Blockchain Capital

Gnosis provides a decentralized platform for prediction markets. Gnosis is built on Ethereum, a next-generation blockchain protocol enabling advanced smart contracts. Ethereum is censorship resistant, globally available, and provides transparent guarantees about future operations of the platform. With Ethereum, they can eliminate middlemen and counterparty risk. They believe in a redistributed future. Gnosis builds new market mechanisms to make this future possible. Through blockchain-based, decentralized platforms, they enable the redistribution of resources—from assets to incentives, and information to ideas. Their prediction market platforms allow anyone to utilize customized forecasting applications. These applications produce an entirely new asset class: conditional tokens, which make event outcomes tradeable and are also a powerful tool for information discovery.

Chainflip is a decentralized, trustless protocol that enables cross-chain swaps between different blockchains.

Teller Finance is a blockchain project for decentralized lending. Teller connects to your bank account to offer risk-assessed loans, without the need for collateral.

Forta is a neat project that comes at an interesting point for the larger blockchain community. When bitcoin came to market, it attracted interest as a potential medium of exchange, or perhaps a store of value. The latter use case wound up being the key bitcoin value offering. But while bitcoin was maturing, other blockchains were built that featured more native programmability, allowing developers around the world to leverage smart (self-executing) contracts for a host of use cases.

Abra is the world’s first digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin. Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serial entrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money.

Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

Bitwave provides a full back-office software solution for businesses using crypto. We directly integrate from the blockchain right into your accounting system (Xero, Quickbooks, Sage, and Netsuite), plus we have powerful tax tracking capabilities with support for FIFO, LIFO, and more advanced tax treatments. Bitwave even goes a step further with easy mark to market capabilities, crypto invoicing, and bill pay. Plus, a unique part of our solution is our multi-user, multi-sig wallet for compliance and governance enabled holding of digital assets at your company. Bitwave is passionate about the potential for crypto to change the world and we're on a mission to help drive that change by providing enterprises a complete drop in solution for handling digital assets.

TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

Snickerdoodle is using blockchain technology to build a data economy that protects user privacy and distributes value to all stakeholders, including the data owners. We are building the infrastructure to allow people to own their data and monetize it in a secure way.

Balancer Labs, Inc operates an exchange for decentralized finance. The company offers a platform for programmable liquidity. It offers exchange tokens without deposits, bids/asks, and order management. Balancer Labs, Inc was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.

Badger is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) building products and infrastructure to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains. It’s meant to be an ecosystem DAO where projects and people from across DeFi can come together to collaborate and build the products our space needs. Shared ownership in the DAO will allow builders to have aligned incentives while decentralized governance can ensure those incentives remain fair to all parties. The idea is less competing and more collaborating.

Anchorage is the first crypto-native Qualified Custodian for institutional investors, offering a comprehensive platform complete with trading, staking, and governance. Co-founded by security engineers from Square and Docker, Anchorage has raised $57 million in funding from such leading investors as Visa and Andreessen Horowitz, and counts as clients many of crypto’s largest and best-known funds, including Blockchain Capital, BlockTower, Polychain, and Paradigm. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

* We are the leading experts in in-flight transactions – everything that happens before a transaction gets confirmed and goes on-chain. This data is both technically challenging and operationally expensive to capture and normalize, enabling us to assemble unique data assets while also creating material barriers to entry. * As a result, we have first revenue and a growing roster of customers and partners including Dapps, wallets, exchanges, marketplaces, protocols, and service providers. We have an informed POV on the current state of the market and insight into how and why it will be rapidly evolving over the course of 2020. * We are assembling a focused, experienced team with a track record of building high-scale software infrastructure and driving successful startup outcomes – including a positive exit to Cisco (which generated >40% IRR for the institutional investors) in my most recent at bat.

ParaSwap aims to solve the liquidity problem in crypto markets by bringing every exchange protocol into one plateforme. Our goal is empower our users with the most competitive market prices and the highest liquidity. We actually handle Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, but our goal is to handle most major blockchains.

The Stardust Platform is a Blockchain SaaS that enables game publishers to easily create and implement blockchain assets into their games without having to worry about scalable blockchain infrastructure or writing code

Bison Trails allows the user to run secure infrastructure on multiple blockchains. The company's technology platform provides enterprise-grade security, multi-cloud and multi-region distribution, and a 99.99% uptime guarantee for node operators. Its aim is to strengthen the entire blockchain ecosystem, by providing a robust and secure infrastructure for the blockchain pioneers of tomorrow.

TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency. It creates a financial system for the internet that empowers anyone in the world to control their money. Over 50+ million customers have signed up to use the Blockchain.com platform. It's a fast and easy way to buy bitcoin, trade crypto, send, receive, secure, and borrow digital currencies. The Blockchain.com explorer is one of the most trafficked websites in the world to find out what's happening in the crypto markets and the Blockchain.com exchange supports a fast trading experience.

Anchorage is the first crypto-native Qualified Custodian for institutional investors, offering a comprehensive platform complete with trading, staking, and governance. Co-founded by security engineers from Square and Docker, Anchorage has raised $57 million in funding from such leading investors as Visa and Andreessen Horowitz, and counts as clients many of crypto’s largest and best-known funds, including Blockchain Capital, BlockTower, Polychain, and Paradigm. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

TRM Labs is a regulatory technology startup that aims to streamline compliance in the crypto industry.They believe that blockchain can enable a world where value flows freely by democratizing the creation of property rights, reducing transaction, bargaining, and coordination costs, and enabling new ways to organize human behavior.

Circle provides an online platform that enables users to send money quickly and easily. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money. Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins and offer OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume. Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

CoinList provides a platform for digital asset companies to run their token sales. Its customers are at the center of the digital asset and blockchain ecosystem including Protocol Lab and Blockstack. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Templum operates at the intersection of blockchain and digital assets in a manner that facilitates transparent access to capital with a focus on investor protection. The principals have extensive experience in the blockchain space helping shape the innovative technology into a viable, scalable industry. By leveraging this expertise, Templum intends to bring new technological advances to the capital markets, specifically through ICOs, with the aim to open new sources of capital for innovative, growth companies and provide those capital sources with enhanced investor protections and secondary liquidity opportunities in a fully regulated environment. Templum was founded on 2017 and is based in New York.

Civic's blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities. They believe identity should be convenient, safe and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Having conducted a successful token sale in June 2017, they set their sights on building identity.com, an open source, first-of-its-kind marketplace for identity verification services built on blockchain. They are a team spanning five countries with one common goal: to revolutionize identity.

Bancor Protocol™ is a standard for the creation of Smart Tokens™, cryptocurrencies with built-in convertibility directly through their smart contracts. Bancor utilizes an innovative token “Connector” method to enable formulaic price calculation and continuous liquidity for all compliant tokens, without needing to match two parties in an exchange. Smart Tokens™ interconnect to form token liquidity networks, allowing user-generated cryptocurrencies to thrive. For more information, please visit the website and read the Bancor Protocol™ Whitepaper.

BTCC is a computer and technology company that enables bitcoin exchanges worldwide. It offers a variety of services, including digital currency exchange, a mining pool, payment processing, consumer wallets, and blockchain engraving, via a single integrated platform. BTCC serves security, risk mitigation, credibility, and technological innovation to its global customer base. Its product line includes Bitcoin Pro Exchange, Bitcoin Exchange, Bitcoin Mining Pool, Bitcoin Wallet, Blockchain Engraving, Mint Physical Bitcoins, and Developer Platform. Headquartered in Shanghai, BTCC was originally founded as BTCChina in 2011.

A pioneer in distributed ledger innovation, Block.one develops the EOSIO open-source software, which is widely regarded as the market leader for blockchain flexibility and scalability. Developers, entrepreneurs and companies around the world use EOSIO to create secure, transparent, and deterministic digital infrastructures. Block.one has established locations in the United States and Asia Pacific, with more than 300 highly specialized engineers and other talented full-time employees from diverse disciplines. Block.one is committed to empowering society through tools and systems built on the fundamental philosophy of externally verifiable data integrity.

ShapeShift is a web and API platform formed in July of 2014 to provide instant Bitcoin and altcoin conversion with the maximum level of consumer protection and efficiency. In summer of 2019, the new ShapeShift platform launched to enable B2C users to self-custody their crypto assets, and buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive all without trusting a 3rd party. ShapeShift also built and operates the real-time crypto market data service CoinCap.io, and acquired hardware wallet company KeepKey in mid-2017. The company is run by industry veteran Erik Voorhees.

BitPesa Ltd. is a digital currency exchange that accepts Bitcoin and exchanges it to Kenyan Shillings. The company operates an online platform that leverages blockchain settlement and opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Karen, Kenya.

OGYDocs develops Wave, decentralized solution that connects members of the supply chain to a decentralized network and allows them a direct exchange of documents. It manages ownership of documents on the blockchain eliminating disputes, forgeries, and unnecessary risks. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Civic's blockchain based ecosystem gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities. They believe identity should be convenient, safe and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Having conducted a successful token sale in June 2017, they set their sights on building identity.com, an open source, first-of-its-kind marketplace for identity verification services built on blockchain. They are a team spanning five countries with one common goal: to revolutionize identity.

Tierion, Inc. turns the blockchain into a global platform for verifying data, le, or business process. It provides an API and tools to collect data and anchor it in the blockchain; and SmartNet, a marketing automation platform with real-time analytics, email marketing, and lead capture. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Hartford, Connecticut.

Parity Technologies Limited operates as a blockchain infrastructure company. The company offers open source software development for enterprises using blockchain technology. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Gem empowers individuals to take full control of their wealth, to benefit from the value of their own data, and to experience the collective power of the decentralization movement spreading globally today. Gem has been powering this movement through its cryptocurrency wallets and blockchain platform since 2013. Our seasoned team of cryptocurrency software architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering easier and more secure ways to participate in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace. Join the movement today at https://gem.co.

Stampery is a verification and certification platform that generates legal proofs for all its customers sensitive documents using bitcoin’s blockchain. Its service can be used to attest the integrity, existence, ownership, and receipt of any file or communication as well as to certify digital transactions to generate audit trails, protect its customer’s intellectual properties, and to prove proprietorship of digital assets. Stampery charges a service fee from its clients depending on the number of file transactions and utilization of storage space on a monthly basis.

Paxos is re-building the infrastructure of finance. Its mission is to move any assets anywhere, instantly – and therefore democratize access to a new, global, frictionless economy. The Company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Today, as the first regulated Trust company with blockchain expertise, Paxos is uniquely positioned to mobilize and custody assets digitally.

BitPesa Ltd. is a digital currency exchange that accepts Bitcoin and exchanges it to Kenyan Shillings. The company operates an online platform that leverages blockchain settlement and opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Karen, Kenya.

Bonafide builds trust by allowing users to promote their community reputation or even identity. While Bitcoin transactions are anonymous there are many cases where identity is known. An example would be a retail location that accepts Bitcoins. A customer could be presented with a bill for meal with a QRC to make a payment. Without Bonafide there is no way for the customer to confirm that the address ties to the restaurant.

Blade Data Limited operates a platform-as-a-service based payments platform that offers digital currency spending via debit cards on existing global payment networks. Its platform provides digital currency companies with a solution to enable cross-currency payments online and offline; enables wallet and exchange customers to spend crypto-currencies; and handles on-boarding, collateralization, risk management, authorization, settlement, and exception processing. Blade Data Limited was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

ChangeCoin is a micropayment infrastructure for the Internet that specializes in the fields of micropayments, bitcoin, social commerce, digital currencies, and payments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2 billion in 2010.

String Labs is a crypto venture studio, incubator and investor, headquartered in Palo Alto. It serves as an incubator and leading core contributor to cutting-edge blockchain protocols such as DFINITY (Ethereum-family decentralized cloud) and PHI project, among others. Its team include top cryptographers, distributed computing scientists and economists. It partners closely with leading organizations such as BCG Dvolution on enterprise blockchain projects and provides infrastructure support.

Interstellar is a technology company revolutionizing international payments to deliver faster, cheaper and more reliable global financial solutions. It creates best in class products and solutions, primarily leveraging the Stellar blockchain network. These are either created and operated directly by Interstellar, or identified as benefits to other businesses, who integrate through and leverage the Interstellar Platform to operate on Stellar. Learn more at www.interstellar.com

Xapo combines the convenience of an everyday bitcoin wallet with the security of a deep cold storage vault. They believe that bitcoin’s ultimate success will be based on trust – whether individuals trust the digital currency’s stability and whether they trust the industry’s security. That’s why they’ve assembled a team of financial services and security experts to build an entirely new bitcoin storage experience. By offering two distinct products – an easy access wallet and a locked-down vault – they’re marrying the convenience bitcoin users want for everyday needs with the security they require for confident bitcoin saving. It’s the most secure, reliable, and the most convenient.

LedgerX develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies. It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. It was formerly known as NYBX INC. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

BitGo is the world's largest processor of on-chain Bitcoin transactions, processing 15% of all global Bitcoin transactions, and $15 billion per month across all cryptocurrencies. BitGo supports over 200 coins and tokens, and has over $2 billion in assets in wallet. Our customer base includes the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries. In 2018, we introduced BitGo Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, the first qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets. In 2019, we began providing clearing and settlement. Ben Davenport, Michael Belshe, and Will O'Brien founded BitGo in 2013. It has its headquarters in Palo Alto in California.

Bitfury is the leading full service Blockchain technology company and one of the largest private infrastructure providers in the blockchain ecosystem. Bitfury develops and delivers both the software and the hardware solutions necessary for businesses, governments, organizations and individuals to securely move an asset across the blockchain.

ChangeCoin is a micropayment infrastructure for the Internet that specializes in the fields of micropayments, bitcoin, social commerce, digital currencies, and payments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Bex is a SaaS solution that allows anyone to own their own Bitcoin Exchange. They remove all the technical complexity of operating a Bitcoin Exchange and build relationships with partners around the globe who manage local banking, regulatory and marketing relationships.

LedgerX develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies. It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. It was formerly known as NYBX INC. It was founded in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.

Gem empowers individuals to take full control of their wealth, to benefit from the value of their own data, and to experience the collective power of the decentralization movement spreading globally today. Gem has been powering this movement through its cryptocurrency wallets and blockchain platform since 2013. Our seasoned team of cryptocurrency software architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering easier and more secure ways to participate in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace. Join the movement today at https://gem.co.

BTCC is a computer and technology company that enables bitcoin exchanges worldwide. It offers a variety of services, including digital currency exchange, a mining pool, payment processing, consumer wallets, and blockchain engraving, via a single integrated platform. BTCC serves security, risk mitigation, credibility, and technological innovation to its global customer base. Its product line includes Bitcoin Pro Exchange, Bitcoin Exchange, Bitcoin Mining Pool, Bitcoin Wallet, Blockchain Engraving, Mint Physical Bitcoins, and Developer Platform. Headquartered in Shanghai, BTCC was originally founded as BTCChina in 2011.