Akshay Chopra

Smile ID provides the best Africa-focused solutions for real-time Digital KYC, Identity Verification, User Onboarding, Document Verification, Liveness Checks, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, Know your Business (KYB), and Identity Data Deduplication across Africa. We are building the tools and software that make it easier for millions of Africans to prove and verify their identity online. Our platform includes SDKs and APIs for User Onboarding, Digital KYC, Identity Verification, Document Verification, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, and ID validation in mobile applications and on the web. Our identity verification and artificial intelligence tools have been specially designed for African faces and identities. Our mission is to make the benefits of a modern digital lifestyle universally accessible by expanding trust in underserved markets. We are backed by Costanoa Ventures, Future Africa, PTB Ventures, Khosla Impact, 500 Startups, CRE Venture Capital etc

Hi, welcome to CarbonSifr! We are climate action pioneers who help businesses and individuals in the region to take tangible and repeated climate action. Through our innovative technology, CarbonSifr enables businesses and their customers to take accelerated steps towards a more sustainable future by removing the carbon impact of their day-to-day activities. So, whether youre just embarking on your climate action journey or youre a seasoned environmental advocate, we firmly believe that everyone can drive change. By making climate action consistently and easily accessible, we empower each individual to contribute to progress. Action by action, step by step, we collectively drive our region towards a better climate. Heres to a more sustainable future! For more information, please visit www.carbonsifr.com

Fuze is a full-stack, digital assets infrastructure platform, enabling MENA businesses to integrate embedded experiences for their customers. Fuze is a fast-growing tier A VC-backed startup partnering with leading global and regional banks, fintech, financial institutions, and super apps, to offer innovative crypto and digital asset products through its API infrastructure in a regulatory and compliant way.

Impulse Space, the in-space mobility company, is accelerating our future beyond Earth beginning with a fleet of cost-effective, high-performance space vehicles. Founded by Tom Mueller and led by a team of industry pioneers, Impulse Space is transforming in-space mobility by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

Evolve is on a mission of building mental health equity by advancing research & developing interventions focused on the LGBTQIA+ community. The Evolve app is used by over a million users globally and has received multiple awards and recognition from Apple and Google.

SkillMapper is building the future for search and discovery in e-learning. SkillMapper is a community where lifelong learners meet and share curated learning paths that helps them master a skill. This community-driven curation, combined with the latest AI tools, will help us build a learning graph for anything to be learned. At the core, we address three growing issues in education: 1. Education’s choice paradox & high search cost 2. Extremely biased or non-existent review systems 3. Very few & sub-optimal learning paths Our first product releases are a search engine and Chrome extension to help students save time, explore relevant content, and increase confidence in ed-tech purchase decisions. As a byproduct, we expect that students using SkillMapper will significantly increase their completion rate of online education. We are building a multi-disciplinary and multi-culture team from scratch. Our HQ is in Paris, France (Station F), but we have Mappers distributed worldwide. Join our waitlist at www.skillmapper.com

237 Ventures is a global tech & venture investor, executive coach and growth advisor. Our team and advisory board bring unmatched track records in these areas, and a reputation for delivering big wins, innovations, turnarounds, investments, and exits. 237 Talent, our flagship coaching service, provides bespoke leadership coaching and talent advisory for entrepreneurs & professionals. 237 Talent enables professionals and entrepreneurs to: DEVELOP YOUR LEADERSHIP STYLE Use a data-driven approach to understand your strengths, preferences, and development areas. NAVIGATE TRICKY PEOPLE ISSUES Handle challenging people situations, co-founder relationships, difficult communications and talent decisions SHAPE & SCALE TEAM CULTURE & ORG DESIGN Design and execute your target team culture & org design, scale it as you grow FOCUS ON WHAT MOVES THE NEEDLE Prioritize the never-ending asks on your time, build better workflows, get hyper-focused and find your balance

Joi is the MENA regions first and largest full-service online platform for gifts. Joi was born out of the belief that the world can be made a happier place, one gift at a time. With the best quality flowers, premium cakes and chocolates, balloons, gourmet gift baskets, unique personalized items and more, we have what it takes to put a genuine smile on anyone’s face and turn the experience of gift-giving into memorable occasions for you and those you care about. All with premium same-day delivery. We are proud to have introduced innovative new features like advanced gift search options and premium delivery services by our ‘Agents of joi’, such as singing telegrams. As a marketplace we work with some of the best brands as our partners including Bateel, Magnolia Bakery, Godiva, Forrey & Galland, Bostani, Ted Baker, MacKenzie Childs and many more.

ShopBack started as a spark of inspiration one night in 2014 when Henry and Joel were brainstorming ideas in Henry’s car. That lightbulb moment — earning Cashback while shopping online — was just the beginning. Fueled by the countless possibilities, the team locked themselves in a hotel room for 24 hours to code the very first prototype. Their mission? To revolutionize shopping by helping advertisers market more cost-effectively, while making every purchase more rewarding for shoppers. Today, ShopBack is the leading shopping, rewards, and payments platform in Asia-Pacific, empowering 50 million shoppers across 13 markets. With 20,000+ partners and over half a million transactions daily, we’re redefining the way the world shops. As we expand globally, we’re looking for adventurous, driven individuals to help us build The World’s Most Rewarding Way to Shop : https://careers.shopback.com/ Merchants and brand partners interested in collaborating can connect with us here : https://corporate.shopback.com/partnerships

Airboxr is data automation platform for DTC brands. Airboxrs platform uses data spread across different sources to uncover revenue opportunities and automate reports: all within the familiar spreadsheet interface.

hoolah is Asias leading omni-channel buy now pay later platform. We help merchants in Asia to solve the critical challenges of generating new customers, getting them to return, conversion and basket size by driving consumer affordability - responsibly. Consumers can enrich their lifestyles - whatever that means to them and worry less about price to buy the things they want or need by paying over a short duration aligned to their budgeting and salary cycles. There is no interest charged ever and no hidden costs. hoolah. Creating mutual value through responsible affordability

Smile ID provides the best Africa-focused solutions for real-time Digital KYC, Identity Verification, User Onboarding, Document Verification, Liveness Checks, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, Know your Business (KYB), and Identity Data Deduplication across Africa. We are building the tools and software that make it easier for millions of Africans to prove and verify their identity online. Our platform includes SDKs and APIs for User Onboarding, Digital KYC, Identity Verification, Document Verification, Face Verification, Anti-fraud, and ID validation in mobile applications and on the web. Our identity verification and artificial intelligence tools have been specially designed for African faces and identities. Our mission is to make the benefits of a modern digital lifestyle universally accessible by expanding trust in underserved markets. We are backed by Costanoa Ventures, Future Africa, PTB Ventures, Khosla Impact, 500 Startups, CRE Venture Capital etc

Hi, welcome to CarbonSifr! We are climate action pioneers who help businesses and individuals in the region to take tangible and repeated climate action. Through our innovative technology, CarbonSifr enables businesses and their customers to take accelerated steps towards a more sustainable future by removing the carbon impact of their day-to-day activities. So, whether youre just embarking on your climate action journey or youre a seasoned environmental advocate, we firmly believe that everyone can drive change. By making climate action consistently and easily accessible, we empower each individual to contribute to progress. Action by action, step by step, we collectively drive our region towards a better climate. Heres to a more sustainable future! For more information, please visit www.carbonsifr.com

Fuze is a full-stack, digital assets infrastructure platform, enabling MENA businesses to integrate embedded experiences for their customers. Fuze is a fast-growing tier A VC-backed startup partnering with leading global and regional banks, fintech, financial institutions, and super apps, to offer innovative crypto and digital asset products through its API infrastructure in a regulatory and compliant way.

Impulse Space, the in-space mobility company, is accelerating our future beyond Earth beginning with a fleet of cost-effective, high-performance space vehicles. Founded by Tom Mueller and led by a team of industry pioneers, Impulse Space is transforming in-space mobility by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

Evolve is on a mission of building mental health equity by advancing research & developing interventions focused on the LGBTQIA+ community. The Evolve app is used by over a million users globally and has received multiple awards and recognition from Apple and Google.