Betty Blocks

The Citizen Development platform Betty Blocks is all about empowering a new generation of developers and breaking the boundaries of technology for business innovation. They support citizen developers, help organizations innovate, and challenge assumptions of what a no-code platform can achieve.  Used to build complex enterprise-grade applications: surprisingly easy, fast and fun. From mobile apps to (customer) portals to back office management and everything in between. The Betty Blocks platform’s ease of use supports every size or complexity of your app. Go as far as you like, the easiest way possible. 100% in the cloud. 100% no-code. 100% innovation-driven.

<div><p>Betty Blocks offers a no-code platform that enables users to build enterprise applications via a drag-and-drop interface. Users can build a range of front-end applications, process and manage data, test features in the platform&rsquo;s secure staging environment, and deploy across multiple channels. Moreover, users can save application components as &ldquo;blocks&rdquo; to be re-used or offered on the platform&rsquo;s marketplace for other users.&nbsp;</p></div>

Now anyone can become a software developer.

No-code Software

<div><p>The Citizen Development platform Betty Blocks is all about empowering a new generation of developers and breaking the boundaries of technology for business innovation. They support citizen developers, help organizations innovate, and challenge assumptions of what a no-code platform can achieve. Used to build complex enterprise-grade applications:surprisingly easy, fast and fun. From mobile apps to (customer) portals to back office management and everything in between. The Betty Blocks platform’s ease of use supports every size or complexity of your app. Go as far as you like, the easiest way possible. 100% in the cloud. 100% no-code. 100% innovation-driven.</p></div>

Promises increased productivity, cost-efficiency, and competitiveness in the legal industry

LegalTech

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    Betty Blocks offers a no-code platform that enables users to build enterprise applications via a drag-and-drop interface. Users can build a range of front-end applications, process and manage data, test features in the platform&rsquo;s secure staging environment, and deploy across multiple channels. Moreover, users can save application components as &ldquo;blocks&rdquo; to be re-used or offered on the platform&rsquo;s marketplace for other users.&nbsp;
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    The platform integrates with a number of third-party web services such as Slack, Twitter, Mollie or Ideal as well as enterprise systems such as Salesforce, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics, among other tools. Furthermore, Betty Blocks enables users to build their own integration APIs.
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    <b>Key customers and partnerships</b>
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    As of February 2024, the platform served a number of large enterprises, including Norton Rose Fulbright, Clifford Chance, Mazars, and Grant Thornton.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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    Betty Blocks raised USD 33 million in funding in August 2021, led by SmartFin Capital, to invest in expanding operations and in platform developments.&nbsp;
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    Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards.  
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    The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. 
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    The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution. 
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Index

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    Pico offers an audience management tool for media enterprises (newsrooms, trade publications, fan clubs, and others) which allows users to improve CRM. It provides a no-code platform to implement paywalls, checkouts, memberships payments, and analytics, among other functions. The tool is built for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to convert users from anonymous readers to paying customers with the goal of improving retention.
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    The company raised USD 4.5 million in Seed funding in May 2019, which it intended to invest in improving its analytics and revenue tools. 
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Pico

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    Stencyl offers a drag-and-drop no-code platform that enables users to create and publish web and mobile games. Users can build their game logic using the platform&rsquo;s pre-built code blocks, design visual elements via an in-built graphics editor, and publish across a range of platform&rsquo;s such as IoS, Android, Windows and Mac. Moreover,&nbsp; Stencyl also enables users to embed ads into their games as a secondary source of revenue.&nbsp;
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    As of February 2024, Stencyl was used by over 500,000 registered developers. Apps created on Stencyl have reached top slots in the Apple App Store and Google Play, and its most successful web games have been sponsored by major publishers including ArmorGames, Kongregate, and Newgrounds.
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Stencyl

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    PlugXR Inc offers a no-code platform for users to produce AR, VR, and MR (mixed reality) apps. Its platform offers cross-platform development for both Android and iOS and supports software development kits (SDKs), collaboration, and report and analytics on the apps. The company operates in the US, Sweden, and India.
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    As of 2019, its customer base rose to 37 clients (from 14 in 2016), while its workforce grew to over 30 people (from 14 in 2016). PlugXR raised pre-seed and angel funding in 2019.
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PlugXR

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    Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.&nbsp;
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    The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.
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    , Universe launched the beta version of Generative Universe Sites (GUS), an AI-powered website designing tool. This solution provides a conversational interface for users to dictate their requirements for a website and then generates a customized web page.
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    In December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company&rsquo;s block-based system for website building named &ldquo;GRID,&rdquo; expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. 
    Additionally, the company used the funds to&nbsp; expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.&nbsp;
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Universe

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

Many solutions enable users to leverage AI/ML for predictive analytics

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

Some solutions leverage GenAI to enable users to build application and website templates without coding

Allows users to create apps for their own businesses by using their data and ideas and converting them into apps to improve their workflow.

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    The Citizen Development platform Betty Blocks is all about empowering a new generation of developers and breaking the boundaries of technology for business innovation. They support citizen developers, help organizations innovate, and challenge assumptions of what a no-code platform can achieve. Used to build complex enterprise-grade applications:surprisingly easy, fast and fun. From mobile apps to (customer) portals to back office management and everything in between. The Betty Blocks platform’s ease of use supports every size or complexity of your app. Go as far as you like, the easiest way possible. 100% in the cloud. 100% no-code. 100% innovation-driven.
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    At anecdotes, we empower compliance leaders with innovation by streamlining their infosec compliance efforts.    The anecdotes compliance platform is the first enterprise-grade solution to automate the tedious, unreliable manual work of the evidence collection process, lifting the compliance burden off your organization. Our plug and play platform continuously collects and maps relevant data into normalized, credible evidence and offers advanced visibility and data sharing to ensure the best collaboration between the compliance leaders and the auditors.    Trusted by large global enterprises like Lemonade, Fiverr and AppsFlyer and backed by top VCs, anecdotes strives to help compliance leaders scale their compliance efforts with ease.
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Anecdotes

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    Exterro, Inc. is the recognized leader for legal governance, risk management, and compliance software solutions. Its solutions enable legal teams to control risks, reduce costs, enforce compliance and streamline processes by tightening collaboration between outside counsel, in-house legal teams, cross-platform business units, service providers, and resources. Exterro pioneered e-discovery workflow management technology, and continues to expand its innovative Fusion suite of applications Genome, Legal Hold, Discovery Workflow Management, and FusionGo. The complete Fusion platform provides an end-to-end risk assessment and information management solution. Regardless of industry or system environment, Fusion integrates seamlessly with existing business processes and enterprise systems. Exterro solutions assure regulatory compliance and create sustainable ROI. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Exterro has operations across the United States and abroad.
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Exterro

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    Transcend is the data privacy infrastructure that makes it simple for companies to give their users control over their personal data. Personal data is disorganized, hard to spot, and stored across many systems. That makes offering data rights—like deleting your data—very hard for companies. Transcend automatically fulfills data subject requests inside companies, across all of their data systems and vendors. Transcend also provides their end-users with a control panel, or “Privacy Center”, hosted at privacy.<company>.com where users can manage their privacy preferences, export their data, or delete it. By making data subject requests painless for companies, Transcend is putting users everywhere in the driver’s seat of their personal data.
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Transcend

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    Evisort is an AI-powered contract management company founded in 2016 by Harvard Law and MIT researchers to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to help companies mine contracts for data. Evisort's AI understands meaning and context in legal language, virtually eliminating the need to read contracts. Evisort helps companies organize, understand, and extract data from their contracts. With Evisort, information locked away in documents becomes searchable, and key terms can be surfaced to the right people at the right time. It can be used across all documents across an organization and helps companies reduce costs and improve their compliance and business operations.
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Evisort

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    Icertis specializes in contract life cycle management (CLM) solutions, providing organizations with comprehensive visibility and efficient contract management across the enterprise. It leverages advanced technologies, including generative AI, in its flagship product, the Icertis Contract Intelligence (ICI) platform, which covers the entire contract life cycle&mdash;contract setup, authoring, approvals, and ongoing contract operations. It goes beyond contract execution by offering advanced tools for governance, risk, and compliance. Additionally, Icertis Contract Intelligence Copilots, powered by AI, assists professionals in contract reviews, negotiations, and insight generation. The AI applications and services enable efficient contract management, from importing third-party contracts at scale to analyzing negotiation history and visualizing deep data insights. The business applications address specific needs, including clinical trial agreements and budgeting, collaboration with external partners, GDPR compliance, obligation management, rebates and growth incentives, proposal management, risk management, sourcing, supplier onboarding and diversity compliance, and supplier relationship management. It also integrates with enterprise systems like Microsoft, SAP, and Salesforce to automate end-to-end business processes. As of September 2023, the company had managed more than 10 million contracts across 90+ countries.
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    As of October 2022, Icertis served clients such as Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Sanofi, Mercedes-Benz, and Qantas, as well as public sector agencies.
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    <b>Funding and financials&nbsp;</b>
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    In October 2022, the company raised USD 150 million in funding consisting of a revolving credit facility and convertible financing from Silicon Valley Bank. It planned to use the funds to accelerate the application of technologies like AI, NLP, ML, and blockchain to deliver significant value to its customers. Icertis&rsquo; valuation stood at USD 2.8 billion in March 2021 and reportedly surged to USD 5 billion in early 2022.
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    For FY2022, the company reported an annual recurring revenue of USD 225 million, marking a 41% YoY growth from USD 160 million in FY2021.&nbsp;
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Icertis

AI reviews documents and contracts and derives insights from multimedia data sources

Tools to manage and digitize the legal practice of individual lawyers and law firms. Features include intake management, legal case/project management, team and client management, team collaboration, client communication and engagement, document storage systems, time and expense tracking, and billing and invoicing.

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