Top 50 Financial Services VC Funds & Investors in New Zealand (October 2026)

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• First Table — The Earlybird Gets The Dinner Deal! Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off meals for 2 to 4 diners! Email social@firsttable.co.nz

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• Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.

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• SortMe — Get financial clarity with SortMe, your AI-powered cashflow assistant. Track spending, manage budgets, and find savings. Start your trial now.
• Debut — Debut offers powerful and complex financial products in a format anyone can use.
• Wych Limited — Wych puts your financial health back in your control.

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• Luminoma — Luminoma will enable easy access to objective and precise skin cancer screening. With Luminoma, clinicians can confidently discern malignant from benign, reducing unnecessary referrals and biopsies.
• Upstock — Manage wholesale orders with a simple app.
• Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• SYOS — SYOS designs and manufactures a multi-domain portfolio of advanced uncrewed autonomous systems across air, land, sea, and subsurface.
• Andromeda Surgical — Empowering surgeons with autonomous precision

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• Practifi — The only intelligent CRM built specifically for wealth management firms, Practifi combines native AI functionality with purpose-built capabilities.
• HotelClub — HotelClub is a web-based hospitality platform that allows its users to search for, compare, and book a range of hotels throughout the world.
• Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.

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• Linca — Critical metals for a circular battery supply chain
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Heidi Health — Heidi Health is a healthtech company that develops an AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks.
• Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

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• Hyades — Hyades is an AI-powered hyperspectral intelligence platform that offers soil and land insights.
• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• First Table — The Earlybird Gets The Dinner Deal! Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off meals for 2 to 4 diners! Email social@firsttable.co.nz

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and PE funds to save time and grow AUM.
• Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.

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• Montoux — The decision science and actuarial automation platform for life and health insurers.
• MerlotAero — MerlotAero is a company marketing avionic software for pilots to use during flight.
• Kernel Wealth — Low-cost KiwiSaver, index funds, savings and US shares & ETFs. Trusted by 80,000+ Kiwis with over $5B under management. Start free. Kernel Wealth - Make it happen

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• Dexibit — We know Visitor Attractions inside and out. Measure and drive visitation, visitor experience, loyalty and revenue. We're empowering places people love to visit.
• Datagate — Quick, easy, compliant telecom billing for MSPs! Datagate integrates with popular MSP software like ConnectWise, Datto Autotask PSA, Quickbooks and Xero, and tax engines like Avalara, CCH SureTax and CSI.
• Beany — Accounting, tax and advisory services for New Zealand business owners. We help you make smarter decisions for both your business and life.

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• Autism 360™ — So affordable, yet so Personal! No more waitlists - No more expensive therapy hours! The Autism 360 is the only 24x7 support you need. Built by Autistic adults, for parents!
• Beamtree — Beamtree is an Australian listed company that helps health services make the best decisions possible through our insights and benchmarking. Using our tools PICQ, RISQ, RippleDown, and workflow systems like Q Coding Platform (amongst others). We help all kinds of healthcare areas in different ways, saving partners money, time and effort, allultimately benefiting patients.
• Drive lah — 30-40% Cheaper Rentals | Rent Hourly or Daily | Flexible Car Rental | Skip the Queue - No Form Filling | Pick-up or Drop-off Near You

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• Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
• Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
• Axo Longevity — Axo Longevity offers membership-based biomarker testing and digital health plans for preventive wellness and longevity optimization.

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• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.
• Sterling — Sterling operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate back-office operations for financial and accounting teams. The software deploys deterministic AI agents that execute repetitive tasks like accounts payable, accounts receivable, compliance checks, and bank reconciliations directly inside existing enterprise applications. Byfunctioning as a background virtual assistant, its value proposition centers on eliminating administrative bottlenecks while maintaining strict human-in-the-loop oversight and enterprise-grade audit standards.
• Forever Harvest — We are an Aotearoa New Zealand based cellular horticulture company, partnering with food & beverage manufacturers to develop new fruit & nut food solutions.

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• VELAR — VELAR is a Multi-Feature DeFi App with Bitcoin Finality.
• MetaDojo — Bridging the gap between Web2 & Web3.

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• Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.

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• MetaDojo — Bridging the gap between Web2 & Web3.
• XP Network — Go multichain effortlessly: attract fresh liquidity and audiences across all ecosystems
• Parallel — Parallel is a Sci-Fi Card Game based on the Ethereum blockchain. Parallel is an application that provides users with the opportunity to purchase, collect, and showcase digital blockchain collectibles.

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• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
• Macropod —
• Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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• Cheelcare — Cheelcare is creating striking assistive devices that facilitate independence for people with limited abilities. Their flagship product, the Cheelcare Companion, is a motorized attachment for powering and steering manual wheelchairs.
• LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners — AmericanMineralIndependence Unlocking critical resources from oil & gas infrastructure Learn More Mission We transform oilfield brine into sustainable revenue stream opportunities Our technology integrates with existing oil and gas infrastructure to unlock critical minerals, cut capital costs, and fast-track deployment. A solution for rapid, domestic mineral supply that strengthens national security and powers the economy. ... Read more
• INEO Solutions — INEO Tech Corp. builds connected retail entrance infrastructure combining loss prevention, retail media, operational intelligence and store analytics.

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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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• 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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• NOMOEX — NOMOEX is a centralized crypto exchange that facilitates crypto trades by using its next-gen software to match and execute trades .Nomoex Exchange is being created with next-gen features and functionalities to make sure that users are able to trade cryptocurrencies in the most convenient and secure manner using user-friendly options and a widerange of services from crypto storage to trading, sending, receiving, and the use of advanced trading tools & mechanisms to increase profits.
• Nodepay — Nodepay is a network infrastructure that offers decentralized bandwidth for AI training.
• Blend Finance — On-chain Bank for $EDU. Backed by @opencampus_xyz and @ibcgroupio. Telegram: https://t.co/SSeMfacodE

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• STBL — Powering the next era of Programmable Finance. Enabling Ecosystem Specific Stablecoins (ESS) through Money as a Service (MaaS).
• Myriad — Myriad Markets is a decentralized prediction‑market protocol that lets users trade short‑term, outcome‑based markets on events across crypto, sports, politics, gaming, and culture.
• Agentum — Agentum provides an autonomous economic layer built on the BNB Chain that enables AI agents to transact trustlessly with one another without human intervention. The protocol utilizes a combination of TEE confidential computing, zkVM verifiable evaluation, and specialized ERC standards to ensure secure task execution, portable agent reputations, andautomated escrow settlements. By aligning economic incentives at the protocol layer, it ensures that honest machine-to-machine commerce always carries higher payoffs than deceptive practices.

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• Rocos — Send ground robots on autonomous inspection missions. Quickly capture job site data, track progress over time, and detect issues early.
• Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
• First AML — Get AML/CTF compliant and solve your toughest AML challenges with First AML. It's the only AML & KYC software solution you need.

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• SimTutor — SimTutor is a provider of simulation-based learning tools that make training more interactive, measurable, and accessible.
• Aroa Biosurgery Ltd — Aroa Biosurgery is a soft-tissue regeneration company that develops, manufactures, sells and distributes medical and surgical products to improve healing in complex wounds and soft tissue reconstruction. Committed to ‘unlocking regenerative healing for everybody’, Aroa’s products are developed from the Company’s proprietary Endoform® technologyplatform, a novel extracellular matrix biomaterial derived from ovine (sheep) forestomach. The company was founded in February 2008 based on intellectual property relating to the use of a novel form of ECM isolated from forestomach extracellular matrix for use in tissue regeneration applications. Aroa’s focus is delivering better healing, every day, everywhere for everybody. Aroa’s products make a meaningful impact for patients, surgeons and clinicians. Aroa delivers high quality, simple to use products that significantly improve outcomes. Aroa also believes its products should be widely accessible, affordable and change the standard of care for many patients.Maori for ‘understanding’, Aroa is at the forefront of understanding how biology, structural form and human factors can unlock the body’s intrinsic power to heal.
• Sharesight — Award-winning investment portfolio tracking and reporting app

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• Harmoney — Australia's award-winning online lender. Fast 100% online. Borrow up to $100,000. No monthly account or early repayment fees.
• Sharesies — Sharesies allows you to get started investing from just $5.
• CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

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• GamerBoom — GamerBoom is an artificial intelligence-driven protocol for gaming data analytics, developed on the Solana blockchain.
• Chomp — Chomp is a social network platform that focuses on on question-and-answer with prediction-based systems.
• Rocket — simpler than options. more precise than prediction markets. built for every level of trader.

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• CAEX — CAEX is a crypto asset exchange operator. CAEX builds transparent and secure crypto asset trading platform for investors.
• Coinone — Coinone is the cryptocurrency exchanges. Under the vision to ‘Bring Blockchain into the World,’ they aspires to lead the new world of finance through blockchain technology. They currently operates the third largest exchange. They prioritizes the protection of clients’ assets and is dedicated to providing the most secure investing environment.
• townsquare — Crosschain RWA yield infrastructure powering stock tokens, RWAs & institutional strategies | https://t.co/5glAR6k007

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• Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• Pearler — Kickstart or continue your long term investment journey with Pearler, a simple alernative for those who crave boring investing.
• SYOS — SYOS designs and manufactures a multi-domain portfolio of advanced uncrewed autonomous systems across air, land, sea, and subsurface.
• First Table — The Earlybird Gets The Dinner Deal! Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off meals for 2 to 4 diners! Email social@firsttable.co.nz

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• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
• Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
• Pontem Network — Pontem lets you find product market fit in a permissionless environment prior to launching on the Facebook-backed Diem Blockchain.

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• Walken — Walken develops a free2play blockchain game that aims to onboard millions to DeFi and Web3 while rewarding players for walking.
• May.Social — May.Social is a metaverse social platform that uses facial motion capture and 3D scene rendering technology to create a 3D virtual space
• REV3AL — Linktree. Make your link do more.

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• XOCIETY — XOCIETY, a POP Shooter with RPG progression Jpn X @XOJPofficial | Powered by @suinetwork @hashed_official @unopnd_Official
• The FishVerse — FishVerse combines GameFi, AI, and blockchain technology, allowing players to fish in a dynamic open environment from their own homes.
• NXI — Nexus Interactive gives collective growth and accrued value to its ecosystem.

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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.
• Rivet.cloud (Formerly OpenRelay) —
• Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.

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• InvArch — Invarch is an intellectual property ownership, utility and cross-chain authentication protocol for Web3.
• Soulbound — Saga is a decentralized gaming community that aims to improve and grow the metaverse by creating a chain-agnostic market infrastructure.
• Teahouse Finance — Powered by cutting-edge smart contracts

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• LatiPay — Latipay is a first to market, fully compliant financial technology (FinTech) New Zealand business. Our platform provides an online solution that focuses on New Zealand enterprise level merchants. The Latipay platform allows for Chinese payers to pay for goods and services with CNY (Chinese Yuan) whilst our New Zealand/Australian merchantreceives full payment for goods or service direct to their NZD/AUD bank account in NZD/AUD, at no cost to the merchant. Chinese payers can make payment through their preferred bank payment channels or their Alipay, WeChat, Baidu, Jd Pay wallets, whilst paying in their preferred currency of CNY. Our bi-lingual platform solves the significant Chinese and New Zealand/Australia payer and merchant dissatisfaction within the education, export, insurance, software and travel verticals.

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• Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
• Crowd Street — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.

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• BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
• Kairos Labs — Kairos Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem interest rate swap protocol
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.

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• Squid — Buy, swap, and bridge crypto across 100+ chains and 20k tokens. Fast, cheap, reliable. Used by 1M+ users and 1K+ integrators.
• Hotstuff Labs — Hotstuff Labs is a technology company building financial infrastructure for internet.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.

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• RepubliK GG — RepubliK GG specializes in developing a suite of tools for creators. It helps creators to unlock a wealth of untapped opportunities that cannot be reached within the confines of current social platforms.
• Quest Gamers — Quest Gamers is an application that is building the largest alliance of play-to-earn clan managers.
• Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

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• NFTfi — NFTfi allows borrowers to use the NFTs they own to access the liquidity they need - in a safe, secure and anonymous way. Lenders can earn attractive yields efficiently and have the chance to obtain rare assets at a steep discount in case of loan defaults.
• Namcon — Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.
• mmERCH — mmERCH is a blockchain-enabled Web3 fashion startup.

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• GolfN — GolfN is the web3 digital caddie. Play at more than 30,000+ courses worldwide and get rewarded for completing on-course activities. Collect and equip unique NFTs to multiply your rewards on and off the course.
• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.

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• Fineqia — Explore secure and innovative investment products with Fineqia. Access diversified portfolios, real-time insights, and compliance-backed financial solutions.
• Fluree — Fluree turns raw data into trusted, queryable knowledge graphs. GraphRAG-powered accuracy for enterprise AI.
• Quadrata — Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.

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• Akahu — Akahu provides open banking and open finance infrastructure. We make it simple for people to connect their financial accounts to trusted third parties.
• Emrgy — Emrgy empowers customers to generate on-site clean energy using innovative hydropower systems that integrate directly into slow or shallow water flows.
• Abstract — Abstract is a software-as-a-service company that is developing a next-generation tool for experts to influence politics and policy.

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• OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
• Paperly — Paperly helps companies streamline processes, compliance, and approvals in one platform. Gain real-time visibility and empower your teams to work with clarity and confidence.
• Breadcrumb — Improve worksite efficiency & safety with Breadcrumb. Eliminate on-site obstacles & create value in safety, efficiency, & data for your entire organisation.

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• Airwallex — Established in Melbourne in 2015, Airwallex is a global payments fintech that enables businesses to operate anywhere, anytime.In today’s fast-changing digital era, Airwallex's purpose is to empower businesses of all sizes to grow without borders, and by doing so, contribute to the global economy. With technology at its core, Airwallex builta proprietary global financial infrastructure platform to help businesses transact, collect and pay in any foreign currency across 130+ countries and 50+ currencies, without the constraints of the traditional global financial system.
• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
• DataMesh Group — We don't compete with banks and acquirers, preserving your commercial relationships. Choose any hardware and accept all payment types with our solution. Get in-store, online and mobile commerce in one view with unified settlement and analytics across regions. Already globally certified and trusted b

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• Jia — Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.
• Better Place Forests — Better Place Forests protects and maintains memorial forests where families can spread the ashes of loved ones, sustainably honoring their memories. Choose your memorial tree today for a forever legacy.
• Entangled Publishing — Women-owned publisher of Adult & YA romance. Entangled Amara, August, Teen, Indulgence, Brazen, Bliss, Scandalous, Embrace, Lovestruck, Crush, and Crave!

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• AuDIGENT — AuDIGENT is an audience intelligence platform that provides brands with actionable data, analytics and insights that optimize the targeting, engagement and ROI of online, mobile and social video ads while opening up new revenue streams for artists and other social influencers. AuDIGENT's platform allows brands to discover, monitor and targetaudiences that drive media performance. AuDIGENT's platform empowers artists and influencers to tap into the tools and technology needed to monetize their social influence and fan engagement. AuDIGENT's executives, data scientists, developers and operations team are in New York, Philadelphia and London. For more information visit AuDIGENT.com
• Songclip (Audiobyte) — Songclip™ is a new licensed music format built specifically for texting, social posts, and quick communication. Songclip’s multi-patented networked product solution, the Songclip API, integrates seamlessly into social platforms, mobile apps, and virtual marketplaces to drive expression, monetization, and music streaming. Songclip operates theworld’s foremost searchable library of 5-30 second meta-tagged music clips, in partnership with the music industry. For more information, visit songclip.com
• Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

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• Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.