Top 40 Local Startup Investors in Germany (October 2026)

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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.
• MegaMod — OnlySpace metaverse creation will allow users to receive bonuses and benefit from participating in several projects at the same time:

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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!
• CareerOS — CareerOS helps universities supercharge their career services. From coaching to employer engagement, centralize it all in one powerful platform.

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• EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
• Regulate — Accessible Breathwork for Professionals
• Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

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• 42matters — 42matters offers a full suite of mobile and connected TV app intelligence solutions, including APIs, file dumps, and visual, web-based platforms.
• Phase0 — Payment platform for construction projects
• Lightspring — Lightspring is a photonics technology company developing advanced 3D optical interconnection solutions for photonic systems.

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• Nenna AI — Nenna AI is a powerful AI enablement platform designed for the secure application of AI technologies.
• Jurafuchs — Jurafuchs provides legal education via a mobile app.
• Amara — Voice-first senior companion delivered via tablet and dock with a family app, serving Germany's AgeTech market.

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• Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
• Flip — The AI employee experience platform for frontline workers without a company email. Flip unites comms, HR, identity and AI in one app. Book a demo.
• Ore Energy — Ore Energy is creating a new generation, cost effective, long-duration energy storage solution which will enable a decarbonized energy future by utilizing some of the most readily available materials

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• Spoor — Spoor's software uses advanced computer vision and AI to detect, track, and classify birds at wind farms
• enspired — Revolutionize battery storage with AI-powered BESS optimization. Our energy trading platform ensures smart, real-time market access. Contact us today!
• Elephant — Elephant in an AI-powered platform for frontline and blue-collar workers. It specializes in training and communication tools for decentralized, frontline workforces in sectors like manufacturing and logistics. Its core AI Coursebuilder converts technical documentation into gamified, mobile-friendly microlearning modules.

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• Cola — Productive, extensible messaging for groups and teams
• Poshtel — Poshtel is a new global chain of pop-up luxury hostels, designed to provide suites for the people, affordable for more of us and sustainable for all of us.
• Golf Post — Golf Post is the digital home for golfers

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• Peec AI — Peec AI helps marketing teams analyze brand performance across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Track visibility, benchmark competitors, and optimize AI search presence.
• Akeno — akeno is a production planning and scheduling solution used by world-leading manufacturers in the chemical, pharma, food, and metal industries. Book a demo.
• Leadbay — Qualified leads for agentic workflows.

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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!
• GAMINSIDE — GAMINSIDE revolutionizes your relationship with your customers. As European full service provider, we deliver the complete package with solutions, services and software for gamified loyalty that is tailor-made and unique to your products, brands and customers. Integrate the best ideas from gamification and customer loyalty in your business areato exceed your commercial targets with GAMINSIDE.
• Polaron — Material Design. Supercharged with AI.

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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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• Aroundhome — Aroundhome is a online broker for household products and services.
• asgoodasnew — asgoodasnew electronics GmbH (formerly asgoodas.nu GmbH) is the No. 1 source for refurbished Consumer Electronics in Europe and also runs WIRKAUFENS, the easy, fast, and safe way to turn your used electronic gadgets into cash. The company is active in Germany and Austria (WIRKAUFENS), Spain (LOCOMPRAMOS) and Poland (KUPIMYTO) as a trade-in serviceand selling their products worldwide B2C and B2B.
• antibodies-online.com — antibodies-online.com - Providing the best ELISA Kits - Antibodies - Proteins for Research Use out there

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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 develops digital products for gastronomy businesses to realize their potential. They create a digital experience culture for restauranteurs, their staff, and guests.
• 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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• Kaiko — Kaiko provides real-time and historical cryptocurrency trade data, order books, and aggregated prices through a cryptocurrency API, downloadable CSV files, and a livestream WebSocket. We cover 100+ crypto exchanges and 35,000+ trading pairs for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and altcoins.
• 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.
• Polar Analytics — Your Shopify Analytics. Effortless. Centralized. Smart. Connect your datasource in one clic, automatically calculate KPIs. Visualize them all in one place. Get alerts and recommendations in realtime

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• Flaviar — Flaviar, a spirits tasting club, offers a subscription service that helps members discover new liquor products through sample tasting packs.Subscribers are given access to rare and original spirits, invite them to great events, and keep them educated and entertained with booze-themed content and receive personalized samples and complimentarybottles every month.Flaviar was established by Grisa Soba and Jugoslav Petkovic and was headquartered in London, England since 2012.
• 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.
• Grape — The most flexible messenger can be hosted anywhere and integrated into your software.

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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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• Empion — We Transform Mass Recruiting Through Individuality - Using Artificial Intelligence.Empion automates headhunting by matching values, skills, and personality. Our data-driven Robo Advisor quantifies relevant parameters to match talents with suitable companies.Our innovative recruiting solution got Empion funding, winning over $ 9 million fromCavalry Ventures, Redstone VC, Basinghall Partners and renowned angels from the HR tech industry.Acknowledged by TechCrunch Disrupt StartupBattlefield, Forbes 30 under 30 Europe Technology and several Awards (e.g. Personalmagazin).For further information please visit www.empion.io.
• Remi — Add mood-sharing and icebreakers to async check-ins and meetings. Stay connected and build trust on your remote team every day.
• Morphais — We empower venture funds and investment professionals in finding and accessing (pre-)seed startups and stealth founders. #venturecapital #vc #startups

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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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• 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 — Hands-on talks, live shows, and practical guides from top engineers.

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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. With www.telefonassistent.de, we have developed our own software-as-a-service platform that allows companies of any industry and size to configure their own intelligent assistant with just a few clicks - completely without any prior technical knowledge. The settings vary from greeting phrases and specific questions to the creation of custom scenarios and call reasons. Everything can be adapted independently to the individual needs of the respective company without IT capacities.
• edrone — Purpose-built e-commerce CRM with Marketing Automation and Voice Commerce. Turn your online store into a sales machine.
• Mozaik — Auffallend ansprechende Videos, im dynamisch modernen Stil, ohne Vorwissen selbst machen. In nur wenigen Minuten erstellt.

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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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• 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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• Xpertloop — XpertLoop is the CEO's go-to partner for expertise in AI combined with a proven operating system for the chief executive role. Built on 30+ years in the role.
• EFEX — Efex is platform that helps businesses and individuals to make and manage their payments. Efex offers international and domestic payments, invoicing, reconciliation, collection, and risk analysis of its clients. This allows our customers to engage in smarter, simpler, faster payments and trade.
• Joey AI — Your AI Matchmaker. Designed to understand you, not just match you. Call +1 (310) 234-5639.

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• Givve — givve® is a FinTech company offering benefit solutions for employees and business partners. Age pyramid, shortage of skilled workers, fluctuation – the labour market situation is facing various challenges. In this development, the position of the employee has changed: In the future it will be the employee who can choose their employer, and not theother way around. The attractiveness of a company decides on its success on the market – and becomes the decisive advantage in the competition with other companies. givve® offers innovative tools for employee motivation solutions.
• Regiondo — The all-in-one #bookingsoftware made for tours, activities, and destinations. #ticketing #activities #software https://t.co/YGT56uXIHN
• Spontacts — Spontacts is a social discovery application, connecting spontaneous people for joint activities. Spontacts makes the city more social, active, and fun. Through its unique notification service and chat client, Spontacts offers the easiest way to get in touch with people nearby and to meet in real life. Spontacts also inspires users with tailoreddeals, offers and locations it can activate together.Spontacts is based in Munich, Germany.

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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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• 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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• Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
• Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
• sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.

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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.
• Samsara Therapeutics — We are on a mission to unlock the full potential of autophagy activation in combating age-related neurodegenerative diseases.

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• Hoora — Hoora is a mobile gaming platform that offers an instant, scrollable feed of over 200 casual and arcade mini-games playable without downloads or waiting.
• Shiplong — Shiplog creates live customer profiles to automate real-time decisions, helping SaaS teams expand, retain, and grow Net Revenue Retention.
• üma Laboratories — Laboratoires üma develops products targeting the physiological changes associated with perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause.

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• roomix — Plataforma inteligente para buscar propiedades en Argentina. Miles de departamentos, casas y terrenos verificados.
• 8090 Solutions — Enabling every enterprise to benefit from purpose-built, transformative, high quality software.
• The Horowitz Andreessen Academy — The Academy provides a unique path for the next generation of IT leaders coming out of high school.

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• nomadi — nomadi is a rental platform that offers children's and baby products.
• Urban Challenger — Exploring the city is much more fun if you have a mission! Make the city your playground and participate in our top-rated city game with friends, family, or colleagues as a team-building event.
• Bildungs urlauber — The goal of Bildungsurlauber.de is to make complicated topics simple. First and foremost, we assist you in locating the appropriate seminar for you by using simple filter options - regardless of whatever federal state you work in.

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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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• ChefCoco — Our mission is to serve every table, every day.ChefCoco is already the largest corporate meal service provider in Berlin. Serving businesses, universities and large events with fresh, healthy & affordable meals. We build and operate industrial scale production kitchens, sourcing the highest quality ingredients, and being cooked by Michelintrained chefs. All our meals are delivered in premium reusable bowls.Reach out to hello@chefcoco.com to give your employees the best meal experience or if you want to join our team in building a category defining business.
• Treasure Play — Play and Prosper with Eternal Dragons, a series of NFT blockchain games set in an original fantasy metaverse. Play and Earn Eternium, and make history together!
• 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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• Givve — givve® is a FinTech company offering benefit solutions for employees and business partners. Age pyramid, shortage of skilled workers, fluctuation – the labour market situation is facing various challenges. In this development, the position of the employee has changed: In the future it will be the employee who can choose their employer, and not theother way around. The attractiveness of a company decides on its success on the market – and becomes the decisive advantage in the competition with other companies. givve® offers innovative tools for employee motivation solutions.
• MYLOMA GmbH — MYLOMA is creating the Germany's most comprehensive and transparent local marketplace. We display prices, opening hours and ratings for local service professionals on web and mobile, precisely and comprehensively. Our Mission is to make the process of booking beauty appointments as simple, comfortable and fast as possible - 24/7. For ourpartners, we provide an "all in one" salon management software to improve their client management, appointment management and to increase online bookings. On the other hand we want our users to be inspired and familiar with booking appointments online.

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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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• mika — mika is an accounting solution firm that offers monthly bookkeeping, payroll, invoice management, and financial planning services.
• 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.
• Atheneum — Empowering through expertise. Atheneum is a leading global insights platform and expert network, servicing clients across strategy consulting, the financial services, corporate firms and the life sciences.

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• Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
• HEY HOLY — HEY HOLY is redefining dog nutrition with the world’s first breed-specific dog food sold in a subscription. We believe every dog deserves food tailored to their unique health needs – because a German Shepherd isn’t a Chihuahua.Backed by science and crafted with only high-quality ingredients, HEY HOLY supports better digestion, fewer intolerances,and healthier, longer lives for dogs. Thousands of owners have already made the switch, choosing HEY HOLY to give their dogs personalized care and optimal health outcomes.
• 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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• Akina — Akina is developing the future of gamified digital healthcare to benefit individuals with chronic diseases around the world.
• 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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• telli — A world where every interaction is worth having. https://t.co/Qa65ENaxKL
• Arlequin AI — Unlock actionable insights from complex social data to drive strategic decisions using our AI models.
• Basecamp Research — Novel proteins from nature. We sample the most extreme and exciting places on the planet to build the world's largest knowledge graph of natural biodiversity.