Coinbase, Inc. is a digital currency platform that enables merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a range of services including a user-friendly website for transactions, a digital wallet, and merchant payment processing tools. These offerings facilitate seamless transactions for users and support a variety of online businesses. Coinbase's mission is to create an open financial system accessible to individuals worldwide, fostering the adoption of cryptocurrencies and enhancing the overall digital financial landscape.
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Utopia
Acquisition in 2024
Utopia Labs specializes in creating an operating system tailored for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to streamline payment requests, payroll, and reporting processes. The platform enables users to manage invoices and expenses for contributors through a single link, facilitating the automation of recurring salaries for core team members. Additionally, Utopia Labs provides a payment application that allows for free, instant, and global transactions, simplifying the management of contributor payments and expenses. With features that organize transactions through tagging, the system enhances transparency in financial reporting for DAOs.
Monad
Series A in 2024
MONAD is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and decentralized computation platform that combines the best of performance and portability.
Umoja
Seed Round in 2024
Umoja is a cryptocurrency-hedging technology that automates the reduction of bitcoin exposure risk, allowing anyone to protect themselves against market losses. By tokenizing and democratizing access to Hedge Fund tactics.
Architect
Series A in 2024
Architect is a financial platform that provides traders with customizable infrastructure designed to enhance access to international markets for digital assets. The company focuses on developing institutional-grade solutions that facilitate trading across various venues, including both centralized and decentralized exchanges. By linking these diverse crypto markets, Architect aims to create a seamless trading experience for users engaged in global futures, options, and digital asset markets.
Portal
Seed Round in 2024
Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Shadow
Seed Round in 2023
Shadow operates as a crypto data platform.
Blockchain.com
Series E in 2023
Blockchain.com is a digital assets platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrency, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million customers, the platform provides a straightforward way to engage with digital currencies, facilitating transactions, trading, and secure storage. It features a highly trafficked explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that offers a fast trading experience. Blockchain.com is committed to revolutionizing the financial services industry by enabling quick transactions without the need for costly intermediaries, while also providing real-time transaction data and analytical tools for investors and developers.
Definitive
Seed Round in 2023
Definitive offers a financial management platform with cryptocurrency features and AI-powered customer support.
Utopia
Series A in 2023
Utopia Labs specializes in creating an operating system tailored for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to streamline payment requests, payroll, and reporting processes. The platform enables users to manage invoices and expenses for contributors through a single link, facilitating the automation of recurring salaries for core team members. Additionally, Utopia Labs provides a payment application that allows for free, instant, and global transactions, simplifying the management of contributor payments and expenses. With features that organize transactions through tagging, the system enhances transparency in financial reporting for DAOs.
PYOR
Seed Round in 2023
PYOR is a developer of a Web3 research application aimed at enhancing global institutional participation in the cryptocurrency sector. The company leverages its extensive expertise in crypto, having contributed to the development of several significant Indian unicorns and possessing substantial experience with global blue chip organizations. PYOR provides high-fidelity insights and data through a desktop analytics tool that serves as a reliable source of truth for Web3. Its offerings include in-depth market sizing, growth estimation studies, and custom crypto research, ensuring users access dependable digital data to inform their investment and strategic decisions.
Hourglass
Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass is a financial platform that specializes in liquid staking on time-locked vaults within the Frax and Convex ecosystems. It enables users to trade time-bound tokens, which represent staked assets in decentralized finance protocols based on their lock-up periods. This innovative approach allows individuals to trade their positions, effectively transferring ownership to other buyers. By doing so, Hourglass enhances risk management and increases flexibility for investors, while also providing opportunities for potentially higher returns on their investments.
Term Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Term Labs is a blockchain research and development company that operates a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform. The platform connects borrowers and lenders, facilitating fixed-rate lending within the blockchain ecosystem. By focusing on scalable and transparent solutions, Term Labs aims to provide institutional-scale participants with affordable and crypto-native lending options.
Architect
Seed Round in 2023
Architect is a financial platform that provides traders with customizable infrastructure designed to enhance access to international markets for digital assets. The company focuses on developing institutional-grade solutions that facilitate trading across various venues, including both centralized and decentralized exchanges. By linking these diverse crypto markets, Architect aims to create a seamless trading experience for users engaged in global futures, options, and digital asset markets.
Woodstock
Seed Round in 2023
Woodstock is an investment app that allows investors to invest in US stocks.
Centrifuge
Funding Round in 2022
Centrifuge Inc. is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Berlin, Centrifuge offers a peer-to-peer protocol that facilitates the secure and privacy-preserving exchange of financial documents. This platform allows businesses to tokenize, manage, and distribute their assets on-chain, providing asset managers with new tools and investors with access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets. By enabling third-party service providers to interact with financial data, Centrifuge fosters economic opportunity and promotes efficient transactions while ensuring that businesses retain ownership of their data and validated company details.
Block Green
Seed Round in 2022
Block Green is a decentralized finance platform designed to provide liquidity solutions for sustainable Bitcoin mining operations. By allowing miners to access future revenues based on their existing hashrate, the platform helps operators de-risk their operations and obtain upfront liquidity. Block Green focuses on creating a transparent and accessible capital market centered around Bitcoin, facilitating a fair and direct approach to financial returns. The platform also features a staking mechanism that enables digital asset holders to retain their preferred cryptocurrencies while participating in the security of the Bitcoin network. This approach not only benefits individual users but also supports the transition of the Bitcoin network towards renewable energy sources.
Contango
Seed Round in 2022
Contango is a decentralized protocol that focuses on providing perpetual futures atop money markets. It operates a decentralized exchange designed to facilitate expirable futures without the need for order books or liquidity pools. By leveraging existing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, Contango enables fixed-rate lending and borrowing. The platform also supports physical delivery and minimizes price impact for larger trades, allowing traders to effectively hedge their positions and manage their costs. Through these innovations, Contango aims to enhance trading efficiency and accessibility within the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Alongside
Venture Round in 2022
Alongside builds indexes for cryptocurrencies.
Coinfeeds
Seed Round in 2022
Coinfeeds is an API that delivers real-time news and social sentiment related to cryptocurrencies. It offers a customizable platform that allows users to easily manage their news feeds by adding or removing specific coins. The service includes access to various media formats, such as podcasts, videos, and tweets, about the cryptocurrencies in a user's portfolio. Coinfeeds aims to position itself as a comprehensive resource in the cryptocurrency market, akin to Bloomberg for traditional finance.
Hidden Road
Series A in 2022
Hidden Road is the global credit network for institutional investors and provides easy access to both traditional and digital markets.
MoHash
Seed Round in 2022
MoHash is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that leverages crypto assets, particularly stablecoins, to facilitate access to global capital and liquidity for private debt in rapidly expanding economies. The protocol allows investors to earn sustainable and scalable high yields by issuing a fungible token, which represents a claim on a diversified pool of risk-managed and financially regulated debt instruments. This approach aims to safeguard investors' interests while enabling them to capitalize on emerging markets undergoing technological advancements in financial services. Through its innovative model, MoHash seeks to provide a pathway for higher returns in the evolving landscape of decentralized finance.
Satori
Seed Round in 2022
Satori is a decentralized financial derivatives exchange tailored for both retail and institutional investors within the Polkadot ecosystem. The platform is designed to accommodate experienced traders, allowing them to leverage the potential of DOT through access to a dedicated derivatives environment. Satori collaborates with parachains, market makers, and retail users, facilitating a comprehensive trading experience that meets the demands of diverse market participants.
Mara
Seed Round in 2022
Mara is a platform for Africans to learn through, while leveraging, blockchain technology to build digital wealth. The company empowers Africans to develop financial literacy so they can take the greatest possible advantage of the numerous opportunities available in the digital economy. The Mara wallet allows users to easily buy, sell, earn, withdraw, and protect their assets - including cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Mara Token - in real time. Mara was founded in 2021 and is located in Nairobi, Kenya.
Hyperithm
Funding Round in 2022
Hyperithm is a digital asset financial service provider based in Tokyo and Seoul, specializing in cryptocurrency management and execution brokerage services for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. The firm employs algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies that are market neutral, enabling clients to execute streamlined crypto trades effectively. As a fully regulated Virtual Asset Service Provider, Hyperithm offers a comprehensive suite of services, including crypto prime brokerage. The company actively invests in the Web3 ecosystem, focusing on Layer 1 and Layer 2 solutions, decentralized applications, gaming projects, and asset managers. Co-founded by an ex-Morgan Stanley investment banker and a serial entrepreneur recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30, Hyperithm boasts a team of experienced professionals, including former investment bankers and world-class engineers. By leveraging advanced technology and innovative algorithms built with Rust, Hyperithm aims to create a robust digital asset gateway for its clients while supporting emerging teams through venture investments.
Tribal Capital Markets
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Tribal Capital Markets, LLC is a full-service broker-dealer firm based in New York City and affiliated with the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. As a Certified Minority Business Enterprise, TCM offers a wide range of financial services, including mortgage-backed securities trading, municipal debt, and investment banking. The firm specializes in debt capital markets, equity and fixed-income trading, and provides clearing services. TCM serves a diverse clientele that includes banks, corporations, asset managers, pension plans, municipalities, and hedge funds, addressing their liquidity and execution needs in today's market environment. The firm is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tribal Capital Partners, LLC and is staffed by experienced professionals dedicated to delivering tailored investment solutions.
Dfns
Seed Round in 2022
Dfns offers a wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage digital assets while ensuring high levels of security. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems, allowing for secure user onboarding and streamlined transactions across multiple blockchains.
Venly
Series A in 2022
Venly is a developer of a cryptocurrency platform that focuses on building blockchain solutions for digital asset creation and monetization. The company offers an all-in-one platform that enables developers to integrate any blockchain into their projects seamlessly. Venly's wallet simplifies the complexities of blockchain technology, facilitating an open network among individuals, ecosystems, and applications. By providing custodial solutions and straightforward, composable abstractions, Venly empowers users to conduct transactions with others, access decentralized applications, and interact across different networks. Additionally, Venly Ventures invests in promising Web3 gaming projects, offering technical talent, industry expertise, and a broad network to support their growth.
InvestaX
Series A in 2022
InvestaX is a financial services company based in Singapore that operates an online platform dedicated to digital securities and investment in real estate, private equity, and venture capital. Founded in 2015, the company specializes in providing a digital securities finance and investment platform that enables clients to raise funds and engage in secondary trading of technology-driven investment products. Its platform offers the necessary infrastructure to digitize real assets, allowing users to buy, sell, trade, borrow, or lend instantly. By leveraging data and technology, InvestaX aims to assist clients in making informed investment decisions while reducing transaction costs and enhancing transparency in private markets.
CryptoTaxCalculator
Seed Round in 2022
CTC helps you sort out your crypto tax nightmare. Built for crypto natives with complex on-chain activity. Founded in 2018
VALR
Series B in 2022
VALR is a digital asset trading platform based in Johannesburg, South Africa, that enables customers to buy, sell, store, and transfer cryptocurrencies. The platform offers a wide selection of digital assets and incorporates multiple layers of security to ensure the safety of clients' accounts and funds. VALR aims to provide a seamless and secure experience for users while promoting access to financial services at fair and transparent prices. Through its services, VALR contributes to the development of a more inclusive financial system.
Zebec Network
Series A in 2022
Zebec is a continuous settlement protocol on Solana. Zebec is enabling the composable transfer of value starting with Stream Payroll.
Amber Group
Series B in 2022
Amber Group is a cryptocurrency financial services provider based in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals from leading institutions. The company offers a range of services including liquidity provision, trading, asset management, yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, and electronic market making. Operating globally, Amber Group serves over 200 institutional clients and has facilitated cumulative trading exceeding $200 billion across numerous electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume of $100-200 million. The company is dedicated to enhancing client experiences by leveraging advanced technology and quantitative research, aiming to optimize investment flexibility and maximize returns. Amber Group has also raised significant capital to support its growth and innovation in the cryptocurrency space.
Infina
Seed Round in 2022
Infina is an investment platform that engages in real estate and financial services.
CoinTracker
Series A in 2022
CoinTracker is a cryptocurrency portfolio and tax management platform that facilitates the tracking of cryptocurrency investments and ensures tax compliance. The platform automatically syncs transactions from various exchanges and wallets into a unified dashboard, allowing users to monitor their balances and transactions seamlessly. CoinTracker calculates cost basis and capital gains, delivering essential tax information with minimal effort. This service provides users with insights into their cryptocurrency movements, enabling them to visualize transactions and manage their portfolios effectively. By consolidating all relevant data, CoinTracker simplifies the process of filing crypto taxes and helps users maintain a comprehensive overview of their investments.
DeBank
Series A in 2021
DeBank is a cryptocurrency wallet designed to facilitate access to decentralized finance (DeFi) services, enabling users to manage and track their DeFi investments effectively. The platform supports over 800 DeFi protocols across more than 15 blockchains, including Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. Users can monitor their asset portfolios, compare interest rates, and analyze risks associated with their investments. DeBank also offers features for token swapping and discovering new investment opportunities through detailed real-time data, allowing users to gain insights into their financial activities and optimize their returns in the DeFi space.
Ridian
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Ridian is a platform that facilitates cryptocurrency investment through automated strategies. It provides users with various investment options, including interactive indexed approaches and high-frequency trading algorithms. This design allows users to adapt to the volatility of the cryptocurrency market, which operates continuously. By leveraging blockchain technology, Ridian aims to enhance investment opportunities and assist users in earning income from their investments.
Incode
Series B in 2021
Incode Technologies Inc. is a digital identity company that specializes in biometric identity solutions aimed at enhancing customer experiences in banking, payments, hospitality, and retail. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, Incode develops a comprehensive omnichannel identity platform that provides services such as account opening, identity authentication, and payment processing. Key offerings include Incode Omni, which utilizes artificial intelligence for secure biometric verification, and various applications like Incode Hello for chat and video conferencing, Incode Welcome for new account applications, and Incode Facepay for transaction verification. Recognized for its enterprise-grade facial recognition capabilities, Incode's products are utilized by major banks, financial institutions, and retailers, setting a new benchmark for convenience and security in user interactions. The company also maintains additional offices in Europe and Latin America to support its global operations.
Umoja Labs
Venture Round in 2021
Umoja Labs is a financial technology company focused on providing crypto-enabled payment infrastructure tailored for informal markets, primarily in Africa. The company develops a platform that facilitates instant money transfers, featuring digital wallets compatible with basic mobile phones, a mobile point of sale system for merchants, and a mass-payouts dashboard. Additionally, Umoja Labs offers an API that supports the generation of digital wallets, stablecoin custody, mobile money e-float, and fiat currency transactions. By leveraging this technology, Umoja Labs aims to enhance digital financial inclusion and enable organizations to establish effective web3 payment solutions in underserved areas. The company is backed by notable investors such as Coinbase and Mercy Corps.
Parcl
Seed Round in 2021
Parcl is a blockchain-based platform focused on real estate investment, enabling users to invest in fractional ownership of physical properties by purchasing digital square feet. The platform incorporates advanced data analytics to track real estate price movements, utilizing millions of data points to create precise, city-level real estate indexes. These indexes are updated daily, providing users with timely insights into market trends. By simplifying access to real estate investments, Parcl allows individuals to engage with a diverse portfolio of properties through a single, streamlined transaction.
Hxro
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Hxro is a company that specializes in an online crypto trading platform aimed at enhancing the trading experience for users interested in cryptocurrencies. The platform allows users to take option positions on various digital assets, providing a straightforward method to express price views, manage risk, and engage in the cryptocurrency markets. Hxro's offerings include trading automation tools designed to assist users in executing profitable trades. This approach caters to both novice and experienced traders by equipping them with decision support tools and resources essential for effective online trading.
Bridgesplit
Seed Round in 2021
Bridgesplit is an specialty asset-based lending platform that enables marketplaces, custodians, and other asset management platforms to offer financing to their customers. Business and consumers use Bridgesplit to access flexible and affordable financing collateralized by assets underserved by banks like high-grade spirits, IP, climate assets, collectibles, and more.
Yellow Card
Series A in 2021
Yellow Card operates as a leading digital currency exchange platform in Africa, specializing in the buying and selling of stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD. It serves individuals and businesses across 20 countries, offering secure and cost-effective methods for transactions using local currencies. The platform has facilitated over $3 billion in transactions, contributing to the growth of cryptocurrency adoption on the continent. Yellow Card collaborates with local merchants and vendors to provide vouchers that can be redeemed for Bitcoin, allowing customers to transfer money and engage in e-commerce. This integration enables individuals to participate in the digital economy, simplifying access to cryptocurrency for a broader audience.
Floating Point Group
Series A in 2021
Floating Point Group (FPG) is a prime brokerage focused on enhancing access to liquidity across various markets to facilitate advanced cryptocurrency strategies. The company operates the largest global digital asset agency trading desk, collaborating with funds and blockchain foundations to execute trades efficiently. FPG's platform provides a secure custodial solution with integrated trading, settlement, and yield features, alongside insurance for cryptocurrencies. Its trading infrastructure is specifically designed for the cryptocurrency ecosystem, utilizing high-quality data to develop market-efficient execution algorithms. This enables traders to optimize their operations across multiple exchanges in terms of time, price, and order volume. FPG is supported by a range of investors, including notable firms and individuals in the cryptocurrency space.
Utopia
Seed Round in 2021
Utopia Labs specializes in creating an operating system tailored for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to streamline payment requests, payroll, and reporting processes. The platform enables users to manage invoices and expenses for contributors through a single link, facilitating the automation of recurring salaries for core team members. Additionally, Utopia Labs provides a payment application that allows for free, instant, and global transactions, simplifying the management of contributor payments and expenses. With features that organize transactions through tagging, the system enhances transparency in financial reporting for DAOs.
Pintu
Series A in 2021
Pintu is a cryptocurrency platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, that facilitates the buying, selling, and investing in Bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets. Launched in 2020, Pintu offers a mobile application designed to simplify access to the cryptocurrency market, allowing users to efficiently manage their digital assets. The platform includes features typical of a crypto exchange and provides various financial services, enabling users to safely engage with cryptocurrencies and contribute to the broader adoption of a decentralized financial system.
Qredo
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Qredo Ltd is a London-based company that operates an online platform designed to facilitate the secure and efficient movement of digital assets for institutional traders. Established in 2011, Qredo offers a decentralized protocol that streamlines cryptocurrency custody by integrating multi-party computation, secure hardware, and a cross-chain liquidity network. This platform enables businesses to manage their digital assets without the operational and security challenges associated with traditional wallet key management. By providing tools for treasury and fund management, as well as peer-to-peer trading venues, Qredo addresses the cyber threats related to the trading, storage, and transfer of digital assets, thereby enhancing security and efficiency in the cryptocurrency market.
Amber Group
Series B in 2021
Amber Group is a cryptocurrency financial services provider based in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals from leading institutions. The company offers a range of services including liquidity provision, trading, asset management, yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, and electronic market making. Operating globally, Amber Group serves over 200 institutional clients and has facilitated cumulative trading exceeding $200 billion across numerous electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume of $100-200 million. The company is dedicated to enhancing client experiences by leveraging advanced technology and quantitative research, aiming to optimize investment flexibility and maximize returns. Amber Group has also raised significant capital to support its growth and innovation in the cryptocurrency space.
Set Labs
Series A in 2021
Set Labs is focused on advancing the field of finance through innovative cryptocurrency asset management solutions. The company develops a protocol that enables the creation and exchange of collateralized baskets of tokens, utilizing smart contracts to facilitate the bundling and unbundling of various crypto assets. This technology allows users to efficiently create cryptocurrency baskets, which can include a mix of ERC20 tokens, non-fungible tokens, and on-chain securities. By providing tools and specifications for developers, Set Labs aims to simplify the process of asset management in the blockchain space, promoting a more accessible and flexible financial environment.
Pintu
Series A in 2021
Pintu is a cryptocurrency platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, that facilitates the buying, selling, and investing in Bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets. Launched in 2020, Pintu offers a mobile application designed to simplify access to the cryptocurrency market, allowing users to efficiently manage their digital assets. The platform includes features typical of a crypto exchange and provides various financial services, enabling users to safely engage with cryptocurrencies and contribute to the broader adoption of a decentralized financial system.
Hashdex
Series A in 2021
Hashdex is a company focused on bridging the gap between traditional financial markets and the emerging world of digital assets. Its mission is to unlock the potential of blockchain technology for mainstream investors by offering an institutional-grade investment platform that facilitates regulated and diversified access to cryptocurrency. The platform is designed to provide investment products with minimal management fees and options for daily subscriptions and redemptions, allowing investors to conveniently gain exposure to blockchain assets in a compliant manner. By leveraging years of financial expertise and advanced technology, Hashdex aims to create secure, transparent, and cost-effective investment solutions for a global audience.
Hyperithm
Series B in 2021
Hyperithm is a digital asset financial service provider based in Tokyo and Seoul, specializing in cryptocurrency management and execution brokerage services for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. The firm employs algorithmic and high-frequency trading strategies that are market neutral, enabling clients to execute streamlined crypto trades effectively. As a fully regulated Virtual Asset Service Provider, Hyperithm offers a comprehensive suite of services, including crypto prime brokerage. The company actively invests in the Web3 ecosystem, focusing on Layer 1 and Layer 2 solutions, decentralized applications, gaming projects, and asset managers. Co-founded by an ex-Morgan Stanley investment banker and a serial entrepreneur recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30, Hyperithm boasts a team of experienced professionals, including former investment bankers and world-class engineers. By leveraging advanced technology and innovative algorithms built with Rust, Hyperithm aims to create a robust digital asset gateway for its clients while supporting emerging teams through venture investments.
Fei Labs
Series A in 2021
Fei Labs is focused on developing open-source decentralized applications, primarily through the creation of a scalable stablecoin. This stablecoin aims to address challenges posed by whale activity in existing dollar-pegged products, promoting a more equitable financial ecosystem. The platform employs a novel stablecoin mechanism that ensures capital efficiency, fair distribution, and full decentralization. By doing so, it enables users to utilize the stablecoin in maintaining liquid secondary markets, thus enhancing the overall functionality and accessibility of decentralized finance solutions.
Eco
Series A in 2021
Eco is a financial technology company that focuses on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, it aims to reshape traditional banking and reward systems. The company has developed Bend, a platform that seeks to improve users' financial experiences by maximizing the utility and effectiveness of their money. Eco's mission centers on empowering individuals to expect more from their financial transactions, ultimately striving to redefine the relationship between people and their money.
Anoma
Funding Round in 2021
Anoma is a blockchain protocol established in 2021 in Zug, Switzerland, focused on facilitating private and asset-agnostic transactions. It offers an intent-centric and privacy-preserving solution for decentralized counterparty discovery, multi-chain atomic settlement, and secure bartering among multiple parties. By employing advanced cryptography and zero-knowledge proof schemes, Anoma empowers users to engage in cryptocurrency exchanges automatically at market rates, ensuring a user-controlled and secure trading environment. The protocol aims to enhance privacy in transactions, making it easier for users to conduct business without sacrificing security.
Terra
Venture Round in 2021
Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency designed for mass adoption. It builds financial infrastructure for the next generation of decentralized applications. Terra is backed by Luna, a decentralized asset that derives its value from transaction fees collected on the Terra network. Much like the moon stabilizes the earth’s rotation, Luna is Terra's eternal guardian of stability.
Bison Trails
Acquisition in 2021
Bison Trails Co. operates a blockchain infrastructure platform that enables users to run nodes across multiple blockchains securely. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company offers enterprise-grade security alongside multi-cloud and multi-region distribution, ensuring a 99.99% uptime guarantee for its node operators. Bison Trails aims to strengthen the blockchain ecosystem by providing a robust and transparent infrastructure that supports various activities, including staking, validating, voting, and transacting. This allows customers to deploy participation nodes on any blockchain without needing to develop their own security and operational capabilities.
UMA
Venture Round in 2021
UMA is a decentralized platform focused on financial contracts, aiming to provide global market access through innovative technology. It allows users to trade derivative products without reliance on a centralized authority, minimizing risk and eliminating single points of failure. By enabling customers to create customized financial products, UMA facilitates automatic enforcement and immediate settlement of agreements. The platform also features a unique oracle that records verifiable truths or data on a blockchain, enhancing the integrity of the financial contracts. This structure incentivizes participants to challenge and provide evidence against recorded claims, fostering a transparent and robust ecosystem for decentralized finance.
Protego Trust Bank
Series A in 2021
Protego Trust Bank is a financial service company that offers regulated crypto services to institutional investors. The company provides clients comprehensive digital asset services including custody, trading, lending, and issuance - all within one vertically integrated partner. Protego Trush Bank was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, WA.
Notional Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate, fixed term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on Ethereum. Users can lend or borrow stablecoins at fixed rates of interest for terms of up to six months using a variety of assets as collateral. Notional achieves fixed rate lending via a primitive called fCash, which is redeemable for an underlying currency like DAI upon the fCash token’s maturity date. Notional operates specialized liquidity pools that allow users to efficiently trade cash for fCash and vice versa. The exchange rate that a user receives on their trade implies a fixed rate of interest from the time of trade until the fCash token’s maturity. Notional is flexible and configurable. The protocol can add additional assets for lending and borrowing, additional collateral types, and additional maturities beyond six months. The community intends to broaden Notional’s scope over time to include a wider array of supported assets and extended available maturities. Notional prioritizes security. The protocol team works with industry leaders to ensure that the smart contracts are technically secure and that the economic assumptions applied in the protocol’s design are sound.
Multis
Seed Round in 2020
Multis is a developer of a decentralized crypto wallet designed to support web3 organizations in managing their financial operations. The wallet allows businesses to automate payments, track multiple wallets, and efficiently scale their operations. It is community-approved and undergoes thorough audits, ensuring security and reliability. By providing a user-friendly platform, Multis enables organizations to access, transfer, and receive cryptocurrencies seamlessly. This approach helps businesses maintain liquidity while earning interest on their assets, fostering growth in an increasingly open financial environment.
Audius
Venture Round in 2020
Audius, Inc. is a music streaming platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized community where artists, developers, and listeners can collaborate and share music. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, Audius enables artists to securely register their creative works and generate immutable records on its network. This decentralized approach ensures that metadata attribution is safe, verifiable, and transparent, allowing creators to connect directly with their audience without intermediaries. The platform offers features such as audio file hosting, streaming, and a creator dashboard, enabling artists to earn royalties instantly as consumers engage with their content. Audius also allows users to discover new music and verify authenticity through a transparent system. By automating payments and licensing agreements, Audius aims to empower artists while providing a seamless experience for listeners.
Audius
Venture Round in 2020
Audius, Inc. is a music streaming platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized community where artists, developers, and listeners can collaborate and share music. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, Audius enables artists to securely register their creative works and generate immutable records on its network. This decentralized approach ensures that metadata attribution is safe, verifiable, and transparent, allowing creators to connect directly with their audience without intermediaries. The platform offers features such as audio file hosting, streaming, and a creator dashboard, enabling artists to earn royalties instantly as consumers engage with their content. Audius also allows users to discover new music and verify authenticity through a transparent system. By automating payments and licensing agreements, Audius aims to empower artists while providing a seamless experience for listeners.
DerivaDEX
Seed Round in 2020
DerivaDEX is a community-governed derivatives exchange designed to enhance performance and autonomy while ensuring the security of a decentralized platform. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, it employs a liquidity-mining token model that empowers users to engage actively in the governance and operations of the exchange. Utilizing an open order book and on-chain settlement for trades, DerivaDEX aims to create a next-generation trading environment. Its native token facilitates user participation and supports the exchange's decentralized structure, combining advanced technology with community oversight.
Tagomi
Acquisition in 2020
Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that focuses on enhancing trade execution for its clients, allowing them to retain a greater portion of their returns. The platform employs advanced routing techniques and execution algorithms to analyze both real-time and historical data, which aids in determining optimal trading strategies. This approach not only facilitates access to priced liquidity and low commissions but also aims to minimize trading costs. By leveraging sophisticated technology, Tagomi strives to deliver improved trading outcomes for its users.
Coin Metrics
Series A in 2020
Coin Metrics Inc. is a provider of blockchain and cryptocurrency data, offering comprehensive market and network analytics to various industries. The company delivers a range of services, including the CM Network Data Pro, which provides historical crypto network data aggregated daily for prominent assets, and the CM Market Data Feed, which standardizes trade, candle, and order book data across multiple exchanges. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers CM Reference Rates, which provide fixed pricing for various assets quoted in U.S. dollars. Founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Coin Metrics aims to empower institutions and individuals to make informed decisions regarding crypto assets by providing transparent and actionable data analytics.
Amber Group
Series A in 2020
Amber Group is a cryptocurrency financial services provider based in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals from leading institutions. The company offers a range of services including liquidity provision, trading, asset management, yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, and electronic market making. Operating globally, Amber Group serves over 200 institutional clients and has facilitated cumulative trading exceeding $200 billion across numerous electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume of $100-200 million. The company is dedicated to enhancing client experiences by leveraging advanced technology and quantitative research, aiming to optimize investment flexibility and maximize returns. Amber Group has also raised significant capital to support its growth and innovation in the cryptocurrency space.
Authereum
Seed Round in 2020
Authereum develops a platform for onboarding users to decentralized apps on the Ethereum network, to make it easier for non-technical users to get on Ethereum applications. Authereum makes use of contract-based accounts to enable additional key management functionalities, allowing users to convert fiat into crypto without leaving the wallet or having to complete a Know Your Customer verification.
Bison Trails
Series A in 2019
Bison Trails Co. operates a blockchain infrastructure platform that enables users to run nodes across multiple blockchains securely. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company offers enterprise-grade security alongside multi-cloud and multi-region distribution, ensuring a 99.99% uptime guarantee for its node operators. Bison Trails aims to strengthen the blockchain ecosystem by providing a robust and transparent infrastructure that supports various activities, including staking, validating, voting, and transacting. This allows customers to deploy participation nodes on any blockchain without needing to develop their own security and operational capabilities.
Instadapp
Seed Round in 2019
Instadapp is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that aims to simplify interactions with various finance protocols. Founded in 2018 and based in Hyderabad, India, the company operates an autonomous banking portal and mobile application that offers services such as lending, borrowing, leveraging, and swapping assets. Instadapp enables users to manage multiple DeFi applications efficiently, maximizing returns while tracking and analyzing their blockchain-based assets and financial positions. Additionally, the platform provides developers with the tools to create custom use cases, allowing them to monetize their models and enhance user experience with reliable solutions.
Mina
Seed Round in 2019
Mina is building a privacy-preserving gateway between the real world and crypto — and the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve.
Forte
Venture Round in 2019
Forte is building economic technology for games that is secure, easy to use, and fully compliant. Its end-to-end blockchain platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industry members (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and Rockstar Games, among others), and is currently working with over 25 acclaimed game developers from across the globe to reimagine the economics of games.
Abacus
Seed Round in 2018
Abacus helps financial services companies reduce long back-and-forth onboarding sessions, eliminate inefficient data collection, and streamline compliance workflows.
Flipside Crypto
Seed Round in 2018
Flipside Crypto, Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cryptocurrency information platform delivering business intelligence for blockchain organizations. Established in 2017, it offers a range of services including cryptocurrency management, digital walleting, custody, community tools, and portfolio dashboards aimed at investors. Flipside Crypto provides analytics tools that offer insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial trends within the cryptocurrency space. It also features the Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS), a metric for assessing the health of cryptocurrency projects, which is distributed through partnerships with platforms such as CoinMarketCap and Messari. The company is supported by notable investors, including CoinBase Ventures and True Ventures.
Nova
Seed Round in 2018
Nova is a subscription and reporting platform designed to enhance operational efficiency for firms through digital transformation. It allows organizations to improve the investor experience by enabling profile management, collaborative dashboards, and intuitive reporting. Nova also supports compliance and operations teams by integrating vendor services and centralizing data, thus reducing reliance on email communication. Additionally, Nova leverages artificial intelligence to streamline the sales process, helping sellers identify optimal actions throughout the sales pipeline and minimize operational inefficiencies. The platform further aims to build an open financial infrastructure by automating compliance and facilitating the management of tokenized financial instruments on the blockchain, allowing clients to navigate regulatory requirements effectively.
Venovate
Acquisition in 2018
Venovate operates an online financial platform that connects accredited investors and qualified institutions with private-placement business opportunities, simplifying the capital-raising process. Established in response to the JOBS Act, which relaxed restrictions on public solicitation for certain private securities offerings, Venovate has created a comprehensive marketplace for alternative investments. The platform enables users to discover, evaluate, and purchase assets such as private equity, hedge funds, real estate, and venture capital. Investors benefit from a streamlined process that includes rigorous screening for both buyers and sellers, ensuring transparency and security. Venovate's user-friendly interface allows members to search for opportunities, ask questions, express interest, and complete transactions electronically across various devices. By standardizing information presentation and facilitating easy access to investment opportunities, Venovate aims to enhance the investment experience for individuals and institutions alike.
CoinTracker
Pre Seed Round in 2018
CoinTracker is a cryptocurrency portfolio and tax management platform that facilitates the tracking of cryptocurrency investments and ensures tax compliance. The platform automatically syncs transactions from various exchanges and wallets into a unified dashboard, allowing users to monitor their balances and transactions seamlessly. CoinTracker calculates cost basis and capital gains, delivering essential tax information with minimal effort. This service provides users with insights into their cryptocurrency movements, enabling them to visualize transactions and manage their portfolios effectively. By consolidating all relevant data, CoinTracker simplifies the process of filing crypto taxes and helps users maintain a comprehensive overview of their investments.
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