Vest
Venture Round in 2025
Vest Labs is in the process of developing an advanced financial exchange specifically designed for digital assets.
Essential
Series A in 2024
Essential is a company focused on developing intent-based infrastructure and tools designed to facilitate the shift from value extraction to intent satisfaction. The company offers a platform that comprises key components of intent-centric infrastructure, promoting ecosystem-wide composability. This approach aims to minimize extractive behaviors and enhance user satisfaction by providing clients with a domain-specific language for expressing intent, as well as a fully intent-centric blockchain protocol. Through its innovative solutions, Essential seeks to harness the full potential of the intent paradigm.
Eywa is a decentralized cross-chain protocol designed to facilitate the transfer of liquidity and data across various blockchains that support smart contracts. By addressing interoperability challenges, Eywa aims to create a seamless ecosystem for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. The protocol serves as a middle layer, enabling developers to build cross-chain decentralized applications and engage in cross-chain farming. This functionality allows users to easily perform cross-chain swaps and bridge assets across different DeFi platforms. Eywa's approach enhances the accessibility and utility of existing DeFi blockchains, fostering innovation and collaboration within the cryptocurrency space.
Mitosis
Seed Round in 2024
Mitosis is an end-of-life Layer 1 network that aims to enhance the decentralized finance (DeFi) experience by reinventing the liquidity pool (LP) model and improving on-chain asset management. The company specializes in developing a cross-chain liquidity protocol that focuses on interoperability and composability, allowing users to seamlessly interact with various decentralized finance applications. Additionally, Mitosis provides a platform for liquid staking tokens, facilitating easier navigation within the DeFi ecosystem. Through its innovative solutions, Mitosis seeks to simplify and enrich the user experience in the rapidly evolving landscape of decentralized finance.
Obscuro is a company focused on enhancing data privacy within the blockchain space. It has developed a blockchain-based data privacy protocol that safeguards financial transaction data and sensitive trading information. By utilizing a second-layer network built over Ethereum, Obscuro's protocol protects against data breaches caused by cyberattacks or hardware vulnerabilities. This innovative approach allows businesses to maintain data confidentiality while improving transaction speed, ensuring a secure and efficient user experience for both developers and end-users.
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.
Saturn
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Saturn is a decentralized Bitcoin exchange that enhances peer-to-peer non-custodial orderbooks and provides a secure trading experience.
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 is a technology company that facilitates the creation, distribution, and monetization of digital content, such as art, music, and videos, on a Web3 content distribution network. It empowers creators by simplifying the process of minting, selling, and managing digital assets, while providing fans with unique ways to support and engage with their favorite artists.
Lumina is a zero-knowledge, KYC-enabled, enterprise-ready DEX on Mina.
Artela is a technology company that develops an extensible blockchain network, enabling developers to create feature-rich decentralized applications (dApps). Its platform includes an extension layer, allowing users to add custom, native extensions, enhancing programmability while maintaining compatibility with existing smart contracts. This modular approach empowers developers to customize their applications and drive faster innovations in the Web3 space.
XPLA is a Layer 1 blockchain designed to serve as a central hub for digital media content, encompassing Web3 games, a blockchain gaming platform, an NFT marketplace, and metaverse applications. With a focus on creating a sustainable ecosystem, XPLA employs a developer-friendly environment supported by its native SDK and middleware. The platform promotes a "Play to Own" principle, ensuring that gamers' ownership and contributions are recognized and valued. Utilizing the Cosmos SDK for its Mainnet, XPLA emphasizes interoperability with various chains through Cosmos IBC, and it supports smart contracts via EVM compatibility. The ecosystem includes a diverse array of games and decentralized applications (DApps), continuously evolving with partnerships involving renowned intellectual properties like The Walking Dead: All-Stars and Summoners War: Chronicles. By fostering collaboration among experts in technology, security, and content, XPLA positions itself as a pivotal player in the blockchain gaming industry, delivering a comprehensive suite of services.
zkLink Labs is a technology company focused on addressing Ethereum fragmentation through its innovative rollup solutions, zkLinkNova and zkLinkX. By harnessing Ethereum's security features, zkLink aims to unify tokens and liquidity across various Ethereum Layer 2 networks. The platform facilitates developers in deploying app-specific rollups with a customizable architecture, which enhances cost and performance efficiency. Additionally, zkLink provides a secure interoperability protocol that connects different blockchains, ensuring a user-friendly environment for both developers and users. This approach allows users to access liquidity and earn yields, making zkLink an essential player in the multi-chain ecosystem.
Ferris Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Ferris Labs is a technology firm focused on revolutionizing digital interactions through blockchain, Web3, and peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions. The company specializes in creating decentralized solutions that enhance security and transparency in digital transactions. By leveraging blockchain technology, Ferris Labs develops secure digital ledgers that foster trust and accountability. Their platform supports decentralized applications and smart contracts, empowering users with greater control over their data. Additionally, Ferris Labs offers a unique gaming platform designed to enhance crypto-based rewards within games, promoting a sustainable Web3 gaming ecosystem where participants can build value. The firm aims to transform various sectors, including finance, e-commerce, and gaming, by enabling direct, cost-effective value exchanges that eliminate intermediaries. Through its innovative approach, Ferris Labs is committed to reshaping the digital landscape and enhancing connectivity for both businesses and individuals.
HERE Wallet
Pre Seed Round in 2022
HERE Wallet offers a self-custodial wallet service for the NEAR Protocol, integrating a built-in decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator, support for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), non-blocking staking, and weekly airdrops.
Layerswap Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Layerswap Labs is developer of permissionless and trustless bridging protocol. This protocol handles millions of dollars in transactions every day across multiple networks. We ensure quick, reliable, and affordable crypto transfers, giving the freedom to move crypto anywhere.
Decaf is a digital payment platform that specializes in facilitating secure and transparent cryptocurrency transactions. By leveraging advanced blockchain technology, Decaf enables users to send and receive payments within seconds, significantly reducing transaction times compared to traditional methods. The platform features an easy-to-use digital wallet and point of sale infrastructure, allowing businesses to effortlessly accept and convert various cryptocurrencies. With its commitment to immutability and security, Decaf ensures that every transaction is accurately recorded on the blockchain, providing users with confidence in their financial activities.
SithSwap
Seed Round in 2022
SithSwap is a company that operates an advanced Automated Market Maker (AMM) on the StarkNet platform. It specializes in providing instant swaps for both volatile and stable assets with minimal slippage and near-zero fees. The company's services are designed to offer trading pairs similar to Uniswap V2, with configurable trading fees and no administrative fees. Additionally, SithSwap incorporates built-in flash loan capabilities and leverages the full security of Ethereum, allowing traders to earn incentives for participating in governance decisions regarding future protocol emissions.
Nimblr
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Nimblr is an insurance company focused on creating a decentralized insurance platform that leverages blockchain technology. The platform aims to facilitate a community-driven approach to insurance, allowing various stakeholders—including insureds, underwriters, actuaries, and assessors—to operate anonymously and autonomously. By providing digital asset and smart contract risk coverage, Nimblr enables users to establish efficient and profitable risk pools, contributing to the development of a decentralized insurance industry. The company also offers traditional insurance services, including actuaries, claims assessors, and appraisers, accessible through an online inquiry form on its website.
Gora Software specializes in bridging real-world data with Smart Contracts through its decentralized oracle network platform. This platform is designed to integrate the Algorand blockchain with external information sources, utilizing a network of feed providers, node runners, and bounty hunters to deliver accurate and timely data feeds onto smart contracts. By facilitating this connection, Gora Software enables customers to leverage real-world data within their blockchain applications.
IndexZoo
Seed Round in 2022
IndexZoo is a decentralized finance (DeFi) multi-chain ecosystem focused on creating indices and leveraged tokens for various blockchains. The company aims to provide users with precise leveraged tokens that enable both long and short exposure to a diverse range of cryptocurrencies. By facilitating access to these indices across multiple blockchains, IndexZoo allows investors to trade at lower costs while ensuring accurate tracking of cryptocurrency baskets. This innovative approach positions IndexZoo as a significant player in the cryptocurrency marketplace, catering to the diverse needs of investors seeking effective trading solutions.
BmyBit
Convertible Note in 2022
BmyBit is a company specializing in automated cryptocurrency trading, offering a platform that empowers users through customizable trading strategies. The platform is designed for efficiency, allowing buy and sell orders to be executed in fractions of a second without delays. It features a user-friendly interface that enables users to tailor their trading approaches according to market trends, thereby enhancing their trading experience. In addition to its trading capabilities, BmyBit is committed to improving transparency in off-chain transactions, positioning itself as a significant player in the cryptocurrency market.
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.
Eywa is a decentralized cross-chain protocol designed to facilitate the transfer of liquidity and data across various blockchains that support smart contracts. By addressing interoperability challenges, Eywa aims to create a seamless ecosystem for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. The protocol serves as a middle layer, enabling developers to build cross-chain decentralized applications and engage in cross-chain farming. This functionality allows users to easily perform cross-chain swaps and bridge assets across different DeFi platforms. Eywa's approach enhances the accessibility and utility of existing DeFi blockchains, fostering innovation and collaboration within the cryptocurrency space.
DeFiHelper
Pre Seed Round in 2022
DeFiHelper is a sophisticated platform designed to assist users in managing decentralized finance (DeFi) portfolios of various sizes. The company's primary offerings include no-code automation, auto-staking, and comprehensive portfolio tracking, along with timely notifications about market events. Its management assistant application streamlines the process of automating and enhancing returns on crypto investments, providing users with an extensive overview of their portfolios. By automating routine tasks and delivering relevant market insights, DeFiHelper empowers investors to optimize their strategies and maximize their earnings through advanced non-custodial DeFi investment tools.
Sidechain
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Sidechain is a technology company that develops blockchain-based software, specifically leveraging the Solana blockchain. Its platform enables creators to build authentic communities, reward audiences, and integrate on-chain commerce, allowing them to engage and monetize their content within decentralized ecosystems.
Collector
Seed Round in 2022
Collector is a developer of a web-based digital marketplace focused on modernizing the collectibles industry. The company provides a platform that allows users to digitize their collectibles, facilitating secure trading and collateralization of assets for loans on the blockchain. By integrating physical ownership with Web3-powered digital marketplaces, Collector aims to enhance the experience of collectors by reducing the time, fraud, risk, and fees typically associated with traditional transactions. This innovative approach seeks to transform how millions of collectors engage in the market, which involves billions of dollars annually.
Entangle Protocol
Venture Round in 2022
Entangle is a developer of a cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that focuses on enhancing liquidity provision and yield access through the use of synthetic assets. The platform enables connections between Ethereum virtual machine and non-Ethereum virtual machine chains, facilitating seamless interactions across different blockchain ecosystems. By employing a messaging layer to replicate states, Entangle aims to improve liquidity retention through various utility mechanisms. This allows users to borrow against their synthetic collateral in native stablecoins, thereby increasing the overall efficiency and accessibility of liquidity in the DeFi space.
Apillon
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Apillon is a comprehensive Web3 development platform that empowers developers and businesses to navigate the complexities of blockchain technology. By providing an intuitive user interface and seamless API integration, Apillon simplifies the process of creating decentralized applications (dApps) and other Web3 products. The platform offers a complete technology stack, enabling users to develop complex, fully functional Web3 solutions in a matter of days, rather than requiring extensive technical expertise or years of development. With nearly 150,000 users, Apillon is positioning itself as a key player in the Web3 ecosystem, facilitating the creation of non-fungible tokens and decentralized finance applications while ensuring data integrity and identity management.
AlgoBlocks
Seed Round in 2021
AlgoBlocks is a blockchain technology company focused on enhancing user experience in decentralized finance (DeFi). Its platform addresses the challenges faced by cryptocurrency users in discovering relevant decentralized applications (Dapps) based on their wallet holdings and other criteria. By simplifying complex DeFi investment actions through advanced smart contracts, AlgoBlocks enables users to navigate the DeFi landscape with ease. Key features of the platform include a comprehensive dashboard that supports over 35 chains and 3,000 tokens, a history of investments that is agnostic to chains and actions, an NFT gallery for consolidated asset management, and personalized recommendations for DeFi products based on wallet contents. The platform also introduces Dapps to users and offers automation tools like Zap and Super Zap to facilitate seamless investments, making the transition to DeFi smoother and more accessible.
Ludex
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Ludex is a developer of web3 gaming protocols that empower video game developers to integrate on-chain token transactions and smart contracts into their games without requiring any prior blockchain experience. The company provides a platform that simplifies the implementation of blockchain technology through standard application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs). This enables game developers to create, organize, and participate in video game tournaments and matches, allowing gamers to win prizes and money. By streamlining the integration of blockchain features, Ludex facilitates a smoother transition for developers seeking to enhance their gaming experiences.