Magna develops a token vesting and DeFi investment management platform. The company's first product is Carta for Web3, where companies can manage their cap tables and distribute their token equity to employees, advisors, or investors. It aims to use locked tokens as composable building blocks to power collateralized lending, liquid secondary markets, and other DeFi applications.
XLD is a decentralized network focused on delivering financial services to emerging markets, particularly for mobile prepaid users. The company aims to revolutionize prepaid airtime and enhance the accessibility of financial tools through its fintech platform. By modernizing the infrastructure of financial services, XLD seeks to create an inclusive environment where users can easily manage their finances. The platform facilitates the use of cryptocurrency by enabling clients to earn tokens and convert their crypto to fiat currency, thereby providing straightforward and reliable financial solutions built on decentralized technology.
Wombat Exchange is a multichain stableswap platform that operates on the BNB blockchain. It aims to enhance the stableswap experience through innovative algorithm design, focusing on capital efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. By re-engineering traditional stableswap mechanisms, Wombat Exchange seeks to provide users with improved trading solutions in a multichain environment, facilitating seamless crypto trading and transactions across various blockchain networks.
VALK is a fintech company based in London that specializes in designing and developing a software platform for managing, investing in, and trading unlisted assets, such as private company shares, fund shares, real estate, and infrastructure. Founded in 2019, VALK's solution automates and centralizes asset management and investment workflows, transitioning traditionally manual processes into a digitized format. The platform serves various financial entities, including asset managers, investment banks, and funds, offering an end-to-end digital transaction solution tailored for private and illiquid markets.
Likvidi is a SaaS platform that empowers companies to achieve net-zero and carbon neutrality. Our comprehensive platform provides a range of tools designed to support businesses on their sustainability journey. One such tool is CarbonBOT - an AI-powered carbon calculator that simplifies the process of calculating carbon footprints for both individuals and companies. Another key feature is the LCO2 blockchain-based carbon token, which is an effective carbon offsetting asset for SMEs. Our Sustainability Manager AI is a virtual sustainability manager that assists companies in achieving their net-zero goals through reporting, analysis, and more. We're particularly focused on supporting the European SME sector, where approximately 1.6 million SMEs will soon be required to report on their sustainability efforts. With our suite of tools, businesses can reduce their environmental impact while simultaneously improving their bottom line.
Community Gaming is an online platform that connects gamers and streamlines the organization of esports competitions. By integrating game data, match automation, and blockchain technology, it simplifies the tournament experience for both organizers and participants. The platform provides tools that enable players to enter competitions, compete, and receive automated payments for their victories, enhancing the overall experience. Additionally, it serves as a comprehensive esports payment infrastructure that offers cryptocurrency rewards for gameplay. With a network comprising thousands of gamers, various venues, and multiple brands, Community Gaming has successfully facilitated over 200 live and online esports events, fostering a vibrant community within the gaming industry.
GOGO Protocol is developing an open-source digital finance platform focused on enhancing asset management and savings. The protocol aims to provide a user-friendly experience through innovative technology that streamlines interactions in decentralized finance. By incorporating on-chain automation and simple one-click functionalities, GOGO Protocol allows users to manage their assets efficiently. Additionally, it emphasizes security through the use of NFT Smart Vaults, which protect users' investments while enabling them to earn high yields. The platform seeks to empower individuals to take control of their savings and move beyond the limitations of traditional centralized finance.
OpenBlox is a gaming platform intended to give players various gaming options. It also offers NFT holders access to a variety of games and Web3 lifestyle apps.
Private Equity Round in 2022
prePO is a decentralized trading platform that enables users to speculate on the valuation of pre-initial public offering companies and pre-token projects. The platform provides a space for users to take synthetic positions, allowing them to engage with the financial potential of emerging companies before they go public. By offering features such as neutral liquidity provision and token incentives, prePO aims to facilitate a transparent and accessible trading environment. This innovative approach allows individuals from various backgrounds to participate in the financial ecosystem surrounding pre-IPO opportunities.
MetaDerby redefines the horse race-gaming experience, making it accessible and profitable to gamers with its free-to-play model and blockchain-based integration, including a create-to-earn land system, decentralized finance staking, and a nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace.
Wombat Exchange is a multichain stableswap platform that operates on the BNB blockchain. It aims to enhance the stableswap experience through innovative algorithm design, focusing on capital efficiency, accessibility, and scalability. By re-engineering traditional stableswap mechanisms, Wombat Exchange seeks to provide users with improved trading solutions in a multichain environment, facilitating seamless crypto trading and transactions across various blockchain networks.
AdaSwap is a decentralized exchange that facilitates the rapid swapping, bridging, and trading of Cardano-based tokens and stablecoins. The platform offers tools designed to enhance user experience, including high-yield staking pools and NFT content through launchpads and marketplaces. By enabling users to quickly exchange ADA, AdaSwap aims to capture arbitrage opportunities in real-time, making it a comprehensive solution for trading within the Cardano ecosystem.
MetaPath is the leading and most-efficient decentralized finance platform in the universe. Popularly referred to as the "Infrastructure of the Metaverse", MetaPath is the pioneer and first cross-metaverse, cross-gamefi, cross-chain, and multi-platform next-level aggregator that connects metaverse and NFT marketplaces, public blockchain, DEXs, and cross-chain bridges with the ultimate purpose of connecting the economic systems of different gamefi platforms by linking virtual assets Like NFTs in the virtual world, to realize the interoperability of the Metaverses. The goal of MetaPath is to realize the interconnectivity of blockchain ecosystems where users can reliably swap or transfer any digital asset and get paid for every transaction.
WingRiders is a British Virgin Islands-based exchange platform that leverages the benefits of Cardano to correct the issues plaguing DEXs on Ethereum.
Developer of a decentralized autonomous organization management platform designed to start and operate decentralized independent organizations. The company's platform uses a hybrid governance system for incentivized collaborative management of disruptive, economically viable decentralized application ventures, and in one click, add and customize intelligent contracts, use a built-in member directory, treasury dashboard, contributor management, newsfeed to do even more with third-party apps, enabling businesses to improve decision-making and governance structure for the decentralized autonomous organizations.
ICHI creates a stable currency and economic stimulus platform that allows it to create and manage in-house, non-custodial tokens. The company is headquartered in Japan.
Private Equity Round in 2022
Starly is a launchpad and marketplace for gamified NFT collections. Aimed to make the NFT creating, selling, and collecting as simple as possible, it offers the ultimate experience to creators and their fans. Created by an experienced team who previously founded social networks F3 with 30+ million users and Ask.fm with 150+ million users, Starly is powered by the engines and techniques used for creating virality.
Oort Digital offers users to store, send, borrow, lease, trade, pay, mine, and game with NFTs.
Betswap is a decentralized sports betting platform built on the Ethereum layer 2 Polygon. It allows users to predict sports outcomes and place wagers against each other in a peer-to-peer environment, promoting transparency and fairness. The platform operates without a centralized organization or regulatory oversight, relying on a decentralized autonomous organization model for governance. Users participate in the decision-making process through a governance token that grants them voting rights. Betswap also offers multi-chain integration, enabling access to a wide range of sporting and e-sporting events for users to bet on, while acting as an intermediary marketplace for these transactions.
UBet Sports operates a decentralized exchange for sports betting, leveraging blockchain technology and smart contracts. The platform allows users to engage in sports prediction markets without a centralized bookmaker, enabling anyone to become a bookie by participating in liquidity provision. By utilizing internal and external market data, UBet Sports models the probability of sports outcomes, which enhances the betting experience for sports fans. This innovative approach not only empowers users to place bets but also provides opportunities for liquidity providers, fostering a collaborative ecosystem that benefits all participants in the market.
Develooper of a decentralized multichain storage platform designed to provide data security services and non-fungible tokens storage. The company's platform offers an alternative to traditional cloud services by using unoccupied storage space on computers for a system of decentralized hosting where users can earn tokens as rewards for sharing their computer space, enabling market participants to earn cryptocurrency and become a member of the data storage and work service.
Developer blockchain infrastructure designed to facilitate seamless cross-chain liquidity flows. The company's infrastructure offers secure and efficient communication between blockchain networks while enhancing security and scalability through decentralization by providing a modular framework for building cross-chain dApps in web3, enabling clients to get asset-level data transfer.
Developer of a decentralized trading platform designed to make the blockchain industry beginner-friendly and useful. The company's platform uses its real-time on-chain analytics to provide an easy-to-use platform for users to track data on various blockchains, enabling users to make the hedge-fund level of data accessible to everyone.
Starly is a launchpad and marketplace for gamified NFT collections. Aimed to make the NFT creating, selling, and collecting as simple as possible, it offers the ultimate experience to creators and their fans. Created by an experienced team who previously founded social networks F3 with 30+ million users and Ask.fm with 150+ million users, Starly is powered by the engines and techniques used for creating virality.
Starly is a launchpad and marketplace for gamified NFT collections. Aimed to make the NFT creating, selling, and collecting as simple as possible, it offers the ultimate experience to creators and their fans. Created by an experienced team who previously founded social networks F3 with 30+ million users and Ask.fm with 150+ million users, Starly is powered by the engines and techniques used for creating virality.
Developer of a game analysis platform intended to help developers build fun and engaging games. The company's technology is a Web3 data intelligence - artificial applied to web3 to deliver true segmentation and data classification and an end-to-end platform that uses on and off-chain data intelligence to both better understand players and users and create game and metaverse economies, enabling game developers to replace assumptions with certainties with actual data and understand the behavior of a gamer.
Developer of a decentralized autonomous organization management platform designed to start and operate decentralized independent organizations. The company's platform uses a hybrid governance system for incentivized collaborative management of disruptive, economically viable decentralized application ventures, and in one click, add and customize intelligent contracts, use a built-in member directory, treasury dashboard, contributor management, newsfeed to do even more with third-party apps, enabling businesses to improve decision-making and governance structure for the decentralized autonomous organizations.
DexGuru is a decentralized trading platform that combines on-chain analytics with token swapping. It provides traders with real-time coverage of on-chain markets, allowing them to trade cryptocurrencies effectively. The platform enables users to rank tokens and identify labeled wallets based on on-chain trading activities. By offering access to real-time deal flow for various tokens, DexGuru enhances the trading experience, making it easier for users to make informed decisions in the dynamic cryptocurrency market.
Strip Finance operates as a collateralised NFT borrowing and lending marketplace.
fxdx exchange operates as a decentralized derivatives trading platform that focuses on efficiency and user experience. It enables users to trade various derivative products, including perpetual contracts, while maintaining control of their assets through a non-custodial system. The platform is designed to facilitate fast trade execution with minimal transaction costs, making it accessible for both individual traders and institutional investors. By allowing users to leverage their trades, fxdx exchange aims to optimize returns during market fluctuations, all while ensuring a secure trading environment free from manipulation. This approach positions fxdx exchange as a competitive player in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, catering to the growing demand for advanced trading solutions in the blockchain ecosystem.
Waggle operates as a decentralized marketplace that facilitates investment diversification for retail investors while offering project teams essential liquidity to sustain their innovations. By developing a cross-chain protocol, Waggle allows retail investors to engage in primary market investments, thereby enhancing their opportunities to contribute to and benefit from the success of the projects they support. This approach not only empowers investors but also creates value for project teams by ensuring access to liquidity, which is crucial for the ongoing development and continuity of their initiatives.
Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Operator of a decentralized autonomous organization intended to scale the impact and efficiency of carbon markets by building transparent, neutral and public infrastructure. The company's protocol offers tokens that will supply growth incrementally through increased investment into pro-climate projects around the world, validated by locking Verified Carbon Unit into its treasury, enabling clients to maximize value creation for the community and create a virtuous cycle of growth.
Domination Finance is a developer of a non-custodial financial instrument for traders. Its platform is an ethereum app built on the UMA protocol that allows users to long or short Bitcoin Dominance and enables trading in the cryptocurrency market.
XLD is a decentralized network focused on delivering financial services to emerging markets, particularly for mobile prepaid users. The company aims to revolutionize prepaid airtime and enhance the accessibility of financial tools through its fintech platform. By modernizing the infrastructure of financial services, XLD seeks to create an inclusive environment where users can easily manage their finances. The platform facilitates the use of cryptocurrency by enabling clients to earn tokens and convert their crypto to fiat currency, thereby providing straightforward and reliable financial solutions built on decentralized technology.
Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore a vast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands.
Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse accessible on browsers and native PC VR. With veterans from VR, Defi, fine art, and hype markets, the mission of Highstreet is to bridge the gap between reality and the digital world and redefine how financial products should be consumed and sold on the market. Players are able to form parties to explore a vast new world on the Highstreet interface, own and expand their virtual reality estates, and buy tokenized products from their favorite brands.
Developer of a bandwidth aggregator and decentralized acceleration platform designed to create an efficient bandwidth marketplace on Web3. The company's platform uses blockchain protocol to consolidate and monetize idle bandwidth from long-tail users at low costs, providing users a way to monetize their spare bandwidth.
The DeFi infrastructure built to facilitate the most liquid markets, powered by Maverick AMM.
Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Polytrade is a blockchain-based trade finance protocol that aims to integrate real-world assets into the cryptocurrency space. The platform provides access to low-interest and rapid financing options, helping businesses free up essential working capital. By tapping into crypto lenders, Polytrade enables investors to reduce financing costs while ensuring that the assets involved are backed by insurance for added security. This innovative approach seeks to enhance the efficiency of trade finance, making it more accessible and reliable in the evolving digital economy.
Developer of a blockchain network platform designed to take community engagement to a new dimension on web3. The company's platform offers 2D social media, 3d gaming platform, and virtual reality (VR) visualization, and it allows users to have its own NFT galleries, with marketplaces, and tokens, enabling individuals or companies to run their communities by incentivizing the members in the token-economy.
Developer of a blockchain network platform designed to take community engagement to a new dimension on web3. The company's platform offers 2D social media, 3d gaming platform, and virtual reality (VR) visualization, and it allows users to have its own NFT galleries, with marketplaces, and tokens, enabling individuals or companies to run their communities by incentivizing the members in the token-economy.
TeraBlock is the simplest solution to buy and easily manage crypto assets with the help of Machine Learning based trade automation.