Puzzle Ventures

Puzzle Ventures is a United States-based firm established in 2019 that focuses on supporting early-stage blockchain startups. The company is committed to fostering innovation and growth within the cryptocurrency sector, aiming to reshape the future of digital finance. By investing in promising ventures in the blockchain and crypto industries, Puzzle Ventures seeks to facilitate the development of transformative technologies and solutions.

Ziqi Jerry Zhou

Partner

11 past transactions

ReadON

Seed Round in 2022
ReadON's mission is to reshape digital reading behaviors in Web3 and Crypto through the use of Game-Fi mechanisms and systems.

Bastion

Series A in 2022
Bastion is a lending and exchange protocol built on Aurora, the Ethereum-compatible layer of the Near blockchain. Bastion builds an autonomous interest-rate engine with high-quality capital efficiency, quick transactions, low transaction fees, accurate liquidations, and leverages NEAR's underlying UX benefits. Users can deposit assets into the Bastion liquidity pool, and the protocol will generate collateral tokens. These cTokens earn interest based on the underlying asset value and can be used as loan collateral in the future.

Ref Finance

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Ref Finance is a DeFi platform built on NEAR Protocol that costs less than $0.01 for transactions.

Footprint Analytics

Seed Round in 2022
Footprint Analytics is an analysis platform to discover and visualize blockchain data.The product puts user experience first whether you’re an analyst, data scientist, developer, student, teacher, or executive. It provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface for interactive data queries.

izumi Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Izumi Finance is a non-homogenous liquidity mining protocol to provide Uniswap lp token staking rewards in different price ranges. Izumi Finance improves the efficiency of incentive distribution for reward providers and enhances the earnings of liquidity providers in Uniswap.

DeHorizon

Venture Round in 2021
With the rapid growth of crypto space, recent developments have greatly facilitated GameFi in going mainstream. "Play to earn" is no longer a mere slogan, but has fully come into reality. Regardless of exponential growth, a common defect in GameFi marketplace is lack of a Metaverse Game Ecosystem to develop, connect and support more and more blockchain-based games even built on different chains. We are still in the early stages of the evolution of GameFi. For the next stage, a Metaverse Game Ecosystem is essential to make GameFi go further. That is why DeHorizon comes.

GoPlus Security

Angel Round in 2021
GoPlus Security is an open, permissionless, user-driven security service platform for all types of blockchain users.

AlchemyNFT

Venture Round in 2021
AlchemyNFT is a non-fungible token (NFT) service.

Deep DAO

Seed Round in 2021
Deep DAO is a data analytics site for decentralized autonomous organizations.DeepDAO presents extensive analytics and information gathering. The main dashboard product enumerates and ranks DAOs using several key metrics such as membership and assets under management (AUM).

Rangers Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Rangers Protocol is a future virtual world blockchain infrastructure, fully compatible with Ethereum, professionally supports NFT and complex applications, and integrates and expands cross-chain, NFT, EVM, and distributed network protocols.

Octopus Network

Seed Round in 2021
Octopus is a cryptonetwork for launching and running Web3.0 application specific blockchains, aka appchains. By decreasing the capital expenditure for bootstrap an appchain by two orders of magnitude, from several million dollars to less than one hundred thousand dollars, Octopus Network is committed to unleash an innovation wave of Web3.0.
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