We’re proud partners with some of Europe’s most visionary founders who are redefining technology’s role in our daily lives.
Wefox is an online insurance platform helping customers compare different service providers and manage their existing contracts all in one place.
http://www.wefox.atWefox was founded in Switzerland in November 2014. The Wefox platform allows customers, brokers and insurance companies to digitally manage their insurance products. This is where the Wefox app and Brokerportal come into play. Since the acquisition of the startup ONE, Wefox also offers its own insurance service.
By combining advanced technology with traditional insurance consulting know-how, Wefox has become one of Europe's leading online insurance providers.
GoStudent is an online tutoring platform that gives students free chat access to a community of experts as well as paid live video sessions.
https://www.gostudent.org/enGoStudent is an online learning platform that connects students with qualified tutors for personalized one-on-one lessons. Students can get support across various subjects and academic levels, making tutoring flexible, convenient, and affordable.
Bitpanda is the leading European neobroker enabling investment access into a variety of digital asset classes.
https://www.bitpanda.comBitpanda is transforming the way retail investors trade by enabling access to tokenized digital assets. Through tokenization, Bitpanda is able to offer fractional shares of any asset class, whether these be traditionally liquid (Stocks, Bonds, ETF’s) or illiquid (Real Estate, Private Equity). The platform currently supports over 30 digital assets including currencies and precious metals (Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium).
Bitpanda’s transparency and accessibility is supported through services like 24/7 trading, real-time settlement, no minimum fees and cross-platform compatibility (iOS, Android, desktop). With a vision to become Europe’s leading Neobroker, Bitpanda is rapidly expanding its platform across countries and asset classes.
Inkitt is a digital publishing platform that uses a unique algorithm to predict book success and connects popular manuscripts with publishers.
https://www.inkitt.com/Inkitt is the world’s first data-powered book publisher. The platform’s purpose is to find stories that have the potential to become future bestsellers and get them published through one of the platforms’ partners. Inkitt has developed an algorithm that can predict future book success by analyzing the behavior of early readers that get access to pre-published novels on the platform.
Open is a business banking service that combines everything from banking to invoicing & automated bookkeeping in one place.
https://open.money/Open is a business banking platform that combines everything from invoicing to banking, payroll and automated accounting in one place. It also offers the best of the classic banking services like (internet banking, cheque books, Debit card) along with these additional features.
Wayflyer is a revenue-based financing option for e-commerce brands.
https://www.wayflyer.com/Wayflyer is able to merge performance marketing with financial performance. The analytics are free of charge and are continuously adjusted in order to help e-commerce shops improve their ROAS (Return on Advertising Spend). Businesses with financing needs are able to finance up to EUR 500k on their marketing spending.
Resourcify is a waste management platform that helps companies to control and improve recycling.
https://www.resourcify.deResourcify connects waste-producers and recyclers to make recycling easy, fast and affordable. With automated, digital workflows that make recycling more efficient and transparent, companies can recycle more and reduce costs, and turn waste into valuable materials.
Together with more than 220 waste management companies that use the platform, Resourcify has developed powerful software that simplifies recycling and helps companies save up to 30% of the costs compared to conventional waste management. In addition, Resoucify serves as the central tool to manage all your waste service providers globally.
Rethink people development. CoachHub is the turnkey solution to transform your managers into highly effective, inspiring leaders.
https://coachhub.io/CoachHub supports companies worldwide by implementing coaching as strategic people development in a scalable way, while offering it to every employee flexibly and regardless of location. They offer a digital business coaching platform and a coaching app with an AI-supported coach-matching algorithm. In the dashboard, both the HR department and members of management across the company can access an overview of the program. All coaches are certified and members of at least one major coaching association.
OneTrust, LLC is a privacy and security software provider.
https://www.onetrust.com/OneTrust builds the Trust Intelligence Platform – connecting privacy, GRC, ethics, and ESG teams, data, and processes – so companies big and small can collaborate seamlessly and put trust at the center of their operations and culture.
We help companies and supply chains stay resilient through the unknown. We empower ethical cultures so companies can uphold the highest standards of trust. We help measure and track ESG initiatives so companies can play a meaningful role in shaping a better future for all.
Digital marketplace for bulk construction supplies.
https://www.schuettflix.de/Schüttflix is the first digital marketplace and delivery platform for bulk construction supplies such as sand, crushed rock, and gravel. The Schüttflix app, which connects suppliers and truckers directly with customers in landscaping and the heavy construction industry, currently offers same day service and 4-hour delivery to its core market. As the supply market is extremely fragmented and non-transparent, Schüttflix is the first to provide easy online access to customers across Germany in one platform.
Refurbed is a marketplace for refurbished electronics.
https://www.refurbed.de/Online consumer marketplace for specialized traders of refurbished electronic goods, like phones, PCs, and many more product categories in the future. So far, they target their customers with prices 10-40 % lower than new products, a 1-year-warranty and a 30-day trial period.
Billie helps small businesses get access to working capital by allowing them to finance against open invoices.
https://www.billie.io/Billie is a Berlin-based Fintech startup that helps small businesses get access to working capital through invoice financing. Their service allows SMEs and freelancers the opportunity to pre-finance their invoices by purchasing all liabilities from third parties and settling the outstanding amount. Their platform leverages big data analytics and fully automated processes to facilitate the financing process.
Lapse is a social disposable camera and the next big social network. For friends, not followers.
https://www.lapse.appLapse is a social disposable camera app and the next big social network. Do you remember that experience of taking a disposable camera to a party and shooting with friends? Everyone taking snaps, no editing, no review, just enjoying living in the moment. Then a few days later you'd receive the developed snaps and all share the memories of the time together. Lapse brings that experience to your mobile device.
TWAICE uses digital twins for a more sustainable, reliable and everlasting mobility.
https://twaice.com/de/TWAICE delivers solutions based on digital twins to fleet operators, battery and electric vehicle manufacturers to reduce battery development and testing costs as well as to increase battery reliability and lifetime. Their solutions are built around the belief that it should be simple to test and operate complex technical systems like batteries while always having the appropriate knowledge available.
Tide is the leading SME challenger bank that is redefining business banking for the digital age.
https://www.tide.co/Tide was founded in 2015 to fill in a huge gap in the market; SMEs are significantly underserved by traditional financial institutions who offer high cost, one-size-fits-all products that focus on enterprise client needs. Exacerbated by tighter regulation post 2008 financial crisis and enabled by the proliferation of digital, Tide is redefining business banking through a digital-first, hassle-free proposition that addresses the holistic needs of SMEs.
Following a platform approach, Tide is focused on building automation on all admin-related functionality while partnering with best in class fintech companies to offer a fully fledged banking experience, including payment acceptance, FX, credit and many more services such as employee expense management
Kittl empowers creators. The new browser-based design tool makes processes faster and easier and lets anyone create complex designs for logos, labels, postcards and more.
https://www.kittl.com/Kittl provides a platform that makes complex design processes easier and faster. The new browser-based graphic design tool empowers anyone to become a creator and design logos, labels, postcards or anything else. Loaded with tons of templates, illustrations, and fonts, it offers endless design possibilities.
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.
The all-in-one spend management platform
https://yokoy.io/en-ch/Experiencing the pain of manually preparing, tracking, checking, approving and processing expenses first-hand, the five co-founders, Dr. Devis Lussi, Lars Mangelsdorf, Melanie Gabriel, Philippe Sahli and Thomas Inhelder, set out to start an expense revolution. Zurich-based Yokoy automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform.
Digitally connecting manufacturers and contractors with sawmills across Europe
https://www.timberhub.com/Despite its size, the timber industry still largely relies on slow, offline, and manual ways of doing business, leaving it vulnerable to supply shocks that make it difficult for manufacturers, wholesalers, and construction companies to source right-quality timber at sufficient quantities and reasonable prices.
To counter this, Timberhub is digitizing the entire sawn timber procurement process with an end to end online marketplace for timber to support manufacturers and contractors in purchasing, transporting, and financing their raw materials. This marketplace also helps buyers to verify the origin of the timber traded on the platform, allowing them to make more ethical and sustainable purchases.
Africa's 1st mobility Fintech providing revenue-based vehicle financing.
https://moove.africa/Moove embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology into ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to the proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs to underwrite loans. Moove’s model is to provide loans to its customers by selling them new vehicles and financing up to 95 percent of the purchase within five days of signup. This data then empowers Moove to offer a wide range of other relevant financial products to their users.
Byrd is a managed B2B marketplace for full-service ecommerce fulfillment providing an all-in-one logistics software to its customers.
https://getbyrd.com/Byrd is a managed B2B marketplace for eCommerce fulfillment. Their all-in-one logistics platform equips users with a comprehensive dashboard and connects to online shop systems such as Shopify and Woocommerce to make drop-shipping, eCommerce fulfillment or crowdfunding campaign management seamless. Byrd integrates with all major logistics partners in the German-speaking market and automatically finds the best provider for each shipment. The company also runs storage facilities in Europe, takes care of individual packaging, and manages pick-ups as well as returns.
Primer helps online merchants power the best commerce experiences in the world.
https://primer.io/Primer aims to unify and supercharge merchants’ fragmented payments ecosystems through a single platform. By delivering data-driven insights across our entire merchant-base, Primer can optimize front and back-end payment flows in order to increase authorization rates, reduce costs, expand into new markets and deliver leading-edge commerce experiences to customers.
Adverity connects online and offline marketing data and integrates them into one central hub to ensure effective and accurate cross channel analysis.
https://www.adverity.com/Adverity is an online marketing data analytics and reporting platform. Advertisers and marketing agencies use the platform to analyse real-time data from multiple popular marketing tools alongside offline data – such as Excel spreadsheets – to deliver insights into their marketing activities. Adverity efficiently compiles different data sources to help marketers take control of their marketing campaigns.
Their products are web-based marketing intelligence and advanced analytics platforms that fully integrate input from several marketing tools into one application. This creates a united data stack for more efficient reporting, better decision making and improved marketing performance.
TourRadar is an online marketplace for multi-day tours– counting on an inventory exceeding 1MM tour departures and 20,000 tours in over 200 countries.
http://www.tourradar.com/TourRadar is an online marketplace for travellers to compare and book multi-day tours. The company works with over 500 tour and river cruise operators including: Avalon, Contiki, G Adventures, Globus, Intrepid Travel and Topdeck.
Since launching in 2010, TourRadar has grown to list over 1MM tour departures to fit the diverse needs of travelers. It is the hub of over 50,000 real traveler reviews for customers to sift through and learn from.
With travel styles from marine to cultural to festivals to luxury and more the company caters to every demographic. TourRadar also founded the annual Guide of the Year and Tour of the Year awards, recognizing the industry’s top rated guides and tours.
Evolving traditional card, pay by link, POS, direct debit and online payments
https://www.kevin.eu/kevin.’s advanced A2A (account-to-account) payment infrastructure solution was created to swiftly change costly card payments to payments linked directly from customers’ bank accounts without using any third-party providers. kevin.’s technology scales to businesses of any size and across industries, including retail, parking, fashion, car-sharing, deliveries, insurance and many more.
kevin. focuses on mobile and POS payments where customers predominantly pay using cards currently. Its payment infrastructure is based on open banking – regulated by the European PSD2 Directive – which requires all banks and financial institutions in the European Economic Area to open their API for licensed third-party providers. kevin. develops only own connections to the banks without using any third-party aggregators.
FairMoney is an online Microbank in emerging markets and a credit methodology based on smartphone data.
https://fairmoney.io/FairMoney leverages big data to give access to credit to 2 billion people in emerging markets across the world. Consumers and businesses in these markets often suffer from missing access to credit. FairMoney uses advanced machine learning applied to smartphone data to build credit scores and distribute credit through any mobile application.
Harbor Lab offers the first SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) e-disbursements account analysis software that automatically calculates and evaluates port expenses against real-time port tariffs. This optimizes and streamlines the process of disbursement account analysis, while retaining the control of that process in-house.
https://www.harborlab.com/homeDisbursements are all the expenses an agent makes on behalf of the operator whilst the vessel is in port.
Harbor Lab was born out of a real-time need to automate the processing of disbursements (port costs payments to port authorities and other port-related suppliers), while reducing manual intervention and heavy administration.
Utilizing Harbor Lab's platform is adding value for shipowning and shipmanaging companies & charterers. It gains efficiency and cost-savings through transparency, connectivity, & customisation.
One card. One app. Zero hassle. Curve is a single card built on the MasterCard® network that combines debit and credit cards into one.
https://www.curve.com/Curve helps people simplify their finances by connecting different debit and credit cards as well as accounts to one single card and smart app. The app serves as a dashboard where people can manage their different accounts as well as keep track of their spending habits. It’s the only card customers need to carry (and the only pin they need to remember!)
Curve also helps address the privacy and security aspect of payments. The app automatically alerts users every time the card is used and gives people the ability to instantly lock the card from the app in case of fraudulent payments or loss as well as unlock it again later.
Take control of your salary.
https://cobee.io/Cobee (acquired by Pluxee in 2024) is an employee benefits company that is using new technologies to disrupt the big benefit market that has been traditionally dominated by big incumbent players. All our efforts are focused on making employees feel happy about their benefits, trying to unify the value proposition in an understandable and easy to use formula.
Digital insurance provider for SME’s. +Simple’s platform provides brokers and agents with a streamlined process to sell commercial insurance policies as well as catering to SME’s specialized needs directly.
https://www.plussimple.fr/+Simple is the leading digital insurance provider for SME’s in France. By integrating with the +Simple platform, either as a white-label or native solution, brokers and agents in the commercial insurance space are able to quickly and efficiently quote, bind and issue policies to their business clients. Using +Simple’s technology and carrier network, intermediaries are able to easily build modular products tailored to merchants’ highly specialized coverage needs. Through their online portal digitally native businesses are able to get a comprehensive and bespoke policy in a matter of minutes. The technology stack provides much-needed simplicity, transparency and trust directly to the SME client. By working directly with insurance carriers, brokers / agents, and SME’s alike +Simple is involved with all major players in the value chain streamlining the entire commercial insurance process throughout.
Packhelp is a Warsaw-based technology startup operating a European platform for customized packaging.
https://packhelp.de/Packhelp allows its clients to quickly design and order custom packaging. A very user-friendly box editor, revolutionary low minimum order size and fast, high-quality production are the reasons why Packhelp’s services are being used by both small e-commerce entrepreneurs and multinational corporations. Packhelp’s mission is to enable every company – regardless of its size – to offer the best unboxing experience possible. Customers can expect new products and services that will push their packaging experience to the next level.
Flowdesk is building a financial infrastructure that allows web3 token issuers to manage their liquidity actively through Market-Making as a Service.
https://flowdesk.co/In a context of exponential growth of token issuers in the web3 space, Flowdesk is building an infrastructure to help them tackle their financial needs with a more transparent and controlled approach.
Flowdesk has built a scalable infrastructure that connects crypto-exchanges to innovative products, such as Market-Making as a Service (MMaaS). MMaaS is radically different than traditional liquidity provisions where issuers fully own their liquidity and can control the strategy according to their needs.
To support their vision of scalable and regulated market-making in crypto, Flowdesk offers banking-grade compliance and stringent procedures to guarantee they always work in the best interests of issuers.
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.
Ledgy is the leading equity management platform for scaling companies, helping teams take the pain out of equity and share ownership.
https://ledgy.com/Ledgy helps companies build cultures of ownership. With Ledgy, companies can manage and automate key equity processes, saving time and money. Meanwhile, employees benefit from rich insights into their ownership, helping the whole team align around the company’s mission.
Founded in Switzerland in 2017, Ledgy serves more than 2,500 customers in over 40 countries around the world.
Scaling negative emissions by driving better standards in the carbon markets.
http://sylvera.io/Sylvera combines state-of-the-art machine learning with geospatial data to transformationally improve the accuracy, regularity and cost of carbon offset monitoring.
Liefergrün is the sustainable, customer-oriented shipping solution for e-commerce and ship-from-store.
https://www.liefergruen.de/Liefergrün is the leading delivery service provider for sustainable delivery. Liefergrün’s aim is to enable guilt-free online shopping by reducing the environmental impact of deliveries. As a result, it is committed to creating a fair, social and emissions-free delivery experience with the mantra ‘we respect your shopping.'
Liefergrün delivers in freely selectable time windows and with 24/7 real-time tracking. Return deliveries are also able to be scheduled and are fully sustainable.
Finary allows investors to track all their investments automatically and in real-time, regardless of asset class.
https://finary.comFinary is a wealth management platform that provides users with an all-in-one, real-time dashboard of their investments across all asset classes. Finary counts 10,000 banks and investment platforms in Europe and the US connected to its system and covers saving accounts, stocks, crypto, real estate, precious metals, and startup investments overviews. Features such as real-time performance analysis, calculation of hidden costs and automatic identification of new opportunities allow Finary to offer tailor-made asset management that, previously, was only reserved for the wealthy.
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%.
Gitpod is an open source developer platform automating the provisioning of cloud-based development environments.
https://www.gitpod.io/Gitpod is driven to enable all professional developers to immediately start working and collaborating in a fully pre-built, secure development environment on any project, any branch, with any device. The company was founded by experienced developer tools experts that worked together for 10+ years creating programming languages and growing open source communities.
Gitpod operates a battle-hardened product and leads the pack of cloud-based development environments with more than 300k registered developers.
Seqera Labs is on a mission to simplify complex data analysis pipelines in the cloud across pharma, genomics and biotech.
https://seqera.io/Seqera Labs is on a mission to simplify complex data analysis pipelines in the cloud. Seqera provides software that enables developers and data scientists to create and deploy data applications in any environment. Our core, open-source technology Nextflow transforms the building of massively scalable and distributed computing solutions. Seqera is now empowering customers across pharma, genomics and biotech to break with the status quo of closed-platforms and custom scripts to embrace the Nextflow future of cloud.
Social Commerce is the future of online shopping and tech startup Drop is here to help brands maximize its potential.
https://www.usedrop.io/Borrowing from text marketing’s incredible reach, and email’s high acquisition powers, Drop allows brands to leverage Instagram direct messages at scale, for the first time, with impactful results like decreased cost-per-acquisition (CPA), increased return-on-ad-spend (ROAS), and ultimately, revenue.
Drop has helped a spectrum of brands and retailers like Ana Luisa, Culture Kings, PANGAIA and Hot Topic in this new journey from follower to customer. From the next-gen, hypergrowth DTC brands to the well-established names, they’ve all experienced a decrease in acquisition costs and boost in growth. Drop’s momentum reveals the eCommerce industry’s shift towards social, headless (not on traditional site) shopping experiences.
Fiat Republic provides a purpose-built, fiat-as-a-service platform to solve fiat access challenges for crypto platforms.
https://fiatrepublic.com/Fiat Republic is on a mission to democratize fiat access for the Web3 economy. Fiat access is a systemic problem for crypto platforms and therefore requires a systemic solution. With our developer-first API, you can easily access everything you need to deliver better fiat experiences to your users and treasury teams.
We’re unlocking and aggregating an ever increasing number of fiat rails with local and global tier-1 banks. Fiat Republic is able to give crypto platforms reliable access to best-in-class fiat products, all via a single API. We have developed a compliance-first approach that minimises friction in the on-ramp and off-ramp fiat-crypto flows. Our technology is augmented by the Fiat Republic Consortium. We’re building a coalition of crypto platforms to create a united voice, enabling us to continually add tier-1 global and local banking partners and have a seat at the table with regulators, to shape and influence the future rules that govern the space.
AI-based waste recognition software to power next generation robotics and smart systems to monitor, audit and sort waste at scale.
https://greyparrot.ai/Greyparrot provides waste recognition software that identifies materials using AI-based computer vision to monitor, audit and sort waste at scale. Their goal is to empower waste managers with actionable insights to increase recycling rates. Greyparrot is committed to unlocking the financial value of waste, which will, in turn, keep our environment clean for generations to come.
Doccla is building the next-gen virtual ward company
https://www.doccla.com/Doccla is pioneering the virtual ward technology needed to ease pressure on hospitals and other healthcare providers. Doccla is reinventing remote patient monitoring (RPM) with innovative medical monitoring solutions to deliver safe, effective care from the home. This helps hospitals alleviate the pressure on resources, enabling the early discharge of patients while remaining under the care of clinicians. Industry-leading patient compliance, together with fewer readmissions and lower costs, have direct effects on healthcare providers and patients who can be taken care of in the comfort of their homes.
Two-sided agricultural marketplace with embedded financial services.
https://agro.club/Agro.Club is the commercial effectiveness platform that connects input suppliers and grain buyers with farmers using the latest digital commerce and fintech solutions. Platform is currently used by leading global seed, crop protection, animal nutrition and grain companies, and more than 19,000 farmers across Europe and North America.
YardLink is a construction equipment rental B2B marketplace that connects builders with construction equipment rental companies.
https://yardlink.com/Plant and Tool Hire Made Easy. YardLink is taking the hassle out of hiring equipment. YardLink aggregates supply and optimizes distance to the closest rental. Guaranteed reliability of service and availability of the equipment.
Smiler is the world’s first on-the-spot photography marketplace that brings photographers and consumers together at public and commercial hotspots around the globe.
https://smiler.co/Smiler believes that valuable memories deserve to be captured in high quality. It’s our mission to achieve that on a global scale for everyone, everywhere. We are the world’s first on-the-spot photography marketplace that brings photographers and consumers together at tourist hotspots and other leisure locations. By being in the places where these memories are created, Smiler taps into the uncaptured potential of billions of photos, preserving something higher quality and very valuable to people all around the world.
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.
Gigs is building a Stripe for SIM cards. Providing phone and data plans though an API globally.
http://gigs.com/Gigs provides platforms with custom phone and data plans through an easy to use API in 180+ countries. By enabling IoT, HR, Travel & eCommerce platforms to sell connectivity to their customers, Gigs makes it super simple for consumers to subscribe and manage a phone plan with a few clicks. Easy, transparent and global connectivity for smartphones, smartwatches and IoT devices.
Empowering gig workers in the transport industry to manage their workflow across multiple platforms
https://bliq.ai/Bliq was founded in 2018 and has its headquarters in Berlin. The app lets its users maximize their earnings while driving more safely, while creating a safer, fairer, more sustainable gig economy.
Raus creates contemporary getaways with smart, sustainable cabins near major cities.
https://raus.life/Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers city-dwellers new opportunities to take a break from big city life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough to completely unwind. Founded in 2021 by school friends Christopher Eilers, Johann Ahlers and Julian Trautwein in Berlin, Raus' mission is to provide seamless access to restful space outside your daily routine.
Industry-leading VCs and angel investors backing Raus include venture capital firm Speedinvest, Tourlane founders, Julian Stiefel and Julian Weselek, former Airbnb Managing Director (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Zazume Co-Founder, Jeroen Merchiers, and BCG Digital Ventures Managing Director & Partner, Urs Rahne, among others.
finres provides AI and science-based solutions for banks to optimize agricultural investments in the face of climate change.
https://www.finres.org/finres is revolutionizing decision-making in rural economies. By analyzing past and current trends and extremes in climate using AI and science, the France-based team can accurately predict future climate trends in the wake of global warming and climate change. This information is shared with banks and international organizations, along with measures farmers can take to ensure that their crops, livestock, and livelihoods do not suffer.
By breaking down the barriers between research and the private sector, Finres is building a bridge between finance and agricultural resilience. The company currently operates in 32 countries across 4 continents and has supported over 1.4 billion worth of investments, with an increase in productivity per hectare of up to 50%.
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.
konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions. The platform currently offers more than 3,000 classes in Germany and Austria.
https://gokonfetti.com/More than a booking platform, konfetti enables suppliers to manage their business and increase their sales with an all-in-one software. In doing so, the company actively markets the classes. At the same time, the workshop provider has significantly less administrative work. Many processes that were previously handled offline or manually can now be handled through the konfetti platform. Billing and invoicing, is fully automated, tax compliant, and reduces unnecessary coordination with the company's own tax advisor.
Launched in 2021 in Berlin, users can now find and book workshops in more than 250 cities. Hundreds of companies use konfetti as their go-to source for organizing and booking team events and corporate parties.
The Toqio platform lets companies create and launch their own fully branded banking or finance solutions as an app or on the web.
https://toqio.co/The Toqio platform lets companies create and launch their own fully branded banking or finance solutions. Everything begins on Toqio’s PCI DSS certified Platform, where clients can create their own stellar banking and financial service solutions. Beyond that, the Development Hub gives companies the ability to incorporate other trusted financial service providers and to develop unique, custom features. Still further, the Toqio Marketplace provides a place to incorporate curated fintech modules into a build, offered by leading financial service providers. Companies can even share and monetize modules they’ve created!
Milano Vice is a virtual restaurant franchise providing high-quality delivery food.
https://www.milano-vice.de/Milano Vice is Germany's first virtual restaurant chain. Founded in Berlin in 2022, it is an amplifier for partner restaurants, traditional bakeries, and professional chefs. Milano Vice partners can triple partners' sales thanks to resource optimization through increased utilization of kitchen and staff. It targets Gen Y and Z customers through its innovative branding and provides state-of-the-art technology to its partner restaurants.
Flaviar is a direct-to-consumer spirits club dedicated to providing education, discovery, and access to the world of fine spirits.
https://flaviar.com/Born out of frustration of how inaccessible fine spirits are today, Flaviar offers its members unparalleled access, be it in the form of information on spirits and personalized recommendations, or in the liquid form, through their Tasting Boxes, private labels, exclusive bottling, and live experiences.
Investment-API that enables businesses to build seamless investment experiences their customers love.
https://www.upvest.co/Upvest enables businesses to build great investment experiences, tailored to their customers’ needs. Their single investment API and digital infrastructure – along with the modular design – make it easy and cost-effective to offer customized investment products. It’s all backed by comprehensive support, covering everything from licenses and vendor management to back and middle office.
NeoCarbon captures carbon directly from the atmosphere at scale profitably leveraging the existing airflow and waste heat of industrial cooling towers.
https://www.neocarbon.tech/NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting the costs associated with Direct Air Capture. By retrofitting existing cooling towers without impacting their original function, the time and cost investment needed to set up a carbon capturing system is reduced by up to 10x.
Rollee helps financial institutions to make fairer decisions by using the power of employment data.
https://www.getrollee.com/Rollee is a platform for employment data used by clients across various industries, from fleet management to lending, who are committed to making the fairest decisions with a data-driven approach. They can access through their customers' permission their income, activity, and other employment data points that will help to make more inclusive decisions.
Metis Labs has created an intelligent software application capable of adapting itself to the characteristics of any industrial production process and improving operational efficiency.
https://www.metislabs.tech/On a daily basis, large industrial processes face problems related to operational inefficiencies and low yields. The resulting waste adds significantly to their operating costs, production capacity, and environmental footprint. Metis Labs (aquired by Ascalia in 2024) offers a unique and valuable solution. The company has created an intelligent software application capable of adapting itself to the characteristics of any industrial production process and improving operational efficiency.
End-to-end solution for energy CAPEX and long-term ESG management.
http://www.purpose-green.comOne-stop-shop transforming investment properties into sustainable assets, providing energy audits, green subsidies & financing, and construction project execution combined with smart ESG & energy intelligence. By combining technology with actually touching the building, Purpose aims to become the EU-wide executive branch and digital control center of reaching the 1.5°C decarbonisation goal.
Stotles helps businesses access the public sector market with a sales-enabling platform that surfaces opportunities before they come to market.
https://www.stotles.com/Stotles was founded in 2019 with a mission to unlock the potential of business and government working better together. Stotles helps businesses get ahead in the £9 trillion (€10 trillion) global public sector market with its sales-enabling platform.
Their platform organizes a massive amount of messy government data, surfaces tailored insights and gives teams workflow tools to find and shape opportunities earlier in the government buying cycle.
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.
Recyda’s software for packaging data management empowers various stakeholders in the packaging industry to gain transparency on international requirements to enable sustainable change and drive the circular economy. The SaaS solution supports optimising packaging recyclability, fulfilling reporting requirements, optimising cost aspects and more.
https://www.recyda.com/Recyda develops software solutions to drive sustainability in packaging. The Germany-based startup offers an all-in-one SaaS solution that supports companies to digitally manage their packaging portfolios with regards to packaging recyclability, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) fees, plastic taxes and more. Companies are confronted with a high complexity of country-specific regulations, waste infrastructure and other related topics such as eco-modulated fees to be paid in each market. Recyda helps navigate this complexity with its comprehensive software solution.
The Recyda software creates impact in a variety of use cases offering forecasting capabilities, allowing companies to accurately calculate their EPR fees and taxes, and model their specific packaging designs to assess against various design for recycling guidelines. In this way, the software supports packaging R&D and finding the optimum recyclable design for individual packaging solutions as well as digitally managing whole packaging portfolios of tens of thousands of packages with regards to international requirements. With reporting and analytic features, the software helps companies easily generate reports for internal and external requirements and make informed decisions in a timely manner.
Wasmer makes WebAssembly accessible to developers and enterprises.
https://wasmer.io/With Wasmer, enterprises can run ultra-lightweight containerized software with blazing-fast startup times, at near-native speeds anywhere — be it on servers, edge, and IoT devices or in serverless environments. It brings a vastly improved and simpler to use API, massive performance improvements, support for Apple Silicon, a pluggable infrastructure for easy customization, and support for “Headless Wasmer” a new ultra-lightweight runtime that is ideal for IoT.
Tranched is a SaaS platform that automates complex securitisation transactions reducing friction and costs
http://www.tranched.fi/Tranched, is the first Deep Tokenisation embedded securitisation platform directly connecting lenders to investors, allowing them to structure and manage a transaction in a fraction of the time and cost. Our platform provides better, quicker, and more efficient access to financing for lenders, and broader investment opportunities to investors.
Making renewable energy intelligent
https://www.skyfri.com/Skyfri provides owners of renewable energy plants with sophisticated software to increase revenues and reduce downtime in production. Its platform is built to automate operations, maintenance, and asset management.
Scaling procurement excellence through our AI-powered platform solutions.
https://www.mercanis.com/Simplify and automate your procurement procedures and processes.
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.
The simplest way to deploy your applications on AWS
https://www.qovery.com/Qovery simplifies the process of getting apps into production by pushing code from Github or GitLab and deploying it directly to AWS, Digital Ocean, or Scaleway instantly. It abstracts away all the complexity that comes with deployment and at the same time combines the power of Kubernetes, the reliability of AWS, and the simplicity of Heroku.
Precium (formerly Revio) is the first African payments platform purpose-built for enterprise. Industry leaders choose Precium to optimise payment performance, automate financial operations, and craft extraordinary customer experiences.
https://www.precium.com/Precium (formerly Revio) is the first African payments platform purpose-built for enterprise. Industry leaders choose Precium to optimise payment performance, automate financial operations, and craft extraordinary customer experiences.
Founded in 2020 by Ruaan Botha and Nicole Dunn, Precium aims to combat the impact of payment fragmentation and failure on consumer commerce in African markets. Its unified payments platform offers merchants access to locally-optimised payment methods, with built-in redundancy and routing rules to increase payment success rates. Beyond payment acceptance, Precium offers a suite of configurable payment operations and recovery solutions – such as automated reconciliation, monitoring, and alerting – to help enterprise merchants reduce payment complexity.
The growing list of Precium customers includes South Africa’s largest retailers and financial institutions, and some of the world’s largest consumer brands. The company partners with its clients to deliver payment solutions that enable quantifiable business value with the scalability, reliability, and flexibility required for high-volume processing.
Driving logistics automation
https://www.fernride.com/Fernride enables automated and sustainable logistics operations by combining the human skills of in-office drivers - known as teleoperators - with autonomous driving technology in a scalable platform.
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.
The employee app for tomorrow's workforce.
https://www.sona.is/Sona’s mission is to put technology in the hands of frontline staff that transforms how they manage their work and engage with their employer. Designed for the specific needs of modern frontline workplaces, Sona’s employee app combines powerful productivity tools with a sleek, simple and intuitive user experience.
Features include live schedule view, absence management, instant messaging, and Open Shifts, an innovative shift booking platform matching shift vacancies with employees willing to take on more hours. Trailblazing organisations across health and social care, retail, and the third sector are revolutionising the way they manage, engage and retain their staff.
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.
Orakl Oncology leverages a collection of patient tumor avatars to transform drug development in oncology.
https://www.orakl-oncology.com/Cancer complexity leads to a 96% failure rate of drug candidates in clinical trials and a shortage of new treatments. Orakl Oncology’s ambition is to finally address the heterogeneity of cancer and patient specificities as early as possible in drug development. By creating a collection of avatars of patients’ tumors, they predict how each patient will respond to future drugs. Orakl Oncology is an interdisciplinary techbio platform that combines best-in-class biology with deep clinical data and machine learning to efficiently discover and optimize new treatments for the right patients. Thanks to their technology, Orakl Oncology works with drug developers to bring better drugs to patients, faster.
Asap.work is a temp agency for the construction sector in France. Their purpose? Connecting construction companies with qualified temporary workers.
https://www.asap.workAsap.work is revolutionizing the future of work in the construction industry by connecting construction companies with qualified temporary workers through a digital-first offer with personalized support. At the same time, skilled workers on the platform are also able to quickly find new employment opportunities and better-paying jobs.
Exactly.ai is a new creative design tool for professional artists who want to use the power of AI to scale and market their work.
http://exactly.ai/Unlike existing Gen AI platforms that aim to bypass human creativity with AI, exactly is purpose-built to allow artists to create and replicate more designs, more quickly, in their own unique style – and maintain full ownership and IP rights over everything they create.
exactly enables artists to build and train their own Gen AI models based on their individual artistic practice and original designs, producing brilliant work at speed without compromise or constraint. Using exactly, artists can enhance their productivity and accomplish more, faster, and hone their craft thanks to the ability to make rapid, limitless iterations on any design. In just a short time since launch, exactly has nurtured a community of more than 30,000 users purely through word-of-mouth and they have ambitious plans to expand the offering further during 2024 and beyond.
Two-clicks product analytics for modern teams.
https://june.so/June lets you plug in your source of tracking and automatically generates the right product analyses for you. Before you had to come up with hypotheses and learn what to measure. With June, anyone without time or expertise can pick premade analyses straight away from a library of templates.
remberg digitizes service processes of industrial machinery with its cloud-based Asset-Relationship-Management System.
https://www.remberg.io/remberg digitizes service processes of industrial machinery. The company's Asset-Relationship-Management (ARM) System is a cloud-based software solution that enables seamless service processes across organizations around your assets in one single platform. Manufacturers, service providers and operators of industrial assets access and process machine-related information such as documentation, spare parts, or service cases from one single source.
Tuum is a next-generation core banking platform. Core Banking. Without Limits.
https://tuum.com/Tuum's mission is to set banks free by enabling them to quickly and safely replace their legacy systems, reducing their maintenance costs, and unlocking new opportunities to adapt and prosper in the digital age.
By employing a smart migration approach, Tuum aids banks in moving off their current systems, with clients typically going live within just seven months. Once operational, Tuum's system empowers banks to effortlessly launch new products and enter new market verticals. Providing more than just core functionality, Tuum allows banks to operate multiple business lines from a single system, including accounts, lending, payments, and cards. Beyond this, banks can expand their capabilities through access to a pre-configured ecosystem of partner solutions. Tuum also facilitates business transformation. Its Business Builder enables banks to precisely configure their operating, sourcing, and distribution models, launching unique models that capitalize on the digital revolution.
Doctorly offers a practice management software for doctors.
https://www.doctorly.de/Doctorly is built upon the Salesforce platform to deliver the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use Software-as-a-Service for doctors. Combined with a cloud storage for electronic health records and a consumer app to communicate with the doctor and access other health-related features, it’s a powerful digital health solution.
A simpler, smarter and fairer collaborative team planning tool for customer support teams.
https://teamsurfboard.com/Surfboard (exited in 2024) is a collaborative planning tool for customer support teams. It's shift planning, scheduling, and forecasting functionality allows support teams to make work more human by reducing burnout and increasing scheduling flexibility through a single source of truth connecting disparate systems in one place.
hexafarms' AI-powered SaaS solution enables commercial food producers to track and predict their production capacity in real time
https://www.hexafarms.com/Greenhouses and indoor farms are able to grow high-quality produce year-round and are becoming the backbone of global food production. However, they struggle to keep up with increasing prices on all levels- energy, labor, and operations.
Using AI models trained to understand plant biology at a commercial scale, hexafarms provides actionable insights and forecasts production capacity weeks in advance. They help growers increase their bottom line profit margins by up to 30% by reducing crop loss and manual inspections. Based in Berlin, the company currently serves growers across the EU.
Leveraging digital technologies and service innovation to make it easy for people to install PV systems on their rooftops
https://www.sunhero.com/Sunhero is a Berlin-based, Spain-operated startup, which aims to become the leading international service for renting and buying residential rooftop PV systems. Sunhero is driven by a mission: Satisfy a growing demand for energy in a new way and make it easy for people to power their homes with solar energy. Cheaply, cleanly and sustainably.
One Trading is providing experienced traders, finance professionals, and institutions with regulated and secure access to digital assets.
https://onetrading.com/One Trading, formerly Bitpanda Pro, is a European digital asset exchange made for experienced traders, finance professionals and institutions. Safe, regulated and intuitive, they offer over 50 tokens to deliver deep EUR, GBP and CHF liquidity at a competitive rate. As well as their high performance spot exchange, they also have an OTC desk.
Shapr3D is the first mobile 3D modeling app for professionals on iPad Pro.
https://www.shapr3d.com/Shapr3D has created an app for the iPad Pro that makes 3D modeling easy as pie but still delivers professional models that can be refined in professional 3D CAD software or can be used directly for 3D printing. You only need to draw shapes, then transform them. You can use the freedom of surfacing, sketch on faces, and you can chamfer edges in seconds.
Ozé enables micro-SMEs to keep track of their records, receivables and payables, issue invoices and receipts, process payments, and even get access to credit.
https://getoze.com/Despite merchants and micro-SMEs forming the pillars on which West African economies stand, these businesses have been overwhelmingly ignored and neglected by mobile-based financial service providers. Ozé helps capture, analyze and improve the performance of business owners in Ghana and Nigeria with the ambition to become a pan-African player.
Through their digital accounting system, which enables users to keep track of their records, AR and AP and get access to credit, Ozé users are able to operate like large businesses and, therefore, empowers micro-SMEs to grow and scale far beyond their current reach. Having partnered with the region’s biggest banks, SME banks and local fintechs, Ozé is able to provide its users with products from traditional financial institutions but with the seamless interface and usability of a social media platform.
Become indistractable. Opal can help you take control of your tech.
https://www.opal.so/Some companies specialize in stealing our time on screens, using features like notifications, infinite scrolling, A.I. curated feeds, subconscious triggers and disappearing stories. Opal helps you take control of your technology, so you can regain time that's been stolen from you. Their app identifies and blocks distractions, allows you to set screen timers, personal intentions for your time, and receive personalized nudges to help you find balance each day.
prewave predicts supply chain and sustainability risks.
https://www.prewave.ai/Enterprises with complex supply chain networks face a multitude of disruption risks along their entire supply chain and transportation routes. prewave analyzes social media data with advanced machine learning techniques to predict upcoming risk events in supply chain networks.
Receeve is a fully digital debt-servicing platform for the entire collection lifecycle.
https://receeve.com/Receeve is turning the current way of collecting debt upside down, by using AI to provide personalized collections and replace the outdated process of lenders using phone calls or letters to reach indebted clients. With Receeve, firms can communicate with their customers digitally, on any device, and customers have the option of self-service to manage their issues. The platform covers the entire collections lifecycle from managing receivables to servicing NPL portfolios.
Candis helps small and medium-sized businesses automate bookkeeping and financial workflows using artificial intelligence.
https://en.candis.io/Candis makes workflows intelligent using an artificial intelligence tool that helps companies automate repetitive bookkeeping processes such as categorizing different invoices. The software can collect and handle invoices automatically and make sure everybody is paid on time, saving 80% of manual work. CANDIS also offers a special service for tax accountants facilitating the collaboration with clients and automating certain processes.
Bringing Decentralized Finance to everyday investors around the world.
https://ultimate.moneyUnstoppable Finance empowers everyone to access the world of Decentralized Finance by providing a user-friendly “front door” to crypto trading, high-yield DeFi investing opportunities, NFT art & collectibles and other Web3 services, all bundled into an intuitive mobile application.
The Ultimate product is a consumer-grade, non-custodial crypto wallet allowing people to easily track, discover, invest in, and store a wide variety of on-chain assets. Our thesis is that the super apps of tomorrow will be non-custodial DeFi wallets that have the potential to contain your entire digital identity.
Tired of hours of meal-planning and online grocery shopping? Cherrypick allows you to do your weekly shop in a fraction of the time.
https://www.cherrypick.co/The Cherrypick app turns the chore of grocery shopping into a delightful tech-driven experience by allowing users to complete their weekly shop in a few clicks. Users can easily set health goals, dietary requirements, choose recipes and plan meals for the week - Cherrypick then automatically fills up your shopping basket with the necessary ingredients and delivers them to your door.
Yolda.com is a “Digital Logistics Operator” that aims to improve logistics operation processes and lead digitalization efforts in the sector with in-house developed technologies and solutions.
https://www.yolda.com/Turkey-based freight tech startup Yolda.com started it’s journey in 2020 with the aim of being the leading freight Tech startup in Europe. We manage the entire logistics operation end-to-end for our B2B business partners. Yolda.com matches freight shipments with available independent carriers to provide fast, cost-effective transport for businesses of all sizes and our model supports individual carriers by opening up new business opportunities for them through our platform.
We specialize in ‘less than truckload’ (LTL) shipments, harnessing sharing economy dynamics. Through consolidating loads from multiple shippers and making the most of each truck’s capacity, we help our business partners in reducing logistics costs and carbon footprint of the end-to-end freight journey.
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.
Complori is an online learning platform teaching kids 21st century skills through free gamified coding content and paid live programming classes taught by experienced tutors.
https://complori.comComplori's mission is to teach kids the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century. Experienced coding tutors teach digital programming classes for 7 to 16-year-olds throughthe adaptive learning platform. In addition to this paid, cohort-based learning approach, Complori offers kids free gamified and self-paced coding content through their mobile app.
Since its founding in November 2020, Complori has taught over 17,000 kids how to code and has included over 800 kids from low-income households in their program through B2B cooperations. The startup has been awarded several prizes for its work in the digital education industry, such as the Innovationspreis Berlin 2021 and the Digital Female Leader Award.
Building the operating system of ESG data for forward-thinking companies
https://www.apiday.com/apiday’s purpose is to enable every company to be sustainability minded by helping them manage their ESG data as systematically and accurately as their financial data.
With the apiday SaaS tool, companies gain control of their sustainability agenda, answer ESG data requests in moments, reduce reputational risks and unlock new opportunities.
forward earth provides millions of businesses worldwide access to easy-to-use, AI-powered environmental management software by seamlessly integrating it into existing compliance and supply chain software.
https://www.forward-earth.com/Decarbonization has become a crucial regulatory requirement for businesses globally, yet the vast majority of companies still do not have clear visibility into their environmental impact, especially deeper down the supply chain.
forward earth has built a product that empowers businesses worldwide to become sustainable and compliant with little effort and cost. By embedding our AI-automated environmental management software into our partners’ software, forward earth will support millions of businesses in every aspect of their reporting lifecycle as they undertake their decarbonization journey in the years to come.