Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in LATAM in October 2023

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Sumi Network — Sumi Network is a decentralized storage solution provider.
• 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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• Praso — Praso is a business-to-business platform that connects large food service producers with small shops such as bars, restaurants, cafés, and bakeries, offering a data-driven approach to demand generation, last-mile logistics, understanding purchase behavior, and a credit solution.
• Kanastra — Asset-management-as-a-service
• Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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• Z1 — Z1 is a digital banking app made for teenagers and young adults where teenagers can learn financial independence. Founded in 2020 by João Pedro Thompson (ex-Vereda Educação), Thiago Achatz (ex-Grow Pay), Sophie Secaf (ex-BOX 1824) and Mateus Craveiro (ex-Pagar.me), the company has already conquered important investors: the Maya Capital fund and 99founders , Ariel Lambrecht and Renato Freitas. Now, the company announces that it has received a contribution from the American accelerator Y Combinator, which has companies such as Airbnb, Twitch, and Rappi in its portfolio.
• Glass | Government Ecosystems — GLASS is a software ecosystem powering high-performing governments. We build purposeful, transformative technology for XXI century governments, using Artificial Intelligence to digitize, streamline and scale good processes and decision-making.Regardless of size, public systems, or challenges, we make it easy for governments to do what'sright, empowering them to run efficiently and to offer high-quality public services that are universally accessible to all.We believe that a new blueprint for good governance is possible, and are creating the tools to make that happen, today.
• menta tech — menta ayuda a boleteras a aumentar ingresos, reducir costos y gestionar datos, con integraciones simples que proveen seguridad y eficiencia.

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• Web3Go — Web3Go is a blockchain startup that provides data tools powered by artificial intelligence.
• 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.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.

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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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• 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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• IronMill — IronMill is a Web3 infrastructure provider that focuses on offering customized integration solutions to program developers.
• GamePhilos — GamePhilos is to offer player digital ownership to mobile strategy games.
• Buidler DAO — Buidler DAO describes itself as a "network of web3 projects and talents." The effort brings together developers, researchers, and operators with the goal of providing an infrastructure and accelerator for cryptocurrency ventures.

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• 37xDubai — 37xDubai is a space where Art and Technology come together to create the most unique expressions of creativity.
• Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
• CryptoSimple — CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo.

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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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• Koibanx — KOIBANX is a software company focused on Smart Contracts and Blockchain Services.Koibanx solutions cover a wide range of use cases defined by their Transparency, Security, LowCost and Efficiency of applying Blockchain technology.These new decentralized software solutions have the potential to disrupt several industries rangingfrommarketing rewards to financial inclusion, allowing a democratic access to new opportunities formillions of new consumers across the world.
• PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
• Rand — Distributed Finance is a distributed financial services provider driving NFTs and DAOs on Algorand, setting the gold standard for others.

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• Parfin — Parfin is a modular platform for secure digital asset custody, trading and management | We are connecting traditional and digital finance
• Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
• Mecanizou — Mecanizou is a distributor of automobile parts. They offer products that include filters, lubricantes, scanners, correias, arrefecimento, frenagem, and baterias.

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• Kofa — Kofa is an automotive company that utilizes the latest electric battery and motor technology. The company aims to develop an affordable, sustainable and customer driven electric network in transformative energy, transport, and climate change around the globe. Kofa was founded in Ghana and is headquartered in Accra.
• Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
• Open Forest Protocol — With Open Forest Protocol (OFP), measure, report, verify and fund forestation projects with digital transparency

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• Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
• GamePhilos — GamePhilos is to offer player digital ownership to mobile strategy games.
• Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

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• Apprenty — Na apprenty, estamos criando caminhos alternativos para que os jovens surpreendam ao entrar no mercado de trabalho.
• Kala — We turn any lender into a fintech lender. Kala is building the fintech infrastructure for lending in LatAm. We work with any lender, from banks to credit unions to any company that sells through a credit program. Kala increases financial inclusion by providing a seamless and fully digital credit process for both people and companies in LatAm.
• BrandLovrs — BrandLovrs provides a one-of-a-kind model for gamifying influencer marketing campaigns Brands may use the BrandLovrs platform to collaborate with a large number of producers for scalable and gamified influencer marketing.

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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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• 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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• Sortium — Sortium is your AI-powered production team, just a prompt away. Tap into our dynamic AI & Web3 platform to craft professional assets in real time using natural language. Generate exceptional content, streamline tokenization, and simulate economics and behavior. Experience the industry-standard output you deserve for all your game and virtual productions.
• ECSA — ECSA / BRLe Stablecoin - On/Off for Brazilian Reais
• Franklin — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll

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• 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 — Decentralized platform that unlocks a world of DeFi earnings through easy, automated, and audited blockchain processes. Empower your earning potential with a few clicks.
• Sumi Network — Sumi Network is a decentralized storage solution provider.

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• LimeWire — LimeWire is the place to take control of your content, connect with your biggest fans and get paid for doing what you love.
• Unifimoney — Unifimoney is an investment and money management app built to simplify, diversify and unify your money management. Manage and grow your wealth effortlessly and in one place. Passive and Active investing, plus alternative assets like Crypto and Precious Metals, a credit card with rewards paid in Bitcoin, Gold, or Equities, and a full suite of banking services. Plus exclusive benefits and offers for customers including student loans with bonuses up to $2,500, mortgages, auto loans, insurance, HSA, and more.
• Universal Ledger — Universal Ledger provides digital asset and payment infrastructure on an identity and compliance-first blockchain. It is the first blockchain platform to apply digital identity to a fully compliant infrastructure, with the ability to control digital assets.

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• Assis — Assis goal is to empower business owners by helping them grow their companies through technology that gives customers an amazing experience each and every time they connect with them.
• Aravita — Intelligent Fresh Food Ordering
• Comp — Compareemcasa is a comparison website developed to help consumers when deciding what services to hire online. It enables consumers to compare insurance services, loans, and more. The company's focus is on financial products and services enabling Latin American households to save time and money.Compareemcasa is headquartered in São Paulo,Brazil and was founded on 2009.

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• Klubi — Klubi is a fintech company that provides credit facilities in a simple, transparent, secure and truly digital experience.
• Axenya — Axenya is a digital health platform company.
• Dattos — Dattos came up to heal a market need: to unzip and automate reconciliation processes. We are a Fintech specialized in integration and automation of accounting, tax, banking, assets, and data reconciliation processes.

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• Zippi — Zippi provides financial services for gig workers in Latin America.
• Cayena — Cayena is a B2B marketplace for the $100b+ wholesale food industry in Latin America. The company allows restaurants, bars, bakeries, hotels and dark kitchens to procure their inventory from multiple suppliers with next day delivery and a comprehensive suite of add-on services.
• Nomad — Nomad is providing financial services.

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• Hashdex — Hashdex is a global pioneer in crypto asset management. We believe open blockchains are unlocking economic growth and creating unprecedented opportunities for investors.
• Credix — CREDIX is a decentralized credit marketplace connecting investors with FinTechs in emerging markets. Learn more about the future of debt financing now.
• ARTHUR MINING — Our Mission is to bring greener, efficient and profitable bitcoin mining worldwide.We strive to be amongst the most profitable bitcoin mining operations globally while pursuing carbon mitigating impact.Our team guarantees our scalable and mobile modern infrastructure is built in timely deployed operations through strategic energy partnerships.Arthur is the expression of our team's high standards.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Few and Far — Few and Far is the next-generation platform for experiences in Web3, including NFTs, DeFi, gaming, and more. They help NFT projects with launchpad services, minting tools, outbound marketing, and more. They offer creators the liquidity, ability to earn, and listings alongside the top collections on NEAR.
• Gameta — Gameta is a web3 company.

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• TravelX — TravelX is a company that provides online travel services. TravelXchange develops the new blockchain-based infrastructure for secure, decentralized, frictionless, efficient, transparent, and profitable travel industry. E-mail contact used for inquiries.
• Codiga — Customizable Real-Time Static Code Analysis engine. Works anywhere you write code.
• Stämm Biotech — Stämm Biotech specializes in life sciences. During the past two years, Stämm has designed a novel bioproduction system that leverages microfluidics, electroporation and robotics to solve the main constraint of the biotech industry: scaling up. Solving this problem could unlock a $700B market in the next 10 years. Today, after integrating thesestate-of-the-art technologies, the company is unveiling the future of biomanufacturing. Stämm downsized a whole biotech facility into an all-in-one, plug-n-play desktop unit: the Bioprocessor, which has proven to be at least 70x more productive than traditional bioreactors.

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• Devolut — Devolut offers a product designed for businesses and enhancing customer experience. The Company uses intelligent algorithms to boost sales, reduce costs, and improve customer experience through reusable shipments and a real-time management portal.
• Principia — Principia develops and operates a digital platform that manages financial processes of universities. It is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Torch Dental — Torch Technology develops an all-in-one technology designed to meet dental practices supply ordering and inventory management needs. Torch Technology is based in New York, New York.

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• Dapi — Dapi is a fintech API play that is aimed at facilitating payments between consumer bank accounts and companies. That Dapi has managed to make its service work in seven countries with deep bank support is impressive and Dapi has found demand for its service, with $400,000 in ARR and growth of more than 50% per month as of its presentation.
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• Moon Mortgage — Crypto backed mortgage provider

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• Blocktorch — Blocktorch web3 observability platform provides real-time tracing, logging and monitoring for developers building decentralized applications and smart contracts. Try it for free.
• 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.
• 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.

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• Wert — Making purchasing of NFTs seamless and not requiring users to have crypto.
• Klavi — Klavi specializes in data analytics and open data connectivity that receives data securely, quickly, and scalable through a single API.
• CAF — We are specialists in combating identity theft and people trying to impersonate others.

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• Kairos Loan — Kairos Loan is a new type of lending protocol allowing you to borrow instantly using an NFT as collateral and with the best rates on the market.
• Radius — Radius is a trustless shared sequencing layer that provides rollups with sequencing-as-a-service and cross-rollup interoperability solutions. Rollup blockchains are specialized blockchains that have off-chain executions to improve transaction processing speed and overall blockchain performance.
• Braavos — Braavos is a smart contract based wallet for managing your funds & NFTs and connecting to dApps.

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• Mizar — Mizar || Crypto Bot Trading Platform - Copy Trading Platform - Social Trading Platform - buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Smart Trading Tools
• Orderly Network — Orderly Network is a decentralized orderbook protocol designed for DeFi developers and traders in Web3 to experience accelarated trading with low fees and deep liquidity.

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• Maza — Maza is a mobile app that offers financial products and digital banking services.
• Poko — Enable local payments and successful onramping for wallets, NFT marketplaces, web3 games, and dApps globally.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• Yodayo — Explore AI generated anime art, find best prompts, create beautiful images with our free AI art generator, and share it with other anime fans!
• Openfort — Openfort delivers web3 games with the strongest technology base for maintaining and expanding crypto accounts for gamers.
• Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.

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• 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.
• OpenCover — Cover $5,000 from $1.14 per week on leading protocols including Curve, Uniswap, Aave and more. As seen on CoinDesk, Decrypt, The Block, Coin Telegraph.
• Lumina — Lumina is a zero-knowledge, KYC-enabled, enterprise-ready DEX on Mina.

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• Haiqu — Clumsy Hardware needs Careful Software
• Zibra AI — Zibra Liquids is a real-time and cross-platform physically correct fluid simulation plugin for game developers
• datuum — The Data Management platform that can scale your data operations. datuum.ai streamlines any part of your complex data project.

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• DFlow — DFlow is the protocol powering the first decentralized order flow markets
• Ethena — Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.
• One Trading — Discover an unrivalled trading experience with One Trading. We believe regulation powers user experience, not breaks it. Crypto - But regulated. Buy crypto now, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, DOGE, Solana, Cardano and more.

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• NFEX — NFEX is a decentralized derivatives exchange that offers perpetual swaps trading across popular blue chip NFTs. NFEX expands limitations and boosts liquidity compared to traditional NFT marketplaces, offering leverages and long/short trading capabilities. Users can take positions in NFTs at low entry costs, speculating the future prices ineither direction, or short NFTs without any holdingsWith secure, professional and user-friendly products and services, NFEX opens up a variety of trading strategies for NFT traders including hedging, speculation and arbitrage. Our mission is to build the best NFT derivatives trading platform around the globe.
• Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
• Gosleep — Gosleep is a healthfi-focused web3 lifestyle applications. They also provide gamefi, socialfi, and healthfi services. Additionally, they also provide token-rewarded and social gaming-driven system to encourage users to build up healthier sleep behavior's and participation.

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• Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
• Yumari — Wholesale Buying from Latin America Made Easy
• FZ Sports — Fz Sports is a tech company that creates connections between rights owners, sports brands, and sports fans. The way to enjoy and monetize sports content.

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• Delysium — Delysium is a playable AAA MMO web3 game.
• Safeheron — Safeheron is a platform that enables open and transparent self-custody of digital assets.
• TwitterScan — Twitterscan and NNS are working together to create a cross-chain name service network that will connect Web3.0 users, data, and assets.

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• Orderly Network — Orderly Network is a decentralized orderbook protocol designed for DeFi developers and traders in Web3 to experience accelarated trading with low fees and deep liquidity.

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• Orderly Network — Orderly Network is a decentralized orderbook protocol designed for DeFi developers and traders in Web3 to experience accelarated trading with low fees and deep liquidity.

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• Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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• Joepegs — Dive into Joepegs, the leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles. As a cultural hub in the Web3 space, we offer secure buying, selling, and discovery of innovative digital assets.
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• 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.

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• 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.
• Optix — Optix is ​​a multi-chain option protocol service provider.

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• Juna — STI rates have hit record numbers for six consecutive years but testing and care options are unaffordable and inconvenient for most at-risk populations: Gen Z and the LGBTQ+ community. Juna's telehealth platform offers personalized clinical support, at-home sexual health testing, and medication with insurance coverage. Our payor-centric modelallows for end-to-end clinical support where you need it most.
• LuckyTruck — LuckyTruck | We're here to help! Buy commercial trucking insurance and manage it through one seamless platform. Get started now
• VeGrow — VeGrow is an automated vertical farming system for greener, healthier, and fresher produce.

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• Vendah — Social commerce platform democratizing the e-commerce in LATAM through local entrepreneurs
• Sensix — Through the FieldScan platform, Sensix uses analytical intelligence and machine learning to consolidate and correlate data from drones, satellites, machines, climate and soil and plant samples, generating input application maps, greater crop predictability and greater profitability for farmers. The web-based platform FieldScan is capable ofdelivering weed localization maps, quantifying planting gaps, identifying vigor and biomass variability and soil and plant sampling maps for variable rate application of fertilizers, nematicides, regulators (cotton), resistance inducers and insecticides, communicating directly with the agricultural machinery and impacting in saving of inputs, greater homogeneity of the crop and increase of yields.
• Mission Brasil — Mission Brasil is an information technology solution that provides a digital outsourcing platform for business development. Their services include legal and administrative, retail and monitoring, research and audit, hidden shopper, data and accreditation, logistics, and direct sales.

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• Mara — Secure and easy to use crypto wallet, where you can buy, sell, earn, send or withdraw your fiat and crypto assets - including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Mara Token
• Metametaverse — Discover the future of virtual worlds with our metaverse platform. Explore, create and monetize your own metaverse experiences in a seamless and secure manner. Join the cosmic system of metaverses today.
• Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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• EBR Systems — EBR Systems, Inc. is an early-stage development venture pursuing novel approaches in cardiac rhythm management. EBR Systems develops devices for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
• Cardiac Dimensions — Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. is a medical device company developing novel interventional tools for the treatment of heart failure and the related condition of mitral valve regurgitation. Our product, the Carillon® Mitral Contour System®, is a groundbreaking, non-surgical device developed to treat functional mitral valve regurgitation. Our system uses acatheter based approach to reshape the mitral valve and reduce mitral regurgitation.
• Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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• PYOR — PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.
• Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
• CAT Labs — CATLABS.IO - Building Digital Asset Recovery and Cybersecurity Tools to Enable Public and Private Sector Customers to Fight Crypto-Enabled Crime

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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.