Pantera Capital

Pantera Capital is an investment firm based in Menlo Park that specializes exclusively in Bitcoin, other digital currencies, and associated companies. Founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead, a former chief financial officer and head of Macro Trading at Tiger Management, the firm initially focused on global macro hedge fund investments until it transitioned in 2014 to concentrate on the digital currency sector. Pantera Capital recognizes Bitcoin as a transformative financial technology, likening its potential impact on payments to the Internet's influence on communications and commerce. The firm is backed by notable shareholders, including Benchmark, Fortress Investment Group, and Ribbit Capital.

Ryan Barney

Associate

Franklin Bi

Director, Portfolio Development

Paul Brodsky

Partner

Ryan Davis

CFO

Florence Hadi Eid-Oakden

Partner and Head of Middle East and North Africa

Gorham C.F.A., Matthew Joseph

COO

Dan Morehead

Investor

Lauren Stephanian

Principal

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ThunderCore

Seed Round in 2018
ThunderCore is a fast, high performance EVM-compatible public blockchain with fully decentralized trust that brings scale to decentralized applications - with higher throughput, faster confirmation times, and lower costs. Based on years of groundbreaking research by Professors Shi and Pass of Cornell University, ThunderCore uses a breakthrough consensus protocol that overcomes the fundamental limitations of Nakamoto consensus. The result maintains fully decentralized trust while significantly improving performance.​

Acala Network

Series A in 2020
Acala Network is a decentralized finance hub and stablecoin platform powering cross-blockchain liquidity and applications. It offers a suite of financial primitives: a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by cross-chain assets such as Bitcoin, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange to unleash liquidity to power more financial innovations.

Bitaccess

Seed Round in 2014
Founded in November 2013, Bitaccess is a privately held technology company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, Bitaccess provides software services to power Fintech businesses in over 15 countries. Our customers rely on Bitaccess software and services to power their core infrastructure, compliance, security and support services. Bitaccess’ mission is to provide every person and business with access to public blockchain technology. We promise to develop technologies that are secure, accessible and easy-to-use

Anchor Protocol

Venture Round in 2021
Anchor Protocol is a savings platform that provides crypto natives, fintech companies, and investors a stable, high interest rate finance. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

NEAR

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
NEAR Protocol is a scalable blockchain designed to provide the performance and user experience necessary to bridge the gap to mainstream adoption of decentralized applications. Unlike other next generation blockchains, this network has been built from the ground up to be the easiest in the world for both developers and their end users while still providing the scalability necessary to serve those users.

DODO Exchange

Venture Round in 2020
DODO is a liquidity protocol powered by the Proactive Market Maker (PMM) algorithm and built for capital efficiency. DODO offers a low barrier-to-entry, pain-free token issuance mechanic for long-tail assets.

Jambo

Series A in 2022
Jambo is building the Web3 super app that will educate, bank and entertain the continent. Jambo aims to pioneer the largest, most influential Web3 user acquisition portal across the continent and serve as the bridge between Africa and applications from around the world seeking to tap into the African market. The opportunity here is immense. We have a long-term vision of realizing financial prosperity for Africans.

TruStory

Seed Round in 2018
TruStory is a social network that enables productive debate. To make progress on any issue, we need to learn from different perspectives, find common ground, and have the humility to change our minds. Our mission is to make the Internet more open-minded by incentivizing people to hear all sides of a debate.

AMBER AI

Series B in 2021
Amber Group Limited offers cryptocurrency financial services in Hong Kong. The company helps clients to buy and sell cryptocurrency products. It offers services, such as yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, execution services, and electronic market making. Amber Group Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in Hong Kong.

Cypherium

Venture Round in 2018
Cypherium Blockchain, Inc. provides a hybrid blockchain platform based on proof-of-work and Byzantine fault tolerance consensus. Its platform offers fundamental building blocks for developers to create applications and an interface for users to access these functionalities. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

BitPesa

Series A in 2017
BitPesa Ltd. is a digital currency exchange that accepts Bitcoin and exchanges it to Kenyan Shillings. The company operates an online platform that leverages blockchain settlement and opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Karen, Kenya.

Alchemy

Series B in 2021
Alchemy Insights, Inc. develops a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that caters to hedge funds and financial institutions. Its platform provides data, exploratory tools, and proprietary insights on all parts of the blockchain, including on-chain data, market data, and community activity. The Alchemy platform enables companies to analyze the blockchain and ecosystem data. Its advance machine learning allows exchanges to identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain to inform sales, security, and strategy. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was formerly known as Nikil, Inc. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

BitOasis

Series B in 2021
Based in Dubai with an outlook towards emerging markets, BitOasis is a fintech startup building the infrastructure for new digital payment products using the blockchain. BitOasis bitcoin exchange platform, wallet and integrations provide the tools to onboard consumers and businesses to a borderless and efficient digital payment system.

Ancient8

Seed Round in 2022
Ancient8 is building a DAO that develops the infrastructure layer for GameFi, with a focus on community and software. As Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild, Ancient8 enables everyone to build the Metaverse through scholarship, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, community, and blockchain software products. Ancient8’s vision is to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse, and is on a mission to reach, educate, and empower the next 100 million Metaverse citizens through the blockchain.

BitOasis

Private Placement in 2018
Based in Dubai with an outlook towards emerging markets, BitOasis is a fintech startup building the infrastructure for new digital payment products using the blockchain. BitOasis bitcoin exchange platform, wallet and integrations provide the tools to onboard consumers and businesses to a borderless and efficient digital payment system.

Enigma

Venture Round in 2018
Enigma provides cloud SDK solutions for protecting data-in-use. The company automates and streamlines business operations; and helps financial institutions to identify anti-money laundering compliance, credit-card fraud detection, and insurance premium pricing. It is used to secure data sharing, access control, and secure data processing. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Trade Ecology Token

Corporate Round in 2019
Trade Ecology Token (TDE) is a blockchain industry operator.

Helium

Series D in 2022
Helium Systems Inc. operates an IoT smart sensor device for enterprises and industries. The company develops sensor device that monitors temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, motion, and light. The device is used in monitoring facilities and quality control in medical products, energy costs, air quality, and temperature for refrigerators. The company also provides a web and mobile dashboard to manage sensors accessed by users. Helium Systems, Inc. was formerly known as Skynet Phase 1 Inc. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

ChangeCoin

Seed Round in 2014
ChangeCoin is a micropayment infrastructure for the Internet that specializes in the fields of micropayments, bitcoin, social commerce, digital currencies, and payments. It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

MetaLend

Seed Round in 2022
MetaLend provider of a bank for NFT digital economy.

Rift Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Rift Finance is a decentralized protocol that supercharges DAO growth through restructured incentive frameworks. Rift allows DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries to deepen token liquidity without having to give up ownership.

Audius

Venture Round in 2021
Audius, Inc. develops a decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating using blockchain technology to share music. It provides features that include audio file hosting and streaming, creator dashboard, exclusinve content, listen without downloading additional software, and earn royalties. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Alchemy

Series C in 2021
Alchemy Insights, Inc. develops a blockchain intelligence and infrastructure platform that caters to hedge funds and financial institutions. Its platform provides data, exploratory tools, and proprietary insights on all parts of the blockchain, including on-chain data, market data, and community activity. The Alchemy platform enables companies to analyze the blockchain and ecosystem data. Its advance machine learning allows exchanges to identify entities, individuals, and currency flows on the blockchain to inform sales, security, and strategy. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was formerly known as Nikil, Inc. Alchemy Insights, Inc. was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ondo Finance

Series A in 2022
Ondo Finance makes decentralized finance available to anyone, providing users with a choice between downside protection and higher returns.

Ondo Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Ondo Finance makes decentralized finance available to anyone, providing users with a choice between downside protection and higher returns.

Liquity

Series A in 2021
Liquity AG owns and operates a decentralized platform that offers zero interest consumer loans. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in Baar, Switzerland.

Virtue Poker

Seed Round in 2021
Virtue Poker is a decentralized poker platform that uses the Ethereum blockchain and peer-to-peer networking to provide an online poker site that's safe, honest, and fun.

Ankr

Venture Round in 2018
Ankr Network provides distributed cloud computing infrastructure on trusted hardware. The company is based in the United States.

BCB Group

Series A in 2022
BCB Group is a cryptocurrency prime broker, a service specifically designed to cater to the needs of institutional clients who need OTC best execution for their own accounts and who wish to offer cryptocurrency products and services to their own clients. BCB Group’s service allows traditional brokers, hedge funds, crypto funds, wealth managers and private banks to extend their capabilities in the cryptocurrency market with a turn-key solution for onboarding, execution, settlement, reporting and custodianship. We relieve the operational burdens that come with this highly technical asset class to allow greater focus on generating alpha.

Risk Harbor

Seed Round in 2021
Risk Harbor is a risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi) that utilizes a completely automated, transparent, and impartial claims process to protect liquidity providers and stakers against smart contract hacks and attacks. Our mission is to secure the world’s transition to decentralized financial services by removing the need for trusted intermediaries, thereby creating a truly permissionless and open financial system accessible to everyone.

Summoners Arena

Venture Round in 2022
Summoners Arena is an idle-RPG blockchain-based game that integrates traditional and blockchain gaming to provide countless opportunities for players to take part in immersive gameplay, experience true ownership over gaming assets whilst earning crypto assets.

Rangers Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Rangers Protocol is a future virtual world blockchain infrastructure, fully compatible with Ethereum, professionally supports NFT and complex applications, and integrates and expands cross-chain, NFT, EVM, and distributed network protocols.

StarkWare

Series B in 2021
StarkWare Industries Ltd develops software and hardware for generation and verification of computational integrity proofs for general computations. The company offers STARK, which is a zero-knowledge proof protocol with applications, including transparent privacy in blockchains, increased transaction throughput, and off chain computation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

OpenToken

Venture Round in 2019
Opentoken Inc. operates a blockchain based platform for token projects. Its platform allows users to access to discover upcoming token projects, contribute to choose projects to support, manage to track the tokens for the projects, and convert their tokens into cryptocurrencies. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

mrgn labs

Seed Round in 2022
mrgn labs is a team focused on democratizing essential financial infrastructure for the betterment of mankind.

Lithium Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a blockchain-based pricing platform designed for illiquid assets.The company's platform uses a Determinant-based Mutual Information (DMI) mechanism, in which participants are asked subjective multiple-choice questions to find a fair price for illiquid assets, and predicts pricing information for pre-IPO stocks, private equity, and other illiquid assets.

Parallel Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Parallel Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that offers lending and staking services.

Rarify

Series A in 2022
Rarify is currently working on making a service where minting and selling digital assets can become a non-hassle for industries such as music, gaming, applications and entertainment.

Maverick Protocol

Private Equity Round in 2022
The DeFi infrastructure built to facilitate the most liquid markets, powered by Maverick AMM.

PsyOptions

Seed Round in 2022
PsyOptions is beta software and is a fully decentralized options protocol.

Optic

Seed Round in 2022
Optic monitors blockchains to reveal the origins of any NFT and how it’s been reimagined, remixed, or copied.

Metatheory

Series A in 2022
Metatheory Inc. is an interactive technology and entertainment company building Web3 games, interactive content, social experiences, and other community-driven adventures. Metatheory’s mission is to inspire imagination by connecting people worldwide through immersive worlds built on cross-generational IP.

Audius

Series A in 2018
Audius, Inc. develops a decentralized community of artists, developers, and listeners collaborating using blockchain technology to share music. It provides features that include audio file hosting and streaming, creator dashboard, exclusinve content, listen without downloading additional software, and earn royalties. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Sparkswap

Series A in 2019
SparkSwap is the first cryptocurrency exchange built on the Lightning Network. It reduces counterparty risk by combining the best of both centralized and decentralized exchanges. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Arcade

Series A in 2021
Arcade provides an infrastructure layer for NFT liquidity that enables the financialization of non-fungible assets, non-fungible tokens, or NFTs.Arcade’s Wrapped NFT technology allows NFTs to be bundled to secure one loan. Arcade is also an open-source Defi primitive it allows developers to build on top of the platform.

Coinme

Venture Round in 2020
Coinme Inc. operates as a bitcoin exchange and ATM operator. Its network of bitcoin ATMs, digital wallet, exchange, and digital currency IRA/401k solutions provide customers with access to the digital currency economy. The company also provides a proprietary API and digital wallet that crypto-enables existing ATMs, kiosks, PoS devices, and merchants. Coinme Inc. was formerly known as Western Coin LLC. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

Stream Token

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Stream is a new decentralized blockchain-based token that allows livestreamers to easily and anonymously accept payments from their audience members anywhere in the world, with extremely low transaction fees and no platform lock-in.

DIRT Protocol

Seed Round in 2018
DIRT is a protocol for decentralized information curation that uses token staking to incentivize honesty. DIRT is not a Token Curated Registry (TCR). DIRT is a protocol to build TCRs. Similar to Wikipedia, DIRT allows anyone to contribute information. DIRT maintains accuracy at scale because every contributor needs to deposit tokens to write data. If the data is correct, it is freely shared. If the data is incorrect, anyone can challenge the data and earn tokens for identifying these inaccurate facts. Their protocol and platform makes it economically irrational for misinformation to persist in a data set.

Eco

Series B in 2021
Eco is a digital global cryptocurrency platform that can be used as a payment tool around the world for daily-use transactions. It is not controlled by any single individual, organization, or nation. Its mission is to distribute the majority of the economic value generated by the Eco platform to our community to create a more equitable distribution of resources. Eco is run by a network of verified organizations across the world. This ensures that the Eco platform is safe and reliable for everyone.

Coins.ph

Series A in 2016
coins.ph Pte. Ltd. provides a mobile wallet that empowers consumers and small businesses to access various financial services. Its mobile wallet allows users to transfer money, pay bills, load phones, and buy and sell bitcoins. The company also offers ATM cash pickup and merchant services, as well as a mobile application. coins.ph Pte. Ltd. was founded in 2014 and is based in Pasig City, the Philippines. coins.ph Pte. Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of PT Go-Jek Indonesia.

Pinata

Series A in 2022
Pinata develops tools designed to easily create and manage content on the interplanetary file system. The company's tools simplify immutable data and combine blockchains with immutable off-chain data storage, enabling developers to increase the speed and stability required for production applications.

ErisX

Series B in 2018
ErisX specializes in digital asset space that offers both spot and futures contracts on one platform. It integrates digital asset products and technology into reliable, compliant, and robust capital markets workflows. ErisX solution provides trading, deposits, and withdrawals on a stable, proven capital markets technology infrastructure. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Reflexer

Venture Round in 2021
Reflexer Labs develops a low volatility decentralized finance collateral. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in USA.

Antic

Seed Round in 2022
Antic’s scalable infrastructure is intended for any business seeking the addition of a co-ownership layer to their offerings. Its infrastructure freely enables businesses and individuals to do whatever they want with whatever they own - sell it, provide access to it, add additional co-owners to it and more. With original, seamless co-sharing functionalities like ad-hoc multi signature wallets and group decision making to retrieve assets, Antic’s new approach makes any digital asset or IP accessible to all parties interested in joining, unlocking new revenue streams for every co-owner.

DMarket

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
DMarket is a platform enabling secure buying, selling, and trading of in-game items, to help developers attract more players, make more money, and increase the lifetime value of their game. DMarket unlocks the multi-billion-dollar skins economy for game developers and players everywhere. DMarket lets the world’s 2.5 billion gamers safely exchange virtual items across titles and platforms and make money from gameplay. Built on distributed ledger technology for transparent, secure transactions, the platform processes every operation in real-time using machine learning algorithms and AI-based predictions for pricing, demand, and availability. With offices in Los Angeles, London and Kyiv, DMarket has raised $19 million from the global gaming community. DMarket’s partners include Xsolla, Unity, 4A Games, GSC Game World, Playkey, Kiss Ltd., Tatem Games, Pantera Capital, and Latham & Watkins.

Tlon

Venture Round in 2019
Tlon is the corporate vehicle of the open-source Urbit software stack (urbit.org). Urbit is a clean-slate reimplementation of the whole system software stack. On the bottom it's a replacement of the lambda calculus, in the middle it's a new functional programming language, on top it's a purely functional network operating system in which address space is property. Tlon owns approximately half of the entire address-space on the Urbit network. The goal is to create a new layer over the Internet the way the Internet layered over the PSTN. This layer can also earn adoption by providing Internet services. On the Internet, your Urbit ship is a general-purpose personal cloud computer which replaces the 47 special-purpose cloud silos you're currently using. Tlon's mission is to contribute to the development of Urbit, to provide hosting services for Urbit ships, and to develop other possible business applications on top of the Urbit stack.

Orderly Network

Series A in 2022
Orderly Network is a permissionless, decentralized exchange protocol built on NEAR. Founded in April 2022 with the mission to create the most robust liquidity layer infrastructure for any dApp to utilize and build on, Orderly Network offers market-leading execution with low latency, minimal fees, and access to ample liquidity options.

Sparkswap

Private Placement in 2019
SparkSwap is the first cryptocurrency exchange built on the Lightning Network. It reduces counterparty risk by combining the best of both centralized and decentralized exchanges. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

GlobeDX

Seed Round in 2021
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.

1inch

Private Placement in 2020
1inch Limited builds decentralized protocols and contributes to the development of the 1inch Network. The synergy of 1inch protocols, including the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, the 1inch Liquidity Protocol and the 1inch Limit Order Protocol, enables the most lucrative, fastest and protected operations in DeFi.

Bitstamp

Venture Round in 2014
Bitstamp owns and operates a digital currency marketplace that allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash. Damijan Merlak and Nejc Kodric founded Bitstamp in 2011. It has its headquarters in London in the United Kingdom with additional offices in Luxembourg and Berkeley in California.

Notional

Series A in 2021
Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate, fixed term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on Ethereum. Users can lend or borrow stablecoins at fixed rates of interest for terms of up to six months using a variety of assets as collateral. Notional achieves fixed rate lending via a primitive called fCash, which is redeemable for an underlying currency like DAI upon the fCash token’s maturity date. Notional operates specialized liquidity pools that allow users to efficiently trade cash for fCash and vice versa. The exchange rate that a user receives on their trade implies a fixed rate of interest from the time of trade until the fCash token’s maturity. Notional is flexible and configurable. The protocol can add additional assets for lending and borrowing, additional collateral types, and additional maturities beyond six months. The community intends to broaden Notional’s scope over time to include a wider array of supported assets and extended available maturities. Notional prioritizes security. The protocol team works with industry leaders to ensure that the smart contracts are technically secure and that the economic assumptions applied in the protocol’s design are sound.

Dyad

Convertible Note in 2021
Dyad AI develops AI-powered tools for healthcare operations. The company utilizes a combination of graph machine learning and knowledge graphs, provides seamlessly integrated applications that address these issues while enhancing collaboration, visibility, and trust in data. Dyad uses AI-powered knowledge graphs to standardize and contextualize healthcare operations data in near real-time to drive high-impact solutions for payers and providers while enabling alignment around value-based care initiatives.

BitClout

Funding Round in 2021
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.

StarkWare

Private Placement in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd develops software and hardware for generation and verification of computational integrity proofs for general computations. The company offers STARK, which is a zero-knowledge proof protocol with applications, including transparent privacy in blockchains, increased transaction throughput, and off chain computation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

BCB Group

Funding Round in 2021
BCB Group is a cryptocurrency prime broker, a service specifically designed to cater to the needs of institutional clients who need OTC best execution for their own accounts and who wish to offer cryptocurrency products and services to their own clients. BCB Group’s service allows traditional brokers, hedge funds, crypto funds, wealth managers and private banks to extend their capabilities in the cryptocurrency market with a turn-key solution for onboarding, execution, settlement, reporting and custodianship. We relieve the operational burdens that come with this highly technical asset class to allow greater focus on generating alpha.

Harbor Platform, Inc.

Private Placement in 2018
Harbor Platform, Inc. operates a blockchain platform for trading of digital securities. The platform allows companies to tokenize private securities, such as commercial real estate, investment funds, and private equity; and to streamline investor onboarding and verification, automate fundraising; and to unlock liquidity options through automated compliance. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of February 18, 2020, Harbor Platform, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BitGo, Inc.

Trustory AG

Private Placement in 2018
Trustory AG develops a blockchain based online fact-checking platform that uses collective knowledge of crowd, combined with right incentives and disincentives, to validate and curate facts and information. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Paderborn, Germany.

Filament

Series A in 2015
Filament builds blockchain hardware and& software solutions for enterprise and IoT. Filament’s distributed blockchain capabilities leverage open protocols so that devices are able to independently process and record transactions, ensuring digital trust. Its new trusted application software and Blocklet Chip, currently in beta, are designed to communicate and interact with multiple blockchain technologies natively. The software, implemented on existing hardware, will deliver a secure distributed ledger technology solution. The Blocklet Chip will allow industrial corporations and enterprises to seamlessly extract the value of recording and monetizing data assets, at the edge of the network, on the sensors themselves.

Chronicled

Convertible Note in 2015
Based in San Francisco, Chronicled is the custodian of MediLedger, the primary blockchain-based network in the healthcare and life science industry that powers solutions to facilitate trust and automation between companies. Chronicled develops solutions for revenue management and supply chain on the MediLedger Network.

BitPesa

Series A in 2017
BitPesa Ltd. is a digital currency exchange that accepts Bitcoin and exchanges it to Kenyan Shillings. The company operates an online platform that leverages blockchain settlement and opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Karen, Kenya.

Vega Protocol

Seed Round in 2019
Fully automated processes and incentives for trading margined financial products allow for markets that are open and decentralised, with pseudonymous participants.

ShapeShift

Series A in 2017
ShapeShift is a web and API platform formed in July of 2014 to provide instant Bitcoin and altcoin conversion with the maximum level of consumer protection and efficiency. In summer of 2019, the new ShapeShift platform launched to enable B2C users to self-custody their crypto assets, and buy, sell, trade, track, send, and receive all without trusting a 3rd party. ShapeShift also built and operates the real-time crypto market data service CoinCap.io, and acquired hardware wallet company KeepKey in mid-2017. The company is run by industry veteran Erik Voorhees.

Bakkt

Series A in 2018
Bakkt is building an open, seamless global network to enable you to buy, sell, store and spend digital assets simply, safely and efficiently. Backed by Intercontinental Exchange’s proven financial market infrastructure and technology, Bakkt’s secure global platform will connect investors, merchants and consumers, making it easier, faster and more cost-effective to access, trade and use digital assets. Bakkt’s open-source, neutral platform will be designed to meet applicable regulatory requirements, and to support innovation around digital assets and blockchain applications.

Abra

Series A in 2015
Abra is the world’s first digital cash, peer-to-peer money transfer network. Buy, sell, and hold bitcoin or send bitcoin or fiat to any bitcoin wallet or any other Abra user instantly and securely. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies, including bitcoin. Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serial entrepreneur and global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon Valley and committed to forever changing how the world moves money.

Blockfolio

Series A in 2019
Blockfolio offers mobile portfolio tracking and management for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. Blockfolio is the network for mobile cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management. Millions of people trust Blockfolio to stay connected to the pulse of the industry through market data, news, and direct updates from leaders of top crypto projects. Blockfolio is committed to providing free access to our users and token team partners.

Koinex

Seed Round in 2017
Koinex is a multi-cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform that fuels Blockchain-powered internet. Its platform facilitates the real-time trading of multiple cryptocurrencies on a single platform, based on a peer-to-peer exchange model that enable potential buyers to place their bids and sellers to set 'asks' for the cryptocurrency they want to trade-in. Koinex was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

Earn.com

Series B in 2015
Earn USA, Inc. operates a social network platform where users make money in the form of digital currency by replying to emails and completing tasks. Earn USA, Inc. was formerly known as 21E6, LLC and changed its name to Earn USA, Inc. in September 2017. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of April 16, 2018, Earn USA, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Coinbase, Inc.

FunFair Technologies

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
FunFair is a decentralised gaming platform powered by Ethereum smart contracts. Thanks to our breakthrough technology, it is the first platform to solve the big challenges that have made other blockchain casinos unplayable. Our vision is a limitless universe of transparent, secure casinos that can be easily created by anyone, anywhere, where games are fun, fast and fair. That’s why we’re called FunFair.

ThunderCore

Series A in 2019
ThunderCore is a fast, high performance EVM-compatible public blockchain with fully decentralized trust that brings scale to decentralized applications - with higher throughput, faster confirmation times, and lower costs. Based on years of groundbreaking research by Professors Shi and Pass of Cornell University, ThunderCore uses a breakthrough consensus protocol that overcomes the fundamental limitations of Nakamoto consensus. The result maintains fully decentralized trust while significantly improving performance.​

Bakkt Holdings, LLC

Private Placement in 2018
Bakkt Holdings, LLC, through its subsidiary, operates as a crypto derivatives provider. It offers custody of bitcoins. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Transparent Systems

Private Placement in 2019
Transparent Systems transforms global financial systems with an open universal platform that enables secure, frictionless payments through distributed cryptographic systems. Starting with B2B payments and treasury management solutions, its goal is to increase financial accessibility, efficiency, and transparency worldwide. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Injective

Private Placement in 2020
Injective Protocol Inc. develops and operates a decentralized derivatives exchange and trading platform. The company’s platform offers a layer-2 exchange protocol that unlocks the full potential of borderless finance by supporting margin trading, derivatives, and futures. It allows decentralized lending, short or long margin trading, and exchange decentralized futures and derivative products; and eliminates front-running for liquidity sharing. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

StarkWare

Private Placement in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd develops software and hardware for generation and verification of computational integrity proofs for general computations. The company offers STARK, which is a zero-knowledge proof protocol with applications, including transparent privacy in blockchains, increased transaction throughput, and off chain computation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

Thunder Token, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Thunder Token, Inc. develops EVM-compatible public blockchain technology. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

BTCjam

Series A in 2014
With $11 million dollars in loan volume and growing, BTCJam has served more than 100,000 users from over 200 countries. BTCJam’s mission is to offer affordable credit to everyone. The company employs a proprietary credit scoring algorithm to predict the repayment rate of borrowers, and uses bitcoin to offer fast and inexpensive transactions. If you would like to borrow bitcoin, apply for loans with rates as low as 6.7% APR. Want to earn interest on your bitcoin? Investments on BTCJam average 19% APR. Integrated with Coinbase, bitcoin transfers are simple for borrowers and investors. Try it today!