Top 10 Startup Investors in Barbados in May 2026

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• tZERO — tZERO helps companies raise capital on their terms and enables investors to access differentiated opportunities with compliant, technology-driven infrastructure.
• SettleMint — SettleMint is a Blockchain technology company (with offices in Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India and Singapore) & was incorporated in 2016 by Matthew Van Niekerk & Roderik van der Veer. They met in 2013 while devising & developing blockchain applications for KBC Securities, a large Belgian financial institution. Theyvery quickly realised that the promise of Blockchain technology far exceeded the boundaries of the financial world & would permeate industry & society entirely in the years to come. With the realisation that the technology will benefit organisations large and small, unlock incredible opportunities for society and move from a nascent to prevalent technology over the next 5 to 10 years, Matthew and Roderik set up SettleMint with a simple purpose, to make it easy for developers to integrate blockchain technologies into their applications. This product vision addresses the single biggest inhibitor to adoption, developer capabilities.SettleMint's core technology 'Mint' accelerates the path to leveraging the benefits of blockchain technology: whether those enterprises are looking to improve efficiency, to extend their current products to a new client segment or to completely reinvent an existing business model.Mint is a chain-agnostic node-wrapping technology including a suite of APIs, developer tools and frameworks that enable any software developer to build new Blockchain based applications or integrate Blockchain functionalities into existing solutions. Mint encapsulates years of R&D on the technical, operational & organisational aspects of Blockchain technology & packages this in fully documented APIs, micro-services, browser components and templates that strips away complexity and providing developers with the building blocks required to build full stack applications.Based on our development of 35+ fully functioning Blockchain applications & after having researched more than 500 known use cases, Mint covers 85% of the use cases for Blockchain technologies and radically reduces the time to market for users. Using Mint, integrating blockchain technologies into an application can take as little as 3 hours.So in short, it doesn’t matter if you are a startup or a big corporation, if you have decided that Blockchain technology should be part of your business or your vision for the future there is no faster solution to get you there.
• Nature Mobility — Nature Mobility is a mobile application platform.

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• Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
• Blu — Blue is a blockchain security platform. They offer KYC/AML trading on DeFi protocols like uniswap and curve, as well as wrap and trading services with secured KYC. They provide intermediary services for banks and brokerages.
• Validation Cloud — Discover enterprise-grade staking and node infrastructure: Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Enjoy secure, fast, and reliable staking and node services with Validation Cloud.

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• Joepegs — Dive into Joepegs, the leading Web3 platform for NFTs and digital collectibles. As a cultural hub in the Web3 space, we offer secure buying, selling, and discovery of innovative digital assets.
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• Edge Tradeworks — Edge Tradeworks is a marketplace platform that offers an easier and more efficient way to whole loan trading. The platform facilitates whole loan trading via algorithmic counterparty matching, sophisticated loan analytics, and online price negotiation. It also offers an innovative solution to increase profitability, enhance asset-liabilitymanagement, and expand footprint.Loan Transactions and Technologyreplaces the manual, an opaque, and slow process used by banks and credit unions to buy and sell loans with an automated and transparent platform filled with unparalleled analytical resources. Their mission is to provide their clients with simple control over their own trades.

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• Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.
• Redpill AI — Access 200+ AI models with privacy-first infrastructure. Private models in GPU TEE, OpenAI-compatible API, zero data retention.
• The FishVerse — FishVerse combines GameFi, AI, and blockchain technology, allowing players to fish in a dynamic open environment from their own homes.

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• VIVLA — We make exclusive second homes in top European locations accessible to everyone. Buy shares of your home without having to buy the whole property.
• Fresha — Find the best salons and spa in your area with Fresha salon booking software. Book now!
• 1Buy.AI — Decision-grade AI driven intelligence for electronics procurement. Real-time market intelligence and risk analysis for the semiconductor industry.

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• Angle Health — Digital-First Health Plans For The Modern Employee
• DataHeroes — DataHeroes is building a Python library that solves some of today’s biggest machine learning challenges: reducing the time, effort and resources required to develop and maintain high-quality machine learning models.
• Streamline AI — Spend more time on legal analysis, less time on admin work. Streamline AI's intake and workflow automations help in-house legal teams and their business stakeholders work faster. Build conditional routing and automate manual business processes based on custom rules.

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• PPKING — PPKING is a unique decentralized financial platform that specializes in beneficial liquidity and MEME token trading.
• BTA Protocol — BTA Protocol is a decentralized ecosystem protocol based on BTC that includes applications such as staking, liquidity, range stability, launch pool, and lending protocols.
• Nexus Network — Nexus Network brings secure yields for idle bridge assets. Nexus Network delivers utilises the latest staking technology to offer a non-custodial and transparent way to generate yields for rollups and EVM chains

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• Phoenix Finance — Phoenix Finance is an online platform established by Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings to provide intelligent financial services for Chinese investors worldwide.They partner with industry-leading financial institutions, gaining access to high quality financial products, and using proprietary financial models and algorithms to provide userswith a dynamic financial portfolio that meet their consumption and investing needs.They layer culture and social values into their products and services, creating a unique financial experience for their investors, building a reliable and trustworthy financial environment, and helping push the growth of inclusive finance.
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• Handhold — Handhold is an AI platform that creates multimodal agents to automate the sales and onboarding process for inbound leads.
• Finaeo — Finaeo is powering the future of life and health insurance with our all-in-one platform. Our digital marketplace connects carriers, brokers and clients through a fully-integrated experience.
• Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.

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• Gamium — Gamium is a Web3 and Metaverse technology company building the truly Decentralized Social Metaverse.
• 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
• Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.