Vana
Venture Round in 2025
Vana is a decentralized platform empowering users to control their data, monetize it, and contribute to AI development. It facilitates user-owned data management and offers tools for developing, managing, and profiting from AI models. Vana's ecosystem includes DAOs that enable users to share data like social media and LinkedIn information in exchange for benefits.
Sahara AI
Series A in 2024
Sahara AI is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain platform for open and collaborative artificial intelligence development. Its platform enables businesses to deploy autonomous AI securely and privately, while allowing cross-agent communication, knowledge transfer, and capitalization. This fosters a collaborative environment where businesses can own, monetize, and scale their proprietary knowledge.
Zest Protocol
Seed Round in 2024
Zest Protocol is an innovative financial service platform that enhances the utility of Bitcoin by providing a unique borrowing and lending ecosystem. As the first on-chain Bitcoin lending protocol, it enables Bitcoin holders to earn additional BTC or borrow against their assets, thereby facilitating participation in a dynamic market. The platform prioritizes security and minimizes risks associated with traditional lending solutions by utilizing Bitcoin and Layer 2 technologies. Users can engage with the platform through yield pools by using Stacks and Bitcoin addresses, with rewards distributed in USD-denominated tokens. Zest Protocol aims to make Bitcoin more productive, allowing individuals to meet their credit needs while maximizing the potential of their holdings.
Maverick Protocol
Venture Round in 2023
Maverick Protocol is a decentralized finance platform that offers a crypto derivatives market designed to be open, transparent, and efficient. The protocol enables permissionless trading and staking across a wide range of asset pairs and supports perpetual contracts with capital efficiency, driven by an automated market maker. It aims to provide liquid, borderless access to decentralized trading and to allow traders to gain exposure through perpetuals backed by a diverse set of assets.
Planetarium
Venture Round in 2022
Planetarium is a Web3 gaming company that empowers communities by creating decentralized gaming ecosystems. It uses Libplanet, a blockchain-based gaming library integrated with Unity engine, enabling peer-to-peer networking without central servers.
LayerZero
Series A in 2021
LayerZero develops a blockchain interoperability platform that enables data exchange between disparate blockchains. Its platform achieves speed and security by validating as an on-chain light node, allowing companies to build cross-chain applications using a low-level communication primitive.
Marlin is a technology company based in Singapore that develops an open-source secure networking platform designed to enhance decentralized communications for decentralized finance (DeFi) and Web 3.0. Founded in 2018, Marlin focuses on optimizing the communication between nodes in peer-to-peer networks, enabling faster block propagation across public blockchains. By providing a decentralized network of relay nodes worldwide, Marlin enhances the performance and scalability of blockchain infrastructure. Its innovative approach incentivizes the operation of full nodes and offers a superior alternative for peer-to-peer networking in decentralized environments, ultimately improving the speed and efficiency of various network chains.
Tera Funding
Seed Round in 2018
Tera Funding is a real estate investment firm based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in a peer-to-peer lending platform that connects small investors with opportunities in the construction sector. The firm facilitates loans for small to mid-sized properties and construction projects, offering mortgaged-backed products across three investment strategies: safe investments, balanced portfolios, and high-risk, high-return options. Tera Funding employs a systematic risk management process to ensure that investments are thoroughly assessed, allowing investors to engage securely in the real estate market. Through its online platform, Tera Funding aims to democratize access to real estate financing, enabling more individuals to participate in the sector.
MobileCoin
Venture Round in 2018
MobileCoin, established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing a cryptocurrency focused on privacy and security for peer-to-peer transactions. Its blockchain-based product aims to facilitate seamless mobile payments by enabling integration with popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp or Signal.