Pluralis Research
Seed Round in 2025
Pluralis Research is an AI startup that develops a decentralized AI platform. This platform enables secure and collaborative machine learning across organizations by pooling computational resources, allowing multiple participants to train models together without any single entity accessing the complete model. This approach encourages open participation without upfront costs and ensures economic sustainability for creators.
Rho Protocol
Seed Round in 2025
Rho Protocol is a decentralized trading platform specializing in the derivatives market. It facilitates non-custodial, on-chain trading of crypto-native and traditional finance (tradfi) interest rates, using a proprietary concentrated liquidity virtual automatic market maker and margin engine. This enables users to trade rates such as staking rewards and perpetual funding rates, without counterparty risk and with enhanced capital efficiency.
Pluralis Research
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Pluralis Research is an AI startup that develops a decentralized AI platform. This platform enables secure and collaborative machine learning across organizations by pooling computational resources, allowing multiple participants to train models together without any single entity accessing the complete model. This approach encourages open participation without upfront costs and ensures economic sustainability for creators.
Raad Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Raad Labs is a technology company specializing in blockchain and climate solutions. It offers a decentralized environmental monitoring network, utilizing a distributed network of meteorological sensors, blockchain-enabled data incentivization, and web3 technology. This enables businesses to access hyper-localized weather data, enhancing their ability to mitigate climate-related risks and improve environmental sustainability.
XProtocol
Seed Round in 2024
XProtocol develops a cross-chain protocol facilitating sustainable cash flow. It offers secure, rapid bridging options for asset management, data analysis aggregation, market prediction, NFTs, DeFi, and low-cost metaverse access for dApps across heterogeneous chains.
STON.fi
Seed Round in 2024
STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) operating on the TON blockchain. It offers users an intuitive interface and direct integration with TON wallets, facilitating instant swaps of coins or tokens at optimal rates with virtually zero fees and low slippage.
GEODNET
Seed Round in 2024
GEODNET is a decentralized network that collects real-time data on the influence of solar winds on Global Navigation Satellite System signals. It uses blockchain technology to provide accurate positioning and time accuracy services, benefiting industries such as automotive, agriculture, construction, and earthquake monitoring. GEODNET also offers applications in decentralized mapping, metaverse digital twins, location-aware smart contracts, and proof-of-location/time.
Monad is a proof-of-stake blockchain and decentralized computation platform that focuses on high performance and portability. It features a scalar architecture with pipelined execution, which allows for efficient transaction throughput. This innovative design enables developers to create complex decentralized applications (dApps) capable of processing a large volume of transactions quickly. By combining advanced technology with a user-friendly framework, Monad aims to enhance the overall functionality and scalability of decentralized applications in the blockchain ecosystem.
Crypto Rogue Games
Seed Round in 2024
Crypto Rogue Games is a gaming and blockchain platform.
Wincast
Seed Round in 2024
Wincast is a company that offers infrastructure software as a service (SaaS) and advertising technology designed for sports organizations and sponsors. Its primary focus is to create real-time branded gaming experiences for fans. Additionally, Wincast has developed a non-fungible token streaming platform that aims to enhance entertainment experiences and facilitate ownership of digital collectibles. This platform allows users to engage with their favorite sports players and teams by bidding, collecting, and trading unique digital assets on the blockchain, ensuring authenticity and true ownership. Through these innovative offerings, Wincast enhances fan engagement and participation in the sports entertainment landscape.
Sindri develops solutions for difficult issues confronting the crypto industry. The company is based in Denver, Colorado.
Superstate
Series A in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.
P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
Manta Network
Series A in 2023
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.
Giza
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
Neutron
Seed Round in 2023
Neutron is a smart-contracts blockchain platform that provides cross-chain applications that leverage bleeding-edge Interchain technology with minimal overhead for the Cosmos ecosystem.
Superstate
Seed Round in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.
Tableland
Series A in 2023
Tableland is a decentralized relational database designed for web3 developers. Built upon SQLite, it enables creation of complex data models for decentralized applications, games, NFTs, and more.
LI.FI is a developer of DeFi middleware that offers a comprehensive solution for navigating the complexities of a multi-chain environment. Its platform serves as a bridge and decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregation protocol, facilitating seamless cross-chain transactions and liquidity flows. By abstracting the essential infrastructure needed to move assets across different blockchain networks, LI.FI enables users, including traditional finance entities, to engage effectively with cryptocurrency. The platform simplifies the process of connecting various components such as RPCs, cross-chain bridges, DEXs, and token lists, while also providing critical features like analytics and fail-safety measures. This allows developers to enhance user experience and focus on their core value propositions, thereby driving innovation within the DeFi space.
Intu
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Intu is a technology company that develops decentralized protocols for shared ownership of digital assets on EVM-compatible chains. Its core product is a protocol that enables users to easily share, recover, or change ownership of their assets while maintaining high levels of security and account integrity. Intu's distributed externally-owned-accounts (dEOA) marry the composability of smart contract wallets with the security of an EOA, providing a robust and user-friendly solution for blockchain developers. The company's toolkit also includes a simple SDK for developers to create progressive onboarding experiences for web3 dApps and wallets, streamlining user onboarding and enhancing security.
Earn Alliance
Seed Round in 2022
Earn Alliance is a developer of a metaverse and gaming platform focused on empowering gamers to realize their full potential in the realm of web3. The company aims to build vibrant communities and provide essential tools that inspire and nurture the web3 gaming movement. Founded by a group of individuals passionate about merging blockchain technology with video games, Earn Alliance has positioned itself at the forefront of a rapidly evolving sector that has generated significant economic activity. The platform serves as a catalyst for gamers to explore new opportunities, forge connections, and enhance their gaming experiences within blockchain-powered universes. Through its initiatives, Earn Alliance strives to shape the future of gaming, fostering an environment where players can engage and thrive in innovative digital landscapes.
Moon Mortgage
Seed Round in 2022
Moon Mortgage is a crypto lending platform that allows investors to use their cryptocurrency as collateral for real estate investments. By leveraging digital assets, Moon Mortgage finances 100% of both owner-occupied and investment properties, enabling borrowers to obtain loans based on the value of their crypto holdings. This innovative approach allows investors to purchase cash-flowing properties while benefiting from the appreciation of both real estate and cryptocurrency. Additionally, borrowers can take advantage of tax benefits, such as writing off depreciation and income. The company prioritizes security, storing crypto assets with Anchorage Digital to ensure the highest possible protection for its clients' investments.
Sherlock
Seed Round in 2022
Sherlock Protocol is a company that operates an audit marketplace and smart contract coverage protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Its primary focus is on safeguarding Decentralized Finance (DeFi) users from smart contract exploits. The platform offers security reviews conducted by top auditors, complemented by smart contract coverage for the audited contracts. By leveraging blockchain technology, Sherlock Protocol assesses the fundamental risks associated with DeFi platforms and provides affordable, reliable protection against smart contract vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing the security of Web3 projects within the decentralized ecosystem.
Fuel Labs
Venture Round in 2022
Fuel Labs is a global decentralized group of passionate developers building the future of blockchain scalability technology. As the leader in blockchain scaling innovation, its engineers created the optimistic rollup design paradigm and have contributed to advancing the frontier of rollup, blockchain virtual machine, and safe smart contract programming language research.
GoGoPool
Seed Round in 2022
GoGoPool is a developer of a decentralized staking protocol platform that focuses on simplifying the launch of subnets on the blockchain. The company offers tools designed to facilitate the creation of the subnet economy, addressing the challenges entrepreneurs encounter when establishing the necessary infrastructure. By enabling users to stake their tokens, GoGoPool allows them to participate in the verification of transactions on the network, while also earning rewards for their contributions. Through its innovative platform, GoGoPool aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency in the decentralized ecosystem.
Comm Technologies
Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is focused on enhancing end-to-end (E2E) encryption through the development of a crypto-native messaging platform. This platform allows users to acquire non-fungible tokens (NFTs) while maintaining their online anonymity. By utilizing personal private servers and key servers, Comm Technologies offers a web3 chat solution that ensures secure communication and adheres to specific notification restrictions. This approach enables clients to manage their communications effectively through a unified inbox, while also facilitating the scaling of E2E encryption for enhanced privacy.
Wincast
Seed Round in 2022
Wincast is a company that offers infrastructure software as a service (SaaS) and advertising technology designed for sports organizations and sponsors. Its primary focus is to create real-time branded gaming experiences for fans. Additionally, Wincast has developed a non-fungible token streaming platform that aims to enhance entertainment experiences and facilitate ownership of digital collectibles. This platform allows users to engage with their favorite sports players and teams by bidding, collecting, and trading unique digital assets on the blockchain, ensuring authenticity and true ownership. Through these innovative offerings, Wincast enhances fan engagement and participation in the sports entertainment landscape.
Cryptoys is a software company that operates an NFT studio and platform for creating, buying, selling, and collecting digital toys tied to popular franchises. The platform enables interactive experiences on the blockchain, allowing users to explore an immersive world with their Cryptoys collectibles and participate in unboxing-style reveals. It targets family-friendly use and includes safety features such as ChatGuardian to provide a secure environment for children interacting with NFTs. In addition to standard listings, Cryptoys hosts livestream events to unveil new collectibles and offers exclusive NFT gifts, reinforcing its emphasis on community-driven digital toys and blockchain-based play.
Certora develops automated software security technology. It supplements programming experts and manual auditors by detecting vulnerabilities before deployment and during operation. The platform provides mathematical proofs of correctness daily for defined properties, ensuring the absence of security vulnerabilities.
Socket Supply
Seed Round in 2022
Socket Supply develops tools that assist software developers in deploying applications to various cloud platforms.
Leap Wallet
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Leap Wallet is a developer of a non-custodial wallet that provides users with access to decentralized applications (dApps), staking, decentralized finance (DeFi), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on a single platform. The company offers a web3-based wallet accompanied by a web extension, allowing users to perform various functions such as sending, receiving, swapping, and staking tokens. Additionally, Leap Wallet enables users to explore NFT and DeFi opportunities, streamlining the experience of engaging with blockchain technology.
Phi Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Phi Labs is a company dedicated to developing blockchain tools and protocols that empower developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. It contributes to the Archway protocol, which incentivizes blockchain developers for their contributions. With a global team of web pioneers, Phi Labs focuses on creating open-source solutions that enhance the accessibility of application development, fostering innovation within the blockchain ecosystem. Through its efforts, the company aims to simplify the process of building decentralized applications, thus supporting the growth of the blockchain community.
World is a technology company specializing in secure digital asset management. It operates the World App, which enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps within a privacy-focused network.
Allora Labs
Series A in 2022
Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol focused on providing reliable appraisals for digital assets, particularly in the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company offers a platform that incentivizes experts to deliver honest insights, facilitating an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs. By compensating these experts for their evaluations, Allora Labs captures the value of truthful information and creates new opportunities within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Its technology employs machine learning to analyze data, enabling crypto builders to optimize strategies, quantify risks, and make informed decisions based on real-time NFT appraisals. Through its innovative approach, Allora Labs aims to enhance the credibility and reliability of information in the digital asset market.
Crypto Unicorns
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Crypto Unicorns is a Web3 game development and research and development studio.
HAL specializes in providing blockchain monitoring services that facilitate the integration of decentralized technologies with centralized applications. The company offers a no-code web3 infrastructure designed to connect various smart contracts seamlessly with systems such as APIs, CRMs, ERPs, e-commerce platforms, and social networks. This capability allows businesses to automate and query blockchain data efficiently, streamlining operations and enhancing connectivity between blockchain networks and traditional applications. By creating centralized lighthouses, HAL empowers companies to harness the potential of Ethereum while maintaining compatibility with existing technologies.
Solvo develops an iOS app for simplified crypto investments. Its platform facilitates buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies with streamlined account opening and money transfer processes.
Tibles is a developer of a digital collecting ecosystem that operates on the Flow blockchain, focusing on ownership and the experience of collecting. The company provides a trading platform that serves as a marketplace for buying and selling digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By partnering with various brands, Tibles creates a diverse array of collectibles, including cards, comic books, sticker books, and multimedia objects. This platform not only facilitates transactions but also fosters a community for collectors, enhancing the overall engagement and value of digital collectibles in this evolving market.
GIANT Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
GIANT Protocol is a blockchain-based initiative focused on decentralizing and democratizing access to internet and financial services. The company enables users to transform mobile minutes and data into monetary value, allowing phone numbers to function as cross-chain wallets. By tokenizing bandwidth, GIANT empowers consumers to become owners and enables telecommunications companies to operate as financial institutions. This innovative approach fosters a connectivity economy that is open and accessible to all, allowing anyone to become a provider of connectivity or financial services.
Holaplex
Seed Round in 2021
Holaplex is a developer of an enterprise-grade platform that empowers independent artists, musicians, and creators to create and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) easily and at no cost. The company offers a no-code solution that allows creators to quickly establish their own NFT stores and marketplaces. By leveraging the Metaplex protocol, Holaplex facilitates fast and low-cost NFT creation on the Solana blockchain. Additionally, the platform serves as a decentralized NFT storefront creation tool, utilizing an open-source social graph to connect creators with collectors. With over 2,000 stores available, Holaplex provides buyers and collectors with opportunities to discover emerging projects and rising artists in the NFT space.
Cryptoys
Seed Round in 2021
Cryptoys is a software company that operates an NFT studio and platform for creating, buying, selling, and collecting digital toys tied to popular franchises. The platform enables interactive experiences on the blockchain, allowing users to explore an immersive world with their Cryptoys collectibles and participate in unboxing-style reveals. It targets family-friendly use and includes safety features such as ChatGuardian to provide a secure environment for children interacting with NFTs. In addition to standard listings, Cryptoys hosts livestream events to unveil new collectibles and offers exclusive NFT gifts, reinforcing its emphasis on community-driven digital toys and blockchain-based play.
World
Venture Round in 2021
World is a technology company specializing in secure digital asset management. It operates the World App, which enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps within a privacy-focused network.
Wincast
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wincast is a company that offers infrastructure software as a service (SaaS) and advertising technology designed for sports organizations and sponsors. Its primary focus is to create real-time branded gaming experiences for fans. Additionally, Wincast has developed a non-fungible token streaming platform that aims to enhance entertainment experiences and facilitate ownership of digital collectibles. This platform allows users to engage with their favorite sports players and teams by bidding, collecting, and trading unique digital assets on the blockchain, ensuring authenticity and true ownership. Through these innovative offerings, Wincast enhances fan engagement and participation in the sports entertainment landscape.
Blockdaemon
Series B in 2021
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.
Fuel Labs
Seed Round in 2021
Fuel Labs is a global decentralized group of passionate developers building the future of blockchain scalability technology. As the leader in blockchain scaling innovation, its engineers created the optimistic rollup design paradigm and have contributed to advancing the frontier of rollup, blockchain virtual machine, and safe smart contract programming language research.
BlockArt
Pre Seed Round in 2021
The BlockArt protocol and ecosystem empower creators with NFT tooling for blockchain-generated data art.
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.
Solana
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a decentralized blockchain platform that aims to deliver a scalable network for decentralized applications and marketplaces. The platform provides fast, low-cost transactions by employing a proof of history consensus alongside other innovations, enabling developers to build scalable apps without sharding. The network is secured by thousands of independent nodes, offering robustness and resistance to censorship. Solana supports a broad ecosystem of decentralized apps and digital assets, emphasizing sustainability and high throughput to power a wide range of use cases from gaming to finance.
Dynasty Studios
Seed Round in 2021
Dynasty Studios is a game development company aiming to pioneer Web3 gaming. They create games with a focus on integrating blockchain technology for player-driven experiences.
Tibles is a developer of a digital collecting ecosystem that operates on the Flow blockchain, focusing on ownership and the experience of collecting. The company provides a trading platform that serves as a marketplace for buying and selling digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By partnering with various brands, Tibles creates a diverse array of collectibles, including cards, comic books, sticker books, and multimedia objects. This platform not only facilitates transactions but also fosters a community for collectors, enhancing the overall engagement and value of digital collectibles in this evolving market.
Delta Exchange
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Delta Exchange is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that specializes in a diverse array of trading products, including futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps, and calendar spreads. With a strong emphasis on options trading, Delta Exchange holds a prominent position in the global market, boasting a market share exceeding 25%. The platform supports USDT-settled options for various cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, solana, BNB, and Matic. Delta Exchange caters to both retail and institutional traders by providing advanced trading features such as multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders, thereby facilitating a comprehensive and user-friendly trading experience.
Shyft
Venture Round in 2021
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.
Balancer Labs
Series A in 2021
Balancer Labs is a decentralized finance company that operates a platform for programmable liquidity and custom automated market makers. The platform enables the creation and management of custom liquidity pools and supports non-custodial portfolio management, liquidity provision, and price sensing. It offers streamlined pool creation and flexible architecture through features such as hooks and vaults, allowing developers to focus on innovation while benefiting from security, scalability, and interoperability within the DeFi ecosystem. The solution emphasizes user protection and open, permissionless access to liquidity markets, replacing traditional order books with automated market making for efficient token exchanges.
Rarible
Seed Round in 2021
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.
API3 develops a decentralized infrastructure for connecting blockchain applications to off-chain data providers. Its platform, API3, aggregates data from first-party oracles operated by premier API providers, enabling seamless and secure data exchange without intermediaries.
NIFTEX is a platform that facilitates fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). It provides a self-service interface for investors to purchase fractions of various NFTs, including artwork, game assets, and personal brands. By enabling NFT owners to convert their assets into fungible fractions, NIFTEX allows them to sell portions of their NFTs, thereby increasing liquidity and making valuable assets more accessible to a wider audience in the NFT market.
Boardroom Labs
Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2020, Boardroom Labs develops an integrated governance management platform for diverse crypto networks. It enables faster, smarter, and more informed decisions through its decision-making, management, and governance tools.
ParaSwap
Seed Round in 2020
ParaSwap is a decentralized finance platform aiming to address liquidity issues in crypto markets. It aggregates multiple exchange protocols onto one platform, empowering users with competitive market prices and high liquidity.
Rarible
Pre Seed Round in 2020
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.
Serum
Venture Round in 2020
Serum is a decentralized on-chain cryptocurrency trading ecosystem built on Solana that enables trustless trading and cross-chain activity. It provides a full-limit order book and an interface familiar to users of centralized exchanges, delivering speed and low transaction costs through its on-chain architecture. The protocol is permissionless and community governed, combining DeFi transparency with usability for trading derivatives and other assets.
Polkadot
Secondary Market in 2020
Polkadot is an interoperability protocol that enables independent blockchains to securely exchange data and assets. It facilitates communication between these chains, enforcing message order and validity, and offers scalability by supporting multiple state machines.
Polkadot
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Polkadot is an interoperability protocol that enables independent blockchains to securely exchange data and assets. It facilitates communication between these chains, enforcing message order and validity, and offers scalability by supporting multiple state machines.
Delta Exchange
Corporate Round in 2020
Delta Exchange is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that specializes in a diverse array of trading products, including futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps, and calendar spreads. With a strong emphasis on options trading, Delta Exchange holds a prominent position in the global market, boasting a market share exceeding 25%. The platform supports USDT-settled options for various cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, solana, BNB, and Matic. Delta Exchange caters to both retail and institutional traders by providing advanced trading features such as multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders, thereby facilitating a comprehensive and user-friendly trading experience.
NEAR
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
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.
PROPS
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.
Aragon is a blockchain-based platform that enables the creation and governance of organizations, including decentralized autonomous organizations, by providing modular tools for governance, contract upgrades, and a decentralized court. The platform aims to disintermediate bureaucratic overhead and empower individuals to manage entities such as companies, projects, NGOs and foundations in a borderless, permissionless environment, enhancing transparency and efficiency through blockchain-backed governance and dispute resolution.
Messari
Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2018, Messari operates a leading platform for market intelligence products in the cryptocurrency industry. It provides deep analysis, data, news, and powerful tools to enhance transparency and drive smarter participation among professionals, individuals, and institutions.
NuCypher
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
NuCypher is a cryptography company that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform aimed at enhancing data privacy and security. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company provides solutions for storing, sharing, and managing sensitive data on public blockchains. Its platform allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, while maintaining compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements. NuCypher's technology facilitates secure, auditable sharing of data, making it easier for companies to execute big data projects while protecting against internal and external threats.
3Box Labs
Seed Round in 2019
3Box Labs is a technology company based in New York that specializes in decentralized identity and data management solutions for web3 applications. Founded in 2018, it offers a suite of products including 3box.io, a social profiles application tailored for Ethereum users, and 3box.js, an API that facilitates user onboarding and data management for developers. Additionally, 3Box provides the 3box-dapp, which enables users to create and manage their social profiles, interact with decentralized applications, build reputations, and securely store data. The company's platform is designed to enhance user experience by ensuring that applications are lighter, more trustworthy, and carry reduced data management liabilities, thereby fostering a sustainable ecosystem where users have greater control over their data.
Editional
Seed Round in 2019
Blockchain infrastructure has set the stage for a new generation of digital ownership that better connects and empowers both creators and owners
GEO Protocol
Seed Round in 2019
GEO Protocol is a financial technology company that develops an open-source value-transfer protocol combining blockchain with traditional finance. Its base-layer and overlay protocols enable cost-efficient, scalable transfer of digital, fiat and physical assets and support global payments, Internet of Things micropayments, and cross-chain activities. The platform provides infrastructure for applications such as payments, IoT services, loyalty programs, clearing systems and rating mechanisms, with the aim of merging crypto ecosystems with conventional finance to simplify asset exchange. By linking crypto with traditional wealth, GEO Protocol seeks to empower the Internet of Value and facilitate decentralized, peer-to-peer exchanges across diverse asset types.
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.
The Graph
Seed Round in 2019
The Graph is an indexing and query protocol for decentralized networks that enables developers to publish open APIs, called subgraphs, which applications can query with GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. A hosted service is in production to help developers start quickly, while a decentralized network is launching. It currently indices data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks planned. Thousands of developers have deployed subgraphs for DApps such as Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, Aave, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack and Decentraland. The Graph supports a global community of participants, including indexers and curators, to maintain and curate the data network.
DFINITY
Venture Round in 2018
DFINITY develops and operates a decentralized computing platform, Internet Computer, which hosts tamperproof software systems and services. It offers DFINITY Canister SDK for software development, ICP protocol for secure cloud functionality, and algorithmic governance via blockchain-based nervous system. Founded in Switzerland in 2014.
Witnet Foundation
Venture Round in 2018
Witnet Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on developing and promoting the Witnet protocol, a decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts to real-world data sources. The foundation leads research, development, and stewardship of the ecosystem and uses cryptoeconomic methods to ensure data integrity and verifiability. It collaborates with a broad community of contributors to sustain the protocol and expand the ecosystem, with governance expected to shift toward the community as participation grows.
NuCypher
Venture Round in 2018
NuCypher is a cryptography company that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform aimed at enhancing data privacy and security. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company provides solutions for storing, sharing, and managing sensitive data on public blockchains. Its platform allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, while maintaining compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements. NuCypher's technology facilitates secure, auditable sharing of data, making it easier for companies to execute big data projects while protecting against internal and external threats.
CoinList facilitates the launch and growth of innovative digital assets, connecting early adopters with promising projects like Filecoin and Solana. It offers a full-service trading platform for popular cryptocurrencies and provides access to new tokens before they list on other exchanges.
Kadena develops a hybrid blockchain platform that addresses Bitcoin's scaling challenges and Ethereum's security issues. It offers ScalableBFT consensus protocol, Pact programming language for transactional logic, and confidentiality settings to protect sensitive transaction details. Founded in 2016 by former JP Morgan blockchain creators and SEC professionals, Kadena is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Messari
Seed Round in 2018
Founded in 2018, Messari operates a leading platform for market intelligence products in the cryptocurrency industry. It provides deep analysis, data, news, and powerful tools to enhance transparency and drive smarter participation among professionals, individuals, and institutions.
NuCypher
Venture Round in 2017
NuCypher is a cryptography company that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform aimed at enhancing data privacy and security. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company provides solutions for storing, sharing, and managing sensitive data on public blockchains. Its platform allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, while maintaining compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements. NuCypher's technology facilitates secure, auditable sharing of data, making it easier for companies to execute big data projects while protecting against internal and external threats.
Stream Token
Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Stream is a new decentralized blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to easily and anonymously accept payments from their audience members anywhere in the world, with extremely low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
LedgerX LLC is a developer of an institutional derivatives exchange platform specifically for digital currencies. Founded in 2014 and based in Vail, Colorado, the company operates as a subsidiary of NYBX LLC. LedgerX has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to function as a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. The platform is designed to facilitate smooth trading in cryptocurrency futures and options, offering features such as physical settlement of contracts, block trading, and algorithmic trading. This enables both individual traders and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with increased efficiency and regulatory oversight.
Tlon Corporation is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. It develops Urbit, an open-source software framework designed to serve as a complete reimplementation of the system software stack. Urbit features a new functional programming language and a functional network operating system, with its architecture allowing users to own their address space. Tlon aims to create a new layer over the Internet, facilitating the transition from traditional cloud services to a personal cloud computer model through Urbit ships. The company also offers consulting and development services tailored for investment banks, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms, while focusing on the growth of the Urbit ecosystem and hosting services for its users.
Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.