Electric Capital

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.

Ken Deeter

General Partner

Mitchell Hammer

Analyst

Thuan Le

Partner and Head of Founder Platform

Sanjay Shah

Researcher

Maria Shen

Partner

Curtis Spencer

Partner and Co-Founder

Past deals in Peer to Peer

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.

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.

Saddle

Series A in 2021
Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets.

Layer3

Seed Round in 2021
Layer3 was founded in 2021 as a web3 user acquisition and retention solution that helps teams acquire the actions & users that matter to them. Their no-code tools lets customers create milestones for new or returning users through any set of on-chain actions. Using powerful storytelling techniques (bounties & quests) they've driven 10M+ on-chain interactions across top dapps. Today, they serve web3 customers such as Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave, 1inch, and more.

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.

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.

Hashflow

Seed Round in 2021
Hashflow is a DEX Aggregator that enables users to trade digital assets on and across leading blockchains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Avalanche, BNB Chain, Optimism, Polygon, and Solana in just a matter of seconds. Hashflow leverages an intent-based smart order routing architecture to offer traders the best prices, access over $8B in liquidity, and the ability to trade every token. Since launching in April 2021, Hashflow has facilitated over $18B in total trade volume. Hashflow's team consists of top minds from both web2 and web3 including Airbnb, Amazon, Arbitrum, Booz Allen Hamilton, Creative Artists Agency, Goldman Sachs, Google, Meta, Citadel, Genesis Trading, NASA, NBCUniversal, Twitter, Uber, Vayner3, and more. Backers include Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Galaxy Digital, GSR, Wintermute Trading, Balaji Srinivasan, Meltem Demirors, Anthony Sassano, and Jason Choi.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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