Ubitium
Seed Round in 2024
Ubitium is a technology company specializing in microprocessor development. It focuses on creating universal, high-performance microprocessors based on the open-source RISC-V instruction set. The company's core business is designing scalable and cost-effective architectures for autonomous computing systems, aiming to optimize performance, reduce complexity, and ensure hardware adaptability. This enables developers to integrate universal computing capabilities across a wide range of devices and environments, addressing both performance efficiency and affordability challenges.
Fabric Cryptography
Series A in 2024
Fabric Cryptography specializes in developing custom hardware designed to enhance the performance of cryptographic algorithms, allowing them to execute in milliseconds. The company's innovative chips are built around Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs), which combine elements of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to optimize the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of complex cryptographic tasks. Fabric's technology supports essential blockchain applications through the implementation of advanced techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, and verifiable delay functions, thereby enabling businesses to significantly accelerate their cryptographic processes.
Lodestar
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Lodestar is a pioneering company focused on advancing in-orbit 3D printing technology and developing innovative robotics systems for space applications. Founded by experts in off-earth manufacturing, Lodestar aims to transform the approach to constructing large structures in space, thereby minimizing the need to transport materials from Earth. The company is also creating a platform-agnostic robotics system, starting with a dexterous robotic arm designed for inspecting and repairing orbiting assets. This technology is engineered to operate autonomously and perform delicate tasks in microgravity, effectively addressing challenges such as radiation exposure and extreme temperatures while maintaining high precision. Through these advancements, Lodestar is poised to enhance crucial space infrastructure and contribute significantly to the future of aerospace endeavors.
Particle
Seed Round in 2024
Particle is a permissionless decentralized leverage trading technology that may be used with any digital asset, including tokens and NFTs. The Particle protocol allows traders to borrow directly from liquidity pools at automated market makers (AMMs) with concentrated liquidity
Modulus
Seed Round in 2023
Modulus uses cryptography to verify that AI results weren't doctored. It was founded in 2021 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Tune Insight
Seed Round in 2023
Tune Insight is a developer of data security software that facilitates secure collaborations on sensitive data among multiple organizations. The company employs advanced collective analytics, privacy measures, and encryption technologies to enable federated learning. This approach allows participants to derive insights collectively while maintaining full control over their own data. By focusing on secure data sharing, Tune Insight empowers organizations to make informed decisions collaboratively, ensuring both data integrity and privacy throughout the process.
LabDAO is a research organization focused on advancing the computational life sciences. It offers a biotechnological research platform that facilitates collaboration among researchers and provides essential tools for conducting and sharing research. By enabling both independent and university-affiliated scientists to connect with one another, LabDAO fosters an environment where researchers can concentrate on their strengths and develop their projects effectively. The organization aims to accelerate progress in the field by streamlining access to funding and collaboration opportunities, thereby enhancing the overall research landscape.
Radical
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Radical is a company focused on developing high-altitude solar aircraft that operate autonomously in the stratosphere. These aircraft are designed to provide continuous LTE or 5G cellular service to over 90% of the global population at a significantly reduced cost compared to traditional terrestrial networks. In addition to enhancing network coverage in underserved areas, Radical's aircraft are equipped to collect multi-spectral imagery and carry weather and climate sensors. This innovative approach offers aerospace industries sustainable, zero-emissions solutions for connectivity and environmental observation.
Salsa (prev. Pearl)
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Salsa is a mobile app for brands looking for a crypto-native way to engage their audiences. Salsa is launching its app in partnership with POAP, a “Proof of Attendance Protocol” that lets users mint memories like event attendance as digital collectibles.
Senken
Venture Round in 2023
Senken is a pioneering company that operates the world's first on-chain carbon credit exchange, focusing on verified climate projects. It serves as a climate finance portal aimed at facilitating the regenerative economy. The platform provides a marketplace for carbon credits, ensuring that all transactions are transparent and credible. Senken's offerings include tools for credit management and access to carbon removal projects, enabling clients to effectively offset emissions and trade carbon credits. By leveraging on-chain market infrastructure, Senken aims to enhance market access and promote verifiable climate action.
Ultimate
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Ultimate is an information technology company that develops investment apps and web3 co-pilot for the navigation of crypto wallets.
Fabric Cryptography
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fabric Cryptography specializes in developing custom hardware designed to enhance the performance of cryptographic algorithms, allowing them to execute in milliseconds. The company's innovative chips are built around Verifiable Processing Units (VPUs), which combine elements of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) to optimize the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of complex cryptographic tasks. Fabric's technology supports essential blockchain applications through the implementation of advanced techniques such as zero-knowledge proofs, homomorphic encryption, and verifiable delay functions, thereby enabling businesses to significantly accelerate their cryptographic processes.
GitPOAP
Seed Round in 2022
GitPOAP is a decentralized reputation platform that enables users to showcase their contributions and achievements through blockchain-based badges. The platform utilizes a proof of attendance protocol that provides cryptographic verification of off-chain accomplishments, allowing individuals to create a public and immutable record of their work. These badges are accessible to anyone, facilitating recognition and fostering community engagement among contributors and repository owners. By providing a transparent way to acknowledge contributions, GitPOAP aims to nurture and grow collaborative efforts within various projects.
Unstoppable Finance
Series A in 2022
Unstoppable Finance is a company focused on creating a next-generation cryptocurrency wallet aimed at making decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible to retail investors worldwide. By developing user-friendly financial products, Unstoppable Finance combines expertise in regulated financial technology and cryptocurrency platforms to empower individuals with innovative financial services. The company's mission is to democratize access to DeFi, ensuring that everyday investors can engage with and benefit from advanced financial solutions.
Otterspace
Seed Round in 2022
Otterspace is an NFT company focused on enhancing participation within decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) by using earned NFTs instead of purchased ones. It offers a badge protocol that is non-transferable, which helps DAOs create more effective incentive systems, automate permissions, and facilitate non-financialized governance. Additionally, Otterspace provides DAO onboarding software that features a modular and composable toolset, making the process of joining and contributing to a DAO accessible and familiar to users transitioning from Web2 environments. Through these innovations, Otterspace aims to streamline the governance and engagement within DAOs, fostering a community-driven approach to decentralized participation.
Entropy
Seed Round in 2022
Entropy provides crypto custody services to keep private keys secure and make assets available on demand. Its services specialize in creating a decentralized network leveraging advanced threshold cryptography and multi-party computation. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York.
t2.world is a decentralized publishing platform designed to foster community engagement and facilitate meaningful interactions around niche subjects. It provides users with humane content creation software that encourages the development of deep reading habits through an innovative model where time is valued. By allowing writers and readers to connect and engage in discussions, t2.world aims to enhance the reading experience and create subcultures centered on shared interests. The platform emphasizes the importance of community curation, positioning itself as a forward-thinking solution for the future of reading.
Violet is a blockchain protocol developed on the Ethereum platform that aims to create a crypto-native identity network. The protocol facilitates the connection between off-chain and on-chain identities, ensuring the composability of identities across the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. By addressing the issue of data fragmentation, Violet enables users to enhance their access to decentralized markets. Through its innovative identity orchestration approach, the company seeks to streamline identity management within the increasingly complex landscape of blockchain applications.
Housecat
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Housecat is a developer of a crypto investment platform that aims to simplify and democratize investment strategies for users. By enabling individuals to engage in asset management, the platform allows users to manually invest across various asset classes or automatically replicate the trades of experienced asset managers. Housecat's offerings provide clients with access to diverse investment portfolios and facilitate connections with experts in both traditional financial instruments and cryptocurrencies. Through its user-friendly approach, Housecat empowers individuals to take control of their investment decisions, fostering a more inclusive investment landscape.
Sarcophagus
Venture Round in 2022
Sarcophagus is an autonomous decentralized application (dApp) designed to function as a dead man's switch, ensuring that certain actions can be activated or deactivated in the event that the human operator becomes incapacitated. Built on the Ethereum and Arweave blockchains, Sarcophagus is a fully open-source project developed by a global team of software developers, crypto enthusiasts, and security experts. The application facilitates the creation of crypto tokens and offers opportunities for digital currency farming, allowing users to earn incentives. Despite its innovative approach, Sarcophagus has not yet undergone an audit.
ARX
Pre Seed Round in 2022
ARX smart contracts and HaLo chips enable creators build decentralized, immutable and composable physical crypto assets.
Unstoppable Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Unstoppable Finance is a company focused on creating a next-generation cryptocurrency wallet aimed at making decentralized finance (DeFi) accessible to retail investors worldwide. By developing user-friendly financial products, Unstoppable Finance combines expertise in regulated financial technology and cryptocurrency platforms to empower individuals with innovative financial services. The company's mission is to democratize access to DeFi, ensuring that everyday investors can engage with and benefit from advanced financial solutions.
Foundation
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet. They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoin while maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!
Catalog
Seed Round in 2021
Catalog is a marketplace focused on transforming the music industry through the use of non-fungible tokens. It aims to create new value models that promote an equitable music ecosystem, allowing fans to discover and support the artists they love directly. By facilitating the trading of tokens, Catalog enables users to bid on music created by their favorite artists, fostering a deeper connection between fans and musicians. This platform not only helps in monetizing music but also enhances the overall listening experience, contributing to a more collaborative and supportive music community.
Defined
Seed Round in 2021
Defined is a data platform that facilitates access to on-chain data and enables interactions across various blockchains and decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. The platform offers tools for users to efficiently trade cryptocurrencies, find trades, and export transaction history while providing an accurate cost basis for accounting purposes. Additionally, Defined helps users manage yields across different networks and curate governance proposals for tokens, enhancing the overall trading experience in the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Better Internet Foundation
Venture Round in 2021
Radicle is a developer-focused company that offers a peer-to-peer code collaboration platform designed to facilitate software development without intermediaries. By leveraging open protocols, Radicle enables users to manage projects and assets while sharing and collaborating on code repositories. The platform provides functionality similar to centralized code tools, allowing developers to work together efficiently without the need for hosted servers. This approach promotes greater autonomy and control over the development process.
Async Art
Seed Round in 2021
Async Art, Inc. operates an innovative online platform that connects artists and collectors in the realm of programmable art. Founded in 2019 and based in Fort Bragg, California, Async Art utilizes the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate the creation, collection, and trading of unique digital artworks. The platform allows users to own distinct components of a piece, referred to as "Layers," which interact with a central "Master" work. This structure enables multiple owners to independently modify their respective layers within parameters set by the artist, fostering a collaborative and dynamic art experience. For example, one user may control the sky in a landscape painting, while another controls a figure, and an AI adjusts elements based on external factors such as market trends. This approach aims to redefine the art world by integrating technology and user participation in the creative process.
Flashbots
Seed Round in 2021
Flashbots is a research and development company dedicated to improving the efficiency and transparency of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in blockchain ecosystems. The company focuses on creating tools for miners and searchers to extract MEV in a more transparent and efficient manner. Flashbots aims to mitigate the negative impacts of current MEV extraction techniques, which can pose existential risks to state-rich blockchains like Ethereum. Their goal is to establish a permissionless, transparent, and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction and redistribution.
Foundation
Angel Round in 2020
Foundation Devices builds the open hardware foundation for Bitcoin and the sovereign Internet. They started Foundation Devices to make beautifully designed, open-source hardware for Bitcoin and the decentralized Internet. To bring great design and UX to hardware wallets, nodes, and more. To empower individuals to securely use and store Bitcoin while maintaining their sovereignty. To help our industry cross the chasm while staying true to its founding ideals. We call this open hardware. And we are excited to bring it to the world!
Balancer
Seed Round in 2020
Balancer Labs, Inc., established in 2018, is a U.S.-based company that operates a decentralized finance exchange. It specializes in providing a platform for programmable liquidity, enabling users to create and manage self-balancing index funds or invest in others' without the need for deposits, bids/asks, or order management. Balancer Labs also functions as a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor within this decentralized ecosystem.
MakerDAO
Venture Round in 2019
MakerDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that operates on the Ethereum blockchain, specializing in the development of a stablecoin known as Dai. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California, with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, MakerDAO aims to minimize the price volatility of Dai by utilizing collateralized debt positions and autonomous feedback mechanisms. The company enables users to access a low-volatility, collateral-backed cryptocurrency, promoting financial inclusion and stability. In addition to Dai, MakerDAO has introduced MKR, a token that serves multiple purposes within its ecosystem, including governance and system recapitalization. Through its innovative approach, MakerDAO seeks to provide a decentralized digital currency that maintains its purchasing power, making financial services accessible to users worldwide.
Centrifuge
Venture Round in 2019
Centrifuge Inc. is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing 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 for the peer-to-peer exchange of financial documents. The platform enables businesses to transact while retaining ownership of critical data, including company details and transaction histories. By allowing asset managers to tokenize and manage their funds on-chain, Centrifuge facilitates better access for investors to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets. The company's operating system supports third-party service providers in creating applications and functionalities that interact with financial data, thereby fostering economic opportunity and enhancing transactional efficiency within the financial ecosystem.
Decred
Venture Round in 2018
Decred is a cryptocurrency that emphasizes community involvement, open governance, and sustainable development. It employs a hybrid mining system that combines proof-of-work and proof-of-stake mechanisms, which helps prevent centralization and ensures that no small group can control transaction processes or alter the currency without community consensus. Decred aims to facilitate free and fair trade in the cryptocurrency space while maintaining the integrity of its transactions through a secure blockchain technology. The currency unit is referred to as a decred. By prioritizing decentralized governance, Decred seeks to create a more inclusive and democratic financial ecosystem.
Zcash
Venture Round in 2018
Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender, recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view key at their discretion. Zcash transactions do not depend on the cooperation of other parties. Additionally, full nodes in the Zcash network only need to store a small persistent state.