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Zuriq specializes in the development of scalable quantum computing hardware that utilizes trapped ion technology. The company focuses on creating hardware components specifically designed for quantum computers, enabling efficient ion transport in three dimensions. This innovative approach positions Zuriq at the forefront of the quantum computing industry, providing essential solutions to advance the capabilities of quantum systems.

ContextSDK is a developer of a contextual intelligence platform aimed at improving mobile app engagement and revenue. The platform collects and analyzes real-time insights regarding a user's environment, behavior, and interactions within applications. By leveraging this contextual data, product teams can dynamically adapt app interfaces, notifications, and features, ultimately leading to increased user satisfaction and higher conversion rates. Through its innovative approach, ContextSDK seeks to enhance the overall experience for users and optimize revenue generation for app developers.

Dive is a developer of cloud-based engineering software designed to enhance the simulation of fluid flows. Its innovative platform leverages advanced simulation technology to provide scalable analysis of dynamic flow phenomena, enabling clients to effectively calculate free-surface flows, multiphase flows, and flows around complex moving geometries. By utilizing cloud computing and immersive virtual reality tools, Dive accelerates product design cycles and improves communication among engineering teams. The company focuses on streamlining the engineering process, allowing clients to concentrate on their core engineering tasks while benefiting from enhanced predictive capabilities in their design concepts.

Kipu Quantum specializes in creating application-specific quantum computing solutions tailored for immediate industrial use. The company operates at the intersection of software, hardware platforms, and customer needs, focusing on real-world challenges across various business domains. Kipu Quantum develops quantum computing platforms that incorporate hardware-specific algorithms into software products, facilitating early adoption of quantum technologies. By employing innovative hardware-software co-designs, Kipu enables clients to extract value from quantum computing solutions significantly ahead of traditional methods.

Quantum Diamonds specializes in the development of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamonds for quantum sensing applications. The company offers advanced quantum sensors that measure magnetic fields, temperature, and pressure, providing superior sensitivity and resolution compared to traditional sensors. These sensors are designed for use in various fields, including navigation, bio-imaging, geographical surveying, and spectroscopy, even under challenging conditions. By focusing on atom-sized quantum technologies, Quantum Diamonds enables industries and academic institutions to conduct precise analyses, optimizing for factors such as crystal lattice strain and charge state stability.

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Turn2x is focused on developing advanced technology for the production of renewable natural gas (RNG). The company specializes in constructing plants that convert renewable electricity from sources such as solar and wind into biogas. Additionally, Turn2x offers modular methanation reactors that can adapt to variable load changes, allowing industries to access a cleaner and more sustainable alternative to fossil natural gas. Through its innovative approach, Turn2x aims to contribute to the transition towards renewable energy solutions.

Daedalus is a contract manufacturing company that specializes in precision parts for the CNC industry. It leverages advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to create reconfigurable production capacity, allowing for instant retooling to accommodate various manufacturing needs. The company offers a software system that enhances manufacturing efficiency and ensures high reliability and transparency throughout the production process. Daedalus is equipped to handle a wide range of production scales, from prototypes to large-scale manufacturing, thereby supporting diverse customer requirements with agility in both process and part complexity.

Software Defined Automation is an industrial software and manufacturing company that provides industrial control as a service. The company focuses on optimizing production processes through a cloud-based open collaboration platform that enhances flexibility in manufacturing. Its technology automates the reprogramming of industrial automation components and virtualizes control software, decoupling it from hardware. This approach equips manufacturers with essential tools to improve productivity and resilience while enabling project management companies to enjoy greater operational freedom. By integrating advancements in software, control systems, and information technology, Software Defined Automation aims to transform traditional manufacturing practices and enhance overall efficiency.

Ninetailed is a developer of a personalization platform focused on enhancing visitor experiences for modern website applications. The platform is designed to create real-time omnichannel personalization experiences for headless Content Management Systems (CMS) and contemporary frameworks, ensuring that clients do not face performance trade-offs. By facilitating seamless integration and optimization, Ninetailed enables businesses to accelerate their growth and effectively engage their customers. The company's API-first approach positions it as a significant player in the customer experience optimization sector.

QuantPi specializes in developing automated solutions that enhance the explainability and robustness of artificial intelligence models. The company offers a platform that utilizes various machine learning algorithms to provide tailored suggestions based on user preferences. This platform not only clarifies how these algorithms function but also assesses risks associated with their outputs. By delivering customized explanations aligned with different data types and use cases, QuantPi empowers organizations to gain deeper insights into the decision-making processes of their AI systems.

Kipu Quantum specializes in creating application-specific quantum computing solutions tailored for immediate industrial use. The company operates at the intersection of software, hardware platforms, and customer needs, focusing on real-world challenges across various business domains. Kipu Quantum develops quantum computing platforms that incorporate hardware-specific algorithms into software products, facilitating early adoption of quantum technologies. By employing innovative hardware-software co-designs, Kipu enables clients to extract value from quantum computing solutions significantly ahead of traditional methods.

AiSupervision develops an AI-powered supervising platform aimed at enhancing productivity in factories. This comprehensive platform provides clients with real-time alerts concerning productivity and downtimes, while also automating processes such as photo quality control, production reporting, quality control reports, and invoicing. By digitizing every human action in the production process, AiSupervision enables organizations to streamline operations and improve overall efficiency.

Tilores specializes in advanced data infrastructure technology focused on entity resolution, specifically for applications in eCommerce risk and fraud prevention. The company's serverless, graph-like technology enables clients to efficiently search, deduplicate, and link structured record data from various sources in real-time. This innovative approach addresses critical challenges, such as connecting and unifying high-volume data while maintaining fast search performance and low costs. Tilores' solutions not only comply with data protection regulations but also provide capabilities for detecting and blocking fraudsters at the point of sign-up, revealing hidden relationships among customer accounts and transactions. By unifying customer data across different silos, Tilores enhances downstream segmentation, analysis, and activation within customer data platforms, ensuring scalability and rapid data retrieval.

HeyCharge is a Munich-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in electric vehicle charging infrastructure and payment systems. It focuses on providing charging solutions for homes and apartments, offering low-cost, plug-and-play chargers that do not require internet connectivity. This technology allows for easy integration with third-party products, enabling customers to access smart charging services at an affordable price. Through its innovative approach, HeyCharge aims to enhance the accessibility and convenience of electric vehicle charging for consumers.

Software Defined Automation is an industrial software and manufacturing company that provides industrial control as a service. The company focuses on optimizing production processes through a cloud-based open collaboration platform that enhances flexibility in manufacturing. Its technology automates the reprogramming of industrial automation components and virtualizes control software, decoupling it from hardware. This approach equips manufacturers with essential tools to improve productivity and resilience while enabling project management companies to enjoy greater operational freedom. By integrating advancements in software, control systems, and information technology, Software Defined Automation aims to transform traditional manufacturing practices and enhance overall efficiency.

Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

Hier Foods is a foodtech startup that offers decentralized food systems for retailers and local suppliers. The startup's platform supports all industry-standard EDI integration methods for working with inventory management, as well as a cutting-edge API to make it as simple as possible for IT. Its adaptive software enables even very small suppliers to process digital orders, return shipping notifications and invoices digitally, and easily update prices and products. Instead of faxing, calling, or emailing, they order everything through a single app. Prices, products, and order reminders are always up to date.

Cirplus GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Hamburg, Germany, operates a B2B marketplace that focuses on recycled plastics. The company has developed a comprehensive trading platform for recyclates and plastic waste feedstock, offering a streamlined approach for customers to find, negotiate, contract, ship, insure, and pay for trades in recycled materials worldwide. By digitizing the buying process and improving quality control, Cirplus aggregates fragmented supply, enabling the plastic and recycling industries to procure circular plastics at scale. Additionally, Cirplus has established the first industrial standard for high-quality plastic recycling, contributing to the modernization and efficiency of the recycling sector.

Lightly is a database software company founded in 2019 by Igor Susmelj and Matthias Heller. The company specializes in developing a data curation platform aimed at enhancing machine learning models by optimizing the use of appropriate data. Its platform offers a cloud-based interface that allows users to curate, analyze, and explore unlabeled data. This functionality helps reduce overfitting and improve generalization in machine learning applications by diversifying datasets. Additionally, Lightly's tools enable organizations to identify and eliminate redundancies and biases within their data, thereby enhancing the overall quality and effectiveness of their machine learning efforts.

Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

Edyoucated is a software platform focused on personalized digital upskilling programs, designed to enhance skills and learning in the workplace. The platform offers a modular approach, allowing it to integrate seamlessly with existing systems. By providing curated content, Edyoucated enables employees to learn, retain, and apply essential future skills more effectively. The company aims to support managers in fostering employee satisfaction while helping learners achieve their professional goals efficiently.

EqualTo is a developer-focused company that enhances Software as a Service (SaaS) products with advanced spreadsheet functionality. Recognizing that spreadsheets are integral to business operations yet challenging to integrate with modern software development, EqualTo created its own spreadsheet tooling, EqualTo Sheets. This tool aims to improve the developer experience by providing high-performing spreadsheet technology that facilitates collaboration between engineering teams and spreadsheet users. Additionally, EqualTo offers a no-code sales commission operating system designed for high-growth sales teams, allowing clients to design and manage incentive plans using spreadsheet formulas. This system enables sales partners, brokers, and representatives to access real-time commission data through open APIs that connect various data sources to sales portals and customer relationship management systems.

Hier Foods is a foodtech startup that offers decentralized food systems for retailers and local suppliers. The startup's platform supports all industry-standard EDI integration methods for working with inventory management, as well as a cutting-edge API to make it as simple as possible for IT. Its adaptive software enables even very small suppliers to process digital orders, return shipping notifications and invoices digitally, and easily update prices and products. Instead of faxing, calling, or emailing, they order everything through a single app. Prices, products, and order reminders are always up to date.

Ninetailed is a developer of a personalization platform focused on enhancing visitor experiences for modern website applications. The platform is designed to create real-time omnichannel personalization experiences for headless Content Management Systems (CMS) and contemporary frameworks, ensuring that clients do not face performance trade-offs. By facilitating seamless integration and optimization, Ninetailed enables businesses to accelerate their growth and effectively engage their customers. The company's API-first approach positions it as a significant player in the customer experience optimization sector.

With heyday, companies offer their employees flexible benefits - from mental health and sports to language courses and mobility. Thanks to the curated selection of top international brands, every employee can find the experiences that matter to them. All processes behind it (e.g. billing, payroll) are automated by specialized software, which means no hassle for HR.

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Pliant is a European fintech company based in Berlin, founded in 2020, that specializes in B2B payment solutions. Its modular, API-first platform is designed to streamline spending, improve cash flow, and integrate payments into existing financial workflows, catering particularly to industries with complex payment requirements such as travel and fleet management. Pliant offers services to two main customer segments: businesses seeking to optimize their operational processes through user-friendly applications and APIs, and financial service providers aiming to enhance their credit card offerings via Pliant's embedded finance and white-label solutions. As a licensed e-money institution, Pliant issues Visa-powered credit cards in 11 currencies across more than 30 countries, serving over 3,500 businesses and over 20 partners globally. The platform allows companies to manage expenses and credit limits easily, promoting efficiency and financial flexibility without the need for traditional bank loans.

Cirplus GmbH, founded in 2019 and based in Hamburg, Germany, operates a B2B marketplace that focuses on recycled plastics. The company has developed a comprehensive trading platform for recyclates and plastic waste feedstock, offering a streamlined approach for customers to find, negotiate, contract, ship, insure, and pay for trades in recycled materials worldwide. By digitizing the buying process and improving quality control, Cirplus aggregates fragmented supply, enabling the plastic and recycling industries to procure circular plastics at scale. Additionally, Cirplus has established the first industrial standard for high-quality plastic recycling, contributing to the modernization and efficiency of the recycling sector.

EqualTo is a developer-focused company that enhances Software as a Service (SaaS) products with advanced spreadsheet functionality. Recognizing that spreadsheets are integral to business operations yet challenging to integrate with modern software development, EqualTo created its own spreadsheet tooling, EqualTo Sheets. This tool aims to improve the developer experience by providing high-performing spreadsheet technology that facilitates collaboration between engineering teams and spreadsheet users. Additionally, EqualTo offers a no-code sales commission operating system designed for high-growth sales teams, allowing clients to design and manage incentive plans using spreadsheet formulas. This system enables sales partners, brokers, and representatives to access real-time commission data through open APIs that connect various data sources to sales portals and customer relationship management systems.

Lightly is a database software company founded in 2019 by Igor Susmelj and Matthias Heller. The company specializes in developing a data curation platform aimed at enhancing machine learning models by optimizing the use of appropriate data. Its platform offers a cloud-based interface that allows users to curate, analyze, and explore unlabeled data. This functionality helps reduce overfitting and improve generalization in machine learning applications by diversifying datasets. Additionally, Lightly's tools enable organizations to identify and eliminate redundancies and biases within their data, thereby enhancing the overall quality and effectiveness of their machine learning efforts.

Dive is a developer of cloud-based engineering software designed to enhance the simulation of fluid flows. Its innovative platform leverages advanced simulation technology to provide scalable analysis of dynamic flow phenomena, enabling clients to effectively calculate free-surface flows, multiphase flows, and flows around complex moving geometries. By utilizing cloud computing and immersive virtual reality tools, Dive accelerates product design cycles and improves communication among engineering teams. The company focuses on streamlining the engineering process, allowing clients to concentrate on their core engineering tasks while benefiting from enhanced predictive capabilities in their design concepts.

Rubarb is a fintech company that offers a comprehensive personal finance solution aimed at individuals who lack financial expertise. Its app enables users to save money on large bills and set financial goals through features such as round-ups, savings plans, and one-time deposits. The savings generated are then invested in globally diversified and sustainable exchange-traded fund (ETF) portfolios. Currently, the app is available for download in Germany via the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. Rubarb emphasizes accessibility in financial planning, helping users make informed decisions about their savings and investments.

Helio provides a cloud-based platform that optimizes workload execution while minimizing carbon emissions. By utilizing containerized workloads and cloud-native principles, Helio effectively matches computing demands with available resources, allowing companies to carry out large-scale tasks such as 3D rendering and machine learning. The platform is designed with security features to facilitate safe interactions between users and the system. Helio's focus on carbon awareness aims to address the significant energy consumption of data centers, making it easier for businesses to operate sustainably while achieving cost-effective and scalable computing solutions.

Founded by Sebastian Dienst and Julia Profeta Johansson, Berlin-based Remagine was created to reshape financial services through founder-friendly and tech-driven solutions that inspire businesses to be more successful, sustainable and impactful. Remagine’s innovative platform empowers business through accounts, team cards, analytics and payment solutions. Remagine is partnered with Solarisbank, Europe’s leading Banking-as-a-Service provider. Remagine is backed by some of the most renowned fintech angel investors such as former Global Head of Google Payment Jonathan Weiner and former COO of Venmo Michael Vaughn.

Daedalus is a contract manufacturing company that specializes in precision parts for the CNC industry. It leverages advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to create reconfigurable production capacity, allowing for instant retooling to accommodate various manufacturing needs. The company offers a software system that enhances manufacturing efficiency and ensures high reliability and transparency throughout the production process. Daedalus is equipped to handle a wide range of production scales, from prototypes to large-scale manufacturing, thereby supporting diverse customer requirements with agility in both process and part complexity.

Peers Solutions GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, is a software developer focused on personnel development and learning. The company offers a cloud-based platform that enables industrial organizations to manage employee training effectively. This platform provides personalized learning paths, utilizing artificial intelligence and aggregating content from various third-party sources. This tailored approach allows businesses to align their training programs with specific goals, timelines, and budgetary constraints, thereby enhancing workforce skills and capabilities.

Core Elements GmbH, based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in the manufacture of innovative cycling components designed to enhance the cycling experience. The company offers a range of user-oriented products, including a unique steerer tube system that allows for modular integration, tire repair kits, power banks that fit within the steerer tubes, and various storage solutions. Additionally, Core Elements provides smart alarm systems to improve safety while cycling. By focusing on convenience and support, the company aims to encourage more people to cycle regularly.

Dive is a developer of cloud-based engineering software designed to enhance the simulation of fluid flows. Its innovative platform leverages advanced simulation technology to provide scalable analysis of dynamic flow phenomena, enabling clients to effectively calculate free-surface flows, multiphase flows, and flows around complex moving geometries. By utilizing cloud computing and immersive virtual reality tools, Dive accelerates product design cycles and improves communication among engineering teams. The company focuses on streamlining the engineering process, allowing clients to concentrate on their core engineering tasks while benefiting from enhanced predictive capabilities in their design concepts.

Noor Medical is a venture focused on enhancing safe surgical practices by developing innovative sterilization solutions for medical instruments. The company addresses the critical need for proper sterilization in rural and off-grid medical clinics, where over 1.5 billion people lack access to essential surgical care. By utilizing autoclaving technology powered by solar energy, thermal energy, or electricity, Noor Medical’s products are designed to operate effectively in various low-resource settings. The prevalence of postoperative infections, which affects one in three patients in developing regions, underscores the importance of their mission, as unsafe surgical practices contribute to approximately 17 million deaths each year. Noor Medical collaborates with diverse partners to promote safer surgical environments, and it gained recognition as a global finalist in the Hult Prize competition, showcasing its enterprise at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

IMPARGO GmbH specializes in logistics management software solutions tailored for small and medium-sized transport companies in Europe. Founded in 2017 and based in Potsdam, Germany, the company provides a robust dispatching software platform for freight forwarders and carriers, known as CargoApps. This platform assists in truck route planning, automates transport order processing, and facilitates subcontractor management. Additionally, IMPARGO offers a transport management software solution, the IMPARGO ShipperPortal, which automates transport processes and enables real-time monitoring. By streamlining operations and enhancing collaboration, IMPARGO's software aims to boost efficiency and service levels for truck dispatchers and freight forwarders, allowing them to optimize freight space and analyze costs and revenues effectively.

Verlingo specializes in recruiting services that leverage artificial intelligence to enhance the application process for both candidates and employers. The company develops HR software solutions that include tools such as Talentscout, Certificateparser, and Certificategenerator. By utilizing machine learning, Verlingo's platform offers automated job reference analysis, enhances employer branding, reduces hiring costs, and accelerates candidate selection. These innovations enable organizations to efficiently identify and select suitable candidates that meet their specific requirements.

Box-to-box is a football training application aimed at young amateur players, providing personalized training plans that include video tutorials. The app offers professional soccer exercises and content focused on correct techniques, fitness, nutrition, and mental preparation, enabling users to enhance their skills and adapt to various playing positions. Available in ten languages, box-to-box seeks to improve the capabilities of aspiring footballers through structured and accessible training resources.

Usertimes Solutions GmbH, based in Karlsruhe, Germany, operates a research platform designed for collaborative analysis of qualitative data, enhanced by artificial intelligence. The platform supports UX teams by facilitating efficient user testing and insight analysis, enabling them to identify themes and patterns through interactive visualizations. By assisting UX specialists in common research tasks and helping them share their findings, Usertimes Solutions aims to empower these teams to design effective and engaging products.