Top 45 Retail Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023

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• Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
• Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
• Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.

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• Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
• Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
• Hackyourcloset.com — Cultivate your closet with a digital consultant. Keeping up with our closets can take hours and hours. Subscribe in less than 5 min.

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• Novatron — A new fusion reactor design for stable plasma confinement and fusion power generation.
• Retein — Aquammodate is a greentech company that produces highly pure water at minimum energy cost.
• Open Payments — Open Payments connects you to multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations

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• IDOVEN — IDoven develops products to detect heart problems at an early stage to prevent heart diseases.
• Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
• Bedrock Ocean Exploration — Bedrock is building smarter, more efficient ways to collect and manage seafloor data.

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• Bookis — Bookis is the Next-Generation Online Bookstore with Direct Author Compensation, making the sharing of stories and knowledge playfully easy - from all bookshelves, for everyone. We leverage community, technology and innovative distribution to enable radically easier peer-to-peer bookselling, with fair author compensation models. Building theworld's largest network of authors fighting for a more fair book industry worldwide.
• Dintero — Dintero is a Norwegian startup delivering payment, checkout, crm & loyalty solutions.
• Campanyon — Camping, RV parks, glamping near you. Book your outdoor stays.

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• Blinto — Blinto offers an online auction platform that offers both sellers and buyers the opportunity to meet via a complete online auction service. The products primarily auctioned on its websites are construction machines, commercial vehicles, and tools.
• Verified — Verified specializes in providing services for electronic signing, identification, anti-money laundering and API integration solutions.
• Urban Volt — UrbanVolt makes sustainability easy via our unique light as a service model. They retrofit commercial premises with led lighting for no upfront cost. Their unique light as a service business model allows their clients to enjoy cash and energy savings from the moment of installation. They created this company and capex-free model because theybelieve businesses should not bear the financial risk of energy reduction projects. Their commitment to maintaining light fittings makes sustainability easy.

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• LanguifyAI — Languify is an AI based language learning assistant which analyses, corrects, and tracks a user's spoken and written English across all platforms. The AI assistant prompts feedback and nudges that improve conversations in real-time that enable improvisation on the spot without any delay. It also enables users to learn at their own pace throughpersonalized learning plans and games designed to minimize repetition of errors.
• Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. Our tools have been developed to support the recent emergence of 24/7 time-stamped energy certificates as well as traditional "annual" certificates.
• Material Evolution — Material Evolution uses patented geopolymer technology and proprietary algorithms to create the most sustainable materials on the planet.Material Evolution’s first product is a cement mix made from 95% waste using its algorithm technology. Its smart concrete mix is 10X stronger, 5X more durable, and reduces carbon consumption by 85%. Mostimportantly, it’s economically viable for construction companies.

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• FitFlo — FitFlo brings to life the connected gym experience for Operators, Trainers and Members.
• Mole — Mole is a digital business card and mobile website software. Connect with your clients, promote your business online and much more. Comes with free customised NFC business card.
• Optacloud — Fostering a global AI powered ecosystem to achieve 100% cloud efficacy-> effortlessly, economically and eco-consciously. Dev tools stack for automating the entire development lifecycle of cloud apps across- Build, Deploy & Optimize.

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• Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
• EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
• Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in

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• Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.
• Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.
• Ready Player Me — The Ready Player Me platform leverages AI, ML , and a suite of developer-first tools to empower developers to integrate avatars into their games and apps to launch faster, improve user adoption, and grow revenue through asset monetization.

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• Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
• Kojamo Group — Kojamo plc will focus on real estate investments in Finland, renewing rental housing to make it increasingly attractive by developing new types of homes and services. The solutions promote work-related mobility in urbanising Finland, increase well-being and help preserve the environment. The vision of the housing investment company is to be apioneer in housing and the customer’s number-one choice.
• Exeger — We invent, engineer, and provide world-changing technologies to improve everyday life.

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• Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.

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• Adsorbi — Adsorbi develops a novel biomaterial based on cellulose.
• RadChat — RadChat is a method for arranging timeslots between cars in close proximity. The timeslots can then be used for radar sensing or for transmitting data to nearby cars through the radar unit.The patent-pending technology's ability to eliminate radar interference is unequaled. Because each car in the vicinity has its own assigned timeslot,there will be no interference from other vehicles. RadChat enables your vehicle's sensors to be trusted.The data communication utility is a supplementary technology for communication in scenarios requiring low latency, directed connectivity, and safety. Video feeds, vital safety alarms, location and positioning data, and other types of data can be delivered.
• EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems

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• Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
• roaring.io — We create automated solutions that simplifies your daily business processes, enabling you to work smarter and stay competitive.
• Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets

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• Speiz — Speiz is a platform that enables revenue generation and sales for companies through the renting of warehousing space.
• Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
• Repsense — Repsense is a data company that mimics user journeys and predicts reactions to content found in search results pages. any of the clients can use the Repsense Index to quickly assess their reputation and compare it to competitors across different geographies and user intents.

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• blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
• Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
• Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.

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• Filipino — Filipino sells handmade interior pieces for stores, museums, hotels, restaurants, and cafes.
• TANGGapp — Send money to the Philippines with the best exchange rates! Money transfers are received in minutes. Get full transparency on your transaction - no FX markups or secret costs. Download TANGapp today and get started!
• Shoppable Business — Shoppable Philippines B2B Marketplace

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• Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
• Parkamo — Parkamo is like Hotels.com & Airbnbn for parking. All apps, all prices, full transparency and you can earn money by renting out your parking.
• Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.

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• Steep — The modern analytics platform powered by metrics.
• All Gravy — Butter gives you happier employees, by reducing their financial stress and giving them an understanding of their salary and financial situation
• Platypus — Grow your culture. Backed by data. Platypus is the HR and recruitment tool that measures cultural drivers of people across the organization to help you qualify decisions on hiring and managing your culture.

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• Nylas — Unlock the power of your communications data. The Nylas APIs remove complexity & empower teams to create seamless user experiences.
• Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
• Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.

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• Kanpla — Connect digitally with your guests and combine the physical canteen with a digital experience.
• Parkdepot — Wir digitalisieren Ihren Parkplatz ohne Schranken, Kontrolleure oder Parkscheiben.
• Mews — Cloud-native, Mews PMS is an innovative hospitality management system that enables automation to boost revenue and empowers remarkable guest experiences.

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• Budbee — When you shop from a store that offers Budbee, we'll make sure your favorite things arrive - when and where you want them.
• GetCompliant — Discover GetCompliant: the compliance management software for the hospitality industry that will help you with digital operations in restaurants, hotels & more.
• Material Evolution — Material Evolution uses patented geopolymer technology and proprietary algorithms to create the most sustainable materials on the planet.Material Evolution’s first product is a cement mix made from 95% waste using its algorithm technology. Its smart concrete mix is 10X stronger, 5X more durable, and reduces carbon consumption by 85%. Mostimportantly, it’s economically viable for construction companies.

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• Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.

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• Zevoy — Automate receipt and expense management
• Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
• Worldfavor — Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We helpbusinesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more.The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.

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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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• Solu — Solu.co is a Fastest Growing hub for Technology, How-to, Gadgets, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Digital Marketing And Business Ideas.
• Solu — Discover the next generation toolkit for analyzing, storing and sharing bacterial genomes.
• Taika Tech — Taika Tech builds a novel interface for controlling the surrounding technology by making sense of your hand movement and location with a smart ring

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• Pirr — Welcome to an endless world of erotic fantasies, powered by AI.
• Mentice — Mentice offers a wide and growing set of medical simulations and software solutions within image guided therapies to support improved clinical outcomes.
• Oncopeptides — Oncopeptides is a global biotech company focusing on research, development and commercialization of targeted therapies for difficult-to-treat hematological diseases.

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• Lazudi — Free listings to full property agent service is available
• Vinden Storage — Enkel, billig och smart magasinering!
• xNomad — Find retail shops to rent in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Olso, Helsinki and across the Nordics. Choose from prime retail spaces rent, retail & pop-up shops, shopping centre and event spaces.

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• Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
• Splitgrid — Splitgrid distribute cash funds automatically, which reduces the capital tied up for the store and risk minimizes for the supplier.

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• Laqta! — Laqta! is a leading classifieds platform and B2C and C2C marketplace focused on Middle East, Europe, and Arabic speakers around the world. We are seeking to enter emerging markets around the world with B2C and C2C solutions and services.
• Marifaa — Marifaa is a E-Learning Platform.
• Mhtaref — Connect with the best freelance talent in the MENA region on Mhtaref - the ultimate freelancing marketplace.

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• Hygglo — Peer to peer plattform for renting and renting out everyday stuff.

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• Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
• Modulous — The Modulous Fastrack solution is a digitally integrated process enabling the rapid design, assembly and delivery of high quality, affordable, sustainable and smart homes.
• Desana — Seamlessly integrate existing assets into a global network of flexible workspaces and meeting rooms so staff can work from quality environments. Wherever.

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• Divly — Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
• Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
• Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace

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• Memby — Memby is a Lithuania-based EdTech startup that brings affordable online tutorship to high schoolers.
• Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.

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• Traxlo — We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out.
• Tapline — Tapline turns your SaaS recurring revenues into fast, transparent and non dilutive growth capital.
• HeavyFinance — A borderless lending marketplace, where farmers meet investors

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• Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
• Ostrom — We make energy fair, smart and green - one flexible monthly plan with no hidden fees, digital-first and 100% renewable energy.
• MVision AI — MVision develops technology that improves the treatment of various types of cancer by using artificial intelligence and machine learning. The company has been built on the idea to be an impactful organisation by bringing AI assisted diagnosis and treatment to whoever needs it, especially in developing countries. This dramatically improves treatmentoutcome and saves money.The founding team consists of AI PhD’s, data platform architects and physicists with experience from companies such as Varian Medical Systems and GE healthcare.

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• Stylee — Stylee is a pioneer in applying cutting-edge picture AI functionalities to assist customers in finding clothes that suit their individual styles rather than what others have purchased or goods that are similar, and to assist retailers in increasing conversion rates and reducing return rates. Stylee can offer a variety of items to boost clientpersonalization and income for shops. Also appropriate for circular retailers and relatively simple to integrate into platforms.
• Opus — Opus is a mobile-first training solution that meets workers where they are in order to help them perform, stay, and grow at work.
• Eureka Health — Helping people with chronic conditions mitigate their symptoms.

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• MAJORITY — MAJORITY is the first digital financial service dedicated to serving migrants worldwide. For $5 a month, MAJORITY members in the U.S. receive an FDIC-secured account, VISA® debit card, use of more than 55,000 ATMs across North America, remittance and international calling, native language advisors, and access to our network of community meet-upspaces, local discounts and events. With MAJORITY, there are never overdraft fees or minimum balance requirements. MAJORITY was started in Sweden by a diverse team of banking, fintech, payments, and telecom executives serving immigrant communities globally for the last 15 years. MAJORITY’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.
• Quell — An immersive first-person fitness game you can play anywhere - Quell is the future of fitness gaming.
• Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.

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• laiout — We are a team of entrepreneurs tasked with reducing the time and frustration involved when designing early stage floor plans for large developments and existing properties.With support from world's biggest early-stage VC and several of our international future clients our team is helping to optimize this tedious architectural design phasesaving up to 20 weeks of time while providing more and better solutions.
• Vinden Storage — Enkel, billig och smart magasinering!
• xNomad — Find retail shops to rent in Stockholm, Copenhagen, Olso, Helsinki and across the Nordics. Choose from prime retail spaces rent, retail & pop-up shops, shopping centre and event spaces.

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• Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.
• Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
• Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.

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• Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
• Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
• Instabox — Instabox Express is a shipping service available in selected online stores. It ship your express delivery package to our lockers in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.Instabox handles logistics for e-commerce retailers, offering same-day delivery through its network of last-mile smart delivery lockers. The service reaches about six million Swedes,delivering from the likes of H&M, Ikea, and Lloyds. In a press release, the company claims its growth has more than tripled each year over the last few years.

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• Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
• Natural Cycles — Natural Cycles birth control is 93% effective with typical use and 98% effective with perfect use. Learn more about hormone-free birth control today.
• Kyra — Kyra is a Gen-Z entertainment company creating engaging digital content that resonates with youth culture. We represent world class digital native talent, produce digital content with the biggest and best consumer brands and develop media properties publishing daily content on platforms that matter to Gen Z. Kyra has the ability to not onlytarget but truly engage with the Gen-Z audience through content that resonates based on real-time audience data from our proprietary KyraIQ technology. Our inclusive, ahead-of-the-trend content and content creators make us the ultimate destination for the Gen-Z consumer who wants to be inspired by their own community. Our approach and creativity is based on data and insights and has proven to engage this audience better than any traditional publisher. We house a talent agency representing and collaborating with the leading Gen Z social stars such as Abby Roberts and Noen Eubanks; a global content studio creating award-winning content for youth-seeking brand partners such as Converse and HP; and a newly developed portfolio of media properties publishing daily content on Gen Z-native platforms around beauty, fashion, adventure, food, gaming and entertainment.Kyra engages Gen Z better than any traditional publisher, with an audience of 78 million social media followers racking up 750 million monthly video views in 190 countries around the globe. We know exactly where Gen Z is spending their time online and we respect their interests and passions. That result is content that is meaningful and fosters long term engagement for blue chip brands. Our team are experts on Gen Z culture, whether they are producing, managing, creating or marketing in New York, London and Los Angeles. Learn more at https://kyra.com/reel

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• Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
• WhyWaste — Reduce your food waste and increase your profits with Whywastes digital solutions. Schedule a demo to see how we can help your store become more sustainable and more profitable.
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• Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
• Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
• Vibrant — The best in taking easy payments! Start accepting contactless transactions straight through your phone!

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• blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
• Qvantum — Qvantum is driven by a passion for a sustainable future, built by a team of industry experts, and using groundbreaking innovation.