Polychain Capital

Polychain Capital, founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in blockchain technologies and digital assets. The firm is dedicated to advancing the global adoption of cryptocurrencies by actively managing portfolios that include various blockchain-based protocols and companies. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Polychain Capital aims to generate exceptional returns for its investors by leveraging the unique properties of digital assets, which are created and transmitted through cryptographic verification and game-theoretic principles.

Bobby Beniers

Research Partner

Kevin Ding

Seed Investor

Ben Perszyk

Partner

Josh Rosenthal

Partner and Portfolio Manager

Alexa Smith

Beacon Fund Manager

Jing Sun

LP Investor

Dovey Wan

Investor

Sven Wellmann

Research Analyst

275 past transactions

Warlock

Seed Round in 2025
Warlock Labs specializes in creating an omni-chain liquidation engine aimed at enhancing the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols. By recapturing maximal extractable value, the company's technology systematically dis-intermediates value generated during liquidation processes. This approach not only improves efficiency for miners but also fosters user retention and engagement within various protocols. Warlock Labs is focused on advancing the decentralized finance landscape through innovative solutions that bolster both safety and profitability.

Level

Seed Round in 2025
Level is a fintech company that develops stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.

Biton

Venture Round in 2025
Biton is a full-chain ecology trading platform that offers services to simplify the trading process and mitigate cross-chain risks.

Seismic

Seed Round in 2025
Seismicy enables developers to establish innovative financial partnerships and investment instruments.

Fluent Labs

Seed Round in 2025
Fluent Labs is a blockchain development company. It aims to simplify blockchain development and enhance compatibility across different virtual machines.

Ethena

Funding Round in 2025
Ethena provides derivative infrastructure in order to transform Ethereum into the first crypto-native yield bearing stablecoin.

Corn

Equity Crowdfunding in 2025
Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.

Oshi

Seed Round in 2025
Oshi is a platform that connects anime creators and fans worldwide, leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate collaborative creation and licensing transparency. It enables intellectual property owners to maintain control over their works while supporting anime production through a decentralized ecosystem.

Superform Labs

Venture Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.

Hyperbolic Network

Series A in 2024
Hyperbolic Network is a software development company focused on creating web and networking solutions for decentralized computing platforms. It operates an open-source platform that aggregates idle computing resources, facilitating AI development. This platform enables users to build and deploy applications using a collective computing capacity, which is particularly useful for training AI models and hosting them. By providing a GPU network, Hyperbolic Network allows individuals and organizations to run AI interfaces and deploy them without depending on centralized infrastructures, promoting a more distributed and efficient approach to computing in the field of artificial intelligence.

Talus Network

Seed Round in 2024
Talus Network is a pioneering blockchain-based platform that seeks to democratize artificial intelligence. It develops a decentralized system that merges blockchain technology with autonomous AI agents, fostering consumer-friendly on-chain AI applications, notably smart agents. These agents seamlessly integrate into everyday on-chain content, empowering developers to create more secure, transparent, and efficient decentralized, autonomous systems.

Monkey Tilt

Series A in 2024
Monkey Tilt is a technology company that operates a crypto fantasy sports platform, offering users a unique blend of traditional casino games, sports betting, poker, and cryptocurrency-based gambling experiences. It aims to provide an engaging, social, and lifestyle-integrated entertainment experience for its users.

Noble XYZ

Series A in 2024
Noble XYZ is an asset issuance appchain that seeks to communicate and exchange assets directly with each other by using blockchain communication.

Brevis

Seed Round in 2024
Brevis is an efficient, verifiable off-chain computation engine that brings limitless computation capacity to existing smart contract blockchains.

StakeStone

Seed Round in 2024
StakeStone is a technology company that develops an omnichannel liquidity protocol for optimizing crypto staking and asset management. Its protocol integrates dynamic staking networks, deep liquidity pools, and adaptive consensus mechanisms to maximize staking yields and ensure secure, transparent transactions. This enables cryptocurrency investors and developers to achieve efficient, scalable, and high-return staking operations across multiple blockchain networks.

Yellow Card

Series C in 2024
Yellow Card is a financial technology company that operates an online cryptocurrency trading platform, facilitating secure and cost-effective transactions across Africa. It specializes in providing on/off ramp services for stablecoins like USDT, USDC, and PYUSD, enabling users to buy and sell these coins using their local currency. The company partners with local merchants and vendors to offer voucher-based Bitcoin purchases, simplifying money transfers and enabling e-commerce participation in cryptocurrency. Yellow Card, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chamblee, Georgia, has expanded its operations to multiple African countries, processing over US$3 billion in transactions to date.

Yala

Seed Round in 2024
Yala is a technology company that develops infrastructure to connect Bitcoin liquidity with a meta-yield stablecoin, enabling users to securely and transparently earn yield on their Bitcoin holdings within a DeFi ecosystem. Its modular, on-chain, and permissionless infrastructure aims to be capital-efficient, fostering a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.

Bitlayer

Series A in 2024
Bitlayer is a technology company focused on enhancing Bitcoin's scalability while maintaining its security. It operates the first second-layer network built on BitVM, aiming to serve as Bitcoin's computing layer. The platform offers ultra-scalability and equivalent security to Bitcoin's main chain (L1), enabling users to innovate for faster, safer transactions with increased flexibility.

Apro Oracle

Seed Round in 2024
APRO Oracle specializes in providing comprehensive data support for the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is renowned for being the most widely integrated oracle within this environment. The company's core service involves accurately calculating prices by aggregating data from leading institutional-grade suppliers and exchanges, utilizing the Time-Weighted Average Price (TVWAP) method. APRO Oracle ensures data security through a decentralized network of submitter nodes and partnerships with top-tier security audit firms, allowing clients to verify multiple data points off-chain, minimizing on-chain transactions, and reducing gas costs.

Grass

Series A in 2024
Grass is an online community that offers reward for people who provide unused internet for AI developers and enthusiasts.

Level

Seed Round in 2024
Level is a fintech company that develops stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.

Solayer Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Solayer Labs operates a re-staking network that builds upon the Solana blockchain, extending its capabilities to secure additional systems and enable horizontal scaling. By leveraging the economic security of SOL tokens and sharing Solana's validator network, Solayer allows application developers to achieve a higher degree of consensus and customize block space, enhancing the efficiency and versatility of decentralized cloud infrastructure.

Story Protocol

Series B in 2024
Story Protocol is a web3 technology developer focused on transforming the creation of narrative universes. The company provides a platform that allows creators to develop, govern, and license intellectual property on-chain, fostering ownership and motivation. By enabling the construction of an ecosystem of story components that can be remixed and composed, Story Protocol empowers creators to build narratives with clear incentives and control over their intellectual property.

Corn

Seed Round in 2024
Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.

Sahara AI

Series A in 2024
Sahara AI is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain platform for open and collaborative artificial intelligence development. Its platform enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI securely and privately, while allowing cross-agent communication, knowledge transfer, and capitalization. This fosters a collaborative environment where businesses can own, monetize, and scale their proprietary knowledge.

Hyperbolic Network

Seed Round in 2024
Hyperbolic Network is a software development company focused on creating web and networking solutions for decentralized computing platforms. It operates an open-source platform that aggregates idle computing resources, facilitating AI development. This platform enables users to build and deploy applications using a collective computing capacity, which is particularly useful for training AI models and hosting them. By providing a GPU network, Hyperbolic Network allows individuals and organizations to run AI interfaces and deploy them without depending on centralized infrastructures, promoting a more distributed and efficient approach to computing in the field of artificial intelligence.

Namcon

Series A in 2024
Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.

ORA

Series A in 2024
ORA is a blockchain protocol designed to facilitate trustless AI and decentralized computing on the Ethereum network. It aims to enable developers to deploy AI models and utilize computing resources directly on the blockchain, leveraging its decentralized nature for security and scalability.

BabylonChain

Series B in 2024
Babylon builds security protocols to enhance the security of decentralized systems by leveraging Bitcoin's established security. The company's solutions include timestamping data on the Bitcoin blockchain and enabling Bitcoin holders to stake their coins on Proof-of-Stake blockchains without needing a custodian.

Cysic

Seed Round in 2024
Cysic is a blockchain company that specializes in zero-knowledge (ZK) hardware computation, focusing on the development of hardware acceleration systems for zero-knowledge proof protocols. The company's innovative hardware design architecture enables real-time generation of ZK proofs, providing a faster, cost-efficient, and user-friendly solution in a decentralized manner. By leveraging cryptographic techniques, Cysic allows businesses to verify the authenticity of data without disclosing its contents, facilitating the broader adoption of web three technologies. Through its advancements in ZK proof systems, Cysic aims to make blockchain applications more accessible and scalable for a diverse range of users.

Intensity Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Intensity Labs pioneers Shogun, a breakthrough DeFi protocol based on purpose. Shogun enables users to traverse decentralized finance with purpose-driven interactions, resulting in a dynamic financial ecosystem.

Polymarket

Series A 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​.

Botanix Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Botanix Labs is a technology company that develops decentralized applications (dApps) for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It combines the strengths of Bitcoin and Ethereum to create a platform that offers secure, decentralized, and fair distribution of cryptocurrencies. This platform enables users to explore decentralized lending, earn interest on their assets, and manage their wealth with ease.

MilkyWay

Seed Round in 2024
MilkyWay is a Liquid Staking protocol

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.

Berachain

Series B in 2024
Berachain is a blockchain development company focused on creating an Ethereum-compatible platform designed for financial applications. Its innovative technology allows for the use of staked assets within decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, enhancing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency. The company employs a proof of liquidity consensus mechanism to ensure sybil resistance, which fosters alignment of network incentives between validators and various projects within its ecosystem. By leveraging staked assets like staked ether, Berachain enables these locked assets to support the network's security while simultaneously facilitating their use in DeFi applications. This approach aims to provide clients with robust blockchain services that promote quality and efficiency in financial transactions.

Stream Trading

Seed Round in 2024
Stream Trading offers capital-efficient and low-latency software for optimal performance in DeFi.

Tomo

Seed Round in 2024
Tomo is an all-in-one Web3 social wallet that transforms users' online presence into a universal hub, fostering genuine, spam-free interactions and financial incentives. Tomo lets users connect directly with creators, participate in private discussions, and explore the new generation of digital art with Tomoji. Active participation earns users Tomo Points, enhancing your social capital.

Ritual

Venture Round in 2024
Ritual is a reaction to the aforementioned issues. Fundamentally, it is envisioned as an open, modular, and autonomous AI execution layer. Ritual connects a distributed network of nodes with access to compute and model developers.

Sofamon

Seed Round in 2024
Sofamon is a cryptocurrency consumer software company that focuses on enhancing user interaction within the digital currency space. The firm has developed a social platform tailored for launching blockchain projects, providing features that empower users to manage their own chat sticker sets. Sofamon's platform allows individuals to invite friends and participate in private group chats, fostering a more engaging and personalized communication experience for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Through these innovative offerings, Sofamon aims to transform the way users connect and collaborate in the rapidly evolving world of blockchain technology.

DappOS

Series A in 2024
DappOS is an innovative company focused on enhancing the usability and accessibility of decentralized applications (dApps) within the blockchain ecosystem. By developing a unified operating protocol, DappOS creates a user-friendly layer that simplifies interactions between users and various blockchain infrastructures, including public blockchains and cross-chain bridges. This approach allows for intuitive user interfaces and streamlined experiences, making dApps as easy to use as mobile applications. DappOS aims to lower the technical barriers associated with blockchain technology, facilitating greater mass adoption of decentralized applications and contributing to a more interconnected and user-centric blockchain environment.

Sailing player

Seed Round in 2024
Sailing player is a high-tech enterprise focusing on blockchain, Web3.0, AR, and Yuanverse industries, focusing on research, development, and international application development.

Polyhedra Network

Series A in 2024
Polyhedra Network is an infrastructure company focused on creating a Web3 platform that enhances cross-chain communication through the use of zero-knowledge-proof protocols. The company's platform facilitates a secure and scalable bridge between various layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains, enabling developers to design interoperable applications. By simplifying the complexities of cross-chain interactions, Polyhedra Network aims to foster a more integrated blockchain ecosystem for developers and users alike.

Clique

Series A in 2024
Clique is a technology company focused on bridging the gap between web-two user behaviors and web-three applications through its innovative identity wallet and creator economy platform. The wallet is designed to enhance privacy and security by incorporating features such as privacy-preserving oracles, zero-knowledge proofs, and decentralized identity. This allows creators, sports figures, and brands to effectively manage their interactions with superfans, incentivize engagement, and explore shared ownership opportunities. Additionally, Clique operates a Compute Coordination Network that organizes diverse compute resources, enabling applications to access and utilize these resources dynamically. This network supports various functionalities, including verifiable computations, data integration from the internet, and specialized hardware for privacy and secure computation. By facilitating seamless access to compute resources and data, Clique empowers users to tailor their experiences based on trust, privacy, performance, and cost preferences.

Eclipse

Series A in 2024
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.

Sahara AI

Seed Round in 2024
Sahara AI is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain platform for open and collaborative artificial intelligence development. Its platform enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI securely and privately, while allowing cross-agent communication, knowledge transfer, and capitalization. This fosters a collaborative environment where businesses can own, monetize, and scale their proprietary knowledge.

Talus Network

Seed Round in 2024
Talus Network is a pioneering blockchain-based platform that seeks to democratize artificial intelligence. It develops a decentralized system that merges blockchain technology with autonomous AI agents, fostering consumer-friendly on-chain AI applications, notably smart agents. These agents seamlessly integrate into everyday on-chain content, empowering developers to create more secure, transparent, and efficient decentralized, autonomous systems.

Monkey Tilt

Venture Round in 2024
Monkey Tilt is a technology company that operates a crypto fantasy sports platform, offering users a unique blend of traditional casino games, sports betting, poker, and cryptocurrency-based gambling experiences. It aims to provide an engaging, social, and lifestyle-integrated entertainment experience for its users.

Gasp

Initial Coin Offering in 2024
A ZK-rollup L2 with universal connectivity to L1s, enabling cross-chain liquidity of native assets. Powered by Starkware zero-knowledge technology and Eigenlayer's restake finality. In it's core, MEV minimization and gas-free swaps are out of the box.

AltLayer

Series A in 2024
AltLayer is a developer of a rollups-as-a-service platform focused on enhancing Web3 projects. The company offers a scalable application-dedicated execution layer system that derives security from underlying blockchain infrastructure. By providing an elastic and versatile scaling protocol, AltLayer aims to transform blockchain deployment, significantly improving time-to-market and allowing for customized application deployment. The platform enables users to utilize on-demand rollups, thereby benefiting from a flexible and scalable infrastructure tailored to their specific application needs.

Superform Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.

Squid

Series A in 2024
Squid is a developer of financial software that facilitates seamless connectivity between users and developers in the cryptocurrency market. The company's platform enables the swapping of any token across different blockchains, providing a streamlined approach to accessing decentralized applications with a single click. Squid's solution includes an application programming interface and software development kit that allows for native token swaps and messaging between users and applications across various chains. This functionality empowers investors with composable, cross-chain financial logic, enhancing their ability to navigate the complex landscape of cryptocurrency liquidity and applications.

Canza Finance

Seed Round in 2024
Canza Finance is a company focused on creating a decentralized finance platform aimed at providing essential financial services to underserved populations in Africa. By leveraging Web3 technology and blockchain, Canza Finance connects users with a network of local money market participants, facilitating access to a range of financial transaction services. This approach aims to establish the world's largest non-institutional-based financial system, enabling users from various emerging markets to engage with an open financial portal tailored to their needs.

Particle

Seed Round in 2024
Particle is a permissionless decentralized leverage trading technology that may be used with any digital asset, including tokens and NFTs. The Particle protocol allows traders to borrow directly from liquidity pools at automated market makers (AMMs) with concentrated liquidity

Bitfinity Network

Venture Round in 2024
Bitfinity Network is a creator of a blockchain platform that allows users to generate, stake, and swap tokens on their internet-connected computers. The company focuses on developing new decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain primitives. Its main services include research and development into cross-chain wallets that support Bitcoin and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-based chains and exchanges and automated market-making activities.

Grass

Seed Round in 2023
Grass is an online community that offers reward for people who provide unused internet for AI developers and enthusiasts.

BabylonChain

Series A in 2023
Babylon builds security protocols to enhance the security of decentralized systems by leveraging Bitcoin's established security. The company's solutions include timestamping data on the Bitcoin blockchain and enabling Bitcoin holders to stake their coins on Proof-of-Stake blockchains without needing a custodian.

Sona

Seed Round in 2023
Sona is a new web3 streaming protocol that employs DeFi primitives (decentralized finance fundamental building blocks) to give artists more financial power through a rewards scheme, auctions, and ad-free streaming. Sona came out of the woodwork today, announcing the open beta launch of its first product, Sona Stream, a free music streaming service with no subscriptions or ads combined with a marketplace where artists share music and auction off SONAs, or "digital twins" or digital assets of songs that can only be owned by one person at a time.

CREATESAFE

Seed Round in 2023
CREATESAFE is a CRM platform that allows artists to secure the resources they need to create, manage, and market their art. They empower creators and their teams to control their own enterprises through technology, executive development, agency marketing, and creative management services.

Neon Media

Series A in 2023
Neon Media LLC is a production company based in Seattle, Washington, that specializes in the development and design of games and entertainment software. Incorporated in 2020, the company focuses on transmedia, virtual production, and gaming-as-a-service, offering innovative solutions to the film and television industry. Neon Media is known for producing real-time sets for virtual productions and creating photorealistic, physically-based rendered scenes using its proprietary game engine. This technology allows for seamless collaboration among creators in gaming, film, television, and comics, enabling clients to produce a wide range of content, from television series to big-budget special effects movies and independent animations. As of September 2020, Neon Media operates as a subsidiary of The 4D Factory LLC.

Shrapnel

Series A in 2023
Shrapnel is a video game development company that focuses on creating moddable extraction shooter games. The company is distinguished by its team, which includes BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning talent, and it utilizes Unreal Engine 5 along with blockchain technology to enhance gameplay. Shrapnel's games are designed to promote competitive play, player creation, and ownership, leveraging the unique utilities that blockchain offers. The company's core game design innovates on competitive game modes, enabling players to earn rewards and actively participate in a digital economy, thereby empowering the gaming community.

Noble XYZ

Seed Round in 2023
Noble XYZ is an asset issuance appchain that seeks to communicate and exchange assets directly with each other by using blockchain communication.

Drift

Series A in 2023
Drift Protocol is a developer of a decentralized derivatives exchange that focuses on providing on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures trading on the Solana blockchain. The platform aims to enhance the efficiency of trading futures through an upgraded decentralized system that features a new pegging mechanism. This innovation allows users to adjust liquidity based on market demand and open interest, thereby improving the overall trading experience. Drift Protocol's approach positions its exchange as a competitive option for margin trading within the decentralized finance space.

GoldLink

Pre Seed Round in 2023
GoldLink operates a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that facilitates on-chain, leveraged lending to borrowers. It offers risk management tools, real-time data visualization, and access to advanced investment strategies, aiming to enhance profits and transparency in the DeFi market.

Manta Network

Series A in 2023
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.

P0x Labs

Series A in 2023
P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.

Connext

Series A in 2023
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.

Playtron

Seed Round in 2023
Playtron provideslightweight gaming OS optimized for a new generation of powerful handheld gaming PCs.

Portal AI

Seed Round in 2023
Portal is meticulously designed to align a company's brand strategy with marketing execution, utilize fragmented marketing data for training AI models, and transform customer insights into effective, cost-efficient marketing programs. Portal AI transforms brand strategy into code, fueling marketing with generative AI for personalized campaigns and enhanced customer experiences.

Webb Protocol

Seed Round in 2023
Webb Protocol is a multi-chain privacy technology that allows assets to be transferred across blockchain protocols while ensuring financial anonymity. We incentivize privacy creation through innovative economic design and aim to become the most decentralized privacy system imaginable.

Thetanuts Finance

Venture Round in 2023
Thetanuts Finance is a developer of a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform focused on providing users with access to crypto-structured products across multiple blockchain networks. The company's offerings include customizable vaults and simplified options trading, which make it easier for both retail traders and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) to manage treasury and earn yield on their assets. By democratizing access to complex financial instruments, Thetanuts empowers investors to monetize market volatility in a risk-adjusted manner, creating competitive yield opportunities and facilitating the development of new options markets for native tokens.

Berachain

Series A in 2023
Berachain is a blockchain development company focused on creating an Ethereum-compatible platform designed for financial applications. Its innovative technology allows for the use of staked assets within decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, enhancing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency. The company employs a proof of liquidity consensus mechanism to ensure sybil resistance, which fosters alignment of network incentives between validators and various projects within its ecosystem. By leveraging staked assets like staked ether, Berachain enables these locked assets to support the network's security while simultaneously facilitating their use in DeFi applications. This approach aims to provide clients with robust blockchain services that promote quality and efficiency in financial transactions.

Polyhedra Network

Series A in 2023
Polyhedra Network is an infrastructure company focused on creating a Web3 platform that enhances cross-chain communication through the use of zero-knowledge-proof protocols. The company's platform facilitates a secure and scalable bridge between various layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains, enabling developers to design interoperable applications. By simplifying the complexities of cross-chain interactions, Polyhedra Network aims to foster a more integrated blockchain ecosystem for developers and users alike.

Cubist

Seed Round in 2023
Cubist is a company focused on enhancing the development of decentralized applications (dapps) within the web3 ecosystem. It offers a comprehensive key management platform that streamlines the creation, testing, and deployment of multi-chain and cross-chain dapps. Utilizing modern software engineering practices and robust security measures, Cubist provides a modular toolkit that simplifies the development process, allowing users to manage keys and sequencing efficiently. By automating pipelines, Cubist enables developers to build and deploy secure applications rapidly and effectively from a unified interface, promoting safer and faster innovation in the decentralized technology landscape.

Scroll.io

Venture Round in 2023
Scroll, founded in 2021 and based in Victoria, Seychelles, is focused on developing an EVM-equivalent zk-rollup, which utilizes a robust proving network. The company operates within the technology sector, with an emphasis on enhancing blockchain scalability and efficiency. By leveraging zero-knowledge proof technology, Scroll aims to facilitate faster and more secure transactions on decentralized applications. The firm's innovative approach positions it as a key player in the evolving landscape of blockchain infrastructure.

REALLY

Seed Round in 2023
REALLY is a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, recognized as the world's first fully encrypted and privacy-focused phone service. Founded by Adam Lyons, the company's innovative network integrates a decentralized mobile platform with access to America's largest 5G network, ensuring users experience enhanced security, privacy, speed, and coverage. REALLY's offerings include a phone plan comparison tool that allows consumers to evaluate different wireless service plans quickly and efficiently. This commitment to providing secure connectivity and empowerment for individuals is underscored by the substantial telecommunications seed funding that supports its vision.

Space ID

Series A in 2023
Space ID is focused on creating a universal name service network that facilitates the connection of individuals, data, and assets across various blockchains and applications. The company is developing a decentralized identity protocol that allows for the representation of all identities and multi-chain addresses. This includes features such as composable naming layouts, connected identifiers, and customized top-level domains that provide a human-readable identity. Additionally, Space ID integrates with NFT projects, enabling communities to enhance user engagement and growth through the use of personalized domain names.

Polyhedra Network

Seed Round in 2023
Polyhedra Network is an infrastructure company focused on creating a Web3 platform that enhances cross-chain communication through the use of zero-knowledge-proof protocols. The company's platform facilitates a secure and scalable bridge between various layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains, enabling developers to design interoperable applications. By simplifying the complexities of cross-chain interactions, Polyhedra Network aims to foster a more integrated blockchain ecosystem for developers and users alike.

Nil Foundation

Venture Round in 2023
Nil Foundation facilitates and supports research in database management systems and applied cryptography.

Quasar Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Quasar Labs operates a digital asset management platform that simplifies investing within the multi-chain universe. The platform allows users to create and join independent asset containers, known as Vaults, which utilize inter-blockchain communication (IBC) technology to facilitate value capture across different blockchains, particularly in the Cosmos ecosystem. This innovative approach addresses the fragmentation within decentralized finance (DeFi) by providing a streamlined and secure method for investors to manage their digital assets. Quasar Labs empowers investors to efficiently design Vaults and aggregate liquidity, making it easier for them to put their digital assets to work with minimal effort.

Vana

Seed Round in 2023
Vana is a decentralized platform that empowers individuals to retain control over their personal data while contributing to the development of artificial intelligence. The platform facilitates user-owned data management and monetization, providing tools for users to develop and profit from AI models. By utilizing decentralized autonomous organizations, Vana allows users to share data, such as social media and professional information, in exchange for various benefits. The platform emphasizes data portability, enabling users to log in with digital wallets and access their information across multiple platforms without relying on centralized systems. Vana's infrastructure ensures privacy and security through cryptographic verification, allowing developers to create more personalized applications while maintaining user privacy.

Foundation

Seed Round in 2022
Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet. They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoin while maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!

Finterest

Seed Round in 2022
Finterest is a financial platform that operates within the web3 and decentralized finance ecosystem. It specializes in facilitating the lending and borrowing of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, ICP, and stablecoins. The platform allows users to engage in cryptocurrency trading while also enabling token holders to participate in governance decisions, such as voting on future tokens to be integrated into the protocol. Finterest aims to enhance user engagement by incentivizing the utilization of its services, and it plans to incorporate Ethereum into its offerings, broadening its appeal within the digital asset market.

Evertas

Series A in 2022
Evertas is a crypto insurance company that specializes in providing regulated insurance and risk mitigation solutions for crypto assets. The company targets institutional holders, including exchanges, custodians, traditional financial institutions, funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Evertas offers a comprehensive underwriting framework along with a tailored policy form and claims handling services. Additionally, the company provides compliance and audit services, risk assessments, incident management, and asset recovery to help businesses secure their crypto assets and minimize transaction risks.

Fleek

Series A in 2022
Fleek is an open web platform that installs anything on a computer or deals with the command line. The platform is helping to build the tools necessary to make the Open Web available to anyone, and easy to build on. It makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers. Using Open Web protocols that make a decentralized, trustless, and permissionless infrastructure native to the web. This stack is ever-shifting and open-source.

t3rn

Private Equity Round in 2022
t3rn is a blockchain-based hosting platform founded in 2020 and based in Lisbon, Portugal. It specializes in facilitating interoperable execution and composable collaboration through its innovative technology stack. The platform enables fast, secure, and cost-efficient bridging of cross-chain executions by utilizing modular layers for storage, validation, settlement, and consensus. Smart contracts are stored in a registry accessible to all users, allowing developers who contribute to the open-source repository to earn remuneration each time their code is executed. This model not only enhances the efficiency of blockchain interactions but also incentivizes developers, fostering a collaborative ecosystem within the blockchain community.

PapayaHub

Series B in 2022
PapayaHub is a platform for investing in the Papaya webcam studio network activities with 340 branches throughout Europe: in London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Madrid, and Prague.

Evmos

Seed Round in 2022
Evmos is a blockchain interoperability platform designed to connect Ethereum-based applications and assets with the Cosmos ecosystem. The company aims to enhance the functionality of Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) by facilitating cross-chain applications that leverage the liquidity and user bases of various blockchain networks. By promoting interoperability, Evmos enables developers to create applications that operate across both EVM and Cosmos-based blockchains, thereby providing a more cohesive user experience. The platform incorporates innovative token economics and in-protocol incentives to support the development of these interoperable contracts, ultimately expanding the capabilities of blockchain technology.

Kollider

Seed Round in 2022
Kollider is a company that develops tools and services aimed at making financial markets accessible to a global audience in a straightforward manner, leveraging Bitcoin's Lightning Network. It operates an online trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to open and close positions directly from their digital wallets. This innovation is designed to enhance the trading experience for cryptocurrency investors, ultimately improving their potential return on investment.

Celestia

Series A in 2022
Celestia is a provider of modular blockchain networks based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Founded in 2019, the company specializes in deploying decentralized blockchains without the need for extensive initial setup. Celestia's platform serves as a scalable data availability layer for decentralized applications and sidechains with minimal trust requirements. This allows developers to efficiently store and manage blockchain data collectively, optimizing performance for various applications.

Light Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Light Protocol is a company that specializes in enhancing the privacy of cryptocurrency transactions. It offers a platform designed for developers to integrate private transaction capabilities into decentralized applications (dApps) built on the Solana blockchain. By enabling users to deposit cryptocurrencies into Light Cash pools and withdraw funds using a new address, Light Protocol facilitates secure and anonymous transactions. The company's technology aims to protect sensitive user data, making it easier for cryptocurrencies to gain mainstream acceptance.

Tapio Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Tapio Protocol is a synthetic asset protocol that unifies different formats of staking and crowdloan derivatives into an efficient standard. Tapio is powered by the Stable Asset system, which enables efficient trading while minimizing risk by utilizing uniform, closely pegged assets with stable swaps and stable asset capabilities.

Pine Street Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Pine Street Labs develops enterprise wallet software aimed at expanding and democratizing the use of public blockchains. The company's platform simplifies the complexities of supporting various blockchain networks, allowing enterprises to concentrate on their core business operations. Pine Street Labs offers walletOS, which enhances custody infrastructure and facilitates the management of custody operations in-house. The software is designed to accommodate new blockchain initiatives while providing functionalities such as sending, receiving, staking, and executing smart contract calls. By creating a composable developer experience with modular integrations and a well-defined API, Pine Street Labs enables businesses to execute transactions seamlessly and efficiently in mission-critical environments.

Uniswap

Series B in 2022
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.

Juno

Series A in 2022
Juno is a cross-border banking platform that aims to give users across the world a high-yield account to grow their savings. Going live in the US, 2Juno is taking a radical approach towards creating an open and global banking system for everyone, regardless of their location or income. Juno was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Aspen Creek Digital Corporation

Series A in 2022
Aspen Creek Digital Corporation is a developer of renewable Bitcoin mining operations aimed at promoting the decarbonization of power generation. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in El Segundo, California, the company utilizes a strategic combination of behind-the-meter and wholesale resources to lower the overall cost of retail power. This approach enables users to access on-site renewable energy and storage solutions, thereby supporting a more sustainable energy landscape. Aspen Creek Digital's focus on renewable energy contributes to a greener future while facilitating the growth of Bitcoin mining in an environmentally responsible manner.

Eclipse

Pre Seed Round in 2022
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.

Yellow Card

Series B in 2022
Yellow Card is a financial technology company that operates an online cryptocurrency trading platform, facilitating secure and cost-effective transactions across Africa. It specializes in providing on/off ramp services for stablecoins like USDT, USDC, and PYUSD, enabling users to buy and sell these coins using their local currency. The company partners with local merchants and vendors to offer voucher-based Bitcoin purchases, simplifying money transfers and enabling e-commerce participation in cryptocurrency. Yellow Card, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chamblee, Georgia, has expanded its operations to multiple African countries, processing over US$3 billion in transactions to date.
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