Top 50 Retail Startup Investors in United Kingdom (June 2026)

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• GoJoe — Ditch the step challenge apps and employee engagement platforms and boost inclusivity and engagement with GoJoe.The employee engagement and wellbeing app that people actually use.
• Pockla — Securely share your AI generated creations with Pockla. The platform built for creators, developers, and innovators.
• Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.

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• FC Labs — Brainfit uses wearable technology to measure brain fitness as easily as your physical.
• Metacarpal — Metacarpal design upper-limb prosthetics without compromise. We aim to make the most robust, functional hand prosthesis that people love wearing because it works so effectively and looks so beautiful. Be proud to show your artificial side!
• Fox Robotics — Fox Robotics, is a start-up, located in Camberley, an innovator in robotics technology. They solve fundamental in-premises logistics problems across multiple areas such light manufacturing, aerospace, health agriculture and retail, etc . Their easy-to-use robotics solutions boost business productivity and substantially reduce cybersecurity andhealth-and-safety risks for customers.They understand that robotics will play an important role in society, at many levels and across all industries. Robots need to adapt to human environments by the use of advanced AI, sensors, control algorithms and strong security. Their products and solutions sit at the heart of key business processes and have an important role to play in the successful businesses of the future.

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• Ruleguard — Ruleguard is an regulatory technology platform for financial sector firms that helps you manage and evidence compliance across your organisation. Features include automated horizon scanning, rules mapping, SMCR compliance, third party oversight tools, breach management and regulatory checklists.
• Biotherapy Services — Biotherapy Services is a specialist pharmaceutical biotech company. We use state-of-the-art technology and patented proprietary processes, working to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) pharmaceutical manufacturing standards, to produce a range of clinically safe and effective autologous biotherapies for a broad range of clinical conditions.
• Industrial Engineering Plastics — Industrial Engineering Plastics delivers specialist thermoplastic fabrication for demanding industrial applications.

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• HiiKER — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
• Research Grid (R.grid) — Research Grid (R.grid) automates the entire clinical trial back-office by accelerating timelines and cutting admin delays. Get faster and more successful trials today.
• Spendkey — Spendkey's intelligent spend analytics solution helps businesses transform raw spend data into actionable insights to enable better business decisions, optimise costs and maximise savings

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• AAZZUR — One-stop-shop for APIs and embeddable Front-end-modules connected to a smart marketplace for BaaS- and Fintech-Services
• OnCare — Home care software | care management system
• SupaPass — The most powerful content app maker on the market. Finally have all of your content, audience & paywall in one place to turn your audience into a business.

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• Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with the Clue app, a women-led period and cycle tracker. Get science-based insights, predictions, and personalized tracking.
• 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.
• 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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• Peak — Accelerating AI adoption in retail and manufacturing, driving growth through inventory optimisation, AI-driven pricing, and more.
• Sparkbox — Retail price optimisation, planning, and insights. Sparkbox helps busy merchandising teams make data-driven decisions.
• Patchwork — NHS workforce solution for managing rotas, bank shifts, and staffing. Trusted by 200+ organisations. Built by healthcare professionals.

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• Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
• 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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• Preservica — Ensure compliance and longevity with our Digital Preservation software. Secure your organization's valuable records.
• Buster + Punch — Buster + Punch is a London-born home fashion label. We work with rare, solid materials to make extraordinary items for everyday use. It all started in a garage in East London where we discovered a passion for making the things we love. From lighting and hardware to custom motorcycles and whisky bars, we now make unexpected and elegant interiorproducts for those who want to live with conviction. Our work is inspired by London's fashion, music and sub-culture scenes where we collaborate with street artists, bike builders, musicians and fashion designers to inject attitude into our crafted products.
• Rotageek — Rotageek helps organisations predict and meet demand, using complex data-driven technologies to effectively and fairly schedule staff. They use personalised algorithms and machine learning to find patterns that would otherwise go unnoticed - providing best in class and fully personalised business forecasting and scheduling. Today, Rotageek livesin London and Melbourne and their clients include O2, Dune, William Hill, Maplin and The Perfume Shop to name just a few. They’re growing really quickly but their approach and their ambitions remain personal, and they always will. Their goal is to create a step change in scheduling capabilities using data-driven, highly intelligent technology that is agile and works both for business and people.

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• Wazoku — Wazoku - Where Innovation Works Wazoku
• Mojo — Join 600,000+ men worldwide using AI-powered coaches to build a performance mindset and take back control of their love lives.
• Infinitopes — Infinitopes is a cancer research organization whose mission is to strengthen the immune system so that it can stop metastases and save lives. The company's platform creates healthcare systems and therapy designs to integrate high-efficiency vector delivery systems with optimal tumor target identification technologies in early-stage clinicaltrials, allowing patients to prevent cancer and tumors from taking their lives

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• OutThink — Move from traditional security awareness to adaptive security with the world's first AI-native cybersecurity human risk management platform.
• Patch — Patch helps you choose the best plants for your space, delivers them to your door, and helps you look after them.
• OctaiPipe — OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software that delivers up to 40% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption.

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• Alvant — Alvant is an advanced materials technology group specialising in the design, development and production of aluminium composite components for demanding engineering applications.
• MyPeople —
• Torsion Information Security — Torsion integrates with your existing collaboration systems, working with business users to monitor and control access as business circumstances evolve.

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• Floom — Floom helps you send stunning flowers by local independent florists. Same day and next day flower delivery available. Free delivery on your first purchase.
• Fabacus — We are a leading data and technology business with a unique data service designed to digitally-transform the licensing industry. Contact us today.
• Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.

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• Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
• Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
• Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS

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• Fable — Fable Home dinnerware brings people together for love, laughter, and storytelling by delivering gorgeous cutlery, tableware, and glassware at affordable prices.
• Shellworks — Reimaging nature's packaging with beautifully sustainable, truly compostable alternatives to plastic for cosmetics and beauty products.
• Awe Inspired — We believe in fine jewelry as a vehicle for empowerment. Shop our collection of goddess necklaces, coin necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and more.

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• Yoto — The screen-free audio platform. Play music, stories and more with our audio player that children control with physical cards. Welcome to Audiotime®
• XOXO Soda — XOXO Soda is a plant-based drink with prebiotic fiber that is low in sugar and calories.
• Marleybones — Marleybones dog dining offers farm-fresh, and deliciously healthy food tailored for your dog and delivered to your doorstep. Try it now!

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• AMPECO — AMPECO enables large-scale EV charging providers to launch and scale their business operations under their own brand. The company offers a white-label and hardware-agnostic EV charging management platform to cover all business cases - public, private, and home charging. Advanced energy management, flexible billing and subscription management,automatic maintenance algorithms, and inter-operator roaming are some of the platform’s key components. With security and scalability at its core, the platform allows large-scale operators like energy companies, oil and gas, fleets, hardware manufacturers and installers to achieve quick go-to-market in a few months with a ready-made platform combined with unmatched flexibility and extensibility via APIs. AMPECO supports more than 110 charging network operators in over 45 markets and has been globally recognized by Frost & Sullivan for its superior technological innovation and strategic development with the 2022 Global Product Leadership Award.
• UVIONIX — Uvionix deploys Autonomous Flying Robots (AFRs) to monitor and report live data, ensuring a comprehensive view of operations, workflow efficiency, and near 100% inventory level accuracy. The system creates live digital twins of warehouse spaces, meticulously tracking each material movement. Delivering precise, unbiased data, and being immune to human error, the platform drastically enhances material planning, reduces stock losses, and lowers labor costs.
• OfficeRnD — OfficeRnD helps flex space operators and hybrid teams manage the workplace of the future. Book your demo or start a free 14-day trial.

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• Vinterior — Vinterior is the online marketplace where the world buys and sells remarkable vintage and antique furniture across every lifestyle, budget and taste.
• Code First Girls — Code First Girls is on a mission to transform tech. We work with various partners to teach women to code for free; join the 200,000+ women we have taught so far!
• Creature Comforts — Visit Creature Comforts' world-class vet clinics in Notting Hill, St. John's Wood, Chiswick and Barnet, or live chat with our friendly team. Vet care, the way it should be.

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• Klay — Reimagine music with KLAY.
• Shipsi — Shipsi empowers any retailer with the ability to offer an easy “instant shipping” option on their checkout page—without worrying about logistics. They use existing infrastructure and last-mile delivery networks to help customers order now AND get it now. Shipsi was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.
• Scout AI — Scout AI is building the robotic foundation model for defense.

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• T-Pro — T-Pro is a world leading document and patient workflow manahement platform for heathcare. Powered by state of the art AI speech technology, T-Pro reduces the burden of documentation for clinicians and automates patient noting and correspondence workflows.
• Direct Ferries — Direct Ferries is an online platform that provides a selection of ferry routing information to its users.The platform allows its users to compare ferry crossings in its search and find fairs associated with them at the time of travel. Its network covers ports in Europe, with crossings available throughout Africa, Asia, Australia, North America,and South America. Furthermore, it allows its users to choose routes, as well as ferry deals information on their selected routes.
• Symphony Ventures — We blend human expertise with AI-driven capabilities to provide brands with comprehensive CX outsourcing services & solutions.

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• Navro — Access the best payments infrastructure around the world, all through a single platform.
• Sust Global — Sust Global provides Validated Climate Analytics which transform climate complexity into Business Intelligence. Our analytics dashboards and API products serve blue-chip global investors, corporates, consultancies and data platforms with climate risk models and GHG emissions monitoring.
• Capitalise.com — At Capitalise, our vision is to give small businesses and their advisers transparency and control over business finance, in one place.

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• Implement AI — Implement AI provides managed AI agent solutions and teams of virtual workers via its AI Agent Platform, offering SMEs cost-effective, enterprise-grade solutions to amplify human potential, optimise productivity, and drive growth.
• Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.

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• Karman+ — Mining near Earth asteroids
• Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
• 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.

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• Tourhub — tourhub - We collect tours from hundreds of suppliers around the world and provide an easy way for you to search and find those that are of interest.
• Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
• Hope Macy — Hope Macy is the decisioning and origination layer that modern consumer lenders build on.

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• Bidnamic — Bidnamic is a marketing technology platform that helps retailers unlock the full potential of Google Shopping.
• eConsult Health — eConsult Health Limited designs and builds digital triage and remote consultation solutions that unleash the power of healthcare.
• Metrion Biosciences — Specialist Preclinical Drug Discovery CRO

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• Precise TV — Precise.TV helps you deliver brand safe, targeted YouTube advertising campaigns complete with actionable data analytics to drive performance for your brand.
• HSL Compliance — HSL Compliance offers water hygiene and tank replacement, water quality testing, city and guilds training & fire risk assessments services.
• LendingMetrics — Delivering cutting-edge financial technology and innovative solutions including the multi-award-winning Auto Decision Platform (ADP). ISO-accredited credit reference agency licensed and regulated by the FCA.

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• Lexverify — Lexverify uses artificial intelligence to detect potential legal and compliance concerns in communications. It assists businesses in proactively avoiding legal and regulatory concerns by harnessing the power of AI. Their objective is to make technological communication a benefit rather than a problem.
• Centaur Robotics — Centaur believes mobility needs re-imagining to provide a real advantage for everyday human needs. Our vision is to challenge thinking through design and technology to create superhuman technology - that provides extra-ordinary mobility fit for humans in the 21st Century.
• Purple Transform — Purple Transform operates as an artificial intelligence company. Purple Transform improves decision accuracy with digital intelligence.

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• Flock — Fair and flexible motor fleet insurance for cars, vans, and mixed fleets. Expert support, online policies and stress-free claims. For UK fleets of 20+ vehicles.
• BBC Maestro — BBC Maestro is a brand new e-learning service, where courses are taught by the most experienced creators in the world.
• e.fundamentals — Monitor, Measure and Manage your eCommerce performance with our Digital Shelf Analytics software. Get Unrivalled Support, plus a 4x ROI Commitment.

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• YuLife — Meet YuLife - the all-in-one platform for group insurance, employee benefits, wellbeing, engagement, and global rewards your people love and actually use.
• Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
• Snowplow — Snowplow gives teams complete flexibility and control over how behavioral data is collected, structured, processed, modeled and stored.

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• Vidsy — Vidsy is the creative technology platform that helps global brands and agencies create high-performing video ads. Connect with our global network of creators and streamline your content creation process.
• Merx — Grow contactability, data quality and customer lifetime value with AI agents on WhatsApp.
• ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.

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• Y42 — Y42's Turnkey Data Orchestration Platform gives you a unified space to build, monitor and maintain a robust flow of data to power your business
• LabGenius — Finding the next generation of drugs with machine learning, synthetic biology and laboratory automation
• Bossa Studios — Co-creating players most memorable stories

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• Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
• Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
• Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

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• Verifiable — A modern data engine to power healthcare credentialing, licensing, enrollment and provider network management. Built for the new demands of today's healthcare.
• Kyruus Health — Kyruus Health is a care access platform that provides solutions for providers data management, patient engagement, and activation.
• Coin Metrics — Crypto intelligence for the future of finance. Coin Metrics organizes the world's crypto data and makes it transparent and accessible.

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• Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
• Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
• Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

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• Lucky Energy — LUCKY F*CK is a better-for-you energy drink company.
• Poolhouse — Poolhouse is a cutting-edge, technologically advanced entertainment firm that intends to revolutionize the classic game of pool.
• Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

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• Delega — Delega is a true multi-bank tool that finally enables corporates to manage signatory rights in an easy and uncomplicated way.
• Yond — Yond is taking a risk by integrating social commerce into the core of the travel booking process, with the goal of completely changing the travel industry.
• SphereTrax — SphereTrax is a carefully curated gallery of high end soundtracks and songs, a cutting edge label and an innovative marketplace. Disrupting and revolutionising the way music is placed, synced and licensed in feature films, TV, trailers, commercials, games, VR, AR and XR formats.

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• Camino — Camino Leisure Holdings is a Spanish bar and restaurant that serves authentic food and wines.
• Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer technology expands the accessibility of all mobile devices by unlocking SDR capabilities in the RFFE front end.
• Snipple Animation Studios — Snipple are specialists in animated television and sports entertainment. We are one of the largest animation partners to Disney and Warner Brothers. We develop original IP and we have unique partnerships with sports teams, growing the fans of the future.

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• Vegetarian Express — With over 35 years of experience and 1200+ plant-based ingredients in our larder, from cutting-edge plant-based meat alternatives to rare and hard-to-find.
• The Climbing Hangar — Rock climbing London with added Hangar community spirit.
• YorkTest — YorkTest is an award-winning food intolerance & allergy testing company, optimising health and wellbeing with our range of health tests. Order online...

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• Insightful — Get Insightful starting from 6.4$ and start monitoring your employees now!
• Orgnostic — Orgnostic is the human capital analytics platform for startups. Orgnostic provides investors and leadership teams with high-quality organizational insights that link organizational dynamics with companies’ bottom lines, creating better and more sustainable businesses for the new economy.
• City Expert — City Expert Global is a Serbian startup that introduces new technologies and business approach to the traditional real estate sector. It focuses on creating new standards in the advertising and agency real estate sector. City Expert Global was founded in 2015 by Darko Luković, Stefan Stojanović, and Igor Jović. It is based in Belgrade, Serbia.

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• Quandoo — In 8 years, Quandoo has expanded into 11 countries and has seated more than 200 million diners in 18,000+ restaurants. Quandoo’s technology-enabled marketplace equips both restaurants and diners with innovative products to elevate dining out as we know it. Headquartered in Berlin, with international footprints in Austria, Switzerland, Italy,Turkey, the UK, Hong Kong, Finland, Singapore, Australia and the Netherlands; the founders’ vision is to grow Quandoo into the world’s leading marketplace for dining out experiences. Quandoo is a subsidiary of Recruit Holdings, and with its sister companies HotPepper and AirRegi, forms the world’s largest restaurant marketing and software company. Quandoo currently employs more than 370 people from 50 countries.
• unique.ai — Automate personalized experiences to successfully transform your organization.
• Happeo — Happeo is the easy-to-launch intranet that helps you keep verified company knowledge centralized, relevant and searchable by connecting to the tools your teams already use.

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• Swyft — The original sofa in a box with 100 day returns, 24 hour delivery, 15 year frame guarantee & easy clean fabrics. Swyft makes beautiful living easy.
• Simplestream — We are Simplestream, an award-winning and best-in-class provider of next-generation TV solutions to some of the biggest players in the broadcast, sport, and media industry.
• Diamond Logistics — UK logistics company providing reliable parcel delivery, courier services and fulfilment solutions for businesses nationwide.

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• Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
• MoveWise — Best casino sites UK ranked by reliability, game variety, bonus terms, and payout performance to help players choose with confidence.
• Area4 Labs — Hearby is your gateway to local live events.

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• OroCommerce — Oro revolutionizes your business with B2B eCommerce Software and CRM. Accelerate your path to digital transformation with our suite of products.
• Cobalt — Cobalt is modernizing traditional pentesting. We leverage global talent and a SaaS platform to deliver a better pentest via Pentest as a Service (PtaaS).
• Alice — Protect GenAI and UGC platforms with end-to-end trust, safety & security with Alice, formerly ActiveFence.

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• Untamed — Untamed uses fresh, human-grade ingredients to help cats enjoy happier, healthier lives. Chicken breast and liver, tuna steak, salmon fillet, duck breast, shrimp, sardine, and mackerel fillets are offered.
• Epetōme — Epetōme offers gut health supplements focused on digestive health using probiotics, prebiotics and patented capsule technology.
• Puresport — Puresport was created to craft the finest, premium-quality natural products to support every element of wellbeing, from pain & recovery, to sleep, focus, mood, stress, and balance.

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• Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
• MV.Health — MysteryVibe offers the most advanced & award winning smart sex toys for men, women & couples that elevates their sexual health and wellbeing.
• Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.

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• Ewake — Ewake.ai is your AI Production Teammate that seamlessly integrates with your production environment to bring reliability proactively and reactively. Never miss the heartbeat of your systems with our ambient agent for production reliability.
• Nexcade — Bringing intelligent automation to Freight Forwarding. Nexcade builds agents that meet forwarders where they work today- cutting through noise, accelerating descisions, and helping teams win more business.
• ai-coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.

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• RETìníZE — RETìníZE is an AR, VR, multi-screen installations, and software development.
• Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
• Liquid Acquire — Liquid Acquire provides AI solutions for mergers and acquisitions.

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• Cornerstone — Cornerstone is a regular delivery service of razor blades and shaving supplies for men. Its service include German-engineered razors and British-blended skincare products. Cornerstone was founded in January 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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• Silverback.ai — The ultimate business intelligence platform for e-commerce marketplaces
• Adludio — Adludio is the AI-powered platform that delivers interactive mobile advertising. By using data to design your ad creative, and algorithms to optimize your campaigns, Adludio makes sure you win the battle for brand attention.
• Pronto Technology — Pronto, we care deeply about the meals we deliver to you. We want them to be very good; for you, the community and the environment. All our healthy meals are freshly cooked from scratch, just like at home - they won’t see the inside of a freezer.

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• Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
• SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
• BrandShield — Your brand protection tool should do more than detect counterfeits. BrandShield will detect and takedown all manner of frauds, protecting your company.