Coinbase

Coinbase operates an online platform that enables merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. Founded in 2012 and based in San Francisco, the company provides users with tools to create digital wallets and connect their bank accounts for transactions. Its offerings include merchant payment processing systems that facilitate digital currency transactions on various websites. Additionally, Coinbase Ventures, an investment arm of the company, focuses on investing in early-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The platform aims to foster an open financial system accessible to users worldwide.

Shan Aggarwal

Investor

Emilie Choi

President and COO

Aklil Ibssa

Investor

Brandon Myint

Investor

Past deals in Seed Round

PYOR

Seed Round in 2023
PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.

Hourglass

Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass is an operator of a financial marketplace intended to trade locked-up DeFi assets.

Cloudburst Technologies

Seed Round in 2023
Cloudburst Technologies provides realtime monitoring solutions and cyber threat intelligence tools.

zkLink

Seed Round in 2023
Developer of a unified multi-chain network designed to unify the world's blockchain and to make it secure, efficient, and easy to use for developers and users. The company offers a secure chain-to-chain interoperability protocol that focuses on connecting the blockchains with a layer2 network that is easy, safe, and secure for the end-user, enabling users to receive liquidity on the platform and earn yields.

Harpie

Seed Round in 2022
Harpie is a non-custodial and wallet-adjacent solution to cryptocurrency wallet security. Sign up in just a few clicks with only an email.

Synquote

Seed Round in 2022
Synquote is a decentralized options trading platform with liquidity across 500+ instruments.

RedStone

Seed Round in 2022
RedStone is a next-generation cross-chain data oracle that specializes in providing pricing data for financial protocols. The company develops modular oracles that deliver data feeds compatible with both layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains, including rollups-as-a-service (RaaS) solutions. RedStone's offerings include liquid staking tokens and liquid restaking tokens, as well as an online decentralized finance platform designed to utilize blockchain's permanent storage capabilities. This platform supports cross-chain data services while ensuring an audit trail, which enhances transparency and reliability. Additionally, RedStone enables decentralized finance providers to implement automatic dispute mechanisms, bolstered by insurance through staking, thereby facilitating more secure and efficient transactions.

CLST

Seed Round in 2022
CLST is focused on creating a global network of professional trading firms to enhance trust in the lending and borrowing market for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. The company develops an institutional gateway that facilitates lending and borrowing through an innovative platform, which establishes markets for new capital. By offering uncollateralized lending options, CLST enables short-term debt markets specifically for crypto assets and stablecoins. The platform supports bilateral price negotiation and settlement, catering to the needs of institutional lenders and borrowers. Additionally, CLST aims to introduce next-generation products, including electronic promissory notes and institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, as well as secure wallet connectors, positioning itself as a key player in the algorithmic price matching of digital assets.

CLST

Seed Round in 2022
CLST is focused on creating a global network of professional trading firms to enhance trust in the lending and borrowing market for cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. The company develops an institutional gateway that facilitates lending and borrowing through an innovative platform, which establishes markets for new capital. By offering uncollateralized lending options, CLST enables short-term debt markets specifically for crypto assets and stablecoins. The platform supports bilateral price negotiation and settlement, catering to the needs of institutional lenders and borrowers. Additionally, CLST aims to introduce next-generation products, including electronic promissory notes and institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, as well as secure wallet connectors, positioning itself as a key player in the algorithmic price matching of digital assets.

MoHash

Seed Round in 2022
MoHash is a decentralized finance (Defi) protocol that harnesses crypto assets (namely, stablecoins) for providing access to global capital and liquidity for private debt in fast-growing Economies.

zCloak Network

Seed Round in 2022
zCloak Network is a developer of a decentralized platform that focuses on creating a confidential computation infrastructure for the Polkadot network. The company offers zero-knowledge proof as a service, allowing users to compute and analyze personal data without transmitting it to third-party servers. This approach enhances data privacy and security, enabling customers to protect their private information from theft or misuse. By leveraging cryptographic technology, zCloak Network aims to provide a secure environment for handling sensitive data, thereby addressing growing concerns over data privacy in digital interactions.

Otterspace

Seed Round in 2022
Otterspace is an NFT company focused on leveraging earned NFTs to reward and recognize participation in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The company's non-transferable badge protocol helps DAOs create effective incentive systems, automate permissions, and facilitate governance without relying on financial incentives. Otterspace also develops DAO onboarding software that features a modular and composable toolset, designed to streamline the user experience for joining and contributing to a DAO. This approach aims to make the transition to decentralized governance clear and accessible, particularly for those familiar with traditional Web2 environments.

Entropy

Seed Round in 2022
Provider of crypto custody services intended to keep private keys secure and make assets available on demand. The company's services specialize in creating a decentralized network leveraging advanced threshold cryptography and multi-party computation, enabling crypto owners to securely store and use their crypto on any blockchain.

Merge

Seed Round in 2022
Merge provides crypto and web3 companies with a range of banking and payments solutions enabling them to instantly create bank accounts, send payments and seamlessly convert funds between fiat and crypto.

Azra Games

Seed Round in 2022
Azra Games is a blockchain-based developer of collectable combat role-playing games for core gamers. Azra Games is led by Mark Otero, a world-renowned online strategy game developer whose most recent game generated over $1 billion in sales. Their crew has over 70 years of combined gaming industry expertise. They are now providing the core gaming experience that core gamers desire to Web3. Azra Games is headquartered in Sacramento, United States.

Satori

Seed Round in 2022
Satori is an on-chain derivatives exchange built for both retail and institutional investors in the Polkadot ecosystem.

Branch

Seed Round in 2022
Your space for work and play. Bring back serendipity to your remote team with spatial conversations.

Highlight

Seed Round in 2022
Sea Ranch Labs builds a no-code platform for anyone to mint, manage, buy and sell NFTs that unlock community membership.

Zora

Seed Round in 2022
Zora operates as a crypto-driven marketplace.

Dfns

Seed Round in 2022
Xkey builds pure SaaS technology for digital asset security. We provide safe, cloud-native custody as a service that helps financial institutions—from startups to Tier-1 banks—transition to digital assets. It's a plug-and-play API allowing to add new assets to a portfolio and scale safely on a TSS-based institution-grade security infrastructure. Instead of using expensive, high maintenance, monolithic systems, we give access to a platform that gives our clients the freedom to release new products in days, while lowering total cost of ownership. Best-in-class, cryptographic security powered by a network of world-known Tier-1 custody banks. Plug-and-play, composable service flexibility. Continuous delivery, fast to deploy and integrate. Open API, fully-documented self-service environment. Asset agnostic support. ISO certified & compliant. Non-binding, transparent pricing. Global, agile and built for speed.

Joyride Games

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a competitive gaming platform designed to build multiplayer games powered by the latest artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies. The company's games are character-based and can be played on any device with built-in e-sports formats, optimized, and powered by a publishing and analytics platform that provides themed experiences, shared story worlds, and builds games with characters and stories, enabling gamers to experience mobile entertainment through familiar role-playing games (RPG) and casual games and earn from them by monetizing their skills.

Third Time

Seed Round in 2022
Third Time Entertainment is a game development studio established in 2015 by Ian Cummings, along with co-founders Paul Fleetwood and Brian Fleming. The company specializes in creating innovative mobile games centered around NFT and crypto gaming. Since 2021, Third Time has been developing two highly anticipated blockchain games, Photo Finish Live and The Suites, which aim to combine engaging gameplay with the benefits of cryptocurrency. The studio's platform focuses on delivering polished and entertaining games that allow players to enjoy free-to-play experiences while also providing opportunities to earn through gameplay.

CryptoTaxCalculator

Seed Round in 2022
CryptoTaxCalculator is a financial technology platform established in 2018, designed to simplify the process of calculating taxes on cryptocurrency gains. The platform enables users to upload their transaction history from various exchanges, blockchains, and wallets. By processing this data, it generates detailed reports that break down realized capital gains and income. This functionality allows investors to efficiently prepare their crypto taxes, saving them significant time and effort during tax season.

Socket

Seed Round in 2022
Socket is a developer of a multichain interoperability platform that connects various blockchain networks, facilitating seamless asset and information transfers. By acting as a meta-layer, Socket enables the creation of unified, multichain applications that share liquidity and state across different chains. Its platform simplifies the development of cross-chain applications by unifying liquidity across bridges and decentralized exchanges (DEXs), allowing users to route funds based on their preferences such as fees, speed, or security. This approach enhances the efficiency and functionality of blockchain interactions, benefiting developers and users alike.

Infina

Seed Round in 2022
Infina is an investment platform that focuses on making financial services accessible and user-friendly. It offers a digital application that allows individuals to invest small amounts in various opportunities, including real estate and fund certificates. By simplifying the investment process, Infina enables users to participate in the market without the need for significant capital, thus promoting financial inclusion. The platform is designed to provide a safe and frictionless experience for investors, facilitating their ability to derive profits from diverse investment options.

Folks Finance

Seed Round in 2022
Folks Finance is a leading algorithmic capital markets protocol for lending and borrowing, developed on the Algorand blockchain. It provides users with the ability to earn continuous economic returns by depositing liquidity, while also allowing them to secure crypto loans by using their deposits as collateral. The protocol emphasizes soundness and security through its innovative economic lending model and includes features such as staking of rewards, safety margins for cryptocurrency pairs, and a unique liquidity provision system. Developed by Blockchain Italia, a firm specializing in Algorand, Folks Finance aims to deliver scalable, low-cost, and secure financial tools for digital assets, enabling users to actively participate in Algorand governance.

IppoPay

Seed Round in 2022
IppoPay offers payment solutions tailored for small businesses, SMEs, and freelancers, focusing particularly on those in tier 2, tier 3, and rural areas. As a payment aggregator, IppoPay enables businesses to collect and accept payments through various methods, including payment links, invoices, subscriptions, social commerce, and UPI. The company provides a secure payment gateway platform that features developer-friendly APIs for seamless integration, allowing users to easily manage transactions and bank transfers. By streamlining the payment process, IppoPay aims to make transactions cheaper, faster, and more convenient for its clients.

Fam.

Pre Seed Round in 2022
fam. is a Private social club on top of NFTs.

JADU

Seed Round in 2021
Jadu AR Inc., operating under the name Jadu, is a company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in augmented reality technology. Founded in 2019, Jadu has developed a mobile application that enables users to engage with holograms of their favorite musicians and performers, allowing fans to perform alongside these virtual representations. The application is available on the App Store, enhancing the interactive entertainment experience for users by blending real and digital performances.

Diadia Health, Inc

Seed Round in 2021
Mnemonic, Inc is a pioneering company in the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), recognized as the first NFT intelligence platform specifically tailored for business-to-business applications. The company offers an analytics platform that aggregates and analyzes real-time data across various blockchain networks, simplifying the complexities involved in understanding the NFT landscape. This platform is designed for public companies and technology platforms, providing them with essential insights to make informed decisions. Through its tools, Mnemonic, Inc empowers creators and brands to better understand their audiences, analyze collection ownership, and develop targeted marketing strategies. By facilitating the creation of NFT-centric applications, Mnemonic, Inc plays a crucial role in advancing the use of NFTs in various industries.

Block Earner

Seed Round in 2021
Block Earner is a blockchain-powered fintech on a mission to provide a user-friendly interface to access the benefits of decentralised finance. We provide better products built on blockchain and help people take control of their money.

Parcl

Seed Round in 2021
Parcl is a digital real estate protocol built on the blockchain. The company's headquarters are in New York City.

Massive

Seed Round in 2021
Massive is an innovative application monetization platform that offers an alternative to traditional advertising and subscription models. It enables developers to monetize their services by allowing users to contribute their unused computing resources, such as CPU, GPU, and bandwidth. This approach allows clients to generate revenue while minimizing disruption for users, as they can participate without the inconvenience of ads or direct payments. By leveraging these untapped resources, Massive creates a seamless experience for both developers and users, fostering a mutually beneficial ecosystem.

MYTY

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a decentralized social platform intended to convert crypto punks NFT into avatars. The company's network allows users to escape the constraints of the real world by using NFT avatars, enabling users to freely express themselves by maximizing their imagination in the social metaverse.

Neptune Mutual

Seed Round in 2021
Neptune Mutual is a developer of a parametric cover platform aimed at protecting user funds from risks associated with cryptocurrency, including exploits related to exchanges, custody providers, and smart contracts. The platform focuses on creating user-centric hedging products on the blockchain, providing investors with tools to mitigate the impact of malicious activities in the digital asset space. By exploring innovative approaches to risk protection, Neptune Mutual seeks to enhance security and confidence among cryptocurrency users.

Snapshot Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Snapshot Labs operates a voting platform designed to facilitate governance for cryptocurrency projects. It offers an off-chain, gasless multi-governance tool that enables users to conduct polls and surveys within decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The platform is particularly noted for providing results that are easy to verify and difficult to contest, making it a reliable resource for clients in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. By streamlining governance operations, Snapshot Labs supports organizations in engaging their user bases effectively.

GuildFi

Seed Round in 2021
GuildFi is a gaming platform that empowers all gamer communities and creates interoperability across the Metaverse.

Solend

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of decentralized protocol designed for lending and borrowing. The company improves capital efficiency by earning yields on idle funds and empowers a large range of DeFi yield strategies, enabling users to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets.

Sturdy.

Seed Round in 2021
Operator of a non-fungible tokens platform intended to reach the masses with a new form of ownership and utility. The company's platform works with creators to bring collections to their audience, by democratizing access to NFTs at multiple price entry points, enabling artists in crafting and curating their content on the platform, and allowing users to support their favorite artists.

Balt Financial Holdings

Seed Round in 2021
Our Story We're proud to serve nearly half the world households with a broad range of financial services, including real estate investment, personal banking, Bitcoin mining , auto financing, investment advice, stock trading, small business loans and payment processing. We have concentrated our activities on the Gulf Coast in South Texas, which is home to some of the most prolific reserves in the United States. Tidal Petroleum operates with a ZERO debt structure, incorporating low overhead, low operating expenses and a streamlined management organization and is able to readily adapt to changing conditions in the petroleum industry. Invest: We invest our capital alongside our clients’ capital to help businesses grow. Support: We offer loan to help expand companies and enrich the system. Advice: We advise companies on buying and selling businesses, raising capital and managing risks, which enables them to grow. Finance : We help local, state and national governments finance their operations so they can invest in infrastructure, like schools, hospitals and roads. Innovate: We develop ideas and analysis that drive new perspectives, new products and new paths to growth.

Utopia Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Building the modern system for managing and automating contributor payments, expenses, and reporting for your DAO, built right on top of Gnosis.

Liquality

Seed Round in 2021
Liquality is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency provider based in Brooklyn, New York, that specializes in facilitating cross-chain atomic swaps. The company operates an atomic swap interface platform that enables users to seamlessly exchange digital assets between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoin DAI on the mainnet. Liquality has developed a Chain Abstraction Layer, which enhances the security and efficiency of these swaps, and it is currently live for use between Bitcoin and Ethereum. Additionally, Liquality is working on an autonomous agent to create listings for users' cryptocurrencies and provides access to a suite of decentralized finance (DeFi) products directly from users' wallets. Its open-source contracts ensure that funds remain secure and are fully owned by users until execution, promoting a disintermediated approach to digital asset exchange and liquidity expansion.

Liquality

Seed Round in 2021
Liquality is a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency provider based in Brooklyn, New York, that specializes in facilitating cross-chain atomic swaps. The company operates an atomic swap interface platform that enables users to seamlessly exchange digital assets between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoin DAI on the mainnet. Liquality has developed a Chain Abstraction Layer, which enhances the security and efficiency of these swaps, and it is currently live for use between Bitcoin and Ethereum. Additionally, Liquality is working on an autonomous agent to create listings for users' cryptocurrencies and provides access to a suite of decentralized finance (DeFi) products directly from users' wallets. Its open-source contracts ensure that funds remain secure and are fully owned by users until execution, promoting a disintermediated approach to digital asset exchange and liquidity expansion.

Onramp Invest

Seed Round in 2021
Develper of a crypto asset integration platform intended to provide education, access, and tools to registered investment advisors (RIAs). The company's platform offers diversified model portfolios with qualified custodians, advisor workflow, automated portfolio rebalancing, and optimization, enabling financial professionals to manage their clients' cryptocurrency investments.

Umee

Seed Round in 2021
Umee is a decentralized infrastructure for cross-chain interactions between networks.

Anima

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Anima operates as an engine and marketplace focused on creator-driven augmented reality (AR) experiences, specifically through the sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company's platform enhances the viewing and sharing of NFT art and collectibles, offering users a unique perspective on digital assets. By leveraging advanced technology, Anima aims to improve the traceability and presentation of these digital collectibles, fostering a more engaging experience for both customers and owners.

Cortex

Seed Round in 2021
Cortex is a software platform based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in managing and operating microservices, providing engineering teams with tools to explore, understand, and maintain their services effectively. The platform enhances incident response, facilitates documentation searches, conducts service health audits, and aims to prevent outages. Cortex's offerings contribute to modernizing transaction flow and democratizing access to venture capital and private equity markets, thereby supporting innovative sectors of the economy.

Risk Harbor

Seed Round in 2021
Risk Harbor operates a risk management marketplace focused on decentralized finance (DeFi), providing a platform that allows liquidity providers and stakers to protect themselves against smart contract vulnerabilities. The marketplace features an automated and transparent claims process, ensuring fairness and impartiality. It enables users to create diverse pools of protection using DeFi assets and offers functionalities such as objective claims handling and risk composability. By integrating new protocols, Risk Harbor enhances clients' potential for earnings and security, allowing them to assess risk and data in a secure environment. The company's mission is to facilitate a smooth transition to decentralized financial services by eliminating the necessity for trusted intermediaries, thereby promoting a truly open and permissionless financial system for all.

BitClout

Funding Round in 2021
BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users. BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.

saffron.finance

Seed Round in 2021
Saffron.finance is a decentralized finance protocol focused on asset collateralization and tailored risk management. It facilitates the tokenization of on-chain assets, allowing users to gain tokenized ownership and enhancing liquidity options. The platform empowers liquidity providers by granting them the ability to choose their level of exposure to various underlying platforms. This flexibility enables clients to better manage their risk and return profiles, providing a customized approach to navigating the complexities of on-chain asset investment. By offering these services, Saffron.finance aims to improve access to utilized capital and enhance the overall efficiency of the DeFi ecosystem.

Ledn

Seed Round in 2021
Ledn is a financial services company focused on helping individuals save in digital assets. It offers a range of products, including a bitcoin-backed loan service that allows clients to access cash without selling their bitcoin. Additionally, Ledn provides a B2X product that enables users to instantly double their bitcoin holdings through a loan. The company also features interest-bearing savings accounts for bitcoin and USDC, which pay interest without requiring minimum deposits. By providing these services, Ledn aims to empower clients to grow their digital wealth while maintaining their cryptocurrency holdings.

Casa

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

Goldfinch

Venture Round in 2021
Goldfinch is a credit platform that offers crypto loans without collateral. It also offers capital in a digital currency by expanding access to capital in emerging markets and offers a stable yield to the lenders, enabling the empowerment of financial inclusion in emerging markets. The company was founded in 2020 by Mike Sall and Blake West.

Bling

Seed Round in 2021
The Bling platform enables users to earn loyalty rewards, such as Bitcoin, for doing things you already do, like playing games!

Anoma

Funding Round in 2021
Developer of a blockchain protocol designed to facilitate private and asset-agnostic cash. The company's protocol handles the cryptocurrency exchange automatically and at the market rate with private bartering among any number of parties, enabling users to transact and trade in cryptocurrency securely and privately.

Saddle

Seed Round in 2021
Saddle Finance operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. Its innovative financial trading platform facilitates trading and earning opportunities with these assets by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool. This approach enhances on-chain liquidity, allowing traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and reduced transaction fees. By focusing on the unique requirements of pegged value assets, Saddle Finance aims to provide an efficient and cost-effective trading experience for its users.

Nayms

Seed Round in 2021
Nayms is a platform that allows cryptocurrency investors to reinsure crypto-risk. With no pricing inefficiency, digital asset insurance can be cost-effective, will scale as the market expands, and ensures payouts are in the currency clients expect. It is a Smart Insurance ContractsTransparent, trusted, and tradable. Nayms introduces the Insurance-Linked Smart Contract to conduct efficient cover for the world of digital assets. It is a Platform for the Placement and Trade of the World’s Risk. It provides Crypto-to-crypto Cover, Beyond Digitisation, An Eye on the Future.

Titan

Seed Round in 2021
Titan is an intelligent mining management software suite, transparent mining pool, and decentralized protocol for global hashpower trading. Built by miners for miners, Titan makes mining easy, profitable, and scalable. Titan was formed and founded within Bloq in 2018, by Ryan Condron, Jeff Garzik and Matthew Roszak. Most mining management software options are either incomplete or difficult to scale. The Titan software makes management and optimization easy for cryptocurrency mines of any size. Titan's Next Generation Mining Pool offers a powerful North American alternative and a way for the continent’s Bitcoin miners to achieve the efficiency and scale enjoyed by miners in other regions. For more information about the Titan Network - please visit titan.io to read our whitepaper.

Vauld

Seed Round in 2020
Hi there! if you’re reading this, you’re probably like us – have pretty much all your wealth stored in digitized (or soon to be digitized) assets like money in your bank, mutual funds, stocks or real estate. You probably have a financial advisor guiding you through your investments, a manager from your bank who helps you stay on top of your mortgage payments and a government that prints money responsibly to not de-value your lifetime of savings. But how do you know that the bank manager or your financial advisor has your best interests at heart instead of their own fee and commissions? Your contract explicitly states that they are not responsible for your loss even as they verbally assure you otherwise. How do you know that the digital assets won’t be hacked (traditional bank websites get hacked all the time)? Or that your physical assets won’t be stolen(bank robberies) or taken by fraud (enough examples in real estate)? Governments fall all the time, or change their monetary policies - and your currency today can literally have no value tomorrow (Indian demonetization, Argentina, Venezuela). How do you know it won’t happen to your country? Do you ask these questions? Well, we do all the time. To answer these questions and why we created the Bank of Hodlers, we have to dive into the details of how banking evolved. As early as the 2nd century BC, people who could save money started lending them out to people who could borrow and pay back with interest. Banking as an industry thrived in Italy and grew with the expansion of the Roman Empire. During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. This consolidated the industry and gave the power to a few firms. Fast forward to 2007: their recklessness caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 forcing failure of many banks, including some of the world's largest banks. The government let the banks live by infusing 1.2 trillion dollars of the taxpayer’s money into a handful of banks and in turn, created the need, wave of innovation and a community for blockchain and the concept of decentralization to thrive. Here’s Alan Greenspan (Chairman – Federal Reserve: 1987-2006), the guy who decided how much money to print in America, admitting that his model was flawed in 2008. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ In 2009, something magical happened, Satoshi Nakamoto released his white paper which removed the need for a centralized authority to facilitate transactions in a purely peer to peer and decentralized fashion and making truly beneficial for every user holding the currency. Some governments, after looking at the threat that bitcoin poses, have decided to take an anti-crypto stance. This ensures the network effect doesn’t happen at a scale where it replaces their national currency. This is where we come in. At the Bank of Hodlers, we intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today, negating the need for the network effects and government acceptance to come in. We give every HODLer the ability to completely bank on blockchain today. Every once in a while, there’s a technology jump so large that completely leapfrogs every existing solution out there. Blockchain is this technology jump and the banks know this.

Espresso Systems

Seed Round in 2020
Espresso Systems focuses on scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications, specifically within the blockchain sector. The company specializes in "shared sequencing," a process where sequencers verify and batch transactions on layer-2 blockchains before relaying them to a layer-1 chain, such as Ethereum, for settlement. In addition to its blockchain expertise, Espresso Systems offers a robust infrastructure for online transaction technology, catering to the needs of clients in the online payment industry. This infrastructure enables efficient transaction processing and interaction, supporting the development of a more scalable and privacy-focused third generation of the World Wide Web.

Axelar

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a decentralized interoperability software designed to connect blockchain ecosystems and applications with users. The company's software is powered by byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design protocols that let applications live on different blockchains to communicate with each other, enabling users to get a distributed network, APIs, and tools to make it easy to build cross-chain decentralized applications.

Titan

Seed Round in 2020
Titan is an intelligent mining management software suite, transparent mining pool, and decentralized protocol for global hashpower trading. Built by miners for miners, Titan makes mining easy, profitable, and scalable. Titan was formed and founded within Bloq in 2018, by Ryan Condron, Jeff Garzik and Matthew Roszak. Most mining management software options are either incomplete or difficult to scale. The Titan software makes management and optimization easy for cryptocurrency mines of any size. Titan's Next Generation Mining Pool offers a powerful North American alternative and a way for the continent’s Bitcoin miners to achieve the efficiency and scale enjoyed by miners in other regions. For more information about the Titan Network - please visit titan.io to read our whitepaper.

Notional

Seed Round in 2020
Notional is a decentralized protocol that facilitates fixed-rate, fixed-term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform allows users to lend or borrow stablecoins at predetermined interest rates for terms of up to six months, utilizing a token known as fCash. This token can be redeemed for an underlying currency, such as DAI, upon its maturity. Notional features specialized liquidity pools that enable the efficient exchange between cash and fCash, with the exchange rate determining the fixed interest rate for the duration of the fCash token's life. The protocol is designed to be flexible, allowing for the addition of new assets, collateral types, and extended maturities in the future. Prioritizing security, Notional collaborates with industry experts to ensure the robustness of its smart contracts and the soundness of its economic framework.

Zora

Seed Round in 2020
Zora operates as a crypto-driven marketplace.

Synthetix

Seed Round in 2020
Synthetix is a decentralized synthetic asset issuance protocol operating on the Ethereum blockchain, designed for derivatives trading within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Based in Sydney, Australia, the platform enables the creation of on-chain synthetic assets and digital tokens. Synthetix offers various products, including the Synthetix Network Token (SNX), which serves as collateral for synthetic assets like sUSD and sEUR. Additionally, it provides Mintr, a decentralized application for SNX holders, and Swappr, a tool facilitating conversions between SNX and Ethereum. The platform aims to address the challenges of volatility in cryptocurrencies by allowing users to gain exposure to real-world currencies, commodities, and indices through synthetic assets, thereby ensuring liquidity and enabling peer-to-contract trading. Founded in 2018, Synthetix promotes an open and transparent ecosystem, leveraging smart contracts to enhance trading efficiency and accessibility.

Slingshot

Seed Round in 2020
Slingshot is a decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform that facilitates the trading of crypto assets. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Slingshot helps users find the best prices for token trades and offers a mobile-friendly interface for seamless trading. The platform aggregates a wide variety of tokens, providing valuable insights that enhance the trading experience. By enabling clients to trade digital assets securely through their wallets, Slingshot aims to simplify and improve access to the growing crypto market. The company was previously known as DEXAG, Inc. before rebranding in November 2020.

CoFiX

Seed Round in 2020
CoFiX is a decentralized exchange (DEX) based in Singapore that aims to address pricing issues within the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The platform features a computable trading system that includes an oracle module, a market-making module, and a trading module. This infrastructure is designed to incentivize market makers while allowing traders to benefit from minimal price spreads and reduced price impact. CoFiX's decentralized price oracle provides a comprehensive set of financial parameters, enabling users to verify prices and access arbitrage-free price feeds. The overall goal of CoFiX is to facilitate more accurate and cost-effective trading in the cryptocurrency market.

Multis

Seed Round in 2020
Multis, Inc. provides financial services tailored for companies and entrepreneurs managing both fiat and cryptocurrencies. Its crypto wallet is designed to facilitate various financial operations, including storing digital assets, making payments to suppliers, managing payroll, and earning interest. The platform offers real-time monitoring of balances and transactions through a centralized dashboard, supports multi-access to assets, and enables features such as recurring payments and currency conversion. Founded in 2006, Multis is headquartered in San Francisco, California, while its team operates across Europe. The company aims to assist businesses in navigating the complexities of cryptocurrency, thereby promoting a global, borderless economy.

DerivaDEX

Seed Round in 2020
Developer of a community-governed derivatives exchange intended to unite performance and autonomy. The company develops an ethereum-based exchange that uses a liquidity-mining token model along with open order book and on-chain settlements for the trades, enabling traders to participate in the governance and operations of the exchange.

The Graph

Funding Round in 2020
The Graph is a protocol designed for building decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS using GraphQL. Incorporated in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a decentralized indexing and query layer for the decentralized web. Developers can create and publish open APIs, known as subgraphs, which applications can query to access blockchain data. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, POA, and IPFS, with plans to expand to additional networks. A hosted service is available to help developers begin building on the platform, while a decentralized network is set to launch soon. Approximately 1,700 subgraphs have been deployed for various decentralized applications, including notable projects like Uniswap, Synthetix, and Decentraland.

Arweave

Seed Round in 2020
Arweave is an information technology company founded in 2017 and headquartered in London, England, that focuses on providing permanent data storage solutions through its blockchain protocol. The protocol employs a unique consensus mechanism that facilitates low-cost and permanent data storage, ensuring that users have continuous access to their information. By offering robust data replication and security, Arweave incentivizes participants in its network, enabling them to autonomously manage information distribution. The company's innovative approach positions it as a leader in the serverless web and blockchain data storage sectors.

Authereum

Seed Round in 2020
Authereum is a San Francisco-based company that focuses on simplifying the onboarding process for users of decentralized applications (dApps) on the Ethereum network. The platform employs contract-based accounts to enhance key management features, allowing non-technical users to navigate Ethereum applications more easily. Authereum's solution enables users to convert fiat currency into cryptocurrency directly within the wallet, eliminating the need for Know Your Customer (KYC) verification. By leveraging tools such as the Ethereum Name Service and meta transactions, Authereum aims to provide a familiar onboarding experience that caters to a broader audience, facilitating access to the decentralized ecosystem.

Bitski

Seed Round in 2019
Bitski (currently in beta) allows anyone to build user-friendly and cross-platform Ethereum apps. Using Bitski, a user can build a decentralized app or game that feels just as easy to use as a standard app.

Instadapp

Seed Round in 2019
Instadapp is a decentralized finance platform that simplifies interactions between various financial protocols. Founded in 2018 and based in Hyderabad, India, the company operates a blockchain-based autonomous banking portal and mobile application. Its services include lending, borrowing, leveraging, and swapping assets, allowing users to deposit cryptocurrencies and earn variable algorithmic interest over time. The platform enables users to manage and track their blockchain-based assets while analyzing their financial positions, facilitating direct borrowing and margin trading to enhance exposure.

Immutable

Seed Round in 2019
Immutable Pty Ltd, founded in 2018 and based in Sydney, Australia, specializes in developing video games that leverage blockchain technology. The company focuses on creating scalable infrastructure that enhances in-game economies, promoting transparency and enabling player ownership of in-game assets. Immutable provides tools and services that allow players the freedom to trade and build their gaming experiences. Originally known as Fuel Games Pty Ltd, the company emphasizes empowering players by returning control over digital assets to them.

Aztec

Seed Round in 2019
The AZTEC protocol uses cutting-edge zero-knowledge proofs to enable private transactions on Ethereum. This enables the logic of transactions to be validated, whilst keeping the values encrypted.

BLADE

Seed Round in 2019
BLADE Holdings, Inc. owns and operates a cryptocurrency derivative exchange. The company allows trading of cryptocuurency on perpetual basis. BLADE Holdings, Inc. is based in Seychelles.

Horizon Blockchain Games

Seed Round in 2019
Horizon Blockchain Games Inc. is a video game studio that specializes in leveraging blockchain technology to create decentralized gaming experiences. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, the company also has locations in Montreal, Vancouver, Seattle, Mexico City, and Madrid. Horizon develops various games, including Arcadeum, a video game network and wallet built on the Ethereum blockchain, and SkyWeaver, an online card game. The company's platform is designed to empower players by providing a community-driven ecosystem where they can enjoy true digital ownership, open economies, and the ability to earn real-world value through gameplay. By focusing on innovations in web3 gaming, Horizon Blockchain Games aims to reshape the gaming landscape for a new generation of players.

Linen App

Seed Round in 2019
Linen App: earn high yield on your cash (4-5% APY variable). Start with as low as $5, available to withdraw anytime, no fees. Interest accrues hourly, not monthly.

Textile

Seed Round in 2019
Textile is building new digital experiences by focusing on user privacy, transparency, and decentralization.

Web3Auth

Seed Round in 2019
Web3Auth, developed by Torus Labs Private Limited, is a platform that simplifies cryptographic key management for users and applications in the blockchain space. Founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, it provides a backward-compatible Web3 interface that allows users to access their digital assets securely using familiar authentication methods such as Google, Facebook, or passwordless logins. The platform employs a decentralized key generation system, which enhances security through distributed key management and proof mechanisms to prevent malicious activities. By abstracting the complexities of private key management, Web3Auth aims to empower individuals with self-sovereignty and make key management accessible to a broader audience, facilitating safer interactions with blockchain applications.

Polygon

Corporate Round in 2019
Matic Network is a team passionate about decentralization and better products. The current decentralized eco-system lacks usability and convenience. Decentralized transactions are slow, expensive and complex. They aim to change this by leveraging a combination of blockchain scaling, developer platform and tools, and a rabid focus on user experience. They aspire to see a world where blockchain gains mainstream adoption, and fulfills it's true promise.

Polygon

Seed Round in 2019
Matic Network is a team passionate about decentralization and better products. The current decentralized eco-system lacks usability and convenience. Decentralized transactions are slow, expensive and complex. They aim to change this by leveraging a combination of blockchain scaling, developer platform and tools, and a rabid focus on user experience. They aspire to see a world where blockchain gains mainstream adoption, and fulfills it's true promise.

Offchain Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Offchain Labs, Inc., based in Princeton, New Jersey, was founded in 2018 to enhance the development of scalable and secure smart contracts, particularly for applications in the gaming industry and financial services. The company's platform enables developers to create decentralized applications with greater efficiency by providing tools that facilitate the integration of a flexible second layer to their architecture. This approach allows for increased transaction capacity while maintaining privacy and reducing costs, combining the benefits of off-chain solutions with the security of on-chain methods. Offchain Labs aims to simplify the smart contract development process, enabling developers to focus on business logic and user experience.

Forte

Venture Round in 2019
Forte is building economic technology for games. Its platform enables the emergence of community economics, a system where the interests of game developers and players are aligned, leading to healthier, sustainable game communities. The team is composed of longtime industry members (Unity, ngmoco, Riot Games, Electronic Arts, Sony, and Rockstar Games, among others), and is currently working with over 20 acclaimed game developers from across the industry to reimagine the economics of games. www.forte.io

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Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cadence is the leading fintech securitization platform for private credit. The company has developed a platform to streamline the securitization process for specialty finance originators at every stage of growth. Their suite of software and services is built with both institutional and retail investors in mind, integrating directly into their existing workflows and providing exposure to innovative securitized products. Learn more at withcadence.io or on the Bloomberg Terminal at {APPS CADENCE <GO>}.

Staked

Seed Round in 2019
Staked, LLC provides an infrastructure that assists institutional investors of digital currencies to compound crypto holdings through staking and lending. The company offers SLA for block rewards, automatic payouts, and detailed reporting. It supports staking and lending across various proof-of-stake currencies. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Becket, Massachusetts.

Staked

Seed Round in 2019
Staked, LLC provides an infrastructure that assists institutional investors of digital currencies to compound crypto holdings through staking and lending. The company offers SLA for block rewards, automatic payouts, and detailed reporting. It supports staking and lending across various proof-of-stake currencies. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Becket, Massachusetts.

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Pre Seed Round in 2019
Cadence is the leading fintech securitization platform for private credit. The company has developed a platform to streamline the securitization process for specialty finance originators at every stage of growth. Their suite of software and services is built with both institutional and retail investors in mind, integrating directly into their existing workflows and providing exposure to innovative securitized products. Learn more at withcadence.io or on the Bloomberg Terminal at {APPS CADENCE <GO>}.

Abacus

Seed Round in 2018
Abacus helps financial services companies reduce long back-and-forth onboarding sessions, eliminate inefficient data collection, and streamline compliance workflows.

Flipside

Seed Round in 2018
Flipside Crypto, Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cryptocurrency information platform designed to provide business intelligence for blockchain organizations. Founded in 2017, the company offers a range of services, including cryptocurrency management, acquisition, digital walleting, custody services, and portfolio dashboards for investors. Flipside Crypto specializes in analytics, delivering insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial metrics. It also offers the Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS), which measures the fundamental health of cryptocurrency projects. Additionally, Flipside Crypto collaborates with partners like CoinMarketCap and Messari to distribute its analytics. The company is backed by notable investors, including Coinbase Ventures and True Ventures.

Coinmine

Seed Round in 2018
Coinmine Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Manhattan Beach, California, specializes in developing cryptocurrency mining devices. The company's flagship product, Coinmine One, is designed as an all-in-one solution that simplifies and automates the complex processes associated with cryptocurrency mining. This innovative device combines multiple hardware options, allowing users to easily plug it in, access a user-friendly application, and select their preferred crypto network to mine. By focusing on user accessibility, Coinmine aims to make cryptocurrency mining more approachable for a broader audience.

Gauntlet

Seed Round in 2018
Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providing transparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.
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