Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Canada in October 2023

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• Plooto — Powerful accounts payable and receivable software from Plooto helps your business automate these processes. Click here to learn more.
• Westhill — Westhill is an insurance company that specializes in claims, technology, property and casualty, homeowners, and property. It helps insurance companies delight property owners in their “moment of truth” blending a proprietary digital experience. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Buckzy Payments — Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days

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• BenchSci — BenchSci is the world leader in AI-Assisted Reagent Selection and Experiment Design. Our preclinical R&D SaaS platform uses machine learning to help pharmaceutical companies increase their research velocity.
• Ideogram — Ideogram: Helping people become more creative.
• Shakudo — Shakudo unites all of the data tools and services you need into a single comprehensive data platform, allowing your team to develop and deploy analytics-based solutions with ease.

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• Symend — Symend’s digital engagement platform uses behavioral science and data-driven insights to empower customers to resolve past due bills. Leveraging advanced analytics, Symend helps enterprises better engage millions of customers by providing deep insight into consumer behavior. Symend continuously optimizes these insights and empathetically nudgescustomers towards a desired action with personalized communications, self-serve tools and flexible repayment options. Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections. Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America. For more information, please visit https://symend.com/ and follow the company on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
• Owl.co — Owl.co is a leading provider of customer insight solutions for the insurance industry. By leveraging advanced technology, including data analytics and machine learning, Owl.co enables insurers to access unbiased claimant information and make faster and better-informed claim decisions. The company's innovative solutions streamline claims management processes, improve operational efficiency, and enhance customer experiences.
• Trustate — Trust and Estate Administration made simple. We close estates at the click of a button.

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• Solink — Find what you're looking for in seconds Take a self-guided tour and see how effortlessly you can pinpoint what you're searching for in seconds using
• OneVest — OneVest empowers enterprises and consumers to access private wealth management through our Wealth-as-a-Service platform.
• Redwood Materials — Redwood creates a closed-loop, domestic supply chain by recycling and refining lithium-ion batteries and remanufacturing anode and cathode components.

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• Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
• Quilt — Quilt's mission is to move humanity off fossil fuel heating, starting with the home. 20% of US global warming emissions come from homes (that’s more than cars!). The largest driver of home emissions is burning fossil fuels for heat. Quilt's first product is a next generation heating and cooling system that makes homes more comfortable,healthier and more efficient, based on all-electric heat pump technology.
• Finta — Finta lets founders and operators easily manage taxes, bookkeeping, and financial insights - all in one platform.

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• Lengo — Lengo is an AI based intelligence platform that offers a large database on consumer goods for companies in the FMCG sector.
• Traction Apps — Traction apps provide businesses end to end tools they need to run and grow their businesses.
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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• Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
• HyperPlay — HyperPlay is a web3-native game launcher that enables players to carry their wallet, NFTs, tokens, and achievements into every game.
• Intuition — Intuition provides decentralized infrastructure, developer tools, and applications enabling the creation of an open, flexible knowledge graph enhancing the quality and availability of social knowledge.

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• Bridgr — For industrial companies looking for significant digital transformation, BRIDGR is the algorithmic advisory practice that improves your odds of success by showing you what to do next and who would help
• ChrysaLabs — Soil testing technology. ChrysaLabs provides real-time data for better decisions.
• Ditch Labs — Ditch Labs is a digital health company pioneering nicotine addiction treatment with artificial intelligence and a revolutionary device.

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• Sort — Sort: Supercharged collaboration for your database
• Puffer Finance — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• Stroom Network — Liquid staking protocol in bitcoin lignthning network

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• Harmonya — The all-in-one AI-powered product data enrichment, categorization, and insights platform for CPGs and retailers
• Ambient — Swap cryptocurrencies like a pro with Ambient. Decentralized trading is now better than ever.
• Volition — Volition is the largest marketplace of industrial components, built just for hardware teams. We make it easy to find and purchase off-the-shelf parts.

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• Expeto — Expeto is the world’s first and market leading “carrier-grade” Private Mobile Networking (PMN) platform that allows enterprises to confidently extend public and private mobile networks as one secure corporate WAN without losing control of their data or devices. Unlike hardware-heavy legacy solutions, Expeto is a containerized, software solutionpurpose-built to install behind the firewall, from the cloud, at the edge, or on prem. Affordably offered “as-a-service” and easily managed by IT, Expeto is as easy to deploy and manage as a Wi-Fi network.
• Cookin — Cookin is a homemade food delivery marketplace where people can find home-cooked meals and have them delivered to their doors.Cookin Inc. is rethinking what it takes to start a food business and enabling a new class of creators to do what they love. Cookin empowers talented cooks, many of whom are reinventing themselves from a topsy-turvyrestaurant industry, to turn their own talents and home kitchens into a source of income. Cookin matches buyers and cooks together on the marketplace and dispatches a driver to pick up the meal and deliver it.
• Buckzy Payments — Buckzy Payments is dedicated to building the worlds first open real-time ecosystem for enabling consumers and small businesses to send and receive money instantly, 24x7, 365 days

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• Caary — CAARY is a digital credit, lending and payments platform, offering a corporate credit card for SMEs, including start-ups. It enables these businesses to better access credit and manage their spending, through provision of virtual and physical credit or payment cards to employees, utilizing a digital dashboard for receipt management, cardmanagement, and integration to the accounting system, eliminating time-consuming reconciliation. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
• UMMAH1.com — UMMAH1.com is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.
• UMMAH1.org — UMMAH1.org is a journey with the goal of connecting the community for collective progress! Among the many planned initiatives, we are starting with a digital-first marketing and technology solutions initiative for growth-focused social impact organizations.

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• dcbel — dcbel's mission is to deliver energy that lets people live a life without compromise.dcbel™ (formerly known as Ossiaco) sits at the nexus of residential solar power, electric vehicle charging, the smart home, and customer-centric utilities. The dcbel team has a proven history of rethinking energy distribution for everything from largeutility customers to distributed energy resource providers.dcbel's AI-driven sustainable technologies enable people to leverage solar energy to power their cars, their homes, and their lifestyles.dcbel has numerous worldwide patents in power electronics and power conversion and is backed by a number of globally respected investors.
• HumanFirst — The complete productivity suite to transform natural language into business insights and AI training data
• BIOS — BIOS Health is unlocking the potential of the nervous system in treating chronic disease by using AI-powered neural interfaces that can automatically read and write neural signals.

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• Mash — The internet is fundamentally broken. It's because of monetization. “Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.”Our mission is to remonetize the web by enabling value for value monetary exchanges between pubs/creators/orgs and their users. A new business model for the open internet.We are unlocking this withfriction-minimized streaming payments that are no/low cost, instantly settled, trust-minimized.It is built on the best global digital monetary network ever conceived, Bitcoin. Enabled by Lightning Network. Most users don't need to know this or be a Bitcoiner. Over time we suspect many will.
• ChargeLab — ChargeLab is the Android of EV charging. We don’t build EV chargers, but our hardware-agnostic platform runs on the world’s most popular EV chargers. Once connected, our software makes any EV charger smarter and easier to use.
• Integral Treasury — The most powerful web3 financial stack ever created.

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• Panda Salud — On demand lab testing & analytics for B2B
• Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
• Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

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• VIP3 — VIP3 is the FIRST all-in-one web3 benefits and membership platform, providing users with rewards and discounts.
• Playbux — At Playbux, we believe that the Metaverse is more than just another world; it is indeed a way for us to connect other platforms into our world.
• AlterVerse — Discover AlterVerse, an immersive free-to-play game coming to the Epic Store. Explore endless possibilities in our boundless sandbox environment where survival skills are key. Join the adventure today!

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• Payday — Send and receive money globally. Create virtual Mastercards that work anywhere online.
• Payday Global — Send & Receive money globally

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• Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
• ODAIA — Empowering Pharma's Next Generation of Engagement with HCPs
• Reworkd — Assemble, configure, and deploy autonomous AI Agents in your browser.

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• Fantuan — Order food with Fantuan Delivery. Get the best Asian food delivered to your door from your favorite local restaurants. Everyday promotion.
• Gali Health — At Gali Health, we are on a mission to make sure nobody ever feels isolated, lost or powerless in the face of existing or potential disease. We are working to advance consumer-powered healthcare by crowdsourcing personal health data and medically-validated insights, applying AI to process them and providing highly personalized informational supporton the medical, lifestyle and psychological aspects of living with chronic disease. Our mobile personal health assistant named Gali relies on collective intelligence to help people with chronic conditions proactively manage their health.
• IOT Pay — Omni Channel Payment Solution

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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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• 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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• Unito — Connect the tools you're already using with deep 2-way integrations and optimize workflows for Asana, Jira, Trello, Google Sheets and more.
• Vetster — Pet health starts with Vetster. Find and book veterinarians from across North America to provide excellent health care for your pet through video consults. Cats, dogs, reptiles, horses - all pets are welcome.
• Ready, Set, Food! — Ready, Set, Food! makes it easy for parents reduce their baby's risk of developing peanut, egg, and milk allergies by up to 80% with our gentle, daily system.

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• SOS — SOS is transforming wellness on-the-go through a network of smart vending machines that deliver just-in-time necessities where and when you need them most. And yes, that includes tampons!
• CYCLE — GetHenry is a rapidly growing subscription service for market-leading delivery companies. We make sure that thousands of couriers are on the move safely, quickly and comfortably every day. In this way, we not only create added value for delivery services, but also help to reduce transport-related CO2 emissions on the last mile.
• wasted* — Wasted* is an premium, eco-friendly, and sustainable porta potty and waste management company located in Burlington, Vermont.

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• VueReal — VueReal is engineering the next electronic systems by mass integration of high-efficiency nano/micro-devices into large-area substrates (e.g., displays, sensors, system on panel, and more). They have started by making the true-life experience of micro-LED displays affordable for all applications (TV, laptop, smartphone,virtual/augmented reality, etc.). VueReal technology platform is based on the interplay of cutting-edge micro/nano-device processing, sophisticated integration technologies and advanced system design (hardware and software). VueReal technologies can enhance the experience of existing electronic systems and enable new applications by integrating millions of highly efficient micro-devices (micro-LED) into system substrate. As our Solid Printing (TM) technology works across all substrate sizes, it can develop displays ranging from super high ppi (>4000 ppi) to very large.
• Airex Energy — Airex Energy provides solutions for a sustainable future. Helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon from the atmosphere.
• SPARK Microsystems — Discover SPARK Ultra-wideband: Revolutionizing AR, VR, audio, gaming, and IoT with responsive low-latency, high-speed wireless transceivers.

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• Nuco — Blockchain networks will redefine the structure, process, and business models of most industries. Nuco is developing production-ready infrastructure to power the future of enterprise software.
• ScribbleLive — ScribbleLive is a content cloud provider that helps companies manage the lifecycle of their content. It provides global brands with the services and solutions they need to create premium content at scale. The company's managed services provide clients with program and campaign coverage including dashboards and program reporting. Its servicesoffered includes content strategy, creative services, implementation, integration, and IT support. ScribbleLive was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
• Figment — Figment: Staking, middleware, and application layer solutions for investors and developers investing in and building on Web 3 technology.

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• Famasi — Famasi is a digital health platform that helps people access their medications, schedule doorstep delivery, and automate monthly refills.
• Pennee — Pennee supports small businesses to grow with low interest loans and data optimization.
• Clafiya — Discover Clafiya: Your trusted digital health platform, uniting in-person care and virtual solutions for a personalized and caring healthcare experience. Embrace a healthier, happier you, with us by your side.

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• Craydel — Get Professional career guidance based on Psychometric Assessments and get scholarships to the best MBA, Engineering, Medical, Education online and on campus courses in Africa and Abroad.
• EMTECH — For Modern Central Banking
• Terragon Group — Terragon is a leading Data and Marketing Technology company that uses data and analytics to help companies focused in Africa, intelligently connect at scale to their customers. We use an aggregation of online and offline data, and predictive scoring to help brands, marketing agencies and platforms accurately target people across channels anddevices. Headquartered in Lagos; Nigeria, we also have a presence in Kenya, South Africa, Ghana and India.

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• Linera — Linera is the power of decentralization for everyone, everywhere.
• Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
• Earn Network — Onboarding millions to make billions in DeFi economy

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• Instabase — Instabase combines the latest AI breakthroughs with industry expertise to create real business value for your business.
• Silo — Silo is a platform that automates the perishable supply chain. More time, more opportunity, less waste.
• Concordia — Concordia is a modular risk and collateral management protocol that unifies and enables multi-chain collateralization of digital assets.

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• HealNow — HealNow partners with pharmacies to reduce the number of phone calls and payment forms they receive via fax, by allowing patients to pay co-payments online, schedule deliveries or curbside pickup, and answer any onboarding questions seamlessly. HealNow enables pharmacies to offer online payments of prescriptions for a faster onboarding and paymentsprocess. HealNow has built a system that’s specifically tailored to pharmacies of any shape or size, from grocery stores to independent pharmacies and everything in between. It was formed in 2018 and headquartered in New York, United States.
• Topline Pro — Receive a optimized website built for you in 24hrs with online tools to grow your service business. Take your business to the next level.
• TeamSense — Achieve 100% compliance & 0 disputes with TeamSense's text-based call-off solution. Employees love it, managers can't live without it.

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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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• Alix — Alix streamlines estate settlements with our AI-powered platform. Simplify document management, asset distribution, and legal processes for a smoother, more efficient experience. Explore our innovative solution today.
• Automat AI — Robotic process automation for Chrome using GPT3 guided Computer Vision
• Glass Health — Glass is a knowledge management system tailored to the way doctors learn, organize, and curate medical knowledge.

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• Areto Labs — Areto Labs is a human-focused cyber security company that uses AI to protect people by detecting and counteracting online abuse.
• PayShepherd — PayShepherd helps manage contractor billing for industrial facilities and simplifies billing processes. Save time, money, and headaches.
• Truffle — Truffle enables restaurants of all sizes to empower their teams, increase profits, and provide a smart dining experience that customers expect, with tools to manage your restaurant in a single platform. Truffle offers restaurants flexible tools to expand into Point of Sale, Online Ordering, Table Side, Delivery Management, Automated Pickup, TableReservations and Guest Marketing.

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• Direct-C — Remote asset monitoring systems for oil and gas infrastructure that provide rapid leak detection for liquid hydrocarons, produced water and more.
• Captain AI — Captain is the leading delivery management software for restaurant chains. Gain true visibility into your delivery operations while automating dispatch decisions and optimizing delivery times.
• Mission Control Space Services Inc. — Mission Control is a space exploration and robotics company specializing in spacecraft operations, onboard autonomy and artificial intelligence. We are developing a full-stack robotic control solution. Our technology is designed to control and automate robotic assets operating in harsh and remote environments and increase the safety, efficiency andscientific or financial return of missions.

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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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• Karat Financial — Karat is the best card for creators, helping you save money, earn rewards, and grow your channel faster - because content IS a business.
• Legit Security — Legit Security offers a SaaS-based platform that supports both cloud and on premises resources and protects an organization's software supply chain environment from attack.
• ProjectDiscovery — Quickly resolve vulnerabilities at scale. ProjectDiscovery Cloud Platform uses automation, integration, and continuous scanning to defend the modern tech stack.

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• DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
• Questbook — Discover Opportunities in Web 3.0 and Earn in Crypto
• Sleek — Sleek is a FREE browser extension that offers seamless checkout from every store on the internet AND gives you up to 25% cash back when shopping online.

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• Passiv — Passiv makes it easy for you to manage your portfolio so that you can save more for retirement and spend more of your time enjoying life.
• Soricimed — Soricimed is a privately-held, clinical stage company focused on the development and commercialization of applications originally derived from its unique and proprietary family of peptides found in the paralytic venom of the northern short-tailed shrew
• ProcedureFlow — With ProcedureFlow, following company processes has never been easier. Our cloud-based knowledge management software will help you make your employees experts faster.

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• Quandri — Quandri is a digital worker for insurance brokers & agencies.
• Spellbook — Rally is the perfect software for lawyers who want to automate legal documents, offer legal subscription services, streamline client intake, and offer a client portal. Law firms choose Rally as an end-to-end workflow for a better client experience.
• Vivid Machines — Digitizing permanent crop production | Vivid Machines | Ontario

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• tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• Arpio — Get instant disaster recovery protection for your AWS workloads. Protect your business from ransomware and data loss. Recover in minutes from any outage.
• Tromzo — Tromzo builds actionable context from code-to-cloud graph, to accelerate remediation of critical risks across the software supply chain.
• Grit — Grit automatically fixes technical debt by combining static analysis and machine learning to generate pull requests that clean up code and migrate to the latest frameworks.

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• PTO Exchange — PTO Exchange is the first benefits platform that allows employees to self-direct the value of their unused paid time off (PTO) for other needs and causes.
• AleFi — Empowering Finance Content Creators
• VoiceScript, Inc. — VoiceScript, Inc. is a leading supplier of legal technology and SaaS solutions designed to modernize the court reporting and legal industries. VoiceScript products and services allow court reporting agencies to deliver the industry's best and most efficient court reporting services while also significantly reducing production costs anddelivery times for certified legal transcripts. By partnering with VoiceScript, court reporting agencies can quickly scale their digital court reporting business, while dramatically improving their overall profitability.

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• Frontly — Turn your Google Sheets into modern dashboards and internal business tools in minutes.
• Care2Talk — Care2Talk is a video call mobile app for senior citizens that is secure, fast, and easy to navigate with 7-day battery life.
• VoxCell BioInnovation — Creating an extraordinary line of solutions for the drug development industry and the field of Oncology research.

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• Frontly — Turn your Google Sheets into modern dashboards and internal business tools in minutes.
• Replayz — Online sales courses by professional sales coaches. Our Virtual/Remote Sales Training covers everything about Sales Coaching and Sales Process.
• Vesto — Fintech

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• Cubist — Cubist brings modern software engineering practices and first-class security to web3 builders. Cubist’s toolkit makes it safe and easy to build, test and deploy multi-chain and cross-chain dapps in automated pipelines that handle keys and sequencing.
• Wand App — Wand is a co-creative, AI-driven tool that allows artists the manual control and customization they need to realize their ideas.
• Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.

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• Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
• Accord — Build your repeatable sales & onboarding process to hit growth targets. Collaborative. Transparent. Engaging. What customers love.
• Stable Money — Steady returns, untapped opportunities, and excellent long-term performance to aid your journey of wealth creation!

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• XMTP — Own and control your communication.
• Amperon — Our AI-powered demand forecasts help companies manage risk and navigate volatile energy markets.
• SkyWatch — SkyWatch makes it easy, fast, and affordable to buy commercial satellite imagery for your geospatial needs.

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• tushop — Enabling communities to reduce the cost of living together
• Curacel — Curacel creates APIs & tools that enable businesses to embed insurance in digital channels and to administer claims cost-effectively.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• Fantuan — Order food with Fantuan Delivery. Get the best Asian food delivered to your door from your favorite local restaurants. Everyday promotion.
• IOT Pay — Omni Channel Payment Solution
• Saltalk — Saltalk is a virtual kitchen platform that focuses on Asian Authentic Food optimized for delivery services.

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• Hansa — Hansa is a free tool that helps small business owners ensure the data that financial service providers use to find, qualify, and underwrite their businesses is up-to-date, accurate, and consistent
• H2Ok Innovations — H2Ok Innovations Harnesses Artificial Inteligence and Data Science to Empower Comunities With the Knowledge for Clean Water.
• Telegraph — Telegraph's cloud-based operating system uses cutting-edge technology to bring instant visibility and seamless logistics to the freight rail supply chain.