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

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• Growappy — Growappy is an EdTech that offers an all-in-one platform for early education that is leading a vision to unlock personalized education since nursery with the power of AI, while providing a revolutionary communication experience between schools and families and drastically simplifying bureaucracy for teachers and school owners.
• Noxus — At Spot, we're crafting the operating system for tomorrow's workforce, harnessing AI to streamline influencer marketing. Our platform empowers agencies, businesses, and content creators to collaborate effectively and reach audiences with ease.
• Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.

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• Aptoide — Find, discover and download the best apps and games for Android in the official Aptoide app store
• Unlockit — Unlockit will offer to public and governmental bodies the guarantee that everything within a real estate transaction is recorded, meaning better industry regulation, more taxes and public fees collected, and less overall fraud and money laundering activities.
• Outgoing — A ticketing tool that allows organizers to sell tickets directly on WhatsApp and Instagram. Users can purchase tickets through a personalized checkout process entirely within the chat, without registration or redirects. It also offers customer support that answers questions in real time.

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• Tucuvi — Tucuvi is a health technology company unlocking efficient and high-quality healthcare at scale with a CE-marked platform for Phone Consultation Automation. We develop safe and clinically validated Conversational AI for any care pathway, enabling clinical teams to augment their capacities, improve processes’ efficiency and efficacy, and achievebetter patient outcomes and satisfaction through continuous and personalized care.
• Balance — Balance is a private digital health company based in Spain that operates in the clinics and outpatient healthcare services sector. company's core mission is to provide an integrated, medical, and sustainable approach to treating obesity and overweight conditions. Moving away from traditional restrictive diets, the company leverages asubscription-based telehealth model combined with clinical pharmacology.
• Punto Health — AI-powered digital platform for management of Alzheimer's and other dementias.

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• DoJob.ai — Hybrid Intelligence Innovation Project
• OSCAR — OSCAR offers a variety of fixed-price home services, including maintenance, cleaning, laundry, and beauty services, all accessible through a user-friendly app. Customers can easily schedule appointments for these services, with options available for immediate bookings. Additionally, OSCAR provides repair services for household appliances likewashing machines and boilers, ensuring convenience for users. The platform streamlines the process of finding and scheduling necessary home services, catering to the needs of busy individuals and families. Through its comprehensive service offerings, OSCAR simplifies home management for its users.
• Fluxe Insurance Software — FLUXE develops AI software based to build digital tools for claim automation aligned with the challenges of the insurance industry!

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• Mixergy — Our hot water solutions help homes, buildings, and utilities transition to a cleaner, more resilient future.
• Spotlite — Spotlite combines satellite data with AI to predict infrastructure risks before they become problems.
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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.
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• Robigo — Engineering the plant microbiome for a more sustainable food system
• Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.
• Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.

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• Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
• Humanos — The Risk Network for AI https://t.co/RzfFeAgNCj
• Usawa Care — Usawa is a free digital pediatrician clinic in Portugal. Talk to pediatricians via WhatsApp and get guidance for your child's health.

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• Infraspeak — Infraspeak is an Intelligent CMMS Software that brings outstanding flexibility, connectivity and intelligence to your operations.
• AI Clearing — AI-powered platform for construction progress tracking and quality control, supporting contractors and asset owners in energy, utilities, infrastructure, and civil construction projects.
• Meisterwerk — Meisterwerk provides a SaaS operating system for SMB field service and craftsman companies. They offer services that include operational planning, mobile time tracking, digital forms, information exchange, and their own workflows. Meisterwerk helps to communicate between the office and the workforce.

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• Biorce — Meet the world's first AI clinical trials assistant! We bring innovative technologies to revolutionize healthcare and drug development faster & more efficiently
• Pollen — Electric mobility for lightweight vehicles is about to get simpler, more affordable and more reliable.
• Win-Win — We're WNWN Food Labs and we love food. We're creating delicious, sustainable and ethical alternatives to unsustainable and ethically dubious foods. We're starting with cacao-free chocolate. Changing chocolate? It's Win-Win #alt-chocolate #altchocolate #alt-universe #altuniverse #alt-protein

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• Chomp — Chomp is a social network platform that focuses on on question-and-answer with prediction-based systems.
• Ayble Health — Ayble is your digital guide to better gut health.
• 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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• LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
• BladeInsight — BladeInsight offers innovative solutions for wind turbine blade operations and maintenance.
• James — James is an online credit risk management platform that provides risk management tools to financial institutions. Through the application of advanced scientific computing capabilities like machine learning, it enables risk departments to prepare against cyclical crisis and help protect their reputation, making the global financial system safer inthe long run.James was established in 2013 and is based in New York.

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• Jeeves Inc. — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
• EDGE Markets — The Financial Platform for Smart Bettors
• LI.FI — Advanced Bridge & DEX Aggregation - Drive multichain strategies with cross-chain data messaging and get users from everywhere.

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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.
• Pine Labs — Pine Labs offers a merchant platform that includes technology and financial solutions for merchants. These solutions are aimed at helping merchants in increasing their revenue and reducing cost, complexity, and risk.The company connects financial institutions and consumer brands to enable merchants to deliver value to their retail customers. Itpowers offline and online last-mile retail transactions, provides customer insights for targeted sales, and offers financial solutions. The company’s cloud-based platform powers 3,50,000+ POS terminals across 3700 cities and towns in India and Malaysia.Over 1,00,000 merchants across sectors - electronics, food and beverage, fashion, airlines, and more, use Pine Labs’ solutions. 15 major banks, 7 financial institutions, and 100+ brands are part of Pine Labs’ platform.
• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.

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• Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity
• Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
• Spotlite — Spotlite combines satellite data with AI to predict infrastructure risks before they become problems.

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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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• Modeinspect — acreom is the integrated markdown knowledge base with tasks. Your personal daily driver for your dev workflow.
• TeamToolz — TeamToolz creates and implements user-friendly applications that simplify and streamline the creation, management and archiving of marketing communications. Addressing the urgency of time to market, our web-based tools better enable entire brand launches by coordinating the workflow of multiple outside agencies and internal groups, for moreintegrated worldwide brand management.
• Revibe — Buy refurbished & used electronics (Smartphones, Laptops) in UAE at Revibe. Free delivery & 12 months warranty. Certified tech by our experts. Order Now!

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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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• Neuraspace — Focus on fewer alerts with more time to manoeuver, with a scalable AI/ML solution from Neuraspace
• Usawa Care — Usawa is a free digital pediatrician clinic in Portugal. Talk to pediatricians via WhatsApp and get guidance for your child's health.
• DOJO AI — The only tool you need to grow your Brand.

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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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• Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
• StandardX — StandardX is a deep-tech company building the isotope refinery powered by a scalable, compact particle accelerator platform.
• Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.

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• Moneybox — Moneybox is the simple way to save, invest, buy your first home, and combine your old pensions - all with one award-winning app. Download now.
• Wealthcome — Wealthcome is a wealth management company that offers tools for tracking expenses, optimizing fees, and analyzing investment performance.
• Biochar Industrial Group — Biochar Industrial Group partners with agricultural processors to convert biomass waste into biochar through industrial pyrolysis. The company finances, installs, and operates biochar production systems that process agricultural residues such as palm kernel shells, cashew husks, and sawdust. It manages biochar production, carbon creditverification, carbon credit sales, and revenue sharing with its partners. Biochar Industrial Group also provides waste value assessments and partnership programs for eligible agricultural processors.

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• ARX — Secure chips, onchain. Creators of @useburner @offlinecashco @kongiscash.
• Kamino — Building the next generation of credit infrastructure on Solana. NFA.
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams

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• Goparity — GoParity is an online savings and investment platform that uses a P2P business model to simplify investment and allow citizens and companies to get a decent return on their sustainable loans. Citizens and companies invest their funds in projects they believe in to generate economic, social and environmental impact.We are driving the transitiontowards a more sustainable and inclusive economic system, making investment in sustainable solutions accessible to all, from citizens to small enterprises. Join us @ www.goparity.com

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• Lyzer — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Primetag — AI-native influencer & creator marketing platform for brands & agencies. Find the best creators, analyse the market and competitors, and measure campaign performance.

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• Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
• Five Bells — Five Bells is an a blockchain-based settlement and clearing platform for digital assets that provides safe and open transactions.
• Foundation — Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet.They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoinwhile maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!

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• LOQR — Increase your business and reduce costs with the best AI-Powered Journey-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions.
• Drivit — Drivit turns any smartphone into a high-quality telematics device. Power your mobility app with features that will show you the best way to a safer, cheaper and more sustainable driving.
• Elucidate — The Elucidate FinCrime Index (EFI) is a financial crime risk quantification platform to build trust and confidence between financial institutions, corporates, and regulators.

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• Olas — Own and Monetize AI Agents. Powered by the OLAS Token. Join the discussion: https://t.co/QXRcFCJABw
• Catalysis — Infrastructure to natively integrate risk coverage into DeFi vaults. Purpose-built for Institutions.
• Reservoir — Infrastructure and APIs to bring efficient token markets to every chain, wallet, and app

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

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• Didimo — Didimo creates realistic high-fidelity digital humans. Simple, fast, accurate user-generated avatars to integrate into your app, game or site.
• Coverflex — Coverflex is a compensation management platform for teams to manage and enjoy multiple benefits. Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible, and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage everypart of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance, and exclusive discounts — while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.

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• Okify — Okify is a proptech startup that is revolutionizing the move-in process in the real estate industry. We provide customers with a platform where they can create their solvency profile and manage all home services and payments, making the process of moving much easier and faster, while providing security that payments and services are up to date toagents and landlords.
• Pekata — Pekata offers technological solution that allows employee to customize hamper based on personal tastes, dietary restrictions.
• Inversiva — Inversiva is a real estate investment firm that offers property management, rental, and renovation services.

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• ARPA — ARPA is a network that provides secure computation, which enables data to be shared and used without disclosing the raw data to anyone during data-at-use. The correctness of computation is verifiable even under majority malicious condition using Information-theoretic MAC and Zero- Knowledge Proof. By using state-of-the-art Multi-party Computationalong with innovative node communication scheme, our privacy-preserving computation protocol enables a new way of data monetization called Data Renting.
• ARPA Network — ARPA Network is a decentralized computing network designed to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchain technology.
• Sanctum — Stake SOL and earn optimized LST returns from JupSOL, bbSOL, and more, and launch your own custom LST and Solana validator.

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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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• 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.
• Pyth Network — The Pyth network is a specialized oracle solution for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind the “walled gardens’’ of centralized institutions. The Pyth network is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this unique data on-chain and aggregating it securely.
• Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.

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• Legion — Legion makes on-chain fundraising accessible to ordinary investors by ensuring regulatory compliance and investor accountability.
• Puffer — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• Injective — Injective is a blazing-fast Layer 1 blockchain for Web3 finance, built for DeFi apps with low fees, cross-chain support, and unmatched scalability.

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• CEA Industries — CEA Industries is an agriculture company that offers indoor cultivation services.
• Heritage Distilling — Heritage Distilling Co. (HDC) is a craft distillery based in Gig Harbor, Washington. HDC is the most awarded craft distillery in North America by the American Distilling Institute 10 years in a row. We pour a little of our heart into every batch of spirits we make.
• Mill City Venture III — Building the world's leading Sui treasury.

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• ORO AI — ORO facilitates the transformation of data into advanced forms of intelligence, representing the next generation of analytical capabilities.
• Nevermined — Monetize AI agents with usage-based billing and instant settlement.
• 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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• API3 — First-party blockchain oracle. Web APIs for trustless apps. Decentrally governed, quantifiably secure data feeds.
• dcSpark — Take your first step into the ever-growing world of Blockchain. By focusing on interoperability and composability, we provide a seamless experience for end users.
• Daler Trading — Daler is an algorithmic trading firm and crypto market maker specializing in options and futures. We provide liquidity and market-making services for the cryptocurrency ecosystem and Real-World Assets (RWA) across over 30 centralized (CEX) and decentralized exchanges (DEX).

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• HolmesAI — HolmesAI is a decentralised AI agent that offers persona customisation, tool integration, and task-specific agent deployment services.
• Kaia — Kaia is a public blockchain that utilizes Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for enhanced reliability and performance.
• aZen Protocol — aZen Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure for ubiquitous computing that utilizes blockchain technology to create a shared economy of computing power. It connects and manages resources globally to form a stable, distributed network that can support various applications such as DePIN, AI and Edge Computing.

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• Navidence — Navidence provides a transformative Real World Evidence (RWE) Design platform that enables organizations to efficiently adapt to the ever-increasing ecosystem of Real World Data (RWD) sources. The company unlocks the power of Computable Operational Definitions (CODefs) for RWE Design and RWD Assessment. Navidence's RWE Sherpa platform offerstools to streamline the process of defining an RWE study's data, making it easier for researchers to conduct their studies in the age of data.
• Rivia — Integrated Clinical Trial Intelligence. Drive therapeutic evaluation and trial management with real-time insights.
• Ladder Health — Ladder Health offers virtual pediatric therapy and support for early childhood developmental delays, including speech and physical therapy.

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• EntryLevel — Learn in an affordable, peer-driven environment over 6 weeks with mentors from top companies across the world such as Atlassian, Wise and more.
• VSPARTICLE — VSPARTICLE develops nanoparticle generators for various applications such as sensors, batteries, catalysis, solar cells, healthcare, additive manufacturing, nano safety, and more. It also enables research and industry to generate new materials at the push of a button.They specialize in nanoparticle production and integration. The technologyspeeds up the developments of customers by producing the desired nanoparticles on location and integrate them directly in the final product. VSPARTICLE was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Delft, The Netherlands.
• Omeda Studios — Developing Predecessor, a Third Person Multiplayer Online Battle Arena game for PC and console.

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• BitcoinOS — BitcoinOS is a Decentralized Finance company that builds and develops Bitcoin ecosystem.
• NuConstruct — Software Development. MEV Builder from an alternative timeline. Advanced onchain solving and execution.
• Semantic Layer — Semantic Layer improves incentive alignment in dApps, enabling MEV internationalization and sequencing sovereignty.

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• Beekeeper — Beekeeper is the employee app built for frontline success. Connect frontline teams, boost engagement, and make every shift more productive.
• Epic Games — Welcome to Epic Games Store! Download and play PC Games of every genre. We have mods, DLC and Free Games too! Games for everyone.
• Coverflex — Coverflex is on a mission to improve the way companies compensate their people, making it more transparent, flexible and easier for everyone to make the most of what they get. Through a fully digital solution, Coverflex helps companies manage every part of compensation beyond salary — benefits, insurance, meal allowance and exclusive discounts —while empowering people to spend on what suits them best.

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• Logicc — Logicc provides business solutions for various industries. It specializes in software development, automation, and data-driven technologies.
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• Omniscient — Omniscient is a Paris-based AI-powered decision intelligence platform designed for boards and C-suite executives. It aggregates data from over 100,000 sources like media, social channels, and internal systems to deliver real-time, contextualized insights on corporate reputation, geopolitical risks, narrative strategy, and more.

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• Losanje — Losanje has a brand and an upcycling workshop that gives second-hand and unsold completed apparel and textiles a second life. Its goal is to create an innovative manufacturing chain that will allow for the first time the industrialization of upcycling, as well as to implement the most credible solution, both ecologically and economically.
• PulmoBiomed — PulmoBioMed Ltd develops innovative breath-based sampling, enabling rapid, non-invasive detection of respiratory diseases for improved global healthcare.
• noc™ — The world's simplest video chat app: Improves mental health and boosts innovation. It's a secure, cost effective and peer-to-peer telecoms solution for everyone.

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• Rebar Labs — Rebar Labs is a company that offers research services and infrastructure for bitcoin. The company wants to help users in the Bitcoin ecosystem create more effective and better experiences by addressing issues related to maximum extractable value and offering services that guarantee equitable value distribution.
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Tren Finance — Tren Finance: a secure DeFi liquidity protocol offering seamless asset swaps, yield opportunities, and cross-chain compatibility through automated smart contracts, redefining liquidity for users and institutions.

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• Agri Marketplace — A b2b digital marketplace where fair food trade is made easy, fast and transparent!

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• Brink — Brink is a Bitcoin research and development centre
• Ethena — Enabling the Internet Bond
• Lombard — Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.

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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 — Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.
• Camp Network — Camp Network provides online camp registration and camp management software for all types of events across the United States.