Cadenza Ventures

Founded in 2018, Cadenza Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York. It manages investment vehicles focused on decentralized technologies, with a global investment strategy targeting fintech, blockchain, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data infrastructure, and emerging markets sectors.

Jonathan Bier

Venture Partner

Kumar Dandapani

Managing Partner

Vipul Prakash

Venture Partner

Jason Bond Pratt

Investor

Max Shapiro

Managing Partner

Charles Srisuwananukorn

Venture Partner

Timothy Tickel

Venture Partner

Harris Wellner

Operating Partner

Charles L.

Investor

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Ribbon

Seed Round in 2025
Ribbon is an AI-powered job search tool that helps you discover your dream job faster. It offers a range of services tailored for your job search needs. From creating professional resumes to conducting mock interviews, Ribbon provides personalized guidance at every step of your job search.

Validation Cloud

Series A in 2025
Validation Cloud is a Swiss-based company specializing in Web3 data streaming and infrastructure. It connects organizations to Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform, offering customizable products in staking, node infrastructure, and data-as-a-service.

Hata

Seed Round in 2024
Hata is a regulated platform facilitating transactions between businesses and consumers, enabling access to cryptocurrencies using fiat currencies like the US Dollar and Malaysia Ringgit. It aims to provide safe and effortless access to cryptocurrency for all users through its commitment to customer service and regulatory compliance.

Validation Cloud

Venture Round in 2024
Validation Cloud is a Swiss-based company specializing in Web3 data streaming and infrastructure. It connects organizations to Web3 through a fast, scalable, and intelligent platform, offering customizable products in staking, node infrastructure, and data-as-a-service.

Uniblock

Seed Round in 2023
Uniblock is the world's first unified Web3 API that connects the most popular blockchain networks and protocols into one singular standard

Shuttle Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Lore is developing the network and consumer tooling to onboard the next 1B users.

Rubber Ducky Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Rubber Ducky Labs develops an AI-driven metadata enrichment platform that enhances product discovery for e-commerce teams. The tools provide AI-powered tagging that supports multi-modal inputs and require no technical expertise, enabling online retailers to improve personalization, search, marketing, and SEO through enriched catalog data. The company focuses on recommender-system capabilities to optimize how products are surfaced and recommended to shoppers, helping retailers refine catalog quality and discoverability across channels.

Clarified Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Clarified Labs provides web3 security solutions to protect websites and web applications from cyber threats such as hacking, malware, and viruses.

Lemon Cash

Series A in 2022
Lemon Cash operates a digital financial platform offering instant currency exchange, contactless international VISA card with cashback rewards, access to decentralized finance investments, margin trading, lending market, and crypto management services in Latin America.

zulu

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in Colombia in 2021, zulu is a cross-border payments fintech company led by CEO Esteban Villegas and CTO Julián Delgado. It specializes in secure and agile international money transfers, enabling users to buy digital dollars and protect against local currency devaluation. With over 400 clients, the company has processed nearly US$100 million across more than 50 countries.

Moon Mortgage

Seed Round in 2022
Moon Mortgage is a crypto lending platform that allows investors to use their cryptocurrency as collateral for real estate investments. By leveraging digital assets, Moon Mortgage finances 100% of both owner-occupied and investment properties, enabling borrowers to obtain loans based on the value of their crypto holdings. This innovative approach allows investors to purchase cash-flowing properties while benefiting from the appreciation of both real estate and cryptocurrency. Additionally, borrowers can take advantage of tax benefits, such as writing off depreciation and income. The company prioritizes security, storing crypto assets with Anchorage Digital to ensure the highest possible protection for its clients' investments.

Dapi

Seed Round in 2022
Dapi Ltd is a fintech company that specializes in developing an open banking application programming interface (API) designed to facilitate seamless payment transactions between consumer bank accounts and businesses. Established in 2019 and based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Dapi provides a suite of APIs that enable real-time access to customer bank accounts, payment initiation, and financial data retrieval. This functionality allows developers to create a variety of financial applications, including digital wallets and budget trackers, while also enabling fintech companies to offer services based on bank statement data. Operating in seven countries, including the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, South Africa, and Kuwait, Dapi has experienced significant demand for its services, achieving notable growth in annual recurring revenue.

Wizpace

Seed Round in 2022
Wizpace is a Swedish-Korean software company that specializes in developing a social trading platform aimed at enhancing investment decision-making. The platform offers users the ability to access transparent trading data, enabling them to manage their accounts effectively and engage with a community of active traders. Users can automatically replicate the trades of high-performing investors in the cryptocurrency market, gaining insights into their trading activities, including the types of assets traded and associated profit rates. By providing tools for marketing optimization and innovative advertising, Wizpace aims to help clients maximize their profits and make informed trading decisions.

League of Traders

Seed Round in 2022
League of Traders has the largest community of competitive crypto traders. Unlike other portfolio apps, League of Traders encourages its users to share their portfolio history and interact with one another, all while facilitating automated trading functions like copy trading. It facilitates trading by fostering an open and transparent community that prioritizes educating its user base while also having fun and socializing.

Stakes

Seed Round in 2022
Stakes is a New York-based social wagering platform that enhances the experience of sports betting by incorporating elements of social interaction. The company has developed a game prediction and chat application that allows users to make predictions on real-time sports events. Its platform features options for users to join or create public chat groups, facilitating discussions around sports predictions. Additionally, Stakes rewards users for accurately predicting the outcomes of sports matches, thereby engaging them in a community-oriented betting experience.

GamerGains

Seed Round in 2022
GamerGains operates a play-and-earn platform for traditional gamers on PCs and consoles like Xbox and PlayStation. Its user-friendly interface enables members to confidently earn cryptocurrency through fair, transparent contests with instant payouts.

Skry

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Skry provides data and insights on digital collectibles

Jewel banking services

Seed Round in 2022
Jewel is a banking service provider. It offers banking infrastructure for the digital asset economy. Their services include core banking, seamless banking across fiat and stablecoins, digital asset custody, and a full bank-as-a-service API, enabling digital asset businesses to undertake all their banking transactions, including those based on next-generation stablecoin infrastructure.

VALR

Series B in 2022
VALR is a Johannesburg, South Africa-based digital asset platform and cryptocurrency exchange that enables customers to buy, sell, store, transfer, and protect a broad range of digital assets, with more than 50 cryptocurrencies and a digital wallet service. The platform emphasizes secure, multi-layer protection and aims to provide access to financial services at a fair and transparent price.

PDAX | Philippine Digital Asset Exchange

Series B in 2022
PDAX is a digital currency exchange based in the Philippines that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, against the Philippine Peso. As the first order-book based exchange in the country, PDAX aims to provide users with a cost-effective way to access digital assets, addressing historical barriers to entry for the average Filipino investor. The platform features a trade matching engine that ensures liquidity and competitive pricing, while also offering various order types, including limit and stop orders. Additionally, it supports fund deposits and withdrawals through a network of online and offline channels, allowing for fair pricing and instant order execution, which enables traders to effectively track market trends.

Rain

Series B in 2022
Rain is a regulated digital currency exchange and custodian in the Middle East, founded in 2017 and based in Manama, Bahrain. It operates a licensed trading platform that enables clients to buy, sell, and store digital assets within a secure and compliant regulatory framework.

Momento NFT

Seed Round in 2021
Momento NFT is a social network focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that empowers content creators to monetize their work while allowing fans to own a piece of the moments they create. The platform utilizes blockchain technology to facilitate the sale of limited-edition content, enabling creators and brands to engage directly with their communities. Additionally, Momento NFT offers features that allow followers to earn rewards based on their interactions within the app, enhancing the relationship between creators and their audience. This innovative approach provides a new revenue stream for creators while enriching the fan experience.

Tibles

Seed Round in 2021
Tibles is a developer of a digital collecting ecosystem that operates on the Flow blockchain, focusing on ownership and the experience of collecting. The company provides a trading platform that serves as a marketplace for buying and selling digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs). By partnering with various brands, Tibles creates a diverse array of collectibles, including cards, comic books, sticker books, and multimedia objects. This platform not only facilitates transactions but also fosters a community for collectors, enhancing the overall engagement and value of digital collectibles in this evolving market.

Busha

Seed Round in 2021
Busha is a crypto platform that enables users to buy, sell, swap, and manage cryptocurrencies, offering a crypto-to-crypto exchange tool and support for major assets to provide consumers and merchants with instant access to digital currencies in one place.

Zebec

Seed Round in 2021
Zebec is a protocol on Solana that facilitates continuous settlement. It enables composable transfers of value, initially focusing on Stream Payroll.

Tulip Protocol

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Tulip Protocol decentralized application designed to allow the vault strategies to compound frequently. They provide an investment with risk rewards for any DeFi user. Their protocol offers three types of yield products, vaults, lending, and leveraged farming.

Unstoppable Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Unstoppable Finance is developing a next-generation cryptocurrency wallet aimed at making decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible to retail investors worldwide.

Breadcrumbs App

Seed Round in 2021
Breadcrumbs is a blockchain analytics platform that provides tools for investigating, monitoring, and tracking cryptocurrency transactions. The platform is designed to be accessible to a wide audience, allowing users from various backgrounds and budgets to gather and share relevant information about blockchain activities. By enabling users to analyze and understand blockchain transactions, Breadcrumbs aims to facilitate informed decision-making in the rapidly evolving landscape of cryptocurrency.

Vauld

Series A in 2021
Vauld is a Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform founded in 2018, with an additional office in Bengaluru, India. It provides a comprehensive online platform where users can lend, borrow, and trade various crypto assets, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and several stablecoins. Vauld's services include token borrowing, liquidity management, interest rate information, and repayment solutions, all aimed at enhancing the user experience in managing digital assets. The platform also offers integration services for enterprises, exchange solutions, and funds tracking, allowing for a seamless and efficient approach to crypto transactions. By treating cryptocurrencies as a distinct asset class, Vauld aims to facilitate user-friendly banking services leveraging blockchain technology.

Lemon Cash

Series A in 2021
Lemon Cash operates a digital financial platform offering instant currency exchange, contactless international VISA card with cashback rewards, access to decentralized finance investments, margin trading, lending market, and crypto management services in Latin America.

Matterless

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Matterless is a company focused on developing digital toys and companions that provide engaging social and entertaining experiences through artificial intelligence. Their flagship product, also named Matterless, utilizes advanced AI technology to create virtual pets that learn and evolve through interactions with users. This innovative approach enhances the naturalness and realism of these digital companions, fostering emotional connections between humans and technology. Matterless emphasizes the importance of community and seeks to create meaningful experiences that resonate with users, blending sophisticated technology with a sense of magic and connection.

Nayms

Seed Round in 2021
Nayms is a marketplace for crypto-native insurance, a bridge between alternative capital and uninsured risk in the rapidly evolving digital assets’ space. We provide the technical and legal infrastructure over which stakeholders come together to capitalise and transfer risk on-chain. At Nayms, all insurance, from limits and premiums to claims and reserving, is conducted entirely in a cryptocurrency of choice, whether a general token, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, or a stablecoin. By matching assets with liabilities, we reduce or eliminate currency risk on blockchain exposures; and by matching demand with much-needed supply, we bolster growth and stability within the blockchain ecosystem. We afford our customers – insurers, insureds, intermediaries, and investors – many other advantages of blockchain technology, including its efficiency, immutability, transparency, and composability. Whitepaper: https://docsend.com/view/2nswpepqqaun96yn

SuperWorld

Funding Round in 2021
SuperWorld is a blockchain-powered augmented reality platform that combines a virtual real estate marketplace, an ad marketplace, and a social AR experience. It lets users place photos, videos, texts, and 3D objects in the real world, buy and sell virtual properties, monetize activity on land, and trade digital assets within an immersive ecosystem. Brands can tag anything anywhere in AR to engage audiences, creating a social and commercial environment built on blockchain technology.

Stockal

Seed Round in 2021
Stockal is a platform for cross-border savings and investments that offers a global investing experience across mature capital markets. The platform supports investing across borders, multi-currency banking, and international payments, enabling investors, banks, fintechs, and edtech firms to manage portfolios, track performance, and identify investing themes and opportunities.

Casa

Seed Round in 2021
Casa offers a secure storage solution for consumers and companies to safely store their digital wealth. Casa helps users manage their private keys, through the multi-location security model that removes single points of failure and protects users from theft, accidents, and disasters, providing them with the tools for securing their digital lives.

Wyre

Venture Round in 2021
Wyre, established in 2013 and based in San Francisco, specializes in blockchain-based international payment solutions. Its platform facilitates real-time, same-day, and direct-to-bank transfers across borders, offering competitive foreign exchange rates and eliminating high fees, complex timings, and currency exchange worries. Wyre also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity services to various crypto projects and decentralized exchanges.

Nayms

Seed Round in 2021
Nayms is a marketplace for crypto-native insurance, a bridge between alternative capital and uninsured risk in the rapidly evolving digital assets’ space. We provide the technical and legal infrastructure over which stakeholders come together to capitalise and transfer risk on-chain. At Nayms, all insurance, from limits and premiums to claims and reserving, is conducted entirely in a cryptocurrency of choice, whether a general token, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, or a stablecoin. By matching assets with liabilities, we reduce or eliminate currency risk on blockchain exposures; and by matching demand with much-needed supply, we bolster growth and stability within the blockchain ecosystem. We afford our customers – insurers, insureds, intermediaries, and investors – many other advantages of blockchain technology, including its efficiency, immutability, transparency, and composability. Whitepaper: https://docsend.com/view/2nswpepqqaun96yn

FalconX

Venture Round in 2020
FalconX is a cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform founded in 2018. It provides trading solutions that give institutions reliable execution and cost efficiency in cryptocurrency markets. The platform uses data science to eliminate slippage and hidden fees, along with blockchain technology and machine learning to route mid-to-large size trades across multiple liquidity sources. FalconX offers trading, credit, and clearing services to hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, and other institutional clients seeking transparent, scalable digital asset execution.

ZEBEDEE

Seed Round in 2019
Zebedee, Inc., established in 2019 and based in Hoboken, New Jersey, specializes in integrating Bitcoin and Lightning Network support into digital gaming environments. Its platform, ZEBEDEE, enables game developers to facilitate in-game microtransactions using Bitcoin, allowing players to send, receive, and store limited quantities of the cryptocurrency within their games. This fosters a seamless, frictionless exchange of value between players, developers, streamers, and watchers, powering digital economies within these gaming environments.

Rain

Seed Round in 2019
Rain is a regulated digital currency exchange and custodian in the Middle East, founded in 2017 and based in Manama, Bahrain. It operates a licensed trading platform that enables clients to buy, sell, and store digital assets within a secure and compliant regulatory framework.

BlockFi

Seed Round in 2018
BlockFi, Inc. is a financial services firm that specializes in providing wealth management products for cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, BlockFi offers various services, including interest-bearing accounts for Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar, as well as USD loans secured by clients' crypto assets. The company allows clients to trade cryptocurrency pairs and provides tailored lending solutions for both individual and institutional clients. By facilitating liquidity for blockchain asset holders, BlockFi aims to enhance transparency and efficiency in digital financial markets. The organization employs a robust infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, positioning itself to adapt and expand its product offerings in response to the evolving needs of its users.

Injective Labs

Injective Labs is a software development company specializing in decentralized finance solutions. It is a core contributor to Injective, an open-source blockchain designed specifically for financial applications.
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