Semantic Ventures

Cheq’s mission is to bring cryptocurrency to the mainstream.

Dfns offers a wallets-as-a-service (WaaS) platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage digital assets while ensuring high levels of security. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing systems, allowing for secure user onboarding and streamlined transactions across multiple blockchains.

Reown enables secure connections between decentralized applications and users' wallets. It facilitates communication and transaction signing without exposing private keys. It serves the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry.

SheeldMarket is a cryptocurrency trading platform intended to keep the positions of the market participants hidden. The company's product uses an encryption scheme that allows the low-latency exchange of assets in order to protect user interests with chip encryption and predatory behavior prevention algorithms, thereby enabling market participants to trade large blocks of assets without alpha leakage. It was founded in 2019 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France by Oliver Yates, Simon Douyer, and Arnaud Carrere.

Paladin is a technological decentralization company trying to reduce friction in the on-chain governance process. To this end, the company has developed a vote lending market called Paladin Lending.

XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas.

Superfluid Finance is on a mission to transform the way assets move in decentralized finance.

Certora develops unique technology which supplements your programming experts and manual auditors by automatically detecting security vulnerabilities both before the code is deployed and during operation. The process is executed automatically and provides mathematical proofs of correctness on a daily basis. For carefully defined properties of your software, Certora technology can completely guarantee the absence of security vulnerabilities.

Backed Finance creates tokenized stocks on Ethereum with the goal of democratizing access to and fairness within the capital markets. The company's platform enables users to access tokenized stocks without compromising on compliance and functionality while bridging the gap between traditional and new and open financial systems by providing infrastructure for capital markets on-chain through fully backed, tokenized stocks on Ethereum.

Async Art is helping to create a new art revolution built on the Ethereum blockchain. Our users create, collect, and trade programmable art comprising a Master work and Layers that are independently owned and controlled: our users become part of the art themselves. Imagine pointing to a landscape painting and knowing that you own the sky or the stars. Meanwhile, an anonymous collector in Tokyo owns the lone figure in the background and an AI in London controls the snaking river running through the piece. All three of you alter the painting at any time within parameters designed by the artist. You might, depending on your artistic whim, change the sky from day to night while the Tokyo collector may lie dormant for years... throughout the entire time, the AI adjusts the saturation of the river’s water based on daily stock market volatility. Welcome to 21st century art.

Dune Analytics is the Ethereum-centric analytics platform that makes on-chain crypto data accessible and consumable. The company was founded by Fredrik Haga and Mats Olsen in 2018 and is headquartered in

Sorare is a global fantasy football game where managers can trade official digital collectibles. It is on a mission to make crypto fun and accessible to all through fantasy football. Based in Paris, Sorare provides a soccer team management game with digital NFT cards that fans can collect and trade. Founded in December 2018, Sorare currently sold $1.8 million worth of cards in December 2020.

Founded in 2017, Centrifuge creates better technology for financial products. Centrifuge provides asset managers a way to tokenize, manage and distribute their funds onchain and investors better access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets.

StarkWare Industries uses Stark technology to develop a full proof stack in generating and verifying proofs of computational integrity.

Messari is the leading provider of market intelligence products that help professionals navigate crypto with confidence. For individuals and institutions alike, Messari combines deep analysis, data, news and powerful tools to improve industry transparency and drive smarter participation in crypto. Learn more at messari.io.

Founded in 2017, Centrifuge creates better technology for financial products. Centrifuge provides asset managers a way to tokenize, manage and distribute their funds onchain and investors better access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets.

NuCypher is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2015 that specializes in developing a data-centric zero-trust encryption platform focused on protecting sensitive information. The company offers a product designed for sharing sensitive data while ensuring compliance with governance and residency requirements. Its encryption layer allows organizations to implement military-strength encryption to safeguard large and distributed data sets, whether stored in the cloud or on-premises. By utilizing existing access policies, NuCypher enhances the security of big data applications against internal and external threats. Additionally, the company is committed to creating privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols, further advancing its mission in the field of cryptography.