Kroma is a blockchain network designed to enhance user experience in Web3 through gamification and low transaction fees. It supports developers in building applications on its Layer 2 platform while promoting mass adoption of blockchain technology. The network features native account abstraction and a creative ecosystem that rewards contributions, making it accessible for all users.
API3
Venture Round in 2024
API3 is focused on developing a decentralized API infrastructure that connects blockchain applications with off-chain data providers. The company's platform addresses the API connectivity challenge by utilizing decentralized APIs, which are composed of first-party oracles. This approach allows data providers to operate as their own blockchain oracles, eliminating the need for third-party intermediaries. By aggregating data from reputable API providers through its innovative dAPI framework, API3 enables the creation of decentralized applications that utilize secure, quantifiable data feeds. This infrastructure empowers developers to effectively integrate real-world data into blockchain solutions, enhancing the functionality and reliability of decentralized applications.
Puffverse
Seed Round in 2024
Puffverse is a web2 and web3 gaming universe featuring diverse, whimsical NFT characters like Patty the Dinosaur and Claude the Cloud. Players can collect characters with unique costumes, skills, and bonuses for gameplay, earning, or life simulation.
Uncharted
Seed Round in 2024
Uncharted is a cryptocurrency-based gaming platform helps game developers and companies.
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.
Splitting Me
Seed Round in 2024
Splitting Me uses NFTs to unlock the benefits of real estate investments with just one cent.
peaq
Series A in 2024
peaq is a blockchain platform that aims to provide transaction infrastructure for a hyperconnected and decentralized world. It focuses on empowering individuals to own and earn from sectors such as mobility, energy, connectivity, and agriculture. The platform serves as a layer-1 blockchain, functioning as a foundational backbone for decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs) and hosts over 25 applications across 11 industries. With more than 500,000 devices, vehicles, machines, and robots operating on its network, peaq facilitates a permissionless and borderless digital environment. By leveraging its hybrid blockchain technology, peaq enables clients to streamline operations, reduce costs, and explore new revenue opportunities while automating their processes to enhance security and efficiency.
Morph
Seed Round in 2024
Morph is a fully permissionless EVM L2 that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technology to open up new possibilities in banking, gaming, social media, and entertainment. Morph is the first Layer 2 on Ethereum to launch with a decentralized sequencer, which aligns with several important web3 concepts, including decentralization, censorship resistance, and security.
Zeus Network
Seed Round in 2024
Zeus Network is a cutting-edge and permissionless communication layer platform that connects connects Solana and Bitcoin.
Splitting Me
Seed Round in 2023
Splitting Me uses NFTs to unlock the benefits of real estate investments with just one cent.
Lolli
Series B in 2023
Lolli, Inc. is a company that specializes in a rewards platform enabling users to earn bitcoin while shopping online. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, Lolli offers a browser extension for the Chrome browser that partners with over 1,000 top brands. When users make purchases from these partner sites, Lolli receives a percentage of the sale and shares a portion of that revenue with users by sending bitcoin directly to their Lolli wallet. This platform provides an accessible way for consumers to earn cryptocurrency as an alternative form of currency for their online transactions.
Wind.App
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Wind.App provides a cross-border payments infrastructure that enables businesses to pay their employees instantly and globally. The company offers a non-custodial wallet built on the Polygon blockchain, allowing users to manage their finances effectively. This wallet supports participation in decentralized finance earning strategies, trading on decentralized exchanges, and buying and selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By facilitating the storage, sending, and receiving of stablecoins, Wind.App enhances security and accessibility for its customers in the financial management space.
Sleek
Seed Round in 2023
Sleek is a Hong Kong-based Web3 social networking platform that revolutionizes authentic human connection in the digital age. Their mission is to power the ownership economy and bring blockchain-powered social media to the masses.
Kinto
Seed Round in 2023
Kinto is the KYC'ed Layer 2 capable of supporting both modern financial institutions and decentralized protocols.
Pendle Finance
Seed Round in 2023
Pendle Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to tokenize and sell future yields.
Brine.fi
Series A in 2023
Gasless | Instant Multi-Chain | Secure Trustless.
Omni Network
Venture Round in 2023
Omni Network is a blockchain that supports applications in functioning across all rollups. The company creates technologies that support personal freedoms and enable global collaboration.
Catalyst
Seed Round in 2023
Catalyst is an open-source liquidity protocol for modular blockchains, developed by Cata Labs. Catalyst will automatically connect each new chain to other chains of interest, such as other app environments or hubs like Ethereum and Cosmos.
GOMBLE
Seed Round in 2023
GOMBLE creates blockchain-based casual games that focus on the game's core fun rather than just playing for the money.
OP3N
Series A in 2023
Founded in 2021 as a subsidiary of EST Media Holdings, OP3N is the global Web3 superapp that serves as a one-stop-shop for all communication, connection and commerce with on-chain interactions in a simple unified interface. With a mission to create a more frictionless, decentralized and democratized creator economy on a global scale, OP3N consolidates the tools needed to mint, share and engage with digital goods and digital tokens into one vertical stack. OP3N’s leadership team leverages its cross-industry expertise from the entertainment, gaming and tech ecosystems, to lay the foundations for a new era of community-driven, inclusive entertainment while bringing everyone together on a journey into Web3. OP3N is co-led by media executive, artist, and serial entrepreneur Jaeson Ma, who has a successful track record launching companies including EST Studios, Stampede Ventures, East West Ventures, and 88rising, and who’s raised capital and advised on transactions totaling over $1 billion; and Eric Tu, an award-winning development executive who’s worked with major brands including Nike, Beats by Dre and Google, and as an Executive Producer with Bjork, Radiohead, Kendrick Lamar and more. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: https://op3n.world. OP3N’s portfolio of projects includes a partnership with Tokyo fashion label AMBUSH; an intergalactic children’s book from Grimes; a partnership with entertainment icon Simon Fuller to produce an innovative musical film with the global pop group Now United; and the “Maybe You’re the Problem” music video from the singer-songwriter Ava Max, directed by the celebrated music video director Joseph Kahn.
Affine
Seed Round in 2023
Alpine is a Web3 protocol and dApp that helps users automate their savings and grow their crypto holdings by getting rid of high fees and complexity.
Obol Labs
Series A in 2023
Obol Labs promotes the adoption of distributed validator technology by creating the Obol Network and its ecosystem. Its research and software development team focused on proof-of-stake infrastructure for public blockchain networks.
MSafe
Seed Round in 2023
MSafe develops a multi-signature, non-custodial digital assets management solution built on Move. They focus on true decentralization, enhanced security, and full interoperability.
NF3
Seed Round in 2022
NF3 is a community focused NFT swaps and finance market.
Shardeum
Seed Round in 2022
Shardeum is a decentralized blockchain platform that focuses on enhancing transaction speed and efficiency through a technique known as sharding. By partitioning the network into multiple shards, Shardeum enables the processing, verification, and validation of transactions in parallel, which significantly increases the number of transactions per second as more nodes are added to the network. This innovative approach ensures that transaction costs remain low while maintaining a high level of security and true decentralization. Shardeum's linearly scalable architecture allows it to adapt to growing demand, making it an attractive solution for organizations that prioritize scalability, security, and decentralization in their blockchain applications.
MynaSwap
Seed Round in 2022
Myna Swap is a platform built by collectors, for collectors, that empowers goods to be traded beyond their physical form. MynaSwap allows users to trade in real-time with other collectors around the globe without the hassle of managing the logistics of physical assets. Myna's Avalanche-native platform allows you to trade collectibles in real-time with both digital and fiat currencies, low latency, and industry-low fees. Support for other chains such as Ethereum, Polygon and more coming soon.
Omni
Series A in 2022
Launched in 2021, Omni is a comprehensive Web3 wallet supporting assets across 25+ blockchain networks, enabling seamless token management, DeFi activity, NFTs, and multi-chain staking with a single mnemonic. It aggregates bridging and DEX services for efficient swaps, abstracts staking complexity, integrates Ledger for security, and offers WalletConnect, fiat on-ramp, and broad NFT support. For more information, visit www.omni.app.
Unlockd
Seed Round in 2022
Unlockd is a decentralized financial platform that aims to enhance the financial potential of digital assets, particularly non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By implementing a pooled liquidity model, the platform enables NFT holders to secure instant loans against their assets while retaining the ability to use them. This approach allows users to maximize the return on their NFTs, facilitating wealth accumulation in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Unlockd's innovative services support individuals in achieving greater financial freedom by leveraging the full value of their digital assets without sacrificing their utility.
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.
Unstoppable Domains
Series A in 2022
Unstoppable Domains Inc. specializes in providing blockchain-based domain names and services that enhance digital identity and online presence. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, the company offers NFT domains that enable users to establish uncensorable websites and control their digital identities. By allowing individuals to replace complex cryptocurrency addresses with easily readable names, Unstoppable Domains facilitates seamless interactions across more than 150 Web3 applications. Its decentralized domain registry ensures that websites and digital assets remain secure and resistant to censorship by authorities or traditional domain providers, empowering users to send and receive payments without the risk of takedown.
Pine Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
Pine Protocol is a decentralized platform that enables NFT-backed borrowing and lending. It allows users to use their NFTs as collateral to borrow cryptocurrencies, facilitating asset-backed financing. Users can lend or borrow amounts in various currencies or blockchains, providing flexibility in transactions. This innovative approach helps NFT owners access liquidity without needing to sell their tokens, thus enhancing the utility of their digital assets in the financial ecosystem.
Coinshift
Series A in 2022
Coinshift offers a treasury management platform tailored for businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations to efficiently manage their cryptocurrency assets. The platform facilitates collaboration among users, enabling them to approve transactions and execute mass payouts seamlessly. Coinshift's comprehensive solution encompasses cash management, asset management, risk management, and reporting, ensuring users have a secure and transparent way to oversee their digital assets. Additionally, the platform supports data encryption and provides tools for diversification and allocation of idle treasury funds across various decentralized financial protocols, enhancing the overall management and security of cryptocurrency holdings.
CyberConnect
Series A in 2022
CyberConnect is a decentralized social graph protocol with identity sovereignty for mass adoption and network effects.
Bastion
Series A in 2022
Bastion is a lending and exchange protocol built on Aurora, the Ethereum-compatible layer of the Near blockchain. Bastion builds an autonomous interest-rate engine with high-quality capital efficiency, quick transactions, low transaction fees, accurate liquidations, and leverages NEAR's underlying UX benefits. Users can deposit assets into the Bastion liquidity pool, and the protocol will generate collateral tokens. These cTokens earn interest based on the underlying asset value and can be used as loan collateral in the future.
Elumia
Seed Round in 2022
Elumia is a game development company focused on creating a play-to-earn multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that leverages blockchain technology to grant players full ownership of in-game assets. Players can immerse themselves in diverse world zones, engaging in adventures, quests, and intense battles against both in-game enemies and real-time opponents. By fostering a dynamic economy, Elumia empowers players to build communities and influence the game's future, enhancing the overall gaming experience. The company's flagship game, Legends of Elumia, exemplifies these innovative mechanics, allowing players to participate actively in the game's ecosystem.
TiTi Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
TiTi Protocol operates a decentralized stablecoin platform designed to offer diverse financial services. Its primary focus is on creating a multi-asset reserve-backed system that utilizes an algorithmic monetary policy. This policy is powered by a mechanism known as ReOrders, which continuously monitors the total value of reserves to establish the average price of its stablecoin, TiUSD, in circulation. By adjusting the market-making peg price of TiUSD in the primary market, TiTi Protocol aims to enhance liquidity and profitability for users, thereby facilitating a stable decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web3 environment.
Composable Finance
Series A in 2022
Composable Finance is focused on developing a blockchain protocol that facilitates cross-layer and cross-chain interoperability. By bridging various Ethereum layer two implementations, the protocol enhances connectivity among different blockchain networks. This infrastructure enables smart contracts from diverse layer one blockchains to operate simultaneously on a single parachain. As a result, users can experience improved liquidity and greater financial and creative freedom in their blockchain interactions. Composable Finance aims to unlock the potential of a multi-layer and multi-chain future, providing essential tools for seamless integration and collaboration across the blockchain ecosystem.
Zecrey
Angel Round in 2022
Zecrey is a Singapore-based company founded in January 2021 that focuses on enhancing blockchain accessibility for businesses and consumers while prioritizing privacy and security. The company has developed a layer 2 cross-chain protocol utilizing zkRollup technology, which enables secure management, swapping, and bridging of assets across multiple blockchain networks. By leveraging zero-knowledge proofs, Zecrey facilitates private transactions, thereby safeguarding users' ownership of their assets. The protocol aims to lower the barriers to entry in the blockchain space, making it easier for a wider audience to engage with decentralized technologies.
Nifty League
Seed Round in 2022
Nifty League is a web-focused game studio that decentralizes game development. It intends to build a studio for production and player engagement in order to encourage other independent developers to collaborate with them to create a decentralized future.
Summoners Arena
Venture Round in 2022
Summoners Arena is a developer of an idle-RPG blockchain-based gaming platform that combines traditional and blockchain gaming elements. The platform offers players immersive gameplay experiences while allowing them to achieve true ownership of gaming assets. By integrating a play-own-earn model, Summoners Arena provides numerous opportunities for players to not only engage in the game but also earn cryptocurrency assets, enhancing the overall value and enjoyment of their gaming experience.
WingRiders
Seed Round in 2022
WingRiders is a British Virgin Islands-based exchange platform that leverages the benefits of Cardano to correct the issues plaguing DEXs on Ethereum.
Rift Finance
Venture Round in 2022
Rift Finance is a decentralized protocol that supercharges DAO growth through restructured incentive frameworks. Rift allows DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries to deepen token liquidity without having to give up ownership.
Solana
Seed Round in 2022
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.
Spin
Seed Round in 2022
Spin, founded in June 2021, is a developer of a multichain decentralized exchange (DEX) platform focused on derivatives trading, specifically futures and options. Operating on the NEAR Protocol and Solana blockchains, Spin aims to deliver a user experience comparable to centralized exchanges by utilizing a central limit order book execution model combined with a liquidity pool. The platform offers traders advanced risk management and strategy-building tools, enhancing the efficiency and accessibility of trading for a wide range of users.
Galaxy Fight Club
Seed Round in 2022
Galaxy Fight Club is a cross-IP, cross-platform PvP fighting game for different NFT collectors to battle with each other to earn rewards.
Galxe
Series A in 2022
Galxe is a prominent Web3 credential data network that provides a collaborative infrastructure for brands and developers to engage communities and create innovative products in the decentralized web. The company offers a modular platform that facilitates the creation, distribution, and gamification of non-fungible tokens, utilizing customized on-chain data. By rewarding curators for the use of credentials within its infrastructure and credential oracle engine, Galxe fosters a participatory environment where developers and community members can construct engaging experiences. Its platform allows for the development of tailored campaigns through plug-and-play modules, enhancing the capability of users to interact with decentralized credential data networks effectively.
MyCointainer
Seed Round in 2022
We are a team of technologists, creatives & entrepreneurs with a very strong background in new, emerging cryptoeconomy. We also worked with international clients in the past. As the technology changes rapidly and grows in an exponential rate we believe there’s a tremendous opportunity to create products that fulfill a goal of connecting the communities globally. Both financial licences were obtained by MyCointainer to solidify a commitment to creating an easy, safe and transparent environment for both users and entities.
Airwaive
Seed Round in 2022
Airwaive is a company that facilitates connections between wireless service providers and property owners, including both residential and commercial spaces. By leveraging blockchain technology, Airwaive aims to decentralize wireless broadband networks, enhancing affordability and accessibility for users. The company assists in the establishment of access points for wireless networks, which supports the development of small cell networks. This approach allows property owners to monetize their land and services by hosting wireless hotspots, thereby generating additional revenue while contributing to improved wireless connectivity in their areas.
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.
Perion
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Perion seeks to unlock the nascent potential of the gaming community by playing to win across the Metaverse Our vision is to create a decentralised organisation founded, championed and owned by gamers, building the heroes of tomorrow and uplifting communities in ways once thought unimaginable How we make it happen. Perion connects the best gamers in the field with a rapid turnover tech pipeline and training programs that continue to foster the highest achieving player-base in the play-to-earn ecosystem In leveraging its collective strengths in metagame analysis and resource allocation, Perion will seek out supernormal returns and create ideal scenarios for our vast network of dedicated members to participate in the play-to-earn ecosystem In championing our players we drive brand recognition, creating a network effect that positions Perion as the foremost representative of the competitive play-to-earn gaming community So what exactly is Perion? Perion is a decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) that purchases, leases and manages NFT assets, for use in play-to-earn economies. We engage gamers as independent contractors, allowing them to leverage their skillsets to earn exceptional remuneration. We are built upon a community of globally ranked gamers, skilled developers and finance professionals
Wilder World
Venture Round in 2022
Wilder World is a decentralized marketplace that focuses on the sale and promotion of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital artists. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the platform operates without artist fees, allowing creators to monetize their work more effectively. Wilder World's unique structure includes a dynamic token system that rewards participants while utilizing blockchain technology to ensure the authenticity and uniqueness of digital collectibles. The company also features an immersive 3D metaverse, enhancing the experience of buying and selling digital art in a community-driven environment.
Bribe
Seed Round in 2022
Bribe is an Incentivized DeFi Governance marketplace platform. Bribe Protocol revolutionizes decentralized governance (dGov) by coordinating those voters into powerful coalitions up for auction so that anyone can benefit from governance marketplaces, not just whales.
CharmVerse
Funding Round in 2021
CharmVerse is a blockchain-based platform designed to facilitate coordination among contributors in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It offers an all-in-one workspace that integrates various functions, including task management, document organization, and bounty tracking. By connecting contributors, projects, and documentation, CharmVerse enables users to efficiently manage daily operations and enhance collaboration. The platform streamlines processes, allowing developers to focus on their work while also providing opportunities to earn NFTs as part of their engagement.
B.Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
B.Protocol is a developer of a decentralized backstop liquidity protocol aimed at enhancing the security of lending platforms. Its blockchain-based platform integrates seamlessly with existing lending services, allowing users to engage through a dedicated smart contract interface. This innovative approach offers priority in the liquidation process by providing a cushion for user accounts approaching liquidation prices. As a result, both lenders and borrowers can reduce their reliance on traditional financing methods and improve effective interest rates, thereby unlocking greater capital efficiency in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space.
starly
Series A in 2021
Starly is a platform designed as a launchpad and marketplace for gamified non-fungible token (NFT) collections. Its primary goal is to simplify the processes of creating, selling, and collecting NFTs, thereby enhancing the experience for both creators and their fans. The platform is developed by a team with a strong background in social networking, having previously founded successful platforms with millions of users. Starly employs innovative techniques aimed at fostering virality, contributing to the development of economies centered around gamified NFT collectible cards.
Solv Protocol
Series A in 2021
Solv Protocol is a decentralized platform focused on the creation, management, and trading of Financial NFTs, which represent fractionalized ownership of various financial assets. Its primary product, Vesting Vouchers, allows users to unlock liquidity from lock-up vesting tokens, facilitating fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for cryptocurrency projects. The platform serves as an on-chain marketplace for a new category of crypto assets, enabling the establishment and transaction of investment allocations, including investment funds and debt and equity instruments. By issuing semi-fungible tokens, Solv Protocol provides blockchain institutions with essential access to liquidity, enhancing the efficiency and functionality of financial transactions in the digital asset space.
PStake
Seed Round in 2021
Pstake is a platform that stakes your assets safely to receive staking rewards and pegged staked representative tokens that can be utilized in DeFi.
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.
Concept Art House
Series A in 2021
Concept Art House powers Web3 projects for the biggest brands and IP in the World.
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.
OP Games
Seed Round in 2021
OP Games provides tools that empower game developers to create games with integrated crypto rewards. The company focuses on enabling developers and the gaming community to collectively own, manage, and monetize gaming experiences. Its offerings include mini esports experiences, such as tournaments, duels, and arcades, where players can use cryptocurrencies for buy-ins and payouts. This approach not only enhances gameplay but also transforms games into competitive multiplayer environments, allowing developers to leverage new monetization strategies.
Taker Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The protocol optimizes the liquidation of NFT assets through a quote-by-lock-in pricing mechanism. This approach enables asset holders to borrow stablecoins while facilitating cross-chain bridges that connect different public blockchain networks. By enhancing the efficiency of asset transfers, Taker Protocol aims to broaden application scenarios for its clients, thereby improving the overall liquidity and usability of NFT assets in the market.
Visor Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Visor Finance operates a decentralized platform that focuses on active liquidity management within the decentralized finance sector. Its platform enables users to leverage smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges. By facilitating the implementation of strategies for reinvesting fees and distributing protocol revenue, Visor Finance aims to help users maximize their returns while minimizing the risks associated with impermanent loss. This innovative approach positions Visor Finance as a key player in enhancing user engagement and profitability in the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape.
Coinomo
Seed Round in 2021
Coinomo is a blockchain firm that operates an investment platform designed for seasoned cryptocurrency investors. The platform offers a range of curated investment products, including cryptocurrency pairs and various yield products, allowing users to engage with decentralized finance (DeFi) offerings more efficiently. Coinomo provides a custodial wallet that simplifies the investment process, enabling users to invest or trade with minimal manual steps. This streamlined approach allows investors to earn passive income on their crypto deposits by selecting from diverse DeFi investment plans tailored to their individual risk preferences.
Composable Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Composable Finance is focused on developing a blockchain protocol that facilitates cross-layer and cross-chain interoperability. By bridging various Ethereum layer two implementations, the protocol enhances connectivity among different blockchain networks. This infrastructure enables smart contracts from diverse layer one blockchains to operate simultaneously on a single parachain. As a result, users can experience improved liquidity and greater financial and creative freedom in their blockchain interactions. Composable Finance aims to unlock the potential of a multi-layer and multi-chain future, providing essential tools for seamless integration and collaboration across the blockchain ecosystem.
Pintu
Series A in 2021
Pintu is a cryptocurrency platform based in Jakarta, Indonesia, that facilitates the buying, selling, and investing in Bitcoin and other blockchain-based assets. Launched in 2020, Pintu offers a mobile application designed to simplify access to the cryptocurrency market, allowing users to efficiently manage their digital assets. The platform includes features typical of a crypto exchange and provides various financial services, enabling users to safely engage with cryptocurrencies and contribute to the broader adoption of a decentralized financial system.
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.
Solv Protocol
Angel Round in 2021
Solv Protocol is a decentralized platform focused on the creation, management, and trading of Financial NFTs, which represent fractionalized ownership of various financial assets. Its primary product, Vesting Vouchers, allows users to unlock liquidity from lock-up vesting tokens, facilitating fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for cryptocurrency projects. The platform serves as an on-chain marketplace for a new category of crypto assets, enabling the establishment and transaction of investment allocations, including investment funds and debt and equity instruments. By issuing semi-fungible tokens, Solv Protocol provides blockchain institutions with essential access to liquidity, enhancing the efficiency and functionality of financial transactions in the digital asset space.
Wilder World
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Wilder World is a decentralized marketplace that focuses on the sale and promotion of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for digital artists. Founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, the platform operates without artist fees, allowing creators to monetize their work more effectively. Wilder World's unique structure includes a dynamic token system that rewards participants while utilizing blockchain technology to ensure the authenticity and uniqueness of digital collectibles. The company also features an immersive 3D metaverse, enhancing the experience of buying and selling digital art in a community-driven environment.
Solv Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Solv Protocol is a decentralized platform focused on the creation, management, and trading of Financial NFTs, which represent fractionalized ownership of various financial assets. Its primary product, Vesting Vouchers, allows users to unlock liquidity from lock-up vesting tokens, facilitating fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for cryptocurrency projects. The platform serves as an on-chain marketplace for a new category of crypto assets, enabling the establishment and transaction of investment allocations, including investment funds and debt and equity instruments. By issuing semi-fungible tokens, Solv Protocol provides blockchain institutions with essential access to liquidity, enhancing the efficiency and functionality of financial transactions in the digital asset space.
Pendle Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Pendle Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that allows users to tokenize and sell future yields.
Secret Network
Venture Round in 2021
Applications built on Secret Network utilize encrypted data without exposing it to anyone, even the nodes in the network. Secret Network empowers developers to build decentralized, permissionless, privacy-preserving applications - Secret Apps. For blockchain technology to reach global adoption, users and organizations need granular control over their data. Private by default - transparent when needed - Secret Network's programmable privacy delivers this level of control, securing and scaling Web 3.0.
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.
NAOS Finance
Series A in 2021
NAOS Finance is an operator of a decentralized finance platform that aims to give a decentralized alternative to traditional finance. Its platform facilitates both Defi lenders and SME borrowers to interact in a permission-less manner on the blockchain and enables the origination and funding of loans without traditional intermediaries, enabling lenders to get stable and recurring income streams while also connecting the on-chain world with bigger off-chain opportunities.
BENQI Corpo
Funding Round in 2021
Developed by an experienced team of blockchain designers, BENQI is a protocol to unlock greater liquidity within the defi market. BENQI enables defi users to make their assets work harder to generate additional yield. Built on Avalanche’s high speed smart contract network, BENQI will evolve into a cross-chain defi hub that’s positioned at the heart of decentralized finance.
Coin98
Seed Round in 2021
Coin98 is a Crypto-focused software company.
Benqi
Private Equity Round in 2021
BENQi is built on Avalanche combining elements of defi and tradfi to create a liquidity protocol. BENQi aims to bridge Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain through Avalanche's subnets by becoming a cross-chain defi.
YellowHeart
Pre Seed Round in 2021
YellowHeart is a prominent Web3 marketplace and wallet focused on NFT ticketing, digital collectibles, and community memberships. The company has developed a blockchain-based ticketing platform designed to benefit artists, teams, and fans by leveraging distributed ledger technology. This approach aims to eliminate ticket scalping and reduce fraudulent activities in the ticketing industry, allowing artists to maintain control over the distribution and trade of their tickets. Through its innovative services, YellowHeart enhances the overall experience for both creators and attendees in the evolving landscape of ticketing and digital assets.
Delta Exchange
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Delta Exchange is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that specializes in a diverse array of trading products, including futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps, and calendar spreads. Recognized as a leading player in options trading, Delta holds a significant market share globally, particularly with USDT settled options on various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, BNB, and Matic. The platform caters to both retail and institutional traders, offering advanced features like multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders. These capabilities enable users to execute trades efficiently and capitalize on various market strategies within a trusted trading environment.
NAOS Finance
Seed Round in 2021
NAOS Finance is an operator of a decentralized finance platform that aims to give a decentralized alternative to traditional finance. Its platform facilitates both Defi lenders and SME borrowers to interact in a permission-less manner on the blockchain and enables the origination and funding of loans without traditional intermediaries, enabling lenders to get stable and recurring income streams while also connecting the on-chain world with bigger off-chain opportunities.
Apwine
Seed Round in 2021
Apwine is a decentralized finance protocol that focuses on tokenizing and trading future yield generated by various DeFi protocols. By enabling the speculation and hedging of passive revenue, Apwine allows liquidity providers to implement innovative strategies while offering traders tools to capitalize on market volatility. Through its platform, users can convert their yield into futures, facilitating new opportunities for borrowing and leveraging assets. This approach not only enhances the ability to manage risk but also fosters a dynamic environment for trading within the DeFi space.
SIREN
Seed Round in 2021
SIREN is a distributed protocol creating a decentralized blockchain exchange for options trading on Ethereum. The company is focused on creating a high-quality, seamless experience for sophisticated users and requires no third-party settling mechanism or order matching to complete option settlement on-chain. It allows for both buyers and sellers to mint, buy, and trade in and out of options positions at any time. SIREN was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, CA.
dYdX
Series B in 2021
dYdX is a decentralized exchange that provides traders with a secure and efficient platform for various financial activities. Established in 2017 by Antonio Juliano, a former engineer at Coinbase and Uber, dYdX operates on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, ensuring transparency and security without relying on a central authority. The platform offers a range of trading options, including perpetual, margin, and spot trading, along with borrowing and lending pools. Users can earn interest on deposits or take loans at nominal fees, enabling them to trade on margin with customized leverage. dYdX aims to create an open financial system, granting users access to vital financial tools while facilitating fully collateralized loans for short-selling.
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.
Horizon Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Horizon Finance is a platform focused on decentralized interest rate markets and protocol cash flow markets. It allows users to deposit their funds and compete for preferential payment by capping their yield, thereby outperforming or underperforming the benchmark interest rate.
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.
Ampleforth
Venture Round in 2018
Ampleforth Limited is a non-profit charitable organization based in San Francisco, California, that operates on an Ethereum-based digital asset protocol. The organization aims to provide a bitcoin token designed to maintain stable purchasing power by adjusting its supply daily in response to market conditions and demand. This unique approach targets the CPI-adjusted purchasing power of the US dollar, ensuring that the number of tokens held in each user's wallet is proportionally increased or decreased according to fluctuations in the market. By doing so, Ampleforth seeks to offer a solution for crypto investors and customers dealing with the volatility of cryptocurrencies.
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.
Agoric
Agoric is a developer of a framework designed to enhance the programming of smart contracts for the blockchain ecosystem. The platform facilitates the creation and deployment of smart contracts using JavaScript, making it accessible to millions of programmers. By emphasizing composability, Agoric enables rapid development and offers a competitive advantage in creating decentralized applications. Its framework allows for secure execution of transactions, the establishment of new markets, and the creation of innovative exchange patterns without centralized control. The Agoric team comprises experienced technologists, economists, and business leaders who have collaborated on smart contracts technology for over three decades. They aim to revolutionize how smart contracts are developed and utilized, fostering unprecedented global cooperation and enabling entrepreneurs to explore new business opportunities with digital assets. Agoric has partnered with notable projects within the blockchain space and received support from various investors, further solidifying its mission to advance smart contract technology.
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