Alameda Research

Alameda Research is a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm founded in 2017 and headquartered in Central and Western, Hong Kong. The company specializes in providing liquidity in cryptocurrency and digital asset markets, facilitating trading through its advanced quantitative strategies. In addition to its trading operations, Alameda Research engaged in venture capital investments across various stages, supporting the growth of the cryptocurrency ecosystem. The firm offered services such as instant quotes, settlement, and streamlined onboarding processes, which helped traders efficiently navigate the complexities of cryptocurrency trading.

Andrew Croghan

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Sam Trabucco

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Past deals in Crypto

Magic Eden

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-focused company that operates a decentralized exchange platform tailored for cryptographic assets, specifically on the Solana blockchain. It provides an online marketplace where users can create, buy, and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs), facilitating trade for digital creators. To strengthen its ties with the community, Magic Eden airdropped a collection called Magic Tickets to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket grants access to the company's Discord-based decentralized autonomous organization, MagicDAO, which fosters community engagement through social programs and rewards. The company's commitment to serving its users underscores its mission to enhance the NFT trading experience.

Enigma

Funding Round in 2022
Enigma is a San Francisco-based company specializing in cloud SDK solutions designed to protect data-in-use. It focuses on automating and streamlining business operations, particularly for financial institutions, aiding in anti-money laundering compliance, credit card fraud detection, and insurance premium pricing. Additionally, Enigma leverages advanced privacy technologies to develop a platform for scalable, end-to-end decentralized applications. The company introduces innovative secret contracts—smart contracts that enable the utilization of private and sensitive data within decentralized applications and services, enhancing both data security and operational efficiency.

Circle

Convertible Note in 2022
Circle is a Boston-based fintech company founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville. It specializes in utilizing stablecoins for payments, e-commerce, and investment products. Circle's services include Circle Pay for easy money transfers, Circle Invest for crypto asset trading, and Circle Trade for over-the-counter transactions. The company is backed by prominent investors such as Jim Breyer, Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital, General Catalyst, and Accel Partners.

Optim Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Optim Finance develops a decentralized finance platform that offers investment tools designed to optimize yield on digital assets. The platform focuses on creating innovative passive investment solutions, allowing users to easily deposit and withdraw funds while enhancing liquidity for productive use. By providing smart contract infrastructure, Optim Finance enables unique financial primitives that facilitate new use cases, such as renting ADA delegation rights, which can be applied to SPO loans and initial bonds. This approach aims to streamline asset management in the blockchain industry, making it more automated and secure for users.

Jumbo

Seed Round in 2022
Jumbo operates a decentralized finance exchange platform that facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. By leveraging blockchain technology, the company aims to lower the entry barriers for trading, allowing users to engage in various financial activities such as swaps, liquidity pooling, farming, and staking. Their platform features an interface that enables users to configure asset parameters and detect liquidity pools, ultimately enhancing the investment experience and improving potential returns for investors.

3Commas

Series B in 2022
3Commas is a cryptocurrency trading platform that supports automated trading strategies and portfolio management. It provides a unified dashboard that serves as the central hub for executing trades and monitoring investments across multiple exchanges and Ethereum wallets. The platform offers automated strategies and optimized indexes and integrates with major exchanges, enabling users to trade and manage their crypto assets from a single interface.

Aurigami

Funding Round in 2022
Aurigami operates as a decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol that enables users to lend, borrow, and earn interest on digital assets. It functions as a liquidity protocol where lenders supply capital and borrowers access over-collateralized loans, with a focus on reducing smart contract risk and liquidations, and emphasizes secure, trust-minimized custody in a DeFi environment.

Trustless Media

Seed Round in 2022
Trustless Media is a pioneering web3 media company that aims to revolutionize the media landscape by fostering community-owned content. The company provides a platform that allows creators and fans to collaborate in building and co-owning shows that resonate with them. Through the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Trustless Media enables audience members to actively participate in the production process, transforming them from passive viewers into engaged contributors. This innovative approach not only empowers creators but also strengthens the connection between creators and their communities, facilitating the development of ideas and projects that reflect shared passions.

Cardinal

Seed Round in 2022
Cardinal is a developer of a Solana-based protocol that enhances the utility of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) by enabling conditional ownership. The company provides a decentralized system for issuing, managing, and verifying programmed NFTs, allowing holders to transfer these digital assets to beneficiaries with specific conditions attached. Cardinal's offerings include features such as royalty enforcement, rentals, subscriptions, and staking, which contribute to the functionality and value of NFTs. Additionally, the platform allows for customization of expiration and transferability options for issued NFTs, catering to the evolving needs of NFT miners and holders.

Voyager

Post in 2022
Voyager Digital operates as a crypto-asset broker, catering to both retail and institutional investors. Founded in 2017 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides a comprehensive solution for trading crypto assets. Voyager's platform includes execution, data, wallet, and custody services, all delivered through an institutional-grade open architecture. This enables users to navigate the complexities of cryptocurrency trading with greater ease and security.

StarkWare Industries

Series D in 2022
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.

Pine Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Pine Protocol is a decentralized platform that facilitates asset-backed financing using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as collateral. It enables users to borrow or lend cryptocurrencies across different blockchains by pledging their NFTs, allowing NFT owners to access liquidity without selling their assets.

Voyager

Post in 2022
Voyager Digital operates as a crypto-asset broker, catering to both retail and institutional investors. Founded in 2017 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides a comprehensive solution for trading crypto assets. Voyager's platform includes execution, data, wallet, and custody services, all delivered through an institutional-grade open architecture. This enables users to navigate the complexities of cryptocurrency trading with greater ease and security.

PlanetQuest

Seed Round in 2022
PlanetQuest is a unique video game of exploration, survival and discovery, in which players can own entire planets, evolve and upgrade them to increase their value and eventually invite their friends to join them and go on an epic adventure together, gathering resources, building bases, fighting off alien creatures, and finding rare and powerful artifacts along the way. Join in on an epic adventure with a decentralized storyline where the choices made by you and your faction on unknown worlds will shape the fate of humanity.

Fundlr

Series A in 2022
Fundlr specializes in providing decentralized finance solutions that empower individuals and businesses to manage their financial assets on blockchain technology. Our services include decentralized lending and borrowing, yield farming, liquidity provision, and innovative investment strategies through DeFi protocols. Fundlr aims to be at the forefront of the DeFi movement, driving innovation in decentralized financial services. Our focus is on expanding our offerings with more blockchain integrations, enhancing user experience, and leading in regulatory compliance in the DeFi space. We envision a future where decentralized finance is the norm, providing greater financial inclusion and democratizing access to investment opportunities.

BiLira

Seed Round in 2022
BiLira is a blockchain-based company that provides a stable cryptocurrency, facilitating access to the digital financial ecosystem. Its primary offering, a Turkish stablecoin, allows users to conduct transactions seamlessly and securely, making it possible to buy and sell digital assets with one-to-one parity to the Turkish Lira. Designed for accessibility, BiLira enables users to transfer funds to contracted exchanges, trade cryptocurrencies, and move assets to compatible digital wallets. Additionally, it supports engagement in decentralized finance and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). With a focus on transparency and real-time transactions, BiLira aims to enhance the use of Turkish stable crypto money within the broader financial landscape.

Delta One

Seed Round in 2022
Delta One is a technology company that develops decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols on the Solana blockchain. Its core product is a yield generation protocol designed to offer novel, low-risk farming markets for cryptocurrency investors. The platform employs innovative quantitative research and rigorous engineering to create automated, delta-neutral trading strategies, aiming to minimize impermanent loss and maximize risk-adjusted yields. Delta One's mission is to democratize access to these yield opportunities, fostering mass adoption of crypto investing through user-friendly DeFi primitives.

Jumbo

Funding Round in 2022
Jumbo operates a decentralized finance exchange platform that facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. By leveraging blockchain technology, the company aims to lower the entry barriers for trading, allowing users to engage in various financial activities such as swaps, liquidity pooling, farming, and staking. Their platform features an interface that enables users to configure asset parameters and detect liquidity pools, ultimately enhancing the investment experience and improving potential returns for investors.

GDA

Private Equity Round in 2022
Genesis Digital Assets is a prominent Bitcoin mining company known for its extensive experience in the industry. Since its inception in 2013, the company has established over 20 industrial-scale mining farms and successfully brought more than 300,000 miners online, resulting in the mining of over $1 billion in Bitcoin. Genesis Digital Assets focuses on developing proprietary mining technology and aims to make its operations profitable. The company provides comprehensive services that include building, managing, and scaling large-scale mining operations, thereby offering clients the necessary infrastructure to support the evolving landscape of the cryptocurrency market.

Eizper Chain

Seed Round in 2022
Eizper Chain is a blockchain-based online multiplayer role-playing game that combines adventure and arena battle elements. Players explore a fast-paced world guided by an engaging story, earning rewards and recognition.

VALR

Series B in 2022
VALR is a Johannesburg, South Africa-based digital asset platform and cryptocurrency exchange that enables customers to buy, sell, store, transfer, and protect a broad range of digital assets, with more than 50 cryptocurrencies and a digital wallet service. The platform emphasizes secure, multi-layer protection and aims to provide access to financial services at a fair and transparent price.

GamesPad

Corporate Round in 2022
GamesPad, founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles, California, is the world's first comprehensive ecosystem for gaming, NFTs, and the metaverse. It serves as a one-stop shop for GameFi, combining a game incubator, a multichain launchpad tailored for games, decentralized venture capital, an NFT aggregator, a marketplace, and an in-house game studio. The company aims to support game entrepreneurs by providing mentorship, advisory services, and valuable connections within the gaming and crypto sectors. Additionally, GamesPad offers retail buyers the chance to invest in promising crypto gaming projects, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of gaming and digital assets.

Rhea finance

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Rhea finance develops an automated market platform designed to provide an experience close to that of centralized services by integrating DeFi tools, including a decentralized exchange, a lending protocol, and a synthetic asset issuer, into a single one-stop shop, enabling users to trade at low fees with less than two seconds of network transaction finality.

Salad Ventures

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Salad Ventures is a developer of blockchain-based applications and games, focusing on the emerging Web 3.0 landscape. The company creates a play-to-earn guild that integrates online gaming, decentralized finance, and community governance. By offering decentralized online games, Salad Ventures aims to build and enhance ecosystems that empower gamers to compete for substantial rewards. The company's approach fosters a sense of community and fraternity among players, while also unlocking new economic opportunities within the gaming industry. Through its innovative use of blockchain technology, Salad Ventures seeks to redefine the gaming experience and facilitate greater engagement in the evolving digital economy.

Sidus Heroes

Seed Round in 2022
Sidus Heroes is a cross-platform gaming metaverse that unifies lore, tokens, Play-to-Earn mechanics, and value systems. It rewards players for progressing through the game and achieving milestones, enabling users to earn non-fungible tokens within its metaverse.

Dune Analytics

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2018 by Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen, Dune Analytics specializes in Ethereum blockchain research. It offers a powerful tool for querying, extracting, visualizing, and sharing vast amounts of on-chain crypto data.

GDA

Private Equity Round in 2022
Genesis Digital Assets is a prominent Bitcoin mining company known for its extensive experience in the industry. Since its inception in 2013, the company has established over 20 industrial-scale mining farms and successfully brought more than 300,000 miners online, resulting in the mining of over $1 billion in Bitcoin. Genesis Digital Assets focuses on developing proprietary mining technology and aims to make its operations profitable. The company provides comprehensive services that include building, managing, and scaling large-scale mining operations, thereby offering clients the necessary infrastructure to support the evolving landscape of the cryptocurrency market.

StarryNift

Seed Round in 2022
StarryNift operates a gamified platform for digital collectibles that integrates creation, incubation, auction, and transaction of NFT assets. The platform enables artists and creators to make, refine, and monetize art through technology, while offering one-stop services and tools that support the token economy and frictionless design workflows. By tying together elements of games, art, decentralized finance, and NFTs, StarryNift aims to democratize value appreciation and empower creators, collectors, and investors to participate in the metaverse. It provides a unified solution for building and trading NFT collectibles, combining creation tools, marketplaces, and community governance to unlock new ways to explore digital ownership and collaborative creativity.

Galxe

Series A in 2022
Galxe is a prominent Web3 credential data network that provides a collaborative infrastructure for brands and developers to engage communities and create innovative products in the decentralized web. The company offers a modular platform that facilitates the creation, distribution, and gamification of non-fungible tokens, utilizing customized on-chain data. By rewarding curators for the use of credentials within its infrastructure and credential oracle engine, Galxe fosters a participatory environment where developers and community members can construct engaging experiences. Its platform allows for the development of tailored campaigns through plug-and-play modules, enhancing the capability of users to interact with decentralized credential data networks effectively.

Aver

Seed Round in 2022
Aver is a decentralized peer-to-peer betting exchange built on the Solana blockchain and the world’s first decentralized Web3 betting exchange.

Perion

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Perion is a decentralised organisation that purchases, leases, and manages NFT assets for use in play-to-earn gaming economies. It engages skilled gamers as independent contractors, enabling them to earn exceptional remuneration through their gaming prowess.

PsyOptions

Seed Round in 2022
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.

NEAR

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.

AMINA Bank AG

Series C in 2022
SEBA Bank, based in Zug, Switzerland, offers a range of crypto banking services designed to bridge digital and traditional assets. Founded in 2018, the bank provides transaction banking services for both crypto and fiat accounts, alongside custody services that ensure military-grade security for crypto assets. Additionally, SEBA Bank facilitates trading and liquidity management for these assets, while also offering asset and investment management services that encompass both cryptocurrency and traditional equity products. The institution aims to create a seamless and secure experience for clients navigating the evolving financial landscape.

TDX Strategies

Series A in 2022
TDX Strategies is a company focused on developing institutional-grade investment solutions for digital assets. It aims to create accessible and understandable digital investment products that cater to a diverse clientele, including funds, corporations, family offices, high net worth individuals, and professional traders. By offering a suite of innovative solutions, TDX Strategies seeks to facilitate digital investment and contribute to global economic growth.

Sommelier

Funding Round in 2022
Sommelier is a decentralized finance platform built on the Cosmos Stargate SDK with a Tendermint-based consensus layer and a bi-directional Ethereum bridge, operated by a global network of validators. It enables liquidity providers to author and execute automated, complex financial transactions such as portfolio rebalancing and limit orders, offering features traditionally associated with centralized finance but within DeFi. The platform uses a modular protocol and decentralized governance to manage automated signature processes and cross-chain interactions, supporting secure, programmable trading and liquidity management.

Planet Mojo

Funding Round in 2022
Planet Mojo is a game platform and developer offering a cross-platform, player-versus-player auto chess experience powered by blockchain technology. Players can own their game characters and assets as non-fungible tokens and compete in ongoing play-to-earn tournaments. The platform aims to support a suite of interconnected games within the Planet Mojo universe, with customizable characters and assets that can be used across titles. It incorporates augmented reality elements and emphasizes charitable, eco-friendly gaming experiences, aligning gameplay with sustainability. By combining competitive play, digital asset ownership, and a growing ecosystem, Planet Mojo seeks to attract players who want to monetize participation while contributing to a broader universe of interconnected games.

Archax

Venture Round in 2022
Archax Ltd is a London-based digital securities exchange that specializes in trading asset-backed tokens, including digital securities and security tokens. Established in 2018, it is recognized as the UK's first regulated digital securities exchange, broker, and custodian, having received authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority. Archax aims to serve institutional investors by providing a secure platform for trading various digital assets, from cryptocurrencies to digital securities. The exchange is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing institutional trading workflows and operates on high-performance infrastructure hosted in top-tier data centers. By bridging the gap between the blockchain-centric technology community and traditional investment sectors, Archax facilitates safe trading among recognized participants in a regulated environment.

Alliance

Venture Round in 2022
Alliance is a Web3 accelerator and founder community that supports crypto startups through mentorship and practical guidance. It provides expertise in customer development, product strategy, token economics, regulatory considerations, and go-to-market efforts to help teams refine their product and navigate early-stage challenges, while connecting founders with a broad network of builders to improve sales, user testing, partnerships, and fundraising outcomes.

Size

Seed Round in 2022
Size is a company that has developed a virtual auction marketplace, enabling users to engage in sealed-bid auctions for both vested and unvested tokens. By providing this platform, Size facilitates a unique bidding experience for participants in the token market. The company is currently operating in stealth mode, indicating a focus on refining its offerings and preparing for a broader market introduction.

DarkFi

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
DarkFi is a blockchain platform focused on anonymity. It employs zero-knowledge cryptography, offers a contracting language, and provides developer toolkits to facilitate uncensorable code creation.

HODL Media

Venture Round in 2022
HODL Media offers a real-time crypto market data application tracking prices and charts from global exchanges. It provides features such as smart alerts, watchlists, portfolio tracking and analysis, coin profiles, exchange and wallet syncing, public profiles for screeners, sharing capabilities, and real-time stock market data.

DAOsquare

Funding Round in 2022
DAOSquare is an incubator from the Web3 era. DAOSquare is committed to establishing a Web3 incubator that aspires to be the Web3 equivalent of YCombinator.

Axelar Network

Funding Round in 2022
Axelar develops interoperability software connecting blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar enables developers to build cross-chain decentralized applications using its protocol suite.

Wumbo

Seed Round in 2022
Wumbo is an application that sits on top of twitter and lets users mint tokens for their favorite creators. They build a thriving community and join them on their journey to the top

Cryowar

Funding Round in 2022
Cryowar is a developer of real-time multiplayer games, specializing in player-versus-player arena games. They have created a unique platform that integrates blockchain technology with gaming, allowing players to earn rewards based on their in-game skills.

Paradigm

Venture Round in 2022
Paradigm Connect, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2017 that specializes in creating an institutional-grade communications platform for over-the-counter (OTC) digital asset traders. The platform automates price negotiation and settlement workflows, addressing inefficiencies in traditional OTC trading processes. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Paradigm enhances the trading experience for professional traders and institutions, offering a zero-fee liquidity network that integrates both centralized and decentralized finance. This approach allows clients to access multi-asset, multi-protocol liquidity while significantly reducing trading costs through the elimination of fees. The company is supported by notable investors in the OTC market, reflecting its innovative vision to transform institutional trading practices.

Efficient Frontier

Debt Financing in 2022
Founded on extensive high-frequency trading experience, Efficient Frontier is a leading algorithmic trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency markets. With over $1 billion traded weekly, they provide liquidity provision services to major exchanges and digital asset issuers. Their advanced trading infrastructure supports both spot and derivatives markets.

Symmetry

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Symmetry is an asset management platform for creating, automating, managing, and tracking on-chain funds. The Symmetry platform allows users to send and receive, stake and farm yield, borrow and lend, and invest in tried-and-tested portfolio strategies.

Elumia

Funding Round in 2022
Elumia is a game development company specializing in cash-based multiplayer online games. Their flagship title, Legends of Elumia, offers immersive role-playing experiences with unique mechanics allowing players to own and trade their in-game assets securely.

Clover Finance

Funding Round in 2022
Clover Finance (CLV), or simply Clover, is a blockchain operating system. It provides a one-stop, easy‑to‑use blockchain infrastructure and an ethereum virtual machine (EVM) compatible framework for Substrate‑based applications. Clover Finance, another offspring of the Substrate-based Polkadot parachain aims at bridging the compatibility gap when building and operating across blockchains. The project was founded in May 2020 and the mainnet of Clover Finance launched in July 2021.

Solstarter

Funding Round in 2022
Solstarter develops a community IDO platform for Solana. It empowers launchpad projects to raise liquidity in a fair and decentralized manner.

Ovex

Venture Round in 2022
Ovex is a digital asset exchange and over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk that specializes in providing prime brokerage services for institutions and high-net-worth individuals. The company has developed a blockchain platform that facilitates secure and transparent trading in cryptocurrency, catering to the growing demand for crypto access. Ovex aims to create a competitive and liquid market by offering clients the ability to buy, sell, store, transfer, and earn interest on their cryptocurrency investments. With a focus on delivering reliable and transparent services, Ovex positions itself as a key player in the digital asset landscape.

Metalink

Funding Round in 2022
Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.

Exodus

Venture Round in 2022
Exodus is a non-custodial, multi-asset software wallet for desktop and mobile that enables users to securely manage and exchange cryptocurrencies and digital assets. The wallet emphasizes privacy by encrypting data locally on the user’s device, ensuring users retain control over their wealth without reliance on a central custodian. It supports a broad range of assets and asset pairs, reflecting a focus on ease of use alongside functionality. The platform enables secure storage, asset management, and on-wallet exchange, targeting a wide user base from beginners to experienced traders. Exodus operates globally with a geographic footprint that includes Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Africa, Asia-Pacific, Canada, and Latin America.

Bitnob

Venture Round in 2022
Bitnob develops and manages Bitcoin and stablecoin infrastructure solutions, empowering global businesses with secure and efficient cryptocurrency services.

PlanetQuest

Funding Round in 2022
PlanetQuest is a unique video game of exploration, survival and discovery, in which players can own entire planets, evolve and upgrade them to increase their value and eventually invite their friends to join them and go on an epic adventure together, gathering resources, building bases, fighting off alien creatures, and finding rare and powerful artifacts along the way. Join in on an epic adventure with a decentralized storyline where the choices made by you and your faction on unknown worlds will shape the fate of humanity.

WonderFi

Post in 2022
WonderFi is a technology company dedicated to enhancing access to decentralized finance (DeFi) through simplicity and education. Its platform serves as a trusted gateway to the new financial system, empowering individuals to use DeFi in a streamlined manner.

DODO Exchange

Funding Round in 2022
DODO is a liquidity protocol powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm and built for capital efficiency. DODO offers a low barrier-to-entry, pain-free token issuance mechanic for long-tail assets.

Voyager

Post in 2022
Voyager Digital operates as a crypto-asset broker, catering to both retail and institutional investors. Founded in 2017 and based in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company provides a comprehensive solution for trading crypto assets. Voyager's platform includes execution, data, wallet, and custody services, all delivered through an institutional-grade open architecture. This enables users to navigate the complexities of cryptocurrency trading with greater ease and security.

AladdinDAO

Funding Round in 2022
AladdinDAO is a decentralized platform that facilitates collective investment decisions in the crypto space. It identifies and analyzes DeFi projects, shifting control from centralized entities to community-driven networks.

Star Atlas

Venture Round in 2022
Star Atlas is a strategic metaverse game that combines space exploration, territorial conquest, resource management, and political dominance. It offers a unique gaming experience by integrating blockchain mechanics with traditional core games.

Chipper

Venture Round in 2022
Chipper facilitates free cross-border money transfers via its mobile app. Users can send funds to any mobile number in Africa, with support for multiple currencies.

Magic Eden

Venture Round in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-focused company that operates a decentralized exchange platform tailored for cryptographic assets, specifically on the Solana blockchain. It provides an online marketplace where users can create, buy, and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs), facilitating trade for digital creators. To strengthen its ties with the community, Magic Eden airdropped a collection called Magic Tickets to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket grants access to the company's Discord-based decentralized autonomous organization, MagicDAO, which fosters community engagement through social programs and rewards. The company's commitment to serving its users underscores its mission to enhance the NFT trading experience.

GDA

Private Equity Round in 2022
Genesis Digital Assets is a prominent Bitcoin mining company known for its extensive experience in the industry. Since its inception in 2013, the company has established over 20 industrial-scale mining farms and successfully brought more than 300,000 miners online, resulting in the mining of over $1 billion in Bitcoin. Genesis Digital Assets focuses on developing proprietary mining technology and aims to make its operations profitable. The company provides comprehensive services that include building, managing, and scaling large-scale mining operations, thereby offering clients the necessary infrastructure to support the evolving landscape of the cryptocurrency market.

TipLink

Seed Round in 2022
TipLink facilitates crypto transfers via shareable links. Users can create accounts and send cryptocurrency to anyone across platforms without requiring recipients to have wallets or understand complex processes.

TaxBit

Venture Round in 2022
TaxBit is a cryptocurrency tax and accounting software company that automates tax calculations and reporting for cryptocurrency transactions. Its platform allows users to link their exchanges and wallets to efficiently gather transaction data, which is then processed to generate tax forms automatically. In addition to tax automation, TaxBit offers real-time portfolio tracking and insights for tax optimization, enabling users to make informed, tax-efficient trading decisions throughout the year. The company serves both individual consumers and enterprises, providing a comprehensive solution for managing cryptocurrency tax compliance and accounting needs.

Paxos

Venture Round in 2022
Paxos, established in 2012 and based in New York, is a regulated financial institution that specializes in blockchain-based solutions for global financial institutions. It operates a blockchain infrastructure platform designed to facilitate the movement, trading, and management of assets between physical and digital forms. Paxos offers services such as custodial services, digital transformation, and fund mobility, enabling enterprises to tokenize, trade, and settle assets efficiently while reducing counterparty risk. The company's strategic approach involves obtaining regulatory designations to access existing financial infrastructure, allowing it to bridge traditional finance with the digital future.

Cosmic Guild

Seed Round in 2021
Cosmic Guild is a gaming company that develops online games designed to entertain and generate earnings simultaneously. Its flagship product features battle modes for player engagement and minigames for exploration. Additionally, Cosmic Guild maintains a portfolio of high-quality NFT game assets from top-tier crypto games, which it lends to its members, allowing players worldwide to derive tangible income through gameplay. The company's mission is to harness the power of games to positively influence people's lives.

Planet Mojo

Seed Round in 2021
Planet Mojo is a game platform and developer offering a cross-platform, player-versus-player auto chess experience powered by blockchain technology. Players can own their game characters and assets as non-fungible tokens and compete in ongoing play-to-earn tournaments. The platform aims to support a suite of interconnected games within the Planet Mojo universe, with customizable characters and assets that can be used across titles. It incorporates augmented reality elements and emphasizes charitable, eco-friendly gaming experiences, aligning gameplay with sustainability. By combining competitive play, digital asset ownership, and a growing ecosystem, Planet Mojo seeks to attract players who want to monetize participation while contributing to a broader universe of interconnected games.

RNDR Token

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
RNDR is OTOY’s token based rendering network. It enables distributed GPU rendering on the blockchain, using OctaneRender which is the world’s first and fastest GPU-accelerated, unbiased, physically correct renderer. Octane uses the graphics card in networked computers to render photo-realistic images super fast. With Octane’s parallel compute capabilities, users can render works in a fraction of the time, and at a better cost than centralized services. RNDR is currently the fund’s only pure utility token investment — in a use case where the token is actually delivering utility in a network, using proven technology to deliver a service with a real and strong market.

Artemis

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Artemis is a decentralized mobile-focused NFT social and trading platform.

Path

Series A in 2021
Path is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor that allows anyone to access automated crypto portfolios. After completing a suitability assessment, Path builds your portfolio and manages it for you. You can also buy, hold, and swap cryptos directly from the app. Regulated, safe, trusted. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

FairSide Network

Seed Round in 2021
FairSide Network is a blockchain-based platform offering insurance coverage for cryptocurrency users. It provides provably fair claims and blanket coverage up to 100 ETH, allowing investors to mitigate risks at an affordable one-time charge.

Satori Research

Series A in 2021
Satori Research offers personalized financial services, focusing on digital assets and alternative investments for institutional clients and high net worth individuals. They employ thematic and systematic strategies to provide positive returns while mitigating market risks.

Arrow Markets

Seed Round in 2021
Arrow Markets operates a decentralized financial market options protocol designed to democratize returns for option market makers. The company’s platform eliminates intermediaries in the traditional options trading process, including brokers and clearinghouses, thereby passing the resulting savings directly to users. By offering cash-settled options and streamlining the entire trading pipeline—from market making to clearing and settlement—Arrow Markets enables liquidity providers to mimic the hedging activities typically associated with traditional market makers. This innovative approach aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency within the options trading landscape.

StarkWare Industries

Series C in 2021
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.

CoinMENA

Seed Round in 2021
CoinMENA operates a Sharia-compliant platform for trading crypto-assets. Users can securely buy, sell, store, and receive digital assets. It offers competitive fees, high liquidity, and educational resources.

AscendEX

Series B in 2021
AscendEX operates digital asset exchanges globally, catering to diverse clients ranging from retail investors to institutions. Its platform offers spot and futures trading, copy trading functionalities, decentralized exchange, margin trading, various deposit methods, market news, educational resources, cryptocurrency trading, leveraged tokens, earning programs, and access to new crypto offerings.

Odaily

Venture Round in 2021
Odaily is a blockchain media company that operates in exclusive strategic cooperation with the 36氪 Group. It is dedicated to supporting the development and exploration of blockchain technology. The company provides a range of news and scientific content aimed at educating the general public about blockchain and cryptocurrency. Additionally, Odaily offers daily price updates on Bitcoin and other digital currencies, along with comprehensive market news, which helps traders and enthusiasts stay informed about the latest developments in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Elementus

Series A in 2021
Founded in New York in 2017, Elementus is a data science company specializing in blockchain intelligence. It provides an enterprise platform that combines proprietary data with patented algorithms to deliver unique insights and enable fast, actionable decision-making within the crypto economy for institutional asset managers, financial service organizations, and government agencies.

Tulip Protocol

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Tulip Protocol decentralized application designed to allow the vault strategies to compound frequently. They provide an investment with risk rewards for any DeFi user. Their protocol offers three types of yield products, vaults, lending, and leveraged farming.

Drift

Seed Round in 2021
Drift Protocol is a developer of a decentralized derivatives exchange that focuses on providing on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures trading on the Solana blockchain. The platform aims to enhance the efficiency of trading futures through an upgraded decentralized system that features a new pegging mechanism. This innovation allows users to adjust liquidity based on market demand and open interest, thereby improving the overall trading experience. Drift Protocol's approach positions its exchange as a competitive option for margin trading within the decentralized finance space.

Aurory

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Aurory is a free-to-play, tactical turn-based JRPG built on the Solana blockchain. It offers AAA-quality gameplay with seamless web3 asset ownership, enabling players to earn tokens and NFTs through play-to-earn mechanics.

MCDEX

Venture Round in 2021
Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

PsyOptions

Seed Round in 2021
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.

BitOasis

Series B in 2021
BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform established in 2015 by co-founders Ola Doudin and Daniel Robenek. The company provides a digital asset wallet and exchange that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of cryptocurrencies. It focuses on cash-based emerging markets, offering a multi-signature wallet and exchange service that enhances asset protection and security for users. BitOasis aims to create a secure and regulated infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading, catering to both retail and institutional clients in the region. By ensuring a safe environment for transactions, BitOasis seeks to simplify access to crypto assets for investors.

Solend

Seed Round in 2021
Solend is a decentralized finance platform for borrowing and lending crypto assets on the Solana blockchain. It enables users to lend funds or borrow against collateral, expanding opportunities for Solana holders to participate in the market. The platform aims to streamline the lending process by letting users choose to lend or borrow, primarily dealing with stablecoins and Solana's native token.

Nifty Island

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Nifty Island is an open social gaming platform and virtual world developed by Nyft Studios. It serves as the centerpiece of Nyft Studios’ vision, offering interoperable games, an NFT marketplace, play-to-earn protocols, and game developer tools and infrastructure to support a player-owned metaverse powered by web3. The platform focuses on blockchain-based social gaming, enabling users to play, display and trade non-fungible tokens, build communities, and earn cryptocurrency by contributing content, with users maintaining control over their content within the gameverse.

Magic Eden

Seed Round in 2021
Magic Eden is a community-focused company that operates a decentralized exchange platform tailored for cryptographic assets, specifically on the Solana blockchain. It provides an online marketplace where users can create, buy, and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs), facilitating trade for digital creators. To strengthen its ties with the community, Magic Eden airdropped a collection called Magic Tickets to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket grants access to the company's Discord-based decentralized autonomous organization, MagicDAO, which fosters community engagement through social programs and rewards. The company's commitment to serving its users underscores its mission to enhance the NFT trading experience.

DoinGud

Seed Round in 2021
DoinGud is an online marketplace and social platform based in Zug, Switzerland, dedicated to empowering artists, creators, collectors, and curators through the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform leverages blockchain technology to foster a supportive ecosystem that connects artists with their communities, allowing them to promote and sell their work effectively. DoinGud also emphasizes social impact by enabling creators and social organizations to collaborate and support one another, promoting sustainability and positive social change. Through its innovative approach, DoinGud seeks to create a self-sustaining environment where artistic expression and social responsibility coexist.

XDEFI Wallet

Series A in 2021
XDEFI Wallet is a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet that enables users to securely swap, store, and send crypto and NFTs across 30 blockchains, while providing access to DeFi protocols. It serves more than 200,000 users.

GDA

Private Equity Round in 2021
Genesis Digital Assets is a prominent Bitcoin mining company known for its extensive experience in the industry. Since its inception in 2013, the company has established over 20 industrial-scale mining farms and successfully brought more than 300,000 miners online, resulting in the mining of over $1 billion in Bitcoin. Genesis Digital Assets focuses on developing proprietary mining technology and aims to make its operations profitable. The company provides comprehensive services that include building, managing, and scaling large-scale mining operations, thereby offering clients the necessary infrastructure to support the evolving landscape of the cryptocurrency market.

SundaeSwap Labs

Seed Round in 2021
SundaeSwap Labs contributes to the SundaeSwap protocol, a decentralized exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol built on Cardano. The SundaeSwap protocol is an open-sourced protocol, governed by a decentralized autonomous organization.

Zenlink

Series A in 2021
Zenlink is a China-based company founded in 2020 that operates a cross-chain blockchain network designed to facilitate seamless asset trading. The platform allows users to engage in transactions with low fees, low slippage, and high-speed performance, eliminating the complexities associated with multiple chains. Zenlink features the Zenlink DEX Protocol, which standardizes decentralized exchange functionalities, and the Zenlink DEX Module, which empowers parachains with DEX capabilities. Additionally, the Zenlink Token serves as a governance mechanism and provides value capture methods to incentivize ecosystem participation. Through these offerings, Zenlink aims to create a unified trading experience and encourage long-term development within its network.

UXD Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
UXD Protocol operates a decentralized platform on the Solana blockchain. It facilitates digital asset transactions through an algorithmic stablecoin that automatically generates interest and maintains its peg by balancing different cryptocurrencies as collateral.

Slope Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Slope Finance is a developer of a mobile decentralized exchange and wallet platform focused on enhancing user experience in the cryptocurrency space. Built on the Solana blockchain, Slope Finance enables users to engage in decentralized finance, utilize Solana Pay, and manage non-fungible tokens through a visually appealing interface. The platform features a decentralized automated full limit order book, allowing for fast crypto trading, while also providing tools for users to create or import Ethereum and Solana wallets. With an emphasis on speed and near-zero transaction fees, Slope Finance aims to simplify the management and trading of digital assets, making it accessible for both seasoned traders and newcomers.

Nirvana

Series A in 2021
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi. - Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency - AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies

Helium

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Helium Systems Inc. develops Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, focusing on sensor devices that monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. These sensors are utilized in various applications, including facility monitoring and quality control for medical products, energy management, air quality assessment, and refrigeration temperature regulation. The company offers a web and mobile dashboard for users to manage and access sensor data. Additionally, Helium operates a decentralized wireless network that enables low-power IoT devices to connect to the internet. This network incentivizes individuals to become network operators, rewarding them with a cryptocurrency for validating network transactions and contributing to the network's integrity. Incorporated in 2013 and based in San Francisco, Helium Systems continues to innovate within the IoT landscape, enhancing the ability to gather insights from smart devices.

Roco Finance

Funding Round in 2021
Roco Finance, established in 2021, serves as an incubator and launchpad platform for blockchain games, offering a suite of services and products designed for game developers and player communities. The company has partnered with Rise Online, which boasts over 100,000 users, and processes approximately one million USD annually in virtual goods sales. Roco Finance develops a crypto asset on the AVAX network, facilitating its own game ecosystems and those of its partners. The key offerings include non-fungible token (NFT) solutions, open-source software development kits (SDKs), application programming interfaces (APIs), game add-ons, and virtual items management applications. Through these services, Roco Finance enables gaming companies to manage virtual goods effectively and create staking pools, allowing players to earn rewards.
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