Platform Provider

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  ZipChat

  New York, USA

  ZipChat is an AI-powered conversational agent platform for e-commerce, founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York. It replaces traditional chatbots with a proactive sales and support engine that knows each brand’s catalog and customer behavior. The platform was originally founded by Michael Monin and later acquired by serial entrepreneur Ruslan Leteyski in early 2025, who now serves as CEO. ZipChat serves e-commerce brands primarily on Shopify and other CMS platforms, with a no-code setup that goes live in seconds. It offers multi-channel deployment, multilingual support, and autonomous actions like discount code generation and cart recovery. The company employs around 30 people and reports strong conversion rates and customer satisfaction, with a 4.8-star rating on the Shopify App Store. Serving brands across multiple verticals, ZipChat reports up to 55% conversation-to-sale conversion and 10–15% incremental revenue uplift. The company runs three partner programs (agency, tech, affiliate) and has not raised external funding beyond a possible early-stage VC round in January 2025. With 95+ language support and continuous learning, it positions itself as a leader in 'Conversational Agentic Commerce'.

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  Zyphe

  New York, USA; London, UK; Milan, Italy

  Zyphe is an AI agent platform designed specifically for regulated compliance workflows, including Know Your Customer (KYC), Know Your Business (KYB), and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) operations. The company distinguishes itself with a privacy-first architecture that decentralizes personally identifiable information (PII) storage, meaning Zyphe agents make compliance decisions without ever holding customers' sensitive data. The platform integrates directly into existing case management, KYC/KYB, AML, and ticketing tools, allowing compliance teams to deploy AI agents that replicate human analyst workflows while maintaining full audit trails. Trusted by institutions regulated by the OCC, FDIC, FCA, and Federal Reserve, Zyphe serves a range of financial institutions, fintechs, crypto exchanges, and global payroll platforms. Founded with the mission to eliminate the risk of centralized PII storage, the company has attracted investment from Altitude Ventures, Azimut Group, Everywhere Ventures, and ROI Ventures. With offices in New York, London, and Milan, Zyphe is growing its team across product, engineering, and compliance. Its agents handle everything from L1 alert triage to enhanced due diligence and sanctions screening, producing regulator-ready evidence packs for every decision. By combining state-of-the-art reasoning models with a decentralized audit substrate, Zyphe offers a scalable alternative to traditional compliance outsourcing or manual hiring.

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  ZBX

  Malta

  ZBX is a fiat-enabled crypto-asset service provider licensed in the European Union under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation, headquartered in Malta. The platform offers a full range of digital asset services, including spot trading, regulatory-compliant custody, deep over-the-counter (OTC) liquidity, and fiat on/off ramps. Designed for both individual and institutional clients, ZBX combines traditional banking infrastructure with crypto-native capabilities through its banking API that allows clients to bind crypto wallets to a Swiss bank account. The company positions itself as a regulated, EU-compliant alternative to unregulated offshore exchanges, with a strong emphasis on security, compliance, and innovation. ZBX operates a desktop and mobile trading interface, corporate account services for businesses, and a custody solution tied to its fiat rail system. Its licensing under MiCA is a key differentiator, aligning with the EU’s evolving regulatory framework for digital assets.

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  WMG

  1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, USA

  Warner Music Group (WMG) is an American multinational music entertainment company headquartered in New York City. It is one of the three largest recording companies in the world, alongside Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. WMG’s operations span recorded music, music publishing, and artist services. The company owns and operates a portfolio of iconic record labels—including Atlantic Records, Warner Records, Elektra Records, Reprise, Sire, and Parlophone—as well as Warner Chappell Music, one of the world’s largest music publishers. Founded by Warner Bros. film studios in 1958, WMG has grown through a series of strategic acquisitions (e.g., Atlantic Records, Elektra Records, Chappell Music) and corporate restructurings. It was publicly traded on the NYSE from 2005 to 2011, then taken private by Access Industries, and returned to the public market via an IPO on Nasdaq in 2020. As of fiscal year 2025, the company reported revenues of $6.71 billion and employed approximately 5,500 people globally. WMG continues to evolve through technology partnerships, AI licensing deals, and catalog investment ventures.

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  Xevio

  Cologne, Germany

  Xevio is a privately held, award‑winning native advertising and performance marketing agency headquartered in Cologne, Germany. Founded in 2023 by veteran native‑ad specialists Nadim Batista‑Kuttab (CEO) and Andrey Kravchenko, the agency was built on a combined 40+ years of marketing experience and has already managed over nine figures in ad spend. Xevio positions itself as a “global performance enabler” that specialises in making native advertising a mainstream cold‑user‑acquisition channel alongside social and search. The agency’s core service lines span native ads (Taboola, Outbrain, MediaGo, MGID, Revcontent, Baidu), Meta Ads (as a certified Meta Agency Partner), LinkedIn Ads, and TikTok Ads. Xevio’s in‑house creative studio produces, for example, an average of 280 video creatives per week for TikTok campaigns in the DACH region, an effort that won the official TikTok Performance Award for DACH in 2023. The company also runs Native Hub, the self‑described “#1 Native Ads community” for media buyers. Xevio has demonstrated strong results: in one case study, it improved lead quality by up to 150% for clients in the solar and financial verticals using Voluum and Taboola. The agency has also leveraged MediaGo’s SmartBid technology to achieve a 20% reduction in cost per lead and a 30% average improvement in conversion rates. Xevio’s client portfolio includes brands and agencies worldwide, and its experts regularly speak at industry events such as Affiliate World and the Native Advertising Institute.

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  XOALA

  London, England

  XOALA is a fully regulated neobank and all-in-one financial platform that provides corporate banking, global payments, merchant acquiring, and cryptocurrency services through a single unified portal. Targeted primarily at financial institutions, brokers, crypto firms, iGaming operators, and global businesses, Xoala eliminates the need for multiple banking and payment partners. The platform offers dedicated named IBANs, multi-currency accounts in over 20 currencies, and access to local and international payment rails including USD (SWIFT), EUR (SEPA Instant), GBP (Faster Payments/CHAPS), and AED via the UAETFSNetwork. Xoala also supports crypto on- and off-ramps with dedicated wallets for 10+ cryptocurrencies, enabling instant transfers and seamless fiat conversion. Its acquiring services cover low-, medium-, and high-risk industries through Visa and Mastercard, plus alternative payment methods across LATAM, Africa, and Asia. The company operates under an Electronic Money Institution licence from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen), is a principal member of Visa and Mastercard, and holds multiple crypto licences. Xoala was founded in 2024 and is headquartered in London, England, with additional regulated entities in Mauritius, Canada, and the Isle of Man. In early 2026, FDCTech, Inc. announced a letter of intent to acquire Xoala (Steven AB) for a total purchase price of $6,750,000.

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  Warmy (Anybiz)

  Tel Aviv, Israel

  Warmy.io is an advanced email deliverability and warm-up platform developed and operated by AnyBiz LTD, a company also known for its AI-driven B2B lead generation engine, AnyBiz.io. The two products are described by the founders as “brothers,” sharing technology and being used internally to test each other’s capabilities. Warmy solves a critical pain point in cold email outreach: ensuring that sender reputation is high enough to land in the inbox rather than spam. Using an AI-driven algorithm, Warmy gradually increases email sending volume from new or dormant accounts, simulates real human interactions (opens, replies, forwarding), and monitors sender score across major ESPs. Beyond warm-up, the platform offers deliverability diagnostics, SPF/DKIM/DMARC configuration checks, blacklist monitoring, and inbox placement testing. While Warmy is a product brand, the corporate entity behind it is AnyBiz LTD, a privately held company with a development and leadership team largely based in Israel. The company’s mission is to make email channels reliable for sales teams, enabling them to scale cold outreach without being flagged as spam. Warmy is used by thousands of sales development representatives, marketing agencies, and business owners worldwide who rely on cold email as a core channel.

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  VSMarket (VSCapital)

  Office 9A, CT House, Providence, Mahe, Seychelles

  VS Capital, also known as VSMarket, is a multi-license brokerage house that delivers institutional-grade trading solutions to a global client base. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Providence, Mahe, Seychelles, the firm is regulated by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA) under license number SD179. It positions itself as a bespoke and regulated partner for institutional and retail traders, offering over 300 financial instruments including forex, cryptocurrencies, indices, stocks, commodities, and ETFs. The company provides access to advanced trading platforms such as MetaTrader 5 and its proprietary Trader Evolution platform, along with FIX API connectivity for algorithmic traders. VS Capital specializes in multi-asset liquidity, white-label solutions, and broker-in-a-box services, serving professional traders, prop trading firms, introducing brokers, and financial institutions. It emphasizes negative balance protection, segregated client funds insured by Lloyd's, 24/7 support, and a demo account. With a lean team of 11–50 employees, the company combines offshore regulation with a focus on security and personalized service.

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  VNE

  Italy

  VNE S.p.A. is an Italian technology company that has specialized in automated cash handling and payment solutions since its founding in 1977. Based in Italy, the company combines hardware engineering and software development to produce cash recyclers, payment kiosks, and integrated cash management platforms. Its systems are used in retail, self-service, and gaming environments, including casinos and betting terminals, where high-volume cash transactions require reliability and security. VNE positions itself as a bridge between physical cash and digital payments, emphasizing 100% Italian innovation. The company serves a global customer base but maintains a relatively low public profile; no detailed financial figures or headcount are publicly available. In the iGaming sector, VNE is a known supplier of cash-handling equipment that meets regulatory and security standards for gaming floors.

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  Vitalentum

  Vitalentum is an emerging all-in-one AI content creation platform and social network designed for artists, writers, designers, and content enthusiasts. Unlike traditional stock image libraries or standalone AI image generators, Vitalentum aims to be a unified ecosystem that manages the entire content lifecycle—from ideation and generation to filtering, posting, SEO optimization, and monetization. The platform offers over 30 categories of AI-generated images ranging across nature, animals, robots, transport, abstract art, people, architecture, technology, and more. Users can convert text into unique, high-quality images instantly, generate AI characters, and access chat functionality for creative collaboration. Beyond generation, Vitalentum provides in-house utility tools including an image upscaler, a background remover, and an SEO description tool to prepare content for publishing. The platform is available as a web app and a desktop application for Mac and Windows. On the social side, Vitalentum functions as a community-driven space where creators can share their work, engage with others, and showcase their talents. The company publicly states its ambition to fill a market gap between traditional stock giants like Shutterstock and Freepik and specialized AI tools, aiming to become the dominant unified AI platform for content creation. As of its public LinkedIn activity, Vitalentum reported processing over 245,000 images and targeting rapid growth toward millions, with a goal of expanding paid subscriptions from around 1,000 to over 15,000.

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  Veritas

  Santa Clara, California, USA

  Veritas Technologies LLC is a global leader in enterprise data protection, availability, and insights, headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Originally founded as Tolerant Systems in 1983 by Intel alumni Eli Alon and Dale Shipley, the company pioneered the first commercial journaling file system (VxFS) and volume manager (VxVM), establishing itself as a core infrastructure provider for Unix and later Linux environments. After an IPO in 1993 and a period of rapid acquisition-driven growth, Veritas Software merged with Symantec in 2005, only to be demerged and sold to private equity firm The Carlyle Group in 2016 for $8 billion. In late 2024, its data protection and data security unit was acquired by Cohesity in a deal valued at $3 billion. Today, Veritas remains a standalone company providing a comprehensive portfolio of backup, recovery, and compliance solutions. Its flagship products—NetBackup and Backup Exec—are used by over 50,000 organizations worldwide, including many in regulated sectors like finance, healthcare, and gaming. The company continues to operate under CEO Greg Hughes, employing approximately 7,000 people globally as of 2020.

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  Utexo

  United Arab Emirates

  Utexo is a Bitcoin-native settlement network that enables fast, private, and compliant USDT stablecoin payments directly on the Bitcoin blockchain. By combining the Lightning Network for instant execution with RGB smart contracts for privacy, the company allows enterprises such as payment service providers, exchanges, custodians, and iGaming operators to send, receive, and settle USDT without relying on external sidechains or layer‑2 bridges. Founded in 2025 by Chris Hutchinson and Viktor Ihnatiuk and headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, Utexo raised a $7.5 million seed round in early 2026 co‑led by Tether, Big Brain Holdings, and Portal Ventures, with participation from Franklin Templeton, Maven11 Capital, and Fulgur Ventures. The round was backed by Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, who noted that Utexo strengthens Bitcoin as a global rail for dollar transactions. With a team of roughly 11 people, Utexo positions itself as a critical infrastructure layer for the growing intersection of Bitcoin and stablecoins, particularly in high‑volume sectors like iGaming where instant deposits and payouts are essential.