Standard have created the leading independent software platform for retailers to deploy autonomous cashier-less checkout tech.
Standard Cognition has signed on Circle K as a customer and aims to have its technology in at least 100 locations by year-end.
Hopin is a suite of audience engagement tools, including StreamYard, Session, Streamable, "Project C", and of course, Hopin Events.
“I feel lucky,” he told CNBC in an interview Thursday. “You work really hard, and you make some critical decisions to get.
Zapp offers ‘instant’ on-demand delivery for convenience store items in Europe, delivering items in minutes from hyper-localized urban fulfilment centers, 24/7.
London startup has raised over $300M from investors betting on its focus on convenience and unit economics.
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Pitch combines the best parts of productivity, design, and presentation software to help fast-moving teams collaborate and create beautifully designed decks in minutes.
Pitch has taken the top spot in the ranking of 100 VC-backed, B2B European “soonicorns”.
Builder’s platform streamlines outsourced software and app development using a library of building blocks and AI, democratizing software development.
Revenue is up 300% and users can now build apps up to 6x faster and 70% cheaper.
Nothing is building the next-generation of consumer electronics; they started with Ear (1) and recently launched Phone (1) & Ear (2). More products to come.
Carl knew that going up against Samsung and Apple would require a smartphone that was like nothing anyone had seen before.
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Crossbeam is a collaborative data platform that helps companies build more valuable sales, technology and marketing partnerships.
Combining Partnered with the Crossbeam platform and their network of 8,500 companies.
Manna are building consumer drone delivery infrastructure for urban settings. They allow companies to fully outsource a "delivery by drone" option for their customers.
Manna Aero is planning further expansion, targeting the US and announcing plans to move into Europe in 2023.
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Sustain.Life is carbon accounting and sustainability management for every business.
Sustain.Life has attracted high-profile brand customers across a broad range of industries.
Black Crow AI provides actionable machine learning for e-commerce by predicting user value, intent and decisions in real-time.
More than 225 companies have Black Crow’s integration — which has generated over 1 billion predictions per month.
MetaMap provides KYC/AML workflows from biometrics scanning to credit checks; enabling companies to more readily trust and transact with their customers.
MetaMap, formerly known as Mati, says it plans to put its flagship tech hub in India, boosting its staffing in that country from 30 to 150.
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Relay is a next generation online banking and money management platform for US SMBs; it acts as the financial command center for thousands of customers.
This includes a $15m Series A led by Bain Capital Ventures to increase customer acquisition growth.
Cloudsmith is a package manager built for the next generation of software infrastructure; focused on securing software's “logistics supply chain”.
Cloudsmith raised a $15 million Series A led by Tiger Global, which is the largest Series A funding round in Northern Ireland since 2005.
Breakroom is the Glassdoor for hourly workers; based on qualitative data from employee surveys, building a unique dataset of employee feedback.
The office worker can turn to favourites like Glassdoor; Breakroom has brought the same service to the hourly working labour market.
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Grafbase is an edge-first database and compute platform that enables developers to go from an idea to a serverless GraphQL backend in seconds.
Founded by former CTO of The RealReal, Grafbase is a data platform that accelerates backend deployment via GraphQL APIs.
Loctax is a collaborative tax management platform for multinational companies; allowing for “git” like collaboration on projects with multiple internal team stakeholders.
The Series A was also backed by Cavalry Ventures and investors Tapestry VC and Seedcamp.
Northflank is a full-stack cloud platform that serves millions of developer requests monthly; enabling developers to manage and automate the entire DevOps stack.
Northflank, a startup from a couple of guys in their 20s, is a full-stack DevOps platform.
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Flox is a multi-platform and reproducible environment manager powered by Nix.
The company today announced that it has raised a $16.5 million Series A round led by New Enterprise Associates.
Oleria stands in stark contrast to static access solutions, providing adaptive and autonomous access control that scales with businesses.
Oleria today announced it has raised $8 million as part of a seed funding round led by Salesforce Ventures.
Sym is the cloud access workflow platform made for engineers, by engineers.
Sym, a new platform that makes it easier for developers to integrate security and privacy workflows into.
Mozart Data is the easiest way to set up a modern data stack by providing an abstraction across data infrastructure for custom tooling.
The company reports that since raising its seed capital in 2020, ARR has grown a hefty 500%.
Rocket Dollar lets anyone invest in alternative assets through their IRA/401(k)s, keeping the tax benefits of these accounts, while diversifying their portfolio.
Rocket Dollar presents individuals with the opportunity to invest in any asset class allowed by the IRS.
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Hour One is a provider of synthetic characters based on real people. The platform generates character IP for lifelike digital video and audio on-demand.
Hour One will use the funds to further enhance and streamline the process of becoming a virtual human on the platform.
Hype is the operating system for creator businesses, offering them a suite of tools to manage their content and audiences.
The round, which brought total financing to nearly $22M to date, was led by King River Capital.
Pex is the leading media identification and monetization layer for online video indexing 100% of publicly available audio and video content.
Pex, a startup aiming to give rightsholders more control over how their content is used.
The Easy Company is a consumer-first web3 wallet with social discovery features.
The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet.
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Patrick is a former web developer and mechanical engineer. He spent the early part of his career advising top technology companies at investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Patrick previously started and ran a VC fund for Universal Music Group, which had invested in Spotify, Shazam, Uber, TikTok, Houseparty, Stance and more.
He is an avid sea swimmer and coffee sipper when at home in San Francisco, and prefers running and reading when on the road in Europe or New York.
Patrick Murphy
SF + London
David has been actively involved in the European and international technology scene for over a decade, and started angel investing in 2014.
David co-founded tech events business Web Summit, and helped it grow to host some of the world’s largest startup gatherings. He resigned from Web Summit in March 2021.
David is an active father of three, and splits his time between Dublin and Lisbon, when not crisscrossing Europe’s other capital cities to meet with founders.
David Kelly
Europe
Audrey focuses primarily on fintech and enterprise software across Europe and US.
She started her career at Goldman Sachs in London and San Francisco after graduating from Stanford University. After that she joined Entrepreneur First to incubate new company ideas and began advising early stage teams. She spends most of her free time producing music.
Audrey Miller
London + SF
Alex is a self-taught developer from South Africa who focuses on infrastructure and enterprise software.
He was formerly the Investors Team Lead at Web Summit in Dublin, and started his career at VMWare in Palo Alto. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern University, Boston. He spends his free time publishing technical primers, writing code, and developing games.
In this post we unpack the build system and package manager Nix.
Alex Mackenzie
London + Dublin
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