Top 50 Publishing Startup Investors in Asia (October 2023)

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• G7 — G7 has an installation base of 800,000 cargo vehicles throughout China. Through its proprietary hardware devices, the company is able to compile data for logistics companies and drivers on location, route optimization, fuel consumption, and cargo status (temperature, humidity, etc).
• Future — Get a dedicated coach, personalized training plan and unlimited workouts.
• Hystar — Hystar is a high tech company specializing in advanced PEM electrolysers for large scale green hydrogen production, that is 100% sustainable.

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• Zaihui — Zaihui is a SaaS-based data-driven marketing automation solution for local businesses that offers them with member management, precipitation members, incentive members, and mining member values. Product system offers intelligent precision marketing, integral marketing, stored-value marketing, anniversary marketing, attendant performance, thememarketing activities, and brand packaging marketing.Zaihui is headquartered in China and the company was founded in 2015.
• Qinglei Technology — Qinglei Technology is a radar sensing technology startup.
• Siyue Intelligence — Siyue Intelligence produces software and hardware for TFT-LCD semiconductor automation. It integrates R&D, design, production, and service, and is committed to providing fully automated warehousing robot systems, and intelligent detection.

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• Eight Knot — Eight Knot designs and develops autonomous navigation system for water mobility using robotics & AI.
• Wingcopter — Wingcopter is an award-winning German developer, manufacturer, and operator of unmanned eVTOL fixed-wing aircraft dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide through meaningful commercial and humanitarian applications. The start-up focuses on the delivery of goods such as medicines to remote health facilities, packages, and food to privatehouseholds. With their unique, patented tilt-rotor mechanism, the electrically powered Wingcopters far exceed the range and payload capabilities of commercial multicopter drones. Taking off and landing vertically like multicopters, Wingcopters fly long distances as efficiently and quickly as fixed-wing aircraft, reaching ranges of up to 75 miles (120 kilometers) and a Guinness world record speed of 150 mph (240 km/h). Even in strong winds of up to 44 mph (71 km/h) or inclement weather, Wingcopters fly autonomously and reliably.Wingcopters are also used for the efficient inspection of public infrastructure and for long-range mapping applications.In 2020, Wingcopter was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
• Sunflower Labs — Sunflower Labs makes an autonomous outdoor security system that senses and deters unwanted visitors before they’re at your door. Our elegant sensors detect motion and vibration, differentiating between people, animals, and cars. When they detect something unusual, they’ll notify you and deploy a fully autonomous drone. The drone flies directly tothe scene and streams live video of what’s happening. Guided by our sensors, it follows the activity, performs a security “sweep,” and lands itself safely in its weatherproof docking station.

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• Web3Go — Web3Go is a blockchain startup that provides data tools powered by artificial intelligence.
• MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
• Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.

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• invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
• Yodawy — Yodawy is an online pharmacy and insurtech startup that allows customers to order pharmaceuticals and cosmetics via a mobile app and have those delivered through a network of 500+ pharmacies across Egypt. Insurance and copayment benefits are automatically applied with four major insurance carriers onboarded thus far and more in the pipeline.
• Money Fellows — MoneyFellows digitizes the ROSCA model, enabling group lending and savings.

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• Hozon — Hozon integrates hardware products and software services through innovative technology research and development, intelligent manufacturing, and multi-channel sales services. Through the development of electric, intelligence, and connectivity, they are committed to creating cost-effective Intelligent electric vehicles of high quality, providingusers with a simple, intuitive, and comfortable travel experience.
• Dshifu — Dshifu is a supplier of frozen beef and mutton ingredients.
• Doctor Shaoyang — Provider of a medical platform designed to provide users with psychological and mental health support services. The company's services include health consultation, doctor-patient communication services, one-on-one appointment consultation and pre-diagnosis, enabling patients and doctors to communicate easily online while having theirinformation protected.

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• Chuguang 3D — Chuguang 3D is a optical micro-nano 3D sensor technology platform that focuses on research and development, and manufacturing of micro-nano-level optical three-dimensional sensing and measurement and testing instruments.
• Yanming Biology — Pyrotech pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that focuses om development for drugs for the treatment of inflammation and tumors.
• Optical Standard Technology — Optical Standard Technology focuses on the design and manufacture of optical computing chips and optical computing boards for use in scenarios requiring large amounts of AI computing power, such as large model reasoning and training, autonomous driving, smart cities, quantitative finance, AI security.

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• Jiuyuu.com — Jiuyuu.com is a cutting-edge pan-entertainment content company.
• Ri Yuetong — Ri Yuetong is a cultural science and technology innovation enterprise.
• QingTing FM — QingTing FM is a network audio application. Since its release in September 2011, it has grown into one of the leading audio content aggregation platforms in China. QingTing FM adheres to the slogan of “More World, Listening” and uses innovative technology to create an influential and popular audio media brand. QingTing FM was founded in 2011.

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• Augusmith — Augusmith is a workshop that produces and retails handcrafted jewelry pieces.
• Das Master — Das Master is an online and offline automotive service platform.
• Yun Yue Wenxue — Yun Yue Wenxue is a novel creation platform.

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• Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
• Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
• Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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

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• HOOKED — HOOKED (formerly Telepathic) is redefining entertainment for the Snapchat generation. We’ve pioneered a new media format called chat fiction, which has become a phenomenon among teens and millennials in the past year. Hooked has reached 50MM readers and has hit the #1 spot in the App Store in 25 countries, including the U.S., U.K., France, Germany,Italy, Japan, and S. Korea. We’re building the media company of the future - the next Netflix, the next Disney. Hooked has raised venture funding from top investors in Silicon Valley and Hollywood, including Ashton Kutcher, Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, William Morris Endeavor, SV Angel, Founders Fund, Cowboy Ventures, Greylock and many more.
• Instawork — Instawork connects local businesses with proven hourly workers for temp, temp-to-hire shift work.
• Graphic India — Graphic India Pte. Ltd. is a character entertainment company focused on creating leading characters, comics and stories through mobile and digital platforms. Founded by media entrepreneurs Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman, Graphic India is owned by U.S. comic book Company, Liquid Comics and CA Media LP, the Asian investmentarm of The Chernin Group, LLC (TCG). The company’s partners and investors bring together decades of experience in building businesses in character entertainment, media and India. Graphic believes that India is home to some of the most creative talent in the world, with more than 500 million people under the age of 25 and more than 850 million mobile phone users in the country. The Company’s mission is to create enduring stories and heroes that foster the imaginations and fuel the inspirations of a new globalized generation of youth in both India and around the world. Graphic’s stories include, Ramayan 3392A.D., The Leaves and The Sadhu, in development as Hollywood films; 18 Days, a reimagining of the great eastern epic, the Mahabharata, by acclaimed graphic novel creator, Grant Morrison which was launched as an animated digital series in partnership with YouTube India; Devi, a female superhero from acclaimed filmmaker, Shekhar Kapur; Chakra The Invincible, the first superhero for India from legendary creator Stan Lee; and numerous other heroes and stories.

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• Finviet — Finviet operates a fintech platform with the goal of becoming a trustworthy and efficient financial technology company. The platform of the company specializes in financial services, telecommunication services, e-wallets and payment gateways, banking services, and agent banking.
• Cogsmart — Cogsmart provides services for brain function research and development. In hopes of helping prevent dementia and maintain and improve other cognitive functions, they manufacture and sell software for medical and healthcare devices.
• ImageBiopsy Lab — AI-driven software applications that enable orthopedists and radiologists to assess and predict bone health. A new dimension of MSK imaging diagnostics.

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• Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

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• Lytro — The Raytrix Light Field Technology provides 3D capture and high resolution with different one shot cameras. 3D camera | Light field camera
• XianyuGame — Shenzhen Galaxy Interactive Technology Co., Ltd. was established in late 2013, is a collection of research and development, operations, distribution as one of the integrated mobile game business. Headquartered in Shenzhen, Beijing, Shanghai and other places with wholly-owned subsidiary. The company owns the "Best Team", "StreetballAlliance", "The Biggest Dream of the Rabbit", with the launch of the brand salted fish game, the research and development of the brand time machine studio, the Sansi San studio, the e-sports brand WUCG League, "Streetball one to one" and other industries vertical sub-field benchmarking products.
• Baofeng Mojing — Baofeng Mojing Chinese video streaming company. Baofeng Mojing appears to be a few steps ahead of the market in that its product is already available to consumers. It’s also one of the cheapest VR experiences on the market,

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• CanSemi — CanSemi is a chip manufacturing plant that manufactures microprocessors, power management chips, analog chips, and power discrete devices.
• Adlai Nortye — Adlai Nortye is a global clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on innovative oncology drugs, with its R&D and global clinical operation centers in both China and the United States. With a strategic emphasis on oncology, it has built a global pipeline through collaborations and internal discoveries with more than 10 drug candidates indevelopment.
• Doma Biopharmaceutical — Doma Biopharmaceutical is a biotech company.

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• Riboko — Ruiboke is a high-end optical film product research and development manufacturer.
• CMind-SEMI — CMind is committed to becoming the new global leader in smartphone communication chips by concentrating on 4G and 5G advanced wireless communication chips and complete solutions.
• Qingchun Semiconductor — Sichain Semi is a high-tech chip firm focused on the R&D and industrialization of Silicon Carbide semiconductors and its power devices.

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

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• Gamepoch — Gamepoch offers publishing services for domestic and overseas console game studios.

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• Jiuyuu.com — Jiuyuu.com is a cutting-edge pan-entertainment content company.

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• Enchen — Enchen is a daily necessities brand.
• Nreal — Nreal is the developer of ready-to-wear mixed reality glasses. Its flagship product, Nreal light, is the first lightweight and comfortable mixed reality glasses, sporting a vivid display combined with spatial computing algorithms for an immersive experience. The company aims to make mixed reality available and accessible to everyone. They strive torealize the full potential of mixed reality by empowering developers to create applications that can ultimately propel a new era of entertainment, productivity, and more.Nreal was founded in 2017 and is based in Beijing, China.
• Dongpin Daojia — Dongpin Daojia is a cold chain company.

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• Read2N — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.
• JDI Global — JDI Global is a Web3 hardware manufacturer.
• Flappy Moonbird — FlappyMoonbird is a free H5 gamefi.

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• CQNEWS — CQNEWS is a local news portal website for Chongqing area.
• GDI — GDI is a research company in the VR industry.
• VRSCHOOL — VRSchool is a virtual reality technology company that offers VR education system.

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• RABO — RABO is a Cat-Tech Company that "watches cat life with technology.
• Bytebeam — Accelerate your IoT initiatives with Bytebeam - our platform makes it 10X simpler and quicker to build cutting-edge smart products
• Showroom B2B — SHOWROOM B2B is building the largest B2B “Phygital” platform for India’s $108 Bn fashion industry by connecting Tier 2+ clothing retailers directly with small to mid-scale apparel manufacturers and providing all parties with solutions for distribution, credit, logistics, and marketing.Showroom works on “Touch & Feel” mode of selling where itsunique distribution model ensures that there is almost NO RETURN of products sold. It creates Experience Centres for its retailers which gives them the confidence to buy without any iota of doubt about product quality.Showroom's offerings = Better Margins for Clothing Retailers + Aggressive Growth for Clothing Manufacturers

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• AlloyX — AlloyX makes it simple and accessible for protocols, DAOs, and institutional investors to create diversified RWA investment strategies. We provide lenders with a flexible and efficient platform for managing all of their RWA assets based on their yield, risk, and liquidity preferences.
• Fractal — A new standard for on-chain finance.
• Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.

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• Teasure — Teasure is a new modern casual teahouse that offers healthy drinks. It specializes in providing high-end milk tea with lychee, matcha, tangerine, strawberry, and jasmine flavors.Teasure has three stores located in Beijing APM, Youtang, and Xi'an, which are designed by designers from the original research institute, China, and the UnitedStates. It is a company that belongs to Beijing Boiled Leaf Restaurant Management Co., Ltd.
• GOGO STORE — GOGO STORE (动咖啡) is a mobile coffee car franchise operator, providing customers with coffee made from high quality raw materials such as Arabica beans, imported fresh milk, and moline syrup. GOGO mobile shopkeepers can use the company's mobile application to facilitate business, analyze operations, and more.
• Next World Culture — Next World Culture is a startup focusing on creating AI-generated virtual humans.

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

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• HiStarlink — HiStarlink is a commercial company that makes communication technology like space-borne laser communication terminals and core devices. The main product matrix covers aerospace Advanced core optoelectronic devices, ultra-high-speed communication algorithms, laser communication terminals, and satellite-to-ground laser ground receiving systems.
• Moffett AI — Moffett is building the world’s next generation AI computation platform, from ground up. They pioneer in deep learning algorithms and build computation platform that the world has never seen - powerful, fast and extremely energy efficient.
• Yaoyu Technology — Yaoyu Technology specializes in the development, design and production of liquid crystal displays and liquid crystal display modules.

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• Night Wolf — Shanghai Based Gaming Start Up
• Mighty Jaxx — Singapore based designer toys and art collectibles studio and online store. Vinyl designer art toys by Jason Freeny, Whatshisname, ABCNT, Luke Chueh, Juce Gace and more. Licensed products with DC, Nickelodeon, Looney Tunes, Toki-doki, Sesame Street.
• Sandbox Network Technology — Zhuhai Sandbox Network is a startup founded in 2015. The company is committed to creating a global game UGC platform that helps ordinary players turn their ideas into games. The company has achieved rapid growth both in business and on the team. Up to now, the number of teams has reached 60. From a business perspective, products represented byBlockman GO have achieved nearly 50 million registered users worldwide.

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• ORCA-TECH — ORCA-TECH is a manufacturer of self-driving boat.
• Yongan Online — Yongan Online is an enterprise services platform providing anti-fraud solutions for the Internet and financial industries.
• Denglin Technology — Denglin Technology is the first domestic cloud AI computing platform company to build GPGPU core technology entirely by independent innovation. Denglin Technology’s GPU+ series products have created a new generation of AI general-purpose processors/accelerators, successfully filled the gaps in technology and products in the domestichigh-performance GPU field, and successfully achieved commercialization in multiple industry application scenarios. The company's independent innovation GPU+ (software-defined heterogeneous artificial intelligence computing platform) perfectly solves the dual problems of versatility and high efficiency. Under the premise of providing CUDA/OpenCL hardware acceleration capabilities, it fully supports various popular artificial intelligence Network framework and underlying operators.Denglin Technology was established in 2017. The core team members come from world-renowned chip design companies such as Vivante, S3, Nvidia, AMD, and Alibaba. Each person has more than 20 years of experience in GPU R&D and commercial productization. The company is headquartered in Shanghai, and has R&D centers in Silicon Valley, Chengdu, Hangzhou, and Beijing.Denglin adheres to the mission and vision of "striving for the future," on the road of cutting-edge AI technology exploration, insisting on leading technological development with independent innovation, promoting product research and development with market and commercial needs, and helping partners to jointly create a new high in the field of AI computing ——Lead the AI ​​and enter the future!

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• Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.
• CHINA DRAGON SECURITIES — CHINA DRAGON SECURITIES provides brokerage, investment consulting, securities, and asset management services.

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• Ugamehome — Ugamehome is a studio for developing games.
• Yueren Wangluo — Yueren Wangluo publishes and distributes internet mobile games.

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• CQNEWS — CQNEWS is a local news portal website for Chongqing area.

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• NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
• yoloyolo — In order to match the top NFT IPS with leading brands and uncover growth opportunities and revenue models for both these brands and the NFT IP holders, Yoloyolo is developing new infrastructure.
• ConsenSys — Build next-generation apps, launch blockchain-based financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web with ConsenSys' Ethereum product suite.

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• Vantient — Bring your people together with engaging experiences, and collect zero-party data consentingly. Build trusted data relationships with your community.
• Concordia — Concordia is a modular risk and collateral management protocol that unifies and enables multi-chain collateralization of digital assets.
• StepChange — Discover StepChange, India's best platform for ESG management. Measure, analyse, report, and reduce emissions. Request a free demo to get started!

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• FlexDesk — FlexDesk is creating a new evolution of the flexible workspace model. Remote workers use the platform to discover and book a dedicated desk or private office by the day. FlexDesk unlocks this inventory by partnering with office landlords and coworking operators that have furnished, underutilized space.
• SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
• 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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• Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

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• Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

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• Baskit — baskit | Empowering wholesalers and distributors with the world's first cloud-native all-in-one app
• Runchise — Runchise is an integrated restaurant and franchise management system to increase operational efficiency and profit.
• DOOgether — DOOgether is Indonesia’s number one leading healthy lifestyle application that gives easier access and solution to your healthy lifestyle, in booking workout classes (offline and virtual) and in purchasing healthy caterings.

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• MetaOne — MetaOne offers guild management solutions for GameFi developers.
• Optix — Optix is ​​a multi-chain option protocol service provider.
• BovineVerse — BovineVerse is a Korean Metaverse chain game and sports guessing platform developer.

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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
• Databricks — Databricks combines data warehouses & data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. Collaborate on all of your data, analytics & AI workloads using one platform.
• Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

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• Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.
• ANTAITECH — ANTAITECH is the China-based smart city integrated service provider.

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• Xinhua Mobile — Xinhua Mobile provides command and dispatch, content creation, mobile publishing, new media management, and front-end application development, as well as integrated technological solution capabilities.

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• Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

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• NF3 — NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
• Elixir — Elixir is a decentralized protocol that enables full composability for integrations by providing computationally secure, algorithmic market-making across CEXs and DEXs.
• Ethena — Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

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• Credora — XMargin utilizes zero-knowledge proof technology to provide cross-margin, credit, and settlement services for the financial markets. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.
• OmniNetwork — OmniNetwork is an Ethereum interoperability protocol, focusing on the field of blockchain technology services.
• Catalyst — Contributing to Catalyst, the permissionless liquidity layer for modular chains.

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• Read2N — Read2N is a Web3 reading application and content copyright platform.

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• Duzhe — Duzhe provides a reading platform and magazine.

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• TAQA — TAQA is a utilities and energy company that engages in power, water, and oil and gas operations. It is an international company listed in Abu Dhabi and operates in 11 countries across four continents.The company's interests lie in conventional and alternative power generation, water desalination, oil and gas exploration and production,pipelines, and gas storage. TAQA was founded in 2005 and operates in Canada, Ghana, India, Iraq, Morocco, the Netherlands, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
• PeaceTecLab — PeaceTecLab is a CtoCsharing service, as its main business.
• Mirfa International Power & Water Company — Mirfa International Power & Water Company is a renewable energy startup that delivers power and water solutions. A combined-cycle gas turbine power plant, a modular reverse osmosis plant, and three multi-stage flash desalination units comprise the company's power and water plant. It has a gross installed power capacity of 1.7 gigatonnes(GW) and a gross water desalination capacity of 53 million imperial gallons per day (MIGD). It aims to deliver a futuristic power generating plant with a net power capacity of 1600 megawatts to address the country's power issues.

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• CAMELOVE — Cameloveis a Camera equipment rental subscription service.