Malta

Plug and Play supports startups in Malta, and those looking to begin operations in the country. This platform offers mentorship, training, access to our VC network, business development opportunities, and more. 

Malta is the EU’s smallest member state, situated in the middle of the Mediterranean. With a rich history, diversified economy, ideal climate, and competitive cost of living, Malta is a highly attractive place for companies to incorporate and grow.

Our Founding Partner

Malta Enterprise is the country's economic development agency, tasked with attracting new foreign direct investment as well as facilitating the growth of existing operations.

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The “Start in Malta” initiative

Start in Malta is Malta Enterprise’ governmental initiative aimed to supercharge the Maltese startup ecosystem for it to be the birthplace of many startup success stories

Plug and Play will be working with Malta Enterprise within the Start in Malta initiative, assisting companies to start and flourish in the country.

Plug and Play Malta and Malta Enterprise have put together an extremely strong proposition for startups to scale up in Malta. To learn more, visit their website to understand the financial incentives offered, such as operational and relocation costs (including salaries). These schemes can serve as seed funding and other equity measures against others, with a maximum of 1.2 million Euros.

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Target industries

Startups in these areas will have the chance to accelerate their business through the program. Plug and Play Malta will be focused on three specific industries with its second batch of startups, always with a Data-Driven Component as this is key to run a successful business.

How startups can apply

Submit your details to get in contact with the Plug and Play Malta team. If your startup is a fit, the team will let you know all the opportunities available and put you on the right track to scale your business.

Batch 1: Data-driven solutions

  • Zeg.ai Logo
    Zeg.ai
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    Zeg.ai
    ZEG.ai is building next generation platform that will enable non-experts to build 3D assets for variety of use-cases including e-commerce, games, XR, brands, retail, and Human-Machine interface. We can create high-quality models of a wide range of furniture, shoes, clothing, and other consumer goods.
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    PharmaTrace
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    PharmaTrace
    PharmaTrace is a blockchain based ecosystem where the pharmaceutical industry works together to do better business based on a common distributed ledger. It is secure, fast, efficient, trustful, agile, cross-interactive, cost-saving and easy to install. Our ecosystem is built on a decentralized network, utilizing the latest blockchain technology, thus providing high-level data security, complete traceability and simplified process pathways at both local and global levels. Our bleeding edge platform leverages the blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, to protect supply chains, data exchange and integrity, in transaction channels, while also providing cost saving models and business operation upscale. At PharmaTrace, we are the technical foundation to network the entire Healthcare Ecosystem for increased security and efficiency throughout the system.
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    Secure Elements Ltd
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    Secure Elements Ltd
    Secure Elements presents an Integrated Product Cybersecurity Platform for MaaS companies to design cyber secure systems. The platform offers design, engineering and management capabilities to secure the product throughout it’s lifecycle, in compliance with ISO 21434 and UN ECE R155/R156.
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    RegTick
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    RegTick
    Regtick is a visually intuitive software platform which simplifies the management of complex regulatory and compliance programmes so that organisations can reduce cost, improve control and collaboration and evidence compliance with regulations on an ongoing basis. Unlike existing platforms Regtick’s intuitive visual approach makes it easy to see actual progress in real time. Regtick is pushing the boundaries of visualisation software, creating our own technologies giving the user oversight of their end goal of compliance and the ability to zoom in on the specific detail of any given task. Unlike existing platforms, Regtick’s intuitive, visual approach pushes the boundaries of visualisation software, creating new governance reporting systems. Giving the client not only clear oversight of their compliance needs and a fully audited history of interactions but also providing real-time transparency and simple clear workflow between teams. Regtick uniquely sits across risk, regulatory, compliance and governance silos. Regtick leverages cutting edge UX design and visualisations embedding first-hand knowledge of how regulatory change programmes succeed and fail within the financial services-regulatory community. At Regtick “we take the complex out of compliance”. www.regtick.com/video
  • NoID Solutions Ltd Logo
    NoID Solutions Ltd
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    NoID Solutions Ltd
    Private and secure encrypted email. We protect email, what you write, what you read, what you attach, we encrypt email, files and more adding privacy, security and intelligence so you can do more with email than just email. We build and supply server software to run your own Email server which encrypts email "On send" and decrypts "On receipt". If you value privacy, data security and want to be free of monitoring, tracking, fraud and reputational risk then our products and services are for you. Traditional email was designed in 1971 before privacy and security were considered. Today 300 billion emails are sent each day and multiple parties have access to those messages due to their plain text format. We are a Privacy and Cybersecurity business headquartered in Malta Europe, operating wherever our customers and users are. Today a growing, globally experienced team of 15 are developing and delivering solutions for the world we live in now and the future. The multi-national senior team have delivered multiple software and internet products and services since the late 90’s with over 100 man-years of application (Software/Web/App) development, Legal, Banking, Sales, Business Development, Operations, Support and Quality Assurance experience.
  • Skinive Logo
    Skinive
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    Skinive
    Deep Learning company desing and develop AI&CV-based skin health screening solution (API, Web & Mobile Apps) using smartphone cameras for home and professional use at the dermatologist level and without the need for expensive equipment. Skinive 'solution supports: - More accurate identification of skin conditions and risk assessment, leading to better health outcomes and reduced treatment cost - Less onward referrals to secondary care, reducing strain on specialist clinics and lowering the costs of finding skin diseases.
  • Prometheus Technologies Logo
    Prometheus Technologies
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    Prometheus Technologies
    Prometheus Technologies develops a plug-and-play investment platform enabling fintech partners to offer institutional-grade investing to their customers. It is AI-driven and delivers personalized ESG and Impact investing using machine learning techniques for alpha generation. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in San Jose, California.
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    The CyberFish
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    The CyberFish
    Playing cyber crisis simulation games, with an additional focus on soft skills, such as team cohesion, crisis communications, decision-making increase personal resiliency of team members. Building the muscle memory for collaboration decreases individual stress levels, improves team resilience, and has a positive impact on the effectiveness of strategies used, when having to face a real crisis together. We help you exercise your crisis team's collaboration via our platform's immersive cyber incident game simulations, specifically designed to reflect your industry cyber threat landscape. Our clients pick the scenario most relevant to their threat landscape, we get their teams crisis-ready. Our simulations are used by our clients to help them as part of a regular crisis exercising compliance routine, but we have also exercised large cyber security decision-makers as part of their team-building events, and helped critical national infrastructure providers work with their supply chain partners more effectively and think together in terms of cyber security vulnerabilities and build a joint response capacity. We offer facilitated and automated exercises, via our platform Resilience Dojo, which is the go-to resource to crisis management and business continuity teams in the UK and beyond.
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    Omniscope
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    Omniscope
    Omniscope is a Deep Biotech whose technology decodes the immune system in High Definition to inform therapy and develop diagnostics through the convergence of immune cell sequencing, digital biomarkers, and artificial intelligence.
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    Cereverse
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Batch 2: Data-driven solutions

  • Smart Materials Logo
    Smart Materials
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    Smart Materials
    Annually, about 240 million mattresses are produced globally, with 80% ending up in landfills due to complex multi-layer composite mattress designs. Mattresses today comprise various foams and adhesives that are difficult to recycle. Auxetic PU foam is initially soft and densifies upon compression, durable, molds around the body making it comfier. It can be used as mono-layer in mattresses, making them cheaper to produce and easier to recycle. Until now, the large-scale production of auxetic foam was challenging and costly. Our team, a blend of entrepreneurs, researchers, and material experts, has devised a cost-effective, scalable production method for this foam, making it directly during the foaming stage. We've patented our invention in the Netherlands, and applications are under national phases in the US, Canada, EU, China, and Japan. Our market includes foam manufacturers and mattress producers to whom we offer our ready-to-use solutions via licensing. We have eight global foam manufacturers interested to license, of which two are negotiating a pilot set-ups. We now seek to raise $2 million to upscale our formulations and make our production methods transferable. In addition we have another 37 leads interested in applying auxetic material to automotive and sports gear.
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    Grydd
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    Grydd
    Grydd is a SaaS company, that focuses on networking and collaboration between all the players that operate, manage and work in Supply Chain and Logistics. Our platform centers around the ability to bring together all the players that on a daily basis transact, manage, control or move products domestically or internationally, regardless of their role, or the systems they operate. Our platform focuses on the core premise that any successful Supply Chain is a conduit where all processes, players and data are integrated, connected and transparent. We understand that the power of Supply Chain stems from the people and the data generated by those relationships during the logistics process. Our platform doesn’t focus on one persona or feature in particular; rather we focus on all the end-to-end processes and the players that feed and interact every step of the way. Whether you are working on the transportation management side, inventory management, purchase orders, eCommerce, warehouse management or track and trace, we bring all the elements together in one integrated ecosystem.
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    Nu-Credits
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    Nu-Credits
    Nu-Credits is a trade finance platform that provides borderless finance solutions to businesses trading. It empowers cross-border e-commerce sellers. It was founded in the year 2019.
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    BeWo
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    BeWo
    BeWo creates a sustainability reporting platform where businesses quantify ESG and carbon emissions. They think that in order to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of green projects, leaders and decision-makers must adopt a data-driven approach. With the goal of providing companies with the information and resources they need to lessen their environmental impact and have a positive impact on the planet, BeWo works to promote a data-driven strategy by offering automation, analytics, and process optimization in their solutions.
  • Datalitiks Logo
    Datalitiks
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    Datalitiks
    Datalitiks is a Maltese-based start-up that aims to help organizations to unlock value from data towards sustainability reporting 2.0. We want to contribute to building a better world by providing organizations with an innovative way to report their economic, social, and environmental impacts, and give visibility to their initiatives while creating awareness of how those contribute to the achievement of the bigger picture – sustainable development goals-. We are a passionate and committed team that believes in the power of using data for change by bringing value. We do #dataforgood.
  • Sorair Technologies Logo
    Sorair Technologies
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    Sorair Technologies
    Our autonomous perimeter security solution - the Soranet™️, is a central intelligence platform that integrates with drones, sensors, and existing surveillance cameras to track real-time activity of individuals and assets across large sites. Using computer vision and AI technology, our system detects intrusions and unauthorized individuals at the earliest stages. With our proprietary software we can command and control any drone or autonomous vehicle for automation operations. Sorair is backed by the European Space Agency and Techstars; Partners of Inmarsat Aviation - a global satellite company, and Argenbright security group.
  • Biotic Labs Logo
    Biotic Labs
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    Biotic Labs
    Biotic provides an end to end, fully bio-based, fully biodegradable polymers manufacturing process. We use macroalgae and our secret recipe to create PHBV polymers. Enabling optimal transition from fossil-fuel-plastics, with a scalable, fully biological, environmentally friendly process, eliminating recycling needs, contributing towards reducing greenhouse gases emission, with a zero waste and circular economy approach. Biotic is an Israeli based startup, which envisions a world where plastic pollution is not a concern and in which the consumer purchases and uses the product in the exact same manner, and after use, tosses it to any trash and the product fully biodegrades no matter to the environment.
  • Swop Logo
    Swop
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    Swop
    SWOP is a platform that facilitates personal and professional connections for dynamic networking and marketing. SWOP addresses these needs by delivering a single, digital platform that combines information across various tools and enables new connections to be made and stored sustainably.