Top 50 Blockchain Startup Investors in United States in October 2023

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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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• 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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• 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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• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
• Tools For Humanity — Tools For Humanity is a technology company built to ensure a more just economic system.

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• Brine.fi — The best onchain spot trading crypto exchange
• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
• Maverick Protocol — Trade. Earn. Any Asset. Stop paying for price discovery. Enjoy higher capital efficiency.

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• Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
• Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.
• FastLane — FastLane is an easy to integrate protocol that rewards participating validators for protecting the health of the Polygon blockchain.

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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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• Supermojo — Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class.
• Tapio Protocol — The stability of native DOT, with the yield of LDOT.
• Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.

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• Anoma — An intent-centric architecture for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, information flow control, & multi-chain atomic settlement
• Hourglass — Our mission at the Hourglass Collective is to grow adoption of real-world blockchain utility by incubating projects that bridge the crypto space with mainstream entertainment, popular apps, major retail brands and large-scale events
• Ellipsis Labs — Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.

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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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• 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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• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
• Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

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• Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
• move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.

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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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• 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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• OP3N — Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is the global Web3 superapp that serves as a one-stop-shop for all communication, connection and commerce with on-chain interactions in a simple unified interface. With a mission to create a more frictionless, decentralized and democratized creator economy on a global scale, OP3Nconsolidates the tools needed to mint, share and engage with digital goods and digital tokens into one vertical stack. OP3N’s leadership team leverages its cross-industry expertise from the entertainment, gaming and tech ecosystems, to lay the foundations for a new era of community-driven, inclusive entertainment while bringing everyone together on a journey into Web3. OP3N is co-led by media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma, who has a successful track record launching companies including EST Studios, Stampede Ventures, East West Ventures, and 88rising, and who’s raised capital and advised on transactions totaling over $1 billion; and Eric Tu, an award-winning development executive who’s worked with major brands including Nike, Beats by Dre and Google, and as an Executive Producer with Bjork, Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: https://op3n.world.OP3N’s portfolio of projects includes a partnership with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH; an intergalactic children’s book from Grimes; a partnership with entertainment icon Simon Fuller to produce an innovative musical film with the global pop group Now United; and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” music video from the singer-songwriter Ava Max, directed by the celebrated music video director Joseph Kahn.
• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.

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• EDX Markets — Edx description website
• Friend.Tech — Friend.tech is a decentralized social media app that allows users to tokenize their friends.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.

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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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• Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
• Socket — Socket, which acts as a meta-layer that connects all chains, enables unified, multichain applications with shared liquidity and state across chains.
• Maple Finance — Fast and easy borrowing for Corporate and Institutional borrowers

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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.
• Modular — Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
• Evidence — Evidence is an open source, code-based alternative to drag-and-drop BI tools. Build polished data products with just SQL and markdown.

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• Degame — Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO.
• Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
• Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad

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• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
• Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.

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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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• 3Commas — 3Commas provides a platform for cryptocurrency investors to trade with minimal risks, limit losses, and increase profits. 3Commas was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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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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• Lifeform — Lifeform provides decentralized identity systems for Web3 avatars.
• Ping — Ping provides international contractors and freelancers with access to a personal Dollar account in the United States.
• Polyhedra Network — Polyhedra Network is constructing the infrastructure for Web3 interoperability through the use of advanced zero-knowledge proof protocols.

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• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
• Ethena — Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.
• Mahjong Meta — Mahjong Meta is a Web3 gaming platform on Ethereum, providing Mahjong lovers with an innovative gaming experience.

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• Rated — Rated offers data on validators and node operators, which makes it easier for users to compare and contrast their performance.
• Fhenix — End-to-End Encrypted Web3 Fhenix is the first blockchain powered by fully homomorphic encryption to bring Computation Over Encrypted Data to EVM smart contracts Join us Learn more A new, encrypted web is waiting for you Truly functional markets require end-to-end encryption. Fhenix rises to the challenge by unlocking unprecedented encryption capabilities in the public blockchain
• Essential — Essential is building intent-based infrastructure & tooling to accelerate the transition from value extraction to intent satisfaction.

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• Florida Street — PIXEL GG INC.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.
• Superstate — Superstate is developing the next generation of legal, blockchain-based financial solutions.

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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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• DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.
• Cymbal — The human readable block explorer. Explore any wallet, NFT or collection to understand their activity, all in real time.
• SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.

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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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• Antic — Antic develops a digital assets platform that builds foundations of a shared ownership economy by helping people collaborate, coordinate and earn together as a group, enabling users to own digital assets collectively and empower groups to purchase together what they could not alone, seamlessly.
• Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
• Spexi Geospatial Inc. — An intuitive and collaborative platform for drone-based data

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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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• SigNoz — SigNoz is an open-source observability tool to help you find issues in your deployed applications & solve them quickly. It provides logs, metrics, and traces under a single pane of glass. Built with ClickHouse as datastore, it is designed to handle enterprise scale.
• teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
• Canid — We believe vaccinating shouldn't be hard and it shouldn't be a distraction from what's most important: taking care of the kids.

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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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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
• 0xBoost Finance — Unleash the Power of Multi-Chain Staking and Boost Your Assets. Stake. Earn. Grow. Empowering Crypto Investors Across Multiple Blockchains.

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• IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
• ZTX — ZTX is a web-3 virtual world that supports communities and creators. ZTX is a blockchain project that jump crypto and ZEPETO, the largest avatar social network, have collaborated on.
• DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.

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• Polybase — Polybase Labs is building fair, accessible and safe blockchain infrastructure to make the world more equitable. Our main product is a layer 2 blockchain with private transactions and MEV-resistance powered by zero knowledge proofs.
• Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
• Orb Labs — Enable apps to access users on any chain without account fragmentation

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• Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
• Teamshares — One hundred percent close rate on LOIs. Committed capital with no financing contingency. Teamshares is the buyer of choice for your business listing. Request a buyer profile to learn more about us.
• Metropolis — Metropolis unites technology and operations to make parking remarkable.

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• Iron Fish — Enable the free flow of assets through accessible and private cryptocurrency.
• NEAR Protocol — NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while stillproviding the scalability necessary to serve those users.
• NEAR — Near develops an application platform designed to bring blockchain to a wide variety of mainstream applications.

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• Nomic AI — Nomic AI engages in improving both the explainability and accessibilty of AI.
• LLM Shield — Powerful leak protection from LLMs like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, or Claude. Deploy protection today.
• Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.

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• Rated — Rated offers data on validators and node operators, which makes it easier for users to compare and contrast their performance.
• Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
• Metahood — Metahood offers services for discovering, purchasing, and selling land in the open metaverse.

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• Opolis — Opolis is next-gen Digital Employment Platform for Freelancers providing payroll, benefits and other services for independent workers and freelancers.
• GAST Clearwater — GAST Clearwater is a US-based, next-generation water treatment company with a mission to provide Water for Mankind one drop at a time. Operating in various industries and markets from Real Estate, Wastewater Treatment, Municipal Potable Water, and various others in particular focusing on the recovering and recycling of different waters in acentralized or decentralized way. The company also does artificial beaches, urban lagoons, wave pools, surf parks, aquatics to sewerage treatment, wastewater, and drinking water.
• Alef Aeronautics — Armada operates in a stealth mode

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• Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
• Omni — Access all of Web3 in one easy-to-use wallet! Earn and manage assets at once with Omni's built-in staking, yield vaults, bridges, swaps and NFT support.
• CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities

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• IronMill — IronMill is a Web3 infrastructure provider that focuses on offering customized integration solutions to program developers.
• 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.
• Franklin — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll

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• Parcha AI — Parcha is an AI-powered enterprise software that enables businesses to automate their scale compliance and operations.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.
• Whisper Aero — Harnessing the power of air more cleanly, efficiently, and quietly than ever before.

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• Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
• Markato — Markato offers an all-in-one online wholesale platform for businesses and stores in Asia to source from hundreds of premium, independent brands from the United States, Europe, and Australia.
• Portkey — Portkey enables companies to develop, launch, maintain & iterate over their generative AI apps and features faster. It is an LMOps platform that speeds up your development and your app.

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• LabDAO — LabDAO builds and uses open tools for digital life science research. We want to see a world where every inventor can apply for funding and access infrastructure online - no matter their circumstances. Our community is composed of students, researchers, and engineers who launch scientific projects together.
• Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
• Mnemonic, Inc — Easily build, ship, and scale powerful NFT applications with Mnemonic's complete, reliable, and real time data and analytics capabilities.

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• Sword & Wand — Sword & Wand is a fully remote studio that focuses on shared online experiences and systemically driven replayability. The company was founded in 2022 and is headquartered in Kissimmee, Florida, United States.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
• HyperSpace — We invent, build, and operate next-gen attractions connected to digital lifestyles.