Lightspeed Venture Partners

Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm that backs startups across enterprise software, consumer technologies, fintech, healthtech, and cleantech from seed through growth stages. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it maintains offices in Beijing, Shanghai, New Delhi, and Herzliya to engage markets in the United States, Asia, and Israel. The firm focuses on technology-enabled businesses and has supported companies across software, mobile, data, e-commerce, and services, spanning early-stage to expansion rounds. It offers strategic guidance, network access, and capital, and has historically included debt financing as part of its investment approach. With a multi-region footprint and a broad multi-stage mandate, Lightspeed seeks to partner with entrepreneurs to scale innovative companies globally.

Shaurya Aggarwal

Partner

Vaibhav Agrawal

Associate Partner

James Alcorn

Partner

Moritz Baier-Lentz

Partner and Head of Gaming

Mercedes Bent

Partner

Past deals in Blockchain

Chainguard

Series D in 2025
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Crossmint

Venture Round in 2025
Crossmint is the leading enterprise-grade developer platform to build onchain. Crossmint's suite of products includes wallets, tokenization, payments, and more; and powers 40,000+ companies and developers, including Fortune 500 companies and major brands like Mastercard, Adidas, Red Bull, Coinbase, Phantom, and more.

RedotPay

Series A in 2025
RedotPay is a technology company that focuses on blockchain-based payment solutions. It develops digital asset payment infrastructure, enabling users and businesses to transact using cryptocurrencies. The company's products facilitate spending and transferring of digital assets, providing unbanked populations and crypto users with fast, cost-efficient financial services.

Finix

Series C in 2024
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Chaos Labs

Series A in 2024
Chaos Labs is a cloud-based platform that enhances the economic security of crypto protocols through automated risk management and capital efficiency optimization. By utilizing advanced simulation technology, Chaos Labs enables protocols to model user interactions, protocol behavior, and potential malicious activities, thereby allowing for informed decision-making in volatile markets. The platform's agents can simulate various scenarios, execute complex logic, and rewind to previous states to analyze specific on-chain activities. Currently operational on the Ethereum network, Chaos Labs plans to expand its services to include other blockchains like Terra, NEAR, and Polygon, ultimately providing a more secure environment for users and protocols in the cryptocurrency space.

Chainguard

Series C in 2024
Chainguard specializes in enhancing software supply chain security. It offers hardened container images rebuilt continuously from source with built-in cryptographic signatures, SBOMs, and SLSA provenance. Additionally, Chainguard provides secure Java dependencies through its Chainguard Libraries. The company actively contributes to open-source projects, demonstrating its commitment to the community.

Shentu Chain

Seed Round in 2024
Shentu Chain is a technology company specializing in blockchain security. It develops a platform aimed at enhancing the security and reliability of decentralized systems, offering infrastructure for creating secure smart contracts and decentralized applications.

Launch

Seed Round in 2024
Launch is a developer of security scanning tools that identify outdated or unused application interfaces. The company's platform analyzes code, logs, and configurations to detect inactive or exposed endpoints and assess data risks, helping organizations reduce vulnerabilities and improve system security.

CharacterX

Seed Round in 2024
CharacterX is a Stanford-led decentralized synthetic social network that blends AGI technology with blockchain to change the social networking landscape. It is building a sophisticated multi-modal AI architecture that inputs and outputs multi-sensory data, including 3D and AR experiences, in conjunction with a next-generation computational platform.

Pontem Network

Venture Round in 2024
Pontem Network is a product studio focused on developing foundational decentralized applications (dApps) for the Aptos blockchain. Its flagship product, the Pontem Wallet, is a secure wallet available on multiple platforms, including Chrome, Firefox, iOS, and Android, allowing users to store and send tokens on the Aptos network. The wallet is integrated with various services, including the Liquidswap decentralized exchange, NFT marketplaces like Topaz and Souffl3, and liquid staking platforms such as Ditto and Tortuga. Additionally, Pontem Network offers tools for developers, including the Move Playground browser code editor, the Move IntelliJ IDE plugin, and ByteBabel, a Solidity-to-Move code translator that enables Ethereum Virtual Machine compatibility on Aptos. Through these products, Pontem Network aims to facilitate innovation and support the growth of the Aptos ecosystem.

Medallion

Series A in 2023
Medallion is a New York City-based company in the media and entertainment sector, launched in 2020. It has developed a blockchain-based platform aimed at connecting artists with their fans. This platform enables users to create digital environments and foster communities while facilitating the exchange of digital goods. By leveraging this technology, Medallion assists artists in enhancing fan engagement, gaining actionable insights, and maximizing their economic potential.

Andalusia Labs

Series A in 2023
Andalusia Labs develops blockchain infrastructure optimized for internet markets. Its blockchain-based cloud platform enables governments, financial institutions, and businesses worldwide to access global, on-demand services for blockchains, computing, storage, databases, networking, AI, ML, IoT, facilitating the management of billions in digital assets.

Blockchain.com

Series E in 2023
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Rep3

Seed Round in 2023
Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.

Econia Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Econia Labs develops a DeFi protocol on the Aptos blockchain. Its hyper-parallelized on-chain order book facilitates trading in decentralized finance, offering high-performance transaction execution and promoting financial inclusion.

Sentio

Seed Round in 2023
Sentio is a company focused on accelerating the adoption of decentralized applications (DApps) by providing the crypto community with advanced infrastructure and developer tools. It operates an observability platform designed to enhance monitoring and log management for Web3 environments. The platform features variable-level smart contract monitoring, full-text and conditional event transaction search, as well as user-friendly dashboards and alerts. These services enable users to assess critical variable states within smart contracts and obtain real-time insights, thereby facilitating more efficient development and deployment of DApps.

Matter Labs

Series C in 2022
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.

Skip

Seed Round in 2022
Skip is a blockchain company that provides infrastructure to help blockchains leverage Miner Extractable Value (MEV) for financial sustainability and improved user experiences. The company has developed a platform featuring a sealed-bid closed auction system, allowing traders to submit tipped transactions to validators. This system prioritizes these transactions at the top of blocks, facilitating long-term financial viability for blockchains. Additionally, it enables traders to implement more sophisticated and profitable trading strategies. Through its innovative approach, Skip aims to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of blockchain transactions.

Community Labs

Series A in 2022
Community Labs is a software development company that specializes in accelerating adoption of Arweave through developer tools, use cases, and ecosystem growth.

Mysten Labs

Series B in 2022
Mysten Labs develops tools to enhance web3 security and facilitate its widespread adoption. They create foundational infrastructure to accelerate the integration of decentralized services across multiple chains, improving underlying technologies like distributed systems and cryptography.

Unstoppable Finance

Series A in 2022
Unstoppable Finance is developing a next-generation cryptocurrency wallet aimed at making decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible to retail investors worldwide.

Gnosis

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).

Finix

Venture Round in 2022
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Gnosis

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).

Gnosis

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).

Magic Eden

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

Magic Eden

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

Pintu

Series B in 2022
Pintu is a cryptocurrency platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, established in 2020. The company offers a mobile application that facilitates the buying, selling, and management of Bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets. Its platform provides users with a convenient way to access various financial services, allowing them to engage with the cryptocurrency market easily and securely. By streamlining the process of managing digital assets, Pintu aims to support the transition towards a more open financial system for its users.

bloXroute Labs

Series B in 2022
bloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company focused on providing blockchain scalability solutions that enable cryptocurrencies and blockchains to process thousands of transactions per second without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that enhances the efficiency of data propagation across all blockchains. By utilizing a global network of servers optimized for performance through advanced techniques like compression and encryption, bloXroute Labs ensures that all nodes can maintain consensus even as transaction volumes soar. This provably neutral platform supports a wide range of blockchains, facilitating improved transaction throughput and addressing scalability challenges at the network layer.

Blockchain.com

Series D in 2022
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

CertiK

Series B in 2022
CertiK is a blockchain security company that uses formal verification and AI-powered monitoring to protect and supervise blockchain protocols and smart contracts. It offers security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification services. Founded in 2018 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK applies academic research to real-world blockchain deployments to help mission-critical applications scale safely and correctly. The company serves clients globally and maintains a presence in major technology hubs.

Treehouse

Seed Round in 2022
Treehouse Finance is a Web3 company focused on transforming on-chain data into actionable insights for decentralized finance (DeFi) investors. The company develops a financial inclusion platform that provides data, analytics, and risk management services tailored for DeFi users. By leveraging quantitative data and sophisticated algorithms, Treehouse Finance creates risk management products and a comprehensive dashboard that analyzes information recorded on public blockchains. This enables clients to gain a clearer understanding of DeFi through curated information, portfolio analytics, and innovative tools designed to facilitate informed financial decisions and drive community innovation.

Socket

Seed Round in 2022
Socket is a developer of a multichain interoperability platform designed to connect various blockchain networks and facilitate the seamless transfer of assets and information between them. By creating a unified ecosystem, Socket enables developers to construct cross-chain applications that utilize shared liquidity and state across multiple chains. The platform enhances user experience by routing funds through various bridges and decentralized exchanges based on preferences such as fees, speed, and security. This approach simplifies the development process and promotes the efficient operation of multichain applications.

Fonbnk

Seed Round in 2022
Fonbnk is a fintech company that combines mobile technology with Web3 to enable dollarized micropayments and the conversion between local currencies and digital money in emerging markets. The platform provides access to stablecoins and digital assets, and supports no-code and low-code dApps and APIs to simplify Web3 integration for developers and merchants. Fonbnk aims to broaden financial inclusion by leveraging a network of mobile users, retailers, and agents to enable fast, secure digital transactions across diverse mobile payment systems. It offers a marketplace for exchanging value and cross-currency capabilities, helping global merchants and individuals participate in the digital economy with greater flexibility and security.

Zebec

Series A in 2022
Zebec is a protocol on Solana that facilitates continuous settlement. It enables composable transfers of value, initially focusing on Stream Payroll.

Brahma

Seed Round in 2022
Console is the non-custodial multi-chain account to secure, navigate, and automate on-chain interactions. Built for pros. Easy for all.

Alchemy

Series C in 2022
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

FTX

Series C in 2022
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.

IndiGG

Seed Round in 2022
IndiGG is an NFT based play-to-earn game in the web3 frontier. IndiGG is the India sub-decentralized autonomous organization(subDAO) of YGG.

Seashell

Seed Round in 2022
Seashell offers a compliant financial platform designed to help users earn high, stable interest by leveraging blockchain innovations. The company emphasizes regulatory compliance and aims to deliver market-leading yields through a simple, push-button experience, providing a flexible and secure way for customers to save and grow their money. By combining financial services with blockchain technology, Seashell seeks to make earning interest more accessible while maintaining safeguards that protect user funds.

Mysten Labs

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

CertiK

Series B in 2021
CertiK is a blockchain security company that uses formal verification and AI-powered monitoring to protect and supervise blockchain protocols and smart contracts. It offers security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification services. Founded in 2018 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK applies academic research to real-world blockchain deployments to help mission-critical applications scale safely and correctly. The company serves clients globally and maintains a presence in major technology hubs.

BetDEX

Seed Round in 2021
BetDEX is a decentralized sports betting protocol that operates on a blockchain-based platform, allowing users to place bets on various sports utilizing cryptocurrency. The platform is designed to provide high-speed transactions and low costs while eliminating counterparty risk, making the betting process more secure and efficient. BetDEX is permissionless, enabling developers to create their own applications on top of its infrastructure. This flexibility allows customers not only to engage in sports betting but also to trade on sports and prediction markets, giving them control over their betting experience and the ability to set their own prices.

Faraway

Series A in 2021
Faraway is a Miami-based company established in 2021 that specializes in developing hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies. The firm's games utilize blockchain technology to create decentralized game economies, enabling players worldwide to earn tokens and improve their standings on leaderboards. This approach fosters a more engaging and realistic gaming experience, allowing players to have greater influence over the game dynamics and their interactions within the gaming community.

Alchemy

Series C in 2021
Alchemy Insights, Inc. is a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that serves hedge funds and financial institutions. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, it offers a comprehensive suite of tools for analyzing blockchain data, including on-chain data, market trends, and community activity. The platform employs advanced machine learning techniques to help users identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain, thereby aiding in sales, security, and strategic decision-making. Alchemy's emphasis on providing developers with essential tools allows for the creation of scalable and reliable decentralized applications without the complexities of managing blockchain infrastructure. The company is backed by notable organizations and individuals, reflecting its prominent position in the blockchain space.

Elementus

Series A in 2021
Founded in New York in 2017, Elementus is a data science company specializing in blockchain intelligence. It provides an enterprise platform that combines proprietary data with patented algorithms to deliver unique insights and enable fast, actionable decision-making within the crypto economy for institutional asset managers, financial service organizations, and government agencies.

FTX

Series B in 2021
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.

Offchain Labs

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2018, Offchain Labs specializes in developing solutions for scaling Ethereum smart contracts. Its platform enables the creation of private smart contracts on the Ethereum ecosystem, facilitating custom chain launches, layer-two migrations, node running, and virtual machine contract deployments.

Nirvana

Series A in 2021
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi. - Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency - AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies

Pintu

Series A in 2021
Pintu is a cryptocurrency platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, established in 2020. The company offers a mobile application that facilitates the buying, selling, and management of Bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets. Its platform provides users with a convenient way to access various financial services, allowing them to engage with the cryptocurrency market easily and securely. By streamlining the process of managing digital assets, Pintu aims to support the transition towards a more open financial system for its users.

Faraway

Seed Round in 2021
Faraway is a Miami-based company established in 2021 that specializes in developing hyper-social blockchain games with player-driven economies. The firm's games utilize blockchain technology to create decentralized game economies, enabling players worldwide to earn tokens and improve their standings on leaderboards. This approach fosters a more engaging and realistic gaming experience, allowing players to have greater influence over the game dynamics and their interactions within the gaming community.

Eco

Series B in 2021
Eco Inc. is a financial technology company focused on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, the company aims to optimize financial transactions and promote efficient banking practices. Eco also develops Bend, a platform designed to offer rewarding financial solutions that align with the expectations of modern consumers. Through its commitment to improving how individuals interact with their finances, Eco seeks to drive a new standard for money management.

Zerion

Series A in 2021
Zerion Inc. is a blockchain software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in decentralized finance (DeFi), providing a platform that allows users to invest, earn interest, and borrow cryptocurrency assets. Zerion's primary offering is an investment app that aggregates data from major decentralized exchanges, enabling users to manage their digital assets from a single interface. The platform features real-time asset tracking with live price updates and instant notifications. Additionally, Zerion emphasizes a non-custodial approach, meaning users retain control of their funds and do not have to delegate them to the platform, thereby mitigating centralization risks. The company also offers CryptoTrader, an application designed to track the cryptocurrency market through charts, news, and alerts, further enhancing user engagement in the evolving financial landscape.

Nirvana

Seed Round in 2021
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi. - Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency - AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies

Matrixport

Series C in 2021
Matrixport is a comprehensive platform offering digital asset services, including trading, investing, leveraging, and secure custody for cryptocurrencies.

Blockchain.com

Series C in 2021
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

FalconX

Venture Round in 2021
FalconX is a cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform founded in 2018. It provides trading solutions that give institutions reliable execution and cost efficiency in cryptocurrency markets. The platform uses data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees, along with blockchain technology and machine learning to route mid-to-large size trades across multiple liquidity sources. FalconX offers trading, credit, and clearing services to hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other institutional clients seeking transparent, scalable digital asset execution.

Blockchain.com

Venture Round in 2021
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Wintermute

Series B in 2021
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.

Finix

Series B in 2020
Finix develops a B2B payment processing platform that enables businesses to own, manage, and monetize their payments. The platform uses modular architecture and real-time tracking to consolidate payment data and facilitate global money transfers.

Wintermute

Series A in 2020
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.

Magic

Seed Round in 2020
Magic is a technology company that specializes in password-less authentication solutions, providing an alternative login method that enhances security and user experience. Its innovative technology employs a plug-and-play kit combined with blockchain infrastructure, enabling developers to easily integrate customizable password-less login features into their applications. With just a few lines of code, developers can implement this scalable solution, allowing users to access services without traditional passwords, thus streamlining the login process and reducing security risks associated with password management.

FalconX

Venture Round in 2020
FalconX is a cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform founded in 2018. It provides trading solutions that give institutions reliable execution and cost efficiency in cryptocurrency markets. The platform uses data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees, along with blockchain technology and machine learning to route mid-to-large size trades across multiple liquidity sources. FalconX offers trading, credit, and clearing services to hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other institutional clients seeking transparent, scalable digital asset execution.

Matrixport

Venture Round in 2019
Matrixport is a comprehensive platform offering digital asset services, including trading, investing, leveraging, and secure custody for cryptocurrencies.

FalconX

Funding Round in 2019
FalconX is a cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform founded in 2018. It provides trading solutions that give institutions reliable execution and cost efficiency in cryptocurrency markets. The platform uses data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees, along with blockchain technology and machine learning to route mid-to-large size trades across multiple liquidity sources. FalconX offers trading, credit, and clearing services to hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other institutional clients seeking transparent, scalable digital asset execution.

Audius

Series A in 2018
Audius, Inc. is a music streaming platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a decentralized community for artists, developers, and listeners. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, the company enables musicians to share and monetize their work directly with fans, eliminating the need for intermediaries. Audius provides features such as audio file hosting, streaming capabilities, and a creator dashboard, allowing artists to manage their content and earnings efficiently. The platform ensures the secure and verifiable attribution of creative works through immutable, time-stamped records on the blockchain. By offering a transparent system for content distribution and royalty payments, Audius empowers creators to connect with their audiences and maintain control over their music.

DIRT Protocol

Seed Round in 2018
DIRT Protocol, founded in 2017 and based in the United States, is a platform designed for decentralized curation of trusted data sets. It facilitates the organization and accessibility of information by allowing users to contribute information similarly to Wikipedia. However, DIRT Protocol employs a unique mechanism of token staking to incentivize honesty among contributors. Each participant must deposit tokens to submit data, ensuring that only accurate information is shared. If inaccuracies are identified, other users can challenge the data and earn tokens for correcting it. This economic model promotes the integrity of the data set, making it less likely for misinformation to persist. DIRT Protocol thus serves as a foundational tool for building Token Curated Registries, helping communities maintain high-quality information standards.

Unblockable

Venture Round in 2018
Unblockable, Inc. is a company based in Manhattan Beach, California, founded in 2018. It operates a platform that allows sports fans to buy, sell, and utilize blockchain-based digital collectibles. The company aims to bring prestigious intellectual property to the blockchain by collaborating with major sports leagues, player associations, and entertainment and gaming brands. Unblockable is positioned as a leader in the non-fungible digital collectibles market, blending traditional sports collectibility with the utility of virtual goods and elements of gameplay from fantasy sports and strategy games. Each athlete's likeness and performance are converted into unique tokens that can be traded on Unblockable's platform or other crypto collectible exchanges. Additionally, owning a collection of these tokens unlocks various functionalities within Unblockable's applications.

FalconX

Funding Round in 2018
FalconX is a cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform founded in 2018. It provides trading solutions that give institutions reliable execution and cost efficiency in cryptocurrency markets. The platform uses data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees, along with blockchain technology and machine learning to route mid-to-large size trades across multiple liquidity sources. FalconX offers trading, credit, and clearing services to hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other institutional clients seeking transparent, scalable digital asset execution.

Elemential

Seed Round in 2018
Elemential is a developer of a blockchain administration platform aimed at assisting developers in managing customized blockchain networks. The company's platform provides essential building blocks and management tools for creating blockchain applications, enabling clients to effectively protect and secure user identity and consent. By offering a more accessible and efficient development environment, Elemential seeks to empower future generations of blockchain innovators, facilitating the design, operation, and scaling of networks with significantly reduced overhead.

Sogur

Seed Round in 2018
Sogur is a digital currency developed to address significant public policy concerns through a clear and transparent monetary policy. It operates with an algorithmically-governed backing reserve, which aims to minimize volatility and align its value with the dynamics of the global economy. Unlike other digital currencies, Sogur is designed as a non-anonymous digital currency, seeking to complement existing national currencies rather than replace them. By collaborating with established economic institutions and leveraging the expertise of global leaders, Sogur aspires to gain acceptance and support from recognized financial entities, positioning itself as a reliable alternative in the digital currency landscape.

CertiK

Seed Round in 2018
CertiK is a blockchain security company that uses formal verification and AI-powered monitoring to protect and supervise blockchain protocols and smart contracts. It offers security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification services. Founded in 2018 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK applies academic research to real-world blockchain deployments to help mission-critical applications scale safely and correctly. The company serves clients globally and maintains a presence in major technology hubs.

Blockchain.com

Series B in 2017
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

Selfie Networks

Seed Round in 2017
Founded in 2016, Selfie Networks specializes in commercializing research on net neutrality and network personalization. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company develops a token-based network platform to enhance security, forwarding, and telemetry.

Melotic

Seed Round in 2014
Melotic, Inc. is a cryptocurrency technology company founded in 2014 and based in Hong Kong. The company operates a digital asset exchange, facilitating the trading of curated digital assets, including Bitcoins. Melotic aims to enhance financial inclusion by providing a platform that enables users worldwide to transact easily and securely with cryptocurrencies. Its team comprises experienced technologists and professionals who share a strong belief in the transformative potential of digital currencies.

Blockchain.com

Series A in 2014
Blockchain.com develops a digital assets platform facilitating the buying, selling, and usage of cryptocurrencies. With over 50 million users worldwide, it aims to create an open and accessible financial system by empowering individuals to control their money securely.

PeerSafe China

Series A in 2014
Beijing PeerSafe Technology Co. Ltd. specializes in developing security and identity authentication solutions for personal and business users worldwide. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Beijing, the company utilizes advanced peer-to-peer (P2P) distributed network technology to offer a range of products, including ShadowTalk, a P2P encryption communication software that facilitates secure messaging. PeerSafe also provides the PeerSafe Password Guard, a distributed authentication system designed for secure data registration and access management. The company has positioned itself as a leader in blockchain technology research and development in China, holding numerous patents and software copyrights. With subsidiaries across various cities in China and in Singapore, PeerSafe is recognized as a national high-tech enterprise and a member of key industry associations. The company has successfully raised significant financing to support its growth and innovation in financial and regulatory technology solutions.

LedgerX

Series A in 2014
LedgerX LLC is a developer of an institutional derivatives exchange platform specifically for digital currencies. Founded in 2014 and based in Vail, Colorado, the company operates as a subsidiary of NYBX LLC. LedgerX has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to function as a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. The platform is designed to facilitate smooth trading in cryptocurrency futures and options, offering features such as physical settlement of contracts, block trading, and algorithmic trading. This enables both individual traders and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies with increased efficiency and regulatory oversight.

ChainNode

Angel Round in 2014
ChainNode is an online metaverse and blockchain technology community where people can discuss the current status and prospects of the metaverse and exchange blockchain development knowledge. ChainNode is dedicated to connecting everything, achieving nodes, and building a free, equal, and interactive communication platform.

Ripple Labs

Angel Round in 2013
Ripple Labs operates a global payments network using blockchain technology. It offers RippleNet, connecting banks, payment providers, digital asset exchanges, and corporates for cross-border payments. Key solutions include XRP (a digital asset for payments), xCurrent (for banks), xRapid (for payment providers), and xVia (for corporates). The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices globally.
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