Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in Portugal (September 2026)

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• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.
• M0 —

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• Oh — The OpenAI of the spicy content industry, combining consumer platforms (@ohchatai | @ohdotfun) with infrastructure (https://t.co/BMwDSzAg14)
• Paxos Labs — Blockchain infrastructure for enterprises. Regulated by the OCC in the US, FIN-FSA in the EU, and MAS in Singapore. For support, visit https://t.co/qmOCfQa262
• Zcash Open Development Lab — Builders of the Zcash protocol and flagship Zcash wallet, Zodl @zodl_app. We envision a world without mass financial surveillance.

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• Cytonic — Cytonic is a multi-virtual-machine blockchain. Cytonic is compatible with blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.
• Nillion — The Secure Processing Layer of Web3
• Superform Labs — THE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR YIELD IS FORMING

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• Meesho — Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho is a business platform trusted by more than 2.6 million resellers across India. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.
• Glacis Labs — Glacis Labs is a middleware protocol. It enables developers to control cross-chain risk. Glacis provides a plug-and-play solution that eliminates the research and decision-making process in cross-chain processes, simplifying interchain execution.
• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.

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• Sapiom — The platform vertical AI companies build, ship, and scale agentic products.
• City Protocol — City Protocol offers growth incentives and creative tools driven by AI. A portable reputation is created via City ID.
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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• Chainalysis — Chainalysis helps government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions engage confidently with cryptocurrency.
• Lifetime Health — We are a digital platform, transforming the healthcare landscape with our innovative hospital-at-home care services. Our mission is to create an efficient healthcare system that provides essential services, including lab tests, express check-ups, nursing care, and medical devices, right at your doorstep.
• Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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• Derivio — Be early. Trade smarter. One terminal.
• PayGo — One request = one settlement. Pay-as-you-go payments for APIs, AI & agents. x402 on ENI
• Zoo Finance — Zoo Finance is a pioneering DeFi protocol focused on unlocking liquidity from locked assets, empowering users to access capital more efficiently while maximizing the utility of their on-chain holdings.

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• V12 — V12 is your security agent for mission critical code.
• Tako — Tako's web and data search APIs return cited, structured answers. Ground your AI agents in authoritative, accurate, up-to-date information.
• Augusta Labs — Transforming businesses using AI.

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• Haraka — Haraka issues stablecoin-based microloans based on social reputation.
• moreliquid — moreliquid is a digital assets platform that offers end-to-end services to asset managers for tokenised securities.
• Silver Koi — First equities perpetuals protocol. Long & short US stocks, forex, commodities, crypto, and more with up to 200x leverage. - https://t.co/Hy8QCUKnXW

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Calimero Network — Welcome to Calimero's blog featuring news and educational content from the world of web3. With focus on privacy and scaling. For both techy and non-techy audience.
• MetaVersus World — MetaVersus World is a Web3 metaverse service provider.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Gateway — Gateway is a decentralized protocol for creating, consuming, and displaying verifiable credentials.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• The Arena — A next gen SocialFi app redefining how creators connect, engage, and monetize their content.
• Sigma Computing — Sigma is the only BI analytics tool purpose-built for your cloud data warehouse. Uniquely scalable, with an experience you already know: the spreadsheet.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Shardeum — Shardeum is an EVM-based, linearly scalable smart contract platform that maintains low gas fees while providing true decentralization and solid security
• BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.

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• Pact Labs — Originate, securitize, and service low dollar balance loans at scale using our permissioned protocol via API and web.
• Cycles — Private, open clearing & settlement for individuals, businesses, and trading firms. Send, receive & earn privately with Cycles Pay today.
• Precise — Put more of your media budget to work. See the reasoning, track the changes, and measure the results.

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• Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
• Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
• Dirac Labs — Universal Navigation Powered by Quantum Sensing & AI

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• Hyperbolic — Access open-source inference and compute at a fraction of the cost. Build with us.
• Mastra — Mastra is an AI software that helps users to typescript complex operations and complete set of work using AI.
• Gravity — The Ad Network for AI

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• Rhuna — One white-label stack for payments, ticketing, access, and data across live entertainment.
• Entravel — Market leading hotel distribution API & room mapping. Agentic interface for AI agents. Turnkey hotel booking white labels for businesses.
• Cork Protocol — Cork's new DeFi primitive, Depeg Swaps allows investors to hedge and trade the risk of their pegged asset (LST/LRTs, Stablecoins, RWAs).

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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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• LNT — LNT provides a Bitcoin Taproot-based token system that allows basic asset creation and transfers with limited available details.
• ChimpX AI — ChimpX AI is an AI-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) superapp designed to simplify crypto trading, cross-chain asset management, and blockchain interactions through natural language commands. The platform focuses on making complex DeFi operations accessible to everyday users by combining artificial intelligence, automation, and gaslesstransactions into a single interface.
• ZENi — ZENi is a data intelligence engine that powers autonomous AI agents. The platform transforms real-time on-chain and off-chain signals into actionable insights, enabling agents to make decisions, automate workflows, and execute tasks with high precision. Built as a decentralized data intelligence layer, ZENi supports Web3, fintech, e-commerce ,gaming and enterprise applications that require scalable, intelligent agent operations.

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• ORO AI — Real-world data for frontier AI
• Nevermined — Payments infrastructure for AI agents. Delegate spending, meter usage, and settle autonomously across MCP, x402, and A2A. Start earning in minutes.
• Templar Protocol — Templar Protocol is a startup that focuses on creating a lending platform for cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and other digital assets.

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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.
• Hata — Your crypto gateway to global opportunities. Regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Buy, sell, and trade crypto securely.
• Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

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• Thirdverse — Thirdverse is a web3 and virtual reality game studio that develops and operates multiplayer virtual reality games. The company combines the technology of blockchain to create an economic zone and a virtual world, enabling customers to experience seamless gameplay in a virtual environment.Thirdverse was founded in 2016 and is headquartered nTokyo, Japan.
• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
• Lombard — The Bitcoin finance protocol. Bringing Bitcoin onchain with $LBTC, $BTC.b, Bitcoin Smart Accounts, Bitcoin Earn and the Lombard SDK.

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• Pye Labs — Pye Finance is a Web3 startup that builds a staking-market infrastructure on the Solana blockchain.
• Octane — A developer-first platform to stress-test your smart contracts with cutting-edge AI. One-click install. Save time and money on security.
• BitVault — BitVault is a DeFi protocol that provides a crypto-native money solution via its BTC-backed stablecoin, bvUSD, and yield-bearing staked stablecoin, sbvUSD.

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• Oh — The OpenAI of the spicy content industry, combining consumer platforms (@ohchatai | @ohdotfun) with infrastructure (https://t.co/BMwDSzAg14)
• Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance
• Chance Studios — Every Collection Starts With A Chance

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• Hylo — Liquidation-resistant leveraged tokens. Highest yielding stablecoin on Solana. Backed by @robotventures @colosseum @solanaventures
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Exponent Finance — Outperform market rates with Solana's leading yield exchange. Community: https://t.co/tROuLHqyfC

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• impactMarket — impactMarket enables any vulnerable community to implement poverty alleviation mechanisms, like Unconditional Basic Income.

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• Canza Finance — We are an Open Finance Portal enabling access to unlimited financial services for emerging markets, backed by Polychain, Avalanche, CoinMarketCap...
• Ari Swap — Ari Swap offers a loyalty + rewards product that allows customers to earn loyalty rewards for their purchases and redeem rewards towards future purchases leveraging the existing $Ari token as the points systems. Targeting small- and medium-sized businesses, the Ari Swap platform also includes an NFT engine to create, send and redeem NFTs anddigital coupons, offers and promotions.
• impactMarket — impactMarket enables any vulnerable community to implement poverty alleviation mechanisms, like Unconditional Basic Income.

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• t3rn — t3rn is a hosting platform for smart contracts, that enables trustless, interoperable, multi-chain execution and composable collaboration.
• Clitch — Clitch is an online platform that helps you connect with gamers that are suited for you through a setting called recruitment.

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• BabylonChain — Babylon is a VC-backed blockchain project founded by Claude. E. Shannon Award recipient, Professor David Tse from Stanford University. The project’s mission is to bring Bitcoin’s unparalleled security to all PoS blockchains in the world. To this end, we are building, as the bridge between Bitcoin and the PoS world, a new public Cosmos-based PoSblockchain called Babylon with a native token.
• Lombard — The Bitcoin finance protocol. Bringing Bitcoin onchain with $LBTC, $BTC.b, Bitcoin Smart Accounts, Bitcoin Earn and the Lombard SDK.
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

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• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum
• Digital Prime Technologies — Full-Service Institutional-Grade Prime Brokerage for Digital Asset Management. DLCC offers full-service Prime Brokerage solutions for digital assets. Our all-in-one user interface leverages both API and Saas product offerings to connect clients with a growing network of liquidity providers to transact, borrow, and lend digital assets, and managecollateral. Our product suite also offers traditional Prime Brokerage services, such as consultation and capital introduction.

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• Credit Coop — Earn through curated credit vaults backed by vetted borrowers, transparent on-chain repayments and programmable collateral. Lend to real businesses with Credit Coop.
• Daler Trading — Pioneers in crypto liquidity and digital assets market making, specializing in crypto options and futures trading.
• WeatherXM — Join WeatherXM's global network powered by blockchain. Earn WXM tokens with accurate, hyperlocal forecasts for agriculture, energy, and more.

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• BULK Trade — One Exchange Infinite Markets
• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Nova Markets — The next billion-dollar market starts here. Powered by @HyperliquidX

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• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• Fly Media — AI-native IPs at infinite scale. If Disney were created today, it would look more like Fly Media.
• Superstate — Superstate is modernizing investing through tokenized financial products

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• 375ai — 375ai is an edge data intelligence network on Solana that provides advanced real-time data collection and analysis to power a smarter, more connected world.
• Power Protocol — The ecosystem for blockchain entertainment. Fueled by $POWER. Launch Partner: @Fableborne Power Up Your Play
• Hyperdrive — The liquidity layer for RWAs. Scaling lending by eliminating the need for oracles, AMMs, and external liquidators.

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• Azura — Azura is a new all-in-one crypto application aggregation layer launched with the assistance of some of the most well-known cryptocurrency pioneers. The company's application and interfacing layer provides reliable access to DeFi assets, real-time market data, and full trade lifecycle support.
• Botanix Labs — Botanix Labs is a fully Ethereum-equivalent second-layer virtual machine built on top of Bitcoin. It unites Bitcoin's market cap with Ethereum's dApp ecosystem to meet its diverse applications, igniting a new frontier.
• Pichi Finance — Pichi Finance Points are typically stored off-chain and linked to wallet addresses, limiting their tradability on the open market.

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• StablR — StablR issues compliant stablecoins StablR Euro (EURR) and StablR USD (USDR), backed by reserves and audits. Built for secure payments, DeFi, and fintech.
• Kemet Trading — Kemet provides the industry’s leading digital asset derivatives trading platform. Kemet’s turnkey, all-in-one technology platform supports the full trade lifecycle with high-performance portfolio, execution and risk management capabilities and a full suite of APIs, enabling institutions to execute across the entire digital asset derivatives marketfrom a single endpoint. Built on state-of-the-art technology, the Kemet platform provides maximum flexibility and can be enhanced quickly in response to client requests.Led by a team of technologists from the world’s most advanced trading institutions, including D.E. Shaw, Jump Trading, DRW and Cboe, Kemet’s platform meets the most demanding standards for latency, reliability and security. Kemet is backed by some of the biggest names in digital asset trading and VCs in addition to a host of some of the best angels in the industry.
• Arbelos Markets — Arbelos Markets provides unprecedented access and transparency to counterparties through powerful technology.

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• Remox — Simplified and Collaborative Treasury Management for DAOs
• Predicate — Policy for blockchain applications
• Capsule Wallets — At Capsule, we thrive on challenging the design of products we use every day. In doing so, we hope to introduce you to a simpler way of living.

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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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• Brale — One regulated system for stablecoin issuance, custody, payments, and compliance. 75+ programs in production across 45 US jurisdictions. SOC 2 Type II. Book a demo.
• Terra.do — Learn about climate change and start working on climate change solutions today with the Terra.do community.
• Phlair — 77NEKO menjadi salah satu akses asli untuk bermain game online yang menghasilkan sulthan dengan secara sekejap. Bukan hanya itu tapi 77neko sering memberikan bonus yang gokil seperti petir merah yang tak terhingga, cashback 100% hingga spin gratis di setiap permainan.

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• impactMarket — impactMarket enables any vulnerable community to implement poverty alleviation mechanisms, like Unconditional Basic Income.

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• Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
• Redpill AI — Access 200+ AI models with privacy-first infrastructure. Private models in GPU TEE, OpenAI-compatible API, zero data retention.
• The FishVerse — FishVerse combines GameFi, AI, and blockchain technology, allowing players to fish in a dynamic open environment from their own homes.

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• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• Hypernova — The onchain prop firm, built to back traders.

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• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• StaySAFU — Security leader building the Web3 Security Layer, offering comprehensive solutions across blockchains to protect investors and project.
• Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.
• Mobula Labs — onchain trading & data infrastructure powering @ChainLink, @fomo, top traders & MMs

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• Rain — Rain is a vertically integrated issuing partner for global platforms. Enabling innovative financial products through modern APIs, flexible infrastructure, supporting electronic and digital money. Launch a card program in days not months.
• Leap Wallet — Leap is the ultimate crypto wallet for Cosmos blockchains, offering seamless exploration of multiple chains, asset transfers, staking rewards, governance participation, and more. With best-in-class UX design, managing your crypto assets has never been easier. Stay in control with our 100% non-custodial wallet, securely storing your private keys on your computer. Discover the future of crypto wallets with Leap.
• Flipside Crypto — AI tools fail on expert work because they're missing context. Edisyl supplies the domain knowledge and proprietary data they need, inside the tools you already run.

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• Freebird — Freebird is a first-of-its-kind mobile rebooking tool that empowers travelers to skip the line and instantly book a new ticket – on any airline at no additional cost – in the event of a flight cancellation, four-hour delay, or missed connection. Freebird provides travelers with instant notifications in the event of a flight disruption, and offersthe ability to rebook in less than 30 seconds with only three taps on their mobile device.
• Chomp — Chomp is a social network platform that focuses on on question-and-answer with prediction-based systems.
• Realm.Security — Realm.Security transforms sprawling security data into a unified intelligent entity. Leveraging AI and cutting edge data processing technology, we deliver the right information to the right destination at the right time.

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• Creator.Bid — Creator.Bid allows content creators to create AI-driven digital assets to monetize their content.
• NATIX Network — Earn passive income by owning a part of your favourite city
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.

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• Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open credit network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
• Crossover Markets Group — Crossover Markets Group, Inc is a digital asset exchange designed to meet the liquidity needs of institutional clients trading cryptocurrencies.

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• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond