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JumpStart Indonesia
JumpStart Indonesia is a Jakarta-based automated retail company that operates the country's largest network of smart, AI-enabled vending machines. Founded in 2018 by CEO Brian Imawan as a single self-serve coffee machine, it has grown into a broad smart-retail platform - coffee bars, snack and merchandise vending, beverage-capsule dispensers, ice cream and gamified machines - with more than 6,500 units across Indonesia. The machines run on cashless, contactless payments and use software to track sales and manage stock, positioning JumpStart as a distribution channel connecting global brands, especially from Japan, with Indonesian consumers.
YAP
YAP is a Dubai-based digital banking platform that lets people open an account, get an instant IBAN and Mastercard, send and receive money, pay bills and track spending entirely from a mobile app. Launched in March 2021 as the UAE's first independent digital banking platform, YAP does not hold its own banking licence in the UAE; instead it partners with licensed banks (originally RAKBANK) to provide the underlying accounts while YAP builds the customer-facing experience, analytics and card controls. The company has raised roughly $41 million and is expanding across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, targeting Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan and Ghana.
Oveit
Oveit is an Austin-based event technology company that runs ticketing, registration, cashless payments and access control on a single platform. Founded in 2016 by Andrei Stefan and Mike Mihai Dragan, it turns RFID/NFC wristbands and mobile passes into the wallet visitors wear at waterparks, theme parks, festivals, resorts and conferences - handling sales, entry and on-site spending in one closed loop. The company has extended into live shopping (Streams.live), NFT ticketing and AI sales agents, positioning itself as an all-in-one operating system for live experiences.
Treez Inc.
Treez is an enterprise cloud commerce platform built for the cannabis retail industry, bundling point of sale (SellTreez), cashless payments (TreezPay), inventory and compliance, retail analytics, ecommerce, and loyalty into a single system. Founded in 2016, the company powers over 600 dispensary locations, processes more than $5 billion in annualized transactions, and is used by an estimated 15% of the U.S. retail cannabis market.