Plug and Play

Plug and Play Tech Center, founded in 2006 and based in Sunnyvale, California, operates as a global accelerator and venture capital firm focusing on early-stage and seed investments in technology startups. It runs 12 industry-specific accelerator programs twice a year, providing a platform for startups to connect with major corporations and investors. The firm emphasizes collaboration and innovation across various sectors, including fintech, health technology, retail, and sustainability. Plug and Play also offers resources such as funding, mentorship, office space, and networking opportunities to support startups in refining their business models and gaining market traction. With a presence in multiple locations worldwide, the firm has cultivated a vast network of entrepreneurs, investors, and industry leaders, facilitating significant investments and fostering technological advancement.

Neda Amidi

President

Amir Amidi

Managing Partner of Travel and Hospitality Center of Innovation

Saeed Amidi

CEO

Wade Bitaraf

Founder, Energy and Sustainability

Kristi Choi

Investor

Matthew Claxton

Global Director

George Damouny

Partner

Tarek Elessawi

Principal

Gemma Guilera

Senior Partner Success Manager

Karima El Hakim

Country Director - Egypt

Jackie Hernandez

VP of Operations

Alireza Masrour

General Partner

Javier Megias

Managing Partner, EMEA VC Fund

Omeed Mehrinfar

Managing Partner, Middle-East

Kevin Parakkattu

Senior Associate, Ventures

Erena Estellés Tatay

Ventures Analyst

Connie Weisman

Corporate Partnerships - Innovation

Kevin Withstandley

Senior Director, Partner Success

Ivan Zgomba

Partner

Past deals in Early Venture Stage

Chari

Venture Round in 2023
Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans. Chari's mission is to meet the needs of entrepreneurs by supplying them with consumer goods on a regular basis and providing them with financial services.

REPOWR

Series A in 2023
REPOWR is refining the way transportation companies utilize over-the-road equipment (trucks, trailers, chassis, shipping containers, etc.) To do so, REPOWR is pioneering the world's first connected, collaborative asset-sharing platform and equipping logistics companies with the tools necessary to share and manage assets across locations, teams, and networks, efficiently and sustainably. The company connects shippers, carriers, 3PLs, leasing companies, and OEMs to a collaborative platform for shared asset visibility. "The Universal Trailer Network"

Quantrack

Series A in 2023
Quantrack is a Financial Services company that simplifies complex stock information for retail investors. Quantrack helps retail investors make actionable decisions with unique features including stock valuation reports, portfolio diagnosis, and bulk ordering. Founded in 2023 and is located in Seoul, KR.

Koffie Financial

Series A in 2022
Koffie Financial is a fintech platform purpose-built for the trucking and transportation industry. It offers trucking and transportation companies quick and affordable insurance coverage that rewards and incentivizes safety. Using technology to reduce costs and save time in underwriting, loss control, claims handling, and fleet operations. The platform provides modern truckers with instant and tailored policies that reward them with lower premiums than traditional insurers.

CELUS

Series A in 2022
CELUS provides a cloud-based software platform designed to streamline the electronics development process for businesses. As demand for electronics and embedded systems rises, the shortage of qualified electronics engineers poses a challenge. CELUS addresses this issue by offering automation tools that facilitate parts selection, schematic development, PCB design, and embedded software creation. By integrating these interdependent tasks, CELUS aims to reduce the time and complexity involved in developing electronic products, thereby supporting companies in navigating the evolving landscape of electronics engineering.

Kardinal

Series A in 2022
Kardinal is a Last Mile Delivery Optimization platform designed to improve your operational performance, actionable from day 1. With cutting-edge mathematics, we leverage your current processes and data to optimize operations, improve the relevance of your transportation procurement, and provide the decision support you need to grow your organization. For Top Managers, Depot Managers, Operational Teams, Subcontractors and Drivers: - Territory Optimization: Design the optimal territory organization for a depot’s area based on historical parcel counts and considering operational constraints (route, costs, resources, capacities, time…). - Subcontractor pricing: Get precise estimates of your subcontractor’s cost structure to buy transport at the right price. Anticipate expected deliveries in each of your sectors to better plan your routes and save cost. - Resources Anticipation: Manage the impact of fluctuations in your activity on your resource needs. - Fleet conversion: Visualize the impact that new vehicles would have on your operations by creating simulations to make data-driven decisions about your fleet. - Depot location: Assess the costs and the impact of a new depot or sub-depot on the sectorization of your territory. - Real-time Route Optimization: Get the best tours for the day and re-optimize them regarding unexpected events.

OpenPlan

Series A in 2022
OpenPlan develops an online platform that offers mini insurance packages. It offers insurance premiums for various types of daily activity. OpenPlan was founded in 2019 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.

Reco

Series A in 2022
Reco is a dynamic SaaS security company that provides a security platform to help organizations monitor and secure their cloud applications. The platform employs AI agents to identify unsanctioned applications, evaluate their usage, and mitigate associated risks. These agents are trained on Reco’s metadata, enhancing speed and security compared to market competitors. It also features a real-time interaction graph that maps user behaviors, application activities, and potential threats, providing a unified intelligence layer. This contextual understanding allows Reco's AI to detect complex threats that would otherwise remain hidden in traditional security tools.

iCustoms

Series A in 2022
Global AI Trade Compliance Platform For Every Business to automates complex customs procedures for cross-border trade. With AI-powered and machine-learning capabilities, iCustoms’ softwares transform your logistics and supply chain management, cutting additional costs and saving time.

Venly

Series A in 2022
Web3 Platform for Developers Integrate any blockchain into your project using Venly’s all-in-one platform

NewRetirement

Series A in 2022
NewRetirement provides a retirement planning and management platform both direct to consumer and to the enterprise via white label or API. NewRetirement helps people manage retirement income, healthcare, lower taxes, and manage fees through content, software, coaching, classes and advisors. The platform helps users optimize across Social Security, Medicare, Taxes, Home Equity, Income, Asset drawdown, Relocation, Work, and Estate Planning. Users can also access fee-only advice on-demand for collaborative planning to help them make and act on better decisions about their future.

Instant Teams

Series A in 2022
Instant Teams is a remote-first, tech-enabled solution building high-quality customer support and operational teams. Our remote teams are built with military spouses and underserved talent communities enabling 24/7 support around the globe. Our technology platform, Arti, solves two major problems in the customer support industry - getting high-quality talent and retaining talent after they are onboarded with built-in workforce development. With remote work and people first best practices and HR automation, Instant Teams is a plug-and-play B2B enterprise solution for scaling and managing support operations. Customers include Walmart, Amazon, CrowdStrike, Assurance, SeeSaw, and more.

Oloid

Series A in 2022
OLOID provides passwordless identity and access solutions, converging cyber and physical security. Physical identity factors such as access card, face, palm scan, etc. for frictionless login into devices and SSO systems. OLOID integrates digital identity seamlessly across HR, IT, and records systems creating a unified passwordless authentication platform for shared devices. With physical security and time clock integration, OLOID is able to provide seamless and secure authentication across the day of a deskless worker. The Sunnyvale, California-located company was established in 2019.

Syantra

Series A in 2022
Syantra is a precision biotechnology company that transforms cancer detection and treatment. The company is initially targeting breast cancer detection and treatment, highlighting its commitment to combatting this prevalent disease. Syantra''s flagship product, Syantra DX™ Breast Cancer, is a blood test designed for early breast cancer screening. This test measures a panel of gene expression biomarkers from whole blood and utilizes machine learning algorithms to interpret the data, providing a positive or negative result. Clinical studies have demonstrated high inferred accuracy for women under 50 and overall. Syantra's Onco-ID™ platform aims to expand early cancer detection capabilities across multiple cancer types.

Gr4vy

Series A in 2022
Gr4vy is a payment orchestration platform that offers payment solutions for businesses. Gr4vy is a "no-code"payments orchestration platform that enables mid-sized businesses the ability to add the full spectrum of payments infrastructure from the beginning, as well as host and expand it as needed without taking on technical debt. It also charges customers per service rather than a transaction. In addition, the platform provides a hub for reporting, monitoring, and managing a payments infrastructure. It was founded in 2020 and is based in San Mateo, California, USA.

Sylvera

Series A in 2021
Sylvera is a carbon data provider whose aim is to incentivize real-world climate action. They develop machine learning-based tools to track the performance of carbon offsets. The company was founded in and will have its headquarters in London, United Kingdom, by 2020.

AudioMob

Series A in 2021
AudioMob allows brands to connect with the mobile gaming audience using in-game audio ads. AudioMob helps developers in monetizing their games through non-interrupting audio ads. The company was founded in 2020 and is located in London, England.

Airalo

Series A in 2021
Airalo is an eSIM store for travelers to access eSIMs for 190+ countries and regions at the most affordable, local rates from around the world, all via eSIM-compatible smartphone, tablet, or PC. Airalo offers users both connectivity and freedom - they’ll never have to carry multiple SIM cards or change their number again, no matter where they are in the world.

Thread Robotics

Series A in 2021
Thread Robotics provides medical devices and services with a focus on fertility care. It was founded in 2020 and operates in Mountain View, California.

digzyme

Series A in 2021
Digzyme develops new enzymatic processes using bioinformatics. The company automates various stages of analysis related to the development of enzymes and bioprocesses using their core bioinformatics technology and further optimize using accumulated data.

Nethone

Series A in 2021
Nethone offers a risk detection product designed to protect the entire user journey, from onboarding to post-payment, at the same time helping merchants to holistically understand their end-users (good and bad). With the Know Your User (KYU) profiling technology and AI-powered tools, Nethone blocks all risky users without friction to the good ones by exhaustively screening every single one. The fraud detection software monitors and blocks over 100 types of fraudster tactics on websites and mobile apps, which are processed into actionable recommendations in real time. Thanks to a modularized approach, Nethone offers end-to-end protection, and addresses multiple types of fraud at every step of the user journey, from account takeovers, bot attacks, promo & policy abuse, friendly fraud to money laundering schemes. Founded in 2016 by data scientists, developers, and security experts within Daftcode, Nethone is successfully cooperating with global ecommerce, digital goods, and financial industries. Since 2022, Nethone has been part of Mangopay Group, a pan-European provider of platform payment & wallet infrastructure. In 2023, it was recognised as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies by The Financial Times and Statista. It was also the highest-ranked Polish company in the Fintech category. The Nethone proprietary Profiler enriches the understanding of every single user with over 5000 attributes, which are processed into recommendations in real-time using a decision engine. While staying focused on the singularity of the client’s business, Nethone can help to lower clients’ rejection rates, costs of manual review, and risk of fraud, without touching the UX of the service--automatically and in real‑time. Founded in 2016 by a group of security experts, financial business executives and data scientists within Daftcode - a Poland-based venture builder, is today successfully cooperating with 50+ global e-commerce, digital goods, and financial industries. In 2021 Nethone was named Poland’s fastest-growing company in the ‘Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Central Europe’.

SuperAnnotate

Series A in 2021
SuperAnnotate is the world's leading platform for building the highest-quality training datasets for Generative AI, LLMs, Computer vision, and NLP. With advanced tooling and QA, ML and automation features, data curation, Orchestration, and integrated workforce marketplace, we enable machine learning teams to build and manage incredibly accurate datasets and successful ML pipelines 10x faster.

Circulor

Series A in 2021
Circulor uses blockchain and AI to cut the cost of traceability and due diligence in raw materials supply chains. Its pioneer customers include car manufacturers, EV battery manufacturers, commodity traders, and miners who collectively want to pioneer more effective approaches to responsible sourcing. Circulor was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London, England.

Denim

Series A in 2021
Denim is a freight payment system for freight brokers. Denim manages working capital, carrier payments, and back-office processes. They help brokers access the working capital they need to grow in a competitive market through freight software that provides factoring, automated invoicing, collections, and payments.

VERO Leasing

Series A in 2021
VERO eliminates application fraud and automates the screening and leasing of residential applicants. It offers an innovative management platform that provides a clear picture of applicants. The platform enables lead to lease in less than one day, providing unprecedented efficiency to renters, owners, and operators. VERO's patent-pending technology verifies critical applicant metrics, resulting in a quick leasing decision. VERO's modern leasing infrastructure assists customers in tracking and closing more deals, resulting in more income with less headache. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Bosta

Series A in 2021
Bosta provides an on-demand courier app with a B2C focus, allowing users to send parcels to their customers. The platform connects its users to couriers and allows them to monitor the status of the delivery of the package. By leveraging cutting-edge technology and streamlining operations, it is committed to disrupting the logistics industry.

Railz

Series A in 2021
Railz is building the largest financial data network for the future of finance. We aim to bridge the connection between future-thinking financial institutions and companies and their SMB customers’ financial data. Our Accounting Data-as-a-Service™ solution offers financial institutions and fintechs the ability to move fast through messy data - and make sense of it all. With our single API, get the financial data you need from major accounting and financial service providers. Get real-time accounting data, syncing, and analysis at your fingertips with Railz.

Sherpa°

Venture Round in 2021
We're sherpa° and we’re passionate about freedom of movement. Our mission is to help travellers move freely around the world and to shift the way the world's leading travel providers approach border crossing. Through unmatched industry knowledge and expertise, we help our partners—from airlines to cruise lines to online travel agencies—open new ancillary revenue streams to help them reduce costs and operational risk while enhancing the customer journey and growing consumer confidence in travel. More than simply providing a product or service, we're moving travel forward. Away from stress and confusion, and towards ease and connection. So travellers can move freely wherever life takes them. This is the future of international travel.

Senseye

Series A in 2021
Senseye was created to shape the future of computing. Here at Senseye, it is our core mission to bring the most intelligent and creative minds together in order to shape our aspirations for the future. Our goal is to create an emotional resonance between humans and computers that mirrors the intimate resonance that exists between people. Founded with the vision of shaping the future of computing, and that is exactly what we are doing. We have always been inspired by the words President John F. Kennedy spoke in September 1962, when he announced that the United States would seek to send a man to the moon. In the spirit of exploring new worlds, our company’s purpose is to work on “moonshots” much like the bold, inspiring goal to land a man on the moon, set more than 50 years ago. A “moonshot” is defined as a project that addresses an enormous problem, proposes a radical solution and uses breakthrough technology. Senseye uses novel non-invasive measurements of ocular physiology to quantify patterns of cognitive ability, human performance, health and psychological wellbeing including vital signs, attention and recognition/cognitive load, and fatigue and impairment. As we progress the technology we will increasingly focus on emotional responses and mental health condition for diagnosis. Senseye delivers previously unavailable cognitive & health insights via standard camera equipment.

Artifakt

Series A in 2021
Artifakt is the shortest way between a web application & the Cloud. Artifakt enables Digital teams to deploy & maintain their web projects autonomously. Artifakt is a simple yet powerful tool meant to overhaul and accelerate the entire Cloud deployment while allowing talented developers to get back to what they love: building great things.

ixlayer

Series A in 2021
ixlayer is an industry leader in the health-tech ecosystem, providing innovative solutions for enabling health systems, payors, biopharma, and health-focused companies to offer health testing in a virtual environment. The ixlayer platform delivers end-to-end solutions for the technical, security, regulatory, and user experience components of complex health testing. As the industry shifts to remote and virtual care options, ixlayer is powering patient engagement and preventative health strategies through virtual health testing, at scale. The ixlayer solution can be added to existing patient engagement platforms and patient portals to enable real time health and wellness lab testing. Founded in 2018, ixlayer currently supports millions of patients and has launched hundreds of testing programs for large organizations, health systems and every level of the government.

Zelros

Series A in 2021
Zelros is an end-to-end AI business platform that integrate standard scenarios for sales & claims. Zelros is a technology helping insurers to better serve their clients with the support of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Current functionalities of their platform are augmented sales and predictive claim management.

gofor

Series A in 2020
At gofor, we offer an innovative model for the delivery industry. A model that invests in people and in our environment. A model that combines electric vehicles, carbon offsets, empowered drivers, and smart packaging to provide reliable, cost effective, and truly sustainable delivery services. It’s how we deliver better.

UbiQD

Series A in 2020
UbiQD is a cleantech materials company that manufactures low-hazard quantum dots (QDs) and nanocomposites. The company produces low-toxicity quantum dots (QDs) so inexpensively that they will become ubiquitous through various target applications including safety, design, solar energy, lighting, security, and personal care. It also provides the perfect conditions for reproducible nanomaterial production while the close proximity to Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratory allows for beneficial collaborations with leading scientists in the area. UbiQD was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Socialeads

Series A in 2020
Socialeads is a platform that analyzes social media content for context, life events, and personality dimensions. It combines social science, data science, and advanced technologies to see and know the clients' personal and professional networks and deliver actionable insights right to their phone. Socialeads uses AI chatbots and notification systems that provide instant access to actionable data from social networks.

SimpliRoute

Series A in 2020
SimpliRoute is an information technology company that specializes in the optimization, logistics, innovation, and big data. The company is dedicated to process optimization by means of designing innovative technological solutions for highly complex problems. SimpliRoute was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Santiago, Region Metropolitana.

A*QUANTUM

Series A in 2020
A*QUANTUM is a company that specializes in quantum computer software.

skan.ai

Series A in 2020
Skan.ai uses cognitive technologies to map, model, and manage business processes by creating digital twins of human/digital interactions. Skan.ai replaces human interviews and observation, which are not accurate, by cognitive tooling that learns based on observation of human/digital work. Skan does this at scale and learns / reconstructs business processes grounds up. This approach is significantly faster, more accurate, and has much greater depth and coverage.

Artifakt

Series A in 2020
Artifakt is the shortest way between a web application & the Cloud. Artifakt enables Digital teams to deploy & maintain their web projects autonomously. Artifakt is a simple yet powerful tool meant to overhaul and accelerate the entire Cloud deployment while allowing talented developers to get back to what they love: building great things.

Owl.co

Series A in 2020
Owl is an insurance claims monitoring platform that detects non-eligible claims through evidence and facts with an audit trail. By connecting to trusted data sources, the Owl platform is able to automatically aggregate and synthesize data points to learn more about customers and entities. This solution allows highly-regulated institutions to use disruptive technologies without sacrificing the security or integrity of sensitive data. Owl helps financial institutions make better decisions.

Blueboard

Series A in 2020
Blueboard is the experiential rewards and recognition platform for the modern workplace. Its rewards platform allows companies to reward their employees to curated experiences and activities with the click of a button – things like skydiving, wine tasting, massage, and mixology. Its clients love the fact that it has made memorable and meaningful recognition as easy as sending a gift card. It was founded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Helium Health

Series A in 2020
Helium Health is taking hospitals and clinics digital in Africa with a suite of software tools. It specializing in developing hospital software to manage patients’ health records and data. It helps hospitals digitize medical records, manage operations, and apply for financing; while providing a telemedicine solution to doctors. Using tech to build a modern and affordable healthcare system, Helium aims to be the largest healthcare data exchange in Africa.

ORCA-TECH

Series A in 2020
ORCA-TECH creates unmanned water surface driving technology and service robots. Their services include lake management, water conservation, river conservation, floating rubbish cleanup, reservoir monitoring, and solutions for water conservation.

NATIX Network

Venture Round in 2020
NATIX Network is building an open geospatial Intelligence network using their proprietary AI and smartphone cameras. The existing geospatial data collection solutions suffer from limited data types, low update frequency, high costs to gather data, and even higher prices charged to business customers. NATIX uses driver assistant apps (e.g. dashcam and navigation), token incentives, Computer Vision AI, and smartphone cameras to crowdsource real-time data and create a digital twin of our world. The network enables a new era of real-time applications ranging from autonomous driving to smart city services. With over 100k registered drivers and over 33M km covered in only 12 months, NATIX is one of the fastest-growing geospatial networks globally.

Oobli

Series A in 2020
Joywell Foods is developing the first healthy, protein sweeteners. Derived from exotic plants, protein sweeteners are rare compounds that provide an amazing taste without the calories. These proteins, produced through fermentation, have no glycemic impact and do not affect the gut microbiome. The company has received regulatory approvals, including FDA "no questions" letters and GRAS status for multiple proteins

GYANT

Series A in 2020
GYANT is a digital front door solution for health systems that uses AI to navigate patients to the right care setting and relevant in-network resources. GYANT helps health systems implement digital patient journeys to effectively capture new patients, efficiently serve existing ones, and drive process automation across the enterprise.

Swiftly

Series A in 2020
Swiftly develops enterprise software that helps transit agencies and cities improve urban mobility. The platform harnesses billions of data points and sophisticated algorithms to improve transit system performance, service reliability, and real-time passenger information.

Verikai

Series A in 2020
Verikai is an insurance technology company. It leverages alternative data and machine learning to change the way the insurance industry views risk. Focused primarily on underwriting efficiency, Verikai provides insurance companies with risk reports to optimize the underwriting process. This greater insight helps increase new business, reduce losses, and ultimately provide consumers and businesses with greater access to a broader range of insurance products.

Bloomlife

Series A in 2020
Bloomlife is an award winning women’s health company solving the most significant yet underserved global challenges today in maternal health. We are redefining the way maternal care is delivered by combining connected devices with cloud based data analytics to improve access to care, empower women, and provide clinicians with information to more effectively screen and manage pregnancy complications. Our goal is to become the leading provider of remote care for expectant women globally. Bloomlife’s approach to managing high risk pregnancies allows obstetricians to more easily screen maternal and fetal risk, educate the patient, and quickly access high risk specialists regardless of a patient’s geography. Our solution represents a marked shift from the way high risk pregnancies have been historically assessed using frequent in person appointments, paper logs, and long referral times.

Vara

Series A in 2020
Developed, tested, and proven in Germany, Vara is a leading AI-powered breast cancer screening company on a mission to find every deadly breast cancer early. Vara’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is embedded within the German Breast Cancer Screening Program and is backed by some of the most respected institutions in breast cancer screening in the world including Cambridge (UK), Memorial Sloan (US), and Karolinska (Sweden). Vara’s clinical evidence has also been published in Lancet Digital Health, demonstrating that Vara-assisted radiologists significantly outperform average radiologists and are able to find cancers that would otherwise have been missed. Vara works with healthcare stakeholders, radiology service providers, and medical doctor networks to improve access to high-quality screening in Germany, Egypt, India and Mexico.

Hearth

Series A in 2020
Shogun Enterprises is a financial technology platform for home improvement.

Owkin

Series A in 2020
Owkin is a French-American startup that uses artificial intelligence to find the right treatment for every patient. Our focus is to use AI to discover and develop better treatments for unmet medical needs, starting with the fight against cancer. They use AI to identify new drug candidates, de-risk and accelerate clinical trials and build diagnostic tools that improve patient outcomes. Using federated learning, a pioneering collaborative AI framework, Owkin enables medical and biopharma partners to unlock valuable insights from siloed datasets, while protecting patient privacy and securing proprietary data. Owkin was co-founded by Thomas Clozel MD, a clinical research doctor and former assistant professor in clinical onco-hematology, and Gilles Wainrib, a pioneer in the field of machine learning in biology, in 2016. Owkin has raised over $255 million and became a ‘unicorn’ – a startup valued at more than $1 billion – in November 2021 through a $180 million investment from French biopharma company Sanofi.

Credit Kudos

Series A in 2020
Credit Kudos is a credit bureau that uses financial behavior and data through open banking to measure creditworthiness. Credit Kudos utilizes consumer transaction data to build highly accurate and transparent credit score cards and affordability metrics.

SecondNature.io

Series A in 2020
SecondNature helps transcription companies overcome the uncertainty of managing virtual workers by providing real time insights into their workforce’s accuracy and reliability levels.

Meru Health

Series A in 2020
Meru Health offers a digital program that helps improve the lives of people living with depression and saves on healthcare costs. It develops and delivers cost-effective, clinically proven, and engaging digital solutions to empower people living with depression. Founded by Kristian Ranta, Albert Nazander, and Riku Lindholm in 2015, Meru Health is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

InfStones

Series A in 2020
Founded in 2018 with offices across three countries and two continents, InfStones is the world's leading blockchain infrastructure provider. Currently, InfStones provides services to large institutional clients around the globe, supporting thousands of nodes on more than 50 public blockchains through its universal platform.

MixMove

Series A in 2020
MixMove provides flexible and modular solutions that reduce emissions and increase efficiency in logistics operations. The company's software makes allows the user to deliver the goods to its customers at the right time, with the right quality and cost. Its cloud solution provides the digital capabilities needed to optimize the supply chain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Fornebu, Norway.

REIN

Series A in 2019
REIN solves the complexities of building insurance products in digital ecosystems. In a time of evolving risks, changing customer behavior and unprecedented demand for data-driven and usage-based insurance solutions, REIN’s configurable platform empowers insurers and ecosystems to deliver personalized coverage options to consumers where they are, when they need it.

Brankas

Series A in 2019
Brankas is a fintech company that provides financial software and solutions. The company providing large-scaling payment, transaction, and cash management systems for e-commerce, SMEs, Fortune 100, 500, and ASEAN 50 companies. it uses its APIs and systems to essentially slot new services into their platform. Brankas operates a platform that gives banks and financial companies the tech to roll out digital products and embrace online services. The company helps its users to manage their accounts and payments directly with APIs and user dashboards to automate payment processing with enterprise-grade security. Brankas was founded in August 2016 and is based in Dki Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia

Einride

Series A in 2019
Einride is a freight technology company providing digital, electric, and autonomous shipping. It was founded in 2016 and became the world’s first company to operate an autonomous, electric freight vehicle on a public road in 2019. Einride´s award-winning technology and products enable users to execute on electrification and automation, order and track shipments, oversee routes and assignments, visualize data and gain insights.

Beyond

Series A in 2019
Beyond is the #1 Revenue Management Platform for short-term rental managers and owners to get, grow, and keep revenue. Our suite of tools has helped our partners see as much as a 40% increase in booking revenue. To date, we’ve supported over 340,000 properties in more than 7,500 cities worldwide. We pioneered pricing for the short-term rental market, and that was just the beginning. Since our founding in 2013, we’ve developed a wide range of tools like Signal, Relay, Insights, Guidance, and Projections to give short-term rental managers and owners what they need to succeed. Come learn more at www.beyondpricing.com and see what we can do for your business.

AutoX

Series A in 2019
AutoX is a California-based startup, with a mission to "Democratize Autonomy". We aim to accelerate the advent of fully driverless cars. Our autonomous driving platform is capable of navigating the most challenging and dynamic traffic conditions in urban areas. AutoX was granted the world’s second fully driverless RoboTaxi permit from the state of California.

Credit Sesame

Venture Round in 2019
Credit Sesame is a credit and loan company that makes consumer credit and loan management simple and automated. The company marries its deep understanding of how personal credit works with the latest in digital banking to offer the only free online and mobile digital banking service that helps consumers manage and grow their credit and cash in one place as they spend and save. Credit Sesame also provides personalized recommendations regarding personal loans, home loans, student loans, credit cards, and refinancing opportunities that can help members improve their credit and spending power. It gives its members free access to credit score monitoring, credit reports, and identity protection tools. Credit Sesame was founded on April 1, 2010, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.

AX Semantics

Series A in 2019
axite is the data-driven Content Operations platform from AX Semantics, developed specifically for copywriting teams in e-commerce and retail. It offers content managers measurability of the success of their product content strategy and combines tools for quality assurance, automation, generative AI and API workflows axite helps retailers to optimize their rankings, conversions, return rates and customer satisfaction in all markets and languages.

Car IQ

Series A in 2019
Car IQ’s cutting-edge payments platform eliminates the credit card completely and connects your vehicle directly to merchants to make secure payments. Car IQ integrates with existing tech stacks and uses telematics and vehicle data to provide fleets with detailed vehicle insights, enabling them to monitor each transaction and prevent fraud. Car IQ consolidates all transactions into a single ledger, reducing reconciliation and enabling fleets to manage their spending more effectively.

Caresyntax

Series A in 2019
Caresyntax is a digital surgery platform that enables OR teams to predict and improve surgical performance. Its enterprise-grade digital surgery platform delivers insights to improve patient outcomes by using proprietary software and AI to analyze large volumes of video, audio, images, device data, clinical, and operational data in and around the OR. Caresyntax insights help surgeons benchmark and improve their care, hospital administrators use surgical resources more efficiently, medical device companies advance better products, and insurance companies understand risk and devise more tailored policies. The software is used in more than 4,000 operating rooms worldwide, has supported more than 30,000 surgeons, and improved care for more than 2 million patients.

Pryon

Series A in 2019
Pryon is an artificial intelligence company focused on enterprise knowledge management. Its natural language processing platform transforms unstructured data into experiences that increase productivity with unmatched accuracy and speed. Pryon’s automated machine learning engines deliver rapid time to value by enriching existing content. This no-code approach prevents operational disruption and allows organizations to quickly maximize the business value trapped within their information assets. Pryon was founded by Igor Jablokov, whose previous company defined the state of the art for AI assistants and was acquired by Amazon to form the basis for Alexa.

GuardKnox

Series A in 2019
GuardKnox is an automotive technology company building high-performance, service-oriented, customizable, and secure-by-design products for driver-centric mobility. GuardKnox develops scalable and flexible technologies for full connectivity and empowers consumers with the ability to customize their vehicle's performance, as well as their in-vehicle experience. Founded in 2016, GuardKnox is based in Israel, with subsidiary locations in Munich, Germany, and Detroit, Michigan.

ChargeAfter

Series A in 2019
ChargeAfter is the global multi-lender network for point-of-sale financing. Our platform connects retailers and lenders to offer responsible, personalized financing options for every consumer — all from a single application. Powered by a data-driven decisioning engine and network of global lenders, ChargeAfter delivers the most relevant financing offers to consumers from multiple lenders based on credit type – resulting in approvals for up to 100% of customer applications. ChargeAfter streamlines the distribution of credit into a single platform that retailers can implement rapidly both online and in-store. The company’s growing lender network offers seamless integration to lenders seeking to grow their customer base while expanding into new retail markets.

SkyWatch

Series A in 2019
VOOM is the world’s first on-demand, telematics-based InsurTech platform for Specialized Mobility products, dedicated to protecting users for anything they ride, fly, or sail. The company’s first product, SkyWatch.AI, leverages the power of machine learning to assess and mitigate risks and provide on-demand insurance for thousands of drone pilots operating across the US. VOOM’s data-driven, usage-based insurance products include multiple high-risk, episodic-usage mobility verticals, including e-scooters, e-bikes, powersports, motor boats, and small planes. Headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in Palo Alto, CA, VOOM is a licensed insurance broker in all 50 US states.

6d bytes

Series A in 2019
6D Bytes builds robotics systems to prepare and serve fresh & delicious meals. The company uses robotics, machine vision, and AI to transform the way the food and beverage industry approaches the preparation and serving of healthy foods.
BCG reported that 70% of Gen Z discover products through content platforms, not directly on a retailer website. Social commerce is NOW. The global fashion E-commerce digital advertising allocation is $200 billion. Mai is making social visual discovery shopping a reality on every photo and video across any social platforms or devices. Viewers can click and shop the clothing they see while watching videos, such as TV shows, movies, and other digital media. Mai bridges the gap between social content and e-commerce, through a fully-automated AI computer vision technology, a sophisticated e-commerce bidding system, and a user personalization system. At Mai, we have spent three years working with top computer vision AI scientists, AI engineers, and fashion experts that created the world’s 1st fully automated video fashion shopping solution. We are connected with numerous top global e-commerce platforms, with total 200M SKUs available, daily updated with an out-of-stock rate <3%. Moreover, Mai is already live with two of the biggest social content platforms in Asia, with more to come. Mai has won the No.1 winner of MIT AI Idol contest in Jul 2020, and also won the title of “Most fundable company by investment value” at the biggest Asia Internet Conference in Nov 2020.

Cogniac

Series A in 2019
Cogniac enables enterprise customers to extract information from ever-increasing streams of video and image data. Using modern advances in deep learning, their products achieve better-than-human performance at many highly-focused observation tasks.

Zippia

Series A in 2019
Zippia offers every person access to all of their career options and how those various paths will impact their professional lives. Zippia extracts intelligence from real world experiences to provide the best information and tools for people to achieve their career plans. The company's market-leading Career Map allows anyone to explore millions of options, showing you roles that fit your profile and experience. Zippia believes that everyone should be able to make career decisions with their eyes wide open. That’s why Zippia built the most intelligent and personalized resource for your career questions.

Checkerspot

Series A in 2019
Checkerspot is a materials innovation company that designs materials at a molecular level. The company is driven by a mission to use the power of biotechnology to expand the palette of molecular building blocks for high-performance and sustainable materials.

CarIQ

Series A in 2019
CarIQ is the new connected car ecosystem where car owners are empowered with data to demand the highest attention and services. CarIQ platform connects cars to their owners, and to the various service providers such as auto manufacturers, OEM, car insurance providers, auto dealership, auto workshop, roadside assistance providers, breakdown service provider, government agencies etc. CarIQ can help infrastructure providers and city planners to take maximum advantage of 'Internet of Things'

Extend

Series A in 2019
Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and an industry-first card tokenization service.

Ushur

Series A in 2019
Ushur is a cloud-based automation platform that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.The company develops intelligent automation solutions that include, Ushur Virtual Customer Assistant, smart technology that automates proactive member, claimant, agent, or broker communications across virtually any channel, reaching out to customers, understanding what they need, and automatically taking the next steps; Ushur SmartMail, a software that allows insurers to process high-volumes of the customer, agent and broker email automatically, allowing carriers to respond faster and efficiently; Ushur Flowbuilder, the web-based no-code builder allows claims, broker services, and customer support teams to build, deploy and track rich digital engagements that improve business agility and the customer experience while minimizing the burden on IT. By leveraging the company's Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Language Intelligence Service Architecture (LISA), insurance companies can accelerating capital and time-intensive processes like claims, customer support, billing, and enrollment to digitally transform service workflows.

i2x

Series A in 2019
Real-time conversation analytics and continuous coaching. At i2x they are working to radically improve the human-to-human interaction between companies and their customers. They do this by providing real-time insights on business calls for managers on one side, and supporting agents with continuous communication training on the job on the other. i2x enables companies to leverage data and understand what makes their team successful and customers happy - all in real-time and powered by AI. With i2x, the black box of phone calls is decrypted for the first time. Traditionally, contact center success metrics are based on a limited set of data, including call attempts and duration. Built on a fit-for-purpose ASR (automatic speech recognition), i2x opens the doors to deeper, more meaningful insights. The platform evaluates complex speech parameters in real-time to determine the dynamics of a customer conversation. This includes customizable words and phrases, pauses, rate of speech, and speech-to-listen ratio. i2x analyzes sales and service team calls and identifies which approach works best for a specific customer or prospect group. Data-driven best practices are automatically shared with all team members. As a result, managers gain deeper insights into customer interactions, the skills of existing employees evolve and brand experience improves. i2x makes call data analyzable and actionable. “They do not automate, they augment the human intelligence, elevate customer interactions and amplify sales.”

KETOS

Series A in 2019
KETOS is a vertically integrated water intelligence platform with intelligent hardware, bi-directional connectivity infrastructure, interactive software, and hassle-free services, all for a predictable, flat service fee. The company provides hardware and software analytics solutions and real-time data for usage and flow across water systems and monitors water health parameters such as pH, dissolved solids, hardness, turbidity, and salinity.

Resec

Series A in 2019
ReSec is an Israeli cybersecurity company focused on protecting organizations from file-based malware threats, including both known and unknown vulnerabilities. Utilizing its patented Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology, ReSec provides a gateway solution that addresses the limitations of traditional anti-malware systems. The ReSecure Platform treats every file as a potential threat, ensuring that the original file remains outside the organization’s network while delivering a safe, functional replica to the end user in real-time. This solution is designed for medium to large enterprises, including banks, government agencies, and critical infrastructure sectors, helping them maintain security without compromising usability. ReSec has established a strong market presence, serving numerous high-profile clients across various industries.

AiFi

Series A in 2019
AiFi provides a flexible AI platform that enables retailers to affordably deploy and scale autonomous shopping solutions across their businesses. Leveraging computer vision, AiFi adapts to existing store formats without the need for shelf sensors and provides advanced tracking algorithms that can scale up to 10,000 square feet to support various shopper journeys such as an app, credit card, gated, or hybrid entry. AiFi works with retailers worldwide such as ALDI South Group, Carrefour, Compass Group, Morrisons, Żabka Group, REWE, and Verizon. AiFi has the highest number of computer vision-powered autonomous stores across the globe. The company has raised a total of $80 million from investors including Verizon Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, Mithril Capital, Cervin Ventures, TransLink Capital, Plum Alley, Duke Angel Network, Reaction, GS Future, Drive Catalyst, and Evolution. For more information, please visit aifi.com.

Apruve

Series A in 2019
Apruve eliminates the need for suppliers to manage Accounts Receivable by extending payment terms to business buyers on behalf of their suppliers. Suppliers get paid in 24 hrs, buyers get payment terms. The program is completely automated and sits inside either an ERP or eCommerce framework to handle both online and offline orders. A B2B version of Visa. Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Apruve was launched in 2013.

ZigZag Global

Series A in 2019
ZigZag Global is a software platform to help retailers manage returns globally. It grades retailers returned products and offers consolidation, refurbishment, local redistribution, recycling, destruction, and reselling stock internationally on a revenue share basis. The ZigZag network connects over 200 local warehouses in 130 countries so customers can get faster refunds. E-commerce consumers return items back to retailers via an intelligent returns portal. Returns take less than one minute, and customers send tracked returns by post, locker or courier from over 300,000 locations. Goods are sent back to a local warehouse and then ZigZag can scan, grade, consolidate or refurbish products to get them back into the supply chain more quickly. Customers can be refunded in just 24 hours, and goods can then be returned, destroyed, donated or re-fulfilled to a new order or resold via marketplaces. ZigZag won the 2017 ShopTalk Startup award along with a 25,000 Euro prize. It also won the 2017 Sustainability Award in Milan, 2017 Innovation Award at IRX, StartUps 100 Winner 2017. 2016 Global award at the World Retail Congress in Dubai for innovation and were shortlisted for Innovation of the Year by Retail Week at the Tech and EComm Awards, Mark of Excellence - Disruptor of the Year 2016 - Supply Chain Awards, Winner at London Technology Week – GetInTheRing. ZigZag was founded in 2014 by Al Gerrie and Laurence Guy. and is headquartered in London, England, UK.

Albert

Series A in 2018
Albert is a financial technology company aiming to democratize money management by making financial advice accessible and affordable. Its financial advisory platform enables customers to chat directly with financial experts about any money issue, build a personalized financial plan, and access automated investing. The company’s free features include automatic savings, financial health monitoring, budgeting, detailed spending reports, and Albert Instant, which offers customers an advance against their paychecks to help avoid overdrafts. Albert is backed by investors General Atlantic, along with 500 Startups, Financial Solutions Lab, CapitalG, Portag3, and QED. Yinon Ravid and Andrzej Baraniak established the fintech company in Culver City, California in 2015.

Geli

Series A in 2018
Geli, which stands for Growing Energy Labs, Inc., provides software and business solutions to design, automate, and manage energy storage systems. Geli’s suite of products creates an ecosystem where project developers, OEMs, financiers, and project operators can deploy advanced energy projects using a seamless hardware-agnostic software platform.

ZestyAI

Series A in 2018
ZestyAI is the leading property and climate risk platform for Property and Casualty insurers in North America. The company has revolutionized the world’s understanding of property and climate perils by combining artificial intelligence with historical losses and cutting-edge data sources. Leading insurers trust ZestyAI’s platform to identify risk and assess exposure, including the impact of catastrophic events like wildfires, hail, and wind storms. ZestyAI helps insurers make more informed underwriting decisions, rate fairly and accurately, enhance reinsurance outcomes, and improve customer experience through actionable risk insights that both property owners and regulators trust. For more information on how ZestyAI is revolutionizing risk management, visit www.zesty.ai.

ChargeAfter

Series A in 2018
ChargeAfter is the global multi-lender network for point-of-sale financing. Our platform connects retailers and lenders to offer responsible, personalized financing options for every consumer — all from a single application. Powered by a data-driven decisioning engine and network of global lenders, ChargeAfter delivers the most relevant financing offers to consumers from multiple lenders based on credit type – resulting in approvals for up to 100% of customer applications. ChargeAfter streamlines the distribution of credit into a single platform that retailers can implement rapidly both online and in-store. The company’s growing lender network offers seamless integration to lenders seeking to grow their customer base while expanding into new retail markets.

Onecor Services

Series A in 2018
OneCor is a hydrochloric acid for oil field applications. Their services include geoprobe, environmental, weed control, acid logistics, and pumping divisions. They are solution integrators with the essential operational perspective to deliver sustainable environmental compliance outcomes balanced with operational performance.

With Clarity

Series A in 2018
With Clarity is the only online, direct to consumer home try-on engagement ting company that marries affordability with expertise and convenience with a personal touch. With their Free Home Preview, they can try replicas of engagement ring styles at home to make a confident decision. Then return to their site to fully customize the ring and make it one of a kind. It has the lowest diamond prices guaranteed and a refreshing new way to shop for engagement rings. With Clarity was formerly known as Four Mine

Cargo

Series A in 2018
Cargo Systems is the creators of Cargo, the in-car service that allows rideshare passengers to order products on their phone, without downloading an app. Founded in 2016 by former Birchbox employees, Cargo launched in New York and Boston with thousands of driver signups in 49 states. Cargo works directly with rideshare companies, drivers and brand partners to distribute a variety of products to passengers in-car. A Techstars alumnus, Cargo is venture-backed by Techstars Ventures, Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners, Rosecliff Capital.

Mantle

Series A in 2018
Mantle is an engineering and manufacturing company that has developed metal 3D printing technology to produce high-resolution parts that meet the critical needs of applications from automotive and aerospace to consumer product design and prototyping.

MDgo

Series A in 2018
Relying only on existing vehicle sensors, MDGo generates a full report regarding the accident mechanism, car external and internal damages, and passengers' injuries. This solution can be leveraged as a unique safety feature providing a medical report to first responders (potentially saving 44% of road fatalities), and offers a new revenue stream for OEMs based on the utilization of the same analysis for insurance companies' claim process automation.
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