Black-founded YC companies | Y Combinator

Boston, MA, USA

Make undruggable targets a thing of the past

We are a biotechnology company integrating AI, computation and biological automation to accelerate the design of small molecule and protein therapeutics. Our mission is to decrease the timeline and cost of drug development, while improving the success rate of bring innovative medicines to patients in need. We have two drug discovery engines - ELVIS™ and ROSALYND™ - that enable the design of both small molecule and protein therapeutics, an unmatched capability in the AI drug discovery space. Our therapeutic area-agnostic, end-to-end technology powers the full length of early drug discovery - from novel hit discovery to hit to lead, and lead optimization. We are currently applying our technology to drug discovery programs in several areas including, but not limited to, neuroscience, infectious disease, immunology and oncology.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

We make mobile apps using AI.

a0.dev is a platform that helps mobile developers build high quality apps in days instead of weeks by generating custom react native projects. We've launched top ranking apps that have been used by hundreds of thousands, and now we're creating the tools we wish we had to build faster.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Diversified credit infrastructure powering payments across Africa.

Aella is a diversified credit payments platform with over 2 million users, offering a raft of financial services to underbanked users across Africa with a focus on lending. We are at the forefront of financial inclusion and empowerment of the underbanked. Aella’s Debt-as-a-service model ensures that agents across Africa are able to have quick and easy access to funding through its partnerships with leading agency banks across the continent.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI Affiliate Network For Financial Companies

We build AI compliance for external marketing. For example, we work with major creators to ensure that their content meets credit card marketing guidelines.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Instant, low-fee remittances

Afriex makes it easy for immigrants to send money home. We offer instant, low-fee remittances to over 25 countries around the world.

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Rochester, NY, USA

Feel close, even when apart. One meaningful conversation at a time.

Agapé is a relationship wellness app that helps you feel close to your friends, family, or partner, even when apart! We curate daily questions to spark meaningful conversations for over 2 million people around the world.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Collaborative workspace for patent litigators

&AI is a collaborative workspace that delivers trial-ready work product for patent litigators — fast enough for pitches, strong enough for court.

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Chicago, IL, USA

Buy flights for only a fraction upfront and pay off the rest in…

Airfordable is payment plans for airline tickets. The service allows users to secure tickets with a deposit upfront and pay the remaining balance in recurring payments before the departure date.

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

Build Credit With Your Subscriptions

Altro (altro.io) is a platform that enables members to build credit no matter who they are, where they are from, or their history of credit access/score. We serve the 68M people in the US (mainly Women and POC) who are denied credit due to historical bias and the lack of access that current banks provide to credit building and tools. (It wasn't until The Equal Credit Opportunity Act in the 1970's that Women and "Minorities" could even get fair access to credit)! Altro has created a mobile that allows anyone to have access to credit, using their subscriptions as a means to start building their credit score. Altro lends to members a $75 Line of Credit to pay for their subscriptions, such as Netflix, Hulu, HelloFresh, etc. This card is built to solely work on the subscriptions that the member is already paying for, allowing them to securely use their $75 credit to build their credit using things they are already paying for. Doing this empowers folx who were denied credit a way to start building their score and financial power. Altro will service millions of people in not only building their credit, but also gaining access to the tools (such as personal loans, emergency funds, car/house loans and more) that they could not access prior.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Embedded finance platform for African businesses

Anchor provides APIs, dashboard and tools that help developers easily embed and build banking products. This includes APIs for creating bank accounts, funds transfers, savings products, issuing cards and offering loans. We also provide regulatory coverage and continuous compliance support to our partners.

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New York, NY, USA

AptDeco is the easiest way to buy and sell used furniture

AptDeco is a peer-to-peer managed marketplace dedicated for buying and selling quality used furniture. We offer a complete end-to-end process to bring back the joy of discovering amazing furniture finds for the home again. Our customers benefit from a trusted and verified community of buyers and sellers, pre-arranged pick up and delivery and a secure electronic payment process.

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Operating system for HR in the AI era

We’re building a new way of working in People Ops for the AI era—one that starts by solving a painful problem no one talks about: HR data integrations. And from there, it grows into something far more powerful: personalized, agentic HR analysts that any team can create and deploy on their own.

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Miami, FL, USA

Skip Busy Phone Lines

Previous Qwest (W19) - skip busy club lines. Autodial (currently exiting) is a service for skipping busy phone lines for everyday people calling businesses. Our goal is to connect people directly to customer service via phone lines by reducing the wait time from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. We cover 10,000 phone lines ranging from financial institutions, telecom, home services, government, etc. The Pivot Club and restaurant lines were non-existent during COVID. We reset the company and shifted focus using more technical skills in machine learning to build a service that millions of americans could use and leverage in the moment -- a service that called government phone lines and handled the call process. Succeeding we expanded quickly expanded and built a model to support people using the service for free.

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We audit medical claims for self-insured employers and health plans.

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬: I (Angel) have had three knee surgeries since my mid-teens and was billed more than $250K for care that should have cost a fraction of that. Fighting those inflated charges was so painful that we set out to build a consumer-facing AI agent to do it for others. In less than five months, we helped sixty patients erase or reduce over $300K from their medical bills. This inspired us to fix the problem farther upstream: stopping bad payments before the patient ever sees a bill. So we launched payment integrity, machine-learning models that audit every medical claim for self-insured employers and health plans in real time. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦: • Self-insured employers waste $60 B+ each year on claims that never should have been paid. Healthcare is the 2nd largest company expense after payroll. • Manual audits are slow and partial: Reviewers focus only on high-dollar claims, letting millions more slip through unnoticed. • Existing audit software is static: Decades-old rule engines can’t keep pace with evolving codes, contracts, or billing tactics. • Incentives are misaligned: Third-party administrators are paid to process claims, not to police them, so accuracy checks are minimal. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Our models audit medical claims before and after payments have been issued. We catch nuanced billing, coding, and contract errors to save 3-7% on annual claims spend. We work with self-insured employers and health plans. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐔𝐬: Angel Onuoha (CEO) and Ahmad Shehu (CTO) have worked together for 4 years. Before Avelis Health they built Zuvy, a Lagos-based fintech company that provided invoice factoring to small businesses. Zuvy was acquired by The BAS Group in 2025.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Avion builds and operates autonomous eVTOL drones that deliver vital…

Avion is a drone-based digital health platform, designed to bridge the gap between remote clinics and urban healthcare infrastructures. By connecting these isolated clinics with sophisticated labs and well-stocked pharmacies in cities, Avion brings a new era of remote diagnostics and prescription fulfilment. Avion ensures the rapid, safe, and efficient delivery of vital medical supplies and clinical samples, even to the most hard-to-reach locations. Avion's operation uniquely combines cutting-edge autonomous drone technology with digital health platforms. Our drones, built with advanced eVTOL capabilities, ensure seamless take-off and landing capabilities, even in challenging terrains. Avion's digital health platform serves as the connective tissue between urban health centers and remote clinics. The platform features an intuitive interface, making it easy for healthcare providers to order necessary supplies, track shipments, and even communicate with laboratory and pharmacy staff.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Bamboo ― the first online brokerage service for Africans and their…

Bamboo is the first online brokerage service that gives wealthy Africans and their wealth managers direct access to the US and global securities. We’re building Fidelity for the African continent. For wealthy Africans and their asset managers, investing in the global capital markets is cumbersome, expensive and practically inaccessible. In Nigeria, Africa's largest economy and home to 30% of all the wealth in Sub Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa), 99.99% of the investing population do not have access to invest globally. Even for the 0.01%, if you wanted to buy a US stock, you’d have to call your asset manager who would then call an international broker to execute a trade. This is inefficient & expensive! We have a mobile app that allows individuals trade the US stock markets by themselves and a brokerage tool for asset managers to execute trades directly & manage multilple portfolios seamlessly.

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Troy, MI, USA

An end-to-end digital banking solution for banks and credit unions

Bankjoy provides a full suite of modern digital banking software, including mobile banking, online banking, online account opening, loan applications, and conversational AI to banks and credit unions.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI document creation and data management for clinical trials

The main document in a clinical trial is the study protocol. At large companies, floors of people use the protocol to create the study data collection forms, clinical database design, error checks, analysis code, and data transformation mappings. We use AI to automate the process of creating everything from the protocol, saving not only spend on headcount but also months of time which can translate to up to $27M in direct costs + lost revenue saved for a single phase 3 trial.

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Oakland, CA, USA

Easily invest like the rich

Benson helps everyday people invest like the rich by helping them identify the best stocks to invest in. We help users know when to buy, how much to invest, and even when to sell.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

The authentication framework for TypeScript

Better Auth is a comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript that lets you implement everything from simple auth flows to enterprise-grade systems directly on your own database, embedded in your backend. It’s loved by developers all over the world and endorsed by leading voices in the ecosystem. On top of the framework, Better Auth also provides an infrastructure layer to help you scale with user management and analytics, bot and fraud detection, transactional email and SMS, global session storage and more.

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AI-Powered Engineering Productivity

Bilanc helps engineering leaders build more productive, happier teams. We use AI to analyse every line of code that is written, and our platform delivers insights that help to improve developer experience, and increase developer productivity.

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New York, NY, USA

The video-first food delivery app. Imagine TikTok meets DoorDash.

BiteSight shows users videos of food we think they will love from nearby restaurants and delivers it right to their door. Zac and Lucious studied together at UT Austin. Zac did CS and AI Research, and Lucious built his first $1M ARR product while moonlighting at a YC startup at age 19.. UberEats and DoorDash have become cluttered and impersonal super apps. They've created a $30B opportunity for a delivery app that puts the customer experience first by combining high-quality videos, recommendations, and social proof from your most trusted food critics - your friends.

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Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

Global Venmo for cross border payments

Blaze (YC S24) is global Venmo for cross border payments. It's a peer to peer payments app that uses USDC to make payments fast and cheap between any two people anywhere in the world. The founders scaled their last startup to $1M in ARR, studied mathematics and engineering at Duke, NYU, and Cornell, and have led teams at Spotify, Artsy, and Bitpanda. They're live in the US and Mexico, available for download on iOS and Android: https://blaze.money

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Seattle, WA, USA

Building the first sensor enabled marketplace for repeat purchases

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Nairobi, Kenya

Corporate Expense cards and Spend management for businesses in Africa

Boya Makes it easy for businesses in Africa to issue corporate expense cards instantly and great software to control and track spending. For example, if you run a pharmaceutical company, you can use Boya to instantly issue Visa cards to sales and marketing teams and get real-time visibility and control over their spending. 50M+ businesses in Africa have no easy way to streamline and track their employee spending in real-time. So we are building a corporate card and a spend management platform that enables businesses to streamline spend workflows and provide real-time reporting. We are building the first corporate card that supports mobile money, banks and card schemes payment workflows

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San Francisco, CA, USA

The AI operating system powering home services businesses

Bravi is building the AI operating system for home-services businesses, using AI-powered customer communication as the wedge. We replace the front office (calls, chats, follow-ups) with AI agents that never miss a lead, then layer an internal AI copilot that understands products, pricing, and technical documentation. We started with fenestration (shutters, windows, garage doors), a large, complex vertical with no modern software, before expanding to adjacent trades. Bravi is already live with leading installers and manufacturers across Europe and the US, turning missed demand into revenue.

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Toronto, ON, Canada

An online mortgage broker. Get the best mortgage, fast.

Breezeful gets you the best mortgage online from start to close. Instead of dealing with multiple banks, credit checks and in-person meetings, we’ll use your income, credit score, and other financial data from your application to negotiate with hundreds of lenders on your behalf in seconds.

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Empower your customer service team through AI & automation.

Brevy is an AI chatbot that uses large language models to resolve eCommerce support tickets with human level accuracy at a fraction of the price.

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AI property manager for landlords and estate agents

We've built an AI property manager that automates maintenance requests, handling tenant calls and messages 24/7, following up by chasing contractors and resolving issues. We're based in London, but have over 10 customers throughout the world, from San Francisco to Dubai. We have a reliable sales pipeline, including a >$1m cARR enterprise contract. Since our formation 6 months ago, we have raised over $3M in funding. Ismail, co-founder & CEO, is an ex-Founder at LiveLink AI, where he raised $3M, growing the platform to editing 150k videos per month. He also built his own prop firm to $500k ARR. Elias, co-founder & CTO, was an early engineer at a YC backed company, acquired by Google. While a senior engineer at Google for 5 years, he took the product from $50k ARR to >$100m. CS at Bristol, MBA from Imperial.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Corporate cards and expenses management platform for African…

Bujeti is a corporate cards and expenses management platform for African businesses. We help African businesses issue corporate cards to their employees, control and manage their expenses and keep track of their finances.

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Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria

Modern bill payment platform for African businesses and consumers.

BuyPower is the modern bill payment platform for Africans. We make it easy for individuals to pay their energy bills, businesses to pay international vendors, and lenders to make smarter lending decisions using our proprietary Energy Data Service. Our mission is to simplify bill payment and empower African SMBs to prioritize their financial health.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Bytebot is the open source container for AI desktop agents.

Bytebot simplifies and streamlines the development of computer use agents with a ready made container for desktop automation, including APIs for mouse movements, keyboard input, and screenshot capture. The container enables developers to build robust, dynamic computer use agents that can be configured and run anywhere.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Kernels & Engine for running AI on consumer devices.

CUDA for phones & consumer hardware: Cactus is used by 3k+ developers and 100+ products to run AI locally on consumer hardware. It is open-source! Check out the repo: https://github.com/cactus-compute/cactus

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI agents that convert and retain patients for digital clinics

Cenote builds AI sales reps for online health clinics and deploys them for abandoned-cart and win-back campaigns. Today, digital and telehealth clinics rely on generic text blasts or human follow-up for speed-to-lead and customer reactivation. Since the lead has often gone cold and the outreach isn’t personalized, conversion is frequently below 1%. Cenote’s AI agents reach out immediately, communicate on the patient’s preferred schedule, and operate across channels—dramatically increasing conversion rates and unlocking revenue that otherwise goes unrealized.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Asset Light Chipotle for Africa

Chow Central is building technology to disrupt the food industry in Nigeria. The goal is to profitably provide food to as many people as possible in record time. Chow Central has launched its first product "500chow". A delivery-only quick service restaurant that serves customers in record time. 500chow has 10x lower costs than traditional brick-and-mortar restaurants, and 10x more online orders. Our customers love us for our super fast and cheaper deliveries. We are able to do this by launching hyper-locally within a 3km radius. We are very focused on solving real problems in the food industry one scalable product at a time.

Lagos, Nigeria

On-demand food delivery for Africa

Founded in October 2021, currently based in Lagos, Nigeria, Africa’s most populous city, Chowdeck is an on-demand food delivery service and marketplace where people can purchase their favourite meals from a wide range of restaurants. Whether local or continental, customers can buy food in a few short steps and have it delivered to their doorstep in under 30 minutes. Chowdeck is on a mission to empower restaurants in Africa to deliver meals to customers anywhere and anytime. Part of our unique offering to the restaurants listed on our marketplace is that we’ll help them grow, and so far, most of the restaurants we work with can boast of this achievement. With their help and the help of an ambitious team of relentless and fearless riders, we’ve delivered over 80,000 meals in the last six months in two major cities in Lagos. We’ve come this far because we’re passionate about understanding the teething pains of delivery service in Africa and believe strongly in a world where ordering a meal is seamless.

Lagos, Nigeria

USD banking platform for Africa

Cleva enables African freelancers and businesses to receive international payment for their service, while protecting themselves from local currency volatility. With a Cleva USD account, one can easily receive USD payment from anywhere in the world, spend via a card, pay bills, convert to local currency, and save in USD to hedge against local currency volatility.

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Paris, France

Turn regular mobile photos into professional product visuals

ClipDrop is an app that turns regular mobile photos into professional product visuals. Thanks to companies like Poshmark, Etsy and Ebay, there are now over 25M sellers who need great visuals for their shops but most of them don’t have access to a professional photographer or a design team. We replace all of this with our app available on mobile and desktop. We’re a team of former Google, Facebook employees and Machine learning PhD’s and academic Professors. We believe that machine learning will bring professional photography and design to millions of businesses for a fraction of the cost.

San Francisco, CA, USA

Quantum computers on silicon chips using AI.

Quantum computers will allow humanity to understand the world at its most fundamental level, enabling the acceleration of drug discovery and the development of new materials. Currently, quantum engineers spend days, sometimes weeks, manually getting their silicon chips to operational conditions to realize two qubits. A qubit is the information-carrying unit of a quantum computer, analogous to a bit in a classical computer. We need billions of qubits to make a useful quantum computer. Therefore, automation software will be vital to realizing this goal. Conductor Quantum will develop AI software to remove the human from the loop, enable the scaling of silicon quantum technology and build a silicon-based quantum computer.

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New York, NY, USA

AI-enabled financial automation and intelligence for CPG Brands

Confido is a next-generation financial automation and intelligence platform that helps fast-growing CPG brands operate and scale more efficiently.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Webhooks Gateway for outgoing and incoming webhooks.

We are building Convoy for engineering teams that value efficiency, especially during this bear market. You might already know about API Gateways. Convoy is exactly that for webhooks. Engineering teams today use Convoy to securely send, receive and manage millions of webhooks reliably with robust support for retries, rate limiting, static IPs, circuit breaking, rolling secrets and more. We know both receiving and sending webhooks can become a lot of work to manage, we have built a product to enable engineers to build and ship highly scalable stripe-like webhooks infrastructure.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Digitizing wealth management in Africa

Cowrywise is a FinTech company democratizing access to premium financial services by making these services available to the mass market cheaply. We are leveraging technology and investment management to re-imagine how financial planning, savings and investment products are delivered to people. We do this by helping our customers achieve their savings and investments goals in a simple, secure and affordable manner.

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Lagos, Nigeria

CredPal is a buy now pay later company in Africa that allows…

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Abuja, Nigeria

Crowdforce is an app that allows any local merchant in Africa,…

CrowdForce is an app that allows any local merchant in Africa, starting with Nigeria to become a bank branch within minutes.

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Lagos, Nigeria

AI-Powered Infrastructure for Insurance & Healthcare

Curacel builds AI-driven infrastructure to help payors, TPAs and healthcare providers automate claims processing, reduce fraud, streamline operations and enhance customer experiences. Our intelligent solutions make insurance and healthcare more efficient, accessible, and scalable.

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London, UK

Pioneering Breast Cancer Diagnostics for a Healthier Tomorrow

In the global fight against breast cancer, Digistain stands at the forefront, offering a beacon of hope to millions. Our journey began at Imperial College London, where ground-breaking research gave birth to a technology poised to revolutionize breast cancer diagnostics. The Challenge: Every year, breast cancer affects 2.3 million individuals globally. Post-surgery, 60% of patients are advised to undergo genomic testing, an expensive and time-consuming process monopolized by a single lab in the U.S., costing around $4,000 and taking nearly two months. Consequently, only 5% undergo this vital testing. The rest, unable to access this crucial diagnostic step, often resort to chemotherapy—a treatment that, in one in four cases, is more harmful than the cancer itself. Our Solution: Digistain addresses this critical gap. Our technology transforms the current diagnostic process by enabling hospitals to analyze patient samples in-house using existing equipment, supplemented with our innovative technology. This approach offers near-instantaneous decision-making data, a stark contrast to the existing month-long waits. Central to our technology is a proprietary algorithm that identifies a unique spectral fingerprint of the tumour in the infrared spectrum, providing a personalized risk score. This score guides oncologists in selecting the most effective, individualized treatment plans, potentially reducing unnecessary chemotherapy and its harmful side effects. Impact and Potential: Our solution not only challenges the status quo in technology but also in accessibility. In a landmark government-commissioned study, Digistain demonstrated clinical evidence on par with the market leader, but at a fraction of the cost and time. Already making waves in clinical practice globally, with insurance reimbursement at leading cancer centers, our technology represents a paradigm shift in cancer care. Recognized by the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society, and Imperial College for our innovative contributions, and supported by entities like the NHS, Y Combinator, and the European Investment Bank, Digistain is more than a company—it’s a movement towards equitable, effective cancer treatment. With the potential to democratize access to life-saving diagnostics, Digistain is not just envisioning a better future for cancer patients; we are actively creating it.

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

Open-source customer engagement & messaging automation

Dittofeed is an open-source alternative to platforms like Klaviyo and Customer.io. Self-host us for free, or use our low-cost cloud offering to automate messages across email, SMS, mobile push, WhatsApp, and more. We also offer solutions for embedding Dittofeed in your own SaaS! Instantly provide your customers with automated messaging tools.

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Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Challenger Bank for consumers in French speaking Africa.

Djamo is a challenger Bank for consumers in french speaking Africa where less than 25% of the population is banked, we are building seamless and affordable banking solutions to break into this huge untaped market and bring millions of people into financial inclusion.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Prevent Fraud and Onboard Users Faster

Dojah is the anti-fraud infrastructure for the internet, helping businesses verify identities, detect fraud, and stay compliant with powerful APIs and no-code tools. Fintechs, banks, and digital businesses rely on Dojah’s solutions for seamless user onboarding, AI-driven fraud detection, KYC & KYB verification, and transaction monitoring. By leveraging government data lookups, biometric authentication, and real-time risk analysis, Dojah ensures businesses can mitigate fraud risks, improve user trust, and scale efficiently while staying compliant with regulatory standards.

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Platform to build, use, and monetize fully autonomous agents

Doublezero is a platform that provides developers with everything they need to build, operate, and monetize autonomous agents. Developers can focus on creating tools while Doublezero handles reasoning frameworks, state management, analytics, monetization, and a runner UI. Users can interact with agents through a powerful UI that allows play, pause, rewind, and human intervention, and discover or share agents and tools through an integrated marketplace.

San Francisco, CA, USA

AI that updates your CRM for you

We create AI agents that constantly monitor emails, calendar, calls, or wherever else companies have relationship data and organize it into CRM records as meticulously as a great rep would. We build these agents on top of the DryMerge platform, a tool to build AI agents that integrate with business apps and work in the background.

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Alameda, CA, USA

Reshoring critical metal production

China and Russia control the world’s critical minerals. We can produce Titanium, Magnesium, Aluminum, Zirconium & Hafnium in the U.S. more profitably than any existing process, and carbon neutrally via co-production. Carbochlorination is the primary process for producing critical metals like titanium, hafnium, and zirconium, and was once the standard for magnesium. The problem: conventional carbochlorination relies on purchasing carbon feedstocks, wastes valuable byproducts, and is highly CO₂-intensive. Duranium changes this with a novel reactor that recycles CO₂ emissions back into feedstock (CO) while generating a valuable co-product (bleaching agents). This closed loop slashes emissions and delivers Chinese-level metal pricing without subsidies — unlocking the full potential of carbochlorination for U.S. critical mineral production.

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105102, Lagos, Nigeria

Eazipay powers effortless payroll and financial access in Africa.

Eazipay is Africa’s leading payroll and payment automation platform, making it easy for businesses to pay their teams accurately, on time, and with minimal effort. Our Payroll API enables businesses, fintechs, and platforms to integrate payroll processing directly into their systems—automating salary payments, tax deductions, and compliance. Beyond payroll, Eazipay also empowers workers by providing faster access to their earnings and financial benefits. With features like early wage access and financial wellness tools, we help employees and gig workers gain more control over their income and financial stability. We now serve over 10k businesses, with many YC companies as customers.

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Nairobi, Kenya

Digital health insurance for employers in Africa

Eden Care is building a digital health insurer for employers in Africa. Today, health insurance operation costs in Africa are 2.2x the global average. Eden Care is cutting this by 43% making health insurance cheaper. The $11Bn African health insurance market is projected to grow to $72Bn in just 12 years. We are targeting 90 million uninsured African employees.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Self-driving semi trucks.

Embark Technology develops self-driving truck software. Embark was the first self-driving truck company to achieve an autonomous coast-to-coast drive, the first to reach 100,000 miles driven on public roads, and the first to open a network of transfer points. Embark went public on NASDAQ in 2021 and was acquired by Applied Intuition in 2023.

All-in-one re-entry & workforce development training platform

Vocational training programs and workforce management software for government agencies looking to create high-paying jobs and up-skill their low-income and justice-involved citizens out of poverty.

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New York, NY, USA

Turning HR data into actionable insights

At eqtble, we’re on a mission is to empower companies to make more equitable decisions around their employees. We're building a people analytics platform that enables talent and people leaders to access a rich set of analytics and insights out of their existing data. Within a short time period, we've vaulted to the top of the HR tech industry with our tech-first people analytics solution. With customers such as Etsy, Chobani, Nuro, Harrys, Checkr - eqtble is on a path to being the leader in the people analytics space.

San Francisco, CA, USA

Open-source monitoring for machine learning models

We are building an open-source standard to monitor ML models in production. The tool is used by enterprise data science teams to operate their models reliably and detect and resolve issues.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

The easiest way to track, buy, and sell your company’s tech — all in…

Eze is your all-in-one hub for IT asset management, procurement, and recovery. Easily track every laptop, phone, and license from purchase to retirement with real-time visibility across your organization. Need new equipment? Order directly from vetted suppliers at competitive prices. Upgrading? We’ll handle buybacks, trade-ins, and recycling — so you recover value from your old tech instead of letting it collect dust. From automated asset tracking to one-click purchasing and vendor management, Eze keeps your inventory accurate, your costs low, and your team focused on work that matters — not spreadsheets. Whether you’re scaling fast or streamlining operations, we make sure your IT is always working for you.

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Salary advance to employees in Brazil.

Nairobi, Kenya

A neobank for Africa's 500 million youth

Fingo is building a pan-African digital bank. Today, most Africans pay 5-15% fees to transfer money to friends, family, or businesses - with Fingo these fees will be 90% cheaper. In 240 seconds, any young person will be able to access a full suite of financial services including personal, business, investment and savings accounts.

New York, NY, USA

Fizz is the #1 money app for young adults.

Fizz is the #1 money app for young adults. Whether you want to build credit, manage your money or have no idea where to start, Fizz is there to help you every step of the way. Download the app for free to check your credit score, get personalized spending insights and take fun bite-sized courses. Become a Fizz Member to take your finances to the next level with a debit card that builds credit. With no interest and daily autopay that prevents you from overspending, the Fizz Card is the ultimate financial hack. Fizz is backed by Kleiner Perkins, SV Angel, Y Combinator, and the founders of eight Unicorns.

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

Community-driven marketplace for sneakers.

FLIP is everyone’s sneaker connect — the premier specialty destination where people find and sell hard to find, rare, limited edition sneakers. They have created a community where their members can buy and sell with confidence and ease. Never miss out on an opportunity to place your bid on hard to find sneakers in 90 minutes from a curated list of quality sellers who really care. Their mobile only platform is currently available for your iPhone and coming soon to Android. They strive to keep an open and trusted environment for their community.

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AI-native operating system for vehicle fleet management

Flott helps transport and logistics companies run leaner, smarter, and more profitable operations. Flott unifies everything transport and logistics teams need in a single, AI-powered control center—bringing planning, live tracking (gps, fuel, etc), invoicing, and payments into one place and delivering true end-to-end visibility. Flott’s AI agents act as an extension of fleet managers — automating repetitive tasks and optimizing workflows.This lets companies focus on what truly matters: growing the business.

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FlowbotS19New York, NY, USA

A natural language-driven programming assistant.

New York, NY, USA

A natural language-driven programming assistant.

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São Carlos, SP, Brazil

fluke is a full-digital mobile operator in Brazil

Brazilians hate the experience of using the traditional mobile carriers. They force you to pay for data packages you don’t need and make it impossible to switch your plans. Fluke offers a better customer experience and that’s why we have a CAC that is 50% lower and an LTV that’s 30% higher than traditional carriers. What’s smart about our approach is we rent infrastructure from these incumbents and build a better customer experience on top of it. This keeps our costs lows and lets us focus on what really matters: the customer experience! We have the best network and customers are switching to us because of the service and flexibility to build their own customized mobile plans. We are doing in telco what Nubank did in banking in Brazil. We are Fluke, thank you!

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San Mateo, CA, USA

Application Development Platform (Native Mobile + Web Apps)

We're building a visual application development platform to dramatically improve the time to market and quality of digital experiences. FlutterFlow helps companies and product teams improve developer efficiency, accelerate project timelines, and reduce costs for large-scale business applications. Our customers include some of the largest banking, consulting, telecom, and manufacturing companies in the world. We have more than 1.3M users in more than 200 countries and regions around the world. We’re a remote first team headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have offices in Mountain View, New York City, and Singapore.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Helping businesses make and accept payments from anywhere in Africa.

At Flutterwave, we are on a mission to build payments infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy. We do this by building technology, tools, and infrastructure for businesses and banks who want to provide a more seamless and secure payments experience for their customers. Founded in 2016 by a team of African finance and technology veterans from Standard Bank, Angela, PayPal, Google Wallet amongst others. Flutterwave has grown to become one of the fastest growing payments companies in the world. Since inception Flutterwave has processed close to $20 billion in payments and 100 million transactions across over 33 African countries where it currently operates. It has attracted significant investment from experienced Fintech investors such as Ycombinator Continuity Fund (investors in Stripe), Greycroft (investors in Braintree and Venmo), Greenvisor Capital, Omidyar Network, and Glynn Capital amongst others. In 2017 Flutterwave was named Africa’s best fintech company at the Apps Africa Innovation Awards.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Cross border Payments infrastructure for internet businesses and…

We are building Flux- Flux is a Mobile App for merchants, freelancers, regular users(P2P) to make and accept payments from their customers anywhere in the world using crypto or fiat. We have built a mobile app that uses the merchants’ phone number, creates a wallet enabling them to receive payments in crypto or fiat without having to go to an exchange or pay expensive fees. Merchants can accept payments in crypto or in fiat. Payments made in Crypto can easily convert into fiat due to the built in fast reconciliation and is made available for spending immediately. Currently the vast majority merchants receive payments in crypto because of two issues (1) Paypal, Venmo, CashApp or Square to not exist in Africa and (2) the local currency fluctuates more than bitcoin due to inflation. But in order for merchants to receive money in crypto and exchange it into fiat they resort to crypto exchange apps and crypto addresses to receive payments which is a very complicated and expensive process. Merchants want to be paid quickly with the lowest amount of fees possible. This is why we are building Flux

Lagos, Nigeria

Virtual Restaurants & Stores for Africa

FoodCourt (CoKitchen) is Africa's leading virtual restaurant company. We've served over 350,000 meals in the last 12 months & our goal is to make good food and quick convenience goods more accessible across Africa, through virtual restaurants & dark stores. Understanding the unique problems of the African on-demand/ food delivery market, we've taken a full-stack approach by controlling different areas of the value chain such as technology, production & delivery to give users a seamless & consistent experience while giving us unlimited flexibility for growth. Learn more at www.getfoodcourt.com or email henry@cokitchen.ng

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New York, NY, USA

Chat game universe

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New York, NY, USA

Marketplace for emergency vehicles, equipment, and more.

Garage is a marketplace for used equipment and vehicles, starting with government surplus. By automating every part of the transaction—including payments, freight, paperwork, warranty, and financing—we reduce what used to take months down to minutes. We're building the modern platform for equipment that powers America’s essential industries.

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Cleveland, OH, USA

Project management software for People Operations

Gather is software that helps high-growth teams build and execute their onboarding, offboarding, and other People Operations programs. Gather replaces manual coordination with smart, automated communication powered by a deep integration with Slack.

New York, NY, USA

Buy Now Pay Later + Cash Advance for Household Essentials

Gerald is a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) and cash advance app that provides users with financial flexibility without any fees—no service fees, no transfer fees, no interest, and no late fees. Unlike competitors that charge hidden fees or penalties, Gerald ensures users can shop now, pay later, and access cash advances without extra costs. Gerald is on a mission to eliminate stress about paying bills, and provides: Zero Fees—Ever – No interest, no late fees, no transfer fees, and no subscriptions. Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) with No Hidden Costs – Users can shop now and pay later with no interest or late fees, making purchases more manageable. Free Cash Advance Transfers – Users who shop using BNPL unlock free cash advance transfers with zero costs—no hidden fees, no percentage cuts, and no instant transfer fees. Instant Transfers for Eligible Users – Unlike other apps that delay transfers or charge extra for speed, Gerald provides instant transfers for eligible users at no cost. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gerald-cash-advance-app/id1569801600 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=8069558551988887008&hl=en_US

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Build and manage distributed teams

Gigster is democratizing access to software by enabling organizations harness the best teams regardless of where they are in the world. Businesses with access to custom software have thousands of times more leverage than those without. We believe that by democratizing access as well as the ability to build great software we can increase the pace and efficiency of human advancement. Core to our approach is building the best place to work on the internet. We are building the largest network of exceptional engineers, designers, and product managers and making this network available to businesses. We are also using software and insights from thousands of projects to improve the odds of successful outcomes. Gigster is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint, Marc Benioff, Adam D'Angelo, Michael Jordan and others. Gigster has served well over 1000 customers including multiple F100 companies spanning a range of industries.

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London, UK

We produce & sell stainless steel water bottles that enables people…

GiveMeTap is a social enterprise. Our mission is to make clean drinking water available to everyone, everywhere. We create stainless steel water bottles, and each bottle funds 5 years of clean water for someone in Africa. When you get a GiveMeTap bottle, you also have access to the free-water network of cafes and shops who give free tap water to people on the go. No questions, no hassle. We build water projects in remote villages and elect a water committee to run the maintenance of the water. So far we have made an impact in Namibia, Malawi, and Ghana to bring clean water for the first time. We like to think of this as ‘Water for You, Water for Everyone’. We help awesome companies create custom bottles for their staff, customers, and events so that they can stay hydrated, reduce plastic waste and help fund water projects. Our partners include: Deloitte HSBC YCombinator Google TED Flexport Legal & General Richard Branson's The Lodge, Switzerland Cambridge University Want to get your company involved? Visit http://bit.ly/2j2Ef64 Water for you. Water for everyone.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support

We empower clinicians with our AI platform for developing differential diagnoses and drafting clinical plans.

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New York, NY, USA

AI platform for winning government contracts.

GovDash is an AI platform that assists government contractors with capture, proposal development, contract management & more—in one place. Automate BD workflows across the Capture Cloud, Proposal Cloud, and Contract Cloud.

Oakland, CA, USA

Grain transforms the debit card you already have into a credit card…

Grain is a mobile app that transforms the debit card you already have into a credit card by linking it to a line of credit based on your cash flow. For the millennials, Gen Zs, and immigrants who are afraid of falling into crippling credit card debt, there is now a distinct market opportunity to offer an alternative to how these 100M people access and manage credit.

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US-101, San Francisco, CA, USA

Banking services for remote workers and digital nomads

Grey provides US, EU, and UK accounts for remote workers in emerging markets. For the first time, western companies feel comfortable recruiting skilled workers from anywhere and Grey is making it easy for these workers to receive their salary, save in foreign currency, convert to local currency and spend.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Interpretable AI models and agents that are easy to audit and…

At Guide labs, we build Interpretable foundation models and AI systems that can reliably explain their reasoning, and are easy to audit, steer and understand. We provide access to these models via our API.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI Healthcare Provider Credentialing Software

Harbera helps clinic keep their doctors credentialed and compliant. Our AI software continuously monitors and proactively helps admin teams re-credential doctors, preventing denied claims, disruptions in patient care, and lost revenue caused by doctors falling out-of-network.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI-native commercial insurance brokerage

At Harper, we are building a fully autonomous commercial insurance brokerage powered by AI. Our initial focus is on mid-sized businesses with complex insurance needs, but our vision is to eventually serve every business in the country. By leveraging AI to automate key workflows in the insurance process, we efficiently secure optimal coverage for each client's unique requirements at competitive prices and with rapid turnaround. Our AI system learns from the expertise of our brokers, accumulating not just knowledge but also the specific workflows, data, and capabilities that pave the way to full autonomy.

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AI workforce for property management

Haven is building AI Agents to automate property management operations. Our first Agent is automating the maintenance coordination process. This means answering the phone when tenants have a maintenance issue, diagnosing the issue, dispatching a technician, and then following up with tenants to make sure the issue is resolved.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Africa's Preventative Health System

Rebuilding Africa's health system, with focus on prevention this time

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Lagos, Nigeria

Cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa.

Helicarrier (previously Buycoins) is building cryptocurrency infrastructure for Africa. Sendcash is an app that lets Africans in the diaspora send money back home. Buycoins is the easiest place to buy, sell, and manage your cryptocurrency portfolio.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Africa's #1 healthcare technology provider.

Helium Health provides a suite of digital health tools for healthcare providers, payers and patients across Africa — most prominent of which is our maiden electronic medical records (EMR) & hospital management information system (HMIS) for emerging markets, HeliumOS. We offer business loans to healthcare providers through our HeliumCredit product. We also work with donors and governments in executing public health strategies. Finally, we have built the largest healthcare data repository on Africans with over 1 million health records.

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Ibadan, Nigeria

Doordash for Africa

Heyfood is building the “Doordash for Africa”. But unlike Doordash in America, we make a profit on every single delivery, from day 1. We are targeting Millennials and Gen Z urban professionals in Africa’s top 70 cities, withing 10 years there will be 140m number of these people, we assume they will want to order food once a week, we make $1 per delivery, this represents a $51B market.

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Oakland, CA, USA

A B2B marketplace that connects inventory to online stores

Hingeto is a technology platform that enables fashion brands & influencers to sell past and future masterpieces with zero inventory risk. We are backed by Y Combinator (W16), Kapor Capital, Cross Culture Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Stanford University / StartX & several angels (including Andrew Iguodala)

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Boston, MA, USA

Get faster & stronger

HYBRD helps you get stronger and faster. It pulls in all your training data, from every wearable and workout tracking app you use, and uses it to personalize training plans specifically to you and your goals Existing products tend to focus on only one type of exercise (either cardio or strength), leaving hybrid athletes juggling disconnected tools. As hybrid athletes themselves the founders found this frustrating and set out to build the unified approach they needed for their training. Three of HYBRD’s founders previously worked at WHOOP, each leading teams across product, growth and analytics. Ruiters, the CTO, was a senior tech lead at AWS. In parallel, Mats was a member of the US national rowing team and Ben, Shoe and Ruiters have all completed Ironman 70.3s. The team's VP of tech/founding engineer Michael rowed at Cornell and is ex-WHOOP as well.

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San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA

Business intelligence on text

There is more text generated than any one person or team can read. A single product team can not hope to sift through their thousands of feedback responses and determine the signal amongst the noise. Hyperglue enables operators, product managers, and analysts to instantly access machine intelligence on large text datasets without the engineering or headcount overhead required to deploy natural language AI within their business.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

ideate.xyz is an AI-powered 3D art suite on the web

Generate. Paint. Refine. ideate.xyz is an AI-powered 3D art suite on the web, taking your ideas from concept to production ready assets in record time. Our powerful text to image to 3D pipeline rapidly generates model assets using the latest AI tech. Rapidly generate and edit 3D model textures in your browser using our texture projection and inpainting editor. Get your 3D assets production ready using our texture processing, upscaling and compression algorithms.

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Atlanta, GA, USA

In-Person, Hybrid and Virtual Event Management Software

InEvent is an all in one platform that allows you to use multiple solutions (website, registration, mobile app, hospitality, check-in, badge printing, budgeting, etc) altogether, without having to upload data 3-4x times on different pages. Everything is available on the cloud, 24x7, for you and your attendees. Most of our competitors have modules that don't talk with each other, we solved this by creating a solid foundation that all of our solutions are built upon. We have already successfully improved more than 12,400 events, boosting more than 2,390,000 registrations so far. We have integrations with Salesforce, Marketo, Oracle, Microsoft and other vendors to create a simple, easy-to-use marketing ecosystem for all our customers. Discover the InEvent Virtual Lobby, the top event marketing solution in the world today: https://inevent.com/en/virtual-online-streaming-events-room-events-innovative.php

Buffalo, NY, USA

2 sided Marketplace for accelerating medical research

We are building the world's first community of patients eager to contribute to and advance medical research. Our patient community platform offers health management, patient support and patient health data aggregation. We offer researcher's and life science companies with the opportunity to connect with these patients for their medical research needs. They recruit real patients for clinical trials, for bio specimens sourcing and to obtaining real world patient data.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

24/7 Machine Learning Engineer employees

Jarmin.ai is your 24/7 ML eng employee that you hire. Just talk to Jarmin like any other employee and Jarmin handles your AI/ML work from there. Completely hand over full initiatives or individual tasks. Jarmin’s founding team is from Meta SuperIntelligence Labs (Staff Engineers), Apple (Machine Learning Engineer), AWS (scaling infra), Lockheed-Martin (Research), and JPMorganChase (SWE) with experience building AI/ML and automating complex work of Researchers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers with AI.

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New York, NY, USA

Career advancement for Black, Latinx & Native American professionals.

Jopwell’s mission is to make a substantial, measurable impact on increasing Black, Latinx, and Native American representation in the workforce. Jopwell strives to build inclusive workplaces where our members can bring their authentic selves to work. We do this by assisting companies with their recruitment, marketing, and retention efforts for communities of color.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AppLovin for the food community

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Automate anything on the web.

Kaizen leverages browser agents to enable instant integration into websites without APIs. Leading AI companies use Kaizen to read and write data from legacy portals in logistics, healthcare, and financial services.

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Edmonton, AB, Canada

KemNet supplies reformulated drugs for specific groups of patients.

KemNet supplies pharmacies with premium reformulations of popular drugs that are more useful for specific groups of patients. For example, more than 30 pharmacies rely on KemNet to supply reformulated products for erectile dysfunction that work up to 8 times faster than alternatives. In addition to sexual function, products reformulated for novel drug delivery and supplied on KemNet include medications for hair growth, pain, weight loss and women's health.

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Nairobi, Kenya

Online school for K12 education in Africa

Parents in Africa face either public schools with student-teacher ratios as high as 50:1 or private schools with tuition fees as high as $7500 per year, per child. Kidato classes have student-teacher ratios of 5:1 and teach the same rigorous international curriculum as other private schools — but at a fraction of the price. In our second semester, Kidato has enrolled more than 30 students into our learning-from-home program as a replacement for brick-and-mortar schools. We expect to triple this enrollment by our third semester.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

White-labeled shared appreciation down payment programs for employers

Landed helps employers develop programs that increase access to homeownership for their employees. We do this by unlocking the power of shared appreciation to create down payment programs tailored to the needs of each institution, improving recruitment and retention of key talent. Unlike other programs, shared appreciation is mutually beneficial to funders and buyers, creating a self-renewing pool of capital that recycles as homebuyers exit the program.

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London, UK

Fair, simple and accessible financial services

LemFi makes everyday financial services fair, simple and accessible for people overlooked by traditional banks, starting with those who live and work across borders

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Lagos, Nigeria

Pan-African digital bank for Africa's 50m businesses

Lenco is a multi-currency digital bank for businesses in Africa. With Lenco, retail outlets, hospitality businesses and startups can easily pay vendors, suppliers and perform cross-border payment while having access to growth capital.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

We give employees cash advances for their 401k match and ESPP

1 in 4 Americans do not get their full 401(k) match. That means 25 million workers are leaving $24 billion on the table in free employer contributions. The primary reason these workers cannot get their match is because they do not have enough to both cover living expenses and invest. Lendtable helps workers get thousands in additional income by giving them a cash advance to cover their living expenses so they can finally begin earning their employer match. Once their money has vested we take some of the match money earned in order to cover our expenses. Workers now have thousands of dollars more without putting any money down, and we make money helping them do so -- we win if they win.

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New York, NY, USA

The #1 platform for multi-entity finance

Meet your finance team's new superpower: LiveFlow eliminates the endless hours of manual financial reporting that keep CFOs and their teams stuck instead of driving strategic value. By automating your month-end close process from days to minutes, LiveFlow acts like your highest-performing analyst who works 24/7 with perfect accuracy. Not only does this free your team from the monthly close chaos, but it also means you can finally focus on what you actually became a CFO for – delivering insights that move your business forward.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Transform your iMessage conversations into shareable stories

Transform your iMessage conversations into shareable stories Founded by a team of ex-Google Photos and AI engineers, we’re bringing the same “turn personal data into something you actually come back to” loop to relationships

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New York, NY, USA

Enabling birth & postpartum doulas to easily accept insurance.

Loula is a software platform and national provider network for independent birth & postpartum doulas to boost their practices by accepting health insurance. Doulas typically operate outside of the traditional healthcare system and face an enormous learning curve and administrative burden when trying to accept insurance. This is why we created Loula. Starting with doulas in California, Loula handles their credentialing, contracting, and revenue cycle management so that they can focus on delivering the best quality care to their clients.

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interactive video models

We are building universe simulations powered by interactive video models. We train video models that simulate hyper-realistic environments with immersive control, replacing hard-coded game or physics engines with dynamic neural networks. We built the fastest action-conditioned diffusion video model (running at 20+fps on a 4090 gaming gpu) to simulate minecraft. It is 5x faster than other minecraft World Models and was trained with 100x less resources. Our unique insight was relying on aggressive compression in our tokenizer (128x versus the traditional 8x), and because attention scales quadratically with # of tokens our model can run blindingly faster. Now we’re training a hyper realistic world model!

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Speed up customer implementation with AI

Lume speeds up customer implementation with AI. Lume helps teams analyze, map, and ingest customer data up to 87% faster, accelerating time-to-revenue.

Cambridge, MA, USA

AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media.

Lumona is an AI-enabled search engine featuring insights from social media. When you’re looking to buy a new phone, instead of adding reddit to the end of your search and opening tabs of threads that take forever to get through, you can search on Lumona to get all of that processed for you on one page so you can make the best decision while saving time.

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Richmond, CA, USA

We turn CO2 into battery-grade graphite and oxygen.

Maple Materials, Inc. (Richmond, California) develops a low-cost electrolysis process to split carbon dioxide into graphite and oxygen. Due to several unique features of our production process and product, we have potential to produce battery-grade graphite anode material one-third the cost of current graphite anode materials. When powered by renewables, this process has the potential to be carbon negative.

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Nairobi, Kenya

The SuperApp for neighbourhood merchants in Africa.

MarketForce empowers neighbourhood merchants in Africa to source, order and pay for inventory digitally and conveniently, access a banking wallet with credit facilities, collect digital payments and earn extra income by offering agency baking services and reselling digital financial services such as airtime, electricity tokens and bill payments in their communities. Incorporated in 2019, MarketForce is a fast-growing company running an asset-light business model and is currently operational in 5 markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 200,000 merchants and 180 consumer brands trading on the platform.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI Agents for Trade Compliance - Saving Companies from Tariffs

MarkIt builds AI agents that work directly inside the workflows trade professionals use every day — Excel, PDFs, broker portals, and more. From defensible classification, ACE report audits, and a self-updating system of record, it serves trade professionals end to end with agents intelligent enough to work in the complex environment. MarkIt brings reasoning, memory, and automation to global trade compliance, helping Suppliers, Brokers, and OEMs reduce errors, save time, and streamline operations in the growingly intense world of Global Trade.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Foundation models to automate x-ray analysis for radiologists

Mecha Health builds foundation models to automate x-ray analysis for radiologists. We take medical images and process them using proprietary models to produce accurate draft medical reports. Our first model was built in less than two months, and beat Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI on clinical accuracy metrics. On top of that, it’s two orders of magnitude smaller and trained with a quarter of the data. We are partnering with the largest privately owned radiology practice in the US and a multinational tele-radiology company to provide them with their own foundation model, enabling their radiologists to go from reading 1 scan per hour to 1 scan every 5 minutes. By charging on a per scan basis, x-ray report generation represents a 40B+ market opportunity.

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Lagos, Nigeria

On-demand auto maintenance & repairs

It is cumbersome to maintain/repair vehicles in Africa. Vehicle owners currently have 2 options to choose from; very expensive and geographically limited branded mechanic garages (less than 1% of the supply pool) or unvetted roadside mechanics (about 99% of the supply pool). About 95% of vehicle owners cannot afford branded garages where quality and reliable service delivery can be guaranteed and thus rely on roadside mechanics. However, low quality and transparency are typical issues associated with roadside mechanics. We created a network of vetted mechanics, spare part vendors and an app that enables easy booking, payment and mechanic matching process. Via the mecho app, a customer or business can make a request for any automobile service (repairs or regular servicing) or part.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI-designed Protein Therapeutics

We develop AI models & new assays to create functional, therapeutic proteins.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Group-Therapy Platform for Providers and Health Systems

MentalHappy is a secure and compliant platform that leverages AI and data-driven analytics to enhance the group-based therapy experience and boost client/patient engagement. Our platform streamlines administrative tasks for providers, improves group participant self-management capabilities, automates group participant check-ins, and identifies group members who may be at risk. Additional features on the platform allow providers to schedule and host virtual sessions, engage members in secure chat, and share health resources, and offer support groups

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The 24/7 Data Analyst for Consumer Brands

At Menza, we help consumer brands see what they need to know, when they need to know it. With 24/7 data monitoring, Menza finds insights for our customers that they would have otherwise missed. Data should make decisions easier, not more complicated.

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Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Helping fleets find and pay parking tickets

Did you know that if your car is eligible for booting and towing in NYC, all of your registered vehicles are eligible? Now imagine you have thousands of vehicles in thousands of cities. We make sure that your vehicles are compliant.

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15a Ajanaku St, Opebi, Ikeja 101233, Lagos, Nigeria

Card issuer processor and banking stack for businesses in Sub-…

Miden is building a modern infrastructure that facilitates the launch of card programs and various financial products for businesses in Sub-Sahran Africa. Just by reducing integration time, card fraud, improving stability, and being customer focused we quickly rose to top 5 in TPV among card issuing Fintechs in Sub-Saharan Africa within 8 months of launch. We’re going to build the first comprehensive fintech and banking software stack for Africa, based on modern technology. We’re starting with a card issuer-processor.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Config Management for Robotics

Miru makes it easy for robotics teams to manage, version, and deploy robot configurations. Developers use our well-documented APIs and UI components to automate configuration updates for both engineers and operators. In the long term, we're building software infrastructure to accelerate the automation of the physical world.

New York, NY, USA

AI tutors for exam prep

Miyagi Labs is an AI-powered exam prep platform that helps students ace tests like the SAT and ACT through our AI tutor, personalized study plans, thousands of practice questions, and realistic practice exams. We’re building the platform we wish we had when studying for exams. No more running out of practice questions. Track your progress as your rating in different exam categories increases, and know exactly what you need to practice most. We envision a world where students anywhere can come to Miyagi to ace their exams and receive personalized, world-class AI tutoring designed to unlock their full potential.

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Paris, France

Neobank for African migrants in Europe

Moneco is a neobank targeting the migrant communities in Europe, starting with the African diaspora. We are making banking easier and more affordable for underserved communities, starting with a current account, a payment card and free remittances. The long term vision is to turn Moneco into a one-stop-shop where all of their financial needs will be addressed.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Group Financing for small businesses across Africa.

Moni finances small businesses in groups across Africa. The collective responsibility of the group serves as a collateral on the loan while the social pressure from the members ensures on-time repayment. There are over 44million SMBs in Africa.  
 We launched 7 months ago and we already have $72k MRR growing at 50% MoM. We achieved 99% repayment on 11,000 units of loans with over $5M disbursed. This is 15 times higher than most financial services in Africa. 
 Femi (CEO) worked previously with the World Bank with a focus on financial services while Dapo (CTO) led the development of the technology for one of the largest digital lending apps We are also backed by Y Combinator(W22), Magic Fund, Ventures Platform, Voltron Capital and more.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Plaid for Africa, but better.

We allow companies to access data from their customers bank accounts and allow them to debit money from these same bank accounts.

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Building the next generation AI creative studio

We are building the next generation creative studio, powered by the most capable video and image foundational models. We are creating the place where generative image and video experiences will be built. Backed by Y-Combinator and Khosla Ventures.

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Russian Hill Pl, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA

Models that improve coding agents

Fast Apply - Edit Files Faster - 10,500 tok/sec WarpGrep - Fast Context - 5x faster agentic code search without context rot

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mReliefW16Chicago, IL, USA

mRelief has built an easy-to-use platform and web and text messaging…

mRelief is a nonprofit that provides an easy-to-use platform on the web and text messaging -- at 74544 -- for Americans to sign up for SNAP. Built on public datasets provided by the USDA on BBCE and COVID-19 Waivers, they help people find out if they might be likely eligible for SNAP in all 50 states and DC.

Chicago, IL, USA

mRelief has built an easy-to-use platform and web and text messaging…

mRelief is a nonprofit that provides an easy-to-use platform on the web and text messaging -- at 74544 -- for Americans to sign up for SNAP. Built on public datasets provided by the USDA on BBCE and COVID-19 Waivers, they help people find out if they might be likely eligible for SNAP in all 50 states and DC.

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

A marketplace of luxury services for the ultra-wealthy

Myria is a private community and concierge for off-market goods & services — the things you can't Google. Ultra-high net worth individuals spend $390 billion per year ($1.3 million each) on lifestyle, but they still struggle to find everything they want. Why? Because the best of any category — homes, boats, restaurant reservations — the best stuff is never listed online. Likewise, the best people don’t need the internet to find a new client or job. The best is always off-market. Myria is the Off-Marketplace. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest and wealthiest buyers. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people access the best of everything, give back, and get the most out of life. If it’s off-market, it’s on Myria!

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New York, NY, USA

Building Payments for the Next Billion.

Story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZfKgoseJ5E&t=1s We have two products: 1. Consumer Cross Border payments to Emerging Markets : nala.com 2. Stablecoin Payment Rails for emerging markets: rafiki.com

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San Francisco, CA, USA

A marketplace for vinyl, cassettes and cds

Nasdisc is a marketplace for the $4B worth of records purchased every year. The vinyl market has seen exponential growth in the past decade - the first 6 months of this year has already seen an increase of 108% in sales. Our platform takes a 12% cut, making this a $400mm opportunity that is more than doubling every year. Pressing plants are backed up years out, bots buy limited releases in seconds, and record prices are skyrocketing in both retail and aftermarket sales. Despite this growth, the only dedicated marketplace is difficult to use, doesn’t process transactions, yet facilitates over $600mm in vinyl exchanges per year. This is why I finally decided to quit my job at Google and recruit my best friends from college to fix it. We’re all software engineers and have been passionate about music and vinyl since we were kids, and have $50k in records ourselves. We started building a marketplace in July and launched our website 4 weeks ago. We now have $1k / week in sales, and $50k in listings.

Nairobi, Kenya

All in one finance platform for borderless businesses in Africa

Nash enables finance teams to manage all their finance flows in one place and craft their money flow experiences globally. Our ledger-based operating system allows your borderless business to connect all your money accounts, accounting systems, payment service providers, treasury operations, spend management in one place. Our mission is to enable borderless commerce in Africa. We achieve this initially by providing your team with all the finance tools needed to build, scale, and grow your borderless business without the need for a costly and complex in-house infrastructure.

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Philadelphia, PA, USA

Frozen beauty products.

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Universal API for HR & Payroll

NewCraft makes it easy for developers to connect to employee platforms like Workday, ADP, and Paylocity with a single API. To get access to these systems, some companies have spent over $10M in development costs alongside years of business development efforts. We believe innovators can build the future of employment faster with simplified access. On top of standardizing data across employee systems into a universal API, we offer a modern developer experience with test environments, documentation, and security.

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Atlanta, GA, USA

We pioneer solutions to end the global housing crisis by empowering…

Since its inception, NS has raised over $80 million to build thousands of homes across Latin America and impact ~20,000 individuals. In 2021, NS launched a venture capital fund, Hometeam Ventures, focused on early-stage construction and housing innovations. NS graduated from Y Combinator and is a 4x recipient of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Banking and payments for businesses in Africa

Nomba provides Banking and payment to over 200k+ business in Africa (Nigeria & DRC).

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New York, NY, USA

America's #1 Sports Prediction Market

Novig is a sports prediction market that eliminates the need for traditional sportsbooks by creating a two-sided marketplace. We do this by enabling users to trade directly against friends or the market, rather than against the house, making the betting experience more efficient, fair, and, most importantly, profitable.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI-Native Data Engine for LLMs, Computer Vision, & Enterprise AI

Ocular AI is the data annotation engine for Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Enterprise AI models. We help you transform unstructured, multi-modal data into golden datasets to power generative AI, frontier models, and computer vision. Ocular Foundry is the most intuitive, data-centric, and fastest platform that lets you label, annotate, version, and deploy your data for training models. It also orchestrates your annotation jobs, improving collaboration with members and annotators. With Ocular Bolt, shift from humans in the loop to experts in the loop to supercharge your data labeling and annotation projects. Our global expert workforce ensures fast, accurate results—no matter the scale or complexity of your data. Companies spend huge amounts on training data, but Foundry and Bolt are AI-native tools that lower costs, reduce manual effort, and accelerate high-quality data collection. We’re replacing outdated, clunky, and expensive data software!

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Cambridge, MA, USA

A nonprofit stool bank enabling access to fecal transplants.

We are a nonprofit stool bank, expanding safe access to fecal transplants and catalyzing research on the human microbiome.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

The fastest way to ship airtight AI

Openlayer is the governance platform for AI applications.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

The AI Workspace for Guided Selling

Outlit is a guided selling experience for founders and early stage sales teams. Track all your deals and always know: what to do next, who to follow up with, and what to send.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI Agents for Admissions Teams in Higher Education

OutRival empowers customer experience teams to create and deploy Conversational AI Agents that leverage existing resources, cut costs, and grow revenue. Starting with Admissions Teams in Higher Education.

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Ottawa, ON, Canada

Live video signing for real-time agreements

Pactima is a value-centric, fast-growing, and venture-backed company that’s transforming the manner in which businesses conduct transactions in our remote world. Our flagship product, Live eSignatures^TM, is a real-time solution that allows people to view and sign documents while simultaneously hosting a secured video call. This easy-to-use solution allows transactions that could only be done in-person to now be performed online.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Building the safety net of the future

Pair Team is building a new kind of healthcare system across Medicaid, Medicare, and public assistance programs: one that recognizes that access to housing, nutritious food, and reliable transportation are just as critical to health as having the right medications or seeing a doctor. We run one of the largest medical groups for complex, low income patients and our next chapter is building a vertically integrated AI care manager to support any clinical, behavioral, or social need for everyone.

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Los Angeles, CA, USA

The embedded integration platform for SaaS apps.

Paragon enables companies to build products that integrate with the SaaS ecosystem. With Paragon, software companies can integrate with hundreds of different SaaS apps in minutes while providing their customers with a seamless, unified integration experience

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New York, NY, USA

Test, evaluate & observe your LLM applications

Parea AI is the essential developer platform for debugging and monitoring every stage of LLM application development. We provide testing, evaluation, and monitoring in one unified platform. These capabilities help developers get visibility into LLM responses, quickly test and optimize prompts, and ensure customers get the best user experience.

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Wilmington, DE, USA

Your Global payments partner for Africa

Modern companies use Partna's API and B2B payment tools to smoothly launch and operate in Africa

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Nairobi, Kenya

Automating entry of sales orders from emails/Whatsapp into ERP…

Our Product: Sanifu Sanifu enables manufacturers and distributors to automate the entry of sales orders from emails and WhatsApp into their ERP systems. By extracting customer order details from various formats—including emails, PDFs, and handwritten notes—and accurately entering the data into ERP systems, Sanifu significantly reduces manual data entry time and errors. This automation enhances overall efficiency for businesses, allowing them to scale more effectively and focus on core operations. We are targeting a market of 180,000 manufacturers and distributors across Africa, representing a $2.5B+ opportunity. Sidney and Phelix, who met 10 years ago at a leadership program by Mastercard and Equity Bank, are technical founders with 5+ years experience working together to build payments platforms that processed $10M monthly GTV across Kenya, Uganda & Nigeria.

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New York, NY, USA

AI FP&A Agent for insights, reports, planning and forecasting.

Building Luca: an AI FP&A analyst providing executives with AI-powered financial insights, analytics, detailed reporting, planning and forecasting. Luca enables companies to save tens of thousands of dollars and 400+ hours per year, while getting critical business value from week one. Level-3 autonomy for FP&A. Learn more: https://payflow.ai

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Lagos, Nigeria

Loans to Nigeria's SMEs in under 3 hours

Payhippo provides loans to small businesses in Africa in under 3 hours. We made $42k in revenue in Nigeria in July 2021, growing 25% m/m with a 97% repayment rate.

Lagos, Nigeria

Modern payments infrastructure for Africa

Paystack is a small and vibrant family working across Lagos and San Francisco. We enable businesses to accept payments via credit card, debit card, money transfer, and mobile money, directly from their website or mobile app.

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Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

We help offline LatAm SMBs manage and accelerate their cash-flow

Pideaky helps offline LatAm SMBs manage and accelerate their cash flow through AI collection agents, which remind, collect, and negotiate bills on behalf of SMBS in Latam. We focus on the massively underserved $70B/year customer segment as our wedge — Mexican corner shops and corner shop providers:

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Miami, FL, USA

Simplifying loans with your friends & family.

Pigeon is a relationship based technology platform that facilitates the creation and management of loans between friends, family, loved ones, and anyone who trusts one another. By providing smarter ways for people to mix money with their relationships, Pigeon seeks to empower individuals to borrow and lend money with the people they trust.

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Orem, UT, USA

Video messaging app for remote teams.

A video messaging app for remote teams in multiple time zones—it's like Slack for video. With PingPong, teams collaborate by exchanging short video, voice, and screen recording clips.

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Brooklyn, NY, USA

Win money betting on yourself playing AAA video games

Players’ Lounge enables gamers of all skill levels to bet on the outcome of their video game matches and win money. Our mission at Players’ Lounge is to give gamers a monetary return on their gaming time, while adding a new layer of fun and entertainment. We have raised $15m in funding. Investors include: ycombinator, Samsung, Griffin Gaming Partners, Strauss Zelnick, Drake and Myles Garrett.

Lagos, Nigeria

Easy foreign payments for African merchants

We're providing payment rails to help African merchants and consumers easily pay their suppliers abroad.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

PocketSuite makes it easy for your clients to book and pay you

PocketSuite is a YC-backed mobile platform for service businesses, ranging from fitness trainers, photographers, and home cleaners to dog trainers, hairstylists, therapists, and life coaches. Businesses use PocketSuite to get booked, paid, and message their clients. We make the work of running your own business simple for solo operators and small teams. PocketSuite empowers the U.S. market of 20 million service professionals generating $800 billion in sales with a mobile cloud solution for running their business. Thousands of businesses run on PocketSuite. Over 500,000 clients book and pay their Pros on PocketSuite today and we're growing fast.

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New York, NY, USA

Automated time tracking and billing for law firms.

Lawyers have to manually track all their client work in 6-minute increments. PointOne uses AI to completely automate time tracking and bill review, helping law firms collect more revenue and saving lawyers hours each week.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Identity Verification API for Emerging Markets

We are making it possible for digital businesses to easily verify individuals and businesses within seconds across Emerging Markets.

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Oakland, CA, USA

Better payment systems for governments and the communities they serve.

Promise modernizes government payments helping agencies recover more revenue while giving residents flexible, humane ways to pay. We replace broken systems with tech that actually works for everyone.

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Boston, MA, USA

Plaid for Commercial Real Estate

Propexo lets engineers build, test, and launch CRE software integrations in days, not months. We modernize the developer experience for our customers, providing clear documentation and robust infrastructure to support the needs of property owners, property managers, & proptechs.

San Francisco, CA, USA

AI Operating System for Commercial Real Estate

PropRise is building the AI operating system for commercial real estate investing. We automate the entire workflow from sourcing to closing: our AI finds deals nationwide that match your criteria, then populates your Excel models in an instant. CRE teams currently waste 80% of their time on manual tasks and miss profitable deals because they can't analyze fast enough. Major firms like Colliers and Public Storage already use us to analyze 7x more deals. We're creating the first end-to-end platform that acts as the system of autonomy, intelligence, and record for the $20 trillion CRE market.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Banking for businesses

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Alameda, CA, USA

Autonomous electric airplanes

Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce C02 emissions in their respective industries. What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.

Oakland, CA, USA

Open source continuous profiling software to debug performance issues

Pyroscope is an open source continuous profiling platform. With just a few lines of code it will help you debug performance issues and find bottlenecks in your code.

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Boston, MA, USA

An assessment tool that evaluates people to predict future success

Pyxai helps organizations evaluate, identify and source top talent by focusing on the best indicators of long-term job success, soft skills. Our proprietary, AI driven assessment tool helps organizations increase retention by at least 30% all while reducing the time to hire by more than 50%.

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Miami, FL, USA

Tools & infra to build and scale high-quality blockchain applications.

Quicknode is an enterprise-grade blockchain development platform that helps teams build and scale high-performance onchain applications. Developers get fast and reliable access to over 80 chains, real-time and historical data, automation tools, and a unified suite of APIs. From startups to global enterprises, teams choose Quicknode for consistent performance, predictable pricing, and a platform built for growth.

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

We're building financial infrastructure for Africa's supply chains

An app for salespeople to track inventory, register their customers and record their sales transactions. Cofounders: African. Ex-Salesforce PM, Stanford CS, Capgemini

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Ramen VR is transforming game development with advanced XR + AI tools.

XR + AI are the most fundamental computing shifts of the past century. We're using XR and AI to build products that empower creators of online games and virtual worlds. Meaningful games can change lives, and every game starts with its developers. We believe that game devs can change the world. ‍ We're a team of devs working on solving the hardest problems in game development. We previously built the #1 VR game Zenith: The Last City on Steam and Quest. We've raised $40m+ to date and have been working in stealth on our next game as well as tools that will shape the future of game development.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

The fastest way for retailers to launch product catalogs.

We help distributors and retailers turn catalog chaos into launch-ready products. Share vendor data, pull online specs and pricing, fuzzy match to your database, generate images, and output products in your exact schema.

Lagos, Nigeria

Turning food waste into Biochar to remove CO2 from the atmsophere

Releaf Earth is a climate tech startup pioneering carbon removal and agricultural solutions leveraging biochar (BCR). Expanding from our roots in food processing technology, we now specialize in producing premium biochar from palm kernel shells. Biochar Carbon Removal (BCR) is a powerful tool for carbon sequestration and a key technology for economic development in Africa. African farmers already experience a 150% global mean temperature rise from a climate crisis they didn’t cause. Releaf's mission is to empower rural communities with improved productivity, crop yields, and a role in achieving Net Zero Emissions.

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Lagos, Nigeria

We make healthcare in emerging markets affordable and accessible

Reliance Health uses technology to make quality healthcare delightful, affordable and accessible in emerging markets. Through an integrated approach that includes affordable health insurance, telemedicine and a combination of partner and proprietary healthcare facilities, Reliance Health offers innovative healthcare solutions that meet the needs of emerging markets including Nigeria, Egypt and growing

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Lagos, Nigeria

B2B E-commerce & Fintech platform for Pharmacies & Hospitals in Africa

Remedial Health sells medicine wholesale to the 1 million pharmacies and hospitals in Africa. Today in Africa, pharmacies shop in open-air medicine markets where they pay higher prices for counterfeits medicines. We offer a managed marketplace with all the stock they'll need, deliver within 24 hours and offer credit to help them grow.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

We’re building a platform to empower cities to plan the best possible…

Remix’s mission is to help build more livable cities. Our software helps city planners understand their communities and design transportation systems that serve them. We’ve partnered with over 325 cities across 20 countries on 4 continents — and were continually seeking to grow our impact around the world. Urban planning impacts everything from economic mobility to CO2 emissions, and our platform empowers local governments to transform their transportation systems, design safer streets, and implement new mobility options to better serve their communities.

New York, NY, USA

Rent Better

REZI is a leading real estate technology company founded in 2016 and the only fully remote and automated marketplace for long-term apartment rentals. REZI empowers landlords to lease their vacant apartments using their state-of-the-art platform — guaranteeing the monthly rent, paying up to 12 months of rent upfront, reducing leasing costs, and simplifying the leasing process for several to hundreds of units in a single transaction. Renters on REZI are then able to find, tour, apply for, and lease their next home without any fees and in as little as five minutes — right from their phone — through pre-screened listings, contactless tours, and automated application decisions.

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Austin, TX, USA

AI powered reconciliation for accountants

Rima is an AI reconciliation assistant for accountants that enables them to complete complex reconciliations in minutes instead of hours We are on a mission to build the automation layer for reconciliation for every ERP and payment system.

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AI agents for financial services.

Rulebase builds AI coworkers that help banks and fintechs review 100% of customer interactions in real time. Our agents flag compliance breaches, high-risk issues, and quality gaps across calls, chats, and emails — then route them to the right teammates. The result: up to 30% fewer escalations and QA cycles reduced from hours to minutes.

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New York, NY, USA

The secondary market for real estate leases

Ryse is the only marketplace where investors who want to buy leases can trade with real estate operators who want to sell leases.

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Dallas, TX, USA

Student Attendance tracking for Public Schools

Safer Management sells attendance software to public school districts and colleges. Public schools receive federal funding based on their average daily attendance, and our software ensures they get the money they need. We started Safer Mgmt. 12 months ago after I dropped off my twin boys and experienced inefficiencies with the sign-in process. We are now in 75 public schools and two colleges with annual reoccurring revenue of $621,000. We have 82% margins and are profitable. At scale, we will charge $15 per student per year. There are 70 million public school students in America which is a $1.4 billion dollar market opportunity.

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New York, NY, USA

Qualify, route, and convert more inbound leads

Salesform qualifies, routes, and converts inbound leads while 2-way syncing with your sales stack. Now, you can meet more target customers faster and leverage Salesform’s native enrichment to enhance routing rules and auto-replies for demo requests etc.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Tuition collection service for K-12 private schools in Africa

We are a financial technology company that is revolutionizing the state of pre-tertiary education in Africa. By paying school fees for parents upfront with a flexible monthly repayment plan, building fees savings culture among parents, This way, schools get up to 80% of all their expected fees 2weeks into resumption and also enabling schools to access to loan facility and availability of various vendors and service providers at discounted rates.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Studio-Grade Design at Scale

Semiotic is builds AI design agents. We’re starting with agents that build landing pages for fast‑growing startups. Existing AI website builders didn't make creating websites easier—they made creating ugly websites easier. So, companies choose between blue-purple gradient slop or agencies with 3-month waitlists and $100k minimums. You don't have to choose anymore. Start a project: semiotic.so

Lagos, Nigeria

Flexport for Africa - Digital Freight forwarder and Customs Broker.

SEND is a digital freight forwarder and customs broker for Africa. We manage the entire process of shipping cargo by air or by sea, including the documentation, customs process, delivery to the warehouse and trade financing.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Fulfillment by Amazon for African merchants

Sendbox helps small e-commerce merchants who sell directly to customers through their own online channels or social media platforms with fulfillment. We now handle local and international fulfillment for over 7,500 merchants within Nigeria.

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Pleasanton, CA, USA

Simple Business SMS. SMBs to Large Enterprise.

SendHub makes business communication fast, simple, and effective. Our complete online business SMS messaging solution helps thousands of companies communicate more effectively with on-the-go workforces, customers, and more. SendHub is a Y-Combinator graduate, and is backed by Menlo Ventures, Kapor Capital, 500 startups, the Seraph Group, Paul Buchheit, Eric Ries, Jawed Karim and Jeb Bush.

Lagos, Nigeria

B2B marketplace for Auto Dealers in Africa

Our platform helps car dealers find, finance and sell more cars in the $30B African used Car market. We are building the largest auto dealership ecosystem ; powering $10Bn transactions annually

Every student's personalized learning assistant

Shepherd is a Learning assistant for schools to provide to their students. Shepherd seamlessly combines AI-enabled self-study, affordable tutoring, peer collaboration, and analytics for a personalized learning experience that is both efficient and effective.

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London, UK

We help you find and book tickets to great entertainment events that…

Shoobs offers event organisers with a convenient and powerful platform to sell tickets to their events. A couple of years ago we got thinking that selling tickets should be QUICK & EASY! So, we decided to create Shoobs to help event organisers sell out their events efficiently! Shoobs is the leading destination to discover and book great urban culture events in the UK, such as Hip Hop concerts and RnB club nights.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI Sales Assistant to increase playbook adoption and win more deals

SilkChart analyzes sales calls and measures how well playbooks are executed. It proactively surfaces coaching opportunities to managers, and provides reps with actionable feedback to close more deals.

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Lagos, Nigeria

We deliver toll-free internet apps

Simplifyd enables businesses deliver their internet apps (websites/mobile apps) data-free, similar to toll-free telephone lines. We do this through our Zerodata app Founded in August of 2021 and based in Lagos, Nigeria and Nairobi, Kenya, Simplifyd through its Zerodata platform is a trusted marketplace for data-free internet apps. Businesses list their internet apps (websites/mobile apps) on the Zerodata platform so end users can access them data-free! End users simply need to download the Zerodata app, available for both mobile and desktop, toggle on and enjoy access to listed apps data-free! We are on a mission to make apps accessible to over ~2B people in emerging economies who simply cannot afford the costs of internet data subscriptions.

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San Carlos, CA, USA

Flexible printed OLED displays.

We use the printing methods used for newspapers, packaging, posters, and other graphic media to make beautiful, emissive electronic displays with high-end OLED technology aimed at low-cost applications. Our displays are paper-thin, flexible, and can be easily custom printed in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing hardware designers to use displays and indicators on curved surfaces and in new ways.

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Palo Alto, CA, USA

SIRUM is a “match.com” for unused medicine. We connect institutional…

SIRUM uses technology to connect, prioritize and simplify various sources of medicine. We help safety-net clinics access this medicine for their patients. SIRUM is an innovative nonprofit organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations. Incubated at Stanford University, SIRUM draws from the academic and technology expertise of faculty and alumni to strengthen its impact and efficiency. SIRUM has become a leader in prescription drug donations, providing consulting and technical assistance to county governments, community clinics and multiple drug donor groups to establish redistribution programs

Fredericton, NB, Canada

Plaid for trading

SnapTrade is an API to connect retail brokerage accounts to any fintech app. We enable API access to real-time account data, historical transactions, and trading. This makes it possible to build new investing experiences with existing brokerage accounts, so users don't need to transfer and it's easier to get started.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

The easiest way to share videos with friends and family.

Socialcam is a new mobile video application coming to both iPhone and Android. Socialcam makes it fast, easy and fun to capture, share and view high quality movies of life's moments with friends and family.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Tinder for jobs

Tinder for Jobs. Swipe right, AI applies on your behalf.

Sphere Secure WorkspaceS15London, UK

Sphere Secure Workspace For a product demonstration, or for any other enquiries please contact at info@sphere.works

London, UK

Sphere Secure Workspace For a product demonstration, or for any other enquiries please contact at info@sphere.works

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Cambridge, MA, USA

We make dealing with insurance less annoying.

Splendor's AI agent helps providers, EHRs, and billing companies automate benefits checks, prior auth, and more.

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New York, NY, USA

AI powered brokerage reducing residential rental commissions in NYC…

We are a full-service sell-side residential brokerage that lists and markets your properties. We also screen and schedule tenants showings with our AI agent for a third of the normal commission.

Investing in innovation

Backing innovation, building financial technology. Focused on emerging markets and leveraging people finesse with capital.

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New York, NY, USA

Platform to grow your barbershop and maximize profitability.

Squire is a booking and payment platform that connects people with great barbers worldwide. Squire makes it easy to discover and book the best barbers wherever you are, in just a few taps. Squire is also the premier management platform for barbershops. Using Squire, barbers are able to engage their customers, process bookings and payments and better market their business through Squire’s “barbershop discovery” capabilities. Fully integrated with a point of sale, inventory management and payroll systems, Squire is a one-stop solution for barbershop owners to efficiently operate their business. With headquarters in New York and a presence in major cities in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada, Squire has quickly become a market leader in technology solutions for the barbershop industry worldwide. For more information, please visit getsquire.com or download the Squire iOS app from the App Store.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI DevOps Agents

Reliability on autopilot. Free you team to build what's next.

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New York, NY, USA

Find a home you can actually afford

Stairs helps young Americans buy their first home. Our home search identifies homes based on their finances, and connects them to government grants, loans and tax breaks.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Cursor for DevOps

StarSling is building an agentic developer homepage that automates all the tasks that eat up a developer’s time after they’ve left their code editor: deployments, performance, incidents, and bugs. Open your homepage, click on a GitHub, Linear, or Sentry issue and you’ll see an Autofix button that triggers an AI agent and opens up a Pull Request with a fix, all without leaving your homepage.

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New York, NY, USA

Sims but Social Media

Status allows users to live in immersive fantasy worlds through the familiar lens of social media.

Founders

Artificial Intelligence for your medical billing team

Substrate's AI agents automate the click-work & data entry in revenue cycle management. Our agents perform repetitive and time-consuming tasks on behalf of medical billers, significantly increasing efficiency and reducing errors.

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Lagos, Nigeria

We enable FMCG distributors in Africa buy inventory on credit

Suplias helps FMCG manufacturers in Africa receive payments and finance inventory purchases of their distributors using a mobile app called Obtainly. We launched in Nigeria, where we have been growing revenue by 32% month over month for the last 11 months Our founding team has a combined 25+ years of experience in supply chain and ecommerce having worked for Procter & Gamble, Pepsi Co, Gap and Jumia, the #1 ecommerce company in Africa.

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Accra, Ghana

Building modern payments, accounting and cashflow management tools…

Swipe is building modern modern payments, accounting and cashflow management tools for businesses. We own and operate Float, a global b2b payments platform and Accounteer - a cloud accounting and bookkeeping platform for businesses and freelancers.

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London, UK

Employee benefit for reproductive and hormone health

Syrona Health’s innovative add on benefit is designed to address the critical gaps in women’s health coverage by integrating fertility, menopause, and female-specific cancer care , men's health and trans/nonbinary health. Our solution directly tackles the escalating $30B in out-of-pocket healthcare costs by offering financial protection for treatments often excluded or poorly covered by traditional health insurance.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Juno is ManusAI for controlling medical imaging& diagnostic device GUI

Juno is a fully offline, local-first autonomous AI agent engineered to control and operate medical imaging and diagnostic devices—such as Siemens Healthineers' MRI and CT scanners, hematology analyzers, and PCR machines—with human-like proficiency, powered exclusively by an Embedded System on Module (SoM) AI accelerator. Designed as a "virtual technician," Juno observes device interfaces, reasons over contextual data, and executes actions in a closed-loop system, automating calibration, workflow execution, and optimization without any cloud dependency, internet access, or external APIs. This architecture draws inspiration from agents like ManusAI and Microsoft Copilot's Computer Use Agent (CUA), adapting their observation-reasoning-execution paradigms to treat medical device UIs as controllable "virtual desktops," but confines all processing to edge hardware for compliance with stringent medical safety standards and operational reliability in disconnected environments.

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Accra, Ghana

Enabling Africans to sell online with zero capital

Tendo enables anyone in Africa to sell online with zero upfront inventory - our mobile app connects dropshippers to local wholesalers. The sellers on the platform are able to source products through Tendo and resell items using social commerce tools, such as WhatsApp, arrange delivery, and get paid, all through the Tendo mobile app. At the moment, people who want to sell online need to save money, visit hundreds of suppliers to find a trusted one, and risk losing their capital by stocking up inventory. Beyond this, they need to incur costs for logistics and warehousing. We eliminate all that.

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New York, NY, USA

Fast, Transparent Patient Experiences

Tennr is solving the black hole problem in healthcare by leveraging models to digitize the flow of paperwork between healthcare providers. -- Today, when you go to your doctor and need to be referred to a specialist (e.g., for sleep apnea), your doctor sends a fax (yes, in 2024, 90% of provider-provider communication is a 1980s fax). These are often converted into 20+ page PDFs, with handwritten (doctor’s handwriting!) notes, in thousands of different formats. The problem is so complex that a person has to read it, type it up, and manually enter your information. Tennr built RaeLM™ (7B—trained on 3M+ documents) to read these docs, talk to your doc to ensure nothing is missed, and text you to help schedule your appointment so you can get better, faster.

Vercel For GPUs

Our CLI makes ML model training effortless - just describe your job, and we handle GPU orchestration and execution at half the cost of major cloud providers.

Oakland, CA, USA

tEQuitable's mission is to create work culture that works for everyone

tEQuitable helps companies get in front of and prevent harassment. We are an independent, confidential platform to address issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. For employees, we provide a sounding board they can consult without fear of retribution on issues ranging from subtle, insidious slights and invalidations to overt discrimination and harassment. For companies, we provide data and insights to identify systemic issues, track behavioral trends, and develop actionable recommendations. tEQuitable is using technology to make workplaces more equitable.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Termii is helps businesses communicate with customers globally.

Termii is a communications platform that allows businesses to make calls, access data on the go and send messages to anyone across sms, email, voice and instant messaging channels. With Termii businesses can; 1. Verify customer identity & transactions 2. Send product notifications to customers 3. Make calls and offer dedicated call support to customers 4. Purchase dedicated phone numbers 5. Purchase eSims to make wifi calls and access data connectivity globally 6. Generate personality and engagement insights from customer transactions

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Shoreline, WA, USA

AI platform for phone-first sellers

Terrakotta is a power-dialer that lets sales reps leave AI-generated voicemails. Our first customers are Commercial Real Estate brokerages that use Terrakotta to clone their brokers voices, dial prospects and when no one answers, leave an A/B tested, personalized voicemail that gets a callback.

ThereCraftS17Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Inclusive mental healthcare for companies

Therify is an inclusive mental health benefit for companies. Through our web platform, employees access culturally responsive therapists, live community sessions, and self-guided content to support their emotional well-being.

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Chattanooga, TN, USA

Lifeline for your business

Thread simplifies the business processes for manufacturing companies. Upload your company documents to our secure platform, collaborate seamlessly across your organization to respond to vendor questionnaires.

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Abuja, Nigeria

ThriveAgric help Farmers in Africa access finance, insight and Markets

We have created a market place that enables the sales of agro-commodities locally and internationally while providing rural farmers with all the resources they will need to grow crops like loans to but inputs and the needed extension services for better insights.

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New York, NY, USA

We manage people's wealth

We're a modern wealth manager. There are many solutions out there for how one can invest by themselves (e.g., DIY brokerages like Robinhood). But for those who want to have their money managed, they must turn to high fee, high minimum advisors (e.g., RIAs like Edward Jones). With LLMs, we can now offer personalized wealth management to many more people, more cheaply and with faster service. Our goal is to grow their wealth more than they'd do on their own.

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Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia

Taking from 1 to 100 the premade food industry in LATAM

With the mission of improving people's lives in LATAM by enabling pre-made food access to millions of people, TodosComemos is pushing forward the actual barriers of the industry in LATAM by: 1. Developing pre-made and ready-to-eat healthy food above-edge technologies for the region, 2. Enabling established products and brands of prepared food to go from 1 to 1000, offering them a competitive distribution one-stop solution to reach millions of new customers in a multichannel strategy 3. Building the first pre-made food subscription service including both pre-made and ready-to-eat meals for all needs.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Flexport for African Merchants - Building the OS for Global Logistics

Topship is the easiest way for African businesses to export/import cargo, freight and parcels to their suppliers, distributors and customers. We are building Flexport for Africa. Our goal is to build a Global Distribution System that makes delivery of parcels, cargo and freight easy for African businesses.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Torch is a learning and development company that helps employers manage and measure employee growth at scale. Customers can draw from a pool of over 6000 mentors and coaches to pair with high performers and new managers at any layer of the organization. Torch was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping all professionals perform at their highest level. Torch is on a mission to empower managers to thrive in high growth, high-performance cultures by building the self-awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively.

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62 Shipeolu St, Somolu 102216, Lagos, Nigeria

Digitizing and processing Microtransactions in Africa

We process cash-based microtransactions across Africa's informal sector, an example of microtransaction is payment for bus rides today we help over 300k people make this payment.

São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

We help companies scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp

We help companies build and scale marketing campaigns through WhatsApp, reaching their customers anywhere in the world with engaging conversations. With our platform, businesses can create and send conversations massively to users and get analytics to improve their campaign performance over time, increasing conversion in every stage of the funnel.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

All-in-one API for search, RAG, & recommendations

Infrastructure for search teams building retrieval and RAG. Trieve combines search language models with tools for tuning ranking and relevance. Building excellent search is difficult and can take months to implement then even more time to maintain. Trieve offers production-ready infrastructure that works out of the box to help search teams build adjustable AI search and RAG into their products. With tools for custom models, relevancy weighting, date-recency biasing, semantic full-text hybrid search, recommendations, and more Trieve covers the full spectrum of what a team wants from their discovery infrastructure.

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Nairobi, Kenya

Operating system for travel businesses in Africa with embedded finance

Triply (Formerly Tripitaca) is the operating system for travel businesses in Africa. We eliminate operational chaos by unifying payments, Invoicing, payroll, accounting, operations, and more into a single platform allowing travel businesses to execute and sell more efficiently.

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Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia

Reliable background checks & fraud prevention tools for Latin America.

Truora provides safe and reliable background checks and fraud prevention services for Latin America, through APIs and web service solutions. We operate in 6 countries (Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, Brazil and Chile) and are expanding rapidly. Our customers include Latam's top martketplaces (i.e. Didi, Rappi, Liftit), FinTech startups, large financial institutions and large HR firms as well. Our software allows for: background check verifications, continuous identity verification, digital identity solutions, OCR technologies and document authentication, KYC solutions and biometric validations. Our team is composed of 4 founders with expertise in the security and fraud prevention, as well as 60+ expert software engineers. We have offices across Latam, with our tech teams based in Colombia.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

A global community creating the future of live entertainment.

Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.

Lusaka, Zambia

Developers of ChitChat, an integrated messaging and payments wallet…

ChitChat by Union54 is an integrated messaging and payments platform designed specifically for Africa's unique needs. Our app combines secure instant messaging with USD card capabilities and cross-border payments, making international money movement more accessible and affordable. We're tackling one of Africa's biggest financial challenges: the high cost of sending money across borders, where African senders often pay double the fees despite sending smaller amounts. As a Y Combinator-backed startup, we're building technology that empowers African consumers and businesses to participate more fully in the global digital economy. Our mission is to create financial products that genuinely serve customer needs while challenging the status quo of traditional remittance providers.

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Win defense contracts with AI

Usul is the all-in-one platform to win defense contracts. We help governments adopt defense technologies faster than ever before. Get started at https://www.usul.com/

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Digital banking platform for the 30 million smartphone users in DRC.

Vaultpay is building a digital banking platform for 30 million smartphone users in DRC and the country's largest agent network. For example, a young Congolese entrepreneur who just won a subcontract with a major mining company can now easily open a personal and business account, receive payments, all from their smartphone, instead of spending hours at bank branches.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Where restaurants in Africa buy food supplies

Vendease is a marketplace that lets restaurants in Africa, order directly from farms and food manufacturers. Now, instead of going through expensive - middlemen - vendors, or wasting productive man hours sending staff to open markets with hiked prices, restaurants can now get on our platform, click to order and get all their food supplies within 24hrs.

Washington, DC, USA

We help online sellers manage a sales business on multiple platforms.

Vendoo is a software that was created to solve the daily pain points of the millions of sellers in the steadily growing reselling industry. Our goal is to save sellers time and help them make more money. The user friendly interface allows sellers to crosspost their items onto multiple marketplaces in a fraction of the time that it takes to do so manually. Users can currently list items onto 10 marketplaces, including eBay, Poshmark, Etsy, Mercari, Facebook Marketplace and more. The software also provides other conveniences for sellers, like the ability to easily import their existing listings, delisting and relisting items with one click, and inventory management features like easy sorting and searching. Vendoo also provides sellers with business data and analytics to help them make calculated decisions to grow their business.

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Lagos, Nigeria

Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp

Vendy is a marketplace on WhatsApp. We provide customized WhatsApp shops for sellers, allowing buyers to browse inventory, place orders with automated invoicing, and make payments, all within WhatsApp. No app download or sign-up required.

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London, UK

Cross-Border Payments and FX Simplified

Verto is a cross-border payment platform for businesses; our mission is to simplify cross-border payments in emerging markets, particularly Africa. We do this by providing businesses with superb infrastructure that they can use to convert, hold, receive and make payments across 49 currencies. By connecting Businesses, Liquidity providers, FX Brokers, and Payment Institutions, and banks through our marketplace, companies can choose their foreign exchange rates at the time that suits them, therefore, providing a constant liquidity flow cheaply.

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AI that can create and edit professional videos

VideoGen makes it easy for anyone to create professional, copyright-free videos in seconds. Today, we serve thousands of customers, from individuals and small businesses to teams at Google and ByteDance. Making videos is hard, time-consuming, and expensive if you hire someone to do it for you. With VideoGen, it only takes a few clicks!

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New York, NY, USA

Helping America's businesses become employee owned

At Village Labs, we help America's businesses become employee owned by helping them set up and manage an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). ESOPs are a federal retirement plan that enable businesses to give their employees a stake in the company in exchange for significant tax benefits. With 2.9M Baby Boomer business owners set to retire in the coming years, there's a growing "Silver Tsunami" of businesses across the country in search of new ownership. For many of these owners, selling to their employees is a socially-minded yet financially pragmatic solution. By selling ownership of their business to an ESOP, owners get a fair price, tax benefits, and the satisfaction of knowing their employees and legacy will be taken care of — things not guaranteed with traditional buyers like private equity. In turn, employees retain their jobs and get shares in the business that can help them create life changing wealth by the time they retire — imagine an office secretary retiring as a millionaire. Thousands of businesses across America like Bob's Red Mill, Harpoon Brewery, and Recology already have an ESOP, benefiting over 14 million workers and creating 2.1 trillion in employee wealth. We're excited about the opportunity to massively grow these numbers by making it simple for every business to become employee owned.

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Philadelphia, PA, USA

Affordable care via ICHRA and primary care with visits, meds, labs…

If you're a YC company: Book Here! https://calendly.com/danielle-wimberly-vitablehealth/30min We are a team of engineers, clinicians, and operators rethinking healthcare for startups and and SMB's. We make it simple for startups to offer ICHRA with built in direct primary care, including free virtual visits, over 1,000 prescriptions, and 40+ lab tests. Contributions are made with tax-free dollars, and we handle everything from onboarding to ongoing care so founders can stay focused on building. We are backed by world class investors like First Round Capital, Cherryrock, Y Combinator, and SoftBank, along with incredible founders and operators including Michael Seibel (YC, Twitch), Immad Akhund (Mercury), Allison Pickens (Gainsight), Jack Altman (Lattice), Dan Folkman (GoPuff), and others.

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East Palo Alto, CA, USA

Vori is a modern operating system for supermarkets

Vori offers a modern operating system designed for the grocery industry. VoriOS helps independent and regional grocers streamline their inventory management, ordering, and supplier coordination, allowing them to operate more efficiently and profitably. The platform integrates real-time data to optimize stock replenishment and improve pricing strategies. Founded in 2019, Vori empowers grocers with technology that levels the playing field against larger retailers.

AI Voice and SMS Agents for Healthcare

Wattson Health’s AI agents connect with customers over the phone and SMS. Give us your busiest tasks and we’ll train our agents to take them off your hands.

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Lagos, Nigeria

B2B payments platform for emerging markets.

Waza is the B2B platform for global payments and emerging market trade. We make it easy and affordable for businesses with no access to USD to fulfil their global payment obligations, treasury and liquidity needs.

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201 E Jefferson St, Louisville, KY 40202, USA

WeatherCheck monitors properties for hail damage so that insurance…

WeatherChecks application tells anyone when severe hail is about to strike and when it has in fact impacted a property. Using state of the science technologies we compute and analyze geo-weather data faster than every weather company globally. This allows companies, insurance companies specifically to gain dynamic insight into their overall exposure and enabling them to respond more quickly and efficiently to disaster.

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San Francisco, CA, USA

AI Powered Personalized Videos

Windsor brings AI and deepfake tech to video personalization. We create personalized videos at scale - where someone can record a single video of themselves talking to a camera, and then send millions of these to customers with unique names, at unique companies and different locations around the globe. Each video will look and sound like it was personally recorded.

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Nairobi, Kenya

Payroll, Benefits and HR solutions for local and remote teams.

Workpay provides businesses with tools to manage their employees better and more efficiently. Workpay’s products include time management tools, Payroll (Local & Remote), Statutory Compliance, Benefits, salary disbursements and core HR functions.

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Accra, Ghana

Diversifying precision cancer diagnostics and treatments

Yemaachi Biotech is diversifying and expanding access to precision cancer diagnostics and therapeutics by collecting and sequencing samples from all across Africa, which is the most genetically diverse population on the planet. We then use this data to either optimize existing diagnostic tests, or help other companies discover new ones. With our research activities based in Africa, we are able to leverage access to the most genetically diverse population on the planet to build a first-of-its-kind clinical and molecular knowledgebase on cancer among African people.

Posture correction software

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San Mateo, CA, USA

#1 Data platform for restaurants. Acquired by Thanx

We connect applications to drive more orders and better customer experiences for restaurants. The typical restaurant now uses more than two dozen different applications to run their business. Specifically, we connect, warehouse and route the data to improve analytics, marketing, operations and finance. Our customers include brands like Frank Pepe’s, Halal Guys, Wings Over and more.

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New York, NY, USA

AI automating post-purchase operations and support for e-commerce

E-commerce brands rely on disconnected, outdated systems to manage everything after the buy button. From fulfillment and inventory to returns, customer support, and shipment tracking, post-purchase operations are messy, manual, and expensive to scale. Zimi replaces the tangle of disconnected tools with one intelligent system that runs everything after the buy button. Despite billions spent on e-commerce tech, post-purchase operations remain a black hole—leading to delays, unhappy customers, and skyrocketing support costs. Legacy ERPs are slow, customer service tools are reactive, and logistics platforms don’t connect to CX systems—forcing brands to patch things together with manual work and multiple tools. Zimi solves this with a single platform that connects 147+ tools and sales channels to centralize data, automate workflows, and power AI agents that proactively resolve issues before customers even ask. Brands use Zimi to route orders intelligently, manage inventory across multiple 3PLs, reduce returns friction, and deliver world-class customer experiences—without the operational chaos. We built Zimi after watching high-growth brands lose time, money, and trust trying to scale with tools that were never designed to work together. Our founding team has deep experience across e-commerce, logistics, and SaaS, and we're building the post-purchase infrastructure every modern brand will need to compete.

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