Top Tech Startups in Earth in 2024

GF-ACCORD AI was voted the runner-up startup in Geneva in 2023 by the Hackernoon magazine: hackernoon.com/startups/europe/europe-geneva-switzerland?ref=hackernoon.com hackernoon.com/company/gfaccord An AI project with mid-sized company level traction. In the fundraising phase. Top Google USA position for “AI Global Business Consulting” for the website of our Geneva based start-up gf-accord.biz and the sur.ly cybersecurity, “brilliantly safe” award in 2022 Benefitting from over 40-years’ combined experience in the use of IT to replace human work GF-ACCORD AI inherits the know-how of the original non-AI GF-ACCORD. Our AI replaces business analysts, marketers, strategists, financiers and representatives by software. Our products are the software modules which do a lot of the intermediate- advanced intellectual work and involve AI text processing. The employees are much less needed which is cost-efficient. The processes are accelerated and can be freely combined. Our software outputs can be tokenized and sold as NFTs “The global artificial intelligence market was valued at USD 65.48 billion in 2020, projected to reach USD 1,581.70 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 38.0% from 2021 to 2030”. Global value of IP trading in tech companies in general circa 1 trillion USD. 80% of value in Tech comes from intangible assets. Based on research of similar Silicon Valley start-ups, past history, digital impact, IP assets and the current technical valuation trends, the projected value of GF-ACCORD AI in 4 years will between 135 and 360 million CHF

What do we do? Polly empowers teams with the data they need to improve work processes and make better, faster decisions. With Polly, organizations can drive deeper engagement and better decision-making throughout their teams with a collection of real-time feedback tools: Q&A, single-question and multi-question pollys, icebreakers, trivia, and more. Polly delivers data faster and more completely than with a standard poll or survey and connects with teams in the spaces where work happens: Slack, Microsoft Teams, and virtual meetings. Already used by 10,000+ companies, including dozens of the fortune 500, it's easy to see why teams are kicking traditional surveys to the curb and sending a polly to collect real-time insights to drive every aspect of their work. How is Polly unique: We seek highly ambitious problem-solvers who are passionate about building. Many of the people who come onboard are the "first of experts" at what they do here in the Flock. There is plenty of green space and ability to build things from scratch, make immediate impact and scale the organization. Join us! Volunteer: Polly encourages everyone to inspire good and do things to drive impact at the community level. We offer two days of company volunteer time annually and other ways to give back! Team workouts: We offer employee-guided, remote yoga and meditation weekly for anyone who would like to participate. These sessions are also recorded to be watched when convenient. Diversity: We provide interview skills training to anyone involved in the interview process and unconscious bias training as it relates to hiring processes. Continued education: We offer $1,000 annually to all employees to ensure they have the opportunity to learn, grow and professionally develop. Why are our benefits special: Even as an early stage startup, where every moment counts, we understand how necessary and

Carefull is smart financial account protections, credit, identity and bill monitoring plus daily money organization for you or someone you care about. Visit us at getcarefull.com to learn more.

At Cleo, we make a real impact by doing work that matters: helping families be their best at home and at work. Cleo is a family benefits platform that picks up where the healthcare system leaves off. We combine the expertise of our team of guides and specialists – parent and maternity coaches, doulas, lactation consultants, sleep experts, and more! – with a powerful technology platform that helps every working parent succeed as they grow both their families and their careers. Offered by over 100 leading employers, including global Fortune 500 leaders and industry innovators like Box, Chegg, Niantic, and Zenefits, and backed by NEA, Greylock and Felicis, we’re expanding our offerings and our team to meet the growing demand of employers, parents, and the healthcare sector.

Cognite is a global industrial Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company enabling the full-scale digital transformation of heavy-asset industries. Our core software product, Cognite Data Fusion (CDF), powers companies with contextualized OT/IT data to develop and scale solutions that increase safety, sustainability, efficiency, and drive revenue. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, Cognite has garnered the attention and partnership of some of the world's top industrial and tech companies, and the company’s success has been profiled in publications like Boston Consulting Group, Bloomberg, Digital Energy Journal, and Houston Chronicle. Google awarded Cognite Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year 2019 for Manufacturing and Austin Business Journal named Cognite 2020 Best Places to Work.

Our data infrastructure automates and powers the world's largest platforms and marketplaces, including food delivery companies.

QA Wolf is on a mission to reinvent QA for software teams. Instead of laborious manual testing or automation frameworks that distract developers, our unique combination of people + platform makes it dramatically easier for teams to ship bug-free software, fast. We are backed by top-tier venture capital and industry leaders including Notation Capital, CoFound Partners, and founders of Gumroad and AngelList. We are growing insanely fast and raised a large amount of funding to expand our team. We need to find the core group of people that will shape the direction of our company, and in turn, the development industry.

AirGarage is repurposing the 30% of real estate in the average American city currently dedicated to parking. We are building a future where real estate is digitized and can be transitioned from one use to another seamlessly on-demand, moving every piece of urban real estate toward its highest and best use. We are starting with the $131 billion US parking real estate market because it is one of the most offline and mismanaged commercial real estate asset types. As a full-stack parking operator, we automate the operation of parking lots and parking garages. We handle everything from advertising to collecting payments from drivers and enforcing against illegal parking. We already operate 150+ parking lots and parking garages across 30 US states and we are growing quickly. We are backed by top tier investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Floodgate, Founders Fund, and angel investors who have founded or worked at companies like Uber, Opendoor, Flexport, and more.

Volta Labs was spun out of MIT in 2018 with the simple mission of building biological automation from the ground up. Volta is in the proximity of Kendall Square, known as "the most innovative square mile on the planet". Being part of the open biotech culture in Kendall Square made us realize that today’s biologists are held back by the limitations of existing automation tools. With DNA sequencing in particular, we observed that the advances in DNA readout technologies had moved further along than the advances in the upstream steps of preparing samples for sequencing (sample prep). ‍ What started out as a simple printed circuit board to manipulate colored droplets at the MIT Media Lab during co-founder Udayan Umapathi’s graduate work was quickly directed toward solving the “sample prep bottleneck”. The company raised Seed Funding from top VCs in 2019 and later that year added Will Langford as a co-founder and Head of Engineering. ‍ Since then, we have been heads down in the lab inventing and building novel fluidic and sample manipulation technologies. We take an anti-disciplinary approach to solve very hard problems and weave together instrumentation, fluidics, software, biology and chemistry. While our current focus is on sequencing sample prep, we envision a new approach where a single universal machine automates most biological workflows in genomics, proteomics and synthetic biology.

theSkimm is a mission-driven media company dedicated to giving millennial women the information they need to live their smartest lives. Since launching in 2012, theSkimm has become a trusted source for a community of millions of Skimm’rs by seamlessly integrating into their existing routines, fundamentally changing the way its audience consumes news and makes decisions. theSkimm's flagship product, the Daily Skimm, is still the fastest growing newsletter on the market, and its sub-brands have expanded to help this audience maneuver through life’s necessities – from news, to money, wellness, career, and recommendations. The company’s product suite has grown to include three top-rated podcasts (Skimm This, 9 to 5ish, and Pop Cultured), theSkimm app, Skimm Money and Skimm Your Life newsletters, and Skimm Studios, its in-house production team that creates engaging video and audio content. theSkimm’s first book, How to Skimm Your Life, was released in June 2019 and debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list.