Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in Canada (May 2026)

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• GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
• P0x Labs — P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
• Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.

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• Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
• HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
• Intuition — Intuition provides decentralized infrastructure, developer tools, and applications enabling the creation of an open, flexible knowledge graph enhancing the quality and availability of social knowledge.

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• Sort — Sort: Supercharged collaboration for your database
• Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• Stroom Network — Liquid staking protocol in bitcoin lignthning network

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
• Portals — Portals is a #DeFi yield and protocol aggregator for transaction bundling, any-to-any swaps, and real-time data

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• Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
• Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
• Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.

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• Huma — Huma is an Income backed DeFi.
• M^ZERO Labs — M^ZERO Labs intends to create a decentralized network that will let large users securely connect resources to a decentralized infrastructure. MZERO strives to establish itself as the decentralized money middleware that enables on-chain interaction between actors of significant scale and sophistication.
• Superstate — Superstate is developing the next generation of legal, blockchain-based financial solutions.

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• BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
• Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
• Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.

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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• jiritsu.network — Jiritsu is a decentralized protocol enabling verifiable compute.
• Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• BHR — Streamline home research and diligence. Real estate data from 30+ industry-leading providers. Powered by an AI real estate copilot. Available for every home in the US.
• Webb Protocol — Welcome to Webb, an ecosystem of infrastructures and applications designed to extend privacy to the blockchain space. We are committed to a future where privacy is accessible for all in the multi-chain world.

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• Alix — Alix streamlines estate settlements with our AI-powered platform. Simplify document management, asset distribution, and legal processes for a smoother, more efficient experience. Explore our innovative solution today.
• Automat AI — Robotic process automation for Chrome using GPT3 guided Computer Vision
• Glass Health — Glass is a knowledge management system tailored to the way doctors learn, organize, and curate medical knowledge.

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• Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
• P0x Labs — P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
• Superstate — Superstate is developing the next generation of legal, blockchain-based financial solutions.

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• Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
• Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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• Wixpool — Wixpool is a liquidity mining mechanism that is based on the Wixpool Rate Stabiliser (WRS) algorithm. Wixpool, led by WRS, allows anybody to invest in high-yield liquidity pools with a steady interest rate by pooling the assets of private users into an automated ecosystem.
• Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad
• Frontrunner — Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.

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• Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
• Webb Protocol — Welcome to Webb, an ecosystem of infrastructures and applications designed to extend privacy to the blockchain space. We are committed to a future where privacy is accessible for all in the multi-chain world.
• Minterest — Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol for decentralized financial. Its unique design attracts and rewards long-term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance. Minterest was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallin, Estonia.

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• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
• Alluvial Finance — Building the enterprise-grade liquid staking standard

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• ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.
• Cryptoworth — Cryptoworth is a cryptocurrency solution and consultancy company working hard at the intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, business and people to better-serve the fin-tech industry. Cryptoworth was created to reduce the complexity of cryptocurrency adoption, usage, and management. Cryptoworth provides the best cryptocurrency and blockchainsolutions for use cases spanning from single users to large institutions.
• Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.

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• Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
• The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
• Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.

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• Nuco — Blockchain networks will redefine the structure, process, and business models of most industries. Nuco is developing production-ready infrastructure to power the future of enterprise software.
• ScribbleLive — ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its servicesoffered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
• Figment — Figment: Staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for investors and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technology.

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• Backd — Backd offers to maximize the power of assets and begin generating yield. Backd is a protocol for reactive liquidity decentralized finance (Defi).
• Cubist — Cubist brings modern software engineering practices and first-class security to web3 builders. Cubist’s toolkit makes it safe and easy to build, test and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain dapps in automated pipelines that handle keys and sequencing.
• Aperture — Aperture is a DeFi cross-chain investment ecosystem.

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• Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
• DeepNFTValue — Get a live estimate of the market price for any CryptoPunk by its ID or any combination of attributes.
• Informal Systems — Informal Systems offer research and development at the intersection of formal verification and distributed systems.

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• Gomu — Gomu supercharge your app, dapp, wallet with actions and data in NFTs, DeFi, DEX, DAO. Built by a team hailing from Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, Chainlink, Zendesk and Millennium. Request for a demo today.
• Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
• Suberra — Payment protocol for Web 3.0

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• VIP3 — VIP3 is the FIRST all-in-one web3 benefits and membership platform, providing users with rewards and discounts.
• Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
• AlterVerse — Discover AlterVerse, an immersive free-to-play game coming to the Epic Store. Explore endless possibilities in our boundless sandbox environment where survival skills are key. Join the adventure today!

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• Cosmic Wire — Cosmic Wire is the next-gen Internet: connecting worlds, empowering creators and transforming industries through Web3 innovation and blockchain solutions.
• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.

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• Decrypt — The next-generation media outlet navigating the intersection of culture and technology.
• Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
• CryptoKitties — CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles.With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly4-billion potential genetic combinations.

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• Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
• Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
• Bluesky — See what's next.

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• Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
• AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
• Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

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• Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
• Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
• Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.

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• Dapper Labs — Dapper Labs uses the power of play to deliver blockchain-based experiences that are made for you and ready for the real world.
• Jomboy Media — We cover the topics we love, including sports, movies, songs, and history. If we can talk about it with enthusiasm, we've got a show for it.
• Underdog Fantasy — Fantasy sports for real money

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• Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
• Jumbo — Jumbo is the solution for a decentralized solution that is ungoverned that seeks to lower the entry point to trade. They develop, tune, and process inherently present on the near blockchain. Their interface is used to configure a set of parameters for the asset. They provide a set of functionalities and interface-embedded constituents that help todetect the pools.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.

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• Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
• Headway — Headway is a mental healthcare system provider based in New York. It develops a health insurance advisory platform designed to connect patients with therapists and provides administrative support to therapists who don’t typically accept insurance. The company was founded by Andrew Adams, Jake Sussman, Dan Ross, and Kevin Chan in 2019.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• Runway — Explore more than 30+ AI powered creative tools to ideate, generate and edit content like never before.
• Mauve — Fully Compliant, Non-Custodial Exchange
• Pear Bio — Pear Bio uses organ-on-a-chip and computer vision technology to recreate, visualize, and compute the human tumor microenvironment and its effects on cancer progression. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London.

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• HealNow — HealNow partners with pharmacies to reduce the number of phone calls and payment forms they receive via fax, by allowing patients to pay co-payments online, schedule deliveries or curbside pickup, and answer any onboarding questions seamlessly. HealNow enables pharmacies to offer online payments of prescriptions for a faster onboarding and paymentsprocess. HealNow has built a system that’s specifically tailored to pharmacies of any shape or size, from grocery stores to independent pharmacies and everything in between. It was formed in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.
• Topline Pro — Receive a optimized website built for you in 24hrs with online tools to grow your service business. Take your business to the next level.
• TeamSense — Achieve 100% compliance & 0 disputes with TeamSense's text-based call-off solution. Employees love it, managers can't live without it.

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• Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
• Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
• Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.

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• Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
• Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
• Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• Ola — Ola is a ZKVM-based, High-performance, Privacy-focused layer2 platform.
• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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• FirstMate — FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators.
• Rocket Pool — Your friendly decentralised Ethereum staking protocol
• Mountain Protocol — At Mountain Protocol, we believe that everyone deserves access to the "risk-free rate" through a secure, regulated, and enterprise-grade product that elevates the world finance industry. Our yield-bearing stablecoin, USDM, provides permissionless composability, regulatory compliance, and an enterprise-grade setup with a seamless userexperience. Backed by US Treasuries and custodied by Fidelity in a bankruptcy-remote setup.

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• Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
• Freatic — We bridge the gap between individuals with untapped knowledge and actors who can take advantage of these opportunities.
• Ethos — Your home base for web3 on Sui. Easy to integrate in-dapp Sui wallet. Best way to onboard new crypto-curious users.

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• Itheum — As we enter the web3 and metaverse era; Itheum unlocks data silos and generates new value for your data.
• MeMusic — MeMusic is a blockchain NFT music service platform that uses blockchain technology to provide users with a music ecosystem experience.
• The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.

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• Hexens — The top-notch cyber security service provider with an essential focus on blockchain technologies
• Ondefy — Ondefy is building infrastructure that enables a simple access to decentralized finance. Integrate multiple DeFi services unders 1 line of code.
• Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.

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• GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
• Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
• Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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• Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
• Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
• Magic — Onboard users to your dApp with just an email, phone number, or social login. Multi-chain, highly scalable, and battle-tested.

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• Expeto — Expeto is the world’s first and market leading “carrier-grade” Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform that allows enterprises to confidently extend public and private mobile networks as one secure corporate WAN without losing control of their data or devices. Unlike hardware-heavy legacy solutions, Expeto is a containerized, software solutionpurpose-built to install behind the firewall, from the cloud, at the edge, or on prem. Affordably offered “as-a-service” and easily managed by IT, Expeto is as easy to deploy and manage as a Wi-Fi network.
• Cookin — Cookin is a homemade food delivery marketplace where people can find home-cooked meals and have them delivered to their doors.Cookin Inc. is rethinking what it takes to start a food business and enabling a new class of creators to do what they love. Cookin empowers talented cooks, many of whom are reinventing themselves from a topsy-turvyrestaurant industry, to turn their own talents and home kitchens into a source of income. Cookin matches buyers and cooks together on the marketplace and dispatches a driver to pick up the meal and deliver it.
• Buckzy Payments — Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days

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• AIKON — AIKON is simplifying blockchain technology and providing intuitive products and services for enterprise companies.
• Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.
• Horizon Blockchain Games — We make web3 easy, fun, and accessible for users and builders.

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• Reach — Reach is the premier ecommerce payments partner connecting you to global consumers. Unlock the true power of in-country payment without the complexities.
• Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
• ALICE Technologies — ALICE is a construction optioneering platform that empowers the world's leading contractors to plan, bid, win, and build more profitable projects.

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• GitPOAP — GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that represents off-chain accomplishments and contributions on chain as POAPs.
• BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
• Merkle Science — They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.

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• Degame — Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO.
• MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
• Franklin Payroll — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll

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• Wyre — Powerful payments APIs to connect your app or business to the blockchain with Wyre. Simple and secure. Fiat to crypto onramps. Wallets. Swaps. Transfers. Offramps. KYC. Tools to build your vision.
• XMTP — Own and control your communication.
• Zapper — Your home to web3. Explore wallets, NFTs, DeFi, Daos and more...

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• Peaze — Web3 Transactions Simplified
• Jobber — Jobber is an award-winning business management platform for small home service businesses. Unlike spreadsheets or pen and paper, Jobber keeps track of everything in one place and automates day-to-day operations, so small businesses can provide 5-star service at scale. Jobber’s 100,000+ home service professionals have served over 12 millionhouseholds in more than 47 countries. The company continually ranks as one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most innovative companies by Canadian Business and Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, and Deloitte.
• ether.fi — Truly decentralized staking. Keep your keys. Build the network.

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• Sonr — Sonr is a blockchain ecosystem where users have full control over their digital identity, and developers are empowered to build peer-to-peer decentralized applications.
• Everlend — Meta Lending Protocol
• AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.

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• Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
• Soricimed — Soricimed is a privately-held, clinical stage company focused on the development and commercialization of applications originally derived from its unique and proprietary family of peptides found in the paralytic venom of the northern short-tailed shrew
• ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.