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Zazume is an end-to-end rental management software that streamlines the letting process for real estate companies and landlords. It caters to various professionals in the industry, including letting agencies, property managers, and owners of Built-to-Rent properties, coliving spaces, student housing, and more. The platform aims to replace manual processes with digital solutions, optimizing the tenant's journey from search to living.

Silkhaus is a hospitality service provider that specializes in curating boutique apartments in urban areas. The company focuses on creating eco-friendly travel accommodations, featuring sustainable design elements such as energy-efficient systems and environmentally-friendly furniture. By offering a blend of hotel-like amenities and the comforts of home, Silkhaus caters to both leisure and business travelers. Additionally, the company enhances the guest experience with 24/7 mobile support and a digital concierge, ensuring that living arrangements are both comfortable and convenient.

BOND is the first inspiration-driven live shopping platform that connects creators, brands, and consumers.

Fintech Farm is a financial technology company that designs and operates digital banks in emerging markets. It does not provide financial services directly to customers; instead, it partners with local banks, leveraging their licenses and infrastructure to deliver a turnkey platform for neobanks. The company serves as the operator of neobanks and offers comprehensive consultancy and project management services, including customer acquisition and marketing, credit policy and underwriting, antifraud measures, and customer support.

Klikit is an innovative enterprise technology company that focuses on enhancing the efficiency of dine-in and food delivery operations for restaurants. Its platform enables restaurants to manage delivery across multiple brands, locations, and channels, providing a seamless and automated experience that minimizes human errors, missed orders, and downtime. Additionally, Klikit connects restaurants with role-model creators to launch virtual food brands, creating new revenue streams. The company's technology also offers analytical tools that help optimize overall business performance across various delivery channels, ultimately assisting restaurants in maximizing their profits through improved food sales.

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CloudEats operates cloud kitchens and in-house restaurant brands, providing a cloud-based restaurant infrastructure for delivery-focused food service. Its platform integrates proprietary smart kitchen technology with major food delivery platforms, supports persona-driven virtual brands across multiple cuisines, and uses centralized commissary kitchens to ensure consistency and quality control. This combination enables scalable, efficient and digitally optimized meal production for delivery-focused operations.

Founded in London in 2020, Atlantic Money specializes in international money transfers. It offers flat fixed fees of £3 or €3 for transactions up to £1m or €1m at the current exchange rate.

Pina Earth facilitates European forest owners' participation in carbon markets. It offers a platform that combines remote sensing technologies and AI to accurately measure and monitor forests' carbon storage. Pina Earth assists landowners in implementing climate-resilient practices, generating additional carbon credits over time.

BVNK is a fintech company specializing in modern payments infrastructure for businesses. It unifies traditional banking systems with blockchain technology on a single platform, enabling businesses to send and receive stablecoin payments, convert currencies, and add crypto payment options to their checkout processes. BVNK's flexible platform allows innovators to swiftly launch new payment products while ensuring compliance through its robust global licensing expertise.

Kitopi is a Kitchen as a Service (KaaS) platform that provides restaurants with the essential infrastructure and software needed to establish delivery-only locations efficiently and cost-effectively. Founded in 2018 by Mohamad Ballout, Saman Darkan, Bader Ataya, and Andy Arenas, the company operates a network of over 60 cloud kitchens across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Kitopi's offerings include kitchen infrastructure, management services, call assistance, delivery management, trained staff, and industry-specific technology, allowing restaurateurs to focus on their culinary creations while minimizing capital expenditure and time. Although Kitopi expanded into the United States in 2019, it exited the market following the onset of the pandemic.

Spades enhances dining experiences by streamlining checkout processes for customers. This enables restaurants to focus on improving service quality, increasing table turnover, and encouraging staff tips.

SaveIN is a social finance platform that aims to enhance the financial experience for users by facilitating banking and daily transactions. The company allows individuals to manage their financial interactions with trusted contacts, such as family, friends, and business partners, through a streamlined system for lending, borrowing, and recording money transactions. In addition to its core offerings, SaveIN helps users discover local healthcare practices and provides a solution for managing medical expenses by allowing them to split bills into manageable monthly installments. This dual focus on healthcare and personal finance positions SaveIN as a versatile tool for improving financial well-being.

Peeba is a curated online wholesale marketplace that transforms the shopping experience for local retailers in Asia. The platform connects independent retailers with a diverse catalog of brands, offering an extensive range of consumer products, including home accessories, beauty items, and kitchen goods from both local and global sources. By utilizing an AI-based system, Peeba enables retailers to efficiently browse and purchase products, ultimately facilitating sales growth for their businesses.

Our mission is to transform the ecommerce entrepreneur journey by discovering their brands and inspiring innovative teams who re-think brand expansion and scaling strategies to elevate independent local products into global brands.

Our mission is to transform the ecommerce entrepreneur journey by discovering their brands and inspiring innovative teams who re-think brand expansion and scaling strategies to elevate independent local products into global brands.

Trace Finance provides payments infrastructure for Payment Facilitators, crypto and cross-border businesses, offering foreign exchange, non-resident accounts, and cross-border payments to facilitate faster, more efficient global transactions. The platform processes payments for notable clients such as Dlocal, Volt.io and Okx, enabling local and cross-border settlement across multiple currencies. It supports Latin American startups by helping them move money globally, allowing rapid creation of global accounts and international transfers. In addition, Trace Finance offers paralegal and regulatory support services to help clients navigate compliance and documentation-related needs at no extra cost. The company aims to broaden access to foreign exchange alternatives and global banking for startups in Latin America and other regions, reducing friction and improving settlement speed for enterprises.

GoZayaan Limited is an online travel agency based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, founded in 2017. The company aims to simplify travel for its users by offering a comprehensive platform for booking both local and international flights, as well as hotel accommodations. As a travel-tech company, GoZayaan focuses on the emerging Bangladeshi market, providing solutions that cater to the specific needs of local travelers who are unable to access global platforms like Expedia. By accepting payments through local currency cards and mobile financial services, GoZayaan facilitates a seamless booking experience, making travel more accessible and convenient for its customers.

Peddlr is a company focused on empowering micro and small entrepreneurs in the Philippines and Southeast Asia by providing a free mobile point-of-sale (POS) application. This platform simplifies business management through features such as offline functionality, inventory management, expense tracking, and reporting tools. By enabling users to efficiently manage their operations without incurring costs, Peddlr aims to facilitate growth and improve profitability for small businesses in the region.

PortalOne AS is a pioneering startup in the videogames industry based in Oslo, Norway, founded in 2018. The company specializes in developing hybrid games that merge traditional gaming elements with interactive TV shows, creating an immersive entertainment experience. PortalOne's platform hosts daily 24-hour tournaments across various genres, including exclusive Atari titles like 'Pong', 'Breakout', and 'Centipede'. These games are integrated with TV shows broadcast within the games themselves, allowing players to compete against special guests who appear as characters in the game worlds. The company's flagship show format is the 'Arcade Show,' which features celebrities such as Justin Bieber and Atari founder Nolan Bushnell. PortalOne aims to be a global destination for hybrid games, currently operating in the US, Canada, and Norway, with plans to expand worldwide.

CHAI is a company focused on developing infrastructure technologies aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the digital economy. It offers a fintech platform that includes a debit card, a merchant-facing payment API, and an e-wallet that utilizes blockchain technology. This platform allows merchants and individual users to integrate a diverse array of payment options quickly and easily, often in less than an hour. Users can pay for items online by linking their bank accounts, streamlining the payment process. Through its innovative solutions, CHAI aims to facilitate seamless financial transactions and improve the overall digital payment landscape.

Forest Co., Ltd. is an e-commerce aggregator focused on identifying and promoting sustainable, high-quality products that embody the essence of Japan. The company employs a technology-driven platform to acquire and support third-party brands, leveraging a specialized team that tailors marketing strategies to the unique attributes of each brand. By utilizing a deep understanding of digital algorithms, Forest optimizes advertising efforts to facilitate growth and enhance the global market presence of its partners.

Indonesia-based Dropezy is the pioneer of quick commerce, offering rapid delivery of groceries and household essentials within 15 minutes, 24/7. Customers can choose from over 2000 products via its platform, making shopping convenient and efficient.

Zazume is an end-to-end rental management software that streamlines the letting process for real estate companies and landlords. It caters to various professionals in the industry, including letting agencies, property managers, and owners of Built-to-Rent properties, coliving spaces, student housing, and more. The platform aims to replace manual processes with digital solutions, optimizing the tenant's journey from search to living.

Qupital Limited is a fintech company that operates an online invoice trading platform designed to facilitate financing for businesses by allowing them to raise funds against their receivables. Established in 2016 and headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong, the platform connects Hong Kong-registered businesses with a diverse range of professional investors, including institutional investors and family offices. By enabling these businesses to upload invoices, Qupital allows investors to evaluate individual invoices and propose discount rates for advancing cash, thereby enhancing liquidity in the market. This innovative approach not only helps businesses reduce their financing costs but also provides investors with access to a new asset class of accounts receivables. Through its self-developed risk control model and strategic partnerships, Qupital aims to improve the efficiency of the financing process for cross-border e-commerce sellers.

Hofy is a developer of a remote work management platform that facilitates the organization and management of home office setups for employees. The platform allows businesses to efficiently manage remote working by enabling clients to pre-approve home office products, establish budgets for teams, and audit equipment requests. It also tracks deliveries and arranges the collection of home working equipment, thus streamlining administrative procedures that often consume valuable time. Hofy's solution is designed to help companies scale their remote work capabilities while enhancing security and productivity, ultimately reducing employee absenteeism. By catering to both individual employees and larger teams, Hofy simplifies the process of equipping remote workers with the necessary tools and resources.

Rainforest Life is an e-commerce aggregator and brand builder that specializes in acquiring and growing small to medium-sized e-commerce brands. The company emphasizes long-term success and sustainability by integrating advanced AI technology to enhance automation, optimization, and strategic implementation. Rainforest Life's approach aims to improve the longevity and financial performance of the brands it manages, ensuring better outcomes for both the businesses and their customers. By being part of Rainforest, these brands benefit from a structured environment that fosters growth and sustainability.

Curefoods is a prominent cloud kitchen chain in India, operating over 200 kitchens and managing multiple food brands. It offers diverse cuisines through EatFit, Yumlane, Aligarh House Biryani, MasalaBox, Paratha Box, and other acquired or collaborated brands. Curefoods aims to provide customers with varied food options while ensuring quality and sustainability.

Our mission is to transform the ecommerce entrepreneur journey by discovering their brands and inspiring innovative teams who re-think brand expansion and scaling strategies to elevate independent local products into global brands.

G.O.A.T Brand Labs specializes in acquiring and scaling distinctive direct-to-consumer brands within the lifestyle sector, encompassing categories such as fashion, home, nutrition, beauty, and personal care. The company enhances brand performance by offering data-driven insights and streamlined operational support. G.O.A.T Brand Labs leverages its extensive expertise in brand development, digital marketing, and product innovation to strengthen the market presence of the brands it partners with. By focusing on improving product design, user experience, and content strategy, the company aims to grow the consumer base and enhance overall brand loyalty.

Kitopi is a Kitchen as a Service (KaaS) platform that provides restaurants with the essential infrastructure and software needed to establish delivery-only locations efficiently and cost-effectively. Founded in 2018 by Mohamad Ballout, Saman Darkan, Bader Ataya, and Andy Arenas, the company operates a network of over 60 cloud kitchens across the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain. Kitopi's offerings include kitchen infrastructure, management services, call assistance, delivery management, trained staff, and industry-specific technology, allowing restaurateurs to focus on their culinary creations while minimizing capital expenditure and time. Although Kitopi expanded into the United States in 2019, it exited the market following the onset of the pandemic.

Rainforest Life is an e-commerce aggregator and brand builder that specializes in acquiring and growing small to medium-sized e-commerce brands. The company emphasizes long-term success and sustainability by integrating advanced AI technology to enhance automation, optimization, and strategic implementation. Rainforest Life's approach aims to improve the longevity and financial performance of the brands it manages, ensuring better outcomes for both the businesses and their customers. By being part of Rainforest, these brands benefit from a structured environment that fosters growth and sustainability.

Unybrands is an e-commerce platform that focuses on acquiring, developing, and enhancing online brands in various categories, including personal care, pet care, household products, and juvenile and baby items. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, with additional offices in Berlin, London, and Seattle, Unybrands offers entrepreneurs opportunities for exit through cash-upfront transactions or long-term partnerships for those who wish to remain involved in their businesses. The company utilizes an integrated brand management platform that streamlines the operations of acquired e-commerce businesses, leveraging shared resources to optimize business performance and facilitate expansion into new domestic and international markets.