Top 40 Sports VC Funds & Investors in United Arab Emirates (September 2026)

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• Tagaddod — Tagaddod is a renewable Energy and Waste Management Egyptian company, started in February 2013 and operating in Cairo –Egypt. Currently focusing on clean fuels, Tagaddod is working on Biodiesel production from Vegetable Oils. Biodiesel is a fuel alternative that is produced from waste vegetable oils and used in conventional diesel engines, whichcan directly substitute for or extend supplies of traditional petroleum diesel.
• Makan Home — SHEN168 adalah situs toto togel online yang terpercaya, menawarkan pengalaman bermain yang aman dan menyenangkan bagi para penggemar togel online.
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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• Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
• PoliCloud — PoliCloud is a cost-effective, sustainable, and independent cloud solution designed for people that desire complete control over their data.
• Enhance Fitness — Enhance Fitness is a fitness and wellness company that provides personal training services through a mobile and web-based platform. The company connects users with certified trainers for one-on-one fitness sessions conducted at home, gyms, outdoor locations, or partner facilities. Its platform supports booking management, trainer matching, workouttracking, nutrition guidance, and progress monitoring. Enhance Fitness operates primarily in the Gulf region, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar, and also develops software tools for fitness businesses through its Enhance Tech platform..

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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.
• Lastro — Lastro is building Lais, an autonomous AI worker for real estate agencies, starting in Brazil. Our AI agent initially automated lead engagement and qualification via WhatsApp, helping brokerages boost revenue and improve marketing ROI. In each brokerage, Lais acts as a personalized AI “team member” that engages with leads instantly, searches forproperties and answers common inquiries. Brokerages that have Lais in their teams are growing quickly and reporting up to 60% increases in lead conversion rates.
• Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.

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• Aya — Aya is a modest fashion e-commerce platform that strives to unite the fragmented modest fashion industry into a single discovery platform.
• Bundle — Bundle is the first networked rewards platform in the world, revolutionizing how companies interact with and reward their clients.Bundle provides companies with access to significantly more incentives than they could provide on their own by pooling brand incentive funds into common reward pools. Even though they only contribute a small portion ofthe total incentive value, brands can increase conversions.
• Keep Converting — Keep Converting is a technology company that develops AI-driven tools for e-commerce personalization and conversion optimization. The platform analyzes visitor behavior and shopping patterns to help online stores deliver tailored product recommendations, customized user experiences, and automated engagement strategies. Its services are designed tosupport digital retailers in improving customer interaction, increasing sales efficiency, and enhancing overall website performance across online commerce channels.

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• Raff — RetailTech startup aiming to be the center of commerce.
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace
• Mantas — Cloud outage insurance, built for cloud-first businesses.

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• Turpal — Turpal is a travel technology company that provides software and digital solutions for tour operators, travel agencies, and attraction providers. The platform supports online booking management, inventory distribution, and reservation processing for travel experiences and activities. Its services are designed to help travel businesses manageoperations, connect with distribution channels, and streamline customer booking workflows across web and mobile platforms.
• eBen — eBen is an Employee benefits provider utilizing work technology and world-class people engagement approaches.
• Bhatia Labs — Bhatia Labs provides productized services, platforms and infrastructure at affordable costs to individuals, startups and businesses all over the world.

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• ZeroDrift — The Enforcement Runtime for AI // Your policies and regulations, enforced on everything AI says. Before it ships.
• Algebra AI — Algebra AI designs and runs agentic AI workflows that turn complex, manual operations into reliable, production-ready systems with human oversight and real accountability.
• Synapse Analytics — We build data science and AI solutions for streamlined operations and data driven decisions. Synapse Analytics, enabling a smarter world.

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• vfrog — The full physical AI loop. Any robot. Any model.
• RemotePass — RemotePass makes it easy to hire, onboard & pay your global team in full compliance, giving you everything you need to support them
• MyAlice — The modern customer service and social selling platform. Support anytime and sell anywhere with all your messages, orders, and agents in one place.

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• Pitz — PITZ is building the infrastructure layer for the $1T global auto repair industry — starting with Latin America, expanding to the US in Q4 2026. The platform combines voice-driven AI diagnostics, automated parts procurement, and embedded financing into a single system of record for independent repair shops. In 9 months: $1.78M ARR, 1,462 activeworkshops across Mexico and Brazil, 83% gross margin, 70% subscription revenue, and NRR above 100%. Founded in 2025. Delaware C-Corp. Seed stage.
• Antiverse — Designing biologics for 100 challenging targets
• Nufi — Nufi is Latin America's first alternative identity bureau, empowering businesses with fast, reliable, and AI-powered verification solutions. Our platform offers Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC) services, enabling the instant verification of individuals and companies in less than 5 minutes. By providing clean, structureddata through seamless API integrations, Nufi helps financial institutions, fintechs, proptechs, and HR companies make secure, data-driven decisions. With access to over 130 data sources, Nufi stands out for its speed, accuracy, and scalability, driving trust and transparency across the region's transactions.

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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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• miete24 — The miete24 offer is aimed at both business and private consumers. With our portal, It has completely digitalized the renting process, allowing users to sign a leasing agreement in a matter of seconds. Customer service is as easy and quick as online shopping. Because of our high level of digitization, we may mix and bill IT products andconsumption-based tariffs under a single rental rate.
• Finanzchef24 — Finanzchef24 is Germany’s first online broker and comparison platform for business insurance. Whether it is a physiotherapist, a self-employed IT-consultant or a lawyer - every business is different and requires an individual risk analysis to cover all its potential company risks. To make this process as easy as possible Finanzchef24 offers aninnovative digital service for small and medium-sized enterprises by combining the benefits of robo-advice and traditional advice into an effective hybrid solution: The customer can use online self-service to determine his individual need of insurance or get personal phone-based consulting with an in-house insurance expert. With its proprietary technology, Finanzchef24 makes it possible to compare and buy insurance coverage almost instantaneously, thus rendering manual underwriting obsolete. In order to achieve this Finanzchef24 created a dynamic rules engine that queries all company-specific factors directly to determine the individual need of insurance. In the second step, the algorithm compares the results with all available insurance rates, selects suitable offers and provides the user with custom-fit business insurance quotes.Finanzchef24 works directly with 46 business insurers in Germany, serving over 40.000 clients.The Munich based insurtech start-up ranked number 1 fast-growing company on "FOCUS Wachstumschampions" list 2019 in the category “Financial Services” and is a two-time winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award.
• Pole Position — Automotive events agency in Dubai with creative new activation ideas and a single source for turnkey automotive event management and delivery

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• Dubai Verse Cup — Dubai Verse Cup operates as an exciting new world where you can race, breed and trade virtual horses.

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• Froneri — Froneri is a Worldwide recognised ice cream manufacturer. Learn more about our story.
• Alpha Generation — Alpha Generation manages and operates power generation facilities that are well positioned to provide reliable, secure, safe, and sustainable sources of power and meet the growing infrastructure needs created by electrification. This diverse portfolio of assets is owned by funds managed by ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, a leading middle-market, value added infrastructure investment firm with strategic partnerships and investments across the power, renewables, strategic gas, battery storage, and transformative infrastructure sectors.
• Vantage Data Centers — Vantage Data Centers provides innovative, scalable wholesale data center campuses to hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises across North America and Europe.

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• Gathern — Gathern is a booking platform of private villas, chalets, rest houses, camps, resorts, farms and other places suitable for gatherings.
• NOMU Group — Reinventing Groceries for Families & Small F&B Pros
• T7D Gaming — Gaming infrastructure for 600M+ players across MENA. Home of Pulse.

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• LVL Wellbeing — A digital first wellbeing platform that caters to everyone's needs, regardless of their current state of wellbeing or where they work. Helping organizations to keep their employees engaged and giving them the tools to prioritize their wellbeing.
• Getty Images — Getty Images is a digital media company. They specialize in capturing, creating, and preserving content to elevate visual communications. They help companies tell stories that will move their brand, their customers, their readers, and viewers, and help them create lasting connections.
• Savage X Fenty — Savage X Fenty is an accessories company that offers underwear and other fashion clothes for women. In partnership with a team assembled from the industry’s elite, the label has disrupted and redefined the marketplace with its accessible price point and extensive assortment of lingerie.Savage X Fenty was founded by Robyn Rihanna Fenty, a musicand fashion icon.

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• Fit On Click — Providing solutions to people in UAE which conveniently leads them to a healthy lifestyle as we believe being active is the key to living a happy life.

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• PinPay — Pin-Pay is an innovative mobile payment service offered at our Partner Banks which aims to bring our subscribers the most secure, reliable and intelligent payment experience.Using Pin-Pay, you can perform a number of different transactions directly from your mobile phone. Since all transactions are conducted live and under 20 seconds, you cansafely receive money straight to your account in no time.
• Abwab.ai — Award winning AI-powered lending platform for financial institutions. Automating SME financing decisions. Empowering lenders, enabling SMEs. Bridging $170B gap.
• Keyper — Keyper simplifies real estate management for property owners, tenants, and partners. Manage portfolios, get market insights, apply for rent with flexible payment options, and explore partnership opportunities to earn passive income. Join Keyper today!

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• Mesh — Mesh Pay is a payment infrastructure platform that enables businesses to accept and send digital assets and cryptocurrency transactions through a single integration. It supports connectivity with hundreds of wallets and exchanges, and processes payments, deposits, verification,s and global payouts, settling funds in stablecoins or local currency toreduce volatility risk and increase completion rates. The platform includes SmartFunding™, which orchestrates funding from multiple sources to streamline checkout and payout processes, and offers real-time address validation and settlement features. Mesh Pay also provides programmable wallet capabilities for autonomous commerce and routes funds securely across wallets, banks and exchanges.
• Mesh — Mesh enables safer, easier crypto transfers and payments from 300+ leading exchanges and wallets, all without leaving your platform
• 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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• Fit On Click — Providing solutions to people in UAE which conveniently leads them to a healthy lifestyle as we believe being active is the key to living a happy life.

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• Klasha — At Klasha, we're simplifying borderless payments for commerce in Africa. We help merchants worldwide sell online to Africa and receive payments in local African currencies while enjoying super fast last-mile delivery to customers across the continent.
• Three Wheels United — Three Wheels United is a tech-enhanced financier for light electric vehicles in India, starting with the auto rickshaws.
• Element 16 Technologies — Element 16 Technologies operates in the energy industry. The company uses high-temperature heat energy storage to improve efficiency and save money for commercial and industrial facilities. Founded in 2016, Element 16 Technologies is based in Glendale, California.

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• HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
• Hala — Hala offers a payment and wallet solution for individuals and point-of-sale (PoS) services that enable merchants to accept credit card payments.
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• Roxonn — Empowering software innovation through decentralization.
• Klink Labs — Klink enables weekly earnings on your deposit of up to $1M every week through its no-loss prize draws.
• Zodia Markets — Zodia Markets is a digital asset trading platform that provides custody of digital assets, brokerage, trade, investments, and exchange.

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• Cobi — Cobi provides AI-based business intelligence tools for fintech companies. Its platform analyzes transaction and customer behavior data to segment users based on spending and shopping patterns. The company helps businesses use these insights to improve customer targeting, product planning, and engagement through merchant platforms.
• Soor Insurance — Experience hassle-free car insurance in Bahrain. Compare, customize, and purchase your motor insurance policy in minutes. Trusted by thousands.
• OpenFarming — OpenFarming.Earth is an AI-powered food distribution and supply-chain platform focused on helping food distributors automate order aggregation, inventory management, demand forecasting, routing, and payment workflows. The company mainly targets distributors, wholesalers, restaurants, hotels, and grocery supply chains in the Middle East.

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• STEPPI — Run corporate step challenges, wellness programmes and team engagement activities with STEPPI. Trusted by organisations, government entities and large-scale events.

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• OpenSooq — OpenSooq is an online classified platform that allows users to freely trade property, cars, products, and services in the Middle East & North Africa region. Sellers can offer products and services to millions of users online without intermediaries. Buyers can browse a wide variety of goods and services, including automotive, Real Estate,Electronics, and much more.
• ReserveOut — Reserveout, choose a city to find out the best restaurants & promotions near you ..RESERVE A TABLE NOW!

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• Zizle — Zizle wants to use the Solana blockchain to transform social networking: better data privacy, decentralized governance, and more efficient revenue streams for consumers and producers. the platform's goal is to make social networking a more entertaining, healthy, and profitable environment.
• Digitalax — Digitalax dedicated digital-only fashion auction exchange platform and open-source digital fashion toolkit.
• Aleph Zero — Discover Aleph Zero, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the adoption and development of decentralized technologies. Learn about our mission to create a secure blockchain ecosystem and develop secure smart contracts that power the decentralized world.

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• estaie — Flexible furnished stays from weeks to a year. Stay longer and save across hotels, serviced apartments, and managed holiday homes with one simple payment and no hidden fees.
• Lola Do — Lola, Cake for every occasion, Customized your cake selections and Lola will bake it with love!
• Siin — E-commerce Marketplace

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• Brickken — Get ahead in the token game with Brickken. Our tools and experts will guide you through the process of creating, selling and managing tokens.
• myco — myco is a content streaming super dApp that smoothly integrates AVOD and SVOD capabilities into a decentralized ecosystem.
• Only U Bank — A bank for female influencers and their followers

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• Joyus — Joyus is a startup that's helping shoppers discover goods via short-form videos.Welcome to Joyus, a brand new online shopping experience to help you discover and buy the things you'll love.Our purpose at Joyus is to help delight and transform your shopping experience by harnessing the power of video. Each week our amazing curatorsshare their special apparel, beauty and lifestyle finds with you and then show you how to make them work for you. Each item is available for sale for a limited time through our exclusive video sales platform, making it easy for you to buy the things you love. You can also easily share these videos with your friends on Facebook and Twitter with just a simple click.Whether it's uncovering the latest trends, bringing our favorite brands with you, or solving a dilemma - all our video sales share one thing in common. We believe that sharing our authentic passion and finds with you is the key to creating a truly Joyus shopping experience online.
• Selfdrive.ae — UAE's Largest Car Rental & Monthly Subscription Platform with Best Deals. Rent a car From 1 day to 36 Months with a fleet of 3000 Cars & 65 Different Models.
• Pole Position — Automotive events agency in Dubai with creative new activation ideas and a single source for turnkey automotive event management and delivery

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• Okadoc — The quickest way to book from thousands of doctors, manage your appointments and attend video consultations. All online: healthcare in your hands.

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• BGN — BGN is an energy company that focuses on trading, storage, and transportation of petroleum and petrochemical products.
• meta[bolic] — Metabolic Health is a precision healthcare platform focused on preventing and managing metabolic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and hormonal disorders. It combines medical expertise, continuous data monitoring, and AI-driven insights to deliver personalized treatment plans. The platform enables real-time health tracking, lifestyle coaching,and improved long-term metabolic outcomes through integrated digital and clinical care.
• Aldar Properties — Aldar offers UAE residents and investors a range of premium properties and real estate services. Explore our villas, apartments, and offices in Abu Dhabi.

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• Paperade AI — Paperade AI provides users with commercial uses cases and startup ideas based on academic research. Our proprietary algorithms read through scholarly articles, abstracts, and studies to synthesize, extract, and present innovative business opportunities.
• Flanksource — Mission Control is an open-source, Kubernetes inspired internal developer portal that helps teams improve developer productivity and operational resilience.
• SEO Site Checkup — SEO Site Checkup offers webmasters, small business owners, and SEO agencies with SEO tools, software, and articles. It offers users with analysis and monitoring tools to analyze SEO issues of websites, to generate white-label SEO reports, to receive notifications on SEO score changes, and to understand their competitors’ SEO profiles.SEO SiteCheckup is operated from New York, United States.

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• Ball Above All — Basketball Academy - Leagues - Coaching for kids - adults. #baasports #BallAboveAll #BallAboveAllSports #Basketball #BasketballDubai #BasketballAdelaide

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• Kombuchery — Kombuchery is disrupting the beverage industry and becoming the leading DrinkTech player in Europe.
• Trace — Trace is an orchestration engine that breaks down existing workflows, assigns repetitive tasks to AI agents and routes the rest to the right people.
• Firesale — Firesale is an AI-powered resale marketplace built for people with too much stuff and zero time. Sellers record a 2-second video, and Firesale’s AI instantly generates the title, description, photos, and price. No typing, no pricing games, no endless messages — just tap, record, and sell. Designed to feel like a digital yard sale, Firesale makes iteffortless to turn clutter into cash locally, with Uber-powered pickup and delivery options.

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• YACOB — YACOB is a nutrition management platform that facilitates communication and operational flow between children, parents, schools & food vendors.YACOB’s mission is to enhance children’s and parents’ health behaviour related to nutrition and physical activity both at home and at school.Based on holistic data ranging from children’s currenthealth levels to their eating habits and physical activity patterns and up to sleeping and screen time balance - in correlation with the international standards set by the WHO, we are developing an adaptive gamified framework in order to trigger children’s desire and determination to become healthier.Our adaptive gamified framework is a blend of physical, digital and phygital tools - from fitness tests to healthy food tastings up to online challenges and competitions based on wearables data, thus creating a seamless flow of experiences across the environments where children already enjoy being.
• TruKKer — TRUKKER is one of the leading names of logistics & transportation companies in UAE, KSA, Egypt & across the GCC. We offer logistics & transport & truck rental services in the MENA Region. Call us on +971 600-524642.
• NIP Group — Official Twitter of the NIP Group.

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• GMNSM — GMNSM Is an international sports and development club,They strive for more than just physical education, emphasizing holistic individual development and also to ensure that every student possesses the capacity for self-fulfillment and remains competitive in the future.

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• Pilleve — Pilleve has built hardware, software, and human tools to help you manage medications seamlessly.
• BitOasis — BitOasis: Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum & Other Digital Assets in AED, one of the oldest platforms in MENA. Enjoy fast, secure trading, and 24/7 support. Download now and join the trusted BitOasis community.
• ReserveOut — Reserveout, choose a city to find out the best restaurants & promotions near you ..RESERVE A TABLE NOW!

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• BRKZ — BRKZ is a construction-tech company that provides a one-stop solution by selling building materials to contractors and builders.
• Merkle Science — Next generation crypto threat detection, risk management and compliance for businesses, banks and government agencies. Sign up now
• Property Finder — PropertyFinder owns and operates real estate portals across Dubai. Available in both English and Arabic, its websites provide visitors with search facilities covering residential and commercial properties for rent or for sale, real estate news, home advice, and buying and selling guides.PropertyFinder provides its users with the tools to helpconsumers find the properties that fit their needs. It works with brokers to list properties in one convenient site, and make it easier to see all of the information about those properties while browsing from its users’ desktop or on the move.

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• GSR — GSR has nine years of deep crypto market expertise as a market maker, ecosystem partner and active, multi-stage investor. GSR sources and provides spot and non-linear liquidity in digital assets for token issuers, institutional investors, miners, and leading cryptocurrency exchanges. GSR employs over 300 people around the globe, and its tradingtechnology is connected to 60 trading venues, including the world's leading DEXs. We have a culture of approaching complex problems with tenacity and imagination. We build long-term relationships by offering exceptional service, expertise and trading capabilities tailored to the specific needs of our clients.
• Circle — Circle helps businesses and developers harness the power of digital dollar stablecoins for payments and internet commerce worldwide. Learn more today!
• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.

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• HeyBreez AI — The operational layer for Voice AI. Real phone calls. Real-time speed. Built for real operations.
• Orbii AI — Our AI enriches & analyses borrower data, helping you make credit decisions in minutes. Accelerate your business loan Underwriting decisons.
• PostEx — Instant & upfront payments for e-commerce stores offering Cash on Delivery. Get seamless COD, growth capital, and nationwide same-day delivery with PostEx!