Top 50 Franchise Startup Investors in United States (October 2026)

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• Aurva — Your AI-powered Data Security Co-pilot. Identify, detect and streamline remediation of internal & external threats in real time.
• Parse.ly — Parse.ly makes working with data easy for newsrooms and marketers, giving them the insights they need to focus their content strategy and prove ROI.
• Notehall — Notehall is an online marketplace that allows college students to buy and sell appropriate class materials such as lecture notes, reading notes & study guides Fellow classmates helping them get an edge in their specific classes while student sellers make money doing something they already do anyway.Notehall is active and generating revenueat 54 Universities and continuously expanding its college reach. The company expects to be active in more than 200 Universities by the end of 2011 with more than 750,000 users. Notehall is also expected to grow 400 percent in 2011. They have passed Senate Resolutions at the University of Arizona and Arizona State University making Notehall an official student service at both universities. Notehall is actively building relationships with professors and administration at universities to create a lasting and transparent partnership. The Co-Founders of Notehall were selected as the finalist for the Business Week's 2009 America's Best Young Entrepreneurs.

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• Cloneable — Automate expert-driven field and back-office workflows. Cloneable captures your best people's knowledge and deploys it across your organization.
• Askari Defense — Intelligent Kinetic Defense For the Age of Robotic Warfare
• Levangie Laboratories, Inc. — LLABS deploys enterprise agents into bounded operating roles and improves their decisions through Causal Trajectory Learning.

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• iBar Experience Kft. — iBar provides an AI  inventory app that integrates into restaurant management software. They offer products and services for pizzerias, bars, discos, hotels, and restaurants.
• SURVIOT Monitoring Kft. — SURVIOT provides smart movement and deformation monitoring solution for civil engineering projects such as bridge, tunnel and dam constructions, quarries, slope stability inspections by monitoring geotechnical and environmental parameters. SURVIOT supports operators and constructors to comply with professional regulations by digitizing labourintensive, manual monitoring processes with automated data collection, processing and analysis. The SURVIOT platform is constantly evolving by adding new sensors and features.
• Linkio - Ecommerce Integration Portal — Integrate wholesalers into your online store easier then ever

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• RepVue — RepVue has the largest set of sales specific company ratings, sales jobs, sales compensation and salary benchmarking data, and other sales specific insights.
• ChannelScaler — Streamline partner acquisition, ensure engagement, and enable ecosystem growth with automated PRM from Allbound
• biospatial — biospatial's EMS data platform combines ePCR from EMS providers to support the missions of public sector and commercial healthcare entities.

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• Singulate — AI company building the future of large-scale communication. Ops-free segmentation and personalization at scale for b2b marketers. 1,008+ waitlist
• Lumian — Lumian combines 24/7 AI agents with expert operators to fully manage your Amazon brand - ads, inventory, content, and account health. Book a free strategy call.
• Cimento — AI-powered human risk management. Run multi-channel phishing simulations across email, SMS & voice, then auto-deliver adaptive training that cuts risk.

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• Poppy Flowers — Poppy is a next-gen wedding flower expert who curates your vision, delivers anywhere, and fits your budget. Plus, our flower kit lets you play florist at home.
• Noble Mobile — Get paid to use your phone less.
• Lucid Bots — Lucid Drone Technologies is a robotics company that specializes in exterior spray drones. We are committed to safety, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

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• Trajektory — Trajektory is an innovative data insights and valuation technology start-up with a unique take on how to leverage and value data throughout the sports, media, and entertainment industries. We provide stress free data management that aggregates, visualizes, assesses, and accurately values your sponso
• HireIQ Solutions — HireIQ revolutionizes talent acquisition for front-line customer service positions such as those in contact centers, retail stores, branch banking, quick-service restaurants, and hospitality by automating the early-stage screening process, automatically assessing for critical communication skills, and using outcomes-based data to facilitatecontinuous performance validation. HireIQ’s solutions enable companies to improve their hiring decisions, reduce time-to-fill, reduce recruiting costs, and increase talent performance and retention through its on-line virtual interviewing software, novel predictive analytics solutions, and structured feedback between recruiting and its stakeholders. HireIQ is a privately held company based in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Spectrum Security — Spectrum Security is a network security company that offers threat detection services. It provides an AI-powered platform that detects and prevents cyber attacks and network security threats for businesses. It's platform identifies coverage gaps and provides authors with production-grade detections, thereby preventing breaches.

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• memQ — memQ blends quantum science, materials, and photonics to create the first extensible quantum network architecture for industry, research, and government.
• SkyHoop — SkyHoop is a technology startup that develops software for defense systems.
• Marketeam.ai — Marketeam.ai is a GenAI startup that has developed the first proprietary Foundation Language Model for marketing (FLM, DALM), and is training autonomous AI agents to work collaboratively with humans as a marketing team to manage business' marketing end-to-end.Marketeam.ai empowers every business to have its own 'pro marketing team'working together 24/7 on building, promoting, and managing their brand to accelerate growth with expert-level skills, at platform-level cost & speed. The platform offers autonomous AI marketing agents, combining expert strategy and 24/7 operational efficiency. Ideal for businesses aiming to enhance ROI and growth with a cutting-edge AI marketing team.

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• BlueArc.ai — BlueArc's AI-powered platform helps risk and compliance teams automate due diligence and risk management of their commercial customers.
• Buildforce — Amping up America's electrical workforce
• Guthrie AI — Guthrie AI uses AI to structure RFPs and project information, helping teams quickly understand jobs and bid more effectively.

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• Odeko — Odeko is a software platform that assists small businesses in managing their operations and inventory while providing tools for order fulfillment, customer engagement, and data analytics to enhance decision-making and streamline processes. The platform offers features such as inventory tracking, supply chain management, and sales reporting,enabling businesses to operate efficiently and effectively in a competitive market. Additionally, Odeko supports integration with various payment systems and delivery services, facilitating a seamless experience for both business owners and their customers.
• Hydra Host — Hydra Host offers Bare Metal GPU solutions for AI, HPC, and big data. Enjoy autonomy, privacy, and scalable performance options. Get in touch!
• Exponent Financial — Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises.

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• Earlytrade — Earlytrade creates a positive change in the way businesses get paid and delivers a powerful two-fold effect.By incentivising early payment, suppliers are in control of when they get paid. Removing the need to pursue other funding options and accrue more debt.Corporate customers deepen their relationships with satisfied suppliers and arerewarded with higher margins.
• Mango — Mango offers suppliers and contractors in the construction industry real-time risk analytics, automated B2B payments, and embedded credit.
• Cocoon — Low carbon construction materials for the builders of tomorrow.

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• Maxed — Maxed is the AI-native platform that runs your entire CPA firm. One platform replaces your disconnected tools, and a team of AI agents automates the manual work, so you serve more clients and protect your margin without growing the team. It works inside your email, and every client-facing output stays behind a CPA approval gate.
• Drafter — automating go to manufacturing
• Flamingo — Open-source MSP software with AI that handles tier-1 tickets. Cut vendor costs 40%, hit 20%+ margins. See how 384+ MSPs made the switch.

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• Prevu — Prevu empowers homebuyers with real estate commission rebates. Browse listings, schedule tours, and connect with a local agent.
• PrivacyHawk — PrivacyHawk is a Personal Data Protection service that makes opting out, unsubscribing, and deleting your data from thousands of companies easy.
• OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback

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• Lendio — Lendio is the free, easy way to see all your loan options and find the best rate. We make small business loans simple. Get funded in as little as 24 hours.
• Sphero — Sphero bridges the gap between the real world and the virtual world with its smartphone-controlled robots. It began the connected play revolution in 2010 by creating something unlike anything and they never stopped. They fuse robotic and digital technology into immersive entertainment experiences that ignite imagination and defy expectations.Optimized by data and powered by fun, these ever-evolving experiences are changing the way the world thinks about play.
• ShiftUp — ShiftUp works your entire market to surface net-new, expansion, and win-back opportunities your team would otherwise miss.

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• Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
• Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 250,000 trade shows and conferences.
• Fora — Fora's expert travel advisors will help you plan your dream trip while unlocking exclusive perks and upgrades. Welcome to the modern travel agency.

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• Sturdy — Founded in 2020, Sturdy is an AI-forward autonomous Customer Intelligence platform that proactively identifies churn risks across all customer-facing silos. Sturdy analyzes unstructured customer interactions—emails, calls, support tickets, chats, and more—discovering revenue threats, pinpointing root causes, and delivering cross-functional insightsin real time. Sturdy has analyzed billions of customer interactions, giving it one of the largest proprietary datasets in the category and enabling its models to surface insights faster and more accurately than competitors. At a time when customer retention is a top priority for every business, Sturdy turns the noise of customer conversations into a strategic advantage.
• Yardstik — Human security for gig marketplaces and SaaS platforms. Build modular packages to screen your workforce and verify info critical to your industry.
• Vali Cyber — Vali Cyber specializes in addressing Linux-specific security solutions. It secures workloads effectively, prevents attacks via hardening, and catches anything that gets through. It also minimizes the resource impact of security, saving costly computer resources for real work.

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• Jenesys AI — Meet Jack, your AI-powered bookkeeping agent, automates line-item extraction, GL coding, and bank reconciliation with real-time insights.
• Qureight — Pioneering data curation to solve complex diseases
• Maven Robotics — Maven Robotics is building the world's leading general purpose AI robots.

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• Exponent Financial — Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises.
• GreenBridge Capital — Greenbridge Capital is a leading financial institution, specializing in providing tailored lending solutions with a commitment to excellence and personalized service.

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• LOCKER — Discover, save, shop & share.
• FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.
• FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

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• Humy.ai — The social studies class students don't want to skip. Students interview 1,200+ AI historical figures that answer from primary sources. Standards-aligned. Free to try
• PrettyData — PrettyData is the AI business partner for salons, boosting profits without the complexity of outdated booking or POS systems.
• Platter — Platter is a storefront acceleration suite for Shopify brands. Learn more at https://t.co/vUZ6t7Y1oM

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• Aroma Bit — Aroma Bit develops compact odor sensor and innovative services and products using the sensor.They live in a world surrounded by an endless number of scents and aromas. However,our olfactory sense is often overlooked. This is partly because it is so difficult to capture the essence of a scent only using words. For example, how would you clearlydescribe what a rose smelled like to someone who has never smelled it?
• YO-KAI EXPRESS — Yo-Kai Express is the revolutionary high tech company who develope future autonomous restaurant to serve people gourmet food 24/7
• National Tobacco Enterprise — National Tobacco Enterprise produces and distributes tobacco products.

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• OncoLens — OncoLens develops technologies that improve cancer treatment planning, simplify tumor board management, facilitate survivorship care planning, and automate accreditation and quality reporting through an intelligent workflow engine that streamlines business processes and enables more informed clinical decision-making.
• ConnexPay — Transform payment operations with ConnexPay's integrated platform. Reduce processing costs, accelerate cash flow, eliminate manual reconciliation. Trusted by businesses around the world to make tens of millions in payments each day.
• DemandJump — Combining your data with data beyond your four walls DemandJump provides a roadmap of the actions you should take to ensure your marketing drives revenue.

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• Poppy Flowers — Poppy is a next-gen wedding flower expert who curates your vision, delivers anywhere, and fits your budget. Plus, our flower kit lets you play florist at home.
• Hardshell — Next-gen AI security starts at the source. Hardshell detects threats before model training and hardens datasets against data poisoning and leakage.
• Lucid Bots — Lucid Drone Technologies is a robotics company that specializes in exterior spray drones. We are committed to safety, innovation, and customer satisfaction.

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• Exponent Financial — Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises.

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• Onsetto — Onsetto helps banks and credit unions turn business accounts into primary operating relationships: identify, activate, expand, and retain commercial deposits.
• Bonsai — Bonsai is the first-party marketing intelligence platform that automates profitable growth. Trust your marketing data, make confident decisions, drive revenue.
• Evecxia Therapeutics — Evecxia Therapeutics is dedicated to realizing the therapeutic potential of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) for the treatment of mental illness.

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• Reebelo — Reebelo operates as an online marketplace specializing in refurbished and pre-owned electronics. The company offers a selection of certified devices, including smartphones, tablets, and laptops, aiming to provide alternatives to new products through a sustainable approach. Reebelo manages quality assurance processes to ensure device functionalityand condition. The platform facilitates buying and selling while providing warranties and customer support related to its products. The company serves both individual consumers and businesses seeking refurbished technology solutions.
• Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
• Cheaf Technologies — Descarga Cheaf y rescata comida en perfecto estado con hasta 70% de descuento. Ahorra y combate el desperdicio de alimentos.

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• Exponent Financial — Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises.

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• Vectra AI — Vectra AI, the cybersecurity AI company that protects modern networks from modern attacks.
• MobStac — Developer of a cloud-based mobile marketing platform designed to connect the digital and physical worlds through the use of innovative technology. The company's platform is based on the principals of proximity marketing and engage customers in a personalized, context-aware way that leverages indoor location and proximity, enabling businessesand brands to leverage BLE beacon technology to deliver context-rich experiences to their end users.
• Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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• SaeFarm — SaeFarm is an agritech company that develops AI-powered smart farming solutions using satellite imagery and agricultural data analysis. The company provides crop monitoring, cultivation guidance, yield prediction, and farming activity verification services to help farmers.
• YO-KAI EXPRESS — Yo-Kai Express is the revolutionary high tech company who develope future autonomous restaurant to serve people gourmet food 24/7
• SIMPLE planet — Food biotech company producing sustainable animal cell-based food ingredients using cellular agriculture.

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• Bezel — Shop for thousands of the most collectible watches online. Find Rolex, Cartier, Patek Philippe, Panerai, IWC, and more. All of our watches are authenticated in-house by our team of specialists and watchmakers with decades of experience in luxury watches.
• Kind Designs — Kind Designs is a trusted 3D Printed seawall contractor in Miami offering custom seawall construction, shoreline protection, erosion control solutions.
• Exponent Financial — Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises.

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• ChurchAI — AI-native church software that spots members drifting away weeks early, then drafts the check-in for your staff to send instead of another dashboard to read.
• Finnecto — Procure-to-pay (P2P) SaaS Solution. Finnecto automates purchase requests, policy reviews, approval workflows, vendor quotation digitalization and comparison, and purchase orders matching, effectively reducing manual and repetitive tasks. Finnecto makes procurement and daily operations of companies faster, cheaper, and more transparent whilekeeping spending under control.
• Jungle — Jungle is an ai study platform that generates gamified quizzes from any content (pdfs, videos, etc). we make studying fun for over a million students

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• Woven — Discover multi-location franchise and business management software built for growing operations. Click to bring consistency and control to every location!

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• GoNetspeed — Connecting Communities to Fiber Internet
• Omni Fiber — Experience the fastest Internet around in a 100% fiber network! Unleash blazing-fast speeds, unbeatable reliability & local service - all at a great price.
• IMA Financial Group — IMA Financial Group is a financial services company that specializes in global insurance, risk management, and wealth management.

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• Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
• Order EAT — Revoluciona el funcionamiento del comedor o cafetería de tu colegio o escuela
• Aloha — Payments and banking for the travel economy. Get paid by any traveler, pay any supplier, anywhere in the Americas.

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• Quibble — Price Optimization and Revenue Management Software and Consulting For Vacation Rentals & Alternative Accommodations - We created Quibble to address the gap in the market between the simple rules-based software applications currently available and a truly science-based optimization. Quibble bundles our software with a full service offering togive our clients complete Pricing Ease of Mind. With many years of revenue management experience in the travel and hospitality industries, we know the pains and uncertainty revenue management brings. At Quibble, we aim to increase your revenue performance by engineering and implementing your custom pricing strategy while developing long-lasting partnerships.
• ClassCalc — Students can use their smartphones instead of using or buying a TI calculator, and teachers can ensure they only use the ClassCalc calculator app in class. We believe students and teachers should have a choice other than the same expensive, difficult to learn and use dedicated-purpose TI calculator they have been forced to use for decades.ClassCalc provides a multi-subject math calculator with scientific, graphing, and matrix functionality in an easy-to-use smartphone app. Teachers are able to lock down the student’s phone to only the ClassCalc app for class time, quizzes, tests… no cheating or outside distractions (social media, texting etc).
• Turno, formerly TurnoverBnB — Find now a local Airbnb cleaning service; automatically schedule your existing cleaners. Integrated with all reservations platforms and channel managers.

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• FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.
• FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

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• Skio — We help Shopify merchants sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out.
• FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.

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• Cattler — Cattler is a integrated management platform that allows the cattle farmer to run all his operation in one place.
• Immigify — Immigify simplifies U.S. immigration for individuals, startups, and enterprises with AI agents that guide users through every step of the process.
• Grapple — Do-It-Yourself Data Analytics

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• Men In Blazers — Men in Blazers delivers top Premier League news, soccer podcasts, match analysis, interviews, and weekly football coverage for fans across the global game.
• Cast Iron Media — Cast Iron Media provides unique sports advertising campaigns empowering clients to engage targeted audiences during live events, both at home and at the game.
• Kings League —

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• FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.
• Classify — Classify is a digital advertising company that offers smart contextual advertising.
• Rent Small Small — New Zealand's Biggest most reliable Online Store for all your Phone Parts needs! Fast shipping, NZ owned and Operated and here to help. Shop Now!

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• Exponent Financial — Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises.

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• FlyMy.AI — Real-time AI cloud
• Medra AI — Building robotics to accelerate scientific breakthroughs. At Medra, our mission is to automate repetitive wetlab tasks so scientists can more easily collect data and run the experiments needed to make groundbreaking scientific discoveries.
• Periodic Labs — From bits to atoms.

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• Sandstone — Relationship management for legal departments.
• Allen Control Systems — Allen Control Systems is a robotics defense company purpose-built to deliver advanced robotic capabilities to fill modernization demands across the defense industry and national security communities.
• Valarian Technologies — We’re on a mission to help enterprises ensure their communication tools are secure, compliant and efficient.Valarian’s software allows multinational organisations to make the communication tools they already use compliant with data sovereignty, protection and privacy laws across jurisdictions worldwide. Valarian’s resilient, scalable platform canbe deployed into any environment (on-prem, cloud, or hybrid) and easily integrates with existing business collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams and WhatsApp, harmonising compliance, security and efficiency.

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• Upwardli — Build credit & savings with just spare change from everyday purchases. Try it free for 30 days!
• BlueArc.ai — BlueArc's AI-powered platform helps risk and compliance teams automate due diligence and risk management of their commercial customers.
• BON Credit — AI powered financial assistant from Bon Credit helps uncover savings, manage finances, and make smarter money decisions with AI. Start saving smarter today!

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• Franzy — Franzy is the "Zillow for franchising"—a smarter, more transparent way to find, compare, and finance franchise opportunities. We match aspiring entrepreneurs with the right franchise brands based on their goals, experience, and budget, making the path to business ownership simpler, faster, and more accessible.

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• Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
• Liquid Compute — Liquid Compute is a financial infrastructure platform that creates a regulated marketplace for AI computing power.
• Exponent Financial — Exponent Financial is a financial platform designed for franchise owners and multi-location enterprises.

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• HiCap.ai — HiCap.ai offers an AI computing platform that enables businesses to run large language models from providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini using a crowdsourced compute grid. It optimizes token usage to reduce costs, accelerates inference speeds up to twofold, and secures data by avoiding storage or processing by intermediaries. The platformdelivers reserved compute capacity within minutes, helping teams maintain consistent performance without the variability of pay‑as‑you‑go token systems. This approach supports scalable AI model deployment while focusing on affordability, speed, and data privacy.
• BrainGrid — Stop burning tokens fixing broken apps. BrainGrid turns ideas into clear specs and tasks so AI coding agents build it right the first time.
• Stylus Medicine — Stylus Medicine, Inc. is a biotechnology company dedicated to developing transformative in vivo genetic medicines.

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• Fohlio — Specify, Procure, and Manage Product Data | Fohlio

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• Lexful — Lexful is an AI-native IT documentation platform designed exclusively for MSPs. Innovative and insightful, Lexful automatically harvests and manages IT documentation, transforming static, obsolete information, as well as tribal knowledge, into reliable, contextual intelligence that teams can use.
• SetSale — Stop wrestling with pricing spreadsheets and AHRI matchups. Let SetSale's AI instantly build you dynamic multi-option quotes that maximize profitability, ticket sizes, and win rates.
• Meadow AI — Meadow AI is developing the retail and restaurant industries' operational brains. Our multimodal AI platform transforms POS, audio, and camera data into insights and actions in real time.

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• Banza App — Build Your AI Twin.
• Franzy — Franzy is the "Zillow for franchising"—a smarter, more transparent way to find, compare, and finance franchise opportunities. We match aspiring entrepreneurs with the right franchise brands based on their goals, experience, and budget, making the path to business ownership simpler, faster, and more accessible.
• Starbridge — Starbridge helps businesses win government and school contracts with AI-powered sales intelligence. Track RFPs, buying signals, and automate proposals in one platform.