D1 Ventures

The Arena is a pioneering SocialFi platform that facilitates interaction, networking, and monetization for content creators. It offers a suite of features, including content creation tools, ticket sales, and trading, empowering creators to build communities and generate revenue from their work.

Sigma Computing, Inc. is a business intelligence and analytics solutions provider based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in offering cloud analytics tools that enable users to access and analyze data from cloud data warehouses through an intuitive spreadsheet interface. This design is aimed at empowering a wide range of users, from data specialists to analysts and domain experts, to conduct data analysis without the need for coding or data extraction. By fostering an iterative and community-driven approach to analytics and business intelligence, Sigma Computing aligns analytical processes with business objectives, allowing data professionals to concentrate on more innovative and fulfilling tasks while facilitating quick, insight-driven decision-making across organizations.

Vistara Labs is a developer focused on creating a hardware availability layer for the decentralized web. The company aims to connect decentralized applications with the physical hardware layer, addressing the limitations of centralized cloud infrastructure. By fostering a more distributed and democratic network, Vistara Labs enables businesses to establish on-demand distributed networks at scale, utilizing programmable hardware resources. This innovative approach supports the growing demand for decentralized solutions in various sectors, enhancing the capabilities and flexibility of modern computing environments.

Tanssi is an app chain infrastructure protocol that simplifies app chain deployment, making it secure, efficient, and easy while eliminating the lengthy and complex process of traditional blockchain implementation.

Sumi Network operates in the blockchain, cryptocurrency, and virtual-currency industries. The company offers a decentralized storage system known as Sumi SILK (Storage Integrated Learning Knowledgebase), which converts data into efficient vector database files, facilitating faster searches. Additionally, Sumi Network provides a wallet-to-wallet messenger service, Sumi, which enables effective and powerful communication in the Web3 environment. The company also offers products like Sumi Notes and Storage, contributing to the blockchain service sector.

Founded in 2020 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, t3rn specializes in secure, efficient cross-chain executions. It leverages its modular stack for storage, validation, settlement, and consensus.

Jumbo operates a decentralized finance exchange platform that facilitates the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. By leveraging blockchain technology, the company aims to lower the entry barriers for trading, allowing users to engage in various financial activities such as swaps, liquidity pooling, farming, and staking. Their platform features an interface that enables users to configure asset parameters and detect liquidity pools, ultimately enhancing the investment experience and improving potential returns for investors.

Founded in 2021, Sepana develops advanced search technologies for the decentralized web. Its platform enables developers to integrate search-as-a-service functionality into their applications, facilitating the discovery of Web3 content.

Tapio Protocol is a synthetic asset protocol that unifies different formats of staking and crowdloan derivatives into an efficient standard. Tapio is powered by the Stable Asset system, which enables efficient trading while minimizing risk by utilizing uniform, closely pegged assets with stable swaps and stable asset capabilities.

SolanaFM operates a blockchain indexing and analytical platform designed to efficiently gather and process data from the blockchain. It offers tools that allow users to explore transactions, blocks, accounts, and token information. By providing these services, SolanaFM facilitates a better understanding of the blockchain ecosystem, enabling clients to analyze and interact with blockchain data effectively.

RISC Zero provides a platform enabling users to trust programs run anywhere while allowing developers to use the tools they already know. RISC Zero builds scaling solutions using Zero Knowledge Proofs which will make blockchains accessible. The company was founded by a team of Seattle-based hackers committed to enabling users to control their experience on the internet through the creation of privacy-enhancing decentralization technology.

Guild Education provides a technology platform that connects working adults with online classes, programs, and degree options, offering personalized advising and retention coaching. The service enables employers to give employees education benefits and tuition reimbursement, helping them advance their careers while the platform supports discovery, learning, and organization of the experience. It bridges the gap between education and employment, delivering a comprehensive learning journey from start to finish.

Zecrey is a Singapore-based company established in January 2021 that develops a layer 2 cross-chain protocol focused on enhancing privacy and security in blockchain transactions. Utilizing zkRollup technology, Zecrey aims to lower entry barriers for both businesses and consumers by providing an accessible platform for asset management. The company's services facilitate cross-chain transactions, enabling users to manage, swap, and bridge digital assets across multiple blockchain networks while ensuring that their transactions remain private. By prioritizing user ownership and security, Zecrey strengthens the overall integrity of the blockchain ecosystem.

KnownOrigin operates an online marketplace focused on the sale of digital artwork as authentic digital collectibles, utilizing blockchain technology to enable verified ownership. The platform allows artists to tokenize their creations, providing them with a means to sell their work as certified digital assets. By digitally signing their artwork, artists can engage with a global audience, ensuring that their creations are securely represented in a decentralized manner. KnownOrigin's innovative approach to digital ownership reshapes how art is bought and sold in the digital realm, fostering a new ecosystem for creative professionals.

Rhea finance develops an automated market platform designed to provide an experience close to that of centralized services by integrating DeFi tools, including a decentralized exchange, a lending protocol, and a synthetic asset issuer, into a single one-stop shop, enabling users to trade at low fees with less than two seconds of network transaction finality.

Ruby Protocol operates as a cross-chain privacy protocol, developing a private data management platform for Web3. It enables individuals to gain more ownership of their private data, implementing functional encryption and fine-grained individual data monetization.

Subsquid provides a query node infrastructure with a high level of customization and scalability to make blockchain data usable. Subsquid offers an easy way to build and deploy a custom ETL or GraphQL API for on-chain data.

Zeitgeist PM is a company focused on developing blockchain technology to support prediction markets and futarchy governance. It operates an open prediction market platform designed to facilitate decentralized, on-chain prediction activities. By leveraging blockchain, Zeitgeist PM enables businesses to gather and utilize decision-making signals derived from aggregated data, enhancing efficiency in their decision-making processes. The company's innovative approach aims to transform how information is predicted and governed, fostering a more informed and data-driven environment for organizations.

Size is a company that has developed a virtual auction marketplace, enabling users to engage in sealed-bid auctions for both vested and unvested tokens. By providing this platform, Size facilitates a unique bidding experience for participants in the token market. The company is currently operating in stealth mode, indicating a focus on refining its offerings and preparing for a broader market introduction.

Interlay develops a decentralized finance platform enabling trustless exchange of wrapped Bitcoin across various blockchains, notably Polkadot. This facilitates cross-chain interactions and usage of digital assets securely.

Matrix One develops AI-powered character technology and metaverse infrastructure. The company aims to democratize the creation, ownership and use of AI characters that are immersive, accessible, interactive, decentralized and interoperable, serving as companions, guides and collaborators in daily interactions. It also provides a three-dimensional NFT marketplace platform for the metaverse that transforms original 3D files into optimized assets for multiple environments, minting them as a single token to give creators freedom and collectors tokens usable across virtual worlds.

Zeitgeist PM is a company focused on developing blockchain technology to support prediction markets and futarchy governance. It operates an open prediction market platform designed to facilitate decentralized, on-chain prediction activities. By leveraging blockchain, Zeitgeist PM enables businesses to gather and utilize decision-making signals derived from aggregated data, enhancing efficiency in their decision-making processes. The company's innovative approach aims to transform how information is predicted and governed, fostering a more informed and data-driven environment for organizations.

Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

Sommelier is a decentralized finance platform built on the Cosmos Stargate SDK with a Tendermint-based consensus layer and a bi-directional Ethereum bridge, operated by a global network of validators. It enables liquidity providers to author and execute automated, complex financial transactions such as portfolio rebalancing and limit orders, offering features traditionally associated with centralized finance but within DeFi. The platform uses a modular protocol and decentralized governance to manage automated signature processes and cross-chain interactions, supporting secure, programmable trading and liquidity management.

RMRK is a company that operates a unique Non-Fungible Token (NFT) platform on the Kusama blockchain, which is part of the Polkadot ecosystem. The platform allows NFT creators to build complex systems through a modular approach, often referred to as "NFT legos." This innovative framework enables the creation of NFTs that can own other NFTs, respond to commands, and function as decentralized autonomous organizations. This allows for fractional ownership, enabling groups to collectively control specific NFTs. RMRK's technology provides creators with the tools to develop highly extensible and interactive NFTs, fostering a dynamic environment for both creators and investors.

Subspace Labs is a distributed research and development company behind the Subspace Network. While based in Palo Alto, CA, we are a global, remote-first team of protocol hackers and cryptocurrency enthusiasts. The Subspace Network is a layer zero protocol that is fully interoperable with any layer one, allowing it to serve as an infrastructure layer for the entire Web3 ecosystem. Based on years of original R&D, Subspace is the first protocol to truly resolve the blockchain trilemma, providing an open, scalable platform for both storage and compute. Subspace currently supports Polkadot and Kusama, with more networks coming soon.

Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

Octopus Network facilitates the creation and operation of Web3.0 application-specific blockchains (appchains) by significantly reducing startup costs from millions to tens of thousands of dollars.

PureStake is a blockchain infrastructure company that builds and operates infrastructure, APIs, and tooling for public blockchain networks. It supports networks such as Algorand, offering services and products including the AlgoSigner wallet extension, API-as-a-service, goalseeker block explorer, and infrastructure and consulting services for private and co-chain deployments; and Polkadot, including validators and Moonbeam smart contract support, with consulting services. The company provides a cloud-based platform that offloads infrastructure management and focuses on application development, featuring automated provisioning, globally distributed nodes, and robust security to enable staking and validator activities. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts.

Zeitgeist is the first global brand to focus exclusively on the underserved road cycling segment with its Zeitgeist racing bike.

Polywrap is a development platform that simplifies the integration of Web3 protocols into applications across all devices and programming languages. It enables software to read and write data to Web3 networks, allowing developers to embed blockchain functionality directly into their applications without complex native code.

Minting NFT assets for real worlds value

Litentry is a blockchain-based identity platform delivering privacy-first decentralized identity aggregation, verification, and computation services. Built on Substrate, it processes identity verification and data aggregation requests from service demanders and returns trustworthy results, enabling users to control their data while linking identities across multiple decentralized networks and supporting developers in creating privacy-preserving identity use cases.

DODO is a liquidity protocol powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm and built for capital efficiency. DODO offers a low barrier-to-entry, pain-free token issuance mechanic for long-tail assets.

Founded in 2018, Slingshot is a San Francisco-based company developing decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platforms. It facilitates secure, trustless, and self-sovereign digital asset transactions for retail users, aggregating prices across multiple exchanges.

Gelato Network is an innovative company based in Berlin, Germany, that focuses on automating smart contract executions on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2007, Gelato provides a web cloud platform that allows developers to streamline their on-chain processes, enhancing application reliability and performance. Its audited smart contract protocol eliminates the need for developers to manage underlying server infrastructure, thereby saving significant development time and reducing the potential for single points of failure. The platform supports the creation of augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless, and compatible with all major EVM-compatible blockchains, making it a valuable tool for developers looking to optimize their applications.

DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.