Top 50 EdTech Startup Investors in Japan in October 2023

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• nat — nat develops iOS application - Scanat and provides consultation service in data strategy.
• Dots for — Dots for is a technology that aims to improve the lives of rural residents by providing them with digital services.
• Willbox — Willbox is an international logistics company providing an international logistics digital platform for shippers and logistics companies. The company's platform "Giho" connects shippers and logistics companies (transportation, packaging, warehousing, customs clearance, etc.) with a direct contract. It visualizes the three elements of[lead time, money, and safety], which have been regarded as a black box, and supports comparative examination and decision making. Willbox digitizes the packing technique of wooden boxes and steel, mandatory for international logistics, and incorporated them into their system. Their mission is to solve the logistics issues focusing on the large cargo of industrial products.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa.

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• SARAH — SARAH has been working on the planning and operation of the gourmet community app "SARAH", which operates a menu gourmet site "SARAH" that allows you to search for items you want to eat from menu-based posts.
• CoCooking — CoCooking uses food and cooking to create ample opportunity for dialogue and thought, fostering creativity, diversity, and well-being of individuals and communities.
• Best Beer Japan — Best Beer Japan provides a barrel tracking software for craft beer and barrel sharing. The company was founded in 2018.

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• Heartseed — Heartseed has set a mission to “open the door to heart disease treatment with regenerative medicine” and is working toward the day-to-day clinical application of myocardial regenerative medicine.
• Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.
• Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

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• EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.
• YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
• Carnot — LLM, Autonomous Agent

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• Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
• CYBO — CYBO provides products and services to understand cells deeply and to harness them widely.
• Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.

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• ProfilePrint — ProfilePrint synthesises complex molecular data of ingredient samples into digital fingerprints, rapidly predicting its identity and quality, helping agribusinesses to buy and sell better with its patented digital food identity-as-a-service (IDaaS) technology.
• Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• Sentient.io — We provide a secure AI & Data platform with ready-made AI models for easy adoption and turnkey AI solutions for Enterprises on your digitalisation journey.

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• SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
• Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
• Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

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• MedUp — MedUp operates foro CRM, a SaaS CRM tool that provides hospitals with sales and marketing support, data analysis and visualization, and more.
• KAUCHE — KAUCHE is a social commerce app. They provide services for online and mail-order retail shops. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications.
• Sumutasu — sumutasu is an online real estate marketplace that enables users to quickly buy and sell their properties.

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• Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
• Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
• LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.

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• Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
• Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers
• Testsigma — Powerful open source test automation platform that lets you automate tests for web, mobile, desktop apps, and APIs in minutes. Sign up for free today.

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• Polyglots — POLYGLOTS designs and develops English news-reader mobile applications. It helps its application users learn English while reading news updates.POLYGLOTS is a development and operation of the English learning application "POLYGLOTS", the Japanese learning application "MONDO", and the finance / accounting specializedlearning application "Bigo", and the development and provision of an adaptive learning platform.

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• Firstcard — All-in-One Student Credit Builder. Build credit. Earn cashback. Grow your deposit.
• LexxPluss — LexxPluss develops an automatic transfer software system and robot hardware.
• Smart Bank — Smart Bank is a softawre firm that has developed an application for money spending management.

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• YourTrade — YourTrade helps cross-border e-commerce companies to resale rejected goods and backlogged inventory from overseas sales through local sales channels.It also provides services such as collection and inspection of returned items, as well as resale through local sales channels.
• UMAMI UNITED — Umami United is a plant-based food brand with unique focus on Japanese food technologies and traditional ingredients to make delicious and healthy food to unite people at one table. The wide lineups are designed to be vegan-friendly, buddhist friendly, and halal friendly for all.
• Friend Microbe — Friend Mike Robe is Developing new market with microbe-related technology

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• Todoker — Todoker is a baggage delivery convenient service providing company.
• LUCA Science — LUCA Science develops innovative treatments intended for mitochondrial and related diseases.
• Beer and Tech — Beer and Tech operates a website for the Phalaenopsis or foliage plant HitoHana. Norihisa Morita and Yoshiaki Ito founded it in 2014, with its headquarters in Saitama in Japan.

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• Funds — Funds is an online marketplace for lending funds.
• K Pharma — K Pharma Is the development Of the Treatment Of the Spinal Cord injury
• OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.

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• FoodMap — FoodMap is a startup with the goal of connecting customers with ethical farmers and food suppliers directly.
• Gushwork — Gushwork provides a platform for small and medium businesses to get on-demand access to cross-border, AI-augmented remote workforce. They are enabling a one-click process for businesses to delegate or automate their day to day mission-critical business workflows.
• StepChange — Discover StepChange, India's best platform for ESG management. Measure, analyse, report, and reduce emissions. Request a free demo to get started!

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• MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
• ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
• Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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• MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
• ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
• Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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• MIL — MIL is a marketing company it can be used for a wide range of video marketing such as video commerce , O2O measures , recruitment videos , and landing videos.
• Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
• MiL Inc — Emerging products for healthcare food brands Producing food retailing and wholesale recipe development Restaurant management Catering media operation.

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• Noin — Noin specializes in cosmetics and delivers content that accurately captures trends like videos that solve girls worries.
• Trustdock — Trustdock is a platform for identity confirmation API service in Japan. You can outsource KYC / identity confirmation via online API, complying with various laws including criminal profit transfer prevention law, antique sales law, cell phone fraud prevention use law etc. It can be used with any ID service regardless of business type, such asmatching to FinTech, shared eco, etc.
• Connected Robotics — Connected Robotics is an information technology company that designs and manufactures robotic arms for enterprises. The company's product, OctoChef, provides cooking services. It caters to individual restaurants, shopping malls, stations, service areas, amusement centers, and large-scale events. The company was founded in 2014 and is basedin Koganei-shi, Japan.

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• Blue Laser Fusion — Blue Laser Fusion is a commercial fusion company. Blue Laser Fusion is a laser startup to commercialize laser fusion by inventing its own laser and fusion reactor.
• UnaBiz — Based in Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, UnaBiz delivers end-to-end customised IoT solutions worldwide. Simple, cost-efficient & low maintenance
• Nanofiber Quantum Technologies — Powering a globally connected quantum future with pioneering nanofiber cavity QED.

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• Gift Pad — Gift Pad is a web catalog gift that allows recipients to choose their favorite products.
• READYFOR — READYFOR is a Japanese crowdfunding platform for the service sector. It enables investors to find projects to invest on.
• Terra Drone — Terra Drone Indonesia provides drone services for various industry sector such as mining, construction, oil & gas, energy, and utilities.

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• ULUU — ULUU is an exciting new renewable biomaterial that's incredible for our oceans and climate. ULUU is made from renewable resource, farmed seaweed!
• Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.
• Craft Health — Craft Health aims to combine all your daily medicines and supplements into a single daily pill, through 3D printing of personalized medicines and supplements. Our technology allows controlled release of each active ingredient as selected by the user.

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• Tané — Crypto builders incubator. Nurture the soil for Web3.
• Buzzreach — Buzzreach is a Tokyo-based MedTech Company.
• JustInCase — justInCase, Inc. is the first pure InsurTech insurance company started its business in July 2018 in Japan. justInCase was founded by experienced actuaries and data scientists. justInCase provides AI based smartphone insurance, API based accident insurance, P2P insurance, COVID-19 insurance, as well as AI based healthtech insurance.

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• LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
• Tsukulink — Tsukulink is a job match matching platform for Japan’s construction industry.
• Medmain — To create a world where medical services can be accessed with technology anywhere,anytime-As a supporting partner to medical practitioners throughout the world, Medmain develops and operates PidPort, an analytical system for pathological image diagnosis that makes use of Deep Learning, as well as Medteria, a specialized cloud-based service for medical students.

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• pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
• bravesoft — bravesoft is a software company that operates events and in-house product for contract development and events. The company offering services such as UI / UX design, application consignment development service, appvisor push, and technical research service.
• ventus Japan — ventus is an Media and Entertainment based company.ventus aiming to be an entertainment company that provides technology that all fans can enjoy.

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• GITAI — GITAI is a robotics startup for space development. The company aims to replace astronauts with robots that can work for a long time while being remotely controlled from earth while in low earth orbit space stations to decrease the burden on astronauts, shorten the time it takes to perform work in space, and reduce costs.
• DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
• Kyoto Fusioneering — Kyoto Fusioneering is a research & development, design, and manufacture of parts related to fusion reactors.

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• RevComm — RevComm is the startup company developing Voice x AI-enabled cloud services .
• ONLY STORY — ONLY STORY is a manager matching platform.
• Baseconnect Japan — Baseconnect Co., Ltd. connects people from all over the world and spends one-tenth the time it takes for people to “know”.

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• uFraction8 — Multi-award-winning, innovative, microfluidics-based filter systems to provide bio-manufacturers with energy-efficient & ultra-scalable bioprocessing systems.
• Robopreneur — Robopreneur brings the future by empowering robotics capabilities for use in human's environment to become human's partner and enhance sustainable lifestyles.
• Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.

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• Revorf — Revorf analyzes data and develops AI-related to infectious diseases and healthcare.
• abillion — Find tips for plant-based food & products near you. Join the community to share reviews of restaurants & brands. Raise funds & drive sustainability!
• RIMM Sustainability — RIMM Sustainability provides a SaaS platform that enables companies of all sizes to optimise their sustainability management effort. It builds tools for sustainability management, reporting and optimisation.

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• Grace Imaging — Grace Imaging is a development of advanced fatigue measurement service by lactic acid sensing in sweat and MRI technologies.
• Infostellar — Infostellar is a Space start-up dedicated to making the Ground Segment simple, through our cloud-based ground station aggregator StellarStation.
• KOALA Tech Japan — Koala Tech Inc. is an innovative high-tech startup company, whose goal is to pioneer practical applications of the world's first organic semiconductor laser diode that has been realized in the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) at Kyushu University.

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• TMH — TMH is a repair of various parts for semiconductor, liquid crystal, and solar manufacturing equipment.
• Thinca — Thinca is an IT system planning, development, and operations company that provides a cloud-based CTI (Computer Telephony Integration) hospitality & communication solution for corporate offices.
• Cocon — Cocon engages in the cybersecurity and AI/ automation business..The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Tokyo, Japan.

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• Rand — Rand is a fintech firm that offers banking services, savings, deposits, and account opening.
• Mawari — Our mission is to unlock new perspectives with real-time immersive technology powered by a decentralized network of global resources
• Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.

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• LABOT — LABOT is a Japanese company that combines the power of finance and technology to create future education possibilities.
• DENDOH — DENDOH specializes in branding and promotion business using AR technology and 3D design.
• microverse — Microverse offers NFT-related services such as content creation, distribution, and customer service.

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• Azaneo — Azaneo develops lightning-fast electric weeding technology. Using only electrons - herbicide free.
• Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
• Nium — Nium is creating nanotechnology that has a patent application, significantly reducing temperature, pressure, and overall emissions to produce cleaner, cooler, and greener ammonia. They formed carbon 13 for the climate emergency.

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• Canly — Canly is a cloud based system to reduce management & operating costs in a retail store along with being in the media & advertising business.
• PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
• Alliance Cloud — Alliance Cloud primarily engages in the Sales Tech and BtoB Sales Outsourcing Business.

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• Degas — Degas develops solutions to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Africa.
• pickupon株式会社 — Pickupon is a company that transcribes important parts of the call
• MoneyDuck — MoneyDuck - Making Smart Financial Decision

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• LiLz — LiLz is an IT technology network for businesses looking to use AI and IoT to offer new services and value.
• CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
• EX-Fusion — EX-Fusion develops the first commercial laser based nuclear fusion reactor for power generation.

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• Autify — Autify - Revolutionizing Software Testing with the most advanced AI-powered Software Testing Tool
• Peach Cars — Peach Cars building a solution for those looking to buy and sell vehicles whole information on vehicles and hassle-free transactions.
• AnotherBall — AnotherBall = Digital + Entertainment + Token economy

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• Spiber Inc. — Established in September 2007, Spiber Inc. is a Japanese biotechnology startup utilizing cutting-edge synthetic biology, polymer, and material science for the development of its novel Brewed Protein™ materials. Produced through microbial fermentation and utilizing agricultural feedstocks as primary raw materials, Brewed Protein™ polymers arewell-positioned to make significant contributions to animal- and plastic-free initiatives in a range of fields such as the apparel and automotive industries. Leveraging its R&D expertise, Spiber pursues its mission of positively contributing to sustainable human well-being. Operation of Spiber’s first mass production plant in Rayong Province, Thailand, is slated to commence within 2021. The company is also constructing a second mass production facility with partner ADM in Iowa, USA, which is scheduled to begin operating in 2023 at the earliest.
• Pizza 4P's — Pizza 4P's is Vietnam-based Japanese Itarian pizza restaurant. Always the best with our mission of "Delivering Wow, Sharing Happiness"
• JumpStart Coffee — JUMPSTART COFFEE is Indonesia first fully automated self serve coffee shop, serving freshly brewed coffee anywhere you are, anytime you want, in just under 1 minute. Equipped with the newest technology and beautiful wood design, we seek to give you the ultimate convenience of drinking coffee.

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• Hogetic Lab — Hogetic Lab specialize in DCaaS, AI development, and Data human resources training.
• Smart Shopping — Smartmat is an eco-friendly IoT purchase system for on-demand, no-hassle grocery with cost-effective shipping.
• OriCiro Genomics — DNA amplification | OriCiro Cloning Kit - OriCiro Genomics, Inc.

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• Cofactr — Whether managing shortages today or planning for next year, Cofactr is the place to get all the parts you need, when you need them.
• Delos Insurance — An insurance company which uses advanced technology and artificial intelligence to protect California homeowners from wildfires.
• Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.

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• Morght — Morght is an information technology service company.
• Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
• Hackazouk — Hackazouk is an HR Tech company that operates Official-Alumni.com, an alumni relationship management system in Japan and the Philippines to help companies stay connected with their alumni.

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• KIYO Learning — KIYO Learning offers a commuting course, an online course to acquire qualifications for business people.

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• Cocoach — Cocoach provides online education service.
• Data Viz Lab — Data Viz Lab is a platform that offers data analysis, visualization consulting, and data human resource development support.
• ElevationSpace — ElevationSpace offers high quality & well equipped workspaces giving tenants a nurturing environment .

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• Virtusize — Virtusize is a revolutionary service that helps you find your right size and fit when shopping fashion online, by comparing a garment you are looking to buy with a garment you own. By installing our solution with online retailers, Virtusize helps to remove the largest obstacle to shopping for clothes online, significantly increasing sales andreducing returns. Our rapidly growing number of leading global brands include Uniqlo, New Balance, Kate Spade, Acne, Balenciaga, Allsaints, United Arrows and Lumine etc.
• Branding Enginner — BrandingEnginner is an IT-based company that develops web services and smartphone apps for its clients. It is committed to developing IT human resources market. The company is based in Shibuya, Kanagawa.
• Knowledge Merchants Works — Knowledge Merchant Works Co., Ltd. is offering the next-generation leader “Juku” series, which provides business and organizational transformation projects to the next generation of store service leaders, and the application series, “Hata,” which helps improve store productivity. Luck® Platform ”.

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• Yogo Robot — Yogo Robot is a robotics company dedicated to developing automated delivery solutions. Yogo Robot offers an open, extensive, and versatile multi-robot ecological system that consists of smart delivery stations, robotic couriers, and Internet of Things devices. The system boosts efficiency in last-mile delivery and provides a more seamless userexperience than ever before. Yogo Robot is transforming how goods are transported and reimagining how humans and robots will coexist in the future by enabling the delivery industry with cutting-edge robotic technology at the terminal end.
• WHYNOT Media — content franchise for the new generation
• Telexistence — TELEXISTENCE Inc. aims to be the systematic innovator of scale in robotics. Innovator means new stuff. And scale means big, systematic ways of looking things done in a way that’s reproducible.

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• CADDi — CADDi is an online ordering platform for manufacturing industry.
• BentoML — BentoML is the platform for software engineers to build AI products.
• FancyTech — FancyTech creates social media data analytics software that is intended to give users marketing options. Its software creates reports and placement recommendations for marketing, allowing users to target a wider, more relevant clientele.

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• Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
• Levr.ai — Levr.ai is an intelligent loans platform built to get your business funded—fast
• Return Helper — Founded in 2018, Return Helper is a data-driven return management solution that optimizes return process and the aftermarket activities for online retailers. We support all the major ecommerce platforms including Amazon and FBA, eBay, Walmart, Shopify, Rakuten etc.

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• SPORNIA — SPORNIA is an editor of sports knowledge technology.We provide support for athletes using content and monetization using emerging media such as SNS and YouTube.