Inclusive Ventures Lab

New technologies are opening up mental health services to previously overbooked and underserved populations.

Mental Health Tech

Sanarai is a nonclinical mental health platform that provides virtual mental health services to Spanish-speaking adults. The platform partners with psychologists based in Latin America, enabling users to access mental health support in their native language from culturally competent professionals. Sanarai addresses the lack of access to mental healthcare faced by Latino and Hispanic communities in the US, where only around 35% of adults with mental illness receive treatment, often due to language barriers and lack of insurance coverage.
Founded by Luis Suarez, a Mexican entrepreneur who struggled to find Spanish-language mental health services after moving to the US, Sanarai aims to make mental healthcare more accessible and less stigmatized within the Latinx community. Through its online marketplace, users can easily schedule and pay for 50-minute video sessions with certified psychologists in Mexico. As of March 2023, Sanarai had facilitated over 200 sessions on its platform since its launch in 2020.
Sanarai's business model allows users to access mental health support without requiring health insurance, catering to the uninsured population. The platform has grown its network to 40 mental health professionals as of March 2023. Sanarai has partnered with Google to provide mental health services to participants in the Latino Founders Fund, a tech initiative that supports Latino founders.

Juniver is a science-based recovery program designed to help individuals struggling with eating disorders and disordered eating. The company offers a digital platform that aims to change users' relationships with food through personalized support and evidence-based interventions. Juniver's program focuses on curbing compulsions, easing urges, and strengthening decision-making skills related to eating behaviors. The app provides practical tools, self-paced learning modules, and expert-led live classes to help users understand and modify their eating patterns. Juniver's approach is rooted in neuroscience and principles of habit formation, targeting various eating disorders including binge eating, bulimia, and anorexia. The company reports that 92% of Juniver members experienced a reduction in food-related urges during their pilot program.
Juniver operates on a freemium business model. Users can access a 14-day free trial of the full program, after which they can upgrade to Juniver Premium for USD 79 per year. The premium subscription includes unlimited access to Juni, an AI-powered recovery coach, over 20 educational lessons, practical tools for managing urges, and access to a supportive community. While the app is designed to be a comprehensive support system for those seeking to recover from eating disorders, Juniver emphasizes that it is not a substitute for professional medical advice or treatment.

Pet ownership is at an all time high in the United States and the pet care economy is booming.

Pet Care Tech

TeleTails is a veterinary telehealth platform that allows pet owners to obtain advice from veterinarians and behaviorists when needed. The company’s software provides care teams with the ability to offer live video consultations, flexible messaging, and cross-team communication. In May 2020, the company launched TeleTails Instant in response to the Covid-19 pandemic to make veterinary services available at no cost during the crisis.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;As of November 2024, the platform had served more than 100,000 pets.In June 2022, TeleTails and The Dodo launched DodoVet, a telehealth subscription service offering pet parents 24/7 access to licensed veterinary professionals and personalized care resources for non-emergency pet wellness support.&nbsp;

More important now than ever, telehealth will long outlast the pandemic that drove its growth.

Telehealth

Health In Her HUE connects women of color with culturally competent healthcare providers for customized care. As of January 2024, Health In Her HUE notes its platform had around 13,000 members who have access to a network of over 1,300 healthcare providers across 60 specialties. Funding and financialsIn January 2024, the company raised USD 3 million in a seed funding round led by Seae Ventures, along with participation from other venture capital firms and angel investors, including Johnson &amp; Johnson's Impact Ventures and Morgan Stanley's Inclusive Ventures Lab. The company set aside the funds to drive growth by securing more talent and developing novel programs and product offerings.

Generating, collecting, and analyzing enterprise data will never be the same.

Edge Computing

Adapdix is known for its “EdgeOps'' platform, which optimizes the use of AI and machine learning (ML) for edge applications.The platform is noted for its innovative approach in identifying anomalies and automating solutions, catering to companies seeking AI-enabled performance improvements. It incorporates three main offerings: EdgeOps Core, EdgeOps Site, and EdgeOps Sphere, all built on the foundation of the Adapdix DataMesh. This combination aims to facilitate seamless scaling from a single piece of equipment to thousands of geographically distributed manufacturing processes across multiple factories and cloud endpoints. The platform is distinguished by its multi-source distributed data collection, storage, analytics, integrated MLOps with edge-native AI/ML inference, and ControlAI for autonomous, ultra-low latency anomaly correction.Unlike most AI and ML offerings, Adapdix offers a predictive analytics solution, which enables enterprises to use AI to control and automate self-correcting actions, in addition to more common offerings that just help detect and prevent faults as they happen.In August 2021, Adapdix acquired Edge Intelligence, developer of the first geographically distributed data management platform for analytics built for both edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.Key customers and partnershipsAdapdix’s technology alliances provide platforms and applications that integrate with ADAPDIX to accelerate the value delivered by the EdgeOps Platform. Partners include AWS, Google for Startups, Microsoft for Startups, Siemens, Harvard University, and Intel. The company also has solution partnerships with BISTelligence and Grandview APM.Funding and financialsAdapdix raised USD 6 million in a Venture round in August 2021. The round saw participation from X2 Equity, SoftBank, Micron Ventures, and Celesta Capital.

Modern tools to train and motivate staff, and bridge emerging skill gaps.

EdTech: Corporate Learning

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 Founded in 2019 by Elise Smith and Heather Shen, Praxis Labs is the developer of an immersive virtual reality learning platform that aids corporations with training employees on, and measuring, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). The simulations depict incidents of bias and discrimination in the workplace from the perspective of an employee who experiences it first-hand or of a coworker who is complicit in the incident. Employees practice their responses to the incident, reflect on it, and provide anonymous feedback on their JEDI experience in their workplace. Praxis Labs uses the data gathered to provide companies with insights on their JEDI practices and interventions to make the workplace more equitable. The platform also provides employees with a dashboard to set goals for behaviors and interventions, revisit certain incidents, and review their progress. Praxis Labs offers 6-month and 12-month program packages containing 30-minute learning modules. The platform was beta tested by eBay, Amazon, Google, Uber, Zoom, and Target, among others.
 
 
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Moving industry forward with next-gen advancements in energy storage and transmission

Alternative Energy

Blip Energy produces residential energy storage devices that are intended to charge overnight and be used during peak hours when electricity prices are high, reducing the strain on the grid.Blip Energy’s main product, blipOne, is a smart home battery that is plugged directly into power outlets with no installation and provides 2.2 KWh of power.Key customers and partnerships&nbsp;Blip Energy has established partnerships with Renewance, a second-life battery off-taker; Arrow, a component distributor; and Leap for demand response programs.Funding and financials&nbsp;In August 2023, Blip Energy received USD 20,000 in grant funding from Village Capital.

Reinforcing recycling, rerouting refuse, and reducing wasteflows

Waste Recovery & Management Tech

Based in California, ByFusion works with material recovery facilities (MRFs), municipalities, and corporations to collect wasted plastic of all types and recycle them into blocks that can be used in the construction of walls, terraces, sheds, and more. The company’s ByFusion system, which converts plastic waste into construction-grade building material called “ByBlock”, comes in two forms. One is designed for communities (Community Blocker – smaller version, processes 30 tons per month) and the other for industrials (Industrial Blocker – processes up to 90 tons per month).BuFusion partnered with Ocean Voyages Institute (OVI) in August 2020 to convert 20 tons of marine debris and plastic waste into 4,000 construction-grade building blocks to be used in projects, exhibitions, and products. The company’s target is to recycle 100 million tons of plastic waste by 2030.

Information to create a more efficient, cleaner and safer way to travel in the city of the future

Smart Mobility Information

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 Stak Mobility is a provider of comprehensive parking inventory management solutions through mobile software and automation. Its primary offerings include space-saving infrastructure integrated with fully scalable Level II electric vehicle (EV)-charging capabilities. The combination provides a sustainable and scalable solution for urban, residential, commercial, and fleet management. Stak's key product differentiator is its approach to maximizing space efficiency and promoting sustainable parking practices. It provides services such as compact vehicle storage, 24/7 service and monitoring, and compliance with parking and EV charging regulations. Stak's products are designed to reduce waste, improve stormwater management, and contribute to LEED certification through recyclable materials and clean electrical energy.
 
 
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Embedding environmental, social, and corporate governance factors into investments

Sustainable Finance

Infinite Giving is a financial service firm that caters exclusively to nonprofits. The Atlanta-based company offers an automated investment platform designed to disrupt the traditional industry and provide a better investing experience for nonprofits. Their services include receiving stock and cryptocurrency gifts, creating endowments, and opening fully digital brokerage accounts for nonprofits. Infinite Giving's platform allows nonprofits to increase transparency and accountability through features like custom giving URLs, automated board reports, and outsourced CIO and fiduciary services.
The company aims to address the challenges faced by small to medium-sized nonprofits, such as lack of equitable access to investment strategies, high fees, and inability to meet minimum requirements for investment from large banks. Infinite Giving provides financial stewardship, helping nonprofits acquire competitive rates and FDIC insurance on their reserves.
Infinite Giving has developed a streamlined process for accepting stock gifts, eliminating the traditional long and manual process. This process enables donors to contribute to causes they care about in a tax-efficient manner. In August 2023, the company reported that 90% of US nonprofits do not have a brokerage account, preventing them from receiving stock gifts to grow their giving.
Infinite Giving immediately liquidates all stock and cryptocurrency donations and deposits them directly into linked bank accounts. By accepting a variety of donations, including stocks and cryptocurrencies, nonprofits can receive larger gifts on average compared to traditional online cash donations.
In its first year, Infinite Giving grew to a team of eight employees. The company became a registered investment adviser with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in September 2022, one month before launching its automated investment platform.

Smart Homes: Energy & Water Solutions

Blip Energy is a residential energy storage company focused on accelerating the adoption of renewable resources. Their primary offering is a smart, compact, and affordable home battery system designed to provide households with greater control over their energy consumption. The company's goal is to drive organic growth at the residential level, with the aim of inspiring utilities and government incentive programs to champion residential energy storage systems.
Blip Energy's technology utilizes second-life battery cells from electric vehicles to build portable, plug-and-play energy storage packs. This approach not only lowers the cost per kilowatt-hour but also contributes to a circular economy by repurposing EV batteries nearing the end of their vehicular lifespan. After the batteries' second life as home energy storage, they can be recycled, and the raw materials can be used to create new EV batteries.
Blip Energy's business model revolves around empowering communities and individuals to make a seamless transition toward sustainable energy practices without disrupting their daily lives. By providing energy resilience during outages, lowering electric bills, and supporting grid stability, the company aims to demonstrate the benefits of residential energy storage to utilities and policymakers.
In March 2023, Blip Energy acquired SmartEnergy Solutions, a provider of demand response and energy management services. This acquisition expanded Blip Energy's offerings to include demand response capabilities, further enhancing its value proposition to utilities.

Marketplaces and related solutions for selling goods and services online

Ecommerce Platforms

Cult Mia is an online fashion marketplace founded in October 2019 by Nina Briance, offering a curated selection of sustainable and conscious luxury fashion from independent designers around the world. The platform connects shoppers with unique, limited-edition pieces that align with their values, such as environmental sustainability, social consciousness, minority empowerment, and the protection of local crafts and heritage.
Cult Mia operates as a marketplace, partnering with over 400 brands from 42 countries across 14 product categories. The company vets and onboards brands through a rigorous two-step process, evaluating operational excellence, product quality, exclusivity, and sustainable sourcing strategies. Cult Mia has developed a rewards system to incentivize brand partners to continuously improve their sustainability and ethical scores across four core value pillars established during onboarding.
Cult Mia's business model focuses on made-to-order and made-to-measure offerings, which account for nearly 50% of the products available on the platform. This demand-led approach eliminates overproduction and waste, ensuring that items are only manufactured after a customer's purchase. Additionally, the made-to-measure service allows shoppers to receive bespoke, tailored pieces based on their individual measurements, fostering inclusivity and further reducing returns.
In June 2022, Cult Mia earned the Butterfly Mark Certification from Positive Luxury, a recognition of its commitment to sustainability and ethical practices. The platform has also implemented initiatives like the Green Black Friday sample sale in partnership with Loop Generation, promoting mindful consumption and zero-waste practices.

Incorporating technology to improve efficiency and success rate of clinical trials

Clinical Trial Technology

Research Grid provides AI-powered automation software for clinical trial management, streamlining administrative workflows and data management processes. The company's technology consists of two main products: Inclusive and TrialEngine. As of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.finsmes.com/2024/11/research-grid-raises-6-5m-in-funding.html#google_vignette">November 2024</a>, the Inclusive platform managed patient recruitment and engagement by connecting researchers to a network of over 91,000 global communities covering 2,050 medical conditions across more than 300 million patients. TrialEngine handles trial administration, data extraction, protocol generation, and reporting workflows. Together, these products automate back-office tasks that consume significant time and resources in clinical trials.&nbsp;As of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/news/research-grid-funds-clinical-trial/">November 2024</a>, Research Grid's customers reported 98% efficiency gains, 45% cost savings, and a 145% increase in patient engagement rates. The company's solutions help reduce clinical trial timelines by several months and address costly delays due to administrative tasks.Key customers and partnershipsThe company noted that as of&nbsp;<a href="https://rgrid.tech/">November 2024</a>, its platform supported clinical trials operated by GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson &amp; Johnson, Merck, moderna, Roche, Sanofi, Unilever, Walgreens, AstraZeneca, Bayer, and Boehringer Ingelheim.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Using technology to modernize money management

Wealth Management Platforms

Gentreo is an online estate planning platform that provides tools for creating, storing, and sharing legal documents without requiring an attorney. The platform uses a question-and-answer interview format to help users prepare essential estate planning documents including wills, revocable living trusts, financial powers of attorney, healthcare proxies, living wills, and pet-related documents. Through its cloud-based digital vault system, users can securely store and share their documents with designated family members and keep them updated as laws or circumstances change. The platform automatically tailors documents according to state-specific laws and requirements, and keeps forms updated when state laws change. The service operates on a subscription model, with users paying an initial fee of USD 100 for the first year followed by an annual subscription fee of USD 50 for subsequent years. The documents remain valid even if users cancel their subscription, though they lose access to the digital vault storage and sharing capabilities upon cancellation.
The platform provides step-by-step guidance through the document creation process, allowing users to typically complete a will in under 30 minutes. Additionally, Gentreo offers estate planning coaching, onboarding guidance, legal reviews, and funeral planning support to help users navigate through the process.
Key customers and partnerships
As of February 2022, Gentreo established a partnership with Morgan Stanley through their Inclusive Venture Lab program. The company also formed a partnership with Harvard Federal Credit Union, offering discounted and free services to qualifying credit union members based on their banking relationship.

Tools for streamlining or improving one or more aspects of contractual agreements

Contract Management Tools

Advocat provides a range of technology solutions to protect the rights and privacy of individuals from potential harms caused by automated systems and artificial intelligence (AI). The company's offerings aim to ensure that AI systems are safe, effective, and free from discrimination or bias. Advocat's tools help organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with automated decision-making processes, ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards.
One of Advocat's key products is a risk assessment platform that allows organizations to evaluate the potential impacts of their AI systems on civil rights, equal opportunities, and access to critical resources or services. This platform enables pre-deployment testing, risk identification, and ongoing monitoring to ensure that AI systems are safe and effective based on their intended use and domain-specific standards.
Another offering from Advocat is an algorithmic auditing solution that helps detect and prevent algorithmic discrimination. This solution involves conducting proactive equity assessments, using representative data, and performing disparity testing to identify and mitigate any potential biases or discriminatory impacts.
Advocat also provides data privacy solutions to protect individuals from abusive data practices and ensure agency over how their personal data is used. These solutions include privacy-by-design features, consent management tools, and enhanced protections for sensitive data domains such as health, education, and finance.
In addition, Advocat offers solutions for transparent AI, ensuring that individuals understand how automated systems contribute to outcomes that impact them. These solutions provide clear explanations of system functioning, notice of system use, and meaningful explanations of outcomes.

Technologies and processes that revolutionize the traditional construction industry

Construction Tech

GigBridge is a UK-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that aims to revolutionize staffing in the construction industry. Founded by Gabriel Makinwa, GigBridge addresses one of the sector's most pressing challenges: finding and hiring skilled workers. The platform connects construction contractors with vetted freelance construction workers and subcontractors, streamlining the entire staffing process. GigBridge's technology allows construction companies to source, manage, and pay subcontractors efficiently, resulting in significant time and cost savings. The platform's intelligent matching system utilizes a comprehensive database of construction workers, considering various data points to pair the right workers with suitable projects. GigBridge's solution goes beyond traditional recruitment methods, offering features such as digital management of the entire rental property cycle, from pre-lease communication to ongoing management and lease termination. The company's innovative approach has garnered attention, leading to a pilot program with one of the largest steel building manufacturers in the US, which will encourage its network of 2,000 contractors across the country to use the GigBridge platform.
Key customers and partnerships
GigBridge has secured a significant partnership with BlueScope, a global steel company. In June 2023, GigBridge participated in the "Buildings of the Future" global accelerator program hosted by BlueScope Buildings North America and its venture arm, BlueScopeX. As a result of this participation, GigBridge was awarded a USD 100,000 USD prize and initiated a pilot project with BlueScope. This collaboration aims to leverage GigBridge's platform across BlueScope's extensive network of contractors in the US, potentially impacting up to 2,000 businesses in the commercial construction sector. The partnership with BlueScope represents a major opportunity for GigBridge to expand its reach and demonstrate the effectiveness of its solution in addressing labor shortages and improving efficiency in the construction industry.

R.grid offers AI-powered solutions for automating clinical trial management, including patient engagement and administrative workflows. Its products, Inclusive and TrialEngine, streamline processes from trial preparation to completion, reducing delays and errors. This comprehensive approach enhances the overall success of clinical trials by connecting all stages in a single platform.

Darent is a technology start-up that provides a daily local living experience and real estate property management aims to link local and foreign tourists with local residents by providing daily rental options strives to be the destination and guide for backpackers, travelers who are looking for a journey through which they will live and experience the daily lives of the locals.

Infinite Giving is a modern asset management platform for nonprofits. We help organizations invest reserve funds, create and manage endowments, and easily receive stock, crypto, and DAF donations all in one easy to use platform. Investing isn’t easy, we just make it seem that way.

Compare Ethics verifies, manages, and delivers compliant product impact claims at scale. Giving teams confidence in communicating the impact of their products. In addition, anti-greenwashing regulations must be followed. The patent-pending verification technology is held to strict regulatory and scientific standards by working with leading lawyers, academics, and a dedicated advisory board.

We're HANX, founded in 2017 by Farah Kabir and Dr Sarah Welsh and we're all about smashing stigmas around sexual health, championing intimate wellness and talking about what's really going on down there...

Blip Energy is building a new category of distributed energy resources to mitigate surging peak demand.  Smart, affordable battery energy storage systems to add millions of otherwise inaccessible customers to the smart grid network.  Blip’s software/hardware platform optimizes energy cost for users, and lowers operating cost for utilities.  Drop-in energy management without permitting and installation barriers.  Blip's business model reflects current resilience needs, cost savings goals, and data-driven future, by wrapping our hardware endpoint with grid services revenue.  A distributed network of demand response capacity to support America’s transition to a sustainable, efficient, and reliable power grid.

Grocery List is a comprehensive, B2B2C on-demand online grocery ordering platform that empowers customers —including those residing in Canada, the USA, and the UK—to shop for a wide range of products, including food, household essentials, and personal care items, for their loved ones back home in Latin America and the Caribbean from local stores in these territories , Our service is currently available in Jamaica.

AgTech is one of the fastest growing industries, and every farm has labor to account for. Today, 84% of US farms still use pen and paper to do this. Agri-Trak is leveraging a frictionless software platform that enables farms to easily digitize labor tracking along with a unique focus on labor law compliance. Once adopted, we will expand into deep tech solutions to widen offerings, thereby securing multiple root points within operational areas that are vital to our customers. The land and expand strategy in a tech-starved market, along with a road map focused on deploying relevant tools to bolster precision agricultural practices and a repeatable sales model, will result in scale efficiency.

Beta Financial Services uses technologies such as BetaScore to eliminate bias in the financial services industry.

Marketplace for diverse suppliers that connect them to corporate buyers. We have created a community for minority and women-owned businesses

Mavity is a collaboration tool and payouts platform that connects +15,000 creative professionals with opportunities through a skill-quantification method and grouping them in highly effective, on-demand teams. The way we work has dramatically changed over the past 2 years due to Covid-19. There has never been a more important time for digital tools to re-activate economies and tackle unemployment in the creative industries

NUWIEL produces e-powered bicycle trailers - a clean transportation solution, for last mile delivery. The company is headquartered in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

Tendo is an online platform that connects independent resellers to businesses.It enables anyone to start their online business without investing any capital.

Revere is a tech stack allocator that invests in private market funds.

OVUM serves as a comprehensive one-stop shop for fertility wellness, offering a wide range of educational resources, innovative products, and specialized services aimed at improving fertility outcomes. It's mission is to empower individuals on their fertility journeys by providing the support and information they need to make informed decisions

Juniver provides on-demand help, specialized care, and a supportive network for long-term recovery from eating disorders.

SWYE360 is a data analytics company powered by AI and Machine Learning that measures and assesses the effectiveness of software applications on learning outcomes. Through its proprietary machine learning models, SWYE360 CAAP technology also identifies students at risk of dropping out through its early detection technology. SWYE360 saves schools and colleges millions of dollars on ineffective, redundant, underutilized software, retained students, and increased graduation rates.

Sortile creates an AI-driven, data-analytics solution for textile waste, the textile recycling landscape. Their products enable textile-to-textile recycling and promote circular fashion by identifying fiber composition. By using NIR spectroscopy and machine learning to efficiently identify fibers, they improve the current sorting infrastructure. This opens the way to sorting by fiber composition and enables textile-to-textile recycling. They offer data analytics skills that make the waste stream visible.

Zest regularizes access to secondary investing for later-stage venture-backed companies.

Sanarai is a mental health online platform for the Latinx community. Online platform that connects the Latinx community to mental health professionals in Latin America to provide culturally sensitive Spanish-language emotional support at accessible prices

Route is a Business Management Platform for Facility services industry.  Built for the unique and complex needs of service providers in spaces such as commercial cleaning, Route is the only service business software that brings together the essentials of the sales process in one cross platform solution. Featuring a robust web portal and a mobile app with offline capabilities, Route is fundamentally changing the game for service providers with tools never before seen by the industry that transform the way companies sell.  Walkthrough Builder collects and organizes the scope of work in real time while you're actually in the prospect's space. After reviewing the information, calculate a bid with Route's Estimator and generate a Proposal supercharged by custom templates, personalization, and automation that bring you and your team unprecedented visibility, growth and productivity. More features being built in 2.0 version to evolve the platform into a 2 sided marketplace with focus on vendors first then customer.

Health In Her HUE is a digital platform that connects Black women and women of color to culturally sensitive healthcare providers, and offers culturally resonant, evidence-based health content. Health in Her HUE's mission is to reduce racial health disparities by leveraging the power of technology, media and community to improve health outcomes for Black women.

MyARC is a fitness app for content creators and their fans.

eBanqo is a customer engagement SaaS provider that helps organizations automate customer-facing services and speed up the resolution of customer issues. It helps businesses extend their services to every digital channel their customers use - webchat, in-app chat, social media, USSD, and SMS - promoting connectivity and quick issue resolution. Equipped with the latest technology in AI, businesses using eBanqo’s platform provide a consistent personalized interaction across all digital platforms, leading to repeat customers and high brand affinity. eBanqo substantially lowers cost, while providing automated customer support, self-service, issue resolution, and multi-channel live chat on diverse messaging platforms.

Ad Auris is a narration tool designed for independent publishers to transform written work into a sophisticated audio experience. Maximize Reader Engagement Unlock habitual and frequent reader engagement with scalable narration for written work. Transform words into a sophisticated audio experience.

Bidrento is a software that automates the management of rental units and renters for landlords, property managers, and letting agents.

ByFusion partner with material recycling facilities, governments, municipalities, and corporations. ByFusions zero waste blocker system transforms non recyclable plastic waste into byblock building material. They collect waste plastics, including marine debris and fishing nets.

Ridelink turbo charges cargo delivery for small businesses in emerging markets at unbeatable price and speed.

Unfabled is a women’s health consumer platform that delivers curated and personalised solutions.

Nopalera creates Mexican botanical products such as moisturizers, soaps, cleansing creams, and other related products for baths and body that celebrate and elevate Latino culture.

Oppos is a provider of cybersecurity solutions and IT audit preparation.

Twipes aim to tackle the ever-growing issue of single-use items and their damaging effects on our environment. The biggest contributor being,  plastic-filled wet wipes. When these products are flushed or thrown away, they leave behind micro-plastics as they slowly break down. These fragments contribute to the pollution in our oceans and ourselves. With Twipes we have created a simple solution to the ever growing micro-plastics problem. Truly flushable and biodegradable wipes. Made with wood pulp cellulose (zero plastic), Twipes will fully disintegrate in water in 3 hours and will completely biodegrade within 7 days. Compared to our closest competition which takes 180 days to break down.

Inicio AI is a SaaS platform that builds the conversational AI driven tool that helps in income and expenditure assessment.

Stak is a parking solution enabled through a mobile app. It streamlines the parking process for drivers and focuses on tower automation, integration of EV charging, and management of distributed energy. This addresses issues related to limited space, insufficient infrastructure, and grid challenges.

Automated Architecture provides the technological infrastructure for a distributed robotic micro-factory network producing sustainable timber housing.

Cult Mia is the online luxury fashion marketplace of tomorrow, dedicated to discovering sustainable & conscious independent brands.

serviceMob is a company which helps in how people access and interact with companies when they need customer service.

FLUIX AI is an Enterprise AI CoPilot that saves critical facilities such as data centers up to 40% in energy costs by integrating and optimizing fragmented facility systems (HVAC, IT, Water, etc)

Encounter AI  through a Voice AI system that handles orders at drive-thrus, kiosks, and over the phone, Encounter AI augments the operational frontlines of restaurants. The company is developing its own technology stack, based on technology developed by SRI International, the research institute behind Siri and Nuance.

Partsimony helps Hardware Companies turn designs into products with less time, capital, and frustration than ever before. Partsimony is revolutionizing the way physical products are made to create a better future.

OKO uses satellite information to define risk and create insurance products for farmers in emerging markets. They use mobile technologies to distribute insurance, collect premiums, help farmers and pay claims.

DotLab provides biomarkers and the power of machine learning to deliver the first non-invasive tool to diagnose endometriosis, resulting in a paradigm shift in the identification and management of the disease GitLab will also pioneer data-driven management.

Tall Poppy builds tools and services to help companies protect their employees against online harassment and abuse. It combines proactive security training, threat monitoring, and detection with incident response when an individual comes under attack. In addition to its standard service, it also offers additional capabilities for high-profile or executive staff who face increased risk.

MEDIjobs is the fastest growing career marketplace for healthcare professionals. Our mission is to positively impact healthcare industry as a whole by helping doctors and nurses navigate through their careers successfully. We are experts at building digital communities for healthcare professionals and we help them develop professionally through career resources, access to medical events or by matching them with relevant employers who are interested in hiring them. We work with 150+ active customers from EU and US and our offices are in Bucharest, ROMANIA & New York City, NY.

Coreloops helps construction companies to track and reduce project costs.  With AI-powered workflows they reduce the time it takes to track project spend by up to 80% and receive real-time insights on where they are overspending.

Cleanster connects you to top-rated cleaners, and we also ensure the perfect guest experience! We integrate with Airbnb and 15+ property management software systems for cleaning automation. Trusted by the world's top property managers.

If you’re confused and frustrated by your building maintenance contracts, you’re not alone. (In fact, we think it makes you perfectly normal.) Maintenance contracts make it difficult for just about everybody to understand. At AuditMate, it’s our job to cut through the confusion.  Imagine if handling contracts were the easiest part of your job. You’d automatically know when to expect repairs, how to file disputes, and who to contact. You’d save time, money, and energy. It’s not too good to be true—it’s simply the next step in building maintenance technology.    Built by veterans of the elevator industry, AuditMate is a first-of-its-kind SaaS product for property owners and managers. We take the mystery out of maintenance contracts so you can get the most out of what you signed up for. Maintaining your building can be a hard job, but understanding your contracts doesn’t have to be.  AuditMate gives property owners and managers a leg up on their jobs—not just because it saves them time and money, but because it’s the right thing to do.

Influencer Marketing Simplified! Wearisma is a  premium influencer marketing solutions meets visual commerce, supporting end-to-end campaign management, social sales enablement, and analytics.  Wearisma helps brand create real and long lasting connections with new audiences at scale. Wearisma gives brands the power to discover the right influencers who tell the most authentic stories and the platform to measure that impact over time.  Wearisma is currently seed funded by angel investors from Dectech, Hearst Media, Deloitte and Guggenheim Assets Management.

Perse is a single data technology platform that uses energy and carbon data from all British meters to report and reduce each person's, household's, and company's energy and carbon footprint.

A social publishing platform empowering Pan-African creators to reach a global audience and earn through subscriptions, events and more.

Physician 360 is creating the first virtual urgent care by combining at-home tests and a telemedicine platform for minor medical illnesses.

Gentreo is the web-enabled software solution that makes estate planning easy, affordable, and accessible. The company lets families do their own eldercare and estate planning. From legal documents to the Gentreo Digital Vault, Gentreo makes preparing wills, power of attorney, pet powers of attorney and more easy, fast, and affordable.

Here Here Market is a boutique marketplace for foodies and the next generation of culinary creators.  It is a creator platform focused exclusively on culinary talent (think Etsy meets Patreon but for Food). The platform provides a centralized cockpit to help culinary creators (chefs/bakers/ emerging CPG brands) generate additional revenue, build omnichannel brand exposure, scale and create unique collaborations.

Kinhub (formerly Kami) is a generative AI SaaS health and wellbeing platform that empowers employees to thrive at work and home by offering convenient, personalised coaching and support. We’re on a mission to make exceptional health and wellbeing care accessible to everyone.

imagi is developing fun and accessible coding education for teachers and students ages 8-13+. Our products are gender inclusive by design, making them uniquely inclusive of girls who are typically underrepresented in tech

Advocat is an AI that handles, creates, negotiates, e-signs, stores, analyzes, understands, and tracks legal documents.

Cognitive Talent Solutions (CTS) is a leading provider of Organizational Network Analysis, spearheading the transition towards a network-first future of work. CTS has been acknowledged as a leading People Analytics vendor by ReadThread Research and Everest Group, and it has been recognized as one of the top vendors shaping the ONA space by David Green. With funding from institutional investors like Morgan Stanley, Starta Ventures, and Ride Home Fund AI (participated in by Marc Andreessen from a16z), CTS distinguishes itself as one of the few vendors that offer both active and passive ONA capabilities, and it is the only ONA vendor that provides generative AI capabilities. CTS counts on an experienced advisory board that includes academics from Harvard and Stanford, as well as former C-level executives from Fortune 500 companies. The company has developed patent-pending ONA technology, integrated into its cloud-based platform, the Cognitive Network Analyzer™. CTS serves a diverse clientele of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, CBRE, and Securitas. CTS is a certified ServiceNow Technology partner, featuring a native Generative AI-powered ONA app in the ServiceNow Store. CTS counts with an experienced advisory board, which includes academics from Harvard and Stanford, as well as former C-level executives from Fortune 500 companies. The company has developed patent-pending ONA technology, which is integrated into its cloud-based platform, Cognitive Network Analyzer™. CTS serves a diverse clientele of Fortune 500 and Global 2000 companies, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, CBRE, and Securitas, among others. It has also established partnerships with technology and consulting firms like ServiceNow and Facthum.

Virtual i lets insurance industry see the risks. We believe EACH risk should be seen and assessed before it is insured. We bring a simple answer to a complex, unsolved current problem. We believe that EACH AND EVERY risk should be seen and assessed, either by computer eye or by human eye. We prefer by both. Our mission is to democratize high-quality and normally expensive services such as risk engineering and loss prevention and to allow business owners to access loss prevention advisory services, thus ensuring their business continuity in difficult times. We trust that small and medium enterprises are the basis of sustainable growth and want them to survive and prosper. We do not use big words, but do big things. We enable the insurance industry to move from good faith-based underwriting to data-based dynamic decision making. Our solutions are unique and affordable, tech-based, bringing your business immediate, visible results. We achieve cost savings for insurers, that will be able to work with any risk engineer anywhere in the world without the need to travel to the site of the project. With our tools our clients manage to highlight more risks during the underwriting process and thus the probability of picking up a bad risk is reduced. Loss ratio dropped by up to 12% after using our proprietary platform - Virtual Risk Space™. Clients who tested us could measure up to 40% workload efficiency improvement in their technical team (underwriters, risk engineers etc). They managed to obtain up to 100% visibility and control over their portfolio. To implement Virtual Risk Space™ in your company, no change management and no change/ adaptation of IT systems is required. A simple training of your staff will do. Our tool is very smart and friendly. Our service is available immediately. It takes about a week to have it working in your company. See here details of Virtual Risk Space™, that allows structured data collection and quick objective scientific risk assessment: https://virtualitechnologies.com/vrs Virtual i is now developing capabilities powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning and has filed patents that will transform the way the insurance industry carries out risk engineering assessments.

SongTools.io is the all-in-one toolkit for creators to launch their music.

Unreal Estate helps people buy and sell homes at a fraction of the cost of traditional brokers. We charge low, flat fees nationwide, enabling sellers to rapidly list thousands of homes on the relevant Multiple Listing Services (MLS). Leaving one-dimensional real estate search engines behind, we simplify the home buying and selling headache by packaging all services in one user-friendly location and guiding people through the step-by-step process with ease. Our clients save 3% of the home cost and over $11,000 on average. Their team learned from personal experience that this process was simply too painful in its current form. They saw enough up close and personal to know that much of the stress and confusion could be solved by creating easy-to-use software to guide everyone in the process and enable buyers and the professionals to collaborate in real-time.  Throughout the history of real estate, people have used more and more data to make better decisions. Yet in the past, most of that data has been hard to access or even understand as it was held in the hands of the few. Their mission is to make this data more transparent and easy to understand for everybody (not just real estate agents).

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.

SecondKeys unlocks the true potential of proactive property maintenance. Our property management platform is the first to provide a predictive maintenance system that includes 3 simple steps to help owners and tenants: WorkBetter, ManageBetter, LiveBetter. First, we provide every property an automated schedule for preventive maintenance. Then SecondKeys software monitors each task and requests, from notification through completion. Finally, we track repair frequency and identify smaller fixes that are proven to minimize larger, more expensive property costs.

The Fashion Bomb is a daily style destination for the multicultural fashionista. The platform provides daily doses of chic to savvy stylists. Recognizing there were few print and online sources for multicultural fashion, Claire took her interest in style and writing to create the number one online destination for global chic seekers with a penchant for all things fabulous.

Founded in 2013 in Atlanta Georgia, Lillii is a Woman-owned, IT Company specializing in retail consulting and integrations. As one of the top System Integrators in the retail industry, their current clients include some of the largest Tier 1 and Fortune 500 retailers in the world.

Zirtue, a relationship based mobile lending application that allows friends & family to easily lend & borrow money with each other on their terms by automating the payment process and taking the awkwardness out of the loan process.

Praxis reimagines corporate bias training, integrating research-backed curriculum with cutting-edge VR technology. Praxis Labs advances diversity and inclusion outcomes through perspective-taking VR-based unconscious bias training.  It was established in 2019 and is based in Stanford, California.

MedHaul platform connects hospitals and clinics to the right transportation providers in their communities and offers a single place for healthcare providers to schedule and manage rides for their patients, giving patients safe and reliable transportation.

Hurdle offers people, couples, and families from various backgrounds care based on online mental health services. They help them match with the appropriate therapist and fill out the registration form with the objectives and therapist preferences.

Adapdix provides an innovative software platform for enterprises that optimizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at the edge. The company's customer-centric Adapdix EdgeOps™ platform provides previously unmatched performance increases in uptime of equipment, reduction in supply chain and logistics cost and increases in remote worker control and productivity. Adapdix software automates operational and business decisions reliably in real-time and allows scaling of AI technologies across the enterprise. The company has launched its products at leading industrial firms and OEM/machine equipment partners, contributing significant operational improvements.

Organizations are finding that data is flawed, requiring costly, disjointed, and time-consuming data cleansing efforts. The success of any company is dependent on its ability to understand, use, and integrate data and technology throughout its business processes. BaseCap’s software platform simplifies and speeds the way organizations identify and remediate low-quality data, yielding better data-driven decisions.

Increasing consumer access to high quality, great-tasting, nutritious meals without the hassle of preparation.

SoHookd is a health-oriented curated marketplace offering wellness experiences and products. It imparts wellness into its loyalty and engagement programs and partners with organizations to offer health plan benefits, rewards, and gifts.

TeleTails is a veterinary telehealth platform that provides live video, messaging, and payment capabilities for pet owners with their veterinarians digitally. Its telemedicine platform integrates into workflows, giving teams a solution to extend relationships and improve care outcomes. It is also vet-friendly, flexible, and secure. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.

Windpact is a provider of impact protection solutions designed for sports, military, and automotive applications. The company's protection solutions are empowered with refined machine learning principles, FEA modeling, and a Crash Cloud system that automatically adjusts to manage a wide range of impact rates, protecting people anywhere exposed to the risk of impact. Windpact was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia.

Hurdle is an app that helps people find healthy ways to manage stress from all parts of life and create routines that promote wellness. Hurdle's digital platform provides a comprehensive suite of mental health services and self-mastery tools to employers and payers to meet the needs of their employees and members. Their therapists are trained in an evidence-based approach that improves cultural humility and responsiveness.

Gappify is a provider of automation software for corporate accounting teams. Gappify's automation software equips accountants with solutions to face today's business challenges by automating time consuming, repetitive tasks and streamlining processes. The company was founded in 2016 by ex Big-4 accountants with a mission to advance the accounting profession through technology.

Jenzy is a foot-sizing app for parents available for IOS. It offers a mobile app that ensures kids get the right fit in the right shoe every time. It was founded in 2016 by Eve Ackerly and Carolyn Horner and is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

BeautyLynk is transforming the beauty experience at home.

At myLAB Box we believe the way we think, talk and test for STDs is long overdue for a change. Our new service, the Safe Box, is the first-ever e-commerce service empowering users to take control of their sexual health with easy and affordable at-home screening solutions.

COI Energy Services provides energy technology solutions to electric utility companies. It develops an energy optimization platform intended to eliminate energy waste, save on energy costs and protect the environment through artificial intelligence. The company's platform provides two-way communication between utilities and their customers and provides them with engagement systems to utilities that focuses on energy optimization and demonetisation opportunities that put cash in the pockets of its customers at the same time of increasing utility earnings while optimising the electric grid, enabling customers to become more energy efficient by getting custom alerts on energy wastage.

Shoobs is the online discovery & ticketing platform for urban nightlife events. From celebratory club nights, concerts, to comedy nights, networking events & more; Shoobs has you covered.

Inclusive Ventures Lab is an accelerator focused on companies founded for multicultural and women-led startups. The Lab building a community of technology-enabled startups and early-stage technology led by multicultural and women entrepreneurs. It provides early-stage companies with a wide range of benefits, including an equity investment from Morgan Stanley. Multicultural Innovation Lab also provides curriculum customized for each startup including branding & marketing, sales & finance & strategy, and provide sessions with industry experts. it also brings other elements to help the entrepreneurs scale and grow their companies. The Lab's goal is to provide these founders with additional contributions toward their future success by leveraging their resources, expertise, and expansive & global networks that will attract the capital needed to scale and grow.

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