Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Australia in October 2023

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• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
• Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.
• Kepler Analytics — Kepler uses retail in-store analytics to provide retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behaviour and create amazing customer experiences.

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• Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.
• Secure Code Warrior — Secure Code Warrior helps developers write more secure code. We are focused on bringing an innovative approach to developer security training. Contact us today.
• High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets

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• Neara — Neara electric utility software is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets. Request a demo.
• SPIRITT — Spirit enables the development of complex applications by describing the concept to a computer without the need to write code, It is an artificial intelligence-based platform that allows you to develop complex applications such as Tinder, Instagram, or Wolt.
• Tomorrow.io — Predict, automate, and solve your biggest weather challenges with Tomorrow.io.

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• SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
• AirDeck — Make documents and presentations more engaging by adding audio or video narration. Add clarity and personalize any content you share.
• Clever Real Estate — We match you with top agents nationwide and help you save. Sellers get full service for just a 1.5% listing fee. Buyers can get cash back after closing.

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• Zeller — Leading EFTPOS Terminal provider for thousands of Australian businesses. Zeller helps you accept card payments, manage your finances, cash flow & more.
• Immutable — Zero gas fees, instant trades and scalability for games, applications, marketplaces, without compromise.
• FrankieOne — FrankieOne helps banks and fintechs make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage KYC/AML and fraud.

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• Josef — Automate lawyer-client conversations, document drafting and providing legal services. Josef is a software platform with a chatbot interface.
• Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
• SafeStack — SafeStack Academy is the New Zealand online cyber security, privacy and secure development training company.

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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
• Assembly Payments — Collect, refund, disburse & reconcile online payments with API automation to simplify complex payment flows. Pay & get paid instantly for operational efficiency.

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• Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
• BioticsAI — Advancing Fetal Ultrasound Screenings Using AI
• Kiki — Kiki is a subletting startup that matches listers with people looking to rent for up to six months.

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• PayOK — PayOK's API driven solution delivers real-time dual account validation between Australian banks which can reduce mistaken or fraudulent payments, protecting and giving confidence to your customers.
• Aerologix — Aerologix offers professional drone services including drone hire, aerial inspection and commercial aerial photography. Enquire online to find out more.
• Sonavi Labs — Feelix is a smart, digital stethoscope with Bluetooth connectivty. Order Feelix for your practice or for home use today.

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• Spectarium — Spectarium is a remote-first, ambitious new company creating best-in-class cross-platform action RPGs. Spectarium designs at the cutting edge of gaming, always looking for new methods to improve players' gaming experiences.
• Socket — Socket, which acts as a meta-layer that connects all chains, enables unified, multichain applications with shared liquidity and state across chains.
• Maple Finance — Fast and easy borrowing for Corporate and Institutional borrowers

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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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• OwnHome — OwnHomes mission is to turn renters into homeowners through a rent to buy model. We are helping Australians get into their own home and onto the property ladder sooner.
• Payble — Payble offers insight led flexible payment options and customer engagement tools for a proactive approach to rates collections. Get more control and never miss a bill again!

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• Kapiche — Instant insights. No set up or coding. The Kapiche feedback analytics platform helps you ingest and analyze mountains of customer feedback in minutes.
• Remi AI — A.I-Powered Demand Forecasting, Supply Chain AI, & Price Optimisation | Remi AI
• Trendspek — Trendspek is the drone data solution asset managers use to make empowered decisions and ensure absolute asset knowledge. Conduct complete visual inspections from any web browser. Extract detailed insights without a site visit. Use powerful tools to analyse the structure and build a complete picture of asset condition. Enhance predictive maintenanceby closely monitoring trends. View different models side by side to observe important differences. Refine your understanding of an ever-changing asset.

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• FairSupply — FairSupply's unprecedented supply chain visibility will transform your ESG decision making: Modern slavery. Decarbonisation. Biodiversity.
• Flagship — Flagship is a retail technology platform to bring new technology to the brick-and-mortar retail world. Flagship is introducing innovative visual merchandising technology to the world of brick-and-mortar retail.
• Secure Code Warrior — Secure Code Warrior helps developers write more secure code. We are focused on bringing an innovative approach to developer security training. Contact us today.

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• Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
• Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
• Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.

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• Sherlok — Automated client retention for mortgage brokers, helping them grow their loan book by proactively keeping their existing clients happy and with them forever.
• JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
• Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.

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• Swoop Aero — Transforming how the world moves by making access to the skies seamless.
• HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
• SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.

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• Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
• Hello Clever — The first Australian buy-to-earn platform that makes shopping, payments, and money management easier for all. Trusted by 30,000+ Australians and 1,000+ merchants. Join us now!
• Atelier — Atelier is a cloud manufacturing platform for the development and scaling of beauty, health and wellness supply chains. We are the rails for manufacturing!

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• Nykaa — Nykaa is an e-Commerce platform for different beauty and wellness products for men and women. They also offer comprehensive content including product reviews, beauty how-to videos, articles by experts, and an e-beauty magazine. Their helpline helps to choose products and services best suited for customer's needs. Nykaa's products areauthentic sourced directly from brands and provide a delivery experience.Nykaa was founded in 2012 by Falguni Nayar and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
• SendFX — SendFX provides cross-border payment and remittance services to individuals and SMEs.
• Send Payments — Send is a fast-growing fintech delivering embedded finance solutions to well-known brands.

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• Tribu — Here at tribu we aim to make running an MSP stress-free and simple. Remove complexity and repetitive shackles to give you the freedom in business so that you can have freedom in life.
• Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
• One Key Access — One Key Access is an interface to the world of couriers to enable 24/7 frictionless deliveries.

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• Beamible — Get the most for and from your workforce. Deconstruct work down to its individual components so it can be reconstructed to better meet the needs of the business and the employees. Reduce turnover and burnout, enable flex and drive efficiency with Beamible.
• Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
• Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.

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• GAM3S.GG — Your home of web3 gaming offering game discovery, reviews, guides, news & quests for a full experience.
• GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
• Optix — Optix is ​​a multi-chain option protocol service provider.

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• VAPAR — VAPAR offers CCTV pipe inspection software. The software is AI integrated for better results and accuracy.
• YouPay — YouPay is a gifting platform that lets you create wishlists and privately share what you want with other people for payment in real-time.
• Paypa Plane — Future-focused payment systems that deliver benefits to banks, enterprises and payers. Working with existing systems to elevate legacy payment structures - Paypa Plane is ready to move the payment ecosystem forward.

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• Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
• MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
• Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

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• Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
• Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
• Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

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• Beforepay — Beforepay understands that traditional pay cycles are a form of financial stress. So we set out to find a better way, giving Australians the control and confidence that comes with managing your own money, on your terms.That’s why we created Pay On Demand™ - a service that allows you to access the money you have earned at work, when you choose todo so. After all, it is yours!The app also automatically predicts when your bills are due, shows you how much is OK for you to spend, and automatically creates budgets for you, effortlessly.
• Academy Xi — Future-proof your career with our online short courses. Highly practical & employment-driven, stay ahead of the industry curve with our courses. Learn more here.
• DesignCrowd — Crowdsourced logo, freelance graphic and web design at DesignCrowd. 1,136,169 freelance designers compete to create amazing designs for your business. Start Today!

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• Parcision — Parcision revolutionizes the hiring process on Wall Street by introducing a crucial element: quantifiable skill. The current Wall Street hiring practice puts too much emphasis on alma mater and network connection, which deters many candidates. We aim to establish a quantitative approach that enables individuals from all backgrounds to assess theirskills and demonstrate their accuracy in analyzing critical market events, such as company earnings and economic announcements. We firmly believe that regardless of identity, sex, race, location, or educational background, everyone deserves an equal opportunity to pursue a rewarding career in the financial industry. Through our blind hiring and skills-first approach, we hope to change the DNA of Wall Street.To achieve this, we harness the power of Web 3 technology, specifically smart contracts, to facilitate and oversee tamper-proof tests that quantify candidates' analytical capabilities. By leveraging this advanced technology, we ensure a transparent, auditable, and provable performance metric for participants. The most accomplished participants are duly acknowledged financially and reputationally based on their exceptional proficiency. This recognition is facilitated through participants' undeniable track records on Parcision.Parcision is chess for financial analysts.
• PlanetWatch — We leverage advanced technologies of the population to improve environmental monitoring worldwide and help protect public health
• Quantum Temple — Quantum Temple is the Web3 platform that enables equitable exchanges between conscious collectors and ancestral communities. Our goal is to protect and share the knowledge, traditions, and art forms of cultures around the world in perpetuity through blockchain technology.

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• Willed — Willed is an Australian online estate planning platform.
• BiomeBank — BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company with a mission to treat our microbiome and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology.
• Internet 2.0 — Military Grade cyber security with core products Cloaking Firewall, Malcore and 5th Column

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• ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
• Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
• Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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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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• Render — Render is a unified cloud to build and run all your apps and websites with free TLS certificates, global CDN, private networks and auto deploys from Git.
• Flash — Flash is a mobile application and financial service company that facilitates digital payments to businesses.
• Primer — At Primer, we help organizations make the best use of their investment in data, by using best-in-class machine learning and natural language processing technologies.

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• Unlockd — Maximize the return on your NFTs with cross-chain, instant loans while keeping their utility.
• Fluidity Money — Fluidity Money is the blockchain incentive platform that rewards with yields to people for using their crypto.
• Sandstorm — Sandstorm platform connects brands with the best metaverse builders.

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• Oasys — Oasys is an eco-friendly blockchain built for the gaming community, offering the best user experience with fast transactions and zero gas fees.
• Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
• Obscuro Labs — Obscuro is a layer 2 solution for Ethereum that brings privacy. It ensures the inputs, ledger state and execution are always encrypted. No changes to Dapps, just migrate and gain privacy.

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• Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
• Skippr Cash Flow — Business financing services & solutions tailored for all Australian businesses with Earlypay's Invoice, Equipment, and Trade Financing. Contact us now!

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• Ordermentum Pty Ltd — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

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• Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
• AsiaVerify — AsiaVerify is plugged into Asia's most authoritative and compliant government and regulatory sources. Our unprecedented coverage and intelligent platform opens the way for businesses to engage in Asian markets with greater confidence and ease.
• FreeGuides — FreeGuides is a peer to peer platform, enabling locals to create, run and manage their own free walking tours.

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• GoldLink — GoldLink is a decentralized, on-chain undercollateralized lending protocol utilizing a novel and modular lending architecture to offer borrowers powerful, sophisticated investment strategies beyond anything offered in the space today.
• P0x Labs — P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
• Connext — Bridge tokens and data across 11+ chains. Earn and build on the most secure interoperability network.

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• TheyDo — Customer journey management: organize your business around the customer journey. Manage insights, journeys, opportunities and solutions in one place. Try now!
• Ellis — Ellis is the first all-in-one solution made for international students.
• Papaya — Papaya offers platform to source, run and manage your electric vehicles.

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• Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
• Airwallex — Give your business the power to make fast, transparent & cost-effective global payments in multiple currencies. Sign up for an account.
• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

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• Kippa — ## Build Setup
• Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
• Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

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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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• Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
• Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.
• Tellus — Our mobile app makes passive income accessible to everyone. Earn high yield outside the stock and crypto markets. Budget smarter, set goals, and save faster through your own actions in the app. Even manage your rental properties. Join now!

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• Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.

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• Pin Payments — Take card payments online for your small business or platform with Pin Payments. No merchant account is required. Easy setup.

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• BetaCarbon — BetaCarbon is the first and only digital token notionally linked to Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU.) ACCUs are a regulated financial asset issued by the Clean Energy Regulator, an Australian government-linked entity.
• Stacked Farm — Stacked Farm is an agricultural company that provides nutritional foods with automated indoor vertical farming technology.

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• TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
• Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
• Tableland — A 3k generative NFT built from 1,074 handcrafted works of art for the builders and creatives of cyberspace.

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• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• Quench.ai — Quench is a tech infrastructure for video creators to deliver exclusive content, engage and reward their true fans.
• Statement — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.

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• Gateway.fm — GatewayFM is the first truly decentralized blockchain infra/node provider, with globally distributed, multichain infrastructure
• Monad — Monad brings true performance as a new EVM L1 blockchain. Fast, powerful, efficient. Built for developers.
• Webb Protocol — Webb builds infrastructure for connecting zero-knowledge applications empowering developers to unlock user privacy in the Web3 ecosystem.

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• Rush Gold — Digital Gold Money Platform - Buying gold made simple and accessible. Rush Gold is the easiest way to buy, sell exchange and offer gold on Internet
• InsureVite — InsureVite is a Singapore based, Enterprise B2B InsurTech startup on a mission to help insurers transform their customer experience through social messaging apps. Our digital assistant combined with robotic process automation can be embedded into any mobile apps or websites, enabling customers to connect and transact easily, quickly and seamlesslywith their insurers in a single interface (no re-direct or pushed out)

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• TipLink — TipLink helps send crypto with a link. Someone with crypto can create a account and send that link to anyone over any platform. It’s like buying a gift card, connect the client's crypto wallet of choice and create a account by depositing how much they want to send.
• Tensor — Tensor is NFT trading for professionals . Tensor wanted something faster, with better coverage, more data, and advanced order types thus tensor was created.
• SuperDuperSecret — The developer's initial game, Royale Chess, a ten-player battle royale chess game, is the first of many to be released on their meta-game platform, which focuses on multiplayer, evergreen games.