Top 40 ESports VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Canada in October 2023

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• Tonit — Connect with local riders. Discover hundreds of rides & events. Track & share your ride. Share photos & videos with the community.
• PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
• eThor — Trusted By National Brands Trusted By National Brands Contactless In the age of COVID-19, it's more important than ever to provide your customers a safe way to pay. eThor offers a number of contactless payment options, from Apple Pay, Samsung Pay or other forms of

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• Luda — Lifting people through play
• 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.
• Series.AI — Series.AI is a creative company that specializes in the development of games using artificial intelligence.

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• Goss — Goss Media | Make predictions on Reality TV, Trending Events, Celebs, Fashion & more.
• Kaya Climb — Kaya Climb is a climber’s app designed to connect users with the gym and local climbing community and find and share beta. It enables climbers to build an ascent pyramid, and review past climbing sessions. The company was founded in 2019 when a crew of climbers and technologists got together to create a platform for the climbing community.
• ShotQuality — The goal of ShotQuality is to dispel the luck of the game and deliver the expected results based on the accuracy of each shot’s quality, rather than just make or miss. There are over 90 different variables involved in calculating ShotQuality. Overall, we have over 60 NCAA D-1 teams subscribed including the likes of Auburn, Arizona, and StanfordUniversity

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• PayJoy — Looking for a phone or a cash loan? PayJoy gives you credit with few requirements and in minutes. No late fees charged.
• 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.
• Lydian — Lydian aims to accelerate the decarbonization of the chemical industry by electrifying the chemical production process. Founded in 2021 by Branko Zugic, Lydian is headquartered in

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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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• Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
• Matchday — We build games for 5B football fans, featuring your favorite players. Official partner of FIFA and FIFPRO.
• Wicked Saints Studios — We used behavioral technology to create interactive media that is wickedly fun and actively good. Wicked Saints emerged from Niantic’s incubator last fall (CNBC article) with a prototype of the world’s first adventure activism game, World Reborn. At its simplest, World Reborn is an interactive story game with real-life quests facilitated byaugmented reality (AR). It not only defies genres between narrative and AR games but blends the digital and real world. Wicked Saints sees AR as a bridge between fantasy and reality, with untapped potential to offer players immersive experiences that change them and their world for good.

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• Arraiy — Headquartered in Palo Alto, Arraiy is building the premier AI-driven production platform for the motion picture and television industry. Arraiy is collaborating with major studios, industry veterans, and award-winning artists to re-invent the filmmaking process with machine learning at its foundation. With its products, Arraiy seeks to enhance thecreative freedom of storytellers and unlock the next generation of visual storytelling.
• Stackin' — Your gateway to side jobs and part-time gigs. SideHustles.com provides expert advice, diverse job ideas, and tips to maximize your earnings.
• BABOON TO THE MOON — BABOON TO THE MOON is an adventure brand - we make versatile, technical and radical bags. All with a lifetime warranty and free shipping in the US.

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• Vega Cloud — Vega is a next-generation Cloud management platform. With increased visibility, scalable management, and advanced optimization strategies, Vega can save you up to 35% on your monthly cloud bill.
• Give InKind — Set up a Give InKind Page to coordinate support from anywhere. Create a Care Calendar, add items to your Wishlist and connect your Crowdfunding - all for free.
• Inherent Biosciences — Inherent Biosciences is a molecular diagnostics company that revolutionizes trial and error medicine and restore hope. The company does this by discovering what's inherent in our biology about the unexplained and translating discoveries into personal insights that inform actions.Inherent Biosciences develops medicines for treating pain,infertility, embryo quality, autism, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, fetal heart disease, COVID-19, and many more.

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• Torum — Torum is the SocialFi ecosystem (Social + NFT + DeFi + Metaverse) that is specially designed to connect cryptocurrency users. The Web3.0 ecosystem is built on a social media platform, coupled with a yield farming platform for DeFi players, an NFT marketplace for crypto artists and Avatar NFT for Metaverse enthusiasts.
• Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
• fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

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• Wisecut — Wisecut is an automatic video editor based on voice recognition
• Take It Down — This service is one step you can take to help remove online nude, partially nude, or sexually explicit photos and videos taken before you were 18.
• Tyndall National Institute — Established with a mission to support industry and academia in driving research to market, Tyndall National Institute is one of Europe’s leading research centres in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) research and development and the largest research facility of its type in Ireland. Established in 2004 as a successor to the NationalMicroelectronics Research Centre (NMRC founded in 1982) at University College Cork, the Institute hosts over 460 researchers, engineers and support staff, including a full-time postgraduate cohort of 135 students, generating over 200 peer-reviewed publications each year.With a network of over 200 industry partners and customers worldwide, Tyndall generates around 30M income each year, 85% from competitively won contracts nationally and internationally. Tyndall is also a lead partner in European research programmes in its core areas of ICT, communications, energy, health and the environment worth 44M, including 6M accruing to industry in Ireland (from Framework 7). Hosting the only full CMOS, Micro-Electronic-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and III-V Wafer Semiconductor fabrication facilities and services in Ireland, Tyndall is capable of prototyping new product opportunities for its target industries - electronics, medical devices, energy and communications. Tyndall is a globally leading Institute in its four core research areas of Photonics, Microsystems, Micro/Nanoelectronics and Theory Modelling & Design. Tyndall is the lead institution for the Science Foundation Ireland funded Irish Photonics Integration Centre (IPIC).

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• MazumaGo — Send and receive business payments online with no limits, no percentage fees and no bullsh*t. Bring your business payments into the 21st century.
• PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
• Ideon Technologies — Unlock the power of subsurface imaging with groundbreaking muon tomography. Discover precise mineral detection for confident decision-making.

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• Cauldron — Cauldron aim is to create a Worldbuilding is the art form that is foundational to everything at Cauldron. We want people to truly feel they can not only escape into our worlds, but through the advances of Web3, be a part of them.
• Bubblehouse — Bubblehouse is a full-suite loyalty provider delivering increased retention through unique brand-focused solutions
• Invisible Universe — Invisible Universe is an internet-first animation studio that develops original character IP on social media and web3 platforms. Its mission is to create the next household name animated franchises faster and more economical than traditional models. We believe the next generation of animated franchises will be born on the internet.

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• Modulate — Modulate uses revolutionary machine learning to proactively detect and escalate toxic behavior in your game. ToxMod becomes an expert in your code of conduct and empowers your moderators to make the right decisions to protect your community from the worst behavior happening in voice chat in real time.
• Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
• House of Blueberry — We are the leading fashion house in the metaverse, empowering self-expression through digital wearables. Now live on Roblox, Second Life, IMVU and more.

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• Ateyo — TLDR; You've never gamed like this before. Technical apparel designed specifically for gaming and esports. Gear for esports, PC gaming, and all gamers
• Eventador.io — Eventador.io is a fully managed, enterprise grade Stream Processing as a Service platform based in Austin, TX. It was founded by Erik Beebe and Kenny Gorman in 2016 to address a critical business problem - to alleviate the complexities and enable building applications that use real-time data at their core.
• Quarterback — While esports continues to grow rapidly and more gaming influencers grab the spotlight, most of them struggle to monetize their fan-base and rely heavily on creating new content for their fans to consume. Founded by a team of experienced software industry veterans, Quarterback is the first fan-engagement platform that enables streamers andprofessional players to continuously engage with their audiences by creating their own fan-club gaming leagues. These leagues can host daily challenges, give away prizes, compete against other clubs worldwide, help fans compete with like-minded players and offer other perks.Quarterback is on a mission to evolve the way esports enthusiasts interact with each other. Quarterback creates a new language of engagement, where esports talents and streamers become an integral part of their fans gameplay.

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• HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
• ResortPass — Enjoy the pool, spa, and amenities at a luxury hotel for the day starting at only $25. Take a daycation and book a day pass or cabana at hotels and resorts near you!
• Influential — A Global Leader in Influencer Marketing

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• Callia — Callia elevates the experience of sending flowers and sets out to add more special moments in everyday lives. Flowers have the ability to share love, kindness, and hope – Callia makes sending great quality bouquets simple and fast, so you can focus on making those moments happen.
• Curbie — Curbie is an online platform that enables consumers to buy, sell, and trade-in vehicles in Canada. The company provides consumers with an ecommerce buying experience that is unique in the Canadian landscape. Consumers select from Curbie's online inventory, receive the vehicles at their homes and, after purchase, have 7-days to decide to keepor return. Curbie is a highly-automated enterprise, featuring its own set of algorithmic and AI-based tools, which minimize staffing needs and enhance decision-making.
• 54e Dev Studios — 54e Dev Studios creates unique robotics and gaming experiences using real-time communication technologies.

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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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• Betr — At betr, It provides tools to support responsible play and give you control over your gambling. It encourage you to use these tools to keep the experience fun and within your personal limits.
• Betty — Betty is a mobile gaming entertainment company that develops the intersection of casual mobile gaming and real money online casinos.
• Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.

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• Edyn — The Edyn smart garden system lets you know what’s happening in your garden at all times. Whether you’re a novice gardener or managing a small-scale organic farm, Edyn is there to take the guesswork out of gardening. Inserted in the soil, the Edyn Garden Sensor gathers and analyzes data about changing weather and soil conditions. The Edyn Appdisplays this data as a real-time snapshot of your garden, and pushes alerts and suggestions to maximize plant health.
• Matternet — An end-to-end technology solution integrating the Matternet M2 Drone, the Matternet Station and the Matternet Cloud Platform. We provide our platform as a service to healthcare, e-commerce and logistics organizations.
• ALL DAY — All Day is building an editorial media brand and publishing technology for mobile-first Millennial audiences. The company leverages a network of owned and partner Social Media properties for content distribution and audience engagement, driving content sharing and virality. All Day’s network partners, writers, and editors manage posts, trackanalytics, and grow engagement through its CMS and Social distribution dashboard.Today, All Day maintains and engages a growing audience on Social Media channels through owned and operated content brands with over 28 million followers, as well as a distribution network reaching over 200 million followers across Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Included among the company’s more popular social accounts are HistoryinPics and EarthPix on Twitter. Through these owned and partner accounts, All Day distributes highly visual and shareable editorial content, which is often featured on its destination site AllDay.com.

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• Sleek — How to Choose the Best WoW Boosting Services World of Warcraft (WoW) is a vast and immersive online universe filled with epic quests, challenging dungeons, and fierce battles. For players seeking to enhance their gaming experience and reach new heights in the game, WoW boosting services offer a valuable solution. However, with numerous boosting providers
• Favik — Favik is an online platform that sets business for influencers. Founded in 2020, the company is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia.
• OverActive Media Group — OverActive Media began operations in November 2017 to build an integrated company delivering esports and video game entertainment experiences to fans in Canada and around the world through franchise ownership, strategic partnerships, investments and acquisitions. They’re combining team ownership with audience engagement to better connect with theircurrent fans and to introduce these exciting competitions to new fans through our three core platforms

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• Metaspectral — Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.
• PowerCo — PowerCo expansion is the next step in expanding the worldwide battery industry while also localizing cell production and establishing a new value chain.
• London Children's Museum — Offering family-friendly entertainment and activities, the London Children's Museum, located in Southwestern Ontario, encourages children to explore history, heritage, and science through art, play, and creativity.

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

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• 10club — 10club acquires small brands that sell their products on e-commerce platforms and scales those businesses.Great businesses are growing on the backs of e-commerce giants like Amazon, Flipkart, Nykaa, and more. They get their foundational years right but find it difficult to scale, and understand that competition is hard to curb. That's where10club steps in, allowing entrepreneurs to enjoy an exit and benefit from years of hard work
• CarePredict — CarePredict @Home detects changes in the daily activity pattern of a senior and alerts family members when things are different than usual.
• Allocate — Allocate is platform that enables investors to discover and invest in high-quality venture funds.

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• Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.
• Dashy Dash — Dashy Dash is a free community powered tool that makes it easy to manage invoices, discover new products & compare prices to help you save money.
• Vero Technologies — Powering Wholesale Financing

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• Bright Breaks — Bright offer on-site and virtual amenities for companies and employees. whether your team is on-site, working from home, or in between.
• Gaia Refinery — Gaia is developing wind-driven methane-capture technology to produce rocket-grade natural gas.
• Planetary — Planetary develops ocean-based carbon removal technology to accelerate the natural carbon cycle. Planetary’s system purifies the mountains of alkaline rock waste left behind by large-scale mining operations, extracting the alkalinity from the rubble and putting it in the ocean, thus accelerating the carbon transition and rebalancing oceanchemistry.Planetary Technologies is on a mission to remove 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2035.

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• Battlefy — Battlefy is the simplest way to start, manage, and find esports tournaments | Create. Compete. Conquer.
• Inked Brands — The tools and expertise to fuel your big idea
• Colony — Closer to the films you love

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• PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!
• Beatdapp — Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time.The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC formusic play count.
• Dyne — Growing restaurants and local economies while connecting communities over food. We are in the foodie community business, ready to Dyne with us?

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• Buzzer — Buzzer is a notification-driven mobile platform for live sports personalized for fans. The company's mission is to simplify the discovery of live moments and make them seamless to watch. Buzzer takes fans from league to league and game to game, instantaneously.
• Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.
• Explorer Cold Brew — With Explorer, you choose how you want your coffee, pick your caffeine level, what Flavor Elixir to add. Craft the perfect cup, conveniently in 30 seconds or less. No more trips to the coffee shop - it's the best way to make an (award-winning!) cold brew at home.

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• FlipGive — Free tools to simplify team money management and lower team fees. Earn cashback, balance the budget, accept fee payments, get a team spend card, and more.
• Arolytics — Build, manage, and execute the most efficient emissions management program custom to your oil and gas operations.
• Clear Blue Technologies — Clear Blue Technologies, the Smart Off-Grid company, combines green energy with the proven advantages of communications and cloud technology to power and control off-grid lighting, security and mobile solutions. We are ushering in a new age of off-grid systems, that deliver the reliability of grid connected systems but are environmentally friendly,less costly, and can be monitored and controlled over the Internet.

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• Priori — Priori is a legal talent platform for corporate counsel to find, hire and manage top lawyers without the costly infrastructure of a firm. Fast-growing enterprises and F500 companies leverage Priori's data-driven RFP process, national and international curated network of boutique firms and temp attorneys, and seamless end-to-end technology platform to manage a full-suite of outside counsel needs and reduce spending.
• Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
• Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.

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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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• The GIST — The GIST is a women-led, inclusive sports media brand that's leveling the playing field in sports. Join the 700k+ who read our entertaining sports newsletter.

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• Mash — The internet is fundamentally broken. It's because of monetization. “Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.”Our mission is to remonetize the web by enabling value for value monetary exchanges between pubs/creators/orgs and their users. A new business model for the open internet.We are unlocking this withfriction-minimized streaming payments that are no/low cost, instantly settled, trust-minimized.It is built on the best global digital monetary network ever conceived, Bitcoin. Enabled by Lightning Network. Most users don't need to know this or be a Bitcoiner. Over time we suspect many will.
• ChargeLab — ChargeLab is the Android of EV charging. We don’t build EV chargers, but our hardware-agnostic platform runs on the world’s most popular EV chargers. Once connected, our software makes any EV charger smarter and easier to use.
• Integral Treasury — The most powerful web3 financial stack ever created.

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• PayNearMe — PayNearMe is a modern and reliable billing and payments platform that lets your customers pay how, when and where they want.
• UBOXCARGO — At UBoxCargo, we believe that borders should not be barriers but opportunities, and we strive to connect businesses and individuals across the globe through seamless cargo solutions.Our Mission: Our mission at UBoxCargo is to revolutionize the import and export industry by providing efficient, reliable, and cost-effective shipping and logisticsservices. We aim to empower businesses and individuals to expand their markets, broaden their horizons, and create new possibilities through hassle-free global trade.
• Caresync.website — Our telemedicine platform aims to transform the way healthcare is accessed, offering patients the flexibility to connect with trusted healthcare providers anytime, anywhere. Through our intuitive interface and advanced video conferencing capabilities, we enable seamless communication and personalized care delivery.

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• Shypyard — Shypyard puts advanced analytics and intelligence in the hands of up-and-coming merchants to accurately forecast and adjust demand, replenish stock, and more.
• Stadium Live Studios — Stadium Live is a unique digital world for sports & esports fans - create, connect and play with fans around the world to shape your own stadium.
• Oyster Technologies — Get peace of mind for things you own instantly. With no fine print or complicated forms, Oyster gets you tailored personal insurance products designed for your lifestyle.

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• The GIST — The GIST is a women-led, inclusive sports media brand that's leveling the playing field in sports. Join the 700k+ who read our entertaining sports newsletter.

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• Hey Jane — Get safe, effective and affordable abortion pills delivered fast to your home. Hey Jane is the first digital abortion clinic, connecting you to licensed providers in your state through telemedicine.
• Fulcrum — Designed with technology in mind, be free of paper with Fulcrum, the manufacturing ERP of the future. Ai scheduling, visual BOM, live tracking
• Wayfinder Biosciences — We design RNA for next generation biomanufacturing and smart therapeutics.

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• Proxima — At Proxima, we aim to push the boundaries of interactive entertainment by blending innovative technology with deep artistry. We believe in the magic of exploration, the power of creativity, and the strength of human connection that form the very foundation of our gaming experiences.
• Triumph — Triumph is a gaming monetization platform provider. They provide iPhone games on one line of code drop-in SDK. They handle the entire tournament stack by player matching, payment, arbitration, and compliance. They transform the game into money tournaments.
• Entendre Finance — AI Powered Crypto Accounting & Treasury Software - Automated end to end bookkeeping & accounting for Web3 businesses. Stop wasting human capital on accounting close, revaluations, impairment, mark to market, financial statements, reconciliation. Blockchain financial activity & workflows on autopilot.

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• OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
• Nitra — Nitra offers expense management software that integrates with the banks to provide innovative loan products.
• Rubik — Rubik is a data platform for Real Estate investors. We leverage Machine Learning to provide financial data on all single family homes. Real Estate investors use Rubik to instantly find properties that match their investment criteria.

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• PLAYR.gg — Surf Giveaways is the #1 platform to run giveaways, sweepstakes, and contests for gamers. Grow your audience and build your community with giveaways now!