Matt Huang

Managing Partner

112 past transactions

StarkWare

Series B in 2021
StarkWare Industries Ltd develops software and hardware for generation and verification of computational integrity proofs for general computations. The company offers STARK, which is a zero-knowledge proof protocol with applications, including transparent privacy in blockchains, increased transaction throughput, and off chain computation. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Netanya, Israel.

Zora

Seed Round in 2021
Zora operates as a crypto-driven marketplace.

blockfi

Series D in 2021
BlockFi, Inc., a bitcoin lending company, provides wealth management products for crypto investors. It offers BlockFi Interest Account, an interest-bearing account that provides yields to crypto investors who store their Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar (GUSD) at BlockFi; and loans backed by clients’ cryptocurrency. The company also provides BlockFi Currency Trading, a platform for crypto investors that allows them to exchange cryptocurrency pairs between BTC, ETH, and GUSD; and offers customizable lending of cryptocurrencies, stable coins, and the U.S. dollars to institutions. BlockFi, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Uniswap

Venture Round in 2021
Uniswap is a fully decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum. A simple formalized equation drives unstoppable liquidity for thousands of users and hundreds of applications. Uniswap empowers developers, liquidity providers, and traders to participate in a financial marketplace that is open and accessible to all.

Synthetix

Seed Round in 2020
Havven Australia Ltd develops and operates a crypto asset-backed network for the creation of on-chain synthetic assets and digital tokens. The company offers Synthetix Network Token (SNX), a collateral token which backs synths, including sUSD and sEUR; Mintr, a decentralized application for SNX holders; and Swappr, a tool for conversions between SNX and ethereum. The company also develops a web portal for synthetic assets trading and payments. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Jambo

Series A in 2022
Jambo is building the Web3 super app that will educate, bank and entertain the continent. Jambo aims to pioneer the largest, most influential Web3 user acquisition portal across the continent and serve as the bridge between Africa and applications from around the world seeking to tap into the African market. The opportunity here is immense. We have a long-term vision of realizing financial prosperity for Africans.

Rain

Series B in 2022
Rain is a regulated cryptocurrency exchange operating in the Middle East.

Compound

Series A in 2019
Compound is an open-source interest rate protocol that unlocks new financial applications for developers. Its protocol is a widely used system built on Ethereum, with thousands of users, and dozens of applications integrating Compound. Compound offers a web interface that adjusts money market interest rates based on asset-specific supply and demand. Compound was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Sky Mavis

Series C in 2022
Sky Mavis is a technology company that creates decentralized applications and services.

The Wildcard Alliance

Series A in 2022
The Wildcard Alliance is a a subsidiary of Playful Studios currently building the Wildcard PVP, collectible card based MOBA and Platform.

Fractal

Seed Round in 2022
Fractal is an in-game asset and virtual world marketplace where users may find, purchase, and sell gaming NFTs. Fractal is headquartered in Solana, United States and was founded in 2021.

Blur

Seed Round in 2022
Blur aims to solve these problems and move the NFT space toward becoming institutional-grade while increasing decentralization.

Gauntlet

Series B in 2022
Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providing transparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Magic Eden

Series B in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-centric company. They work hard to be responsive, close to the ground, and in service to the best interests of their collections. To prove their commitment to the community, they airdropped Magic Tickets, their own collection, to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket gives holders access to their discord-based DAO, MagicDAO, where they deliver interconnectivity via social programs and rewards to the community.

Genesis Digital Assets

Private Equity Round in 2021
Genesis Digital Assets is one of the world's largest and most experienced Bitcoin mining companies. Since 2013, the founders of the company have built over 20 industrial-scale mining farms, brought over 300,000 miners online, and mined over $1 billion in Bitcoin.

Keep

Venture Round in 2020
Keep helps contracts harness the full power of the public blockchain by enabling deep interactivity with private data. It is an off-chain container for private data. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in George Town, Midland.

Argent

Series A in 2020
Argent Labs Limited develops and operates digital wallet for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. It offers Argent application that helps users to trade in digital assets; and manage funds and interact within token economy. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Thesis

Series A in 2021
Thesis, Inc. builds and funds products and protocols in cryptocurrency and decentralized technology. The company focuses on how to bridge the bitcoin/real-world purchase gap and enable private data on public blockchains. It develops tBTC protocol, an application on Keep network. Thesis, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Gauntlet

Venture Round in 2020
Gauntlet builds a blockchain simulation and testing platform for financial systems. The company's blockchain simulation and the testing platform run a series of simulations to test the client's protocol or smart contract and gain intuition on how design choices affect behavior, thereby helping financial institutions by providing transparency and greatly reduces the cost of experimentation so that teams can rapidly design, launch, and scale new decentralized systems. Gauntlet was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY, USA.

dYdX

Series C in 2021
We create safe, powerful financial tools that are accessible to people around the world. Founded back in 2017 from ex-Coinbase and Uber engineer, Antonio Juliano, dYdX is the world's leading decentralized platform for lending, borrowing and margin trading Ethereum-based assets. Users can earn interest or take loans for a nominal fee as well as trade on margin with custom leverage. Trade your crypto, the safe and secure way, with dYdX

Lido

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Lido is a provider of liquid staking solutions for staked assets and Ethereum. The platform lets users stake their assets for daily staking rewards. Users can stake any amount of tokens - no minimum. It issues synthetic native tokens for every Ethereum staked via its protocol, thereby enabling users to stake Ethereum and receive an asset of equal value which can be used in various DeFi applications to earn yield.

TaxBit

Series B in 2021
TaxBit is a cryptocurrency tax calculation and withholding service that serves investors, exchanges, and payment services.

opensea

Series C in 2022
OpenSea is the first (and largest) peer-to-peer marketplace for crypto goods (like eBay for crypto assets), which include collectibles, gaming items, and other virtual goods backed by a blockchain. On OpenSea, anyone can buy or sell these items through a smart contract. Over the last month, as the number of games in the space continues to increase, OpenSea has seen around half a million dollars in volume.

Magic Eden

Series A in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-centric company. They work hard to be responsive, close to the ground, and in service to the best interests of their collections. To prove their commitment to the community, they airdropped Magic Tickets, their own collection, to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket gives holders access to their discord-based DAO, MagicDAO, where they deliver interconnectivity via social programs and rewards to the community.

Lightspark

Seed Round in 2022
Lightspark is created to explore, build and extend the capabilities and utility of Bitcoin.

Sia

Seed Round in 2020
Sia is the leading decentralized cloud storage platform. No signups, no servers, no trusted third parties. Sia leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace that is more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers.

Uniswap

Series A in 2020
Uniswap is a fully decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum. A simple formalized equation drives unstoppable liquidity for thousands of users and hundreds of applications. Uniswap empowers developers, liquidity providers, and traders to participate in a financial marketplace that is open and accessible to all.

Blowfish

Seed Round in 2022
Blowfish detects and prevents fraud before any fraud occurs.

Diem

Seed Round in 2020
Diem is an independent, not-for-profit membership organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Diem empowers people around the world through the creation of a simple global currency. The Libra Association works to evolve and scale the network and reserve and leads a social impact grant-making program that supports financial inclusion efforts worldwide. The association collaborates with the global community and partners with policymakers to help further the Libra mission.

Nand Capital

Seed Round in 2019
Nand Capital is an Information Theory hedge fund backed by Founders Fund and Paradigm.

Reflexer

Seed Round in 2020
Reflexer Labs develops a low volatility decentralized finance collateral. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in USA.

Ignite

Series A in 2019
Tendermint brings simplicity, security, and speed to the world’s blockchains.

o1Labs

Series A in 2019
O(1) Labs is a software development company working on Mina Protocol, a tiny, portable blockchain. The company uses cryptography and cryptocurrency to build computing systems that put people back in control of their digital lives. It addresses one of the fundamental challenges in cryptocurrency by creating the first succinct blockchain that enables decentralization at scale. O(1) Labs was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California by Evan Shapiro and Izaak Meckler.

Magic Eden

Series B in 2022
Magic Eden is a community-centric company. They work hard to be responsive, close to the ground, and in service to the best interests of their collections. To prove their commitment to the community, they airdropped Magic Tickets, their own collection, to over 30,000 users. Holding a Magic Ticket gives holders access to their discord-based DAO, MagicDAO, where they deliver interconnectivity via social programs and rewards to the community.

Merkle Manufactory

Series A in 2024
Merkle Manufactory is a software company contributing to the Farcaster protocol and working on clients. Merkle Manufactory is a credible-neutral protocol in which users have direct relationships with their audiences and developers have the freedom to build new clients without permission.

Utopia Labs

Series A in 2023
Building the modern system for managing and automating contributor payments, expenses, and reporting for your DAO, built right on top of Gnosis.

Genesis Digital Assets

Private Equity Round in 2021
Genesis Digital Assets is one of the world's largest and most experienced Bitcoin mining companies. Since 2013, the founders of the company have built over 20 industrial-scale mining farms, brought over 300,000 miners online, and mined over $1 billion in Bitcoin.

Jambo

Series A in 2022
Jambo is building the Web3 super app that will educate, bank and entertain the continent. Jambo aims to pioneer the largest, most influential Web3 user acquisition portal across the continent and serve as the bridge between Africa and applications from around the world seeking to tap into the African market. The opportunity here is immense. We have a long-term vision of realizing financial prosperity for Africans.

Exponential DeFi

Seed Round in 2022
Exponential DeFi platform makes it easy to discover, assess, and invest in DeFi yield opportunities. Anyone can become a lender or market maker with DeFi. Financial freedom is within everyone's reach when individuals have the ability to grow their wealth exponentially. Its platform helps investors assess the risk of DeFi yield opportunities so they can invest with confidence. Exponential DeFi platform was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California.

SignalPlus

Seed Round in 2022
Enterprise technology firm SignalPlus wants to make trading in options for digital and crypto assets more accessible.

Uniswap

Series B in 2022
Uniswap is a fully decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum. A simple formalized equation drives unstoppable liquidity for thousands of users and hundreds of applications. Uniswap empowers developers, liquidity providers, and traders to participate in a financial marketplace that is open and accessible to all.

Sky Mavis

Series B in 2021
Sky Mavis is a technology company that creates decentralized applications and services.

Cosmos

Seed Round in 2019
Cosmos is a container-first monitoring system that has no dependency for a certain infrastructure or operating system. You can connect all containers in your data center to a single dashboard.

Uniswap

Series A in 2020
Uniswap is a fully decentralized protocol for automated liquidity provision on Ethereum. A simple formalized equation drives unstoppable liquidity for thousands of users and hundreds of applications. Uniswap empowers developers, liquidity providers, and traders to participate in a financial marketplace that is open and accessible to all.

Chainalysis

Series D in 2021
Chainalysis builds trust in blockchains between people, businesses, and governments. Our Blockchain Intelligence Platform powers our compliance and investigation software for the world’s top institutions. With offices in NY, D.C., and Copenhagen, Chainalysis is global and backed by Benchmark and other leading names in venture capital.

Numerai

Funding Round in 2019
Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund built by a network of data scientists. It uses its cryptocurrency to incentivize tens of thousands of anonymous data scientists around the world to collaborate to create predictive models in history. It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Royal

Seed Round in 2021
Royal is a platform where you can buy ownership in songs directly from your favorite artists and earn royalties with them.

Spacemesh

Venture Round in 2018
Spacemesh is a fair blockmesh operating system designed to run general-purpose smart contracts at web-scale. It is powered by a novel consensus protocol that is secure, proof of work free and highly incentive-compatible. Spacemesh is designed to create a highly-decentralized p2p blockchain computer formed by individuals from around the globe running Spacemesh on their desktop PCs at home. Spacemesh is as a free open source software that aims to become a core Internet protocol for blockchain computation.

Bitso

Series C in 2021
Bitso SAPI de CV owns and operates an online trading platform that enables users to buy and sell bitcoins. Its platform provides funding and withdrawal options; and enables users to finance their account in person at various locations in Mexico. The company also provides The Bitso API that allows users to integrate the Bitso trading platform with third party applications, such as trading applications, charting programs, point of sale systems, and more. It also develops application called BITSO APP for trading activities. Bitso SAPI de CV was founded in 2014 and is based in Mexico City, Mexico.

Nebulous

Seed Round in 2020
Nebulous, Inc. operates and builds blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. It offers Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace; Skynet, a decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for devs; and SiaStream that provides cheap storage for media files using cloud storage technology to provide fast streaming. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Aztec

Series A in 2021
The AZTEC protocol uses cutting-edge zero-knowledge proofs to enable private transactions on Ethereum. This enables the logic of transactions to be validated, whilst keeping the values encrypted.

Dework

Seed Round in 2022
A web3-native Trello with token payments, credentialing, bounties and more

Tagomi

Venture Round in 2019
Tagomi is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform designed to provide clients with trade better execution so they can keep more of their returns. The company's platform uses advanced routing tactics and execution algorithms to analyze real-time and historical data to decide where and when to trade, enabling clients to reduce trading costs and keep more of their returns.

Argent

Series B in 2022
Argent Labs Limited develops and operates digital wallet for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. It offers Argent application that helps users to trade in digital assets; and manage funds and interact within token economy. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Opyn

Series A in 2021
Opyn is building an insurance marketplace to protect cryptocurrency users against system risks in Decentralized Finance.

Royal

Series A in 2021
Royal is a platform where you can buy ownership in songs directly from your favorite artists and earn royalties with them.

Flashbots

Seed Round in 2020
Flashbots is a research and development company that focuses on miners and searchers for transparent and efficient MEV extraction. The company is working on mitigating the negative externalities of current MEV extraction techniques and avoiding the existential risks MEV could cause to state-rich blockchains like Ethereum. Their primary focus is to enable a permissionless, transparent, and fair ecosystem for MEV extraction.

blockfi

Series D in 2021
BlockFi, Inc., a bitcoin lending company, provides wealth management products for crypto investors. It offers BlockFi Interest Account, an interest-bearing account that provides yields to crypto investors who store their Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar (GUSD) at BlockFi; and loans backed by clients’ cryptocurrency. The company also provides BlockFi Currency Trading, a platform for crypto investors that allows them to exchange cryptocurrency pairs between BTC, ETH, and GUSD; and offers customizable lending of cryptocurrencies, stable coins, and the U.S. dollars to institutions. BlockFi, Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Ribbon Finance

Venture Round in 2022
Ribbon Finance creates structured products that deliver sustainable yield using financial engineering for DeFi. The company allows investors to profit when the price of ETH goes above.

AI Arena

Seed Round in 2021
AI Arena provides native gaming using artificial intelligence and users train their NFTs backed by AI, then enter the Arena to battle for supremacy.

Osmosis Foundation

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Osmosis is a decentralized peer-to-peer blockchain that people can use to create liquidity and trade IBC enabled tokens. The Osmosis blockchain is made up of free, public, and open-source software. - Osmosis is a first-of-its-kind automated market maker (AMM) that marks a foundational shift in how liquidity providers can benefit from Interchain DeFi.

Citadel Securities

Venture Round in 2022
Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity securities. Our world-class capabilities position us to meet the liquidity demands of our diverse group of institutional clients in all market conditions. In partnering with us, our clients, including asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies and public pension programs are able to gain a powerful trading advantage and are better positioned to meet their investment goals.

CoinSwitch

Series C in 2021
coinswitch.co is the world's first cryptocurrency exchange aggregator platform. It lists 250+ coin and 6000+ currency pairs. As of 2018, it has been hitting a volume of 1 million USD per day. Some of the exchanges listed on coinswitch.co are Bittrex, Changelly, Shapeshift and Cryptopia.

LootRush

Seed Round in 2022
LootRush is a Web3 Videogame Platform.

BetDEX

Seed Round in 2021
BetDEX is the decentralized sports betting protocol. BetDEX delivers high speeds and low transaction costs while eliminating counterparty risk. BetDEX is a permissionless protocol allowing anyone to build their own applications on top.

Tessera

Series A in 2022
Fractional is an NFT platform that unlocks liquidity, reduces entry costs, and allows for synergy with other DeFi primitives. The platform is building a permissionless and decentralized NFT Fractionalization platform to enable greater ownership of the world’s most sought after NFTs. Fractional was founded by Andy Chorlian.

Euler

Series A in 2021
Euler XYZ Limited develops a lending protocol. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Tessera

Seed Round in 2021
Fractional is an NFT platform that unlocks liquidity, reduces entry costs, and allows for synergy with other DeFi primitives. The platform is building a permissionless and decentralized NFT Fractionalization platform to enable greater ownership of the world’s most sought after NFTs. Fractional was founded by Andy Chorlian.

Namebase

Seed Round in 2018
Developer of an open-bidding domain marketplace designed to assist users to buy, sell, and manage top-level domains and HNS coins. The company's marketplace makes it straightforward to use the next generation of domain names, enabling users to host their website and use their names to receive crypto.

Gitcoin

Series A in 2021
Gitcoin offers a platform to get paid for working on open source software in Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, Solidity, HTML, CSS, and design. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Boulder, Colorado.

Veil

Seed Round in 2019
Veil, Inc. operates a peer-to-peer trading platform for prediction markets and derivatives on Augur. Its platform provides users with the ability to bet on various prediction markets on a peer-to-peer basis, as well as trade a range of crypto assets. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Matrixport

Venture Round in 2019
Matrixport is your gateway to digital economy where you can trade, custody, invest and borrow crypto assets all in one stop. With rich industry resources and leading technology capabilities, Matrixport aims to create the next generation digital financial service platform. Their vision is to enable a more open and equal financial system using blockchain technologies. Matrixport has launched trading, digital asset custody, and cryptocurrency lending service for clients around the world, with even more innovative product offerings to come. Matrixport is headquartered in Singapore with offices worldwide.

AMBER AI

Series A in 2020
Amber Group Limited offers cryptocurrency financial services in Hong Kong. The company helps clients to buy and sell cryptocurrency products. It offers services, such as yield enhancement, collateralized lending, decentralized finance, execution services, and electronic market making. Amber Group Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in Hong Kong.

CoinSwitch

Series A in 2021
coinswitch.co is the world's first cryptocurrency exchange aggregator platform. It lists 250+ coin and 6000+ currency pairs. As of 2018, it has been hitting a volume of 1 million USD per day. Some of the exchanges listed on coinswitch.co are Bittrex, Changelly, Shapeshift and Cryptopia.