Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Sweden in October 2023

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• Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
• roaring.io — We create automated solutions that simplifies your daily business processes, enabling you to work smarter and stay competitive.
• Acknoledger — Ackno API will consist of UCNS and Ackno plagiarism engine that will be used by NFT platforms, NFT Marketplaces, Metaverses, and Digital Universes UCNS will adopt a decentralized approach to provide unique identifier for any content that is validated across Metaverses and NFT platforms AcknoLedger will collaborate with the current NFT and MetaverseEcosystem Partners to deploy UCNS solutions to their existing Digital Assets

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• Y/ELM+ — Y/ELM+ is a horseback riding safety and protection brand that focuses n creating leading-edge rider safety solutions.
• Maintract — Maintract is a new generation of financial contract management software. It also offers banking and financial services. They provide contract management automation solutions to banks for drafting, data verification, workflow automation, contract data monitoring, tracking workflow and documentation, compliance management, and more.
• Enable Banking — Empower your business with Enable Banking, the leading open banking connectivity provider, offering a secure, single API solution for seamless integration with 2500+ major banks across Europe. Book a demo today to unlock the future of open finance.

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• Zevoy — Automate receipt and expense management
• Adway — Adway specializes in recruitment marketing, employer branding, Hr-tech and candidate journey solutions.
• Worldfavor — Worldfavor is the first to bring sustainability and compliance information based on established frameworks to one global platform. We connect businesses around the world to share sustainability information with each other through one platform, where they can also manage and excel their own performance in a secure, collaborative space. We helpbusinesses avoid manual spreadsheets and stiff, expensive software. Simply because we want you to save time and resources for your impact, and because modern technology can enable so much more.The vision is to be global de-facto information platform for sustainable decisions, serving any actor with sustainability/compliance data (business data 2.0) on any organization from one shared platform where they also manage it. The SaaS covers all sustainability/compliance needs under one roof: Manage Sustainability, Visualize Sustainability and data collection and assessment of any type of partners in the Value Chain, such as suppliers or portfolio companies.

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• Dicot — Dicot is a pharmaceutical company focused on drug discovery and the development of novel lifestyle drugs to enrich patients' lives. The Company develops and manufactures medicines for the treatment of erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. The company's lead candidate, LIB-01, is in the pre-clinical stage of development.
• EmbeDL — Efficient Deep Learning for Embedded Systems
• Nordic Forestry Automation — The forestry sector is standing before unprecedented challenges in adapting to increased demand for sustainable raw materials, carbon storage, biodiversity conservation and a shortage of highly skilled machine operators. Digital tools, precision forestry and automation will play a crucial role in

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• Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
• Aviant — Delivering full-stack drone services that enables autonomous and on-demand transport of cargo.
• Vibrant — The best in taking easy payments! Start accepting contactless transactions straight through your phone!

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• Novatron — A new fusion reactor design for stable plasma confinement and fusion power generation.
• Retein — Aquammodate is a greentech company that produces highly pure water at minimum energy cost.
• Open Payments — Open Payments connects you to multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations

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• Uniify — Uniify is a no-code customer onboarding software that makes it fast, easy and secure for financial companies to onboard their customers. Save your business time and money, and build onboarding flows for your customers in minutes instead of months.
• Niricson — Niricson Software has developed a proprietary damage assessment software platform paired with a patent-pending drone-based data collection technology that helps infrastructure owners inspect their structures (e.g. hydro dams) in a way that is more accurate, five times faster, and 50% more cost-effective. Niricson is differentiated by its ability toautomatically detect and quantify not only surface damage, but also subsurface damage.
• Elements Advisors — See how Elements can help you quickly demonstrate your value, so you can get new clients. Guaranteed, or your money back.

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• Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
• Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
• AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.

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• Januar — Innovative EU crypto companies use Januar's payment account solutions to accept payments & send payout's while maintaining full compliance & stable business operations.
• getmomo — getmomo is a vertical payment platform for real estate. Guaranteeing on-time rent for landlords & offering tenants a zero-deposit solution
• Token.io — The broadest coverage for open banking in Europe. Accept A2A payments. Add open payments to your platform. Access user permissioned financial data data.

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• Apron — Sort, pay and reconcile your invoices in seconds.
• Worldover — Cosmetic compliance made simple
• Class Companion — Class Companion is a new AI technology that allows professors to provide students with immediate, individualized feedback.

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• Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.
• Relate — Relate is a startup that develops apps and other services to help both singles and couples to healthy and meaningful romantic relationships.
• Joint Academy — Joint Academy connects patients with licensed physical therapists to deliver online treatments for chronic joint and back pain. Our treatments are clinically proven and give patients access to a personal, licensed physical therapist, an individualized exercise plan, interactive education about the condition, and progress tracking — all through auser-friendly app. Peer-reviewed studies show that Joint Academy patients reduce their pain, change their minds about surgery, and quit painkillers. Joint Academy is now available to patients in Sweden, the US, the UK, France, and Germany.

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• Mondido — Mondido is a payment service designed to increase conversion rates for online merchants. It enables the acceptance of payments on websites and mobile applications while offering smart features for analyzing and increasing sales. Mondido was launched in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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• Divly — Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.
• Treyd — Working capital for fast growing brands. Order Now, Pay Suppliers Later
• Circulate — Find the best packaging for you and the planet in our marketplace

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• Mondido — Mondido is a payment service designed to increase conversion rates for online merchants. It enables the acceptance of payments on websites and mobile applications while offering smart features for analyzing and increasing sales. Mondido was launched in 2014 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.

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• blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
• Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
• Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.

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• Yabie — Yabie's Payment and POS systems take the effort out of selling. It's the most intuitive, hassle-free and mobile way of interacting with your customers and making a sale.
• Kojamo Group — Kojamo plc will focus on real estate investments in Finland, renewing rental housing to make it increasingly attractive by developing new types of homes and services. The solutions promote work-related mobility in urbanising Finland, increase well-being and help preserve the environment. The vision of the housing investment company is to be apioneer in housing and the customer’s number-one choice.
• Exeger — We invent, engineer, and provide world-changing technologies to improve everyday life.

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• Thunes — Payment infrastructure for a connected world.
• Tuma — TumaTM is a smart, micro merchant solution that enables businesses to take card payments from customers using their own smartphones.
• Doxa Holdings — Doxa Holdings International is a fintech start-up helping connect buyers, suppliers, and financiers seamlessly through its best-in-class enterprise platform, Doxa Connex — a procurement, payment, financing, and analytics platform for the Built Environment (Construction, Engineering, Real Estate Developers).Officially incorporated in Jan 2019, ithas grown more than twice in size since 2021 and serves customers across the world, with a regional focus in Southeast Asia. It has deep and significant partnerships with financial institutions and is also recognised as a Networked Trade Platform (NTP) Value Added Service, while being fully integrated with the InvoiceNow and PEPPOL invoicing network.Doxa closed its S$3m Pre-Series A round from financial institutions including VCs, public listed and logistics corporations, and obtained internationally recognised ISO27001 and ISO20000 certifications in 2022.

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• Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
• Terralayr — Terralayr uses software to collect energy grid-scale storage, which will be required as we strive to make renewable energy more efficient and lucrative.
• Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.

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• Breakit — Breakit is Sweden's sharpest news about startups and tech companies.
• Opti — Opti is a simple app that helps users see which funds are worth its price. Working as a robotic consultant, the app provides fund comparison service where the users can compare how well your existing funds are compared to others Opti's services are free when it comes to testing and comparing funds. However, the person who wants to help a swapfund may pay 145 kronor per byte. Customers' funds can be found at banks or other savings banks. Opti only handles the investment advice itself.The company is located at Stockholm, Sweden.
• Dynamic Code — Dynamic Code's driving force is to translate the latest research into products that contribute to increased well-being and better health. Special expertise is to apply the latest scientific advances in DNA technology and other molecular biological research into useful products for consumers, municipalities, healthcare and companies.Their approach to product development is to create a product that is close to people's needs and to help people seeking guidance on various symptoms or diseases. Several of the häsotest as Dynamic Code has been developed, giving customers a quick and useful answers. Analysis The answer is at least as safe as in health care, but faster. In some cases there has not been adequate diagnoses within the traditional health care system. An example of this is our home test for bacterial vaginosis.

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• Zcooly — Zcooly offers several educational games for children.
• Parkamo — Parkamo is like Hotels.com & Airbnbn for parking. All apps, all prices, full transparency and you can earn money by renting out your parking.
• Swedish Temptations — Swedish Temptations, founded in 2019 by CEO Pia Qvarnström, built a brand named Bärta for producing organic, vegan and fermented food. The ingredients include Swedish split peas.

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• Focalpay — Focalpay is a disruptive platform that breaks down the boundaries between retail and payments. We offer payment, checkout and backoffice in one universal system.

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• Qred — Apply online. No secured loan requirement. Offer within an hour. Choose how much of the granted loan to withdraw. Loan up to 100 000 eur.

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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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• AdLunam, Inc. — Engage to Earn NFT-integrated Proof of Attention IDO Launchpad for the Web3 Attention Economy
• NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
• PoPop World — Popop World is a leisure playground with 20+ mini games.

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• viboo — viboo offers self-learning predictive control on the basis of physics-informed Machine Learning as a cloud service to smart-thermostat and building automation companies.
• ecoRobotix — ecoRobotix contributes to an agriculture that respects the environment, focusing on soil and hydrological resources conservation and using a minimum amount of energy. ecoRobotix aims to offer precise, safe, reliable and affordable robotic solutions that simplify farmers’ life to produce healthy food. In particular, its revolutionary solar-poweredweeding robot offers a more sustainable use of herbicides while reducing farmers costs.
• AccelerComm — Our patented, market-leading IP solutions for 4G and 5G are configurable for quick, high-performance implementations across a wide range of applications.

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• Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
• Sidequest — SideQuest is the early access layer for Virtual Reality. Get access to the latest Oculus Quest Games, Oculus App Lab games & lots of free apps on applab and sideload.

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• Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
• Green Air — Green Air is a service provider in the trade of GHG certificates.

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• Equipme — Gear up your teams to do their best work with Equipme. Simplify asset and cost management, and partner with best-in-class service providers for seamless service delivery.
• EthonAI — EthonAI develops accessible software tools that empower manufacturers to detect, monitor, and prevent quality losses at scale.
• Replo — Customizable landing pages for serious e-commerce teams. Made for marketing, integrated with Shopify - learn more about building stores faster with Replo

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• Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.

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• Riskpoint — RiskPoint is an underwriting agency that delivers value-adding insurance solutions.
• Hjo Installation — Hjo Installation is a Swedish conglomerate made up of a significant number of local enterprises specializing in energy optimization, electricity, VS, and ventilation.
• Equashield — EQUASHIELD offers a portfolio of closed system transfer devices (CSTDs) and robotic automation solutions, protecting workers from exposure to hazardous drugs.

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• FanAnywhere — Your one-stop blockchain solution for a celebrity to engage the fan base, exclusive Fan Tokens, exchange in FAW pairs & own exclusive celebrity artworks
• Graviton Zero — Multi-Chain Play to Earn NFT Game - In a Universe ravaged by War! Only you can stem the flow of GRAV. Battle for Survival
• Ancient Kingdom — Ancient Kingdom is the first ancient martial arts game on the blockchain platform, pioneering the realization of real-time games on the blockchain platform.

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• Wrebit — Wrebit började som ett projekt på Wengbrand Redovisning (redovisningsbyrå med kontor i Borås och Ulricehamn). Dagens teknik har medfört ett hot mot redovisningsbranschen, vi ville helt enkelt vara nyskapande och erbjuda småföretagarna ett eget bokföringsprogram. Det resulterade i Wrebit - Enkel bokföring i mobilen. Det är ett komplett bokförings -och faktureringsprogram som är helt appbaserat. Vi har gjort appen väldigt enkel och användarvänlig, inga förkunskaper krävs för att använda appen. Användaren kan bokföra, fakturera, ta fram resultat- och balansrapport, liksom momsrapport. Den är även fylld med fakta i form av avdragslexikon, ekonomifakta och viktiga datum.

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• Yepstr — Yepstr connects private individuals and companies that are in need of extra help with Sweden's most driven youth. Yepstr helps with everything from payment, insurance, and taxes so you get more time for other things.

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• Yepstr — Yepstr connects private individuals and companies that are in need of extra help with Sweden's most driven youth. Yepstr helps with everything from payment, insurance, and taxes so you get more time for other things.
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• Bumper — Bumper protects the value of your crypto using a radically innovative DeFi protocol. Deposit USDC today to earn BUMP tokens
• NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
• Unslashed Finance — The best and easiest way to protect your crypto assets against hacks and other events.

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• Kreditz — Kreditz makes sense out of open banking/PSD2-data with their proprietary Analytics Categorization Engine (ACE). By using ACE, Kreditz is able to fine-tune the transaction data (from any AISP-data aggregator) to make it understandable and usable in valid functional products such as income verification, credit scoring, KYC and many more. Theproducts are available both by API or by an integration-free Web portal. Kreditz serves industries such as consumer- & SME-lending, money transfer, auditing, gambling/betting, insurance and more throughout the Nordic countries.
• Instabee — Delivery when it suits you who shop online
• Instabox — Instabox Express is a shipping service available in selected online stores. It ship your express delivery package to our lockers in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.Instabox handles logistics for e-commerce retailers, offering same-day delivery through its network of last-mile smart delivery lockers. The service reaches about six million Swedes,delivering from the likes of H&M, Ikea, and Lloyds. In a press release, the company claims its growth has more than tripled each year over the last few years.

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• Divly — Divly simplifies and automates declaring taxes on your crypto trading.

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• Captain Fresh — Captain Fresh is a freshwater fish and seafood supply chain platform. Captain Fresh is a B2B marketplace leveraging technology to deliver the fastest harvest-to-retail in the industry. The company focuses on aggregating the fragmented retail demand across the country and linking them to the small fishermen and farmers throughout the Indian coast.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Bengaluru, India.
• Rainforest — Rainforest focuses on providing software platforms for payment processing. Rainforest is headquartered in Atlanta, United States.
• Aaritya Technologies — Because when you trade, we want you to trade like a pro.

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• Qred — Apply online. No secured loan requirement. Offer within an hour. Choose how much of the granted loan to withdraw. Loan up to 100 000 eur.

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• Laced — Discover the latest sneaker releases with Laced. The UK and Europe's authentic sneaker marketplace, discover coveted styles from Nike, Air Jordan, Yeezy, New Balance and more. Buy and sell now with Laced.
• A Retro Tale — A Retro Tale is a distinctive and reliable online retailer with a passion for and specialization in authentic luxury vintage and second-hand accessories.
• Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

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• Rest Less — Rest Less is the UK's fastest growing digital community for the over 50s. Join for free. Restless offers content, guidance and resources on a range of topics spanning Work and Careers, Volunteering, Learning, Money, Health, Lifestyle and Relationships.
• FloodFlash — Finding commercial flood insurance can be tough. Control your costs and your recovery with new rapid-payout flood insurance.
• Open Payments — Open Payments connects you to multiple banks through one single unified API. This removes the complexity and frictions of many diverse integrations

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• Savr — Savr is an Investment platform disrupting the Swedish fund industry with a lower fee structure and a new business model.
• Woilà — ACQUIRED BY KLARNA IN OCTOBER 2020.Woilà was founded in 2017 to reinvent the shopping experience post-purchase, and raised €4M through 2018-2020. By identifying price drops, price guarantees and vouchers, Woilà helped consumers get money back if an item bought online dropped in price after the purchase had already been made. Woilà processed $50Mworth of transactions during 2020 and now the technology will be leveraged by Klarna to further strengthen its value proposition to consumers.
• Insurello — Insurello provides a digital solution that helps customers find insurance payments. Insurello intermediates on behalf of its clients the communication and the processes of insurance companies in exchange for 25 percent of any insurance benefit.

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• Leeroy — Leeroy provides a technology platform that transforms customer data into marketing both on-site in-store and mobile. Leeroy provides merchants with tools to communicate and interact with the customer in real time leveraging efficiency, revenues and customer experience putting the merchant in the driver seat. The company's platform is aproduction and distribution tool for several different digital channels: in-store with communication by digital signage and by mobile to enhance loyalty.
• Capcito — Capcito is a provider of working capital to SMEs. Products are invoice discounting, factoring and business loans, all offered with a click of a button. Smoothly integrated with cloud accounting applications and banks. A proprietary lending platform and scoring engine is continuously being developed to improve accuracy on credit assessment andprovide a more lean and relevant solution to SMEs in need of financing for further growth. Capcito strives to empower businesses to grow.
• Better Wealth — Better Wealth provides automated investment advice services.BetterWealth is under the supervision of Finansinspektionen. Your investments are covered by the investor protection and your money deposited into a client funds account is covered by the deposit guarantee.

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• Sesamy — Sesamy provides frictionless single purchases and consumption of digital content, without restricting the user’s choice of app or device.
• EcoVadis — Ratings platform to assess corporate social responsibility and sustainable procurement. Solutions include risk monitoring, audit management and sustainability ratings.
• CoverManager — CoverManager is a tool for creating, sell and managing reservations of a restaurant.

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• Orbofi — Create and monetize AI-generated images and assets for games, media, and AI NFTs. Create your own finetuned AI models.
• Banger — Banger is a blockchain-powered gaming platform that provides its users with an array of earning possibilities. Banger was founded in 2019 and was headquartered in Madrid, Spain.
• Fantom Maker — Fantom Maker provides an efficient and easy way to invest in the most promising and innovative projects in the Fantom ecosystem.

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• Opolis — Opolis is next-gen Digital Employment Platform for Freelancers providing payroll, benefits and other services for independent workers and freelancers.
• GAST Clearwater — GAST Clearwater is a US-based, next-generation water treatment company with a mission to provide Water for Mankind one drop at a time. Operating in various industries and markets from Real Estate, Wastewater Treatment, Municipal Potable Water, and various others in particular focusing on the recovering and recycling of different waters in acentralized or decentralized way. The company also does artificial beaches, urban lagoons, wave pools, surf parks, aquatics to sewerage treatment, wastewater, and drinking water.
• Alef Aeronautics — Armada operates in a stealth mode

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• NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
• Vinter — Making smarter indexes for crypto ETF issuers.
• consola.finance — consola.finance is business-to-business finance and accounting SaaS platform that aims to automate financial processes for Web3 businesses, including bookkeeping, reporting, and analytics.

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• Atlar — Atlar’s platform lets businesses automate all of their payment activities – including initiating transfers, reconciling transactions, and handling direct debits – directly with their existing bank partners.The Stockholm-based company was founded in 2022 by Johannes Elgh, Joel Wägmark and Joel Nordström who were previously early team members atTink (acquired by Visa for $2.2bn). Atlar is backed by Index Ventures – a firm that has previously backed category defining companies such as Adyen, Revolut, Figma, and many more.Backed by world-class investors, we help great tech companies such as Banxware, Mynt, and Lassie automate their bank payments.
• Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
• topi — Hardware, made simple. topi provides the underlying technology for the B2B subscription economy. Our platform enables retailers and manufacturers to offer hardware products as a monthly subscription.

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• TomoChain — TomoChain is a highly scalable and secure blockchain network in mainnet since 2018, taking a community-driven approach to accelerate the mass adoption of web3 applications.
• BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.
• Minterest — Minterest is a cross-chain decentralized money market lending protocol for decentralized financial. Its unique design attracts and rewards long-term liquidity with Minterest distributing value captured by the protocol to MNT token holders who actively participate in its governance. Minterest was founded in 2020 and is based in Tallin, Estonia.

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• Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• ShapeShift — The all-new ShapeShift is your complete crypto management platform: send, receive, trade, track, and hodl bitcoin and other major cryptos. Hardware-secured. Non-custodial. Sign up today.
• Monarch Wallet — Monarch offers mobile and desktop apps, a decentralized wallet and exchange, a portfolio tracker, and universal KYC integration.