Top 45 Gaming VC Funds & Investors in South Africa (July 2026)

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• Novel Farms — Novel Farms uses microbial fermentation to develop cruelty-free, inexpensive and tunable bioscaffolds for the production of cell-based meat products. Novel Farms mission is to craft the taste and texture of the gourmet meats and transform cell-based meat consumption into a sought-after culinary experience for the next generation of consciouseaters.
• Minus — A sustainable coffee alternative, combining the taste, look, and smell of coffee with a smaller footprint to ensure a brighter future for coffee and the planet.
• Unicorn Biotechnologies — Unicorn Biotechnologies is developing a fully automated manufacturing platform to enable cellular agriculture producers to seamlessly scale products from the lab bench to supermarket shelves. Our full stack platform combines hardware, software and analytics to completely automate cellular agriculture manufacturing, reducing costs and increasingproduct quality. By providing a clear path to scale cellular agriculture from grams to tons, we will improve human and planetary health and drive the transition to animal free agriculture.

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• PTO Exchange — PTO Exchange is the first benefits platform that allows employees to self-direct the value of their unused paid time off (PTO) for other needs and causes.
• eWise — eWise is a leading international provider of Personal Financial Management and Account Aggregation solutions. eWise Money Manager is used by many of the worlds most innovative banks including HSBC, Westpac and First Direct. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Switzerland, eWise has operations in Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
• Exactuals — Optimizing the payments of residuals, royalties and other complex payments. Exactuals' suite of products optimizes metadata, calculates and processes payments ensuring money gets sent quickly and accurately.

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• Savannah Brands — Savannah Brands is a food & beverage company.
• UTU Technologies — Trust infrastructure for the sharing economy.
• African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.

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• Whip Media — Discover how Whip Media is revolutionizing the business of content with AI-native solutions for smarter licensing.
• MusicInfra — Organizing connections between recordings, compositions, and rightsholder claims to reduce friction and enable monetization. AI-powered recognition and matching solutions for the music industry.
• Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.

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• Trade Shield — Trade Shield's aim is to increase access to trade credit facilities for those companies that most need them and will benefit the most from them.
• Mia Healthcare —
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• Curse — The entertainment site where fans come first. Your daily source for all things TV, movies, and games, including Star Wars, Fallout, Marvel, DC and more.
• Stoke Games — Stoke Games operates as an independent gaming studio.
• Liminal Experiences — Liminal is a new UGC game for creating narrative action role-playing games with the vision of making the world a more creative place. By fusing two interconnected game modes—a joyful creation experience and socially immersive adventure gameplay—they hope to inspire creativity and storytelling.

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• Flood — Flood is a marketplace platforms that provides merchant solution, self services and big data solution.
• Letly — Letly is developing an AI‑driven platform for the rental property market that automates tasks related to managing rental listings and tenant interactions. It aims to use intelligent agents to handle tasks such as scheduling viewings, responding to inquiries, and optimizing property management workflows. The platform is currently in a waitlistphase, signaling ongoing development and private access only.
• Cutstruct — Cutstruct is your one source for bulk construction materials purchase. Get the best prices for cement, steel, granite, sharp sand wood, and more.

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• HoneyCoin — HoneyCoin is a web3/web2 ecosystem of products built in a way that abstracts complexity and brings all the value of web3 and web2 to the forefront.
• Zeno — Zeno is a climate conscious motor company that offers eco-friendly motorcycles.
• Lori Systems — Lori Systems is revolutionizing African logistics through innovative technology solutions. We connect shippers, transporters, and drivers to create efficient, reliable, and transparent supply chains across Africa.

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• Propel Foods — Startup that creates plant-based and hybrid protein through technology.
• Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
• High Time Foods — High Time Foods provides shelf-stable and moldable plant-based meat alternatives to foodservice operators. Their first product is a plant-based chicken alternative that does not require refrigeration. The product is moldable and can be used in any cuisine as a substitute for chicken.

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• Rhaeos — Rhaeos, the world's first wearable shunt monitor, aims to improve the quality care for patients with hydrocephalus through a novel, thermal biosensor. Developed within Northwestern University with collaboration between Dr. John Rogers, McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management, Rhaeosrepresents a unique multidisciplinary translational effort for an important clinical need.
• Wattnow — Wattnow is a real-time monitoring solution that provides a breakdown of energy spending to identify wasteful trends.
• Octavia Carbon — Reversing Climate Change | Ending the Fossil Fuel Age | In Kenya.

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• Ilara Health — Ilara Health helps primary care clinics across Africa deliver better care.
• African Originals — African Originals food and beverage company that offers authentic African craft beverages using traditional reciepies.
• Downforce Technologies — Downforce Technologies is a pioneering leader in science-led, data-driven land management solutions focused on optimising soil health, soil organic carbon levels and biodiversity. With over 30% of the world's soil already degraded, urgent action is needed to address this pressing global challenge. Our platform offers a complete,high-resolution view of the land's carbon profile, enabling precise analysis and site-specific strategies for optimizing carbon levels.

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• Singtel — The Singtel Group, Asia's leading communications group provides a diverse range of services including fixed, mobile, data, internet, TV, infocomms technology (ICT) and digital solutions.
• Avaada — Business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. Their unique strategy interweaves business goals with environmental sustainability and social responsibility, producing mutually beneficial results. By contributing to community’s socio-economic development in the short-term, they foresee delivery of continual value to their shareholders. Throughtheir community engagement initiatives, they are contributing to uplift the lifestyle of communities they work with.
• China Energy Engineering Corporation — China Energy Engineering Corporation is the solutions providers for the power industry across the world. It also enables to provide customers with one-stop integrated solutions and full life-cycle project management services. They offer survey and design services for large-scale power generation projects covering grid projects, power sources, andconsultancy services including evaluation, supervision of power projects, policy consultation, and assessment.The company sell and manufactures civil explosives and cement and provides blasting services for projects. It also operates power plants and other infrastructure projects such as environmental protection projects, highways, and water conservancy projects.China Energy Engineering Corporation was named The Top 150 Global Design Firms” in 2015 for their design business and 15th among “The Top 250 Global Contractors” in 2014 for their contracting businesses respectively by ENR.China Energy Engineering Corporation was established on December 19, 2014, and is headquartered in Chaoyang District, Beijing, China.

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• Grapevine — Grapevine makes it possible for groups to invite members, collect and distribute donations, establish a community and connect with nonprofits.
• Untapped Global — Untapped connects global investors, and foreign capital to opportunities in emerging markets. Delivering competitive returns, and measurable impact for global investors.
• Necessary Ventures — We invest in what the world needs.

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• GoSats — Earn bitcoin rewards when you shop online at your favourite brands in India.
• Seasats — Seasats autonomous ocean vehicles provide remote monitoring and data collection for defense and commercial customers at a fraction of the cost, logistics, and risk compared to traditional methods.
• Lux Aeterna — Lux Aeterna is a space infrastructure company that focuses on orbital activities through reentry and reusability.

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• MDaaS Global — At MDaaS Global, we build and operate modern, tech-enabled diagnostic centres in clinically-underserved communities, starting in Nigeria. Our big goal is to create affordable healthcare solutions for Africa's next billion.
• Chefaa — Chefaa is a GPS-enabled pharmacy benefits platform connecting patients & pharmacies nation-wide to help patients manage all their pharmacy needs. Chefaa uses big data, data ming & machine learning
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• Dinoland — Dinoland is an online game that offers a DNL tokens as a reward. Trade on Dino NFT Market to boost your collection. Battling is very important, and so is farming. While farming, a liquid pool will generate DNL token. You can also reinvest DNL to raise the strength of the squad and be ready to leave the Monster Army behind.
• YIN Finance — YIN Finance is an NFT liquidity management platform that allows users to subscribe project strategies to achieve an effective high yield. YIN Finance offers active liquidity management, automatically re-invested, and multi-party yield farming.
• Synergy Land — Synergy Land is a blockchain-based multiplayer action role-playing game (ARPG) developed by Synergy Games.

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• Vycarb — Vycarb is a Brooklyn-based firm that enables decentralized carbon removal through real-time, autonomous, and direct detection of CO2 in water.
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• Questt — School homework app by Questt helps teachers to assign homework to students. Download today on your smartphone.
• 3DC — 3DC develops and manufactures a new carbon material, graphene meso sponge (GMS), for electrodes in next-generation batteries, capacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage and generation devices.
• Stream Captain — Captain.tv makes games for streamers to play live with their viewers! Streamers are the hosts, and viewers play alongside them and each other live on sites like Twitch!

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• Katana Inu — Katana Inu promotes gaming innovation by merging gaming and blockchain. As an all-encompassing ecosystem for gamers and traders, powered by Defi and NFT, Katana Inu's objective is to create a system where gamers can earn from their playtime.
• Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.

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• Uviquity — Uviquity is a firm that wants to encourage safety for their clients. The company is based in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the United States.
• Judi Health — Capital Rx is a health technology company that engages in managing pharmacy benefit plans. The company is redefining the way prescriptions are priced and administered in the U.S. Through its Clearinghouse Model, it unlocks the pharmacy supply chain and reduces prescription costs for employer groups. By establishing a competitive marketplace fordrug pricing, Capital Rx focuses its resources on deploying actionable strategies that improve plan performance and patient outcomes.
• Maximum Fidelity Surgical Simulations — The most realistic surgical and trauma simulations for surgeons, forward field operators, medics and medical device development.

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• SwiftVee — SwiftVEE is a livestock trading mobile app. They support live webcast livestock auctions and silent auctions. Their platform facilitates the discovery and viewing of livestock auctions.They provide webcast advertising, online auctions, and online livestock insurance services and data products for financial institutions.
• Tanda — As a Tanda Agent, you can sell Kenya's favorite digital products, and grow your duka while you're at it
• Digital Cabinet — Digital Cabinet makes your business paperless. Security is the topmost priority for the Digital Cabinet, so save time and money with the Digital Cabinet.

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• Aku — Aku is a financial technology to drive financial inclusion on one mobile device. They provide payments and bring financial services to the doorstep. They support the new business owner in need of the right tools. They offer low-cost, accessible financial services that serve their customers. They radically democratized access to banking and digitalpayment channels.
• Cauridor — Cauridor is a Financial Services company.
• AlumUnite — AlumUnite is a purpose-built platform to connect all educated Africans to develop Africa's human capital through alumni groups. We crowd-resource education.

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• VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
• Investsure — InvestSure is a technology company that uses its software to enable partner investment platforms to sell its unique Investment Indemnity (insurance) product to their clients. InvestSure provides a full set of APIs that trading platform developers can use to integrate the Investure Investment Indemnity product seamlessly and easily into theirwebsites and mobile applications. Once InvestSure technology is added to a trading platform, it enables users to buy insurance on their shares with a single click. The full process from buying to insurance to settling claims is fully automated.The Investment Indemnity product itself is a unique innovation; it is designed to protect to protect shareholders against any losses in share value caused by actual or perceived fraud committed by management. This enables investors to secure their investments. The cost of the product is low enough to not significantly reduce returns of investors where no insurance event occurs, but to provide significant downside protection where an insured event does occur.
• CompariSure — Custom, built-for-purpose service and sales chatbot solutions for financial services providers.

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• SettleKit — We help newcomers to the US set up their life here
• De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation
• Smart Separations — Smart Separations is a limited company based in London UK that has patented an innovative microfiltration technology to produce ceramic filters with self-assembled controllable pores of uniform size in the range between <1 and 50µm. This tight pore size control and range availability will revolutionise the field of MF with a cost-effectiveproduct.It aims to be the world’s leader in MF and particle separations technology – filling the void gap that exists in the market nowadays.

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• Sylica LLC — Infin8t.tech provides state-of-the-art AI-powered customer support infrastructure for businesses of all sizes. Create, deploy, and manage intelligent chatbots trained on your specific content for personalized and efficient customer interactions that scale with your business needs.
• Power Solutions Solar — Empresa especializada em limpeza e manutenções de usinas Solar, atendemos clientes que possuem usinas solares em todo Brasil, garantindo mais geração e mais retorno do investimento realizado pelos clientes. Elaboramos um pacote de manutenções anual, onde os clientes apenas agendam as datas e nossa equipe realiza todo serviço, zerando os custos commão de obra , compras de equipamentos, manutenções de equipamentos, treinamentos, EPI´S, EPC´S, aquisição de veículos e manutenções. Nossa equipe e equipamentos a disposição dos clientes nas datas certas.
• Commonwealth Fusion Systems — The fastest path to clean, limitless fusion energy.

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• CESS — CESS is a blockchain-based, decentralized Layer-1 infrastructure that integrates distributed storage, a high-speed content delivery network.
• OMNIA Protocol — OMNIA Protocol offers a secure and private infrastructure for accessing blockchain technology. It provides high availability RPC endpoints for Ethereum, ensuring users can connect to the blockchain without being traced or monitored. The company focuses on delivering a compliant environment for handling personal data, including blockchain addressesand transactional information. OMNIA Protocol aims to democratize access to blockchain infrastructure, challenging the current concentration of this access among a few corporations. It supports various blockchains, including Bitcoin, Binance, Avalanche, Polygon, Arbitrum, and Optimism, through its platform, offering secure Arbitrum RPC Nodes features.
• Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS revolutionizes AI, DeSci, RWA, Enterprise, and more with secure, transparent, and traceable data solutions. Delivering AI computing and data infrastructure, CESS enables data privacy and sovereignty with a focus on AI Agent applications and frameworks.

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• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.
• PublicAI — PublicAI is a Web3 distributed AI training network that helps people to earn rewards by contributing data work.
• Power Protocol — Power Protocol is an infrastructure layer that drives the single, cohesive blockchain entertainment ecosystem.

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• Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
• AgrigateOne — AgrigateOne is an online platform that enables openness between growers and buyers and gets data about agriculture and marine logistics.
• Naked Insurance — The new way to cover your stuff: savings & convenience through AI. Naked Insurance offers online insurance for car, home and contents. Get a quote in 90 seconds!

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• OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
• Stabble — stabble is a protocol revolutionizing liquidity pools by introducing protocol-managed and arbitrage pools. This allows stabble to tackle critical inefficiencies prevalent within Solana's decentralized exchanges.
• AI Cross Matrix — AI Cross Matrix is a DeFi platform that makes the crypto economy simple by streamlining the exchange process with useful solutions.

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• PatientPartner — Discover PatientPartner, the leading patient engagement software transforming pharma and med-tech with scalable, data-driven solutions that drive better health outcomes.
• Lipidio Pharmaceuticals — A Unique Approach to Treating Obesity Precision Targeting of the Skin Exploiting the skin as an endocrine organ Historically regarded as a protective barrier organ, the skin is now recognized as an active endocrine organ capable of synthesizing, and secreting diverse hormones and signaling
• SEngine Precision Medicine — The Search Engine For Identifying Personalized Cancer Treatments.

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• Livestock Wealth — Livestock Wealth is a crowdfarmingTM company that allows people to invest in livestock and earn from sale of the offspring.Their unique CrowdFarmingTM concept allows individuals to share the facilities of a commercial livestock farm while our experts look after their cows on a day to day basis.Cows have been a source of pride and a store ofwealth in Africa for centuries. The wealth in cows is based on something real – beef. The company enables anyone to be an organic beef farmer.

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• SehaTech — Welcome to SehaTech, the groundbreaking company revolutionizing the health insurance market with our innovative solutions!
• REasy — Top up locally, pay suppliers globally, and manage international shipments with REasy. Fast, secure, and designed for African businesses expanding worldwide.
• Eduflexx AI — EduFlexAI is an AI-driven ed-tech platform that personalizes learning by adapting school curriculums to individual student needs. Using advanced machine learning, real-time analytics, and AI-powered tools, EduFlexAI enhances engagement, improves academic performance, and optimizes teacher efficiency. Our mission is to make quality education morepersonalized, inclusive, and accessible for students worldwide.

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• Coinzix — Coinzix - one of the most convenient and reliable crypto platforms with guaranteed liquidity and low commissions. Come in and make sure.
• VisionGame — VisionGame brings the traditional game publishing experience, boosted for the blockchain. VisionGame provides unique products, technical and creative services, all to support the ever-growing gaming blockchain industry, raising the bar one game at a time.
• MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.

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• Kwely — Kwely is a dynamic and fast-growing startup. We are always looking for passionate, dynamic, fun and hard-working individuals to join our team.
• Cauri Money — Collect funds locally in EUR and GBP and settle in hard currency via SWIFT. Infrastructure designed for banks in emerging markets.
• Fig Finance — We're closing the credit gap. We connect global and local lenders, with the strongest emerging market businesses.

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• Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
• Hooked Foods — Leading the transition to a harmless seafood system by serving healthy vegan seafood for everybody to truly enjoy.
• Cultimate Foods — At Cultimate, we are transforming the flavor and aroma industry with natural innovative ingredients.

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• Solak — Solak is an AI browser and DeFi platform that is transforming the digital world.
• Graviton Zero — Graviton Zero multi-Chain Play to Earn NFT Game - In a Universe ravaged by War
• Billionaire Plus — Billionaire Plus is a board game that combine NFT, Defi, collectibles and your journey.

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• OfferZen — On OfferZen, Dutch tech companies reach out to you with upfront role and salary info so you can make the right career move.
• Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
• Float — At Float, we believe in a world where credit works for shoppers and not against them.Float offers shoppers a smarter way to pay with their credit card – by splitting big purchases in up to 24 bite-size, interest-free monthly payments. It’s all the perks of credit cards, but none of the cons. No extra debt, no applications, no credit checks – andno catch. Just shopping joy on their terms.At the same time, Float merchants enjoy more than 80% bigger orders and radically improved conversions. They also get direct access to 5 million pre-approved shoppers. Float’s instalment offering is fully customisable, giving merchants more control and flexibility than ever before. It’s all made possible by Float’s innovative technology, built on what we call ‘head-in-the-sky, feet-on-the-ground’ thinking.By giving their shoppers the most flexible, frictionless and financially responsible way to shop, merchants are partnering with us to build a new economy - where buying BIG, means paying small.Welcome to Float.

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• Moku — Worshipping a mischievous Moki with big balls and a small brain. 8887 NFTs, 900+ traits, 3 epic games.
• Pixion Games — Pixion Games is a studio focused on building competitive esports games for mobile device.
• Power Protocol — Power Protocol is an infrastructure layer that drives the single, cohesive blockchain entertainment ecosystem.

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• Planet42 — Having your own car has never been easier. Planet42 is a vehicle rental company offering rent-to-buy car service for private clients.
• LifeCheq — LifeCheq partners with insurers and advisory firms to deliver AI-enabled distribution, boost adviser productivity, and transform how financial advice is delivered.
• SweepSouth — Book a home cleaning online from your mobile, tablet or computer. SweepSouth connects you with a cleaner in minutes. Cleaners are experienced, reliable, efficient and insured.

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• Maia Farms — Maia Farms creates sustainable mushroom and mycelium ingredients for food makers. Clean-label, high-performance, and built to scale.
• Nakitora AI LLC — NAKITORA’s mission is to accelerate food & beverage (F&B) innovation by harnessing real-time AI insights, helping brands create the right products for the right consumers, faster than ever. Their core product, TasteGPT™, is a generative intelligence platform that ingests 10M+ daily data points (menus, reviews, social, e-retail), using adomain-tuned LLM and real-time vector search to instantly surface emerging trends and unmet needs. They serve global F&B brands, CPGs, and innovators who need rapid, data-driven product development. Compared to batch analytics or generic tools, NAKITORA offers real-time, domain-specific ideation and zero-survey prediction.
• De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation

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• Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
• Jinx — Shop Jinx for ready-to-devour premium dog food and dog treats. Free shipping and 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
• Conductive.ai — Conductive.ai is an engagement platform for game developers to motivate players to increase player lifetime value.

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• Cazena — Cloudera delivers a hybrid data platform with secure data management and portable cloud-native data analytics.
• Shapeways — Shapeways is the #1 online 3D printing service company. Working with over a million customers since 2007 - Get 3D products and parts delivered to over 100 countries.
• Co:Create — The Co:Create protocol provides the foundational infrastructure for decentralized brands of the future. It enables projects to mint NFTs, as well as launch their own DAOs and fungible tokens associated with their collections.

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• Yamify — Yamify is an AI platform where intelligent agents reliably run mission-critical business workflows in Africa. Founded by Silicon Valley engineers, our platform automates complex operations by integrating humans, systems, and infrastructure reliably, even under connectivity, latency, and compliance challenges. Starting with on-prem deployments,Yamify is evolving into a full AI automation infrastructure for African enterprises.
• Shopstar — A place for makers and creators to start, manage and grow successful online stores. Our built-in design, payment and shipping methods provide you with an all in one solution. Get started with a free 14-day trial.
• Kashat — The region's first nano financial service provider, offering small productive loans, and serving as the entry point to financial inclusion for the un- and underbanked population in Egypt.

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• FreeBnk — FreeBnk provides stablecoin rails, borderless accounts, and crypto payments in 70+ countries. Fast, low-cost, and compliant global finance.
• RunesFi — RunesFi is a one-stop DeFi platform that provides an easy-to-use, secure, and efficient trading experience.
• STAGE — Always-on music competitions powered by the blockchain. Vote for your favorite artists and share their success.

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• MAOLAC — MAOLAC combines proteomics & NLP (search algorithm) to create Functional Milk Proteins (FMPs) that enable impact nutrition
• De Novo Foodlabs — Producing non-animal dairy proteins using precision fermentation