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Novel Capital is a fintech funding platform that provides non-dilutive, revenue-based financing to B2B software companies. It centers on future recurring revenue, enabling entrepreneurs to access capital immediately without giving up equity. The platform pairs capital with data-driven insights and learning resources to help growth-stage businesses accelerate scale. Using key company data points and financial metrics, it delivers capital, resources, and strategic support tailored to recurring-revenue models, helping ventures grow faster while preserving ownership. The company aims to support entrepreneurs and growing businesses with flexible funding solutions aligned to revenue streams and momentum, contributing to a thriving startup ecosystem.

Worky develops employee-centric HR software that automates HR activities and benefits. Its platform securely calculates payroll accurately, ensuring all HR processes are consolidated in one place.

Happl is a technology company that develops a social platform aimed at fostering inclusivity and employee well-being in businesses worldwide. Its platform provides insights for HR leaders to understand their workforce's well-being, while also offering spend cards for streamlined expense management, empowering managers to engage with and support their teams effectively.

Summer is a property management company that specializes in facilitating access to vacation homes through a unique rent-to-own program combined with short-term rentals. The company operates a homeownership platform designed to assist clients in purchasing second homes while also offering the opportunity to rent them out. By lowering entry and ongoing costs and minimizing the complexities associated with traditional real estate transactions, Summer enables users to easily find move-in-ready homes or select their ideal second home. Through its services, Summer aims to simplify the process of homeownership and enhance the vacation rental experience for clients.

Mundi is a company focused on facilitating international trade for small and medium-sized enterprises through its innovative financial solutions. It operates an international factoring platform that allows businesses to access capital, exchange currencies, and mitigate the risks associated with cross-border trading. By offering services in trade development, strategy, and freight, Mundi helps manufacturers and traders navigate the complexities of global markets. The company's platform aims to streamline the process of currency exchange, enabling users to conduct transactions digitally and efficiently, without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Movo is a workforce management platform for frontline workers that provides real-time visibility for supervisors and enables large-scale deployments. It combines human capital management with AI-powered features in a mobile-first solution, delivering credentialed professionals and end-to-end software across healthcare, clean energy, manufacturing, and field engineering. The platform helps organizations deploy, credential, and coordinate field staff efficiently, enabling supervisors to handle higher task volumes and manage extensive teams.

Judy Security is a cyber security company servicing small and medium businesses. The company's technology Judy uses a secure and private vault to create, store and protect all their passwords, keeping unauthorized users out of their login data.

SpecCheck is an optical platform designed to enhance the efficiency of eye care specialists. It offers an all-in-one solution that facilitates accurate prescription eyewear ordering and tracking, seamless billing, and improved communication among patients, eye doctors, and lab partners. By optimizing these processes, SpecCheck enables users to work more efficiently and reduce costly errors, ultimately increasing productivity and enhancing overall workflow within the eye care industry.

Fideum is on a mission to empower the world’s most ambitious financial institutions, banks, and SMEs by accelerating their capacity to integrate smart, reliable and regulated digital asset banking products & services for their customers.

Mavity is an AI-driven platform designed for creative teams, sales development representatives (SDRs), and marketers. It streamlines workflows from project requests to final asset delivery by combining intelligent task management, automated brief processing, and AI-generated content. This enables teams to focus on driving results while Mavity handles the heavy lifting.

Xendoo, Inc. is a Fort Lauderdale-based company that specializes in cloud-based bookkeeping and accounting services tailored for small business owners. Established in 2016, Xendoo offers an online platform that facilitates a range of financial operations, including bookkeeping, tax preparation, sales tax filing, and monthly financial reporting. By leveraging technology, Xendoo aims to provide small businesses with timely access to financial data, enabling them to gain financial visibility and streamline their operations. The platform is designed to enhance efficiency and predictability in accounting, allowing business owners to focus on their core activities while ensuring compliance and financial accuracy.

Middesk, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, is an identity platform that specializes in automating business verification and enhancing decision-making processes for organizations. The company's platform offers comprehensive data on various businesses, allowing service providers to monitor changes in their customer base and gain a clearer understanding of client needs. By centralizing the credentialing process, Middesk enables companies to effectively manage risk and compliance with minimal friction, thus streamlining onboarding and increasing operational efficiency. Through its services, Middesk supports businesses in establishing, operating, and maintaining compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.

ChangeEngine develops data-to-communication software that automates internal communications across teams by integrating existing systems and handling time-consuming tasks. The platform personalizes, sequences, and measures internal messages at scale, helping organizations streamline workflows and drive actions among managers and employees. It focuses on elevating people leaders, enabling them to design and sustain employee experience programs that span distributed and hybrid work environments, and to demonstrate impact to leadership to secure internal budget for experimentation and innovation.

Quipu is building the first digital bank for the informal economy in LATAM. Using proprietary AI algorithms, Quipu assesses informal microbusinesses’ creditworthiness using over 80,000 alternative data points. Quipu leverages this data to provide working capital loans through a local supply chain financing system that allows microbusinesses to buy supplies, ingredients and materials at wholesale price. The company is building an uncollateralized loan protocol to boost their loan operation. Quipu’s goal is to become the one-stop-shop for financial services for micro-businesses in LATAM providing easy, fair and alternative access to working capital.

Founded in 2016, Bambee provides affordable HR management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Its platform offers access to an HR manager starting at $99 a month, along with tools like HR Autopilot and Guided Payroll to ensure compliance. Serving various industries, Bambee aims to help businesses run efficiently like Fortune 500 companies.

Judy Security is a cyber security company servicing small and medium businesses. The company's technology Judy uses a secure and private vault to create, store and protect all their passwords, keeping unauthorized users out of their login data.

Qonto is an online bank headquartered in Paris that serves small and medium-sized businesses and freelancers. It provides business bank accounts and digital banking services designed to simplify payments, accounting, and cash flow management for a range of company types. The platform offers features such as international transfers, invoicing, expense management, virtual cards, multi-account capabilities, and integrations with other business tools. With transparent pricing and a focus on efficiency, Qonto supports startups, founders, freelancers, and growing teams in managing finances.

Happl is a technology company that develops a social platform aimed at fostering inclusivity and employee well-being in businesses worldwide. Its platform provides insights for HR leaders to understand their workforce's well-being, while also offering spend cards for streamlined expense management, empowering managers to engage with and support their teams effectively.

SkillCycle operates a subscription-based talent development platform offering personalized career coaching and learning. Its platform helps businesses upskill and reskill employees by providing tailored learning experiences, workflow management, workforce insights, and measurable metrics to track behavioral changes and outcomes. This enables companies to educate, empower, and retain their workforce effectively.

Hone Group Inc., established in 2018, is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in live online leadership and management training. It offers a development platform that empowers organizations to enhance their employees' soft skills, including communication, team building, and conflict management. Hone's platform facilitates expert-led small group training, peer learning, and continuous reinforcement, while also providing data-driven insights to measure and improve training impact.

Movo is a workforce management platform for frontline workers that provides real-time visibility for supervisors and enables large-scale deployments. It combines human capital management with AI-powered features in a mobile-first solution, delivering credentialed professionals and end-to-end software across healthcare, clean energy, manufacturing, and field engineering. The platform helps organizations deploy, credential, and coordinate field staff efficiently, enabling supervisors to handle higher task volumes and manage extensive teams.

Mesh specializes in facilitating secure cryptocurrency transactions. It connects over 300 exchanges and wallets, allowing seamless deposits and payments. Additionally, Mesh enables stock trading and cross-platform crypto transfers, fostering financial connectivity among users.

Meaningful Gigs is a tech-driven platform that enhances the skills of African digital designers and connects them with businesses seeking highly skilled, diverse design talent.

Lessonbee Inc. is an educational technology company that specializes in providing an online learning platform and digital curriculum focused on health and wellness for students in grades K-12. Founded in 2017 and based in Mount Vernon, New York, Lessonbee offers a cloud-based reflective learning system that includes adaptive lessons and a shared content library. This platform enables teachers to access up-to-date, culturally responsive, and medically accurate health education content, track student assignments, and foster student engagement through regular reflection. Additionally, Lessonbee incorporates its proprietary HealthIQ analytics to evaluate student health goals and school climate, recommending personalized content from its extensive library of self-paced classes and video-based lessons aligned with state and national health education standards. By promoting collaboration among educators, parents, and healthcare providers, Lessonbee aims to enhance student well-being and health literacy.

Zeguro Inc. is a cyber security and insurance platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2016. The company focuses on helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) identify and mitigate cyber risks. Zeguro's platform enables these businesses to assess their vulnerabilities and offers tailored insurance solutions to cover potential losses from incidents such as data breaches, business interruptions, cyber extortion, and payment fraud. In addition to insurance, Zeguro provides cybersecurity training and monitoring services, ensuring that SMEs can effectively protect themselves against cyber threats while benefiting from affordable and comprehensive cyber insurance coverage.

Say is a technology company based in New York that has developed a platform to enhance communication between companies and their individual shareholders. Founded in 2017, Say's platform empowers shareholders to exercise their full ownership rights by facilitating open dialogue outside traditional shareholder communication channels. It features various services, including proxy processing, fund reports, trade confirmations, post-sale prospectus delivery, and the management of voluntary corporate actions and class actions. By connecting individual shareholders with one another and providing tools to aggregate and authenticate their voices, Say aims to level the playing field with institutional investors and transform the experience of stock ownership.

Ceemo automates brand creation for small businesses, startups, non-profits using Crunchbase data and AI algorithms. It applies new brands across marketing materials to launch, run, and grow ventures, supporting fundraising efforts.