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Providing a seamless consumer experience is one hope for bringing back brick and mortar retail, automated stores are being built to do just that.

Automated Stores

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 MishiPay is a London-based startup that offers a self-checkout system powered by Radio Frequency ID (RFID) and cloud computing. MishiPay provides an app that allows shoppers to scan the barcodes of products and carry out payments using their mobile devices. The company also provides a progressive web apps (PWA) solution to allow customers to use their self-checkout solution without the need to install and launch an Android app. The company claims the PWA increases transactions by 10 times and has a higher user adoption rate than platform-specific apps.
 
 
 As of April 2024, MishiPay also provides a range of barcode scanner-based self-checkout kiosk solutions, which include a mounted 10-, 15-, or 22-inch tablet that can be integrated with existing point-of-sales solutions in the store.
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 As of March 2024, MishiPay&rsquo;s solutions were used by 30 brands across 14 countries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. In August 2016, MishiPay partnered with Cisco UK and had its first commercial deployment at Deloitte&rsquo;s &ldquo;Store of the Future&rdquo; in London. Mishipay&rsquo;s other retail deployment partnerships include Dufry (2017), Leroy Merlin (2017), Saturn (2018), Mango (2018), Decathlon (2019), MUJI (2020), SPAR (2020), Londis (2020), Flying Tiger Copenhagen (2021), Virgin Megastore (2022), and Grandiose super markets (2023).&nbsp;
 
 
 In March 2021, the company also deployed its technology in US airports in collaboration with Paradies Lagard&egrave;re, a North America-based airport retailer and restaurateur. As of 2022, MishiPay had deployments at 30 airports across North America.
 
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Zippin offers computer vision-powered grab-and-go checkout solutions for retailers. Zippin uses overhead cameras and shelf sensors along with computer vision algorithms to track items picked up by customers. The customers can use Zippin’s mobile app to enter the store, pick up their purchases, and exit the stores to complete the transaction. Zippin claims the combination of cameras and weight sensors provides a more accurate sensor fusion algorithm compared to a purely camera-based solution.Zippin does not use biometrics to identify consumers and only uses overhead cameras to map out customer movements. Zippin’s solutions are priced based on the square footage of the stores.The company also offers the Zippin Crew app, a mobile app that can be used to scan and locate inventory in-store. It provides retailers with inventory insights, such as planogram data, stock availability data, and out-of-stock alerts. Zippin Retailer Dashboard is a store analytics solution that provides insights on real-time shopping activity, planogram compliance, out-of-stocks, and shopper behavior.In 2022, the company launched Zippin Lane, a checkout-free solution suitable for high-traffic locations like sport arenas, airports, train stations, and busy college campuses. Zippin lanes are designed to fit into long and narrow areas with store sizes starting at 240 sq ft. As of September 2022, the Zippin had deployed over 20 Zippin lanes, including nine locations at NFL venues.Key customers and partnershipsAs of February 2023, Zippin had deployed its technology at 90 store locations (after opening its first demo store in 2019). Zippin’s technology powers supermarkets and convenience stores such as Lojas Americanas (August 2019) in Brazil and Azbuka Vkusa (May 2020) in Russia. As of September 2023 Zippin had 71 checkout free stores at sports venues and stadiums in the US including 1) Golden 1 Center arena (September 2019), 2) Mile High Stadium in Denver (November 2020), 3) Barclays Center (in partnership with American Express; June 2021), 4) Houston's NRG Stadium (in partnership with Aramark; March 2022); and 5) Gainbridge Fieldhouse (October 2022). In 2023, Zippin opened checkout-free stores at multiple NFL stadiums. Zippin also opened a checkout-free store in partnership with the Dallas-based restaurant and entertainment business, Dave &amp; Buster’s (July 2022). In December 2021, the company announced the launch of its first airport store in partnership with JFKIAT, the operator of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK), and SSP America, an airport foodservice operator. In May 2024, Zippin partnered with the food service company <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/29719">Aramark</a> to introduce a frictionless and cashierless store at a theme park in the UK.The Japan-based systems integrator Fujitsu serves as Zippin’s exclusive distributor in Japan (December 2020). Under the partnership, Fujitsu has the authority to deploy Zippin’s technology integrated with Fujitsu’s biometric authentication technology. The two companies initially piloted an automated store at a Lawson convenience store chain in Japan (February 2020). In November 2022, the companies extended the partnership to support UK and Europe deployments.Funding and financialsIn September 2021, Zippin raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round, to invest in its expansion plan and accelerate innovation specifically with regards to deployment and maintenance.

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 Mercaux is a UK-based provider of retail technology solutions that includes technologies such as self-checkout kiosks, digital fitting rooms, touch screen kiosks, and customer analytics solutions.&nbsp;
 
 
 The company&rsquo;s self-checkout kiosks enable customers to browse through a store&rsquo;s product catalog, add the products to a digital basket, and complete the purchase by using their credit/debit card on an integrated point of sale device.&nbsp; The solution also provides additional features such as enabling the customers to email their shopping basket for an online purchase, display additional material such as styling recommendations, reviews, and alternative product recommendations for out-of-stock products.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Mercaux&rsquo;s customer network includes fashion, cosmetics, and other retailers, such as River Island, Alshaya Group, 12 Storeez, Tandem, Jigsaw, Charlotte Tilbury, Victoria&rsquo;s Secret, Stadium Goods, Springfield, Est&eacute;e Lauder, Jo Malone, and ESPRIT.
 
 
 In February 2023, the company partnered with system integrator Cabiri and fashion retailer River Island in February 2023 to launch a self-checkout solution that pairs an &ldquo;RFID Bucket&rdquo; with the company&rsquo;s self-checkout kiosk at store locations of River Island, a British fashion retailer. The items dropped into the RFID Bucket get automatically added to a digital basket on the self-checkout kiosk, enabling the customer to complete the purchase.&nbsp;
 
 
 Key Competitors: 
 None comparable (As the company offers a solution designed specifically for fashion retailers )
 
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Modern tools to train and motivate staff, and bridge emerging skill gaps.

EdTech: Corporate Learning

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 Paris-based 360Learning was founded in 2013 and provides a learning management system (LMS) that includes an authoring tool, feedback loops, and learning analytics. The platform promotes a collaborative, or bottom-up, approach to learning and supports learning and development (L&D) teams with crowdsourcing and prioritizing training needs. As of October 2021, 360Learning served more than 1,500 companies globally.
 
 
 The company entered the M&A space in January 2022 by acquiring 
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 a UK-based learning management system (LMS) provider, for USD 20 million, in a combination of cash and stock, allowing it to expand its presence in the UK and beyond, and strengthen its product offering to support customers as they deal with transitions to remote work, employee turnover, and skills shortages.  
 
 
 In February 2022, the company partnered with HiBob, a human resource platform, to integrate its learning and development programs with HiBob’s employee onboarding and retention plans.
 
 
 In April 2019, the company raised USD 41 million in a Series B round to consolidate its position in its home market of France, and fund growth in the UK and North America. Its previous funding round was in October 2013 when it raised USD 1.35 million (EUR 1.2 million). In October 2021, the company raised USD 200 million in funding from Sumeru, SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2, and Silver Lake Waterman. The funds will be used to grow the company’s employee base, expand to new markets, and invest in acquisitions.
 
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 Sounding Board is a leader development platform that combines a curated network of leadership coaches with a scientifically developed coaching management platform (CMS) to deliver measurable outcomes for businesses. The platform features personalized coaching, group coaching, automated workflows, analytics, and reporting. As of December 2021, the platform served ~100 clients from more than 60 countries in 15+ languages, including Chime, Zoom, Dropbox, Cloudera, VMware, Mozilla, Bloomberg, Plaid, and UserTesting.
 
 
 The company claimed that in less than six months, there had been a 173% increase in the capacity to successfully interact with others across all functions, a 71% improvement in general trust and credibility between management and teams, a 62% increase in their capacity for communication, conflict resolution, and dispute resolution, and a 49% surge in leaders' strategic and critical thinking capacity driving growth and innovation.
 
 
 Funding and financials&nbsp;
 
 
 In December 2021, the company raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Jazz Venture Partners. It planned to use the funds to expedite the deployment of its CMS. Additionally, it stated that its annual bookings grew by more than 350% YoY, its enterprise client NRR exceeded 200%, and sequential growth was observed over the past seven quarters.
 
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 Founded in 2019 by Dan Terner, Izhak Kedar, and Omer Glass, GrowthSpace uses an algorithm-powered system backed by skill mapping to match enterprise employees with more than 1,500 experts available on the platform. This network of global experts provides personalized training, in over 40 languages, based on each employee&rsquo;s specific challenges and professional goals. Additionally, the platform provides digital training, lectures, and workshops that integrate more than 300 hard and soft competencies, to companies such as Intel, Monday.com, EY, and Siemens, across 30 countries. The company claims that more than 95% of employees who have participated in a GrowthSpace program and 90% of their direct managers reported improvement in the desired business KPIs.&nbsp;
 
 
 In September 2022, the company unveiled the multi-experience talent development platform, an all-in-one suite designed to provide employees with personalized programs to reduce onboarding time, enhance performance, and deliver long-term impact. Additionally, with AI-driven analytics, HR can guide employees to impactful programs and also increase the business value of HR within the firm. 
 
 
 In October 2022, the firm announced that it has expanded its operation to the UK and Europe and hired Nick Koutris (former alumni of LinkedIn and Coachhub) as the director of sales for the region.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
 
 
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Using AI to automate, enhance and optimize marketing activities

Marketing Automation

Founded in Israel, Trendemon offers a website customer journey orchestration solution specialized in account-based marketing (ABM). The firm provides a customer journey dashboard where B2B marketers can map customer journeys on their firm's website. Through this, marketers can automatically optimize customer journeys to generate leads, attribute the impact of marketing campaigns, and provide personalized recommendations to close sales deals. The solution integrates with popular CMS platforms including Marketo, Hubspot, and Salesforce as well as email marketing campaign automation platforms.One of the company’s key value propositions is its transparent pricing model, providing a free trial and a SaaS pricing model based on website activity. Users reported improved website performance and an increase in customer leads, with Bringg logistics reporting a 20.5% increase in the number of demo bookings over two consecutive quarters.Key customers and partnershipsAs of May 2022, the company had more than 25 users including Sisense, Cato, Kaltura, Tenable, and Infosys.In May 2020, the firm participated in a 12-week program with SAP.IO foundry, a startup accelerator of SAP, and received technical support and an opportunity to engage with SAP’s clients. The firm also joined the SAP PartnerEdge program, providing the firm the opportunity to integrate and deploy its solutions on the SAP app center.

Adverity is a data intelligence platform founded in Austria for gathering customer data to provide insights and predictions. Marketing teams can use Adverity's system to automate data collection from 600+ sources as well as harmonize, enhance, and enrich it with AI to provide predictions that uncover hidden trends. By September 2021, Adverity counted IKEA, Red Bull, Unilever, and Vodafone among its customers.In April 2024, the company launched an AI-powered assistant called<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/28368"> Enrichment Copilot</a> to help customers transform and cleanse their data.According to the firm, the platform has been purpose-built with marketers in mind and does not require any coding or system maintenance. It also offers campaign monitoring specific to marketing. In February 2022, a research done by Forrester revealed that Adverity’s platform results in a 368% ROI over three years and 75%-80% saving in employees time due to efficiency improvements on data management and marketing analytics activities.Key customers and partnershipsIn June 2022, Adverity<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/11935"> partnered with Neustar</a>, a provider of various customer identity and analytics solutions, to enable marketers to unify their data to measure and optimize marketing and brand performance.&nbsp;

Founded in Germany, Wagawin provides a mobile-based ad monetization platform. Though it launched as a web-based platform, in 2014, the firm pivoted to an app-based model. In 2016, the firm further expanded its service and launched its software developer kit (SDK) to allow publishers to make use of its ad placement solutions, making it compatible across all apps. That year, the firm introduced its flagship solution “LivingAds,” which weaves user interactions into digital ads for generating awareness while gathering first-party customer feedback. The solution is compatible with all major demand-side ad platforms (DSPs) and customer data platforms (CDPs).The firm claims that its LivingAds can collect 5x more data on average, a 300% increase in engagement compared with conventional mobile ad placements.Key customers and partnershipsIn 2016, the firm had only 500 users including marketing agencies and global brands such as P&amp;G, McDonald's, Shell, BMW, and T-Mobile.In September 2020, the firm participated in a three-month program with SAP.IO Foundry, a startup accelerator of SAP. It also received technical support and an opportunity to engage with SAP’s clients.Funding and financialsIn February 2022, the firm raised an undisclosed amount in debt financing from Pride Capital Partners.

The tools that power remote work are define the next generation of enterprise software.

Remote Work Tools

Zight is a subscription-based project management platform that enables teams to share information efficiently through more visual methods. Zight's core features include screen capture, screen recording, GIF creation, webcam recording, and file sharing. These functionalities are available across various platforms, including desktop applications for Mac and Windows, a Chrome extension, and mobile apps for iOS. It also includes features like annotation tools, customizable branding, and integration with popular productivity apps like Slack and Jira.Key customers and partnershipsZight's customer base spans various industries, with notable clients such as Atlassian, Adobe, and Figma, among others. The platform has more than 4 million users, including individuals, teams, and enterprises across diverse sectors.In addition to its widespread adoption, Zight has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Microsoft Teams and Zendesk, integrating its visual communication capabilities into these platforms to enhance the user experience.In May 2021, the platform announced a partnership to integrate with Slack and Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence). These integrations will allow users to view and embed Zight links directly inside their respective workflows. Further, the company introduced templates for sales outreach, customer support connections, and product demos.Funding and financialsZight raised USD 9.3 million in a Series A funding round led by Grayhawk Capital and Nordic Eye in its latest funding round in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/8044">January 2022</a>. The company allocated the funds to expand its product and engineering teams to improve Zight’s speed, security, user experience, and integration capabilities. Part of the&nbsp; funds were also used for marketing activities.In May 2019, the company had raised USD 4.3 million in a seed investment round led by Kickstart Seed Fund. The funds were used to scale sales and marketing.&nbsp;

Sedna is a data-driven communication platform that helps teams in the maritime industry streamline their workflow and make informed decisions faster. The company's flagship product, Stream, lightens the manual work of managing emails by extracting and consolidating relevant data from emails and other systems into a single customized view. This allows teams to analyze key information, compare fixture opportunities, and identify the best deals before the competition.In February 2024, Sedna launched Pulse, an AI-driven solution built on top of Stream specifically designed for chartering teams. Pulse sits on top of the email inbox, transforming data from emails and other sources into a structured, deduplicated table ready for analysis.&nbsp;Sedna has formed partnerships with companies like Lloyd's List Intelligence, Signal, SpotShip, and ZeroNorth to integrate their data and AI capabilities into Pulse, further enhancing its value proposition.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsSedna’s notable customers in the maritime industry include Oldendorff, Glencore, Norden, and Pacific Basin.The company has also established strategic partnerships with leading industry players to enhance its offerings. For instance, Sedna has integrated vessel tracking data from Lloyd's List Intelligence and voyage optimization algorithms from ZeroNorth into its Pulse platform.Additionally, Sedna has partnered with Chain.io, a cloud-based integration platform, to enable seamless embedding of CargoWise TMS data into its email collaboration tool, providing freight forwarders with improved visibility and streamlined communication.Funding and FinancialsIn July 2023, The company raised USD 42 million in additional investment from global software investor, Insight Partners, with participation from GK Goh Ventures. The investment was earmarked to expand its platform and develop new solutions to advance its vision of making trade go faster.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/4486">July 2021</a>, Sedna raised USD 34 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners. The round included the participation of Stride.VC, Chalfen Ventures, and the SAP. The funds were used for the growth of its product, data science, and go-to-market functions. This funding follows its USD 10 million Series A round in December 2020.&nbsp;

Distributed workforces require new solutions for office operations, HR, payment, and more.

Remote Work Infrastructure

Quantive (formerly Gtmhub and rebranded in December 2022) offers objective and key results (OKRs) software that assists in employee performance management. Specifically, the company’s core products include Quantive Results, Quantive Signals and Quantive Strategy.Quantive Strategy: offers AI-powered risk detection, contingency planning, summarization and decision management. In line with this, in February 2024 the company launched StrategyAI, claimed to be the world’s first AI-powered strategic intelligence platform.Quantive Results: offers AI-powered goal setting and OKR management, whiteboard collaboration, dynamic updates with integrations into platforms such as Slack, weekly team check-ins, among other features. Paid monthly plans for the product are offered at USD 9 per user.Quantive Signals: is a complementary platform that offers AI-powered tools to forecast OKR progress, engagement insights and risk levels linked to achieving certain strategic objectives.The company announced the acquisition of Cliff.ai (June 2022), a UK-based operational intelligence software that uses ML to help enterprise teams track and review KPIs. Using its integration with more than 100 third-party business applications, Cliff.ai monitors data to identify factors and root causes that affect KPI anomalies, while automatically notifying relevant team members. The company previously acquired Koan (February 2022), an OKR status and tracking platform, to complement its enterprise offering.Key customers and partnershipsAs of April 2024, the company served more than 500,000 users from over 2,000 businesses across 70 industries. Notable enterprises served included Adobe, T-Mobile, Mazda and Red Hat.Funding and financialsIn its latest funding round (December 2021), Quantive raised USD 120 million in Series C funding led by Index Ventures. The fresh funds were expected to be used to scale its operations, increase market penetration, and introduce new product features, including predictive and prescriptive capabilities.Quantive focuses on enterprise clients and reported that its annual contract value (ACV) and paying users grew 10x in 2020 with gross margins of 90%.

RandomCoffee is a SaaS platform offering employee engagement solutions for teams. It helps employees build relationships within the organization by connecting them using matching rules established by the organization.During the Covid-19 pandemic, the company introduced a virtual coffee program to help employees deal with isolation. Coworkers could virtually meet for a chat on Skype, Zoom, Slack, Teams, or RandomCoffee (integrated with Slack).Key customers and partnershipsIt is used in more than 30 countries, and some of its clients include Henkel, Total, AMGEN, Danone, Uber, Warner Bros, Deloitte, KPMG, Allianz GI, and HBO, among others.

Digital Wallets

PopWallet is a company that offers a range of minimalist wallets designed to seamlessly integrate with smartphones. Their flagship product, the PopWallet Plus for MagSafe, is a wallet and a hand grip for iPhone 12 and higher models. It magnetically attaches to the back of the phone and has room for three cards, effectively replacing the need for a traditional wallet.
The PopWallet Plus for MagSafe boasts a strong magnetic connection that ensures it remains securely attached to the phone. While it adds some bulk to the device when in your pocket, it frees up space by eliminating the need to carry a separate wallet. The integrated PopGrip provides added grip and can double as a kickstand for hands-free viewing.
In addition to the MagSafe version, PopWallet also offers non-MagSafe wallets that can be attached to various phone models. Their products are designed to cater to minimalists who want to streamline their everyday carry while still having access to essential cards.
PopWallet's product line offers a range of customization options, including different styles, colors, and patterns, allowing users to personalize their wallets to suit their preferences. The company also provides a stand-alone MagSafe PopGrip for those interested in the hand grip functionality without the wallet.

MishiPay is a provider of self-checkout technology that empowers shoppers to scan and pay for their purchases using their smartphones. The company's solution allows customers to scan barcodes on items and complete the payment process through a wide variety of digital payment methods, eliminating the need to queue at traditional checkout counters. MishiPay's technology can be seamlessly integrated into retailers' existing infrastructure, enabling a frictionless shopping experience for customers. The company's web and native app platforms ensure shoppers do not need to download additional applications to utilize the service.In addition to enhancing the customer experience, MishiPay's solution enables retailers to reduce checkout times, collect valuable shopper insights, and optimize staffing by allowing employees to focus on providing personalized assistance instead of processing transactions. The technology has garnered acclaim from notable retail chains such as MUJI UK, Flying Tiger Copenhagen, and Paradies Lagardère, who have recognized its ability to streamline operations and elevate the in-store experience.In September 2019, MishiPay secured GBP 3.5 million in Series A funding from investors including American Express Ventures, Nauta Capital, and United Ventures. This investment facilitated the company's expansion into new markets and enabled the integration of its solutions across a diverse range of retailers.By October 2020, MishiPay had introduced a mobile self-checkout solution tailored for the retail industry, enabling contactless transactions and adherence to social distancing measures through the use of personal devices.In November 2023, Flying Tiger Copenhagen announced the complete integration of MishiPay's suite of transaction solutions across its 56 UK stores, marking a significant milestone for the company's technology adoption.Key customers and partnershipsMishiPay has established partnerships with several prominent retailers, including:MUJI UK: The mobile self-checkout solution has enabled MUJI UK to offer a new level of convenience, allowing customers to check out without queuing or interacting with hardware, while freeing staff to provide personalized assistance.Flying Tiger Copenhagen: Flying Tiger Copenhagen has fully integrated MishiPay's solutions across its 56 UK stores, enhancing the shopping experience by eliminating the need for customers to wait in line to pay.Paradies Lagardère: Paradies Lagardère, a leading airport retailer, partnered with MishiPay to implement the "Scan, Pay &amp; Go" technology at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Early results indicated travelers embraced the user-friendly service.

HR Tech

Paradox is a conversational recruiting software company founded in 2016 that leverages artificial intelligence to streamline and automate various aspects of the hiring process. The company's flagship product is an AI assistant named Olivia, which interacts with candidates through natural language processing to handle tasks such as candidate screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding. Paradox's technology is designed to reduce the administrative burden on recruiters and hiring managers, allowing them to focus on more strategic aspects of talent acquisition.
The platform supports over 100 languages, making it suitable for global companies with diverse hiring needs. Paradox's software is particularly effective for high-volume hiring, enabling organizations to scale their recruitment efforts efficiently. The company's solutions include a Conversational Applicant Tracking System (ATS), dynamic career sites that adapt to each candidate's interaction, and tools for automating various stages of the recruitment process.
Paradox has achieved significant growth since its inception, with revenues increasing by over 1,000% between 2020 and 2023. The company has been recognized multiple times on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the US and has also been featured on the Deloitte Fast 500 list. In March 2024, Paradox announced a leadership transition, with Adam Godson taking over as CEO from founder Aaron Matos, who moved into the role of Executive Chairman.
Key customers and partnerships
Paradox serves a wide range of global clients across various industries. Some of its notable customers include Unilever, McDonald's, General Motors, Nestlé, Pfizer, L'Oréal, CVS Health, FedEx, Compass Group, and Disney. The company has established partnerships with major HR technology providers, becoming an SAP Endorsed partner and being recognized as an early adopter of Workday's AI Marketplace.
Paradox has demonstrated its impact through case studies with clients such as General Motors, where the implementation of their AI assistant (branded as Evie) reduced interview scheduling time from an average of five days to 29 minutes. The company's solutions have helped clients like Southern Rock Restaurants save over USD 840,000 in a single year through improved hiring efficiency.

360Learning is a collaborative learning platform that empowers companies to upskill their workforce internally. Founded in 2013, the company offers a learning management system (LMS) that combines LMS and LXP capabilities with collaborative learning features. 360Learning's platform enables organizations to create, deliver, and manage training content while fostering peer-to-peer learning and knowledge sharing. The company's approach focuses on leveraging internal subject matter experts to develop learning programs at scale, with courses being created in as little as 17 minutes on average.
360Learning's platform includes features such as automated enrollment, mobile learning, video recording, and role-specific learning paths. It also incorporates AI-powered tools to assist with course creation, skills mapping, and personalized learning recommendations. The platform achieves an average course completion rate of 91%, significantly higher than the industry standard of 20-30%.
In October 2023, 360Learning acquired eLamp, an AI-powered skills management platform, to enhance its capabilities in skills-based learning and workforce development. This acquisition allows 360Learning to offer more comprehensive solutions for identifying skill gaps and delivering targeted training.
As of early 2024, 360Learning reported serving over 1,700 organizations globally and was on track to surpass USD 60 million in annual recurring revenue. The company has raised USD 240 million in funding to date and employs over 400 team members across the US and EMEA.

Creating affordable content for the digital age

Content Creation Tools

Germany-based Squarelovin&nbsp;is a platform that offers user-generated content, analytics, and Instagram tools for websites, social media ads, Instagram, newsletters, and ecommerce platforms.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, Squarelovin’s notable customers included Foodspring, Henkel, Deuter Tamaris, Nivea, Stabilo, Joop, and Decathlon, among others.

FindMine offers solutions to enhance the shopping experience across multiple channels for brands and retailers. The company’s flagship product, Brand Copilot, provides solutions for creating shoppable content across ecommerce websites, in-store displays, and marketing materials. FindMine's ecommerce tool automatically creates visual content for PDPs and builds dynamic landing pages and its email solution enables personalized and inspirational style guides for post-purchase follow-ups. Additionally, its Merchant Intelligence solution provides analytical capabilities.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2024, the company’s notable customers include Adidas, BCBG, DXL Group, Perry Ellis International, John Varvatos, Laundry by Shelli Segal, and Original Penguin.&nbsp;Furthermore, FindMine has established tech partnerships with SAP, Endear, Bluecore, Salesforce, Movable Ink, and Looklet, as well as agency partnerships with Netconomy, Capgemini, Accenture, PointB, The Current Global, and Iterate Studio.

Using data and automation to achieve 24/7 production.

Smart Factory

Wandelbots is a German provider of robotic software that allows non-programmers to program robotic workflows using no-code technology. The platform, which was due to launch in November 2024, would provide pre-built tools and services to allow developers to optimize and complement platform services as well as an agnostic driver system for streamlined hardware integration. Moreover, users can virtualize and simulate their automation environment and test a number of factors such as physical limitations and material conditions via an integration into the Nvidia Omniverse.&nbsp;The company began operations by offering the TracePen, a hardware component used by operator/programmers to perform the desired movement, which is recorded through high-precision sensors to create a 3D robotic visualization on the Wandelbots App. The app, which is installed on an iPad, acts as the user interface that allows the path performed and recorded by the TracePen to create the robotic process to be edited. In 2023, this solution was discontinued in favor of a robot-agnostic software platform that enables users to create their own robotic applications.&nbsp;

Facial recognition delivers incredible convenience to consumers, as well as serious risks.

Facial Recognition

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 PXL Vision is a technology company based in Switzerland. It specializes in automated, AI-based identity verification. The company&rsquo;s web-based Automated ID Verification can complete the identity verification process in under 30 seconds. Its products include PXL Ident, which enables customers to verify automatically and quickly, PXL Pro, which makes the identity verification process a personalized experience, and PXL Check, which is an add-on tool for manual identity verification.
 
 
 
 
 PXL Vision has a B2B sales model, and it has established an office in Germany. Some of the company&rsquo;s use cases are digital identity verification, customer onboarding, know your customer, age verification, and account onboarding.
 
 
 
 
 Key customers and partnerships
 
 
 Some of PXL Vision&rsquo;s partners are Salesforce, SAP, Nevis, Evidian, BSI, and Alteatec. The company serves customers in diverse industries, including insurance, telecommunications, fintech and banking, gambling, video gaming, media, mobility, online dating, HR management, healthcare, and e-commerce. Quick Line, TrueWealth, UPC, Sunrise, SwissSign, Mobility, and Swisscom are among its customers.
 
 
 
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Artificial intelligence is helping sales teams manage relationships and optimize the customer lifecycle.

Sales Engagement Platforms

SetSail is a sales intelligence platform that combines behavioral science and sales data to provide AI-powered insights for sales teams. The proprietary platform integrates with CRM, email, calendar, and data warehouse systems, and it uses machine learning (ML) to identify and extract buying signals and productive patterns needed to close a deal. The software then converts these signals into recommendations for sales representatives, rewarding them with progress-based incentives and establishing sales coaching strategies. As of January 2021, it had served more than 5,000 users across 20+ companies, including Cisco, Dropbox, and HubSpot.&nbsp;In April 2023, the firm <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18100">developed a data infrastructure </a>that enables salespeople to be paid based on their position in the sales process and has introduced new capabilities for users to ask the system questions in natural language and receive SQL query-based answers. In May 2023, the firm <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18990">launched the "Targets" dashboard, </a>a reporting functionality in its sales data platform that enables sales leaders to monitor the performance of sales representatives based on key metrics that impact business.&nbsp;The platform claimed to increase revenue by 16%, increase ramp-up time by 33%, and increase sales program ROI by 15x.In June 2024, SetSail was acquired by<a href="https://sp-edge.com/companies/1523"> ZoomInfo,</a> a B2B market intelligence database for sales, marketing, operations, and recruitment.

New data privacy regulations have opened up space for a new wave of compliance-focused startups.

Digital Privacy Tools

BigID provides a platform that leverages advanced machine learning tools to help enterprises protect their data and comply with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, etc. on a large scale. The company launched its patented Discovery-in-Depth technology during January 2020 to automatically discover different types and sources of data across an enterprise’s entire IT infrastructure. It expanded this technology in August 2020 by launching Hyperscan, a machine-learning-based scanning solution for large volumes of data that minimizes scanning time by 95%. The company also provides <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/13382">native data deletion features</a> that allow organizations to delete personal and sensitive data across their data stores effectively. The feature allows organizations to purge duplicate and redundant data, minimize data before a cloud migration, initiate data deletion workflows based on data retention policies, and automatically address policy violations.In March 2023, BigID <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17433">released a native data privacy suite</a> that allows enterprises to automate California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) compliance requirements across data inventory and mapping, privacy impact assessment, self-service privacy rights portal, automated DSAR fulfillment, and regulatory reporting by leveraging holistic privacy management.In April of the same year<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/18004"> launched “BigAI”</a>, a large language model (LLM) designed to scan and classify data, leveraging machine learning and generative AI to organize data into tables, columns, and categories. The BigAI platform also includes a generative AI chatbot named “BigChat”, which provides data compliance advice through conversational Q&amp;A. The company also <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/24136">launched</a> a new AI-powered tool in November 2023 designed to automatically generate remediation instructions for data security and reduce the burden on security teams.Additionally, it provides solutions concerning data subject rights management, consent management, privacy data protection impact assessments, third-party risk management, incident response, reporting, and monitoring.Key customers and partnershipsBigID has partnerships with companies such as TrustArc and IBM, among others, to deliver comprehensive compliance solutions.In April 2023, BigID announced a technology partnership with French tech company Thales to integrate its data discovery and classification capabilities with Thales’ CipherTrust encryption platform to identify and anonymize sensitive data for business use while maintaining individual privacy. In the same month, BigID collaborated with SPHERE to develop an identity hygiene risk management solution. In June 2023 the company announced an integration with Databricks to automate data discovery, classification, and governance.

Reinforcing recycling, rerouting refuse, and reducing wasteflows

Waste Recovery & Management Tech

Based in France, Uzer manufactures a barcode scanner device called Eugene, which scans the barcode of the waste product and identifies if the product is recyclable. The product comes in a compatible size and can easily be installed and used by businesses and households. Eugene is also supported by an app that tracks what users have thrown, shows them their shopping habits, and allows them to create a shopping list. Founded in 2014, the company expects to deploy its device in French cities and gradually expand across Europe.Uzer claims that its device has a database of more than 500,000 products and recognizes 90% of the products scanned and provides recycling instructions for 75% of them. Uzer’s sorting solution is provided on a subscription basis. The subscription rate depends on the number of Eugene devices installed. A basic annual subscription fee of EUR 2,500 is charged for a package, which includes device personalization, maintenance, support, and back-office services.

Tech solutions for achieving global anti-wastage targets

Food Waste

Goodr offers an on-demand platform that enables businesses to measure and manage surplus food and waste for tax breaks. It also offers 1) turnkey solutions to collect and donate surplus food and 2) organic recycling services.In June 2022, the company reported that over the previous five years, it had efficiently used its capital and reached millions in annual revenue.​​&nbsp;As of 2024, Goodr had diverted 4 million lbs of food from landfills and distributed 30 million meals to people in need. The company also claimed that it saved USD 6.3 million in tax deductions for its partners.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsGoodr's core customers include airports, convention centers, and other foodservice vendors. In November 2020, the company partnered with Wellstar Health Systems to provide a range of mobile food markets to communities in need to fight food insecurity.In November 2022, Goodr partnered with Stord to receive Stord’s port-to-porch services and the Stord One Commerce software to enhance its customer delivery experience.In August 2024, the company partnered with Mercedes-Benz Vans USA with Goodr’s founder appointed as brand ambassador of eSprinter, the large all-electric van, and to leverage the eSprinter to advance its mission of reducing food waste and hunger.

Hydrogen Economy

Singapore-based H3 Dynamics provides hydrogen solutions for airports and aircraft to support the decarbonization of aviation. In 2015, the company acquired HES Energy, a spin-off of Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, a global PEM fuel cell manufacturer, and one of the first to develop ultra-lightweight hydrogen fuel cells for experimental unmanned aircraft.For airports, the company provides modular and scalable PEM electrolyzer systems and ground support equipment powered by hydrogen electric technology. For aircraft, the company offers hydrogen fuel cell electric powertrain solutions and is building a hydrogen electric auxiliary power unit (APU). For unmanned aerial systems (UAS), H3 Dynamics offers AEROPAK, a high power density fuel cell system available in various configurations ranging from 250 watts (W) to 2,000 W and weighing between 720 g and 3.5+ kg. It also offers H2FIELD, an on-site hydrogen station for hydrogen-powered UAS launched in January 2023.In&nbsp;<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/36105">November 2024</a>, H3 Dynamics launched Aerocell, a 400 kW new fuel cell system for aerospace applications, which added on to its existing range of 50, 100, and 200 kW fuel cell solutions. Aerocell functions as both an auxiliary power unit and propulsion system, and claims to be 2x as powerful as competing models and 50% lighter.In December 2021, the company began unmanned test flights using its proprietary hydrogen-electric propulsion systems, and in November 2022, it completed the world’s first flight using its proprietary distributed hydrogen-electric nacelle technology.Key customers and partnershipsIn June 2023, H3 Dynamics partnered with Australia-based Kite Magnetics to develop an advanced hydrogen-electric propulsion system for aviation. In January 2023, the company partnered with Raven SR to collaborate on waste-to-hydrogen energy systems at airports with the goal of reducing airports’ reliance on the electrical grid and eventually becoming grid-independent.In the hydrogen aviation space, in March 2022, the company partnered with Universal Hydrogen, which will provide green hydrogen fuel logistics, while H3 Dynamics will provide fuel cell powertrain solutions for unmanned and manned aircraft. Previously, in 2019, the company partnered with ISAE-SUPAERO (an aerospace engineering school) to achieve the first Atlantic crossing with an unmanned aircraft powered by hydrogen. Continuing this momentum, in December 2022, H3 Dynamics began working with Australian UAV manufacturer Carbonix to develop Australia’s first hydrogen-electric drone. In the same month, the company added hydrogen-electric population to unmanned airships built by HyLight. In January 2023, a collaboration with Hylium Industries (a provider of liquid hydrogen storage and liquification solutions) aims to achieve a 3x improvement in flight duration over pressurized hydrogen systems and a 10x improvement in performance over batteries. In June 2023, H3 Dynamics partnered with EOS Technologie (a manufacturer of electric fixed-wing UAS) to introduce two new hydrogen-electric cargo UAS platforms.Funding and financialsIn October 2021, H3 Dynamics raised USD 26 million in Series B funding, which it planned to use to further develop its hydrogen electric UAS.

Disrupting the traditional financial system using blockchain

Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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 Berlin-based Centrifuge offers a platform (based on the Ethereum and Polkadot blockchains) that allows users to tokenize their real-world assets into the DeFi ecosystem. The platform helps tokenize assets such as invoices, real estates, cars, and royalties in the form of NFTs and allows asset-owners to generate liquidity from otherwise illiquid assets without having to rely on an intermediary such as banks. Centrifuge offers the Tinlake app, which opens up assets to investors through its marketplace. As of May 2022, Centrifuge had a total locked value (TVL) of USD 84.8 million.&nbsp;
 
 
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Established renewable energy technologies for a greener future

Current-gen renewables

Pexapark is a specialist provider of Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) price reference, risk and portfolio management software, and advisory services for the renewable energy industry. The company's core offering encompasses trusted reference prices for PPAs across 19 markets and 34 price zones in Europe, PPA transaction advisory services, and PexaOS, its unique energy risk and portfolio management software.
Pexapark's PexaQuote software provides daily PPA price calculations and quotes for various renewable energy technologies such as solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind across different regions in Europe. It takes into account factors like geography, technology type, contract tenors, and PPA structures to determine fair value pricing. The platform allows users to request customized PPA pricing based on specific renewable energy assets and locations. It also features a Forward Curve function to predict tradable quantities of energy for future years.
Additionally, Pexapark offers PPA Tracker, a service that provides timely updates on new PPA announcements, including details like the country of origin, buyer and seller names, technology used, project size, and tenor. As of September 2023, the company had supported over 30GW of PPA deals and its PexaOS software was actively managing 13GW of renewable energy assets across Europe for Independent Power Producers (IPPs) and funds.
Founded in 2017 and based in Zurich, Switzerland, Pexapark has been adopted by over 200 renewable energy, storage, and green hydrogen players across Europe, including leading companies like Octopus Energy Generation, Statkraft, BP, EDF Renewables, and Covestro. In November 2022, the company entered into a partnership with AFRY, a Swedish-Finnish engineering and advisory firm, to develop the market's first 'Daily Valuation Curve' - a consistent valuation framework covering the complete lifespan of renewable energy projects.

AI, robotics, and IoT to streamline the flow of goods and information

Logistics Tech

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 Based in France, Flowlity provides an AI-based inventory optimization and forecasting platform for end-to-end inventory management. Flowlity can be used for raw material or finished goods inventory management with features such as consumption forecasting, inventory optimization, replenishment optimization, sales forecasting, multi-echelon inventory optimization, and replenishment and distribution optimization. It also enables collaboration and sharing information with suppliers through a supplier portal. The company offers its services on a SaaS basis.
 
 
 
 
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Simplifying healthcare administration with intuitive tech tools

Hospital Management

Time Study is a provider of time intelligence solutions that help healthcare organizations optimize their workforce and operations by leveraging data analytics. Launched in 2017, the company offers a centralized platform that gathers time data from various sources across an enterprise to create a comprehensive profile of how healthcare providers spend their time at work. The platform integrates with electronic health records (EHRs), payroll systems, billing software, and other data sources to provide insights that enable organizations to evaluate workforce efficiency, optimize workflows, meet regulatory requirements, and improve cost reporting accuracy.
Time Study's platform leverages technologies such as natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to transform unstructured data into standardized information and support predictive analytics. By responding to insights derived from time data, organizations can reduce redundancies, improve efficiencies, better allocate resources, and increase billable time for providers.
As of May 2024, Time Study's solution has helped several healthcare entities increase research grant and Medicare and Medicaid compliance rates by 150% and boost reimbursement by half a million dollars. The company proudly serves major health organizations, including NY-Presbyterian and Stanford.

Clean, congestion-free air travel gets liftoff

Passenger eVTOL Aircraft

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From counting steps to saving lives and beyond

Wearable Tech

Aatmunn, formerly known as Guardhat, is a Detroit-based industrial technology company established in 2014. The company focuses on enhancing safety and efficiency for frontline workers through its software-based solutions. Aatmunn's core offering is the Industrial internet of People (IIoP) platform, which integrates artificial intelligence and a unified data fabric to advance real-time safety, inspection, and compliance in industrial settings. The platform consolidates data from proprietary and third-party hardware, serving as a safety control center and feeding predictive analytics and machine learning models to study worker behavior and optimize operations.Aatmunn's technology has demonstrated significant impact in preventing industrial accidents, including forklift incidents, gas leaks, and radiation exposure. In one instance, the system detected nearly 200 near-accidents and averted five potential fatalities in a single day. The company has digitized and automated over 2 million safety inspections, revolutionizing safety protocols in industrial environments. Aatmunn's tracking solutions have reduced lost or stolen safety equipment incidents by 80%, a notable achievement in an industry where typically 10% of such equipment is written off. The platform has detected more than 1.8 million incidents, showcasing its effectiveness in industrial safety. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Aatmunn's technology played a crucial role in preventing 18 plant shutdowns, helping to sustain critical supply chains. Implementation of Aatmunn's solutions has led to a 50% reduction in downtime and an 80% decrease in the time required to locate personnel in emergencies.As of January 2024, Aatmunn manages more than 1,000 safety and operational checklists and oversees 350,000+ PPE assets with over a million inspections. The company has achieved remarkable growth, reporting a 100% year-over-year increase in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) as of April 2024. Aatmunn's efforts have been recognized with prestigious awards, including Time Magazine's Product of the Year in 2020 and OH&amp;S Product of the Year in 2022.Key customers and partnershipsAatmunn serves over 200 Tier 1 customers worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. Notable clients include SpaceX, PepsiCo, and Amazon. The company has also established partnerships with device manufacturers such as 3 million and RKI. Aatmunn's technology currently empowers 80,000+ workers with innovative safety solutions across various industries.

Bringing the benefits of blockchain to the enterprise

Enterprise Blockchain Solutions

Spherity offers a range of enterprise-focused decentralized identity and supply chain management solutions. These include 1) digital wallet solutions for Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Supplier (KYS) process automation, 2) credentialing services for real-time authentication of trading partners, and 3) a digital product passport that enables compliance with global provenance, product passport regulations, and AI regulations.Key customers and partnershipsThe company is a part of the consortium that won the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) project named “Traceability Reference Architecture Conformant EBSI for the European Union” (TRACE4EU). Funded by the European Union, the project aims to build a common blockchain architecture for the traceability of documents and physical goods using EBSI. Spherity offered its expertise in materials traceability that deals with seafood, agrifood, halloumi, and batteries.The company offers services across regulated sectors, such as automotive, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and the energy sector, as well as data infrastructure ecosystems, such as Gaia-X and Catena-X.Funding and financials&nbsp;In March 2024, Spherity <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/27555">raised EUR 2.5 million (USD 2.7 million)</a> in funding led by Blockwall to expand its employee base, improve its global sales and engineering capabilities, and invest in further product development. Spherity also planned to expand its presence in the US by supporting and enabling the pharmaceutical industry’s compliance with the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

Using AI to mimic and understand human language

Natural Language Processing Tools

Deepgram is a leading provider of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology that uses deep learning to accurately transcribe and analyze audio data. The company's AI-powered platform offers both speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities, with a focus on high accuracy, low latency, and cost-effectiveness. Deepgram's ASR technology can handle complex audio environments and diverse accents, supporting transcription in over 36 languages as of March 2024. The platform is designed to operate at scale, allowing it to process large volumes of audio data efficiently.
Deepgram's technology incorporates advanced features such as speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, topic detection, and language detection. The company's audio-first approach allows it to capture nuances of intonation and inflection, setting it apart from traditional text-based natural language processing methods. As of November 2022, Deepgram had transcribed over 1 trillion words from raw audio data.
In March 2024, Deepgram launched Aura, a new real-time text-to-speech API that combines highly realistic voice models with low-latency processing. This technology enables developers to build conversational AI agents for applications such as customer service and interactive voice response systems. Deepgram's pricing for its text-to-speech service is competitive, with rates starting at USD 0.015 per 1,000 characters as of March 2024.
Key customers and partnerships
Deepgram's technology has been adopted by a diverse range of enterprises and startups. Notable customers include NASA, Spotify, Auth0, and Citi. The company's solutions cater to various industries, including customer support, media, education, and healthcare.
In the education sector, Deepgram's technology is used to assist in language learning and provide resources for students. In healthcare, the platform helps transcribe doctor-patient conversations for improved record-keeping and compliance. Media companies utilize Deepgram to generate subtitles and closed captions for videos in multiple languages.
Deepgram has also established partnerships to enhance its offerings. The company is part of the NVIDIA Inception program, which has allowed it to leverage NVIDIA GPUs to improve the speed and scalability of its platform. This collaboration has enabled Deepgram to process hundreds of audio files in seconds using NVIDIA V100 GPUs on the Amazon Web Services cloud.

Technologies and processes that revolutionize the traditional construction industry

Construction Tech

Aatmunn, formerly known as Guardhat, is an industrial technology company founded in Detroit in 2014. The company focuses on enhancing safety and efficiency for frontline workers globally through its software-based solutions. Aatmunn's core offering is an AI-powered Industrial internet of People (IIoP) platform that integrates with proprietary and third-party hardware to consolidate data for worker safety and operational optimization. The platform includes applications like Safety Inspection Manager, which utilizes artificial intelligence and a unifying data fabric to advance real-time safety, inspection, and compliance in industrial settings.
The company's technology aims to prevent major industrial accidents such as forklift incidents, gas leaks, and radiation exposure. In one instance, Aatmunn's system detected nearly 200 near-accidents and averted five potential fatalities in a single day. The platform has successfully digitized and automated over 2 million safety inspections, detected more than 1.8 million incidents, and reduced equipment loss by 80%. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Aatmunn's solutions helped prevent 18 plant shutdowns. The implementation of their technology has led to a 50% reduction in downtime and an 80% decrease in the time required to locate personnel during emergencies.
As of January 2024, Aatmunn manages more than 1,000 safety and operational checklists and oversees 350,000+ PPE assets with over 1 million inspections. The company has achieved significant growth, reporting a 100% year-over-year increase in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Aatmunn's efforts have been recognized with prestigious awards, including Time Magazine's Product of the Year in 2020 and OH&S Product of the Year in 2022.
Key customers and partnerships
Aatmunn serves over 200 Tier 1 customers worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. Notable clients include SpaceX, PepsiCo, and Amazon. The company has also established partnerships with device manufacturers such as 3 million and RKI. Aatmunn's technology empowers more than 80,000 workers across various industries with its innovative safety solutions.

Using real-time data to create dynamic virtual representations of the real world

Digital Twin

NavVis is a provider of 3D scans and digital twin (DT) solutions to the manufacturing and construction industries. The company enables businesses to virtually monitor and maintain buildings, make operational decisions, and remotely collaborate with suppliers to discuss changes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The company has two main product offerings: 1) NavVis VLX, a mobile mapping system for building and assets that can be used by laser scanning and surveying professionals and 2) NavVis IVION, a DT solution to transform physical spaces into a virtual space for collaboration and decision-making. The company claims its NavVis VLX 2nd gen is 10x faster at mapping than a terrestrial laser. Further in <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/33431">September 2024</a>, the company launched the NavVis MLX, a handheld dynamic laser scanner designed for architecture, engineering, construction, and surveying workflows.The company operates a B2B business model, where it has partnered with several companies globally that provide NavVis’s mapping, software, and hardware solutions to end consumers. The company operates globally, with offices in Germany, the US, and China.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company’s mapping partners include Hemminger (since May 2020) and PrecisionPoint (since October 2017), which provide scanning and data capture services via the NavVis mobile mapping device. In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/15867">May 2022</a>, the company partnered with AVEVA to advance laser scanning to provide 3D point cloud data and panoramic images for the DT solution. The company also has solution partners who offer services to customers using NavVis’s solutions, including Amazon Web Services, Autodesk, Siemens, and SAP.In <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/17311">March 2023</a>, the company collaborated with digital twin solutions provider Nvidia. This collaboration helped stream large amounts of data for industrial settings. They Integrated NavVis VLX and NavVis IVION with the Nvidia Omniverse via the Universal Scene Description (USD) framework. This allowed manufacturers to create virtual models of their factory environments and make improvements more easily.&nbsp;In November 2020, the company provided automobile giant BMW Group with DT modeling services for its product network, including photorealistic images, floor plans, and point cloud data of all its manufacturing plants. As of June 2022, almost four million square meters of BMW’s plants had been scanned using NavVis VLX and other drone scanning systems. The company also provided services to German consumer goods giant Henkel in December 2021 to create a virtual factory of its entire production facility. Its other key customers include Daimler, Allianz, Siemens, Huawei, Lenovo, and Deutsche Telekom.

Next-gen packaging solutions for enhanced product tracking, inspection solutions and freshness monitoring

Smart Packaging Tech

ScanTrust is a Switzerland-based package traceability and analytics platform that provides companies with comprehensive tools to combat counterfeiting and compliance and optimize inventory and distribution processes. Its core technology includes creating secure QR codes and landing pages without programming knowledge and facilitating customer engagement and compliance with e-labels and digital product passports (DPP). It also reportedly works with a customer's existing label printing processes and QR codes (which can be upgraded with security features). Key products and services include cost-effective anti-counterfeiting solutions that allow consumers to authenticate products using a smartphone without needing a special app. The platform also supports supply chain traceability, providing visibility into inventory and distribution processes through QR codes. Additional capabilities include authentication applications, QR code managers, EU wine-label compliance, enterprise QR codes, mobile landing page creators, and supply chain workflow applications.Key customers and partnershipsAs of February 2024, the company had more than 1 billion connected products, and its customers included Dupont, Melitta, NuSkin, Unilever, Abbott, ExxonMobil, Unilever, HP, Motul, and Zippo.In July 2021, the company partnered with ePac Flexible Packaging, a custom flexible packaging company, to offer secure and serialized QR codes printed on the packaging to provide an online gateway and connected packaging capabilities. In September 2023, Scantrust partnered with SCREEN Europe, a printing equipment provider, to combine SCREEN Europe's digital printing technology with ScanTrust's secure QR codes.Funding and financialsIn November 2017, the company raised USD 4.2 million in a Series A funding round led by SVC Ltd to expand the support and delivery of ScanTrust's supply chain projects with Global Fortune 1000 companies worldwide. It also aimed to develop new features, expand business intelligence capabilities, and fuel the company's growth into new verticals.

Empowering efficiency, visibility and collaboration throughout supply networks

Supply Chain Tech

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 Paris-based Shippeo offers a transportation visibility and supply chain optimization platform that provides solutions to improve the efficiency and visibility of freight and logistics operations. The platform enables shippers and carriers to track the real-time location and status of their shipments. It is also equipped with predictive analytics capabilities to enable its users to take proactive decisions in managing their transport and logistics operations.&nbsp;
 
 
 
 
 As of October 2023, the company claimed that it tracked more than 32 million shipments per year across 110 countries. The company also reported that it connected with more than 200,000 carriers and covered 95% of the world's containers. The platform also connects shippers, carriers, and logistics providers and promotes collaboration in the logistics and transportation space to enhance efficiencies in the supply chains of automotive; building materials; consumer goods; food and beverage; manufacturing; oil, gas, and chemicals; and retail industries.
 
 
 
 
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 As of October 2023, The company&rsquo;s customer portfolio included leading companies such as Ahold Delhaize, AkzoNobel, Amazon, Avery Dennison, Bosch Siemens Hausger&auml;te, Carrefour, Coca-Cola HBC, Jaguar Land Rover, and Heineken.
 
 
 
 
 In August 2022, the company expanded its partnership with E2open to develop a unified global platform that will provide clients with advanced capabilities for native real-time transportation visibility (RTTV) and manage their supply chain operations across all transportation modes and geographies. The companies first entered into a partnership in December 2020 to enhance value for their clients through the interconnection of their networks.
 
 
 
 
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 In October 2022, the company raised USD 40 million in a funding round, which saw the participation of existing investors including Battery Ventures, Partech, NGP Capital, ETF Partners, Bpifrance Digital Venture, and SAP.io, alongside LFX Venture Partners and Yamaha Motor Ventures who entered as new strategic investors. The company aimed to use the funding to expand its reach across North America and the Asia-Pacific regions.
 
 
 
 
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Foundation Models

Israel-based aiOla develops AI-powered speech recognition technology to digitize, automate, and streamline business processes across various industries. The aiOla's proprietary platform combines voice recognition, natural language understanding (NLU), and domain-specific language models to capture and process spoken data. The company's patented technology comprehends over 100 languages and can understand speech, jargon, and acronyms across various industries, regardless of accents and background noises.&nbsp;aiOla's AdaKWS model is claimed to achieve 95% accuracy in keyword spotting, surpassing OpenAI's Whisper model, which reached 88% accuracy.In August 2024, <a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/32306">aiOla launched Whisper-Medusa,</a> an open-source AI model to improve the processing speed and latency of automatic speech recognition. The model allows for increased token prediction and operates by initially freezing the primary components of the Whisper program while training additional parameters using Whisper transcriptions as training modules for Medusa.Key customers and partnershipsIn October 2023, the company announced a partnership with Cloocus, a digital transformation provider, to combine aiOla's speech-driven AI platform with Cloocus's digital transformation, data analytics, and cloud consulting for South Korean enterprises.

Deepgram's voice AI platform provides APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and language understanding. From medical transcription to autonomous agents, Deepgram is the go-to choice for developers of voice AI experiences.

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of sending and accepting digital value at scale. With Runa, companies can pay the people they serve in any form of digital value, anywhere, instantly. The Runa Network provides a wide range of digital payout types including gift cards, prepaid cards, subscriptions, donations, cryptocurrencies and more.  Legacy payment mechanisms struggle to adapt to low-volume, high-velocity transactions both locally and globally, such as sending payouts to gig workers, creators, or sending rewards to customers or employees wherever they are.  Runa’s infrastructure and network facilitates payouts to these recipients, helping businesses expand their reach, retain their users while modernizing the way in which they manage and transfer money: instantly, internationally, and free of charge for the senders and the recipient. Runa was established as WeGift in October 2016 by Aron Alexander in London, England.

Shippeo helps Supply Chains leverage transportation to deliver exceptional customer service. Its real-time transport visibility platform provides shippers, carriers, and 4PLs instant tracking of every delivery, and enables proactive communication with end customers. Founded in 2014, Shippeo tracks more than 40000 deliveries per month throughout Europe for market-leading companies such as Leroy Merlin, Saint-Gobain, and Faurecia, and connects to more than 600 carriers.

Manta is the world-class automated approach to visualize, optimize, and modernize how data moves through your organization through code-level lineage. By automatically scanning your data environment with the power of 50+ out-of-the-box scanners, Manta builds a powerful map of all data pipelines to drive efficiency and productivity.

Founded in 2020 in Berlin, Jina AI is a leading search AI company. We provide the Search Foundation, the core for GenAI and multimodal applications. Our mission is to help businesses and developers unlock multimodal data for value creation with a better search. As a commercial open-source company, we like open innovation.

Zippin has developed the next generation of checkout-free technology enabling retailers to quickly deploy frictionless shopping in their stores. Our patent-pending approach uses AI, machine learning and sensor fusion technology to create the best consumer experience: banishing checkout lines and self-scanners for good, and letting shoppers zip in and out with their purchases. Zippin’s platform leverages product and shopper tracking through overhead cameras, as well as smart shelf sensors, for the highest level of accuracy even in crowded stores. Founded by industry veterans from Amazon and SRI with deep backgrounds in retail technology, AI and computer vision, Zippin is headquartered in San Francisco and has raised venture funding from Maven Ventures, Core Ventures Group, Pear Ventures, Expansion VC, and Montage Ventures.  For more information, visit www.getzippin.com.

Sedna is a data-driven communication platform for the global Supply Chain industry, designed to lighten the manual work of managing email and presenting data so teams can drive commercial success.

Aatmunn, meaning ''soul,'' is an industrial technology company with a clear mission: to revolutionize the lives of over 2 billion frontline workers globally. In 2023, over 2 million frontline workers tragically lost their lives, despite a $1 trillion investment in safety and productivity improvements. The adoption of technology among these workers has been inconsistent, leading to stagnant or declining outcomes. Aatmunn aims to change this narrative with its AI-powered data fabric and applications, already trusted by 150+ marquee customers like SpaceX, PepsiCo, and Amazon, as well as device manufacturers such as 3M and RKI. We've achieved remarkable growth, with a 100% YoY increase in ARR.

Bridging the gap between the physical and digital world, NavVis enables service providers and enterprises to capture and share the built environment as photorealistic digital twins. Our SLAM-based mobile mapping systems generate high-quality data with survey-grade accuracy at speed and scale. And with our digital factory solutions, users are equipped to make better operational decisions, boost productivity, streamline business processes, and improve profitability. Based in Munich, Germany, with offices in the United States and China, NavVis has customers worldwide in the surveying, AEC, and manufacturing industries. For more information, visit www.navvis.com.

Timeshifter is the world’s most advanced circadian analytics and solutions platform designed to unlock unrealized human performance and improve our health and safety. Working directly with the world’s leading scientists, clinicians, and institutions, Timeshifter is translating circadian science into accessible technology solutions. In 2018, Timeshifter launched its first product — now the most-downloaded and highest-rated jet lag app in the world. Based on more than 80,000 post-flight surveys, travelers who followed Timeshifter's advice versus travelers who didn’t follow their Timeshifter plan were 16 times less likely to report very severe jet lag. Recently, Timeshifter launched a new app to help shift workers optimize their sleep, alertness, health, and quality of life. At least 20% of the global labor force are shift workers, changing to a new schedule soon after they adapted to the previous one, or never adapting at all. Timeshifter has received several awards and recognition, including the National Sleep Foundation's SleepTech® Award, Health Magazine's Sleep Award, and an honorable mention of Fast Company's World Changing Ideas. Partners include United Airlines, SAP, CTW, Amadeus, Six Senses, Tripadvisor, TravelPerk, Montblanc, and Haven Life. Investors include former NASA Astronauts Michael López-Alegría and Mike Massimino, Chief Medical Officer for Axiom Space, Dr. Smith Johnston, Chairman of Air Canada, Vagn Sørensen, legendary race driver with 9 Le Mans wins, Tom Kristensen, and entrepreneur and endurance GT car racer, John Shoffner.

LinkWiz offers software that solves something about robots that is a bit difficult to use. It also develops and sells control system software with proprietary algorithms for industrial robots. Linkwiz's main products, L-ROBOT, control software for robots that perform operations such as welding and coating, and L-QUALIFY, a production-line inspection software, have already been adopted by major companies such as auto manufacturers. The company also provides technical consulting services. LinkWiz was founded in March 2015 and is based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Sensyn Robotics they have been developing business solutions that combine robotics technology such as drones with advanced technology. In particular, by promoting automation and generalization, they are proposing new ways to solve business problems, including saving labor and enabling unattended operations. In this way, in addition to helping tackle the social issues facing Japan, they plan to offer a diverse range of solutions developed in Japan, a front-runner of global challenges, to the rest of the world.

Crosschq is a technology platform that utilizes human intelligence to help companies hire and retain the best talent. Through proprietary software and science, Crosschq gathers people-driven insights from job seekers and those who know them best and converts those insights into predictive data. Crosschq data can be used to ensure people and businesses are well-matched, creating long-term, successful employees, and winning workplace cultures.  The company’s cloud-based SaaS solutions were built with a talent-first approach that prioritizes trust and transparency, minimizes bias, and protects privacy. Founded in 2017, Crosschq is backed by GGV Capital, Bessemer Ventures, and other well-known Silicon Valley Investors.

The exponentially growing share of distributed energy resources (DERs) is changing the rules of the energy market. The market is shifting from a limited number of large power plants to millions of DERs, like solar energy systems, batteries and electric vehicles actively participating in the energy market.   Our artificial intelligence based distributed energy management platform called ENERGY AI was built to unlock the full potential of distributed energy resources.   By forecasting load and generation profiles, optimizing DERs and autonomously trading energy, our platform manages flexibilities and takes advantage of market volatilities.  We add intelligence to energy systems, supporting energy companies to succeed in the new era of distributed grids.

The Lemonbeat smart Device Language reduces devices down to a series of values, allowing almost any new device to be described in a universal way that other devices can then understand. The language therefore empowers „things“ within the web of things, creating distributed and linked intelligence, and reducing reliance on the cloud or gateways for expensive translation processes.  At Lemonbeat GmbH they offer a number of solutions on this basis to ensure you can bring your devices into the Internet of Things with minimal fuss and lead times.

Pexapark provides an energy investment platform that specializes in software and advisory services for post-subsidy renewable energy sales and risk management. The company provides an operating system to facilitate the entire energy trading and sales workflow from price discovery to analytics, execution and monitoring, covering solar and on- and offshore wind in 18 countries. Its platform also helps renewable investors to assist them in selling their energy and address clients transact PPAs and managing energy sales. Additionally, it helps clients to structure power sales, complete power purchase agreement transactions, and monitor their energy risks. Pexapark was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Schlieren, Zurich, Switzerland.

Net2Grid offers real-time energy disaggregation. Its platform offers appliance recognition and disaggregation, actionable control, and brand awareness, thereby enabling clients to reduce the cost to serve while increasing customer engagement. The company was founded in 2011 with the mission to build an ecosystem of devices and services to drive energy efficiency and savings at home while helping utilities worldwide to improve customer engagement, increase NPS, reduce churn rates and reduce the cost to serve. It operates offices in Zeist (The Netherlands), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Germany.

Raycatch is an AI diagnostics technology for solar energy, on a mission to revolutionize the PV market by enabling automated management of solar assets. By deciphering existing solar energy data, Raycatch transforms PV Operation and Maintenance (O&M) tasks from traditional manual scheduled operations to on-demand automatic management.  The Raycatch app, DeepSolar™, analyzes production data on a daily basis and aims to generate a full diagnostic mapping of all components in a PV portfolio. All insights are ROI driven and fully quantified, include panels under warranty but below the spec, maintenance on demand (dust + grass), disconnected cables, PID, temperature coefficient, MPPT/Inverter efficiency, tracking systems and many more.  The result is maximized performance and maintenance of solar assets, leading to increased yield, decreased operational costs and the acceleration of solar energy penetration in the global energy market. No hardware or software installation, No site visits are needed.

OXYGEN TECHNOLOGIES provides digital value-added services to private and commercial “prosumers” with an operating system to monitor and control distributed energy devices. With the development of its IT platform ELEMENTS and the modules running on it, they are now supporting energy service providers in embarking on the digitalization of the decentralized energy transition, opening up new business models and customer groups and thus contributing to a supply of 100 percent renewable energies. Its IT solutions from self-generated electricity optimization to community electricity and the peer-to-peer electricity market accompany municipal utilities, energy suppliers, and metering point operators step by step into the digital energy age and create concrete added value for their customers. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Freiburg, Germany.

Metadome.ai is an immersive 3D & XR technology company that enables cloud-based photorealistic & captivating customer experiences for brands. Our technology offers a complete stack for creating immersive 3D & XR applications with omni-channel deployment across both in-store and digital, and over a multitude of devices. These immersive experiences can be adopted over a spectrum of use cases across the automotive, home décor, fashion, and cosmetics & accessories sectors. Our flagship platform for automotive – Autodome – enables unprecedented photorealistic and cloud-based immersive 3D & XR applications that cover the entire pre-retail funnel, empowering brands to launch their products virtually and drive awareness, engagement and bookings among modern automotive consumers. Today, we are the trusted partners for many leading brands across the globe, including Unilever, MG Motor, Lexus, Asian Paints, Tata Motors, and Royal Enfield, among others. We have also partnered with the likes of TCS, SAP, and PWC in helping brands create immersive customer experiences, and are an active voice across organizations in the XR community, including the Metaverse Standards Forum and the VR AR Association.

Take your store to customers on WhatsApp, iMessage, LINE, SMS, Facebook Shops, Google Ads, and more. Jumper.ai, is a conversational commerce and customer engagement platform that combines together human conversations, guided chats and Natural Language Processing with end-to-end integrations, to enable businesses to drive engagement, offer sales consultation, enable commerce with payments, send updates, and gather consumer insights, on their customers favourite social messaging and web channels. We power brands such as Unilever, Loreal, Samsung, Disney, Reckitt Benkiser, BMW, go direct to consumer and offer experiential commerce experiences, across WhatsApp, iMessage, Webchat, SMS, Line, Google Ads, Twitter and more. Brands also leverage our seamless engagement tools for Facebook Live, Blogs, Instagram Shops, to capture their customer's intent and automatically strike a conversation.

Parcel Perform is the leading delivery experience platform. It enables modern e-commerce enterprises to create unique end-to-end customer journeys and optimize logistics operations with powerful data integrations, parcel tracking, delivery notifications, and logistics performance reports in real-time.  Parcel Perform's scalable SaaS platform executes more than 100 million parcel updates daily and integrates with 900+ carriers. The data-first company is pioneering innovative ML / AI use cases in e-commerce logistics, including its 'Date of Arrival' prediction engine. Parcel Perform is the partner of choice for top brands, marketplaces, and carriers across all major verticals globally.

Saara helps ecommerce businesses become financially and environmentally sustainable. EcoReturns - Helps reduce and automate returns. EcoShip - Offers the widest coverage at lowest cost and most ecofriendly ways CoLoyalty - helps them reduce CAC and run loyalty program with other brands

At Archlet, we help companies make better and faster sourcing decisions. We believe in creating easy to use and intelligent software products to disrupt the currently mostly manual and time-consuming approach in strategic sourcing.

Poor inventory management accounts for billions in losses. Responding to this need, Flowlity brings resilient planning to prevent overstocks and shortages. Our ambition is to make supply chain plans resilient to uncertainty, and help you shift from a deterministic model to a resilient one. With a unique approach based on artificial intelligence and supply chain expertise, Flowlity has been helping leading companies, such as Danone, La Redoute, Saint Gobain and Camif to plan and forecast their inventories since 2018. Our customers see, on average, a reduction of 30% of their inventories and 20% of their shortages.

Per Angusta is an agile procurement performance management platform that develops a SaaS to enhance the performance of procurement teams. It also offers a SaaS solution to help you build your procurement action plan, set objectives, measure performance, and communicate the value created throughout the organization. They also enable buying teams to achieve quantum in collaboration, agility, and accountability. Per Angusta was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France.

SCALUE is a web application that enables companies to identify various areas of potential savings and optimize their purchasing processes. It enables purchasing organizations to perform procurement analytics, integrated into the organization, maximize process efficiency, and realize saving potentials.  It was founded in 2017 and is based in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Trustpair ambition is to reinvent the way large companies check the transfers they issue. They have built the first solution to avoid transfer fraud that costs $ 2.5 billion each year. Our clients gain in efficiency and serenity. In the long term, we want to transform the way financial departments treat information! They are looking for passionate talents to help Them write the rest of the story. As a startup, they are looking for people who are curious, efficient and able to grow with them. They are involved in building a work environment where everyone feels good and is able to express their full potential. They are convinced that reaching goals is more important than time spent at work, everyone must be free and responsible in their way of organizing themselves. All teams can telecommute. For those who wish to work in Their offices, They offer unlimited drinks and snacks as well as other benefits. They like to meet regularly to share good moments outside of work! Trustpair employees are part of the same adventure and collectively contribute to the success of the project. It is important that the remuneration is consistent with the importance of the efforts provided: it is transparent and attractive, based on skills and experience.

Founded in 2015, Winddle is a collaborative platform designed to simplify supply chain management. By connecting key players like suppliers and carriers, it ensures visibility, coordination, compliance, and the optimization of product flows. With advanced real-time tracking and collaboration tools, Winddle enables companies to manage their operations efficiently while anticipating unforeseen challenges. Recognized as one of the 8 most innovative Supply Chain solutions by SAP and winner of the 2021 European Start-up Award, Winddle is trusted by over 8,000 professionals across industries such as fashion, retail, and logistics. Today, Winddle offers advanced traceability features, allowing businesses to track and manage data such as product origins and certifications. By ensuring traceability throughout the supply chain, companies can enhance transparency, meet regulatory requirements, and uphold their commitment to sustainability and quality assurance. Selected by SAP among the 8 most innovative Procurement solutions, Winddle brings together more than 4500 Supply Chain professionals from around the world (order givers, suppliers, transport providers, quality services) connected daily for effective coordination of supply chain flows.

CardUp is on a mission to provide individuals and businesses with a better way to pay and get paid. Our payment platform simplifies the lives of business owners, bringing both payments and collections into one easy-to-use digital platform. These no-code solutions improve cash flow management, unlock rewards on existing cards and save time through automation, all with no software implementation or setup time. At our core, we allow any big expense – previously made by cash, cheque, or bank transfer – to be shifted onto a credit card. This includes expenses that traditionally have not accepted cards. Examples include rent, insurance premiums, payroll, supplier invoices and more. In addition, we equip businesses with the tools needed to automate payment processing, helping them save time whilst staying in control of their finances.   CardUp operates regionally across Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a Major Payment Institution under the Payment Services Act.

MatchMove Pay is a Singaporean financial technology company that provides innovative, end-to-end enterprise payment solutions to help businesses increase revenue, and enhance user engagement and loyalty through its customizable cloud-based platforms. It offers MatchMove Wallet, an electronic wallet that enables its users to apply and keep track of multiple virtual cards for online shopping. It also allows consumer brands, banks, and regional e-commerce websites to easily issue secure mobile payment cards to potential customers with smartphones in Asia and the emerging markets. MatchMove Pay was founded in 2009.

Staple develops cognitive AI to read, interpret and extract structured data from documents at scale, regardless of layout or language. Our proprietary combination of computer vision, machine learning, NLP and OCR allows us to deliver solutions that can process data 25X faster and 80% more affordably than any human can. Staple is currently servicing data-intensive customers in the banking, financial services, professional services, healthcare and industrial sectors.

NWO.ai is an intelligence amplification platform that harnesses machine learning techniques and human metadata. NWO.ai's technology enables clients to surface the fears, motivations, and demand drivers underlying various Signals, providing them with unprecedented access to the why behind a narrative. NWO.ai's platform is already in use by several Fortune 500 brands to empower key resource allocation decisions.

True Data to provide support and consulting services for purchasing behavior data using ID-POS for retailers, while creating and analyzing market index data for consumer goods manufacturers. It develops and provides consumer data analysis and purchasing behavior analysis solutions such as POS or ID-POS to retailers and consumer goods manufacturers.

By using Vox container as an actual reusable shipping box, retailers/manufacturers would be able to automate packing/shipping operation and save the world from the waste of millions of paper shipping boxes. Just to install the base station at your suitable location, people can accept multiple deliveries of the container. The smart container is capable to be handled by both human hand and delivery robot.

Crafter is now a member of Monex Group! Crafter provides Crew, a team collaboration tool powered by GPT-3 and CraftChat. CraftChat is a SaaS platform for marketers who work in enterprises to automate acquiring leads and providing best customer experience in your absence.We remove the trouble of spending lots of money on online marketing and make better conversions. If you are using CraftChat, users don’t have to visit the website, it comes to you on your social media advertisements. CraftChat delivers more solid targeting based on social media activity and profiles.

Landit is a technology platform that increases the success and engagement of women and diverse groups in the workplace. The market leader in personalized career pathing, Landit creates a turnkey “one size fits one” solution that  enables enterprises to attract, develop, and retain high-potential diverse talent. Landit provides each member with a personalized playbook that empowers them with the tools, resources, know-how, and human connections they need to advance and navigate their career path. Key features include building a personal brand, executive coaching, creating a personal board of advisors, curated skill development and mapping to career opportunities.

Knockri is an AI video skills assessment tool that uses a similar way to measure employers. The company helps reduce unconscious bias and shortlists the best-fit job candidates to interview, during the early screening process of hiring. It also helps eliminate unsuccessful interviews, by merging video intelligence, artificial intelligence, and science to quantify soft skills like confidence and empathy. Knockri's algorithm is blind and has been trained not to account for skin color, race, ethnicity, gender, appearance, or sexual preference as measures of desirability for a hire. The company's video and written screening platforms can seamlessly integrate into the existing Applicant Tracking System, that can easily plug-in their ready to go algorithm (API) into the existing interview and conference platforms.

Mathison is the first all-inclusive technology for diversity hiring and retention. Our platform delivers top-of-funnel diversity sourcing, a system to reduce bias in the hiring process, and tools to mobilize the entire team around diversity hiring efforts. Mathison is leveraged by leading brands from Accenture, Sonos and TripAdvisor to 23andMe and HelloFresh.

C2RO™ is the leading global provider of Privacy-Aware AI-powered video analytics for physical spaces using proprietary edge-cloud AI and computer vision technologies. The C2RO™ biometric-free solutions are built for scale and reuse existing surveillance cameras while being fully compliant with the most restrictive data privacy regulations in the world including the EU’s GDPR. ENTERA™, C2RO’s flagship product, is the most advanced GDPR-Compliant Video Analytics Platform in the world. It provides comprehensive, accurate, and 100% faceless shopper journey insights, detailed socio-demographic breakdowns, and full conversion funnel analysis, enabling data-driven decision-making to improve quality of service, customer experience, and safety by detecting inefficiencies and bottlenecks that impact the ROI.  ENTERA™ enables unprecedented savings on Edge Computing for large deployments across thousands of sites. C2RO™ was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Montreal, Canada, a global hub for Artificial Intelligence. C2RO™ was named the 2020s most trusted retail technology provider in the world by CIO Techie magazine. It was also listed two years consecutively in 2020 and 2021 as the Most Innovative Privacy-Aware AI-Based Video Analytics Solution by Corporate Vision. In 2021, C2RO™ was named the official AI Video Analytics Technology provider of Telefonica Tech, providing innovative Video Analytics capability to their IoT and Big Data portfolio and always prioritizing consumer data protection.

Time matters. Discover in seconds. Employees spend 3 hours every day only searching for answers. The result? 50% of their searches end up in failure. A total of 2 months a year wasted pointlessly. The worst part? Nonsense, that has no context or relevant information to their entered topic. It's a waste of time, it's a waste of money, it's a waste of nerves - and it turns faster into frustration than one can even spell the word. Can you feel it? Perfect. The omnipotent, the future, the creator of the biggest Product Knowledge Graph of our time, able to connect every important data point from public data like social media or the world wide web. Meaning? Your search request goes wider, deeper, on higher levels. In short: it's efficient, it's successful and turns your products into growth. datazeit reimagines the discovery and helps you to get rid of the 'keyword-hit enter-wait for result-repeat until found or give up' search kind of way you and millions of people lived for so long. Stop looking, start finding.

Teamcore is a unique method that transforms information into action so that its products are always available at the time of purchase. They prioritize automated tasks after processing stores sales and online data on machine learning algorithms. Their platform enables a structured retail execution methodology by creating a problem-solving workflow across the entire retail sales, supply, and operations team, empowering consumer product companies and retailers to better store execution.

Zepl's mission is to simplify the way the world analyzes data. It was founded by the creators of Apache Zeppelin, to tackle the obstacles facing organizations today in their transformation to model-driven enterprises.  The team has deep enterprise experience in building AI-powered, highly scalable, cloud-native solutions for data scientists, engineers and analysts that are tackling the world's most challenging big data problems.  Zepl offers an enterprise, cloud data science and analytics platform that allows data scientists, engineers and analysts to rapidly build and analyze models & insights in a highly collaborative environment with increased security, transparency and repeatability.  As Zepl was born from the open-source community, we are extremely ecosystem friendly integrating many of the open source and commercial tools, notebooks, languages and analytic engines such as Zeppelin, Jupyter, R, Python, SQL, Spark and many more.

Cogniac enables enterprise customers to extract information from ever-increasing streams of video and image data. Using modern advances in deep learning, their products achieve better-than-human performance at many highly-focused observation tasks.

HERO, a social shopping platform designed to provide consumers with inspiration, advice, and immediately shoppable content produced directly from retailers' physical stores.

LISNR® powers transactions across the customer journey globally with the most advanced Ultrasonic Data Platform. Today, companies like Jaguar Land Rover, Ticketmaster, and Visa use this solution to create secure & frictionless moments for consumers around the world. Founded in 2012, LISNR is located in Oakland, CA and Cincinnati, OH. Major investors include Intel, Jump Capital, Mercury Fund, R/GA, and Synchrony Financial.

Ivaldi Group helps heavy industry shift to digital distribution. Working with industry leaders, Ivaldi has helped companies all over the world gain an understanding of their supply chain and build business cases in order to go digital. Whether you are an original equipment manufacturer or end-user, Ivaldi will work with you to build a safe, convenient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly portal for sending files, not parts.

The Rheaply Platform is a cloud-based resource exchange technology application for connecting people and organizations with resources to those who need them, improving reuse outcomes and catalyzing the circular economy. As the only market solution that combines an asset management system with an online marketplace, Rheaply’s platform enables organizations to exchange materials and resources more effectively, eliminating unnecessary waste and spend. To learn more about Rheaply, visit rheaply.com or follow @RheaplyInc.

Wise Systems builds autonomous dispatch and routing software that uses machine learning to continuously improve fleet efficiency and customer service across last-mile operations in food, beverage, courier, energy, field service, and other markets. Used by some of the world’s largest brands, Wise Systems customers typically see 10-15% mileage reductions, significant increases in fleet utilization, and up to 80% decreases in late deliveries.  The Wise Systems platform applies software-based logic to all orders and makes intelligent, data-driven decisions to optimize both fleet performance and customer service — processing millions of data points and making thousands of real-time decisions that would be impossible for even the most experienced human dispatcher. The system automatically schedules routes, monitors routes in progress, and intelligently adjusts to day-of delays on the ground. The company was founded out of the MIT Media Lab and Center for Transportation Logistics in 2014 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

MultiBall offers a mixed reality sports and gaming platform built for the interaction between physical activity and digital games. The MultiBall system can be installed on any wall. It consists of a gaming console, integrated speakers, an impact-proof sensor frame. All hardware components are designed for maximum durability and 24/7 use, developed, engineered, and produced in Germany.

We offer large-scale AR-based indoor positioning solutions.  Based on our tracking platform, we have developed ready-made solutions, the most widely used of which is ''Workforce 4.0''. Workforce 4.0 is a process optimization tool for any type of processes, such as maintenance, productivity improvement, error management, training and much more. This solution includes not only the optimization of maintenance or repair processes, but also defect management and asset tracking. Digital recording allows necessary processes to be recorded and documented more efficiently. You will receive a real-time status of the building and machine infrastructures and can thus, for example, reduce downtimes or even avoid shutdowns and improve asset availability in production. The main advantages of our solution are that it is ready for use within a very short time, incurs hardly any investment costs (CAPEX), is easy to operate via mobile devices and recurring processes are easy to standardize and document. Integration with other systems such as SAP, IBM or other (IoT) platforms are of course possible.   What we are looking for? Customers in manufacturing area and we partner with system integrators and train them to implement the solution for any customers, focusing on B2B industrial customers in the context of industry 4.0.

Immersiv.io is a startup working in the field of augmented reality to enhance the fan experience. They rely on the latest innovations (like machine learning, computer vision, real-time data) to design new ways for teams and leagues to engage their audience by sharing immersive and interactive experiences with their fans.

Pico is a data-driven fan marketing platform. We are a channel-agnostic SaaS platform that identifies fans across all digital channels, continually add data about them, and create lifetime value by making data-driven business decisions. Our technology is trusted by more than 50 sports giants from over 10 leagues in Europe, USA, Asia, South Africa, and South America.

TAWNY is a pioneer in the field of modern, AI-powered emotion detection technology founded in 2017 in Munich. The rise of Emotion AI will change the way humans interact with machines in all categories of life including working and industry environments as well as consumer products and public spaces. The new technologies allow the world’s machines, devices, robots and digital systems in general to attain digital empathy. TAWNY offers a unique Do-It-Yourself, web-based SaaS solution allowing anyone to instantly decode emotions and complex human states. Real time, without complex technical setups, at a fraction of cost and fully transparent with an open documentation facing the reproach to existing offerings of being a blackbox in the measurement of emotions, compared to existing approaches.  The enterprise tech services allow to incorporate emotional intelligence in products, services and experiences and makes the TAWNY Technology to an awarded pioneer in the field of AI-powered emotion detection technology outperforming existing approaches for emotion recognition. The TAWNY Emotion AI architecture with patent pending is based on a huge data repository and trained multimodal datasets bringing together the worlds of emotion science and deep learning. TAWNY democratizes AI-powered Emotion Analytics!

Wagawin specializes in identifying and understanding audiences. We enable our clients to reach the people with the highest affinity for their products and services. Through our unique combination of creative and audience data, we increase efficiency along the entire marketing funnel and achieve significantly better campaign results.   Our award-winning Conversational Ads enable a meaningful conversation between advertisers and their consumers across all relevant screens - from mobile, to desktop, to DOOH and CTV. We develop and understand these conversations like no other. With our own AI, we process millions of different consumer feedbacks every day and generate target group data for all relevant platforms - programmatically, privacy compliant and cookieless. With our approach, brands learn to understand the true needs of their audiences. We are even able to enrich this knowledge with motion data in almost real time. All of this not only leads to an enormous increase in data quality, but also helps brands to identify and exploit hidden customer potential. Media agencies and advertisers such as Unilever, P&G, L'Oréal, McDonalds, Deutsche Telekom and many more achieve measurably better results with us every day at all stages of the marketing funnel. The brand Wagawin was acquired by W² Group from Germany in 2023. In the course of this acquisition, Wagawin Asia, established in 2018 and based in Singapore, was also brought under the ownership of W² Group. Since the end of 2023, the Group is also shareholder in the newly established Wagawin Europe, based in Munich.

Hasura is a privately held software technology company that builds developer tooling products, including open-source tools, backend as a service, and platform as a service product. The Hasura GraphQL Engine provides GraphQL APIs over new or existing Postgres databases. It makes data access easy, by instantly composing a GraphQL API that is backed by databases and services so that the developer team gets immediately productive.  The company was founded in 2017 and has offices in Bangalore and San Francisco.

FUZED provides a B2B lead generation tool that allows companies to build content-driven landing pages for social media traffic. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in London, England.

aiOla is an innovative company that is powering advancements in speech technology for the supply chain, manufacturing, and the food industry. Bolstered by its backend system, aiOla transforms speech into structured data with exceptional accuracy, overcoming the limitations of conventional models that often struggle with specialized industry jargon. aiOla's app has the capability to instantly digitize both paper and digital forms, understanding, and processing industry-specific terminology on the fly. This eliminates the need for extensive retraining of AI models for new languages or jargon, making the system highly efficient and adaptable. For instance, aiOla's app can process over 120 languages and handle heavily accented speech, proving effective in challenging environments like noisy factory floors. In 2024, aiOla's app has seen several technological advancements. A key component is aiOla’s proprietary AdaKWS AI model, which boasts 95% accuracy in keyword spotting, outstripping competing models like OpenAI’s Whisper. Complementing this, their innovative KG-Whisper technology enables the app to instantly adapt to any industry’s unique vocabulary without the costly and time-consuming retraining typically required. Moreover, Whisper-Medusa, another addition to the app, enhances real-time transcription performance, making aiOla 50% faster than leading off-the-shelf models.  aiOla's app, empowered with these innovations, achieves speech understanding rates significantly higher than the industry standard of around 60%. For example, ASR technology can capture data from spoken Chinese with a 55% level of accuracy, whereas aiOla can provide 95% accuracy for the same text. This showcases that aiOla is setting new benchmarks in speech recognition accuracy. The technology's ability to operate effectively in challenging environments, such as noisy factory floors or bustling logistics centers, further proves its robustness and real-world applicability. By seamlessly integrating with existing systems and reducing operational costs, aiOla's technology as a leader in transforming how businesses capture and utilize speech data, driving significant improvements in productivity and efficiency across various sectors.

Sampler is a provider of digital product sampling services. The company helps consumer-packaged goods brands of all sizes and categories deliver physical samples to digitally targeted consumers. Its turnkey solution helps brands gather consumer feedback and demographic insights that helps increase successful trials and in turn conversion rates.

TrenDemon is a Web Personalization & Account-Based Marketing Orchestration solution – A goal-based journey orchestration platform is the main hub used to understand the customer journey and deliver personalized experiences at scale, that encourages visitors to continue engaging with your website – driving increased business performance. Accelerate your pipeline and revenue with attribution-based personalization: - Serve every website visitor the right messages and assets, helping them become your customers, faster. - Understand how your marketing efforts impact business goals and map your customer journeys from initial touch to won deals. - Convert visitors to customers, not only to leads.

Pecan helps business intelligence, operations, and revenue teams predict mission-critical outcomes. As the world’s only low-code predictive analytics and data science platform, Pecan enables companies to harness the full power of AI and predictive modeling without requiring any data scientists or data engineers on staff.  By simplifying data preparation, automating feature engineering, and creating models refined for high performance in specific use cases, Pecan transforms SQL-trained BI analysts into effective data scientists who can leverage massive amounts of raw data to build accurate predictions in days. With Pecan, companies turn hindsight into foresight by generating highly accurate predictions and recommendations that improve customer lifetime value, retention, conversion rates, demand forecasting, and other revenue-driving KPIs. Pecan’s predictions impact billions of dollars in revenue for fintech, insurance, retail, consumer packaged goods, mobile apps, and consumer services companies of all sizes.

SRP is an innovative retail format, designed to enhance the shopping experience in local grocery stores. SRP's collaborative platform of manufacturers, private stores and consumers, enables store owners to manage their stores, assortments, relationships with manufacturers, distributors, and consumers. SRP's technology provides the manufacturers as well as the store owners with business insights that can be monetized.

Andjaro is a platform that allows mapping, reallocation and load balancing of internal workforce in medium and large organizations, especially when workforce is spread across multiple sites.  Instead of hiring expensive temporary or fixed-term contract staff through agencies, the Andjaro platform enables the reallocation of available and voluntary internal staff from other locations within the organization.  This not only cuts costs, but also gives staff the chance to experience other parts of the organization, and get compensated for a temporary relocation resulting in a more interconnected and happy workforce.  The company has already powered more than 120,000 staff movements and saved its clients over +€15 million in costs.

Adverity is the integrated data platform for connecting, managing and using data at scale.   Providing centralised data management for marketing teams, the platform enables businesses to blend disparate datasets such as marketing, advertising, sales and revenue to create a single source of truth over business performance. Through automated connectivity to hundreds of data sources and destinations, unrivaled data transformation options, and powerful data governance features, Adverity is the easiest way to get your data how you want it, where you want it, and when you need it. Adverity was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Vienna with offices in London and New York, and currently works with leading brands and agencies including Unilever, Bosch, IKEA, Forbes, GroupM, Publicis, and Dentsu.

Yogist is a wellness startup that specializes in corporate yoga method and yoga lessons.

Botsync builds autonomous mobile robots to automate and digitize movement of goods from point to point for the logistics and manufacturing industry. Our robots can carry payloads from 500 kg to 1 tonne and are designed to operate in dynamic environments. Botsync's AMRs can be implemented at new facilities in minimal time with very minimal changes to the existing infrastructure. With our technology, we hope to pioneer and push for larger scale adoptions of robotic automation in Asia's logistics and manufacturing industry.

H3 Dynamics is a global advanced air mobility technology company with a mission to decarbonise air mobility. The company has a 15 year cutting edge R&D track record in hydrogen flight, starting with a NASA-backed program in 2006, via its HES Energy Systems unit acquired from Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies in 2015. It is developing hydrogen propulsion systems for fixed wing and multi-rotor aerial vehicles targeting data services and air cargo first, with the ambition of flying passengers in the future.  The company's first line of business is a software a service solution that automates drone hardware and software solutions through one unified cloud platform. The company sells autonomous outcomes as a service across industry sectors and across several geographies, including the US, Canada, Latin America, France, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong.  The company has developed proprietary machine learning based engineering solutions for defect mapping and rectification in the built environment, as well as in the maritime and utilities space. Its digital services platforms ingests various forms of unstructured data not limited to drones, but also portable and fixed sensor / camera systems. The company has developed a drone automation infrastructure solution that links to the unified cloud offering, and works as an autonomous nesting station for third party drone hardware.Named DBX, the station houses, stores, charges, and deploys drones from a nesting station that can be positioned on building rooftops, or remote customer sites. The drone stations are multi-drone, multi-comms, multi-Os, and multi-sensor enabled. These tele-robotics devies are 5G ready, and are UTM-capable through a global partnership with THALES. As a next step the company is launching larger, long range hydrogen powered unmanned systems being developed in parallel for launch in the coming 1-2 years. H3 Dynamics has unique proprietary technology on distributed hydrogen electric propulsion systems and refuelling methods that are being worked on as new products and solutions for unmanned and manned aviation.

HyBird Technologies develops robotic solutions to digitise and inspect industrial assets for safer, faster, and cheaper maintenance. They help industrial infrastructure managers remove the need to send people into hazardous environments, by deploying autonomous ground and aerial robots for gathering asset inspection data. Their robotic data acquisition enables assets to be truly digitised, and their data managed via their web platform, to help infrastructure managers optimise their inspection and maintenance procedures. They focus on oil & gas, water, nuclear, and other high-consequence sectors.

Memorence AI is an artificial intelligence company. We develop smart visual learning and recognition systems for enterprise applications. Our mission is to create smart faster local learning and recognition systems that can improve production quality and operation efficiency. By creating such system, we aim to guard life happiness and memories. We develop labeling and learning software. We also provide customization design for different requirements.Customers include smart factory, healthcare, and more.

VersaFleet™ is a transport management Software-as-a-Service (TMS SaaS) that automates logistics operations with scheduling & route optimization, sign-on-glass, electronic Proof-Of-Delivery, instant notifications and real-time job status tracking. Designed for the everyman, VersaFleet™powers more than 2,000 drivers worldwide working across 150+ companies who deliver for Fortune 500 brands. We automate more than 2 million tasks per week -- about 200 every second. VersaFleet was founded with the vision of automating the world’s logistics. We have created a transport management system Software-as-a-Service (TMS SaaS) that automates the 'last mile' of supply chains with route optimisation, electronic Proof-Of-Delivery, instant notifications and real-time job-status tracking. Designed for the everyman, VersaFleet powers thousands of transporters worldwide, automating operations one successful delivery at a time.

Firstbird, the digital employee referral program, connects people with jobs and companies worldwide with suitable candidates. With Firstbird, employees become brand ambassadors, and referrals become a company’s most successful recruiting channel. Firstbird integrates easily with your ATS to make your life easier.

eLamp identifies all the skills of a company in real time. By becoming its Skill Data processor, eLamp facilitates and feed with data all concerned workflows: mobility, staffing, training, performance. Its API and SaaS interfaces guarantee up-to-date and analyzable data, to become the common language between all tools and processes.

RandomCoffee is a SaaS for internal networking that connects colleagues based on pre-defined rules. By generating informal - but targeted - Coffees between coworkers, the solution helps organisations improve employee engagement & performance.  https://www.random-coffee.com/

Timeular creates customizable physical devices that make time tracking effortless and fun. Timeular builds ZEIº, an IoT time tracking device that allows users to track activities. The eight-sided box is essentially a timer which sits next to you as you work.

360Learning develops a collaborative learning solution to help companies unlock learning based on collective expertise. 360Learning offers an easy way to create, deliver, and improve courses together. The Collaborative Learning platform relies on bottom-up peer learning where anyone can elevate and respond to requests for knowledge, closing skills gaps faster. With the iterative training framework, minimum viable courses are shipped quickly and improved constantly by peers who identify out-of-date content or suggest additions. Feedback & data from interactions within the course are also pushed to coaches on the platform, who facilitate peer learning by ensuring that courses are easily accessible, actionable & impactful. From onboarding new employees to training sales reps on a new product pitch, 360Learning aligns employee aspirations with organization expectations. Our integrations into SalesForce & HR systems help leaders see how training drives business goals. Since 2012, 360Learning has transformed 1200 organizations through Collaborative Learning, including Axa, Criteo, Air Canada, Michelin, and the Red Cross.

Workelo, the all-in-one platform for an unforgettable employee experience through each key moment:  - Pre/onboarding - Internal mobility  - Corporate life (hundreds of use cases!)  - Offboarding

5Feedback is a continuous, real-time feedback application to develop a culture of feedback. It allows users to query their professional network about their skills while guaranteeing the confidentiality of the marks obtained and the anonymity of the answers.

Hacobu offers an integrated solution ''MOVO (MOVO)'' centering on the operation management system utilizing in-vehicle terminals. Connect with carriers and shipping companies sending luggage using an easy-to-use online mechanism. To provide tools to support the management of the shipping company. Through these, it becomes a platform to accumulate distribution data of various companies, aiming at overall optimization of physical distribution system. That is, ''to optimize carrying''. That is Hacobu 's mission.

Xtia is engaged in the development, manufacturing, and sales of high-precision measurement instruments and 3D scanners. Our patented optical frequency comb laser (Optocomb) has the ability to detect objects with micrometer precision at distances up to 78m. We are currently collaborating with major Japanese and overseas companies that are leveraging the multiple benefits of our unique technology to automate their quality processes, build smarter factories or explore new telecommunication avenues.

3i Inc. is a South Korean company based in Seoul. Founded in 2017, 3i imagines and invents innovative yet intuitive software and hardware solutions to inspire individuals and companies to achieve their own digital transformation, challenge the status quo, and get creative.

LiLz is a technology startup that combines machine learning and IoT technology to reduce fieldwork operations. The startup's LiLz Gauge captures and analyzes values by using a low-power IoT camera to capture the current analog meter, uploading it to the cloud, and performing character and image recognition. Analog meters can perform the same functions as smart meters. They are also working on a sound search service (LiLz Sound Search) for detecting signs of abnormalities in equipment.

Jet-Set Offset is a donation-based carbon-offsetting tool for air travel, and a consumer-friendly alternative to the traditional carbon marketplace. Our site operates as a fundraising tool for environmental nonprofit organizations and facilitates automatic, mileage-based donations from travelers' flights. We've developed this approach to raise awareness of the environmental impact of air travel and inspire eco-conscious travelers and businesses to take action. Travelers and companies can subscribe to Jet-Set Offset and choose to support a nonprofit organization automatically with a one cent-per-mile donation every time they, or their employees, fly.  Our nonprofit partners are working towards local climate solutions across the country, operating certified carbon offset and credit projects, as well as advocacy, education, renewable energy, reforestation, and/or conservation programs.

Bacarai creates an online marketplace for group airfare. It provides travelers the ability to shop, purchase, and manage group trips online. The company's offerings include an online meeting place where airlines and hotels can interact with potential buyers, who are provided instant quotes using artificial intelligence bots, enabling passengers to get lower wait times and airlines to save time and money. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Orlando, Florida.

Listed as one of the best travel startups worldwide to watch in 2020 https://www.phocuswire.com/Hotailors-hot-25-startups-2020. Hotailors manage business travels 10 x faster. An enterprise solution that grants access to the best real-time offers from 2.000.000+ hotels and 700+ airlines, trains, buses, taxis, insurance worldwide.  Thanks to our solution you can plan, book & expense business trips in less than 5 minutes. Accordingly to your travel policy, budget limits and cashless for your employees.  With our reporting, integrations and real-time analytics, you can easily control your travel policy, reduce spendings and increase the efficiency of your company. We are glad to mention some of our awards: Innovative Startup at Google, Best B2B Travel Tech Award Poland, Finalist Travel Tech Con USA and others. Also meet our partners: Amadeus, Microsoft, Google Campus Warsaw, Kiwi.com, EY, Mastercard etc.

At lumo,They’re obsessed with making air travel smarter. They predict flight delays months, weeks, hours ahead of time, making planning easier and flight changes less stressful.

RoadGoat is a platform for travel planning. It allows travelers to explore travel destinations via an interactive map or filter by categories such as foodie, beach town, or history. They also allow for sharing each other's travel experiences.

We provide A.I. driven workflow automation for travel management companies to lower their cost and provide a ''super'' user experience to their travelers. In Autopilot mode Claire completes the travel agent's most repetitive tasks and in Copilot mode she shares learnt traveler patterns with the agent. As a result, Claire saves travel agents on avg. 50% of their time. Our in-house NLP has a response time of less than a second and an accuracy of 96%. Our in-house recommender systems are at 85% first tier accuracy.  While travelers enjoy an unprecedented level of self-service experience, travel agents are free to focus on their revenue generating, high touch customer interactions. A win-win-win for traveler, agent and TMC. 30SecondsToFly was awarded the General Catalyst Award for Travel Innovation $100k, recognised as the most innovate and disruptive emerging company in travel in 2019.  Watch our winning pitch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=156&v=DYEzUF0kx78&feature=emb_logo

GROUND provides innovative solutions based on the advanced technologies in the logistics and distribution industry (LogiTech®), aiming to achieve Intelligent Logistics®, its original concept that applies the latest technologies such as AI and robotics.

Linc Global builds the most advanced commerce-specialized Customer Care Automation platform. Recognized as the Best AI Solution for Customer Service, the platform helps brands offer differentiating services and experiences using an automated assistant, via the channels customers prefer to use including SMS, Live chat, Chat apps, Voice assistants, web and email. Serving and supporting millions of shoppers and billions in purchase volume, Linc’s solution is the platform of choice for leading brands including Carter’s | OshKosh, eBags, Stein Mart, Lamps Plus, JustFab.com, Tarte Cosmetics, Hugo Boss, Vineyard Vines and P&G Shop, creating the engagement and loyalty brands strive to achieve, and delivering the cost savings and revenue needed today. Learn more at www.letslinc.com.

Mercaux offers a a Single App for Store Associates with Clienteling, Omni-POS, Fulfilment, Remote Selling and more, supported by a suite of Self-Service Customer solutions, including Self-Checkout.

SAP.iO is SAP’s strategic business unit to incubate, accelerate and scale startup innovation and explore new business models for SAP. Since 2017, SAP.iO has helped 300+ external startups and internal ventures both start and scale their businesses while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation.

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