Top 15 Internet VC Funds & Investors in Malta (August 2026)

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• Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
• Bitlight Labs — Make Bitcoin Smart
• Pheasant Network — AI-Powered DeFi Super App for Cross-chain Intent.

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• Coinweb — Led by CEO, Toby Gilbert, and CTO, Knut Vinger, Coinweb aims to become the first general-purpose layer-2 platform delivering truly unified interoperability, removing current transactional and computational bottlenecks. Coinweb enables maximum horizontal scalability while still maintaining the consistency and reliability of underlying blockchains’security and decentralized properties. The platform solves many of the problems found in current cross-chain implementations without the unnecessary use of bridges or additional layers of consensus. Utilizing the WebAssembly runtime environment, making it easier to run uniform deployment through all blockchains and parallel execution of smart contracts. 2 DeFi projects, OnRamp and Blockfort, have been built as a proof of concept. Having secured various digital asset licenses all around the world, Coinweb offers multiple-fiat on-ramping and off-ramping solutions within its multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb’s cross-chain tokenization platform and a simple marketplace help large and established traditional businesses digitize aspects of their businesses.

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• 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Mind Network — The 1st Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Restaking Layer for AI and POS Networks. Mind Network is backed by Binance Labs, Hashkey, Big Brain, Chainlink, etc.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• Almanak — Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions.
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
• Wave — Wave is a US blockchain SUI ecosystem that offers DeFi and GameFi products.
• Domin Network — Pioneering the Future of Multi Chain E-Commerce, backed by @animocabrands https://t.co/16gnnhOcLy

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• Blue Protein — Blue Protein is a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development of animal feed or edible insects.
• Five hundred — Five hundred is an e-Commerce platform providing farm fresh fruits and vegetables to customers on a subscription basis.
• Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game

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• Island — Meet Island, the Enterprise Browser that gives you control over SaaS governance, visibility and productivity. Secure your critical data and apps with Island.
• Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/7a5aSCUfnr https://t.co/x14hb3jO7O
• ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.

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• Binance — Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that facilitates the trading of digital assets. It provides services such as spot and futures trading, a blockchain network for decentralized applications, and a platform for token sales. Binance also offers staking, savings, and liquidity farming options, as well as a payment system for cryptocurrencytransactions. Additionally, it supports the trading and creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
• Yuncaiyuan — Yuncaiyuan (subordinate to Beijing Wofeng Harvest Technology Co., Ltd.) optimizes the wholesale circulation system, relies on the national origin resources, attracts brokers, wholesalers and other companies to enter the Yuncao Garden platform, directly connects the production area, the wholesale market docking vegetable sellers, forming theagricultural product purchase order entry, providing A package of supporting services to achieve "base" → "community", "wholesale market" → "home delivery", forming a full industrial chain B2B platform
• Qingruan Haixin — Qingruan Haixin is a developer of 3D printing equipment and modeling software.

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• Spicenet — Spicenet enables universal access to the top DeFi venues across all networks, creating better financial outcomes for all.
• Real Finance — Real Finance is driven by the mission to revolutionize the financial landscape by integrating real-world assets with blockchain technology, creating a more transparent, secure, and efficient ecosystem that bridges traditional finance with decentralized innovation, enhances asset liquidity, and unlocks new opportunities for global investors.
• WorkQuest — About WorkQuest WorkQuest is a decentralized employment and workforce automation protocol enabling employers and workers to collaborate through smart contracts, stablecoin payments, AI matching engines, and on-chain reputation scoring. The platform transforms global employment into a transparent, verifiable, and borderless digital labor economy.

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• ICON — ICON already boasts communities comprised of reputable institutions – banks, securities, insurance, hospitals, universities, and more. ICON’s decentralized applications (DAPPs), including Blockchain ID and Payment & Exchange, can benefit current and future communities. For instance, Blockchain ID can be issued by financial securitiescommunity and be used for ID verification in all other communities. Likewise, ICX issued by hospitals can be used for payment & exchange in all other communities.
• Kadena — Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live withpartners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.
• Ren — Introducing RenVM, our core product providing access to inter-blockchain liquidity for all decentralized applications. Bringing BTC, BCH and ZEC to your Ethereum dApp.

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• Coinweb — Led by CEO, Toby Gilbert, and CTO, Knut Vinger, Coinweb aims to become the first general-purpose layer-2 platform delivering truly unified interoperability, removing current transactional and computational bottlenecks. Coinweb enables maximum horizontal scalability while still maintaining the consistency and reliability of underlying blockchains’security and decentralized properties. The platform solves many of the problems found in current cross-chain implementations without the unnecessary use of bridges or additional layers of consensus. Utilizing the WebAssembly runtime environment, making it easier to run uniform deployment through all blockchains and parallel execution of smart contracts. 2 DeFi projects, OnRamp and Blockfort, have been built as a proof of concept. Having secured various digital asset licenses all around the world, Coinweb offers multiple-fiat on-ramping and off-ramping solutions within its multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb’s cross-chain tokenization platform and a simple marketplace help large and established traditional businesses digitize aspects of their businesses.

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• OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
• Watch.fun — Luxury watch drops. Win a Rolex for as little as $7, drops weekly. Certified by Wristcheck. Backed by @TheSpartanGroup @SolanaVentures @BigBrainVC and more...
• Space — The first leveraged prediction market on @solana

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• Coinweb — Led by CEO, Toby Gilbert, and CTO, Knut Vinger, Coinweb aims to become the first general-purpose layer-2 platform delivering truly unified interoperability, removing current transactional and computational bottlenecks. Coinweb enables maximum horizontal scalability while still maintaining the consistency and reliability of underlying blockchains’security and decentralized properties. The platform solves many of the problems found in current cross-chain implementations without the unnecessary use of bridges or additional layers of consensus. Utilizing the WebAssembly runtime environment, making it easier to run uniform deployment through all blockchains and parallel execution of smart contracts. 2 DeFi projects, OnRamp and Blockfort, have been built as a proof of concept. Having secured various digital asset licenses all around the world, Coinweb offers multiple-fiat on-ramping and off-ramping solutions within its multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb’s cross-chain tokenization platform and a simple marketplace help large and established traditional businesses digitize aspects of their businesses.
• THORSwap — THORSwap is the leading multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator powered by SwapKit. Perform cross-chain swaps via THORChain, NEAR Intents, Chainflip, Maya Protocol and more in a permissionless, trustless, and non-custodial manner.
• Thorstarter — Expanding @THORChain and @Maya_Protocol

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• CESS — CESS is a blockchain-based, decentralized Layer-1 infrastructure that integrates distributed storage, a high-speed content delivery network.
• Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
• 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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• Leapmotor — Zhejiang Zero Run Technology Co., Ltd. (LEAPMOTOR) is an innovative intelligent electric vehicle enterprise jointly invested by Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. and its main founders. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Hangzhou Binjiang High-tech Development Zone. The company's business scope covers intelligent electricvehicle design, R&D, intelligent driving, motor electronic control, battery system development, and cloud computing-based car networking solutions. Relying on the strong financial strength of Dahua and its mature experience in technology research and development, process system and quality management, the company emphasizes the culture of engineers and has the ultimate pursuit of technological innovation, industrial design, and process quality.
• Didi — Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services.The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As apractitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.
• Kuaidi Dache — Kuaidi Group, as the most technologically integrated and largest car service company in the world, is rapidly transforming the concept of moving people – starting in China. The app combines integrated mapping and third party payment technology to make its service accessible to everybody, and provides over 1 million taxis and a variety of standardand luxury cars for all lifestyles. To ensure the service fits smoothly into urban life, Kuaidi has developed a framework is that is adaptable to other platforms in China, and works in partnership with China’s government and regulators instead of against them.In a country where only 18% of per capita car ownership, Kuaidi is clearly meeting an important need. Kuaidi’s unique business model has attracted 100m registered users in over 300 cities, fulfilling 6 million requests per day. To optimize its services and go beyond customer expectations Kuaidi has secured partnerships with Alipay, Ctrip, AutoNavi, Baidu Maps, Qunar, and Beijing’s ‘96106’ government official platform.