Khazna is a mobile application platform designed to enhance financial services for Egyptians, particularly targeting the 50% of the population who are active smartphone users but lack access to traditional banking. The company offers a range of services, including General Purpose Credit, Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL), bill payment, savings, and insurance. Additionally, Khazna enables employers to provide cash advances to employees for unforeseen emergencies and facilitates seamless transfers and withdrawals without transaction fees. By focusing on digitizing cash transactions, Khazna aims to provide convenient, effective, and secure smartphone-based financial solutions, thereby improving the overall financial landscape in Egypt and potentially beyond.
Smartlane
Seed Round in 2024
Smartlane is a courier company that offers E-commerce delivery and operations solutions.
Founded in 2019 by Juliano Dutra in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Gringo is a technology-driven company simplifying car ownership processes. It offers an application that streamlines buying, selling, financing, and insurance, while providing real-time alerts on vehicle-related tasks such as fines, taxes, and license expiration.
Hammerspace
Series A in 2023
Hammerspace is a software-defined data orchestration and storage company that provides a unified, cross-platform file access solution through a Parallel Global File System. This system spans diverse storage types, vendors, locations, and clouds, creating a global namespace that enables direct multi-protocol access to all files regardless of storage or geography. A common metadata layer is shared across users and locations, so files are accessed via a single metadata view rather than duplicated copies. When local processing is needed, instantiation of a file is orchestrated in the background and remains transparent to users. The platform virtualizes and abstracts data from underlying infrastructure, delivering file data as a service to applications and data services, supporting hybrid IT environments with minimal disruption to workloads.
Jenfi
Funding Round in 2023
Jenfi is a financial technology company founded by Jeffrey Liu and Justin Louie, specializing in revenue-based financing for digital-native businesses in Southeast Asia. The company offers a service known as Growth Capital as a Service (GCaaS), which provides non-dilutive capital of up to US$1,000,000 to help businesses scale their marketing, inventory, and growth initiatives. Jenfi utilizes a proprietary risk assessment engine to evaluate both the creditworthiness of businesses and their marketing growth efficiency, ensuring that financing options are flexible and customized to meet the specific needs of each client. The platform has supported hundreds of digital-native companies, including various B2B and SaaS startups. Prior to founding Jenfi, Liu and Louie successfully developed and exited the fitness subscription service GuavaPass.
Adwisely
Seed Round in 2022
Adwisely offers an advertising technology platform that runs fully automated, personalized campaigns. The platform analyzes client advertising statistics, campaign goals, and budgets to optimize spend by allocating funds to effective campaigns, enabling businesses to showcase best sellers, complementary products, and new arrivals to existing customers to increase sales. By automating ad creation and optimization, the solution reduces manual effort while improving return on advertising investments.
Hubpay is a regulated provider of cross-border money services that aims to expand financial inclusion in emerging markets. It uses data science to create accessible, practical, and affordable everyday financial solutions delivered responsibly to people across income levels. The company offers an online platform for overseas transfers with foreign exchange, multi-currency accounts, collections, and payment systems for suppliers, partners, and employees, enabling instant money transfers and streamlined international settlements. By focusing on compliant and reliable delivery, Hubpay helps businesses operate more efficiently and concentrate on growth while broadening access to cross-border payments.
Gorillas, established in Berlin, Germany in May 2020, operates a grocery delivery platform that aggregates supermarket product ranges for swift delivery to consumers' doorsteps. Their service offers a wide variety of products, including fresh produce, dairy items, vegan options, cooled drinks, and unique selections from local community partners, with the aim of delivering orders within just 10 minutes.
Revenue Grid
Series A in 2021
Revenue Grid empowers revenue-driving roles by transforming data into actionable insights. Leveraging world-leading CRM activity capture technology, it delivers real-time intelligence for enhanced pipeline visibility, AI-guided selling, and accurate forecasting. Seamlessly integrating with existing workflows and platforms like Salesforce, Revenue Grid caters to unique organizational needs. Trusted by industry leaders such as Hilton and Baxter, it has been recognized in G2's Top 50 Sales Products and is backed by global tech partners like Oracle and Microsoft.
Finja is a digital payments solutions provider based in Lahore, Pakistan, focused on delivering innovative financial services in emerging markets. Founded by experienced professionals from the tech and banking sectors, the company leverages over 40 years of expertise to drive digital transformation in the payments landscape. Finja's offerings include a digital payment platform that facilitates online money transactions, alongside services such as business process management and digital marketing campaigns. The company emphasizes retail-led marketing and merchandising, enhancing the user experience across various channels, including mobile and e-commerce. By building robust payment ecosystems, Finja aims to simplify money transfers and cash transactions for individuals and businesses alike.
Datrics
Seed Round in 2021
Datrics is a cloud-based no-code data analytics platform designed for business and analytics teams to explore data, generate insights, and build automated dashboards without coding. It combines an Excel-like interface with the ability to process large datasets and supports data workflows, machine learning model development and comparison, and scenario analysis through automation and templates. The platform enables rapid, cost-efficient deployment of analytic models and AI applications by removing coding requirements, facilitating self-service experimentation and scalable analytics across the organization.
Laundryheap
Series A in 2021
Laundryheap is an on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service that operates via a mobile application, allowing customers to schedule pickup of garments, which are then transported to partner cleaning facilities for processing and returned to the customer. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, Laundryheap operates across multiple cities with a network of local cleaning facilities to minimize travel. The service emphasizes convenience, offering doorstep pickup and drop-off with order management through the app, aiming to provide fast, reliable professional laundry and dry cleaning.
Augmented Pixels
Convertible Note in 2021
Augmented Pixels Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in advanced navigation solutions for drones and robotics. Founded in 2010, the company develops a range of products that utilize visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and sensor fusion technologies. Its offerings include a Vision Processing Unit for obstacle detection and autonomous exploration, a SLAM SDK for data integration from various sensors, and Stereo Cameras aimed at enhancing localization and object detection. Augmented Pixels also provides platforms for pre-programmed drone flights and robots tailored for applications in healthcare, security, and warehouse management. Additionally, the company focuses on 3D geolocation and mapping through innovative solutions like CorpMap.AI for indoor logistics and GlobalMap.AI for crowdsourcing 3D maps, contributing to the creation of digital twins of physical environments.
Nagad
Venture Round in 2021
Nagad offers a mobile payment application that facilitates digital financial services. Users can deposit, withdraw, transfer funds, and recharge via their mobile numbers.
Finja is a digital payments solutions provider based in Lahore, Pakistan, focused on delivering innovative financial services in emerging markets. Founded by experienced professionals from the tech and banking sectors, the company leverages over 40 years of expertise to drive digital transformation in the payments landscape. Finja's offerings include a digital payment platform that facilitates online money transactions, alongside services such as business process management and digital marketing campaigns. The company emphasizes retail-led marketing and merchandising, enhancing the user experience across various channels, including mobile and e-commerce. By building robust payment ecosystems, Finja aims to simplify money transfers and cash transactions for individuals and businesses alike.
Hivecell
Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2008, Hivecell specializes in edge computing. Its platform enables businesses to run software applications closer to data generation points using a network of small, remotely managed computers. This improves operational efficiency and maintains functionality even with slow or unreliable internet connections.
3DLOOK is a technology company that develops artificial intelligence powered mobile body scanning and measurement solutions for the apparel industry. Its products include SAIA Perfect Fit, a plug-and-play solution, and SAIA 3D, which generates accurate 3D models of the human body, enabling made-to-measure and on-demand manufacturing, as well as virtual try-on. The company focuses on personalization in retail, helping brands deliver customized shopping experiences, improve conversions, and reduce product returns and apparel waste. By providing body data analytics, 3DLOOK enables better design, product development, inventory planning, and distribution decisions. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with development and operations in Ukraine, 3DLOOK aims to streamline fitting and sizing, support uniform production at scale, and allow users to visualize body changes over time through AI-driven body composition tracking.
Augmented Pixels
Convertible Note in 2020
Augmented Pixels Inc. is a technology company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in advanced navigation solutions for drones and robotics. Founded in 2010, the company develops a range of products that utilize visual SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) and sensor fusion technologies. Its offerings include a Vision Processing Unit for obstacle detection and autonomous exploration, a SLAM SDK for data integration from various sensors, and Stereo Cameras aimed at enhancing localization and object detection. Augmented Pixels also provides platforms for pre-programmed drone flights and robots tailored for applications in healthcare, security, and warehouse management. Additionally, the company focuses on 3D geolocation and mapping through innovative solutions like CorpMap.AI for indoor logistics and GlobalMap.AI for crowdsourcing 3D maps, contributing to the creation of digital twins of physical environments.
Jenfi is a financial technology company founded by Jeffrey Liu and Justin Louie, specializing in revenue-based financing for digital-native businesses in Southeast Asia. The company offers a service known as Growth Capital as a Service (GCaaS), which provides non-dilutive capital of up to US$1,000,000 to help businesses scale their marketing, inventory, and growth initiatives. Jenfi utilizes a proprietary risk assessment engine to evaluate both the creditworthiness of businesses and their marketing growth efficiency, ensuring that financing options are flexible and customized to meet the specific needs of each client. The platform has supported hundreds of digital-native companies, including various B2B and SaaS startups. Prior to founding Jenfi, Liu and Louie successfully developed and exited the fitness subscription service GuavaPass.
Respeecher
Seed Round in 2020
Respeecher develops an AI-based platform that enables users to speak in the voice of another person. It facilitates dubbing movies and audiobooks while preserving original voices, enhances call center experiences by targeting different voices at customers, and assists individuals with speech difficulties.
C8 Technologies
Venture Round in 2020
C8 Technologies develops financial software products and offers a systematic trading platform that provides direct access to active tradeable indices, portfolio services, index tracking, and support for custom algorithm development and investment consulting, enabling asset owners to pursue enhanced returns through quantitative risk management.
3DLOOK is a technology company that develops artificial intelligence powered mobile body scanning and measurement solutions for the apparel industry. Its products include SAIA Perfect Fit, a plug-and-play solution, and SAIA 3D, which generates accurate 3D models of the human body, enabling made-to-measure and on-demand manufacturing, as well as virtual try-on. The company focuses on personalization in retail, helping brands deliver customized shopping experiences, improve conversions, and reduce product returns and apparel waste. By providing body data analytics, 3DLOOK enables better design, product development, inventory planning, and distribution decisions. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with development and operations in Ukraine, 3DLOOK aims to streamline fitting and sizing, support uniform production at scale, and allow users to visualize body changes over time through AI-driven body composition tracking.
Grabr
Venture Round in 2019
Grabr Inc. is a company that provides a platform designed to connect shoppers with travelers to facilitate peer-to-peer delivery services. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Grabr offers an application that enables users to post items they wish to acquire from abroad and receive offers from travelers willing to deliver those items. Users can choose the best offer, arrange secure payment, and meet the traveler in a public location to receive their goods. This service aims to help individuals obtain unique or hard-to-find items from around the world while allowing travelers to earn money on their journeys. The Grabr application is accessible via major platforms, including the App Store, Google Play, and Chrome Store.
Playermaker
Series A in 2019
Founded in 2016, Playermaker is a London-based football tech startup that enhances coaching and player development through innovative wearable technology. Their signature product transforms footwear into connected devices, capturing comprehensive performance data to optimize skills, monitor injury risk, and aid recovery.
Apostera
Convertible Note in 2019
Apostera GmbH is an automotive technology company based in Munich, Germany, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing an advanced platform for autonomous driving that integrates a range of active safety applications, including lane keeping assistance, collision avoidance, and augmented navigation. Apostera's innovative solutions leverage augmented reality, smart camera technology, and surround-view monitoring to enhance the driving experience and improve safety by helping drivers understand maneuvers and interact with their environment. The company addresses the growing demand for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) across Europe, North America, and Asia, positioning itself at the forefront of the transition to autonomous mobility.
Good Money
Series A in 2019
Good Money is a digital banking platform offering traditional banking services while emphasizing customer ownership and social impact. The company aims to create a structure in which customers share in ownership benefits and profits are partly allocated to protecting the environment and advancing social justice. It features a rewards debit card that enables customers to earn stock rewards on purchases and to grow the value of their shares, including through referrals, tying everyday banking to environmental stewardship and community outcomes.
Competera
Seed Round in 2019
Competera is an AI-driven price optimization company that helps retailers maximize revenue through optimal pricing. Founded in 2014, it operates globally with headquarters in West Hollywood, California and offices in London, Singapore, and Kyiv. Competera's platform continuously calculates billions of price combinations to minimize financial losses by up to 6% of gross margin. It offers category-level pricing driven by demand patterns, efficient pricing management for any number of price lists, and a plug-and-play solution with easy onboarding.
SmartCommerce
Series A in 2018
SmartCommerce provides a shopping cart platform that enables consumers to add products to virtual carts directly from digital ads, influencer blogs, emails, and videos. Its AI-driven solution helps brands turn ad engagement into impulse purchases while improving the shopping experience by making product selection seamless and contextually relevant.
Akulaku is a Southeast Asia fintech platform that provides online credit and digital financial services. Founded in 2016 and based in Jakarta, Indonesia, it serves customers across Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia with digital banking, digital financing, digital investment, and insurance brokerage offerings. The company operates a virtual credit card and ecommerce platform, as well as Asetku, an online wealth management service, and a mobile neobank supported by Bank Neo Commerce. It focuses on meeting the daily financial needs of underserved customers in emerging markets and aims to reach about 50 million users across Southeast Asia by 2025.
Xelba is a developer of Internet of Things (IoT) software tailored for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company focuses on providing integrated hardware and software tools that enhance operational efficiency and streamline complex business processes. By addressing the challenges posed by diverse communication needs, Xelba's solutions facilitate effective management of various software applications in a centralized and user-friendly platform. This connectivity empowers clients to overcome language barriers and effectively control their business operations, ultimately driving productivity and growth.
Hideez Group
Convertible Note in 2018
Hideez Group is a cybersecurity company that designs authentication devices and software to secure physical and logical access. It develops hybrid hardware and software solutions, including the Hideez Key, a wireless authentication and password-management device that also handles RFID credentials and digital signatures. The solution relies on encrypted Bluetooth, RFID, and NFC technologies, with proprietary encryption protocols and platform-agnostic compatibility to complement existing vendors. It provides passwordless identity management software that consolidates authentication workflows, using proximity sensing, one-time passwords, smart cards, and full-day authentication to improve security, compliance, and operational efficiency for organizations.
Petcube
Convertible Note in 2018
Petcube is a developer of interactive Wi‑Fi pet cameras and related software that connects pets to their owners from anywhere. The company offers products such as Petcube Play 2, a smart HD pet camera with a laser toy and a 160° viewing angle, and Petcube Bites 2, a camera with a treat dispenser for training and rewards, both providing real‑time video, two‑way audio, and remote monitoring. Petcube Care delivers video history and alerts, and the company markets its devices online. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Petcube focuses on using technology to enhance pet care through connected devices and software platforms that support monitoring, interaction, and enrichment for pets.