Building the future

Gigs, the operating system for mobile services, empowers tech companies to seamlessly embed connectivity into their offerings in weeks - unlocking new revenue opportunities and enable seamless user experiences.

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By bundling phone plans and travel data with their core services, Gigs' customers can increase stickiness and unlock a new recurring revenue stream with digital mobile experiences that meaningfully create value to consumers. Gigs' end-to-end platform provides everything brands need to launch and operate their own multi-market mobile service: premium wholesale connectivity, a hosted checkout, billing, subscription management, analytics, and AI-powered customer service.

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Also backed by Ribbit Capital, Google, Y Combinator and BoxGroup, Gigs was founded by Hermann Frank and Dennis Bauer in 2020 and now employs over 90 people across the US and Europe.

Sona’s mission is to put technology in the hands of frontline staff that transforms how they manage their work and engage with their employer. Designed for the specific needs of modern frontline workplaces, Sona’s employee app combines powerful productivity tools with a sleek, simple and intuitive user experience.

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Features include live schedule view, absence management, instant messaging, and Open Shifts, an innovative shift booking platform matching shift vacancies with employees willing to take on more hours. Trailblazing organisations across health and social care, retail, and the third sector are revolutionising the way they manage, engage and retain their staff.

Seqera Labs is on a mission to simplify complex data analysis pipelines in the cloud. Seqera provides software that enables developers and data scientists to create and deploy data applications in any environment. Our core, open-source technology Nextflow transforms the building of massively scalable and distributed computing solutions. Seqera is now empowering customers across pharma, genomics and biotech to break with the status quo of closed-platforms and custom scripts to embrace the Nextflow future of cloud.

Autone is an end-to-end operational decision platform for the luxury and broader consumer goods industry. With their user-friendly platform, they provide customers with decision recommendations of their inventory, demand, supply planning, pricing elasticity, and analytics operations in a slick and collaborative manner.

Enterprises with complex supply chain networks face a multitude of disruption risks along their entire supply chain and transportation routes. prewave analyzes social media data with advanced machine learning techniques to predict upcoming risk events in supply chain networks.

Sylvera combines state-of-the-art machine learning with geospatial data to transformationally improve the accuracy, regularity and cost of carbon offset monitoring.

Gitpod is driven to enable all professional developers to immediately start working and collaborating in a fully pre-built, secure development environment on any project, any branch, with any device. The company was founded by experienced developer tools experts that worked together for 10+ years creating programming languages and growing open source communities.

Gitpod operates a battle-hardened product and leads the pack of cloud-based development environments with more than 300k registered developers.

Adverity is an online marketing data analytics and reporting platform. Advertisers and marketing agencies use the platform to analyse real-time data from multiple popular marketing tools alongside offline data – such as Excel spreadsheets – to deliver insights into their marketing activities. Adverity efficiently compiles different data sources to help marketers take control of their marketing campaigns.

Their products are web-based marketing intelligence and advanced analytics platforms that fully integrate input from several marketing tools into one application. This creates a united data stack for more efficient reporting, better decision making and improved marketing performance.

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.

Bitmovin provides transcoding and media streaming solutions for developers and businesses. The company has developed the market's fastest API driven cloud-based video encoding service and an HTML5 Player that allows adaptive content to be played on any device, in any browser without buffering. Their API based products help developers around the world solve video problems with cloud-native software that runs anywhere.

Since its founding in 2013, this Y Combinator alumni startup has created a portfolio of solutions for video streaming services that are used by companies like Periscope, RedBull Media House, The New York Times, and more for their adaptive video streaming and embedded video needs.

Ledgy helps companies build cultures of ownership. With Ledgy, companies can manage and automate key equity processes, saving time and money. Meanwhile, employees benefit from rich insights into their ownership, helping the whole team align around the company’s mission.

Founded in Switzerland in 2017, Ledgy serves more than 2,500 customers in over 40 countries around the world.

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MindsDB helps organizations use machine learning and artificial intelligence to obtain predictive insights that can allow them to make better business decisions. MindsDB trains, tests and then selects the most accurate state of the art AI models to apply to your data allowing for accurate predictions and forecasting.

Qovery simplifies the process of getting apps into production by pushing code from Github or GitLab and deploying it directly to AWS, Digital Ocean, or Scaleway instantly. It abstracts away all the complexity that comes with deployment and at the same time combines the power of Kubernetes, the reliability of AWS, and the simplicity of Heroku.

With Wasmer, enterprises can run ultra-lightweight containerized software with blazing-fast startup times, at near-native speeds anywhere — be it on servers, edge, and IoT devices or in serverless environments. It brings a vastly improved and simpler to use API, massive performance improvements, support for Apple Silicon, a pluggable infrastructure for easy customization, and support for “Headless Wasmer” a new ultra-lightweight runtime that is ideal for IoT.

Tranched, is the first Deep Tokenisation embedded securitisation platform directly connecting lenders to investors, allowing them to structure and manage a transaction in a fraction of the time and cost. Our platform provides better, quicker, and more efficient access to financing for lenders, and broader investment opportunities to investors.

Simplify and automate your procurement procedures and processes.

June lets you plug in your source of tracking and automatically generates the right product analyses for you. Before you had to come up with hypotheses and learn what to measure. With June, anyone without time or expertise can pick premade analyses straight away from a library of templates.

remberg digitizes service processes of industrial machinery. The company's Asset-Relationship-Management (ARM) System is a cloud-based software solution that enables seamless service processes across organizations around your assets in one single platform. Manufacturers, service providers and operators of industrial assets access and process machine-related information such as documentation, spare parts, or service cases from one single source.

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.

Shapr3D has created an app for the iPad Pro that makes 3D modeling easy as pie but still delivers professional models that can be refined in professional 3D CAD software or can be used directly for 3D printing. You only need to draw shapes, then transform them. You can use the freedom of surfacing, sketch on faces, and you can chamfer edges in seconds.

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.

Candis makes workflows intelligent using an artificial intelligence tool that helps companies automate repetitive bookkeeping processes such as categorizing different invoices. The software can collect and handle invoices automatically and make sure everybody is paid on time, saving 80% of manual work. CANDIS also offers a special service for tax accountants facilitating the collaboration with clients and automating certain processes.

Unstoppable Finance empowers everyone to access the world of Decentralized Finance by providing a user-friendly “front door” to crypto trading, high-yield DeFi investing opportunities, NFT art & collectibles and other Web3 services, all bundled into an intuitive mobile application.

The Ultimate product is a consumer-grade, non-custodial crypto wallet allowing people to easily track, discover, invest in, and store a wide variety of on-chain assets. Our thesis is that the super apps of tomorrow will be non-custodial DeFi wallets that have the potential to contain your entire digital identity.

apiday’s purpose is to enable every company to be sustainability minded by helping them manage their ESG data as systematically and accurately as their financial data.

With the apiday SaaS tool, companies gain control of their sustainability agenda, answer ESG data requests in moments, reduce reputational risks and unlock new opportunities.

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Decarbonization has become a crucial regulatory requirement for businesses globally, yet the vast majority of companies still do not have clear visibility into their environmental impact, especially deeper down the supply chain.

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forward earth has built a product that empowers businesses worldwide to become sustainable and compliant with little effort and cost. By embedding our AI-automated environmental management software into our partners’ software, forward earth will support millions of businesses in every aspect of their reporting lifecycle as they undertake their decarbonization journey in the years to come.

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.

Flank is an AI automation platform for expert teams. With Flank, expert teams —such as legal, privacy, compliance, info-sec, and finance—can train & deploy specialized AI Agents. These agents offer 24/7 on-demand support to commercial teams. Flank Agents live & work within the existing enterprise technology stack where they independently resolve requests at the point of need. They are an endlessly scalable member of an expert team.

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.

Genie is an open source startup providing low/no-code tools for building data science applications. With Genie, data scientists and R&D engineers can quickly turn ML models and simulations into shareable web apps and data products that drive the business forward.

Nearly all technology in a hotel must connect to the central property management system. The problem is there are thousands of these systems and connecting to each one takes months and is expensive.

Impala solves this by providing a single, standard API to access hotel data. They connect in advance to the property management systems and then allow companies to connect to the data they need in minutes.

Resourcify connects waste-producers and recyclers to make recycling easy, fast and affordable. With automated, digital workflows that make recycling more efficient and transparent, companies can recycle more and reduce costs, and turn waste into valuable materials. 

Together with more than 220 waste management companies that use the platform, Resourcify has developed powerful software that simplifies recycling and helps companies save up to 30% of the costs compared to conventional waste management. In addition, Resoucify serves as the central tool to manage all your waste service providers globally.

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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ContextSDK collects more than 200 signals from the modern smartphone to assess a user’s real-world context instantly - whether they're commuting, walking, or relaxing - and use this for intent detection. This allows for the delivery of precisely timed, context-aware notifications and content that enhance user satisfaction and drive conversions. Its on-device processing ensures privacy by avoiding cloud transfers, which preserves user trust.

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ContextSDK’s vision is to establish real-world context data as the new gold standard in mobile app engagement, providing product owners and CMOs with a powerful tool to continuously optimize user experiences.

Timeular empowers people to improve their time management to create more value for themselves and the people around them. Their patented 8-sided device enables knowledge workers to accurately measure time spent on different tasks with a simple flip. The complimentary Timeular software and mobile app aggregates all data and gives users insights into how they spend their time and suggests actionable advice how to boost productivity.

The device blew past its €75,000 goal on Kickstarter, going on to raise €313,637 from over 3,000 backers. After beating Kickstarter the company rapidly grew to more than 30,000 units sold and raised funds from Speedinvest and Ruvento.

With Alinia AI, enterprises can evaluate, control and optimize Generative AI applications. We empower subject-matter experts to guide Large Language Models' output based on companies' policies and preferences. We bring the safety, transparency, and evidence that both Executive and ML teams need to confidently deploy Gen AI applications.

Fifth Dimension AI is transforming the property industry with its AI product, Ellie, the ultimate real estate professional. By tackling tedious, manual tasks, Ellie liberates people to focus on high-value work. Developed by a team with deep expertise across Real Estate, Fintech, and AI, Ellie transcends the role of a typical digital assistant. Her nuanced understanding of the sector's intricacies, coupled with 98.4% accuracy in data extraction, has driven impressive 43% efficiency gains for early adopters.

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With operations established in the UK and expansion underway in the US market, Fifth Dimension AI is redefining AI-human collaboration in real estate and beyond.

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

It takes an enormous effort to get custom messaging on a platform right. TalkJS solves this issue by introducing its one-line integration messaging service for any platform with peer-to-peer communication needs. Especially marketplaces and the gig economy can highly benefit from such an API, as direct messaging adds a 25% increase in engagement and retention to your website.

Craftsmen and construction companies face a huge challenge managing their resources in a highly dynamic environment. Meisterwerk provides an easy to use SaaS solution, which makes planning and coordination processes between offices and construction sites more efficient. The software enables their customers to track the status and progress of their jobs and resources in real-time, increase overall profitability, and unlock growth potential for their companies.

Content creation is time-consuming and costly, while at the same time more content is needed than ever before. Colorful solves this issue with the power of 3D. Insert the digital twin of your physical product into hundreds of pre-built scenes. Adjust the composition and get HQ results in no time thanks to cloud rendering. Export unlimited high-quality images and videos for all touchpoints: Website, social media, in-store, print, or TV.

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Unweave gives developers instant access to the infrastructure they need to train their machine learning models with almost zero setup. It lets users run their machine learning code on GPUs with a single command without having to setup any custom cloud infrastructure.

Our goal is to wrap the power of the cloud within the UX of your laptop. We want to turn every developer’s laptop into a supercomputer.

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Paradox is building a new kind of organizational intelligence — one that addresses a simple but costly truth: most leaders have little real-time insight into what’s happening across their companies.

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Despite layers of tools, meetings, and reports, strategic clarity often breaks down as companies scale. Teams pull in different directions, decisions drift, and precious time is lost chasing alignment that never quite clicks. Ironically, the systems meant to bring order often add more complexity, not less.

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That’s the paradox being solved. Instead of stacking yet another tool on top, Paradox has developed an AI-powered reasoning layer that connects the dots across the business — surfacing hidden constraints, tracking strategic flow, and ensuring the right people get the right information at the right time.

Paua supports getting more people into electric vehicles by harmonizing the fragmented landscape of electric vehicle chargepoints. Through aggregating smart connected electric vehicle charging infrastructure, we enable a transition to cleaner transport. We use technology to provide drivers with the latest chargepoint status, to enable direct integration to start a charge and we aggregate all the costs into one bill. All of our charging is guaranteed backed by renewable energy. One app, one card, one bill, thousands of chargepoints and zero emissions.

Storyclash is a social media monitoring tool for publishers, giving them a real-time view of what kind of content is trending on the Internet by analyzing social media interactions like shares, comments, likes and other reactions. Publishers, brands and agencies are able to discover viral articles, watch competitors in real-time, and make data-driven decisions with Storyclash to get more website traffic, higher engagement, and optimize their marketing campaigns.

Among the company’s customers are major brands, agencies and publishers such as Heute, EXPRESS, KURIER, Heftig, Vice, and SALZBURG 24

roclub offers a teleoperation platform for medical technology to bridge the shortage of medical technical professionals and secure business continuity at any time, at any location and for any examination.

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The platform enables the remote access and operation of medical technology like MRI and CT scanners, facilitating use cases like remote scanning, remote (application)support, and remote education.

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Fleksy integrates a multitude of productivity, eCommerce and entertainment services directly into the keyboard. Since most users spend a lot of time in messaging apps, switching from application to application and can now use their time more efficiently. Fleksy lets you attach documents, photos, to-dos, create events, and even more while messaging – all within your keyboard.

Discover an intuitive gesture system coupled with auto-correction in 65+ languages. Holder of the world’s record for the fastest keyboard, Fleksy makes typing on a mobile smartphone a breeze!

Helu's core functionality focuses on automatically turning bookings-level data into financial reports and streamlining the processes of budgeting, controlling, and reporting into a seamless process.  Helu can be used by any company that uses DATEV - directly or indirectly via the tax consultant.

Necture (formerly Ubiq) empowers businesses to unlock the full potential of fleets, seamlessly bridging the gap between mobility and energy. Combining human-driven information with data-driven intelligence, we provide tailored solutions that optimize operations, reduce costs, and achieve sustainability goals. Our AI-driven technology platform offers advanced data analytics, automation, and user experience for efficient fleet management. Going beyond mere intelligence, we translate data into real-world actions, minimizing environmental impact and driving a cleaner, greener future.

The all-in-one platform fills major financial information gaps by providing its users with valuable financial data, including cost basis and P&L of all their assets and NFTs on major chains. Investors also have the freedom to easily edit their inaccurate transactions, and manage their portfolio by using in-house tools to interact with the web3 ecosystem, such as buying, selling, claiming or compounding their assets directly on the platform.

Flexkeeping is a complete software solution for hotel housekeeping and operations helping hospitality professionals save time and work more efficiently. Processes that previously required manual work, multiple phone calls, and paper reports can now be managed from one simple application improving how hotel staff communicates, delegates tasks, and manages processes. The company’s software solution saves hotels hundreds of man-hours per month, drastically reduces inventory loss, and boosts productivity.

World-class hotels all over Europe like Le Meridien, Holiday Inn, and Radisson Blu have adopted Flexkeeping as their operations software of choice.

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Avatao is a hands-on secure coding learning platform used by developers, security champions, pentesters, security analysts, and DevOps teams around the world to improve their IT security knowledge, and to speed up secure product development. The Avatao platform offers more than 600 real-life tutorials and challenges in the most popular programming languages, covering the most crucial security topics, from secure DevOps via API security to cryptography.

Whether you need to teach your developers the fundamentals in a security awareness training, provide them a continuous training based on career tracks or build a security champions program, Avatao is the right tool for you.

Incubated by Draper University and backed by prominent VCs, EXA Finance is the most advanced marketplace for NFTs and fungible tokens on Algorand. Enabling new use cases and empowering the next generation of collectors. The platform offers a multitude of features such as assets bundle, NFT to NFT swap, auctions, offers, royalties, and peer-to-peer chat just to name a few. Users can now sell NFTs for any fungible token but also swap an NFT for multiple NFTs, opening a new range of possibilities.

Created in 2020 by former students of the French programming school 42, Starton enables companies to securely step into the world of blockchain after just a few days of development. It is making the technology accessible to a wider audience so that any developer can transform mainstream applications into blockchain applications. Starton has just been included in Station F’s prestigious Future 40 list that highlights the most promising start-ups for 2022.

The next wave of big data will be generated by IoT (Internet of Things) devices such as sensors, wearables, and vehicles, generating millions of data points per second.
Crate.io was founded to help companies process this data and establish a standard for database developers. CrateDB is a decentralized SQL database for managing machine data and analyzing it in real time. It makes traditional central databases obsolete and allows companies to store their data on different application services providing simplicity and scalability.

MyDataModels is the developer of TADA, an analytics platform powered by Artificial Intelligence.

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Powerful and easy to use, TADA helps companies analyze and extract value from data. The platform generates highly interpretable and accurate predictive models, and contrary to traditional machine learning methods, the solution works with small data sets. No coding or data science expertise are required!

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French-based MyDataModels' unique technology is the preferred solution for healthcare, research, industry and embedded systems.

Text Cortex AI is a Berlin-based Artificial Intelligence Startup devoted to helping businesses become more open, public and searchable by enabling the creation of AI-developed text for their products, advertisements, blogs and other forms of the written word. This lessens the high costs and human scalability limitations associated with writing text that a machine can understand.

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.

Stateless was founded in 2016 with a vision to fundamentally re-think the architecture of network devices to meet today’s “as a service” demands. The company has developed first of its kind technology to allow network functions like firewalls and load balancers to be easily offered and consumed through the “as a service” model. The company’s platform and network functions move networking infrastructures of all kinds into the cloud era, giving operators the flexibility and functionality today’s users badly need. Stateless is based in Boulder, CO and is a spin-off of research conducted by co-founders Murad Kablan and Eric Keller.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Evolve with compliance. The award-winning ClauseMatch policy management, regulatory change management and compliance SaaS platform automates time-sucking tasks, organizes your data and makes collaboration and knowledge-sharing a breeze.

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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.

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.