Ascensive Asset Management

Ascensive Asset Management is a private investment firm established in 2019 and based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm specializes in the digital assets industry and focuses on venture capital investments in various sectors, including financial services, information technology, blockchain, financial technology, gaming, big data, and software-as-a-service. With a commitment to innovation, Ascensive aims to identify and support promising ventures within these rapidly evolving fields.

Ben Middleton

Founding Partner

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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 is an intent-based interoperability standard that enables chain abstraction.

zkLink

Seed Round in 2023
zkLink Labs is a technology company focused on addressing Ethereum fragmentation through its innovative rollup solutions, zkLinkNova and zkLinkX. By harnessing Ethereum's security features, zkLink aims to unify tokens and liquidity across various Ethereum Layer 2 networks. The platform facilitates developers in deploying app-specific rollups with a customizable architecture, which enhances cost and performance efficiency. Additionally, zkLink provides a secure interoperability protocol that connects different blockchains, ensuring a user-friendly environment for both developers and users. This approach allows users to access liquidity and earn yields, making zkLink an essential player in the multi-chain ecosystem.

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 is focused on developing a dynamic hedging vault aimed at creating alternative decentralized financial assets that help mitigate financial market risks. Through its platform, the company enables customers to buy and sell options on cryptocurrency assets, providing them with tools to safeguard against potential downturns in the market. This service caters to individuals seeking protection from volatility in the financial landscape.

Cryption Network

Venture Round in 2022
Cryption Network is a cryptocurrency company focused on enhancing the adoption of decentralized finance (DeFi) through its range of user-friendly products. The company offers a platform that allows retail investors to seamlessly store, exchange, and invest in digital assets. Its flagship product, PolyDEX, is a gasless, instant, cross-chain automated market maker decentralized exchange (AMM DEX) that integrates yield farming capabilities. Additionally, Cryption Network's platform includes tools for market prediction, facilitating leveraged trading and investment strategies. By combining these features, Cryption Network aims to make DeFi accessible and beneficial for a wider audience.

Snackclub

Seed Round in 2022
Snackclub is a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) focused on revolutionizing the gaming experience through a play-to-earn model. The company develops block-based games that reward players monetarily as they engage and invest time in gameplay. By utilizing play-to-earn technology, Snackclub enhances game visibility and creates a more secure environment for players, allowing them to generate income while enjoying their favorite games. This innovative approach aims to change how individuals consume games and interact with the internet, fostering a new era of gaming that prioritizes player rewards and engagement.

Itheum

Venture Round in 2022
Itheum is a pioneering data infrastructure platform that facilitates the sale of valuable personal data to the AI industry, which requires consented data for its growth. The company specializes in blockchain-powered technology that encompasses data tokenization, licensing, provenance, creator protection, and governance. It aims to create a comprehensive framework for the emerging data economy in the AI era. Additionally, Itheum offers a decentralized, cross-chain data brokerage software that helps manage data silos and unlock new value for data. This includes a data collection and analytics toolkit, a decentralized data exchange, and a data metaverse, all designed to equip data creators and consumers with the necessary tools to connect and leverage valuable personal data from the web.

MixMob

Seed Round in 2022
MixMob is a play-to-earn (P2E) game developed by Encore Studios, leveraging blockchain technology and operating on the Solana network. The game draws inspiration from various cultural elements, including music, art, fashion, and movies, to foster a unique Remix Culture. It features a card game strategy within a comprehensive gaming ecosystem reminiscent of Fortnite's virtual environment. Players can socialize and earn rewards while engaging with non-fungible token (NFT) based masks, enhancing their experience in the metaverse.

Exotic Markets

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Exotic Markets operates a decentralized finance platform built on the Solana blockchain, aiming to democratize investment opportunities for all investors. The company focuses on providing wealth management solutions and structured products that are typically associated with traditional banking, thereby making them accessible in the decentralized finance landscape. Through its innovative offerings, Exotic Markets allows users to engage with flexible structured products that cater to various investment strategies, including baskets of tokens, trading ranges, and capital preservation mechanisms. This approach helps investors diversify their portfolios and enhance their returns while utilizing straightforward and sustainable financial products.

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 to facilitate cryptocurrency investing and lending for mobile users. The platform caters to investors of all experience levels, providing a user-friendly and secure space for trading digital assets. It enables users to participate in decentralized finance (DeFi) and crypto markets, allowing them to earn, borrow, and lend. Structure offers round-the-clock access and hands-on support, ensuring seamless transactions and helping investors diversify their portfolios according to their investment objectives and risk tolerance.

Matrix One

Seed Round in 2021
Matrix One is a machine intelligence company that focuses on bridging the physical and digital realms through innovative technology. The company offers advanced Internet of Things (IoT) devices tailored for both consumers and businesses. Among its key products are the MATRIX Creator, a development board for creating hardware applications, and MATRIX Voice, designed for open-source voice platforms. Launched in 2016 and 2017 respectively, these products facilitate rapid and cost-effective development. Additionally, Matrix One envisions the democratization of AI-powered characters, aiming to create interactive and immersive companions for users. The company also operates a marketplace platform for three-dimensional non-fungible tokens (NFTs), allowing creators to optimize 3D files for various metaverse environments, enhancing the accessibility and ownership of digital art. Through these endeavors, Matrix One aspires to redefine digital interactions and streamline the integration of AI and 3D technology into everyday life.

zkLink

Seed Round in 2021
zkLink Labs is a technology company focused on addressing Ethereum fragmentation through its innovative rollup solutions, zkLinkNova and zkLinkX. By harnessing Ethereum's security features, zkLink aims to unify tokens and liquidity across various Ethereum Layer 2 networks. The platform facilitates developers in deploying app-specific rollups with a customizable architecture, which enhances cost and performance efficiency. Additionally, zkLink provides a secure interoperability protocol that connects different blockchains, ensuring a user-friendly environment for both developers and users. This approach allows users to access liquidity and earn yields, making zkLink an essential player in the multi-chain ecosystem.

Jambb

Seed Round in 2021
Jambb is a digital collectibles platform focused on the entertainment industry, particularly comedy. It allows comedians to own and manage their content, merchandise, and performances while enabling fans to engage with their favorite entertainers. Through Jambb's platform, comedians can reach new audiences, generate additional revenue streams, and leverage open secondary markets. This innovative approach allows fans to acquire and share memorable moments, such as jokes, performances, and memorabilia, fostering a sustainable and inclusive entertainment ecosystem. By uniquely identifying ownership of digital assets, Jambb enhances the connection between entertainers and their audiences.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The protocol optimizes the liquidation of NFT assets through a quote-by-lock-in pricing mechanism. This approach enables asset holders to borrow stablecoins while facilitating cross-chain bridges that connect different public blockchain networks. By enhancing the efficiency of asset transfers, Taker Protocol aims to broaden application scenarios for its clients, thereby improving the overall liquidity and usability of NFT assets in the market.

Yield Guild Games

Series A in 2021
Yield Guild Games (YGG), founded in 2018 and based in Quezon City, Philippines, is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The company aims to build the largest virtual world economy by optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility and sharing profits with its token holders. YGG also invests in early-stage token and equity deals within web3, gaming studios, and the infrastructure supporting industry growth.

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 facilitates the exchange of crypto assets across multiple layer one and two blockchains. The platform is designed for developers, providing tools to create cross-chain experiences through smart contracts, relayers, and bridges. By intelligently routing assets across various decentralized exchanges and aggregators, Swing.xyz aggregates liquidity across different networks, ensuring that traders can access the liquidity they need for a wide variety of crypto assets. This approach enhances cross-chain communication and captures value for traders, making it easier to conduct transactions in a diverse asset landscape.

BreederDAO

Seed Round in 2021
BreederDAO is a blockchain technology company specializing in the production of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for the gaming industry. It functions as an asset factory, focusing on high-volume creation of in-game assets tailored to the needs of major gaming guilds in the Metaverse. By providing a custom API toolkit, BreederDAO enables developers to integrate player-driven economies into their games. The company's offerings include breeding and crafting mechanisms, which optimize asset traits to enhance in-game yields. This approach allows game developers to empower players to generate new assets or NFTs, thereby enriching the overall gaming experience and driving engagement in Play-To-Earn ecosystems.

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 (YGG), founded in 2018 and based in Quezon City, Philippines, is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens used in virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. The company aims to build the largest virtual world economy by optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility and sharing profits with its token holders. YGG also invests in early-stage token and equity deals within web3, gaming studios, and the infrastructure supporting industry growth.

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
KIRA is a financial hub connecting decentralized Web3 applications. As an integral part of the Web3 stack KIRA enables value settlement between dApps and largest interconnected networks in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Thanks to uncapped value at stake originating from both real world and interchain space KIRA provides secure Layer 1 platform for deploying decentralized applications and issuing digital assets.

Frax Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Frax Finance is a pioneering entity in the cryptocurrency space, known for developing the fractional stablecoin and the Frax Price Index (FPI), the first crypto-native consumer price index. The company focuses on creating a decentralized monetary system that offers a scalable alternative to fixed-supply digital assets. Its protocol allows for the issuance of stablecoins that are partially backed by collateral and partially stabilized through algorithms. This approach provides users with an open-source and permissionless stablecoin, which operates on the Ethereum platform. Frax Finance aims to enhance the functionalities of digital currencies while ensuring stability and accessibility in the decentralized finance ecosystem.
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