Warlock Labs
Seed Round in 2025
Warlock Labs develops a decentralized trading infrastructure that enhances the profitability and safety of blockchain protocols by maximizing Miner Extractable Value (MEV) recapture and redistribution.
Level is a fintech company that develops stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Seismic
Seed Round in 2025
Seismicy enables developers to establish innovative financial partnerships and investment instruments.
Superform Labs
Venture Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.
Monkey Tilt
Series A in 2024
Monkey Tilt is a technology company that operates a crypto fantasy sports platform, offering users a unique blend of traditional casino games, sports betting, poker, and cryptocurrency-based gambling experiences. It aims to provide an engaging, social, and lifestyle-integrated entertainment experience for its users.
StakeStone
Seed Round in 2024
StakeStone is a technology company that develops an omnichannel liquidity protocol for optimizing crypto staking and asset management. Its protocol integrates dynamic staking networks, deep liquidity pools, and adaptive consensus mechanisms to maximize staking yields and ensure secure, transparent transactions. This enables cryptocurrency investors and developers to achieve efficient, scalable, and high-return staking operations across multiple blockchain networks.
Yellow Card
Series C in 2024
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
Yala is a technology company that develops infrastructure to connect Bitcoin liquidity with a meta-yield stablecoin, enabling users to securely and transparently earn yield on their Bitcoin holdings within a DeFi ecosystem. Its modular, on-chain, and permissionless infrastructure aims to be capital-efficient, fostering a thriving and interconnected DeFi ecosystem on Bitcoin.
Apro Oracle
Seed Round in 2024
APRO Oracle specializes in providing comprehensive data support for the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is renowned for being the most widely integrated oracle within this environment. The company's core service involves accurately calculating prices by aggregating data from leading institutional-grade suppliers and exchanges, utilizing the Time-Weighted Average Price (TVWAP) method. APRO Oracle ensures data security through a decentralized network of submitter nodes and partnerships with top-tier security audit firms, allowing clients to verify multiple data points off-chain, minimizing on-chain transactions, and reducing gas costs.
Level is a fintech company that develops stakblecoin backed by restaked dollar tokens.
Lombard
Seed Round in 2024
Lombard is committed to leveraging Bitcoin's potential as a dynamic financial tool by integrating it to DeFi collaborating with technological and infrastructural partners on a common, ecosystem-driven aim to bring Bitcoin to DeFi.
Founded by UCSB professor Yu Feng, Nubit is building the Trustless World Computer for Bitcoin, enabling open scaling and programmability of Bitcoin through Bitcoin-native technology (BitVM, OP_CAT, DA, etc).
Nubit lets developers build any native application, onboarding the world to Bitcoin. Backed by Polychain.
Learn more at Nubit.org.
Polymarket
Series A 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.
Botanix Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Botanix Labs is a technology company that develops decentralized applications (dApps) for the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It combines the strengths of Bitcoin and Ethereum to create a platform that offers secure, decentralized, and fair distribution of cryptocurrencies. This platform enables users to explore decentralized lending, earn interest on their assets, and manage their wealth with ease.
Berachain
Series B in 2024
Berachain develops an Ethereum-compatible blockchain tailored for financial applications. Its core technology allows staked assets like Ether (ETH) to be utilized in decentralized finance protocols, enhancing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency while ensuring network security.
Stream Trading
Seed Round in 2024
Stream Trading offers capital-efficient and low-latency software for optimal performance in DeFi.
Tomo is an all-in-one Web3 social wallet that transforms users' online presence into a universal hub, fostering genuine, spam-free interactions and financial incentives. Tomo lets users connect directly with creators, participate in private discussions, and explore the new generation of digital art with Tomoji. Active participation earns users Tomo Points, enhancing your social capital.
Pac Finance
Seed Round in 2024
Pac Finance is a fintech company that offers a hybrid lending platform combining self‑paying loans and margin trading. Its system simplifies repayment through a peer‑to‑pool mechanism, allowing users to set terms for lending and borrowing directly. The protocol features dual automatic compounding and one‑click leverage, enabling efficient, user‑controlled financing.
Monkey Tilt
Venture Round in 2024
Monkey Tilt is a technology company that operates a crypto fantasy sports platform, offering users a unique blend of traditional casino games, sports betting, poker, and cryptocurrency-based gambling experiences. It aims to provide an engaging, social, and lifestyle-integrated entertainment experience for its users.
Superform Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Superform is a non-custodial yield marketplace. The protocol enables access to Erc-4626 vaults using any Evmchain.
Squid is a developer of financial software that facilitates seamless connectivity between users and developers in the cryptocurrency market. The company's platform enables the swapping of any token across different blockchains, providing a streamlined approach to accessing decentralized applications with a single click. Squid's solution includes an application programming interface and software development kit that allows for native token swaps and messaging between users and applications across various chains. This functionality empowers investors with composable, cross-chain financial logic, enhancing their ability to navigate the complex landscape of cryptocurrency liquidity and applications.
Canza Finance
Seed Round in 2024
Canza Finance is developing a decentralized finance system aimed at providing accessible financial services to the underserved populations in Africa. Its platform leverages web3 and blockchain technology, partnering with local money market players to distribute transaction-based services and create an open financial portal for emerging markets.
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.
Nocturne Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Nocturne Labs operates a privacy platform for the Ethereum blockchain. Its system enables anonymous transactions, including confidential payments and receipt of tokens from existing accounts.
Drift Protocol is a developer of a decentralized derivatives exchange that focuses on providing on-chain, cross-margined perpetual futures trading on the Solana blockchain. The platform aims to enhance the efficiency of trading futures through an upgraded decentralized system that features a new pegging mechanism. This innovation allows users to adjust liquidity based on market demand and open interest, thereby improving the overall trading experience. Drift Protocol's approach positions its exchange as a competitive option for margin trading within the decentralized finance space.
GoldLink
Pre Seed Round in 2023
GoldLink operates a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that facilitates on-chain, leveraged lending to borrowers. It offers risk management tools, real-time data visualization, and access to advanced investment strategies, aiming to enhance profits and transparency in the DeFi market.
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.
Thetanuts Finance
Venture Round in 2023
Thetanuts Finance operates a DeFi platform that offers crypto derivatives, structured products and customizable vaults to generate yield. The platform serves treasury management needs for DAOs and enables retail traders to earn yield on their tokens. Its vaults simplify options trading, making complex instruments accessible and allowing users to monetize volatility in a risk-adjusted manner. The company enables access to cross-chain crypto derivatives and structured products across multiple networks, expanding options markets for native tokens and providing competitive, risk-adjusted yield opportunities.
Berachain
Series A in 2023
Berachain develops an Ethereum-compatible blockchain tailored for financial applications. Its core technology allows staked assets like Ether (ETH) to be utilized in decentralized finance protocols, enhancing on-chain liquidity and capital efficiency while ensuring network security.
Quasar Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Quasar Labs operates a digital asset management platform that simplifies investing within the multi-chain universe. The platform allows users to create and join independent asset containers, known as Vaults, which utilize inter-blockchain communication (IBC) technology to facilitate value capture across different blockchains, particularly in the Cosmos ecosystem. This innovative approach addresses the fragmentation within decentralized finance (DeFi) by providing a streamlined and secure method for investors to manage their digital assets. Quasar Labs empowers investors to efficiently design Vaults and aggregate liquidity, making it easier for them to put their digital assets to work with minimal effort.
Finterest
Seed Round in 2022
Finterest is a financial platform that operates within the web3 and decentralized finance ecosystem. It specializes in facilitating the lending and borrowing of cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, ICP, and stablecoins. The platform allows users to engage in cryptocurrency trading while also enabling token holders to participate in governance decisions, such as voting on future tokens to be integrated into the protocol. Finterest aims to enhance user engagement by incentivizing the utilization of its services, and it plans to incorporate Ethereum into its offerings, broadening its appeal within the digital asset market.
Tapio Protocol
Seed Round in 2022
Tapio Protocol is a synthetic asset protocol that unifies different formats of staking and crowdloan derivatives into an efficient standard. Tapio is powered by the Stable Asset system, which enables efficient trading while minimizing risk by utilizing uniform, closely pegged assets with stable swaps and stable asset capabilities.
Pine Street Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Pine Street Labs develops enterprise wallet software aimed at expanding and democratizing the use of public blockchains. The company's platform simplifies the complexities of supporting various blockchain networks, allowing enterprises to concentrate on their core business operations. Pine Street Labs offers walletOS, which enhances custody infrastructure and facilitates the management of custody operations in-house. The software is designed to accommodate new blockchain initiatives while providing functionalities such as sending, receiving, staking, and executing smart contract calls. By creating a composable developer experience with modular integrations and a well-defined API, Pine Street Labs enables businesses to execute transactions seamlessly and efficiently in mission-critical environments.
Juno is a cross-border banking platform that aims to give users across the world a high-yield account to grow their savings. Going live in the US, 2Juno is taking a radical approach towards creating an open and global banking system for everyone, regardless of their location or income.
Juno was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Yellow Card
Series B in 2022
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
Slide is a decentralized application infrastructure company that facilitates web3 experiences for users. It enables applications to allow users to easily purchase cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) using credit cards. Additionally, Slide provides a platform for users to manage their digital assets without the need for extensions or private keys, simplifying the user experience. The company’s technology supports seamless transactions across various blockchains, making it accessible to individuals regardless of their technical expertise or familiarity with cryptocurrency. Through its innovative approach, Slide aims to enhance the usability of decentralized applications for a broader audience.
Rio Network
Seed Round in 2022
Rio Network operates a public proof-of-stake blockchain platform designed for the issuance, investment, and life-cycle management of digital securities and crypto assets. The platform facilitates the creation of liquid restacking tokens, where the influence of validators is based on the collateralized staking tokens. This structure allows users to achieve a risk-managed total return while maintaining liquidity. Through its innovative approach, Rio Network aims to enhance the accessibility and efficiency of digital asset management.
END-Labs
Seed Round in 2022
END-Labs is a blockchain development studio focused on creating Web3 lending infrastructure. The company specializes in developing a suite of blockchain-based products designed to enhance the financial landscape by connecting fiat-native borrowers with institutional decentralized finance (DeFi) capital. Its platform operates as an application-specific blockchain, facilitating the integration of various decentralized applications that function together across the blockchain ecosystem. This innovative approach enables borrowers to identify and access sources of capital with optimized costs and terms based on the assets they wish to use as collateral, thereby driving capital efficiencies in the lending process.
Aurigami
Funding Round in 2022
Aurigami operates as a decentralized, non-custodial money market protocol that enables users to lend, borrow, and earn interest on digital assets. It functions as a liquidity protocol where lenders supply capital and borrowers access over-collateralized loans, with a focus on reducing smart contract risk and liquidations, and emphasizes secure, trust-minimized custody in a DeFi environment.
Quasar Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Quasar Labs operates a digital asset management platform that simplifies investing within the multi-chain universe. The platform allows users to create and join independent asset containers, known as Vaults, which utilize inter-blockchain communication (IBC) technology to facilitate value capture across different blockchains, particularly in the Cosmos ecosystem. This innovative approach addresses the fragmentation within decentralized finance (DeFi) by providing a streamlined and secure method for investors to manage their digital assets. Quasar Labs empowers investors to efficiently design Vaults and aggregate liquidity, making it easier for them to put their digital assets to work with minimal effort.
DSCVR is an innovative Web3 social network designed to reward users for their content contributions while seamlessly integrating cryptocurrency features. The platform addresses usability challenges associated with crypto products, aiming to facilitate broader adoption of Web3 technologies. It has garnered significant traction among crypto and NFT communities, positioning itself as a launchpad for tokenized communities. Users can establish governance rules, define roles, and distribute rewards through airdrops, all within the social network. Additionally, DSCVR enables peer-to-peer transactions of NFTs and airdrops directly to user accounts, eliminating the need for external wallets and addresses. Built entirely on the Internet Computer, DSCVR serves as a decentralized protocol that enhances user engagement and monetization opportunities through its open application programming interface.
Satori is a decentralized financial derivatives exchange tailored for both retail and institutional investors within the Polkadot ecosystem. The platform is designed to accommodate experienced traders, allowing them to leverage the potential of DOT through access to a dedicated derivatives environment. Satori collaborates with parachains, market makers, and retail users, facilitating a comprehensive trading experience that meets the demands of diverse market participants.
Founded in 2018, CoinDCX specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. It focuses on developing borderless financial services for simplified capital flow, offering powerful wallets and robust security. The company empowers traders with industry-first products tailored to individual trading experiences, risk tolerances, and frequencies. Its mission is to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone.
Quai Network
Seed Round in 2022
Quai Network is a blockchain technology company developing merge-mined, multi-chain networks to support global compute economies with smart contracts. It aims to overcome limitations of traditional blockchains—slow transaction speeds and high fees—by delivering fast, secure, and decentralized transactions at scale for applications in decentralized finance, non-fungible tokens, and other blockchain-based services. The platform emphasizes decentralization and security, cross-chain interaction, and support for migrating DeFi protocols or NFT projects, delivering fast, accessible, and low-cost transactions.
Allora Labs
Series A in 2022
Allora Labs is a blockchain-based protocol focused on providing reliable appraisals for digital assets, particularly in the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The company offers a platform that incentivizes experts to deliver honest insights, facilitating an efficient price-discovery mechanism for NFTs. By compensating these experts for their evaluations, Allora Labs captures the value of truthful information and creates new opportunities within the decentralized finance (DeFi) space. Its technology employs machine learning to analyze data, enabling crypto builders to optimize strategies, quantify risks, and make informed decisions based on real-time NFT appraisals. Through its innovative approach, Allora Labs aims to enhance the credibility and reliability of information in the digital asset market.
Ponto provides regulated payment services for global enterprises to offer financial services to their customers.
The company manages and eliminates the risks involved with offering financial services worldwide. This way, new products can deliver on the promise of improving and democratizing access to the economy for everyone.
Gauntlet is a financial modeling and simulation company focused on enhancing the safety and efficiency of blockchain protocols and smart contracts. Through its advanced platform, Gauntlet employs agent-based simulation techniques to analyze and optimize key parameters of various protocols. This approach allows the company to model market risks and economic incentives effectively, helping clients improve their capital efficiency and maximize returns for stakeholders while minimizing associated risks. By driving sustainable growth for leading crypto protocols, chains, and on-chain treasuries, Gauntlet plays a crucial role in enhancing the financial performance of businesses in the blockchain space.
Structure
Seed Round in 2021
Structure operates a global trading platform designed for mobile users to facilitate crypto-based investing and lending. Its platform enables investors of all experience levels to trade assets securely, with around-the-clock access and hands-on support.
Anoma is a Zug-based Swiss company established in 2021. It develops an intent-centric, privacy-preserving protocol for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, and multi-chain atomic settlement.
Saddle Finance
Series A in 2021
Saddle Finance is a financial technology company that operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. The platform facilitates trading by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool, which provides deep on-chain liquidity. This configuration allows traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and low transaction fees, enhancing the efficiency of trading pegged assets. Through its innovative approach, Saddle Finance aims to optimize the trading experience for users engaged in the cryptocurrency market.
AscendEX operates digital asset exchanges globally, catering to diverse clients ranging from retail investors to institutions. Its platform offers spot and futures trading, copy trading functionalities, decentralized exchange, margin trading, various deposit methods, market news, educational resources, cryptocurrency trading, leveraged tokens, earning programs, and access to new crypto offerings.
Sommelier
Series A in 2021
Sommelier is a decentralized finance platform built on the Cosmos Stargate SDK with a Tendermint-based consensus layer and a bi-directional Ethereum bridge, operated by a global network of validators. It enables liquidity providers to author and execute automated, complex financial transactions such as portfolio rebalancing and limit orders, offering features traditionally associated with centralized finance but within DeFi. The platform uses a modular protocol and decentralized governance to manage automated signature processes and cross-chain interactions, supporting secure, programmable trading and liquidity management.
Solend is a decentralized finance platform for borrowing and lending crypto assets on the Solana blockchain. It enables users to lend funds or borrow against collateral, expanding opportunities for Solana holders to participate in the market. The platform aims to streamline the lending process by letting users choose to lend or borrow, primarily dealing with stablecoins and Solana's native token.
Yellow Card
Series A in 2021
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
Orca is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange built on the Solana blockchain, facilitating instant token swaps with minimal transaction fees. The platform is designed to handle thousands of transactions per second, ensuring low latency and capital-efficient trading. Users can exchange tokens while receiving fair pricing and have the option to provide liquidity to trading pools, allowing them to earn a share of the trading fees generated on the platform.
BitClout
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users.
BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.
Ava Labs
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Ava Labs simplifies finance application development using blockchain technology. It offers highly scalable networks, customizable public/private blockchains, and digital asset creation capabilities.
Credora enhances credit markets by employing privacy-focused technology for real-time credit analytics. It has facilitated over $1 billion in uncollateralized loans across numerous borrowers and lenders, enabling well-capitalized entities to secure transparent financing.
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi.
- Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency
- AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies
Kresko develops an online capital platform for synthetic stocks, commodities, and crypto, with the goal of making wealth accessible on mobile. The company provides an asset protocol featuring a per-account data model that enables developers to integrate digital assets into applications and wallets, while improving capital efficiency, user experience, asset listing, and risk management. Its platform offers a unified DeFi experience that supports minting, swapping, pooling, and farming of assets, and includes portfolio health indicators to monitor risk. By building on its protocol, developers can deliver asset-backed functionality within their apps and wallets, expanding access to diverse digital assets and simplifying how users interact with them.
Founded in 2018, CoinDCX specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. It focuses on developing borderless financial services for simplified capital flow, offering powerful wallets and robust security. The company empowers traders with industry-first products tailored to individual trading experiences, risk tolerances, and frequencies. Its mission is to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone.
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.
Valora is a mobile crypto wallet that aims to simplify the use of cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance for individuals around the world. Its platform is designed for accessibility, allowing users, even those with basic smartphones, to send, save, and spend crypto with the same ease as sending a text message. Valora's application emphasizes user-friendly navigation while ensuring robust cryptographic security and privacy features, enabling secure money transfers across borders with a simple tap. By leveraging blockchain technology, Valora seeks to empower the estimated 6 billion smartphone users globally, making digital currencies practical and usable in everyday transactions.
Shipyard Software
Seed Round in 2021
Founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, Shipyard Software develops decentralized exchange (DEX) platforms for crypto traders. Its flagship product, Clipper DEX, caters to retail traders offering competitive pricing for trades under $50k. Longship, another key product, provides access to DeFi-native perpetual contracts with up to 100x leverage while mitigating toxic order flow.
SynFutures
Series A in 2021
SynFutures is a decentralized derivatives platform focused on synthetic assets, enabling the creation and trading of diverse asset pairs with a single digital token as margin. It aims to open and democratize the derivatives market by supporting trading on anything with a price feed in a trustless, open environment, thereby increasing liquidity and lowering entry barriers. The platform facilitates free creation of tradable assets to foster a more equitable digital assets exchange for participants.
Umee is the most programmable, safety-first lending algorithm built as a blockchain that enables seamless borrowing and lending of digital assets between distinct blockchain ecosystems. Umee is reshaping the global debt markets in Web3.
Founded in 2017 by an ex-Coinbase engineer, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, and Spot trading on Ethereum. It combines the security of a decentralized exchange with the speed and usability of a centralized one.
Nirvana
Seed Round in 2021
Nirvana is an AI-native financial infrastructure shaping the future of Agentic DeFi.
- Redefining DeFi with AI Agents – Nirvana builds AI frameworks for DEFAI agents to maximize capital efficiency
- AI-Native On-Chain Protocols – Empowering DEFAI agents with AI-native protocols to autonomously launch innovative financial instruments and optimize strategies
Solana
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Solana is a decentralized blockchain platform that aims to deliver a scalable network for decentralized applications and marketplaces. The platform provides fast, low-cost transactions by employing a proof of history consensus alongside other innovations, enabling developers to build scalable apps without sharding. The network is secured by thousands of independent nodes, offering robustness and resistance to censorship. Solana supports a broad ecosystem of decentralized apps and digital assets, emphasizing sustainability and high throughput to power a wide range of use cases from gaming to finance.
Gauntlet is a financial modeling and simulation company focused on enhancing the safety and efficiency of blockchain protocols and smart contracts. Through its advanced platform, Gauntlet employs agent-based simulation techniques to analyze and optimize key parameters of various protocols. This approach allows the company to model market risks and economic incentives effectively, helping clients improve their capital efficiency and maximize returns for stakeholders while minimizing associated risks. By driving sustainable growth for leading crypto protocols, chains, and on-chain treasuries, Gauntlet plays a crucial role in enhancing the financial performance of businesses in the blockchain space.
Cozy Finance
Series A in 2021
Cozy Finance, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that specializes in developing risk management software tailored for the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. Founded in 2020, the company offers a permissionless, peer-to-peer protection solution that enables users to invest in DeFi while safeguarding their assets against potential hacks and exploits. Additionally, Cozy Finance allows users to deposit funds, which can then be utilized by others for protected investing. By providing innovative tools and solutions, Cozy Finance aims to enhance the security and value management of cryptocurrency investments for developers and investors alike.
Matrixport
Series C in 2021
Matrixport is a comprehensive platform offering digital asset services, including trading, investing, leveraging, and secure custody for cryptocurrencies.
Greenwood Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Greenwood Labs operates as a decentralized finance platform that aims to optimize the borrowing experience for cryptocurrency users. The platform helps borrowers reduce their interest payments by automatically sourcing loans from lending protocols with the lowest available interest rates. By integrating and comparing the diverse offerings of various decentralized lending protocols, Greenwood Labs simplifies the borrowing process through a user-friendly, protocol-agnostic interface. Additionally, the company has developed a web application designed to enhance customer support for web3 users. This application replaces traditional communication channels like Discord with a more efficient customer support system that leverages artificial intelligence tools. By consolidating essential support resources into a single platform, Greenwood Labs enables decentralized finance teams to address and resolve customer inquiries more effectively and quickly.
BitClout
Funding Round in 2021
BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users.
BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.
Connext
Seed Round in 2021
Connext, Inc. is a software development company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2017 by Arjun Bhuptani, Layne Haber, and Rahul Sethuram. The company specializes in creating an interoperability protocol that facilitates fast and fully-trustless communication between different blockchains. Its innovative technology aims to foster the formation of an interconnected network of blockchains, commonly referred to as the internet of blockchains. Additionally, Connext provides users with tools to purchase and manage blockchain applications, offering features such as direct card purchases for token acquisition, access to current vaults, decentralized compliance, and walletless signature capabilities.
Overlay Foundation
Seed Round in 2021
Building Overlay, The Trade Everything Engine
Maple Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Maple Finance operates a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace that connects institutions seeking loans with liquidity pools funded by the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The platform employs a peer-to-pool model, allowing experienced investors to manage these liquidity pools while providing borrowers, such as crypto corporates, market makers, exchanges, and miners, with access to tailored loans. By facilitating this process, Maple Finance enables institutions to efficiently secure capital while offering investors the opportunity to participate in a diversified and high-yielding portfolio of corporate and institutional loans.
River Financial Inc. is a financial technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by Alexander Leishman and Andrew Benson. The company specializes in providing a platform for individuals and institutions to buy, manage, and sell bitcoin. Its flagship product is a Bitcoin brokerage designed for sophisticated retail investors, offering a high-touch service that prioritizes security and client experience. River Financial's platform includes tools for investment performance, such as cost basis tracking, catering to the needs of its clients in the evolving cryptocurrency market.
DFX Finance
Seed Round in 2021
DFX Finance is a decentralized finance exchange protocol on the Ethereum blockchain that enables the trading of fiat-backed stablecoins. It uses a tuned bonding curve and real-world price feeds to provide a structured, decentralized trading experience for stablecoins such as USDC, CADC, EURS, and XSGD, supporting a broad range of blockchain-powered DeFi applications.
Anoma
Funding Round in 2021
Anoma is a Zug-based Swiss company established in 2021. It develops an intent-centric, privacy-preserving protocol for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, and multi-chain atomic settlement.
Parsec Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Parsec Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) and analytics platform established in 2020 by Will Sheehan, located in Concord, Massachusetts. The platform aims to deliver an experience akin to that of a professional brokerage account, but without the complexities associated with custody. Parsec Finance provides real-time data and insights through a comprehensive suite of tools, including charting, portfolio management, and risk assessment features. Additionally, it offers access to on-chain data and relevant news articles, empowering users to gain a deeper understanding of the DeFi market and make informed trading decisions. The platform targets traders and data-focused individuals looking for efficient and user-friendly resources in the evolving DeFi landscape.
Founded in 2017 by an ex-Coinbase engineer, dYdX is a leading decentralized exchange offering Perpetual, Margin, and Spot trading on Ethereum. It combines the security of a decentralized exchange with the speed and usability of a centralized one.
Saddle Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Saddle Finance is a financial technology company that operates an automated market maker (AMM) platform specifically designed for trading pegged value crypto assets. The platform facilitates trading by utilizing a tokenized bitcoin pool, which provides deep on-chain liquidity. This configuration allows traders to execute transactions with minimal slippage and low transaction fees, enhancing the efficiency of trading pegged assets. Through its innovative approach, Saddle Finance aims to optimize the trading experience for users engaged in the cryptocurrency market.
Founded in 2018, CoinDCX specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. It focuses on developing borderless financial services for simplified capital flow, offering powerful wallets and robust security. The company empowers traders with industry-first products tailored to individual trading experiences, risk tolerances, and frequencies. Its mission is to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone.
Notional Finance
Seed Round in 2020
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.
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.
Liquity
Seed Round in 2020
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing platform operating on the Ethereum blockchain. It facilitates interest-free loans by using Ether as collateral.
Yellow Card
Seed Round in 2020
Yellow Card operates a cryptocurrency platform that enables individuals and businesses to buy, sell, and manage digital assets using local currencies and mobile money across Africa. The platform functions as a crypto exchange and payments solution, offering over-the-counter trading, merchant services, currency exchange, and crypto gift cards. It provides an on/off ramp for stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, and PYUSD through a payments API, supporting secure, cost-effective transfers and borderless transactions. The company serves customers in numerous African countries and has facilitated billions of dollars in transactions, reflecting its role in promoting financial inclusion and access to digital finance. Founded in 2016 and active in the market, Yellow Card aims to simplify crypto access for individuals and businesses through a scalable, local-currency-first approach.
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.
Credora
Seed Round in 2020
Credora enhances credit markets by employing privacy-focused technology for real-time credit analytics. It has facilitated over $1 billion in uncollateralized loans across numerous borrowers and lenders, enabling well-capitalized entities to secure transparent financing.
KeeperDAO
Seed Round in 2020
KeeperDAO is a decentralized finance protocol that facilitates large-scale arbitrage and liquidation trades across various DeFi platforms on the Ethereum blockchain. The company develops an on-chain liquidity underwriter engine that enables participants to engage in communal liquidity pools, allowing them to collaborate on margin trading and lending strategies. By pooling capital into Ethereum smart contracts, users can collectively seize on-chain opportunities, such as liquidating positions or taking advantage of price discrepancies between different platforms. KeeperDAO promotes a collaborative environment where both Keepers and liquidity providers benefit from economies of scale, sharing profits and reducing competition through incentivized participation.
DerivaDEX
Seed Round in 2020
DerivaDEX is a community-governed derivatives exchange designed to combine performance and autonomy with the security of a decentralized platform. It operates on the Ethereum blockchain, utilizing an innovative liquidity-mining token model that empowers users to engage in the exchange's governance and operations. By incorporating an open order book and on-chain settlements, DerivaDEX facilitates efficient trading while ensuring transparency and security. The exchange aims to establish itself as a next-generation trading platform by leveraging trusted hardware and enhancing decentralization at its foundational level.
River Financial Inc. is a financial technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019 by Alexander Leishman and Andrew Benson. The company specializes in providing a platform for individuals and institutions to buy, manage, and sell bitcoin. Its flagship product is a Bitcoin brokerage designed for sophisticated retail investors, offering a high-touch service that prioritizes security and client experience. River Financial's platform includes tools for investment performance, such as cost basis tracking, catering to the needs of its clients in the evolving cryptocurrency market.
Founded in 2018, CoinDCX specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. It focuses on developing borderless financial services for simplified capital flow, offering powerful wallets and robust security. The company empowers traders with industry-first products tailored to individual trading experiences, risk tolerances, and frequencies. Its mission is to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone.
Nuo is a cryptocurrency platform founded in 2018 and based in Mumbai, India, designed to cater to the needs of users in emerging markets. It serves as a decentralized financial control center for digital assets, enabling users to store, spend, and grow various cryptocurrencies. The platform facilitates peer-to-peer lending and borrowing through a decentralized debt marketplace, allowing users to supply capital to a reserve pool and earn interest daily without requiring the platform to take custody of their tokens. Additionally, the Nuo app provides features such as instant peer-to-peer transfers and the ability to make purchases with a Nuo Card. By offering access to global financial products and services, Nuo aims to empower users to manage their investments in the evolving cryptocurrency landscape.
Acala Network
Seed Round 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.
Founded in 2018, CoinDCX specializes in crypto-enabled financial services. It focuses on developing borderless financial services for simplified capital flow, offering powerful wallets and robust security. The company empowers traders with industry-first products tailored to individual trading experiences, risk tolerances, and frequencies. Its mission is to democratize finance and make investments accessible to everyone.
StakerDAO
Series A in 2020
StakerDAO, Inc. is a company that develops a platform for the decentralized governance of financial assets, ensuring security and compliance. Founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, StakerDAO focuses on creating products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. The company offers STKR, a governance token that operates under a newly developed token standard, enabling holders to submit proposals and elect members of the Staker Council. Additionally, StakerDAO manages a collection of decentralized finance products, all governed through a structured decision-making process known as Staker Agora. The Staker Ops Team collaborates with the community to refine ideas into formal governance proposals, fostering a participatory environment for stakeholders while promoting innovation in decentralized finance.
Amber Group
Series A in 2020
Founded in Hong Kong in 2017 by finance professionals from Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Amber Group is a global crypto finance service provider. It offers liquidity provision, trading, and asset management services to over 200 institutional clients worldwide, facilitating trades worth $100-200 million daily across multiple exchanges.
Matrixport
Venture Round in 2019
Matrixport is a comprehensive platform offering digital asset services, including trading, investing, leveraging, and secure custody for cryptocurrencies.