Morningstar Ventures

Morningstar Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2020 and headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The firm focuses on investing in emerging sectors, particularly digital assets, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency, and gaming. With a commitment to fostering innovation in these industries, Morningstar Ventures aims to support promising projects and entrepreneurs, contributing to the growth of the digital economy.

Danilo Carlucci

Founder and CEO

Arutyun Nazaryan

Co-Founder and CFO

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CryptoSimple

Seed Round in 2023
CryptoSimple is a roboadvisor-based crypto investing solution that is simple, smart and secure, without the crypto lingo. Simply answer a few questions about your crypto knowledge, a risk assessment, and your investing goals, to ensure that our roboadvisor selects the best risk profile for you. Once you've made your first deposit, all you need to do is sit back and relax. From here on out, we'll handle everything. If you're interested, we also show you exactly what we invest in and how we rebalance your portfolio as the market shifts. We'll be investing in DeFi products like liquidity pools, yield farming, and crypto assets - don't worry if this all sounds like jargon; we'll explain everything in plain English as we go along. It’s Crypto investing made Simple.

Ancient8

Seed Round in 2022
Ancient8 is a decentralized autonomous organization focused on creating the infrastructure for GameFi, emphasizing community development and software solutions. As Vietnam's largest blockchain gaming guild, it facilitates access to the Metaverse through various initiatives, including scholarships, blockchain education, and comprehensive research. Ancient8 aims to democratize social and financial opportunities within the Metaverse, striving to educate and empower a new generation of users. By providing tools and resources, the organization enables individuals to engage in play-to-earn video games while earning rewards, fostering a collaborative environment for the growth of blockchain technology and its applications in gaming.

Chillchat

Seed Round in 2022
Chillchat is a pixel art NFT metaverse, a vast collection of virtual worlds, made entirely by its players, where you can jump into adventure with a new identity created by you or another player, pixel by pixel. There is no limit to who you can be or what you can create. If you can imagine it, you can be it. Our Pixel Editor, World System, and the Solana blockchain powers it all. Create and Mint Worlds, Characters, Pets, and bring them to life with other players.

The Unfettered

Seed Round in 2022
The Unfettered is an upcoming action role-playing video game that combines elements of the souls-like genre with a rich narrative. Developed using Unreal Engine 4, the game centers on a mysterious warrior woman, identified as the "chosen one," who has been pursued by the gods to confront underworld monsters that have ravaged the planet, transforming it into a chaotic realm of death and destruction. In addition to its engaging storyline, The Unfettered integrates blockchain technology to address challenges in the gaming industry. It features play-to-earn mechanics, free-to-play accessibility, and incorporates non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and metaverse elements, providing players with a fair and secure gaming environment.

Apeiron

Seed Round in 2022
Apeiron is a play and earn NFT game.

Skynet EGLD Capital

Venture Round in 2022
Skynet EGLD Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2022 and based in the British Virgin Islands. The firm specializes in investing within the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors, with a particular focus on enhancing the Elrond ecosystem. By targeting innovative projects and technologies in these areas, Skynet EGLD Capital aims to foster growth and development in the rapidly evolving digital asset landscape.

Blast Royale

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Blast Royale is a blockchain-based play-to-earn platform that allows players to earn Craft Spice while playing matches. The game uses two tokens, the primary token Blast (BLST) and Craft Spice (CS), the in-game P2E token of the Blast Royale Metaverse. BLST is used for trading NFTs on the Blast Royale marketplace and crafting new NFTs, whereas CS has numerous utility uses, including crafting and repairing equipment. Players earn CS by taking part in Blast Royale matches.

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Seed Round in 2022
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.

Dank Bank

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Developer of an NFT trading platform intended for trading memes and viral videos. The company's platform facilitates investment in Internet culture by collecting fractional NFTs of authentic memes, viral videos, and other iconic moments in Internet history, enabling users to invest in the success of their favorite content creator, thereby supporting them in exchange for a stake in their future success.

Metaverse Game Studios

Venture Round in 2022
Metaverse Game Studios is a prominent blockchain game development studio focused on creating cross-platform gaming experiences. The company specializes in narrative-driven multiplayer strategy games, allowing players to enhance their gameplay through immersive storytelling and interactive features. By leveraging blockchain technology, Metaverse Game Studios aims to innovate the gaming landscape, offering unique experiences that integrate decentralized elements and community engagement.

Auros

Venture Round in 2022
We are a multinational media and WEB3 corporation that develops and manages a roster of world renowned web3 ventures, synthetic artists, and influencers. Often seen and experienced through social media and partnerships ranging from Disney to Take2Interactive and beyond. Hs.Ltd is a pioneer in music, fashion, and WEB3, with numerous collaborations and experiences at the intersection of digital and physical realms.

UNXD

Seed Round in 2022
UNXD is a curated marketplace established in 2021, specializing in the digital culture sector. The platform focuses on offering collectors access to significant non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and culturally relevant digital experiences. By curating important digital cultural moments, UNXD aims to bridge the gap between the digital and physical realms, allowing users to engage with and appreciate these unique digital assets in a more tangible way. The company is dedicated to enhancing the NFT landscape through a thoughtful selection of items and experiences that resonate with collectors.

Kyoko

Seed Round in 2022
Developer of blockchain-based gaming software designed to advance cross-chain lending and interactions among decentralized autonomous organizations. The company provides a non-fungible token-based lending market and a cross-chain game fiction platform, enabling guilds and players to participate and win rewards in the metaverse ecosystem.

Ignite Tournaments

Funding Round in 2022
Ignite Tournaments is the world’s first play-to-earn esports tournament organization and streaming app for mobile games with crypto payouts.

Bware Labs

Series A in 2022
Bware Labs specializes in decentralized infrastructure that facilitates the interaction between consumers of Blockchain APIs and node providers. The company offers a platform that integrates payment options, ensuring verified reliability for its users. This streamlined interface allows customers and node providers to connect efficiently, enhancing the overall experience within the blockchain ecosystem.

Ethernity

Venture Round in 2022
Operator of a community-oriented platform intended to produce limited-edition authenticated NFTs and trading cards endorsed by notable figures. The company's decentralized finance applications allow token holders to farm rare NFTs and vote on proposals that will amend the ecosystem, enabling users to have easy and secured access to NFT-based digital art.

Ethernal Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Ethernal Labs is a multidisciplinary studio that is leveraging the interactivity and utility of web 3 technology. Ethernal Labs is the premier creative and technology studio for NFT Creation, Metaverse Integration, Fan Tokens, P2E Gaming, and Virtual experiences.

Rift Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Rift Finance is a decentralized protocol focused on enhancing the growth of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) through innovative incentive structures. The platform enables DAOs to deploy governance tokens from their treasuries, thereby increasing token liquidity while retaining ownership. This approach assists crypto companies in meeting their liquidity objectives, offering a means to generate attractive and safer returns for liquidity providers. By streamlining the process of token deployment, Rift Finance contributes to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of financial services in the Web3 ecosystem.

BreederDAO

Series A in 2022
BreederDAO is a Philippines-based specialist manufacturer of digital assets for use in blockchain-based games and virtual worlds.

Itheum

Seed Round in 2022
ITHEUM provides a complete Platform to enable Patient Engagement between Clinical Visits.

bitsCrunch

Funding Round in 2022
We are a consulting firm focused mainly on Data Analytics and DevOps. We help the organisations to take data-oriented business driven decisions by uncovering the hidden trends and patterns in their data. We have built many scalable products having high traffic challenges on the consumer side and complex workflows on the enterprise front covering areas including Web, Cloud, IOT , Big Data, Healthcare, Travel, Finance, E-commerce and many more.
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Coinweb

Seed Round in 2021
Coinweb makes blockchain technology more mainstream by making it more personal and more connected. The easy to use Coin Name System make it easier to use and trade tokens, and their powerful chain agnostic Hyperlayer connects blockchains, allowing for smart contracts to be deployed over multiple root chains.

Nitro League

Funding Round in 2021
Developer of a Play-to-Earn (P2E) mobile racing game platform designed to offer an immersive metaverse in a fun and lucrative way. The company's platform is a hyper-realistic, 3D, game paradise with solid tokenomics and nonfungible tokens (NFT) assistance, enabling players to create revenue-generating opportunities.

Whydah

Venture Round in 2021
Whydah is a company applying block-chain for studio games.

Ignite Tournaments

Seed Round in 2021
Ignite Tournaments is the world’s first play-to-earn esports tournament organization and streaming app for mobile games with crypto payouts.

Axelar

Venture Round in 2021
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.
YGG SEA is a sub-decentralized autonomous organization (subDAO) of the play-to-earn blockchain game YGG. The YGG SEA will be based on smart contracts built on the Etherum blockchain.

zkLink

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a unified multi-chain network designed to unify the world's blockchain and to make it secure, efficient, and easy to use for developers and users. The company offers a secure chain-to-chain interoperability protocol that focuses on connecting the blockchains with a layer2 network that is easy, safe, and secure for the end-user, enabling users to receive liquidity on the platform and earn yields.

Ardana

Funding Round in 2021
Ardana is a decentralized stablecoin ecosystem built on the Cardano blockchain that focuses on creating an asset-backed stablecoin protocol and a decentralized exchange. The platform allows users to borrow stablecoins against locked collateral, providing convenient access to liquidity. Ardana's stablecoin is overcollateralized with Cardano native assets, ensuring stability and security. Additionally, the decentralized exchange facilitates efficient trading between stablecoins and similar assets, allowing liquidity providers to earn low-risk income through transaction fees. This combination of features positions Ardana as a comprehensive solution for managing and utilizing stablecoins within its ecosystem.

OPgames

Seed Round in 2021
OPgames is a suite of tools that enables game developers to provide mini esports experiences to their players through tournaments and PvP match ups with crypto as a buy-in and pay-outs.

OPgames

Seed Round in 2021
OPgames is a suite of tools that enables game developers to provide mini esports experiences to their players through tournaments and PvP match ups with crypto as a buy-in and pay-outs.

XDefi Wallet

Series A in 2021
XDefi Wallet is a specialized browser extension wallet designed for users engaged in decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It offers a unique platform that supports native integrations with multiple blockchain networks, including THORChain, Terra, Ethereum, and various EVM networks. The wallet enables users to securely store, send, and receive digital and cryptocurrency assets while providing seamless interaction with NFT marketplaces and applications. This functionality allows users to access decentralized marketplaces directly through their web browsers, facilitating the management and visualization of their digital collectibles.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol for NFTs.

SolRazr

Seed Round in 2021
SolRazr is the first decentralized developer ecosystem for Solana, offering Launchpad, Accelerator, and Developer Tools.

SolRazr

Seed Round in 2021
SolRazr is the first decentralized developer ecosystem for Solana, offering Launchpad, Accelerator, and Developer Tools.

NGRAVE

Seed Round in 2021
NGRAVE is a Brussels-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in secure blockchain wallet solutions. The company offers a range of products, including its flagship hardware wallet, ZERO, which is designed to protect users' cryptocurrencies from malicious hacking by keeping private keys completely offline. NGRAVE also provides complementary products like GRAPHINE, a secure key backup solution, and LIQUID, a mobile application. With an emphasis on security, NGRAVE's offerings ensure that users' private keys are never exposed, thus safeguarding their digital assets from online threats.

Chainflip

Seed Round in 2021
Chainflip is a decentralized protocol that facilitates direct cross-chain swaps among various blockchains without requiring a trusted intermediary. The platform is designed to support the seamless exchange of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to conduct anonymous and permissionless transactions. Utilizing robust frameworks, including Rust, Chainflip enables users to move funds across different blockchains and ecosystems without the need for additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets. This approach provides a trustless environment for investors seeking to exchange assets across multiple networks efficiently.

Biconomy

Funding 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.

Rangers Protocol

Private Equity 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.

Occam.fi

Seed Round in 2021
Occam.fi is a suite of DeFi solutions tailored for Cardano. Designed to deliver market leading launchpad capabilities, DEX tools, and liquidity pools, Occam.fi is the first and most significant addition to Cardano's rapidly expanding DeFi. The first component of Occam.fi’s ecosystem is its decentralised funding platform, or launchpad, called OccamRazer. Through this launchpad, the next-generation of disruptive Cardano applications can undertake significant capital raises through OccamRazer's IDO capabilities.

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.

Pontem Network

Seed Round in 2021
Pontem is a Substrate-based chain using a code base almost identical to Diem’s.

Pontem Network

Venture Round in 2021
Pontem is a Substrate-based chain using a code base almost identical to Diem’s.

Sator

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online decentralized platform designed for the scripted television industry. The company's single open-source platform is built on Ethereum blockchain standards which facilitate viewers to interact and transact by disrupting traditional models to entwine viewer communities, enabling clients to increase value creation and distribution.

Tradestars

Venture Round in 2021
TradeStars Group Corp. is an online fantasy sports platform founded in 2018 and based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It operates on the Ethereum blockchain, allowing users to create and trade digital assets that represent real-life sports performances. This innovative approach enables sports enthusiasts to express their passion for sports while competing against one another. TradeStars emphasizes true digital ownership, transparency, liquidity, and decentralization within the fantasy sports industry. By leveraging blockchain technology, the platform fosters a new way for users to engage with each other and interact with their favorite sports teams and players, ultimately enhancing the sports experience.

NAOS Finance

Series A in 2021
NAOS Finance operates a decentralized finance platform that provides an alternative to traditional financial systems. The platform allows decentralized finance lenders and small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) borrowers to engage with each other directly on the blockchain, without the need for traditional intermediaries. This setup facilitates the origination and funding of loans, creating opportunities for lenders to earn stable and recurring income streams. Additionally, NAOS Finance connects on-chain activities with larger off-chain opportunities, enhancing the overall functionality and reach of its services.

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

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.

XDefi Wallet

Seed Round in 2021
XDefi Wallet is a specialized browser extension wallet designed for users engaged in decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It offers a unique platform that supports native integrations with multiple blockchain networks, including THORChain, Terra, Ethereum, and various EVM networks. The wallet enables users to securely store, send, and receive digital and cryptocurrency assets while providing seamless interaction with NFT marketplaces and applications. This functionality allows users to access decentralized marketplaces directly through their web browsers, facilitating the management and visualization of their digital collectibles.

Ethernity

Venture Round in 2021
Operator of a community-oriented platform intended to produce limited-edition authenticated NFTs and trading cards endorsed by notable figures. The company's decentralized finance applications allow token holders to farm rare NFTs and vote on proposals that will amend the ecosystem, enabling users to have easy and secured access to NFT-based digital art.

RealFevr

Series A in 2021
RealFevr is an innovative online platform specializing in fantasy sports, particularly fantasy football. It caters to a diverse audience, boasting over 500,000 active users across Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. The platform offers a variety of gameplay options, including a classic league for beginners and a draft league for more experienced players. Users can select their team members and participate through user-friendly smartphone applications, enhancing their overall gaming experience. Additionally, RealFevr incorporates the opportunity for players to earn NFTs, further enriching the fantasy sports environment.
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