Top 35 Local Startup Investors in Germany (June 2026)

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• Cola — Best IPL betting apps for Indian players. Real money cricket betting, secure payments, live streaming.
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• Yaga — Yaga is designed for everyone who wants to sell items online in a convenient and secure manner.
• Yaga — Yaga is an online selling and shopping platform for new and preloved fashion. Buy preloved clothing safely or open your own shop and sell. Find unique second hand clothes, earn extra money and help save the Planet.
• Peerby — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.

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• JUMiNGO — Jumingo is an international digital shipping and carrier service provider. It is an innovative startup that has made the logistics industry clear and transparent for customers through a digital shipping platform. They facilitate both business and private customers to compare prices, packaging, and booking services from numerous shipping serviceproviders such as UPS, DHL Express, TNT, FedEx, GLS, and DPD with up to 80% discounted rates. Jumingo saves time and money with benefit from the dynamics and flexibility of their comprehensive range of services without any contractual obligations.
• CareerOS — Gain a competitive edge with our innovative tools, virtual career collaboration, real-time data, and AI enhancements. Guide students each step of the way!
• Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.

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• Payrails — Payrails enables high-growth companies to craft their payment experiences and financial services globally.
• Yapily — Scalable and reliable open banking infrastructure that is built to power the next wave of innovation. Connect to thousands of banks within minutes and access financial data and payment infrastructure via our secure open banking API.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.

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• Sunhat — Sunhat empowers sustainability teams to deliver audit-ready responses for customer questionnaires, reporting checklists and ESG ratings.
• gridscale — Private & Public Cloud von gridscale. Drag. Drop. Klick. Fertig - Klicken statt coden! So leicht bringst du deine Anwendungen in die Cloud.
• Validaitor — Validaitor is the one-stop-shop that brings together AI red-teaming, governance, risk management and compliance management in a single environment.

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• Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
• BOOST Thyroid — Hashimoto's and hypothyroid app. Empowering people with an underactive thyroid to take full control of their own health. Learn more about underactive thyroid on BOOST's website, with articles including the latest research and advice on thyroid health and autoimmunity.
• dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung — dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung provides easy and sustainable solutions for climate-friendly homes energy-efficient renovations for homeowners.

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• Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
• LemonSwan — LemonSwan is the dating service for singles with serious intentions. Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Bak developed the LemonSwan® principle with us: a special test procedure based on modern, international standards, thus creating the best conditions for successful matching.
• Todaytickets — Todaytickets enables consumers to book last-minute deals for events with just three fingertips. At the same time, Todaytickets helps the live entertainment industry to monetize their unsold ticket inventory (up to 40% of the available tickets) last-minute.Todaytickets offers a curated daily selection of event deals close to you – rangingfrom AAA concerts of artists such as Rihanna, Elton John, Deep Purple or Lil Wayne to theatres, operas, shows and sport events. The company guarantees a discount between 20 to 50% compared to the official pre-sale ticket price and/or exclusive goodies such as complementary seating category upgrades or free drinks. You can book your tickets at the very last minute (up to 60 minutes before the event) with your iPhone or webbased. Show your e-ticket at the venue, join the party and experience more today!Todaytickets is funded bei EPIC Companies, the company builder of the TV station conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is one of the leading media corporations in Europe with a reach of more than 41 million TV households in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Furthermore several well-known business angels invested in the „Experience more today“ concept, among others Roman Kirsch (former founder & CEO FAB.com Europe), Christian Tiessen (former Chief Sales Officer FAB.com Europe) and Felix Haas (former founder & CEO amiando).The management team consists of Christian Miele (former Director Global Venture Development – Rocket Internet, Investment Analyst – Bertelsmann India Investments, Member of the Board – German Startup Association), Gleb Tritus (Serial Enterpreneur; founder of the online marketing agency Affaires Media and local search engine Townster) and Michael Jaeger (former Head of Sales / Operations of the last minute hotel booking app JustBook).

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• TalentHack — TalentHack is a health platform that connects directly with the fitness professionals and industry. They exist to redefine what a career in fitness can be, by providing opportunities to propel you forward. It takes hours for companies to find a single potential lead, let alone a candidate. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York,NY, United States
• Membrane — Membrane is AI for product integrations. Describe what you need, watch integrations build, test and maintain themselves.We exist to let any product connect to any other reliably, safely, and at scale, by turning intent & customer needs into integrations with AI.Our platform offers the state-of-the-art solution in the AI Age for productintegrations:Membrane Agent builds integrations for one or multiple apps at once, choosing correct API calls, field mappings, and data structuresMembrane Engine is the configurable infrastructure that you or any agent can play with. It contains actions, events/webhooks, flows, data collections, unified API models, field mappings, and schemas & more used to build and maintain integrations at scale.Membrane Packages - integration code that is purpose built for your use case, that you can deploy in your IDE.Membrane is used by 100+ B2B SaaS companies like Constant Contact, PandaDoc, Dialpad, Storyblok & many others as their preferred integration partner
• Bravo Sierra — Bravo Sierra creates performance body care products for the most active individuals. Every formula undergoes rigorous field-testing to meet strict standards of quality and efficacy. Designed and manufactured in the U.S.A, a portion of every purchase directly supports military veterans and their families.

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• Scarosso — Scarosso breaks the traditional models of distribution and defines a new category of luxury. The uncompromising, high quality, Italian handcrafted shoes and accessories from Scarosso are offered at unrivalled low prices - ready to wear, bespoke and customized designs.
• Vimecon — Vimecon develops and produces laser catheters for the treatment of heart diseases with a focus on atrial fibrillation. It also manufactures products for the medical technology and biotechnology; and offers microscopically small catheters, as well as micro materials handling techniques for exact measurement and dosage. Moreover, Vimecon advisesvarious customers from the scholar and industrial research and development. Kai U. Markus founded it in 2005, with its headquarters in Herzogenrath in Germany.
• Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.

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• Town — Town Assistant operates behind the scenes, managing everything from busywork to big ideas.
• Simile — Simile is an artificial intelligence company that provides a platform for automating and improving communication and collaboration through AI-driven tools. It offers solutions for creating and managing conversations, generating content, and analyzing interactions to support business workflows. The company integrates AI models to assist teams indrafting messages, responding to queries, and enhancing productivity across digital communication channels. Its platform combines natural language processing, automation, and data analysis to streamline communication tasks and improve organizational efficiency.
• Console — Console helps IT teams get to Inbox Zero. Auto-resolve over 50% of your support requests directly in Slack and Teams, using AI Agents that understand how your company does work.

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• Dataminr — Dataminr is an AI platform that detects the earliest signs of high-impact events and emerging risks from publicly available information. It discovers, distills, and delivers alerts from the increasingly diverse and complex landscape of publicly available information including social media, blogs, information sensors, and the dark web, ensuring thatbusinesses have the knowledge they need to act with confidence.
• Auctionata — Auctionata | Paddle8 is an online auction platform specializing in art and luxury collectibles. As of February 29, 2017, Auctionata has announced it has ceased operations, declaring insolvency. The company had offices in Berlin, New York, London, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, and Madrid. Following the conclusion of its preliminary insolvencyproceedings on February 28, 2017, Auctionata Paddle8 AG ceased its German operations. The subsidiaries Paddle8 in the US and Value-my-Stuff in the UK were sold and continue to operate.
• Delivery Hero — Delivery Hero is the world's leading local delivery company. We are on a mission to deliver an amazing experience - fast, easy, and to your door.

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• Resmio — Resmio brings the whole restaurant customer journey online, with one easy-to-use software. Resmio provides a free online reservation tool to directly acquire guests via their own website and empowers restaurants on everything that comes next in the customer journey - from acquiring new guests, managing dining experience and reputation todata-driven guest retention.
• WeAreDevelopers — Our vision is to become the world’s leading community for developers. Our mission is to provide developers with the things they need and love. We inspire, entertain, motivate and educate developers. We give developers a voice and we connect them with each other. We give developers visibility and attention. We provide them with opportunities andhelp them grow.

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• Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
• Luxodo — Luxodo GmbH operates luxury shopping platform. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
• Vertical Media — Vertical Media is a Berlin-based media house for the digital economy. The company presents both online magazines With its products ranging from editorial media and events allthe way to knowledge transfer through digital databases such as the Branchen-Verzeichnis (Yellow Pages) and our Datenbank (data base), seminars and many other services, Vertical Media offers relevant and up-to-date information, increases trans¬parency, and nurtures an active dialogue between individuals, companies and key players in the digital economy.

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• Movinga — Movinga is a vertically integrated logistics tech company for customers and medium-sized moving companies. As a professional full service provider, it offers logistically optimized moves for private individuals and companies, goods transports, and courier services.
• kaufDA — kaufDA is a German site for local search and local promotion search. The company enables users to look for the best local sales online, search brochures of local retailers and find stores near them.
• Freshnails — Freshnails provides a concept for beauty lounges and offers its customers professional beauty treatments in an exclusive ambience.

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• VITAS — Our system is based on Deep Learning and offers an intelligent voice assistant for customer service. Use cases can be found in both the SME and enterprise market for all companies with many standardized customer calls. VITAS answers the telephone, checks data in real time, can react flexibly to requests and offers the caller a self-service withoutwaiting time. Areas of application include restaurants, workshops, medical practices, taxi centres, insurance companies, banks and tax consultants.
• Booksy — Booksy - book appointments online. Find & book beauty services like hairdressing, manicure, spa or massage. Check prices & reviews!
• edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.

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• lingoking GmbH — We provide a wide range of certified translation services. All certified translations are done by our court-sworn translators.

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• Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

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• Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
• Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
• The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.

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• Catch — Set aside for taxes and retirement. Save thousands on health insurance. Free personal payroll and benefits for freelancers, contractors, and the self-employed.
• Glidian — Glidian understand the trouble of finding forms, tracking multiple authorization requests, and faxing out documents. Glidian is designed to solve all of your prior authorization needs.
• EnClear Therapies — EnClear Therapies is a Cambridge (USA) based life sciences company developing a device-based therapy to aid in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease and delivery and monitoring of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). EnClear’s proprietary therapeutic platform focuses on removing toxic proteins from the CSF. The company’s first products will targetimproving the lives of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP).

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• Bonagora — Bonagora is the online wholesale marketplace for the Home & Living industry. Bonagora streamlines the procurement process between wholesalers and retailers by creating a virtual showroom. Bonagora enables retailers to have real-time access to new vendors and products from around the world, and it empowers them to control their entire buyingprocess from one easy-to-use platform.
• meinKauf — meinKauf/miKunu offers an innovative web & mobile platform for mobile retail marketing & brand promotions. Our services are available in Austria, Hungary and Turkey as we are about to enter another new market this year. We are proud to work with the top high street and brick and mortar as well as top FMCG companies in our activemarkets.
• Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.

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• Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
• HEY HOLY — We’re transforming pet care — with a breed-specific health concept instead of one-size-fits-all, with longevity at its core
• Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.

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• N26 — N26 is the Mobile Bank. Free bank account and Mastercard that you can manage directly from your phone. Open your bank account online in minutes.
• LEGALFLY — The most powerful contract review & drafting experience ever made. LegalFly brings the power of Legal AI into the hands of your legal teams.
• Dunia Innovation — Catalysing the energy transition.

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• RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
• BioThrust — Our Bionic Bioreactors are the first ever solution to controllable & scalable cell therapy manufacturing and stem cell-based biomanufacturing.
• Collie — Discover how Collie helps farmers achieve higher grass yields, increased milk production, and reduced labor. Manage your pastures easily with our innovative app.

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• Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

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• Stuffle — Markenprodukte schnell, einfach und sicher verkaufen per App. Jetzt mit stuffle.com
• Monedo — Monedo's Group’s mission is to improve financial freedom for the underbanked with the use of technology. Combining non-traditional data sources and machine learning, the company is aiming to provide access to better credit and a higher convenience for digital banking services. The product offerings include consumer loans, a digital wallet anda personal finance manager designed to help customers manage their credit score and plan their spending. Monedo also offers a “Lending as a Service” model, allowing partners to integrate Monedo's credit products via an API into their own platform and services.Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Monedo covers more than 5 markets worldwide, amongst others Russia, Mexico, Spain and Poland. Up until now, the company has processed more than four million loan applications through its subsidiaries. Monedo's team of more than 350 people is led by CEO and Co-Founder Alexander Graubner-Müller and is financially backed by world-class investors including PayU, J.C. Flowers, Peter Thiel, and the World Bank’s IFC.

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• ORDA — ORDA is a platform allowing guests to order and pay for food and beverage on a digital menu.
• Blacklane — Blacklane is the global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Since 2017, the company has been carbon-neutral, combining a five-star guest experience with care for the planet. The customers can book their travels using Blacklane’s mobile app or website.Blacklane was co-founded by Jens Wohltorf and FrankSteuer and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
• LoanLink24 Mortgage — LoanLink24 is Germany's online mortgage broker that transforms the traditional process of getting home loans and helps expats get the best rate in buying property in Germany.

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• Mem — Mem Labs is building an operating system for how information flows.
• CommonStock — Commonstock is a social network that amplifies the knowledge of the best investors, verified by actual track records for signal over noise.
• Popshop Live — Popshoplive is a turnkey creator commerce platform where creators sell their favorite items to their followers through e.commerce, video clips and live-streamed shows

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• Cluno — Cluno is an online car subscription service providing rental cars irrespective of any contracts. Cluno's digital car subscription challenges traditional car ownership models in the mobility market and expands the space between hourly and years-long commitments with a flexible option and transparent, fully predictable costs. The carsubscription is offered at a monthly package price, which covers almost all car-related costs such as maintenance, wear and tear, seasonal tires, warranty, registration, vehicle tax, insurance, and vehicle inspections. The minimum booking period is six months per vehicle. Subject to a notice period of three months, customers can change their vehicle after the minimum period, pause their car subscription, or continue on with their Cluno car indefinitely.
• bonify — Bonify, a Berlin based FinTech-Start-up, enables customers to benefit from their credit scoring and financial data. The company gives customers free and easy access to their credit score and let them upload additional relevant data. Then, it offers tools and personalized recommendations to help optimize the customer’s financial situation.Foundedin 2015 by key executives of McKinsey and Zalando, bonify has received significant funding from internationally leading VCs and successful entrepreneurs.
• tozero — Truly bringing lithium-ion battery waste tozero by recovering all critical matierlas, like lithium, nickel, cobalt, manganese, and graphite.

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• Protonet — Protonet provides a cloud-based social project management and collaboration platform that integrates your communications, files, and project management tasks in a single place.
• smartQED — smartQED is a visual workspace for efficient collaborative investigations and root cause analysis. It has integrated learning and recommendations for higher productivity. Schedule a demo to see how smartQED can help you: email demo@smartqed.com.
• Rodos BioTarget — Rodos BioTarget (RBT) is a biopharmaceutical company developing a targeted drug delivery platform. RBT’s patented TargoSphere® technology enables carrying a broad range of active agents selectively into the center of the immune response - i.e., directly into antigen-presenting cells.RBT currently applies its TargoSphere® technology successfullyin various models of infectious diseases caused by viruses like HCV/ Hepatitis C and HIV/ AIDS and by bacteria like in Tuberculosis, Legionellosis, and MRSA. Yet, any disorder that goes along with either overshooting or insufficient immunity caused by antigen-presenting cells - like chronic inflammations, cancers, allergies, and autoimmune diseases - may be addressed by RBT’s TargoSphere® technology.

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• Naked Energy — Naked Energy has developed an innovative hybrid solar technology generating combined heat and power.The versatile, modular design of Virtu® places crystalline photovoltaic cells in an evacuated solar thermal collector. For any given area more of the sun’s energy is converted into heat and electricity (80% of the 1000W/m2 available) thanksto the patented heat transfer mechanism.Thermal and electrical outputs are optimized irrespective of geographic or climatic conditions. With the isothermally cooled PV cells protected from the environment, Virtu® is especially suited to harsh high-insolation markets.Naked Energy is in the final stages of preparing for commercial launch to address global applications for domestic, commercial and industrial customers. Virtu® is both disruptive and scalable.
• Power to Hydrogen — Power to Hydrogen (P2H2) is simplifying hydrogen. Our technology enables a brighter energy future by solving the technical and economic challenges that come with producing hydrogen. Our AEM-based, electrolysis technology produces high pressure, high efficiency hydrogen from renewable energy with lower cost materials thancompeting electrolyzers. This technology can reduce the total cost of hydrogen to enable clean transportation, store energy efficiently, and decarbonize industrial processes. In addition to low-cost, high-pressure hydrogen production, the technology can produce high-pressure oxygen and be used reversibly to produce electricity. Both services can create additional revenue streams to make the total cost of hydrogen $1/kg.
• Tree Energy Solutions — Green energy, naturally - TES is building the fastest, most efficient and affordable way to decarbonize the global energy market.

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• Hrmony — Hrmony introduces a highly innovative, digital and disruptive Platform to a traditional and antiquated yet global operating industry. The traditional tax-subsidized meal voucher market. Hrmony aims to replace the existing insufficient and technologically outdated solutions with a revolutionary and digital business model. With its Omni-Channelapproach, Hrmony enables employees to redeem vouchers for any food related item at any venue, giving them 100% acceptance across whole Europe. Hrmony is also the first to achieve a 100% tax and law compliant solution to ensure meal vouchers are only used in their originally intended way as a subsidization for food.
• Locafox — Locafox, a new venture supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures enhances the offline shopping experience for online and mobile consumers by allowing them to make more informed buying decisions. Its unique features include providing detailed information from local retail stores such as product location, availability and pricing.

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• Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
• Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
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• Sastrify — SaaS budgeting and procurement software. Learn how you can easily save on SaaS software costs and build more effective budgets with Sastrify.
• Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.

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• Findery — Find and leave notes anywhere in the world, discover local knowledge, hidden secrets, and exciting stories. Share your travel knowledge, geoblog, or local news!
• MinersAI — Unlock valuable insights from intricate geological data with Miners AI. Our AI-driven platform empowers exploration teams to make informed decisions and optimize mining operations.
• Primer — Primer is the first open automation platform for payments, enabling you to build end-to-end payment flows with no code, and a checkout developers love.

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• Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
• Explora Project — Explora Project is specializing in adventure travel and expeditions to the 4 corners of the planet and all environments.
• Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative