Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Ireland in October 2023

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• CergenX — CergenX produces cutting-edge technology for the analysis of baby brain waves that can be used to identify brain injuries early in the newborn period.
• Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
• Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.

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• Hiiker — Find 1000s of the best backpacking and hiking adventures, with reviews, photos, and great places to stay.
• Legitify — Legitify is an AI powered solution using audio-video authentication that allows customers to notarize documents online remotely from anywhere, without the hassle of visiting a notary public in person.
• Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.

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• Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
• Tailr — Redefining production for the clothing industry.
• Recruitroo — Recruitroo is a international recruitment agency that uses technologies to streamline and improve the international recruitment process for both companies and candidates.

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• Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
• Everyangle — Everyangle facilitates business in computer vision applications based on cisco meraki MV smart cameras across retail and industrial firms.
• Spectrum Life — Spectrum.Life's comprehensive solution enables organisations to provide a workplace wellbeing programme that can have a substantially positive impact on their health and wellness, as well as on the culture and performance of the company.

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• Docbot Labs — Scattered and unfindable information is a productivity nightmare. dot puts an end to the chaos and helps you find, organise, and share resources with your team seamlessly.
• Nolea Health — As a clinician with Nolea you can set your own schedule, work with as many healthcare companies as you want, hold all of your credentials in one single sharable wallet, access new educational resources, and receive community feedback.
• ClimateAligned — AI-driven platform for a climate view on financial products

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• Outmin — Outmin is an online accountant offering financial services for businesses, eliminating the need for salaries and management. Our automated solution handles all your finance, tax, and accounting needs.
• Kayna — Kayna is an insurance distribution company that collaborates with vertical SaaS platforms and utilises data to offer insurance services.
• 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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• Mesh — The ONLY Email Security Platform purpose-built for MSPs with Best-In-Class Machine Learning Powered Detection, and a revolutionary centralized management console (MSP Hub)
• Manna Drone Delivery — Drone delivery made simple
• Bluedrop Medical — Thermal and visual assessment in a single scan. Award winning, patented design.

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• eflow — Regulatory Compliance solutions for Market Abuse, Best Execution and Regulatory Reporting. Trade Surveillance, Regulatory Reporting and Trade Lifecycle Management.
• NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single system integration.
• Fourthline — Comply with KYC and AML regulations throughout the customer lifecycle with Fourthline's bank-grade identity platform.

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• Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.
• Pilot Photonics — Welcome to Pilot Photonics, a laser product development company in Dublin, Ireland. We provide optical frequency combs and tunable lasers.
• Causeway Sensors — The Affinity, is a compact, bench-top Biosensor providing accurate real-time analysis at an accessible price. The Affinity biosensor and accompanying Access Chip incorporate the latest advancements in Nanotechnology, providing the biochemistry researcher the perfect platform to explore the complex world of biomolecular interactions.

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• Cambrist — Cambrist - Payments Regulation, EU2019/518, Cross Border Payments Regulation, Multi-Currency Wallets, Foreign Exchange, Payment Cards, Mastercard, Visa

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• Metroc — Creating sales and marketing solutions for the construction & real-estate industry.
• Measurlabs — We provide testing services for any material, product, or chemical, helping product developers and quality managers get the information they need about their products.
• Steady Energy — Steady Energy aims to decarbonize the energy-intensive heating industry starting with residential and district heating.

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• Pinglend — Pinglend offers a lending platform designed to collateralize assets to get high monthly credit limits. Pinglend enables users to upload photos of the collateral via the platform and request funding from multiple lenders. Funds are transferred on the basis of collateral and credit assessments to the registered bank account.
• Pesto — Pesto is a San Francisco-based fintech business that recently released the Pesto Mastercard a next-generation asset-backed secured credit card.
• ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

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• CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
• Itana — Talent City’s mission is to build a network of charter cities that focuses on creating technology-enabled jobs within a free trade zone with its own regulation and bylaws.
• Translucent — Translucent is next-gen accounting software.

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• Anome — Anome is a Web3 UGC game platform, dedicated to creating a more open, fair, transparent, and free Web3 game world through user creation, sharing, and games.
• greenworkx — greenworkx is a new climate EdTech startup tackling the green skills crisis and constructing a net-zero workforce.
• K Health — We pair clinicians with advanced AI to provide data-driven, personalized care around the clock. Chat with your medical team today.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• 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.
• Nextdata — Nextdata offers an operating system for decentralized data at scale on an AI platform.

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• Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
• Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
• Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

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• Steno — Built by tech and legal experts, Steno provides a revolutionary approach to court reporting and litigation services.
• SkyFi — SkyFi makes on-demand, high-resolution satellite images and videos available to anyone who has access to a smartphone, tablet or computer.
• Honey Homes — Hassle-free Home Upkeep

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• Evertas — Evertas brings this unchanging approach to the new space of crypto assets. Our goal is to help crypto realize its full potential, for everyone.
• Ethos — Your home base for web3 on Sui. Easy to integrate in-dapp Sui wallet. Best way to onboard new crypto-curious users.
• Sentiment — Sentiment is a decentralized finance company that provides chainless, undercollateralized borrowing.

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• PRODA — ML-enabled tenancy schedule and rent roll software to turn dispersed rent roll data into an asset you can trust!
• OpenFin — OpenFin OS powers financial desktops with the same app distribution, security and interoperability capabilities as iOS and Android.
• Sardine — Solve risk, compliance, and payments with one powerful API.

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• Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
• Hecate Energy — Hecate Energy is a developer of solar, wind, and energy storage projects.
• Pulse Clean Energy — Pulse Clean Energy builds and operates power stations. We deliver power into the UK’s network when it is most needed.

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• NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single API integration.
• Anvilogic — The Anvilogic detection automation platform helps unify and automate security operations across people, processes, and technology enabling security teams to reduce time, manual effort, complexity, and expertise needed for building detections and managing your overall SOC

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• Speak — People spend $90 billion a year on human english teachers that are expensive and ineffective. Speak offers a mobile app where you can have english conversations with your phone about real world scenarios like interviewing for a job or asking for directions. It uses speech recognition to identify english words through thick accents and teach peopleto speak more clearly. Meanwhile, it’s building a massive database of accented-english speech, which can be used to improve its system and other speech recognition systems. Speak’s team formerly built accent detection systems and sold Flashcards+ to Chegg. Though AI translation might reduce the need for people to know other languages, speaking English remains a valuable skill people are willing to pay for.
• Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.
• Meanwhile — Licensed and regulated life insurance in Bitcoin. Leverage the value of crypto today and pass it to the next generation without passing on a huge tax burden.

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• Surer — Surer is a cloud-based insurtech platform with a digital ecosystem of intermediaries and insurers. It provides tech solutions to help orchestrate the network in the insurance industry enabling insurance intermediaries to close deals with greater speed and allows insurers to distribute their product with better efficiency.
• Workclass — Apply for any jobs and get hired in 24 hours now!
• bluesheets — Build a solid data foundation with Bluesheets, the all-in-one tool that connects, categorises and automates your finanical data. Set up once, automate forever.

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• Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
• Transcelestial Technologies — Secure, last mile connectivity with fiber-like speeds using next gen Wireless Fiber Optics or Lasercomms, at a fraction of the deployment time and cost of fiber.

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• InfluxData — Manage all types of time series data in a single, purpose-built database. Optimized for speed in any environment in the cloud, on-premises, or at the edge.
• Pivo — Pivo is an all-in-one financial services platform for businesses in the supply chain. Set up accounts, access credit and manage your finances in one simple application.
• Brightside — Brightside goes beyond financial wellness with holistic financial care to resolve the unique financial challenges of your employees.

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• Mitiga — Mitiga proactively stores and enhances forensic data so our experts can start incident investigations fast to get you back to business as usual
• Oblivious — Oblivious builds tools to allow you to use your sensitive data with internal and external partners while keeping it private and secure.
• Bluedrop Medical — Thermal and visual assessment in a single scan. Award winning, patented design.

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• Ayenda Hotels — Ayenda is the fastest-growing hotel chain in Latin America, with a presence in Mexico, Colombia, and Peru. Ayenda franchises independent hotels in main cities to ensure quality on the basics needs for travelers.Ayenda is a tech-based company that enables run the chain by proprietary software in all areas, from hotel software, pricing algorithms,and user-facing experience.
• AERDRON — AERDRON is an innovative aerospace company that specializes in the development, and manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles. It specializes in designing prototypes, turnkey solutions, and finished commercial products to their clients requirements. They work with their clients through all stages of product development, and offer training and postsales support.AERDRON focuses on developing aerospace technology innovations for the unmanned aerial vehicle industry. They collaborate with both private, and public entities to further our R&D projects to the commercial market. AERDRON can also help other companies outsource development, and prototype manufacturing.
• Skyports — Connecting the world through our skies by owning and operating infrastructure for urban aviation and managing end to end drone deliveries.

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• NomuPay — NomuPay's Unified Payments Platform provides local acceptance and payouts in Southeast Asia, Europe and Turkey via a single API integration.
• Mavis Discount Tire — Get the guaranteed lowest price on discount tires. Make a reservation at one our 850+ local stores for tire installation, oil change, brake services and more!
• Ribbon Communications — Ribbon offers innovative IP and optical networking solutions and cloud-to-edge communications solutions.

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• CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
• FTV Capital — We invest where our domain expertise, our Global Partner Network and FTV Propel can add significant value to innovative companies.
• Groupe Premium — Premium Group offers wealth solutions (life insurance and savings products) for individuals and self-employed workers. Premium Group is a French player in wealth and insurance solutions, and in asset management, serving individuals and professionals since 2000. Chaired by Olivier Farouz, the group is made up of 3 main companies with complementaryexpertise.

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• 11x.ai — Onboard the AI workforce from the future and 11x your productivity today
• TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
• Sourcerie — Discover the best products for you, based on reviews from people just like you.

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• Chupi — Chupi is a multi award-winning fine jeweller making solid gold, diamond and precious gemstone jewellery in the heart of Dublin, Ireland.
• PlasmaBound — PlasmaBound provides a step-change technology, termed Controlled Plasma Ablation (CPA), which facilitates the structural adhesive joining of lightweight materials, namely carbon and glass fibre reinforced composites. CPA technology will accelerate the use of these lightweight composite materials into multi-material structural assemblies, byenabling reliable adhesive joining which is stronger than the composite structures themselves.
• Zeus Scooters — ZEUS is an Irish company deploying the World’s FIRST 3-wheeled electric scooter for the urban mobility sharing market. Our unique scooters with state-of-the-art technology and reliability that will ensure our users always enjoy the safest, smoothest and most stable ride.

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• MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable
• Santexpat.fr — Santexpat is a health insurance platform for French expatriates in more than 200 countries. It allows users to analyze more than 100 health insurance solutions and subscribe to them directly. The company also offers teleconsultations with French-speaking doctors 24/7. Santexpat was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.
• Pollen Robotics — Pollen Robotics develops humanoid service robots specialized in the interaction and manipulation of objects.

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• Blue Star — Blue Star manufactures air conditioning products, water purifiers, air purifiers, air coolers, commercial refrigeration products, and cold chain equipment for both residential and commercial applications. They provide contracting services in electrification, plumbing, and firefighting. They offer marketing and maintenance of imported professionalelectronics, and industrial products and systems.
• JSW Infrastructure — JSW Infrastructure operates environment-friendly seaports & terminals.
• Intercontinental Hotels Group — IHG® is one of the world’s leading hotel companies, with 400,000 colleagues working across more than 100 countries to deliver True Hospitality for everyone. It operates and franchises over 5,600 hotels and resorts and 842,000 rooms globally across 16 brands.

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• SurePay — SurePay makes online payments more personal and saferThe IBAN Name Check checks whether the name entered with the IBAN is different from the name known to the bank. And gives a notification if something deviates. This way you can check whether you are paying to the right person or the right company. This helps to prevent mistakes and fraud. Wellsafe!
• AgroStar — AgroStar is India’s foremost AgTech start-up working on the mission of #HelpingFarmersWin by providing a complete range of agri solutions at the fingertips of farmers. AgroStar’s tech platform provides a combination of agronomy advice coupled with service and agri input products that enable farmers to significantly improve their productivity andincome.We use an extensive amount of data, technology and agronomy knowledge to give the right solutions (advice+products) to Indian farmers.AgroStar currently operates in the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan and has over 5 Lakh farmers on its digital platform. Farmers in these states can avail agri solutions for their entire crop life-cycle with a simple “missed call” or through its Android app, which is amongst the highest rated farming focused apps in the country.Over the next 5 years, we plan to continue to provide incremental value to farmers in terms of wide range of inputs delivered at their doorsteps, world-class agronomy guidance and also access to market linkages and credit.
• Agro.Club — Digital ecosystem for agriculture that enables more efficient transactions, valuable real-time analytics, and knowledge sharing among farmers, retailers, manufacturers, and grain companies.

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• My Lock Up — My Lockup Operate Self Storage Units Across The North East, Yorkshire & Lincolnshire. Providing Self Storage Facilities For Households & Businesses.
• Kennedy Wilson — Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc. is a vertically integrated global real estate investment and services company. The Company has approximately 24 offices throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain and Japan. It focuses on adding value for its shareholders through opportunistic investing and strategic asset management. Its businessoperations include two core units: KW Investments and KW Services. KW Investments invests its capital in real estate-related assets. KW Services provides a full array of real estate-related services to owners and lenders, with a focus on financial institution based clients. In May 2014, it purchased apartments, 203-unit apartment community in Tacoma, Washington. In July 2014, it acquired multifamily portfolio consisted of three properties located across southern submarkets of Seattle, Washington. Portfolio consists of 1,212 units.
• Lightsource bp — Lightsource bp is a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects. They provide sustainable and affordable energy to businesses and communities.Our goal is to play a vital role in shaping the future of global energy delivery by deploying at least 8GW of solar capacity worldwide in the next 5 years based on a develop andoperate strategy.

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• Future Finance — Future Finance is a non-government lender that offers student loans.Its mission is to provide loans for students that are simple, straightforward, and based on where they're heading, not where they've been. Future Finance helps students focus on what matters. Therefore, it aims to ensure everyone has the freedom to focus on theirstudies or kickstart their career whatever their financial background may be. It was founded in 2014 by Brian Norton and Vishal Garg and is headquartered in Dublin.

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• Aerin Medical — Aerin Medical offers VivAer for nasal airway obstruction treatment and RhinAer for chronic runny nose treatment. Lasting relief when other solutions fall short.
• RefleXion Medical — RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT),stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.
• Chain Reaction — Chain Reaction is engineering the future of disruptive blockchain and privacy technologies by accelerating compute and mining hardware performance.

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• Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
• move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.

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• Imvizar — Imvizar focuses on life-size, location-based experiences that allow users to feel as if they've gone back in time, meeting renowned individuals and witnessing historical events all from the comfort of their own phone. Imvizar was founded by Michael Guerin and is located in Dublin, Ireland.
• CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
• Bounce Insights — Combining consultancy, industry data and an agile research platform to deliver insights to brands around the world so they can understand consumers in real time.

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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.
• Range Protocol — Permissionless Infrastructure for Smart Money Management. We are the leading gateway to smart on-chain money managers, bringing maximised yields and optimal capital efficiency to users of different risk profiles.
• The Animal Age — Animal-based metaverse that brings together animal lovers and animal clubs worldwide.

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• AID:Tech — Identity based solutions for finance, payments & insurance. Leveraging blockchain, crypto & digital identity.
• Fog Works, Inc. — W3 Storage Lab has assembled a world-class team with a unique combination of P2P networking, blockchain, and entrepreneurial experience.

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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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• Smiler — Memorable experiences deserve to be captured in high quality. We make it happen. Valuable memories in high quality, for everyone, everywhere.
• Coram AI — Secure your business with cloud based security cameras from Coram AI. Remotely monitor your property with advanced AI security cloud camera systems. Book a demo.
• Meander — Vektor is the career platform for Tech professionals.

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• Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
• Landytech — Landytech provides seamlessly consolidated data and automated reporting, so you can make informed investment decisions and deliver insights - faster.
• Oka, The Carbon Insurance Company — Oka's objective is to establish a more secure and open market for carbon credits, which will lead to higher-caliber offset projects with real climate change effects.

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• Apata — Apata the go-to fraud prevention provider for fintech issuers.

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• Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
• LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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• Phorest — Join 8000+ spas, barbers, hair, beauty and nail salon owners using the #1 management, scheduling, POS and appointment booking system. Try Phorest now!
• SurgaColl — SurgaColl Technologies is a medical device company developing novel tissue regeneration products for the surgical treatment of diseases of the bone, cartilage and other human tissue. Based on technology developed at the Tissue Engineering Research Group (TERG) of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), headed by Professor Fergal O’Brien,the company aims to become a leader in the field of regenerative medical devices.
• Metabolomic Diagnostics — https://metabolomicdiagnostics.com/ A deep-tech company specialized in the development of biomarker-based diagnostic solutions

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• Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
• Tactic — Tactic helps you use AI to turn documents online and in your systems into actionable insights, no coding needed.
• Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

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• Yonder — Financial benefits for global teams, set-up in less than 5 minutes. Enrol your team in local health insurance and pensions from local and global providers

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• TradeIX — Blockchain Enabled Supply Chain & Payment Solutions | Marco Polo Network
• Surance.io — AI platform, cyber attack response and prevention. Comprehensive white-label and end-to-end service, enhancing household cyber insurance offering.
• Altiostar Networks — Welcome to cloud native networks at scale. By reimagining telecom, Rakuten Symphony makes it possible to launch and operate advanced mobile services in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security.