Venture-Backed Startups

Afero develops an IoT platform that enables manufacturers to build and secure connected devices across consumer, industrial, and enterprise applications. The platform powers millions of devices for 200+ product categories and provides security, reliability, AI-ready data, and over-the-air update capabilities.

3 investors

Affect provides integrated mental health and addiction treatment through a smartphone app, combining therapy, medication management, and behavioral incentives. The program serves individuals seeking confidential care for mental health and substance use disorders.

1 investor

Afference develops neurotechnology that enables remote sensory perception through wearable devices, allowing people at a distance to share tactile sensations. The company combines neural interface engineering with consumer electronics to restore or create the sensation of touch in communication.

6 investors

An AI-powered compliance platform that reviews external marketing content for financial companies, particularly ensuring that creator-produced materials adhere to regulatory standards for products like credit cards.

1 investor

Alpine Empower provides cross-border payments, money transfers, and financial solutions for individuals and businesses globally. The platform facilitates international financial transactions with security and user-friendly interfaces.

1 investor

Affinia Therapeutics develops genetically engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV) therapies for treating genetic diseases, focusing initially on cardiovascular and central nervous system conditions. The company uses AI and structural modeling to redesign viral delivery vectors for one-time-dose genetic medicines across rare and prevalent diseases.

3 investors

Affiniti AI is a conversational AI platform that provides between-session support for therapy clients through an AI co-therapist tool designed to reinforce coping strategies and extend therapist engagement. It integrates with mental health practices to complement traditional talking therapy without replacing human therapists.

1 investor

Affinity provides a platform for investment banking teams to accelerate mandate success and client relationship management through integrations with tools like Slack, Mailchimp, and Dropbox.

7 investors

Affinity is an AI-powered internal compliance platform that helps organizations centralize policies, generate training from documents, track completion and risk, and produce audit-ready evidence. It serves Legal, HR, Finance, IT, and Operations teams across companies of various sizes.

1 investor

Affirm provides a point-of-sale financing platform that allows consumers to make purchases and pay over time, available online and in-store through its Affirm Card and browser extension integrations.

10 investors

Affogata provides a unified platform for collecting, analyzing, and delivering customer feedback data from reviews, social media, communities, app stores, and support channels. The platform structures this feedback with sentiment analysis, topic clustering, and compliance controls, delivering it to dashboards, AI agents (via MCP), data warehouses, and business tools for product teams, support leaders, and executives.

2 investors

Affogato is an all-in-one AI studio for generating, editing, and upscaling images and video with 170+ models integrated into a single workspace. It serves creators and marketers in fashion, product photography, and advertising who need consistent character and brand representation across multiple formats and shots.

2 investors

An AI-powered workspace for citation-backed research, managing references, conducting literature reviews, annotating PDFs, and writing papers.

1 investor

Afilio provides digital estate planning and family care documentation services for German-speaking users. The platform enables families to organize advance directives, inheritance information, and emergency contacts in one secure, legally compliant location.

2 investors

Afimmune develops new medicines for rare and inflammatory diseases through drug discovery and development programs at various clinical and pre-clinical stages.

1 investor

Afineur uses biological processes to manufacture food products sustainably, leveraging natural fermentation and biotech methods as an alternative to conventional manufacturing.

1 investor

Afori provides AI-powered automation tools for insurance professionals, automating routine tasks like policy comparison, coverage inquiries, and document review. The platform learns from user workflows and requires no configuration, helping insurance teams reduce back-office work while maintaining DSGVO compliance.

1 investor

Africa's Talking provides communication and payments APIs (voice, SMS, airtime) for developers and businesses to build mobile engagement solutions across Africa. The platform abstracts the complexity of working directly with mobile operators.

1 investor

Afriex provides a remittance service enabling immigrants to transfer money to over 25 countries at low costs with rapid settlement.

1 investor

AfroSpace is a community clubhouse that provides physical space and organizes gatherings for community groups, particularly focused on Black women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and allies. The venue offers coworking facilities and hosts community partner collaborations.

1 investor

Afrocenchix creates vegan, cruelty-free hair care products designed specifically for Afro, tightly coiled, and curly hair. The brand is Black-owned and sells directly to consumers through e-commerce.

1 investor

A tech-enabled brick-and-mortar community space offering personalized wellness products and curated self-care for Black women and people with afros.

1 investor

Afrostream is a video streaming service offering films, shows, and web series focused on African and African-American content, available across multiple devices and in 28 countries in Europe and Africa.

1 investor

After provides affordable and transparent end-of-life planning and funeral services for families, shifting control from funeral homes to consumers with customizable options.

1 investor