Neutrl partners with online brands to provide a sustainable shopping experience - allow customers to remove carbon emissions from their orders.
Blu is using big data and AI to underwrite the underbanked population in Mexico.
Ligero, Inc. is a technology company based in Pittsford, New York, specializing in the development of a privacy platform for secure and confidential collaboration on and off blockchain. Incorporated in 2018, Ligero's offerings include a lightweight and scalable protocol that facilitates secure multiparty computation and zero-knowledge proofs. This enables clients to execute private smart contracts, engage in decentralized exchanges, and utilize private machine learning, thereby enhancing the security and privacy of transactions and collaborations in various digital environments.
Cabal
Venture Round in 2025
Cabal is an innovative protocol that effectively generates revenue while operating on the robust initial layer 1 network.
Whetstone Research
Pre Seed Round in 2025
Whetstone Research specializes in designing and developing novel protocols to foster the growth of on-chain markets. Operating discreetly, the company focuses on token issuance services to drive innovation in this space.
Reservoir
Series A in 2025
Reservoir operates an NFT aggregator platform that streamlines access to NFT data and facilitates the creation, storage, and execution of NFT orders. By normalizing the entire NFT market into a unified platform, it enables clients to enhance liquidity and trade NFTs across multiple major marketplaces through a single API. This innovative approach positions Reservoir as a key player in the next-generation NFT solutions market, providing essential tools for developers and businesses looking to integrate NFT trading capabilities into their applications.
Mevvy Network
Seed Round in 2025
Mevvy Network enables seamless MEV on any chain, reducing the barrier of entry for searchers.
Phylax Systems
Seed Round in 2024
Phylax Systems is the operator of an open-source protocol platform designed to avoid hacking. Phylax System's platform censors hacks on L2 networks and supports all Ethereum virtual machine chains, giving corporations the confidence to invest in the decentralized market.
EarthFast
Pre Seed Round in 2024
EarthFast is a technology company that specializes in cryptocurrency infrastructure. It develops and provides a software protocol enabling global web projects to build and deploy decentralized applications, offering a secure and decentralized alternative to traditional cloud platforms. The company's software helps users mitigate operational risks, reduce reliance on centralized systems, and leverage blockchain technology to decentralize their frontend applications.
Sorella Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Sorella Labs is a technology company specializing in blockchain solutions. It is developing a decentralized protocol for on-chain liquidity markets, with a primary focus on addressing the Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) issues prevalent in the Ethereum ecosystem. The company employs advanced algorithms and blockchain analytics to identify and mitigate MEV-related attacks, ensuring fair transaction prices for DeFi users and enhancing the overall security and efficiency of the Ethereum network.
Khalani
Seed Round in 2024
Khalani is a technology company that has created the world's first decentralized solver platform. This platform aims to enhance the user experience in the Web3 space by offering a multi-chain collaborative solution network. It significantly reduces the cost of developing and operating solvers, which are essential for managing complex applications in the Web3 ecosystem. The platform operates as an open and permissionless network, allowing developers to optimize on-chain intents and streamline application management.
Crypto social network that rewards and empowers curators
NEBRA Labs
Seed Round in 2024
NEBRA Labs is a blockchain services company.
Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield.
MyShell
Seed Round in 2024
MyShell is a decentralized platform focused on enabling the discovery, creation, and staking of AI-native applications. The company provides tools that leverage advanced generative AI models, allowing creators to transform their ideas into functional applications. By fostering an ecosystem where creators can not only develop their models but also make them widely accessible, MyShell supports the transition of individuals into contributors within the field of artificial intelligence, enhancing collaboration and innovation within the sector.
Initia Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Initia is a network for 0-to-1 omnichain rollups built by fusing a novel L1 with an interwoven application-specific L2 infrastructure system. The Initia Platform provides product ready rollups that enables teams to build scalable and sovereign systems while eliminating the UX complexities end users face when interacting with a modular multi-chain universe. Initia’s ownership of the full tech stack allows for a suite of chain-level mechanisms that align the economic interests across users, developers, L2 app chains, and the L1. Initia's initial launch products include an all-in-one portal for accessing core tools of the ecosystem, a Omnitia-ecosystem focused wallet for navigating between the L2s, a block explorer that supports InitiaVM transactions and developer tooling, and a Market Minitia that allows users to trade NFTs and create AI-generated NFT collections through prompts.
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
Union Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Union Labs is a hyper-efficient, zero-knowledge interoperability layer that connects appchains. layer 1 and layer 2 networks.
Definitive
Seed Round in 2023
Definitive offers a financial management platform with cryptocurrency features and AI-powered customer support.
Spearbit
Seed Round in 2023
Spearbit facilitates connections between independent cybersecurity specialists and Web3 projects requiring expert security services. The company offers two primary service models: one-time expert-led security reviews and ongoing retainer agreements for continuous security assessments. These services enable clients to focus on their core operations by delegating administrative tasks, client sourcing, and due diligence processes to Spearbit's platform.
Informal Systems
Convertible Note in 2023
Informal Systems is a company that specializes in research and development at the intersection of formal verification and distributed systems. It focuses on creating distributed software systems that enhance the verifiability of formal verification by providing mathematical proof of correctness. The company offers a range of services, including technical and executive education, training, and consulting, alongside its comprehensive research and development efforts. With a strong emphasis on blockchains and distributed systems, Informal Systems aims to assist organizations in avoiding data replication and efficiently rectifying errors.
The Pulse
Seed Round in 2023
The Pulse is a media company that covers the business of sports, culture, and entertainment - with a special focus on the way athletes, executives, musicians, and entertainers, are moving the business world forward. Website http://www.thepulse.ae A subsidiary unit of NFL Investments LLC { } https://nflinvestments.com @ info@nflinvestments.com
Obol Labs
Series A in 2023
Obol Labs promotes the adoption of distributed validator technology by creating the Obol Network and its ecosystem. Its research and software development team focused on proof-of-stake infrastructure for public blockchain networks.
ML Tech
Venture Round in 2022
Founded in 2020, ML Tech operates a non-custodial investment platform that offers investors access to a curated selection of systematic crypto trading strategies. The platform is designed to empower investors by providing robust risk management and reporting tools, facilitating a connection between institutional investors and exclusive opportunities in the digital asset markets. By enabling frequency-based trading capabilities, ML Tech aims to help investors achieve steady and consistent returns in a landscape characterized by rapid technological advancements and market fluctuations.
Skylock
Seed Round in 2022
Skylock, established in 2022 in Ottawa, Canada, is a post-seed startup specializing in real-time security for decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols. It proactively defends against smart-contract hacks by detecting and blocking malicious transactions, safeguarding assets, and ensuring their safe return to users. Skylock's cutting-edge technology aims to enhance the stability and security of the DeFi industry.
Permian Labs
Venture Round in 2022
Permian Labs, established in 2021, specializes in consumer financing for advanced computing power. Its platform facilitates the acquisition of high-performance GPUs, enabling customers to access cutting-edge technology for innovation. Since inception, the company has facilitated $400 million in loan volume and operates $60 million in compute-oriented hardware globally through its Tactical Compute arm.
Primitive
Series A in 2022
Primitive is a developer of an innovative software platform focused on the Ethereum decentralized finance ecosystem. The company has created Arbiter, an open-source software framework that facilitates crypto transaction simulation. Additionally, Primitive offers a crypto asset management platform that provides users with non-custodial options protocols for any Ethereum asset, allowing them to earn upfront returns. By emphasizing open-source solutions, Primitive aims to empower users in the rapidly evolving landscape of digital finance.
MatchboxDAO
Seed Round in 2022
MatchboxDAO operates a gaming platform focused on developing the infrastructure for on-chain games. The company provides essential developer tools, infrastructure, and open-source primitives that facilitate the creation and deployment of fully on-chain games. By offering these resources, MatchboxDAO aims to simplify the process for developers, allowing them to easily access and utilize the necessary components to build innovative gaming experiences. Additionally, the organization is actively engaged in fostering a collaborative environment, as evidenced by its initiative to host a virtual hackathon aimed at encouraging the development of tools on the Starknet network.
Hologram Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Hologram Labs is an innovative platform focused on digital identities and virtual beings. The company utilizes advancements in 3D technology, machine learning, and web3 to facilitate the creation, ownership, and engagement with immersive virtual characters and experiences within online communities. Hologram's self-expression engine transforms real-life assets into digital formats, employing motion-captured avatar technology that converts static avatars into dynamic, motion-tracked versions. This functionality is accessible through a browser extension, allowing users to animate their own avatars for video calls and create both short and long-form videos.
Seed Club is a DAO that builds and invests in communities. We’re building a future where the value created by communities on the internet is captured by people, not platforms.
SX Network
Seed Round in 2022
SX Network operates a blockchain-based sports betting exchange, offering bettors improved odds, transparency, and secure fund management through smart contract technology. Its platform integrates an on-chain community treasury and native prediction market protocol, facilitating decentralized sports betting markets governed by users via prediction market-based governance.
LiquiFi
Seed Round in 2022
LiquiFi is a digital crypto management platform that specializes in automating token vesting, lockups, and cap table management for cryptocurrency companies. By streamlining these processes, LiquiFi allows organizations to focus on their core priorities rather than on the complexities of smart contract development, audits, and manual token transfers. The platform simplifies tax compliance and reporting, providing a user-friendly solution that enhances efficiency in managing token equity ownership. Trusted by leading teams in the cryptocurrency sector, LiquiFi addresses the security and compliance challenges associated with token management, positioning itself as a vital tool in the rapidly evolving digital asset landscape.
Porter Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Porter Finance is the web’s fastest growing binary options trading platform, offering an unmatched 1500% rate of returns on maximum returns on digital options. With a fast learning curve, user friendly interface and excellent customer support, Porter Finance offers its traders the best online trading experience on the net. The binary options platform offers a wide variety of currencies, stocks, commodities and indices to trade binary options. In total, Porter Finance offers well over 100 different assets for trading options of all types. Offering one of the most comprehensive trading platforms, every investor is sure to find what they are looking for at Porter Finance. The company was formed on the principal that knowledge is power and though knowledge comes success. Launched in 2014, the company prides itself on excellent service and guarantees the best environment for success to their traders passing on their knowledge to traders in order to maximize their trading potential.
Volt Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
Volt Protocol is a digital currency platform designed to empower users with a yield-bearing currency that combines the self-custody and censorship-resistant benefits of cash with the transactional ease and yield typically found in traditional banking. Built on the Ethereum blockchain, Volt Protocol operates through smart contracts, ensuring a non-custodial approach that protects user assets. The platform focuses on decentralized savings and credit systems, utilizing the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a benchmark for urban communities rather than relying on fiat currencies. This innovative approach allows token holders to maintain the value of their savings while minimizing reliance on intermediaries, ultimately providing a secure and accessible financial solution.
Optimism is a decentralized infrastructure platform focused on enhancing Ethereum's scalability and transaction speed. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the company operates as a public benefit corporation, balancing the financial interests of shareholders with the broader needs of the community and society. Optimism develops open-source software that enables developers to build on the Ethereum blockchain more efficiently, utilizing zero-knowledge proofs to ensure the validity of state updates. By promoting fair access to public goods on the internet, Optimism aims to create a responsible and sustainable ecosystem that benefits both businesses and the wider community.
Socket is a developer of a multichain interoperability platform designed to connect various blockchain networks and facilitate the seamless transfer of assets and information between them. By creating a unified ecosystem, Socket enables developers to construct cross-chain applications that utilize shared liquidity and state across multiple chains. The platform enhances user experience by routing funds through various bridges and decentralized exchanges based on preferences such as fees, speed, and security. This approach simplifies the development process and promotes the efficient operation of multichain applications.
Alliance
Seed Round in 2021
Alliance DAO is a prominent Web3 accelerator and founder community established in 2020 and based in Morton Grove, Illinois. The organization focuses on fostering innovation within the blockchain technology sector by supporting early-stage startups and entrepreneurs. Through its accelerator program, Alliance DAO provides resources, mentorship, and networking opportunities to help businesses navigate the complexities of the Web3 landscape and achieve sustainable growth.
Saddle Finance
Series A in 2021
Saddle Finance is a financial technology company that operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. The platform facilitates trading by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool, which provides deep on-chain liquidity. This configuration allows traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and low transaction fees, enhancing the efficiency of trading pegged assets. Through its innovative approach, Saddle Finance aims to optimize the trading experience for users engaged in the cryptocurrency market.
Osmosis Foundation
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Osmosis Foundation operates a decentralized peer-to-peer blockchain platform that facilitates the creation of liquidity and trading of IBC-enabled tokens. The platform features an advanced automated market maker (AMM) protocol, which represents a significant evolution in how liquidity providers engage with decentralized finance (DeFi). Built using the Cosmos software development kit (SDK), Osmosis allows developers to design, build, and deploy customized AMMs, enhancing the flexibility and functionality of liquidity solutions within the ecosystem. By utilizing open-source software, Osmosis promotes transparency and accessibility in the DeFi space.
Gelato Network is an innovative company based in Berlin, Germany, that focuses on automating smart contract executions on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2007, Gelato provides a web cloud platform that allows developers to streamline their on-chain processes, enhancing application reliability and performance. Its audited smart contract protocol eliminates the need for developers to manage underlying server infrastructure, thereby saving significant development time and reducing the potential for single points of failure. The platform supports the creation of augmented smart contracts that are automated, gasless, and compatible with all major EVM-compatible blockchains, making it a valuable tool for developers looking to optimize their applications.
RECUR designs & develops on-chain branded experiences for fans to buy, collect, and re-sell NFTs. RECUR is chain agnostic and is fundamentally changing the NFT market by creating and setting the standard for a decentralized recurring royalty, creating the widest distribution and reach for NFTs minted on their platform. It was founded in 2021 and headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Bitwave
Seed Round in 2021
Bitwave is a financial software developer based in San Francisco, California, established in 2018 by Amy Kalnoki and Patrick White. The company specializes in providing tools that enable businesses to incorporate digital assets into their accounting and operational workflows. Its platform simplifies and streamlines tasks related to cryptocurrency, including tax tracking, bookkeeping, and decentralized finance monitoring. Bitwave's software integrates with various accounting systems and blockchains, facilitating efficient management of cryptocurrency transactions and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. Through its solutions, Bitwave aims to enhance the financial management of enterprises engaging with digital assets.
Messari, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that operates a platform dedicated to providing comprehensive market intelligence for crypto assets. It offers a distributed data library that includes detailed information on various crypto projects, including their funding, development history, governance structures, and supply schedules. Messari aims to enhance industry transparency by combining qualitative and quantitative analytics, along with a global research database. Its tools and resources are designed to support researchers, investors, and regulators in making informed decisions within the crypto and Web3 space. By delivering deep analysis, news, and data visualization capabilities, Messari helps professionals navigate the complexities of the cryptocurrency market with greater confidence.
Thesis is a venture studio specializing in cryptocurrency and decentralized technologies. It funds and develops products and protocols that empower individuals, such as Keep Network, a privacy protocol for public blockchains, Fold, a Bitcoin rewards platform for everyday purchases, Saddle, an open-source stablecoin swap protocol, and Tally Ho, a community-owned cryptocurrency wallet.
Etherscan
Seed Round in 2021
Etherscan, based in the United States, operates a blockchain explorer and analytics platform for Ethereum, a decentralized smart contracts platform. It hosts web-based tools to explore the public Ethereum network, displaying confirmed transactions and providing transparent, accessible results. However, Etherscan does not process transactions or troubleshoot failures.
Shipyard Software
Seed Round in 2021
Shipyard Software is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2021 that develops decentralized exchanges and DeFi tools aimed at enhancing the trading experience for retail cryptocurrency traders. Its flagship product, Clipper DEX, is designed to optimize trading for transactions valued at less than $50,000, ensuring competitive pricing for smaller trades while prioritizing the needs of self-directed traders. Additionally, Shipyard's Longship product introduces a derivatives DEX that mitigates toxic order flow, offering traders access to DeFi-native perpetual contracts with leverage of up to 100 times. The company operates within a broader DeFi ecosystem overseen by AdmiralDAO, a collective focused on promoting equitable and transparent market practices.
PoolTogether
Series A in 2021
PoolTogether Inc. is a company that operates a decentralized application on the Ethereum blockchain, designed to facilitate saving money through a gamified approach. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, PoolTogether offers an audited savings game that allows users to deposit Ethereum assets into a pool. The deposited funds accrue interest through a compound protocol, and at the end of each week, one participant is awarded the collective interest, while all participants retain their initial deposits. The platform emphasizes a no-loss principle, making savings more transparent and accessible, and aims to provide a more advantageous alternative to traditional lottery systems.
Commonwealth Labs
Venture Round in 2021
Commonwealth Laboratories, Inc. is a diagnostic laboratory based in San Francisco, California, specializing in diagnostic tests for various functional gastrointestinal disorders. Founded in 1985, the company provides essential resources for healthcare providers to enhance the diagnostic process. By offering specialized testing services, Commonwealth Laboratories aims to improve the understanding and treatment of gastrointestinal conditions, thus supporting better patient outcomes.
XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Notional Finance
Series A in 2021
Notional is a decentralized protocol for fixed rate, fixed term lending and borrowing of crypto assets on Ethereum. Users can lend or borrow stablecoins at fixed rates of interest for terms of up to six months using a variety of assets as collateral. Notional achieves fixed rate lending via a primitive called fCash, which is redeemable for an underlying currency like DAI upon the fCash token’s maturity date. Notional operates specialized liquidity pools that allow users to efficiently trade cash for fCash and vice versa. The exchange rate that a user receives on their trade implies a fixed rate of interest from the time of trade until the fCash token’s maturity. Notional is flexible and configurable. The protocol can add additional assets for lending and borrowing, additional collateral types, and additional maturities beyond six months. The community intends to broaden Notional’s scope over time to include a wider array of supported assets and extended available maturities. Notional prioritizes security. The protocol team works with industry leaders to ensure that the smart contracts are technically secure and that the economic assumptions applied in the protocol’s design are sound.
Gro builds products, called protocols or autonomous programs, for a more simple and friendly DeFi experience. Gro empowers people to easily create and share wealth, by combining the best of decentralized and legacy finance.
RECUR designs & develops on-chain branded experiences for fans to buy, collect, and re-sell NFTs. RECUR is chain agnostic and is fundamentally changing the NFT market by creating and setting the standard for a decentralized recurring royalty, creating the widest distribution and reach for NFTs minted on their platform. It was founded in 2021 and headquartered in Miami, Florida.
Optimism is a decentralized infrastructure platform focused on enhancing Ethereum's scalability and transaction speed. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the company operates as a public benefit corporation, balancing the financial interests of shareholders with the broader needs of the community and society. Optimism develops open-source software that enables developers to build on the Ethereum blockchain more efficiently, utilizing zero-knowledge proofs to ensure the validity of state updates. By promoting fair access to public goods on the internet, Optimism aims to create a responsible and sustainable ecosystem that benefits both businesses and the wider community.
0x is a developer of an open protocol that enables decentralized exchanging of tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The protocol serves as a standard framework that facilitates peer-to-peer transactions and promotes interoperability among decentralized applications that incorporate exchange capabilities. By providing a mechanism for users to seamlessly convert a diverse range of assets into cryptographic tokens, 0x aims to enhance the accessibility and efficiency of digital asset trading in a decentralized manner.
Cycles functions as a decentralized clearing house and reduces outstanding short-term obligations before settlement.
SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.