Blacklane is a provider of chauffeur services that offer carbon-neutral vehicles for traveling. Blacklane offers a range of premium transportation services, including professional chauffeur services for airport transfers, hourly bookings, and long-distance rides in luxury vehicles. They provide seamless airport pickups and drop-offs with real-time flight tracking, as well as tailored solutions for business travel, event transportation, and corporate clients. Additionally, Blacklane emphasizes eco-friendliness by offering hybrid and electric vehicle options. Their convenient mobile app allows users to easily book rides in advance, and their meet-and-greet service ensures a smooth experience for travelers upon arrival. Overall, Blacklane focuses on delivering comfort, reliability, and professionalism for both individual and corporate clients. It aims to offer safety, sustainability, and stress-free while traveling. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet.
Steady removes barriers to earn through its income intelligence that supports over 3 million hourly, 1099 and mixed-earners in earning more, an average of over $5,500 per year. Steady's view of income also applies its technology for purposes of income measurement that fills the wage data gap for public and private sector entities that service this worker population in areas such as the administration of public sector benefits. Steady was founded in 2017.
ZenBusiness is the easy, all-in-one platform and trusted partner that provides small business owners with the tools, services, and expert guidance they need to start, run, and grow a successful business. ZenBusiness has consolidated business formation, compliance, banking, bookkeeping, and marketing tools into an intuitive, personalized dashboard. Think of it as the operating system for small business success. Customers can protect their liability, manage money, and establish their online presence–all with one login. What sets ZenBusiness apart is the combination of its innovative technology with live human support. ZenBusiness goes above and beyond traditional customer support with a team of experts who provide true guidance via phone, chat, and email. Dedication to customer success also includes weekly community webinars, helpful office hours, and even a concierge service. ZenBusiness is committed to simplifying the complex challenges of small business ownership, relentlessly focused on helping people from all walks of life beat the odds and achieve success on their own terms. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and became a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) to demonstrate its commitment to social impact and inclusivity. ZenBusiness encourages employee volunteer work by offering workers time and opportunities to be of service in their local communities. They have partnered with Mavs Business Assist, giving diverse entrepreneurs free access to knowledge, tools, and support. The company offers a $5K grant program to give selected small business owners much-needed capital. It is the only business formation partner in the Small Business Digital Alliance initiative ("SBDA"), a national initiative of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), alongside such companies as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. ZenBusiness's commitment to excellence has solidified them as trusted partners in their customers' business journeys, embodying the spirit of innovation, collaboration, and success.
Fundbox is an AI-powered financial platform for small businesses that offer fast and intuitive access to business credit. The company is on a mission to empower the small business economy by unlocking customer growth. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California by co-founders Eyal Shinar, Tomer Michaeli, and Yuval Ariav in 2013.
PayMate is a leader in B2B payments for Enterprise and SME across supply chains. The PayMate platform provides a comprehensive digital workflow tied to payments which enable greater control and transparency along with better cash flows and an end to end reconciliation for a superior experience for Enterprise and SME in closed-loop supply chains. PayMate works with leading Visa commercial card-issuing banks to facilitate credit for both payables and receivables across supply chains moving traditional cash, cheque and EFT to card streams with several built-in risk-mitigating benefits for banks and extended days payables for buyers. Platform features include Procure to Pay automation, credit evaluation, discount marketplace along with APIs for integration into existing accounts/ERP for minimal friction-based deployment. It is cloud-based and accessible across all form factors. PayMate has a presence in South Asia (India) and UAE and is actively expanding across CEMEA.
Breez provides a simple, fast and safe way to spend your bitcoins. Powered by Lightning Network, Breez is the future of commerce.
COTI is a blockchain protocol optimized for use by payment dApps, merchants, and stable coin issuers. The company offers the first-ever dispute resolution system to protect users from errors, fraud, and counterparty abuse. Its technology eliminates the need for hours or days to clear transactions, P2P payments, and remittances. COTI's platform enables businesses to easily create advanced fintech solutions, saving time, data, and money. COTI Pay accepts all online and offline payment methods, including crypto and stable coins, credit cards, and even a merchant's native coin. It also has built-in financing in the form of interest on deposits and business loans.
BEAM is a next-generation confidential cryptocurrency based on an elegant and innovative Mimblewimble protocol. Things that make BEAM special include: • Users have complete control over privacy - a user decides which information will be available and to which parties, having complete control over his personal data in accordance with his will and applicable laws. • Confidentiality without penalty - in BEAM confidential transactions do not cause bloating of the blockchain, avoiding excessive computational overhead or penalty on performance or scalability while completely concealing the transaction value. • No trusted setup required.• Blocks are mined using Equihash Proof-of-Work algorithm. • Limited emission using periodic halving with a total amount of coins ~250 million. • No addresses are stored in the blockchain - no information whatsoever about either the sender or the receiver of a transaction is stored in the blockchain. • Superior scalability through compact blockchain size - using the “cut-through” feature of Mimblewimble makes the BEAM blockchain orders of magnitude smaller than any other blockchain implementation. • BEAM supports many transaction types such as escrow transactions, time-locked transactions, atomic swaps and more. • No premine. No ICO. Backed by a treasury, emitted from every block during the first five years • Implemented from scratch in C++ by a team of professional developers
BlockFi is a secured non-bank lender that offers USD loans to crypto-asset owners who collateralize the loan with their crypto-assets. Their products bring additional liquidity to the blockchain asset sector and meet the needs of both individuals and institutions holding blockchain assets. BlockFi holds clients' Bitcoin and Ether with a registered custodian and issues loans in USD to their bank accounts. Currently operating in beta launch, lending in 35 US states to retail investors and companies. BlockFi’s mission is to provide liquidity, transparency, and efficiency to digital financial markets by creating products that meet the needs of consumers and corporations across the globe. They leverage a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, they plan to expand their product set based on their retail and institutional client's needs.
Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds. It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. It converts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient. Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Savioke develops and deploys autonomous robots that work in human environments to improve people’s lives. The company’s flagship product, Relay, is a beautifully simple yet sophisticated delivery robot that increases productivity, revenue, and delight for people across a range of markets, industries, and applications. Relay is the first delivery robot that works autonomously alongside people in busy environments such as hotels, high rise residential, industrial, and healthcare. Founded in 2013 by a team of leading robotics engineers, Savioke is backed by investors such Intel Capital, EDBI, Northern Light Venture Capital, Morado Venture Partners, AME Cloud Ventures, Recruit Partners, and Google Ventures. For more information, visit www.savioke.com.
Locus is a leading-edge technology company solving one of the most challenging global supply chain problems: last-mile logistics. Locus' order-to-delivery dispatch management platform helps enterprises transform their last-mile logistics operations into growth centers through advanced optimization algorithms and intuitive workflow automation that equip businesses with the tools needed to maximize efficiency while delighting customers. Founded in 2015 and backed by GIC Singapore, Qualcomm Ventures, Tiger Global, and Falcon Edge, Locus has helped a wide range of customers globally across industries– including Unilever, Nestle, Bukalapak, The Tata Group, BlueDart, and more – execute 650 million deliveries across 30+ countries across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, ANZ, and the Indian subcontinent. Its technology has also helped save $200 million in transit costs, offsetting 70 million kilograms in CO2 emissions while maintaining a 99.5% SLA adherence ratio. The company powers deliveries across North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, ANZ, and the Indian Subcontinent. Visit www.locus.sh to know more!
Open is Asia’s first neobanking platform for SMEs that is fast changing the way businesses bank & manage their finances. At Open, we help SMEs run everything right from their banking, payments to accounting, & expense management — together. This way they can focus on doing things that matter the most — grow their business. We’re home to some of the smartest & brightest 250+ minds in the fintech space. We’re a tight-knit tribe of creators and makers who are shaking up the way business banking rolls for over 10,00,000 businesses. We’re backed by some of the leading global VC firms like Tiger Global, Speedinvest, Beenext, AngelList, Recruit, Tanglin Venture Partners, 3one4 Capital, Unicorn India Ventures to name a few.
Node, recently acquired by SugarCRM, fuels Sugar's time-aware CX platform to help businesses by automatically forecasting expected outcomes and highlighting previously unforeseen challenges and opportunities. Extending Sugar’s time-aware CX platform, Node’s AI technology adds the most coveted element of time—the future. The combined solution offers wide-ranging capabilities for sales, marketing, and service teams. Node enables users of business applications to see into the future. Powered by Artificial Intuition™ technology, Node is the first turnkey AI-as-a-service platform focused on powering predictable business outcomes, which enterprises can use to quickly and seamlessly build advanced AI into both customer-facing and internal applications without investing years and millions of dollars on risky AI experiments. Applications powered by Node can deliver predictions that enable users to make smarter connections and decisions about how to engage with customers, employees, investors, and partners. Node was founded by Google's youngest employee, Falon Fatemi, and it's renowned technology team includes the Godfather of Search, Louis Monier who created Alta Vista, and Michael Radovancevich former CTO of Taleo and OpenX. Node is backed by Mark Cuban, NEA, Avalon Ventures, and JetBlue Technology Ventures.
Element develops and distributes mobile-based platforms for digital identity. As pioneers of mobile deep learning – and among the first in the field – we work with partners around the world to build more efficient and inclusive societies. Our current focus is on Asia and Africa, where over 1 billion people lack proper identification, and are often excluded from basic services that are essential to sustainable development. Element was co-founded by Yann LeCun, a founding father of the deep learning field and current head of Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. Our end-to-end solutions are being used to build global immunization platforms, enable connected diagnostics, provide a digital identity resource for healthcare providers, and empower access to financial services and digital payments, among others.
2Boss is a chinese mobile app that provides housing information, and prices, and makes recommendations for house buyers.
Fortella is Revenue Driven Marketing platform. It aligns marketing planning & execution with company's revenue plan and measures Marketing's contribution to the business.
ShoCard is a digital identity that protects consumer privacy and is as easy to understand and use as showing a driver’s license. It’s optimized for mobile and so secure that a bank can rely on it.
Simpl has revolutionized online checkout in India by creating a Pay-Later platform, empowering e-commerce merchants to offer their consumers 1-click checkout, a line of credit at POS, and full buyer protection. It aims to empower merchants to own their customer's checkout experience. With Simpl merchants are able to provide consumers an easy, safe, and intuitive user experience that builds a trusted relationship between the two.
Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands. Our platform connects the enterprise, service provider, and customer together to create a world-class service experience that surpasses the rising expectations of the modern-day market.
Conversica specializes in Intelligent Virtual Assistants for Customer Engagement. By automating routine business conversations, and personalizing interactions at scale, Conversica augments the workforce allowing business professionals and AI Assistants to work together harmoniously. The flagship Conversica Sales AI Assistant helps companies find and secure customers more quickly and efficiently by automatically contacting, engaging, qualifying, and following up with leads via natural, multi-channel, two-way conversations. With its large library of purpose-built and ready-to-use conversational skills backed by our patented conversational AI platform, Conversica’s AI Assistants can be deployed quickly, are human-like and personal, and provide superior conversational accuracy and autonomy.
Brickwork powers the new Pre-Visit Experience for customers of the world’s leading brands and retailers. Brickwork’s SaaS platform delivers a better pre-visit experience: providing their customers more accurate store information, more access to events and promotions, more personal assistance when they arrive in-store, and more confidence that products are available near them. Brickwork opens a new world of actionable data for marketers and store teams, starting with its unique measure of Digital-to-Store Conversion, to drive traffic, engagement, conversion, and basket size. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Space Market is a web platform that facilitates the lending and borrowing of unused space and conference rooms on uninhabited islands.
With more than 6 million members, and millions of connections across more than 30,000 local communities, Alignable is the online network where small business owners across North America drive leads and prospects, generate referrals, land new business, build trusted relationships, and share great advice. Members use Alignable to get the industry answers they need, connect within their local business community or across the country, and increase buzz for their business. Headquartered in Boston, Alignable officially launched its services in 2014. It's venture-backed by Mayfield Fund, Recruit Strategic Partners, Saturn Partners, NextView Ventures and Lead Edge Capital.
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).
DataRobot delivers AI technology and ROI enablement services to global enterprises. DataRobot’s enterprise AI platform democratizes data science with end-to-end automation for building, deploying, and managing machine learning models.
Careguardian was founded in 2014 with the vision of building a world where all caregivers are visible, recognized, and empowered. We recognized that delivering exceptional care and support for families started with reimagining how professional Caregivers are trained, supported, and connected. We extend that support to family caregivers as well, who play a vital role in ensuring older adults are able to age safely.
Shiprocket is an eCommerce shipping platform that enables cost-effective shipping for direct-to-consumer retailers. Its platform employs a machine-learning-based data engine that recommends proper courier service for a business and chooses a courier company, prints shipping labels, and tracks orders from a single panel that enables businesses to manage their shipping and returns simply and effectively. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New Delhi, India.
Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds. It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. It converts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient. Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Tokyo Otaku Mode™ (TOM) delivers the latest news on Japanese anime, manga, games, and more through its Facebook page, which is loved by over 10 million fans, as well as its website, Tokyo Otaku Mode. TOM's mission is to be the world's premier source for the latest on Japanese pop culture.TOM also actively supports and promotes top creators on Tokyo Otaku Mode, bringing their works to a worldwide audience. Starting with English translation support for creators' works and rofiles, TOM also features creators' works on its Facebook page, produces international portfolios for creators, conducts creator interviews, exhibits at overseas events, sells otaku goods to overseas customers, and more. With the inclusion of its e-commerce site, TOM aims to close the gap between Japan's otaku goods and worldwide otaku fans, being a place where such goods are readily accessible to otaku fans all over the world.
EWeLL is a service that provides total support. The company develops cloud-based business support services for visiting nursing homes. They will bring forth new benefits for home care and lead to the realization of a society where everyone can live comfortably.
Kabbage is a financial technology and data company pioneering a new, automated way for small businesses to access working capital. The company simplifies the manual application process to one that is 100% online and automated. Businesses can use their business data to submit an application online and receive an answer in minutes instead of waiting weeks and filling out numerous forms like traditional lending methods. Businesses can access ongoing lines of credit up to $250,000. Kabbage leverages business data generated such as revenue, accounting data, business transactions, shipping data, social media and other sources to understand a business’s overall health and calculate credit lines throughout the customer lifecycle. The company began serving online merchants in 2011 and extended its automated lending platform to all small businesses – online and brick-and-mortar – in February 2014. In November 2013, Kabbage expanded its business to mobile with an iOS and Android app that enables users to apply or access their funds from their smartphones. Kabbage used to provide a consumer lending product, Karrot, but it is no longer available. Kabbage expanded the application of its platform in March 2015 by licensing the data and technology platform to power lending for other organizations. The company was named one of Forbes magazine’s Most Promising Companies list for the second year in a row. Kabbage further extended its lending reach in May 2015 with the announcement of the new Kabbage Card, which gives businesses the ability to pay for items at the point of sale with a purchasing card tied to their Kabbage account. Kabbage also collaborated with MasterCard in May 2015 to make Kabbage’s data and technology platform available through MasterCard’s network of acquirers. In August 2015, Kabbage was named the 36th fastest-growing private company in America on the Inc. 500 list. In October 2015, Kabbage completed a Series E funding round of $135 million led by Reverence Capital Partners. Holland’s ING, Spain’s Santander (via InnoVentures, Santander's venture capital arm); and Canada’s Scotiabank also participated in the round. Kabbage also announced a strategic partnership with ING to deliver instant capital to small businesses throughout Spain. In June 2016, Kabbage was named to CNBC's annual Disruptor 50 list of the most forward-thinking and ambitious companies that are revolutionizing industries and markets worldwide. Two months later, Kabbage was named to the Inc. 500 list of the country's fastest-growing private companies for the second year in a row In August 2016, Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) upgraded and affirmed ratings on Class A2-2 Certificates issued by Kabbage Funding 2014-1 Resecurization Trust. The certificates were upgraded from BBB+(sf) to A-(sf) based on structural improvements to the transaction’s concentration requirements and the existence of more historical data relating to Kabbage’s collateral. KBRA also affirmed the ratings on the Class B2A Certificates of BB-(sf), Class B2B Certificates of BB-(sf) and Class B2C Certificates of B+(sf), which were initially rated in November 2015. In 2017, the company raised $250 million from Softbank Group Corp., raising its total equity funding to $500 million, making Kabbage one of the most well-funded companies with a female co-founder at the helm. It also secured the largest asset-backed securitizations of small business loans in the online lending industry of $525 million. In November, it diversified its debt-funding sources further with a $200 million revolving credit facility with Credit Suisse, earning investment-grade ratings of ‘A’ and ‘BBB’ by DBRS. It ranked on the Inc. 500 list as one of the country’s fasting-growing private companies for a third consecutive year, on Deloitte’s Fast 500 list, among CB Insights Fintech 250, in the top 10 of KPMG’s Fiintech 100, and its co-founder, Kathryn Petralia, was named one of Forbes 100 Most Powerful Women in the World.
Fishbrain is a mobile app, commerce platform, and social network for people who love fishing. This free-to-use app provides tools, insights, support, and fishing gear to fully enjoy fishing. It also has an interactive map that helps anglers find new fishing spots and see what other people are catching, with what bait, and specifically where.
Zirtual provides dedicated, U.S. based, virtual assistants for busy professionals. From managing a hectic calendar to creating travel itineraries and supporting business needs, Zirtual's relationship-based model allows each client to build lasting connections with their dedicated assistant, or ZA. Zirtual offers flat rate, monthly and annual plans that require no long-term commitment.
Xica provides a specialized needs-based analysis application that utilizes the results of statistics and consulting. The company aims to send suggestions to all data and deliver happiness to all.
Xica provides a specialized needs-based analysis application that utilizes the results of statistics and consulting. The company aims to send suggestions to all data and deliver happiness to all.
Gengo’s unique platform consists of a diverse and growing community of more than 18,000 qualified translators from 114 countries working across 37 languages and 64 language pairs. The professional human translation platform represents a huge leap in quality compared to machine translation, while enjoying faster delivery times than traditional service providers. Through its web offering and open API, Gengo enables businesses of any size to quickly and easily connect with a global audience at scale. Clients and partners include JTB, TripAdvisor, BuzzFeed, Rakuten and Vestiaire Collective; a more complete list can be found at https://gengo.com/customers/ Founded in 2008, Gengo is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan with an office in Silicon Valley. To learn more about Gengo, visit www.gengo.com
Sprinklr, Inc. is a provider of enterprise software focused on customer experience management, primarily through its comprehensive social media management platform. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York City, the company offers a suite of tools designed to help brands manage social media marketing, advertising, customer care, and engagement across various channels including social media, messaging, and review sites. Sprinklr's products include capabilities for content planning, social campaign management, CRM integration, analytics, and governance, enabling organizations to gain insights from customer interactions and optimize their marketing strategies. The platform supports collaboration across various customer-facing functions, allowing companies to respond proactively to market signals and improve customer engagement. With a global presence and a client base that includes major brands like Microsoft and McDonald's, Sprinklr aims to enhance customer experiences and drive business outcomes through its integrated solutions.
99designs is the global creative platform that makes it easy for designers and clients to work together create designs they love. Their tried-and-true creative process has become the go-to solution for businesses, agencies and individuals. Since 2008, 99designs has grown from a small, online forum into a global community of talented designers. Headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with offices in Oakland, California and Berlin, Germany, 99designs champions creativity to bring opportunities to people around the world.
bitFlyer, Inc. is a virtual currency exchange based in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in Bitcoin transactions and blockchain development services. Founded in 2014, the platform enables customers to buy, sell, and spend bitcoins, alongside a variety of altcoins such as Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. bitFlyer offers a comprehensive suite of services, including trading platforms for both casual and professional users, an Application Programming Interface for account management, and e-commerce payment solutions for businesses. Additionally, the company operates fundFlyer, a crowdfunding site that facilitates fundraising efforts using Bitcoin. With a focus on security, bitFlyer aims to provide a secure and user-friendly environment for digital currency transactions.
fitmob is a provider of an online fitness platform designed to empower global community through wellness.The company's online fitness platform offers group workouts with trainers, gyms and studios, enabling consumers to workout to stay fit.
Teleborder helps companies hire, manage and retain international employees. Our software platform enables companies to manage immigration, reporting, and compliance all in one place, and our network of providers deliver related services through our platform. Our customers range from small startups to large corporations, and our investors include Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, IDG, and others.
Blacklane is a provider of chauffeur services that offer carbon-neutral vehicles for traveling. Blacklane offers a range of premium transportation services, including professional chauffeur services for airport transfers, hourly bookings, and long-distance rides in luxury vehicles. They provide seamless airport pickups and drop-offs with real-time flight tracking, as well as tailored solutions for business travel, event transportation, and corporate clients. Additionally, Blacklane emphasizes eco-friendliness by offering hybrid and electric vehicle options. Their convenient mobile app allows users to easily book rides in advance, and their meet-and-greet service ensures a smooth experience for travelers upon arrival. Overall, Blacklane focuses on delivering comfort, reliability, and professionalism for both individual and corporate clients. It aims to offer safety, sustainability, and stress-free while traveling. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet.
FLENS is engage in tablet-based eLearning services and platform business. The company was established on August, 2012 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Treatwell is an online platform that specializes in booking beauty and wellness treatments, connecting customers with over 2,500 salons, spas, and studios across 60 cities in the Benelux region, including Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp, Düsseldorf, and Berlin. The platform allows users to search, compare, and book various services, such as hairdressing and waxing, based on community reviews. Treatwell aims to enhance the customer experience by providing a convenient way to make appointments at any time while also helping salon owners attract new customers and improve their business performance. With offices in Amsterdam and Berlin, Treatwell is part of the Wahanda Group, which is recognized as a leading marketplace for beauty and wellness services in Europe.
Loco Partners, Inc. offers Relux. Relux is an accommodation reservation service with handpicked prestigious hotels and ryokans in Japan that can be reserved for a deal. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
Fishtree is an education technology company that provides teachers with the digital tools to deliver engaging, personalized lessons in a collaborative learning environment. Fishtree offers quick and easy access to the best resources including real-time media and publisher content, and allows teachers to monitor and track student progress easily through powerful analytics. Our global movement has resulted in partnerships around the world, dedicated to empowering educators in every possible way.
Ossia is challenging people’s imagination about what is possible with wireless power. Cota, Ossia's wireless power technology, safely delivers remote, targeted energy to devices at distance and in motion -- just like wifi. Built on Ossia’s patented smart antenna technology, Cota automatically keeps multiple devices charged without any user intervention, enabling an efficient and truly wire-free world.
freee is automated online accounting software that syncs with your bank accounts and automatically categorise entries to create financial reports. freee was launched on Mar 19, 2013 and is offered to SMBs operating under the Japanese taxation system. It takes freemium model and its paid plan begins at 980 JPY (~10 USD) per month per business. The company, formerly named as “CFO K.K.”, was founded in July 2012 led by Daisuke Sasaki, who previously headed up Google’s SMB marketing in Asia Pasific region. freee is the winner of Invinity Ventures Summit Launch Pad 2013 Spring, the most prestegious demo event in Japan.
CrowdWorks Inc. is a prominent crowdsourcing service provider based in Tokyo, Japan, established in 2011. The company operates a platform that connects businesses with individuals seeking freelance work, offering a variety of services including project matching for engineers, writers, designers, and system developers. CrowdWorks enables users to apply for diverse projects, encompassing tasks such as app development, website creation, and logo design. With over 130,000 registered users and partnerships with more than 25,000 companies, including governmental bodies and publicly traded firms, CrowdWorks has established itself as a significant player in the Japanese freelance market. The company also provides specialized services tailored to high-value professionals, facilitating opportunities for side jobs and second businesses.
Hachimenroppi provides a fish delivery service for restaurants. It buys fish from markets and brokers and delivers it to Japanese restaurants or diners.
Life is Tech is a developer of education platform intended for elementary and junior high school students.The company's platform organizes coding and IT camps, collaborating with local governments and running several schemes such as Tech for Local, Be Startup, Code Girls and Tech for Teachers, enabling students to improve their coding skills and creativity
Paidy is a software platform that allows consumers to buy online without a credit card or pre-registration. It is optimized for mobile and instant-checkout, Paidy allows consumers to buy online and does not require a credit card or pre-registration. Paidy's payment service allows users to make purchases online, and then pay for them each month in a consolidated bill. The company uses proprietary technology to score creditworthiness, underwrite transactions and guarantee payment to merchants. Since many Japanese consumers prefer not to use credit cards for online payments, Paidy’s service can help vendors increase their conversion rates, average order values and repeat purchases.
Careguardian was founded in 2014 with the vision of building a world where all caregivers are visible, recognized, and empowered. We recognized that delivering exceptional care and support for families started with reimagining how professional Caregivers are trained, supported, and connected. We extend that support to family caregivers as well, who play a vital role in ensuring older adults are able to age safely.
Wanderlust is a Japanese startup company with a mission to make more connections between borders. It is developing an online social travel guide, where local people can recommend what they like and travelers can find them. It suggested organizing the event to make places where people who have different backgrounds can exchange what it recommends for foreign people offline and figure out how people want to communicate about their home countries.
Element develops and distributes mobile-based platforms for digital identity. As pioneers of mobile deep learning – and among the first in the field – we work with partners around the world to build more efficient and inclusive societies. Our current focus is on Asia and Africa, where over 1 billion people lack proper identification, and are often excluded from basic services that are essential to sustainable development. Element was co-founded by Yann LeCun, a founding father of the deep learning field and current head of Artificial Intelligence at Facebook. Our end-to-end solutions are being used to build global immunization platforms, enable connected diagnostics, provide a digital identity resource for healthcare providers, and empower access to financial services and digital payments, among others.
Noom is a psychology-based digital health platform powered by data, technology, and human coaches that helps millions of people meet their personal health and wellness goals from weight management to diabetes prevention to stress reduction. The company has been awarded multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health and was the first mobile application to be recognized by the Centers for Disease Control as a certified diabetes prevention program. Headquartered in New York City, Noom has been named one of Inc's Best Places to Work and Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Technology. To learn more about careers with Noom, visit https://www.noom.com/careers/jobs
Directly provides resilience to companies by delivering more automated and elastic customer support operations. Our platform integrates into the contact center to understand customer issues, automate common solutions, and engage community experts. This enables customer support leaders to resolve customer issues with the right mix of automation and human support. Companies like Airbnb, Microsoft, and Samsung use the Directly platform to improve the customer experience, boosting CSAT by 20%, while saving millions per year. Directly is based in San Francisco and backed by Microsoft’s M12 Ventures, Samsung NEXT, True Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, Industry Ventures, Triangle Peak Partners, and Northgate Capital.
Muzy is a new kind of blog for creative and visual people, where you can post, enhance, create, and share photos, thoughts, drawings, animations, collages, and all kinds of creative stuff. Your Muzy is a customizable blog to post text, art, videos, photos, and more that comes with easy apps for photo effects, text, collaging, drawing, captioning, and more.
Ardent Capital is a team of experienced entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits throughout Southeast Asia and globally. We bring together all the key elements required to create great companies: Team, Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Technology, Capital, and Passion. We are thrilled and privileged to be participating in a technology revolution sweeping the region.
Wongnai.com is a Thailand-based restaurant review website and mobile application, much like Yelp in the US. Wongnai (which means "insider" in Thai) allows users to search for restaurants by location or category. Users can browse through restaurant information, user reviews, and photos from over 100,000 restaurants in Thailand. Wongnai's location-based application is available on various smartphone platforms such as in iOS, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry.
Loco Partners, Inc. offers Relux. Relux is an accommodation reservation service with handpicked prestigious hotels and ryokans in Japan that can be reserved for a deal. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.
SkimaTalk is an online language-learning platform. Their goal is to connect language students with native language speakers from the world’s top universities, enabling individuals around the world to learn new languages in an easy, affordable, and safe manner – all via Skype. They truly believe they can break the traditional barriers to language learning and make learning a new language both fun and affordable.
Labit is a developer of the mobile application Timetable Wow that is used by college students.
LeadGenius is an end-to-end sales solution that provides companies with a way to generate, qualify, deliver, and convert leads. It helps sales teams grow and scale across all levels of the sales process. LeadGenius was launched by Anand Kulkarni, Prayag Narula, and Dave Rolnitzky in 2011.
Rich Media offers media portal, web creation, and search engine optimization services.
Wepow connects recruiters, job candidates and employers through easy-to-use mobile and video interviewing solutions. Hundreds of organizations including Adidas, Lenovo, and Box rely on Wepow’s video and communications platform to improve recruiter productivity, deliver engaging candidate experiences, and make the right hires. As a result, organizations regain time, reduce costs and recruit effectively.
Corporate Performance Management and Business Intelligence KPI helps their customers to implement strategies through identifying and aligning the organization around critical KPI’s.
KPI Solutions is developing marketing platforms to encourage value-sharing between consumers and marketers in order to realize a smarter consumer society based on fundamental artificial intelligence technologies. Their products are Admeme, Mob Smart, Unity Graph, and Ad Graph.
Scigineer Inc. provides internet marketing support services. The Company offers services including personalized recommend services and personalized advertising services.
Since its founding in 2007, Sansan has focused on delivering its cloud based contact management service to customers in Japan and beyond. Sansan is setting the standard in Japan for cloud-based contact management, with annually doubling numbers of users from over 7,000 premium corporate users including the Japanese Government (METI). Sansan Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan and has its subsidiary Sansan global Pte. Ltd. in Singapore since October 2015. The company began offering its business card app Eight in 2012. It has over 1.5 million registered users as a new business network that incorporates a social media framework to transform business cards into business connections. Founded: June 11, 2007 URL： https://www.corp-sansan.com/ Address: Aoyama Oval Building, 13F, 5-52-2, Jingu-mae Shibuya-ku Tokyo 150-0001 Business scope: Planning, development, and sales of cloud-based business card management services Sansan for business users: https://www.sansan.com Eight for individual users: https://8card.net
ZIGExN engages in the life media platform business in Japan. The company operates through three segments: Human Resource, Real Estate, and Lifestyle. It operates Job change EX, a job change and job information site; Dispatch EX, a Website covering job information and agency information of staffing agencies and temporary staffing companies; Part-timer EX, a part time job recruitment site; Nurse recruitment EX, a nurse recruitment/job change site; Pharmacist recruitment EX, a pharmacist recruitment information search site; and Lease Smocker, a search site for the real estate rental housing. The company also operates Premium Smocker-ex, a search site for high-end rental condominiums; Mysumi EX, a site specialized in real estate sale, land use, and leasing management activities; Home purchase EX, a Website that provides information about new and used apartment houses/detached houses; Moving quotation EX, a site that offers moving estimate of companies; SmaRE, a marketing support tool, including a Website design specializing in the purchase and sale of real estate properties; Minorino, an used apartment trading portal specialized in renovating properties; and Provider EX, a comparison site that helps in choosing high-speed mobile communication. In addition, it operates Secondhand car EX, an used car information site; Car purchase EX, a comparison site for car purchase; Marriage EX, a marital activity information portal; Travel EX, a domestic travel information site; and SHOP ZIGExN, a new shopping site that allows customers to purchase overseas fashion items.