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Bitmovin
Bitmovin

Bitmovin provides transcoding and media streaming solutions that allow video content to be played on any device and in any browser without buffering.

http://www.bitmovin.com/

Bitmovin provides transcoding and media streaming solutions for developers and businesses. The company has developed the market's fastest API driven cloud-based video encoding service and an HTML5 Player that allows adaptive content to be played on any device, in any browser without buffering. Their API based products help developers around the world solve video problems with cloud-native software that runs anywhere.

Since its founding in 2013, this Y Combinator alumni startup has created a portfolio of solutions for video streaming services that are used by companies like Periscope, RedBull Media House, The New York Times, and more for their adaptive video streaming and embedded video needs.

Year Invested
2014
Sector
Austria
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Austria
Dronamics
Dronamics

Dronamics is developing advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems that are optimized for heavy payloads and long range for commercial and special logistics.

https://www.dronamics.com/

Dronamics is re-inventing the future of cargo shipping through drones. Their Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) are considerably cheaper to build and operate than existing aircrafts and can carry up to 350 kg payloads across routes exceeding 2,500 km. Dronamics’ technology is particularly promising to impact logistics in the developing world. The company’s vision is to open new trade routes, make same-day international delivery feasible, and serve the billions of people living outside of main trade centers.

Year Invested
2015
Sector
Bulgaria
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Bulgaria
Celus
Celus

Solution to empower development teams to easily build embedded systems, without deep knowledge about electronics.

http://www.celus.io/

The AI-powered CELUS Engineering Platform generates schematics, PCB-Layouts and BOM at the touch of a button. By automating all the manual steps in the engineering process, we can reduce development times by up to 90%.

Year Invested
2019
Sector
Germany
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Germany
Porotech
Porotech

Porotech is a University of Cambridge spin-out developing a unique high-performance and energy-efficient wide-band gap semiconductor - GaN.

https://www.porotech.co.uk/

Porotech is revolutionizing the semiconducting industry thanks to its multifunctional GaN semiconductor wafers. Their proprietary technology and unique production process allow for the creation of porous semiconductor materials and structures with enhanced behavior. GaN has important photonic properties which allow it to be used in LEDs and microLEDS, as well as energy efficient properties which have important applications in RF and power devices.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
United Kingdom
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cylib
cylib

cylib offers an innovative and sustainable technology for Li-ion battery recycling. For a true circular economy instead of further depletion.

https://www.cylib.de/

cylib aims to secure global raw material demands by recycling Li-ion batteries. This is realized by a proprietary, resource-efficient and environmentally friendly end-to-end process. The holistic cylib-process gives commodities another life by treating used batteries and transforming them into marketable raw materials. With cylib’s process, it is possible to recover all battery components. This also includes Lithium and Graphite among other materials that are currently not recovered from batteries in the EU.

The recycling process was developed over many years of research at RWTH Aachen University and contains all the relevant process steps, like mechanical, thermal and chemical treatments to reach high yields.

Year Invested
2022
Sector
Germany
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Breathe Battery Technologies
Breathe Battery Technologies

Breathe builds physics-based battery management software to support the electrification of our planet’s transport systems.

https://www.breathe.technology/

Breathe Battery Technologies is a London-based startup and 2019 spin-out from Imperial College London founded by Dr. Yan Zhao, Dr. Ian Campbell and Professor Greg Offer. The company was founded in pursuit of universally clean air and a sustainable Earth. Today, Breathe is actively developing the technologies to improve battery safety, performance and cost to support the electrification of our planet’s transport systems.

We create battery management software that provides deep insights into battery health. These insights are then used to improve the battery and to provide great software products to the automotive and consumer electronics markets.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
MindsDB
MindsDB

MindsDB improves the predictive power of your data by enabling the addition of reliable third-party data from a variety of trusted sources.

https://mindsdb.com/

MindsDB helps organizations use machine learning and artificial intelligence to obtain predictive insights that can allow them to make better business decisions. MindsDB trains, tests and then selects the most accurate state of the art AI models to apply to your data allowing for accurate predictions and forecasting.

Year Invested
2018
Sector
United States of America
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United States of America
IndyKite
IndyKite

IndyKite is building a new paradigm of digital identity solutions.

https://www.indykite.com/

IndyKite is building a new paradigm of digital identity solutions based on a model that solves for all kinds of identities and the many ways they interact with and inform each other. Connected data, in what is known as IndyKite’s Identity Knowledge Graph, provides the power to ask unprecedented questions for context-aware, real-time recommendations, hyper-personalization and fine-grained authorization decisions.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
Norway
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Norway
Solvo.ai
Solvo.ai

Solvo.ai’s journey started in the most uncertain and volatile time, driven by the global pandemic and global trade wars. Our AI engine suite optimises supply chain networks and drives higher yields in logistics, through efficient learning from historical data, efficient learning from changing market dynamics and human machine collaboration.

https://solvo.ai/

Solvo.ai is on a mission to build a ”central cross-functional brain” suite of products that combine human expertise with practical AI to make supply chains of the future resilient, agile and self learning by design. 

Our first MVP has been tested on real data from one of the leading global logistics service providers, with a target of 1000+ pricing experts. 

Our story is all about real people, real problems, real solutions, and real value.

Year Invested
2022
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
planqc
planqc

Planqc builds quantum computers based on single atoms to solve problems intractable on any classical computer.

https://planqc.eu/

planqc was founded 2022 by a team of scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and is the first startup to emerge from the Munich Quantum Valley, one of the leading quantum technology hubs in Europe.

planqc’s quantum computers are built on the precision of the world’s best atomic clocks, the world’s best quantum gas microscopes, and high-speed Rydberg gates. This unique combination of quantum technologies is the fastest way to scale to thousands of qubits, a prerequisite for industry-relevant quantum advantage.

Year Invested
2022
Sector
Germany
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Germany
Eunice
Eunice

Eunice believes that bridging data and action will empower the sustainable development of Web3 and Crypto.

https://www.eunice.ai/

Eunice is building a SaaS data and analytics platform for the Head of Listing of Crypto Exchanges and Analysts of Crypto Funds to discover, analyse and monitor early-stage tokens. Through the patterning, profiling and delivery of bespoke on- and off-chain data, Eunice’s platform enables institutional investors to automatically filter information, understand project traction and navigate an increasingly-complex regulatory landscape. Eunice has also built the first Crypto environmental API and wallet carbon profiler so that businesses can better understand the environmental impact of their Crypto operations and holdings.

Year Invested
2022
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
QphoX
QphoX

QphoX has designed a quantum transducer allowing quantum computers to be networked together.

https://qphox.eu/

QphoX’s proprietary quantum transducer coherently translates quantum information from the microwave to the optical domain, allowing for quantum processing units to be connected, scaled up, and used in quantum networks. Their solutions allow for small, high-fidelity quantum processors to be connected into a large, parallel quantum processing unit for more powerful distributed computation.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
Netherlands
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Netherlands
Bitfount
Bitfount

Bitfount is a platform for federated AI and data collaboration.

https://www.bitfount.com/

Bitfount enables modellers to gather insights and train models from other people’s data. Because of the federated nature of the platform, Bitfount enables data providers to share the benefits of their data without ever having to give up control or privacy.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
Pimloc
Pimloc

Pimloc provides specialist deep learning services for video security and data privacy applications and has developed a world leading platform for the ingestion, detection, classification, and protection of image and video content.

https://www.pimloc.com/

Pimloc is a British tech company which provides specialist deep learning services for video security and data privacy applications. Pimloc is engaged on a number of fronts covering video data privacy, online content moderation and security. It has developed a world leading platform for the ingestion, detection, classification, and protection of image and video content.

The Pimloc platform has been trained by showing it millions of images across a wide range of content. It has learned how to recognize and classify faces, objects, and even scenes in images it has never seen before.

Year Invested
2020
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
MiLaboratories
MiLaboratories

MiLaboratories is the leader in immunome data analysis software with flagship product MiXCR.

https://milaboratories.com/

MiLaboratories is the leader in immunome data analysis software with flagship product MiXCR. MiXCR is a top-notch solution to analyze immunology sequencing data. Our software is used in vaccine, cancer, antibodies, and autoimmune diseases drug development pipelines. We provide a secure, scalable, and fast solution that helps thousands of researchers around the globe to discover new drugs and therapies.

Year Invested
2022
Sector
Spain
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Spain
TurinTech
TurinTech

Turin Tech has developed a unique platform to automate the entire process of creating, deploying and optimizing AI.

https://turintech.ai/

Turin Tech is enabling businesses to automatically build, optimize with multiple objectives and deploy models within days via their platform EvoML - the only platform that can optimize models at high speed and low latency, as well as embed code optimization for optimal performance without compromising accuracy or other business metrics.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
KETS
KETS

KETS is leveraging the properties of quantum mechanics to solve challenging problems in randomness generation and secure key distribution to enable ultra secure communications.

https://kets-quantum.com/

A spin-out of the University of Bristol’s world-leading center in integrated photonics, KETS has developed a photonic integrated chip Quantum Key Distribution module that has lower size, weight, and power than all current other offerings. KETS is using integrated photonic technologies to offer practical, miniaturized and cost-effective solutions.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
MyDataModels
MyDataModels

MyDataModels believes that Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science should be open and available all.

https://www.mydatamodels.com/

MyDataModels is the developer of TADA, an analytics platform powered by Artificial Intelligence.

Powerful and easy to use, TADA helps companies analyze and extract value from data. The platform generates highly interpretable and accurate predictive models, and contrary to traditional machine learning methods, the solution works with small data sets. No coding or data science expertise are required!

French-based MyDataModels' unique technology is the preferred solution for healthcare, research, industry and embedded systems.

Year Invested
2020
Sector
France
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France
Deep Render
Deep Render

Deep Render is building the next generation of image and video compression standards, based purely on modern Machine Learning methods, providing a 10x improvement over the current standards.

https://deeprender.ai/

Deep Render is an AI startup, developing the next generation of image and video compression algorithms. Their proprietary and patented image-compression technology is at the forefront of machine learning research, providing a 10x improvement over the current industry standards.

Deep Render´s vision is to combine the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Information theory to unlock the fundamental limits of image and video compression. Their Biological compression approximates the neurological processes of the human eye through a non-linear, context-aware, learning-based approach, thereby creating a novel class of highly efficient compression algorithms. Moreover, while the traditional compression methods (HEIC; HEIF; AV1; VVC) have hit peak-innovation with significantly declining performance gains per iteration, Biological Compression technology is only starting.

Year Invested
2019
Sector
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom
tenyks
tenyks

Machine Learning Ops monitoring and validation platform that helps AI developers working with computer vision data to build more reliable software faster

https://www.tenyks.ai/

Tenyks is a University of Cambridge spin-out, inventing the way humanity interacts with AI to protect and delight. We are building an MLOps monitoring and validation platform that helps AI developers working with computer vision data to build more reliable software faster. Specifically, our platform helps ML developers understand what’s wrong with their software and fix it.

Year Invested
2021
Sector
Bulgaria
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Bulgaria
text.cortex
text.cortex

TextCortex combines advanced NLG algorithms with proven marketing practices to create the best AI software for copywriting.

https://textcortex.com/

Text Cortex AI is a Berlin-based Artificial Intelligence Startup devoted to helping businesses become more open, public and searchable by enabling the creation of AI-developed text for their products, advertisements, blogs and other forms of the written word. This lessens the high costs and human scalability limitations associated with writing text that a machine can understand.

Year Invested
2022
Sector
Germany
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Germany
Boltzbit
Boltzbit

Boltzbit makes cost-effective and code-free foundation AI to empower businesses and developer communities on creating their own AI solutions.

https://boltzbit.com/

Foundation models are turbo-charging the future of AI, and it is happening right now. Built by top AI researchers, Boltzbit creates the first Foundation AI platform that allows its users to build multi-tasking continuous-learning AI from data without a single line of code.  

The solutions of Boltzbit AI have a wide range of use cases in financial services and digital marketing. The Boltzbit Foundation AI platform brings the open-source community, AI researchers, and AI solution builders together to push AI into the next level.

Year Invested
2022
Sector
Germany
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Germany
Scalarr
Scalarr

Scalarr is a machine learning-based anti-fraud solution for mobile companies, protecting them against app-install ad fraud to prevent losses.

https://scalarr.io/

When it comes to the biggest mobile advertising landscape threat, Scalarr uses 2 layers of the next‑generation Machine Learning algorithms that detects all types of mobile app-install fraud with dramatically improved accuracy up to 97%.

Year Invested
2018
Sector
Ukraine
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Ukraine
Stateless
Stateless

Stateless makes complex network functions easy to manage, fast, and scalable to meet today’s “as a service” demands.

https://www.stateless.net/

Stateless was founded in 2016 with a vision to fundamentally re-think the architecture of network devices to meet today’s “as a service” demands. The company has developed first of its kind technology to allow network functions like firewalls and load balancers to be easily offered and consumed through the “as a service” model. The company’s platform and network functions move networking infrastructures of all kinds into the cloud era, giving operators the flexibility and functionality today’s users badly need. Stateless is based in Boulder, CO and is a spin-off of research conducted by co-founders Murad Kablan and Eric Keller.

Year Invested
2017
Sector
United States of America
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United States of America
Atmosplay
Atmosplay

Atmosplay offers 3D playable ads for mobile games, without SDKs & without streaming.

Atmosplay (acquired in 2017) builds high-quality 3D playable ads for high-grossing mobile games. They let advertisers showcase their mobile games with fully animated interactive playable ads. Furthermore, their ads are delivered 10x faster than the current market leader’s.

Year Invested
2016
Sector
Hungary
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Hungary
Indoo.rs
Indoo.rs

Indoo.rs helps end-users locate themselves and others inside buildings, such as airports or shopping malls, using indoo.rs’ navigation solutions.

https://indoo.rs/

Indoo.rs (acquired by Esri in 2019) creates advanced indoor mapping, localization, and routing technology as well as an SDK for developers and device manufacturers. They allow end-users to accurately locate themselves and others inside buildings, such as an airport, shopping mall or exhibition center, using mobile devices. The company has developed various products for navigation, proximity, and asset tracking as well as navigations solutions for visually impaired people.


Indoo.rs’ award-winning technology is being used to power navigation solutions at NYC’s Penn Station, serving more than 650,000 travelers each day, as well as in airport navigation applications to help the visually impaired find their way around.

Year Invested
2012
Sector
Austria
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Austria

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