Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.
Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain.
Combinder
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Combinder is a technology company that operates a community-owned platform facilitating connectivity for Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). It offers a unified API for software developers to access and manage diverse smart devices, regardless of brand or type. The platform leverages AI to incentivize users with token rewards for connecting their devices to the global virtual power grid, fostering a decentralized energy network.
Founded in 2018, Ligero specializes in designing and implementing a platform for secure, decentralized collaboration both on and off blockchain. Their offerings include confidential transactions, private smart contracts, distributed threshold cryptography, secure auctions for decentralized exchanges, and private verifiable machine learning.
Cryptio is an enterprise-grade back-office platform for cryptocurrency businesses that converts on-chain activity into auditable records for accounting, financial reporting, treasury management, and tax filings. Its software automates bookkeeping for digital assets by linking blockchain transactions, wallets, exchanges, and custodians with existing accounting systems, enabling users to manage, report, and monitor day-to-day accounting tasks. The platform covers activities across DeFi and NFTs, providing integrated support for automated accounting, audit preparation, and regulatory-compliant reporting.
Predicate
Seed Round in 2024
Predicate is a network that simplifies transaction prerequisites to allow users and communities to define rules for on-chain interactions.
Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.
Blockscout
Seed Round in 2024
Blockscout is an open-source blockchain explorer designed for use across various Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains. It enables users to verify transactions, balances, smart contracts, and other records on these networks.
Botto is a decentralized autonomous artist platform that integrates artificial intelligence for art creation. It fosters innovative collaborations and community-driven voting processes, enabling creators and enthusiasts to shape creative narratives.
BuildBear Labs
Seed Round in 2024
BuildBear Labs develops a platform dedicated to simplifying Web3 development. It offers a unique environment for continuous smart contract testing, mirroring real-world conditions to ensure optimal performance upon deployment. The platform supports multiple Ethereum-compatible chains and aims to make Web3 development more accessible and efficient.
FuzzLand
Seed Round in 2024
FuzzLand is a technology company specializing in AI-driven smart contract security. It offers an automated auditing platform that combines artificial intelligence, fuzzing, and formal verification to analyze and understand smart contracts. This platform enables clients, including builders, auditors, and traders, to swiftly assess and secure their smart contracts, thereby mitigating potential threats and vulnerabilities.
web3mine
Seed Round in 2023
Decentralized Storage and Compute staking
Nftperp is a company founded in January 2022, based in Washington, D.C., specializing in decentralized finance software for contract trading. It operates a perpetual decentralized exchange that allows users to speculate on the floor prices of prominent non-fungible token (NFT) projects, including well-known collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks. By providing a platform for trading blue-chip NFTs, nftperp leverages the growing significance of NFTs within the web3 ecosystem, catering to both investors and enthusiasts interested in the evolving digital asset landscape.
Rhinestone
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Rhinestone is a technology company developing a modular smart account infrastructure to enhance interoperability, security, and functionality in digital wallets. Its platform enables secure, permissionless innovation by providing tools for developers to create, distribute, and monetize self-contained modules, thereby offering advanced features to end-users and decentralized application (dapp) developers.
JokeRace
Seed Round in 2023
JokeRace, formerly known as JokeDAO, operates a decentralized governance platform that empowers communities to propose, vote on, and execute ideas. Utilizing blockchain technology, the platform facilitates various community-driven initiatives such as bounties, grants, and curation, allowing users to submit entries and vote on favorites, fostering a bottom-up approach to decision-making.
At fxhash, we build tools that allow artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art. Our platform facilitates an easy and safe space for artists, collectors, and curators to create generative art projects, buy, sell, and collect art — and share their collections with the world.
Superstate
Seed Round in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.
Hydra Ventures
Seed Round in 2023
Hydra Ventures, established in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in supporting decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) within the web3 ecosystem. It offers investment solutions, incubation services, and strategic guidance tailored to DAO companies, fostering their growth and success in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.
Caldera
Funding Round in 2023
Caldera offers a no-code platform enabling developers to create, launch, and manage customizable blockchain rollups. It provides flexible fee structures or transaction fee removal, generating revenue through transaction fees, bridge fees, MEV, and supports additional programming languages.
Alkimiya Protocol
Venture Round in 2023
Alkimiya Protocol is a developer of an open-source, permissionless platform that focuses on creating financial instruments backed by actual hash power production. The protocol utilizes smart contracts to enable miners to sell their future production rewards for a predetermined amount. This innovation allows users to design and deploy hash power-backed financial instruments from any location, leveraging the latest web and mobile technologies to generate revenue. By facilitating a new way for miners to monetize their production, Alkimiya Protocol aims to enhance the financial landscape within the cryptocurrency sector.
Matter Labs
Series C in 2022
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.
Gnosis
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).
Gnosis
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).
Playmint
Seed Round in 2022
Playmint is a game development studio focused on the web3 era, developing a decentralized gaming platform that enables fully on-chain games governed by player communities, providing autonomous game systems, on-chain economies, and player-owned logic to support the creation and evolution of persistent digital worlds for blockchain gamers and developers.
Storygrounds
Seed Round in 2022
Storygrounds is a platform enabling individuals of varying skill levels to collaboratively create webcomics.
Galleon DAO
Seed Round in 2022
Galleon DAO is a guild of experienced methodologists aiming to research, design, and create best-in-class thematic, leverage, and yield-based structured products on-chain across all EVM-based networks.
Pocket Network
Venture Round in 2022
Pocket Network develops decentralized infrastructure for blockchain application development. Its platform enables users to connect applications to any blockchain via a coordinating node, streamlining the process of building and deploying blockchain apps.
Treasure
Seed Round in 2021
Treasure is developing a decentralized gaming platform aimed at connecting various metaverses and fostering community engagement through a unified ecosystem. The platform features a decentralized game console that integrates games and communities by utilizing a common set of resources. By adopting an open and composable approach, Treasure enables the convergence of non-fungible tokens, decentralized finance, and gaming, allowing players to earn and utilize currency while engaging with different games. Central to the Treasure ecosystem is a fair launch token that powers essential infrastructure and serves as a reserve asset across partner game integrations.
B.Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
B.Protocol develops a decentralized backstop liquidity protocol that enhances security for lending platforms in the DeFi space.
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.
Futureswap
Funding Round in 2021
Futureswap is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a decentralized futures exchange platform utilizing blockchain technology. The platform operates on a non-custodial basis, enabling users to engage in the trading of crypto futures contracts. Futureswap employs an automated market-making (AMM) algorithm to facilitate these transactions, enhancing liquidity and efficiency in the trading process. With a focus on decentralized finance, Futureswap aims to provide a secure and user-friendly environment for trading perpetual futures in the cryptocurrency market.
Forefront
Seed Round in 2021
Forefront is the launchpad empowering web3 explorers to create at the frontier of tokenized communities.
Visor Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized platform facilitating active liquidity management. Its tool enables participants to use smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges, maximizing returns from fees while minimizing impermanent loss.
RedStone
Pre Seed Round in 2021
RedStone is a next-generation cross-chain data oracle that specializes in providing pricing data for financial protocols. The company develops modular oracles that deliver data feeds compatible with both layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains, including rollups-as-a-service (RaaS) solutions. RedStone's offerings include liquid staking tokens and liquid restaking tokens, as well as an online decentralized finance platform designed to utilize blockchain's permanent storage capabilities. This platform supports cross-chain data services while ensuring an audit trail, which enhances transparency and reliability. Additionally, RedStone enables decentralized finance providers to implement automatic dispute mechanisms, bolstered by insurance through staking, thereby facilitating more secure and efficient transactions.
Index Coop
Seed Round in 2021
The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on Set Protocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure.
Set Labs develops tools for creating and managing bundled crypto assets, known as 'Sets'. These Sets enable users to create diverse cryptocurrency baskets, including non-fungibles and on-chain securities.
Connext
Seed Round in 2021
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.
Tally
Venture Round in 2021
Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain.
SIREN is a distributed protocol creating a decentralized blockchain exchange for options trading on Ethereum. The company is focused on creating a high-quality, seamless experience for sophisticated users and requires no third-party settling mechanism or order matching to complete option settlement on-chain. It allows for both buyers and sellers to mint, buy, and trade in and out of options positions at any time.
SIREN was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, CA.
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.
Nexus Mutual
Venture Round in 2021
Nexus Mutual Limited is a London-based company that operates a decentralized insurance platform utilizing blockchain technology, specifically the Ethereum public blockchain. Founded in 2017, it offers a novel alternative to traditional insurance by enabling users to become members and collectively share insurance risks without the involvement of conventional insurance companies. Members can purchase coverage, and their decisions are governed by smart contracts, which ensure transparency and enforceability. Initially, Nexus Mutual launched with a product focusing on earthquake coverage, allowing participants to manage and mitigate risks collaboratively. The platform aims to recreate traditional mutual insurance models on a broader scale, providing an innovative approach to risk management in the insurance industry.
Verto
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Verto is a decentralized network that allows individuals to create and host their own trading posts for exchanging tokenized assets. Built on a blockweave infrastructure, Verto provides an open platform where developers can earn incentives through a unique mechanism that generates micro-dividends as long as their applications are active. This structure empowers users to select their preferred trading posts and facilitates the efficient trading of tokenized securities, promoting a more accessible and flexible exchange environment.
Matter Labs
Series A in 2021
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.
NIFTEX is a platform that facilitates fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). It provides a self-service interface for investors to purchase fractions of various NFTs, including artwork, game assets, and personal brands. By enabling NFT owners to convert their assets into fungible fractions, NIFTEX allows them to sell portions of their NFTs, thereby increasing liquidity and making valuable assets more accessible to a wider audience in the NFT market.
Liquity
Seed Round in 2020
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing platform operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It facilitates interest-free loans by using Ether as collateral.
Opyn is a decentralized protocol specializing in optimizing options trading. It enables users to earn premiums or express views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20 tokens. Opyn offers European, cash-settled options that auto-exercise upon expiry, with oTokens being ERC20s tradable on compatible decentralized exchanges.
Eco Inc. is a financial technology company focused on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, the company aims to optimize financial transactions and promote efficient banking practices. Eco also develops Bend, a platform designed to offer rewarding financial solutions that align with the expectations of modern consumers. Through its commitment to improving how individuals interact with their finances, Eco seeks to drive a new standard for money management.
Matter Labs
Seed Round in 2019
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.
Beam
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Beam develops a privacy-focused cryptocurrency wallet based on the MimbleWimble protocol for mobile and desktop use. It serves individual and small business users, offering confidential transactions without compromising performance or scalability.
aelf, an AI-enhanced Layer 1 blockchain network, leverages the robust C# programming language for efficiency and scalability across its sophisticated multi-layered architecture. Founded in 2017 with its global hub in Singapore, aelf is a pioneer in the industry, leading Asia in evolving blockchain with state-of-the-art AI integration and modular Layer 2 ZK Rollup technology, ensuring an efficient, low-cost, and highly secure platform that is both developer and end-user friendly. Aligned with its progressive vision, aelf is committed to fostering innovation within its ecosystem and advancing Web3 and AI technology adoption.