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Belfry is building modern software for the security guard services industry - helping companies scale their businesses by simplifying & automating workforce management.

NextStage is building a business development, project management, and market research SaaS platform for the $600bn+/year government contracting industry, a part of the economy critical for supporting missions in Space, Health Care, Cyber Security, National Defense, Energy, and Science, Infrastructure, and more. NextStage helps customers identify new contract opportunities by aggregating data from a variety of government databases. Our AI-enabled Business Development, Capture, and Proposal system helps teams identify, score, organize, and track key proposal, teaming, and bid decisions. As Head of Sales, you would work directly with the two technical co-founders (ex. Dropbox, Credit Karma, Next Insurance).

At Backstartup we believe that technology has the potential to transform business management, so we created an internet service to become the largest virtual bookkeeper in Latin America. We eliminate manual tasks and human errors by using accounting automation bots and bank integrations. From our platform, SMEs and Startups can keep track of their taxes, financial KPIs, financial statements and payroll. They can access receipts, integrate bank accounts, report staff modifications and, more recently, even request for credit. Everything happens online. Additionally, we assign our clients a virtual administrative support team that accompanies them to guarantee a comprehensive service experience so they can access the advice of accountants, and specialized professionals. We are pioneers in Latin America, where paper culture is highly entrenched, in moving traditional offline behaviors to a 100% online experience.

Small businesses in South Africa need a little help... there is a massive payment acceptance gap. Over 75% of the adult population have cards, yet only 6% of the country's 4 million sellers can accept cards. Yoco was founded by 4 friends who set out to build Africa's first merchant payment aggregator to enable the smaller enterprise segments of the market to transact. Yoco offers merchants a choice of 2 mobile card readers that connect to their smart phone / tablet allowing them to accept payments quickly and simply. The solution goes beyond payment processing in that it includes a free point-of-sale app and a free business intelligence portal, enabling business owners to monitor store performance. Today, Yoco is the fastest growing payments company in South Africa (38% revenue growth in Nov). Being the only merchant aggregator in the market, the Yoco team is using technology and data to innovate on risk management and cost to serve, opening up new segments and growing the market.

Our developer first platform partners with large and niche service provider across the shipping value chain stitching them into one easy to use comprehensive solution. Swift’s capabilities will be delivered through its own self-serve user interface as well as our public API.

Astra Security is a privately held U.S. & India based cyber security company. Backed by Techstars, Astra offers a Pentest Platform that helps organizations become proactively secure. The Pentest Platform uncovers more than 30,000+ vulnerabilities for its customers every month, saving its customers millions of dollars in potential loss and thousands of developer hours. The company has earned several accolades including ‘The Most Innovative Security Company’ by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security (2017), one of the top 50 emerging cybersecurity companies at ‘Emerge 50’ by NASSCOM, the French Tech Ticket under which Astra Security got rewarded by the President of France under the La French Tech program. In 2021, Astra Security was also named as a CyberTech100 company. Astra is a trusted security partner to some of the well-known brands like Muthoot Finance, NIIT, Goldcast, ITC & more. We’ve been awarded by Prime Minister Mr.Narendra Modi, Govt. of China & Govt. of France for our security solution Astra. After having a solid industry backing, investor support & proven business model we are now looking to build our A-Team in India. Astra in media 1. yourstory.com/2018/01/duos-startup-awarded-pm-narendra-modi-french-government 2. vod.ndtvhop.com/hopdmx/mp4/0e29dbb2_4175_1610_hop_hopstart_merge_51192.mp4

Harmonize is a people-friendly chat-based HR system, that lets you create a fun and collaborative workplace. You can find our chat bots on Slack and Microsoft Teams. Search for AttendanceBot, OfficeAmp and ExpenseTron.

DocPro is the leading online provider of legal solutions to businesses and individuals. DocPro’s mission is to make legal solutions affordable and accessible to everyone. Currently, DocPro operates a legaltech platform ( DocPro.com ) by combining legal documentation services with cutting edge technology. DocPro is the winner of the GoGlobal LegalTech Award 2021 and the Legal Elite Best Legal Documents Platform 2022. DocPro is known specifically for its document generation tool that helps users quickly and efficiently create automated documents and contracts. Users can choose from over 2,500 templates through DocPro’s advance search function, complete a questionnaire to customise the template, and a legal document is generated automatically. DocPro helps to simplify contracting and free up time and resources from documents generation, so that users can focus on strategic decisions to improve their businesses. DocPro has been selected by Cyberport as part of its incubation program and is currently building a global lawyer matching platform under Hire.Legal. We have also set up a social enterprise (NGO) (AWEsumCare.com) to help elderly with creating advance care planning documents – will, advance directive and enduring power of attorney through technology. This initiative will be supported by HKEX Impact.

Dreamdata gathers, joins and cleans all revenue-related data to present transparent, actionable analysis of what drives B2B revenue.