Symbolic Capital

Symbolic Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm established in 2021 and based in New York, New York. The firm specializes in identifying and accelerating leading companies within the blockchain sector, with a particular focus on the web3 landscape. By leveraging their expertise, Symbolic Capital aims to foster innovation and growth in these emerging technologies, positioning themselves as a key player in the evolving digital economy.

Chad Liu

Investor

Kenzi Wang

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Unica Yin

Investor

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Miden

Seed Round in 2025
Miden grants applications the power to scale with public and private transactions.

Warlock

Seed Round in 2025
Warlock Labs specializes in creating an omni-chain liquidation engine aimed at enhancing the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols. By recapturing maximal extractable value, the company's technology systematically dis-intermediates value generated during liquidation processes. This approach not only improves efficiency for miners but also fosters user retention and engagement within various protocols. Warlock Labs is focused on advancing the decentralized finance landscape through innovative solutions that bolster both safety and profitability.

Primus Labs

Seed Round in 2025
Primus connects Web2 data to Web3, offering verified information to AI models while ensuring user privacy.

Fluent Labs

Seed Round in 2025
Fluent Labs is a blockchain development company. It aims to simplify blockchain development and enhance compatibility across different virtual machines.

Primus

Seed Round in 2025
Primus provides AI-powered intelligence in the Web3. It connects Web2 data to Web3, providing AI models with verified inputs while protecting user privacy. It enables DeFi, decentralized healthcare, and Web3 social applications to harness the predictive potential of AI while maintaining data integrity.

Usual

Series A in 2024
The new playbook for financial freedom.

Fraction AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Fraction AI is a company that specializes in providing high-quality human-generated data for training artificial intelligence models. It operates an AI platform that focuses on delivering labeled data, utilizing a global network of skilled annotators to ensure accuracy and scalability. By leveraging a decentralized marketplace and a collective data repository, Fraction AI offers a cost-effective solution for clients seeking reliable data to enhance their AI initiatives. The company's emphasis on human-annotated data positions it as a valuable resource in the evolving landscape of AI development.

Tac

Seed Round in 2024
TAC is a technology company that develops interoperability solutions for decentralized applications. It specializes in creating a network extension that facilitates communication and asset transfer between different blockchain networks, enabling users to interact with various decentralized applications (dApps) in a simplified manner.

StakeStone

Seed Round in 2024
StakeStone is a technology company that develops an omnichannel liquidity protocol for optimizing crypto staking and asset management. Its protocol integrates dynamic staking networks, deep liquidity pools, and adaptive consensus mechanisms to maximize staking yields and ensure secure, transparent transactions. This enables cryptocurrency investors and developers to achieve efficient, scalable, and high-return staking operations across multiple blockchain networks.

Zerobase

Seed Round in 2024
Zerobase is a real-time ZK prover network that prioritizes speed, decentralization, and regulatory compliance. It generates ZK proofs within hundreds of milliseconds and provides decentralized, quick consensus via its HUB ring-wake mechanism, allowing for large-scale commercial application.

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that specializes in open-source model hosting, secure inference, and application deployment. The company focuses on creating a seamless environment for developers to build AI workflows within its ecosystem, enabling the development of intelligent and optimized applications. OpenGradient promotes the democratization of model ownership and enhances verifiability while ensuring censorship-resistant access to AI models. Its proprietary technologies, including a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and NeuroML library, support secure AI workflows, integrating features such as statistical analysis and agentic reasoning. Additionally, OpenGradient accelerates open-source innovation by providing a web portal and SDK that allows developers to leverage its AI capabilities without the complexities of blockchain, all while benefiting from the security and composability offered by decentralized infrastructure.

OpenGradient

Seed Round in 2024
OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform that specializes in open-source model hosting, secure inference, and application deployment. The company focuses on creating a seamless environment for developers to build AI workflows within its ecosystem, enabling the development of intelligent and optimized applications. OpenGradient promotes the democratization of model ownership and enhances verifiability while ensuring censorship-resistant access to AI models. Its proprietary technologies, including a heterogeneous AI compute architecture and NeuroML library, support secure AI workflows, integrating features such as statistical analysis and agentic reasoning. Additionally, OpenGradient accelerates open-source innovation by providing a web portal and SDK that allows developers to leverage its AI capabilities without the complexities of blockchain, all while benefiting from the security and composability offered by decentralized infrastructure.

PIN AI

Pre Seed Round in 2024
PIN AI is a pioneering company that develops an open-source, decentralized platform for Personal AI. This platform leverages smartphone and app data, empowering users with control and privacy over their data. It employs a crypto-economic security model to ensure users' data ownership and privacy. By transforming mobile phones into active AI-powered devices, PIN AI enables users to earn rewards for securely sharing their data, thereby enhancing the platform's security.

Corn

Seed Round in 2024
Corn is a new Ethereum Layer 2 network that aims to be the best platform for utilizing Bitcoin.

Pentagon Games

Seed Round in 2024
Pioneering the Future of Gaming Development and Distribution. In the fast-evolving gaming landscape, Pentagon Games stands at the forefront, marrying the digital with the physical through groundbreaking AI and Web3 technologies.

Aligned Layer

Series A in 2024
Universal Verification Layer for Ethereum using Eigenlayer

Moso

Seed Round in 2024
Moso operates a Web3 platform that incentivizes users with cryptocurrency rewards for making purchases from participating online retailers. This platform enables consumers to shop at their preferred stores while earning digital currencies simultaneously.

Sending Network

Seed Round in 2024
In SendingNetwork, there're numerous nodes spread across different locations. So it becomes nearly impossible for any one to shut down the entire network, censor specific messages, ban user accounts or exclude entire communities. In essence, each user contributes to a robust, unbreakable communication network.

Tomo

Seed Round in 2024
Tomo is an all-in-one Web3 social wallet that transforms users' online presence into a universal hub, fostering genuine, spam-free interactions and financial incentives. Tomo lets users connect directly with creators, participate in private discussions, and explore the new generation of digital art with Tomoji. Active participation earns users Tomo Points, enhancing your social capital.

Planet Mojo

Venture Round in 2024
Planet Mojo is a gaming platform that offers a player versus player (PvP) auto chess game integrated with blockchain technology. This innovative platform allows players to own their game characters as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and engage in competitive tournaments while earning rewards. Players can customize their characters and assets, which will be transferable across a range of interconnected games within the Planet Mojo universe. The platform emphasizes an eco-friendly gaming experience by incorporating augmented reality elements, enhancing player engagement and enjoyment. Planet Mojo aims to redefine the gaming landscape by merging traditional gaming mechanics with blockchain capabilities, creating a unique play-to-earn environment for its users.

Nubit

Pre Seed Round in 2024
Founded by UCSB professor Yu Feng, Nubit is building the Trustless World Computer for Bitcoin, enabling open scaling and programmability of Bitcoin through Bitcoin-native technology (BitVM, OP_CAT, DA, etc). Nubit lets developers build any native application, onboarding the world to Bitcoin. Backed by Polychain. Learn more at Nubit.org.

0G Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2024
0G Labs is a technology business that specializes in blockchain technology, emphasizing decentralization for a range of industries and societal issues.

Morph

Seed Round in 2024
Morph is a fully permissionless EVM L2 that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technology to open up new possibilities in banking, gaming, social media, and entertainment. Morph is the first Layer 2 on Ethereum to launch with a decentralized sequencer, which aligns with several important web3 concepts, including decentralization, censorship resistance, and security.

Pallet Exchange

Venture Round in 2024
Pallet Exchange is developing a new sort of NFT marketplace that focuses on customer retention.

Polyhedra Network

Series A in 2024
Polyhedra Network is an infrastructure company focused on creating a Web3 platform that enhances cross-chain communication through the use of zero-knowledge-proof protocols. The company's platform facilitates a secure and scalable bridge between various layer-1 and layer-2 blockchains, enabling developers to design interoperable applications. By simplifying the complexities of cross-chain interactions, Polyhedra Network aims to foster a more integrated blockchain ecosystem for developers and users alike.

Inco

Seed Round in 2024
Inco develops a global confidentiality layer for Ethereum and other networks. It enables a wide range of new apps, spanning various verticals such as gaming and gambling, DeFi, including dark pools, private lending, and blind auctions, and enterprise solutions such as confidential stable coins, private RWAs, and private voting.

Cleveland Diagnostics

Debt Financing in 2024
Cleveland Diagnostics is a commercial-stage company based in Cleveland, Ohio, focused on developing and commercializing innovative cancer diagnostic tests. Founded in 2013, the company specializes in creating non-invasive screening tools for various cancers, including prostate, breast, ovarian, lung, and certain neurological diseases. Their portfolio includes blood-based tests designed to enhance early detection and improve patient outcomes. Cleveland Diagnostics employs a proprietary solvent interaction analysis technology that examines protein biomarkers at a structural level, offering more precise insights into disease processes and enhancing test specificity. The company has established strategic collaborations with industry partners, such as Genomic Health, to advance its diagnostic capabilities.

BabylonChain

Series A in 2023
Babylon builds security protocols to enhance the security of decentralized systems by leveraging Bitcoin's established security. The company's solutions include timestamping data on the Bitcoin blockchain and enabling Bitcoin holders to stake their coins on Proof-of-Stake blockchains without needing a custodian.

Sleek

Seed Round in 2023
Sleek is a Hong Kong-based Web3 social networking platform that revolutionizes authentic human connection in the digital age. Their mission is to power the ownership economy and bring blockchain-powered social media to the masses.

Phaver

Seed Round in 2023
Phaver is a Web3 social platform that facilitates connections and recommendations among users for products and local services. With over half a million downloads, it holds a significant share of the Lens protocol and is a leading external app for Farcaster. The platform employs a gamified in-app economy, allowing users to earn points that can be redeemed for the $SOCIAL token. By leveraging decentralized protocols, Phaver enhances on-chain social identities and offers influencers opportunities for monetization through innovative suggestions and rewards.

Range Protocol

Seed Round in 2023
Range Protocol operates as an on-chain asset management platform.

Cube3.ai

Seed Round in 2023
Cube3.ai is a blockchain security company focused on enhancing the safety of web3 environments. It has developed a security platform that leverages machine learning to provide real-time protection for smart contracts and blockchains. The platform is designed to inspect, monitor, and mitigate security risks, thereby safeguarding users against cyber exploits, fraud, and compliance issues. By addressing these challenges, Cube3.ai aims to create a more secure web3 ecosystem for businesses and communities.

DappOS

Seed Round in 2023
DappOS is an innovative company focused on enhancing the usability and accessibility of decentralized applications (dApps) within the blockchain ecosystem. By developing a unified operating protocol, DappOS creates a user-friendly layer that simplifies interactions between users and various blockchain infrastructures, including public blockchains and cross-chain bridges. This approach allows for intuitive user interfaces and streamlined experiences, making dApps as easy to use as mobile applications. DappOS aims to lower the technical barriers associated with blockchain technology, facilitating greater mass adoption of decentralized applications and contributing to a more interconnected and user-centric blockchain environment.

FastLane

Seed Round in 2023
FastLane is a developer of a platform aimed at enhancing network efficiency and user experience in the blockchain space. The protocol focuses on generating revenue for validators while optimizing the performance of algorithmic traders. It employs ecosystem-friendly MEV relays to minimize transaction spam and bolster network health. This approach not only safeguards user interactions but also boosts the yield of liquid staking derivatives, improving the chances of success for beneficial trading bots. By simplifying the integration of sentry nodes through a single command line, FastLane aims to streamline operations for users and contribute to a more effective and sustainable blockchain environment.

Cubist

Seed Round in 2023
Cubist is a company focused on enhancing the development of decentralized applications (dapps) within the web3 ecosystem. It offers a comprehensive key management platform that streamlines the creation, testing, and deployment of multi-chain and cross-chain dapps. Utilizing modern software engineering practices and robust security measures, Cubist provides a modular toolkit that simplifies the development process, allowing users to manage keys and sequencing efficiently. By automating pipelines, Cubist enables developers to build and deploy secure applications rapidly and effectively from a unified interface, promoting safer and faster innovation in the decentralized technology landscape.

MYSO Finance

Seed Round in 2022
MYSO Finance provides fully customizable on-chain covered calls and bespoke DeFi loans.

Colexion

Seed Round in 2022
Colexion is a premium blockchain-based marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that allows users to discover, buy, sell, and trade exclusive digital collectibles featuring celebrities from various fields, including sports, entertainment, and art. The platform is curated by leading crypto artists, ensuring a high-quality selection of NFTs that appeal to collectors and enthusiasts alike. By focusing on the intersection of celebrity culture and digital ownership, Colexion provides a unique space for users to engage with and invest in the digital memorabilia of their favorite megastars.

Pixelynx

Seed Round in 2021
Pixelynx is a technology company that focuses on integrating music, blockchain, and gaming to create innovative digital experiences. It has developed a direct-to-avatar gaming platform that serves as a bridge between digital collectibles, gaming, and virtual environments. By merging elements of gaming, music, fashion, art, and technology, Pixelynx enables artists and brands to launch digital collectibles through its NFT marketplace. The platform also facilitates the integration of these collectibles into mobile and console gaming, utilizing blockchain technology to create immersive, playable worlds. This approach allows for new forms of interaction and engagement between creators and their audiences.

SpaceComputer

SpaceComputer uses satellites to create a secure blockchain system that resists cyberattacks and physical tampering.
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