Highland Europe invests in rapidly growing European internet, mobile, and software companies that address large market opportunities and have over €10 million in annualized revenues. They can provide acquisition finance or lead secondary transactions as well as making primary investments. Their capital enables management teams to accelerate growth and build a lasting, valuable business. Highland Europe was launched in 2012 and closely collaborates with Highland Capital Partners, an independent global venture capital firm with a twenty-seven year investment experience and offices in Boston and Palo Alto.

Highland Europe

CRV has been an investor in technology companies for almost half a century. The firm has backed nearly 400 startups in its 47-year history, including foundational companies like Twitter, Zendesk, Amgen, Hubspot, Parametric Technologies, Yammer, EqualLogic, and Sonus Networks. Half of the companies CRV has backed have gone public or been acquired. The firm focuses on enterprise, consumer, and deep-insight bioengineering. CRV has offices in Palo Alto, California, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Resolute is focused on finding extraordinary entrepreneurs and helping them succeed over the course of their career. Because our approach is so entrepreneur-focused, we are comfortable investing at the earliest of stages, often before any other investors. We make investment decisions quickly.  Very soon after our first meeting, we will either pass or articulate a discrete roadmap to a decision. We will invest as little as $50k and as much as $750k in a company’s initial financing. We prefer being a lead investor and guiding our entrepreneurs to the key milestones for a successful venture round.   We dislike “headless” seed rounds that lack a lead investor. Post investment we immediately focus on ensuring these milestones are clearly defined, and work to help our entrepreneurs achieve them. Rinse and repeat.

Resolute Ventures

Vintage is a global venture firm that invests in venture funds and startups via primary and secondary transactions. Through its secondary strategy, the firm acquires limited partnership interests in Israeli, European, and select U.S. venture capital funds as well as holdings in technology startups. It also invests directly into growth-stage startups across all 3 geographies, alongside partner VC funds.

Vintage Investment Partners

Norwest is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies. Since its inception, it has invested in more than 600 companies and partnered with over 140 active companies across our venture and growth equity portfolio. The firm invests in early to late-stage companies across a wide range of sectors with a focus on consumer, enterprise, and healthcare. It offers a deep network of connections, operating experience, and a wide range of impactful services to help CEOs and founders scale their businesses.

Norwest Venture Partners

Grove Ventures is an early-stage venture capital investment firm which places believes that the Deep Future is now and partners with exceptional Israeli entrepreneurs. With over half a billion dollars under management, Grove invests in leading startups developing hard-to-replicate solutions at the intersection of technology, science, and applicable market needs. The fund places significant emphasis on its core principles of putting people first, close cooperation, and value-creation.

Grove Ventures

ActiveFence

ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, and more.  Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust  & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages.

ActiveFence is a leading provider of Trust &amp; Safety solutions designed to protect online platforms and their users from malicious behavior and content. The company's technology safeguards users against a wide spectrum of online harms, including child abuse, disinformation, hate speech, terrorism, human exploitation, and fraud. ActiveFence offers a comprehensive stack of capabilities, including deep intelligence research, AI-driven harmful content detection, and a content moderation platform. The company's solutions are used to protect over three billion users globally every day across 100 languages. In February 2023, ActiveFence launched an industry-first Trust &amp; Safety Academy in partnership with New York University's Institute for Impact and Intrapreneurship, aimed at educating professionals about the trust and safety industry. The company has also developed AI Safety solutions for business applications, helping organizations implement AI-guardrails to mitigate safety, privacy, and security risks. ActiveFence has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Generative-AI Trust, Safety and Security Guide.

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ActiveFence is a leading provider of Trust & Safety solutions designed to protect online platforms and their users from malicious behavior and content. The company's technology safeguards users against a wide spectrum of online harms, including child abuse, disinformation, hate speech, terrorism, human exploitation, and fraud. ActiveFence offers a comprehensive stack of capabilities, including deep intelligence research, AI-driven harmful content detection, and a content moderation platform. The company's solutions are used to protect over three billion users globally every day across 100 languages. In February 2023, ActiveFence launched an industry-first Trust & Safety Academy in partnership with New York University's Institute for Impact and Intrapreneurship, aimed at educating professionals about the trust and safety industry. The company has also developed AI Safety solutions for business applications, helping organizations implement AI-guardrails to mitigate safety, privacy, and security risks. ActiveFence has been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner Generative-AI Trust, Safety and Security Guide.

Unitary is a London-based AI company specializing in visual content moderation. Founded in 2019, the company has developed proprietary machine learning algorithms that analyze multiple signals to understand the contents and contexts of videos, images, audio, and text. Unitary's technology mimics human moderation by simultaneously analyzing visual, aural, and textual content, allowing it to comprehend video and image content similar to humans. This approach helps digital platforms quickly identify inappropriate or illegal material at scale, addressing the challenge of exponentially growing online content that makes manual review unrealistic.
As of October 2023, Unitary was analyzing six million videos daily across multiple languages. The company's AI offers a scalable solution for content classification, empowering human moderators and helping platforms navigate nuanced content. Unitary's products have been used to classify billions of online images and videos. The company also maintains an open-source AI tool called Detoxify, which has been downloaded over 7 million times. Unitary's technology is designed to help platforms adapt to new regulations like the UK's Online Safety Bill and the EU's Digital Services Act, which require more proactive moderation and action against illegal content. In October 2023, Unitary reported seven figures in annual recurring revenue, demonstrating significant growth in its early stages.

Unitary

Smart Moderation is an AI-powered comment moderation service designed to protect brands' social media profiles and online communities. The company's technology automatically detects and removes inappropriate content, including hate speech, spam, trolls, and bullying across platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. Smart Moderation's proprietary AI system utilizes machine learning and natural language processing to understand text holistically, going beyond simple keyword matching. The technology was initially trained using Facebook's official community standards and continues to learn from users' preferences and past actions, creating a customized moderation approach over time.
The company offers a subscription-based B2B SaaS solution that operates 24/7 in real-time, providing continuous protection without human intervention. Smart Moderation's setup process is designed to be quick and straightforward, requiring only three steps: signing up with a Facebook account, connecting to social networks, and adding profiles. This streamlined approach allows brands to implement the service in less than a minute, offering immediate protection for their online presence.

Smart Moderation

Sightengine is an AI-powered content moderation platform that specializes in analyzing and filtering visual and textual content across digital platforms. The company offers APIs for image, video, and text moderation, utilizing advanced machine learning and natural language processing technologies to detect and filter unwanted content in real-time. Sightengine's capabilities include nudity detection, weapons identification, alcohol and drug recognition, as well as deepfake detection. The platform is designed to be scalable, handling up to tens of millions of images per month. Sightengine's technology also extends to optical character recognition (OCR), allowing for text extraction and analysis from images and videos. The company's solutions are applicable across various industries, including social media, ecommerce, news organizations, and online communities.

Sightengine

CyberPurify is a company focused on providing solutions for online safety and digital well-being, particularly for children. The company's technology aims to address concerns regarding inappropriate content exposure and excessive screen time among young users. CyberPurify's product offerings are designed to create a safer internet environment for children and promote healthier online habits. The company's solutions are positioned as alternatives to existing, more complex options in the market, suggesting a focus on user-friendly and accessible tools for parents and guardians.

CyberPurify

Hive is a project management software company that offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to streamline team collaboration and workflow management. The platform provides various features to visualize project scopes, track progress, and simplify stakeholder communication. Hive's interface includes multiple views such as Gantt charts, Kanban boards, calendars, and portfolio overviews, allowing users to manage tasks and projects according to their preferences. The software also incorporates functionalities like forms for creative requests, document proofing and approval processes, and integrated chat for team communication. Hive emphasizes customization, offering a range of add-ons and integrations through Hive Apps to tailor the workspace to specific needs. The company positions itself as a cost-effective solution, providing a "no-risk Hive Adoption Guarantee" and offering discounts to registered non-profit organizations.
Key customers and partnerships
Hive's content moderation services, which utilize artificial intelligence to identify and block unwanted content, are used by prominent companies including Visa, Netflix, and Reddit. The company has also collaborated with corporations such as GE, Dell/EMC, eBay, and McKesson to co-create startups. Additionally, Hive has partnered with various corporations like IBM, SAP, Intuit, TIBCO, CSAA, Microsoft, Cloudera, and Visa as sponsors for its innovation ecosystem and thought leadership forum.

Hive

Platforms that analyze and filter text-based content, including comments, chat messages, and forum posts, to detect and block hate speech, offensive language, harassment, and spam

Platforms that analyze and filter images and videos, blocking inappropriate or guideline-violating content such as nudity, violence, copyrighted materials, hate speech, and other harmful elements

Platforms that analyze and moderate a variety of media channels including text, images, audio, or video, to determine whether the content is inappropriate or violates guidelines

Platforms that offer specialized content moderation for industries like gaming, ecommerce, healthcare, and social media

Firms that offer content moderation services that combine automated AI-based content analysis with human experts’ analysis

Uses NLP to assess text, detecting policy violations such as hate speech and personal information

Generative AI can aid in policy creation and tools for summarizing large user-generated content volumes

AI and ML algorithms automatically assess user-generated content on digital platforms

The technology enables personalized policy and guideline adherence

Employs Foundation models like GPT-3 to analyze text and detect policy violations

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