NEAR Foundation

NEAR Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2018 and based in Zug, Switzerland. It is dedicated to supporting the development and maintenance of the NEAR Protocol, a blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications. The foundation's primary responsibilities include contracting protocol maintainers, funding ecosystem development, and overseeing core governance. By fostering a collaborative environment for developers and users, NEAR Foundation aims to promote the growth and sustainability of the NEAR ecosystem, facilitating innovation and accessibility in the blockchain space.

Christopher Donovan

COO

Bill Earner

COO

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Abound

Seed Round in 2025
Abound is a technology company that operates a premium, members-only mobile application, primarily serving the Indian diaspora in the United States. The app offers a range of services, including focused rewards, perks, and experiences, by collaborating with various brands to provide free subscriptions and cashback rewards. Additionally, Abound offers a concierge service in India, assisting users with managing their errand tasks.

Pond

Seed Round in 2024
Pond is a decentralized AI startup that focuses on creating a comprehensive ecosystem for training Web3 AI models. Pond's approach is quite exciting because it merges two powerful, innovative technologies: AI and Web3.

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that specializes in open-source model hosting, secure inference, and application deployment. The company focuses on creating a seamless environment for developers to build AI workflows within its ecosystem, enabling the development of intelligent and optimized applications. OpenGradient promotes the democratization of model ownership and enhances verifiability while ensuring censorship-resistant access to AI models. Its proprietary technologies, including a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and NeuroML library, support secure AI workflows, integrating features such as statistical analysis and agentic reasoning. Additionally, OpenGradient accelerates open-source innovation by providing a web portal and SDK that allows developers to leverage its AI capabilities without the complexities of blockchain, all while benefiting from the security and composability offered by decentralized infrastructure.

Open Forest Protocol

Seed Round in 2024
Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is an open-source platform dedicated to enhancing global efforts against climate change through nature-based solutions. The platform enables forest projects of any size to Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) their forestation data, facilitating transparency and accountability. By utilizing blockchain technology, OFP empowers individuals, communities, NGOs, entrepreneurs, and governments to create verifiable proof-of-impact data, which is rigorously validated by a network of independent experts. This innovative approach not only supports the monitoring and funding of reforestation, afforestation, and conservation initiatives but also lays the groundwork for more inclusive and scalable financing mechanisms aimed at addressing climate change through forestation efforts.

Analog

Seed Round in 2024
Analog is a decentralized platform focused on facilitating omnichain interoperability and transferring validated event data in the Web3 ecosystem. Built on the Proof-of-Time consensus algorithm, Analog serves as the creator of the Timechain, a consensus-agnostic protocol that enhances cross-chain communication. The company offers a suite of developer tools, including the Watch SDK and Timegraph SDK, which enable developers to deploy and query blockchain data seamlessly across connected networks. The Watch SDK provides a data infrastructure toolkit, while the Timegraph SDK simplifies access to organized Web3 data through an intuitive interface. By developing features such as the General Message Passing SDK, Analog aims to empower developers to create innovative event-based applications that extend beyond simple token transfers, thereby contributing to a more interconnected and trustless blockchain environment.

Virtual Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Virtual Labs is a blockchain company focused on transforming the gaming experience by facilitating fully on-chain interactions. By utilizing advanced technologies such as zero-knowledge (ZK) state channels, Virtual Labs aims to eliminate gas fees and reduce latency, thereby enhancing the usability of Web3 applications. The company's solutions streamline user interactions, making it easier for individuals to engage with decentralized platforms. With a commitment to improving the overall user experience, Virtual Labs is at the forefront of bridging traditional gaming and blockchain technology.

Monad.Social

Grant in 2023
Monad.Social is a creator platform that facilitates interactive social experiences between creators and their fans through subscription-based community fan clubs. It enables artists to monetize their content and establish direct relationships with their superfans by offering exclusive live and on-demand content. The platform features virtual venues known as circles, which integrate paywalled content, tipping, and NFT purchases, creating an intimate and secure environment. Monad.Social empowers creators by sharing fan data, allowing them to retain ownership of their intellectual property and strengthen their connection with their audience. Through these offerings, the company enriches fan experiences while providing financial opportunities for creators within their communities.

V-Art

Venture Round in 2023
V-Art is a company that offers an automated intellectual property (IP) licensing solution aimed at brands, creators, and AI developers. Founded by experienced Ukrainian entrepreneurs, V-Art utilizes a B2B SaaS model to simplify the licensing process, facilitating content monetization while reducing legal risks. The company's platform specializes in verifying, securing, and tracking IP rights on supported blockchains, thereby enabling clients to monetize digital assets across various platforms. With a focus on innovation, V-Art is poised to influence the evolving $280 billion IP licensing market by leveraging its expertise in IP law, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology.

Glass

Venture Round in 2023
Glass is a SaaS platform that uses blockchain to connect alcohol brands with consumers at events, driving sales and loyalty.

ShredSpots APP

Venture Round in 2023
Software company focused on action sports

Meteor

Venture Round in 2023
The most simple and secure wallet to manage your crypto, access DeFi, and explore Web3.

Relayz

Grant in 2023
Relayz is a developer of advanced communication software focused on ensuring secure and private interactions in the digital space. The company's platform utilizes cutting-edge blockchain technology to provide end-to-end encryption, negotiating ephemeral encryption keys to protect user data effectively. Relayz's offerings include encrypted communication and video conferencing capabilities that can be accessed via any browser and device, enhancing accessibility while maintaining security. With a strong emphasis on decentralization and censorship resistance, Relayz aims to empower individuals and organizations by facilitating safe and scalable communication solutions.

Relayz

Seed Round in 2023
Relayz is a developer of advanced communication software focused on ensuring secure and private interactions in the digital space. The company's platform utilizes cutting-edge blockchain technology to provide end-to-end encryption, negotiating ephemeral encryption keys to protect user data effectively. Relayz's offerings include encrypted communication and video conferencing capabilities that can be accessed via any browser and device, enhancing accessibility while maintaining security. With a strong emphasis on decentralization and censorship resistance, Relayz aims to empower individuals and organizations by facilitating safe and scalable communication solutions.

Analog

Seed Round in 2023
Analog is a decentralized platform focused on facilitating omnichain interoperability and transferring validated event data in the Web3 ecosystem. Built on the Proof-of-Time consensus algorithm, Analog serves as the creator of the Timechain, a consensus-agnostic protocol that enhances cross-chain communication. The company offers a suite of developer tools, including the Watch SDK and Timegraph SDK, which enable developers to deploy and query blockchain data seamlessly across connected networks. The Watch SDK provides a data infrastructure toolkit, while the Timegraph SDK simplifies access to organized Web3 data through an intuitive interface. By developing features such as the General Message Passing SDK, Analog aims to empower developers to create innovative event-based applications that extend beyond simple token transfers, thereby contributing to a more interconnected and trustless blockchain environment.

Absolute Labs

Seed Round in 2023
Absolute Labs operates a Web3 customer engagement platform designed to facilitate connections between businesses and their audiences. The company provides a comprehensive infrastructure that includes NFT marketplaces, asset publishers, payment platforms, exchanges, and gaming solutions. By enabling marketers and product owners to engage their customers through digital wallets and various channels, Absolute Labs aims to enhance community engagement and drive revenue growth for its clients.

Popp

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Popp helps talent teams eliminate time-consuming, administrative work that distracts them from strategic business contributions and building more meaningful relationships with their future employees. Popp's modular AI agents that can help a TA team manage any component step in the hiring process, from sourcing, to screening to interview scheduling and note-taking and much more

Calimero Network

Seed Round in 2023
Calimero Network is a blockchain infrastructure company founded in 2022 and headquartered in London. It specializes in developing a private blockchain network platform that allows clients to deploy and scale innovative solutions while prioritizing privacy. The platform offers fully interoperable cross-contract calls, enabling businesses to manage public assets and bridge various fungible and non-fungible tokens. Additionally, it facilitates secure data storage and sharing through encrypted channels, allowing interactions with private shards. By focusing on user privacy and data control, Calimero Network aims to provide businesses with a robust solution for their blockchain needs.

Gateway App

Grant in 2022
Gateway is an NFT-powered gaming & learning platform where users can create, own and trade their in-game assets. Users can play multiple Games and also leverage our AI to create custom gamified learning adventures to learn anything they want Our vision is to create a financial economy and true ownership in things people already love doing - Gaming & Learning. There are over 2B gamers worldwide who spend lots of time and money in these games without truly owning the assets they acquire. With NFTs, we are making in-game assets truly ownable and tradable so users can enjoy playing the games they love while also deriving value from it Users are incentivized & rewarded with Badges, NFTs, Gateway Points and Tokens on the Gateway App, all of which have real value

HealthGo

Grant in 2022
HealthGo aims at fractionalizing healthcare insurance for low-income earners in Nigeria, delivering quality and affordable healthcare to the informal sector, while providing credit financing to healthcare providers to grow grassroots access to healthcare in Nigeria.

Swollet

Grant in 2022
At Swollet, we're on a mission to transform the landscape of financial education. Our innovative platform combines the power of gamification, NFT rewards, and top-tier academic content to create an engaging and immersive learning experience.

Niche

Grant in 2022
Niche is a social application that reinvents the way people connect and build community. It is a members-only club for the user's communities, groups, and hobbies.

Exverse

Seed Round in 2022
Exverse is an innovative gaming platform that leverages artificial intelligence to create a free-to-play metaverse, delivering a distinctive and immersive experience for players. Built on Unreal Engine 5, the platform features intricate world-building across three distinct planets, rich lore, and diverse gameplay systems. Exverse combines entertainment with earning potential, allowing players to engage in action genre gaming while collecting and trading unique NFT items, characters, weapons, and special abilities. The platform enables users to customize their gaming worlds and scenarios, enhancing gameplay and fostering a vibrant community within its NFT marketplace.

Sweatcoin

Venture Round in 2022
Sweatcoin is a digital currency that incentivizes physical activity by converting users' movements into a cryptocurrency. The company's platform verifies and tracks physical movement, allowing users to earn Sweatcoins while engaging in exercise. These earned coins can be donated to charity, transferred to other users, or spent on a variety of products, services, and experiences offered by Sweatcoin vendors and the user community. By transforming exercise into immediate rewards, Sweatcoin addresses the challenge of Present Bias, effectively shifting the perceived benefits of physical activity into the present moment. This innovative approach encourages users to stay active while also fostering a community around fitness and health.

Autify Network

Grant in 2022
Autify Network is a company focused on enhancing transparency in global supply chains through a trust protocol that combines blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. By addressing inefficiencies that contribute to over $5 trillion in losses, Autify Network aims to provide sustainable traceability and eliminate counterfeiting within supply chains. Their innovative platform, Autify Verified, serves as the world's first decentralized vendor aggregator, facilitating secure and transparent connections among brands, vendors, and suppliers. This platform quickly gained traction, with over 50 B2B brands and vendors joining on its inaugural day. Utilizing advanced computer vision and AI techniques, Autify Network's technology allows for precise identification of physical objects, ensuring product authenticity and enhancing consumer confidence in commerce.

PrimeVault

Seed Round in 2022
PrimeVault is a deep-tech company focused on developing advanced crypto infrastructure designed to enhance on-chain participation and decentralized finance (DeFi) access for businesses and institutions of all sizes. By integrating cutting-edge cryptographic techniques, such as multi-party computation and homomorphic encryption, with privacy-preserving smart contracts, PrimeVault offers a suite of innovative tools. These include programmable cross-chain wallets, a comprehensive portfolio tracker, and robust risk mitigation solutions. The company's platform is engineered to facilitate secure management of tokens and digital assets across various blockchain networks, thereby ensuring efficient and seamless interoperability between centralized and decentralized finance systems.

Clear Street

Series B in 2022
Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm founded in 2018 that aims to modernize the brokerage ecosystem by replacing outdated infrastructure in capital markets. The company has developed a cloud-native clearing and custody system tailored for today's complex, global market. Its proprietary platform enhances market efficiency while prioritizing the reduction of risk, redundancy, and costs for clients. Clear Street aspires to create a unified platform that accommodates every asset class, country, and currency, positioning itself as a forward-thinking player in the financial services industry.

Geobyte

Grant in 2022
3D analytics from crowdsourced geo-spatial data.

Veriken

Grant in 2022
Veriken is a platform for Web3 commerce. Their services include tokenized legal agreements, on-chain inventory management, actual smart contracts, and standards compliance.

Mintbase

Grant in 2022
Minting NFT assets for real worlds value

Raiz Vertical Farms

Grant in 2022
Raiz Vertical Farms specializes in the production of sustainable vegetables through indoor vertical hydroponic farming. The company repurposes abandoned or underutilized real estate into visually appealing vertical farms that utilize both natural light and LED technology. By focusing on niche flavors and engaging local communities, Raiz provides fresh, farm-to-table crops primarily for restaurants and nearby residents. The company emphasizes circular techniques that turn waste into valuable resources, thereby enhancing sustainability. Through its network of interconnected urban farms, Raiz aims to meet the growing demand for local greens while promoting environmentally responsible practices.

Gyde.community

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Gyde.community uses an NFT-gated platform to find help. They are mapping out the entire helping ecosystem for those who need it. They assist in seeing the reviews that are relevant to them.

Connect3

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Connect3 is a social networking platform designed for creators and users on the open web, utilizing advanced web3 infrastructure. The company focuses on enhancing user experience while addressing key issues such as data ownership, creator monetization, and content distribution, which have historically been inadequately managed. Connect3 aims to develop a universal social layer that aggregates, restructures, and distributes decentralized social data, allowing for improved connectivity between users, content, and services. By empowering creators with greater accessibility to social data and interoperability, Connect3 seeks to reshape the social media landscape.

BlockSec

Seed Round in 2021
BlockSec is a prominent blockchain security company founded in 2021 by a group of esteemed security experts in Hong Kong. It focuses on enhancing security and usability for Web3, facilitating its widespread adoption. Serving nearly 300 clients, including notable projects such as MetaMask and PancakeSwap, BlockSec has identified numerous critical security vulnerabilities, successfully preventing over 10 hacker attacks and protecting more than 14 million USD in digital assets. The company has developed innovative security usability products, including Phalcon, MetaDock, and MetaSleuth, which address essential technical challenges like secure development testing and on-chain monitoring. Additionally, BlockSec offers solutions for online loan detection, anti-money laundering tracking, and smart contract transaction analysis across multiple blockchain networks. With its advanced technological research and practical expertise, BlockSec has garnered significant recognition within the industry.

Hillridge

Grant in 2021
Hillridge Technology is an agriculture insurance platform designed to assist farmers in managing the financial risks associated with adverse weather conditions affecting their crops or livestock. The company leverages weather data, machine learning, and personalized approaches to connect farmers with insurance underwriters. This innovative platform offers tailored short-term coverage options that cater specifically to the unique needs of individual farms, thus promoting financial stability for farmers regardless of crop production challenges.

Ariadne

Grant in 2021
Ariadne is a cross-chain DeFi marketplace that is lowering the fees to enter/exit farms on multiple blockchains and saves swaps and bridges costs for both EVM and non-EVM chains. Ariadne enables users of any supported chain to enter/exit yield farms on a multitude of blockchains, with virtually no lower limit of investment, and without having to deal with bridges, swaps and slippage, transaction costs on receiving blockchains etc.

KYVE

Series A in 2021
KYVE is a decentralized initiative focused on the storage and validation of data streams, utilizing the Arweave blockchain for permanent data archiving. The company has developed an open-source protocol that standardizes and validates blockchain data, facilitating reliable storage for modern blockchains and decentralized applications. By employing a network of decentralized uploaders and validators, KYVE ensures that data is archived effectively through specialized pools, each dedicated to a particular data stream. This approach not only guarantees the scalability, immutability, and availability of resources but also provides developers with a dependable means to store and verify their data streams. Through its innovative solution, KYVE enhances the integrity and accessibility of blockchain data, addressing the challenges faced by developers in the evolving digital landscape.

Stader Labs

Seed Round in 2021
Stader Labs specializes in developing decentralized financial protocols and applications focused on efficient stake management across public blockchain networks. The company aims to serve as a distribution layer for staking, creating protocols and products that enhance the security, decentralization, liquidity, and governance of prominent delegated proof-of-stake blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Terra, Polygon, and Solana. By providing sustainable staking yields from digital assets, Stader Labs seeks to optimize the staking experience for its users and contribute to the overall health of the blockchain ecosystem.

Vorto

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
A Game Publisher 3.0, that is powered by an all-in-one platform for web3 game studios, gamers, and content creators, with integrated store and marketplace service and easy-to-use APIs for creating and managing in-game digital items. Vorto brings together players and game studios through Game Publishing 3.0 model, which is powered by a platform, where players can enjoy great games with user-friendly access to in-game NFTs, and game developers get powerful tools for creating tradable, digital assets for their games.

NearPad

Seed Round in 2021
NearPad is a software development company. They offer to help developers deliver innovations at scale while enabling users to experience developments that scale within their needs. Their platform focuses on blockchain, gaming, art, and DeFi.

KYVE

Pre Seed Round in 2021
KYVE is a decentralized initiative focused on the storage and validation of data streams, utilizing the Arweave blockchain for permanent data archiving. The company has developed an open-source protocol that standardizes and validates blockchain data, facilitating reliable storage for modern blockchains and decentralized applications. By employing a network of decentralized uploaders and validators, KYVE ensures that data is archived effectively through specialized pools, each dedicated to a particular data stream. This approach not only guarantees the scalability, immutability, and availability of resources but also provides developers with a dependable means to store and verify their data streams. Through its innovative solution, KYVE enhances the integrity and accessibility of blockchain data, addressing the challenges faced by developers in the evolving digital landscape.

Vorto

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
A Game Publisher 3.0, that is powered by an all-in-one platform for web3 game studios, gamers, and content creators, with integrated store and marketplace service and easy-to-use APIs for creating and managing in-game digital items. Vorto brings together players and game studios through Game Publishing 3.0 model, which is powered by a platform, where players can enjoy great games with user-friendly access to in-game NFTs, and game developers get powerful tools for creating tradable, digital assets for their games.

Vorto

Grant in 2021
A Game Publisher 3.0, that is powered by an all-in-one platform for web3 game studios, gamers, and content creators, with integrated store and marketplace service and easy-to-use APIs for creating and managing in-game digital items. Vorto brings together players and game studios through Game Publishing 3.0 model, which is powered by a platform, where players can enjoy great games with user-friendly access to in-game NFTs, and game developers get powerful tools for creating tradable, digital assets for their games.

XDAO

Grant in 2021
XDAO is a rapidly growing multichain decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) ecosystem that serves over 100,000 users. It provides a secure and efficient platform for creating DAOs and managing cryptocurrency funds. The company's offerings include crowdfunding services, DAO creation, a legal framework for ratings, and support for launching and listing tokens. By facilitating these services, XDAO enables companies to create a marketplace for their tokens and generate income, contributing to a decentralized future.
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