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Poko is a technology company that specializes in facilitating payment solutions for the web3 ecosystem, focusing on games, creators, and merchants. Its platform provides a software development kit (SDK) that allows web3 builders to integrate fiat-to-crypto onramping using over 100 local payment methods. This solution significantly lowers onramping costs by up to 70% and enhances transaction success rates by as much as five times through intelligent routing and a streamlined integration process. Additionally, Poko offers a Direct Checkout solution that simplifies purchasing from smart contracts, resulting in a 79% increase in user conversion. With a team that includes experienced professionals from prominent financial institutions and blockchain initiatives, Poko aims to enable seamless engagement with web3 technologies while ensuring that users can transact using their preferred payment methods.

Bastion is a cloud-based cybersecurity platform designed to scale with evolving security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs. It offers a comprehensive solution for businesses to protect their assets and employees by providing robust cyber defense capabilities and reducing human risk through security awareness training.

Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup that provides a modern credit card platform aimed at simplifying the issuance of credit cards for financial technology and e-commerce companies. The platform features customizable software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow businesses to design their credit card offerings. Additionally, Hyperface supports card lifecycle management and offers intuitive onboarding processes, enabling companies to deliver tailored banking products to their customers effectively.

Parallelz is a technology company that develops a platform allowing users to create and share innovative versions of popular mobile games. The platform enhances creative output by providing a computing architecture that facilitates the delivery, distribution, and discovery of mobile applications. This technology enables developers to effortlessly transform their existing native mobile apps into fully native web applications without the need for modifications or additional software development tools. By focusing on amplifying creativity and improving the digital experience, Parallelz aims to contribute to a better internet for all users.

RapidFort is a software attack surface optimization company that offers a unified platform aimed at minimizing cyber-attack risks for organizations. Its innovative solution reduces development costs by 10% and accelerates software release timelines by 2 to 3 weeks. The platform facilitates compliance with various security frameworks, such as FedRAMP and SOC2, by streamlining vulnerability remediation processes. RapidFort integrates three main components: RF Curated Images, which provide container images built to stringent security standards; Instrumentation and Profiting tools that generate comprehensive Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) while prioritizing threat remediation; and Hardening and Defending tools that automatically secure unused components, significantly reducing the software attack surface. Collectively, these features enable the platform to eliminate 95% of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) automatically without requiring code changes, thereby enhancing overall security and efficiency for its users.

Fung Payments specializes in embedded payment solutions for vertical SaaS companies, focusing on sectors such as EV charging, property technology (PropTech), and accounting tech.

Slope is a financial platform developer that specializes in providing a range of payment alternatives for businesses. Its platform enables clients to manage loans, underwriting, debt collection, and payouts once goods or services are delivered. By offering options such as credit card acceptance and invoice link generation, Slope facilitates installment payments at checkout, which helps businesses improve their cash flow and financial security. Additionally, the platform allows technical teams to integrate its services into their existing frameworks, thereby reducing administrative burdens and enhancing the overall customer experience.

Integration.App is an AI-powered integration platform designed to streamline the development of customizable integrations for SaaS applications. It provides product and engineering teams with a suite of APIs, SDKs, and UI components that enable the creation of customer-facing integrations across multiple applications simultaneously, all while maintaining the visual coherence of the primary app. By leveraging artificial intelligence and large language model components, the platform simplifies the process of performing API calls across a wide range of applications with minimal coding effort. Users can access over 100 pre-built connectors spanning various SaaS categories, such as customer relationship management, task management, and accounting, or they can create custom connectors for any application that supports OpenAPI specifications. This approach helps developers avoid the complexities of point-to-point integrations, facilitating a more efficient integration process.

Pahdo Labs is a game development company founded in 2021 and based in New York, NY. The company specializes in creating an Anime-style action MMORPG and a game creation platform that empowers players to design and share their own games. Pahdo Labs aims to cultivate a virtual world where individuals can engage meaningfully, own the fruits of their creativity, and foster a sense of community. By providing tools that enable gamers to transform their imaginations into reality, Pahdo Labs enhances the multiplayer online gaming experience, promoting long-lasting engagement and entertainment.

Poko is a technology company that specializes in facilitating payment solutions for the web3 ecosystem, focusing on games, creators, and merchants. Its platform provides a software development kit (SDK) that allows web3 builders to integrate fiat-to-crypto onramping using over 100 local payment methods. This solution significantly lowers onramping costs by up to 70% and enhances transaction success rates by as much as five times through intelligent routing and a streamlined integration process. Additionally, Poko offers a Direct Checkout solution that simplifies purchasing from smart contracts, resulting in a 79% increase in user conversion. With a team that includes experienced professionals from prominent financial institutions and blockchain initiatives, Poko aims to enable seamless engagement with web3 technologies while ensuring that users can transact using their preferred payment methods.

Mistho is a fintech company that provides an open payroll API designed to facilitate the access and sharing of salary and employment information in Europe. The platform enables consumers to securely and easily share their income data with various third parties, including banks, insurance companies, and lenders, through a streamlined process. By integrating Mistho's app into existing workflows, businesses can simplify income verification, enhancing the consumer experience during activities such as renting property, leasing vehicles, or applying for loans. This solution eliminates the need for consumers to manually upload payslips or request documentation from their HR departments, as it allows them to log in to their payroll portals directly for verification. Mistho aims to improve the efficiency of income verification processes and support businesses in delivering superior services in the fintech sector.

PayMongo Inc. is a payment processing platform based in Manila, Philippines, founded in 2019 by Francis Plaza, Luis Sia, Jaime Hing, and Edwin Lacierda. The company provides businesses with the tools to accept online payments through various channels, including credit cards, bank deposits, electronic wallets, and cash. Its platform features a user-friendly dashboard for real-time transaction monitoring, analytics tools to analyze customer purchasing patterns, and a streamlined checkout process to enhance the customer experience. Additionally, PayMongo offers shareable payment links that merchants can distribute via multiple communication channels, facilitating convenient payment collection. The company's mission is to empower businesses in the rapidly evolving digital economy by providing modern, accessible payment solutions.

FloatPays is a Cape Town-based fintech company established in 2019. It offers an integrated platform that enables employees early access to their earned wages, along with payroll integration, financial education, reporting services, and payment solutions.

AppX is a platform that enables social media and educational content creators to launch personalized mobile apps. It supports building customized applications by selecting interfaces and features and entering app details, enabling creators to launch their apps and monetize their audiences through courses and premium content. The company initially focused on educational creators and has since expanded to gaming and fitness creators.

Weel provides an online payment service platform that allows users to instantly generate virtual MasterCards for online purchases. This service enhances security by protecting users from exposing their personal bank card information to online merchants, thereby reducing the risk of online fraud. Additionally, Weel's virtual cards enable users to make transactions without incurring foreign transaction fees, facilitating secure and cost-effective purchasing. The platform is designed to streamline expense management, offering features that eliminate the need for credit card sharing and traditional reimbursement processes.

RetryPay develops financial software for e-commerce payments, aiming to boost conversion while avoiding fraud. The platform consolidates multiple processors and alternative payment methods into a single integration to increase acceptance rates and reduce rejections, helping merchants optimize checkout. Founded in 2020 and based in Zapopan, Jalisco.

Frontegg LTD. is a Tel-Aviv-based company that specializes in developing a user management platform aimed at enabling software as a service (SaaS) businesses. Founded in 1982, Frontegg provides a comprehensive solution that allows SaaS companies to easily integrate and manage essential user infrastructure, from basic authentication to complex multi-tenancy and fine-grained authorization. Its platform facilitates rapid integration into existing web applications with minimal coding, supporting a variety of frontend and backend frameworks. Frontegg also offers features such as a self-service admin portal, subscription enforcement, and single sign-on capabilities, enhancing the user experience for both personal and organizational accounts. By embedding its interfaces within applications, Frontegg provides a customer-facing management interface while equipping developers with powerful SDKs and APIs to maintain full control over their data.

Slope is a financial platform developer that specializes in providing a range of payment alternatives for businesses. Its platform enables clients to manage loans, underwriting, debt collection, and payouts once goods or services are delivered. By offering options such as credit card acceptance and invoice link generation, Slope facilitates installment payments at checkout, which helps businesses improve their cash flow and financial security. Additionally, the platform allows technical teams to integrate its services into their existing frameworks, thereby reducing administrative burdens and enhancing the overall customer experience.

Founded in San Francisco, Sirona Medical develops a cloud-native platform designed specifically for radiologists. This platform unifies worklist, viewer, reporter, archive, and AI into a single workspace, simplifying complex workflows, enhancing productivity, and empowering practitioners to deliver better, faster care.

Upland is a blockchain-based online game developer operating an immersive layer-1 gaming platform that uses digital representations of real-world properties as virtual assets. The platform creates a digital economy where players buy, sell, trade, and develop NFT-based virtual real estate, earn in-game currency, and socialize within a growing community. It enables third-party developers to connect Web2 and Web3 applications to its infrastructure, expanding opportunities for brands, creators, and developers. Built on the EOS blockchain, Upland supports true ownership of virtual properties and cross-chain functionality for its native SPARKLET utility token. The company has partnered with brands such as FIFA and the NFL Players Association to create branded virtual experiences and monetize gameplay winnings, with users able to convert earnings to fiat currency.

Hyperface is a banking-as-a-service startup that provides a modern credit card platform aimed at simplifying the issuance of credit cards for financial technology and e-commerce companies. The platform features customizable software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow businesses to design their credit card offerings. Additionally, Hyperface supports card lifecycle management and offers intuitive onboarding processes, enabling companies to deliver tailored banking products to their customers effectively.

Shakudo develops an end-to-end machine learning platform that moves AI work from ideation to production, enabling data science and ML teams to deliver products rather than experiments. The platform accelerates development by scaling up and customizing clusters with a single line of code and by ensuring compatibility across data tools, producing a reliable, performant, and cost-effective data stack. By reducing reliance on engineers, it helps teams operationalize research faster and bring AI solutions to market.

Finantier is an open finance platform based in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia, founded in 2020. The company specializes in providing infrastructure and data products that enable businesses to develop innovative financial services. Its technology facilitates the integration of various financial data, allowing institutions to access information from consumers' bank accounts, credit cards, loans, and mortgages. Finantier's offerings include services such as account aggregation, income and identity verification, and transactional data verification, all delivered through a robust application-programming interface (API). By enriching and sharing this data, Finantier aims to support the growth of Southeast Asia's digital economy and become a central player in the region's financial landscape.

Railz operates an accounting data platform and financial data network that connects financial institutions, fintechs, and small and medium-sized businesses to real-time financial data. The company's Accounting Data-as-a-Service solution provides a single API to access data from major accounting and financial service providers, enabling fast data integration, real-time syncing, and analysis. By aggregating transactions, analytics, insights, and reports across multiple providers, Railz helps clients move quickly through messy data and gain a clear view of customers' financial activity, supporting lending, underwriting, and other fintech workflows. The platform emphasizes real-time access and scalable connectivity to support the evolving needs of the future finance ecosystem.

Pahdo Labs is a game development company founded in 2021 and based in New York, NY. The company specializes in creating an Anime-style action MMORPG and a game creation platform that empowers players to design and share their own games. Pahdo Labs aims to cultivate a virtual world where individuals can engage meaningfully, own the fruits of their creativity, and foster a sense of community. By providing tools that enable gamers to transform their imaginations into reality, Pahdo Labs enhances the multiplayer online gaming experience, promoting long-lasting engagement and entertainment.

Gr4vy, Inc. is a payment orchestration platform that simplifies the management of payment ecosystems for businesses. Founded in 2020 and based in San Mateo, California, Gr4vy provides a no-code solution that allows mid-sized businesses to seamlessly integrate a comprehensive range of payment infrastructure without incurring technical debt. Its platform features a robust rules engine and low-code integration, facilitating access to various payment methods and anti-fraud services globally. Gr4vy operates on a service-based pricing model rather than a transaction-based one, allowing for more flexibility in costs. Additionally, it offers tools for reporting, monitoring, and managing payments infrastructure, enabling businesses to scale operations and expand into new markets effectively.

Tilled, Inc. is a payments platform based in Boulder, Colorado, that specializes in providing a PayFac-as-a-Service solution for B2B independent software vendors (ISVs). Founded in 2019, Tilled enables software companies to seamlessly integrate payment processing into their applications through modern APIs and SDKs. This turnkey system allows clients to start monetizing payments without incurring upfront costs or the need for additional personnel. By handling the complexities of regulatory compliance and associated liabilities, Tilled simplifies the payment facilitation process, allowing software vendors, marketplaces, and SaaS providers to focus on their core operations while generating revenue from credit card processing.

Gr4vy, Inc. is a payment orchestration platform that simplifies the management of payment ecosystems for businesses. Founded in 2020 and based in San Mateo, California, Gr4vy provides a no-code solution that allows mid-sized businesses to seamlessly integrate a comprehensive range of payment infrastructure without incurring technical debt. Its platform features a robust rules engine and low-code integration, facilitating access to various payment methods and anti-fraud services globally. Gr4vy operates on a service-based pricing model rather than a transaction-based one, allowing for more flexibility in costs. Additionally, it offers tools for reporting, monitoring, and managing payments infrastructure, enabling businesses to scale operations and expand into new markets effectively.

Frontegg LTD. is a Tel-Aviv-based company that specializes in developing a user management platform aimed at enabling software as a service (SaaS) businesses. Founded in 1982, Frontegg provides a comprehensive solution that allows SaaS companies to easily integrate and manage essential user infrastructure, from basic authentication to complex multi-tenancy and fine-grained authorization. Its platform facilitates rapid integration into existing web applications with minimal coding, supporting a variety of frontend and backend frameworks. Frontegg also offers features such as a self-service admin portal, subscription enforcement, and single sign-on capabilities, enhancing the user experience for both personal and organizational accounts. By embedding its interfaces within applications, Frontegg provides a customer-facing management interface while equipping developers with powerful SDKs and APIs to maintain full control over their data.

PayMongo Inc. is a payment processing platform based in Manila, Philippines, founded in 2019 by Francis Plaza, Luis Sia, Jaime Hing, and Edwin Lacierda. The company provides businesses with the tools to accept online payments through various channels, including credit cards, bank deposits, electronic wallets, and cash. Its platform features a user-friendly dashboard for real-time transaction monitoring, analytics tools to analyze customer purchasing patterns, and a streamlined checkout process to enhance the customer experience. Additionally, PayMongo offers shareable payment links that merchants can distribute via multiple communication channels, facilitating convenient payment collection. The company's mission is to empower businesses in the rapidly evolving digital economy by providing modern, accessible payment solutions.

Cerby, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and based in Alameda, California. It specializes in developing tools and applications aimed at managing access for disconnected applications and addressing the risks associated with Shadow IT. Cerby offers a comprehensive access management platform that leverages identity providers to automate security tasks and improve identity and access management processes. This platform eliminates the reliance on manual tools and compensating controls, streamlining tasks such as offboarding and two-factor authentication enrollment. With its patent-pending access orchestration engine, Cerby provides organizations with passwordless authentication capabilities and enhanced visibility over applications that do not conform to standard protocols. By automating these processes, Cerby enables identity teams to extend access, minimize security risks, and reduce operational costs while adhering to zero trust principles.

Founded in San Francisco, Sirona Medical develops a cloud-native platform designed specifically for radiologists. This platform unifies worklist, viewer, reporter, archive, and AI into a single workspace, simplifying complex workflows, enhancing productivity, and empowering practitioners to deliver better, faster care.

Railz operates an accounting data platform and financial data network that connects financial institutions, fintechs, and small and medium-sized businesses to real-time financial data. The company's Accounting Data-as-a-Service solution provides a single API to access data from major accounting and financial service providers, enabling fast data integration, real-time syncing, and analysis. By aggregating transactions, analytics, insights, and reports across multiple providers, Railz helps clients move quickly through messy data and gain a clear view of customers' financial activity, supporting lending, underwriting, and other fintech workflows. The platform emphasizes real-time access and scalable connectivity to support the evolving needs of the future finance ecosystem.

Paragon is an embedded integration platform for SaaS apps, enabling companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience. Paragon's vision is to build the connecting layer for all software that enables every application in the world to work together seamlessly. In the last year, they've grown by over 6x and now work with nearly 100 customers around the world. They've raised over $3.5M from world-class investors like Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Soma Capital, and Village Global, and have been featured in Techcrunch and Forbes.

Pefai is a NoCode platform that enables designers to convert Figma website designs into functional websites without writing any code. It uses AI to simplify the process, reducing complexity and enabling affordable, personalized web experiences.

Commerce.js is a developer of a modular eCommerce platform that focuses on simplifying and accelerating custom eCommerce development for developers and designers. The company offers headless, API-first backend tools that facilitate the creation of tailored online shopping experiences. By leveraging advanced technology, Commerce.js provides services that include headless architecture and seamless eCommerce software integration, allowing clients to maintain control over their brand narrative.

UbiOps is an advanced MLOps platform that specializes in deploying and managing machine learning models and data science workflows. The company focuses on scalability, reliability, and security, providing a robust infrastructure that simplifies the hosting, deployment, testing, and implementation of AI models throughout their lifecycle. UbiOps enables data analytics teams to efficiently run, manage, and scale AI and machine learning workloads across both GPUs and CPUs. By integrating seamlessly with existing applications and processes, UbiOps supports teams in leveraging their machine learning capabilities in a production environment, enhancing operational efficiency and effectiveness.

PayMongo Inc. is a payment processing platform based in Manila, Philippines, founded in 2019 by Francis Plaza, Luis Sia, Jaime Hing, and Edwin Lacierda. The company provides businesses with the tools to accept online payments through various channels, including credit cards, bank deposits, electronic wallets, and cash. Its platform features a user-friendly dashboard for real-time transaction monitoring, analytics tools to analyze customer purchasing patterns, and a streamlined checkout process to enhance the customer experience. Additionally, PayMongo offers shareable payment links that merchants can distribute via multiple communication channels, facilitating convenient payment collection. The company's mission is to empower businesses in the rapidly evolving digital economy by providing modern, accessible payment solutions.

InCountry, Inc. is a data residency storage solutions provider that focuses on ensuring global data compliance for international businesses. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates in 65 countries, offering a data residency-as-a-service platform that securely stores and processes profile data within its country of origin. InCountry's offerings include a REST API and SDK for executing data logic through micro containers and serverless functions, as well as InCountry Border, which helps keep personal information within national borders. Additionally, the company provides Single-Tenant solutions that offer dedicated hosting, ensuring isolation from other network traffic. InCountry serves a diverse range of sectors, including finance, healthcare, and payments, facilitating easy integration for multinationals to comply with local regulations and manage citizens' data effectively.

InCountry, Inc. is a data residency storage solutions provider that focuses on ensuring global data compliance for international businesses. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company operates in 65 countries, offering a data residency-as-a-service platform that securely stores and processes profile data within its country of origin. InCountry's offerings include a REST API and SDK for executing data logic through micro containers and serverless functions, as well as InCountry Border, which helps keep personal information within national borders. Additionally, the company provides Single-Tenant solutions that offer dedicated hosting, ensuring isolation from other network traffic. InCountry serves a diverse range of sectors, including finance, healthcare, and payments, facilitating easy integration for multinationals to comply with local regulations and manage citizens' data effectively.

Perl Street provides a fintech platform for distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar, energy storage, electric vehicle chargers, and heat pumps across residential, commercial, and industrial buildings. It enables asset investors and managers to bundle and aggregate DERs, originate bankable portfolios, and manage more assets with higher margins. The platform uses AI agents and modern data architecture to consolidate and normalize DER assets into scalable portfolios, supporting performance and compliance. It also offers a deal-structuring capability to help hardware companies raise capital for ongoing and sustainable expansion, delivering investor transparency, automated onboarding for startups, verified unit economics, and the ability to simulate deal terms. The platform currently supports over 1 gigawatt of DER assets across more than 1,100 assets.

Opinary is a Berlin-based company that provides a user engagement platform for publishers worldwide. The platform enables publishers to enrich content with interactive features, engage and retain readers, and monetize engaged traffic. It supports millions of monthly users who share opinions with a tap and visualizes audience sentiment to reveal trends. The company partners with leading publishers and global brands to boost attention, drive conversions, and generate insights through data-driven content engagement.

Opinary is a Berlin-based company that provides a user engagement platform for publishers worldwide. The platform enables publishers to enrich content with interactive features, engage and retain readers, and monetize engaged traffic. It supports millions of monthly users who share opinions with a tap and visualizes audience sentiment to reveal trends. The company partners with leading publishers and global brands to boost attention, drive conversions, and generate insights through data-driven content engagement.