Top 50 Startup Investors in Costa Rica (October 2026)

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• Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
• 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.
• Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance

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• Quantik — Quantik is a video on demand platform, full of original content such as web series, comedy sketches, stand up comedy shows, short films and documentaries, for the Latin American audiences. They are producers, filmmakers and creative writers.
• Tico Fut — Tico Fut is a sports and entertainment platform that allows you to play virtual football with players from around the world.
• Aditi Multimedia — Aditi Multimedia is a Costa Rican multimedia startup that has created the network of interactive kiosks Kiboo, which includes ATM-type machines enabling its users to access the latest entertainment content market and more.

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• Tumoni — Tumoni is a fintech company that offers digital banking services through free remittances.
• Paggo — Providing access to mobile payments for SME's through an app and mPOS that accepts debit and credit cards, create link payments for e-commerce, will come with a historical sales dashboard and financial ratios
• Ábaco — Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions.

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• Ualabee — Ualabee is an AI platform that integrates transit and urban mobility data, delivering real-time insights to people, cities, and companies. We have deep integrations across the mobility industry that generate high-quality, proprietary data others cannot access. This data advantage unlocks a massive AI potential and strong network effects. Deployedin 15 cities in Latam, we work with clients such as Google Maps, Apple and Waze.
• Pantera — Pantera is an AI-powered neuro-symbolic workflow automation eliminating legal and financial process bottlenecks.
• BeatpulseLabs — Beatpulse Labs creates custom multimedia AI training datasets for enterprise clients. Our platform accumulates and harnesses human intelligence, judgement and taste, converting it into actionable signals for the machine layer.

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• Halla — Halla Intelligence is a digital solution that leverages over 100 billion shopper and product data points to recommend and promote what grocery items.
• Simply Good Jars — Simply Good Jars is a B-Corp company that delivers healthy meals in reusable + returnable packaging through use of smart refrigerated kiosks placed in offices, transit centers, universities and health-systems. Driven by purpose to change that way people think about consumption, SGJ introduces sustainable business practices into their everydayoperations with a zero-waste goal. For every jar returned back to the company for reuse, they will help feed someone in need and ensure that no packaging materials end up in landfills.
• Verdex Technologies — Verdex Technologies is an advanced materials platform technology that uses nanofibers to disrupt industries. Verdex doesn't just compete, it innovates and disrupts.

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• Duppla — Duppla operates as a rent-to-own startup focused on providing alternative financing solutions for home buyers in Colombia. It offers a unique approach to homeownership, where traditional debt is not the primary mechanism. Instead, Duppla presents an innovative model that facilitates access to housing through alternative financing methods. Thisapproach is designed to make the dream of owning a home more attainable for individuals and families, particularly in the LATAM region. With a team that includes co-founders and experts with backgrounds in research and strategy from notable companies, Duppla leverages its understanding of organizational context and user experience to tailor its services. The company aims to address the challenges of affordable housing financing, making it easier for customers to navigate the path to homeownership.
• Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
• Ábaco — Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions.

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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.
• Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
• Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.

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• FFID — FFID develops AI chatbot platform automating customer communication, lead generation, and marketing workflows.
• SprayX — Company specialized in interactive process control to evaluate and guarantee the quality of agricultural spraying with excellence. Empowers, leads and monitors applicators in Application Technology tasks.
• Sandwiche — Sandwiche creates customizable link in bio pages enabling social media monetization and affiliate marketing management.

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• Postearly — Create with AI chat, image and voice generation, video, and reusable templates. Sprexel brings your tools, models, and workflows together in one multilingual workspace.
• 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.
• Extinguisher 360 — Inspections with QR codes. Save time. Stay compliant. No paperwork.

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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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• Kuku FM — Discover the most popular audiobooks & podcasts on Kuku FM. Listen to trending shows, most-played content, and viral audio series everyone is loving.
• Altobridge — AltoBridge.com is a bold and dynamic domain name that exudes sophistication and innovation. This sleek and memorable name evokes a sense of elevation and connection, making it perfect for a wide range of industries looking to establish a st
• Lagos Free Zone — Lagos Free Zone is a leading industrial and commercial hub in Nigeria, offering businesses world-class infrastructure, tax incentives, and strategic access to global markets.

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• Jusfy — Jusfy offers legal services and consulting for individuals and business organizations.
• Steno — Built by tech and legal experts, Steno provides a revolutionary approach to court reporting and litigation services.
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• Puntored — Puntored provides financial transaction services including payment, withdrawal, deposit, and virtual services to low and middle income population through more than 72,000 outlets in Latam. Puntored is the 2nd largest aggregator in Colombia offering a wide array of products through a nationwide network strategically located in base of the pyramidneighborhoods to reach the unbanked population in need of financial services. Puntored’s future is based on the migration from cash to electronic payments and rollout of products to participate across the shopkeeper’s full cash flow cycle.
• Dispower ESP — Dispower ESP is a public utility company that operates using a payment financing approach for photovoltaic self-generation equipment.
• Greenenergy — Greenenergy specialises in financing solutions that enable businesses to produce, store, and manage their own electrical energy.

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• Althea L1 — Affordable, Gamer Fast Internet. Sign-up for one month free! Althea delivers gamer fast internet to rural communities across the United States.
• VRAM AI — VRAM AI is a decentralized AI infrastructure platform on the Sui blockchain, providing compute coordination, agent tools, and incentive-based training infrastructure for the open AI economy. vram.ai
• aPriori — Intelligent Order Flow Coordination Layer for High-Performance Blockchains

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
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• Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.

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• Dapta — Our SaaS platform offers a no-code solution for building APIs and aggregating databases. Save time and resources by streamlining your backend development process. Try it now!
• Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
• Jelt — HealthTech B2B Marketplace

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• Shorta — Descubre series cortas de drama, comedia, romance y suspenso en Shorta y empieza a ver hoy mismo, con nuevos episodios cada semana.
• NanoCo AI — A professional assistant that gets work done. Lives in Slack or Teams, connects to email, calendar and other workspace tools
• Veria Labs — Veria is an autonomous pentester: it maps your entire attack surface, proves real exploits, and drafts the fix.

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• Dehurdle — Practice high-stakes conversations with real-time AI. Instant speaking pace and competency feedback. No voice recordings are kept after the session.
• Vireo Capital — Vireo provides software for deal diligence, fund administration, and portfolio monitoring at private market investment firms.
• Hyperbond Studio — An AI-native entertainment company building games, anime and the engines behind them.

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• LIFT — Investing in Families to Break the Cycle of Poverty
• California Competes — California Competes is a nonpartisan policy and research organization for critical higher education and workforce issues
• 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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• 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

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• Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
• Doppler Finance — Rebuilding Capital Markets for the Tokenized Era.
• Mavryk Dynamics — Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi).

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• Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
• 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
• Vaas — Vaas is a private credit infrastructure platform that automates asset verification, servicing, and operations for asset backed financing.

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• DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau
• 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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• Hemi Labs — Hemi builds Bitcoin infrastructure for money that can be moved, programmed and put to work.
• Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
• Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.

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• Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
• Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
• Zenzap — Zenzap is a software company that develops an AI-powered workplace communication and collaboration platform for businesses. Its application combines team messaging, task management, file sharing, voice and video calls, and calendar integration in a centralized workspace. The platform organizes conversations by teams, projects, and departments, helping employees coordinate activities and track responsibilities within their existing workflows. Zenzap also incorporates AI agents and search capabilities that help users retrieve information from conversations, documents, and connected business applications. Its administrative features support employee onboarding, access permissions, data management, and the removal of access when employees leave an organization. The platform includes integrations with human resources information systems and other workplace tools to synchronize employee records and support business processes. Additional features, such as scheduled messages and configurable working hours, help teams manage notifications and maintain boundaries between work and personal time. Zenzap serves businesses across industries, including healthcare, hospitality, construction, logistics, and professional services, seeking to centralize workplace communication and improve team coordination.

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• NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
• StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
• Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs has closed. After three years, we have made the decision to close Reforged Labs.

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• Taqtics — Run digital inspection checks across every location with Taqtics. Build inspection forms, capture mobile evidence, score findings, assign corrective actions and track results in real time.
• Axelar Network — Axelar is the multichain platform that unifies Web3 for developers, delivering applications from any blockchain to every user, easily.
• Breakout — Breakout is a crypto-native prop business that trades on the most liquid centralized exchanges.

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• Sharpi — Sharpi offers an AI solution that automates B2B order entry by converting customer messages into structured ERP orders.
• Properati — Properati is an online and mobile property platform for the real estate market. The company offers buyers, users, agile, free of ads, banners website, and tenants or real estate investors with a quick, designed for them to be able to communicate effectively with the offeror who has what they are looking for.Properati has an office in Sao Paulo,Brazil, and was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina.
• Nuvia — Nuvia is an artificial Intelligence automation platform that helps with sales process, lead generation and hyper-personalized conversions

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• A-World — Welcome to Animal World, a battle game based on #BNBCHAIN's super metaverse card tower defense. By setting up a hero tower to destroy monsters.
• 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 — Community-First Layer for AI Memecoins. @solana @pumpdotfun @ton_blockchain Dvo1Fb7FxtUxsLbcQaizftfUT9HtL9P6swaQAScZDeQQ

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• QpiAI — QpiAI - Building Next-Generation AI Solutions and Quantum Software
• REGRIP — Regrip tyres are a high-performance alternative to fresh tyres for big commercial vehicles' dummies and drive axles. Regrip's inexpensive, dependable, and ecological product line assists fleet owners in saving significant money on tyre use.
• WiseDrive — More information about: "Frontpage&quot by offiial website Aviator site.

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• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
• Ethereum Institutional — Ethereum Institutional is an independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.

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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 — 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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• Agridex — Agridex is a digital marketplace improving the agricultural supply chain, built by and for the farmers who feed the world, opening fair access to global markets.
• DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau

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• AKEDO — AKEDO is a AI framework that creates and designs engaging games.
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.

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• BRKT — Join the fun on BRKT! Make predictions on sports, pop culture, and more!
• GAIB — AI infra capital partner. We originate, underwrite & manage financing for AI compute economy. Backed by @hack_vc, @FactionVC, @ambergroup_io, @AntalphaGlobal.
• Superpower — the economy layer where agents make money

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• Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
• Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.

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• DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau

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• Yet Another — 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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• 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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• DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau
• Swim — Swim provides a simple way to transfer tokens across chains via multi-token liquidity pools and Solana's Wormhole. No more delays, centralized bridges, or wrapped assets.
• Mizar — Mizar || Crypto Bot Trading Platform - Copy Trading Platform - Social Trading Platform - buy and sell cryptocurrencies with Smart Trading Tools

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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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• 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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• 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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• DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau

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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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• HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
• Causa Prima — Causa Prima develops software to help finance teams handle both sides of every transaction on one network. The company's AI agents handle invoicing, disputes, and discounts on behalf of clients. It provides a network for the financial operations of businesses.
• Goodweek — The AI management platform that gives partners and businesses one secure place for every AI model.

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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 — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau
• Zeek Network — Deek is your go-to crypto CIA on @berachain, powered by @OpenSocialLabs. Our new account is @deek_network

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• AMBTS — AMBTS is a Bitcoin treasury company.
• DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau
• Blade — The last-mile solution to enable broad merchant acceptance of virtual currencies, built by payments experts.

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• DuelNow — ULTRARUBY Cosmetics menyajikan produk kosmetik berkualitas tinggi, cruelty-free, dan dirancang khusus untuk membuatmu jadi pusat perhatian. Dari formula ringan hingga hasil akhir yang memukau