Top 50 Travel Startup Investors in South Korea (June 2026)

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• Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
• Specter — Specter is a reputation sharing platform for applicants who are sincere and do their job well, but cannot do enough self-PR in interviews.

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• Eleven O'Clock — Eleven O'Clock is a space management platform that offers non-face-to-face cleaning of accommodation facilities. The company's platform Keeper innovates space operation and management as the new standard for space management. The efficiency and quality of space management are improved according to the systematic manual of the Keeperplatform. The platform records and communicates every process as data, from management manuals to space status checks.
• Activity Exchange — Activity Exchange is a startup that develops travel product publishing and reservation management solutions for local travel agencies.

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• MOVV — Move is a travel agency that offers ticketing, travel, and reservation services.
• Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
• Odd Concepts — Odd Concepts provide an wide portfolio of ready to use image recognition and search technology as a cloud based API service. Each customer has different requirements, and they assure ach customer requirement is met by our scientists tuning and combining analysis engines for optimal results.

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• SemiAI — SemiAI develops an agentic AI platform for semiconductor manufacturing. The company provides AI-driven solutions that analyze fabrication data, detect process issues, optimize yield, and support decision-making across production workflows, helping semiconductor manufacturers improve efficiency and production quality through intelligent automation.
• Metainnotech — Metainnotech is an innovative technology platform that provides inter-floor noise reduction solutions in apartments and complexes using AI and various algorithms.
• Moment Studio — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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• Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
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• Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops automotive data platform that provides web-based visualization, filtering, and post-processing of vehicle data.

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• My Benefit — My Benefit is a digital health management platform for tracking musculoskeletal conditions and fitness levels.
• Gadget Korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.
• Studio Galilei — Studio Galilei is an SFO platform company that operates and manages mobility services.

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• Bookers — Bookers provide a range of reading-related supplemental services, including reader selection and book discussions.
• Space F — Space F is an application industry platform business company that researches and develops cell farming technology.
• Frientrip — Bored of the same old daily life, but not sure where to begin? Or you know what you want to do, but your friends don't share that same interest? Frientrip was born to satisfy these needs. Frientrip is a social activity platform which allows people to gather and enjoy various outdoor/indoor activities together.As the biggest platformof its kind in Korea, Frientrip believes that everyone can lead a more energetic life by trying out new things and meeting new people. Therefore, we aim to create a community where people enhance their experience and share it with one another, as our slogan goes -- WE INSPIRE PEOPLE TO EXPERIENCE THE WORLD.

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• Grayzip — Grayzip, is an online investment platform enabling fractional investments in prime apartments. Investors can participate, earning monthly interest with potential additional returns linked to property value appreciation. It offers both market-linked and fixed-rate investment options, enhancing accessibility to real estate investments.
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• CHOOPERMARKET — Choopermarket sells winery and gift products.

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• Swit — An Employee Productivity Hub for Collaboration Essentials
• Restream — Restream is a super simple live video platform that empowers you to create beautiful videos and multistream them to your favorite channels.
• Bunker Kids — Bunker Kids is a startup that provides solutions optimized for achieving personal health goals using data and algorithms.

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• Jaranda — One-on-one child-oriented play sitter / learning sheeter for working parents and children's happiness.
• Digital Natives — Digital Natives is an advertising agency that develops digital advertising transaction comparison platform for marketers.
• H Charging Research Institute — H Charging Research Institute is an electric vehicle company. Aside from fire prevention and PNC (Plug & Charge) charging services, the company plans to build a V2G power business using electric vehicles by using advanced charging technology. The company distributes PLC-embedded charger H chargers to the market and diversifies futurebusinesses, including V2G, in order to create the future of electric vehicle charging.

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• BIGC — BIGC is a technology company that offers digital marketing, content creation, and advertising services.
• Paywork — PayWal is a payment platform that provides dedicated project teaming, task execution checks, and contract management services.
• DirectCloud — DirectCloud is a company that develops a cloud storage service business for corporations.

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• Rapeech — Rapeech is an AI voice technology company that provides product development services.
• TR — TR is a digital healthcare company that designs and develops medical devices and electronic products.
• Brave Company — Brave Company is an internet publishing company. Well, the lusts, but not the burdens of the ZZP existence. BraveCompany is for self-employed people who want to do more and manage less. Are you in paid employment and do you doubt whether you dare to make the leap? Even then, BraveCompany offers a warm bath with 'colleagues' that you havegone for, a network with potential assignments and invoicing services. BraveCompany is for successful professionals who are or want to become independent. What can we mean for each other? We share knowledge, trends and help with professional issues. And all that in the atmosphere of a home port. So you benefit from the benefits of experienced colleagues. Do you see any more possibilities with your current client to do work, or do you regularly refer projects to colleagues? We offer the framework to seize these opportunities and also be rewarded for your talent as a matchmaker.

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• Conalog — Conalog is a piezoelectric element-based energy harvesting technology.
• Pion Electric — Pion Electric is a company that is reimagining the future of the energy industry and the worldwide market for emerging technologies.
• Wintec Glovis — Wintec Glovis manufactures water treatment and air purification equipment that solves the drawbacks of activated carbon. With the help of superheated steam, the company recycles activated carbon with eco-friendly technology, which allows humans to breathe clean air and drink clear water without concern.

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• Pensées — Pensées is a 3D bio-printer company that develops cultured meat through 3D bioprinting technology.
• All My Tour — All My Tour intends to introduce a new lodging booking engine that will be distinguished from existing travel platforms by the use of personalized lowest-price reservation technology.
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• MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
• Limpid — Limpid is a Bio pet food startup. It set new standards in pet nutrition through continuous innovation.
• DoubleT — DoubleT is an innovative tech enterprise specialized in industrial workplace safety and business automation. Its premier product, HEIMDALL, utilizes artificial intelligence and real-time location systems to prevent industrial accidents. They also operate DoubleWorks for corporate management and Jikguraound to streamline global B2B sourcing forbusinesses.

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• Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
• Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
• Return Zero — AI, ASR, Diarization, Speech, ML

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• Rovigos — Rovigos analyzes data from your whole business to help you make better forecasts and choices.
• Welfare Union — Welfare Union focused on customized senior care meals and nutritional services.
• Phyto Research — Phyto Research offers virus-free, high-quality seedlings as OEM through tissue culture and seed manufacturing.

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• BDACS — BDACS is a digital asset custodian company that provides a suite of digital asset custody services, including storage and security.
• Robot Era — Robot era is an emerging technology business creates embodied intelligence and generic humanoid robot technologies and products. Xingdong Era is committed to the development of universal humanoid robots that can adapt to a wide range of fields, multiple scenarios, and high intelligence, striving to realize the beautiful vision of intelligent robotsentering thousands of households and integrating into the lights of thousands of homes.
• All My Tour — All My Tour intends to introduce a new lodging booking engine that will be distinguished from existing travel platforms by the use of personalized lowest-price reservation technology.

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• Logpresso — Logpresso is an automated security operation platform that integrates on-premise, cloud, and SaaS environments.
• Playtag — Playtag uses AI technology to analyze infant behavior and provide customized education in kindergartens.
• Typecast — The online AI voice generator that can turn your text into life-like speech. Our extensive selection of hyper-realistic voices. Create your content just the way you want it!

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• Magnendo — Advancing neurovascular care with cutting-edge robotic technologies.
• Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.
• Kompass — Kompass is building the world's first comprehensive fertility monitor that is portable, easy to use, and low cost. We're breaking barriers to fertility care and redefining blood testing for accessibility and affordability.

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• Trustay — Trustay is a real estate asset management company.
• Kimu Studio — Kimu discovers servant artists, plans education and exhibitions with the artist's unique sensibility.
• Kuntian New Energy — Hebei Kuntian New Energy is a producer of anode materials for lithium-ion batteries.

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• Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
• AI SPERA — AI Spera provides AI driven security based on cyber threat intelligence
• AiM Future — AiM Future provides AI processors, software, and AI system integration services.

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• Heum Labs — Heum Labs offers 'Alfred,' an AI-powered financial assistant designed for small businesses and SMEs.
• Healing Paper — Healing Paper is a mobile healthcare and information technology company.
• Prazer Therapeutics — Prazer Therapeutics assists patients suffering from intractable diseases through the use of logical and innovative drug design approaches. They willaccomplished this through the use of new and innovative drug development platforms, such as rational molecular drug design technology and next-generation protein degradation technology.

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• CTEE — CTEE is an online solution that empowers content creators to monetize their passion.
• Let's go baby — Let's go baby is a mobile travel app that helps people find cafes, theme parks, playgrounds, and outings.
• Wonderwall — Wonderwall is an online art learning platform.

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• Moment Studio — A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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• Carlet Store — Carlet Bio is a wholesale supplier of packaging solutions.
• Datumo — Selectstar got your back!Obtaining the proper data has always been the top issue for many companies using AI. To solve this problem, Selectstar provides a platform that connects your company to the crowd-workers.It's MORE than just a connection! We passionately research crowd-workers and your project to develop cutting-edge technologiesfor the optimized mobile crowd-sourcing.Keep disrupting the world! Just for your project, we are here to maintain the quality, cost-efficiency, or any other burdens related to the data. SelectStar was founded in 2018 and is based in Seoul, South Korea.
• ProxiHealthcare USA — ProxiHealthcare USA is a biotechnology research focused personal and environmental healthcare organization.

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• Plating — Plating provides healthy and delicious food is the best welfare. Plating releases new products every week and has presented about 50 menus to our customers so far.

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• Hutom — Reshaping Surgery Through Digital Innovation
• Nature Loud — Nature Loud is an online store that supplies health and wellness products.
• Gadget korea — Gadget korea offers data roaming services.

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• Neuromeka — Neuromeka specializes in robot technology and creates a robot platform business for manufacturing companies.
• H Energy — H Energy provides optimal operation of distributed resources and power brokerage services.
• Reset Company — Reset Company specializes in building sustainable energy production and resource circulation ecosystems.

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• NomadHer — NomadHer is the app for solo female travellers to find travel buddy, provide female friendly accommodation and information for solo travelers.
• Jim Carry — Jim Carry is a hotel services company that offers same-day luggage transportation and station and airport luggage storage services.
• Caredoc — CareDoc is an elderly care professional platform that provides information on proven elderly care facilities. Consumers looking for elderly care services were not able to find the information they wanted online or getting inaccurate information through word of mouth.On the other hand, providers of care services were having difficulty incollecting elderly customers. Caredoc solves these problems by providing verified care servise provider information on the mobile.

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• Node — Node is a healthcare company that develops and manufactures medical and beauty devices.
• Medi&B Tech Company — Medi&B Tech Company is a medical device manufacturing company that researches and develops urinal disposal machines and skin care devices.

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• Begin Lab — Begin Lab is an online learning platform that educates bioinformatics and human resources courses.
• Locle — Locle is a platform designed specifically for academies and variety of classes including music, dance, arts, crafts, and sports.
• Private Class — Private Class is a job consulting company that provides job competency courses.

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• NEIBUS — NEIBUS offers mobility services based on public transportation.

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• AB180 — AB180 is a data-driven performance marketing firm that assists organizations in the digital age using data analytics & marketing technology.
• Metsakuur — Mesacour Company has its own original face recognition technology and is made up of people who have worked with face recognition technology in a variety of industries. Messacour's face recognition accuracy is 100%, which is the highest level in the world.
• Allra — Allra is a financial management platform for online SMEs.

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• MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
• MOVIN — Moovin offers real-time markerless motion capture technology that does not require any additional hardware such as markers or trackers.
• Ubix Therapeutics — Ubix Therapeutics is a research and development company that develops anti-cancer drugs.

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• Bakatio — Bakatio enables accommodation providers to perform direct transactions on social media without using a platform.
• infludeo — infludeo is a fan membership platform that connects global Kpop fans with Kpop artists.
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• AIgement — AIgement enables industrial firms to make data-driven choices, save costs, and improve supplier relationships.
• Sans — Sans is the first alternative coffee brand in Korea to replicate the taste and aroma of coffee without using beans, and it is the only brand in the world to operate specialty alternative coffee stores. Instead of coffee beans, which are designated as one of the "five endangered crops," Sans developed an alternative coffee similar toAmericano by combining 12 ingredients, such as jujube seeds, chicory roots, and barley, which are easy to grow in greenhouses in any country regardless of climate change.
• Alice in Builderland — Alice in Builderland is an interior design and construction service platform that provides kitchen and bathroom construction packages.

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• Iskra — Iskra offers web3 gaming opportunities using blockchain and rewards its stakeholders based on their participation.
• On Vacation — On Vacation is a chat-based concierge service where customers may get help making reservations and getting personalized and optimal tours from travel specialists.
• NextChapter — NextChapter is a digital commerce platform that acquires and operates Coupang and Naver-based online native brands in Korea. NextChapter is backed by BlueRun Ventures/BRV Capital Management, Goodwater Capital, Klim Ventures, Fast Ventures and Sandbox Network.NextChapter was founded in 2021 by Joshua Kwon and Jay Chung and is headquarteredin Seoul, Korea.

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• AD System — AD System focuses on the development, manufacturing, sales and repairing of drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles.
• Incera Solution — Incera Solution specializes in manufacturing high-performance Fast & Fine Steering Mirrors, critical equipment for laser-based space optical communications, and sophisticated military systems.
• Seoul Beauty Global — Your gateway to premium K-beauty experiences in Seoul. Book top-rated salons and clinics.

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• Bind — Bind is a start-up that operates the mobile and PC version of 'Athler'.
• Doers — Doers is an influencer commerce platform that offers several services for connecting influencers and companies.
• Driving Teacher — You may search and compare the pricing of all driving schools countrywide in Driving Teacher, and you can help students make real-time training reservations with just a few clicks without connecting to a counselor. Furthermore, it provides an online reservation management platform to driving schools in order to automate the driving school system,as well as sales growth through customized marketing.

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• Glow Seoul — Glow Seoul is a creative consulting company that specializes in content development, space design, and construction for clients.
• Uneedcomms — We create communication between the shopping mall and customers. We offer mobile shopping malls, dynamic advertising systems, message automation solutions and global image hosting services based on advanced technology. Uneedcomms is moving toward the next generation of marketing that the global E-Commerce market needs with the power of software.
• Brightonix Imaging — Brightonix Imaging provides innovative biomedical imaging devices and solutions.

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• PO:DL — PO:DL is a beauty and skincare brand. It develops and retails a variety of skincare products, including hydrating masks, pore-cleansing balms, and skin care packs. Its flagship product, the 'Gongju Balm Balm-to-Foam Cleanser,' is a gel-type cleanser that utilizes balm ingredients and eliminates the need for double cleansing.
• The Grit — The Grit manufactures multi-use container and collection boxes.
• CafeWhale — the AI intelligence layer transforming physical retail into a continuous, data-driven ecosystem. By integrating real-time machine telemetry, customer behavior analytics, and automated engagement, MoonWhale connects the physical and digital, enabling retailers to optimize conversion, retention, and operations through a unified, adaptiveinfrastructure.

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• Sofcle — Sofkle holds a patented technology for a unique and environmentally friendly method of manufacturing natural mineral calcium balls by utilizing clam shells—a readily available and sustainable natural resource—as a recyclable material.
• Save the Farms — Save the Farms aims to contribute to a sustainable agricultural ecosystem by developing biochar using microbial agents to solve the problem of continuous cropping in rural areas.
• Textile Design Bank — Textile Design Bank is a textile design trading platform intended to digitally register and license designs for print pattern commercialization. The company's platform provides global print pattern designs and customized colors for each brand and product signature and conducts practical fashion education and employment consulting, enablingtextile designers and fashion brands to efficiently find, evaluate, and obtain design assets that support creative, production, and commercial workflows in the textile design ecosystem.

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• Mobilint — Mobilint provides integrated sensor fusion and deep learning SoC solutions.
• Erding — Erding develops a SaaS-based system to provide services related to the travel industry. The company connects travel with IT technology and manages travel agency business data to solve travel agency inconveniences and build more supply environments, while also providing travel agencies and customers with an easy-to-use platform.

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• Bbodek — Bbodek provider of tableware rental and washing services intended for restaurants and school cafeterias. They provide products for children's tableware and hygiene management services. They specialize in using their self-developed smart factory to render low defect services to consumers, enabling them to just focus on cooking without worryingabout cleaning up. They are expanding their business to customized washing machine manufacture and sales.
• Wahyoo — Wahyoo is a technology company that wants to help the traditional food stalls owner to achieve business success and reach a prosperous life. Our mission is to standardize the quality of products and services of traditional food stall by providing outstanding supply chain, operation, marketing, and financial infrastructure through technology.
• LC Square — LC Square is a micro-LED display core component and technology company that manufactures signage, TV, and wearable micro-LED displays.

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• Kihya — Kihya is a distributor of alcoholic beverages.
• Build B — Build B sells mattress covers, carpets, cushions, furniture, and kitchen accessories.
• JeCLEAN — JeCLEAN is a washing company that provides bedding, laundry and delivery service.

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• GrowingMom — GrowingMom is an online parenting consultation/analysis platform.
• Power Player — Natural Clean Beauty
• KOOZA — KOOZA is a kitchenware brand that offers cookware and household goods and supplies them to department stores, and live commerce companies.

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• Freewheelin — Freewheelin is an edtech company developing AI-powered tools to personalize math education. Their platform offers services such as generating homework books, integrating with textbooks, managing student errors, and analyzing performance data to assist educators in course preparation. The company has curated a database of math resources inpartnership with textbook publishers, ensuring teachers can use materials without copyright concerns.​
• Big Mobility — Big Mobility is a start-up that is addressing the issue of unlawful overnight truck parking brought on by a lack of truck parking spaces. In order to generate additional revenue for landowners and provide fixed parking spaces for truck owners, we operate a truck parking lot as a corporate type and develop and manage vacant land in the city as atruck parking lot.
• Anabatic Semiconductor — Anabatic Manufacturing of electronic components, computers, video, audio, and communication equipment

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• Poen — Poen is a venture company of hyundai motors that focuses on battery upcycling using technology.
• MADDE — MADDE possesses the technology to use silicon carbide powder in 3D printers to create various forms, which opens up a multitude of possibilities in the manufacturing sector.
• Plastal — Plastal is a mechanical and chemical engineering company that offers polymer, metal, and mold injection services. The company specializes in using its core technology required for bonding between metal and plastic resin, mold technology, injection conditions, and milling capabilities, enabling manufacturing companies to avail themselves of theproducts they desire.

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• Lion Storage — Lion Storage builds and manages standalone utility-scale battery energy storage systems that support the roll-out of more renewable energy production, thereby accelerating the energy transition.
• Brazil TecPar — Brazil TecPar always discovers new ways to achieve operational excellence and, thus, elevates all companies to greater results. They have been bringing connectivity to thousands of people in the most diverse regions and markets. They work optimizing the management of companies and always looking for innovation to achieve all goals.
• Sapia — PredictiveHire is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling.With the help of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia