Meet the Pioneers

Pioneer companies have gone on to collectively raise over $200M from Sequoia, a16z, General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, and many more.

34 · Argentina

Palabra: Segment.io for email.

30 · Prague, Czech Republic

Devbook: search engine for developers.

Leonard Bogdonoff

35 · New York City, USA

Milk: Turn webinars into sharable highlights.

Ignacio Alvarez

42 · Nuevo León, Mexico

Moneypool: Venmo for LatAm.

Flux: PayPal for Africa.

24 · Toronto, Canada

Ascend: Bloomberg for real estate.

32 · Cape Town, South Africa

Aspect: Keynote for website building.

25 · Montreal, Canada

Axon: a $1,000 portable brain scanner.

34 · Peshawar, Pakistan

ThisCodeWorks: find & save code snippets that work.

Francisco Valencia

33 · Monterrey, Mexico

Prothesia: a fabrication platform for digital manufacturing of orthotic devices.

29 · Washington, DC, USA

Charter Cities Institute: Building the ecosystem for charter cities.

29 · Penang, Malaysia

A series of publications about today's top entrepreneurs and innovators to inspire the next generation.

24 · Barcelona, Spain

Gauss: gamified, scalable, psychometric assessments to identify undiscovered talent.

23 · Hod Hasharon, Israel

Small, affordable satellites that fit in the palm of your hand.

29 · Dubai, United Arab Emirates

LiveDocs: Programmable document editor.

31 · San Francisco, USA

Nuron Labs: the worldwide neural layer.

29 · Manila, Philippines

Blackbelt: learn by doing.

27 · Illinois, USA

Windsor: A simple user management tool.

Pavle Goloskokovic

35 · Belgrade, Serbia

Mine VR: A VR adventure game for the blind.

24 · San Francisco, USA

Matrix: stock market for esports.

24 · San Francisco, USA

Researching ultra-dense deuterium, a new phase of matter with applications in fusion energy.

25 · North Carolina, USA

A tactile digital watch for the blind.

Harshu Musunuri

24 · Seattle, USA

InflammAid: polymer-based materials for diagnosing and treating inflammatory infections.

Amulya Balakrishnan

24 · New Jersey, USA

A wearable device that provides real-time, continuous ECG heart rate monitoring data.

Elena Nadolinski

32 · San Francisco, USA

Iron Fish: A privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

25 · Dublin, Ireland

Patch: Summer accelerator for extraordinary teenagers.

30 · Accra, Ghana

Bitsika: Venmo for Africa.

Nicholas Donahue

27 · North Carolina, USA

Atmos: Custom home-building.

30 · San Francisco, USA

Superset: Ebay 2.0.

23 · Toronto, Canada

Immune 2.0: Using AI and computational biophysics to create personalized immunotherapy treatments.

30 · San Francisco, USA

Squally: a PC game for low-level computer science.

Karolis Šablauskas

33 · Vilnius, Lithuania

Ligence: Automated heart ultrasound analysis with artificial intelligence.

24 · Scotland, United Kingdom

Open Commit: A platform for developers to receive on-demand, actionable reviews of code from expert software developers.

34 · Kampala, Uganda

RideUp: an eco-friendly bike delivery service for corporate offices in Kampala that aims to empower girls from the streets.

Behnam Rajabifard

29 · Tallinn, Estonia

There: A virtual office for remote teams.

Nat: Superhuman for your address book.

Flux: PayPal for Africa.

Oleh Kryvytskyi

31 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Plai: performance management, simplified.

Mohamad Rajabifard

24 · Tallinn, Estonia

There: A virtual office for remote teams.

Inna Ponamarchuk

Werbot: 1Password for servers.

26 · New York City, USA

Atmos: Custom home-building.

24 · Montreal, Canada

Axon: a $1,000 portable brain scanner.

38 · Sydney, Australia

Evolve Research: Trello, for UX research.

36 · United Kingdom

Nova Money: Gamified money management.

30 · Illinois, USA

Autobon AI: Fully automated freight shipping.

26 · Vancouver, Canada

Nototo: A spatial workspace.

26 · Vancouver, Canada

Nototo: A spatial workspace.

27 · Alabama, USA

Remora Robotics: Roomba for the Ocean.

27 · Palestine, State of

DyNotify: Search, browse and track +100 e-commerce sites .

37 · Bengaluru, India

Kaapi: Employee feedback platform for remote teams.

27 · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

NetZero: A carbon footprint tracker.

21 · Toronto, Canada

Immune 2.0: Using AI and computational biophysics to create personalized immunotherapy treatments.

38 · Cork, Ireland

ToDesktop: Convert your web app to a desktop app in 2 minutes.

35 · Moscow, Russia

Airsite: a mobile app for building simple websites.

Nicolas Carmont

26 · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

NetZero: A carbon footprint tracker.

25 · Lausanne, Switzerland

Nat: Superhuman for contacts.

Preston Attebery

29 · New York, USA

BlockCities: Houseparty meets SimCity.

23 · Los Angeles, USA

Lalabox: Twitch meets Lunchclub.

31 · California, USA

Forge: Language learning in your pocket.

Kelvin Umechukwu

Bumpa: Shopify for Africa.

33 · Orem, USA

Deft: Amazon 2.0.

Alexandr Priezzhev

Nova Money: Gamified money management.

25 · South Carolina, USA

EasyGov: Stripe Atlas for Government Forms.

36 · Iowa, USA

Roboflow: End-to-end computer vision.

Guillermo Herrera-Arcos

29 · Monterrey, Mexico

Prothesia: a fabrication platform for digital manufacturing of orthotic devices.

27 · Alabama, USA

Remora Robotics: Roomba for the Ocean.

30 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Plai: performance management, simplified.

27 · Alabama, USA

Remora Robotics: Roomba for the Ocean.

Fraser Greenlee

27 · Glasgow, United Kingdom

Live Coder: See how your code executes as you type.

Arkadiy Baltser

26 · Massachusetts, USA

Plutoview: Surf the web together.

28 · San Francisco, USA

Banana: GitHub for ML.

Kaapi: Employee feedback platform for remote teams.

26 · Beaumont, Belgium

Foundation: The first factory on the moon.

Rishabh Minocha

25 · Toronto, Canada

Rant: disappearing voice chats.

33 · California, USA

Motionbox: Figma meets Final Cut Pro.

26 · Massachusetts, USA

Prefix: No-code browser RPA.

Funnelll: NoCode conversion tracking.

Sungun (Andrew) Huh

45 · San Francisco, USA

Matrix: Democratized esports brand.

26 · Palestine, State of

DyNotify: Search, browse and track +100 e-commerce sites .

Adetunji Opayele

Bumpa: Shopify for Africa.

25 · Montreal, Canada

Axon: a $1,000 portable brain scanner.

36 · United Kingdom

Hackerstash: Micro financing for projects.

Alex Shevchenko

Safewatch: AI-powered security cameras.

34 · Berlin, Germany

Monitoro: No-code API for any website.

28 · Monterrey, Mexico

Prothesia: a fabrication platform for digital manufacturing of orthotic devices.

Matthew Johnson

41 · Sacramento, USA

Taskable: A unified to-do list.

Werbot: 1Password for servers.

Jura Fitzgerald

35 · Kharkiv, Ukraine

RoboticTape: AI-powered RPA.

38 · Netherlands

Hackerstash: Micro financing for projects.

Tomasz Krakowiak

43 · Warsaw, Poland

Taskable: A unified to-do list.

37 · Monterrey, Mexico

Moneypool: Venmo for LatAm.

Runops: Auto devops.

26 · New York, USA

EasyGov: Stripe Atlas for Government Forms.

24 · California, USA

Cadoo: Get paid to get in shape.

26 · New Jersey, USA

EasyGov: Stripe Atlas for Government Forms.

35 · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Hostnotion: Notion as a blog.

Thomas Uhlenbruck

29 · Waterloo, Canada

Pulse Industrial: Digitizes industrial environments.

42 · Auckland, New Zealand

Karma: True bonding for remote teams.

29 · San Francisco, USA

Darklaunch: feature flagging with automatic deployments & rollbacks.

Williem Williem

35 · Jakarta, Indonesia

Verihubs: AI based KYC.

31 · United Kingdom

Hackerstash: Micro financing for projects.

25 · Washington, USA

EasyGov: Stripe Atlas for Government Forms.

28 · Palestine, State of

DyNotify: Search, browse and track +100 e-commerce sites .

27 · Connecticut, USA

Wozi: Stevia 2.0.

29 · Illinois, USA

Autobon AI: Fully automated freight shipping.

Sasha Chepurnoi

28 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Plai: performance management, simplified.

26 · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

NetZero: A carbon footprint tracker.

34 · United Kingdom

wfhland: A virtual workspace for your team.

31 · Washington, D.C. , USA

Roboflow: End-to-end computer vision.

33 · California, USA

Remotehour: Effortless office hours for freelancers.

35 · Washington, DC, USA

Charter Cities Institute: Building the ecosystem for charter cities.

35 · Los Angeles, USA

Deft: Amazon 2.0.

Angela Coronado

34 · United Kingdom

Nova Money: Gamified money management.

24 · California, USA

Rant: disappearing voice chats.

24 · Massachusetts, USA

Rant: disappearing voice chats.

29 · Johannesburg, South Africa

Search engine for people.

Afriktrip: Travelocity for Africa.

24 · Vancouver, Canada

Ink Chinese: Learn to write Chinese characters.

Shred Vepencheri

Oyku: Wix for voice apps.

25 · North Carolina, USA

Bender Games: Multiplayer AR game engine.

Termy: IntelliSense for your Terminal.

57 · California, USA

Brainsprays: Alexa education for kids.

31 · New York City, USA

Collaborative Loom for fixing bugs.

Rodrigo Pedrozo

28 · Florianópolis, Brazil

Find the cheapest items on your shopping list.

28 · Chennai, India

A driver telemetry assistant that makes vehicles safer and more connected, aimed at the chaotic traffic of India.

32 · Los Angeles, USA

ML to reduce employee burnout.

Muhammad Harfoush

Mon: Financial Planning for Gen Z.

31 · New York, USA

Helios: Roam Research for Real Estate.

28 · Dublin, Ireland

Conduit: Product management for engineers.

Benedict Asamoah

30 · Accra, Ghana

Sturta: a local marketplace for service providers across Africa.

Oscar Andres Rojas Guerrero

30 · Bogota, Colombia

Bluu: Influencer ecommerce for LatAm.

AI-powered data search.

Victor Papyshev

25 · Florida, USA

Tomo HQ: Instant audio chat for remote teams.

29 · New Taipei City, Taiwan

Walnut: Quiz-enhanced educational videos.

28 · New York City, USA

28 · London, United Kingdom

Ethi: Personal data sentry.

37 · Sydney, Australia

Evolve research: Trello, for research.

52 · Ontario, Canada

Edropin: Netflix for Dental Courses.

27 · New York City, USA

Collaborative Loom for fixing bugs.

21 · Mexico City, Mexico

Warp: Digital Banking for LatAm.

Isabella Carver-Yi

15 · California, USA

Brainsprays: Alexa education for kids.

30 · San Francisco, USA

AI-powered knowledge graph.

30 · Bogota, Colombia

Watermelon: Remote team bonding.

Jarrett McCusker

27 · Pennsylvania, USA

MTLS: Warby Parker for Precious Metals.

Niels Andriesse

31 · London, United Kingdom

Clean your spreadsheets in minutes.

30 · Berlin, Germany

Friend-finding app.

28 · Chennai, India

A driver telemetry assistant that makes vehicles safer and more connected, aimed at the chaotic traffic of India.

Malika Nurbekova

27 · California, USA

Utterly: AI-powered denoiser.

23 · Dublin, Ireland

Field of Vision: Haptic Hardware for the Blind.

34 · Morelia, Mexico

Subscriptions dashboard.

21 · Ottawa, Canada

28 · London, United Kingdom

Emcee: Twitch meets Shopify.

Sam Schlesinger

33 · Portland, USA

No-code form A/B testing.

41 · New Brunswick, Canada

Beanstalk: A privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

23 · Los Angeles, USA

Play video games with famous streamers.

34 · New York, USA

Debtcollect: 21st century debt collection software.

Michał Śmiałko

31 · Krakow, Poland

Pricolo: A collaborative platform for music.

30 · Berlin, Germany

Friend-finding app.

29 · Atlanta, USA

Better vision for robots.

31 · Cape Town, South Africa

Intelligent monitoring of databases.

Nushaine Ferdinand

21 · Ottawa, Canada

26 · Florida, USA

Tomo HQ: Instant audio chat for remote teams.

Hero: Mixpanel for personal productivity.

Ibukunoluwa Salau

24 · Lagos, Nigeria

Afriktrip: Travelocity for Africa.

Gregory Fountoussov

37 · Barcelona, Spain

No-code storefront editor .

28 · Lagos, Nigeria

Paytalent: Fiat payments in Africa.

Brian Waterstone

34 · Minnesota, USA

Owl Mail: Privacy.com for email.

23 · Nairobi, Kenya

HoneyCoin: CashApp meets Gumroad.

25 · A Coruña, Spain

Residency and taxes for remote workers.

24 · Virginia, USA

Cursive: Slack meets Google Docs.

29 · San Francisco, USA

Netflix for animated shorts.

26 · Hong Kong

Clearcall: AI-powered customer calls.

Vidyut Ghuwalewala

24 · Waterloo, Canada

TikTok Brand / Influencer Marketplace .

Jesseca Casanare

36 · Lumban, Philippines

Dunster: Faster Stripe Atlas.

Michitomo Nakahara

37 · Tokyo, Japan

Potlatch: Lunchclub for Enterprise.

Fernando Varela

30 · New York, USA

Hero: Mixpanel for personal productivity.

30 · California, USA

Utterly: AI-powered denoiser.

Emma Phuong Thi Minh Nguyen

34 · Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Blueskin: Automated skin analysis.

30 · Michigan, USA

Depiction: AI-powered Powerpoint.

Adam Vandervorst

25 · Kruibeke, Belgium

Depiction: AI-powered Powerpoint.

24 · Dublin, Ireland

Field of Vision: Haptic Hardware for the Blind.

44 · North Carolina, USA

Wrk: Superhuman for hiring.

24 · Dublin, Ireland

Field of Vision: Haptic Hardware for the Blind.

Daniel Fernandez

36 · San Francisco, USA

Hola: a self-hosted alternative to WhatsApp.

42 · Washington, DC, USA

Digital infrastructure for radio spectrum markets.

Sabarish Gnanamoorthy

21 · Toronto, Canada

WaypointAR: a mobile augmented reality app for indoor navigation.

Luke Barwikowski

28 · California, USA

Bash: Digital happy hours.

24 · Connecticut, USA

Intelligent data recall.

40 · North Carolina, USA

Wrk: Superhuman for hiring.

32 · Bogota, Colombia

SafeTalpa: PCI-compliance as a service.

27 · Istanbul, Turkey

Production ready Authorization API.

28 · California, USA

Collectour: Virtual Sotheby's.

25 · Cologne, Germany

AI-assistant for meeting summaries.

27 · Istanbul, Turkey

Production ready Authorization API.

Kai-Hsiang Chang

26 · Taiwan, Taiwan

No-code NFT AND Web3 builder.

Holger Niessner

33 · Berlin, Germany

HeroStream: Automatic Video Editor for E-Sports.

31 · London, United Kingdom

Unweave: Versionable and collaborative data storage.

Ashwath Narayanan

24 · Washington, DC, USA

TikTok Brand / Influencer Marketplace .

Kash: Brex for Africa.

Hovhannes Ghevondyan

30 · Yerevan, Armenia

Central hub for design collaboration.

28 · United Kingdom

Mesure: FitBit for Productivity.

35 · San Francisco, USA

Engineering the plants that will make up the first forest on Mars.

27 · North Carolina, USA

Bender Games: Multiplayer AR game engine.

20 · Toronto, Canada

Using AI and nanotech to predict diseases like lung cancer 12 months before they occur.

Coinvise: Crypto creator economy.

Hussain Punjani

27 · Toronto, Canada

Accelerated: Heroku for GPUs.

26 · Tokyo, Japan

Sentrei: Distraction-free virtual workspace.

Alfonso Rodriguez

28 · Puerto Rico

MTLS: Warby Parker for Precious Metals.

34 · San Francisco, USA

Hola: a self-hosted alternative to WhatsApp.

Phebos: Shopify for restaurants.

44 · Auckland, New Zealand

Karma: A performance-tracking chatbot.

28 · Bogota, Colombia

Bluu: Influencer ecommerce for LatAm.

25 · Sydney, Australia

Applying deep-learning to noisy EEG signals to revolutionize brain-computer interfaces.

34 · Knoxville, USA

Green Governance: A green index fund.

Tomáš Valenta

31 · Prague, Czech Republic

Devbook: search engine for developers.

29 · Bengaluru, India

Cliqq: Interactive Patreon for Twitch.

Karthikraj Duraisamy

Oyku: Wix for voice apps.

Ragnor Comerford

27 · Scotland, United Kingdom

Glenstack: GitHub for databases.

Taiga Kobayashi

32 · Tokyo, Japan

Potlatch: Lunchclub for Enterprise.

32 · Portland, USA

No-code form A/B testing.

Sacha Schermerhorn

28 · California, USA

Lolly: TikTok for dating.

24 · Bengaluru, India

Modfy: In-browser video compression and conversion.

Christos Alexiou

25 · Thessaloniki, Greece

Canva for podcasting.

27 · Scotland, United Kingdom

Glenstack: GitHub for databases.

Thayallan Srinathan

24 · Toronto, Canada

Accelerated: Heroku for GPUs.

33 · Cape Town, South Africa

Intelligent monitoring of databases.

30 · Atlanta, USA

Better vision for robots.

27 · Munich, Germany

Clearcall: AI-powered customer calls.

29 · Boston, USA

AI that’s inspired by biological principles from neuroscience.

37 · New York, USA

Helios: Roam Research for Real Estate.

28 · Istanbul, Turkey

Production ready Authorization API.

30 · San Jose, USA

Automated hiring.

27 · Sacramento, USA

Self-Serve Data Analytics.

Emile Paffard-Wray

31 · Birmingham, United Kingdom

Profiled: The modern day resume for developers.

31 · Indiana, USA

PRCV: open source computer vision research.

34 · Ontario, Canada

Edropin: Netflix for Dental Courses.

30 · New York, USA

Referralboard: Incentivised employee referrals.

29 · London, United Kingdom

Auxi: Zendesk 2.0.

Benedikt Böringer

25 · Cologne, Germany

AI-assistant for meeting summaries.

Nikhil Bhattasali

28 · California, USA

Vizstack: LaTex for code visualization.

Stan Rymkiewicz

27 · Warsaw, Poland

Orapa: Fiverr for sales reps.

Jindosh: Gamified software developer screening.

29 · Toronto, Canada

Unchurn customers via text .

27 · Massachusetts, USA

Wombo: Influencer office hours.

23 · Indonesia

AI-generated content for social media.

34 · New York, USA

Sneakerlist: Hyperlocal sneaker marketplace.

26 · Florida, USA

Prked: Airbnb for parking.

26 · New York City, USA

Self-Serve Data Analytics.

Navneet Madhu Kumar

Aasaanai: No-code machine learning.

31 · New York, USA

Helios: Roam Research for Real Estate.

Movses Saponjyan

33 · Yerevan, Armenia

Central hub for design collaboration.

34 · San Francisco, USA

Hyper: Avatar social network.

Micheál McLaughlin

24 · Belfast, Ireland

CropSafe: Zapier for farming.

22 · Amsterdam, Netherlands

Carbonly: Carbon offset tracking in your browser.

Dominik Zurawski

· Warsaw, Poland

Orapa: Fiverr for sales reps.

Leander Maerkisch

28 · Vallendar, Germany

Stardust: Personal CFO for freelancers.

30 · New York, USA

Helios: Roam Research for Real Estate.

Saranga Pagadala

23 · Boston, USA

LinkedIn for real estate.

Khachatur Virabyan

29 · Yerevan, Armenia

Central hub for design collaboration.

24 · Toronto, Canada

Accelerated: Heroku for GPUs.

Patrick Pijnappel

35 · London, United Kingdom

Clean your spreadsheets in minutes.

28 · Hauts-de-France, France

Deploynets: ML model deployment.

29 · Lahore, Pakistan

TapTap: Automatic note-taking.

Kai Christensen

22 · California, USA

No More Green Screen: Automatic video background remover.

37 · Philippines

Coinfu: TDD-based trading automation.

Onboard: Okta 2.0.

Robrecht Le Roy

28 · Ghent, Belgium

Emcee: Twitch meets Shopify.

James O'Donnell

28 · Scotland, United Kingdom

Glenstack: GitHub for databases.

Rahul Lakhanpal

35 · Gurugram, India

Dunster: Faster Stripe Atlas.

33 · Atlanta, USA

Better vision for robots.

Proficient: Job Application Assistant (GPT-3).

23 · Ontario, Canada

TabTab: Collaborative Netflix subscriptions.

Christopher Chen

27 · California, USA

Starview: Social web browsing.

29 · London, United Kingdom

Emcee: Twitch Meets Shopify.

27 · London, United Kingdom

Bugshare: Autocorrect for engineers.

26 · Florida, USA

Prked: Airbnb for parking.

24 · Virginia, USA

Paraglide: Webflow for ML.

24 · Belfast, Ireland

CropSafe: Zapier for farming.

27 · London, United Kingdom

Ethi: Personal data sentry.

25 · Mexico City, Mexico

Warp: Digital Banking for LatAm.

28 · London, United Kingdom

Peek: Clubhouse for Book Clubs.

Victor Daniel Cardenas

23 · Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of

TabTab: Collaborative Netflix subscriptions.

Matthew McAteer

32 · San Francisco, USA

Private machine learning dev tools, no PhD needed.

Grace Chiamaka Obieri

32 · Lagos, Nigeria

Paytalent: Fiat payments in Africa.