Jump Capital

Jump Capital is a Chicago-based venture capital investment firm founded in 2012, focusing on expansion-stage companies. The firm specializes in technology sectors, including fintech, information technology, data infrastructure, business-to-business services, software-as-a-service, and media. With a strong emphasis on operational expertise, Jump Capital provides its portfolio companies with access to a robust ecosystem that includes a wide network of resources, leading research labs, and academic institutions. This support aims to advance innovations in areas such as data mining, machine learning, high-performance computing, and healthcare.

Peter Carroll

Operating Partner

Sach Chitnis

General Partner and Co-Founder

Tarun Gupta

Partner

Robert Hutchins

Partner, Portfolio Growth

Robb Hutchins

Partner, Portfolio Growth

Will Nunez

Vice President

Yelena Shkolnik

Partner

Past deals in Peer to Peer

zCloak Network

Seed Round in 2022
zCloak Network is a developer of a decentralized platform that focuses on creating a confidential computation infrastructure for the Polkadot network. The company offers zero-knowledge proof as a service, allowing users to compute and analyze personal data without transmitting it to third-party servers. This approach enhances data privacy and security, enabling customers to protect their private information from theft or misuse. By leveraging cryptographic technology, zCloak Network aims to provide a secure environment for handling sensitive data, thereby addressing growing concerns over data privacy in digital interactions.

Prime Protocol

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Prime Protocol is a decentralized multiple blockchain prime brokerage that facilitates borrowing and lending of assets across various blockchains. The platform enables users to obtain collateralized loans based on the value of their entire portfolio, offering cross-chain margining and competitive interest rates. This approach enhances liquidity and mitigates risk for borrowers, allowing them to improve capital efficiency and diversify their investment portfolios. By providing a seamless and integrated financial service across multiple blockchain networks, Prime Protocol aims to streamline the borrowing process and broaden access to capital for its users.

PDAX

Series B in 2022
PDAX is a digital currency exchange based in the Philippines that facilitates the buying, selling, and trading of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin, against the Philippine Peso. As the first order-book based exchange in the country, PDAX aims to provide users with a cost-effective way to access digital assets, addressing historical barriers to entry for the average Filipino investor. The platform features a trade matching engine that ensures liquidity and competitive pricing, while also offering various order types, including limit and stop orders. Additionally, it supports fund deposits and withdrawals through a network of online and offline channels, allowing for fair pricing and instant order execution, which enables traders to effectively track market trends.

Aver

Seed Round in 2022
Aver is a decentralized peer-to-peer betting exchange built on the Solana blockchain and the world’s first decentralized Web3 betting exchange.

NEAR

Funding Round in 2022
NEAR Inc. is a company that develops the NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain platform designed for creating decentralized applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Protocol supports the development of open-source software and aims to facilitate mainstream adoption of decentralized technologies. The platform offers various services, including documentation, a wallet, a development studio, and an explorer, all built to enhance user experience and development efficiency. It is engineered to handle high-value assets securely while providing the necessary scalability for a wide range of decentralized applications. NEAR's focus on ease of use for both developers and end users distinguishes it in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

NEAR

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
NEAR Inc. is a company that develops the NEAR Protocol, a scalable blockchain platform designed for creating decentralized applications. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, NEAR Protocol supports the development of open-source software and aims to facilitate mainstream adoption of decentralized technologies. The platform offers various services, including documentation, a wallet, a development studio, and an explorer, all built to enhance user experience and development efficiency. It is engineered to handle high-value assets securely while providing the necessary scalability for a wide range of decentralized applications. NEAR's focus on ease of use for both developers and end users distinguishes it in the evolving landscape of blockchain technology.

Paradigm

Series A in 2021
Paradigm was born out of our own frustrations with the institutional OTC trading process. After spending hundreds of hours trading and navigating the inefficient, multi-channel nature of traditional OTC markets, we thought to ourselves: “there has to be a better way.” Paradigm is that better way. We are building the next generation of institutional OTC trading that is powered by conversation and automated with AI. We are backed by XBTO Ventures, Vectr Fintech Partners and some of the most influential private investors in the OTC markets.

Drift

Seed Round in 2021
Drift Protocol brings on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures to Solana. Making futures DEXs the best way to trade.

Archer DAO

Seed Round in 2021
Archer DAO helps its users increase their Ethereum mining revenue. Integrate in just 5 minutes, with one line of code. Start earning more today.

Bitpanda

Series C in 2021
Bitpanda GmbH, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria, operates a digital investment platform that simplifies the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities. As a retail broker, Bitpanda aims to democratize investing by removing financial barriers and providing users with transparent, easy access to digital assets. The platform features low fees, 24/7 trading, and real-time settlement, allowing users to manage their investments on their own terms. Additionally, Bitpanda offers diverse payment and payout options, along with a debit card that enables users to spend their investments like cash, thereby empowering individuals to take control of their financial futures.

Port Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Port Finance is a decentralized money market protocol that offers a comprehensive range of lending products. It specializes in variable-rate lending, fixed-rate lending, and interest rate swaps, providing customers with non-custodial liquidity solutions. By enabling users to access diverse fixed-income products, Port Finance facilitates efficient borrowing and lending in the decentralized finance space.

Sporttrade

Funding Round in 2021
Sporttrade operates a peer-to-peer marketplace for sports betting, allowing users to buy and sell outcomes of sporting events similarly to stock trading. This innovative platform enables participants to bet on and against various outcomes, set their own odds, and monitor their bets' performance in real-time. With a focus on efficiency, Sporttrade's patent-pending technology can process thousands of bets per second, significantly reducing delays commonly associated with traditional sportsbooks, which typically retain up to 10% of users' funds. In contrast, Sporttrade retains less than 1%, providing a more favorable experience for bettors. Users can also engage with friends, compete on leaderboards, and have opportunities to earn cash prizes.

Bitpanda

Series B in 2021
Bitpanda GmbH, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Austria, operates a digital investment platform that simplifies the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, stocks, and commodities. As a retail broker, Bitpanda aims to democratize investing by removing financial barriers and providing users with transparent, easy access to digital assets. The platform features low fees, 24/7 trading, and real-time settlement, allowing users to manage their investments on their own terms. Additionally, Bitpanda offers diverse payment and payout options, along with a debit card that enables users to spend their investments like cash, thereby empowering individuals to take control of their financial futures.

0x

Series A in 2021
0x Protocol operates an open protocol that facilitates peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco, the protocol serves as a standard for decentralized exchanges, promoting interoperability among applications that require exchange functionality. The offerings include 0x Instant, which allows for crypto purchasing within apps and websites, and the 0x Launch Kit, which assists in launching relayers. Additionally, ZEIP-23 enables the trading of bundles of assets. The protocol supports developers in building relayers, utilizing networked liquidity, and engaging in market making, catering to a diverse range of markets from gaming items to financial instruments.

Pangea Money Transfer

Venture Round in 2019
Pangea Money Transfer is an award-winning mobile-centric money transfer platform that allows on-the-go users to send money from the U.S. to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in less than 30 seconds -- all for a low flat fee. Receivers can collect the cash at thousands of retail locations or have it directly deposited into any bank account or onto a debit card. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Spring

Seed Round in 2018
Spring Labs is the company building out the spring protocol, a network designed to allow network participants, such as financial institutions, to share information about data, such as credit and identity data, without needing to share the underlying data itself. They allow institutions to directly share information among themselves to verify identities and reduce fraud - all while protecting consumer data. Spring Labs uses an attestation-based approach reducing the risk and severity of data breaches for financial institutions and consumers. The Spring Protocol separates data ownership from data value, allowing competitively-sensitive parties to exchange information directly and in a fundamentally new way. Spring Labs was founded in 2017 and is based in Marina Del Rey, California, United States.

Pangea Money Transfer

Series B in 2016
Pangea Money Transfer is an award-winning mobile-centric money transfer platform that allows on-the-go users to send money from the U.S. to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in less than 30 seconds -- all for a low flat fee. Receivers can collect the cash at thousands of retail locations or have it directly deposited into any bank account or onto a debit card. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Pangea Money Transfer

Venture Round in 2014
Pangea Money Transfer is an award-winning mobile-centric money transfer platform that allows on-the-go users to send money from the U.S. to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in less than 30 seconds -- all for a low flat fee. Receivers can collect the cash at thousands of retail locations or have it directly deposited into any bank account or onto a debit card. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

Pangea Money Transfer

Seed Round in 2013
Pangea Money Transfer is an award-winning mobile-centric money transfer platform that allows on-the-go users to send money from the U.S. to 15 countries across Latin America and Asia in less than 30 seconds -- all for a low flat fee. Receivers can collect the cash at thousands of retail locations or have it directly deposited into any bank account or onto a debit card. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
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