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.
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.
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 (PoS) blockchain and decentralized computation platform that combines the best of performance and portability.
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.
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 permissionless relational database tailored for web3 developers, enabling the creation of complex relational data models for decentralized applications, including games and NFTs. Built on the widely used SQLite engine, Tableland offers a secure and tamper-proof solution for data storage and retrieval on a global scale. It facilitates the synchronization and sharing of digital assets over a decentralized web protocol, allowing app developers to maintain control of their data through digital wallets. This innovative approach positions Tableland as a key player in the evolving landscape of decentralized technology.
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, the platform finances 100% of owner-occupied and investment properties, enabling borrowers to obtain loans based on the value of their crypto holdings. This approach allows investors to acquire cash-flowing properties, benefiting from the appreciation of both real estate and cryptocurrency, while also providing tax advantages through depreciation write-offs. The security of crypto assets is ensured through storage with Anchorage Digital, adhering to the highest security standards. Moon Mortgage aims to provide innovative mortgage solutions with low liquidation risk for its borrowers.
Sherlock
Seed Round in 2022
Sherlock Protocol is a security audit marketplace and smart contract coverage protocol operating on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform is dedicated to protecting decentralized finance (DeFi) users from smart contract exploits by providing security reviews conducted by top auditors. Additionally, it offers affordable and reliable coverage against potential vulnerabilities in audited contracts. By leveraging blockchain technology, Sherlock Protocol assesses the inherent risks associated with DeFi operations, thereby enhancing the security of Web3 projects and information systems within the decentralized ecosystem. Through its comprehensive approach, Sherlock Protocol aims to foster a safer environment for users engaging in decentralized finance activities.
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.
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
Series B in 2022
Certora specializes in providing advanced technology designed to enhance security in software development, particularly for blockchain applications. The company offers a digital asset issuance platform that automatically detects security vulnerabilities both prior to deployment and during operation. Its technology checks smart contracts at compile-time, ensuring that all executions comply with established security rules. By generating mathematical proofs of correctness, Certora guarantees the absence of security vulnerabilities for defined software properties. This independent and language-agnostic approach allows clients to effectively manage security verification without the risk of false interruptions, thus improving the overall integrity of their digital assets.
WorldCoin
Series B in 2022
World is a company that connects users through a privacy-focused network designed for secure digital asset management. It offers a digital currency platform that emphasizes both privacy and transparency using a permissionless blockchain. The World App enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps, promoting global connectivity and trust. Additionally, World provides an iris-scanning device that enhances digital identity security by storing biometric information, which helps discourage spammers from creating multiple accounts. This combination of secure identity management and digital currency aims to facilitate a reliable and user-friendly digital environment.
Crypto Unicorns
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Crypto Unicorns is a Web3 game development and research and development studio.
Solvo
Seed Round in 2022
Solvo is a developer of a cryptocurrency investment platform that simplifies the process of buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies. Its iOS application offers a user-friendly interface that enhances the experience for both novice learners and experienced investors. The platform streamlines account opening and money transfer processes, reducing complexity and making it easier for users to engage with cryptocurrencies. By providing accessible educational resources and a variety of investment opportunities, Solvo aims to facilitate a smoother entry into the crypto market for its customers.
GIANT Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
GIANT Protocol is a blockchain initiative focused on decentralizing and democratizing access to the internet and financial services by tokenizing bandwidth. It empowers users to convert mobile minutes and data into monetary value, transforming phone numbers into cross-chain wallets. This innovative approach enables individuals to utilize mobile data and wireless connectivity as collateral for various real-world applications. By facilitating a connectivity economy, GIANT Protocol allows consumers to become owners, telecommunications companies to function as banks, and anyone to provide connectivity or financial services, thereby creating an open and accessible platform for all users.
WorldCoin
Venture Round in 2021
World is a company that connects users through a privacy-focused network designed for secure digital asset management. It offers a digital currency platform that emphasizes both privacy and transparency using a permissionless blockchain. The World App enables users to securely store their World ID, manage digital assets, and access various Mini Apps, promoting global connectivity and trust. Additionally, World provides an iris-scanning device that enhances digital identity security by storing biometric information, which helps discourage spammers from creating multiple accounts. This combination of secure identity management and digital currency aims to facilitate a reliable and user-friendly digital environment.
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.
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.
dClimate
Seed Round in 2021
dClimate is a decentralized marketplace designed to standardize, monetize, and distribute climate data, forecasts, and models. By connecting data publishers directly with consumers, dClimate enhances the accessibility and reliability of climate information. The platform scores data for reliability when providers share their forecasts, allowing users to make informed decisions based on trustworthy information. This innovative approach creates a straightforward distribution mechanism that enables data providers to monetize their work while supporting a uniform architecture that ensures data immutability. dClimate serves a diverse range of users, including businesses, farmers, multinational corporations, and governments, facilitating timely, data-driven decision-making in the face of climate challenges.
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. Recognized as a leading player in options trading, Delta holds a significant market share globally, particularly with USDT settled options on various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, BNB, and Matic. The platform caters to both retail and institutional traders, offering advanced features like multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders. These capabilities enable users to execute trades efficiently and capitalize on various market strategies within a trusted trading environment.
NFTFi
Seed Round in 2021
NFTFi operates a peer-to-peer lending platform that allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral for loans. By using NFTs, users can borrow cryptocurrency from lenders, providing liquidity without the need to sell their valuable assets. When a loan is accepted, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract, and the borrower receives the agreed-upon cryptocurrency directly in their wallet. This model draws on traditional practices from the art world, where collateralized loans are commonly offered by banks and auction houses to artists based on the value of their artworks. NFTFi thus creates a marketplace that facilitates financial transactions for NFT owners, enhancing the utility of their digital assets.
API3
Seed Round in 2020
API3 is focused on developing a decentralized API infrastructure that connects blockchain applications with off-chain data providers. The company's platform addresses the API connectivity challenge by utilizing decentralized APIs, which are composed of first-party oracles. This approach allows data providers to operate as their own blockchain oracles, eliminating the need for third-party intermediaries. By aggregating data from reputable API providers through its innovative dAPI framework, API3 enables the creation of decentralized applications that utilize secure, quantifiable data feeds. This infrastructure empowers developers to effectively integrate real-world data into blockchain solutions, enhancing the functionality and reliability of decentralized applications.
Opyn
Seed Round in 2020
Opyn is a decentralized protocol that facilitates options trading on Ethereum and ERC20 tokens. It allows users to earn premiums or express views on assets through the trading of options, specifically offering European, cash-settled options that automatically exercise upon expiry. Opyn's options, known as oTokens, are ERC20 tokens that can be traded on any decentralized exchange adhering to the ERC20 standard. The platform initially launched with Opyn v1, which established the first live ERC20 options protocol, enabling users to create, buy, and sell options for any ERC20 token. Opyn v1 continues to operate on the Ethereum network, providing a venue for American, physically settled options, while ongoing developments aim to expand the range of ERC20 options available. By optimizing capital efficiency and promoting inclusive trading practices, Opyn enhances the overall experience for the trading community.
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. Recognized as a leading player in options trading, Delta holds a significant market share globally, particularly with USDT settled options on various cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, BNB, and Matic. The platform caters to both retail and institutional traders, offering advanced features like multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders. These capabilities enable users to execute trades efficiently and capitalize on various market strategies within a trusted trading environment.
NEAR
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
NEAR Inc. is a company that develops and provides a platform for creating decentralized applications through its NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain designed for open-source code. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Inc. focuses on bridging the adoption gap for mainstream commercial software by offering tools that facilitate the writing, testing, and deployment of decentralized applications. The platform is engineered to support a wide range of applications, ensuring security for high-value assets such as money and identity. Additionally, NEAR provides essential services, including documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer functionalities, which contribute to a robust ecosystem for developers.
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, established in 2017, is a technology company that develops blockchain-based tools to facilitate the creation, management, and governance of decentralized organizations, known as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). Headquartered in the United States, with a presence in Germany, Aragon's platform enables users worldwide to launch and manage DAOs, empowering them to organize and create value in a borderless, permissionless manner. The company's suite of products, including Aragon PM, AragonOS, and Aragon App, provides flexible, secure, and user-friendly tools for DAO creation and management. Aragon's innovative solutions have powered the creation of over 5000 DAOs, securing billions in value for leading projects. The company's mission is to enable everyone to experiment with governance at the speed of software, aiming to build a hyperstructure for governance.
The Graph
Seed Round in 2019
The Graph is an indexing protocol that facilitates querying data from decentralized networks such as Ethereum and IPFS, serving as a vital component of the Web3 ecosystem. It allows developers to create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which applications can access using GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. Currently, The Graph provides a hosted service to simplify the development process, with plans to launch a decentralized network. It supports data indexing from Ethereum, IPFS, and POA, with additional networks anticipated in the future. As of now, thousands of developers have deployed over 3,000 subgraphs for decentralized applications, including prominent projects like Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland. The platform has experienced significant growth in usage, highlighting its role in powering the decentralized web.
Witnet
Venture Round in 2018
Witnet Foundation, established in 2018 and based in Madrid, Spain, develops a decentralized oracle network that securely connects smart contracts to online data sources. The foundation, originally spun off from Stampery, fosters the growth and sustainability of the Witnet protocol, ensuring its successful deployment and encouraging applications built upon it. Witnet's technology employs cryptoeconomic techniques to guarantee the integrity and accuracy of data fed into smart contracts, enabling a wide range of use cases such as retrieving sports results, stock prices, or weather forecasts. The foundation, a non-profit organization, is dedicated to research, development, and community building to enhance the functionality and reliability of smart contracts.
CoinList
Series A in 2018
CoinList is a leading platform in the digital finance sector, focused on facilitating the launch and growth of innovative digital assets. The company provides a comprehensive token distribution service that connects blockchain projects with potential investors prior to their asset listings on other exchanges. CoinList supports various stages of crypto investment, including token sales, distribution, trading, lending, staking, and access to decentralized finance opportunities. Users can trade and store a wide range of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ether, through its mobile app and website, CoinList.co. The platform caters to a diverse clientele, including validators, miners, founders, CEOs, and crypto enthusiasts, ensuring they have access to new tokens and crypto-specific services. CoinList's mission is to be the most trusted brand in digital finance while expanding access for early adopters and fostering innovation within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Kadena
Seed Round in 2018
Kadena LLC, established in 2016 and headquartered in Brooklyn, New York, specializes in private and permissioned blockchain technology solutions. The company has developed a hybrid blockchain platform that combines the benefits of public and private networks, featuring a unique sharded and scalable layer-1 proof-of-work public network. Kadena's technology addresses the scaling challenges of Bitcoin and the security concerns associated with Ethereum. Central to its offerings is the ScalableBFT consensus protocol, which is inspired by the Tangaroa protocol, and Pact, a programming language designed for implementing transactional logic and executing business operations. Kadena also emphasizes privacy through its blockchain settings that prevent unauthorized access to transaction details. With partnerships that include notable entities such as Cosmos and USCF, Kadena aims to provide a comprehensive platform for decentralized data sharing and transactions.
Tlon
Seed Round in 2016
Tlon Corporation is a software company based in San Francisco, California, that focuses on the development of the Urbit software stack, an open-source framework designed to create a new layer over the Internet. This innovative system reimagines the entire software stack, incorporating a replacement for lambda calculus, a new functional programming language, and a purely functional network operating system where address space is treated as property. Tlon owns a significant portion of the address space on the Urbit network, positioning itself to provide hosting services for Urbit ships, which serve as general-purpose personal cloud computers, replacing various existing cloud solutions. In addition to its core offerings, Tlon also provides development and consulting services tailored for investment banks, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms, thereby contributing to the broader adoption and functionality of the Urbit platform.
Giza
Giza changes this by using zero-knowledge cryptography to bring model inferencing on-chain, unlocking a new depth for smart contract design.
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