Pragma Ventures

Pragma Ventures is a venture capital firm established in 2021 and located in Seoul, South Korea, with an additional presence in Vancouver. The firm focuses on investing in early-stage companies within the cryptocurrency and blockchain industries, aiming to support startups that demonstrate real-world potential. Its leadership team comprises professionals with expertise in computer science, marketing, and UX/UI design, which enhances its ability to identify and foster innovative projects in the rapidly evolving blockchain landscape.

Yarco Hayduk Ph.D

Managing Partner

Myeongjae Jeon Ph.D

General Partner, Researcher

Seong Lee

Co-Founder

Roy K.

General Partner, Quant researcher

7 past transactions

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a pioneering platform that enables secure execution of open-source AI models, employs agentic reasoning, and facilitates application deployment without permission. It offers a decentralized AI platform with native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, aiming to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access. The platform's heterogeneous AI compute architecture and proprietary library, NeuroML, scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, and statistical analysis. Additionally, OpenGradient provides a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage its AI stack, offering the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure without navigating blockchain complexities.

Crestal

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.

D8X

Pre Seed Round in 2023
D8X is a decentralized platform focused on perpetual futures trading, designed to enhance the trading experience for both retail and institutional traders. By offering a financial engineering approach, D8X enables the trading of perpetual futures contracts specifically for mid-cap and small-cap assets at competitive prices. The platform allows users to utilize these contracts as hedging instruments, benefiting from low holding costs. This innovative solution aims to transform the on-chain trading landscape, providing traders with the opportunity to create new revenue streams.

Ryodan Systems

Seed Round in 2023
Ryodan Systems develops zkRollup to construct an infrastructure based on Ethereum encryption technology, achieving almost no gas costs and data sovereignty.

Fondo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Fondo is a company that specializes in providing an all-in-one accounting platform aimed at assisting new startups with their financial management. By offering services such as bookkeeping, tax filing, and various financial administrative operations including valuations, loans, and grants, Fondo enables founders to focus on growing their businesses. The platform not only streamlines financial tasks but also ensures compliance with state and federal regulations. By relieving founders of administrative burdens and providing essential financial data, Fondo supports them in making informed business decisions and building sustainable enterprises.

Obscuro

Seed Round in 2022
Obscuro is focused on enhancing data privacy within the blockchain sector by developing a protocol that safeguards financial transaction data and sensitive trading information. Utilizing a Layer 2 rollup over the Ethereum network, Obscuro's solution enables smart contracts to incorporate both public and private elements without altering the user or developer experience. This approach not only protects data from breaches caused by cyberattacks or hardware vulnerabilities but also improves transaction speed. By providing a secure environment for businesses to operate, Obscuro aims to ensure data confidentiality while facilitating efficient transactions.
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