Folius Ventures

Ancient8 is developing the infrastructure for GameFi, with a focus on software and community. Ancient8 is building GameFi Identity and Launchpad products to serve as the marketing distribution channel for GameFi and Metaverse projects to onboard millions of users. Ancient8 manages Vietnam’s largest blockchain gaming guild, and enables everyone to build the Metaverse through blockchain software products, guild scholarship, blockchain education, institutional-grade research, and community. Ancient8’s vision is to democratize social and financial access in the Metaverse. Ancient8 is backed by leading investors including Pantera, Dragonfly, Hashed, Makers Fund, C² Ventures, Mechanism, Coinbase, Alameda, IOSG, Animoca, among others.

Jar is an investment tech startup that allows users to save money by taking spare change from online transactions and investing it in digital gold automatically which can be redeemed anytime or withdrawn easily through UPI. The company was co-founded in 2021 by Nishchay AG and Misbah Ashraf and is based in Bangalore, Karnataka.

Encode Club is a blockchain education platform that aims to educate the future generation of blockchain professionals. Encode Club was founded in 2019 by Damir Bandalo and is located in London.

May.Social is a metaverse social platform that uses facial motion capture and 3D scene rendering technology to create a virtual interactive space in the mobile app, allowing user expressions and gestures to drive personalized Avatars in real time and synchronizing multi-person voices in real-time.

Origins Analytics provides analytics software using on- and off-chain data.

Arcana enables institutional investors to understand their portfolio risks, decompose single stock & book performance, drill into crowding, and isolate their idiosyncratic differentiation. Built on our proprietary crowding, ownership, factor risk, and performance datasets.

Third Time Entertainment is a startup game development studio that focused primarily on NFT and crypto gaming. Founded in 2015 by Ian Cummings, with co-founders Paul Fleetwood and Brian Fleming. Starting in 2021, Third Time has begun development on 2 of the most highly anticipated crypto-based blockchain games, Photo Finish Live and The Suites.

DRepublic is the creator of the 3A Blockchain game Cradles: Origin of Species. The vision of DRepublic, the foundation behind Cradles, is to provide users with the opportunity to experience a world that takes advantage of blockchain's ability to create a living, breathing economy that is entirely dependent on mass player interactions.

Hyperspace is a trading platform that provides information and services about Solana NFT and NFT flex. It enables users to explore and trade NFTs aggregated across all marketplaces in a single location. It was established in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

STEPN ioffers a blockchain-based fitness app. It works by letting users buy NFTs that last for a certain amount of time.

NEAR is decentralized storage and compute platform that is secure enough to manage high-value assets like money or identity. NEAR is a scalable smart contract platform that supports decentralized applications of almost any kind. Leverage an ecosystem of components backed by cutting edge technology. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.

Sportium is a multi-faceted sports NFT platform with the goal of bringing traditional sports to the Metaverse. Using the platform, various sports and pro leagues can easily enter the crypto sphere and create fan communities built around officially licensed intellectual property (IP).

Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform that enriches on-chain data with millions of wallets labels. Crypto investors use Nansen to discover opportunities, perform due diligence and defend their portfolios with its real-time dashboards and alerts.

Meson Network is committed in creating an efficient bandwidth marketplace on Web3, using blockchain protocol model to replace the traditional labor based sales models, consolidating and monetizing idle bandwidth from long-tail users with low cost. Meson is the foundation of data transmission for decentralized storage, computation and the emerging Web3 dapp ecosystem.