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Wayflyer is a financing platform designed specifically for consumer brands, providing them with tailored funding options and insights to help scale their businesses. By utilizing real-time business performance assessments, Wayflyer enables SMBs to access capital quickly and efficiently, transforming the traditional financing model.

Airwallex is a trusted global payments and financial platform that provides multi-currency accounts, high-speed international transfers, corporate cards, expense management, automated billing, and embedded finance solutions.

OpenBorder is a platform that facilitates international e-commerce by providing solutions for cross-border shipping, in-country fulfillment, and automated product compliance. The company leverages an AI-powered tax engine to optimize the international shopping experience, ensuring seamless returns and localized customer interactions.

11x is pioneering a transformative approach to revenue generation by creating autonomous AI workers that handle routine tasks, allowing human sales teams to focus on building relationships and innovating. Rather than selling software, 11x delivers complete outcomes through digital workers that operate 24/7 across various channels, fundamentally changing how businesses approach sales.

Skuad, now part of Payoneer, is a global workforce management platform that simplifies international employment for businesses. It enables companies to hire and pay employees and contractors worldwide while ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations.

Rutter is a unified API platform designed for B2B financial products, enabling businesses to streamline their financial operations through various integrations. Their solutions include supplier enablement, invoicing automation, and expense management, all powered by advanced data synchronization and AI technologies.

Finway is a financial technology company that offers a digital platform for managing company expenses and employee spending. The platform aims to streamline financial processes for businesses, enhancing efficiency and transparency in financial management.

Clearco connects ecommerce businesses to fast funding, enabling them to accelerate growth by providing capital for invoices related to product, procurement, marketing, and operations. The company aims to be a strategic and flexible capital partner that understands the needs of founders.

Kintsugi is an AI-driven platform that automates sales tax compliance for rapidly scaling businesses, integrating seamlessly with existing ERP, HR, and ecommerce systems. It provides enterprise-grade tax automation, ensuring accurate management of sales tax, VAT, and GST across over 100 countries, thereby alleviating the burden of manual calculations and compliance headaches.

Lorikeet is a customer support universal AI concierge that enhances resolution accuracy and efficiency across chat, email, and voice channels. By automating complex workflows and ticket routing, it allows businesses to scale support without increasing headcount, ultimately improving customer satisfaction.

Traild is a finance process automation software company that specializes in accounts payable solutions. Their platform streamlines invoice capture, coding, matching, and approvals while utilizing advanced risk scoring to enhance decision-making in financial operations.

Unify is an AI-powered platform that integrates intent data and outbound actions to enhance sales and marketing efforts. By combining AI technology with actionable insights, Unify aims to streamline the pipeline generation process for businesses, ensuring higher conversion rates.

First institutional capital ($100k–$1M) post friends-and-family, acting as outsourced corporate development leveraging tech/media relationships and a boutique investment bank to drive distribution, deals, and pro rata support.

Multi-stage investor offering founders a 600+ person community of operators and executives that co-develops theses, supports companies, and advocates for systemic diversity.

Operator-led team of former Facebook, WhatsApp and eBay product, growth and engineering leaders who work hands-on on data/product management, freely released Growth Scanner and prioritize AI- and data-defensible startups.

Partech Partners invests at seed, venture and growth stages with an integrated multi-continent platform operating offices in Paris, Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. The firm offers deep Africa expertise and is widely cited for deal-flow reporting. Originated in 1982 as Paribas Technologies inside a bank before becoming an independent, partner-owned global VC platform through a 2008 management buyout.

Early-stage boutique that publicly rebooted after admitting a lost decade, offering an institutionalized Fellows talent pipeline funneling top students into breakout startups. Kleiner Perkins deliberately transformed from a sprawling, personality-driven platform into a tighter early-stage boutique after 2018, openly acknowledging a 'lost decade' and marketing their turnaround as a core part of their brand story. The firm built one of the industry's most structured talent pipelines through their Kleiner Perkins Fellows program, which provides a systematic route for top students into breakout startups and comes with KP-sponsored seed capital.