HackerNoon
Seed Round in 2023
HackerNoon is a publishing platform focused on technology stories. It serves over 4 million readers monthly, with each contributor story undergoing staff editorial review. The company offers blogging software for businesses to publish content and place relevant ads. Additionally, it has developed community-driven CMS, Slogging, Noonies App, and Tech Company Database.
Velvet operates an investment marketplace that facilitates the discovery and investment in private equity, venture capital, real estate, and hedge funds. The platform allows investors to browse and evaluate a variety of funds, enabling them to compare options, communicate with fund managers, and make investments with ease. By listing a diverse range of investment opportunities, including closed-end private equity funds, rolling funds, and micro private equity funds, Velvet simplifies access to smaller private investments, making the process of investing in private funds straightforward and secure.
Campground
Seed Round in 2023
Campground is a Web3 social marketplace pioneering the next era of internet exploration.
Alphaday
Seed Round in 2023
Alphaday is a developer of a blockchain-based portfolio management platform that assists individuals in managing their cryptocurrency investments. The platform offers a centralized dashboard where users can oversee multiple digital asset classes, including NFTs and tokens, facilitating streamlined asset management. Additionally, Alphaday provides customizable workflows to help users stay informed and engaged with the evolving cryptocurrency landscape. Through its innovative approach, Alphaday aims to simplify the complexities of managing digital assets for its users.
Lakefront
Seed Round in 2023
Lakefront operates a financial platform designed to facilitate connections between companies and decentralized finance (DeFi). It assists decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), cryptocurrency hedge funds, and Web3 venture capitalists in managing their stablecoin liquidity effectively and at scale. The platform streamlines the integration of fintech, neo-banks, and yield-generating products with the advantages of blockchain technology, while addressing regulatory and compliance issues. By simplifying the complexities of blockchain interactions, Lakefront enables users to achieve stable and inflation-resistant asset growth.
Klink Finance
Pre Seed Round in 2022
Klink Finance is an AI-driven platform facilitating Web3 earnings. It connects over half a million users across 127 countries with industry leaders like Arbitrum Foundation, Bybit, Coinbase, and Ledger. Klink operates a dual ecosystem: directly serving its community through exclusive partner-driven payouts and multi-chain airdrops, while also acting as an integration layer for dApps, platforms, gaming, Web3 media, and blockchain ecosystems.
TALENThire (V2)
Seed Round in 2022
TALENThire is a platform that provides staffing services. They develop vendor management technology. They offer workforce management services by combining technology and artificial intelligence.
GRID is a tech startup unleashing the power of no code for video games. The team is building Breshna.io, a platform that empowers users to create, share and monetize their own purposeful web3 video games, with no code and at lightning speed.
DeFiance Media
Pre Seed Round in 2022
DeFiance Media operates a global media platform and digital broadcast network focused on the decentralized finance ecosystem. It provides news, analysis, and entertainment through streaming and online channels, covering blockchain, digital currencies, non-fungible tokens, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, robotics, biotech, and related technologies. The company delivers current updates and in-depth coverage of the business and culture surrounding decentralized finance to a worldwide audience.
RD Land
Seed Round in 2022
RD Land is a pioneering metaverse platform that enables users to engage in anonymous, interest-based interactions globally. It offers a safe space for progressive entertainment and virtual relationships, supporting content creators and artists through monetization opportunities and NFT ownership.
Voltage Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Voltage Finance is a decentralized finance platform that provides users with a comprehensive suite of financial tools for exchanging crypto assets. Designed with a user-friendly interface, Voltage allows for seamless trading without incurring fees. The platform operates on a non-custodial basis, ensuring users retain control of their assets while benefiting from automated trading solutions. Accessible on smart devices, Voltage Finance aims to enhance the efficiency of trading compared to traditional exchanges, making advanced financial tools available to a broader audience.
Derivatives decentralized exchange with lightning-fast transaction speed and minimal transactions costs with institutional-grade centralized UI/UX experience.
Keywords: decentralized finance, DeFi, derivatives, perpetual, crypto exchange, marketplace, crypto, blockchain, digital assets.
FlashBack
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Bespoke Ticketing Platform
Splinterlands
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Splinterlands is a decentralized digital collectible trading card game founded in 2018 and based in Media, Pennsylvania. Utilizing blockchain technology, the game transforms trading cards into scarce digital assets that players own and control. This allows users to buy, sell, and trade cards across various digital marketplaces. Players engage in real-time battles with these cards, competing to win cryptocurrency and other valuable prizes. Through its innovative approach, Splinterlands combines gaming and cryptocurrency, providing an engaging platform for users to enjoy both aspects.
BizSecure
Pre Seed Round in 2021
BizSecure is a digital wallet provider focused on user control and the management of official records. It has developed a cybersecurity platform that enhances sustainability and profitability in daily business operations. The platform grants users complete autonomy over their identities, facilitating seamless use of identification in both physical and digital environments. This enables clients to safeguard their identities and critical data from cyber threats, offering a practical solution to manage and protect personal information effectively.
EcoCart
Seed Round in 2021
EcoCart is a sustainability-focused eCommerce startup that aims to simplify carbon offsetting for consumers while shopping online. The company provides an eCommerce plugin for merchants, allowing them to offer a carbon-neutral option at checkout. Additionally, EcoCart features a free Google Chrome extension that calculates the carbon footprint of online orders from over 10,000 retailers and automatically offsets this impact by supporting independently verified carbon offsetting projects. By integrating these solutions, EcoCart empowers both e-commerce brands and consumers to combat climate change effectively and affordably, making sustainable shopping more accessible. The platform also incentivizes users by offering points that can be redeemed for gift cards or used to support environmental initiatives.
Weave Markets
Seed Round in 2020
Weave Markets is a next generation, technology-based investment firm, that focusses on providing scalable and secure infrastructure.
Blockchain Founders Fund
Seed Round in 2020
Founded in Singapore in 2018, Blockchain Founders Fund is a venture capital firm investing globally in early-stage blockchain startups. It offers a Venture Program to aid entrepreneurs across key business functions for accelerated growth.
StartEngine
Seed Round in 2014
Founded in 2014, StartEngine is a Los Angeles-based equity crowdfunding platform that enables individuals to invest in and own shares of early-stage companies. It facilitates offerings of equity, debt, revenue shares, or royalties across sectors such as media, commercial services, healthcare, infrastructure, software, manufacturing, and cleantech.
Digital Brands Group
Seed Round in 2014
Digital Brands Group is a collection of luxury lifestyle brands that operate primarily in the direct-to-consumer and wholesale markets. The company focuses on creating an efficient operational structure by consolidating resources, thereby reducing redundant costs associated with running individual brands. This approach allows the brands under its portfolio, which includes Bailey 44, DSTLD, Harper & Jones, Stateside, and Sundry, to concentrate on enhancing creativity, innovation, and customer experience. In addition to its online presence, Digital Brands Group has expanded into omnichannel retail, providing its offerings through selected wholesale and retail storefronts.