Building the future

GoStudent is an online learning platform that connects students with qualified tutors for personalized one-on-one lessons. Students can get support across various subjects and academic levels, making tutoring flexible, convenient, and affordable.

Inkitt is the world’s first data-powered book publisher. The platform’s purpose is to find stories that have the potential to become future bestsellers and get them published through one of the platforms’ partners. Inkitt has developed an algorithm that can predict future book success by analyzing the behavior of early readers that get access to pre-published novels on the platform.

CoachHub supports companies worldwide by implementing coaching as strategic people development in a scalable way, while offering it to every employee flexibly and regardless of location. They offer a digital business coaching platform and a coaching app with an AI-supported coach-matching algorithm. In the dashboard, both the HR department and members of management across the company can access an overview of the program. All coaches are certified and members of at least one major coaching association.

OneTrust builds the Trust Intelligence Platform – connecting privacy, GRC, ethics, and ESG teams, data, and processes – so companies big and small can collaborate seamlessly and put trust at the center of their operations and culture.

We help companies and supply chains stay resilient through the unknown. We empower ethical cultures so companies can uphold the highest standards of trust. We help measure and track ESG initiatives so companies can play a meaningful role in shaping a better future for all.

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Schüttflix is the first digital marketplace and delivery platform for bulk construction supplies such as sand, crushed rock, and gravel. The Schüttflix app, which connects suppliers and truckers directly with customers in landscaping and the heavy construction industry, currently offers same day service and 4-hour delivery to its core market. As the supply market is extremely fragmented and non-transparent, Schüttflix is the first to provide easy online access to customers across Germany in one platform.

Online consumer marketplace for specialized traders of refurbished electronic goods, like phones, PCs, and many more product categories in the future. So far, they target their customers with prices 10-40 % lower than new products, a 1-year-warranty and a 30-day trial period.

Lapse is a social disposable camera app and the next big social network. Do you remember that experience of taking a disposable camera to a party and shooting with friends? Everyone taking snaps, no editing, no review, just enjoying living in the moment. Then a few days later you'd receive the developed snaps and all share the memories of the time together. Lapse brings that experience to your mobile device.

Kittl provides a platform that makes complex design processes easier and faster. The new browser-based graphic design tool empowers anyone to become a creator and design logos, labels, postcards or anything else. Loaded with tons of templates, illustrations, and fonts, it offers endless design possibilities.

Despite its size, the timber industry still largely relies on slow, offline, and manual ways of doing business, leaving it vulnerable to supply shocks that make it difficult for manufacturers, wholesalers, and construction companies to source right-quality timber at sufficient quantities and reasonable prices.

To counter this, Timberhub is digitizing the entire sawn timber procurement process with an end to end online marketplace for timber to support manufacturers and contractors in purchasing, transporting, and financing their raw materials. This marketplace also helps buyers to verify the origin of the timber traded on the platform, allowing them to make more ethical and sustainable purchases.

Byrd is a managed B2B marketplace for eCommerce fulfillment. Their all-in-one logistics platform equips users with a comprehensive dashboard and connects to online shop systems such as Shopify and Woocommerce to make drop-shipping, eCommerce fulfillment or crowdfunding campaign management seamless. Byrd integrates with all major logistics partners in the German-speaking market and automatically finds the best provider for each shipment. The company also runs storage facilities in Europe, takes care of individual packaging, and manages pick-ups as well as returns.

TourRadar is an online marketplace for travellers to compare and book multi-day tours. The company works with over 500 tour and river cruise operators including: Avalon, Contiki, G Adventures, Globus, Intrepid Travel and Topdeck.

Since launching in 2010, TourRadar has grown to list over 1MM tour departures to fit the diverse needs of travelers. It is the hub of over 50,000 real traveler reviews for customers to sift through and learn from.

With travel styles from marine to cultural to festivals to luxury and more the company caters to every demographic. TourRadar also founded the annual Guide of the Year and Tour of the Year awards, recognizing the industry’s top rated guides and tours.

Disbursements are all the expenses an agent makes on behalf of the operator whilst the vessel is in port. 

Harbor Lab was born out of a real-time need to automate the processing of disbursements (port costs payments to port authorities and other port-related suppliers), while reducing manual intervention and heavy administration. 

Utilizing Harbor Lab's platform is adding value for shipowning and shipmanaging companies & charterers. It gains efficiency and cost-savings through transparency, connectivity, & customisation.

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Packhelp allows its clients to quickly design and order custom packaging. A very user-friendly box editor, revolutionary low minimum order size and fast, high-quality production are the reasons why Packhelp’s services are being used by both small e-commerce entrepreneurs and multinational corporations. Packhelp’s mission is to enable every company – regardless of its size – to offer the best unboxing experience possible. Customers can expect new products and services that will push their packaging experience to the next level.

Liefergrün is the leading delivery service provider for sustainable delivery. Liefergrün’s aim is to enable guilt-free online shopping by reducing the environmental impact of deliveries. As a result, it is committed to creating a fair, social and emissions-free delivery experience with the mantra ‘we respect your shopping.'

Liefergrün delivers in freely selectable time windows and with 24/7 real-time tracking. Return deliveries are also able to be scheduled and are fully sustainable.

Agro.Club is the commercial effectiveness platform that connects input suppliers and grain buyers with farmers using the latest digital commerce and fintech solutions. Platform is currently used by leading global seed, crop protection, animal nutrition and grain companies, and more than 19,000 farmers across Europe and North America.

Plant and Tool Hire Made Easy. YardLink is taking the hassle out of hiring equipment. YardLink aggregates supply and optimizes distance to the closest rental. Guaranteed reliability of service and availability of the equipment.

Smiler believes that valuable memories deserve to be captured in high quality. It’s our mission to achieve that on a global scale for everyone, everywhere. We are the world’s first on-the-spot photography marketplace that brings photographers and consumers together at tourist hotspots and other leisure locations. By being in the places where these memories are created, Smiler taps into the uncaptured potential of billions of photos, preserving something higher quality and very valuable to people all around the world.

Bliq was founded in 2018 and has its headquarters in Berlin. The app lets its users maximize their earnings while driving more safely, while creating a safer, fairer, more sustainable gig economy.

Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers city-dwellers new opportunities to take a break from big city life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough to completely unwind. Founded in 2021 by school friends Christopher Eilers, Johann Ahlers and Julian Trautwein in Berlin, Raus' mission is to provide seamless access to restful space outside your daily routine.

Industry-leading VCs and angel investors backing Raus include venture capital firm Speedinvest, Tourlane founders, Julian Stiefel and Julian Weselek, former Airbnb Managing Director (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and Zazume Co-Founder, Jeroen Merchiers, and BCG Digital Ventures Managing Director & Partner, Urs Rahne, among others.

More than a booking platform, konfetti enables suppliers to manage their business and increase their sales with an all-in-one software. In doing so, the company actively markets the classes. At the same time, the workshop provider has significantly less administrative work. Many processes that were previously handled offline or manually can now be handled through the konfetti platform. Billing and invoicing, is fully automated, tax compliant, and reduces unnecessary coordination with the company's own tax advisor.

Launched in 2021 in Berlin, users can now find and book workshops in more than 250 cities. Hundreds of companies use konfetti as their go-to source for organizing and booking team events and corporate parties.

Milano Vice is Germany's first virtual restaurant chain. Founded in Berlin in 2022, it is an amplifier for partner restaurants, traditional bakeries, and professional chefs. Milano Vice partners can triple partners' sales thanks to resource optimization through increased utilization of kitchen and staff. It targets Gen Y and Z customers through its innovative branding and provides state-of-the-art technology to its partner restaurants.

Born out of frustration of how inaccessible fine spirits are today, Flaviar offers its members unparalleled access, be it in the form of information on spirits and personalized recommendations, or in the liquid form, through their Tasting Boxes, private labels, exclusive bottling, and live experiences.

Stotles was founded in 2019 with a mission to unlock the potential of business and government working better together. Stotles helps businesses get ahead in the £9 trillion (€10 trillion) global public sector market with its sales-enabling platform.

Their platform organizes a massive amount of messy government data, surfaces tailored insights and gives teams workflow tools to find and shape opportunities earlier in the government buying cycle.

Simplify and automate your procurement procedures and processes.

Asap.work is revolutionizing the future of work in the construction industry by connecting construction companies with qualified temporary workers through a digital-first offer with personalized support. At the same time, skilled workers on the platform are also able to quickly find new employment opportunities and better-paying jobs.

Unlike existing Gen AI platforms that aim to bypass human creativity with AI, exactly is purpose-built to allow artists to create and replicate more designs, more quickly, in their own unique style – and maintain full ownership and IP rights over everything they create.

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exactly enables artists to build and train their own Gen AI models based on their individual artistic practice and original designs, producing brilliant work at speed without compromise or constraint. Using exactly, artists can enhance their productivity and accomplish more, faster, and hone their craft thanks to the ability to make rapid, limitless iterations on any design. In just a short time since launch, exactly has nurtured a community of more than 30,000 users purely through word-of-mouth and they have ambitious plans to expand the offering further during 2024 and beyond.

Sunhero is a Berlin-based, Spain-operated startup, which aims to become the leading international service for renting and buying residential rooftop PV systems. Sunhero is driven by a mission: Satisfy a growing demand for energy in a new way and make it easy for people to power their homes with solar energy. Cheaply, cleanly and sustainably.

Despite merchants and micro-SMEs forming the pillars on which West African economies stand, these businesses have been overwhelmingly ignored and neglected by mobile-based financial service providers. Ozé helps capture, analyze and improve the performance of business owners in Ghana and Nigeria with the ambition to become a pan-African player.

Through their digital accounting system, which enables users to keep track of their records, AR and AP and get access to credit, Ozé users are able to operate like large businesses and, therefore, empowers micro-SMEs to grow and scale far beyond their current reach. Having partnered with the region’s biggest banks, SME banks and local fintechs, Ozé is able to provide its users with products from traditional financial institutions but with the seamless interface and usability of a social media platform.

Some companies specialize in stealing our time on screens, using features like notifications, infinite scrolling, A.I. curated feeds, subconscious triggers and disappearing stories. Opal helps you take control of your technology, so you can regain time that's been stolen from you. Their app identifies and blocks distractions, allows you to set screen timers, personal intentions for your time, and receive personalized nudges to help you find balance each day.

BLNG empowers designers to create high-quality jewelry concepts in seconds, enables brands and retailers to offer immersive customization experiences, and provides digital merchandising solutions with photorealistic visual effects.

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By integrating generative AI into every stage of the jewelry creation process, BLNG accelerates design workflows, enhances personalization, and transforms how jewelry is showcased and sold online.

The Cherrypick app turns the chore of grocery shopping into a delightful tech-driven experience by allowing users to complete their weekly shop in a few clicks. Users can easily set health goals, dietary requirements, choose recipes and plan meals for the week - Cherrypick then automatically fills up your shopping basket with the necessary ingredients and delivers them to your door.

Turkey-based freight tech startup Yolda.com started it’s journey in 2020 with the aim of being the leading freight Tech startup in Europe. We manage the entire logistics operation end-to-end for our B2B business partners. Yolda.com matches freight shipments with available independent carriers to provide fast, cost-effective transport for businesses of all sizes and our model supports individual carriers by opening up new business opportunities for them through our platform.

We specialize in ‘less than truckload’ (LTL) shipments, harnessing sharing economy dynamics. Through consolidating loads from multiple shippers and making the most of each truck’s capacity, we help our business partners in reducing logistics costs and carbon footprint of the end-to-end freight journey.

Complori's mission is to teach kids the skills they need to succeed in the 21st century. Experienced coding tutors teach digital programming classes for 7 to 16-year-olds throughthe adaptive learning platform. In addition to this paid, cohort-based learning approach, Complori offers kids free gamified and self-paced coding content through their mobile app.

Since its founding in November 2020, Complori has taught over 17,000 kids how to code and has included over 800 kids from low-income households in their program through B2B cooperations. The startup has been awarded several prizes for its work in the digital education industry, such as the Innovationspreis Berlin 2021 and the Digital Female Leader Award.

Free mobile data for the world. That's the mission of Firsty, a next-generation telecom provider reshaping how travelers, expats, and remote workers access mobile data across the globe.

Firsty offers free eSIMs through their app for easy, one-click installation, saving time and hassle.

Firsty Free gives you the essentials: WhatsApp, Email, Google Maps, and online calls. Users can also upgrade to Firsty Fast for higher speeds and access to all apps.

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GoTiger is building the gateway of choice for shopping for Asian groceries. The same-day delivery startup offers a high-quality assortment, geared toward the taste of Western consumers with an interest in Asian food and lifestyle. From tasty dumplings to spicy ramen, from sashimi-quality fish to juicy fruits - GoTiger offers a unique selection of groceries from countries like Japan, Korea, and China as well as everyday essentials - delivered on the same day within a 2-hour time slot. By disrupting the shopping experience of Asian groceries, GoTiger is creating a world where cultural exploration is an everyday activity. Founded in 2022, GoTiger is currently available in Berlin and Potsdam.

Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Jumba is a construction technology company that is simplifying construction in Africa. Through its B2B marketplace, Jumba connects hardware stores and construction sites to manufacturers of construction materials. 

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Launched in April 2022, Jumba serves customers in 60% of Kenya’s regions. The company is layering financial services through its bank partners to provide buy now pay later options for its customers.

At Haaven, we turn home building into a stress-free experience. Our platform offers a clear, end-to-end process that eliminates surprises, whether it's where to start, how long it will take, or how much it will cost. By connecting you with a trusted network of architects, engineers, and builders, we ensure your dream home comes to life on time and within budget. We're with you from the first idea to construction and aftercare, making the process smooth and enjoyable.

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Europe needs more and better homes for people and the planet. Haaven meets this need by uniting construction companies across Europe onto a single platform. Our homes are built carbon neutral, using wood in prefabricated designs to reduce carbon emissions. We also preserve architectural diversity by allowing architects from all over Europe to add their designs to our platform, combining the benefits of prefab construction with unique designs.

Simbel also integrates with SMBs’ existing HR stack and uses periodic performance reviews as a starting point for identifying individual learning and development needs. It makes learning and development simple to deliver, allowing SMBs to benefit from the most up-to-date training from the best providers, while helping HR teams streamline all their L&D ops and measure the impact of the training.

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Ellipsus is helping a new generation of writers create culture together. The writing tool—which combines the best of modern text editors with the granular version control championed by Git—aims to thread collaboration through every stage of writing, editing, and publishing. Founded in late 2022, Ellipsus is currently in private beta testing.

Maqsad is a mobile-first edtech platform that delivers high-quality personalized academic content for 100 million Pakistani students. The platform provides a holistic learning experience where users can learn a concept, test their knowledge, and ask questions. The edtech has developed the MENAP region's first instant query-solving engine, which matches student queries to video solutions within seconds.

In just the last 6 months, Maqsad has reached over 1 million students and answered 4 million plus student queries. The platform is building AI-enabled tools to increase personalization, adaptive learning, and build a data-driven ecosystem to improve learning outcomes.

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Rival is building a platform that allows users to browse through immersive 3D short-form content in their spatial computing headset, in a similar fashion to how TikTok or Instagram Reels work with conventional videos.

Enabling users to produce and distribute 3D experiences via their first-of-its-kind 2D-3D foundational model, Rival enables the creator economy to transition to VR, solving the industry's biggest problem - its lack of content.

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Fairlyne is building the world’s 1^st resale-as-a-service platform for the travel industry, allowing travel brands to generate incremental revenue and deliver a seamless Resale experience to their customers.

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Julaya is a B2B digital account that enables companies to send and collect payments seamlessly through a digital account. With the Julaya platform, SME’s, large corporates and government institutions can make bulk payments through all mobile money channels, process their travel or online expenses with a corporate prepaid card, easily import all transactions into their accounting system, and digitize cash collection.

Lizee is building a more sustainable retail industry by helping brands adapt their businesses to include a rental service. The Lizee Rental Lab makes the process simple and hassle free by first optimizing the brands existing eCommerce site for renting. The team then handles the picking, packing, shipping and facilitation of payments for rented products, oversees quality checks for returned products, refurbishing, and more. Lizee does the heavy lifting and retailers reap the financial rewards.

A SaaS based platform for businesses, palm.hr fully automates HR management to transform employee experiences. Founded in 2019 in Riyadh, palm.hr’s innovative technology is designed to elevate HR functioning with a number of solutions to create efficiencies for businesses.

nilo.health makes high-quality mental health support easily accessible for everyone, enabling employers to conveniently and effectively offer mental health services as a company benefit. Through its evidence-based and confidential platform, nilo.health provides employees with the right level of care based on their individual needs: the support ranges from 1 on 1 sessions with psychologists to group sessions and digital, self-guided tools.

Founded in Paris in 2022 by Guillaume Perrot, Anatole Blanc, and Florent Sciberras, Revyze allows students to learn through short videos and quizzes created by their peers – combining the engaging elements of TikTok with the gamified structure of Duolingo.

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With over 1 million users and a growing community of verified creators, Revyze aims to reshape the learning experience. By making learning accessible, personalized, and social, Revyze is on a mission to democratize access to high-quality education globally.

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.

Our goal is to make crews and crew departments more effective on all the vessels in the world. We want to use data, technology and our operations on the ground across the world to empower the people involved in maritime crewing.

At its core, ShopUp enables offline and online neighborhood mom-and-pop shops to sell through digital, social and retail channels. They do so, however, in such a way that they are deeply integrated at every section of the value chain. ShopUp's onlne platform allows merchants to upload their products, connect to both retailers and consumers, easily and cost-efficiently sell their products, as well as get access to cheap and sustainable credit. ShopUp's platform provides a full ecosystem for Bangladeshi store-owners and entrepreneurs.

Speech therapists still assign homework on sheets of paper, because the industry has not yet been digitized. BlubBlub decided to change this by introducing its video app, which triggers sounds and words recorded by children and for children, helping them to practice in their specific language to address their specific speech problem. BlubBlub connects children, therapists and parents on one platform to ensure everyone plays a role in each child's progress.

Bikemap is a platform where bike enthusiasts around the world create, upload and share their favorite cycle routes. The Bikemap app lets users record routes on the go, add their own photos or notes and share it all on social media.

Bikemap has evolved to become the largest bike route collection in the world– with active users in more than 80 countries sharing their cycling experiences from all around the world. More than 1,500 new routes are created by Bikemap users on a every day; enriched with information such as route length and interactive elevation profile for every cycling route. To date, users have access to more than 3 million different routes.

Our mission is to save you time and allow you to optimize your time for what is most important. Blow up the calendar, starting with all those scheduled 1:1 meetings. Our goal is to change how we think about time. We want to remove the rigidity of the calendar and turn it into something more spontaneous, off-grid, and in the moment.

Haz makes it easier for people to buy and sell their belongings, by using AI technology to remove the time consuming, frictious and manual processes traditionally associated with resale. Our proprietary receipt reading technology allows our users' belongings to be digitised automatically and in real time, significantly increasing the liquidity of everyday items such as clothing and electronics. Our mission is to create a new type of social connection which is entertaining, good for the planet and great for your wallet.

Second Nature is a digital health program, proven to help people change their behaviors and reduce their risk to type 2 diabetes. It solves this issue by introducing a 6-week behavioral change program delivered digitally and supported by mentors and health tracking. Users receive a Second Nature smart scale and an activity tracker to track their health and outcomes. Additionally, they will be matched with a full-time coach, who will guide them through the prevention program and they learn how to prevent diabetes through Second Nature’s online education courses.

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.

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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Gronda is an industry blog and community platform designed to facilitate recruitment, transparency and knowledge exchange in the hospitality and gastronomy industries. The platform helps industry professionals showcase their expertise as well as connecting and applying to open positions. For companies, this is a one-stop-shop platform to recruit talent, build their employer brand, and solve their industry’s persistent labor shortage.

TIER (merged with Dott in January 2024) is here to change urban mobility for good! TIER Mobility provides electric scooters that can be rented on demand to travel the last mile in cities. With this new form of mobility, TIER introduces an independent, fun and conscious way of urban commuting. Our goal is to fight the current status quo of polluted cities, smog and ineffective, inconvenient and overpriced transportation modes together.

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.

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.

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.