Plug and Play

Plug and Play, founded in 2006 and based in Sunnyvale, California, operates as a business accelerator and venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage and seed investments in technology startups. The firm runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs annually, connecting startups with corporate partners and investors to foster collaboration and growth. Plug and Play's investment strategy encompasses a wide range of sectors, including fintech, health and wellness, travel, cybersecurity, and sustainability, allowing it to support diverse startups from any country. The firm provides various resources, including funding, mentorship, office space, and networking opportunities, and has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Plug and Play has a strong track record, having helped numerous startups secure over $9 billion in funding since its inception. Its programs aim to refine business models and facilitate introductions to potential investors, ultimately contributing to the growth of the startup ecosystem.

Saeed Amidi

Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer

Kiswana Browne

Associate

Gabriela Dow

Co-Founder and Partner

Matt Helmers

Director of Strategy and Innovation

Alex Roudi

Managing Partner, San Diego

Marc Steiner

General Counsel

Jupe Tan

Managing Partner, Asia Pacific & Senior Vice President, Global Operations

Phillip Vincent

Managing Partner, East Asia

Chen Zhao

Managing Partner, China

Past deals in Seed Round

Neura Health

Seed Round in 2023
Neura Health is a venture-backed startup with a mission to improve access and quality of care for neurologic conditions. Our longer-term vision is to find cures by learning from the experience of every neurology patient. We were inspired to create Neura because of two key problems in neurology: access and quality. Access is sub-par because there are not enough neurologists in the country, so the average wait time is 35 days, with patients often having to travel hours to access the right specialist. Quality is sub-par because diagnoses are currently based on self-reported data with significant recency bias.

YellowBird

Seed Round in 2023
YellowBird is an online marketplace that specializes in connecting businesses with qualified environmental, health, and safety professionals. Utilizing a data-driven talent-matching platform, YellowBird employs advanced matching technology to ensure that clients find the right individuals based on location and relevant experience. This approach allows organizations to engage skilled professionals who are not only capable but also passionate about making a positive impact in their fields. Through its platform, YellowBird aims to simplify the hiring process for businesses while fostering a community of dedicated experts.

Spleet

Seed Round in 2022
Spleet operates a rental home listing platform focused on delivering affordable and flexible living spaces in Africa. The company offers fully furnished accommodations with various payment and sharing options, catering to the needs of renters seeking convenience and comfort. In addition to housing, Spleet provides essential services such as cleaning and security, enhancing the overall living experience. By making great living spaces more accessible to renters, Spleet aims to facilitate better returns for homeowners while fostering a future of flexible living across the continent. The company envisions a landscape where comfortable living solutions promote freedom, equity, and innovation in Africa.

Pastel

Seed Round in 2022
Pastel supports African businesses by offering tools that help manage their businesses and maximize efficiency.

WAKU Robotics

Seed Round in 2022
WAKU Robotics is a supplier-independent, SaaS-enabled procurement platform for mobile robots for warehouses and production facilities. We help our end-customers to make the best robot selection through our online comparison site lotsofbots.com and our online Robot Solution Designer. Once our customers are set-up we provide them with AI software to monitor, quantify and optimise their robot workforce.

Smartprof

Seed Round in 2022
Smartprof is a B2C educational platform based in North Africa. It's a platform that links students of primary, secondary and Highschool, with students of universities, business, and engineering schools that are able to teach and dispense coaching sessions. Smartprof helps match easily the supply and demand in the learning sphere in Morocco. It then creates a differenciated and innovative offer of teaching and learning, as the teachers and coachs are freshly young graduates that are molded to teaching. Finally, Smartprof aspires to become the reference of online courses and e-learning in the Northern African market and on the long term the Asian one.

Simplifyber

Seed Round in 2022
Simplifyber is a manufacturer focused on transforming the apparel industry by introducing sustainable advanced manufacturing techniques. By employing a proprietary additive manufacturing process that utilizes biomaterial formulas, the company creates fully biodegradable clothing and soft goods, including shoes and accessories. This innovative approach replaces traditional sewing methods with a chemistry-based assembly, significantly reducing waste, carbon emissions, and water pollution associated with conventional garment production. Simplifyber aims to modernize the outdated factory system of fashion, promoting a more environmentally friendly and efficient method of manufacturing that aligns with sustainability goals.

Klutch

Seed Round in 2022
Alloy Card is a first programmable consumer credit card, allowing its users to have a better credit card experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Octane11

Seed Round in 2022
Octane11 is a B2B-focused marketing solutions provider that helps businesses drive measurable impact at scale. Octane11’s suite of workflow tools, data products and intuitive analytics, make it easy for B2B marketers to coordinate “paid, owned and earned” tactics and deliver real world results. The company was incubated by digital advertising leader MediaMath and MathCapital, and officially launched in Q4 2019 in partnership with Oracle, LiveRamp, Intersection, Bombora and EverString. For more information and updates, visit www.octane11.com and follow us on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/octane11.

RAPIDFORT

Seed Round in 2022
RapidFort is a cloud native cybersecurity company helping organizations minimize the attack surface of their cloud workloads automatically and continuously. What normally takes weeks to months of menial, manual work with mediocre results is done in minutes with RapidFort, producing optimal results. RapidFort's mission is to Secure The Cloud - RAPIDLY, lowering zero-day exploit risks, and freeing developers to build great software instead of addressing vulnerabilities.. RapidFort is headquartered in San Francisco, USA.

Pipra

Seed Round in 2022
PIPRA AG (Pre-Interventional Preventive Risk assessment) is developing a cutting-edge AI-based pre-operative test to assess patient's risk of suffering from cognitive disorders after a surgery.

Smile

Seed Round in 2022
Smile provides user-authorized access to valuable employment and income data from HR, payroll, commerce, and marketplace platforms through a single API. Banks, fintechs, recruitment agencies, and other service providers can leverage employment and income data to increase adoption and conversion, reduce cost, and reduce risk, through a single API. Access is given by the users themselves, so they can seamlessly share their data to the providers they trust.

Roleshare

Seed Round in 2022
Get full-time balance with the smart matching site for shared roles.

Mesh

Seed Round in 2022
Mesh operates as a financial technology company focused on providing tools and resources for retail investors. The platform offers stock analysis and a range of strategic investment tools designed to enhance investors' decision-making capabilities. By catering specifically to the needs of individual investors, Mesh aims to empower users with the information and insights necessary to navigate the complexities of the stock market effectively. The company's commitment to improving investment literacy and accessibility sets it apart in the competitive landscape of investment applications.

Youverify

Seed Round in 2022
Youverify Inc., founded in 2017 and based in Lewes, Delaware, specializes in identity verification services for businesses and individuals. The company offers a platform that confirms a user's identity by comparing their identity documents with facial biometrics, utilizing advanced AI technology. In addition, Youverify enables the verification of physical addresses by leveraging a network of over 20,000 field verification officers across Sub-Saharan Africa, ensuring that this process is completed in less than 48 hours. The company's services are supported by access to more than 300 local and global databases, providing a comprehensive solution for identity and address verification through a single API.

Pharmacy Marts

Seed Round in 2022
Pharmacy Marts is an online platform that enables pharmacists to get their daily prescriptions and medications from a variety of suppliers. Pharmacy Marts was founded in 2021 and is located in Cairo, Egypt.

CloudFret

Seed Round in 2022
Cloud Fret is a transport and logistics startup that connects loaders to transporters, optimizing every route and fleet resource between the two ends of the Mediterranean using artificial intelligence technology to detect empty cargo trucks and directing them to cargo which needs to be transported.

TradeBuza

Seed Round in 2022
TradeBuza operates a cloud-based web and mobile platform for out growers, commodities aggregators, exporters, and agricultural processors. Its platform provides real-time visibility, data management, trade finance, and commodities trade solutions. The company is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

Kahoona

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of data activation platform designed for the open web for data without compromising privacy or performance. The company's platform leverages first-party data and artificial intelligence to understand users by analyzing their interactions with websites and applications and transforms them into audience segmentation data and actionable insights, enabling clients to reduce CAC (customer acquisition cost) and boost sales.

Lucky

Seed Round in 2022
Location-Based Marketing Platform that allows brands/retail stores to engage with people via transportation apps.

Unifimoney

Seed Round in 2022
Optimizing your personal finance is hard, complex and boring. The conventional banking industry has become used to consumer inertia and to an extent relies on it for their massive profits. Unifimoney (www.unifi.money) has been created to solve this by integrating and automating money management so you don’t have to. Unifimoney is a single account accessed via mobile that integrated a high-interest checking account, a credit card and Robo investment platform. By doing absolutely nothing more customers model best practices in personal finance — effortlessly. Maximizing daily passive income and building a long term investment fund. Unifimoney will launch in early 2020 you can join the waitlist at www.unifi.money

QuantActions

Seed Round in 2022
QuantActions Sàrl offers digital health platform for analyzing touch screen taps of smart phone users to detect indicators related to mental and neurological health. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

FutureFit AI

Seed Round in 2022
FutureFit AI is an AI-powered intelligence platform for the future of work. Described as the 'Google Maps for your Career'​, it draws on over a billion data points to identify future skills, assess current capabilities, and map upskilling & reskilling pathways for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Having won awards from the US Government, Google AI, and TD Bank, FutureFit Ai is currently partnering with both Fortune 1000 companies, national governments, and foundations on 3 continents around AI, automation, and the future of work.

Mayani

Seed Round in 2022
Mayani is a social impact-driven agri-tech startup that operates an online platform connecting local farmers with consumers. It enables direct purchases of fresh agricultural products, including a variety of fruits, vegetables, and packaged or frozen food items, from smallholder farmers. By facilitating this direct connection, Mayani allows customers to conveniently buy fresh produce online while supporting local farmers by providing them with a dedicated marketplace for their goods. The company's innovative approach has garnered recognition, being selected as one of the top 28 Philippine startups to represent the country at the RISE Conference 2019 in Hong Kong.

Icon Savings Plan

Seed Round in 2022
The Icon Savings Corporation, Inc., doing business as Icon Savings Plan, provides online retirement saving plans for businesses and individuals. It offers recordkeeping, marketplace platforms, employee onboarding solutions, and investment solutions. The Icon Savings Corporation, Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Peachscore

Seed Round in 2022
Peachscore is an innovative evaluation platform developed by Createnu Ventures, designed to standardize and democratize the private sector. By leveraging proprietary technology, it aims to provide a comprehensive and accessible assessment system that enhances transparency and facilitates decision-making for investors and businesses alike. This platform addresses the challenges of evaluating private companies, offering a systematic approach that empowers users with valuable insights and benchmarks. Through its unique features, Peachscore seeks to transform the landscape of venture capital and private investments, making it easier for stakeholders to navigate and understand the complexities of the market.

REPOWR

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a networking marketplace designed for business-to-business truck and trailer rentals. The company's marketplace brings visibility and value to untapped equipment supplies and also makes it available to carriers, on-demand, enabling logistics companies to lease and share assets to reduce waste and underutilization.

Plutoview

Seed Round in 2022
Plutoview is a developer of a multi-user virtual applications platform aimed at enhancing brand loyalty programs through interactive experiences. The platform facilitates easy-to-integrate co-browsing capabilities that support remote collaboration and community engagement. By allowing users to create branded art, non-fungible tokens, and merchandise collectively, Plutoview fosters a sense of community among participants. It also enables interactions with renowned artists during brand-inspired drawing parties or collaborative whiteboarding sessions. Through these engaging and accessible experiences, Plutoview caters to diverse audiences, ensuring that participation does not require specialized skills.

Veratrak

Seed Round in 2022
Veratrak Limited is a company based in Oxford, United Kingdom, that specializes in developing blockchain-based enterprise software tailored for the pharmaceutical supply chain. Established in 2017, Veratrak's platform facilitates secure document sharing and master data collaboration among pharmaceutical companies, allowing them to communicate sensitive information more efficiently. The software not only protects critical documentation but also creates an audit trail of changes, helping to mitigate the risks associated with documentation tampering. By enhancing workflow management and ensuring the security of operation handovers, Veratrak aims to drive efficiencies within the healthcare industry.

Sempera Organics

Seed Round in 2022
Producer of mushrooms and other related products intended to offer a reliable, and planet-friendly way of growing mushrooms. The company produces a wide range of mushrooms and converts them into pure mushroom powders, extracts, mushroom blends, and packaged solutions, enabling functional foods, nutraceuticals, and cosmeceuticals industries to get clinically mushroom ingredients.

Dukkantek

Seed Round in 2022
Dukkantek provides digital transformation services to improve business processes. It offers online solutions to assist with managing and marketing strategies of companies. Dukkantek is based in Dubai, UAE.

mynurse.ai

Seed Round in 2022
mynurse.ai is a platform that surfaces the right information at the right time by analyzing the habits and behaviors of the most effective nurses. Administrative tasks are automated so that care teams can focus on spending time with patients. We’re on a mission to make healthcare human.

UMAMI Bioworks

Seed Round in 2022
Umami Meats develops cultured seafood based on a proprietary, low-cost, and sustainable formulation of growth factors.

BioFeyn

Seed Round in 2022
BioFeyn developed for human medicine, nanocapsules tiny molecular transporters that can deliver nutrients, drugs, or natural products. BioFeyn’s solution is transportable, scalable across species, and integrates into existing supply chains to benefit both people and the planet. The BioFeyn team includes a materials engineer, a molecular biologist, and medical doctor.

GenLots

Seed Round in 2022
GenLots is a SaaS provider from Lausanne, Switzerland that uses machine learning to optimize supply chain processes. Their core technology, the Artificial Supply Chain Brain, improves purchasing plans of any industrial company that buys raw materials in high volumes. The software imports real world data from an ERP and makes on-demand suggestions to improve the order behaviour by a) decreasing the number of order transactions b) reducing inventory levels and c) using pricing advantages (e.g. quantity discounts). Implementations with major industrial companies successfully reduced total purchasing cost by up to 10%.

Sastaticket

Seed Round in 2022
Sastaticket.pk is an online travel agency based in Karachi, Pakistan, designed to empower travelers with instant booking capabilities and a diverse selection of travel products. The platform offers a comprehensive range of services, including reservations for domestic and international flights, hotel accommodations, and holiday packages. By leveraging advanced technology, Sastaticket.pk aims to provide a seamless and efficient booking experience for users. The agency is committed to delivering high-quality customer service, supported by a dedicated team available 24/7 and offices in three cities across Pakistan. This focus on convenience and accessibility positions Sastaticket.pk as a leading consolidator of travel services in the region.

Rubi Laboratories

Seed Round in 2022
Rubi Laboratories develops technology that manufactures carbon-negative textile. It uses sustainable solutions to turn carbon emission into natural fibers. Rubi Laboratories is based in California, USA.

QRfertile LLC

Seed Round in 2022
QRfertile LLC is a company based in Farmington, Connecticut, specializing in male fertility solutions. Incorporated in 2018, it develops and manufactures an at-home fertility test kit for men, enabling them to assess their reproductive health conveniently. In addition to the test kit, QRfertile provides a digital platform that connects users with healthcare professionals, offering guidance and support throughout their fertility journey. The company's mission is to make male reproductive health accessible and comprehensive, addressing an often-overlooked aspect of healthcare.

Redkik Inc.

Seed Round in 2022
Redkik is a global software company operating with embedded insurance as a SaaS provider, with the mission to simplify and improve the insurance industry for all parties within logistics and transportation. No need for annual insurance policies tying your business down, Redkik uses the latest technology and insures your shipment when you book it, with premiums and coverage tailored to your specific needs. Redkik's extensive on-demand marine cargo insurance is based on the factual per shipment value today, not within the next 12 months. The team of Redkik has a big passion for innovation and technology, together with great experience and deep knowledge from logistics and transportation, risk management, cargo insurance, machine learning, and software development. Join Redkik's rapidly growing network of global freight forwarders offering on-demand per shipment insurance. Redkik, brings intelligence to insurance and peace of mind for you and your customers.

Alaffia Health

Seed Round in 2022
Alaffia Technology Solutions, Inc. operates a SaaS platform for medical providers, payers, and auditors. It automates medical claim audits; helps medical providers to reduce billing errors; and lets auditors instantly to detect improper payments. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in New York, New York.

Syndi Health

Seed Round in 2022
Outcome-driven digital health support recommendation platform using machine learning and digital phenotyping - starting in mental health.

Boopos

Seed Round in 2022
boopos provides flexible, useful financing for e-commerce, SaaS businesses and their owners: discretionary purpose, long-term revenue-based facilities for an investment, acquiring a company or just cashing out without selling your company or diluting yourself.

Helvengo

Seed Round in 2022
Helvengo operates a digital managing general agent (MGA) platform that specializes in providing comprehensive insurance solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The platform leverages AI-based risk analysis to identify coverage gaps and streamline the quoting process, offering real-time, automated insurance quotes. By addressing common challenges such as complex and opaque premium structures, Helvengo enables SMEs and their advisors to access transparent, tailored insurance products that are customized to specific business needs. The end-to-end digital process facilitates efficient insurance management, allowing businesses to assess risks and mitigate losses effectively.

Epoch Biodesign

Seed Round in 2022
Mellizyme Biotechnology is currently operating in stealth.

Bridge Money

Seed Round in 2022
Bridge is a developer of a banking platform used to help achieve financial freedom. It aims to provide a path towards upward financial mobility for the millions of people left behind by the traditional banking system. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Stere.io

Seed Round in 2021
Stere is a one-stop shop for businesses to find capacity and access digital tools to launch, improve, and grow insurance programs. It aims to empower businesses to launch and grow insurance programs with a full-stack infrastructure, by providing the right services and tools such as digital platforms, data analytics, a network of capacity providers, innovative tech, and more. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in Dover, Delaware.

Quench.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.

Turbodega

Seed Round in 2021
TURBODEGA S.A.C. develops the mobile application platform for retailers and distributors to digitize and optimize the inventory and supply chains. Its platform uses artificial intelligence (AI) that automates orders, optimizes inventory using AI and tracks daily sales in real-time. TURBODEGA S.A.C. was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Santiago de Surco, Peru.

Blacktag

Seed Round in 2021
Blacktag is a global platform for interactive content by Black creators.

Chari

Seed Round in 2021
Chari.ma is the leading B2B e-commerce platform for FMCG products in Morocco

Hopps

Seed Round in 2021
Hopps (www.hopps.io) is an LA-based startup that provides enterprises with one-click access for instant help with enterprise tools like Facebook Ads Manager, Hubspot and Figma. Through our platform’s AI-driven matching, vetted experts screen-share and upskill professionals in < 2 minutes by collaborating on problems in real-time.

ForMotiv

Seed Round in 2021
Formotiv is an end-to-end platform for reducing online risk and improving customer experience. Our solution measures end user behavioral biometrics in real-time to detect future outcomes like fraud, delinquency, profitability, and abandonment as users engage with digital applications.

T-Lab

Seed Round in 2021
T-Lab is an AI-driven international Chinese language learning platform. It offers a live course is a comprehensive study program that covers the four key teaching areas of Phonetics, Word Recognition, Contextual Understanding, and Humanities.

Smile

Seed Round in 2021
Smile provides user-authorized access to valuable employment and income data from HR, payroll, commerce, and marketplace platforms through a single API. Banks, fintechs, recruitment agencies, and other service providers can leverage employment and income data to increase adoption and conversion, reduce cost, and reduce risk, through a single API. Access is given by the users themselves, so they can seamlessly share their data to the providers they trust.

Wareclouds

Seed Round in 2021
Wareclouds puts ecommerce products in their customers hands in a fast and cheap way, by using peoples idle space and time. This people store products and assemble orders in their house, and move packages in their free time.

Swarm Vision

Seed Round in 2021
Swarm Vision is used by Fortune 1000 companies and federal governments to drive rapid growth, with the workforce they already have. Swarm identifies the innovation talent already in their workforce, organizes it into stronger teams, develops it 10-20% in 8 weeks, and drives a culture of innovation. The Swarm Vision system is based on the company's groundbreaking research into serial, successful innovators around the world.

Redi.Health

Seed Round in 2021
Redi.Health is a healthcare technology company that develops health management platforms for patients. The company aims to connect patients with chronic diseases to patient support programs. These programs are created in partnership with pharmaceutical manufacturers and are always free to the patient.

agryo

Seed Round in 2021
Agryo Inc. is an agritech company that develops an artificial intelligence and data-driven blockchain-based lending ecosystem aimed at supporting farmers and individuals lacking access to financial services. Incorporated in 2018 and based in Brasília, Brazil, Agryo addresses the needs of approximately 500 million underserved farming families worldwide who do not have bank accounts or access to credit and insurance. The company offers a peer-to-peer and marketplace lending platform that includes credit assessment, risk profiling, and monitoring of contracts through smart contracts. By leveraging a combination of big data, AI, and blockchain technology, Agryo provides critical infrastructure for agribusiness, offering services such as ratings, lending, insurance, price protection, and savings accounts. The company's risk intelligence technology enhances the assessment and management of financial risks, enabling better support for farmers to increase production sustainably in response to the growing global demand for food and agricultural products.

Odiggo

Seed Round in 2021
Odiggo is an eCommerce platform that connects customers with established car parts & services suppliers all around Egypt. We're here to make car parts & services as simple as buying a t-shirt online, with a few clicks we can help people find their car parts and get them delivered to their service centers or their homes.

Linquip

Seed Round in 2021
Linquip is an industry-focused professional network for equipment manufacturers, industrial customers, service providers, industry-savvies, and researchers. Linquip was founded in 2019 by technical scientists Dr. Pedram Hanafizadeh and Dr. Syd Hashemi from Berkeley, and Engineering Manager Hengameh Shams from Stanford. This open-access interactive platform lets experts actively enrich its technical content, audiences have access to empowered data, and industrial customers get manufacturers’ latest technical information. Linquip is a global cloud-based network for professionals to find rated industrial equipment and services via its intelligent search engine. It enables experts to connect, collaborate, brainstorm and share experiences with their peers. This network enables all industrial companies to instantly find, sort and compare verified suppliers. Linquip offers sales intelligence services to firms across different industry sectors such as Oil & Gas, Power & Energy, Construction, Mining, Medical, Agricultural, etc. By leveraging this online industrial platform, companies are able to boost their pipeline and acquire new customers.

rePurpose Global

Seed Round in 2021
rePurpose Global, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2016 that specializes in a plastic credit platform aimed at reducing plastic waste and promoting environmental sustainability. The organization provides a simple mechanism for individuals and businesses to achieve a Plastic Neutral status by financing projects that remove plastic waste from ecosystems. For every $0.50 contributed, rePurpose Global facilitates the removal of 1 kilogram of plastic that would otherwise harm the environment. Operating through a Global Solutions Network, the company collaborates with various plastic recovery projects across seven countries to enhance their environmental impact and support innovative solutions for waste management. Additionally, its subsidiary in India focuses on urban waste management consulting and educational initiatives to raise awareness about environmental issues among middle school students.

Boopos

Seed Round in 2021
boopos provides flexible, useful financing for e-commerce, SaaS businesses and their owners: discretionary purpose, long-term revenue-based facilities for an investment, acquiring a company or just cashing out without selling your company or diluting yourself.

SPARETECH

Seed Round in 2021
SPARETECH is the digital collaboration platform for part manufacturers and operators

Ndovu

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a financial advisory platform intended to invest in local and global financial markets. The company's platform offers curated investment funds and personalized investment plans based on risk tolerance and financial goals, enabling users to improve access to investment opportunities and grow their wealth.

Shrimpy

Seed Round in 2021
In addition to the Shrimpy portfolio management application, Shrimpy solves the problem of exchange integration with the Shrimpy Universal Crypto Exchange APIs. These APIs take care of the user API key management, exchange integrations, trade execution logic, maintaining the asset listings, data collection, automation, server scaling, and portfolio management. This is an end-to-end solution that can be used to build robust products that rely on crypto exchanges. These APIs can be found here: https://developers.shrimpy.io/

Minimum

Seed Round in 2021
Minimum Ltd is a London-based company that develops an application designed to track carbon footprints in real-time. Launched in 2019, the app provides users with personalized coaching to help reduce their emissions and automatically offsets any remaining carbon output. The company aims to collaborate with organizations to promote environmental mindfulness among employees. Its business model combines a carbon calculator with payment solutions to facilitate carbon offsetting, allowing Minimum to retain a percentage of the transactions.

WaveScan

Seed Round in 2021
WaveScan Technologies is a spin-off from the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, specializing in non-destructive testing (NDT) equipment and solutions. The company develops advanced smart sensor systems that utilize IoT-based portable microwave and millimeter-wave technologies to monitor and diagnose structural anomalies in real time. These sensors can penetrate various materials, including concrete and composites, providing valuable data for predictive maintenance in sectors such as aerospace and oil and gas. By employing cloud-based artificial intelligence algorithms, WaveScan's systems evaluate the condition of infrastructure and facilitate remote inspections, particularly in hard-to-reach locations, through integration with unmanned robotic systems. This innovative approach aims to create a proactive maintenance ecosystem that enhances productivity and reduces downtime in infrastructure management.

Lula Convenience

Seed Round in 2021
Mission: Lula helps make existing inventories mobile to meet customer’s instant needs. At the center of our heart is sustainability: to deliver happiness while saving our planet. Vision: At Lula, we’re inspired by a single goal: empowering every store to deliver locally. We will modernize stores to enable their goods to be delivered to people that need items at a moment’s notice. We will make sure every need is met reliably and as fast as possible with the best customer experience in the world.

Zytlyn

Seed Round in 2021
Zytlyn, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is a data analytics and AI company specializing in predictive insights for various industries, including tourism. The company offers a Prediction as-a-Service product that enables clients to make informed decisions by providing granular, qualified, and actionable data. Zytlyn's platform focuses on predicting travel and tourism demand, helping businesses in the sector improve their marketing conversion rates and outmaneuver competitors. By leveraging comprehensive data on demand, competition, consumer behavior, and market trends, Zytlyn assists clients in optimizing their decision-making processes, ultimately maximizing revenue. With a total addressable market of nearly $50 billion, Zytlyn is positioned to support major industries in adapting, recovering, and achieving growth in an evolving landscape.

Svested

Seed Round in 2021
Svested empowers founders by providing Advisory and implementation. Svested provides an Advisory, Planning and Setup, and All-in-one platform specializing in Employee Stock Option Plan.

Evertas

Seed Round in 2021
Evertas is a cryptoasset insurance company. Evertas focuses on covering institutional holders of cryptoassets including exchanges, custodians, traditional financial institutions, funds, family offices, and ultra-high net worth individuals.

AVATOUR

Seed Round in 2021
Imeve builds software and solutions for professional production of live immersive events for VR and AR.

LivNao Technologies

Seed Round in 2021
LivNao Technologies leverages deep learning to detect changes in mental health before it affects performance and productivity. Their deep learning model can detect deviation before performance is affected by collecting data passively. When they have detected a change in mental health, they nudge individuals with an intervention based on their health plan. LivNao is committed to creating a healthier, happier, and more productive world, in the way they know best using data. LivNao is also 100% HIPAA-compliant. It was based in Vancouver, Canada.

DELOCE

Seed Round in 2021
DELOCE is a retailer of espresso martini used to make celebrations entertaining at any time of day without any lines or mess. Its product is made with Arabica cold-pressed espresso and gluten-free vodka that enable customers to enjoy the martini with clean and all-natural ingredients. Co-founded by Sean Zoka and Keaton Moody in 2019, DELOCE is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

DeepScribe

Seed Round in 2021
DeepScribe is bringing the joy of care back to medicine with its artificially intelligent medical scribe. Imagine a world where you visit your patients and come back to your desk to see the entire appointment accurately documented for you in your Electronic Health Record (EHR) System. No frustrating voice dictation services. No expensive human/virtual scribes. No having to remember what you prescribed. That is what they are trying to accomplish at DeepScribe. Learn more at deepscribe.tech

Sylvera

Seed Round in 2021
Sylvera is a company focused on enhancing carbon markets to address climate change. It develops machine learning-based tools that track the performance of carbon offset projects, providing remote monitoring at intervals of up to one week. These tools facilitate the integration of carbon offset data into both internal and external reporting systems. By offering detailed insights into the effectiveness of carbon offsets, Sylvera aims to assist businesses and governments in minimizing reputational risks while enhancing transparency for their customers regarding carbon data.

Plunk

Seed Round in 2021
Plunk is a mobile app that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help homeowners see the possible worth of renovation. A number of successful mobile apps have emerged to help consumers understand, better manage, invest and grow their personal finances. Plunk was founded in 2019 by Brian Lent and David Bluhm and is based in Bellevue, Washington, United States.

Power Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Power Finance Corporation Limited, a non-banking finance company, provides financial products and related advisory, and other services to the power sector in India. The company offers fund based financial policies/products, including guidelines for solar and wind power generation projects, as well as for funding private sector independent transmission projects; debt refinancing and prepayment policy for solar wind projects; takeout financing, asset acquisition, bridge and corporate loan, buyer's line of credit, credit facility for purchase of power through power exchange, energy saving project, and project and short-term loan services; lease financing for the purchase of equipment and wind power projects; financing of fuel supply projects and equipment manufacturers; grants/interest free loans for studies/consultancies; line of credit for import of coal; policy for investment in equity of power projects; guidelines for funding grid connected solar thermal private sector power generation projects; policy for underwriting of debt; refinancing of debt of commissioned projects along with additional corporate loans for new-expansion-acquisition of projects; and financial assistance to distribution franchisee. It also provides non-fund based policies/products comprising guarantees, letter of comfort, and policy for guarantee for credit enhancement. Power Finance Corporation Limited was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.

BlueTape

Seed Round in 2021
LinqPal is a financing platform offering flexible payments for construction material purchases to contractors, developers, and other construction pros.

ByFusion

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a waste recycling company intended to revolutionize the plastic crisis by repurposing it into sustainable building materials. The company designs and develops a process of non-recyclable plastic, including marine debris, and converting it into durable, reusable, construction-grade blocks, reducing carbon emissions, and advancing a circular economy, enabling builders to use it as an alternative building material.

Truckoo

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a commercial vehicle trade platform intended to digitally shape the trade of heavy-duty vehicles and construction equipment. The company's platform acts as the purchasing network for dealers and repair shops, and the vehicles are inspected by partner repair shops, exclusively for dealers and repair shops, enabling logistics companies and truck fleet operators to have a digital, transparent, and reliable process of buying and selling.

Virtonomy GmbH

Seed Round in 2021
Virtonomy GmbH provides clinical trial services on virtual human, sheep, pig, and calf. The company provides anatomy study, virtual fittings, pre-operative planning, and visualization services through image analysis and three dimensional (3D) anatomical models based on imaging data. It enables medical device manufacturers to optimize the design to treat the maximum number of patients; reduce the risk of vessel misalignment, inaccurate sizing, and unexpected variability in the patient’s anatomy determine the suitability of an implantation on a patient; get 3D insights of the device-anatomy interaction; develop patient specific implants; and view the results of the anatomy study, virtual fitting, and pre-operative analysis. The company primarily serves clinical device manufacturers. Virtonomy GmbH was founded in 2019 and is based in Munich, Germany.

Huspy

Seed Round in 2021
Huspy is a technology company based in Dubai, UAE, that specializes in simplifying the mortgage process for home buyers. Founded in 2020, Huspy offers an online platform designed to streamline the home buying and selling experience, making it more accessible and cost-effective. By removing the need for paperwork, the platform allows families to secure home loans easily through its web and mobile applications. Huspy aims to reimagine the home buying journey, prioritizing the needs of buyers and celebrating the achievement of obtaining a mortgage.

Tortoise

Seed Round in 2021
Tortoise was founded by David Graham and Dmitry Shevelenko. Companies like Lyft, Microsoft and Samsung have brought David in when developing novel technologies and concepts. Meanwhile, Dmitry oversaw the new modality partnership strategy at Uber and led Uber’s first deals with JUMP, Getaround and the public transit ticketing system Masabi. Together, the two have identified some of the biggest pain points in logistics & shared micromobility and are setting out to tackle them together.

Bessern

Seed Round in 2021
Bessern is a provider of leadership development and training services focused on enhancing organizational learning and performance through technology and behavioral science. The company offers an online Transformation Platform that integrates on-demand services with personalized coaching, allowing organizations to implement change programs that are measurable and aligned with how the brain functions. Bessern’s Thrive in Change programs have successfully aided organizations worldwide in improving productivity, adapting to change during volatile periods, and fostering healthy habits for employee well-being. Additionally, Bessern has established the first technology platform in the Middle East designed to measure and enhance performance and well-being within corporations. Employees can learn and practice healthy micro-behaviors, track their progress, and access individual support when necessary, ultimately equipping them with the mindset and skills required for personal growth and team leadership.

Bankly

Seed Round in 2021
Bankly is a digital savings and peer to peer transfer product where users fund their wallet using tokens available on Bankly vouchers nationwide in a “Recharge to save” model. This cash digitisation system is similar to the telco mobile airtime top up and is currently available on MTN and 9mobile networks in Nigeria. Financial services has to be seen through the lenses of a fast moving consumer product in order to reach the last mile and the use of vouchers has been proven to be a successful cash digitisation system by the telecoms industry. Leveraging this existing consumer behaviour to drive financial inclusion, reduce cost of financial services and create a foundation to provide other financial services is where Bankly identifies huge potential and is poised to make an impact.