Future\Perfect Ventures

Future Perfect Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in New York, founded in 2014. The firm specializes in investing in decentralized technologies, including blockchain, cryptocurrencies, Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence. Future Perfect Ventures aims to support mission-driven entrepreneurs who are focused on creating economic opportunities for underserved populations worldwide. By leveraging its team's extensive international network and years of industry expertise, the firm seeks to accelerate the growth of innovative ideas in the technology sector.

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PYOR

Seed Round in 2023
PYOR has extensive expertise building in crypto and has played major roles in the creation of several large Indian unicorns, as well as extensive experience in global blue chip organisations.

Nudge AI

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Nudge is an AI Scribe for Behavioral Health.

myNFT

Series A in 2022
myNFT is an NFT marketplace platform that allows users to buy and sell NFTs using fiat currency. It believes that the current NFT industry is riddled with impediments that prevent this revolutionary technology from being accessible to all. It aims to change this in ways that no other platform has before by supporting multi-chain payment methods, including fiat.

Mojito

Seed Round in 2021
The all-in-one web3 platform powering brands & creators

Blockfills

Seed Round in 2021
Blockfills is an institutional digital asset liquidity provider.

Dtravel

Seed Round in 2021
Dtravel is a decentralized platform for the home-sharing economy facilitating short and long-term stays payable with cryptocurrency and traditional payment methods.

AI foundation

Seed Round in 2021
Unbound Finance is the Defi treasury for liquidity pool tokens and enables unlocking from existing AMM pools.

BiLira

Seed Round in 2021
BiLira is a stable cryptocurrency that offers payment systems solutions that can be used by anyone, 24/7, and anywhere. It aims to ensure the safe use of Turkish stable crypto money in the financial world in an accessible, fast and transparent manner that is accessible to everyone. With TRYB received on the BiLira platform, users can directly transfer Turkish Lira to contracted stock exchanges, trade cryptocurrencies, or transfer them to compatible digital wallets, and evaluate their assets in various areas such as decentralized finance and NFT in the blockchain world.

Curio Digital

Seed Round in 2021
Curio Digital is a marketplace for tokenized digital collectibles.

Vendia

Series A in 2021
Vendia is the future of collective data intelligence, combining smart APIs, databases, and distributed ledger technology inside a single platform. Vendia’s data automation cloud makes it easy to share data inside and outside of the organization in real time and with full visibility, governance, and control. Companies such as BMW, Delta Airlines, Resolution Life Insurance, and Fannie Mae use Vendia to automate contextual and compliant data flows between any-to-any systems for a harmonized, accurate view of data that unlocks speed, innovation, and cost savings. Learn more about us at Vendia.com and #UnchainYourData with Vendia.

OnePipe

Pre Seed Round in 2020
OnePipe simplifies complex infrastructure so you can focus on creating market-defining innovations. Banks and fintech partners of OnePipe have contributed the majority of the underlying infrastructure required to establish your product as a service.

The Graph

Initial Coin Offering 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.

Vendia

Seed Round in 2020
Vendia is the future of collective data intelligence, combining smart APIs, databases, and distributed ledger technology inside a single platform. Vendia’s data automation cloud makes it easy to share data inside and outside of the organization in real time and with full visibility, governance, and control. Companies such as BMW, Delta Airlines, Resolution Life Insurance, and Fannie Mae use Vendia to automate contextual and compliant data flows between any-to-any systems for a harmonized, accurate view of data that unlocks speed, innovation, and cost savings. Learn more about us at Vendia.com and #UnchainYourData with Vendia.
A vision of more efficient, transparent, and accurate payments for all is shared by many. However, it’s our approach that sets us apart. Where others seek to bypass the current financial system, we bring together the best of what already exists and restructure it to make it more efficient. All while staying within current regulatory frameworks. While others have taken a more radical approach, we embrace visionary pragmatism and partner with businesses and banks to move payments forward. Based in Seattle, we’ve brought together top cryptographers and financial-system specialists with world-class software and hardware engineers to partner with banks and businesses to create innovative settlement solutions. Come work with us. We're hiring!

OXIO

Seed Round in 2019
OXIO is the first telecom-as-a-service (TAAS) platform for brands and enterprises that unbundles mobile telecom infrastructure, capturing the powerful data and true value that it emits. Its 100 percent cloud-based solution blends the wireless infrastructure of many providers, enabling something that wasn't possible before — a custom-purposed, asset-light network delivered to each brand in a matter of days. OXIO's B2B SaaS solution unlocks the full and uncompromising control of the wireless experience for brands, including actionable intelligence that drives clear value and results. Mobile data, long locked up in telecom silos, allows brands to get closer to their customers than ever. The company is headquartered in New York, with offices in Mexico City and Montreal, Canada.

Cambridge Blockchain

Series A in 2019
Cambridge Blockchain develops blockchain-based identity management and compliance software solutions for financial institutions. The company provides an identity management platform for multinational banks financial institutions that puts control of personal identity data back in the hands of the end-user. It returns control of personal data back to users while delivering the benefits of trusted, distributed identity to consumers and organizations. Alex Oberhauser, Alok Bhargava, and Matthew Commons founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Cambridge in Massachusetts.

Braintrust

Seed Round in 2018
Braintrust is a blockchain-powered freelancer marketplace that connects technical and design talents with organizations. The marketplace that the company offers a user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with highly skilled technical and design talent that they need. It connects organizations directly to top tech talent, offering 40-70 percent savings by removing middlemen. The company charge a flat 10 percent project fee and talent keep 100 percent of their revenue. Braintrust aims to build a talent platform that disrupts traditional hiring methods and aligns incentives and redistributes value to talent and organizations. Adam Jackson, Gabriel Luna-Ostaseski, and Brian Flynn co-founded Braintrust in San Jose, California in 2018.

Edmunds

Seed Round in 2018
Edmunds is an automotive inventory platform. They offer automotive consumer information, including pricing, reviews, specs, photos, videos, automotive enthusiast information, and automotive industry commentary and analysis.

Harbor

Corporate Round in 2018
Harbor is reengineering private securities with blockchain technology to help usher in a new wave of tokenized securities backed by real-world assets, such as real estate, company equity, investment funds, and fine art. The Harbor platform, powered by its compliance protocol, is the first to ensure tokenized securities comply with existing securities laws on every trade, everywhere across the globe.

Carbon-12 Labs, Inc.

Seed Round in 2018
Fiat to Crypto Made Simpler. API-Driven on-ramps to blockchain economy.

Everledger

Series A in 2018
Everledger is a global technology enterprise specializing in addressing real-world economic, environmental, and societal challenges through their solutions that create ecosystems of trust. It is an ecosystem of trust is where all stakeholders within a network, are able to collaborate through a trusted data protocol. This trust is created through the ability to transparently trace and manage assets throughout their lifetime journey, across different touchpoints within the ecosystem. The company's breakthrough solutions harness the latest in emerging technologies including smart contracts, machine vision, and IoT, together with their proven and scalable blockchain-enabled platform. They combine a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains. This brings disparate stakeholders together with the trust that has been built. Everledger is independently committed to deploying scalable solutions for its clients’ needs today while having the freedom to lead with breakthrough solutions that tackle the challenges they face.

Strix Leviathan

Seed Round in 2018
Strix Leviathan builds a crypto-trading platform for large entities like hedge funds, banks and traditional enterprise companies that don’t want to have to build their own trading infrastructure. Strix Leviathan has built an algorithmic trading platform designed from day one for cryptocurrency markets that executes programmable automated trading strategies based on proprietary technical analysis. We are a team of technologists and data scientists applying decades of computing knowledge, cloud and infrastructure experience and entrepreneurial acumen to build something bordering on mythical.

Token

Series A in 2018
We have developed the next generation of MFA that stops phishing and unauthorized logins for organizations where ransomware must be stopped

Tari Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Tari Labs mission is to steward the most useful decentralized platform that empowers anyone to create digitally scarce things people love.

AZA Finance

Series A in 2017
AZA Finance is a global payments and FX fintech. Founded in Nairobi, AZA Finance makes it easier for companies around the world to exchange currencies, make payments, and settle easily in all major African and G20 currencies (including digital currencies). AZA Finance was the first company in the world to trade digital currencies using mobile money and the first ever to make a market directly between digital currencies and African currencies. They service frontier market businesses as well as multinational corporates paying partners and suppliers around the world, and works with several of the largest global remittance firms to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Africa.

Token

Venture Round in 2017
We have developed the next generation of MFA that stops phishing and unauthorized logins for organizations where ransomware must be stopped

Blockchain.com

Series B in 2017
Blockchain.com operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrencies, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million users, it offers a straightforward method for engaging with digital currencies, including features for trading, sending, receiving, securing, and borrowing them. The platform also includes a widely used explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that facilitates fast trading experiences. Additionally, Blockchain Ventures, supported by Blockchain.com, invests in distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that foster societal benefits and advance the industry, promoting innovative applications of DLT beyond financial services. Overall, Blockchain.com seeks to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling quick transactions without intermediaries and providing essential tools for real-time market insights.

BitPesa

Series A in 2017
BitPesa provides individuals and institutions with wholesale cryptocurrency liquidity. BitPesa, in addition to fast settlement and a variety of currency options, offers cutting-edge security and the most liquidity of any African exchange. BitPesa was the first blockchain company to be licensed by the UK's Financial Conduct Authority and follows stringent KYC practices, having traded over $500 million.

Everledger

Seed Round in 2016
Everledger is a global technology enterprise specializing in addressing real-world economic, environmental, and societal challenges through their solutions that create ecosystems of trust. It is an ecosystem of trust is where all stakeholders within a network, are able to collaborate through a trusted data protocol. This trust is created through the ability to transparently trace and manage assets throughout their lifetime journey, across different touchpoints within the ecosystem. The company's breakthrough solutions harness the latest in emerging technologies including smart contracts, machine vision, and IoT, together with their proven and scalable blockchain-enabled platform. They combine a rich forensic approach to identify and track asset provenance to provide confidence in the transparency driven across global supply chains. This brings disparate stakeholders together with the trust that has been built. Everledger is independently committed to deploying scalable solutions for its clients’ needs today while having the freedom to lead with breakthrough solutions that tackle the challenges they face.

Unocoin

Seed Round in 2016
Unocoin is a mobile wallet that enables users to buy, sell, store, use, and accept bitcoins. Users can print paper wallets and import bitcoin addresses to their own address book and also withdraw bitcoins to their paper wallets. Available on both iOS and Android platforms, it acts as a point-of-sale merchant mobile app. Unocoin was launched in 2013 and is based in Tumakuru, India.

Maven Clinic

Seed Round in 2016
Maven Clinic operates an on-demand digital care clinic that assists mothers and families during conception, throughout pregnancy, and postpartum. It offers video appointments and private messaging with its proprietary women's and family health practitioner network, as well as a family benefits platform. Maven Clinic offers its services for IVF and egg-freezing tracks, pregnancy, postpartum, partner, adoption, surrogacy, and loss tracks, and career coaching and support, and customized manager training for HR. It serves individuals, employers, and healthcare professionals. It was founded in 2014 by Katherine Ryder and is headquartered in New York City.

Blockstream

Series A in 2016
Blockstream is a blockchain technology supplier that has remained at the forefront of cryptography and distributed system research. Their products and services form the foundation for the financial infrastructure of the future. Blockstream offers a range of key products and services designed to enhance Bitcoin and blockchain functionality. Notable offerings include Blockstream Satellite, which broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain via satellite for users without internet access, and the Liquid Network, a sidechain solution that enables faster and more confidential transactions. Their Green Wallet is a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet focused on security and user control. Additionally, Blockstream provides blockchain APIs for developers to integrate blockchain functionalities into their applications, along with solutions for efficient Bitcoin mining operations. They also focus on cryptographic proofs to enhance privacy and security in transactions. Together, these products aim to improve the usability and capabilities of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies.

Civic

Seed Round in 2016
Civic is a blockchain-based ecosystem that gives businesses and individuals the tools to control and protect identities. They believe identity should be convenient, safe and secure, and put users in control. Civic allows people to control the use of their identity information. They use cutting-edge identity verification technology to secure and protect personal information transfer. Having conducted a successful token sale in June 2017, they set their sights on building identity.com, an open-source, first-of-its-kind marketplace for identity verification services built on the blockchain. They are a team spanning five countries with one common goal: to revolutionize identity.

Knowsy

Seed Round in 2015
Knowsy mission is to educate, inspire and entertain viewers by creating smart and short videos that help you know it all.

Abra

Series A in 2015
Established in 2014, Abra is on a mission to create a simple and honest platform that enables millions of cryptocurrency holders to maximize the potential of their assets. Abra enables both individuals and businesses to safely and securely buy, trade, and borrow against cryptocurrencies – all in one place. Abra’s vision is an open, global financial system that is easily accessible to everyone. Based in the United States, Abra operates in over 150 countries and makes it easy to convert between crypto and a wide variety of local fiat currencies. With over 2MM customers and $9B in transactions processed, Abra continues to grow rapidly. Abra is widely loved and trusted – in April 2022, pymnts.com reviewed and rated Abra amongst the top 5 most popular crypto wallets in the market. Abra is backed by top-tier investors such as American Express Ventures and First Round Capital.

Andela

Series A in 2015
Andela operates the world’s largest private marketplace of skilled digital talent. Its adaptive hiring model gives companies greater flexibility to quickly deploy skilled talent based on need. The company’s exclusive AI-powered platform, Andela Talent Cloud, optimizes the process of finding the right talent and getting projects started fast. Clients can select individual roles or engage fully managed teams up to 66% faster at 30-50% less cost than traditional approaches. Andela’s seasoned hiring professionals manage all the groundwork associated with borderless hiring, from compliance and payroll to talent management. Andela’s diverse talent ecosystem spans over 135 countries, including untapped markets like Africa and Latin America, and is highly skilled in advanced technologies to support Application Development, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & DevOps, Data Engineering, and more. The world’s best brands trust Andela, including GitHub, Mastercard Foundry, and Mindshare.

Case

Seed Round in 2015
Case is a multi-signature hardware bitcoin wallet that is GSM-enabled and biometrically protected for securing digital assets.

Abra

Series A in 2015
Established in 2014, Abra is on a mission to create a simple and honest platform that enables millions of cryptocurrency holders to maximize the potential of their assets. Abra enables both individuals and businesses to safely and securely buy, trade, and borrow against cryptocurrencies – all in one place. Abra’s vision is an open, global financial system that is easily accessible to everyone. Based in the United States, Abra operates in over 150 countries and makes it easy to convert between crypto and a wide variety of local fiat currencies. With over 2MM customers and $9B in transactions processed, Abra continues to grow rapidly. Abra is widely loved and trusted – in April 2022, pymnts.com reviewed and rated Abra amongst the top 5 most popular crypto wallets in the market. Abra is backed by top-tier investors such as American Express Ventures and First Round Capital.

AZA Finance

Seed Round in 2015
AZA Finance is a global payments and FX fintech. Founded in Nairobi, AZA Finance makes it easier for companies around the world to exchange currencies, make payments, and settle easily in all major African and G20 currencies (including digital currencies). AZA Finance was the first company in the world to trade digital currencies using mobile money and the first ever to make a market directly between digital currencies and African currencies. They service frontier market businesses as well as multinational corporates paying partners and suppliers around the world, and works with several of the largest global remittance firms to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Africa.

Open Garden

Series A in 2014
Open Garden is changing the way people connect to the Internet. By enabling anyone to securely share their own Internet connection and earn money, the Open Garden protocol empowers millions of people to create their own networks in their own communities, while making Internet access more affordable, faster and private.

Blockstream

Seed Round in 2014
Blockstream is a blockchain technology supplier that has remained at the forefront of cryptography and distributed system research. Their products and services form the foundation for the financial infrastructure of the future. Blockstream offers a range of key products and services designed to enhance Bitcoin and blockchain functionality. Notable offerings include Blockstream Satellite, which broadcasts the Bitcoin blockchain via satellite for users without internet access, and the Liquid Network, a sidechain solution that enables faster and more confidential transactions. Their Green Wallet is a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet focused on security and user control. Additionally, Blockstream provides blockchain APIs for developers to integrate blockchain functionalities into their applications, along with solutions for efficient Bitcoin mining operations. They also focus on cryptographic proofs to enhance privacy and security in transactions. Together, these products aim to improve the usability and capabilities of Bitcoin and blockchain technologies.

Seen

Seed Round in 2014
Seen’s mission is to connect people more deeply to the world and their collective stories by making every event visible. New tools for a new type of media, Seen identifies signal in the noise of the real time web, reconstructing stories from their social data. At the heart of Seen is an engine that can automatically surface real-time trends within feeds. Seen is built on Google award-winning research, and was selected as one of the first companies for The New York Times incubator initiative, [TimeSpace](http://www.nytimes.com/timespace).

Blockchain.com

Series A in 2014
Blockchain.com operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to buy, hold, and utilize cryptocurrencies, aiming to create an accessible financial system for the internet. With over 50 million users, it offers a straightforward method for engaging with digital currencies, including features for trading, sending, receiving, securing, and borrowing them. The platform also includes a widely used explorer for tracking crypto market activities and an exchange that facilitates fast trading experiences. Additionally, Blockchain Ventures, supported by Blockchain.com, invests in distributed ledger technology (DLT) projects that foster societal benefits and advance the industry, promoting innovative applications of DLT beyond financial services. Overall, Blockchain.com seeks to revolutionize the financial landscape by enabling quick transactions without intermediaries and providing essential tools for real-time market insights.

Fusemachines

Venture Round in 2014
Fusemachines runs AI schools in underserved communities and connects the AI talent with job opportunities. It offers a blend of onsite and online AI education programs and provides AI talent and strategic consulting to its clients to help them develop AI solutions. The company's AI solutions and services provider, running AI schools in underserved communities and connecting talent with jobs. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in New York.

Token

Seed Round in 2014
We have developed the next generation of MFA that stops phishing and unauthorized logins for organizations where ransomware must be stopped

AZA Finance

Seed Round in 2014
AZA Finance is a global payments and FX fintech. Founded in Nairobi, AZA Finance makes it easier for companies around the world to exchange currencies, make payments, and settle easily in all major African and G20 currencies (including digital currencies). AZA Finance was the first company in the world to trade digital currencies using mobile money and the first ever to make a market directly between digital currencies and African currencies. They service frontier market businesses as well as multinational corporates paying partners and suppliers around the world, and works with several of the largest global remittance firms to send white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Africa.

Viridis Learning

Seed Round in 2014
Viridis, a human capital technology SaaS solution, that matches skill deficiencies with local employer needs of middle skill labor.

VirtualU

Seed Round in 2014
VirtualU pioneers the technology behind hyper-realistic digital avatar creation and its implementation across multiple industry platforms. VirtualU's cloud-based server is 20x more powerful than the competition, providing data for fitness, health, wellness, and e-commerce. VFit:tm: is the first sub $10k body scanner with millimeter precision, capable of producing highly realistic 3D scans in under 20 seconds. Their current solution allows fitness and gym members to scan their bodies and store digital versions of themselves over time. It accurately calculates body fat, lean muscle mass, and other key health and fitness statistics without the invasive procedures currently used in today's industry.

FreshPay

Seed Round in 2014
FreshPay is a U.S.-based company that operates a payment processing platform for digital currencies. The company was fpunded in 2013 and is based in San Francisco, California.

The Muse

Seed Round in 2014
The Muse is a job search and career development platform that helps candidates discover and land jobs that fit their skills. The Muse provides professional advice for candidates exploring their options, job searches tailored to personal priorities, company profiles that go behind the scenes at an org, and more. It helps companies build a more informed candidate pipeline and strengthen their employer brand through authentic storytelling content and targeted job postings. The Muse is the go-to destination for the next-gen workforce to research companies and careers. It was founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Sift Shopping

Seed Round in 2013
Sift is a free shopping app shop for Christmas and BlackFriday Sales. Find products and stay connected to brands and retailers. See what’s trending at BestBuy, Macy’s, Nordstom, Toys-R-Us, Target and 3000 more stores. They have millions of products and thousands of stores. Also, discover new stores and products.
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