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We provide the food industry with the technology to produce more food from the same resources.

Calori turns nutrition from guesswork into precision.

We provide the food industry with the technology to produce more food from the same resources.

Flashpoint is an international tech investment firm with approximately $600 million in assets under management (AUM), focusing on U.S. and Western European tech companies originating from Europe and MENA. Flashpoint manages seven funds across three products: Venture Growth, Growth Debt, and Direct Secondary. The firm is headquartered in London, with offices in New York, Tel Aviv, Budapest, and Riga. Investors in Flashpoint’s funds include Széchenyi Funds, a Hungarian fund manager, and more than 180 major family offices and high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). The funds have invested in 80 companies, including Guesty, Chili Piper, and OfficeRnD. Flashpoint has completed 28 exits, such as the sale of its stakes in Shazam (to Apple), Chess.com (to PokerStars founders and General Atlantic), Marketman (to PSG), Gurushots (to Zedge), Comeet (to Boathouse Capital), and OfficeRnD (to Blue Star Innovation Partners), among others. At Flashpoint, our mission is to bring together capital, knowledge, people, and best practices to foster socially responsible development. While monetary returns are important, the intangible aspects of our work are equally significant to our team. We have invested a third of our capital in themes that aim to make the world a better place, including e-learning, telemedicine, and online job platforms.

Calori turns nutrition from guesswork into precision.

We are a US-based tech company building products for consumers and developers. Platogram enables you to chat with books, documents, podcasts, and videos in popular messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp; ask questions & retrieve information & synthesize large amounts of data. Whether you are a student, researcher, lawyer, journalist, publisher, writer or just a book/podcast lover, Platogram helps you get the information you need quickly and conveniently. Telegram bot: https://t.me/platogrambot https://platogram.ai Freespeech started as a project to give voice to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy in English and other languages. Since October 2023 daily video addresses are being translated into five languages and published on the Official YouTube channel of The Office of The President of Ukraine using Freespeech. More info: https://freespeechnow.ai

Techstars helps founders scale their startups into world-changing businesses. Founded in 2006, Techstars is on a mission to invest in startups to enable more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world in order to deliver exceptional returns to our investors. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. Our results show why Techstars is Better for Founders than any other global accelerator: On average, 74.5% of Techstars companies will raise money within 3 years of their program; 18.5% of Techstars portfolio companies have exited 5 years after their program and 31.1% after eight years. (PitchBook June 2023)