Top 20 Web3 Startup Investors in Costa Rica (October 2026)

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• IMPESA — Impesa started its operations in March 2014 in Costa Rica, as the first payment fintech firm in the country. With an experienced management team and a new business growth strategy, Impesa has shown sustainable growth during the past four years. Impesa provides services to its corporate, commercial and retail clients at its headquarters in San José.The capital of Costa Rica is the national center of commercial and industrial activities.The business model targets various market segments, direct to consumers and leading Caribbean and Central American banks.The three main lines of business of Impesa are Software as a Service for financial institutions, retail peer-to-peer application development and general innovative digital payment methodologies. It serves more than 25 banks and 300 companies in the region and was named “Forbes 30 Most Promising Businesses of Central America and the Dominican Republic for 2021” and also named “Exporter of the Year 2021” in the Services category by the Costa Rican Chamber of Exportation (CADEXCO).
• Levita Magnetics — As a medical device start up, Levita Magnetics is passionate about developing innovative magnetic surgical platforms that serve as a catalyst in the continued evolution of less invasive surgery.The company's mission is to enhance patient outcomes by minimizing the footprint of surgical procedures across multiple indications and broadpatient populations. It's innovative magnetic surgical platform, called Magnetic Surgery®, is the next step in the evolution of less invasive surgery.

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• OpenPad AI — OpenPad - The 1st AI Decentralized Launchpad
• Time Universe — Join the $TIME token presale
• Gambit Markets — Your ultimate prediction market companion

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• 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 — NeuronX Protocol is the pioneering decentralized lending protocol on Dfinity, setting the stage for smart DeFi. By focusing on AI-driven automation and enhanced user experiences, NeuronX aims to revolutionize the DeFi landscape and appeal to a broader audience. At the core of NeuronX is a groundbreaking innovation: AI-Powered Smart LiquidityPlatforms (AILPs). These AILPs are advanced vault strategies operated by intelligent AI algorithms. Users can effortlessly gain leverage by simply depositing a base asset. Behind the scenes, AILPs leverage AI to automate complex transactions and continuously rebalance positions, ensuring optimal leverage without the risk of liquidation. This integration of AI streamlines the process, making advanced financial strategies accessible and hassle-free.
• Vue Protocol — Community-First Layer for AI Memecoins. @solana @pumpdotfun @ton_blockchain Dvo1Fb7FxtUxsLbcQaizftfUT9HtL9P6swaQAScZDeQQ

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• NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
• StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
• Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs has closed. After three years, we have made the decision to close Reforged Labs.

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• Obsidiam — FX, payments and international treasury in one platform. Firm quotes, USDT settlement and an API for businesses.

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• Coinpay.cr — Coinpay is the leading blockchain marketplace with a Crypto Exchange and Traded Wallet solution in the region. It was founded in Costa Rica in 2016 and offers an Ecosystem of blockchain services such as Exchange, Cards, Money Remittance, Escrow services and OTC thanks to its on site development team.
• ULTIMATE RECYCLER by Kashong LLC — Elimination of garbage landfills, forever, worldwide. ULTIMATE RECYCLER = 100% clean, Paris Agreement-compliant, total remediation of all post-recycled landfill waste and other toxic non-landfill materials while generating clean renewable electricity for local power grids. No incineration or combustion, no air effluents. Createswell-paid labor union jobs at each location. All processes commercially tested and patented. *** The ultimate "impact investment" -- Our company operates with "quadruple bottom-line" goals: (1) assist cash-poor municipalities, (2) create well-paid labor union jobs, and (3) provide a solid rate of return to our investing partners, all with the (4) cleanest & greenest, commercially-proven 21st century systems available. *** Partner inquires welcome.

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• AKEDO — AKEDO is a AI framework that creates and designs engaging games.
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.

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• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• Electron — Proof Aggregation using #superproofs. Backed by Sandeep Nailwal, Martin Köppelmann, Jaynti Kanani, Anurag Arjun, Aztec CTO, and many others. Etheruem Foundation grant recipient.
• Ethereum Institutional — Ethereum Institutional is an independent non-profit dedicated to accelerating the institutional adoption of Ethereum, its L2s, applications and overall ecosystem.

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• Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
• Turtle Club — Aggregated, diligenced, personalized onchain yield management.
• Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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• AKEDO — AKEDO is a AI framework that creates and designs engaging games.
• SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
• Yet Another — We accelerate the roadmap of Ethereum by making proof verification faster and cheaper. We can verify proofs for 10% of the cost.

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• WECO Protocol — WECO Protocol turns real-world assets into opportunities, empowering peopl as stakeholders. With AI and blockchain, we make ownership simple and rewarding

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• Cashaa — Cashaa began in June 2016 with the mission to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the cryptocurrency world by providing a comprehensive and user-friendly crypto banking platform. Having made a lot of headway in pursuit of this goal by banking more than 500 of the biggest crypto companies in the world, we are stepping into a new era ofCashaa. Our mission is now to bring the same trust, reliability and security that we have provided our Business customers to personal users worldwide by achieving the following milestones. Cashaa, available on Android and iOS offers an all-in-one app which helps you buy, earn, borrow and spend crypto globally. You can earn up to 34% APR on stablecoins and up to 24% APR on bitcoin and crypto. You can also borrow against crypto at interest rates starting from 0% p.a.
• Defi11 — Defi11 is a new-gen true decentralized fantasy gaming platform.

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• Cashaa — Cashaa began in June 2016 with the mission to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the cryptocurrency world by providing a comprehensive and user-friendly crypto banking platform. Having made a lot of headway in pursuit of this goal by banking more than 500 of the biggest crypto companies in the world, we are stepping into a new era ofCashaa. Our mission is now to bring the same trust, reliability and security that we have provided our Business customers to personal users worldwide by achieving the following milestones. Cashaa, available on Android and iOS offers an all-in-one app which helps you buy, earn, borrow and spend crypto globally. You can earn up to 34% APR on stablecoins and up to 24% APR on bitcoin and crypto. You can also borrow against crypto at interest rates starting from 0% p.a.

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• Movii — Movii aims to reduce inequality by providing access to financial services to the unbanked population through the use of new technologies.
• Tienda Pago — Tienda Pago is the merchant support platform that facilitates your weekly merchandise purchase to distributors. It is the result of years of experience of a team of experts whose objective is to promote ecosystems where all participants, both distributors and traders, benefit from the service and proactively motivate other participants to join thesystem.
• VU — Sebastián Stranieri, is CEO and founder of VU Inc, a multinational company that provides secure and frictionless digital experiences for more than 350 million people over the world. Passionate about technology, he has more than two decades of experience in the cybersecurity industry. His career has always been driven by the desire to innovate insafer solutions that improve the quality of life of citizens and companies, and that is how VU was born. VU focuses on the new concept of “online persona” providing robust identity verification for its users, which allows a more holistic authentication paradigm. Through the combination of traditional cybersecurity controls with geolocation, biometrics and user behavior analysis based on machine learning, VU enables a continuous authentication process where the user is seen as a whole, rather than a set of credentials. In July 2021, VU announced a $12 million Series B funding round with investors such as Globant and Telefonica. Sebastian, is also an Endeavor entrepreneur, he was recognized by MIT Technology Review magazine in 2013 and selected by Forbes Argentina as one of the 30 Promises in 2017. His passion for what he does led him to win the Sadosky Award for Entrepreneur of the Year for the Chamber of the Argentine Software Industry (CESSI) in 2019. VU received several recognitions, such as: Cybersecurity Ventures ranking 500, Santander’s X100 and VISA - La Nación’s Innovation Award, in the category of payment methods and cybersecurity for developing new business models in financial services through the use of technology that mark socioeconomic trends, changes in consumption habits and payment methods and also improve the security of transactions, among many acknowledgments from Microsoft as partners and for our technology, such as: AI Latam Partner of the Year (2021), Global Finalists in IA and Government (2021) and Country Partner of the Year (Argentina, 2019 and Bolivia, 2020)

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• Cashaa — Cashaa began in June 2016 with the mission to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the cryptocurrency world by providing a comprehensive and user-friendly crypto banking platform. Having made a lot of headway in pursuit of this goal by banking more than 500 of the biggest crypto companies in the world, we are stepping into a new era ofCashaa. Our mission is now to bring the same trust, reliability and security that we have provided our Business customers to personal users worldwide by achieving the following milestones. Cashaa, available on Android and iOS offers an all-in-one app which helps you buy, earn, borrow and spend crypto globally. You can earn up to 34% APR on stablecoins and up to 24% APR on bitcoin and crypto. You can also borrow against crypto at interest rates starting from 0% p.a.

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• IMPESA — Impesa started its operations in March 2014 in Costa Rica, as the first payment fintech firm in the country. With an experienced management team and a new business growth strategy, Impesa has shown sustainable growth during the past four years. Impesa provides services to its corporate, commercial and retail clients at its headquarters in San José.The capital of Costa Rica is the national center of commercial and industrial activities.The business model targets various market segments, direct to consumers and leading Caribbean and Central American banks.The three main lines of business of Impesa are Software as a Service for financial institutions, retail peer-to-peer application development and general innovative digital payment methodologies. It serves more than 25 banks and 300 companies in the region and was named “Forbes 30 Most Promising Businesses of Central America and the Dominican Republic for 2021” and also named “Exporter of the Year 2021” in the Services category by the Costa Rican Chamber of Exportation (CADEXCO).

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• Kernel — Kernel is leading the way in restaking on the BNB Chain, which is intended to speed up innovation and ecosystem expansion while offering decentralized shared security.
• Doppler Finance — Rebuilding Capital Markets for the Tokenized Era.
• Mavryk Dynamics — Mavryk Dynamics simplifies trading real-world assets (RWA) and using decentralized finance (DeFi).

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• Yet Another — We accelerate the roadmap of Ethereum by making proof verification faster and cheaper. We can verify proofs for 10% of the cost.

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• WECO Protocol — WECO Protocol turns real-world assets into opportunities, empowering peopl as stakeholders. With AI and blockchain, we make ownership simple and rewarding

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• Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
• Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.