SecondSwap
Seed Round in 2024
SecondSwap is a technology company that operates an automated, over-the-counter marketplace for assets with limited trading liquidity. Its decentralized platform facilitates the trading of 'locked tokens' - assets temporarily restricted from trading - across various blockchains. The platform enables users to browse verified listings, make discounted bids, and settle trades securely and transparently on the blockchain.
We.Rich
Seed Round in 2024
We.Rich is a technology company that operates a User Generated Assets (UGA) platform. This platform serves as a marketplace for trading digital assets, allowing users to create, manage, and trade these assets directly on the blockchain using cryptocurrency.
The Sandbox
Convertible Note in 2024
The Sandbox is a user-generated content gaming platform with over 40 million downloads and one million monthly active users. It enables players to create, own, and trade in-game assets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), fostering a decentralized metaverse.
Bondex operates a global talent and human resources platform that leverages artificial intelligence and blockchain technology. This ecosystem is designed to enhance the matching quality between employers and job seekers for permanent, contract, and on-demand work. By providing users with tools to connect opportunities with talent, Bondex incentivizes participation in its network through token rewards. These tokens are earned by users for engaging in various activities such as referrals, community growth, content creation, and work completion. The platform emphasizes decentralized internet hosting to facilitate a more efficient and participatory talent pool.
Puffverse
Seed Round in 2024
Puffverse is a gaming company that operates a 3D metaverse platform for online gaming and trading of digital assets. It specializes in a multi-game platform featuring diverse, whimsical NFT characters, each with unique costumes, skills, and bonuses. Players can collect, trade, and use these characters in various games or life simulation activities within the metaverse.
AIT Protocol
Venture Round in 2024
AIT Protocol operates a data annotation platform that leverages AI and blockchain technologies. It aims to create a decentralized labor market for web3 data infrastructure, enabling users to earn rewards while contributing to the advancement of AI models.
Eesee
Corporate Round in 2024
A gamified marketplace for digital assets, tokens and tokenized RWA.
YogaPetz
Seed Round in 2024
YogaPetz is a technology company that operates a comprehensive wellness platform. It encourages users to prioritize their well-being by offering token-based rewards for participating in various health activities. The platform also provides personalized AI guidance and exclusive NFT collectibles, aiming to enhance users' mind-body health journey and foster sustained engagement.
Farcana
Seed Round in 2023
Farcana is a blockchain-based gaming metaverse set on Mars. Players compete for Infilium, a powerful energy source, in the first high-quality immersive shooter game with a Bitcoin prize pool. Its unique Play-to-Hash model ensures stability and transparency by being bolstered by real-world economy and mining data centers.
Clozer
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Clozer is a technology company that specializes in creating and managing gamified giveaways to boost music streaming. Its core product is a website-building platform, which aggregates music, merchandise, and tickets, allowing creators to monetize their work by selling experiences and sharing earnings.
Nuqtah NFT
Seed Round in 2023
Pioneering NFT's in the Saudi Arabia with Nuqtah's NFT creative marketplace, with a goal to value the creative economy at the pedestal it should be at.
WanderLabs
Seed Round in 2022
WanderLabs is an interactive entertainment studio and sci-fi brand born on-chain. Explore the galactic universe with games, comics, music and more.
Metajuice
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
MetaJuice is a technology company that operates a blockchain-based platform for meta tokens and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Its mission is to unlock the value of the metaverse, enabling users to create, earn, own, and shape its future. The platform facilitates the creation, minting, and sale of NFTs, as well as the use of meta tokens to purchase digital goods and services within the metaverse. This allows users to have true ownership of their digital assets and participate in the metaverse's thriving economy.
Ring Games
Venture Round in 2022
Ring Games is a blockchain game development company that focuses on creating a global gaming experience. The company leverages blockchain technology to develop a metaverse ecosystem that enhances gameplay and offers unique visual perspectives. In addition to game development, Ring Games operates an online marketplace where users can trade non-fungible token collections, further integrating the gaming experience with digital asset ownership. Through its innovative platform, Ring Games aims to redefine the way gamers interact with virtual environments and digital collectibles.
Calaxy operates an open social marketplace designed by creators for creators, utilizing blockchain technology to facilitate direct interactions between creators and their fans worldwide.
Cantina Royale
Funding Round in 2022
Cantina Royale is a shooter game that facilitates player-versus-player (PVP) and player-versus-environment (PVE) missions using various NFT collections. Its advanced 3D modeling technology enables interoperability of NFTs within the Cantina universe, allowing owners to lease their digital assets to players and share in-game rewards.
Pyratzlabs
Venture Round in 2022
Pyratzlabs is a platform dedicated to accelerating promising Web3 projects. It supports founders by handling administrative tasks, providing technical guidance, and facilitating fundraising efforts.
Founded in Singapore in 2021, RARIO operates a digital marketplace for trading officially licensed cricket non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Its platform enables fans worldwide to collect, trade, and own rare cricket memorabilia.
Altava Group
Venture Round in 2022
Altava Group is a gamified social commerce platform that operates at the intersection of fashion and technology. The company specializes in providing innovative solutions for the fashion industry through its AI-driven 3D asset generation platform. This technology enables designers to create, connect, and monetize their fashion creations across various digital environments, including social media, virtual worlds, and online games. Altava Group also offers a virtual asset marketplace known as ALTAVA Market, where brands can utilize immersive, fully customizable spaces to share their narratives and showcase digitized products and experiences. By facilitating connections between traditional business models and Web2 and Web3 audiences, Altava Group empowers brands to enhance their reach and engagement in the evolving digital landscape.
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.
Niftyz
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Niftyz operates as an intelligent deal flow platform designed to assist early-stage investors in effectively monitoring and rewarding the progress of startups and portfolio companies. The platform simplifies the assessment of performance and the monitoring of progress, while also facilitating the establishment of valuable goal-setting methodologies. By utilizing a tokenized value matrix, Niftyz connects the achievement of specific milestones with client-defined rewards, enhancing the investment process. The platform addresses the challenges associated with early-stage investments, including the inherent risks and inefficiencies in the search and selection of startups. Notably, over 90% of deal flow for investors originates from peer recommendations, yet only a small fraction of this is funded, leading to missed opportunities. Niftyz aims to optimize this process, ultimately driving better decision-making and outcomes for investors.
Ucollex is a pioneering platform that combines the traditional physical collectibles market with digital asset creation. It specializes in selling unique, limited-edition non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for toy and pop culture collectibles. The company's platform enables users to invest in digital collectibles without needing a cryptocurrency wallet, facilitating easy buying and selling on its marketplace. Ucollex also helps users discover rare projects and collaborations, offering a curated selection of renowned artists and their innovative content formats.
Proof of Learn
Seed Round in 2022
Proof of Learn is a Boston-based company founded in 2021 that serves as a talent marketplace for emerging developers by focusing on education, upskilling, and job placement. It operates Metacrafters.io, a multichain learn-to-earn platform designed to teach users how to write smart contracts and build on-chain applications. By leveraging blockchain technology, Proof of Learn aims to provide equal access to education and next-generation job opportunities globally. Its innovative approach enables learners to acquire skills, earn rewards, and secure employment in the evolving Web3 landscape.
OnePlanet
Seed Round in 2021
OnePlanet operates as an NFT marketplace and launchpad on the Polygon blockchain, focusing on the gaming sector. It offers a platform for users to buy, sell, and trade NFTs, as well as participate in blockchain gaming experiences. OnePlanet supports creators and gamers by providing tools for launching NFTs and engaging with the community through games like Planet Popper. The platform also features collaborations with various gaming projects, offering users unique NFT drops and rewards in MATIC. OnePlanet aims to enrich the blockchain gaming ecosystem by making it accessible and rewarding for users.
MADworld is an NFT platform designed to connect real-world and digital collectibles, leveraging near-field communication (NFC) technology to enhance the authenticity and provenance of artistic creations. The company focuses on the protection of artistic integrity by enabling artists to integrate their physical artworks with NFTs, thereby facilitating the validation and authentication of their creations. This approach not only preserves the permanence of artworks but also fosters a deeper connection between artists and their audiences within the evolving landscape of the metaverse.
Space Metaverse
Seed Round in 2021
Space Metaverse is a virtual commerce platform that enables users to build a life and career within a realistic 3D environment. It offers access to a user-owned immersive 3D social platform where individuals can create content, establish businesses, find employment opportunities, and collaborate with others.
Hawku operates an online blockchain-based marketplace specializing in utility and gaming non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform provides listings, sales data, and real-time information for users to research, buy, and sell these digital assets. Currently, Hawku focuses on horse NFTs for the popular game Zed Run.
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.
Sweet is a comprehensive NFT platform that provides a range of services including NFT creative solutions, token minting across various blockchains, and gamification features. The platform also includes an NFT marketplace, accessible through both web and mobile interfaces, along with a user-friendly wallet for securely storing digital collectibles. Additionally, Sweet operates a blockchain-based social loyalty platform that enhances fan engagement by allowing users to earn rewards through music streams and social interactions. This platform enables users to collect, own, and trade unique digital collectibles from their preferred brands and artists, thereby facilitating increased engagement and revenue generation for brands, artists, and influencers.
Wilder World
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Wilder World is a community-owned, fully decentralized, liquid NFT market and social platform built on blockchain. It operates a native token that rewards participation and supports the sale of digital artwork within an immersive 3D metaverse, while charging no artist fees and no platform fees. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, Wilder World enables artists to monetize digital art within a decentralized ecosystem.
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.
NiftPad
Pre Seed Round in 2021
NiftPad is a company that empowers brands to create and sell unique digital assets through its innovative white-label shop platform. Founded in October 2021 as a spin-off from the University of Cambridge, NiftPad provides a no-code application that allows enterprises to easily launch non-fungible token projects. This platform enables businesses to build fully customizable online stores for issuing and selling digital assets, facilitating new avenues for revenue generation and enhancing community engagement. Backed by notable investors, NiftPad aims to simplify the process of entering the digital asset market for various brands.
Niftyz operates as an intelligent deal flow platform designed to assist early-stage investors in effectively monitoring and rewarding the progress of startups and portfolio companies. The platform simplifies the assessment of performance and the monitoring of progress, while also facilitating the establishment of valuable goal-setting methodologies. By utilizing a tokenized value matrix, Niftyz connects the achievement of specific milestones with client-defined rewards, enhancing the investment process. The platform addresses the challenges associated with early-stage investments, including the inherent risks and inefficiencies in the search and selection of startups. Notably, over 90% of deal flow for investors originates from peer recommendations, yet only a small fraction of this is funded, leading to missed opportunities. Niftyz aims to optimize this process, ultimately driving better decision-making and outcomes for investors.
OpenSea
Seed Round in 2019
OpenSea is a blockchain-based peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto assets and digital collectibles, enabling users to buy and sell non-fungible tokens, gaming items, software licenses, and other virtual goods through smart contracts. The platform supports a wide range of NFT assets backed by blockchain, providing a secure, decentralized environment for trading and transacting in the open Web3 ecosystem.
Axie Infinity
Seed Round in 2019
Axie Infinity is a game that allows players to collect, raise, battle, and trade fantasy creatures called Axies. Built on blockchain technology, it enables users to earn in-game resources with real-world value.
Quidd, Inc., a subsidiary of Animoca Brands Limited, operates as an NFT marketplace focused on the buying and selling of digital collectibles. The platform enables users to purchase various digital items, including stickers, GIFs, cards, and 3D toys, either through packs in the primary market or directly from other collectors. Quidd aims to transform over 2.1 billion virtual items into investment-grade assets, providing real-world liquidity to a community of over 7 million digital collectors. By facilitating the digitization of collecting, Quidd enhances the way individuals express their fandoms and construct their identities through affordable digital goods.
MARAMOJA transport
Pre Seed Round in 2018
MARAMOJA is leading a revolutionary movement toward a socially-powered on-demand economy, built on Africa’s core values of trust and relationships. Described as Uber for Africa, this comparison captures something of what we do, but belies why/how we do it. MM believes in universal access to trusted, affordable, culturally relevant on-demand transportation as the transformational leapfrog of the next 10 years, as mobile phones have defined Africa’s last 10 years.
To ease the impact of inefficient transport and logistics across Africa, MM digitally replicates existing cultural models for accessing transport via trusted connections - serving as an honest broker, an aggregator, and value added platform. By leveraging phone data and social media, MM is ushering a new era of sharing economy, access to the services people need through the people they already trust.