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In 2011, a group of young entrepreneurs in São Paulo noticed a gap in how people accessed food from their favorite restaurants. They started with a project called Disk Cook, handing out flyers at colleges to promote local restaurants. This simple idea would evolve into iFood, now Latin America's leading food delivery platform. What began as a way to connect hungry customers with restaurants has grown into a comprehensive technology ecosystem that processes over 100 million orders monthly across 1,500 Brazilian cities. Today, iFood is far more than just food delivery. The company has expanded into markets, pharmacies, pet products, fintech (including iFood Pago, a restaurant bank), and corporate benefits. With an artificial intelligence-powered platform supporting 400,000 couriers and 400,000 partner establishments, iFood has transformed from a delivery app into a convenience ecosystem. The company's purpose extends beyond business - iFood is committed to feeding the future of Brazil and the world through technology, education, and positive social and environmental impact, making it a true Brazilian tech unicorn serving millions daily.

Appvia is a cloud-native platform consultancy that empowers organisations to build, secure, and scale across cloud, data, and AI. With 10+ years of experience and £60m saved for customers, the company has established itself as a trusted partner for public and private sector clients including the Bank of England, Home Office, and RBC Brewin Dolphin. As a Certified B Corporation with a 93.8 B Impact score, Appvia combines technical excellence with social responsibility, delivering measurable results like 25% faster release cycles, 20% developer productivity uplift, and 30-35% cloud cost reduction. Platform engineering is Appvia's craft. The company builds cloud foundations that enable secure AI and data transformations, offering accelerators for Platform Engineering, AI adoption, and Cost Optimisation. Their Wayfinder SaaS product provides an out-of-the-box developer platform, while their open-source projects including Terranetes and Krane demonstrate deep technical expertise. As AWS Advanced Tier Partners and Microsoft Solutions Partners, Appvia's team of specialists delivers Kubernetes, containerisation, FinOps, and cloud migration services that help enterprises modernise infrastructure while maintaining security, compliance, and governance at scale.

Azqore, founded in 1992 as Crédit Agricole Private Banking Services and rebranded in 2018, emerged from a clear realization: private banks and wealth managers were struggling with fragmented legacy systems that couldn't keep pace with digital transformation. The founders recognized that banks needed a partner who could truly understand both banking operations and cutting-edge technology. So they built Azqore - an integrated platform that handles Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office activities as a service, backed by 25+ years of deep banking DNA. Today, Azqore stands as the business and tech partner that enables wealth managers to focus on their clients while Azqore manages the complexity. With headquarters in Lausanne and operations spanning Geneva, Singapore and Lisbon, Azqore supports approximately 30 clients across 11 countries, managing around CHF 200 billion in assets. Their proprietary S2i platform represents decades of evolution in private banking technology, offering both BPO services and SaaS solutions that scale with clients' needs. When Pierre Masclet took the helm as CEO, he inherited an organization that had already completed nearly 60 successful bank migrations - a testament to the platform's robustness. Now, as part of the Crédit Agricole ecosystem through Indosuez Wealth Management, Azqore continues to push boundaries with modern tech stacks including Java, Spring and microservices architecture, all while maintaining the personalized service that private banking demands.

Anlatan builds user-friendly and censorship-free AI tools for creative expression. Founded in 2021, this remote-first research company develops NovelAI - a monthly subscription platform for AI-assisted storytelling, virtual companionship, and image generation. The company prioritizes user privacy and data transparency, creating AI services that respect user autonomy while providing powerful creative capabilities through their custom text and image models. The team operates as a globally distributed unit focused on advancing both text and image AI technologies. NovelAI Diffusion, their proprietary image generation system built on Stable Diffusion, showcases their commitment to improving foundational models. By maintaining an open relationship with their community and emphasizing unrestricted creative tools, Anlatan aims to make advanced AI accessible to creators who value privacy and freedom of expression.

LaunchDarkly helps some of the biggest companies in the world take total control over software launches, get deeper and actionable insights into how users experience their products, and revolutionize the ways technical and business teams work independently. After living through software launches that turned into late, stressful nights, co-founders John Kodumal and Edith Harbaugh knew there had to be a better way to manage feature releases. The company's feature management platform enables teams to decouple feature rollout from code deployment, serving as the first scalable feature management platform. LaunchDarkly empowers all teams to safely deliver and control software through feature flags, supporting feature flagging, experimentation, and continuous deployment. The vision is to create a world where every software release is safe and unceremonious. Today, LaunchDarkly serves over a thousand global companies across industries including financial services, retail, healthcare, and government.

Influur was born out of a critical gap in the creator economy. When co-founder Alessandra Angelini worked at CNN, she discovered that brands struggled to connect with influencers - influencers were overwhelmed with thousands of messages across platforms and simply couldn't keep up. Together with her co-founders, Angelini envisioned a platform that would revolutionize influencer marketing the way Google AdSense transformed advertising, creating a seamless bridge between corporate brands and the creator world. Today, Influur stands as the first two-sided marketplace purpose-built for the creator economy, backed by $10 million in Series A funding from Point72 Ventures and HTwenty Capital. The platform hosts over 30,000 verified influencers and 5,000 brands across 11 countries, offering cutting-edge AI tools that help brands predict campaign performance and ensure creators get paid on time. Unlike platforms that scrape web data, Influur maintains a verified community where influencers typically respond within 24 hours. The company's innovative financial tools include an escrow-based payment system and instant payouts, positioning Influur to become the financial backbone for creators worldwide. With offices spanning Miami, San Francisco, Mexico, and Argentina, Influur continues to scale rapidly, serving major clients like Meta, Warner Music Group, Paramount, and Netflix while redefining how brands and creators collaborate in the digital age.