ParaFi Capital is an alternative asset management and technology firm based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2018, it focuses on liquid and venture investment strategies within the digital asset ecosystem, including companies in fintech and blockchain. As one of the earliest institutional investors in the blockchain industry, ParaFi has established itself as a trusted partner for leading global institutions. The firm aims to leverage its expertise to identify and support innovative companies operating in this rapidly evolving sector.
Cypherpunk Holdings Inc. is a Toronto-based company that specializes in investing in cryptocurrencies and privacy technologies. Founded in 1995, the company was originally known as Khan Resources Inc. before rebranding in November 2018. Cypherpunk Holdings focuses on a range of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero, while also developing the Cypherpunk Index, which tracks privacy-focused coins based on their market capitalization. The company aims to provide its shareholders with exposure to emerging blockchain technologies and decentralized finance initiatives.
Notabene
Series B in 2024
Notabene, Inc. is a New York-based company that offers a software as a service (SaaS) platform focused on crypto compliance for the financial industry. Established in 2020, Notabene provides businesses with tools to meet emerging global regulations for cryptocurrency transactions, particularly the Travel Rule. Its platform features a unified API and a comprehensive dashboard designed to assist compliance officers in managing risks associated with both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. By simplifying compliance processes, Notabene enables financial companies to engage with a broader range of crypto businesses, enhancing transaction confidence and supporting growth in their operations.
Polymarket
Series B in 2024
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of various global events using cryptocurrency. Polymarket operates on the Ethereum blockchain, utilizing the Polygon network to enhance scalability and reduce transaction costs. Users connect to the platform through an Ethereum-compatible wallet and use the USDC stablecoin to place bets on events, ranging from political outcomes to entertainment predictions.
Securitize
Venture Round in 2024
Securitize is modernizing capital markets by enabling digital securities, making it easier for eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities within designated capital markets for equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. Securitize is the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated US-based marketplaces with a working protocol and live issuers. The company also offers KYC/AML and capital management services. Securitize, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer and does not make any endorsement of offerings.
Thruster
Seed Round in 2024
Thruster is a DEX for the builders, yield seekers, and traders on Blast.
Centrifuge
Series A in 2024
Centrifuge Inc. is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Berlin, Centrifuge offers a peer-to-peer protocol that facilitates the secure and privacy-preserving exchange of financial documents. This platform allows businesses to tokenize, manage, and distribute their assets on-chain, providing asset managers with new tools and investors with access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets. By enabling third-party service providers to interact with financial data, Centrifuge fosters economic opportunity and promotes efficient transactions while ensuring that businesses retain ownership of their data and validated company details.
Mezo
Series A in 2024
Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield.
Architect
Series A in 2024
Architect is a financial platform that provides traders with customizable infrastructure designed to enhance access to international markets for digital assets. The company focuses on developing institutional-grade solutions that facilitate trading across various venues, including both centralized and decentralized exchanges. By linking these diverse crypto markets, Architect aims to create a seamless trading experience for users engaged in global futures, options, and digital asset markets.
Cube Group
Series A in 2024
Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chain support. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading.
Wormhole
Initial Coin Offering in 2023
Wormhole covers a range of use cases to make chains for tokens, NFTs, apps, and other generic messaging applications. They build protocols on wormholes that can use data, assets, and messages from other chains.
Kinto
Seed Round in 2023
Kinto is the KYC'ed Layer 2 capable of supporting both modern financial institutions and decentralized protocols.
M^0 Labs
Venture Round in 2023
M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middleware to become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Huma
Seed Round in 2023
Huma operates an on-chain credit platform that facilitates lending to businesses and individuals. By connecting high-performing receivables with global financing, Huma enables clients to access loans secured by tokens as collateral. The platform emphasizes transparency and accessibility, allowing users to tokenize and trade cash flow while leveraging credit on a blockchain system. This innovative approach aims to create a thriving financial ecosystem that enhances the way clients manage their financial resources.
Ironblocks
Seed Round in 2023
Ironblocks is a cybersecurity company focused on protecting smart contracts and securing web3 services. The firm offers a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that features easy-to-read analytics and clarity regarding security needs. Its unique protocol includes specialized sensors and a grid designed to identify malicious activities across multiple blockchain networks. By providing tailored coverage and advanced security solutions, Ironblocks enables web3 companies to safeguard their platforms effectively.
Elementus
Series A in 2023
Elementus Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in enterprise blockchain data analytics, serving institutional asset managers, financial service organizations, and government agencies. Founded in 2017, Elementus combines proprietary data with patented algorithms to provide insights into the cryptocurrency market. Its platform enables users to trace the flow of funds, identify security vulnerabilities, and gain market intelligence, facilitating informed investment decisions in digital assets. By delivering actionable insights derived from blockchain activity, Elementus aims to enhance transparency and build trust within the crypto ecosystem.
yoloyolo
Seed Round in 2022
In order to match the top NFT IPS with leading brands and uncover growth opportunities and revenue models for both these brands and the NFT IP holders, Yoloyolo is developing new infrastructure.
Magpie Protocol
Funding Round in 2022
Magpie Protocol is a decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol for cross-chain exchange infrastructure. It uses bridges to communicate swap signals between chains, creating an unrivaled user experience. The protocol helps idea-stage crypto entrepreneurs launch game-changing DeFi and infrastructure projects. Magpie's mission is to build a cross-chain infrastructure and protocol that offers a simple, efficient, and secure way to trade and invest within DeFi.
Contango
Seed Round in 2022
Contango is a decentralized protocol that focuses on providing perpetual futures atop money markets. It operates a decentralized exchange designed to facilitate expirable futures without the need for order books or liquidity pools. By leveraging existing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, Contango enables fixed-rate lending and borrowing. The platform also supports physical delivery and minimizes price impact for larger trades, allowing traders to effectively hedge their positions and manage their costs. Through these innovations, Contango aims to enhance trading efficiency and accessibility within the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Gnosis
Venture Round in 2022
In late 2020, Gnosis announced plans to fully decentralize into a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization). Today, the GnosisDAO treasury has effective control of over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens, with the GNO tokens vested over 8 years. A year later, in 2021, the xDAI and GnosisDAO communities voted to combine their vibrant ecosystems to create the Gnosis Chain: An Ethereum forerunner companion that addresses scaling issues through solid engineering. Gnosis Chain is the associated execution-layer EVM chain for stable transactions. It uses the xDai token and includes a wide-ranging group of projects and users. The Gnosis mission has always been centered on experimentation and building decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem. When Gnosis was founded in 2015, it focused on building prediction markets to enable worldwide access to accurate information. While creating the prediction market platform, it became clear that Gnosis needed to build the infrastructure required to support it. As a DAO, Gnosis uses the products that it creates to transparently guide decisions on the development, support, and governance of its ecosystem. Gnosis Safe (multisig and programmable account), Cow Protocol (formerly CowSwap and Gnosis Protocol), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), Gnosis Auction, and Zodiac (standard and tooling for composable DAOs) are all products incubated by Gnosis. Their success is demonstrated by the recent spin-out of Cow Protocol and the formation of SafeDAO. By combining needs-driven development with deep technical expertise, Gnosis has built the decentralized infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem.
Safe
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Safe is a digital asset management platform built on Ethereum that specializes in multi-signature smart contract wallets. Originating from Gnosis, a provider of digital asset storage solutions, Safe offers a secure infrastructure for managing decentralized ownership. The platform facilitates collaboration and tracking of assets and transactions, aiming to establish a universal standard for the custody of assets, data, and identity. By providing a user-friendly interface through its flagship website and mobile products, Safe supports users in efficiently managing their digital assets within a secure environment. As a leader in account abstraction on Ethereum, Safe is committed to enhancing the security and functionality of smart wallets.
ZenLedger
Series B in 2022
ZenLedger, Inc. specializes in cryptocurrency tax management software, catering to both individual investors and tax professionals. Founded in 2017 and based in Bellevue, Washington, ZenLedger provides tools that allow users to import cryptocurrency transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns. Its platform automates the generation of essential financial documents, including profit and loss statements, capital gains reports, and income reports, thereby simplifying the tax filing process for cryptocurrency activities. By streamlining portfolio management and reducing the complexities associated with tax compliance, ZenLedger aims to enhance the overall experience for users navigating the evolving landscape of blockchain economies.
Jambo
Series A in 2022
Jambo is a company focused on creating an extensive on-chain mobile network, centered around its flagship product, the JamboPhone, a powerful mobile device designed for the crypto-native market. With a foundation of over 800,000 mobile nodes spanning more than 120 countries, Jambo aims to accelerate decentralization and enhance network effects for various applications, such as validators and peer-to-peer networking. The JamboApp serves as a gateway for millions of users to engage with the on-chain economy, offering innovative earning opportunities, a decentralized application (dApp) store, and a multi-chain wallet. By integrating blockchain technology into its products, Jambo empowers users to participate in gaming, cryptocurrency trading, and decentralized finance, particularly benefiting individuals in emerging markets. Central to Jambo's ecosystem is the Jambo Token, which facilitates rewards, discounts, and other incentives, positioning the company as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.
Push Protocol
Series A in 2022
Push Protocol is a decentralized communication platform designed for the web3 ecosystem, enabling users to receive notifications related to both on-chain and off-chain activities. The protocol facilitates notifications from various decentralized applications (dApps), smart contracts, and backend services, all linked to users' wallet addresses. This allows for a flexible and open communication network where notifications can be triggered by diverse on-chain or off-chain logic. Push Protocol operates in a gasless, multichain, and platform-agnostic manner, ensuring that any crypto wallet or infrastructure service can display these notifications to users. By leveraging this system, users can engage with notifications and potentially earn cryptocurrency rewards through their interactions.
bloXroute Labs
Series B in 2022
BloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company that offers a blockchain scalability solution designed to enhance the performance of cryptocurrencies and blockchains without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that allows for the processing of thousands of transactions per second on-chain. Its platform leverages a global network of servers optimized for network performance through techniques such as compression and encryption. This infrastructure facilitates the rapid propagation of transactions and blocks, thereby improving data efficiency and increasing overall transaction throughput. BloXroute's approach is designed to maintain consensus across all nodes, ensuring it remains provably neutral and applicable to any blockchain.
NEAR
Private Equity Round in 2022
NEAR Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a blockchain protocol designed to facilitate the creation of decentralized applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Protocol offers a secure and scalable platform capable of managing high-value assets such as money and identity. The company provides a range of services, including documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer tools, to support developers in writing, testing, and deploying decentralized applications. By leveraging advanced technology, NEAR aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream commercial software, enabling the development of performance-oriented applications across various business sectors.
NEAR
Venture Round in 2022
NEAR Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a blockchain protocol designed to facilitate the creation of decentralized applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Protocol offers a secure and scalable platform capable of managing high-value assets such as money and identity. The company provides a range of services, including documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer tools, to support developers in writing, testing, and deploying decentralized applications. By leveraging advanced technology, NEAR aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream commercial software, enabling the development of performance-oriented applications across various business sectors.
Immutable Systems
Series C in 2022
Immutable develops blockchain-based eSport games designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. Its eSports games use ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming industry. Immutable provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling organizations to bring transparency in the opaque world of in-game economies.
Hubble Protocol
Venture Round in 2022
Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.
Figment Capital
Series C in 2021
Figment Networks Inc. is a leading blockchain infrastructure and software provider based in Toronto, Canada, established in 2018. The company develops and operates an open-source crypto network, focusing on enhancing community engagement through tools that facilitate understanding of network health and performance for informed staking decisions. Figment supports various crypto networks, including Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, such as enterprise-grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and DataHub developer APIs, aimed at simplifying the use, development, and governance of blockchains for token holders and developers alike. Additionally, Figment publishes open-source software and economic research to further benefit the blockchain community.
Ledn
Series B in 2021
Ledn builds financial products with a mission to help more people save in digital assets. Ledn’s suite of products consists of Borrow - A bitcoin-backed loan which allows customers to access dollars without selling their bitcoin, B2X - Allowing clients to instantly double their bitcoin holdings through the use of a Ledn loan and Save - A bitcoin and USDC savings account that pays interest on bitcoin or USDC with no minimums. For more information visit ledn.io.
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.
Fireblocks
Series E in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. is a blockchain-based security service platform that provides a secure solution for managing digital asset operations. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Fireblocks specializes in protecting the transmission of digital assets between exchanges, wallets, and counterparties. The platform is designed for financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, exchanges, liquidity providers, over-the-counter brokers, and hedge funds, allowing them to securely manage their digital assets. Fireblocks employs advanced technologies such as patent-pending chip isolation security and multi-party computation (MPC) to ensure the safe transfer and availability of assets across various environments.
Talis
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Talis is an NFT marketplace that empowers artists and bridges physical and digital art on the Terra and Juno blockchain. With just a few clicks and no code, the company enables users to own portfolios and mint their first NFT. The TALIS token will act as the protocol's official governance token and give users access to the Talis Treasury, fraud detection, and smart contract changes.
MetaSoccer
Seed Round in 2021
MetaSoccer is an online soccer metaverse that offers an earn-to-play experience within a blockchain-based gaming platform. By integrating blockchain and non-fungible token technologies, it creates an alternative football universe where users can actively participate and earn cryptocurrency through their contributions. This innovative approach aims to redefine the football ecosystem by providing players with opportunities to engage in the game while benefiting financially.
C3 Exchange
Seed Round in 2021
C3 Exchange operates a self-custodial trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of spot and derivative assets. The exchange combines the advantages of self-custody and decentralization with the performance and accessibility typically associated with traditional trading platforms. Its innovative clearing engine protocol allows for cross-margin and cross-collateralization, enabling traders to optimize their capital usage by calculating margin requirements across all open positions in their accounts. Through this approach, C3 Exchange aims to enhance the trading experience while maintaining user control over their assets.
Gemini
Series A in 2021
Gemini is a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian founded in 2014 by brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. Headquartered in New York, the company provides a platform for customers to buy, sell, and store digital assets such as bitcoin and ether. Gemini operates under stringent fiduciary obligations and complies with high capital reserve requirements and banking standards. The platform is designed to simplify the digital asset market, offering tools for both individuals and institutional investors to research, purchase, and manage their cryptocurrency portfolios securely. Gemini aims to establish itself as a trusted bridge to the future of money.
Spectral
Venture Round in 2021
Spectral is a New Rochelle, New York-based company founded in 2020 that focuses on programmable creditworthiness through its innovative platform. The company provides valuable credit risk insights to its partners by utilizing on-chain data, thereby enhancing business decisions and offerings. Users can access new financial opportunities through the Multi-Asset Credit Risk Oracle (MACRO) Score, which serves as an on-chain equivalent to a traditional FICO score, allowing individuals to check their on-chain credit scores. Additionally, Spectral offers an AI-powered platform that simplifies the creation and deployment of smart contracts, enabling developers to generate complex contracts using natural language, thus accelerating development time and minimizing errors.
Beta Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Beta Finance is a permissionless money market protocol for lending, borrowing, and short-selling crypto assets. It aims to offset crypto volatility and bring market stability. Its one-click solution enables traders without technical know-how to manage and update their short positions on any token with all relevant token information directly available on the interface to guide their decision.
Manta Network
Seed Round in 2021
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem utilizing Zero-Knowledge technology. It operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to safeguard user privacy and prevent activity tracking. The platform is built on substrate frameworks, offering an easy-to-use and secure protocol that ensures end-to-end anonymity. With capabilities for high throughput and cross-chain interoperability, Manta Network provides customers with a reliable environment for exchanging data securely.
Manta Network
Seed Round in 2021
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem utilizing Zero-Knowledge technology. It operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to safeguard user privacy and prevent activity tracking. The platform is built on substrate frameworks, offering an easy-to-use and secure protocol that ensures end-to-end anonymity. With capabilities for high throughput and cross-chain interoperability, Manta Network provides customers with a reliable environment for exchanging data securely.
Domination Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Domination Finance is a developer of a non-custodial financial instrument that allows traders to speculate on market dominance metrics within the cryptocurrency sector. Its platform operates as an Ethereum application and is built on the UMA protocol, enabling users to take long or short positions on Bitcoin Dominance. Additionally, the platform is accessible on Polygon and Boba networks, providing a versatile trading environment. By offering synthetic tokens tied to market dominance, Domination Finance facilitates innovative trading strategies for participants in the cryptocurrency market.
deBridge Finance
Seed Round in 2021
deBridge Finance is a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol designed to facilitate the decentralized transfer of assets across multiple blockchains. The protocol operates through a network of independent oracles and validators, which are elected by deBridge governance, ensuring a secure and efficient transfer process. It supports interoperability between major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Huobi Ecological Chain, and Arbitrum. This infrastructure enables users to seamlessly access and transfer various digital assets, including NFTs, across different platforms, enhancing the overall flexibility and utility of blockchain technology.
Chainflip
Seed Round in 2021
Chainflip is a decentralized cross-chain swapping protocol that facilitates the trustless exchange of cryptocurrencies between different blockchain networks. The platform is designed to enable users to trade assets directly without relying on a trusted intermediary, thus ensuring a secure and efficient transaction process. Utilizing advanced technology frameworks such as Rust, Chainflip allows for anonymous and permissionless swaps, eliminating the need for additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets. This innovative approach empowers investors to move funds seamlessly across various blockchains and ecosystems, providing a streamlined solution for cross-chain asset management.
Lyra Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum. Lyra combines the best of traditional options market making (tried and tested pricing and risk management) with crypto’s two biggest strengths scalability and composability.
Solrise Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Solrise Finance is a decentralized finance protocol built on the Solana network, focusing on managed portfolios. It provides a platform for decentralized, non-custodial asset management services, allowing users to create, manage, and invest in portfolios that include both native and synthetic assets. This enables individuals to either select existing funds to invest in or establish their own investment portfolios, thereby promoting a more inclusive approach to fund management and financial equity.
RabbitHole
Seed Round in 2021
RabbitHole helps users navigate the play to earn space with curated opportunities. The company also allows users to build their knowledge with resources across DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs as well as explore web3 projects and earn rewards doing so. RabbitHole was established in 2020 by Brian Flynn in Venice, California.
Yield Guild Games
Series A in 2021
Yield Guild Games (YGG) is a decentralized autonomous organization founded in 2018 and based in Quezon City, Philippines. It focuses on investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) utilized in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. YGG aims to build a robust virtual world economy by optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility and sharing profits with its token holders. Additionally, the organization acts as a venture capital firm, investing in early-stage token and equity deals in the web3 space, as well as supporting gaming studios and the related infrastructure that fosters industry growth.
Jet Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Jet Protocol Holdings operates a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that aims to reduce transaction costs while enhancing efficiency. The platform specializes in innovative loan products and cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to streamline their borrowing and lending transactions. By simplifying these processes, Jet Protocol facilitates more accessible and effective financial interactions in the decentralized finance space.
Solana
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a cryptocurrency startup focused on developing a decentralized blockchain platform for applications and marketplaces. The Solana network is supported by thousands of independent nodes, which enhances its security and resistance to censorship. The platform utilizes a unique proof of history mechanism that allows for concurrent parallel processing, resulting in high-speed, low-latency, and cost-effective transactions. This architecture enables users to efficiently scale their operations without the need for sharding, making it suitable for a wide range of decentralized applications.
Set Labs
Series A in 2021
Set Labs is focused on advancing the field of finance through innovative cryptocurrency asset management solutions. The company develops a protocol that enables the creation and exchange of collateralized baskets of tokens, utilizing smart contracts to facilitate the bundling and unbundling of various crypto assets. This technology allows users to efficiently create cryptocurrency baskets, which can include a mix of ERC20 tokens, non-fungible tokens, and on-chain securities. By providing tools and specifications for developers, Set Labs aims to simplify the process of asset management in the blockchain space, promoting a more accessible and flexible financial environment.
Ledn
Series A in 2021
Ledn builds financial products with a mission to help more people save in digital assets. Ledn’s suite of products consists of Borrow - A bitcoin-backed loan which allows customers to access dollars without selling their bitcoin, B2X - Allowing clients to instantly double their bitcoin holdings through the use of a Ledn loan and Save - A bitcoin and USDC savings account that pays interest on bitcoin or USDC with no minimums. For more information visit ledn.io.
Zapper
Series A in 2021
Zapper is a financial technology platform that simplifies the management of decentralized finance (DeFi) assets through a user-friendly interface. It caters to both newcomers and experienced investors by offering streamlined access to DeFi lending, automated yield farming, and liquidity provision through its unique shortcuts known as Zaps. The platform enhances cryptocurrency asset management by leveraging the principles of open finance, allowing users to efficiently deploy and manage their buy and sell positions while actively participating in the DeFi ecosystem.
Notional Finance
Series A in 2021
Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate, fixed term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on Ethereum. Users can lend or borrow stablecoins at fixed rates of interest for terms of up to six months using a variety of assets as collateral. Notional achieves fixed rate lending via a primitive called fCash, which is redeemable for an underlying currency like DAI upon the fCash token’s maturity date. Notional operates specialized liquidity pools that allow users to efficiently trade cash for fCash and vice versa. The exchange rate that a user receives on their trade implies a fixed rate of interest from the time of trade until the fCash token’s maturity. Notional is flexible and configurable. The protocol can add additional assets for lending and borrowing, additional collateral types, and additional maturities beyond six months. The community intends to broaden Notional’s scope over time to include a wider array of supported assets and extended available maturities. Notional prioritizes security. The protocol team works with industry leaders to ensure that the smart contracts are technically secure and that the economic assumptions applied in the protocol’s design are sound.
Coin98
Seed Round in 2021
Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.
PureStake
Series A in 2021
PureStake, Inc. is a company that develops infrastructure and services for public blockchain networks, focusing primarily on the Algorand and Polkadot ecosystems. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts, PureStake offers a range of products and services including the AlgoSigner wallet extension, APIs, a block explorer called goalseeker, and infrastructure solutions for both private and co-chain environments. Additionally, the company provides validator services for the Polkadot Network and supports smart contract development on the Moonbeam platform. PureStake aims to facilitate secure and reliable participation in blockchain networks through its cloud-based platform, which employs an automated multi-pop and multi-cloud approach for enhanced user experience.
Moonbeam Network
Funding Round in 2021
Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.
Vega Protocol
Series A in 2021
Vega is a technology protocol and crypto-asset for an open, blockchain-backed public network for fully automated end-to-end financial product trading and execution. Fully automated processes and incentives for trading margined financial products allow for markets that are open and decentralized, with pseudonymous participants. The platform of the company provides open and fair markets in which fees are shared by market makers, not owners, and governance decisions are made by the community, allowing financial institutions to open access, reduce costs, and enable a new wave of financial market innovation.
Fei Labs
Series A in 2021
Fei Labs is focused on developing open-source decentralized applications, primarily through the creation of a scalable stablecoin. This stablecoin aims to address challenges posed by whale activity in existing dollar-pegged products, promoting a more equitable financial ecosystem. The platform employs a novel stablecoin mechanism that ensures capital efficiency, fair distribution, and full decentralization. By doing so, it enables users to utilize the stablecoin in maintaining liquid secondary markets, thus enhancing the overall functionality and accessibility of decentralized finance solutions.
Badger DAO
Venture Round in 2021
Badger is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) building products and infrastructure to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains. It’s meant to be an ecosystem DAO where projects and people from across DeFi can come together to collaborate and build the products our space needs. Shared ownership in the DAO will allow builders to have aligned incentives while decentralized governance can ensure those incentives remain fair to all parties. The idea is less competing and more collaborating.
InsurAce Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
InsurAce is the leading decentralized insurance protocol, providing reliable, robust and secure DeFi insurance services to the DeFi users. InsurAce not only guarantees unbeatable portfolio premiums but also offers sustainable investment returns. We have a unique insurance product, tailored just for your project. From insuring your smart contract against hacks to allowing users to secure their investments against risks. Our community is one of the best in the DeFi space and is a key element to our success. We continue to innovate and improve for them.
BlockFi
Series D in 2021
BlockFi, Inc. is a New York-based financial services company that specializes in providing wealth management products for cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2017, it offers interest-bearing accounts that allow clients to earn yields on their Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar holdings. The company also facilitates secured loans in USD, where clients can collateralize their loans with cryptocurrency assets. Additionally, BlockFi provides a trading platform for exchanging various cryptocurrency pairs and customizable lending options for institutions. By leveraging a sophisticated infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, BlockFi aims to enhance liquidity and efficiency in digital financial markets, catering to the needs of both individual and institutional clients.
Rarible
Seed Round in 2021
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.
Bluefin
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bluefin operates a decentralized leverage trading platform designed to provide universal access to global financial markets. The platform utilizes blockchain technology to merge the security and transparency of decentralized exchanges with the rapid trade settlement and cost efficiency characteristic of centralized platforms. This innovative approach caters to both novice users and experienced traders, offering features such as leverage trading and short selling. Backed by prominent investors including Polychain Capital, Susquehanna, and Brevan Howard Digital, Bluefin is positioned to enhance participation in the derivatives market while ensuring a user-friendly experience.
Donut
Venture Round in 2021
Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi.
1inch Labs
Series A in 2020
1inch Labs is a developer of a decentralized finance platform that aggregates multiple decentralized exchanges across various blockchains. Founded in 2019 and based in the United States, the company focuses on enhancing the efficiency of cryptocurrency trading. Its suite of protocols, including the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, 1inch Liquidity Protocol, and 1inch Limit Order Protocol, work together to facilitate cost-effective and secure swap transactions. This integration allows users to access better rates than those available on individual exchanges, thereby optimizing their trading experience in the decentralized finance sector.
DefiDollar
Seed Round in 2020
DefiDollar operates as a meta stablecoin index.
Polymarket
Seed Round in 2020
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that allows users to bet on the outcomes of various global events using cryptocurrency. Polymarket operates on the Ethereum blockchain, utilizing the Polygon network to enhance scalability and reduce transaction costs. Users connect to the platform through an Ethereum-compatible wallet and use the USDC stablecoin to place bets on events, ranging from political outcomes to entertainment predictions.
BarnBridge
Seed Round in 2020
BarnBridge is a United States-based protocol that focuses on tokenizing risk through the development of cross-platform derivatives designed for hedging yield sensitivity and market price volatility. By creating fixed yield and volatility tranche products, BarnBridge allows both decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi) investors to manage risk more effectively. The protocol enables traders to access debt pools from various DeFi platforms, transforming single pools into multiple assets with different risk and return profiles. This approach facilitates enhanced risk management and provides access to fixed-income instruments, catering to the needs of institutional investors and those looking to navigate the complexities of market fluctuations.
Acala Network
Series A in 2020
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform that facilitates cross-blockchain transactions within the Polkadot network. Based in the United States, it enables users to send and receive USD across various connected blockchains. The platform provides a range of financial tools, including a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by diverse assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange. These features are designed to enhance liquidity and promote innovation in financial applications, making transactions more convenient and secure for users.
RAMP DEFI
Seed Round in 2020
RAMP DEFI is a decentralized finance solution that focuses on unlocking liquid capital from staked digital assets. This is achieved by letting users collateralize their portfolio of staked assets into a common stable coin standard, USD, which can in turn be used to borrow fiat-back capital such as USDT or USDC. Using the RAMP solution, users can continue to receive staking rewards, retain capital appreciation potential on their staked portfolio, and recycle staked capital into new investment opportunities at the same time.
DeversiFi
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
Uniswap
Series A in 2020
Uniswap Labs is a software company founded in 2018 by Hayden Adams, who created the Uniswap Protocol, a decentralized platform for swapping digital assets. The protocol has facilitated $2.75 trillion in transaction volume since its inception. Uniswap Labs focuses on developing widely used decentralized finance (DeFi) products, including a user-friendly web interface, a self-custody mobile wallet, and an API tailored for professional market participants. The platform empowers liquidity providers and traders by offering a financial marketplace that is open and accessible to all. Utilizing smart contracts, it enables secure and decentralized on-chain conversions of assets, allowing users to trade tokens directly without intermediaries while defining asset prices based on the liquidity staked in the system.
Teller Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Teller Finance is a blockchain project for decentralized lending. Teller connects to your bank account to offer risk-assessed loans, without the need for collateral.
Aave
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Aave (from the Finnish word for "ghost") is an open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lending and borrowing. For lenders, the protocol mints ERC20-compliant aTokens at a 1:1 ratio to supplied assets. Interest immediately starts compounding continuously, represented by a steady increase in the amount of aTokens held by the lender. This interest stream may be redirected to any address, separate from the aTokens that represent the underlying principal. Aave offers flash loans: trustless, uncollateralized loans where borrowing and repayment must occur in the same transaction. Aimed at developers, this feature could lead to innovative uses of DeFi.
Keep
Venture Round in 2020
Keep Network is a blockchain technology company that focuses on enabling the use of private data on public protocols. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in George Town, Midland, it develops solutions that allow contracts to leverage private information while interacting with public blockchains. One of its key offerings is tBTC, a decentralized bridge that connects Bitcoin to the Ethereum network, allowing users to securely and anonymously transfer Bitcoin for participation in decentralized finance (DeFi) activities. The company's technology incorporates a privacy layer for Ethereum, utilizing secure multiparty computation to store data across multiple locations, enabling decentralized signing and the creation of cryptocurrency wallets. This innovation ensures that users can store files privately with blockchain storage encryption while engaging with the broader blockchain ecosystem.
DeSo Foundation
Seed Round in 2020
DeSo is a layer-1 blockchain, like Bitcoin or Ethereum, that recently listed on Coinbase, has accumulated over 1.5 million accounts, and just crossed over $1B in volume transacted on-chain. DeSo is backed by Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Social Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and many others. Our mission is to decentralize social media the same way Bitcoin and Ethereum are decentralizing the financial system. As a layer-1 blockchain, DeSo can be compared to other blockchains like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Avalanche, etc... However, DeSo has several major advantages over these platforms, the largest being that it is designed to power storage-heavy applications (like social applications and marketplaces). To put it in perspective, storing just a 200-character "Tweet" on Ethereum costs ~$80, and costs ~$0.25-$1.00+ on Solana, Avalanche, Polygon, and virtually all other smart contract chains. In contrast, it costs 1/1,000th of a penny on DeSo, which is why breakthrough apps like Diamond, DAODAO, Pearl, OpenProsper, NFTz, and Entre, now possible exclusively on DeSo. Today, social media is even more centralized than the financial industry was prior to the creation of Bitcoin. A handful of private entities effectively control public discourse, and earn monopoly profits off of content that they don't even create. Society’s answer to financial centralization was not to put Warren Buffett in charge of money, it was to use technology, namely Bitcoin, so we could have nobody in charge. We believe the same type of technology will cause this conclusion to ultimately play out in social. DeSo’s advantages make it capable of breaking this status quo for the first time, and bringing competition and innovation back to social in much the same way Bitcoin and Ethereum have done for our financial system. Moreover, if DeSo succeeds, we will no longer need individual "dictators" to set a homogenous moderation policy for hundreds of millions of people.
The Graph
The Graph is an indexing protocol designed for querying data from blockchain networks such as Ethereum and IPFS, facilitating the development of decentralized applications (dApps). Developers can create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which can be queried using GraphQL to access blockchain data. Currently, The Graph supports data indexing from Ethereum, IPFS, and POA, with plans to incorporate additional networks. It offers a hosted service to assist developers in building on the platform, while a decentralized network is set to launch soon. As of late 2020, over 3,000 subgraphs had been deployed by thousands of developers for various dApps, including Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland. The Graph has experienced significant growth, with its usage increasing substantially month over month. To support its development, The Graph has raised funding from a broad range of community members and venture capitalists, totaling around $25 million.
DeversiFi
DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
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