MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a non-equity startup accelerator headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional locations in Israel, Mexico, Switzerland, Texas, and the UK. Founded in 2009, it focuses on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship by supporting high-potential startups across various industries globally. MassChallenge provides expert mentorship, a tailored curriculum, and access to corporate partners without taking any equity from the startups. Its programs, including specialized initiatives like MassChallenge FinTech and MassChallenge HealthTech, aim to facilitate partnerships between startups and established companies to drive innovation and growth. To date, MassChallenge has helped over 1,200 alumni raise more than $2 billion in funding and create over 65,000 jobs, demonstrating its significant impact on the global innovation ecosystem.

Cait Brumme

Acting CEO

Cait Brumme

Managing Partner

Siobhan Dullea

CEO

Matt Lashmar

Managing Director

Camila Lecaros

Managing Director

Yonit Serkin

Managing Director

Devon Sherman

Founding Director, Head of MassChallenge FinTech

Michelle Williams

Vice President and Head of Texas Strategy

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Floodlight

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Floodlight platform enables investment professionals to assess the qualitative impact of corporations. creates software to help investment managers and financial advisors build values-aligned investment portfolios. It will assist companies in holding their own standards and removing ambiguity from the assets and ownership of the broader investment community.

Andes Wealth Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Andes Wealth Client Experience Technology is a powerful communication platform that makes it easy for financial advisors to communicate complex issues around risk and behavior through unique and intuitive visualizations and proprietary questionnaires. It gives financial advisors an unbeatable edge in attracting, onboarding and servicing their clients.

Datia

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Datia is a mobile-first investing platform aimed at democratizing investment access for individuals in Europe. The company has developed a financial application that empowers users to make value-based and sustainable investment choices. This application provides insights into how different funds and shares impact the environment and society, utilizing parameters such as carbon dioxide emissions, water usage, and gender equality. By highlighting investment options that contribute positively to societal and environmental outcomes, Datia enables users to align their financial goals with their values, facilitating both responsible investing and the potential for financial returns.

BBP

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
We are a trustworthy marketplace where people can offer or hire services through an app, changing the way people access services today.

SignTracker

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
SignTracker is a software company based in Austin, Texas, that provides online tools tailored for the sign industry. Its platform assists sign shops in managing various processes, allowing them to plan and organize tasks effectively. By enabling users to calculate price quotations and track project statuses, SignTracker helps sign shops streamline their operations and enhance productivity. The tools are designed to support businesses in maintaining team alignment and delivering accurate quotes to customers, ultimately facilitating growth and operational efficiency in the sign industry.

Sumatra

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Developer of a real-time data platform designed to remove data engineering dependencies that delay or block real-time machine learning and analytics deployments. The company's platform allows data scientists to build their own streaming data pipelines, enabling data team members to overcome the challenges of deploying machine learning in time-critical settings.

Puntopartes

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Puntopartes is streamlining the spare partsprocurement through a time savvy marketplace where clients meet trusted dealers. Self-Serviced, with expert customer service on demand. 100% online / 7x Faster / up to 50% Cheaper.

Profish

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Operator of an online marketplace intended to facilitate the sale and delivery of fish. The company's platform allows fish farmers to list produce and consumers browse and purchase it directly, enabling fisheries sector to foster a more sustainable and efficient supply chain.

Whrrl

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Blockchain platform to reduce Million Dollar Frauds infesting banking industry in warehouse receipt finance segment along with social impact objective of increasing farmers' income.

Pakira

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Pakira is a trading platform for physical commodities markets throughout their entire B2B supply chain from source to retail.

Relay Trade Solutions

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Relay Trade Solutions specializes in digitizing and enhancing the supply chain for domestic bulk commodity shipments. The company offers a collaborative web and mobile platform that facilitates the management of the shipment process from order to settlement. This platform enables users to create and manage orders, receive real-time status updates, and store essential documents, thereby streamlining the entire supply chain ecosystem. By connecting shippers, carriers, drivers, and various points of origin and destination, Relay Trade Solutions helps clients reduce error rates and redundancy, increase staff productivity, and expedite payment processes, ultimately providing quality logistics automation services.

beagel

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Their online platforms connect buyer, sellers and agents making buying property as easy as breathing. Any place, any time.

Semantic Health

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Operator of an online medical data platform intended to automate medical coding to build an actionable data layer for hospitals. The company's platform provides a disruptive data engine for medical data analysis to extract medical codes and insights from patient charts to create a longitudinal and real-time actionable data layer, enabling hospitals to improve patient care, efficiencies, and value-based care.

Bridge Financial Technology

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Bridge Financial Technology Inc. offers automated Software-as-a-Service solutions tailored for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), financial advisors, and wealthtech companies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company specializes in developing portfolio accounting and management software. Its Atlas platform includes features for quick billing, invoicing, performance aggregation, client portals, and file sharing, enabling fiduciary advisors to streamline operations. By enhancing efficiency and promoting technological adoption, Bridge Financial Technology empowers RIAs to automate office work and investment management, thereby allowing them to serve more clients, scale their businesses, and reduce operational costs.

Knoema

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Knoema is a leading provider of a comprehensive information platform that focuses on global decision-making data. The company offers innovative data technology solutions that streamline the complex process of data discovery and insight generation, significantly reducing the time and resources required for analysis. Knoema's platform integrates statistical data with analytical and presentation tools, enabling users—both individuals and enterprises—to visualize, model, and present data effectively. This functionality empowers clients to make informed decisions and achieve better business outcomes by facilitating easy access to and sharing of data-driven content.

Rialto Markets

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Rialto Markets is a New York-based company that specializes in providing trading solutions for institutional traders in the fixed income market. The company operates a trading platform that offers tools for anonymous sourcing and execution of fixed income trades. Its primary products include BondCross, which allows traders to upload portfolios across various fixed income asset classes, and the Liquidity Portal, a real-time search engine designed to identify alternative and replacement liquidity options based on customized parameters. The combination of BondCross and the Liquidity Portal enables clients to place block orders anonymously and to connect with suitable counterparties while maintaining confidentiality regarding trade details. Through its innovative tools, Rialto Markets aims to enhance trading efficiency and liquidity sourcing for its clients.

Node

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Node is a private platform that allows brands to have their products sampled and promoted by hundreds of verified micro-influencers. Node supports over 100 brands across North America in generating UGC content through campaigns that are streamlined and data-driven.

moneyHOP

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Hop is a new-age digital banking platform which provides international travellers seamless and economical mechanism for exchanging money through a digital account and a multi-currency debit card with an app. We are based out of London, UK and Bangalore, India.

Binkabi

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Binkabi is a Fintech start-up that reimagines global agrifood trade to create a more affluent and fairer system for all in the Binkabi network. Binkabi’s core innovation, the Barter Block, enables direct, secure and cost-effective agriculture commodity trading in a decentralised manner through the use of blockchain technology. Barter Block incentivises the automatic balancing of bilateral trade, empowering countries to trade internationally in their local currencies. The Binkabi name and logo is inspired by the West African symbol Bi Nka Bi for peace and harmony.

Tradeblock

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Tradeblock provides the community with an easy and secure way to trade and use their kicks as currency. It uses its shared database to connect with other collectors. It does not only serve as a broker to help in finding the specific trades but a middleman as well, to ensure authenticity and a seamless trading transaction.

Indiefy

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of an online music publishing platform intended to distribute and stream music. The company's platform helps music operators publish their music on the top online music platforms worldwide with copyright facilities belonging to them and facilitates tracking of revenue with a free earnings report, enabling music operators to make money from their music.

Leia

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of a website builder and application development platform designed to provide custom web designs and publishing services for businesses. The company's platform leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning and specializes in iOS development, android development, and web development, enabling clients to establish a custom digital web presence.

Treebute

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Treebute is an AI cloud-based global platform for scientific knowledge navigation, discovery and trade.

OpSeeker

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
OpSeeker is a web application that allows you to improve your investments and savings using fictitious money and helps you improve your financial health. Using fictitious money, OpSeeker can simulate your long term investments. That way we work with the most important variable in investment - the psychological one.

Vigilant software

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of a technology platform designed to improve the processes of drugs that are drawn at the point of care. The company's platform allows users to streamline the processes associated with preparing, administering, and documenting drugs that are drawn on-demand at the point of care, helping hospitals capture significant lost revenues from insurance companies, reduce non-compliance exposure, and increase patient safety.

TRUscore

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
TRUscore operates as an automotive marketplace focused on facilitating the sale of vehicles and related products. The company offers technology that enables access to used vehicles, primarily through online auctions. By creating a certified marketplace, TRUscore connects various stakeholders, including lenders, insurers, dealers, and retail car buyers. This platform not only assists in the buying and selling process but also helps arrange financing and manage trade disposals. Through these services, TRUscore aims to enhance buyer confidence and ensure secure transactions in the automotive market.

Parnity

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
We make a software platform that connects worldwide freight forwarding companies. Freight Forwarders need to establish partnerships with other overseas forwarders in order to offer complete logistics to its clients. Our platform will allow freight forwarders to find and select partners, manage the partnerships (PRM), communicate, improve processes and business through data, and make international payments related to freight costs in a safe and quick way.

Power2Peer

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Power2Peer operates a blockchain-secured energy trading platform known as P2PConnect, which serves as a virtual marketplace for renewable energy. This platform enables small-scale energy producers and consumers to buy and sell clean energy locally, facilitating connections among community members and local micro-grids powered by solar panels and other renewable resources. Power2Peer provides an accessible and affordable alternative for individuals who cannot invest in large-scale renewable installations, such as rooftop solar panels. The platform offers value to corporate clients and small businesses by allowing them to offset their carbon footprints with locally sourced clean energy, enhancing their sustainability efforts. The company has engaged over 150 investors through an equity crowdfunding campaign and is focused on further developing the P2PConnect marketplace.

M1neral

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
M1neral LLC, based in Houston, Texas, offers a mineral intelligence platform that streamlines the transaction process for buyers, operators, and sellers of mineral assets. The platform integrates data collection, artificial intelligence, and transaction automation to provide actionable insights and enhance decision-making. It features a robust spatial search tool that facilitates collaboration among all parties involved in transactions, including service providers and financial institutions. By focusing on efficiency, M1neral's platform aims to significantly reduce transaction cycle times, enabling users to complete deals more quickly and effectively. Additionally, the marketplace allows mineral buyers and owners to easily research and filter asset information, promoting a more informed and convenient transaction experience.

Class2Class

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Developer of collaborative learning platform designed to connect, create, and manage project-based courses. The company's platform features centralized communication, a document sharing, and storage tool, a video calling system, webinars, and other related features that aid instructors in managing collaborative programs and activities in one place, enabling university instructors and administrators to connect with students in different countries as well as create shared lessons and activities.

Tunnel

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Tunnel allows real-time global cross-currency payments for free using our Distributed Ledger Technology. We provide our own payment rails, APIs and mobile apps.

Naya

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Operator of a digital designing software platform intended to bring the entire physical product design journey into one digital studio. The company's platform utilizes artificial intelligence to create design briefs and collaborate with others for designing, engineering, and fabrication, enabling users to turn their ideas from a sketch to a product.

TradeBlock

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
TradeBlock, Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2013 that specializes in developing trading tools for institutional investors in the digital currency market. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes market analytics, blockchain insights, order management, trade execution, team communication, and compliance automation. TradeBlock serves as a global data source, providing detailed analyses on various aspects of the cryptocurrency landscape, including market data, trading regulations, mining, protocol updates, and economic developments. By equipping financial institutions and cryptocurrency traders with advanced analytical tools, TradeBlock enables them to effectively leverage the opportunities presented by blockchain technologies.

LeaseUp

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Provider of broker enablement services intended to transform and ease the painful process of search and survey. The company's platform aids in every part of the deal, from site selection to touring and signature, enabling commercial real estate brokers to work with data in a completely flexible way and get deals done with ease.

Overbond

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Overbond is a developer of an AI-driven quantitative analytics platform aimed at enhancing transparency and security in bond issuance. The platform employs an advanced data aggregation engine that integrates various data sources, facilitating the creation of modelable data lakes for rapid deployment of AI models. Overbond's bond pricing solutions address challenges associated with sparse transaction data, particularly during periods of volatility and illiquidity. The AI models optimize data gaps using balance sheet fundamentals and historical benchmarks, enabling the systematic construction of pricing curves for a wide range of issuers in real-time liquidity scenarios. Additionally, Overbond offers a comprehensive suite of AI algorithms focused on fixed income analytics, including liquidity scoring, bond buyer matching, probability assessments for buying or selling, margin optimization, issuance predictions, and market surveillance tools, all designed to improve the pre-trade price discovery process and enhance transaction cost analysis for institutional investors in the fixed-income capital markets.

Databento

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Databento is a Boston-based platform founded in 2019 that specializes in providing institutional-quality market and alternative data. The company focuses on delivering both live and historical data through its colocation platform, which simplifies and accelerates access to this information. By automating data licensing processes, Databento significantly reduces onboarding time, allowing clients to efficiently capture and utilize high-fidelity financial data directly from the source. This capability enables businesses and financial institutions to access real-time exchange feeds and vast amounts of historical data while minimizing storage costs and avoiding latency issues.

Private Wealth Systems

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Private Wealth Systems provides a comprehensive financial technology platform designed to assist high net worth investors and their advisors in managing complex investment portfolios. By offering tools for account aggregation, multi-asset portfolio accounting, and consolidated investment reporting, the company enables clients to gain insight into the risk, return, income, and expenses associated with their investments. Founded by leaders in the investment reporting sector, Private Wealth Systems delivers a total wealth dashboard that ensures transaction-level transparency, allowing users to make informed decisions that support the preservation and growth of their wealth. The platform caters to the needs of those managing sophisticated multi-asset, multi-manager, and multi-currency portfolios, thereby facilitating a deeper understanding of investment performance across various asset classes and structures.

Captain Experiences

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Operator of a platform for booking outdoor sports guided experiences intended for fishing and adventure experience. The company's platform allows the search of thousands of trips by location, group size, target species, price, and more, focused first on the fishing and hunting verticals, plans to expand across all outdoor sports and geographies, enabling consumers to book trips easily, quickly, and safely.

Camppedia

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Operator of an online marketplace intended to offer book camps for kids. The company's platform offers parents a central location to find book camps based on their desired criteria and connects them with camp providers, giving parents an effortless way to discover camp options and plan their children's school breaks and provides the best return on marketing, enabling parents to get an unparalleled insight into opportunities and amazingly smooth back-office support.

Camberline Technologies

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of an energy platform intended to read electricity usage and support energy conservation practices. The company's platform delivers billing-ready data to their billing systems using existing data exchange interfaces and standards, enabling consumers to get attractive incentives to change the habit of using electricity.

IderaOS

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to automate sales and delivery for small and medium-scale businesses. The company's interconnected platform provides local shipping, payment solutions, inventory management, market insights and social commerce regardless of the business location or size at an affordable rate, enabling merchants to design, set up and manage their stores across multiple sales channels with local payment and delivery API options.

InstaKin

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
InstaKin is a financial platform dedicated to serving immigrant communities by facilitating remittances worldwide. It focuses on 'purpose-driven remittances', empowering immigrants with greater transparency and control over their financial transactions. The platform enables users to send money back to their families in a cashless, secure, and instant manner, ensuring that financial support is efficiently managed. By providing access to digital financial services, InstaKin helps migrants meet the financial needs of their families, enhancing their ability to contribute to their communities back home.

ForagerOne

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of an education technology intended to provide software to academic institutions to create networks and tools that promote and accelerate research. The company's platform is a marketplace that connects students and faculty at institutions for research collaboration and mentorship and has another platform to host engaging virtual and hybrid academic events with a wide range of capabilities for showcasing content and facilitating meaningful interactions, enabling administrators with actionable analytics for institutional assessment and improvement.

Deepstributed

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
As Machine Learning professionals we know that development of innovative market-ready ML/DL solutions is time-consuming, resources-intensive and very costly. This is why we came up with an idea of a set of tools which could significantly reduce time-cost-resources trade-off. Join us! And make your ML/DL experiments simply Deepstributed..

seniors@work

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of an online job marketplace platform designed to find freelancing senior talents. The company's platform seniors to register on the platform and clients to share requirements, browse profiles and employ senior people for part-time or project work with the employment contract, enabling private individuals, companies, associations, or start-ups to get in touch with senior citizens and use their specialist skills and experience for smaller and larger assignments.

CrowdPlay

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
CrowdPlay, Inc. operates a Platform-as-a-Service fan engagement platform for live sporting events. It offers CrowdPlay, a platform that broadcasts games and contests during public events and sporting events. The company’s platform also provides competitions, rewards, and prizes for attendees and fans over wireless, cloud, and global networks. CrowdPlay, Inc. was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

HyperTrader

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
HyperLinq brings institutional-grade software with superior technology for people who trade multiple assets on multiple exchanges or trading venues. HyperTrader is the professional-grade desktop trading terminal that enables easier price discovery, consolidated liquidity, amazing chart analysis, studies & indicators, portfolio management, smart order routing, arbitrages, algorithmic trading, unified market data APIs and consolidated portfolio management. Currently, we support 16 crypto exchanges. The availability of the US stocks market is in works. We will also add Forex markets in the future.

Topl

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Topl LLC, founded in 2017, is based in Houston, Texas, and specializes in blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) for supply chain management and certification. The company has developed The Topl Blockchain, which serves as a protocol designed to support ethical and sustainable practices by allowing organizations to track and trace their supply chains comprehensively. This technology enables businesses to verify and monetize their commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. Additionally, Topl provides a suite of hosted services and tools that facilitate user interaction with its blockchain, enhancing accessibility for companies seeking to leverage this technology. By focusing on the impact space, Topl aims to transform ethical practices into tangible assets within the economy.

PlusAdvance

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of a fintech technology designed to help businesses optimize their supply chain finance. The company offers a system of dynamic discounting mainly aimed at commercial invoicing and is automated and generates revenue on the delta between a maximum discount offered by the supplier and an accepted discount by the buyer, enabling clients to access quick money for the supplier and discounts for the buyer.

Roog

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Developer of a social marketing and e-commerce platform intended to connect consumers to small businesses in diverse communities. The company's platform addresses primary small business needs such as target marketing, promotions, reviews, analytics, and community building through incentives and hyperlocal deliveries and also allows customers to locate businesses within their communities to upscale sales opportunities through mobile orders and purchases, enabling minority business owners to amplify their brand and shoppers of all affinity groups to shop safely among small businesses in minority communities.

OpSeeker

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
OpSeeker is a web application that allows you to improve your investments and savings using fictitious money and helps you improve your financial health. Using fictitious money, OpSeeker can simulate your long term investments. That way we work with the most important variable in investment - the psychological one.

Nuup

Grant in 2018
Provider of technology, consulting, and partnership services intended to help farmers accelerate the transition to sustainable and inclusive food and agriculture production and trade models. The company's platform offers services in four key areas: agronomic and regenerative solutions, fairer, more transparent, and direct value chains, digital tools and data, and mixed financing with impact, enabling small-scale producers to improve their decision-making, strengthen their production practices, become more efficient, and improve their competitiveness in the market.

Topl

Seed Round in 2018
Topl LLC, founded in 2017, is based in Houston, Texas, and specializes in blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) for supply chain management and certification. The company has developed The Topl Blockchain, which serves as a protocol designed to support ethical and sustainable practices by allowing organizations to track and trace their supply chains comprehensively. This technology enables businesses to verify and monetize their commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. Additionally, Topl provides a suite of hosted services and tools that facilitate user interaction with its blockchain, enhancing accessibility for companies seeking to leverage this technology. By focusing on the impact space, Topl aims to transform ethical practices into tangible assets within the economy.

A.I. Capital Management

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
A.I. Capital Management is a hedge fund startup that specializes in utilizing advanced artificial intelligence techniques for trading in foreign exchange markets. The firm has developed a quantitative trading platform that employs deep reinforcement learning and deep convolutional neural networks to analyze Forex price data. This sophisticated approach allows A.I. Capital Management to provide alternative AI-driven investment strategies for hedge funds, facilitating better data organization and helping clients optimize their investment decisions. Through its innovative technology, the company aims to enhance the effectiveness of trading strategies in the competitive landscape of foreign exchange trading.

KeeUI Solar

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a mobile platform intended to accelerate the penetration of solar energy. The company's platform helps with size, quote, purchasing a product, and finding customers and acts as an intermediary between equipment suppliers, integrators, and customers, enabling clients to disrupt the traditional supply of key equipment for photovoltaic solar systems.

Now Print

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Operator of an online marketplace intended to simplify the purchase of printed items. The company's platform offers a comprehensive portfolio through an automated process that simplifies the purchase of printed and promotional items, advertising prints, custom textiles and large formats, enabling businesses and freelancers to purchase business cards, brochures, flyers, posters for business promotion from the comfort of their homes or office at competitive prices.

Tumbiko

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Operator of an online retail platform intended to offer handmade jewellery. The company is a jewellery designer that specializes in creating handmade gold-plated pieces made by local artisans, providing emerging designers, and artisans with new opportunities and customers with local and different jewellery designs.

CADLAB.io

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
CADLAB.io operates a cloud-based platform tailored for hardware development, specifically focusing on PCB design projects. It offers an advanced version control system and collaboration tools that facilitate the management of native PCB design files in a centralized repository. Users can view, compare, and comment on schematic components directly in their web browser, significantly expediting the design review process. The platform features a schematics comparison tool that allows engineers to quickly identify changes in hardware designs, while interactive annotations enhance communication and collaboration among team members. By streamlining these processes, CADLAB.io enables engineers to maintain quality control throughout every step of hardware design.

Anthem

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a money management platform designed to make finances work for every educational institution. The company's platform features cash flow analytics, bank reconciliation, spend control, fee collection, and financial reports, enabling businesses to focus on increasing fee collection, plugging revenue leakage, reducing inefficient expenses, and giving them complete control over their finances.

Selina Wamucii

Non Equity Assistance in 2018
Developer of a mobile platform designed to deal with the challenges that small-holder farmers have in accessing markets. The company's platform shortens the agricultural supply chain in Kenya, reducing food wastage and boosting farmers' incomes and passes efficiency savings on to both smallholder farmers and buyers, while ensuring a greater proportion of fresh produce reaches the market, enabling buyers and exporters to source fresh produce directly from smallholder farmers, even without access to the internet.

The GreenLine

Grant in 2017
The GreenLine Market are an online marketplace that offers healthy, environmental and cause-based products. They curate and promote the safest, most effective products on the market—from established well-known brands, to the up-and-coming.

Farmster

Grant in 2017
Farmster is a marketplace for agricultural produce in emerging markets, where most farmers do not have access to the internet. Famers post their produce into the marketplace via an AI-based SMS chatbot, and buyers search for produce by location, time of sale and quantity using the Farmster app or website. Farmster expands connections within the agricultural value chain.

Capital Mars

Grant in 2017
Tech-driven collaborative platform for diversified investments in premium professionally managed funds, currently inaccessible to about 90% of potential investors globally.

Tornado

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Nvstr is a smarter, simpler, social online platform that empowers investors of all skill levels to enhance their profitability by 1) learning from other users' and experts' investment ideas and 2) improving how their ideas are translated into an intelligent portfolio. Their platform streamlines a common conversation topic - "What stocks do you like these days?" - by enabling users to browse friends' and experts' top ideas while preserving the privacy of their own portfolios and positions. Once a user finds investment ideas they like, an effortless, institutional-quality process assists in allocating the portfolio pursuant to their own specific investment objectives. The result is an investing experience that is simpler, more engaging, yet also substantially more sophisticated than that of traditional online brokerages.

Protagoras

Grant in 2016
Protagoras is a digital solution for financial advisors. It offers unique risk profiling and country-specific tax functionality, addressing each investor’s specific situation and preferences. Their interactive, data-driven, algorithmic approach radically improves the understanding of client investment preferences and automates compliance with upcoming regulations. Protagoras solves massive risk, tax, and compliance issues for financial advisors by providing the most precise investor profiling platform.

Clustermarket

Funding Round in 2016
Clustermarket LTD. operates an online platform that facilitates resource sharing for life scientists, enabling them to list, discover, and book lab space, equipment, software, and expertise within their institutions or research clusters. Founded in 2015 and based in London, the platform serves a diverse clientele, including small startups, spin-outs, and established universities. Clustermarket's services allow users to rent resources to external parties and share them internally, streamlining the daily operations of lab managers. By making research and development in the life sciences more affordable and efficient, Clustermarket aims to enhance the potential for innovative breakthroughs in the field.

Jaspr

Grant in 2016
Jaspr is a digital platform lets people trade their talents and unneeded valuables, cash-free, with the people around them.

Coconut

Grant in 2016
Coconut Platform Ltd develops an application for alternative bank account. It offers current account that takes care of accounting and tax for freelancers, self-employed people, and small business owners. Its services include full account, payments, human support, and fast account opening. Coconut Platform Ltd was formerly known as Monizo Ltd. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Bitso

Grant in 2016
Bitso SAPI de CV is a prominent online trading platform based in Mexico City, founded in 2014, that facilitates the buying and selling of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. As Mexico's first Bitcoin exchange, Bitso allows users to trade Bitcoin with the Mexican Peso, providing a secure and professional environment for cryptocurrency transactions. Users can fund their accounts through various options, including in-person deposits at designated locations across Mexico. The platform operates with a central limit order book, similar to traditional currency exchanges, ensuring efficient trade execution. Additionally, Bitso offers an API that enables third-party applications, such as trading and charting tools, to integrate with its platform, along with a dedicated mobile application for seamless trading activities.

Powr of You

Grant in 2016
Powr of You is a consumer intelligence platform that facilitates a connection between brands and consumers, enabling both parties to benefit from the insights derived from digital behaviors. The platform allows brands to gain a comprehensive understanding of consumer behavior across various devices and platforms, which enhances marketing effectiveness. Meanwhile, consumers are empowered to manage their digital presence in one centralized location and receive financial rewards based on their data contributions. This innovative approach shifts the dynamics of data ownership from traditional providers to the consumers themselves, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship.

eFarm.cm

Grant in 2016
eFarm.cm is an online marketplace designed for buying and selling agricultural products in Cameroon and beyond. The platform leverages information and communication technology to connect farmers and agricultural dealers with buyers, facilitating the marketing of agricultural goods. eFarm.cm offers various online payment methods and collaborates with logistics companies to ensure the safe transport and delivery of products. Additionally, the platform provides features such as email and SMS alerts, and online chat support to enhance customer engagement. As the agricultural sector in Cameroon and Africa continues to grow, eFarm.cm serves as a vital resource for enabling producers to reach broader markets effectively.

Clustermarket

Grant in 2016
Clustermarket LTD. operates an online platform that facilitates resource sharing for life scientists, enabling them to list, discover, and book lab space, equipment, software, and expertise within their institutions or research clusters. Founded in 2015 and based in London, the platform serves a diverse clientele, including small startups, spin-outs, and established universities. Clustermarket's services allow users to rent resources to external parties and share them internally, streamlining the daily operations of lab managers. By making research and development in the life sciences more affordable and efficient, Clustermarket aims to enhance the potential for innovative breakthroughs in the field.

Add to Event

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Add to Event Ltd. operates an online platform designed to connect event organizers with various event suppliers. Founded in 2014 and based in London, the platform allows users to compare suppliers and receive personalized quotes for a wide range of services, including food trucks, party tents, hot tubs, audiovisual equipment, DJs, caterers, and photographers. This service enables customers to efficiently find the necessary providers to facilitate successful events.

Openplay

Equity Crowdfunding in 2015
OpenPlay is a platform to connect sports venues to their customers. It allows any sports facilities to instantly take online bookings , payments and manage their customers. The USP is that it also markets any gaps to increase their revenue, similar to the OpenTable model for restaurants. The service launched in beta in February 2013 at a handful of London school and council sports facilities and now operates in seven countries with clients including Dubai Sports World.

PracticeGigs

Grant in 2015
PracticeGigs is an online training platform designed to connect aspiring athletes with skilled tennis players who possess an entrepreneurial mindset. The platform facilitates a marketplace where athletes can access on-demand practice sessions with more experienced players, promoting rapid improvement through quality interaction. By enabling non-professional coaches to monetize their skills, PracticeGigs not only helps athletes enhance their abilities but also fosters a community where players can support one another in their development. The core philosophy of PracticeGigs is that playing with superior athletes accelerates skill advancement, making it an essential resource for those looking to elevate their game.

Xenapto

Grant in 2015
Xenapto is an investment data management platform that assists investors in navigating their pre and post-investment activities. The service integrates modern productivity tools into a flexible workflow, making it easier for venture capitalists and individual investors to manage their investment processes. Xenapto's platform enables users to oversee boards of directors, monitor company performance, and track the entire investment lifecycle, from research through to exit. By streamlining these activities, it provides a comprehensive solution for investors and companies to effectively manage their investment strategies and operations.

Shoplo

Grant in 2015
Shoplo sp z o.o. provides Shoplo Store, an e-commerce platform that allows retailers to open their store online. The company also offers Shoplo Multichannel that allows users to offer their products via online store, marketplaces, and other sales channels; Shoplo Chat, a real time chat that allows users to get to know their customers’ expectations and build relationships; and a mobile application. The company was founded in 2012 is based in Warsaw, Poland. As of February 12, 2019, Shoplo sp z o.o. operates as a subsidiary of SumUp Payments Limited.

TreePress

Grant in 2015
TreePress Ltd. operates an online marketplace that connects scriptwriters with teachers and schools in need of plays and drama scripts. Founded in 2013 and based in London, the platform allows writers to upload, sell, and license their scripts while providing educators a resource to browse and purchase these materials. This initiative addresses the challenges faced by educators due to a scarcity of suitable playscripts, a situation exacerbated by a broken publishing model that limits access to high-quality educational content. By facilitating transactions in a previously underserved market, TreePress aims to enhance educational outcomes in the performing arts and support the broader creative economy.

Open Energy Market

Grant in 2015
Open Energy Market is a technology-driven company that provides an online trading platform focused on energy buying and management for medium to large enterprises in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Guildford, Surrey, the company aims to simplify the procurement process by automating the management of energy contracts. Its platform captures and stores data, displaying prices offered by various suppliers, which enables clients to enhance reporting, forecasting, and portfolio management. By offering greater control and insight into the energy market, Open Energy Market helps businesses develop effective and sustainable energy strategies in a rapidly evolving industry.

BuyerDeck

Grant in 2015
BuyerDeck is a platform designed by salespeople for sales people to manage the relationship and engagement with a buyer. Enterprise sales teams close more deals using BuyerDeck by collaborating with their buyer teams when qualifying complex deals.

Prattle

Grant in 2015
Prattle is a company based in St. Louis, Maryland, founded in 2014, that specializes in natural language processing and machine learning to analyze publicly available content, such as central bank and corporate communications. The firm has developed an automated investment analytics platform that collects and interprets complex language, converting it into real-time, quantitative data that measures sentiment and predicts market impact. This technology addresses the challenges faced by equity analysts, who often lack the time and resources to comprehensively analyze all pertinent market-moving information. By providing asset managers with insights into market trends and sentiments, Prattle enhances their ability to form investment strategies and make informed trading decisions. As of June 2019, Prattle operates as a subsidiary of Liquidnet Holdings, Inc.

Openplay

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
OpenPlay is a platform to connect sports venues to their customers. It allows any sports facilities to instantly take online bookings , payments and manage their customers. The USP is that it also markets any gaps to increase their revenue, similar to the OpenTable model for restaurants. The service launched in beta in February 2013 at a handful of London school and council sports facilities and now operates in seven countries with clients including Dubai Sports World.

BridgeU

Seed Round in 2014
BridgeU Limited operates a cloud-based platform designed to support students and advisors in the university preparation process. Founded in 2013 and based in Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, the platform assists students applying to institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong. As higher education enrollment is projected to rise significantly, with millions of students seeking to study abroad, BridgeU addresses the challenges faced by schools in guiding students through complex application processes. The platform offers a range of gamified tools that leverage algorithms and machine learning to aid in university selection, research, brand building, and essay writing. By partnering with schools across over 60 countries, BridgeU aims to enhance the quality of college and career guidance, preparing students for future opportunities and addressing the growing skills gap in the labor market.

BridgeU

Non Equity Assistance in 2014
BridgeU Limited operates a cloud-based platform designed to support students and advisors in the university preparation process. Founded in 2013 and based in Sevenoaks, United Kingdom, the platform assists students applying to institutions in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, and Hong Kong. As higher education enrollment is projected to rise significantly, with millions of students seeking to study abroad, BridgeU addresses the challenges faced by schools in guiding students through complex application processes. The platform offers a range of gamified tools that leverage algorithms and machine learning to aid in university selection, research, brand building, and essay writing. By partnering with schools across over 60 countries, BridgeU aims to enhance the quality of college and career guidance, preparing students for future opportunities and addressing the growing skills gap in the labor market.

Wizeo

Grant in 2013
Wizeo is an interactive video commerce platform that makes it easy to create, manage and host live, interactive video events with e-commerce fully integrated. wizeo.me

Market Publique

Grant in 2012
Market Publique is the only marketplace dedicated to vintage fashion. We are committed to bringing the community together so we can all have a place to buy, sell and discuss vintage in a positive and focused environment. The company started when the founders realized there was a lack of options for vintage sellers online. Market Publique is based out of Brooklyn, NY.

BuysideFX

Grant in 2012
BuysideFX is a currency management platform designed for institutional money managers engaged in foreign exchange trading. It offers a comprehensive solution that supports the entire lifecycle of trades, effectively addressing common foreign exchange challenges. The platform reduces operational risk and streamlines workflow management, allowing users to connect with various FX dealers through multi-dealer ECNs or single-dealer platforms. Additionally, BuysideFX enables the execution of custom trading strategies and enhances efficiency through its workflow automation feature, BuysideFX Autopilot.

Bindo

Grant in 2011
Bindo is a retail platform that offers a cloud-based point-of-sale solution designed for retailers to manage their businesses effectively. The platform enables local stores to establish an online presence, index their inventories, and facilitate sales through seamless integration of online and offline transactions. Bindo's software includes features such as inventory management, customer relationship management, and reward programs, along with analytics and online dashboards for comprehensive business insights. It also supports credit card processing, allowing merchants to efficiently manage their stores and track customer interactions. By providing sophisticated tools, Bindo aims to enhance the operational capabilities of retailers in a competitive market.

Screener.co

Grant in 2011
Screener.co is committed to offering wall-street caliber data and trading tools to main street investors. Our first product, the Screener.co stock screener is the most powerful global stock screener available to individual investors. In addition, its easy to use Web 2.0 AJAX interface and performance optimizations give you wall-street performance in an attractive, easy-to-use tool. Unlike other companies that offer "black-box" trading systems or opaque recommendations to individual investors, we produce transparent tools that give users full access to run analyses on the underlying data and allow them to come to their own data-driven conclusions.

StarStreet

Grant in 2011
StarStreet is a provider of a platform to play fantasy sports for money. It provides a stock-market styled platform enabling users to buy and sell shares on players, and to cash out at season's end. The platform is operable in the U.S. and Canada and provides contest opportunities in Major League Baseball (MLB), National Football League (NFL), and Canadian Football (CFB) leagues.
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