Members
Investors and innovators on Torches.
72 members
Innovator·🇲🇦 Morocco
Ropewalk
Ex-compliance officer turned founder after one too many audit fire drills.
Innovator·🇮🇪 Ireland
Deadbolt
Security engineer, built the SSO stack at two fintechs before this.
Innovator·🇵🇹 Portugal
Nightshift
Engineering manager turned founder, tired of standups that helped nobody.
Innovator·🇰🇪 Kenya
Tallyup
Grew up in her family's grocery store, now building the software it never had.
Innovator·🇵🇭 Philippines
Portside
Customs broker for 12 years before deciding to automate her own job.
Innovator·🇺🇸 United States
Backstop
Ex-auditor at a Big Four firm, now automating the parts she hated most.
Innovator·🇮🇹 Italy
Ridgeline
Logistics engineer, spent three years optimizing delivery routes by hand.
Innovator·🇷🇺 Russia
Overwatch
Industrial control systems engineer, has seen too many preventable outages.
Innovator·🇧🇷 Brazil
Palletform
Warehouse ops manager turned founder after redesigning her own facility's layout.
Innovator·🇨🇦 Canada
Signalwell
People-ops lead who kept getting asked for a better way to check in on remote teams.
Innovator·🇯🇵 Japan
Cursive
ML researcher focused on handwriting recognition for clinical use.
Innovator·🇦🇺 Australia
Driftwood
Marine biologist turned engineer, spent two field seasons tracking ocean debris by hand.
Innovator·🇵🇰 Pakistan
Quorum
Labor-rights organizer building the voting infrastructure co-ops actually need.
Innovator·🇮🇹 Italy
Backlot
Indie film producer, built this after one too many broken rental spreadsheets.
Innovator·🇷🇴 Romania
Stonewell
Structural engineer, spent a decade doing this inspection work by hand.
Innovator·🇺🇸 United States
Trailhead
Staff engineer who got tired of onboarding docs nobody could ever find.
Innovator·🇩🇰 Denmark
Latchkey
Built smart-home hardware for a decade before turning to short-term rentals.
Innovator·🇿🇦 South Africa
Bedrock
Data engineer, spent years untangling lineage by hand at a regulated bank.
Investor·🇬🇭 Ghana
Early-stage investor across West Africa, focused on fintech and logistics.
Investor·🇫🇷 France
Consumer-focused angel, previously led growth at a travel marketplace.
Investor·🇹🇷 Turkey
Fintech investor across the Middle East and Southern Europe.