Alex Marinier

General Partner

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Nayms

Initial Coin Offering in 2023
Nayms is a platform that allows cryptocurrency investors to reinsure crypto-risk. With no pricing inefficiency, digital asset insurance can be cost-effective, will scale as the market expands, and ensures payouts are in the currency clients expect. It is a Smart Insurance ContractsTransparent, trusted, and tradable. Nayms introduces the Insurance-Linked Smart Contract to conduct efficient cover for the world of digital assets. It is a Platform for the Placement and Trade of the World’s Risk. It provides Crypto-to-crypto Cover, Beyond Digitisation, An Eye on the Future.

Tres

Seed Round in 2022
Tres is a financial platform that streamlines financial workflows for Web3 assets, including reconciliation, balance calculation, auditing, and reporting. By aggregating data from various wallets, accounts, and platforms, Tres empowers financial teams within crypto entities to gain insights into their operations without requiring extensive crypto knowledge. The platform's data engine processes tens of millions of transactions monthly from both on-chain and off-chain sources, significantly surpassing the capabilities of competing tools while ensuring data integrity. Additionally, Tres supports the developer community with an open-source Chrome extension, enabling users to access data in any decentralized application wallet without needing private keys. This functionality reduces reliance on manual spreadsheet work, enhancing efficiency in managing and monitoring Web3 finance.

Enhanced Digital Group

Seed Round in 2022
Enhanced Digital Group specializes in providing wholesale, customized structured products and derivative trading solutions aimed at improving access to tailored financial exposure in digital assets. The company focuses on enhancing product development for both traditional financial services and crypto-native firms, such as exchanges, wallets, custodians, trading firms, asset managers, corporates, and broker-dealers. By offering a tailored derivative platform, Enhanced Digital Group assists institutions in managing their digital asset exposure through customizable financial alternatives. This enables institutional investors to navigate the complexities of digital assets, make informed decisions, and effectively engage in initial product offerings, risk management, and hedging. The company aims to foster the sophistication of crypto derivative trading solutions within a regulated and compliant framework.

CoreChain Technologies

Seed Round in 2022
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

IPOR Labs

Funding Round in 2022
IPOR Labs specializes on blockchain-based derivatives software development. Founded in 2021and is based in Zug, Switzerland.

Composable Finance

Series A in 2022
Composable Finance is creating infrastructure to unlock the multi-layer, and multi-chain future of Ethereum, and other layers 1 blockchain.

Numoen

Seed Round in 2022
Numoen is building a protocol for the trustless and automated exchange of power perpetuals directly on the Ethereum blockchain. We are committed to an open-source financial system that is usable and fair to everyone.

Fonbnk

Seed Round in 2022
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.

Zebedee

Series A in 2021
Zebedee, Inc. operates a platform designed to integrate bitcoin into digital gaming environments, facilitating in-game microtransactions. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, Zebedee provides a solution that enables game developers to implement bitcoin microtransactions, allowing players to send and receive small amounts of bitcoin seamlessly within games. The platform supports players, developers, streamers, and viewers in exchanging value effortlessly, promoting a frictionless experience in digital interactions. By offering infrastructure and software for Bitcoin and Lightning support, Zebedee aims to enhance the monetization of gaming and digital experiences.

Spectral

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an AI-powered platform designed to generate and deploy smart contracts. The company's platform enables developers to create complex smart contracts with ease by using natural language, accelerating development time, and reducing errors.

CoreChain Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

CoreChain Technologies

Pre Seed Round in 2021
CoreChain Technologies is a business-to-business payments network built on blockchain technology.

Vauld

Series A in 2021
Hi there! if you’re reading this, you’re probably like us – have pretty much all your wealth stored in digitized (or soon to be digitized) assets like money in your bank, mutual funds, stocks or real estate. You probably have a financial advisor guiding you through your investments, a manager from your bank who helps you stay on top of your mortgage payments and a government that prints money responsibly to not de-value your lifetime of savings. But how do you know that the bank manager or your financial advisor has your best interests at heart instead of their own fee and commissions? Your contract explicitly states that they are not responsible for your loss even as they verbally assure you otherwise. How do you know that the digital assets won’t be hacked (traditional bank websites get hacked all the time)? Or that your physical assets won’t be stolen(bank robberies) or taken by fraud (enough examples in real estate)? Governments fall all the time, or change their monetary policies - and your currency today can literally have no value tomorrow (Indian demonetization, Argentina, Venezuela). How do you know it won’t happen to your country? Do you ask these questions? Well, we do all the time. To answer these questions and why we created the Bank of Hodlers, we have to dive into the details of how banking evolved. As early as the 2nd century BC, people who could save money started lending them out to people who could borrow and pay back with interest. Banking as an industry thrived in Italy and grew with the expansion of the Roman Empire. During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. This consolidated the industry and gave the power to a few firms. Fast forward to 2007: their recklessness caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 forcing failure of many banks, including some of the world's largest banks. The government let the banks live by infusing 1.2 trillion dollars of the taxpayer’s money into a handful of banks and in turn, created the need, wave of innovation and a community for blockchain and the concept of decentralization to thrive. Here’s Alan Greenspan (Chairman – Federal Reserve: 1987-2006), the guy who decided how much money to print in America, admitting that his model was flawed in 2008. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ In 2009, something magical happened, Satoshi Nakamoto released his white paper which removed the need for a centralized authority to facilitate transactions in a purely peer to peer and decentralized fashion and making truly beneficial for every user holding the currency. Some governments, after looking at the threat that bitcoin poses, have decided to take an anti-crypto stance. This ensures the network effect doesn’t happen at a scale where it replaces their national currency. This is where we come in. At the Bank of Hodlers, we intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today, negating the need for the network effects and government acceptance to come in. We give every HODLer the ability to completely bank on blockchain today. Every once in a while, there’s a technology jump so large that completely leapfrogs every existing solution out there. Blockchain is this technology jump and the banks know this.

Moon

Seed Round in 2021
Moon Technologies, Inc. is a company based in Whitestone, New York, that operates a payment platform enabling the use of major cryptocurrencies for online purchases. The platform allows users to link their accounts or preferred wallets to facilitate transactions at various online retailers. It includes a browser extension that provides secure virtual cards tailored for consumer use, focusing on know-your-customer compliance. Additionally, the platform offers an application programming interface for card issuance, streamlining the shopping experience for users who wish to pay with cryptocurrency.

Flare Network

Venture Round in 2021
Flare Networks is a new blockchain network based on the Flare Consensus Protocol – the first Turing Complete Federated Byzantine Agreement protocol.

Composable Finance

Venture Round in 2021
Composable Finance is creating infrastructure to unlock the multi-layer, and multi-chain future of Ethereum, and other layers 1 blockchain.

Integral

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized finance primitive platform designed to efficiently execute large orders. The company's platform creates a highly liquidity-rich environment by mirroring orders and automated market makers (AMM) from centralized and decentralized exchanges and executes orders accordingly at average prices over some time, enabling users with exchange built to obtain liquidity from other exchanges.

Outlet

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of a decentralized finance application designed to provide working-class citizens with simple yet sophisticated financial tools to grow their wealth. The company's platform offers easy integration, zero-fee on-ramp, clean tax record, and high-interest rate on savings, enabling users .to easily access and get plugged into the world of defi without having to understand the technical intricacies.

Vauld

Seed Round in 2020
Hi there! if you’re reading this, you’re probably like us – have pretty much all your wealth stored in digitized (or soon to be digitized) assets like money in your bank, mutual funds, stocks or real estate. You probably have a financial advisor guiding you through your investments, a manager from your bank who helps you stay on top of your mortgage payments and a government that prints money responsibly to not de-value your lifetime of savings. But how do you know that the bank manager or your financial advisor has your best interests at heart instead of their own fee and commissions? Your contract explicitly states that they are not responsible for your loss even as they verbally assure you otherwise. How do you know that the digital assets won’t be hacked (traditional bank websites get hacked all the time)? Or that your physical assets won’t be stolen(bank robberies) or taken by fraud (enough examples in real estate)? Governments fall all the time, or change their monetary policies - and your currency today can literally have no value tomorrow (Indian demonetization, Argentina, Venezuela). How do you know it won’t happen to your country? Do you ask these questions? Well, we do all the time. To answer these questions and why we created the Bank of Hodlers, we have to dive into the details of how banking evolved. As early as the 2nd century BC, people who could save money started lending them out to people who could borrow and pay back with interest. Banking as an industry thrived in Italy and grew with the expansion of the Roman Empire. During the 20th century, developments in telecommunications and computing caused major changes to banks' operations and let banks dramatically increase in size and geographic spread. This consolidated the industry and gave the power to a few firms. Fast forward to 2007: their recklessness caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 forcing failure of many banks, including some of the world's largest banks. The government let the banks live by infusing 1.2 trillion dollars of the taxpayer’s money into a handful of banks and in turn, created the need, wave of innovation and a community for blockchain and the concept of decentralization to thrive. Here’s Alan Greenspan (Chairman – Federal Reserve: 1987-2006), the guy who decided how much money to print in America, admitting that his model was flawed in 2008. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5lZPWNFizQ In 2009, something magical happened, Satoshi Nakamoto released his white paper which removed the need for a centralized authority to facilitate transactions in a purely peer to peer and decentralized fashion and making truly beneficial for every user holding the currency. Some governments, after looking at the threat that bitcoin poses, have decided to take an anti-crypto stance. This ensures the network effect doesn’t happen at a scale where it replaces their national currency. This is where we come in. At the Bank of Hodlers, we intend to treat your cryptocurrencies as a separate asset class and offer services to ensure technologies based on blockchain are usable as of today, negating the need for the network effects and government acceptance to come in. We give every HODLer the ability to completely bank on blockchain today. Every once in a while, there’s a technology jump so large that completely leapfrogs every existing solution out there. Blockchain is this technology jump and the banks know this.

Polymarket

Seed Round in 2020
fka Union.market

Intotheblock

Seed Round in 2020
ITB is a tribe of data scientists, cryptocurrency experts and AI geeks that set out on a journey to unlock the mysteries of crypto assets and provide investors with relevant intelligence about the market. They had too many unanswered questions about crypto markets so they built a platform that allows us to leverage the power of machine learning to generate new insights about this fascinating asset class.

Compound

Venture Round in 2020
Compound Labs, Inc. is a company that designs and develops a decentralized finance protocol on the Ethereum blockchain, aimed at creating efficient money markets. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the firm offers an open-source software platform that enables individuals, businesses, and developers to engage in borrowing and lending activities. The protocol features a web interface that dynamically adjusts interest rates based on the supply and demand of various assets, ensuring liquid and transparent financial transactions. With a significant user base and numerous applications integrating its technology, Compound serves as a foundation for innovative financial applications, promoting a more open and accessible financial system.
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