Top 50 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in Africa in May 2026

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• Nowlun — Search for cheap & fast freight prices from all shipping lines.
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Complete Farmer — Complete Farmer connects growers, buyers, and vendors with technology, support, and market access across Ghana and beyond.

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• Raenest — Access Virtual Accounts, Invoicing, Multi-Currency Payouts, Auto Payroll, Accounting Integrations, and Virtual & Physical cards within minutes.
• SEND — SEND manages the entire process of moving freight by air, ocean and road to and from Africa - including customs processes, trucking and warehousing. Our application provides instant quotes & bookings, document management, cost transparency, notifications and tracking for your cargo.
• Remedial Health — We improve business to business access to medicines by providing such medicines from manufactures/registered distributors direct to large and small healthcare retail businesses (large pharmacies and remote chemist/PPMVs (Patent and Proprietary Medicine Vendors)) using technology to deliver just-in-time stock and provide financing and awide selection of inventory to such retail business.

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• Paycrest — Paycrest decentralized payment routing protocol enabling secure conversion and settlement between stablecoins and fiat.
• Accounteer — Accounteer is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses. Business owner can create invoices, track expenses and follow up on their finances with ease. Accounteer integrates with external services like banks, e-invoicing platforms and e-commerce. Future proof your business today by subscribing for a free Accounteer trial account.
• LemFi — Send money to India, China, Pakistan, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and 30 other countries. Receive and manage your money without stress

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• Zazuu — Zazuu is a platform for sending money across the border.
• Gigmile — Gigmile provides financial services. They provide gig workers with core services and an affordable lease on productive assets that is tailored to their earnings to enable them to succeed in the mobility industry as entrepreneurs.
• 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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• CurbWaste — A software by haulers, for haulers
• Reserv — We are a premier claims platform, born from state-of-the-art data intelligence and talent management technology.
• CipherOwl Inc — CipherOwl delivers AI-powered digital asset intelligence and automation tools for institutions, helping banks, exchanges, and crypto teams manage risk, ensure compliance, and operate with confidence.

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• Mojito — Mojito is an NFT studio and tech platform company that designs, powers, and operates NFT marketplaces for industry leading brands and IP holders.
• AZA Finance — Supporting Businesses In 115 Countries, Aza Finance Makes It Easier To Do Business In Africa. Contact AZA Finance Now.
• Token — Tokenize develops Token, a biometric-based wearable ring that can make payments, power up a computer, and part doors. The ring is integrated with MasterCard, Microsoft, Visa, HID, FitPay and the FIDO Alliance.Token uses a combination of fingerprinting (there’s a fingerprint sensor at the base of the ring) and an optical proximity sensor toensure that a user’s credentials can’t be accessed by a third party. Using an app (available for iOS and Android), Tokenites can pair the ring and their biometric information with anything from their credit cards to their car keys.

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• Regfyl — Powered by AI, Regfyl is the all-in-one fraud and compliance platform for financial institutions and fintechs. Regfyl allows these businesses to reduce costs and focus on higher value activities.
• Flowcart — Sukhiba is a decentralized community-based commerce platform.
• Orca Fraud — Orca empowers fraud fighters with effective tools to combat fraud

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• Utexo — Utexo develops payment infrastructure that enables stablecoin transactions to settle directly on the Bitcoin network. The platform provides an API and related tools that allow payment operators, exchanges, wallets, and financial platforms to process USDT transfers through Bitcoin-based rails. Its system integrates technologies such as the LightningNetwork and the RGB protocol to support instant settlement, encrypted transaction execution, and predictable transaction costs. Utexo also offers cloud infrastructure and developer tools that manage routing, liquidity, and node operations required for stablecoin payments on Bitcoin. These services allow organizations to integrate Bitcoin-based stablecoin settlement into existing applications without operating or maintaining underlying blockchain infrastructure.
• Credit Coop — Leverage Future Cash Flows
• VOID — The framework for building sovereign multi-chain apps. Deploy once, access everywhere.

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• Paps — Paps is a transport and logistics company that offers innovative distribution and delivery solutions to companies and merchants.The company's e-commerce platform helps companies and traders with scheduling and tracking deliveries on a real-time basis. It offers the distribution of documents and parcels, storage of goods in a secure warehousethat meets standards, and delivery of insured parcels in relay point or last mile. It also provides professional services such as management and repayment of cash on delivery, provision of couriers, management of returns, collection, and periodic reporting.The Dakar, Dakar, Senegal-based company was founded in 2016
• Mvxchange — MVX makes freight shipping easier and more coordinated for companies of any size by bringing the whole booking and deployment process online. We simplify Africa’s end-to-end import and export trade transactions by aggregating and organizing 7+ services through 1 digital channel.
• Intmax — INTMAX has developed significant innovations in ZK implementation making it a unique Layer2 rollup network that offers low cost, security, tunable privacy, and above all, scalability.

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• Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
• Ballet — Ballet Crypto is a companion mobile app, which enables sending of cryptocurrency, checking market value and activating additional currencies. The use of the mobile app is completely optional, as you do not need it to receive and store your cryptocurrency safely.
• FLock.io — FLock.io aims to build a decentralised privacy-preserving solution for Artificial Intelligence.

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• Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
• Toka — Toka develops cutting-edge and lawful digital forensics, intelligence and force protection capabilities to empower government agencies strengthen homeland security.
• Torii — Torii is the most advanced SaaS management platform on the market. Discover, optimize, and control your organization’s SaaS usage and cost.

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• Cloudline — Cloudline leverages lighter-than-air technology and the latest developments in unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver essential goods and services to the 1 billion people without direct access to roads and runways.
• Cloudline — The all-in-one cloud platform helping leisure businesses sell more, reduce costs & personalize experiences.
• Fuse Financial Technologies — Financial APIs for building products in the Middle East.

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• ARX — ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
• Impossible Cloud — Experience Impossible Cloud Storage: Secure, scalable, performant. Decentralized architecture, S3 API compatibility, 100% durability. Start free trial now.
• Open Game Protocol — Open Game System is a project that helps web games work better on phones, allowing the games to use tools that phones already have.

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• Billboxx — Manage payables, receivables, financing and banking in one platform.
• mTek — mTek is a digital online insurance platform that provides an entirely paperless ecosystem for the insurance industry.
• 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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• Novek — Novek builds IOT technology to completely eliminate single use plastic from FMCG Supply chains.
• CashBackApp — An App that offers you Cash Discounts on a wide range of household essentials available at local supermarkets in Kenya.
• Jackfruit Finance — Fast, flexible school financing in Kenya. Get working capital, projects, and asset loans designed around school fee cycles and growth needs.

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• Gondi — Gondi is a non-custodial decentralized NFT lending protocol designed to build the most effective NFT credit market. The protocol allows for ongoing underwriting and full and partial refinancing of all outstanding loans, resulting in a more dynamic and liquid market.
• Ripio — Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions withcredit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
• Perion — Win Crypto Questing in AAA Games.

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• Credpal — Buy now, pay later. Split in 6.
• Encore Pay — Encore Pay is a UAE-based FinTech and Payment solutions provider.
• MarketForce — MarketForce connects Africa’s informal retail outlets and consumers directly to suppliers of consumer goods and financial services by digitizing orders, delivery, and payments with the aim of solving the last mile distribution challenge.

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• Moffin — Moffin is an integration platform of KYC data providers that enables customers to collect and evaluate data. It can be used via API or no code.
• Cata — Launch your branded mobile app for ordering, CRM & loyalty. Increase order frequency & basket size. Learn how Cata can scale your business!
• Revio — Subscription billing and payments made easy.

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• ILLA — ILLA Trucking for Logistics Solutions & Distribution
• Maplerad — Maplerad is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends, family or others you trust. You can receive and send money directly into any Nigerian bank account in minutes using Bitcoin, US Dollars, and Naira.
• Jetstream Africa — Jetstream monitors inventory and goods-in-transit for trade creditors and banks.

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• Sound — Sound is a suite of music and economic tools powering the next generation of artists and their communities, starting with listening parties for new releases
• Stack — Recognize and reward the relationships that matter
• Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications

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• CNote — CNote makes initial Cash Deposits easy for corporations, foundations, and individuals. Align your financial goals with your values and drive change in communities.
• Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
• Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.

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• Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
• Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
• Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.

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• Edves — Edves automates the brick and mortal School operations from Student enrollment, Fee Collection, Lesson Note up to Transcript Generation.
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
• Nexford University — Transform your career with affordable, flexible degrees and job skills designed for today's workforce. Skip debt and learn at your own pace with Nexford.

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• MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
• StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
• Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

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• Kaleidofin — Kaleidofin provides a scalable and adaptable platform dedicated to democratizing finance through responsible fintech, empowering every customer. Our name, 'Kaleidofin', symbolizes the transformative power of financial solutions with a digital ecosystem that ensures finance for everyone, everywhere.
• Access Bank — Access Bank provides banking products and services to individual and business customers in Ghana. It offers standard savings and current, access advantage, solo, and premier accounts. The company also provides online banking services that include ATM, online access, and point-of-sale terminal services; and bills payment and Western Union moneytransfer services.
• Avanti Finance — Avanti Platform is an open-access digital financial spine, flexible enough for users and partners to create, curate and deploy the financial products

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• Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
• Trebellar — Trebellar provides advanced data analytics for building occupancy, energy efficiency, and climate optimization. Maximize your workplace productivity with our intelligent building solutions.
• Operant — Own OperantAi.com today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.

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• Pacaso — Pacaso offers luxury vacation homes for co-ownership. It's the modern way to buy and own a vacation home.
• Bamboo — Bamboo is a digital investment platform that provides real-time access to buy, hold, or sell stocks. The investment platform is accessible on both computers and mobile phones.
• Elevate — Elevate is a modern platform that makes benefits better for employees and easier for employers.

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• GoodScore — GoodScore is a credit management app in India designed to help users build and maintain a high credit score, with targeted features and expert support for financial wellbeing.
• XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
• HELIX — Gain access to curated alternative investment opportunities and make your crypto do more today. Helix is an accredited marketplace utilising blockchain technology to provide access to off-chain private credit in emerging markets.

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• EquityList — Equity management with online cap table management and employee stock option programs (ESOP) administration. Available free for Indian startups
• CompScience — Kinetic Eye's ground-breaking technology allows for detection of risk within hours rather than days. Protecting your bottom-line and more importantly, your employees.
• FutureMoney — Introducing FutureMoney: the only investing app designed for parents. FutureMoney helps you give your kids more by growing your money, effortlessly. Start investing in your kids today with unlimited accounts, contributions and deposits, tax optimization, and fully-managed custom portfolios.

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• Miaopai — Miaopai develops a mobile based application for sharing short videos. Its service now has 70 million daily active users. Miaopai produces mobile device applications. It offers software products that allow users to customize videos and pictures.Chan Sheng and Han Kun founded Xuanyixia Technology in 2011 that later became Yixia Tech and thenMiaopai. Its headquarters is in Beijing in China.
• Fal — fal.ai is the fastest way to run diffusion models with ready-to-use AI inference, training APIs, and UI Playgrounds
• Handshake — The largest expert network for learning, earning, and growing careers in the AI economy, giving everyone an accessible first step into an AI-powered career.

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• Posh — Event marketing made easy.
• Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
• Payhere — Payhere is a fintech company that provides card terminals and online payment gateway services for multiple industries.

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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.
• MindMics — Discover MindMics. The world's most accurate personal heart health monitor and well-being platform. Look after your heart health to live longer and better.
• Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.

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• Releaf Earth — We are industrializing food processing in Africa. We've led 1000+ smallholder farmers to provide food factories with >7.5 million kilograms of quality crops.
• Tripesa — Tripesa offers payment solutions for Africa's travel and tourism industry.
• Plural — Smarter, Faster, Future-Ready Policy Strategy. Plural transforms how enterprises and organizations anticipate and act on legislation. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate bill analysis, policy insights, and stakeholder intelligence so you can stay ahead of risk, seize opportunity, and shape outcomes. See How It Works Book A Demo Trusted By Deepen Your State & Federal Legislative

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• Chari — Chari is an e-commerce and fintech app for traditional retailers in French-Speaking Africa allowing them to order any consumer goods they sell and get delivered for free in less than 24 hours. Chari is also a financial services provider for these retailers, offering them microloans
• Paymee — Paymee offers a solution to facilitate payments.
• Reliance Health — Reliance Health Global. Improve the lives of your staff with innovative company healthcare benefits fit for any business. You can rely on us.

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• Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.
• Diadia Health, Inc — An AI medical reasoning platform that helps clinicians analyze the root causes of symptoms and create personalized protocols that drive better outcomes.
• General Counsel AI — GC AI is an AI platform for in-house legal teams. Draft contracts, review documents, and research legal issues in seconds with SOC 2-certified, zero data retention AI. Trusted by 1,400+ legal teams.

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• Figorr — Figorr is your go-to, for accessing reliable information on temperature, humidity, and location. Experience the next generation of data-driven insights with Figorr today.
• OnePipe — OnePipe aggregates APIs from banks and fintechs into a standardized gateway that is easy to integrate and makes partnerships seamless.
• Sendmarc — Manage your organization's DMARC, SPF, and DKIM with world-class implementation services and support. All in one easy-to-use platform.

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• Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
• AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.
• TechAdvance — Get the Bet9ja app today! Download and install to place bets, play casino games, and enjoy seamless, secure betting on mobile.

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• ArabyAds — ArabyAds offers a suite of enterprise-level B2B ecommerce automation platforms that deliver the most promising, responsive and performance-oriented digital advertising technologies.
• Aerobotics — Powerful insights for precision growing and crop insurance
• RAYNAL Assurances — RAYNAL Assurances operates as an insurance company. RAYNAL Assurances underwrites a large range of non-life insurance risks associated to automotive, health, accident, fire, transport, and other multi-risks, addressing a clientele composed of both corporate and retail customers.

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• Raiku — Raiku is a Web3 infrastructure startup focused on enhancing the Solana blockchain's reliability and predictability.
• TrueX — TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
• CEA Industries — CEA Industries is an agriculture company that offers indoor cultivation services.

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• Levr Bet — LEVR provides users with a decentralized sports betting platform that combines leveraged DeFi with traditional sports betting.
• Tally — Tally is a DAO operations platform. DAOs use Tally to create and pass proposals, enable delegation, and power voting.
• Camp Network — Camp Network is a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain to power AI agents.

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• Prorata.AI — ProrataAI builds technology that enables generative AIs to properly attribute contributing content and share revenues on a per-use basis.
• Innovacell — Wir entwickeln innovative zelltherapeutische Arzneimittel zur Behandlung von Stuhl- und Harninkontinenz durch Regeneration.
• ASTRO — Situs Belanja Kebutuhan Harian Online dengan Harga Terjangkau dan Kualitas Terbaik. Pesan Kebutuhan Harian di ASTRO Pasti Sampai dalam Hitungan Menit

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• RYE — RYE is a members-only, low-cost green energy supplier built for businesses with no time to deal with energy suppliers. Always accurate energy or it's free
• Eden Care Medical — Eden Care Medical is a mobile application that provides medical and health insurance as well as financial services.
• ORDA — Process orders, accept payments, connect to logistic providers, engage with your customers + more. We equip you with everything you need to grow your business.

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• Bosso — Bosso projects and realizes automation and robotic solutions for the growth of your business.
• Chpter — Chpter is a software development company that offers fast billing and checkout to help start, run, and grow a business.
• Level Africa — Digital Investment Marketplace for Africa

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• Avalo — Avalo is a biotech company generating crop resilience through gene discovery and control for a healthier and fuller world. The company uses interpretable machine learning to identify genes in plants at a much faster pace to help develop better crops.
• Cold — Cold is a sustainability compliance platform for startups and medium-sized businesses. Spend less time managing compliance and more time on work that matters.
• 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.

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• Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
• Rockfish Data — Generate privacy-preserving data using state-of-the-art deep generative algorithms to operationalize outcome-centric solutions. Our generative data platform is tailored for enterprise operations, addressing critical business needs.
• MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies

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• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• WOO Network — Discover WOO's ecosystem of centralized and decentralized apps to seize every opportunity in crypto.
• Silicon Data — Silicon Data is a data product that brings essential intelligence and efficiency to markets.

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• ITM Power — ITM manufacture PEM electrolysers. A pioneering technology that generates green hydrogen enabling customers to decarbonise.
• Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
• The Boeing Company — Welcome to the official corporate site for the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. Learn about our passion for innovation, our products, careers and more.

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• Vexi — Vexi issues, operates and processes credit cards for young underbanked population on a mission to make credit accessible, through a 100% digital onboarding and unparalleled customer experience
• SatSure — SatSure, they are on a mission to evolve crop insurance products and provide accurate risk assessment of crop yield by integrating climatic variables with geospatial and economic datasets.
• Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.

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• Rivy — Access flexible financing for solar energy projects with Rivy. Power homes, businesses, and communities with clean, affordable energy.
• Printivo — Design & print Business Cards, flyers, mugs and other print products online and we will deliver your doorstep. Get instant quotes.
• Snowstorm — Official site of the Snowstorm Network

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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.