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Datavations is an AI-powered market intelligence software for the building materials and home improvement industries. The company delivers the most granular, predictive analytics in the industry, and powering faster, more confident decisions across supply chain, sales, and pricing functions.      

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Datavations’ AI-powered technology is capable of monitoring thousands of competitor storefronts, gathering intel on pricing, sell-through rates and inventory trends. The building materials industry is undergoing rapid digital transformation, with AI-powered analytics allowing for great efficiency savings and increased insights into customers’ preferences. Datavations is leading player in its field, trusted by leading manufacturers of building materials across North America and Europe. 

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Buynomics is an AI-powered SaaS platform that helps businesses optimize pricing, promotions, and portfolio strategies through large-scale consumer simulations. Trusted by industry leaders such as Danone, Unilever, L’Oréal and Vodafone, the platform drives 2-4% gross profit increases while reducing analysis time by up to 80%.

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Buynomics’ AI-driven Virtual Shoppers technology is redefining how enterprises optimize revenue and pricing strategies. This enables enterprises to improve revenue, profitability and market positioning in real-time across various geographies and products. Buynomics is a clear frontrunner in its field, with blue-chip enterprise logos across industries and geographies, and a technology that provides unparalleled precision.

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Trusted by blue-chip clients including AMD, DHL and LG, Luminance brings Legal-Grade™ AI to every touchpoint a business has with its contracts, from generation to negotiation and post-execution analysis.

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Contracts are the lifeblood of every business, yet contract work can be very manual, time-consuming, expensive and error prone. This makes Legal Tech a prime example of the potential LLMs can bring to high-cost back-office workflows, such as low-value, high-volume contract work. Luminance has emerged as a transformative frontrunner in the space, with a product that seamlessly fits in the workflows of legal professionals and automates legal processes across the enterprise.

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Neural Concept is an AI/ML-based engineering intelligence platform that enables large manufacturers across industries to design better products faster and at significantly reduced costs. The product operates on the basis of unique and highly sophisticated 3D shape optimisation algorithms, which consistently result in superior design outputs.

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Computer Aided Design/Engineering solutions have been around for many years, yet none have successfully combined the power of machine learning into product design simulation. Neural Concept has emerged as a category-defining leader in the space, having developed the most advanced physics-based, 3D geometric and generative model on the market.

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Convelio is a digital freight forwarder specializing in high-value goods, aiming to be the leading ecosystem for shipping valuable items globally, starting with the Art market.

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Digital freight-forwarding start-ups have had major success in the low-margin General Cargo space, but the non-palletised cargo space represents an untapped multi-billion dollar green-field opportunity with higher margins. Convelio has become the leader in the space, with an initial focus on the Art industry.

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Stratio provides a real-time predictive fleet maintenance platform, using advanced machine learning to prevent breakdowns and ensure efficient fleet operations worldwide.

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Fleet operators (e.g. public transport organisations) want to be in control of their fleet through vehicle data. Analysing vehicle data through ML-powered technology gives operators the visibility and predictive insights they need. Stratio has developed a tech advantage through superior vehicle data access and has positioned itself as an innovative leader in the fleet automation space.

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Howspace is an AI-powered platform for digital collaboration, enabling large-scale participant engagement and real-time interaction analysis to enhance productivity and social learning.

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Organisations need tools to facilitate effective digital participation to truly involve all individuals within a large group, inspire co-creation and boost engagement. Howspace’s AI-powered SaaS platform for digital facilitation enabling strong collaboration of participants with minimal time & resources for organisers.

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K2View’s platform connects to any data source in near real-time, providing secure, cost-efficient data architecture and a comprehensive customer view for industries like Telco, Financial Services, and Healthcare.

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Enterprises are struggling to manage the velocity and variety of their data and these challenges can be extremely costly and ineffective. K2View’s proprietary technology allows to transform large amount of data into secured unit database by customer or product in a cost effective way. This technology provides agility and simplicity to complex data environments.

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Scandit combines barcode scanning, text recognition, object recognition, and augmented reality for smart devices, enabling fast and accurate interactions with everyday objects.

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The data capture market has traditionally been dominated by a few incumbent players. Scandit’s proprietary computer vision technology combines leading-edge barcode scanning, text recognition, object recognition and augmented reality for any camera-equipped smart device. Scandit’s technology allows businesses to interact with everyday objects with unmatched speed and accuracy.

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Zenjob automates temporary staffing for over 1,000 enterprises in Germany and the Netherlands, allowing students to accept real-time job offers via a smartphone app and choose their work schedule.

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Zenjob provides a valuable solution for the new generation of job-seekers who expects their job-hunting experience to be real-time and transparent.

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Kandou, founded by an EPFL professor, is a leader in high-speed, energy-efficient chip-to-chip link solutions, enhancing computing power with smaller, cost-effective, and energy-saving designs.

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Historically, memory, storage and CPU have experienced significant technology improvements overtime, roughly doubling in capacity every ~2 years (Moore’s Law) while becoming cheaper along the way. At the same time, chip-to-chip I/O has not seen a reliable technology improvement and is a bottleneck in the industry. Kandou specialises in the invention, design, license and implementation of unmatched chip-to-chip link solutions, unlocking new capabilities in electronic devices and systems.

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vCita offers SMEs an all-in-one solution with tools for scheduling, CRM, billing, and marketing, helping over a million users reduce admin tasks and focus on growth.

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Many small businesses and specifically microbusinesses are under-digitised and find it hard to deal with the pressure to deliver personalised online and mobile experiences to their customers. vCita’s all-in-one small business management app simplifies the digital transformation of small businesses.

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Icometrix is a leading medical software company using AI to quantify brain structures for accurate diagnosis of neurological conditions like multiple sclerosis, dementia, and traumatic brain injuries.

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The increase in the amount of available imaging data will lead to Artificial Intelligence solutions being able to radically improve and speed up the medical diagnostic process and allow for more objective, accurate and personalised treatment decision making. Icometrix has positioned itself as a leader in the neurology space having built one of the most advanced diagnostics platforms in the market.

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Co-founded by David Friend and Jeff Flowers, Wasabi offers fast, affordable, and reliable cloud storage, aiming to commoditize the industry with no fees for egress or API requests.

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The shift to the cloud and increase of IoT devices will lead to an explosion of the worldwide storage market. Wasabi’s pure-play cloud storage solution provides a high-performance, simple, and cost-effective solution for businesses across the world.

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Fornova provides business intelligence for travel, hotel, and car rental companies, optimizing online distribution, pricing, and visibility through advanced data analysis and patented technology.

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Hospitality providers have poor visibility on their service offering distributed in many different channels. Fornova brings transparency and fairness to hospitality providers by ensuring that their offering is dealt in the same way and at the same price online.

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Veriti enhances organizational security and business uptime by providing a unified management layer that monitors and addresses security vulnerabilities and threats across the entire infrastructure.

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The growing number and diversity of security solutions deployed in every organisation adds unprecedented levels of complexity to managing security. Veriti unifies all threat configurations into a single, comprehensive language, providing complete visibility into the risk posture, current security gaps, and available countermeasures. We believe the company is well-positioned to be a key player in risk posture management and can help solve operational overhead and augments security teams’ efforts in responding effectively to cyber threats.

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Nexthink enhances digital employee experience by providing IT leaders with real-time visibility and analytics, proactively reducing IT incidents and improving productivity and satisfaction through instant remediation.

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The shift to the cloud has contributed to a distributed and dynamic nature of modern technology, over which IT has increasingly less control, necessitating an expanded monitoring approach. Nexthink is a category leader in the digital employee experience management, solving the visibility problem for IT leaders and providing insight into employees’ daily experiences of technology at the device level.

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MANTA is a leading data lineage platform that automatically maps all data flows in an organization, enhancing data governance, observability, and control to support DataOps and ease cloud migration.

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Data lineage has become a fundamental cornerstone technology for organisations looking to augment their data management capabilities and allow them to map, understand and gain insights into their data pipelines. Manta has emerged as a category-defining leader in the space, having developed the most advanced form of end-to-end lineage at the code level.

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BlueBotics, a spin-off of EPFL, leads in autonomous navigation solutions for industrial vehicles. Their Autonomous Navigation Technology (ANT) simplifies automating forklifts, AMRs, and AGVs with minimal infrastructure changes.

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Autonomous Mobile Robots are an essential piece of the smart factory or warehouse. BlueBotics’ AI based infrastructure-free navigation technology offers a plug and play-solution for any industrial site.

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Mobeewave’s patented technology turns smartphones into payment acceptance devices. Founded by contactless payment pioneers, it's certified by Visa and MasterCard, aiming to enable payments anywhere via smartphone.

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As we move to an increasingly cashless world, merchants will need new ways to accept payments digitally. Mobeewave’s proprietary technology turns any mobile phone into a payment acceptance device.