Top 10 Startup Investors in Barbados in October 2023

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• Upstream App — Upstream makes it simple to launch a DAO with its no-code, full-stack platform. No technical experience required.
• SettleMint — SettleMint is a Blockchain technology company (with offices in Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India and Singapore) & was incorporated in 2016 by Matthew Van Niekerk & Roderik van der Veer. They met in 2013 while devising & developing blockchain applications for KBC Securities, a large Belgian financial institution. Theyvery quickly realised that the promise of Blockchain technology far exceeded the boundaries of the financial world & would permeate industry & society entirely in the years to come. With the realisation that the technology will benefit organisations large and small, unlock incredible opportunities for society and move from a nascent to prevalent technology over the next 5 to 10 years, Matthew and Roderik set up SettleMint with a simple purpose, to make it easy for developers to integrate blockchain technologies into their applications. This product vision addresses the single biggest inhibitor to adoption, developer capabilities.SettleMint's core technology 'Mint' accelerates the path to leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology: whether those enterprises are looking to improve efficiency, to extend their current products to a new client segment or to completely reinvent an existing business model.Mint is a chain-agnostic node-wrapping technology including a suite of APIs, developer tools and frameworks that enable any software developer to build new Blockchain based applications or integrate Blockchain functionalities into existing solutions. Mint encapsulates years of R&D on the technical, operational & organisational aspects of Blockchain technology & packages this in fully documented APIs, micro-services, browser components and templates that strips away complexity and providing developers with the building blocks required to build full stack applications.Based on our development of 35+ fully functioning Blockchain applications & after having researched more than 500 known use cases, Mint covers 85% of the use cases for Blockchain technologies and radically reduces the time to market for users. Using Mint, integrating blockchain technologies into an application can take as little as 3 hours.So in short, it doesn’t matter if you are a startup or a big corporation, if you have decided that Blockchain technology should be part of your business or your vision for the future there is no faster solution to get you there.
• Nature Mobility — Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform.

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• Rainmaker Games — The free global platform to play hundreds of play-to-earn games - connecting gamers, games, and guilds worldwide.
• Collectibles.com — Collectibles.com is a Web3 community and marketplace for collectors and the worldwide collectibles sector.
• Immortal Game — Immortal Game is a play-and-earn, free-to-play, Immortal game that introduces a layer of strategy to the most played board game.

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• asvin.io — asvin provides IoT lifecycle management for Software Supply Chains. We comply UNECE W.P29, UNECE R156 and UNECE R155. Contact us!
• Cadeia — Cadeia provides a digital platform for the structuring, issuance and settlement of complex financial products. In addition to enhanced servicing functionalities and a rule-based cash-flow distribution solution, the platform offers reporting, compliance and analytics tools for issuers and investors.
• XVA Blockchain — XVA Blockchain offers B2B data reporting for brokerage, asset management, and custody.

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• Novisto — Novisto's sustainability management software enables companies to create value from their ESG initiatives. Request a demo today!
• Cohere — Cohere provides access to advanced Large Language Models and NLP tools through one easy-to-use API. Get started for free.
• Plenty — Plenty makes it easy for modern partners to invest and plan for their future together. Effortlessly invest like the 1% and turn your goals and dreams into reality.

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• Phoenix Finance — Phoenix Finance is an online platform established by Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings to provide intelligent financial services for Chinese investors worldwide.They partner with industry-leading financial institutions, gaining access to high quality financial products, and using proprietary financial models and algorithms to provide userswith a dynamic financial portfolio that meet their consumption and investing needs.They layer culture and social values into their products and services, creating a unique financial experience for their investors, building a reliable and trustworthy financial environment, and helping push the growth of inclusive finance.
• Bridge Network — Bridge is a decentralized cross-chain interoperability protocol that allows the transfer of assets across supported blockchain networks in a seamless and user-friendly environment.

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• Creednz — B2B Payments Protection using internal finance data enriched w/ externally curated intelligence, enabling informed payment decisions in RT.
• Connectifi — Connectifi brings FDC3 interoperability to the cloud, making it broadly accessible across enterprises and enabling FDC3 to work anywhere - including, in browsers, mobile, desktop containers, and native applications. Connectifi provides organizations and platforms with the infrastructure to build and grow their ecosystems through interoperability while maintaining complete control over their security, data, and application technology.
• PerfectScale — Ensure peak performance at the lowest possible cost with data-driven intelligence to optimize each layer of the K8s stack.

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• Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.
• Cardino — Cardino - Verkaufen Sie Ihr E-Auto digital zum besten Preis. Entdecken Sie die einfache und bequeme Art, Ihr Elektroauto online zu verkaufen.
• Beckley Waves — Beckley Waves funds, supports, and mentors the emerging leaders, entrepreneurs, and partnerships working to create the operational infrastructure of a global psychedelic ecosystem.

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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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• Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.
• HitBox Games — HitBox Games was founded by industry veterans to provide dev teams around the world with a transparent and ethical publishing option.
• Aether Games — Aether Games are the creative talent behind both of the widely expected NFT-based game titles: Gates of Ethernity and Cards of Ethernity. In addition, the studio's creative efforts are up to be represented by the CGI mini-series "Aether" and many more.

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• Joepegs — Dive into Joepegs, the leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles. As a cultural hub in the Web3 space, we offer secure buying, selling, and discovery of innovative digital assets.
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• 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.