Flutterwave is a U.S.-based, Africa-focused fintech company founded in 2016. Its mission is to build a modern payment infrastructure to connect Africa to the global economy, simplifying commerce for businesses of all sizes across the continent and other emerging markets. The company provides a unified platform that allows merchants to make and accept payments without the complexities of navigating fragmented financial systems.

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It offers a comprehensive suite of products and services through a single API. For enterprises and small businesses, this includes payment processing for various methods such as credit cards, mobile money, and bank transfers through its Flutterwave Checkout and Payment Links products. It also provides tools to create online stores (Flutterwave Store), issue invoices, and manage cross-border payouts. For individuals, its Send App facilitates international remittances, allowing users to easily transfer money to and from Africa.

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Flutterwave has partnered with Hedera to integrate USDC stablecoin settlements on the Hedera network. 

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Evercity is a Berlin-based company that was founded in 2018. It streamlines and automates the issuance of sustainable finance instruments. The company's primary goal is to make green finance more accessible, transparent, and cost-effective, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Its core offering is a green debt and carbon origination platform, a SaaS solution that automates the entire lifecycle of sustainable finance, from structuring and issuance to monitoring and reporting. 

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The platform integrates with IoT and satellite technology to collect real-world data, which is used to verify the performance of green projects and prevent "greenwashing." A key feature is the ability to issue fully traceable digital assets, including carbon credits and sustainability-linked bonds.

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Evercity's platform leverages Hedera Guardian to create a verifiable and immutable record of a project's environmental impact, from initial funding to the final reporting of outcomes, in order to provide trust and transparency to the sustainable finance market.

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Beem is a versatile Australian digital wallet owned by Digital Wallet Pty Ltd and now part of Australian Payments Plus, a member of the Hedera Governing Council and the collective that also includes BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia.

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It enables Australians to pay, request, transfer and split money instantly by using familiar contact names instead of BSB and account numbers. The app also supports BPAY for bill payments and offers features such as rewards and cashback through Beem Rewards and Cashrewards, loyalty and gift card storage, animated stickers and group expense management.

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Eftpos acquired Beem in 2020 to expand into digital wallet services and leverage its payments infrastructure for faster growth. Since then it has been downloaded more than 1.4 million times and has facilitated over US 1 billion in transactions. Australian Payments Plus operates a Hedera network node in Australia and has trialled the Hedera Consensus Service and an Australian dollar based stablecoin to enable secure and low cost micropayments, providing a potential foundation for future Beem innovations.

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Coforge is a global digital services and solutions provider headquartered in India, with offices in the US, UK, Asia, and Australia. It assists clients in transforming their businesses by integrating domain expertise with emerging technologies. 

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The firm primarily serves sectors such as banking and financial services, insurance, and travel and hospitality. As a member of the Hedera Governing Council, it serves a key role in the distributed ledger technology (DLT) space.

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Coforge offers services utilizing data and analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cloud computing, and digital process automation to deploy innovative solutions on the Hedera platform. Its offerings include application development and management, managed services, and business process solutions, all with a focus on creating intelligent, high-performing, and secure systems. 

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Through its role with Hedera, Coforge is supports a diverse group of international clients in their digital transformation journeys and serves leading organizations, including numerous Fortune 500 companies. These include Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Salesforce, among others. 

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