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Businesses rely on software development to solve problems and deliver a better user experience. However, such projects are notorious for missing deadlines and budget estimates. According to McKinsey, 78% of software projects are late, over budget, or don’t ship. Bloomfilter aims to reverse this statistic. Its process mining and predictive algorithms help software development teams identify bottlenecks in the development process, objectively predict project outcomes, and deliver software on time and within budget.

Founded in 2023, Entendre Finance gives companies the competitive edge in Web3. It reduces operational costs and human capital by being the system of record of businesses’ on-chain activity and financial statements. Through its platform, companies can focus on building innovative Web3 solutions to help drive further adoption of blockchain technology.

Attract and retain top talent with Pattern, the modern financial wellness benefit. Pattern provides employees with on-demand access to a matched financial advisor and premium investment management tools. Our advisors support employees with everything from budgeting, tax planning, and paying off student debt, to maximizing their total compensation and retirement planning.

Zenskar automates billing workflows for SaaS companies irrespective of the complexity of contract structures and source/structure of usage data. In addition, we automate usage data metering, manage payment collections, set up complex revenue recognition workflows, manage receivables and provide analytics, all configurable by non-technical users.

Parallel Markets is an identity infrastructure company serving over 75 financial institutions across the Web2 and Web3 ecosystems. Parallel closed its Series A with Union Square Ventures in December 2021.

Strike Graph helps SaaS companies prepare for SOC 2 audits by helping them put in a control set that is appropriate for the size and scope of the companies’ activities.

VC-backed startups get 2% cash back and 50% off Growth and Enterprise plans if you sign up for the 2-year collaboration and have access to a free tier called Essentials. Airbase replaces multiple categories of tools typically used by mid-market businesses to manage non-payroll spend, with a single comprehensive platform. Airbase combines bill payments, corporate cards, and reimbursements onto a single platform with approval workflows, accounting automation, and reporting.

Glean is an accounts payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers finance teams to drive material savings. Clients can track and understand the drivers of spend all in one place and in real-time. Glean’s platform automatically analyzes vendor costs at the line-item level in client invoices.

Arc Technologies provides non-dilutive financing options for SaaS companies. Arc Technologies allows companies to seamlessly convert future revenue into upfront capital without dilution at the click of a button.

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Next Big Idea Club is a direct-to-consumer media company that curates the top non-fiction books into the most salient points for easier and quicker absorption.

Numerade is a fully free online education platform that seeks to democratize access to extraordinary educators and content.

Maisonette operates a marketplace that connects parents with a curated selection of high-quality children’s products sourced from a global network of independent brands and boutiques.

Rhone is a premium men’s athletic wear company and high-end brand. The company’s products are developed with comfort and performance in mind, using premium fabrics, including silver and gold thread to reduce odor.

Thousand Fell is a sustainably sourced line of sneakers that are designed to be both recyclable and biodegradable. The company offers sneakers for both men and women that are stylish, environmentally friendly, and comfortable to wear, with a breathable liner.

Unspun is a 3D-weaving technology developer. The company has created the 3D printer of textiles that can weave clothing at more than four times the rate of current methods, and it works with a variety of material inputs.

Peach provides women’s apparel through a national network of stylists building their own fashion businesses.

Thistle makes delicious, healthy, ready-to-eat plant-forward meals, organic cold-pressed juices, and snacks delivered straight to your doorstep. From the health of people to the planet, eating more plants is one of the best things you can choose to do.

Akua produces and markets tasty, nutritious, plant-based food made with ocean-farmed kelp. The company’s sustainable seagreen products are vegan, gluten-free, soy-free, and low in calories.

Endless West is redefining the art and science of great spirits. The company uses molecular analysis of the world’s best whiskeys to create high-quality spirits using a fraction of the usual resources.

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Heaven’s Door Spirits is an American whiskey brand endorsed by musician and pop culture icon Bob Dylan. The company marries small batches of premium aged whiskey with the music and artwork of Dylan.

High Brew Coffee develops a convenient, shelf-stable, premium cold-brew experience made from 100% Fair Trade Certified Arabica beans. The cold brew coffee is brewed to be smooth, bold, and full of natural energy, with a lower sugar content than others.

Spero Foods is an innovative, plant-based, dairy-alternative company specializing in creating tasty eggs and cheeses. The company uses sunflower seeds as its primary ingredient, which provides many advantages over nuts, including both cost savings and time to harvest.

Yumi is a science-based early childhood meal delivery program. The company offers over 50 flavors of freshly made organic baby food that can be delivered right to consumers’ doorsteps on a weekly basis.

MUD\WTR produces and sells an organic coffee-alternative beverage that offers health and performance benefits.

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Oura has designed a wearable ring packed with advanced sensors to measure body temperature, pulse rate, and overall movement, so the wearer can build an insightful baseline of information from which they can improve their sleep hygiene and long-term health.

Artiphon is dedicated to making smart, playful instruments that everyone can enjoy. The company’s flagship products are handheld synth/looper’s Orba 1 and 2; and INSTRUMENT 1, a MIDI controller that lets you strum, bow, tap, slide, and drum any sound on a single interface.

Kangaroo offers security solutions are flexible, app-enabled, and ensure data is secure and privacy is protected.

LARQ designed a smart water bottles self-clean every two hours, and the contents can be purified via UV light at the touch of a button.

Looking Glass has developed two light field displays — desktop and portrait — that combine custom electronics, advanced optics, and a software stack.

FanUp is a social gaming company that allows fans to bet on sports, fantasy sports, and esports. The company’s app allows users and their friends to compete for cash and prizes, with challenge-based contests, influencers, and engaging, personalized content.

GreenPark Sports develops and publishes mobile games and fan-forward digital experiences.

Metaview has developed a mobile entertainment app that provides gaming videos and content focused on users’ favorite games, creators, and communities.

Mythical is a game technology platform enabling true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets. The company uses distributed ledger technology to build in-game player economies.

Fernish is a premium furniture and decor rental service that makes it effortless to decorate a home.

Burrow is a direct-to-consumer furniture retailer. The company’s patented, modular designs permit products to be delivered through UPS, assembled without tools, and easily disassembled to facilitate future moves.

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Trash Warrior offers on-demand waste management, junk removal, and public space cleaning. The company’s tech-enabled waste management platform provides instant booking, transparent communication, evidence-based accountability, and affordable pricing.

Welcome Homes is an online platform that allows home buyers, financing, contractors, and landowners to coordinate the design and building of custom homes.

Pacaso reduces the cost and hassle of vacation home ownership by splitting properties among eight owners.

RecruitBot revolutionizes recruitment through the power of AI and machine learning. By leveraging advanced algorithms, it comprehends recruiter preferences, presenting increasingly pertinent candidates from a vast database of 600 million profiles. RecruitBot also streamlines the hiring process via automated, personalized email campaigns to candidates on behalf of hiring managers. Filters available to users include support for inclusive hiring initiatives.

As “the Slack app for managers,” Atomic8 helps managers and contributors on distributed teams to be more productive and efficient in their work and collaboration. Team members provide inputs and leverage AI to find actionable insights and move projects forward while reducing unnecessary time spent in meetings.

SoWork is the developer of a virtual co-working platform designed to help companies embrace remote work without compromising on culture. The company’s platform is a virtual office with video, audio, chat, integrations and enterprise-grade security, custom maps and avatars for remote, distributed and hybrid teams, thereby helping clients make their teams feel connected, energized, and innovative again, all in your own custom virtual office.

Fleet has developed an all-in-one software solution designed to power the next generation of smart commuting by automating the work of entire transportation teams. Their plug-and-play solution makes it easy to design, launch, and manage enterprise commuter programs. The platform’s interactive dashboard features real-time feeds, notifications, and other functions, giving organizations access to simple, cloud-based employee transportation management.

Journey is a digital mental health platform that provides employees with tools and resources to navigate work and life. Journey offers live and on-demand self-care content, daily check-ins, monthly assessments, personal recommendations, and more to help shift the working culture so employees feel seen, safe, and supported.

Assembly is a no-code workflow-builder, usable by anyone in any organization to automate core people processes. Its software can replace or augment multiple-point solutions used in HR/People today (ie: recognition, reviews, surveys, standups, updates, 1:1s, and more).

Welcome’s platform reimagines the offer letter and total rewards experience for candidates and employees with their real-time compensation and equity data.

Bolster helps companies scale their CEOs, Executive Teams, and Boards with on-demand executives and board members from its diverse talent network. Focused heavily on non-full-time needs and roles.

OpenComp greatly simplifies compensation planning. They provide companies the ability to benchmark their employee compensation relative to market and internal bands. The company provides workforce analytics, DEI analysis (pay inequity), and hiring planning.

CodeSignal is the go-to platform for evaluating engineering talent. Don’t rely on resumes to assess an engineer’s background with your hiring needs. CodeSignal is used by companies like Facebook, Uber, Capital One, Brex, Zoom, and Asana in technical recruiting by structuring, automating, and scaling interviews with their technical assessment platform.

Developer of a sales intelligence knowledge platform designed to transform how sellers gather intelligence about their deals. The company’s platform offers insights directly from the minds of business executives to leading enterprise sales teams and delivers actionable and personalized intelligence, enabling sales businesses to become fundamentally smarter to target and win new clients and customers.

Operator of a health technology company intended to manage pharmacy benefit plans. The company’s pharmacy platform, JUDI, electronically links providers, patients, pharmacies, and plans to achieve the highest standard of care, enabling employers to offer seamless access to medication to patients at the best prices.

Brio is provides blood-testing services intended to offer personalized actionable information to improve health and quality of life. The company’s service is offered on a monthly subscription basis and it facilitates consumers to keep closer tabs on metrics like levels of blood sugar and hormones, enabling customers to get access to their health status and trends on where they are headed.

PrivacyHawk protects your privacy and personal data from falling into the hands of scammers, fraudsters, and cyber criminals.

Stockpress is a collaborative file management platform that combines the ease of use of file management with the features of digital asset management to transform the way teams discover, organize and share files.

Harmonic’s data engine provides insights into millions of startups and professionals, allowing customers to identify opportunities using up-to-date company information.

HYPR is a passwordless MFA security solution for startups, SMBs and large enterprises. With HYPR, employees no longer have to enter a password when logging in to their workstation, which takes away a primary attack vector for hackers. Used by major enterprises across the globe, HYPR is now available in a self-serve offering as well for SMBs and startups.

Developer of a data management platform designed to manage how data fits into the businesses of corporations and investment firms. The company’s platform finds the right data among thousands of vendors to inform their decisions at the time they need it, enabling clients to make properly informed decisions using data.

Coda brings together the most-used aspects of docs, spreadsheets, presentations and databases onto one canvas for ease of use and better collaboration.

Secureframe has built a compliance and security platform that automates the compliance certification process end-to-end. Using Secureframe, companies are able to reduce the time it takes to achieve compliance certifications by months, starting with SOC 2, ISO 27001 (international SOC 2) and HIPAA.

Wealth.com is a comprehensive estate planning platform that empowers people to create, manage and visualize their plans digitally. Creating an estate plan (Trusts and Wills) with Wealth.com gives your loved ones a holistic view of all your assets, visualized and securely stored in one place. Because life is unpredictable, Wealth.com makes it easy for you and your trusted beneficiaries and executors to access your plan anytime and offers guidance to ensure it’s always current and valid.

Pattern matches you with a financial advisor and automates investment management. Talk to your new advisor, on your time, about anything from budgeting, tax planning, and paying off student debt, to planning for retirement and so much more.

Bend Financial is a tech-enabled HSA management platform. The company’s solution uses AI to offer personalized guidance that enables customers to optimize tax benefits and health spending.

Ellevest is a transformative financial technology company created to help women achieve their financial potential. The company uses a method that encourages modern and low-cost investing, with a digital platform that is backed by a unique investing approach.

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The Villa Life offers exclusive, curated experiences at luxury villas in sought-after Caribbean destinations. All villas include concierge services to personalize guests‘ stays and are vetted to ensure the highest standard for quality and safety. Its unique platform integrates technology, including a partner rewards system, and provides fractional ownership opportunities for income-generating villas.

Cruisebound makes it easier for everyone to find and book their dream vacation by creating the ideal online experience for cruises. Reservations are backed by its 100% Human Support Guarantee — representatives are available 24/7 via phone, email or chat to help with questions, changes, and whatever else you need to make your getaway a success. Earlier this year, Cruisebound announced raising $10 million in Series A financing.

Alto is a luxury rideshare platform. The company uses a dedicated fleet, employee drivers, and elegant apps to provide safe, consistent rides.

Cabana is an upscale mobile lodging company. The company’s growing fleet of customized, luxury vans are designed to provide the amenities of a hotel room with the flexibility of an RV.

Hitch is a rideshare app and intercity travel booking platform.

Workout-tracking apps typically require users to manually track strength exercises such as weightlifting. Train Fitness is developer of an AI-powered fitness tracker that detects dozens of strength training exercises from the motion of your Apple Watch and offers real-time coaching. Since its 2022 launch, Train Fitness has grown to support over 160 exercises — including bicep curls, push-ups, sit-ups, squats, bench presses — and deadlifts, and amassed over 10,000 weekly active users. Learn more about the company in this AV story.

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Dance Church has developed a dance fitness platform that offers subscribers access to live dance fitness classes and its library of on-demand dance classes and workouts.

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SleepSpace has developed an app that senses sound and motion patterns to accurately measure and improve the user’s sleep score. Their smart sleep assistant suggests tips and content to improve sleep quality and facilitate deeper, more regenerative sleep.

Moons is a Latin American orthodontic treatment company. Their inconspicuous, 3D-printed, removable braces treat crooked teeth in six months for a fraction of the competitors’ cost.

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How do you make sense of millions of videos across 25 social media platforms in 79 languages, with 500+ hours of video posted on YouTube every minute? You can’t. Not without Vyrill. Vyrill helps brands quickly discover and deeply analyze relevant video content – both user-generated and branded – and publish searchable videos to their websites, eCommerce stores, and social media channels to drive sales and retain customers.

Ecosapiens is the largest private climate corrective action. When you mint an Ecosapien, you offset your entire annual carbon footprint and gain access to our #1 ranked web3 climate community.

Kumospace enables remote and hybrid teams to work together. 20,000+ teams from across the world use our virtual offices to meet for all-hands, brainstorm on whiteboards, and work side-by-side.

Remento helps people discover, document, and more deeply appreciate their family story in a new way. The company’s first product, the Remento iOS app, makes it easy to host a conversation with a family member that uncovers precious memories of their past. Remento guides these conversations by recommending tailored conversation prompts, each of which has been carefully crafted by Remento’s network of memory experts, brain scientists, and professional storytellers.

Evabot is a unique corporate “gifting-as-a-service” platform that digitizes and personalizes the relationship building process using strategic gifting. The company uses conversational AI and machine learning to create a smarter, more personalized, and more effective gifting solution for its clients that drives measurable outcomes.

Aviator automates common developer workflows to avoid frustrations like broken builds, long code-reviews, cumbersome merge processes and flaky tests. Aviator is used by high velocity teams at Slack, Square, Figma, Bosch and Benchling to save an average of 4 hours of engineering time per week, per engineer.

Metrobi is a provider of business-to-business delivery service intended to free clients from the hassle of local deliveries. The company’s services are offered through a mobile platform that leverages artificial intelligence to provide shared business-to-business local delivery, enabling clients to receive cheaper deliveries and an on-demand fleet for their businesses.

Proxi is the future of personalized navigation. Proxi makes mapping and crowdsourcing geographic data accessible to everyone with the company’s map editor platform. Proxi allows users to visualize recommendations and community events on a customizable, ad monetizable, web-based map. Maps can be embedded on any website, “link in bio” or in emails.