Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Middle East (October 2023)

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• asvin.io — asvin provides IoT lifecycle management for Software Supply Chains. We comply UNECE W.P29, UNECE R156 and UNECE R155. Contact us!
• Cadeia — Cadeia provides a digital platform for the structuring, issuance and settlement of complex financial products. In addition to enhanced servicing functionalities and a rule-based cash-flow distribution solution, the platform offers reporting, compliance and analytics tools for issuers and investors.
• XVA Blockchain — XVA Blockchain offers B2B data reporting for brokerage, asset management, and custody.

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• Homeis — We’ve created Homeis because we know first hand how deep the experience of being foreign-born is. When you ask us what home is, we don’t have an easy answer. It’s complicated. We have the city we chose to live in and call home, and then we have our culture, the country we come from, which we call home as well. And it’s a big part of our identity,it’s who we are.Homeis was created to help people like us, who belong here and there, and feel that the Internet is undeserving them. We’ve witnessed how difficult it is for local foreign-born communities to digitally connect, share their culture, their local knowledge, and unique context. We saw how important these communities are in one’s life, how supportive they can be, and how effective their common wisdom can be to its members.So we decided it’s time to give foreign-born communities a dedicated comprehensive product. A product that understands them really well, and most importantly - empowers them. It’s what we’re here for. While local culture networks have always existed, our mission is to use technology and innovation to turn these invisible groups into visible communities.Homeis was founded in Feb 2017 in NYC and Tel Aviv. We’ve launched our first community in Dec 2017, and are planning to open many more in the next months. As most foreign-born people, we are BIG dreamers. Join us!
• Simplex — The fiat/crypto infrastructure for the world
• Rewire — Secure financial services designed to help migrants make cross-border money transfers. Rewire offers great rates, fast delivery, multilingual customer support

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• K2View — K2View provides an operational data fabric, delivering a trusted, holistic, and real-time view of customer and business data, to applications and analytics
• Worthy — Sell diamond jewelry, rings & watches for the absolute most at Worthy.com. Featured in NYT, Forbes and US News. Trustworthy, fully insured online auctions.
• Sisense — Convert data into revenue by embedding AI-powered analytics with pro-code, low-code, and no-code capabilities.

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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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• 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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• GEMS — GEMS is an Esports 3.0 aggregator Platform that combines the elements of GameFi, Esports, Metaverse and SocialFi (GEMS).
• Safeverse — Safeverse is a training, Learning, and Education to equip people for future jobs in the metaverse and real life.
• The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.

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• Alpha Vault — Alpha Vault is a decentralized crypto investment platform
• Sync Savings — Rebuilding the infrastructure of cash savings
• Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

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• 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.
• Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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• TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
• Supermojo — Supermojo is building the embedded customer lending experiences to power the growth of NFTs as a powerful new asset class.
• InterPrice Technologies — InterPrice Technologies is a financial technology company that empowers corporate Treasury teams to make financing decisions with accuracy and precision. The company’s current technology automatically aggregates bond, commercial paper, and loan indications into intuitive dashboards across currencies and financing products. By normalizing dataacross all banking partners, InterPrice simplifies the financing process for corporate issuers and creates more competitive advantages for underwriters.

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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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• Vend Park — Unlock the true value of your parking asset with a fully digital parking access and revenue control system
• Wolf — Wolf is an enterprise SaaS solution for temporary staffing agencies to power their talent marketplaces and help them match their customers with the right talent within hours instead of days. Entrepreneurs and staffing companies can launch their own UpWork style talent marketplace within hours for any industry: from healthcare (similar to: Nomadhealth, Clipboard health, Intelycare etc.), hospitality (similar to: Pared, JitJatJo, Instawork) to light industrial to name a few. Features include: Branded Marketplace, Branded iOS/Android apps, Marketing tools, accounting tools, Billing, Invoicing, Timesheets management, native W2 payroll processing, AI hiring and scheduling and more.
• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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• Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
• Virtualness — Virtualness is a mobile-first platform created to assist brands and creators in navigating the challenging Web3 environment. It prioritizes artists and is developing the manual for simple design, effective sharing, and smooth digital commerce.
• Odsy Network — Odsy solves the "Access Control Problem" for Web3 builders with the revolutionalry dWallet concept. By powering the most secure, robust and flexible infrastructure for decentralized access control - Web3 can finally be connected to the real world.

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• Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
• Fanzee Labs — We develop fan engagement platforms that help sports and entertainment organisations meaningfully connect with their fans through immersive gamifcation experiences
• Megaton Finance — Deposit crypto, reap reward everyday

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• Golioth — Golioth helps developers to build IoT devices, secure your IoT, pipe device data from the edge to the cloud, and manage your IoT fleet from anywhere.
• Vera — Vera develops an assessment platform to identify and address risks in artificial intelligence and machine learning models. It engages key stakeholders across teams to create data-driven assessments and use data science tools to investigate AI and ML models, helping organizations navigate through uncertainty and protecting companies and individualsfrom risky artificial intelligence systems.
• Shader — Shader, a new self-expression with AI. Shader app lets anyone develop AI effects and AR filters that they can use across Shader’s social graph, or post to other apps like Instagram. Traditionally, developing an AR filter was a desktop activity, requiring coding experience and design experience. With Shader, anyone can create a filter using text,taps, or their voice. It provides a new way to make videos with its AI-first video creation tool that anyone can use. Shader was founded by Darya Sesitskaya (ex-Snap, AR Platform Design Lead). The app is currently in private beta. The company has raised $580k from Betaworks, Greycroft, Differential Ventures, Mozilla Ventures, and On Deck.

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• Spiral — Easily make a difference every day
• Coin Metrics — Crypto intelligence for the future of finance. Coin Metrics organizes the world's crypto data and makes it transparent and accessible.
• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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• HumanFirst — HumanFirst enables better integration and analysis of digital health technologies in clinical trials.
• Shibuya — Welcome to Shibuya, a platform for high potential short films. We provide creators with a full-stack solution to fund films and shorts, build community, and foster an engaged fanbase. Fans can fund their favorite films, participate in the creative process, and join communities for the films they love most.
• Contribution Labs — DeForm is token-gated forms and surveys for sign ups, allowlists, DAO governance, and other web3 marketing activities. Trusted by ENS, Alchemy, Optimism, CityDAO, Mintplex, and other blockchain projects.

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• Ondefy — Ondefy is building infrastructure that enables a simple access to decentralized finance. Integrate multiple DeFi services unders 1 line of code.
• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• Creednz — B2B Payments Protection using internal finance data enriched w/ externally curated intelligence, enabling informed payment decisions in RT.
• Entitle — Control access to your organizational cloud resources without creating bottlenecks or friction while creating a seamless experience for employees.
• Tamnoon — Tamnoon develops a state-of-the-art cloud security platform to empower security teams and manage cloud risks effectively. By harnessing the power of AI combined with human expertise, the company empowers security teams and equips organizations of all sizes with exceptional cloud protection capabilities.

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• CyVers — Next-generation blockchain threat prevention- Identifies patterns and anomalies across blockchains in real time for proactive Web3 mitigation.

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• Azuro — Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol, utilizing smart-contracts to bring full transparency to the betting process and to deliver a classic betting experience with plentiful markets & liquidity and funky innovations like collectible bets and gamification via NFTs
• Odyssey — A platform for content creation, collaboration and community building in 3D. Create, curate and earn from your creations & staking rewards.
• StableBattle — StableBattle is a real-time mass PvP tournament game with a prize pool generated from DeFi yields

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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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• Taiko Labs — A decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup.
• Odsy Network — Odsy solves the "Access Control Problem" for Web3 builders with the revolutionalry dWallet concept. By powering the most secure, robust and flexible infrastructure for decentralized access control - Web3 can finally be connected to the real world.

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• iBLOXX — iBLOXX is a Web3 incubator and market maker with iBLOXX Studios.

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• Luxon — Read transaction history to match your game play style.
• ITSBLOC — ITSBLOC strives to provide enjoyment to all users with high-quality game content.
• ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.

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• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• FCUK Ecosystem — A startup aimed at building an ecosystem based on Bitcoin and the Ordinals protocol and creating infrastructure for BRC20 / BRC21 / DRC20 / LTC20 tokens.

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• Duetti — Duetti acquires music catalogs from independent artists a-la-carte with transparent, data-driven deals. Fund your career and breathe new life into tracks with uniquely intelligent marketing. Partner with us one track at a time, or even just a percentage of one.
• Volumez — Volumez is SaaS composable data infrastructure. With Volumez, you can deploy applications in your cloud with precise control of IO characteristics using a fully declarative interface.
• Alive — Alive is building a globally leading decentralized artificial intelligence platform supported by a global community of developers, individuals, economists and technologists.The Alive Foundation is a steward, and will support and grow the Alive community until it becomes self-sufficient. Time51 Labs helped launch Alive, and currently serve asadvisors to the Foundation and operators.

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• Qwak — Build, deploy, maintain, and monitor ML models and features in a single platform.
• Nilos — Pay, track and reconcile your crypto wallets and fiat accounts in one platform.
• Alinea — Alinea offers a social investing platform for crypto, stocks and playlists. We offer fractional investing, $0 commission on investments, and a minimum as low as $1.

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• Nilos — Pay, track and reconcile your crypto wallets and fiat accounts in one platform.
• finres — Understand, Evaluate and Invest to Become Resilient to a Changing Climate. With finres, access the latest science, state-of-the-art decision-making methods and big data to transform your vulnerabilities into opportunities.
• Jungle France — Jungle France is a France company engages in vertical farming and hydroponics.

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• Arrago — Arrago is a Fintech lending platform providing French Lifetime Mortgages
• KillBills — KillBills is a application software that provides banking, payment card, consulting, financial, and digital receipt services.
• OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers

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• Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
• Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
• 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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• Orbofi — Create and monetize AI-generated images and assets for games, media, and AI NFTs. Create your own finetuned AI models.
• Blockus — Blockus enables game studios to build fast, reduce costs and laser focus on gameplay. Seamlessly integrated WaaS, first party NFT marketplace, and fiat + crypto payments.
• LayerZero Labs — LayerZero Labs is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains.

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• MultiLynq — MultiLynq offers flexible and cost effective solutions for supporting the electronic trading of fixed income products.
• ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.
• Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.

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• Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
• Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
• NewHomesMate (formerly Propertymate) — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

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• LumiShare — An innovative Trust Token backed by 3 uncorrelated assets, including Gold, sophisticated algorithms and an Asset Backed NFT Marketplace.

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• Loupe — LOUPE is the #1 art streaming platform and service on connected TV and web with an integrated marketplace. The immersive visuals are available in and out of home, ad supported on living room TVs or with a commercial license for public display, and allows users to purchase the artwork, select prints & originals. Loupe launched exclusively onApple TV where it is ranked #1 Lifestyle app around the world, now with 25+ channels of art available on Amazon Fire, Android TV, Pluto TV, Samsung, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo and web streaming, with proprietary methods for user customization of the streams (patent pending). Loupe has 2M monthly active users, 80X audience growth in 2020, and more platforms launching in 2021.The company reaches an upscale mass market in OTT and OOH industries, consumer electronics, smart TV, home theater/home entertainment, interior design, art market, music streaming, and hospitality.
• Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
• Balthazar NFT Gaming — Own Your Game! We envision a future where gaming is powered by the players, not held captive by centralised systems.

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• CyVers — Next-generation blockchain threat prevention- Identifies patterns and anomalies across blockchains in real time for proactive Web3 mitigation.
• Reco — SaaS Security Leverage Reco's context analysis to streamline SaaS security, minimize data and identity risk, and automate remediation

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• Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

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• Cyrator — Our daily list of trending crypto projects that completed our rigorous review process
• Marhaba Defi — MRHB Defi is a halal, decentralized finance platform built to embody the true spirit of an “Ethical and Inclusive Defi” by following faith-based financial and business principles, where all excluded communities can benefit from the full empowerment potential of Defi.
• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• Wheeler Bio — Wheeler speeds up and simplifies discovery-to-IND with its cutting-edge approach to CDMO services for cell line development, cell banking, process development, characterization and more.
• Arcana — We empower institutions to analyze complex financial & risk data.
• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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• fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
• Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens 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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• peaq — Build decentralized applications and DePINs for vehicles, robots and devices, while empowering users to govern and earn as connected machines provide services.
• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality
• peaq — Build decentralized applications for vehicles, machines and devices on the peaq network.

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• Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
• autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
• Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.

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• Bit2Me — He buys and sells cryptocurrencies from home. With the security, ease, and speed that only Bit2Me can provide.
• DRepublic — DRepublic is a metaverse company who are the developers behind the upcoming 3A blockchain game Cradles.
• Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network

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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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• D8X — D8X is an institutional-grade perpetual futures DEX with a financial engineering approach that significantly transforms the way perpetual futures can be traded on-chain.
• ZenLedger — ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns.Its automated platform helpsinvestors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.
• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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• GigaStar — GigaStar brings YouTube Creators & Fans together as partners. Fans invest in YouTube Creators and Creators get funding while building an army of promoters.
• EDX Markets — Edx description website
• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality

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• Octopus Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.
• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• daily.dev — daily.dev is the fastest growing online community for developers to stay updated on the best developer news. Together we supercharge developers' knowledge and empower better software.
• Wing Cloud — Wing Cloud tames cloud complexity through a unified programming and operational model that works across all providers and services.
• Tamnoon — Tamnoon develops a state-of-the-art cloud security platform to empower security teams and manage cloud risks effectively. By harnessing the power of AI combined with human expertise, the company empowers security teams and equips organizations of all sizes with exceptional cloud protection capabilities.

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• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality