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

Remote Work Tools

Spike is a software company that provides a unified workspace for communication, collaboration, and productivity. Its platform combines email, messaging, video conferencing, and note-taking functionalities into a single interface. Spike's key offering is a conversational email experience that enables users to interact with their emails in a chat-like format. The platform also includes features such as a shared inbox, collaborative notes and tasks, calendar synchronization, and file sharing.Spike offers a range of pricing plans tailored to different user segments, including individuals, small teams, and larger businesses. The plans vary in terms of storage capacity, custom email domains, advanced features like video call recording and single sign-on (SSO), and support levels. The platform incorporates AI-powered tools such as email composition assistance, note summarization, and an AI assistant for research, problem-solving, and content creation.&nbsp;Funding and financialsIn June 2020, The company raised USD 8 million in a Series A round led by Insight Partners. Wix, NFX and Koa Labs also participated in the round. The company used the funds to aggressively scale hiring and expand its team.In March 2019, Spike raised USD 5m in funding. Backers included Wix, Koa Labs, and NFX. The company allocated the funds to expand its reach in the small business market.

Digital Wallets

Wallets Africa is a Nigerian fintech company that has revolutionized financial services by offering innovative digital wallets and payment solutions. Their flagship product, Wallets Africa, is a multi-currency digital wallet that enables seamless onboarding, account creation, and cashback rewards for transactions. Additionally, it facilitates effortless ether transactions, empowering users to engage with the world of cryptocurrency.
Wallets Africa has achieved remarkable milestones since its inception in 2016. The company successfully launched its consumer wallet in Nigeria, attracting 250,000 users and establishing itself as a vital player in bringing financial services to a broader audience. Furthermore, Wallets Africa pioneered business digital banking, boasting over 20,000 business accounts and leading the way in overdraft services for Nigerian businesses.
The company's dedication to innovation extends to its prepaid card product, cementing its position as a leader in consumer card issuing. This secure and convenient payment solution has garnered recognition, with Wallets Africa participating in the Ecobank Fintech Challenge 2018 and securing a USD 1.6 million investment from prominent investors like Swell Partners, Microtraction, Michael Seibel, and other Silicon Valley backers.
Wallets Africa's multi-currency wallet, Spring, exemplifies the company's commitment to democratizing financial services. Spring enables users to earn attractive cashbacks, perform ether transactions seamlessly, and leverage various use cases. With its user-centric approach and cutting-edge technology, Wallets Africa continues to redefine the financial landscape in Nigeria and beyond.

Tools that streamline software development

DevOps Toolchain

Deno is a modern runtime environment for JavaScript and TypeScript, created by Ryan Dahl, the original developer of Node.js. Launched in 2018, Deno aims to address some of the limitations and design flaws of Node.js while providing a more secure and standards-compliant platform for server-side JavaScript development. Built on the V8 JavaScript engine and written in Rust, Deno offers improved performance and security compared to its predecessor.
Deno's key features include native TypeScript support, allowing developers to run TypeScript code without additional compilation steps. It uses a decentralized approach to package management, enabling direct imports of modules via URLs instead of relying on a centralized registry like npm. Deno emphasizes security by running code in a sandbox environment by default, requiring explicit permissions for file system access, network operations, and other potentially sensitive actions.
The runtime includes a comprehensive standard library and built-in developer tools such as a test runner, code formatter, and dependency inspector. Deno aligns closely with web standards, implementing many browser APIs to improve compatibility between server-side and client-side code. As of October 2024, the latest major release is Deno 2.0, which introduced full compatibility with Node.js and npm packages, allowing developers to use Deno in existing Node.js projects or migrate incrementally.

Building future-ready applications in the cloud

Cloud-native Tech

Supabase is an open-source developer platform and PostgreSQL database service.Supabase's database integrates authentication, storage, and real-time services to enable efficient full-stack application development.&nbsp;Its storage service is built on Amazon S3, ensuring data redundancy and durability. The platform supports real-time updates, allowing the immediate propagation of database changes to connected clients. Additionally, Supabase offers Edge Functions, which are server-side TypeScript functions designed to run closer to users for reduced latency. The platform also provides an AI and vector toolkit for creating AI applications with Postgres and pgvectors.&nbsp;Key customers and partnershipsThe company reported over 1 million sign-ups as of April 2024. The platform is used by developers at companies like GitHub, Meta, Netflix, and Microsoft, with about 10% of active databases on its services being used to power AI applications.In August 2024, the company&nbsp;<a href="https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-vercel-partnership">partnered with Vercel</a> to allow users to manage Supabase services directly from the Vercel dashboard.&nbsp;

Mammoth is a Mastodon application that helps to make it simpler for users to join the decentralised social web, has a well-known financial sponsor.

Webacy helps you protect your digital assets crypto, social media, etc from anything that happens.

heylogin replaces passwords with a swipe-to-login on your phone. It works with all websites and saves time of your employees. approx. 3 h / month. For project managers, it eases on- and off-boarding of employees. For CEOs, it gives back control over the business logins. In comparison to traditional password manager, heylogin does not use a master password, instead it's just a swipe on the phone once per day. In comparison to SSOs, heylogin is cheap to deploy. You don't need to upgrade all your SaaS plans to be able to connect them to your SSO provider.

At Block Party, we’re on a mission to make the internet safer for everyone. Our latest product, Privacy Party, has earned rave reviews such as ''amazing,'' ''f***ing magic,'' and ''an essential extension if you access any social media sites.'' Privacy Party is a browser extension that makes expert recommendations to secure your social media accounts and automatically updates the settings you prefer. Sign up at www.privacypartyapp.com to keep your personal information secure and away from prying eyes.

Secure AI Labs helps businesses access proprietary data by protecting it during analysis. It protects data by digitally enforcing data-use policies and enable data owners control who, how, and where the data is used, even after sharing. The company's encrypted analytics platform keeps data and algorithms secure at every step. It provides bioinformatics and machine learning to develop AI models which users can access from a diverse library. Businesses can access data easily without the liability of working with personal or proprietary information. Secure AI Labs was founded on 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Deno Deploy is a distributed system that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge, worldwide. The service deeply integrates the V8 JavaScript runtime with a high performance asynchronous web server to provide optimal performance without unnecessary intermediate abstractions.

Spike is the future of email. The Spike app transforms your inbox into a chat-like interface and brings all your messaging, collaboration, tasks, and video/audio calls into one place.  Instead of app-switching to check off a task or create a meeting agenda, Spike's powerful Inbox gives you all the tools you need in a single workflow. Making it extremely simple to get your work done, communicate with team members/clients, stay organized and stay productive.  Spike makes it easy to collaborate and manage—Email, to-do lists, tasks, Notes, Group Chats, docs, and way more -all from your inbox! Spike works on top of any existing email (O365, G suite, and IMAP) and is available on iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows & Web.  The company's goal is to bring all of the communications, emails, chats, calls, team collaborations, tasks, and voice notes to one place. The mission is to improve the world of productivity one email at a time.

Ramp Network is a fintech startup that offers payment infrastructure to connect crypto and traditional finance. The company's mission is to create a meshed, easily accessible connection between the open blockchain financial system and the old, closed banking system, with no need for a trusted third party in between. Ramp was founded in 2017 by Przemek Kowalczyk and Szymon Sypniewicz and is headquartered in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.

Supabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that adds real-time and RESTful APIs to your PostgreSQL database without a single line of code. Supabase helps developers by providing a Postgres database with a self-documenting API based on the data inside. Start your project with a Postgres database, Authentication, instant APIs, Edge Functions, Realtime subscriptions, Storage, and Vector Database embeddings.

Blueloop develops software for financial service applications. Their software products include swapmonkey and flux. Swapmonkey is a peer to peer cryptocurrency platform. Swapmonkey allows trading cryptocurrencies. Flux is a platform that offers a secure solution to send money between countries using blockchain technology to power payments.

Talium is a fastest way to publish a one-page website.

Arc is a JavaScript widget that unites browsers into a worldwide peer-to-peer Content Delivery Network (CDN). Users contribute bandwidth, we rent it, and websites get paid the proceeds. Websites get faster and make money without ads, users have their privacy preserved and see fewer ads, and developers cut their distribution costs by 10x.

Wick Editor is a hybrid animation tool and coding environment and an open source tool for creating games and animations. Their animation and games include dj spookyman, a well dressed ghost, a haunted house, a clicker game, popups, playing clips, playing the timeline, drag and drop, multiple rooms, and follow mouses.

Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes openness, innovation, and participation on the internet by connecting open internet leaders with each other and mobilizing activists around the world. The main product of the company is Mozilla Firefox web browser that offers services such as syncing and private browsing through web, iOS, and Android devices. It also offers online game center that aims to spread new thinking about open technologies across the internet industry. Foundation programs are focusing on fueling the open internet movement and the programs are categorized under 3 areas such as shaping the agenda, connecting leaders, and rallying citizens. Mozilla has a global community of volunteers, allies, and partners. Members of Mozilla community participate by contributing code to Firefox and teaching digital literacy to translate software, organizing advocacy campaigns, and writing web developer site. Mozilla Foundation is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1998.

Riseup.net is an autonomous body that provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change. The project supports and engages in struggles for human liberation, the ethical treatment of animals, and ecological sustainability; works to create revolution and a free society by building alternative communication infrastructure designed to oppose and replace the dominant system; promotes social ownership and democratic control over information, ideas, technology, and the means of communication; and empowers organizations and individuals to use technology in struggles for liberation. It provides private email accounts, accessible via the web, shell, IMAP, or POP; mailing lists for activist organizations; and resources and tutorials for communication. Riseup.net was launched in 1999.

Ushahidi is a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping.

The mission of Munich-based start-up company Cliqz is to reinvent web navigation. In line with the principle of ‘putting the user first’, the brains behind CLIQZ have uncompromisingly aligned the development of their products with the needs of users.  Some sixty experts from more than 25 countries are involved in developing key Internet technologies such as browser and search functions. They combine these key technologies to create innovative universal tools that enable Internet users to get where they want to go in the web quickly and directly, while maintaining their privacy.  The people behind CLIQZ view the Internet from a European perspective, thus setting great store by data privacy, but also by market diversity and freedom of choice.  The company was founded by Jean-Paul Schmetz in April 2008 as 10betterpages GmbH and renamed Cliqz GmbH in January 2015. Jean-Paul Schmetz and Marc Al-Hames are the company’s joint-CEOs. Since May 2013, Cliqz GmbH has been majority-owned by Burda GmbH. In July 2013 the company embarked on its most ambitious project yet – the development of CLIQZ web navigation technology. CLIQZ for Firefox was launched in June 2014, gaining over 900,000 active daily users in the short time since then. The company has also developed test apps for iOS, Android and Chrome (some of which are not yet publicly accessible).

EverythingMe is a launcher for Android devices that adds contextual capabilities to mobile phones. It delivers the right apps, contacts and information to the homescreen, exactly at the right place and time. Whatever a person is into, wherever they are, they’ll get personalized suggestions that match their interests and lifestyle.  Delivering truly contextual results is a formidable engineering challenge. Their algorithms combine machine learning, statistical modeling, and domain knowledge expertise to identify specific life scenarios. Within these contexts they match users’ needs with specific content on their phones, as well as native and web apps.

Amara Enterprise delivers powerful solutions for your video accessibility and localization needs. Key platform features include private and secure workspaces, flexible workflows, and a powerful API for connecting seamlessly to your own platform. Amara helps companies around the world streamline their subtitling processes.

Mozilla provides internet solutions. It offers firefox, a web browser; thunderbird 2, an email application raindrop, a prototype messaging tool which enables its users to manage a stream of messages coming from sources and rainbow, a developer prototype that brings video and audio recording to firefox 4.

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Digital Privacy Tools

Solutions to prevent the tracking and collection of the personal data of end-users.

Encrypted communications and data exchanges for internal and external collaboration around sensitive data.

Tools to provide compliance with privacy regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and carry out tasks such as data discovery, data governance, consent management, Data Subject Rights (DSR) management, Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) and managing incident response as mandated by these privacy regulations.

Synthetic data generation, data de-identification and anonymization, and other solutions for managing sensitive data.

Storage infrastructure for holding data in compliance with regulations such as GDPR or data residency requirements.

Central management of data access and data privacy and security policies.

Technologies bringing about a new reality

Extended Reality

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 Firefox developer, Mozilla, has announced that it will shut down its web-based virtual reality (VR) platform, Hubs, on May 31, 2024. Unlike many other platforms, Hubs is available for free, and enables interactions between VR headset users as well as those using regular screens or mobile devices.
 Since its launch in 2018, Hubs has not seen the same level of user inflow or recognition as platforms such as Rec Room, VRChat, or Meta's Horizon Worlds. Some of its notable features are a demonstration server, a subscription management system, and numerous resources for community use.
 Although Mozilla will no longer continue developing Hubs, it emphasizes that the platform is open sourcing and can potentially be developed by anyone interested. The "Community Edition" of Hubs, in particular, can operate on any platform compatible with Kubernetes. This includes a wide range of cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
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