Top 50 Payments Startup Investors in United States (August 2026)

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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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• TurboFlow — Trading, made simple. Everyone gets a seat at TurboFlow.
• DePay — DePay is an Argentina-based real-time payments infrastructure startup.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Mux — Mux helps teams ship high-performance and cost-effective video in minutes, not months. Build better video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.
• Slack — Slack is a cloud-based communication and collaboration platform for teams. It allows users to exchange messages, share files, and integrate with various business tools and services. Slack is commonly used across various industries, from tech startups to large enterprises.
• Bigscreen — Founded by Darshan Shankar in 2014, Bigscreen is a venture-backed startup creating an immersive virtual reality platform that aims to revolutionize the way people work, play, hangout, and collaborate.Use cases of Bigscreen include both entertainment and productivity. Users love using Bigscreen as a "VR movie theater" to watch movies andTV shows. It's also used to play videogames, browse the web, and hangout with friends. It's can also be used for productivity as a tool for remote teams to collaborate together in virtual offices.Since the beta launch in March 2016, Bigscreen has become one of the most popular and highest rated VR apps on the Oculus Store and has an incredible 93% positive rating on Steam. Power users spend 20-30 hours per week in Bigscreen, making it one of the most widely used "killer apps" in the industry.Bigscreen is now the most popular non-gaming VR application in the world.Bigscreen is a fully distributed remote company with employees based around the world in the US & UK.

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• WINN.AI — WINN.AI helps revenue teams run better sales calls and win more deals by automating admin work and guiding reps live, during the call.
• Car Body Lab — The easy way, online.
• Perennial — Cloud Agronomics is the platform for soil carbon management.

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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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• Docker — Docker is a platform designed to help developers build, share, and run container applications. We handle the tedious setup, so you can focus on the code.
• NavigateAI — An AI copilot for every person in the field. NavigateAI upskills and coaches your team, runs real-time quality control, manages the project in the background, and provides expert knowledge, instantly.
• Vulcan — Frontier AI for government, law, and policy | backed by @ycombinator @generalcatalyst @cubitcapital

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• Polkadot — Products for People.
• World Foundation — World is a new standard of trust for the internet - private proof of human, powerful financial infrastructure & the human-first experiences they enable.
• Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT

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• RedotPay — Where Crypto Meets Real Life | Trusted by 8M+ | Accepted at 130M+ merchants | Pay with BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT & more
• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Fabric Cryptography — Building towards a trustless future with custom chips for advanced cryptography.

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• Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
• Aquantia — At Aquantia, all three elements are present in abundance. Aquantia benefits from team members with a depth of diverse technology development expertise, signal processing innovation and an adherence to lean and agile management practices. Their engineers were at the forefront ofthe Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet product deployments, and areamong the best in production silicon design.Meet their leadership team, or the board and investors to see their guidance, financial backing and the company they've built.
• Eightfold AI — Eightfold AI provides the most comprehensive AI recruiting and talent management solutions in the market. We make it easy for businesses to find, screen, and hire the best talent.

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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.
• Revelo — Scale your development team with the top 1% of 1,000,000+ software engineers in Latin America. Get matched with senior remote developers who have strong technical and English-speaking skills & hire them without the overhead. We handle payroll, taxes, and HR. Flat monthly rate.
• Metaloop — Metaloop is a scrap trading company that helps businesses from the metal recycling industry to boost revenue without scaling.

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• Crown — Crown issues BRLV, a real-backed stablecoin pegged to the Brazilian real, designed to maximize security and liquidity while ensuring compliance with institutional-grade regulations.
• Harmonic — Harmonic is a block building system to increase validator rewards.
• Global Token Exchange — The Internet Exchange. Powered by Turbo, a high-throughput, low latency blockchain and exchange. Backed by top institutions, market makers, and you.

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• Sapiom — Where agents run
• Venice — Private & Unrestricted AI | https://t.co/iIt1pyF1TK
• Velocity — Velocity provides a unified platform for efficiently moving and managing funds across both traditional banks and blockchains.

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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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• Mason America, Inc. — Mason is the device innovation platform for product leaders who dare to deliver the next innovation in their field.
• Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
• Gecko Robotics — To collect and make useful physical data in order to protect civilization's most critical infrastructure

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• Mudafy — Mudafy is a tech-enabled real estate broker for LatAm.
• Axis Robotics — AXIS ROBOTICS | Transferring Diverse Human Intelligence Into Robotic General Intelligence
• Hyperlane — Hyperlane is the platform for developers building the interchain universe

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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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• Island — Meet Island, the Enterprise Browser that gives you control over SaaS governance, visibility and productivity. Secure your critical data and apps with Island.
• Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/7a5aSCUfnr https://t.co/x14hb3jO7O
• ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.

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• Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
• Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
• Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.

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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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• Fence — At Fence, we're transforming the way debt facilities are managed. We are the Operating System for your debt facility, reducing the amount of resources spent in back-office operations and letting teams focus on what matters.Our platform, built on blockchain technology, offers a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that simplifies andautomate debt facility operations. Whether you're a capital provider or an asset originator, Fence leads you toward a smarter financial future.For capital providers, our platform enables internet-native debt solutions and real-time portfolio insights, enhancing your credit investment monitoring. With Fence, you stay ahead, making informed decisions for success. Asset originators benefit from enhanced capital efficiency and reduced operational costs, thanks to Fence's automation. We seamlessly integrate debt facilities into your tech stack and provide on-demand programmable debt, giving you unprecedented control over the capital you borrow.
• TBD — TBD is a forecasting market system that analyzes individual attitudes through integrating verifiable online polls.
• Blockworks — Blockworks is a financial media brand that delivers breaking news and premium insights about digital assets to millions of investors. Our editorial content, newsletters, podcasts and events provide investors with the critical analysis and information they need to make smarter decisions about digital assets.

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• GTE — The Internet Exchange. Powered by Turbo, a high-throughput, low latency blockchain and exchange. Backed by top institutions, market makers, and you.
• Hylo — Liquidation-resistant leveraged tokens. Highest yielding stablecoin on Solana. Backed by @robotventures @colosseum @solanaventures
• Sprinter — Credit runs on Sprinter. The credit engine for the onchain economy

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• XFX — Powering international settlement
• 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.
• Birdai Labs — Birdai operates at the base of the chain, measures where value leaks between an order and its fill, and is built to return it to the people who create the order flow.

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• Quadient Accounts Receivable by YayPay — YayPay accounts receivable automation software helps businesses collect faster, forecast cash flow accurately, and improve payment process. Automate your AR
• Sharper Sense — Neuromodulation for Clear Senses
• Willow Wealth — Willow Wealth is an alternative investment platform focused on generating income streams for investors. Get exclusive access to private market investments.

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• 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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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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• a1Mobile — Your carrier, now AI-native.
• Reachify — Reachify empowers restaurants to connect with their customers easily with Call Deflection to capture otherwise lost revenue.
• The Beans — The Beans offers a software application platform that creates personalized cash flow plans designed for its users. The Beans is Simplifying the path to financial balance through design and technology so that people can focus on what they love.

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• Aisera — Aisera's AI Service Management (AISM) solution helps enterprises to automate IT tasks & workflows to deliver exceptional service experience.
• LiveIntent — Learn how we equip brands with advertising technology designed to help advertisers & publishers harness email by resolving identity, driving sales, & increasing revenue.
• Troops — Never miss a revenue signal with Troops. Easily update Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, and Jira right from Slack and Microsoft Teams. Get started for free.

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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.
• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• Hypernova — The onchain prop firm, built to back traders.

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• Mevvy Network — Where MEV Happens Discover, create, and capture MEV faster Backed by @multicoincap
• Inference — Inference infrastructure for AI-native teams
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• Packlane — Packlane makes it easy and affordable for small businesses to design and order custom boxes and packaging online. Through Packlane's online store, customers can apply their own branding and artwork to various packaging styles, get an instant quote, and preview their box designs in full 3D.
• Affinaquest — Kindsight's fundraising intelligence unlocks real-time insights to help you find donors, craft campaigns, and make more for your mission.
• CampusLogic — Fill prospective student pipeline and accelerate financial aid packages with clear cost transparency, AI-powered virtual advising, and matched scholarships.

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• Extropic AI — The next era of computing isn't dead. It's alive. More coming soon.
• Assured Health — Streamline healthcare credentialing, licensing & payor enrollment with Assured's all-in-one platform. Automate admin Ops, boost efficiency & manage providers effortlessly.
• Kotoba Technologies — Kotoba is a frontier voice AI company building a real-time speech model and simultaneous translation technology.

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• Mingyian — Mingyian is a China brand management company for western celebrities and influencers, and is developing the first micro-event platform for celebrities to host online events that engage, grow, and monetize their fan base in the Chinese market. Early investors include RRE Ventures, #DominateFund, Oscar-Nominated Hollywood Director M. NightShyamalan, Foley Ventures, and Eric Yao, a senior executive at one of China's largest energy companies.Our team is made up of industry giants in the China digital and US entertainment spaces, including the Co-founder of E! Entertainment, Former General Manager of the Television Network, Former SVP at William Morris and EVP at Universal Television, Former Director of Business Development at Live Nation, China's First Blogger, Co-Founder of largest site for engineers and designers in China, among many others.
• Hyperpublic — Hyperpublic is an open database of people, places, and things tied to a specific location. Anyone can add objects to the database and developers will be able to build applications on top of the data.
• Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.

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• Dataform — Develop and operationalize scalable data transformations pipelines in BigQuery using SQL.
• AIsa — Powering AI apps with one integration for premium APIs, data, compute, and payments. Backed by @AlibabaGroup @drapervc @Tribecap
• Databento — Databento provides real-time and historical market data APIs. Access data for equities, futures, options, and more with one integration. Sign up for $125 in free credits.

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• Sora — Connect HR tools, automate tasks, and deliver great employee experiences
• Funnel — Our revolutionary CRM property management software saves both time and money for agents and owners while making leasing more efficient.
• Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.

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• Vercel — The autonomous stack for every app and agent.
• Nimble Storage — Nimble Storage solutions are built on the idea that enterprises should not have to compromise between performance, capacity, ease of management, and price. Nimble's patented Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) architecture, designed from the ground up to effectively combine flash with high capacity drives, makes high performanceaffordable, simplifies and enhances disaster recovery and backup, and delivers stress-free operations.Nimble Storage is funded by
• Shift Technology — Shift Technology delivers AI-native decision automation and optimization solutions built specifically for the global insurance industry. Addressing several critical processes across the insurance policy lifecycle, Shift helps insurers achieve faster, more accurate claims and policy resolutions. Shift has analyzed billions of insurance transactionsto date and was presented Frost & Sullivan’s 2020 Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award.

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• eWise — eWise is a leading international provider of Personal Financial Management and Account Aggregation solutions. eWise Money Manager is used by many of the worlds most innovative banks including HSBC, Westpac and First Direct. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Switzerland, eWise has operations in Europe, Asia, America and Australia.
• SamCart — Create an eCommerce storefront with SamCart, an easy shopping cart software and 1-page funnel system, making it simple to sell online.
• Exactuals — Optimizing the payments of residuals, royalties and other complex payments. Exactuals' suite of products optimizes metadata, calculates and processes payments ensuring money gets sent quickly and accurately.

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• Ornn AI, Inc — OranAI offers a comprehensive AI marketing solution that addresses operations, strategy, content production, and insights.OranAI concentrates on sectors including consumer electronics, fashion, FMCG, and cosmetics that have large budgets and quick decision-making cycles.
• Catena Labs — Catena is a product studio where we transform complex computing advancements into accessible, practical tools for users and developers. Leveraging AI and web3 technology our aim is to turn innovative ideas into real-world applications that are easy to use.
• Talos — Talos powers institutional access to the digital assets market - With full trade lifecycle coverage from price discovery through to execution and settlement.

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• Mecka AI — Mecka is the data and deployment layer for Physical AI.
• Spearbit — Spearbit connects independent security experts to Web3 projects that need them.The company offers a range of services, including expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security reviews through retainer agreements. These services provide clients with an operational layer, freeing them from time-consuming administrative tasks and clientsourcing and due diligence.
• TVL Capital — TVL Capital is a financial infrastructure firm specialising in Chain Traded Products (CTPs).

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• Axis — Turning market inefficiencies into tokenized alpha. Backed by @galaxyhq, @FalconXGlobal, @okx.
• Zoo Finance — Zoo Finance is a pioneering DeFi protocol focused on unlocking liquidity from locked assets, empowering users to access capital more efficiently while maximizing the utility of their on-chain holdings.
• Hypernova — The onchain prop firm, built to back traders.

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• Cyphort — Cyphort has developed Next Generation Distributed Software Platform to provide the broadest enterprise visibility and accurate detection of advanced threats & evasion techniques, and zero-day attacks by utilizing behavioral analytics, machine learning, and Long-Data Security-Analytics.Cyphort's innovative approach detects the mostadvanced threats through a highly accurate platform combined with validation and prioritization of threats in context of the organizations eco-system. Through this process Cyphort produces highly customized Actionable Intelligence to users.The Cyphort Distributed Platform has been build with flexibility allowing for seamless integration and detection not only at the edge and network layers but also in virtual infrastructures, cloud environments, and mobile platforms.
• Lumber — Lumber automates scheduling, time tracking, payroll, and more for building contractors. Discover effortless construction workforce management software today.
• Fastback Networks — Fastback Networks was founded with a vision to deliver innovative technology for the mobile infrastructure of the future, enabling network operators to deliver new services, tap new markets and monetize a new generation of mobile applications. With insights derived from the collective team's vast experience building leading edge radio and datanetworking solutions, Fastback Networks looked at the challenges of 4G/LTE deployment with fresh eyes and better ideas, and developed a transformational solution that enables the acceleration of next generation mobile services.

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• Forage — Forage is a third-party payment processor (TPP) and a pin provider that authenticates and processes EBT recipients and transactions. Forage makes it easier for grocers to accept SNAP EBT payments online. Forage guides merchants through the USDA application process and tech integration for merchants, taking most of the burden off retailers.Foragedemocratizes access to government benefits and helps underserved Americans easily access their benefits online. Forage works with multiple grocers and platforms such as Shopify and Flashfood to accept SNAP EBT payments online.
• Findigs — Simplify every step of tenant screening with airtight fraud protection. Meet the screening and decisioning system built to get renting right.
• Tandems — Tandems enhances the way financial advice is delivered by equipping advisors, bankers, and agents with data-driven insights and personalized recommendations. Tandems focuses on improving institutional operations through automation and intelligent decision-support tools that streamline workflows and client engagement. The company’s technology isdesigned to augment human expertise, allowing financial professionals to allocate more time to strategic guidance and relationship building.

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• SIBEX — Trade securely and directly between BTC and any ERC20 - Atomic cross-chain swaps. No Account Creation. No middlemen. Global Liquidity.
• OceanEx — OceanEx is one of the fastest-growing and reputable cryptocurrency exchange.
• BlockSeer — Raw data; real insight. Built for Bitcoin mining teams that want answers, not overhead. Free Bitcoin transaction explorer and wallet monitoring tool.

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• Anrok — Anrok automates sales tax compliance across your financial stack, so you can grow your SaaS business in any market.
• Pets Deli — PETS DELI is a leading D2C pet food brand in Germany with a clear focus on subscription based eCommerce, headquartered in Berlin. The company’s vision is to become the ultimate biggest and most customer centric D2C pet food brand in its core markets. PETS DELI’s unique business model is based on multiple diversified and recurring revenuestreams: The company markets its superior product offerings via online subscriptions, their online shop, offline flagship stores as well as selected partners in the most dominant retail chains.
• Acutus Medical — Acutus Medical develops medical technologies to treat complex cardiac arrhythmia. The company's platform displays the heart’s true activation pattern, turning the chaos of a complex arrhythmia into a clear vision for electrophysiologists.Acutus Medical is a privately funded company founded in 2011 and based in Carlsbad, California. Itsproducts are co-developed in the U.S. and Europe with an exceptional team of medical scientists, biomedical engineers, and other professionals.It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California.

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• BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
• Trove — Trove Collectibles is a content and commerce platform focused on sports cards and collectibles.
• Kairos Labs — Kairos Labs is an Ethereum ecosystem interest rate swap protocol

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• sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
• Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
• Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.

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• Feathery — Enabling product teams to build powerful forms.
• Bread Financial — We provide simple, personalized payment, lending and saving solutions.
• Matic Insurance — Matic is an independent insurance agency that works with multiple insurance carriers so that we can provide the best recommendation to you. This often results in the best policy and the best price.

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• Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
• PodcastAI — Upload one episode. PodcastAI generates transcripts, clips, social posts, a website, and distribution automatically.
• Xella Health — AI-powered women's health testing for fertility, hormones, endometriosis, PMOS, and cancer screening. Xella Health is Precision medicine with concierge care.

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• Modumetal — Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and partsModumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence materialproperties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials.Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.
• Quantcast — We are taking an entirely new approach to advertising on the open internet.
• Numeric — Hundreds of teams streamline reconciliations, organize their close, and leverage AI for flux analysis and reporting with Numeric.

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• Albedo — Aerial quality imagery - from space.
• Eden — Developer of non-invasive health technology designed to democratize access to early cancer risk assessment.
• Attention — Attention is building an AI co-pilot designed to automate repetitive, multi-app desktop tasks.

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• EDGE Markets — The Financial Platform for Smart Bettors
• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• LI.FI — Advanced Bridge & DEX Aggregation - Drive multichain strategies with cross-chain data messaging and get users from everywhere.