Founded in 2018, Ligero specializes in designing and implementing a platform for secure, decentralized collaboration both on and off blockchain. Their offerings include confidential transactions, private smart contracts, distributed threshold cryptography, secure auctions for decentralized exchanges, and private verifiable machine learning.
Avalanche
Initial Coin Offering in 2024
Avalanche is an open-source platform enabling the launch of highly decentralized applications and new interoperable blockchains.
Yala is a technology company that develops infrastructure to connect Bitcoin liquidity with a meta-yield stablecoin, enabling users to securely and transparently earn yield on their Bitcoin holdings within a DeFi ecosystem. Its modular, on-chain, and permissionless infrastructure aims to be capital-efficient, fostering a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
Layer2 Financial
Series A in 2024
Layer2 Financial empowers fintech companies and banks to launch compliant stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, and other digital asset products.
Citrea is the first rollup that enhances the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace with zero-knowledge technology, making it possible to build everything on Bitcoin.
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.
RISC Zero.
Series A in 2023
RISC Zero provides a platform enabling users to trust programs run anywhere while allowing developers to use the tools they already know. RISC Zero builds scaling solutions using Zero Knowledge Proofs which will make blockchains accessible. The company was founded by a team of Seattle-based hackers committed to enabling users to control their experience on the internet through the creation of privacy-enhancing decentralization technology.
Lynx Finance
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Web3 Infrastructure for perpetuals trading
Evmos facilitates the transfer of Ethereum-based applications and assets onto the interconnected networks within the Cosmos ecosystem.
Skolem is a provider of a data and trade execution platform designed for decentralized financial (DeFi) markets, aimed at institutional investors. The company's infrastructure allows institutions to engage directly in DeFi activities such as trading, yield farming, staking, and liquidity provisioning without significantly increasing their technical resources or portfolio risk. Skolem's technology offers a centralized hub for trading, borrowing, and lending, facilitating superior execution on complex trades even during volatile market conditions. Through its innovative systems, Skolem opens the doors to DeFi for institutions, streamlining their participation in this evolving financial landscape.
Certora develops automated software security technology. It supplements programming experts and manual auditors by detecting vulnerabilities before deployment and during operation. The platform provides mathematical proofs of correctness daily for defined properties, ensuring the absence of security vulnerabilities.
Elwood Technologies
Series A in 2022
Elwood Technologies is a leading fintech company specializing in comprehensive software solutions for institutional digital asset trading. Its front-to-back platform connects clients to global crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, custodians, and fund administrators, offering advanced execution management, portfolio analytics, and risk management tools.
Spectral
Venture Round in 2021
Spectral, established in 2020 and headquartered in New Rochelle, New York, specializes in developing an AI-driven platform for creating and deploying sophisticated smart contracts. This platform facilitates the generation of complex smart contracts using natural language, expediting development time and minimizing errors.
Art Blocks
Venture Round in 2021
Art Blocks is a platform that empowers digital artists to create unique artworks through generative coding, leveraging the Ethereum blockchain for interaction. By allowing patrons to send funds to art installations, the platform generates distinct and repeatable artistic experiences, fostering engagement between artists and collectors. This innovative approach not only enhances the creation of contemporary generative art but also establishes a transparent revenue model for artists and those who host these projects. Through its focus on uniting artists, collectors, and blockchain technology, Art Blocks is reshaping the landscape of interactive art and providing new avenues for artistic expression and monetization.
Figment Networks
Series B in 2021
Figment Networks develops open-source tools for crypto network health monitoring, enabling informed staking decisions. It focuses on networks like Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company was founded in 2018.
Axelar Network
Series A in 2021
Axelar develops interoperability software connecting blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar enables developers to build cross-chain decentralized applications using its protocol suite.
Index Coop
Seed Round in 2021
The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on Set Protocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure.
PoolTogether
Series A in 2021
PoolTogether operates an Ethereum-based platform that offers users a no-loss savings game. Users deposit funds into the platform's smart contract, earning interest weekly. At the end of each week, one winner receives the collective interest earned, while all other participants retain their principal.
Hashflow
Seed Round in 2021
Hashflow is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that allows users to trade digital assets seamlessly across multiple leading blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana. Launched in April 2021, Hashflow employs an intent-based smart order routing system to ensure traders receive optimal prices, drawing from over $8 billion in liquidity and enabling the trading of any token. The platform has successfully facilitated over $18 billion in total trade volume. Hashflow's team comprises experienced professionals from renowned companies in both web2 and web3 sectors, bringing expertise from organizations such as Airbnb, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and Google. The company is supported by notable investors, including Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, and Coinbase Ventures, among others. Hashflow aims to enhance the trading experience by combining centralized order-matching and trade execution with decentralized custody, thereby offering users non-custodial trading options.
DrawBridge Lending
Acquisition in 2020
DrawBridge Lending, LLC, also known as DBL Digital, is a Chicago-based company that specializes in providing cash loans secured by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Founded in 2018, the company offers a range of loan products, including those tailored for commercial clients and high net worth individuals, as well as hybrid investment and crypto IRA loans. DrawBridge Lending operates under the regulation of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, employing advanced risk management strategies and a qualified custodian to ensure the safety of both borrower assets and lender capital. The company aims to facilitate a seamless connection between institutional lenders and borrowers looking to leverage their digital assets for cash, offering competitive rates without margin calls and providing secure storage for collateralized assets.
DODO Exchange
Venture Round in 2020
DODO is a liquidity protocol powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm and built for capital efficiency. DODO offers a low barrier-to-entry, pain-free token issuance mechanic for long-tail assets.
Gelato Network is an innovative company based in Berlin, Germany, that focuses on automating smart contract executions on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2007, Gelato provides a web cloud platform that allows developers to streamline their on-chain processes, enhancing application reliability and performance. Its audited smart contract protocol eliminates the need for developers to manage underlying server infrastructure, thereby saving significant development time and reducing the potential for single points of failure. The platform supports the creation of augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless, and compatible with all major EVM-compatible blockchains, making it a valuable tool for developers looking to optimize their applications.
Ava Labs
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Ava Labs simplifies finance application development using blockchain technology. It offers highly scalable networks, customizable public/private blockchains, and digital asset creation capabilities.
Spring Labs
Series A in 2019
Spring Labs develops a decentralized network that enables secure sharing and exchange of financial data among participants. It leverages blockchain technology to enhance data control, flexibility, and security within the credit system.
Symbiont.io, Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in developing a smart contracts platform tailored for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Amsterdam, the company provides a comprehensive infrastructure for capital markets. This includes a unified ledger for sharing business logic and market data, as well as the Symbiont Assembly platform, which facilitates the issuance, tracking, and management of financial instruments such as loans, securities, and commodities. By enabling complex financial instruments to exist within a decentralized blockchain network, Symbiont aims to enhance transparency, reduce risk, and lower costs for financial institutions and government entities. The company has established partnerships with industry leaders, including Vanguard and the State of Delaware, to drive innovation and improve operational efficiency in the capital markets sector.
SKALE Labs
Venture Round in 2018
Founded in 2015, SKALE Labs develops a scalable blockchain platform that enables high-speed consensus for decentralized applications (dApps). It empowers dApps to run smart contracts at millions of transactions per second on platforms like Ethereum and EOS. The SKALE Network is a fully decentralized, open-source P2P network supported by the SKALE utility token.
BotChain
Venture Round in 2018
BotChain enables universal registration, identity validation, audit, and coordination of A.I. agents and autonomous software.
The BotChain was created by the team at Talla. After more than two years of building intelligent, AI-driven bots for the enterprise, Talla began pursuing their idea for BotChain. The leadership team represents decades of experience in software development, Artificial Intelligence, startups, and innovation.
Brainfund
Series A in 2018
Everipedia Inc. operates an online, wiki-based encyclopedia that allows users to create pages for various topics using multimedia elements such as links, pictures, and videos. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with additional offices in Stockholm and Grand Cayman, the platform leverages blockchain technology to provide a decentralized knowledge repository. Everipedia aims to bring knowledge on-chain through various decentralized applications, including its main encyclopedia, PredIQt, a prediction market that harnesses crowd-sourced insights to forecast outcomes in politics, business, and finance, and OraQle, a unique oracle system that enables trusted sources to cryptographically sign and verify real-world data on the blockchain. By fostering a global community and supporting multiple languages, Everipedia seeks to revolutionize how information is created and shared.
Fantom Foundation is a smart contract platform for digital assets and decentralized applications. It provides built-in security and financing solutions that simplify the technical and logistical aspects of running a dApp while preserving the benefits of blockchain technology. The foundation supports ongoing development of an open system and collaborates with partners to promote adoption of Fantom technology. Developers can deploy smart contracts on Fantom using the Ethereum Virtual Machine, and projects can port existing Ethereum dApps to the platform with ease.