Top 40 FinTech Angel Investors in South Korea (September 2026)

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• Fab2 — Fab2 is a semiconductor technology company that designs and builds chip fabs, manufacturing tools, components, and software in-house.
• W4 Games — W4 Games helps to support the open-source Godot ecosystem by giving businesses the goods and services they require on a commercial level.
• Generalist AI — At Generalist, we are on a mission to build general intelligence for the physical world.

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• Opensurvey — • Founded in 2011, ​the company has been the dominant mobile research provider in Korea. Since then, we have accumulated variety of experiences and developed a deep understanding how market research should be on smart devices. • The platform(OpenSurvey™) provides not only fast collection of data, or automated analysis of result, but real-timeaccess to one third million consumer panels in Korea. Now we are working with 1,200 corporate clients including Kimberly-Clark, Kakao, and Facebook.• The company raised $6M investments from SoftBank Ventures and renowned entrepreneurs in Korea.
• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
• RushOrder — Compare the best online casinos for US players: bonuses, banking methods, game libraries and licensing, so you can pick a site that actually fits.

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• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.
• Pogoseat — Pogoseat provides innovative mobile ticketing solutions that helps live-entertainment venues sell more tickets and enhance the fan experience.
• Bluesmart — Bluesmart develops Internet connected travel products that include physical products combined with software. It offers Bluesmart app, a solution that allows users to control suitcases from their phones, receive smart alerts, and track their travel data to get insights about travel habits. Bluesmart also provides digital lock solutions for luggageand its contents; battery charging and location tracking solutions; and distance alerts and trip data. Alejo Verlini, Brian Chen, Diego Saez-Gil, Martin Diz, and Tomi Pierucci founded it on Novermber 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Mountain View in California.

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• Bering Lab — Bering Lab provides AI-powered machine translation services for the legal, IP, financial, technology, enterprise markets
• Port One — Port One provides payment solutions for online businesses.
• Korea Credit Data — Korea Credit Data provides essential services for merchants in Korea including business management, customer analysis, POS and payment services as well as marketplace platform. KCD and its six subsidiaries currently serve more than two million businesses in Korea. KCD aims to resolve issues a business owner faces from the beginning to end of hisbusiness life. To this end, KCD expands its business areas to include payment(Korea Payment Networks), POS(IMU), and credit bureau(Korea Credit Service) which obtained a CB license for the first time in 17 years.KCD made strong strategic partnerships with industry leading companies and built a high entry barrier; the company raised $220M+ from Temasek(Pavilion Capital), Morgan Stanley(Tactical Value), Kakao(No.1 mobile platform in Korea), KB Kookmin Bank(No.1 retail bank in Korea), Hanwha Life Insurance, Shinhan Card(No.1 credit card company in Korea), Dunamu(No.1 cryptocurrency exchange in Korea 'Upbit'), GS Holdings(No.1 CVS in Korea 'GS25'), Fiserv(the largest non-bank merchant acquirer) and more.

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• MyMusicTaste — MyMusicTaste is a one-stop K-Pop platform, where K-pop fans worldwide can watch their favorites' online concerts. Not only that, you can also interact with the artists during online fansigns, support them by getting their latest album and keep up to date with their latest news!
• Lendit — Lendit is the leading personal loan oriented marketplace lending company in Korea that operates fully online and manages a marketplace platform where investors can provide capital to people seeking loans. Through our advanced risk ranking algorithm and cost- effective operational process, borrowers can access to an appealing interest rate andinvestors can enjoy ‘high and stable’ yield. We offer borrowers an APR between 4.5% and 18.0%, and investors an average return of 10.66%. By transforming the traditional banking system, we aim to help both borrowers and investors to achieve financial goals.
• TIDEPOOL — Tidepool(500 Global selected) DBA Fishscope, powerful AI Fish & Feed Monitoring solution that solves periodic sampling and fish health diagnosis that requires human labor through Computor vision tech for BioMass Measurement, Fish Healthcare, and Feeding Optimization. - 10+ partnerships including GS E&C(Fortune 500 GS Group Subsidiary) andmany major government arms based in APAC - 90% or more accuracy for weight estimation of live fish in water - Demo: http://fishscope.tidepool.kr/

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• Jerry — Jerry simplifies the expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming aspects of car ownership.
• CHAI — CHAI they develops infrastructure technologies to create an efficient digital economy.
• Sequin — Sequin is building a suite of credit products for women, starting with a debit card that builds credit.

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• Savle — Savle is a purpose-based asset management and fun saving platform service for asset management beginners.
• KRG Group — KRG Group is a proptech and rental finance platform operated by KRG Group that provides “zero-deposit” monthly rental solutions for residential and commercial leases. The service helps tenants reduce or eliminate upfront security deposits while guaranteeing landlords stable monthly rent payments.
• Turing — Reinvent Education with Technology

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• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• Airmule — Airmule Founded in 2015 and built with love in Los Angeles, California, Airmule is a trusted community marketplace for anyone to affordably express ship worldwide with a traveler from a mobile phone or tablet.Whether across the country or the world, Airmule connects people to safely deliver packages anytime, anywhere at low rates and in lesstime. Airmule is the easiest way for people list their trip to earn money with their extra luggage space.
• Talkwheel — Talkwheel is where you discuss what you are passionate about in life. We are ushering in the new days of mobile conversation. Want to argue over who has the cutest pet, debate politics, or talk about the Giants during the game? Talkwheel is the app for that!Instead of tweeting and getting no response, write in Talkwheel and find fellowaficionados to have meaningful conversations around topics you care about. Unlike most mobile forums, Talkwheel believes that forums don’t have to be ugly to be functional. That’s why we’ve designed a beautiful mobile app with you, the user, as the focal point. You can even continue the conversation at your desktop at social.talkwheel.com!

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• Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters
• 500videos Inc. — 500videos’s verified video comes with 3-point (place, people, product) verification. We visit to check actual location of business, check the business registration or real owner and shoot the real product or service.
• Remember & Company — Remember & Company develops professional networking, recruitment, and business relationship management services through its Remember platform and related enterprise solutions. The company provides digital business card management tools that allow users to scan, organize, and update professional contact information through mobile applicationsand cloud-based systems. It also operates recruitment and headhunting services that connect companies with experienced professionals through talent discovery, scouting, and hiring workflows.Remember & Company develops expert network and research services that link businesses with industry specialists for interviews, surveys, and market insight projects. The platform includes community, networking, and business engagement features designed to support professional interaction and relationship-building among working professionals. In addition, Remember & Company offers advertising, corporate marketing, and business solution services targeted toward professional and enterprise audiences.

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• Bolt Labs — Our mission at Bolt Labs is to build a usable, secure, and scalable infrastructure to enable everyone to securely store their assets while preserving the privacy of their transactions. Bolt’s secure computation solutions (or MPC) allow you to protect your user’s assets while providing confidentiality, ensuring integrity, and preventing misuse ortheft. A technology that is fast becoming the standard for digital asset security, MPC enables these benefits by federating trust across multiple parties and allowing evaluation of functions without decrypting private inputs. Bolt is also developing the zkChannels L2 protocol - a scalable and usable privacy-preserving payment infrastructure that integrates with existing payment networks, including but not limited to public blockchains. We believe zkChannels will set a new standard for secure payments in online services, giving merchants a seamless way to comply with emerging privacy regulations and delight their customers with cryptographically rigorous respect for their privacy.The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland.
• The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.
• The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.

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• Heptabase — A note-taking tool for visual learning.
• Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
• Dialect — Discover the fastest, most intuitive, and safest way to trade tokens over chat

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• Art Busan — Art Busan is the organizer of the Korean art fair brand
• Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.
• The Data Foundation — Story is AI-native infrastructure for the intellectual property economy.

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• Become — Become, Inc. provides cloud-based performance marketing and SaaS solutions that benefit online retailers, web & mobile publishers and online shoppers (Product Ads, Channel Management, Feed Optimization, Analytics and more). Become helps merchants increase sales, publishers monetize traffic and consumers make more informed shoppingdecisions. With over 500 publishers, Become operates the world’s largest syndication network for Product Ads.A truly global company, Become, Inc. generates over 70% of its revenue outside the US. With operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Japan, and the Philippines, we leverage our growing global footprint to provide unmatched solutions to our partners and shoppers.Become, Inc. is a profitable, privately held company with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. Key investors include TPG, Transcosmos, Inc., European Founders Fund and Ron Conway.
• Korbit — Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

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• CASIMIR —
• illumicell AI — illumicell AI combines patented AI algorithms and proprietary microscopy technology to test 50x faster, 20x more effectively, empowering every healthcare provider at the point of care – not just fertility clinics – with accessible, scalable fertility diagnostics.
• SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

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• Endowus — Licensed by MAS. Grow all your money through intelligent investment portfolios built by experts, customised to your goals. Award-winning fee-only wealth platform.
• Brainfish — Brainfish is the world's first AI-powered help center + content platform that instantly answers any customer question.
• Quota Lab — Quota Lab is a financial infrastructure company that connects the capital flows of all ventures & startups, general partners (GPs), and limited partners (LPs) to build a venture capital market infrastructure and create a new financial ecosystem.

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• AI SPERA — AI SPERA is an AI- based cybersecurity firm. It provides real-time intelligence with machine learning and fraud detection by analyzing cyber threats. It provides comprehensive intelligence solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent cyberattacks targeting organizations.
• Spike AI — Spike AI's Marketing AGI (MAGI) automates SEO, content strategy, and marketing optimization. Experience the future of B2B SaaS marketing with our autonomous AI system.
• Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.

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• Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
• Beaubble — beauty + bubble = beaubble [byoo-buhl]
• Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today

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• Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
• Dirac Labs — Universal Navigation Powered by Quantum Sensing & AI
• Physical Superintelligence — Physical Superintelligence develops physical superintelligence systems that use AI-driven research to study physics, engineer physical systems, and explore new physical laws. Its approach combines human scientists with virtual physicists that conduct autonomous research campaigns covering hypothesis development, verification, experimentation,engineering, and deployment. The company focuses initially on the physical infrastructure underlying AI, including energy, materials, computation, sensing, and manufacturing.

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• EduRev — EduRev is an e-learning platform that provides student the freedom to learn what they want. It is a free website where thousands of students, teachers and professors share, study and upload their notes, video lectures and books to help each other. The problem not only exists in the school, but also colleges, especially engineering colleges, wherethe last minute study counts for everything. One common place to find all such answers is www.edurev.in, a site that provides material that you need to obtain an edge in a world of cut throat competition. EduRev provides everything for free, from online videos of lectures, and ebooks in the pdf format. The unique feature of the website is it’s interaction capabilities. Students follow their teachers and friends, and create a network. The teachers can also interact with students from different institutions across the country and bond with the like-minded.
• Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.
• Synthesys — Interoperable Liquidity Layer for Tokenized Capital Markets. Compliantly built for institutions. Access unified liquidity across 17+ jurisdictions and 40+ distribution channels.

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• Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.

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• Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.

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• Miros — Miros reads shopper intent from behaviour and surfaces the right products in under 60 seconds. +7-19% GMV. +296% conversion vs Algolia.
• Giraffe360 — Giraffe360 is game-changing subscription product for real estate companies to streamline professional quality photography and high accuracy floor plan creation.
• Value Space Co. — Value Space Co. is a space reconstruction company that offers space-optimized services through project development planning.

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• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• Airbility — Airability is a developer for potential airline mobility solutions.
• MakeDashy — Maximize repeat purchases with targeted user segmentation and dynamic product recommendation at Retentics, powered by AI

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• Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
• Alcacruz — A video streaming company with offices in Silicon Valley & Seoul. AlcaCruz created CruzTV, a global esports streaming platform that live streams multiple views (esports, sports games, concerts, channel programming, etc.) into one interactive screen. Our MultiView technology is based on AlcaCruz's SuperStream which live streams 360VR/AR/MR with superb video quality and at extremely low bandwidth (70% cost savings over conventional VR streaming).
• Soundl.ly — Soundl.ly provides IoT manufactures & app developers with the most reliable data-over-audio technology for pairing devices instantly with zero user hassle.* Our technology is 100% software, so 10 times cheaper than Bluetooth* UX becomes far simpler since the steps to turn Bluetooth ON are eliminated* Our patented technology is based onRADAR and outperforming competitors by 10xOur clients (as of Aug. '16):* Akbank TV commercials: we activated TV viewer's mobiles to send an app install link* Shopping&T: TV shopping network with 15M subscriber reach* Lotte Cinema: 30% marketshare of Korean domestic theaters

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• KlayCity — KlayCity is a P2E virtual world where district NFT owners can govern, explore and earn while enjoying the gaming experience.
• Levana — $LVN community airdrop is open. Early supporters get rewarded
• Fractal — Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.

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• Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.

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• Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
• Deepgram — Deepgram helps enterprises unlock the potential of their audio data with custom-trained speech recognition for accuracy and scale. Deepgram's deep learning speech recognition system searches for keywords in transcripts by sound and text within audio and video files, used for transcribing calls, meetings, and voicemails for searchable notes,providing businesses with a fast, high accuracy speech-to-text on an easy-to-use API.The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• Shred Video — Make awesome GoPro movies from raw footage in seconds. Download now on the Mac App Store! http://t.co/huKZsX8RBY

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• Project Pluto — AI-powered investment research for hedge funds, private equity, wealth management professionals. Terminal X automates deep research, real-time data indexing, and financial insights in seconds.

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• Flow - By the Hour Hotel Booking Platform — Flow App : Book hotels and co-working spaces by the hour. Flexible duration from 1-12 hours. Check-in anytime, save up to 75% off regular prices.
• LIberaTrade — LIberatrade uses companies existing data or SaaS supply chain data management tools to build more resilient supply chains. We drive growth while reducing logsitics costs, and improving access to capital.
• H2O Hospitality — H2O Hospitality is the largest vacation rental management company in Japan and Korea. H2O manages accommodation facilities without any on-site human resources by automating all the operational flows through the property management system (“PMS”) H2O developed that links and manages calendars between the guests, rooms, and housekeepers. This allowssignificant decrease in fixed cost of the operational expenses, increasing the yield of the facility.

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• aiomics — Aiomics | Back to your calling.Across Europe, healthcare providers lose hours every day to fragmented documentation—handwritten notes, scanned PDFs, dictations, disconnected IT systems. The result: burnout, missed revenue, and patients feeling like they’re asked the same question three times.Aiomics changes this. Our AI-driven co-pilot capturesevery clinical detail—speech, handwriting, digital notes—and validates it in real time with a human-in-the-loop process. Interactive checklists surface missing information before the patient leaves, and audit-ready records flow straight back into existing systems. Built for GDPR, MDR, and the EU AI Act from day one, Aiomics makes documentation complete, compliant, and instantly usable.We don’t replace EHRs—we make them better. From admission and discharge reports to insurer forms, from therapist briefings to patient-friendly letters, Aiomics turns paperwork from a burden into an asset. For providers, that means fewer errors, faster reimbursements, and—most importantly—more time at the bedside.Our mission: to empower healthcare professionals by removing administrative burdens and elevating their decision-making with trusted AI guidance—so they can reconnect with why they chose this vocation in the first place.Who we are: Aiomics is co-founded by Dr. Sven Jungmann, a physician with frontline experience of administrative overload; Dr. Nikita Tarasov, a physicist and data scientist; and a lawyer who scaled one of Europe’s largest digital service companies. Together, we unite empathy, technical mastery, and regulatory expertise to build the trusted co-pilot for Europe’s healthcare providers.
• Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.

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• Weperson — Weperson develops and operates a human resources software as a service platform.
• Time Percent — Time Percent is a trading platform that integrates virtual assets, domestic stocks, and foreign stocks.

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• AI SPERA — AI SPERA is an AI- based cybersecurity firm. It provides real-time intelligence with machine learning and fraud detection by analyzing cyber threats. It provides comprehensive intelligence solutions to detect, mitigate, and prevent cyberattacks targeting organizations.

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• OpenTrade — OpenTrade (오픈트레이드) is a Korean business incubator focused on developing a communication-based crowdfunding platform for startups. Having identified lack of communication as the biggest stumbling block in attracting investments, the company has developed the platform to enable transparent communication between entrepreneurs, startups, andinvestors.OpenTrade’s crowdfunding platform enables startups to have ongoing communication with investors and thereby build a long-term relationship based on trust. OpenTrade also provides mentoring facilities in the areas of management, marketing, and finance.

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• Risorius — Risorious provide clear guidelines for prescribing neuropsychiatric drugs.

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• Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.

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• Trepa — Trepa is a real-time prediction platform where users predict financial metrics with high precision. The platform features sub-minute prediction windows, a proprietary scoring system, and a developer API.

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• Yobble — Yobble is a mobile motion sensing platform for apps that need more than the regular touch interfaces. It's a hybrid hardware/software solution. Our proof of concept is a Guitar Hero-style iPhone Air Guitar that converts air guitar moves and rock star poses into music. We want our users to feel and act like rock stars (except for thehangovers and other bad habits of real rock stars).
• Box Ladder — BoxLadder is a global fundraising platform for startups. From idea to IPO and beyond, the company connects entrepreneurs with capital by connecting and matching the right investors. The back office is responsible for finding the best investors, creating an investor deck, conducting due diligence, and drafting a term sheet.
• Fêtefully — Your Style. Your Budget. Your Way. A virtual experience personalized for every couple.

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• AM Management — AM Management is an AM system trading platform that develops AI quant systems.
• AM Management — AM Management is a company that offers quantitative-based digital asset solutions. It is the second company in the world to deliver quantitative solutions to the worldwide virtual asset exchange.

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• Lepricon — Lepricon is a blockchain-driven ecosystem of DeFi, games, and NFTs delivered on our gas-free Ethereum compatible side chain, Leprichain.
• Yield App — Earn passive income on your digital assets and enjoy the benefits of DeFi strategies with up to 13% annual interest
• Anchor Protocol — Anchor Protocol is a savings platform that provides crypto natives, fintech companies, and investors a stable, high interest rate finance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

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• Fount — Fount Inc. Is an asset management Robo-Advisor startup founded in 2015. Their investing algorithm based on BigData Technology helps you plan for every event of your life. fount team believes in passive investing, which takes the right level of risk for your goal's time horizon, and allows their advanced computer algorithms do all the work.