Our Work
Empasco's work is varied: sometimes we would be your strategic advisory partner helping to organise capital, ideas, and people. Whereas in other times we would 'get our hands dirty' and co-build solutions with you (whether it's pure software delivery or something tech-enabled).
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Our Portfolio
For ideas that we are truly passionate about, we put 'skin in the game' and invest ourselves to scale those.
Investment Stage - Late Stage
Industry - Digital Platform
Substack is an US-based innovative digital platform that offers comprehensive publishing, payment, analytics, and design tools to empower subscription-based newsletters.
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Investment Stage - Early Stage
Industry - EdTech
Synthesis is a decentralized online program created at SpaceX designed to cultivate student voice, strategic thinking, and collaborative problem solving through games and simulations.
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Investment Stage - Series B
Industry - Software
Replit is set up to bring the next billion software creators online. It offers the best tool for quickly starting, sharing & developing projects in any programming language right from your browser.
Investment Stage - Pre-Seed
Industry - 3D Modelling/MetaVerse
Customuse is building the Canva-equivalent of 3-D model apparel generation in order to democratise the creation of cross-platform models for use in the world of AR, VR and the Metaverse.
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Investment Stage - Pre-Seed
Industry - 3D animation software
KinetiX is building the next generation AI powered 3D animation No-Code platform for game developers, filmmakers, AR/VR/XR, Media, & VFX.
Investment Stage - Pre-Seed
Industry - Digital Workspace/Software
Creable is bolstering the creator economy providing unified digital workspace and solutions to creators and managers around the world to help them develop brand recognition.
Investment Stage - Series C
Industry - Navigation/Logistics
What3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Investment Stage - Late Stage
Industry -BioTechnology
AbCellera which IPO-ed recently is a biotechnology company developing antibody therapeutics to improve patient outcomes. It specializes on therapeutic antibodies, screening, choosing, and analyzing millions of naturally produced antibodies to be used as next-generation drug candidates.
Our Previous Work
Empasco worked with academics at Imperial to do a current state analysis of innovation in frontier market countries including the exact steps that need to be taken to jumpstart the process of innovation investment in these countries.
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Empasco has worked closely with the Global Peace PACT, advising on Technological solutions for positive global change and consulting intra-governmental PACT partners on deploying technology across their initiatives and projects. Empasco has co-ordinated partner projects with representatives of the governments of Sierra Leone and Armenia, among others.
Empasco had the pleasure of supporting some of the leading entrepreneurs and innovators through our work with African Caribbean Pacific Young Professional Network (ACP YPN). At the Conference on Entrepreneurship and Development in Brussels, Empasco presented research on the topic of sustainable solutions in the business context and highlighted the problem of isolation of the African continent as a key challenge. The conference was organised in collaboration with World Solidarity Forum.
Empasco supported NTM+ at the Giant Health conference in London so as part of the strategy of channeling some of the groundbreaking medical innovation into the developing world. Additionally, Empasco worked closely with the Company in their international expansion efforts, connecting the organisation to leading surgeons in Armenia thus allowing for the solution to be delivered to prior underserved communities.
Empasco were invited to the United Nations Secretariat in Geneva for the special Sri Chinmoy exhibit opening followed by a discussion with the UN representatives on the importance of Impact Data collection in showing real tangible results. The meeting resulted in discussion on application of Blockchain technology at the UN level and has lead to additional coalition research on transparency and accountability technologies.
At the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London in April 2018, the Empasco team supported and was part of the organising team, including the Commonwealth Youth Forum. The events offered the opportunity to debate and discuss some of the key issues relating to the advancement of the Commonwealth agenda of solving complex global issues by bringing together representatives from the worlds of business, civil society and government.
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