Digital Currency Group

Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a New York City-based company that invests in and supports businesses within the bitcoin and blockchain sectors. With more than 150 investments across over 30 countries, DCG plays a significant role in fostering innovation in the digital currency industry. The company owns and operates several key entities, including CoinDesk, a leading media and events platform focused on blockchain, Genesis Trading, a prominent bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, which is recognized as the largest digital currency asset management firm. Through its extensive network and access to capital, DCG aims to advance the development of digital currency technologies and promote their adoption.

Matthew Beck

Director, Investments

Tim Khoury

Investment Analyst

Rumi Morales

Director, Investments

Barry Silbert

CEO and Founder

Jason Yacavone

Director, Investments

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Unocoin

Seed Round in 2016
Unocoin is a mobile wallet that enables users to buy, sell, store, use, and accept bitcoins. Users can print paper wallets and import bitcoin addresses to their own address book and also withdraw bitcoins to their paper wallets. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, it acts as a point-of-sale merchant mobile app. Unocoin was launched in 2013 and is based in Tumakuru, India.

SFOX

Private Placement in 2018
SFOX, Inc. operates as a cryptocurrency prime dealer that provides high-volume traders and institutional investors best price execution via a global integrated order book. It helps clients get the best price on trades using its liquidity sourced from a global set of exchanges, OTC desks, and market makers. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

BTCjam

Seed Round in 2014
With $11 million dollars in loan volume and growing, BTCJam has served more than 100,000 users from over 200 countries. BTCJam’s mission is to offer affordable credit to everyone. The company employs a proprietary credit scoring algorithm to predict the repayment rate of borrowers, and uses bitcoin to offer fast and inexpensive transactions. If you would like to borrow bitcoin, apply for loans with rates as low as 6.7% APR. Want to earn interest on your bitcoin? Investments on BTCJam average 19% APR. Integrated with Coinbase, bitcoin transfers are simple for borrowers and investors. Try it today!

Yours

Angel Round in 2016
Yours, Inc. designs and develops cryto focused mobile application which enables contributors to earn bitcoin cash for creating content, voting, and commenting. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of September 29, 2020, Yours Inc. operates as a subsidiary of The Bayesian Group.

Coins.ph

Series A in 2016
coins.ph Pte. Ltd. provides a mobile wallet that empowers consumers and small businesses to access various financial services. Its mobile wallet allows users to transfer money, pay bills, load phones, and buy and sell bitcoins. The company also offers ATM cash pickup and merchant services, as well as a mobile application. coins.ph Pte. Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Pasig City, the Philippines. coins.ph Pte. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of PT Go-Jek Indonesia.

Figure

Private Placement in 2019
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Dapper Labs

Private Placement in 2019
Dapper Labs Inc. develops blockchain-based cryptokitties video games. The company offers consumer blockchain collectible cats games for entertainment brands. Dapper Labs Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Ripio

Seed Round in 2013
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.

Horizon Blockchain Games

Seed Round in 2020
Horizon Blockchain Games is a video game studio and Blockchain infrastructure company pioneering a new dimension of gaming. The company makes video games for dreamers, futurists, and digital citizens. It has a community-driven platform for decentralized games where players enjoy the freedom of digital ownership, open economies, privacy, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. Horizon Blockchain Games was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

skew.

Private Placement 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.

Safello

Seed Round in 2014
Safello operates a bitcoin exchange and related services in the European market. It partners with various payment providers such as Bankgirot. The company receives payments through SEPA, Bankgiro, Handelsbanken Direkt, International Bank Transfer, Swish, and many other payment methods. Founded in 2013, Safello is a government registered AB company based in Stockholm, Sweden, and it complies with anti-money laundering laws.

Luno

Series B in 2017
Luno is a leading global cryptocurrency company with over 2 million customers in 40 countries and a team of over 250. Headquartered in London, Luno operates across Africa, South East Asia and Europe. Its products and services make it safe and easy to buy, store and learn about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Luno’s vision is to upgrade the world to a better financial system.

Elliptic

Series C in 2021
Elliptic Enterprises Limited operates a platform to acquire, use, and store bitcoin and other digital currencies. It provides Elliptic Vault, a storage service for bitcoins; and engages in digital currency lobbying, education, and advocacy for the benefit of various users and businesses. Elliptic Enterprises Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Unocoin

Seed Round in 2014
Unocoin is a mobile wallet that enables users to buy, sell, store, use, and accept bitcoins. Users can print paper wallets and import bitcoin addresses to their own address book and also withdraw bitcoins to their paper wallets. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, it acts as a point-of-sale merchant mobile app. Unocoin was launched in 2013 and is based in Tumakuru, India.

Digital Assets Data

Private Placement 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.

Tradewave

Seed Round in 2014
Tradewave is a web-based algorithmic trading platform for cryptocurrencies. Anyone can write a trading algorithm and backtest it for free against our historical market data. When you're ready, we'll run your trading strategy live on any of the major exchanges.

Bitmark

Private Placement 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.

Horizon Blockchain Games

Private Placement in 2018
Horizon Blockchain Games is a video game studio and Blockchain infrastructure company pioneering a new dimension of gaming. The company makes video games for dreamers, futurists, and digital citizens. It has a community-driven platform for decentralized games where players enjoy the freedom of digital ownership, open economies, privacy, and the ability to earn real-world value through play. Horizon Blockchain Games was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Gem

Series A in 2016
Gem empowers individuals to take full control of their wealth, to benefit from the value of their own data, and to experience the collective power of the decentralization movement spreading globally today. Gem has been powering this movement through its cryptocurrency wallets and blockchain platform since 2013. Our seasoned team of cryptocurrency software architects and blockchain engineers are building apps for the next generation of consumers, offering easier and more secure ways to participate in the rapidly evolving digital marketplace. Join the movement today at https://gem.co.

Decentraland

Venture Round in 2020
Decentraland offers a blockchain virtual reality platform, where users can create, experience, and monetize content and applications. It offers go to a casino, watch live music, attend a workshop, shop with friends, start a business, test drive a car, visit an underwater resort, and much, much more—all within a 360-degree, virtual world through its platform. Decentraland ws founded in 2017 and is based in the United States.

Coins.ph

Venture Round in 2014
coins.ph Pte. Ltd. provides a mobile wallet that empowers consumers and small businesses to access various financial services. Its mobile wallet allows users to transfer money, pay bills, load phones, and buy and sell bitcoins. The company also offers ATM cash pickup and merchant services, as well as a mobile application. coins.ph Pte. Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Pasig City, the Philippines. coins.ph Pte. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of PT Go-Jek Indonesia.

Carbon-12 Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Carbon-12 Labs, Inc. operates as a cryptocurrency. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Rigor

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

OpenBazaar

Venture Round in 2017
OpenBazaar is a new way to trade online. By running a program on your computer, you can connect directly to other users in the OpenBazaar network and trade with them. This network isn't controlled by a company, it's a decentralized network that isn't run by any organization at all. This means there are no mandatory fees to pay, and that your trade is censorship-resistant. OpenBazaar uses Bitcoin, a digital currency that is also cheap to use, decentralized, and censorship-resistant. This project is open source, which means the code is publicly available, can be reviewed, and anyone can join the project and suggest changes.

Jackpocket

Private Placement in 2018
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.

BitPesa

Seed Round in 2014
BitPesa Ltd. is a digital currency exchange that accepts Bitcoin and exchanges it to Kenyan Shillings. The company operates an online platform that leverages blockchain settlement and opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Karen, Kenya.

Jiko

Seed Round in 2017
Jiko Technologies, Inc. offers debit cards. It offers Jiko Solid, a debit card with no name and no card number that helps to keep track of online and offline expenses. The company provides cash back on every debit card transaction, single use virtual cards, money investment in safe assets, and no minimum balance requirements. It offers its services through an application. The company is based in Oakland, California. Jiko Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Jiko Group, Inc.

Abra

Series A in 2015
Abra is the world’s first digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin. Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serial entrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money.

Coin Metrics

Series C in 2022
Coin Metrics Inc., an online publisher of blockchains and cryptocurrency, provides market and network data, analytics, and research to the community and other industries. It offers CM Network Data Pro, a data feed of crypto network data for institutions that features historical data aggregated daily/block-by-block for various top assets with new assets and metrics added on regular release cycles. The company also provides CM Market Data Feed, a solution that offers trade, candle, and order book data standardized to a common schema across various crypto exchanges; and CM Reference Rates, a solution that represents a fixed pricing of one unit of an asset quoted in U.S. dollars for various assets. Coin Metrics Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Slingshot

Private Placement 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.

Curv

Private Placement 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.

Flare Network

Venture Round in 2021
Flare Networks is a new blockchain network based on the Flare Consensus Protocol – the first Turing Complete Federated Byzantine Agreement protocol.

bitFlyer

Series B in 2015
bitFlyer, Inc. operates as a virtual currency exchange and provide block chain development services. It specializes in bit coin marketplace and settlement. The company offers wide range of services including bit coin market, altcoin market, ethereum market, ethereum classic market, litecoin market, bitcoin cash market, monacoin market, lisk market, easy exchange, pro exchange, block chain, block chain explorer, block chain LAB, crowd funding, fees and taxes, account class, and application programming interface. bitFlyer, Inc. was founded in 2014 and is based in Minato-ku, Japan.

POSaBIT

Private Placement in 2016
POSaBIT Systems Corporation, a financial technology company, provides block chain-enabled payment processing and point-of-sale systems for cash-only businesses with a focus on the cannabis industry in the United States. The company is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Transparent Systems

Private Placement in 2019
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.

CoinDesk

Acquisition in 2016
CoinDesk provides news and analysis on the trends, changes, technologies, companies and people in the Bitcoin and digital currency world. From explaining the very basics of what Bitcoin is, to showing you how you can buy bitcoins, to all the latest news in the digital currency world. CoinDesk is an independent publication with reporters all over the world who track down the latest information and present it, unbiased.

Artie

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Artie Inc. owns and operates platform for mobile games that can be shared and played inside social applications. Its platform enables features, including voice, texting, and camera input. Artie Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Decent

Private Placement in 2018
Decent Inc. provides health and medical insurance plans for self-employed professionals. It offers Trailblazer Plan, a comprehensive health plan for freelance professionals. Decent Inc. was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Mill Valley, California.

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.

Korbit

Seed Round in 2014
Korbit provides online bitcoin exchange, wallet, and merchant processor services. Kangmo Kim, Louis Jinhwa Kim, and Tony Lyu founded it on July 5, 2013, with its headquarters in Seoul in South Korea as a subsidiary of NXC as of September 26, 2017.

Circle

Series E in 2018
Circle provides an online platform that enables users to send money quickly and easily. Circle uses blockchain technology with Circle Pay to ease and improve how users send money. Circle expands its services with a crypto-currency investment product with Circle Invest, enabling anyone to buy and sell crypto assets. It provides crypto-coins and offer OTC trading services via Circle Trade. Its crypto-trading desk provides one of the largest global liquidity pools for digital asset trading and averages $2 billion in monthly volume. Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville founded Circle in 2013. $140 million from investors including Jim Breyer (Facebook), Goldman Sachs, IDG Capital (Baidu, Tencent), General Catalyst (AirBnB, Snapchat) and Accel Partners backs the company, with its headquarters in Boston, and branches in New York, San Francisco, Dublin, London, and Hong Kong.

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.

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.

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.

BitPesa

Series A in 2017
BitPesa Ltd. is a digital currency exchange that accepts Bitcoin and exchanges it to Kenyan Shillings. The company operates an online platform that leverages blockchain settlement and opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Karen, Kenya.

Coinapult

Seed Round in 2014
Coinapult provides online Bitcoin wallet services for B2B customers to conduct transactions worldwide. The company allows users to receives, stores, and sends Bitcoin using payment tools, as well as offers customizable invoices and merchant services. Its tools include LOCKS, a solution to safeguard wallet balance from price fluctuations; and BITCOIN BY EMAIL, a solution to send Bitcoin through email. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Panama City, Panama.

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.

Ascribe

Seed Round in 2015
Ascribe was founded in 2014 with the goal of building the ownership layer of the internet for creators. Ascribe helps creators to manage their valuable digital creations by providing secure attribution, easy sharing and visibility. Ascribe works closely with world-class creators, along with museums and digital marketplaces. Ascribe's founding team brings many decades of experience from the fields of technology, art, law, and finance.

BitPay

Seed Round in 2013
BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses and organizations. It offers RESTful API, a bitcoin paymet gateway API; and native payment protocol support, signed payment request, direct payment communication, and BIP 73 support solutions. BitPay also provides Copay, a bitcoin wallet solution with Intel hardware security integration that allows users with hardware-level protection, including private key generation, transaction signing, and private keys. It has a strategic processing relationship with Aliant Payment Systems, Inc. Anthony Gallippi and Stephen Pair founded BitPay on May 1, 2011. It has its headquarters in Atlanta in Georgia.

Mifiel

Seed Round in 2014
Mifiel is the easiest and most secure way to sign electronically in Mexico. Using Advanced or Qualified E-signatures--which are presumed to be authentic in court and even more secure than autograph signatures--we provide an alternative to simple e-signature solutions that are mostly suited to legal systems in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Most importantly, Mifiel is the first e-signature service that enables the transfer of ownership of legal documents online. Leveraging the distributed ledger technology of the Bitcoin blockchain, we allow government-vetted, fully-identified parties to endorse documents like titles and promissory notes by signing with their advanced electronic signatures. An advanced e-signature is not a signature in itself but a tool that allows its owner to generate unique e-signatures for each document she signs. It is often biometrically-linked to the signer, issued by the government, and encrypted with a password that only the signer knows--features that endow it with an additional degree of security. In 57 of 65 countries that allow e-signatures, this tool is available for public use (most notably in EU countries).

BitOasis

Series B in 2021
Based in Dubai with an outlook towards emerging markets, BitOasis is a fintech startup building the infrastructure for new digital payment products using the blockchain. BitOasis bitcoin exchange platform, wallet and integrations provide the tools to onboard consumers and businesses to a borderless and efficient digital payment system.

Figure

Series D in 2021
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

Lolli

Private Placement in 2018
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.

Etherscan

Seed Round in 2016
Etherscan is a block explorer and analytics platform for Ethereum, a decentralized smart contracts platform. Etherscan hosts a collection of web-based tools for exploring the public Ethereum network, based on the transactions that have been confirmed on the Ethereum blockchain. As a blockchain explorer, Etherscan can only provide and display information on transactions that occur on the Ethereum blockchain. Etherscan does not process transactions and is unable to troubleshoot transaction failures.

Arcana Network

Venture Round in 2021
Arcana is the Decentralized Storage Layer for Ethereum and EVM chains, with a Privacy Stack for Authentication, Identity and Access Control, Key Management, and End-to-End to encryption. With Arcana's Privacy stack, developers can build secure and privacy-preserving apps.

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.

Livepeer

Private Placement 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.

Multis

Private Placement in 2020
Multis, Inc. offers crypto bank services to companies and entrepreneurs. It’s wallet provides an interface to store crypto, pay suppliers, run payroll, and earn interest. Its services include monitoring, that check company's balance in real-time, and track all transactions from a single dashboard; multi-access to assets, recurring payments, send and receive funds, trading, and convert crypto to cash. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Provenance

Seed Round in 2017
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.

Hedera Hashgraph

Venture Round in 2018
The Hedera hashgraph platform will offer a distributed public ledger that enables anyone to easily develop globally decentralized applications. Developers can build secure, fair, blazing-fast decentralized applications on top of the Hedera hashgraph platform.

Wyre

Series A in 2016
Wyre is a developer of a blockchain-based payment platform designed to change the future of how international payments are done. The company's platform provides real-time payouts, same-day transfers, and direct-to-bank transfers, enabling businesses to move money across borders from country-to-country at a competitive foreign exchange rate. Wyre's business owners can easily create an account and send money to any person or business without worrying about high foreign exchange rates, hidden fees, complicated payout timing, and high payment fees. It also provides onramps and off-ramps, foreign exchange, and crypto liquidity to users of various crypto projects including decentralized exchanges. Wyre was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

Bitnet Technologies

Series A in 2014
Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2 billion in 2010.

Niftex

Private Placement in 2020
Niftex operates a platform for fractional ownership of non-fungible tokens. Its platform allow investors to buy non fungible tokens including artwork, game asset or even a personal brand and to transform their assets into fungible fractions. Niftex was founded in 2020 and is based in Singapore.

Custos Media Technologies

Seed Round in 2016
Custos uses imperceptible watermarking technology and the blockchain to protect digital media files from online piracy. Our SaaS solution, Screenercopy.com, helps filmmakers and distributors to securely distribute their content. To date, over 120 000 movies have been distributed and protected with the technology, all without a single leak. Custos is already protecting ebooks too and is partnering with key market players to expand into music and sensitive document protection.

ShoCard

Seed Round in 2015
ShoCard, Inc. provides a digital identity card that is used through a mobile application. Its identity verification system protects and verifies identity using public/private key encryption with various keys, data hashing, out-of-band communication, data matching, and two-factor authentication, as well as protects consumer privacy. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of March 2, 2020, ShoCard, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Ping Identity Corporation.

Ledger

Series A in 2017
Ledger develops security and infrastructure solutions for cryptocurrencies as well as blockchain applications for individuals and companies, by leveraging a distinctive, proprietary technology. Launched in 2014, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader on the market with 1,000,000 units sold in more than 165 countries. For enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard a very large amount of multiple cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats. The company is also active on the industrial IoT market, leveraging its secure hardware technology to interface sensors and machines to smart contracts or blockchain based assets. Ledger is headquartered in Paris, has a production facility in Vierzon (France) and offices in San Francisco.

Kintaba

Private Placement in 2018
VAULT.IO, INC. develops a secure wallet and distributed application (dApp) discovery platform for mobile devices. The company uses block chain technology for the development of the platform. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York City, New York.

Cambridge Blockchain

Convertible Note in 2017
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.

Ripio

Series A in 2017
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.

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.

ErisX

Series B in 2018
ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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.

SFOX

Series A in 2018
SFOX, Inc. operates as a cryptocurrency prime dealer that provides high-volume traders and institutional investors best price execution via a global integrated order book. It helps clients get the best price on trades using its liquidity sourced from a global set of exchanges, OTC desks, and market makers. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Revelator

Seed Round in 2016
Revelator Limited provides business and marketing cloud solutions for music professionals. It company's platform integrates sales, marketing, accounting, and analytics into one system for both independent artists and record labels. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Jerusalem, Israel.

Andalusia Labs

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.

Ondo Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Ondo Finance makes decentralized finance available to anyone, providing users with a choice between downside protection and higher returns.

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.

Acala Network

Series A in 2020
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform powering cross-blockchain liquidity and applications. It offers a suite of financial primitives: a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange to unleash liquidity to power more financial innovations.

POSaBIT

Venture Round in 2018
POSaBIT Systems Corporation, a financial technology company, provides block chain-enabled payment processing and point-of-sale systems for cash-only businesses with a focus on the cannabis industry in the United States. The company is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

BigchainDB

Seed Round in 2015
BigchainDB is a blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets. BigchainDB allows for the deployment of large-scale applications in a variety of use cases and industries from intellectual property and identity to supply chain, IoT and artificial intelligence. BigchainDB provides unique solutions for developers, start-ups and enterprises to successfully build their concepts, platforms and applications as big as they can dream.

POSaBIT

Seed Round in 2017
POSaBIT Systems Corporation, a financial technology company, provides block chain-enabled payment processing and point-of-sale systems for cash-only businesses with a focus on the cannabis industry in the United States. The company is headquartered in Kirkland, Washington.

Figure

Series A in 2018
Figure provides consumer financial solutions intended for home improvement, debt consolidation, and retirement planning. Its financial services include provide home equity release services such as home equity lines of credit, home improvement loans, and home buy-lease back offerings for retirement leveraging through blockchain, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics, enabling customers to access capital in as few as five days.

RSK Labs

Seed Round in 2016
RSK is the first open-source smart contract platform with a 2-way peg to Bitcoin that also rewards the Bitcoin miners via merge-mining, allowing them to actively participate in the Smart Contract revolution. RSK goal is to add value and functionality to the Bitcoin ecosystem by enabling smart-contracts, near instant payments and higher-scalability.

Digital Assets Data

Private Placement 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.

TradeBlock

Seed Round in 2014
TradeBlock offers financial institutions with a range of execution and analysis tools for digital currency markets. The company acts as a global source of data which shares analyses on market data relating to cryptocurrencies, trading, regulations, mining, protocol updates, block chain analysis, and economic developments. TradeBlock was founded in 2013 and is based in New York, United States.

Mercari

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

Horizen Labs

Private Placement 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.

IPFS

Seed Round in 2016
IPFS is a peer-to-peer (P2P) hypermedia protocol that allows its users to design and develop entirely distributed applications. Operating as a distributed file system, it links all computing devices with the same system of files. It enables the distribution of high volumes of data and allows its users to create resilient networks for the mirroring of data. IPFS trades Git objects in the same way as a single BitTorrent system. It also has similarities to the way how the web functions. It aims to make the web faster, safer, and more open.

Flipside Crypto

Seed Round in 2019
Flipside Crypto, Inc. operates a crypto currency information platform that provides business intelligence for blockchain organizations. The company offers cryptocurrency management services, including cryptocurrency acquisition, digital walleting, custody services, community tools, and portfolio dashboards for investors. It offers data models to evaluate liquid crypto assets and offers investment portfolios related to cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Logos Network

Seed Round in 2018
Logos Network its a crypto network that provides hyper scalable transaction infrastructure from micro transactions to large scale B2B transfers. It includes chain mesh that provides post-blockchain data architecture built to accommodate the Internet of tomorrow, Axios is a novel, delegated proof-of-stake consensus protocol that ensures optimal throughput while guaranteeing safety, and Polis sharding scheme adds a second dimension of parallelism to transaction validation. The company is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Provenance

Private Placement in 2018
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.

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.

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.

Provenance

Venture Round in 2018
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.

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.

Flipside Crypto

Private Placement in 2018
Flipside Crypto, Inc. operates a crypto currency information platform that provides business intelligence for blockchain organizations. The company offers cryptocurrency management services, including cryptocurrency acquisition, digital walleting, custody services, community tools, and portfolio dashboards for investors. It offers data models to evaluate liquid crypto assets and offers investment portfolios related to cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.