Plug is a wholesale auction that facilitates online buying and selling of used EVs.
HOPE Hydration
Seed Round in 2024
HOPE Hydration designs, manufactures, and installs advertiser-funded drinking water fountains in major cities and events worldwide. Their network provides sustainable hydration within a short walking distance, reducing plastic waste.
Shader
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Shader, established in 2022 in San Francisco, specializes in AI-driven augmented reality (AR) technology. It enables users, regardless of coding proficiency, to create personalized AR effects in real-time using text-to-AR functionality. The company's lightweight AR technology, developed by former Snap AR team members, facilitates the creation of unique digital identities through voice and speech recognition, enhancing smartphone user experiences.
Nextnet
Seed Round in 2023
Nextnet is a Silicon Valley-based generative AI startup focused on biomedical knowledge. It develops a cloud-based platform that discovers hidden connections in biomedical data by building a semantic web to organize, integrate, and contextualize biomedical knowledge. The platform serves knowledge workers in biotech and functions as a Generative AI-powered knowledge browser, enabling researchers to ask questions in natural language and obtain insights to support decision-making in research and development, helping to reduce costly oversights. The company aims to make biomedical knowledge more accessible and usable for scientific discovery.
Roga
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Roga is a manufacturer of therapeutic wearables that aim to alleviate stress and anxiety. The company's discreet device resembles a set of headphones and works by delivering gentle electrical pulses to the brain, which signal a sense of safety to the nervous system. Utilizing a modified waveform, Roga's technology alters brain oscillation patterns and is supported by guided app-based therapies. This innovative approach enables users to experience relief and improved mental well-being.
Withe
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Withe is an on-demand video interview platform designed for recruitment teams pursuing high-volume hiring. The platform enables hiring managers to connect with candidates faster while preserving a human, personalized interview experience. It reduces no-shows, accelerates access to qualified candidates, and supports scaling through automated workflows and a virtual hiring events feature. By facilitating on-demand interviews and scalable virtual events, Withe streamlines the candidate screening process and helps teams fill roles more efficiently without sacrificing quality.
DataBrain
Pre Seed Round in 2022
DataBrain is an AI-powered embedded analytics platform that enables modern software businesses to build, model, customize, and embed action-based dashboards to derive insights from data in existing applications. The platform supports creating and sharing reports with customers, vendors, and employees, and allows users to tailor dashboards with new metrics and filters under guardrails. Founded in 2022 by Rahul Pattamata and Vysakh Sreenivasan, DataBrain serves companies of varying sizes.
Empower3d
Seed Round in 2022
Empower3d is a company dedicated to equipping modern athletes with essential tools, resources, and networking opportunities to achieve business success. The company operates an educational platform that offers workshops and seminars tailored for individual athletes, collegiate athletic programs, professional teams, leagues, unions, and other sports organizations. These sessions focus on various business and finance topics, allowing athletes to acquire valuable insights and skills. By facilitating connections with esteemed business leaders, Empower3d enhances athletes' professional networks, empowering them to expand their opportunities both on and off the field. Through its innovative approach, Empower3d plays a vital role in helping athletes navigate the complexities of the business world and develop their entrepreneurial ventures.
Salad
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Salad deliver financial services and perks to promote employee health and motivate them to live better lifestyles, resulting in a more effective workforce for businesses in Africa.
Kredibank
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kredi is a neo bank building Africa's one-stop shop for digital financial services.
Kredi is a platform that eliminates all the challenges of using multiple applications and allows users to manage all aspects of their financial lives.
We are fully licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria. We provide access to digital financial services such as savings, credit, payment, investments, and insurance to all consumers in Nigeria in one place.
Tramline
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tramline is a developer of work automation software that focuses on streamlining the application release process. The company's technology transforms these processes into well-defined workflows, operating automatically to enhance efficiency and consistency. By utilizing an application programming interface, Tramline's software facilitates the execution of tasks while delivering context-specific notifications, which provide a clear audit trail of each release. This approach enables organizations and developers to collect and analyze data from their monitoring systems effectively, leading to improved confidence in software distribution and enhanced overall visibility within the development cycle.
Arrenda
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Arrenda is a fintech startup that provides financial products in Latin America. Its flagship product is revenue based financing for the real estate sector; advancing up to 12 months of rent payments to landlords through its digital platform.
Arrenda was founded in 2022 and is based in Mexico City.
Uprise
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Uprise is building wealth management for all - bringing the tools and the tricks of the 1% to everyone :). The company was founded by Chris Goodmacher and Jessica Chen Riolfi.
Visa2Fly
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Visa2Fly is a digital platform facilitating travel arrangements, including visa applications, travel insurance, and e-visa services. It provides real-time information on visa types, costs, and requirements for popular destinations like Dubai, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
Machinery Planet
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Machinery Planet is a company that has created a digital marketplace for the buying, selling, and renting of heavy machinery used in construction. The platform facilitates connections between buyers and sellers, allowing them to interact, discuss, negotiate, and complete transactions efficiently and transparently. By providing a professional environment for these activities, Machinery Planet aims to streamline the process of acquiring heavy equipment, making it more accessible and cost-effective for its users.
1stHm
Pre Seed Round in 2022
1stHm offers end-to-end minimalistic housing solutions for millennial first-time home buyers. 1stHm collects minimalistic house designs from around the world and makes them as accessible as a smartphone or a car.
VMind AI
Pre Seed Round in 2022
VMind AI is a generative AI Technology company in stealth mode.
Craftmerce
Venture Round in 2022
Craftmerce facilitates global trade between African brands and international retailers. It offers an online wholesale marketplace that connects African artisans with mainstream retail partners, providing tools for distributed production management, enterprise management, financing, and pre-production funds to minimize risk.
Mizala
Venture Round in 2022
Mizala is a financial services aggregation company. They help maintain the livelihood by protecting it from unplanned expenses. Their specific risks and build products that protect the customers against such risks, which include a personal protection bundle, a device protection plan, and a health protection plan.
Ladda
Venture Round in 2022
Ladda is a fintech company that operates an application-based investment platform designed to assist individuals in saving and investing to meet their financial objectives. The platform offers personalized investment services, allowing users to create tailored portfolios of global assets aligned with their risk tolerance and investment goals. In addition to investment options, Ladda provides a savings feature that enables customers to allocate funds for specific financial targets. This approach simplifies access to mutual funds and diverse investment opportunities, empowering users to effectively manage their financial futures.
Logistify AI
Venture Round in 2022
Logistify AI operates a platform designed to automate the verification of inventory for producers, retailers, suppliers, and distributors. The company leverages automated CCTV computer vision technology to streamline inventory management in warehouses and factories. Additionally, Logistify AI focuses on developing infrastructure for the last-mile distribution of food and beverages, aiming to reduce delivery costs, labor expenses, and food waste. By doing so, the platform helps inventory managers minimize losses associated with human errors in manual counting, ultimately enhancing the efficiency of global trade.
Opaper
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Opaper provides an application that automates and integrates operational processes for restaurants and cafes as well as management of online sales for e-commerce businesses. The platform handles order reception and fulfillment for on-site dining, takeout, and delivery, while also managing sales from social media and other online channels without spreadsheets. By unifying in-person and online workflows, Opaper helps clients streamline operations, optimize staffing, reduce costs, and improve sales performance and customer loyalty. The solution targets small to mid-sized food-service providers and online retailers seeking a practical, centralized system for order management and sales administration.
Myplace
Seed Round in 2022
MyPlace is a social networking site that lets users display their private spaces to their network. The platform is currently running a quick-paced private beta for its international user base. Their platform features the ability to let users list their properties and share them with people they trust, enabling users to host and stay with friends.
Collect Africa
Venture Round in 2022
Collect Africa is a mobile app that assists companies in obtaining payments from clients. Their application accepts payments using several online payment options. Their payments to businesses.
Newcon
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Newcon is a SaaS video platform that enables content creators, such as conferences and speakers, to distribute, monetize, and build communities around their existing content in one place. The platform helps event organizers grow their audiences and own their relationships with viewers, by enabling on-demand access and audience discovery tailored to individual interests. It supports formats including video, audio, transcripts, and keynote slides, and enables following speakers and conferences to stay updated. Newcon aims to democratize expert knowledge and make it accessible to anyone, anywhere, on-demand.
Partner Insight
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Partner Insight is a technology company that specializes in providing a cloud-based platform for managing and optimizing partner relationships, particularly in the SaaS industry. Their platform offers a suite of tools designed to streamline partner onboarding, training, engagement, and performance tracking, thereby enhancing collaboration, accelerating deal velocity, and driving revenue growth. By automating routine tasks, the platform enables businesses to grow their partner-led revenue at an accelerated pace, up to three times the normal speed, through personalized workflows and collaboration hubs.
Kargoru
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kargoru is a digital platform that facilitates connections between logistics providers and companies seeking their services. It offers a comprehensive marketplace that simplifies logistics management by integrating various functions under a single user interface. This includes processes for international air and maritime transport, customs agency, land transport, insurance, and storage. Kargoru enhances the customer experience by enabling businesses to track their entire logistics chain in real-time, compare prices and quotes from different suppliers, and receive automatic notifications and document management. By digitalizing the logistics process, Kargoru helps companies streamline operations and reduce costs.
Rava
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rava is a career development app that is managed by a DAO. They foster community, add value to others, and protect data integrity.
Flowcart
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Flowcart develops a conversational commerce platform that helps businesses reach and engage customers through WhatsApp. The platform offers tools for managing customer relationships, sending notifications, and processing orders, enabling companies to streamline operations and grow sales.
Fidia
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fidia empowers creators in Africa to do what they love without having to bother about payment limitations existing platforms have. With Fidia, creators can get monetary support from people who love and appreciate their work, sell digital products, and accept a membership subscription from their respective audiences.
Tanél
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tanél Health is a technology company focused on developing integrated tools for the healthcare sector. Its platform connects various stakeholders, including pharmacies, payers, and patients, facilitating seamless communication and operational efficiency. The company offers a comprehensive insurance platform aimed at modernizing health insurance processes. Additionally, Tanél Health provides a mobile application that assists users in finding nearby doctors, booking appointments online, and managing health-related tasks such as tracking consumption and managing beneficiaries. Their software also incorporates inventory management and sales monitoring capabilities, enabling clients to optimize operations and improve the management of their employees' health.
Teachfloor
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Teachfloor is the infrastructure to build the school of the future. All-in-one software for build and growing an online live academy.
Sendstack
Venture Round in 2022
Sendstack develops logistics management software designed to optimize delivery operations. Their platform offers route optimization, order management, real-time tracking, electronic proof of delivery, data analytics, courier performance reviews, automated alerts, and multiple courier options. This enables businesses to automate workflows, reduce costs, increase reliability, and enhance customer trust.
Sendchamp
Venture Round in 2022
Sendchamp specializes in Communication APIs and CRM tools tailored for African businesses. It enables developers and companies to engage customers via SMS, email, voice calls, WhatsApp, and other digital messaging platforms, facilitating customer onboarding, engagement, service, and retention.
Cargodock.io
Funding Round in 2022
Maildock transforms email inbox into a powerful Transport Management System. Our customers are exporters, importers, and freight forwarders that want to improve their operations and customer experience.
Onboardbase
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Onboardbase provides a compliance-focused platform that automates environment configurations and securely manages environment variables and app secrets across projects, infrastructure, and teams. It centralizes, synchronizes, and governs configuration data, reducing the risk of insecure sharing through channels such as Slack or email and avoiding the need to set up separate vault infrastructure. The solution supports streamlined deployment and collaboration by offering a centralized, auditable, and user-friendly way to handle secrets and credentials throughout the software lifecycle.
WinStreakz
Pre Seed Round in 2022
A free to play sports picking app where you can win real money prizes. Pick up to 5 games a day and accumulate points for every game you win. Every week you have the opportunity to win up to $3,000 in cash along with other cash and retail prizes. No money deposits required, must be 18 years old to play.
Exin Versa
Venture Round in 2022
Exin Versa is a company that specializes in providing financial and business solutions tailored for supply chain management. Its services encompass cashflow management, inventory management, supplier finance, collaboration, invoice creation, and supply chain analytics. By utilizing these tools, Exin Versa enables local suppliers, vendors, retailers, and distributors, particularly across Africa, to leverage their business history and data to improve their credit ratings and access funding. The company focuses on enhancing operational performance, aiming to improve the overall efficiency of supply chains through innovative software solutions.
CashQ
Pre Seed Round in 2022
CashQ is a technology company that specializes in embedded remittance solutions. It enables businesses, both fintech and non-fintech, to integrate international money transfer capabilities into their platforms. CashQ's technology facilitates instant payments to foreign bank cards and e-wallets, providing users with seamless access to the global financial ecosystem.
Stack
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Stack is the gamified crypto investment platform specifically built for Gen-Z.
Terran Robotics
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Terran Robotics is a construction company based in Bloomington, Indiana, that focuses on the integration of artificial intelligence and robotics in home construction. The company specializes in automated adobe wall building, utilizing a custom-designed cable-driven robot to create three-dimensional printed homes. This innovative approach enhances traditional earthen building techniques, offering features such as fire resistance and superior sound dampening. By leveraging advanced technology, Terran Robotics aims to significantly reduce housing costs, lower energy expenses, and promote environmentally friendly construction practices.
Nolea Health
Convertible Note in 2022
Nolea Health is a healthcare recruitment platform focused on mental health talent. Its AI-powered platform accelerates sourcing, evaluation, and engagement of clinical professionals for healthcare organizations. It connects verified mental health clinicians with open roles, helping address clinician shortages, streamline hiring, and improve flexibility and job satisfaction for clinical staff. The platform draws on data from more than two hundred healthcare sources, provides AI-driven candidate insights and personalized outreach, and integrates with applicant tracking systems, enabling recruitment agencies to fill hard-to-reach clinical roles faster and with greater accuracy.
1Fort is an AI-powered platform for business insurance that serves brokers by automating risk management and insurance processes. The platform streamlines insurance application processing, auto-populates forms, retrieves and compares quotes from multiple carriers, and integrates payment and financing tools while accelerating compliance with industry frameworks. It enables brokers to obtain instant proposals and automated coverage analyses, provides real-time risk monitoring and control features, and offers access to both retail and wholesale insurance markets. By improving accuracy and speed, 1Fort helps brokers and businesses reduce administrative burden and operational risk.
Rondoo
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Rondoo is an online marketplace specializing in pre-owned and refurbished consumer electronics in Latin America. The company offers a range of certified pre-owned devices, including laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Rondoo provides users with a comprehensive experience, allowing them to purchase devices, add accessories, and access financing, insurance, repair services, and trade-in options. Additionally, Rondoo supports sellers by facilitating safe payment processes, customer care, fast shipping, and repair and testing services. By leveraging a product-as-a-service model, Rondoo enhances access to the latest technology products through a flexible subscription system that includes warranties and additional services, catering to both consumers and businesses seeking to optimize their technology usage without the full costs associated with purchasing new devices.
Fluent
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fluent is a chrome extension that helps you learn a new language while you browse the web.
EducUp
Pre Seed Round in 2021
EducUp is an online educational platform that delivers personalized, accessible learning to a global audience. It provides instruction in English, Portuguese, college mathematics, and coding, along with preparation for United States college admissions and standardized exams. The platform aims to make learning engaging and effective through internet-based courses, serving more than a million learners across 175 countries.
KalPay
Pre Seed Round in 2021
KalPay is the largest Shariah-compliant Buy Now Pay Later service in Pakistan, facilitating financial inclusion by providing customers with easy access to credit. The platform allows users to purchase products from a diverse portfolio of hundreds of brands across various segments, offering the option to pay in three equal monthly installments. Additionally, KalPay's technology supports user account management and data protection, enhancing the overall shopping experience while promoting responsible spending.
Leather Corp
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Leather Corp provides Sound for Entertainment.
Otto
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Otto is a pet technology company that provides an innovative pet management system designed to enhance the experience of pet ownership. The company offers a comprehensive solution through its web and mobile applications, complemented by a smart QR tag. This system allows pet owners to create detailed online profiles for their pets, including important contact information, medical needs, and vaccination records. Users can easily update this information via the mobile app, which facilitates quick access to vital details in case a pet goes missing. Otto aims to simplify pet care, ensuring the safety, health, and happiness of pets while reducing stress for their owners.
Fractional
Seed Round in 2021
Fractional is a platform for fractional real estate investment that enables investors to purchase fractions of properties and visualize returns, cash flow, and costs via a marketplace. It supports a range of property types, including single-family and multi-family homes, with a focus on making real estate investing accessible, educational, collaborative, and inclusive while reducing entry barriers and time commitments.
CatalyzeX
Seed Round in 2021
CatalyzeX is a technology company that facilitates the application of machine learning in software development. It offers a platform where engineers, developers, and technical leaders can lookup machine learning techniques and their corresponding code implementations. The platform includes browser extensions that automatically suggest relevant code implementations for any machine learning papers encountered while browsing the web, streamlining the integration of suitable ML techniques into projects.
Chptr
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Chptr is a mobile-first platform dedicated to memorialization, focusing on collecting, sharing, and preserving the memories of loved ones for future generations. The platform allows users to create lasting legacies by curating a comprehensive narrative of a person's life. It offers features that enable individuals to select personality traits and interests, as well as send questionnaires to family and friends, encouraging contributions of memories and stories. This collaborative approach helps users to memorialize the full spectrum of their loved one's existence, ensuring that their stories can inspire and resonate with future generations.
Lucky Sweater
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Lucky Sweater is an online community clothing swap platform that enables people with shared fashion interests to buy, sell, and trade items. It serves as a social marketplace where users can explore different styles, discover independent designers, and participate in a slow fashion community. The platform features a shared wardrobe of well-known brands alongside sustainable makers and size-inclusive labels, with designers who are members of the community. Through online groups, users connect to trade clothing, share advice, and find inspiration, fostering sustainable fashion practices and a collaborative, mindful approach to personal style.
Colabra
Seed Round in 2021
Colabra develops data integration and collaboration tools for scientific teams, enabling real-time collaboration, integration of all data, and agile project management. Its platform helps scientists track workflows, gather and share feedback, and publish data and outcomes, supporting research and development efforts by eliminating inefficiencies, boosting research efficiency, and fostering more innovative work.
Kintsugi
Seed Round in 2021
Kintsugi develops voice biomarker software and mental health infrastructure that detects signs of depression and anxiety from short clips of free-form speech. The platform aims to help clinicians validate biomarkers and identify mental health conditions, enabling medical practitioners to close care gaps in risk-bearing health systems and save time and lives.
Crescent Health
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Crescent Health is working to make sleep health accessible to all. It hastens the development of individual health, beginning with sleep. They are employed by meet sleep coach. Connecting a sleep monitor to an app get monthly customized sleep plans, track sleep health, and find the ideal schedule.
Scout - Make Money Moves
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Scout is an investing platform that enables individuals to construct investment portfolios tailored to their interests, whether it's eco-friendly brands, women-led companies, Bitcoin, or popular Gen Z stocks. With Scout, users have the freedom to select their preferred investment options, while we diligently manage the portfolio to ensure safety and risk management.
Simply Homes
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Simply Homes is a technology-driven investment platform focused on the buying and selling of off-market properties, particularly older and outdated homes. The platform simplifies the selling process for homeowners by providing a streamlined approach that eliminates the need for repairs, updates, and showings, while also ensuring that there are no hidden fees. This system not only offers transparency and fairness in the sales process but also aims to enhance the communities in which these homes are located. By facilitating easier transactions, Simply Homes transforms the often complicated experience of real estate investment into a more accessible and efficient endeavor.
Wirepay
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wirepay is a financial technology company that provides a comprehensive payment gateway aimed at facilitating transactions for businesses and consumers in Africa. The company's platform enables users to receive, hold, and make payments in various currencies, offering flexibility in financial operations. Additionally, Wirepay allows customers to create both virtual and physical cards, as well as pay bills efficiently. The platform is designed to help users monitor their finances with real-time alerts on account activities, ensuring they stay informed about their transactions. Through these features, Wirepay positions itself as a vital financial operating system in the African market.
Maplerad
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
Let's Dive
Seed Round in 2020
Dive gets rid of boring, long winded, disorganised meetings—you know which ones we’re talking about. We’re the solution to remote work’s biggest problem—making meetings more organised, efficient, and engaging.
1v1Me
Pre Seed Round in 2020
1v1Me operates an innovative esports staking platform that enables fans to financially support top gamers daily. The platform facilitates real-time betting on one-on-one matches across popular games, ensures fair play with live referees, offers instant transactions, and supports cross-platform compatibility.
Superpeer
Seed Round in 2020
Superpeer, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing an online video mentoring platform designed to facilitate connections between social media influencers and their followers. Founded in 2020 by Devrim Yasar and Fatih Acet, the platform enables experts to share their knowledge through one-on-one video calls, allowing users to seek advice and mentorship. By providing tools for scheduling, promoting, and monetizing these interactions, Superpeer empowers individuals to engage in online mentoring while creating an additional source of revenue. The company is headquartered in Moraga, California, and aims to foster authentic human connections and community growth through its innovative services.
Vibely is a social networking platform that empowers creators to build and nurture vibrant communities. It facilitates the organization of self-directed local events, casual meetups, and parties, fostering connections and friendships among members. The platform enhances engagement by enabling influencers to connect more intimately with their followers through discussions, shared resources, and exciting challenges. By monetizing these community activities through participation fees and membership dues, Vibely supports creators in cultivating meaningful interactions within their networks.
Clicked
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Clicked is an EdTech platform that facilitates real-world learning experiences and career mentorship. It connects users with team projects from top-tier companies, fostering skill acquisition and career exploration in a supportive community. Global brands sponsor these programs to tap into Clicked's diverse talent pool.
Figuro
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Figuro is a technology company that specializes in transforming traditional insurance agents and brokers into modern insurtech firms. It offers a specialized Workflow Productivity System designed to address the inefficiencies commonly faced by these professionals. The platform centralizes data from multiple insurance carriers, streamlines administrative and sales tasks, and automates document generation, including the automatic completion of PDF forms. Additionally, it provides tools for data analysis and decision-making, enabling agents and brokers to enhance their workflows and improve accuracy. By empowering these professionals with a digital-first approach, Figuro facilitates a transition from conventional methods to innovative insurtech solutions, ultimately enhancing the client experience in the insurance sector, particularly in Latin America.
Vader Nanotechnologies
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Vader Nanotechnologies focuses on developing innovative organisms and enzymes aimed at addressing environmental challenges, particularly in recycling plastics and degrading persistent chemicals like PFAS. The company employs advanced techniques such as automation, image processing, computer vision, and analytical chemistry to identify and optimize strains capable of thriving on these difficult-to-break-down substances. By utilizing directed evolution methods, Vader enhances the performance of these organisms, contributing to solutions that tackle pressing environmental and health issues.
Plural.com
Pre Seed Round in 2019
Plural operates a community marketplace designed to help individuals showcase their skills and connect with top professionals. By fostering collaboration among users, Plural aims to support financial independence and personal fulfillment. The platform allows users to leverage their skills to attract customers and collaborate with others, ultimately enabling them to monetize their abilities. With a focus on empowering its community, Plural seeks to be the primary destination for individuals looking to enhance their professional lives.