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 Southwestern Europe

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Flecto

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Influunt

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Influunt is a provider of a global water risk management platform to provide water and flood risk intelligence to insurance, government, and asset owners using cutting-edge satellite data and artificial intelligence for reducing losses and building climate resilience. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Cybrik

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cybrik is on a mission to radically transform how engineering and construction projects are delivered. Engineering and construction is a $13.5 Trillion dollar industry. But it is one that suffers from poor project outcomes, flat productivity and rising costs. Unlike other solutions that just digitise traditional workflows we are creating new tools and methodologies that give the project team the right information at the right time so that they can make quicker and faster decisions. This results in significant improvements in cost and schedule performance.

NITL

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NITL is a news application designed to help socially conscious individuals stay informed about critical global issues. Available for both iPhone and Android, the app is free to download and does not require user login. It allows users to select specific topics of interest, providing news summaries in a concise three-line format. With content covering important subjects such as climate change, NITL presents news in various formats, including static articles, stories, and videos. This enables users to quickly consume information, making it a convenient choice for those looking to engage with today's news during busy moments.

Hollo

Seed Round in 2021
Hollo is a Paris-based company that specializes in developing software solutions for the human resources industry. Founded in 2020, Hollo offers a comprehensive HR platform designed to enhance candidate engagement and streamline the recruiting process. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing applicant tracking systems and customer relationship management tools, enabling companies to create efficiencies and minimize redundancies. Hollo utilizes SMS technology to reconnect with past applicants, ensuring a continuous talent pool and significantly reducing the time required to fill open positions. By leveraging artificial and conversational intelligence, Hollo's software assists HR teams in pre-qualifying candidates and fosters personalized communication, ultimately optimizing the recruitment process for enterprises.

Moone (Techstars '21)

Seed Round in 2021
Think Confluent helps you attract and retain the best people in your company. We improve the engagement of your employees based on customized people data analytics.

Cubbit

Series A in 2021
Cubbit is a hi-tech startup founded in 2016 on a worldwide mission to shape the cloud as it should always have been. Green. Encrypted. Forever-free for the users. Based in Italy, Bologna, and Israel, Tel Aviv, Cubbit counts Techstars and Barclays among its global-class partners. Thanks to its disruptive green technology that makes it the first cloud provider without proprietary data-center to maintain, Cubbit has achieved international recognition and got financed by the European Commission.

Rely.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
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.

Rely.io

Pre Seed Round in 2021
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.

F3nice

Pre Seed Round in 2021
F3nice is an Italian innovative start-up specializing in additive manufacturing, with a strong emphasis on sustainability and circular economy principles. The company focuses on the development and design of both single and complex components, leveraging its expertise in material science and process engineering. F3nice manufactures metal powder for additive manufacturing feedstock, utilizing recycled metal scrap, including high-alloyed steels and nickel- and titanium-based alloys. This approach not only helps 3D printing clients reduce their carbon footprint but also simplifies their assembly processes, contributing to overall business sustainability.

Deliverart

Seed Round in 2021
Deliverart is an all-in-one cloud software that consolidates all the home delivery orders a restaurant receives (from phone, website, app, food delivery platforms) in a single interface. Alongside with that, it also provides smart tools to maximize the efficiency of a restaurant’s autonomous home deliveries, while increasing the productivity and the coordination between production and logistics. The software, developed by an Italian team and launched in 2019, is born with integrations-by-design, in order to create a helpful environment where restaurants can fully take advantage of digital technologies. Deliverart is a modular solution that can be personalized with add-ons and features, creating a tailor made software for the restaurants’ needs. It can easily interact with other management softwares, food delivery platforms and services to provide a plug-and-play customizable solution.

Latitudo40

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Latitudo 40 operates a geo-information platform that converts satellite imagery into actionable geospatial information to aid decision-making. The platform integrates tools to automatically search, process, and analyze images from Earth observation satellites, leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning to simplify business processes. This enables clients to monitor environmental health, identify potential risks, and develop sustainable urban plans. By providing comprehensive features within a single platform, Latitudo 40 enhances the accessibility and utility of satellite data for various applications.

Cargofive

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cargofive is an online platform that allows users to search, compare, and manage ocean freight rates across multiple carriers. It empowers freight forwarders to be part of the digital era. The platform enables freight forwarders to manage contracts, automate the quotation process, reduce operational costs and have access to actionable data to increase sales. Cargofive was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Lisboa, Portugal.

YData

Pre Seed Round in 2020
YData helps adopters of AI to improve and generate high quality data so they can become tomorrow's industry leaders. We offer a data-centric development platform for Data Scientists to work with high quality and synthetic data.

Wisear

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Wisear helps user overcome their attention issues by building the first brain-wearable technology that can be implemented in any wireless earbuds In the near-term, we are providing monitoring and actionable feedback regarding our attention. In the future, we want to cover many additional mental states like relaxation & sleep. Our long-term goal is to provide medical detections for mental conditions like depression, epilepsy or ADHD

Veesual

Pre Seed Round in 2020
What about using AI to create engaging and inspiring images on the spot? This is the challenge Veesual's team is addressing with their image personalization plateform based on Generation AI. Choose a model, pick an apparel and BOOM: you have a new image. For fashion brands and fashion retailers who need to fuel their e-commerce, social media and communication, they create images personalized to specific audience without additional shootings or editings. More images, more personalization, more engagement, more sales: welcome to the era of individual marketing.

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.

ALBA Robot

Pre Seed Round in 2020
ALBA Robot is a modular and configurable platform to integrate ADAS systems and robotic technologies into wheelchairs. Alba aims to change the way Passengers with Reduced Mobility (PRM) move and enhance their independence in the everyday life. By using the best technologies from Voice Assistants, Automotive, Robotics, and IoT.

Hiveway

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Hiveway is a car share program that facilitates participation in the future of mobility through vehicle sourcing and fleet management services. It provides an all-in-one integrated platform for managing fleets, finding drivers, and overseeing the rental process. Additionally, Hiveway offers a unique solution for investors interested in financing shared cars. The company features in-house fleet management software that allows clients to monitor performance, adjust pricing in real-time, and rent vehicles across multiple websites. This comprehensive approach aims to enhance the overall efficiency and accessibility of car sharing.

Koala

Seed Round in 2020
Koala is a travel insurance provider that addresses the shortcomings of traditional insurance services by offering a streamlined and customer-focused approach. The company specializes in compensating travelers for delayed or canceled flights, monitoring clients' journeys to ensure timely and automatic compensation in the event of disruptions. This includes issues related to flight cancellations, delays, and baggage problems. Koala aims to enhance the travel experience by eliminating hidden fees and unnecessary complexities, positioning itself as a personal travel assistant that prioritizes customer satisfaction and fairness. Through its innovative model, Koala seeks to transform how travelers manage disruptions, ensuring they receive prompt support when things go wrong.

Sybel

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Sybel is a French company founded in 2018 that operates an audio streaming platform specializing in podcasts. Its application provides users with access to a diverse array of audio content, including genres such as fiction, thriller, comedy, drama, science-fiction, romance, and documentaries. The platform caters to various interests and age groups, offering original series and shows for children, as well as talk-shows. Users can enjoy unlimited access to hundreds of podcasts from different producers, with features that allow for offline listening. Sybel's application is designed for use on mobile devices, tablets, smart speakers, and in vehicles, enhancing the accessibility and convenience of audio entertainment.

ALBA Robot

Pre Seed Round in 2020
ALBA Robot is a modular and configurable platform to integrate ADAS systems and robotic technologies into wheelchairs. Alba aims to change the way Passengers with Reduced Mobility (PRM) move and enhance their independence in the everyday life. By using the best technologies from Voice Assistants, Automotive, Robotics, and IoT.

AnsuR Technologies AS

Funding Round in 2020
AnsuR, based in Norway & Spain, provides software for mission-critical satellite communication of multimedia content, reducing bandwidth by 99% and increasing efficiency by 100 times.

Rnters

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Rnters, Unipessoal Lda. is an online rental marketplace based in Lisbon, Portugal, that facilitates the renting of everyday items, including GoPros, bikes, video games, books, and various other products. Founded in 2016 by Guilherme Guerra, the platform allows users to save money by renting items they need while enabling others to profit from their underutilized assets. Rnters offers access to over 3,000 unique items, providing a cost-effective alternative to purchasing goods outright. The company's innovative approach supports a sharing economy, encouraging users to both rent and lend items, thereby enhancing resource efficiency and accessibility.

ThinkDeep AI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
In manufacturing, manual inspection of defects is time-consuming and attention-draining. Deepflow empowers factories to automate defects inspection with Machine Vision (Artificial Intelligence) and improve the accuracy and speed of quality control. - Increase productivity: Automate repetitive, attention-draining defects inspection and labeling tasks. - Improve explainability: Spot defects with pixel-accuracy thanks to cutting-edge Machine Vision technology. - Guarantee traceability: Automatically track and log all spotted defects for continuous auditability.

Quidax

Seed Round in 2020
At the core Quidax is about challenging the status quo to push humanity forward. Quidax is doing this by building solutions that knock down financial barriers to exchange of value and trade. The first product is the online digital exchange that allows users easily buy and sell cryptocurrencies with their local currencies in less than 5 minutes.

Rnters

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Rnters, Unipessoal Lda. is an online rental marketplace based in Lisbon, Portugal, that facilitates the renting of everyday items, including GoPros, bikes, video games, books, and various other products. Founded in 2016 by Guilherme Guerra, the platform allows users to save money by renting items they need while enabling others to profit from their underutilized assets. Rnters offers access to over 3,000 unique items, providing a cost-effective alternative to purchasing goods outright. The company's innovative approach supports a sharing economy, encouraging users to both rent and lend items, thereby enhancing resource efficiency and accessibility.

Secret City Trails

Seed Round in 2020
Secret City Trails, founded in 2017 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, offers a unique marketplace for city discovery games designed to enhance urban exploration. The company creates interactive experiences where players solve a series of riddles through a web app on their mobile devices, requiring minimal data usage. These games are crafted by locals in over 40 European cities, guiding participants to hidden gems and local favorites while promoting sustainable tourism and supporting local entrepreneurship. As players engage with the trails, they unlock stories related to the city's history, culture, and art, alongside recommendations for independent shops, cafes, and bars. With more than 90 adventures available, Secret City Trails provides an entertaining and affordable way for travelers to see and enjoy cities in a playful manner.

Tictactrip

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Tictactrip est un comparateur de billets de transports terrestres, qui permet la création de combinaisons intermodales pour voyager à travers l’Europe1. Ce site internet regroupe les offres des transports ferroviaires, et routiers (bus et covoiturage). Une centaine de compagnies et sociétés de transports sont partenaires, telles que Ouibus, Flixbus, Isilines, SNCF ou encore Blablacar. Leurs offres sont analysées, restructurées et combinées par la plateforme, qui a pour but de proposer des trajets économiques.

EMOTAI

Pre Seed Round in 2020
EMOTAI is a privately held company based in Lisbon, Portugal, founded in 2018. It specializes in enhancing human performance through innovative technology. The company manufactures a wearable headband that monitors brain waves and heart rate, specifically designed for gamers. EMOTAI provides a platform that generates performance reports, offering insights into focus, stress, engagement, and heart rate levels. By tracking these biosignals, EMOTAI aims to improve gamers' focus and working memory, ultimately helping them to perform better in their gaming activities.

TUC S.r.l.

Pre Seed Round in 2020
TUC Technology develops a structural digital interface designed to be implemented in a vehicle's chassis. TUC Technology 's product has a physical fixing point and a hub and switches system to exchange and elaborate data among all the devices connected, allowing users to rationalize and increase the entire electronic system of vehicles. TUC Technology was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Turin, Italy.

WeGlad

Pre Seed Round in 2020
WeGlad develops an application for safe and personalized mobility, starting from people with disabilities. The company allows users to report obstacles in real time and find routes without architectural barriers. WeGlad aims to ease up people’s lives through a bottom up paradigm, which studies difficult mobility complications, generating a tool that creates an accessible outdoor environment, and clear information about the indoor facilities. WeGlad was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Turin, Italy.

Workathlon

Seed Round in 2020
Workathlon IKE operates an online recruitment platform specifically tailored for the hospitality industry, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance the job matching process. The platform enables job seekers to upload resumes and explore various opportunities in hotels and other hospitality sectors, while also assisting employers in finding candidates that meet their job specifications. Established in 2015 and based in Marousi, Greece, Workathlon has garnered the trust of over thirty thousand hospitality professionals and serves more than 350 companies, including hotels, tour operators, and restaurants across Cyprus, Germany, Malta, the United Arab Emirates, and Switzerland. It has become a key resource for both job seekers looking to advance their careers and employers aiming to recruit top talent in the hospitality field.

Lullaai: Baby Sleep App

Seed Round in 2020
LullaAi was conceived to provide better health for your baby and you. We are starting with sleep, one of the most important factors in early development.

Triditive

Seed Round in 2020
Triditive specializes in an innovative 3D printing platform that leverages machine learning to facilitate automated mass production. Their flagship technology, AMCELL®, allows for fully automated and scalable manufacturing processes, enabling on-demand production with high capacity while minimizing defects in real-time through advanced robotics. The platform is designed to transition from prototyping to the mass production of fully functional finished products. It operates as a fully automated system, controlled by software that enables users to manage, execute, and monitor work orders remotely from any device. This capability allows organizations to efficiently handle urgent requests and reduce machine downtime, thereby optimizing the overall production process.

EVA

Pre Seed Round in 2020
ELECTRIC VISIONARY AIRCRAFTS, INC. designs landing and charging stations for drones and electric flying vehicles. It also manufactures battery-enabled aircrafts. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Lisbon, Portugal with additional offices in Toulouse, Paris, France; Doha, Qatar; and Tokyo Japan.

Heuristech

Seed Round in 2019
Heuristech helps in dealing with pipeline maintenance in the right way. It disrupts pipeline corrosion management with breakthrough technology. Heuristech is headquartered in Paris, France and was founded in 2018.

Hiveway

Seed Round in 2019
Hiveway is a car share program that facilitates participation in the future of mobility through vehicle sourcing and fleet management services. It provides an all-in-one integrated platform for managing fleets, finding drivers, and overseeing the rental process. Additionally, Hiveway offers a unique solution for investors interested in financing shared cars. The company features in-house fleet management software that allows clients to monitor performance, adjust pricing in real-time, and rent vehicles across multiple websites. This comprehensive approach aims to enhance the overall efficiency and accessibility of car sharing.

Medeo

Seed Round in 2019
Medeo supports the digitalization of healthcare professionals by developing applications to improve their practice, productivity, and their work and life balance. The company is headquartered in Villeurbanne, France.

LOUIS

Seed Round in 2019
Louis- Design Marketing & Consultants”, is a emerging company engaged in trading and supplying Commercial, Decorative, and Architectural LED Lighting range. Our products are known for their longer life, high illumination and easy installation. What we are proud of ourselves is the product quality and innovation, along with honest and informed customer service, that serve as the keystones of our company's philosophy.

Groover

Venture Round in 2019
Groover, SAS operates an online platform for sharing music tunes and receiving feedback. The company allows users to send tunes to blogs, radios, playlists, independent journalists, labels, and bookers for an amount of money in virtual currency, Grooviz, through an online platform. It also allows users to receive the feedback from online community of music influencers. It serves the music and entertainment industry. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Vauville, France.

CaptainVet

Seed Round in 2019
CaptainVet is a company that offers an online appointment booking platform designed to enhance veterinary services. Founded in 2017, it enables veterinarians to manage their businesses efficiently, facilitating customer acquisition through search engine marketing, appointment scheduling, and client management. The platform also allows veterinarians to receive trusted reviews directly on Google My Business. For pet owners, CaptainVet simplifies the process of finding and booking appointments with various veterinarians, including options for teleconsulting based on real-time availability. This technology-driven approach aims to streamline the veterinary experience for both practitioners and pet owners.

Hello Birdie

Seed Round in 2019
Hello Birdie is an innovative application tailored for golfers, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance game preparation. The platform assists users in crafting personalized strategies for over 40,000 golf courses globally, considering individual golfing abilities. By functioning as a digital coach, Hello Birdie guides players through essential aspects such as game strategy, club selection, and shot selection. This comprehensive tool aims to replace traditional scorecards and GPS applications, empowering golfers to take control of their performance and set achievable goals on the course.

asgard.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Asgard is a market intelligence company that helps businesses to track any market or company's activity. Its AI-powered detection and matching engine identify companies that have expressed the right buying signals for your solution.

Qovery

Seed Round in 2019
Qovery is a company that provides a Container as a Service (CaaS) platform, facilitating the development and deployment of applications with minimal infrastructure management. Founded in 2019 and based in Paris, France, Qovery's platform is designed to accelerate the application development cycle, allowing developers to focus on building and managing their applications rather than dealing with underlying infrastructure. By offering integrated developer accounts and enhancing the overall development experience, Qovery enables users to operate with greater autonomy, significantly reducing the time required to bring applications to market.

Koala

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Koala is a travel insurance provider that addresses the shortcomings of traditional insurance services by offering a streamlined and customer-focused approach. The company specializes in compensating travelers for delayed or canceled flights, monitoring clients' journeys to ensure timely and automatic compensation in the event of disruptions. This includes issues related to flight cancellations, delays, and baggage problems. Koala aims to enhance the travel experience by eliminating hidden fees and unnecessary complexities, positioning itself as a personal travel assistant that prioritizes customer satisfaction and fairness. Through its innovative model, Koala seeks to transform how travelers manage disruptions, ensuring they receive prompt support when things go wrong.

Caria

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Caria is a digital therapeutics company focused on supporting women during perimenopause, menopause, and beyond. It offers a platform that combines behavioral science with symptom tracking and personalized health insights, allowing women to effectively manage the challenges associated with these life stages. Through data-driven care and a supportive community, Caria provides resources that empower women to navigate the effects of menopause with confidence. The company aims to address age-related conditions and improve the overall well-being of its users by leveraging cognitive behavioral therapy and other therapeutic approaches.

FLOD AI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Flod specializes in the development of an AI-based surveillance device intended for predictive maintenance of infrastructure. Its product can detect and locate warning signs of upcoming breakdown for any type of maintenance-critical material, enabling businesses to minimize their carbon footprint and take control of maintenance costs.

Unlimited

Seed Round in 2019
Unlimited (Techstars Detroit 2019) is the only modular electric powertrain for micromobility (eBikes, eScooters, eSkateboards), the most fun and convenient solution to last mile trips that are over-served by cars and public transportation. Through a partnership with Loaded (loadedboards.com), we intend to influence the future of micro-mobility. We believe that the shared passion of our combined teams will allow us to explore uncharted and exciting new directions in e-skate and alternative transportation! Where we're going, the possibilities are Unlimited!

kencko

Seed Round in 2019
kencko foods, inc. produces and sells organic fruit and vegetable products in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company offers sachet-based drink, including ten pack, thirty pack, and sixty pack. kencko foods, inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York with a processing facility in Lisbon, Portugal.

Wakeo

Venture Round in 2019
Wakeo is a SaaS platform to bring real-time visibility on B2B transport flows (sea, air, road). They help shippers and forwarders improve customer experience and optimize operations. They do this by consolidating multiple transport partners into a central Saas platform to bring real-time visibility on all transport flows. They use satellite data and they connect to trucks embedded GPS & IoT systems. Through machine learning, they adjust dates of arrival on a dynamic basis and send alerts to operational teams for them to anticipate. They turn the Supply chain from reactive to predictive.

Gofer

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Gofer is a community-driven, Saas-enabled temporary staff marketplace. They start with high-end hotels in major cities with a highly transferable model (geography and sector). Businesses need flexible and reliable temporary staff, with no difference, on know-how and behaviour, from their permanent staff. They want to decrease training and hiring costs by retaining their temporary staff. Workers want to work in the best environment possible, as much as they want, be paid fast and get recognition. They select and curate temporary staff, then digitally take care of all the paperwork and the payment. Their communities and back-office ensure that the best match is done and that a pool of worker is built for a business : training and briefing saves precious on-site training time. Happy workers, matched to cultural environment bring the most value. Highly engaged temporary staff allow businesses to control their own customer satisfaction and HR costs. They are the temporary staffing platform that cares for the communities they build. Driving metrics : User satisfaction; Repeat-business; Recommendation and organic community growth.

Urban Data Eye

Seed Round in 2019
Urban Data Eye is an analytics platform that provides data to optimize large spaces. It utilizes AI algorithm to analyze any public space in real-time. UDE applies the algorithm on the thousands of cameras that already exist in cities and businesses, in order to extract data that will generate maximum economic profitability for businesses, advertising companies, town halls or land developers. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

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.

EVA

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ELECTRIC VISIONARY AIRCRAFTS, INC. designs landing and charging stations for drones and electric flying vehicles. It also manufactures battery-enabled aircrafts. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Lisbon, Portugal with additional offices in Toulouse, Paris, France; Doha, Qatar; and Tokyo Japan.

Iomob

Seed Round in 2019
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.

Eversend

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Eversend SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Paris, France, offers a multi-currency e-wallet application that enables users to send and receive money, buy cryptocurrency, create virtual cards, and purchase airtime. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide a digital payment gateway, facilitating electronic money transfers to bank accounts and mobile payments while minimizing costs associated with fees and foreign exchange. In addition to its current services, Eversend plans to expand its offerings to include personal loans, savings, group savings, merchant payments, and investment options. The company aims to grow its presence in Nigeria, Francophone Africa, and Europe while utilizing funds for product development, user acquisition, and regulatory compliance.

Eversend

Convertible Note in 2019
Eversend SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Paris, France, offers a multi-currency e-wallet application that enables users to send and receive money, buy cryptocurrency, create virtual cards, and purchase airtime. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide a digital payment gateway, facilitating electronic money transfers to bank accounts and mobile payments while minimizing costs associated with fees and foreign exchange. In addition to its current services, Eversend plans to expand its offerings to include personal loans, savings, group savings, merchant payments, and investment options. The company aims to grow its presence in Nigeria, Francophone Africa, and Europe while utilizing funds for product development, user acquisition, and regulatory compliance.

Eversend

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Eversend SAS, founded in 2017 and based in Paris, France, offers a multi-currency e-wallet application that enables users to send and receive money, buy cryptocurrency, create virtual cards, and purchase airtime. The platform leverages blockchain technology to provide a digital payment gateway, facilitating electronic money transfers to bank accounts and mobile payments while minimizing costs associated with fees and foreign exchange. In addition to its current services, Eversend plans to expand its offerings to include personal loans, savings, group savings, merchant payments, and investment options. The company aims to grow its presence in Nigeria, Francophone Africa, and Europe while utilizing funds for product development, user acquisition, and regulatory compliance.

Cubbit

Seed Round in 2019
Cubbit is a hi-tech startup founded in 2016 on a worldwide mission to shape the cloud as it should always have been. Green. Encrypted. Forever-free for the users. Based in Italy, Bologna, and Israel, Tel Aviv, Cubbit counts Techstars and Barclays among its global-class partners. Thanks to its disruptive green technology that makes it the first cloud provider without proprietary data-center to maintain, Cubbit has achieved international recognition and got financed by the European Commission.

Poppins

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Poppins is a developer of digital therapeutic technology aimed at enhancing cognitive function in children with learning disorders. The company creates interactive musical games that integrate neurologic music therapy methods to address conditions such as dyslexia, dysphasia, and dyspraxia. These games focus on improving essential skills like concentration, motor skills, and memory through engaging activities that can be performed at home. By leveraging data science and advanced technologies, Poppins interprets learning, language, and motor performance to generate a cognitive score, facilitating personalized treatment plans. The company's mission is to provide accessible digital solutions for children facing learning challenges, ultimately aiming to improve their reading abilities and memory retention while supporting speech therapy.

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.

Barratio

Pre Seed Round in 2018
With Barratio, Restaurateurs, Bars owner will receive real actionable live data, giving them the insights they need to have full control over their business and ensure they stay ahead of the competition.

Fresco

Pre Seed Round in 2018
FRESCO is revolutionizing the cooking oil market in order to allow anybody to make any dish tastier and healthier, transforming a commodity, like olive oil, into a premium and emotional product. For this reason they developed the first solution to make the best condiment ever, the fresh olive oil. Fresco experience is easy and exciting: all you need is EVA, the first mini-oil mill, and his frozen olives Pulps. Thanks to their multi-skilled team and outstanding partners, they concluded the prototyping phase and they raised €1,0M. In May 2018 they have entered the B2B market with a pre-order campaign and they have already sold 50 subscription plans.

Gofer

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Gofer is a community-driven, Saas-enabled temporary staff marketplace. They start with high-end hotels in major cities with a highly transferable model (geography and sector). Businesses need flexible and reliable temporary staff, with no difference, on know-how and behaviour, from their permanent staff. They want to decrease training and hiring costs by retaining their temporary staff. Workers want to work in the best environment possible, as much as they want, be paid fast and get recognition. They select and curate temporary staff, then digitally take care of all the paperwork and the payment. Their communities and back-office ensure that the best match is done and that a pool of worker is built for a business : training and briefing saves precious on-site training time. Happy workers, matched to cultural environment bring the most value. Highly engaged temporary staff allow businesses to control their own customer satisfaction and HR costs. They are the temporary staffing platform that cares for the communities they build. Driving metrics : User satisfaction; Repeat-business; Recommendation and organic community growth.

Barratio

Pre Seed Round in 2018
With Barratio, Restaurateurs, Bars owner will receive real actionable live data, giving them the insights they need to have full control over their business and ensure they stay ahead of the competition.

AZmed

Pre Seed Round in 2018
AZmed is a Paris-based company that specializes in automating fracture X-ray diagnostics through the use of deep learning technologies. Founded in 2018, AZmed's solutions are designed to seamlessly integrate into the existing workflows of healthcare professionals, enabling doctors to analyze medical images more efficiently without altering their established practices. By focusing on low-level examinations, AZmed helps healthcare specialists optimize their productivity, allowing them to allocate more time and resources to critical cases. The company aims to enhance the diagnostic capabilities of radiologists, ultimately improving patient care and outcomes.

CloudGuide

Pre Seed Round in 2018
CloudGuide SL develops a smartphone application for cultural institutions, museums, monuments, parks, and art galleries. Its application allows visitors to access the official content of their favorite museum; gives recommendations of new exhibitions and local museums; gives the exhibition background content through audios, videos, texts, and images; and provides access to entrance tickets, merchandising, and the museum’s association. The company also provides CloudGuide Education, a mobile application for youth, students, and children; and a content management system to upload content, change configuration parameters, and interact with visitors. In addition, it provides subscription plans. The company offers solutions in the areas of iBeacon and indoor localization, and audience studies. It serves customers in Spain and internationally. CloudGuide SL was incorporated in 2013 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

RatedPower

Seed Round in 2018
RatedPower offers pvDesign, a cloud-based software to carry out the design and engineering of utility-scale solar photovoltaic plants. The software offers a faster, more automated, accurate, and reliable method than traditional engineering, improving the profitability of users assets.

Stockly

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Stockly is a software company based in Paris, France, founded in 2017. It specializes in connecting e-commerce websites with a global inventory network, allowing retailers to maintain sales even when their own stock is depleted. The platform facilitates real-time inventory management by enabling e-retailers to tap into the stock of other merchants, addressing a significant challenge in the online retail sector where 30% of e-shoppers abandon their purchases due to stock-outs. By providing this solution, Stockly helps e-commerce businesses enhance their sales potential and improve customer satisfaction by minimizing lost sales opportunities.

Axel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Axel is an AI-powered virtual assistant makes your onboardings simple and successful.

Groover

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Groover, SAS operates an online platform for sharing music tunes and receiving feedback. The company allows users to send tunes to blogs, radios, playlists, independent journalists, labels, and bookers for an amount of money in virtual currency, Grooviz, through an online platform. It also allows users to receive the feedback from online community of music influencers. It serves the music and entertainment industry. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is headquartered in Vauville, France.

Tarot Analytics

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Tarot Analytics is a simple route optimisation platform.

LOUIS

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Louis- Design Marketing & Consultants”, is a emerging company engaged in trading and supplying Commercial, Decorative, and Architectural LED Lighting range. Our products are known for their longer life, high illumination and easy installation. What we are proud of ourselves is the product quality and innovation, along with honest and informed customer service, that serve as the keystones of our company's philosophy.

Axel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Axel is an AI-powered virtual assistant makes your onboardings simple and successful.

Inyo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Inyo is a Smart Assistant that automates some low-value and time-consuming tasks to save freelancers a lot of time and lighten their mental load.

kencko

Pre Seed Round in 2018
kencko foods, inc. produces and sells organic fruit and vegetable products in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company offers sachet-based drink, including ten pack, thirty pack, and sixty pack. kencko foods, inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York with a processing facility in Lisbon, Portugal.

Stockly

Seed Round in 2018
Stockly is a software company based in Paris, France, founded in 2017. It specializes in connecting e-commerce websites with a global inventory network, allowing retailers to maintain sales even when their own stock is depleted. The platform facilitates real-time inventory management by enabling e-retailers to tap into the stock of other merchants, addressing a significant challenge in the online retail sector where 30% of e-shoppers abandon their purchases due to stock-outs. By providing this solution, Stockly helps e-commerce businesses enhance their sales potential and improve customer satisfaction by minimizing lost sales opportunities.

kencko

Pre Seed Round in 2018
kencko foods, inc. produces and sells organic fruit and vegetable products in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company offers sachet-based drink, including ten pack, thirty pack, and sixty pack. kencko foods, inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York with a processing facility in Lisbon, Portugal.

Cubbit

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Cubbit is a hi-tech startup founded in 2016 on a worldwide mission to shape the cloud as it should always have been. Green. Encrypted. Forever-free for the users. Based in Italy, Bologna, and Israel, Tel Aviv, Cubbit counts Techstars and Barclays among its global-class partners. Thanks to its disruptive green technology that makes it the first cloud provider without proprietary data-center to maintain, Cubbit has achieved international recognition and got financed by the European Commission.

CashDirector

Seed Round in 2018
CashDirector S.A. is a company based in Warsaw, Poland, with additional offices in London, Palo Alto, and Paris. Founded in 2012, CashDirector specializes in designing and developing accounting platforms tailored for banks and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The platform offers a range of services including online banking, automation of financial tasks, cash flow management, invoice issuance, tax filing, and lead generation. By integrating innovative technology, such as AI accounting robots, CashDirector enables real-time booking of business transactions and bank operations. The platform aims to help banks differentiate themselves in a competitive market by providing value-added services that assist SMEs in managing cash flow and payments effectively. This support not only addresses the critical issue of cash management, which contributes to a significant percentage of SME failures, but also fosters long-term relationships and loyalty between banks and their SME clients.

Hellotickets

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Hellotickets is a ticketing platform designed for selling tickets for leisure and cultural events to international travelers visiting the US or London. It was founded in 2016 by Alberto Martínez and Carla Mouriño and is based in Madrid.

ProtoPixel

Pre Seed Round in 2018
ProtoPixel SL develops and manufactures hardware and a cloud based application software for designing lighting experiences. The company's products include ProtoPixel Create, which is a cloud based software for creating dynamic lighting; ProtoPixel Node, which is a mini computer for managing lighting; ProtoPixel Led Driver, which is a LED Dimmer Driver device; and ProtoPixel Controller, which is a miniaturized controller. ProtoPixel SL was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain.

Wise Athena

Seed Round in 2018
Wise Athena Inc. develops and maintains Artificial Intelligence as a Service (AiaaS) platform to predict price and demand of SKUs. It offers Wise Athena, an AiaaS platform that helps companies to act on data-driven facts; analyzes competitors’ actions and the user’s product performance; and enable CPGs to make the best pricing and trade promotion decisions. Wise Athena Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Houston, Texas with an additional office in Madrid, Spain.

Sensei

Seed Round in 2018
Sensei Tech specializes in developing an AI-powered real-time video recognition system that enhances traditional video surveillance cameras, transforming them into advanced analytical sensors. Founded in 2017 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, the company creates algorithms that enable retailers to digitize their physical stores and monitor various aspects of the shopping experience. This includes measuring traffic flow, evaluating product performance, detecting out-of-stock items, and providing store benchmarking. By offering accurate in-store analytics, Sensei Tech helps retailers optimize operations and improve customer experiences, facilitating a seamless, checkout-free shopping environment. Their technology supports the evolution of "Phygital" stores, which blend physical and digital retail experiences to drive sales and enhance operational efficiency.