Founders Factory

Founders Factory is a prominent startup accelerator and venture studio that collaborates with top founders and corporate partners to create, fund, and scale innovative startups globally. Founded in 2015 by Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane Fox, and George Northcott, the organization aims to streamline and reduce the risks associated with building technology startups by offering a combination of capital, expert operational support, and access to major corporations. With a portfolio featuring over 200 tech companies, more than 35 of which were developed within their venture studio, Founders Factory operates with various corporate partners, including well-known brands across multiple industries. Additionally, Founders Factory Africa, established in 2018, focuses on incubating startups in health, energy, fintech, and education, primarily investing in early-stage companies within Africa. They provide seed funding and operational support to help these businesses become viable and sustainable.

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Blueprint

Private Placement in 2020
Blueprint develops an online product-ordering platform. The company’s platform enables customers to purchase and place e-commerce orders through a whatsapp message or SMS (Short Message Service). It serves the beauty and health brands. Blueprint was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Eazyhire

Private Placement in 2019
Eazyhire is Africa's first peer to peer leasing platform where you can share items that you own with those who need them temporarily. So if you need anything but do not intend to buy it, you're more likely to find it on Eazyhire than anywhere else and if you would love to earn extra income by securely leasing out stuff you own, sign up with us. They'rebuilding a community that shares and you're welcome to join us!

Envopap

Equity Crowdfunding in 2020
We are a sustainable materials company based in the UK, which uses green technology to create sustainable products that save the environment. Instead of wood-fibre and fuel-based plastics, we innovate by using reclaimed agricultural waste as the raw material to make a wide variety of printing and packaging products in a carbon-neutral process. Our products perform the same functions as our unsustainable counterparts, but at a fraction of the environmental cost. By putting people and the planet before profits, we create extra income for local farmers, helps countries and corporations reduce their carbon footprint and play an active part in the global effort against climate change. Our belief: everything which is made from fossil fuels or tree-based materials today, can be made from waste tomorrow. Our vision is to protect and preserve the environment. We want to move towards green manufacturing for a cleaner environment and make everything that’s made from fossil-based or tree-based materials today to agri-waste material tomorrow.

Qumata

Seed Round in 2019
HealthyHealth is building a new Standard for Life and Health Insurance Underwriting. We use digital data to calculate the risk of diagnosis for over 800 conditions, along with Extra Mortalities and Morbidities, saving applicants hours filling out long questionnaires or visiting the doctor. Find out more via www.healthyhealth.com

Syndi Health

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Outcome-driven digital health support recommendation platform using machine learning and digital phenotyping - starting in mental health.

On The Mend

Pre Seed Round in 2019
On The Mend is a mobile platform to help people manage their physical rehab. We are currently working towards creating a unique platform with a broad application beyond orthopaedic surgery.

Luther Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Luther Systems provides a blockchain technology that specializes in offering systems for financial institutions' transaction management and also offers advisory services to financial and technology start-ups on technical and strategic issues, enabling to transact with digital ledgers. Luther Systems works with multiple corporations to streamline and improve the efficiency, reliability, and integrity of enterprise processes. The products deliver superior performance while reducing costs to clients. The company was established in 2016 and is based in London.

Caper

Seed Round in 2020
Caper is a startup providing interactive entertainment to families.

Oxwash

Seed Round in 2020
Oxwash operates as a laundry startup. Oxwash is re-engineering the laundry process from the ground up; our aim is for clinically-clean, net zero carbon emissions for the whole process, from collection, through washing and back to delivery.

Solivus

Seed Round in 2022
Solivus designs and creates solar products for the home and bespoke solar solutions for businesses.

Cosmose

Seed Round in 2018
Cosmose sp. z o.o. offers OMNIcookie, a cookie that connects real world with virtual. The company helps users to turn their offline store into a website to understand consumers’ behaviors; targets online ads to their offline visitors; and provides which online ads drive offline sales. It also enables users for online advertising and offline retail. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Warsaw, Poland. It has locations in Shanghai, China; Hong Kong; and New York, New York.

GYANA

Venture Round in 2017
Gyana was founded in 2015 by Oxford University students. Currently a global startup headquartered in London-this award winning team is deeply passionate about using the power of NOCODE to unleash the potential of the AI revolution to everyone.

LocumBase

Seed Round in 2020
LocumBase connects freelance medical professionals with medical practices when and where needed most. The independent online booking & management platform that provides real-time availability of verified locum medical professionals to practices, pharmacies, hospitals & clinics

Luther Systems Limited

Private Placement in 2017
Luther Systems Limited develops solutions for financial institutions’ transaction management using blockchain technology. Its product helps to draft smart contracts using templates before securely distributing them and the receiver can even virtually sign. It caters to insurance industry. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Previse

Seed Round in 2017
Previse Limited develops and offers a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) solution that supports instant payments between corporate and SMEs. It product provides a score which is a score the likelihood that a corporate buyer will ultimately pay a supplier’s invoice. The company provides the score to funders, principally banks, and asset managers, which pay the supplier instantly on the buyer’s behalf. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Airsupply

Seed Round in 2017
Airsupply Solutions Ltd develops and offers an online recruitment tool. The company offers a platform that matches schools with local and available supply teachers, and connects them. It develops a service for supply teachers and schools that is free to sign up to and manages all the documentation applicants require, and provide access to the portal for schools looking for positions. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

OkHi

Seed Round in 2022
OkHi is a digital addressing system for emerging markets. The company wants to solve the lack of a physical address system in Kenya and beyond. They are building the next generation address system. This system will unlock commerce through enhanced logistics, save lives through improved emergency services, and grow access to finance through better personal identification.

Aide Data Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Aide Data Limited develops and offers real-time analytics and personalization platform. It provides artificial intelligence (AI) prediction, visitor insight, display relevant content, personalized flows, performance reports, and integrations. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Marylebone, United Kingdom with additional office in New York, New York.

Digest Africa

Private Placement in 2019
Digest Africa Technologies Ltd, an online media and research company, provides an online platform where investors and corporates can access verified, tailored, and real-time news about Africa’s early-stage technology companies. It offers information and data about startups, tech companies, investors, accelerators, and deals across Africa. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Kampala, Uganda.

Hold

Funding Round in 2016
We believe working hard for something you really want to achieve should be an awesome experience, not a painful one. Hold champions the relentless spirit to do what it takes to achieve your goals — whatever they may be — by rewarding those with the focus, hunger and determination to make it happen.

Waylo

Seed Round in 2017
Waylo's unique hotel price prediction algorithm predicts future price drops for any hotel stay. Waylo allows you to book hotels today at a discount powered by the predictions, taking on the risk.

Poplar Studio

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Poplar is a platform that provides 3D and AR campaigns on demand. Poplar activates a new generation of global 3D/AR creators and provides collaborative tools that make AR production affordable and quick.

Asaak

Series A in 2022
Asaak Financial Services Limited develops an platform that connects borrowers with lenders. Its platform enables offers micro financing clients who need money to expand their business. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Bugolobi, Uganda.

CRUX Knowledge

Private Placement in 2020
CRUX Quantifies knowledge. Our groundbreaking technology measures users' knowledge based on what they read. By helping professionals overcome information overload, CRUX enables platforms and companies to optimise engagement, drive revenue and reduce costs. CRUX is based in London and Tel Aviv.

Tailify

Seed Round in 2017
The easiest way for Influencers to monetise their social media accounts. Tailify provides a "one-stop-shop" for Influencers & Brands by offfering high technological solutions such as tracking system, distribution technology and effective pricing. The vision is to create a global ad-exchange, loved by influencers and brands.

people.io

Seed Round in 2016
Our mission is to give people ownership of their data by creating a ‘firewall for people’ that will give individuals control over the access, use and value of their decentralised personal data. people.io is a mobile app which helps people realise the true value of their data, by rewarding users for taking actions such as answering questions, connecting online accounts and engaging with relevant brands. Importantly, though, this data is never sold to anyone and if the user deletes their account, all their data is deleted too. For now, we’re paying people to care about their data. But we are building towards a future when there will be inherent value in having ownership and control of our personal data. Since the company was founded in 2015, we've been a part of Startup Next (the #1 pre-accelerator run by Techstars), completed two investment rounds and are now also a part of Wayra Deutschland (Telefonica's global accelerator). We are now focussed on product development and a number of major announcements throughout 2017 that will see people.io introduced to other European markets. people.io is an operating subsidiary of C8 Management Ltd.

CRUX Knowledge

Seed Round in 2020
CRUX Quantifies knowledge. Our groundbreaking technology measures users' knowledge based on what they read. By helping professionals overcome information overload, CRUX enables platforms and companies to optimise engagement, drive revenue and reduce costs. CRUX is based in London and Tel Aviv.

Zindi

Seed Round in 2021
Zindi is the first data science competition platform in Africa. Zindi hosts an entire data science ecosystem of scientists, engineers, academics, companies, NGOs, governments and institutions focused on solving Africa’s most pressing problems. Zindi works with companies, non-profit organizations, and government institutions to develop, curate, and prepare data-driven challenges. Solutions are ranked automatically by the accuracy achieved. Whether you are testing the data science waters for the first time or trying to crack a persistent business problem with data, Zindi helps organizations push their creative boundaries at an affordable cost.

Redbird

Seed Round in 2021
Millions of Africans live with chronic diseases without a convenient way to manage their health. And every year, millions more develop chronic disease – at a rate of two times the world average. Unlike those with acute disease, chronic disease patients require not just treatment, but also lifelong health monitoring to remain healthy and productive. African chronic diseases patients need a convenient way to manage their conditions, and the current, top-down approach to healthcare cannot cope. That’s where we come in. At Redbird, we supply pharmacies with everything they need to offer rapid diagnostic services for chronic disease, helping them to solve this need by establishing them as the most convenient place for patients to manage their health.

Headstart

Private Placement in 2019
Headstart App Limited develops machine learning software to help employers identify the best-suited candidates in the shortest amount of time. Its features includes Matches Algorithms; stack-ranked by order of percentage, takes into consideration hiring criteria, previously successful hires, culture, and core values. Real-time Analytics; ensures status of recruitment process and stay reactive, Proactive Recruitment; algorithms recommend candidates suited role, but who are yet to apply and allow to ‘Headstart’. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

MedShr

Seed Round in 2015
MedShr Ltd. operates an online community for medical professionals to discover, discuss, and share clinical cases and medical images. It connects verified doctors, healthcare professionals, and medical students to share and discuss ECGs, scans and X-rays, and patient photos and videos. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Winich Inc (Winich Farms)

Seed Round in 2022
At Winich Farms we are a technology-driven and agri-startup connecting farmers with access to finance, premium markets and passionate about ensuring global food security and democratising agricultural participation. We drive digital participation by crowdfunding through our online platforms, these we use to engage farmers with quality inputs, agricultural expertise, process automation, and machinery, with the promise of decent returns to our subscribers and the farmers at the end of each farming cycle. In addition to this, utilizing our agro e-retail platform (web and app), we connect vicinity farmers with market (households) directly at farm gate price thereby reducing the activities of middlemen, making agro produce more affordable and easily accessible. One farmer at a time, our big vision is to build an Africa that feeds the world and itself. How do we plan to achieve this? Empower African Farmers by lowering barriers to accessing Capital and financial services, data driven best practices and technology to improve yield as well as access to local and global markets for their produce with established offtaker relationships like Flour Mills of Nigeria, Dangote Foods, Labana Rice, Big Bull Rice etc Backed by Orange Corners we are on a mission to create a prosperous and economically resilient Africa powered by Agriculture.

Salesgauge Ltd.

Seed Round in 2017
Salesgauge Ltd. develops software for sales management.
Fitvel Bilisim ve Saglik Hizmetleri A.S. develops a fitness application for smartphones and Apple watches. The company’s application provides access to various workout routines and meal plans for men and women, including get lean, get strong, get tone, be active, get flexible, and specific workouts. It also allows users to log their snacks, meals, and workouts; track daily progress and vitals; stay focused with actionable notifications; and mange workouts with remote controls. Fitvel Bilisim ve Saglik Hizmetleri A.S. was founded in 2014 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

WiseWorks

Seed Round in 2022
WiseWorks is the communications intelligence platform.

LipaLater

Private Placement in 2019
Lipa Later is a facility that provides electronic loans, business loans, and salary loans to individuals and businesses in the low to middle income bracket in Kenya. The company is based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Perlego

Seed Round in 2018
Perlego is an eBook subscription service for academic and professional titles. Having partnered with over 2,600 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 400,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning material more accessible and affordable for both students and professionals alike. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London, England.

Kovrr

Seed Round in 2017
Kovrr’s predictive cyber risk modeling platform delivers global (re)insurers transparent, real-time data- driven insights into their affirmative and non-affirmative single, accumulated and catastrophic cyber risk exposures. The Kovrr platform is designed to help underwriters, exposure managers and catastrophe modelers understand, quantify and manage cyber risk by utilizing AI-powered predictive risk models.

Fitwell

Convertible Note in 2016
Fitwell is an AI powered fit-tech company that helps time starved people be fitter and healthier through a state of the art mobile app and bot. Fitwell has more than 1.6 million members globally and been selected Best of PlayStore and Top Developer by Google; featured among best apps by Apple. The company has been rated as one of the top start-ups by Early Metrics. Fitwell was named among top 10 AI companies in Fitness Tech industry to watch in 2018 by Disruptor Daily.

AMA - A Million Ads

Seed Round in 2018
A Million Ads personalises digital audio advertising. Think Spotify ads that know your name, or Classic FM ads on your Sonos that know if its raining outside. Their ads are more context aware and relevant to the listener, and so perform a lot better. They have delivered over 100 campaigns across Europe for brands including Audible, Deliveroo, Carphone Warehouse, Asda and Nissan, are working with four of the six major advertising agencies and have partnerships with Global Radio's DAX and Pandora (the world’s largest ad-funded music streaming service).

TroopTravel S.L.

Series A in 2021
Imagine you are organizing a meeting for 300 people coming from 35 different places. How do you determine where is the best place to meet? Instead of personal opinions, we use Big Data analytics to helps Fortune 500s to optimize their meetings and events planning. We optimize around cost, carbon footprint, safety, visa requirements, VAT reclaim and more. Multiple Fortune 500s are using our platform to continuously achieve savings of around 40%.

My 1Health

Seed Round in 2021
My Health Africa allows users to book doctors for consultation offline as well as video consultation with specialists.

Dronamics

Seed Round in 2015
Our mission at DRONAMICS is to democratize airfreight and lower the cost of shipping in emerging markets. To achieve this, we are developing a new type of cargo airplane – small, unmanned and extremely fuel efficient. It can transport 350 KG over 2,500 KM for a cost that's 50%+ lower than other airplanes. It flies autonomously, can be monitored and managed remotely via satellite, and the whole system costs less than a sports car. DRONAMICS is IATA's first and only Strategic Partner for drones worldwide.

Byway Travel

Grant in 2021
Byway Travel provides slow travel trips that take the scenic route to local stays, off-the-beaten-path experiences.

Synnefa

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Illuminum Greenhouses is an Agri-Tech greenhouse and drip installation company in Kenya working with smallholder farmers to improve productivity and increase efficiency through the use of new modern technologies while bundling up other services to ensure smallholder farmers access a turn key solution.

OnCare

Pre Seed Round in 2017
OnCare Technologies Limited develops software solutions that solves real problems for care workers, care agencies, service users and their families. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Resilient Ops, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Resilient Ops, Inc. develops a flight disruption prediction software. Its application Lumo offers uses machine learning and predictive analytics and offers flight disruptions and delays forecasting to consumers. Lumo was formerly known as Flightsayer. Resilient Ops, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Wella Health

Seed Round in 2020
Wellahealth is a startup that has developed a digital triage bot that provides guidance based on Nigeria Centre for Disease Control guidelines and logs responses for follow up by public health as needed.

Headstart

Seed Round in 2018
Headstart App Limited develops machine learning software to help employers identify the best-suited candidates in the shortest amount of time. Its features includes Matches Algorithms; stack-ranked by order of percentage, takes into consideration hiring criteria, previously successful hires, culture, and core values. Real-time Analytics; ensures status of recruitment process and stay reactive, Proactive Recruitment; algorithms recommend candidates suited role, but who are yet to apply and allow to ‘Headstart’. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

MPowder

Seed Round in 2020
MPowder Limited manufactures and sells plant-based supplement and nutritional powders to serve women during their three stages of menopause cycle. The company sells its products through its online platform. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Riviter

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Riviter, Inc. provides visual search engine to recognize products located in any image and match them to items in retailer's inventory. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

Iris.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Iris.ai is your Research assistant, drastically increasing performance of R&D teams in mapping out existing knowledge (published research, patents, internal R&D content). Moving beyond limiting keywords, endless result lists and the biased citation, Iris.ai is the perfect AI assistant for cross-disciplinary early stage research projects.

Lumo

Seed Round in 2018
At lumo,They’re obsessed with making air travel smarter. They predict flight delays months, weeks, hours ahead of time, making planning easier and flight changes less stressful.

Previse

Private Placement in 2017
Previse Limited develops and offers a proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) solution that supports instant payments between corporate and SMEs. It product provides a score which is a score the likelihood that a corporate buyer will ultimately pay a supplier’s invoice. The company provides the score to funders, principally banks, and asset managers, which pay the supplier instantly on the buyer’s behalf. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Eedi

Seed Round in 2016
EEDI LTD. provides a toolkit for teachers, students, and parents to make learning and understanding easier for everyone. The company’s toolkit offers a set of research-based diagnostic questions, which is used by teachers to receive insights into student misconceptions and deliver targeted instruction. Its toolkit also keeps parents informed with reports and gives them personalized resources to support students outside of the classroom. EEDI LTD. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

FLIO

Venture Round in 2017
FLIO will make the most of your time at airports. FLIO is free and they will keep you updated about the launch of the most talked about airport app out there. With FLIO you will simply become the smartest traveler around.

Hammock

Seed Round in 2020
Hammock is a technology platform that helps landlords reconcile transactions on the go. The platform provides current account and data analysis services for the property sector. It brings FinTech and PropTech together, helping landlords and property managers save time and money in the management of their finances. Hammock translates information from individual transactions into real-time, actionable insights so they can monitor and optimize the performance of their portfolio. It also manages their property finances, from rent collection to insights into profit and loss, including bookkeeping and reconciliation. Hammock was founded by Manoj Varsani in 2019 and is headquartered in London, England, UK.

Dream Learners

Seed Round in 2015
Dream Learners is a teacher-led startup on a mission to educate children at bedtime through the magic of storytelling because this is the most effective way to learn. Their digital bedtime stories, rich in cross-curricular content, create connections between diverse topics to optimise learning for 3-9 year olds. Their approach is supported by Professor Robert Winston who is NED, spokesperson and investor and Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab (UCL & IoE).

Oxwash

Seed Round in 2020
Oxwash operates as a laundry startup. Oxwash is re-engineering the laundry process from the ground up; our aim is for clinically-clean, net zero carbon emissions for the whole process, from collection, through washing and back to delivery.

5 More Minutes Ltd

Seed Round in 2018
TeacherGaming is an independent game development company that expands game-based learning into classrooms worldwide. Its product lineup includes educational versions of the award-winning games Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program, which have been praised by gamers, parents, and teachers alike. TeacherGaming began by modifying Minecraft to meet the needs of teachers and quickly realized that there was a huge demand for this type of product. In 2013, TeacherGaming announced its second game, Kerbal Space Program. It is based in New York, N.Y.

WAM Group Ltd.

Private Placement in 2018
WAM Group Ltd., trading as Admix, develops plugin for Unity or Unreal to place non-intrusive ads in virtual reality, augmented reality, and gaming content for entertainment, education, training, gaming, sports, and social industries. The company offers interactive 3D ads, banners, and videos. Its drag and drop plugin for Unity allows users to place ads wherever they want in a matter of minutes with features, such as easy setup, non-intrusive, relevance, any platform, and advanced controls. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Moneycado

Seed Round in 2018
Moneycado building the first savings account for travel, inspiring people to save towards their goals and making amazing travel financially accessible.

TeacherGaming LLC

Private Placement in 2018
TeacherGaming LLC operates as a game development company in Finland and the United States. Its product includes educational versions of various games for classroom use. TeacherGaming LLC was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Tampere, Finland.

Redtail Adventures Limited

Private Placement in 2020
Redtail Adventures Limited develops Caper, a mobile application to share family adventures together in the home and outdoors. The company offers characters, story-telling, and activities to engage children. Its application is available on iOS and Android devices. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Fanbytes

Seed Round in 2015
Fanbytes is a fan experience platform helping artists, content creators, brands engage, grow and monetize fanbases through unforgettable experiences.

Shepherd Network

Seed Round in 2017
customers to save money on pre-emptive engineer checks.

Ruuby

Seed Round in 2015
Ruuby is first digital beauty concierge, offering five star beauty services to private clients, corporates, hotel groups and luxury concierge services. Calling on our network of over 200 professionally vetted, experienced beauty providers, we deliver consistently high-quality beauty services to our clients. Services can be booked at the home, office, or hotel, and we also cater to large events, weddings and VIPs.

Acclaimd

Seed Round in 2012
Acclaimd is a Columbus, Ohio company that provides corporate and contract recruiters web-based tools for more effectively marketing jobs to qualified talent or connectors to talent. Conceived at Startup Weekend Columbus in February 2012, Acclaimd has received financial backing and advisory services from Founders Factory and TechColumbus. The team was accepted into the Summer 2012 10xelerator class and launched the Acclaimd SaaS product at 10x Showcase Day in September 2012. It is currently in private beta with Columbus-area employers and recruiters.

ZOA Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
ZOA Robotics Ltd. develops four-legged robots that possess grace of animals for movement of goods across uneven ground and multiple levels. Its features include reduces workers time spent on fetching parts, equipment, and consumables and enables remote inspection and maintenance without visiting hazardous environments. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

OkHi

Private Placement in 2020
OkHi is a digital addressing system for emerging markets. The company wants to solve the lack of a physical address system in Kenya and beyond. They are building the next generation address system. This system will unlock commerce through enhanced logistics, save lives through improved emergency services, and grow access to finance through better personal identification.

English Ninjas

Seed Round in 2019
English Ninjas Inc. designs and develops speaking practice application which improves English speaking skills of users through one-to-one online video sessions with native speaking tutors. The company also offers services such as, Live Chat and Private Sessions. English Ninjas Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.

LuckyTrip

Seed Round in 2017
LuckyTrip has created an app which uses artificial intelligence (AI) for travellers to find unique trips with one tap. Users set their budget, tap the “Lucky” button and instantly see a trip to hundreds of destinations in Europe.

FundamentalVR

Seed Round in 2013
FundamentalVR have been working with leading pharmaceutical companies to combine virtual and mixed reality with haptic feedback using their ‘FeelRealVR’ platform to create simulated surgical procedures to help educate and train healthcare professionals.

Zipabout

Seed Round in 2019
Zipabout Limited develops data aggregation and communications applications for the transport industry. The company develops a big-data platform which combines advanced technologies from other sectors with highly detailed big data sets to deliver operational, environmental, and behavioral information for both passengers and transport operators. Zipabout Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Monolith AI

Seed Round in 2018
Monolith AI is a software company using the latest in machine learning and data science, helping engineers to significantly improve the product development process. Monolith enables companies to monetise on their old simulation and test data by using it to anticipate the behaviour of new products. Companies can optimise their R&D process by reducing the numbers of simulations, tests and prototypes required to develop a new product delivering faster and better products.

WeSki

Pre Seed Round in 2017
WeSki simplifies the ski holiday booking process. We combine powerful technology with an ever-expanding unbiased inventory of supplies to enable the consumer total choice, convenience & personalization. WeSki offers real-time comparable results, fair pricing direct from suppliers, a seamless digital experience, complete flexibility for every component of the ski trip and market-disrupting pricing. For all skiers wanting a simpler way to book their ski holiday, WeSki enables the choice of flights, resorts, accommodation and more, all in one place, all bookable online (or by phone), for any duration, and personalized to each individual traveler. Our skiers pay for what they need and nothing more.

Talkin' Things

Seed Round in 2015
Talkin’ Things is the leader in delivering smart packaging solutions for IoT. Connected products embedded with Talkin’ Things technology includes customer engagement tools, security and logistic options, and a comprehensive data management system with customizable APIs. Talkin’ Things has a long history of working with leading brands and packaging companies to deliver innovative solutions that define the trends in the Smart Packaging market. Talkin’ Things is the only one provider in the World that offers a real end-2-end solution with customizable technology, software, hardware and marketing creation.

KudiGo

Seed Round in 2019
KudiGo offers a mobile based integrated retail, accounting, payments and analytics engine for informal consumer retailers in Africa. Our solution enables users to leverage on innovative technology in gaining oversight of their business, adopt efficient book-keeping practices and become financial inclusive. We also leverages on big data and blockchain to enable transparency and allow for real-time oversight my manufacturers and distributors within our niche market.

Chosen AI

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Chosen AI aggregates HR data to generate skills and capability insights that allow businesses to be predictive in their workforce planning. Organisations are expected to make data-driven decisions on their people but are challenged with trying to draw relevant insights from messy, subjective and fragmented data. We have built a technology and data platform that uses Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning to identify proven skills and the context behind where and how they learnt them. The platform allows organizations to discover and understand their aggregated employee data to identify skill gaps, predict hiring needs and promote internal mobility. Founded in 2018, to solve the 'post and pray' reactive recruitment process most large organisations are subject to. It is now partnered with a range of blue-chip enterprises. Chosen AI has raised £650,000 Venture Capital Investment from Ascension Ventures, Half Court Ventures, the Founders Factory and leading UK Business Angels. Chosen AI joined the Founders Factory Accelerator programme in early 2018, is a member of the NVIDIA Deep Learning & AI start-up incubator and in 2019 was selected for the Tech Nation Applied AI growth programme. It was also identified by Forbes as one of the UK's most promising AI startups.

Reposit

Seed Round in 2016
Reposit Group Limited trading as Reposit, operates as a insurance broker between tenant the rental property owner. The company designs and develops a platform where users can pay a one week security deposit as premium for their rental property without paying large security deposits. The company then cover six weeks security deposit with that premium. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

MedShr

Private Placement in 2018
MedShr Ltd. operates an online community for medical professionals to discover, discuss, and share clinical cases and medical images. It connects verified doctors, healthcare professionals, and medical students to share and discuss ECGs, scans and X-rays, and patient photos and videos. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Schoolable

Private Placement in 2019
Schoolable, a fintech company, focuses on providing access to affordable finance in the private school system in Africa. The company is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Preemadonna

Seed Round in 2015
Preemadonna is the maker of Nailbot, a patented nail robot and intelligent manicure product line disrupting the $15B nail care industry. Our first Nailbot prints art and photos directly on fingernails in 5 seconds. Future Nailbots print full polish. Nailbot is powered by our art marketplace and community of makers who crave instant self expression, design digital art and love printing on the go with Nailbot. We will build other creative expression on demand printing and robotics products for our Preemadonna customer throughout her/his lifespan.

Shepherd Network Ltd

Private Placement in 2017
Shepherd Network Ltd, a SaaS platform, provides monitoring technology which can be connected to any machinery to detect anomalies and uses artificial intelligence (AI) to predict when maintenance will be required. The company's platform is linked to users' data stores and sensor networks. It offers single sensor analysis of a pattern of fluctuating values over time, analysis of the stop-start or open-close operation of a motor/gateway/valve, and multi-sensor analysis between sensors that are co-dependent. The company analyzes data from temperature sensors, gas level sensors, security and fire alarm sensors, energy consumption sensors, humidity sensors, and vibration sensors. Shepherd Network Ltd was founded in 2015 and is based in Henley on Thames, United Kingdom.

Frisbee

Seed Round in 2018
Frisbee Limited develops an application for performance management through continuous feedback. It offers organization real-time insight for growth and engagement of the workforce. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Zipabout

Private Placement in 2019
Zipabout Limited develops data aggregation and communications applications for the transport industry. The company develops a big-data platform which combines advanced technologies from other sectors with highly detailed big data sets to deliver operational, environmental, and behavioral information for both passengers and transport operators. Zipabout Limited was founded in 2011 and is based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Orpiva

Seed Round in 2016
Orpiva Ltd. operates as an online retailer of apparel and accessories. It offers trousers, jeans, shorts, suits, knitwear, jackets, coats, sweatshirts, boots, sneakers, formal shoes, bags, belts, sunglasses, jewelry, hats, scarves, gloves, socks, nightwear, and watches for men and women. The company also provides dresses, tops, skirts, jumpsuits, heels, flats, purse, lingerie, and beachwear for women; and T-shirts, shirts, sandals, casual shoes, swimwear, wallets, ties, and underwear for men. Orpiva Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Feedr

Private Placement in 2018
Feedr is an online platform with a carefully curated selection of over 100 caterers, popups and restaurants from across London who produce high quality, nutritious and delicious food perfect for breakfasts, meetings, lunches and events. Feedr make it simple to place group food orders online and customise them to the needs of your workplace or event. Feedr also have an account management team that can help with more bespoke requests and events.

Renda

Debt Financing in 2024
Renda facilitating the development and operation of e-commerce companies. No part of our physical infrastructure or technological platform that is designed for your e-commerce firm is off-limits.

Tickle Global

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Tickle is a mobile marketing platform that puts EQ over IQ founded by Joe Martin, the creator of Snatch - the #1 Augmented Reality treasure hunt app. We have identified, stress-tested and patented an action that 78% of consumers already do but that has gone unnoticed, unmeasured and unmonetized until now. By productising this action, brands have access to a powerful and never before available insight that will significantly affect the consumer purchase journey leading to much increased conversions. A journey that they can then control at every step via the tickle platform and one that is fully opted in to and welcomed by the consumer. Launching Autumn 2021, be sure to JoinTickle.com and be the first to find out what we're up to. N.B. We are currently awaiting the green light on our patent filing, once that is confirmed this will be updated with more specific information on our solution and technology.

Zanifu

Seed Round in 2023
Zanifu is a financial technology credit provider that supports individuals and businesses across Africa. It offers a lending platform for small and medium-sized enterprises. Its mission is to bridge the credit access gap with responsible, innovative, and flexible products, delivered in an efficient and empathetic way. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Nairobi, Westlands.