Top 30 Financial Services Startup Investors in Cayman Islands in October 2023

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure
• Lightforce Orthodontics — LightForce Orthodontics, founded in 2015, makes the world’s first and only fully customized 3D-printed bracket system that is based on the anatomy and tooth morphology of each patient. The company’s mission is to apply modern technology and mass-customization to improve the orthodontic experience for both patients and doctors. LightForce’s platformunites the latest in digital treatment capabilities with cutting-edge, on-demand, 3D manufacturing to offer clinicians the first significant advancement in bracket-based treatment protocol in the past 50 years. A first-of-its-kind in the orthodontic space, Lightforce offers an unparalleled platform for orthodontists and LightForce technicians to collaborate on treatment plans for each individual patient. The company’s solution significantly reduces patient visits to the orthodontist and time spent wearing braces by providing 100 percent fully-customized solutions that improve both convenience and quality, ensuring patients receive the gold standard of care.

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• GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
• Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
• Blue Ocean Gear — Blue Ocean Gear designs and builds GPS tracking buoys capable of surviving the brutal operational demands of the modern fixed gear fisher. Our patented SmartBuoy product suite allows fishers, aquaculture farmers and ocean scientists to track and monitor data from their gear anytime and anywhere, enhancing operational efficiency and profitability byreducing fuel costs and lost gear while gaining previously unavailable insights into the local ocean conditions. Our 'IoT for the oceans' also directly address the environmental impacts of lost gear and entanglements.

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• Peaze — Web3 Transactions Simplified
• Jobber — Jobber is an award-winning business management platform for small home service businesses. Unlike spreadsheets or pen and paper, Jobber keeps track of everything in one place and automates day-to-day operations, so small businesses can provide 5-star service at scale. Jobber’s 100,000+ home service professionals have served over 12 millionhouseholds in more than 47 countries. The company continually ranks as one of Canada’s fastest-growing and most innovative companies by Canadian Business and Macleans, The Globe and Mail, Fast Company, and Deloitte.
• ether.fi — Truly decentralized staking. Keep your keys. Build the network.

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• Giza — Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
• SuperHedge — Achieve your investment objectives with 100% principal-protected Crypto Structured Products. Stablecoin denominated. NFT-represented ownership. Tradable in our secondary market.
• 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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• Albert — Albert is a financial technology company aiming to democratize money management by making financial advice accessible and affordable.Its financial advisory platform enables customers to chat directly with financial experts about any money issue, build a personalized financial plan, and access automated investing. The company’s free featuresinclude automatic savings, financial health monitoring, budgeting, detailed spending reports, and Albert Instant, which offers customers an advance against their paychecks to help avoid overdrafts. Albert is backed by investors General Atlantic, along with 500 Startups, Financial Solutions Lab, CapitalG, Portag3, and QED.Yinon Ravid and Andrzej Baraniak established the fintech company in Culver City, California in 2015.
• Resolve — Your personal guide out of financial distress, with expert advice, unbiased information and helpful tools. Quickly compare your options and get debt help.
• Candex — Stop working your tail off! Candex makes it simple, fast, and compliant to pay small and one-time suppliers fast! Empower business users without sacrificing P2P.

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• Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
• Metal — Metal does machine learning embeddings as a service. Embeddings are what AI models use to represent meaning. They capture the relationship between concepts, and they’re at the heart of every generative AI application, like ChatGPT and DALL-E. As the data format of machine learning, embeddings are critical to every AI application. But there are noexisting tools that help developers use them. Metal is a fully managed service for developers to build applications with embeddings. We handle all of the infrastructure, provide out of the box operations, and simple APIs.
• Campaign — Simple no-code platform for brands to build loyalty apps with native NFTs. Brands can revitalize their loyalty programs with NFTs that allow customers to sell memberships, evolve their rank over time, and leverage interoperability to redeem them outside of just the store.

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• ether.fi — Truly decentralized staking. Keep your keys. Build the network.
• Yoz Labs — Save time, streamline your development, and reach users on their preferred channels
• AwesomeQA — Improve your customer support with AwesomeQA's automated response generation. Try our 14-day free trial to experience 98% accurate answers across Discord, Telegram, and more.

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

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• 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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• Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
• Pods — Building DeFi. Strategies, primitives and tooling. Welcome to Pods.
• Daylight — Our transaction recommendation API helps apps, protocols, and creators grow transactions and revenue.

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• HUG — Discover new artists, and access innovative creator-friendly education. Earn rewards for celebrating and curating your favorite artists!
• Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
• AlienSwap — AlienSwap is the first membership-based NFT marketplace for the community.

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

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• Akash Network — Akash is a peer-to-peer and open market to trade compute resources. Purpose-built for public utility.
• Sentinel — The Sentinel Network has the ability to host open-source distributed & decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is private, their communications are not being logged, and that not even the application creator has access to any of their data.
• Sifchain Finance — Sifchain is the world's first omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) for digital assets, unlocking liquidity in various chains to free people from egregious fees and inefficient trades. To bring this intention to reality, we envision extensive cross-compatibility with DEXs and centralized exchanges (CEX). The future of Sifchain is aDecentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and, for DAOs to self-sustain, they need access to massive capital. We believe that building cross-chain liquidity will be fundamental to the future of the blockchain industry: an expectation, not a feature.Sifchain is built on the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK). Therefore, it is compatible with other Cosmos Network blockchains like Kava, Akash, and Terra via the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. As such, it is 100 times more efficient than Ethereum-based DEXs like Uniswap in terms of both trading fees and transaction speed.As a decentralized exchange, Sifchain combines the best elements of liquidity pools and order books for optimal order execution.

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• Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
• 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 — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.
• Alluvial Finance — Building the enterprise-grade liquid staking standard

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• Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
• Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
• 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.

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• HUAUN — HUAUN is a security vendor that focuses on vulnerability management and AI offense and defense.
• Gritti — Gritti is a social lifestyle app powered by Web3 that actively helps its users achieve their fitness objectives.
• Sending.Me — SendingMe is Web3 native community chat software that engages, transacts, and compensates users.

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• P2P Validator — P2P Validator helps investors compound their cryptocurrency investments by participating in staking. We offer highly available & secure, non-custodial staking services.

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• Antimetal — Making cloud savings automated, effortless, and risk-free. Start saving in 2 minutes, no code or engineering required.
• Vibe — Vibe operates as a non-fungible token (NFT) platform that enables creatives to turn NFTs into fully fledged applications.
• Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.

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• DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
• Ethena — Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.
• P2P Validator — P2P Validator helps investors compound their cryptocurrency investments by participating in staking. We offer highly available & secure, non-custodial staking services.

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

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• ether.fi — Truly decentralized staking. Keep your keys. Build the network.

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• SOKNA — SOKNA is Egypt’s first end-to-end funeral service providing your loved ones with care and respect at the completion of their life’s journey.
• Kraken — Kraken is more than just a Bitcoin trading platform. Come see why our cryptocurrency exchange is the best place to buy, sell, trade and learn about crypto.
• HeyLayer — Try Layer and start your NFT business or grow an existing one. Get more than NFT minting to manage every part of your business.

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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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• Rigor — Rigor decentralizes lending and coordinates payment flows with construction logistics.
• Fluidity Money — Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto.
• Tempus — Tempus is building the most important blocks of DeFi and Web3. Join us and shape the future!

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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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• 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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• 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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• Aruna — Aruna adalah integrated fisheries commerce startup di Indonesia, yang berusaha mewujudkan ekosistem perikanan dan perdagangan hasil laut yang adil.
• SariSuki — SariSuki is a community selling platform that helps you become an online neighborhood grocery store.
• Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.

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• Rated — Rated offers data on validators and node operators, which makes it easier for users to compare and contrast their performance.
• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.