Digital Currency Group

At Digital Currency Group (DCG), we build and support bitcoin and blockchain companies by leveraging our insights, network, and access to capital. Based in New York City, DCG has been an active seed investor in the digital currency industry with 150+ investments in over 30 countries. In addition, DCG owns and operates CoinDesk, the top media and events platform in the blockchain space, Genesis Trading, the industry's leading bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest digital currency asset management firm.

Matthew Beck

Director, Investments

Steven Cook

Investor

Timothy Khoury

Investment Analyst

Rumi Morales

Director, Investments

Jason Yacavone

Director, Investments

249 past transactions

Halborn

Series A in 2022
Halborn is an award-winning, elite cybersecurity company for blockchain organizations. Security work never ends. Halborn serves as a third-party partner to continuously assess an organization's most vital assets, drive maximum automation and provide world-class cybersecurity consulting and execution every step of the way - far beyond smart contracts.

Gnosis

Venture Round in 2022
Gnosis offers a decentralized platform for prediction markets, leveraging Ethereum's blockchain technology to facilitate advanced smart contracts. This infrastructure aims to eliminate intermediaries and counterparty risks, supporting a vision of a redistributed future. Gnosis enables the creation of customized forecasting applications that produce conditional tokens, making event outcomes tradable and serving as a valuable tool for information discovery. By prioritizing credible neutrality and resiliency, Gnosis provides a transparent environment for clients to make informed decisions regarding the development and governance of their projects within the blockchain ecosystem.

Bitmark

Series B in 2022
Bitmark Inc. develops property system for digital environment. It offers specialized blockchain technology to convert personal data into property that can be sold, licensed, and transferred peer-to-peer. The company’s property system for the digital environment enables individuals to establish ownership claims for personal data akin to how land registrars track land titles or patent offices track patents. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan with additional offices in Cupertino, California; Reykjavík, Iceland; and Đà Nẵng, Vietnam.

Rigor

Seed Round in 2022
Rigor decentralizes lending and coordinates payment flows with construction logistics.

Voyager

Post in 2022
Voyager is a crypto-asset broker that provides retail and institutional investors with a turnkey solution to trade crypto assets. Voyager offers investors execution, data, wallet, and custody services through its institutional-grade open architecture platform. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Stakes

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a game prediction and chat app designed to allow predictions on real-time sports events. The company's application features an option to join or create public chatting groups to make sports predictions and rewards users for making correct predictions, enabling users to predict the outcome of sports matches and win prizes.

Tribal Capital Markets

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Tribal Capital Markets, LLC ("TCM") is a full service Financial Services firm that is a Certified Minority Business Enterprise organized under the auspices of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians and is headquartered in New York City. TCM is a fully owned subsidiary of Tribal Capital Partners, LLC. TCM is staffed by a team of experienced professionals equipped to provide diverse investment solutions that meet the liquidity and execution needs demanded by all issuers and clients in today's market landscape.

MSquared

Venture Round in 2022
MSquared (M²) develops a network that allows metaverses to be used together. It uses blockchain and cryptocurrency to connect digital assets to various organizations. MSquared is based in London, United Kingdom.

Coin Metrics

Series C in 2022
Coin Metrics Inc. is an online publisher specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrency data, offering a range of market and network analytics to various industries. Founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides several key products, including the CM Network Data Pro, which delivers historical crypto network data in a detailed format for institutional clients. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers the CM Market Data Feed, a standardized solution for trade, candle, and order book data from multiple exchanges, and CM Reference Rates, which provides fixed pricing for various assets quoted in U.S. dollars. By focusing on transparent and actionable data, Coin Metrics enables stakeholders to better understand and utilize public crypto networks.

OXIO

Series B in 2022
OXIO Corp is a technology company that specializes in software solutions for mobile data connectivity applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Paris and Mexico City, OXIO operates as a carrier-as-a-service platform for brands and enterprises. The company has developed a fully cloud-based overlay network that integrates wireless connectivity from multiple providers. Its B2B SaaS offerings empower businesses to have complete control over their wireless experience, providing actionable intelligence that delivers tangible value and results. OXIO serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, government, media, and travel, by offering enterprise cloud and analytics suite products tailored to their specific needs.

Mercari

Series A in 2022
Mercari is a high quality and regulated electronic marketplaces for over the counter OTC products.

Provenance

Venture Round in 2022
Provenance is a platform that empowers brands to take steps toward greater transparency. With our technology, businesses make the origin, journey and impact behind products transparent to the millions of shoppers that want to know more. Enabled by blockchain, mobile and open data, our software gathers and shares key product information and stories in a way that’s secure, trustworthy and accessible – bringing the supply chain to the shopper, online and in-store.

Trust Machines

Seed Round in 2022
Trust Machines is building an ecosystem of applications and platform technologies aimed at unleashing the true potential of bitcoin.

Nala

Seed Round in 2022
NALA Incorporation Company Limited develops a mobile payments application that facilitates various financial transactions without the need for an internet connection. Founded in 2017 and based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, NALA's platform enables users to make bill payments, peer-to-peer transfers, and purchase cell phone minutes. The application enhances the mobile money experience by allowing users to execute transactions quickly and securely, while also providing features such as budgeting tools, transaction tracking, and multi-factor authentication. Additionally, NALA supports international payments for Africans globally, streamlining the process of sending and receiving money across different countries.

Hubble Protocol

Venture Round in 2022
Hubble is a decentralized financial protocol that allows for long-term borrowing, lending, and structured products.

Livepeer

Series B in 2022
Livepeer, Inc. 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. The company 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. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

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.

BBS Network

Seed Round in 2021
BBS Network is a SocialFi project that allows sharing content to reward creators, curators, and other stakeholders with their own native testimony. The revenue generated by the platform is shared among all participants in the BBS ecosystem in a fully automated, transparent, and market-driven way.

MetaMundo

Seed Round in 2021
MetaMundo is a marketplace platform focused on three-dimensional non-fungible tokens (NFTs), facilitating the creation and exchange of metaverse-ready digital assets. The platform allows 3D creators to upload original files, which are then optimized for various virtual environments. These optimized files are minted as a single NFT, enabling collectors to easily acquire unique digital artworks that can be utilized across multiple metaverse platforms. By empowering creators and streamlining the buying and selling process, MetaMundo aims to enhance the experience of both artists and collectors within the growing metaverse ecosystem.

Staking Rewards

Venture Round in 2021
Staking Rewards provides a list of Proof-of-Stake and Masternode Cryptoassets. Staking are thriving to provide up-to-date information, tutorials and support on how to earn passive income with these cryptoassets. With the Reward Calculator it is possible to estimate the passive income for each asset.

C3 Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
C3 is a decentralized capital market that uses a cross-margin cross-collateralization clearing engine protocol as its backbone.

Nym Technologies

Series A in 2021
NYM Technologies SA designs and develops a private Internet infrastructure. The company uses anonymous authentication credentials that enables privacy-enhanced data transfer and decentralized identity. The company is based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Polarise Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Pawnfi uses a smart contract escrow system to allow its customers to take out loans using their non-fungible tokens.

WeMeta

Seed Round in 2021
WeMeta is the go-to platform for all things, from Community Leaderboards to Activity Feeds, to buying, selling, and trading digital land.

Elliptic

Series C in 2021
Elliptic Enterprises Limited, based in London, operates a platform focused on enhancing the transparency and accountability of cryptocurrency transactions. Established in 2013, the company offers blockchain analytics and compliance solutions that help financial institutions, cryptocurrency companies, and government agencies manage financial crime risk and fulfill regulatory requirements. Elliptic provides actionable intelligence to identify and combat illicit activities within the cryptocurrency space, thereby contributing to the integrity of digital currencies. The company also offers Elliptic Vault, a secure storage service for bitcoins, and is involved in lobbying, education, and advocacy related to digital currencies. By addressing the critical challenge of identity verification in cryptocurrencies, Elliptic aims to prevent criminals from undermining the positive potential of this technology.

Tinyman

Seed Round in 2021
Tinyman is a decentralized trading protocol that utilizes the fast and secure framework of the Algorand blockchain, creating an open and safe marketplace for traders, liquidity providers, and developers.

BitOasis

Series B in 2021
BitOasis Technologies FZE operates an online platform that enables users to buy and sell bitcoin in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Dubai, the company aims to provide the infrastructure for digital payment solutions utilizing blockchain technology. Its platform offers a bitcoin exchange, wallet services, and various integrations designed to facilitate access to a borderless and efficient digital payment system for both consumers and businesses. The platform is also available on iPhone and iPad, catering to a growing demand for digital financial services in emerging markets.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol for NFTs.

Ripio

Series B in 2021
Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial payments company that provides electronic payment solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range of financial services for the emerging markets using the blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial system. The company helps merchants process international transactions with credit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash. It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.

SubQuery

Series A in 2021
SubQuery’s mission is to make the world’s decentralised data more accessible. We’re a data-as-a-service provider that aggregates and organises data from Polkadot projects, serving up well-structured data for developers to use for a wide array of projects. Operating between layer-1 blockchains and decentralised apps (dApp), our service allows developers to focus on their core use case and front-end, without needing to waste time on building a custom backend for data processing. SubQuery allows every Substrate/Polkadot team to process and query their data. The project is inspired by the growth of data protocols serving the application layer and its aim is to help Polkadot/Substrate projects build better dApps by allowing anyone to reliably find and consume data faster. Today, anyone can query and extract Polkadot network data in only minutes and at no cost.

Ondo Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Ondo Finance is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform that aims to make decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible to a broad audience. The platform offers users the option to choose between downside protection and enhanced returns, catering to individuals with varying risk tolerances. By providing these choices, Ondo Finance enables users to effectively access DeFi yields while managing their investment risks.

Horizen Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that enables businesses to build distributed ledger solutions that are fast, secure, private and scalable. Horizen Labs leverages Horizen’s privacy-focused public infrastructure and Horizen Labs’ proprietary sidechain deployment tool. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable a shift from centralized to decentralized architectures which help to bridge a divide in global trust.

Livepeer

Series B in 2021
Livepeer, Inc. 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. The company 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. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Coinme

Venture Round in 2021
Coinme Inc. operates as a bitcoin exchange and ATM operator. Its network of bitcoin ATMs, digital wallet, exchange, and digital currency IRA/401k solutions provide customers with access to the digital currency economy. The company also provides a proprietary API and digital wallet that crypto-enables existing ATMs, kiosks, PoS devices, and merchants. Coinme Inc. was formerly known as Western Coin LLC. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Circle

Private Equity Round in 2021
Circle is a financial technology company that leverages blockchain technology to facilitate the sending, receiving, and investing of cryptocurrency assets globally. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle offers a user-friendly online platform that simplifies money transfers and includes services such as Circle Pay for peer-to-peer payments. In addition, the company provides Circle Invest, allowing users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and Circle Trade, which operates a trading desk with a substantial liquidity pool for digital assets, averaging $2 billion in monthly trading volume. With significant backing from investors, including notable firms such as Goldman Sachs and Accel Partners, Circle has established a presence in major cities, including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong. The company is dedicated to accelerating global crypto innovation and adoption through its various financial services.

Figure

Series D in 2021
Figure Technologies, Inc. is a fintech company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2018. It specializes in providing consumer financial solutions focused on home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Figure offers a range of products, including home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, home buy-lease back offerings, and mortgage refinancing. The company utilizes blockchain technology, along with artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, to enhance its services and enable customers to access capital quickly, often in as few as five days. Additionally, Figure provides Provenance, a blockchain platform designed for business applications.

Streami

Venture Round in 2021
Streami, Inc. is a blockchain technology company based in Seoul, South Korea, that focuses on connecting and streamlining fragmented financial networks worldwide. It operates two main platforms: Gofax, a cryptocurrency exchange, and Dask, a cryptocurrency depository. By leveraging blockchain solutions, Streami aims to enhance the efficiency and accessibility of financial transactions in the digital currency space.

Lido

Venture Round in 2021
Lido is a provider of liquid staking solutions for staked assets and Ethereum. The platform lets users stake their assets for daily staking rewards. Users can stake any amount of tokens - no minimum. It issues synthetic native tokens for every Ethereum staked via its protocol, thereby enabling users to stake Ethereum and receive an asset of equal value which can be used in various DeFi applications to earn yield.

Risk Harbor

Seed Round in 2021
Risk Harbor is a risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi) that utilizes a completely automated, transparent, and impartial claims process to protect liquidity providers and stakers against smart contract hacks and attacks. Our mission is to secure the world’s transition to decentralized financial services by removing the need for trusted intermediaries, thereby creating a truly permissionless and open financial system accessible to everyone.

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.

Eco

Series A in 2021
Eco is a digital cryptocurrency platform designed to facilitate global transactions for everyday use. It operates independently from any single organization or government, aiming to create a more equitable distribution of resources by sharing the majority of the economic value generated with its community. The platform features a digital wallet that combines savings accounts, rewarded spending, and bill payment into a single, user-friendly interface. This innovative approach encourages effective money management and aligns the interests of the company with its users, fostering a sustainable financial system. Additionally, Eco is supported by a network of verified organizations worldwide, ensuring that its services remain safe and reliable for all users.

Dimension

Venture Round in 2021
Dimension offers a series of products in advocatory for social liberty in the ever-realistic era of cyberspace, among which the most fundamental ones are Right of Cryptography and Freedom of Interpretation.

Zerion

Venture Round in 2021
Zerion Inc., a blockchain software company, develops a solution to access decentralized finance to invest, earn interest, and borrow crypto assets. It offers Zerion to manage decentralized finance portfolio across multiple accounts in a single place; and track assets in real-time with live price updates and instant push notifications. The company also provides CryptoTrader , an application to track the crypto market through charts, news, and alerts. Zerion Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Fireblocks

Series B in 2020
Fireblocks Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.

API3

Seed Round in 2020
API3 is a company based in the Cayman Islands that specializes in providing decentralized application programming interfaces (APIs) for the web. It focuses on creating data feeds known as dAPIs, which aggregate information from first-party oracles. These oracles are operated by leading API providers, ensuring high-quality and reliable data for decentralized applications. By leveraging these resources, API3 aims to enhance the accessibility and functionality of decentralized systems, allowing developers to integrate real-world data into their applications seamlessly.

Niftex

Seed Round in 2020
Niftex is a platform for fractional ownership of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs).

Slingshot

Seed Round in 2020
Slingshot develops decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform. The company create, monetize, and aggregate crypto assets. It help users find the price for any given token trade. Slingshot was formerly known as DEXAG, inc. and changed its name to Slingshot in November 2020. Slingshot was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

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.

Luno

Acquisition in 2020
Luno is a prominent global cryptocurrency company headquartered in London, serving over 2 million customers across 40 countries, including regions like Africa and South East Asia. The company offers a user-friendly platform for buying, selling, and storing various cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ethereum. Luno is officially registered in Indonesia, where it operates as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the country. Its services include currency conversion, digital wallets, and trading analysis tools, aimed at simplifying cryptocurrency transactions for its users. Luno's mission is to enhance the financial system worldwide by making cryptocurrencies accessible and secure.

Circle

Venture Round in 2020
Circle is a financial technology company that leverages blockchain technology to facilitate the sending, receiving, and investing of cryptocurrency assets globally. Founded in 2013 by Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville, Circle offers a user-friendly online platform that simplifies money transfers and includes services such as Circle Pay for peer-to-peer payments. In addition, the company provides Circle Invest, allowing users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies, and Circle Trade, which operates a trading desk with a substantial liquidity pool for digital assets, averaging $2 billion in monthly trading volume. With significant backing from investors, including notable firms such as Goldman Sachs and Accel Partners, Circle has established a presence in major cities, including Boston, New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong. The company is dedicated to accelerating global crypto innovation and adoption through its various financial services.

Curv

Series A in 2020
Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets. The company's security technology is enabling users to build crypto finance products that safely transfer, store, and manage any digital asset on any blockchain or digital system for recording transactions. Its research and development office is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Curv's decentralized security model utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, enabling transactions to be securely signed in a mathematically-proven, distributed way. Its enterprise-grade policy engine allows clients to define risk profiles and enforce granular policies to ensure only authorized transactions are allowed. Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger established the company in New York, New York in 2018.

Paradigm

Seed Round in 2020
Paradigm was born out of our own frustrations with the institutional OTC trading process. After spending hundreds of hours trading and navigating the inefficient, multi-channel nature of traditional OTC markets, we thought to ourselves: “there has to be a better way.” Paradigm is that better way. We are building the next generation of institutional OTC trading that is powered by conversation and automated with AI. We are backed by XBTO Ventures, Vectr Fintech Partners and some of the most influential private investors in the OTC markets.

Custodia Bank

Angel Round in 2020
Avanti Financial Group is an operator of a crypto-asset banking company used to focus on providing regulated services for digital assets. Its services act as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system and a custodian of digital assets that can meet strict levels of institutional custody standards that provide customers with banking services for the digital assets industry. Avanti Financial Group was established in 2020 and is headquartered in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Pipeline Marketing Inc

Seed Round in 2020
Pipeline allows projects to accelerate their community growth and build a loyal user base. Our software is used by top global projects to create fun and vibrant online communities that customers love. No coding required - go live quickly.

Lolli

Seed Round in 2020
Lolli is a rewards application that allows users to earn bitcoin when shopping online. The company has partnered with 1,000+ top brands to give people the ability to easily earn bitcoin rewards when they shop. When users shop on one of the partner sites, Lolli gets a percentage of each sale. The company then splits that percent with users, sending bitcoin to users' Lolli wallet. Lolli was founded in 2018 by Alex Adelman and Matt Senter and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Fleek

Venture Round in 2020
Developer of a web development platform designed to make the open web available to anyone. The company's platform is used for proper monitoring of blockchain infrastructure, applications and transactions of developed websites and helps to manage web protocols, encryption, p2p functionality and decentralized applications, enabling clients to properly build, manage, share and interact with smart contracts and application programming Interface (APIs) in one place.

Kintaba

Venture Round in 2020
Kintaba specializes in modern incident management solutions designed to facilitate effective response and collaboration among teams during significant incidents and outages. The company's platform enables organizations to track incidents and implement self-repair processes, enhancing operational efficiency and minimizing downtime. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York City, Kintaba leverages advanced technology to support businesses in managing critical situations effectively.

skew.

Series A in 2020
Skew Ltd develops and operates online marketplace that provides market intelligence for crypto derivatives markets. Its platform provides real time data analytics for bitcoin and ether derivatives; customized services to suit users’ needs as a trader, investor, and researcher; and provides market participants with an overview of crypto markets. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Coin Metrics

Series A in 2020
Coin Metrics Inc. is an online publisher specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrency data, offering a range of market and network analytics to various industries. Founded in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company provides several key products, including the CM Network Data Pro, which delivers historical crypto network data in a detailed format for institutional clients. Additionally, Coin Metrics offers the CM Market Data Feed, a standardized solution for trade, candle, and order book data from multiple exchanges, and CM Reference Rates, which provides fixed pricing for various assets quoted in U.S. dollars. By focusing on transparent and actionable data, Coin Metrics enables stakeholders to better understand and utilize public crypto networks.

Horizon Blockchain Games

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Horizon Blockchain Games

Seed Round in 2020
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.

Zabo

Seed Round in 2020
Zabo is a financial technology company that integrates traditional banking with cryptocurrency services. It offers a comprehensive banking solution that includes checking and savings accounts, a debit card, and direct deposit capabilities. The platform allows users to easily exchange cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ether, directly from their bank accounts. Zabo's application is built on an API framework, enabling seamless connection of cryptocurrency accounts with minimal coding required. Additionally, it supports hardware wallet integration, facilitating the buying, selling, and transferring of cryptocurrencies for its clients.

Transparent Systems

Series A in 2020
Transparent Systems transforms global financial systems with an open universal platform that enables secure, frictionless payments through distributed cryptographic systems. Starting with B2B payments and treasury management solutions, its goal is to increase financial accessibility, efficiency, and transparency worldwide. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

The Graph

Venture Round in 2020
The Graph is the indexing and query layer of the decentralized web. Developers build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph, and the decentralized network will launch later this year. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, POA, and IPFS, with more networks coming soon. To date, ~1,700 subgraphs have been deployed for dApps like Aragon, Uniswap, Synthetix, Balancer, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, and Decentraland.

Bloq

Venture Round in 2020
Bloq, Inc. specializes in developing enterprise software solutions centered around blockchain technology. Founded in 2015 and based in Chicago, the company offers BloqEnterprise, a comprehensive blockchain infrastructure that enables organizations to create, manage, and customize their own blockchain networks—whether private, public, or permissioned. Bloq also provides BloqCloud, a blockchain management system, and BloqLabs for tokenization. Additionally, the company has developed Metronome, a cross-blockchain cryptocurrency, and operates a digital currency wallet that offers various cryptocurrency services. Bloq's offerings address critical business needs such as security, provenance, authentication, and reconciliation, positioning it as a valuable partner for enterprises looking to leverage blockchain technology effectively.

Decentraland

Venture Round in 2020
Decentraland is a blockchain-based virtual reality platform that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications in a 3D, interactive environment. Founded in 2017 and based in the United States, it is the first virtual platform owned by its users. Participants can purchase virtual land through the Ethereum blockchain, ensuring an immutable record of ownership. This ownership grants users complete control over their virtual properties, enabling them to craft unique experiences such as attending live events, visiting virtual resorts, shopping, or even starting a business. Decentraland offers a diverse range of activities within its immersive 360-degree world, allowing for endless possibilities limited only by the users' imagination.

Figure

Series C in 2019
Figure Technologies, Inc. is a fintech company based in San Francisco, California, established in 2018. It specializes in providing consumer financial solutions focused on home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Figure offers a range of products, including home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, home buy-lease back offerings, and mortgage refinancing. The company utilizes blockchain technology, along with artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, to enhance its services and enable customers to access capital quickly, often in as few as five days. Additionally, Figure provides Provenance, a blockchain platform designed for business applications.

OXIO

Seed Round in 2019
OXIO Corp is a technology company that specializes in software solutions for mobile data connectivity applications. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Paris and Mexico City, OXIO operates as a carrier-as-a-service platform for brands and enterprises. The company has developed a fully cloud-based overlay network that integrates wireless connectivity from multiple providers. Its B2B SaaS offerings empower businesses to have complete control over their wireless experience, providing actionable intelligence that delivers tangible value and results. OXIO serves a diverse range of industries, including finance, government, media, and travel, by offering enterprise cloud and analytics suite products tailored to their specific needs.

Flipside Crypto

Seed Round in 2019
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.

CryptoKitties

Series B in 2019
CryptoKitties is a mobile game that enables users to collect and breed virtual cats on the blockchain. The collectible, breedable, and adorable CryptoKitties aim to make blockchain technology accessible to everyday consumers by putting a furry face on the concept of digital collectibles. With each CryptoKitties unique 256-bit genome empower nearly 4-billion potential genetic combinations.

Bitmark

Series A in 2019
Bitmark Inc. develops property system for digital environment. It offers specialized blockchain technology to convert personal data into property that can be sold, licensed, and transferred peer-to-peer. The company’s property system for the digital environment enables individuals to establish ownership claims for personal data akin to how land registrars track land titles or patent offices track patents. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan with additional offices in Cupertino, California; Reykjavík, Iceland; and Đà Nẵng, Vietnam.

Digital Assets Data

Seed Round in 2019
Digital Assets Data Inc., a fintech and data company, develops enterprise-grade software and data feeds for crypto hedge funds and other market participants. It provides data and information technology software and solutions for cryptoassets, including currencies, platforms, applications, side chains, security tokens, and initial coin offers (ICOs) through subscription services to hedge funds and other institutional investors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

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.

Livepeer

Series A in 2019
Livepeer, Inc. 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. The company 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. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Jackpocket

Series B in 2019
Jackpocket, Inc. develops a mobile application that allows users to buy lottery tickets while playing games. Its application can be downloaded on iOS and Android devices. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, New York.

Merkle Science

Seed Round in 2019
They are a group of passionate individuals from Paypal, Luno, Bank of America, Instamojo who believe in the promise of decentralized and trustless commerce.

Editional

Seed Round in 2019
Blockchain infrastructure has set the stage for a new generation of digital ownership that better connects and empowers both creators and owners

Merkle Data

Venture Round in 2019
Merkle Data Inc., founded in 2017 and based in San Mateo, California, specializes in delivering analytics and risk solutions to financial institutions. The company focuses on providing accurate and actionable blockchain data, supporting the needs of a blockchain-enabled world. As of January 15, 2020, Merkle Data operates as a subsidiary of Anchorage Hold, LLC.

Digital Assets Data

Seed Round in 2019
Digital Assets Data Inc., a fintech and data company, develops enterprise-grade software and data feeds for crypto hedge funds and other market participants. It provides data and information technology software and solutions for cryptoassets, including currencies, platforms, applications, side chains, security tokens, and initial coin offers (ICOs) through subscription services to hedge funds and other institutional investors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Horizen Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that enables businesses to build distributed ledger solutions that are fast, secure, private and scalable. Horizen Labs leverages Horizen’s privacy-focused public infrastructure and Horizen Labs’ proprietary sidechain deployment tool. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable a shift from centralized to decentralized architectures which help to bridge a divide in global trust.

Cambridge Blockchain

Series A in 2019
Cambridge Blockchain develops blockchain-based identity management and compliance software solutions for financial institutions. The company provides an identity management platform for multinational banks financial institutions that puts control of personal identity data back in the hands of the end-user. It returns control of personal data back to users while delivering the benefits of trusted, distributed identity to consumers and organizations. Alex Oberhauser, Alok Bhargava, and Matthew Commons founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts.

Lucid Sight

Series B in 2019
Lucid Sight, Inc. is a computer software company based in Los Angeles, California, that specializes in the design and development of virtual reality games and applications. Founded in 2015, the company focuses on creating immersive entertainment experiences using emerging technologies, including virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain. Lucid Sight develops innovative monetization and marketing platforms intended for brands and game developers, as well as tools and plug-ins for virtual reality developers. By leveraging these technologies, the company aims to enhance the gaming experience through engaging multiplayer adventure and sports games. Its products are available through a catalog that serves both developers and advertisers.

Qohash

Seed Round in 2019
Qohash Inc. is a Canadian company based in Quebec City, established in 2018, that specializes in data security solutions. Its primary offering, the Qostodian platform, focuses on data discovery, classification, and integrity assurance, enabling organizations to monitor and protect their critical data effectively. The platform is designed to serve various professionals, including chief information officers, chief information security officers, system administrators, auditors, risk advisors, and security analysts, providing them with the tools needed for comprehensive data management and security. Through its modern approach to data security, Qohash aims to enhance the protection of valuable business processes and sensitive information across enterprises.

CoinFLEX

Seed Round in 2019
CoinFLEX (Coin Futures and Lending Exchange) is the world's first physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange.

Nivaura

Seed Round in 2019
Nivaura Ltd owns and operates a blockchain technology based platform for automated issuance of financial products and asset administration. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Ilford, United Kingdom.

Curv

Seed Round in 2019
Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets. The company's security technology is enabling users to build crypto finance products that safely transfer, store, and manage any digital asset on any blockchain or digital system for recording transactions. Its research and development office is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Curv's decentralized security model utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, enabling transactions to be securely signed in a mathematically-proven, distributed way. Its enterprise-grade policy engine allows clients to define risk profiles and enforce granular policies to ensure only authorized transactions are allowed. Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger established the company in New York, New York in 2018.

Money Button

Venture Round in 2019
Money Button is a simple way to make or accept payments over the internet.

Staked us

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 us

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.

Coinhouse

Series A in 2019
At Coinhouse, we believe digital assets and blockchain technologies are breakthroughs that will fundamentally change societies. They will transform the way we exchange value and disrupt the financial system for the better. Founded in 2014 and based in Paris, France, Coinhouse is the leading and trusted partner for investing and safeguarding digital assets using entreprise-grade custody systems. A comprehensive suite of online and in-person services sets Coinhouse apart by: - Offering immediate access to a wide selection of digital assets where transactions can range from tens of euros to several million with best prices and high-level liquidity - A dedicated account manager for all our premium clients to support them throughout their investment journey with premium research and services. - An enterprise-grade custody service offered by our sister company, Coinhouse Custody Services.

Madhive

Venture Round in 2019
MadHive Inc. is a New York-based company that offers commercial solutions utilizing blockchain, cryptography, and artificial intelligence for advertisers and publishers. Established in 2016, MadHive specializes in measuring customer intent data across various platforms, including television, mobile, and web. The integration of secure blockchain technology enhances the reliability and transparency of its services, allowing brands and publishers to effectively analyze and respond to consumer behavior.