Reciprocal Ventures

Reciprocal Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm established in 2016 and based in New York, New York. The firm focuses on investing in the future of web3, with a particular emphasis on sectors such as fintech and financial services, blockchain technology, and the cryptocurrency market. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Reciprocal Ventures aims to support innovative companies that are shaping the evolution of these digital landscapes.

Elle Leemay Chen

Associate

Josh Kuzon

Partner

Ali Sheikh

Principal

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Warlock

Seed Round in 2025
Warlock Labs specializes in developing an omni-chain liquidation engine that enhances the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols. By recapturing maximum extractable value, the company's technology systematically removes intermediaries from the liquidation process. This approach allows miners to improve safety and efficiency while also increasing user retention and engagement with the protocols. Warlock Labs' innovative solutions aim to optimize the performance of decentralized finance applications, making them more secure and effective for users.

NymCard

Series B in 2025
NymCard is a payment processing platform founded in 2016, with operations based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and a subsidiary in London, United Kingdom. The company focuses on providing a comprehensive online payments solution that enhances user experience, security, and data management. NymCard offers mobile wallet solutions, card issuance and processing, and cloud-based services, allowing financial institutions in Africa and the Middle East to issue innovative digital payment products. By leveraging open APIs and mobile SDKs, NymCard enables clients to provide plastic, virtual, or tokenized cards to users quickly and efficiently, facilitating access to the digital economy. The platform aims to streamline the account opening process and ensure secure online transactions, addressing the challenges of low payment card penetration in its target regions.

DoubleZero

Initial Coin Offering in 2025
DoubleZero is developing a global fiber network intended for high-performance distributed systems and blockchains. It seeks to enhance blockchain performance by establishing a dedicated physical infrastructure layer for communication.

Plume Network

Series A in 2024
Plume Networks is a developer of a blockchain platform that focuses on onboarding and managing real-world assets. The platform features an end-to-end tokenization engine, supporting over 180 projects on its private development network. By integrating essential asset tokenization, Plume Networks aims to create a robust infrastructure that simplifies the process of bringing various real-world assets on-chain. This approach fosters the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, allowing investors to connect with quality buyers and enhance liquidity for tokenized assets.

TrueX

Seed Round in 2024
TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.

Moonwalk

Seed Round in 2024
Moonwalk is health tech company that offers a platform to gamify fitness goals via crypto pooling.

Kintsu

Seed Round in 2024
Kintsu provides superior liquid staking solutions that boost your staking benefits and flexibility in DeFi ecosystems.

Plume Network

Seed Round in 2024
Plume Networks is a developer of a blockchain platform that focuses on onboarding and managing real-world assets. The platform features an end-to-end tokenization engine, supporting over 180 projects on its private development network. By integrating essential asset tokenization, Plume Networks aims to create a robust infrastructure that simplifies the process of bringing various real-world assets on-chain. This approach fosters the development of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, allowing investors to connect with quality buyers and enhance liquidity for tokenized assets.

NFTFi

Series A in 2024
NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users. It enables NFT holders to borrow cryptocurrency from lenders by using their NFTs as collateral. When they accept a loan offer, the NFT goes into a secure escrow smart contract and receives the wETH, DAI, or USDC from the lender directly to their wallet. To determine whether an NFT is worth a loan, users employ a common practice in the traditional art world in which banks, large galleries, or auction houses offer loans to artists.

Helius

Series A in 2024
Helius is a developer of a blockchain-based application-building platform aimed at simplifying the development process for developers. The company provides an API platform that facilitates understanding on-chain data and querying transactions. Its offerings include webhooks for automation and bots, as well as RPC nodes that enable applications to interact with the blockchain. This infrastructure allows developers to efficiently create crypto applications and parse closed-source smart contracts, promoting the adoption of crypto-powered software.

January

Series B in 2023
January builds and enforces trust in consumer finance. Borrowers in delinquency and default face harassment, hidden fees, and harmed credit scores. Creditors lose out on recoveries, expose themselves to compliance and operational risks, and compromise the trust on which their relationships with borrowers are built. January works with borrowers who fall behind on their loans to achieve financial stability, while helping creditors modernize their collections.

Third Time

Seed Round in 2023
Third Time Entertainment is a startup game development studio that focused primarily on NFT and crypto gaming. Founded in 2015 by Ian Cummings, with co-founders Paul Fleetwood and Brian Fleming. Starting in 2021, Third Time has begun development on 2 of the most highly anticipated crypto-based blockchain games, Photo Finish Live and The Suites.

Ironforge

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Ironforge is a developer of a cloud-based platform that simplifies and accelerates the creation of blockchain applications. It offers a serverless Solana development environment that enables users to develop, deploy, and maintain decentralized applications without the complexities of managing infrastructure or scalability. The platform provides a range of features, including automated deployments, a globally distributed API, an on-demand indexer, and comprehensive monitoring tools, all integrated into a single solution. This approach allows businesses to focus on building their applications efficiently while relying on Ironforge's robust infrastructure.

Tallarium

Venture Round in 2023
Tallarium Ltd., founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, specializes in developing software solutions for real-time data and analytics in commodity markets. The company addresses the challenge of fragmented and unstructured data in energy markets, where a limited share of trades are executed electronically. By employing natural language processing and machine learning, Tallarium's platform extracts valuable insights from traders' communications, such as text chats and voice calls. This enables the delivery of reliable real-time price data, allowing traders to make informed decisions and execute trades more efficiently, particularly in the illiquid over-the-counter (OTC) energy markets. Tallarium's innovative approach provides a significant advantage over traditional manual methods, such as Excel spreadsheets, in tracking market prices and identifying trading opportunities.

Marble

Venture Round in 2022
Marble is a developer of a digital wallet and loyalty platform for insurance. It also offers a platform where users can organize all their policies in one singular digital wallet and compare rates and find the right policy for them.

Higlobe

Series A in 2022
Higlobe is an international payment platform for overseas freelancers, contractors, and independent workers with U.S. business clients. Higlobe offers zero transaction fees, with the goal of eliminating all transaction fees. Founded in 2020, Higlobe is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

NymCard

Series A in 2022
NymCard is a payment processing platform founded in 2016, with operations based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and a subsidiary in London, United Kingdom. The company focuses on providing a comprehensive online payments solution that enhances user experience, security, and data management. NymCard offers mobile wallet solutions, card issuance and processing, and cloud-based services, allowing financial institutions in Africa and the Middle East to issue innovative digital payment products. By leveraging open APIs and mobile SDKs, NymCard enables clients to provide plastic, virtual, or tokenized cards to users quickly and efficiently, facilitating access to the digital economy. The platform aims to streamline the account opening process and ensure secure online transactions, addressing the challenges of low payment card penetration in its target regions.

January

Series A in 2022
January builds and enforces trust in consumer finance. Borrowers in delinquency and default face harassment, hidden fees, and harmed credit scores. Creditors lose out on recoveries, expose themselves to compliance and operational risks, and compromise the trust on which their relationships with borrowers are built. January works with borrowers who fall behind on their loans to achieve financial stability, while helping creditors modernize their collections.

Third Time

Seed Round in 2022
Third Time Entertainment is a startup game development studio that focused primarily on NFT and crypto gaming. Founded in 2015 by Ian Cummings, with co-founders Paul Fleetwood and Brian Fleming. Starting in 2021, Third Time has begun development on 2 of the most highly anticipated crypto-based blockchain games, Photo Finish Live and The Suites.

The Graph

Venture Round in 2022
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.

Tealbook

Series B in 2021
Tealbook, Inc. is an online supplier knowledge management and procurement platform headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2014, the company provides a centralized system that consolidates credible and up-to-date information about suppliers, enabling procurement teams to identify and connect with qualified suppliers. The platform offers a comprehensive view of supplier data, including company details, product offerings, diversity status, and client recommendations. It also integrates with various enterprise resource planning systems and procurement tools, enhancing the visibility and knowledge of preferred suppliers. Tealbook's innovations have garnered industry recognition, such as being included in the CIX Top 20 and the Gartner Cool Vendor list. Through its services, Tealbook aims to improve buyer-supplier relations and streamline the procurement process for enterprises.

NFTFi

Seed Round in 2021
NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users. It enables NFT holders to borrow cryptocurrency from lenders by using their NFTs as collateral. When they accept a loan offer, the NFT goes into a secure escrow smart contract and receives the wETH, DAI, or USDC from the lender directly to their wallet. To determine whether an NFT is worth a loan, users employ a common practice in the traditional art world in which banks, large galleries, or auction houses offer loans to artists.

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.

Squads

Seed Round in 2021
Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with an easy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure.

Extend

Series B in 2021
Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and an industry-first card tokenization service.

Lore

Seed Round in 2021
community capital network

Hedgehog Markets

Seed Round in 2021
Hedgehog Markets is a decentralized prediction markets platform built on the Solana blockchain. Hedgehog Markets specializes in the fields of prediction markets, financial services, and blockchain.

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.

SEDA

Seed Round in 2021
SEDA is a multichain, permissionless protocol designed to connect real-world data to various blockchain networks. It operates a decentralized finance prediction market platform that aims to establish a secure framework for open markets. The platform is user-friendly, allowing developers to integrate it easily using an open-source JavaScript software development kit. This accessibility enables clients to engage with permissionless markets efficiently, requiring minimal coding efforts. SEDA's innovative approach seeks to enhance the interaction between real-world information and blockchain technology, promoting transparency and accessibility in decentralized finance.

Placer.ai

Series B in 2021
Placer.ai is a location analytics company that provides a traffic analytics platform designed to deliver real-time insights into consumer behavior and foot traffic patterns. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, the platform utilizes anonymized location data from multiple sources, allowing businesses in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, and economic development to generate insights about any property. By enabling users to analyze trends, perform competitor analysis, and build dashboards, Placer.ai assists organizations in making informed decisions regarding site selection, marketing strategies, and optimizing store performance.

Marble

Seed Round in 2021
Marble is a developer of a digital wallet and loyalty platform for insurance. It also offers a platform where users can organize all their policies in one singular digital wallet and compare rates and find the right policy for them.

Tealbook

Series A in 2021
Tealbook, Inc. is an online supplier knowledge management and procurement platform headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Founded in 2014, the company provides a centralized system that consolidates credible and up-to-date information about suppliers, enabling procurement teams to identify and connect with qualified suppliers. The platform offers a comprehensive view of supplier data, including company details, product offerings, diversity status, and client recommendations. It also integrates with various enterprise resource planning systems and procurement tools, enhancing the visibility and knowledge of preferred suppliers. Tealbook's innovations have garnered industry recognition, such as being included in the CIX Top 20 and the Gartner Cool Vendor list. Through its services, Tealbook aims to improve buyer-supplier relations and streamline the procurement process for enterprises.

Protego Trust Bank

Series A in 2021
Protego Trust Bank is a financial service company that offers regulated crypto services to institutional investors. The company provides clients comprehensive digital asset services including custody, trading, lending, and issuance - all within one vertically integrated partner. Protego Trush Bank was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, WA.

Lore

Seed Round in 2021
community capital network

Tallarium

Venture Round in 2020
Tallarium Ltd., founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, specializes in developing software solutions for real-time data and analytics in commodity markets. The company addresses the challenge of fragmented and unstructured data in energy markets, where a limited share of trades are executed electronically. By employing natural language processing and machine learning, Tallarium's platform extracts valuable insights from traders' communications, such as text chats and voice calls. This enables the delivery of reliable real-time price data, allowing traders to make informed decisions and execute trades more efficiently, particularly in the illiquid over-the-counter (OTC) energy markets. Tallarium's innovative approach provides a significant advantage over traditional manual methods, such as Excel spreadsheets, in tracking market prices and identifying trading opportunities.

WorkRails

Seed Round in 2020
WorkRails, Inc. is a cloud-based platform provider established in 2015 and headquartered in Lloyd Harbor, New York. The company specializes in enabling software firms to efficiently manage their professional services by connecting employees, partners, and freelancers. The WorkRails Services CPQ platform facilitates the quick and accurate creation of professional services quotes, particularly for teams that deal with complex offerings. This platform standardizes the sales process, enhancing repeatability and scalability while accelerating revenue. By bridging the gaps between Sales, Professional Services, and clients, WorkRails eliminates inefficiencies such as double entry and data errors, thus simplifying the selling process. Additionally, the platform supports streamlined workflows, data management, and quote generation, ultimately helping companies increase upsells and renewals while allowing them to focus more on client engagement.

Placer.ai

Series A in 2020
Placer.ai is a location analytics company that provides a traffic analytics platform designed to deliver real-time insights into consumer behavior and foot traffic patterns. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, the platform utilizes anonymized location data from multiple sources, allowing businesses in retail, commercial real estate, hospitality, and economic development to generate insights about any property. By enabling users to analyze trends, perform competitor analysis, and build dashboards, Placer.ai assists organizations in making informed decisions regarding site selection, marketing strategies, and optimizing store performance.

Qwil

Series B in 2019
Qwil provides individual contractors, freelancers, and small businesses with financial tools and solutions. It offers an application that enables its users to manage and spend their earnings through their Qwil debit card. Qwil also enables its users to earn and spend money before they are paid for their services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Solana

Series A in 2019
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.

MindBridge

Series B in 2019
MindBridge Analytics Inc. is a Canadian FinTech company that offers financial analytics software designed for audit, assurance, and commercial enterprises. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, the MindBridge platform identifies unusual patterns of activities, unintentional errors, and potential financial misstatements within financial datasets. By generating risk-weighted analyses and deep insights into monetary flows, the software helps organizations across various industries enhance their controls, minimize financial losses, and improve decision-making processes.

Extend

Series A in 2019
Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and an industry-first card tokenization service.

The Graph

Seed Round in 2019
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.

RADAR

Series A in 2018
Radar Relay, LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Denver, Colorado, operates as a wallet-to-wallet trading platform for Ethereum-based tokens, utilizing the 0x Protocol. The platform facilitates direct peer-to-peer trading by maintaining an order book and relaying orders without holding any assets in custody. Users can connect their wallets directly to the Radar Relay platform, eliminating the need for account creation, sign-ups, deposits, or withdrawal limits. This approach aims to enhance user control and security in cryptocurrency trading.

RADAR

Series A in 2018
Radar Relay, LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Denver, Colorado, operates as a wallet-to-wallet trading platform for Ethereum-based tokens, utilizing the 0x Protocol. The platform facilitates direct peer-to-peer trading by maintaining an order book and relaying orders without holding any assets in custody. Users can connect their wallets directly to the Radar Relay platform, eliminating the need for account creation, sign-ups, deposits, or withdrawal limits. This approach aims to enhance user control and security in cryptocurrency trading.

MindBridge

Series A in 2018
MindBridge Analytics Inc. is a Canadian FinTech company that offers financial analytics software designed for audit, assurance, and commercial enterprises. Utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence, the MindBridge platform identifies unusual patterns of activities, unintentional errors, and potential financial misstatements within financial datasets. By generating risk-weighted analyses and deep insights into monetary flows, the software helps organizations across various industries enhance their controls, minimize financial losses, and improve decision-making processes.

Extend

Seed Round in 2018
Extend provides digital card solutions for businesses. Using their existing credit card, companies and innovators everywhere can now access the full power of virtual cards for their businesses, products, and clients. Extend offers several products, including a suite of aggregated virtual card APIs, a digital corporate card app, and an industry-first card tokenization service.

Qwil

Series A in 2018
Qwil provides individual contractors, freelancers, and small businesses with financial tools and solutions. It offers an application that enables its users to manage and spend their earnings through their Qwil debit card. Qwil also enables its users to earn and spend money before they are paid for their services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Grips Intelligence

Seed Round in 2018
Grips Intelligence is an e-commerce market research platform that delivers critical insights to manufacturers, retailers, and investors, enabling them to pinpoint growth opportunities. The platform leverages advanced machine learning technology to convert data and signals from websites into actionable products for brands and e-retailers. Its capabilities include website categorization and cross-domain product mapping, which facilitate data-driven performance marketing. By providing transactional intelligence data, Grips Intelligence supports thousands of businesses worldwide in optimizing their online sales performance and maximizing their potential in the competitive e-commerce landscape.

RADAR

Seed Round in 2017
Radar Relay, LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Denver, Colorado, operates as a wallet-to-wallet trading platform for Ethereum-based tokens, utilizing the 0x Protocol. The platform facilitates direct peer-to-peer trading by maintaining an order book and relaying orders without holding any assets in custody. Users can connect their wallets directly to the Radar Relay platform, eliminating the need for account creation, sign-ups, deposits, or withdrawal limits. This approach aims to enhance user control and security in cryptocurrency trading.

NuCypher

Venture Round in 2017
NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in data-centric zero-trust encryption solutions designed to secure big data. Founded in 2015, it develops infrastructure and protocols that enable organizations to store, share, and manage private data on public blockchains while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. The company’s platform facilitates secure and auditable sharing of sensitive information, allowing organizations to implement military-strength encryption for large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By leveraging existing access policies, NuCypher helps organizations protect their data from both internal and external threats, thus enabling them to pursue big data initiatives while adhering to regulatory standards.

Plink

Venture Round in 2017
Plink develops commerce automation software designed for assistance in transactions and building customer relationships. They allow businesses to add various features to their existing point-of-sale systems or countertop terminals to facilitate transactions with target customers, enabling local enterprises to take advantage of an array of collateral programs that ensure they generate sales and loyalty.

TradeIT

Seed Round in 2017
Trading Ticket, a startup based out of New York, wants to develop a suite of products that will help consumers become more active, and proactive, investors. TradeIt is a patent pending technology that is in alpha on a publicly listed publishing platform. TradeIt allows users to quickly and easily place orders with their existing online brokerage accounts from any website or mobile device. Developed by 3 leading financial technology veterans, TradeIt has built a robust technology platform that can be easily integrated and embedded into any website, mobile device or advertising unit. TradeIt has navigated the complexities of legal compliance and security concerns to allow for online traders to have safe, fast, frictionless ordering.

Tallarium

Seed Round in 2017
Tallarium Ltd., founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, specializes in developing software solutions for real-time data and analytics in commodity markets. The company addresses the challenge of fragmented and unstructured data in energy markets, where a limited share of trades are executed electronically. By employing natural language processing and machine learning, Tallarium's platform extracts valuable insights from traders' communications, such as text chats and voice calls. This enables the delivery of reliable real-time price data, allowing traders to make informed decisions and execute trades more efficiently, particularly in the illiquid over-the-counter (OTC) energy markets. Tallarium's innovative approach provides a significant advantage over traditional manual methods, such as Excel spreadsheets, in tracking market prices and identifying trading opportunities.

TrueX

TrueX is a non-custodial, stablecoin-native exchange that represents the next stage in crypto markets.
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