Techstars

Techstars Central LLC, founded in 2006 and based in Boulder, Colorado, operates as a startup accelerator and venture capital firm focused on supporting early-stage technology-oriented companies. It specializes in a mentorship-driven accelerator program, selecting ten startups each summer to participate in a three-month incubation period, offering funding of $120,000 in exchange for equity. Techstars invests primarily in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, blockchain, augmented reality, and IoT, while avoiding investments in medical devices, healthcare technology, and local service-oriented businesses. In addition to its primary accelerator, Techstars has various specialized programs, including those focused on music, retail, mobility, and social impact, with global reach extending to regions such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The firm prefers taking minority stakes, typically between six and ten percent, without seeking board representation or investor rights. Techstars has built a robust network of entrepreneurs, mentors, and corporate partners to foster innovation and growth within its portfolio, which includes over 1,000 companies with a significant collective market capitalization.

Ethan Austin

MD of the Techstars Western Union Accelerator

Max Kelly

Managing Director of Techstars London

Lesa Mitchell

Managing Director

Vijay Tirathrai

Managing Director

Mark Tortorella

Advisor

Nathanial Zola

MD

Past deals in Benelux

Oper

Series A in 2022
Oper Credits is a software as a service company that provides a comprehensive solution for lenders to digitize mortgage processes from initiation to completion. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with an additional office in Zurich, Switzerland, Oper streamlines various aspects of the mortgage journey, including loan requests, customer verification, proof validation, product advisory, signing, profiling, collateral estimation, fraud detection, and scoring. By offering out-of-the-box modules, Oper enables credit providers to quickly launch digital credit products, allowing them to configure their processes to meet specific needs. Furthermore, the company supports the integration of Fintech technologies through its partner app store, enhancing the capabilities of its clients in the competitive mortgage market.

Project Cece

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Project Cece is an online marketplace for fair and sustainable fashion. It offers over 15,000 products from over 100 different webshops with sustainability at its core. The goal is to have a positive impact on the fashion industry by making fair and sustainable clothing easy to find. Project Cece provides transparent information on brands and their sustainability and gives relevant information to make buying sustainable easy and fun.

Engram

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Engram is a software company that provides digital customer experience services to businesses. Engram's software products enable businesses to create a seamless experience for people in every interaction with the company. Create value and a great experience for each individual in a transparent and understandable way, while the people remain in control. Together we make memorable digital experiences

Valyuu.com

Seed Round in 2021
Circular Economy Marketplace

Ellipsis Drive

Seed Round in 2021
Ellipsis Drive is an online tool that allows any professional to activate, manage, and share spatial content via the web in under 10 minutes. We understand that spatial data is key for optimizing sustainable and effective operations. We know that this requires exchange and collaboration between producers, users and owners of spatial data across organizations and disciplines. Ellipsis Drive is here to make this easy. We introduce the first spatial-data-optimized Drive, that: - Connects your content with the world: Publish data as an online project in under 10 minutes, findable and usable for anyone you grant access to - Is a Plug & Play solution: Provides frictionless access to content for platform independent use - Is always license free: So unlimited sharing and collaboration regardless of the number of users - Gives you full ownership: your data is your own, so share, collaborate, and commercialize without restrictions

Oper

Seed Round in 2021
Oper Credits is a software as a service company that provides a comprehensive solution for lenders to digitize mortgage processes from initiation to completion. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with an additional office in Zurich, Switzerland, Oper streamlines various aspects of the mortgage journey, including loan requests, customer verification, proof validation, product advisory, signing, profiling, collateral estimation, fraud detection, and scoring. By offering out-of-the-box modules, Oper enables credit providers to quickly launch digital credit products, allowing them to configure their processes to meet specific needs. Furthermore, the company supports the integration of Fintech technologies through its partner app store, enhancing the capabilities of its clients in the competitive mortgage market.

Terraseed

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Terraseed Ltd. is a UK-based company specializing in the manufacture of seed-mat products designed for various agricultural applications, including vegetable, turf, and wildflower production. Established in 1999, Terraseed employs innovative technology that enhances food quality and safety by reducing the risk of salmonella and E. coli contamination in fresh salad crops, as well as in pharmaceutical crops and herbs. Their seed-mat solutions are applicable in both organic and conventional farming, facilitating large-scale production to meet consumer demand. This approach not only eliminates the need for agrochemicals in weed, insect, and disease control but also provides significant environmental benefits, such as conserving soil and moisture and aiding in the remediation of degraded lands. By advancing crop technology, Terraseed aims to promote a positive image within the agricultural sector, addressing public concerns regarding food safety and environmental impact.

RoadEO

Pre Seed Round in 2020
RoadEO is a company focused on developing a global platform for monitoring and predicting road quality, aimed at assisting public road authorities and commercial construction firms in identifying when and where road maintenance is necessary. Their platform offers real-time data on road conditions and forecasts future maintenance requirements, which helps clients enhance asset quality and improve road safety. By utilizing this technology, organizations involved in road maintenance can potentially reduce their annual maintenance budgets by up to 30%, while also increasing efficiency and minimizing labor, material costs, carbon emissions, water usage, and asset downtime.

20tree.ai

Seed Round in 2020
20tree.ai is an artificial intelligence platform focused on forest intelligence, utilizing satellite imagery and advanced computing to analyze various aspects of forests, including tree species, height, diameter, growth predictions, and harvesting potential. Founded in 2018 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, the platform provides precise insights that assist a variety of stakeholders, including forest industry companies, non-governmental organizations, governments, and corporate entities, in making informed decisions regarding natural resources. By offering data-driven solutions, 20tree.ai aims to enhance forest management practices and contribute to the preservation of global forest ecosystems.

Ellipsis Drive

Seed Round in 2020
Ellipsis Drive is an online tool that allows any professional to activate, manage, and share spatial content via the web in under 10 minutes. We understand that spatial data is key for optimizing sustainable and effective operations. We know that this requires exchange and collaboration between producers, users and owners of spatial data across organizations and disciplines. Ellipsis Drive is here to make this easy. We introduce the first spatial-data-optimized Drive, that: - Connects your content with the world: Publish data as an online project in under 10 minutes, findable and usable for anyone you grant access to - Is a Plug & Play solution: Provides frictionless access to content for platform independent use - Is always license free: So unlimited sharing and collaboration regardless of the number of users - Gives you full ownership: your data is your own, so share, collaborate, and commercialize without restrictions

geoFluxus

Pre Seed Round in 2020
geoFluxus B.V., founded in 2020 and based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, operates an open-source platform dedicated to mapping public waste data, which serves as a crucial element for fostering a circular economy. As an academic spin-off, the company focuses on research projects and employs technological solutions to address data sensitivity and comply with legal agreements. The platform enables public authorities to collect and monitor urban waste data, facilitating improved waste management practices. geoFluxus aims to expand its services by enhancing user-friendliness, interoperability, and analytical capabilities while broadening the geographical and material scope of the platform, ultimately contributing to more sustainable waste management.

Data for Good

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Data for Good accelerates transparency and sustainability with plug and play technology with real time monitoring, predictable analytics, and prescriptive AI. Data for Good supports purpose driven data and recognize the importance of a digital acceleration to empower partners and members and maximize the societal impact worldwide.

Oper

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Oper Credits is a software as a service company that provides a comprehensive solution for lenders to digitize mortgage processes from initiation to completion. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with an additional office in Zurich, Switzerland, Oper streamlines various aspects of the mortgage journey, including loan requests, customer verification, proof validation, product advisory, signing, profiling, collateral estimation, fraud detection, and scoring. By offering out-of-the-box modules, Oper enables credit providers to quickly launch digital credit products, allowing them to configure their processes to meet specific needs. Furthermore, the company supports the integration of Fintech technologies through its partner app store, enhancing the capabilities of its clients in the competitive mortgage market.

Toucan

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Toucan is an application designed to enhance money management by fostering collaboration between users and trusted individuals. Its mission revolves around boosting financial confidence by providing timely support to those in need. The company specializes in assisting banks in supporting customers who may be vulnerable, leveraging partnerships with charities and government entities. Notably, Toucan collaborates with The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute as part of an initiative aimed at improving financial services through innovative solutions. Additionally, the platform facilitates creators of digital goods, content, and services in selling their offerings to customers, streamlining the process for both parties involved.

Poliloop

Seed Round in 2020
Poliloop B.V., based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, specializes in converting non-biodegradable petroleum-based plastics into biodegradable products. The company has developed a microbial cocktail capable of degrading various types of single-use plastics, including PET, PP, LDPE, HDPE, PS, CPE, and EVA. This innovative process can function under suboptimal conditions and has been tested on both individual and mixed plastics, including those contaminated with food debris. Poliloop's method not only addresses the pressing issue of plastic waste but also produces valuable end-products such as bioplastics and biogas, contributing to a more sustainable and circular economy. The degradation process begins within two days, with complete breakdown of the polymers occurring over approximately two months.

Shipright

Seed Round in 2019
Shipright is a platform that helps software businesses track product feedback. It brings interview data, survey results, support mail, and other inputs together. The company is driven by a mission to help digital product companies understand their end-users in the best way possible, so they’re able to build outstanding products.

Liquid Diamonds

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Liquid Diamonds is a B2B online trading exchange for diamonds; think Nasdaq for diamonds. Wholesale traders want a global exchange for diamonds. Brokerage houses would also like to offer diamonds as an alternative asset-class to investors, with diamond ETFs, futures and options. But, all of this has been impossible until now. Existing exchanges only work when the items being traded are identical/fungible, e.g. shares of stock or ounces of gold. Diamonds are neither identical nor fungible, and cannot reasonably be traded as though they are. Our patented Universal Continuous Double Auction technology enables the benefits of a commodity exchange, without forcing a diamond to be interchangeable with any other i.e. we bring price discovery and liquidity to diamonds. We have a live and ready platform, we have paying customers and we have generated millions of dollars in transaction volume from the wholesale market - diamond manufacturers in Mumbai and Antwerp selling to diamond traders in NY. Liquid Diamonds is backed by Techstars and its founding team is comprised of UVA, UC Irvine and IIT Kanpur grads with deep connections within the diamond industry.

20tree.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
20tree.ai is an artificial intelligence platform focused on forest intelligence, utilizing satellite imagery and advanced computing to analyze various aspects of forests, including tree species, height, diameter, growth predictions, and harvesting potential. Founded in 2018 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, the platform provides precise insights that assist a variety of stakeholders, including forest industry companies, non-governmental organizations, governments, and corporate entities, in making informed decisions regarding natural resources. By offering data-driven solutions, 20tree.ai aims to enhance forest management practices and contribute to the preservation of global forest ecosystems.

ModelMe3D

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ModelMe3D BV is a company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, that specializes in a 3D interactive modeling platform. This platform enables users to visualize buildings, infrastructure, and natural environments in detailed three-dimensional representations. By allowing users to interactively click on various elements such as buildings and surfaces, the platform enhances understanding of surroundings and facilitates informed decision-making. ModelMe3D aims to support urban planning through collective intelligence and creativity, ultimately aiding in investment and development initiatives.

ModelMe3D

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ModelMe3D BV is a company based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, that specializes in a 3D interactive modeling platform. This platform enables users to visualize buildings, infrastructure, and natural environments in detailed three-dimensional representations. By allowing users to interactively click on various elements such as buildings and surfaces, the platform enhances understanding of surroundings and facilitates informed decision-making. ModelMe3D aims to support urban planning through collective intelligence and creativity, ultimately aiding in investment and development initiatives.

Novicap

Venture Round in 2019
NoviCap is an online platform founded in 2014 and based in Barcelona, Spain, that connects companies seeking to sell their outstanding invoices with international investors looking to purchase them. By leveraging technology, NoviCap aims to simplify the traditionally complex and costly invoice finance industry, which is often characterized by outdated practices and high fees. The platform offers a user-friendly experience with features such as instant pricing, fast onboarding, and a straightforward fee structure, allowing businesses to access cash quickly and efficiently. In addition to providing a streamlined service for companies, NoviCap also offers professional investors the chance to invest in a short-term asset with above-average returns. With offices in London, Barcelona, and the Netherlands, NoviCap has positioned itself as a modern alternative in the invoice finance sector.

Zoi Meet

Pre Seed Round in 2019
At inter-office and international meetings, Zoi Meet takes automatically notes and actions in multiple languages, as well as offering instant live subtitles during the meetings for better understanding, using speech to text and machine translation technologies. Text & audio notes are stored, and can be searched, retrieved, edited, annotated, and analyzed, turning information into knowledge for the organizations.

Voyc

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Voyc monitors contact centre calls to identify potential risks, improve agent performance and ultimately ensure companies and their customers are treated fairly.

Soundcharts

Seed Round in 2018
SOUNDCHARTS S.A.S. develops an online platform that aggregates online music consumption data and enables users to track social networks, charts, playlists, and airplay data. It offers real-time notifications; and daily reports that include airplays stats, progress on all social networks, and positions in the charts and on playlists. The company’s platform monitors radios from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, and Italy. It serves the music industry. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Paris, France.

Flow.ai

Seed Round in 2018
Flow.ai is an easy to use complete toolbox to create Chatbots, AI assistants, Customer service or conversational commerce solutions. It offers an easy drag and drop interface coupled with advanced functionality and driven by powerful NLP. Flow.ai offers multiple languages, multiple channels and functionality to let human agents take over conversations - all in one platform.

Novicap

Venture Round in 2017
NoviCap is an online platform founded in 2014 and based in Barcelona, Spain, that connects companies seeking to sell their outstanding invoices with international investors looking to purchase them. By leveraging technology, NoviCap aims to simplify the traditionally complex and costly invoice finance industry, which is often characterized by outdated practices and high fees. The platform offers a user-friendly experience with features such as instant pricing, fast onboarding, and a straightforward fee structure, allowing businesses to access cash quickly and efficiently. In addition to providing a streamlined service for companies, NoviCap also offers professional investors the chance to invest in a short-term asset with above-average returns. With offices in London, Barcelona, and the Netherlands, NoviCap has positioned itself as a modern alternative in the invoice finance sector.

Simreka

Seed Round in 2017
Simreka is a technology company that specializes in enhancing the research and development processes for materials and chemical manufacturers. By utilizing advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning, Simreka's web software enables brands to conduct experiments and make data-driven decisions 100 times faster. The platform offers actionable insights and predictive simulations, facilitating the rapid discovery of new products while transforming supply chains to prioritize profitability, safety, and sustainability. Through its comprehensive data collection and collaboration features, Simreka supports materials manufacturers and brand owners in improving financial performance, reducing environmental impact, and mitigating brand risk.

Sensifai

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Sensifai offers the world's most comprehensive video recognition system (1) on the cloud, and also (2) embedded in the device. We developed a deep learning platform which incorporates both audio data and visual data of videos interactively and simultaneously to recognize video content. The software is available live on Amazon Web Service Marketplace and everybody can subscribe and use it.

SnapSwap International S.A.

Seed Round in 2017
SnapSwap offers Everest, a business payments and expense management platform which allows business owners to monitor and manage credit cards by their teams. Everest offers a current account to easily collect customer payments with invoice functionality. Everest helps businesses enhance their efficiency by saving time and achieving a higher degree of flexibility and control over payment flows. SnapSwap is a principal partner of Mastercard, which allows the issuing of credit and debit cards and processing of the transactions. In 2017, SnapSwap launched Snaprove™, a digital onboarding and KYC service that allows to speed up the verification process, KYC data collection and allows to perform due diligence of customers. SnapSwap is a fully licensed and regulated Electronic Money Institution in Luxembourg with a proven track record in building digital platforms for onboarding and KYC technologies.

BlendBow

Seed Round in 2017
BlendBow is a company based in Paris, France, specializing in the design and manufacture of innovative cocktail machines aimed at bar owners. Established in 2015, BlendBow has dedicated 24 months to research and development, resulting in the filing of three patents for its unique technology. The cocktail machines are designed to simplify the cocktail preparation process by cutting lemons, crushing ice, blending mixtures, and measuring ingredients like mint and rum. These machines also feature a range of customizable cocktail recipes that are pre-configured to enhance efficiency and quality in cocktail service. BlendBow's products are available in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, addressing key challenges in the hospitality industry related to cocktail quality and preparation time.

SustAnalyze

Seed Round in 2017
SustAnalyze, provides data-driven software tools and services to speed up the development of sustainable chemical processes. At SustAnalyze they believe that profitability and sustainabiliy need not be mutually exclusive sets. Their approach is to combine innovative ideas with the right data and analytical models to ascertain profitability and sustainability. Sustanalyze offerings have been developed with this approach and envision a greener and sustainable chemical industry.

Sensifai

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Sensifai offers the world's most comprehensive video recognition system (1) on the cloud, and also (2) embedded in the device. We developed a deep learning platform which incorporates both audio data and visual data of videos interactively and simultaneously to recognize video content. The software is available live on Amazon Web Service Marketplace and everybody can subscribe and use it.

Stream

Venture Round in 2017
Stream.io, Inc. specializes in developing an open-source platform that enables the creation of customizable newsfeeds and messaging applications. The company provides a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow product teams to implement chat features and activity feeds tailored to their specific needs. Its offerings include flat feeds for displaying followed content, aggregated feeds for grouping similar content, notification feeds for site alerts, and profile pages for user activity storage. Stream's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, healthcare, dating, education, and social networking, facilitating community engagement. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Stream’s products are recognized for their scalability and security, serving over a billion end-users globally.

Novicap

Seed Round in 2017
NoviCap is an online platform founded in 2014 and based in Barcelona, Spain, that connects companies seeking to sell their outstanding invoices with international investors looking to purchase them. By leveraging technology, NoviCap aims to simplify the traditionally complex and costly invoice finance industry, which is often characterized by outdated practices and high fees. The platform offers a user-friendly experience with features such as instant pricing, fast onboarding, and a straightforward fee structure, allowing businesses to access cash quickly and efficiently. In addition to providing a streamlined service for companies, NoviCap also offers professional investors the chance to invest in a short-term asset with above-average returns. With offices in London, Barcelona, and the Netherlands, NoviCap has positioned itself as a modern alternative in the invoice finance sector.

PartyWith

Seed Round in 2016
PartyWith is a free mobile app that connects people who want to party. PartyWith originally began as a travel app, 'Party with a Local'​ - focusing on connecting travelers with locals, but has since broadened (based on user feedback) to be about connecting anyone anywhere who loves to party - when at home or traveling.

Preesale

Convertible Note in 2016
Preesale is ticketing engine allows event organizers to sell more tickets and automatically access their cash flows before their event, unlike other ticketing platforms. It also allows event organizers to increase their revenue and effectively target their most qualified leads. The company mission is to increase people's visibility and accessibility to events on Facebook. Preesale can follow your sales analytics, communicate with your guests through texts and SMS and scan them at the door through smartphones with free iPhone and Android apps. The company's mobile-based ticket management application automatically integrate with facebook page enabling users to create and target tickets in less than 5 minutes and start selling right away and get paid for the tickets sold. Preesale was founded in 2015 and is based in Liege, Belgium.

Preesale

Seed Round in 2016
Preesale is ticketing engine allows event organizers to sell more tickets and automatically access their cash flows before their event, unlike other ticketing platforms. It also allows event organizers to increase their revenue and effectively target their most qualified leads. The company mission is to increase people's visibility and accessibility to events on Facebook. Preesale can follow your sales analytics, communicate with your guests through texts and SMS and scan them at the door through smartphones with free iPhone and Android apps. The company's mobile-based ticket management application automatically integrate with facebook page enabling users to create and target tickets in less than 5 minutes and start selling right away and get paid for the tickets sold. Preesale was founded in 2015 and is based in Liege, Belgium.

Novicap

Seed Round in 2015
NoviCap is an online platform founded in 2014 and based in Barcelona, Spain, that connects companies seeking to sell their outstanding invoices with international investors looking to purchase them. By leveraging technology, NoviCap aims to simplify the traditionally complex and costly invoice finance industry, which is often characterized by outdated practices and high fees. The platform offers a user-friendly experience with features such as instant pricing, fast onboarding, and a straightforward fee structure, allowing businesses to access cash quickly and efficiently. In addition to providing a streamlined service for companies, NoviCap also offers professional investors the chance to invest in a short-term asset with above-average returns. With offices in London, Barcelona, and the Netherlands, NoviCap has positioned itself as a modern alternative in the invoice finance sector.

Stream

Seed Round in 2015
Stream.io, Inc. specializes in developing an open-source platform that enables the creation of customizable newsfeeds and messaging applications. The company provides a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow product teams to implement chat features and activity feeds tailored to their specific needs. Its offerings include flat feeds for displaying followed content, aggregated feeds for grouping similar content, notification feeds for site alerts, and profile pages for user activity storage. Stream's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, healthcare, dating, education, and social networking, facilitating community engagement. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Stream’s products are recognized for their scalability and security, serving over a billion end-users globally.

Cashforce

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Cashforce BV operates a smart cash flow management and forecasting platform designed to help organizations optimize their financial operations. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Antwerp, Belgium, with additional offices in New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and London, the company serves sectors such as wholesale and distribution, transportation, logistics, and manufacturing. The platform allows users to forecast cash flows across multiple companies, bank accounts, and currencies, enabling them to identify potential cash shortages or surpluses in advance. Cashforce's unique offerings include seamless integration with various ERP and banking systems, detailed transaction-level visibility, and an AI-based simulation engine that supports multiple cash flow scenarios and impact analyses. The company has a strategic alliance with Treasury Intelligence Solutions GmbH and provides cash visibility to multinational corporations in over 120 countries.

DataCamp

Seed Round in 2015
Datacamp, Inc. provides online data science learning services. It offers courses for Python, machine learning, data visualization, data manipulation, cleaning data, Network analysis, and R. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York with additional offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kessel-Lo, Belgium; and London, United Kingdom.

Stream

Seed Round in 2015
Stream.io, Inc. specializes in developing an open-source platform that enables the creation of customizable newsfeeds and messaging applications. The company provides a range of application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow product teams to implement chat features and activity feeds tailored to their specific needs. Its offerings include flat feeds for displaying followed content, aggregated feeds for grouping similar content, notification feeds for site alerts, and profile pages for user activity storage. Stream's solutions cater to various sectors, including finance, healthcare, dating, education, and social networking, facilitating community engagement. Established in 2014, the company is headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an additional office located in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Stream’s products are recognized for their scalability and security, serving over a billion end-users globally.

Peerby

Venture Round in 2014
Peerby is a Dutch startup that operates a peer-to-peer sharing service for products. Users can share or request items from people in their neighborhood online, via their mobile or via social media channels. The product was launched (beta) for Amsterdam in August 2012, but the team is rapidly expanding to other areas too.

Fairwaves

Convertible Note in 2014
Fairwaves, Inc. specializes in manufacturing and selling equipment for open-source telecommunications aimed at mobile operators. The company offers a range of products, including indoor, tower-mounted, and rack-mounted base stations, as well as two-channel SDR transceivers. In addition to hardware, Fairwaves provides cloud core-based networks, support services, and consulting for electronic design related to its products. The company also engages in the online sale of ready-to-use products, accessories, and DIY solutions. Fairwaves' equipment is deployed in various locations, including Mexico, the Netherlands, and the Island of Mayotte. Founded in 2011, Fairwaves is headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Moscow, Riga, and Paris.

Fairwaves

Seed Round in 2014
Fairwaves, Inc. specializes in manufacturing and selling equipment for open-source telecommunications aimed at mobile operators. The company offers a range of products, including indoor, tower-mounted, and rack-mounted base stations, as well as two-channel SDR transceivers. In addition to hardware, Fairwaves provides cloud core-based networks, support services, and consulting for electronic design related to its products. The company also engages in the online sale of ready-to-use products, accessories, and DIY solutions. Fairwaves' equipment is deployed in various locations, including Mexico, the Netherlands, and the Island of Mayotte. Founded in 2011, Fairwaves is headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Moscow, Riga, and Paris.

Novicap

Seed Round in 2014
NoviCap is an online platform founded in 2014 and based in Barcelona, Spain, that connects companies seeking to sell their outstanding invoices with international investors looking to purchase them. By leveraging technology, NoviCap aims to simplify the traditionally complex and costly invoice finance industry, which is often characterized by outdated practices and high fees. The platform offers a user-friendly experience with features such as instant pricing, fast onboarding, and a straightforward fee structure, allowing businesses to access cash quickly and efficiently. In addition to providing a streamlined service for companies, NoviCap also offers professional investors the chance to invest in a short-term asset with above-average returns. With offices in London, Barcelona, and the Netherlands, NoviCap has positioned itself as a modern alternative in the invoice finance sector.

Fosbury

Seed Round in 2013
Fosbury creates mobile promotions that help drive repeat business using mobile wallets. Building campaigns like coupons, loyalty card, and gift cards on Apple Passbook and Google Wallet, Fosbury can reach a majority of mobile devices to grow your business. From push messages, to geo-location, retargeting and campaign analytics, Fosbury is the smarter way to engage your customer. Founded in December 2012, Fosbury is a privately held company based in The Netherlands.

Peerby

Seed Round in 2013
Peerby is a Dutch startup that operates a peer-to-peer sharing service for products. Users can share or request items from people in their neighborhood online, via their mobile or via social media channels. The product was launched (beta) for Amsterdam in August 2012, but the team is rapidly expanding to other areas too.

Otto

Pre Seed Round in 2013
Otto is an autonomous startup focused on the development of self-driving technology for trucks. The company works on technology that enables drivers to let their truck steer by itself on certain parts of the highway. Otto also provides solutions that can be fitted onto trucks, thus supporting drivers to have safer journeys, take small naps, and even have lunch while the vehicle is self-steering.

We Are Pop Up

Pre Seed Round in 2012
We Are Pop Up is a UK-based platform that facilitates short-term commercial property leasing, connecting brands and businesses with property owners and managers. Established in 2012, the company focuses on creating a marketplace for various sectors, including retail, art, design, dining, and events, allowing users to discover and transact rental spaces for diverse projects. By enabling collaboration among retailers, space owners, and brands, We Are Pop Up fosters innovative retail experiences. The company operates as a subsidiary of Brandspots and is headquartered in London.

Memrise

Seed Round in 2011
Memrise Inc. is an online learning platform that specializes in language acquisition and offers a variety of courses spanning subjects such as arts, literature, mathematics, science, natural history, geography, and trivia. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, the company serves a global user base, particularly in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. Memrise features over 150 language courses across 25 languages, boasting more than 40 million registered users. The platform is accessible via iOS, Android, and web, providing all courses for free without advertisements. Additional features and learning modes are available through a subscription service called Memrise Pro. Since late 2016, the company has maintained profitability, reinforcing its position in the online education sector.