Top 50 Web3 VC Funds & Investors in Germany (October 2023)

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• Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
• ContractHero — ContractHero is a leading digital contract management solution for business customers. The smart and easy-to-use software provides an overview of all current contracts, quickly identifies unnecessary costs and reduces risks from missed contract deadlines. As a result, companies have full control over their contracts and avoid missed deadlines andunnecessary costs.
• Finanzguru — Finanzguru is an AI based financial assistant.

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• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• 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.
• Tools For Humanity — Tools For Humanity is a technology company built to ensure a more just economic system.

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• UX3D — UX3D provides the first visual glTF editor "Gestaltor". glTF is the format of choice in 3D Commerce, interactive 3D NFT and the metaverse.
• CleverShuttle — CleverShuttle is a ridepooling app that provides affordable and eco-friendly door-to-door transportation. The berlin-based company CleverShuttle was founded by three school friends in 2014. Since then they have grown to the biggest RidePooling-Provider and ecofriendly driver service in Germany. Due to their fuellcell or battery electric vehicles,CleverShuttle is able to support a sustainable change in the mobility sector. They developed an algorithm, that automatically pooles passengers with similar routes. Thereby they achieve very high occupancy rates and reduce empty runs.

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• Wyden — AlgoTrader is the global institutional leader in algorithmic trading and execution infrastructure for both digital and traditional assets. With its advanced software solutions, AlgoTrader gives banks, hedge funds, brokers, crypto funds and other financial institutions an end-to-end platform for best execution and event-driven alpha generation. Thecompany's offering includes WIRESWARM, a digital asset trading and connectivity platform for banks and brokers, AlgoTrader QUANT, an end-to-end quantitative trading solution with automated trade signal generation and order execution, and AlgoTrader OEMS, a state-of-the-art Order and Execution Management System for systematic and discretionary buy-side institutions with managed connectivity to over 400 liquidity venues. AlgoTrader’s interdisciplinary team of quantitative strategy developers, senior software engineers and financial and crypto experts is shaping institutional trading. Founded in Switzerland and based in Zurich, New York and Singapore, AlgoTrader operates globally.
• SparkChange — SparkChange is a provider of specialist carbon investment products and data, enabling investors to achieve both financial returns and positive environmental impact. The company was established by experts in environmental products and capital markets technologies to set a new standard in carbon investing. For more information, visit:https://sparkchange.io/
• Timeless — Buy shares in exclusive assets such as rare sneakers, watches & luxury cars from as little as €50 per share (incl. VAT).

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• IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
• fxhash — fxhash is an open platform to mint and collect Generative Tokens on the Tezos blockchain
• Spearbit — Web3 Security At Scale

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• Piclo — Piclo develop software to make our electricity grids smart, flexible and sustainable.
• Sunvigo — Sunvigo provides you with cheap solar power from your roof and real green power from the grid.
• Virta — The Virta platform for electric vehicle charging gives you an accelerated and cost-effective channel to launch, operate, and grow an EV charging business.

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• Inovedis — Inovedis offers innovative solutions in medical technology that contribute both to optimized patient care as well as time and cost reductions in the healthcare sector.
• Resourcify — Mein Recycling is developed by Resourcify GmbH from Hamburg. The app is the easiest solution for businesses to easily manage all of their waste, collections, and recyclers in one app, and for waste management companies to seamlessly connect with their customers online. Their vision is zero-waste: enabled with the digital transformation of the wastesector as the foundation for the circular economy.
• traceless materials — traceless materials offer a holistically sustainable alternative to plastics: 100% biobased on plant residues, compostable under natural conditions, and free of toxic chemicals. For a future free of pollution and waste!

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• Senken — Senken is the world's first on-chain carbon credit exchange based on verified climate projects. Senken is a climate finance portal to the regenerative economy.
• Tune Insight — Tune Insight orchestrates secure collaborations on sensitive data between multiple organizations to extract collective insights.
• Salsa (prev. Pearl) — Meet & Chat throught POAPs. The app to connect with web3 people and brand you care about.

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• E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
• happyhotel — The happyhotel revenue and yield management system has a simple dashboard that supports the hotelier in the data analysis of the most important hotel KPI’s. happyhotel is a cloud-based hotel software specially designed for small and medium-sized hotels. Hoteliers can achieve more revenue without a great deal of prior knowledge. The hotelier getpast, current and future values of RevPar, Occupancy, ADR and Revenue. Through the booking pace graph and the on the books evaluation the hotelier can react to the current market conditions. Furthermore the hotelier can review every day the important reports and get an alert if the values do not correspond with the budget. happyhotel use a special formula and an algorithm who gives the hotelier the best price recommendation for his hotel or each of your hotel segments and room types. With an interface to the hotel pms happyhotel get all data to analyze the hotel. happyhotel facilitates the hotelier's life through automatic processes so that he can concentrate on other things.
• Tokenize.it — Tokenize.it are developing non-custodial token-based fundraising methods.

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• NexGami — NexGami is a gamefi platform that empowers the next generation of players by reshaping the gaming landscape.
• HitBox Games — HitBox Games was founded by industry veterans to provide dev teams around the world with a transparent and ethical publishing option.
• Pop Social — Pop Social is the ultimate social gateway to Web3. Experience a multi-chain social ecosystem and discover your online social lifestyle. Connect and engage with a decentralized global community to leverage content and ownership economy.

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• Hoxton Farms — Based in London, UK, Hoxton Farms is growing real animal fat – without animals. The company combines cell biology and mathematical modelling to produce cultivated fat as an ingredient for the meat alternatives industry.
• Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
• Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

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• Layer N — Layer N is a layer 2 network designed to hyper-scale financial applications on Ethereum.
• GamePhilos — GamePhilos is to offer player digital ownership to mobile strategy games.
• Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.

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• Cube3.ai — CUBE3.AI is a web3 security platform that provides real-time transaction protection for smart contracts, safeguarding against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance risks.
• Sei Labs — Sei is the first sector-specific Layer 1 blockchain, specialized for trading to give exchanges an unfair advantage
• Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.

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• OnlyDust — OnlyDust is a contribute to the best StarkNet projects, and get paid in USDC or Tokens.
• SorareData — SorareData is the platform of choice for Sorare players. It features player metrics, market statistics, decision-making tools, side games, and much more to enrich every Sorare manager's experience.
• SphereX — Experience unmatched decentralized security with SphereX, safeguarding your DeFi apps non-stop. Trust in our transparent, ML-based protection.

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• Bitquery — Bitquery provide blockchain APIs for Bitcoin, Ethereum and Web3 protocols like Uniswap etc. We also provide blockchain money tracing APIs.
• MetaGravity — MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. MetaGravity is a deep-tech startup located in London that is pushing the boundaries of blockchain and the Metaverse. They're on a quest to build the next generation of live, breathing digital worlds that will entice gamers and keep them fulfilledand engaged for decades. They are leveraging their significant knowledge in massive-scale processing and engine technologies to create the technical foundation for the Metaverse, a decentralized digital world. MetaGravity is headquartered in London, United Kingdom and was founded in 2021.
• Natix Network — Earn passive income by owning a part of your favourite city

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• Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
• Blocktorch — Blocktorch web3 observability platform provides real-time tracing, logging and monitoring for developers building decentralized applications and smart contracts. Try it for free.
• Xverse — Xverse is the most advanced and user-friendly Bitcoin wallet. Earn BTC, trade Ordinals, and connect to Web3 apps powered by Stacks. Download for iOS, Android and Chrome.

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• asvin.io — asvin provides IoT lifecycle management for Software Supply Chains. We comply UNECE W.P29, UNECE R156 and UNECE R155. Contact us!
• Cadeia — Cadeia provides a digital platform for the structuring, issuance and settlement of complex financial products. In addition to enhanced servicing functionalities and a rule-based cash-flow distribution solution, the platform offers reporting, compliance and analytics tools for issuers and investors.
• XVA Blockchain — XVA Blockchain offers B2B data reporting for brokerage, asset management, and custody.

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• Finoa — Finoa is the leading European crypto-asset management platform, empowering businesses and institutions to engage with crypto safely and intuitively.
• Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
• Frontdoor Labs — Frontdoor is a talent network for world-class web3 builders. Connect, learn and grow with a community of change-makers. Join the club & access our IRL spaces, workshops, working groups & more...

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• ShapesXR — ShapesXR is a provider of a web-based platform for content creation and collaboration for VR applications.
• Space DOTS — The first modular pico-labs for active in-space testing of advanced materials, from LEO to Cis-lunar and Interplanetary orbits.
• Cascade Biocatalysts — Cascade Biocatalysts is built on a novel way to immobilize enzymes. Our technology keeps enzymes active and stable under difficult industrial conditions.

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• Clozer — Sell experiences & run gamified giveaways to grow your music streams
• move.ai — Move.ai provides motion capture platforms and tools to enable augmented and extended reality productions using AI and computer vision.
• SupraOracles — We're supercharging oracles to provide blockchains better, faster, accurate, and more secure off-chain data.

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• 0xPass — Frictionless auth and login for your dapp
• D3 Labs — D3 Labs is to simplify and empower finance through seamless blockchain adoption, delivering confidence and benefits to individuals and organizations alike.
• Airstack — Every day there are millions of blockchain transactions. Airstack makes sense of them.

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• bNear — bNear is the digital space for all distributed- & hybrid teams - Safe and convenient in Microsoft Teams!
• Companyon Analytics — Companyon Analytics provides data security, cloud infrastructure, information technology, technical solutions, and consultancy services.
• Refined Laser Systems — Refined Laser Systems is a dynamic biophotonics company.It specialises in creating innovative laser systems for SRS-microscopy and quantum technology.

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• Verisoul — Verisoul helps ensure your users are real, unique, and trusted.
• Mind Network — Mind Network is a full-encryption network built on a proprietary adaptive fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) framework to secure all user data, smart contracts, and AI on Web3.
• Range Protocol — Permissionless Infrastructure for Smart Money Management. We are the leading gateway to smart on-chain money managers, bringing maximised yields and optimal capital efficiency to users of different risk profiles.

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• autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
• Genie — Genie is a productive web development framework in Julia. Build web applications, UIs, backends, integrate with databases, set up web services and APIs.
• Purpose Green — Purpose Green operates as a climatetech company.

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• Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick-and-pack automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
• Grasp — Grasp mission is to increase the rate at which humans learn.
• Amperecloud — ampere.cloud is Renewables & Environment company

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• Binalyze — Binalyze enhances all your digital forensics and incident response processes at max speed.
• ColibrITD — Quantum Computing Software Algorithm
• Re-Fresh Global — Re-Fresh Global brings sustainability innovation into the manufacturing industry. Our patented biotechnology transforms textile waste into recycled raw materials: nanocellulose, ethanol, and sanitized textile pulp.

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• Orbital — We bridge the gap between traditional and crypto financial solutions, providing a regulated, secure and frictionless experience for global businesses.
• Trident Digital — Trident Digital is restoring market liquidity by providing the next-generation digital asset platform that addresses issues with access, security, and capital efficiency. It allows lenders and borrowers to connect transparently and not rely on a central counterparty.
• Mountain Protocol — At Mountain Protocol, we believe that everyone deserves access to the "risk-free rate" through a secure, regulated, and enterprise-grade product that elevates the world finance industry. Our yield-bearing stablecoin, USDM, provides permissionless composability, regulatory compliance, and an enterprise-grade setup with a seamless userexperience. Backed by US Treasuries and custodied by Fidelity in a bankruptcy-remote setup.

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• Thala Labs — Unleash the liquidity of your assets with our Stablecoin, AMM, and Launchpad
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
• LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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• Saphlux — Saphlux develops, manufactures, and supplies semi-polar gallium-nitride (GaN) materials for nitride-based solid-state lighting and power devices. Major applications include high-power blue LEDs, green LEDs, Micro-LEDs, laser diodes, VCSELs, IGBTs, etc. Benefits of semi-polar materials have long been proven in addressing the fundamentalbottlenecks in first generation c-plane GaN materials such as efficiency droop, green gap, and wavelength shift in LEDs and lasers. However, the mass-production of large-area, high-quality and low-cost semi-polar GaN materials has been rather challenging.Based on the research from the Nitride Group at Yale University, Saphlux was founded in 2014 by Prof. Jung Han and Dr. Chen Chen to resolve these problems. The company successfully developed the world's first stacking-fault-free semi-polar GaN-on-sapphire materials. Raised over $11 million from Venture Capitals, Saphlux has now built a dedicated production line to mass-produce 4-inch (20-21) GaN-on-sapphire templates for industry clients.
• Litecore — Litecore is a manufacturer of optoelectronic devices and processors for broadband, large data centers, and information security.
• Lanvin Group — Lanvin group is a fashion industry that oversees the labels lanvin, caruso, wolford, sergio rossi, and st. John knits. It is offering this assistance along with in-depth information about and connection to the fashion markets.

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• Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
• TreasurySpring — We search out the best cash investments on the planet and deliver them through a simple digital portal. All you need to do is click some buttons.
• Project Admission — A software solution that integrates with ticketing platforms, Project Admission makes buying, transferring, and reselling tickets simple, intuitive, and effective.

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• Sylvera — Sylvera Carbon offset ratings make offset quality and risks transparent. We make offsets auditable for offset sellers, intermediaries, buyers and investors.
• Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
• Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

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• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?
• Learn.xyz — Use the power of AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others. How long will your streak be?
• Tokenize.it — Tokenize.it are developing non-custodial token-based fundraising methods.

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• 37xDubai — 37xDubai is a space where Art and Technology come together to create the most unique expressions of creativity.
• Avalon — Avalon is an Orlando, Florida-based platform to create games and virtual experiences.
• CryptoSimple — CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo.

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• asvin.io — asvin provides IoT lifecycle management for Software Supply Chains. We comply UNECE W.P29, UNECE R156 and UNECE R155. Contact us!
• B.A.M Ticketing — B.A.M Ticketing is a ticketing and voucher Platform and Software as a Service for the full control over the whole ticketing lifecycle. We empower the event organizers for the first time with full control over all markets, facilitating new revenue streams from secondary markets, eliminate ticket fraud and ultimately increasing the user experiencewhen buying tickets with the maximum of trust. B.A.M digital ticketing comes with many game changing features for all rightsholders across the ticketing ecosystem – event organizers, venues, attractions, sports franchises, artists and fans – facilitating blockchain technology increasing trust, transparency and security.
• Proof of Impact — Proof of Impact (POI) is the leading B2B SaaS ESG and Impact Data Intelligence Platform. The company incorporates a micro-services architecture to collect, visualize, and analyze ESG and impact data. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

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• Two — Buy Now, Pay Later for your business customers. Two makes it easy and safe to offer invoice as a payment method on your e-commerce site.
• Rose Rocket — Rose Rocket's transportation management software (TMS) helps trucking companies and freight brokers improve visibility, collaboration, and efficiency.
• Sentiment — Sentiment is a decentralized finance company that provides chainless, undercollateralized borrowing.

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• Nori — Nori helps organizations, companies, and individuals meet their climate goals with high-quality carbon removal offsets. We currently fund farmers that use regenerative agriculture practices to sequester carbon in their soil.
• Rated — Rated offers data on validators and node operators, which makes it easier for users to compare and contrast their performance.
• DRiP — Collectibles every week from your favorite creators. For free.

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• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Eden Brew — Eden Brew is a ground-breaking new way to enjoy dairy products sustainably and nutritiously.
• Pow.bio — Pow.bio provides fermentation services for synthetic biology.

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• Nyan Heroes — Nyan Heroes is an immersive NFT based shooter of futuristic revolutions, cats in robots, evil corporations.
• Omni — Access all of Web3 in one easy-to-use wallet! Earn and manage assets at once with Omni's built-in staking, yield vaults, bridges, swaps and NFT support.
• CrowdPad — CrowdPad is the world's first mobile social token app built on Solana to enable creators to build tokenized communities

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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.

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• FirstMate — FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators.
• Rocket Pool — Your friendly decentralised Ethereum staking protocol
• Mountain Protocol — At Mountain Protocol, we believe that everyone deserves access to the "risk-free rate" through a secure, regulated, and enterprise-grade product that elevates the world finance industry. Our yield-bearing stablecoin, USDM, provides permissionless composability, regulatory compliance, and an enterprise-grade setup with a seamless userexperience. Backed by US Treasuries and custodied by Fidelity in a bankruptcy-remote setup.

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

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• Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.
• X World Games — Founded in 2018, X World Games (“XWG”) aims to build the next-gen decentralized gaming metaverse.X World Games' vision is to build a diversified gaming ecosystem that connects traditional gamers with the blockchain world and invite more game developers into the crypto space by creating and providing the underlying blockchain framework.Withits gaming innovation, crypto game - Dream Card, NFT Marketplace and DeFi Pool, X World Games now serves over 2 million registered gamers, and has quickly become the fastest-growing crypto gaming platform in the ecosystem.X World Games is headquartered in Singapore with a 100+ dynamic team located worldwide.
• Feiba Business Travel — Feiba Business Travel is a business trip ticket service platform

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• Upland — Play. Earn. Connect & Rebuild The World
• Chintai — Chintai is a B2B SaaS company that uses high performance blockchain technology to remove inefficiencies within the value chain of regulated assets. We provide a comprehensive digital asset compliance framework for primary, secondary, custody and cap table management. The platform is designed for asset managers, challenger banks and SMEs to easilyembrace blockchain technology.
• CoinDCX — CoinDCX is India's largest and safest cryptocurrency exchange where you can buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with ease. CoinDCX, with its #TryCrypto mission, provides Indian crypto audience with a simple cryptocurrency trading app for seamless crypto-to-crypto (c2c) and fiat-to-crypto (f2c) experience.

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• Spielworks — Spielworks - We are bridging the boundaries between the physical and virtual world
• CHAINWISE Group — Spielworks - We are bridging the boundaries between the physical and virtual world

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• Axoni — Axoni is a New York-based capital markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger infrastructure. Product offerings include blockchain deployments, large-scale data management, bespoke smart contract development, analytics services, and connectivity tools.
• 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.
• Coinflow Labs — Coinflow is a payment solution that allows Web3 companies to accept traditional payment methods and payout their customers by converting cryptocurrency to USD in their traditional bank account.

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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.
• bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
• Ajuna Network — Ajuna Network is a decentralized ecosystem for gamers and creators.

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• MetaOne — MetaOne offers guild management solutions for GameFi developers.
• bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
• Concordia — Concordia is a modular risk and collateral management protocol that unifies and enables multi-chain collateralization of digital assets.

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• Gensyn — The Gensyn protocol provides hyperscale, cost efficient, compute capacity for all deep learning workloads.
• Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
• Bluesky — See what's next.

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• peaq — Build decentralized applications and DePINs for vehicles, robots and devices, while empowering users to govern and earn as connected machines provide services.
• Finery Markets — Finery Markets is a peer-to-peer wholesale marketplace powered by proprietary matching engine for best liquidity & execution quality
• peaq — Build decentralized applications for vehicles, machines and devices on the peaq network.

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• Gridware — Using remote telemetry and edge AI, Gridware wildfire prevention technology powers a grid that is smarter and more reliable than ever before.
• 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.
• Elicit — Elicit is an artificial intelligence research assistant that uses language models to help users automate research workflows. This research assistant finds relevant papers without a perfect keyword match, summarizes takeaways from the papers, and extracts key information from the papers.