Top 35 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Germany (June 2026)

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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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• Floy — Floy develops AI-driven software that supports radiologists in detecting complex and hard-to-identify diseases. The collaboration of Floy-AI and radiologists ensures optimal patient outcomes by enabling the early detection and thus early treatment of diseases.One of Floy’s distinguishing features is our innovative incentive structure. We partnerwith radiology offices to jointly offer patients our AI as a “second opinion”. This unique approach motivates radiologists to embrace Floy-AI and encourages widespread adoption.Since its establishment in 2021, Floy secured €8.8 million in funding and rapidly expanded its presence with over 150 radiology locations to date. Floy’s overarching mission is to pioneer proactive medicine by providing exceptional AI-powered diagnostic experiences for health-conscious patients.
• Exein — The firmware security software and middleware can be injected like a vaccine in the hardware and aims to defend it from inside, working directly into the firmware at a lower level.
• Acurast — Acurast Decentralized Serverless Cloud, leveraging the multipliers of mobile phones for compute.

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• Cognigy — Automate customer and employee services through Conversational AI implementation across any organization with Cognigy. Book demo or try free now!
• Neo4j — Connect data as it's stored with Neo4j. Perform powerful, complex queries at scale and speed with our graph data platform.
• Quantum Systems — Our vision is to become the global leader in providing aerial data for decision making by the use of our drones.

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• Classplus — Classplus is a mobile first SaaS platform that enables private coaching institutes to streamline their video distribution, payments, communication and online assessments through a single platform.
• Khatabook — Digital India's Digital Khata! Download Khatabook now & take charge of all your transactions, use Khatabook and grow your business!
• Cuckoo — Cuckoo is a broadband services provider used to simplify broadband for users. The company has a simple broadband offering, suppling a single 67 Mb/s fibre deal on a monthly rolling contract with no hidden fees. Founded in 2019 by Alexander Fitzgerald, Cuckoo is headquartered in London, England.

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• Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
• Allay Therapeutics — SUPPORTING PATIENTS THROUGH EVERY PHASE OF RECUPERATION The first technology designed to deliver weeks of localized pain management
• Regulus Therapeutics — Regulus Therapeutics Is a biopharmaceutical company leading the discovery of a new class of high-impact medicines based on microRNAs. The discovery of MicroRNA in humans is one of the most exciting scientific breakthroughs in the last decade. MicroRNAs are small RNA molecules, typically 20 to 25 nucleotides in length, that do not encode proteinsbut instead regulate gene expression. It was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

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• Tulyp — Tulyp is a financial service company that offers insure, investment, and secure payment solutions.
• morgana — Morgana is reshaping the mortgage industry in Latam. With a 5x faster application process, in-depth market knowledge, privileged access to data, and superb team, we are a groundbreaking digital mortgage broker that will shortly be competing with banks.
• Sona — The employee 'super' app for frontline teams. Sona combines the power of modern workforce management software with an unparalleled mobile user experience.

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• Sedivention — Fight obesity within 20 minutes - fast, effective, long-term. A new weight-loss therapy for the treatment of obesity. Just a view minutes will change your life.
• Solar Materials — SOLAR MATERIALS developed a recycling technology for solar modules, which recovers all raw materials for a circular solar industry.
• Litherm Technologies — Litherm Technologies GmbH is a German deep‑tech startup focused on decarbonizing lime and cement production using fully electric kiln technology.

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• Homa Games — Leave your mark in the gaming industry. We are building a team of extraordinary individuals working together to build apps that entertain the world. We are experts in every step of the publishing process.
• Acorns — Acorns is a financial wellness app that helps individuals and families save, invest, and grow money automatically through simple, everyday habits.
• Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!

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• Ryte — Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
• nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
• 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.

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• Groq — Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.
• ZenMate — At ZenMate VPN we strive towards providing users around the world with a free and anonymous Internet experience.
• Helium — Helium allows anyone to build and own massive wireless networks.

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• Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
• Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
• The Coterie — https://blog.thecoterie.co/introducing-the-coterie-34e739cb85dcThe Coterie builds financial software for people who may make more from assets than salary. We offer founders access to venture capital investments, estate planning strategies and, coming soon, lending products. Our founders—Ethan Agarwal, Jeson Patel, and ChrisBoies—have all founded and sold companies before. We built The Coterie, alongside our incredible team, because we saw the need for these products first hand, and we created the world we want to live in. We’ve raised $50M in funding, led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include Garry Tan (Midas List), Gokul Rajaram (IFKYK), Mar Hershenson (Midas List), Stanley Tang (Doordash co-founder), and more. Loans are made by Coterie Finance LLCLoans are made by Coterie Finance LLC. Investment advisory services provided through The Coterie Management Co LLC. Not investing advice, no guarantee of future results.

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• nebenan.de — Nebenan.de offers neighbors a useful and secure platform for building and maintaining neighborly relations. Nebenan.de is a social network intended for neighbors with over 800,000 users in more than 6,000 neighborhoods. The aim of the platform is to build functioning relationships between people from the surrounding area.
• AX Semantics — AX Semantics is a AI-powered, natural language generation (NLG) software company with roots grounded in content and storytelling. Our sophisticated, yet easy to use SaaS-based software makes automated content generation accessible to customers of all sizes, and is used widely within the e-commerce, business, finance and media publishing sectors.Available in 110 languages, AX Semantics works with more than 500 customers, including globally recognized brands like Porsche, Nestlé and mytheresa.com. AX Semantics was named one of the world's top five providers of natural language generation platforms by Gartner, and a top emerging company in the NLG market by ForresterAX Semantics is changing the way content is created, published and viewed. Our software allows thousands of users to successfully automate text within two days, and gives people the space to develop and nurture their creative originality.Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany with an additional office in Sunnyvale, California, AX Semantics is a privately-held company backed by Airbridge Equity Partners.

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• Umiami — Umiami Technologies is a leader in plant-based meat. Our proprietary technology allows us to create clean-label and incredibly tasty foods.
• Albatross AI — Inspire Customers Boost Conversions Capture Missed Revenues
• Hypervision Surgical — Making surgeries more precise, safer and faster. Guiding the future of surgery using AI-powered hyperspectral imaging.

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• Smava — smava, one of the credit comparison portals in Germany, continued the strong growth path of previous years in 2019: The brokered loan volume grew by 35% from around EUR 2 billion in 2018 to around EUR 2.7 billion. Likewise, smava grew again significantly in the first quarter of 2020: smava was able to increase the loan volume brokered by 45%compared to the same quarter of the previous year to approx. EUR 900 million. In total, smava has already brokered more than 8 billion euros in loans.
• Softgarden — Softgarden makes hiring super easy. Post jobs to your website and job boards, let candidates apply online, track, assess and discuss applications and gain important insights about your hiring process with analytics.
• Searchmetrics — Where enterprises go to win in AI search

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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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• Athos — The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster. Athos does this by bringing together the most relevant data and exercise science to deliver simple, actionable insights that allow coaches and athletes to get the most out of their training.
• Adverity — Adverity is the fully-integrated data platform for businesses to easily automate the connectivity, transformation, and governance of data at scale.
• Residently — Simplifying the rental process: from finding the perfect pad to furnishing and sourcing expert local home services, all at the tap of a button.

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• Stripe — Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the Internet. Stripe is a platform for commercial finance infrastructure. Stripe is used by millions of businesses, ranging from the biggest corporations in the world to the most ambitious startups, to take payments, increase revenue, and open up new business prospects.
• TradeHero — Founded in 2012 by app developer MyHero, TradeHero's mission is to provide a platform for traders to monetize their investment expertise, by democratizing trading in a social and gamified mobile app. TradeHero is a free stock market simulation app, which draws real-world data from stock exchanges to create an unrivalled global socialinvestment network. Users can compete with friends from their social networks, or on the global leaderboards with users from across the world. The app brings novice and knowledgeable traders together, allowing novice traders to subscribe for stock tips via push notifications, and top traders to earn subscription fees from followers. Followers can subscribe, for a small monthly fee, to follow and receive trade feeds from their chosen Heroes via push notifications on their mobile device. These push notifications detail each Buy and Sell action of the Hero, allowing followers to receive expert trading tips and personal insight into successful investment strategies. TradeHero will share subscription revenue from followers equally with Heroes, thus allowing Heroes to monetize their trading expertise.
• Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.

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• Linked Finance — LinkedFinance offers a new and painless way for Irish businesses to borrow money from a large group of real people, including their own customers. Crowd Funding is the new way for companies to borrow, bankers get bypassed, the wheels of business keep turning and everyone wins!Person to Person (P2P) lending or Crowd Funding is simple. Peoplewith money to lend can lend it directly to people who need it. With LinkedFinance lenders can lend directly to small businesses looking for funding. Crowd Funding provides complete transparency to both the lender and borrower and it brings lending back to basics where a lender simply deposits funds and when there are enough funds available loans can be made to credit worthy borrowers.How it Works - Businesses looking for a loan can apply at Linkedfinance.com for funding. The loan required and full details of the business are posted in their market. Potential Lenders can participate in an auction process where they bid on how much of the loan they are prepared to fund and the interest rate they require. The lowest rate bids are accepted so the borrower secures the best interest rate possible.
• Nostos Genomics — Our genetic variant interpretation platform enables genetic testing labs to give more people with genetic diseases a clear and fast diagnosis.
• Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.

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• appful — Convert your WordPress Website into iOS/Android Apps in 5 Minutes with our innovative Plugin. Test our WordPress to App Builder for free!
• Assemblio — Assembly planning in minutes, instead of weeks

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• Atolls — Atolls is the world’s largest shopping engagement platform, empowering millions of people to take smarter spending decisions. The company operates a network of digital shopping destinations, including coupon sites, cashback platforms, and shopping communities, that are trusted by hundreds of millions of shoppers each year.The company is active inmore than 20 countries and counts over 1000 employees in its offices around the world.
• ExtraStudent — Landing page for an app startup featuring hero, features, and CTA with neumorphism style.
• Global Savings Group — The Global Savings Group (GSG) is Europe's leading shopping rewards company that empowers people to shop in a smarter way. With its comprehensive portfolio of consumer engagement platforms and savings brands, GSG provides people access to exclusive savings, deals, product information, reviews, and discovery from their favorite stores andbrands. GSG’s team of over 500 professionals in 20 plus markets across the globe, an advanced technology stack, and close, lasting partnerships with the world’s leading news publishers enables it to help consumers to save on more than 2 million transactions every month. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Munich, GSG increases customer loyalty and drives engagement for the world’s largest advertising brands, while assisting yearly more than 350 million shoppers to make smarter purchasing decisions.

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• Finmile — Transform your logistics operations with AI-powered route optimization software. Cut delivery costs by 30%, optimize multi-stop routes instantly, and boost efficiency with real-time tracking. Try Finmile's logistics management platform today!
• Wonder Dynamics — Wonder Dynamics is utilizing AI to develop cutting-edge technologies, innovate production tools and create original content -- both traditional and interactive.
• Exponential Markets — Exponential Markets is developing a series of next-generation tradable financial instruments designed to offer new levels of hedging capabilities and risk management for participants in a variety of asset classes. The company's first product, the Exponential Used Vehicle Index (Bloomberg ticker: AUTO), is a first-of-its-kind tradable index forthe automotive sector that allows rental car companies, auto insurers, and auto lessors to hedge used vehicle price risk. The company's product roadmap includes cash-settled index derivatives for new and underserved markets, in addition to exploration of smart market applications.

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• Webel — Webel is an on demand Home Services Marketplace (cleaning, nannies, tutors...) where clients can search, book, compare, pay and review these services. Thanks to a deep analysis of the current methods for hiring these services and the competition outlook, we have created a unique and revolutionary business model that will outperform the market.
• FINVISE — Mortgage reports for financial institutions
• FaradaIC Sensors — FaradaIC Sensors is to commoditize gas sensors and provide flexible gas sensing at a cheap cost for the expanding market of IoT applications.

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• Zype — Publish Video Across All Your Customer's Platforms. OTT, social media, and O&O websites and apps. Pre-built templates. Reach a global audience.
• enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
• OptioPay — Encourage your customers to opt-in for data exchange to benefit from exclusive offers based on their interests, financial situation and buying behavior.

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• Paxton — Regulatory Intelligence, with the speed of Generative AI.
• Limbic — Limbic creates neuroscience of emotion packaged for developers. With just a few lines of code, anyone can make their app emotionally intelligent. Use the SDK to build products that interact with your user as naturally as interactions between two humans.
• Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses

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• SeatID — SeatID is a SaaS suite of Social Media Solutions developed to grow your business. Through the implementation of Social Login, Social Proof, Social Seating and Booking and Social WiFi, you can bring the power of social media influence to the exact place where buying decisions are being made, substantially improving consumer confidence, conversionsand sales.
• ADINCON — Adincon increase revenues for online content publishers by managing in-content advertisements using a unique technology that optimize ads location, price and traffic. Most of the advertisements in the web suffers from banner blindness, since most of the attention of the users is focused on the content. In order to get better results, Adincontechnology analyzes every page and insert traditional ads in the most effective locations inside the content. By working with multiple ad-exchanges, Adincon make sure all inventory get sold in the most optimal price. Adincon also identify in real-time which pages performing better than others and can direct traffic to them from low conversion pages in order to maximize monetization. Adincon solution helps any content owner from professional publishers, like online news sites, to small blogs to monetize their content in the most effective way.

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• Olyzon — Olyzon offers adtech solutions for Connected TV, enhancing brand uplift, optimizing user engagement, and maximizing ROI for advertisers, content owners, and distributors.
• Blocktool — Blocktool API gives you access to several LLMs and optimizes your cost by routing queries to the best and cheapest models.
• Paage — Paage offers a link-in-bio platform that enables creators and businesses to sell digital and physical products.

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• Sapyen — We take the fear out of infertility for men. Test for it at home, without stepping out to the hospital and get personalised health recommendations to improve sperm health and increase your chances of conceiving.
• RubiLabs — RubiLabs Inc provides a platform for unifying, monitoring, and analyzing organizational data. RubiLabs software enables analysts and operators across risk, compliance, and security teams to collaborate and interpret large volumes of information in real time. The company’s platform is designed to help institutions make sense of complex, fragmenteddata by transforming it into a coherent operational picture for risk detection, continuous monitoring, and investigative workflows.
• One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.

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• Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
• Chaldal — Order grocery and food online with same-day home delivery. Save money, save time
• Open Mineral AG — Technology-enabled global metal commodity trade & market intelligence platform.

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• Conatix — Conatix is reinventing business research, helping companies to do market, investment and strategic research better, faster and cheaper. Conatix is building a semi-automated business intelligence system based on recent advances in machine learning to enable companies to discover, source, structure and share previously unstructured data andinformation from outside their organizations. The system will be licensed to companies to use for all of their research work on a per-month, per-seat online knowledge management as a service (KaaS) basis.Conatix disrupts the business research value chain: rethinking online search and discovery, organizing the research process, creating a system that learns, and iterating the process to create knowledge that scales. Companies need to do more than one-off keyword searches using an advertising-driven consumer search tool. Conatix does not just sell a technical solution to the narrow problem of internet search, or a search engine. Conatix sells an end-to-end business system solving a business problem to a business customer, developed in response to a real business need.
• Likeminded — Likeminded developed a digital platform for mental health that gives people fast, low-threshold access to psychological support.
• VersionEye — Open Source Security & License Compliance

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• LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
• OptimHire — OptimHire is an online recruiting and hiring platform for job seekers & recruiters.
• Shoppinpal — No more manual data reconciliation. Seamless integrations, app onboarding & data migrations that allow your business to thrive.

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• QphoX — QphoX builds quantum modem device, connecting quantum computers across a quantum network.
• Zimory — Founded in 2007, Zimory provides carrier-grade cloud infrastructure management software that allows service providers, enterprises and cloud brokers to fully leverage the power and elasticity of cloud computing. Zimory’s intelligent Cloud Suite simplifies, automates and expedites the creation, launch and management of all types of cloudenvironments – whether public, private, virtual private or hybrid. Zimory software is also a key enabler of cloud marketplaces for enterprise services, applications and infrastructure. Headquartered in Berlin, Zimory has development centers in Erfurt, Germany and Minsk, Belarus, a subsidiary office in New York City and is expanding its expertise and presence globally.
• BlueID GmbH — Smart locks for professionals. BlueID delivers flexible, secure and convenient smart locks for all doors in and around your office.

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• Cedalo — Cedalo MQTT Platform with over 10,7k GitHub stars. Enterprise-grade MQTT broker, management center, and persistent queueing built on open-source Mosquitto foundation.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
• Code Intelligence — Always be a step ahead. Find and fix vulnerabilities before others do. Run automated security tests with each pull request!

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• SkillYoga — Get a personal yoga training plan based on your goals and experience. Functional, down-to-earth yoga training: anytime, anywhere. Become a better athlete today!
• 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.

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• Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
• Crediverso — Crediverso is a financial marketplace where people can find credit cards, credit checks, and international money transfers. The platform of the company provides access to financial information and financial products such as credit information, credit cards, loans, money transfer feature, credit scores, and more, thereby enabling the US Latinoaudience by bridging the cultural gap.
• Arcade — Arcade is a B2C platform that transforms the jewelry market through its prompt-to-product solution, allowing users to create unique designs using AI. The marketplace supports various user roles, enabling customers, designers, and influencers to engage and collaborate.

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• Steady — Most independent content creators (podcasters, online magazines, bloggers, YouTubers, open source developers) don’t have the resources to directly monetize their communities. They rely on shaky ad revenue or donations. Steady converts these communities to paying members, taking a share out of every transaction. Think Shopify for content creators.
• delphai — More, better, faster company intelligence. Create company lists.