Nirvana Capital

Nirvana Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2017 and based in both San Francisco and Beijing. Specializing in the blockchain sector, Nirvana Capital focuses on early-stage investments, including seed funding and support for initial coin offerings. The firm is known for providing comprehensive backing to its portfolio projects, offering strategic and operational advisory services as well as resource matching to foster ecosystem development. With a commitment to transforming social production and labor relations, Nirvana Capital emphasizes investment themes centered around public chains and protocols. Since its inception, the firm has invested in 15 blockchain companies, with one exit to date.

Alfred Jiang

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TON Telegram Open Network

Seed Round in 2024
TON is a fully decentralized layer-1 blockchain designed by Telegram

SeeleTech

Seed Round in 2021
Seele is a blockchain 4.0 platform that aims to spearhead development in the Internet of Value era.

PROPS

Initial Coin Offering in 2020
PROPS is a new cryptocurrency that grants access to features, content and status across media apps that share a currency and identity layer, and whose users benefit from the PROPS rewards pool.

Cosmochain

Seed Round in 2020
Cosmochain is a blockchain-based beauty platform that facilitates connections between beauty content creators and consumers. The platform enables customers to share their experiences and insights on cosmetics, allowing users to communicate their skin issues, information, and photos. By leveraging blockchain technology, Cosmochain collects and utilizes customer data to offer personalized commerce channels and targeted advertisements. The company also selects customers for product testing, enhancing the overall consumer experience within the beauty industry.

Cortex Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Cortex Labs is the first ever blockchain technology that allows the execution of AI algorithms on the blockchain.

Cosmochain

Seed Round in 2020
Cosmochain is a blockchain-based beauty platform that facilitates connections between beauty content creators and consumers. The platform enables customers to share their experiences and insights on cosmetics, allowing users to communicate their skin issues, information, and photos. By leveraging blockchain technology, Cosmochain collects and utilizes customer data to offer personalized commerce channels and targeted advertisements. The company also selects customers for product testing, enhancing the overall consumer experience within the beauty industry.

Invalid

Seed Round in 2019
Golem Factory GmbH is a company based in Zug, Switzerland, that develops tools aimed at enhancing accessibility to complex applications for software developers and enterprises. The company's offerings include a software development platform that enables developers to publish and deploy their applications, as well as an application registry security platform that integrates these applications. Golem's innovative technology allows for the execution of application code on other users' computers by utilizing a sandboxing approach, which grants the necessary minimal privileges for functionality. Additionally, Golem Network establishes a decentralized marketplace for idle computer power, allowing users to rent out unused CPU and GPU cycles, thereby facilitating a new model of cloud computing powered by cryptocurrency.

Plair

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Plair Limited is a Hong Kong-based company that develops and operates a decentralized video-gamer-focused blockchain platform. The platform aims to create a community space where gamers can connect through online and offline events and tournaments. Plair provides tools that enable gamers to earn a sustainable living and pursue career opportunities within the gaming industry. By leveraging blockchain technology, Plair incorporates an economic model that quantifies the contributions of its members and rewards them with Plair Tokens, a crypto asset. The company is dedicated to empowering the video gaming community by fostering social interaction and financial incentives for all participants.

Blockfolio

Series A in 2018
Blockfolio, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a mobile application for cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and management. Founded in 2014 and based in Marina Del Rey, California, Blockfolio's application enables users to build and monitor their cryptocurrency portfolios, providing real-time prices, market data, and news updates from prominent figures in the crypto sector. The platform also facilitates automated portfolio tracking by integrating with users' exchange accounts, allowing for seamless management of investments. With millions of users, Blockfolio is recognized for its commitment to providing free access and valuable insights, helping individuals stay informed about the dynamic cryptocurrency landscape. As of August 2020, Blockfolio operates as a subsidiary of FTX Trading LTD.

FOAM

Seed Round in 2018
FOAM is a company focused on developing spatial protocols that aim to enhance location services through a decentralized approach. The FOAM protocol is designed to provide a crowdsourced map and fault-tolerant location verification system, utilizing an open network of terrestrial radios that can be operated by anyone. This innovative framework allows clients to centralize maps and location services while eliminating reliance on a single point of failure. FOAM operates from the New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, collaborating with a diverse team of blockchain developers, designers, architects, and urban planners to explore the geospatial implications on global infrastructures.

Wetez

Seed Round in 2018
Wetez is a professional web3 service provider. Wetez provides API, infrastructure, and service to Web3 projects.

Immutable Systems

Seed Round in 2018
Immutable Systems, founded in 2018 and based in Sydney, Australia, develops video games that integrate blockchain technology to enhance player experience. The company, previously known as Fuel Games, focuses on creating a platform that allows players to own digital assets and engage in secure trading. By utilizing the Ethereum blockchain, Immutable Systems aims to provide scalable infrastructure that promotes transparency in in-game economies, empowering players with greater control over their gaming experiences. The company's innovative approach includes offering tools and services that facilitate the development and management of player-owned assets, fostering a user-friendly environment for both gamers and developers.

Contentbox

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
Contentbox is a blockchain platform that connects users, creators, and advertisers in the digital content industry to enable a centralized payout system for audio and visual content. It provides micro-payment capabilities, financing infrastructure, and in-app incentive structures for content apps and websites. The platform also supports a decentralized ecosystem with a secure environment for multi-party contingent payments and a blockchain-based identity and attribution service across applications, enabling clients to manage digital technology on a unified platform.

Origo

Series A in 2018
Origo Network is a developer of a decentralized platform focused on preserving data privacy for various applications. By utilizing zero-knowledge proofs, the platform ensures that transaction details and smart contract inputs and outputs remain confidential, addressing concerns about sensitive information in the blockchain space. This capability allows users to create and execute smart contracts without exposing private data to the public. Origo serves multiple sectors, including finance, insurance, supply chain, personal data management, and artificial intelligence, fostering broader adoption of blockchain technology among businesses and individuals wary of data security. The platform is designed to be accessible for developers, as it provides a compiler that generates cryptographic protocols without requiring specialized knowledge in cryptography. Based in the United States, Origo Network aims to establish a new standard for privacy, security, and fairness in decentralized applications.

Gun

Seed Round in 2018
GUN is an open source real-time graph database platform that enables developers to build applications adaptable to offline environments. Focusing on seamless data synchronization, GUN simplifies the merging of conflicts and the handling of offline changes. Its platform leverages websockets for efficient data streaming, ensuring fast, scalable, and stable functionality. Designed for versatility, GUN's database engine operates across various environments, including web browsers, mobile devices, and servers, making it a valuable tool for developers looking to enhance user experience and application performance.

RSK Labs

Seed Round in 2018
RSK Labs Limited, headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina, specializes in developing bitcoin-based contract platforms. Its flagship product, RSK, is an open-source smart contract platform that facilitates a two-way peg with Bitcoin. This enables merge-mining, rewarding Bitcoin miners while allowing them to actively participate in the smart contract revolution. The company aims to enhance the Bitcoin ecosystem by facilitating smart contracts, near-instant payments, and higher scalability.

MobileCoin

Seed Round in 2018
MobileCoin, established in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, specializes in developing a cryptocurrency focused on privacy and security for peer-to-peer transactions. Its blockchain-based product aims to facilitate seamless mobile payments by enabling integration with popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp or Signal.

ZIPPER

Venture Round in 2018
ZIPPER is a blockchain company based in Singapore that focuses on creating a robust ecosystem for digital asset transactions. The company provides services designed to facilitate secure and efficient financial transactions through its proprietary zipper system and various blockchain types. By emphasizing financial-grade safety and payment efficiency, ZIPPER enables users to build and maintain secure blockchain networks that support a wide range of digital asset activities.

CertiK

Seed Round in 2018
CertiK is a blockchain security company that uses formal verification and AI-powered monitoring to protect and supervise blockchain protocols and smart contracts. It offers security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification services. Founded in 2018 by professors from Yale University and Columbia University, CertiK applies academic research to real-world blockchain deployments to help mission-critical applications scale safely and correctly. The company serves clients globally and maintains a presence in major technology hubs.

Algorand

Seed Round in 2018
Algorand is a blockchain technology company that operates a decentralized platform for digital currencies and transactions. The platform provides Layer-1 functionality, including Algorand Standard Asset tokens, Atomic Transfers, and Smart Contracts, designed to enable fast, scalable, and low-cost transactions. Founded in 2017 and based in Boston, Algorand aims to address blockchain scalability challenges through rapid, efficient consensus. The company also develops and maintains DeFi applications and digital identity solutions, and offers deployment, consultation, and maintenance services for permissioned blockchain networks to support enterprises and governments while emphasizing privacy, security, and cost efficiency.

Loom Network

Seed Round in 2018
Loom Network Inc. is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to create and operate large-scale decentralized applications on the Ethereum blockchain and other compatible chains. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, Loom Network provides a comprehensive solution for both smart contract and traditional developers, allowing them to build applications without the need to switch programming languages or manage servers manually. The platform supports various blockchain architectures, facilitating high-performance decentralized applications and offering seamless integration with third-party APIs for enhanced functionality. By simplifying user onboarding, Loom Network minimizes the friction typically associated with crypto wallet software, thereby enhancing the overall developer experience.

Internet of Services

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
The Internet of Services (IOS) offers a secure and scalable infrastructure for online service providers. Its high TPS, scalable and secure blockchain, and privacy protection provides infinite possibilities for online service providers to serve their customer base. IOST has offices in Beijing and San Francisco.

Hydro Protocol

Series A in 2018
Hydro Protocol provides centralized exchange, DEX upgrade, protocols, prediction markets, and a range of DeFi projects. They offer to acquire and invest in DEXs. Their services enable developers to find opportunities on a variety of blockchains.

Zen Protocol

Seed Round in 2018
Zen Protocol Development Ltd, founded in 2016 and headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, has created a blockchain platform designed to empower individuals to secure their assets without relying on trusted custodians. The platform, developed from scratch in F#, incorporates a unique contracting language in F* and merges the efficiency of Bitcoin's UTXO model with the programmability of Ethereum's EVM model. Zen Protocol offers various tools, including a software development kit (SDK) for creating smart contracts and digital assets, an application programming interface (API) for network interaction, and ZEN JS for connecting web applications to the Zen Network using JavaScript. This infrastructure facilitates peer-to-peer trading, allowing users full control over their financial assets.

OpenZeppelin

Seed Round in 2017
OpenZeppelin specializes in developing tools and conducting security audits for distributed systems operating on blockchain networks. They are renowned for their Open Source library, OpenZeppelin Contracts, which powers thousands of public projects and is maintained by a global community of contributors. The company also offers transaction APIs, monitoring tools, and educational resources to support developers building secure decentralized applications across multiple networks.

ælf

Seed Round in 2017
aelf, an AI-enhanced Layer 1 blockchain network, leverages the robust C# programming language for efficiency and scalability across its sophisticated multi-layered architecture. Founded in 2017 with its global hub in Singapore, aelf is a pioneer in the industry, leading Asia in evolving blockchain with state-of-the-art AI integration and modular Layer 2 ZK Rollup technology, ensuring an efficient, low-cost, and highly secure platform that is both developer and end-user friendly. Aligned with its progressive vision, aelf is committed to fostering innovation within its ecosystem and advancing Web3 and AI technology adoption.

Theta Network

Funding Round in 2017
Theta Network, developed by Theta Labs, is a decentralized video delivery platform that leverages blockchain technology and cryptocurrency to incentivize users to share their excess bandwidth for relaying video streams. This peer-to-peer network operates on top of existing streaming applications and networks, enabling low-latency live content streaming from platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and Twitter. By rewarding users for their contribution, Theta Network reduces content delivery costs and drives incremental revenues for video platforms. The company, based in Cupertino, California, has attracted strategic investments from prominent corporations and venture capital firms.

Zilliqa

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Zilliqa is a high-throughput public blockchain platform designed for scalability. It employs sharding technology to increase transaction rates as its network grows, enabling secure data-driven decentralized applications tailored for machine learning and financial algorithms.

Raiden

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Raiden offers Raiden Network, an off-chain scaling solution for performing ERC20-compliant token transfers on the Ethereum blockchain. Its Raiden Network uses bidirectional token payment channels to connect participants directly with each other, providing a protocol to relay token transfers through routes of channels for efficient use of network topology.

Polkadot

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Polkadot is an interoperability protocol that enables independent blockchains to securely exchange data and assets. It facilitates communication between these chains, enforcing message order and validity, and offers scalability by supporting multiple state machines.

SmartContract

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Smart Contracts verify an execute themselves by monitoring external data sources like digital payments, GPS or any other data that can be used to objectively prove a contract's performance. All Smart Contracts and their updates are placed into the blockchain, creating a secure record of proven contractual performance.

Chainlink Labs

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Chainlink Labs develops an online contract management platform that connects smart contracts to web apps and APIs. They specialize in developing and integrating open-source blockchain oracle solutions, empowering developers to accelerate smart contract innovation and acceptance.

Filecoin

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Filecoin is a decentralized data storage network that leverages blockchain technology, similar to Bitcoin. It operates by renting out unused disk space from participants to store files securely. Users can earn Filecoin tokens for contributing their storage capacity. These tokens can be exchanged for other currencies such as Bitcoin and USD. The company is headquartered in the United States.

0x

Seed Round in 2017
0x is an open protocol facilitating peer-to-peer token exchange on the Ethereum blockchain.

OmiseGO

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
OmiseGO enables financial inclusion and interoperability through the public, decentralized OMG network.

Qtum

Seed Round in 2017
Qtum is an open-source public blockchain platform that integrates the security of the UTXO model with a unique architecture supporting multiple virtual machines, including the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and an innovative x86 VM. Utilizing a proof-of-stake consensus protocol, Qtum is designed to offer flexibility and adaptability, featuring a Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP) that allows users to adjust specific blockchain parameters through smart contracts, eliminating the need for hard forks. The project aims to bridge the gap between Bitcoin and Ethereum communities, as well as between traditional industries and blockchain technology. Qtum's development team comprises experienced professionals from both the Bitcoin and Ethereum ecosystems, alongside experts from major technology firms. This collaborative background aims to address significant industry challenges while fostering broader adoption of blockchain solutions.
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