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 operates a decentralized, node-based platform that enables developers to build and deploy smart contracts across multiple blockchains simultaneously. This is achieved through an open, multichain software registry, allowing for a more tailored and collaborative Web3 experience.
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-driven financial platform that specializes in credit analysis and ratings. By utilizing machine learning algorithms and big data analysis, Synnax aims to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of credit evaluations. The platform is designed to assist financial institutions in making informed lending decisions and managing risk more effectively, ultimately improving their overall financial performance. Through its innovative approach, Synnax addresses the challenges faced by the financial sector in assessing creditworthiness and streamlining the evaluation process.
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 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 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.
PV01
Venture Round in 2023
PV01 is a company focused on enhancing 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 company's offerings include an efficient process for engaging in primary and secondary markets, facilitating real-time transfers and utilizing advanced dealing systems. This enables investors to access and purchase high-quality debt securities with greater ease and efficiency.
Evertas is a crypto insurance company that specializes in providing regulated insurance and risk mitigation solutions 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 underwriting framework along with a tailored policy form and claims handling services. Additionally, the company provides compliance and audit services, risk assessments, incident management, and asset recovery to help businesses secure their crypto assets and minimize transaction risks.
Mysten Labs
Series B in 2022
Mysten Labs develops tools to enhance web3 security and facilitate its widespread adoption. They create foundational infrastructure to accelerate the integration of decentralized services across multiple chains, improving underlying technologies like distributed systems and cryptography.
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 distinctive metaverse gaming experience that utilizes NFT technology and win-to-earn smart contract automation. This innovative approach allows gamers to derive tangible financial value from their gaming activities, enabling real-time cryptocurrency transactions during gameplay. Bravo Ready's flagship game mode, Infinite Royale, features unique gameplay elements that redefine traditional battle royale mechanics, further enhancing the gaming experience and engaging players in new ways.
Samudai
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2021, Samudai is a Singapore-based company that develops a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) platform. This platform organizes information and provides tools to enable seamless coordination across DAO ecosystems through an all-in-one platform.
Vybe Network
Series A in 2022
Vybe Network offers a data infrastructure solution tailored for the Solana community, facilitating the querying, indexing, and sharing of on-chain data. Its platform provides developers with tools to efficiently stream live data and access historical data from a network of distributed indexers. This capability allows users to build decentralized applications and conduct analytics within the Web 3.0 ecosystem. By streamlining data access and exchange, Vybe empowers customers to leverage Solana's blockchain for innovative application development and analytical insights.
Pine Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
Pine Protocol is a decentralized platform that facilitates asset-backed financing using non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as collateral. It enables users to borrow or lend cryptocurrencies across different blockchains by pledging their NFTs, allowing NFT owners to access liquidity without selling their assets.
Nyan Heroes
Venture Round in 2022
Nyan Heroes is a blockchain-based gaming platform that offers an immersive shooter game featuring futuristic themes, robotic cats, and adversarial corporations. Players can collect non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to enhance their gaming experience and engage in competitive battles against each other. The platform allows gamers to monetize their skills by utilizing NFTs and cryptocurrencies, creating an environment where players can earn money while enjoying the gameplay. Through its unique blend of gaming and blockchain technology, Nyan Heroes aims to revolutionize how players interact with and benefit from their gaming experiences.
Push Protocol
Series A in 2022
Push Protocol is a decentralized, blockchain-agnostic communication protocol for Web3 that enables notifications for both on-chain and off-chain activity. It supports the creation of notifications by decentralized applications, smart contracts, and backends, driven by configurable logic and triggered through various events. Notifications travel via an open network of push nodes and are tied to wallet addresses, allowing wallets, frontends, and infrastructure services to display them across supported chains in a gasless, platform-agnostic fashion.
Hex Trust
Series B in 2022
Hex Trust is a licensed provider of secure custody services for digital assets. It offers solutions including custody, decentralized finance (DeFi), brokerage, and financing through its proprietary platform Hex Safe™. The company serves financial institutions, digital asset organizations, corporates, and private clients, with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Vietnam, and expanding across Europe and the Middle East.
ArDrive is a company that provides permanent, secure data storage solutions for individuals and businesses. Founded in 2020 by Phil Mataras, the company offers a platform that enables users to store documents, photos, and videos in a decentralized network, ensuring true data ownership and permanence. With a focus on safeguarding information for the long term, ArDrive allows clients to access their data anytime without the risk of loss. The service operates on a one-time fee model, making it an accessible option for those seeking reliable archival solutions. By combining innovative technology with a commitment to data security, ArDrive aims to revolutionize the way users manage and preserve their digital assets.
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 that connects centralized finance and decentralized finance exchanges, providing unified execution across CeFi and DeFi venues. The platform supports advanced order types such as TWAP, VWAP, and Iceberg, along with smart order routing, pre- and post-trade analysis, and multi-leg and pair trading execution. It enables traders to manage, execute, and optimize crypto strategies through a single application, combining algorithmic trading tools with integrated cross-platform liquidity to help traders stay agile in the rapidly moving crypto markets.
PORTALS
Seed Round in 2022
Portals is a developer of a browser-based metaverse that provides an immersive social environment for users to explore and connect with others. The platform features intuitive drag-and-drop building tools and integrated communication capabilities, allowing users to create customized virtual spaces, including residences, offices, game experiences, and storefronts. This enables individuals to gather, socialize, and engage in various activities within a dynamic digital landscape.
Atomic Form
Seed Round in 2022
Atomic Form is a platform specializing in digital art and NFTs. It offers a full-stack solution for multi-chain NFT administration, allowing users to manage their NFTs across different blockchains from a single location.
Friktion
Venture Round in 2022
Friktion Labs is a decentralized finance (DeFi) company focused on portfolio management, equipped with a team of quantitative traders, researchers, and crypto engineers experienced in commodities, treasuries, and crypto-assets. The organization has assembled a team of derivatives traders and market makers with expertise from notable firms in the trading sector. Friktion offers an automated portfolio manager (APM) that allows users to input their existing portfolio details, including spot trading, perpetual contracts, and liquidity positions. This platform is designed to help investors maximize profits and monitor fluctuations across various market cycles, promoting sustainable and informed investing practices.
Vybe Network
Seed Round in 2022
Vybe Network offers a data infrastructure solution tailored for the Solana community, facilitating the querying, indexing, and sharing of on-chain data. Its platform provides developers with tools to efficiently stream live data and access historical data from a network of distributed indexers. This capability allows users to build decentralized applications and conduct analytics within the Web 3.0 ecosystem. By streamlining data access and exchange, Vybe empowers customers to leverage Solana's blockchain for innovative application development and analytical insights.
Zeta Markets
Seed Round in 2021
Zeta Markets is a decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives platform operating on the Solana blockchain. It offers liquid derivatives trading for individuals and institutions, enabling users to hedge, speculate, or take positions on various market movements. The platform provides real-time pricing updates, instant trade execution, and low-cost settlements.
Domi Online
Seed Round in 2021
DOMI Online is a blockchain-enabled gaming platform that allows players to embark on treasure-hunting adventures while earning non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and in-game currency known as $DOMI tokens. The platform offers a diverse gaming environment, featuring various landscapes such as forests, mountains, beaches, deserts, ruins, caves, and islands. Through these immersive settings, players can engage in exploration and earn rewards, enhancing their gaming experience.
Cypher is a decentralized synthetic asset protocol, allowing retail and institutional investors to create and trade pre-public markets.
Pstake is a platform that stakes your assets safely to receive staking rewards and pegged staked representative tokens that can be utilized in DeFi.
BetDEX is a decentralized sports betting protocol that operates on a blockchain-based platform, allowing users to place bets on various sports utilizing cryptocurrency. The platform is designed to provide high-speed transactions and low costs while eliminating counterparty risk, making the betting process more secure and efficient. BetDEX is permissionless, enabling developers to create their own applications on top of its infrastructure. This flexibility allows customers not only to engage in sports betting but also to trade on sports and prediction markets, giving them control over their betting experience and the ability to set their own prices.
Phantasia Sports
Seed Round in 2021
Phantasia Sports operates a blockchain‑powered, peer‑to‑peer fantasy sports platform that securely handles contest or league dues and provides instant prize payouts. The service lets users host public or private tournaments across a range of sports, including American football, basketball, and cricket, delivering a seamless all‑in‑one fantasy experience.
Nyan Heroes
Seed Round in 2021
Nyan Heroes is a blockchain-based gaming platform that offers an immersive shooter game featuring futuristic themes, robotic cats, and adversarial corporations. Players can collect non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to enhance their gaming experience and engage in competitive battles against each other. The platform allows gamers to monetize their skills by utilizing NFTs and cryptocurrencies, creating an environment where players can earn money while enjoying the gameplay. Through its unique blend of gaming and blockchain technology, Nyan Heroes aims to revolutionize how players interact with and benefit from their gaming experiences.
XDefi Wallet
Series A in 2021
XDefi Wallet is a decentralized, non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet designed to enable users to securely store, send, and swap digital assets across multiple blockchains. It supports over 30 different blockchains, providing a versatile platform for managing a wide range of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The wallet is engineered to facilitate interactions with various decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, enhancing user engagement in the growing DeFi ecosystem. With features that allow access to NFT marketplaces and applications, XDefi Wallet empowers users to visualize and manage their collectibles effectively. By prioritizing security and user-friendliness, XDefi Wallet has garnered a user base of over 200,000 individuals, establishing itself as a trusted solution for those seeking to navigate the complexities of digital asset management.
Clearpool
Seed Round in 2021
Clearpool operates a decentralized capital markets ecosystem that lets institutional borrowers create single-borrower liquidity pools and access uncollateralized liquidity from the DeFi ecosystem. Liquidity providers fund these pools to earn yields, with rewards provided in the platform’s native tokens. The system uses tokenized credit mechanics to support risk management and liquidity hedging. By connecting traditional capital markets with decentralized finance, Clearpool enables flows between the two realms and offers borrowers the ability to compare, select, and exit pools; participants receive tokens in return, redeemable at any time without lock-up. The company focuses on delivering a transparent, programmable framework for institutional-grade liquidity.
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 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.
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 decentralized, non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange platform that utilizes artificial intelligence to facilitate automated trading specifically in the Solana ecosystem. The platform addresses limitations associated with traditional centralized exchanges, such as order-matching inefficiencies and the need for trust in custody solutions. By providing a robust framework for trading, Soldex AI enables users to engage in trading activities continuously, regardless of market conditions. This innovative approach aims to enhance the flexibility and efficiency of financial markets, catering to the evolving demands of cryptocurrency traders.
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange company that develops platforms for professional trading firms, offering intuitive interfaces suitable for both experienced traders and beginners. It supports quarterly and perpetual futures for all major cryptocurrencies, leveraged tokens, and OTC derivatives.
Jet Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Jet Protocol Holdings is a developer of a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that aims to reduce transaction costs and enhance efficiency in financial transactions. The company specializes in creating innovative loan products and facilitates cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to streamline their borrowing and lending activities. Through its platform, Jet Protocol Holdings provides a borrowing agreement designed to simplify the complexities often associated with traditional financial systems, making it easier for users to engage in lending and borrowing transactions.
Solana
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a decentralized blockchain platform that aims to deliver a scalable network for decentralized applications and marketplaces. The platform provides fast, low-cost transactions by employing a proof of history consensus alongside other innovations, enabling developers to build scalable apps without sharding. The network is secured by thousands of independent nodes, offering robustness and resistance to censorship. Solana supports a broad ecosystem of decentralized apps and digital assets, emphasizing sustainability and high throughput to power a wide range of use cases from gaming to finance.
Impossible Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Impossible Finance is a crypto investment platform that uses decentralized finance protocols to give everyone equal access to financial products that were previously available only to institutions and a select few. By providing DeFi tools and token swap capabilities, the platform enables traders to participate in cryptocurrency markets with fair opportunities and addresses liquidity constraints beyond traditional gatekeepers.
Zapper is a fintech platform that simplifies decentralized finance (DeFi) by offering a unified interface for managing assets. It democratizes DeFi access through user-friendly 'Zaps', enabling seamless entry into lending, yield farming, and liquidity provision.
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. With a strong emphasis on options trading, Delta Exchange holds a prominent position in the global market, boasting a market share exceeding 25%. The platform supports USDT-settled options for various cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, solana, BNB, and Matic. Delta Exchange caters to both retail and institutional traders by providing advanced trading features such as multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders, thereby facilitating a comprehensive and user-friendly trading experience.
Wintermute
Series B in 2021
Wintermute is a global leader in algorithmic trading for digital assets. With an average daily trading volume of over $5 billion across 350+ tokens on 80+ exchanges, it facilitates OTC trades and provides liquidity provisioning services. Wintermute actively invests in early-stage DeFi projects, supporting the growth of decentralized finance.
MAPS.ME
Seed Round in 2021
MAPS.ME is a mobile application that offers free offline maps for travelers, boasting over 140 million installations globally. Available on both iOS and Android platforms and translated into 28 languages, the app allows users to download maps for all countries, enabling full offline functionality for navigation, search, and routing without an internet connection. Users can also access real-time traffic information in 38 countries and a catalog of travel guides and itineraries contributed by professionals and active travelers. MAPS.ME utilizes data from OpenStreetMap, a community-driven platform, which ensures comprehensive details on streets, tourist attractions, and local businesses. The application is distinguished by its advanced technologies that provide fast and efficient map rendering, making it significantly quicker than many competing navigation apps.
Mintbase
Seed Round in 2020
Minting NFT assets for real worlds value
Mask Network
Venture Round in 2020
Mask Network is a technology company founded in 2017 and based in Shanghai, China, that develops a platform enabling users to interact with social networks in a decentralized manner. The platform allows users to post encrypted messages, send and receive cryptocurrencies, and share files directly within existing social media platforms. By bridging Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, Mask Network facilitates decentralized applications (DApps) such as crypto payments, decentralized finance, and e-commerce, all while integrating seamlessly with popular social networks like Twitter. The company also supports funding for Gitcoin grant campaigns and aims to enhance user privacy and security online through its innovative features. Overall, Mask Network is focused on creating a decentralized ecosystem that empowers users without requiring them to migrate from their preferred social media platforms.
Serum is a decentralized on-chain cryptocurrency trading ecosystem built on Solana that enables trustless trading and cross-chain activity. It provides a full-limit order book and an interface familiar to users of centralized exchanges, delivering speed and low transaction costs through its on-chain architecture. The protocol is permissionless and community governed, combining DeFi transparency with usability for trading derivatives and other assets.
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. With a strong emphasis on options trading, Delta Exchange holds a prominent position in the global market, boasting a market share exceeding 25%. The platform supports USDT-settled options for various cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, solana, BNB, and Matic. Delta Exchange caters to both retail and institutional traders by providing advanced trading features such as multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders, thereby facilitating a comprehensive and user-friendly trading experience.