Top 5 SaaS VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Barbados in October 2023

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• Upstream App — Upstream makes it simple to launch a DAO with its no-code, full-stack platform. No technical experience required.
• SettleMint — SettleMint is a Blockchain technology company (with offices in Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India and Singapore) & was incorporated in 2016 by Matthew Van Niekerk & Roderik van der Veer. They met in 2013 while devising & developing blockchain applications for KBC Securities, a large Belgian financial institution. Theyvery quickly realised that the promise of Blockchain technology far exceeded the boundaries of the financial world & would permeate industry & society entirely in the years to come. With the realisation that the technology will benefit organisations large and small, unlock incredible opportunities for society and move from a nascent to prevalent technology over the next 5 to 10 years, Matthew and Roderik set up SettleMint with a simple purpose, to make it easy for developers to integrate blockchain technologies into their applications. This product vision addresses the single biggest inhibitor to adoption, developer capabilities.SettleMint's core technology 'Mint' accelerates the path to leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology: whether those enterprises are looking to improve efficiency, to extend their current products to a new client segment or to completely reinvent an existing business model.Mint is a chain-agnostic node-wrapping technology including a suite of APIs, developer tools and frameworks that enable any software developer to build new Blockchain based applications or integrate Blockchain functionalities into existing solutions. Mint encapsulates years of R&D on the technical, operational & organisational aspects of Blockchain technology & packages this in fully documented APIs, micro-services, browser components and templates that strips away complexity and providing developers with the building blocks required to build full stack applications.Based on our development of 35+ fully functioning Blockchain applications & after having researched more than 500 known use cases, Mint covers 85% of the use cases for Blockchain technologies and radically reduces the time to market for users. Using Mint, integrating blockchain technologies into an application can take as little as 3 hours.So in short, it doesn’t matter if you are a startup or a big corporation, if you have decided that Blockchain technology should be part of your business or your vision for the future there is no faster solution to get you there.
• Nature Mobility — Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform.

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• Joepegs — Dive into Joepegs, the leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles. As a cultural hub in the Web3 space, we offer secure buying, selling, and discovery of innovative digital assets.
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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• Phoenix Finance — Phoenix Finance is an online platform established by Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings to provide intelligent financial services for Chinese investors worldwide.They partner with industry-leading financial institutions, gaining access to high quality financial products, and using proprietary financial models and algorithms to provide userswith a dynamic financial portfolio that meet their consumption and investing needs.They layer culture and social values into their products and services, creating a unique financial experience for their investors, building a reliable and trustworthy financial environment, and helping push the growth of inclusive finance.
• Bridge Network — Bridge is a decentralized cross-chain interoperability protocol that allows the transfer of assets across supported blockchain networks in a seamless and user-friendly environment.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Mystic Games — Mobile games developer of Call of the VoYd. Pushing Free to play Roguelite ARPGs to the next level.
• Megaton Finance — Deposit crypto, reap reward everyday

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• Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.
• HitBox Games — HitBox Games was founded by industry veterans to provide dev teams around the world with a transparent and ethical publishing option.
• Aether Games — Aether Games are the creative talent behind both of the widely expected NFT-based game titles: Gates of Ethernity and Cards of Ethernity. In addition, the studio's creative efforts are up to be represented by the CGI mini-series "Aether" and many more.