Blockchain Founders Fund

We believe in a more transparent and trustworthy world. We focus on adding value to emerging technology & blockchain projects with real world applications. We invest in and venture build top-tier startups. We consult leading blockchain companies and prominent organizations on emerging technologies. We support seasoned and first-time entrepreneurs across the key business functions with a hands-on intensive go-to market venture program. We empower some of the most promising entrepreneurs with the resources to make their vision a reality.

Kevin Kwong

Partner

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Beatdapp

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Beatdapp offers a tracking system that authenticates, verifies, and validates media streamed in real-time. The service reduces the tracking discrepancies between Digital Service Providers (DSPs) and rights holders, increasing royalty revenue for rights holders while limiting legal exposure to royalty lawsuits for DSPs. Think of it like a PWC for music play count.

Renaissance

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Renaissance App brings creators and audiences closer and rise together through the advance of technology. Track your streams on Spotify. Get on leaderboards. Earn exclusive rewards for free.

NFTically

Seed Round in 2023
NFTically is a platform aimed at buying or selling non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or creating white-label stores.

Sendry

Pre Seed Round in 2019
E-money licensed DLT remittance, credit data and lending platform providing cash store to cardless ATM transfers and digital transfers.Uniquely utilises cash transfer data to augment credit scoring for lower income migrant workers allows X-border lending and loan repayments directly from remittances.

ChekkitApp

Seed Round in 2023
Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.

TeraBlock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
TeraBlock is the simplest solution to buy and easily manage crypto assets with the help of Machine Learning based trade automation.

allrites.com

Seed Round in 2020
AllRites Holdings Pte Ltd operates an online marketplace for discovering, negotiating, buying, and selling film, television, and sports broadcast content rights. The company provides content licensing distribution services. It also provides blockchain based services for the protection of rights and identity management, and distribution of earnings. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Dopamine

Seed Round in 2021
Dopamine provides decentralized finance for everybody, everywhere and is the first end-to-end user-centered crypto mobile app.

Chibi Dinos

Funding Round in 2022
Chibi Dinos is blockchain based gaming platform accessed through the use of non-fungible tokens. The Chibi Dinos brand seeks to tie together real world perks, a robust digital landscape, and exciting play to earn gaming opportunities into one cohesive universe. Leveraging an extensive network of athletes and partnerships, and fully realizing the potential of blockchain gaming, Chibi Dinos is a first mover in the collectable NFT, sports, and e-sports markets. Chibi Dinos aims to provide an immersive gaming and lifestyle experience, offering a gaming ecosystem that spans 3 distinct, yet interconnected modes of game play, featuring a multitude of competitive gaming, community building, and play to earn opportunities.

TripTax

Seed Round in 2021
Fintech

De.Fi

Seed Round in 2021
DEFIYIELD is the cross-chain asset management protocol that empowers you to succeed and stay safe in DeFi. It controls digital assets with a full suite of innovative tools. They invest confidently, supported by auditing experts.

GRID

Seed Round in 2022
Develop gaming solutions for understanding situations and challenges encountered in INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

fxdx exchange

Seed Round in 2021
Derivatives decentralized exchange with lightning-fast transaction speed and minimal transactions costs with institutional-grade centralized UI/UX experience. Keywords: decentralized finance, DeFi, derivatives, perpetual, crypto exchange, marketplace, crypto, blockchain, digital assets.

RCRDSHP

Pre Seed Round in 2021
RCRDSHP is a digital collectibles platform for electronic music.

Altered State Machine

Seed Round in 2021
Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

Growfitter

Seed Round in 2022
GrowFitter Private Limited operates a health and fitness discovery and booking platform. The company lists the information about and retails membership of gymnasium, yoga classes, dance classes, Pilates centers, kickboxing centers, aerobics classes, Zumba classes, and cross-fit classes on its portal. Additionally, the company retails whey proteins and weight reduction food through its website. GrowFitter Private Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Mangwee

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Mangwee Payment System offers mobile money transfer platform, which includes mobile money transfer, bill payments and subscription, bulk payments and bulk SMS’s, digitizing saving groups and Chilimba, village banking, and buying and selling platform services. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Lusaka, Zambia.

Jianghu

Seed Round in 2018
Jianghu utilizes a data-driven training system to create, manage, market, and monetize professional Esports teams across multiple games. Jianghu has created 5 teams, developed and traded over 50+ players, and has done over US$2mil+ in commercial deals.

explainX.ai

Pre Seed Round in 2019
ExplainX helps data scientists understand, explain & debug any black-box AI model to remove biases, build transparency and monitor AI performance in production. ExplainX's explainable AI module provides complete visibility in AI performance and helps build trustworthy, transparent and unbiased AI solutions.

Sigo Seguros

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Sigo Insurance Services, LLC owns and operates an online platform that sells car insurance products and services. The company through its platform allows users to search, compare, and buy car insurance from different insurance companies. The company is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jthereum

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Solutions for Enterprise Blockchain

Baanx Group

Angel Round in 2018
WHITE LABEL MOBILE BANKING FOR THE DIGITAL AGE "Better then a Banking platform" ​ Bridging the Gap between Fiat and Digital assets with a secure multi-currency platform. Mobile wallets + debit cards + payment gateways + remittance + 'free' FX. All API driven to be integrated into your app or as a 100% managed service to your community. Baanx launches white label mobile banks in days, not months or years for corporate clients including telcoms, exchanges, global brands, and others. Buy, Hold, Exchange and Spend all your Digital Assets from a branded App and get fast-tracked to the future.

Open Source University

Pre Seed Round in 2018
The World's Academic & Career Development Ledger. Empowering 7 billion learners to connect to world's top academic education and professional development opportunities on the Ethereum blockchain. We apply principles of open source to re-engineer the current-state educational model by building a system to enable better business and education sectors collaboration. The OS.University DApp bridges the gap between businesses and education through blockchain, used for validating and verifying learners’ credentials, and smart contracts, which are managing content purchases, other marketplace transactions, as well as HR processes.

Splinterlands

Funding Round in 2020
Splinterlands is a decentralized, digital collectible trading card game built on blockchain technology.

JAUNTIN'

Pre Seed Round in 2019
JAUNTIN’ is an on-demand insurance platform that enables insurers to distribute on demand, short term insurance to gig-workers.

Cryptyk

Angel Round in 2015
Cryptyk Inc. is building the first complete data security and storage solution from a single vendor. Utilising innovative blockchain and security technology, the Cryptyk software platform is the first hack proof data security and storage solution for both large enterprises and individual users. Removing risk from data storage and security, the solution offers a simple, elegant and a cost-effective solution to a very big problem.

Splinterlands

Seed Round in 2019
Splinterlands is a decentralized, digital collectible trading card game built on blockchain technology.

De.Fi

Venture Round in 2021
DEFIYIELD is the cross-chain asset management protocol that empowers you to succeed and stay safe in DeFi. It controls digital assets with a full suite of innovative tools. They invest confidently, supported by auditing experts.

Aperture

Series A in 2024
Aperture is a DeFi cross-chain investment ecosystem. The DeFi investing access site aggregates options through a single, user-friendly interface. The company's solution is simple and scalable, with cross-chain elements and curated tactics.

Backed

Series A in 2024
Developer of tokenized stocks on Ethereum designed to make capital markets more accessible and equitable for all. The company's platform bridges the gap between traditional and new and open financial systems by offering infrastructure for capital markets on-chain through fully backed, tokenized stocks on Ethereum, enabling users to access tokenized stocks without compromising on compliance and functionality.

Beoble

Seed Round in 2024
beoble is a social module with API and SDK for Web 3.0. It is an on-chain communication window and a user-owned Web 3.0 product. With beoble, Web 3.0 services can easily integrate social functionalities of social profile, messaging, and posting & feeds into their services in 5 minutes. beoble’s core features include 1) modularized social profile, 2) modularized wallet-to-wallet messaging, and 3) modularized posting & feeds. Users to connect their wallets to create their Web 3.0 social profile and customize it with NFT’s or ENS. Users can also send messages to other users using either the social profile or wallet address. The messaging module supports group chats such as NFT collection holders’ private group or public chat group for a Web 3.0 service. Messaging is not the only channel to communicate, as users can post articles and write comments which is visible from modularized feeds.

Aperture

Seed Round in 2024
Aperture is a DeFi cross-chain investment ecosystem. The DeFi investing access site aggregates options through a single, user-friendly interface. The company's solution is simple and scalable, with cross-chain elements and curated tactics.

Floor

Venture Round in 2024
Floor is an app that aims to make non-fungible tokens (NFT) more accessible and understandable.

Renaissance

Seed Round in 2023
Renaissance App brings creators and audiences closer and rise together through the advance of technology. Track your streams on Spotify. Get on leaderboards. Earn exclusive rewards for free.

Ivorypay

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Ivorypay uses crypto payments and decentralized finance to help online businesses grow. Ivorypay was founded in 2022.

Backed

Series A in 2024
Developer of tokenized stocks on Ethereum designed to make capital markets more accessible and equitable for all. The company's platform bridges the gap between traditional and new and open financial systems by offering infrastructure for capital markets on-chain through fully backed, tokenized stocks on Ethereum, enabling users to access tokenized stocks without compromising on compliance and functionality.

allrites.com

Seed Round in 2020
AllRites Holdings Pte Ltd operates an online marketplace for discovering, negotiating, buying, and selling film, television, and sports broadcast content rights. The company provides content licensing distribution services. It also provides blockchain based services for the protection of rights and identity management, and distribution of earnings. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Skrmiish

Venture Round in 2023
Skrmiish is a mobile “play-to-earn” app that enables gamers of every level to earn cash in every match they play across the AAA+ games.

Alliance DAO

Seed Round in 2023
DeFi Alliance connects founders to some of the largest traditional trading firms in the world, successful founders in DeFi, VCs, and legal/compliance experts, and help them build product, growth, and regulatory strategies.

Virtualtech Frontier

Seed Round in 2022
Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.

GRID

Seed Round in 2022
Develop gaming solutions for understanding situations and challenges encountered in INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

SolChicks

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SolChicks is run by 50+ dedicated team members covering strategy, development, partnerships, marketing, social media, and community. Every member of the team is fully committed to long-term visions for the success of the project.

Metaschool

Seed Round in 2022
Metaschool is a platform where developers hangout to learn web3, collaborate on projects, earn NFTs for completing their work.

ChekkitApp

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Chekkit is a DAG blockchain powered anti-counterfeiting solution for food and drug supply chain tracking and customer insights platform. It helps producers protect their brands, track supply chain activities, and collect last-mile consumer insights in real-time.

Arf

Seed Round in 2022
International Settlement, Fintech, Finance, Financial Services, Financial Infrastructure

SpatialPort

Pre Seed Round in 2022
SpatialPort is creating a highly immersive Metaverse application where to exhibit and sell fashion, art, music, and services. Imagine a 3D world where any business and individuals can launch, market, and sell real products and NFTs in an immersive and interactive 3D eCommerce experience. Now, add influencers and brands, and gamify the entire experience!

Locker

Seed Round in 2022
Locker is a platform which is changing the way fans globally consume sports media through personalization. By implementing deep machine-learning and trusted content aggregation, Locker provides users with a single app to find and consume the topics they love, from the media brands they trust. Fans can choose from hundreds of available media brands and thousands of topics to follow, and Locker conveniently finds the stories best suited to them. Locker also serves fans suggested bets based on their consumption interests from their own preferred sportsbook, bridging the gap between betting companies and media consumption.

RD Land

Seed Round in 2022
RD Land is a multisensory adult-safe webXR metaverse for progressive entertainment & virtual relationships. A category-defining product that allows people to meet anonymously across the world and build relationships over shared interests and ideologies. A place for content creators and artists to showcase their work, build interactive communities, monetize their name, image, and likeness in the Web 3.0 ecosystem leveraging on the blockchain technology to run a transparent, secure, and user-friendly virtual economy with its own currency - RD Coin (RDC) - and where every asset is a non-fungible token (NFT) owned by a dreamer.

Klink Finance

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Klink is a prized-linked digital savings app that enables and rewards its users for earning on their savings.

Virtualtech Frontier

Seed Round in 2023
Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.

Dogami

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of blockchain-based gaming platform designed to offer attractive play-to-earn mechanisms. The company's blockchain gaming platform combines AAA NFT gaming with investing and pet ownership 3.0, enabling players to adopt and raise their unique 3D dog companion and earn DOGA tokens in the process.

LunarCrush

Seed Round in 2022
LunarCRUSH is a developer of a cryptocurrency platform that simplifies crypto investing. It provides tools designed to improve cryptocurrency research for investors, exchanges, and funds and is also the destination for the community online, employing social data to create dashboards and insights. The company's platform uses real-time insights powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze cryptocurrency data from sources to gain the visibility and context needed to buy, sell or hold, which enables traders to make confident and data-driven trading decisions.

Shardeum

Funding Round in 2024
Shardeum is an Ethereum compatible Layer 1 blockchain protocol for smart contracts and decentralized applications. The protocol was founded by Omar Syed(ex-NASA, Yahoo, Zynga) and Nischal Shetty(founder of India's largest crypto exchange- WazirX). The protocol is built to scale to billions of users and transactions.

Gatenox

Funding Round in 2024
Gatenox has been designed specifically with the Web3.0 era in mind and seeks to unlock its full potential for businesses. By combining the best of decentralised and centralised technologies, Gatenox is the fastest, most secure and reliable way to generate trust between businesses, organisations and regulated entities - by generating near real-time verification.

RFOX

Funding Round in 2023
RedFOX Labs builds companies that promote Access, Adoption and Application for the Internet Economy. An emerging tech internet company that identifies and builds successful business models for the Southeast Asian markets. RedFOX Labs innovates with emerging technologies, differentiates with superior Customer Experience and Value, and maintains a relentless focus on Digital Inclusion.

Material10

Funding Round in 2024
Building a new paradigm in Gaming.

Draper Goren Holm

Funding Round in 2022
Draper Goren Holm is a fintech venture studio focused on incubating and accelerating early-stage blockchain startups, founded by Alon Goren and Josef Holm. Josef and Alon are the same team that has built two of the world’s top blockchain investment conferences; Crypto Invest Summit (CIS) and Security Token Summit.

Rebel Bots

Funding Round in 2023
Rebel Bots is a digital card fighting game with a science-fiction premise that allows players to compete against each other.

Balance

Funding Round in 2023
Security matters when it comes to managing your digital assets. Balance recognizes this growing concern and has responded by creating an institutional grade custody solution. Assets are kept secure in geographically distributed offline vaults, that are access controlled, monitored, and guarded 24/7. Management is made easy through their flagship technology - the Digital Assets Cache™ - which replaces traditional digital wallets. Their internal controls and policies mitigate against external threats, human error, and misuse through insider access, and have been designed with disaster recovery and succession planning in mind. Founded in 2017, Balance is based in Toronto, Canada.

Fulcrum Lending

Funding Round in 2023
Fulcrum Labs is a technology development company solely focused on serving the mortgage community of lenders, brokers, investors & advisors. We believe relationships matter, people truly make a difference & that technology should be accessible for all. That’s why after years of developing mortgage technology which has processed over $100 billion in loans for some of the county’s largest lenders, we are democratizing access. We believe that when technology is equally accessible, service will win the day & ultimately provide the best possible outcome for the end-client.

Biconomy

Funding Round in 2023
Biconomy is a relayer infrastructure network and transaction highway to reduce the friction between applications built on the blockchain and the end-users. Biconomy’s relayer network comprises of an SDK and dashboard that abstracts and hides many of the complexities of opening a wallet, storing private keys, paying gas, and buying cryptocurrency.

Feedback

Seed Round in 2019
The Feedback app creates a win-win solution for restaurant owners and customers. Customers can browse hundreds of restaurants and order food for 20-70% off during end-of-day and off-peak hours. Helping restaurants reduce food waste and capitalize on excess capacity.

De.Fi

Seed Round in 2021
DEFIYIELD is the cross-chain asset management protocol that empowers you to succeed and stay safe in DeFi. It controls digital assets with a full suite of innovative tools. They invest confidently, supported by auditing experts.

Arf

Pre Seed Round in 2019
International Settlement, Fintech, Finance, Financial Services, Financial Infrastructure

Dogami

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of blockchain-based gaming platform designed to offer attractive play-to-earn mechanisms. The company's blockchain gaming platform combines AAA NFT gaming with investing and pet ownership 3.0, enabling players to adopt and raise their unique 3D dog companion and earn DOGA tokens in the process.

Mintverse

Seed Round in 2021
Mintverse is a service platform, where users can create, discover and collect an array of digital items and NFTs while also being able to crowdfund NFT art, crypto & NFT projects. Mintverse is working towards its vision of mass NFT adoption while further developing existing use cases and exploring future use cases of the NFT data structure. Backed by major investors and partners, Mintverse has the resources to develop the growth of the NFT community by tackling the current existing problems such as high gas fees, lack of monetary incentives for creators, and insufficient utility for current NFT assets.

Growfitter

Seed Round in 2021
GrowFitter Private Limited operates a health and fitness discovery and booking platform. The company lists the information about and retails membership of gymnasium, yoga classes, dance classes, Pilates centers, kickboxing centers, aerobics classes, Zumba classes, and cross-fit classes on its portal. Additionally, the company retails whey proteins and weight reduction food through its website. GrowFitter Private Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Taloflow

Seed Round in 2020
Taloflow (YC W21) is a buying insights platform for the tech stack. We help CTOs at digital-native companies pick the best cloud infrastructure and API products for their specific use case, saving them weeks of soul-sucking analysis and costly mistakes for every big decision they make.

RoundlyX

Seed Round in 2022
RoundlyX is Mint.com for Digital Assets. It offers a universal software as a service (SaaS) toolset that connects to existing digital asset exchange infrastructure. RoundlyX's users can manage their digital asset portfolios via one dashboard with access to tools such as; "Roundup Investing" (similar to the hit Acorns app for equity investing but for the digital asset class), curated content, and aggregated services.

Cross The Ages

Seed Round in 2021
Cross The Ages is a universe in which fantasy and science fiction come together. The two worlds share the single continent of Artellium. To the west lies Arkhante, masters of magic and summoning. To the east, the city-continent Mantris is home to ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life. The young Malkha, surrounded by her seven Primus, reigns from the capital, Babylonia. To the west, the city-continent Mantris is home to Neurotechs, an ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life. The Amortals, humans who have transferred their minds to super-AIs, run the corporations for which the citizen-shareholders of Mantris work.