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ZipperTax is a tax software company currently operating in stealth mode. It focuses on developing a platform designed to simplify the tax filing process while ensuring the protection of user data. The platform offers an array of tools tailored for both tax professionals and individual users, including features for client onboarding, appointment scheduling, tax organizers, and automatic client classification. By providing these tools, ZipperTax aims to streamline the tax filing experience and enhance efficiency for its users.

Texel.ai provides tools and APIs that allow you to encode or decode video and optimize AI models.

Invopop simplifies international invoicing for software companies. It offers an API that records sales, converts them into compliant invoices, and reports them to the appropriate tax authorities in the correct format.

Palomma is a technology company that specializes in providing a payment method that allows customers to make secure transactions directly from their bank accounts. By offering a streamlined, one-click payment solution, Palomma helps merchants reduce card processing fees while enhancing customer conversion rates. The company's platform is built on a robust application programming interface (API) tailored for the Latin American market, focusing on instant account-to-account payments. Additionally, Palomma enables users to earn rewards at affiliated businesses, further incentivizing the use of its payment method. Through its innovative approach, Palomma aims to create cost-effective payment solutions that benefit both merchants and consumers.

Linum is a creative platform that enables users to produce animated videos easily. It offers software that leverages artificial intelligence to facilitate the generation and iteration of video content. By starting with just a few prompts, users can create innovative animated videos, making video production accessible to a broader audience. Linum's focus on combining user-friendly tools with advanced technology allows individuals to explore their creativity in video making.

MyPocketCFO is a cloud-based platform that provides integrated financial management for small and medium-sized consumer brand and e-commerce businesses. The platform connects financial records and offers accounting, analysis, and insights that support growth and data-driven decision making. It automates bookkeeping and generates real-time financial statements and insight reports, giving users a consolidated view of the company’s financial picture. By combining accounting, financial analysis tools, and fundraising capabilities, it helps businesses manage finances, monitor performance, and pursue financing opportunities. The solution aims to simplify financial operations for entrepreneurs and small teams, enabling clearer reporting and scalable growth.

Alinor is a technology company that specializes in automating procurement compliance. Its platform streamlines purchasing processes, ensuring all transactions adhere to correct policies, stay within budget, have appropriate approvals, and involve suitable suppliers. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Alinor's solution automates steps from approvals to fulfillment, providing a user-friendly B2C-like experience for buyers and a seamless process for suppliers. The company focuses on digitizing and ensuring compliance in small procurements, defined by specific value thresholds, such as €60,000 for goods and services and €150,000 for construction works.

FoodCourt is an on-demand food delivery application that provides users with access to a selection of top food delivery brands and shops. The platform is designed to enhance convenience by allowing customers to order meals and drinks directly to their doorsteps. By utilizing virtual restaurants and dark stores, FoodCourt aims to make quality food and essential convenience goods accessible across Africa. The application focuses on popular food and convenience categories, curating a diverse range of options for its users.

PayO is an Accounting and payments application that enables simplified billing, easy stock management, payment collections, and supplier payments for small businesses.

Chowdeck is an online platform that facilitates food delivery services and enables users to purchase meals from a diverse selection of restaurants. It connects customers with local eateries, providing a seamless ordering process, real-time tracking, and various payment options.

Velontra is a technology company focused on hypersonic propulsion and aerospace solutions. Founded in 2021 and based in Cincinnati, Ohio, the company develops hypersonic unmanned aerial vehicle technology and related propulsion systems to accelerate design cycles and reduce propulsion development costs. Its work centers on engines and vehicle designs capable of hypersonic speeds, with applications in defense and space sectors.

Polymath Robotics develops a plug-and-play software platform that automates industrial vehicles operating in closed environments. Its core autonomy and safety platform integrates with various sensors for customization, supports any off-highway machine, minimizes networking costs, and offers modular autonomy features.

The world’s first Restaurant Intelligence Platform - built specifically for the food vertical - with cutting-edge AI, unrivaled proprietary data, and deep industry expertise. On a mission to revolutionize B2B relationships with data & AI — so every potential partner can feel truly understood. Start smarter, today.

Koban is a fintech company dedicated to simplifying finance and transforming how money works in Latin America. It offers user-friendly digital financial services, including payments, transfers, savings tools, and credit facilities, all securely accessible through its platform.

Palitronica is a network security company focused on protecting global supply chains. It serves defense, energy, communications, transportation, and healthcare sectors and develops cybersecurity hardware and software to detect and prevent counterfeit, fraudulent, and tampered items across components and assemblies. Its technology integrates secure digital signal processing with hardware security to safeguard supply chains and semiconductor integrity, helping clients distinguish legitimate items from compromised ones and protect the digital signals associated with those components.

Octo is a digital banking platform focused on serving Egyptians without access to formal credit. It offers flexibility in financial transactions through its platform, allowing users to deposit and withdraw funds, spend with a card, transfer payments, and pay with credit at stores that accept cards.

Newcon is a SaaS video platform that enables content creators, such as conferences and speakers, to distribute, monetize, and build communities around their existing content in one place. The platform helps event organizers grow their audiences and own their relationships with viewers, by enabling on-demand access and audience discovery tailored to individual interests. It supports formats including video, audio, transcripts, and keynote slides, and enables following speakers and conferences to stay updated. Newcon aims to democratize expert knowledge and make it accessible to anyone, anywhere, on-demand.

PolicyDock is a financial technology company that specializes in digitizing and automating insurance workflows for insurers, brokers, and agents. Its platform streamlines the insurance process by providing a comprehensive cloud-based solution that encompasses various functions such as policy and product administration, automated underwriting, document management, billing and payments, as well as real-time reporting and business intelligence. Additionally, PolicyDock facilitates data migration to enhance operational efficiency. By offering these integrated services, the company enables its clients to expedite the launch of insurance products online, improve deal closure rates, and access online distribution channels effectively.

Breyta is a developer of customer relationship management software that focuses on enhancing personalized experiences across various customer touchpoints throughout their lifecycle. The company's platform unifies and activates data from multiple business systems, including product, customer relationship management, support, and billing tools, without the need for coding. By providing an integrated technology stack that incorporates third-party marketing, sales, and financial tools along with data analysis capabilities, Breyta enables businesses to streamline operations and improve revenue generation.

Darkblock empowers web builders and content creators by enabling them to deliver exclusive digital assets via non-fungible tokens (NFTs), fostering community engagement, and exploring new monetization models using web3 technology.

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Catalyst Aerospace Technologies develops hardware and software to enable autonomy for various aircraft, including fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and tilt-rotor platforms. Its hardware suite covers sensing, computing, actuation, and perception instrumentation, while its software provides adaptable, aviation-grade automation and flight-control capabilities. The company aims to support certifiable autonomy through web-based collaboration and engineering tools that help adapt hardware and software to different vehicles, enabling browser-based access to formal workflows and aviation-grade processes for aircraft automation.

Moving Parts develops a scalable library of reusable UI components for mobile applications. These components snap together easily, extend the native design language, and adhere to practices around localization, accessibility, and platform conventions.

Shimmer provides a platform for 1:1 remote ADHD coaching. Our platform matches users to an ADHD coach who helps guide them towards identifying and meeting goals, maintaining a positive approach to change, and improving productivity while providing a source of accountability.

Wyvern operates space satellites equipped with hyperspectral sensors, capturing high-resolution imagery across multiple spectral bands. This enables diverse applications such as agriculture monitoring, forestry management, environmental assessment, and geospatial intelligence.

Krab is a SaaS and Fintech startup founded in 2020 and based in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. The company specializes in providing business loans to truckers and trucking companies that lack a formal credit score. Krab's innovative application tracks financial and operational data, allowing it to pre-approve loans from a network of banking partners. By streamlining the loan access process, Krab addresses the financial needs of the trucking industry, enabling these businesses to secure necessary funding for their operations.

Copy.ai develops an AI-powered platform offering copywriting tools for businesses. Its automated tools generate marketing copy swiftly, including social media text, headlines, link descriptions, blog ideas, benefiting digital agencies, copywriters, and eCommerce brands by saving time and enhancing conversion rates.

Zepto is an e-grocery company specializing in delivering daily essentials and grocery items. It offers a wide range of products including fruits, vegetables, snacks, and electronics, serving various retail, food and beverage, and logistics industries.

Fitnescity is a consumer health platform that partners with local labs to provide accessible health tests. It offers detailed protocols, comprehensive reports via analytics platform, and follow-up support to enhance users' wellness journey.

Blissway is a technology company specializing in tolling-as-a-service, providing a comprehensive suite of traffic management solutions. The company develops integrated tolling hardware and software that enhances user experience, customer billing, and payment processing. Unlike traditional tolling systems that may reduce demand, Blissway's innovative approach focuses on organizing traffic flow, thereby increasing vehicle throughput and alleviating rush-hour congestion. This enables commuters to enjoy shorter and more reliable travel times, with charges applied only for the minutes saved compared to drivers using general-purpose lanes. Through its advanced infrastructure, Blissway aims to improve overall traffic efficiency and enhance the commuting experience.

Sleek is a deep learning startup that specializes in enhancing customer experiences by reducing wait times through its innovative AI-based platform. By integrating various data sources, the company's patent-pending technology offers virtual queuing solutions that allow customers to avoid long lines while enabling businesses, such as popular merchants and event organizers, to generate additional revenue streams. The platform accurately assesses real wait times and creates a dynamically priced virtual priority lane, requiring no additional hardware or workflow changes. Serving over 20,000 businesses, Sleek is backed by prominent investors and was founded by a team of Forbes U30 honorees, including former engineers from Google and Stanford. With a dedicated team of eight, Sleek aims to transform how customers interact with service environments.

Blissway is a technology company specializing in tolling-as-a-service, providing a comprehensive suite of traffic management solutions. The company develops integrated tolling hardware and software that enhances user experience, customer billing, and payment processing. Unlike traditional tolling systems that may reduce demand, Blissway's innovative approach focuses on organizing traffic flow, thereby increasing vehicle throughput and alleviating rush-hour congestion. This enables commuters to enjoy shorter and more reliable travel times, with charges applied only for the minutes saved compared to drivers using general-purpose lanes. Through its advanced infrastructure, Blissway aims to improve overall traffic efficiency and enhance the commuting experience.

Belvo is an open finance API platform founded in 2019 and headquartered in Mexico City. The company enables financial innovators to connect their users' accounts to various applications, facilitating the access and interpretation of financial data in a straightforward and scalable manner. Belvo's platform allows developers to gain insights into user behavior and manage financial transactions efficiently, thus helping businesses to streamline operations and create new revenue opportunities through a unified open finance solution.

Founded in San Francisco in 2019 by Francesco Wiedemann, Ludwig Schoenack, and Nikolaus Volk, Kyte is a technology and operations company specializing in on-demand car rentals. Customers can access vehicles for durations ranging from days to months, with services including car cleaning and refueling.

Omsom is a consumer packaged goods brand established in 2018 and based in New York. The company focuses on making authentic Asian cooking accessible to American households by offering ready-to-use flavor kits. These kits include essential ingredients, specialty sauces, aromatics, and seasonings that are integral to various Asian dishes. By providing these components, Omsom enables customers to easily prepare traditional Asian meals in their own kitchens, thereby promoting cultural appreciation and culinary diversity.

Sniffspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company founded in 2018 that operates a marketplace application connecting dog owners with outdoor spaces suitable for their pets. The platform allows property owners to list their private yards for rent, providing safe and secure environments for dog owners to train and play with their pets. This service caters particularly to owners of reactive dogs who require controlled settings for exercise. By facilitating these connections, Sniffspot aims to enhance the accessibility of off-leash areas while enabling landowners to earn additional income by sharing their outdoor spaces.