Electric Capital is a crypto asset management firm founded in 2018 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company specializes in investing in programmable money through both liquid and illiquid tokens that serve as emerging stores of value, rooted in innovative technology. Its founders include technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and seasoned investors who have a strong track record in the tech industry, having previously launched six companies (five of which were acquired) and invested in over 100 startups with significant market capitalizations. The team has extensive experience from notable technology companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter and has been personally investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, demonstrating early support for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero. Electric Capital operates as a Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) and focuses on opportunities within the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors across the United States.
Unto Labs is developing ThruVM, a novel virtual machine that aims to address one of the most significant shortcomings of network-specific virtual machines by building Thru blockchain utilizing the popular computing system RISC–V.
Walrus
Funding Round in 2025
Walrus is a decentralized storage network that stores and delivers raw data and media files—like videos, images, and PDFs—without sacrificing performance or accessibility.
Walrus
Initial Coin Offering in 2025
Walrus is a neobank in India focused on providing banking services specifically for teenagers. Recognizing the lack of suitable banking and payment solutions for this tech-savvy demographic, Walrus aims to serve around 100 million teenagers by offering a modern digital banking experience. The platform includes features such as digital bank accounts and a smart debit card, which come with curated rewards for every transaction. This approach not only facilitates financial management but also encourages users to develop good money habits and understand the complexities of financial responsibility. Through its innovative offerings, Walrus seeks to empower young individuals with financial freedom and education.
Hibachi
Seed Round in 2025
Hibachi is a decentralized trading protocol specifically designed for professional traders, focusing on provable security through the application of zero-knowledge (zk) mathematics. This innovative approach aims to enhance both the security and transparency of trading operations, making the platform intuitive and efficient for users.
Axelar
Initial Coin Offering in 2025
Axelar is a company focused on creating interoperability software that facilitates communication between different blockchain ecosystems, applications, and users. Founded in 2020 by Sergey Gorbunov and Georgios Vlachos, Axelar Network encompasses a suite of protocols, tools, and APIs designed to eliminate barriers to cross-chain communication. The company utilizes byzantine consensus, cryptography, and mechanism design protocols to enable decentralized applications to operate across various blockchains seamlessly. This allows developers to select the most suitable platform for their needs while leveraging Axelar's solutions to enhance cross-chain composability and liquidity. Through its offerings, Axelar aims to simplify the development of cross-chain decentralized applications, providing users with a robust and distributed network.
Bitwise
Venture Round in 2025
Bitwise is a cryptocurrency-focused asset manager that provides investment solutions for individuals, investment managers, and institutions. The company offers a diverse range of 32 investment products, including yield and alpha strategies, multi-strategy solutions, separately managed accounts, onchain staking, and index funds. It aims to facilitate access to the cryptocurrency market by offering secure, liquid, and low-cost investment options. By employing modern security measures, Bitwise ensures the protection of clients' assets while delivering rules-based exposure to the crypto-asset space, thus helping clients achieve their financial objectives.
InfiniFi
Pre Seed Round in 2025
InfiniFi enhances decentralized finance with efficient, automated fractional reserve banking for higher yields.
Ellipsis Labs
Venture Round in 2024
Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
HealthEx
Series A in 2024
HealthEx operates a healthcare data-sharing platform that aims to create networks among patients, health systems, and life sciences. The company is dedicated to developing infrastructure for a participatory health data ecosystem that emphasizes digital rights, patient consent, and transparency. By prioritizing patient-centric collaboration, HealthEx seeks to enhance the sharing of health data, thereby facilitating advancements in precision medicine. The platform focuses on empowering patients to mediate their own health data, fostering a collaborative environment that benefits both individuals and healthcare providers.
Infinit
Venture Round in 2024
Infinit is the DeFi Abstraction Layer that removes the enormous friction associated with creating and scaling DeFi ecosystems.
Kuru
Seed Round in 2024
Kuru is an on-chain order book exchange.
Term Labs
Venture Round in 2024
Term Labs is a blockchain research and development company that operates a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform. The platform connects borrowers and lenders, facilitating fixed-rate lending within the blockchain ecosystem. By focusing on scalable and transparent solutions, Term Labs aims to provide institutional-scale participants with affordable and crypto-native lending options.
Squads
Series A in 2024
Squads is a developer of a decentralized program that enables the establishment of better and easier decentralized autonomous groups. The company's application combines all of the key components of a decentralized autonomous organization, such as deployment, treasury, vault management, on-chain voting, and chat, into a single portal with an easy-to-use interface, allowing users to streamline daily operations using a decentralized autonomous organization structure.
Re
Venture Round in 2024
Re is a transaction layer designed for insurable risks, facilitating the establishment of a decentralized reinsurance market. The company operates as a fully-collateralized reinsurer, ensuring compliance with regulatory oversight and approval. By connecting alternative capital providers, Re aims to innovate the reinsurance landscape, enhancing accessibility and efficiency for businesses engaged in managing insurable risks.
Kiosk
Seed Round in 2024
Kiosk offers on-chain assets that are essential for social media clients that build feedback loops between assets and communities.
Monad
Series A in 2024
MONAD is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain and decentralized computation platform that combines the best of performance and portability.
Storm Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Storm Labs is a blockchain investment project provider. It enables users to create and manage bespoke DeFi investment portfolios without relying on human processes, as well as tackle difficulties like losses and rebalancing.
Ellipsis Labs
Series A in 2024
Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
Delegate
Seed Round in 2024
Delegate is a company that specializes in enhancing the security of on-chain identities and the management of digital assets, including NFTs and ERC20 tokens. It has developed a decentralized registry that safeguards digital assets through innovative features. The platform allows users to securely manage their vaulted NFTs, claim airdrops, and prove ownership directly from their hot wallets. By providing these services, Delegate enables NFT holders to protect their assets and engage in various opportunities within the digital asset ecosystem.
Shadow
Seed Round in 2023
Shadow operates as a crypto data platform.
Membrane Labs
Series A in 2023
Membrane Labs is a fintech firm that provides institutional digital asset services for OTC transactions.
Ellipsis Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Ellipsis Labs is building Phoenix, a decentralized limit order book on Solana that is fully on-chain, non-custodial, and crankless.
Hourglass
Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass is an operator of a financial marketplace intended to trade locked-up DeFi assets.
Hourglass
Seed Round in 2023
Hourglass is a financial platform that specializes in liquid staking on time-locked vaults within the Frax and Convex ecosystems. It enables users to trade time-bound tokens, which represent staked assets in decentralized finance protocols based on their lock-up periods. This innovative approach allows individuals to trade their positions, effectively transferring ownership to other buyers. By doing so, Hourglass enhances risk management and increases flexibility for investors, while also providing opportunities for potentially higher returns on their investments.
Term Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Term Labs is a blockchain research and development company that operates a decentralized finance (DeFi) lending platform. The platform connects borrowers and lenders, facilitating fixed-rate lending within the blockchain ecosystem. By focusing on scalable and transparent solutions, Term Labs aims to provide institutional-scale participants with affordable and crypto-native lending options.
Slingshot
Venture Round in 2022
Slingshot is a decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform that enables users to access and interact with digital assets securely and independently. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company aggregates prices for over 50,000 cryptocurrencies across various decentralized exchanges, allowing users to buy, sell, swap, and bridge tokens at competitive rates. Slingshot offers a user-friendly experience across Web, Android, and iOS platforms, combining the performance of centralized trading with the transparency and security of decentralized finance. Its features include multiple wallet options, live price tracking, portfolio management, and customer support, making it a comprehensive tool for retail users in the cryptocurrency market. The company changed its name from DEXAG, Inc. to Slingshot in November 2020, reflecting its commitment to enhancing user experience in the evolving digital asset landscape.
Fordefi
Seed Round in 2022
Fordefi operates a multi-party computation (MPC) wallet platform that serves as a Web3 gateway for institutions, facilitating secure connections to decentralized applications (dApps) across various blockchain networks. As the first institutional MPC wallet and security platform specifically designed for decentralized finance, Fordefi offers a range of features including MPC key management, self-service DeFi policy controls, and time-of-transaction smart contract insights. Additionally, the platform provides transaction simulation and risk alerts, enabling market participants to engage with decentralized finance securely and efficiently.
Token Flow Insights
Series A in 2022
Token Flow Insights offers contextualized blockchain data and analytics, founded in 2021 to address the growing complexity of the blockchain ecosystem. By leveraging open protocols on public blockchains, the company provides a comprehensive understanding of the intricate network of interactions and transactions. Its platform features an API and marketplaces, as well as transaction decoders and trackers, allowing participants in the blockchain ecosystem to efficiently navigate on-chain activities. Through robust data analysis and deep insights into blockchain dynamics, Token Flow Insights aims to simplify the complexities of decentralized finance and enhance decision-making for its users.
Lasso Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Lasso makes it easy to discover and create utility for digital assets like NFTs.
Immunefi
Series A in 2022
Immunefi is a bug bounty and security services platform dedicated to protecting cryptocurrency projects from vulnerabilities associated with Web3 technologies. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, the platform enables network hosting, bug triaging, and program management within the blockchain ecosystem. Immunefi specializes in smart contract projects, providing services that include code reviews and vulnerability disclosures, which help secure projects against malicious exploits and safeguard them from unknown threats. By facilitating collaboration between security researchers and crypto projects, Immunefi aims to enhance the overall safety and reliability of the digital asset landscape.
Integral Treasury
Venture Round in 2022
Empowering web3 organizations in crypto accounting through: revenue recognition, NFT collection management, cap gain/loss calculations, audit compliant reports and more.
Comm Technologies
Seed Round in 2022
Comm Technologies is focused on enhancing end-to-end (E2E) encryption through the development of a crypto-native messaging platform. This platform allows users to acquire non-fungible tokens (NFTs) while maintaining their online anonymity. By utilizing personal private servers and key servers, Comm Technologies offers a web3 chat solution that ensures secure communication and adheres to specific notification restrictions. This approach enables clients to manage their communications effectively through a unified inbox, while also facilitating the scaling of E2E encryption for enhanced privacy.
Sweatcoin
Venture Round in 2022
Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by physical movement. They verify and convert movement into currency. Users can then donate it to charity, transfer to other users or spend on products, services, and experiences provided by Sweatcoin vendors and user community. Sweatcoin tackles Present Bias by moving the future benefits of exercise into the here and now- immediately converting movement into a digital currency and changing the perception of physical movement.
Magic Eden
Series B in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-centric company. They work hard to be responsive, close to the ground, and in service to the best interests of their collections. To prove their commitment to the community, they airdropped Magic Tickets, their own collection, to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket gives holders access to their discord-based DAO, MagicDAO, where they deliver interconnectivity via social programs and rewards to the community.
Magic Eden
Series B in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-centric company. They work hard to be responsive, close to the ground, and in service to the best interests of their collections. To prove their commitment to the community, they airdropped Magic Tickets, their own collection, to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket gives holders access to their discord-based DAO, MagicDAO, where they deliver interconnectivity via social programs and rewards to the community.
Certora
Series B in 2022
Certora specializes in providing advanced technology designed to enhance security in software development, particularly for blockchain applications. The company offers a digital asset issuance platform that automatically detects security vulnerabilities both prior to deployment and during operation. Its technology checks smart contracts at compile-time, ensuring that all executions comply with established security rules. By generating mathematical proofs of correctness, Certora guarantees the absence of security vulnerabilities for defined software properties. This independent and language-agnostic approach allows clients to effectively manage security verification without the risk of false interruptions, thus improving the overall integrity of their digital assets.
Paper
Seed Round in 2022
Paper offers crypto-focused payments that make buying, using, and holding NFTs easier. Sell NFTs via credit cards, create wallets using email, and cover gas fees for transactions.
Tonic
Seed Round in 2022
Tonic is building a permissionless decentralized protocol for fast and seamless trading of any asset on NEAR and Aurora. The platform will enable developers building on NEAR’s Layer 1 solution to integrate trading functionality into their applications.
Spruce
Series A in 2022
Spruce is building a future where users control their identity and data across all digital interactions.
Delta One
Seed Round in 2022
Delta One is a yield generation protocol built on the Solana blockchain, specializing in delta-neutral and impermanent loss-free farming markets. The platform aims to democratize access to risk-adjusted yield opportunities in decentralized finance (DeFi), making it easier for users to engage in crypto investing. By employing innovative quantitative research and robust engineering, Delta One enables a peer-to-peer liquidity provisioning system that allows users to automatically rebalance their DeFi portfolios, maintaining a delta-neutral position. This approach not only enhances user experience but also promotes mass adoption of cryptocurrency through accessible and effective financial tools.
Trisolaris
Seed Round in 2022
Trisolaris is a community-owned decentralized exchange (DEX) that aims to provide a seamless trading experience while minimizing drawbacks commonly associated with traditional exchanges. The platform is designed for fast settlement and low transaction fees, making it accessible for users. Additionally, Trisolaris incorporates a democratic governance process, allowing the community to participate in decision-making. The DEX facilitates cross-chain swaps and provides enhanced tools and analytics, catering to clients looking for improved infrastructure in the decentralized finance space.
Magic Eden
Series A in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-centric company. They work hard to be responsive, close to the ground, and in service to the best interests of their collections. To prove their commitment to the community, they airdropped Magic Tickets, their own collection, to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket gives holders access to their discord-based DAO, MagicDAO, where they deliver interconnectivity via social programs and rewards to the community.
Espresso Systems
Seed Round in 2022
Espresso Systems specializes in providing scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications, focusing on the innovative area of shared sequencing within blockchain technology. This involves the use of sequencers that verify and batch transactions on layer-2 blockchains before sending them to a layer-1 chain, such as Ethereum, for settlement. Additionally, Espresso Systems develops online transaction technology aimed at enhancing the online payment industry, offering infrastructure that facilitates secure and efficient online interactions. Their solutions cater to the needs of clients in the online transaction sector, contributing to the advancement of the third generation of the World Wide Web.
Juried Protocol Galleries
Seed Round in 2022
Juried Protocol Galleries is a registry-based protocol that focuses on NFT curation and brings collectors, curators, and artists together. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Lewes, Delaware, United States.
Solscan
Seed Round in 2021
Solscan is a full-suite block explorer and data analytics platform focusing on the Solana ecosystem. Solscan provides a vast range of data services for users, developers, and projects.
Slingshot
Series A in 2021
Slingshot is a decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform that enables users to access and interact with digital assets securely and independently. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company aggregates prices for over 50,000 cryptocurrencies across various decentralized exchanges, allowing users to buy, sell, swap, and bridge tokens at competitive rates. Slingshot offers a user-friendly experience across Web, Android, and iOS platforms, combining the performance of centralized trading with the transparency and security of decentralized finance. Its features include multiple wallet options, live price tracking, portfolio management, and customer support, making it a comprehensive tool for retail users in the cryptocurrency market. The company changed its name from DEXAG, Inc. to Slingshot in November 2020, reflecting its commitment to enhancing user experience in the evolving digital asset landscape.
Mysten Labs
Series A in 2021
Mysten Labs is a web3 infrastructure company dedicated to enhancing the security and accessibility of decentralized services. The company focuses on developing foundational tools that facilitate the mass adoption of web3 technologies. By streamlining the complexities associated with lower-level blockchain integrations, Mysten Labs allows developers to concentrate on improving user experience. Their efforts aim to accelerate the growth of decentralized applications across various blockchain networks, thereby promoting a more seamless transition to web3 for users and developers alike.
Iron Fish
Series A in 2021
Iron Fish is a novel cryptocurrency focused on privacy and accessibility. Iron Fish is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides the strongest privacy guarantees on every single transaction.
MYTY
Seed Round in 2021
MYTY operates a decentralized social platform designed to allow users to transcend the limitations of the physical world. The platform facilitates the conversion of crypto punks NFTs into customizable avatars, empowering individuals to express themselves creatively within a social metaverse. By leveraging NFT technology, MYTY offers a unique space where users can maximize their imagination and engage with others in a liberated digital environment.
Anoma
Series A in 2021
Anoma is a blockchain protocol established in 2021 in Zug, Switzerland, focused on facilitating private and asset-agnostic transactions. It offers an intent-centric and privacy-preserving solution for decentralized counterparty discovery, multi-chain atomic settlement, and secure bartering among multiple parties. By employing advanced cryptography and zero-knowledge proof schemes, Anoma empowers users to engage in cryptocurrency exchanges automatically at market rates, ensuring a user-controlled and secure trading environment. The protocol aims to enhance privacy in transactions, making it easier for users to conduct business without sacrificing security.
ConsenSys
Series C in 2021
ConsenSys, founded in 2015 by Joseph Lubin, is a leading Ethereum software company focused on Web 3.0 development. It provides a comprehensive suite of products, including Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, which enable developers, enterprises, and individuals to create next-generation applications and modern financial infrastructure while accessing the decentralized web. The platform offers essential tools and libraries for building and scaling decentralized applications, facilitating interaction with blockchain networks and smart contracts. ConsenSys also emphasizes education through ConsenSys Academy, which aims to bridge the Ethereum knowledge gap globally. By supporting billions of blockchain-based queries and managing significant digital asset transactions, ConsenSys plays a pivotal role in fostering the broader adoption and integration of blockchain technology, contributing to the development of the digital economy of the future.
Saddle
Series A in 2021
Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets.
Immunefi
Seed Round in 2021
Immunefi is a bug bounty and security services platform dedicated to protecting cryptocurrency projects from vulnerabilities associated with Web3 technologies. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, the platform enables network hosting, bug triaging, and program management within the blockchain ecosystem. Immunefi specializes in smart contract projects, providing services that include code reviews and vulnerability disclosures, which help secure projects against malicious exploits and safeguard them from unknown threats. By facilitating collaboration between security researchers and crypto projects, Immunefi aims to enhance the overall safety and reliability of the digital asset landscape.
Sublime Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Sublime Finance is a decentralized lending platform. Sublime will let borrowers access loans depending on their digital identity and on-chain history.
HeyHey!
Seed Round in 2021
HeyHey! is an online marketplace where fans can discover and book personalized video shoutouts from their favorite celebrities to congratulate them or their loved ones while empowering leading celebrities and media houses to develop personalized memorable experiences for their fans.
Layer3
Seed Round in 2021
Layer3, founded in 2021, provides a web3 user acquisition and retention solution designed to help teams engage meaningful users through on-chain actions. The platform offers no-code tools that allow clients to create milestones for both new and returning users, leveraging storytelling techniques such as bounties and quests to drive user interaction. With over 10 million on-chain interactions facilitated across various decentralized applications, Layer3 serves a diverse range of web3 clients, including notable names such as Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave, and 1inch. The company's focus on expanding decentralized autonomous organizations includes features that promote user exposure to new communities, reward systems, and multichain liquidity access.
GDA
Private Equity Round in 2021
Genesis Digital Assets is a prominent Bitcoin mining company known for its extensive experience in the industry. Since its inception in 2013, the company has established over 20 industrial-scale mining farms and successfully brought more than 300,000 miners online, resulting in the mining of over $1 billion in Bitcoin. Genesis Digital Assets focuses on developing proprietary mining technology and aims to make its operations profitable. The company provides comprehensive services that include building, managing, and scaling large-scale mining operations, thereby offering clients the necessary infrastructure to support the evolving landscape of the cryptocurrency market.
Taker Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The protocol optimizes the liquidation of NFT assets through a quote-by-lock-in pricing mechanism. This approach enables asset holders to borrow stablecoins while facilitating cross-chain bridges that connect different public blockchain networks. By enhancing the efficiency of asset transfers, Taker Protocol aims to broaden application scenarios for its clients, thereby improving the overall liquidity and usability of NFT assets in the market.
Hyype
Seed Round in 2021
Hyy.pe is an NFT display and gallery-based social network where NFT communities will find a home to connect, share stories, and collaboratively build their history.
Kresko
Seed Round in 2021
Kresko is focused on enhancing access to wealth through its innovative online platform for synthetic stocks, commodities, and cryptocurrencies. This platform allows users to manage their assets in a single application, facilitating activities such as minting, swapping, pooling, and farming. Kresko’s synthetic asset protocol emphasizes capital efficiency and an improved user experience, while also providing a clear overview of portfolio health and associated risks. By offering a frictionless listing of assets, Kresko enables developers to seamlessly incorporate crypto assets into their applications and wallets, making it easier for individuals to engage with digital finance.
4k.com
Seed Round in 2021
4k.com operates a web-based NFT marketplace that focuses on bridging the ownership and authenticity of physical products through digital assets. The platform offers NFTs that are backed by tangible items, creating a connection between the digital and physical realms. Its product catalog features a diverse range of goods, including clothing, shoes, watches, consumer electronics, and video games. By utilizing decentralized finance, 4k.com transforms physical goods into NFTs, establishing new payment systems and protocols that allow intermediaries to facilitate their financial transactions. This innovative approach enables investors to trade with reduced fees, access mortgage loans, and earn yields on their assets.
Visor Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Visor Finance operates a decentralized platform that focuses on active liquidity management within the decentralized finance sector. Its platform enables users to leverage smart vaults for liquidity mining and asset management across various decentralized finance protocols and exchanges. By facilitating the implementation of strategies for reinvesting fees and distributing protocol revenue, Visor Finance aims to help users maximize their returns while minimizing the risks associated with impermanent loss. This innovative approach positions Visor Finance as a key player in enhancing user engagement and profitability in the rapidly evolving DeFi landscape.
RabbitHole
Seed Round in 2021
RabbitHole helps users navigate the play to earn space with curated opportunities. The company also allows users to build their knowledge with resources across DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs as well as explore web3 projects and earn rewards doing so. RabbitHole was established in 2020 by Brian Flynn in Venice, California.
Certora
Series A in 2021
Certora specializes in providing advanced technology designed to enhance security in software development, particularly for blockchain applications. The company offers a digital asset issuance platform that automatically detects security vulnerabilities both prior to deployment and during operation. Its technology checks smart contracts at compile-time, ensuring that all executions comply with established security rules. By generating mathematical proofs of correctness, Certora guarantees the absence of security vulnerabilities for defined software properties. This independent and language-agnostic approach allows clients to effectively manage security verification without the risk of false interruptions, thus improving the overall integrity of their digital assets.
Hashflow
Seed Round in 2021
Hashflow is a decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator that allows users to trade digital assets seamlessly across various leading blockchains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana. Utilizing an intent-based smart order routing system, Hashflow provides traders with optimal prices and access to over $8 billion in liquidity, facilitating trades of any token in a matter of seconds. Since its launch in April 2021, the platform has achieved more than $18 billion in total trade volume. The Hashflow team comprises seasoned professionals from diverse backgrounds, including technology, finance, and entertainment sectors. The company is supported by notable investors and venture capital firms, enhancing its position within the blockchain ecosystem. Hashflow aims to blend centralized order matching with decentralized custody and settlement solutions, offering users a hybrid trading experience that emphasizes non-custodial options.
FRACTAL
Seed Round in 2021
Fractal is a financial technology company that provides digital assets and blockchain adoption services. They also develop tools for institutional investors to access decentralized financing.
Gitcoin
Venture Round in 2021
Gitcoin is a platform designed to help open source developers monetize their work by facilitating payments when their contributions are utilized. Established in 2017 and based in Boulder, Colorado, Gitcoin leverages the Ethereum network and smart contracts to align the interests of various stakeholders within the ecosystem. This innovative approach allows for direct programming of rights, incentivizing participants to deliver value while minimizing reliance on traditional legal mechanisms. The platform supports a range of programming languages, including Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, and Solidity, fostering collaboration among developers and project maintainers. Gitcoin embodies the #givefirst philosophy of the Boulder tech community, which emphasizes mutual support and collaboration, thereby strengthening both the community and the open source projects it nurtures. Through its services, Gitcoin aims to enhance the sustainability and growth of open source software development.
Iron Fish
Seed Round in 2021
Iron Fish is a novel cryptocurrency focused on privacy and accessibility. Iron Fish is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides the strongest privacy guarantees on every single transaction.
Octopus Network
Seed Round in 2021
Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.
Kraken
Secondary Market in 2021
Kraken is a prominent cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2011 that facilitates spot and futures trading for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and over 40 other digital assets. With a client base exceeding 7 million, Kraken plays a significant role in the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies by providing a marketplace where buyers, sellers, traders, and speculators can exchange digital currencies against traditional national currencies such as USD, EUR, CAD, and JPY. The platform caters to various user needs, offering services like an Over-the-Counter (OTC) desk for larger trades, advanced charting tools for technical analysis, and APIs for automated trading. Additionally, Kraken ensures comprehensive customer support with 24/7 live chat assistance, enhancing the user experience for both novice and experienced traders.
CoinFLEX
Venture Round in 2021
CoinFLEX is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and yield platform that offers innovative trading solutions for crypto assets. It features a physically delivered crypto futures exchange designed to address the challenges associated with cash-settled futures contracts, allowing for high leverage opportunities without risks related to index or settlement manipulation. The platform aims to simplify and secure the trading processes for professional proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, and institutional investors in the cryptocurrency sector. Among its unique offerings are flexUSD, the first interest-earning stablecoin, and AMM+, a capital-efficient automated market maker. CoinFLEX is supported by prominent figures and investment firms in the crypto industry.
Radicle
Venture Round in 2021
Radicle is a developer of a peer-to-peer code collaboration platform that facilitates software development without intermediaries. Its platform is built on open protocols, allowing users and developers to manage projects and assets while sharing and collaborating on code repositories. This approach offers similar functionality to traditional centralized code tools, but eliminates the need for hosted servers, promoting decentralized collaboration in software development.
Celo
Venture Round in 2021
Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools accessible to anyone with a mobile phone. Its mission is to build a monetary system that creates the conditions of prosperity for all. The Celo ecosystem includes a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain technology stack (Celo Platform), a native asset (CELO), a stablecoin (cUSD) and the Celo Alliance for Prosperity, with over 100 organizations around the world, including Andreesen Horowitz, Anchorage, Coinbase, GSMA, Mercy Corps, Grameen Foundation, Prosegur, Abra, and cLabs, a service organization dedicated to growing and developing the Celo ecosystem.
Anoma
Funding Round in 2021
Anoma is a blockchain protocol established in 2021 in Zug, Switzerland, focused on facilitating private and asset-agnostic transactions. It offers an intent-centric and privacy-preserving solution for decentralized counterparty discovery, multi-chain atomic settlement, and secure bartering among multiple parties. By employing advanced cryptography and zero-knowledge proof schemes, Anoma empowers users to engage in cryptocurrency exchanges automatically at market rates, ensuring a user-controlled and secure trading environment. The protocol aims to enhance privacy in transactions, making it easier for users to conduct business without sacrificing security.
Saddle
Seed Round in 2021
Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets.
Swivel Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Swivel Finance is a decentralized protocol that specializes in fixed-rate lending and tokenized cash flows, allowing lenders to secure fixed-rate interest rates on their ERC-20 tokens. Founded in 2020 and based in Austin, Texas, the company has developed an online lending platform that minimizes transaction overhead and reduces associated risks for users. By providing a mechanism for locking in interest rates, Swivel Finance aims to enhance the stability and predictability of returns in the decentralized finance sector.
Slingshot
Seed Round in 2020
Slingshot is a decentralized finance (DeFi) trading platform that enables users to access and interact with digital assets securely and independently. Founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, the company aggregates prices for over 50,000 cryptocurrencies across various decentralized exchanges, allowing users to buy, sell, swap, and bridge tokens at competitive rates. Slingshot offers a user-friendly experience across Web, Android, and iOS platforms, combining the performance of centralized trading with the transparency and security of decentralized finance. Its features include multiple wallet options, live price tracking, portfolio management, and customer support, making it a comprehensive tool for retail users in the cryptocurrency market. The company changed its name from DEXAG, Inc. to Slingshot in November 2020, reflecting its commitment to enhancing user experience in the evolving digital asset landscape.
Cozy Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Cozy Finance, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing risk management software for the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Founded in 2020, the company offers a permissionless, peer-to-peer protection solution that enables users to invest in DeFi with safeguards against hacks and exploits. The software is designed for developers to help crypto investors effectively manage their assets, unlocking their full potential. Additionally, Cozy Finance allows users to deposit funds that can be utilized for protected investing, enhancing the security and confidence of participants in the DeFi space.
DerivaDEX
Seed Round in 2020
DerivaDEX is a community-governed derivatives exchange designed to enhance performance and autonomy while ensuring the security of a decentralized platform. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, it employs a liquidity-mining token model that empowers users to engage actively in the governance and operations of the exchange. Utilizing an open order book and on-chain settlement for trades, DerivaDEX aims to create a next-generation trading environment. Its native token facilitates user participation and supports the exchange's decentralized structure, combining advanced technology with community oversight.
Elrond
Seed Round in 2019
Elrond Ltd is a Maltese company founded in 2017 that develops and operates a sharding-based public blockchain network. Its adaptive state sharding platform aims to provide a decentralized solution that competes with centralized cloud networks while maintaining security and decentralization. Elrond's blockchain is designed to facilitate a global, transparent financial system, offering near-instant, low-cost transactions. The network can process over 15,000 transactions per second with a latency of just six seconds and a transaction cost of $0.001. Elrond has actively expanded its ecosystem through more than 60 collaborations and partnerships, enhancing its utility and outreach, and enabling various applications to utilize its advanced technology.
NEAR
Series A in 2019
NEAR Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing a blockchain protocol designed to facilitate the creation of decentralized applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Protocol offers a secure and scalable platform capable of managing high-value assets such as money and identity. The company provides a range of services, including documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer tools, to support developers in writing, testing, and deploying decentralized applications. By leveraging advanced technology, NEAR aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream commercial software, enabling the development of performance-oriented applications across various business sectors.
O1Labs
Series A in 2019
O1Labs, founded in 2017, is a blockchain technology company specializing in zero-knowledge cryptography and innovative cryptographic solutions. The company is recognized for its development of the Mina Protocol, which is the first lightweight, scalable, and decentralized blockchain utilizing zero-knowledge proofs. Additionally, O1Labs created o1js, an intuitive framework aimed at simplifying the development of applications using zero-knowledge technology. By enhancing blockchain accessibility, O1Labs provides developers with the tools needed to create user-friendly cryptocurrency applications that operate seamlessly in web browsers. The company's mission is to foster a new generation of applications driven by zero-knowledge cryptography.
ThunderCore
Series A in 2019
ThunderCore is a public blockchain that offers high performance and is compatible with the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM). It utilizes a unique consensus protocol called PaLa, which effectively addresses the scalability challenges associated with blockchain technology, achieving over 4,000 transactions per second and confirmation times of just one second. The platform features low transaction fees, often costing less than a fraction of a cent, which enhances its appeal for decentralized applications seeking both security and scalability. ThunderCore has established a global presence, serving users in over 190 countries and providing a secure environment for transaction confirmations through its innovative blockchain protocol.
Spacemesh
Venture Round in 2018
Spacemesh is a blockchain protocol based in North Pole, Alaska, that focuses on creating a fair, decentralized, and secure platform for smart contracts. It employs a unique Proofs of Space-Time (PoST) consensus mechanism and utilizes a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) topology instead of traditional chain structures. This innovative approach allows for a leaderless, non-competitive voting system known as Collaborative Mining, which promotes permissionless decentralization. The platform is designed to be open-source and programmable, enabling users to run general-purpose smart contracts efficiently while conserving resources by leveraging unused storage space on hard drives for computation. With its emphasis on security, fairness, and environmental sustainability, Spacemesh aims to provide a robust cryptocurrency solution that can self-heal and adapt to the needs of its users.
CoinList
Series A in 2018
CoinList is a leading platform in the digital finance sector, focused on facilitating the launch and growth of innovative digital assets. The company provides a comprehensive token distribution service that connects blockchain projects with potential investors prior to their asset listings on other exchanges. CoinList supports various stages of crypto investment, including token sales, distribution, trading, lending, staking, and access to decentralized finance opportunities. Users can trade and store a wide range of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin and Ether, through its mobile app and website, CoinList.co. The platform caters to a diverse clientele, including validators, miners, founders, CEOs, and crypto enthusiasts, ensuring they have access to new tokens and crypto-specific services. CoinList's mission is to be the most trusted brand in digital finance while expanding access for early adopters and fostering innovation within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
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