Octane is a developer-focused platform that leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence to battle-test smart contracts.
Codex is a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.
Hashnote
Acquisition in 2025
Hashnote is a regulated investment management platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). It offers a sophisticated infrastructure for cryptocurrency-based transactions, exchanges, and various financial services. By catering to both US and international investors, Hashnote provides customizable digital asset exposure while ensuring full-service support. The platform emphasizes transparency and is designed to mitigate counterparty risk, allowing clients to tailor their investment strategies according to their individual risk and reward profiles.
Shinami
Seed Round in 2024
Shinami is a company focused on advancing the web3 ecosystem by providing a developer platform specifically designed for the creation of decentralized applications. Its platform offers node as a service, which facilitates seamless interaction with the sui network while ensuring scalability. This allows businesses to develop applications on a robust and enterprise-grade infrastructure, empowering them to harness the capabilities of decentralized technology effectively. Through its innovative tools and services, Shinami aims to support the next generation of applications in the decentralized landscape.
Securitize
Venture Round in 2024
Securitize, Inc. operates a compliance platform designed for the issuance and management of digital securities. Founded in 2017 and based in Redwood City, California, the company facilitates various services for issuers, including digital security issuance, document handling, investor communications, and accreditation. For investors, Securitize offers features such as wallet management, an investor dashboard, and token distribution. The platform also includes support services like fiat and crypto escrow, along with custodial services. Securitize is distinguished as the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated U.S.-based marketplaces, enabling eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities across sectors like equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. The company's approach enhances transparency, liquidity, and efficiency in the tokenization process, while also providing KYC/AML and capital management services.
Kravata
Seed Round in 2024
Kravata is a pioneering crypto as a service company based in Latin America, specializing in providing businesses with the tools necessary to implement compliant cryptocurrency solutions efficiently and affordably. The company's platform infrastructure is designed to facilitate the safe buying and selling of cryptocurrencies while enabling businesses to integrate these capabilities into their applications or websites through a straightforward API integration. By offering a unified platform for cryptocurrency trading, Kravata helps businesses enhance their revenue, attract more customers, and leverage the advantages of blockchain technology.
Anzen creates decentralized finance infrastructure powering the first private credit backed stablecoin
zkMe
Pre Seed Round in 2023
zkMe is a company that specializes in zero-knowledge (zk) Identity Oracles designed for decentralized and anonymous cross-chain credential verification. By ensuring that no personal information is ever processed by third parties, zkMe eliminates the risks of data leaks and misuse, granting users complete control over their digital identities. The platform enables users to selectively share their credentials with authorized parties while maintaining their privacy. As a fully decentralized provider, zkMe adheres to Financial Action Task Force (FATF) compliance standards and offers a comprehensive suite of products, including solutions for anti-bot and anti-sybil verification, as well as Know Your Customer (KYC) services.
Hourglass
Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass is an operator of a financial marketplace intended to trade locked-up DeFi assets.
OpenTrade
Seed Round in 2023
OpenTrade is an institutional grade platform for digital dollar lending and yield products. It provides a technology platform, blockchain protocol, API, legal framework, and bankruptcy remote banking and custody infrastructure that enables Web2/Web3 Fintechs to offer fully embedded stablecoin yield products to their customers and better manage their own treasury.
Huma is a decentralized finance platform that facilitates lending for businesses and individuals by connecting high-performing receivables with global financing. The company provides a transparent and accessible financial infrastructure, allowing clients to tokenize and trade cash flow using credit on the blockchain. Huma's innovative approach enables users to secure loans against tokens as collateral, fostering a thriving ecosystem for managing and leveraging assets in a digital format.
MSafe is a technology company that develops advanced digital asset management solutions. Their flagship product is a multi-signature, non-custodial platform built on the Move blockchain, focusing on true decentralization, enhanced security, and full interoperability. This platform offers treasury management, smart contract deployment, and protocol admin control features, enabling enterprises to securely manage their digital assets with accurate decentralization and full interoperability.
Revio was founded in 2020 to help businesses collect more revenue, through reducing payment failures and recovering lost revenue. Through a single API, we optimise merchants’ payment stacks with locally-optimised payment methods and smart payment routing, failover, and retries. We understand that there is more to getting paid than accepting payments, and believe that how you engage customers when trying to collect a failed payment is as important as when you are trying to acquire them. Our Recovery solution builds on this insight, empowering businesses with data-driven omnichannel interaction workflows to recover at-risk revenue from their customers. Today, we’re helping some of Africa's largest brands and fastest-growing startups increase their revenue through increased payment success rates, customer retention, and lifetime value. Locally grounded but globally relevant, we aim to be the go-to revenue recovery and growth partner for businesses across emerging markets.
Veax
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Veax is a company that operates a decentralized exchange, integrating traditional finance principles into its platform. It offers a liquidity management system designed to enhance capital efficiency, thereby generating high interest rates while addressing investment risks. The platform features adaptable exchange pools, smart routing, concentrated liquidity, and dynamic fee structures, which ensure competitive swap prices for traders. This design allows users to seamlessly connect traditional finance functionalities with the flexible and efficient liquidity capabilities of decentralized infrastructure.
Fluidity Money
Seed Round in 2022
Fluidity Money is a blockchain incentive platform that rewards users with yields for using their cryptocurrency. It seeks to solve DeFi's utility problem by introducing a novel incentive mechanism that rewards users for on-chain transactions. Users can wrap stablecoins in Fluidity in exchange for the fluid counterpart of that stablecoin. This can be USDC, for example, which becomes fUSDC. This works with a variety of stablecoins, including DAI, USDT, and Frax. The yield distributed via transactions is derived from lending out the underlying assets on money markets. When USDC is wrapped, fUSDC is created, and the principal is lent out.
Arf is a liquidity platform designed for financial institutions engaged in cross-border payments. It offers short-term, revolving, and digital asset-based credit lines aimed at enhancing access to liquidity for these institutions globally. By providing a cross-border settlement banking platform for international money transfers, Arf eliminates the conventional capital-intensive models prevalent in the industry. The company focuses on delivering digital asset-based working capital and settlement services, featuring native on-ramp and off-ramp capabilities for licensed money service businesses and financial institutions. This approach enables users to transfer funds without hidden fees and at transparent, fair exchange rates.
Blackbird
Seed Round in 2022
Blackbird Labs is a web3 hospitality technology platform founded in 2022 by Ben Leventhal and based in New York, United States. The company focuses on directly connecting restaurants with their customers through loyalty and membership services. By leveraging innovative software solutions, Blackbird Labs aims to enhance the dining experience, facilitating meaningful and ongoing interactions between restaurants and their guests. The platform is designed to transform how hospitality businesses engage with their clientele, ultimately elevating customer satisfaction and loyalty.
Elements
Acquisition in 2022
Elements is a payments orchestration platform for merchants and developers.
END-Labs
Seed Round in 2022
END-Labs is a blockchain development studio focused on creating Web3 lending infrastructure. The company specializes in developing a suite of blockchain-based products designed to enhance the financial landscape by connecting fiat-native borrowers with institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) capital. Its platform operates as an application-specific blockchain, facilitating the integration of various decentralized applications that function together across the blockchain ecosystem. This innovative approach enables borrowers to identify and access sources of capital with optimized costs and terms based on the assets they wish to use as collateral, thereby driving capital efficiencies in the lending process.
CYBAVO
Acquisition in 2022
CYBAVO is a company that specializes in providing secure cryptocurrency custody and digital asset management solutions tailored for enterprises and financial institutions. Founded in 2018 by professionals with backgrounds in cybersecurity, blockchain, and digital currencies, CYBAVO has developed a custom operating system designed to enhance digital asset custody. The company's offerings include advanced blockchain security solutions featuring patented encryption technology and a secure sandboxed environment. These solutions enable clients, such as cryptocurrency exchanges and digital asset managers, to effectively manage their digital assets while safeguarding against malicious attacks, theft, and loss. With a team of experienced developers and researchers, CYBAVO emphasizes security and usability in its approach to digital asset management.
KuCoin is a cryptocurrency exchange platform that facilitates the buying, trading, and earning of various digital assets for a global audience. The company offers a range of services, including spot trading, margin trading, and crypto derivatives, aimed at optimizing users' investment opportunities. KuCoin is dedicated to providing a secure and user-friendly environment for digital asset transactions, integrating a wide array of premium cryptocurrency options. Through its comprehensive platform, KuCoin aims to enhance the trading experience and enable users to benefit from the evolving cryptocurrency market.
Slope Finance
Series A in 2022
Slope Finance is a developer of a mobile decentralized exchange and wallet platform focused on enhancing user experience in the cryptocurrency space. Built on the Solana blockchain, Slope Finance enables users to engage in decentralized finance, utilize Solana Pay, and manage non-fungible tokens through a visually appealing interface. The platform features a decentralized automated full limit order book, allowing for fast crypto trading, while also providing tools for users to create or import Ethereum and Solana wallets. With an emphasis on speed and near-zero transaction fees, Slope Finance aims to simplify the management and trading of digital assets, making it accessible for both seasoned traders and newcomers.
NFTGo is an NFT data aggregation platform that consolidates information on NFT drops, rankings, whale activity, market data, and on-chain transactions. It uses a proprietary blockchain data collection engine to capture up-to-date on-chain activity and converts it into readable NFT transaction and market insights, helping project teams understand market dynamics and identify trends while providing users with visibility into new NFT market developments.
TipLink
Seed Round in 2022
TipLink is a financial platform that facilitates the transfer of digital assets through a unique link-based sharing system. Users can create an account and generate a link to send cryptocurrency to anyone, regardless of the recipient's platform or wallet capabilities. This process resembles purchasing a gift card, where the sender connects their preferred crypto wallet and deposits the desired amount for transfer. TipLink's approach simplifies the distribution of digital assets, allowing customers to share their holdings securely and conveniently, without requiring the recipient to have a wallet. The platform aims to make the transfer process accessible and cost-effective, catering to the needs of users looking to manage their digital assets efficiently.
DeBank is a cryptocurrency wallet provider that facilitates access to decentralized finance (DeFi) services, enabling users to manage their DeFi assets effectively. The platform supports over 800 DeFi protocols across more than 15 blockchains, including Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain. DeBank allows users to track their entire portfolio, monitor deposits and interest earnings across various DeFi protocols, and perform token swaps for exchanging cryptocurrencies. Additionally, the platform offers tools for comparing interest rates, analyzing risks, and discovering investment opportunities through real-time data. By providing these functionalities, DeBank empowers users to efficiently manage their DeFi investments and make informed financial decisions.
XY Finance
Venture Round in 2021
XY Finance is a technology company specializing in cross-chain financial solutions for decentralized applications (DApps). It offers a customizable widget that seamlessly integrates into various DApps, enabling users to manage cross-chain operations through a unified interface. The company's platform comprises two primary components: X Swap, which facilitates cross-chain transfers and exchanges, and Y Pool, which provides liquidity for efficient asset transfers across different blockchain networks. By leveraging composable APIs, XY Finance optimizes web3 execution services, enhancing accessibility and user experience for individuals engaging with multiple blockchain ecosystems.
Crowdcube
Venture Round in 2021
Crowdcube Limited is an equity crowdfunding platform based in Exeter, United Kingdom, with an additional office in London. Founded in 2009, the company allows entrepreneurs of start-ups and growing businesses to raise funds from a diverse network of investors, including friends, family, and the general public. Through Crowdcube, individuals can invest in small companies in exchange for equity or an annual return, thereby democratizing access to investment opportunities that were once primarily available to corporate investors. Since pioneering equity crowdfunding in 2011, Crowdcube has facilitated over £300 million in investments from more than 390,000 investors, supporting over 520 successful fundraising campaigns. Notable businesses that have utilized the platform include Monzo, River Cottage, and the Eden Project, among others.
SeedInvest
Acquisition in 2018
SeedInvest, established in 2012 and headquartered in New York, was an equity crowdfunding platform that facilitated investments in U.S. startups and small businesses. It connected over 15,000 accredited investors, including family offices and institutions, with highly vetted opportunities. Investments typically ranged from $500,000 to $5 million, with individual investors co-investing alongside venture capital firms and angel groups. The company ceased operations in May 2023.
Poloniex
Acquisition in 2018
Polo Digital Assets, Ltd. operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform, providing trading services for over 60 cryptocurrency assets, including popular options such as Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Dogecoin. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Kalispell, Montana, the company offers features such as margin trading, early project listings, and promotional airdrops. The platform is designed to provide a secure trading environment, equipped with advanced charts and data analysis tools. Additionally, Poloniex does not impose deposit or withdrawal fees, charging a flat rate of 0.2% on all trading transactions. Users must be at least 18 years old to access the platform. In November 2019, the company rebranded from Poloniex, LLC to Polo Digital Assets, Ltd.
Trigger Finance
Acquisition in 2017
Trigger Finance, Inc. is a mobile investing platform based in New York, established in 2015. The company focuses on helping retail investors manage their portfolios by utilizing natural language rules and alternative orders. It offers an application that enables users to create financial triggers to guide their investment decisions, supporting real-time alerts and execution across a wide range of asset classes, including stocks, bonds, and commodities. The platform also integrates alternative data sources, such as social media streams and economic events, to enhance investment strategies. Trigger Finance serves both individual investors and financial institutions, allowing tens of thousands of users to effectively manage over $270 million in assets. The company was founded by experienced professionals in technology and finance, including Rachel Mayer, Zafrir Schop, and Adrian Soghoian. As of October 2017, Trigger Finance operates as a subsidiary of Circle Internet Financial, Inc.