Crowd Venture Capital

Crowd Venture Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in New York. The firm focuses on funding innovative ideas and exceptional teams globally, primarily within the Metaverse, NFT, and Web3 sectors. It invests in high-growth technology companies addressing significant challenges across various markets. By leveraging a global network of experts, operators, executives, and potential customers, Crowd Venture Capital supports entrepreneurs and enhances their chances for success. The firm is committed to both equity and digital asset investments when it identifies compelling opportunities in Web2 and Web3.

James Dunning

Partner

Kenneth Ingram

Co-Founder, Finance

23 past transactions

CoinDCX

Series D in 2022
CoinDCX is a company that specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. The company focuses on developing borderless financial services that ensure a simpler and uninterrupted flow of capital. Its liquidity, powerful wallet, and impenetrable security make the trading experience fast, reliable, and effortless. CoinDCX has empowered its traders with a bouquet of industry-first products to trade using liquidity from exchanges. The products are designed for all types of traders keeping their trading experience, risk tolerance, and trading frequency into consideration. The company aims to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone. CoinDCX was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Socket Supply

Seed Round in 2022
Socket Supply creates tools that help developers deploy to the cloud and beyond.

Community Gaming

Series A in 2022
Community Gaming is the all-in-one esports competition platform, offering cutting edge infrastructure to key industry stakeholders. Through its seamless UX, plus highly scalable and efficient blockchain payment technology, the platform equips players, guilds, competition organizers, and game developers with the tools they need to create, facilitate, and participate in esports tournaments. Community Gaming believes in Earnings for Everyone, where the massive gains of the wider esports and gaming industry are decentralized and accessible via web3 technology to reward action and time.

LayerZero

Series A in 2022
LayerZero Labs is a company focused on blockchain interoperability, providing a protocol that connects decentralized applications (dapps) across different blockchains. Its platform enhances data exchange by utilizing an on-chain light node for validation, which streamlines the process of handling block headers. Instead of storing all block headers in sequence, LayerZero employs decentralized oracles to deliver block headers on demand. This approach not only increases speed and security but also improves cost efficiency, enabling clients to develop cross-chain applications with a simple communication framework. Through its innovative technology, LayerZero aims to facilitate seamless interactions between diverse blockchain networks.

Phi Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Phi Labs is a contributor to the Archway protocol that rewards blockchain developers.

Mina

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Mina is building a privacy-preserving gateway between the real world and crypto — and the infrastructure for the secure, democratic future we all deserve.

Crypto Unicorns

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

Republic

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2016 and based in New York City, Republic is an equity crowdfunding platform that allows individuals to invest in private companies starting from as little as $10. The platform connects startups seeking funding with a diverse range of investors, including venture capital firms, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Republic facilitates investment opportunities across various sectors, including gaming, real estate, and cryptocurrencies, enabling a broader audience to participate in the startup ecosystem.

OpenSea

Secondary Market in 2021
OpenSea operates as a peer-to-peer marketplace specializing in crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). As the largest platform of its kind, OpenSea enables users to buy and sell a wide range of digital assets, including gaming items and virtual goods, all backed by blockchain technology. The marketplace employs smart contracts to facilitate secure transactions, enhancing user trust and safety. OpenSea plays a significant role in the burgeoning Web3 economy, supporting the growth of decentralized applications and digital assets. It also features an investment arm, OpenSea Ventures, which focuses on fostering innovation among new founders in the blockchain space.

Meesho

Series F in 2021
Meesho operates as an online reselling platform that enables anyone to start a business without investment. Meesho connects manufacturers, wholesalers, and suppliers with resellers who use social media platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook to sell products to their network of friends and family. The company was founded in 2015 by Vidit Aatrey and Sanjeev Barnwa and is headquartered in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Blockdaemon

Series B in 2021
Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. Their solution is fully portable, it allows its user to switch networks and chains with the click of a button, so they don't have to worry about picking the perfect network configuration from day one. They support the blockchain developer ecosystem with best-of-breed dev-ops advice. Blockdaemon was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

ZenLedger

Series A in 2021
ZenLedger is an analytics startup that simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. Built by expert industry veterans in technology, finance, and accounting, it allows users to easily import crypto transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns. Its automated platform helps investors and tax professionals reduce the uncertainty, frustration, and manual grunt work of creating personal crypto brokerage accounts.

Livepeer

Series B in 2021
Livepeer develops and operates a platform for decentralized live video broadcast on the Internet. It provides an open platform that gives broadcasters, developers, and users the ability to get content and message out. Livepeer combines a blockchain based crypto-token protocol with economic incentives and an open media server. It provides a decentralized video live streaming platform with the peer-to-peer networks and the blockchain. Eric Tang and Douglas Petkanics founded it in 2017, with its head in New York City.

OpenSea

Series B in 2021
OpenSea operates as a peer-to-peer marketplace specializing in crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). As the largest platform of its kind, OpenSea enables users to buy and sell a wide range of digital assets, including gaming items and virtual goods, all backed by blockchain technology. The marketplace employs smart contracts to facilitate secure transactions, enhancing user trust and safety. OpenSea plays a significant role in the burgeoning Web3 economy, supporting the growth of decentralized applications and digital assets. It also features an investment arm, OpenSea Ventures, which focuses on fostering innovation among new founders in the blockchain space.

WeWeb

Seed Round in 2021
At weweb.io we are doing a low-code front-end builder to help companies ship web-applications faster. In a nutshell WeWeb is a visual builder like Webflow, but with the ability to use data from your own stack in the web-product: you can use your own Authentication system, data coming from your back-end (be it through a REST API or directly from a SQL DB), you can fetch and send data to your CRM, ATS, etc.

Terra

Venture Round in 2021
Terra is a price-stable cryptocurrency designed for mass adoption. It builds financial infrastructure for the next generation of decentralized applications. Terra is backed by Luna, a decentralized asset that derives its value from transaction fees collected on the Terra network. Much like the moon stabilizes the earth’s rotation, Luna is Terra's eternal guardian of stability.

API3

Seed Round in 2020
API3 data feeds, dAPIs, aggregate data from first-party oracles, operated by some of the world’s premier API providers.

MakerDAO

Private Equity Round in 2019
Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain seeking to minimize the price volatility of its own stable token — the Dai — against the IMF’s international currency basket SDR. Founded in 2014, the company is headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.

Aave

Seed Round in 2019
Aave (from the Finnish word for "ghost") is an open source non-custodial protocol on Ethereum for decentralized lending and borrowing. For lenders, the protocol mints ERC20-compliant aTokens at a 1:1 ratio to supplied assets. Interest immediately starts compounding continuously, represented by a steady increase in the amount of aTokens held by the lender. This interest stream may be redirected to any address, separate from the aTokens that represent the underlying principal. Aave offers flash loans: trustless, uncollateralized loans where borrowing and repayment must occur in the same transaction. Aimed at developers, this feature could lead to innovative uses of DeFi.

Compound

Seed Round in 2018
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand. Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

NuCypher

Venture Round in 2018
NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform focused on protecting sensitive information. The company offers a product designed for sharing sensitive data while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its encryption layer allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By utilizing existing access policies, NuCypher enhances the security of big data applications against internal and external threats. Additionally, the company is committed to creating privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols, further advancing its mission in the field of cryptography.

Ocean Protocol

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Ocean Protocol is a decentralized data exchange protocol that lets people share and monetize data. It uses advanced blockchain technology that allows data to be shared and sold in a safe, secure and transparent manner. They enable a decentralized platform and network that connects providers and consumers of valuable data, while providing open access for developers to build services. Ocean Protocol was founded in 2017 and is based in Singapore.

LedgerX

Series B in 2017
LedgerX develops an institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies. It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap execution facility and derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 2014, it was formerly known as NYBX INC and is based in New York, New York.
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