Digital Currency Group

Digital Currency Group is a Stamford, Connecticut-based corporate venture capital firm that invests in and supports companies operating in fintech, bitcoin, web3 infrastructure, platforms, decentralized finance, data, metaverse, and blockchain sectors. Through its portfolio, the firm provides capital and strategic guidance to a global network of startups and mature ventures. Digital Currency Group also owns and operates CoinDesk, a prominent blockchain media and events platform, Genesis Trading, a leading bitcoin brokerage, and Grayscale Investments, a major digital asset management firm, which together extend its ecosystem beyond investment into media, trading, and asset management services.

Matthew Beck

Investor

Brittney Cohen

Investor

Steven Cook

Investor

Christopher Costaras

Investor

Ryan Jolly

Associate

Past deals in API

Hub2.Io

Series A in 2024
Hub2.Io is a system for digitizing ongoing transactions. Services like cash out, to pay, manage, and others are offered by them. Connecting businesses to their infrastructure will enable them to accept and process payments quickly and safely.

Moffin

Seed Round in 2024
Moffin is an integration platform that facilitates collection and assessment of Know Your Customer (KYC) data. It offers API-based solutions for seamless customer financial information evaluation.

Tensorplex Labs

Seed Round in 2024
Tensorplex Labs is a technology company specializing in Web3 and artificial intelligence. It develops infrastructure for decentralized AI networks, focusing on finance and intelligence. The company's platform integrates decentralized finance (DeFi) principles and proof-of-stake mechanisms, fostering open-source AI innovation. It provides tools to make decentralized, AI-powered applications more accessible, transparent, and financially rewarding.

Beoble

Seed Round in 2024
Beoble is a communication infrastructure company focused on enhancing the Web3 experience through its wallet-to-wallet messaging platform. The company offers a web-based chat application that supports most major cryptocurrency wallets and ensures that all messages are sent with end-to-end encryption, prioritizing user privacy and security. Additionally, Beoble provides a toolkit designed for decentralized applications (Dapps) to easily integrate this communication solution, fostering a seamless and secure interaction within the decentralized ecosystem. By enabling users to connect directly through their crypto wallets, Beoble aims to create a user-friendly environment for private communication in the evolving world of decentralized finance.

Beoble

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Beoble is a communication infrastructure company focused on enhancing the Web3 experience through its wallet-to-wallet messaging platform. The company offers a web-based chat application that supports most major cryptocurrency wallets and ensures that all messages are sent with end-to-end encryption, prioritizing user privacy and security. Additionally, Beoble provides a toolkit designed for decentralized applications (Dapps) to easily integrate this communication solution, fostering a seamless and secure interaction within the decentralized ecosystem. By enabling users to connect directly through their crypto wallets, Beoble aims to create a user-friendly environment for private communication in the evolving world of decentralized finance.

Coinme

Venture Round in 2021
Coinme operates the largest licensed cryptocurrency cash exchange in the United States, providing a nationwide network of bitcoin ATMs, a digital wallet, and exchange services. Through partnerships with Coinstar and MoneyGram, customers can buy and sell bitcoin with cash at thousands of locations in 48 states. The company also offers an enterprise-grade API and tools that enable legacy financial systems and merchants to crypto-enable their operations, along with consumer products to buy, store, and manage digital currencies. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Coinme aims to broaden access to digital currencies and facilitate easy, secure transactions.

Flare Network

Venture Round in 2021
Flare Networks is a blockchain network that utilizes the Flare Consensus Protocol, which is the first Turing Complete Federated Byzantine Agreement protocol. It offers a decentralized contract platform aimed at enhancing contract capabilities across various blockchains. By leveraging the Ethereum Virtual Machine, Flare Networks can access and utilize information from other blockchains and real-world data sources, effectively addressing the oracle problem. This functionality facilitates cross-chain interoperability, allowing users to share contract capabilities with different protocols. Flare Networks seeks to enable a new era of utility within the blockchain ecosystem through its innovative technology.

Streami

Venture Round in 2021
Streami, Inc. is a blockchain technology company based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in solutions that connect and streamline fragmented financial networks worldwide. The firm operates Gofax, a cryptocurrency exchange, and Dask, a cryptocurrency depository. Streami focuses on providing blockchain remittance middleware services designed to establish a robust financial network. Their offerings include secure remittance pathfinding, integration, and risk management, which help financial institutions protect their assets under various conditions while ensuring smooth execution of orders. Through these innovative solutions, Streami aims to enhance the efficiency and security of financial transactions in the digital age.

API3

Seed Round in 2020
API3 develops a decentralized infrastructure for connecting blockchain applications to off-chain data providers. Its platform, API3, aggregates data from first-party oracles operated by premier API providers, enabling seamless and secure data exchange without intermediaries.

Zabo

Seed Round in 2020
Zabo is a startup focused on providing financial companies with a comprehensive platform to connect and manage cryptocurrency accounts. Utilizing an API-based application, Zabo enables seamless integration of cryptocurrency accounts into existing applications with minimal coding. This innovative solution offers clients the functionality to buy, sell, and transfer cryptocurrencies while also providing support for hardware wallet integration. By allowing financial institutions to offer their customers a consolidated view of their crypto investments, Zabo enhances the user experience in managing digital assets.

The Graph

Venture Round in 2020
The Graph is an indexing and query protocol for decentralized networks that enables developers to publish open APIs, called subgraphs, which applications can query with GraphQL to retrieve blockchain data. A hosted service is in production to help developers start quickly, while a decentralized network is launching. It currently indices data from Ethereum, IPFS and POA, with more networks planned. Thousands of developers have deployed subgraphs for DApps such as Uniswap, Synthetix, Aragon, Aave, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, DAOstack and Decentraland. The Graph supports a global community of participants, including indexers and curators, to maintain and curate the data network.

Nomics

Series A in 2018
Nomics is a data and API provider for cryptocurrency markets, delivering market data APIs for institutional investors and exchanges alongside services such as strategy backtesting, rebalancing execution, crypto financial model development, arbitrage identification, indexing methodologies, and analysis of relationships among cryptoassets with custom alerts. The company's API portfolio supports real-time and historical data for powering investment strategy backtests, machine learning models, and automated trading tools, enabling portfolio tracking, performance analysis, and fintech applications.

Carbon-12 Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Carbon-12 Labs, Inc. is a New York-based company established in 2017 that specializes in cryptocurrency solutions. The company focuses on providing simplified access to the blockchain economy through API-driven on-ramps that facilitate the conversion of fiat currency into digital assets. By streamlining this process, Carbon-12 Labs aims to enhance user experience and broaden participation in the cryptocurrency market.

Elemential

Seed Round in 2018
Elemential is a developer of a blockchain administration platform aimed at assisting developers in managing customized blockchain networks. The company's platform provides essential building blocks and management tools for creating blockchain applications, enabling clients to effectively protect and secure user identity and consent. By offering a more accessible and efficient development environment, Elemential seeks to empower future generations of blockchain innovators, facilitating the design, operation, and scaling of networks with significantly reduced overhead.

Chainalysis

Series A in 2018
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for cryptocurrency businesses and financial institutions. Its platform offers REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results; Kryptos, a risk assessment tool for understanding cryptocurrency activity and investment opportunities; and an API that provides transaction-based risk scoring with source and destination of funds. The company also provides activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threat intelligence derived from the deep web to help analysts estimate criminal revenues and identify emerging threats. Additional offerings include real-time API access and web-based investigation software for due diligence and customer verification, as well as tools to identify cyber criminals and attribute cyber threats. Chainalysis serves government agencies, banks, exchanges, insurance firms, and other cryptocurrency businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, it maintains offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore.

BitPay

Series B in 2017
BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses, offering tools to accept digital currency payments and convert them to fiat. The platform includes a RESTful API and a bitcoin payment gateway, support for native payment protocol and signed payment requests, and a wallet solution named Copay that includes hardware security integration for private key generation and transaction signing. BitPay also offers BitPay Send, a payout service that enables organizations to disburse cryptocurrency to employees, affiliates, customers, vendors, and contractors. The company partners with payment processors to support merchants and has a focus on enabling merchants to accept Bitcoin and settle in traditional currencies. Founded in 2011, BitPay serves organizations across industries seeking blockchain-based payment acceptance and management.

Omniex Holdings

Seed Round in 2017
Omniex Holdings, Inc. is a software infrastructure company that provides an integrated institutional operating platform tailored for investment managers and active traders in the crypto-assets sector. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Santa Monica, the company aims to simplify access to crypto trading by removing fragmentation across services. Omniex offers a range of solutions, including Portfolio Solutions and Analytics for tracking crypto-asset portfolios and performance, Connectivity and Routing services that unify trading interfaces and enhance execution efficiency, and Algorithmic Execution Services designed to minimize market impact during order execution. Through these offerings, Omniex facilitates comprehensive end-to-end services for clients, enhancing their ability to manage portfolios and make informed investment decisions in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.

AZA Finance

Series A in 2017
AZA Finance is a global fintech specializing in cross-border payments and foreign exchange. Established in Nairobi, the company facilitates currency exchanges, international payments, and settlements for businesses worldwide, supporting major African and G20 currencies, including digital currencies. AZA Finance pioneered direct trading between digital currencies and African currencies using mobile money, serving both frontier market businesses and multinational corporations.

Stratumn

Series A in 2017
Stratumn is a company that offers a financial process management platform specifically designed for midsized and large organizations. Utilizing blockchain technology, Stratumn's solution creates a digital audit trail that enhances the accuracy and efficiency of financial operations. By automating the auditing process, the platform reduces errors and operational frictions, ensuring that data integrity is maintained through cryptographically secured methods. This innovative approach allows companies to streamline their end-to-end financial processes while ensuring data privacy and minimizing costs. Through its services, Stratumn facilitates secure connections among networks, organizations, and individuals, optimizing their financial workflows.

ShapeShift

Series A in 2017
ShapeShift is a digital currency exchange platform established in July 2014, designed to facilitate the instant conversion of Bitcoin and various altcoins. The platform distinguishes itself by allowing users to trade cryptocurrencies without the need for user accounts or registration, thereby enhancing privacy and reducing risks associated with personal information and funds. In the summer of 2019, ShapeShift introduced a new platform that empowers users to self-custody their crypto assets while providing functionalities to buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive cryptocurrencies independently of third-party involvement. Additionally, the company operates CoinCap.io, a real-time crypto market data service, and acquired the hardware wallet company KeepKey in 2017. ShapeShift is led by industry veteran Erik Voorhees.

Hijro

Seed Round in 2016
Hijro is a financial operating network that leverages distributed ledger technology to enhance global trade. Headquartered in New York, the company connects banks, buyers, and suppliers within a unified network aimed at streamlining settlement processes, reducing fraud risk, and eliminating costly data silos in the open-account trade market, valued at $4 trillion. The Hijro Network serves as a global infrastructure for trade, offering a secure and efficient method for moving value and assets internationally. Its applications include a multi-bank, multi-lender trade asset marketplace, flexible working capital solutions, and APIs that facilitate seamless integration into the network. By enabling the tokenization, transfer, and trading of various digital assets, including receivables and approved payables, Hijro positions itself at the forefront of modern trade finance.

Tierion

Seed Round in 2016
Tierion, Inc. is a company that transforms the blockchain into a global platform for verifying data, files, and business processes. Founded in 2015 and based in Hartford, Connecticut, Tierion offers an API and various tools that enable users to collect data and secure it on the blockchain, ensuring an immutable history of transactions. The platform supports the issuance of blockchain-verifiable credentials, ranging from educational achievements to professional awards, thereby enhancing data integrity across multiple sectors, including accounting and healthcare. With its innovative approach, Tierion envisions a future where blockchain technology is utilized for a wide array of verification needs, facilitating trust and transparency in digital interactions.

Chainalysis

Seed Round in 2016
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for cryptocurrency businesses and financial institutions. Its platform offers REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results; Kryptos, a risk assessment tool for understanding cryptocurrency activity and investment opportunities; and an API that provides transaction-based risk scoring with source and destination of funds. The company also provides activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threat intelligence derived from the deep web to help analysts estimate criminal revenues and identify emerging threats. Additional offerings include real-time API access and web-based investigation software for due diligence and customer verification, as well as tools to identify cyber criminals and attribute cyber threats. Chainalysis serves government agencies, banks, exchanges, insurance firms, and other cryptocurrency businesses. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, it maintains offices in Copenhagen, Tokyo, and Singapore.

Streami

Seed Round in 2016
Streami, Inc. is a blockchain technology company based in Seoul, South Korea, specializing in solutions that connect and streamline fragmented financial networks worldwide. The firm operates Gofax, a cryptocurrency exchange, and Dask, a cryptocurrency depository. Streami focuses on providing blockchain remittance middleware services designed to establish a robust financial network. Their offerings include secure remittance pathfinding, integration, and risk management, which help financial institutions protect their assets under various conditions while ensuring smooth execution of orders. Through these innovative solutions, Streami aims to enhance the efficiency and security of financial transactions in the digital age.

ShapeShift

Seed Round in 2015
ShapeShift is a digital currency exchange platform established in July 2014, designed to facilitate the instant conversion of Bitcoin and various altcoins. The platform distinguishes itself by allowing users to trade cryptocurrencies without the need for user accounts or registration, thereby enhancing privacy and reducing risks associated with personal information and funds. In the summer of 2019, ShapeShift introduced a new platform that empowers users to self-custody their crypto assets while providing functionalities to buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive cryptocurrencies independently of third-party involvement. Additionally, the company operates CoinCap.io, a real-time crypto market data service, and acquired the hardware wallet company KeepKey in 2017. ShapeShift is led by industry veteran Erik Voorhees.

Ascribe

Seed Round in 2015
Ascribe, founded in 2014, is a company dedicated to establishing a secure ownership framework for creators in the digital landscape. It offers tools that enable artists to manage their digital creations by providing secure attribution, facilitating easy sharing, and enhancing visibility. By collaborating with prominent creators, museums, and digital marketplaces, Ascribe ensures that artists can protect and showcase their artwork effectively. The founding team possesses extensive experience across technology, art, law, and finance, positioning Ascribe as a key player in supporting creators in the digital age.

Bold Financial Technologies

Seed Round in 2015
Bold Financial Technologies Inc. is a company that facilitates global expansion for marketplaces, ad networks, and on-demand service providers by offering comprehensive payment and compliance solutions. It provides a robust payouts stack designed to enable new publishers to receive payments globally through a single REST API integration. This integration encompasses various services, including background checks, driving record screening, and local currency payouts. Additionally, Bold Financial Technologies features the Bold Payouts platform, which allows marketplaces to utilize a streamlined back-office payout infrastructure. The company also offers a complete administrative platform that includes tax tracking and reporting, recipient onboarding, and client and recipient portals. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Bold Financial Technologies aims to simplify the mass payout process while enhancing the international reach of its clients.

ShapeShift

Seed Round in 2015
ShapeShift is a digital currency exchange platform established in July 2014, designed to facilitate the instant conversion of Bitcoin and various altcoins. The platform distinguishes itself by allowing users to trade cryptocurrencies without the need for user accounts or registration, thereby enhancing privacy and reducing risks associated with personal information and funds. In the summer of 2019, ShapeShift introduced a new platform that empowers users to self-custody their crypto assets while providing functionalities to buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive cryptocurrencies independently of third-party involvement. Additionally, the company operates CoinCap.io, a real-time crypto market data service, and acquired the hardware wallet company KeepKey in 2017. ShapeShift is led by industry veteran Erik Voorhees.

AZA Finance

Seed Round in 2015
AZA Finance is a global fintech specializing in cross-border payments and foreign exchange. Established in Nairobi, the company facilitates currency exchanges, international payments, and settlements for businesses worldwide, supporting major African and G20 currencies, including digital currencies. AZA Finance pioneered direct trading between digital currencies and African currencies using mobile money, serving both frontier market businesses and multinational corporations.

Cognito

Seed Round in 2014
Cognito is a technology company specializing in intelligent identity verification solutions. Founded in 2013 and based in Palo Alto, California, Cognito offers an identity verification platform that enables businesses to verify customer identities through APIs. The platform checks essential data such as names, dates of birth, addresses, and identification numbers to ensure compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) regulations and to mitigate fraud risks. Cognito's services cater to various industries, including crowdfunding, virtual currency, healthcare, and on-demand services. Originally established as BlockScore, Inc., the company rebranded to Cognito in 2014, emphasizing its commitment to providing a developer-friendly solution that addresses common frustrations associated with identity verification processes.

AZA Finance

Seed Round in 2014
AZA Finance is a global fintech specializing in cross-border payments and foreign exchange. Established in Nairobi, the company facilitates currency exchanges, international payments, and settlements for businesses worldwide, supporting major African and G20 currencies, including digital currencies. AZA Finance pioneered direct trading between digital currencies and African currencies using mobile money, serving both frontier market businesses and multinational corporations.

Kraken

Series A in 2014
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that enables spot and futures trading across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 40 digital assets. Founded in 2011, it serves millions of clients and promotes broader cryptocurrency adoption by offering a marketplace where buyers, sellers, and traders exchange digital assets against major currencies. The platform provides services for large trades through a principal over-the-counter desk and offers professional charting tools for technical analysis. It supports automated trading via REST and WebSocket APIs, enabling developers and traders to build, test, and execute strategies. Kraken also offers round-the-clock live chat support to assist users at every stage of their journey. The company aims to provide a secure, accessible, and open financial system to foster financial inclusion.

BitPay

Seed Round in 2013
BitPay provides enterprise-grade bitcoin payment solutions for businesses, offering tools to accept digital currency payments and convert them to fiat. The platform includes a RESTful API and a bitcoin payment gateway, support for native payment protocol and signed payment requests, and a wallet solution named Copay that includes hardware security integration for private key generation and transaction signing. BitPay also offers BitPay Send, a payout service that enables organizations to disburse cryptocurrency to employees, affiliates, customers, vendors, and contractors. The company partners with payment processors to support merchants and has a focus on enabling merchants to accept Bitcoin and settle in traditional currencies. Founded in 2011, BitPay serves organizations across industries seeking blockchain-based payment acceptance and management.

Xweave

XWeave is a technology company specializing in blockchain-based cross-border payment systems. It aims to streamline international money transfers by leveraging blockchain's decentralized, transparent, and secure nature. The company's non-custodial platform enables real-time payments without the need for pre-funding, reducing liquidity buffers and mitigating foreign exchange risk. It offers an asset-agnostic routing engine, a global network of regulated partners, and a user-friendly API integration, enhancing efficiency and security in cross-border transactions.
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