GEODNET
Initial Coin Offering in 2025
GEODNET is a decentralized network that collects real-time data on the influence of solar winds on Global Navigation Satellite System signals. It uses blockchain technology to provide accurate positioning and time accuracy services, benefiting industries such as automotive, agriculture, construction, and earthquake monitoring. GEODNET also offers applications in decentralized mapping, metaverse digital twins, location-aware smart contracts, and proof-of-location/time.
Cypherpunk Holdings
Post in 2025
Founded in Toronto, Canada in 1995, Cypherpunk Holdings invests primarily in cryptocurrencies and privacy technologies. Its portfolio includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, and other digital assets. The company also engages in strategic activities like lending, staking, liquidity provisioning, and private equity investments focused on early-stage DeFi and blockchain companies.
Courtyard
Venture Round in 2024
Courtyard is a platform facilitating secure ownership transfer of physical collectibles worldwide via non-fungible tokens (NFTs), eliminating the need for physical item movement.
Avalanche
Initial Coin Offering in 2024
Avalanche is an open-source platform enabling the launch of highly decentralized applications and new interoperable blockchains.
Notabene, Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2020 that specializes in developing a software as a service (SaaS) platform for crypto compliance tailored for the financial industry. The company focuses on helping financial institutions adhere to emerging global regulations concerning cryptocurrency transactions, specifically addressing the complexities of the Travel Rule. Notabene offers a unified API and dashboard designed to assist compliance officers in managing risk associated with both Travel Rule and non-custodial transactions. By providing access to a broad network of crypto businesses, Notabene simplifies the compliance process, enhances transaction confidence, and ultimately supports its clients in increasing their transaction volumes and business growth.
Meridian
Seed Round in 2024
Meridian is a Movement-native decentralized liquidity marketplace and liquid staking system that allows users to trade and earn with their assets smoothly.
Huma
Venture Round in 2024
Huma is a fintech company that operates a decentralized finance platform for lending. It connects businesses and individuals seeking loans with global financing options by using tokens as collateral.
Parfin is a financial technology company founded in 2019 by experienced professionals from investment banking and blockchain sectors. The company specializes in developing enterprise-grade software products that facilitate the integration of blockchain technology within financial institutions. Parfin is known for its core product, Rayls, which adopts a unified finance approach, enabling traditional financial systems to leverage blockchain with necessary compliance, security, and privacy measures. By providing a secure infrastructure for managing digital assets and traditional currencies, Parfin connects digital asset exchanges, custodians, and banks, thereby enhancing governance, security, and scalability for institutional clients. Through its innovative solutions, Parfin is contributing to the creation of more efficient, transparent, and inclusive financial markets.
Layer3 is a web3 user acquisition and retention platform founded in 2021 that provides no-code tools to design milestones for on-chain actions, using bounties and quests to drive onboarding and engagement. The platform supports autonomous ecosystem expansion through interoperable identity and amplified incentives, helping users discover new communities, earn rewards, and access multichain liquidity. Layer3 has driven over 10 million on-chain interactions across leading dapps and serves a growing roster of crypto projects including Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave and 1inch.
Polymarket
Series B in 2024
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that enables users to wager real money on the outcomes of debated current events. The service operates on blockchain technology, primarily Ethereum, with additional use of the Polygon network to improve scalability and reduce transaction costs. Participants connect through an Ethereum-compatible wallet and place bets using the USDC stablecoin on topics such as politics, healthcare, economics, and other areas where public discussion centers on likely outcomes. The platform transforms speculative activity into market-based insights by allowing users to express expectations about future events and realize gains or losses based on actual results.
Securitize
Venture Round in 2024
Securitize, Inc. operates a compliance platform designed for the issuance and management of digital securities. Founded in 2017 and based in Redwood City, California, the company facilitates various services for issuers, including digital security issuance, document handling, investor communications, and accreditation. For investors, Securitize offers features such as wallet management, an investor dashboard, and token distribution. The platform also includes support services like fiat and crypto escrow, along with custodial services. Securitize is distinguished as the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated U.S.-based marketplaces, enabling eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities across sectors like equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. The company's approach enhances transparency, liquidity, and efficiency in the tokenization process, while also providing KYC/AML and capital management services.
Thruster
Seed Round in 2024
Thruster operates a decentralized exchange (DEX) on the Blast blockchain, catering to developers, yield seekers, and traders. It offers a user-friendly automated market maker (AMM) DEX experience, enhanced with features to improve on-chain interactions. Notably, liquidity provider (LP) tokens on Thruster are fungible and can be employed for on-chain leverage, collateralization, and earning yield through various liquidity tools and Blast-native yield opportunities.
Centrifuge
Series A in 2024
Centrifuge is a blockchain-based platform that connects the global financial supply chain through a decentralized, privacy-preserving protocol for exchanging financial documents and data. It enables businesses to transact in a peer-to-peer network while retaining ownership of their information, including company details, relationships, and transaction history. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco with a Berlin office, Centrifuge supports on-chain tokenization and management of assets, allowing the tokenization, management, and distribution of asset-backed products. The platform also enables third-party developers to build applications on top of its data, effectively serving as a decentralized operating system for the financial supply chain and facilitating global transactions while preserving data ownership.
Mezo is a bitcoin economic layer network that provides fast and cheap bitcoin transactions to hold tokens while earning yield.
Architect
Series A in 2024
Architect develops a financial trading platform that facilitates the trade of global futures, options, and digital assets. Its core offering is an institutional-grade infrastructure designed to connect different crypto venues across centralized and decentralized exchanges.
Blerify
Seed Round in 2024
Blerify is a digital platform that facilitates secure and convenient interactions between enterprises and individuals. It offers modular verification infrastructure, including wallet-based authentication, attestations, and asset management.
Cube Group
Series A in 2024
Cube Group is a hybrid CEX-DEX digital asset marketplace that addresses the challenges of traditional centralized exchanges and decentralized finance platforms. The company provides a user-centric design, radical transparency, safety, and liquidity, with features like multi-party compute, on-chain settlement, proof-of-reserves, and multi-chain support. Its vaults represent users' balances on their respective layer-one blockchains, offering transparent liquidation standards and criteria for derivatives and margin trading. The platform also standardizes market data and order sessions, allowing seamless onboarding for market participants through web interfaces for trading.
Bitfinity Network
Venture Round in 2024
Bitfinity Network is a creator of a blockchain platform that allows users to generate, stake, and swap tokens on their internet-connected computers. The company focuses on developing new decentralized finance (DeFi) cross-chain primitives. Its main services include research and development into cross-chain wallets that support Bitcoin and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-based chains and exchanges and automated market-making activities.
Wormhole
Initial Coin Offering in 2023
Wormhole covers a range of use cases to make chains for tokens, NFTs, apps, and other generic messaging applications. They build protocols on wormholes that can use data, assets, and messages from other chains.
Kinto is the KYC'ed Layer 2 capable of supporting both modern financial institutions and decentralized protocols.
Superstate
Seed Round in 2023
Superstate is a developer of legal and blockchain-based financial solutions. These solutions include short-term government bond funds that can be held in a cryptocurrency wallet or by a crypto custodian.
Lynx Finance
Pre Seed Round in 2023
Web3 Infrastructure for perpetuals trading
M^0 Labs
Venture Round in 2023
M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middleware to become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age.
Huma is a fintech company that operates a decentralized finance platform for lending. It connects businesses and individuals seeking loans with global financing options by using tokens as collateral.
Ironblocks
Seed Round in 2023
Ironblocks specializes in cybersecurity solutions tailored for the Web3 ecosystem. Its protocol offers comprehensive analytics and clarity on security needs, featuring unique sensors and a grid that detects malicious activities across multiple chains.
Elementus
Series A in 2023
Founded in New York in 2017, Elementus is a data science company specializing in blockchain intelligence. It provides an enterprise platform that combines proprietary data with patented algorithms to deliver unique insights and enable fast, actionable decision-making within the crypto economy for institutional asset managers, financial service organizations, and government agencies.
Bounce Finance
Series A in 2022
Bounce Finance is a decentralized auction protocol that empowers users to create and participate in diverse types of auctions across multiple blockchain ecosystems, including the real-world collectible marketplace.
Thala Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Thala Labs is a decentralized financial firm that develops DeFi applications on the Aptos blockchain and is already working on a decentralized stablecoin.
yoloyolo
Seed Round in 2022
YoloHub is a developer of a gaming platform that facilitates connections between non-fungible token (NFT) owners and brands, particularly in the fashion and lifestyle sectors. The platform aims to bridge the gap between leading NFT intellectual property holders and various brands, enabling them to collaborate on merchandise sales. By doing so, YoloHub provides opportunities for growth and new revenue models for both the brands and the NFT IP holders, fostering an environment where digital currency assets can be effectively monetized. Through this innovative infrastructure, YoloHub seeks to enhance the engagement between NFT creators and brand partners, driving value in the evolving digital marketplace.
Credix is a decentralized credit platform focused on providing borrowers in emerging markets with access to capital that has been historically difficult to obtain. By leveraging blockchain technology, Credix connects high-quality borrowers with global investors, creating credit lines that offer attractive yields. The platform serves as an infrastructure for businesses and marketplaces, facilitating lending, underwriting, and debt collection. This approach allows for diverse credit options while ensuring that investors are paid upfront. Credix aims to enhance transparency and efficiency in the credit market, enabling borrowers to access funds in a more streamlined manner.
Magpie Protocol
Funding Round in 2022
Magpie Protocol is a decentralized liquidity aggregation protocol designed for cross-chain exchange infrastructure. Launched in 2022 and based in Dubai, it facilitates seamless trading of crypto assets by using bridges to communicate swap signals between different blockchains. This approach enhances the user experience by allowing investors to trade and invest in various assets without the need for bridging. Magpie Protocol aims to support early-stage crypto entrepreneurs in launching innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) and infrastructure projects, all while providing a simple, efficient, and secure platform for transactions within the DeFi ecosystem.
Contango
Seed Round in 2022
Contango is a decentralized protocol that focuses on providing perpetual futures atop money markets. It operates a decentralized exchange designed to facilitate expirable futures without the need for order books or liquidity pools. By leveraging existing decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, Contango enables fixed-rate lending and borrowing. The platform also supports physical delivery and minimizes price impact for larger trades, allowing traders to effectively hedge their positions and manage their costs. Through these innovations, Contango aims to enhance trading efficiency and accessibility within the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Aptos is a web3 startup founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company develops a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that allows developers to create future-proof applications. Aptos aims to provide universal access to decentralized assets through its network, utilizing a safe and reliable programming language that facilitates application development. The team at Aptos is composed of skilled engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and builders, all working towards enhancing the accessibility and scalability of blockchain infrastructure for developers.
Safe
Venture Round in 2022
Safe is a leading provider of digital asset storage solutions, specializing in Ethereum-based multi-signature smart contract wallets. As a spin-out from Gnosis, a decentralized infrastructure provider, Safe offers a secure and programmable account abstraction platform, serving as the account abstraction leader on Ethereum and the EVM. Its flagship product, Gnosis Safe, enables secure and transparent management of digital assets, fostering collaboration and tracking within the decentralized ecosystem.
Safe
Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Safe is a leading provider of digital asset storage solutions, specializing in Ethereum-based multi-signature smart contract wallets. As a spin-out from Gnosis, a decentralized infrastructure provider, Safe offers a secure and programmable account abstraction platform, serving as the account abstraction leader on Ethereum and the EVM. Its flagship product, Gnosis Safe, enables secure and transparent management of digital assets, fostering collaboration and tracking within the decentralized ecosystem.
ZenLedger
Series B in 2022
ZenLedger, Inc. is a software company based in Bellevue, Washington, that specializes in cryptocurrency tax management solutions. Founded in 2017, it offers a comprehensive platform designed for cryptocurrency investors and tax professionals, enabling them to import transactions, calculate gains and income, and prepare tax returns with ease. ZenLedger's software generates essential documents such as profit and loss statements, capital gains reports, and income reports, facilitating efficient portfolio management and compliance with tax regulations. By automating the tax preparation process, ZenLedger aims to alleviate the complexities and manual efforts typically associated with cryptocurrency taxation, thereby enhancing the user experience for both individual investors and professionals in the financial sector.
Jambo is a technology company building an on-chain mobile network driven by the JamboPhone, a crypto-native smartphone and ecosystem that combines hardware, software, and decentralized services. It operates a distributed mobile-network foundation with nodes across many countries to enable decentralized use cases such as validators and peer-to-peer networking while reducing connectivity costs. The platform includes the JamboApp, which features a multi-chain wallet, an ecosystem dApp store, and opportunities to earn rewards. It also supports gaming smartphones with integrated blockchain technology and financial software to connect users with the global on-chain economy. Jambo aims to onboard millions into the on-chain economy by enabling access to games, cryptocurrency trading, and decentralized finance, with the Jambo Token powering rewards and ecosystem incentives.
Push Protocol
Series A in 2022
Push Protocol is a decentralized communication protocol designed for the web3 ecosystem that facilitates the delivery of notifications related to both on-chain and off-chain activities. The protocol enables users, decentralized applications (dApps), and service providers to create customizable notifications based on various triggers, including smart contracts and backend systems. By utilizing an open communication network of push nodes, Push Protocol connects to users' wallet addresses, allowing notifications to be displayed across any crypto wallet or interface. This platform-agnostic solution aims to enhance user engagement in the web3 space, as it allows users to receive and potentially earn cryptocurrency through the notifications they receive.
bloXroute Labs
Series B in 2022
bloXroute Labs, Inc. is a company focused on providing blockchain scalability solutions that enable cryptocurrencies and blockchains to process thousands of transactions per second without requiring protocol changes. Established in 2018 and based in Evanston, Illinois, the company operates a blockchain distribution network that enhances the efficiency of data propagation across all blockchains. By utilizing a global network of servers optimized for performance through advanced techniques like compression and encryption, bloXroute Labs ensures that all nodes can maintain consensus even as transaction volumes soar. This provably neutral platform supports a wide range of blockchains, facilitating improved transaction throughput and addressing scalability challenges at the network layer.
NEAR
Private Equity Round in 2022
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.
NEAR
Venture Round in 2022
NEAR is a blockchain platform that enables developers to build, deploy, and run decentralized applications. It offers NEAR Protocol, a scalable smart contract platform with decentralized storage and compute capabilities, along with developer tools such as documentation, wallet, studio, and explorer. The platform supports a broad ecosystem of components and aims to bridge the adoption gap for mainstream software by refining the development experience and enabling agents and clients to own assets, make decisions, and transact across networks. NEAR was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in California.
Burrow is a decentralized platform that operates a non-custodial liquidity pool, enabling users to supply and borrow assets for trading. The platform focuses on unlocking liquidity for interest-bearing assets, particularly layer 1 staking derivatives. By allowing users to supply assets, Burrow facilitates the earning of interest and enables borrowing against those assets to enhance liquidity. Additionally, the platform features a governance token staking program, which encourages user participation and investment in the ecosystem. Overall, Burrow aims to provide a streamlined approach to accessing liquidity in the decentralized finance space.
Aptos is a web3 startup founded in 2021 and based in Palo Alto, California. The company develops a scalable Layer 1 blockchain that allows developers to create future-proof applications. Aptos aims to provide universal access to decentralized assets through its network, utilizing a safe and reliable programming language that facilitates application development. The team at Aptos is composed of skilled engineers, researchers, strategists, designers, and builders, all working towards enhancing the accessibility and scalability of blockchain infrastructure for developers.
Immutable Systems
Series C in 2022
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.
ConsenSys
Series D in 2022
ConsenSys is an Ethereum software and Web3 company that enables developers, enterprises, and individuals to build decentralized applications, deploy modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite includes Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serving millions of users and supporting billions of blockchain-based queries and digital assets. Built on Ethereum, ConsenSys fosters the growth of a programmable economy by providing tools, services, and research that accelerate innovation and the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.
Aperture Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Aperture Finance provides a decentralized finance platform to streamline complex DeFi operations. The company aims to bring its automation tools to TradFi native and hybrid funds with large capital to deploy in DeFi but minimal experience with on-chain dev and smart contract work. Building on the infra layer of EVMs, Aperture offers "Composable Automation", a "no code" approach to on-chain liquidity management.
Folks Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Folks Finance is a cross-chain DeFi protocol that addresses liquidity fragmentation by creating natively cross-chain lending markets. Users can deposit on any chain and borrow on any chain without bridging or wrapping assets. Additionally, Folks Finance offers comprehensive services including lending, trading, and liquid staking as the largest app on Algorand.
Hubble Protocol
Venture Round in 2022
Hubble Protocol is a decentralized financial platform that facilitates long-term borrowing, lending, and the creation of structured financial products. It aims to democratize access to decentralized finance by offering a range of sustainable financial services. The protocol's software supports multi-asset collateral and enables zero-interest borrowing, allowing users to leverage yield-bearing assets for loans. Additionally, Hubble enhances yield generation on deposits of various tokens, providing clients with optimized financial opportunities while minimizing costs associated with loans.
Credix is a decentralized credit platform focused on providing borrowers in emerging markets with access to capital that has been historically difficult to obtain. By leveraging blockchain technology, Credix connects high-quality borrowers with global investors, creating credit lines that offer attractive yields. The platform serves as an infrastructure for businesses and marketplaces, facilitating lending, underwriting, and debt collection. This approach allows for diverse credit options while ensuring that investors are paid upfront. Credix aims to enhance transparency and efficiency in the credit market, enabling borrowers to access funds in a more streamlined manner.
Figment Capital
Series C in 2021
Figment Networks Inc. is a leading blockchain infrastructure and software provider based in Toronto, Canada, established in 2018. The company develops and operates an open-source crypto network, focusing on enhancing community engagement through tools that facilitate understanding of network health and performance for informed staking decisions. Figment supports various crypto networks, including Tezos, Cosmos, Livepeer, and Horizen. It offers a comprehensive suite of services, such as enterprise-grade node and staking infrastructure, the Hubble Web 3 explorer, and DataHub developer APIs, aimed at simplifying the use, development, and governance of blockchains for token holders and developers alike. Additionally, Figment publishes open-source software and economic research to further benefit the blockchain community.
BAYZ is a decentralized autonomous organization and online gaming platform that aims to bring people into the metaverse through blockchain-based play-to-earn experiences. It collaborates with publishers, content creators and gamers to connect players with NFT-based games and decentralized titles, enabling participation in titles such as Axie Infinity, The Sandbox, Ember Sword and Big Time and offering opportunities to earn money and NFT prizes. The initiative focuses on content and competition to reward engagement and seeks to build future job opportunities around gaming and web3 participation.
Atlendis Labs
Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an online lending platform offering uncollateralized crypto loans. The platform leverages blockchain technology for capital-efficient lending, ensuring creditworthiness and loan repayment capability.
Parcl is a blockchain-based platform facilitating fractional ownership in physical real estate. It enables users to invest in digital representations of square feet, providing access to the real estate market previously unavailable.
Fireblocks
Series E in 2021
Fireblocks develops a blockchain-based platform focused on securely managing and transferring digital assets between exchanges, wallets, custodians, and counterparties. It caters to various financial institutions, including banks, fintech companies, hedge funds, and liquidity providers.
Champion Games
Venture Round in 2021
Champion Games creates blockchain-based video games. The company's game MetaSoccer, a football fantasy game that allows the players to play and ear.
Talis
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Talis is an NFT marketplace that empowers artists and bridges physical and digital art on the Terra and Juno blockchain. With just a few clicks and no code, the company enables users to own portfolios and mint their first NFT. The TALIS token will act as the protocol's official governance token and give users access to the Talis Treasury, fraud detection, and smart contract changes.
C3 is a self-custodial exchange that combines the advantages of self-custody and decentralization with the performance and accessibility expected from traditional trading platforms. It is designed to facilitate trading in both spot and derivatives markets. The platform features a sophisticated clearing engine that supports cross-margin and cross-collateralization, allowing traders to manage their capital more efficiently by calculating margin requirements globally based on their open positions. With its focus on enhancing user experience, C3 aims to provide a secure and efficient environment for trading digital assets.
MetaSoccer
Seed Round in 2021
MetaSoccer is a blockchain-based online soccer management platform that blends a football manager game with an earn-to-play economy. It enables players to own clubs, train players, manage teams, and compete in leagues within a digital football ecosystem. The platform tokenizes assets such as players and stadiums, making them tradable within a decentralized gaming economy where participants can earn rewards through gameplay.
Founded in 2014 by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Gemini is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and custodian based in the United States. It offers customers the ability to buy, sell, and securely store digital assets while adhering to stringent regulatory standards.
ConsenSys
Series C in 2021
ConsenSys is an Ethereum software and Web3 company that enables developers, enterprises, and individuals to build decentralized applications, deploy modern financial infrastructure, and access the decentralized web. Its product suite includes Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, serving millions of users and supporting billions of blockchain-based queries and digital assets. Built on Ethereum, ConsenSys fosters the growth of a programmable economy by providing tools, services, and research that accelerate innovation and the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.
Spectral
Venture Round in 2021
Spectral, established in 2020 and headquartered in New Rochelle, New York, specializes in developing an AI-driven platform for creating and deploying sophisticated smart contracts. This platform facilitates the generation of complex smart contracts using natural language, expediting development time and minimizing errors.
Beta Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Beta Finance is a decentralized finance protocol specializing in lending, borrowing, and short-selling of crypto assets. It aims to mitigate crypto volatility and promote market stability through its user-friendly platform, enabling traders of all skill levels to manage their short positions effectively.
P0x Labs
Seed Round in 2021
P0x labs is the team behind Manta Network is a privacy-preserving technology operating on the Polkadot blockchain.
Manta Network
Seed Round in 2021
Manta Network is focused on creating a secure and interoperable digital ecosystem through the use of Zero-Knowledge technology. The company operates a decentralized exchange platform designed to protect user privacy and prevent tracking of activities. By utilizing a protocol based on substrate frameworks, Manta Network offers end-to-end anonymity, high throughput, and robust cross-chain interoperability. This enables users to exchange data in a secure environment, prioritizing privacy and security in their transactions.
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.
Layer3 is a web3 user acquisition and retention platform founded in 2021 that provides no-code tools to design milestones for on-chain actions, using bounties and quests to drive onboarding and engagement. The platform supports autonomous ecosystem expansion through interoperable identity and amplified incentives, helping users discover new communities, earn rewards, and access multichain liquidity. Layer3 has driven over 10 million on-chain interactions across leading dapps and serves a growing roster of crypto projects including Coinbase Cloud, Hashflow, Slingshot, Stargate, Aave and 1inch.
Domination Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Domination Finance is a company that develops a non-custodial financial instrument tailored for traders in the cryptocurrency market. Its platform operates as an Ethereum application, utilizing the UMA protocol to facilitate trading based on Bitcoin Dominance metrics. The platform allows users to take long or short positions, enabling speculation on market dominance. In addition to Ethereum, the platform is also deployed on Polygon and Boba, broadening its accessibility and functionality. Through its innovative approach, Domination Finance aims to provide traders with tools to navigate and capitalize on the dynamic cryptocurrency landscape.
deBridge Finance
Seed Round in 2021
deBridge Finance is a developer of a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol designed to facilitate decentralized asset transfers between multiple blockchains. The protocol operates on a network of independent oracles and validators, which are elected through deBridge governance. It provides essential infrastructure for cross-chain interoperability, enabling users to transfer assets, including NFTs, across various platforms such as Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Huobi Ecological Chain, and Arbitrum. By allowing seamless transfers between these blockchains, deBridge Finance enhances accessibility and liquidity in the digital asset space.
Chainflip
Seed Round in 2021
Chainflip is a decentralized protocol facilitating trustless asset trades between different blockchain networks with minimal slippage. It enables direct cross-chain exchanges of cryptocurrencies without intermediaries, utilizing its native blockchain and ecosystem components built on Rust and other frameworks. This allows investors to transfer funds seamlessly across various blockchains and ecosystems without additional software, collateral, or wrapped assets.
Thesis is a cryptocurrency venture studio that funds and builds decentralized products and protocols designed to empower individuals. It develops and supports privacy-focused, open-source financial infrastructure, including tools for crypto payments, earning opportunities, and user-controlled wallets. The company emphasizes community governance and collaboration to create interoperable, user-centric solutions that give people greater control over their digital assets and financial data. Through its portfolio, Thesis aims to advance personal empowerment in the digital economy by fostering transparent, decentralized technologies and open collaboration.
Solrise Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Solrise Finance is a DeFi protocol designed to support managed portfolios on the Solana network.
RabbitHole
Seed Round in 2021
RabbitHole helps users navigate the play to earn space with curated opportunities.
The company also allows users to build their knowledge with resources across DeFi, DAOs, and NFTs as well as explore web3 projects and earn rewards doing so.
RabbitHole was established in 2020 by Brian Flynn in Venice, California.
Yield Guild Games
Series A in 2021
Yield Guild Games is a decentralized organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) used within virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. Its mission is to foster the largest virtual world economy, optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing profits with its token holders.
Jet Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
Jet Protocol Holdings is a developer of a decentralized lending and borrowing platform that aims to reduce transaction costs and enhance efficiency in financial transactions. The company specializes in creating innovative loan products and facilitates cross-chain interest rate arbitrage, allowing users to streamline their borrowing and lending activities. Through its platform, Jet Protocol Holdings provides a borrowing agreement designed to simplify the complexities often associated with traditional financial systems, making it easier for users to engage in lending and borrowing transactions.
Solana
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a blockchain technology company that develops decentralized applications (dApps) and marketplaces. Its platform, validated by thousands of independent nodes, offers enhanced security, resistance against censorship, and high-speed transactions.
Set Labs develops tools for creating and managing bundled crypto assets, known as 'Sets'. These Sets enable users to create diverse cryptocurrency baskets, including non-fungibles and on-chain securities.
PoolTogether
Series A in 2021
PoolTogether operates an Ethereum-based platform that offers users a no-loss savings game. Users deposit funds into the platform's smart contract, earning interest weekly. At the end of each week, one winner receives the collective interest earned, while all other participants retain their principal.
Zapper is a fintech platform that simplifies decentralized finance (DeFi) by offering a unified interface for managing assets. It democratizes DeFi access through user-friendly 'Zaps', enabling seamless entry into lending, yield farming, and liquidity provision.
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.
PureStake
Series A in 2021
PureStake is a blockchain infrastructure company that builds and operates infrastructure, APIs, and tooling for public blockchain networks. It supports networks such as Algorand, offering services and products including the AlgoSigner wallet extension, API-as-a-service, goalseeker block explorer, and infrastructure and consulting services for private and co-chain deployments; and Polkadot, including validators and Moonbeam smart contract support, with consulting services. The company provides a cloud-based platform that offloads infrastructure management and focuses on application development, featuring automated provisioning, globally distributed nodes, and robust security to enable staking and validator activities. Founded in 2019 and based in Burlington, Massachusetts.
Moonbeam Network
Funding Round in 2021
Moonbeam is an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform on the Polkadot network that makes it easy to build natively interoperable applications.
Vega Protocol
Series A in 2021
Vega is a technology protocol and crypto-asset for an open, blockchain-backed public network for fully automated end-to-end financial product trading and execution. Fully automated processes and incentives for trading margined financial products allow for markets that are open and decentralized, with pseudonymous participants. The platform of the company provides open and fair markets in which fees are shared by market makers, not owners, and governance decisions are made by the community, allowing financial institutions to open access, reduce costs, and enable a new wave of financial market innovation.
Bluefin
Seed Round in 2021
Bluefin operates a decentralized derivatives exchange that leverages innovative blockchain technology to facilitate access to global financial markets. The platform is designed for both novice and experienced traders, offering features such as leverage trading, short selling, and rapid trade settlement. By combining the security and transparency of decentralized systems with the efficiency and low costs typically associated with centralized exchanges, Bluefin aims to democratize trading for users worldwide. The company is supported by a group of prominent investors, enhancing its position in the competitive trading landscape.
Fei Protocol
Series A in 2021
Fei Protocol is a developer of a decentralized and scalable stablecoin aimed at addressing issues related to whale activity that affect existing dollar-pegged products. The platform employs an innovative stablecoin mechanism that promotes capital efficiency and ensures fair distribution, all while being fully decentralized. This design allows users to utilize the stablecoin to support liquid secondary markets. By contributing to open source decentralized applications, Fei Protocol seeks to enhance the functionality and accessibility of stablecoins within the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Badger DAO
Venture Round in 2021
Badger is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) building products and infrastructure to accelerate Bitcoin as collateral across other blockchains. It’s meant to be an ecosystem DAO where projects and people from across DeFi can come together to collaborate and build the products our space needs. Shared ownership in the DAO will allow builders to have aligned incentives while decentralized governance can ensure those incentives remain fair to all parties. The idea is less competing and more collaborating.
InsurAce Protocol
Seed Round in 2021
InsurAce is the leading decentralized insurance protocol, providing reliable, robust and secure DeFi insurance services to the DeFi users. InsurAce not only guarantees unbeatable portfolio premiums but also offers sustainable investment returns. We have a unique insurance product, tailored just for your project. From insuring your smart contract against hacks to allowing users to secure their investments against risks. Our community is one of the best in the DeFi space and is a key element to our success. We continue to innovate and improve for them.
BlockFi, Inc. is a financial services firm that specializes in providing wealth management products for cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, BlockFi offers various services, including interest-bearing accounts for Bitcoin, Ether, and Gemini Dollar, as well as USD loans secured by clients' crypto assets. The company allows clients to trade cryptocurrency pairs and provides tailored lending solutions for both individual and institutional clients. By facilitating liquidity for blockchain asset holders, BlockFi aims to enhance transparency and efficiency in digital financial markets. The organization employs a robust infrastructure that integrates with multiple blockchains, positioning itself to adapt and expand its product offerings in response to the evolving needs of its users.
Rarible
Seed Round in 2021
Rarible is a community-centric marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which enables users to create, buy, and sell digital collectibles secured by blockchain technology. The platform facilitates the trading of digital assets and intellectual properties through the use of NFT tokens, allowing for the licensing of various digital content. Rarible also provides a range of tools, including a custom community marketplace builder and an API, to assist users in developing NFT functionalities tailored to their needs. This focus on community engagement and user empowerment distinguishes Rarible in the rapidly evolving NFT landscape.
Bluefin
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bluefin operates a decentralized derivatives exchange that leverages innovative blockchain technology to facilitate access to global financial markets. The platform is designed for both novice and experienced traders, offering features such as leverage trading, short selling, and rapid trade settlement. By combining the security and transparency of decentralized systems with the efficiency and low costs typically associated with centralized exchanges, Bluefin aims to democratize trading for users worldwide. The company is supported by a group of prominent investors, enhancing its position in the competitive trading landscape.
Donut
Venture Round in 2021
Donut is a financial technology company that facilitates wealth building through its innovative platform focused on decentralized finance (DeFi). Founded in 2018 and dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin, Donut offers users a straightforward and reliable method to access both fixed and variable yields. The platform effectively bridges traditional finance and DeFi, providing a fast mobile onramp experience that is designed to be accessible, educational, and transparent. By prioritizing user experience, Donut enables individuals to save and earn competitive yields, making it easier for them to explore new financial opportunities.
DefiDollar
Seed Round in 2020
DefiDollar is a company based in Bengaluru, India, founded in 2020, that specializes in developing and operating a meta stablecoin index. This index leverages decentralized finance (DeFi) principles to maintain stability near the dollar value, offering users a mechanism to diversify and de-risk their stablecoin holdings. By utilizing Curve Finance LP tokens, DefiDollar’s platform allows users to hedge against potential deviations of underlying stablecoins from their pegged values. Additionally, the company enables users to earn yields with reduced volatility, making it a valuable option for those seeking stability in the volatile cryptocurrency landscape.
PoolTogether
Seed Round in 2020
PoolTogether operates an Ethereum-based platform that offers users a no-loss savings game. Users deposit funds into the platform's smart contract, earning interest weekly. At the end of each week, one winner receives the collective interest earned, while all other participants retain their principal.
Polymarket
Seed Round in 2020
Polymarket is a prediction market platform that enables users to wager real money on the outcomes of debated current events. The service operates on blockchain technology, primarily Ethereum, with additional use of the Polygon network to improve scalability and reduce transaction costs. Participants connect through an Ethereum-compatible wallet and place bets using the USDC stablecoin on topics such as politics, healthcare, economics, and other areas where public discussion centers on likely outcomes. The platform transforms speculative activity into market-based insights by allowing users to express expectations about future events and realize gains or losses based on actual results.
BarnBridge
Seed Round in 2020
BarnBridge is a United States-based company that develops a cross-platform protocol aimed at tokenizing risk through fixed yield and volatility tranche products. The protocol facilitates hedging against yield sensitivity and market price fluctuations by creating debt and yield-based derivatives. By enabling access to debt pools across various decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols, BarnBridge transforms single pools into multiple assets with distinct risk and return profiles. This innovation assists both DeFi and traditional finance (TradFi) investors in managing risk more effectively, thereby enhancing their ability to engage in institutional activities such as risk management and accessing fixed-income instruments.
Acala Network
Series A in 2020
Acala Network is a blockchain-based platform focused on decentralized finance and stablecoin solutions. Based in the United States, it facilitates cross-blockchain transactions, allowing users to send and receive USD across various blockchains connected to the Polkadot network. The platform offers a range of financial tools, including a multi-collateralized stablecoin backed by diverse cross-chain assets, a trustless staking derivative, and a decentralized exchange. These features are designed to enhance liquidity and support the development of innovative financial applications, making transactions more convenient and secure for users.
RAMP DEFI
Seed Round in 2020
LeverFi is a decentralized finance platform that enables users to unlock liquid capital from their staked digital assets. By allowing users to collateralize their portfolios of staked assets into a common stablecoin, the platform facilitates borrowing of fiat-backed currencies, such as USDT or USDC. This innovative approach ensures that users can continue earning staking rewards and benefit from capital appreciation while also redeploying their staked capital into new investment opportunities. LeverFi's products include a cross-chain liquidity bridge, which enhances capital deployment decisions and allows clients to optimize their strategies for profit across multiple revenue streams.
DeversiFi
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet.
Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.
Uniswap Labs
Series A in 2020
Founded in 2018 by Hayden Adams, Uniswap Labs develops decentralized finance (DeFi) products. It specializes in creating user-friendly platforms for secure, peer-to-peer digital asset swapping, with a focus on accessibility and empowerment of liquidity providers and traders.
Teller Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Teller is a United States-based blockchain project focused on decentralized lending. It provides a platform that connects to users' bank accounts to offer risk-assessed, unsecured loans, eliminating the need for collateral. By utilizing an algorithmic credit risk protocol, Teller aims to create decentralized lending markets that enhance lending opportunities while minimizing risks. The company's cloud-based system effectively delivers creditworthiness data, enabling users to engage in loans with digital currency. Through this innovative approach, Teller seeks to transform the lending landscape by making access to loans more efficient and secure.
Aave
Initial Coin Offering in 2020
Aave SAGL operates a decentralized lending and borrowing platform on the Ethereum blockchain, enabling users to earn interest on deposits and borrow assets. The platform facilitates both over-collateralized and under-collateralized borrowing, providing flexibility for borrowers. Aave mints aTokens for lenders at a 1:1 ratio to their supplied assets, allowing interest to compound continuously. This interest can be redirected to different addresses, separating it from the principal. Additionally, Aave offers flash loans, which are uncollateralized loans that must be borrowed and repaid within a single transaction, fostering innovation in decentralized finance. Founded in 2017, Aave originally operated under the name ETHLend and is based in London, United Kingdom, and Chiasso, Switzerland. The platform serves both depositors and borrowers, contributing to market liquidity and supporting various financial transactions within the blockchain ecosystem.