Heidi Health
Series A in 2025
Heidi Health enhances primary care through AI-powered software, improving care quality and accessibility.
HyperHeat
Pre Seed Round in 2024
HyperHeat is developing an innovative all-electric heating solution capable of achieving temperatures up to 2,000°C, providing a sustainable alternative to traditional fossil fuel combustion. By utilizing renewable electricity, HyperHeat offers a highly efficient system with an efficiency rate of up to 98%, making it particularly suitable for retrofitting industrial processes. This technology aims to significantly reduce CO2 emissions in energy-intensive industries such as steel, cement, and chemicals. As the company operates in stealth mode, it focuses on creating scalable and cost-effective solutions to decarbonize thermal processes, with the potential to contribute to a reduction of over 4.5 gigatons of global CO2 emissions annually.
Hippos Exoskeleton
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hippos Exoskeleton created an auto-inflating knee brace to avoid tears in the ACL and other injuries.
Tozero, founded in July 2022 in Munich, Germany, by Sarah Fleischer and Dr. Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, specializes in lithium-ion battery recycling technology. The company aims to accelerate decarbonization efforts by developing a scalable and sustainable machine for recovering critical materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and manganese from various battery types. By enabling industries to reintroduce these valuable raw materials into the supply chain, Tozero contributes to more sustainable practices in battery production and reduces dependency on virgin resources.
LEVY Health
Seed Round in 2024
LEVY Health specializes in clinical decision support software focused on endocrine disorders. Its platform employs proprietary algorithms and clinical guidelines to recommend ICD-10 diagnoses and individual therapeutic strategies, reducing the average time to diagnosis from approximately four years to just a few weeks.
Reverion specializes in the development of innovative, reversible, carbon-negative power plants that harness biogas through patented technology. The company’s containerized units are designed for mass manufacturing and achieve remarkable electrical efficiencies of 80% for both power generation and energy storage. By effectively doubling the electricity output of traditional gas engines, Reverion’s technology not only enhances the performance of existing biogas plants but also mitigates greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in a negative CO2 balance. In addition to generating renewable energy, Reverion’s solutions utilize excess solar and wind power, thereby contributing to grid stability and promoting a renewable and decarbonized future.
Insempra is a biotechnology company empowering businesses to transition their ingredient lists towards sustainability. It harnesses advanced technology to produce superior natural ingredients at scale, enabling leading brands in beauty & personal care, food & nutrition, and fashion industries to shift away from petrochemicals and reduce environmental impact.
Cosmic Aerospace
Seed Round in 2024
Cosmic Aerospace is an innovative aerospace technology company focused on advancing sustainable aviation. The company specializes in the development of ultra-efficient all-electric passenger aircraft designed to achieve long flight ranges while minimizing environmental impact. By creating advanced propulsion systems and a unique airframe design, Cosmic Aerospace aims to reduce air pollution associated with regional flights, facilitating a transition to more energy-efficient air travel. Its commitment to sustainability positions it as a leader in the movement towards greener aviation solutions.
Founded in 2021, Zafrens is a San Diego-based drug discovery company specializing in life sciences products. Its platform generates insights at the intersection of biology, chemistry, and engineering by directly mapping molecular states of single cells.
Heidi Health
Series A in 2023
Heidi Health enhances primary care through AI-powered software, improving care quality and accessibility.
Orbem operates an AI-driven sensor system that uses magnetic resonance imaging to analyze biological samples. This innovative approach optimizes breeding processes, enhances food production efficiency to meet global demand, and enables customers to improve processing lines for cost savings and high-quality outputs.
Pow.bio is a fermentation technology company that offers intelligent, AI-enabled fermentation solutions for industrial and synthetic biology. Its approach combines continuous fermentation with real-time process control to quickly optimize bioprocesses and achieve high yields at lower costs. The company supports scales from small laboratory setups to about 100 liters, handling bacteria, yeast, and filamentous fungi, and supplies bioreactor-agnostic hardware to fit diverse production lines. By replacing traditional fed-batch methods with AI-driven control, Pow.bio enables biotech, food, and industrial producers to reduce production costs, shorten development timelines, and scale sustainable bio-based products.
Eden Brew
Series A in 2023
Eden Brew is a food and beverage company focused on producing animal-free and precision-fermented milk and dairy products. The company aims to provide an environmentally sustainable alternative to traditional cow's milk, offering dairy products that are vegan-friendly and lactose-free. Using precision fermentation technology, Eden Brew creates milk that contains nature-identical proteins and nutrients, allowing consumers to enjoy the taste and nutritional benefits of dairy without the environmental impact associated with conventional dairy farming.
Automata
Venture Round in 2023
Automata is an automation company that provides robotic lab automation for the life sciences to accelerate innovation, diagnosis, and discovery at scale. It develops simple, affordable robots and accompanying software designed to work beside humans, enabling researchers and professionals to scale lab workflows, reconfigure tasks, and access automation across laboratories, classrooms, or production lines from anywhere and on any device.
Octav is a data analytics platform tailored for the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, offering users a comprehensive toolkit for portfolio tracking and management. The platform enables investors to analyze their financial activities by providing insights into cost basis, profits, and losses across various assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on major blockchain networks. Users can correct inaccurate transaction records and utilize in-house tools to engage with the web3 ecosystem, allowing them to buy, sell, claim, or compound their assets directly within the platform. This functionality empowers investors to make informed decisions regarding their DeFi investments.
Auriga Space
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Next-generation space launch company providing efficient, clean and flexible transport to space
Chemify specializes in developing a chemical digitization platform designed to facilitate drug and materials discovery as well as chemical synthesis. The company's innovative approach involves using automated synthetic hardware combined with digital XDL code to convert code into molecules on demand. This system is modular, universal, scalable, and teachable, making it highly versatile for various applications in chemical and material research. Chemify's software includes a unique chemical programming language and natural language recognition capabilities that translate synthetic procedures efficiently. Additionally, the platform features a comprehensive ontology that provides detailed insights into reaction conditions and flags potential issues, offering scientists real-time telemetry of reactions.
Tilebox
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Tilebox is a company that provides a fully integrated midstream cloud platform tailored for space companies, facilitating the management of their distributed computing operations. Its platform offers a secure, high-performance, and scalable solution that helps accelerate time-to-market while optimizing costs. By utilizing Tilebox, space companies can enhance satellite lifetime utilization, improve cloud processing efficiency, and boost revenue generation. The platform is designed to support the development of scalable, mission-specific data processing pipelines, allowing for seamless onboarding for software developers and data analysts. With a commitment to reliability, Tilebox boasts over 99% uptime, ensuring consistent performance. Furthermore, the platform integrates advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and in-orbit computing, enabling space companies to maintain control and remain competitive in their midstream operations.
Renoster Systems
Seed Round in 2023
Renoster is a technology company that creates software and data platforms for the carbon markets. Deep transparency, powered by remote sensing, for the world's carbon projects. Renoster believes in a future for carbon to preserve and restore nature for generations.
AwesomeQA
Seed Round in 2023
AwesomeQA is an AI-powered bot designed to automatically answer community queries on Discord, Telegram, and websites using FAQs, documentation, and chat history. It provides accurate answers with source references and offers a Support Portal for unanswered questions and FAQ insights to improve products/services.
Aquila is an energy transition company focused on advancing clean energy adoption and fostering a sustainable future. The company specializes in developing innovative technology that employs specialized solar cells on drones, satellites, and other devices to capture and convert light into electrical energy over long distances. This approach allows Aquila to operate independently from traditional power sources, providing industries with sustainable and reliable energy solutions for their operations. Through its flexible, light-based energy network, Aquila enhances and expands the capabilities of energy distribution systems, contributing to a more sustainable energy landscape.
Number 8 Bio
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Number 8 Bio is focused on decarbonizing agriculture and addressing the challenges of a growing global population. By leveraging the capabilities of specialized bacteria, the company aims to convert harmful greenhouse gases into valuable animal feed. Utilizing synthetic biology, Number 8 Bio develops precision fermentation products that produce microbial proteins intended for livestock feed. This innovative approach not only aims to enhance feed efficiency but also significantly reduces methane emissions generated during livestock digestion, thus minimizing the environmental impact of the livestock industry.
Cakewalk
Seed Round in 2023
Cakewalk is a developer of an identity and access management platform tailored for fast-moving companies seeking to regain control over their software usage. The platform offers a centralized system for managing user identities and access permissions, featuring a user-friendly interface and integration with popular applications and cloud services. This enables IT and security teams, as well as the end users of software, to enhance security measures, boost user productivity, and reduce IT costs. By focusing on effective management of software access, Cakewalk aims to empower organizations to streamline their operations while maintaining robust security protocols.
Farmless
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Farmless is a food technology startup developing a fermentation platform that converts renewable-energy feedstocks into carbon-negative, functional proteins and other nutrients, reducing reliance on arable land. By domestifying microbes with food-relevant properties and growing them on liquid feeds powered by renewable energy, it enables scalable, low-cost proteins with a complete amino acid profile while lowering farmers’ carbon footprints. The approach links food production with electricity, creating a new interface between energy and nourishment.
Sensible Biotechnologies
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Developer of the world's first cell-based platform for designing, optimizing, and manufacturing pure, non-immunogenic messenger RNA (mRNA) for next-generation mRNA medicines. The company uses cell engineering, computational biology, and precision fermentation to enhance vaccine production.
Spoke.ai (acq. by Salesforce)
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Spoke.ai offers an AI-driven platform designed to address information overload in the workplace by providing personalized feeds for individuals within organizations. The platform aggregates and summarizes information from various tools and teams, delivering detailed insights on ongoing projects alongside high-level company updates. By integrating third-party applications, Spoke ensures that users have access to relevant context without the need for excessive meetings or communication. This streamlined approach helps teams stay informed and engaged, particularly in global settings where asynchronous communication is common, ultimately enhancing productivity and collaboration.
Oxygen is a modern financial platform designed for digital natives, creators, and entrepreneurs. It offers a seamless user experience for both personal and business banking in a single application, featuring no monthly fees, early direct deposit, simple transfers, cashback rewards, high yield savings, subscription reimbursements, and everyday retail and travel benefits.
The Exploration Company
Series A in 2023
The Exploration Company specializes in the development and operation of modular and reusable spacecraft, known as Nyx, designed for use in low Earth orbit and near the Moon. These spacecraft can be refueled in orbit and utilize environmentally friendly propellants, promoting sustainable space exploration. The company aims to democratize access to space by providing a cost-effective alternative for conducting in-space experiments, making it easier for new entrants to participate in the space exploration sector. Additionally, it offers an open-source operating system for its spacecraft, enhancing accessibility and innovation in the industry.
Snaptrude
Seed Round in 2023
Snaptrude is a web-based collaborative platform for 3D building design. It enables real-time multi-user collaboration, providing instant feedback on cost, compliance, and climate considerations to facilitate data-driven decision-making.
Enveda Biosciences
Series B in 2022
Enveda is a biotechnology company that uses AI-powered tools to explore and characterize molecules from living organisms. It aims to accelerate drug discovery by developing a comprehensive database of chemical biodiversity.
Uluu is a manufacturer of innovative seaweed-based materials designed to replace traditional plastics and actively benefit the environment. The company's carbon-negative and home compostable polymers are versatile and sustainable alternatives that can be utilized across various applications, including fashion, furniture, packaging, consumer electronics, and automotive interiors. Uluu's products are lightweight, waterproof, and biocompatible, making them suitable for a wide range of uses such as textiles, films, foams, coatings, and 3D printing filaments. By providing these eco-friendly solutions, Uluu aims to reduce global pollution and transform the market for plastic materials, enabling customers to decrease their reliance on conventional plastics and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Return
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Return Protocol is a company focused on enabling consumers, businesses, and communities to engage in transparent and value-aligned climate action. It has developed a blockchain-based infrastructure tailored for the mass adoption of regenerative finance within the Web3 space. The company’s innovative environmental offsetting protocol integrates with on-chain wallets, allowing users to fund current or future climate projects through on-chain environmental assets. This system provides a comprehensive and automated offsetting solution for transactions conducted via these wallets, facilitating effective contributions to combat climate change.
Februar
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Februar is an information technology company specializing in payment solutions tailored for Web3 projects. The company has developed a platform that enables seamless integration of fiat payments within Web3 environments, facilitating direct purchases of tokens into user wallets. By providing a straightforward on-ramp for wallets and checkout infrastructure, Februar simplifies the process for users to invest in decentralized finance (DeFi) projects and engage with non-fungible tokens and token sales. This approach offers Web3 companies enhanced flexibility and comprehensive guidance on integrating their projects, fostering a more efficient transaction experience within the evolving digital landscape.
crowd.dev
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, crowd.dev is a community-led growth platform designed specifically for developer-first companies. The platform offers a comprehensive suite of tools that enables businesses to analyze, grow, and leverage online communities to achieve their objectives. crowd.dev is open-source, providing users with the flexibility to choose between self-hosted or hosted versions, ensuring complete control over their community's data. It facilitates real-time aggregation of community member information and organizational data across various platforms, allowing companies to effectively engage, support, and collaborate with developers. Through its innovative approach, crowd.dev aims to enhance how businesses harness the power of community engagement to drive growth.
Holidu is a travel tech company based in Munich that operates an online platform for vacation rentals. The service aggregates listings from multiple travel sites, enabling users to search for holiday homes, compare prices and reviews, and book through partner websites via a mobile app. The platform employs image recognition technology to identify the lowest prices across a wide catalog of properties on sites such as Airbnb, Booking.com and HomeAway, helping travelers find accommodations at competitive rates. Founded in 2014, Holidu focuses on simplifying the vacation rental search and booking experience for travelers.
Kite Magnetics
Seed Round in 2022
Kite Magnetics specializes in the development of magnetic materials for enhancing electric motor efficiency. Their core product is nanocrystalline stator cores that minimize energy losses, enabling smaller, lighter, and more efficient motors. This technology benefits electric vehicle manufacturers by extending vehicle range, reducing costs, and improving reliability.
Cello
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Cello turns users into your most valuable growth channel and lets you launch a User Referral program on autopilot in hours
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Drive word-of-mouth growth at scale with the power of incentives.
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Smitten is a dating app that emphasizes engaging, interactive experiences to facilitate conversations. Its platform features mini-games and icebreakers to lower conversational barriers, interactive and creative profiles, and an option for dual mode to create joint profiles with friends. The app offers straightforward search and discovery to help users find potential matches and initiate meaningful conversations in a dynamic, user-friendly experience.
tozero
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Tozero, founded in July 2022 in Munich, Germany, by Sarah Fleischer and Dr. Ksenija Milicevic Neumann, specializes in lithium-ion battery recycling technology. The company aims to accelerate decarbonization efforts by developing a scalable and sustainable machine for recovering critical materials such as lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and manganese from various battery types. By enabling industries to reintroduce these valuable raw materials into the supply chain, Tozero contributes to more sustainable practices in battery production and reduces dependency on virgin resources.
Antaris
Seed Round in 2022
Antaris is a software platform provider focused on simplifying the design, simulation, and operation of satellites. The company offers a comprehensive digital space software platform that includes design tools, digital twinning, and open APIs, enabling clients to manage the entire lifecycle of their satellites. With features that encompass complete spacecraft software and mission control, Antaris aims to enhance operational efficiency, reduce time-to-orbit, and lower mission operating costs. Additionally, the platform incorporates a secure space data networking protocol stack, further streamlining satellite operations for its clients.
Concert Bio
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Concert Bio is a technology company that assists businesses in enhancing their microbial communities' productivity through its proprietary full-stack platform. This platform integrates monitoring, analytics, and intervention strategies to manipulate microbiomes, empowering clients to optimize these communities for improved performance.
Zharta is a company that specializes in developing a lending protocol for instant loans backed by non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It offers a real-time loan platform that utilizes blockchain technology and machine learning to facilitate NFT collateralized loans. By leveraging AI-driven appraisals, Zharta enables collectors and investors to stake their NFT assets in exchange for cryptocurrency tokens. This innovative approach aims to create a more accessible and efficient marketplace for NFT-backed loans, connecting borrowers and lenders within the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Omeda Studios
Series A in 2022
Founded in London in 2020, Omeda Studios is a game developer specializing in cross-platform third-person multiplayer online battle arena games. Their debut title, Predecessor, an action shooter MOBA for PC and console, has already garnered significant community interest with over 35,000 Discord fans and 100,000 signups prior to its release.
Reverion
Seed Round in 2022
Reverion specializes in the development of innovative, reversible, carbon-negative power plants that harness biogas through patented technology. The company’s containerized units are designed for mass manufacturing and achieve remarkable electrical efficiencies of 80% for both power generation and energy storage. By effectively doubling the electricity output of traditional gas engines, Reverion’s technology not only enhances the performance of existing biogas plants but also mitigates greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in a negative CO2 balance. In addition to generating renewable energy, Reverion’s solutions utilize excess solar and wind power, thereby contributing to grid stability and promoting a renewable and decarbonized future.
Tacter is a gaming assistant platform designed to connect players, content creators, and game studios. It offers strategy guides, gameplay tips, real-time assistance during team combat, and monetization tools for creators, aiming to improve player performance and facilitate direct engagement between gamers and studios.
Modern Synthesis
Seed Round in 2022
Modern Synthesis is a biomaterials company focused on developing sustainable, biobased textiles for the fashion industry. By harnessing the capabilities of bacteria, the company creates customizable bio-textiles and composites that serve as eco-friendly alternatives to traditional materials. Their innovative approach utilizes bacterial nanocellulose, recognized for its strength and versatility, to produce textiles that do not rely on petrochemical binders or harmful chemicals. This process allows for the creation of a wide range of aesthetics and functionalities, meeting the diverse needs of designers while eliminating animal inputs. Modern Synthesis is positioned to transform the fashion industry by providing scalable solutions that integrate seamlessly with existing manufacturing practices, thereby reducing reliance on nonrenewable resources and promoting sustainable material usage.
Knowunity
Series A in 2022
Knowunity is a digital learning platform that provides summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more, all accessible through a single app. It offers interactive learning software designed to assist students with everyday school life, allowing them to share self-created learning content and exchange ideas.
Virtex Stadium
Seed Round in 2022
Virtex Stadium is an esports-focused virtual stadium developer. People using Virtex Stadium can enter a lobby and chat with dozens of others, or they can go directly into the stadium to find a seat to watch an event. The stadium itself will be able to accommodate hundreds of people at once. Virtex Stadium brings together the best of the physical and virtual worlds to create an immersive esports experience that brings fans closer to the game.
Solid World
Seed Round in 2022
Solid World builds a blockchain‑based platform that turns the forward market for carbon credits into a liquid, transparent marketplace. By allowing project developers to pre‑sell credits, the platform gives them reliable financing and gives buyers and liquidity providers a clear price signal. The company has secured $4 million in forward contracts for its liquidity pools and partners with leading firms in the carbon and blockchain space. Its team combines expertise in commodities, carbon finance and blockchain technology, and the platform is positioned to support derivatives, collateralised loans and on‑chain insurance that use carbon credits as collateral. Solid World’s approach reduces the risk and illiquidity that have limited capital deployment in the carbon market, accelerating the development of new projects.
Koala is a developer of a gamified education platform aimed at enhancing online tutoring for children. Its platform provides a virtual environment where tutors can create engaging and interactive classrooms using customizable avatars and games. This design facilitates effective interaction between students and teachers, allowing for a cohesive and immersive learning experience. By consolidating various teaching tools in one location, Koala aims to reinvent the way education is delivered over the internet.
Rumi develops video communication software powered by in-meeting AI that helps teams collaborate and manage meetings, eliminating manual note-taking and enabling easy retrieval of information from a growing archive of past conversations. The platform supports querying past discussions to gain insights and transform conversations into reusable content.
prePO
Private Equity Round in 2022
prePO is a decentralized trading platform that enables users to speculate on the valuation of pre-IPO companies and pre-token projects. The platform provides neutral liquidity, token incentives, and a composable architecture that allows users to take synthetic positions on early-stage assets, supporting a flexible, global market for valuation risk.
Gama is a space exploration and interplanetary transportation company that specializes in the development of solar sails. These innovative sails offer a unique propulsion method, providing free and infinite thrust, which significantly reduces mission costs. Gama collaborates closely with the French Space Agency and the German Space Agency to advance its technology. Its solar sails are particularly effective for maintaining unstable orbits and facilitating movement beyond near-Earth orbit, thereby enabling space researchers to explore distant regions of the solar system. This pioneering approach opens new possibilities for space exploration while making it more accessible and cost-effective.
Immutable Systems
Series C in 2022
Immutable Systems, founded in 2018 and based in Sydney, Australia, develops video games that integrate blockchain technology to enhance player experience. The company, previously known as Fuel Games, focuses on creating a platform that allows players to own digital assets and engage in secure trading. By utilizing the Ethereum blockchain, Immutable Systems aims to provide scalable infrastructure that promotes transparency in in-game economies, empowering players with greater control over their gaming experiences. The company's innovative approach includes offering tools and services that facilitate the development and management of player-owned assets, fostering a user-friendly environment for both gamers and developers.
Exakt Health
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Exakt Health is a healthcare platform that provides access to professional physiotherapy for sports injuries. The service guides users through self-diagnosis, then delivers individualized rehabilitation plans and daily exercises, enabling patients to follow personalized training programs and receive treatment advice with clinician feedback to support recovery.
CryptoTaxCalculator
Seed Round in 2022
CryptoTaxCalculator is a financial technology platform established in 2018, designed to simplify the process of calculating taxes on cryptocurrency gains. The platform enables users to upload their transaction history from various exchanges, blockchains, and wallets. By processing this data, it generates detailed reports that break down realized capital gains and income. This functionality allows investors to efficiently prepare their crypto taxes, saving them significant time and effort during tax season.
Automata is an automation company that provides robotic lab automation for the life sciences to accelerate innovation, diagnosis, and discovery at scale. It develops simple, affordable robots and accompanying software designed to work beside humans, enabling researchers and professionals to scale lab workflows, reconfigure tasks, and access automation across laboratories, classrooms, or production lines from anywhere and on any device.
Marvel Fusion
Series A in 2022
Marvel Fusion develops fusion energy technology using a laser-based reactor. Its innovative approach offers clean, safe, and reliable energy solutions, aiming to commercialize baseload fusion electrical power.
OwnHome is a company focused on providing alternatives to traditional homeownership, specifically aimed at transforming renters into homeowners. The company purchases homes on behalf of its clients, allowing them to gradually build equity through a system of purchase credits. Clients make secure monthly payments, and at a pre-agreed price, they can transfer full ownership of the property after a designated settlement period. This innovative approach helps individuals who may struggle to enter the housing market, offering them a pathway to homeownership.
Orbem operates an AI-driven sensor system that uses magnetic resonance imaging to analyze biological samples. This innovative approach optimizes breeding processes, enhances food production efficiency to meet global demand, and enables customers to improve processing lines for cost savings and high-quality outputs.
Buildxact
Series A in 2022
Buildxact is a software company that provides online estimating and job management tools for builders and trades. The platform connects homeowners with builders and suppliers and streamlines the building process from quotes and costings to purchasing, scheduling, project management and invoicing. It uses cloud computing and artificial intelligence to help residential builders and renovators manage multiple projects from first contact through final invoice.
Byte Trading
Seed Round in 2022
Byte Trading is a technology-driven financial services firm specializing in algorithmic trading for digital assets on both centralized and decentralized exchanges. The company's platform provides advanced risk management systems, ensuring efficient market-making capabilities across diverse market conditions.
Perion
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Perion is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) focused on empowering the gaming community through innovative engagement and monetization strategies. The company invests in, manages, and leases non-fungible token (NFT) gaming assets, enabling gamers to generate income within the play-to-earn ecosystem. By connecting highly skilled gamers with advanced technology and ongoing training programs, Perion aims to cultivate a top-performing player base. It leverages insights from metagame analysis and resource allocation to create optimal scenarios for its members, driving brand recognition and fostering a strong network effect within the competitive gaming landscape. By championing its players and providing them with opportunities for exceptional remuneration, Perion positions itself as a leading representative of the play-to-earn community.
Zafrens
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021, Zafrens is a San Diego-based drug discovery company specializing in life sciences products. Its platform generates insights at the intersection of biology, chemistry, and engineering by directly mapping molecular states of single cells.
Inventia Life
Series B in 2021
Inventia Life Science Pty Ltd is an Australian company founded in 2013 and based in Alexandria. It specializes in 3D bioprinting technology aimed at enhancing cell-based research and clinical applications. The company develops, manufactures, and sells equipment, reagents, and bio-inks—both natural and synthetic—designed for advanced medical research. Inventia's innovative approach focuses on creating low-cost and standardized methods for producing three-dimensional human tissue and organ models. This technology is intended to accelerate cancer research, drug discovery, and advancements in regenerative medicine. By providing a comprehensive suite of hardware, software, consumables, and customized protocols, Inventia Life Science facilitates the flexible production of 3D cell-based assays, significantly impacting the medical research landscape.
Provectus Algae
Seed Round in 2021
Provectus Algae is a biotechnology company focused on optimizing microalgae to produce high-value biobased chemicals, specialty ingredients, and biologics. It combines proprietary technology with knowledge of microalgae biology, employing automation, machine learning, and synthetic biology to develop and scale biomanufacturing processes for its commercial partners. The company has built an end-to-end platform that takes microalgae-based products from discovery to large-scale production, enabling rapid development of scalable production systems and sourcing high-value compounds. Its work supports applications across food and beverage, cosmetics, therapeutics, and agriculture, including the development of medicines, vaccines, plant-based foods and flavors, natural biopesticides, and biological treatments for diseases. Microalgae can fix CO2 into biomolecules, supporting more sustainable manufacturing and reduced carbon footprints.
Podimo is an audio entertainment subscription company designed to support podcasters by rewarding them for their creative work. The platform offers a diverse range of podcasts, including both popular titles and exclusive content from established and emerging hosts. By providing users access to a variety of podcasts, Podimo aims to enhance the listening experience, allowing users to enjoy audio content conveniently, regardless of their location or time. The company's focus on creating a supportive ecosystem for creators underscores its commitment to fostering the podcasting community.
Bardee is an agtech company focused on addressing food waste through an innovative upcycling platform. The company collects food scraps from both businesses and households and utilizes black soldier fly larvae to transform these scraps into sustainable products, specifically protein and fertilizer. These products are used in the production of pet food, fish bait, and for agricultural purposes, thereby promoting efficient waste management while supporting the livestock feed industry. Bardee's approach not only reduces food waste but also contributes to the creation of environmentally friendly alternatives in the food supply chain.
AnyDesk is a German company founded in 2014 that specializes in remote desktop access software. Its platform has gained significant popularity, with over 100 million downloads globally and an additional 5 million users each month. The software is distinguished by its proprietary codec, DeskRT, which facilitates virtually latency-free collaboration, enabling users to access devices seamlessly from any location. AnyDesk's technology supports stable remote control and efficient data transmission, making it ideal for various business applications. The company has rapidly established itself as one of the fastest-growing firms in Germany, recognized for its innovative approach to remote desktop solutions.
Drip
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Drip is a fintech company that provides innovative payment solutions designed for online shopping. It offers a smart alternative to traditional payment methods by allowing customers to make purchases without a down payment and pay in three monthly installments. Retailers can seamlessly integrate Drip's payment system, which utilizes the Pix payment method, into their checkout processes. This approach enhances the shopping experience by making it more accessible and flexible for consumers.
Cala is a French company developing robotic systems for efficient food preparation. Its flagship product is an electronic robot that cooks pasta, plates dishes, and assists in kitchen cleaning. Cala aims to revolutionize fast-casual dining by offering fresh, organic meals within minutes using minimal kitchen space.
FLO.materials
Seed Round in 2021
FLO.materials specializes in recycling services with a focus on sustainable manufacturing. The company offers comprehensive solutions for circular product design, circular manufacturing, and end-of-life management of products. Founded by Kezi Cheng and Peter Christensen, FLO.materials utilizes its proprietary polydiketoenamine (PDK) material to enable closed-loop lifecycles for hard-to-recycle plastics, including thermosets and mixed material composites. This technology allows manufacturers to remove all additives and re-manufacture the recovered monomers into next-generation materials without compromising mechanical performance or aesthetic quality.
Game Jolt
Seed Round in 2021
Game Jolt operates as a social media platform and community for gamers, centered on user-generated content. The platform enables users to share games, participate in on-platform events and mini-games, and engage with friends and other players. It also develops a user-generated marketplace for digital collectibles aimed at brands and creators, connecting with millions of Gen Z gamers and providing a channel to showcase and trade digital assets tied to video games and related experiences.
Psylo is a drug development company that specializes in next-generation psychedelics aimed at treating mental illness. The company focuses on creating novel therapeutic solutions for psychiatric and neurological disorders, with an emphasis on non-hallucinogenic and rapid-acting agents. Psylo's mission is to develop improved medications that can serve as effective alternatives to traditional selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), thereby enhancing treatment options for mood disorders, addiction, and certain neurological diseases. By leveraging psychedelic molecules as the foundation for its innovative therapies, Psylo seeks to make significant advancements in mental health treatment.
Heyflow
Seed Round in 2021
Heyflow is a software development company that specializes in creating a no-code platform for building interactive applications. Its platform enables users to design, integrate, and manage click flows through features like drag-and-drop functionality, real-time previews, and customizable color options. This empowers sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals to create engaging website experiences that enhance conversion rates without the need for coding skills. Heyflow addresses customer inquiries through various channels, including phone, email, and online applications, ensuring effective support and service.
VSPARTICLE
Seed Round in 2021
VSPARTICLE is a company that specializes in the development of nanoparticle generators, facilitating the on-site production of microscopic particles for various applications, including sensors, batteries, catalysis, solar cells, healthcare, and additive manufacturing. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Delft, The Netherlands, VSPARTICLE enables researchers and industry professionals to create new materials with ease, allowing for faster development and integration into final products. The company's technology emphasizes sustainable and flexible production methods, providing essential building blocks for innovative applications across multiple sectors. By streamlining the production process, VSPARTICLE supports the advancement of materials science and contributes to the creation of environmentally friendly technologies.
Hats Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Hats Finance operates a decentralized cybersecurity incentive network governed by stakeholders comprising hackers, projects, and token holders. Its platform enables any project to safeguard smart contracts via security vaults and ecosystem skins, fostering a more secure environment for Ethereum users.
Heidi Health
Seed Round in 2021
Heidi Health enhances primary care through AI-powered software, improving care quality and accessibility.
EntryLevel
Pre Seed Round in 2021
EntryLevel is a provider of online skill development courses focused on soft skills, product management, growth marketing, data analysis, and digital marketing. Its primary goal is to assist individuals in enhancing their employability and finding meaningful jobs.
Fable Food Co is a company that specializes in plant-based meat alternatives, primarily utilizing shiitake mushrooms to replicate the taste and texture of traditional meat. The organization focuses on creating minimally processed, clean label products made from all-natural ingredients, catering to the growing demand for healthier and sustainable food options. Fable's offerings are widely available in major Australian grocery chains such as Harris Farm Markets, Coles, and Woolworths, as well as through meal delivery services like Marley Spoon and Dinnerly. Additionally, its products can be found on various restaurant menus across Australia, Singapore, and the UK, making them accessible to a diverse range of consumers seeking vegan substitutes for meat dishes.
Customuse
Seed Round in 2021
Customuse develops user-friendly software that enables individuals to design wearable AR outfits for virtual avatars. Users can sell these designs across popular games and social media platforms, promoting their brand and engaging with audiences.
OwnHome
Seed Round in 2021
OwnHome is a company focused on providing alternatives to traditional homeownership, specifically aimed at transforming renters into homeowners. The company purchases homes on behalf of its clients, allowing them to gradually build equity through a system of purchase credits. Clients make secure monthly payments, and at a pre-agreed price, they can transfer full ownership of the property after a designated settlement period. This innovative approach helps individuals who may struggle to enter the housing market, offering them a pathway to homeownership.
Linearity
Venture Round in 2021
Linearity GmbH, founded in 2017 and based in Hilden, Germany, is a software company that specializes in professional vector graphic design solutions. Its flagship product, Vectornator Pro, is designed for iOS users and is complemented by additional tools such as Linearity Curve and Linearity Move. These products cater to both marketing professionals and design enthusiasts, offering a comprehensive suite of features for creating graphics, illustrations, and layouts. Linearity's software is aimed at enhancing the design process and facilitating innovative visualizations, enabling users to produce millions of design assets weekly, including logos, marketing materials, and application interfaces.
Sizle.io
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Sizle.io is a developer of a document-sharing and presentation platform that integrates design, analytics, and real-time feedback to enhance team collaboration. The platform offers features such as live analytics, managed access, and document security through password protection and PIN access. Additionally, Sizle.io provides tools for document analytics, file conversion, and sales insights, allowing users to add, edit, and merge files within a document viewer. This comprehensive solution enables professional services teams to share information efficiently and facilitate deal closures effectively.
Donut
Funding Round in 2021
Donut is a financial technology company that facilitates wealth building through its innovative platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). Founded in 2018 and dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin, Donut offers users a straightforward and reliable method to access both fixed and variable yields. The platform effectively bridges traditional finance and DeFi, providing a fast mobile onramp experience that is designed to be accessible, educational, and transparent. By prioritizing user experience, Donut enables individuals to save and earn competitive yields, making it easier for them to explore new financial opportunities.
Smitten
Seed Round in 2021
Smitten is a dating app that emphasizes engaging, interactive experiences to facilitate conversations. Its platform features mini-games and icebreakers to lower conversational barriers, interactive and creative profiles, and an option for dual mode to create joint profiles with friends. The app offers straightforward search and discovery to help users find potential matches and initiate meaningful conversations in a dynamic, user-friendly experience.
Edgeless Systems
Seed Round in 2021
Edgeless Systems is a cybersecurity startup based in Germany that specializes in confidential computing technology. The company focuses on enhancing the security of applications and workflows by enabling the encrypted and verifiable processing of sensitive data at scale. Edgeless Systems offers an enterprise solution named Constellation, which isolates entire Kubernetes deployments and workloads from the underlying infrastructure, ensuring that even cloud providers cannot access any data. This transforms public cloud environments into private clouds, providing organizations with heightened data protection. Additionally, Edgeless Systems is dedicated to developing an open-source software stack for cloud-native applications, allowing developers to create confidential cloud-native apps while maintaining encryption, particularly in the Go programming language.
Avi Medical
Series A in 2021
Founded in Munich, Germany in 2020, Avi Medical is a digital health company offering telemedicine services. Its platform enables patients to book appointments, manage health data, chat with practitioners, and have video consultations.
Yuri is a company specializing in the design and manufacturing of hardware for the aviation and aerospace industry. It offers a comprehensive range of services aimed at supporting microgravity research and experiments. These services encompass mission definition, hardware selection and development, as well as launch and return logistics. In addition to its focus on space missions, Yuri is involved in various scientific research areas, including growing cell cultures in 3D, modeling human diseases, analyzing proteins and molecules, synthetic biology, studying plant biology, and nanofluidics. This diverse expertise positions Yuri as a key player in advancing research capabilities within the aerospace sector.
Founded in 2016, Cognigy is a global provider of conversational AI automation solutions. Headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, with offices worldwide, the company offers Cognigy.AI, an enterprise platform enabling automated customer and employee communications via intelligent voice- and chatbots. Its solutions support multiple languages and channels, improving user experiences and reducing operational costs.
Molecule.one
Seed Round in 2021
Molecule.one is a biotechnology company that specializes in artificial intelligence-driven software for chemical synthesis. Its m1 platform enhances the preclinical pipeline by maximizing efficiency in chemistry-related processes. The company’s software predicts the likelihood of synthesizing novel small molecules and automates significant portions of the manual work involved in synthesis design. By leveraging vast datasets that exceed human processing capabilities, Molecule.one enables clients to concentrate on drug candidates that are not only cost-effective to synthesize but also have a higher probability of success in the development process. This integration of AI into chemical synthesis represents a significant advancement in the field, streamlining workflows for bench chemists, data scientists, and computational chemists alike.
re:cap
Pre Seed Round in 2021
re:cap is a developer of a digital platform that transforms financing for subscription revenue companies. The platform offers an innovative approach by enabling these businesses to access inexpensive and timely financing while avoiding equity dilution and high interest rates associated with traditional lending. It allows companies to sell a portion of their recurring revenue for a specified period, thereby providing on-demand, non-dilutive capital. By integrating financial products and operations into a single, customizable system, re:cap addresses the challenges of manual workflows and fragmented insights, streamlining the financial operations necessary for success in the digital economy. This seamless integration helps subscription-based businesses manage their funding and liquidity more effectively.
Insempra is a biotechnology company empowering businesses to transition their ingredient lists towards sustainability. It harnesses advanced technology to produce superior natural ingredients at scale, enabling leading brands in beauty & personal care, food & nutrition, and fashion industries to shift away from petrochemicals and reduce environmental impact.
Holidu is a travel tech company based in Munich that operates an online platform for vacation rentals. The service aggregates listings from multiple travel sites, enabling users to search for holiday homes, compare prices and reviews, and book through partner websites via a mobile app. The platform employs image recognition technology to identify the lowest prices across a wide catalog of properties on sites such as Airbnb, Booking.com and HomeAway, helping travelers find accommodations at competitive rates. Founded in 2014, Holidu focuses on simplifying the vacation rental search and booking experience for travelers.
Cookaborough
Seed Round in 2021
Cookaborough is a unique SaaS platform designed to facilitate the establishment, operation, and growth of ready-made meal businesses utilizing a batch model. The company provides an innovative solution for caterers, local food stores, artisan wholesalers, home cooks, and chefs, enabling them to deliver meals efficiently while expanding their business opportunities. By streamlining the process of running a meal service, Cookaborough supports various food entrepreneurs in enhancing their offerings and reaching a broader customer base.
Anything World
Seed Round in 2021
Anything World Limited is a London-based company founded in 2018 that develops a software platform for creating virtual 3D worlds in real time. The platform combines artificial intelligence, voice computing, and 3D rendering, allowing users to interact with virtual environments using voice and text commands. Among its products is Rabbids Playground, an augmented reality application that simulates a pet within a real-world playground, and Speak To Anything, which enables users to converse with any imagined creature. The platform utilizes publicly available 3D assets and machine learning to animate these assets based on user inputs, streamlining the process of crafting immersive virtual experiences.
Shop LIT Live
Seed Round in 2021
Shop LIT Live is a live streaming platform that facilitates connections between brands, merchants, and consumers through immersive shopping experiences. The company offers a mobile application that serves as a stage for brands to narrate their stories and display their products in real time. This unique approach allows consumers to engage with brands directly, enhancing the shopping experience by providing interactive and dynamic content.