Top 35 Local Startup Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

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• KisanHub — KisanHub Agri-Food Supply Chain Software helps Producer Groups to transform their supply chain and improve margins with greater visibility and data driven insights. With all your supply and procurement data together in one convenient dashboard, you can better predict supply and make the most of demand. Choose from a suite of software modules thatwork seamlessly to provide fast access to crop progress, weather information, satellite imagery, stock levels and delivery schedules.
• Staff Heroes — Staff Heroes is the #1 On Demand Booking Platform for Temporary Staff, providing quality vetted workers to over 1000 Hospitality, Event and Venue businesses in London and transforming the traditional agency industry.Staff Heroes removes the middleman giving Businesses control and transparency with as much or little control as they wish.Businesses have the option to view Worker profiles and ratings allowing the creation of favourite pools of workers. Vice versa workers are able to rate Businesses based on their experience.Staff Heroes works with many large businesses such as Four Seasons, Hilton, BBC, ISS, Servest, Virgin Atlantic, Youngs, Aramark, Delaware North as well as with over 1'200 SMEs who have signed up to the platform since launch.Staff Heroes empowers Heroes (workers), allowing them to have control of where and when they work and creating a more democratic working environment with reward and gamification to incentivise loyalty.Staff Heroes was founded by Laurent Gibb in December 2015; and is headquartered in London, England.
• Funding Xchange — Funding Xchange is transforming and connecting the SME funding eco-system through digital eligibility and affordability assessment tools. Funding Xchange built its leading technology platform by connecting businesses with more than 70 funders to access indicative offers in 3 minutes and money in businesses’ bank accounts in 10 minutes.Funding Xchange’s Marketplace provides access to finance where businesses are engaging with their finance. Using its API-led technology, Funding Xchange is embedding its Marketplace in the largest Price Comparison Websites like MoneySuperMarket, delivering custom marketplaces to banks like NatWest and Monzo, integrating finance solutions in advisory platforms like Enterprise Nation and finance available within accounting software and payment providers own eco-system. Through FXE Technologies, the business white-labels its intelligent SME lending tools for banks, funders and brokers. Clients are able to deploy white-labelled, digitally-led customer journeys and market-facing intermediary portals, transforming operating costs and increasing look-to-book ratios while also empowering active portfolio risk management.The tools are powered by real-time access to validated transactional data and leverage insights into risk analytics and underwriting across a broad spectrum of SME funding solutions. The eligibility and affordability tools deliver the benefits of digital transformation without the risk of complex and costly technology projects. Funding Xchange was founded in 2014 and is based in London, England, United Kingdom.

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• Avoca Clinic — The Avoca Clinic is Ireland's only plastic surgery clinic. Our World Class Consultants are all Irish Medical Council Registered. Book a free consultation today
• Stellar Omada — Stellar Omada delivers leading business & digital transformation that exceeds expectations in a constantly changing world. Contact us.
• Machine Discovery — Machine Discovery is a University of Oxford spin-out commercializing new machine learning technology. We leverage proprietary neural network technology to accelerate expensive calculations — and we do it with minimal data and 99.9% fidelity.

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• Camena Bioscience — Camena Bioscience is a synthetic biology company that develops tools to engineer new synthetic biology applications. It has engineered new nucleic acid synthesis technology which improves the quality and speed of synthesis. Its multi-enzymatic technology takes one approach to DNA, RNA, and XNA synthesis, offering increased accuracy over existingPhosphoramidite synthesis technology.Camena Bioscience was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Cambridge.
• Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.
• Send — We're transforming commercial insurance software with our composable SaaS platform, which seamlessly scales and flexes to cover everything your team needs.

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• Zeelo — Travel to major events, festivals, cities and many more in comfy coaches with Zeelo. Book your seat now.
• 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.
• Eagle Genomics — Unlocking radical innovation by enabling the conversation between microbiome data and the scientist

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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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• Konsileo — With over 35 years of experience, Konsileo Insurance Brokers protect businesses and mitigate risks, properly. Contact us today, 020 8148 9492
• Living Map Company — Digital mapping, wayfinding and positioning for people, assets and places. Turn data into insight, turn insight into action with Living Map.

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• Seriously Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.
• Laserthrust — Laserthrust is developing and producing a 3D-printed, super-cavitating electric craft capable of traveling from Norwich, UK, to Amsterdam. The company's marine goods are made completely of recycled and recyclable FDM 3D-printed materials, with a particular emphasis on TPU-based materials.
• Luxury Cottages — Find a luxury holiday cottage to rent in the UK. Our handpicked holiday homes at Luxury Cottages are carefully selected by our luxury travel experts.

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• Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
• Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
• Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.

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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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• 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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• FlexSea — FlexSea develops novel biomaterials derived from renewable marine resources to replace current primary plastic packaging.
• Concretene — Concretene is a concrete alternative that is designed to provide a viable CO2 reduction technology in the construction industry for cementitious products. It is developed by Nationwide Engineering Research and Development (NERD) with the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC).
• Pathios Therapeutics — Pioneering a novel macrophage conditioning approach to delivering breakthrough cancer therapies

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

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• Femeda — Femeda provides groundbreaking technology for the treatment of urinary incontinence for women worldwide. Get in touch today to find out more.
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• Greengage Lighting — Poultry lighting and poultry sensors for precision livestock farming, scheme compliance and animal welfare

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
• QuickBlox — QuickBlox provides instant messaging API that allow chat and calling functionality to be added to any Android, iOS, or Web application.

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

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• Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).
• Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
• Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

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• Streetlife — streetlife.com, the local social network, has a simple aim: to help people across Britain make the most of where they live by connecting with nearby residents, groups, organisations and businesses.The streetlife.com team believes that better connected neighbours build stronger communities, and that digital media has a key role to play inbringing together people with busy routines or reduced mobility, to discuss and improve the local issues they care about.The site provides an easy way for locals to share practical information, advice, opinions, skills and resources. People sign up using their postcode, and can start and join conversations with others in their area. Users can customise their settings so they control how much information they receive, the areas they're interested in, and what they share about themselves.Main uses of the site include:- discussing nearby news, crime, planning proposals and public services- finding locals with common interests, organising and attending social groups and events- sharing skills and belonging with neighbours, from hedge-trimmers to spreadsheet skills- recommending and discovering local businesses and tradespeople- promoting, campaigning and volunteering for community projects and local causesstreetlife.com is a privately funded limited company headquartered in Covent Garden, London.Following a successful pilot in the London Borough of Wandsworth, streetlife.com is now available nationwide. The service is free for residents discussing local issues. Find out more and watch a short video narrated by Stephen Fry at www.streetlife.com.

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• Suitepad — 2012, the idea for SuitePad was born. Merge guests' wallet, phone, remote, room-service menu, spa catalog, and newspapers on a device's vision was that for the first time was financed thanks to favorable expectant Android tablets.Product development was accompanied by renowned private and chain hoteliers from Germany, Austria, andSwitzerland. So the SuitePad was very close to the actual needs of the developed chain and private hotels. After 2013, the first SuitePad installation is completed, the product is found not only in sales so far in 11 European countries, but was also honored with numerous industry-related awards. These include the u. A. CeBit BITKOM Innovation Award 2013, the Gastro Vision Award 2014 of the Travel Industry Club Best Practice Award 2014, and the HSMAI Technology and Innovation Award.
• Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
• Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.

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• Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).
• Proxigroup — Solving the the lack of visibility and transparency in asset management.
• Carv — Carv fits in any ski boot, analyzes your technique, and coaches you with live audio as you ski.

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• Umedeor — uMed is a technology platform embedded across a global network of healthcare providers that automates the process of building prospective, protocolized patient registries. This enables sites to participate in dozens of programmes simultaneously without increasing overhead or burden on staff. For life science companies, uMed provides access toregulator quality data, where patients within those datasets can be compliantly re-engaged to support the aims of R&D and post-market teams
• Ascento — Secure, maintain, and inspect outdoor assets by reducing the intervention times and augmenting data capturing capability.
• Continuum Industries — Continuum Industries is a developer of Optioneer, the leading software for linear infrastructure optioneering.

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• Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud — Antavo is an Enterprise Loyalty Cloud, providing best-in-class technology to manage experience-based, paid, and lifestyle loyalty programs.
• Autenti — Autenti is a platform for document authorization and contracting via the Internet. It facilitates the signing of many papers and accelerates the working mode in companies.
• Meisterwerk — B2B SaaS Operating System for SMB field service and craftsman companies

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• Newsflare — Newsflare is an online video news community and marketplace, where sellers can upload video content & get paid and buyers can choose the videos they need.
• Mojo Vision — Mojo Vision is a developer of augmented reality products and platforms intended to invent the future of computing. The company has developed a smart contact lens with a built-in display that gives timely information without interrupting the focus and delivers immediate, powerful, and relevant information without the intrusions of today'smobile devices, enabling users to connect with others at a glance, anytime, anywhere handsfree.Mojo Vision was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Saratoga, California.
• OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.

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• Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
• Fuisz Video, Inc. — Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands suchas Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.
• Traverse Data — Traverse leverages data and the power of the email channel to generate new customers for marketers and incremental revenue for publishers.

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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.
• Makers — Start your tech journey in 16 weeks. Become a software developer, data engineer, cloud or quality engineer. Remote or hybrid options!

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• Bakedin — Bakedin, a Basingstoke-based baking subscription service, provides premium home baking products featuring exclusive recipes by Michel Roux.The home baking kits are unique: they feature exclusive recipes by Michel Roux, one of the world's finest ever pastry chefs. They include all the dry ingredients bagged separately pre-cut baking paper andeven the tin to bake in giving authentic baking from scratch experience. Their baking kits are extremely popular as gifts and for baking with children as an activity that teaches them real cooking skills with a little less hassle and no waste.Their mug baking mixes use the same top-quality ingredients as their baking kits but enable to bake a brownie, cookie, or cake in a mug in the microwave in less than 2 minutes. They sell them in individual pots as well as in multipacks. These have quickly become their best selling products and have a very broad appeal.Bakedin was founded in 2013 by 3 friends - Joe, Anna, and Elaina - and is based in North Hampshire.
• Stitched — Made to measure curtains and blinds with Stitched. Choose from 300+ sustainable fabrics, colours and textures to create your perfect look.
• RazorSecure — RazorSecure provides rail cyber security solutions powered by machine learning, and designed to protect rolling stock, signalling and infrastructure systems

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• My NFT Wars — My NFT Wars is an innovative open-market collectible game with a strong emphasis on RPG and strategy elements. Collect heroes and build your strategy for victory in PVP and PVE battles. Join the world, full of the never-ending struggle for resources, territorial conquest, and political domination.
• Woebot Health — Woebot Health has created relational technologies that underpin a new generation of digital therapeutics and tools for mental health. The company’s proprietary relational agent, Woebot, is capable of quickly forming a bond with users and delivering human-like therapeutic encounters that are psychologically related, responsive to a person’s dynamicstate of health, and targeted using multidisciplinary tools. Woebot is at the heart of the company’s AI-powered platform and the foundation for digital therapeutics and tools that seamlessly integrate within health ecosystems and solve for gaps along the health care journey. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and is funded in part by venture capital firms New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Jazz Venture Partners L.P., Temasek, Owl Ventures, and BlackRock Private Equity Partners with participation from Andrew Ng’s AI Fund.
• Zhonghui Laser — Zhonghui Laser is an emerging technology company dedicated to the development and manufacture of advanced lasers.

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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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• 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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• Treon — The foundation for massive IoT
• Prewave — Supplier monitoring for purchasing, supply chain management and sustainability managers.
• Microoled — Our best technology is vision. Designing the future of microdisplay applications. Our proprietary AMOLED technology elevates near-eye displays to the next level with optimal picture resolution, image brightness, and power con-sumption efficiency.

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• Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

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• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
• Aaritya Technologies — Because when you trade, we want you to trade like a pro.