Electric Capital

Electric Capital is a crypto asset management firm founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in investing in programmable money through both liquid and illiquid tokens that serve as emerging stores of value, rooted in innovative technology. Its founders include technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and seasoned investors who have a strong track record in the tech industry, having previously launched six companies (five of which were acquired) and invested in over 100 startups with significant market capitalizations. The team has extensive experience from notable technology companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter and has been personally investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, demonstrating early support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero. Electric Capital operates as a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) and focuses on opportunities within the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors across the United States.

Jim Bai

Investor

Ken Deeter

General Partner

Mitchell Hammer

Analyst

Thuan Le

Partner and Head of Founder Platform

Maria Shen

General Partner

Curtis Spencer

Co-Founder and General Partner on the investment team

Past deals in Smart Contracts

Axelar

Initial Coin Offering in 2025
Axelar is a company focused on developing interoperability software that facilitates communication between various blockchain ecosystems and applications. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar Network offers a suite of protocols, tools, and APIs aimed at overcoming the challenges of cross-chain interactions. The company's solutions leverage Byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design to enable decentralized applications to operate across different blockchains seamlessly. By providing developers with the necessary resources, Axelar empowers them to select the most suitable platforms while enhancing cross-chain composability and liquidity.

Infinit

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

Ava Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
Ava Protocol is a developer of a blockchain payment automation platform that facilitates private autonomous transactions for diverse applications, including decentralized finance, non-fungible tokens, and gaming. The platform utilizes an intent-based Eigenlayer architecture to enhance decentralized applications by incorporating features such as scheduled and recurring payments, stop-loss orders, and streaming rewards. Its event-driven execution model allows for the triggering of cross-chain transactions based on various signals, including time, price fluctuations, and smart contract updates. This enables developers to efficiently schedule and automate functions across multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, while maintaining privacy and ensuring reliable execution.

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 that specializes in under-collateralized trading for both individual and institutional users. It enables participants to hedge, speculate, and take positions on a wide array of market movements through its innovative derivatives offerings. By leveraging Solana's robust infrastructure, Zeta Markets provides real-time pricing updates, efficient trade execution, and rapid position settlement, all at minimal transaction costs. The company focuses on creating a user-friendly experience that simplifies the complexities of derivatives trading, thereby expanding access to liquid trading opportunities in the DeFi space.

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.

Fordefi

Seed Round in 2024
Fordefi is a pioneering company that specializes in a multi-party computation (MPC) wallet platform tailored for decentralized finance (DeFi). Its innovative Web3 gateway allows institutions to securely connect to decentralized applications (dApps) across various blockchain networks. Fordefi's platform is designed to enhance the security of digital assets while providing essential features such as MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, and insightful tools for smart contract transactions. Additionally, it offers transaction simulation and risk alerts, enabling market participants to navigate the DeFi landscape with greater confidence and security. As the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform in the DeFi sector, Fordefi is committed to making the interaction with digital assets both efficient and secure for its users.

Kresko

Seed Round in 2023
Kresko is a company dedicated to making wealth accessible through an innovative online capital platform focused on synthetic stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. The platform offers a unified application for managing various financial assets, including minting, swapping, pooling, and farming. Kresko's technology emphasizes risk management by providing clear insights into portfolio health and risk levels. Built on a protocol that enhances capital efficiency and user experience, the platform facilitates seamless asset listing and integration, making it easier for developers to incorporate crypto assets into their applications and wallets.

Llama

Seed Round in 2023
Llama is a developer of a comprehensive platform focused on access control and governance for smart contracts, particularly within Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). The company specializes in setting permissions for action creation and delineating roles for action approvals and disapprovals. Llama's architecture determines the rules governing the lifecycle of actions, from their inception to execution. Additionally, it provides an economic infrastructure that empowers decentralized communities to manage their treasuries effectively, facilitating processes related to spending, asset allocation, borrowing, and reporting. By enabling secure, on-chain governance, Llama supports protocols in conducting activities safely and efficiently.

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.

Yoz

Seed Round in 2023
Yoz Labs is a Web3 notification platform focused on enhancing interactions between developers and users. The company aims to build a scalable messaging infrastructure that allows developers to send instant on-chain notifications. By providing a low-to-no code interface, Yoz Labs simplifies the notification process, requiring only a smart contract to initiate communication. This approach enables developers to efficiently reach users with immediate updates, streamlining the overall user experience in the Web3 environment.

Fordefi

Seed Round in 2022
Fordefi is a pioneering company that specializes in a multi-party computation (MPC) wallet platform tailored for decentralized finance (DeFi). Its innovative Web3 gateway allows institutions to securely connect to decentralized applications (dApps) across various blockchain networks. Fordefi's platform is designed to enhance the security of digital assets while providing essential features such as MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, and insightful tools for smart contract transactions. Additionally, it offers transaction simulation and risk alerts, enabling market participants to navigate the DeFi landscape with greater confidence and security. As the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform in the DeFi sector, Fordefi is committed to making the interaction with digital assets both efficient and secure for its users.

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.

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.

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.

Certora

Series B in 2022
Certora is a technology company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the detection of vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Its platform utilizes advanced technology to verify compliance with specified security rules at compile-time, ensuring that all executions of a smart contract are secure. By offering independent and language-agnostic solutions, Certora helps clients manage security verification processes effectively, minimizing the risk of false interruptions. The company’s unique approach enables automatic detection of security vulnerabilities both prior to code deployment and during operation, providing mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. This capability allows for the assurance of security in software development, helping to eliminate potential risks associated with vulnerabilities.

Spruce

Series A in 2022
Spruce is building a future where users control their identity and data across all digital interactions.

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.

Espresso Systems

Seed Round in 2022
Espresso Systems specializes in providing scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications, focusing on the innovative area of shared sequencing within blockchain technology. This involves the use of sequencers that verify and batch transactions on layer-2 blockchains before sending them to a layer-1 chain, such as Ethereum, for settlement. Additionally, Espresso Systems develops online transaction technology aimed at enhancing the online payment industry, offering infrastructure that facilitates secure and efficient online interactions. Their solutions cater to the needs of clients in the online transaction sector, contributing to the advancement of the third generation of the World Wide Web.

Ava Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Ava Protocol is a developer of a blockchain payment automation platform that facilitates private autonomous transactions for diverse applications, including decentralized finance, non-fungible tokens, and gaming. The platform utilizes an intent-based Eigenlayer architecture to enhance decentralized applications by incorporating features such as scheduled and recurring payments, stop-loss orders, and streaming rewards. Its event-driven execution model allows for the triggering of cross-chain transactions based on various signals, including time, price fluctuations, and smart contract updates. This enables developers to efficiently schedule and automate functions across multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, while maintaining privacy and ensuring reliable execution.

Mysten Labs

Series A in 2021
Mysten Labs is a web3 infrastructure company committed to facilitating the mass adoption of decentralized technologies. The company develops essential tools and foundational infrastructure that enhance the security and usability of web3 applications. By improving interoperability across multiple blockchain networks, Mysten Labs enables developers to concentrate on delivering superior user experiences rather than navigating the complexities of lower-level blockchain integrations. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to accelerate the development and adoption of decentralized services, positioning itself as a key player in the evolution of the web3 ecosystem.

Anoma

Series A in 2021
Anoma is a blockchain protocol company founded in 2021 and based in Zug, Switzerland. It focuses on creating an intent-centric, privacy-preserving system for decentralized counterparty discovery, multi-chain atomic settlement, and secure asset exchange. The protocol facilitates private and asset-agnostic transactions, allowing users to engage in cryptocurrency trading and bartering without compromising their privacy. Anoma employs advanced cryptography and zero-knowledge proof technologies to empower users in a decentralized financial landscape, ensuring that transactions are conducted securely and at market rates.

ConsenSys

Series C in 2021
ConsenSys, established in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, is a leading Ethereum software company focused on Web3. It offers a suite of products, including Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, which serve millions of users and support billions of blockchain-based queries. ConsenSys enables developers and enterprises worldwide to build next-generation applications and access the decentralized web, fostering business adoption and growth of the Ethereum ecosystem. Additionally, ConsenSys Academy, its educational arm, bridges the Ethereum knowledge gap globally for ecosystem development.

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.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company has developed a unique approach to optimize the liquidation of NFT assets through a quote-by-lock-in pricing mechanism. This allows asset holders to borrow stablecoins, enhancing their liquidity options. Additionally, Taker Protocol is dedicated to building cross-chain bridges, facilitating connections between various public blockchain networks. This capability improves the efficiency of asset transfers and expands the potential application scenarios for NFTs, making it a significant player in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

Kresko

Seed Round in 2021
Kresko is a company dedicated to making wealth accessible through an innovative online capital platform focused on synthetic stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. The platform offers a unified application for managing various financial assets, including minting, swapping, pooling, and farming. Kresko's technology emphasizes risk management by providing clear insights into portfolio health and risk levels. Built on a protocol that enhances capital efficiency and user experience, the platform facilitates seamless asset listing and integration, making it easier for developers to incorporate crypto assets into their applications and wallets.

Visor Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Visor Finance is a developer of a decentralized platform focused on active liquidity management. The company provides a platform that enables participants to utilize smart vaults for liquidity mining and the management of assets across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges. By allowing users to create strategies, reinvest fees, and distribute protocol revenue, Visor Finance aims to help users maximize returns from fees while minimizing impermanent loss. Through its innovative approach, the company contributes to the evolving landscape of decentralized finance, enhancing the user experience in liquidity management.

Certora

Series A in 2021
Certora is a technology company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the detection of vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Its platform utilizes advanced technology to verify compliance with specified security rules at compile-time, ensuring that all executions of a smart contract are secure. By offering independent and language-agnostic solutions, Certora helps clients manage security verification processes effectively, minimizing the risk of false interruptions. The company’s unique approach enables automatic detection of security vulnerabilities both prior to code deployment and during operation, providing mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. This capability allows for the assurance of security in software development, helping to eliminate potential risks associated with vulnerabilities.

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.

Gitcoin

Venture Round in 2021
Gitcoin, established in 2017 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, operates a platform that connects open-source developers with funding opportunities. The platform, built on the Ethereum network using Solidity, enables developers to monetize their work in various programming languages, including Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, and Solidity. Gitcoin fosters a symbiotic relationship between developers, maintainers, and financiers, promoting the growth of open-source projects and the community. The company's grants management platform offers decentralized allocation infrastructure and smart contract-based funding mechanisms, facilitating efficient capital distribution and community-driven innovation within blockchain ecosystems.

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.

Anoma

Funding Round in 2021
Anoma is a blockchain protocol company founded in 2021 and based in Zug, Switzerland. It focuses on creating an intent-centric, privacy-preserving system for decentralized counterparty discovery, multi-chain atomic settlement, and secure asset exchange. The protocol facilitates private and asset-agnostic transactions, allowing users to engage in cryptocurrency trading and bartering without compromising their privacy. Anoma employs advanced cryptography and zero-knowledge proof technologies to empower users in a decentralized financial landscape, ensuring that transactions are conducted securely and at market rates.

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.

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 Inc. is a company that develops and provides a platform for creating decentralized applications through its NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain designed for open-source code. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Inc. focuses on bridging the adoption gap for mainstream commercial software by offering tools that facilitate the writing, testing, and deployment of decentralized applications. The platform is engineered to support a wide range of applications, ensuring security for high-value assets such as money and identity. Additionally, NEAR provides essential services, including documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer functionalities, which contribute to a robust ecosystem for developers.

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.

ThunderCore

Series A in 2019
ThunderCore operates a high-performance public blockchain compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It employs a proprietary consensus protocol called PaLa, which addresses scalability challenges and enables rapid transaction processing at over 4,000 TPS with confirmation times under one second. The network's native currency, TT, facilitates secure and low-cost transactions, with gas fees costing less than a fraction of a cent. ThunderCore serves an international user base across over 190 countries, supporting decentralized applications (dApps) with enhanced security and scalability.

Spacemesh

Venture Round in 2018
Spacemesh is a company based in North Pole, Alaska, that develops a unique Layer 1 blockchain protocol designed to support a decentralized and secure cryptocurrency ecosystem. Its innovative blockmesh operating system utilizes a Proofs of Space-Time consensus protocol, which enables participants to contribute computing power through unused hard drive space without incurring significant resource costs. This approach distinguishes Spacemesh from traditional blockchain architectures by employing a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) structure rather than a linear chain, and it incorporates a leaderless voting mechanism to ensure fairness and decentralization. The platform is built to facilitate the deployment of general-purpose smart contracts at scale, promoting an environmentally sustainable and equitable cryptocurrency that is capable of self-healing and maintaining high security. Spacemesh aims to redefine permissionless decentralization and is set to launch its genesis block in December 2022.

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.

ThunderCore

Seed Round in 2018
ThunderCore operates a high-performance public blockchain compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It employs a proprietary consensus protocol called PaLa, which addresses scalability challenges and enables rapid transaction processing at over 4,000 TPS with confirmation times under one second. The network's native currency, TT, facilitates secure and low-cost transactions, with gas fees costing less than a fraction of a cent. ThunderCore serves an international user base across over 190 countries, supporting decentralized applications (dApps) with enhanced security and scalability.
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