Scalapay is a buy now, pay later company that allows customers to pay in three or four interest-free instalments. It is primarily focused on the Southern European market.
Cyara
Founded: 2010
Founders: Alok Kulkarni, Luan Tran and Bonny Malik
Last funding round: $499 million, January 2022
Cyara’s technology assures high-quality customer experiences by simulating real customer interactions to test business systems.
simPRO
Valuation: Not Known
Founded: 2002
Founders: Stephen Bradshaw and Vaughan McKillop
Last funding round: $480 million, November 2021
simPRO is a cloud-based field service management tool with features across quoting, job costing, scheduling, materials management and invoicing.
Rokt is an e-commerce technology company that helps online businesses drive more value per transaction with personalised checkout experiences
“We built a great business and then proceeded to flesh out amazing technology to support continued growth in the business proposition.”
Rokt is planning on a US listing in 2023 via an IPO.
Go1
Valuation: $2 billion
Founded: 2009
Founders: Chris Eigeland, Vu Tran, Chris Hood and Andrew Barnes
Last funding round: $145 million, June 2022
Go1 is an enterprise learning platform that provides education and training to businesses for their employees or users.
Go1’s platform features more than 100,000 courses, and is used by some of the largest enterprises globally, including TikTok and Delta Airlines.
Airwallex
Valuation: $5.5 billion
Founded: 2015
Founders: Max Li, Jack Zhang, Lucy Liu, Xijing Dai, and Ki-Lok Wong
Last funding round: $137.5 million, November 2021
Airwallex is a cross-border payments company that provides financial solutions for global companies.
“The business is evolving into one of the most important technology companies to have emerged from the Asia Pacific region. It has built a comprehensive product offering that meets the financial services requirements of digital first, global businesses.” – Square Peg Capital co-founder, Paul Bassat said.
Founders: Robbie Ferguson, James Ferguson and Alex Connolly
Last funding round: $21.5 million, July 2022
Immutable began as as Fuel Games, which developed and published non fungible token (NFT)-based online games Gods Unchained and Guild of Guardians
In 2021, the company rebranded to Immutable and launched its second division, a Layer 2 solution on the Ethereum blockchain called Immutable X.
On that platform, which the brothers claim is carbon neutral, others could mint or trade their own NFTs or build their own NFT projects.
Employment Hero
Valuation: $1.25 billion
Founded: 2014
Founders: Ben Thompson and Dave Tong
Last funding round: $181 million, February 2022
Employment Hero provides human resources management software to help businesses manage employees at every stage of their workplace lifecycle.
Employment Hero connects and empowers over 80,000 businesses across the world and this will continue to rise with adoption rates expected to increase by 30-40% over the next five years.
Canva is a free online design and publishing platform that helps users create media assets like social media posts, business cards, lesson plans, invitations and more.
“Canva is a truly generational company, and one of the very best software companies in the world. Its continued growth is underpinned by a rich and long product roadmap and the team to deliver on it,” Blackbird general partner, Rick Baker, said.
Linktree
Valuation: $1.3 billion
Founded: 2016
Founders: Alex Zaccaria, Anthony Zaccaria and Nick Humphreys
Last funding round: $152.3 million, March 2022
Linktree is a tool that allows social media users to share links on their platforms through a customisable page.
“Linktree allows creators to meet their audience where they consume content, and direct those fans to all their best content and products,” AirTree partner Jacki Vullinghs said.
Founders: Didier Elzinga, Doug English, Jon Williams, Rod Hamilton
Last funding round: $136 million, July 2021
Culture Ampis one of the world’s primary players in the employee experience space with more than 6000 customers
Organisations use Culture Amp’s Employee Experience platform to gather organisational feedback and drive development and performance.
Till Payments
Valuation: Not known
Founded: 2012
Founders: Shadi Haddad and Chris Hicks
Last funding round: $135 million, November 2021
Till offers multiple means for merchants to accept payments.
“We create tailored payment experience solutions that provide smart and simple ways to unify all payments channels – be it online, in-store or a clever combination of both.”
Harrison.ai
Valuation: Not known
Founded: 2018
Founders: Aengus Tran and Dimitry Tran
Last funding round: $129 million, December 2021
Harrison.ai is a software company that builds artificial intelligence tools for the medical industry. It partners with healthcare companies and develops the AI to solve specific healthcare challenges.
“There are few founder teams in the world who can between them combine clinical experience, AI medical device expertise and experience in enterprise healthcare partnerships and sales, but that’s what Aengus and Dmitry bring,” Blackbird partner Samantha Wong said.
Zoomo manufactures electric bikes tailored for delivery drivers, and provides its own software and servicing.
Zoomo says it continues to have the delivery-driver e-bike business to itself, with no one else providing the full stack of sturdier vehicles with bigger batteries, built in software and in-house servicing.
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