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ZuriQ specializes in developing advanced quantum computing hardware, focusing on trapped ion technology. Their innovative approach enables scalable quantum systems with native support for three-dimensional ion transport, positioning them at the forefront of quantum computing infrastructure development.

ContextSDK is a developer of a contextual intelligence platform aimed at improving mobile app engagement and revenue. The company focuses on leveraging real-time insights into user context, including their environment, behavior, and interactions within applications. By analyzing this data, ContextSDK enables product teams to dynamically adapt app interfaces, notifications, and features, which leads to increased user satisfaction and higher conversion rates. The platform's ability to enhance mobile app performance positions it as a valuable tool for developers seeking to optimize user experience and maximize revenue potential.

Dive is a developer of cloud-based engineering software that specializes in the simulation of fluid flows. The company offers a platform that utilizes its proprietary simulation technology to analyze dynamic flow phenomena, allowing clients to calculate free-surface flows, multiphase flows, and flows around complex moving geometries. By leveraging cloud computing, Dive enhances scalability, communication, and immersive analysis through virtual reality. This innovative approach aims to streamline product design cycles, enabling engineers to focus more on their core work rather than being hindered by outdated engineering software. Dive's solutions are positioned to unlock new engineering applications and address contemporary challenges in mechanical engineering.

Kipu Quantum specializes in developing application-specific quantum computing solutions tailored for immediate industrial use. The company operates at the intersection of software, hardware, and customer needs, focusing on real-world challenges across various business sectors. By creating quantum computing platforms that incorporate hardware-specific algorithms into software products, Kipu Quantum enables clients to leverage the advantages of quantum computing significantly sooner than traditional methods. Its innovative approach includes hardware-software co-designs, which allow for effective problem-solving and value generation for customers.

Quantum Diamonds specializes in the development of nitrogen-vacancy (NV) diamonds for quantum sensing applications. The company designs advanced quantum sensors capable of measuring magnetic fields, temperature, and pressure, offering enhanced sensitivity and resolution compared to traditional sensors. These sensors enable a range of applications, including navigation, bio-imaging, geographical surveying, and spectroscopy, even under challenging conditions. Quantum Diamonds focuses on optimizing performance in areas such as crystal lattice strain, Rabi contrast, and charge state stability, catering to both industrial and academic customers seeking innovative solutions in quantum mechanics.

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TURN2X is a company focused on developing advanced technology for producing renewable natural gas (RNG). The firm specializes in creating transportable renewable energy solutions that convert electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind into RNG. Their modular methanation reactors are designed to handle variable load changes, providing industries with a clean and sustainable alternative to fossil natural gas.

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 focuses on delivering industrial control as a service. It offers a cloud-based open collaboration platform designed to optimize production processes and enhance operational flexibility. The company's solutions enable the automation of re-programming for industrial automation components, effectively virtualizing and abstracting control software from the associated hardware. By providing manufacturers with advanced tools, Software Defined Automation enhances productivity, resilience, and project management capabilities, allowing for greater adaptability within manufacturing environments.

Ninetailed is a developer of a personalization platform aimed at enhancing the customer experience for modern website applications. The company focuses on creating real-time omnichannel personalization experiences, particularly for headless Content Management Systems and contemporary frameworks. By prioritizing an API-first approach, Ninetailed's solution allows clients to optimize visitor interactions without compromising performance. This innovative platform is designed to facilitate business growth by enabling organizations to deliver tailored experiences that meet the diverse needs of their customers.

QuantPi is a developer of an AI platform focused on providing automated and scalable solutions for model explainability and robustness auditing. The company's innovative platform employs various machine learning algorithms to deliver tailored suggestions that align with users' preferences. By facilitating a deeper understanding of how these algorithms operate, QuantPi enables organizations to assess risks associated with their outputs and receive customized explanations specific to different data types and use cases. This capacity empowers companies to gain comprehensive insights into the decision-making processes underpinning their AI models, enhancing transparency and trust in artificial intelligence applications.

Kipu Quantum specializes in developing application-specific quantum computing solutions tailored for immediate industrial use. The company operates at the intersection of software, hardware, and customer needs, focusing on real-world challenges across various business sectors. By creating quantum computing platforms that incorporate hardware-specific algorithms into software products, Kipu Quantum enables clients to leverage the advantages of quantum computing significantly sooner than traditional methods. Its innovative approach includes hardware-software co-designs, which allow for effective problem-solving and value generation for customers.

AiSupervision is a company that develops an AI-powered supervising platform aimed at enhancing factory productivity. Its platform provides real-time alerts concerning productivity and downtimes, along with automated features for photo quality control, production reporting, quality control reporting, and invoicing. By digitizing every human action in the production process, AiSupervision enables clients to streamline operations and improve overall efficiency in manufacturing environments.

Tilores is a technology company that specializes in serverless, graph-like entity-resolution technology, initially developed for a consumer credit bureau focused on eCommerce risk and fraud prevention. The company's innovative solutions tackle significant challenges associated with connecting and deduplicating high-volume, high-velocity data from various sources. Tilores' platform enables real-time linking of structured record data while maintaining rapid search performance and alerting capabilities at low variable costs. It assists clients in managing product data, complying with data protection regulations, and detecting fraudulent activities as soon as they occur. Furthermore, Tilores uncovers hidden relationships among customer accounts and transactions, unifying customer data across different silos, which enhances downstream segmentation, analysis, and activation within customer data platforms.

HeyCharge is a company based in Munich, Bavaria, that specializes in providing electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure and payment systems. Founded in 2020, the company focuses on developing innovative charging platforms that cater to both residential and multi-family environments. HeyCharge offers low-cost, plug-and-play EV chargers that do not require internet connectivity and can seamlessly integrate with third-party products. This technology allows customers to access smart charging services affordably, making it easier for both homeowners and tenants to charge their electric vehicles.

Software Defined Automation is an industrial software and manufacturing company that focuses on delivering industrial control as a service. It offers a cloud-based open collaboration platform designed to optimize production processes and enhance operational flexibility. The company's solutions enable the automation of re-programming for industrial automation components, effectively virtualizing and abstracting control software from the associated hardware. By providing manufacturers with advanced tools, Software Defined Automation enhances productivity, resilience, and project management capabilities, allowing for greater adaptability within manufacturing environments.

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 focused on recycled plastics. The company has developed an end-to-end trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of recyclates and plastic waste feedstock globally. By digitizing and streamlining the procurement process, Cirplus addresses the fragmented nature of the plastic recycling industry. Its platform offers a comprehensive solution for customers, enabling them to find, negotiate, contract, ship, insure, and pay for plastic trades seamlessly. Additionally, Cirplus has established an industrial standard for high-quality plastic recycling, enhancing quality control and promoting the use of circular plastics at scale.

Lightly is a database software company founded in 2019 by Igor Susmelj and Matthias Heller. The company specializes in a data curation platform that enhances machine learning models by ensuring 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 to reduce overfitting and improve the generalization of machine learning models by diversifying datasets, thereby enabling organizations to identify and eliminate redundancies and biases in their data.

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 technology company that provides developers with innovative spreadsheet functionality designed to enhance Software as a Service (SaaS) products. Recognizing that spreadsheets serve as a critical tool for businesses to perform calculations and solve problems, EqualTo addresses the challenges developers face when integrating traditional spreadsheet capabilities into modern software. Their flagship product, EqualTo Sheets, offers a streamlined and efficient developer experience, facilitating better collaboration between engineering teams and spreadsheet users. Additionally, EqualTo has developed a no-code sales commission operating system tailored for high-growth sales teams, enabling clients to create and manage incentive plans using spreadsheet formulas. This system allows sales partners, brokers, and representatives to access real-time commission data through open APIs that integrate with various platforms, including sales portals and CRMs. Through these offerings, EqualTo aims to simplify complex processes and improve the functionality of business applications.

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 aimed at enhancing the customer experience for modern website applications. The company focuses on creating real-time omnichannel personalization experiences, particularly for headless Content Management Systems and contemporary frameworks. By prioritizing an API-first approach, Ninetailed's solution allows clients to optimize visitor interactions without compromising performance. This innovative platform is designed to facilitate business growth by enabling organizations to deliver tailored experiences that meet the diverse needs of their customers.

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.

one • fıve offers individualised, cleaner, and circular packaging solutions in a brisk amount of time in order to have a demonstrable, beneficial effect on the environment.

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 focused on recycled plastics. The company has developed an end-to-end trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of recyclates and plastic waste feedstock globally. By digitizing and streamlining the procurement process, Cirplus addresses the fragmented nature of the plastic recycling industry. Its platform offers a comprehensive solution for customers, enabling them to find, negotiate, contract, ship, insure, and pay for plastic trades seamlessly. Additionally, Cirplus has established an industrial standard for high-quality plastic recycling, enhancing quality control and promoting the use of circular plastics at scale.

EqualTo is a technology company that provides developers with innovative spreadsheet functionality designed to enhance Software as a Service (SaaS) products. Recognizing that spreadsheets serve as a critical tool for businesses to perform calculations and solve problems, EqualTo addresses the challenges developers face when integrating traditional spreadsheet capabilities into modern software. Their flagship product, EqualTo Sheets, offers a streamlined and efficient developer experience, facilitating better collaboration between engineering teams and spreadsheet users. Additionally, EqualTo has developed a no-code sales commission operating system tailored for high-growth sales teams, enabling clients to create and manage incentive plans using spreadsheet formulas. This system allows sales partners, brokers, and representatives to access real-time commission data through open APIs that integrate with various platforms, including sales portals and CRMs. Through these offerings, EqualTo aims to simplify complex processes and improve the functionality of business applications.

Lightly is a database software company founded in 2019 by Igor Susmelj and Matthias Heller. The company specializes in a data curation platform that enhances machine learning models by ensuring 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 to reduce overfitting and improve the generalization of machine learning models by diversifying datasets, thereby enabling organizations to identify and eliminate redundancies and biases in their data.

Dive is a developer of cloud-based engineering software that specializes in the simulation of fluid flows. The company offers a platform that utilizes its proprietary simulation technology to analyze dynamic flow phenomena, allowing clients to calculate free-surface flows, multiphase flows, and flows around complex moving geometries. By leveraging cloud computing, Dive enhances scalability, communication, and immersive analysis through virtual reality. This innovative approach aims to streamline product design cycles, enabling engineers to focus more on their core work rather than being hindered by outdated engineering software. Dive's solutions are positioned to unlock new engineering applications and address contemporary challenges in mechanical engineering.

Rubarb is a fintech company focused on providing a holistic personal finance solution tailored for individuals who lack financial expertise. Its app enables users to manage their finances effectively by facilitating savings on large bills, setting financial goals, and investing in globally diversified and sustainable ETF portfolios. Users can easily save money through features such as round-ups, savings plans, or one-time pay-ins. Currently, the app is available for download exclusively in Germany, making it a targeted solution for that market. Rubarb aims to empower users by simplifying financial planning and promoting investment in sustainable companies worldwide.

Helio is a technology company focused on optimizing cloud computing to reduce carbon emissions and improve efficiency. Its platform utilizes an application program interface that matches workloads with available computing resources, leveraging containerized workloads and cloud-native principles. This approach allows Helio to execute applications such as 3D rendering and machine learning in a carbon-aware manner, ensuring minimal environmental impact while maintaining cost-effectiveness and scalability. By providing secure technical layers between users, Helio enables businesses to efficiently manage their large-scale workloads and enhance operational speed, addressing the significant energy consumption and resource waste prevalent in traditional data centers.

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 solutions for industrial companies. The company offers a cloud-based platform that facilitates the management of employee training by providing individualized learning paths. Powered by artificial intelligence, the platform aggregates learning resources from various third-party sources, enabling organizations to tailor training to meet their specific goals, timelines, and budgets. This innovative approach allows businesses to enhance their workforce's skills effectively while optimizing training costs and resources.

core elements GmbH, based in Stuttgart, Germany, specializes in the manufacture of innovative cycling components aimed at enhancing the cycling experience. The company produces a range of products including steerer tubes that serve as the foundation for modular systems, all-in-one tire repair kits, power banks designed for integration with steerer tubes, customizable storage solutions, and smart alarm systems. By focusing on user-oriented designs, core elements strives to encourage everyday cycling by providing practical support, safety, and convenience for cyclists.

Dive is a developer of cloud-based engineering software that specializes in the simulation of fluid flows. The company offers a platform that utilizes its proprietary simulation technology to analyze dynamic flow phenomena, allowing clients to calculate free-surface flows, multiphase flows, and flows around complex moving geometries. By leveraging cloud computing, Dive enhances scalability, communication, and immersive analysis through virtual reality. This innovative approach aims to streamline product design cycles, enabling engineers to focus more on their core work rather than being hindered by outdated engineering software. Dive's solutions are positioned to unlock new engineering applications and address contemporary challenges in mechanical engineering.

Noor Medical is dedicated to enhancing safe surgical practices by developing innovative sterilization solutions for medical instruments. The company creates market-based ecosystems of care that focus on improving surgical safety, particularly in rural and off-grid medical clinics. With over 1.5 billion people lacking access to adequate sterilization equipment, Noor Medical addresses a critical need, as one in three patients in the developing world experiences postoperative infections. Their sterilization devices utilize autoclaving technology powered by solar energy, thermal energy, or electricity, making them suitable for a variety of low-resource settings. By collaborating with multiple partners, Noor Medical aims to significantly reduce the incidence of unsafe surgeries, which contribute to approximately 17 million deaths annually.

IMPARGO GmbH is a logistics software developer based in Potsdam, Germany, established in 2017. The company specializes in providing software solutions tailored for small and medium-sized transport companies across Europe. Its offerings include a dispatching software platform for forwarding agents and carriers, known as CargoApps, which facilitates truck route planning, transport order processing automation, and subcontractor management. Additionally, IMPARGO provides a cloud-based transport management software (TMS) called IMPARGO ShipperPortal, designed for shippers to automate transport processes and enable real-time monitoring. The software enhances the efficiency of truck dispatchers and freight forwarders by allowing them to digitally organize transports, analyze costs and sales, and optimize freight space, ultimately improving service levels in the logistics industry.

Verlingo is a company focused on enhancing the recruitment process through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. It provides a range of HR software solutions designed to streamline the application experience for both job seekers and employers. Verlingo's offerings include Talentscout, Certificateparser, and Certificategenerator, which facilitate automated job reference analysis, improve employer branding, and enable cost-effective and efficient candidate selection. By leveraging advanced technology, Verlingo aims to help organizations identify the most suitable candidates based on their specific needs, thereby optimizing the recruitment process.

Box-to-Box is a football training application aimed at young amateur players, providing personalized training plans that include video tutorials. The app is designed to teach professional soccer exercises and enhance users' skills through virtual tutorials that cover essential aspects such as correct techniques, fitness, nutrition, and mental preparation. With content translated into ten languages, Box-to-Box seeks to make professional training accessible to a diverse audience, enabling users to improve their soccer abilities and adapt to various playing positions effectively.

Usertimes Solutions GmbH is a Karlsruhe-based company that operates a research platform designed for the collaborative analysis of qualitative data through the assistance of artificial intelligence. The platform enables users, particularly UX teams, to efficiently conduct user testing and analyze insights, facilitating the discovery of themes and identification of patterns via interactive visualizations. By streamlining common research tasks and enhancing the sharing of findings, Usertimes Solutions GmbH empowers UX specialists to maximize their potential and optimize their projects, ultimately contributing to the design of user-friendly products.