Top 40 Biotechnology Angel Investors in France in October 2023

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• reMYND — Driving the development of disease-modifying treatments
• AgenT — AgenT develops the first blood diagnosis to detect Alzheimer's years before the onset of the irreversible symptoms.
• PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology

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• Novolyze — Novolyze is a Food Safety company. They offer solutions to help the food industry manufacture safer food, while ensuring strong compliance with international Food Safety & Quality standards. Their research work mainly focuses on evaluating the inactivation of foodborne pathogens under different kinds of stress (heat, etc.). Based on thisexpertise, they have developed the first range of dried, ready-to-use surrogate bacteria, an innovation that allows the food industry to test the efficacy of microbial kill steps / intervention steps in real-life conditions. At Novolyze, they are at the forefront of Food Safety. Their cross-functional team of experts, mainly composed of food microbiologists and process engineers, is able to assist at multiple stages of a project. Novolyze relies on state-of-the-art infrastructures, installed in a pharmaceutical-grade environment at their R&D Center in Dijon, France.
• Antofenol — Antofénol is a post-harvest biocontrol company that directs and develops its work on the valorization of viticultural waste. Antofénol is an innovative biotechnology start-up providing ecological eco-extraction of plant matter.
• nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.

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• LinKinVax — Covid-19 Vaccine Laboratory - Linkinvax - Leading the Revolution - The result of the association of French scientists and entrepreneurs, LinKinVax accelerates the development of safe, effective and scalable vaccines.

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• Fairbrics — Fairbrics is developing the first synthetic fiber with a net positive impact on climate change and capable of meeting the demand of the market.
• FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
• Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.

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• Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
• Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
• underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.

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• LinKinVax — Covid-19 Vaccine Laboratory - Linkinvax - Leading the Revolution - The result of the association of French scientists and entrepreneurs, LinKinVax accelerates the development of safe, effective and scalable vaccines.

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• Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
• Cardless — Cardless is a credit card company. They help brands launch custom cobrand credit card products. They handle the program creation, card underwriting, lending, issuance, and top-notch customer service, while brands focus on delivering rewards truly valuable to their superfan cardholders.Cardless was founded in February 2019 by Michael Spelfogel andScott Kazmierowicz (ex-Stanford CS / Data Science, ex-Lyft, ex-Visa, ex-Goldman) and is backed by top VCs including Accomplice, Greycroft, Clocktower Ventures, as well as founders of Plastiq, SeatGeek, Flatiron Health, and FiveStars
• Numerade — Our team of 1,700+ PhDs and TAs from universities across the US provides step-by-step solutions to your Science, Math and Economics questions.

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• LinKinVax — Covid-19 Vaccine Laboratory - Linkinvax - Leading the Revolution - The result of the association of French scientists and entrepreneurs, LinKinVax accelerates the development of safe, effective and scalable vaccines.

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• +Simple — +Simple.fr is an insurance Robo-Broker for freelancers, small and medium businesses. +Simple.fr unique technology platform optimizes your insurance for the duration of your contracts; The algorithm personalizes the offers according to your activity and its evolution. Your online subscription is perfectly secure and you get an electronic safecontaining your dematerialized contracts.
• InnovaFeed — InnovaFeed is a biotech company that produces a new source of protein from insect rearing (Hermetia illucens) for animal feed and aquaculture in particular.Their model is based on a unique technological expertise that allows us to place the insect at the heart of their agri-food system and restore it to its natural place in their ecosystem: thatof recycling nutrients to then feed fish, birds or small mammals.In the context of a fast-growing world population, InnovaFeed’s activity responds concretely and competitively to an increase in protein demand while contributing to the development of a more sustainable food system, in particular through the development of quality aquaculture.
• iVESTA Family Office — iVESTA Family Office is designed for entrepreneurs that offer a resolutely entrepreneurial approach so that its clients can manage their assets as they manage their company with the same requirement of strategic planning, discernment, and anticipation. They build a global wealth strategy implemented with the greatest discipline.

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• CYSEC — Secure your sensitive data in the cloud and in the edge with ARCA Trusted OS and open the door to innovation with confidential computing.
• Scewo — Scewo is a medical technology platform that develops stair-climbing wheelchair. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland.
• EdallSystems — EdallSystems provide Educational Service (Aerospace Engineering Training), UAV development, Engineering Service(Lab Development) and consulting in INDIA. Their moto is to become a major Product Development company in the filed of Aerospace In India and to support and Develope Aerospace products in India.

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• Kinvent — KINVENT is actively involved in the fields of physical rehabilitation and sports biomechanics producing innovative measuring and training devices for the facilitation of every day and athletic movements. Our strengths at KINVENT is that we can think and produce solutions to any challenge of sports biomechanics and physical rehabilitation.Triangular force plates for visual feedback balance training, sensors for continuous 3D kinematic analysis in the water, force sensors for kite surf, accelerometers for rowing and sailing, are some of our on demand products. If you are looking for excellence in hardware and software solutions for your work... work with us.Our KFORCE solution is a range of torque measuring instruments for human strength, balance and motion. This system consists of six instruments with high-precision measuring equipment, which concentrate all the know-how of K-INVENT. The display of the data recorded by the device sensors is transcribed by the KFORCE software, installed on any iOS or Android terminal. This accessory capable of reading and re-transcribing the information given by all dynamometers of the entire range is usable on smartphones or tablets with Android and IOS operating system
• ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.

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• LinKinVax — Covid-19 Vaccine Laboratory - Linkinvax - Leading the Revolution - The result of the association of French scientists and entrepreneurs, LinKinVax accelerates the development of safe, effective and scalable vaccines.

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• Bolk — Bolk provides autonomous bowl-making robotic canteen which producing warm meals, cold dishes and desserts from precooked ingredients.
• Arkania — B2B API solution for brands to create and sell online NFTs directly on their platforms
• Starton — Integrate blockchain technology this week. Focus on your vision, we handle blockchain complexity

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• Ixaltis — Ixaltis is a pharmaceutical company that develops therapeutics to treat genitourinary disorders with unsatisfied medical needs.The company was born out of the combined expertise of scientists specialized in urology, pharmaceutical experts and experienced managers: Dr. Philippe Lluel, Christian Chavy, Stefano Palea, Dr. Roberto Gradnik andProfessors Pascal Rischmann and Xavier Gamé. The vision of IXALTIS is to develop treatments for genito-urinary tract diseases with still a high unmet medical need, by identifying drugs which had already reached clinical stage and reexplore these for use in genitourinary tract disorders.IXALTIS has established a proprietary position covering Litoxetine for use in urogenital and other disorders based on its specific mechanism of action.

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• Keewe — Simply take part in the ecological transition thanks to your banking transactions and our exchange platform which acts in favour of the planet.
• Cosmian — End-to-end encryption for unparalleled data protection with Cosmian. Discover cutting-edge solutions powered by next-generation cryptography.
• Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!

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• Biomemory — Biomemory creates DNA Drives for large corporates and administrations.
• Smoove Fifteen — Smoove designs, installs and manufactures self-service bike solutions and mobility services, integrated in a multimodal and digital offer for cities and companies. Smoove is the only company to offer ultra-innovative bikes, with on-board technology and a patented security system that makes their bikes highly secured.

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• Jop — A one-stop-shop for urban residents, Jop offers a variety of on-demand services in one convenient, easy-to-use platform. Customers can tap a screen and connect with a professional in their city, whether they are an expert at cleaning apartments, trimming mustaches, walking dogs, doing makeup, DJing, or mixing drinks. Instead of paying a company’soverhead, customers pay a Jopper. Once booked, Joppers arrive right at the customer’s doorstep, ready to work.Founded by Canel Frichet and Sebastian Lombardo, Jop was born as a platform to give people the opportunity to work directly for each other, as opposed to hiring through a company. Joppers set their own pricing and hours. Something else that sets JOP apart from other platforms in the on-demand space is that Joppers earn company equity, which is granted based on level of activity and performance on the platform.
• Smart Immune — Smart Immune is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing the next generation of hematopoietic stem cell-based biotherapies to change the prognosis and life quality of patients with devastating diseases. The company's first cell therapy program is based on T cell progenitors or ProTcellsTM (CD7+/CD34-; CD5- cells)curative power to enable a short, polyclonal, and safe post-transplantation immune recovery. This program be completed by integrative developments from targeted conditioning to gene therapy and genome editing enabling clinicians to access new-generation treatments for a wide variety of inherited blood disorders and blood cancers.

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• DNAnexus — The world's most secure & trusted biomedical cloud platform that accelerates clinical and scientific discovery with the potential to improve patient lives.
• LinKinVax — Covid-19 Vaccine Laboratory - Linkinvax - Leading the Revolution - The result of the association of French scientists and entrepreneurs, LinKinVax accelerates the development of safe, effective and scalable vaccines.
• Aerie Pharmaceuticals — Aerie Pharmaceuticals, a leading ophthalmic pharmaceuticals company conducting R&D of products for treating patients with glaucoma and other eye diseases.

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• EG 427 — EG 427 is a French biotechnology company that pioneers a new approach in gene therapy called pinpoint gene therapy.
• Dopple — Dopple is a retail e-commerce platform that offers children's clothing to reach today’s savvy parents. Dopple uses a personalized quiz, rich behavioral data, and machine learning to deliver a quarterly “Dopple Drop” of custom-curated outfits to their door.Dopple is the trusted partner for childrenswear brands, including Stella McCartneyKids, Chloé, Versace, Petit Bateau, Vilebrequin, Lele Sadoughi, Rylee + Cru, Bobo Choses, Dôen, Andy & Evan, Tea Collection, and over 200+ other brands. By partnering with Dopple, these brands acquire and retain customers, monetize past- and current-season merchandise without brand dilution, nimbly scale logistics and collect unparalleled consumer insights.

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• Kiliba — 100% automated emailing platform: design of html templates in your colours, sending of personalised emails, marketing automation workflows, enriched CRM
• Luda Partners — Luda Partners is a neural network of pharmacies generating new sources of income and reducing shortages.
• Neptune Elements — Neptune Elements offerFrench seaweed of controlled origin, with exceptional taste and culture.

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• Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
• TreesPlease Games — TreesPlease Games develops various computer and online games. The company is headquartered in London.
• Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

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• Glowee — Glowee is engaged in the development of biological light systems using the natural properties bioluminescent marine organisms. Requiring neither electricity nor installation infrastructure, these systems are built by encoding particular genes in symbiotic bacteria.
• WiSEED — Wiseed is a crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest in SMEs and enterprises. The platform offers investments for startups, real-estate firms, social innovation and renewable energy projects, and agriculture firms. It was founded in 2008 by Nicolas Seres and Thomas Merquiol and is based in Toulouse.
• YMoney — YMoney helps African diaspora in taking care of their families living in Africa

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• xRapid — xRapid is a mobile health diagnosis through disruptive solutions leveraging the use of artificial intelligence. xRapid is a Biotech startup based in Aix en Provence (France), London (Uk), and Las Vegas. xRapid saw its beginnings in a laboratory in Jakarta. Their CTO, Professor David Mendels, recognized that he was able to develop a mobilesolution for malaria diagnosis after attending a conference. Since then he has created xRapid, a powerful automated test that can be deployed anywhere in the field and has the potential to spot other diseases from tuberculosis to gonorrhea.
• PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
• INTERSTELLAR LAB — autonomous modules for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space

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• Asana — Work anytime, anywhere with Asana. Keep remote and distributed teams, and your entire organization, focused on their goals, projects, and tasks with Asana.
• Marqeta — Marqeta’s modern card issuing platform empowers its customers to create customized and innovative payment cards. Marqeta’s platform, powered by open APIs, gives its customers the ability to build more configurable and flexible payment experiences, accelerating product development and democratizing access to card issuing technology. Its modernarchitecture provides instant access to highly scalable, cloud-based payment infrastructure that enables customers to launch and manage their own card programs, issue cards and authorize and settle transactions. Marqeta is headquartered in Oakland, California and is enabled in 36 countries globally. For more information, visit www.marqeta.com.
• klassroom — Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries.

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• Visiblee — Visiblee is a generation automation solution to boost B2B website conversion.VA first worldwide, Visiblee Lead Generation solution identifies individual website visitors. It enables Sales Teams to increase their sales by transforming anonymous website visitors into qualified leads.Visiblee is develped by Salezeo, which has its main office inParis and is also active in the UK and in Spain.
• nextProtein — nextProtein is developing a large scale and sustainable insect based source of protein. The bioconversion of fly larvae fed with organic waste generates valuable feed components for fish, livestock and pets.
• Foxintelligence — At foxintelligence, they think data is the first and necessary step to solve any problem. Their mission is to empower decision-makers with data to improve the way societies and companies work. Foxintelligence delivers the best insights on the latest European ecommerce trends, by unlocking intelligence from hundreds of merchants and thousands ofbrands e-receipts. They provide the most reliable insights available for e-commerce while helping consumers save both time and money.

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• Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
• HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
• Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.

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• Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
• Courtigo — Courtigo is a CRM and comparator software for insurance brokers (SaaS)
• uvoji by T.zic — uvoji designs, develops, manufactures and markets all-in-one solutions for the treatment and disinfection of water at points of use and of surfaces by UV LEDs.To meet the major challenges of access to drinking water and provide technological solutions to the urgent needs of point-of-use water treatment, we launched the Oji Safe, Oji Pure and OjiReuse products. Our solutions are used notably by the French Red Cross for its operations.In response to the Covid pandemic, we developed the Uvo Care. Uvo Care is the disinfection box, Made in France, for all types of masks and everyday objects. The essential ally for resuming your professional activities in complete safety. It has been tested and approved by independent laboratories and kills over 99.999% of viruses and bacteria in just seconds (including SARS-COV2 virus).

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• C4Diagnostics — C4Diagnostics developed a fast, reliable detection of microorganisms. Our Click-chemistry technology is at the core of our portfolio of diagnostic tests.

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• Phagos Biotech — Phagos Biotech addresses the looming pandemic of antibiotic resistance with bacteriophage solutions to efficiently address bacterial infections in seafood and livestock.

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• Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.
• Silvr — Silvr reinvents the way entrepreneurs get funded.Financing businesses has not evolved over the last decades: banks prefer to fund assets, equity is not the best fit for all. At Silvr, we empower entrepreneurs by building a world where funding is easy to access, scalable, and equity-free. We leverage digital businesses data to predict futurerevenues and offer funding in 24 hours.We are headquartered in Paris, are backed by ISAI and Eurazeo and we deploy millions of euros of funding for European entrepreneurs every month.
• Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.

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• Mistral AI — Frontier AI in your hands
• Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
• Poolside — Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform intended to offer cutting-edge foundation concepts and infrastructure.

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• Phagos Biotech — Phagos Biotech addresses the looming pandemic of antibiotic resistance with bacteriophage solutions to efficiently address bacterial infections in seafood and livestock.

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• Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal registry and science platform
• Neoplants — The first generation of bioengineered to fight air pollution. We call them neoplants.
• Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

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• LinKinVax — Covid-19 Vaccine Laboratory - Linkinvax - Leading the Revolution - The result of the association of French scientists and entrepreneurs, LinKinVax accelerates the development of safe, effective and scalable vaccines.

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• AirCampus — AirCampus is the mobile app that offers fair prices to Gen Z, whether they shop online and in-store.
• Major Corp — Economics & Strategic Intelligence Explorer
• Keyop Média — Keyop Média développe des titres de presse experts.

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• Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!

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• GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
• Polywork — Launch an AI-powered personal website to showcase your work, grow your personal brand, or start your side hustle.
• Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices

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• Gonuggets — We help digitally native brands to grow their e-commerce revenue on marketplaces such as Amazon and D2C across EMEA.
• MarketLeap (formerly Gonuggets) — Breaking E-commerce Barriers with Software. MarketLeap is managing all the complexities of selling and growing on marketplaces worldwide.
• Trendex — Mobile App

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• Yavin — Yavin provides modern point-of-sale solutions for European merchants
• Gama — Thanks to cheap, reliable and scalable solar sails, we are redefining deep space access.
• EV Biotech — We design and optimise your precision fermentation strains and processes, tailored to your success.

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• Greenly — With Greenly's Carbon Management's platform; measure, reduce, report and offset your carbon emissions for a cleaner future!
• Okarito — Okarito is an online platform helping companies organize, monitor and optimize their business travel. On Okarito, the traveler can book his travel and has access to a personalised support during his trip. We also help the CFO to regain control on his travel expenses thanks to innovative tools. He can set up a dynamic travel budget that adapts inreal time to market prices. Therefore he controls the travel options offered to travelers while giving them an increased flexibility. The employee is motivated to spend less than the given budget. A share of the savings he makes can be donated to a NGO of her choosing.
• Homepilot — We revolutionize residential property management through the use of technology.