G1 Ventures

Blockchain VC with practical approach

Arseny Klekovkin

Managing Partner

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Azuro

Seed Round in 2024
Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol that leverages smart contracts to enhance transparency in the betting process. By providing a classic betting experience with diverse markets and liquidity, Azuro aims to democratize the betting landscape through innovations such as collectible bets and gamification using NFTs. The protocol facilitates liquidity provision and allocation while enabling front-end management and data provision through oracles. Additionally, it incorporates decentralized governance, allowing the community to manage operations effectively. Azuro is committed to offering an engaging and responsible betting environment with reduced service costs and full transparency.

Arkis - DeFi Prime Broker

Pre Seed Round in 2024
The only institutional-grade undercollateralized leverage protocol with a DeFi-native portfolio margin.

Saline Network

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Saline Network is a technology company that develops a verifiable computation platform. This platform allows developers to delegate the execution of computations to a protocol, enabling them to define asset rules and achieve outcomes without directly executing application transactions. The company's key product is a general verification network, which facilitates this process.

Altitude

Seed Round in 2024
Altitude operates a decentralized finance platform offering actively managed collateralized loans. It uses the volatility of collateral value to repay loans over time.

Coinchange

Venture Round in 2023
Coinchange is a Canadian fintech company established in 2018, dedicated to fostering an inclusive and innovative financial future. The company offers a user-friendly platform that provides a range of products and services designed to help businesses, individuals, and institutions maximize the potential of digital assets. Coinchange's solutions cater specifically to financial advisers, crypto hedge funds, and high-net-worth clients, enabling them to automate earnings, invest in institutional crypto funds, and execute seamless trades. The company emphasizes security, compliance, and risk mitigation, collaborating with industry leaders to maintain trust and safeguard client assets. By utilizing risk-managed yield strategies, Coinchange allows clients to achieve consistent returns on investments, regardless of market conditions.

D8X

Pre Seed Round in 2023
D8X operates an institutional-grade decentralized exchange (DEX) for perpetual futures trading. Its platform employs financial engineering techniques to enhance the trading experience of these derivatives on the blockchain.

Nillion

Seed Round in 2022
Nillion is a computer and network security company that operates a decentralized public network based on a cryptographic primitive called Nil Message Compute (NMC). It develops a decentralized computing platform for secure processing and storage of high-value data, employing privacy technologies to enable confidential computations on masked data. The platform is designed to help healthcare and finance industries manage sensitive information while maintaining robust security standards and operational efficiency.

Finery Markets

Seed Round in 2022
Founded in 2019, Finery Markets is a leading electronic marketplace for institutional participants, offering high-performance execution venues with deep liquidity. It provides comprehensive trade lifecycle solutions including price intelligence tools, position management, risk controls, and flexible settlement. The platform offers single entry access to global liquidity providers via API and GUI, with robust infrastructure ensuring 99.99% uptime.

ZenLedger

Series B in 2022
ZenLedger develops software solutions for cryptocurrency tax management. It offers ZenLedger, a tool that enables users to import cryptocurrency transactions, calculate gains and income, and auto-fill tax forms. Its platform produces profit/loss statements and prepares various tax reports.

Eywa

Seed Round in 2022
Eywa is a decentralized cross-chain protocol designed to facilitate the transfer of liquidity and data across various blockchains that support smart contracts. By addressing interoperability challenges, Eywa aims to create a seamless ecosystem for decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. The protocol serves as a middle layer, enabling developers to build cross-chain decentralized applications and engage in cross-chain farming. This functionality allows users to easily perform cross-chain swaps and bridge assets across different DeFi platforms. Eywa's approach enhances the accessibility and utility of existing DeFi blockchains, fostering innovation and collaboration within the cryptocurrency space.

Lit Protocol

Seed Round in 2022
Lit Protocol is a decentralized access control infrastructure designed to bring more utility to the web by providing secure, token-based access to digital experiences.

Tinyman

Seed Round in 2022
Tinyman is a decentralized trading protocol built on the Algorand blockchain, providing a secure and efficient marketplace for traders, liquidity providers, and developers. The company focuses on creating an open platform that facilitates asset trading and swapping, including tokens and currencies, at market rates. By leveraging blockchain technology, Tinyman acts as a market maker, ensuring that users can engage in secure trading activities while benefiting from the speed and reliability of its underlying framework. This innovative approach positions Tinyman as a significant player in the decentralized finance space.

Crucible

Seed Round in 2022
Crucible is a developer of a software platform that focuses on creating secure and portable digital identities. The platform is designed to enhance game engines by integrating user-friendly functionalities that connect to web3 technologies, including self-sovereign identity, blockchain, and cryptocurrencies. Crucible offers features such as single sign-on, password-less access to games, transportable avatars, and multi-world tradable collectibles. This enables gamers, modders, and creators to experience a seamless gaming environment and engage with an open metaverse. By prioritizing user sovereignty and establishing necessary infrastructure and standards, Crucible aims to facilitate a more positive and inclusive digital future.

Stardust

Series A in 2021
Stardust is a software company that offers a platform for game developers to build and manage blockchain-enabled games and metaverse experiences. The platform provides a graphical development environment and APIs that allow Web3 features, including NFT integration, across multiple blockchains with only a few lines of code, enabling developers to ship blockchain-enabled games faster without being required to commit to a single blockchain. Stardust aims to simplify the process of bringing blockchain, finance, and social components into games by offering integrated tools for gameplay, player management, and cross-chain compatibility. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

ZenLedger

Series A in 2021
ZenLedger develops software solutions for cryptocurrency tax management. It offers ZenLedger, a tool that enables users to import cryptocurrency transactions, calculate gains and income, and auto-fill tax forms. Its platform produces profit/loss statements and prepares various tax reports.

Defactor

Seed Round in 2021
Defactor develops integration and risk management platforms that connect centralized and decentralized finance. Its native token $FACTR and Springpad platform enable businesses to convert FIAT currencies, manage digital assets, and access liquidity in decentralized finance.

Panther Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Panther Protocol is an interoperable privacy solution designed to enable private transactions of digital assets across various public blockchains. It aims to restore financial privacy for traders and investors in decentralized finance while ensuring compliance-friendly mechanisms.

Gattaca

Seed Round in 2021
A research-driven company specializing in crypto technology. It offers algorithm solutions to provide liquidity, arbitrage inefficiencies, secure loans, participate in collateral auctions, validate transactions, and enhance market stability.

Delta Exchange

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Delta Exchange is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that specializes in a diverse array of trading products, including futures, perpetual contracts, options, interest rate swaps, and calendar spreads. With a strong emphasis on options trading, Delta Exchange holds a prominent position in the global market, boasting a market share exceeding 25%. The platform supports USDT-settled options for various cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, solana, BNB, and Matic. Delta Exchange caters to both retail and institutional traders by providing advanced trading features such as multiple margin modes, a strategy builder, and basket orders, thereby facilitating a comprehensive and user-friendly trading experience.

CERE Network

Venture Round in 2021
CERE Network is a blockchain-based company that specializes in developing a customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem designed for data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CERE Network offers a platform that extracts customer data from various monolithic and disparate CRM and customer data platform systems. This platform provides an open micro-services environment that facilitates data collaboration and integration between businesses and vendors. Additionally, CERE Network utilizes blockchain technology to capture the entire customer journey, securely storing key user data such as purchases and achievements in user wallets. The company also introduces its own tokens, which are used for payment within its ecosystem.

Kraken

Venture Round in 2021
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that enables spot and futures trading across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 40 digital assets. Founded in 2011, it serves millions of clients and promotes broader cryptocurrency adoption by offering a marketplace where buyers, sellers, and traders exchange digital assets against major currencies. The platform provides services for large trades through a principal over-the-counter desk and offers professional charting tools for technical analysis. It supports automated trading via REST and WebSocket APIs, enabling developers and traders to build, test, and execute strategies. Kraken also offers round-the-clock live chat support to assist users at every stage of their journey. The company aims to provide a secure, accessible, and open financial system to foster financial inclusion.

STOKR

Venture Round in 2021
STOKR is a digital marketplace that operates on the blockchain, aimed at transforming capital markets by offering independent access for founders and investors. The platform provides a comprehensive solution for tokenizing securities, enabling founders to manage the entire investment process, including issuance, subscription, and administration of security tokens, in compliance with EU capital market regulations. STOKR supports multi-blockchain issuance and allows investors to register, invest, and manage their security tokens easily. Utilizing blockchain technology, STOKR automates subscriptions to future profits or revenues through smart contracts, all without any associated costs. The company focuses on simplifying investment processes, providing everyday investors and innovative businesses with the tools to engage in a more accessible and efficient digital investment landscape.

Concordium

Venture Round in 2021
Concordium is a blockchain technology company based in Zug, Switzerland, specializing in a privacy-focused platform tailored for enterprises and governments. The company is distinguished by its innovative user identity layer, built into the protocol, which allows for secure transactions while ensuring self-sovereign data ownership. By leveraging smart contracts and zero-knowledge proofs, Concordium enables users to verify the authenticity of information without disclosing sensitive details. The platform is designed for seamless integration with existing business and financial systems, prioritizing regulatory compliance. Although participant data is anonymized on-chain, the system is structured to allow for the revocation of anonymity in a decentralized manner as mandated by legal authorities. Through these features, Concordium aims to empower individuals and industries to safely navigate the complexities of blockchain technology while maintaining privacy and transparency.

Nayms

Seed Round in 2021
Nayms is a marketplace for crypto-native insurance, a bridge between alternative capital and uninsured risk in the rapidly evolving digital assets’ space. We provide the technical and legal infrastructure over which stakeholders come together to capitalise and transfer risk on-chain. At Nayms, all insurance, from limits and premiums to claims and reserving, is conducted entirely in a cryptocurrency of choice, whether a general token, such as Ethereum and Bitcoin, or a stablecoin. By matching assets with liabilities, we reduce or eliminate currency risk on blockchain exposures; and by matching demand with much-needed supply, we bolster growth and stability within the blockchain ecosystem. We afford our customers – insurers, insureds, intermediaries, and investors – many other advantages of blockchain technology, including its efficiency, immutability, transparency, and composability. Whitepaper: https://docsend.com/view/2nswpepqqaun96yn

Kraken

Secondary Market in 2020
Kraken is a cryptocurrency exchange that enables spot and futures trading across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more than 40 digital assets. Founded in 2011, it serves millions of clients and promotes broader cryptocurrency adoption by offering a marketplace where buyers, sellers, and traders exchange digital assets against major currencies. The platform provides services for large trades through a principal over-the-counter desk and offers professional charting tools for technical analysis. It supports automated trading via REST and WebSocket APIs, enabling developers and traders to build, test, and execute strategies. Kraken also offers round-the-clock live chat support to assist users at every stage of their journey. The company aims to provide a secure, accessible, and open financial system to foster financial inclusion.

Idex.io

Seed Round in 2020
IDEX is a financial services company that operates a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange platform. This platform enables real-time trading, blending the speed and functionality of centralized exchanges with the security inherent in decentralized systems. By prioritizing performance and security, IDEX allows market makers to integrate their existing infrastructure, facilitating secure operations while providing deep liquidity in the cryptocurrency market.

Qredo

Seed Round in 2020
Qredo Ltd is a London-based company that operates a platform designed to facilitate the secure and efficient movement of digital assets for institutional traders. Established in 2011, Qredo provides an open protocol and decentralized, multi-party computation network that enhances the security and custody of digital assets. Its solutions address the operational challenges and security risks associated with wallet key management, trading, storage, and transfer of these assets. By offering features such as cross-chain liquidity, treasury management tools, and peer-to-peer trading venues, Qredo aims to streamline the digital asset management process while mitigating cyber threats.

Nuri

Series A in 2019
Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.

Spatium

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Spatium provides plug-and-play access to crypto for retail financial institutions, enabling their customers to trade, store, spend digital assets, and connect to decentralized finance in a regulatory-friendly and secure way. It develops advanced crypto asset storage solutions based on a distributed transaction signing protocol that replaces the private key with a set of secrets generated, stored and processed independently and never occurring in one place. This approach eliminates a single point of failure and decreases hacking risk while offering configuration flexibility. Spatium relies on threshold signatures, secure multi-party computation, and zero-knowledge proofs, and its solutions have been audited and tested by open-source reviewers and professional security firms.

Coinfirm

Convertible Note in 2019
Coinfirm Limited, founded in 2016 and based in London, is a provider of blockchain analytics and compliance solutions aimed at enhancing the safety and integrity of the blockchain economy. The company develops a verification and compliance platform that offers insights into entities and transactions, facilitating the institutional adoption of blockchain and digital currencies. Coinfirm's offerings include Compliance-as-a-Service, risk management, business intelligence, and API solutions, which are designed to protect clients from engaging with counterparties involved in illicit activities such as money laundering and terrorism financing. With extensive coverage of over one million cryptocurrencies and protocols across 66 blockchains, Coinfirm serves a diverse range of clients, including virtual asset service providers, major financial institutions, and governmental entities, thereby supporting informed decision-making and regulatory compliance in the complex landscape of digital assets.

BCB Group

Seed Round in 2019
BCB Group is a regulated financial services company providing banking and payments infrastructure for the digital asset economy. It offers accounts, foreign exchange, and digital custody, along with compliance, trade execution, settlement, reporting, and payment services that enable cryptocurrency and blockchain institutions to operate with efficiency and scale. Serving a diverse client base in the crypto market, BCB Group functions as a gateway to banking and payments for the sector, leveraging multi jurisdictional regulatory know-how. Founded in the United Kingdom, the company emphasizes secure, governance‑driven infrastructure to support rapid, compliant access to fiat and digital assets for institutional participants.

Send Payments

Seed Round in 2019
SendFX is the operator of a cross-border payment platform designed to eliminate payment or banking restrictions. Customers can send and receive money using international wallets according to their company's infrastructure, which enables them to convert local dollars into a variety of foreign currencies. SendFX's currency transfer solution is a perfect fit for its brand. With the company's simple plug-and-play integrations, anyone can launch a future-proof FX product.

Fincom

Fincom is a cloud-based solution that helps businesses of all sizes meet regulatory demands efficiently. It offers an intuitive interface for daily use and enables immediate deployment. Developed by AI and linguistics experts over seven years, Fincom employs automated technology to ensure regulatory conformity at a significantly reduced cost compared to traditional methods.
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