Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Asia (October 2023)

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• Kaso — Elkaso is the leading Order and Procurement Management Tool for Restaurants and Suppliers in the Middle East.
• Momento — Momento is an insurtech company with the objective of revolutionizing the insurance industry in Latin America, starting with car insurance. We want to make insurance easy and accessible for the underserved population in LATAM.
• Equilibrium Energy — Equilibrium Energy operates at the intersection of grid variability, market volatility, economic optimization, commercial structuring, trading, and risk management, across the end-to-end power value chain. Their ambition is to become a next-generation clean power company that reshapes the energy industry. They address inquiries through onlineapplications.

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• 13o3 — 13o3 is a boutique investment firm specializing in providing tailored solutions to complex and sophisticated business challenges for discerning clientele, mainly high-profile individuals. Launched in 2013 and founded by Asfand Yar Saeed, the company operates under the
• Locofy — Locofy provides a service that converts designs into code. Locofy.ai aims to take away the menial work of engineers without adding complexity i.e. automating 50% or more of the current workflow starting with frontend code, allowing teams to convert their designs to code and an interactive and responsive live prototype (that runs on code), withoutwriting a single line of code.
• Yisheng — Yisheng is a digital service platform for door-to-door car washing.

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• SoLeLands — SoLeLands provides children with future-ready skills, virtues, and applied competences and inspires children to love learning.
• Maka Motors — MAKA is dedicated to building the best electric motorcycles for Indonesian riders.
• Zenith Learning Group — Zenith Learning Group's mission is to deliver a holistic, world-class education to learners across South East Asia through technology.

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• MFast — MFast operates as a fintech platform. MFAST is a brand under Digital Payment Solution Joint Stock Company - DigiPay JSC.
• Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
• Serve Robotics — Why move a 2-pound burrito in a 2-ton car? Meet Serve, the future of sustainable, self-driving delivery.

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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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• CloseFactor — CloseFactor uses machine learning to reimagine the business to business sales process, bringing the benefits of greater automation and precision targeting to sales teams.
• ElevateBio — We provide the tools, time, and environment to innovate and accelerate development of life-saving Cell and gene therapies.
• Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.

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• Bloomo Investment — Bloomo Investment is a software company that specializes in the development of smart and fun investment apps.
• BroilerX — BroilerX is a poultry tech startup offering precision, sustainable, and scalable poultry technology and business to smallholder poultry farmers. By having an extensive poultry farming experience and reliable smart poultry technology, we aim to enhance poultry output and work with the poultry farmers and farming practitioners to understand thechallenges they face then tap into smart technology for solutions. We have been working with poultry farmers on a contractual basis since 2020. We provide smart tech services and technical expertise, as well as live birds and feed supplies, while the poultry farmers provide the labor, housing, and utilities to support the birds. This benefits the farmers because it protects the poultry farmer from the risk of changing market prices for poultry and feed ingredients such as corn and soybean meal, which represents most of the cost of raising poultry and helps keeping the price of nutritious poultry affordable for millions of families and the foodservice industry in Indonesia.We proudly work with thousands of independent poultry farmers every day, bringing quality protein from family farms to family tables.
• Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.

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• Asuene — Asuene involves in clean power retail business, retail SaaS business, etc.
• Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
• Habitto — SJML is a new financial services venture. The team and its advisors have a breadth of experience ranging from insurance, banking, e-commerce, adtech and ventures across five continents. This provides them with a unique approach to entering new markets and building valuable businesses.

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• MugglePay — MugglePay is a payment solution enabling global, instant, and low-cost settlements via cryptocurrency.
• Alpha Impact — Alpha Impact was built by experts from traditional finance who have made it their mission to democratize crypto copy trading for all.
• Merkle Science — They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.

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• FoodMap — FoodMap is a startup with the goal of connecting customers with ethical farmers and food suppliers directly.
• Gushwork — Gushwork provides a platform for small and medium businesses to get on-demand access to cross-border, AI-augmented remote workforce. They are enabling a one-click process for businesses to delegate or automate their day to day mission-critical business workflows.
• StepChange — Discover StepChange, India's best platform for ESG management. Measure, analyse, report, and reduce emissions. Request a free demo to get started!

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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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• 3Commas — 3Commas provides a platform for cryptocurrency investors to trade with minimal risks, limit losses, and increase profits. 3Commas was founded in 2017 and is based in Toronto, Ontario.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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• Aethir — Power Ultra-Low Latency Gaming & AI Experiences.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.
• Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection — Xixiang Ecological Chain Collection is a Web3 digital collection platform that includes encrypted art production, promotion, and collecting, as well as IP permission.

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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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• Josys — Josys is an IT device and SaaS integrated management service that automates analog operations in corporate IT, reduces operational costs, and improves security levels.
• Spiral.AI — Spiral.AI offers services for large language models, AI language model platform, and customization features for ChatGPT for businesses.
• Pathos Logos — Pathos Logos is an HR co-creation platform that specializes in sales of SaaS and supply of human resources for corporations.

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• HELIX — Gain access to curated alternative investment opportunities and make your crypto do more today. Helix is an accredited marketplace utilising blockchain technology to provide access to off-chain private credit in emerging markets.
• Cryptoworth — Cryptoworth is a cryptocurrency solution and consultancy company working hard at the intersection of cryptocurrencies, blockchains, business and people to better-serve the fin-tech industry. Cryptoworth was created to reduce the complexity of cryptocurrency adoption, usage, and management. Cryptoworth provides the best cryptocurrency and blockchainsolutions for use cases spanning from single users to large institutions.
• Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.

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• Degame — Degame is an NFT gaming platform that provides token analytics, tracking, research, gaming strategy, and IGO.
• Tres — Crypto Accounting and Web3 Treasury - Enable financial workflows such as reconciliation, balance calculation, audit and reporting. Now businesses can monitor, manage and account for their Web3 assets from on-ramp to off-ramp.
• Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad

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• Mogic AI — Mogic AI is an advertising technology platform that provides tools to create and launch campaigns by pulling product images into ads using AI.
• Levinthal — Levinthal is an AI-driven protein design platform. They offer services for artificial intelligence in food safety and medical care. They offer synthetic biology, food, feed, and environmental protection.
• Altos Radar — Altos Radar accelerate the development and implementation of 4D Imaging Radar technology in driver-assisted and fully autonomous driving systems.

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• KarirLab — Cari kerja dan magang, buat resume ATS-friendly, evaluasi resume oleh ahli, dan ikuti webinar persiapan kerja #MulaidariKarirLab
• Mythic Protocol — Mythic Protocol is an entertainment company that develops games, media and platforms.
• Venti Technologies — Venti Technologies is a safe-speed autonomous vehicles developer company.

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• Clear — BEWARE: This profile infringes on the US Trademark "Clear Protocol" that belongs to Clear Protocol, Inc., a California corporation. Furthermore, Ernest Kestone and Marie Kestone are not associated with this company.
• Cowboy Snake — Cowboy Snake is the TvT play-to-earn game inspired by snake on the blockchain. Cowboy Snake is a product of OrenCT Ltd.
• Formless — Formless enables gamers, NFT enthusiasts and digital collectors to find their favourite game while helping games find their targeted fans.

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• Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
• Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
• Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.

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• DAISCH — DAISCH is a high-precision inertial positioning solution provider that provides high-precision motion and position sensing systems and tool chains for autonomous driving. It develops unmanned high based on carrier phase differential technology, inertial navigation technology and machine vision technology. The precision positioning system realizeshigh-precision positioning of all road conditions through visual information fusion RTK combined inertial navigation, providing over-the-horizon road conditions and environmental information for automatic driving.
• InventChip — Inventchip provides power conversion solutions based on SiC power devices, SiC driver IC and SiC power modules. Applications: Wind Inverter, PV Inverter, Industrial Power Supply、 HEV/EV, Motor Drive, Charging Pile and other fields, and many.
• Jiana Energy — Jiana Energy offers sodium-ion batteries that can be used for energy storage of green energy such as solar energy and wind energy, smart grid power generation side, user side, backup power supply, low-speed electric vehicles, two-wheeled vehicles, and other fields.

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• FirstMate — FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators.
• Rocket Pool — Your friendly decentralised Ethereum staking protocol
• Mountain Protocol — At Mountain Protocol, we believe that everyone deserves access to the "risk-free rate" through a secure, regulated, and enterprise-grade product that elevates the world finance industry. Our yield-bearing stablecoin, USDM, provides permissionless composability, regulatory compliance, and an enterprise-grade setup with a seamless userexperience. Backed by US Treasuries and custodied by Fidelity in a bankruptcy-remote setup.

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• D3 Labs — D3 Labs is to simplify and empower finance through seamless blockchain adoption, delivering confidence and benefits to individuals and organizations alike.
• Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.

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• Stockbit — Aplikasi saham untuk berdiskusi, analisa dan berinvestasi dengan harga real time, berita terkini, riset, data fundamental, charting, dan analytical tools yang lengkap
• Pandemic Insights — Know and Manage Health Risk Anywhere
• Kargo Technologies — Kargo adalah layanan logistik online yang menyediakan solusi pengiriman barang yang mudah, cepat, dan terpercaya. Temukan layanan yang dapat diandalkan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengiriman Anda.

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• Reap — Reap helps you pay expenses using a credit card, collect payments from around the world, and improve your expense and cash flow management. All in one platform.
• Glints — Explore internships, graduate jobs & career development resources on Glints. Do what you love on our career discovery & development platform.
• CoverGo — CoverGo is the ultimate no-code insurance platform helping insurance companies build and launch products at record speed and configured for every product line.

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• GoodGudi — GoodGudi is a Lifestyle retail shopping destination. Our Stores sell Travel Accessories, Fashion Accessories, Home Improvement products, Toys and Cosmetics
• Vantient — Bring your people together with engaging experiences, and collect zero-party data consentingly. Build trusted data relationships with your community.
• Simplus — Simplus offers customers more fashionable and cost-effective small home appliances.

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• Fabrie — Fabrie develops collaboration tool for designers that has functions such as multi-person collaboration, table and diagram association, cloud storage and sharing.
• RM Group — RM Group is a creator of derivatives and technologies related to digital humans.
• Galactic Holdings — Galactic Holdings offers a series of digital finance products.

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• MI-6 — MI-6 is a research, development, consulting, and project management for material development using IT. We will promote materials informatics in the field of material development with our technological capabilities and a wealth of project knowledge that challenge the world's most advanced technologies .
• ELESTYLE — ELESTYLE are promoting mobile payments and providing high value-added services for users to realize a cashless society.
• Luup — Luup is an Internet Company.

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• Cerby — Collaborate without chaos. Cerby helps your team be productive while protecting your brand. Secure unmanageable applications. Only with Cerby.
• CYBO — CYBO provides products and services to understand cells deeply and to harness them widely.
• Bondy — Bondy is an HR Tech automation platform that specializes in connecting different HR processes.

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• ZetaChain — An EVM-compatible L1 blockchain that connects everything: Build interoperable dApps that span any chain including Bitcoin, access all chains from one place.
• Orbital — We bridge the gap between traditional and crypto financial solutions, providing a regulated, secure and frictionless experience for global businesses.
• Mindigital Group — Mindigital is a leading global Fintech firm specialzing in providing Banking As A Service to local institutions in each country. We have served clients from different continents in countries including US, Spain, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines and Vietnam. Mindigital has consistently helped our partners to upgrade theirdigital infrastructure, improve profit , control risk and save operation cost.

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• FUE Bioscience — FUE Bioscience is a medical robot R&D business that specializes in microsurgery above the head and neck. It continues to develop a product matrix of fully intelligent, high-precision, and anthropomorphic surgical robots based on the platform of macro-micro-controlled humanoid dual-arm robots.
• Life Wilderness — Life Wilderness reimagines human-computer interaction and is linked to the transportation and travel industries.
• Xintu Heterogeneous — Xintu Heterogeneous offers data storage solutions for heterogeneous computing.

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• ReadON — ReadON's mission is to reshape digital reading behaviors in Web3 and Crypto through the use of Game-Fi mechanisms and systems.
• Smooth Labs — SmoothLabs is a blockchain infrastructure service provider,
• Magpie Protocol — Swap crypto assets efficiently between any chains, without the need to bridge. Magpie is fast, secure and easy-to-use. Compatible with 6+ chains, and more to come.

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• CotoLab. — CotoLab is an Internet company.
• DINETTE — DINETTE is a cosmetics manufacturing company.
• SOUNDRAW — Your personal AI music generator.

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• RWDC Industries — RWDC develops biodegradable bioplastic that can be used to make cutlery, drinking straws and cup lids, foodand beverage packaging, as well as diapers, among other things. It produces medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate(mcl-PHA), which are naturally produced by bacterial fermentation of plant-based oils or sugar. RWDC’s PHA is certified to befully biodegradable in soil, water and marine conditions.
• Eavor — Eavor is an advanced geothermal technology company dedicated to creating a clean, scalable form of clean baseload power on a global scale.
• Qianyuhui Environmental Protection — Qianyuhui Environmental Protection is a provider of comprehensive solutions for carbon emissions.

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• Evermos — Hanya semenit untuk memulai usaha reseller dan dropship. Yuk, gabung jadi reseller dan dropshipper dan dapatkan komisi hingga 10 juta rupiah.
• Neurowyzr — Have you ever checked on your brain health and performance? We protect quality of life and optimise personal potential by enabling early detection, diagnosis, therapy, monitoring and prevention of brain decline
• Atomberg Technology — Atomberg Technology aspires to be the "Tesla"​ of the world of household appliances. By combining the virtues of energy efficiency and Internet of Things, they will be coming up with smart, connected and intelligent appliances which will disrupt the appliances market forever.

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• Freename — Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains
• LunarCrush — Smarter crypto, NFT, and stock investing with insights from millions of conversations happening across social.
• SuperSight — SuperSight (https://supersight.xyz/), a UK-based start-up, is building crypto-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionise the way we interact with crypto data. With 420 million crypto users but only 30,000 able to code for onchain insights, SuperSight bridges the gap, enabling easy access to information from a range ofboth on-chain and off-chain sources like Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Mirror, Podcast Transcripts, and news sites. Beyond just collecting data, SuperSight uses AI to improve the search experience, making it personalised, accurate, and ultimately, more insightful.

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• NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
• HitBox Games — HitBox Games was founded by industry veterans to provide dev teams around the world with a transparent and ethical publishing option.
• Pop Social — Pop Social is the ultimate social gateway to Web3. Experience a multi-chain social ecosystem and discover your online social lifestyle. Connect and engage with a decentralized global community to leverage content and ownership economy.

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• Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
• Hybr1d — Hybr1d is an end-to-end workforce management system. Manage everything from onboarding, procurement, devices, and attendance to offboarding from a single platform.
• Mobee — Mobee is a leading digital asset exchange serving qualified individuals and businesses who are seeking for crypto adoption and digital wealth creation.

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• Verisoul — Verisoul helps ensure your users are real, unique, and trusted.
• Mind Network — Mind Network is a full-encryption network built on a proprietary adaptive fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) framework to secure all user data, smart contracts, and AI on Web3.
• 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.

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• Mahaana — Mahaana is Pakistan’s first digital wealth manager. They make sure your savings are invested in a diversified portfolio best suited for your goals.
• FinanZero — FinanZero is the leading online marketplace for consumer loans in Brazil. The business is an independent broker for loans, negotiating the customer’s loan application with several banks and credit institutions, to find the loan with the best interest rate and terms for the consumer. FinanZero handles the lending process from start to finish.FinanZero has more than 50 lending partners connected to its platform.The company was founded in 2015 and is based in São Paulo, Brazil.
• Solfácil — Solfácil purpose is to allow all people to invest in solar. We are the first solar investment platform in Brazil. We are a fintech with a innovative loan that allows consumers to switch their monthly cost with electricity into a great investment in a solar system. Consumers benefit from zero downpayment, up to 30% immediate savings, 20+ years offree electricity and ability to produce and consume clean energy.

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• Taiko Labs — A decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup.
• dWallet Labs — dWallet Labs Ltd., based in Tel Aviv, Israel, a cybersecurity company specializing in blockchain technology, is building SingleWallet, the first interface to interact with dWallets on the Odsy Network. The mission of dWallet Labs is to build protocols and solutions on top of the Odsy Network.
• InvestaX — InvestaX is an investment and trading platform for digital securities. InvestaX is a MAS licensed digital securities platform offering end-to-end solutions for the issuance, trading and custody of digital securities for private market assets.

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• BharatNXT — BharatNXT is a B2B fintech platform. BharatNXT's objective is to become the go-to partner for SMEs on their path to becoming major companies for their business payments, credit, compliance, and sourcing needs.
• PolicyStreet — PolicyStreet is a regional full-stack InsurTech company. We customise insurance solutions for businesses and consumers.
• Yellow Metal — Fintech company that provides Gold loan

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• Frontrunner — Frontrunner is a decentralized sports prediction market where users can buy shares of sports propositions and trade them like they would stocks. Unlike traditional sportsbooks where users place a bet and wait, Frontrunner gives users full control over their portfolios, allowing them to dynamically buy and sell positions as the odds change. Byleveraging the power of free markets and the blockchain, we create fully transparent markets and liquid positions which fundamentally change the way that people invest in their sports knowledge and beliefs. The vision is to bring DeFi concepts like AMMs, margin trading, and perpetuals to a marketplace of sports derivatives, creating parity between financial and sports betting markets.
• MetaVersus World — MetaVersus combines gaming with Web3 to provide a hyper-realistic digital environment for brands to build in and for users to discover as MetaCitizens
• Spaceport Technologies — Accelerating the growth of the next digital economy

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• Mars4 — Mars4 (MARS$) defines itself as a virtual reality platform powered by the blockchain, that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications and earn passive income through revenue generating Mars NFT Land Plots. In this virtual world on Mars, users purchase plots of land that they can later navigate, build upon and monetize.
• Velo Labs — Velo Labs is software company revolutionizing the old correspondent bank system by creating a global settlement network. We are empowering financial institutions with blockchain-based and compliance-friendly solutions to move money across borders.
• Parex Market — Parex Market provides DAO ecosystem that includes a range of solutions.

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• Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
• Okapi — Okapi provides a user-friendly and reliable platform for sharing and discovering information on decentralized entities.
• 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.

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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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• Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
• The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
• Cryption Network — Cryption Network is crypto company. Its can swap, farm, Invest and predict with cryption's unique and user-friendly DeFi 2.0 products. Bringing mass adoption to DeFi. PolyDEX is cryption's flagship product, which is completely gasless, instant, cross-chain AMM DEX with yield farming.

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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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• Axelar Network — Axelar is a cross-chain communication tool developing interoperability software to connect blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users. Axelar Network consists of a protocol suite, tools, and APIs, designed to break down the barriers to cross-chain communication. Axelar enables developers to build on the best platform for their needs whileleveraging the Axelar stack to unlock cross-chain composability and liquidity.The company was founded by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos in 2020.
• C3 Protocol — C3 is a self-custodial cryptocurrency exchange that allows you to buy, margin trade, and earn using any wallet from any blockchain.
• BBS Network — BBS Network is a SocialFi project that allows sharing content to reward creators, curators, and other stakeholders with their own native testimony. The revenue generated by the platform is shared among all participants in the BBS ecosystem in a fully automated, transparent, and market-driven way.