Meet Zapmii, Grand Compliance, and NAYAMAX: HackerNoon Startups of the Week

Happy New Year, everyone 🎉🎉🎉

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Startups of the Week!

Each week, the HackerNoon team highlights standout Startups from our Startups of the Year database. Each startup featured, has been nominated as the best in their respective technology category or region.

This week, for our first Startups of the Week feature of 2025, we’re excited to shine a light on Zapmii, Grand Compliance, and NAYAMAX.

Meet the Startups of the Week

Zapmii

Zapmii is a digital networking company transforming how people connect and share their social media profiles. With the NFC Social Presence Card, users can combine all their profiles in one place, making networking easy and efficient. Designed for Gen Z in universities, schools, clubs, and meetups, Zapmii simplifies the networking experience and is leading the way in the digital networking revolution.

Operating out of London, UK, Zapmii has been nominated as a top startup in the region, with additional nominations in the Software Development, IT Services, and Web Development Industries.

Grand Compliance

Grand Compliance is a next-gen GRC platform designed to simplify and enhance the work of GRC practitioners through workflow automation, collaboration, and AI-powered tools. What sets it apart is a continuous stream of expert-curated content.

Grand Compliance has been nominated as one of the top startups in Stockholm, Sweden with three further nominations in the Software Development, IT Services, and Web Development Industries.

NAYAMAX

NAYAMAX is an e-commerce accelerator empowering businesses and entrepreneurs to start, sell, grow, and manage their ventures online and beyond. Offering cutting-edge tools, it helps digital project leaders shape their company's future. Based in Ouagadougou, NAYAMAX fosters an ecosystem for e-commerce growth in Africa, enabling anyone, anywhere, to learn, create, and manage an online business.

NAYAMAX has earned a spot as one of the top startups in Burkina Faso and has received nominations in E-Commerce, IT services, and SaaS Industries.

Featured Interview of the Week

Once your startup has been nominated, you’re encouraged to follow Zapmii’s lead—create your business page on HackerNoon and take advantage of your free Startups of the Year Interview.

Choose from our list of startup interview templates, including the Engineering Startup Interview, which helps you highlight your pitch, product-market fit, evolution, and industry outlook. It's a great way to show why your startup deserves recognition in the Startups of the Year 2024 awards.

Here’s a quote from Zapmii featured in their published interview, telling us why Startups of the Year means:

Participating in HackerNoon’s Startups of the Year is more than just an honor for Zapmii, it’s a validation of our vision to make life both simpler and safer for millions of people around the world. This recognition will help us build credibility, especially in the competitive health-tech and networking-tech spaces, where trust is paramount. Additionally, this award will give us the visibility needed to attract key investors and partners who believe in our mission to improve people’s professional lives and safeguard health in emergencies.

Featured Startups Special Package

HackerNoon’s Startups of The Year is a branding opportunity unlike any other. Whether your goal is brand awareness or lead generation, HackerNoon has curated startup-friendly packages to solve your marketing challenges. Today, we share our Content Marketing package.

Content Marketing: 10x Distribution!

With this package, you’ll get:

• Your business page with your logo, introduction, call to action, and socials on HackerNoon
• 3 stories published on HackerNoon, along with editorial support to enhance their impact.
  • Your articles are converted into audio stories and distributed via audio RSS feeds
  • Each story is translated into 12 different languages
  • Social media promotions of your stories
• Multiple permanent placements on HackerNoon
• Your Evergreen Tech Company News Page

That’s all we have for you today, folks! We’ll see you at the next one.

The HackerNoon Team