Top 50 Blockchain VC Funds & Investors in Africa (October 2026)

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• TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
• Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.

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• Orthogonal — Giving AI agents the tools they need.
• World Foundation — World is the real human network. A new standard of trust on the internet.
• Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT

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• Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
• CapStack Technologies — Discover Capstack, the leading bank-to-bank marketplace driving banking digital transformation. Join the innovation wave and transform your banking experience now!
• Bagel Labs — Bagel Labs is a physical AI research lab developing world models and world action models for robot learning and control.

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• Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
• Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
• Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!

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• TurnStay — Enjoy low transaction fees on card payments in ZAR, Euros or Dollars and fast payouts in your preferred currencies. Book a demo today
• Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud
• Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
• Perceptron Network — AI agents that learn, earn, and reward trust. Perceptron powers a decentralized mesh of reputation and revenue. Perceptron Network is the first AI-powered system where interactions drive growth and earn real rewards.

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• HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
• Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
• Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.

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• 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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• Datasphera — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
• True Delta — True Delta is a data management and processing company. They are document recognition and data reconciliation processes. They offer data extraction from documents using ocr techniques, fast onboarding and data integration,and efficient data reconciliation with intelligent matching tools and less coding .
• Bako Motors SAS — Bako Motors SAS is a motor vehicle manufacturing company that develops solar electric vehicles. manufacturer of electric vehicles with the goal of creating long-term fixes for rural areas' transportation issues with regard to people, cargo, and machinery. The business makes electric cars as well as solutions for clean energy generation andstorage that are infinitely scalable, providing users with inexpensive and environmentally friendly e-mobility.

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• NG.CASH — NG.CASH is a digital bank designed to help the new generations (ages 12 to 30) achieve financial independence. It lets users take charge of their money through solutions like PIX (Brazil’s instant-payment system), prepaid and virtual cards, allowance management, and now credit products tailored for young adults. As a financial hub, NG.CASH is builtto grow with its clients, boosting financial literacy and supporting them at every stage of life.
• TRM Labs — Next Generation Blockchain Intelligence | Monitor, Investigate, and Mitigate Crypto Fraud and Financial Crime
• Tare — Tare uses AI and tokenization to change the entire credit lifecycle.

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• Itera — Instantly reconfigurable circuits turning months of work into moments of progress.
• Neuron Factory — Neuron Factory is an AI technology company specializing in the development of advanced AI coworker platforms designed for complex enterprise environments, with an initial focus on the construction industry. The company’s platform leverages a proprietary enterprise task graph, enabling AI agents to intelligently coordinate, delegate tasks, andfacilitate real-time decision-making across large organizations.
• Dandelion Health AI — Catalyzing the development of clinical AI for everyone

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• Mento Labs — Mento is bringing FX onchain. We provide institutions with access to onchain FX at real-world rates.
• Learn.xyz — Learn.xyz’s is a mixture of Duolingo and Wikipedia, powered by AI, creating bite-sized “Curiosities” which feature slides and a quiz, in mere seconds just from taking in a user’s question. Find the app on iOS and Android.
• Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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• Arey — Arey is anti-aging haircare, clinically proven. Our science-backed hair and scalp treatment slows greys and delivers thicker, fuller, healthier hair.
• Axiom — The Starting Point for Reasoning
• Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.

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• Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
• Nuzo — Nuzo offers cheaper payments and crypto rewards and ways to save and earn with staking and bill pay options.
• African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.

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• NFTPad — What is NFTPAD.FI NFT gaming. art. DeFi.NFTPad has been founded to aid the growth of the NFT Industry and Ecosystem in a safe and sustainable way. NFTPad allows users to mint NFTs in minutes, auction them or raise liquidity so that they may be traded on AMMs such as PancakeSwap and Uniswap. Launchpad for Blockchain
• DROP — DROP is an entertainment service intended to give a new shape to the music industry. They are defining the future of music ownership, distribution, and publishing via NFT standards, decentralized governance, and automated finance, providing audio creators with a new shape and sustainable future with their innovations.
• Cryptomeda — Own a valuable NFT card collection and start earning profit now! Find out more.

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• Zazu — Manza is an all-in-one financial platform for African SMEs, helping businesses manage payments, automate cash flow, and access real-time financial insights from one simple dashboard.
• Fincart — Fincart is a leading shipping platform in Egypt, connecting your business with top courier services, automating operations, and helping you scale your eCommerce logistics.
• Udu Technologies — Explore GPU cloud and hardware through AGH Cloud, UduTech's flagship product, and AI advisory for teams in the United States, Africa, the Caribbean and beyond.

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• Arifu — Home About Us Impact Gender Dynamics of Using Mobile Technology Informed Consumers Improve Financial Service Utilization Digital training benefits farmers and agricultural institutions Resources Careers Contact Us X DEMO SCHEDULE A DEMO About Arifu https://vimeo.com/531804968Arifu is an education technology company established in 2015 in Kenya. We offer a content marketplace that brings together subject matter
• Emata — Emata brings digital and affordable financial products to farmers in East Africa.
• Power — Putting individuals on the path towards financial health

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• SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
• Chat Cash — Turn conversations into commerce. The unified operating system for payments, inventory, and AI sales on WhatsApp & USSD.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• Redpill AI — Access 200+ AI models with privacy-first infrastructure. Private models in GPU TEE, OpenAI-compatible API, zero data retention.
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Konnex World — Building the GDP of autonomous systems. Turning robot labor into on-chain liquidity. $KNX

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• SkinBit — SkinBit is a healthtech company that develops AI-powered skin cancer detection, digital mapping, and health monitoring solutions.
• heXem bio — heXem bio specializes in recording solutions for the early development of humans for longevity.
• Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.

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• Yeah — Yeah is a financial technology company that offers payment processing services while building a credit profile for the banked and unbanked.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Konnect — Konnect provides a cross borders payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows allowing companies of any scale and size to send and receive payments in a practical, secure, and low-cost way.

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• Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
• Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
• Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.

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• Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
• Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
• Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.

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• Subsquid — An open-source framework for building powerful and tailored GraphQL APIs for your blockchain state history.
• Fragcolor — Empowering the next generation of game creators.
• Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.

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• Nuvolaris — Speed up #CloudNative Development and Run Anywhere. #Nuvolaris: #Serverless #Stack for #Everyone
• Swag Kicks — Guaranteed Original Sneakers, Trainers and Casual Shoes. Easy Return & Exchange.
• Sehat Kahani — Book online video appointments with the best Doctors and Specialists, such as Skin Specialists, General Physician, Child Specialists, etc in Pakistan.

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• VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay

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• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
• African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
• Downforce Technologies — Downforce measures land at scale to help businesses monitor risk, build resilience and prove progress through trusted digital soil data.

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• Ivorypay — Ivorypay is a crypto payment gateway that enables businesses to get paid in stable cryptocurrency and leverage Defi and NFT for growth.Our goal is simply to create a blockchain based payment solution that powers seamless and cheap cross-border transactions in Africa without FX restrictions and also create better spend use cases for theexponentially growing base of crypto adopters on the continent.

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• OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
• Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
• AI Cross Matrix — AI Cross Matrix is a DeFi platform that makes the crypto economy simple by streamlining the exchange process with useful solutions.

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• Will Media — founder @will_ita Former @airbnb and @lime policy guy. Now fighting for the good cause of knowledge in democracy
• Contents — Create, localize and govern content at scale with an enterprise AI platform and digital agency for copy, blogs, SEO, translations, images, video and campaigns.
• Serenis Health — Serenis Health provides video-based psychotherapy, coaching, and psychological support courses. It believes that the internet is critical to increasing access to mental health care. It makes use of data and digital tools to improve the efficacy of therapies. But, unlike other platforms, it is also a medical center, which means it is responsible forcourse quality and must meet the same standards as any polyclinic.

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• CrossBoundary — CrossBoundary Energy's energy solutions help decarbonize enterprise by providing cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable power.
• Sun King — Sun King is a solar company that designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar home energy products across Africa and Asia. Sun King produces solar home systems, inverter systems, and portable lanterns, providing a solution for communities that live without reliable energy access. Sun King also offers pay-as-you-go financing options, furtherallowing consumers to access energy without high up-front costs. Sun King works with their network of international distribution partners to expand the off-grid market.
• Giyani Metals — Giyani Metals Corp. is developing the next generation of battery grade manganese for EVs and energy storage. Vertically integrated from mine to market in Botswana.

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• Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
• Vecna Robotics — Vecna Robotics is the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) company that provides logistics automation and workflow optimization solutions.
• Temporal Technologies — Build invincible apps with Temporal's open source durable execution platform. Eliminate complexity and ship features faster. Talk to an expert today!

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• AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
• Supra — Supra is the world's highest-performing, fully vertically integrated L1 blockchain, and it's about to change everything.
• Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.

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• KAIO — The first protocol purpose-built for RWAs, ensuring seamless movement, compliance, and liquidity in DeFi through a sovereign AppChain.
• TrueDAO — TrueDAO is a new-generation AI-native decentralized autonomous financial infrastructure. Built on the underlying logic of DAO community co-governance, it leverages smart contracts to construct an on-chain financial system integrating AI algorithm scheduling, staking, and dynamic protection. It optimizes economic parameters and asset strategies inreal time via AI models, delivers low-volatility and sustainable value growth paths for digital assets, and pioneers an innovative paradigm of autonomous finance.
• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.

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• Tibber — Tibber is a digital electricity supplier that offers smart solutions to minimize their customers’ consumption and costs. Its vision is to make sustainable energy consumption simple and affordable for all households. Tibber's mission is to reduce the residential electricity consumption for European households by 20 %. Founded in Norway andSweden in 2016, the company has expanded its offer to Sweden and Germany where it powers hundreds of thousands of homes. Tibber replaces traditional utilities with smart technology, supplying its customers with renewable energy at fair and transparent prices. In addition, its app provides real-time analytics into energy usage, and pairs with a variety of smart home devices to reduce electricity consumption at home. The company sells tech-gadgets in their online store and recently was licensed to balance the main power grid in Sweden with EVs.
• Statzon — Make data-driven plans & faster decisions with a simple access to +1M datasets & market reports about 8,000 topics from +200 trusted data providers.
• Get It Done Now — GIDN is a Nigerian Fintech Company targeting medium and low income population for Loans and Financial products. GIDN has in addition a cashless, mobile based community marketplace, with more than 5k members, and aims to regulate the informal economy and facilitate the purchase of Services and Digital Products.

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• Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
• DeepSafe — The world's first Cryptographic Random AI Verification Network for trustless verification of any on-chain and off-chain messages.
• SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.

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• Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
• Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
• Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.

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• Filed — Meet your new AI tax preparer. Filed helps firms process more returns in less time by cutting prep, reducing review, and freeing teams for higher-value work.
• Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in London,England.
• MusicInfra — Organizing connections between recordings, compositions, and rightsholder claims to reduce friction and enable monetization. AI-powered recognition and matching solutions for the music industry.

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• GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
• Lux Aeterna — New Album Echoes From Silence out September 2013
• Magic Potion Games — Magic Potion Games is a computer gaming company that offers an online space for social gaming.

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• Lingawa — Speak your native language with pride! Learn Yoruba and Igbo with fun, immersive online lessons for adults and kids (ages 5+).
• Maad — Maad is Francophone Africa's fastest-growing B2B marketplace, based in Dakar, Senegal. Our tech-driven solution allows retailers to order products from our one-stop shop and benefit from working capital loans
• ZeroComplex AI — Transform your Business with AI. Click the Link below to get started!

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• Upexi — Upexi is a multi-faceted brand owner that focuses on direct-to-consumer and Amazon brands. The company pursues organic growth for its present brands while operating in sectors with high growth trends. The objective of Upexi is to keep gathering consumer information and develop a sizable client database across all markets we serve.
• Bullpen — Trade Hyperliquid, Polymarket, & Memecoins with the best traders in the world. Join the conversation https://t.co/5UtBx9WHSt
• Distinct Possibility Studios — Distinct Possibility Studios operates as a game development studio. Distinct Possibility Studios is an indie game studio led by MMO and FPS veterans.

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• Ondefy — Personalized onchain yield agent through smart accounts, automated allocation, risk monitoring, and rebalancing across DeFi.
• Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - easy-to-go decentralized solutions for game developers and players - new revolution in play-to-earn and NFT. We present a game developer toolkit for them to tokenise game assets: native blockchain, a single payment system, the DeFi ecosystem and NFT. These are new economic features for gamers and supporters to make money. TheAttarius Network ecosystem uses proprietary blockchain technology based on Substrate (Polkadot), which allows transacting with minimal fees.

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• STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
• Dolomite.io — The home of DeFi yield - access great lending and borrowing yields, strategies, tools, and opportunities.
• NXI — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

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• Mesh — Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges.
• Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• Nexis Network — Nexis Network is a Zero-Knowledge Agentic L1 infrastructure engineered with EVM & SVM equivalence to enable scalable, private data networks. $NZT
• Sidus Heroes — gaming company
• Mavryk Dynamics — Real assets, Real people, Real solutions. Building a smarter, more secure future. Blockchain, Done Better. Building @MavrykNetwork & @MavenFinanceDAO.

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• Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
• DeepSafe — The world's first Cryptographic Random AI Verification Network for trustless verification of any on-chain and off-chain messages.
• aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.

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• eWise — eWise is a leading international provider of Personal Financial Management and Account Aggregation solutions. eWise Money Manager is used by many of the worlds most innovative banks including HSBC, Westpac and First Direct. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Switzerland, eWise has operations in Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
• Carputty — Carputty is a superior way to finance a car. Buying new, used, or refinancing? Carputty's flexible line of credit simplifies the process. Get started now!
• Outmarket AI — Outmarket AI offers an AI-driven platform to transform commercial insurance operations by enhancing efficiency and productivity. The platform integrates data to provide real-time insights, automate workflows, and streamline processes such as data analysis, submission generation, and market placement. It serves brokers, managing general agents(MGAs), and wholesalers, helping them to boost sales, improve strategic performance, and accelerate growth. Leveraging natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge graphs, it helps brokers and carriers identify cross-selling potential, optimize carrier placements, and maximize profitability.

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• Crown — Crown issues BRLV, a real-backed stablecoin pegged to the Brazilian real, designed to maximize security and liquidity while ensuring compliance with institutional-grade regulations.
• Harmonic — Harmonic is a block building system to increase validator rewards.
• Global Token Exchange — Global Token Exchange is an end-to-end decentralized trading platform with CEX-level performance.

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• MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
• Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
• Waspito — We are the platform that engages Africa into the conversation and action to drive affordable and accessible quality healthcare across the continent.