Bisonswap Labs
Series A in 2024
Bisonswap is a decentralized exchange (DEX) based on the BNB Chain that enables rapid and safe token switching and liquidity providing. It enables users to trade a wide range of tokens and participate in liquidity pools to gain incentives.
Aleo
Venture Round in 2021
Aleo provides a platform for building fully private applications using zero-knowledge technology. It offers a comprehensive toolkit that includes an application runtime environment, allowing software to compile, execute, and finalize its state autonomously. Aleo also supports a statically-typed programming language called Leo, designed specifically for private application development on the Aleo blockchain. The company engages its community through blogs and incentive programs to test the bounds of its decentralized technology.
Matter Labs
Seed Round in 2019
Matter Labs designs and develops blockchain technology that uses zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum and improve privacy, removing interaction obstacles between untrusted parties. The company builds a scaling decentralized application that provides succinctly verifiable computation, enabling businesses and others to prove integrity without disclosing sensitive data. It aims to accelerate public blockchain adoption by offering an open, scalable alternative to existing financial systems. Founded in 2018, it has been associated with Berlin, Germany, and is based in the Cayman Islands.
Bolt Labs
Seed Round in 2019
Bolt Labs, Inc., founded in 2018 and based in Baltimore, Maryland, specializes in developing privacy-focused solutions for digital asset management. The company's primary offerings include the lightning network protocol, which facilitates privacy-preserving micropayments and non-custodial trading with centralized and decentralized exchanges. Bolt Labs employs secure computation solutions, such as multi-party computation (MPC), to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of user assets while preventing misuse or theft. Additionally, the company is advancing the zkChannels L2 protocol, designed to create a scalable payment infrastructure that integrates with existing networks, including public blockchains. This technology aims to provide merchants with a compliant and efficient means of conducting transactions while upholding strict privacy standards. Through these innovations, Bolt Labs seeks to enhance the security and usability of digital transactions for users and businesses alike.
AERGO
Venture Round in 2018
AERGO Limited is a blockchain technology company based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, established in 2018. The company operates an open-source platform that enables businesses to develop applications and services by utilizing a trustless and distributed IT ecosystem. AERGO's platform features customizable hybrid-blockchain deployments, a server-less cloud architecture, and data bridging technology, allowing enterprises to transfer data securely without relying on intermediaries. By integrating both private and public blockchain architectures, AERGO provides organizations with tailored solutions that meet their specific needs while facilitating decentralized distribution of computing resources among developers and businesses.
Fluence Labs
Seed Round in 2018
Fluence Labs operates as an open-source, blockchain-based decentralized database platform that enables the aggregation, storage, and processing of data from various decentralized sources. The company's technology creates a permissionless infrastructure that establishes a trustless query layer over blockchains, allowing for easy discovery, searchability, and consumption of blockchain data. By connecting computing devices within its network, Fluence Labs provides managed database services and generalized backends, facilitating real-time data storage and processing for developers. The platform utilizes a cryptographic token for digital payments, enhancing the functionality and accessibility of decentralized applications.
Spacemesh
Seed Round in 2018
Spacemesh is a layer‑one blockchain protocol that emphasizes permissionless decentralization and environmental sustainability. It employs a Proofs of Space‑Time consensus mechanism that leverages unused disk space for computation, allowing participants to contribute without significant resource consumption. The network uses a directed acyclic graph topology instead of a traditional chain, and its collaborative mining approach eliminates leader election and lottery‑based incentives. The platform is open source and supports general‑purpose smart contracts at web‑scale, providing a fair, secure, and self‑healing global computer for decentralized applications.
Cred
Venture Round in 2018
Cred is a decentralized lending platform based in San Francisco, California, that offers a crypto-line of credit (C-LOC). Founded in 2017, the company utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to provide open access to credit, enabling users to borrow and lend cryptocurrency in a secure and efficient manner. The platform aims to democratize financial services, allowing individuals to access credit anytime and anywhere.
Keep
Venture Round in 2018
Keep Network, established in 2017 and based in George Town, Cayman Islands, specializes in creating interactive links between public blockchains and private data. The company's core product, tBTC, is a decentralized bridge enabling users to securely and anonymously transfer their Bitcoin to the Ethereum network, facilitating participation in decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms. Keep Network's technology, an off-chain container for private data, allows smart contracts to leverage the full power of public blockchains while maintaining data privacy.