CoinFund

CoinFund, founded in 2015 and based in Brooklyn, New York, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. The firm targets early-stage companies across the web3 landscape, including seed, venture, and liquid stage investments. In addition to its venture activities, CoinFund employs a fundamental equity strategy that encompasses various digital assets. As a Registered Investment Adviser, CoinFund is committed to navigating the evolving landscape of technology and finance through its investment strategies.

Vangelis Andrikopoulos

Analyst

Einar Braathen

Partner

Jake Brukhman

Founder and CEO

Jake Brukhman

Co-Founder, Managing Partner and CEO

Wendy Diamond

Investor

Billy Dishman

Principal

Alex Felix

Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner

Evan Feng

Director of Research and Partner

Seth Ginns

Managing Partner and Head of Liquid Investments

Christian Murray

Analyst

Christopher Perkins

Managing Partner and President

Isaiah Washington

Analyst

Past deals in Peer to Peer

Phi Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Phi Labs focuses on developing blockchain tools and protocols that empower developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. By leveraging a global team of web pioneers, the company aims to enhance the accessibility of application development. As a contributor to the Archway protocol, Phi Labs rewards blockchain developers for their contributions, further fostering innovation within the ecosystem. Through its commitment to open-source initiatives, Phi Labs seeks to create an inclusive environment that supports the growth and development of blockchain technology.

Allora Labs

Series A in 2022
Upshot is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.

GIANT Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
GIANT Protocol is a blockchain protocol that aims to decentralize and democratize access to the internet and financial services, by tokenizing bandwidth. GIANT helps consumers become owners, telcos become banks, anyone becomes a connectivity or financial services provider, creating a connectivity economy that is open and accessible to all.

Holaplex

Seed Round in 2021
Holaplex offers independent artists, musicians, and creators user-friendly, no-cost tools to create and sell NFTs. The platform enables the establishment of personalized NFT stores and marketplaces, facilitating the discovery of emerging projects and artists for buyers and collectors. By leveraging the Metaplex protocol, Holaplex ensures fast and affordable NFT creation on the Solana blockchain. As an open-source and decentralized solution, the platform promotes community engagement and allows users to market and sell their NFTs effectively.

Livepeer

Series B in 2021
Livepeer, Inc. operates a decentralized platform for live video broadcasting over the Internet. Founded in 2017 and based in New York City, the company enables broadcasters, developers, and users to share content freely. It integrates a blockchain-based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server, facilitating a peer-to-peer network for video streaming. This platform is designed to cater to user-generated content needs, providing tools, APIs, and resources for developers to incorporate live video into their projects. By promoting open-source code and fostering creative contributions, Livepeer aims to enhance and secure its network while supporting diverse user interests and skill sets.

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.

NFTFi

Seed Round in 2021
NFTFi operates a peer-to-peer lending platform that allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral for loans. By using NFTs, users can borrow cryptocurrency from lenders, providing liquidity without the need to sell their valuable assets. When a loan is accepted, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract, and the borrower receives the agreed-upon cryptocurrency directly in their wallet. This model draws on traditional practices from the art world, where collateralized loans are commonly offered by banks and auction houses to artists based on the value of their artworks. NFTFi thus creates a marketplace that facilitates financial transactions for NFT owners, enhancing the utility of their digital assets.

ParaSwap

Seed Round in 2020
ParaSwap Network SAS is a decentralized finance platform based in Paris, France, established in 2020. The company addresses liquidity issues in the cryptocurrency markets by aggregating various decentralized exchanges into a single platform. This approach allows users to execute optimized and secure transactions by splitting orders across multiple exchanges, ensuring competitive market prices and enhanced liquidity. Currently, ParaSwap primarily facilitates trading for Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, with plans to expand its services to include most major blockchains, thereby enhancing transparency and accessibility in the crypto trading environment.

Polkadot

Secondary Market in 2020
Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validitiy of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability by creating a general environment for multiple state machines.

NEAR

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
NEAR Inc. is a company that develops the NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain platform designed for creating decentralized applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Protocol supports the development of open-source software and aims to facilitate mainstream adoption of decentralized technologies. The platform offers various services, including documentation, a wallet, a development studio, and an explorer, all built to enhance user experience and development efficiency. It is engineered to handle high-value assets securely while providing the necessary scalability for a wide range of decentralized applications. NEAR's focus on ease of use for both developers and end users distinguishes it in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

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.

Livepeer

Series A in 2019
Livepeer, Inc. operates a decentralized platform for live video broadcasting over the Internet. Founded in 2017 and based in New York City, the company enables broadcasters, developers, and users to share content freely. It integrates a blockchain-based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server, facilitating a peer-to-peer network for video streaming. This platform is designed to cater to user-generated content needs, providing tools, APIs, and resources for developers to incorporate live video into their projects. By promoting open-source code and fostering creative contributions, Livepeer aims to enhance and secure its network while supporting diverse user interests and skill sets.

GEO Protocol

Seed Round in 2019
GEO Protocol, a financial technology company, provides solution for decentralized P2P network that allows participants to exchange assets, connecting crypto, and traditional wealth. It offers an infrastructure for applications of various types and purposes, including payment solutions, IoT solutions, loyalty programs, cross-chain DEX, clearing systems, and rating systems and delegated democracy. The company is based in Estonia.

Kadena

Seed Round in 2018
Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live with partners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.

Kadena

Funding Round in 2018
Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live with partners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.

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.
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