Top 50 Startup Investors in Costa Rica in January 2026

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• aviva — Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underserved communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses inMexico.As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
• Futura Labs — Futura Labs is a digital dental lab modernizing clinics with tech-driven orthodontics and prosthetics across Latin America.
• Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

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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.
• Desteia — Desteia uses highly-specialized AI to give you clean data, live freight status, and seamless customs clearance - with zero manual upkeep.
• minu — In minu, we are revolutionizing the financial health of Mexican employees, offering them access to their already worked salary when they need it, instead of having to wait for payroll. We work with HR areas of companies that offer the provision of minu to improve satisfaction, retention, and attraction of talent. minu is supported by FinTech'sleading institutional investors globally, including QED.

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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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• Sytrex — We automate, optimize, and enhance various operational processes. This includes tasks such as document processing, fraud detection, customer support, risk assessment, compliance monitoring, and transaction management. By integrating AI into these workflows, institutions can reduce manual effort, increase processing speed, and improve accuracy,resulting in more efficient operations and better customer experiences.
• Brick — Brick is an AI-powered platform for automating fraud prevention and underwriting, giving businesses full control over risk analysis.
• Brick Seguros — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.

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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 Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.

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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.
• Blade — The last-mile solution to enable broad merchant acceptance of virtual currencies, built by payments experts.
• PeerReach — Peerreach is an Amsterdam-based social media startup that provides an influence metric that measures your influence within different areas of expertise. The Peerreach algorithm is similar to the pagerank algorithm that Google uses to identify influential websites.

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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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• 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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• 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.
• Ábaco — We're reinventing financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions so every growing company can reach their full potential.
• Vitrinnea — Vitrinnea is the first full service marketplace in Central America powered by re-injecting used garments back into the market. Our goal is to make shopping for fashion accessible, fun and sustainable. We offer clothing, footwear and accessories at the best price with the best user experience.

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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.
• Yala — Yala operates a multi-token system and unlocks a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin​.

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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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• WASTETIDE — Wastetide turns these wastes into profit, and your excel sheets into useful data.
• Bagel AI — Bagel AI is a product intelligence platform that automates product management, helping product teams turn data into insights, streamline GTM, and drive growth
• Aisel Health — Aisel Health provides AI that imitates psychiatrists for psychiatric clinics and hospitals to ensure efficient patient access to care.

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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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• Benji — Benji is a modern API for loyalty programs. It helps businesses enhance conversion rates and profitability by providing clients with a new way to pay using rewards points.
• IP Copilot — Discover, capture, and protect your best ideas with responsible AI.
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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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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• 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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• 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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• A-World — A-world is a super metaverse card tower defense battle game based on BNB CHAIN.
• NeuronX — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
• Vue Protocol — Vue Protocol operates as a layer2 for Web3 Social.

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• NLPatent — Accelerate productivity and uncover hidden insights with NLPatent's intuitive AI-powered patent research platform.
• Wexler AI — Wexler offers advanced AI-driven solutions for eDiscovery, document review, and litigation support services. Streamline your legal processes and enhance dispute resolution with AI technology, saving time and improving accuracy.
• HelloPrenup — Need a prenup? HelloPrenup is a lawyer free prenuptial agreements platform for marriages. No divorce lawyers, low cost, and fast! Marry with peace of mind - get your prenuptial agreement today.

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• FinanEx — Flexible export financing for underserved agribusinesses.
• Koibanx — Koibanx is a blockchain solutions company that offers payment infrastructure, transactional core, Web3 integration, and crypto capabilities.
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Suno — Suno is a music start-up that enables anyone to make the songs they want. The company aims to help people rediscover the joy of play and exploration.
• Landed — LANDED makes hiring top-notch candidates onto your team effortless.
• Periodic Labs — Periodic Labs develops artificial intelligence systems that simulate and predict the properties of materials using machine learning. The company applies computational models to support the discovery and design of materials used in sectors such as energy, electronics, and infrastructure. It builds tools that aim to reduce the time and costassociated with traditional research and development processes. Periodic Labs uses AI to analyze large-scale scientific data and collaborates with academic and industry partners to support material science research.

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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• DuelNow — DuelNow offers bookie-free sports betting. At DuelNow you can create crypto bets, set your odds, and win on your terms.
• Metagood — Metagood is a for-profit company that empowers communities to be catalysts for positive collective action.Founded by crypto veterans Danny Yang who created the largest crypto currency exchange in Taiwan, Amanda Terry who was an Twitter and NBC executive, and Bill Tai who was the first investor in Zoom, Canva, and 20 other publicly tradedcompanies, Metagood launched OnChainMonkey, the historic PFP collection all on chain in a single transaction on Sept 11, 2021. OnChainMonkey has been consistently ranked as one of the most profitable NFTs collections globally. Metagood was awarded Fast Company's 2022 20 Best World Changing Ideas for Impact Investing.
• 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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• 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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• 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 — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.

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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 — La plataforma modular para cumplir con la ley de datos personales
• 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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• NPC Labs — NPC Labs is a core contributor to B3 - a Base gaming ecosystem
• Pulse — Pulse is a developer of an all-in-one health and wellness platform designed to integrate a wearable gadget and a fitness tracking software.
• Slingshot DAO — Bet on the next billion dollar games! Slingshot is the AI Roblox Game Launcher, powered by the $SLING Token and home to Game Factory.

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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 — Luzid is a Software Development firm offering AI based developer's automation tools for enterprise implementation processes.
• Openlayer — Our platform automates model inventory, risk classification, and compliance workflows, while applying 100+ behavioral tests to detect issues like hallucinations, bias, PII leakage, and toxicity.