GBV Capital

GBV Capital is a venture capital investment firm established in 2020 and based in the Cayman Islands. The firm specializes in investing in early-stage projects within the blockchain and web3 technology sectors. Its mission is to support and develop innovative blockchain and cryptocurrency initiatives that aim to shape the future of these industries. By focusing on emerging technologies, GBV Capital seeks to foster growth and advancement in the digital economy.

Christian Ng

Partner

Past deals in Ethereum

FWX

Seed Round in 2022
Forward is the leading derivative platform in decentralized space. We build top trends technology and platforms in the cryptocurrency space and create a research & innovation hub that can scale our company up to trends.

TimeShuffle

Seed Round in 2022
TimeShuffle is a turn-based strategy game that features historical heroes engaging in battles against one another in procedurally generated environments. The game operates on a play-and-earn model, allowing players to earn non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as they progress. TimeShuffle provides an internal token marketplace where players can trade game assets, enhancing their ability to monetize their gameplay. Players can collect NFT items, establish camps, and earn experience points and in-game currency through strategic gameplay, creating an engaging experience that combines gaming with earning potential.

Aura Network

Seed Round in 2022
Aura Network is a blockchain platform focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that aims to facilitate the decentralization of assets in the digital market. Founded in 2021, the company offers a Layer-1 blockchain infrastructure designed to enhance the interoperability and utility of NFTs across the broader Internet of blockchain. Aura Network's platform enables users to conduct on-chain transactions, allowing for the creation, registration, and management of intellectual property across various blockchain networks. By providing these capabilities, Aura Network seeks to accelerate the global adoption of NFTs and improve access to decentralized asset management.

zkLend

Seed Round in 2022
zkLend is a Layer 2 money-market protocol developed on StarkNet, designed to enhance financial transactions through the use of zk-rollup technology. This decentralized platform leverages Ethereum's security while offering superior transaction speed and cost efficiency. By combining these advantages, zkLend enables users to conduct transactions securely and privately, making it an attractive option for those seeking to engage in decentralized finance.

Swim

Seed Round in 2022
Swim is a developer of cross-chain infrastructure that facilitates the seamless transfer of tokens across different blockchain networks. By utilizing multi-token liquidity pools and Solana's Wormhole, Swim offers a solution that eliminates delays and the need for centralized bridges or wrapped assets. The company's tools empower users to swap native assets from one chain to native assets on another, thereby reducing reliance on existing bridges and centralized exchanges. This innovative approach enhances the efficiency and accessibility of cross-chain transactions for clients, allowing them to easily swap, send, and receive native assets.

AdaSwap

Seed Round in 2022
AdaSwap is a decentralized exchange that facilitates the rapid swapping, bridging, and trading of Cardano-based tokens and stablecoins. The platform offers tools designed to enhance user experience, including high-yield staking pools and NFT content through launchpads and marketplaces. By enabling users to quickly exchange ADA, AdaSwap aims to capture arbitrage opportunities in real-time, making it a comprehensive solution for trading within the Cardano ecosystem.

Ren Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Ren Labs is a multichain technology promoting the research and development of initiatives to expand the Ren ecosystem and the broader blockchain space.

Aver

Seed Round in 2022
Aver is a decentralized peer-to-peer betting exchange built on the Solana blockchain and the world’s first decentralized Web3 betting exchange.

Neptune Mutual

Venture Round in 2022
Neptune Mutual is a developer of a parametric cover platform aimed at protecting user funds from risks associated with cryptocurrency, including exploits related to exchanges, custody providers, and smart contracts. The platform focuses on creating user-centric hedging products on the blockchain, providing investors with tools to mitigate the impact of malicious activities in the digital asset space. By exploring innovative approaches to risk protection, Neptune Mutual seeks to enhance security and confidence among cryptocurrency users.

Moonray

Seed Round in 2021
Moonray is built on Bitcoin via Stacks, which brings smart contracts to Bitcoin and makes it possible to build applications that benefit from the security of the Bitcoin network. Moonray provides a unique gaming experience that allows players to venture into an intergalactic world where they can not only choose their own destiny but also own it.

Colony Lab

Seed Round in 2021
Colony Lab is a community-driven initiative to power the Avalanche Platform growth by investing in early-stage projects.

Imperium Empires

Funding Round in 2021
Imperium Empires builds an AAA-quality metaverse with an experienced team of in-house game developers, game designers

Imperium Empires

Seed Round in 2021
Imperium Empires builds an AAA-quality metaverse with an experienced team of in-house game developers, game designers

Stackswap

Seed Round in 2021
Stackswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) that issues and exchanges tokens on the Stacks blockchain, thus settling transactions on the Bitcoin Network.

Ariadne

Seed Round in 2021
Ariadne is a cross-chain DeFi marketplace that is lowering the fees to enter/exit farms on multiple blockchains and saves swaps and bridges costs for both EVM and non-EVM chains. Ariadne enables users of any supported chain to enter/exit yield farms on a multitude of blockchains, with virtually no lower limit of investment, and without having to deal with bridges, swaps and slippage, transaction costs on receiving blockchains etc.

FWX

Seed Round in 2021
Forward is the leading derivative platform in decentralized space. We build top trends technology and platforms in the cryptocurrency space and create a research & innovation hub that can scale our company up to trends.

Mintverse

Seed Round in 2021
Mintverse is a service platform dedicated to the creation, discovery, and collection of digital items and NFTs. It enables users to crowdfund NFT art and various crypto projects, aiming to promote mass adoption of NFTs. The platform addresses existing challenges in the NFT space, such as high transaction fees, limited incentives for creators, and inadequate utility for NFT assets. By leveraging support from significant investors and partners, Mintverse focuses on expanding the NFT community and enhancing the overall user experience within this evolving market.

Vera

Seed Round in 2021
Vera is the most powerful open financial platform for non-fungible token (NFT) assets. Vera offers decentralized financing, leasing, lending, and other essential financial services for any NFT marketplace, game, or application. Founded in 2021 and backed by notable investors in the decentralized fintech space such as Animoca Brands (leader in blockchain gaming and NFTs; key investor in Axie Infinity, Open Sea, Dapper Labs, CryptoKitties, and many more) and the Web3 Foundation, Vera's mission is simple: To build open, secure, and powerful NFT financial products that are equally available to everyone everywhere.

Pyth Network

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of financial software designed for latency-sensitive financial data that is typically kept behind centralized institutions. The company's software is designed to bring real-world data on-chain on a sub-second timescale and is focused on finding a new and inexpensive way to bring this data, enabling clients to get financial data on-chain and aggregating it securely.

Dexlab

Seed Round in 2021
Dexlab is a decentralized exchange where the best Solana projects mint and list their tokens.

Dtravel

Seed Round in 2021
Dtravel is a decentralized platform for the home-sharing economy facilitating short and long-term stays payable with cryptocurrency and traditional payment methods.

Pontem Network

Seed Round in 2021
Pontem is a Substrate-based chain using a code base almost identical to Diem’s.

Pontem Network

Venture Round in 2021
Pontem is a Substrate-based chain using a code base almost identical to Diem’s.

Lithium Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a blockchain-based pricing platform designed for illiquid assets.The company's platform uses a Determinant-based Mutual Information (DMI) mechanism, in which participants are asked subjective multiple-choice questions to find a fair price for illiquid assets, and predicts pricing information for pre-IPO stocks, private equity, and other illiquid assets.

Lithium Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a blockchain-based pricing platform designed for illiquid assets.The company's platform uses a Determinant-based Mutual Information (DMI) mechanism, in which participants are asked subjective multiple-choice questions to find a fair price for illiquid assets, and predicts pricing information for pre-IPO stocks, private equity, and other illiquid assets.

Only1

Seed Round in 2021
Only1 is the first NFT-powered social media built on Solana - the most scalable blockchain to date. Social media users want to feel more connected with the creators on the platform. And in conventional social media, creators have to go through middle-man to sell merchandise, paid advertisements, shout-outs, or any form of partnerships. Our innovation through NFT aim to cut out the need for these middle-man, and we do this through two novel NFT applications - Genesis-NFT & Content-NFT farming.

Aluna.Social

Seed Round in 2021
Aluna.Social combines a social network with an API trading platform integrated with top cryptocurrency exchanges, enabling copy trading features and public profiles featuring unforgeable trading performance and history.

Realm

Seed Round in 2021
Realm is a community driven open-source project to create personalised metaverses. Realm allows creators to combine music, art, and games to create the perfect realm and mint it as an ERC-1155. Discover art galleries in space to underwater auctions through augmented reality portals, and collect pets with cross-chain genetics.

Sator

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online decentralized platform designed for the scripted television industry. The company's single open-source platform is built on Ethereum blockchain standards which facilitate viewers to interact and transact by disrupting traditional models to entwine viewer communities, enabling clients to increase value creation and distribution.

HashMix

Seed Round in 2021
HashMix utilizes multi-signature, smart contract, and cross-chain technology to generate and submit proofs of specific hash power to the blockchain, issues hash power NFT tokens to eliminate the centralized endorsement so that hash power can be circulated freely while the ownership of hash power and yields is ensured

XCAD Network

Seed Round in 2021
XCAD Network provides an online and mobile creator tokenization platform and NFT marketplace for YouTubers and their fans, using fan tokens to increase engagement and connection between fans and creators.

Wilder World

Seed Round in 2021
Wilder World is a community-owned, decentralized platform that operates as a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aimed at digital artists. The company provides an immersive 3D metaverse where users can buy and sell digital artwork without incurring platform fees. This environment empowers emerging artists to monetize their creations effectively and thrive in the digital space. By leveraging a native NFT platform, Wilder World fosters a vibrant community that supports creativity and innovation in the digital art realm.

Formation.Fi

Seed Round in 2021
Formation Fi is bringing cross-chain risk parity smart farming to the world of decentralized finance. An evolution of traditional yield farming, the startup reconfigures defi portfolio construction to help users better manage risk and earn greater returns.

Alkemi

Seed Round in 2021
Alkemi AI Inc. is a Toronto-based company that offers a non-custodial infrastructure platform designed to enhance access to liquidity for digital assets. Founded in 2018, Alkemi's platform connects institutional capital allocators with exchange venues and third-party providers, addressing inefficiencies in the digital asset market. By utilizing an on-chain liquidity protocol, the company allows stakeholders to earn incentives on idle crypto assets while delivering the necessary infrastructure for exchanges to stabilize market prices. This community-based liquidity solution helps alleviate price discrepancies in the fragmented centralized exchange markets and supports the growing demand for decentralized and peer-to-peer trading platforms.

BENQI Corpo

Seed Round in 2021
Developed by an experienced team of blockchain designers, BENQI is a protocol to unlock greater liquidity within the defi market. BENQI enables defi users to make their assets work harder to generate additional yield. Built on Avalanche’s high speed smart contract network, BENQI will evolve into a cross-chain defi hub that’s positioned at the heart of decentralized finance.

BENQI Corpo

Funding Round in 2021
Developed by an experienced team of blockchain designers, BENQI is a protocol to unlock greater liquidity within the defi market. BENQI enables defi users to make their assets work harder to generate additional yield. Built on Avalanche’s high speed smart contract network, BENQI will evolve into a cross-chain defi hub that’s positioned at the heart of decentralized finance.

Parami

Seed Round in 2021
Parami Protocol proposed an AD 3.0 paradigm powered by blockchain for Web 3.0. It provides a protocol stack for building a user-centric, tokenized advertising economy. Parami Protocol provides a complete set of PDID (Parami DID) solutions compatible with W3C DID standard onParami Node, and expands its business on the basis of DID standard. Parami Protocol will also provide DID aggregators for other DID standards.

PureStake

Seed Round in 2021
PureStake, Inc. develops infrastructure and services specifically for public blockchain networks, focusing on Algorand and Polkadot. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of solutions including wallet extensions, API services, block explorers, and validator services for proof of stake networks. Its platform is designed to ensure secure and reliable participation in blockchain networks, utilizing an automated multi-pop and multi-cloud approach. PureStake aims to address scalability challenges in blockchain technology by promoting open protocols and next-generation networks that leverage proof of stake consensus mechanisms.

Equilibrium

Seed Round in 2021
Equilibrium operates as a software service that focuses on decentralized finance by providing a platform for interoperability with various blockchains. Its system features a consensus-based governance model and encompasses a cross-chain money market, which integrates pooled lending with synthetic asset generation and trading. This functionality aims to eliminate market segmentation, allowing users to access and utilize multiple decentralized finance services through a single interface. The platform utilizes various tokens, including the EQ token, EOSDT, and the Native Utility Token, which are not classified as securities or regulated instruments.

PureStake

Series A in 2021
PureStake, Inc. develops infrastructure and services specifically for public blockchain networks, focusing on Algorand and Polkadot. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, the company offers a range of solutions including wallet extensions, API services, block explorers, and validator services for proof of stake networks. Its platform is designed to ensure secure and reliable participation in blockchain networks, utilizing an automated multi-pop and multi-cloud approach. PureStake aims to address scalability challenges in blockchain technology by promoting open protocols and next-generation networks that leverage proof of stake consensus mechanisms.

Cryptonovae

Seed Round in 2021
Cryptonovae operates a cryptocurrency trading platform designed to facilitate the management of digital assets across various exchanges. The platform provides users with an intuitive interface that includes charting capabilities and trade management features, enhancing the overall trading experience. By prioritizing user-friendliness and advanced functionalities, Cryptonovae aims to deliver a hassle-free environment for crypto traders, allowing them to navigate the complexities of the cryptocurrency market with ease.

Automata

Seed Round in 2021
Automata Network is a decentralized protocol that provides middleware-like traceless privacy services for decentralized applications on multiple platforms, including Ethereum, Polkadot and Binance Smart Chain, to achieve privacy, high assurance and frictionless computation.

Automata

Seed Round in 2021
Automata Network is a decentralized protocol that provides middleware-like traceless privacy services for decentralized applications on multiple platforms, including Ethereum, Polkadot and Binance Smart Chain, to achieve privacy, high assurance and frictionless computation.

Efinity

Series A in 2021
Efinity is a cross-chain NFT blockchain that brings non-fungible tokens to everyone. It was developed by Enjin on Polkadot.

Alkemi

Funding Round in 2021
Alkemi AI Inc. is a Toronto-based company that offers a non-custodial infrastructure platform designed to enhance access to liquidity for digital assets. Founded in 2018, Alkemi's platform connects institutional capital allocators with exchange venues and third-party providers, addressing inefficiencies in the digital asset market. By utilizing an on-chain liquidity protocol, the company allows stakeholders to earn incentives on idle crypto assets while delivering the necessary infrastructure for exchanges to stabilize market prices. This community-based liquidity solution helps alleviate price discrepancies in the fragmented centralized exchange markets and supports the growing demand for decentralized and peer-to-peer trading platforms.

Cudo Compute

Seed Round in 2021
Cudo Compute is a platform that facilitates the monetization of underutilized computing resources by enabling users to access distributed computing power from idle data center hardware globally. By leveraging a decentralized approach, Cudo Compute allows businesses and individuals to deploy virtual machines efficiently, finding optimal resources in ideal locations at competitive prices. This platform aims to democratize cloud computing by offering a sustainable model that enhances economic, environmental, and societal benefits. Users can scale their computing needs flexibly without being constrained by traditional centralized cloud infrastructures. Cudo Compute operates in over 145 countries, managing millions of devices and delivering significant advantages in availability, proximity, and cost efficiency. Through this innovative approach, Cudo Compute empowers users to monetize unused computing capacity while responding effectively to changing market demands.

Ethernity

Venture Round in 2021
Operator of a community-oriented platform intended to produce limited-edition authenticated NFTs and trading cards endorsed by notable figures. The company's decentralized finance applications allow token holders to farm rare NFTs and vote on proposals that will amend the ecosystem, enabling users to have easy and secured access to NFT-based digital art.

Lepricon

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a gaming platform designed to enjoy the benefits of decentralized finance in a gamified way. The company's community-owned and governed prediction platform uniquely combines the elements of gamified defi, liquidity pool, prediction, games and non-fungible tokens, enabling developers and gamers with a vibrant community where all participants receive rewards for positive contributions and interactions.

Polkadex

Seed Round in 2021
Polkadex is a decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange designed for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, built on the Substrate framework. Its goal is to create a highly interoperable trading platform that connects various blockchain ecosystems, allowing users to trade a wide array of assets beyond just Polkadot and Ethereum. Polkadex aims to establish a next-generation decentralized exchange that maintains a user-friendly experience while adhering to regulatory standards. The platform facilitates the trading of not only cryptocurrencies but also traditional assets, positioning itself as a comprehensive exchange akin to the New York Stock Exchange, where users can trade public company shares, cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies. By enabling traders to integrate their custom trading algorithms with market data, Polkadex offers an innovative approach to value transfer from traditional financial markets to a decentralized environment.

OMG Network

Acquisition in 2020
OMG Network is a financial technology company that operates on the Ethereum blockchain, providing a platform for accessing, managing, and transacting digital assets. It enables real-time, peer-to-peer value exchange and payment services that accommodate both fiat and decentralized currencies. By offering technical consulting services, OMG Network supports businesses in their transition to a more digital economy, ensuring secure and efficient financial transactions. The company's focus is on facilitating broader access to financial services in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Serum

Seed Round in 2020
Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permissionless – we do not hold special power anymore. It is up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.

IoTBlock

Seed Round in 2019
IoTBlock is a technology company focused on creating a decentralized platform for developing blockchain applications specifically tailored for the supply chain and Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. The platform leverages blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies to enhance asset monitoring, manage the health and integrity of IoT devices, and streamline processes such as insurance claims and dispute resolution. By enabling developers to build secure and privacy-centric IoT applications, IoTBlock facilitates interaction among various blockchain-based devices without reliance on the manufacturers or the devices themselves. Founded by experienced professionals in enterprise software and advised by executives from publicly traded technology firms, IoTBlock is strategically positioned to support diverse cross-industry use cases as digital transformation technologies continue to evolve.
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