Top 40 Machine Learning VC Funds & Investors in New Zealand (September 2026)

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.

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• Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and PE funds to save time and grow AUM.
• Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.

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• LeadStory — Watch breaking news from around the world and stay up to date with current events. Follow topics that matter to you from providers you can trust. See whats happening nearby or in places you care about.
• Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.
• Skylark Labs — Skylark Labs develops continuously evolving and customizable threat detection systems for enhanced physical security. Our clients (CCTV or Drone companies) can customize our proprietary AI solutions at the time of deployment or continuously evolve them if needed after deployment making them preferable to other comparable market solutions.

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• Kyoryu — Re-engineered dinosaurs roam a post-apocalyptic Japan. Follow the Samurai T-rex clan as they navigate complex dino clan rivalries.
• RiffRaff Games — Developers of Sleight of Hand
• Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!

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• Hyades — Hyades is an AI-powered hyperspectral intelligence platform that offers soil and land insights.
• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• First Table — The Earlybird Gets The Dinner Deal! Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off meals for 2 to 4 diners! Email social@firsttable.co.nz

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• Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.

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• LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
• Modlar — Modlar helps bring great design to life by connecting architects from the world's top firms with building products from the world's best brands. Modlar is used by architects at 94% of the world’s top 100 firms who are actively working on construction documents and written specifications—just the people most building productmanufacturers want to reach. Modlar is funded by Movac, New Zealand's top tech investor.
• Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.

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• Marama Labs — Marama Labs is a developer of a novel UV-Vis spectroscopy technology for scientific-analytical instrumentation. It assists customers in identifying and measuring turbid samples' characteristics by using light's spectral properties. It offers an ultra-violet and visible spectrophotometer for measuring absorption, extinction, and scatteringspectra of clear and turbid liquids to help customers keep their samples intact, reduce sample preparation steps, and improve measurement turnaround time.
• Arcanum AI — Rapidly build and integrate machine learning features with the Accelerate Platform library of pre-built workflows. Hosted API or deploy into your own cloud.
• Ocean Intelligence — Ocean Intelligence helps aquaculture, port operations and monitoring teams use marine data in day-to-day decisions.

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• PAM NZ — Forward a school newsletter, snap a screenshot, brain-dump your to-do list - PAM turns it all into a smart shared family calendar and helps manage the family tasks and events. Set up in 2 minutes. Free trial.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Kai's Education — Kai's Education is an innovative force in the EdTech sector, pioneering the integration of coding, STEM, and robotics into engaging learning experiences for children. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our mission is to ignite young minds through our award-winning educational products, including the all-in-one STEAM toolbox, Kai's Clan, andthe hybrid robot, KaiBot.Our flagship product, Kai's Clan, breaks new ground by allowing children aged seven to fifteen to learn to code with state-of-the-art technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, Tinkercad, and Minecraft. KaiBot, designed for hands-on learning, uses screen-free coding cards to instill the fundamentals of coding, providing immediate feedback to enhance learning.Complemented by the Kainundrum Lite app, Kai's Education facilitates a seamless transition from tactile to advanced text-based coding, nurturing problem-solving skills and creativity. Recipient of the Smart AI Toy Award and the Common Sense Top Pick for Learning Award, Kai's Education is dedicated to equipping the next generation with the skills for tomorrow's challenges. We're not just teaching coding; we're inspiring creators.

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• Boost Lab — Boost Lab provides solutions for skincare products that are cost-effective, effective, and safe.
• Koala — We're simplifying the mattress and furniture game. With free & fast delivery and a 120 night risk-free trial Australia-wide, try it out online today.
• York Street Brands — York Street Brands, formed by the merger of Boost Lab and tbh Skincare specializes in serums that target a range of skin concerns.

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• Formus — Formus is enabling personalized orthopedics at scale through a fusion of AI-automation with computational biomechanics. Built on 20 years of musculoskeletal research at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Formus 3D pre-op planning is FDA, PMDA, and TGA cleared, and has planned over 3,000 hip replacement surgeries at more than 25 sites acrossANZ, Japan, and the US. We are at the next frontier of orthopedics, combining AI-automation with patient-specific modelling of bony and soft-tissue to optimize joint replacement surgeries for each and every patient. Working in tandem with implant manufacturers, we integrate seamlessly into existing industry workflows to reduce costs and vastly increase reliability and scalability. Formus's unique capabilities empower surgeons to revolutionize personalized orthopedics at scale to improve the outcomes of every patient.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
• Andromeda Surgical — Empowering surgeons with autonomous precision

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• Luminoma — Luminoma will enable easy access to objective and precise skin cancer screening. With Luminoma, clinicians can confidently discern malignant from benign, reducing unnecessary referrals and biopsies.
• Upstock — Manage wholesale orders with a simple app.
• Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.

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• ZeroJet — ZeroJet is the first jet propulsion system to be designed specifically for an electric motor, delivering the perfect balance of performance and runtime.
• Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
• CarbonCrop — CarbonCrop gets you recognised and paid for the carbon sequestered in trees on your land. Our artificial-intelligence based mapping and measurement mean we can give you fast, accurate results for no up-front cost.

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• MAPTO — Bringing industries together since 2008, Mapto.com stands as the premier platform for a global business directory. Serving millions of companies and suppliers worldwide.Mapto, the “Business Development Guide,” has been specially designed to offer an e-commerce solution that brings together all companies in the world and provides an excellent B2Cuser experience without sacrificing B2B functionality. The most significant difference from other marketplaces is that it is customer-supported!In today’s world, product, manufacturer, and communication demands are the basis of e-commerce searches on the internet. It restructures the “roadmap of e-commerce” by bringing all these demands together and making them accessible to users.
• Insite AI — The chosen partner by executives in RGM, insights, and I.T. to grow revenue and market share. Learn how CPGs win in pricing, assortment, trade and more.
• MarginFuel — MarginFuel provides intelligent price optimisation software that empowers rental vehicle operators to build profitable pricing strategies.

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• Ubyx — Ubyx is a clearing system that allows anyone,
• Numeric — Hundreds of teams streamline reconciliations, organize their close, and leverage AI for flux analysis and reporting with Numeric.
• Prime Intellect — Prime Intellect democratizes AI development at scale. Our platform makes it easy to find global compute resources and train state-of-the-art models through distributed training across clusters. Collectively own the resulting open AI innovations, from language models to scientific breakthroughs.

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• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• ISpy Nits — ISpyNits - everything you need to get rid of lice and nits once and for all
• Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.

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• RosterLab — RosterLab goal is to automate every part of the rostering process for healthcare.
• Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
• Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
• Alimetry — Gastric Alimetry brings data-driven clarity to chronic gastric symptoms, helping clinicians diagnose with confidence.
• Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.

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• Regen — We send daily recommendations to our farmers' phones based on their own farm data, so NZ can farm smarter.
• Androgenix —
• Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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• PINC — PINC provides scalable software, hardware, and services that enable companies to move inventory throughout the supply chain faster, cost-effectively, consistently, and more efficiently. Its cloud-based real-time asset tracking platform powered by an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network that includes passive RFID, GPS, optical, cellular, andother sensors, provides actionable insights and connected expert guidance that allow companies to optimize their supply chain execution.The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Union City, California.
• Identity Engines — Identity Engines (idEngines) develops identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. It offers Ignition server, a network identity management device to centralize, streamline, and secure access across the network. The company also offers Ignition Portal that provides Web authentication capability to support network access control forvarious guest and visitor device types, operating systems, and browsers; Ignition Posture that provides endpoint posture checking; Ignition Guest Manager that secures network services for vendors and partners; and Ignition AutoConnect, an automated solution to streamline secure wireless and wired deployments.idEngines was acquired by Avaya Inc/Nortel Networks in December of 2008, and is now part of Extreme Networks through Extreme's acquisition of Avaya's enterprise networking business.
• Golden Gate Technology — Buy a domain and see how a premium domain can be the best investment. Your business starts here. Buy a domain today.

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• Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
• Projectworks — Grow your firm - and your impact.Projectworks is professional services automation software built for consulting firms that want to grow - and make a difference.As a project intelligence platform, Projectworks connects time tracking, expense tracking, resource management, invoicing, and financial reporting in one live system. It gives you thevisibility to see what’s working, fix what’s not, and scale your firm with confidence.Projectworks was built by consultants who know what it’s like to lose hours to spreadsheets and billing chaos. Designed specifically for engineering, architecture, software development, and management consulting, it’s professional services automation (PSA) software that gets experts out of the admin grind and back to the work that matters.Our cloud-based PSA tool brings together everything your business needs to plan, track, forecast, and grow. By automating time tracking, expense tracking, resource planning, project financials, and real-time reporting, Projectworks frees your people to focus on solving the world’s hardest problems - not wrestling with manual processes. On average, Projectworks users grow 20% in their first year.Connect Projectworks with your existing stack - including Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce - to eliminate double handling, align your data, and operate with confidence.We’ll help you set up for success with expert data migration, comprehensive training, and responsive ongoing support.Key featuresTime tracking software: Easy, accurate timesheets that actually get filled out. Simplify project time tracking and keep billing up to date with integrated time management software for consultants.Expense tracking: Track project spend against budget with simple, mobile-friendly expense submission. Sync approved expenses directly to Xero as bills to pay.Resource management software: Plan and allocate resources effectively. See availability, utilization, and capacity in real time with powerful resource planning tools that make project delivery predictable.Revenue forecasting & project profitability: Combine financial and resourcing data to model revenue, monitor utilization and profitability, and make confident growth decisions.Invoicing automation: Create pre-populated invoices that sync seamlessly with Xero, reducing admin and helping you get paid faster.Reporting & insights: Access real-time dashboards, project profitability reports, and PSA analytics that bring clarity to every decision. Track the consulting metrics that matter most - across projects, clients, and teams.Integrations: Connect your favorite tools and run your firm on a unified project management and financial reporting platform.Flexible pricing means you only pay for what you use - plus, get a 10% discount on annual subscriptions.
• Sea-Flux Vessel Management Software — Sea-Flux is a cloud-based vessel management software package focused on simplifying and streamlining maritime operations. Our mobile-friendly app provides unparalleled features that reduce risk and cost to your operation.

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• Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
• Check Corporation — Check Corporation engages in flexible heating technology for many different industries, including automotive, aviation, off-road, marine, motorcycle, agriculture, construction, food services, and healthcare. Their heating products include aftermarket seat heaters that may be installed in automobiles, motorcycles, boats, and RVs. They design andmanufacture electronic control modules for a variety of applications.
• Happyeasygo — HappyEasyGo is an India based local Online Travel Company. We are providing best air tickets and hotels with the lowest Price. Now you can book various airline tickets such as IndiGo, Jet airways, Go air, Spice Jet, air Asia, Vistara and Air India. We also provide you updated and verified Happy Easy Go instant discount hotels and special offers onflight tickets.

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• Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
• Defy — Defy : India's first social crypto exchange - Buy, Sell & Trade Crypto instantly and easily with INR at the best prices
• Doorbell Health — Your front door to home health.

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• Giftbee — Giftbee reshapes gifting for businesses and consumers. Send gifts with flexibility to accept, swap, or give forward. Manage gifting programs, reduce waste, and create meaningful impact.
• Indi — Connect the village around your child and track what matters. Organise records, therapy goals and your care team in one place.
• Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.

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• Cupla — Meet the ultimate relationship management app for couples. Discover the best shared calendar, to-do's, a date planner and more!
• Ejara — Ejara is an app for Africa and its diasporas to access various investment offers fractional shares, commodities, cryptocurrency, and more.
• Iomob Technology Services — Iomob empowers existing apps and platforms to deliver a seamless mobility experience.

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• Edrolo — Edrolo provides high-quality teaching resources for Year 7-12 teachers in Australia. Boost student engagement and achievement with our comprehensive platform and textbooks.
• Cadmus — Vericus develops a teaching and learning software tool that assures authenticity in written assessment called Cadmus.
• VycoLend — The first decentralized Crypto money market built on BTC with advanced security features for pro traders

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• Factory.app — Quote, schedule, run the floor, and get paid in one system built by fabricators. 300+ shops run on Factory. Book a 15-minute look.
• Citadel — A cloud platform for AWS compliant with CDR, PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA standards, providing security for your application, data, and customers.
• Outstaffer — Find & hire talent from around the world. We handle payroll, benefits, tax, compliance, HR & provide WorkFromAnywhere tech to safeguard your IP & productivity.

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• StretchSense — Capture high-fidelity human motion data for robotics AI, XR training, and immersive gaming with StretchSense soft-sensor glove technology.
• Material World — TOGELONLINE88 dikenal sebagai portal resmi bandar Toto Macau dan togel Indonesia yang menghadirkan berbagai pasaran populer dengan informasi terupdate serta sistem pengelolaan yang tertata untuk kebutuhan pemain online.
• Pixibo — Fashion's most accurate size recommendation solution

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• Kenoteq — Discover Kenoteq, pioneering the sustainable construction revolution with our innovative, ultra low-carbon building materials.
• QuickBlock — QUICKBLOCK delivers training environments, deployable infrastructure and force protection solutions for defence and security organisations worldwide.
• Singular Photonics — Singular Photonics is a startup that creates SPAD-based image sensors.

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• Emanda — Thinking about selling your business in Australia? Emanda guides you through every step: business valuation, health check, corporate compliance, and sale process. Start with a business valuation.
• Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
• Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.

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• Avertana — Avertana is a process technology company that has developed a proprietary platform to refine solid industrial waste streams into valuable mineral and chemical raw materials used to make everyday products. Products of Avertana's process are used in products such as paint, building materials, paper and fertilisers. The process is costcompetitive with existing approaches but offers a much lower environmental footprint than traditional methods. Avertana helps its customers to build more sustainable supply chains by making mineral and chemical ingredients for widely-used products from sources that support optimal environmental outcomes. Avertana’s waste to value process helps industry to reduce its environmental footprint competitively.
• Ambit — From natural language processing to machine learning, our conversational AI platform empowers organisations. Business focused and aligned, Ambit chatbots carve a direct path to meeting your strategic objectives. Ultimately, Ambit enables you to deliver to your customers and internal stakeholders better.
• Unleashed Software — Supply, production, inventory and sales software with exceptional product and customer focus

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• Fuuse — Fuuse is an electric vehicle charge point management system that enables your chargers to deliver more for you and your drivers.
• PathXL — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
• Skylark Lasers — UniKLasers specialises in single frequency, continuous wave DPSS lasers at mid- to high power. Suitable for Raman, Holography, Interferometry, Microscopy, Metrology, Quantum Technologies, and more

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• Airwallex — Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system.
• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
• DataMesh Group — We don't compete with banks and acquirers, preserving your commercial relationships. Choose any hardware and accept all payment types with our solution. Get in-store, online and mobile commerce in one view with unified settlement and analytics across regions. Already globally certified and trusted b

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• Practifi — The only intelligent CRM built specifically for wealth management firms, Practifi combines native AI functionality with purpose-built capabilities.
• Compare Club — Save money on your household expenses. We compare health and life insurance, home loans, energy plans, childcare and much more
• Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.

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• Orderful — Gain full control to onboard, manage and resolve all of your EDI trading partner relationships and transactions in real-time.
• tvScientific — tvScientific is the first performance platform for CTV. It combines the power of television with the precision of digital marketing.
• Freehand — AI Teams for Complex Spend Management

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• Ukka — Ukka is a Creating the ideal form of food and agriculture.
• Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
• MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.

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• Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• StretchSense — Capture high-fidelity human motion data for robotics AI, XR training, and immersive gaming with StretchSense soft-sensor glove technology.
• Elevate Money — Fintech powering embedded financial experiences
• Nova Pangaea Technologies — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.