Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in Switzerland (August 2026)

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• Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
• Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
• Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!

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• Agrinorm — Agrinorm is a Swiss deep tech company leveraging cutting edge machine learning techniques for the optimization of fruits and veg supply chains.
• hypt — hypt is a Swiss based SaaS marketing solution that empowers companies to digitalize word-of-mouth. By using our word-of-mouth manager companies are able to activate 40% of their customers to send out a personal recommendation to their peers increasing sales through word-of-mouth by 4 times. Our solution empowers our ICP customers in the finance andinsurance segments to strategically use and optimize the most authentic and cost effective advertising channel – word-of-mouth – and makes it an accessible asset of every marketing mix.
• Carewell — Carewell is influencing the way people work in healthcare by providing flexible digital solutions tailored to their specific needs.

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• EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
• KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
• Freehand — AI Teams for Complex Spend Management

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• Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
• Five Bells — Five Bells is an a blockchain-based settlement and clearing platform for digital assets that provides safe and open transactions.
• Foundation — Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet.They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoinwhile maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!

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• Rhuna — One white-label stack for payments, ticketing, access, and data across live entertainment.
• Utila — Secure stablecoin and digital asset infrastructure for fintechs and enterprises. Run stablecoin payments and digital asset operations on modular infrastructure with MPC wallets, embedded compliance, and policy-driven governance.
• Cork Protocol — Cork's new DeFi primitive, Depeg Swaps allows investors to hedge and trade the risk of their pegged asset (LST/LRTs, Stablecoins, RWAs).

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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• Stablecorp — Stablecorp is igniting a "step-function" improvement in financial services with our suite of products.
• Subzero Labs — Subzero Labs is developing Rialo, a developer-first Layer 1 blockchain built for internet-scale decentralized applications.

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• Mountain Gate — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
• TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
• Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.

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• Rover — Bitcoin Liquid Staking on @BotanixLabs
• Interstate — Interstate is an Ethereum pre-confirmation protocol. It aims to make Ethereum transactions near-instant and allow applications to self-order while maintaining full composability with L1.
• Cloudburst Technologies — Crypto, Crypto Threat intelligence, OSINT, Open source intelligence

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• Derivio — Be early. Trade smarter. One terminal.
• Tazapay — Experience Tazapay's best-in-class global payment solutions for businesses. Our extensive network supports cards, local payment options, and bank transfers in over 173 countries, ensuring seamless collections, secure holding, and efficient payouts worldwide.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.

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• TerraScale Systems — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
• Climate Transition Swiss AG — Accelerating the transition to a more sustainable planet through global green infrastructure deployment.
• Climate Transition Development — Climate Transition Development Corporation (CTD) is leading the Green Snow Project – an innovative hybrid renewable energy venture in Northern Japan. The company's mission is to revolutionize Japan’s renewable energy sector by harnessing the abundant low to medium-heat geothermal resources available in the region.Together with ourdevelopment partners, TerraScale Inc. and Global Family, the company is committed to tackling the challenges of the geothermal energy sector and transforming the way Japan generates power. The company's work forms an integral part of the Japan-US collaboration on geothermal energy development and aims to significantly reduce fossil fuel reliance and cut carbon emissions.

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• Relai — All you need to get started is to download our award winning Relai app, complete a simple verification and start buying with as little as 50 CHF/EUR.
• Hemostod — Developing universal platelets and next-generation diagnostics
• Earny — Payroll management built for Startups & SMEs. Swiss payroll service with no hidden fees & no hassle

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• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• Saturn — Onchain Structured Digital Credit | Disciples of @Saylor | Incubated by @YZiLabs | Backed by @AD_VenturesX @SoraVentures @TheSpartanGroup
• THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance

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• Sygnum — Sygnum is an international digital asset banking organization, rooted in Swiss and Singaporean traditions. The company provides professional and institutional investors, banks, corporations, and DLT foundations with the means to invest in digital assets with utmost confidence. Sygnum's team facilitates this through our top-tier security,personalized expert service, and regulated services in digital asset banking, asset management, tokenization, and B2B offerings.
• Tangem — Tangem Wallet is a reliable blockchain wallet that allows you to store crypto cryptocurrencies simply and safely. Download wallet app to buy, exchange & stake favorite crypto.
• Authlete — Quickly set up an OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) server using Authlete's APIs. Leave cumbersome protocol operations and token management to the experts.

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• Solana — Solana is the high performance network powering internet capital markets, payments, and crypto applications. Fast. Decentralized. Scalable. Energy efficient. Solana can power thousands of transactions per second.
• Bundle — Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions.
• TrueNorth — The first Agentic Brokerage - build your own professional trading desk

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• Fincom — OFAC Sanctions Screening and Entity Resolution: Payments screening, ACH transactions screening, Instant Payments, pKYC, Verification of Payee
• Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem
• Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker — Arkis facilitates the provision of the most capital-efficient undercollateralized leverage for DeFi financial institutions and traders. Accelerating the maturity of DeFi.

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• Qanary — Qanary is a digital second-opinion platform designed to help radiologists detect cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages.
• Cypien AI — Cypien learns your brand and visitor behavior, then composes segment-specific content, visuals, product order, search, landing pages, and UI.
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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• Atrya — Atrya develops regulatory-compliant blockchain payments for international companies.
• Robin Markets — Earn yield on Polymarket positions.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum

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• Rivero — Rivero delivers AI-powered automation for banks, streamlining payment dispute management, chargebacks, and card network compliance through Amiko and Kajo.
• Doconomy — Doconomy is a Sweden-based fintech company that offers digital banking services. Their vision is of enabling a sustainable lifestyle for everyone. Doconomy wants to inspire change in behaviour and reduce unsustainable consumption and carbon emissions. Doconomy activates a circular ecosystem, connecting the consumer, the producer, the retailer andinfluencer to futureproof planet earth, and achieve a sustainable lifestyle for all.
• Wyden — Wyden is an institutional trading platform for banks and brokers, unifying digital asset execution, treasury, settlement, accounting, and connectivity through a single platform.

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• Flyra — Flyra is the stablecoin and AI-powered operating system for remittance. We connect earn, cross-border transfer, and everyday spending in a single programmable flow. Senders move money directly from earnings. Receivers tap a stablecoin wallet with instant cards, bill pay, and rewards. Available directly to individuals through WhatsApp or the Flyramobile app, and built to embed inside leading platforms, from work marketplaces to global financial brands. The first version of the platform is set to launch in 2026.
• KIRHA — Context-as-a-Service (CaaS) for AI systems. Real time data streaming from trusted providers. https://linktr.ee/Kirha_AI
• Kulipa — Kulipa helps fintechs issue branded stablecoin-backed cards to their users

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• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Cambrian — The financial intelligence layer for agents & institutions. Cambrian's API helps you make the best financial decisions onchain. Testnet waitlist @ https://t.co/eohvz17ALp
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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• Almanak — Almanak is a decentralized finance (DeFi) smart agent platform that harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to automate, optimize, and intelligently manage a wide range of DeFi investment strategies. It enables users to create and deploy automated DeFi trading and risk-management strategies through coordinated AI agents. It provides anenvironment where AI handles strategy coding, backtesting across thousands of Monte Carlo simulations, optimization, risk monitoring, deployment via non-custodial Safe-based multisig accounts, and real-time performance monitoring with alerting capabilities. The platform supports seamless interaction with multiple blockchains and protocols via an LLM-powered interface.Almanak targets active DeFi participants, developers building financial applications, investment professionals, and users seeking automated portfolio insights. It emphasizes enhanced automation, continuous strategy execution, and adaptive automation driven by emerging AI techniques to respond to evolving market conditions.
• Open Campus — The Open Campus is a community-driven protocol that leverages the power of blockchain and invites all to build the future of education by putting the power of learning back in the hands of educators, students, and the community.

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• APRO Oracle — APRO Oracle delivers full data support across the ecosystem. It is the most widely incorporated oracle within the Bitcoin environment. APRO Oracle uses TVWAP to accurately calculate prices by aggregating prices from leading institutional-grade data suppliers and exchanges.
• Fluent Labs — The blockchain for consumer crypto | Account by Fluent Foundation
• Nunchi — Rates markets, wherever price forms. Trade, hedge, and speculate beyond tokens. || Backed by @Anchorage

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• StaySAFU — Security leader building the Web3 Security Layer, offering comprehensive solutions across blockchains to protect investors and project.
• Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.
• Mobula Labs — onchain trading & data infrastructure powering @ChainLink, @fomo, top traders & MMs

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• KRNL Labs — The only verifiable orchestration layer | Testnet live
• Credit Coop — Earn through curated credit vaults backed by vetted borrowers, transparent on-chain repayments and programmable collateral. Lend to real businesses with Credit Coop.
• Warlock Labs — Warlock Labs is a provider of an omni-chain liquidation engine that improves the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols by recapturing the maximum extractable value.

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• Wildcat Labs — The Wildcat protocol brings configurable undercollateralised credit rails to Ethereum - your markets, your terms
• Cork Protocol — Cork's new DeFi primitive, Depeg Swaps allows investors to hedge and trade the risk of their pegged asset (LST/LRTs, Stablecoins, RWAs).
• Plume Network — Plume is the first modular L2 blockchain for RWAs that simplifies onchain asset deployment while fostering a composable ecosystem through DeFi applications

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• Brighty App — Brighty is a mobile application that provides traditional currency services. It is also available at google play and app Store, and our website allows you to create an account, buy, sell, and manage supported currencies and cryptocurrencies, participate in earning programs, and apply for, manage, and load money onto virtual and physical cards.
• Holiday Swap — Holiday Swap is an app-based platform for home exchanges during vacation.
• Islamic Coin — Shariah-compliant digital money

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• microagi — Accelerating embodied AGI
• telli — The platform for AI phone calls. https://t.co/yOOUfNYMFe - used by 100+ enterprises - backed by @ycombinator & @cherryventures
• Proxima Fusion — We are a European fusion energy startup pursuing the clearest path to grid deployment.

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• Cyclops.io — Cyclops is the only crypto and stablecoin platform exclusively for payments companies. Cyclops enables payment service providers to accept crypto, do stablecoin settlement, and manage digital assets with enterprise-grade security. We provide PSPs, Card Networks, Acquirers, PayFacs and otherws with compliant crypto solutions without building in-house. Cyclops is chain agnostic, supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, USDT, and multi-chain stablecoin settlement. White-label and turnkey offerings.
• Arrel Technology — The institutional Digital Asset Platform - built for leaders, innovators, and visionaries to Manage, Trade, and Transfer.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum

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• Rover — Bitcoin Liquid Staking on @BotanixLabs
• SpaceComputer — SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
• Neptune Protocol — Neptune Protocol is a decentralized lending platform. It enhances capital efficiency by enabling customers to obtain liquidity in a secure manner.

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• V12 — V12 is your security agent for mission critical code.
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Legend. trade — Where traders become Legends.

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• Avail — Meet the Avail team building the future of modular blockchain infrastructure.
• Code & State — Code & State is a venture studio building and scaling stablecoin ventures.
• Mode Network — Mode Network is a DeFi blockchain platform that builds new on-chain economic systems to enable developers to scale their applications.

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• Oh — Oh is the decentralized and uncensored AI products can offer a range of benefits, such as enhancing privacy, encouraging innovation, and promoting freedom of information.
• Miru — Miru is a cybersecurity company that provides AI tools to perform cybersecurity, trust and safety, and national security investigations.
• Quantum Bridge — Quantum Bridge is a pioneer in Distributed Symmetric Key Exchange (DSKE) technology. It offers quantum-safe cybersecurity products and services. Quantum-safe product and services, Quantum-safe roadmap and quantum-safe solutions implementation.

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• Axelera AI — Axelera AI is a company that delivers purpose-built hardware and software platforms designed to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks, particularly in edge computing. The company's flagship product, the Metis™ AI Platform, integrates both hardware and software components to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient AI inference solutions.This platform has been recognized for its innovation, notably being named a CES® 2024 Innovation Awards Honoree.Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.
• Aylight — Aylight develops semiconductor laser and photonics platforms designed to improve optical connectivity in AI datacenters and related infrastructure. The company focuses on frequency modulated comb laser technology that generates multiple stable wavelengths from a single InP-based laser cavity. Its architecture produces an equidistant, RF-lockedwavelength grid that aligns with dense wavelength-division multiplexing requirements and reduces control complexity and power consumption. Aylight targets use cases in AI datacenter interconnects, quantum computing hardware, precision metrology, and communication equipment. Its products aim to integrate with terabit optical links and wavelength-division multiplexing systems while remaining compatible with existing fabrication processes.
• Atana Elements — Atana is a data-driven resource company that accelerates the exploration and development of flowing critical minerals.

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• Drosera — Drosera is a decentralized incident response system that uses hidden security intentions to contain and mitigate attacks.
• 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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• Wisdomise — Wisomise is an intelligence-augmented ecosystem, which offers you all you need in order to gain the most out of your Web3 investments, in terms of both better returns as well as more informed risks.

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• OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
• Watch.fun — Luxury watch drops. Win a Rolex for as little as $7, drops weekly. Certified by Wristcheck. Backed by @TheSpartanGroup @SolanaVentures @BigBrainVC and more...
• Space — The first leveraged prediction market on @solana

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• Shuttle Labs — The Natural Language Block Explorer & Analytics Tool.
• Manifest — American real estate, now permissionless and composable in defi. Backed by @VanEck_US @lattice_fund @compoundfinance @SALTConference @alliance @CV_Labs
• Avantis Labs — The world's first DEX for cross-asset leverage | RWAs x Crypto | USDC yield vaults | 100x leverage | Built on Base, backed by Base, Pantera Capital.

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• Dopamine — Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.
• web3intelligence — Build wealth and trust in the world of crypto with intelligent financial tools, data and infrastructure.

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• Bio.xyz — Biotech's new financial layer.
• Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• XYRO — XYRO is the first gamified social trading network that combines GameFi and SocialFi. It aims to change trading and involvement in the Web3 arena, making cryptocurrency more accessible and appealing.
• Andrena — Andrena is a developer of an internet distribution platform designed to offer high-speed internet at reduced costs.The company works directly with internet providers who provide internet for universities, hospitals, financial services and other users with heavy data needs and leverage their existing fiber networks to deploy a series of antennas toblanket a geography with internet access, allowing customers and businesses to tap into a faster network wirelessly.
• Delabs Games — At Delabs Games, we want to create fun games that last a thousand years.

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• Deblock — Better than your bank: IBAN, Visa card, instant SEPA transfers, 4% a year, and a self-custody wallet for your crypto.
• Harbor — Future Proof Finance
• Dakota Ridge — Stablecoin infrastructure that enables global money movement.

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• AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
• Panoptic — The Panoptic protocol enables the minting, trading, and market-making of perpetual put and call options.
• Mask Network — Your Portal To The New, Open Internet.

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• Riverkin — Riverkin builds rugged, low-cost water sensor systems for rivers that measure turbidity and temperature in real time. Our platform turns field data into clear insights and decision making tools.
• QualySense — QualySense is a Swiss start-up company focused on innovative high-throughput grain, beans and seeds sorting technology. QualySense develops a high-speed multi-tons per hour sorting device, which will change how grains, beans and seeds are processed and valued worldwide by assessing the biochemical quality of grains one by one. The QualySensesorters will enable customers to separate grain batches into different biochemical quality classes and sell the corresponding premium products at higher average prices. Food processors will be able to considerably increase the production value, and produce higher quality products in a non-interrupted process.
• Pearltec AG — Headquartered in Schlieren / Zurich, Pearltec AG develops, produces and delivers solutions for the optimal storage, fixation and positioning of patients. Their products are based on unique, patented technology developed in collaboration with ETH Zurich and renowned university hospitals.They have set theirselves the goal to use the technologycompetence of Pearltec AG for the benefit of humans, animals and industry and to create added value for their customers by excellent quality and convincing application advantages.Pearltec AG is certified according to ISO standard 13485. This certification certifies that their quality management system for the development and manufacture of medical devices meets the highest international standards.

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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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• IMPRESSO — The place where recruiters search for authentic career profiles. Job seekers mint and save their career NFT. Save your NFT CV on the blockchain. Meet and connect with verified professionals on the Metaverse. Real identities, jobs and networking on IMPRESSO.

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• CESS — CESS is a blockchain-based, decentralized Layer-1 infrastructure that integrates distributed storage, a high-speed content delivery network.
• Infinity Exchange — Infinity is an Institutional Money Markets protocol with the most efficient market-making mechanism across DeFi.
• Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS revolutionizes AI, DeSci, RWA, Enterprise, and more with secure, transparent, and traceable data solutions. Delivering AI computing and data infrastructure, CESS enables data privacy and sovereignty with a focus on AI Agent applications and frameworks.

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• Vorflux — Cloud agents that ship production code. An opinionated harness that runs the full SDLC on dedicated machines.
• BizScout — BizScout is an online platform of Off market deals for verified buyers and sellers.
• Warp — Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees.

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• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum
• Digital Prime Technologies — Full-Service Institutional-Grade Prime Brokerage for Digital Asset Management. DLCC offers full-service Prime Brokerage solutions for digital assets. Our all-in-one user interface leverages both API and Saas product offerings to connect clients with a growing network of liquidity providers to transact, borrow, and lend digital assets, and managecollateral. Our product suite also offers traditional Prime Brokerage services, such as consultation and capital introduction.

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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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• Buynomics — buynomics is the leading solution to optimize your product portfolio. Our clients use buynomics to optimize pricing, promotions, & portfolio architecture.
• Mesta — Mesta combines traditional banking with blockchain technology to provide seamless cross-border payments, enabling businesses to process global transactions efficiently and securely.
• Margarita Finance — Margarita Finance is revolutionizing DeFi by introducing customisable Yield Boosters to the Solana Blockchain.