Memes Lab
Seed Round in 2025
Memes Lab is a multi-level meme infrastructure on TON, integrated with Telegram Stars, which allows users to purchase meme coins without a wallet.
Puffpaw
Seed Round in 2024
PuffPaw is a technology-driven company specializing in the production of electronic cigarettes. It leverages blockchain technology to monitor and incentivize consumer vaping habits, offering a unique 'vape-to-earn' platform that rewards users with cryptocurrency for their vaping activities, thereby promoting healthier lifestyle choices within the vaping community.
Legitimate
Seed Round in 2024
Legitimate is a company that enhances the retail customer journey by transforming physical products into platforms for digital engagement. It develops a protocol that integrates near-field communication with blockchain technology, which allows for the registration and traceability of products using secure encryption. This innovative approach not only ensures product authenticity and combats counterfeiting but also provides customers with reliable transparency data. By bridging physical and digital touchpoints, Legitimate creates holistic and immersive brand experiences, enabling businesses to engage effectively with their customers and fostering confidence in the integrity of the products they purchase.
Zeus Network
Seed Round in 2024
Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
Cosmology
Seed Round in 2024
Cosmology operates a development platform designed to streamline the creation and deployment of decentralized applications (dApps) within the interchain ecosystem, which encompasses multiple blockchains. Their platform provides tools such as low-level encoding and signing, user interfaces, and wallet adapters, aiming to simplify the process for Web2 developers to transition into Web3 development.
Safary
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Safary is a Web3-focused technology company that builds a marketing intelligence platform. The company focuses on attribution within the Web3 marketing stack, helping teams understand customer acquisition cost, channel return on investment, and lifetime value. The platform analyzes market narratives, tracks on-chain conversions, and provides audience demographics and profiles enriched with Web3 activity. It also identifies key social influencers and followers to inform marketing decisions. Safary delivers data-driven insights to marketing teams, Web3 communities, and platform operators to optimize user experiences and grow engagement in decentralized ecosystems.
Fairblock
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fairblock is a technology company specializing in zero-knowledge (ZK) cryptography. It develops infrastructure that enables privacy before transaction execution and conditional decryption, allowing users to set conditions for decryption and execution of their encrypted transactions. The company employs advanced cryptographic schemes like identity-based encryption, witness encryption, and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to facilitate decentralized verification of conditions and generation of decryption keys.
Stroom Network is a technology company that develops a financial protocol platform. This platform enables Bitcoin holders to earn Lightning routing fees by participating in the Bitcoin Lightning Network, a layer-2 solution on top of Bitcoin. Additionally, users can optionally harvest extra yield in Ethereum's decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, allowing them to earn revenue from the Lightning Network without locking up their Bitcoin or maintaining their own node infrastructure.
Webb Protocol
Seed Round in 2023
Webb Protocol is a multi-chain privacy technology that allows assets to be transferred across blockchain protocols while ensuring financial anonymity. We incentivize privacy creation through innovative economic design and aim to become the most decentralized privacy system imaginable.
Open Dollar
Seed Round in 2023
Borrow against Liquid Staking Tokens & Arbitrum native assets with our flexible and transparently over-collateralized stablecoin
Gateway.fm
Seed Round in 2023
Gateway.fm provides decentralized blockchain infrastructure via its global multi-chain architecture node. It offers a multi-chain gateway and regionally dispersed enterprise architecture, allowing Web3 projects to scale efficiently without dedicating resources to server setup or maintenance.
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.
Rysk Finance
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Rysk Finance develops a dynamic hedging vault for creating alternative decentralized financial assets. Its platform enables users to buy and sell options on crypto assets, providing protection against market downturns.
Wield Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Wield Labs operates Farcaster, a crypto-based platform designed to make exploring cryptocurrency enjoyable and safe. It offers a range of crypto games and NFTs, allowing users to access the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem securely.
t3rn
Private Equity Round in 2022
Founded in 2020 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, t3rn specializes in secure, efficient cross-chain executions. It leverages its modular stack for storage, validation, settlement, and consensus.
Fluidity Money
Seed Round in 2022
Fluidity Money is a blockchain incentive platform that rewards users with yields for using their cryptocurrency. It seeks to solve DeFi's utility problem by introducing a novel incentive mechanism that rewards users for on-chain transactions. Users can wrap stablecoins in Fluidity in exchange for the fluid counterpart of that stablecoin. This can be USDC, for example, which becomes fUSDC. This works with a variety of stablecoins, including DAI, USDT, and Frax. The yield distributed via transactions is derived from lending out the underlying assets on money markets. When USDC is wrapped, fUSDC is created, and the principal is lent out.
Paragraph
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Paragraph is a Web3-native publishing platform that empowers creators, curators, and community builders by transferring ownership of communities back to them. It offers an all-in-one NFT membership-based publishing and newsletter platform, enabling web3 writers, DAOs, and NFT communities to monetize their content.
Paragraph
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Paragraph is a Web3-native publishing platform that empowers creators, curators, and community builders by transferring ownership of communities back to them. It offers an all-in-one NFT membership-based publishing and newsletter platform, enabling web3 writers, DAOs, and NFT communities to monetize their content.
Sintra is a non-fungible token (NFT) investment application designed for investors to collaborate and strategize collectively. The platform provides a community space where users can receive personalized updates on the NFT market, facilitating informed decision-making. Through its features, Sintra allows for fractional ownership of NFTs, making it accessible for a broader range of investors. The application encourages interaction among users, enabling them to connect, share insights, and discuss investment signals in one centralized location. This approach not only enhances the investment experience but also offers participants a competitive edge in the evolving NFT landscape.
RedStone
Seed Round in 2022
RedStone is a next-generation cross-chain data oracle that specializes in providing pricing data for financial protocols. The company develops modular oracles that deliver data feeds compatible with both layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains, including rollups-as-a-service (RaaS) solutions. RedStone's offerings include liquid staking tokens and liquid restaking tokens, as well as an online decentralized finance platform designed to utilize blockchain's permanent storage capabilities. This platform supports cross-chain data services while ensuring an audit trail, which enhances transparency and reliability. Additionally, RedStone enables decentralized finance providers to implement automatic dispute mechanisms, bolstered by insurance through staking, thereby facilitating more secure and efficient transactions.
dWallet Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2022
dWallet Labs is a developer of a cybersecurity platform that specializes in blockchain technology. The company focuses on creating trustless access control solutions that enhance both offensive and defensive cybersecurity measures. Its platform offers a secure and programmable decentralized access layer for web3, utilizing dynamic, decentralized wallets to sign transactions across various blockchain networks. By leveraging universally adopted signing algorithms, dWallet Labs enables organizations to transform the management of digital assets, enhancing how these assets are stored, utilized, and connected to the real world. This innovative approach adds a fully decentralized layer of dynamic and stateful access control, positioning dWallet Labs as a key player in the evolution of digital asset security.
Flowdesk is a regulated digital asset trading firm specializing in market making, OTC services, and treasury management. It offers a compliant trading platform connecting blockchains, custodians, and service providers with deep liquidity and real-time analytics.
SithSwap
Seed Round in 2022
SithSwap is a company that operates an advanced Automated Market Maker (AMM) on the StarkNet platform. It specializes in providing instant swaps for both volatile and stable assets with minimal slippage and near-zero fees. The company's services are designed to offer trading pairs similar to Uniswap V2, with configurable trading fees and no administrative fees. Additionally, SithSwap incorporates built-in flash loan capabilities and leverages the full security of Ethereum, allowing traders to earn incentives for participating in governance decisions regarding future protocol emissions.
Encode Club
Seed Round in 2022
Founded in London in 2019 by Damir Bandalo, Encode Club is a blockchain education platform dedicated to cultivating the next generation of blockchain professionals. It offers comprehensive programs, events, workshops, hackathons, accelerators, and boot camps in collaboration with leading crypto protocols, empowering enthusiasts to secure jobs or raise funding.
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.
Burrow is a decentralized platform that operates a non-custodial liquidity pool, enabling users to supply and borrow assets for trading. The platform focuses on unlocking liquidity for interest-bearing assets, particularly layer 1 staking derivatives. By allowing users to supply assets, Burrow facilitates the earning of interest and enables borrowing against those assets to enhance liquidity. Additionally, the platform features a governance token staking program, which encourages user participation and investment in the ecosystem. Overall, Burrow aims to provide a streamlined approach to accessing liquidity in the decentralized finance space.
Mainstream Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Mainstream Labs is developing a collaborative platform focused on decentralized governance participation. The platform facilitates token-gated discussions and proposal voting, allowing users to engage in governance efficiently. Contributions from participants are rewarded publicly, promoting active involvement in decision-making processes. By leveraging the expertise of its team, which has experience in operating decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and other crypto-native communities, Mainstream Labs aims to transform governance interactions and position DAOs as a new social framework.
LifeForce Games
Seed Round in 2022
LifeForce Games is a creator of a gaming platform focused on blockchain-based games, aiming to enhance accessibility to metaverse and blockchain gaming experiences. The company develops tools and products for play-to-earn (P2E) chain games, emphasizing the interoperability of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) across various games and platforms. By providing monetization opportunities and services related to virtual land, LifeForce Games strives to create enjoyable and equitable gaming experiences for users.
Moonwell
Seed Round in 2022
Moonwell is an open lending and borrowing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol operating on the Moonbeam and Moonriver blockchain networks. The company provides a digital financing platform that enables users to engage in peer-to-peer lending and borrowing without the burden of monthly payments or additional fees. Focused on security, Moonwell offers a variety of funding options, catering to the needs of individuals seeking flexible financial solutions within a decentralized framework.
Hubble Exchange
Seed Round in 2022
Hubble Exchange operates a decentralized platform for trading perpetual futures contracts using multiple tokens as collateral. It currently supports AVAX, USDC, and hUSD, with plans to include BTC, ETH, and Avalanche-native assets in the future.
Axelar Network
Series B in 2022
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.
Spin, founded in June 2021, is a developer of a multichain decentralized exchange (DEX) platform focused on derivatives trading, specifically futures and options. Operating on the NEAR Protocol and Solana blockchains, Spin aims to deliver a user experience comparable to centralized exchanges by utilizing a central limit order book execution model combined with a liquidity pool. The platform offers traders advanced risk management and strategy-building tools, enhancing the efficiency and accessibility of trading for a wide range of users.
Solana is a decentralized blockchain platform that aims to deliver a scalable network for decentralized applications and marketplaces. The platform provides fast, low-cost transactions by employing a proof of history consensus alongside other innovations, enabling developers to build scalable apps without sharding. The network is secured by thousands of independent nodes, offering robustness and resistance to censorship. Solana supports a broad ecosystem of decentralized apps and digital assets, emphasizing sustainability and high throughput to power a wide range of use cases from gaming to finance.
Superdao
Seed Round in 2022
Superdao is a platform designed for the management and operation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It provides tools for creating and customizing intelligent contracts, managing contributors, and accessing a member directory and treasury dashboard. Additionally, Superdao offers a wallet analytics feature that delivers insights into dapp users, NFT and token holders, DAO voters, and quest participants, allowing organizations to analyze their audiences and gather competitive insights. The platform is tailored for Web3 growth teams, facilitating improved decision-making and governance structures for decentralized ventures. With preloaded data from numerous top Web3 projects, Superdao enhances the ability of businesses to build target lists and leverage third-party applications, ultimately supporting the collaborative management of innovative and economically viable decentralized applications.
Arcade provides an infrastructure layer for NFT liquidity that enables the financialization of non-fungible assets, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.Arcade’s Wrapped NFT technology allows NFTs to be bundled to secure one loan. Arcade is also an open-source Defi primitive it allows developers to build on top of the platform.
JellyFi
Seed Round in 2021
Most DeFi applications require institutional borrowers to over-collateralize their loans using crypto as collateral, limiting the wide range of use cases possible with crypto lending. Collateralized loans not only restrict borrowers from using capital how and when they want, but also limit the potential for enhanced return for lenders.
JellyFi is a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that enables crypto loans without collateral, where institutional borrowers can obtain competitive loan terms, and lenders get access to higher returns while having more granular control over their investment portfolios. Zero-collateral loans are similar to a revolving line of credit where the borrower only has to pay a liquidity fee on unused capital in their own liquidity pool.
XY Finance
Venture Round in 2021
XY Finance is a technology company specializing in cross-chain financial solutions for decentralized applications (DApps). It offers a customizable widget that seamlessly integrates into various DApps, enabling users to manage cross-chain operations through a unified interface. The company's platform comprises two primary components: X Swap, which facilitates cross-chain transfers and exchanges, and Y Pool, which provides liquidity for efficient asset transfers across different blockchain networks. By leveraging composable APIs, XY Finance optimizes web3 execution services, enhancing accessibility and user experience for individuals engaging with multiple blockchain ecosystems.
Fragcolor
Seed Round in 2021
Fragcolor develops a fully distributed game platform and creation system. It operates a decentralized, multi-platform environment to enable collaborative game development and content creation, leveraging blockchain technology to support building gaming engines and applications across platforms, with assets issued as non-fungible tokens.
Superdao
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Superdao is a platform designed for the management and operation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It provides tools for creating and customizing intelligent contracts, managing contributors, and accessing a member directory and treasury dashboard. Additionally, Superdao offers a wallet analytics feature that delivers insights into dapp users, NFT and token holders, DAO voters, and quest participants, allowing organizations to analyze their audiences and gather competitive insights. The platform is tailored for Web3 growth teams, facilitating improved decision-making and governance structures for decentralized ventures. With preloaded data from numerous top Web3 projects, Superdao enhances the ability of businesses to build target lists and leverage third-party applications, ultimately supporting the collaborative management of innovative and economically viable decentralized applications.
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.
deBridge Finance
Seed Round in 2021
deBridge Finance is a developer of a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol designed to facilitate decentralized asset transfers between multiple blockchains. The protocol operates on a network of independent oracles and validators, which are elected through deBridge governance. It provides essential infrastructure for cross-chain interoperability, enabling users to transfer assets, including NFTs, across various platforms such as Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Huobi Ecological Chain, and Arbitrum. By allowing seamless transfers between these blockchains, deBridge Finance enhances accessibility and liquidity in the digital asset space.
Apricot Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Apricot Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) service provider that focuses on enhancing yield and reducing risk for users. The company operates a collateralized lending protocol designed to maximize borrowing power while minimizing liquidation penalties and uncertainties. Its platform offers borrowers competitive borrowing capabilities, emphasizing low liquidation penalties and high predictability within the DeFi sector. By providing these services, Apricot Finance enables investors to achieve significant profits in cryptocurrency.
Euler Labs
Series A in 2021
Euler Labs is a developer of a non-custodial lending protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain, designed to facilitate lending and borrowing of a wide range of crypto assets. The platform operates without the need for trusted third parties, allowing users to earn interest on their crypto holdings or hedge against market volatility in a capital-efficient manner. Euler's innovative approach incorporates reactive interest rates that adjust in real-time based on market conditions, alongside asset-specific collaterals, which provides clients with a risk-minimized opportunity to engage in crypto finance. The company's technology aims to enhance financial accessibility and efficiency for users in the decentralized finance space.
Axelar Network
Series A in 2021
Axelar develops interoperability software connecting blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar enables developers to build cross-chain decentralized applications using its protocol suite.
Non-fungible Technologies
Seed Round in 2021
Non-fungible Technologies develops financial infrastructure and products tailored to non-fungible assets and the creator economy. Its platform facilitates decentralized marketplace for lending and borrowing crypto loans collateralized by NFTs, serving blockchain owners, collectors, and investors.
Pendle Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Pendle Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to tokenize and sell future yields.
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing platform operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It facilitates interest-free loans by using Ether as collateral.
Custodia Bank is a crypto-asset banking company that provides regulated services for digital assets. The institution serves as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system and acts as a custodian for digital assets, adhering to stringent institutional custody standards. By offering these banking services tailored to the digital assets industry, Custodia aims to facilitate secure and compliant transactions for its customers.
Unslashed Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Unslashed Finance is a company that offers decentralized insurance products specifically designed for crypto assets. It operates a platform that allows users to exchange insurance coverage for various risks associated with the cryptocurrency ecosystem, including smart contract hacks, validator slashing, stablecoin pegs, and oracle failures. The protocol enables users to pay as they go for insurance coverage or to offload their insurance if they no longer require it. This innovative approach provides instant liquidity for both insurance buyers and risk underwriters, facilitating a more flexible and accessible insurance experience within the digital asset space.
DFX Finance
Seed Round in 2021
DFX Finance is a decentralized finance exchange protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that enables the trading of fiat-backed stablecoins. It uses a tuned bonding curve and real-world price feeds to provide a structured, decentralized trading experience for stablecoins such as USDC, CADC, EURS, and XSGD, supporting a broad range of blockchain-powered DeFi applications.
Async Art
Seed Round in 2021
Async Art, Inc. operates an innovative online platform that connects artists and collectors in the realm of programmable art. Founded in 2019 and based in Fort Bragg, California, Async Art utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate the creation, collection, and trading of unique digital artworks. The platform allows users to own distinct components of a piece, referred to as "Layers," which interact with a central "Master" work. This structure enables multiple owners to independently modify their respective layers within parameters set by the artist, fostering a collaborative and dynamic art experience. For example, one user may control the sky in a landscape painting, while another controls a figure, and an AI adjusts elements based on external factors such as market trends. This approach aims to redefine the art world by integrating technology and user participation in the creative process.
Reflexer Labs
Venture Round in 2021
Reflexer Labs is a United States based company developing low-volatility collateral for decentralized finance. Founded in 2020, it aims to provide a stable and secure asset by dampening volatility within crypto markets. Its product applies control theory to smart contracts to automatically adjust the supply of collateral, mirroring the behavior of underlying assets while reducing price swings. The approach helps minimize investment loss risk for users participating in decentralized finance strategies.
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.
Euler Labs
Seed Round in 2020
Euler Labs is a developer of a non-custodial lending protocol built on the Ethereum blockchain, designed to facilitate lending and borrowing of a wide range of crypto assets. The platform operates without the need for trusted third parties, allowing users to earn interest on their crypto holdings or hedge against market volatility in a capital-efficient manner. Euler's innovative approach incorporates reactive interest rates that adjust in real-time based on market conditions, alongside asset-specific collaterals, which provides clients with a risk-minimized opportunity to engage in crypto finance. The company's technology aims to enhance financial accessibility and efficiency for users in the decentralized finance space.
Axelar Network
Seed Round in 2020
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.
Figment Networks
Series A in 2020
Figment Networks develops open-source tools for crypto network health monitoring, enabling informed staking decisions. It focuses on networks like Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company was founded in 2018.
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.
Liquity
Seed Round in 2020
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing platform operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It facilitates interest-free loans by using Ether as collateral.
ParaSwap
Seed Round in 2020
ParaSwap is a decentralized finance platform aiming to address liquidity issues in crypto markets. It aggregates multiple exchange protocols onto one platform, empowering users with competitive market prices and high liquidity.
Ava Labs
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Ava Labs simplifies finance application development using blockchain technology. It offers highly scalable networks, customizable public/private blockchains, and digital asset creation capabilities.
Custodia
Angel Round in 2020
Custodia Bank is a crypto-asset banking company that provides regulated services for digital assets. The institution serves as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system and acts as a custodian for digital assets, adhering to stringent institutional custody standards. By offering these banking services tailored to the digital assets industry, Custodia aims to facilitate secure and compliant transactions for its customers.
Futureswap
Seed Round in 2020
Futureswap is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a decentralized futures exchange platform utilizing blockchain technology. The platform operates on a non-custodial basis, enabling users to engage in the trading of crypto futures contracts. Futureswap employs an automated market-making (AMM) algorithm to facilitate these transactions, enhancing liquidity and efficiency in the trading process. With a focus on decentralized finance, Futureswap aims to provide a secure and user-friendly environment for trading perpetual futures in the cryptocurrency market.
StakerDAO
Series A in 2020
StakerDAO, Inc. is a company that develops a platform for the decentralized governance of financial assets, ensuring security and compliance. Founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, StakerDAO focuses on creating products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. The company offers STKR, a governance token that operates under a newly developed token standard, enabling holders to submit proposals and elect members of the Staker Council. Additionally, StakerDAO manages a collection of decentralized finance products, all governed through a structured decision-making process known as Staker Agora. The Staker Ops Team collaborates with the community to refine ideas into formal governance proposals, fostering a participatory environment for stakeholders while promoting innovation in decentralized finance.
BTSE
Funding Round in 2020
BTSE, which stands for "Buy, Trade, Sell, Earn," is a digital asset exchange that offers a secure and user-friendly platform for trading cryptocurrencies. It caters to a diverse clientele, including institutions, retail users, and first-time traders, and has established itself as a trusted player in the industry. BTSE provides a comprehensive suite of financial services that bridge traditional finance with digital assets, including multi-currency spot and derivatives trading, an NFT marketplace, OTC trading, asset management, and payment gateways. The platform also features advanced trading options, such as customizable leverage and perpetual contracts for futures trading. With a strong emphasis on security, BTSE employs strict protocols, maintains an insurance fund, and utilizes cold storage for over 90% of its assets. Additionally, it has no withdrawal limits on more than 12 fiat currencies and 150 cryptocurrencies. Through its white-label exchange solutions, BTSE licenses its proprietary technology to exchanges worldwide, further extending its influence in the digital asset sector.
ZEBEDEE
Seed Round in 2019
Zebedee, Inc., established in 2019 and based in Hoboken, New Jersey, specializes in integrating Bitcoin and Lightning Network support into digital gaming environments. Its platform, ZEBEDEE, enables game developers to facilitate in-game microtransactions using Bitcoin, allowing players to send, receive, and store limited quantities of the cryptocurrency within their games. This fosters a seamless, frictionless exchange of value between players, developers, streamers, and watchers, powering digital economies within these gaming environments.
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops platforms for professional trading firms, offering intuitive interfaces suitable for both experienced traders and beginners. It supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all major cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC derivatives.
Agoric is a framework facilitating secure smart contract development in JavaScript. It aims to enable widespread global cooperation and new digital asset businesses by providing safer tools for smart contract creation. Agoric's team comprises experienced technologists, economists, and business leaders, collaborating with notable projects like Cosmos.
Bolt Labs
Seed Round in 2019
Bolt Labs, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, specializes in developing privacy-focused solutions for digital asset management. The company's primary offerings include the lightning network protocol, which facilitates privacy-preserving micropayments and non-custodial trading with centralized and decentralized exchanges. Bolt Labs employs secure computation solutions, such as multi-party computation (MPC), to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of user assets while preventing misuse or theft. Additionally, the company is advancing the zkChannels L2 protocol, designed to create a scalable payment infrastructure that integrates with existing networks, including public blockchains. This technology aims to provide merchants with a compliant and efficient means of conducting transactions while upholding strict privacy standards. Through these innovations, Bolt Labs seeks to enhance the security and usability of digital transactions for users and businesses alike.
Harmony
Seed Round in 2019
Harmony is a blockchain company founded in 2018 and based in Cupertino, California. It operates a fast and open blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications. The company employs advanced decentralization techniques and a sharded architecture, enabling the Harmony Mainnet to support thousands of nodes across multiple shards. This infrastructure facilitates rapid block production with instant finality. Harmony's staking mechanism promotes decentralization by allowing stake delegation, reward compounding, and double-sign slashing. The company is dedicated to building an open network governed by a large community of participants.
Kava Labs
Seed Round in 2019
Kava Labs Inc. is a provider of interledger solutions, focusing on enhancing the interoperability of blockchains, wallets, and exchanges. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kava operates a decentralized platform that offers a comprehensive range of financial services tailored for cryptocurrencies. As digital assets gain wider acceptance, Kava aims to fill the gap in traditional financial offerings by providing products such as money markets, loans, stablecoins, and high-yield accounts for crypto assets. By leveraging autonomous software, Kava's platform eliminates the need for intermediaries, allowing users globally to access financial services without incurring additional fees. This approach enables users to optimize their digital assets and generate returns in an evolving financial landscape.
Figment Networks
Seed Round in 2019
Figment Networks develops open-source tools for crypto network health monitoring, enabling informed staking decisions. It focuses on networks like Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company was founded in 2018.
Dharma Labs
Series A in 2019
Dharma Labs Inc. is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a suite of smart contracts and tools for the issuance and crowdfunding of debt on blockchain technology. Established in 2017, Dharma Labs provides a decentralized protocol that facilitates the origination, risk assessment, and underwriting of peer-to-peer loans, allowing for innovation in the lending industry. Its platform supports a variety of applications, enabling entrepreneurs to create lending companies that leverage blockchain capabilities for consumer lending, margin lending, and crowdfunding municipal bonds. By promoting open and permissionless development, Dharma Labs aims to transform traditional lending practices through its tokenized debt agreements.
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.
nCent develops a blockchain-based protocol to create incentive networks and incentive markets. The base layer protocol enables organizations to design, run, and scale programs that reward participants for solving hard problems, while tracking provenance with network tokens to support transparent, correct payouts. By aligning incentives with program goals, the company seeks to facilitate scalable, auditable collaboration that fosters robust software development and problem solving.
Beam
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Beam develops a privacy-focused cryptocurrency wallet based on the MimbleWimble protocol for mobile and desktop use. It serves individual and small business users, offering confidential transactions without compromising performance or scalability.