Top 50 Financial Services Startup Investors in Taiwan in October 2023

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• TeleportDAO — Trustless cross-chain settlement solution
• Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• Social Future — Social Future is an AI-driven social networking metaverse company.

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• Aidoc — Powered by an exclusive aiOS, Aidoc is trusted by 1,000+ hospitals to support physician decision-making at all points of care. See how our connected system of intelligence works.
• QT Medical — World's leading medical ECG/EKG machine company that aims to make hospital-grade 12-lead ecg machines available for everyone. Best portable ecg device during the pandemic. Focusing on innovations in the field of telemedicine and home care, we continue to invest in research and development of products that will bring better cardiac care to patients.
• Micronbrane Medical — Micronbrane provides affordable, rapid, and accurate pathogen detection solutions for human bloodstream infections with patented product and sequencing methods.

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• Rybit — A leading technology platform that connects the last mile delivery industry, optimizing and simplifying day-to-day delivery operations.
• Atinary — Atinary is an end-to-end AI, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing technology platform for digitizing R&D operations.
• Magic — Onboard users to your dApp with just an email, phone number, or social login. Multi-chain, highly scalable, and battle-tested.

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• Suberra — Payment protocol for Web 3.0
• Datawisp — Datawisp is a no-code data exploration and analysis platform for web3 and web2.
• Sweatcoin — Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community.Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into thehere and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.

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• Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
• Flow — Flow is an NFT ecosystem developer primarily focused on the research and development of an NFT ecosystem centered around Rollup.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• Hexa — Elevate your eCommerce experience with a 3D tech-stack that lets you create, manage, analyze, and distribute your 3D commerce assets.
• Camsense — Camsense focuses on R&D and manufacturing of vision space positioning technology. It provides customers with highly precise sensors with its self-developed core algorithm and chips. Its products can be applied in consumer robots, industrial test, and surgeries.
• Inworld AI — AI for Metaverse

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• Hahow — Hahow is an educational marketplace that allows experts to share their knowledge and earn money through crowdfunded video course.At Hahow, talent and knowledge are not only valued but also valuated. More importantly, Hahow allows for such skills to be more effectively passed on by lowering the barriers for cross-domain learning.We believe thateducation is a way of life. Through proper utilization of technology and creativity, we hope to serve as the catalyst for the transfer and circulation of knowledge and skills, thereby spreading the joy of learning worldwide.
• pakku — Personalized Nutrition Using AI System
• OmniEyes — OmniEyes is an IT company that collects and digitizes live street videos and converts them using AI technologies.

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• Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
• Omni — Access all of Web3 in one easy-to-use wallet! Earn and manage assets at once with Omni's built-in staking, yield vaults, bridges, swaps and NFT support.
• CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities

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• Voyceme — Read action-packed and diverse English-originated webcomics, comics, webnovels, manga, and manhwa/manhua for FREE. Download the VoyceMe app now and connect with your favorite creators or monetize your stories while building a dedicated fanbase.
• Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
• Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.

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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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• 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
• SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Cognaize — Cognaize, an Intelligent Document Processing company, automates unstructured data with hybrid intelligence. Our data-centric AI platform facilitates meaningful cooperation of AI and humans.

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• Web3Go — Web3Go is a blockchain startup that provides data tools powered by artificial intelligence.
• MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.

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• Laevitas — Laevitas is a data analytics platform based on quantitative finance models for the crypto-asset market. The company aims to provide analysis by implementing mathematical models on data from a variety of crypto-asset derivatives markets
• Size — SIZE Markets | On-Chain OTC
• Orderly Network — Orderly Network is a decentralized orderbook protocol designed for DeFi developers and traders in Web3 to experience accelarated trading with low fees and deep liquidity.

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• Trend — Trend connects brands with content creators in order to scale user-generated content across a variety of platforms while increasing their marketing ROI.
• Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
• Chaos Genius — Chaos Genius is a DataOps Observability tool for reducing Snowflake costs & Snowflake query optimization. Get started on Snowflake Observability for free.

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• Lootex — Lootex is a blockchain-based trading platform that offers services ranging from software integration to channel sales to its corporate clients. Lootex is located in Taipei City, Taipei.
• Chain Crisis — Chain Crisis is a Cyberpunk MMORPG on the Solana blockchain
• Exotic Markets — Exotic Markets bring wealth management and structured products out of the bank and in the decentralized finance world. Exotic Markets Maximise the investments with simple and sustainable products.

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• Bware Labs — Bware Labs provides an interface between Blockchain APIs consumers and node providers with integrated payment options and verified reliability, all embedded within our platform and protocol service.
• 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
• Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

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• 37xDubai — 37xDubai is a space where Art and Technology come together to create the most unique expressions of creativity.
• Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
• CryptoSimple — CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo.

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• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.

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• Bitmark — Bitmark restores trust in data. Our end-to-end Internet protocol secures the provenance of data. This makes it possible to have verifiable information, digital property rights, and safe sharing of personal data—without the need for trusted third parties. UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX use Bitmark in healthcare, music, art, and more. #digitalrights
• Blackpanda — Asia's premier digital forensics and cyber incident response firm.
• FlexCompute — Our aerodynamics & electromagnetic simulation solutions reduce solve times, time to market, overall cost, and ensure a more robust product.

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• Chillchat — We're Club Penguin... on steroids. Pixel art virtual worlds powered by Solana and created by you. Discord: https://discord.gg/jKNpZ6Q2SD
• Nomad — Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication.
• Magic Square — Discover, use, and manage all dApps, DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, and engage with the community in one convenient place. Magic Square - It's all there.

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• OMO Group — OMO Group operates as a blockchain firm.
• Ex Populus — Our vision is to bring joy to people around the globe with the world's most compelling games and entertainment at the highest level possible.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
• LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Mystic Games — Mobile games developer of Call of the VoYd. Pushing Free to play Roguelite ARPGs to the next level.
• Megaton Finance — Deposit crypto, reap reward everyday

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• Deribit — World's biggest Bitcoin and Ethereum Options Exchange and the most advanced crypto derivatives trading platform with up to 50x leverage on Crypto Futures and Perps.
• MPCH — MPCH Labs was founded on the belief that Multi-Party Computation technology is the foundation for a new world of trade, technology, and commerce.
• Fractal — A new standard for on-chain finance.

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• Caduceus Foundation — Caduceus a foundation building a blockchain protocol for the metaverse. Caduceus has developed a meta-array full-merge transaction engine that draws on the matric processing methods of GPUs and AI NPUs.
• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.
• Compendium Finance — A compendium of trading tools offering free spot and futures trading bots, grid bots, portfolio tracking, automated social trading groups, copy trading, and more. Connect to popular exchanges like Binance, OKX, ByBit, BitGet, BitMEX, and more.

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• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy
• TwitterScan — Twitterscan and NNS are working together to create a cross-chain name service network that will connect Web3.0 users, data, and assets.
• Volare Finance — Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.

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• portto / Blocto — portto aims to make blockchain simple for users and developers. With its most user-friendly blockchain application browser and wallet SDKs, portto has pushed it steps forward for blockchain to be used in real life scenarios.
• PadSplit — PadSplit offers clean, modern furnished rooms for rent to community members at an affordable weekly fee, including utilities, WiFi, laundry access, 24/7 telemedicine service and more. See available homes today.
• SparkCharge — SparkCharge is a company dedicated to making EV ownership easy by creating Charging as a Service, a convenient way for drivers to have their electric vehicles charged. They have created the world's first and only portable, ultra-fast EV charging system called the Roadie. They have also created BoostEV.

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• Homeppl — Homeppl reveals consumer's real transactional ability. We leverage open banking, risk and financial algorithms, and unique fraud detection tests to allow consumers inclusive financial access to all financial or risk products in the world.Clients use Homeppl to increase revenue, prevent fraud, and eliminate transactional friction. Homepplhas reviewed hundreds of thousands of transactions and approved millions of pounds of revenue for clients in the UK.We are a Techstars company. Our team is comprised of ambitious, international, and passionate individuals. We are from 24 nationalities and speak over 17 languages!
• Finquest — Finquest is the premier deal origination provider delivering personalized connections to its clients who seek M&A and direct investment opportunities in Europe, North America, and APAC.With a unique database, machine learning and a team of experts, Finquest provides targeted, curated and actionable connections, whilst maintaining completeconfidentiality throughout the process. With Finquest, clients can broaden their market access, creating a more efficient deal-making environment.Finquest is headquartered in Singapore and has offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Bangalore, and Hong Kong.
• Crown Digital — Crown Digital harnesses the future-ready power of robotics and Artificial Intelligence to open doors with cutting-edge solutions for the not-so-distant future.

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• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.

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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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• 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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• MetaDojo — Bridging the gap between Web2 & Web3.
• Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• portto / Blocto — portto aims to make blockchain simple for users and developers. With its most user-friendly blockchain application browser and wallet SDKs, portto has pushed it steps forward for blockchain to be used in real life scenarios.
• Shiftup — Shift up is a game design and development studio that engages in game production and promotional video and music production. Shiftup was established in 2013 by art director Kim Hyeong-tae.
• Superplastic — Superplastic is a character-based product and entertainment company. It creates limited edition art toys, apparel, games, and animation based on characters created in collaboration with some of the greatest artists in the world. Superplastic is founded on the principle that effort and scarcity are intrinsic components of value. The companyappropriates the tools of mass media and mass production to create limited edition works of art for a limited audience. It was established in 2017 and is based in Burlington, Vermont.

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• RSS3 — RSS3 structures open information for the next Twitter, Google, and OpenAI.
• GoPlus Security — GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.
• Imperium Empires — Imperium Empires builds an AAA-quality metaverse with an experienced team of in-house game developers, game designers

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• Delysium — Delysium is a playable AAA MMO web3 game.
• Safeheron — Safeheron is a platform that enables open and transparent self-custody of digital assets.
• TwitterScan — Twitterscan and NNS are working together to create a cross-chain name service network that will connect Web3.0 users, data, and assets.

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• banco — BANCO offers fintech, digital banking, supply chain finance, and corporate financing services.
• Zodia Custody — Zodia is an institutional crypto custodian enabling global institutions, corporations, and investors to realize the potential of the digital asset future.
• My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies — My Zoi Financial Inclusion Technologies is a financial company that offers financial inclusion for banked and unbanked firms.

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• MemryX — Our AI chips bring the power of server performance to edge devices.
• NEXTDRIVE — integrated electricity data and energy equipment into a Cube Energy Gateway which visualizes electricity and analyzes it in cloud
• eYs3D Microelectronics — eYs3D Microelectronics is A Silicon Centric A.I. Company Focusing Technology- 3D Sensing/Computer Vision Algorithm/ASICs/Heterogeneous Integrated Chiplet

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• Kingdomverse — Kingdomverse is a dynamic, open-world metaverse that allows players to form guilds, build, battle and conquer the lands. It is the first metaverse to combine a 3D virtual world with Real-time Strategy (RTS) with casual mobile games.
• The Kingdom — The Kingdom is an upcoming open world metaverse focusing on culture-led experiences. Explore immersive cities, embark on missions and quests, dress up your NFT avatars and create your own world in The Kingdom.
• The Kingdom — The Kingdom is an upcoming open world metaverse focusing on culture-led experiences. Explore immersive cities, embark on missions and quests, dress up your NFT avatars and create your own world in The Kingdom.

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• BHR — Streamline home research and diligence. Real estate data from 30+ industry-leading providers. Powered by an AI real estate copilot. Available for every home in the US.
• C3 Protocol — C3 is a self-custodial cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy, margin trade, and earn using any wallet from any blockchain.
• Webb Protocol — Webb builds infrastructure for connecting zero-knowledge applications empowering developers to unlock user privacy in the Web3 ecosystem.

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• GET Protocol — Supercharge your tickets with NFTs and the Blockchain. Easily implement the latest technology and unlock the benefits of truly digital tickets with GET Protocol.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.
• Bring It On — Bring It On is a mission to redefine the skill games category, merging strong technological infra.

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• WOO Network — WOO Network is the ultimate crypto trading platform featuring deep liquidity for superior order execution, lowest fee trading, and fully customizable trading workspaces.

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• Onmeta — Onmeta
• MintStars — MintStars is a content subscription platform with your interests at heart. Earn more, reduce burnout, and protect your content, powered by NFTs.
• BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.

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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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• Boba Network — For visionary developers, Boba Network is the only hybrid blockchain that delivers off-chain data and compute, enabling smarter applications for mass adoption.
• Neptune Mutual — Need Crypto Insurance? You don't need to submit loss proof to receive payouts. No need to wait after creating a claim. Get a free price quote now.
• Skynet EGLD Capital — Investment Fund Focused on Growing the Elrond Network

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• Fanzee Labs — We develop fan engagement platforms that help sports and entertainment organisations meaningfully connect with their fans through immersive gamifcation experiences
• Kingdomverse — Kingdomverse is a dynamic, open-world metaverse that allows players to form guilds, build, battle and conquer the lands. It is the first metaverse to combine a 3D virtual world with Real-time Strategy (RTS) with casual mobile games.
• Space and Time — Space and Time is the first decentralized data warehouse. Powering low-latency queries and tamperproof Web3 analytics. Web3 analytics at scale. A multichain data platform for dapps needing next-gen Web3 analytics. Connect analytics directly to smart contracts. Join on-chain and off-chain data in a single query.

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• TooNFT — Create, Subscribe, Trade webtoon in the NFT-based Blockchain Ecosystem.
• Karmaverse — Karmaverse is a gamefi multiverse,it is created by the team behind two of the top 10 SLG games in the mobile gaming history.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• Gomu — Gomu supercharge your app, dapp, wallet with actions and data in NFTs, DeFi, DEX, DAO. Built by a team hailing from Coinbase, CoinMarketCap, Chainlink, Zendesk and Millennium. Request for a demo today.
• Fordefi — The MPC wallet platform and Web3 gateway from Fordefi allow institutions to connect to dApps across multiple chains while keeping digital assets secure. Fordefi is the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform designed for decentralised finance. It provides MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, time-of-transaction smartcontract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts.
• Suberra — Payment protocol for Web 3.0

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• Reebelo — Reebelo is APAC’s leading marketplace for pre-loved tech devices. Our vision is to reduce e-waste by building the circular economy for refurbished electronics. While doing so, we enable consumers to save up to 70% on their favorite brands and flexibly rent devices instead of buying them. Reebelo is based in Singapore with additional offices inAustralia, New Zeland & Malaysia. Get in touch if you want to be part of a high-growth, disruptive team working to make a positive impact!
• SimScale — SimScale is a full-cloud CAE simulation software that helps you perform CFD, FEA, and thermal simulations for CAD models in the cloud.
• Aware — Aware is a mobile app for evaluating health data and for researching chronic diseases.

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• Republic — Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a globalteam in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more.
• Subspace Labs — Web3 @ Internet Scale. Subspace is a fourth generation blockchain built for the next wave of crypto creators
• Neptune Mutual — Need Crypto Insurance? You don't need to submit loss proof to receive payouts. No need to wait after creating a claim. Get a free price quote now.

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• Read2N — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
• Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
• KOK Chain — KOK Project - KOK | Keystone of Opportunity and Knowledge - Fair and Shared Digital Contents Blockchain