Top 30 Web3 Startup Investors in Malta (August 2026)

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• Aave — Aave is an Open Source Protocol to create Non-Custodial Liquidity Markets to earn interest on supplying and borrowing assets with a variable or stable interest rate. The protocol is designed for easy integration into your products and services.
• Bittensor — Bittensor is an open-source peer-to-peer framework that commoditizes a blockchain-based machine-learning network. The company's platform utilizes cutting-edge deep learning techniques to create a peer-to-peer marketplace that incentivizes knowledge production. This allows clients to connect a machine learning model to the network.
• Kaspa — Kaspa is an open-source cryptocurrency project and Layer 1 network that operates using a proof-of-work consensus mechanism combined with a blockDAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) data structure. Unlike traditional blockchains that add one block at a time in sequence, Kaspa allows multiple blocks to be created and confirmed in parallel, enabling highertransaction speeds and lower confirmation times.

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• Island — Meet Island, the Enterprise Browser that gives you control over SaaS governance, visibility and productivity. Secure your critical data and apps with Island.
• Z.ai — The AI Lab behind GLM models, dedicated to inspiring the development of AGI to benefit humanity. https://t.co/7a5aSCUfnr https://t.co/x14hb3jO7O
• ApnaPaisa — ApnaPaisa offers the Best Deals on Home Loans, Personal Loans, Credit Cards and EMI Calculators in India. EST'D 2007.

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• Gamestarter — Full-scale gaming ecosystem for IGOs and NFT pre-sales.
• Algebra DEX engine — Modular DEX infrastructure for launching custom concentrated liquidity exchanges with V4 pools for DeFi, AI, RWAs & onchain trading on EVM.
• Crafting Finance — Synthetic asset issuance and trading protocol @NEARProtocol @auroraisnear https://t.co/K08znhxSSc

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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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• Web3Auth — Web3Auth is simple, non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide seamless user logins for both mainstream and native Web3 users.
• Project SEED — Project Seed is an one-stop blockchain gaming ecosystem that accelerates mass-adaption.
• Horizon Land — Horizon Land is the infrastructure platform that empowers builders to construct their own open and accessible virtual worlds; and to scale in a complete ecosystem of Games, Education, Entertainment, Social networks, …

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• Coinweb — Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.
• U-topia — U-topia is the leading MediaFi & AI Technology Company rewarding engagement with Digital and Real World Assets from a 70,000 products catalog of physical merchandise across our digital media products of games, music & movies.
• Raiinmaker — Multi - Chain Layer 2 Network. Powered by AI, Secured by Bitcoin.

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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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• Spicenet — Spicenet enables universal access to the top DeFi venues across all networks, creating better financial outcomes for all.
• Real Finance — Real Finance is driven by the mission to revolutionize the financial landscape by integrating real-world assets with blockchain technology, creating a more transparent, secure, and efficient ecosystem that bridges traditional finance with decentralized innovation, enhances asset liquidity, and unlocks new opportunities for global investors.
• WorkQuest — About WorkQuest WorkQuest is a decentralized employment and workforce automation protocol enabling employers and workers to collaborate through smart contracts, stablecoin payments, AI matching engines, and on-chain reputation scoring. The platform transforms global employment into a transparent, verifiable, and borderless digital labor economy.

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• Coinweb — Led by CEO, Toby Gilbert, and CTO, Knut Vinger, Coinweb aims to become the first general-purpose layer-2 platform delivering truly unified interoperability, removing current transactional and computational bottlenecks. Coinweb enables maximum horizontal scalability while still maintaining the consistency and reliability of underlying blockchains’security and decentralized properties. The platform solves many of the problems found in current cross-chain implementations without the unnecessary use of bridges or additional layers of consensus. Utilizing the WebAssembly runtime environment, making it easier to run uniform deployment through all blockchains and parallel execution of smart contracts. 2 DeFi projects, OnRamp and Blockfort, have been built as a proof of concept. Having secured various digital asset licenses all around the world, Coinweb offers multiple-fiat on-ramping and off-ramping solutions within its multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb’s cross-chain tokenization platform and a simple marketplace help large and established traditional businesses digitize aspects of their businesses.
• THORSwap — THORSwap is the leading multi-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator powered by SwapKit. Perform cross-chain swaps via THORChain, NEAR Intents, Chainflip, Maya Protocol and more in a permissionless, trustless, and non-custodial manner.
• Thorstarter — Expanding @THORChain and @Maya_Protocol

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• Award Pool — Award Pool is an integrated web3 platform that empowers brands, creators and collectors with amazing engagement tools and features to create, collect, and trade unique experiences, collectibles, and payments securely.
• Virtue Poker — Virtue Poker is a decentralized poker platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain and peer-to-peer networking to provide an online poker site that's safe, honest, and fun.

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• Coinweb — Led by CEO, Toby Gilbert, and CTO, Knut Vinger, Coinweb aims to become the first general-purpose layer-2 platform delivering truly unified interoperability, removing current transactional and computational bottlenecks. Coinweb enables maximum horizontal scalability while still maintaining the consistency and reliability of underlying blockchains’security and decentralized properties. The platform solves many of the problems found in current cross-chain implementations without the unnecessary use of bridges or additional layers of consensus. Utilizing the WebAssembly runtime environment, making it easier to run uniform deployment through all blockchains and parallel execution of smart contracts. 2 DeFi projects, OnRamp and Blockfort, have been built as a proof of concept. Having secured various digital asset licenses all around the world, Coinweb offers multiple-fiat on-ramping and off-ramping solutions within its multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb’s cross-chain tokenization platform and a simple marketplace help large and established traditional businesses digitize aspects of their businesses.

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• Giza — Giza builds infrastructure that enables intelligent agents to analyze markets, execute strategies, and manage liquidity across decentralized finance.
• 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.
• Billy Bets — Billy Bets is an AI platform that tracks sports bets, manages a wallet, and makes smarter bets with AI assistance.

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• Leapmotor — Zhejiang Zero Run Technology Co., Ltd. (LEAPMOTOR) is an innovative intelligent electric vehicle enterprise jointly invested by Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., Ltd. and its main founders. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Hangzhou Binjiang High-tech Development Zone. The company's business scope covers intelligent electricvehicle design, R&D, intelligent driving, motor electronic control, battery system development, and cloud computing-based car networking solutions. Relying on the strong financial strength of Dahua and its mature experience in technology research and development, process system and quality management, the company emphasizes the culture of engineers and has the ultimate pursuit of technological innovation, industrial design, and process quality.
• Didi — Didi Chuxing is a mobile transportation platform that offers app-based transportation services.The company offers a mobile tech-based mobility option for users across, including taxi-hailing, private car-hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, and DiDi Enterprise Solutions. As apractitioner in the sharing economy initiative, DiDi is committed to working with communities and partners to solve transportation, environmental challenges, and employment problems using big data-driven deep-learning algorithms that optimize resource allocation.
• Kuaidi Dache — Kuaidi Group, as the most technologically integrated and largest car service company in the world, is rapidly transforming the concept of moving people – starting in China. The app combines integrated mapping and third party payment technology to make its service accessible to everybody, and provides over 1 million taxis and a variety of standardand luxury cars for all lifestyles. To ensure the service fits smoothly into urban life, Kuaidi has developed a framework is that is adaptable to other platforms in China, and works in partnership with China’s government and regulators instead of against them.In a country where only 18% of per capita car ownership, Kuaidi is clearly meeting an important need. Kuaidi’s unique business model has attracted 100m registered users in over 300 cities, fulfilling 6 million requests per day. To optimize its services and go beyond customer expectations Kuaidi has secured partnerships with Alipay, Ctrip, AutoNavi, Baidu Maps, Qunar, and Beijing’s ‘96106’ government official platform.

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• Nexis Network — Nexis Network is a Zero-Knowledge Agentic L1 infrastructure engineered with EVM & SVM equivalence to enable scalable, private data networks. $NZT
• Sidus Heroes — gaming company
• Mavryk Dynamics — Real assets, Real people, Real solutions. Building a smarter, more secure future. Blockchain, Done Better. Building @MavrykNetwork & @MavenFinanceDAO.

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• Deft Trade Ltd — Deft Trade is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform offering automated AI-powered trading directly through users’ self-custodial wallets. By connecting MetaMask, Trust Wallet, or other DeFi wallets, users can access smart trading bots that generate consistent daily returns between 0.3% and 1%, without ever depositing their funds onto acentralized exchange.The platform is fully non-custodial and wallet-native, meaning users retain 100% control of their assets while enjoying hands-free trading, customizable strategies, and copy-trading signals from top-performing traders. Deft Trade is pioneering a secure, transparent, and scalable future for DeFi income — with upcoming features like smart wallet analytics and a crypto spending card.

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• Blue Protein — Blue Protein is a biotechnology company that focuses on the research and development of animal feed or edible insects.
• Five hundred — Five hundred is an e-Commerce platform providing farm fresh fruits and vegetables to customers on a subscription basis.
• Theia Studios — Icons of Theia - a tactical turn based strategy game

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• Polkadot — Products for People.
• World Foundation — World is a new standard of trust for the internet - private proof of human, powerful financial infrastructure & the human-first experiences they enable.
• Solana Company — Building the Preeminent Solana Treasury $HSDT

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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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• Binance — Binance is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that facilitates the trading of digital assets. It provides services such as spot and futures trading, a blockchain network for decentralized applications, and a platform for token sales. Binance also offers staking, savings, and liquidity farming options, as well as a payment system for cryptocurrencytransactions. Additionally, it supports the trading and creation of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
• Yuncaiyuan — Yuncaiyuan (subordinate to Beijing Wofeng Harvest Technology Co., Ltd.) optimizes the wholesale circulation system, relies on the national origin resources, attracts brokers, wholesalers and other companies to enter the Yuncao Garden platform, directly connects the production area, the wholesale market docking vegetable sellers, forming theagricultural product purchase order entry, providing A package of supporting services to achieve "base" → "community", "wholesale market" → "home delivery", forming a full industrial chain B2B platform
• Qingruan Haixin — Qingruan Haixin is a developer of 3D printing equipment and modeling software.

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• DOS Labs — DOS stand for Decentralized Operating System. We build a blockchain gaming platform for web3.
• KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
• Cross The Ages — Cross The Ages is a universe in which fantasy and science fiction come together. The two worlds share the single continent of Artellium. To the west lies Arkhante, masters of magic and summoning. To the east, the city-continent Mantris is home to ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life.The young Malkha,surrounded by her seven Primus, reigns from the capital, Babylonia. To the west, the city-continent Mantris is home to Neurotechs, an ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life. The Amortals, humans who have transferred their minds to super-AIs, run the corporations for which the citizen-shareholders of Mantris work.

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• Hybrid — Hybrid is a fintech company that offers a decentralized central AI tool with Web3's ecosystem of AI experts, agents, and data.
• Bitlight Labs — Make Bitcoin Smart
• Pheasant Network — AI-Powered DeFi Super App for Cross-chain Intent.

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• CESS — CESS is a blockchain-based, decentralized Layer-1 infrastructure that integrates distributed storage, a high-speed content delivery network.
• Dmail — Dmail Network is a decentralized mailbox that provides a safe and private environment for users' communication, storage, tokens, and NFTs. The company was founded by Mittal S. and Lucas L. in 2021.
• Cumulus Encrypted Storage System (CESS) — CESS revolutionizes AI, DeSci, RWA, Enterprise, and more with secure, transparent, and traceable data solutions. Delivering AI computing and data infrastructure, CESS enables data privacy and sovereignty with a focus on AI Agent applications and frameworks.

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• Enjinstarter — Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility
• Zeitgeist PM — Zeitgeist PM is a blockchain tech to facilitate prediction markets and the futarchy form of governance.
• Genesis Shards — Crafting a whole new suite of NFT powered products across multiple blockchains

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• 2CrazyNFT — Compare the best online casinos Kuwait has to offer in 2026. Find safe VPN-friendly sites, instant crypto withdrawals, and Arabic support today.
• PlatoFarm — PlatoFarm is a multichain blockchain game from Second Space that integrates a decentralized wallet, nonfungible tokens (NFTs), a decentralized exchange, and social features to enhance user experience and lower barriers to entry.PlatoFarm will also introduce a unique decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) governance model that combines thetraditional token asset model with a time-of-play model, where players in the community can also participate in DAO governance based on their time spent playing PlatoFarm. This unique DAO governance model provides a new solution for blockchain games, and even for the entire blockchain industry.
• Gaia EverWorld — Gaia Everworld is the immersive, multi-region fantasy world in which players build their kingdoms, explore the lands, collect, breed and battle their Gaia Legionnaires. Gaia Everworld is part of the new generation of gaming being built on the blockchain which gives players full ownership of their characters, and rewards them for playing in a"play to earn" model of gaming which has taken the cryptospace by storm in 2021.

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• Utexo — Instant, private USDT payments on Bitcoin. Move stablecoins the way you move money.
• Wave — Wave is a US blockchain SUI ecosystem that offers DeFi and GameFi products.
• Domin Network — Pioneering the Future of Multi Chain E-Commerce, backed by @animocabrands https://t.co/16gnnhOcLy

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• Cor — Sign-up to device waitlist at www.corhealth.com
• Gym+Coffee — Gym+Coffee is an Irish-designed athleisure brand. We are passionately committed to encourage our community to Make Life Richer by socialising through exercise. We believe in awesome things to do, rad people to do them with and quality gear for all your adventures.
• Altro (fka Perch) — Perch Credit (also known as Perch), is a fin-tech mobile app that allows users to take common recurring expenses, such as their subscriptions & rent, and turn these into creditworthy data points. Perch is currrently live on iOS and plans to be on Android in the coming months.Perch recently graduated YC (S20) and closed 2.5M in their mostrecent round.

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• 0G — The First Decentralized AI Operating System
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Mind Network — The 1st Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) Restaking Layer for AI and POS Networks. Mind Network is backed by Binance Labs, Hashkey, Big Brain, Chainlink, etc.

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• OP_NET — OPNET is a Bitcoin Layer 1 metaprotocol that enables smart contracts to function directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without the use of sidechains or Layer 2 solutions.
• Watch.fun — Luxury watch drops. Win a Rolex for as little as $7, drops weekly. Certified by Wristcheck. Backed by @TheSpartanGroup @SolanaVentures @BigBrainVC and more...
• Space — The first leveraged prediction market on @solana

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• Civil — A starter blog demonstrating what Gatsby can do.
• Truffle Suite — Truffle Suite provides world class development environment for blockchain dapps.
• Shodai Network — The agreement layer for human and AI agents | UI + API + MCP

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• Coinweb — Led by CEO, Toby Gilbert, and CTO, Knut Vinger, Coinweb aims to become the first general-purpose layer-2 platform delivering truly unified interoperability, removing current transactional and computational bottlenecks. Coinweb enables maximum horizontal scalability while still maintaining the consistency and reliability of underlying blockchains’security and decentralized properties. The platform solves many of the problems found in current cross-chain implementations without the unnecessary use of bridges or additional layers of consensus. Utilizing the WebAssembly runtime environment, making it easier to run uniform deployment through all blockchains and parallel execution of smart contracts. 2 DeFi projects, OnRamp and Blockfort, have been built as a proof of concept. Having secured various digital asset licenses all around the world, Coinweb offers multiple-fiat on-ramping and off-ramping solutions within its multi-tenancy wallet. Coinweb’s cross-chain tokenization platform and a simple marketplace help large and established traditional businesses digitize aspects of their businesses.