Top 40 Social Media Startup Investors in Switzerland (August 2026)

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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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• AYOXXA — AYOXXA is a biotech company commercializing innovative technology developed at the National University of Singapore (NUS). AYOXXA’s patented technology platform is producing a new generation of biochips – merging biology with IT. This allows the biochip to accumulate large numbers of applications – measuring multiple protein markers for cancer,allergies, cardiovascular and infectious diseases – in a single test.
• Tacalyx — Tacalyx develops therapeutics targeting cancer-specific carbohydrate antigens on the surface of metastatic malignant tumors where no satisfactory treatments exist.The name Tacalyx is derived from TACA (Tumor Associated Carbohydrate Antigen) and ‘lyx’ from the term Glycocalyx, the glycan-containing layer covering cells. Cancer cells differ fromnormal cells by displaying aberrant carbohydrate structures on their surfaces promoting metastasis, angiogenesis or suppression of the immune system. TACAs result from the aberrant glycosylation that is seen with transformation to a tumor cell and represent attractive targets for cancer treatment since they are displayed with high cancer specificity and enhance tumor virulence via the mentioned diverse mechanisms.
• CryoTherapeutics — CryoTherapeutics is focusing on the development, demonstration of clinical benefit, and early-stage commercialization of a proprietary cryotherapy system for use in the treatment of coronary artery disease that causes heart attacks. The safety and efficacy of cryoenergy in the cardiovascular system has been demonstrated and CryoTherapeutics intendsto extend the benefits of cryoenergy to the problem of diseased coronary arteries.

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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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• A5X — A5X is a financial institutional platform offers trading and post-trading solutions to the capital and financial markets.
• Laurence — Automating Amazon PPC like quant hedge funds trade markets Grow net total profit by 15-40% within 30 days of plugging in
• Positron — Positron makes purpose-built hardware to accelerate generative AI.

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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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• Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.

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• metameet — Create worlds, explore and trade NFTs in the first-ever virtual world owned by its users.
• Creating Culinary Communities — A cutting edge food and beverage platform consisting of an array of limited service culinary brands.

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• Fabas — Explore Fabas Solutions' innovative, sustainable, plant-based yogurt mixes. Perfect for creating high-protein, vegan dairy alternatives from natural ingredients, driving food industry innovation.
• Refluence — LinkTrust offers powerful business-building tools for agencies and networks. Discover how to manage campaigns, partners and channels at scale. Book a demo.
• Refluenced — Refluenced is an online platform that specializes in connecting brand enthusiasts with brands, aiming to revolutionize word-of-mouth marketing. Originating from the success of the SunIce Festival's micro-influencer campaign, which reaches millions annually, Refluenced offers a unique opportunity for creators to engage with brands andcampaigns. With a focus on marketing services, the company operates with a team of 15 employees and is based in Switzerland. Refluenced is dedicated to transforming the interaction between brands and their advocates, providing new avenues for marketing engagement.

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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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• 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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• practize — See posts, photos and more on Facebook.

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• Olyverse — An innovative blockchain-powered social platform built to reward engagement, bringing fans and stars closer together
• Saalg Geomechanics — SAALG Geomechanics, creating engineering tools that will shape the future of a sustainable, efficient and safe construction industry.

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• Olyverse — An innovative blockchain-powered social platform built to reward engagement, bringing fans and stars closer together

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• Tset — Tset is a software company that develops a SaaS enterprise solution for product cost and CO2 emission estimation.
• Kooky — - What is kooky? kooky is a digital cup smart system and offers you the possibility to dispose your reusable cup on your way in an easy and sustainable way through kooky boxes.- How does kooky work? You order your drink as usual and get it in a kooky cup. You simply pay for the drink plus 1 CHF deposit. When you return the cup in a kooky drop offbox, you will immediately get your 1 CHF deposit credited in the wallet of your app.- What do I have to do when I got the cup with the drink? Simply scan the QR code of the cup with the kooky app (registration required), and the cup will be paired to your app account.- Where can I return the cup? In all the kooky boxes around town and in all the venues of the kooky network. You can find both in the app.- How do I get my credit? In order to withdraw the credit in your app wallet, you need to enter your bank details in the app. Then you submit a payout request of the desired amount. Kooky only takes a 10% fee as cost of service, you will receive a receipt for each withdrawal.- What does kooky do with the cups? Our employees empty the kooky boxes and bring the cups to our rinsing logistics. There, they are cleaned according to hygiene regulations and standards, picked, packed and distributed to our partners again.- Are e-vehicles used for logistics? Yes, the logistics for collecting and distributing the cups takes place exclusively with electric vehicles.
• Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.

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• NuLink — NuLink combines best practices with best-of-breed security solutions to provide privacy-preserving technology with enterprise level security for decentralized applications
• 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
• Velvet Capital — Trade any crypto onchain - spot and perpetuals across 7 chains with AI-powered routing. Non-custodial DeFi trading terminal + AI trading bot. 100K+ traders.

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• Sandbox — Sandbox is a global community for young entrepreneurial people. It helps young, entrepreneurial, and passionate individuals who like to develop and build new things.Sandbox’s mission is to identify ambitious young people and to help them become global leaders by connecting them with peers and mentors. Its team includes entrepreneurs, designers,opera singers, investment bankers, academics, and more.Sandbox enables its users to find their professional peers in any field of expertise, in any region, and at any time; build up their social presence in the network and connect online as well as offline; communicate with members across borders and industries in a secure private environment; and receive updates about the network, follow other members, and share ideas of their own.Sandbox was founded by
• Forge — Playtest, market and sell great Steam Games
• Castle Finance — Castle Finance provides the safest way to earn yield for DAOs and their communities.

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• EPTI — All-in-One AI platform with 150+ models for chat, documents, voice, video, images, agents, avatars and workflow automation, unified through one API.
• ReDev — ReDev will be the Social Media Platform used for hiring across all roles, levels, and geographies in Intelligent way, Digitally and Fully Automated! ReDev make it possible for every Talented Person in the world to find their Dream Job free of charge.
• Vinivia AG — Experience live streaming like never before - combining cutting-edge technology and continuous innovation with a creator-centric approach. Get early access now.

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• Abionic — Abionic SA is ideally positioned at the boundaries of medical technology, biotechnology and nanotechnology. As a spin-off from EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland), Abionic uses these highly advanced technologies to provide the medical profession with a novel diagnostic tool designed to give patients personal allergyprofiles. Abionic aims to become an important international player in the field of personalized medicine, in particular in allergy detection.Abionic SA is a certified ISO 9001/13485 company, including research, development and commercialization of in vitro diagnostic devices for allergies detection. The standard ISO 13485 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization has to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet customer and regulatory requirements.Abionic SA is a privately owned high-tech company and is strongly supported by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL), The Canton of Vaud and Venturelab.Abionic was founded by former scientists from the biomedical optics laboratory (LOB) at EPFL. Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland.Abionic appreciates the support it has received from:
• GUURU Solutions — Discover how community-powered advice can turn your PDPs into trusted, high-converting content and get cited in AI search.
• Pregnolia — Pregnolia ensures that every woman can have a happy, healthy and informed pregnancy until term. Their team knows that the existing research about preterm birth assessment is very promising, but this alone does not guarantee success. Sabrina, Francisco and Annette are highly committed to develop the commercial version of the device, complete theclinical trial, follow the regulatory roadmap and execute on their business vision to successfully support gynaecologists in improving the preterm birth risk assessment and birth management.

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• MyFeld.ch — MyFeld.ch is the holder of a fresh farm food platform that aims to create a digital link between consumers and our local agriculture. The company's platform provides products directly from the farm, allowing people to improve their comprehension of seasonality and regionality while also raising awareness of the sustainable use of food byallowing them to purchase fresh produce from the farm.
• dropz — Dropz provides various natural flavoured drink filled with vitamins and minerals.
• Findependent — Findependent goal is to enable you to make more of your savings with findependent and thus to be able to live more financially independently and self-determined - financially independent or findependent for short.

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• NeoFi — Buy, Sell, Trade and Invest in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Shiba Inu, Dogecoin, Cardano, Polygon and 100s other cryptocurrency from India's best cryptocurrency exchange.
• metameet — Create worlds, explore and trade NFTs in the first-ever virtual world owned by its users.
• Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.

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• Boomerang Ideas — We transform the 4bn social media users into survey-takers to source representative, fast and affordable market feedback with a few simple clicks from the place where people nowadays are.

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• Bewelab SA — Bewe is a mobile game designed to reduce cravings, using neuroscience to automatically retrain your brain and effortlessly reclaim your health.
• BOOMPower — Help your customers electrify their homes while you hit your net zero goals. BOOM! Power delivers turnkey solutions for organisations ready to lead.
• Inceptoo — World's First Group Marketing Platform

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• feey — feey is a houseplant shop. They offer plants that include entry-level plants, baby plants, animal-friendly plants, large plants, home office plants, hanging plants, aglaonema, alocasia, calathea, hoya, monstera, and philodendron.
• Amplify — Amplify is a platform that allows users to create a powerful, optimized, and targeted advertising campaign to sell their products and services. Their platform enables users to track and analyze the results of their advertising campaigns.
• Cleveron — Cleveron is an innovative Swiss start up company that has developed an intelligent system for radiator heating systems. With Cleveron, the room temperature in each individual room of a building can be individually and optimally controlled. This can save costs and energy. Simple Home's technology makes an active contribution to reducing CO 2emissions.They have the vision to make part of the big, public buildings in Switzerland and Europe, such as school buildings and administrative buildings, more environmentally friendly. To make this happen, they want to convince cities and communities to convert their buildings to Cleveron technology as quickly as possible. Because with the conversion they are now making a concrete contribution to the rescue of the climate.

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• Olyverse — An innovative blockchain-powered social platform built to reward engagement, bringing fans and stars closer together

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• HyperWeek — HyperWeek is a subsidiary of Knowledge Plaza, based in Belgium. HyperWeek provides a social platform for citizens & institutions to socialize their content assets.

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• Sogni AI — Unleash creativity with the Sogni Supernet: a purpose-built DePIN protocol for Creative AI. Empowering Creative AI apps with unmatched speed and scale.
• Bondex — Join Bondex, a Web3 network with 4M+ users. Monetize connections, build your reputation, and earn $BDXN rewards. Advance your career or discover top talent now.
• Folks Finance — Folks Finance is a permissionless DeFi lending platform where users can lend and borrow crypto across chains, access loans, and manage digital assets in one unified liquidity protocol.

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• Exein — Exein develops embedded cybersecurity solutions designed to secure Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices. The company provides a platform that integrates security directly into the firmware of embedded systems, enabling real-time threat detection, monitoring, and response. Exein’s technology focuses on runtime protection and behavioranalysis at the edge, helping manufacturers secure devices without requiring major hardware changes or external software agents. Its solution is compatible with widely used real-time operating systems (RTOS) and Linux-based environments, allowing for flexible integration across different devices. The company also offers tools for vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence tailored for firmware-level defense. Exein supports developers with APIs and SDKs to incorporate security features during the product development phase. Through its platform, the company addresses growing security risks in critical sectors such as automotive, industrial automation, and consumer electronics.
• Writer — WRITER is the enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies, built to help teams execute and scale on-brand, compliant work.
• Wayve — Wayve are pioneering an AI-centric approach to self-driving, inspired by our vision of a smarter, safer and more sustainable world.

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• Veertly — Veertly provides a modular all-in-one platform that satisfies all your needs for digital collaboration.
• yeekatee — yeekatee is an independent investing-based networking connecting people and investing for the whole investment journey.
• bNovate Technologies — BNovate Technologies develops automated water monitoring systems, focusing on microbiological analysis through flow cytometry. The company designs devices that measure bacterial loads in water, supporting applications in drinking water safety and pharmaceutical processes. Its technology enables continuous and automated detection of microbialcontamination, reducing the need for manual testing and improving response times.

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• Distran — Distran is a spin-off from the Autonomous System Lab, ETH Zurich, developing advanced acoustic sensors for industrial applications.Distran's goal is to reduce risks for industrial workers and the environmental impact of the industry through the use of sound sensing and technology.Workers use their ears every day, consciously orunconsciously, to assess machine conditions. Traditional acoustic sensors have been used for long for that purpose but are limited by the background sounds that are present in usual industrial environments. Phased-array sensors developed by Distran overcome this limitation by spatially filtering the sounds. It becomes possible to locate defects, such as leaks or discharges, while being at a safe distance.
• TVP Solar — Our target Industrial Process Heat is the largest energy sink Urgency Industrial decarbonization has yet to be addressed and is critical to achievingESG targets. TVP cuts industrial fossil fuel use
• AgroSustain — AgroSustain is a one-stop-shop solution for biological plant protection. It aims to reduce food waste and support organic food production by developing farm to fork solutions, like biological fungicides and coatings.

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• Allthings — Allthings enables digital communication and interaction between property users, owners and property managers. Allthings bundles various digital services around life and work in buildings in one app. By doing so, Allthings achieves operational cost reductions while simultaneously increasing the value of the property. The company was founded in 2013by an experienced team and has offices in Basel, Berlin and Freiburg i. Breisgau.
• Imburse — Deliver seamless insurance payment experiences with Duck Creek Embedded Payments. Connect policy, billing, and claims workflows to simplify operations and improve customer satisfaction.

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• encosa — encosa helps commercial and industrial customers cut electricity costs with battery storage systems and software. It plans, finances, installs, and operates these systems as a complete service. The company also uses energy optimization and electricity trading to improve system returns.
• VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
• Playbook® - Company AI — Teams use Playbook OS to automate their work, without a line of code. Build a leaner, smarter, and stronger organization, today.

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• Altoida — Altoida is creating a new gold standard in brain health with Precision Neurology. We're radically transforming the method for measuring brain function and diagnosing neurological disease, using just your smartphone or tablet.Our products are backed by more than 20 years of innovative research in digital biomarkers, augmented reality (AR),and artificial intelligence (AI).Altoida received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in July 2021. Our first device is a Computerized Cognitive Assessment Aid that is classified as Class II, 510(k) exempt.
• Sandbox — Sandbox is a global community for young entrepreneurial people. It helps young, entrepreneurial, and passionate individuals who like to develop and build new things.Sandbox’s mission is to identify ambitious young people and to help them become global leaders by connecting them with peers and mentors. Its team includes entrepreneurs, designers,opera singers, investment bankers, academics, and more.Sandbox enables its users to find their professional peers in any field of expertise, in any region, and at any time; build up their social presence in the network and connect online as well as offline; communicate with members across borders and industries in a secure private environment; and receive updates about the network, follow other members, and share ideas of their own.Sandbox was founded by
• Crypto Finance Group — Crypto Finance is a partner of financial institutions. Our market-leading, integrated platform enables access to manage, trade, and store digital assets securely. Crypto Finance Group was established in June, 2017 by Jan Brzezek and Tobias Reichmuth in Zug, Switzerland.

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• Redpill AI — Access 200+ AI models with privacy-first infrastructure. Private models in GPU TEE, OpenAI-compatible API, zero data retention.
• Rivet.cloud (Formerly OpenRelay) —
• Karmine Corp — Karmine Corp is an esports organization that offers merchandise and competes in games like league of legends, trackmania, and others.

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• Wyden — Wyden is an institutional trading platform for banks and brokers, unifying digital asset execution, treasury, settlement, accounting, and connectivity through a single platform.
• Storyline — Storyline is an Data Infrastructure and Analytics firm offering AI based transformation of raw data into content.
• 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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• HyperWeek — HyperWeek is a subsidiary of Knowledge Plaza, based in Belgium. HyperWeek provides a social platform for citizens & institutions to socialize their content assets.

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• Anevo — Anevo helps real estate companies eliminate tedious backoffice work. Saving up to 90% of your time, Anevo lets you focus on what truly matters.
• Menon Skills — Menon Skills is an information technology firm that develops digital tools to enhance organization team skills through feedback and reviews.
• Waka Payments — Waka Payments is a mobile application that allows user to access, transfer, and manage cross border financial transactions.

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• PERL.eco — The Planetary Ecosystem Registration Ledger will be a dedicated blockchain for real-world ecological assets through tokenizing carbon credits and biodiversity, NFTs and decentralised (DeFi) rewards.
• A-World — Welcome to Animal World, a battle game based on #BNBCHAIN's super metaverse card tower defense. By setting up a hero tower to destroy monsters.
• NeuronX — The First AI-Driven Lending Protocol on @dfinity

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• Botify — Search engines miss about half the content on enterprise websites. Uncover those hidden opportunities with Botify, the leading enterprise SEO platform!
• LumApps — LumApps is the only intranet packaged solution that enables employees to feel connected to their organization and engaged in their work from anywhere by delivering a modern, smart digital headquarters that empowers your employees to design a work experience that works for them.
• Stanley Robotics — Stanley Robotics is a DeepTech business helping the transportation and logistics industries digitalise and robotise outdoor operations.

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• metameet — Create worlds, explore and trade NFTs in the first-ever virtual world owned by its users.

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• ViewsML — Explore cutting-edge AI solutions for cancer treatment, diagnosis, and research. Discover how clinical labs leverage artificial intelligence for precise cancer detection and diagnosis.
• StratifAI — Building the next generation of biomarkers for precision oncology
• Immunexpress — Immunexpress is a molecular diagnostic company committed to improving outcomes for suspected sepsis patients and healthcare providers.