Symbiotic
Series A in 2025
Symbiotic develops a shared security protocol for decentralized networks. Its software facilitates secure, decentralized token trading via smart contracts, utilizing available staked liquidity.
Gevulot
Seed Round in 2024
Gevulot specializes in blockchain technology solutions, focusing on zero-knowledge proofs. It enables developers to integrate ZK proofs into their applications and offload heavy computations to a network of advanced hardware operators.
Cartridge
Series A in 2024
Cartridge is a developer of a decentralized gaming platform that focuses on verifiable on-chain games and autonomous worlds, positioning itself at the intersection of blockchain technology and gaming. The company aims to empower web gaming communities by providing a range of game development services that enable both gamers and developers to engage effectively. Cartridge facilitates the development, testing, and scaling of various games, enhancing the overall gaming experience for users while supporting developers in creating innovative gaming solutions.
ZKX is a pioneering company developing decentralized financial solutions. Founded in 2021, it specializes in creating complex financial instruments as swaps on StarkNet-based perpetual futures exchanges. ZKX also offers modular DAO software and developer tools built on zero-knowledge technology.
Switchboard
Series A in 2024
Switchboard operates a multichain oracle network that facilitates the integration of various data types onto the Solana blockchain. Its platform enables developers to create high-performance data feeds from any API, streamlining the process of publishing data on-chain. Key features include the ability to locate data sources, define feeds, and connect these feeds to projects, allowing developers to build data feeds and request randomness quickly and efficiently. By simplifying the process of bringing data onto the blockchain, Switchboard aims to empower the Solana community and enhance the development of decentralized applications.
Focus Tree
Seed Round in 2024
Focus Tree develops a web-based productivity application that helps users manage distractions and improve focus. It offers features such as focus timers, website and app blocking, and session history tracking.
Hylé
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.
Arbelos Markets
Seed Round in 2024
Arbelos Markets develops a crypto trading platform offering liquidity on various derivatives markets via programmatic formats and decentralized finance venues. Its platform enhances transparency and trust in bilateral over-the-counter derivatives through advanced technology.
Chakra develops a modular settlement network designed to address liquidity fragmentation in blockchain ecosystems. Its platform employs a shared settlement layer with cross-chain proof-of-stake architecture, facilitating efficient transaction processing and enhancing Bitcoin liquidity and interoperability across various chains and applications.
X10 operates as a hybrid crypto exchange provider.
Usual
Venture Round in 2024
The new playbook for financial freedom.
Aligned Layer
Seed Round in 2024
Universal Verification Layer for Ethereum using Eigenlayer
Bitlayer
Seed Round in 2024
Bitlayer is a pioneering developer of a second-layer network for Bitcoin, built on BitVM technology. It focuses on delivering ultra-scalability while maintaining the security equivalent to the Bitcoin mainnet (L1). The company aims to serve as Bitcoin's computing layer.
Espresso Systems
Series B in 2024
Espresso Systems specializes in providing scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications, focusing on the innovative area of shared sequencing within blockchain technology. This involves the use of sequencers that verify and batch transactions on layer-2 blockchains before sending them to a layer-1 chain, such as Ethereum, for settlement. Additionally, Espresso Systems develops online transaction technology aimed at enhancing the online payment industry, offering infrastructure that facilitates secure and efficient online interactions. Their solutions cater to the needs of clients in the online transaction sector, contributing to the advancement of the third generation of the World Wide Web.
Utila is an institutional digital asset operations platform that enables organizations to securely manage and transact across digital assets. It is chain-agnostic and non-custodial, providing an enterprise-grade wallet powered by multiparty computation key management and a granular policy engine. The platform supports asset management across multiple blockchains, wallets, and teams from a single interface, with robust APIs and integrations for developers to build customized offerings on top of the multi-chain wallet infrastructure. Utila aims to simplify institutional crypto operations while prioritizing security and usability.
QED Protocol
Seed Round in 2024
QED Protocol is a pioneering company specializing in blockchain technology. It operates the world's first zk-Native blockchain, designed to enhance trustless computation and privacy, aiming to drive the next generation of the internet, often referred to as Web3. The company's primary focus is on research and development, creating innovative solutions to address the unique challenges of Web3 development. QED Protocol offers industry-leading products and services, catering primarily to the crypto industry.
Taproot Wizards
Seed Round in 2023
Taproot Wizards is a company focused on harnessing the capabilities of Bitcoin through its innovative Ordinals project. It specializes in creating a unique collection of artistic images featuring wizards, which allows users to inscribe data onto satoshis, the smallest units of Bitcoin. This process effectively generates Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) within the Bitcoin network, expanding the creative possibilities on the platform. By combining art and blockchain technology, Taproot Wizards aims to enhance the use cases of Bitcoin beyond traditional transactions.
Ingonyama
Seed Round in 2023
Ingonyama specializes in developing high-performance zero-knowledge-proof hardware accelerators. Their innovative chip design, coupled with advanced algorithms and mathematical expertise, enables developers to build cryptographic applications more efficiently.
tanX.fi is a digital trading platform that provides access to trade multiple assets across multiple networks chains with optimum price.
Gasless | Instant Multi-Chain | Secure Trustless.
Giza
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
Carbonable
Seed Round in 2023
Carbonable operates a digital platform facilitating investments in nature-based carbon credit projects. It issues non-fungible tokens (NFTs) backed by these projects, allowing investors to earn daily financial rewards while supporting decarbonization efforts. The company's platform enables businesses to offset their emissions transparently using blockchain technology and real-time impact reports.
Nil Foundation
Venture Round in 2023
Nil Foundation facilitates and supports research in database management systems and applied cryptography.
Layerswap Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Layerswap Labs is developer of permissionless and trustless bridging protocol. This protocol handles millions of dollars in transactions every day across multiple networks. We ensure quick, reliable, and affordable crypto transfers, giving the freedom to move crypto anywhere.
Fordefi
Seed Round in 2022
Develper of a multi-party computation wallet platform designed to seamlessly connect to d-apps across a wide range of chains while keeping digital assets secure. The company's platform offers a web-three gateway that is built for decentralized finance, offering multi-party computation key management, self-serve defi policy controls, time-of-transaction smart contract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts, enabling market participants to easily and securely connect to decentralized applications.
MatchboxDAO
Seed Round in 2022
MatchboxDAO operates a gaming platform focused on developing the infrastructure for on-chain games. The company provides essential developer tools, infrastructure, and open-source primitives that facilitate the creation and deployment of fully on-chain games. By offering these resources, MatchboxDAO aims to simplify the process for developers, allowing them to easily access and utilize the necessary components to build innovative gaming experiences. Additionally, the organization is actively engaged in fostering a collaborative environment, as evidenced by its initiative to host a virtual hackathon aimed at encouraging the development of tools on the Starknet network.
ZKX is a pioneering company developing decentralized financial solutions. Founded in 2021, it specializes in creating complex financial instruments as swaps on StarkNet-based perpetual futures exchanges. ZKX also offers modular DAO software and developer tools built on zero-knowledge technology.
Nirvana
Venture Round in 2022
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi.
- Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency
- AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies
zkLend is a Layer 2 money-market protocol developed on StarkNet that leverages zk-rollup technology to enhance transaction speed and reduce costs while maintaining the security of the Ethereum network. The platform is designed to facilitate decentralized financial transactions, allowing users to engage in money-market activities without compromising their privacy. By combining the scalability advantages of zk-rollups with Ethereum's robust security features, zkLend aims to provide an efficient and secure environment for users in the decentralized finance space.
Efficient Frontier
Debt Financing in 2022
Founded on extensive high-frequency trading experience, Efficient Frontier is a leading algorithmic trading firm specializing in cryptocurrency markets. With over $1 billion traded weekly, they provide liquidity provision services to major exchanges and digital asset issuers. Their advanced trading infrastructure supports both spot and derivatives markets.
Figment Networks
Series C in 2021
Figment Networks develops open-source tools for crypto network health monitoring, enabling informed staking decisions. It focuses on networks like Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. Based in Toronto, Canada, the company was founded in 2018.
Snapshot Labs
Seed Round in 2021
Snapshot Labs operates a voting platform designed to facilitate governance for cryptocurrency projects. It offers an off-chain, gasless multi-governance tool that enables users to conduct polls and surveys within decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The platform is particularly noted for providing results that are easy to verify and difficult to contest, making it a reliable resource for clients in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. By streamlining governance operations, Snapshot Labs supports organizations in engaging their user bases effectively.
XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users.
It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Founded in 2017 by an ex-Coinbase engineer, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, and Spot trading on Ethereum. It combines the security of a decentralized exchange with the speed and usability of a centralized one.
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.