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Avanza Solutions builds the bank behind the screen
The app gets the attention. Avanza sells the switches, connections and customer-service software that help banks make it work - and its newer AI products depend on the same unglamorous craft.
The Spreadsheet Tax on Nonprofits - and the 24-Year-Old Software Company Trying to Kill It
Omatic built a business in the least glamorous corner of fundraising: the gap between a donation and a trustworthy donor record. Its pitch is simple - let software move the data so nonprofit staff can move the mission.
Finality Capital
A Santa Monica firm that has been quietly backing blockchain builders since 2018 - before it had a fund - now runs venture, liquid, and credit strategies on a single conviction: the next internet gets settled onchain.
Grubtech
Grubtech is a Dubai-based restaurant technology company that builds a unified operating system for food and beverage and quick-commerce businesses. Its middleware platform, gOnline, connects fragmented software touchpoints - POS systems, ERP, delivery aggregators like Talabat, Deliveroo, Careem and Uber Eats, kitchen displays, dispatch and analytics - into a single dashboard so restaurants, cloud kitchens, grocers and pharmacies can run online and in-store operations without juggling multiple screens. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $33.4M and operates across roughly 18 markets.
SettleMint
SettleMint is a Belgium-founded blockchain-platform-as-a-service company that helps banks, governments and large enterprises build, deploy and operate blockchain and tokenization applications without assembling infrastructure from scratch. Its Digital Asset Lifecycle Platform combines multi-chain infrastructure, smart-contract tooling, middleware and low-code application kits so teams can move from pilot to production across issuance, compliance, custody, settlement and servicing. Founded in 2016 by Matthew Van Niekerk and Roderik van der Veer, the company serves over 80 customers worldwide and powers national-scale deployments including Saudi Arabia's real-estate registration blockchain.
Vim
Vim is a healthcare technology company that builds a middleware and developer platform connecting data to clinical workflow at healthcare's 'last mile' - the point of care. Its EHR-agnostic Vim Connect layer sits on top of popular electronic health records, pulling in insights and applications from payers, health plans, and digital-health innovators and surfacing them directly inside a provider's existing workflow. By automating tasks such as care gap closure, diagnosis capture, prior authorization, referral management, and chart retrieval, Vim helps payers and providers align on value-based care while reducing administrative burden for clinicians.
LinkToAny
LinkToAny (formerly ShoppinPal) is a Los Angeles-based integration platform that helps commerce software providers onboard merchants, migrate data between systems, and connect the apps a business already runs. Its iPaaS-style platform links point-of-sale, ecommerce, accounting, loyalty and ordering systems - working with names like Shopify, Lightspeed, Clover, Intuit/QuickBooks, Square, GoDaddy and PayPal - so platforms can go live with new merchants in days rather than weeks, with an increasingly AI-native approach to onboarding and migrations.
Minerva Networks
Minerva Networks is a San Jose-based software company that builds carrier-grade service management and video delivery platforms for pay-TV and broadband operators. Founded in 1992, its platform lets telcos, cable and satellite providers offer IPTV, OTT and hybrid television - with live TV, VOD, network DVR, catch-up and FAST channels - across set-top boxes, smart TVs, mobile and web. More than 300 operators worldwide run Minerva, and the company now layers AI-driven content discovery through its Minnie AI Companion and its FAST+ streaming service.
OpenClovis
OpenClovis is a Petaluma, California infrastructure-software company that builds SAFplus, a carrier-grade high-availability middleware platform for telecom, networking, and defense equipment. Its libraries, GUI tools, and code generators let engineers design multi-node clustered applications with sub-second fault detection and failover, targeting the 99.999% (five-nines) uptime demanded by network operators. Founded in 2002 and offered under a dual open-source (GPL) and commercial license, SAFplus has been used in deployments by companies including Sonus, HP, Ericsson, NASA, and Lockheed Martin.