Top 45 Payments VC Funds & Investors in Ireland (October 2026)

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• Foodcloud — We connect businesses that have surplus food with Charities and Community Groups that need it.
• Amethyst Care — Amethyst Care is a startup that creates an AI-powered voice assistant for those with mobility difficulties.
• Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.

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• Ubotica — AI-powered maritime surveillance and intelligence that predicts risk, tasks satellites and delivers verified insights to protect critical infrastructure and detect dark vessels.
• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• Fresco — Fresco powers connected cooking experiences for appliance brands, enabling faster launches, lower R&D costs, and continuous innovation.

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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.
• Stanhope AI — Stanhope AI is a deep-tech startup based in London with a strong background in neuroscience, robotics and fintech. We are bringing Active Inference to market as a novel framework for autonomous decision-making. To contend with the challenges of contemporary AIs, our distinct approach aims to offer
• HelmGuard AI — HelmGuard develops an AI-driven trust infrastructure platform for security, compliance, and third-party risk management. The company provides an operational risk infrastructure layer that centralizes fragmented security, compliance, and vendor data into a structured repository. Its platform coordinates autonomous, domain-specific AI agents thatperform continuous data indexing, compliance mapping, automated vendor assessments, and real-time security tracking. HelmGuard includes a risk operating system, a zero-knowledge verification engine for selective disclosure and cryptographic-style proofs, and persona-specific risk intelligence reporting. These capabilities support first-party, third-party, and customer-facing workflows across sectors such as financial services, SaaS, and healthcare. The platform is used by security, risk, and compliance teams to maintain continuous oversight of internal controls, vendor posture, and regulatory obligations while generating tailored, natural-language reports for business stakeholders.

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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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• Arey — Arey is anti-aging haircare, clinically proven. Our science-backed hair and scalp treatment slows greys and delivers thicker, fuller, healthier hair.
• Axiom — The Starting Point for Reasoning
• Sapphire Digital — UFABRO situs judi bola dengan keamanan maksimal, enkripsi SSL, transaksi stabil, lisensi terverifikasi, dan layanan yang transparan. Mudah digunakan dan sangat andal.

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• TidalSense — CRiL was formed in April 2013 specifically to develop innovative medical devices to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions. They have been building a platform technology, N-Tidal, based on the measurement and analysis of tidal breathing CO2 throughout the entire breath.
• Recast — Recast enable media owners to quickly generate revenue at scale and capture meaningful data from new and existing audiences without acquisition costs, while consumers enjoy seamless and affordable access to content via a universal micropayment-wallet.
• Splink — Splink's white-label fintech infrastructure offers secure plug-and-play fintech solutions, allowing brands to innovate and sell their services to existing and prospective clients. Splink's solution simplifies payment by offering partners a portfolio of payment industry options to choose from.

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• Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
• DeepSafe — The world's first Cryptographic Random AI Verification Network for trustless verification of any on-chain and off-chain messages.
• SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.

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• Edgify — Edgify runs product recognition, loss prevention and real-time store intelligence on the retail hardware you already own. 8,000+ devices, 2,042 stores, 12 countries.
• Sifflet — You make important business decision based on your data. Sifflet ensures the data is reliable, traceable and easy to navigate.
• Titan Operating System —

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• 1DOC3 — 1doc3 is a e-health platform that connects 490 million of Spanish speaking people with licensed and trusted doctors. Users find personalized answers to their health related questions. Doctors build their online reputation, find new patients and create the biggest health related questions and answers curated database in Spanish. The Platform isavailable via web, App, SMS and USSD, allowing the entire population to have access to a Doctor no matter where they are, or even if they don't have internet access.
• Devengo — Light-speed transfers. Our Instant Payments API enables seamless integration to automate payouts to your customers in Europe and the UK.
• 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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• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
• Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
• Range — The financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoins, crypto and fiat rails.

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• CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.
• Bloomberg PolarLake — Streamline the acquisition, management and distribution of instrument, pricing, index, legal and ratings data from multiple delivery channels.
• WhatClinic.com — WhatClinic.com helps patients find, compare and book the right clinics for them, in more than 135 countries. They provide detailed listings for over 120,000 clinics on their site. These include doctors, dentists, beauty and cosmetic surgery, physiotherapy, fertility, holistics and a lot more. They believe that every patient is an empoweredconsumer.

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• Kayna — Enhance your SaaS platform's value by integrating Kayna's insurance solutions. Drive additional revenue and offer more to your users with every policy sold.
• Fundcraft — The fundcraft team has created a platform that centralizes, coordinates, and gradually automates all fund activities, including transfer agency, accounting, portfolio and risk management, and compliance, among others.
• ZeroRisk.io — https://t.co/Aukldsyhoy is the end-to-end merchant portfolio risk and compliance management system designed to make the payments ecosystem safer.

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• Ontik — Ontik provides a modern payment platform that helps merchants achieve a greater number of trade customers. The platform automate key credit processes and reduces the administrative burden and enables real-time reporting, minimise credit losses, and get paid on time.
• Mintago — Home - Mintago
• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!

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• Grasp — Grasp is the world's first AI analyst for finance professionals. Our AI analyst automates company and market research for investment banks, private equity firms, and management consulting firms across the world.
• Metris Energy — The AI-native operating system for renewable energy.
• Monkey Bizness — Monkey Bizness is the largest provider of indoor family entertainment centres in the UK. Each centre includes a children's soft play area and is designed to provide a safe, clean and fun environment in which parents and children can feel comfortable. Monkey Bizness' centres provide a setting that encourages children to express themselvesthrough creativity and play as well as providing fresh and nutritious food to keep kids happy and healthy.Monkey Bizness currently has centres in eight locations: Lewes, Gosport, Poole, Sheffield, Stevenage, Hull Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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• WingRiders — WingRiders is a top tier AMM decentralized exchange on top of the eUTxO model. Fully Cardano native and super fast platform.
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
• Redacted Coin — Redacted is a Web3 entertainment and gaming platform.

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• WrxFlo — WrxFlo deliver real time data insights and software solutions to allow business achieve greater levels of supply chain efficiencies
• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
• Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.

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• GloNav — GloNav develops global positioning system and satellite navigation technologies and products for the wireless handset and mobile consumer electronics device markets. It offers global positioning system radio frequency integrated circuits and single chip assisted-global positioning systems, which are used for low dropout tracking and cellularhandset integration. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Newport Beach, California. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Taiwan. As of January 2008, GloNav, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of NXP B.V.
• Mindgard — Mindgard is the leading provider of AI Red Teaming solutions.
• Neurobell — NeuroBell develop novel EEG medical devices for early detection and monitoring of neonatal seizures.

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• CELL Studio — A blockchain software development company with a dedicated focus on the BTC ecosystem, committed to advancing the Nervos BTCKB initiative
• Avalon Finance — Avalon Finance is a decentralized protocol that offers a BTC liquidity mechanism for production.
• Stoneblade Entertainment — Stoneblade Entertainment operates as a publisher of strategy games.

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• Trustap — Learn how we make buying & selling online safe & secure, every time. Create an account for free today!
• Haus — An alcohol brand designed for the way we drink today. Born and bottled in California, Haus is made with things you can pronounce - think chardonnay grapes. elderflower and lemon. With less alcohol than hard liquors, Haus is shipped directly to your door, so you can gather and connect on your time.
• Bolden Therapeutics — Bolden Therapeutics is a biotechnology company developing first-in-class therapeutics to treat central nervous system diseases.

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• Volo Commerce — Volo brings together data and intelligence from all over the commerce ecosystem and uses AI to provide real-time actionable insights.
• FSH Technologies (formerly Contenda) — Contenda helps repurpose old content into a new engagement. It contextually identifies content's key topics and spins it into the proper format for an audience to discover.
• Endra — Endra is a purpose-built platform for modern MEP engineering. Generate 3D models and drawings, sync with Revit and enjoy coordinated design workflows.

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• NEWE — NEWE is a B2B technological and operations solution provider to bring together the circular economy.
• Omnevue — Omnevue provide affordable and robust ESG performance reporting solutions available to businesses.
• KohortPay — KohortPay is a gamified social checkout tool that boosts influencer value, doubling conversion and reducing customer acquisition expenses. KohortPay streamlines collaboration, payments, and savings for both retailers and their customers by applying referral rewards to a purchase, even days after it's completed.

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• Superlogic — OneOf is the mass-consumer Web3 company connecting the next 100M non-crypto-native fans to iconic brands, artists, and athletes. OneOf technology enables global brands and enterprises to reimagine commerce, loyalty and engagement, allowing consumers to seamlessly collect or trade digital assets with no prior crypto expertise. Deeply committed to a sustainable and inclusive blockchain future, minting digital assets on OneOf's platform uses up to 2 million times less energy than previous generation proof-of-work networks, and costs up to 99% less in gas fees. A leader in diversity, over 80% of the collections curated by OneOf come from minority or female creators.
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• Slinky Network — Slinky Network provides an on-chain marketplace and payment protocol that connects AI agents and applications with third-party APIs. The company offers the SlinkyLayer platform, which wraps developer endpoints as discoverable skills and exposes them through an x402 pay-per-execution interface. Each API call triggers a non-custodial on-chainmicropayment, settling in the same request loop using networks such as Base and BNB Chain. Developers set prices, earn a defined revenue share, and receive instant payouts to their wallets without subscriptions or custodial holds. AI agents authenticate via wallet signatures, enabling autonomous, machine-to-machine access and payment without traditional logins or credit cards. The platform also records call ratings on-chain to provide portable, verifiable reputation for services.

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• Recapp — Recapp is a sports-video platform that creates a single, scrollable feed by compiling and arranging game highlights from various leagues.
• Lasso Security — Lasso Security defends the LLM frontier with advanced LLM Cybersecurity solutions. Embrace progress and strengthen your AI cybersecurity posture

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• Wellola — Portasana powered by Wellola is an Integrated digital care pathways for modern healthcare, empowering patients and supporting providers...

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• Moby — Moby provides regular investors access to tactics that were previously only available to Wall Street's behemoths. Founded in 2021 and is based in New York, New York, United States.
• Summit — Summit provides the best Commercial Insurance, Liability, Business, Tech & Cyber Insurance in Canada. We are specialized in custom insurance Solutions.
• District Cover — District Cover takes a data-driven approach to understanding city-based businesses' risk profiles and creates tailored insurance policies for small businesses. We exist to ensure brokers and small businesses can rely on consistent access to insurance solutions that empower continued growth. Our proprietary, non-admitted commercial insuranceproduct provides a new solution as existing options become harder to get, less relevant, and more expensive.

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• Ready — Join over 2 million Argent users and get the best of Ethereum at a fraction of the cost. Easily buy, earn, stake and invest in crypto on Starknet.
• Elo Health — Elo creates a smart nutrition service that uses biomarkers to deliver nutrition with confidence for optimal health and aging. It employs biomarkers, artificial intelligence, and expert guidance to deliver supplements that are precisely calibrated for the individual's needs. It uses Smart Nutrition products to identify and fill nutrient gapsbased on blood testing, activity data, and one-on-one dietitian support.
• Five Lives — Five Lives, your brain health coach. Take the risk assessment and start improving your brain health today!

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• Ripple Prime — Hidden Road is the global credit network for institutional investors and provides easy access to both traditional and digital markets.
• Identity Digital — Identity Digital offers individuals and organizations relevant domain names to express digital identity.
• Flow Control — Flow Control Group serves a key role in providing mission-critical, complementary products enabling customers to operate their manufacturing facilities efficiently and effectively.

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• HIFI — HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increasevisibility, and combat fraud.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.
• Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
• Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

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• CleverCards — The Platform for Contactless Cards. The CleverGift real-time payment platform offers gift cards, expenses, employee incentives, and travel foreign exchange.

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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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• Lyzer — The groceries marketplace where you can find everthing you need. Buy online groceries as fast as in 4 hours with personalized picking.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• Primetag — AI-native influencer & creator marketing platform for brands & agencies. Find the best creators, analyse the market and competitors, and measure campaign performance.

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• Robigo — Engineering the plant microbiome for a more sustainable food system
• Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.
• Brilliant Harvest — Brilliant Harvest is the Most Powerful AI Helpdesk For Equipment Dealers.

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• StitcherAds — Kargo Commerce's retail and eCommerce-centric platform is designed to drive performance with ease across Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, and TikTok.
• HeyStaks — Mobile operators and online publishers can earn massive revenues from their first-party data with HeyStaks AI Marketing Platform.
• Accuris Networks — Accuris Networks is a leading provider of convergence, roaming and interworking solutions . The AccuROAM platform is designed to enable Communication Service Providers to have integrated and disruptive solutions by connecting current and emerging mobile broadband networks such as GSM CDMA, LTE and Wi-Fi , which includes smartphone client software,access server/gateway technology and billing integration.This gives their subscribers a seamless and secure user experience for data, voice and messaging services on all of these technologies both internationally and domestically.

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• OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
• Farcana — Experience fast-paced 4v4 PvP battles in a futuristic sci-fi landscape. Compete as one of 24 Stars with unique abilities to dominate the arena.
• Access Protocol — Publish written content. Mint NFTs. Build communities on Discord & Telegram. All under a single subscription.

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• Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
• High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets

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• Qwello — Qwello is an Electric Vehicle charge point developer and operator with operations in Europe. Qwello deploys charging infrastructure across major European cities by partnering with local municipalities through public concession contracts, providing both infrastructure and charging services.
• Voltera — Voltera’s customers are companies that have a pressing need to power EVs at scale. They are challenged by the fact that charging infrastructure does not exist in the right place, at the right time, or of the right type necessary to support planned EV deployments. They're also challenged by the complexity of siting, building, owning, andoperating EV charging infrastructure without disrupting operations or investing significant time and upfront capital.
• Onyx Renewable Partners — Onyx guides your every step toward a cleaner future. Established in 2014, Onyx offers clean energy, solar, and decarbonization solutions throughout the United States.

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• Pezesha — Digital Financial Ecosystem for connecting MSMEs to Capital.
• EigenLabs — Eigen Labs is an engineering and research organization that contributes to protocols like EigenLayer and EigenDA
• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• PERPTools — PERPTools combines crypto perpetual trading with activity points and risk-free market predictions.
• 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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• NTR plc — With almost five decades of experience in investing in and managing infrastructure assets, NTR is a specialist renewable energy asset manager.
• McAleer & Rushe — Specialist Design & Build Contractors delivering high quality buildings across Offices, Hotels, Student Accommodation and Residential in the UK & Ireland.
• Zeus Packaging Group — Leading specialist distribution and manufacturing group, supplying a diverse range of products and supply solutions to a wide range of customer markets.

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• Cirdan — Cirdan provides highly reliable, innovative LIS & imaging solutions for the acceleration & enhancement of diagnosis, optimized for pathology & clinical lab.
• preico — Preico Network empowers Web2 and Web3 developers to create, own, and monetize crypto-native AI models on a decentralized platform
• Pretto — Pretto is the only truly transparent online real estate price comparator.Pretto accompanies you until the signing of your loan, free of charge and without commitment.

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• Entity — Entity's purpose is shape the future of web gaming by leveraging emerging technologies and maximizing the browser's capabilities. Our next-generation gaming hub, scheduled to arrive in 2027, will be a global place for players to discover, connect, and play together.
• ZeroRisk.io — https://t.co/Aukldsyhoy is the end-to-end merchant portfolio risk and compliance management system designed to make the payments ecosystem safer.
• Full Health Medical — Full Health Medical patient empowerment tools that improve prevention healthcare are part of the healthcare ecosystem. FHM provides reliable digital innovation, designed by healthcare professionals that are keen to help patients live a healthy life, in response to a national scarcity of healthcare providers, the development of chronic disease, anda lack of transparency at the patient level. People provide lifetime access to preventive care healthcare across screening, diagnostics, education, treatment, and a record of their journey driven technology provides lifetime access to preventative healthcare custom designed at every step screening, diagnostics, education, and action plans that motivate individuals to address risks before they develop health problems.

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• Wall-i — Wall-i is a programmatic outdoor advertising network, that displays ads on screens for segmented audiences, by age, gender, location, and market. Wall-i aims to be the Google Ads of the outdoor advertising. By combining plug-and-play screen incorporation and audience recognition technology (age, gender and mood), with a CPV /CPM businessmodel, it enables real-estate owners to monetize LCD screens and tablets with ads.
• Musiversal — Record your music in real time with world-class session musicians, vocalists, producers and audio engineers
• UpLink — Tellent Recruitee helps you hire faster, work better together, and win top talent without the bottleneck; powered by AI-driven features.

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• Owlto — Owlto Finance is an intent-centric interoperability protocol, 'Bridge the World with AI Agent'.
• Bitdeer Technologies Group — Shop professional Bitcoin mining hardware&BTC mining machines at Bitdeer. Explore high-performance GPU Cloud, Cloud Mining, and Litecoin/Dogecoin mining solutions.
• Stoneblade Entertainment — Stoneblade Entertainment operates as a publisher of strategy games.

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• ClarityPay — ClarityPay offers smart credit solutions for big decisions, empowering purchase costs to be spread over time with clear fees and lower payments.
• Wealth.com — Wealth.com provides an artificial intelligence-powered estate and tax planning platform designed for financial advisors, enabling them to deliver structured, ongoing wealth planning services to clients. The company’s software integrates estate planning, tax analysis, and financial data into a single system that supports the creation, management,and continuous optimization of wealth strategies. Its core platform allows advisors to generate legal estate planning documents such as wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, while also offering tools to visualize wealth transfer scenarios and model long-term outcomes. The system includes a client portal where individuals can upload documents, track assets, and collaborate with advisors and other professionals involved in their financial planning.
• Cinder Technologies — Cinder provides businesses everything they need to orchestrate and automate safety at scale with industry leading tools for content moderation, AI safety, and data compliance.

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• Polemos — Enter the Polemos Forge - the first decentralized GameFi platform for asset lending, Play and Earn Blockchain Game University, scholarships, staking, & more!
• UCTalent — UCTalent, the Decentralized Talent Network, unchains global talents to reach their best via confidential on-chain referral recruitment and Career AI Agent.
• COTI AI Agents — COTIAgents researches and builds at the intersection of blockchain and AI on COTI Network. First AI Grantee of @MomentumX_ Accelerator by @COTInetwork