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AMF Medical, based in the EPFL innovation park in Switzerland, specializes in designing high-end, user-friendly fluidic solutions, particularly in automated liquid handling systems. The company emerged when partners involved in a complex lab automation project sought suitable components that were unavailable in the market. Recognizing their expertise in microfluidics, AMF Medical collaborated with these partners to create tailored solutions, resulting in the development of their first product, the automated sample preparator. The company is dedicated to advancing the field of microfluidics by providing innovative and effective solutions for laboratory automation.

Selmod provides development of innovative small molecule therapies for the treatment of life-threatening invasive fungal infections.

SlightPay is the most accessible payment method for your customers and the perfect tool to increase your sales, which offers to divide purchases into 4 installments, without a credit card or phantom installments.

Pro Indie Music is a SAAS for independent artists, managers and agencies to learn how to manage their projects and optimize their administrative processes. Measure their growth, connect with festivals, venues, markets and opportunities around the world; Automated tools with personalized goals and objectives to take your artist to the next level, plan tours and improve your performance in the music business.

Swoop Finance Limited is a technology platform that specializes in business funding and savings solutions for small-to-medium enterprises. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in Ireland, Swoop connects businesses with a range of funding options, including loans, equity, and grants. The platform facilitates the discovery of appropriate funding solutions, allowing enterprises to streamline their financing needs and identify potential savings. Swoop operates as an Appointed Representative of Talbot Capital Limited, which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Umami Meats develops cultured seafood based on a proprietary, low-cost, and sustainable formulation of growth factors.

SAYeTECH is a Limited Liability company focused on designing and manufacturing smart agricultural machinery tailored for African conditions. The company aims to enhance sustainable agriculture by providing a range of services, including industrialization and direct service provision. In addition to manufacturing, SAYeTECH offers machine monitoring software that enables users to track and optimize the performance of agricultural equipment. To further support the agricultural sector, SAYeTECH also provides fabrication training and computer-aided design services, contributing to the development of the manufacturing industry and empowering organizations across the region.

SGMA specializes in coatings & advanced materials using Sol-gel process. It develops practical, sustainable solutions for today’s global problems. SGMA’s technology platform has a wide range of applications. The first area we are aiming to address is that of food packaging. The company is actively engaged in a program to help Starbucks, McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Yum! Brands and the World Wide Fund for Nature. SGMA’s Technology Platform provides a quickly scalable solution to address the zero-plastic goal with a potential cost reduction, as the solution is delivered via a mono-material which is 100% recyclable. It has applications beyond the initial coffee cup solution, being able to address trays, boxes, and beyond. The company is led by CEO Dr Fanya Ismail and was founded in 2017.

Medical Simulation Technologies is a startup company, established for the commercialization of advanced medical simulators, especially in the field of cardiology. The technology that we provide results from many years of research. The key to our success is an open mind and a team of professionals, which is why our company is composed of a multidisciplinary group of experts: programmers, hardware specialists and medical professionals. We do believe that this gives us advantage in innovation, quality, and a focus on practical solutions. Heart failure, or generally cardiovascular disease is still the leading cause of death. Overall quality of examination, proper diagnosis and difficult surgery success rate could be greatly improved, if the specialists had the opportunity of practical training using a faithful simulation platform. In opposite to every other simulator presents in the market, MST has developed the simulation platform based on a realistic heart model from Computed Tomography (CT). Thanks to that, a user can practice on artificial patient and can have the feeling of real examination or surgery.

Seekewa SAS is a crowdfunding platform based in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, dedicated to supporting smallholder farmers in Africa. It facilitates participatory financing by allowing individuals and organizations worldwide to make in-kind contributions to agricultural projects through a unique voucher system. This system enables investors to fund specific projects, providing farmers with the necessary financial, marketing, and technical assistance to enhance their agribusiness activities. By connecting global supporters with local agricultural initiatives, Seekewa aims to empower farmers and promote sustainable development across the continent.

EM Device focuses on transforming physician ideas into practical medical products. The company has developed an innovative abscess drainage device that simplifies the loop technique for treating abscesses. This device significantly reduces the failure rate of abscess treatments by half and eliminates the necessity for follow-up visits. As a result, it enhances patient outcomes, decreases pain, and shortens the time providers spend on the procedure. Additionally, it offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional incision and drainage methods, which are often time-consuming and uncomfortable for patients. EM Device's commitment to improving medical procedures reflects its dedication to advancing healthcare solutions.

Smeetz SA operates an online booking platform that specializes in event organization and promotion. Founded in 2015 and based in Lausanne, Switzerland, Smeetz provides a comprehensive suite of features including data analytics, dynamic pricing, and various booking solutions. The platform caters to different types of events, from private gatherings to large-scale festivals, offering users the ability to discover popular events, follow artists, and receive personalized recommendations. For event planners, Smeetz offers tailored tools for managing the entire event lifecycle, including ticket sales, interactive media features, and real-time analytics. Its innovative approach combines advanced technology with user-friendly design to enhance the overall event experience for both attendees and organizers.

SEADS is a web development company.Our dream is to bring value to our society by protecting the world’s Oceans and their incredible wildlife, collecting plastic waste and transforming it in an important resource. The human race cannot survive without healthy Oceans.

SmileML, Inc. designs and develops emotion recognition software. It offers user research software that analyzes user emotion in interview videos, transcribes speech, and allows to share insight with collaborative tools. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Systemcredit helps quality small to medium sized businesses to get suitable loans faster and at better terms.

SeiaQ is an online educational platform offers its customers an advanced teaching method. The platform provides services including personal assessment of written and verbal, dozens of recorded and direct lectures, and online guide - 24/7. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Haifa, Hefa, Israel.

SizeUp is big data for small businesses. It provides business intelligence and market research to companies so they can make smarter decisions through data. SizeUp is licensed by enterprises/organizations (such as banks) as a value added service differentiator given to help their business customers succeed and grow. SizeUp currently provides: 1. Competitive benchmarks; 2. Find customers, suppliers, and competitors; 3. Best locations to advertise. SizeUp shows businesses how to make more money and outperform their competition. SizeUp provides many of the same demographic, industry, geographic, business, transportation, and cost-of-business data that large corporations use through the use of powerful analytic search tools to enable all businesses to make smarter decisions through data.

Uneecops Technologies Ltd. is the leading provider of IT solution to businesses of variable sizes. With alliances with leading brands, such as ESRI, QlikView and SAP. Uneecops is #1 partner of SAP Business One in N.India and provide SAP Business One solution to small and medium sized business houses. Uneecops also developed various SAP B1 Add-Ons for Pharma, Campus Management, Human resource management, etc. Incepted in 1996, the company has more than 500 satisfied clientele in public and private sectors in India, South East Asia, Africa and the US. The Company has developed various products including HR-One (HRMS Solution), PayEdge (Payroll Management Solution), Ctrl-A (Campus Management Solution). We also offer services pertaining to web development, business intelligence and GIS.

EchoMe takes advantage of social media and smartphones to make the relationship between small businesses and customers ubiquitous. Their app helps customers and users share rich reviews with their friends, discover new experiences and stay in touch with the local businesses they love.

Somax Systems specializes in the development and commercialization of advanced ultrasound imaging devices for the healthcare sector. The company is on the verge of launching a compact and versatile imaging scanner, which is expected to become an essential tool for healthcare professionals, akin to the stethoscope or thermometer. This pocket-sized device offers high-resolution imaging with real-time zoom capabilities and the ability to transmit data wirelessly via Wi-Fi, enhancing the efficiency of healthcare providers. Somax Systems is committed to innovation, quality, and sustainability, ensuring that their products meet the evolving needs of the medical community while delivering significant added value.

S.R.I specializes in providing traffic and highway engineering solutions. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Hertzlia, Israel.

LGM technology is a and unique energy management system, which optimizes power generator. The technology can increase the efficiency of wind turbines and other power generators by 30%.

Socialease Ltd is a company based in Lausanne, Switzerland, that provides an AI-driven software platform designed for the hospitality industry, including hotels and restaurants. Founded in 2015, Socialease offers a comprehensive assistant that streamlines digital communication across multiple social media channels. The platform enables businesses to manage their online presence by suggesting ready-to-use communication topics and facilitating the creation of tailored content using text, images, and videos. Additionally, it helps track and schedule media communications, allowing users to effectively control their e-reputation and enhance visibility in a competitive market. By centralizing digital interactions, Socialease transforms the communication challenges faced by small and medium-sized enterprises into efficient marketing opportunities.

OZÉ, Inc. is a Ghana-based company founded in 2016 that provides an Android application designed for small businesses to manage their finances effectively. The OZÉ app allows users to track sales, expenses, and customer information, offering tailored recommendations and reports based on the analyzed data. It also provides business education and access to support through OZÉ Coaches. By leveraging machine learning, OZÉ can assess credit risk and connect businesses with affordable capital from banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ has established itself as the largest online community of small and medium enterprises in Ghana. The platform has demonstrated significant success, with 97% of businesses using OZÉ for at least nine months reporting growth or profitability.

OZÉ, Inc. is a Ghana-based company founded in 2016 that provides an Android application designed for small businesses to manage their finances effectively. The OZÉ app allows users to track sales, expenses, and customer information, offering tailored recommendations and reports based on the analyzed data. It also provides business education and access to support through OZÉ Coaches. By leveraging machine learning, OZÉ can assess credit risk and connect businesses with affordable capital from banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ has established itself as the largest online community of small and medium enterprises in Ghana. The platform has demonstrated significant success, with 97% of businesses using OZÉ for at least nine months reporting growth or profitability.

Sea Machines Robotics, Inc. is an autonomous technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, specializing in the development of autonomous control and navigation systems for the commercial marine and boating industries. Founded in 2014, the company creates advanced control systems for vessels, including unmanned surface vessels, aimed at enhancing operational safety and productivity on the water. Its product offerings include the SM300, which allows for remote command of vessels; the SM200, which supports collaborative vessel operations; the SM400, an AI-powered situational awareness system for container ships; and the RC NXT, which enables wireless control of existing or new marine vessels. Additionally, Sea Machines provides the DP-NXT system, which upgrades traditional vessels for reduced or zero crew operations. The company also delivers solutions for unmanned applications such as bathymetric survey vessels, subsea asset inspections, and acoustic monitoring, thereby improving efficiency and safety in challenging marine environments.

MediSieve Ltd. is a London-based medical device company that specializes in developing Magnetic Blood Filtration (MBF) technology for the treatment of blood-borne diseases. The company’s innovative device employs a magnetic filter to remove infected blood cells, making it applicable for conditions such as malaria, leukemia, and sepsis. MediSieve’s system operates by circulating a patient’s blood through an external loop, where targeted magnetic particles bind to specific disease-related targets. The blood is then filtered through a magnetic device that captures these particles and their attached targets, allowing the remainder of the blood to return to the patient without contamination. Founded in 2014 and located at the Imperial Incubator in White City, London, MediSieve has dedicated facilities for product development and validation, including capabilities for various blood testing methods.

Storemates is a brand new concept in self storage. They help you to find accessible storage space in other people’s homes who have unused space. This allows storage seekers to save huge amounts of money compared to paying for expensive commercial self storage. They also help those with a bit of additional space earn a little extra money by putting their unused space to good use.

MPMsim is a developer of advanced simulation software tailored for the gaming and movie industries. The company has created a unique meshless structural analysis tool that addresses the limitations and inefficiencies commonly found in competing solutions. By utilizing a hybrid Lagrangian-Eulerian non-linear explicit dynamics solver, MPMsim's software allows clients to produce realistic animations and special effects with greater ease. The platform significantly simplifies the workflow by eliminating the need for labor-intensive tasks such as meshing and CAD de-featuring, which are typically required in design processes. This innovative approach provides users with a more efficient means of developing prefabs and enhances their creative capabilities.

SMARTIFY provides instant access to inspiring art commentary, straight to your smartphone. Their app allows you to scan, identify and save art. It also serves as a personalized, on-the-ground guide to any museum or gallery we partner with. SMARTIFY CIC is a social enterprise with a mission is to help people make meaningful connections with art and to support global visual arts organisations – public and commercial. They’re focused on protecting artist and museum intellectual property and ensure parts of its profits are channeled back to the public institutions we serve.

Makers Empire helps K-8 educators teach Design Thinking, STEM and 21st-century learning skills with 3D printing and 3D design. Makers Empire makes the world’s easiest to use 3D design software, Makers Empire 3D, which works on all computers, devices and tablets. Makers Empire 3D is the cornerstone of our solutions for elementary, primary and middle schools: 1.Makers Empire 3D Learning Program for individual schools; 2.Learning by Design course for groups of schools; and 3.Custom professional learning courses for education departments, ministries and school districts. We currently work with a thousand schools, 16,000+ educators and 850,000+ students in forty countries around the world. We have successfully delivered Makers Empire and 3D technology to groups of 200+ schools in Australia, the USA and the Middle East. To date, our student designers have created over 8.5 million designs using Makers Empire 3D – that’s 50,000 new designs every day!

Shoplo sp z o.o. provides Shoplo Store, an e-commerce platform that allows retailers to open their store online. The company also offers Shoplo Multichannel that allows users to offer their products via online store, marketplaces, and other sales channels; Shoplo Chat, a real time chat that allows users to get to know their customers’ expectations and build relationships; and a mobile application. The company was founded in 2012 is based in Warsaw, Poland. As of February 12, 2019, Shoplo sp z o.o. operates as a subsidiary of SumUp Payments Limited.

Moteefe is an e-commerce platform founded in 2014 that enables individuals and businesses to sell customized merchandise through social media channels. It offers a comprehensive solution for merchants of all sizes, allowing them to quickly transform their brand and creative designs into market-ready products. The platform caters to both individual entrepreneurs and larger retailers, facilitating the creation and global distribution of custom clothing and merchandise. By streamlining the process of selling personalized items online, Moteefe empowers users to reach a broader audience and enhance their brand presence.

Small Fry creates economic opportunity in urban communities by employing talented lower-income youth, aged 17-24, to drive local small business growth online. They harness virtual apprenticeship to train and employ youth to optimize the web presence of small businesses through a spectrum of services including social media and search engine marketing. Youth earn income and gain skills that lead to career mobility while small businesses get affordable online marketing to save time and build revenue.

Neon Mobile is creating the standard mobile web presence for small businesses everywhere. Neon’s customer is the small to medium business in various sectors which represents approximately 5.5M companies with millions more employees, the backbone of American business and society. The Neon Mobile vision is to link all critical customer interaction and customer facing tasks into one homogenous data model that can be effectively deployed from a cloud computing environment and delivered to multi-channels including a seamless mobile web application experience that rivals expensive applications. All business data will be readily accessed through a simple publishing interface for the business. The identification of metrics and performance information concerning the customer interactions, not web statistics which are in most part not useful to understand the customer’s intentions, will provide beneficial analysis tools for the small business.

Process Prime offers consulting and software solutions to help makers become small manufacturers. They have software solutions that work with Mini-MRP to allow mobile barcode inventory and book-in processes. Contact us if you have questions on turning your making hobby into a business, or if you want help to scale your small operation.

Student Success Agency is an innovative organization dedicated to enhancing educational support for high school students through its online mentoring platform. This platform facilitates one-on-one interactions between students and near-peer mentors, delivering essential services such as mentoring, tutoring, and advising directly to students' cell phones. By leveraging proprietary engagement software, Student Success Agency has successfully implemented its services in 125 high schools, impacting 20,000 students across 13 states, primarily through a significant college readiness federal grant. The agency aims to improve access to quality on-demand support, ensuring that students nationwide receive the guidance they need for college admissions, scholarships, and career success, regardless of their geographical location.

SocialMadeSimple is a provider of social media marketing tools and services tailored for small businesses and individual professionals. The company combines its innovative platform with a team of marketing experts to offer affordable, full-service social media solutions. Their approach focuses on creating unified and cohesive social media strategies that generate results for multi-location brands on a hyper-local level. SocialMadeSimple reaches its target market through a blend of direct sales and marketing efforts, forming Whitelabel partnerships with larger companies that already offer marketing tools, as well as collaborating with local marketing agencies and smaller affiliates. This strategy allows them to effectively serve a diverse clientele and enhance their social media presence.

Smak puts professionals in control of their communication by turning email and social network clutter into relevant and insightful conversations. Smak increases responsiveness to key clients, improves sales, and automates tedious CRM tasks. Their unique technology makes it easier to deal with communication overload and see clearly which relationships can be leveraged for new business opportunities. Their current customers include recruiters, financial advisers and real-estate agents.

ELF empowers underprivileged students in Sri Lanka to achieve greater access to education. As its main approach, ELF has developed a unique peer-to-peer Micro-Scholarship Model that connects sponsors from around the world with students, creating a sustainable funding source for the students' education. In addition, ELF focuses on other complementary models to provide a more holistic solution to the problem. ELF is also focused on replicating its scholarship model in other developing countries.

SocMetrics, Inc. provides a Web-based self-service platform for agencies and brands. Its platform enables customers to identify existing influencers, understand promising advocates, engage target list, drive desired messages and actions, and monitor and analyze campaign ROI. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As of July 11, 2017, SocMetrics, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Grapevine Logic, Inc..

MySuperMe (MSM) is the next generation of ACTIVE video gaming. MSM kids play in an action packed online world while anywhere: outside, on the go, with friends, or even at recess. We۪ve built an online platform based on an engaging brand, fun story line & technical backend system that integrates different sensor technologies to encourage, verify & reward real world play & healthy habits.

signedOn inc enables anyone to create a modern, interactive website incorporating the latest social media without requiring the services of a developer. For SMB managers, our technology means less time and money spent on developing an internet presence so that more can be spent on their core business. We have a demo operating on our platform today and a backlog of SMB customers we plan to start to address in 2010 Q3. Breakeven is anticipated within 2 years.