Top 45 Payments Startup Investors in Malaysia (June 2026)

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• UnityAI — At UnityAI, we specialize in developing innovative AI solutions that drive business success. Our state-of-the-art technology and expert team empower companies to optimize operations, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities. Discover how UnityAI can transform your business with our comprehensive suite of AI services. Partner with us to turn your vision into reality.
• CalmWave — almWave provides a platform that uses AI and expert services to help healthcare organizations optimize operations and make data-informed decisions. Utilizing a healthcare organization’s data, the company transparently empowers leadership to manage staff more efficiently, reduce turnover rates, and improve patient outcomes.
• Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.

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• Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
• Coldblock — Coldblock Technologies Inc delivers short wave infrared sample digestion technology to prepare samples for analysis, accuracy and safety.
• fraction/al — Fan Ownership Platform that empower fans to own a piece of their favorite sports team.

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• FanAnywhere — Your one-stop blockchain solution for a celebrity to engage the fan base, exclusive Fan Tokens, exchange in FAW pairs & own exclusive celebrity artworks
• Polly Polymer — Polly Polymer is a manufacturer of 3D printing terminals. They are engaged in the research and development of dental and medical polymer materials and 3D printing for sports equipment, medical devices, consumer electronics, automobiles, and other industries, enabling clients to shorten the research and development cycle and reduce costs. PollyPolymer, with its superior materials and large-scale 3D printing production, has become a catalyst for corporate digital intelligent manufacturing transformation, upgrading, and innovation.
• Tangia — Tangia is an all in one platform that allows content creators to supercharge their viewer engagement, boost income, and unleash viewer creativity

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• EthicHub — EthicHub connect groups of smallholder farmers on a profitable activity, with lenders from all over the world and with direct buyers, creating value to all parties. By combining lending and product sale services we use the coffee as collateral for the loan and improve unit economics. Now it is possible to serve smallholder farmers in a veryprofitable way. EthicHub creates value from mutual benefit: Lenders provide affordable loans to the smallholder farmers (only coffee producers in early stage) and direct buyers (coffee roasters in early stage) offer faire prices for the crops, enabling farmers to have the resources to payback the loans and to get free from the poverty and low productivity cycle.
• Hata — Your crypto gateway to global opportunities. Regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Buy, sell, and trade crypto securely.
• Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform

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• NodeOps — NodeOps offers AI-enabled infrastructure to Node Operators, speeding Web3 protocol development.
• RiskLayer — RiskLayer is an economic security middleware for DeFi and providing services and validating Creating positive feedback loops.
• E Money Network — E Money Network is a modular Real-World Asset (RWA) blockchain technology designed with compliance at its core.

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• Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.
• Wicrypt — Wicrypt is a dynamic organization that consistently allows its users to get paid by sharing their Wi-Fi.
• Bella Protocol — Bella Defi suite allows users to simply deposit and enjoy high yield from sophisticated arbitrage strategies, either on-chain or via custodian service.

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• Joystream — JoyStream is a blockchain powered decentralized media distribution, curation, discovery, and monetization platform.
• Forward Protocol — Create Blockchains, Subnets, and dApps with A No-Code Interface Wordpress for Web 3.0 Cross-Chain Compatible Industry Agnostic Adoption-Focused Deploy Your dApp Now Join the Community Featured In Deploy and go live in a few minutes. No programming skills required. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K07z8cQPQGI&ab_channel=ForwardProtocol Lowest Barrier to Entry Easy to use Open Source Drag and drop Complete control Set
• The Fashion Kingdom — Fashion, Sneakers for men, women, and kids

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• Taiv — Taiv enhances live TV in bars & restaurants with bettercontent, commercials, automation, and control. No risk, no cost, cancel any time. Oh - and we'll pay you every month.
• Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
• Osigu — Osigu provides an insurance management platform intended to be used for data processes and data transfers. The company's insurance management platform helps in all the transactions and data transfers that happen between insurance providers, insurance partners, and the customers eliminating all the over processed and haphazard paperwork foundin the back end systems, enabling clients with a reliable and efficient technology that helps them to serve their millions of customers easily without any hassle.The company was established in 2015 and is headquartered in Guatemala.

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• TonUP — TonUP offers cryptocurrencies as well as IDO services.
• 4Everland — 4EVERLAND is a Web 3.0 cloud computing platform that integrates storage, computing, and network core capabilities.
• Ordz Games — Ordz Games is a gaming provider for the Bitcoin eco-chain.

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• CHIP - Cash, Card & Coin Handling Integrated Platform — CHIP (Cash, Card & Coin Handling Integrated Platform) is an online payment platform for both individual and business merchants to collect payment from customers via online banking, card & digital coin/token. Our services include digital company secretary, treasury management & expense management for your online business.

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• Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.

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• Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.

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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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• EurewaX — EurewaX is a digital fintech platform that provides global cross-border payment cloud services.
• Mglobal — Mglobal is a cross-border medical device service provider.
• Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) — Founded by a team of engineers, Aonic (Formerly Poladrone) is an all-in-one drone solutions provider for enterprises that are looking to modernise and streamline their operations workflow. A staple in the commercial drone industry, Poladrone is rapidly expanding beyond the skies and later rebranded into what we are today – Aonic, demonstrating ourcommitment to our clients to provide them with a holistic ecosystem beyond our core drone capabilities.

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• Torum — Convert your crypto to Ringgit and spend it at any DuitNow QR-enabled merchant with ease.

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• MASVERSE — Entering the Masverse of blockchain gaming. Join the bandwagon of blockchain and NFT games via our initial game offering

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• Valiance Health — Valiance Health is a healthtech firm that offers a healthcare cost-optimization platform for harmonizing clinical and financial outcomes.
• SonoBee Ultrasound — As Malaysia's most trusted ultrasound and health screening centre, we combine expert radiologists with advanced imaging for precise results. Experience care you can rely on. Book your appointment.
• Equitable Technologies — A MIT-alumni founded startup dedicated to making healthcare more equitable and universally accessible (Stealth Mode)

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• Hata — Your crypto gateway to global opportunities. Regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Buy, sell, and trade crypto securely.
• Puffer — Puffer Finance operates as a blockchain infrastructure company.
• 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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• ZingBox — ZingBox is a U.S.-based company that provides security for Internet of Things infrastructure. It is based in Mountain View, California.
• Novelship — Novelship is Asia's fastest growing marketplace for limited edition sneakers, apparel and collectibles from the world's most exclusive brands including Jordan, Yeezy, Supreme and more!
• Protean Electric — Protean Electric is an automotive technology firm. As the world leader of in-wheel motor technology, we provide a stand-alone electric drive solution with software that enables digital vehicle control and enhances customization. ProteanDrive motors use patented technologies, digital control, and are packaged with a friction brake. Designed towithstand 300,000 km vehicle lifetime, they deliver torque vectoring, 90 degree turn radius, and a digital control platform that can support a range of AI and cloud based services including autonomous EV sensors, digital ABS, vehicle diagnostics and road condition data. ProteanDrive provides opportunities for full EV and Hybrid vehicles in all segments from TaaS, to conventional vehicle programs including heavy trucks.

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• VALR — Buy and sell bitcoin, ethereum & more | Pay anyone for free with VALR Pay
• Wyre — Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate.Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges.Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
• Casa — Casa is the leading provider of Bitcoin self-custody solutions. Buy, sell, and receive bitcoin with our ultimate blend of security, privacy, and control.

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• Caldera — Caldera is a network of interconnected, purpose-built blockchains, settling on Ethereum.
• Quadrata — Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.
• Nexus — Nexus is a DEX Layer 1, purpose-built to give users around the world access to a new era of verifiable finance.

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• Amously — Amously builds production-ready process control software for advanced fabs using digital twins, virtual metrology, and run-to-run control to improve stability, yield, and operational efficiency.
• Filum.ai — In the new digital transformation era, connecting every touchpoint for every stakeholder on the journey is crucial in helping businesses create a competitive advantage. Filum enables businesses to build a foundation that promotes creativity and the power of inner strengths to make journeys of excellence. We empower businesses by helping them createexcellent experiences with the power of data and cutting-edge technologies.

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• Lapasar.com — Lapasar.com is a B2B marketplace, giving corporate buyers access to suppliers across Malaysia - via the marketplace & via RFQ tools. To adhere to and strengthen corporate governance, the marketplace comes with integrated procurement tools in the backend.
• WHIP Mobility — Disruptive SAAS platform in automotive retail
• Igotopia Sdn Bhd — Gecko Digital is a Digital Marketing & Virtual Tours agency. We are the biggest provider of Hotel Virtual Tours and 360 VR in Asia.

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• InVideo — Create & edit AI videos, AI Avatars, UGC product ads and much more!
• Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
• Sarvam AI — Sarvam AI is on a mission to lead transformative AI research that will significantly improve the robustness, performance, and cost-effectiveness of GenAI app development, deployment, and distribution in India.

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• Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
• Calidi Biotherapeutics — We're on a Mission to Find The Cure For Cancer By Delivering Oncolytic Viruses That Are Designed To Attack Cancer

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• Sasung power — Sasung power enhances energy storage performance using advanced structural battery source technology, developing new batteries for structural support and eco-friendly lightweight structures.
• Featuring — Featuring’s goal is to make it easy for anyone to see and utilize the power of influencers. Today, as companies are accelerating their transition to digital business due to COVID-19, the number of companies leveraging influencers is explosively increasing. Feauturing allows brands and marketers to discover product fit influencers and helps matchingbased on their needs. Currently, over 3,600 brands are using Featuring and more than 8,500 influencer campaigns have been done. As a Korea-based startup, Featuring plans on expanding the business to Far East Asia including Japan and China.
• Welcon Systems — WELCON Systems is a company that makes electronic control equipment used in machines. Their main products include servo drives and motion controllers, which help control the movement of motors in industrial machines and robots.

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• Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
• OROS Labs — OROS Labs is a material technology company provides thermal solutions.
• Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.

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• Soft Space — From its inception in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2012, Soft Space has grown to become the leading mobile Point of Sales (mPOS) provider in the South East Asia region, present in 13 banks across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.The Soft Space centralised Mobile Point-­‐of-­‐Salespayment platform aims to revolutionise the payment industry by enabling anyone to accept card based payments. It is certified EMV Level 2, the first in Asia to achieve this, and is also certified by MasterCard and Visa; a testament to its security, credibility and is recognised globally.Soft Space has won multiple awards including the Red Herring Top 100 Asia 2014, Merit Winner of the WITSA’s Global ICT Excellence Awards, APICTA’s Best Financial Application Award 2013, APICTA’s Best Start Up 2013, and AICTA’s award for the Best Start Up in the ASEAN region.
• Origami Japan — Origami is a mobile platform for cashless payments with a mission to “Create the future of money, payment and commerce”. Established in 2012, Origami Pay is now rolled out nationwide at convenience stores, international fast food chains, taxis, department stores and shops across various verticals.
• GMO FINANCIAL GATE — GMO FINANCIAL GATE is a company that has been involved in the payment business .

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• Fireverse — Fireverse is an AI-powered musical and Web-3 platform.
• JoJoWorld — JoJoWorld is a Web3 game application that uses generative AI. It lowers the bar for players to develop games, helps users worldwide experience 3D worlds through text-to-3D models, and automatically generates scenes and narratives.
• Turingbitchain — Turingbitchain is the creator of a decentralized blockchain contract platform that integrates Web3-era concepts. The company's technology uses the UTXO and POW models to achieve great performance and robust decentralization.

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• Ark — Ark is an AI-based early screening company focused on identifying and preventing complications associated with chronic diseases, developing and supplying advanced medical AI solutions that enable early detection, risk assessment, and proactive disease management to support healthcare providers in delivering more precise and timely care.
• Dotter — Dotter is a manufacturing company that designs and produces biodegradable optical coherence tomography devices to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases. The company also develops next-generation OCT equipment, an optical imaging device that can create a synergy effect when inserting stents.
• Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.

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• Zabo — Zabo is an API for connecting to any crypto exchange, wallet, protocol or account. Sign up for access to free API keys at Zabo.com
• Mash — The internet is fundamentally broken. It's because of monetization. “Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome.”Our mission is to remonetize the web by enabling value for value monetary exchanges between pubs/creators/orgs and their users. A new business model for the open internet.We are unlocking this withfriction-minimized streaming payments that are no/low cost, instantly settled, trust-minimized.It is built on the best global digital monetary network ever conceived, Bitcoin. Enabled by Lightning Network. Most users don't need to know this or be a Bitcoiner. Over time we suspect many will.
• Coin Metrics — Crypto intelligence for the future of finance. Coin Metrics organizes the world's crypto data and makes it transparent and accessible.

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• CHIP - Cash, Card & Coin Handling Integrated Platform — CHIP (Cash, Card & Coin Handling Integrated Platform) is an online payment platform for both individual and business merchants to collect payment from customers via online banking, card & digital coin/token. Our services include digital company secretary, treasury management & expense management for your online business.

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• Kallyope — At Kallyope, we are leveraging insights into neural signaling pathways and developing innovative medicines for the treatment of migraine and metabolic disorders.
• Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
• Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.

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• Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
• HomeCourt — HomeCourt is a mobile app that uses AI to record and track basketball shots, makes, misses, and location.

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• du-it — du-it is a Fintech that provides revolutionary payment solution for businesses & customers through 'Buy Now , Pay Later' business model.

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• Biorce — Biorce is an innovating HealthAI startup committed to transforming drug development through the use of artificial intelligence.
• Hata — Your crypto gateway to global opportunities. Regulated by the Labuan Financial Services Authority. Buy, sell, and trade crypto securely.
• MintNeuro — MintNeuro is pioneering the use of semiconductor technology in next-generation neural implants.

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• 0XVM — 0xVM is a Infrastructure of rollup L2s in Bitcoin. And it's an EVM-compatible execution layer on Bitcoin. It brings Bitcoin to the next level by enabling Turing-complete smart contracts. 0xVM operates directly within Bitcoin's consensus layer, integrating an execution layer and a data consistency layer. By offering a platform forprogrammability on Bitcoin, 0xVM resonates with the BTC community's vision and principles and offers a scaling approach that enhances Bitcoin's utility while retaining its integrity.
• XProtocol — XProtocol is a modular entertainment chain that uses base's superchain technology to help developers create games with player-driven economies.
• Mighty Bear Games — Mighty Bear is a Singapore-based studio building the next generation of massively multiplayer online mobile games. The team is a collective of games industry vetarans from the likes of King, Ubisoft, EA, Lucasarts, Disney, Gameloft, and Jagex. Mighty Bear make games that combine the depth of desktop gaming with the accessibility of mobile -"Mobile games without compromise".

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• CHIP - Cash, Card & Coin Handling Integrated Platform — CHIP (Cash, Card & Coin Handling Integrated Platform) is an online payment platform for both individual and business merchants to collect payment from customers via online banking, card & digital coin/token. Our services include digital company secretary, treasury management & expense management for your online business.

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• Jualo — Situs jual beli online barang baru dan bekas yang mudah dan aman untuk digunakan bagi masyarakat Indonesia. Jadikan Jualo.com teman jual belimu.
• Caduceus Foundation — Caduceus a foundation building a blockchain protocol for the metaverse. Caduceus has developed a meta-array full-merge transaction engine that draws on the matric processing methods of GPUs and AI NPUs.
• WEE marketplace — WEE is an internet-based company operating from the United Arab Emirates, focusing on providing a marketplace platform that caters to the needs of its users by offering a wide selection of goods with the convenience of fast delivery services. Established in 2021, WEE aims to enhance the shopping experience by ensuring that customers can shop onlineand receive their orders swiftly, emphasizing the value of saving time. With a team of 45 employees, WEE supports various payment methods, including Cash on Delivery, and promotes customer satisfaction with a 14-day free return policy. The company also engages in community activities, such as sponsoring events, to maintain a close relationship with its user base.

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• Paywatch — Paywatch offers a platform that allows employees to access their earnings before payday anytime.
• Metafarmers — Metafarmers is an agricultural technology company that provides robotic assistance in farming to increase production.
• Paywatch Korea — Paywatch Korea is a payroll advance payment service with good social influence.

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• Fastwork — Founded in 2015 by a group of engineers and entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley and New York, Fastwork is one of the largest professional freelancing platforms in Southeast Asia by number of users and projects completed.Fastwork started with a mission to improve the business and employment economies in Southeast Asia, by making it simple, quick,and cost-effective for all types of businesses to find and hire freelancers to accelerate their growth.More than 300,000 businesses across Southeast Asia use Fastwork for its 22,000 services ranging from graphic design, online & influencer marketing, data entry, to web & app development.Fastwork also helps freelancers collect payments, promote their services, manage their orders, exchange files and communicate with their clients anywhere, anytime.
• viAct — viAct optimises construction safety, productivity and environmental compliance. Ensuring higher ESG preposition with AI. Offering services for construction industry of Asia & Europe & operational in China, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong.
• KICKS CREW — KicksCrew provides everyone globally with a trusted source and the widest selection of sneakers and streetwear needs. From Newest Drops, Classics, Rare collectibles to Sports Needs.

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• Valiance Health — Valiance Health is a healthtech firm that offers a healthcare cost-optimization platform for harmonizing clinical and financial outcomes.

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• Wodca — Wodca is the developer of a Token Wallet service that can distribute virtual currency in real time.
• GDX — No.1 SaaS and Sustainable Brand EC Enabler and Omni Channel Solution in Southeast Asia and India Chat GPT and AI Robot take over EC operation from manpower. From Silicon Valley US, Bangalore India and Tokyo Japan to the worldThe growth of the EC market is hindered by the limited capacity and capability of human resources to build and operate ECbusinesses.GDX solves the problem of limited human resource capacity and capability with high-level planning and project management capabilities using AI robots and stable operations at low cost using ChatGPT.GDX will contribute to the economic growth of Southeast Asia and India by sustainably expanding the EC market using cutting-edge IT technology.
• Soft Space — From its inception in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2012, Soft Space has grown to become the leading mobile Point of Sales (mPOS) provider in the South East Asia region, present in 13 banks across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.The Soft Space centralised Mobile Point-­‐of-­‐Salespayment platform aims to revolutionise the payment industry by enabling anyone to accept card based payments. It is certified EMV Level 2, the first in Asia to achieve this, and is also certified by MasterCard and Visa; a testament to its security, credibility and is recognised globally.Soft Space has won multiple awards including the Red Herring Top 100 Asia 2014, Merit Winner of the WITSA’s Global ICT Excellence Awards, APICTA’s Best Financial Application Award 2013, APICTA’s Best Start Up 2013, and AICTA’s award for the Best Start Up in the ASEAN region.

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• Coinzix — Coinzix - one of the most convenient and reliable crypto platforms with guaranteed liquidity and low commissions. Come in and make sure.
• VisionGame — VisionGame brings the traditional game publishing experience, boosted for the blockchain. VisionGame provides unique products, technical and creative services, all to support the ever-growing gaming blockchain industry, raising the bar one game at a time.
• MetaFi — MetaFi operates as a Trading Metaverse. Trading Metaverse is a new kind of social trading experience governed by its users.

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• du-it — du-it is a Fintech that provides revolutionary payment solution for businesses & customers through 'Buy Now , Pay Later' business model.