Top 50 Startup Investors in Costa Rica in May 2026

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• Loopa Finance — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
• boxful — Boxful provides ultra-fast fulfillment, shipping management, and a network of smart lockers to enable same-day or next-day deliveries for e-commerce brands and online sellers in Latin America.
• Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

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• MixRift — MIXRIFT - game developers specialized in Mixed Reality
• unspun — From 3D scan to perfect fitting custom jeans. unspun makes each pair of jeans unique to your actual body and design. On a mission to reduce global carbon emissions by 1%. As seen in Fast Company's World Changing Ideas, Time's Best Inventions, and PopSci's Best of What's New. Welcome to the future of apparel.
• Mesa Quantum — Unlock the potential of chip-scale quantum sensing for enhanced Position, Navigation, And Timing capabilities. Explore Mesa Quantum's practical solutions.

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• Vambe — Deploy AI systems that reduce operational time by 40% for mid-market companies. Join 1,000+ businesses across Latam transforming their customer experience.
• nubelo — Nubelo is a career marketplace for the digital workforce (developers, designers, digital marketers, product owners...). Nubelo works with clients to understand their project/team needs and custom-matches them with pre-screened professionals who join their teams on a full-time, part-time, or hourly basis.Users on the nubelo platform receiveobjective guidance throughout the interview process from a dedicated Talent Advocate, as well as the ability to compare new opportunities side by side so they can make their next career move or collaborate into a new project. Employers get access to a hand-picked pool of candidates who are interested in new roles, or available for new projects. The end result is an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience that’s far faster than traditional methods.Nubelo is headquartered in Barcelona (Spain) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
• Desteia — Desteia turns fragmented trade data into clean, validated information - and automates the workflows that keep freight moving, compliance airtight, and teams aligned.

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• Loopa Finance — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
• Skribe.ai — Capture legal testimony with secure video, fast transcript access, and human-verified records. Skribe turns depositions into usable intelligence.
• Newcase.ai — Connect all facts from records, depositions, and evidence into clear timelines with one intelligence layer. Get case-wide context that uncovers contradictions and highlights key admissions with exact citations.

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• NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
• UnshETH — unshETH is a decentralized, on-chain movement to use incentive engineering to preserve and protect the trustless, immutable, and censorship-resistant nature of Ethereum.
• Reforged Labs — The world's first AI copilot for mobile game marketers. AI-powered research and insights to help creative teams improve ROAS by moving faster and testing smarter.

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
• Million on Mars — Play, Build and Own with Million on Mars An MMO open sandbox city builder where you decide on your homestead's location, and build out your settlement on the highest-fidelity in-game Mars terrain! Painstakingly created from NASA/JPL topographical data, your location is as close to reality as you can get.

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• Avify — Avify es el CRM para WhatsApp que conecta todo tu negocio a tus conversaciones y automatiza ventas.
• boxful — Boxful provides ultra-fast fulfillment, shipping management, and a network of smart lockers to enable same-day or next-day deliveries for e-commerce brands and online sellers in Latin America.
• Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.

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• BRKT — Join the fun on BRKT! Make predictions on sports, pop culture, and more!
• GAIB — GAIB is the economic foundation for the future of artificial intelligence and computers. GAIB is a crypto-AI platform under development that tokenize GPUs, making AI computing—the processing power required to train and run AI models—more accessible.
• Superpower — Superpower is a revenue-sharing protocol for AI agents.

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• Peerby Classic — Borrow and rent goods from others nearby - affordable, convenient and green. Tools, bikes, party equipment, electronics and more. Try it now.
• Zobi — Zobi’s not just Artificial Intelligence, it’s Home Intelligence. Our smart, brand-agnostic solutions take a holistic view of homes - people, devices, networks, habits. They build an anonymous profile for each home, then use that intel to spot unusual behaviour and stop cybercriminals.
• Finverity — Finverity provides technology, working capital and expertise to give banks, NBFIs, financiers and companies a strategic advantage in supply chain finance

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• ACCIONA — At ACCIONA we offer sustainable solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the planet, such as global warming, energy needs and water shortages
• Yondr Group — We are Yondr, a global developer, owner and operator of hyperscale data centers. Our mission is: global capacity responsible delivery.
• Lagos Free Zone — Lagos Free Zone provides exceptional infrastructure facilities and services.

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• Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
• Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
• Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.

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• Taxwire — Global Sales Tax Compliance Software
• SOC Prime — SOC Prime is the only Threat Detection Marketplace where researchers monetize their content to help security teams defend against attacks faster and more efficiently than ever. Powered by its Detection as Code platform, SOC Prime curates the most up-to-date Sigma-based threat detection content from over 300 researchers and natively delivers it viasubscription to 20+ SIEM and XDR platforms at more than 6,000 enterprises, governments and MDRs worldwide.
• Develop Health — Develop Health synthesizes patient data to automatically fill medication prior authorization forms. Save time and boost approval rates.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
• C4c7us — Optimize your Project's Infrastructure in Minutes - Optimize the management of your IT infrastructure with our platform, offering an agile, secure, and scalable solution. Gain greater control over your technological resources and maximize your savings.
• fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

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• Breakout — Breakout is a crypto-native prop business that trades on the most liquid centralized exchanges.
• Kemet Trading — Kemet Trading provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital asset derivatives trading; optimizing access to liquidity, data, trade execution and post-trade workflows.
• Breakout Trading Group — Breakout is a crypto-native prop business that trades on the most liquid centralized exchanges.

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.

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• AKEDO — AKEDO is a AI framework that creates and designs engaging games.
• SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
• Yet Another Company — We accelerate the roadmap of Ethereum by making proof verification faster and cheaper. We can verify proofs for 10% of the cost.

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• Greenenergy — Greenenergy specialises in financing solutions that enable businesses to produce, store, and manage their own electrical energy.

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• Shadow War — Shadow War is a 5v5 competitive PvP action game for PC and Console. Fight online in a futuristic cyberpunk world
• Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
• Mavryk Dynamics — Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi).

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• Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
• Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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• FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
• boxful — Boxful provides ultra-fast fulfillment, shipping management, and a network of smart lockers to enable same-day or next-day deliveries for e-commerce brands and online sellers in Latin America.
• Wynwood House — Wynwood House offers a network of apartments and villas for short and long term stays, located in the best neighborhoods of the main cities in Latin America.

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• LIFT — LIFT is a national nonprofit that empowers families to break the cycle of poverty.
• Wonderschool — Wonderschool is an end to end solution for family child care providers and centers. Wonderschool helps providers, families and state leaders to increase the health of the child care landscape on the ground.
• American Council on Education — The American Council on Education (ACE) is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice.

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• FeedVax — Transforming fish vaccines with a simple and profitable solution.
• Bioeutectics — Revolutionazing the solvents industry turning it into a natural, biodegradable and sustainable one.
• Tomorrow Foods — Producción de proteínas en base vegetal

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• Base Power — Base provides a battery-powered home energy service so you can enjoy power without interruption and save money. Now available in select regions of Texas.
• Castelion — We are a modern defense production company building the next generation of military hypersonic, vehicle, and strike systems to deter future wars.
• ScaleOps — ScaleOps is the industry's first Kubernetes optimization platform that automatically optimizes compute resources in real-time.

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.

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• Yet Another Company — We accelerate the roadmap of Ethereum by making proof verification faster and cheaper. We can verify proofs for 10% of the cost.

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• Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
• Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.
• Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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• Metafide — Metafide offers AI-driven trading solutions and Web3 asset analysis for financial entities.
• Bloom — Bloom is creating the social layer for modern finance, transforming your performance into social content that others can discover, replicate, and learn from.
• Axelar Network — Axelar is the multichain platform that unifies Web3 for developers, delivering applications from any blockchain to every user, easily.

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• Coinpay.cr — Coinpay is the leading blockchain marketplace with a Crypto Exchange and Traded Wallet solution in the region. It was founded in Costa Rica in 2016 and offers an Ecosystem of blockchain services such as Exchange, Cards, Money Remittance, Escrow services and OTC thanks to its on site development team.

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• Capx — Capx's mission is to accelerate the flow of capital through the private markets, thereby enhancing global capital allocation. With secondary market and enterprise solutions, Capx combines high-quality collections of opportunities with efficient access for institutions and individual investors.
• RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
• GoPlus Security — GoPlus offers holistic AI and Web3 security. Leveraging AI-powered audits and APIs, we safeguard assets and operations across the blockchain and AI landscapes.

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• Carryt — Carryt performs efficient last mile deliveries by empowering gig economy drivers with our route optimization technology and impact strategy.
• Syncfy — LATAM's leading financial API.
• Axify — On Axify we offer prepayment installment plans to acquire services, like a "tanda" of the digital age. The company is seeing huge potential and interest in different industries: travel, e-commerce, insurance, hospitals, health, and beauty centers. The company focuses on helping people who lack resources or even a credit card acquire aquality product without the predatory lending rates, which are very expensive and generate a huge burden on Mexican and LatAm families. That said we give prepayment plans to people and help them, by creating a pre-payment plan, acquire the products and services in a sustainable free-of-debt manner. We are seeing a tendency to avoid debt all over Mexico and we have already helped more than 7000 families acquire products or services without any kind of debt.

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• Trrue — Trrue is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) compliance and the tokenization of physical assets. It aims to integrate sustainable practices into blockchain technology while enabling the digitization and trading of real-world assets, such as real estate and commodities.
• aPriori — aPriori is a monad-native MEV infrastructure and liquid staking mechanism developed for parallel executions.
• Open Meta City — Open Meta City operates as a virtual real estate platform.

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• Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
• fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
• Bia Energy — Bia Energy engages in energy marketing.

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• Slik — Slik es la plataforma para medir, analizar y accionar la Experiencia y Compromiso del Empleado en tiempo real.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
• Wheel the World — Wheel the World is a social startup with the purpose of making the world accessible. By building a cutting-edge model of accessibility data, which is extracted, organized, and displayed on www.gowheeltheworld.com, we allow people with disabilities to find and book accessible travel experiences including hotels, tours, and activities with theaccessibility information they need in the most amazing destinations in the world.We believe that people with disabilities should experience the world like anyone else. Governments, travel companies, and tourism professionals are all joining the accessible travel movement given the exponential growth of people with disabilities traveling around the world. Our commitment is to provide detailed information about what is accessible and specialized customer support involved through the entire experience.An accessible destination is a combination of accessible accommodation, transportation, and activities. This is why we are partnering with local travel businesses creating 100% accessible services together that we offer online. We want to allow millions of people to travel to thousands of destinations!

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• Feroot Security — PCI compliance solutions for PCI DSS 4.0.1 (6.4.3/11.6.1), HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA & 50+ laws. Feroot AI automates website security with 24/7 monitoring & 1-click setup
• Loopa Finance — Qanlex provides litigation financing with a focus on continental law countries. Qanlex was founded by Yago Zavalia Gahan and Fernando Folgueiro.
• Solvemed Group — At Solvemed Group, we believe in challenging the status quo of neurological care. Our founders experienced first-hand the grave consequences of poor diagnostic standards in neurodegenerative diseases. With the primary focus in Parkinson’s disease, we leverage our proprietary machine learning technology to develop novel diagnostic-predictive digitalbiomarkers to enable first-in-class, accurate, early and cost-effective diagnostic and monitoring tools. In everything we do, we put the needs of patients and healthcare professionals first. We also happen to revolutionise drug discovery as our biomarkers enable disease-modifying drugs.We respond to the unmet needs of neurological patients by providing reliable, accurate, early diagnostics and monitoring tools for better quality care and treatment outcomes. Our work has the potential to improve healthcare systems by optimising relevant care pathways and reducing the financial burden imposed by inadequate diagnostics. Through our proprietary medical data repositories, we work with our biopharmaceutical industry partners driving clinical trial efficiency and making first-in-class disease-modifying drugs possible.Everything we do is strongly embedded in world-class science. Our global team of renowned scientists and technology experts works closely with clinical researchers from top research institutions, such as Oxford University, University College London, Harvard Medical School and Duke University, among other.

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
• Zeek Network — Zeek Network is a decentralized network for on-chain social bounty and reputation.

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• PERL.eco — The Planetary Ecosystem Registration Ledger will be a dedicated blockchain for real-world ecological assets through tokenizing carbon credits and biodiversity, NFTs and decentralised (DeFi) rewards.
• Meter.io — Meter.io is a base layer hybrid consensus protocol built to address the volatility, scaling and interoperability problems in the existing cryptocurrencies.
• Injective — Explore Injective: the high-performance blockchain powering decentralized finance, governance, and next-gen Web3 apps with unmatched speed and scale.

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• Clave — One click onboarding to future of finance
• Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
• Yet Another Company — We accelerate the roadmap of Ethereum by making proof verification faster and cheaper. We can verify proofs for 10% of the cost.

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
• Metagood — Tokenization as a Service for Modern Capital Markets
• Monochrome — Monochrome Corporation is a multi-investment, financial services group specialising in infrastructure projects within the bitcoin and crypto-asset landscape.

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• Creditop — Creditop orchestrates loans by providing a multi-lender payment method that enables merchants to efficiently sell by credit.
• One — One is a payments platform that provides the infrastructure that enables companies to accept multiple payment methods for sales.
• Coba — Coba is a simplified and convenient way to live cross-border. All in one platform.

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• QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
• REGRIP — Renewed tyres, reshaping your journey with every revolution. Revolutionizing tyre recycling for a greener future.
• WiseDrive — More information about: "Frontpage&quot by offiial website Aviator site.

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• Nuqlea — Nuqlea is a B2B digital platform for construction and habitat that integrates and digitizes its entire value chain and develops useful techonological solutions through its marketplace. With the purpose of transforming the industry, Nuqlea seeks to offer transparency, efficiency and traceability in terms of purchasing processes, costs and shipments.
• Keycard — Build and deploy secure AI agents with Keycard. Our unified identity infrastructure delivers real-time access control, compliance, and trust for the agent-native world.
• Luzid — The agentic ERP delivery platform. Luzid helps you increase quality, reduce risk, and accelerate time to go-live.

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• DAOHQ — DAOHQ is the first marketplace for decentralized autonomous organizations.
• fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
• FLOKI Technologies — 1,536 Followers, 1,821 Following, 136 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from FLOKI Compras (@floki_compras)

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• Soyio — Gestiona consentimiento, identidad y derechos de titulares con trazabilidad auditable. Registra actividades de tratamiento con IA. Cumple la ley 21.719.
• ComeS — With Supply Chain Software and Artificial Intelligence, we connect producers with bulk buyers to reduce their costs in sales and logistics, increase their sales revenue and make their products visible in new markets. We personalize the offer and achieve more conversions, obtain and manage data from stores and producers and generate an informationnetwork on available food.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.

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• ACUA Ocean — The world's first hydrogen powered uncrewed surface vessel (H-USV) for ocean protection, data collection and monitoring.
• WaveX — WaveX is a consultancy for international enterprises that focuses on the development of commercial partnerships.
• Myriad Wind Energy Systems — Myriad wind energy systems is an early stage start up building high performance modular wind tubrines around the multi-rotor wind turbine concept.

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• fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

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• AKEDO — AKEDO is a AI framework that creates and designs engaging games.
• Slingshot DAO — Slingshot is a community-powered AI infrastructure network. $SHOT is the utility token powering an ecosystem of AI products on Base.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.

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• Arcus Financial Intelligence — Arcus is a PaaS platform that provides payment solutions to help businesses make payments accessible for every consumer. Arcus offers a multi-rail payment platfrom that includes real-time account-to-account payments, cash, and others.
• Luzid — The agentic ERP delivery platform. Luzid helps you increase quality, reduce risk, and accelerate time to go-live.
• Openlayer — Native integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, CoPilot, OTel, Snowflake, and more. Continuous CI/CD validation, production monitoring, security guardrails, and automated compliance aligned to EU AI Act and NIST.

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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.