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.
XProtocol
Seed Round in 2024
XProtocol develops a cross-chain protocol facilitating sustainable cash flow. It offers secure, rapid bridging options for asset management, data analysis aggregation, market prediction, NFTs, DeFi, and low-cost metaverse access for dApps across heterogeneous chains.
GEODNET
Seed Round in 2024
GEODNET is a decentralized network that collects real-time data on the influence of solar winds on Global Navigation Satellite System signals. It uses blockchain technology to provide accurate positioning and time accuracy services, benefiting industries such as automotive, agriculture, construction, and earthquake monitoring. GEODNET also offers applications in decentralized mapping, metaverse digital twins, location-aware smart contracts, and proof-of-location/time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Crypto Unicorns
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Crypto Unicorns is a Web3 game development and research and development studio.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Graph
Seed Round in 2019
The Graph is an indexing and query protocol for decentralized networks that enables developers to publish open APIs, called subgraphs, which applications can query with GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. A hosted service is in production to help developers start quickly, while a decentralized network is launching. It currently indices data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks planned. Thousands of developers have deployed subgraphs for DApps such as Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, Aave, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack and Decentraland. The Graph supports a global community of participants, including indexers and curators, to maintain and curate the data network.
DFINITY
Venture Round in 2018
DFINITY develops and operates a decentralized computing platform, Internet Computer, which hosts tamperproof software systems and services. It offers DFINITY Canister SDK for software development, ICP protocol for secure cloud functionality, and algorithmic governance via blockchain-based nervous system. Founded in Switzerland in 2014.
Witnet Foundation
Venture Round in 2018
Witnet Foundation is a non-profit organization focused on developing and promoting the Witnet protocol, a decentralized oracle network that connects smart contracts to real-world data sources. The foundation leads research, development, and stewardship of the ecosystem and uses cryptoeconomic methods to ensure data integrity and verifiability. It collaborates with a broad community of contributors to sustain the protocol and expand the ecosystem, with governance expected to shift toward the community as participation grows.
Kadena develops a hybrid blockchain platform that addresses Bitcoin's scaling challenges and Ethereum's security issues. It offers ScalableBFT consensus protocol, Pact programming language for transactional logic, and confidentiality settings to protect sensitive transaction details. Founded in 2016 by former JP Morgan blockchain creators and SEC professionals, Kadena is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Tlon Corporation is a software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2013. It develops Urbit, an open-source software framework designed to serve as a complete reimplementation of the system software stack. Urbit features a new functional programming language and a functional network operating system, with its architecture allowing users to own their address space. Tlon aims to create a new layer over the Internet, facilitating the transition from traditional cloud services to a personal cloud computer model through Urbit ships. The company also offers consulting and development services tailored for investment banks, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms, while focusing on the growth of the Urbit ecosystem and hosting services for its users.
Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.