Top 15 Consumer Startup Investors in Bulgaria in October 2023

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• Pluria — Flexible offices in LATAM & Europe: hundreds of coworking spaces and meeting rooms for employees and teams. Hybrid work model for companies.
• Cupffee — Cupffee creates and sells edible coffee cups and stirrers, manufacturing procedure produces no industrial waste, only clean steam and the delicious aroma of freshly baked cookies. Moreover, all leftover materials from the production of cups are utilized as ingredients for other edible products.
• FlatAway — FlatAway is an online booking platform for hotels, vacation rentals, and apartments.

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• AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
• Colossyan — We make video creation simply and stressless. AI video technology allow us to crate video in just a few minutes. Ty out here.
• Kubeark — Kubeark powers scalable, rapid, and compliant SaaSification and software lifecycle management.

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• Edgar — Edgar believes that a good story can beat even the biggest of marketing budgets. This is especially true for SMBs and all the crafters and makers out there. Instead of spending big on traditional advertising, brands should engage their peers with great content. To fix the industry, they created Edgar. Edgar gives brands the tools and access to thebest creatives (brand storytellers, writers, illustrators), so that they can delight their customers with awesome stories. StoryMarket is the place where Edgar hosts a hand-picked selection of storytellers from around the world. From copywriters, journalists, editors, illustrators, photographers to animators, outreach experts and community managers, they have the talent needed to craft awesome brand stories. Edgar handles strategy, management, creation and distribution of content. The scope of the campaign depends on each customer. Creating the brief and defining the scope is as easy as ordering a frozen yogurt. From a single piece of content, to a set of Instagram/Vine videos, or dedicated storytelling expert that sticks with the brand forever and ever. Edgar makes sure the content is nothing less than perfect and is delivered to you in record time (first piece no later than 10 working days). The creatives and freelancers working with Edgar benefit from their lightweight yet powerful storytelling tools. StoryCrafter is a tool for short, visual stories. Stories take the form of visualized storylines with interactive elements that boost engagement. You create the story by drag and dropping your photos, Instagrams, Vine or YouTube videos and spicing it up with short captions. Brands equip the stories with their contact, brief information and a call to action at the end of the story. Etsy artists for example sell their products straight from the story, while wineries invite people for a wine tasting. Sharing and embedding is done in seconds, while they make sure the story looks and feels exactly the same wherever. Be it web, mobile or tablets. With each story, the Edgar community is growing. A community of freelance storytellers that Edgar empowers with tools and opportunity to be rewarded for their skills. And a community of active visitors who return to be inspired by great content every single day. Brands and individuals benefit greatly from Edgar as it helps them engage their potential customers. And helps them convert existing customers into fans. At the end, there’s no more powerful instrument than people telling stories about your brand.
• Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.
• Join The Players — Join The Players is a tech company that brings the sports experience to the next level by providing automatic video, highlights, and statistics of mini-football games.

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• Edgar — Edgar believes that a good story can beat even the biggest of marketing budgets. This is especially true for SMBs and all the crafters and makers out there. Instead of spending big on traditional advertising, brands should engage their peers with great content. To fix the industry, they created Edgar. Edgar gives brands the tools and access to thebest creatives (brand storytellers, writers, illustrators), so that they can delight their customers with awesome stories. StoryMarket is the place where Edgar hosts a hand-picked selection of storytellers from around the world. From copywriters, journalists, editors, illustrators, photographers to animators, outreach experts and community managers, they have the talent needed to craft awesome brand stories. Edgar handles strategy, management, creation and distribution of content. The scope of the campaign depends on each customer. Creating the brief and defining the scope is as easy as ordering a frozen yogurt. From a single piece of content, to a set of Instagram/Vine videos, or dedicated storytelling expert that sticks with the brand forever and ever. Edgar makes sure the content is nothing less than perfect and is delivered to you in record time (first piece no later than 10 working days). The creatives and freelancers working with Edgar benefit from their lightweight yet powerful storytelling tools. StoryCrafter is a tool for short, visual stories. Stories take the form of visualized storylines with interactive elements that boost engagement. You create the story by drag and dropping your photos, Instagrams, Vine or YouTube videos and spicing it up with short captions. Brands equip the stories with their contact, brief information and a call to action at the end of the story. Etsy artists for example sell their products straight from the story, while wineries invite people for a wine tasting. Sharing and embedding is done in seconds, while they make sure the story looks and feels exactly the same wherever. Be it web, mobile or tablets. With each story, the Edgar community is growing. A community of freelance storytellers that Edgar empowers with tools and opportunity to be rewarded for their skills. And a community of active visitors who return to be inspired by great content every single day. Brands and individuals benefit greatly from Edgar as it helps them engage their potential customers. And helps them convert existing customers into fans. At the end, there’s no more powerful instrument than people telling stories about your brand.
• Cupffee — Cupffee creates and sells edible coffee cups and stirrers, manufacturing procedure produces no industrial waste, only clean steam and the delicious aroma of freshly baked cookies. Moreover, all leftover materials from the production of cups are utilized as ingredients for other edible products.
• Join The Players — Join The Players is a tech company that brings the sports experience to the next level by providing automatic video, highlights, and statistics of mini-football games.

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• FLOWX.AI — FLOWX.AI wraps and orchestrates legacy systems, making it incredibly easy for enterprises to create web and mobile front-ends for mission-critical business flows. The revolutionary AI-enabled Apeiron UX engine is able to automatically create a modern, intuitive front-end for customers and employees, helping to consolidate in a unified UI all thebusiness logic cross-systems.This enables companies with complex technology landscapes to create and launch mission-critical digital products fast, and then facilitate an easy path forward to full digital transformation.The revolutionary novel approach is 100x faster and cheaper than existing alternatives. FLOWX.AI allows delivery of enterprise-grade mobile and web digital front-ends as fast as 10 weeks, and requires much smaller engineering teams.
• Undelucram — Undelucram is a recruitment agency.
• Authic Labs — Experience our easy-to-use platform to build NFT marketplaces, launch digital collectibles and design effective customer loyalty programs.

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• Pluria — Flexible offices in LATAM & Europe: hundreds of coworking spaces and meeting rooms for employees and teams. Hybrid work model for companies.
• Mentessa — We connect organisations for know-how exchange based on skillls, and promote a culture driven by diversity and collaboration. Our mission is to remove barriers to learning and development to everyone in the workplace because nobody knows everything but everybody knows something. Community is where the future works.
• Join The Players — Join The Players is a tech company that brings the sports experience to the next level by providing automatic video, highlights, and statistics of mini-football games.

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• Tapline — Tapline turns your SaaS recurring revenues into fast, transparent and non dilutive growth capital.
• Re:benefit — Re:Benefit pioneers in the market of benefits management platforms in Bulgaria and is among the most flexible and innovative solutions of its kind.
• Hydrogenera — Hydrogenera specializes in the development of hydrogen technologies.

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• ONDO Smart Farming Solutions — Precise drip irrigation management and control, precise plant nutrition and climate control for various crops - ONDO Smart Farming solutions.
• Releva.ai — AI powered marketing automation for eCommerce Releva enables real-time revenue management with empathetic automated brand communication.
• Biodit Global Technology JSC — BIODIT Hotel Management System is a solution that makes the management of each hotel more efficient, gives more comfort and tranquility.

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• Vodoraslo — Vodoraslo believes that everyone deserves better air quality, so by mixing innovation, design, and nature, we can create multiple positive impact solutions.
• AIOT Cloud — Enabling businesses to be energy efficient while optimizing costs
• Fabrico SaaS — Fabrico is a cloud-based CMMS, which manages all the maintenance processes in a production plant by integrating end-to-end maintenance strategies in a lean way. | Fabrico.io

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• Payhawk — Save time and money, manage spend, and scale your business with Payhawk. Get premium Visa Cards, dedicated IBANs, SEPA, and Faster Payments, all in one place.
• Reloyalty — Get rewarded automatically for staying loyal to local businesses in London
• icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck

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• autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
• Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
• Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.

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• CoLumbo — CoLumbo helps radiologists work efficiently with MRI and achieve consistent, high-quality results. Our award-winning algorithm aids pathology detection, eliminates human biases and saves critical time in generating MRI reports.
• Apricity — APRICITY is the world's first virtual fertility clinic. It aims at disrupting the fertility treatment experience and at improving chances for women and couples who have difficulties to conceive using data and Artificial Intelligence. The project is led by prominent entrepreneurs, medical practitioners, committed executives and data scientistswith a proven track record.
• Kardi AI — With Kardi AI, we aim to offer medical grade cardiac home monitoring for a low cost by utilizing AI to achieve EKG level performance from a low-cost wearable that is available to the patient any time they need it. The Kardi AI kit is available from your cardiologist and contains all you'll need to have at home, cardiac monitoring whenever youneed. Kardi AI's artificial neural network will monitor and diagnose your heart every day, letting you know if you should contact your doctor or go to the emergency room.

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• GINOA — GINOA provides NFT, metaverse, and artificial intelligence for collecting, trading, and investing strategy. They also provide Al-enabled pricing and hassle-free barter place services.
• WASK INC — Digital marketing ads software: create new smart ads and management digital marketing fast, advertising easily with digital marketing software tool
• VRLab Academy — VRLab Academy specializes in implementing advanced virtual science education to institutions. It focuses on waste-free, attractive, and useful design to makes advanced virtual science education possible. The company aims to evolve the educational environment where students will improve their scientific skills and learn all about it from firsthand.

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• Cortex — Cortex makes it easy for engineering organizations to gain visibility into their services and deliver high quality software.
• Stoke — Fiverr Enterprise is a SaaS platform which helps companies source, onboard, manage, and pay your freelance talent legally and compliantly.
• Promethium — Promethium is an augmented data management provider with the first AI-powered solution that combines natural language processing (NLP) with automated data prep to deliver true self-service analytics. Users simply ask a question in natural language, and Promethium locates the data, demonstrates how it should be assembled, automatically generates theSQL statement to get the right data, and executes the query across multiple repositories.

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• DRONAMICS — Dronamics offers an all-in-one solution for the middle-mile powered by our Black Swan cargo drone, a network of droneports, and fully mobile control and cargo systems.
• Regent — We build all-electric, passenger-carrying, wing-in-ground-effect vehicles to service coastal routes with technology available today.
• Cranfield Aerospace — Cranfield Aerospace Solutions is where Innovation takes off. Recognised as the leader in cutting-edge, green aviation technology.