Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

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• Arkifi — Arkifi is an artificial intelligence company that develops AI-powered financial analyst tools. Arkifi's framework generates consistent results that avoid fabricating factual details (referred to as "hallucination"), instilling enterprises with an unmatched level of confidence in the outcomes.
• Kavida.ai — Kavida helps procurement managers ensure on time deliveries and improve supplier collaboration.
• Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.

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• Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

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• Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
• TreasurySpring — We search out the best cash investments on the planet and deliver them through a simple digital portal. All you need to do is click some buttons.
• Project Admission — A software solution that integrates with ticketing platforms, Project Admission makes buying, transferring, and reselling tickets simple, intuitive, and effective.

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• Barte — VBarte is a benchmark for B2B interactions. They designed it to automate payment procedures in Latin America. They optimize cash flow management for small and midsize enterprises through automated payments and revenue-based financing, enabling users to get easy access to financial metrics and credit payments.
• CUR8 — Even if we do everything else right on reducing emissions, the world still needs to remove up to 220 Gigatonnes of carbon from the atmosphere by 2050
• SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

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• Atoa — Accept in-store payments using any UK Bank App. Merchants save up-to 70% versus cards and get paid faster. Sign-up in three minutes.
• BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
• Fertifa — Fertifa is an innovative employer benefit solution making fertility care more accessible and affordable.The company works with employers to offer a valuable employee benefit which bridges the gap between an employer and their employees when dealing with the sensitivity and privacy of employees’ reproductive issues. It also offers guidance andadvice, next-generation fertility treatment, and access to a range of holistic services for the best chance of success. The company was founded in 2019 and based in London, United Kingdom.

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• Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
• Paytrix — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
• Vedanta Biosciences — Vedanta Biosciences is a developer of immunotherapies designed to treat immune-mediated and infectious diseases. The company's immunotherapies include a suite of proprietary assays to select pharmacologically potent strains, vast proprietary datasets from human interventional studies, and facilities for cGMP-compliant manufacturing ofrationally-defined bacterial consortia in powder form, enabling physicians to access live bacteria drug to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases easily.It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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• Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
• Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
• TrainThis.AI — TrainThis.AI revolutionizes the way you manage and coach your team. Say goodbye to wasting hours on call reviews and email reading just to provide feedback on a fraction of the work. The company's real-time feedback system empowers your reps to receive continuous input on their work, eliminating poor-quality outcomes and maximizing thebenefits of ongoing feedback.

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• HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
• ManholeMetrics — We are a multi-award winning sensor and analytics start-up on a mission to stop flooding and bring wastewater into the 21st Century.
• SuperFi — SuperFi Finance is a financial application that provides personalized debt support. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in London, England.

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
• Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
• Translucent — Translucent is next-gen accounting software.

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• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
• Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

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• Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
• Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
• Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

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• Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
• Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
• Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

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• Odore — Our platform enables the world's leading brands to sample their products more effectively.
• Supportwave — NerdApp offers online or on-site tech support for your home or small business. Just sign up and book a Nerd instantly or schedule at your convenience!
• Fantastic Days — Fantastic Days is a beauty social intelligence platform provider.

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• Plotbox — Award winning Cemetery and Crematory management software that enables world class death care facility operations. Fully integrated software and true digital mapping solve long standing problems and accelerates business development. Various packages available.
• Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
• Manus Neurodynamica — Manus Neurodynamica is a triage device to support early diagnostics in Parkinson's disease.

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• PocDoc — Smart health in your hands
• APEXX — The APEXX payment gateway consolidates global payment providers into a single integration point, optimising the cost of complex payment ecosystems.
• measurable.energy — Machine Learning and hardware platform to eliminate wasted energy and GHG emissions in buildings

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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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• Dexla — Build B2B apps quickly with an AI-powered front-end software engineer. Type in what your company does and watch Buck build your app for you.
• RideTandem — Tandem turns local transport providers into smart shuttles for work, education and more. The smart way to move your community.
• Greenspark — Turn your e-commerce business into a force for good, increase sales and engage your customers in climate action with Greenspark.

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• Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
• Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
• Kuai Commerce — Kuai Commerce is a next-generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled services provide market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging

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• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• CultureAI — Measure and improve human cyber risks and security behaviours to prevent security incidents. Go beyond security awareness training, start your free trial today.
• finway — finway provides financial guidence to SMEs, plan & control all expenses and budgets in one tool.

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• Covatic — We help media companies deliver private-by-design, addressable advertising and marketing without exposing personal data.
• Decently — Decently provides the world a better place by developing advanced digital products. Decently mission is to improve lives through innovative digital product.
• Percayso Inform — Percayso provides insurers with access to a wide range of data sources, allowing them to form a more comprehensive view of their customers.

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• Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
• Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
• Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

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• Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
• Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
• Morphoses — Unlocking Potential: Empowering 6-17 Year-Old Learners with Future-Focused Soft Skills for Education and Employability

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• Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
• Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
• Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

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• Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
• Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
• Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

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• Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
• Treefera — Treefera is transforming the way the world approaches forest data and conservation, to create a clear future for the carbon market and the planet.
• Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.

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• Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
• ThingTrax — Realise improved efficiency, quality control, employee safety and productivity by modernising your factories with ThingTrax's AI and IoT
• Superscript — Specialist insurance advice for digital businesses and emerging risk. Get business insurance that's as cutting edge as you are. Book a call.

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• MarraBio — MarraBio Ltd. is a spin out company from Newcastle University using engineered bacterial protein polymers to provide bioactivity to cells at the industrial scale in the cultivated meat sector and beyond.
• Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
• Laverock Therapeutics — Laverock Therapeutics is developing a gene silencing platform for the creation of programmable, allogeneic cell therapies.

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• Intanify — Intanify is an AI software platform that assists businesses in identifying, categorizing, and valuing intangible assets. It develops solutions that assist organizations in clarifying their intangible assets, allowing them to better evaluate, manage, and preserve these assets.
• PROSPECT 100 — PROSPECT 100 is building the digital space for co-creation, democratizing the creative industries
• Bea Fertility — Bea Fertility is a monthly subscription program that provides users with at-home fertility treatment and ovulation tracking.

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• Auddy — The Problem: Millions of series. Endless producers. Advertising £s to be located. An audience to build. Many platforms. How does a creator navigate this fragmented but large ecosystem? Creators do not have the resources to bring business and analytical skills to their podcast. Or the ability to properly market or develop an audience.Auddy solvesthe creator’s problem through the combination of editorial input, data insights and analytics, marketing and promotional services and sales. In so doing, it also rewards the creator by paying a significant royalty rate.
• Paragraf — We Work to Develop Innovative and Useful End Products from Novel Materials. Our Analogue Sensors Are Designed to Provide Accurate Field Gradient Mapping & Alignment.
• SteadyPay — SteadyPay exists to improve the financial wellness of all gig economy workers. Our service enables gig economy workers to enjoy consistent income even when they work inconsistent hours (due to such factors as reduced shifts, fewer bookings, time of sick and holidays). Using the SteadyPay mobile app, customers securely link to their bank, we thenwork out the customer's average income and monitor for when income drops below that average. When this happens we provide a top-up, advancing money to the customer's bank to bring their income back up to average. No interest is charged on the top-up; we are a subscription credit service. By smoothing out income we enable gig economy workers to budget with confidence for everyday essentials, and in turn reduce the need to turn to high-cost credit solutions that trigger debt spirals.

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• Scan.com — Use scan.com to find the best medical imaging centers near you Find an MRI scan, CT scan, X-ray Scan, or other diagnostic imaging scan with scan.com.
• HelloSelf — The UK's Trusted Online Private Clinical Therapy Service
• Legislate — Legislate is an easy-to-use contract management platform which provides a suite of customisable contracts for businesses and landlords.

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• Shoorah — Shoorah is a fresh and comprehensive wellbeing app that helps you support your mental health and nourish your wellbeing.
• Taylor & Hart — Taylor & Hart's mission is to create and deliver engagement rings that allow people to truly express themselves in a way that captures the emotions they feel for each other.- Offering over 100,000 ethically sourced GIA graded diamonds to choose from.- Winner of "Best New Jeweler 2014" and nominated for numerous otherawards.- Crowd-fundeded through Seedrs twice raising over $500,000- Notable mentions in the Telegraph, Guardian, Elle, Glamour, Forbes, FT- Customer rating of over 9.6/10 from over 120 reviews.- Team members based in London, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria- Transacted over $2m over the last 12 months.- Set a pink diamond on the inside of every ring as a trademark
• Splint Invest — Splint Invest is a B2B2C platform, where customers can buy tokens of alternative investments. Combining smart contracts, DLT and AI, we tokenize real-world assets effortless and fully automated.

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• Volt.io — Increase retention and digital sales by allowing your customers to initiate direct payments, from their bank accounts to yours in real-time. Your checkout in super-drive, powered by Volt.
• Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
• Wayhome — Unmortgage is for people who can afford to rent, but want to own. You might not earn enough to get a mortgage on a property you love, or renting might be stopping you from saving enough of a deposit. Think of Unmortgage as a stepping stone between renting and owning.

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• Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
• Swallow — A modern pricing platform that separates pricing from the rest of your code. Swallow increases the speed and confidence of pricing changes for greater growth and profitability.
• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.

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• Mindgard — Mindgard rapidly uncovers cyber threats against Artificial Intelligence. Our product empowers businesses to securely deploy their mission-critical AI within an everchanging cyber landscape.
• Signaloid — Signaloid provides efficient computing hardware and software technologies to quantify, transmit, and track data uncertainty in computations.
• AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.

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• eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
• NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
• Fourthline — Comply with KYC and AML regulations throughout the customer lifecycle with Fourthline's bank-grade identity platform.

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• Embat — Keep your cash flows, cash accounts, debt positions and forecasts monitored and automated real time.
• Embla — Embla provides an online medical weight loss treatment using prescription drugs and coaching. The company provides patients with evidence-based treatments, digital tools, medication, and coaching to facilitate sustainable weight loss. Embla was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Writer — Accelerate growth across every team with the most secure AI platform. We customize generative AI to your workflows, not the other way around.
• Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.

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• Atoa — Accept in-store payments using any UK Bank App. Merchants save up-to 70% versus cards and get paid faster. Sign-up in three minutes.
• Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.
• Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.

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• Shot Scope — The official Shot Scope website. Golf watches, range finders and performance tracking that help lower your score and handicap. Buy direct online today!
• PneumoWave — Empowering Intervention and Prevention for Opioid-Induced Respiratory Depression
• Vector Photonics — Vector Photonics is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow and is based in Glasgow, Scotland, one of the UK and world’s Optical and Photonics centres of excellence.

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• Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
• Browse AI — Monitor any webpage for changes. Download any data on the web as a spreadsheet. Turn any website into an API.
• ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.

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• Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance.
• Mazepay — Mazepay A/S helps procurement and finance professionals cut the tail in long-tail procurement.
• Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.

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• Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
• Carmoola — Ready to hit the road? Find the car of your dreams and make your money move. Spread the cost with flexible payment plans to get new wheels, on your terms.
• Cordless — Bridging the gap between voice and text

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• Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
• Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
• Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.

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• SigmaOS — The new home for your internet. One window. Many Workspaces. All your tabs.
• Aerovolt — Installing smart aircraft chargers at grass strips, aerodromes and regional airports.
• Volta — Design, perform and stream your own mixed reality experience in just minutes.

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• Bink — Upgrade your loyalty programme with card linking technology, or launch a new one in record time.
• WHSmith — Welcome to WHSmith. Here you can find stationery, books, toys and games and many more products. Shop online or find out more about us.
• Air Protein — Air Protein is a startup that aims to develop sustainable protein made from thin air. Using a proprietary probiotic process, Air Protein develops protein-enriched food made from CO2. This revolutionary new protein source can be used to make meat-free burgers, protein-enriched pasta, cereals, beverages, and more.Air Protein has been developed byKiverdi, a California-based biotechnology company.

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• Trezy — Trezy is smart & simple software the helps you manage your business with real-time finance insights & automated cash-flow forecasting.
• Basket — Basket lets you keep track of things you want to buy, automatically finding the best prices, saving you time and money. Say hello to your new shopping companion.
• Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.

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• Cuure — We are building a great and honest company that delivers personalized vitamins and food supplements to everyone so they improve their daily wellness and consciousness
• Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
• Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.

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• RepRally — RepRally bridges the gap between emerging brands and local retailers.
• Openly — Openly provides exceptional insurance by delivering truly comprehensive coverage through independent agents without surprise or concern. We do this because we exist to make insurance remarkably simple.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.

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• Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
• IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems, the open edge data platform for developing, deploying, and managing Industrial Edge applications at scale. Find out more here.
• Administrate — Manage 100% of enterprise training operations with configurable training management software, designed to scale with your organization.