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Nori

Private Placement in 2020
Nori Inc. develops a blockchain-based marketplace that helps farmers to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using third party payments and contracts. Its platform integrates the processes of measurement, verification, listing for sale, and facilitation of sale of carbon removal certificates. Its blockchain application also provides crypto-currency tokens to exchange carbon removal certificates on the platform. Nori Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
Asynchronous Art, Inc owns and operates an online multi-layer art platform. Its platform async, connects artists and collectors; and allows them to purchase and sell art online. Asynchronous Art, Inc was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Fort Bragg, California.
Magic Labs, Inc. develops SDKs that enable developers to build dApps without extensions and downloads. It offers Fortmatic, a suite of SDKs that allow users to integrate their app with the Ethereum blockchain; and provides a smooth experience for developers and their app's users. Magic Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Fortmatic Inc. and changed its name to Magic Labs, Inc. in April 2020. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Nori

Seed Round in 2020
Nori Inc. develops a blockchain-based marketplace that helps farmers to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using third party payments and contracts. Its platform integrates the processes of measurement, verification, listing for sale, and facilitation of sale of carbon removal certificates. Its blockchain application also provides crypto-currency tokens to exchange carbon removal certificates on the platform. Nori Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.
The API3 Foundation Company Limited offers decentralized application programming interfaces for web. The company is based in Cayman Islands.

Decred

Venture Round in 2018
Decred is a cryptocurrency, similar to Bitcoin, with a strong focus on community input, open governance and sustainable funding and development. It utilizes a hybrid “proof-of-work” and “proof-of-stake” mining system to ensure that a small group cannot dominate the flow of transactions or make changes to Decred without the input of the community. A unit of currency is called a ‘decred’ (DCR). To ensure the integrity of the currency and prevent people from making fraudulent transactions or creating their own coins, Decred uses a method of recording transactions known as a blockchain.
Bitcoin provides an Internet protocol and open-source software platform for individuals, businesses, developers, and enthusiasts. Its platform enables a digital and decentralized currency called bitcoins. The company also allows users to have instant peer-to-peer transactions and payments. Bitcoin was founded in 2009 and is based in San Jose, California.

Agoric

Funding Round in 2021
Agoric Systems Operating Company develops an opencable application platform for smart contracts that can connect to public and private blockchains. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

WeatherXM

Seed Round in 2022
WeatherXM is a community powered weather network, that rewards weather station owners and offers accurate weather services.

Zerion

Seed Round in 2019
Zerion Inc., a blockchain software company, develops a solution to access decentralized finance to invest, earn interest, and borrow crypto assets. It offers Zerion to manage decentralized finance portfolio across multiple accounts in a single place; and track assets in real-time with live price updates and instant push notifications. The company also provides CryptoTrader , an application to track the crypto market through charts, news, and alerts. Zerion Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Ethereum Foundation

Ethereum is an open-source, public, blockchain-based distributed computing platform featuring smart contract functionality.

Numerai

Funding Round in 2020
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.

Matter Labs

Series B in 2021
Matter Labs is driven by a mission to accelerate the mass adoption of public blockchains. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.

Matter Labs

Seed Round in 2019
Matter Labs is driven by a mission to accelerate the mass adoption of public blockchains. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.

Futureswap

Venture Round in 2021
Futureswap develops a blockchain technology based decentralized futures exchange platform. The company offers a non-custodial trading platform with automated market making (AMM) algorithm, which allows the users to buy and sell crypto futures contracts. The company is based in San Francisco, California.

Balancer Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Balancer Labs, Inc operates an exchange for decentralized finance. The company offers a platform for programmable liquidity. It offers exchange tokens without deposits, bids/asks, and order management. Balancer Labs, Inc was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.
Filecoin is a data storage network and electronic currency based on Bitcoin. It rents disk space to store files; and allows to exchange Filecoin for Bitcoin, USD, and other currencies. The company is based in the United States.

Ethereum

Venture Round in 2017
Ethereum is a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation distributed applications. Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration. Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation.

Magic Labs, Inc.

Private Placement in 2019
Magic Labs, Inc. develops SDKs that enable developers to build dApps without extensions and downloads. It offers Fortmatic, a suite of SDKs that allow users to integrate their app with the Ethereum blockchain; and provides a smooth experience for developers and their app's users. Magic Labs, Inc. was formerly known as Fortmatic Inc. and changed its name to Magic Labs, Inc. in April 2020. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California.
The Zerocoin Electric Coin Company LLC provides cryptocurrency and mobile payment application using blockchain technology. The company enables users to preserve transaction data using zero-knowledge proofs, which allows to prove knowledge of some facts about hidden information without revealing that information. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado.
Web 3.0 Technologies Stiftung develops and markets heterogeneous multi-chain technology. The technology consists of relay chain that coordinates consensus and transaction delivery between chains, parachains is a constituent blockchain that gather and process transaction, and bridges is a link to blockchains with their owns consensus. It is built to connect private/consortium chains, public/permissionless networks, oracles and future technological developments yet to be created in the Web3 ecosystem. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Zug, Switzerland.

3Box

Private Placement in 2019
3Box Inc. offers 3box.io, a social profiles application for Ethereum users and communities and 3box.js, an application program interface (API) for web3 developers to onboard users and set/get data to a profile. Additionally, the company offers 3box-dapp, allows users to create and manage their social profile, sign in to dapps, interact with other users, build a reputation, and store data.3Box Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Monaverse

Series A in 2022
Mona is building the tools and protocols to grow the open metaverse.

Async Art

Seed Round in 2021
Asynchronous Art, Inc owns and operates an online multi-layer art platform. Its platform async, connects artists and collectors; and allows them to purchase and sell art online. Asynchronous Art, Inc was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Fort Bragg, California.
3Box Inc. offers 3box.io, a social profiles application for Ethereum users and communities and 3box.js, an application program interface (API) for web3 developers to onboard users and set/get data to a profile. Additionally, the company offers 3box-dapp, allows users to create and manage their social profile, sign in to dapps, interact with other users, build a reputation, and store data.3Box Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Zerion

Private Placement in 2019
Zerion Inc., a blockchain software company, develops a solution to access decentralized finance to invest, earn interest, and borrow crypto assets. It offers Zerion to manage decentralized finance portfolio across multiple accounts in a single place; and track assets in real-time with live price updates and instant push notifications. The company also provides CryptoTrader , an application to track the crypto market through charts, news, and alerts. Zerion Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Balancer Labs

Private Placement in 2020
Balancer Labs, Inc operates an exchange for decentralized finance. The company offers a platform for programmable liquidity. It offers exchange tokens without deposits, bids/asks, and order management. Balancer Labs, Inc was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.
Zerion Inc., a blockchain software company, develops a solution to access decentralized finance to invest, earn interest, and borrow crypto assets. It offers Zerion to manage decentralized finance portfolio across multiple accounts in a single place; and track assets in real-time with live price updates and instant push notifications. The company also provides CryptoTrader , an application to track the crypto market through charts, news, and alerts. Zerion Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

API3

Seed Round in 2020
The API3 Foundation Company Limited offers decentralized application programming interfaces for web. The company is based in Cayman Islands.

VAULT

Series A in 2023
Flick, Inc. develops a chat app for sports influencers and their fans. It offers Flick, a chat platform for sports influencers that allows users to turn their most engaged users into passionate fans; and allows users to monetize their audience by creating their own branded hub on Flick where fans can talk to them and other fans directly. The platform also allows customers to create a group, play quizzes, get live in-game stats and events, and live chat during games. Its application is available on App Store and Google Play. Flick, Inc. was incorporated in 1974 and is based in Mamaroneck, New York with an additional office in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

Radicle

Venture Round in 2021
Radicle is a peer-to-peer stack for building software together.

Zcash

Venture Round in 2018
Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender, recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view key at their discretion. Zcash transactions do not depend on the cooperation of other parties. Additionally, full nodes in the Zcash network only need to store a small persistent state.
0x Protocol provides 0x, an open protocol that enables the peer-to-peer exchange of assets on the Ethereum block chain. The company offers 0x Instant for crypto purchasing in applications and websites; 0x Launch Kit to launch a relayer; and ZEIP-23 to trade bundles of assets. It also enables developers to build a relayer, develop on Ethereum, make and take orders, use networked liquidity, market making, and earn free credits. The company serves markets ranging from gaming items to financial instruments. 0x Protocol was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Radicle

Venture Round in 2021
Radicle is a peer-to-peer stack for building software together.
MakerDAO develops and operates a smart contract platform on Ethereum blockchain that backs and stabilizes the value of Dai through collateralized debt positions (CDPs), autonomous feedback mechanisms, and appropriately incentivized external actors. It develops the Dai stablecoin system designed to issue a low volatile collateral-backed cryptocurrency, Dai. It also offers MKR, a token for utility, governance, and recapitalization resource of the Maker system. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Santa Cruz, California with additional offices in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Foamspace Corp. develops geospatial protocol for blockchain applications and proof of location. The company’s products include FOAM Map and Foam Location. Foam Location is an autonomous network of radios that offer secure location services through time synchronization. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Merrick, New York.

Matter Labs

Series A in 2021
Matter Labs is driven by a mission to accelerate the mass adoption of public blockchains. The company started out of scientific curiosity, the joy of engineering, and a deep conviction, the most impactful way to improve the world today is to provide an open and free alternative to its existing, deeply flawed financial system.

Async Art

Seed Round in 2021
Asynchronous Art, Inc owns and operates an online multi-layer art platform. Its platform async, connects artists and collectors; and allows them to purchase and sell art online. Asynchronous Art, Inc was incorporated in 2019 and is based in Fort Bragg, California.

Magic

Seed Round in 2020
Get peace of mind with secure, extensible passwordless authentication that’s built to scale. All with a few lines of code.

Zerion

Series A in 2021
Zerion Inc., a blockchain software company, develops a solution to access decentralized finance to invest, earn interest, and borrow crypto assets. It offers Zerion to manage decentralized finance portfolio across multiple accounts in a single place; and track assets in real-time with live price updates and instant push notifications. The company also provides CryptoTrader , an application to track the crypto market through charts, news, and alerts. Zerion Inc. was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Zcash

Venture Round in 2018
Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain. Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender, recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view key at their discretion. Zcash transactions do not depend on the cooperation of other parties. Additionally, full nodes in the Zcash network only need to store a small persistent state.

SMIN ltda

Series A in 2021
SMIN é uma Startup que carrega o objetivo de fomentar o Empreendedorismo no Brasil. A foco principal está relacionado a ações incisivas de acesso ao capital de giro e crédito às PMEs, de forma simplificada e mais acessível, via rodadas de investimentos no modelo Crowdfunding e Crowdinvestments. Tendo ainda como uma de suas Vertentes o Clube de Investidores e Negócios, Clube SMIN, com suas atividades concentradas em duas frentes, sendo: - Networking e Business. Um espaço de relacionamento, interatividade e negócios entre Profissionais e Investidores. - Aquisição e Sociedade em Empresas. Através da organização de rodadas de investimento, via Crowdfunding e Crowdinvestment. Direcionados a empresas nos mais variados segmentos, além de startups e fintechs, com real potencial de mercado. CONSULTORIA FINANCEIRA. Atuando através da composição de portfólios de investimentos, que são estruturados sob orientação e direcionamento de analistas e agentes autônomos do Mercado Financeiro. Seja em Renda Fixa ou Renda Variável, nós temos as melhores oportunidades. CROWDFUNDING. As operações relacionadas as rodadas de crowdfunding, tem como finalidade a aquisição e/ou sociedade em empresas físicas, como também no modelo Investidor Anjo, financiando startups, fintechs e projetos que estão sendo estruturados dentro das incubadoras de negócios ou aceleradoras. Seja para investir conosco ou solicitar nosso investimento, a SMIN oferece as melhores condições do mercado. A unidade de Campinas é gerenciada pelo nosso Investidor, Partner e Head Financeiro, Lucas Thomaz, que também atua como nosso auditor junto a 7ID, que é a nossa correspondente de Serviços Financeiros e Gestão Empresarial. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-thomaz-0541201b/

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.

API3

Private Placement in 2020
The API3 Foundation Company Limited offers decentralized application programming interfaces for web. The company is based in Cayman Islands.
Balancer Labs, Inc operates an exchange for decentralized finance. The company offers a platform for programmable liquidity. It offers exchange tokens without deposits, bids/asks, and order management. Balancer Labs, Inc was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.
Nori Inc. develops a blockchain-based marketplace that helps farmers to remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using third party payments and contracts. Its platform integrates the processes of measurement, verification, listing for sale, and facilitation of sale of carbon removal certificates. Its blockchain application also provides crypto-currency tokens to exchange carbon removal certificates on the platform. Nori Inc. was founded in 2017 and is based in Seattle, Washington.

FOAM

Venture Round in 2020
FOAM works on geospatial protocol and the resulting market implications on global infrastructures. The FOAM protocol is currently under development by a decentralized team of blockchain developers, designers, architects and urban planners. They are based out of the New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, an interdisciplinary work space designed to support urban entrepreneurs leveraging advanced technologies.
Aragon develops an application that helps companies disinter mediate the creation and create and maintain companies and other organizational structures. The application offered by the company help other companies escape bureaucracy and censorship of the government. The company offers products, such as aragon PM, aragonOS, aragonAPI, aragonUI, aragonCLI, and aragonDS. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in the United States.

Nexus Mutual

Venture Round in 2021
Nexus Mutual Limited owns and operates Nexus Mutual platform, a decentralised alternative to insurance based on ethereum public blockchain, where users can become members and buy cover. The member decisions are recorded and enforced by smart contracts on the ethereum public blockchain. The company caters to insurance industry. Nexus Mutual Limited was previously known as Nexus Collective Limited and changed its name to Nexus Mutual Limited in July 2018. Nexus Mutual Limited was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

3Box

Seed Round in 2019
3Box Inc. offers 3box.io, a social profiles application for Ethereum users and communities and 3box.js, an application program interface (API) for web3 developers to onboard users and set/get data to a profile. Additionally, the company offers 3box-dapp, allows users to create and manage their social profile, sign in to dapps, interact with other users, build a reputation, and store data.3Box Inc. was founded in 2018 and is based in New York, New York.

Balancer Labs

Seed Round in 2020
Balancer Labs, Inc operates an exchange for decentralized finance. The company offers a platform for programmable liquidity. It offers exchange tokens without deposits, bids/asks, and order management. Balancer Labs, Inc was founded in 2018 and is based in the United States.