Top 45 Franchise Startup Investors in Europe (August 2026)

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• eMabler — EMabler is an EV charging infrastructure software company that develops an API-first platform used by businesses to operate, manage, and scale electric vehicle charging networks. It provides a centralized system for charge point management, billing, pricing, roaming, and energy optimization, allowing operators to control large networks of EVchargers from a single platform. The software connects charging hardware with business systems such as CRM, payment, and energy management tools through open APIs and a large library of integrations. The company focuses on enabling enterprises, such as energy utilities, parking operators, and retail businesses, to embed EV charging directly into their existing services and digital platforms rather than building standalone charging systems. This includes white-label solutions where charging is integrated into a company’s own app or customer experience under its brand.
• Coolbrook — Our RotoDynamic electric technology can cut 30% of industrial emissions annually, delivering hope at industrial scale.
• Solar Foods — Solar Foods is a food-tech startup that specializes in testing a technology that uses electricity to produce hydrogen which is combined with carbon dioxide, water, vitamins, and minerals to feed and grow microbial biomass that can be used as edible protein. The industrial biotech startup develops a protein called Solein, a nutritious, sustainablesubstitute for animal-derived proteins. Solein is created using elements from the air—CO2, water, nitrogen—and electricity. This single-cell protein is cultivated through gas fermentation, essentially deriving edible calories from hydrogen-oxidizing microbes.

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• Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

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• VREY — VREY is a startup that empowers landlords of multi-tenant buildings to generate and manage solar energy on-site.
• encosa — encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns.
• Capsule Corporation — Capsule Corporation (the Italian spacetech startup) develops and commercializes WaterCube, a water-based propulsion system for CubeSats and Smallsats, designed to offer compact, non-toxic, and cost‑effective orbit control, collision avoidance, and deorbiting capabilities

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• Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
• Quoroom — A single intelligent platform to manage capital raising,equity, debt and employee options
• 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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• PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.

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• Retailgrid — Agentic AI pricing platform for mid-market retailers. Turn messy retail data into structured, explainable price decisions in days, not months.
• Bahn Express — Euroopan nopein autojen kuljetus. Autoliikkeille, autokauppiaille ja kalustonhallintaan. Euroopan halki 72 tunnissa.
• Cornea Sense — CorneaSense is a medtech startup developing a non-invasive, eye-based sensing device that measures ocular surface hydration to enable early detection and monitoring of conditions such as dry eye disease and systemic health disorders. The technology aims to provide real-time, objective eye biomarkers for improved clinical diagnosis and patient care.

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• Gardin — We believe in a world in which everyone has the right to access high quality, nutritious food that is good for you and for our planet. Our environmental issues are real, something, somewhere needs to change. Gardin promises to create the step-change required by deploying its technology.
• NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...
• Stellar — At Stellar we bring perfect internet on the move to vehicles and passengers, leveraging the combined strength of cellular, wi-fi, and satellite networks, through AI and fully integrated solutions. We offer SaaS, data plans, and all-inclusive options for enterprise connectivity needs on the move.

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• Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

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• UMNAI — UMNAI helps organisations build, deploy and govern explainable AI decision systems for high-impact environments.
• Skarbe — Skarbe has officially wound down operations as of April 2026. Thank you for being part of our story.
• STAMP — STAMP redefines Tax-Free in Europe. Instant VAT exemption for travelers. More sales, transparency, and control for merchants.

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• VIEVE — Shop award-winning and high-performance makeup by expert MUA Jamie Genevieve; bestselling primer, brushes, lip glosses, eyeshadows & more. Vegan & cruelty free.
• Kaizan — Kaizan is a Client Intelligence Platform for Client Success teams to retain and grow revenue
• Serve First — Serve First is an AI customer experience platform that turns real-time feedback into insights, helping drive smarter business decisions.

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• GitHits — Code context layer for coding agents. Version-aware index for agents to search, navigate, and inspect open-source code.
• Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
• Test of Things — Automate IoT security testing and compliance with major standards and accelerate product development with Test of Things.

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• Softcube — The first AI for video ads production. Softcube automatically creates videos of products in use. These ads are delivered through AdWords banners, Facebook, and Instagram.
• LifeTracker — Symbiotic AI that helps to progress towards life long goals every day. Proprietary cognitive architecture and learning algorithms. Accelerated in @sbcIoT_Data
• Reply.io — Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints with leads and customers throughout the sales process. From email search on LinkedIn to meetings booked right on the platform - Reply saves up to 40% of SDR and Sales teams time to focus on closing deals. Backed with a top-notch AI algorithm, Replyhelps SDRs and sales reps tailor and improve sales messages and focus on the hottest leads faster. Its robust reporting system tracks all activities for team members and automatically logs them to your CRM via native integrations, rich API with 40+ methods, or Zapier.The platform is recognized among the top 50 tools for sales in 2021 by G2 and trusted by over 2500 companies worldwide.Crush your sales quotas and book more meetings with Reply: 1. Reply automates bulk email search, LinkedIn outreach, personal emails, calls, SMS, and WhatsApp messages according to your sales playbook. 2. It offers out-of-the-box email and sequence templates with proven top performance to help you launch your outreach sequence in an hour. 3. Streamline the workflow with native CRM integrations, rich API with 40+ method, and the power of Zapier to automatically sync data and keep CRM records up to date. 4. Reply is backed with AI features: Email Sorting (check the ‘Interested’ folder for the hottest leads to focus on); Email Quality service and Email Assistant to create best-practice email copy which is likely to convert. 5. Collaborate in teams within sequences and prospects, manage workload between team members, and perform account-based selling. 6. Track your team progress with detailed in-depth reports and stats for sequences, calls, tasks, and team performance.Reply use cases: ✓ OUTBOUND SALES - automate outbound outreach to significantly scale sales and empower revenue growth. ✓ INBOUND SALES - engage in communication with potential customers and close more inbound deals. ✓ ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT - communicate with existing customers on a personal level. ✓ STAFFING & RECRUITING - reaching out to prospective job candidates. ✓ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - building relations with future partners. ✓ PR & LINK BUILDING - pitching journalists and bloggers with your idea.For more information visit https://reply.io

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• Intropy AI — Intropy increases distributor profitability by automating inventory and pricing decisions, at scale, across your distribution network.
• Reimagine Robotics — Show the robot what to do, correct it where it fails, and adapt it as the process changes.
• Frontier Health — Frontier Health develops artificial intelligence tools that help healthcare administration teams manage repetitive and high-volume tasks within existing clinical workflows. Its primary product, Juno, functions as an AI coworker that supports care coordination by processing information across multiple patient pathways and software systems. Theplatform is designed to work with a wide range of healthcare applications, enabling organizations to use their current systems while reducing manual administrative work. Frontier Health emphasizes clinical safety, data security, and compliance with healthcare standards, including NHS guidance and information security certifications. The company brings together technology specialists and healthcare professionals with experience working across numerous hospitals to address operational challenges in healthcare delivery.

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• Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
• Shiplong — Shiplog gives every customer a live profile and decides the next best action in real time, so you expand, retain and grow revenue from the customers you already have.
• Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.

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• PANTA — PANTA Index Technology is a pioneering fintech company founded by industry veterans to transform the index creation landscape. Our state-of-the-art, cloud-based SaaS solution empowers financial institutions to build and operate complex, bespoke indices and portfolios with unprecedented scale, speed, and precision.As the only pure-play technologyprovider in this space, we streamline the entire index lifecycle while offering advanced back-testing and simulation capabilities. PANTA aims to democratize index technology, enabling institutions of all sizes to innovate faster and make data-driven investment decisions. We're set to become the operating system for next-generation indexing, driving innovation and efficiency across the rules-based and quantitative investment landscape.
• Vouchsafe — Vouchsafe is a trust and counter-fraud platform that helps financial services replace legacy document checks with safe, easy digital ID acceptance.
• Stoa Corporation — Unlock perks when you save. Saving, reimagined - get high-value perks upfront, not small bank interest.

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• Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
• S&T Media — AdPump The Best Digital Platform to advertise your products and services
• Rana Energy — No. 1 Solar Community in Africa

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• PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
• Cuutio — What if you knew your exact positions and their development on Google? And search engine market shares between you and your competitors? Find out!

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• 99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
• Peech — text to speech
• Cooper Pet Care — Just Russel honden- en kattenvoeding op maat. Op basis van ras, leeftijd, gezondheid en gewicht. Makkelijker voor jou, beter voor je huisdier!

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• Ziwig — Ziwig helps to improve women's health through a holistic approach and the development of products, services, and a support ecosystem, guided by science and unique biology. of each person. Their approach, constantly supported by excellent research, is based on the close collaboration of medical experts and engineers specializing in cutting-edgetechnologies, such as artificial intelligence and high-throughput sequencing of human RNAs. Their ecosystem functioning, driven by meaning and centered on the person, using disruptive technologies contributes to the emergence of precision medicine, individualized, predictive and participatory, at the service of well-being and quality of life.
• REWORTH — En Reworth conectamos a instituciones financieras y comercios para ofrecer a los consumidores el programa de cashback personalizado mas efectivo.
• Sundayapp — Our solution is the world's fastest and easiest way to pay at restaurants. Your customers scan a QR code and pay in 10 seconds

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• Blue — An Operating System for your Personal Health. Join the waitlist here.
• UrbanKisaan — UrbanKisaan builds vertical farms in India and sells the produce directly to consumers via subscription based app. The farms create a positive change at every step from seed to store ensuring quality and traceability. They grow fresh veggies locally produced which are grown without using soil using 95% less water. It aims to create a sustainablefuture for farming and feed the world in a way that is good for both people and the planet.It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
• Colossal Biosciences — The science of genetics. The business of discovery.

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• FoodMaven — FoodMaven is a food distributor, bringing agility and flexibility to the big food system. It sells local and oversupplied food–lost food–to commercial kitchens, at about half price. Its zero-waste sustainability philosophy means unsold food is donated to food banks, animal feed, and composting operations, benefiting both hunger initiatives and theenvironment. With its Internet marketplace, big data optimization technology, and agile logistics model, FoodMaven is for profits, for people, and for the planet.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Colorado Springs.
• Veeve — Shopper engagement platform for the physical store
• Flashfood — Get massive savings on fresh food items like meat and produce that are nearing their best before date at grocery stores across Canada and the U.S.

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• Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
• Crisp — Crisp connects data between retailers, distributors, and brands to power real-time insights across the supply chain.
• Salesforge — Salesforge is an all-in-one sales execution super app that gives every sales team the highest probability to hit their target by tackling email deliverability and the need to personalize cold email outreach at scale.We do that by enabling real-time AI & machine learning to decision critical sales activities, enhance messaging and eliminatethe need for various sales point solutions, therefore driving superior conversion rates.

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• Omniplex — Omniplex eLearning solutions provider that's changing the way businesses train.
• Panthera Biopartners — Take part in paid clinical trials with Panthera Clinic. We run safe, professional medical research studies across the UK for a range of health conditions.
• Bespoke Kitchen Foods — Bespoke Kitchen Foods is a food products supplier. They manufacture vegetarian products such as burgers, biscuits and bars, bespoke kitchen foods, fat chef burgers, vegetarian pies, freezer to table, specialty bread, tarts, quiches, puddings, pastry, and cheesecake, and food service suppliers a range of vegetarian savories, cakes, and desserts fora wide range of restaurants and pubs.

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• Zeely — Zeely is a website development platform designed to assist businesses in marketing their web pages. The company's platform allows businesses to create and promote websites without using codes or UI/UX designs, and these codes can be linked with Google Ads or other social media platforms to increase reach, allowing businesses to create awebpage based on AI and expand their audience network.
• Kwaaka — Kwaaka is a subscription-based service that integrates Food Delivery services like Glovo, Wolt, Bolt Food, Deliveroo direct into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, streamlining order taking processes and menu management through a single interface and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually repunchorders into their existing system.
• Yope — Salo is a discussion platform that erases the borders for people with diverse opinions to let anyone speak up and be heard.

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• Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
• Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!
• welevel — Building games with attitude

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• AiSDR — AiSDR finds in-market buyers using real-time signals, then reaches out with messages that sound like your best rep wrote them. 1-3 demos per 100 leads.
• 12New.AI — AI-Agents for Negotiations & Procurement
• Ability.ai — Automate your marketing, sales, and operations with Ability AI's intelligent agents and workflows. Save time, reduce costs, and scale your business.

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• SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
• StealthMole — Uncover hidden threats in the dark web and enhance your cybersecurity with StealthMole's advanced dark web threat intelligence platform. Learn more.
• Tribe Money Pools — An early stage Seattle-based fintech startup building a digital platform to streamline how groups share and manage their finances.

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• Alpa — Alpa connects to your till and bank to give restaurants a live P&L, cash flow, delivery commissions, supplier spend and a plain-English Monday briefing.
• Orbio — Orbio AI is your AI-powered HR team. Automate hiring, improve match quality, engage talent across channels, and understand your organization. Built for companies that employ at scale. Giving HR leaders time and data to drive true organizational impact.
• Seltz — The Web Knowledge Layer for AI Agents.

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• Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
• Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
• Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!

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• LQUOM — QWAVE offers cryptography communication technology.
• Alxtal — Alxtal is a tech company who optimize the development, design, and manufacturing processes of the manufacturing industry with IT and AI.
• Direava — Direava is a medical device company that manufactures, sells, leases, and maintains medical equipments along with consulting services.

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• Shine.fr — Shine is a mobile bank that provides an administrative and financial management platform for freelance workers. It offers freelancers a multitasking solution platform that combines online banking with contract and invoice management, streamlining administrative and financial tasks for those who work independently.The company was established inyear 2017 in Paris, France.
• Certo — Certo is an agentic AI company that offers a product compliance platform for regulatory management.
• Logistica OS — Logistica OS helps logistics teams get more done through AI. Our AI agents automate load carrier management, returns and other backoffice processes in logistics.

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• Hunger Brands — Curated premium domains for founders and startups. Find the perfect brand-ready name for your next venture.

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• Datapao — Discover DATAPAO's data consulting solutions in cloud migrations, data science, data engineering, AI & ML.
• Daytrip — Daytrip is a platform for traveling with local drivers. It allows independent travelers to get the most out of their vacation by connecting them to local drivers, who drive them from one city to another with their own cars, discovering local sights and culture on the way.It gives travelers an opportunity to see otherwise unreachable countrysidesights, meet real locals and get to know local history, culture and current affairs first-hand. Daytrip is an entirely new approach to traveling, combining the comfort of package holidays with the flexibility of independent planning and authenticity of backpacking.
• Hypefy — An influencer marketing platform built for brands that want to discover creators, run campaigns, and measure performance with ease.

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• Hunger Brands — Curated premium domains for founders and startups. Find the perfect brand-ready name for your next venture.

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• Waniwani — Help users better understand your offers through personalized AI experiences.
• CardNexus — CardNexus provides a digital platform for managing, trading, and selling trading card collections.
• Macrodata Labs — Reviewing and annotating robotics data by hand does not scale. Macrodata Labs automates QA, subtask annotation, 3D hand tracking, and reward scoring across large robot and egocentric datasets. Send a few sample episodes for a free demo.

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• Alpa — Alpa connects to your till and bank to give restaurants a live P&L, cash flow, delivery commissions, supplier spend and a plain-English Monday briefing.

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• Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
• Logiscool — International franchise network teaching kids programming
• Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

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• Adwisely — Automate Facebook and Google ads for your Shopify store with AI. Get 6x ROAS. Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify brands. Install Adwisely and set up in minutes.
• Pitchly — Freakishly fast & perfectly consistent document solutions because we're different than everyone else. Click, if you want to learn more.
• Collectly — Collectly is an innovative tool for practices that want to demystify the medical billing process and boost patient collection rates. Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect patient payments, automate, and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate the patient financial experience. It also helps hospitals and health systemsboost self-pay and after-insurance-responsibility engagement.

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• BioOrbit — BioOrbit are a UK biotech startup using protein crystallisation to turn hospital treatments into self-injectable medicines patients can use at home.
• NanoStruct — NanoStruct is a biotechnology company that develops nanostructured sensor chips to identify bacteria and pathogens in food.
• Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer

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• Plakar — Plakar is an open-source backup and restore platform built for modern infrastructure, AI workflows, and high-compliance environments.Designed to replace legacy backup systems with something leaner, smarter, and more developer-friendly, Plakar lets teams protect, version, and instantly recover their data — across local systems, S3-compatibleobject storage, Kubernetes, and more.Plakar turns every backup into a self-contained, immutable unit that carries its own structure, metadata, and encryption. It supports end-to-end deduplication, instant recovery, and granular restores, making backup storage reusable for AI training, data audits, and reproducibility.Plakar is especially relevant for teams working in fast-moving or regulated industries — such as AI, finance, healthcare, and cybersecurity — where data integrity, traceability, and rollback capabilities are mission-critical.Founded in 2024 and based in Paris, Plakar is backed by Seedcamp, HelloWorld, IrregularExpression, Galion.exe, Kima Ventures, OPRTRS, Purple, Motier Ventures, Pareto, and several leading angels including executives from Datadog, Docker, Voodoo, Sqreen, and Logmatic.io.
• Alpa — Alpa connects to your till and bank to give restaurants a live P&L, cash flow, delivery commissions, supplier spend and a plain-English Monday briefing.
• Revox — Use Voice AI to automate your outbound calls

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• MittiLabs — Mitti Labs leverages satellite & AI technology to enable a positive impact for nature & small-holder farming communities
• Syntetica — Syntetica is a materials technology and climate technology company that develops chemical recycling technology for synthetic textiles. It uses proprietary green chemistry to convert nylon textile waste into virgin-quality recycled polymers, enabling circular production for the textile, automotive, and industrial materials industries. Its mission isto decarbonize synthetic materials by making high-quality recycled feedstocks commercially viable.The company's proprietary chemical depolymerization process separates and recovers Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 from blended textile waste that would otherwise be difficult to recycle. The process operates under low-temperature, low-pressure conditions, removes dyes and finishes, and produces recycled raw materials that can be reintroduced into manufacturing without compromising quality. Syntetica's technology supports textile-to-textile recycling and is designed to reduce carbon emissions, landfill waste, and reliance on virgin fossil-based materials.
• MacroCycle Technologies — MacroCycle Technologies: Old Threads, New Possibilities.

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• Fenda — Fenda is an app where users can set their own price for answering questions in a field they are good at, and others can ask questions and pay for answers. Additionally, users can pay to listen to other questions and answers in the app
• Gaana — Gaana.com- Listen & Download latest MP3 songs online. Download new or old Hindi songs, Bollywood songs, English songs* & more on Gaana+ and play offline. Create, share and listen to streaming music playlists.
• Full Truck Alliance — Full Truck Alliance is a platform that connects shippers with truckers to facilitate shipments across distance ranges and cargo weights. its revenues principally from shippers' and truckers' use of its platforms in connection with freight matching services.

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• Warren.io — Warren is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.
• PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.

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• Gaia Learning — Gaia Learning are a special online school dedicated to children with additional needs. We help kids with ADHD, ADD, OCD, PDA and Autism, learn online.
• BreezeMove — We're revolutionising the home-moving process. #PropTech
• Prorizon — Health & sports startup that empowers young athletes to take control over mind and body.

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• Alpa — Alpa connects to your till and bank to give restaurants a live P&L, cash flow, delivery commissions, supplier spend and a plain-English Monday briefing.