Sam Kim

Managing Partner

Past deals in Crypto

Soulbound

Seed Round in 2024
Soulbound is a decentralized gaming community focused on enhancing the metaverse through the establishment of a chain-agnostic market infrastructure. Its platform caters to dedicated players in the evolving landscape of decentralized gaming, connecting guilds, gamers, and game developers. By rewarding gameplay and fostering engagement in the Play & Earn model, Soulbound aims to create an interactive environment that elevates the gaming experience and promotes blockchain gaming.

Eywa

Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging. In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA is introducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market. - Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon

Mitosis

Seed Round in 2024
Mitosis is a company focused on enhancing the decentralized finance (DeFi) landscape by developing a cross-chain liquidity protocol that promotes interoperability and improved composability. Through its innovative EOL L1 network, Mitosis redefines the liquidity provider (LP) experience and facilitates more efficient on-chain asset management. The company also offers a platform for liquid staking tokens, which allows users to seamlessly navigate the complex DeFi ecosystem, thereby simplifying interactions and enhancing the overall user experience in digital asset management.

GOMBLE

Series A in 2024
GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.

ZKasino

Series A in 2024
ZKasino serves as a hyperchain infrastructure layer for on-chain gaming.

Zeus Network

Seed Round in 2024
Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.

Initia Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Initia is a network for 0-to-1 omnichain rollups built by fusing a novel L1 with an interwoven application-specific L2 infrastructure system. The Initia Platform provides product ready rollups that enables teams to build scalable and sovereign systems while eliminating the UX complexities end users face when interacting with a modular multi-chain universe. Initia’s ownership of the full tech stack allows for a suite of chain-level mechanisms that align the economic interests across users, developers, L2 app chains, and the L1. Initia's initial launch products include an all-in-one portal for accessing core tools of the ecosystem, a Omnitia-ecosystem focused wallet for navigating between the L2s, a block explorer that supports InitiaVM transactions and developer tooling, and a Market Minitia that allows users to trade NFTs and create AI-generated NFT collections through prompts.

Fyde Treasury

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a treasury protocol management software designed to offer a comprehensive decentralized finance protocol for crypto treasuries. The company's software helps catalyze the shift to a decentralized future by building the next generation of the financial infrastructure that creates sustainable crypto treasuries, enabling protocols and blockchain operators with the ability to diversify their assets, unlock liquidity in their treasury and receive cash flow.

Sleek

Seed Round in 2023
Sleek is a Hong Kong-based Web3 social networking platform that revolutionizes authentic human connection in the digital age. Their mission is to power the ownership economy and bring blockchain-powered social media to the masses.

Stix.co

Seed Round in 2023
Stix is the largest OTC platform for secondary market liquidity for Digital Assets

Cube Group

Seed Round in 2023
Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chain support. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading.

Drip Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Drip Labs creates a creator-centric Web3 content distribution network and offers free digital gifts from well-known producers. Drip Labs aims to empower creators by providing a platform that simplifies the process of minting, selling, and managing digital assets while offering fans unique ways to support and engage with their favorite artists.

Lumina

Seed Round in 2023
Lumina is a zero-knowledge, KYC-enabled, enterprise-ready DEX on Mina.

Aethir

Seed Round in 2023
Aethir is a developer of decentralized cloud infrastructure that aims to transform the accessibility of computing resources for the AI and gaming industries. By leveraging a network that aggregates and reallocates global computing resources, including GPUs from enterprises, data centers, and individual users, Aethir provides a real-time rendering network at a lower cost compared to traditional centralized systems. This innovative approach enables a broader audience to utilize cloud resources efficiently, effectively breaking away from the limitations imposed by existing cloud providers.

C2x

Seed Round in 2023
C2x is a blockchain gaming platform focused on establishing a standard within the blockchain gaming industry. It offers an end-to-end solution that includes token economics, NFT marketplaces, and digital wallets, aiming to create a stable, fair, and transparent environment for both users and content creators. The platform integrates various elements essential for blockchain games, facilitating a seamless experience that promotes ongoing advancement in the gaming sector. By prioritizing high standards of reliability and equity, C2x aspires to enhance the overall gaming experience while fostering a vibrant ecosystem that supports the evolving needs of gamers and developers alike.

Mind Network

Seed Round in 2023
Mind Network is a provider of a Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) validation network designed to enhance security for Proof-of-Stake and artificial intelligence platforms. The company offers a decentralized privacy-preserving data lake, which secures information by sealing it into encrypted data ledgers. This innovative framework facilitates decentralized computation and consensus over encrypted data, effectively addressing challenges related to privacy and data verification. Through its offerings, Mind Network aims to enhance data protection for users while ensuring secure and private data interactions.

Helika

Seed Round in 2023
Helika is a web3 technology platform that specializes in delivering real-time analytics and onboarding solutions for gaming studios and popular NFT collections. By integrating data from various sources, including Web2, in-game, on-chain, and social media, Helika enables top Web3 brands to gain valuable insights into their communities. This data-driven approach helps companies understand user behavior, enhance engagement, and improve user acquisition and retention. With its no-code platform, Helika supports gaming companies in making informed strategic decisions, ultimately driving growth and fostering a deeper connection with their audiences.

Versatus

Pre Seed Round in 2023
VRRB is a startup that is building a new, innovative, computationally lightweight block mining and consensus algorithm known as Proof of Claim. Proof of Claim allows for fast, decentralized, fair validation of transactions and block mining. Due to the lightweight nature of the algorithm, launching and running a node will simply be accessible to anyone with a computer. Proof of Claim is a consensus algorithm that aims to solve many of the issues currently present with both Proof of Work and Proof of Stake.

Intella X

Seed Round in 2023
Intella X is a blockchain web3 gaming platform designed to create a community-driven and self-sustaining ecosystem for both developers and gamers. It aims to bridge the gap between traditional web2 and emerging web3 gaming environments through its various services and business models. The platform features a decentralized exchange, an NFT marketplace, and a launchpad for managing and trading digital assets. Additionally, Intella X offers integration tools and a user-friendly crypto wallet, enabling developers to seamlessly adopt and implement blockchain applications. By focusing on these elements, Intella X supports the growth and interaction of its user community while facilitating the development of innovative gaming experiences.

Outdefine

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a token-backed hiring platform designed to connect the world's leading-edge companies with top talent globally. The company's platform offers full-time and part-time opportunities for technical talent with leading companies in the world, enabling companies and job seekers to match each other.

Jumbo

Venture Round in 2022
Jumbo is the solution for a decentralized solution that is ungoverned that seeks to lower the entry point to trade. They develop, tune, and process inherently present on the near blockchain. Their interface is used to configure a set of parameters for the asset. They provide a set of functionalities and interface-embedded constituents that help to detect the pools.

Decaf

Seed Round in 2022
Decaf is a digital ledger technology platform that focuses on facilitating secure and transparent payments through blockchain technology. The platform enables users to send and receive money in seconds, significantly reducing transaction times compared to traditional methods. With its user-friendly interface, Decaf provides businesses with a digital wallet and point of sale infrastructure, allowing them to accept and convert cryptocurrency seamlessly. Each transaction is recorded immutably on the blockchain, ensuring a high level of security and transparency for all users.

Exchange Art

Seed Round in 2022
Exchange provides a home to creators of digital art worldwide. With users from over 150 countries we have been able to put more than $25M back in the hands of the creators. Together, we help change lives by giving creators the tools they need to create, manage, facilitate commerce and grow their audience. Join us in powering the creator economy in the digital world - are you ready?

Rand

Seed Round in 2022
Rand Gallery is a prominent NFT platform specializing in the buying, selling, and distribution of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It operates on the Algorand blockchain, allowing users to create, research, manage, collect, and trade digital assets efficiently. Rand Gallery aims to enhance community experiences within the NFT space, offering a user-friendly environment for both newcomers and seasoned collectors. Through its innovative approach, it facilitates access to new NFT collections and supports the growing interest in digital assets.

SithSwap

Seed Round in 2022
SithSwap is a next-generation automated market maker (AMM) operating on StarkNet, designed to facilitate instant swaps between volatile and stable assets. It offers a user-friendly trading experience with ultralow slippage and near-zero fees, ensuring that transactions are both efficient and cost-effective. The platform features stable and volatile trading pairs similar to those found on Uniswap V2, with configurable trading fees and no administrative charges. Additionally, SithSwap incorporates built-in flash loans and maintains the security standards of Ethereum, providing a reliable environment for traders. Users can also earn incentives through voting power, allowing them to influence future protocol emissions.

Plena Finance

Funding Round in 2022
Plena Finance is a mobile application for cryptocurrencies and NFTs. It also offers lending, borrowing, liquidity pools, variable asset vaults, NFT marketplace, staking, and DeFi notification, as well as being interoperable and gasless, allowing users to manage and perform a wide range of financial transactions.

Wayru

Seed Round in 2022
Wayru is a developer of a decentralized internet access network focused on providing simple, reliable, and affordable connectivity in Latin America. The company's innovative approach allows individuals to set up nodes using standard Wi-Fi equipment, enabling nearby hardware and internet users to connect to these nodes. Node operators can earn compensation for every user connected, creating an incentive for them to expand the network. By facilitating this community-driven model, Wayru aims to enhance internet access and coverage, ultimately connecting more people in the region.

Neomoon

Seed Round in 2022
Neomoon is a digital bank designed to serve Latin Americans by providing a stablecoin-based banking solution that facilitates daily transactions and protects users' funds from currency devaluation. This fully digital platform allows individuals, regardless of their residence or nationality, to manage their finances in a stable currency, thereby addressing the economic challenges prevalent in the region. With more than 20 years of experience in banking among its founders, Neomoon combines technological innovation with a strong digital community to build trust and offer accessible financial services. The platform aims to simplify the banking experience, reduce bureaucratic hurdles, and empower users to maintain the value of their money in an unstable economic environment.

A42 [ Lab ]

Pre Seed Round in 2022
A42 Lab is an innovation incubator where groundbreaking blockchain products are conceived, developed, and nurtured. Our visionary, crypto-native team leads the charge in Web3 development and design, working tirelessly to craft products that meet the needs of a global audience.

Vertex Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Vertex Protocol is a decentralized FX trading platform.

swap.net

Angel Round in 2022
NFT exchange with aggregated liquidity across marketplaces

Zoksh

Venture Round in 2022
Zoksh is a company focused on transforming the landscape of digital payments through its innovative payment platform, ZokshPay, built on the Solana blockchain. This non-custodial and permissionless platform facilitates fast, secure, and scalable crypto transactions, allowing users and merchants to receive payments in various Solana tokens, fiat currency via the zRamp aggregator, and stablecoins from major Ethereum-compatible chains. Payments are settled instantly in USDC on Solana, ensuring reliability and efficiency. Additionally, Zoksh provides tools for managing finances, including the creation of unique payment links, online pages, and subscription plans, thereby empowering creators and businesses to achieve financial independence and maintain control over their financial operations.

Third Time

Seed Round in 2022
Third Time Entertainment is a startup game development studio that focused primarily on NFT and crypto gaming. Founded in 2015 by Ian Cummings, with co-founders Paul Fleetwood and Brian Fleming. Starting in 2021, Third Time has begun development on 2 of the most highly anticipated crypto-based blockchain games, Photo Finish Live and The Suites.

Open Forest Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a scalable open platform that allows forest projects of any size, from around the world, to Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) their forestation data. Through OFP, individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and governments are able to create transparent, immutable, proof-of-impact data that is comprehensively verified by a network of independent experts. OFP is creating the foundation for more inclusive, scalable, and data-backed financing mechanisms for nature-based climate solutions.

Eywa

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging. In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA is introducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market. - Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon

CyberBox

Seed Round in 2022
CyberBox is the first NFT Marketplace with ReFi integration on the Celo blockchain. Our vision is to build a marketplace to support every NFT collection and every ReFi project that looks to create impact with NFTs and build their communities around them and promote the value of sustainability and climate protection.

Collector

Seed Round in 2022
Collector is a developer of a web-based digital marketplace that modernizes the trading of real-world collectibles. The platform allows users to digitize their collectibles, trade them securely with others, and collateralize assets for loans, all facilitated through blockchain technology. By integrating physical ownership with Web3-powered digital marketplaces, Collector significantly reduces the time, fraud, risk, and fees typically associated with traditional transactions in the collectibles market. This innovative approach addresses the challenges faced by millions of collectors who transact billions of dollars annually.

Entangle Protocol

Venture Round in 2022
Entangle is the first fully customizable Web3 messaging Infrastructure designed to unify web3 and optimize ecosystem liquidity. Entangle provides Builders & dApps authenticated and interoperable data pathways from any source with full configurability in executing operations.

Attarius Network

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Attarius Network is a platform designed to streamline the development of web3 projects for game developers, players, and NFT creators. By offering a range of ecosystem products such as a multichain game API, authorization interface, and cross-chain NFT wallet, Attarius aims to simplify the management of in-game items and currencies across various platforms, including web, PC, mobile, and console. The platform prioritizes low-cost and efficient networks, leveraging NEAR as its core network while enabling the transfer of game assets to other networks. This functionality seeks to bridge the gap between initial project concepts and successful launches, ultimately promoting equal accessibility and opportunities within the gaming industry through blockchain technologies.

Releap Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Releap Protocol is focused on developing a decentralized social graph that empowers creators by granting them ownership of their relationships with their communities. This platform facilitates the creation of a fully decentralized, permissionless, and community-driven social network. It enables creators to publish their content in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which can be discovered, enjoyed, and traded on the blockchain. By leveraging this innovative approach, Releap Protocol aims to transform how creators interact with their audiences while ensuring that control and ownership remain in the hands of the content creators.

Florence Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Florence Finance allows cryptocurrency lenders and real-world borrowers to interact in a transparent and mutually beneficial fashion.

AlgoBlocks

Seed Round in 2021
AlgoBlocks is a blockchain technology company focused on enhancing the decentralized finance (DeFi) experience for users. Its platform addresses a significant challenge faced by crypto users in discovering relevant decentralized applications (DApps) based on their wallet holdings and other criteria. AlgoBlocks simplifies complex DeFi investment actions through advanced smart contracts, offering features such as a comprehensive dashboard that supports over 35 chains and 3,000 tokens, a history of investments that is agnostic to chain and action, and an NFT gallery that consolidates all NFTs in one location. Additionally, the platform provides personalized recommendations for DeFi products tailored to users' wallet contents and introduces DApps directly to users. With automation features like Zap and Super Zap, AlgoBlocks facilitates seamless investments, making the transition to DeFi more accessible and user-friendly.
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