Stack provides with loyalty points as an onchain primitive, along with simple tools for managing points programs.
Stackr Labs
Seed Round in 2023
Stackr Labs develops application-specific rollups on Ethereum using web2 programming languages.
Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.
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.
The Pulse
Seed Round in 2023
The Pulse is a media company that covers the business of sports, culture, and entertainment - with a special focus on the way athletes, executives, musicians, and entertainers, are moving the business world forward.
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Perennial Labs
Seed Round in 2022
Perennial Labs develops decentralized finance technology, offering a derivatives protocol and related primitives for developers. The permission-free platform is designed to simplify trading of DeFi derivatives and enable the creation of new DeFi tools, using a capital-efficient model for liquidity provisioning. Established in 2022 in New Castle, Delaware, the company focuses on providing a standardized framework that supports a wide range of DeFi use cases while making derivative workflows easier to build and deploy.
Lines is a new crypto messaging platform.
Farcaster
Seed Round in 2022
Farcaster is a decentralized social network designed to facilitate connections among users with shared interests, such as coders, fitness enthusiasts, and meme creators. The company is focused on enhancing user engagement by increasing daily active users and implementing developer-friendly features, including channels and direct messaging capabilities. By establishing an open protocol, Farcaster enables users to move their identities across various applications, akin to how email operates. Users can claim unique usernames and store their social data off-chain, ensuring ownership and control over their social graphs. This framework empowers developers to create innovative applications that leverage the network's capabilities.
LI.FI
Venture Round in 2022
LI.FI is a developer of DeFi middleware that offers a comprehensive solution for navigating the complexities of a multi-chain environment. Its platform serves as a bridge and decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregation protocol, facilitating seamless cross-chain transactions and liquidity flows. By abstracting the essential infrastructure needed to move assets across different blockchain networks, LI.FI enables users, including traditional finance entities, to engage effectively with cryptocurrency. The platform simplifies the process of connecting various components such as RPCs, cross-chain bridges, DEXs, and token lists, while also providing critical features like analytics and fail-safety measures. This allows developers to enhance user experience and focus on their core value propositions, thereby driving innovation within the DeFi space.
Strider Bike
Seed Round in 2022
Strider Sports manufactures strider bikes, balance bikes, toddler bikes, push bikes, running bikes, and walking bikes. It enhances products with an emphasis on proper fit and function for the rider. It supports distribution channels that are committed to educating customers. It serves customers with an empathetic, just, and positive outlook on life.
Storygrounds
Seed Round in 2022
Storygrounds is a platform enabling individuals of varying skill levels to collaboratively create webcomics.
Aztec specializes in developing privacy-focused technologies for Ethereum-based transactions. It is renowned for creating PLONK, a leading standard in zero-knowledge proofs, enabling fast, private interactions on the public blockchain. The company's research team has made significant contributions to Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum and possesses extensive expertise in deploying intricate cryptosystems within Web3 environments. Aztec Network recently unveiled an advanced version of zk.money, showcasing its Aztec Connect SDK's ability to facilitate seamless integrations with prominent DeFi protocols like Lido and Element Finance. The company is currently working on building a secure, encrypted blockchain secured by Ethereum.
Snapshot Labs
Seed Round in 2021
Snapshot Labs operates a voting platform designed to facilitate governance for cryptocurrency projects. It offers an off-chain, gasless multi-governance tool that enables users to conduct polls and surveys within decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). The platform is particularly noted for providing results that are easy to verify and difficult to contest, making it a reliable resource for clients in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector. By streamlining governance operations, Snapshot Labs supports organizations in engaging their user bases effectively.
NFTfi is a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that specializes in NFT collateralized loans. It allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral to secure cryptocurrency loans from lenders. When an NFT holder accepts a loan offer, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract while the corresponding cryptocurrency, such as wETH, DAI, or USDC, is transferred directly to the borrower's wallet. This innovative platform provides liquidity to NFT owners, enabling them to access cash without the need to sell their valuable digital assets. By utilizing a valuation approach similar to that of traditional art financing, NFTfi helps users determine the worth of their NFTs for loan purposes.
DELV is a company focused on advancing the safe adoption of decentralized financial systems by developing a crypto-asset trading platform. This platform facilitates the buying and selling of yield and principal tokens, which do not require a minimum investment. By integrating various protocols, DELV aims to create innovative infrastructure that supports users in growing their savings at a fixed rate, enhancing capital efficiency. Through its research-backed and open-source approach, the company seeks to play a pivotal role in ushering in a new financial system.
reNFT is a protocol facilitating the rental, lending, and borrowing of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), offering collateral-free integrations with various projects and games.
Parcel provides a crypto treasury management platform that facilitates mass payouts and money streaming for organizations through a single transaction. The platform ensures secure handling of organizational data by employing end-to-end encryption on the interplanetary file system (IPFS) and Filecoin. It utilizes a deterministic method for calculating encryption keys via signatures created with an Ethereum private key. This technology enables businesses to receive payments in real-time, simplifying payroll processes and the management of organizational documents.
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.
arcX
Venture Round in 2021
arcX is a training organization that specializes in providing a range of accredited cybersecurity training programs. As a CREST Approved Training Provider, it offers courses in various areas including penetration testing, threat intelligence, incident response, and security analysis. The company is dedicated to equipping individuals with the necessary skills and certifications to excel in the cybersecurity field, supporting both professional development and industry standards.
Zapper is a fintech platform that simplifies decentralized finance (DeFi) by offering a unified interface for managing assets. It democratizes DeFi access through user-friendly 'Zaps', enabling seamless entry into lending, yield farming, and liquidity provision.
Aleo
Venture Round in 2021
Aleo provides a platform for building fully private applications using zero-knowledge technology. It offers a comprehensive toolkit that includes an application runtime environment, allowing software to compile, execute, and finalize its state autonomously. Aleo also supports a statically-typed programming language called Leo, designed specifically for private application development on the Aleo blockchain. The company engages its community through blogs and incentive programs to test the bounds of its decentralized technology.
DELV is a company focused on advancing the safe adoption of decentralized financial systems by developing a crypto-asset trading platform. This platform facilitates the buying and selling of yield and principal tokens, which do not require a minimum investment. By integrating various protocols, DELV aims to create innovative infrastructure that supports users in growing their savings at a fixed rate, enhancing capital efficiency. Through its research-backed and open-source approach, the company seeks to play a pivotal role in ushering in a new financial system.
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.
Yield Guild Games
Seed Round in 2020
Yield Guild Games is a decentralized organization focused on investing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) used within virtual worlds and blockchain-based games. Its mission is to foster the largest virtual world economy, optimizing community-owned assets for maximum utility, and sharing profits with its token holders.
Zapper is a fintech platform that simplifies decentralized finance (DeFi) by offering a unified interface for managing assets. It democratizes DeFi access through user-friendly 'Zaps', enabling seamless entry into lending, yield farming, and liquidity provision.
StarkWare Industries
Series A in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.
DFINITY
Venture Round in 2018
DFINITY develops and operates a decentralized computing platform, Internet Computer, which hosts tamperproof software systems and services. It offers DFINITY Canister SDK for software development, ICP protocol for secure cloud functionality, and algorithmic governance via blockchain-based nervous system. Founded in Switzerland in 2014.
Kadena develops a hybrid blockchain platform that addresses Bitcoin's scaling challenges and Ethereum's security issues. It offers ScalableBFT consensus protocol, Pact programming language for transactional logic, and confidentiality settings to protect sensitive transaction details. Founded in 2016 by former JP Morgan blockchain creators and SEC professionals, Kadena is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.