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Bloom is a career coaching and mentoring platform that connects employees with senior executives who offer coaching service. This service is available to all employees, regardless of their position. The coaching focuses around four key areas: goals, relationships, feedback, and communication. It is delivered through daily motivational audios, exercises and personalized insights, with the aim of nurturing healthy career mindsets and improving daily work habits.

Dropit is a digital platform that unifies physical and digital commerce into a single environment. It integrates historical and real-time data from a retailer’s existing technology and automates it, offering end-to-end supply chain optimization. The company also offers Dropit Handsfree Shopping service which lets the customer to shop bag-free.

Uptime is a subscription-based “how-to” knowledge-sharing platform, offering premium content including tutorials and courses. The app provides access to thousands of life lessons extracted from the world’s best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts – packed into 5-minute “Knowledge Hacks”.

It is an ultimate digital marketplace experience for “acquiring knowledge” that makes learning affordable, accessible and social, connecting learners and experts across the globe to facilitate interactive sessions on multiple topics (from free online content to live group classes).

Owlstone is a developer of revolutionary healthcare diagnostic instruments and tests. Fundamental to its success is a breathalyser for disease. The Breath Biopsy® platform has introduced a new diagnostic modality, making it possible to discover biomarkers in a non-invasive way. The whole process therefore becomes more agile, more cost-effective and truly transformative when it comes to diagnosis.

The company is currently developing tests for lung and colorectal cancer, two of the most common cancer killers worldwide, and for asthma stratification by therapeutic response. With a focus on non-invasive diagnostics for cancer, inflammatory disease and infectious disease, Owlstone Medical aims to save 100,000 lives and $1.5bn in healthcare costs.

Flat6Labs nurtures and invests in bright, passionate, hard-working entrepreneurs with cutting-edge ideas.

A MENA-focused start-up accelerator programme, it directly supports start-ups, providing seed funding, strategic mentorship, a creative workspace and entrepreneurship-focused business training.

With offices in Cairo, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Bahrain and Tunis, the company invests in around 20 start-ups each year. It has already supported more than 200 entrepreneurs and over 100 companies, creating at least 700 jobs in the process.

Wurl is about video distribution, helping creators and producers monetise more efficiently and effectively through a unique content management system.

Since its launch in 2017, Wurl has been solving the technical challenges that get in the way of connecting video producers with internet-based video services and advertisers. Its platform strips away complexities to simplify the management of video content, making it not just easier but more affordable to distribute at scale and maximise monetisation. Wurl’s Global FAST Pass platform is used by groups such as A+E Networks, AMC Networks, Scripps, and Bloomberg to distribute streaming video content to over 300 million TVs and reach over 30 million users globally each month.

Wurl is led by a group of executives with extensive success developing large businesses in the areas of global networks, video, advertising, and media and entertainment, including @Home Network, Imagine Networks, Maker/Disney and Google.

AppLovin Corporation, a leading marketing platform, announced it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Wurl in March 2022. Wurl is expected to retain its brand and operate independently with its existing management team. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2022 and be funded with approximately 55% cash and 45% AppLovin equity.

Lyft is transforming the transport sector through a more considered, tech-based approach to pretty much all modes of transport.

Launched in 2012, Lyft pioneered the idea of on-demand peer-to-peer ridesharing. Since then, the company has developed into a thriving business, serving over 30 million riders and nearly 2 million drivers annually across the USA and Canada.

Lyft reported $8.1 billion in bookings and $2.2 billion in revenue in 2018. Since March 2019, shares in the company are traded on NASDAQ (ticker symbol “LYFT”).

Operating in the retail sector, Hero is about connecting more people to the passion, expertise and commitment of staff in physical stores, and transforming billions of square feet of analogue retail space into smart stores of the future.

Launched in 2015, Hero has grown from a startup to the world leader in video and conversational commerce, in partnership with the world’s
fastest-growing brands and retail groups across more than 30 countries including Nike, Levi’s and LVMH.

As a technology company, fundamental to Hero’s success has been the combination of best-in-class social messaging and retail commerce tools. The company has raised more than $15m in funding and joined Klarna, the leading global retail bank, payments and shopping service, last year.

Hero’s one-to-one and one-to-many video shopping products will be made available to Klarna’s 250,000+ retail partners and in time, Hero will look for new and innovative ways to bring the firepower of Klarna to their customers.

Forward is a revolutionary, preventive healthcare system with a focus on developing an ongoing patient-doctor relationship and on holistic wellbeing backed by cutting-edge technology. All provided by a team of world-class doctors.

Biometric body scans, genetic testing and super-fast blood-testing back a service that goes against the anonymous ‘once-and-done’ approach, with doctors connecting with members online to provide unlimited 24/7 remote care.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco, with a team of physicians from Harvard Medical School, Dartmouth, UCSF and Cedars-Sinai Hospital.