North Island Ventures

Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.

Immunefi is a bug bounty platform focused on enhancing the security of decentralized finance (DeFi) projects by addressing vulnerabilities in blockchain technologies. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for crypto projects, enabling effective network hosting, bug triaging, and program management. By offering tools for smart contract review and vulnerability disclosure, Immunefi helps organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with malicious exploits and unknown attacks. This proactive approach aims to create a safer environment for crypto projects, ensuring that developers can secure their applications against potential threats.

We believe blockchain data should be accurate. We believe access to this data should be scalable, private, and uncensored. Our mission is to power a marketplace for blockchain data with aligned token incentives and an open-source protocol for RPC nodes and APIs.

Bitmark Inc. develops property system for digital environment. It offers specialized blockchain technology to convert personal data into property that can be sold, licensed, and transferred peer-to-peer. The company’s property system for the digital environment enables individuals to establish ownership claims for personal data akin to how land registrars track land titles or patent offices track patents. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan with additional offices in Cupertino, California; Reykjavík, Iceland; and Đà Nẵng, Vietnam.

Our Happy Company is focused on developing blockchain technology tailored for the creator economy. It offers a social NFT platform that facilitates the discovery, creation, and trading of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This platform empowers users to build social followings and digital communities, allowing them to monetize their ideas while fostering connections with others. By integrating social interaction with NFT trading, the company aims to enhance the engagement and financial opportunities available to creators in the digital space.

Developer of a decentralized marketing platform designed to connect brands, creators, collections, and NFT holders. The company's platform delivers a new way for brands to build affinity with audiences and forge direct, verifiable connections with communities in Web 3 and offers a community engine that discovers, tokenizes, and connects communities in the metaverse, enabling marketers to reach new audiences by engaging, empowering, and activating communities.

Polymer Labs is building the fabric of web3. We're working on an IBC based multi-cluster routing/roll-up protocol providing E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.

Fonbnk provides borderless banking infrastructure directly to unbanked people around the world using the mobile internet. Utilizing the Company’s Airtime Wallet, anyone with a prepaid mobile SIM card and a verified online identity can now have a FREE global stored value (bank or current) account by recharging their existing mobile phones.

Developer of a decentralized interoperability software designed to connect blockchain ecosystems and applications with users. The company's software is powered by byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design protocols that let applications live on different blockchains to communicate with each other, enabling users to get a distributed network, APIs, and tools to make it easy to build cross-chain decentralized applications.

BCB Group is a regulated financial services company that specializes in providing cryptocurrency prime brokerage services tailored for institutional clients. Its offerings include over-the-counter (OTC) trading, trade execution, settlement, compliance, and digital custody. BCB Group enables traditional financial institutions, such as brokers, hedge funds, and private banks, to effectively engage with the cryptocurrency market by offering a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies onboarding and operational processes. Through its turn-key solutions, BCB Group alleviates the complexities associated with cryptocurrency trading and custody, allowing clients to focus on their core investment strategies and enhance their product offerings in the digital asset space.

Immunefi is a bug bounty platform focused on enhancing the security of decentralized finance (DeFi) projects by addressing vulnerabilities in blockchain technologies. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for crypto projects, enabling effective network hosting, bug triaging, and program management. By offering tools for smart contract review and vulnerability disclosure, Immunefi helps organizations identify and mitigate risks associated with malicious exploits and unknown attacks. This proactive approach aims to create a safer environment for crypto projects, ensuring that developers can secure their applications against potential threats.

Dapper Labs Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, is a developer of blockchain-based video games and digital collectibles. Founded in 2018, the company is known for its consumer-focused Flow blockchain platform, which supports the creation and distribution of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital assets. Dapper Labs aims to enhance digital engagement by allowing fans to interact with their favorite brands in innovative ways. Through its platform, users can securely track ownership of unique digital items while also having the opportunity to create their own content. This approach not only entertains but also fosters a decentralized environment where value is placed on digital collectibles and user-generated creations.

2PI is a two sided transactional platforms that connects DeFi with Fintechs

Developer of a decentralized interoperability software designed to connect blockchain ecosystems and applications with users. The company's software is powered by byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design protocols that let applications live on different blockchains to communicate with each other, enabling users to get a distributed network, APIs, and tools to make it easy to build cross-chain decentralized applications.

Developer of a gaming platform designed to craft online adventures through space and time. The company develops a platform that is a multiplayer action role-playing game, enabling players to acquire, hold and trade NFT-based virtual items without the barriers present in most blockchain applications.

BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users. BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.

BCB Group is a regulated financial services company that specializes in providing cryptocurrency prime brokerage services tailored for institutional clients. Its offerings include over-the-counter (OTC) trading, trade execution, settlement, compliance, and digital custody. BCB Group enables traditional financial institutions, such as brokers, hedge funds, and private banks, to effectively engage with the cryptocurrency market by offering a comprehensive suite of services that simplifies onboarding and operational processes. Through its turn-key solutions, BCB Group alleviates the complexities associated with cryptocurrency trading and custody, allowing clients to focus on their core investment strategies and enhance their product offerings in the digital asset space.

Developer of a decentralized interoperability software designed to connect blockchain ecosystems and applications with users. The company's software is powered by byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design protocols that let applications live on different blockchains to communicate with each other, enabling users to get a distributed network, APIs, and tools to make it easy to build cross-chain decentralized applications.

Nori Inc. is a company that operates a blockchain-based marketplace designed to facilitate the removal of excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Founded in 2017 and based in Seattle, Washington, Nori's platform allows farmers and carbon removal suppliers to connect directly with buyers, streamlining the process of measurement, verification, and sale of carbon removal certificates. By integrating these processes, Nori improves efficiency and reduces costs within the carbon removal market. The platform also incorporates cryptocurrency tokens to enable the exchange of carbon removal certificates, promoting a transparent and secure transaction environment.

Dapper Labs Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, is a developer of blockchain-based video games and digital collectibles. Founded in 2018, the company is known for its consumer-focused Flow blockchain platform, which supports the creation and distribution of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital assets. Dapper Labs aims to enhance digital engagement by allowing fans to interact with their favorite brands in innovative ways. Through its platform, users can securely track ownership of unique digital items while also having the opportunity to create their own content. This approach not only entertains but also fosters a decentralized environment where value is placed on digital collectibles and user-generated creations.

Digital Assets Data Inc., a fintech and data company, develops enterprise-grade software and data feeds for crypto hedge funds and other market participants. It provides data and information technology software and solutions for cryptoassets, including currencies, platforms, applications, side chains, security tokens, and initial coin offers (ICOs) through subscription services to hedge funds and other institutional investors. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Virtu Financial, Inc. is a technology-driven market maker and liquidity provider operating globally. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in New York, the company specializes in electronic market making across various asset classes, including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, commodities, and options. Its primary business segments are Market Making, which focuses on providing competitive bids and offers in cash, futures, and options markets, and Execution Services, which offers agency-based trading and execution services for institutions, banks, and broker dealers. By supplying two-sided liquidity in over two hundred market centers, Virtu Financial plays a crucial role in enhancing market efficiency and reducing costs for both retail and institutional investors, especially during periods of market volatility. The company derives a significant portion of its revenue from the United States, with additional operations in Ireland and other regions.