GTE is a decentralized trading platform that offers end-to-end trading services.
Superform Labs
Venture Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.
Barter enables decentralized applications by ensuring efficient transaction routing and optimization.
Citrea is the first rollup that enhances the capabilities of Bitcoin blockspace with zero-knowledge technology, making it possible to build everything on Bitcoin.
Spire a zk appchain system with atomic adaptability.
Essential
Series A in 2024
Essential develops intent-based infrastructure and tools aimed at facilitating the shift from value extraction to intent satisfaction. Its platform focuses on creating core components that support composability across ecosystems, minimizing extractive behaviors while maximizing user satisfaction.
JokeRace
Seed Round in 2024
JokeRace, formerly known as JokeDAO, operates a decentralized governance platform that empowers communities to propose, vote on, and execute ideas. Utilizing blockchain technology, the platform facilitates various community-driven initiatives such as bounties, grants, and curation, allowing users to submit entries and vote on favorites, fostering a bottom-up approach to decision-making.
Movement Labs
Series A in 2024
Movement Labs is a modular framework platform that builds and deploys move-based blockchains and applications in distributed settings. Its platform offers a composable and horizontally scalable network that provides unparalleled smart contract security and asset portability to help users solve the cold start problem with unprecedented interoperability.
Eclipse is building Ethereum's first Solana Virtual Machine Layer 2. While other L2 networks on Ethereum focus on providing Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility, Eclipse leans into performance improvements developed by the Solana Layer 1 and adds additional verification features to deploy the blockchain as a rollup.
The Eclipse team includes veterans from dYdX, Uniswap, Citadel, and Airbnb. Eclipse Labs is backed by top investors including Polychain, Placeholder, and DBA.
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.
Superform Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.
Polymer Labs
Series A in 2024
Polymer Labs is building the fabric of web3.
We're working on an IBC based multi-cluster routing/roll-up protocol providing E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.
Nftperp is a company founded in January 2022, based in Washington, D.C., specializing in decentralized finance software for contract trading. It operates a perpetual decentralized exchange that allows users to speculate on the floor prices of prominent non-fungible token (NFT) projects, including well-known collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks. By providing a platform for trading blue-chip NFTs, nftperp leverages the growing significance of NFTs within the web3 ecosystem, catering to both investors and enthusiasts interested in the evolving digital asset landscape.
Essential
Seed Round in 2023
Essential develops intent-based infrastructure and tools aimed at facilitating the shift from value extraction to intent satisfaction. Its platform focuses on creating core components that support composability across ecosystems, minimizing extractive behaviors while maximizing user satisfaction.
RISC Zero.
Series A in 2023
RISC Zero provides a platform enabling users to trust programs run anywhere while allowing developers to use the tools they already know. RISC Zero builds scaling solutions using Zero Knowledge Proofs which will make blockchains accessible. The company was founded by a team of Seattle-based hackers committed to enabling users to control their experience on the internet through the creation of privacy-enhancing decentralization technology.
Hook is an innovative online venue platform established in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It specializes in online exhibitions, sourcing, researching, and acquiring fine art to cater to sophisticated collectors. The platform combines the diversity of an art fair with the quality of a gallery exhibition, enabling collectors to engage with curated programming from the comfort of their homes. In addition to its art-focused offerings, Hook also provides an NFT-native options protocol, designed for active traders to enhance their earnings with reduced risk. This dual focus positions Hook as a unique player in the intersection of fine art and digital trading.
Superchain Network
Seed Round in 2023
Superchain Network focuses on advancing the transition from centralized "Web2" systems to decentralized "Web3" architectures. It aims to establish a decentralized data protocol that prioritizes user needs over technological limitations. The company provides a data storage platform with streaming capabilities that can be tailored through an intuitive interface known as toolboxes. This setup allows developers to create applications more efficiently by fostering a direct and personal connection to data, eliminating the need for centralized intermediaries.
Sovereign Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Sovereign Labs operates a blockchain platform focused on enhancing user experience and scalability within the blockchain community. It offers a framework of interconnected zero-knowledge rollups that can function across various blockchains, facilitating secure and interoperable transactions. The platform automatically converts business logic into a cryptographically verifiable format, utilizing a roll-up system to connect with data availability layers. This integration allows users to leverage specialized components designed for rollups, while also benefiting from advancements in proof-generation parallelism and scalability, all without compromising end-user verifiability.
Envio is a technology company that specializes in providing a modern, efficient, and developer-friendly blockchain indexing solution. It addresses the challenges posed by latency, reliability, and costs in traditional indexing approaches, giving developers peace of mind. Envio serves as a front door for applications to access, transform, and save real-time or historical data from any EVM smart contract, enhancing the development process and unlocking the potential of Web3 infrastructure.
Nftperp
Seed Round in 2022
Nftperp is a company founded in January 2022, based in Washington, D.C., specializing in decentralized finance software for contract trading. It operates a perpetual decentralized exchange that allows users to speculate on the floor prices of prominent non-fungible token (NFT) projects, including well-known collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks. By providing a platform for trading blue-chip NFTs, nftperp leverages the growing significance of NFTs within the web3 ecosystem, catering to both investors and enthusiasts interested in the evolving digital asset landscape.
Fuel Labs
Venture Round in 2022
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.
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.
Mero is a company that has created a reactive liquidity protocol aimed at enhancing the efficiency of decentralized finance. Its platform allows users to earn yield and register actions with their liquidity through an automated crypto-based lending system. By enabling users to register loans on-chain, Mero facilitates collateral top-ups, which increase both the yield and utility of crypto assets. This innovative approach provides investors with quick access to funds while eliminating the need for intermediaries, thereby streamlining financial transactions in the crypto space.
Console is the non-custodial multi-chain account to secure, navigate, and automate on-chain interactions. Built for pros. Easy for all.
Superchain Network
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Superchain Network focuses on advancing the transition from centralized "Web2" systems to decentralized "Web3" architectures. It aims to establish a decentralized data protocol that prioritizes user needs over technological limitations. The company provides a data storage platform with streaming capabilities that can be tailored through an intuitive interface known as toolboxes. This setup allows developers to create applications more efficiently by fostering a direct and personal connection to data, eliminating the need for centralized intermediaries.
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.
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.
Chainflip
Seed Round in 2021
Chainflip is a decentralized protocol facilitating trustless asset trades between different blockchain networks with minimal slippage. It enables direct cross-chain exchanges of cryptocurrencies without intermediaries, utilizing its native blockchain and ecosystem components built on Rust and other frameworks. This allows investors to transfer funds seamlessly across various blockchains and ecosystems without additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets.
Visor Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized platform facilitating active liquidity management. Its tool enables participants to use smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges, maximizing returns from fees while minimizing impermanent loss.
RedStone
Pre Seed Round in 2021
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.
Nayms is a marketplace for crypto-native insurance, a bridge between alternative capital and uninsured risk in the rapidly evolving digital assets’ space. We provide the technical and legal infrastructure over which stakeholders come together to capitalise and transfer risk on-chain. At Nayms, all insurance, from limits and premiums to claims and reserving, is conducted entirely in a cryptocurrency of choice, whether a general token, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, or a stablecoin. By matching assets with liabilities, we reduce or eliminate currency risk on blockchain exposures; and by matching demand with much-needed supply, we bolster growth and stability within the blockchain ecosystem. We afford our customers – insurers, insureds, intermediaries, and investors – many other advantages of blockchain technology, including its efficiency, immutability, transparency, and composability.
Whitepaper: https://docsend.com/view/2nswpepqqaun96yn
Composable Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Composable Finance develops infrastructure to enable a multi-layer, multi-chain future for Ethereum and other Layer 1 blockchains. It builds cross-layer, cross-chain interoperability technology that connects Ethereum layer-two solutions and allows smart contracts from different Layer 1 networks to run together on a single parachain, enabling liquidity fragmentation and broader financial and creative freedom for developers and traders.
PoolTogether
Series A in 2021
PoolTogether operates an Ethereum-based platform that offers users a no-loss savings game. Users deposit funds into the platform's smart contract, earning interest weekly. At the end of each week, one winner receives the collective interest earned, while all other participants retain their principal.
Zapper is a fintech platform that simplifies decentralized finance (DeFi) by offering a unified interface for managing assets. It democratizes DeFi access through user-friendly 'Zaps', enabling seamless entry into lending, yield farming, and liquidity provision.
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.
Nayms is a marketplace for crypto-native insurance, a bridge between alternative capital and uninsured risk in the rapidly evolving digital assets’ space. We provide the technical and legal infrastructure over which stakeholders come together to capitalise and transfer risk on-chain. At Nayms, all insurance, from limits and premiums to claims and reserving, is conducted entirely in a cryptocurrency of choice, whether a general token, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, or a stablecoin. By matching assets with liabilities, we reduce or eliminate currency risk on blockchain exposures; and by matching demand with much-needed supply, we bolster growth and stability within the blockchain ecosystem. We afford our customers – insurers, insureds, intermediaries, and investors – many other advantages of blockchain technology, including its efficiency, immutability, transparency, and composability.
Whitepaper: https://docsend.com/view/2nswpepqqaun96yn
bloXroute Labs
Series B in 2019
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.
Radix develops decentralized finance protocols, focusing on accessibility, liquidity, and programmability for digital assets. Their platform enables users to create, transfer, store, and access digital assets and applications through a user-friendly interface.
Dusk specializes in developing a blockchain protocol for creating privacy-focused decentralized applications (dApps). Its open-source platform ensures high throughput, scalability, and immediate transaction confirmation through a segregated Byzantine agreement mechanism.