Building the future

Cobee (acquired by Pluxee in 2024) is an employee benefits company that is using new technologies to disrupt the big benefit market that has been traditionally dominated by big incumbent players. All our efforts are focused on making employees feel happy about their benefits, trying to unify the value proposition in an understandable and easy to use formula.

Experiencing the pain of manually preparing, tracking, checking, approving and processing expenses first-hand, the five co-founders of Yokoy, Dr. Devis Lussi, Lars Mangelsdorf, Melanie Gabriel, Philippe Sahli and Thomas Inhelder, set out to start an expense revolution.

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Zurich-based Yokoy (acquired by TravelPerk in 2025) automates spend management for medium and large enterprises with artificial intelligence, combining expense management, supplier invoice management and smart corporate cards into one single intuitive platform.

Upvest enables businesses to build great investment experiences, tailored to their customers’ needs. Their single investment API and digital infrastructure – along with the modular design – make it easy and cost-effective to offer customized investment products. It’s all backed by comprehensive support, covering everything from licenses and vendor management to back and middle office.

On a daily basis, large industrial processes face problems related to operational inefficiencies and low yields. The resulting waste adds significantly to their operating costs, production capacity, and environmental footprint. Metis Labs (aquired by Ascalia in 2024) offers a unique and valuable solution. The company has created an intelligent software application capable of adapting itself to the characteristics of any industrial production process and improving operational efficiency.

Surfboard (exited in 2024) is a collaborative planning tool for customer support teams. It's shift planning, scheduling, and forecasting functionality allows support teams to make work more human by reducing burnout and increasing scheduling flexibility through a single source of truth connecting disparate systems in one place.

Receeve is turning the current way of collecting debt upside down, by using AI to provide personalized collections and replace the outdated process of lenders using phone calls or letters to reach indebted clients. With Receeve, firms can communicate with their customers digitally, on any device, and customers have the option of self-service to manage their issues. The platform covers the entire collections lifecycle from managing receivables to servicing NPL portfolios.

SwipeGuide (acquired by L2L in 2024) is the next-generation instruction software. It provides an intuitive way to create enhanced-reality work instructions in a matter of minutes. Machine operators and field service engineers visualize, standardize, and execute digital instructions on mobile devices.

TaxScouts was founded in late 2017 to simplify the experience of tax assessment and filing. With an increasing amount of people experiencing non-standard income and with late fines in the UK amounting to billions in one tax season alone, TaxScouts is seeking to redefine the experience of preparing and filing personal income tax to make it seamless for everyone.

TaxScouts is building the layer of automation required to be able to calculate, assess and reliably file personal income tax for non-standard incomes including professional freelancers, landlords, high earners and more.

Blocktorch (acquired by third web in 2024) is the observability platform for the decentralized stack, covering all observability pillars to empower web3 developers to scale every decentralized component globally and serve billions of users reliably. We help builders to understand the behaviour of a decentralised application holistically, act quickly and become data driven. By enabling best in class observability practices, blocktorch is on the mission to make web3 mass-market ready.

Accounting software can't pay your bills. Banks don't know which bills to pay. Nook integrates both to give you payment perfection.

MyClubs (acquired by Urban Sports Club in 2024) is a flexible fitness subscription that gives members access to various gyms, yoga studios, and many other workout providers across Austria and Switzerland.

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Users can choose between different subscription models and use the complimentary myClubs app to check in to classes. MyClub also offers a solution for corporate fitness which lets companies provide MyClubs memberships to their employees as part of their employee benefits packages.

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Since the company’s foundation in 2014, MyClubs has grown into the leading sports aggregator in Austria and Switzerland with over 1,200 exclusive contractual partners.

Landvault (acquired by Infinite Reality in 2024) enables developers to create, manage and sell their AR/VR inventory in minutes, so they can focus on what they do best: creating great content. Landvault offers a plugin for Unity and Unreal Engine which allows normal ads to be displayed in VR/AR or gaming content, filter hundreds of advertisers via our programmatic platform and start generating revenue in minutes.

SOC.OS (acquired by Sophos in 2022) was born within the internal incubator of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence in late 2018 and spun-out as an independent company in June 2020. It is a SaaS product and can be thought of as an embedding an extra security analyst to the team, one who has the ability to remember every interconnected relationship between every alert produced from each security tool.

Amodo (acquired by Cambridge Mobile Telematics in 2023) is a customer engagement and powerful analytics technology combined in one. Amodo enables insurance companies, digital brokers and adjacent industries to market new products and services and engage users through smartphones. As value for customers rise, insurance businesses thrive.

consola.finance (acquired by Request Finance in 2024) is on a mission to bring clarity and control to companies’ crypto finances with the first human-readable block(chain) explorer with dedicated finance, accounting, bookkeeping and reporting tooling. consola.finance automates crypto finance processes, saves valuable time, reduces human errors and gives companies the opportunity to make better decisions.

hi.health (acquired by Pliant in 2025) offers people with private health insurance convenient and safe access to health care billing via app or web. Users can easily submit their invoices digitally and hi.health takes care of the further processing, billing and customer service providing a seamless user experience. With the integrated “library” users receive a transparent overview of relevant digital health products and services, that are (partially) covered by their insurance.

hi.health operates at the intersection of digital health, fintech and insurtech. While each of these rapidly growing markets are already exciting by themselves, their combination in one product is unique. The company was founded by Sebastian Gruber and Fredrik Debong in July 2019.

Diagnosia (acquired by Mediately in 2022) is a mobile and web-based app, which helps doctors and other healthcare professionals make the right medication decision. Additionally, the platform serves as a highly-targeted marketing channel for pharmaceutical companies interested in advertising on the platform.

Diagnosia was founded in 2011 by a group of medical doctors, software engineers, and entrepreneurs. Over the years the company has established itself as the market leader for clinical drug information software in Austria with more than 5,000 health professionals and over 50 healthcare facilities using their app.

Shpock (acquired in 2014) is a mobile marketplace that brings millions of private buyers and sellers together in categories that range from electronics and fashion to cars and property.

Planetly (acquired by OneTrust in 2021) is a climate-tech-company developing digital tools enabling companies to analyze, reduce and compensate their Co2 emissions. By completely automating the process of data acquisition, Planetly provides real-time analysis of the carbon footprint and the required transparency and tools reduce it.

Planetly was founded by Berlin serial entrepreneurs Anna Alex and Benedikt Franke in January 2020.

Kwest (acquired by Kraken Technologies in 2024) was a platform helps you automate manual tasks, create visibility across your team and send data where you need it. With Kwest, you install and maintain assets more efficiently.

Joblocal (acquired by Funke Mediengruppe in 2014) is the first network of regional online job marketplaces in Germany and Austria. Unlike large national online job sites, joblocal connects potential candidates with relevant positions in their area. Their marketplaces cover the entire job market across all employee levels, from managers to temporary workers and interns. The company has built 34 local job marketplaces including jobs.sh, bglandJOBS.de, or MünchnerJOBS.de. Corporate customers recruiting talent on Joblocal’s marketplaces include companies like Marc O’Polo, Sixt, Ikea, and Intel.

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drag&bot (acquired by KEBA in 2022) is an intuitive, web-based software platform for easy setup, programming and operation of industrial robots. With its graphical interface no prior robotics skills are needed to step your company into the era of automation. Their solution can be deployed across all relevant, industrial robotic systems and offers a high degree of flexibility, making industrial robots economical even for small production batches.

FinCompare (acquired by VAD Beteiligungen GmbH in 2021) is a comparison platform for financing options aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) seeking funding starting at 10,000 €. Via the online platform, businesses can access a wide range of financing options. Companies can independently compare offers from over 200 well-known banks, fintechs, and financial services providers and close on the financing. In addition to the usual corporate loans, FinCompare offers alternative financing solutions such as factoring, and leasing.

Koin (acquired by Despegar in 2020) is the only provider of after-delivery payment solutions in Latin America. The company offers safe and easy-to-use payment solutions to e-commerce shops that let buyers make purchases online and pay later. Koin offers online credit and instalment payment options to users with no need to fill out a registration or provide financial information. Their service helps e-commerce attract new buyer groups that previously have not been able to make payments online.

Actiondesk (acquired by Data Dog in 2023) is a cloud-based spreadsheet application that integrates with live data sources, enabling users to access and join data from across the cloud stack. By automatically connecting data directly from user databases and other services, the need for CSV export operations are eliminated. Users can run common spreadsheet functions, including lookups or pivot tables, using the same methods available in other spreadsheet applications.

Iyzico (acquired by PayU in 2019) is Turkey’s leading ePayment company offering businesses easy solutions to accept payments online. The platform is tailored to the needs of the local market and integrates with over 22 different payment options and banks. Customers appreciate the easy setup process and features such as recurring payments and Iyzico’s marketplace solution.

Atmosplay (acquired in 2017) builds high-quality 3D playable ads for high-grossing mobile games. They let advertisers showcase their mobile games with fully animated interactive playable ads. Furthermore, their ads are delivered 10x faster than the current market leader’s.

Holvi (acquired by BBVA) is a digital banking solution and payment institution for European entrepreneurs, sole traders and business owners. With Holvi, SME’s can sell products online, send invoices, and track cashflow in real time. The platform offers a current account with its own IBAN number designed to help customers manage all their finances on one platform. Holvi is the world’s first financial hub operating with its own Payment Institution Licence authorised for operations across Europe by the Financial Supervisory Authority of Finland (FIN-FSA).

Founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2011, the company was acquired in 2016 by BBVA.

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Koalaboox's (acquired by Cegid in 2020) e-invoicing Software as a Service helps SMEs simplify their daily invoicing and accounting processes through tracking of revenues, expenses and payments. Additionally, it offers a one-click invoice financing solution built into the platform, allowing clients to fund invoices and solve their working capital needs.

Payworks (acquired by VISA) was the provider of Pulse, a next generation Point of Sale payment gateway technology. With Pulse, developers of Point of Sale solutions for merchants can quickly and cost-efficiently integrate card payment functionality into their applications, and securely process EMV; contactless and mobile wallet transactions at the Point of Sale.

ready2order (acquired by Zucchetti Group in 2023) offers a multi-award winning, cloud-based point-of-sale solution that transforms every smartphone, tablet and PC into a fully functional cash register. Companies that use ready2order have access to a range of awesome tools that are more powerful and easier to use than enterprise systems – but only for a fraction of the cost.

Playbrush (aquired by Sunstar Global in 2021) is a London and Vienna-based technology company that digitizes oral care for children.

With Playbrush, boring brushing routines suddenly become an exciting adventure. The colorful, smart toothbrush attachment fits onto the handle of any manual toothbrush so kids control planes, paint masterpieces and win dance battles via their brushing movements. Personalized feedback, statistics and brushing rewards mean brushing is now not only fun, but also effective. The Playbrush comes with a variety of games, a data monitoring application for parents and regular toothbrush and toothpaste supplies.

Indoo.rs (acquired by Esri in 2019) creates advanced indoor mapping, localization, and routing technology as well as an SDK for developers and device manufacturers. They allow end-users to accurately locate themselves and others inside buildings, such as an airport, shopping mall or exhibition center, using mobile devices. The company has developed various products for navigation, proximity, and asset tracking as well as navigations solutions for visually impaired people.

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Indoo.rs’ award-winning technology is being used to power navigation solutions at NYC’s Penn Station, serving more than 650,000 travelers each day, as well as in airport navigation applications to help the visually impaired find their way around.

Pace, acquired by FlyrLabs in 2022, was founded to change revenue management and help companies be more effective in their distribution and sales - empowering them to make better use of resources, generate less waste, and contribute to a better world.

Metrilo (acquired by Brevo in 2021) is a suite of analytics and marketing tools for eCommerce websites. It helps merchants track key performance indicators (KPIs), analyze trends, and make data-driven decisions to increase retention, conversion and sales performance. Metrilo’s CRM platform also allows webshops to send highly targeted email campaigns and to measure their success rates.

The company's software is easy to install and integrates with all major e-commerce platforms such as Woocommerce, Shopify, or Magento. As of January 2018 the company has hit over $100MM USD in total sales generated with their email automation and segmentation tools alone.

Launched in May 2018, and acquired by Admiral Group in 2023, Luko’s revolutionary home insurance is simple: customers get covered in 2 minutes, claims paid in 2 hours, and repairman’s visit your home in 2 days. Offering a new transparent and responsible model, Luko transforms insurance core business model to align the interests of the tenant and the insurer. The company provides AI and ‘plug&play’ smart devices that monitor consumptions in order to identify and prevent disasters, such as flooding, fire and burglary.

Gustav (acquired by Fuse Cooperative in 2023) is a technology company that helps mid-sized enterprises recruit and manage their contingent workforce. Their service gives the mid-market access to benefits usually only enjoyed by large corporations with more sophisticated contingent workforce programs.

Their full concierge software helps companies manage the complete process from selecting staffing vendors, submitting requisitions, managing an external workforce, to paying contractors and temporary staff.

Ever since the company’s foundation in 2016 Gustav has received major support from organizations and investors such as Y Combinator, Speedinvest, Lightspeed Ventures, Beenext, 10x Group and YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim.

corrux (acquired by Gropyus AG in 2021) enables enterprises to maximize the efficiency of industrial equipment. The company’s analytics layer lets construction companies and OEMs understand their heavy machinery – ranging from excavators to track laying machines. With corrux, job site operations are monitored in real-time to gain insight from data. corrux uses AI to distill the most urgent and actionable measurements and alerts, so that action is taken before failure occurs.

We help industrial companies increase process efficiency by improving human-machine communication and making data visible that could not be collected before.
As a leader in industrial smart wearable software, we provide our customers with organizational tools that help improve communication and coordination across all areas of the shop floor. This creates a clear overview and optimizes machine utilization, providing plant managers with instant results and enhanced visibility and accountability between employees.

Platypus is the HR tech solution that helps HR professionals measure what people value at every stage of the talent lifecycle, from attraction to management to retention. Its solution equips managers with the right data collected from every single employee in order to meet their needs and prepare themselves for future business challenges.

With its value-centric approach to company culture they have identified 12 work-related values, corresponding to 3 core areas of organizational culture, that provide unique insights into individuals’ needs and priorities while protecting their anonymity.

Usersnap (acquired by saas.group in 2023) is a visual bug tracking and feedback tool. The software lets users screenshot and annotate their current browser view facilitating communication and the flow of feedback between developers, customers and everyone involved in a web project.

Usersnap integrates with existing project management tools, bug tracking systems as well as popular web platforms such as Wordpress. Among their customers are large technology companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix.

ForTunes was acquired by Utopia Music in 2023. They put comprehensive Music Data Analytics at the fingertips of a new generation of music creators by collecting, fetching, and visualizing data and providing customers with insights that help them understand who is playlisting & uploading their music and how their audience is growing.

Friday Finance (acquired by Pliant in 2023) is the next-generation financial operations platform for startups and SMEs that puts all bank accounts and financial data into one place and helps them streamline and automate mundane tasks. It provides real-time insights into a business's cash flows and offers finance professionals better workflows for bill payments, approvals and the month-end close.

Sunlight helps companies grow an engaging learning culture by facilitating their team’s access to any book, event, or course in the world. The Sunlight platform lets businesses allocate each team member with a learning and development budget. Through Sunlight employers can approve requests from their employees on everything from books to courses and events, and only get charged for what they use, in one monthly invoice. Through its work with existing clients, Sunlight has seen that it improves learning engagement by 34%. Sunlight’s services are particularly relevant in the US market, where competition for top talent is fierce and employee training is a key part of retention.

Rive is a PropTech startup and the leading iBuyer in Europe providing instant offers for apartment owners. They have developed a highly accurate AI-powered real estate data platform and revolutionary service concept redefining how people sell and buy homes. They use technology to quickly purchase homes from sellers who desire convenience and speed.

Grandhood (acquired by Velliv in 2020) is the first company worldwide to offer an occupational pension based on the needs of small businesses. It stands out with its simplicity and applicability apart from large-scale enterprises.

Wikidocs (acquired by Atlassian) was a real-time collaboration framework that turns any web page into a live, editable ‘docs’ service in minutes with the ability to build content, create, edit, and share – all at once. The solution saved users the hours of wait and back and forth communication waiting to receive the latest version with changes.

Wikidocs offered this service through an API and a few lines of Javascript to be added to client websites.