Ascensive Assets

Founded in 2019, Ascensive Assets is a venture capital investment firm based in Seoul, South Korea. The company focuses on investing in digital assets and related industries such as financial services, information technology, blockchain, financial technology, gaming, big data, and SaaS.

Ben Middleton

Founding Partner

28 past transactions

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.

StripChain

Venture Round in 2024
StripChain develops a cross-chain interoperability protocol focused on enhancing user experience. Its platform enables users to create 'intents', commands that facilitate actions such as data transfer between blockchains, allowing developers' applications to communicate effectively across different protocols.

zkLink

Seed Round in 2023
zkLink is a blockchain infrastructure company offering a multi-chain trading platform that unifies blockchain networks and addresses Ethereum fragmentation through aggregated rollups. Its solutions use zero-knowledge proofs to enable secure cross-chain transactions and to aggregate liquidity from isolated networks, supporting high-throughput decentralized applications. The platform provides customizable rollup architectures, including app-specific options, to unify tokens and liquidity across Ethereum Layer 2s and to give developers cost- and performance-efficient interoperability.

Optix

Venture Round in 2023
Optix is a platform developer for multiple-chain options that aims to make trading more affordable. The platform of the business aims to provide a decentralized options protocol exchange, where users can buy options on the most popular cryptocurrencies and sell options for a steady yield directly from their wallets, giving traders access to vault collateral that provides liquidity across numerous assets, pricing surfaces, and directions.

Rysk Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Rysk Finance develops a dynamic hedging vault for creating alternative decentralized financial assets. Its platform enables users to buy and sell options on crypto assets, providing protection against market downturns.

Cryption Network

Venture Round in 2022
Cryption Network is a cryptocurrency company focused on enhancing the adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi) through innovative products. It offers a user-friendly platform that allows retail investors to easily store, exchange, and manage digital assets. The company's flagship product, PolyDEX, is a gasless, instant, and cross-chain automated market maker decentralized exchange (AMM DEX) that incorporates yield farming features. Additionally, Cryption Network has developed a leveraged crypto market prediction platform, providing a comprehensive suite of financial tools designed to simplify investment and trading processes for ordinary users. By integrating these functionalities, Cryption Network aims to facilitate broader participation in the crypto market.

Snackclub

Seed Round in 2022
Snackclub is a decentralized gaming platform that empowers users through blockchain technologies. It offers tournaments, events, and investment opportunities in NFT games, allowing gamers to compete, earn cryptocurrency rewards, and engage with a community.

Itheum

Venture Round in 2022
Itheum is a data infrastructure company that enables the sale and exchange of data for the AI industry through decentralized, blockchain-powered technology. It provides tools for data tokenization, licensing, provenance, creator protection, governance, and data marketplaces, plus decentralized data brokerage across cross-chain environments. The platform offers data collection and analytics tooling, a data exchange, and a data metaverse to bridge valuable personal data from the web, emphasizing consent and provenance to unlock value for data creators and users. By building data infrastructure for an AI-driven data economy, Itheum supports secure, transparent data licensing and governance across data silos.

MixMob

Seed Round in 2022
MixMob is a play-to-earn game platform built on the Solana blockchain. It draws inspiration from music, art, fashion, and movies to create a unique Remix Culture within its metaverse.

Exotic Markets

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Exotic Markets is a company that operates in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, leveraging the Solana blockchain to create innovative financial solutions. It aims to democratize access to investment opportunities by offering structured products that cater to a wide range of investors. The platform provides users with flexible financial instruments, including token-based payoffs, trading ranges, accumulators, and capital preservation options. By focusing on simplicity and sustainability, Exotic Markets helps investors diversify their portfolios and maximize returns through user-friendly products. The company distinguishes itself by bringing wealth management solutions traditionally reserved for banks into the decentralized finance realm.

CyBall

Seed Round in 2021
CyBall — CyBloc Football, is a soccer-themed, NFT-based game with a play-to-earn model that allows users to collect, trade, mentor, and ultimately battle with CyBlocs.

Ambire

Seed Round in 2021
Ambire Wallet is a self-custodial smart wallet for Web3, which focuses on Defi and EVM. Providing secure email authentication, it combines power with ease of use. Available on 10+ EVM chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Fantom Opera, Andromeda, Gnosis Chain, BNB Chain, Moonriver, Moonbeam, and others. The Ambire wallet has a tradable native token with the ticker symbol $WALLET. Ambire AdEx brings full transparency to digital advertising, reduces ad fraud, and protects end users’ privacy. It is the first ad network based on Ethereum blockchain technology. The Ambire AdEx has a tradable native token with the ticker symbol $ADX.

Structure

Seed Round in 2021
Structure operates a global trading platform designed for mobile users to facilitate crypto-based investing and lending. Its platform enables investors of all experience levels to trade assets securely, with around-the-clock access and hands-on support.

Matrix One

Seed Round in 2021
Matrix One develops AI-powered character technology and metaverse infrastructure. The company aims to democratize the creation, ownership and use of AI characters that are immersive, accessible, interactive, decentralized and interoperable, serving as companions, guides and collaborators in daily interactions. It also provides a three-dimensional NFT marketplace platform for the metaverse that transforms original 3D files into optimized assets for multiple environments, minting them as a single token to give creators freedom and collectors tokens usable across virtual worlds.

zkLink

Seed Round in 2021
zkLink is a blockchain infrastructure company offering a multi-chain trading platform that unifies blockchain networks and addresses Ethereum fragmentation through aggregated rollups. Its solutions use zero-knowledge proofs to enable secure cross-chain transactions and to aggregate liquidity from isolated networks, supporting high-throughput decentralized applications. The platform provides customizable rollup architectures, including app-specific options, to unify tokens and liquidity across Ethereum Layer 2s and to give developers cost- and performance-efficient interoperability.

Jambb

Seed Round in 2021
Jambb is a digital collectibles platform that focuses on creating sustainable and inclusive entertainment experiences. The company enables comedians to own and monetize their best content, merchandise, and performances, facilitating new revenue streams while connecting with a diverse fan base. Through its platform, entertainers can authenticate and uniquely identify ownership of their work, allowing fans to acquire, share, and engage with memorable moments such as jokes, bits, and specials. Additionally, Jambb supports open secondary markets, enhancing the value proposition for both creators and fans by fostering an economy around digital collectibles in the comedy space.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol specializing in Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

Yield Guild Games

Series A in 2021
Yield Guild Games is a decentralized organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) used within virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. Its mission is to foster the largest virtual world economy, optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing profits with its token holders.

Bware Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Bware Labs is focused on addressing the challenges of Web3 and promoting its global adoption by offering robust infrastructure services and development tools. The company specializes in developing decentralized infrastructure tailored for blockchain APIs, providing a reliable interface that includes integrated payment options. This platform facilitates seamless connections between customers and node providers, ensuring verified reliability and efficient service delivery. Through its commitment to enhancing the Web3 ecosystem, Bware Labs aims to empower users and developers with the necessary tools to navigate the evolving landscape of decentralized technologies.

Jenny Metaverse DAO

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Jenny DAO is a collaborative contemporary art collection that creates assets in the metaverse and fractionalizes them on Unicly. JennyDAO's fractionalization strategy aims to give high-end NFT ownership a distributed spin. JennyDAO can make rare internet art more accessible by fractionalizing a collection of valuable NFTs.

RBL Labs

Seed Round in 2021
We are a team of 25+ blockchain and gaming professionals working relentlessly to bring cutting-edge Web3 experience. Visit rbllabs.com for more info and check out our first p2e collectible card game on locgame.io, our edutainment platform on cryptorbl.com and the virtual city of Cryptise on cryptise.io

Swing.xyz

Seed Round in 2021
Swing.xyz is a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that aggregates liquidity across blockchains to enable cross-chain asset exchange. It uses smart contracts, relayers, and cross-chain bridges to route assets across bridges, DEXes, and aggregators, providing access to liquidity for various crypto assets. The platform offers turnkey solutions that enable developers to launch cross-chain experiences, facilitating cross-network communication and broad asset variety. By connecting multiple networks and liquidity pools, Swing.xyz aims to capture value for traders through seamless cross-chain interactions across layer-1 and layer-2 ecosystems.

Sovrun

Seed Round in 2021
Sovrun specializes in producing high-quality gaming assets for blockchain-based games, focusing on breeding and crafting mechanisms. They enable game developers to integrate player-built economies through a custom API toolkit.

Eden Network

Seed Round in 2020
Eden Network is a blockchain infrastructure company that focuses on enhancing transaction safety for traders and providing transaction priority for NFT minters. It develops a suite of Ethereum smart contracts that adhere to the principles of progressive decentralization, allowing token holders to participate in governance through private communication channels and decision-making processes. The company also offers essential liquid staking and validation infrastructure aimed at optimizing yield generation, increasing total value locked (TVL), and fostering overall network growth. By prioritizing both security and user governance, Eden Network seeks to create a more efficient and decentralized trading environment.

Yield Guild Games

Seed Round in 2020
Yield Guild Games is a decentralized organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) used within virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. Its mission is to foster the largest virtual world economy, optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing profits with its token holders.

Unilend Finance

Funding Round in 2020
Unilend Finance is a decentralized financial platform that focuses on facilitating spot trading and money market lending and borrowing services for blockchain assets. Established in 2020 and based in India, the platform allows for permission-less listing of any ERC20 token, enabling users to trade without the oversight of a centralized authority. Unilend's offerings include lending and borrowing services tailored for Ethereum-based assets, providing crypto traders with increased liquidity and flexibility. In addition to trading, the platform encompasses governance and native utility token services, creating a comprehensive ecosystem for users engaged in decentralized finance.

KiraCore

Seed Round in 2020
KiraCore is a financial hub that connects decentralized Web3 applications, enabling value settlement between dApps and the largest interconnected networks in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It offers a secure Layer‑1 platform for deploying decentralized applications and issuing digital assets, leveraging uncapped value from both real‑world and interchain sources.

Frax Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Frax Finance develops a fractional cryptocurrency protocol and fractional stablecoin designed to create scalable, decentralized money as an alternative to fixed-supply digital assets. Its coins are partially backed by collateral and stabilized by on-chain algorithms, enabling an open-source, permissionless stablecoin implemented on the Ethereum blockchain. The company also introduced a crypto-native price index known as the Frax Price Index.
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