Inflection

Inflection is a venture capital firm founded in 2019 and based in Berlin, Germany. It focuses on investing in the open economy, primarily targeting seed and early-stage companies, particularly in the cryptocurrency sector. With a team of venture investors and entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds, Inflection operates with a global mandate while initially concentrating on European markets. The firm is characterized by its commitment to transparency in the investment process, making decisions within ten days of initial discussions. Inflection invests between $500,000 and $1.5 million across various equity and cryptographic assets, and it emphasizes collaboration with founders and the broader community through ownership incentives.

Vishesh Choudhry

Investor

Alexander Lange

Founder and General Partner

John Zannos

Venture Partner

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Otterspace

Seed Round in 2022
Otterspace is an NFT company focused on leveraging earned NFTs to reward and recognize participation in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The company's non-transferable badge protocol helps DAOs create effective incentive systems, automate permissions, and facilitate governance without relying on financial incentives. Otterspace also develops DAO onboarding software that features a modular and composable toolset, designed to streamline the user experience for joining and contributing to a DAO. This approach aims to make the transition to decentralized governance clear and accessible, particularly for those familiar with traditional Web2 environments.

Entropy

Seed Round in 2022
Provider of crypto custody services intended to keep private keys secure and make assets available on demand. The company's services specialize in creating a decentralized network leveraging advanced threshold cryptography and multi-party computation, enabling crypto owners to securely store and use their crypto on any blockchain.

Housecat

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Housecat is a developer of a crypto investment platform that aims to democratize investment strategies, allowing users to engage in trading and investing in a straightforward and transparent manner. The platform facilitates manual investments across various asset classes and enables clients to automatically replicate the trades of experienced asset managers. Additionally, Housecat provides access to curated investment portfolios, connecting users with expertise in both traditional and cryptocurrency markets. This approach empowers individuals to act as asset managers, enhancing their investment capabilities and fostering a more inclusive financial environment.

Sarcophagus

Venture Round in 2022
Sarcophagus is an autonomous, incentivized dead man's switch dApp built on Ethereum and Arweave. It is a 100% open-source project using the Unlicense. It has been built by a global team of software developers, crypto enthusiasts, and security experts. It has not yet been audited.

Unstoppable Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Unstoppable Finance is building an intuitive crypto wallet bringing Decentralized Finance to everyday investors globally.

Foundation

Pre Seed Round in 2021
We started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoin while maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!

Defined

Seed Round in 2021
Defined is a data platform for the open web that empowers users to query on-chain data and interact across multiple blockchains and Defi protocols.

Async Art

Seed Round in 2021
Asynchronous Art, Inc owns and operates an online multi-layer art platform. Its platform async, connects artists and collectors; and allows them to purchase and sell art online. Asynchronous Art, Inc was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Fort Bragg, California.

Radicle

Venture Round in 2021
Radicle is a peer-to-peer stack for building software together.

Foundation

Angel Round in 2020
We started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoin while maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!

Balancer Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Balancer Labs operates an exchange focused on decentralized finance, providing a platform for programmable liquidity. Founded in 2018 and based in the United States, the company facilitates the exchange of tokens without the need for deposits, bids, asks, or order management. As a non-custodial portfolio manager and liquidity provider, Balancer Labs also functions as a price sensor, enabling users to manage their assets efficiently while maintaining control over their funds.

Centrifuge

Venture Round in 2019
Centrifuge Inc. is a developer of a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at transforming the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany, Centrifuge provides a secure and privacy-preserving protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions while allowing businesses to retain ownership of their data. This includes validated company information, business relationships, and transaction history. The platform enables participants to interact within a global network, promoting economic opportunity through the easy creation of applications and functionality by third-party service providers. Centrifuge's team, which has a history of collaborating on successful software ventures, focuses on addressing real business challenges with solutions that handle significant transaction volumes daily.

Decred

Venture Round in 2018
Decred is a cryptocurrency founded in 2016 and based in Germany, which emphasizes community governance, open participation, and sustainable development. It employs a hybrid mining system that combines proof-of-work and proof-of-stake mechanisms, preventing any small group from monopolizing transaction flows or altering the system without community consensus. This approach facilitates a democratic framework for decision-making within the network. Decred utilizes blockchain technology to securely record transactions, ensuring the integrity of the currency and preventing fraudulent activities. Through its focus on community input and transparent governance, Decred aims to create a fair and equitable environment for cryptocurrency users.

Zcash

Venture Round in 2018
Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender, recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view key at their discretion. Zcash transactions do not depend on the cooperation of other parties. Additionally, full nodes in the Zcash network only need to store a small persistent state.
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