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BuddyGuard's personal safety app has emergency alert features for timely crime reporting, while also emphasizing the community's role in keeping urban neighborhoods safe.

Food traceability app NutraSign will boost consumer confidence by giving real-time information about the origins of products.

Shotl bus-pooling and shuttle services will cut pollution by providing cheaper on-demand travel options for city dwellers, commuters and the disabled.

Let’s GOI - from urgent parcel deliveries to professional bulky shipments - the Spanish last-mile logistics app offers faster and cheaper services than conventional couriers.

Foxconn- and Tencent-backed Mobike is leading the fierce fight for dominance in the global dockless bike-sharing market, with ambitions for more – including logistics services.

The first real-time GPS pet tracker without monthly fees or data charges, has stable coverage and rewards its users for keeping their furry companions healthy.

Adevinta Ventures is the investment arm of the Norway-based Adevinta, a local digital marketplace group operating in 15 countries in Europe, Latin America and North Africa, with 1.5bn monthly visitors. Its leading local brands include Leboncoin in France, InfoJobs in Spain, Subito in Italy and Jofogás in Hungary. In Spain, where its headquarters is in Barcelona, the company includes an umbrella of successful online classified platforms such as Infojobs, Fotocasa, Habitaclia, Milanuncios and Vibbo, counting over 18m active users.Adevinta Ventures invests in startups focused on marketplace and platform space specifically in verticals such as mobility, education and real estate. The fund typically invests in Series A and B rounds backing them also with marketing and data support as well as mentorship. Initial investments go up to €5m with follow-on capacity. 

Toyota AI Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Toyota Research Institute, is a Silicon Valley-based fund investing globally in startups with cutting-edge solutions in the AI, smart-mobility, autonomy, robotics, data and cloud spaces while leveraging the global expertise and technical resources of the Toyota Group.In 2015 Toyota created the Toyota Research Institute aiming to support the research on next-generation mobility, robotics and new materials. Toyota AI Ventures was founded in 2017 with initial funding of $100m. 

BayWa Venture GmbH is a subsidiary company of BayWa AG, the German agriculture, energy and construction conglomerate.Putting digitalization at the core of its agriculture strategy, the company is looking to expand its core business into digital services within the existing businesses. It is investigating new digital business models and stand-alone concepts through collaboration with emerging startups focusing on cutting-edge technologies in the agrifood tech space.BayWa started to invest in startups in 2012 mainly focused on online customer management, services and sales platforms. In 2015, the company purchased Farm Facts, a German farm management SaaS and in 2017 invested in Abundant Robotics, a US-based automated harvest company. One of the firms’ most recent investments has been Evja, an Italian startup developing precision farming hardware based on advanced agronomic models and machine learning technology.

Aquiti Gestion is a 20-year old capital investment company focused on supporting startups in the seed and Series A stage in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France’s southwest. It counts more than 200 companies in its portfolio and some €200m under management. It has three offices and 18 staff.

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