Liberty City Ventures

Liberty City Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York City. The firm specializes in seed-stage and startup investments, focusing on sectors such as technology, media, retailing, and commerce. Liberty City Ventures is particularly known for its commitment to the emerging digital currency ecosystem, with a dedicated focus on Bitcoin. The firm invests in companies that are developing the necessary infrastructure, products, and services to support this new digital landscape. In addition to financial backing, Liberty City Ventures provides value-added services to its portfolio companies, leveraging the expertise of its experienced team in areas such as public relations, marketing, management, and operations. By backing promising startups at an early stage, the firm aims to facilitate growth and innovation within these dynamic industries.

Murtaza Akbar

Partner

Mohammad Barhoush

Principal

Cascarilla C.F.A., CFA, Charles G.

Founding Partner

James Lang

Managing Director

Woods, Emil K.

Partner

58 past transactions

MPCH

Series A in 2022
MPCH provides Enterprise Key Management infrastructure that enables financial institutions to fully secure and manage their digital assets

Nowaday

Series A in 2022
Nowaday is a operator of a vintage city tour service designed to make visitors experience the vintage era of the city. The company's tour takes travelers on an exploration of New York's most iconic landmarks from the back of a refurbished vintage car with a private chauffeur-storyteller, thereby helping guests learn the history of the city.

Animoca Brands

Venture Round in 2022
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

Zigazoo

Series A in 2022
Zigazoo is a rapidly growing social media brand featuring the recently launched Generation Z-focused Zigazoo app and Zigazoo Kids, which launched in 2020 and has since become the world’s largest social network for Generation Alpha. Zigazoo makes screentime healthier, safer and more creative. The video-first apps have empowered millions to express their authentic selves within a positive social media environment and has become a priority destination for top tier creator talent, celebrities, and best-in-class brands including the NBA, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Amazon, Apple TV+, Netflix, and WWE. Since launch in 2020, Zigazoo has been backed by the NBA, Liberty City Ventures, MaC Venture Capital, Causeway Media Partners, Serena Ventures, Talis Capital, Wheelhouse Entertainment, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Charli & Dixie D’Amelio, and Jimmy Kimmel, and many more tech and entertainment heavyweights.

ScienceMagic.Studios

Pre Seed Round in 2022
ScienceMagic.Studios is a digital asset venture studio provider.

DoraHacks

Series B in 2022
DoraHacks is a global hackathon organizer and a multi-chain Web3 developer platform. DoraHacks partners with over 40 Web3 ecosystems, such as Solana, Polygon, and Avalanche, to provide infrastructure for open-source communities and foster blockchain technology innovations. The company offers various tools and services, including hackathons, bounty programs, quadratic funding, and privacy voting mechanisms, all aimed at supporting the development and governance of decentralized applications.

Phantom Galaxies

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Phantom Galaxies is an open-world mech combat game, currently in Alpha, developed by Blowfish Studios. Phantom Galaxies will be one of the first blockchain-based AAA game titles to launch with broad appeal to both traditional gaming enthusiasts and Web3 natives. Three of the four episodes of the Alpha version are available now, and early access to the Beta launch is expected to occur in Q3 2022.

Solidus Labs

Series B in 2022
Solidus Labs is an information technology company that provides a machine learning-powered trade surveillance and transaction monitoring infrastructure tailored for digital assets. It features a SaaS web-based dashboard, that enables its clients to detect, investigate, and address suspicious activity in blockchain-based asset trading. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.

OneFootball

Series D in 2022
OneFootball is an app and platform that provides comprehensive coverage of over 100 international soccer leagues and competitions. It includes live scores, news, and video highlights. The app caters to soccer enthusiasts with features like fixtures, stats, and a calendar of all competitions worldwide, making it a must-have for fans. OneFootball partners with various organizations, including Major League Soccer, to deliver content globally, ensuring fans stay updated on their favorite leagues.

BlockApps

Series B in 2022
BlockApps is making digital ownership real through the development of the STRATO Mercata Blockchain Protocol and Marketplace. With a network of verified partners, whiskey casks, precious metals, carbon offsets and collectibles are available for anyone to purchase. Born from the launch of Ethereum, BlockApps has worked with some of the world’s largest enterprises and governments and has raised approximately $50 million in investment. BlockApps was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.

Fasset

Series A in 2022
Fasset is a global digital asset gateway that brings accessibility to the digital asset space. Through its digital assets, Fasset provides people in emerging markets the opportunity to build a better future. The company is pioneering web3 technologies and driving adoption of digital assets for the next billion.

Tiny Rebel Games

Seed Round in 2022
We are Petaverse Network. Our aim is simple but robust - we are building an open standard for digital pets. An interoperable data solution for creating infinite virtual companions to be by your side, across the metaverse. Pets to bond with, who will learn, evolve, and behave based on their specific 'DNA' and the interactions you have with them. Soon, we will be helping people to adopt their first digital pets and take them into the first of many experiences they will be able to have with virtual companion. Embracing the wonders of #web3 we invite partnership with other creators across the metaverse.

Soul Machines

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2016, Soul Machines is a pioneer in the humanization of AI. We use our ground-breaking Biological AI technology to create engaging, empathetic AI Assistants, powered by our patented Digital Brain™. Our revolutionary Soul Machines Studio tools allow anyone to reimagine customer engagement, drive deep interactivity, and create personalized digital experiences. Soul Machines is unique in delivering the full capabilities of human and machine collaboration in an ethical, responsive, and unprecedented way.

Everyrealm

Series A in 2022
Everyrealm is a digital real estate vehicle that invests in virtual worlds through NFTs. They invest in, manage, and develop assets including NFTs, virtual real estate, metaverse platforms, gaming, and infrastructure.

Qredo

Series A in 2022
Qredo is a platform that provides secure and fast movement of digital assets.Qredo powers institutional traders to secure and accelerate the movement of digital assets 24/7 on an open protocol. Qredo eliminates the operational and security burden of wallet key management and the cyber-threats that result from trading operations, storage, and transfer of digital assets

Superdao

Seed Round in 2022
uperdao is a wallet analytics platform built for Web3 growth teams. Organizations can get instant insights about their dapp users, NFT and token holders, DAO voters, and quest participants. Audiences of hundreds of top Web3 projects are preloaded in the system and can be explored for competitive insights. Superdao also includes filter and export tools for build target lists.

Lean Technologies

Series A in 2022
Lean Technologies is a FinTech startup that develops a platform to provide access to consumer financial data. The company's API suite, designed to abstract developers from the fragmentation of the financial infrastructure, enables businesses to seamlessly access their customers' financial data and initiate instant bank transfers. The company aims to enhance the accessibility, transparency, and utility of financial data and payments for consumers and businesses, promoting a more inclusive and interconnected financial landscape.

Lukka

Series E in 2022
Lukka specializes in managing and processing complex blockchain and cryptocurrency data, making it accessible and useful for businesses. The company focuses on financial applications, offering tools for accounting, auditing, tax reporting, and compliance within the digital asset space. Its products include LukkaTax, a software solution designed to simplify tax calculations and compliance for individuals and businesses dealing with cryptocurrencies. LukkaCrypto Office serves as a back-office solution for managing crypto assets, providing features such as pricing, valuation, and reporting. Additionally, Lukka Reference Data offers normalized data for crypto assets, ensuring consistency and accuracy for enterprise applications.

Zebec

Seed Round in 2021
Zebec is a continuous settlement protocol on Solana. Zebec is enabling the composable transfer of value starting with Stream Payroll.

Udhaar Book

Seed Round in 2021
Udhaar App is an online ledger that helps manage credit (Udhaar) with customers and suppliers.

Solidus Labs

Venture Round in 2021
Solidus Labs is an information technology company that provides a machine learning-powered trade surveillance and transaction monitoring infrastructure tailored for digital assets. It features a SaaS web-based dashboard, that enables its clients to detect, investigate, and address suspicious activity in blockchain-based asset trading. The company was founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, United States.

The Sandbox

Series B in 2021
The Sandbox is a decentralized, community-driven platform, where creators can make voxel assets and gaming experiences and monetize them on the blockchain. It features 3 main components: an NFT builder, a Marketplace, and Game Maker.

Animoca Brands

Venture Round in 2021
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

Concept Art House

Series A in 2021
Concept Art House is a leading art service provider and original IP studio in the East and the West. They are a company of professional artists and industry veterans. They are fast-paced, energetic, and passionate about the work they do for their high-profile clients as well as on their own original properties.

TAG

Seed Round in 2021
TAG is a mobile application that allows users to access an e-money account through a debit card. They provide a money transfer feature that helps to transfer money to any bank or wallet. They specialize in digital wallets and payment services.

Figment

Series B in 2021
Figment is Canada’s largest blockchain infrastructure and software provider. Our mission is to make it simple for token holders and developers to use, build and govern blockchains. We do this by providing a comprehensive set of tools & services including our enterprise-grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and DataHub developer APIs. With Figment you can discover and build the next killer blockchain based decentralized application.

Horizen

Seed Round in 2021
Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that enables businesses to build distributed ledger solutions that are fast, secure, private and scalable. Horizen Labs leverages Horizen’s privacy-focused public infrastructure and Horizen Labs’ proprietary sidechain deployment tool. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable a shift from centralized to decentralized architectures which help to bridge a divide in global trust.

Aspen Digital

Seed Round in 2021
Aspen Digital is an innovative technology-driven digital & crypto asset management platform co-founded in 2021 by Everest Ventures Group and TTB Partners. Aspen provides a comprehensive and user-friendly solution for professional investors and money managers, from High-Net-Worth Individuals, family offices, to securities brokerages, external asset managers, private bankers and investment advisors. Through a single account, Aspen provides a complete digital assets product shelf including trading execution, yield enhancement products, automated investment strategies, and offers comprehensive portfolio reporting, industry research & market insights, and custody solution. For more information visit https://www.aspendigital.co/

Animoca Brands

Venture Round in 2021
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

TAG

Pre Seed Round in 2021
TAG is a mobile application that allows users to access an e-money account through a debit card. They provide a money transfer feature that helps to transfer money to any bank or wallet. They specialize in digital wallets and payment services.

Tajir

Series A in 2021
Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.

Sharebite

Series A in 2021
Sharebite is a meal benefits platform designed for the modern workforce. Combining team orders, flexible solutions, centralized meal allowances, curated restaurant choices, and community impact, Sharebite helps the world's best companies elevate employee engagement. Sharebite's corporate clients include category-leading companies across financial services, tech, legal, consulting, entertainment, agency, real estate, and other verticals. Every transaction made on the Sharebite platform results in a donation to alleviate hunger in local communities via its partnerships with Feeding America and City Harvest.

Animoca Brands

Venture Round in 2021
Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security, and new business models.

Paxos

Series D in 2021
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets. The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

ConsenSys

Convertible Note in 2021
ConsenSys is a leading blockchain venture production studio focused on building a robust ecosystem of consumer-oriented products and enterprise solutions, primarily utilizing Ethereum technology. The company aims to facilitate the transition to Web 3.0, which it envisions as a foundation for more open, efficient, and accessible economic systems. ConsenSys identifies opportunities for software development and promotes collaboration among various ventures to enhance innovation and idea exchange. By creating platforms, applications, and tools that support Web 3.0, ConsenSys strives to ensure these solutions effectively meet customer needs. The organization also collaborates with blockchain experts and partners to develop open infrastructure, positioning itself at the forefront of technological advancements that have the potential to disrupt various industries.

Paxos

Series C in 2020
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets. The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Nowaday

Seed Round in 2020
Nowaday is a operator of a vintage city tour service designed to make visitors experience the vintage era of the city. The company's tour takes travelers on an exploration of New York's most iconic landmarks from the back of a refurbished vintage car with a private chauffeur-storyteller, thereby helping guests learn the history of the city.

Stablehouse

Seed Round in 2020
Stablehouse is the investment platform for individuals and institutions who seek innovative, sustainable, and compliant opportunities through digital assets.

NetObjex

Seed Round in 2020
NetObjex's Matrix Digital Asset as-a-Service (DAaaS) platform enables enterprises to manage digital assets by unlocking liquidity, detecting counterfeit goods, enabling monetization through storefronts and marketplaces, parameterizing legal contracts, and tracking/tracing/monitoring through digital twins.

Horizen

Seed Round in 2019
Horizen Labs is a blockchain technology company that enables businesses to build distributed ledger solutions that are fast, secure, private and scalable. Horizen Labs leverages Horizen’s privacy-focused public infrastructure and Horizen Labs’ proprietary sidechain deployment tool. Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies enable a shift from centralized to decentralized architectures which help to bridge a divide in global trust.

Curv

Seed Round in 2019
Curv is a developer of digital asset security infrastructure helping crypto-native and financial institutions to create digital wallets. The company's security technology is enabling users to build crypto finance products that safely transfer, store, and manage any digital asset on any blockchain or digital system for recording transactions. Its research and development office is located in Tel Aviv, Israel. Curv's decentralized security model utilizes multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, enabling transactions to be securely signed in a mathematically-proven, distributed way. Its enterprise-grade policy engine allows clients to define risk profiles and enforce granular policies to ensure only authorized transactions are allowed. Dan Yadlin and Itay Malinger established the company in New York, New York in 2018.

Lukka

Series B in 2018
Lukka specializes in managing and processing complex blockchain and cryptocurrency data, making it accessible and useful for businesses. The company focuses on financial applications, offering tools for accounting, auditing, tax reporting, and compliance within the digital asset space. Its products include LukkaTax, a software solution designed to simplify tax calculations and compliance for individuals and businesses dealing with cryptocurrencies. LukkaCrypto Office serves as a back-office solution for managing crypto assets, providing features such as pricing, valuation, and reporting. Additionally, Lukka Reference Data offers normalized data for crypto assets, ensuring consistency and accuracy for enterprise applications.

Paxos

Series B in 2018
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets. The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Lukka

Series A in 2017
Lukka specializes in managing and processing complex blockchain and cryptocurrency data, making it accessible and useful for businesses. The company focuses on financial applications, offering tools for accounting, auditing, tax reporting, and compliance within the digital asset space. Its products include LukkaTax, a software solution designed to simplify tax calculations and compliance for individuals and businesses dealing with cryptocurrencies. LukkaCrypto Office serves as a back-office solution for managing crypto assets, providing features such as pricing, valuation, and reporting. Additionally, Lukka Reference Data offers normalized data for crypto assets, ensuring consistency and accuracy for enterprise applications.

BRD

Seed Round in 2017
BRD designs, develops, and markets financial software. It offers a platform that delivers crypto purchasing, commercial register, credit rating information, management, figures, contact and news, trading, and merchant services. BRD serves customers worldwide. Aaron Voisine and Adam Traidman founded it in 2015, with its headquarters in Zurich in Switzerland.

Farm Hill

Venture Round in 2016
Farm Hill is crafting the future of healthy eating. It curates and delivers healthy food, making healthy eating convenient and delicious. Farm Hill launched in April 2013 and graduated out of the first batch of companies from the Stanford StartX Accelerator Program. It started by delivering lunches to office workers in the suburbs. Since then, Farm Hill has delivered over 1 million meals to businesses in the SF Bay Area and is growing rapidly.

Hullabalu

Seed Round in 2015
Hullabalu is a company based in NYC, creating stories for the new generation. They are inspired by their love for fantastical worlds, the timeless classics they grew up with, and the kids who visit their office.

Paxos

Series A in 2015
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets. The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Farm Hill

Seed Round in 2015
Farm Hill is crafting the future of healthy eating. It curates and delivers healthy food, making healthy eating convenient and delicious. Farm Hill launched in April 2013 and graduated out of the first batch of companies from the Stanford StartX Accelerator Program. It started by delivering lunches to office workers in the suburbs. Since then, Farm Hill has delivered over 1 million meals to businesses in the SF Bay Area and is growing rapidly.

Parenthoods

Seed Round in 2014
Parenthoods is a community platform for local parents to meet up, share advice, and help each other.

Lukka

Seed Round in 2014
Lukka specializes in managing and processing complex blockchain and cryptocurrency data, making it accessible and useful for businesses. The company focuses on financial applications, offering tools for accounting, auditing, tax reporting, and compliance within the digital asset space. Its products include LukkaTax, a software solution designed to simplify tax calculations and compliance for individuals and businesses dealing with cryptocurrencies. LukkaCrypto Office serves as a back-office solution for managing crypto assets, providing features such as pricing, valuation, and reporting. Additionally, Lukka Reference Data offers normalized data for crypto assets, ensuring consistency and accuracy for enterprise applications.

Parcel

Seed Round in 2014
Parcel is a delivery logistics and technology company based in NYC, built for the age of e-commerce. Our entire operation is powered by a proprietary technology platform and an all-employee workforce, ensuring exceptional service and matchless visibility into the last-mile logistics. We work with online retailers to help them differentiate their customer experience with offerings like same-day delivery, evening deliveries, weekend deliveries, live tracking pages, and custom text message updates. Parcel launched in September 2014 and has been featured on networks including Fox Business and MSNBC and in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Post. Parcel was acquired by Walmart in 2017.

BitGo

Series A in 2014
BitGo is an institutional digital asset financial services company that provides clients with security, custody, and liquidity solutions. BitGo supports over 200 coins and tokens and has over $2 billion in assets in its wallet. The company's customer base includes cryptocurrency exchanges and spans more than 50 countries. In 2018, the company introduced BitGo Custody and launched BitGo Trust Company, a qualified custodian purpose-built for storing digital assets.

TripleLift

Series A in 2014
TripleLift builds technology to make ads that empower rather than interrupt. Leveraging pioneering computer vision technology, TripleLift creates ads that blend in with the user experience as people consume content within television, walled gardens and the open web.

Paxos

Seed Round in 2013
Paxos is a regulated financial institution building infrastructure to enable movement between physical and digital assets. The company takes a two-pronged approach of establishing regulatory designations that give it access to the current financial infrastructure and the ability to develop innovative products. This allows Paxos to operate as a gateway between traditional finance and the digital future. Paxos was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Versa

Seed Round in 2013
Versa is a media technology company founded on a deep belief in a thriving press and an informed, engaged public. Featured Perspectives is the only technology-driven platform that gives leading organizations, executives, thought leaders, and advocates the ability to attach commentary and analysis directly to a developing news story, generating premium revenue for publishers and giving readers access to high-quality opinion alongside the news in real-time.

Pickie

Seed Round in 2012
Designed for the iPad, Pickie is re-imagining the catalog shopping experience. Your Pickie catalog is curated by the sources you trust, actionable, and enriched with content. Pickie is a top 25 app, and has been selected as one of '10 Essential Apps' in the catalogs category of the app store.

TripleLift

Seed Round in 2012
TripleLift builds technology to make ads that empower rather than interrupt. Leveraging pioneering computer vision technology, TripleLift creates ads that blend in with the user experience as people consume content within television, walled gardens and the open web.
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