CoinFund Seed IV is an early stage venture capital fund managed by CoinFund. The fund is located in Brooklyn, New York. The fund target information technology sector.
OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences. The company was founded in 2021 by Will Weinraub and is headquartered in Miami Shores, Florida, United States.
Certora develops unique technology which supplements your programming experts and manual auditors by automatically detecting security vulnerabilities both before the code is deployed and during operation. The process is executed automatically and provides mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. For carefully defined properties of your software, Certora technology can completely guarantee the absence of security vulnerabilities.
Upshot is a blockchain-based protocol that incentivizes experts to answer subjective questions honestly and captures the value of truth. Its first product aims to provide an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs by paying experts for honest appraisals unlocking new opportunities for experts and enabling a number of powerful new DeFi primitives.
HAL provides blockchain monitoring services intended to create centralized lighthouses. It enables connection to any smart contract with centralized applications such as APIs, applications, CRMs, ERPs, emails, e-commerce, social networks, and messaging systems, enabling companies to connect Ethereum with the centralized applications.
Tibles operates a digital collecting ecosystem on the Flow blockchain, focusing on the value of ownership and the experience of collecting. The company has developed a trading platform that serves as a marketplace for digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs), enabling users to buy and sell unique digital collectibles. By collaborating with various brands, Tibles creates a diverse range of collectibles, including cards, comic books, sticker books, and multimedia objects. This platform not only facilitates transactions but also fosters a community among collectors, enhancing the overall experience of digital collecting.
GIANT Protocol is a blockchain protocol that aims to decentralize and democratize access to the internet and financial services, by tokenizing bandwidth. GIANT helps consumers become owners, telcos become banks, anyone becomes a connectivity or financial services provider, creating a connectivity economy that is open and accessible to all.
Holaplex offers independent artists, musicians, and creators user-friendly, no-cost tools to create and sell NFTs. The platform enables the establishment of personalized NFT stores and marketplaces, facilitating the discovery of emerging projects and artists for buyers and collectors. By leveraging the Metaplex protocol, Holaplex ensures fast and affordable NFT creation on the Solana blockchain. As an open-source and decentralized solution, the platform promotes community engagement and allows users to market and sell their NFTs effectively.
OnChain Studios is a software company that intends to bring ownership to interactive experiences. The company was founded in 2021 by Will Weinraub and is headquartered in Miami Shores, Florida, United States.
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City, Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform that enables individuals to invest in private companies with minimum contributions starting at $10. The platform focuses on providing access to investments in a variety of sectors, including startups, gaming, real estate, and cryptocurrencies. Republic caters to a diverse clientele comprising venture capital firms, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals, facilitating funding opportunities for innovative enterprises seeking capital from the general public.
Wincast is a pioneering live NFT bidding platform focused on enhancing the experience of sports fans by allowing them to bid on memorable moments during live events. Users can place bids on significant plays as they occur, with the highest bidder receiving an NFT collectible of that moment at the end of each quarter, round, or play. The platform facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of these digital sports collectibles through a secondary market and integrated wallet solutions, ensuring true ownership and authenticity of the assets. By combining real-time bidding with digital collectibles, Wincast aims to transform how fans engage with their favorite sports moments.
Blockdaemon Inc. is a blockchain node management platform that enables businesses, enterprises, and developers to efficiently deploy and manage blockchain applications. The company provides tools for exchanges, custodians, financial institutions, and developers to operate nodes across more than 30 blockchain protocols, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. Blockdaemon's solution is designed for easy portability, allowing users to switch between networks seamlessly without the need for complex configurations. Founded in 2013 and originally known as Trak Inc., Blockdaemon has its headquarters in Brooklyn, New York, with additional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Ireland. The company supports the blockchain developer ecosystem by offering expert advice in development operations.
Fuel Labs is a global decentralized group of passionate developers building the future of blockchain scalability technology. As the leader in blockchain scaling innovation, its engineers created the optimistic rollup design paradigm and have contributed to advancing the frontier of rollup, blockchain virtual machine, and safe smart contract programming language research.
Livepeer, Inc. develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. The company combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.
BlockArt
Pre Seed Round in 2021
BlockArt operates as an NFT-based protocol. BlockArt builds open source software and bootstraps a protocol and ecosystem empowering creators with NFT tooling and infrastructure at the intersection of creative coding tech, generative art, and blockchain data.
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City, Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform that enables individuals to invest in private companies with minimum contributions starting at $10. The platform focuses on providing access to investments in a variety of sectors, including startups, gaming, real estate, and cryptocurrencies. Republic caters to a diverse clientele comprising venture capital firms, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals, facilitating funding opportunities for innovative enterprises seeking capital from the general public.
Solana is a high-performance blockchain network designed for speed, security, and scalability, capable of processing up to 50,000 transactions per second. The platform supports a variety of applications, including distributed apps, marketplaces, and enterprise solutions, making it suitable for a wide range of industries. In addition to its blockchain infrastructure, Solana Ventures, founded in 2021 and based in San Francisco, focuses on venture capital investments within the gaming, digital assets, cryptocurrency, and blockchain sectors. This dual approach positions Solana as a significant player in the evolving landscape of decentralized technology and applications.
Tibles operates a digital collecting ecosystem on the Flow blockchain, focusing on the value of ownership and the experience of collecting. The company has developed a trading platform that serves as a marketplace for digital non-fungible tokens (NFTs), enabling users to buy and sell unique digital collectibles. By collaborating with various brands, Tibles creates a diverse range of collectibles, including cards, comic books, sticker books, and multimedia objects. This platform not only facilitates transactions but also fosters a community among collectors, enhancing the overall experience of digital collecting.
dClimate is the world's first transparent, decentralized marketplace where climate data, forecasts, and models are standardized, monetized, and distributed. The marketplace connects data publishers directly with data consumers, making climate data more accessible and reliable. When data providers share data and forecasts with the market it is automatically scored for reliability, which helps consumers to shop for information. In exchange, dClimate creates a simple, direct-to-consumer distribution mechanism to monetize their work.
Fold, Inc. operates a platform that allows users to earn bitcoin as cashback when shopping at various retailers using their credit cards or bitcoin wallets. Founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, the company offers an online service where users can link their credit or debit cards and convert bitcoin into digital gift cards, receiving instant bitcoin cashback. Fold's initial product enabled users to exchange old gift cards for bitcoin, while its subsequent offerings expanded to allow users to spend bitcoin at popular retailers like Starbucks. The company's mission focuses on making bitcoin accessible to a broader audience through practical applications in everyday shopping.
Shyft Network Inc operates and designs as a block chain network to aggregate all existing protocols. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Barbados, United Kingdom. As of December 11, 2019, Shyft Network Inc operates as a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc.
NFTfi is an NFT collateralized lending marketplace that can use NFT assets as collateral for a loan or lend to other users. It enables NFT holders to borrow cryptocurrency from lenders by using their NFTs as collateral. When they accept a loan offer, the NFT goes into a secure escrow smart contract and receives the wETH, DAI, or USDC from the lender directly to their wallet. To determine whether an NFT is worth a loan, users employ a common practice in the traditional art world in which banks, large galleries, or auction houses offer loans to artists.
Balancer Labs, Inc operates an exchange for decentralized finance. The company offers a platform for programmable liquidity. It offers exchange tokens without deposits, bids/asks, and order management. Balancer Labs, Inc was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.
Compass Mining is a mining and hosting platform that makes Bitcoin mining profitable for its users. The company aims to support the decentralized growth of hash rate and strengthen network security by helping more people, learn, explore, and mine bitcoin.
API3 is a company based in the Cayman Islands that specializes in providing decentralized application programming interfaces (APIs) for the web. It focuses on creating data feeds known as dAPIs, which aggregate information from first-party oracles. These oracles are operated by leading API providers, ensuring high-quality and reliable data for decentralized applications. By leveraging these resources, API3 aims to enhance the accessibility and functionality of decentralized systems, allowing developers to integrate real-world data into their applications seamlessly.
Niftex is a platform that facilitates fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). It enables investors to purchase fractions of various NFTs, including artwork, game assets, and personal brands. The platform allows NFT owners to convert their assets into fungible fractions, thereby increasing liquidity and enabling a broader range of participants to access valuable digital assets. By democratizing ownership in the NFT market, Niftex aims to make high-value collectibles more accessible to a wider audience.
Archax is a forthcoming global, regulated, digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London. Founded by experts from the regulated financial markets world and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the new blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space.
Boardroom Labs Inc. develops an integrated governance management platform designed to enhance decision-making and governance within various crypto networks. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, the company aims to enable stakeholder-owned platforms to scale effectively while considering the interests of all constituents. Boardroom Labs focuses on improving distributed management practices and values high standards in code quality, testing, and architecture. The company is dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment that encourages continuous learning and clear communication among its team members.
Manta Software, Inc. specializes in metadata management solutions that provide organizations with clear insights into their data flows. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Prague, Czech Republic. Manta's platform enhances data governance through lineage capabilities, enabling users to understand and visualize the journey of data across their systems. This self-service platform facilitates digital transformation by delivering actionable intelligence that accelerates development, shortens time-to-market, and modernizes processes. Furthermore, it supports data quality and security, making it an essential tool for organizations aiming to improve IT transparency and streamline operations.
Stacked develops an automated cryptocurrency investment platform. It enables everyone to invest in crypto indices, access trading bots, and automate portfolio management. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
ParaSwap Network SAS, established in 2020 and based in Paris, France, aggregates various decentralized exchanges into a single platform, addressing the liquidity challenges in the cryptocurrency market. By splitting orders across multiple exchanges, ParaSwap creates optimized and secure transactions, allowing users to access competitive market prices and high liquidity. Currently, the platform focuses on Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens, with plans to expand its services to encompass most major blockchains.
Serum is the world's first completely on-chain cryptocurrency ecosystem with trustless trading brought to you by Project Serum, in collaboration with a consortium of crypto trading and DeFi experts. Built on Solana, Serum is fast and efficient. While we built the Serum protocol, it is permissionless – we do not hold special power anymore. It is up to you, the crypto community, to use it as you will.
Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validitiy of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability by creating a general environment for multiple state machines.
Numerai, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, operates as a unique hedge fund that leverages a global network of data scientists. The firm invites these data scientists to contribute by creating predictive models, which are incentivized through the use of its own cryptocurrency. Numerai employs a long/short investment strategy in the public equity markets, aiming to capitalize on the collective intelligence of its contributors. This innovative approach combines finance and data science, allowing for collaboration while maintaining the anonymity of participants.
Delta Exchange is building the financial marketplace for tomorrow by pioneering derivatives for cryptocurrencies. Delta is a crypto native company that offers trading in futures that cryptocurrencies as both the underlying and settlement currencies. Products being traded on Delta include futures on bitcoin and leading altcoins (ether, ripple and stellar lumens). Delta takes pride in being a #TradersFirst exchange that provides 24/7/365 liquidity, unparalleled execution speed and enterprise-grade security to both retail and institutional traders.
NEAR Inc. is a company that develops the NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain platform designed for creating decentralized applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Protocol supports the development of open-source software and aims to facilitate mainstream adoption of decentralized technologies. The platform offers various services, including documentation, a wallet, a development studio, and an explorer, all built to enhance user experience and development efficiency. It is engineered to handle high-value assets securely while providing the necessary scalability for a wide range of decentralized applications. NEAR's focus on ease of use for both developers and end users distinguishes it in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.
PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.
Messari, Inc. operates a distributed data library focused on crypto assets, providing essential information about various projects, including their funding, development history, governance, and supply schedules related to inflation and vesting. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company aims to enhance transparency and facilitate informed decision-making within the crypto asset community. Its platform combines a global research database with a suite of data visualization and asset discovery tools, catering to researchers, investors, and regulators. By offering qualitative and quantitative analytics, Messari enables stakeholders to navigate the complexities of the crypto and Web3 landscapes with greater confidence.
NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform focused on protecting sensitive information. The company offers a product designed for sharing sensitive data while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its encryption layer allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By utilizing existing access policies, NuCypher enhances the security of big data applications against internal and external threats. Additionally, the company is committed to creating privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols, further advancing its mission in the field of cryptography.
3Box Inc. offers 3box.io, a social profiles application for Ethereum users and communities and 3box.js, an application program interface (API) for web3 developers to onboard users and set/get data to a profile. Additionally, the company offers 3box-dapp, allows users to create and manage their social profile, sign in to dapps, interact with other users, build a reputation, and store data.3Box Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City, Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform that enables individuals to invest in private companies with minimum contributions starting at $10. The platform focuses on providing access to investments in a variety of sectors, including startups, gaming, real estate, and cryptocurrencies. Republic caters to a diverse clientele comprising venture capital firms, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals, facilitating funding opportunities for innovative enterprises seeking capital from the general public.
GEO Protocol, a financial technology company, provides solution for decentralized P2P network that allows participants to exchange assets, connecting crypto, and traditional wealth. It offers an infrastructure for applications of various types and purposes, including payment solutions, IoT solutions, loyalty programs, cross-chain DEX, clearing systems, and rating systems and delegated democracy. The company is based in Estonia.
Archax is a forthcoming global, regulated, digital securities exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London. Founded by experts from the regulated financial markets world and backed by an accomplished advisory board, Archax offers a credible bridge between the new blockchain-centric crypto community and the traditional investment space.
The Graph is the indexing and query layer of the decentralized web. Developers build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph, and the decentralized network will launch later this year.
The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, POA, and IPFS, with more networks coming soon. To date, ~1,700 subgraphs have been deployed for dApps like Aragon, Uniswap, Synthetix, Balancer, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, and Decentraland.
DFINITY Foundation, based in Zug, Switzerland, is a not-for-profit organization that focuses on developing the Internet Computer, a decentralized cloud computing platform that enhances the internet's functionality. This platform allows users to build and host systems and services in a tamper-proof environment. Central to its offerings is the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP), which enables independent data centers to pool their computing resources, thereby creating a public compute platform with secure, serverless functionality. DFINITY also provides the Canister software development kit (SDK) to facilitate the creation of software systems that operate on the Internet Computer. Founded in 2014, DFINITY aims to democratize internet services and challenge the dominance of major technology firms by fostering a decentralized internet ecosystem for developers and entrepreneurs worldwide. The organization operates research centers in multiple global locations, including Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Tokyo, to further its mission.
Witnet Foundation is focused on developing a decentralized oracle network that links smart contracts to various online data sources. Founded in 2018 and based in Madrid, Spain, Witnet operates with minable tokens known as Wit. Originally conceived by Stampery, a leader in blockchain data certification, the Witnet protocol is now collaboratively developed by the Witnet Foundation and a community of independent contributors. The foundation's mission encompasses ensuring the successful development and deployment of the Witnet protocol, promoting its sustainability, and fostering an ecosystem of applications built upon it. While the foundation will initially play a significant role in guiding the project, it aims to gradually shift responsibility to the broader community as the project matures.
NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform focused on protecting sensitive information. The company offers a product designed for sharing sensitive data while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its encryption layer allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By utilizing existing access policies, NuCypher enhances the security of big data applications against internal and external threats. Additionally, the company is committed to creating privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols, further advancing its mission in the field of cryptography.
CoinList is a San Francisco-based platform established in 2017 that facilitates token sales for digital asset companies. The platform connects blockchain projects with their communities prior to their assets being listed on other exchanges. It serves a diverse clientele within the digital asset ecosystem, including notable firms like Protocol Lab and Blockstack. CoinList offers services that enable token issuers to list their tokens and provides traders with opportunities for staking and access to decentralized finance. By bridging the gap between token developers and potential investors, CoinList plays a significant role in the growth and development of the blockchain industry.
Kadena provides a hybrid blockchain platform, featuring the only sharded and scalable layer-1 PoW public network. Kadena solves the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security issues of Ethereum. Kadena's founders created JP Morgan's first blockchain and worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Kadena is live with partners including Cosmos and USCF (a $3 billion fund). For more information, visit www.kadena.io or follow @kadena_io on Twitter.
Stream is a new decentralized blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to easily and anonymously accept payments from their audience members anywhere in the world, with extremely low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.
LedgerX LLC operates an online institutional derivatives exchange platform specifically for digital currencies. Founded in 2013 and based in Vail, Colorado, the company has sought registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to function as a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. Formerly known as NYBX INC, LedgerX is focused on providing a regulated environment for trading digital currency futures and options. The platform features physical settlement of contracts, block trading, and algorithmic trading, enabling both individual traders and institutions to transact in cryptocurrencies efficiently. As a subsidiary of NYBX LLC, LedgerX is positioned to enhance the trading landscape for digital assets.
Tlon is the corporate vehicle of the open-source Urbit software stack (urbit.org). Urbit is a clean-slate reimplementation of the whole system software stack. On the bottom it's a replacement of the lambda calculus, in the middle it's a new functional programming language, on top it's a purely functional network operating system in which address space is property. Tlon owns approximately half of the entire address-space on the Urbit network. The goal is to create a new layer over the Internet the way the Internet layered over the PSTN. This layer can also earn adoption by providing Internet services. On the Internet, your Urbit ship is a general-purpose personal cloud computer which replaces the 47 special-purpose cloud silos you're currently using. Tlon's mission is to contribute to the development of Urbit, to provide hosting services for Urbit ships, and to develop other possible business applications on top of the Urbit stack.
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