Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a corporate venture capital firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, founded in 2015. The company focuses on building and supporting businesses within the bitcoin and blockchain sectors by providing insights, networking opportunities, and access to capital. With over 150 investments across more than 30 countries, DCG primarily targets companies involved in financial technology, web3 infrastructure, decentralized finance, and related fields. In addition to its investment activities, DCG owns and operates several key entities in the digital currency ecosystem, including CoinDesk, a leading media and events platform, Genesis Trading, a prominent bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest asset management firm specializing in digital currencies.
Cinch Tech is a subscription service that offers technology products like computers, phones, tablets, and gaming equipment. Users can choose from different payment plans. The service includes damage cover for the devices. It is intended to help users access and maintain technology without paying full price upfront. The service provides an alternative way to obtain and use tech devices.
Slingshot DAO
Venture Round in 2025
SlingShot DAO is a dynamic and community-driven platform to empower creatives around the globe. SlingShot DAO is a community-driven gaming ecosystem platform that allows members to cooperate using the slingshot APP to turn ideas into game experiences. SlingShot DAO values "community first" and encourages an action-oriented approach.
Ligero
Seed Round in 2025
Ligero, Inc. specializes in developing a privacy platform that facilitates secure and private collaboration on and off blockchain technology. Incorporated in 2018 and based in Pittsford, New York, the company offers a lightweight and scalable protocol for secure multiparty computation and zero-knowledge proofs. This enables clients to engage in confidential transactions, implement private smart contracts, and conduct secure auctions for decentralized exchanges and dark pools. Additionally, Ligero supports private and verifiable machine learning, enhancing the capabilities of its platform for various applications in the blockchain ecosystem.
Altius Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Altius Labs is focused on developing a modular execution stack that works without depending on virtual machines (VMs).
TaoFi
Seed Round in 2025
TaoFi is an AI-driven decentralized social-fi platform.
StarTower
Seed Round in 2025
StarTower is a resource company built specifically for fully decentralized physical infrastructure and shared interaction. Based on the exclusive RIP encryption technology, StarTower realizes the interactive sharing of multiple resources with zero loss on mobile devices, thereby providing efficient resource transmission for terminal facilities. It provides more efficient, secure and reliable solutions in the fields of Internet of Things, smart cities, industrial automation, healthcare, etc.
Stakpak
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Stakpak is a DevOps IDE powered by AI, helps software developers build and maintain production-ready infrastructure.
SkorLife
Seed Round in 2025
SkorLife Platforms is a financial wellness company that offers users access to their credit history and credit scores. The platform allows individuals to check their scores for free and provides valuable insights into their financial standing. Additionally, SkorLife equips users with advice, tools, and strategies to enhance their financial lifestyle. The service includes features that help users track the status of their installments, loans, and credit cards, ultimately empowering them to make informed financial decisions and improve their credit scores.
Masa
Venture Round in 2024
Masa is a decentralized AI platform focused on creating a data marketplace that allows users to be compensated for their data contributions. The platform aims to transform traditional centralized credit systems by offering a unique infrastructure that includes a non-fungible credit report, composable credit primitives, smart contracts, and liquidity pools. These components are designed to provide a scalable, interoperable, and standardized on-chain identity framework, catering to the evolving needs of the web3 ecosystem. By enabling developers to acquire, retain, and verify users while gamifying community engagement, Masa facilitates the launch of innovative credit products that align with existing centralized credit paradigms.
Hub2.Io
Series A in 2024
Hub2.Io is a system for digitizing ongoing transactions. Services like cash out, to pay, manage, and others are offered by them. Connecting businesses to their infrastructure will enable them to accept and process payments quickly and safely.
Rise
Series A in 2024
Rise is an innovative payroll and compliance provider. It is a Web3-enabled platform that helps businesses onboard, manage, and pay local and international contractors while ensuring full compliance and alleviating burdensome tax processes. Rise provides an all-in-one compliance and payment platform for companies with global workforces, streamlining onboarding, payments, and compliance tasks. It allows businesses to hire, onboard, and pay international contractors compliantly.
Barter
Seed Round in 2024
Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
Spire
Seed Round in 2024
Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability.
Regfyl
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Regfyl platform for the whole compliance journey from onboarding customers, ongoing monitoring and regulatory reporting.
Aviva
Seed Round in 2024
Aviva is building an AI-powered digital bank for Latin America’s underbank communities. While determined to fuel Latin America’s ongoing emergence of a new middle class with a fully-fledged portfolio of inclusive financial services, Aviva’s initial go-to-market concentrates on unsecured credit products for individuals and nano-businesses in Mexico. As most of the underbanked 40+ million Mexicans live in small and medium-sized towns, Aviva builds a bridge to those living in remote communities with its physical onboarding kiosks. These nano-branches provide a documentless 3-minute video onboarding for everyone in need of liquidity. Novel AI-based technology, including natural language processing, allows Aviva to match customers’ spoken word to the fields of a comprehensive real-time credit application. Transforming speech to text and inferring emotions and personality from the visual layer of the application video gives Aviva an edge in scoring thin-file customers. Leveraging these novel risk models, Aviva aims to provide the lowest interest rates available to today’s underserved.
Caliza
Seed Round in 2024
Caliza is developing a global financial infrastructure aimed at facilitating seamless commerce by eliminating borders. The company offers a platform that enables instant cross-border settlements and provides regulated digital dollar accounts for its clients. This infrastructure supports various applications, including prompt international supplier payments and corporate fund transfers, thereby allowing merchant settlement providers to efficiently and cost-effectively manage cross-border transactions. By leveraging stablecoins, Caliza aims to enhance the ability of its customers to transact effortlessly and access the U.S. economy.
dvts.network
Series A in 2024
dvts.network is an ethereum liquidity staking protocol that reduces the initial capital requirements for ethereum validators.
Tensorplex Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Tensorplex Labs is a Web3 and artificial intelligence (AI) firm developing finance and intelligence infrastructure for decentralized AI networks.
Zone
Seed Round in 2024
Zone is a regulated blockchain network that facilitates payments and the acceptance of digital currencies. As a blockchain services company, it provides a secure infrastructure that supports various financial transactions in the digital economy. By leveraging advanced blockchain technology, Zone aims to enhance the efficiency and transparency of payment processes, making it easier for businesses and consumers to engage in digital currency transactions. Its focus on regulatory compliance ensures that its services meet the necessary legal standards, fostering trust and reliability in the evolving landscape of digital finance.
Beoble
Seed Round in 2024
Beoble is a communication infrastructure company that focuses on enhancing the web3 communication ecosystem through its wallet-to-wallet messaging platform. The company offers a web-based chat application that supports most major cryptocurrency wallets, ensuring secure, end-to-end encrypted messaging. This platform enables users to communicate directly through their crypto wallets, fostering a private and decentralized communication experience. Additionally, Beoble provides a toolkit for decentralized applications (Dapps) to facilitate integration, making it easier for developers to incorporate secure messaging features into their platforms. By prioritizing user ownership and privacy, Beoble aims to create a seamless interaction environment within the decentralized space.
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.
Masa
Seed Round in 2024
Masa is a decentralized AI platform focused on creating a data marketplace that allows users to be compensated for their data contributions. The platform aims to transform traditional centralized credit systems by offering a unique infrastructure that includes a non-fungible credit report, composable credit primitives, smart contracts, and liquidity pools. These components are designed to provide a scalable, interoperable, and standardized on-chain identity framework, catering to the evolving needs of the web3 ecosystem. By enabling developers to acquire, retain, and verify users while gamifying community engagement, Masa facilitates the launch of innovative credit products that align with existing centralized credit paradigms.
Andalusia Labs
Series A in 2023
Andalusia Labs is focused on developing essential digital infrastructure tailored for internet markets, particularly in the realm of digital assets. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes a security solution and risk management infrastructure specifically designed for the blockchain sector. This platform facilitates the management of significant amounts of digital assets, providing innovative companies worldwide with the tools necessary to navigate the complexities of risk associated with digital transactions. Through its offerings, Andalusia Labs aims to enhance the security and efficiency of the digital asset marketplace.
TAPPI
Pre Seed Round in 2023
TAPPI is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries and publisher of Paper360º.
Neutral Exchange
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Neutral is an exchange for environmental assets. We combine tokenized carbon credits, renewable energy credits, and carbon forwards with specialized market infrastructure to deliver efficiency, transparency, and trust in environmental asset markets.
AlloyX
Pre Seed Round in 2023
AlloyX is a developer of a decentralized crypto loan protocol that facilitates liquid staking for crypto loans. The company offers a platform designed to simplify and enhance the investment process for protocols, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), and institutional investors. AlloyX enables lenders to create diversified investment strategies focused on real-world assets (RWA) by integrating with leading credit protocols. This platform allows users to manage their RWA investments in alignment with their specific yield, risk, and liquidity preferences, making it a flexible and efficient solution for asset management.
Arkham Intelligence
Series A in 2023
Arkham Intelligence provides intelligence on cryptocurrency networks and the entities behind them.
Fleek
Series A in 2022
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.
Daylight Energy
Seed Round in 2022
Daylight Energy is a renewable energy platform that incentivizes today's consumers to adopt the home energy lifestyle of the future.
React Network
Seed Round in 2022
React Network aims to modernize the national power grid by creating a community owned network connecting energy storage assets.
Fordefi
Seed Round in 2022
Fordefi operates a multi-party computation (MPC) wallet platform that serves as a Web3 gateway for institutions, facilitating secure connections to decentralized applications (dApps) across various blockchain networks. As the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform specifically designed for decentralized finance, Fordefi offers a range of features including MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, and time-of-transaction smart contract insights. Additionally, the platform provides transaction simulation and risk alerts, enabling market participants to engage with decentralized finance securely and efficiently.
Volare Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Volare Finance provides a transparent, trustless, and convenient decentralized option trading without intermediaries.
NFTBank
Series A in 2022
NFTBank is a developer of a portfolio and analytics platform that focuses on the management of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform offers tools for users to efficiently buy, sell, and manage their NFTs, providing a centralized solution for scattered digital assets across various platforms. By addressing the illiquid nature of these tokens, NFTBank helps users better manage liquidity risk and maintain a comprehensive overview of their NFT portfolios in one place.
Permian Labs
Venture Round in 2022
Permian Labs was founded in 2021 by David Choi, Conor Moore and Ivan Sergeev and has raised $25m in funding from prominent venture capital funds such as DCG, Dragonfly, Ethereal, Metaversal, Nascent, Caladan, Alliance, Delphi, Fintech Collective and others. Since inception, Permian Labs has facilitated $400m in loan volume. Permian’s hardware infrastructure arm, Tactical Compute, actively operates $60m in compute oriented hardware globally.
Arch
Seed Round in 2022
Arch is a decentralized finance (DeFi) asset manager that facilitates exposure to cryptocurrencies and digital assets for passive investors.
Kwil
Seed Round in 2022
Kwil is a decentralized, community-owned SQL database solution for building advanced dApps and protocols. Kwil brings together the robust capabilities of existing databases with the permissionless nature of blockchains, extending the promises of Web3 to more intricate, data-intensive applications. Kwil provides the infrastructure to power data storage and retrieval for the next generation of Web3-enabled applications.
Higlobe
Series A in 2022
Higlobe is an international payment platform for overseas freelancers, contractors, and independent workers with U.S. business clients. Higlobe offers zero transaction fees, with the goal of eliminating all transaction fees. Founded in 2020, Higlobe is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Halborn
Series A in 2022
Halborn is a cybersecurity company focused on safeguarding blockchain organizations from cyber threats. It offers a comprehensive platform that includes a range of products and services aimed at identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities in Web3 applications. These services encompass advanced penetration testing, security advisory, DevSecOps, automation, and smart contract audits. By serving as a third-party partner, Halborn continuously assesses critical assets and facilitates maximum automation, providing expert consulting and execution throughout the security process. The company is dedicated to helping clients protect their data and financial resources against potential cyber attacks.
Gnosis
Venture Round in 2022
In late 2020, Gnosis announced plans to fully decentralize into a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization). Today, the GnosisDAO treasury has effective control of over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens, with the GNO tokens vested over 8 years. A year later, in 2021, the xDAI and GnosisDAO communities voted to combine their vibrant ecosystems to create the Gnosis Chain: An Ethereum forerunner companion that addresses scaling issues through solid engineering. Gnosis Chain is the associated execution-layer EVM chain for stable transactions. It uses the xDai token and includes a wide-ranging group of projects and users. The Gnosis mission has always been centered on experimentation and building decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. When Gnosis was founded in 2015, it focused on building prediction markets to enable worldwide access to accurate information. While creating the prediction market platform, it became clear that Gnosis needed to build the infrastructure required to support it. As a DAO, Gnosis uses the products that it creates to transparently guide decisions on the development, support, and governance of its ecosystem. Gnosis Safe (multisig and programmable account), Cow Protocol (formerly CowSwap and Gnosis Protocol), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), Gnosis Auction, and Zodiac (standard and tooling for composable DAOs) are all products incubated by Gnosis. Their success is demonstrated by the recent spin-out of Cow Protocol and the formation of SafeDAO. By combining needs-driven development with deep technical expertise, Gnosis has built the decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem.
Safe
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Safe is a digital asset management platform built on Ethereum that specializes in multi-signature smart contract wallets. Originating from Gnosis, a provider of digital asset storage solutions, Safe offers a secure infrastructure for managing decentralized ownership. The platform facilitates collaboration and tracking of assets and transactions, aiming to establish a universal standard for the custody of assets, data, and identity. By providing a user-friendly interface through its flagship website and mobile products, Safe supports users in efficiently managing their digital assets within a secure environment. As a leader in account abstraction on Ethereum, Safe is committed to enhancing the security and functionality of smart wallets.
Bitmark
Series B in 2022
Bitmark Inc. develops a property system for the digital environment, utilizing specialized blockchain technology to transform personal data into property that can be sold, licensed, and transferred directly between users. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, with additional offices in Cupertino, California; Reykjavík, Iceland; and Đà Nẵng, Vietnam, Bitmark's system allows individuals to establish ownership claims for their data, similar to land registrars for real estate. The company aims to restore trust in data by providing an end-to-end Internet protocol that secures data provenance, enabling verifiable information and digital property rights. This approach facilitates the safe sharing of personal data without relying on trusted third parties. Bitmark's solutions are utilized in various sectors, including healthcare, music, and art, by organizations such as UC Berkeley, Pfizer, and KKBOX.
Rigor
Seed Round in 2022
Rigor operates in the construction finance sector, offering a platform that decentralizes lending and streamlines payment processes. The company's technology provides lenders with transparency into home construction project status and financial flows, allowing for better risk management and opportunity identification. By facilitating access to capital for home builders, Rigor enables collaboration between lenders and builders, enhancing the efficiency of the construction logistics involved in home development.
ScienceMagic.Studios
Pre Seed Round in 2022
ScienceMagic.Studios is a digital asset venture studio provider.
Elwood Technologies
Series A in 2022
Elwood Technologies is a prominent fintech firm that specializes in digital asset trading and portfolio management software tailored for institutional clients. The company offers a comprehensive platform that connects users to global crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, custodians, and fund administrators. With a focus on advanced execution management, portfolio analytics, and risk management, Elwood's solutions are designed to enable financial institutions, neobanks, and corporations to navigate the complexities of the digital asset market effectively. Founded by experts with extensive backgrounds in both traditional finance and digital technology, Elwood aims to deliver secure and efficient tools that enhance clients' ability to engage with digital assets.
Voyager
Post in 2022
Voyager is a crypto-asset broker that provides retail and institutional investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto assets. Voyager offers investors execution, data, wallet, and custody services through its institutional-grade open architecture platform. The Voyager app offers a way to invest in 100 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and a selection of altcoins in North America. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Stakes
Seed Round in 2022
Stakes is a social wagering platform based in New York that focuses on transforming sports betting into a more interactive experience. The platform allows users to make predictions on real-time sports events through a dedicated app, which also includes features for creating and joining public chat groups. This social aspect encourages community engagement and enhances the betting experience. Users are rewarded for accurate predictions, thus incentivizing participation and fostering a dynamic environment for sports enthusiasts to connect and compete.
NFTBank
Series A in 2022
NFTBank is a developer of a portfolio and analytics platform that focuses on the management of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform offers tools for users to efficiently buy, sell, and manage their NFTs, providing a centralized solution for scattered digital assets across various platforms. By addressing the illiquid nature of these tokens, NFTBank helps users better manage liquidity risk and maintain a comprehensive overview of their NFT portfolios in one place.
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.
MSquared
Venture Round in 2022
MSquared (M²) develops a network that allows metaverses to be used together. It uses blockchain and cryptocurrency to connect digital assets to various organizations. MSquared is based in London, United Kingdom.
Coin Metrics
Series C in 2022
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.
OXIO
Series B in 2022
OXIO is a telecom-as-a-service platform that provides brands and enterprises with a cloud-based solution to unbundle mobile telecom infrastructure. By leveraging a connectivity trading exchange and a proprietary multi-network smart client, OXIO enables clients to mix and match various wireless networks, facilitating the creation of customized, asset-light networks delivered in a matter of days. This innovative approach allows brands to gain unprecedented control over their wireless experience and access actionable data that was previously confined to telecom silos. Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Mexico City and Montreal, OXIO aims to enhance customer engagement by delivering a differentiated wireless experience tailored to the needs of each brand.
Provenance
Venture Round in 2022
Provenance is a platform that focuses on enhancing consumer sustainability by validating and amplifying the sustainability credentials of consumer packaged goods. It empowers customers to make informed choices by providing transparency about the environmental and social impact of products from discovery to checkout. The platform leverages blockchain technology to offer real-time data, enabling businesses to trace the origins and histories of their products, thereby fostering trust and credibility with consumers. Over 200 leading brands, including Cult Beauty and The Ordinary, utilize Provenance to communicate their sustainability efforts effectively. As a mission-driven independent B Corp, Provenance aims to create a world where consumers can confidently make purchasing decisions that benefit both society and the environment.
Your Juno
Seed Round in 2022
Your Juno is a financial education platform focused on empowering women and non-binary individuals by providing comprehensive resources about financial health. The platform offers workshops and educational content that cover various aspects of personal finance, addressing topics often overlooked in traditional education. By promoting an inclusive approach to financial literacy, Your Juno aims to enhance users' knowledge and confidence in managing their finances, regardless of their location or income level. Through its initiatives, the company strives to create a supportive environment where individuals can learn about money management and develop essential financial skills.
SSV Network
Venture Round in 2022
SSV Network develops a distributed validator technology designed for ETH staking.
Trust Machines
Seed Round in 2022
Trust Machines is building an ecosystem of applications and platform technologies aimed at unleashing the true potential of bitcoin.
NALA
Seed Round in 2022
NALA Incorporation Company Limited is a FinTech firm based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, founded in 2017. The company develops a mobile payments application that facilitates various financial transactions, including peer-to-peer payments, bill payments, and airtime top-ups, all without the need for an internet connection. NALA's platform is designed to enhance financial inclusion by offering services that include money transfers, budgeting tools, and transaction tracking. The application also features advanced security measures such as bank-grade encryption and multi-factor authentication, ensuring safe and reliable transactions, particularly in areas with limited internet access. Through its services, NALA aims to support mobile money transfers for Africans worldwide, promoting seamless international payments and digital financial services.
Hubble Protocol
Venture Round in 2022
Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.
Spritz Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Choose where to draw funds from. Do you prefer to fund your expenses from your extensive investment holdings to let your gains run? Or do you prefer to use your stablecoin yield farm? We support dozens of ways to program your payments. Link your existing crypto wallets. Keep control and custody of your funds and invest however you like in between bills. Revoke access or change your linked wallets at any time. Integrate with all your bills. Use Plaid to safely link to your accounts and we’ll help you make payments when and how you want to do so, with over 1000+ integrations available in the US.
Livepeer
Series B in 2022
Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. Livepeer combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. Eric Tang and Douglas Petkanics founded it in 2017, with its head in New York City.
SPACE Metaverse
Seed Round in 2021
SPACE Metaverse is a virtual commerce platform that enables users to create and manage their own immersive experiences within a realistic 3D environment. The platform allows individuals to design their own virtual spaces, including shops, galleries, and music venues, where they can showcase and sell virtual goods. Users can represent themselves through customizable avatars and engage in spatial audio interactions, enhancing the browsing experience. In addition to creating content, users can build businesses, collaborate with others, and find employment opportunities within this user-owned social platform. SPACE Metaverse provides a dynamic environment for creativity and commerce, empowering its citizens to monetize their artwork, music, and other digital assets.
Atlendis
Seed Round in 2021
Operator of an online lending platform intended to offer a capital-efficient lending protocol. The company creates a more capital-efficient environment for uncollateralized crypto loans through its Defi lending protocol using blockchain technology, enabling clients to access flexibility for recurrent and short-term liquidity needs.
JellyFi
Seed Round in 2021
Most DeFi applications require institutional borrowers to over-collateralize their loans using crypto as collateral, limiting the wide range of use cases possible with crypto lending. Collateralized loans not only restrict borrowers from using capital how and when they want, but also limit the potential for enhanced return for lenders. JellyFi is a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that enables crypto loans without collateral, where institutional borrowers can obtain competitive loan terms, and lenders get access to higher returns while having more granular control over their investment portfolios. Zero-collateral loans are similar to a revolving line of credit where the borrower only has to pay a liquidity fee on unused capital in their own liquidity pool.
BBS Network
Seed Round in 2021
BBS Network is a SocialFi project that allows sharing content to reward creators, curators, and other stakeholders with their own native testimony. The revenue generated by the platform is shared among all participants in the BBS ecosystem in a fully automated, transparent, and market-driven way.
Matrix One
Seed Round in 2021
Matrix One is a machine intelligence company that focuses on bridging the physical and digital realms through innovative technology. The company offers advanced Internet of Things (IoT) devices tailored for both consumers and businesses. Among its key products are the MATRIX Creator, a development board for creating hardware applications, and MATRIX Voice, designed for open-source voice platforms. Launched in 2016 and 2017 respectively, these products facilitate rapid and cost-effective development. Additionally, Matrix One envisions the democratization of AI-powered characters, aiming to create interactive and immersive companions for users. The company also operates a marketplace platform for three-dimensional non-fungible tokens (NFTs), allowing creators to optimize 3D files for various metaverse environments, enhancing the accessibility and ownership of digital art. Through these endeavors, Matrix One aspires to redefine digital interactions and streamline the integration of AI and 3D technology into everyday life.
C3 Exchange
Seed Round in 2021
C3 Exchange operates a self-custodial trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of spot and derivative assets. The exchange combines the advantages of self-custody and decentralization with the performance and accessibility typically associated with traditional trading platforms. Its innovative clearing engine protocol allows for cross-margin and cross-collateralization, enabling traders to optimize their capital usage by calculating margin requirements across all open positions in their accounts. Through this approach, C3 Exchange aims to enhance the trading experience while maintaining user control over their assets.
Blockchain Association
Venture Round in 2021
Blockchain Association is dedicated to improving the public policy environment for crypto networks.
NYM Technologies SA
Series A in 2021
NYM Technologies SA, based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, specializes in designing and developing a private Internet infrastructure aimed at enhancing user privacy. The company addresses the vulnerabilities of existing internet protocols, which often expose sensitive data at both the network and application levels. By utilizing anonymous authentication credentials, NYM Technologies enables privacy-enhanced data transfer and promotes decentralized identity solutions. Its innovative approach seeks to prevent data leakage and provide individuals with a robust framework for maintaining their online privacy.
Polarise Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Polarise Protocol combines the new NFT standard of ERC-1000 with the protocol's proprietary financial tools, establishing a new liquidity facilitation mechanism in the Web3 - NFT domain.
WeMeta
Seed Round in 2021
WeMeta operates a digital real estate platform that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of non-fungible token (NFT) land. The platform includes features such as community leaderboards and activity feeds, providing users with a comprehensive digital trading interface. WeMeta aims to enhance accessibility to blockchain real estate by offering deep, automated insights, allowing users to analyze and establish ownership of their digital assets effectively.
WorldCoin
Venture Round in 2021
World is a company that connects users through a privacy-focused network designed for secure digital asset management. It offers a digital currency platform that emphasizes both privacy and transparency using a permissionless blockchain. The World App enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps, promoting global connectivity and trust. Additionally, World provides an iris-scanning device that enhances digital identity security by storing biometric information, which helps discourage spammers from creating multiple accounts. This combination of secure identity management and digital currency aims to facilitate a reliable and user-friendly digital environment.
Arcana Network
Venture Round in 2021
Arcana is the Decentralized Storage Layer for Ethereum and EVM chains, with a Privacy Stack for Authentication, Identity and Access Control, Key Management, and End-to-End to encryption. With Arcana's Privacy stack, developers can build secure and privacy-preserving apps.
Tinyman
Seed Round in 2021
Tinyman is a decentralized trading protocol built on the Algorand blockchain, designed to facilitate a secure and open marketplace for traders, liquidity providers, and developers. It operates as a market maker, leveraging blockchain technology to provide a platform for users to trade and swap various assets, including tokens and currencies, at competitive market rates. By focusing on safety and efficiency, Tinyman aims to enhance the trading experience within the decentralized finance ecosystem.
BitOasis
Series B in 2021
BitOasis is a cryptocurrency trading platform established in 2015 by co-founders Ola Doudin and Daniel Robenek. It provides a digital asset wallet and an exchange for buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies, with a particular focus on cash-based emerging markets. The platform emphasizes security through its multi-signature wallet and aims to create a secure and regulated environment for both retail and institutional clients. By developing a comprehensive infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading, BitOasis enables investors to manage their assets safely and effectively.
Ripio
Series B in 2021
Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that specializes in electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. Utilizing blockchain technology, Ripio aims to create a more accessible financial system in emerging markets. The company enables merchants to process international transactions using credit cards or bitcoins, significantly reducing costs. Additionally, Ripio allows consumers to purchase bitcoins instantly with cash. Its platform supports bitcoin and credit card payments and provides merchants the option to receive payouts in local currency or bitcoins. The company also offers a digital wallet feature and a credit line service to facilitate installment payments, catering to clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
Taker Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The protocol optimizes the liquidation of NFT assets through a quote-by-lock-in pricing mechanism. This approach enables asset holders to borrow stablecoins while facilitating cross-chain bridges that connect different public blockchain networks. By enhancing the efficiency of asset transfers, Taker Protocol aims to broaden application scenarios for its clients, thereby improving the overall liquidity and usability of NFT assets in the market.
SubQuery
Series A in 2021
SubQuery is a data-as-a-service provider that focuses on making decentralized data more accessible, particularly from Polkadot projects. By aggregating and organizing data, SubQuery enables developers to easily access well-structured data, allowing them to concentrate on their core applications without the burden of creating custom backends for data processing. The platform facilitates the querying and extraction of data from the Polkadot network, streamlining workflows for development teams utilizing Substrate and Polkadot technologies. Inspired by the growing demand for efficient data protocols, SubQuery aims to enhance the development of decentralized applications (dApps) by ensuring that data can be reliably found and consumed quickly and cost-effectively.
Ondo Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Ondo Finance is a company that develops a cryptocurrency trading platform aimed at making decentralized finance more accessible to users. The platform allows individuals to choose between downside protection and higher returns, catering to various risk tolerances. By providing these options, Ondo Finance enables users to engage with decentralized finance yields in a way that aligns with their financial goals and preferences.
Horizen
Seed Round in 2021
Horizen Labs, Inc. is a blockchain technology company that specializes in providing a Sidechain-as-a-Service platform, enabling businesses to create secure and private distributed ledger solutions. Founded in 2019 and located in Austin, Texas, the company leverages Horizen's privacy-focused public infrastructure along with its proprietary sidechain deployment tool. This platform is designed for various applications, including payment systems, record keeping, and supply chains. Horizen's scalable and decentralized architecture allows developers to create decentralized applications as sidechains to the main blockchain, enhancing privacy and security. Additionally, Horizen emphasizes cybersecurity, offering solutions that address various threats such as digital fraud, phishing, and credential-based attacks. The company aims to facilitate a shift from centralized to decentralized systems, fostering trust and security in the digital landscape.
Livepeer
Series B in 2021
Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. Livepeer combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. Eric Tang and Douglas Petkanics founded it in 2017, with its head in New York City.
Visor Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Visor Finance operates a decentralized platform that focuses on active liquidity management within the decentralized finance sector. Its platform enables users to leverage smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges. By facilitating the implementation of strategies for reinvesting fees and distributing protocol revenue, Visor Finance aims to help users maximize their returns while minimizing the risks associated with impermanent loss. This innovative approach positions Visor Finance as a key player in enhancing user engagement and profitability in the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape.
Coinme
Venture Round in 2021
Coinme Inc. operates as a bitcoin exchange and ATM operator, providing a range of services that facilitate access to the digital currency economy. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company runs the largest licensed cryptocurrency cash exchange in the U.S., with a network of bitcoin ATMs available in 48 states. Through partnerships with Coinstar and MoneyGram, Coinme enables customers to buy and sell bitcoin using cash at thousands of physical locations. The company also offers a digital wallet, a proprietary API, and solutions for digital currency IRAs and 401(k)s. These services aim to simplify the process of engaging with digital currencies, allowing users to securely buy, sell, store, and manage their crypto assets while enhancing the existing financial infrastructure of its partners.
Flare Network
Venture Round in 2021
Flare Networks is a blockchain network that utilizes the Flare Consensus Protocol, which is the first Turing Complete Federated Byzantine Agreement protocol. It offers a decentralized contract platform aimed at enhancing contract capabilities across various blockchains. By leveraging the Ethereum Virtual Machine, Flare Networks can access and utilize information from other blockchains and real-world data sources, effectively addressing the oracle problem. This functionality facilitates cross-chain interoperability, allowing users to share contract capabilities with different protocols. Flare Networks seeks to enable a new era of utility within the blockchain ecosystem through its innovative technology.
Circle
Private Equity Round in 2021
Circle is a financial technology firm that leverages blockchain technology and stablecoins to facilitate payments and e-commerce. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle enhances the way users send and receive money through its platform, Circle Pay. The company offers a cryptocurrency investment product called Circle Invest, enabling users to buy and sell various crypto assets. Additionally, Circle provides over-the-counter trading services through Circle Trade, featuring one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading, with an average monthly volume of $2 billion. Backed by significant investments from notable firms, Circle operates from its headquarters in Boston and has branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.
Figure
Series D in 2021
Figure Technologies, Inc. is a financial technology company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2018. It specializes in consumer financial solutions that include home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, home buy-lease back offerings, mortgage refinancing, and student loan refinancing. Using its proprietary blockchain platform, Provenance, Figure aims to streamline the borrowing process, allowing customers to access capital in as few as five days. The company's services are designed to assist individuals with home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning, leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence and analytics to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.
Big Time
Series A in 2021
Big Time Studios, founded in 2020 by Ari Meilich and Thor Alexander, develops a multiplayer action role-playing gaming platform that allows players to explore online adventures across space and time. The company focuses on creating AAA entertainment experiences where players have ownership of their virtual assets. Utilizing procedural generation, Big Time Studios crafts unique environments, objectives, and enemies for each game instance by employing algorithms that draw from human-made assets. This innovative approach not only enhances gameplay but also enables players to acquire, hold, and trade NFT-based virtual items, providing a seamless experience free from the typical barriers associated with blockchain applications.
Wilder World
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Wilder World is a decentralized marketplace that focuses on the sale and promotion of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital artists. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the platform operates without artist fees, allowing creators to monetize their work more effectively. Wilder World's unique structure includes a dynamic token system that rewards participants while utilizing blockchain technology to ensure the authenticity and uniqueness of digital collectibles. The company also features an immersive 3D metaverse, enhancing the experience of buying and selling digital art in a community-driven environment.
Streami
Venture Round in 2021
Blockchain financial market infrastructure technology company operating Gofax (Cryptocurrency Exchange) and Dask (Cryptocurrency Depository).
Lido
Venture Round in 2021
Lido is a developer of an open-source liquid staking platform that enhances the Ethereum network's block validation capabilities. The platform addresses challenges related to initial cryptocurrency staking by allowing users to stake their assets and receive synthetic native tokens of equivalent value. These tokens can be utilized across various decentralized finance applications, enabling users to earn yield while maintaining liquidity. Lido's middleware operates on the Ethereum blockchain, ensuring perpetual access through multiple interfaces and channels.
Andalusia Labs
Seed Round in 2021
Andalusia Labs is focused on developing essential digital infrastructure tailored for internet markets, particularly in the realm of digital assets. The company offers a comprehensive platform that includes a security solution and risk management infrastructure specifically designed for the blockchain sector. This platform facilitates the management of significant amounts of digital assets, providing innovative companies worldwide with the tools necessary to navigate the complexities of risk associated with digital transactions. Through its offerings, Andalusia Labs aims to enhance the security and efficiency of the digital asset marketplace.
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