CoinFund

CoinFund, established in 2015, is a New York-based venture capital firm specializing in crypto and blockchain investments. It invests in seed, venture, and liquid stage companies operating within the web3 sector, and also engages in fundamental equity strategies across various digital assets. As a Registered Investment Adviser, CoinFund provides research and advisory services alongside its investment activities.

Vangelis Andrikopoulos

Analyst

Austin Barack

Investor

Einar H. Braathen

Investor

Jake Brukhman

Managing Partner

Wendy Diamond

Investor

Billy Dishman

Principal

Alex Felix

Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner

Evan Feng

Partner

Christian Murray

Research Analyst

David Pakman

Managing Partner

Christopher Perkins

President

Isaiah Washington

Analyst

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Pluralis Research

Seed Round in 2025
Pluralis Research is an AI startup that develops a decentralized AI platform. This platform enables secure and collaborative machine learning across organizations by pooling computational resources, allowing multiple participants to train models together without any single entity accessing the complete model. This approach encourages open participation without upfront costs and ensures economic sustainability for creators.

Rho Protocol

Seed Round in 2025
Rho Protocol is a decentralized trading platform specializing in the derivatives market. It facilitates non-custodial, on-chain trading of crypto-native and traditional finance (tradfi) interest rates, using a proprietary concentrated liquidity virtual automatic market maker and margin engine. This enables users to trade rates such as staking rewards and perpetual funding rates, without counterparty risk and with enhanced capital efficiency.

Pluralis Research

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Pluralis Research is an AI startup that develops a decentralized AI platform. This platform enables secure and collaborative machine learning across organizations by pooling computational resources, allowing multiple participants to train models together without any single entity accessing the complete model. This approach encourages open participation without upfront costs and ensures economic sustainability for creators.

Icebreaker

Seed Round in 2024
Icebreaker is a cutting-edge, open professional network.

Raad Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Raad Labs is a technology company specializing in blockchain and climate solutions. It offers a decentralized environmental monitoring network, utilizing a distributed network of meteorological sensors, blockchain-enabled data incentivization, and web3 technology. This enables businesses to access hyper-localized weather data, enhancing their ability to mitigate climate-related risks and improve environmental sustainability.

STON.fi

Seed Round in 2024
STON.fi is a decentralized automated market maker (AMM) operating on the TON blockchain. The company focuses on providing a user-friendly interface that enables seamless trading experiences for its customers. Through direct integration with TON wallets, STON.fi allows users to effortlessly swap Toncoin for various coins and tokens, ensuring optimal rates with virtually no fees and low slippage. By prioritizing simplicity and efficiency, STON.fi aims to enhance accessibility in the decentralized exchange market.

Prime Intellect

Seed Round in 2024
Prime Intellect is a technology company that specializes in democratizing artificial intelligence (AI) development. Its platform facilitates the discovery of global computing resources, enabling the training of advanced AI models through distributed training across various clusters. The company's unique approach allows for collective ownership of open AI innovations, ranging from language models to scientific breakthroughs, thereby promoting collaborative AI development on a global scale.

GEODNET

Seed Round in 2024
GEODNET is a decentralized network that focuses on collecting and sharing geospatial data, particularly related to the effects of solar winds on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals. By utilizing a network of Space Weather mining stations, GEODNET provides real-time data that enhances the accuracy of GNSS signals, achieving centimeter-level positioning and nanosecond-level time precision. The applications for this data span various industries, including automotive navigation, agriculture, construction, earthquake monitoring, and land surveying. Additionally, GEODNET explores innovative uses of its data in blockchain applications such as decentralized mapping, digital twins for the metaverse, location-aware smart contracts, and proof of location and time. The native utility token, GEOD, facilitates transaction fees for data services, rewards for Space Weather miners, and governance voting on network resource allocation, as well as serving as gas for the future GEODNET blockchain functionality.

Monad

Series A in 2024
Monad is a proof-of-stake blockchain and decentralized computation platform that focuses on high performance and portability. It features a scalar architecture with pipelined execution, which allows for efficient transaction throughput. This innovative design enables developers to create complex decentralized applications (dApps) capable of processing a large volume of transactions quickly. By combining advanced technology with a user-friendly framework, Monad aims to enhance the overall functionality and scalability of decentralized applications in the blockchain ecosystem.

Gunzilla Games

Initial Coin Offering in 2024
Gunzilla Games is an independent video game studio dedicated to creating AAA games that emphasize player engagement and immersive experiences. The company is known for its innovative approach, utilizing advanced technology to develop games that transcend traditional gaming boundaries. Currently, Gunzilla Games is working on 'Off The Grid,' a cyberpunk battle royale game that incorporates highly customizable weapons and cutting-edge 3D scanning technology. Through its commitment to delivering deeply engaging gaming experiences, Gunzilla Games strives to redefine how players interact with and enjoy video games.

Crypto Rogue Games

Seed Round in 2024
Crypto Rogue Games is a gaming and blockchain platform.

Wincast

Seed Round in 2024
Wincast is a company that offers infrastructure software as a service (SaaS) and advertising technology designed for sports organizations and sponsors. Its primary focus is to create real-time branded gaming experiences for fans. Additionally, Wincast has developed a non-fungible token streaming platform that aims to enhance entertainment experiences and facilitate ownership of digital collectibles. This platform allows users to engage with their favorite sports players and teams by bidding, collecting, and trading unique digital assets on the blockchain, ensuring authenticity and true ownership. Through these innovative offerings, Wincast enhances fan engagement and participation in the sports entertainment landscape.

Bagel

Pre Seed Round in 2024
A deep machine learning and cryptography research lab. Building a credibly neutral, peer-to-peer machine learning ecosystem.

Digital Infrastructure Services

Series A in 2024
Digital Infrastructure Services offers a diverse team that collaborates with clients in robotics, mobility, communications, logistics, and real estate specializes in complicated multi-stakeholder initiatives, and works at the crossroads of cutting-edge technology and commercial reality.

Sindri

Seed Round in 2023
Sindri develops solutions for difficult issues confronting the crypto industry. The company is based in Denver, Colorado.

Superstate

Series A in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.

P0x Labs

Series A in 2023
P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.

Manta Network

Series A in 2023
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.

Giza

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.

Neutron

Seed Round in 2023
Neutron is a smart-contracts blockchain platform that provides cross-chain applications that leverage bleeding-edge Interchain technology with minimal overhead for the Cosmos ecosystem.

Superstate

Seed Round in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.

Gensyn

Series A in 2023
Gensyn develops a machine learning computing protocol that connects global compute hardware resources like GPUs and CPUs. It enables engineers, researchers, and academics to access these resources securely for deep learning models without compromising data privacy or compliance.

Tableland

Series A in 2023
Tableland is a decentralized relational database designed for web3 developers. Built upon SQLite, it enables creation of complex data models for decentralized applications, games, NFTs, and more.

LI.FI

Series A in 2023
LI.FI is a developer of DeFi middleware that offers a comprehensive solution for navigating the complexities of a multi-chain environment. Its platform serves as a bridge and decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregation protocol, facilitating seamless cross-chain transactions and liquidity flows. By abstracting the essential infrastructure needed to move assets across different blockchain networks, LI.FI enables users, including traditional finance entities, to engage effectively with cryptocurrency. The platform simplifies the process of connecting various components such as RPCs, cross-chain bridges, DEXs, and token lists, while also providing critical features like analytics and fail-safety measures. This allows developers to enhance user experience and focus on their core value propositions, thereby driving innovation within the DeFi space.

Ghost Message

Seed Round in 2023
Ghost Message enables users to send an anonymous message to pals in a group chat to flirt, make jokes, or pose queries.

Intu

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Intu is a technology company that develops decentralized protocols for shared ownership of digital assets on EVM-compatible chains. Its core product is a protocol that enables users to easily share, recover, or change ownership of their assets while maintaining high levels of security and account integrity. Intu's distributed externally-owned-accounts (dEOA) marry the composability of smart contract wallets with the security of an EOA, providing a robust and user-friendly solution for blockchain developers. The company's toolkit also includes a simple SDK for developers to create progressive onboarding experiences for web3 dApps and wallets, streamlining user onboarding and enhancing security.

Rainmaker Games

Seed Round in 2022
Rainmaker Games is a play-to-earn gaming company that gives players free access to play hundreds of P2E games, explore in-game content, receive coaching from top international players, connect with other players globally, and gain access to a cutting-edge NFT lending and borrowing marketplace. Gamers of all skill levels can benefit from Rainmaker Games' ability to switch between games, learn the rules of each one, manage their money, and gain exclusive access to the NFT vault.

Earn Alliance

Seed Round in 2022
Earn Alliance is a developer of a metaverse and gaming platform focused on empowering gamers to realize their full potential in the realm of web3. The company aims to build vibrant communities and provide essential tools that inspire and nurture the web3 gaming movement. Founded by a group of individuals passionate about merging blockchain technology with video games, Earn Alliance has positioned itself at the forefront of a rapidly evolving sector that has generated significant economic activity. The platform serves as a catalyst for gamers to explore new opportunities, forge connections, and enhance their gaming experiences within blockchain-powered universes. Through its initiatives, Earn Alliance strives to shape the future of gaming, fostering an environment where players can engage and thrive in innovative digital landscapes.

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.

Sherlock

Seed Round in 2022
Sherlock Protocol is a company that operates an audit marketplace and smart contract coverage protocol on the Ethereum blockchain. Its primary focus is on safeguarding Decentralized Finance (DeFi) users from smart contract exploits. The platform offers security reviews conducted by top auditors, complemented by smart contract coverage for the audited contracts. By leveraging blockchain technology, Sherlock Protocol assesses the fundamental risks associated with DeFi platforms and provides affordable, reliable protection against smart contract vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing the security of Web3 projects within the decentralized ecosystem.

Fuel Labs

Venture Round in 2022
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.

GoGoPool

Seed Round in 2022
GoGoPool is a developer of a decentralized staking protocol platform that focuses on simplifying the launch of subnets on the blockchain. The company offers tools designed to facilitate the creation of the subnet economy, addressing the challenges entrepreneurs encounter when establishing the necessary infrastructure. By enabling users to stake their tokens, GoGoPool allows them to participate in the verification of transactions on the network, while also earning rewards for their contributions. Through its innovative platform, GoGoPool aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency in the decentralized ecosystem.

Comm Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is focused on enhancing end-to-end (E2E) encryption through the development of a crypto-native messaging platform. This platform allows users to acquire non-fungible tokens (NFTs) while maintaining their online anonymity. By utilizing personal private servers and key servers, Comm Technologies offers a web3 chat solution that ensures secure communication and adheres to specific notification restrictions. This approach enables clients to manage their communications effectively through a unified inbox, while also facilitating the scaling of E2E encryption for enhanced privacy.

Wincast

Seed Round in 2022
Wincast is a company that offers infrastructure software as a service (SaaS) and advertising technology designed for sports organizations and sponsors. Its primary focus is to create real-time branded gaming experiences for fans. Additionally, Wincast has developed a non-fungible token streaming platform that aims to enhance entertainment experiences and facilitate ownership of digital collectibles. This platform allows users to engage with their favorite sports players and teams by bidding, collecting, and trading unique digital assets on the blockchain, ensuring authenticity and true ownership. Through these innovative offerings, Wincast enhances fan engagement and participation in the sports entertainment landscape.

Datawisp

Seed Round in 2022
Datawisp offers a no-code data analysis and exploration platform that helps results-oriented decision makers uncover factors driving their KPIs by exploring their business data. Users can ask questions in plain English and receive answers from Wispy, an AI agent. The platform enables both developers and non-developers to use data across functions such as product design, sales, and operations, with a focus on applications in the metaverse and gaming industries.

Cryptoys

Series A in 2022
Cryptoys is a software company that operates an NFT studio and platform for creating, buying, selling, and collecting digital toys tied to popular franchises. The platform enables interactive experiences on the blockchain, allowing users to explore an immersive world with their Cryptoys collectibles and participate in unboxing-style reveals. It targets family-friendly use and includes safety features such as ChatGuardian to provide a secure environment for children interacting with NFTs. In addition to standard listings, Cryptoys hosts livestream events to unveil new collectibles and offers exclusive NFT gifts, reinforcing its emphasis on community-driven digital toys and blockchain-based play.

Certora

Series B in 2022
Certora develops automated software security technology. It supplements programming experts and manual auditors by detecting vulnerabilities before deployment and during operation. The platform provides mathematical proofs of correctness daily for defined properties, ensuring the absence of security vulnerabilities.

Socket Supply

Seed Round in 2022
Socket Supply develops tools that assist software developers in deploying applications to various cloud platforms.

Leap Wallet

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Leap Wallet is a developer of a non-custodial wallet that provides users with access to decentralized applications (dApps), staking, decentralized finance (DeFi), and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on a single platform. The company offers a web3-based wallet accompanied by a web extension, allowing users to perform various functions such as sending, receiving, swapping, and staking tokens. Additionally, Leap Wallet enables users to explore NFT and DeFi opportunities, streamlining the experience of engaging with blockchain technology.

PILabs

Venture Round in 2022
PILabs is an agency for creators and startups.

Phi Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Phi Labs is a company dedicated to developing blockchain tools and protocols that empower developers, creators, and entrepreneurs. It contributes to the Archway protocol, which incentivizes blockchain developers for their contributions. With a global team of web pioneers, Phi Labs focuses on creating open-source solutions that enhance the accessibility of application development, fostering innovation within the blockchain ecosystem. Through its efforts, the company aims to simplify the process of building decentralized applications, thus supporting the growth of the blockchain community.

World

Series B in 2022
World is a technology company specializing in secure digital asset management. It operates the World App, which enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps within a privacy-focused network.

Allora Labs

Series A in 2022
Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol focused on providing reliable appraisals for digital assets, particularly in the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company offers a platform that incentivizes experts to deliver honest insights, facilitating an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs. By compensating these experts for their evaluations, Allora Labs captures the value of truthful information and creates new opportunities within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Its technology employs machine learning to analyze data, enabling crypto builders to optimize strategies, quantify risks, and make informed decisions based on real-time NFT appraisals. Through its innovative approach, Allora Labs aims to enhance the credibility and reliability of information in the digital asset market.

Crypto Unicorns

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Crypto Unicorns is a Web3 game development and research and development studio.

HAL

Seed Round in 2022
HAL specializes in providing blockchain monitoring services that facilitate the integration of decentralized technologies with centralized applications. The company offers a no-code web3 infrastructure designed to connect various smart contracts seamlessly with systems such as APIs, CRMs, ERPs, e-commerce platforms, and social networks. This capability allows businesses to automate and query blockchain data efficiently, streamlining operations and enhancing connectivity between blockchain networks and traditional applications. By creating centralized lighthouses, HAL empowers companies to harness the potential of Ethereum while maintaining compatibility with existing technologies.

Solvo

Seed Round in 2022
Solvo develops an iOS app for simplified crypto investments. Its platform facilitates buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies with streamlined account opening and money transfer processes.

Space Metaverse

Seed Round in 2021
Space Metaverse is a virtual commerce platform that enables users to build a life and career within a realistic 3D environment. It offers access to a user-owned immersive 3D social platform where individuals can create content, establish businesses, find employment opportunities, and collaborate with others.

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.

GIANT Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
GIANT Protocol is a blockchain-based initiative focused on decentralizing and democratizing access to internet and financial services. The company enables users to transform mobile minutes and data into monetary value, allowing phone numbers to function as cross-chain wallets. By tokenizing bandwidth, GIANT empowers consumers to become owners and enables telecommunications companies to operate as financial institutions. This innovative approach fosters a connectivity economy that is open and accessible to all, allowing anyone to become a provider of connectivity or financial services.

Rainmaker Games

Seed Round in 2021
Rainmaker Games is a play-to-earn gaming company that gives players free access to play hundreds of P2E games, explore in-game content, receive coaching from top international players, connect with other players globally, and gain access to a cutting-edge NFT lending and borrowing marketplace. Gamers of all skill levels can benefit from Rainmaker Games' ability to switch between games, learn the rules of each one, manage their money, and gain exclusive access to the NFT vault.

Holaplex

Seed Round in 2021
Holaplex is a developer of an enterprise-grade platform that empowers independent artists, musicians, and creators to create and sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) easily and at no cost. The company offers a no-code solution that allows creators to quickly establish their own NFT stores and marketplaces. By leveraging the Metaplex protocol, Holaplex facilitates fast and low-cost NFT creation on the Solana blockchain. Additionally, the platform serves as a decentralized NFT storefront creation tool, utilizing an open-source social graph to connect creators with collectors. With over 2,000 stores available, Holaplex provides buyers and collectors with opportunities to discover emerging projects and rising artists in the NFT space.

Hxro

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Hxro specializes in crypto trading, offering users options to speculate on cryptocurrency prices, hedge risks, and automate trades through its user-friendly platform.

Cryptoys

Seed Round in 2021
Cryptoys is a software company that operates an NFT studio and platform for creating, buying, selling, and collecting digital toys tied to popular franchises. The platform enables interactive experiences on the blockchain, allowing users to explore an immersive world with their Cryptoys collectibles and participate in unboxing-style reveals. It targets family-friendly use and includes safety features such as ChatGuardian to provide a secure environment for children interacting with NFTs. In addition to standard listings, Cryptoys hosts livestream events to unveil new collectibles and offers exclusive NFT gifts, reinforcing its emphasis on community-driven digital toys and blockchain-based play.

World

Venture Round in 2021
World is a technology company specializing in secure digital asset management. It operates the World App, which enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps within a privacy-focused network.

Bridgesplit

Seed Round in 2021
​Bridgesplit is an specialty asset-based lending platform that enables marketplaces, custodians, and other asset management platforms to offer financing to their customers. Business and consumers use Bridgesplit to access flexible and affordable financing collateralized by assets underserved by banks like high-grade spirits, IP, climate assets, collectibles, and more.

Wincast

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Wincast is a company that offers infrastructure software as a service (SaaS) and advertising technology designed for sports organizations and sponsors. Its primary focus is to create real-time branded gaming experiences for fans. Additionally, Wincast has developed a non-fungible token streaming platform that aims to enhance entertainment experiences and facilitate ownership of digital collectibles. This platform allows users to engage with their favorite sports players and teams by bidding, collecting, and trading unique digital assets on the blockchain, ensuring authenticity and true ownership. Through these innovative offerings, Wincast enhances fan engagement and participation in the sports entertainment landscape.

Fuel Labs

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Blockdaemon

Series B in 2021
Blockdaemon facilitates blockchain deployment by offering a node management platform that supports over 30 protocols. It empowers businesses and developers to quickly launch and manage blockchain applications, with tools for exchanges, custodians, and financial institutions.

Livepeer

Series B in 2021
Livepeer develops an open platform for decentralized live video broadcasting. It combines blockchain technology, economic incentives, and open media servers to enable peer-to-peer networks for live streaming.

BlockArt

Pre Seed Round in 2021
The BlockArt protocol and ecosystem empower creators with NFT tooling for blockchain-generated data art.

Republic

Debt Financing in 2021
Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform based in New York City, founded in 2016. It provides individuals the opportunity to invest in startups, real estate, cryptocurrencies, and video games, thus enabling a diverse range of investment options for the general public. With a commitment to promoting a sustainable and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from more than one million members worldwide. The company serves a broad client base that includes venture capital firms, family offices, and high net-worth individuals. Supported by prominent backers such as Galaxy Digital and The Motley Fool, Republic operates with a global team across six countries, reflecting its international reach and influence in the investment landscape.

Rarible

Series A in 2021
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.

Solana

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a blockchain technology company, established in 2021, specializing in the development of a decentralized, scalable blockchain platform. The platform, validated by thousands of independent nodes, ensures robust security and resistance to censorship. It leverages proof of history and concurrent GPU parallelization to deliver high-speed, low-latency, and inexpensive transactions, enabling users to scale without sharding or specialized hardware.

Hxro

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Hxro specializes in crypto trading, offering users options to speculate on cryptocurrency prices, hedge risks, and automate trades through its user-friendly platform.

Dynasty Studios

Seed Round in 2021
Dynasty Studios is a game development company aiming to pioneer Web3 gaming. They create games with a focus on integrating blockchain technology for player-driven experiences.

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.

dClimate

Seed Round in 2021
dClimate operates the world's first transparent, decentralized marketplace for climate data. It standardizes, monetizes, and distributes climate data, forecasts, and models, connecting publishers directly with consumers. The platform automatically scores data reliability, aiding consumer decisions, while providing a direct-to-consumer distribution mechanism for providers to monetize their work.

Fold

Series A in 2021
Fold is a bitcoin financial services company offering a consumer platform that enables users to earn bitcoin cashback as they shop with linked credit or debit cards and a bitcoin wallet. The platform supports syncing cards, transferring bitcoin to digital gift cards, and receiving bitcoin cashback instantly. It also provides a crypto and cash management experience that lets users buy, sell, and manage bitcoin and dollars, with rewards of up to 1.5% on eligible purchases; premium members enjoy a no-fee transaction experience. Fold aims to expand access to bitcoin by delivering a suite of consumer financial products that let customers earn, accumulate, and utilize bitcoin in everyday life.

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.

Shyft

Venture Round in 2021
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.

NFTFi

Seed Round in 2021
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.

Balancer Labs

Series A in 2021
Balancer Labs is a decentralized finance company that operates a platform for programmable liquidity and custom automated market makers. The platform enables the creation and management of custom liquidity pools and supports non-custodial portfolio management, liquidity provision, and price sensing. It offers streamlined pool creation and flexible architecture through features such as hooks and vaults, allowing developers to focus on innovation while benefiting from security, scalability, and interoperability within the DeFi ecosystem. The solution emphasizes user protection and open, permissionless access to liquidity markets, replacing traditional order books with automated market making for efficient token exchanges.

Rarible

Seed Round in 2021
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.

Compass Mining

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Compass Mining is a mining and hosting platform that aims to make Bitcoin mining profitable for its users. The company supports the decentralized growth of hash rate and strengthens network security by broadening access to mining and education so more people can learn about, explore, and participate in Bitcoin mining. It provides tools and information related to mining equipment, including purchase prices, monthly hosting fees, estimated online dates, miner efficiency, as well as current Bitcoin price and network difficulty, helping users make informed mining purchases.

API3

Seed Round in 2020
API3 develops a decentralized infrastructure for connecting blockchain applications to off-chain data providers. Its platform, API3, aggregates data from first-party oracles operated by premier API providers, enabling seamless and secure data exchange without intermediaries.

NIFTEX

Seed Round in 2020
NIFTEX is a platform that facilitates fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). It provides a self-service interface for investors to purchase fractions of various NFTs, including artwork, game assets, and personal brands. By enabling NFT owners to convert their assets into fungible fractions, NIFTEX allows them to sell portions of their NFTs, thereby increasing liquidity and making valuable assets more accessible to a wider audience in the NFT market.

Boardroom Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Boardroom Labs Inc is a New York-based company that specializes in developing an integrated governance management platform tailored for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and crypto networks. Founded in 2020, the company aims to facilitate faster, smarter, and more informed decision-making for stakeholders by providing tools that allow users to interact, signal, and vote on governance proposals. Boardroom Labs focuses on enhancing distributed decision-making, enabling token holders, issuers, and delegates to participate seamlessly in governance processes across various protocols. The organization is committed to high standards in code quality and architecture while fostering an inclusive environment that values positive energy and continuous learning.

Manta

Series A in 2020
Manta Software, Inc. specializes in developing metadata management solutions that focus on data lineage and governance. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, with an additional office in Prague, the company offers a platform that allows organizations to visualize data flows and enhance understanding of how data moves within their systems. This self-service platform provides actionable intelligence that aids in accelerating development, reducing time-to-market, and modernizing processes. Manta’s solutions support digital transformation initiatives, improve IT transparency, and facilitate self-service access for businesses, while ensuring data quality and security. By enabling comprehensive visibility and control over data pipelines, Manta helps corporate clients strengthen their data governance strategies.

Path

Venture Round in 2020
Path is an SEC Registered Investment Advisor that allows anyone to access automated crypto portfolios. After completing a suitability assessment, Path builds your portfolio and manages it for you. You can also buy, hold, and swap cryptos directly from the app. Regulated, safe, trusted. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

ParaSwap

Seed Round in 2020
ParaSwap is a decentralized finance platform aiming to address liquidity issues in crypto markets. It aggregates multiple exchange protocols onto one platform, empowering users with competitive market prices and high liquidity.

Rarible

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.

Serum

Venture Round in 2020
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.

Polkadot

Secondary Market in 2020
Polkadot is an interoperability protocol that enables independent blockchains to securely exchange data and assets. It facilitates communication between these chains, enforcing message order and validity, and offers scalability by supporting multiple state machines.

Polkadot

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Polkadot is an interoperability protocol that enables independent blockchains to securely exchange data and assets. It facilitates communication between these chains, enforcing message order and validity, and offers scalability by supporting multiple state machines.

Opyn

Seed Round in 2020
Opyn is a decentralized protocol specializing in optimizing options trading. It enables users to earn premiums or express views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20 tokens. Opyn offers European, cash-settled options that auto-exercise upon expiry, with oTokens being ERC20s tradable on compatible decentralized exchanges.

Numerai

Funding Round in 2020
Numerai, LLC is a hedge fund firm founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, California. It operates a unique investment approach by leveraging a global network of data scientists to develop predictive models for the stock market. The company transforms and regularizes financial data into machine learning challenges, allowing participants to engage in data science tournaments focused on stock market predictions. This innovative platform not only facilitates the creation of sophisticated investment strategies but also promotes a collaborative environment where data scientists can contribute to the firm's investment decisions. Through this model, Numerai aims to enhance investment returns and foster profitable outcomes for its investors.

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.

NEAR

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.

PROPS

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
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.

Aragon

Seed Round in 2020
Aragon is a blockchain-based platform that enables the creation and governance of organizations, including decentralized autonomous organizations, by providing modular tools for governance, contract upgrades, and a decentralized court. The platform aims to disintermediate bureaucratic overhead and empower individuals to manage entities such as companies, projects, NGOs and foundations in a borderless, permissionless environment, enhancing transparency and efficiency through blockchain-backed governance and dispute resolution.

Messari

Venture Round in 2019
Messari, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that operates a platform dedicated to providing comprehensive market intelligence for crypto assets. It offers a distributed data library that includes detailed information on various crypto projects, including their funding, development history, governance structures, and supply schedules. Messari aims to enhance industry transparency by combining qualitative and quantitative analytics, along with a global research database. Its tools and resources are designed to support researchers, investors, and regulators in making informed decisions within the crypto and Web3 space. By delivering deep analysis, news, and data visualization capabilities, Messari helps professionals navigate the complexities of the cryptocurrency market with greater confidence.

NuCypher

Initial Coin Offering in 2019
NuCypher is a cryptography company that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform aimed at enhancing data privacy and security. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, the company provides solutions for storing, sharing, and managing sensitive data on public blockchains. Its platform allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether hosted in the cloud or on-premises, while maintaining compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements. NuCypher's technology facilitates secure, auditable sharing of data, making it easier for companies to execute big data projects while protecting against internal and external threats.

Fold

Seed Round in 2019
Fold is a bitcoin financial services company offering a consumer platform that enables users to earn bitcoin cashback as they shop with linked credit or debit cards and a bitcoin wallet. The platform supports syncing cards, transferring bitcoin to digital gift cards, and receiving bitcoin cashback instantly. It also provides a crypto and cash management experience that lets users buy, sell, and manage bitcoin and dollars, with rewards of up to 1.5% on eligible purchases; premium members enjoy a no-fee transaction experience. Fold aims to expand access to bitcoin by delivering a suite of consumer financial products that let customers earn, accumulate, and utilize bitcoin in everyday life.

3Box Labs

Seed Round in 2019
3Box Labs is a technology company based in New York that specializes in decentralized identity and data management solutions for web3 applications. Founded in 2018, it offers a suite of products including 3box.io, a social profiles application tailored for Ethereum users, and 3box.js, an API that facilitates user onboarding and data management for developers. Additionally, 3Box provides the 3box-dapp, which enables users to create and manage their social profiles, interact with decentralized applications, build reputations, and securely store data. The company's platform is designed to enhance user experience by ensuring that applications are lighter, more trustworthy, and carry reduced data management liabilities, thereby fostering a sustainable ecosystem where users have greater control over their data.

Livepeer

Series A in 2019
Livepeer develops an open platform for decentralized live video broadcasting. It combines blockchain technology, economic incentives, and open media servers to enable peer-to-peer networks for live streaming.

Republic

Seed Round in 2019
Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform based in New York City, founded in 2016. It provides individuals the opportunity to invest in startups, real estate, cryptocurrencies, and video games, thus enabling a diverse range of investment options for the general public. With a commitment to promoting a sustainable and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from more than one million members worldwide. The company serves a broad client base that includes venture capital firms, family offices, and high net-worth individuals. Supported by prominent backers such as Galaxy Digital and The Motley Fool, Republic operates with a global team across six countries, reflecting its international reach and influence in the investment landscape.

Editional

Seed Round in 2019
Blockchain infrastructure has set the stage for a new generation of digital ownership that better connects and empowers both creators and owners

GEO Protocol

Seed Round in 2019
GEO Protocol is a financial technology company that develops an open-source value-transfer protocol combining blockchain with traditional finance. Its base-layer and overlay protocols enable cost-efficient, scalable transfer of digital, fiat and physical assets and support global payments, Internet of Things micropayments, and cross-chain activities. The platform provides infrastructure for applications such as payments, IoT services, loyalty programs, clearing systems and rating mechanisms, with the aim of merging crypto ecosystems with conventional finance to simplify asset exchange. By linking crypto with traditional wealth, GEO Protocol seeks to empower the Internet of Value and facilitate decentralized, peer-to-peer exchanges across diverse asset types.

Archax

Seed Round in 2019
Archax Ltd is a London-based digital securities exchange that specializes in trading asset-backed tokens, including digital securities and security tokens. Established in 2018, it is recognized as the UK's first regulated digital securities exchange, broker, and custodian, having received authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority. Archax aims to serve institutional investors by providing a secure platform for trading various digital assets, from cryptocurrencies to digital securities. The exchange is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing institutional trading workflows and operates on high-performance infrastructure hosted in top-tier data centers. By bridging the gap between the blockchain-centric technology community and traditional investment sectors, Archax facilitates safe trading among recognized participants in a regulated environment.
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