DeFiance Capital

Founded in 2020, DeFiance Capital is a Singapore-based investment firm focusing on Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and other emerging blockchain technologies. The company employs an activist investment approach, combining fundamental research to identify promising opportunities in web3, decentralized finance infrastructure, gaming, metaverse, and cryptocurrency sectors.

Arthur Cheong

Founding Partner

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ARPA Network

Venture Round in 2024
ARPA Network is a decentralized computing network designed to improve the fairness, security, and privacy of blockchain technology.

ARPA

Venture Round in 2024
ARPA develops a blockchain-based platform for secure multi-party computation. This enables data sharing without revealing raw data, ensuring computation correctness even in malicious conditions using advanced cryptographic techniques.

Fordefi

Seed Round in 2022
Develper of a multi-party computation wallet platform designed to seamlessly connect to d-apps across a wide range of chains while keeping digital assets secure. The company's platform offers a web-three gateway that is built for decentralized finance, offering multi-party computation key management, self-serve defi policy controls, time-of-transaction smart contract insights, transaction simulation, and risk alerts, enabling market participants to easily and securely connect to decentralized applications.

Gomu

Seed Round in 2022
Gomu is a software development platform focused on simplifying the creation of Web3 applications and services across various blockchains. It provides developers with tools such as an application programming interface and a software development kit, which enable the development of Web3-driven utilities and non-fungible tokens. By offering these resources, Gomu facilitates the creation of applications and decentralized applications, allowing clients to deliver enhanced Web3 experiences to their users.

Suberra

Seed Round in 2022
Suberra facilitates crypto payments for businesses. It offers services such as accepting crypto for commerce, one-time payments, and subscriptions, aiming to enhance user experience in crypto transactions.

Ring Games

Venture Round in 2022
Ring Games is a blockchain game development company that focuses on creating a global gaming experience. The company leverages blockchain technology to develop a metaverse ecosystem that enhances gameplay and offers unique visual perspectives. In addition to game development, Ring Games operates an online marketplace where users can trade non-fungible token collections, further integrating the gaming experience with digital asset ownership. Through its innovative platform, Ring Games aims to redefine the way gamers interact with virtual environments and digital collectibles.

Tatsumeeko

Seed Round in 2022
Tatsumeeko is a Discord-first fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Apeiron

Seed Round in 2022
Apeiron is a play and earn NFT game.

Crypto Raiders

Venture Round in 2022
Crypto Raiders is a highly-interactive dungeon crawler game built on the blockchain. Players have the ability to buy characters and mobs, go on missions, build teams in a virtual universe all while discovering NFTs they then own. Crypto Raiders is built on the Polygon blockchain, and all NFT loot is randomized, ensuring that the value of all discovered loot is random as well.

Ultiverse

Seed Round in 2022
Ultiverse operates an AI-powered gaming platform and Web3 ecosystem that connects global players through integrated gaming, decentralized finance, and digital asset ecosystems. The platform enables multiplayer battles, character creation, and NFT integration, with options to redeem NFTs for real-life replicas and deliverables upon request. It provides tools for game production and publishing, supporting developers to build, publish, and monetize games within an interconnected environment. The ecosystem also supports liquid staking and other blockchain-enabled features to enhance engagement and asset interoperability across titles. By combining AI-driven gameplay with Web3 capabilities, Ultiverse aims to create a seamless bridge between digital entertainment, asset ownership, and real-world deliverables.

Lava Labs

Series A in 2022
Lava Labs is a game development studio specializing in creating immersive gaming experiences. Based across multiple locations including the UK, Sweden, and the Netherlands, they focus on innovation and community engagement.

Luna Foundation Guard

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
LFG is dedicated to supporting a vibrant community of blockchain innovators committed to developing a decentralized global economy.

MixMob

Seed Round in 2022
MixMob is a play-to-earn game platform built on the Solana blockchain. It draws inspiration from music, art, fashion, and movies to create a unique Remix Culture within its metaverse.

Rift Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Rift Finance operates a decentralized protocol that enhances the growth of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) by restructuring incentive frameworks. It enables DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries, thereby increasing token liquidity without relinquishing ownership.

So-Col

Seed Round in 2022
So-Col is a pioneering platform facilitating direct connections between content creators and their fans. It leverages blockchain technology to bridge Web2 identities to Web3, enabling creators to monetize their content and build communities by converting social media posts into non-fungible collectibles.

Dropp

Venture Round in 2022
Dropp GG is a social NFT minting platform that aims to bring the metaverse into the real world. Dropp Land is a metaverse where NFT tokens for virtual land plots have counterparts in the physical world. Dropp GG is integrated with Dropp 3D, an augmented reality feature that bridges virtual and physical experiences.

Rebase

Seed Round in 2022
Rebase is a company that offers a lifestyle application designed to enhance user experiences through the exploration, collection, and redemption of exclusive digital rewards in the real world. In addition to its lifestyle application, Rebase operates a metaverse gaming platform that utilizes geo-based minting for creating unique non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This platform allows users to participate in mixed reality events, merging real-world activities with a proprietary metaverse environment. Users can mint NFTs by applying augmented reality filters during their explorations, providing a novel way to engage with digital content while interacting with their physical surroundings.

Hubble Protocol

Venture Round in 2022
Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.

Friktion

Venture Round in 2022
Friktion Labs is a decentralized finance (DeFi) company focused on portfolio management, equipped with a team of quantitative traders, researchers, and crypto engineers experienced in commodities, treasuries, and crypto-assets. The organization has assembled a team of derivatives traders and market makers with expertise from notable firms in the trading sector. Friktion offers an automated portfolio manager (APM) that allows users to input their existing portfolio details, including spot trading, perpetual contracts, and liquidity positions. This platform is designed to help investors maximize profits and monitor fluctuations across various market cycles, promoting sustainable and informed investing practices.

Suberra

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Suberra facilitates crypto payments for businesses. It offers services such as accepting crypto for commerce, one-time payments, and subscriptions, aiming to enhance user experience in crypto transactions.

Cosmic Guild

Seed Round in 2021
Cosmic Guild is a gaming company that develops online games designed to entertain and generate earnings simultaneously. Its flagship product features battle modes for player engagement and minigames for exploration. Additionally, Cosmic Guild maintains a portfolio of high-quality NFT game assets from top-tier crypto games, which it lends to its members, allowing players worldwide to derive tangible income through gameplay. The company's mission is to harness the power of games to positively influence people's lives.

Multichain

Seed Round in 2021
Multichain is a developer of a cross-chain router protocol that facilitates real-time cryptocurrency transactions across various blockchain networks. It provides a comprehensive platform that enables users to swap cryptocurrencies seamlessly among multiple exchanges, enhancing interoperability within the blockchain ecosystem. By building robust infrastructure that supports leading exchanges, Multichain positions itself as a key player in the blockchain industry, catering to the growing demand for efficient and versatile trading solutions.

Hubble Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.

Atlendis Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online lending platform offering uncollateralized crypto loans. The platform leverages blockchain technology for capital-efficient lending, ensuring creditworthiness and loan repayment capability.

JellyFi

Seed Round in 2021
Most DeFi applications require institutional borrowers to over-collateralize their loans using crypto as collateral, limiting the wide range of use cases possible with crypto lending. Collateralized loans not only restrict borrowers from using capital how and when they want, but also limit the potential for enhanced return for lenders. JellyFi is a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that enables crypto loans without collateral, where institutional borrowers can obtain competitive loan terms, and lenders get access to higher returns while having more granular control over their investment portfolios. Zero-collateral loans are similar to a revolving line of credit where the borrower only has to pay a liquidity fee on unused capital in their own liquidity pool.

Platypus Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Platypus Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers a new mechanism for Automatic Market Makers (AMM) for stablecoins to optimize capital efficiency.

Champion Games

Venture Round in 2021
Champion Games creates blockchain-based video games. The company's game MetaSoccer, a football fantasy game that allows the players to play and ear.

ConsenSys

Series C in 2021
ConsenSys is an Ethereum software and Web3 company that enables developers, enterprises, and individuals to build decentralized applications, deploy modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite includes Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serving millions of users and supporting billions of blockchain-based queries and digital assets. Built on Ethereum, ConsenSys fosters the growth of a programmable economy by providing tools, services, and research that accelerate innovation and the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.

Whalehouse Technology

Series B in 2021
Whalehouse Technology is a Shenzhen-based automated warehouse solutions provider. Whalehouse is a good friend of the electricity supplier companies, courier companies and logistics companies, which provides intelligent automated warehouse solutions and free upgrade service. The gene of whale warehouse is electricity supplier and technology, the company is constituted by a young group from Tencent, SF, JD and CAS.

GuildFi

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

Syndica

Seed Round in 2021
Syndica is a Web 3.0 developer infrastructure company that provides cloud-like infrastructure, advanced developer tooling, and APIs to support blockchain developers, with a focus on the Solana ecosystem. Its cloud-based platform includes features such as advanced logging and usage analytics to help clients build, deploy, and manage blockchain applications.

Beta Finance

Venture Round in 2021
Beta Finance is a decentralized finance protocol specializing in lending, borrowing, and short-selling of crypto assets. It aims to mitigate crypto volatility and promote market stability through its user-friendly platform, enabling traders of all skill levels to manage their short positions effectively.

Timeswap

Seed Round in 2021
Timeswap is a decentralized finance platform that facilitates both lending and borrowing of Ethereum-based ERC20 tokens. It offers users flexibility in managing their risk-return profile through adjustable interest rates and collateral factors, and enables the creation of token pools by providing liquidity.

MCDEX

Venture Round in 2021
Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

RabbitX

Series A in 2021
RabbitX facilitates global investment access with zero-commission trading across stocks, fx, commodities, and digital assets. It operates on decentralized scaling technology, backed by prominent venture capital firms.

XDEFI Wallet

Series A in 2021
XDEFI Wallet is a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet that enables users to securely swap, store, and send crypto and NFTs across 30 blockchains, while providing access to DeFi protocols. It serves more than 200,000 users.

Orca

Series A in 2021
Orca is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange built on the Solana blockchain, facilitating instant token swaps with minimal transaction fees. The platform is designed to handle thousands of transactions per second, ensuring low latency and capital-efficient trading. Users can exchange tokens while receiving fair pricing and have the option to provide liquidity to trading pools, allowing them to earn a share of the trading fees generated on the platform.

LayerZero

Series A in 2021
LayerZero develops a blockchain interoperability platform that enables data exchange between disparate blockchains. Its platform achieves speed and security by validating as an on-chain light node, allowing companies to build cross-chain applications using a low-level communication primitive.

Bluefin

Venture Round in 2021
Bluefin operates a decentralized derivatives exchange that leverages innovative blockchain technology to facilitate access to global financial markets. The platform is designed for both novice and experienced traders, offering features such as leverage trading, short selling, and rapid trade settlement. By combining the security and transparency of decentralized systems with the efficiency and low costs typically associated with centralized exchanges, Bluefin aims to democratize trading for users worldwide. The company is supported by a group of prominent investors, enhancing its position in the competitive trading landscape.

Eden Network

Seed Round in 2021
Eden Network is a blockchain infrastructure company that focuses on enhancing transaction safety for traders and providing transaction priority for NFT minters. It develops a suite of Ethereum smart contracts that adhere to the principles of progressive decentralization, allowing token holders to participate in governance through private communication channels and decision-making processes. The company also offers essential liquid staking and validation infrastructure aimed at optimizing yield generation, increasing total value locked (TVL), and fostering overall network growth. By prioritizing both security and user governance, Eden Network seeks to create a more efficient and decentralized trading environment.

UXD Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
UXD Protocol operates a decentralized platform on the Solana blockchain. It facilitates digital asset transactions through an algorithmic stablecoin that automatically generates interest and maintains its peg by balancing different cryptocurrencies as collateral.

DeZy

Seed Round in 2021
DeZy is a business building on top of decentralized finance protocols. Dezy takes your cash, converts it to dollar-denominated stable coins, which are deposited across a range of DeFi protocols.

Index Coop

Seed Round in 2021
The Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) and the largest provider of on-chain structured decentralized finance (DeFi) products. We’re on a mission to make DeFi simple, secure and accessible to everyone. Index Coop builds sector index products, leverage and inverse products, and yield-generating products, all built on Set Protocol’s twice-audited V2 infrastructure.

CoinAlpha

Series A in 2021
CoinAlpha, Inc. is a FinTech software engineering firm based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing technologies that enable traders, developers, and fintech firms to create contract-based financial products. CoinAlpha is known for its open-source initiatives, including the Basket Protocol for Ethereum tokens and the Fund Protocol for fund administration. The company has also created Hummingbot, a leading open-source software for building market-making and arbitrage bots, which empowers users to manage token liquidity effectively. Additionally, CoinAlpha operates Hummingbot Miner, a liquidity mining platform that allows users to earn rewards by running market-making bots on specific trading pairs. The concept of liquidity mining was first introduced by CoinAlpha in a 2019 whitepaper. The founders bring extensive experience in investment banking and trading, complemented by engineering and product leadership backgrounds in notable Silicon Valley companies. CoinAlpha has successfully raised $14.8 million in funding from various investors.

Set Labs

Series A in 2021
Set Labs develops tools for creating and managing bundled crypto assets, known as 'Sets'. These Sets enable users to create diverse cryptocurrency baskets, including non-fungibles and on-chain securities.

Bright Star Studios

Seed Round in 2021
Bright Star Studios is an independent global game development studio based in Swatar, Malta. The company specializes in creating multiplayer online video games compatible with mobile devices, personal computers, and browsers. Their flagship title is Ember Sword, a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG offering competitive gameplay across platforms.

Burnt

Venture Round in 2021
Burnt Finance is a decentralized NFT auction protocol designed to facilitate the minting and trading of digital assets in a permissionless environment. The company aims to overcome barriers to widespread cryptocurrency adoption by providing a high-speed, low-cost platform that enhances the Web3 experience. By integrating and partnering with like-minded entities, Burnt Finance focuses on building the necessary infrastructure, products, and tools to make cryptocurrency more accessible and relatable to the general public. Its offerings include features for fundraising, collections, and staking, empowering users to engage with the evolving digital asset landscape effectively.

MCDEX

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Fully permissionless protocol for decentralized perpetual swaps

InsurAce Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
InsurAce is the leading decentralized insurance protocol, providing reliable, robust and secure DeFi insurance services to the DeFi users. InsurAce not only guarantees unbeatable portfolio premiums but also offers sustainable investment returns. We have a unique insurance product, tailored just for your project. From insuring your smart contract against hacks to allowing users to secure their investments against risks. Our community is one of the best in the DeFi space and is a key element to our success. We continue to innovate and improve for them.

Balancer Labs

Series A in 2021
Balancer Labs is a decentralized finance company that operates a platform for programmable liquidity and custom automated market makers. The platform enables the creation and management of custom liquidity pools and supports non-custodial portfolio management, liquidity provision, and price sensing. It offers streamlined pool creation and flexible architecture through features such as hooks and vaults, allowing developers to focus on innovation while benefiting from security, scalability, and interoperability within the DeFi ecosystem. The solution emphasizes user protection and open, permissionless access to liquidity markets, replacing traditional order books with automated market making for efficient token exchanges.

Armor

Venture Round in 2021
Armor develops a dynamic cover brokerage protocol for decentralized finance to serve cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2021, Armor is a DeFi coverage aggregator that makes securing your DeFi assets against hacks as easy as possible. Ease wants to make DeFi as easy and safe as possible. They aim to cover every dollar in DeFi so that users can finally feel at ease.

dYdX

Series B in 2021
Founded in 2017 by an ex-Coinbase engineer, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, and Spot trading on Ethereum. It combines the security of a decentralized exchange with the speed and usability of a centralized one.

Swivel Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Swivel Finance is a company based in Austin, Texas, founded in 2020 that specializes in creating an online lending platform. It offers a decentralized protocol designed for fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives, allowing lenders to secure fixed-rate interest rates on their ERC-20 tokens. The platform is characterized by its low transaction overhead and reduced risk for users, facilitating a more stable lending environment in the decentralized finance space.

Horizon Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Horizon Finance is a platform dedicated to decentralized interest rate and protocol cash flow markets. It enables users to deposit their assets with either fixed or floating interest rates, providing a unique opportunity to compete for preferential payment by capping their yield. The platform offers a trading toolkit for participants in the decentralized finance ecosystem, facilitating engagement with key yield streams while rewarding users for their participation. Through its innovative approach, Horizon Finance aims to enhance user experience in managing and optimizing financial returns.

BoringDAO

Seed Round in 2020
BoringDAO is a cross-chain cryptocurrency platform that facilitates the transfer of assets across various blockchains in an efficient and timely manner. By constructing decentralized asset tunnels, BoringDAO enhances the utility of non-ERC20 assets while also enabling them to generate yield. The platform allows users to mint, convert, and redeem cryptocurrency tokens quickly, typically within several minutes. Through its innovative approach, BoringDAO aims to connect all blockchain-related assets, thereby streamlining the interaction between different blockchain networks.
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