Fenbushi Capital

Fenbushi Capital is a prominent venture capital firm based in Shanghai, China, established in 2015. It is recognized as the first and most active venture capital firm in Asia focused on blockchain technology. Founded by experienced professionals from both blockchain and traditional financial sectors, Fenbushi Capital has supported over 80 leading projects across four continents. The firm invests in companies that leverage blockchain to transform various industries, including finance, healthcare, supply chain, and consumer goods. Fenbushi Capital is dedicated to fostering healthy and sustainable growth within the global blockchain ecosystem and serves as a long-term strategic partner to its portfolio companies.

Zhehao (Kobby) Chen

Investment Director

Rin Huang

Partner

Remington Ong

Partner

Bo Shen

Founding / Managing Partner

Jeffery Xu

Investment Manager

Clarence Zhou

Investment Director

Past deals in Crypto

WalletConnect

Series B in 2025
Reown is a developer of an open-source protocol that facilitates secure connections between decentralized applications and users' wallets in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry. The protocol enables communication and transaction signing without exposing users' private keys, ensuring safety and privacy. By utilizing end-to-end encryption and QR code scanning, Reown allows desktop decentralized applications to connect seamlessly with mobile wallets. This innovative approach enables application developers to integrate with multiple wallets through a single implementation, enhancing user convenience while maintaining security. Based in Zug, Switzerland, Reown aims to simplify the user experience in decentralized applications without compromising on privacy or security.

Lagrange

Seed Round in 2024
Lagrange is a cryptography-focused company that enhances security and functionality in blockchain interactions. It specializes in developing a novel proving system that enables secure, efficient processing of contract states. By facilitating the concurrent proof of large-scale data storage and distributed computation, Lagrange supports clients in utilizing advanced cryptographic techniques to bolster cross-chain protocols. The company's approach eliminates the need for opaque intermediaries, allowing for seamless interactions between different blockchain networks while ensuring a high level of security.

Eywa

Seed Round in 2024
Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging. In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA is introducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market. - Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon

Anichess

Seed Round in 2024
Anichess is a community-driven chess game that incorporates blockchain technology to create a play-and-earn ecosystem. It offers a free-to-play experience enhanced by unique strategic elements, including magical spells. This innovative approach allows players not only to enjoy the game but also to earn cryptocurrencies within Anichess's ecosystem. By blending traditional chess with modern gaming dynamics, Anichess aims to attract both chess enthusiasts and new players interested in the potential of blockchain gaming.

Azuro

Seed Round in 2024
Azuro is a decentralized autonomous organization committed to democratizing and innovating in predictions. The platform allows developers to launch prediction apps in minutes and engage users with new monetization opportunities. Azuro utilizes smart contracts to create a decentralized prediction protocol, ensuring complete transparency in the prediction process and providing a classic experience with numerous markets, ample liquidity, and innovations like collectible predictions and gamification through NFTs.

Shentu Chain

Seed Round in 2024
Shentu Chain is a software company focused on enhancing security and trust in decentralized systems through its blockchain platform. It offers a security infrastructure that helps developers create more secure smart contracts and decentralized applications, thereby preventing attacks on cryptocurrency. By providing critical security insights, Shentu Chain aims to foster a safer environment for blockchain technology and its users.

Farcana

Seed Round in 2023
Farcana is the blockchain-based gaming metaverse. Game lore takes place on Mars, when Earth’s resources are stretching, mankind starts sending expeditions to the red planet and fighting for Infilium, the most powerful energy source, found in the Galaxy. Farcana is the first high-quality immersive shooter game with a Bitcoin prize pool backed by the stable economic model — Play-to-Hash (P2H), patented in the US. Play-to-Hash is bolstered by the real-world economy and mining data centers, resulting in more stability and transparency than the classic Play-to-Earn market can offer.

Connext

Series A in 2023
Connext, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in developing software that facilitates the purchase and management of blockchain applications. It offers features such as direct card purchases for tokens, access to existing vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities. Additionally, Connext operates as an interoperability protocol, enabling fast and trustless communication between different blockchains. This innovation supports the creation of a more interconnected blockchain ecosystem.

Helika

Seed Round in 2023
Helika is a web3 technology platform that specializes in delivering real-time analytics and onboarding solutions for gaming studios and popular NFT collections. By integrating data from various sources, including Web2, in-game, on-chain, and social media, Helika enables top Web3 brands to gain valuable insights into their communities. This data-driven approach helps companies understand user behavior, enhance engagement, and improve user acquisition and retention. With its no-code platform, Helika supports gaming companies in making informed strategic decisions, ultimately driving growth and fostering a deeper connection with their audiences.

Aztec

Series B in 2022
Aztec is focused on developing a trading protocol for Ethereum that facilitates private transactions on the public blockchain. The company is recognized for its research team, which has been instrumental in creating PLONK, an advanced standard in zero-knowledge technologies. This team has achieved several significant research and development advancements in Layer 2 solutions for Ethereum, leveraging their extensive expertise in implementing complex cryptosystems for the Web3 ecosystem. Aztec also enhances the user experience through its zk.money platform, which exemplifies the capabilities of the Aztec Connect SDK to enable seamless integration with decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols such as Lido and Element. Furthermore, Aztec is committed to building an encrypted blockchain that operates securely on the Ethereum network.

Blocknative

Series A in 2022
Blocknative is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in real-time blockchain transaction management and monitoring solutions for public blockchain networks. Founded in 2018, it offers a decentralized application development platform that enables developers to access data across multiple blockchains. The platform features an embedded JavaScript widget that simplifies complex blockchain codes, enhancing user experience and facilitating informed decision-making through pre-chain insights. By streamlining the development process, Blocknative aims to empower clients with the tools necessary to navigate the complexities of blockchain technology effectively.

ChainSafe Systems

Series A in 2022
ChainSafe is a blockchain R&D firm, specializing in protocol engineering, cross-chain interoperability & web3 gaming. Our mission is to enable the world's systems to run on decentralized infrastructure. We take a multi-chain perspective with blockchain engineering experience that spans timezones, cultures, use cases, and protocols. Chainsafe was established in May, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario.

Optim Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Optim Finance provides investment tools that optimize yield on digital assets. Their financial primitives enable users to rent ADA delegation rights to power novel use cases such as SPO loans, leverage into ISOs, and initial bonds.

TokenScript

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
TokenScript is a new tokenization standard that will deliver a more integrated web. A token-centric middleware that connects the scale of Web2 with the promise of Web3.

Merkle Science

Series A in 2022
Merkle Science is a software company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, specializing in predictive crypto risk and intelligence platforms. It provides tools for businesses, financial institutions, and government agencies to detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities related to cryptocurrencies. The company utilizes a proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine, which allows compliance teams to exceed traditional blacklists and meet local KYC/AML obligations. Its platform features an intuitive rule management interface that enables users to visualize account activity over time and generate forensic reports. This functionality supports blockchain companies, crypto exchanges, investment funds, banks, and regulators in conducting due diligence and ensuring compliance while addressing the complexities of illicit cryptocurrency activities.

Ledgible

Series A in 2022
Ledgible, developed by Verady, is a financial software platform that provides accounting and audit services specifically for blockchain assets. It aims to address the limitations of traditional accounting systems in handling the complexities of cryptocurrency and blockchain transactions. The platform features a decentralized network of financial reporting and accounting tools that enable financial institutions, corporations, and regulators to effectively audit, account for, and verify these digital assets. By bridging the gap between new blockchain technologies and established financial practices, Ledgible facilitates the acceptance and growth of cryptocurrencies in the broader financial ecosystem.

CIAN

Seed Round in 2022
Cian is a automation platform that focuses primarily on liquidity staking token yield opportunities.

Zecrey

Angel Round in 2022
Zecrey is a Singapore-based company founded in January 2021 that focuses on enhancing blockchain accessibility for businesses and consumers while prioritizing privacy and security. The company has developed a layer 2 cross-chain protocol utilizing zkRollup technology, which enables secure management, swapping, and bridging of assets across multiple blockchain networks. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, Zecrey facilitates private transactions, thereby safeguarding users' ownership of their assets. The protocol aims to lower the barriers to entry in the blockchain space, making it easier for a wider audience to engage with decentralized technologies.

Canza Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Canza is building the world's largest non-institutional-based financial system.

Airwaive

Seed Round in 2022
Airwaive is a company that facilitates connections between wireless service providers and property owners, including both residential and commercial spaces. By leveraging blockchain technology, Airwaive aims to decentralize wireless broadband networks, enhancing affordability and accessibility for users. The company assists in the establishment of access points for wireless networks, which supports the development of small cell networks. This approach allows property owners to monetize their land and services by hosting wireless hotspots, thereby generating additional revenue while contributing to improved wireless connectivity in their areas.

The Graph

Venture Round in 2022
The Graph is an indexing protocol designed for querying data from blockchain networks such as Ethereum and IPFS, facilitating the development of decentralized applications (dApps). Developers can create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which can be queried using GraphQL to access blockchain data. Currently, The Graph supports data indexing from Ethereum, IPFS, and POA, with plans to incorporate additional networks. It offers a hosted service to assist developers in building on the platform, while a decentralized network is set to launch soon. As of late 2020, over 3,000 subgraphs had been deployed by thousands of developers for various dApps, including Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland. The Graph has experienced significant growth, with its usage increasing substantially month over month. To support its development, The Graph has raised funding from a broad range of community members and venture capitalists, totaling around $25 million.

BlockSec

Seed Round in 2021
BlockSec is a prominent blockchain security company founded in 2021 by a team of esteemed security scholars and experts based in Hong Kong. The company focuses on enhancing security and usability in the Web3 space to facilitate mass adoption. It has served nearly 300 customers, including notable projects such as MetaMask and Compound, and has identified numerous critical vulnerabilities, successfully preventing over 10 hacking attempts that saved more than 14 million USD in digital assets. BlockSec has developed various security usability products, including Phalcon and MetaSleuth, addressing essential challenges like secure development testing and on-chain monitoring. Additionally, the company offers solutions for online loan detection, anti-money laundering tracking, and smart contract transaction analysis, supporting multiple blockchain networks. With innovative research and robust practical capabilities, BlockSec has gained significant recognition within the industry and has raised substantial funding from prominent investors.

Vibra

Seed Round in 2021
Vibra is an online crypto-currency application that specializes in investments, blockchain, and funding services.

izumi Finance

Series A in 2021
Izumi Finance is a non-homogenous liquidity mining protocol to provide Uniswap lp token staking rewards in different price ranges. Izumi Finance improves the efficiency of incentive distribution for reward providers and enhances the earnings of liquidity providers in Uniswap.

1inch Labs

Series B in 2021
1inch Labs is a developer of a decentralized finance platform that aggregates multiple decentralized exchanges across various blockchains. Founded in 2019 and based in the United States, the company focuses on enhancing the efficiency of cryptocurrency trading. Its suite of protocols, including the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, 1inch Liquidity Protocol, and 1inch Limit Order Protocol, work together to facilitate cost-effective and secure swap transactions. This integration allows users to access better rates than those available on individual exchanges, thereby optimizing their trading experience in the decentralized finance sector.

Titan

Funding Round in 2021
Titan their software monitors, manages, and optimizes our mining operations at any scale. They are building a smart contract protocol for provable, programmable hashrate, making global mining smarter and more efficient.

Kibo Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Kibo Finance provides borderless options trading with fair pricing and better rewards.

WOO Network

Series A in 2021
WOO Network is a trading platform provider focused on delivering above-average liquidity for spot and futures trading while offering zero or negative trading fees. The platform facilitates connections between traders, exchanges, institutions, and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, thereby democratizing access to liquidity and trading execution. By prioritizing market efficiency, WOO Network aims to enhance trading experiences for its users, enabling them to achieve optimal market conditions at minimal or no cost.

Notabene

Series A in 2021
Notabene, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a software as a service (SaaS) platform focused on crypto compliance for the financial industry. Established in 2020, Notabene provides businesses with tools to meet emerging global regulations for cryptocurrency transactions, particularly the Travel Rule. Its platform features a unified API and a comprehensive dashboard designed to assist compliance officers in managing risks associated with both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. By simplifying compliance processes, Notabene enables financial companies to engage with a broader range of crypto businesses, enhancing transaction confidence and supporting growth in their operations.

CoinList

Series A in 2021
CoinList is a leading platform in the digital finance sector, focused on facilitating the launch and growth of innovative digital assets. The company provides a comprehensive token distribution service that connects blockchain projects with potential investors prior to their asset listings on other exchanges. CoinList supports various stages of crypto investment, including token sales, distribution, trading, lending, staking, and access to decentralized finance opportunities. Users can trade and store a wide range of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ether, through its mobile app and website, CoinList.co. The platform caters to a diverse clientele, including validators, miners, founders, CEOs, and crypto enthusiasts, ensuring they have access to new tokens and crypto-specific services. CoinList's mission is to be the most trusted brand in digital finance while expanding access for early adopters and fostering innovation within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

MCDEX

Venture Round in 2021
Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

Arcana Network

Venture Round in 2021
Arcana is the Decentralized Storage Layer for Ethereum and EVM chains, with a Privacy Stack for Authentication, Identity and Access Control, Key Management, and End-to-End to encryption. With Arcana's Privacy stack, developers can build secure and privacy-preserving apps.

Merkle Science

Series A in 2021
Merkle Science is a software company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, specializing in predictive crypto risk and intelligence platforms. It provides tools for businesses, financial institutions, and government agencies to detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities related to cryptocurrencies. The company utilizes a proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine, which allows compliance teams to exceed traditional blacklists and meet local KYC/AML obligations. Its platform features an intuitive rule management interface that enables users to visualize account activity over time and generate forensic reports. This functionality supports blockchain companies, crypto exchanges, investment funds, banks, and regulators in conducting due diligence and ensuring compliance while addressing the complexities of illicit cryptocurrency activities.

Fuel Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Fuel Labs is a global decentralized group of passionate developers building the future of blockchain scalability technology. As the leader in blockchain scaling innovation, its engineers created the optimistic rollup design paradigm and have contributed to advancing the frontier of rollup, blockchain virtual machine, and safe smart contract programming language research.

Mintverse

Seed Round in 2021
Mintverse is a service platform, where users can create, discover and collect an array of digital items and NFTs while also being able to crowdfund NFT art, crypto & NFT projects. Mintverse is working towards its vision of mass NFT adoption while further developing existing use cases and exploring future use cases of the NFT data structure. Backed by major investors and partners, Mintverse has the resources to develop the growth of the NFT community by tackling the current existing problems such as high gas fees, lack of monetary incentives for creators, and insufficient utility for current NFT assets.

Moon

Seed Round in 2021
Moon is a technology provider that delivers secure solutions for financial transactions, enhancing access to financial services. The company specializes in developing a payment platform that enables online purchases using cryptocurrency. Its offerings include a browser extension that allows users to link various accounts or wallets for transactions. Moon focuses on facilitating consumer access to know-your-customer virtual cards, as well as providing an application programming interface for card issuance. By integrating with clients, processors, and bank sponsors through proprietary APIs, Moon supports a wide range of consumer and enterprise applications, making it a critical enabler in the financial technology landscape. However, it is important to note that Moon is not a bank or a money service business.

Shiden Network

Venture Round in 2021
Shiden Network is a multi-chain decentralized application layer on Kusama Network.

Enjin

Venture Round in 2021
Enjin is a prominent blockchain project and an early pioneer in the NFT and metaverse space, founded in 2009 by Maxim Blagov and Witek Radomski. The company focuses on providing a comprehensive technology stack that facilitates seamless NFT integration for developers, particularly indie developers who can utilize these tools without requiring extensive blockchain expertise. Enjin is also launching Efinity, a dedicated NFT chain on Polkadot with specialized functions at the protocol level. Its offerings include Enjin Wallet 2.0, which allows games to utilize NFTs efficiently, and Beam, a feature for distributing NFTs through QR codes. Additionally, NFT.io serves as a dedicated marketplace, enhancing the ecosystem of tools and services that help businesses leverage blockchain technology to create virtual economies, engage users, and drive revenue.

Balancer

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Balancer Labs operates as a decentralized digital asset management company, offering a flexible and trustless platform for programmable liquidity. The company functions as a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor, allowing users to exchange tokens without the need for deposits. This enables customers to create their own self-balancing index funds or invest in those created by others, facilitating efficient asset management and trading in the cryptocurrency space.

Forkast.News

Seed Round in 2021
Forkast.News is a digital media platform covering blockchain and emerging tech at the intersection of business, economy, and politics.

Curio Digital

Seed Round in 2021
Curio Digital is a marketplace for tokenized digital collectibles.

HashMix

Seed Round in 2021
HashMix is a developer of a tokenized marketplace protocol that aims to democratize the mining economy and enhance the efficiency of hash power distribution. By leveraging multi-signature, smart contract, and cross-chain technology, HashMix generates and submits proofs of hash power to the blockchain. The company issues hash power NFT tokens, which facilitate the free circulation of hash power while securing ownership and yield rights. This innovative approach addresses the risks of overselling and fraud, creating a decentralized universal marketplace for various mining capacities. Ultimately, HashMix's technology enables users to improve the redistribution of global hash power across diverse blockchain applications.

MCDEX

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

PureStake

Series A in 2021
PureStake, Inc. is a company that develops infrastructure and services for public blockchain networks, focusing primarily on the Algorand and Polkadot ecosystems. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, PureStake offers a range of products and services including the AlgoSigner wallet extension, APIs, a block explorer called goalseeker, and infrastructure solutions for both private and co-chain environments. Additionally, the company provides validator services for the Polkadot Network and supports smart contract development on the Moonbeam platform. PureStake aims to facilitate secure and reliable participation in blockchain networks through its cloud-based platform, which employs an automated multi-pop and multi-cloud approach for enhanced user experience.

Moonbeam Network

Funding Round in 2021
Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.

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.

Poolin

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Poolin is a multi-cryptocurrency mining pool that facilitates the mining of various digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Zcash, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV, Dash, Monero, Dogecoin, and others. The company operates a platform that supports mainstream cryptocurrency mining and offers a range of services, including blockchain browsers, mining pools, and digital wallets, to enhance the client experience. By providing high computing power and efficient mining solutions, Poolin caters to a diverse clientele within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Centrifuge

Seed Round in 2020
Centrifuge Inc. is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Berlin, Centrifuge offers a peer-to-peer protocol that facilitates the secure and privacy-preserving exchange of financial documents. This platform allows businesses to tokenize, manage, and distribute their assets on-chain, providing asset managers with new tools and investors with access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets. By enabling third-party service providers to interact with financial data, Centrifuge fosters economic opportunity and promotes efficient transactions while ensuring that businesses retain ownership of their data and validated company details.

WOO Network

Seed Round in 2020
WOO Network is a trading platform provider focused on delivering above-average liquidity for spot and futures trading while offering zero or negative trading fees. The platform facilitates connections between traders, exchanges, institutions, and decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms, thereby democratizing access to liquidity and trading execution. By prioritizing market efficiency, WOO Network aims to enhance trading experiences for its users, enabling them to achieve optimal market conditions at minimal or no cost.

FalconX

Venture Round in 2020
FalconX, Ltd. is a cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform founded in 2018 and based in San Mateo, California. The company specializes in providing trading solutions for blockchain and fintech sectors, focusing on reliable execution for its clients. Utilizing data science and machine learning, FalconX's platform aims to eliminate slippage and hidden fees, enabling efficient access to cryptocurrency markets. It serves hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other institutional clients by facilitating mid-to-large size trades with smart routing across various liquidity sources for optimal pricing.

Blockdaemon

Venture Round in 2020
Blockdaemon Inc. is a company that develops a blockchain node management platform, enabling businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The platform supports over 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Tezos, and Polkadot, offering tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for flexibility, allowing users to switch between networks and chains easily, thus simplifying the configuration process. The company also provides valuable dev-ops guidance to support the blockchain developer ecosystem. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Blockdaemon has additional offices in New York and Ireland.

Keep

Venture Round in 2020
Keep Network is a blockchain technology company that focuses on enabling the use of private data on public protocols. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in George Town, Midland, it develops solutions that allow contracts to leverage private information while interacting with public blockchains. One of its key offerings is tBTC, a decentralized bridge that connects Bitcoin to the Ethereum network, allowing users to securely and anonymously transfer Bitcoin for participation in decentralized finance (DeFi) activities. The company's technology incorporates a privacy layer for Ethereum, utilizing secure multiparty computation to store data across multiple locations, enabling decentralized signing and the creation of cryptocurrency wallets. This innovation ensures that users can store files privately with blockchain storage encryption while engaging with the broader blockchain ecosystem.

Keep

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Keep Network is a blockchain technology company that focuses on enabling the use of private data on public protocols. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in George Town, Midland, it develops solutions that allow contracts to leverage private information while interacting with public blockchains. One of its key offerings is tBTC, a decentralized bridge that connects Bitcoin to the Ethereum network, allowing users to securely and anonymously transfer Bitcoin for participation in decentralized finance (DeFi) activities. The company's technology incorporates a privacy layer for Ethereum, utilizing secure multiparty computation to store data across multiple locations, enabling decentralized signing and the creation of cryptocurrency wallets. This innovation ensures that users can store files privately with blockchain storage encryption while engaging with the broader blockchain ecosystem.

ChainSafe Systems

Seed Round in 2020
ChainSafe is a blockchain R&D firm, specializing in protocol engineering, cross-chain interoperability & web3 gaming. Our mission is to enable the world's systems to run on decentralized infrastructure. We take a multi-chain perspective with blockchain engineering experience that spans timezones, cultures, use cases, and protocols. Chainsafe was established in May, 2017 in Toronto, Ontario.

Amber Group

Series A in 2020
Amber Group is a cryptocurrency financial services provider based in Hong Kong, established in 2017 by finance professionals from leading institutions. The company offers a range of services including liquidity provision, trading, asset management, yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, and electronic market making. Operating globally, Amber Group serves over 200 institutional clients and has facilitated cumulative trading exceeding $200 billion across numerous electronic exchanges, with an average daily trading volume of $100-200 million. The company is dedicated to enhancing client experiences by leveraging advanced technology and quantitative research, aiming to optimize investment flexibility and maximize returns. Amber Group has also raised significant capital to support its growth and innovation in the cryptocurrency space.

Messari

Venture Round in 2019
Messari, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a distributed data library focused on crypto assets. Founded in 2018, Messari provides comprehensive information on crypto projects, including details about funding, development history, governance, and supply schedules. The company serves both individuals and institutions by offering market intelligence products that enhance transparency and facilitate informed participation in the crypto and Web3 sectors. Its platform combines in-depth analysis, data visualization, and asset discovery tools, enabling researchers, investors, and regulators to access valuable insights and disclosure standards necessary for making well-informed decisions in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

SIBEX

Seed Round in 2019
SIBEX is a software company that offers a decentralized, non-custodial, peer-to-peer over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform for digital assets. This platform allows users to trade cryptocurrencies directly between blockchains without the need for third-party involvement, ensuring a secure and private trading experience. By providing an institutional-grade dark venue for the procurement and liquidation of digital assets, SIBEX addresses challenges such as front-running, which helps lower trading costs. The company's focus on facilitating safe and straightforward decentralized finance trading positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of digital asset transactions.

Ledgible

Venture Round in 2019
Ledgible, developed by Verady, is a financial software platform that provides accounting and audit services specifically for blockchain assets. It aims to address the limitations of traditional accounting systems in handling the complexities of cryptocurrency and blockchain transactions. The platform features a decentralized network of financial reporting and accounting tools that enable financial institutions, corporations, and regulators to effectively audit, account for, and verify these digital assets. By bridging the gap between new blockchain technologies and established financial practices, Ledgible facilitates the acceptance and growth of cryptocurrencies in the broader financial ecosystem.

Securitize

Series A in 2019
Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-based marketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings.

Edge

Seed Round in 2019
Edge is an SDK platform that enables its users to develop security applications for its clients. Their product range includes client-side encryption, data backup, password recovery, blockchain technology, private key authentication, buy/sell/trade crypto. Edge (formerly Airbitz) was founded in 2014 and is based in San Diego, California.

CERE Network

Seed Round in 2019
CERE Network is a blockchain-based customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem focused on data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a platform that extracts customer data from various CRM and customer data systems. This platform facilitates an open micro-services environment for businesses and vendors to collaborate and integrate their data effectively. By capturing the entire customer journey on the blockchain, CERE Network ensures that crucial user information, including purchases and achievements, is securely stored in user wallets. Additionally, the ecosystem incorporates tokens that enable users to pay for services within the platform.

BitMart

Corporate Round in 2019
As a globally integrated digital asset trading platform, BitMart aims to provide diversified system functions such as spot trading, futures contract trading, over-the-counter trading, whole-network trading and decentralized trading to satisfy different needs for a wide array of investors.

OceanEx

Series A in 2019
OceanEx Limited, founded in 2018 and based in the Bahamas, operates a cryptocurrency trading platform that leverages artificial intelligence to enhance user experience. The platform offers a range of professional services tailored for digital asset investors, traders, and liquidity providers. By integrating advanced technology, OceanEx aims to facilitate efficient trading and improve market liquidity, positioning itself as a key player in the digital asset ecosystem.

Marlin

Seed Round in 2019
Marlin is an open-source protocol tool designed to enhance decentralized communications for DeFi and Web 3.0 applications. Founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, Marlin enables parties, such as miners, to connect to a global network of relay nodes, facilitating the rapid propagation of blocks and optimizing communication between nodes. The platform functions as a robust infrastructure, providing a superior peer-to-peer networking alternative for blockchains and decentralized networks. By incentivizing full nodes, Marlin seeks to improve network speed and efficiency across various blockchain systems, thereby advancing the capabilities of modern decentralized networks.

AlphaWallet

Seed Round in 2019
The team at AlphaWallet is committed to connecting businesses and consumers with the new digital economic infrastructure through tokenisation. Tokenised rights can be traded on the market and integrated across systems, forming a Frictionless Market and allowing limitless integration(Integrating the Web). We provide TokenScript, an open framework which is the “HTML” for tokens and enables developers to make their tokens “smart”. The AlphaWallet app is like the browser for users to access these SmartTokens which are analogous to websites in the web 2.0 world. We see a future that everyone benefiting from technology-enabled free markets.

bloXroute Labs

Series B in 2019
BloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company that offers a blockchain scalability solution designed to enhance the performance of cryptocurrencies and blockchains without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that allows for the processing of thousands of transactions per second on-chain. Its platform leverages a global network of servers optimized for network performance through techniques such as compression and encryption. This infrastructure facilitates the rapid propagation of transactions and blocks, thereby improving data efficiency and increasing overall transaction throughput. BloXroute's approach is designed to maintain consensus across all nodes, ensuring it remains provably neutral and applicable to any blockchain.

The Block

Seed Round in 2019
The Block is an information services company empowering smart decisions for those who invest in, work with, make decisions about or seek to understand digital assets. Through The Block's website, newsletters, research portal, our podcast "The Scoop", data, and bespoke research engagements, we interact daily with tens of thousands of technologists, financial market participants, Fortune 500 professionals, global service providers, policymakers and more. For industry news visit us at www.theblock.co or for research and analysis on events shaping the ecosystem, visit www.theblock.pro. The Block delivers deep insight into how this emerging sector interacts with traditional finance, technology, governments, and markets.

LongHash Ventures

Venture Round in 2019
LongHash Ventures is a global blockchain accelerator and venture capital fund. We seek financial returns through venture building and investing in early stage blockchain start ups, with a mission to enable the Web 3.0 blockchain native economy. We source projects globally, leveraging especially on our strong Asia network across key hubs like Singapore, China, Hong Kong, and Japan. In addition to providing capital, we support portfolio companies with a rigorous hands-on venture building platform with strategy formulation, go-to market execution, and our comprehensive investor network.

MEXDM

Angel Round in 2019
MEXDM is a digital asset trading platform that specializes in the trading of blockchain asset derivatives. The company has established operational centers in multiple countries, enabling it to deliver professional, efficient, and secure services to a global customer base. MEXDM focuses on providing a reliable trading environment for users interested in digital assets, ensuring that they have access to the tools and resources necessary to engage in this rapidly evolving market.

Plair

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Plair is a decentralized gaming ecosytem that rewards players for participating in the Plair platform. Plair intends to establish and grow a community space where gamers can not only engage with one another through online and offline events and tournaments, but where they will have access to tools that will allow them to earn a sustainable living and forge a career path in video game play. The Plair platform will reward and empower every member of the video gaming community, both socially and financially.

Mythical Games

Series A in 2018
Mythical Games Inc. is a game technology studio that focuses on developing blockchain-based games for personal computers, mobile devices, and consoles. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, with an additional office in Seattle, Washington, the company aims to revolutionize gaming by emphasizing true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets. Its flagship product, Blankos, is a casual multiplayer game that allows players to buy, trade, and sell their custom designs. Mythical Games also provides tools for content creators and brands to personalize and own game assets, fostering a collaborative environment for players, developers, and creators. The company is dedicated to creating innovative gaming experiences that leverage distributed ledger technology, thereby enhancing consumer engagement and participation in the gaming ecosystem.

TokenInsight

Series A in 2018
TokenInsight is a company based in China that specializes in providing data and rating services for the cryptocurrency market. It is dedicated to enhancing market transparency by offering an extensive token database, industry research algorithms, and advanced rating systems. The company aims to deliver accurate and unbiased information to both individual consumers and professional businesses, ensuring that its reporting meets high standards. Through its commitment to transparency and institutional research methodologies, TokenInsight seeks to be a reliable source of information in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

everiToken

Seed Round in 2018
everiToken is a Shanghai-based company that offers a token-customized public blockchain designed to facilitate the issuance of various assets, from small items to large properties, through tokenization. Its platform employs a token-based transaction model that allows for parallel transactions while safeguarding against security attacks. This technology enables the tracking of token circulation, making it easier for merchants globally to accept tokens as payment for goods and services, both in traditional and decentralized applications. By integrating APIs related to token issuance, transfer, and management, everiToken supports the growth of the token economy and enhances the usability of tokens in everyday transactions.

CoinMex

Angel Round in 2018
CoinMex is a digital asset exchange platform based in China, specializing in providing users with safe, fast, and convenient trading services for various digital assets. The platform aims to facilitate blockchain projects by offering comprehensive solutions that ensure reliable payment and trading experiences. CoinMex positions itself as a one-stop destination for digital asset trading, focusing on delivering professional and effective services to its users.

Messari

Seed Round in 2018
Messari, Inc. is a New York-based company that operates a distributed data library focused on crypto assets. Founded in 2018, Messari provides comprehensive information on crypto projects, including details about funding, development history, governance, and supply schedules. The company serves both individuals and institutions by offering market intelligence products that enhance transparency and facilitate informed participation in the crypto and Web3 sectors. Its platform combines in-depth analysis, data visualization, and asset discovery tools, enabling researchers, investors, and regulators to access valuable insights and disclosure standards necessary for making well-informed decisions in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

New Kind of Network

Venture Round in 2018
NKN uses economic incentives to motivate Internet users to share network connection and utilize unused bandwidth. NKN’s products include: nCDN - A New Kind of Content Delivery Network which combines the best elements of traditional data center focused content delivery and decentralized P2P CDNs for web acceleration and caching, nPubSub - A decentralized and secure messaging service for realtime applications such as IM/Chat and IoT, TUNA - Short for Tunnel Using NKN for any Application is a platform built on top of NKN that allows everyone to turn any network based application into a service and monetize it based on usage.

Stream Token

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Stream is a new decentralized blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to easily and anonymously accept payments from their audience members anywhere in the world, with extremely low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.

Kyber Ventures

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Kyber Network is a platform that facilitates the exchange and conversion of digital assets, enabling users to seamlessly receive payments across various tokens. Founded in 2019 and based in Singapore, Kyber Ventures serves as the corporate venture capital arm of Kyber Network, focusing on investments in the cryptocurrency and blockchain sectors. The company offers comprehensive payment APIs and a contract wallet designed to enhance user experience in digital transactions. Through its innovative services, Kyber Network aims to support the growth and development of decentralized applications and services.

Block.one

Seed Round in 2017
Block.one LLC is a technology company that focuses on developing blockchain software solutions, notably the EOSIO protocol, which facilitates the creation of decentralized applications with enhanced scalability and flexibility. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in George Town, Cayman Islands, Block.one has established a significant presence in both the United States and the Asia Pacific region, employing over 300 specialized engineers and professionals. The company's open-source EOSIO software is widely utilized by developers, entrepreneurs, and businesses globally to build secure and transparent digital infrastructures. Block.one is dedicated to promoting societal advancement through innovative tools and systems that emphasize data integrity and verifiability.

Symbiont

Series A in 2017
Symbiont.io, Inc. is a financial technology company that specializes in developing a smart contracts platform tailored for institutional applications of blockchain technology. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Amsterdam, the company provides a comprehensive infrastructure for capital markets. This includes a unified ledger for sharing business logic and market data, as well as the Symbiont Assembly platform, which facilitates the issuance, tracking, and management of financial instruments such as loans, securities, and commodities. By enabling complex financial instruments to exist within a decentralized blockchain network, Symbiont aims to enhance transparency, reduce risk, and lower costs for financial institutions and government entities. The company has established partnerships with industry leaders, including Vanguard and the State of Delaware, to drive innovation and improve operational efficiency in the capital markets sector.

TenX

Seed Round in 2017
At TenX we make cryptocurrencies spendable anytime and anywhere.

Ripio

Series A in 2017
Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that specializes in electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. Utilizing blockchain technology, Ripio aims to create a more accessible financial system in emerging markets. The company enables merchants to process international transactions using credit cards or bitcoins, significantly reducing costs. Additionally, Ripio allows consumers to purchase bitcoins instantly with cash. Its platform supports bitcoin and credit card payments and provides merchants the option to receive payouts in local currency or bitcoins. The company also offers a digital wallet feature and a credit line service to facilitate installment payments, catering to clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.

Nebulous

Seed Round in 2016
Nebulous, Inc. is a Boston-based company founded in 2014 that specializes in developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. The company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a marketplace for data storage. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform aimed at developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files to enable fast streaming. As a core contributor and maintainer of the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.

BlockSeer

Venture Round in 2016
BlockSeer Corp. is a data science company based in Palo Alto, California, specializing in blockchain analytics and forensics. It offers a platform called Blockseer, which enables users to assess the validity of parties in transactions by visualizing the Bitcoin transaction graph. This tool organizes and labels Bitcoin addresses and clusters, allowing users to explore detailed information about these entities. By providing clear visualizations of patterns and trends in blockchain data, BlockSeer aims to enhance transparency within the Bitcoin ecosystem. The platform serves both individuals and businesses, enabling them to investigate the source of Bitcoin in transactions, review ongoing activities, and share insights with others. As of March 2018, BlockSeer operates as a subsidiary of DMG Blockchain Solutions Inc.

Circle

Series D in 2016
Circle is a financial technology firm that leverages blockchain technology and stablecoins to facilitate payments and e-commerce. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle enhances the way users send and receive money through its platform, Circle Pay. The company offers a cryptocurrency investment product called Circle Invest, enabling users to buy and sell various crypto assets. Additionally, Circle provides over-the-counter trading services through Circle Trade, featuring one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading, with an average monthly volume of $2 billion. Backed by significant investments from notable firms, Circle operates from its headquarters in Boston and has branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

Hijro

Seed Round in 2016
Hijro operates as a financial operating network specifically designed for global trade, utilizing distributed ledger technology to enhance efficiency and security in trade finance. By connecting banks, buyers, and suppliers within a unified network, Hijro aims to streamline settlement processes, mitigate fraud risks, and eliminate costly data silos prevalent in the open-account trade market, which is valued at approximately $4 trillion. The Hijro Network serves as a foundational “fabric” for trade, offering a variety of applications and solutions, including a multi-bank, multi-lender trade asset marketplace and flexible working capital options for businesses. Additionally, Hijro provides APIs to facilitate seamless integration into its network, allowing financial institutions to tokenize, transfer, and trade various digital assets such as receivables and approved payables. Through these innovations, Hijro positions itself as a modern solution for the complexities of global trade.

String Labs

Seed Round in 2016
String Labs Inc. is a Palo Alto-based crypto venture studio that focuses on developing decentralized protocols and decentralized applications (DAPPS). Founded in 2014, the company is a key contributor to innovative blockchain projects, including DFINITY, which enhances the Ethereum ecosystem for business applications, and the PHI project, designed for decentralized cloud platforms. String Labs also collaborates with prominent organizations like BCG Dvolution to advance enterprise blockchain initiatives and offers infrastructure support. Its team comprises experts in cryptography, distributed computing, and economics, positioning the company as a leader in the blockchain space.

Bloq

Seed Round in 2016
Bloq, Inc. specializes in developing enterprise software solutions focused on blockchain technology. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, the company offers BloqEnterprise, a robust blockchain infrastructure that allows users to create, customize, and manage private, public, and permissioned blockchain networks. Additionally, Bloq provides BloqCloud, a blockchain management system, and BloqLabs, which focuses on the tokenization of assets. The company also features Metronome, a cross-blockchain cryptocurrency, and operates a digital currency wallet that offers various cryptocurrency services. With a team of experienced blockchain developers and entrepreneurs, Bloq aims to empower global enterprises by enabling them to build, manage, and scale blockchain-enabled ecosystems with comprehensive support.

Skuchain

Seed Round in 2016
Skuchain, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing blockchain-based products aimed at enhancing B2B trade and supply chain finance. Founded in 2014 and based in Mountain View, California, Skuchain offers a platform that includes features for procurement, contract management, financing arrangements, and inventory tracking. One of its notable products is BRACKETS, a smart lock system that automates monetary transactions when contractual agreements are fulfilled. The company’s currency-agnostic approach ensures that businesses can achieve greater transparency, security, and efficiency throughout their supply chains, catering primarily to banks and manufacturers.

Zcash

Seed Round in 2016
Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender, recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view key at their discretion. Zcash transactions do not depend on the cooperation of other parties. Additionally, full nodes in the Zcash network only need to store a small persistent state.

Gem

Series A in 2016
Gem is a cryptocurrency wallet and blockchain platform. Their seasoned team of cryptocurrency software architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering secure ways to participate in the digital marketplace. They support payment methods that allow trading options for users.

Streami

Seed Round in 2016
Blockchain financial market infrastructure technology company operating Gofax (Cryptocurrency Exchange) and Dask (Cryptocurrency Depository).

Lukka

Seed Round in 2014
Lukka, Inc. is a blockchain-native technology company based in New York that provides middle and back office solutions tailored for the crypto-asset ecosystem. Established in 2014, Lukka specializes in managing and processing complex blockchain and cryptocurrency data, delivering tools that enhance accounting, auditing, tax reporting, and compliance for various entities, including funds and exchanges. Its key offerings include LukkaTax, which simplifies tax calculations for cryptocurrency transactions, and LukkaCrypto Office, a back-office solution designed to manage crypto assets with features for pricing, valuation, and reporting. Additionally, Lukka Reference Data provides normalized data for crypto assets, ensuring consistency and accuracy for enterprise applications. The company's solutions facilitate real-time visibility into crypto transaction activities, helping institutions meet their reporting and compliance needs efficiently.
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