Entities

Boston senior associate at Polaris since2021, focused on early biotechnology, immunology, oncology, neuroscience and machine-learning therapeutics. Earlier clinical-development experience includes Biohaven Pharmaceuticals.

Shafique Virani, MD, is a QurAlis director and biotechnology executive. His published biography describes business leadership at Noetik, Recursion, BridgeBio and Genentech, following medical and neurosurgical training in Nottingham, Cambridge and Boston.

Valuemaker AG is a Swiss early-stage investment and startup development platform based in Biel/Bienne. It scouts university and entrepreneurial projects, assesses pre-seed equity investments through its entrepreneur jury and due diligence, and supports startups with coaching, technology, resources and investor networks. Its investments include deep-tech and neurosurgical medical-device companies.

M2care is a Lyon-based European healthtech venture studio that co-founds, develops and finances early-stage healthcare companies with entrepreneurs. Created by Mérieux Développement and CEA Investissement, it combines its own capital with operational expertise, entrepreneurs in residence and academic and industrial networks to develop projects toward Series A readiness. Its investments include neurosurgical and other medical-device technologies.

Celia Hart is a UroMems board observer and General Partner at Supernova Invest. Her background includes antibody development at Cambridge Antibody Technology and life sciences investing and business development. She holds chemistry and doctoral qualifications from Geneva and Oxford and an MBA from Grenoble École de Management.

Andreas Raabe is published by machineMD as Medical Advisory Board Member. The medical advisory directory associates this external adviser with University Hospital of Bern; advisory service is distinct from company employment.

Rhovica Neuroimaging is a Bern-based medical technology company founded by neurosurgeons Martin Hlavica and Thomas Rhomberg. It develops SoNav, a sensor-based system for real-time bedside visualization and navigation during external ventricular drain catheter insertion in emergency neurosurgery. Its technology is also intended to support subsequent monitoring of brain ventricles.

Bottneuro is a Basel-based neurotechnology company spun out of the University of Basel's Department of Biomedical Engineering. It develops and markets Miamind, a personalized, non-invasive home neurostimulator for cognitive disorders. Its system combines MRI-based individualized caps, transcranial electrical stimulation and remote monitoring. The company is also studying its approach in clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease.

Provides electric-vehicle leasing and lifecycle management for commercial fleets. It finances and manages vehicle procurement, insurance, maintenance, charging support and fleet assets, helping delivery and logistics operators adopt electric two-, three- and four-wheelers without owning the vehicles outright.

Operates a cross-border marketplace for digital gaming products, including game keys, downloadable content, subscriptions and gift cards. It connects sellers with gamers and supplies payment, fraud-detection, pricing and distribution tools for digital-goods commerce.

Provides last-mile delivery services using electric vehicles in Indian cities. Its fleet and logistics technology support grocery, food, e-commerce and local deliveries, combining rider operations, vehicle management and route execution to help customers replace petrol-powered delivery fleets.

Provides live online and cohort-based training for careers in marketing, content, business, design and product. Its programs combine practical assignments, mentorship and career support to help students and early-career professionals build job-ready skills. Acquired by Imarticus Learning in May 2025.

Provides financial services to underserved micro, small and medium-sized businesses in India. The non-bank financial company combines local distribution with technology-assisted lending and credit processes to help small-business owners obtain financing and grow their enterprises.

Runs a B2B procurement marketplace for small food businesses such as street-food vendors, roadside restaurants and sweet shops. Its mobile application provides access to groceries, raw materials and daily essentials, with local-language ordering, recommendations, expense tracking and scheduled delivery.

Operates a student-housing discovery and booking platform for international students. It connects students with accommodation providers and supports services such as guarantors, airport pickup and relocation. Its related tools include property management software and AI-assisted study-abroad discovery and sales support.

Provides rapid-order fulfillment and delivery infrastructure for consumer brands selling through their own online channels. Its platform connects stores to a network of dark stores and local delivery fleets, coordinating inventory, picking, dispatch and tracking for quick-commerce and same-day orders.

Provides debt-resolution and loan-management services for Indian consumers. Its platform combines credit counselling, lender negotiations, structured settlement plans, loan-consolidation support and credit-profile tools to help borrowers manage overdue or unaffordable debt. Operated by FREED India Private Limited.

Helps employers provide and administer corporate health benefits. Its platform combines access to insurer-backed health plans with claims assistance, cashless-care coordination, wellness services and employee support, giving HR and finance teams tools to manage benefits and resolve healthcare requests.

Operates a technology platform and rural field network that connects farmers and small agricultural businesses with credit, commodity buyers and product distributors. It supports loan sourcing, borrower verification, disbursement and collections for financial institutions, while coordinating agricultural procurement and distribution. Operated by Agrosperity Tech Solutions.

Provides an AI-assisted finance operations platform for businesses. It connects procurement, accounts payable, vendor payments, corporate banking, expense management and accounting workflows, integrating with banks and enterprise resource planning software. Its tools extract invoice data, coordinate approvals, reconcile transactions and maintain audit trails.

Helps non-resident Indians access banking and investment services in India remotely. Its platform coordinates account opening, digital notarization, document submission and money-transfer workflows with financial institutions. Its Nuvanta product provides institutions with infrastructure for cross-border investor verification, documentation, onboarding and payments.

Designs and manufactures connected-vehicle electronics for automotive manufacturers and fleet operators. Its telematics and body control units support vehicle tracking, remote immobilization, crash alerts, diagnostics and preventive-maintenance monitoring, connecting onboard hardware with fleet-management software.

Empirical Ventures is a London-based venture capital firm and venture builder backing science-led companies globally at pre-seed and seed stages. Founded by scientists Ben Miles and Johnathan Matlock, it invests across life sciences, AI, advanced materials, photonics, quantum technologies, robotics and energy. Its portfolio includes neural-interface semiconductor developer MintNeuro and epilepsy-diagnostics company Neuronostics. Empirical Ventures Limited operates as an appointed representative of SFC Capital Partners.

Excellis is a deep-tech investment platform backing companies built by Italian researchers and founders internationally. Its focus includes robotics and industrial AI, energy and advanced materials, healthcare technologies and neural interfaces, semiconductors and quantum computing. Its original investment track record belongs to Excellis Holding S.r.l., established in 2022; Excellis Ventures presents a successor fund strategy. The published team spans Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Thomas Möller is managing partner at BioMedPartners and chief investment officer at Kickfund, whose own biography explicitly confirms both affiliations. His background includes CFO responsibilities at NMT New Medical Technologies and senior work at PwC. He trained in economics at the University of Basel and is a Swiss certified public accountant. The manager’s current overview dates corporate founding to 2002, while his biography describes involvement from inception in 2003; these statements are retained with their differing corporate versus operational-history scope. These are institutional manager affiliations; no personal portfolio investment is inferred.

Kickfund is a Swiss venture capital investor based in Basel that backs early-stage deep-tech companies. Its pipeline comes from Venture Kick third-stage winners, and it co-invests alongside lead investors without taking board seats. Its portfolio spans AI, robotics, semiconductors, biotechnology and medical devices, including neurotechnology. Kickfund AG and Kickfund Partners Sàrl are listed on its official site.

Techshop Capital is a Milan venture capital firm operated by The Techshop SGR S.p.A. It invests at seed stage in B2B technology businesses, including enterprise software, AI and physical automation. The firm supports product development, market entry, recruitment and international expansion, with an investment team and operational specialists.

IAG publishes Carlo Brunetti as an external angel-network member. The member profile describes the following career and investing background, whose corporate positions are not independently asserted current: Notaio. Digital Deep Tech Life Science Notaio, appassionato di Life Science. Ha partecipato a libri su innovazione e finanziamento della stessa. Champion in società del settore biomedicale. Champion: Own IAG December18,2019 financing announcement names Carlo Brunetti as member and champion of the Sooma investment. This establishes deal-support responsibility within the member network; neither a personal cash amount nor individual subscription is inferred.

IAG publishes Giovanni Strocchi as an external angel-network member. The member profile describes the following career and investing background, whose corporate positions are not independently asserted current: Senior manager aziende digital. Digital Senior manager con esperienza internazionale in progetti di trasformazione digitale, Digital Media & AdTech, marketing, vendite, gestione di organizzazioni internazionali complesse, strategia, innovazione, programmi di trasformazione tecnologica ad ampio raggio, gestione di azionisti / consigli di amministrazione. Active angel Investor (2 Exit, 15 investimenti, Board member in tre) Champion:

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company develops standards, technical audits, certification and insurance for AI systems. Its AIUC-1 standard evaluates the security, safety and reliability of AI agents, helping businesses assess and manage risks before deploying them. The company also develops assurance and insurance approaches for frontier AI models.

Invests at the earliest stages in AI companies whose founders combine technical execution with a view of how new institutions should serve people. Its portfolio spans AI auditing, certification and insurance, open model training infrastructure, personalized AI that preserves user control, and education. Co-founded by Brendan McCord and Matt Mandel, it operates independently of the nonprofit Cosmos Institute and launched a USD 77.6 million debut fund in September 2026.

Developed personalized AI models and infrastructure for private model training and inference. Its research aimed to adapt models to an individual’s knowledge, preferences and values while keeping the person in control of the system. The public benefit corporation joined Thinking Machines Lab in April 2026 to continue this work.

Co-founded Cosmos Ventures and founded the nonprofit Cosmos Institute. Previously founded AI businesses and helped establish the Pentagon’s applied AI organization and strategy.

Co-founded Cosmos Ventures after working as an investor at Union Square Ventures. Studied philosophy and computer science at Harvard and developed the firm’s investment thesis with Brendan McCord.

Builds an AI workspace for accounting and bookkeeping firms. Its agents connect to accounting software and client documents to prepare journal entries, reconcile accounts, clean historical books and execute closing checklists. Accountants review the work and use the resulting financial information to advise their clients.

Operates an Indian fashion and lifestyle commerce platform for men. It combines fashion content and product discovery with an online storefront for items such as footwear and limited-edition designs, helping shoppers find and purchase products matched to their style.

Provides AI-assisted contract analytics and a legal delivery service. Its tools extract contract data, apply review playbooks, compare documents, identify risks and support drafting and edits. Legal teams can use the software directly or commission human-verified workflows from its legal analysts and independent professionals.

Develops AI-designed proteins and programmable gene editors. Its computational models incorporate the biological function, delivery requirements and molecular structure needed for a particular application, then test the resulting designs in its own wet lab. The company is developing compact editing systems for crop improvement and in vivo genetic medicines.

Alceus Bio is a Cambridge biotechnology company founded in 2024 that combines AI-driven protein and peptide design with immune-cell programming. It is developing engineered CAR-T cell therapies for solid cancers, using a multimodal architecture intended to address tumour resistance. Its founders are Alexander Evans, Alberto Conti and Rahul Roychoudhuri.

Kyto-Prod is a Tunisian biotechnology company developing chitosan-based products from biomass. Founded by biotechnology researcher Olfa Kilani and based in Akouda, Sousse, it develops applications for agriculture, cosmetics, food preservation, water treatment and related fields. Its research includes enzymatic modification of chitosan, and its business processes biomass into ingredients and finished products.

Business angel named by Kyto-Prod founder Olfa Kilani as a participant in the company's first financing in 2019.

Invests in early-stage companies developing hardware, robotics, factory automation and industrial AI. Its venture fund combines financing with access to MISUMI’s component sourcing, manufacturing and supply-chain network to help startups move from prototypes to volume production. Additional investment areas include aerospace, clean energy, medical devices and generative design.

MASS Analytics develops marketing mix modeling software to measure marketing effectiveness and guide budget allocation. Its AI-powered MassTer PACE platform continuously updates models, while its Maia intelligence agent and related tools support analysis, planning and recommendations. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in the United Kingdom, the company operates from London, Dubai, Tunis and New York.

RoamSmart develops software for mobile operators to manage roaming operations, agreements, testing, network information and commercial performance. Its Unified Roaming Platform combines workflow automation and roaming analytics, with an AI assistant for finding answers and working with platform data. The company operates from Tunis and Madrid and serves telecommunications operators internationally.

Smart Farm is a Tunisian precision-agriculture company founded in 2018 by Béchir Ben Brika and Issam Nouiri. It develops connected soil sensors and web and mobile tools for irrigation and crop management. Its approach combines artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technology to analyze field conditions and support irrigation decisions, with installation, training and ongoing agricultural support.

Provides software escrow and recoverability infrastructure for enterprises that depend on third-party software. Its platform holds current source-code deposits, reconstructs and tests software releases independently of the vendor, and produces recovery evidence to support business continuity and technology-risk oversight. It originated as a digital escrow and trust-infrastructure business.

Provides ad-fraud detection and traffic-quality analysis for advertisers, publishers and advertising platforms. Its software analyzes clicks, impressions, sessions and leads for bots and other invalid activity, scores traffic quality, and helps customers monitor and filter fraudulent digital advertising traffic. Previously known as Botman.

Provides AI-assisted credit intelligence and risk-monitoring tools for lenders and businesses. Its platform analyzes company information, financial and alternative data to support borrower assessment, early-warning monitoring, credit reports, ownership analysis and due diligence, helping customers manage lending and trading risks.

Develops Df-OS, a digital factory operating system that connects shop-floor processes, machines and operational data. Its no-code interface, industrial IoT integrations, analytics and AI tools help manufacturers digitize workflows and monitor production, quality, safety and resource use.

Provides software for operational inspections, audits and compliance across multi-site businesses. Its platform converts standards into digital check sheets, verifies execution with photos and AI, assigns corrective actions, schedules recurring work and reports on issues across hospitality, retail, manufacturing, healthcare and facilities.

Develops encryption software and semiconductor IP for secure communication in industrial, transport, defence and connected-device systems. Its technology implements real-time AES encryption on resource-constrained edge devices, with proprietary key-generation methods designed to avoid conventional key exchange.

Builds API-based telephony infrastructure for AI voice agents and enterprise calling. Its platform provides phone-number provisioning, SIP trunking, outbound calling, real-time audio streaming, noise cancellation and configurable compliance controls so developers can connect conversational AI to telephone networks.

Khaled Dridi is published by VU Venture Partners as Consumer Team Member (published investment affiliation). The current manager page places this named professional within its Consumer Team. This is a source-published investment-team affiliation, not proof of permanent employment, a statutory manager/director appointment or individual investment authority. The manager-linked professional profile and individually associated original portrait support the published identity, while a full career chronology and exact joining day are not supplied.

United Gulf Financial Services North Africa is a Tunisian asset manager established in November 2008 and supervised by the Conseil du Marché Financier. It operates in venture capital, private equity, public-market asset management and corporate finance. It finances and supports innovative startups and growing businesses in Tunisia. Its technology portfolio includes the connected-beekeeping business now operating as Beekeeper.Tech.

Beekeeper.Tech develops connected-hive monitoring and tracking technology for beekeepers. SmartBeePro and SmartBeeGPS collect hive-condition and location data, while SmartBeeCore adds health scoring, anomaly alerts and recommendations. It is developing Beezy, an AI assistant for inspection records and next actions. Led by founder Khaled Bouchoucha, the company has offices in Abu Dhabi and Riyadh and research and development in Tunis.

MagicLab Game Technologies is a mobile-game developer and publisher based in Ankara, Turkey, with a studio in İzmir. Founded by Ümit Boncukçu and Tolga Şen, it develops casual and hybrid-casual games, including Fun Race 3D, Run Race 3D and That's My Seat. It is an investor in Deplike, the AI-powered music-learning company behind Chordie AI.

STB Manager is a Tunisian fund-management company in the Société Tunisienne de Banque group. Founded in 2002, it manages collective investment portfolios and private-equity funds, including Essor Fund and STB Growth Fund. Its startup investments include RoboCare, which develops AI-based precision-agriculture technology.

Develops laser communication terminals for satellites, aircraft and terrestrial networks. Its optical technology supports high-speed space-to-ground, intersatellite and mobile links, providing compact communication hardware for satellite constellations and secure strategic networks.

Builds Aerios, an airport operating system that connects airport databases, resource allocation and passenger flight displays. Its software also manages airport operations and maintenance, airside movement tracking, safety and compliance, giving airport teams a shared platform for coordinating daily work.

Turns 360-degree construction-site imagery into structured 3D digital twins and AI-assisted quality inspections. Its platform maps footage to building elements, identifies defects, tracks construction progress and material quantities, and routes inspection findings into reports and subcontractor resolution workflows.

Builds remotely operated underwater robots and autonomous surface vehicles for defence, industrial inspection and marine surveys. Its Jaladuta, Jalasimha, Oceanaus and Navya platforms combine cameras, sonar, navigation and robotic tooling to inspect submerged infrastructure and work in waters that are difficult or unsafe for divers.

Develops autonomous, reusable spacecraft for microgravity research and manufacturing in low Earth orbit. Its lifting-body spaceplane is designed to carry pharmaceutical, semiconductor and scientific payloads, then return them through controlled re-entry and runway landings.

Designs ultra-low-power system-on-chip semiconductors combining embedded AI inference, wireless connectivity and precision analog processing. Its fabless chip platform targets connected industrial, automotive and medical devices that need to process sensor data locally rather than send it to the cloud.

Designs, manufactures and tests liquid rocket engines and propulsion subsystems in India. Its in-house development combines engine design, simulation, manufacturing, inspection and hot-fire testing, supported by proprietary software, a mobile engine test bed and an integrated rocket facility.

Develops radio-frequency sensing satellites and an AI-based intelligence platform that turns intercepted signals into geospatial and situational insights. Its space-to-cloud infrastructure targets defence, maritime, aviation, climate and commercial monitoring applications that need to detect activity beyond the reach of optical imagery.

Develops inertial sensors, navigation controllers and industrial IoT hardware for drones, robots, vehicles and automation systems. Its Syncore IMU products and related sensing and control electronics provide motion, orientation and position data for autonomous systems and other applications requiring reliable navigation.