Etienne vantKruys

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Sumi Network

Venture Round in 2023
Sumi Network operates in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors, focusing on enhancing communication and data storage solutions. The company offers a decentralized storage system called Sumi SILK (Storage Integrated Learning Knowledgebase), which transforms data into vector database files, allowing for quicker searches. Additionally, Sumi Network provides a wallet-to-wallet messaging service, known as Sumi, designed to facilitate effective communication within the Web3 environment. Their offerings also include products like Sumi Notes and Storage, which further contribute to the blockchain service industry. By utilizing a substrate-based blockchain system, Sumi Network aims to improve community interactions and streamline data transmission among users.

Tenderize

Seed Round in 2022
Tenderize is a web3 platform that enables users to stake and earn money using a liquid staking platform. Tenderize offers a stress-free staking experience. Delegations are managed by the Tenderize protocol, so simply deposit their tokens to earn rewards and watch their balance grow. They can easily unlock your staked assets without having to wait for long periods of time. Using TenderSwap liquidity pools, they can instantly exchange their TenderTokens for underlying assets.

Gasp

Venture Round in 2022
cross-chain decentralized exchange built on Polkadot

Push Protocol

Series A in 2022
Push Protocol, officially known as Ethereum Push Notification Service Private Limited, is a decentralized notification protocol founded in 2020 and based in Allahabad, India. The protocol allows decentralized applications (dApps) and smart contracts to send dynamic and platform-agnostic notifications directly to user wallets. By facilitating communication between various services and user wallets, Push Protocol enables users to receive important alerts and updates while also allowing them to earn from these notifications. The service aims to enhance user engagement by providing a reliable way for crypto services to inform users about relevant activities and events.

Mintbase, Inc.

Series A in 2022
Digital assets minted and backed by you

pax.world

Seed Round in 2022
At FRUSS, we want to set a new standard for online meetings and social experiences. We believe that virtual online experiences should be fun and engaging, not boring and networking and socializing should feel as natural as it does in person. We believe that future of online virtual experiences is hybrid, allowing both virtual and in person attendees to seamlessly engage and mingle, making travel a choice, not a requirement. How we make it happen? By combining all available virtual engagement technologies (videoconferencing, instant messaging, webcasting, AI robo-advisors, VR experiences, collaborative online gaming) into one single easy to use and device agnostic platform for purposes of humans sharing knowledge with, connecting with and doing business with other humans.

Onramper

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of a fiat-to-crypto onramp technology designed to integrate all the major fiat gateways in a single, decentralized, turnkey technology. The company's technology implements a single major gateway that helps businesses to get global coverage of supported countries, payment methods, cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies and allows them to earn their fees on every user transaction, enabling clients with a technique that connects users with fiat to crypto conversion services.

aleph.im

Venture Round in 2022
Aleph.im is a distributed cloud platform that offers serverless computing services, file storage, and database hosting. It is designed to securely access trusted off-chain data and computation through its blockchain-enabled application. The platform is open-source and operates on a decentralized network, allowing users to manage data storage and business logic without reliance on centralized services. Aleph.im enables customers to utilize a single identity, controlled by a single wallet, to read and write data across various supported blockchain networks.

Voltage Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Voltage is a DeFi hub & non-custodial platform that brings cutting-edge financial tools to fingertips. Voltage was created to give anyone access to a powerful suite of DeFi tools from an all-in-one application that is also conveniently accessible on any smart device.

Waggle

Seed Round in 2021
Waggle operates as a decentralized marketplace that facilitates investment diversification for retail investors while offering project teams essential liquidity to sustain their innovations. By developing a cross-chain protocol, Waggle allows retail investors to engage in primary market investments, thereby enhancing their opportunities to contribute to and benefit from the success of the projects they support. This approach not only empowers investors but also creates value for project teams by ensuring access to liquidity, which is crucial for the ongoing development and continuity of their initiatives.

Stake Technologies

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Developer of core decentralized protocols designed to deliver infrastructure that allows people to own their data. The company offers a multi-virtual machine smart contract platform developing and delivering systems for companies that want to implement products and technologies that solve scalability problems in their business, providing enterprises with blockchain technology that ensures scalability, privacy, and interoperability.

Unbound Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Unbound Finance operates a decentralized finance platform that specializes in unlocking liquidity from automated market-making pools. By allowing users to utilize liquidity pool tokens as collateral, the platform enables the minting of synthetic assets while offering a debt-free liquidity provision system. This approach facilitates the compounding of earnings from liquidity pool tokens, enhancing the ability of users to access liquidity across various platforms. Unbound Finance serves as a treasury for these tokens, streamlining the process of unlocking capital tied up in existing liquidity pools.

DeepDAO

Seed Round in 2021
DeepDAO is a data analytics platform focused on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It offers extensive analytics and information gathering, presenting a main dashboard that enumerates and ranks DAOs based on key metrics such as membership and assets under management. The platform enhances discoverability and provides comprehensive insights into decentralized governance systems, enabling clients to conduct thorough research. By aggregating relevant data, DeepDAO serves as a valuable resource for those interested in understanding and navigating the landscape of DAOs.

LunarCrush

Seed Round in 2021
LunarCrush Inc. is a company that develops a platform utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze cryptocurrency data and deliver market insights. Founded in 2018 and based in Costa Mesa, California, LunarCrush offers tools aimed at enhancing cryptocurrency research for investors, exchanges, and funds. The platform features real-time updates through LunarSTREAM, a web socket API, as well as a REST API that provides comprehensive data and insights. Additionally, it includes TradingView charts for standard charting solutions. LunarCrush emphasizes the integration of social data to create dashboards that facilitate informed trading decisions, allowing users to effectively buy, sell, or hold cryptocurrencies based on enhanced visibility and context.

Pocket Inc.

Seed Round in 2021
Pocket Inc. is a software development company based in Tampa, Florida, founded in 2017. It specializes in creating software development kits (SDKs) for blockchain and decentralized application (DApp) developers. The company offers a decentralized infrastructure that simplifies the development process for peer-to-peer applications, allowing developers to connect easily to various blockchains. Its Pocket Developer Plugin provides a single interface for accessing blockchain networks, enabling users to create custom plugins that streamline interactions with the underlying technology. This approach aims to enhance accessibility and efficiency for developers working with blockchain technology, ultimately facilitating the growth and adoption of cryptocurrencies.

Benqi

Private Equity Round in 2021
BENQi is a liquidity protocol built on the Avalanche platform, designed to facilitate the seamless lending, borrowing, and earning of interest with digital assets. By integrating elements of decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi), BENQi aims to enhance accessibility to financial products. Its infrastructure focuses on scalability, decentralization, and user-friendliness, offering low fees and permissionless access to a shared liquidity market. Additionally, BENQi seeks to bridge various blockchain ecosystems, including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain, through the use of Avalanche's subnets, positioning itself as a cross-chain DeFi solution. This approach enables traders to quickly supply and withdraw liquidity, democratizing access to financial services.

BENQI Corpo

Funding Round in 2021
Developed by an experienced team of blockchain designers, BENQI is a protocol to unlock greater liquidity within the defi market. BENQI enables defi users to make their assets work harder to generate additional yield. Built on Avalanche’s high speed smart contract network, BENQI will evolve into a cross-chain defi hub that’s positioned at the heart of decentralized finance.

Benqi

Private Equity Round in 2021
BENQi is a liquidity protocol built on the Avalanche platform, designed to facilitate the seamless lending, borrowing, and earning of interest with digital assets. By integrating elements of decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi), BENQi aims to enhance accessibility to financial products. Its infrastructure focuses on scalability, decentralization, and user-friendliness, offering low fees and permissionless access to a shared liquidity market. Additionally, BENQi seeks to bridge various blockchain ecosystems, including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain, through the use of Avalanche's subnets, positioning itself as a cross-chain DeFi solution. This approach enables traders to quickly supply and withdraw liquidity, democratizing access to financial services.

Boson Protocol

Funding Round in 2021
Boson Protocol is a decentralized marketplace that addresses the challenge of trading physical assets through smart contracts. It eliminates the need for intermediaries, allowing for fully automated transactions that manage payment, expiry, and complaints without human intervention. The protocol facilitates reliable transactions that are executed simultaneously, ensuring trust and efficiency. Additionally, Boson Protocol incorporates a Web3 data marketplace to gather customer feedback, enhancing its service offerings. The platform also tokenizes reward vouchers as NFTs, providing a means for customers to store, transfer, or sell these vouchers, thereby integrating real-world products and services into a blockchain framework. Founded in 2019 and based in Taunton, United Kingdom, Boson Protocol represents a significant opportunity to establish a universal system for non-monetary value exchange and a comprehensive product data marketplace.

ETHA Lend

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a protocol-agnostic liquidity protocol designed to optimize yield. The company's platform uses different data points and techniques to attain the optimum value and return on investments, understands the circumstances of a liquidity provider's supply event and the discovery algorithm takes in the latest gas costs, asset volatility, the past and present yield and budget of the asset supplied, enabling users to get optimum yield from asset allocation across Defi protocols.

Gasp

Seed Round in 2021
cross-chain decentralized exchange built on Polkadot

DeFi Wizard

Seed Round in 2021
Defi wizard is a dashboard for building Defi (decentralized finance) smart contracts with a few clicks. It offers real-time programmer analytics and allows users to create smart contracts for ERC20 / BEP20 / EDST, staking, yield farming, governance, cross-chain bridge, gasless relayer baked in.

Polkadex

Seed Round in 2021
Polkadex is a decentralized peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange designed for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem, built on the Substrate framework. Its goal is to create a highly interoperable trading platform that connects various blockchain ecosystems, allowing users to trade a wide array of assets beyond just Polkadot and Ethereum. Polkadex aims to establish a next-generation decentralized exchange that maintains a user-friendly experience while adhering to regulatory standards. The platform facilitates the trading of not only cryptocurrencies but also traditional assets, positioning itself as a comprehensive exchange akin to the New York Stock Exchange, where users can trade public company shares, cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies. By enabling traders to integrate their custom trading algorithms with market data, Polkadex offers an innovative approach to value transfer from traditional financial markets to a decentralized environment.

Cere

Venture Round in 2021
Cere Network is a company that specializes in developing a blockchain-based customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem aimed at enhancing data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a platform that extracts customer data from various traditional CRM and customer data systems. By leveraging blockchain technology, Cere captures the entire customer journey and securely stores key user data, including purchases and achievements, in user wallets. This approach enables businesses to gain valuable customer insights while allowing clients to maintain control over their data. The platform also incorporates a token system, which facilitates payment for services within the ecosystem.

Biconomy

Seed Round in 2021
Biconomy is a technology company that develops a multichain relayer protocol aimed at simplifying transactions and onboarding for Web3 projects. Its infrastructure network serves as a transaction highway that reduces friction between blockchain applications and end-users. By providing an SDK and dashboard, Biconomy abstracts the complexities associated with wallet setup, private key management, gas fees, and cryptocurrency purchases. The platform facilitates gas-efficient meta-transactions at scale, enabling developers to create seamless interactions between decentralized applications (DApps) and users. Through its innovative approach, Biconomy enhances the overall user experience within the blockchain ecosystem.

Razor Network

Seed Round in 2020
Razor Network PTE. LTD. is a Singapore-based company that specializes in developing a decentralized oracle network for decentralized finance applications. Established in 2019, Razor Network provides a platform that automates the fetching of external data, allowing smart contracts to operate without the risks associated with centralized servers. Its features include a secure and scalable proof-of-stake system, which enhances the reliability of data delivery. By eliminating centralized bottlenecks, Razor Network enables developers to build and manage decentralized applications more effectively. The platform is currently live on the Rinkeby test network and offers free querying of key financial data, such as the ETH/USD price, showcasing its commitment to facilitating access to essential information for the decentralized finance ecosystem.

XEND

Funding Round in 2020
Xend Finance offers decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for credit unions and cooperatives. The company is based in Nigeria.

Centrifuge

Seed Round in 2020
Centrifuge Inc. is a developer of a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at transforming the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany, Centrifuge provides a secure and privacy-preserving protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions while allowing businesses to retain ownership of their data. This includes validated company information, business relationships, and transaction history. The platform enables participants to interact within a global network, promoting economic opportunity through the easy creation of applications and functionality by third-party service providers. Centrifuge's team, which has a history of collaborating on successful software ventures, focuses on addressing real business challenges with solutions that handle significant transaction volumes daily.

Reef Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Reef Finance LLC is a cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) platform developed on the Polkadot network. The company offers a liquidity aggregator and a yield engine that facilitates trading by connecting users to liquidity from both centralized and decentralized exchanges. Additionally, it provides a range of financial services, including smart lending, borrowing, staking, and mining, all enhanced by an artificial intelligence-based personalized yield engine. Founded in 2011, Reef Finance is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Frontier

Seed Round in 2020
Manage your DeFi positions across multiple protocols without compromising your safety or security.

Persistence

Funding Round in 2020
Persistence operates a platform that enables users to borrow stablecoins by leveraging real-world assets, such as invoices, as collateral. This approach effectively connects decentralized finance with traditional finance, addressing real-world financing challenges. The platform aims to enhance liquidity for users by aggregating resources from crypto investors and lenders. By facilitating the seamless exchange of value, Persistence seeks to improve the speed and efficiency of cross-border trade and financing, ultimately addressing the financing gap faced by many businesses.

Sifchain

Seed Round in 2020
Sifchain is an innovative omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) designed to enhance liquidity across multiple blockchain networks, thereby reducing transaction fees and improving trading efficiency. Built on the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK), Sifchain is compatible with various Cosmos Network blockchains, allowing seamless interactions through the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. This interoperability enables Sifchain to offer a trading experience that combines the advantages of liquidity pools and order books, ensuring optimal order execution. By focusing on cross-chain liquidity, Sifchain aims to address fundamental challenges in the blockchain industry, positioning itself as a key player in the evolving landscape of decentralized finance. The platform’s design prioritizes efficiency, claiming to be significantly more cost-effective and faster than traditional Ethereum-based exchanges.

KIRA

Private Equity Round in 2020
Kira Core is a decentralized finance technology company that focuses on Blockchain and cryptocurrency. The company builds a full-stack DeFi ecosystem and truly distributed applications and offers deployment of private validator nodes on any distributed network as well as trusted setup for its own delegators. It was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic.

DIA

Funding Round in 2020
DIA (Decentralised Information Asset) is an open-source, data and oracle platform for the DeFi ecosystem. DIA leverages crypto-economic incentives to drive supply, share and use transparent, crowd-verified price data and oracles on financial and digital assets.

Covalent

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Covalent Research & Development Inc. is a technology company based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on enhancing transparency and accountability in the cryptocurrency sector. Established in 2018, Covalent develops a data analytics suite that addresses significant infrastructure challenges obstructing blockchain adoption. Its offerings include on-chain data and analytics for the Ethereum network, as well as APIs that provide visibility and transparency across various blockchain networks. The company aims to bridge centralized databases with decentralized blockchain technologies, thereby facilitating adoption among enterprises and consumers. Covalent supports several leading decentralized finance protocols and is actively building tools like SafeKeeep, which aims to improve data availability and record-keeping in the DeFi space. The company’s team comprises industry veterans with extensive experience in database and distributed systems, underscoring its commitment to driving innovation in blockchain technology.

StakerDAO

Series A in 2020
StakerDao, Inc. develops platform for governing financial assets in a decentralized, secure, and compliant manner. The company builds and manages products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. It offers STKR that governs financial asset decision making and BLND, a synthetic token that tracks a governed basket of proof-of-stakes tokens. StakerDao, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

StakerDAO

Series A in 2020
StakerDao, Inc. develops platform for governing financial assets in a decentralized, secure, and compliant manner. The company builds and manages products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. It offers STKR that governs financial asset decision making and BLND, a synthetic token that tracks a governed basket of proof-of-stakes tokens. StakerDao, Inc. was founded in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Shyft

Corporate Round in 2019
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.

Cere

Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Cere Network is a company that specializes in developing a blockchain-based customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem aimed at enhancing data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company offers a platform that extracts customer data from various traditional CRM and customer data systems. By leveraging blockchain technology, Cere captures the entire customer journey and securely stores key user data, including purchases and achievements, in user wallets. This approach enables businesses to gain valuable customer insights while allowing clients to maintain control over their data. The platform also incorporates a token system, which facilitates payment for services within the ecosystem.

Kava

Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Kava Labs Inc. is a developer of the Kava DeFi Platform, which offers decentralized finance services such as stablecoins, bonds, and lending across multiple blockchain networks. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kava focuses on enhancing interoperability and liquidity for blockchains, wallets, and exchanges through its cross-chain collateralized debt position platform. The platform is secured by over 100 professional validators, ensuring the safety of users' assets. Kava Labs leverages its blockchain expertise, having previously collaborated with notable projects like Ripple, Tendermint/Cosmos, Tezos, and MakerDao, to deliver innovative solutions in the rapidly evolving crypto landscape.

Raven Protocol

Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Raven Protocol is a decentralized platform designed for the efficient training of deep neural networks. By harnessing idle computing resources from a network of nodes, it offers a cost-effective solution that accelerates the training process for artificial intelligence models. The protocol facilitates a distributed approach to deep learning, allowing users to leverage available compute power while minimizing costs associated with traditional training methods. This innovative model aims to enhance the accessibility and effectiveness of AI training, catering to the growing demand for advanced machine learning capabilities.

Alphaslot

Corporate Round in 2018
Alphaslot Lab Ltd is a company based in Central, Hong Kong, that specializes in developing a blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing the gaming entertainment industry. Founded in 2018, Alphaslot focuses on creating a connected ecosystem for gaming developers, operators, and players through the use of SLOT tokens and the ALPHABOT avatar. The platform incentivizes customer engagement with a tokenized motivation system, which encourages players to interact with gaming machines, thereby fostering growth within the gaming sector. Alphaslot’s technology allows for the integration of multiple blockchains, thereby broadening user access and enabling gaming operators to utilize their servers as validators to secure operations within the network. The company's innovative approach positions it to play a significant role in the evolution of digital asset management and regulation in the gaming market.
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