Top 50 Video Games Startup Investors in Europe in May 2026

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• VaultN — VaultN's smart distribution platform enables automated self-service distribution of game keys, digital assets, and more. Unlock efficiency, secure revenue, and scale with confidence.
• Boby.ai — Boby.ai develops artificial intelligence-supported mobile applications for end users
• Minit Games — Minit Games provides bite-sized, instantly playable HTML5 games in a tailored, algorithmically driven feed.

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• Bipa — Bipa is a company that allows customers to buy and sell Bitcoin starting from R$1 using Pix and Lightning Network.
• Antidote — London-based startup studio for Bitcoin founders
• Hot Wave Fitness — Hot Wave Fitness which owns the HOTME brand provides personalized, and private fitness services.

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• Playgama — Playgama is a fast-growing distributor of HTML5 games, connecting developers to an audience of 220 million monthly active players. We simplify game distribution and monetization, allowing developers to focus on creating exceptional games while we handle the rest. With open-source SDK, games distributed thought Playgama can reach players acrossleading high-traffic platforms, ensuring global exposure—from Europe to Asia and USA.
• Drama Studios — Studios DRAMA has created UNRECORD which is a single-player FPS that tells the story of a tactical police officer from the perspective of his body camera.
• Dark Passenger — Dark Passenger is a firm that develops video games. The team consists of both new blood specialists and seasoned gamedev professionals. The objective is to develop incredibly thrilling online experiences that emphasize both collaboration and competition and are captivated by human connections, alliances, fearless conflicts, and surprising turns ofevents.

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• Modrinth — Rinth's goal is to provide creators with an easy to use and functional platform where their work can be experienced, downloaded, and shared by gamers worldwide. We aim to turn the hobby of modding games to a stable career.
• mod.io — Support mods on PC, console and mobile with mod.io, a platform which makes it easy to grow, manage and integrate UGC in-game, using our API, SDK and plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine and more.
• Highlight — Highlight keeps track of your meetings, chats, and tasks so you can find answers, create, and act, all in one place, personalized for you.

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• Meeple Corp — The Meeple Corp Games Studio Homepage - Transforming analogue play for the digital world.
• Sidero Labs — Talos OS is a modern operating system designed for Kubernetes. Talos OS is not a general-purpose operating system, it reduces security vulnerabilities, and makes upgrading, and migrating from one environment to another, much easier. SideroLabs was founded in 2019 as Talos Systems.
• Maintain Altitude — Maintain Altitude is a new mobile game development company that loves both music and games. The company is based in the United Kingdom.

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• Appcharge — Built for mobile gaming, we help publishers grow revenue and personalize every player interaction and checkout.
• Cypher Games — Cypher Games is a mobile gaming company founded by passionate gamers with a dream of building a global success story. We aim to shape the future of mobile gaming together with our colleagues, investors and thought partners.
• PvX Partners — PvX Partners is a platform designed to help consumer apps scale. PvX Capital is our first line of services focused on cohort financing: fast, flexible capital without the risk and drawbacks of traditional equity or debt. PvX Capital enables you to scale marketing spends meaningfully without the worry of equity dilution or loan defaults. PvX is alsodeveloping an operating system for growth — a unified platform enabling incremental ROAS. A single integration that will grant you access to the industry’s most useful tools proven to help consumer businesses scale.

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• Nanovery — Founded by scientists specialised in Nanotechnology, Medicinal Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence, we are on a mission to enable early detection of cancer through a rapid and affordable blood test Backed by academics at top universities, clinicians, industrial leaders, and Entrepreneur First.
• AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
• Magnitude Biosciences — Magnitude Biosciences is a biotechnology firm combine experience in ageing research, the nematode C. elegans and automation.

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• AppMagic — Mobile market intelligence tool
• OpenStreet — Invest in SpaceX and OpenAI with just $100. We purchase shares in premier private companies like SpaceX and OpenAI, then divide them into fractional pieces, making these investments accessible to everyone.
• Eschatology Entertainment — Game developers on a quest to create a new generation of immersive hardcore shooters set in a unique apocalyptic world.

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• Appcharge — Built for mobile gaming, we help publishers grow revenue and personalize every player interaction and checkout.
• Nilo — Nilo is a collaborative 3D platform that works across desktop, mobile, Discord, and Telegram. It combines generative AI with world-building tools, allowing users to generate assets, characters, animations, and code from natural language or drawings. The result: a radically simplified creation experience that lowers the barrier to entry andaccelerates how quickly new ideas can be built, tested, and shared.It’s creation at the speed of culture: whether spinning up a game inspired by today’s viral sound, turning a group chat joke into a playable world or crafting a custom hangout, Nilo transforms imagination into interaction — instantly and collaboratively.Nilo’s key features include:Text-to-3D generation: Create characters, environments, and code from prompts or images. Browser-Based: Nilo runs entirely in your browser - no installs, no downloads, no friction. Voice-enabled coding: A built-in AI-powered code editor that supports spoken commands and natural language for playful, social programming. Real-time multiplayer: Co-create and play with friends instantly.Nilo was founded in April 2024, bringing together veterans from Fortnite, Twitch, YouTube, Snapchat, Microsoft, Adobe, Blizzard, VRChat, Rec Room, and major VFX projects such as Avatar and Star Wars.
• Redemption Games — Our studio is built on the principle of blending great artistry and design with top-notch research and data to produce games that are both beautifully created and have blockbuster market potential.

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• Astral — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
• Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
• Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.

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• Giant — Inventing Tomorrow's Nostaliga
• One Rule Games — One Rule Games is a startup based in a mobile studio.
• Gallium Studios — An indie game studio composed of world-class game designers, developers, and artists, founded by legendary video game designers Will Wright and Lauren Elliott.

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• Evolv — Evolv is equipping brands with the technology to create immersive experiences for their customers.
• Ceramic Network — Ceramic Network is a provider of protocols for decentralized and composable data applications. The network decentralizes application databases, making data universally composable and reusable across applications. It consists of three core parts: a highly-scalable, decentralized infrastructure for data availability and consensus, a marketplace ofcommunity-created data models, and a suite of standard APIs for storing, updating, and retrieving data from those models.
• Ignite Tournaments — Ready to take your mobile games to the next level? Join Ignite Tournaments and compete in real money esports tournaments. Download our app now and win big!

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• Bitmagic — Bitmagic creates a game concept, and it builds a background story and creates an immersive 3D world.
• VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
• emptyvessel — Emptyvessel is a gaming community that helps in crafting the new horizons of gaming.

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• Basalt — Basalt is an end-to-end AI reliability platform designed to help teams build, test, deploy, and monitor AI agents.
• Dialog — Dialog is the AI shopping assistant that transforms conversations into conversions, giving each shopper a tailored, in-store experience online.
• UMA (Universal Mechanical Assistant) — UMA design general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots with human-level dexterity and a sophisticated grasp of the physical world.

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• Swarmia — Build better software faster with insights that power your whole engineering organization. Get started with a demo or a free 14-day trial.
• Carbonfact — Fast, scalable life-cycle assessments to help fashion brands lower their environmental impact.
• Archy — SaaS Practice Management Software for Dental Practices

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• Opper AI — Opper AI is a task completion API for AI. Reliably complete tasks with AI models. Ship AI assistants, agents and backend features that really work. Access 100+ models, built in quality process, observability and more.
• Berget AI — Berget AI is an AI platform that focuses on inference and agentic infrastructure, enabling businesses to deploy and expand open-source LLMs.
• Motorica — Craft AAA animation in minutes with our Generative AI mocap actor. No capture. No cleanup. Just animate.

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• Peak — Accelerating AI adoption in retail and manufacturing, driving growth through inventory optimisation, AI-driven pricing, and more.
• OBT Live — OBT Live helps brands in media, sport, retail and leisure drive sales and increase brand loyalty among consumers through AI.
• Patchwork — NHS workforce solution for managing rotas, bank shifts, and staffing. Trusted by 200+ organisations. Built by healthcare professionals.

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• IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
• Noah — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
• Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

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• MindLabs — Live sleep and meditation classes for your mind. Led by experts. Backed by neuroscience. Now available to download on the App Store.
• Veri — Reveal the foods that help you feel and perform at your best. Track your metabolic health to manage weight, reduce stress and improve sleep.
• Kinfolk — Resolve 70% of employee requests, run lifecycle programs on autopilot, gain visibility into service delivery and unlock capacity to scale Workforce Ops.

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• Medlumics — Medlumics is a medical device start-up born in 2009 from a compromise with improving human living standards by means of technology.
• Scalestack — Scalestack AI brings all of your GTM data together, suggests prioritized actions and helps your reps to execute your sales plays. Unlock a new level of sales productivity and generate more pipeline.
• iPronics — iPronics develops the innovative concepts of general-purpose integrated programmable photonic systems.

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• Qooverse — Qooverse is a Web3 gaming studio that creates fast-paced, win-to-earn mobile card games with a compelling gameplay loop. This involves developing an ecosystem of mid-core and casual social games for Telegram and future social platforms.
• KOKODI — KOKODI is a cross-chain, multi-platform MMO game that allows players to play with zero-knowledge cryptography.
• Cold River Games — Crystalfall is an upcoming free online action RPG with customizable skills and an endless endgame, set in a steampunk world.

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• ARGO AI — Solving the risk equation in the world of commercial insurance. Made in London. For the World.
• Tract — Tract is to build a venture-backed company to address Britain’s housing crisis by improving the planning permission process.
• Waypoint Commodities — Waypoint Commodities offers procurement solutions for fertilizers and chemicals, focusing on data-driven supply chain support.

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• Pebble — Pebble is a electric vehicle manufacturing startup.
• Transfluent — Professional translations for all business needs. Fast. Easy.
• BetterDoctor — Our provider network software solutions & services provide unmatched tools & insights for you. Discover how you can measure, manage, monitor & model.

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• Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
• Unbound Nation — We connect gaming NFT owners and gamers via a single interface - the Unbound platform. Lend and borrow your gaming NFTs here in an easy & seamless way.
• The Football Company — Create your digital fan identity and compete against others worldwide. Collect & win rare NFT items, that you truly own and trade them to earn real profit.

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• JECO — Discover JECO's innovative tools that enhance software performance, reduce costs, and lower carbon emissions across all devices. Join our waitlist today.
• Nomad Games — The official home of Nomad Games. We specialize in bringing classic tabletop experiences to PC and Console. Discover our library of digital board games, card games, and strategy adaptations.
• Stampede Events — Stampede Events | International Live Events Production | Specialists in European logistics, compliancy & procrement | Campaigns & Roadshows for the Creative Marketing and Strategic Communications Industries.

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• Stan — Stan has built a platform that allows esports fans to collect, play and trade digital collectibles such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) of their favorite esports players and content creators, through which they can win physical and virtual world perks and rewards such as getting a chance to meet their favorite players.
• Qloud Games — Qloud Games is an independent game studio developing Loftia.
• Final Boss Sour — Final Boss Sour is a gaming-themed snack brand offering a healthier alternative to traditional sour treats. Inspired by retro gaming aesthetics, our snacks deliver bold flavors and a fun experience for gamers of all ages.

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• iwoca — Iwoca provides small business credit finance services in the United Kingdom. It offers finance for businesses for various purposes ranging from bridging short-term cashflow gaps to investing in stock opportunities. It serves retailers, restaurants, hotels, service providers, and more.Christoph Rieche and James Dear founded iwoca on October 1,2011. iwoca's headquarters is located in London in the United Kingdom.
• Applift — IQM empowers regulated industries like political, healthcare, cannabis, and gaming with AI-driven media buying. Our DMP and DSP solutions deliver precise audience targeting, compliance, and impactful results across all digital channels.
• 4C Insights — Innovid's social ads management allows for you to simplify your workflows and focus on the most important aspect: the creative.

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• Count — Explore, refactor, and share your data at warp speed.
• Tansley — Tansley is a group of companies (Guaw, Milbby, Brand Story, Bookish) focused on fostering consumer ecosystems around hobbies and passions.
• Passport — Passport is the modern shipping carrier for international ecommerce that helps direct-to-consumer brands ship their products internationally.

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• Internxt — Here at Internxt, we're helping shape an Internet that truly respects you. Our first service, Internxt Drive, is a free & fully private cloud storage service and is part of our disruptive cloud infrastructure. Distributed, Trustless. Switch for free.
• VICO Ahorro — VICO Ahorro uses a digital system that evaluates, compares, and automatically manages the best market offers to help consumers save money on regular costs like energy, insurance, and telecommunications.
• ODOS — Carbon Harvesters is an ag-tech start-up that increases the resilience of rural communities by facilitating cost-effective decarbonisation of the dairy sector.

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• Power Roll — Power Roll has reinvented solar to generate energy anywhere and everywhere, using any surface.
• hedgehog lab — hedgehog lab is a global leader in digital consultancy, known for being the 'masters of our craft'. Let's digitally craft a better world.
• Powerphotonic — Leaders in wafer-scale freeform optics

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• BullPerks — BullPerks is a community of like-minded individuals who want to leverage their power and invest together in the best projects on equal terms with VCs.
• Mythic Protocol — The Central Hub for Mythic Operatives to conduct their operations

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• k-ID — At k-ID, we specialize in integrating safety and privacy by design compliance solutions for digital platforms, focusing on creating a safer, more responsible online environment for children and teenagers.
• Afference — Powering the sense of touch in the digital world. Feel digital objects in AR, VR, and XR with our groundbreaking haptic feedback device, the Phantom.
• Root — Root is a next-generation social platform that combines communication tools with a customizable app framework, allowing communities to organize, coordinate, and extend their functionality through apps.

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• ZOEX — ZOEX is the world's first commercially viable, reliable and modular wave energy converter system. Discover today.
• Gutsy Health — Gutsy Health is a health and wellness website.
• LendingCrowd — Business loans - LendingCrowd fund ambitions by enabling SMEs across Britain to access fast and flexible business loans, with no early repayment fees.

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• Alter — Alter is an open source, cross-platform SDK consisting of a real-time 3D avatar system and motion capture built from scratch for web3 interoperability and the open metaverse.
• Carter — Carter is a startup working on conversational AI to help game developers make computerized gaming characters.
• OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.

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• Inato — Inato matches the right sites to the right clinical research study, globally.
• Odaseva — Odaseva enterprise data security platform protects Salesforce data, ensures business continuity, and helps meet compliance requirements. Get a demo today.
• Kili Technology — Kili Technology enables large companies to transform their raw data into high-quality annotated data, ready for AI-driven projects.

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• Wodan AI — Wodan AI develops artificial intelligence software focused on predictive maintenance and industrial data analysis. The company provides a platform that uses machine learning models to process sensor and operational data in order to identify patterns, detect anomalies, and anticipate equipment issues. Its technology supports data integration, modeltraining, deployment, and ongoing performance monitoring within industrial environments. Wodan AI’s solutions are used to support maintenance planning and asset management across manufacturing and other operational settings. The company applies data-driven methods to help organizations understand equipment behavior and operational risks.
• Kimera Technologies — Kimera develops software solutions to understand visual content, extract its useful data and transform it into accessible information.
• Corinex —

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• Bio-Images Drug Delivery — BDD Pharma combine drug delivery expertise and clinical capabilities to accelerate product development pipelines, enable life cycle management and new innovative pharmaceutical products. Rapid parallel clinical testing with SWIFT significantly reduces time from product concept to clinical success.
• IOTech — Discover IOTech Systems. Deploy, manage, and scale AI-driven, data-rich industrial systems at the edge with our open edge data platform.
• Administrate — Administrate is a comprehensive, configurable training management platform that helps organizations streamline enterprise learning and development. Organize, deliver, plan, automate, analyze, and scale your training program effectively -- all through one system. Deliver multi-modality learner experiences, maximize training resources, anddemonstrate business results with insight-rich reporting. Hundreds of organizations serving millions of learners choose Administrate to manage their training program.

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• Vivino — Vivino empowers people everywhere to enjoy wine to the fullest. Vivino is the world's largest online wine marketplace and most downloaded wine app, powered by a community of millions. Vivino’s unique wine shopping experience uses community data to suggest personalized wine recommendations, make wine discovery, and purchase fun, accessible, andeffortless for wine drinkers of every level of expertise. The Vivino app is available for download on Android and Apple devices. The company was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• terralayr — At terralayr, we're not just offering storage and batteries; we're pioneering a new era of energy flexibility. In a world where renewable energy is on the rise, the need for flexibility in energy storage has never been more crucial. That's where we come in.
• Project Eaden — PROJECT EADEN combines pioneering technology and engineering expertise with an immense love for food and lust for life. For full indulgence. With zero guilt.

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• Gamevestor — Be more than a player. Invest in expert-selected video game projects and earn a share of their commercial revenues.
• IsentroniQ — Isentroniq solves the critical cryogenic power and space bottleneck in quantum computing. Our dense, near-heatless wiring solution unlocks 1000x more qubits.
• SWEETECH — SWEETECH is a deeptech startup that specializes in the biosynthesizing of rare sugars (oligosaccharides) using a patented, eco-friendly fermentation platform. Born from a passion for biotechnology and sustainable chemistry.

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• Steerlab — Steerlab is an AI-first solution that automates your responses to RFPs and Security Questionnaires, elevates quality, and delivers insights on how to win.
• Catchwise — Fyll kvota mer effektivt. Finn den riktige fisken, med mindre tid og diesel.
• Telescope — A practical tool for managing sustainability risk in real estate

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• XR Games — XR Games (based in Leeds, England) makes both console and mobile Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR/AR) games for world famous Intellectual Properties. XR Games is an innovative start-up with Venture Capital funding.

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• Challengermode — Challengermode is the competitive engagement platform that helps game studios, publishers, esports organizers, and brands drive engagement and create competitive experiences for all gamers.

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• Imvizar — Transform your buildings, office spaces, visitor attractions, and parks with an immersive and visual storytelling experience using augmented reality. Discover unique ways to tell your story at Imvizar.
• ZeroMission — ZeroMission is an electromobility and lead innovator in software development, and power-energy infrastructure.ZeroMission offers fleet management software to businesses that own and operate fleets of commercial electric vehicles (EVs).
• MarketSizer — MarketSizer offers subscription-based competitive intelligence and market insights for SaaS vendors who want to strategically grow their business.

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• F1 Arcade — F1 Arcade UK offers a best-in-class, full-motion racing simulator experience. Experience the thrill of F1 at our state of the art venues today.
• Little Houses Group — Creating a family of clubs that parents and children will love. Little Houses will be a new kind of family club. Open to both members and pay-and-play guests.
• OTHERWORLD — OTHERWORLD is a virtual island paradise in the cloud, home to VR’s best experiences across entertainment, arts, education and wellness, reached through unique, multi-sensory ‘immersion pods’ in its growing network of city centre venues.Since opening its first site in Shoreditch, East London in 2019, over 50,000 people have experienced OTHERWORLD,including celebrities Adele, Skepta, Jonathan Ross, KSI and Fnatic. The team have won plaudits at the FRAME Awards 2020 and a nomination for the VR Awards 2020.

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• dKloud — dKloud is an enterprise-level cloud platform that helps customers build better software and more efficiently through our products.
• Sphinx — Experience 24/7 derivatives trading with near-instant clearing, dynamic margin and up to 90% lower fees.
• Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.

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• Anam — Anam is the developer of real-time AI personas for brands to increase consumer interaction..
• Archestra.AI — Enterprise MCP platform with security guardrails, compliance controls, and a curated catalog of 900+ evaluated Model Context Protocol servers for AI agents.
• Architect AI — Move beyond static pages. Architect uses AI agents to personalize every visit, handle objections, and boost co

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• UNGUESS (formerly AppQuality) — UNGUESS is the crowdsourcing platform for effective testing and real insights. Take the guesswork out of your work.
• Paragraph — Powerful stories and powerful storytellers. Each week find seven of the world's best shorts in text, audio, and video: http://bit.ly/1usXQd5
• La Passione — High quality Italian Road and Urban cycling wear at fair prices. We use only the finest materials and sell direct to you with no middleman. Shop now!

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• Fixated — Fixated is raising the bar and setting the standard for the digital entertainment industry.
• CoreWeave — CoreWeave provides flexible compute services and products to empower innovators. The company provides GPU accelerated compute solutions to the CGI and machine learning industries. Backed by quality hardware and systems management infrastructure, CoreWeave is built to help clients scale and adapt to evolving compute requirements at industry leadingeconomics.
• Isar Aerospace — Isar Aerospace is a space technology company that builds rockets in an automated production. It offers launch services dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations and to ensure low-cost space access for small satellites. The company was founded in 2018 in Europe.

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• Appscho — AppScho is a mobile plug-and-play mobile technology dedicated to Higher Education, which help institutions to improve student engagement with an efficacy-driven app. The app centralises relevant student information into one seamless experience that reduces complexity and eases communication and content management.
• Edflex — Edflex est une solution SaaS qui connecte les entreprises avec les meilleurs contenus de formation (MOOC, vidéos, podcasts, articles…).
• Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.