tools. Their software integrates traditional financial technologies with blockchain capabilities, providing market information and in-depth trend analysis. This comprehensive approach enables investment funders, exchange operators, and professional traders to enhance their systems for managing legal records, lifecycle events, and cash flow calculations.
Cobalt delivers a private peer-to-peer network that significantly reduces post-trade cost and risk for financial market participants. It aims to use the technology behind bitcoin to simplify foreign exchange trading. The company also aims to create a single, shared view of each transaction by using blockchain technology, which uses complex cryptography to allow people to safely view and edit shared ledgers. The technology was first developed to underpin cryptocurrency bitcoin, doing away with the need for a central bank. Cobalt was founded in 2015 by Andy Coyne and Adrian Patten. It is headquartered in London, England.
Uber Technologies, Inc. is a technology company that operates a mobile application connecting consumers with independent drivers for ridesharing services, as well as facilitating food delivery through its Eats segment. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, Uber has expanded its operations to over 600 cities worldwide, serving customers across North America, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company has diversified its offerings into five segments: Rides, Eats, Freight, Other Bets, and Advanced Technologies Group. The Rides segment enables users to request rides from a variety of vehicle types, while the Eats segment allows for restaurant discovery and food delivery. The Freight segment connects carriers with shippers for logistics services. Uber is also focused on developing autonomous vehicle technology through its Advanced Technologies Group. By leveraging its platform, Uber aims to enhance urban mobility and deliver innovative transportation solutions globally.
Equity Crowdfunding in 2016
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Airbnb is a global platform that facilitates the booking of unique accommodations and experiences, connecting hosts with guests through its website and mobile applications. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company allows users to discover a diverse range of listings, including private rooms, luxury villas, and unconventional spaces such as castles and sailboats. With over 8 million active listings in more than 65,000 cities across 191 countries, Airbnb serves a wide array of travelers seeking authentic experiences at various price points. The company's revenue primarily comes from transaction fees associated with online bookings, with a significant portion generated from North America. By streamlining the process of listing and reserving accommodations, Airbnb has established itself as a leading alternative accommodation provider in the travel industry.