Columbus Ventures, LLC is a Limited Liability Corporation owned by its management. As such, they spend significant time and effort to nurture their portfolio companies. They invest in only a few select companies each year to ensure entrepreneurs access to their people.

Columbus Venture Capital

Reinet Investments is an investment vehicle for listed and unlisted equities, bonds, real estate, and derivative instruments. Reinet Investments S.C.A. operates as a securitization vehicle in Luxembourg. The company, through its subsidiary, Reinet Fund S.C.A., F.I.S., engages in investment fund activities.

Reinet Investments S.C.A.

Noosphere Ventures is an international asset management firm, with the strategic vision and capital to transform high-potential companies into definitive market leaders. The company sees its goal in changing the landscape of the current digital economy by saturating it with the highly profitable companies. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, USA, Noosphere primarily operates in Western Europe and Asia. The Noosphere portfolio reports over $500 million in revenue and, collectively, has more than 2,000 individuals contributing to the common success. Noosphere believes in the power of the Noosphere: the ability of humans to fundamentally change the world around them through their knowledge and technology.

Noosphere Ventures

Yola

Yola, a Freemium, cloud-based, SaaS website builder, is changing the way businesses create an online presence, empowering them to craft agency-quality websites quickly and from any device with ease – no code necessary. Yola consists of a direct business at Yola.com with over 13M users in 175+ countries around the world and a complimentary white label distribution channel with blue-chip enterprise partners to effectively reach the SMB community.  Yola was formerly known as Synthasite and changed its name in March 2009. It was founded in 2007 and is based in San Francisco, California.

<div>Yola offers a no-code platform that enables users to create websites via a drag-and-drop interface. Users can select from a range of customizable styles and over 100 pre-designed templates, add their own content such as photos, videos, maps, and forms, and publish their sites using a custom or pre-owned domain.&nbsp;</div>

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 Yola offers a no-code platform that enables users to create websites via a drag-and-drop interface. Users can select from a range of customizable styles and over 100 pre-designed templates, add their own content such as photos, videos, maps, and forms, and publish their sites using a custom or pre-owned domain.&nbsp;
 
 
 The platform also provides an online store builder that can enable visitors to buy, subscribe, download, and donate via a Yola-based website with integrations to over 70 payment providers such as Stripe and Paypal.
 
 
 Moreover, the platform offers over 65 supplementary tools for ecommerce marketing, order and inventory management, analytics, and integration to social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. As February 2024, the company served over 15 million users.
 
 
 
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Index offers a no-code platform for enterprises to build dashboards for internal use to obtain insights on business metrics, investor updates and operation overviews, among others. As of June 2021, the product remains at beta, with a limited early preview. The platform provides prebuilt templates, and also has tools for users to build their own dashboards. The dashboard can be integrated with multiple apps including Hubspot ((customer relationship management data), Stripe (payment data), and Postgres and MongoDB (databases), slack (remote working) and Google Sheets (spreadsheets), among others. The company raised USD 2.6 million in Seed funding in October 2020. It intends to invest the funds in hiring two engineers (in addition to the two founders) and continuing to refine and develop the product. The founders aim to reach USD 1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and expand their product distribution.

Index

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

Universe offers a no-code platform for users to build websites that can be added to social media pages. Websites can be built using drag and drop blocks to add images, videos, and other content to create a mobile-first website. The Platform offers creative controls, 30 pre-made themes, and block features to allow users to create a custom site and/or open an e-commerce store directly from a mobile phone.The company began as a landing page builder and progressed to developing websites, which include tools for adding shopping blocks. Universe targets micro businesses that are not tech-savvy.<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/20509">In July 2023 </a>, Universe launched the beta version of Generative Universe Sites (GUS), an AI-powered website designing tool. This solution provides a conversational interface for users to dictate their requirements for a website and then generates a customized web page.Funding and financialsIn December 2021, Universe raised USD 30 million in a Series B funding round led by Addition to develop the company’s block-based system for website building named “GRID,” expand its commercial offering for startups, and extend GRID to more platforms and devices. Additionally, the company used the funds to expand its reach in new markets and grow its employee base.

Universe

Readymag is a web-based drag and drop tool that enables users to create websites, presentations and digital magazines. Its customers include large enterprises such as AirBnB, Forbes, Esquire, and IDEO.

Readymag

UserGuiding is a user onboarding tool that helps create interactive guides for customers. Functions include user onboarding, feature adoption, in-product messaging, and customer feedback, among others. As of September 2020, the company had over 2,000 global enterprise clients. UserGuiding raised USD 1.1 million in seed funding in August 2020, which it intends to use to expand its operations by increasing its workforce, accelerating global expansion, and enhancing product development.

UserGuiding

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

Platforms that allow users to create online/mobile games in a no-code environment.

Platforms and tools that enable users to build mobile-based apps using templates and tools (widgets) in a visual environment.

Platforms that let users create workflow and process management systems in a spreadsheet format integrating with databases. This also includes data science tools, which enable users to run predictive analysis on data sets through drag-and-drop functions using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Tools that allow users to build websites, ranging from blogs to e-commerce sites, in a visual environment without the need for coding. Often has no-code tools to integrate with other online tools, such as payment gateways.

Offers solutions for building internal applications and automations for enterprises

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

Offers solutions for building enterprise-specific applications and automations

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

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