Top 50 Cryptocurrency VC Funds & 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Thallo — Thallo is a Carbon Credit Marketplace that is run on the blockchain. We offer businesses and individuals a place to purchase carbon credits.
• ValuesCo — Socialstack is a community of creative leaders, creators, & developers co-creating community-driven economies that run on carbon negative blockchain infrastructure.
• Xternity Games — Boost engagement and empower communities on web3

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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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• Obscuro Labs — Obscuro is a layer 2 solution for Ethereum that brings privacy. It ensures the inputs, ledger state and execution are always encrypted. No changes to Dapps, just migrate and gain privacy.
• 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.
• Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.

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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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• Tonstarter — Tonstarter is the TON-native launchpad, enabling crypto projects to raise capital in a decentralized, safe, and user-friendly environment.
• Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
• Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration

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• HypeLab — HypeLab is a web3 ad network that helps clients acquire new users in a scalable way. It serves both images and video creatives and uploads assets directly on the self-service advertiser portal. HypeLab is located in San Francisco, California.
• DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.
• Lumina — Lumina is a zero-knowledge, KYC-enabled, enterprise-ready DEX on Mina.

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• Saybeni — Saybeni focuses on people's personal awareness and offers a personalized road map of life.
• Reeplayer — Soccer is best when shared. Reeplayer automagically records games and gives everyone access to the footage. $99/month, camera included. Record without limits.
• RePG Energy — RePG Energy is a renewable energy system that offers innovative solutions and patents which converts the flow power occurred by using non-saturated air into electric power directly without utilizing generator by means of osmosis and diffusion principles as distinct from renewable energy systems known. RePG Energy was founded in 2916 and is basedin Istanbul.

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• MultiLynq — MultiLynq offers flexible and cost effective solutions for supporting the electronic trading of fixed income products.
• C3 Protocol — C3 is a self-custodial cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy, margin trade, and earn using any wallet from any blockchain.
• Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.

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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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• Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
• Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
• IQ Labs — IQ Marketplace offers unique NFTs with exclusive utilities, boosting your in-game experience. With flexible renting parameters and multiple payment options, rent without collateral and unlock the full utility of NFTs. Say goodbye to gas fees with our gasless renting feature and multiply the value of NFT collections with our multi-utility renting. Explore now

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• Finceptor — Get early access to deeply vetted, insurance backed & allocation guaranteed token sales starting from $1 while earning auto-compound staking yields.

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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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• 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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• PeerPlay — PeerPlay is a casual mobile games powerhouse
• Frantic Games — Frantic Games is a mobile game company that specialises in hybrid casual games.
• Scriptic — Scriptic, interactive story games on mobile.

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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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• 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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• Raleon — Create engaging experiences that convert more users and increase loyalty, powered by Raleon's engagement platform.
• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?
• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?

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• Wisery Labs — GenAI for the defense industry
• SphereX — Experience unmatched decentralized security with SphereX, safeguarding your DeFi apps non-stop. Trust in our transparent, ML-based protection.
• Statement — Statement enables businesses a real-time view into their payment status and a true cash position across all banks, accounts, geographies, and currencies.

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• Bazaars — Cryptocommerce is here. Bazaars is building the cryptocommerce ecosystem. Buy and sell any item, car, or property using crypto. Join the Bazaars community and receive a percentage of profits with BZR tokens.

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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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• Lyvely — Lyvely is a social networking and content monetization platform that provides an integrated multimedia e-commerce and payments solution.
• zkLink — zkLink is a unified middleware layer connecting L1 chains and L2 networks with zk-SNARKs technology, reshaping the crypto landscape for DeFi, NFT, and RWA trading.
• Dspace — DSpace is a Web3 social protocol powered by AIGC, LBS, AR, and blockchain technologies, providing users with innovative Gamefi-integrated social interactions, bridging the gap between Web3 and physical reality.

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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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• 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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• 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 — An open-source 3D content platform that is designed to redefine the virtual space as well as our physical world.
• StableBattle — StableBattle is a real-time mass PvP tournament game with a prize pool generated from DeFi yields

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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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• 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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• Catio — Catio is a cloud infrastructure platform enabling companies to excel with cloud-native tech stacks, focused on tech stack evaluation, planning, and evolution.
• Finceptor — Get early access to deeply vetted, insurance backed & allocation guaranteed token sales starting from $1 while earning auto-compound staking yields.
• eTasin.com — https://etasin.com

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

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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
• ether.fi — Truly decentralized staking. Keep your keys. Build the network.
• 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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• Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
• Connext Labs — Connext is the most secure interoperability protocol, allowing users to bridge funds and developers to build asynchronous Solidity for the first time!
• Stroom Network — Liquid staking protocol in bitcoin lignthning network

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• 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.
• Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

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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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• Magna — Token Vesting and DeFi investment management. Track your fundraise, execute your TGE, and manage your token unlocks in one compliant cap table platform.
• Onomy Protocol — Onomy is bridging Forex and Decentralized Finance through cross-chain liquidity aggregation and digital currencies.
• Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.

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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.
• Lightico — AI-Powered Document Collection, eSignatures, ID Verification and Forms for Secure and Compliant Customer Processes.
• Alison AI — Maximize your ad creative performance with Alison: creative testing, ideation, optimization & competitive analysis platform for a strong creative strategy

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• Sepana — Sepana develops search technologies designed to make it easy for people, communities, applications, and protocols to discover Web3 content. Founded in 2021, Sepana's API allows developers to build search-as-a-service functionality directly into their apps.
• Valory — A world-class team leading cutting-edge research & development at the intersection of multi-agent systems and distributed ledger technology.
• 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.

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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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• 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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• ansā — Objectively Awesome Coffee
• 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.
• Jigso — Bombarded by notifications? Block out the noise. Jigso aggregates and mines all your organization apps and data and then surfaces the information you need to know and the actions you need to take.