Top 50 Web3 Startup Investors in Oceania (August 2026)

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• Mecka AI — Mecka is the data and deployment layer for Physical AI.
• Spearbit — Spearbit connects independent security experts to Web3 projects that need them.The company offers a range of services, including expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security reviews through retainer agreements. These services provide clients with an operational layer, freeing them from time-consuming administrative tasks and clientsourcing and due diligence.
• TVL Capital — TVL Capital is a financial infrastructure firm specialising in Chain Traded Products (CTPs).

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• Vangrid — Vangrid operates as a decentralized physical infrastructure network.
• Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
• Macropod —
• Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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• D3 — D3 - DNS Domains for Web3
• Stablecorp — Stablecorp is igniting a "step-function" improvement in financial services with our suite of products.
• Subzero Labs — Subzero Labs is developing Rialo, a developer-first Layer 1 blockchain built for internet-scale decentralized applications.

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• Bloom — Moved to @bloomsocial
• Lemon Cash — Lemon Cash is digital wallet with FIAT and crypto capabilities. End to end digital ecosystem for Latin America.
• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization

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• 3Commas — 3Commas develops a crypto-asset management tool for tracking investments and exchanges in a unified platform. It provides access to a unified dashboard as the central hub for trading and portfolio management execution.
• Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
• Optim Finance — Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

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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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• CryptoSlate — Source for crypto news, predictions & data, reaching 1M+ users each month.
• Saturn — Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience.
• Nakamoto — Nakamoto is a newly established Bitcoin-native holding company and a prominent player in the cryptocurrency industry. Nakamoto Company is designed to serve as a global conglomerate focused on accelerating Bitcoin adoption and utility across capital markets.

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• Flying Tulip — Better Yield, Better UX
• Fly Media — AI-native IPs at infinite scale. If Disney were created today, it would look more like Fly Media.
• Superstate — Superstate is modernizing investing through tokenized financial products

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• xBacked — xBacked DAO is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization focused on developing decentralized stable assets for the Algorand blockchain. The primary product is xUSD, a permissionless stablecoin fully backed by decentralized collateral. The organization aims to achieve capital efficiency in the stablecoin market on Algorand and beyond. xBacked DAOoperates with a mission to provide a stable and secure financial ecosystem through its innovative blockchain solutions.
• Vitruveo — A Blockchain For Art & Entertainment. The world's first rebasing Layer 1 Blockchain | Re-imagining the Creator Economy https://t.co/8xJmpByHij
• Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.

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• CAEX — CAEX is a crypto asset exchange operator. CAEX builds transparent and secure crypto asset trading platform for investors.
• Coinone — Coinone is the cryptocurrency exchanges. Under the vision to ‘Bring Blockchain into the World,’ they aspires to lead the new world of finance through blockchain technology. They currently operates the third largest exchange. They prioritizes the protection of clients’ assets and is dedicated to providing the most secure investing environment.
• townsquare — Crosschain infrastructure bringing institutional & onchain yields to retail, powering institutional strategies, & RWAs | https://t.co/5glAR6k007

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• Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
• DeepSafe — The world's first Cryptographic Random AI Verification Network for trustless verification of any on-chain and off-chain messages.
• SecondLive — SecondLive is a diversified metaverse focused on building social networks and supporting creator economic activities.

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• PeakAI — AI-powered crypto distribution OS. From TikTok to everywhere. Peekaboo early signals. Spark micro-intel. Turn attention into capital.
• SOON — @AiCapitalMarket WIP. Backed by @Jump_, @hack_vc & @anagramxyz https://t.co/EFAKt91B1F
• Infinity Ground — Infinity Ground Technology supports developers in using AI with Web3, making these technologies accessible to all.

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• Mevvy Network — Where MEV Happens Discover, create, and capture MEV faster Backed by @multicoincap
• Inference — Inference infrastructure for AI-native teams
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• DAOBase — DAOBase is an AI-powered data and infrastructure platform developed particularly for DAOs. By employing innovative algorithms, the company assists DAOs and voters in establishing on-chain and off-chain data reputation layers, allowing users to intelligently monitor DAO governance, make educated decisions, and investigate future job models.
• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• Konnex World — Building the GDP of autonomous systems. Turning robot labor into on-chain liquidity. $KNX

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• V12 — V12 is your security agent for mission critical code.
• THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
• Inversion — Acquiring durable businesses.

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• Tria — Threely is onboarding billions onto Web3 with universal identities. Threely addresses are blockchain-agnostic identities that can be used across Web3 as a profile, chain-agnostic payment endpoints, logins, zkKYCs, and more. Threely is doing the crucial work of helping the top blockchain protocols, wallets, and dApps cast a wider net to onboard abroader part of the internet to Web3.
• Self Protocol — Self is spearheading a secure, human-first internet by allowing users to verify their identities while maintaining their privacy. Self Protocol is an identity and proof-of-humanity solution that uses zero-knowledge technology to confirm personhood and distinctive traits, like age and nationality, without revealing private information.
• SuperGaming — At SuperGaming, we are putting India on the global gaming map.

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• Meta Pool — Meta Pool is a multi-chain, liquid staking-based ecosystem with Vote-to-Earn DAO governance.
• Amnis Finance — Stake APT on the best liquid staking protocol on Aptos to receive daily rewards with an attractive APR of 2%.
• Velvet Capital — Trade any crypto onchain - spot and perpetuals across 7 chains with AI-powered routing. Non-custodial DeFi trading terminal + AI trading bot. 100K+ traders.

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• 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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• SQR3D — Transform your idea into 3D assets at scale. Smart Contract Automation for 3D Designs with SQR3D.
• Reitio Protocol — We’re creating an effortless way for everyone to create custom metaverse assets visually via an intuitive and codeless templates-based design toolkit, introducing reitio protocol.
• Genesis Shards — Crafting a whole new suite of NFT powered products across multiple blockchains

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• Hylo — Liquidation-resistant leveraged tokens. Highest yielding stablecoin on Solana. Backed by @robotventures @colosseum @solanaventures
• Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
• Exponent Finance — Outperform market rates with Solana's leading yield exchange. Community: https://t.co/tROuLHqyfC

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• Novastro — Building the PayFi layer for stablecoin-powered payments, settlement, and real onchain financial utility.
• Shiba Inu Coin — Shiba Inu Coin is an Internet Publishing Company.
• Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.

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• Alkane Resources — Alkane Resources (ASX:ALK | TSX:ALK | OTCQX:ALKRY) is an Australia-based gold and antimony producer with three operating mines across Australia and Sweden.
• Westgold Resources — Westgold has laid solid foundations to secure growing gold production, which will ensure the companies status as a major player in the Australian Gold Sector.Westgold has commissioned and operates four production facilities in Western Australia, the Murchison Gold Operations, Fortnum Gold Project, Higginsville Gold Operations and the recentlystarted Cue Gold Operations. Once steady state production is achieved in the near future, Westgold will be significant producer with multiple high quality long life projects.
• Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners — For general queries, please use the contact form to get in touch.

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• Range — The financial control layer for companies operating across stablecoins, crypto and fiat rails.
• THEA-AI — AI that amplifies human performance
• Adjacent Markets — Event indexing and @AdjacentNews

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• StripChain — StripChain unifies all the blockchains
• Nest Wallet — A Wallet Built for Traders
• Switchboard — Switchboard allows builders to unlock the power of solana by creating high-performance data feeds from any API. They will bring data on-chain that will enable developers to unlock the future of decentralized applications. They enable the SOL community to push any form of data on-chain.

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• AEON — Powering #agenticeconomy #x402 | AEON is settlement layer bridging autonomous AI interactions (A2A & A2M) with real-world value flows. Backed by @yzilabs $AEON
• KOR Protocol — KOR Protocol is a decentralized intellectual property (IP) infrastructure designed to empower creators, protect rights, and enable seamless collaboration and monetization of IP assets across various industries, including music, film, TV, gaming, and art. Backed by notable entities like Animoca Brands, Republic, Niantic, Sfermion, Solana, andprominent creators such as Black Mirror, Disclosure, deadmau5, and Richie Hawtin, KOR leverages blockchain, AI, and DeFi to offer a transparent, efficient, and scalable environment for IP expansion.
• 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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• MNX — Trade Anthropic, memory stocks, and H100 prices with leverage on the first AI-focused decentralized futures exchange.
• Alien — Alien develops decentralized digital identity infrastructure focused on privacy-preserving proof of humanity and trust online. It builds a blockchain-based human network that uses biometric verification, cryptographic proofs, and decentralized protocols to authenticate unique humans and AI agents. The platform enables human verification, access tohuman-only spaces, and accountable AI systems.
• HYFIX Spatial Intelligence — HYFIX Spatial Intelligence is a Machinery Manufacturing firm developing IoT-friendl software and hardware.

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• Lumoz — Opside is a modern, three-layer infrastructure platform that offers ZK-RaaS (ZK-rollup-as-a-service). The ability to deploy applications on Opside layer 3 without having to manage any infrastructure gives developers more freedom. All transactions and generated data are hashed and kept on the layer 2 Opside chain because layer 2 consensus and dataavailability are handled by Opside. For on-chain apps that require quicker transaction processing and reduced fees, including games and social networks, this ground-breaking method opens up a world of new possibilities.
• Poresi — The AI Micro-Emotion Monitoring System is an intelligent assistant that leverages camera, microphone, typing behavior, and interaction rhythms to detect micro-expressions, tone shifts, typing cadence, and language use. It builds a personalized emotional state profile and provides early interventions to prevent anxiety, burnout, and depressiveepisodes before they escalate.
• Tracknme — TrackNMe.com is the ultimate domain name for startups looking to make a mark in the tracking and monitoring industry. With its short length and easy-to-pronounce two syllables, this brandable name exudes confidence and innovation. It evokes

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• Soter Insure — Reliable insurance for the digital asset ecosystem.
• Ethereum Institutional — Accelerating institutional adoption of Ethereum
• Digital Prime Technologies — Full-Service Institutional-Grade Prime Brokerage for Digital Asset Management. DLCC offers full-service Prime Brokerage solutions for digital assets. Our all-in-one user interface leverages both API and Saas product offerings to connect clients with a growing network of liquidity providers to transact, borrow, and lend digital assets, and managecollateral. Our product suite also offers traditional Prime Brokerage services, such as consultation and capital introduction.

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• SeeleTech — Seele is a blockchain 4.0 platform that aims to spearhead development in the Internet of Value era.
• PROPS — PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.
• TON Telegram Open Network — An ultrafast, scalable blockchain integrated with Telegram

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• Alphea — ALPHEA is an AI-native execution OS that awakens intelligence across every surface.
• Dow Protocol — An E-Commerce Financing RWA Platform on @BNBCHAIN, facilitating assets trusted by the world's largest banks. Lead invested by @mhventures @Maple_block
• Fortune Protocol — Fortune Protocol brings the age- old tradition of fortune cookies to the modern prediction market.

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• zkPass — zkPass enables a trust graph where any entity - human or AI agent - can verify claims about any other without exposing raw data.
• B² Network — B² Network is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that utilizes ZK rollup and on-chain logical gate commitment verification mechanisms. It is a supplementary network that runs on top of the Bitcoin Network. It also introduces smart contracts to Bitcoin, which could open up new possibilities for DeFi, NFTs, and derivatives.
• Konnex World — Building the GDP of autonomous systems. Turning robot labor into on-chain liquidity. $KNX

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• Liqwid Labs — Liqwid is a non-custodial liquidity market protocol for lending and borrowing on Cardano, offering fast, affordable, and transparent liquidity solutions.
• Gasp — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
• Pontem Network — Pontem lets you find product market fit in a permissionless environment prior to launching on the Facebook-backed Diem Blockchain.

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• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Cambrian — The financial intelligence layer for agents & institutions. Cambrian's API helps you make the best financial decisions onchain. Testnet waitlist @ https://t.co/eohvz17ALp
• M0 —

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• MultiversX — Scale across the Multiverse.
• Entangle Protocol — Connect data, assets, and more with Entangle's fast and fully customizable interoperability primitives.
• Hatom Labs — Building Hatom - the pioneering, non-custodial liquidity protocol on #MultiversX

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• Kapkap — Kapkap is a web3 platform that uses AI for attention based value distribution in gaming.
• SuperIntent — SuperIntent is a cryptocurrency AI app that streamlines on-chain earning tactics. Developed on a multi-agent framework with abundant yield sources.
• Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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• Yellow — Yellow is a financial services provider of software, analytics, and investments in blockchain startups.
• KIP Protocol — KIP Protocol is a decentralised AI framework unlocking digital property rights of Knowledge Assets in the AI-powered future.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.

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• Wixpool — Wixpool is a liquidity mining mechanism that is based on the Wixpool Rate Stabiliser (WRS) algorithm. Wixpool, led by WRS, allows anybody to invest in high-yield liquidity pools with a steady interest rate by pooling the assets of private users into an automated ecosystem.
• Elixir — Powering deUSD, a yield bearing and fully collateralized decentralized dollar on the Elixir Network, bringing institutional-grade liquidity to RWAs.
• Frontrunner — Alexistogel atau di kenal sebagai alexistoto adalah salah satu situs slot yang sudah terpercaya dengan banyaknya yang ingin maxwin hari ini

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• Spearbit — Spearbit connects independent security experts to Web3 projects that need them.The company offers a range of services, including expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security reviews through retainer agreements. These services provide clients with an operational layer, freeing them from time-consuming administrative tasks and clientsourcing and due diligence.
• Noise DAO — A DAO supporting music and technology.
• Fluidity Money — Earn yield for trading, holding, swapping, minting NFTs; everything you already do is now yield bearing. Fluid assets change the way you use your money on-chain.

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• LNT — LNT provides a Bitcoin Taproot-based token system that allows basic asset creation and transfers with limited available details.
• ChimpX AI — ChimpX AI is an AI-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) superapp designed to simplify crypto trading, cross-chain asset management, and blockchain interactions through natural language commands. The platform focuses on making complex DeFi operations accessible to everyday users by combining artificial intelligence, automation, and gaslesstransactions into a single interface.
• ZENi — ZENi is a data intelligence engine that powers autonomous AI agents. The platform transforms real-time on-chain and off-chain signals into actionable insights, enabling agents to make decisions, automate workflows, and execute tasks with high precision. Built as a decentralized data intelligence layer, ZENi supports Web3, fintech, e-commerce ,gaming and enterprise applications that require scalable, intelligent agent operations.

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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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• Bio.xyz — Biotech's new financial layer.
• Recall Labs — Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.
• Blackbird — We believe the next great hospitality technology platform should connect restaurants and their customers directly, in meaningful and ongoing ways. Blackbird is founded by a team with a passion for restaurants and a track record of using technology to solve problems.

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• Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
• Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
• Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

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• OX.FUN — Trade Bitcoin, Ethereum and trending altcoin derivatives on the most FUN exchange around. Join OX.FUN today and earn up to 200% yield. Moo.
• AINN Layer2 — AINN Layer2 is a decentralized Bitcoin Layer2 network development.It promotes large-scale AI applications
• Sanctum — Stake SOL and earn optimized LST returns from JupSOL, bbSOL, and more, and launch your own custom LST and Solana validator.

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• Hyperbeat — Hyperbeat is a native protocol built specifically for the Hyperliquid ecosystem, designed to enhance scalability, efficiency, and overall performance across the network.
• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
• Resolv Labs — Transparent dollar products backed by diversified crypto yield sources

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• Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
• Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
• Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.

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• Greenlane — Full-service, global platform for bringing premium products to market in the burgeoning head shop, smoke shop, dispensary channels and beyond
• Seismic — A privacy enabled blockchain.
• Cluster Protocol — Orchestration layer for autonomous workflows and prompt to dapp browser based IDE on @base all powered by x402 Backed by @daofive and @papervc

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• MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
• DigiBuild — Automate your construction supply chain with AI.
• HIFI — HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increasevisibility, and combat fraud.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.

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• Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
• Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
• Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!

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• RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
• Truemarket — Onchain yield-bearing markets
• Rarimo Foundation — Trustless ZK Registries powering identity & verifiable data. Fully client-side, private, sovereign