Electric Capital

Electric Capital is a crypto asset management firm that focuses on investing in programmable money tokens. The firm targets both liquid and illiquid tokens that represent emerging stores of value and are based on innovative technology. Founded by a team of technology entrepreneurs, engineers, and experienced investors, Electric Capital has a strong background, having started multiple companies, invested in over 100 technology startups, and held executive positions at major tech companies. The founders have been active in cryptocurrency investments since 2013 and were early adopters of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero.

Jim Bai

Investor

Ken Deeter

Partner

Sanjay Shah

Investor

Maria Shen

Partner

Curtis Spencer

Partner

Past deals in ASIC

Ava Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
OAK (On-chain Autonomous Kernel) is a unique blockchain built on the Substrate framework with event-driven smart contract virtual machine, autonomous transactions, and on-chain Oracles. The goal of OAK is to enable developers to build fully autonomous decentralized applications, and further ignite a global business transformation. By redesigning smart contract virtual machines, OAK introduces a more efficient way for contracts to interact with one another. Contracts will be able to emit signal events, to which other contracts can listen. Once an event is triggered, corresponding subscribed functions are automatically executed as a signal transaction.

Iron Fish

Series A in 2021
Iron Fish is a cryptocurrency that prioritizes privacy and accessibility within the blockchain space. As a Layer 1 blockchain, it ensures robust privacy protections for every transaction conducted on its platform. The company aims to create private blockchain networks that are accessible to a global audience, employing an efficient syncing technique that supports low-resource clients, including mobile devices and websites. By focusing on these aspects, Iron Fish seeks to uphold the principles of cash in an increasingly digital environment.

Aurora

Series A in 2021
Aurora is an Ethereum Virtual Machine developed by the NEAR Protocol team, designed to enable developers to run applications on a scalable and Ethereum-compatible platform. It offers a seamless user experience with low transaction costs and high throughput, making it accessible for developers transitioning from Ethereum. By simply changing the RPC endpoint, Ethereum developers can easily start utilizing Aurora's layer-2-like speed and scalability. This turn-key solution aims to provide a future-safe environment for app development, enhancing the capabilities of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Layer3

Seed Round in 2021
Layer3 is a crypto platform that provides tools for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs).

Genesis Digital Assets

Private Equity Round in 2021
Genesis Digital Assets is one of the world's largest and most experienced Bitcoin mining companies. Since 2013, the founders of the company have built over 20 industrial-scale mining farms, brought over 300,000 miners online, and mined over $1 billion in Bitcoin.

RabbitHole

Seed Round in 2021
Developer of crypto networks designed to earn digital currency using crypto applications. The company provides tokens for doing onchain actions, offers tools to distribute ownership and quests that upon completion offer rewards, enabling users to acquire XP, level up, and earn rewards for interacting with well-known blockchain protocols.

Iron Fish

Seed Round in 2021
Iron Fish is a cryptocurrency that prioritizes privacy and accessibility within the blockchain space. As a Layer 1 blockchain, it ensures robust privacy protections for every transaction conducted on its platform. The company aims to create private blockchain networks that are accessible to a global audience, employing an efficient syncing technique that supports low-resource clients, including mobile devices and websites. By focusing on these aspects, Iron Fish seeks to uphold the principles of cash in an increasingly digital environment.

o1Labs

Series A in 2019
O(1) Labs is a software development company working on Mina Protocol, a tiny, portable blockchain. The company uses cryptography and cryptocurrency to build computing systems that put people back in control of their digital lives. It addresses one of the fundamental challenges in cryptocurrency by creating the first succinct blockchain that enables decentralization at scale. O(1) Labs was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California by Evan Shapiro and Izaak Meckler.

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.​

o1Labs

Seed Round in 2018
O(1) Labs is a software development company working on Mina Protocol, a tiny, portable blockchain. The company uses cryptography and cryptocurrency to build computing systems that put people back in control of their digital lives. It addresses one of the fundamental challenges in cryptocurrency by creating the first succinct blockchain that enables decentralization at scale. O(1) Labs was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California by Evan Shapiro and Izaak Meckler.

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.​