Electric Capital

Founded in 2018, Electric Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. The company invests in early-stage companies operating in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors.
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Jim Bai

Investor

Ken Deeter

Partner

Mitchell Hammer

Analyst

Thuan Le

Partner and Head of Founder Platform

Sanjay Shah

Investor

Maria Shen

Partner

Curtis Spencer

Partner

Past deals in Crypto

Hibachi

Seed Round in 2025
Hibachi is a technology company that specializes in developing decentralized trading protocols. Its core focus is to enhance the security and transparency of trading operations for professional traders, utilizing advanced zero-knowledge (zk) mathematics. The platform aims to simplify trading by providing features such as proof of solvency, AI-assisted trading, multi-collateral support, and transparent market infrastructure.

Axelar Network

Initial Coin Offering in 2025
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.

Bitwise

Venture Round in 2025
Bitwise is a crypto-specialist asset manager serving individuals, investment managers, and institutions seeking exposure to the cryptocurrency market. The firm offers a broad platform of investment solutions focused on crypto assets, including cryptocurrency index funds and single-asset funds designed to be liquid, low-cost, and secure. It provides yield and alpha strategies, multi-strategy approaches, and separately managed accounts, as well as onchain staking and bitcoin-related investment products, enabling clients to access opportunities aligned with their objectives. By combining specialized crypto expertise with rigorous risk controls, Bitwise acts as a specialist partner that helps diverse investors navigate the crypto space with rules-based exposure and efficient administration.

InfiniFi

Pre Seed Round in 2025
InfiniFi is a technology company that specializes in enhancing decentralized finance (DeFi) by offering automated, fractional reserve banking services. Its core product is a depositor-driven system that addresses the challenge of duration gaps in traditional banking. InfiniFi provides users with the flexibility to keep their deposits liquid or lock them, while also facilitating fund allocation to optimize yields and enhance stability.

Ellipsis Labs

Venture Round in 2024
Ellipsis Labs is focused on developing Phoenix, a decentralized exchange platform built on the Solana blockchain. This platform features a fully on-chain and non-custodial limit order book, which allows users to engage in cryptocurrency trading with the ability to place limit orders. By facilitating atomic settlement of trades, Phoenix aims to enhance the trading experience by enabling users to avoid sudden price fluctuations and execute orders at their desired prices. The company's commitment to a crankless design ensures a more efficient trading process, positioning it as a significant player in the decentralized finance space.

Infinit

Venture Round in 2024
Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.

Kuru

Seed Round in 2024
Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.

Term Labs

Venture Round in 2024
Term Labs specializes in blockchain research and development, focusing on creating scalable and transparent fixed-rate lending platforms for institutional-scale borrowers and lenders within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Layer3

Series A in 2024
Layer3 is a web3 user acquisition and retention platform founded in 2021 that provides no-code tools to design milestones for on-chain actions, using bounties and quests to drive onboarding and engagement. The platform supports autonomous ecosystem expansion through interoperable identity and amplified incentives, helping users discover new communities, earn rewards, and access multichain liquidity. Layer3 has driven over 10 million on-chain interactions across leading dapps and serves a growing roster of crypto projects including Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave and 1inch.

Squads

Series A in 2024
Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with an easy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure.

Zeta Markets

Initial Coin Offering in 2024
Zeta Markets is a decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives platform operating on the Solana blockchain. It offers liquid derivatives trading for individuals and institutions, enabling users to hedge, speculate, or take positions on various market movements. The platform provides real-time pricing updates, instant trade execution, and low-cost settlements.

Kiosk

Seed Round in 2024
Kiosk offers on-chain assets that are essential for social media clients that build feedback loops between assets and communities.

Storm Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Storm Labs operates an open-source software development studio, specializing in building infrastructure for the next generation of finance. It empowers users to create and manage personalized DeFi investment portfolios autonomously, mitigating challenges such as losses and portfolio rebalancing.

Monad

Series A in 2024
Monad is a proof-of-stake blockchain and decentralized computation platform that focuses on high performance and portability. It features a scalar architecture with pipelined execution, which allows for efficient transaction throughput. This innovative design enables developers to create complex decentralized applications (dApps) capable of processing a large volume of transactions quickly. By combining advanced technology with a user-friendly framework, Monad aims to enhance the overall functionality and scalability of decentralized applications in the blockchain ecosystem.

Ellipsis Labs

Series A in 2024
Ellipsis Labs is focused on developing Phoenix, a decentralized exchange platform built on the Solana blockchain. This platform features a fully on-chain and non-custodial limit order book, which allows users to engage in cryptocurrency trading with the ability to place limit orders. By facilitating atomic settlement of trades, Phoenix aims to enhance the trading experience by enabling users to avoid sudden price fluctuations and execute orders at their desired prices. The company's commitment to a crankless design ensures a more efficient trading process, positioning it as a significant player in the decentralized finance space.

Fordefi

Seed Round in 2024
Develper of a multi-party computation wallet platform designed to seamlessly connect to d-apps across a wide range of chains while keeping digital assets secure. The company's platform offers a web-three gateway that is built for decentralized finance, offering multi-party computation key management, self-serve defi policy controls, time-of-transaction smart contract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts, enabling market participants to easily and securely connect to decentralized applications.

Delegate

Seed Round in 2024
Delegate specializes in enhancing the security of on-chain identities and digital asset management, particularly focusing on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and ERC20 tokens.

Shadow

Seed Round in 2023
Shadow is a crypto data platform that provides developers with the tools necessary to collect and analyze on-chain event data. The platform features a custom subgraph, an indexer, and a supercharged protocol analysis system, allowing for comprehensive access to peripheral contract data. By offering these capabilities, Shadow empowers developers to create improved applications and tools designed for the decentralized web.

Kresko

Seed Round in 2023
Kresko develops an online capital platform for synthetic stocks, commodities, and crypto, with the goal of making wealth accessible on mobile. The company provides an asset protocol featuring a per-account data model that enables developers to integrate digital assets into applications and wallets, while improving capital efficiency, user experience, asset listing, and risk management. Its platform offers a unified DeFi experience that supports minting, swapping, pooling, and farming of assets, and includes portfolio health indicators to monitor risk. By building on its protocol, developers can deliver asset-backed functionality within their apps and wallets, expanding access to diverse digital assets and simplifying how users interact with them.

Membrane Labs

Series A in 2023
Membrane Labs is a fintech firm that provides institutional digital asset services for OTC transactions.

Ellipsis Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Ellipsis Labs is focused on developing Phoenix, a decentralized exchange platform built on the Solana blockchain. This platform features a fully on-chain and non-custodial limit order book, which allows users to engage in cryptocurrency trading with the ability to place limit orders. By facilitating atomic settlement of trades, Phoenix aims to enhance the trading experience by enabling users to avoid sudden price fluctuations and execute orders at their desired prices. The company's commitment to a crankless design ensures a more efficient trading process, positioning it as a significant player in the decentralized finance space.

Hourglass

Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass is an operator of a financial marketplace intended to trade locked-up DeFi assets.

Hourglass

Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass operates within the blockchain industry, specializing in liquid staking services for locked assets within Frax and Convex ecosystems. Its core offering involves creating time-bound tokens (TBTs) that represent staked assets with specific lock-up periods, enabling users to trade these tokens and transfer ownership, thereby managing risk and enhancing investment flexibility.

Term Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Term Labs specializes in blockchain research and development, focusing on creating scalable and transparent fixed-rate lending platforms for institutional-scale borrowers and lenders within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

Slingshot

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2018, Slingshot is a San Francisco-based company developing decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platforms. It facilitates secure, trustless, and self-sovereign digital asset transactions for retail users, aggregating prices across multiple exchanges.

Fordefi

Seed Round in 2022
Develper of a multi-party computation wallet platform designed to seamlessly connect to d-apps across a wide range of chains while keeping digital assets secure. The company's platform offers a web-three gateway that is built for decentralized finance, offering multi-party computation key management, self-serve defi policy controls, time-of-transaction smart contract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts, enabling market participants to easily and securely connect to decentralized applications.

Token Flow Insights

Series A in 2022
Token Flow Insights, established in 2021, is a company specializing in providing contextualized blockchain data and analytics. The organization recognizes the growing complexity of the blockchain ecosystem, which is characterized by a myriad of interlinked interactions and transactions. To address this challenge, Token Flow Insights develops a decentralized finance platform that offers comprehensive blockchain coverage. Its services include contextualized data accessible through APIs and marketplaces, as well as transaction decoders and trackers. These tools empower participants within the blockchain ecosystem to effectively navigate the intricate landscape of on-chain activities. By leveraging robust data analysis and a deep understanding of blockchain technology, Token Flow Insights aims to simplify the complexities inherent in this rapidly evolving field.

Waterfall

Seed Round in 2022
Waterfall is a company that specializes in developing a trading protocol for rare non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and collectible digital art, focusing on live on-chain pricing. The company aims to enhance the liquidity and composability of NFTs by creating innovative infrastructure and auction mechanisms. Its platform offers financial derivatives strategies and tools that enable users to trade tokens effectively, predict price movements, and receive real-time updates on market valuations. Through these advancements, Waterfall seeks to facilitate a more dynamic and productive environment for NFT trading.

Lasso Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Lasso Labs focuses on simplifying the discovery and utility of digital assets, particularly NFTs. The company has developed a financial platform that facilitates seamless trading and investing in these assets. By providing real-time information and analytics, Lasso Labs equips users with the tools to identify new opportunities and understand various digital asset communities. Their platform offers insights into trends at the asset, collection, and market levels, enabling traders and investors to make informed decisions.

Immunefi

Series A in 2022
Immunefi is a security services platform specializing in bug bounty programs aimed at protecting cryptocurrency projects from vulnerabilities associated with Web3. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, the company offers a comprehensive solution that includes network hosting, bug triaging, and program management specifically tailored for blockchain technology. Immunefi's platform assists in reviewing smart contract code, disclosing vulnerabilities, and securing projects against malicious exploits and unforeseen attacks, thereby enhancing the overall safety and reliability of crypto initiatives.

Integral Treasury

Venture Round in 2022
Empowering web3 organizations in crypto accounting through: revenue recognition, NFT collection management, cap gain/loss calculations, audit compliant reports and more.

Comm Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is focused on enhancing end-to-end (E2E) encryption through the development of a crypto-native messaging platform. This platform allows users to acquire non-fungible tokens (NFTs) while maintaining their online anonymity. By utilizing personal private servers and key servers, Comm Technologies offers a web3 chat solution that ensures secure communication and adheres to specific notification restrictions. This approach enables clients to manage their communications effectively through a unified inbox, while also facilitating the scaling of E2E encryption for enhanced privacy.

Sweatcoin

Venture Round in 2022
Sweatcoin is a digital currency that incentivizes physical activity by converting users' movements into a cryptocurrency. The company's platform verifies and tracks physical movement, allowing users to earn Sweatcoins while engaging in exercise. These earned coins can be donated to charity, transferred to other users, or spent on a variety of products, services, and experiences offered by Sweatcoin vendors and the user community. By transforming exercise into immediate rewards, Sweatcoin addresses the challenge of Present Bias, effectively shifting the perceived benefits of physical activity into the present moment. This innovative approach encourages users to stay active while also fostering a community around fitness and health.

Magic Eden

Series B in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-focused company that operates a decentralized exchange platform tailored for cryptographic assets, specifically on the Solana blockchain. It provides an online marketplace where users can create, buy, and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs), facilitating trade for digital creators. To strengthen its ties with the community, Magic Eden airdropped a collection called Magic Tickets to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket grants access to the company's Discord-based decentralized autonomous organization, MagicDAO, which fosters community engagement through social programs and rewards. The company's commitment to serving its users underscores its mission to enhance the NFT trading experience.

Magic Eden

Series B in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-focused company that operates a decentralized exchange platform tailored for cryptographic assets, specifically on the Solana blockchain. It provides an online marketplace where users can create, buy, and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs), facilitating trade for digital creators. To strengthen its ties with the community, Magic Eden airdropped a collection called Magic Tickets to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket grants access to the company's Discord-based decentralized autonomous organization, MagicDAO, which fosters community engagement through social programs and rewards. The company's commitment to serving its users underscores its mission to enhance the NFT trading experience.

Paper

Seed Round in 2022
Paper offers crypto-focused payments that make buying, using, and holding NFTs easier. Sell NFTs via credit cards, create wallets using email, and cover gas fees for transactions.

Tonic

Seed Round in 2022
Tonic is developing a decentralized exchange protocol aimed at facilitating efficient and user-friendly trading of various assets on the NEAR and Aurora blockchains. This platform allows developers using NEAR's Layer 1 solution to seamlessly integrate trading capabilities into their applications. Tonic's protocol is designed to offer the advantages of centralized exchanges, such as speed and convenience, while maintaining the community-driven ownership characteristic of decentralized systems. Users benefit from low trading fees, deep liquidity, and accurate pricing, making Tonic a competitive option for trading crypto tokens.

Delta One

Seed Round in 2022
Delta One is a technology company that develops decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols on the Solana blockchain. Its core product is a yield generation protocol designed to offer novel, low-risk farming markets for cryptocurrency investors. The platform employs innovative quantitative research and rigorous engineering to create automated, delta-neutral trading strategies, aiming to minimize impermanent loss and maximize risk-adjusted yields. Delta One's mission is to democratize access to these yield opportunities, fostering mass adoption of crypto investing through user-friendly DeFi primitives.

Trisolaris

Seed Round in 2022
Trisolaris is a community-owned decentralized exchange (DEX) that provides a trading platform designed to offer a seamless user experience while minimizing drawbacks typically associated with traditional exchanges. The platform is characterized by its fast settlement times, low transaction fees, and a governance model that empowers users to participate in decision-making processes. Trisolaris enables clients to execute cross-chain swaps and access advanced infrastructure, enhanced tooling, and analytics, thereby facilitating a more efficient trading environment.

Magic Eden

Series A in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-focused company that operates a decentralized exchange platform tailored for cryptographic assets, specifically on the Solana blockchain. It provides an online marketplace where users can create, buy, and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs), facilitating trade for digital creators. To strengthen its ties with the community, Magic Eden airdropped a collection called Magic Tickets to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket grants access to the company's Discord-based decentralized autonomous organization, MagicDAO, which fosters community engagement through social programs and rewards. The company's commitment to serving its users underscores its mission to enhance the NFT trading experience.

Slingshot

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2018, Slingshot is a San Francisco-based company developing decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platforms. It facilitates secure, trustless, and self-sovereign digital asset transactions for retail users, aggregating prices across multiple exchanges.

Mysten Labs

Series A in 2021
Mysten Labs develops tools to enhance web3 security and facilitate its widespread adoption. They create foundational infrastructure to accelerate the integration of decentralized services across multiple chains, improving underlying technologies like distributed systems and cryptography.

MYTY

Seed Round in 2021
MYTY is a decentralized social platform that enables users to express themselves freely and escape physical world limitations through the use of NFT avatars.

Iron Fish

Series A in 2021
Iron Fish is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and Layer 1 blockchain that provides strong privacy guarantees for every transaction. The project aims to make private blockchain networks globally accessible by using a syncing technique and features that support low-resource devices such as smartphones and lightweight web clients, enabling broader participation in digital networks. By delivering private transactions at scale, Iron Fish seeks to preserve cash-like privacy in a fully digital environment.

Anoma

Series A in 2021
Anoma is a Zug-based Swiss company established in 2021. It develops an intent-centric, privacy-preserving protocol for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, and multi-chain atomic settlement.

ConsenSys

Series C in 2021
ConsenSys is an Ethereum software and Web3 company that enables developers, enterprises, and individuals to build decentralized applications, deploy modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite includes Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serving millions of users and supporting billions of blockchain-based queries and digital assets. Built on Ethereum, ConsenSys fosters the growth of a programmable economy by providing tools, services, and research that accelerate innovation and the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.

Saddle Finance

Series A in 2021
Saddle Finance is a financial technology company that operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. The platform facilitates trading by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool, which provides deep on-chain liquidity. This configuration allows traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and low transaction fees, enhancing the efficiency of trading pegged assets. Through its innovative approach, Saddle Finance aims to optimize the trading experience for users engaged in the cryptocurrency market.

Immunefi

Seed Round in 2021
Immunefi is a security services platform specializing in bug bounty programs aimed at protecting cryptocurrency projects from vulnerabilities associated with Web3. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, the company offers a comprehensive solution that includes network hosting, bug triaging, and program management specifically tailored for blockchain technology. Immunefi's platform assists in reviewing smart contract code, disclosing vulnerabilities, and securing projects against malicious exploits and unforeseen attacks, thereby enhancing the overall safety and reliability of crypto initiatives.

Aurora

Series A in 2021
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine developed by the NEAR Protocol team, offering a seamless solution for developers to run applications on an Ethereum-compatible platform. It combines the benefits of Ethereum compatibility with the scalability and low transaction costs of the NEAR Protocol, creating a high-throughput environment for decentralized applications. The platform is designed to deliver an exceptional user experience, enabling Ethereum developers to transition effortlessly by simply changing the RPC endpoint. Aurora aims to facilitate the development of decentralized applications while ensuring affordability and efficiency for users.

Layer3

Seed Round in 2021
Layer3 is a web3 user acquisition and retention platform founded in 2021 that provides no-code tools to design milestones for on-chain actions, using bounties and quests to drive onboarding and engagement. The platform supports autonomous ecosystem expansion through interoperable identity and amplified incentives, helping users discover new communities, earn rewards, and access multichain liquidity. Layer3 has driven over 10 million on-chain interactions across leading dapps and serves a growing roster of crypto projects including Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave and 1inch.

GDA

Private Equity Round in 2021
Genesis Digital Assets is a prominent Bitcoin mining company known for its extensive experience in the industry. Since its inception in 2013, the company has established over 20 industrial-scale mining farms and successfully brought more than 300,000 miners online, resulting in the mining of over $1 billion in Bitcoin. Genesis Digital Assets focuses on developing proprietary mining technology and aims to make its operations profitable. The company provides comprehensive services that include building, managing, and scaling large-scale mining operations, thereby offering clients the necessary infrastructure to support the evolving landscape of the cryptocurrency market.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol specializing in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

Hyype

Seed Round in 2021
Hyy.pe is an NFT display and gallery-based social network where NFT communities will find a home to connect, share stories, and collaboratively build their history.

Kresko

Seed Round in 2021
Kresko develops an online capital platform for synthetic stocks, commodities, and crypto, with the goal of making wealth accessible on mobile. The company provides an asset protocol featuring a per-account data model that enables developers to integrate digital assets into applications and wallets, while improving capital efficiency, user experience, asset listing, and risk management. Its platform offers a unified DeFi experience that supports minting, swapping, pooling, and farming of assets, and includes portfolio health indicators to monitor risk. By building on its protocol, developers can deliver asset-backed functionality within their apps and wallets, expanding access to diverse digital assets and simplifying how users interact with them.

4K.com

Seed Round in 2021
4K.com is a company that has developed a web-based NFT marketplace aimed at bridging ownership and authenticity between physical products and the digital realm. The platform specializes in creating NFTs that are backed by tangible assets, allowing users to verify ownership of items such as clothing, shoes, watches, consumer electronics, and video games. By leveraging decentralized finance, 4K.com transforms physical goods into NFTs, introducing innovative payment systems and protocols that facilitate financial transactions. This enables investors to trade more efficiently, access mortgage loans, and earn yields on their assets, thereby enhancing the marketplace's utility and appeal.

Visor Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized platform facilitating active liquidity management. Its tool enables participants to use smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges, maximizing returns from fees while minimizing impermanent loss.

RabbitHole

Seed Round in 2021
RabbitHole helps users navigate the play to earn space with curated opportunities. The company also allows users to build their knowledge with resources across DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs as well as explore web3 projects and earn rewards doing so. RabbitHole was established in 2020 by Brian Flynn in Venice, California.

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.

FRACTAL

Seed Round in 2021
Fractal is a financial technology company that provides digital assets and blockchain adoption services. They also develop tools for institutional investors to access decentralized financing.

Iron Fish

Seed Round in 2021
Iron Fish is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency and Layer 1 blockchain that provides strong privacy guarantees for every transaction. The project aims to make private blockchain networks globally accessible by using a syncing technique and features that support low-resource devices such as smartphones and lightweight web clients, enabling broader participation in digital networks. By delivering private transactions at scale, Iron Fish seeks to preserve cash-like privacy in a fully digital environment.

Octopus Network

Seed Round in 2021
Octopus Network facilitates the creation and operation of Web3.0 application-specific blockchains (appchains) by significantly reducing startup costs from millions to tens of thousands of dollars.

Kraken

Secondary Market in 2021
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that enables spot and futures trading across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 40 digital assets. Founded in 2011, it serves millions of clients and promotes broader cryptocurrency adoption by offering a marketplace where buyers, sellers, and traders exchange digital assets against major currencies. The platform provides services for large trades through a principal over-the-counter desk and offers professional charting tools for technical analysis. It supports automated trading via REST and WebSocket APIs, enabling developers and traders to build, test, and execute strategies. Kraken also offers round-the-clock live chat support to assist users at every stage of their journey. The company aims to provide a secure, accessible, and open financial system to foster financial inclusion.

CoinFLEX

Venture Round in 2021
CoinFLEX is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and yield platform that specializes in trading crypto assets, including Bitcoin. The company offers a physically delivered crypto futures exchange designed to address shortcomings in cash-settled contracts, allowing for high leverage trading that minimizes risks associated with index or settlement manipulation. CoinFLEX provides innovative yield products, notably flexUSD, the first interest-earning stablecoin, and AMM+, an automated market maker that emphasizes capital efficiency. The platform aims to streamline and secure the trading and management processes for professional proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and institutions operating in the cryptocurrency sector. Backed by notable figures and institutions in the crypto industry, CoinFLEX is committed to enhancing the trading experience in global cryptocurrency markets.

Celo

Venture Round in 2021
Celo is an open platform focused on providing financial tools to individuals with mobile phones, aiming to foster prosperity for all. It has developed a mobile-first blockchain platform that facilitates access to financial services and aims to enhance financial stability. The platform employs alphanumeric strings for cryptocurrency transactions, allowing users to transfer money quickly, securely, and reliably. Through these innovations, Celo seeks to democratize financial access and create a more inclusive monetary system.

Anoma

Funding Round in 2021
Anoma is a Zug-based Swiss company established in 2021. It develops an intent-centric, privacy-preserving protocol for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, and multi-chain atomic settlement.

Saddle Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Saddle Finance is a financial technology company that operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. The platform facilitates trading by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool, which provides deep on-chain liquidity. This configuration allows traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and low transaction fees, enhancing the efficiency of trading pegged assets. Through its innovative approach, Saddle Finance aims to optimize the trading experience for users engaged in the cryptocurrency market.

Swivel Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Swivel Finance is a company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2020 that specializes in creating an online lending platform. It offers a decentralized protocol designed for fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives, allowing lenders to secure fixed-rate interest rates on their ERC-20 tokens. The platform is characterized by its low transaction overhead and reduced risk for users, facilitating a more stable lending environment in the decentralized finance space.

Slingshot

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2018, Slingshot is a San Francisco-based company developing decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platforms. It facilitates secure, trustless, and self-sovereign digital asset transactions for retail users, aggregating prices across multiple exchanges.

Bitnomial

Venture Round in 2020
Bitnomial, Inc. is a company based in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 2014 to develop and operate a bitcoin derivatives exchange. The platform facilitates the trading of margined bitcoin futures and options, including bitcoin US dollar futures and options, by connecting native digital asset hedgers with institutional traders. Bitnomial's infrastructure is designed to enhance derivatives exchange technology and digital asset settlement systems, ensuring compliance with regulations overseen by the CFTC. This enables traders and brokers to engage in bitcoin derivatives trading within a globally trusted jurisdiction, providing a reliable marketplace for both institutional and retail participants.

Cozy Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Cozy Finance, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing risk management software tailored for the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Founded in 2020, the company offers a permissionless, peer-to-peer protection solution that enables users to invest in DeFi while safeguarding their assets against potential hacks and exploits. Additionally, Cozy Finance allows users to deposit funds, which can then be utilized by others for protected investing. By providing innovative tools and solutions, Cozy Finance aims to enhance the security and value management of cryptocurrency investments for developers and investors alike.

DerivaDEX

Seed Round in 2020
DerivaDEX is a community-governed derivatives exchange designed to combine performance and autonomy with the security of a decentralized platform. It operates on the Ethereum blockchain, utilizing an innovative liquidity-mining token model that empowers users to engage in the exchange's governance and operations. By incorporating an open order book and on-chain settlements, DerivaDEX facilitates efficient trading while ensuring transparency and security. The exchange aims to establish itself as a next-generation trading platform by leveraging trusted hardware and enhancing decentralization at its foundational level.

NEAR

Series A in 2019
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.

Marlin

Seed Round in 2019
Marlin is a technology company based in Singapore that develops an open-source secure networking platform designed to enhance decentralized communications for decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web 3.0. Founded in 2018, Marlin focuses on optimizing the communication between nodes in peer-to-peer networks, enabling faster block propagation across public blockchains. By providing a decentralized network of relay nodes worldwide, Marlin enhances the performance and scalability of blockchain infrastructure. Its innovative approach incentivizes the operation of full nodes and offers a superior alternative for peer-to-peer networking in decentralized environments, ultimately improving the speed and efficiency of various network chains.

O1Labs

Series A in 2019
O1Labs, established in 2017, is a blockchain technology company that specializes in zero knowledge cryptography and innovative cryptographic solutions. The company's significant contributions include the development of the Mina Protocol, recognized as the world's first lightweight, scalable, and decentralized zk blockchain. Additionally, O1Labs has created o1js, an intuitive framework designed to assist developers in building zk applications. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, O1Labs seeks to enhance blockchain accessibility and facilitate the creation of user-friendly cryptocurrency applications that operate natively in web browsers. The company's vision is to drive the next generation of applications powered by zero knowledge cryptography.

Spacemesh

Venture Round in 2018
Spacemesh is a layer‑one blockchain protocol that emphasizes permissionless decentralization and environmental sustainability. It employs a Proofs of Space‑Time consensus mechanism that leverages unused disk space for computation, allowing participants to contribute without significant resource consumption. The network uses a directed acyclic graph topology instead of a traditional chain, and its collaborative mining approach eliminates leader election and lottery‑based incentives. The platform is open source and supports general‑purpose smart contracts at web‑scale, providing a fair, secure, and self‑healing global computer for decentralized applications.

O1Labs

Seed Round in 2018
O1Labs, established in 2017, is a blockchain technology company that specializes in zero knowledge cryptography and innovative cryptographic solutions. The company's significant contributions include the development of the Mina Protocol, recognized as the world's first lightweight, scalable, and decentralized zk blockchain. Additionally, O1Labs has created o1js, an intuitive framework designed to assist developers in building zk applications. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, O1Labs seeks to enhance blockchain accessibility and facilitate the creation of user-friendly cryptocurrency applications that operate natively in web browsers. The company's vision is to drive the next generation of applications powered by zero knowledge cryptography.

CoinList

Series A in 2018
CoinList facilitates the launch and growth of innovative digital assets, connecting early adopters with promising projects like Filecoin and Solana. It offers a full-service trading platform for popular cryptocurrencies and provides access to new tokens before they list on other exchanges.
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