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

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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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• 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.
• Elemeno Health — Elemeno Health is an intuitive, cloud-based app, customized to specific needs of your hospital or unit. Streamline training and communication, drive best practices, and empower your staff with just-in-time access to critical information.

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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.
• ManufactOn — ManufactOn is a collaborative, cloud, and mobile solution for prefab production and supply chain management.ManufactOn helps the construction industry leverage the power of prefabrication, with tools that integrate supply chain, prefab production, and planning. They are AEC and technology veterans who are working with construction industryleaders, designing for efficiency, usability and best practices.

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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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• Orderly by Siftit Inc. — Orderly is your hassle-free way to a smarter restaurant. Stop taking inventory and worrying about that stack of invoices. Get food cost management and cost of goods sold without all the work.
• SpotRight — SpotRight is a developer of an audience insight and targeting platform to provide direct and brand marketers with social data and influence. The company's SaaS application, artificial intelligence engine, and patented technology used over 60B consumer-level data points with 150M refreshes daily to analyze, design, and build audiences. Theirapplication then can load the audiences into 300+ media-buyer platforms for audience targeting.With SpotRight agencies and national advertisers design, build, and activate custom people-based audiences from a single application, which eliminates massive waste between planning and activation. Their AI, patented technology, and proprietary data identify the targets that are 10 times more likely to buy, resulting in exceptional performance and ROI.
• 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.

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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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• Inpher.io — Explore the best crypto casinos of 2026. Compare secure blockchain casinos, fast payouts, provably fair games, bonuses, and safety tips.
• SwiftShift — We are America's only Care Team Managed home health company empowering nurses and aides with control and autonomy over their home care efforts, instead of treating them like robots who work shift to shift.
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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.
• Searcle AI — Searcle unifies AEO, GEO, and SEO to boost AI search visibility, drive targeted traffic, earn citations, and accelerate conversions.
• Drafter — the design intent company | bridging the gap between engineering, fabrication and metrology | automating design-for-manufacturing | Join waitlist

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• 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.
• CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.

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• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.
• 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.
• Notable Systems — Our mission is to automate data collection from any source. Our clients use our system to provide better service, sell more and collect revenue faster.

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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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• 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
• Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.

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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.
• 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+ historical figures grounded in 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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• ChurchAI — The Intelligent OS For Churches.
• 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 makes active learning ten times simpler. You may create a ton of flashcards, multiple-choice questions, and case questions by uploading any course material.

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

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• Folio.works — Hire the most creative, digitally native generation from top best universities - hourly or per project. Pitch decks, promo videos, financial models & more.Your extended team of emerging professionals delivering what you need, when you need it most.
• VetVerifi — VetVerifi | Verified Vaccination Records for Pet Care
• BorrowMyDoggy — Connecting dog owners & local dog borrowers for walks, weekends and holidays.

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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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• BambooBox — BambooBox is the intelligent growth platform for B2B marketers. Power up your pipeline with smarter account journey insights and next-best actions.
• Delightree — Set your Franchise Operations on Auto-Pilot with Delightree App! Your Go-to digital manager for all processes, tasks, audits, staff-training, announcements & more.
• Nexthop AI — Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their networkperformance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies.

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• YO-KAI EXPRESS — Yo-Kai Express is the revolutionary high tech company who develope future autonomous restaurant to serve people gourmet food 24/7

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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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• Lexgo — Lexgo provides a cloud-based incorporation and legal management solution for businesses in the Americas. By automating legal workflows, founders can incorporate their companies, hire their employees and raise funding seamless and in different countries of the region, all from a single platform.
• Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
• Aloha — Payments and banking for the travel economy. Get paid by any traveler, pay any supplier, anywhere in the Americas.

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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.
• WorkHero — WorkHero takes the most annoying paperwork off your plate. Our office assistants powered by AI can save you up to 16 hours per week

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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

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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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• Upwardli — Build credit & savings with just spare change from everyday purchases. Try it free for 30 days!
• Benji — Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points.
• BON Credit — BON Credit's free AI helps you find money you're missing, pay less interest, improve your credit, and always know what to do next.

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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 Sports provides unique solutions empowering clients to engage targeted audiences during live events, both at home and at the game.
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• Onsetto — Onsetto helps banks capture primary operating accounts by seamlessly switching payroll, AR/AP, and cash flows during customer onboarding.
• 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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• 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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• CallRail — CallRail is a phone call tracking and analytics platform businesses use to understand which marketing campaigns drive leads and conversions. Its intuitive software helps data-driven marketers optimize the performance of their online and offline advertising campaigns, increase sales effectiveness, and improve customer retention.
• ScienceLogic — Empower your IT staff & propel your digital transformation with ScienceLogic's AI-driven observability and IT infrastructure monitoring platform.
• ShopKeep — Everything ShopKeep does supports growing and independent businesses. Built by and for small business owners, ShopKeep provides an intuitive, secure, iPad point-of-sale system with POS software that empowers merchants to run smarter businesses by optimizing staffing, managing inventory and accessing real time sales reports and customer informationon one seamless, cloud-based platform. With more than 25,000 customers, ShopKeep’s award-winning customer care team is available to help 24/7 and provides a robust support network for growing business owners. ShopKeep is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Portland (OR), Chicago (IL), and Belfast (NIR).

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

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• YO-KAI EXPRESS — Yo-Kai Express is the revolutionary high tech company who develope future autonomous restaurant to serve people gourmet food 24/7

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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.
• RealDirect — RealDirect is a next-generation real estate technology company and brokerage that uses the power of the web to help people buy and sell real estate better. Founded in 2010 by Doug Perlson, a real estate lawyer and online technology industry veteran, RealDirect features services for both sellers and buyers of New York City real estate. RealDirectfor Sellers is the first web-based, data-driven marketing platform for homeowners to maximize their net proceeds in the sale of their home. Whether buyers want to work with an agent or on their own, RealDirect for Buyers helps clients accurately assess their living needs and recommends the right properties based on this analysis. RealDirect is located in the Flatiron neighborhood of Manhattan.
• Crowdtap — Crowdtap harnesses collective insights from millions of consumers worldwide to deliver real-time intelligence. It was founded in 2009 and is based in New York.

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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.