Digital Currency Group

Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a corporate venture capital firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, founded in 2015. The company focuses on building and supporting businesses within the bitcoin and blockchain sectors by providing insights, networking opportunities, and access to capital. With over 150 investments across more than 30 countries, DCG primarily targets companies involved in financial technology, web3 infrastructure, decentralized finance, and related fields. In addition to its investment activities, DCG owns and operates several key entities in the digital currency ecosystem, including CoinDesk, a leading media and events platform, Genesis Trading, a prominent bitcoin brokerage firm, and Grayscale Investments, the largest asset management firm specializing in digital currencies.

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C3 Exchange

Seed Round in 2021
C3 Exchange operates a self-custodial trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of spot and derivative assets. The exchange combines the advantages of self-custody and decentralization with the performance and accessibility typically associated with traditional trading platforms. Its innovative clearing engine protocol allows for cross-margin and cross-collateralization, enabling traders to optimize their capital usage by calculating margin requirements across all open positions in their accounts. Through this approach, C3 Exchange aims to enhance the trading experience while maintaining user control over their assets.

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.

Tinyman

Seed Round in 2021
Tinyman is a decentralized trading protocol built on the Algorand blockchain, designed to facilitate a secure and open marketplace for traders, liquidity providers, and developers. It operates as a market maker, leveraging blockchain technology to provide a platform for users to trade and swap various assets, including tokens and currencies, at competitive market rates. By focusing on safety and efficiency, Tinyman aims to enhance the trading experience within the decentralized finance ecosystem.

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 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.

Coinme

Venture Round in 2021
Coinme Inc. operates as a bitcoin exchange and ATM operator, providing a range of services that facilitate access to the digital currency economy. Founded in 2014 and based in Seattle, Washington, the company runs the largest licensed cryptocurrency cash exchange in the U.S., with a network of bitcoin ATMs available in 48 states. Through partnerships with Coinstar and MoneyGram, Coinme enables customers to buy and sell bitcoin using cash at thousands of physical locations. The company also offers a digital wallet, a proprietary API, and solutions for digital currency IRAs and 401(k)s. These services aim to simplify the process of engaging with digital currencies, allowing users to securely buy, sell, store, and manage their crypto assets while enhancing the existing financial infrastructure of its partners.

Lido

Venture Round in 2021
Lido is a developer of an open-source liquid staking platform that enhances the Ethereum network's block validation capabilities. The platform addresses challenges related to initial cryptocurrency staking by allowing users to stake their assets and receive synthetic native tokens of equivalent value. These tokens can be utilized across various decentralized finance applications, enabling users to earn yield while maintaining liquidity. Lido's middleware operates on the Ethereum blockchain, ensuring perpetual access through multiple interfaces and channels.

Zerion

Venture Round in 2021
Zerion Inc. is a blockchain software company that provides a platform for accessing decentralized finance (DeFi) to invest, earn interest, and borrow crypto assets. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, Zerion offers an application that allows users to manage their DeFi portfolios across multiple accounts from a single interface, with features such as real-time asset tracking and instant notifications. The platform aggregates data from major decentralized exchanges, enabling users to manage their digital assets easily and securely. As a non-custodial service, Zerion ensures that users retain control of their funds, reducing risks associated with centralization. Additionally, the company provides tools for tracking the crypto market through charts and alerts, supporting users in navigating the evolving landscape of digital finance.

API3

Seed Round in 2020
API3 data feeds, dAPIs, aggregate data from first-party oracles, operated by some of the world’s premier API providers.

Multis

Seed Round in 2020
Multis is a developer of a decentralized crypto wallet designed to support web3 organizations in managing their financial operations. The wallet allows businesses to automate payments, track multiple wallets, and efficiently scale their operations. It is community-approved and undergoes thorough audits, ensuring security and reliability. By providing a user-friendly platform, Multis enables organizations to access, transfer, and receive cryptocurrencies seamlessly. This approach helps businesses maintain liquidity while earning interest on their assets, fostering growth in an increasingly open financial environment.

Acala Network

Series A in 2020
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform that facilitates cross-blockchain transactions within the Polkadot network. Based in the United States, it enables users to send and receive USD across various connected blockchains. The platform provides a range of financial tools, including a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by diverse assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange. These features are designed to enhance liquidity and promote innovation in financial applications, making transactions more convenient and secure for users.

Custodia

Angel Round in 2020
Custodia Bank is a crypto-asset banking company that specializes in providing regulated services for digital assets. It serves as a compliant bridge to the US dollar payments system and acts as a custodian for digital assets, adhering to high institutional custody standards. This enables customers in the digital assets industry to access reliable banking services tailored to their needs.

Flipside Crypto

Seed Round in 2019
Flipside Crypto, Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cryptocurrency information platform delivering business intelligence for blockchain organizations. Established in 2017, it offers a range of services including cryptocurrency management, digital walleting, custody, community tools, and portfolio dashboards aimed at investors. Flipside Crypto provides analytics tools that offer insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial trends within the cryptocurrency space. It also features the Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS), a metric for assessing the health of cryptocurrency projects, which is distributed through partnerships with platforms such as CoinMarketCap and Messari. The company is supported by notable investors, including CoinBase Ventures and True Ventures.

Digital Assets Data

Seed Round in 2019
Digital Assets Data Inc. is a financial technology and data company based in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2018. The company specializes in developing enterprise-grade software and data feeds tailored for crypto hedge funds, family offices, research firms, banks, and other market participants. It offers a range of services that provide data and information technology solutions for various crypto assets, including currencies, platforms, applications, side chains, security tokens, and initial coin offerings (ICOs). Through subscription services, Digital Assets Data enables clients to effectively track and manage investments, conduct due diligence, and make informed trading decisions, thereby enhancing transparency and intelligence in the cryptocurrency market.

Merkle Science

Seed Round in 2019
Merkle Science is a software company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Singapore, specializing in predictive crypto risk and intelligence platforms. It provides tools for businesses, financial institutions, and government agencies to detect, investigate, and prevent illegal activities related to cryptocurrencies. The company utilizes a proprietary Behavioral Rule Engine, which allows compliance teams to exceed traditional blacklists and meet local KYC/AML obligations. Its platform features an intuitive rule management interface that enables users to visualize account activity over time and generate forensic reports. This functionality supports blockchain companies, crypto exchanges, investment funds, banks, and regulators in conducting due diligence and ensuring compliance while addressing the complexities of illicit cryptocurrency activities.

Digital Assets Data

Seed Round in 2019
Digital Assets Data Inc. is a financial technology and data company based in Denver, Colorado, founded in 2018. The company specializes in developing enterprise-grade software and data feeds tailored for crypto hedge funds, family offices, research firms, banks, and other market participants. It offers a range of services that provide data and information technology solutions for various crypto assets, including currencies, platforms, applications, side chains, security tokens, and initial coin offerings (ICOs). Through subscription services, Digital Assets Data enables clients to effectively track and manage investments, conduct due diligence, and make informed trading decisions, thereby enhancing transparency and intelligence in the cryptocurrency market.

Layer1

Seed Round in 2018
Layer1 is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in building fully-integrated Bitcoin mining data centers. Founded in 2018, Layer1 focuses on enhancing the profitability of energy assets while improving the reliability of electrical grids. The company's approach involves integrating energy systems with high-performance computing, allowing for unique value creation and the unlocking of regions with low electricity costs. This innovative technology addresses the challenges of hot climates, where traditional air-cooled data centers are not feasible. By doing so, Layer1 aims to support a sustainable future for the increasing energy demands of the digital world.

Flipside Crypto

Seed Round in 2018
Flipside Crypto, Inc. is a Boston-based company that operates a cryptocurrency information platform delivering business intelligence for blockchain organizations. Established in 2017, it offers a range of services including cryptocurrency management, digital walleting, custody, community tools, and portfolio dashboards aimed at investors. Flipside Crypto provides analytics tools that offer insights into user behaviors, developer activities, and financial trends within the cryptocurrency space. It also features the Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS), a metric for assessing the health of cryptocurrency projects, which is distributed through partnerships with platforms such as CoinMarketCap and Messari. The company is supported by notable investors, including CoinBase Ventures and True Ventures.

POSaBIT

Venture Round in 2018
POSaBIT is a financial technology company that focuses on providing cashless payment solutions and Point-of-Sale (POS) services specifically for the cannabis industry. By developing software and technology tailored to cannabis retailers, POSaBIT aims to enhance financial services and streamline transaction methods in an industry that traditionally relies on cash. The company generates revenue through its payment and POS services, technology licensing, and support services, as well as from the rental and sale of related hardware. While operating in both Canada and the United States, all of POSaBIT's revenues are derived from the U.S. market, where it works to ensure that merchants have access to safe and compliant transaction solutions.

Tagomi

Venture Round in 2018
Tagomi is a cryptocurrency trading platform that focuses on enhancing trade execution for its clients, allowing them to retain a greater portion of their returns. The platform employs advanced routing techniques and execution algorithms to analyze both real-time and historical data, which aids in determining optimal trading strategies. This approach not only facilitates access to priced liquidity and low commissions but also aims to minimize trading costs. By leveraging sophisticated technology, Tagomi strives to deliver improved trading outcomes for its users.

Carbon-12 Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Carbon-12 Labs, Inc., founded in 2017 and located in New York, operates in the cryptocurrency sector, focusing on simplifying the transition from fiat currency to digital assets. The company provides API-driven solutions that facilitate access to the blockchain economy, allowing users to convert traditional currencies into cryptocurrencies with ease. Through its innovative technology, Carbon-12 Labs aims to enhance the user experience in the rapidly evolving financial landscape.

Elemential

Seed Round in 2018
Elemential is a developer of a blockchain administration platform aimed at assisting developers in managing customized blockchain networks. The platform provides essential building blocks and management tools for creating blockchain applications, enabling clients to enhance the protection and security of user identity and consent. By offering an open and accessible development environment, Elemential supports future generations of blockchain innovators in designing, running, and scaling networks with significantly reduced overhead.

Chainalysis

Series A in 2018
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds to measure risk. Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries.

Ledger

Series B in 2018
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.

RADAR

Seed Round in 2017
Radar Relay, LLC, founded in 2017 and based in Denver, Colorado, operates as a wallet-to-wallet trading platform for Ethereum-based tokens, utilizing the 0x Protocol. The platform facilitates direct peer-to-peer trading by maintaining an order book and relaying orders without holding any assets in custody. Users can connect their wallets directly to the Radar Relay platform, eliminating the need for account creation, sign-ups, deposits, or withdrawal limits. This approach aims to enhance user control and security in cryptocurrency trading.

BitPay

Series B in 2017
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.

CoinJar

Venture Round in 2017
CoinJar is an Australian bitcoin platform that enables the buying and selling of bitcoins and allows merchants to accept bitcoin payments. It allows online businesses to accept bitcoins in various categories such as bitcoin tools, brick and mortar, charities and non-profits, electronics and computers, fashion and apparel, gifts, health and beauty, and many others. The platform uses multi-factor authentication to ensure its users’ bitcoins are safe. CoinJar was launched in 2013 in Melbourne, Australia.

POSaBIT

Seed Round in 2017
POSaBIT is a financial technology company that focuses on providing cashless payment solutions and Point-of-Sale (POS) services specifically for the cannabis industry. By developing software and technology tailored to cannabis retailers, POSaBIT aims to enhance financial services and streamline transaction methods in an industry that traditionally relies on cash. The company generates revenue through its payment and POS services, technology licensing, and support services, as well as from the rental and sale of related hardware. While operating in both Canada and the United States, all of POSaBIT's revenues are derived from the U.S. market, where it works to ensure that merchants have access to safe and compliant transaction solutions.

Filament

Series A in 2017
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

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.

ShapeShift

Series A in 2017
ShapeShift is a digital currency exchange platform established in July 2014, designed to facilitate instant conversion between Bitcoin and various altcoins while prioritizing consumer protection and efficiency. In 2019, ShapeShift introduced a new platform that allows users to self-custody their cryptocurrency assets, enabling them to buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive digital currencies without relying on third-party services. This approach enhances user security by eliminating the need for user accounts and registration, thereby safeguarding both funds and personal information. Additionally, ShapeShift operates CoinCap.io, a real-time cryptocurrency market data service, and acquired the hardware wallet company KeepKey in 2017. The company is led by Erik Voorhees, a notable figure in the cryptocurrency industry.

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 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.

Axoni

Series A in 2016
Axoni is a real-time data replication technology company serving the world’s largest financial institutions. Axoni’s platform enables rapid, reliable deployment of critical financial networks and automated, real-time data replication across market participants. Founded in 2017, the company serves banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and financial market infrastructure firms across the globe from offices in New York and London.

Etherscan

Seed Round in 2016
Etherscan is a blockchain explorer and analytics platform specifically designed for Ethereum, a decentralized smart contracts platform. Based in the United States, Etherscan offers a suite of web-based tools that allow users to explore and analyze the public Ethereum network. The platform provides access to information on confirmed transactions within the Ethereum blockchain, enabling users to track and verify these transactions. However, Etherscan does not process transactions and cannot assist with troubleshooting transaction failures. Through its services, Etherscan plays a crucial role in promoting transparency and accessibility within the Ethereum ecosystem.

CryptoFacilities

Seed Round in 2016
Crypto Facilities Ltd. is a financial services firm that operates a regulated trading platform for digital assets, including bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Established in 2014 and headquartered in Barking, United Kingdom, the company specializes in providing risk management and trading solutions such as futures and options. Its platform allows users to conduct online transactions, manage price risk, and trade various digital tokens. Customers can open and verify accounts by submitting identification and addresses, after which they can deposit bitcoins for trading. As of early 2019, Crypto Facilities operates as a subsidiary of Payward, Inc.

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.

Chainalysis

Seed Round in 2016
Chainalysis designs and develops anti-money laundering software for Bitcoin businesses. Its products include REACTOR, an interactive investigation tool that identifies offenders, visualizes data, and shares results with people and organizations, and API, a transaction-based risk scoring solution that contains the source and destination of funds to measure risk. Chainalysis also offers activity monitoring reports and diligence tools, which allow analysts to estimate criminal revenues and emerging threats. It offers activity monitoring reports, due diligence tools, and cyber threats from the deep web for financial institutions, real-time application programming interface (API), web-based investigation software for due diligence, and verification of customers for bitcoin business, and web-based investigation tools to identify cyber-criminals, identification of bitcoin extortion payments made by victims to criminals, and attribution for cyber threat intelligence industries.

Filament

Series A in 2016
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

Averon

Seed Round in 2015
Averon is on a mission to restore sanity in online identity. Our conversion-increasing innovations instantly authenticate mobile users, creating a world where we can all move safely and efficiently around the internet with zero effort and maximum trust—no more frustrating and unsecure login IDs and passwords. Averon's technology is the new gold standard for digital identity—the easiest, fastest and most secure verification solution for users on both WiFi and LTE. Simple to implement and effortless for users, Averon's solutions don't rely on personally identifiable information, providing the most private authentication method in the digital realm. Protected by 35 patents, Averon's methods are trusted by the world's leading ride share and transportation services, digital currencies, cryptocurrency wallets, and global telecommunications companies to deliver the most elegant user experience with the highest caliber security. Join us in helping the online world Be Authentic. For more information, visit www.averon.com

Abra

Series A in 2015
Established in 2014, Abra is on a mission to create a simple and honest platform that enables millions of cryptocurrency holders to maximize the potential of their assets. Abra enables both individuals and businesses to safely and securely buy, trade, and borrow against cryptocurrencies – all in one place. Abra’s vision is an open, global financial system that is easily accessible to everyone. Based in the United States, Abra operates in over 150 countries and makes it easy to convert between crypto and a wide variety of local fiat currencies. With over 2MM customers and $9B in transactions processed, Abra continues to grow rapidly. Abra is widely loved and trusted – in April 2022, pymnts.com reviewed and rated Abra amongst the top 5 most popular crypto wallets in the market. Abra is backed by top-tier investors such as American Express Ventures and First Round Capital.

ShapeShift

Seed Round in 2015
ShapeShift is a digital currency exchange platform established in July 2014, designed to facilitate instant conversion between Bitcoin and various altcoins while prioritizing consumer protection and efficiency. In 2019, ShapeShift introduced a new platform that allows users to self-custody their cryptocurrency assets, enabling them to buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive digital currencies without relying on third-party services. This approach enhances user security by eliminating the need for user accounts and registration, thereby safeguarding both funds and personal information. Additionally, ShapeShift operates CoinCap.io, a real-time cryptocurrency market data service, and acquired the hardware wallet company KeepKey in 2017. The company is led by Erik Voorhees, a notable figure in the cryptocurrency industry.

ShoCard

Seed Round in 2015
ShoCard, Inc. offers a digital identity card accessible through a mobile application, designed to streamline identity verification while ensuring consumer privacy. Founded in 2015 and based in Palo Alto, California, ShoCard employs advanced security measures including public/private key encryption, data hashing, out-of-band communication, data matching, and two-factor authentication. This comprehensive identity verification system allows individuals, businesses, and governments to establish, verify, and exchange identity information securely. The technology is robust enough for use in sensitive environments, such as banking, making it a reliable solution for identity protection. As of March 2020, ShoCard operates as a subsidiary of Ping Identity Corporation.

Ascribe

Seed Round in 2015
Ascribe, founded in 2014, focuses on establishing the ownership layer of the internet for creators by providing tools to manage their digital creations. The platform enables artists to protect and share their artwork while ensuring secure attribution and visibility. Collaborating with prominent creators, museums, and digital marketplaces, Ascribe aims to enhance the way creators interact with their work and audiences. The founding team combines extensive experience in technology, art, law, and finance, positioning Ascribe as a valuable resource for artists navigating the digital landscape.

Ripio

Seed Round in 2015
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 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.

ShapeShift

Seed Round in 2015
ShapeShift is a digital currency exchange platform established in July 2014, designed to facilitate instant conversion between Bitcoin and various altcoins while prioritizing consumer protection and efficiency. In 2019, ShapeShift introduced a new platform that allows users to self-custody their cryptocurrency assets, enabling them to buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive digital currencies without relying on third-party services. This approach enhances user security by eliminating the need for user accounts and registration, thereby safeguarding both funds and personal information. Additionally, ShapeShift operates CoinCap.io, a real-time cryptocurrency market data service, and acquired the hardware wallet company KeepKey in 2017. The company is led by Erik Voorhees, a notable figure in the cryptocurrency industry.

Abra

Series A in 2015
Established in 2014, Abra is on a mission to create a simple and honest platform that enables millions of cryptocurrency holders to maximize the potential of their assets. Abra enables both individuals and businesses to safely and securely buy, trade, and borrow against cryptocurrencies – all in one place. Abra’s vision is an open, global financial system that is easily accessible to everyone. Based in the United States, Abra operates in over 150 countries and makes it easy to convert between crypto and a wide variety of local fiat currencies. With over 2MM customers and $9B in transactions processed, Abra continues to grow rapidly. Abra is widely loved and trusted – in April 2022, pymnts.com reviewed and rated Abra amongst the top 5 most popular crypto wallets in the market. Abra is backed by top-tier investors such as American Express Ventures and First Round Capital.

Abra

Seed Round in 2014
Established in 2014, Abra is on a mission to create a simple and honest platform that enables millions of cryptocurrency holders to maximize the potential of their assets. Abra enables both individuals and businesses to safely and securely buy, trade, and borrow against cryptocurrencies – all in one place. Abra’s vision is an open, global financial system that is easily accessible to everyone. Based in the United States, Abra operates in over 150 countries and makes it easy to convert between crypto and a wide variety of local fiat currencies. With over 2MM customers and $9B in transactions processed, Abra continues to grow rapidly. Abra is widely loved and trusted – in April 2022, pymnts.com reviewed and rated Abra amongst the top 5 most popular crypto wallets in the market. Abra is backed by top-tier investors such as American Express Ventures and First Round Capital.

Hashplex

Seed Round in 2014
Hosting Designed & Purpose-Built for Bitcoin Miners & Bitcoin Mining.

Coinapult

Seed Round in 2014
Coinapult is a company based in Panama City, Panama, that specializes in providing online Bitcoin wallet services aimed at B2B customers for global transactions. Founded in 2012, the company enables users to receive, store, and send Bitcoin through various payment tools. Coinapult offers features such as customizable invoices and merchant services, along with innovative solutions like LOCKS, which protects wallet balances from price fluctuations, and BITCOIN BY EMAIL, allowing users to send Bitcoin via email. Additionally, the platform accommodates mobile users, facilitating access to funds through SMS and enabling the deposit and withdrawal of fiat currencies from private bank accounts. Overall, Coinapult aims to simplify cryptocurrency transactions while supporting users in navigating the evolving landscape of digital currencies.

Xapo

Series A in 2014
Xapo is a financial services company that offers a comprehensive suite of products focused on bitcoin management and security. It provides users with a digital banking platform that includes an everyday bitcoin wallet and a secure cold storage vault. This dual offering allows clients to easily access their bitcoin for daily transactions while ensuring that their assets are stored safely. The company emphasizes the importance of trust in the digital currency space, employing a team of experts in financial services and security to enhance user confidence. Additionally, Xapo supports a peer-to-peer payment system, enabling users to utilize bitcoin globally through its digital wallet services.

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 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.

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.
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