Top 50 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in United Arab Emirates (June 2026)

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• Me3 — Me3 is a crypto wallet to purchase, send, receive, and exchange tokens and NFTs.
• 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.
• Cluster Protocol — Cluster Protocol is the co-ordination layer for AI agents, a carnot engine fueling the AI economy making sure the AI developers are monetized for their AI models and users get an unified seamless experience to build that next AI app/ agent within a virtual disposable environment facilitating the creation of modular, self-evolving AI agents.

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• STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
• CrossCurve Metelayer — Your Unfair Advantage for Building in DeFi. Any token. Any chain. Any operation. One MetaLayer.
• Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.

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• Hivello — Hivello is a Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Network aggregator. Contribute resources, connect with Web3 protocols, and effortlessly generate passive income.
• ZOTH — Unified platform for yield, payments, cards & compliance, serving retail & institutional users.
• MonkeyLeague — MonkeyLeague is a video game company. They develop PC and console-based NFT games. The company offers a turn-based, play-and-earn multi-player soccer game that provides monkey NFTs of genetic composition formulated from 32 traits.

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• PERL.eco — The Planetary Ecosystem Registration Ledger will be a dedicated blockchain for real-world ecological assets through tokenizing carbon credits and biodiversity, NFTs and decentralised (DeFi) rewards.
• Meter.io — Meter.io is a base layer hybrid consensus protocol built to address the volatility, scaling and interoperability problems in the existing cryptocurrencies.
• Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.

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• Lillius — LILLIUS_Making sports and home training easy and fun just like playing a game! LILLUS is a Blockchain based WEB3 Sports Experience Platform that rewards users for healthy activities!
• 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.
• Assembly — IOTA is a decentralized blockchain infrastructure to build and secure our digital world. Discover solutions for digital identity, sustainability, supply chains, and decentralized finance.

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• Sei Labs — Accelerating the Future The Fastest Layer 1 Blockchain
• Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration
• Initia Labs — Initia unites full-stack apps and unlocks value through interwoven infrastructure and aligned economics.

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• Irys — Irys is a blockchain designed to store large volumes of data onchain for flexible durations and allow smart contracts to use that data directly during execution. Storage fees are separate from execution fees, and the protocol verifies data availability continuously.
• Openbox.ai — OpenBox AI provides a unified trust platform for agentic AI, delivering runtime governance, cryptographic verification, and enterprise-grade AI accountability across systems and organizations.
• OpenBox AI — OpenBox AI provides AI governance, runtime enforcement, identity, policy, and risk control services.

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• Obex — Obex helps to fund stablecoin projects backed by compute, energy and fintech credit on the Sky protocol.
• Ekiden — Ekiden is a next-generation decentralized exchange that combines a virtual AMM (vAMM), perpetual futures, and a central limit order book to provide the fastest, most equitable, and liquid on-chain trading experience with extremely low costs and MEV resistance.
• Robin Markets —

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• Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
• Billy Bets — Billy Bets is an AI platform that tracks sports bets, manages a wallet, and makes smarter bets with AI assistance.
• Bubblemaps — Explore DeFi tokens and NFTs through bubbles in our crypto dApp. Cryptocurrency data for beginners, degens, and experts.

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• Lympid — We believe that anyone should have access to the amazing opportunities found on the blockchain, from DeFi protocols (aave, compound, yearn…) to Crypto Indexes, there's so much to discover! At Lympid you will be able to do it all easily in the same app, and directly through EUR.
• Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
• BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.

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• 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
• DNABLOCK — We enable Web3 creator communities to design and mint NFT collections of truly custom photorealistic 3D avatars, environments and cinema-quality animated content with no code or animation knowledge.
• Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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• Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
• Zango — Zango is an AI-powered compliance automation platform designed to help financial services firms manage regulatory change across multiple regions, including the UK and EU. Leveraging cutting-edge AI, the platform performs real-time horizon scanning, automated gap analysis, and human validation to ensure accuracy and maintain security andtransparency. Backed by industry-leading investors, it empowers compliance teams to dramatically accelerate processes and reduce manual oversight.
• Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.

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• Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
• Lympid — We believe that anyone should have access to the amazing opportunities found on the blockchain, from DeFi protocols (aave, compound, yearn…) to Crypto Indexes, there's so much to discover! At Lympid you will be able to do it all easily in the same app, and directly through EUR.
• MonkeyLeague — MonkeyLeague is a video game company. They develop PC and console-based NFT games. The company offers a turn-based, play-and-earn multi-player soccer game that provides monkey NFTs of genetic composition formulated from 32 traits.

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• Quranium — Quranium (founded in early 2024) is the world’s first Convergence Layer, a Layer‑1 blockchain infrastructure purpose-built to fuse quantum security, AI-native automation, and EVM compatibility. Headquartered in Switzerland with offices in UAE (DMCC) and Singapore, it leverages post-quantum cryptography (NIST-approved SLH‑DSA, ML‑KEM) andhigh-performance PoS consensus to create an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable foundation for Web3 Quranium is designed for a post-quantum world, it delivers an uncrackable, intelligent, and scalable decentralized infrastructure. Quranium is not just a blockchain — it’s the foundation for a new era where quantum, AI, and Web3 converge securely and seamlessly.
• Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
• Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.

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• Pixelverse — Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game.
• BLIFE Protocol — BLIFE Protocol's objective is to promote growth and development of Web3 on Bitcoin.
• Particle Network — Particle Network offers a full-stack Web3 infrastructure, allowing developers to execute their projects from concept to deployment in a unified workflow for high-performance dApps. Its mobile app data and development platform for Web 3.0 provides developers with scalable, decentralized backends and data infrastructure.

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• SkyTrade — SkyTrade is a blockchain-based air rights marketplace that allows users to buy, sell, and lease airspace, enabling them to manage and control access to low-altitude airspace.
• T-Rex — T-Rex is a new blockchain ecosystem intended specifically for consumer-facing applications, with the goal of transforming the Web3 attention layer via its revolutionary Proof of Engagement (PoE).
• Edgen — A multi-chain, modular and open-source protocol providing the tools for developers to create the next generation of social apps.

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• Reitio Protocol — We’re creating an effortless way for everyone to create custom metaverse assets visually via an intuitive and codeless templates-based design toolkit, introducing reitio protocol.
• Alphadex — Alphadex is the ultimate cross-chain AMM, incubator and NFT launchpad powered by Moonriver.
• Web3Auth — Web3Auth is simple, non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide seamless user logins for both mainstream and native Web3 users.

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• STON.fi — STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) built on the TON blockchain. Explore the full range of STON.fi. Swap cryptocurrencies, stake tokens, provide liquidity on the TON blockchain.
• Oasis.app — Borrow Dai, a USD pegged Stablecoin, or multiply your exposure using crypto as your collateral
• Big Whale Labs — We build the future while everybody else lives in the past

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• Bullish Global — Bullish Global is a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchange designed to combine the performance, user privacy, and compliance offered by central order book technology with the vertically integrated user benefits of decentralized finance (DeFi) market architecture.
• Forward Industries — Solana is built to power global markets. Forward Industries is capitalizing on that momentum with an active Solana treasury strategy built to grow SOL per share and generate long-term shareholder value.
• Argo Blockchain — Argo Blockchain (NASD:ARBK), is the First Climate Positive Bitcoin Mining Company. A Pioneer in Using Renewable Power & Innovation in Blockchain Technology

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• Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
• Pixelverse — Pixelverse is a blockchain-based, pixelated P2E game.
• SecondSwap — Turn Locked Tokens Into Liquid Assets. The only decentralized on-chain marketplace for trading locked tokens.

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• Anomaly — Anomaly is an AI-enabled gaming app chain that focuses on gaming and layer 3 blockchain innovation.
• Nexus Network — Nexus Network brings secure yields for idle bridge assets. Nexus Network delivers utilises the latest staking technology to offer a non-custodial and transparent way to generate yields for rollups and EVM chains

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• Pulsr — Web3 community discovery made easy for digital creatives, collectors and curators.
• Obscuro Labs — Ten, a decentralized Ethereum Layer 2 Rollup protocol designed to hyper-scale, encrypt and prevent negative MEV on Ethereum
• FastLane — We build MEV-aware infrastructure and smart contracts to make DeFi useable and keep it decentralized.

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• Pods — Building DeFi. Strategies, primitives and tooling. Welcome to Pods.
• Blockscout — Blockscout is optimized for next-level blockchain exploration. Multi-chain, highly configurable, and open-source, the explorer portal opens up access to all chain data and functionality.
• Oasis Pro Markets — Alternative Trading System

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• AOFverse — THE PLAN Roadmap 2023 Q3 Army Of Tactics Closed Beta Certik Security Audit Army Of Tactics Soft Launch In-Game Shop Implementation 2023 Q4 Metapaper Release Game 3.0 Concept Release Private Sale Fortune Founders Key Event 2024 Q1 5th island launch Crystal Forge & Demigod Summon NFT Marketplace Launch 2024 Q2 Advanced Level Launch With Increased
• Octopus Network — Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.
• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• ZKEX — ZKEX appears to be a decentralized exchange (DEX) operating on Layer 2 (L2) technology, which aims to enhance transaction speeds and reduce costs compared to traditional Layer 1 solutions like Ethereum
• StripChain — Stripchain is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.
• Solv Protocol — Decentralized Liquidity Infrastructure

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• Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
• GPU.Net — GPUNet offers a scalable, blockchain-based solution for decentralized GPU computing. Access or rent out GPU resources for AI, data analysis, and scientific research.
• OpenStamp — Features SRC20 & Stamps Marketplace, Minting Service, Launchpad, and an Explorer for SRC20 & Stamps asset tracking.

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• Undeads Metaverse — Play, earn crypto & mint NFTs while exploring the post-apocalyptic metaverse. Feature-rich gameplay never seen in Web3 space before. Join the Undeads Metaverse!

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• PlaysOut — PlaysOut is a mini-game platform that helps developers publish mini-games on superAPP platforms
• Memes Lab — Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
• Cygnus Finance — Cygnus is a tool that helps different blockchains work together by allowing to share security and keep their networks safe.

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• IN1 — IN1 operates as a financial management app, where we can send, spend, earn money & crypto in one app.

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• Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
• Fortytwo — Fortytwo is a decentralized AI network that employs swarm intelligence by linking consumer devices to execute small AI models. It provides a scalable and cost-efficient alternative to centralized AI systems, enabling users to contribute computing resources while ensuring data privacy. Fortytwo's goal is to create a reasoning engine thatoperates on a planetary scale and is driven by the community.
• Synonym Finance — SYNO is a universal cross-chain credit layer. Earn interest and borrow assets with maximum efficiency.

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• Colexion — Colexion is the most premium blockchain-based NFT marketplace to discover and buy exclusive digital collectibles of megastars curated by top crypto artists.
• StarSharks — StarSharks is a NFT-GameFi ecosystem based on the BSC chain developed by game players, governance committees, and game developers. The game integrates different types of games and breaks down barriers found between games by allowing players to use the same character to enter the Shark-metaverse. It enables players come together to build and govern a new metaverse and create a community culture in the Shark-metaverse.
• nCore Games — nCore Games is a mobile games and interactive entertainment company.

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• Cylerity — Transform healthcare receivables into real-time capital. Cylerity unlocks cash flow, clarity, and control from claims data. See how it works.
• EDEN — EDEN develops operation management software to automate and streamline home service business, customer acquisition, and sales. Its features include lead identification, automatic pricing and system recommendations, online estimate generation, and customer engagement tools that allow residential contractors to improve efficiency.The company'sdata-driven technology, Instant Quote, transforms the traditionally frustrating and lengthy home visit process into a transparent online experience by instantly automating complex job estimation, allowing homeowners to discover the right solutions for their homes and pre-sell themselves.
• Gripp — Gripp Ag revolutionizes farm activity and equipment tracking with a simple yet effective QR code and mobile app that allows users to capture unrecorded events.

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• Proxgy — Proxgy is providing the best Iot Based smart protective wearable gear, smart helmet, sleefe, audiopod, airhat and lockator(GPS e-Lock).
• Pro Panja League — Pro Panja League is a professional Arm Wrestling tournament in India. The league was founded by Swen Entertainment in 2024.
• Klassroom Edutech — Klassroom Edutech, a Mumbai-based hybrid (offline to online) tutoring platform.

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• Ondefy — Ondefy is building infrastructure that enables a simple access to decentralized finance. Integrate multiple DeFi services unders 1 line of code.
• Acta Finance — Acta Finance develops a complete DeFi ecosystem, EVM compatible, able to deploy and integrate EVM compatible networks.
• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• Wafeq — Send invoices or purchase orders, manage your inventory and your payroll, and get over 30 reports to manage your company, all in one software.
• Qeen Ai — qeen.ai is a GenAI native platform that enables autonomous AI to e-commerce firms of all sizes.
• Tamatem — We are the leading mobile games publisher in the Arabic speaking world! We bring international mobile games from all around the world to publish in the MENA market!

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• IoTeX — The open ecosystem for real-world AI, transforming data from physical machine networks into collective intelligence that will power the next generation of AI.
• Magic Square — Discover, use, and manage all dApps, DeFi, NFTs, GameFi, and engage with the community in one convenient place. Magic Square - It's all there.
• STYLE Protocol — Infrastructure for virtual worlds and connecting games.

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• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".
• Martial Arts Awakening — Martial Arts Awakening is a blockchain game developer focused on the long-term development of blockchain, Web3.0, Metaverse, and NFT ecosystems.

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• GoldFin — Reshaping cryptocurrencies for the public.

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• Laurence —
• Positron — Positron makes purpose-built hardware to accelerate generative AI.
• Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

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• STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.
• Faith Tribe — Faith Tribe is a open- source fashion design platform that focuses on NFT minting, P2P transactions.
• Mind AI — Mind AI is a trading insights platform that offers elite insights to the investors for a competitive edge in the fast-moving crypto markets.

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• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• Colexion — Colexion is the most premium blockchain-based NFT marketplace to discover and buy exclusive digital collectibles of megastars curated by top crypto artists.
• Liangzibao.cn — Liangzibao.cn is a B2B2C Internet insurance service customization platform
• Shield Finance — Shield Finance is a Multi-Chain DeFi Insurance Aggregator. You can use Shield to protect your investments from hacks, rug pulls & price crashes.

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• Swiftly — Harness your public transit data with Swiftly's urban mobility solutions to make your city's mass transportation move more efficiently.
• HopSkipDrive — Arranging safe, dependable transportation or children ages 6+ with qualified caregivers
• Clarametyx Biosciences — Clarametyx Biosciences is a late preclinical stage biotechnology company developing targeted, immune-enabling biologic therapies to counter persistent infections associated with biofilms.

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• Light — Light is a software development company that allows streamers and viewers to connect in real time through an application.
• Yosemite — Yosemite is a wellness company that provides health and wellness products, supplements, skincare, and personal care items.
• Innovative Space Carrier — Innovative Space Carrier is a aerospace company that offers space transportation systems, planning, drafting and technology strategies.

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• Analog — Analog is the world’s first layer-0, Omni-chain platform that leverages proof-of-time (PoT) to validate time data (events). With PoT, all nodes have a fair chance of being selected to validate time data and participate in the consensus process on the Timechain (an ordered sequence of immutable verified time data). This contrasts with proof-of-work(PoW)-powered networks that require computationally-intensive resources to mine blocks or proof-of-stake (PoS)-enabled networks where nodes must stake enough coins. The Analog network is the first realistic attempt in helping the world to move from a “timeless mess” to a “time-driven” environment via PoT consensus. Besides solving the problem of verifiability of time data, the Analog network also prioritizes interoperability. It establishes a radically decentralized, secure, and trustless layer-0 where multiple networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum can anchor their transactions. Most importantly, the Analog Timegraph leverages zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) to create a validated pipeline of time data that businesses can privately leverage to power the next generation of time-dependent applications. Unlike other Blockchain application programming interface (API) models that involve the use of third-party oracles, Analog’s Timegraph API allows data providers to become their own oracles on the Timechain. This creates an entirely new marketplace of time data that is set to power the next generation of decentralized applications (DApps).
• The Red Village — The Red Village is a groundbreaking dark-fantasy Play and Earn game, with a team dedicated to re-imagining what blockchain gaming can, and should, look like.
• Balthazar NFT Gaming — Balthazar is on a mission to empower the biggest community of gamers to create a self-sustaining,

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• iBLOXX — iBLOXX is a Web3 incubator and market maker with iBLOXX Studios.

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• Yondemy — Yondemy is an online platform for children reading books.
• Creator's X — Creator's X is an anime production firm that focuses on developing animation production assistance tools using AI.
• Infobox — Infobox is a sales data platform that includes every detail from market research to creating a list of companies and contacting decision-makers.

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• Attarius Network — Attarius Network - the first and only all-in-one NFT ecosystem for game industry

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• Enhance Ventures — Enhance is already live in 7 countries and can rapidly develop vertical marketplaces across Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan and Turkey with a higher chance of success.
• Magnitt — Magnitt is a startup directory that connects investors, mentors, and emerging companies in the Middle East. The discovery platform is a database with over 5,500 MENA startups and over 200 investors.
• Joi Gifts — Joi Gifts is the best online gift shop for any occasion. Send flowers, cakes, and more with same-day delivery in KSA, UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Middle East.

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• Cassidy — Create customized AI-assistants to streamline tasks, enhance productivity, and adopt AI across your entire organization.
• Codesphere — Codesphere is your Zeroconfig Cloud. No config - just code and run web apps from your browser. Team work on distributed full stack Typescript, and benefit from our automatic deployments, scaling, tests, and security / privacy audits. We optimize each and every detail to keep things simple for you. Codesphere is next level programming.
• BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.