Fabric Ventures

Fabric Ventures is a Luxembourg-based venture capital firm established in 2012, focusing on investments in scalable decentralized networks. The firm is supported by OpenOcean, known for its open-source expertise, and Firestartr, which specializes in seed investments and blockchain initiatives. Fabric Ventures targets innovative projects that contribute to the emerging landscape of the 'Fourth Age of Open Source' and operates in various sectors, including financial services, information technology, blockchain, cryptocurrency, SaaS, business-to-business payments, technology, media and telecommunications, and fintech.

Ian Emerson

Analyst

Alain Falys

Venture Partner

Anil Hansjee

General Partner

Max Mersch

Partner

Richard Muirhead

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Solenne Niedercorn-Desouches

Executive Director

Julien Thévenard

Associate

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Squid

Seed Round in 2023
Squid is a routing protocol that connects users and developers with cross-chain liquidity. It allows any token to be swapped between blockchains and unlocks access to apps across chains with a single click.

Yellow Card

Series B in 2022
Yellow Card Financial, LLC operates an online cryptocurrency trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies without the need for a bank account. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chamblee, Georgia, the company offers a range of services including over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading, payment solutions, and currency exchange. Additionally, Yellow Card provides gift cards for cryptocurrency, aiming to transform the traditional remittance market in Nigeria and other countries. The company also has physical locations in Nigeria, Tanzania, Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa, enhancing its accessibility for customers seeking to engage in cryptocurrency transactions.

EtherMail

Seed Round in 2022
EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.

CLOS3T

Seed Round in 2022
We aim to take the most ambitious fashion and luxury brands a step further into the metaverse, providing them the tools to deliver the exclusive experience their web3 clients are expecting. CLOS3T immersive digital wallet provides simplicity and utility on top of safety to fashion lovers and allow them to unlock personalized token-gated journeys.

Moralis

Series A in 2022
Developer of a web3 development platform designed for decentralized finance applications. The company's platform facilitates back-end infrastructure, building and scaling decentralized applications by combining user authentication, identity management, real-time transaction information, and session management, enabling clients to access and manage data related to non-fungible tokens and balances across multiple blockchains.

Argent

Series B in 2022
Argent Labs Limited develops and operates digital wallet for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. It offers Argent application that helps users to trade in digital assets; and manage funds and interact within token economy. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Nilos

Seed Round in 2022
Nilos is a developer of a custodial wallet for non-crypto native companies entering the web 3.0 space. With NFTs, the company's applications (dApps) allow artists, brands, and creators to build or leverage their community. Nilos builds an all-in-one payment stack platform to help web3 businesses store their assets, onboard their partners, reconcile transactions, do AML/CFT analysis, and make effective payouts in both crypto and fiats. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Blidz

Seed Round in 2022
Blidz is a mobile shopping app founded in 2017 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. It operates in the US, Canada, and Australia, offering a unique online shopping experience that combines gamification and artificial intelligence. Inspired by the Chinese platform Pinduoduo, Blidz transforms the traditional shopping process into an engaging activity by incorporating game mechanics that make finding deals entertaining. The app provides tailored offers and innovative flash deals, enhancing user engagement while allowing customers to enjoy the thrill of a bargain hunt.

Trailblazer Games

Seed Round in 2022
Trailblazer Games is a Web3-native game studio established by a team of experienced entrepreneurs and gaming industry veterans from prominent companies such as King, EA, and Microsoft. The studio focuses on creating engaging entertainment content through major titles set in a fantasy universe filled with dragons, magic, and mystery. With a strong emphasis on developing large-scale, sustainable free-to-play economies, Trailblazer Games combines its expertise in gameplay design with significant blockchain development experience to deliver fun and meaningful gaming experiences.

Fairmint

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Fairmint Inc. creates a cloud-based web application that facilitates funding for companies through Continuous Securities Offerings. This platform allows private companies to raise capital and transition towards public offerings by connecting them with potential investors. Founded in 2018 and initially based in Sheridan, Wyoming, Fairmint later established its headquarters in San Francisco, California.

Voltz Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Voltz Labs is a defi primitive that empowers leveraged interest rate swaps. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Road Town, D8.

Unstoppable Finance

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

Unstoppable Finance

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

Strips Finance

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
STRIPS was designed to allow users to trade, speculate, and hedge interest rates. STRIPS cutting edge AMM technology allows for cross-chain yield markets on the most popular DeFi and CeFi platforms.

Sky Mavis

Series B in 2021
Sky Mavis is a technology company that specializes in developing decentralized applications and services, primarily focusing on the gaming sector. As a blockchain studio, it creates virtual worlds that feature player-owned economies, allowing gamers to engage in trading digital assets. Through its innovative approach, Sky Mavis empowers players by providing them with economic freedom, enabling the buying and selling of collectibles within these digital environments. The company's commitment to building practical applications and interactive experiences positions it as a significant player in the intersection of gaming and blockchain technology.

Angle Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Angle Protocol focus on offering stablecoins pegged to currencies like the euro as an alternative to dollar-centric tokens.

Yellow Card

Series A in 2021
Yellow Card Financial, LLC operates an online cryptocurrency trading platform that facilitates the buying and selling of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies without the need for a bank account. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chamblee, Georgia, the company offers a range of services including over-the-counter cryptocurrency trading, payment solutions, and currency exchange. Additionally, Yellow Card provides gift cards for cryptocurrency, aiming to transform the traditional remittance market in Nigeria and other countries. The company also has physical locations in Nigeria, Tanzania, Cameroon, Kenya, and South Africa, enhancing its accessibility for customers seeking to engage in cryptocurrency transactions.

Immutable

Series B in 2021
Immutable Pty Ltd, founded in 2018 and based in Sydney, Australia, specializes in developing video games that leverage blockchain technology. The company focuses on creating scalable infrastructure that enhances in-game economies, promoting transparency and enabling player ownership of in-game assets. Immutable provides tools and services that allow players the freedom to trade and build their gaming experiences. Originally known as Fuel Games Pty Ltd, the company emphasizes empowering players by returning control over digital assets to them.

Superfluid Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Superfluid Finance is on a mission to transform the way assets move in decentralized finance.

Blockpit

Series A in 2021
Blockpit offers a tax reporting and portfolio monitoring platform designed for both individual cryptocurrency traders and companies. The platform simplifies the process of calculating taxable crypto income, helping users stay compliant with tax regulations. It automatically records all transactions, including exchanges between cryptocurrencies, ensuring that users maintain a comprehensive log of their trading activities. This feature is crucial, as each transaction is treated as a taxable event, making accurate record-keeping essential for tax declarations. Users receive an overview of their portfolio's performance, insights into taxable profits, and alerts for significant value changes. Additionally, Blockpit provides tax optimization tips and updates on regulatory changes in the crypto space. The company also has established a network of licensed tax advisors to review and validate users' documentation, reducing the risk of inaccuracies in tax filings. This comprehensive approach supports traders in navigating the complexities of cryptocurrency taxation effectively.

Yield Guild Games

Series A in 2021
Founded in 2018, Yield Guild Games is a venture capital firm based in Quezon City, Philippines. The firm invest in early-stage token and equity deals in web3, gaming studios and the infrastructure that supports the growth of the industry.

1inch

Series A in 2020
1inch Limited is a company that specializes in developing decentralized protocols for cryptocurrency trading. Founded in 2019 and based in the United States, 1inch operates the 1inch Network, which includes several key protocols: the 1inch Aggregation Protocol, the 1inch Liquidity Protocol, and the 1inch Limit Order Protocol. These protocols work together to facilitate efficient and secure trading operations in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, allowing users to execute transactions that are both profitable and fast. Through its innovative technology, 1inch aims to enhance the trading experience for users in the growing cryptocurrency market.

Nansen

Seed Round in 2020
Nansen Limited is a company that develops a blockchain analytics platform designed to assist cryptocurrency investors in identifying opportunities and managing their portfolios. Founded in 2019 and based in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, Nansen combines on-chain data with a comprehensive database to enhance the analysis of cryptocurrency transactions. Its platform provides features such as wallet labeling, transaction tracing, and real-time alerts, enabling users to conduct due diligence and make informed investment decisions. By enriching on-chain data, Nansen aims to facilitate more efficient operations for investors in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency market.

Sorare

Seed Round in 2020
Sorare SAS, founded in December 2018 and based in Paris, France, operates an online platform for a global fantasy football game. The platform allows users to buy, sell, and trade official digital collectibles in the form of NFT cards. Participants can manage their own soccer teams using these digital assets, making the experience both interactive and engaging. Sorare aims to make cryptocurrency enjoyable and accessible through its unique blend of fantasy football and digital collectibles. In December 2020, the company achieved notable sales, with $1.8 million worth of cards sold, reflecting its growing popularity in the digital sports market.

The Graph

Funding Round in 2020
The Graph is the indexing and query layer of the decentralized web. Developers build and publish open APIs, called subgraphs, that applications can query using GraphQL. There is a hosted service in production that makes it easy for developers to get started building on The Graph, and the decentralized network will launch later this year. The Graph currently supports indexing data from Ethereum, POA, and IPFS, with more networks coming soon. To date, ~1,700 subgraphs have been deployed for dApps like Aragon, Uniswap, Synthetix, Balancer, Gnosis, Balancer, Livepeer, and Decentraland.

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.

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.

Staked us

Seed Round in 2019
Staked, LLC provides an infrastructure that assists institutional investors of digital currencies to compound crypto holdings through staking and lending. The company offers SLA for block rewards, automatic payouts, and detailed reporting. It supports staking and lending across various proof-of-stake currencies. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Becket, Massachusetts.

Staked us

Seed Round in 2019
Staked, LLC provides an infrastructure that assists institutional investors of digital currencies to compound crypto holdings through staking and lending. The company offers SLA for block rewards, automatic payouts, and detailed reporting. It supports staking and lending across various proof-of-stake currencies. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Becket, Massachusetts.

Ntropy Network

Seed Round in 2018
Ntropy is enabling machine learning models to learn from data across privacy barriers.

Tagomi

Venture Round in 2018
Tagomi Trading, LLC is an institutional-grade cryptocurrency trading platform founded in 2018 and headquartered in Albany, New York, with additional offices in New Jersey, Chicago, San Francisco, and London. The company specializes in providing clients with enhanced trade execution capabilities, allowing them to optimize their trading strategies. Utilizing advanced routing techniques and execution algorithms, Tagomi analyzes both real-time and historical data to determine the most advantageous trading opportunities. This approach helps clients minimize trading costs and maximize their returns on cryptocurrency investments.

Keep

Venture Round in 2018
Keep helps contracts harness the full power of the public blockchain by enabling deep interactivity with private data. It is an off-chain container for private data. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in George Town, Midland.

Messari

Seed Round in 2018
Messari, Inc. operates a distributed data library focused on crypto assets, providing essential information about various projects, including their funding, development history, governance, and supply schedules related to inflation and vesting. Founded in 2018 and based in New York, the company aims to enhance transparency and facilitate informed decision-making within the crypto asset community. Its platform combines a global research database with a suite of data visualization and asset discovery tools, catering to researchers, investors, and regulators. By offering qualitative and quantitative analytics, Messari enables stakeholders to navigate the complexities of the crypto and Web3 landscapes with greater confidence.

Casa

Seed Round in 2018
Casa offers a secure storage solution for consumers and companies to safely store their digital wealth. Casa helps users manage their private keys, through the multi-location security model that removes single points of failure and protects users from theft, accidents, and disasters, providing them with the tools for securing their digital lives.

oscoin

Venture Round in 2018
Oscoin aims to build a decentralized network between open source software and developers that would allow for a fair economy for the development and maintenance of the world’s open source software, independent of gatekeepers.

Bloom

Seed Round in 2018
Bloom is an end-to-end protocol for identity attestation, risk assessment and credit scoring, entirely on the blockchain. Bloom allows both traditional and digital currency lenders to serve billions of people who currently cannot obtain a bank account or credit score. The Bloom Protocol provides solutions allowing any lender authorized by a borrower to safely and securely issue credit to that borrower.

OpenZeppelin

Venture Round in 2017
OpenZeppelin builds developer tools and performs security audits for distributed systems that power multimillion-dollar economies. At OpenZeppelin, we have built the world’s leading Open Source library for smart contract development. OpenZeppelin Contracts powers over 3,000 public projects, with over 7,000 stars on Github and maintained by a community of 180+ contributors. We also conduct security audits for the Ethereum Foundation, Coinbase, and other leading organizations in the space. With the success of our product, our security audits work, and our educational efforts, we have set industry standards for building secure systems in a fast-growing industry. We are now excited to offer a development platform that will help the growing number of developers working on top of decentralized protocols build the applications that will reach mass adoption.

Raiden

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Raiden is a company that provides the Raiden Network, an off-chain scaling solution designed for efficient ERC20-compliant token transfers on the Ethereum blockchain. This network utilizes bidirectional token payment channels to facilitate direct connections between participants, enabling near-instant, scalable, and secure token transfers. By employing a protocol that relays token transactions through various channels, Raiden optimizes the natural topology of the channel network. The Raiden Network is designed to offer low-fee payments, making it a complementary solution to the Ethereum ecosystem. The project is still under development, focusing on researching state channel technology and defining relevant protocols to enhance its offerings. Raiden is headquartered in the United States.

Streamr

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Streamr makes it easy for companies and developers to deploy scalable real-time messaging and analytics. Situation rooms, data-driven automation, and powering external applications with real-time data become simple tasks instead of long and costly projects.

Polkadot

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Polkadot is a protocol that allows independent blockchains to exchange information. Polkadot is an inter-chain blockchain protocol which unlike internet messaging protocols (e.g. TCP/IP) also enforces the order and the validitiy of the messages between the chains. This interoperability also allows the additional benefit of scalability by creating a general environment for multiple state machines.

Decentraland

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Decentraland is a blockchain-based virtual reality platform that allows users to create, experience, and monetize content and applications in a 3D, interactive environment. Founded in 2017 and based in the United States, it is the first virtual platform owned by its users. Participants can purchase virtual land through the Ethereum blockchain, ensuring an immutable record of ownership. This ownership grants users complete control over their virtual properties, enabling them to craft unique experiences such as attending live events, visiting virtual resorts, shopping, or even starting a business. Decentraland offers a diverse range of activities within its immersive 360-degree world, allowing for endless possibilities limited only by the users' imagination.

0x

Seed Round in 2017
0x Protocol is an open protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the company offers several tools to enhance the trading experience, including 0x Instant for purchasing cryptocurrencies in applications and websites, and the 0x Launch Kit for launching relayers. Additionally, 0x enables developers to create customized relayers, execute orders, access networked liquidity, and engage in market making. Its services cater to a wide range of markets, from gaming items to financial instruments, and include the ability to trade bundles of assets through ZEIP-23.

Status.im

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Status is a browser, messenger, and gateway to a decentralized world. Status is building the tools and infrastructure for the advancement of a secure, private, and open web3. As a product, Status is an open source, Ethereum-based app that gives users the power to chat, transact, and access a revolutionary world of DApps on the decentralized web. With the high level goals of preserving the right to privacy, mitigating the risk of censorship, and promoting economic trade in a transparent, open manner, Status is building a community where anyone is welcome to join and contribute.