Top 35 Digital Media Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (October 2026)

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• Promamec — Since 1981, Promamec has been producing and distributing medical devices in Morocco: equipment, medical equipment or consumable
• Spoon Consulting — Spoon Consulting provides IT and back-office services related to ERP technologies and cloud technologies.
• Hi-Tech Detection Systems — Hi-Tech Detection Systems provide services based on analytical science and product inspection. They also launch remote diagnostic solutions for its fleet of analytical instruments and life sciences.

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• Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.
• Stitch — The simplest way to build financial products. Stitch is the unified platform to launch and scale. Shaping the new age of banking and payments.
• THINK-AI — The Think AI Fabric: AI Node, ILM, and Constellation bonded into one supercompute platform, built for radical efficiency. Nothing sits idle.

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• HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
• Anecdote —

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• FLUUS — FLUUS is an aggregator of fiat to crypto gateways with a crypto ramping network covering emerging. FLUUS allows users to buy, sell, or swap cryptocurrencies and tokens. They aggregate cryptographic services into a single software development kit, connect ramping, exchanging, transactions, and payments, and create a money experience.
• Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
• Homecare Hub — Homecare Hub assists persons with caregiving needs, such as those with dementia, disability, accident, fall risk, or chronic illness, in avoiding huge institutional nursing facilities, by offering a superior experience in a secure, individualized, inexpensive, small shared care and co-living environment. To help people locate home care servicesthat are reasonably priced, it offers home health care services. With the help of the company's services, customers may locate reliable care for their loved ones in the areas of personal care, companion care, live-in care, home support, and many more.

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• Anecdote —
• Merit Incentives — Seamless, API-driven solutions connecting you to a global network of 7,000+ brands, enabling real-time, instant gratification across 155+ countries.
• Simplified Financial Solutions Company — Simplified Financial Solutions Company offers startups and SMEs financial management solutions including the ability to issue virtual and physical corporate cards, manage spending and automate expense reporting.

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• Coraly — Coraly connects marketplace benchmarking with practical real-estate AI for property portals, MLSs and real-estate organizations.
• Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
• Tern Group — Tern Group is an AI Platform to hire and relocate top healthcare talents globally, faster and cheaper. TERN is a full-stack solution to source and relocate top-tier medical and engineering talent from India, North Africa, South Africa, and Central Asia and the approach ensures a seamless, ethical, and transparent migration process, drasticallycutting complexity and shaving costs for healthcare systems.

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• Fasset — Fasset is an all-in-one financial super app that allows people and businesses to receive money, invest, earn, and make payments from anywhere in the world.
• Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.
• Odum Group Ltd — Odum Research leverages advanced artificial intelligence and deep learning architectures to build highly tuned pricing, risk, and execution strategies at ultra-low latency. Our proprietary AI models identify complex patterns across market microstructure, utilizing transformer-based architectures and reinforcement learning to predict marketinefficiencies with unprecedented accuracy.Our automated systems deploy sophisticated machine learning algorithms that continuously adapt to market conditions, combining neural network-powered market making with predictive modeling for both pure and statistical arbitrage. The AI stack processes vast amounts of market data in real-time, using state-of-the-art natural language processing to incorporate sentiment analysis and on-chain analytics.While currently focused on crypto markets, our technology roadmap includes building the first community-driven Web3 exchange platform where trading profits are transparently distributed back to users through smart contracts. This revolutionary approach democratizes market making returns, creating a more equitable trading ecosystem that aligns with true decentralization principles. Our ambitions extend beyond traditional markets as we work to reshape the future of finance through the convergence of AI and blockchain technologyOdum Group Ltd operates as a technology-driven investments company and is the parent company to Odum Research Ltd. Odum Group Ltd raised $3,142,950 in their pre seed round which was backed by 2VCs, VN2 Capital and EchoVC along with private investors.​Our commitment to innovation remains unwavering, as we are poised to elevate the capacity and sophistication of our simulations and prediction models

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• Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
• OCTA — OCTA brings you the clients and runs the work behind them, from books and reconciliations to billing and close. You grow the firm without adding headcount.

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• VUZ — VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh.
• Cognna — Simplify cybersecurity solutions management with COGNNA's comprehensive XDR platform for threat hunting and compromise assessment.
• Mealplanet — mealplanet makes working #meals #easy. Our online #food ordering platform saves business's time, ensures accurate orders, and makes #restaurants more money.

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• Yasmina — Yasmina offers AI-driven Home & Renters Insurance services.
• yozo.ai — Hire an all-in-one AI marketing team for a fraction of the cost. Yozo never forgets, learns from every interaction, and does better every time!
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• Willidrop — Willidrop is a B2B automotive logistics platform that optimizes cross-border vehicle transportation. The company provides a unified digital coordination layer that integrates real-time pricing, carrier matching, live tracking, and digital proof of delivery into a single workflow.
• SpeedLabs — The real-time market engine and foundational AI for sports.
• Native Commerce — A unified e-commerce platform combining CMS, OMS, WMS, Delivery & Logistics to help modern retailers operate, scale & deliver great e-commerce experiences.

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• Aira — Aira operates as a clean energy-tech company.
• Nordic Knots — Nordic Knots is an e-commerce store that offers home decor products such as rugs, flatweave, plush, shaggy, jute, and runners.
• Fast Travel Games — Fast Travel Games is a VR exclusive game developer and publisher, founded by industry leading veterans and behind acclaimed titles such as Apex Construct and Wraith: The Oblivion - Afterlife.

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• VUZ — VUZ is the leading immersive video app that allows users to stream on the web, mobile, TV, and headsets XR digital experiences with a new level of immersive realism. VUZ owns exclusively the world's largest premium exclusive immersive content library, with over 30,000 hours of immersive content covering entertainment, creators, and sportssegments, as well as XR, VR, and AR experiences from virtually anywhere in the world. VUZ has exclusive immersive rights for LaLiga, PFL, SerieA and many others. It aims to bring people together and connect the world by providing authentic immersive experiences while removing (TTA) Travel, Time, and Access constraints for billions of people worldwide.VUZ was established on January 1, 2017, with offices in Los Angeles, Dubai, and Riyadh.
• Getbee — Use live video calls to create in-person interactions with your clients from product recommendations to completing a purchase.
• Taager — Taager is a social e-commerce platform enabling online merchants with end-to-end logistics.

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• Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots
• Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
• Match2One — Programmatic advertising platform, high performance and easy to use. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.

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• Rize — Rize is a PropTech platform transforming rental payments for both residential and commercial properties. With its “Rent Now, Pay Later” service, Rize allows tenants to split their annual rent into manageable installments, which benefits both renters, who can better manage their rental budgets, and landlords, who can reach a larger consumer base andreceive their yearly rental payment in advance. By enhancing affordability and flexibility, Rize inherently boosts occupancy rates across the rental market.
• intella — AI-powered voice agents, call center analytics, transcription, and speech-to-text for banks and telecoms across MENA. 86+ Arabic AI experts.
• Quantum Platform — Quantum | B2B platform to acquire new customers, use our marketing & consumer behavior analysis tools to reach your exact target audience right to their doorsteps!

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• Crowd Analyzer — Crowd Analyzer is the Middle East’s premier data and insights company, specializing in AI-powered social media intelligence and analytics for the MENA region. As the first internationally recognized Arabic-focused social media monitoring platform, Crowd Analyzer leverages advanced machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and large-scaledata analytics to help organizations make informed, data-driven decisions.The platform processes more than 3 billion data records and utilizes extensive historical datasets dating back to 2006, enabling businesses to uncover long-term behavioral trends, consumer sentiment, and market patterns across Arabic-speaking audiences. With a reported 92% Arabic sentiment detection accuracy rate, Crowd Analyzer delivers highly precise insights tailored to the linguistic and cultural nuances of the region.Its AI and NLP infrastructure empowers brands, government entities, media organizations, and enterprises to monitor conversations, analyze public perception, measure campaign performance, and identify emerging trends in real time. By focusing specifically on Arabic-language intelligence, Crowd Analyzer addresses a critical gap in global analytics platforms that often struggle with regional dialects and contextual understanding.As part of its ongoing growth strategy, Crowd Analyzer is expanding its portfolio of AI-powered products and enhancing its social media intelligence suite. Supported by strategic investment from leading Saudi technology investors, the company is scaling its capabilities and extending its market reach to provide deeper analytics and more advanced business intelligence solutions across the MENA region.Through its combination of Arabic-first AI technology, historical data depth, and advanced analytics capabilities, Crowd Analyzer continues to strengthen its position as a leader in regional social intelligence and data-driven decision-making.

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• OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
• Watch.fun — Open boxes, collect watches. Pull a Rolex today. Authenticated by Wristcheck. Backed by @SolanaVentures
• Space — Space is a leveraged prediction market platform built on Solana, designed to reward users for accurate insights while enabling efficient capital flow through competitive forecasting, combining high-performance blockchain infrastructure with advanced market mechanisms to create a transparent, scalable, and engaging environment for decentralizedprediction and informed decision-making.

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• Ideanote — Ideanote is your complete innovation platform. It's faster, more efficient, and lets you build a fully customizable idea management flow from start to finish.
• Lucida AI — Enhance your employees' language skills with our AI-powered tool, tailored to your company regulations using end-to-end encryption.
• Ono — OneNewOne, which operates in the Human Resources vertical, uses artificial intelligence technology to classify and match the CV Pool in minutes and to enable artificial intelligence to do preliminary interviews using its "Smart Pre-Interview" module.

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• Letswork — Work, meet and connect from the best coworking spaces, cafes and hotels across the UAE and Bahrain. Buy a membership, book meeting rooms or rent an office via the Letswork app.
• AlgoDriven — AlgoDriven is an automotive data platform that helps car dealers, classifieds, banks and insurance companies accurately identify and price used cars. Car dealers use our patented mobile app, EvalExpert to appraise their cars, while enterprise clients access our platform through our APIs
• Ghost Financial — Ghost Financial is a comprehensive financing and business services platform to support ghost kitchen and restaurant ventures by offering financial products such as insurance, payroll, credit cards and expansion loans for startup & growing kitchens.

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• Eli — At-home hormone testing from Eli Health: track cortisol, progesterone, and testosterone with saliva tests that deliver lab-grade results in 20 minutes.
• AI Nexus — AI Nexus Inc. is a deep tech company that develops groundbreaking artificial intelligence technologies designed for use in industry-specific subsidiaries. Based on decades of building AI solutions for military and civilian applications, AI Nexus has created an advanced AI platform that enables the creation of a diverse range of collaborative AIapplications across the AI spectrum. Most commercially available AI is focused on machine learning, a subfield of AI that is best suited to recognizing patterns but not understanding them. As there is no understanding, machine learning can’t explain its thinking so can’t be given autonomy in complex life-or-death situations. Our technology can embody different AI techniques, algorithms and software from any source, can run autonomously in devices like IoT all the way up to the cloud (allows you to use whatever is out there).AI applications built with our technology will be able to observe the world, reason, make recommendations and even take autonomous action. Software that can sense, reason, act & learn
• Healthspan Digital —

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• EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
• Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
• Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.

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• Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• vfrog — Egocentric data collected by professional workers on real jobs. Six cameras, hand tracking, signed consent on every hour.
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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• Nawy — The ultimate real estate broker in Egypt. Browse areas, compounds, and properties by price, location, and amenities to find the perfect place.
• Buseet — Buseet is a shared mobility startup focusing on fixing the daily commute for the whole family members
• Kerning Cultures — Kerning Cultures Network

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• MOBU — MOBU is a decentralised platform and end-to-end solution for STOs to launch compliant security tokens on the blockchain.
• VVIP — VVIP provides entertainment experiences and social interactions enabling users to participate in live events and lifestyle activities.
• Lynked.World — Our mission is to provide a secure platform for individuals and institutions to own, control and share digitally trusted identity.Our SolutionLynked.World is a platform built upon Blockchain Technology to verify digital identity, education and professional experience. Blockchain security provides an irrefutable digitally verified block ofinformation that is never compromised. The platform enables users to control their digital information and share directly with employers, institutions & businesses. We are moving towards a global platform that not only serves the purpose of digitalizing identities but will also become a network of trusted professionals.Our StoryOur current process of sharing identity and background verification is time consuming, costly and error prone. With the evolution of blockchain, we are revolutionizing information sharing process. We are building the ecosystem of direct verification of profiles between various entities making it cost effective & taking away the need of middleman/brokers. We are on-boarding several educational, government and professional institution(s) on our platform which will provide global coverage to our user base.

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• Dr. Treat — Experience pet care at its best with exceptional personalized veterinary care at unsurpassed levels. After all, our companions are entitled to happier, healthier, and longer lives.
• Fuze — Transform your business with Fuze's digital assets infrastructure solutions and integrated payment systems. Achieve seamless transactions and efficiency.
• Exponential DeFi — Exponential is an investment platform for crypto holders to earn yield on their crypto through decentralized finance (DeFi) safely and easily.

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• Maslo — We make companions that care about people.
• SkyHi —
• Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.

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• Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
• Moove — Moove is a mobility fintech that provides revenue-based vehicle financing to mobility entrepreneurs, democratizing vehicle ownership across Africa.The company embeds its alternative credit-scoring technology onto ride-hailing and e-logistics platforms, which allows access to proprietary performance and revenue analytics of mobility entrepreneurs tounderwrite loans.Moove was founded by Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi in 2019.

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• Brighty App — Brighty is a mobile application that provides traditional currency services. It is also available at google play and app Store, and our website allows you to create an account, buy, sell, and manage supported currencies and cryptocurrencies, participate in earning programs, and apply for, manage, and load money onto virtual and physical cards.
• Holiday Swap — Holiday Swap is an app-based platform for home exchanges during vacation.
• Islamic Coin — Shariah-compliant digital money

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• Airmee — Airmee provides a new last mile delivery solution. Whether you want to integrate Airmee into your webshop or simply book a local delivery today, we’ve got you covered. Airmee gives customers more – a great deal more – choice and convenience. Items when you want them. Where you want them. In as fast as an hour.
• MatHem — MatHem is an e-commerce company that combines a complete grocery store online with recipes and subscriptions for ready-made groceries. It delivers food to Swedish homes 7 days a week. The company also combines a full grocery store online with prescription and subscription finished shopping bags. MatHem offers a broad range of grocery products andadjacent household consumables, catering to more than half of Swedish households. The company food is delivered to your door with their own temperature-controlled to ensure an unbroken cold chain.Mathem.se has been awarded The Grocery Website of the Year (Årets matsajt) in 2010, 2011 and 2013 by the Swedish online magazine Internet world. It was founded in 2009 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden
• 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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• Yazle Media — Yazle is a specialized digital Media Company; a company that not only adores innovation but also channels it. They work on the publisher fronts providing exclusive media solutions in various formats. Comprised of expert & highly experienced veterans of digital media, Yazle offers the very best of ad inventories to its clients. With a burningdesire to keep pushing the scale, they tied up with one of the global leading solutions for self serving demand site platform, SiteScout. SiteScout has been used by thousands of advertisers to buy billions of ad impressions across the web and on mobile devices; and they at Yazle have exclusive partnership with them in the Middle East. Multiplying years of experience with a strength of highly skilled and hardworking employees, Yazle’s Vision & Mission has become all the more clear: To become market leaders and to upkeep with market trends whilst providing their clients with the best digital media the industry has to offer, respectively.
• GreenCom Networks AG — Renewables and distributed assets are growing. Mobility becomes more and more electric. Meanwhile, end customers are looking for care-free services instead of commodities.

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• Erad — erad provides growth capital to online businesses. Connect your analytics and receive funding offers, for non-dilutive capital within 48 hours
• Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
• InvestSky — InvestSky offers zero commission investing in your favorite stocks. Invest smarter, together. Trading mobile app is coming soon, join the waitlist!

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• Crowd Analyzer — Crowd Analyzer is the Middle East’s premier data and insights company, specializing in AI-powered social media intelligence and analytics for the MENA region. As the first internationally recognized Arabic-focused social media monitoring platform, Crowd Analyzer leverages advanced machine learning, natural language processing (NLP), and large-scaledata analytics to help organizations make informed, data-driven decisions.The platform processes more than 3 billion data records and utilizes extensive historical datasets dating back to 2006, enabling businesses to uncover long-term behavioral trends, consumer sentiment, and market patterns across Arabic-speaking audiences. With a reported 92% Arabic sentiment detection accuracy rate, Crowd Analyzer delivers highly precise insights tailored to the linguistic and cultural nuances of the region.Its AI and NLP infrastructure empowers brands, government entities, media organizations, and enterprises to monitor conversations, analyze public perception, measure campaign performance, and identify emerging trends in real time. By focusing specifically on Arabic-language intelligence, Crowd Analyzer addresses a critical gap in global analytics platforms that often struggle with regional dialects and contextual understanding.As part of its ongoing growth strategy, Crowd Analyzer is expanding its portfolio of AI-powered products and enhancing its social media intelligence suite. Supported by strategic investment from leading Saudi technology investors, the company is scaling its capabilities and extending its market reach to provide deeper analytics and more advanced business intelligence solutions across the MENA region.Through its combination of Arabic-first AI technology, historical data depth, and advanced analytics capabilities, Crowd Analyzer continues to strengthen its position as a leader in regional social intelligence and data-driven decision-making.

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• GoCab — GoCab is fintech solution providing Drive-to-own option for vehicle purchase in Emerging markets, helping to bridge the gap between mobility entrepreneurs and financial services.
• Tewke — Tewke is a London based company that was founded in 2020 developing technology to deliver energy savings through AI enabled home automation. Tewke's mission is to reduce energy consumption in homes whilst elevating everyone's living experience.Tewke's first product, Tap, is an intelligent light switch that can be installed into anyhome without rewiring. This acts as the backbone of Tewke's energy control and home automation platform, and has already won international awards, such as the Red Dot Design Award.
• Zeal — Zeal transforms your current card machines, enabling them to unlock powerful insights and deliver seamless loyalty. Zeal integrates with all card machines and is trusted by industry leaders.

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• Bluecore Energy — Bluecore Energy is a maritime nuclear energy startup that builds compact, zero-emission small modular reactors (SMRs) on floating barges to democratize access to clean energy. The company develops portable, water-cooled power systems designed to scale and meet the energy demands of heavy maritime operations, coastal communities, and major ports.
• Normal Computing — Normal Computing was founded by former members of the Google Brain Team, Palantir, and X who unlocked AI for some of the largest-scale and most mission-critical production systems, and the industry leading ML frameworks for Probabilistic and Quantum AI.
• Reliable Robotics — Advanced automation will make aircraft safer, more available, more affordable and fundamentally transformative to the way goods and people move around the planet.

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• Rayon — Built for Speed. Designed for Teams.
• SolveAI —
• Tandem Health — Focus on providing care, while Tandem helps you easily write medical notes directly after the patient consultation.