ParaFi Capital

ParaFi Capital, established in 2018 and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, is a specialized asset management firm focusing on digital assets. It offers liquid and venture strategies within the blockchain industry, having been one of the earliest institutional investors in this sector.

Benjamin Forman

Founder and Managing Partner

Ryan Navi

Managing Director

Santiago Roel Santos

Partner

Adrian Uberto

COO and Partner

Past deals in Lending

Glim

Pre Seed Round in 2025
Glim offers a B2B2C platform enabling employers to provide employees with innovative financial benefits. These include multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, crypto-fiat currency debit card, financial education, and more, accessible via Glim's mobile app.

Tradable

Venture Round in 2025
Tradable is a software company that specializes in streamlining private credit fund operations. Its platform, Tradable Live Data Room, combines AI-driven data management, document signing, investor administration, and deal monitoring, all in one place. This allows fund managers to efficiently syndicate deals and investors to directly participate in these opportunities.

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.

M^0 Labs

Series A in 2024
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.

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.

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

Seed Round in 2023
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.

Credix

Series A in 2022
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.

Burrow

Seed Round in 2022
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.

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

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Ledn

Series B in 2021
Ledn is a fintech company that develops financial products for digital asset holders to access liquidity without selling their assets. Its product suite includes Borrow, a bitcoin‑backed loan that provides dollars while keeping bitcoin as collateral; B2X, which enables clients to instantly double their bitcoin holdings through a Ledn loan; and Save, a savings account for bitcoin and USDC that pays interest with no minimums. The platform offers cryptocurrency‑backed financing without the need for traditional credit checks, allowing users to access capital and leverage their holdings while maintaining ownership of their assets.

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.

JellyFi

Seed Round in 2021
Most DeFi applications require institutional borrowers to over-collateralize their loans using crypto as collateral, limiting the wide range of use cases possible with crypto lending. Collateralized loans not only restrict borrowers from using capital how and when they want, but also limit the potential for enhanced return for lenders. JellyFi is a capital-efficient DeFi lending protocol that enables crypto loans without collateral, where institutional borrowers can obtain competitive loan terms, and lenders get access to higher returns while having more granular control over their investment portfolios. Zero-collateral loans are similar to a revolving line of credit where the borrower only has to pay a liquidity fee on unused capital in their own liquidity pool.

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.

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.

Ledn

Series A in 2021
Ledn is a fintech company that develops financial products for digital asset holders to access liquidity without selling their assets. Its product suite includes Borrow, a bitcoin‑backed loan that provides dollars while keeping bitcoin as collateral; B2X, which enables clients to instantly double their bitcoin holdings through a Ledn loan; and Save, a savings account for bitcoin and USDC that pays interest with no minimums. The platform offers cryptocurrency‑backed financing without the need for traditional credit checks, allowing users to access capital and leverage their holdings while maintaining ownership of their assets.

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.

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.
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