BigHat Biosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company based in San Carlos, California, that specializes in the development of an automated platform for producing and characterizing antibodies. Founded in 2019, BigHat utilizes an AI-guided protein therapeutic platform that combines a wet lab with machine learning techniques. This integration allows drug developers to engineer antibodies and biotherapeutics with enhanced functions and improved biophysical properties. The company's innovative design capabilities aim to create safer and more effective treatments for patients facing complex diseases.
PlanRadar GmbH develops a documentation and defect management application for construction industry. The company's tool engages in recording, documentation, communication, and tracking of tasks and defects. The company offers its solutions to contractors, facility managers, owners, architects, and engineers. It can be accessed through web application and a smart phone application. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria with additional offices in London, United Kingdom; Zagreb, Croatia; and Sunnyvale, California.
La Belle Vie is an online grocery based in Paris, France. It sells basic groceries, organic stuff, meat, fish and vegetables. It has developed all its tools from scratch, including its ERP, a warehouse management service and a delivery management service.
ezCater, Inc. provides online catering ordering solutions for small start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Its solutions enable users to order food online for meetings. The company offers ezManage, a catering management platform; and ezOrdering that provides restaurants with means to accept online catering orders on their own website. ezCater, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an additional office in Denver, Colorado.
Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labour market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of the unemployment in the world. We at the labour market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companies are demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labour market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. We at Jobandtalent have created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labour flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.
Our offices are located in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and we have plans of further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.
Anyfin AB, founded in 2017 and based in Stockholm, Sweden, offers a service that allows users to refinance their existing loans by simply taking a photo of their loan statements. By leveraging artificial intelligence and consumer data, the company aims to help individuals save money on private loans and avoid high interest rates and compound interest. Users can easily initiate the refinancing process by submitting a picture of their latest loan invoice through the company’s website or via messaging platforms. Although currently available only in Sweden, Anyfin has ambitions to expand its services across Europe, providing a more comprehensive assessment of borrowers’ financial situations than traditional credit scores. This innovative approach seeks to make refinancing and consolidating loans more accessible and cost-effective for consumers.
Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík is an online supermarket that delivers food and service to allow its customers to eat and live better.
Rohlik is an innovative grocery delivery startup that offers a 90-minute same-day delivery service. Since its inception, Rohlik has been growing and is on track to EUR 300 mil. revenues in 2020. Rohlík is an online supermarket that delivers food and service to allow its customers to eat and live better.
MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individual lifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
Hinge Health, Inc. specializes in digital healthcare solutions designed to assist employees in recovering from musculoskeletal disorders. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a Digital Clinic that integrates sensor technology with physical therapy guidance and support services. Hinge Health's solutions, which include sensor bands and tablet computers, focus on treating chronic back and joint pain, helping to reduce opioid use and the need for surgeries. The company serves nearly 200 enterprise customers, positioning itself as a leading provider of musculoskeletal solutions for employers and health plans. In addition to its San Francisco headquarters, Hinge Health has offices in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and London.
Hinge Health, Inc. specializes in digital healthcare solutions designed to assist employees in recovering from musculoskeletal disorders. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers a Digital Clinic that integrates sensor technology with physical therapy guidance and support services. Hinge Health's solutions, which include sensor bands and tablet computers, focus on treating chronic back and joint pain, helping to reduce opioid use and the need for surgeries. The company serves nearly 200 enterprise customers, positioning itself as a leading provider of musculoskeletal solutions for employers and health plans. In addition to its San Francisco headquarters, Hinge Health has offices in Chicago, Minneapolis, Portland, and London.
Jobandtalent is an on-demand staffing marketplace that aims to make the labour market much more liquid and transparent, helping companies to hire in a more flexible way and with the mission of being part of the reduction of the unemployment in the world. We at the labour market has evolved from a very structured state into an extremely flexible one. Companies are demanding flexibility which has resulted in the growth of liquidity in the market. However, the flexible state of the labour market is also leaving the workers in a vulnerable and unprotected employment situation. We at Jobandtalent have created a Workforce as a Service (WaaS) platform in order to make this labour flexibility beneficial for both companies and workers alike.
Our offices are located in the UK, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, and Colombia, and we have plans of further expansion to France and Italy by the end of the year.
NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USD online fashion store).
Tamara Mellon, LLC offers apparel and accessories for women. It offers shoes, including sandals, boots, pumps, flats, and legging boots; bags and accessories; and ready to wear solutions, such as dresses, jumpsuits and rompers, tops and knitwear, pants and skirts, and jackets and outerwear. The company sells its products through retail and online stores in the United States and internationally. Tamara Mellon, LLC was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices aimed at treating lumbar disc herniations, primarily under the trade name Barricaid. The company specializes in creating anular prostheses for partial replacement following discectomy surgery, as well as an anular closure device designed to prevent reherniations in patients with anular defects. Barricaid enables the reconstruction of weakened and ruptured spinal tissues, addressing issues related to sciatica and low back pain. Intrinsic Therapeutics serves both surgeons and patients and distributes its products across various countries, including Germany, Austria, Australia, and several others in Europe and Latin America. Founded in 2000 and based in Woburn, Massachusetts, the company also maintains offices in Oirschot, The Netherlands, and Düsseldorf, Germany.
Bitglass, Inc. offers security solutions designed to protect sensitive data for businesses operating in cloud and mobile environments. Founded in 2013 and based in Campbell, California, the company provides tools that automatically segment, track, and secure confidential information while maintaining employee privacy. Its mobile security solutions deliver alerts and insights regarding suspicious activities, along with warnings about potential policy violations and security issues. Bitglass's cloud solutions enable organizations to monitor their sensitive data and receive notifications about data leakage and other security threats. The company combines multiple technologies, including a leading cloud access security broker, an on-device secure web gateway, and zero-trust network access, to facilitate secure interactions across various platforms. Additionally, Bitglass has regional offices in Toronto, Canada.
ezCater, Inc. provides online catering ordering solutions for small start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Its solutions enable users to order food online for meetings. The company offers ezManage, a catering management platform; and ezOrdering that provides restaurants with means to accept online catering orders on their own website. ezCater, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an additional office in Denver, Colorado.
Tuya is a global "AI+IoT" developer platform, and the world's leading voice AI interactive platform, connecting consumers, manufacturing brands, OEMs and retail chains, providing customers with a one-stop artificial intelligence Internet of Things solution, and covering hardware access, cloud services and App development, forming a closed loop of AI + manufacturing, providing technology and business model upgrade services for business with consumer IoT smart devices, in order to meet consumers' higher demands for hardware products. As of the end of October 2018, Tuya Smart has served 93,000 customers worldwide, connecting more than 100 million smart products in the market, creating a completely neutral "AI+IoT" model for empowering products, with total product listings of more than 30,000, selling to nearly 200 countries and regions. On the global IoT cloud platform with a distributed architecture, the daily processing device requests have reached nearly 50 billion times, daily voice AI interaction has exceeded 20 million times, and the accumulated data volume has reached 15 petabytes.
Tamara Mellon, LLC offers apparel and accessories for women. It offers shoes, including sandals, boots, pumps, flats, and legging boots; bags and accessories; and ready to wear solutions, such as dresses, jumpsuits and rompers, tops and knitwear, pants and skirts, and jackets and outerwear. The company sells its products through retail and online stores in the United States and internationally. Tamara Mellon, LLC was incorporated in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Tuya is a global "AI+IoT" developer platform, and the world's leading voice AI interactive platform, connecting consumers, manufacturing brands, OEMs and retail chains, providing customers with a one-stop artificial intelligence Internet of Things solution, and covering hardware access, cloud services and App development, forming a closed loop of AI + manufacturing, providing technology and business model upgrade services for business with consumer IoT smart devices, in order to meet consumers' higher demands for hardware products. As of the end of October 2018, Tuya Smart has served 93,000 customers worldwide, connecting more than 100 million smart products in the market, creating a completely neutral "AI+IoT" model for empowering products, with total product listings of more than 30,000, selling to nearly 200 countries and regions. On the global IoT cloud platform with a distributed architecture, the daily processing device requests have reached nearly 50 billion times, daily voice AI interaction has exceeded 20 million times, and the accumulated data volume has reached 15 petabytes.
iAdvize is the leading conversational commerce platform in Europe and is used in 40 different countries. Their platform enables businesses to engage their customers and prospects, whether they’re on the website or on social media, from one chat, voice and video messaging solution. Visitors can get real-time advice from customer service associates but also from advocates, members of the brand community via ibbü – their on-demand pool of experts. Each conversation handled by one of ibbü’s savvy enthusiasts generates £119 of business on average, compared to £91 by internal customer service agents – generating £58 ROI for every £1 invested.
Intrinsic Therapeutics, Inc. develops and manufactures medical devices aimed at treating lumbar disc herniations, primarily under the trade name Barricaid. The company specializes in creating anular prostheses for partial replacement following discectomy surgery, as well as an anular closure device designed to prevent reherniations in patients with anular defects. Barricaid enables the reconstruction of weakened and ruptured spinal tissues, addressing issues related to sciatica and low back pain. Intrinsic Therapeutics serves both surgeons and patients and distributes its products across various countries, including Germany, Austria, Australia, and several others in Europe and Latin America. Founded in 2000 and based in Woburn, Massachusetts, the company also maintains offices in Oirschot, The Netherlands, and Düsseldorf, Germany.
Coravin, Inc. specializes in designing and marketing innovative wine access systems for a variety of customers, including wine enthusiasts, restaurants, wine stores, and wineries. Founded in 2011 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company offers a unique technology that allows users to pour wine by the glass without removing the cork, thereby preserving the wine's quality and aging process. Their product line includes the Coravin Wine Preservation Opener, along with various accessories such as wine access needles, capsules, clamps, and carry cases. This technology enables customers to enjoy fine wines without committing to an entire bottle, ensuring that the wine remains sealed and protected from air and moisture.
Synaptive Medical is a medical device manufacturing company that specializes in neurosurgery, medical imaging, and surgical navigation. It specializes in designing hardware and software that cross traditional barriers in hospitals and improve patient care in and beyond the operating room. The company designs automated and integrated systems for neurological and spine procedures to improve patient outcomes.
Synaptive Medical was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada.
Ardelyx, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for cardiorenal diseases. Headquartered in Fremont, California, Ardelyx's lead product candidate, tenapanor, has successfully completed Phase 3 clinical trials for treating irritable bowel syndrome with constipation and is also in Phase 3 trials for managing hyperphosphatemia in end-stage renal disease patients undergoing dialysis. The company is advancing RDX013, a small molecule potassium secretagogue, aimed at treating hyperkalemia. Ardelyx is also developing RDX5791, an oral NHE3 sodium transport inhibitor targeting constipation-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and excess dietary sodium absorption, currently in Phase 2 trials. Additionally, RDX002 and RDX009, which inhibit phosphate absorption and target type 2 diabetes, respectively, are in preclinical development. Ardelyx emphasizes non-systemic oral therapeutics that minimize side effects while effectively addressing metabolic disorders. Since its founding in 2007, the company has secured significant funding to support its research and development efforts.
Expanse, Inc., through its platform offers data marshalling services. The company was formerly known as Qadium, Inc. and changed its name to Expanse, Inc. in October 2018. Expanse, Inc. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
BlueJeans is the meetings platform for the modern workplace and the first cloud service to connect desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. Thousands of organisations across industries use BlueJeans every day for video, audio and web conferencing meetings and large interactive events, so people can work productively where and how they want.
Private Equity Round in 2015
RDG GmbH & Co. KG explores and produces oil and natural gas resources in Germany. It also generates and stores renewable energy through solar, wind, and hydro projects. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Hanover, Germany. As of January 9, 2018, RDG GmbH & Co. KG operates as a former subsidiary of Rohöl-Aufsuchungs Aktiengesellschaft.
Coravin, Inc. specializes in designing and marketing innovative wine access systems for a variety of customers, including wine enthusiasts, restaurants, wine stores, and wineries. Founded in 2011 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company offers a unique technology that allows users to pour wine by the glass without removing the cork, thereby preserving the wine's quality and aging process. Their product line includes the Coravin Wine Preservation Opener, along with various accessories such as wine access needles, capsules, clamps, and carry cases. This technology enables customers to enjoy fine wines without committing to an entire bottle, ensuring that the wine remains sealed and protected from air and moisture.
Private Equity Round in 2014
Well-Foam Inc. specializes in providing heavy-duty equipment rental services for the oil and gas industry. The company serves commercial customers throughout the Permian Basin, offering a comprehensive range of products including rental equipment, laydown machines, nitrogen units, reverse units, and flowback and well testing equipment. Well-Foam also provides specialized services such as open and cased hole fishing, ensuring that projects are executed efficiently, safely, and effectively. With a focus on quality equipment and knowledgeable staff, Well-Foam is committed to meeting the diverse needs of its clients in the competitive energy sector.
Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies for chronic conditions, particularly type 2 diabetes. The company is advancing its lead product, ITCA 650, through a phase 3 clinical program involving four separate clinical trials, aimed at providing patients with long-term stable dosing of an incretin mimetic therapy. Intarcia also offers the Medici Drug Delivery System, a subcutaneous platform designed to enhance the administration of drug therapies for various chronic diseases, including obesity and autoimmune disorders. Founded in 1997 as BioMedicines, the company rebranded to Intarcia Therapeutics in 2004. It is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Hayward, California, and a research and development center in Durham, North Carolina.
Coravin, Inc. specializes in designing and marketing innovative wine access systems for a variety of customers, including wine enthusiasts, restaurants, wine stores, and wineries. Founded in 2011 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company offers a unique technology that allows users to pour wine by the glass without removing the cork, thereby preserving the wine's quality and aging process. Their product line includes the Coravin Wine Preservation Opener, along with various accessories such as wine access needles, capsules, clamps, and carry cases. This technology enables customers to enjoy fine wines without committing to an entire bottle, ensuring that the wine remains sealed and protected from air and moisture.
NeoTract, Inc. develops surgical devices for urological and gynecological disorders.
Vanksen Group S.A. operates as a communications agency that connects brands and consumers. It offers global and integrated communications services consulting services, including communication strategy, media strategy, visibility strategy and domain name management, and benchmark and audit; creation services, such as online communication, print communication, audio/visual communication, and event communication; and media and activation services, which include search engine optimization, search engine advertising, and display. The company also provides e-reputation services, such as counterfeit monitoring, buzz monitoring and e-reputation management, conversation audits, identification and mapping of communities, competition monitoring, and influence marketing and community management; and brand protection services. Vanksen Group S.A. was founded in 2001 and is based in Luxembourg. As of January 11, 2018, Vanksen Group S.A. operates as a subsidiary of DATAWORDS DATASIA SARL.
NeoTract, Inc. develops surgical devices for urological and gynecological disorders.
Amp'd Mobile was a so-called "mobile virtual network operator," because it does not license its own spectrum, but resells services using the network of other mobile phone operators. Amp'd Mobile targeted young people, competing with brands like Disney Mobile, Helio, and Virgin Mobile.
After raising over $350m, Amp'd Mobile filed for bankruptcy in July 2007.
Intarcia Therapeutics, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing innovative therapies for chronic conditions, particularly type 2 diabetes. The company is advancing its lead product, ITCA 650, through a phase 3 clinical program involving four separate clinical trials, aimed at providing patients with long-term stable dosing of an incretin mimetic therapy. Intarcia also offers the Medici Drug Delivery System, a subcutaneous platform designed to enhance the administration of drug therapies for various chronic diseases, including obesity and autoimmune disorders. Founded in 1997 as BioMedicines, the company rebranded to Intarcia Therapeutics in 2004. It is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional facilities in Hayward, California, and a research and development center in Durham, North Carolina.
Amp'd Mobile was a so-called "mobile virtual network operator," because it does not license its own spectrum, but resells services using the network of other mobile phone operators. Amp'd Mobile targeted young people, competing with brands like Disney Mobile, Helio, and Virgin Mobile.
After raising over $350m, Amp'd Mobile filed for bankruptcy in July 2007.
Rakuten, Inc. is a prominent e-commerce and fintech service provider headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1997, the company operates a diverse ecosystem encompassing three main segments: Internet Services, FinTech, and Mobile. The Internet Services segment includes a variety of e-commerce platforms, such as Rakuten Ichiba, an online shopping mall, and Rakuten Travel, an online travel booking site. Additionally, it offers membership-based rewards programs and services for online grocery delivery and fashion. The FinTech segment provides a range of financial services, including banking, securities, credit cards, and insurance. The Mobile segment, which became significant in 2020, offers mobile network services and communication solutions. Rakuten also engages in agriculture with its organic produce delivery service. The company's loyalty program, Rakuten Super Points, enhances customer engagement by encouraging the use of its various services. Approximately 80% of Rakuten's revenue is generated from its operations in Japan, while it also serves markets in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
A supplier of semiconductors, modules, and software solutions for digital radio and connected devices