David Waroquier

Yva.ai (a spin-off from ABBYY) is an AI-driven employee experience (EX) platform based on Passive and Active data. It helps organizations save millions of dollars by improving employee wellbeing, satisfaction, predicting resignations of key employees with 86% accuracy, identifying toxic managers, informal leaders, HiPos, building employee listening culture and as a result driving performance. In contrast to traditional EX systems Yva.ai continuous listening approach combines weekly AI-driven 60-sec personalized micro surveys (Active data) with collaboration analytics across corporate tools: Office 365, Teams, Slack, Jira, etc. (Passive data) anonymously with employee consent. Yva.ai is an intelligent “corporate health tracker” and recommendation system delivering Real-time, Objective, Employee-focused, Actionable feedback to each Employee, Manager, HR professional and Executive in a form of dashboards, recommendations, and reports. Yva.ai team consists of PhDs and professionals from around the world with more than 20 years’ experience in HR, AI, NLP, content intelligence, and process intelligence.

DreamTeam - Infrastructure Platform and Payment Gateway for Esports and Gaming. DreamTeam is the ultimate teambuilding and skill-growing platform that solves problems for hundreds of millions of gamers who want to find teammates, improve skills, manage teams, and earn money. And with the unlocking of blockchain and smart contract technologies, DreamTeam is building a one-of-a-kind payment gateway for players, teams, tournaments, and sponsors.

SynerScope, a high-tech Dutch software company, turns Dark Data into Bright Data, ready to be used by humans combined with machine intelligence for extracting information and value. Our three main solutions IxiVault™, IxiWa™ and Iximeer™ are designed to handle any type of data in any combination, fast and flexible. Unstructured text, image and IoT data can easily be linked with structured data from ERP, CRM and other operational systems. To facilitate widespread secure and safe working with the data, we support the (self) publishing of data to analytic processes (human-machine) under full linkage to the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) requirements. SynerScope combines Scientific Visualization Technologies (MRI scanner), ultrafast predictive analytics and machine learning on top of its proprietary enterprise data navigation, -search and -linking. SynerScope operates in the following sectors: Banking, Insurance, Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure.

Zesty is a multi-award winning European digital health company backed by a group of international VC funds, including Mangrove Capital, LBO France and Qualcomm Ventures. We offer a suite of patient facing digital tools to healthcare providers. Our clients are hospitals, community providers and general practice surgeries. Our apps remove the friction from everyday health related tasks, like booking and managing appointments, reading letters digitally and sharing copies of electronic medical records. Our vision is to fundamentally change the way hospitals and community providers communicate with their patients, whilst providing tools that empower patients to take more direct control of their care.

We are the leading off-price fashion retailer. Every day we offer great value on ever-changing selections of brands and designer products at prices up to 90% Off retail values. We call this a smart fashion shopping experience. For our brand partners we are the key channel to manage excess inventories in a very effective and brand protecting format, as well as a service provider offering a range of ecommerce and retail turn key solutions through our retail platform.

Oakland Partners provides M&A and Strategic Advice to high tech companies.  Oakland Partners, based in London, has a presence in New-York, Tel-Aviv, Madrid and Paris. Our Partners advised companies for M&A transactions and private placements for the last 18 years. We have key relationships with both global acquirers of technology companies and long standing relationships with IT giants: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, Google, Intel, ARM, Qualcomm, Symantec, Salesforce.com, HP, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, RIM, NEC, Rakuten, Samsung and many others. Oakland Partners industries expertise are: FinTech, InsurTech, Cyber Risk and Homeland Security, Automotive, AI, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Big-Data, ... Our success as a Corporate Finance firm is ultimately measured by the $950m in cumulated transactions done to date by our Partners.

Yva.ai (a spin-off from ABBYY) is an AI-driven employee experience (EX) platform based on Passive and Active data. It helps organizations save millions of dollars by improving employee wellbeing, satisfaction, predicting resignations of key employees with 86% accuracy, identifying toxic managers, informal leaders, HiPos, building employee listening culture and as a result driving performance. In contrast to traditional EX systems Yva.ai continuous listening approach combines weekly AI-driven 60-sec personalized micro surveys (Active data) with collaboration analytics across corporate tools: Office 365, Teams, Slack, Jira, etc. (Passive data) anonymously with employee consent. Yva.ai is an intelligent “corporate health tracker” and recommendation system delivering Real-time, Objective, Employee-focused, Actionable feedback to each Employee, Manager, HR professional and Executive in a form of dashboards, recommendations, and reports. Yva.ai team consists of PhDs and professionals from around the world with more than 20 years’ experience in HR, AI, NLP, content intelligence, and process intelligence.

DreamTeam - Infrastructure Platform and Payment Gateway for Esports and Gaming. DreamTeam is the ultimate teambuilding and skill-growing platform that solves problems for hundreds of millions of gamers who want to find teammates, improve skills, manage teams, and earn money. And with the unlocking of blockchain and smart contract technologies, DreamTeam is building a one-of-a-kind payment gateway for players, teams, tournaments, and sponsors.

SynerScope, a high-tech Dutch software company, turns Dark Data into Bright Data, ready to be used by humans combined with machine intelligence for extracting information and value. Our three main solutions IxiVault™, IxiWa™ and Iximeer™ are designed to handle any type of data in any combination, fast and flexible. Unstructured text, image and IoT data can easily be linked with structured data from ERP, CRM and other operational systems. To facilitate widespread secure and safe working with the data, we support the (self) publishing of data to analytic processes (human-machine) under full linkage to the Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) requirements. SynerScope combines Scientific Visualization Technologies (MRI scanner), ultrafast predictive analytics and machine learning on top of its proprietary enterprise data navigation, -search and -linking. SynerScope operates in the following sectors: Banking, Insurance, Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure.