Here Not There Labs
Series B in 2025
Here Not There Labs is a web3-focused software company building Towns, a blockchain-based messaging protocol and web app for online communities. The Towns platform enables self-owned and self-governed conversations by running on an on-chain protocol, designed to connect the right people at the right time to discuss topics and minimize meetings. The product aims to improve collaboration by linking conversations about work and facilitating decentralized, topic-centered discussions. The company is led by CEO Ben Rubin and comprises web3 creators who build decentralized communication tools for communities.
Privy
Venture Round in 2025
Privy creates authentication, authorization, and data control tooling to enable developers to create products that keep users safe. It creates simple, powerful APIs for managing user data, allowing them to easily integrate user data into their products. Privy bridges the gap between users' on-chain activity and their off-chain data, allowing users to create delightful experiences without putting themselves or the product at risk.
FastLane
Funding Round in 2025
FastLane is a developer of a platform aimed at enhancing network efficiency and user experience in the blockchain space. The protocol focuses on generating revenue for validators while optimizing the performance of algorithmic traders. It employs ecosystem-friendly MEV relays to minimize transaction spam and bolster network health. This approach not only safeguards user interactions but also boosts the yield of liquid staking derivatives, improving the chances of success for beneficial trading bots. By simplifying the integration of sentry nodes through a single command line, FastLane aims to streamline operations for users and contribute to a more effective and sustainable blockchain environment.
Shinami
Seed Round in 2024
Shinami develops an application platform focused on empowering decentralized web3 development. Its key offering is 'Node as a Service', which facilitates dynamic scalability and enterprise-grade infrastructure for building applications.
Onboard
Seed Round in 2024
Onboard strives to provide the best financial platform and community for on-chain developers and creators.
Conduit operates as a platform focused on providing crypto native infrastructure aimed at supporting developers in the cryptocurrency space. The company collaborates with leading crypto engineering teams to develop a comprehensive suite of tools that facilitate the creation, deployment, and maintenance of smart contracts, particularly on the Ethereum network. By offering a visual programming environment, Conduit enables developers to build, test, and deploy smart contracts efficiently, utilizing various programming languages and libraries. This streamlined approach enhances the overall development process, empowering builders in the rapidly evolving field of cryptocurrency.
Othentic
Seed Round in 2024
Othentic is a technology developer focused on creating modular networks within a shared security environment. The company provides a web3 orchestration and abstraction layer that allows developers to build distributed systems and enhance security. By offering a library of components, Othentic enables the self-deployment of custom computational services over trustless execution environments, facilitating seamless integration with re-staking protocols. This innovative approach empowers developers to construct tailored solutions while benefiting from the underlying shared security infrastructure.
Delegate
Seed Round in 2024
Delegate specializes in enhancing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management, particularly focusing on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and ERC20 tokens.
Polymer Labs
Series A in 2024
Polymer Labs is building the fabric of web3.
We're working on an IBC based multi-cluster routing/roll-up protocol providing E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.
Shadow is a crypto data platform that provides developers with the tools necessary to collect and analyze on-chain event data. The platform features a custom subgraph, an indexer, and a supercharged protocol analysis system, allowing for comprehensive access to peripheral contract data. By offering these capabilities, Shadow empowers developers to create improved applications and tools designed for the decentralized web.
HypeLab
Seed Round in 2023
HypeLab is a company specializing in web3 advertising, utilizing on-chain data for personalized and targeted ads. The business helps web3 companies generate revenue through advertisements on their platforms. Additionally, HypeLab offers advertisers a scalable channel for user acquisition by enabling them to create digital marketing campaigns that can be tracked in real-time for reach and performance.
Avalon is an Orlando-based platform and game studio that provides tools and an integrated platform to create games and virtual experiences, enabling collaborative development and the production of immersive digital entertainment for the gaming industry.
Fleek is an open web platform that installs anything on a computer or deals with the command line. The platform is helping to build the tools necessary to make the Open Web available to anyone, and easy to build on. It makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers. Using Open Web protocols that make a decentralized, trustless, and permissionless infrastructure native to the web. This stack is ever-shifting and open-source.
Gomu is a software development platform focused on simplifying the creation of Web3 applications and services across various blockchains. It provides developers with tools such as an application programming interface and a software development kit, which enable the development of Web3-driven utilities and non-fungible tokens. By offering these resources, Gomu facilitates the creation of applications and decentralized applications, allowing clients to deliver enhanced Web3 experiences to their users.
nxyz is a company focused on enhancing the capabilities of builders, creatives, and entrepreneurs in the digital space by offering a robust blockchain indexing and data infrastructure. Its platform features a multi-chain API that transforms blockchain data into real-time, high-performance data streams. This allows engineers to access and interact with various blockchain elements, including wallets, transactions, NFTs, and smart contracts, while integrating both on-chain and off-chain information. By providing these tools, nxyz aims to facilitate the development of a more efficient and quality-oriented internet.
Founded in 2020 by Furqan Rydhan and Steven Bartlett, thirdweb is a San Francisco-based company specializing in end-to-end developer tools for building web3 applications. It offers powerful SDKs and smart contract deployment capabilities to facilitate the creation of web3 apps, games, tokens, NFTs, marketplaces, and DAOs.
Kurtosis is a developer tool company founded in 2020 and based in Houston, Texas. It specializes in providing an end-to-end system for building, testing, and running distributed applications in the cryptocurrency space. The company offers software that automates the creation of testing environments, allowing developers to simulate various scenarios, including outages and malicious behavior. This functionality enables developers to rigorously test their code against potential failures, ensuring reliability before deployment. By streamlining the development process and reducing workloads, Kurtosis enhances the developer experience for those working on distributed systems.
Veridise
Funding Round in 2022
Veridise is a comprehensive blockchain security company founded by a team of renowned researchers. Specializing in auditing Zero-Knowledge Circuits and MetaMask Snaps, the firm possesses extensive expertise in smart contracts, blockchains, Layer 2 solutions, DeFi protocols, cryptocurrency wallets, tokens, and NFTs. Veridise has established a reputation for uncovering critical vulnerabilities that other auditing firms often overlook, identifying over 100 high-severity bugs in the first half of 2023 alone. The company's approach combines traditional auditing methods with advanced automated Web3 security tools, allowing them to tackle complex blockchain security challenges effectively. Through this innovative hybrid methodology, Veridise provides clients with detailed and actionable audit reports, enhancing the overall security of blockchain applications.
Moralis offers a comprehensive blockchain application development platform that simplifies the creation of decentralized apps (dApps). Founded in 2021, it enables developers to focus on front-end development while handling back-end processes, including user authentication, identity management, transaction information, and session management.
Diagonal
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Diagonal is a developer of a non-custodial protocol that facilitates recurring payments on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform enables businesses to manage subscriptions directly through secure smart contracts, offering a straightforward application programming interface for integration. With its tested infrastructure, Diagonal allows companies to implement on-chain subscription services with minimal coding, ensuring that all payment processing and logic are handled through decentralized mechanisms. This approach provides businesses with a reliable and efficient solution for managing subscription-based transactions.
Tenderly is a development tool designed to facilitate the creation, testing, monitoring, and operation of smart contracts on the Ethereum platform. It offers real-time monitoring, alerting, debugging, and simulation capabilities for smart contracts powering decentralized applications.
Galxe is a prominent Web3 credential data network that provides a collaborative infrastructure for brands and developers to engage communities and create innovative products in the decentralized web. The company offers a modular platform that facilitates the creation, distribution, and gamification of non-fungible tokens, utilizing customized on-chain data. By rewarding curators for the use of credentials within its infrastructure and credential oracle engine, Galxe fosters a participatory environment where developers and community members can construct engaging experiences. Its platform allows for the development of tailored campaigns through plug-and-play modules, enhancing the capability of users to interact with decentralized credential data networks effectively.
Set Labs develops tools for creating and managing bundled crypto assets, known as 'Sets'. These Sets enable users to create diverse cryptocurrency baskets, including non-fungibles and on-chain securities.
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.
Instadapp
Seed Round in 2019
Instadapp is a DeFi technology company that provides a platform and middleware to simplify interaction with multiple decentralized finance protocols. The platform enables users to deposit cryptocurrencies, borrow, lend, leverage, swap assets, and manage blockchain-based assets and financial positions, while offering tools for developers to build and monetize DeFi use-cases with reliable, integrated access. Founded in 2018 and based in Hyderabad, India.
Blockspring
Acquisition in 2019
Blockspring is a developer of a spreadsheet editing platform that simplifies the process of gathering and processing information from application programming interfaces (APIs). The company's innovative platform allows users to create visualizations using various pre-built components developed both internally and externally. It features a containerized API that supports multiple scripts for generating endpoints and offers a user-friendly form interface for data interaction. By automating marketing reports and facilitating data enrichment from different software applications, Blockspring enables users to efficiently find data, execute algorithms, and streamline reporting processes.
Gauntlet
Seed Round in 2018
Gauntlet is a financial modeling and simulation company focused on enhancing the safety and efficiency of blockchain protocols and smart contracts. Through its advanced platform, Gauntlet employs agent-based simulation techniques to analyze and optimize key parameters of various protocols. This approach allows the company to model market risks and economic incentives effectively, helping clients improve their capital efficiency and maximize returns for stakeholders while minimizing associated risks. By driving sustainable growth for leading crypto protocols, chains, and on-chain treasuries, Gauntlet plays a crucial role in enhancing the financial performance of businesses in the blockchain space.
Fleek is an open web platform that installs anything on a computer or deals with the command line. The platform is helping to build the tools necessary to make the Open Web available to anyone, and easy to build on. It makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers. Using Open Web protocols that make a decentralized, trustless, and permissionless infrastructure native to the web. This stack is ever-shifting and open-source.