Ethereum Foundation

The Ethereum Foundation, through its subsidiary Ethereum Switzerland GmbH, operates a decentralized platform that enables developers to create and publish distributed applications. Founded in 2014 and based in Baar, Switzerland, the foundation provides essential tools and services, including the Ethereum Wallet, which allows users to securely hold ether and other crypto-assets, as well as interact with smart contracts. The platform supports a variety of applications, such as crowdfunding, decentralized autonomous organizations, and the creation of new cryptocurrencies. By leveraging the principles of decentralized consensus, Ethereum facilitates the trading and management of diverse assets, including voting systems, financial exchanges, and intellectual property. The Ethereum Foundation is dedicated to promoting and supporting the development of the Ethereum ecosystem, ensuring its resilience and adaptability in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

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Ethereum Investor and Community Member

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Orochi Network

Grant in 2025
Orochi Network is an innovative cryptography startup that focuses on enhancing data integrity, privacy, and scalability within the Web3 industry. The company has developed a zero-knowledge modular data availability layer designed to promote decentralization and address performance-related barriers. Its solutions enable businesses to access advanced centralized technologies more effectively, facilitating improved scalability and fostering a more comprehensive decentralized ecosystem. Through its cutting-edge software, Orochi Network aims to support the growing demands of the digital landscape while ensuring robust data protection and operational efficiency.

FLock.io

Grant in 2024
FLock.io is a developer of a decentralized platform that focuses on machine learning and data privacy. The company aims to resolve the conflict between the increasing demand for data and the associated risks of data breaches. Its innovative platform utilizes a federated learning approach, leveraging blockchain technology to facilitate coordination among data holders. This system allows machine learning to occur while keeping data local and private, effectively eliminating the need for a central entity to collect and manage data. By empowering users to retain control over their information, FLock.io enables individuals to extract insights from their data and monetize it according to their preferences, all while ensuring privacy and security.

Shadow

Seed Round in 2023
Shadow is a crypto data platform that provides developers with the tools necessary to collect and analyze on-chain event data. The platform features a custom subgraph, an indexer, and a supercharged protocol analysis system, allowing for comprehensive access to peripheral contract data. By offering these capabilities, Shadow empowers developers to create improved applications and tools designed for the decentralized web.

Chainrisk (prev UNSNARL)

Grant in 2022
Chainrisk (prev. UNSNARL) automates Economic risk management for DeFi Applications with Chainrisk Cloud. Orchestrate and simulate complex economic exploits, backtest them using Monte-Carlo Simulations and receive on-chain economic alerts all at one place.

Veridise

Funding Round in 2022
Veridise is a comprehensive blockchain security company founded by a team of renowned researchers. Specializing in auditing Zero-Knowledge Circuits and MetaMask Snaps, the firm possesses extensive expertise in smart contracts, blockchains, Layer 2 solutions, DeFi protocols, cryptocurrency wallets, tokens, and NFTs. Veridise has established a reputation for uncovering critical vulnerabilities that other auditing firms often overlook, identifying over 100 high-severity bugs in the first half of 2023 alone. The company's approach combines traditional auditing methods with advanced automated Web3 security tools, allowing them to tackle complex blockchain security challenges effectively. Through this innovative hybrid methodology, Veridise provides clients with detailed and actionable audit reports, enhancing the overall security of blockchain applications.

Coin Center

Grant in 2021
Court Innovations develops and implements online negotiation systems for courts and constituents. The company’s online solutions enable its customers to extend their courts to provide online resolution options for litigants charged with relatively-minor offenses; help litigants with outstanding issues to understand their options and navigate the court online without needing to hire an attorney; and more. Court Innovations is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Gitcoin

Grant in 2021
Gitcoin, established in 2017 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, operates a platform that connects open-source developers with funding opportunities. The platform, built on the Ethereum network using Solidity, enables developers to monetize their work in various programming languages, including Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, and Solidity. Gitcoin fosters a symbiotic relationship between developers, maintainers, and financiers, promoting the growth of open-source projects and the community. The company's grants management platform offers decentralized allocation infrastructure and smart contract-based funding mechanisms, facilitating efficient capital distribution and community-driven innovation within blockchain ecosystems.

Fight for the Future

Grant in 2021
Fight for the Future is a non-profit advocacy group that is dedicated to protecting and expanding the Internet's transformative power in the lives of people by creating civic campaigns that are engaging for millions of people. Its staff consists of technologists, educators, organizers, advocates, and artists. Fight for the Future believes that outdated and overzealous copyright and patent laws, slow speed and limited access, and tracking and spying as the major threats to freedom of expression online. Its objective is to build a public movement to ensure that everyone can access the Internet’s many resources affordably, free of interference or censorship, and with full privacy. Fight for the Future also provides its users with online tools that make it easy and compelling to take action and share with friends. In 2012, hundreds of thousands of websites, including sites like [Google](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/google), [Craigslist](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/craigslist), and [Wikipedia](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wikipedia), joined the protest which was organized by Fight for the Future to stop SOPA and PIPA. Fight for the Future was formed in 2011 and is headquartered in Boston, M.A.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Grant in 2021
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending civil liberties in the digital realm. Founded in 1990, EFF addresses critical issues related to free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights as technology continues to evolve. The organization leverages the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists to engage in impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF actively fights for digital rights in courts, even against powerful entities such as the government and large corporations. In addition to legal advocacy, EFF educates the public and policymakers about digital rights issues and mobilizes over 140,000 citizens to oppose detrimental legislation. Funded primarily by individual contributions, EFF relies on donor support to sustain its efforts in protecting and promoting digital civil liberties.

Nimbus

Grant in 2020
Nimbus is a research project and a client implementation for Ethereum 2.0 designed to perform well on embedded systems and personal mobile devices, including older smartphones with resource-restricted hardware.

Connext

Seed Round in 2019
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.

Parity Technologies

Grant in 2019
Parity Technologies Limited is a blockchain infrastructure company based in London, United Kingdom, established in 2015. The company focuses on open source software development for enterprises utilizing blockchain technology. Parity combines advanced cryptography, peer-to-peer technology, and decentralized consensus architectures to create innovative platforms and applications. Its software provides a fast and secure means of interaction with the Ethereum blockchain, featuring an integrated Ethereum wallet and a decentralized application (Ðapp) environment that can be conveniently accessed through a web browser. Parity Technologies aims to deliver stable and reliable software solutions for businesses and organizations operating in the blockchain space.

Connext

Grant in 2018
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.

Trueblocks

Grant in 2018
Trueblocks is a strong proponent of blockchain technology and strives for increased adoption of cryptocurrencies and services on the blockchain. They provide support for worthwhile projects by making the right connections with potential commercial partners in South Korea. In addition, Trueblocks facilitates community expansion, helps develop exchange relationships, assists in finding the right meetups & events and provides advice on marketing strategies.

StarkWare Industries

Grant in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.
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