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 EMEA

Brolly

Convertible Note in 2023
Brolly is an insurtech company focused on making auto insurance more accessible and affordable in Africa, specifically through flexible payment options and usage-based pricing models. Headquartered in Delaware and operating in Ghana, Brolly utilizes artificial intelligence and automation to enhance the speed and efficiency of its services. The platform offers a pay-as-you-go auto insurance model and includes complimentary fleet management tools, allowing users to easily manage their insurance needs. Customers can report claims and receive same-day payments, streamlining the claims process. Brolly has plans to expand its services to additional African countries in the coming years.

SENSE

Pre Seed Round in 2023
SENSE is an internet company that focuses on the areas of cybersecurity and the internet of things. It specializes in providing a solution that allows intuitive exploration of data, collaboration and resource allocation, available through desktop and mobile.

EyeLights

Series A in 2023
EyeLights SAS is a French company that specializes in designing and manufacturing GPS-enabled motorcycle helmets. Founded in 2016 and based in Labege, EyeLights offers a unique head-up display that projects navigation, warnings about hazards, and traffic information directly into a rider's line of sight, allowing them to maintain focus on the road. The system integrates with smartphones via Bluetooth, enabling users to listen to music, take calls, and program road trips using voice commands. The compact device can be installed in under five minutes on various helmet types and operates for over eight hours, providing clear visibility even in challenging weather conditions. Weighing less than 100 grams, the EyeLights product is designed for practicality and ease of use, enhancing the overall riding experience.

Votemo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Votemo offers engagement tool for live and hybrid events with original video overlay of results. Main tools are polls, commenting, Q&A, reactions, micropayment. Votemo can be used on any event platform, added as iFrame, added as widget, invite people via QR code or url. Using Votemo tools will increase event engagement and ROI of event organiser.

BEAWaRe

Pre Seed Round in 2023
BEAWaRe is an app that assists municipalities and wastes companies in lowering the cost of collection logistics. It optimizes waste collection logistics with its IoT sensor network and TARIP management and data analysis software.

PentoPix

Convertible Note in 2023
PentoPix is an innovative platform that enhances the storytelling process for creative teams by transforming scripts into three-dimensional visualizations. Its web-based creative suite leverages artificial intelligence and machine learning to automatically convert structured text into 3D storyboards, allowing for scene-by-scene visualizations. This technology significantly reduces the time and cost associated with traditional storyboarding, enabling teams to save up to 80% on preproduction efforts. PentoPix supports collaborative work models, allowing users to work together across text, visual, and schema modules, thereby facilitating faster development and sharing of ideas. As the demand for high-quality stories rises, particularly with the growth of streaming platforms, PentoPix aids creators in developing compelling narratives while also assisting studios in evaluating scripts efficiently. The platform is designed to adapt to the evolving needs of the creative industries, providing tools that enhance creativity and streamline the production process in an increasingly 3D-focused environment.

Seed

Pre Seed Round in 2023
SEED is innovative pram label combines Danish design with outstanding functionality. Founded by Danish film producer Anders Berggreen with the goal of developing a stroller that guarantees maximum mobility without sacrificing quality and design. The SEED Papilio - both stroller and sports car, can be folded very small with a few simple steps. The implementation of Berggreen s vision was originally the responsibility of Danish industrial designers, but today the project originates from a German developer team.

Fez

Seed Round in 2023
Fez is a logistics platform focused on providing hassle-free delivery services to customers. The company offers an application that facilitates last-mile delivery within urban areas, allowing users to book deliveries, manage their wallets, and track their orders. By enabling the movement of goods from any point in the country, Fez aims to deliver affordable, fast, and efficient delivery solutions. The company is committed to ensuring a stress-free experience for both senders and recipients, emphasizing their duty to deliver packages with care and reliability.

NeedEnergy

Pre Seed Round in 2023
NeedEnergy is there to provide sustainable and clean energy solutions based on energy data. NeedEnergy is an energy-tech start-up company that leverages innovation, data and modern technology through ai and machine learning relevant with time as its core values.

Norsjór

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Norsjór develops a system that uses radiation to protect marine life in order to address the issue of biofouling on ship hulls. In order to prevent the spread of invasive species, poisons, microplastics, and heavy metals, it developed a subsea laser system that kills the cells of biofouling organisms while providing maximum effectiveness.

wryte

Seed Round in 2023
wryte - the student-centered all-in-one solution for connecting and mastering all educational activities as a go-to place in one app.

Wibo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Wibo is the app that broadcasts interactive Live Quiz Shows presented by a host. Wibo combines the winning formulas of the TV quiz show, like a charismatic host, with the interactivity of a mobile game. Wibo was built to satisfy our entertainment consumer needs. Traditional entertainment platforms, such as television, do not meet the needs of the millennials and Gen Z target, of which we are part of. For example, television establishes a one-way relationship between the broadcaster and the viewer, who is engaged in a passive way. In the twenty-first century, entertainment must be shared and above all interactive. Wibo wants to become the new interactive platform of entertainment in the world.

Fluffy

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Each dog has its own unique character and there is no one-size-fits-all training program. With the Strelka app, you get training courses personalised to your dog's breed, age and personality. Train your dog in 10 minutes a day

peppa

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Pepperest, a financial technology company, is changing the the face of peer-to-peer commerce, by providing small-midsize merchants the tools to improve sales and conversions by leveraging the power of social and escrow. We do this through our revolutionary tool-set which helps convert any merchant business page on leading social platforms to a fully-fledged store able to process payments and offer buyer protection. By ensuring buyers are protected, businesses immediately attain a higher level of credibility and greater prospects of sales.

Oystr Finance Inc

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Oystr finance is a Saas company democratising credit in Africa by providing institutional lenders with an infrastructure that enables them to launch low-risk micro-loan products, grow their portfolio and expand into new markets in less than 30 minutes.

Rely.io

Seed Round in 2022
detech.ai provides a unified modern AIOps platform that turns your data into actionable insights to help you detect & resolve issues proactively. When your online services hiccup, customers go elsewhere. And if your experts are constantly reacting to incidents after they happen, your innovation and agility will plummet. In order to remain competitive and grow, you need seamless operations. However, organisations generate amounts of data that humans simply cannot monitor effectively, therefore AIOps is critical to reduce and manage IT incidents. Our platform autonomously learns the normal behaviour of your applications, accurately detecting anomalies and alerting the right people to address only the problems that need addressing. This will allow you to resolve issues before they impact the business, while freeing people to focus on innovating.

Kumulus Water

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Kumulus machines create drinking water from solar power and air by imitating the dew phenomenon in the water creation process and adding elements such as multiple embedded systems/predictive algorithms to allow for the machines to be “smarter” and controllable remotely from anywhere in the world.

NeuralSpace

Seed Round in 2022
Neural Space is a natural language understanding platform for low-resource languages. Their products are AI-Powered, API-based, Scalable, and Multilingual.

Morpheus Space

Series A in 2022
Morpheus Space GmbH, founded in 2018 and based in Dresden, Germany, specializes in manufacturing electric propulsion systems for spacecraft. The company's innovative product offerings, including nanoFEEP and multiFEEP, are designed to enhance satellite operations by enabling service providers to manage entire constellations as a unified entity. By integrating advanced electric propulsion with artificial intelligence, Morpheus Space is transforming the NewSpace industry. Their solutions allow satellites to perform numerous orbital maneuvers, facilitating a new approach to mission planning that prioritizes objectives through automated decision-making. This capability provides unprecedented flexibility for satellite networks, enabling optimal adjustments to meet specific user needs, such as revisiting frequencies and monitoring dynamic points of interest.

EthicsGrade

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Using NLP to create unique ESG fingerprints of companies, with a particular focus on AI Ethics

Capsa Technology

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Capsa Technology is a fintech company focused on streamlining and bridging the financial woes of SMEs in Africa - starting in Nigeria

Nyungu Afrika

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Nyungu Afrika is a circular economy using agricultural waste, pineapple leaves, and corn husk fibers. They offer services for agricultural waste like pineapple and corn husk fibers.

canB

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a financial application designed to provide assistance with banking transactions and payment services. The company's application includes secure online payments, immediate notification of each transaction, instant blocking or unblocking of the card, and modification of the PIN code, enabling clients to provide finance services for their banking needs.

Inthegame

Series A in 2022
ITG is an AI-Powered video engagement and monetization platform for VOD & Live video content. Viewer interaction is dramatically enhanced with clickable, intuitive modules, creating a unique and exciting viewing experience.

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.

Rent Small Small

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Rent Small Small Ltd. is a prop-tech platform providing a unique rental solution to Nigerians in order to improve home-seekers rental experience and increase home-owners occupancy rate. Our business model is unique as it allows verified tenants to find property on-the-go, stay within budget, and pay rent flexibly. We provide first of its kind rent insurance for property owners against rent default, and unlike traditional agents, we don’t charge agency and legal fee. Our mandate is to provide suitable and affordable homes for home-seekers, influence the conception and birth of new homes to boost the livelihood and productivity of Nigerian youths, and help homeowners to make their property rentable and profitable.

Flecto

Venture Round in 2022
Flecto is the rental platform that makes businesses thrive in the circular economy.

Boldr

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Boldr is a manufacturer and retailer of electric household appliances focused on energy efficiency in the heating and cooling sector. The company designs smart and cost-effective solutions that enable users to save money while promoting sustainable living. Boldr's products integrate modern technology, allowing consumers to manage their home climate through smartphone applications. This approach not only enhances convenience but also helps users reduce their energy bills, making it easier to adopt environmentally friendly practices at home.

MyCover.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
MyCover.ai is an open insurance API that allows insurance companies to distribute their products faster and cheaper, it enables innovators to embed insurance into their current offerings or launch new insurance verticals and ultimately deliver great experiences to customers. Our AI-powered claims management service helps insurance companies to streamline their claims processes, reduce fraud while also saving time and money.

Remote Gravity

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Remote Gravity is a provider for physical address verification. They train and test agents to provide a service that meets the standards that KYC providers are expected to deliver to their customers. They deliver reports that meet SLA requirements and ensure KYC for companies. regardless of budget and location, enabling agencies and brands to purchase outdoor advertisement placements.

IndieFlow

Seed Round in 2022
IndieFlow developed a workflow management platform for the music industry. It is an Israeli startup that developed a centralized platform to manage music industry workflows and streamline the major building blocks of an artist’s career. It enables users to manage their workflow, distribute their songs on platforms like Deezer, Amazon Music, Spotify, and more. It also allows users to manage royalty payments.

Savium

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Savium is building an invoicing and payments automation platform for Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs). Savium aggregates all business bank accounts in one web platform and allows business owners to automate invoicing, bill payments and cash flow management. We are starting with invoicing and cash management. Our aim is to automate end-to-end business payments and cash management for European SMBs.

Trado (Formerly MeatoDoor)

Pre Seed Round in 2022
The meat procurement process for food businesses is highly unorganized with multiple suppliers, stock availability challenges, variation in quality and pricing and, lack of transparency. MeatoDoor is digitizing the meat ordering process by providing a one-stop solution ensuring quality standardization, transparency, and convenience in the procurement process. MeaoDoor is addressing the pain points of a $6.1 Bn GCC meat market that is growing annually @5.4% until 2030. With global health concerns, changing consumer expectations, and government regulations, it is the right time for organizing the multiple stakeholders in the supply chain to deliver quality and trust. MeatoDoor has created a reverse auction platform that offers instant quotes, access to promotions, competitive pricing bringing efficiency and reducing cost in meat procurement. The customers are owned by MeatoDoor as the orders are executed by in-house team.

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.

PlayerData

Pre Seed Round in 2022
PlayerData Ltd. develops PlayerData EDGE, a sports technology that combines a base layer garment with sensors together with a removable control module. It provides data on biometrics, performance and technique for both individuals and teams. PlayerData Ltd. was founded in 2017 and is based in Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Staxe

Seed Round in 2022
Staxe is a crowdfunding platform based in Zug, Switzerland, that focuses on transforming creative projects, including music, film, and live events, into investment opportunities. Founded in 2018, Staxe utilizes blockchain technology to structure, coordinate, and tokenize creative assets, offering them as non-fungible tokens. This innovative approach allows investors to engage with and benefit from the success of various productions, such as concerts and festivals. In response to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Staxe is enhancing its operations and leveraging decentralized finance along with asset tokenization to support creatives in realizing their projects.

LiveDuel

Pre Seed Round in 2022
LiveDuel is a social gaming site, allowing community members to cross-tabulate predictions. LiveDuel.com (LD) is a cross-platform social game that follows real world events. LD has developed the LiveDuel platform which will, for the first time, allow companies to run and create live, engaging gaming content for their end users. LiveDue.com (LD) operates primarily from Cork City, Ireland with partnerships in San Francisco, California.

LifeTap

Pre Seed Round in 2022
LifeTap is an Artificial Intelligence based on Machine Learning and Opinion Dynamics theories that, through an IOS and an Android app, gives users recommendations based on their personality and on external conditions. Fast and accurate recommendations for individuals or groups about anything that people might want to do during the day: going to a restaurant, to a bar, watching a movie, doing some hobbies, watching a series, spending some quality time at a cafe, and much more. Normally, people invest a lot of time and energy in the process of decision making. "Which restaurant should we choose tonight?", "Will I like that movie?", "Is this hobby the right one for me in this moment of my life?". Despite time and energy invested, people often end up taking decisions far from being optimal. LifeTap speeds up and increases the quality of this decision making process, both for individuals and for groups. Time and energy spent in negotiating this or that activity are substituted by just one tap on the screen.

Optimo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Optimo is a B2B SaaS and EdTech company that provides blue-collar workers with peer-to-peer gamified learning. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Gaia Investments

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Gaia is a sustainable investment platform that makes it simple to invest in companies that are committed to a more sustainable future.

Flex

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Flex turns video game achievements into a real-world soft skills profile, for use in recruitment, admissions, and other proofs-of-value. Founded in 2022 by Rob Sargent and Jonathan Holtby in Cambridge, UK.

Gigmile

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.

PatentPlus

Funding Round in 2022
PatentPlus is a digital marketplace and analytics platform for patented technologies that connects pioneering research organizations with innovative corporations and investors across industries and geographies. PatentPlus uses a unique patent-based technology scouting methodology to identify the most relevant patent licensing, buying, and co-development opportunities. Additionally, PatentPlus partners directly with research organizations to provide a structured overview of relevant R&D partnerships, collaborations with inventors, and investments in deep-tech spin-offs. For any questions regarding the PatentPlus platform or the customizable technology scouting reports, feel free to write a message to info@patentplus.io.

iBrainy

Pre Seed Round in 2022
iBrainy is a developer of an enterprise B2B software-as-a-service platform that facilitates the creation and delivery of gamified training for companies with deskless employees. The platform allows managers to design micro-learning materials, including quizzes and courses, using a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface and generative AI tools. This content can be delivered through a customizable mobile app or a web platform, enabling effective training and communication with frontline workers such as waiters, firefighters, paramedics, and factory workers. Additionally, the platform provides analytics to track employee progress and offers recommendations for optimizing training programs. By centralizing the management of training and employee engagement in one mobile application, iBrainy helps organizations improve productivity and streamline the onboarding process for their non-desk workforce.

Bioledger

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Bioledger is a software solution company that tracks biofuels through a mobile app and database. Bioledger is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Provengo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
TeStory is a company that offers a unique solution allowing easier mapping of test cases with dramatically better coverage. It allows automated orchestration of all potential business scenarios and functional requirements, increasing the coverage and quality of the testing capabilities, and reaching test scenarios that the human mind cannot cover. They work in collaboration with all existing test tools and complement their capabilities. They are based on advanced methodologies studied in BGU (IP protected). It was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv, Israel.

SurplusMap

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SurplusMap engages with municipalities, energy companies, and emerging industries to find ideal co-location opportunities and attract green investments. They provide a communication platform with a digital process. They offer green hydrogen, data centers, energy-intensive industries, and the location of microgrids.

Newt

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Newt provides amateur athletes with an AI-powered personal sports nutritionist. It helps athletes get personalized nutrition that allows them to achieve their goals. Newt utilizes both clinical and behavioral elements to ensure people benefit from the most up to date research and can apply it to their day-to-day life.

Videolity (formerly: SepetLive)

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Videolity helps businesses to monetise their videos by auto-tagging and making them one-click shoppable. For businesses, we are providing: - one-click video shopping - natural product placement in videos - actionable video metrics (per clicks, per purchase information and more) Imagine you are watching Netflix/Youtube and you want to buy a sofa or a nice shirt you see. With our tech, you can touch/click on any items on the videos and buy them instantly.

Iomob

Seed Round in 2022
Iomob Technologies OÜ is a company based in Tallinn, Estonia, that specializes in creating an open, decentralized mobility marketplace powered by blockchain technology. Founded in 2018, Iomob focuses on facilitating collaboration between various mobility providers, including established companies, startups, and public transit authorities, to enhance urban mobility systems. The company's platform integrates public transport with private mobility services, enabling a seamless and efficient experience for users. Through its innovative approach, Iomob aims to support the development of Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) solutions, allowing residents and visitors to navigate cities more effectively and sustainably.

Hormonious Flo

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hormonious Flo is an AI-driven menstrual wellness platform focused on assisting women in naturally alleviating period pain. The application is designed to address the root causes of hormonal imbalances by tracking menstrual cycle symptoms and providing personalized guidance. Users receive tailored content related to nutrition, fitness, lifestyle, and mindset, empowering them to enhance their overall well-being and achieve pain-free periods. Through its innovative approach, Hormonious Flo aims to improve menstrual health and support women in their journey toward better wellness.

Played

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Played platform helps organizations automate the management, bookings, and marketing of their sports facilities and programmes. They take care of the admin so their customers can focus on delivering great active experiences for their communities. They help sports venues and coaches to thrive in a digital world.

Voyance

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Voyance is a big data company that leverages machine learning to assist businesses in making predictive analyses based on their data. The platform enables organizations to answer critical questions regarding revenue forecasts, transaction fraud detection, and customer retention. It simplifies data science by acquiring, validating, storing, and securing data while also preparing it for analysis. Additionally, Voyance facilitates the creation of reports to engage stakeholders effectively. Currently, the company is piloting its services with various organizations in sectors such as banking, e-commerce, and fintech across Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

NeuralSpace

Seed Round in 2022
Neural Space is a natural language understanding platform for low-resource languages. Their products are AI-Powered, API-based, Scalable, and Multilingual.

Leo

Seed Round in 2022
Leo is a recruiting tool that empowers employers and employment agencies through agile recruiting. They recognize that technology is at the heart of every successful recruiting, applicant, hiring manager, and client experience. The contact mode of the company is by mail, phone, and physical address.

Sense

Convertible Note in 2022
Sense is a digital platform that allows shoppers to save all the products they like from any store (physical or online) in one single place

Grayscale AI

Seed Round in 2022
We provide next-generation computer vision and neuromorphic AI to increase efficiency, lower costs and improve sustainability.

Glamera

Seed Round in 2022
Glamera is a mobile application designed for Arab women to easily book and pay for health and beauty services. Launched in 2019 and based in Nasr City, Egypt, the app addresses common challenges associated with scheduling appointments at salons and beauty professionals. Users can select their desired location and service, schedule appointments, and choose from various payment methods, including options for payment in the salon or through the app itself. The platform features over 200 service providers, allowing clients to discover new services while saving time and effort. Glamera also enhances the user experience by offering discounts and loyalty points through its payment gateways. The application operates in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, making beauty services more accessible and convenient.

CyberOwl

Venture Round in 2022
CyberOwl Limited, founded in 2016 and based in Richmond, United Kingdom, specializes in developing network security software solutions. The company focuses on creating an innovative early warning system that employs real-time monitoring of high-value targets to detect malicious behavior. This technology, which is grounded in research shortlisted for a prestigious risk prize, addresses the increasing challenges posed by anonymous and persistent cyber threats, particularly in the context of Smart Cities and the Internet of Things. By utilizing a Bayesian-based framework, CyberOwl's system efficiently analyzes various indicators to identify potential security risks at an early stage, significantly reducing the processing overhead associated with monitoring extensive networks. The solution is designed to scale to networks with over one billion devices, enhancing visibility of threats and aiding in decision-making for countermeasures. CyberOwl is currently working on its minimum viable product and seeks strategic industry partners for validation and further development.

Lawyerd!

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Lawyerd! is a fully automated system that gives the opportunity for clients to defend their intellectual property rights without any legal help from third parties. Our clients will cut the costs of legal services and defend intellectual property rights effectively 15 times faster. Our ultimate aim to become the world's first fully automated commercial platform for the protection of intellectual property rights on the Internet and to establish a clear associative connection for every Internet user, between the Lawyerd! brand and protection of intellectual property rights on the Internet!

Sourcery

Seed Round in 2022
Sourcery aims to revolutionize software development using the power of AI. They are currently developing powerful tools to automatically improve and refactor source code. Sourcery runs in the background and suggests real-time improvements. From simplifying conditionals to extracting out methods, Sourcery helps to write clean, well-structured code. Sourcery runs locally on machine, keeping all code private & secure.

TaTiO

Seed Round in 2022
Skillset helps you make better, fairer, and more efficient hire decisions combining a technology solution with grounded theory and practice. Skillset replaces the traditional resume with an instant and fast online process that evaluates the parameters for predicting success, in which anyone can showcase his or her abilities without hiding behind a dull resume.

Xworks AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Xworks is a software company providing a smart social marketplace for the waste and recovery industry & ancillary industries. We are using technology to drive innovation to divert many more tonnes from landfill &/or illegal dumping while improving recycling targets and encouraging sustainability and circular economy. Our ambition is to power connections so as to create a seemless movement of waste and recovery materials goods and services.

Optimiz

Pre Seed Round in 2022
OPTIMIZ Limited provides cargo claim management service. The company offers a cloud based AI controlled platform CROP (claim recovery platform) to connect cargo underwriters to shipping lines. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom with additional offices in France and Germany. The company operates as a subsidiary of Next Logistics Accelerator Gmbh.

Hive Power

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Hive Power develops a SaaS for Smart Grid Analytics, to help Energy Retailers and Grid Operators to have a smarter data-driven operation. Thanks to specific applications for demand forecasting, management of energy communities, design of new billing schemes, and electric grid modelling and diagnostics, the Hive Platform is the first holistic tool to enable Smart Grids.

UTwin

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Strategic BIM is a PropTech startup that provides digital twin, IoT, and Building Information Modeling (BIM) solutions and services. The company helps clients to use BIM in a strategic way to improve their performance and reduce building management costs.

Volteum

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a data-driven platform designed to guide businesses through the complexities of fleet electrification, including vehicle selection, charging infrastructure setup, and cost analysis. The company's operations tool optimizes electric vehicle fleet management with advanced features for range simulation, route optimization, charging schedule optimization, and live monitoring, all aimed at enhancing efficiency, reducing operational costs, and addressing range anxiety, enabling companies to make confident decisions before, during, and after transitioning their vehicle fleets to electric.

SPG

Series A in 2021
The SPG group of companies was formed in 2016 with the original concept of securing high value peer-peer payments such as cars, art and jewellery with a simplified digital escrow solution. By 2021, SPG and its two primary assets Shieldpay (ww.shieldpay.com) and Paycast (www.paycast.io) had processed over $2.3bn of payments for clients and customers all over the globe and has pioneered the development of contingent based payments in huge sectors such as M&A, fundraising, B2B and supply chain transactions, real estate and marketplaces.

Shieldpay

Series A in 2021
ShieldPay Limited is a FinTech company operating an online escrow platform and payments engine designed to facilitate secure peer-to-peer transactions. Founded in 2016 and based in Shoreditch, United Kingdom, ShieldPay enables users to create an instant digital escrow facility without any setup costs, ensuring both payers and payees are protected. The platform verifies the identity of all parties involved in a transaction, holding funds securely in the ShieldPay Vault until both parties consent to the release. As a fully authorized and regulated entity by the FCA, ShieldPay aims to eliminate fraud in peer-to-peer payments, offering a safer alternative to traditional payment systems that often leave buyers and sellers vulnerable. Their mission is to empower individuals and businesses to transact confidently, with a commitment to improving the overall safety of the payments ecosystem.

Roleshare

Seed Round in 2021
Get full-time balance with the smart matching site for shared roles.

PitchMe

Seed Round in 2021
PitchMe Limited operates an online recruitment platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to connect candidates with employers. Founded in 2017 and based in London, the company addresses the challenges of identifying candidate capabilities and aligning them with employer needs through a unique Skillsourcing process. This approach involves multilayer profiling of skills and effective matchmaking between job seekers and employers. Additionally, PitchMe offers a professional self-presentation tool called the SmartMe profile, which provides candidates with a comprehensive overview of their knowledge and skills, as well as recommendations for enhancing their employability. The platform also includes online education services in various fields, including JavaScript, Python, social media marketing, application development, product management, digital marketing, and search engine optimization, further supporting candidates in meeting the evolving demands of the job market.

Tegarti

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Tegarti is a cloud-based POS and omnichannel retail management platform.

Blink

Series A in 2021
Blink is the digital backbone of companies who run the real world and don’t sit behind a computer. It’s for the millions of essential nurses, bus drivers, construction workers or supply chain operators that run the economy. In just a year, Blink has already been adopted by more than 60,000 people across over 100 companies in the UK, US and Australia who open the Blink app more than 15 times per day. 70% of the workforce today are frontline workers. But they have been underinvested in for far too long. Too often they suffer from low morale because they feel unappreciated at work. It's time for change. In our customers so far, we have reduced staff turnover by 26%, doubled employee satisfaction and delivered an ROI in under 3 months. Most importantly, 100% of frontline workers would recommend Blink to a colleague. We empower, we protect and we equip frontline workers with an all-in-one app that digitises the frontline and put everything your people need at their fingertips. Come join us on our mission.

Torod

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Torod is an API aggregator that enables E-store owners to select the best shipper based on price, insurance, destination, and item value, with a single click set-up.

jalebi

Pre Seed Round in 2021
jalebi is an early-stage B2B food-tech startup unifying a food businesses content + data value-chain, transforming rudimentary and inefficient processes in a surging $8.1 trillion global industry.

Hakbah

Seed Round in 2021
Hakbah is a Fintech startup focusing on an alternative financial saving. Hakbah is modernizing financial saving via its intelligent platform by offering a comprehensive one-stop-shop solution for Savings Groups to initiate, manage, join, and pay directly within the mobile app.

AlGooru

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AlGooru is a tutoring network marketplace that connects students with qualified tutors on a mobile app. Our mobile app uberizes the tutoring market. Students can find reliable tutors, and tutors can manage their sessions/price their own rates.

Healthtracka

Seed Round in 2021
Healthtracka is a digital health platform that allows consumer direct access to lab tests bookings, at-home sample collection and digital results in 1-3days

Lenco

Seed Round in 2021
Lenco is a Neobank that makes current bank accounts and tools for SMEs to grow in Africa. It make bank accounts easy to open and free to manage for businesses in Africa, while also providing tools that helps the businesses grow

Duhqa

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Duhqa operates a supply chain and distribution technology platform that connects manufacturers, retailers, and individuals. The platform facilitates online ordering and real-time tracking, enhancing the efficiency of the ordering and delivery processes. Additionally, it provides access to short-term financing, allowing retailers to improve their inventory management and potentially lower costs related to fragmented supply chains. By streamlining these connections, Duhqa enables its users to shop and manage distribution more effectively.

EyeKnow AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
EyeKnow uses AI and computer vision to provide 24/7 monitoring of children and seniors under care at home or care facilities. Our solution tracks incidents, such as falls, irregular activity, etc, and interactions between caregivers and children or seniors including abuse, negligence, etc. Our system seamlessly integrates with off-the-shelf security cameras, and shares insights and alerts with the relevant stakeholders, via a live dashboard and mobile app.

Pibox

Seed Round in 2021
Pibox develops a messenger application for mobile and web platforms. Its application allows users to message and send files; store, manage, and synchronize files in the cloud; and have file-centered chats. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Kyiv, Ukraine.

reTravel.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
reTravel.io operates as a marketplace designed to enhance the travel industry by connecting travel companies and content providers through a unified platform. It focuses on addressing the significant revenue gap that travel agencies face, as they typically capture only a fraction of the $5.8 trillion travel market, primarily from flights and hotels. The platform emphasizes the importance of ancillaries, such as car rentals, insurance, and entertainment, which often yield higher commissions yet remain underutilized by agencies. By leveraging machine learning and self-driving cross-selling technology, reTravel.io aims to boost attachment rates, increase revenue, and foster greater traveler loyalty. Its business model is success-based, offering seamless onboarding and integrations that make advanced AI and machine learning tools accessible to all travel industry players.

Renbizz

Pre Seed Round in 2021
With their unique model that unifies rentals and sales, Renbizz accelerates retailers' growth in a sustainable manner.

OptimusQ

Pre Seed Round in 2021
OptimusQ is an advertising automation tool that manages and optimizes digital campaigns. The company's platform helps advertisers to focus on the creative process by handling their ad distribution tasks. It also provides users with a one-stop-shop for managing all of their media purchasing and campaign management activities. It was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Ovvio

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ovvio is a cloud-based platform for project management that enables employees to take meeting minutes and assign trackable tasks. Its platform provides a digital notebook to manage and collaborate over projects, create and assign tasks, organize meetings, take notes, and filter assignments. It also offers tools to maintain a project portfolio, allocate tags, and monitor teams.

Agado

Seed Round in 2021
Agado is an interactive video platform that allows you to conduct an effective session with a large number of participants. By using AI, Agado can sense when a trainee is performing a movement incorrectly and automatically show corrections while alerting the trainer which participant needs personalized attention. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Tel-aviv, Israel.

Virtue, formerly Pledger

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Pledger makes it easy for eCommerce brands to incorporate meaningful social impact into their business and grow through giving. Pledger Shopify App enables Causes to get discovered by and team up with UK retailers. With 1000s of retailers and millions of shoppers passing through Shopify, Pledger App is a powerful fundraising platform and a way for businesses to make a meaningful impact.

Kyshi

Seed Round in 2021
Kyshi is a fintech company that offers digital banking services. The company was founded in 2021 by Ayo Akindele and is based in London, England.

Asset Reality

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Asset Reality is a pioneering asset management firm specializing in the recovery and management of seized crypto assets. It offers a comprehensive platform that combines case management and online tools, facilitating the effective tracking and recovery of digital assets. The firm collaborates with leading blockchain analysis companies, digital custodians, and virtual currency exchanges to provide an end-to-end solution for government agencies and insolvency practitioners globally. By streamlining the process of investigating, recovering, and selling seized crypto assets, Asset Reality aims to save time, reduce risks, and enhance revenues for both public and private sector clients.

Skindays

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Skindays is an online beauty marketplace that offers unbiased beauty advice and guidance. They provide products that include cleansers, moisturisers, creams, toners, serums, face masks, tinted moisturisers, scrubs, peels, exfoliators, sun protection, tools, and devices.