1kx

Founded in 2018, 1kx is a venture capital firm based in the British Virgin Islands. It specializes in supporting early-stage startups focused on web3 technologies to grow, scale their platforms, and foster community-driven networks.

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Investment Analyst

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Miden

Seed Round in 2025
Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.

Inco

Seed Round in 2025
Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting.

Tally

Series A in 2025
Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain.

Decen Space

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Decen Space makes satellite communication cheaper and easier. The platform connects satellite companies needing to send data with a worldwide community of people, institutions, and businesses who own ground station antennas. If you have the equipment, you can join the network and earn rewards for helping satellites talk to Earth. This makes space communication more accessible and creates income opportunities on the ground.

Gunzilla Games

Venture Round in 2025
An independent game developer focused on creating immersive AAA titles. Known for 'Off The Grid,' a cyberpunk battle royale game featuring highly customizable weapons and advanced 3D scanning technology, Gunzilla aims to break down technological barriers for enhanced gaming experiences.

Seismic

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

Combinder

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Combinder is a technology company that operates a community-owned platform facilitating connectivity for Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). It offers a unified API for software developers to access and manage diverse smart devices, regardless of brand or type. The platform leverages AI to incentivize users with token rewards for connecting their devices to the global virtual power grid, fostering a decentralized energy network.

Ligero

Seed Round in 2025
Founded in 2018, Ligero specializes in designing and implementing a platform for secure, decentralized collaboration both on and off blockchain. Their offerings include confidential transactions, private smart contracts, distributed threshold cryptography, secure auctions for decentralized exchanges, and private verifiable machine learning.

Cryptio

Series A in 2025
Cryptio is an enterprise-grade back-office platform for cryptocurrency businesses that converts on-chain activity into auditable records for accounting, financial reporting, treasury management, and tax filings. Its software automates bookkeeping for digital assets by linking blockchain transactions, wallets, exchanges, and custodians with existing accounting systems, enabling users to manage, report, and monitor day-to-day accounting tasks. The platform covers activities across DeFi and NFTs, providing integrated support for automated accounting, audit preparation, and regulatory-compliant reporting.

Predicate

Seed Round in 2024
Predicate is a network that simplifies transaction prerequisites to allow users and communities to define rules for on-chain interactions.

Layer

Seed Round in 2024
Ethereum is the settlement layer, build full stack decentralized apps on top with Web Assembly and the EVM.

Celestia

Series B in 2024
Celestia is a modular blockchain network provider that enables decentralized applications to operate on a scalable data availability layer and trust-minimized sidechains without the overhead of bootstrapping a new consensus network. The platform provides a general-purpose data availability layer to support efficient data storage and collective storage of block data, helping developers deploy blockchains with minimal overhead. Founded in 2019, Celestia is based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein.

Blockscout

Seed Round in 2024
Blockscout is an open-source blockchain explorer designed for use across various Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains. It enables users to verify transactions, balances, smart contracts, and other records on these networks.

Impossible Cloud

Funding Round in 2024
Impossible Cloud offers a decentralized, enterprise-grade cloud platform leveraging web3 technology. It provides faster, cheaper, and more secure multi-service solutions compared to traditional hyperscalers and on-premises private clouds. Backed by a fiat-based payment system, it caters to B2B customers without requiring cryptocurrency transactions. The platform ensures 100% durability and availability with almost unlimited storage capacity and no hidden costs.

Botto

Seed Round in 2024
Botto is a decentralized autonomous artist platform that integrates artificial intelligence for art creation. It fosters innovative collaborations and community-driven voting processes, enabling creators and enthusiasts to shape creative narratives.

BuildBear Labs

Seed Round in 2024
BuildBear Labs develops a platform dedicated to simplifying Web3 development. It offers a unique environment for continuous smart contract testing, mirroring real-world conditions to ensure optimal performance upon deployment. The platform supports multiple Ethereum-compatible chains and aims to make Web3 development more accessible and efficient.

FuzzLand

Seed Round in 2024
FuzzLand is a technology company specializing in AI-driven smart contract security. It offers an automated auditing platform that combines artificial intelligence, fuzzing, and formal verification to analyze and understand smart contracts. This platform enables clients, including builders, auditors, and traders, to swiftly assess and secure their smart contracts, thereby mitigating potential threats and vulnerabilities.

Kiln

Series A in 2024
Kiln is a Paris-based company established in 2018 that offers a platform for enterprise-level pledge services focused on encrypted assets. The company provides validator-independent APIs that facilitate multi-provider staking, allowing digital assets to be staked across various environments, including wallets, custodians, and exchanges. By streamlining the staking process, Kiln aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency in the rapidly evolving web3 industry. Its innovative platform enables clients to deploy, manage, and monitor blockchain validators programmatically, making it easier for businesses to integrate and operate within the blockchain ecosystem. As the demand for collaboration among multiple stakeholders grows, Kiln is well-positioned to serve as an aggregator, driving forward the integration of diverse players in the digital asset space.

web3mine

Seed Round in 2023
Decentralized Storage and Compute staking

Nftperp

Series A in 2023
Nftperp is a company founded in January 2022, based in Washington, D.C., specializing in decentralized finance software for contract trading. It operates a perpetual decentralized exchange that allows users to speculate on the floor prices of prominent non-fungible token (NFT) projects, including well-known collections like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks. By providing a platform for trading blue-chip NFTs, nftperp leverages the growing significance of NFTs within the web3 ecosystem, catering to both investors and enthusiasts interested in the evolving digital asset landscape.

Seam Social

Seed Round in 2023
Seam Social operates a blockchain-based platform that enables users to create, design, and curate their own social spaces online. It fosters unique relationships among friends while aligning incentives between the platform and users by rewarding creators with crypto earnings.

Rhinestone

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Rhinestone is a technology company developing a modular smart account infrastructure to enhance interoperability, security, and functionality in digital wallets. Its platform enables secure, permissionless innovation by providing tools for developers to create, distribute, and monetize self-contained modules, thereby offering advanced features to end-users and decentralized application (dapp) developers.

Yee-Haw Monster Trucks

Seed Round in 2023
Yee-Haw Monster Trucks is a game studio dedicated to building new types of decentralized virtual worlds.

Trame

Funding Round in 2023
Trame is a collaborative studio and art gallery that provides curated art pieces and design collections.

Modulus

Seed Round in 2023
Modulus uses cryptography to verify that AI results weren't doctored. It was founded in 2021 and is located in San Francisco, California.

IYK

Seed Round in 2023
IYK develops a tokenization platform that bridges the physical and digital worlds for brands, artists, and creators. The platform uses near-field communication and blockchain to verify and reward fandom across customer and user engagement, enabling Web3 activations and helping clients deepen audience connections and boost social engagement.

JokeRace

Seed Round in 2023
JokeRace, formerly known as JokeDAO, operates a decentralized governance platform that empowers communities to propose, vote on, and execute ideas. Utilizing blockchain technology, the platform facilitates various community-driven initiatives such as bounties, grants, and curation, allowing users to submit entries and vote on favorites, fostering a bottom-up approach to decision-making.

Spearbit

Seed Round in 2023
Spearbit connects independent security experts with Web3 projects to perform security reviews and safeguard financial and blockchain infrastructure. The company offers expert-conducted security reviews and ongoing security assessments through retainer agreements, providing clients with an operational layer that reduces time spent on administrative tasks, client sourcing, and due diligence. Through a Web3 security platform, Spearbit emphasizes recurring evaluations to maintain robust protection for clients' assets and services.

fxhash

Seed Round in 2023
At fxhash, we build tools that allow artists and collectors to live out their passion for generative art. Our platform facilitates an easy and safe space for artists, collectors, and curators to create generative art projects, buy, sell, and collect art — and share their collections with the world.

Superstate

Seed Round in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.

Lagrange Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Lagrange Labs specializes in developing cryptographic solutions for secure and expressive smart contracts. Its novel zero-knowledge proving system supports large-scale data storage inclusion and distributed computation, enhancing security across multiple blockchains.

Pudgy Penguins

Seed Round in 2023
Pudgy Penguins is a Web3-based brand that creates content, goods, toys, and digital collectibles centered on a collection of penguin characters. The brand originated as an ERC-721 token powering digital art and collectibles, with aesthetics derived from over 150 hand-drawn traits. It aims to foster creativity, community, and positivity through engaging experiences, merchandise, and interactive offerings. Pudgy Penguins connects a global audience to its community, enabling fans to express imagination and support causes aligned with the brand's values, promoting belonging and positive change. The business operates across digital collectibles, merchandise, and experiences that blend online and real-world engagement and emphasize inclusive, value-driven storytelling.

Hydra Ventures

Seed Round in 2023
Hydra Ventures, established in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in supporting decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) within the web3 ecosystem. It offers investment solutions, incubation services, and strategic guidance tailored to DAO companies, fostering their growth and success in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.

AcadArena

Series A in 2023
AcadArena is a company focused on enhancing the gaming experience for student gamers by providing scholarships, tournaments, and educational opportunities in esports. Founded in 2019 by Ariane Lim, Kevin Hoang, and Justin Banusin, AcadArena aims to support students in developing both their academic and gaming skills. Operating primarily in Southeast Asia, it facilitates collegiate-level esports tournaments across various skill sets and game titles. The company also offers alliance programs and mentorship, enabling students to participate in competitions, win scholarships, and gain valuable insights into the esports industry. Through its initiatives, AcadArena strives to empower student gamers and foster a vibrant campus gaming culture.

Impossible Cloud

Seed Round in 2023
Impossible Cloud offers a decentralized, enterprise-grade cloud platform leveraging web3 technology. It provides faster, cheaper, and more secure multi-service solutions compared to traditional hyperscalers and on-premises private clouds. Backed by a fiat-based payment system, it caters to B2B customers without requiring cryptocurrency transactions. The platform ensures 100% durability and availability with almost unlimited storage capacity and no hidden costs.

Caldera

Funding Round in 2023
Caldera offers a no-code platform enabling developers to create, launch, and manage customizable blockchain rollups. It provides flexible fee structures or transaction fee removal, generating revenue through transaction fees, bridge fees, MEV, and supports additional programming languages.

Sleepagotchi

Seed Round in 2023
Sleepagotchi is a digital platform that encourages healthy sleeping habits by rewarding users with digital collectibles for maintaining consistent sleep schedules. It tracks sleep data from wearable devices and allows users to create virtual bedrooms within the app.

Alkimiya Protocol

Venture Round in 2023
Alkimiya Protocol is a developer of an open-source, permissionless platform that focuses on creating financial instruments backed by actual hash power production. The protocol utilizes smart contracts to enable miners to sell their future production rewards for a predetermined amount. This innovation allows users to design and deploy hash power-backed financial instruments from any location, leveraging the latest web and mobile technologies to generate revenue. By facilitating a new way for miners to monetize their production, Alkimiya Protocol aims to enhance the financial landscape within the cryptocurrency sector.

SPICYEST

Seed Round in 2022
SPICYEST is a consulting and financial services firm specialized in digital assets. Our experts offer tailored advice and liquidity to help businesses succeed in this industry. With a focus on innovation, we help clients achieve their goals in a rapidly changing market.

Matter Labs

Series C in 2022
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.

Glass

Seed Round in 2022
Glass is a video platform that enables creators to earn NFTs from their videos.

Gnosis

Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).

Gnosis

Series A in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).

Gnosis

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Founded in 2015, Gnosis is a decentralized infrastructure provider for the Ethereum ecosystem. Initially focused on prediction markets, Gnosis evolved into a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) in late 2020, with a treasury controlling over 150K ETH and 8 Million GNO tokens. In 2021, Gnosis Chain was launched as an Ethereum companion chain for stable transactions using the xDai token. Gnosis incubates products such as Gnosis Safe (a multisig wallet), Cow Protocol (a decentralized exchange), Conditional Tokens (prediction markets), and Zodiac (DAO tooling).

Highlight

Seed Round in 2022
Highlight is a platform facilitating the creation, collection, and trading of digital artifacts.

Playmint

Seed Round in 2022
Playmint is a game development studio focused on the web3 era, developing a decentralized gaming platform that enables fully on-chain games governed by player communities, providing autonomous game systems, on-chain economies, and player-owned logic to support the creation and evolution of persistent digital worlds for blockchain gamers and developers.

NFTBank

Series A in 2022
NFTBank specializes in creating and managing digital asset portfolios using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Their platform enables efficient buying, selling, and management of scattered NFTs across various platforms, addressing the challenge of illiquidity and facilitating better liquidity risk management.

Real Player DAO

Venture Round in 2022
Real Player DAO is a web3 organization serving the crypto community with a GameFi platform that blends blockchain technology and game-theoretic mechanics to align interests around a blockchain project. The platform features a multi-task launchpad that distributes in-game tokens and NFTs to genuine contributors by connecting real players with quality games across multiple chains, enabling participation in governance and engagement in the metaverse.

Strider Bike

Seed Round in 2022
Strider Sports manufactures strider bikes, balance bikes, toddler bikes, push bikes, running bikes, and walking bikes. It enhances products with an emphasis on proper fit and function for the rider. It supports distribution channels that are committed to educating customers. It serves customers with an empathetic, just, and positive outlook on life.

Storygrounds

Seed Round in 2022
Storygrounds is a platform enabling individuals of varying skill levels to collaboratively create webcomics.

Galleon DAO

Seed Round in 2022
Galleon DAO is a guild of experienced methodologists aiming to research, design, and create best-in-class thematic, leverage, and yield-based structured products on-chain across all EVM-based networks.

Pocket Network

Venture Round in 2022
Pocket Network develops decentralized infrastructure for blockchain application development. Its platform enables users to connect applications to any blockchain via a coordinating node, streamlining the process of building and deploying blockchain apps.

Treasure

Seed Round in 2021
Treasure is developing a decentralized gaming platform aimed at connecting various metaverses and fostering community engagement through a unified ecosystem. The platform features a decentralized game console that integrates games and communities by utilizing a common set of resources. By adopting an open and composable approach, Treasure enables the convergence of non-fungible tokens, decentralized finance, and gaming, allowing players to earn and utilize currency while engaging with different games. Central to the Treasure ecosystem is a fair launch token that powers essential infrastructure and serves as a reserve asset across partner game integrations.

B.Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
B.Protocol develops a decentralized backstop liquidity protocol that enhances security for lending platforms in the DeFi space.

NFTFi

Seed Round in 2021
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.

AcadArena

Seed Round in 2021
AcadArena is a company focused on enhancing the gaming experience for student gamers by providing scholarships, tournaments, and educational opportunities in esports. Founded in 2019 by Ariane Lim, Kevin Hoang, and Justin Banusin, AcadArena aims to support students in developing both their academic and gaming skills. Operating primarily in Southeast Asia, it facilitates collegiate-level esports tournaments across various skill sets and game titles. The company also offers alliance programs and mentorship, enabling students to participate in competitions, win scholarships, and gain valuable insights into the esports industry. Through its initiatives, AcadArena strives to empower student gamers and foster a vibrant campus gaming culture.

Futureswap

Funding Round in 2021
Futureswap is a company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in developing a decentralized futures exchange platform utilizing blockchain technology. The platform operates on a non-custodial basis, enabling users to engage in the trading of crypto futures contracts. Futureswap employs an automated market-making (AMM) algorithm to facilitate these transactions, enhancing liquidity and efficiency in the trading process. With a focus on decentralized finance, Futureswap aims to provide a secure and user-friendly environment for trading perpetual futures in the cryptocurrency market.

Forefront

Seed Round in 2021
Forefront is the launchpad empowering web3 explorers to create at the frontier of tokenized communities.

Visor Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized platform facilitating active liquidity management. Its tool enables participants to use smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges, maximizing returns from fees while minimizing impermanent loss.

NYM Technologies SA

Series A in 2021
NYM Technologies SA is a Swiss company based in Neuchâtel that specializes in designing and developing private Internet infrastructure. The company focuses on creating solutions that utilize anonymous authentication credentials, which facilitate privacy-enhanced data transfer and support decentralized identity management. By addressing the vulnerabilities of existing Internet protocols that expose sensitive data at both the network and application levels, NYM Technologies aims to prevent data leakage and enhance user privacy, offering individuals a more secure online experience.

RedStone

Pre Seed Round in 2021
RedStone is a next-generation cross-chain data oracle that specializes in providing pricing data for financial protocols. The company develops modular oracles that deliver data feeds compatible with both layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains, including rollups-as-a-service (RaaS) solutions. RedStone's offerings include liquid staking tokens and liquid restaking tokens, as well as an online decentralized finance platform designed to utilize blockchain's permanent storage capabilities. This platform supports cross-chain data services while ensuring an audit trail, which enhances transparency and reliability. Additionally, RedStone enables decentralized finance providers to implement automatic dispute mechanisms, bolstered by insurance through staking, thereby facilitating more secure and efficient transactions.

Index Coop

Seed Round in 2021
The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on Set Protocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs develops tools for creating and managing bundled crypto assets, known as 'Sets'. These Sets enable users to create diverse cryptocurrency baskets, including non-fungibles and on-chain securities.

WalletConnect Association

Seed Round in 2021
WalletConnect Association develops and promotes an open protocol that enables decentralized applications to connect with mobile wallets through end-to-end encrypted QR code scanning. The protocol eliminates the need for browser extensions, simplifying user access to blockchain wallets. Based in Zug, Switzerland, the organization focuses on standardizing wallet connectivity for the decentralized ecosystem.

Connext

Seed Round in 2021
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.

Overlay Foundation

Seed Round in 2021
Building Overlay, The Trade Everything Engine

Tally

Venture Round in 2021
Tally is a frontend for DAOs running on Ethereum and other EVM blockchains. Tally gives users real power in their decentralized organizations. On Tally, users can delegate voting power, create or pass proposals to spend DAO funds, manage a protocol, and upgrade smart contracts—all onchain.

NFTBank

Seed Round in 2021
NFTBank specializes in creating and managing digital asset portfolios using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Their platform enables efficient buying, selling, and management of scattered NFTs across various platforms, addressing the challenge of illiquidity and facilitating better liquidity risk management.

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.

NFTFi

Seed Round in 2021
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.

Nexus Mutual

Venture Round in 2021
Nexus Mutual Limited is a London-based company that operates a decentralized insurance platform utilizing blockchain technology, specifically the Ethereum public blockchain. Founded in 2017, it offers a novel alternative to traditional insurance by enabling users to become members and collectively share insurance risks without the involvement of conventional insurance companies. Members can purchase coverage, and their decisions are governed by smart contracts, which ensure transparency and enforceability. Initially, Nexus Mutual launched with a product focusing on earthquake coverage, allowing participants to manage and mitigate risks collaboratively. The platform aims to recreate traditional mutual insurance models on a broader scale, providing an innovative approach to risk management in the insurance industry.

Verto

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Verto is a decentralized network that allows individuals to create and host their own trading posts for exchanging tokenized assets. Built on a blockweave infrastructure, Verto provides an open platform where developers can earn incentives through a unique mechanism that generates micro-dividends as long as their applications are active. This structure empowers users to select their preferred trading posts and facilitates the efficient trading of tokenized securities, promoting a more accessible and flexible exchange environment.

Rarible

Seed Round in 2021
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.

Matter Labs

Series A in 2021
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.

Armor

Venture Round in 2021
Armor develops a dynamic cover brokerage protocol for decentralized finance to serve cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2021, Armor is a DeFi coverage aggregator that makes securing your DeFi assets against hacks as easy as possible. Ease wants to make DeFi as easy and safe as possible. They aim to cover every dollar in DeFi so that users can finally feel at ease.

NIFTEX

Seed Round in 2020
NIFTEX is a platform that facilitates fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). It provides a self-service interface for investors to purchase fractions of various NFTs, including artwork, game assets, and personal brands. By enabling NFT owners to convert their assets into fungible fractions, NIFTEX allows them to sell portions of their NFTs, thereby increasing liquidity and making valuable assets more accessible to a wider audience in the NFT market.

Covalent

Venture Round in 2020
Covalent Research & Development Inc. is a technology company based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on enhancing transparency and accountability in the cryptocurrency sector. Established in 2018, Covalent develops a data analytics suite that addresses significant infrastructure challenges obstructing blockchain adoption. Its offerings include on-chain data and analytics for the Ethereum network, as well as APIs that provide visibility and transparency across various blockchain networks. The company aims to bridge centralized databases with decentralized blockchain technologies, thereby facilitating adoption among enterprises and consumers. Covalent supports several leading decentralized finance protocols and is actively building tools like SafeKeeep, which aims to improve data availability and record-keeping in the DeFi space. The company’s team comprises industry veterans with extensive experience in database and distributed systems, underscoring its commitment to driving innovation in blockchain technology.

Liquity

Seed Round in 2020
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing platform operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It facilitates interest-free loans by using Ether as collateral.

CoinAlpha

Seed Round in 2020
CoinAlpha, Inc. is a FinTech software engineering firm based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing technologies that enable traders, developers, and fintech firms to create contract-based financial products. CoinAlpha is known for its open-source initiatives, including the Basket Protocol for Ethereum tokens and the Fund Protocol for fund administration. The company has also created Hummingbot, a leading open-source software for building market-making and arbitrage bots, which empowers users to manage token liquidity effectively. Additionally, CoinAlpha operates Hummingbot Miner, a liquidity mining platform that allows users to earn rewards by running market-making bots on specific trading pairs. The concept of liquidity mining was first introduced by CoinAlpha in a 2019 whitepaper. The founders bring extensive experience in investment banking and trading, complemented by engineering and product leadership backgrounds in notable Silicon Valley companies. CoinAlpha has successfully raised $14.8 million in funding from various investors.

Opyn

Seed Round in 2020
Opyn is a decentralized protocol specializing in optimizing options trading. It enables users to earn premiums or express views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20 tokens. Opyn offers European, cash-settled options that auto-exercise upon expiry, with oTokens being ERC20s tradable on compatible decentralized exchanges.

Arweave

Seed Round in 2020
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Arweave is a technology company specializing in secure data storage using blockchain. Its platform ensures high levels of data replication and security while incentivizing network participants.

Eco

Seed Round in 2020
Eco Inc. is a financial technology company focused on enhancing the value of money through innovative software solutions. As a founding contributor to the Eco Protocol, the company aims to optimize financial transactions and promote efficient banking practices. Eco also develops Bend, a platform designed to offer rewarding financial solutions that align with the expectations of modern consumers. Through its commitment to improving how individuals interact with their finances, Eco seeks to drive a new standard for money management.

Arweave

Funding Round in 2019
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Arweave is a technology company specializing in secure data storage using blockchain. Its platform ensures high levels of data replication and security while incentivizing network participants.

Matter Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.

NYM Technologies SA

Seed Round in 2019
NYM Technologies SA is a Swiss company based in Neuchâtel that specializes in designing and developing private Internet infrastructure. The company focuses on creating solutions that utilize anonymous authentication credentials, which facilitate privacy-enhanced data transfer and support decentralized identity management. By addressing the vulnerabilities of existing Internet protocols that expose sensitive data at both the network and application levels, NYM Technologies aims to prevent data leakage and enhance user privacy, offering individuals a more secure online experience.

Flexa

Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Flexa facilitates secure, privacy-focused transactions using cryptocurrencies at point-of-sale. It offers consumers control over their personal data sharing for loyalty and marketing purposes, enabling dynamic opt-in options.

Alacris

Funding Round in 2019
Boston-based blockchain project created by LegiLogic

Fluence Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Fluence Labs operates as an open-source, blockchain-based decentralized database platform that enables the aggregation, storage, and processing of data from various decentralized sources. The company's technology creates a permissionless infrastructure that establishes a trustless query layer over blockchains, allowing for easy discovery, searchability, and consumption of blockchain data. By connecting computing devices within its network, Fluence Labs provides managed database services and generalized backends, facilitating real-time data storage and processing for developers. The platform utilizes a cryptographic token for digital payments, enhancing the functionality and accessibility of decentralized applications.

Arweave

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, Arweave is a technology company specializing in secure data storage using blockchain. Its platform ensures high levels of data replication and security while incentivizing network participants.

Beam

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Beam develops a privacy-focused cryptocurrency wallet based on the MimbleWimble protocol for mobile and desktop use. It serves individual and small business users, offering confidential transactions without compromising performance or scalability.

Beam

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Beam functions as a global, digital wallet, enabling users to send money instantly to anyone, anywhere. Users can send real money through a link via any Messenger app or by scanning someone's Beam Code. Beam is coined as "digital payments that just work," offering the ease of cash transactions over the internet.

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Venture Round in 2017
aelf, an AI-enhanced Layer 1 blockchain network, leverages the robust C# programming language for efficiency and scalability across its sophisticated multi-layered architecture. Founded in 2017 with its global hub in Singapore, aelf is a pioneer in the industry, leading Asia in evolving blockchain with state-of-the-art AI integration and modular Layer 2 ZK Rollup technology, ensuring an efficient, low-cost, and highly secure platform that is both developer and end-user friendly. Aligned with its progressive vision, aelf is committed to fostering innovation within its ecosystem and advancing Web3 and AI technology adoption.

VOYA Games

VOYA Games, based in Berlin, is a game development studio specializing in Web3 games. Their core focus is creating interconnected games that center around player ownership and tokenized economies. The studio's flagship title, Craft World, is a casual resource management game set in a post-apocalyptic world, where players collaborate with friendly dinosaurs to rebuild civilization. Craft World integrates blockchain features such as NFTs and a utility token called Dyno Coin, allowing players to own, trade, and participate in a decentralized game economy.
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