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Rounds
Rounds is a social platform that combines live communication and entertainment. Rounds allows friends to send text messages, video chat with up-to 12 participants and engage in activities while chatting. Supporting over 7,000 devices, Rounds has raised $22 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, Samsung Ventures, Verizon Ventures, DFJ’s Tim Draper, and Rhodium.
Windward
Windward analyses and organises all of the world’s maritime data, bridging a large information gap to identify security threats and even predict financial trends. The solution is in wide use amongst the Intelligence and governmental clients worldwide, as well as financial institutions. The company has raised over $15 million from Aleph and Horizons Ventures.
Bizzabo
Bizzabo is the world’s first event success platform. It helps organisers create successful events by empowering them to build websites, sell tickets, grow communities, go mobile and maximise event experiences – using a user friendly platform. Bizzabo has raised over $4 mn in funding.
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Clicksmob
Clicksmob has taken the model of affiliate marketing and made it uniquely relevant to the new and ever-evolving world of mobile – providing a marketplace for advertisers and publishers to buy and deliver mobile traffic for ROI positive monetisation and user acquisition. With a female CEO at the helm and more than 60% female employees, ClicksMob was named one of ‘America’s Most Promising Companies’ for 2015 by Forbes.
enSilo is a cyber-security start-up offering a real-time targeted data exfiltration prevention platform to help corporations and governments secure their networks, even if a hacker manages to gain entry. enSilo’s solution enables business continuity while a device compromise is being resolved, and is headed by security veterans from leading private and public sector companies.
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