Top 15 Franchise Startup Investors in Finland (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Business Finland
VC Fund
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5 | Finland, United States, United Kingdom | Grant, Seed, Debt Financing | Software, Biotechnology, SaaS | $53k–$11M |
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Vendep Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Analytics | $713k–$13M |
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Innovestor
VC Fund
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2 | Finland, Denmark, Sweden | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Health Care, Information Technology | $163k–$4.5M |
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HOWZAT Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United Kingdom, Germany, United States | Seed, Series A | Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS | $318k–$11M |
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Pekka Koskinen
Angel
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2 | Finland | Angel, Pre-Seed | B2B, SaaS, Content | $106k–$424k |
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Digital Future
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Advertising | $120k–$2.6M |
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Cecily Drucker
Angel
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2 | Finland | Seed | B2B, SaaS, Content | $1.2M–$1.8M |
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Andreas Mihalovits
Angel
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2 | Spain, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $411k–$7M |
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Paul Melin
Angel
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1 | Estonia, Finland | Seed | B2B, SaaS, Content | $1.4M–$1.8M |
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Sampo Parkkinen
Angel
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1 | Finland | Pre-Seed | B2B, SaaS, Content | |
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Flyer One Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence | $350k–$10M |
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DAAL
VC Fund
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1 | Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Series A, Convertible Note | Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology | $100k–$3.3M |
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CABRA VC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Israel | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning | $300k–$29M |
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Aviram Jenik
Angel
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1 | United States, South Korea, Israel | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence | $250k–$18M |
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Alfabeat
VC Fund
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1 | Poland, United Kingdom, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Marketing, SaaS | $199k–$13M |
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Business Finland finances business R&D projects and public research projects at universities, research institutes and universities of applied sciences. Read more about R&D and business funding.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Finland, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 197
- Round size: Seed $297k–$3.5M; Grant $53k–$11M; Debt Financing $241k–$5.8M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Marginum — Pioneering the next-generation quantitative surgical techniques.
- Valio — We are Valio Group: the most innovative dairy and food company in the world.
We back early-stage B2B SaaS founders in the Nordics & Baltics with capital, expertise, and long-term partnership. See how we invest and support growth.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Finland, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $713k–$3.2M; Series A $3.4M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $82M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Agileday — Connect your business elements in one tool and manage your entire operations with Agileday. Match sales, projects, and talent together and optimize your business.
- Hopsworks — Hopsworks is an online platform for the development and operation of Machine Learning (ML) pipelines at scale, based around the industry's first Feature Store for ML.
- Test of Things — Test of Things is to protect customers and society from cyber incidents by making IoT cybersecurity easy and automated. They are building a cloud service that automates security testing so customers can ship secure, compliant products with peace of mind.Their platform integrates security into the development lifecycle, enabling continuous testingthat lowers risks and costs while enhancing reputation.
Innovestor is an active Finnish investment manager, focusing on venture capital, real estate, and energy storage. We also offer corporate venturing services.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland, Denmark, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 79
- Round size: Seed $507k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $163k–$2M
- Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $35M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Innomost — Innomost develops and produces high-value bioactive ingredients from forest industry side streams that enable customers to make innovations in the cosmetic beauty industry. Its current product portfolio consists of birch charcoal powder, birch bark powder, betulin, suberin, and azelaic acid, which can trigger innovation in all cosmetic productcategories including skincare, haircare, body care, decorative cosmetics, and oral care.
- Bahn Express — Bahn Express is a global car transportation company that supports independent contractors while offering quick and easy auto shipping throughout Europe.
- Teitur Trophics — Teitur Trophics is a biotech company developing circular peptides for neurodegenerative diseases. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark.
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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- Industry: Travel, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $318k–$2.2M; Series A $1.5M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2015
Portfolio highlights
- Wingly — Wingly is a flight sharing platform. Find pilots or passengers for your trip.
- Handiscover — Handiscover is the first community based Holiday accommodation-booking website, dedicated to people with special needs and disabilities. At the core of Handiscover lies a unique classification system which allows users to select accommodation based on their different levels of mobility/physical disability. It was founded by SebastienArchambeaud in 2014, a father to a boy with a muscle disease.
- Mymoria — MYMORIA offers an one-stop-online-shop for full configuration and complete commissioning of funerals. Mymoria is able to offer its services significantly cheaper than traditional mortician homes. The company is offering its services nationwide and work hard to organize our processes efficiently while maintaining thehigh service standards.
Founder at Leadfeeder
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $106k–$424k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
- Cuutio Software —
Digital Future is a leading Ukraine-born VC firm. We provide late seed and early stage funding to revenue-enabled companies with initial traction, scalable business model, indefatigable team and global ambition. Our portfolio includes companies from Ukraine, Europe, Israel, and United States.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $120k–$2.6M; Pre-Seed $424k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Preply — Looking for a tutor? Preply is the best platform for private online lessons with a flexible payment system and affordable prices. Book your first lesson.
- LifeTracker —
- Reply.io — Reply is the leading AI-powered sales engagement platform that automates multichannel touchpoints with leads and customers throughout the sales process. From email search on LinkedIn to meetings booked right on the platform - Reply saves up to 40% of SDR and Sales teams time to focus on closing deals. Backed with a top-notch AI algorithm, Replyhelps SDRs and sales reps tailor and improve sales messages and focus on the hottest leads faster. Its robust reporting system tracks all activities for team members and automatically logs them to your CRM via native integrations, rich API with 40+ methods, or Zapier.The platform is recognized among the top 50 tools for sales in 2021 by G2 and trusted by over 2500 companies worldwide.Crush your sales quotas and book more meetings with Reply: 1. Reply automates bulk email search, LinkedIn outreach, personal emails, calls, SMS, and WhatsApp messages according to your sales playbook. 2. It offers out-of-the-box email and sequence templates with proven top performance to help you launch your outreach sequence in an hour. 3. Streamline the workflow with native CRM integrations, rich API with 40+ method, and the power of Zapier to automatically sync data and keep CRM records up to date. 4. Reply is backed with AI features: Email Sorting (check the ‘Interested’ folder for the hottest leads to focus on); Email Quality service and Email Assistant to create best-practice email copy which is likely to convert. 5. Collaborate in teams within sequences and prospects, manage workload between team members, and perform account-based selling. 6. Track your team progress with detailed in-depth reports and stats for sequences, calls, tasks, and team performance.Reply use cases: ✓ OUTBOUND SALES - automate outbound outreach to significantly scale sales and empower revenue growth. ✓ INBOUND SALES - engage in communication with potential customers and close more inbound deals. ✓ ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT - communicate with existing customers on a personal level. ✓ STAFFING & RECRUITING - reaching out to prospective job candidates. ✓ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT - building relations with future partners. ✓ PR & LINK BUILDING - pitching journalists and bloggers with your idea.For more information visit https://reply.io
Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $411k–$2.1M; Series A $1.5M–$7M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Colibid — Jagoledak Layanan Terbaik Master Vixenskitchen Rasakan Citra Rasa Dunia Penuh HIburan Penghasil Uang Dalam Genggaman Tangan
- Motoreto — Motoreto is a used car and accessories marketplace. They explain the information and details of the used car and provide offers from dealers and payment options. Motoreto University is a Motoreto program designed to train specialized sales profiles in the international automotive industry.
- CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
Paul Melin is the Chairman Of The Board at Silcube Software.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Estonia, Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Warren.io — Warren is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.
- PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.
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- Industry: B2B, SaaS, Content
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one agentic platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
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Browse database — It's Free!Flyer One Ventures is an international early-stage venture capital firm focused on early-stage startups from CEE region. The fund invests in future-proof startups, founded by exceptional teams, and operating on global markets worth more than $10 billion. Flyer One Ventures funds startups in Mobile, Health Tech, EdTech, Fitness & Wellness, B2BSaaS, Gaming, FoodTech, and AI/ML industries and helps them scale on international markets. Founded by the co-founder of BetterMe and supported by Genesis Tech, Flyer One Ventures has deep expertise in Digital Marketing, Product, PR, Branding, and Recruiting. Along with the financial investment, Flyer One Ventures actively supports its portfolio companies, helping them optimize Digital Marketing campaigns, hire R&D staff, build user-friendly products, and fundraise Series A and Series B rounds. Flyer One Ventures' ultimate goal is to support early-stage startups in the geographies with low access to early financing and help them become global leaders by mentorship and daily support.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Cyprus, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $550k–$5.2M; Pre-Seed $350k–$1.3M; Series A $500k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 99math — 99math is e-sports in school math! Global online tournaments for kids. They get excited and start achieving in math.
- Peech — text to speech
- Cooper Pet Care — Just Russel honden- en kattenvoeding op maat. Op basis van ras, leeftijd, gezondheid en gewicht. Makkelijker voor jou, beter voor je huisdier!
The aim of Daal is to create excellent opportunities for investment by providing mentorship and business development insights to companies within the IT space.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Geography: Egypt, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $100k–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pulppo — Pulppo is the first Tech Enabled broker for Latin America. We partner with the best brokers in the region and empower them with tools, technology and resources to create a simple and transparent buying process. Pulppo was founded by Agustin Iglesias, former GM of Inmuebles24 and founder of Tokko Broker (Acquired by Navent) and Matias Gath, formerGM of Glovo in Argentina and founder of Kadabra (acquired by Glovo).
- Kamioun — Kamioun is a mobile platform that connects FMCG manufacturers to local retail shops by fast free delivery of inventory.
- Paper.id — Atur tempo pembayaran bisnis serta kirim & terima pembayaran dengan kartu kredit, invoice juga langsung sah dengan e-Meterai. Coba Sekarang!
Cabra.vc is a venture fund for technological startups that want to scale out to international markets
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, India, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $600k–$5M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.9M; Series A $7M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Adwisely — Automate Facebook and Google ads for your Shopify store with AI. Get 6x ROAS. Trusted by 1,000+ Shopify brands. Install Adwisely and set up in minutes.
- Pitchly — Freakishly fast & perfectly consistent document solutions because we're different than everyone else. Click, if you want to learn more.
- Collectly — Collectly helps healthcare organizations collect more patient payments faster, automate and streamline internal revenue cycle operations, and elevate patient financial experience.
Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies
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- Industry: Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, South Korea, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $494k–$18M; Angel $250k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
- Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
- Apolyta — Threat simulators use playbooks and checklists. Adversaries don't. Prepare for the real threats of tomorrow with adaptive attack emulation.
Welcome to Alfabeat, a specialist seed and early stage venture capital fundfocused on Enterprise SaaS companies from Central and Eastern Europe,backed by successful enterprise software founders.
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- Industry: Software, Marketing, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Poland, United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $199k–$4M; Pre-Seed $300k–$1.2M; Series A $2.5M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- SunRoof — Roof of the future
- Monetization Solutions, Inc. — Monetizr™ is a turn-key solution enabling game developers and game IP holders to sell personalized game gear from inside the game’s UI and create meta-experiences for high-value players. Give players more than they expect!★ Platform to design, import, and control product inventory, launch, and manage campaigns in real-time. ★ A technologysolution that enables a to sell personalized game gear or give away physical rewards right from the game itself. ★ Support for multi-languages and multi-currencies with the most popular payment methods, including ApplePay, GooglePay, CreditCards, PayPal, Bitcoin. ★ Handling product procurement, fulfillment, legal compliance, and customer support for you. ★ Knowledge-base with the best campaign tactics recommendations to enhance the experience for your most high-value players.We've increased customer lifetime value (CLTV) by up to 25% and our conversion rates are as high as 10.6%. Today we're working with more than 30 game publishers, reaching 17 million monthly active users. Monetizr is focused on Mobile Games - the fastest growing (29% YoY) segment of the gaming industry with 41% of market share and $56.4 Billion dollars spent on digital currencies annually.Learn more at www.themonetizr.com
- Fluency — Fluency is a blockchain-empowered CBDC proprietary platform revolutionizing the existing financial system. Their blockchain enterprise smart contract platform was developed for the purpose of building and interconnecting national multi CBDC networks. Fluency Aureum allows issuance, distribution, and exchange of multi-CBDCs between central banks,commercial banks, merchants, and consumers. The company's proprietary technology is specifically tailored with the idea of bringing technological and economical innovations of digital currencies to the existing financial system.It was incorporated in 2019, headquartered in London, UK with subsidiaries in Delaware, US, and Dublin, Ireland.
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