Ryze Labs

Ryze Labs is a venture capital firm established in 2015 and located in Georgetown, Bahamas. The company focuses on investing in innovative businesses within the digital assets, web3, and blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors. By targeting these rapidly evolving industries, Ryze Labs aims to support and accelerate the growth of companies that are reshaping the digital economy.

Matthew Graham

Founder and Managing Partner

Ian Wittkopp

Venture Partner

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Rise

Series A in 2024
Rise is an innovative payroll and compliance provider. It is a Web3-enabled platform that helps businesses onboard, manage, and pay local and international contractors while ensuring full compliance and alleviating burdensome tax processes. Rise provides an all-in-one compliance and payment platform for companies with global workforces, streamlining onboarding, payments, and compliance tasks. It allows businesses to hire, onboard, and pay international contractors compliantly.

KRNL Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2024
KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.

Pichi Finance

Seed Round in 2024
Pichi Finance is the first trustless points trading protocol, which allows users to trade points from their favorite protocols before TGE.

OpenTrade

Seed Round in 2024
OpenTrade is an institutional grade platform for digital dollar lending and yield products. It provides a technology platform, blockchain protocol, API, legal framework, and bankruptcy remote banking and custody infrastructure that enables Web2/Web3 Fintechs to offer fully embedded stablecoin yield products to their customers and better manage their own treasury.

Synnax

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Synnax is an artificial intelligence-based financial platform focused on forecasting financial performance and conducting credit analysis and ratings. By utilizing machine learning algorithms and big data analysis, the platform delivers precise and efficient credit evaluations. This capability allows financial institutions to make informed lending decisions and manage risk more effectively, ultimately enhancing their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.

OpenTrade

Seed Round in 2023
OpenTrade is an institutional grade platform for digital dollar lending and yield products. It provides a technology platform, blockchain protocol, API, legal framework, and bankruptcy remote banking and custody infrastructure that enables Web2/Web3 Fintechs to offer fully embedded stablecoin yield products to their customers and better manage their own treasury.

Rise

Seed Round in 2023
Rise is an innovative payroll and compliance provider. It is a Web3-enabled platform that helps businesses onboard, manage, and pay local and international contractors while ensuring full compliance and alleviating burdensome tax processes. Rise provides an all-in-one compliance and payment platform for companies with global workforces, streamlining onboarding, payments, and compliance tasks. It allows businesses to hire, onboard, and pay international contractors compliantly.

LayerZero

Series B in 2023
LayerZero Labs is a developer of a blockchain messaging protocol that enables decentralized applications to function across multiple blockchains. The company's platform focuses on interoperability, facilitating data exchange between disparate blockchains. Unlike traditional methods that require sequential storage of all block headers, LayerZero employs an on-chain light node for validation, allowing block headers to be streamed on-demand by decentralized oracles. This innovative approach enhances speed, security, and cost-efficiency, providing clients with a low-level communication primitive necessary for cross-chain applications.

PV01

Venture Round in 2023
PV01 is a company that focuses on enhancing the efficiency of debt capital markets for both traditional and digital assets. It has developed an on-chain treasury bond platform designed to create a comprehensive digital asset ecosystem for investors. The platform facilitates a streamlined process for trading in both primary and secondary markets, allowing for real-time transfers and advanced dealing systems. This enables investors to acquire high-quality debt securities more effectively. By leveraging innovative technology, PV01 aims to improve access and transparency in the debt market, catering to the evolving needs of modern investors.

Evertas

Series A in 2022
Evertas is a crypto insurance company that provides regulated insurance and risk mitigation solutions specifically designed for crypto assets. The company targets institutional holders, including exchanges, custodians, traditional financial institutions, funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Evertas offers a comprehensive suite of services, including compliance and audit, risk assessment, incident management, and asset recovery, all aimed at reducing exposure to risks associated with crypto assets. Their offerings include an underwriting framework, tailored policy forms for crypto assets, and effective claims handling, enabling businesses to secure their crypto holdings and mitigate transaction risks.

Mysten Labs

Series B in 2022
Mysten Labs is a web3 infrastructure company dedicated to enhancing the security and accessibility of decentralized services. The company focuses on developing foundational tools that facilitate the mass adoption of web3 technologies. By streamlining the complexities associated with lower-level blockchain integrations, Mysten Labs allows developers to concentrate on improving user experience. Their efforts aim to accelerate the growth of decentralized applications across various blockchain networks, thereby promoting a more seamless transition to web3 for users and developers alike.

Bravo Ready

Seed Round in 2022
Bravo Ready is a developer of indie blockchain games focused on integrating blockchain technology with gaming through Web3. The company has created a unique metaverse gaming experience that combines NFT technology with win-to-earn smart contract automation. This innovative approach allows gamers to generate real financial value from their gameplay, facilitating real-time cryptocurrency transactions during various interactions, including playing and renting. One of Bravo Ready's standout offerings is the 'Infinite Royale,' a proprietary game mode that redefines traditional battle royale gameplay with its unique characteristics.

Samudai

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Samudai organizes information and provides tools to enable seamless coordination through an all-in-one platform. Samudai was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Central Region, Singapore.

Vybe Network

Series A in 2022
Vybe Network is a data infrastructure solution that enables the solana community to query, index, and share on-chain data to build web 3.0 dApps and analytics.

Pine Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Pine Protocol is a decentralized platform that enables NFT-backed borrowing and lending. It allows users to use their NFTs as collateral to borrow cryptocurrencies, facilitating asset-backed financing. Users can lend or borrow amounts in various currencies or blockchains, providing flexibility in transactions. This innovative approach helps NFT owners access liquidity without needing to sell their tokens, thus enhancing the utility of their digital assets in the financial ecosystem.

Push Protocol

Series A in 2022
Push Protocol is a decentralized communication platform designed for the web3 ecosystem, enabling users to receive notifications related to both on-chain and off-chain activities. The protocol facilitates notifications from various decentralized applications (dApps), smart contracts, and backend services, all linked to users' wallet addresses. This allows for a flexible and open communication network where notifications can be triggered by diverse on-chain or off-chain logic. Push Protocol operates in a gasless, multichain, and platform-agnostic manner, ensuring that any crypto wallet or infrastructure service can display these notifications to users. By leveraging this system, users can engage with notifications and potentially earn cryptocurrency rewards through their interactions.

Hex Trust

Series B in 2022
Hex Trust is a fully licensed and insured provider of bank-grade custody solutions for digital assets, established in 2017 and headquartered in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. The company offers a proprietary platform, Hex Safe™, which delivers a range of services including custody, decentralized finance (DeFi), brokerage, and financing solutions tailored for financial institutions, digital asset organizations, corporate clients, and private individuals. Hex Trust aims to facilitate the integration of digital assets into traditional business models while ensuring a secure, scalable, and compliant custody framework. The firm is registered as a Trust Company under the Hong Kong Trust Ordinance and is licensed to provide custodial services in Singapore, adhering to local regulations. With offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Vietnam, Hex Trust is actively expanding its presence in Europe and the Middle East.

ar.io

Seed Round in 2022
ArDrive is a company that offers permanent and secure data storage solutions, allowing users to safely store documents, photos, and videos for a lifetime. Founded in 2020 by Phil Mataras, the platform ensures true data ownership through a decentralized network, enabling clients to maintain control over their information. ArDrive's services emphasize data permanence and reliable record-keeping, providing users with an indelible vault for their digital assets. The company's innovative approach aims to revolutionize how individuals and organizations manage and preserve their data over the long term.

MRGN Group

Seed Round in 2022
mrgn is a team focused on democratizing essential financial infrastructure for the betterment of mankind.

Anboto Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Anboto Labs is a crypto execution platform connected to CeFi and DeFi exchanges. They strive to build the number one execution platform, which helps traders remain agile in the rapidly moving crypto market. Anboto Labs supports advanced order types such as TWAP, VWAP and Iceberg, as well as smart order routing, pre- and post-trade analysis and pair trading execution.

PORTALS

Seed Round in 2022
Portals is a no-code, in-browser game engine that allows anyone to unleash their creativity to build, share, and explore immersive, monetizable games. With a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface and a vast collection of customizable assets, Portals makes game creation accessible to everyone, enabling the creation of immersive worlds, engaging storylines, and captivating gameplay within the browser. Portals is driven by a vibrant community of creators who use our platform to design and publish engaging games in a matter of hours. The growing community of game builders unleashes creativity and shares their creations with players everywhere. With Portals, the possibilities are endless, and the world of game creation is at your fingertips.

Atomic Form

Seed Round in 2022
Atomic Form is a comprehensive digital art and NFT platform that offers blockchain-based solutions for managing non-fungible tokens and Web media. Its multi-chain NFT administration tool, The Hub, allows users to share, discover, and control multiple Atomic Form devices from a single interface. The platform spans various applications, including art, collectibles, and video games, and integrates functionality for cryptocurrency-based hardware. This hardware features a rotatable low-profile wall mount that can be adjusted for both portrait and landscape orientations, providing a seamless experience for users seeking to manage their NFT assets alongside the necessary software solutions. Additionally, Atomic Form has incorporated Nifty Gateway to enhance its offerings.

Friktion

Venture Round in 2022
Friktion Labs is a team of quantitative traders, researchers, and crypto engineers with backgrounds in commodities, treasuries, volatility products, and crypto-assets. The organization has brought on board a group of derivatives traders and market makers in Genesis Trading, Alameda Research, LedgerPrime, QCP Capital, CMS Holdings, Orthogonal Trading, and GSR.

Vybe Network

Seed Round in 2022
Vybe Network is a data infrastructure solution that enables the solana community to query, index, and share on-chain data to build web 3.0 dApps and analytics.

Zeta Markets

Seed Round in 2021
Zeta Markets is a decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives platform that facilitates liquid derivatives trading for both individual and institutional investors. The platform allows users to hedge, speculate, and take positions on a wide array of market movements through its under-collateralized derivatives offerings. Utilizing Solana's efficient and censorship-resistant infrastructure, Zeta Markets provides quick pricing updates, enables swift trade executions, and allows for position settlements in under a second, all with minimal transaction costs. By focusing on simplifying the derivatives trading experience, Zeta Markets aims to create a user-friendly ecosystem that caters to diverse trading needs.

DOMI Online

Seed Round in 2021
DOMI Online is an online game that enables its players to search for treasure, gold, experience, and $DOMI tokens.

Cypher

Seed Round in 2021
Cypher is a decentralized synthetic asset protocol, allowing retail and institutional investors to create and trade pre-public markets.

BetDEX

Seed Round in 2021
BetDEX is the decentralized sports betting protocol. BetDEX delivers high speeds and low transaction costs while eliminating counterparty risk. BetDEX is a permissionless protocol allowing anyone to build their own applications on top.

Phantasia

Seed Round in 2021
Phantasia Sports operates a blockchain-based peer-to-peer fantasy sports platform that facilitates secure management of contest or league dues and ensures instant prize payouts. This platform allows players to host public or private tournaments, offering a comprehensive fantasy sports experience across various sports, including American football, football, basketball, and cricket. By leveraging blockchain technology, Phantasia Sports aims to enhance user trust and streamline the overall gaming experience for fantasy sports enthusiasts.

XDEFI Wallet

Series A in 2021
XDEFI Wallet is a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet that enables users to securely store, send, and swap digital assets, including NFTs, across 30 different blockchains. The wallet is designed to facilitate interaction with various decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, making it a vital tool for users looking to engage in the growing DeFi ecosystem. With over 200,000 users, XDEFI Wallet provides a user-friendly platform that allows seamless access to decentralized marketplaces and NFT applications directly through web browsers. Its chain-agnostic capabilities and robust features position XDEFI Wallet as an essential resource for individuals participating in the evolving landscape of digital finance and asset management.

Clearpool

Seed Round in 2021
Clearpool is a decentralized capital markets ecosystem, where institutional borrowers can create single borrower liquidity pools and compete for uncollateralized liquidity directly from the DeFi ecosystem. Liquidity providers on Clearpool can earn attractive yields, with pool interest rates enhanced by additional LP rewards paid in $CPOOL — Clearpool’s utility and governance token. Clearpool LP tokens, called cpTokens, are the building blocks for a system of tokenized credit that will provide Clearpool LPs with risk management and hedging capabilities. As more institutions realize the benefits that decentralized finance can bring to their organizations, Clearpool is providing the new architecture to facilitate flows between the $120 trillion traditional capital markets and the burgeoning DeFi ecosystem. Clearpool is backed by a long list of top investors from both traditional venture capital and blockchain, including Sequoia Capital India, Arrington Capital, Sino Global Capital, Hex Trust, Huobi Ventures, Kenetic, HashKey, GBV and many more.

Orca

Series A in 2021
Orca is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange built on the Solana blockchain, facilitating instant token swaps with minimal transaction fees. The platform is designed to handle thousands of transactions per second, ensuring low latency and capital-efficient trading. Users can exchange tokens while receiving fair pricing and have the option to provide liquidity to trading pools, allowing them to earn a share of the trading fees generated on the platform.

LayerZero

Series A in 2021
LayerZero Labs is a developer of a blockchain messaging protocol that enables decentralized applications to function across multiple blockchains. The company's platform focuses on interoperability, facilitating data exchange between disparate blockchains. Unlike traditional methods that require sequential storage of all block headers, LayerZero employs an on-chain light node for validation, allowing block headers to be streamed on-demand by decentralized oracles. This innovative approach enhances speed, security, and cost-efficiency, providing clients with a low-level communication primitive necessary for cross-chain applications.

Soulcery

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zero-code on-chain game constructor powered by Solana

Soldex AI

Venture Round in 2021
Soldex AI is a creator of an AI-powered automated cryptocurrency exchange platform that will power the next wave of flexible financial markets. The company's platform addresses the issues caused by order-matching centralized exchanges and trust-less custody in the current decentralized exchange, allowing traders to continue trading 24 hours a day, seven days a week, regardless of market conditions.

FTX

Series B in 2021
FTX Exchange is a cryptocurrency exchange that offers a platform designed for both professional trading firms and novice users. It provides a range of products, including quarterly and perpetual futures for various cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and over-the-counter trading. The exchange was initially developed by Alameda Research, a leading provider of cryptocurrency liquidity, which contributed to its robust market presence from the outset. Additionally, FTX Ventures served as the corporate venture capital arm of FTX, investing in various sectors such as healthcare, information technology, and gaming. Founded in 2022, FTX Ventures aimed to support innovative startups without imposing restrictions on their decision-making processes. However, the company declared bankruptcy in November 2022, marking a significant downturn in its operations.

Jet Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Jet Protocol Holdings operates a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that aims to reduce transaction costs while enhancing efficiency. The platform specializes in innovative loan products and cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to streamline their borrowing and lending transactions. By simplifying these processes, Jet Protocol facilitates more accessible and effective financial interactions in the decentralized finance space.

Solana

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a cryptocurrency startup focused on developing a decentralized blockchain platform for applications and marketplaces. The Solana network is supported by thousands of independent nodes, which enhances its security and resistance to censorship. The platform utilizes a unique proof of history mechanism that allows for concurrent parallel processing, resulting in high-speed, low-latency, and cost-effective transactions. This architecture enables users to efficiently scale their operations without the need for sharding, making it suitable for a wide range of decentralized applications.

Impossible Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Impossible Finance is a crypto investment platform that aims to provide equitable access to financial products for all users, moving beyond the exclusive offerings typically reserved for institutions and select individuals. By utilizing decentralized financial protocols, the platform facilitates seamless swapping of cryptocurrency tokens, eliminating limitations related to liquidity. This approach empowers traders by granting them the same opportunities in the crypto market that were once inaccessible, thus promoting a more inclusive financial ecosystem.

Zapper

Series A in 2021
Zapper is a financial technology platform that simplifies the management of decentralized finance (DeFi) assets through a user-friendly interface. It caters to both newcomers and experienced investors by offering streamlined access to DeFi lending, automated yield farming, and liquidity provision through its unique shortcuts known as Zaps. The platform enhances cryptocurrency asset management by leveraging the principles of open finance, allowing users to efficiently deploy and manage their buy and sell positions while actively participating in the DeFi ecosystem.

Zignaly

Venture Round in 2021
Zignaly is an open trading platform for cryptocurrencies. It provides a platform for investors looking to add digital assets to their portfolios by lowering the barrier to entry. The platform enables them to share their track record and expertise so that members on the platform can let the experts handle all of the heavy liftings — while sharing in the profits, resulting in a win/win situation for both member and trader. Zignaly onboards traders and fund managers, and enables them to share their track record and expertise. It was founded in 2018 and is based in Spain.

Delta Exchange

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Delta Exchange is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that specializes in a diverse array of trading products, including futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps, and calendar spreads. Recognized as a leading player in options trading, Delta holds a significant market share globally, particularly with USDT settled options on various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, BNB, and Matic. The platform caters to both retail and institutional traders, offering advanced features like multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders. These capabilities enable users to execute trades efficiently and capitalize on various market strategies within a trusted trading environment.

Wintermute

Series B in 2021
Wintermute is a prominent algorithmic trading firm that specializes in providing liquidity for digital assets across a wide range of platforms. With an average daily trading volume exceeding $5 billion, the firm engages in over-the-counter trading of more than 350 tokens and offers liquidity across more than 80 centralized and decentralized exchanges. Wintermute's services cater to institutions, OTC desks, and aggregators, ensuring competitive pricing in spot markets. In addition to its trading operations, Wintermute Ventures, the firm's corporate venture arm based in London, invests in early-stage projects within the decentralized finance, web3, NFT, gaming, cryptocurrency, and blockchain infrastructure sectors, while also incubating startups in these fields.

MAPS.ME

Seed Round in 2021
MAPS.ME is #1 free mobile offline map for travellers with over 140 million installations all over the world (as of Q3 2019), available for iOS and Android and translated into 28 languages. MAPS.ME covers all countries of the world which are available for download from within the application. After the download, the maps and all the built-in features work offline and do not require an internet connection (map, search, filters, car/pedestrian/bike/transit routing and navigation with voice instructions). With the internet connection, you can also get free car traffic in 38 countries and access a public catalog with thousands of travel guides and itineraries, created by professional companies and individual bloggers and active travelers. MAPS.ME gets its map data from OpenStreetMap.org (Wikipedia of maps) – an open database of geographic information which is updated by the community of 5.7M contributors. The application includes the map data in full details with streets, house names, tourist attractions, hiking/cycling trails, local businesses and many other information. The map is fast and detailed thanks to several breakthrough technologies: extremely compact map data compression and high speed rendering, which is 4-10x faster than other map apps.

Mintbase, Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Minting NFT assets for real worlds value

Mask Network

Venture Round in 2020
Mask Network is a platform that facilitates interaction between traditional social networks and decentralized technologies. Founded in 2017 and based in Shanghai, China, it enables users to send encrypted messages, share files, and transact in cryptocurrencies directly through familiar platforms like Twitter. The network acts as a decentralized portal, allowing users to access decentralized applications (DApps) for various purposes, including peer-to-peer payments, decentralized finance, and e-commerce involving digital goods and NFTs, without needing to migrate from existing social media. Additionally, Mask Network supports Gitcoin funding campaigns, enhancing the ability to contribute to projects directly from social media platforms. Through its innovative features, Mask Network aims to create a seamless blend of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 experiences.

Serum

Seed Round in 2020
Serum is a decentralized cryptocurrency ecosystem that facilitates trustless trading through its innovative protocol, developed in collaboration with experts in crypto trading and decentralized finance. Built on the Solana blockchain, Serum offers a platform for fast and efficient trading, enabling users to engage in cross-chain transactions with low fees and high speed. The platform is designed to empower the crypto community by providing a permissionless environment where users can leverage its capabilities without centralized control. By focusing on decentralized derivatives trading, Serum aims to enhance user returns and contribute to the evolution of decentralized finance.

Delta Exchange

Corporate Round in 2020
Delta Exchange is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that specializes in a diverse array of trading products, including futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps, and calendar spreads. Recognized as a leading player in options trading, Delta holds a significant market share globally, particularly with USDT settled options on various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, BNB, and Matic. The platform caters to both retail and institutional traders, offering advanced features like multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders. These capabilities enable users to execute trades efficiently and capitalize on various market strategies within a trusted trading environment.
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