The LAO

The LAO is a venture capital firm established in 2020 and located in New York, New York. It serves as a global community of Ethereum enthusiasts and specialists dedicated to supporting Ethereum developers. The firm primarily invests in seed-stage companies within the cryptocurrency, blockchain, and application software sectors, aiming to foster innovation and development in these rapidly evolving industries.

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Reservoir

Series A in 2025
Reservoir operates an NFT aggregator platform that streamlines access to NFT data and facilitates the creation, storage, and execution of NFT orders. By normalizing the entire NFT market into a unified platform, it enables clients to enhance liquidity and trade NFTs across multiple major marketplaces through a single API. This innovative approach positions Reservoir as a key player in the next-generation NFT solutions market, providing essential tools for developers and businesses looking to integrate NFT trading capabilities into their applications.

Solv Protocol

Venture Round in 2024
Solv Protocol is a decentralized platform focused on the creation, management, and trading of Financial NFTs, which represent fractionalized ownership of various financial assets. Its primary product, Vesting Vouchers, allows users to unlock liquidity from lock-up vesting tokens, facilitating fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for cryptocurrency projects. The platform serves as an on-chain marketplace for a new category of crypto assets, enabling the establishment and transaction of investment allocations, including investment funds and debt and equity instruments. By issuing semi-fungible tokens, Solv Protocol provides blockchain institutions with essential access to liquidity, enhancing the efficiency and functionality of financial transactions in the digital asset space.

NFTFi

Series A in 2024
NFTFi operates a peer-to-peer lending platform that allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral for loans. By using NFTs, users can borrow cryptocurrency from lenders, providing liquidity without the need to sell their valuable assets. When a loan is accepted, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract, and the borrower receives the agreed-upon cryptocurrency directly in their wallet. This model draws on traditional practices from the art world, where collateralized loans are commonly offered by banks and auction houses to artists based on the value of their artworks. NFTFi thus creates a marketplace that facilitates financial transactions for NFT owners, enhancing the utility of their digital assets.

Superfluid Finance

Seed Round in 2024
Superfluid Finance develops an online cash streaming protocol aimed at revolutionizing asset movement in decentralized finance. The protocol focuses on token standardization and facilitates various financial transactions such as subscription funds, salaries, and rewards. By automating recurring transactions and enabling single on-chain exchanges, Superfluid provides customers with continuous settlement and per-second netting, enhancing capital efficiency in the decentralized finance landscape.

unshETH

Seed Round in 2023
UnshETH is a pioneering DeFi (Decentralized Finance) platform specializing in Ethereum staking. It aims to enhance validator decentralization, offering a user-friendly interface and robust security features to facilitate seamless staking experiences for a wide range of users, from individual investors to institutions.

Hook

Seed Round in 2023
Hook is an online platform based in San Francisco that specializes in fine art exhibitions and NFT-native options trading. Founded in 2019, Hook offers a unique venue for collectors, combining the diversity of an art fair with the quality of a gallery exhibition, all accessible from home. The platform curates programming throughout the year, catering to sophisticated collectors seeking to enhance their art collections. Additionally, Hook features an options protocol designed for active traders, enabling them to optimize their trading strategies and increase potential earnings. This dual focus on fine art and trading positions Hook as a distinctive player in the online marketplace.

Transak

Series A in 2023
Transak is a global provider of web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure, designed to facilitate smooth transitions between traditional finance and cryptocurrency assets. The company offers a range of products, including fiat-to-crypto services, a fiat-to-smart-contract solution, and a fiat-to-NFT checkout option. As a regulated and non-custodial payments layer, Transak enables onboarding to over 160 crypto assets across more than 75 blockchains. Its platform allows users to buy and sell crypto assets through bank transfers, settling transactions without taking custody of user data or funds. The integration of Transak's services is streamlined, allowing applications to incorporate its payment solutions with minimal coding. With over 350 trusted applications, including prominent wallets, Transak is committed to enhancing accessibility in the web3 landscape.

LabDAO

Seed Round in 2023
LabDAO is a research organization focused on advancing the computational life sciences. It offers a biotechnological research platform that facilitates collaboration among researchers and provides essential tools for accessing funding and conducting research. By enabling both independent and university-affiliated scientists to connect and share their work, LabDAO aims to accelerate progress in the field, allowing researchers to concentrate on their strengths and develop their projects effectively.

Open Dollar

Seed Round in 2023
Borrow against Liquid Staking Tokens & Arbitrum native assets with our flexible and transparently over-collateralized stablecoin

Gateway.fm

Seed Round in 2023
Gateway.fm operates a decentralized blockchain infrastructure that supports a globally distributed, multi-chain architecture. The company provides a multi-chain gateway and regionally dispersed enterprise infrastructure, which allows Web3 projects to scale efficiently. By utilizing Gateway.fm's services, these projects can avoid the resource-intensive process of setting up and maintaining their own servers, enabling them to focus on development and growth.

StoryCo

Seed Round in 2023
StoryCo is an open media platform designed for creators and fans to collaborate on developing and sharing story franchises. It operates on a decentralized and open-sourced framework, leveraging the Ethereum blockchain to facilitate community engagement. The platform allows users to create character-based NFTs, crafted by talented artists, while collaborating on storylines developed by established Hollywood writers. This innovative approach empowers communities to own, participate in, and contribute to the creation of story-based intellectual property, fostering cultural relevance and shared success in the entertainment landscape.

Fleek

Series A in 2022
Fleek is an open web platform that installs anything on a computer or deals with the command line. The platform is helping to build the tools necessary to make the Open Web available to anyone, and easy to build on. It makes it easy to build websites and apps on the new open web: permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and free of centralized gatekeepers. Using Open Web protocols that make a decentralized, trustless, and permissionless infrastructure native to the web. This stack is ever-shifting and open-source.

Permian Labs

Venture Round in 2022
Permian Labs, established in 2021, specializes in consumer financing for advanced computing power. Its platform facilitates the acquisition of high-performance GPUs, enabling customers to access cutting-edge technology for innovation. Since inception, the company has facilitated $400 million in loan volume and operates $60 million in compute-oriented hardware globally through its Tactical Compute arm.

Lit Protocol

Series A in 2022
Lit Protocol is a decentralized access control infrastructure aimed at enhancing the utility of the web. It provides an open-source platform that enables users to access both digital and real-world experiences. By leveraging on-chain data, Lit Protocol allows blockchain users to gain access to content, software, and data through the use of tokens, NFTs, and blockchain identity as keys. This approach facilitates a more versatile and secure interaction with online resources, contributing to a more connected and functional web environment.

Astaria

Seed Round in 2022
Astaria operates a non-fungible token (NFT) lending platform designed to offer instant liquidity for NFT owners. The platform provides a web application where users can access personalized liquidity terms without the risk of forced liquidations. By creating a streamlined liquidity ecosystem, Astaria enables users to obtain funds quickly and efficiently, eliminating the need for two-sided approvals typically associated with traditional lending practices. This innovative approach addresses a significant challenge in decentralized finance (DeFi) by facilitating immediate access to capital for NFT holders.

CoWSwap

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
CoWSwap is the first trading interface built on top of the CoW Protocol. It saves money on token swaps by trading directly with peers and avoiding front-running attacks.

Diagonal

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Diagonal is a developer of a non-custodial protocol that facilitates recurring payments on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform enables businesses to manage subscriptions directly through secure smart contracts, offering a straightforward application programming interface for integration. With its tested infrastructure, Diagonal allows companies to implement on-chain subscription services with minimal coding, ensuring that all payment processing and logic are handled through decentralized mechanisms. This approach provides businesses with a reliable and efficient solution for managing subscription-based transactions.

Polymer Labs

Seed Round in 2022
Polymer Labs is building the fabric of web3. We're working on an IBC based multi-cluster routing/roll-up protocol providing E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.

Brahma

Seed Round in 2022
Console is the non-custodial multi-chain account to secure, navigate, and automate on-chain interactions. Built for pros. Easy for all.

3Box Labs

Series A in 2022
3Box Inc. is a New York-based company founded in 2018 that provides innovative solutions for decentralized identity and open data management. Its primary offerings include 3box.io, a social profiles application designed for Ethereum users and communities, and 3box.js, an API that facilitates user onboarding and data management for web3 developers. Additionally, the company provides 3box-dapp, which enables users to create and manage their social profiles, sign in to decentralized applications (dApps), interact with other users, build a reputation, and securely store data. The 3Box platform prioritizes simplicity, security, and privacy, allowing applications that utilize its services to be more trustworthy and reduce data management liabilities.

Potion Labs

Initial Coin Offering in 2022
Potion Labs is a base layer for a wide range of asset risk-management applications.

BreederDAO

Series A in 2022
BreederDAO is a blockchain technology company specializing in the production of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for the gaming industry. It functions as an asset factory, focusing on high-volume creation of in-game assets tailored to the needs of major gaming guilds in the Metaverse. By providing a custom API toolkit, BreederDAO enables developers to integrate player-driven economies into their games. The company's offerings include breeding and crafting mechanisms, which optimize asset traits to enhance in-game yields. This approach allows game developers to empower players to generate new assets or NFTs, thereby enriching the overall gaming experience and driving engagement in Play-To-Earn ecosystems.

Boto

Seed Round in 2021
Boto is a no-code automation platform founded in 2021 and based in Delaware City, USA. It enables both developers and non-developers to create and share automation solutions, particularly for activities related to cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other blockchain or decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. The platform features a user-friendly interface that allows users to build automation by dragging and dropping components, facilitating the creation of smart contracts using real-world input data and output actions. Boto aims to simplify the automation process, making it accessible to a broader audience.

Sound

Seed Round in 2021
Sound connects artists and listeners to take ownership over the culture they create together.

Palm NFT Studio

Series B in 2021
Palm NFT Studio is a collective of entertainment, technology, cryptoart and art industry leaders set up to on-ramp artists, creators and rights owners who want to establish NFT marketplaces and next-generation creative works on Palm.

SquiggleDAO

Venture Round in 2021
SquiggleDAO is a decentralized autonomous organization dedicated to promoting and supporting generative art projects, particularly those related to non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in the cryptocurrency space. The organization focuses on collecting Chromie Squiggles, a specific form of generative art, with the aim of enhancing their cultural significance and integrating them into the broader art community. By fostering awareness, usage, and ownership of these digital artworks, SquiggleDAO seeks to cultivate a vibrant future for generative, on-chain art. Through its initiatives, the organization aims to build a strong community around this innovative art form and elevate its status within the cultural landscape.

Solv Protocol

Series A in 2021
Solv Protocol is a decentralized platform focused on the creation, management, and trading of Financial NFTs, which represent fractionalized ownership of various financial assets. Its primary product, Vesting Vouchers, allows users to unlock liquidity from lock-up vesting tokens, facilitating fundraising, community building, and token liquidity management for cryptocurrency projects. The platform serves as an on-chain marketplace for a new category of crypto assets, enabling the establishment and transaction of investment allocations, including investment funds and debt and equity instruments. By issuing semi-fungible tokens, Solv Protocol provides blockchain institutions with essential access to liquidity, enhancing the efficiency and functionality of financial transactions in the digital asset space.

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.

nameless

Seed Round in 2021
StealthTest provides a comprehensive sandbox for battle-testing Web3 experiences within private, secure and isolated testing environments.

Immunefi

Seed Round in 2021
Immunefi is a security services platform specializing in bug bounty programs aimed at protecting cryptocurrency projects from vulnerabilities associated with Web3. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Singapore, the company offers a comprehensive solution that includes network hosting, bug triaging, and program management specifically tailored for blockchain technology. Immunefi's platform assists in reviewing smart contract code, disclosing vulnerabilities, and securing projects against malicious exploits and unforeseen attacks, thereby enhancing the overall safety and reliability of crypto initiatives.

DeHorizon

Venture Round in 2021
DeHorizon is a gaming platform that aims to enhance the gaming experience by integrating blockchain technology within a metaverse game ecosystem. This ecosystem supports the development and interconnection of various blockchain-based games, addressing the current limitations in the GameFi marketplace. By focusing on a "play to earn" model, DeHorizon enables players to earn cryptocurrency while enjoying their gaming experience, promoting both engagement and mastery. The company is positioned to be a key player in the evolving landscape of GameFi, which is still in its early stages, and seeks to drive further growth by creating a comprehensive environment for gamers and developers alike.

Tinyman

Seed Round in 2021
Tinyman is a decentralized trading protocol built on the Algorand blockchain, designed to facilitate a secure and open marketplace for traders, liquidity providers, and developers. It operates as a market maker, leveraging blockchain technology to provide a platform for users to trade and swap various assets, including tokens and currencies, at competitive market rates. By focusing on safety and efficiency, Tinyman aims to enhance the trading experience within the decentralized finance ecosystem.

Art Blocks

Venture Round in 2021
Art Blocks is a platform that empowers digital artists to create unique artworks through generative coding, leveraging the Ethereum blockchain for interaction. By allowing patrons to send funds to art installations, the platform generates distinct and repeatable artistic experiences, fostering engagement between artists and collectors. This innovative approach not only enhances the creation of contemporary generative art but also establishes a transparent revenue model for artists and those who host these projects. Through its focus on uniting artists, collectors, and blockchain technology, Art Blocks is reshaping the landscape of interactive art and providing new avenues for artistic expression and monetization.

Taker Protocol

Seed Round in 2021
Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The protocol optimizes the liquidation of NFT assets through a quote-by-lock-in pricing mechanism. This approach enables asset holders to borrow stablecoins while facilitating cross-chain bridges that connect different public blockchain networks. By enhancing the efficiency of asset transfers, Taker Protocol aims to broaden application scenarios for its clients, thereby improving the overall liquidity and usability of NFT assets in the market.

deBridge Finance

Seed Round in 2021
deBridge Finance is a cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol designed to facilitate the decentralized transfer of assets across multiple blockchains. The protocol operates through a network of independent oracles and validators, which are elected by deBridge governance, ensuring a secure and efficient transfer process. It supports interoperability between major blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Polygon, Binance Smart Chain, Huobi Ecological Chain, and Arbitrum. This infrastructure enables users to seamlessly access and transfer various digital assets, including NFTs, across different platforms, enhancing the overall flexibility and utility of blockchain technology.

Liquality

Seed Round in 2021
Liquality is a Brooklyn-based cryptocurrency provider that specializes in cross-chain atomic swap technology, allowing seamless transactions between Bitcoin, Ethereum, and DAI. The company offers a user-friendly web3 SDK designed for developers who may not have extensive knowledge of blockchain technology. This SDK simplifies the integration of wallets and web3 features into applications, enhancing user engagement without the complexities often associated with cryptocurrency, such as pop-up wallets or seed phrases. Liquality's platform aims to decentralize financial infrastructure by enabling developers to create cross-chain applications and facilitating a smoother in-browser transaction experience for merchants. This approach not only helps onboard users from different blockchains but also allows businesses to automate transaction workflows and reach new audiences. Overall, Liquality is focused on building an open infrastructure that leverages network effects driven by its users.

Ondo Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Ondo Finance is a developer of a cryptocurrency trading platform aimed at making decentralized finance accessible to a broader audience. The platform provides users with the flexibility to choose between downside protection and enhanced returns, catering to various risk tolerances. By offering these options, Ondo Finance enables individuals to participate in decentralized finance yields while aligning their investment strategies with their personal financial goals.

Thales

Seed Round in 2021
Thales is a synthetix ecosystem project building support for trading binary options.

ClayStack

Seed Round in 2021
ClayStack is a blockchain-agnostic staking protocol that provides a platform for users to engage in liquid staking of digital assets. By enabling the conversion of staked tokens into liquid staking derivative tokens, ClayStack allows users to maintain liquidity while participating in decentralized finance (DeFi) activities. This facilitates seamless staking of crypto assets, empowering traders to leverage their investments without sacrificing the opportunity to engage in other DeFi transactions. The protocol is designed to support a decentralized cross-chain experience, making it accessible for a diverse range of digital asset holders.

NFT Oasis

Series A in 2021
NFT Oasis is a platform that supports the decentralized creator economy, specifically catering to the NFT artist community. It offers a unique virtual space designed to enhance the experience for artists by providing tools for producing and mixing their work, as well as opportunities for sync licensing. The platform facilitates the promotion and exposure of artists' creations, allowing them to connect with a broader audience and thrive in the evolving digital landscape.

Zerion

Series A in 2021
Zerion Inc. is a blockchain software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in decentralized finance (DeFi), providing a platform that allows users to invest, earn interest, and borrow cryptocurrency assets. Zerion's primary offering is an investment app that aggregates data from major decentralized exchanges, enabling users to manage their digital assets from a single interface. The platform features real-time asset tracking with live price updates and instant notifications. Additionally, Zerion emphasizes a non-custodial approach, meaning users retain control of their funds and do not have to delegate them to the platform, thereby mitigating centralization risks. The company also offers CryptoTrader, an application designed to track the cryptocurrency market through charts, news, and alerts, further enhancing user engagement in the evolving financial landscape.

prePO

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Mycelium

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Mycelium is a technology company focused on enhancing financial markets through blockchain technology. It develops infrastructure for public blockchains that promotes openness and accessibility. The company specializes in data provision and financial smart contracts, with two primary offerings: Perpetual Swaps and Perpetual Pools. Mycelium's software facilitates the creation of leveraged tokens, enabling traders to manage portfolio risk and engage in long-term trading strategies within a decentralized finance environment. By leveraging blockchain capabilities, Mycelium aims to improve efficiency in global digital markets.

Impossible Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Impossible Finance is a developer of a crypto investment platform that aims to democratize access to financial products for all users, not just institutions or select individuals. By utilizing decentralized financial protocols, the company provides a range of services that empower traders with fair and accessible cryptocurrency opportunities. Its platform allows users to swap crypto tokens without the constraints of limited liquidity, ensuring a seamless trading experience. Through its innovative approach, Impossible Finance strives to level the playing field in the cryptocurrency market, enabling greater participation and access for all traders.

Zapper

Series A in 2021
Zapper is a financial technology platform that simplifies the management of decentralized finance (DeFi) assets through a user-friendly interface. It caters to both newcomers and experienced investors by offering streamlined access to DeFi lending, automated yield farming, and liquidity provision through its unique shortcuts known as Zaps. The platform enhances cryptocurrency asset management by leveraging the principles of open finance, allowing users to efficiently deploy and manage their buy and sell positions while actively participating in the DeFi ecosystem.

Gitcoin

Venture Round in 2021
Gitcoin, established in 2017 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, operates a platform that connects open-source developers with funding opportunities. The platform, built on the Ethereum network using Solidity, enables developers to monetize their work in various programming languages, including Python, Rust, Ruby, JavaScript, and Solidity. Gitcoin fosters a symbiotic relationship between developers, maintainers, and financiers, promoting the growth of open-source projects and the community. The company's grants management platform offers decentralized allocation infrastructure and smart contract-based funding mechanisms, facilitating efficient capital distribution and community-driven innovation within blockchain ecosystems.

ConsenSys

Convertible Note in 2021
ConsenSys, established in 2015 by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, is a leading Ethereum software company focused on Web3. It offers a suite of products, including Infura, Quorum, Truffle, Codefi, MetaMask, and Diligence, which serve millions of users and support billions of blockchain-based queries. ConsenSys enables developers and enterprises worldwide to build next-generation applications and access the decentralized web, fostering business adoption and growth of the Ethereum ecosystem. Additionally, ConsenSys Academy, its educational arm, bridges the Ethereum knowledge gap globally for ecosystem development.

Enso Finance

Venture Round in 2021
The world's first intent engine powering the intent-centric future. A layer-1 tendermint-based blockchain, storing state from EVM, SVM, and MVM chains to enable execution on all blockchain frameworks.

Overlay Foundation

Seed Round in 2021
Building Overlay, The Trade Everything Engine

Transak

Seed Round in 2021
Transak is a global provider of web3 payment and onboarding infrastructure, designed to facilitate smooth transitions between traditional finance and cryptocurrency assets. The company offers a range of products, including fiat-to-crypto services, a fiat-to-smart-contract solution, and a fiat-to-NFT checkout option. As a regulated and non-custodial payments layer, Transak enables onboarding to over 160 crypto assets across more than 75 blockchains. Its platform allows users to buy and sell crypto assets through bank transfers, settling transactions without taking custody of user data or funds. The integration of Transak's services is streamlined, allowing applications to incorporate its payment solutions with minimal coding. With over 350 trusted applications, including prominent wallets, Transak is committed to enhancing accessibility in the web3 landscape.

SubQuery

Seed Round in 2021
SubQuery is a data-as-a-service provider that focuses on making decentralized data more accessible, particularly from Polkadot projects. By aggregating and organizing data, SubQuery enables developers to easily access well-structured data, allowing them to concentrate on their core applications without the burden of creating custom backends for data processing. The platform facilitates the querying and extraction of data from the Polkadot network, streamlining workflows for development teams utilizing Substrate and Polkadot technologies. Inspired by the growing demand for efficient data protocols, SubQuery aims to enhance the development of decentralized applications (dApps) by ensuring that data can be reliably found and consumed quickly and cost-effectively.

NFTFi

Seed Round in 2021
NFTFi operates a peer-to-peer lending platform that allows NFT holders to leverage their digital assets as collateral for loans. By using NFTs, users can borrow cryptocurrency from lenders, providing liquidity without the need to sell their valuable assets. When a loan is accepted, the NFT is placed in a secure escrow smart contract, and the borrower receives the agreed-upon cryptocurrency directly in their wallet. This model draws on traditional practices from the art world, where collateralized loans are commonly offered by banks and auction houses to artists based on the value of their artworks. NFTFi thus creates a marketplace that facilitates financial transactions for NFT owners, enhancing the utility of their digital assets.

Async Art

Seed Round in 2021
Async Art operates an innovative online platform that connects artists and collectors, enabling them to buy, sell, and trade programmable art on the Ethereum blockchain. Founded in 2019 and based in Fort Bragg, California, Async Art allows users to create and engage with multi-layer artworks. Each artwork consists of a Master piece and various Layers, which can be independently owned and controlled by different individuals. This unique structure empowers users to actively participate in the evolution of the art, as they can modify their respective Layers within parameters set by the original artist. For example, one user may control the sky in a landscape painting while another owns a character, allowing for dynamic collaboration and interaction in the creative process. This platform represents a new frontier in the art world, merging technology and creativity in the 21st century.

Armor

Venture Round in 2021
Armor develops a dynamic cover brokerage protocol for decentralized finance to serve cryptocurrency investors. Founded in 2021, Armor is a DeFi coverage aggregator that makes securing your DeFi assets against hacks as easy as possible. Ease wants to make DeFi as easy and safe as possible. They aim to cover every dollar in DeFi so that users can finally feel at ease.

Parcel

Seed Round in 2021
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.

Maple Finance

Seed Round in 2020
Maple Finance operates a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace that connects institutions seeking loans with liquidity pools funded by the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. The platform employs a peer-to-pool model, allowing experienced investors to manage these liquidity pools while providing borrowers, such as crypto corporates, market makers, exchanges, and miners, with access to tailored loans. By facilitating this process, Maple Finance enables institutions to efficiently secure capital while offering investors the opportunity to participate in a diversified and high-yielding portfolio of corporate and institutional loans.

Push Protocol

Seed Round in 2020
Push Protocol is a decentralized communication platform designed for the web3 ecosystem, enabling users to receive notifications related to both on-chain and off-chain activities. The protocol facilitates notifications from various decentralized applications (dApps), smart contracts, and backend services, all linked to users' wallet addresses. This allows for a flexible and open communication network where notifications can be triggered by diverse on-chain or off-chain logic. Push Protocol operates in a gasless, multichain, and platform-agnostic manner, ensuring that any crypto wallet or infrastructure service can display these notifications to users. By leveraging this system, users can engage with notifications and potentially earn cryptocurrency rewards through their interactions.

PoolTogether

Seed Round in 2020
PoolTogether Inc. operates an Ethereum-based application that combines saving money with a gamified experience. Founded in 2019 and based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, PoolTogether features a no-loss savings game where users deposit funds that earn interest through a compound protocol. At the end of each week, participants have the chance to win the collective interest accrued, while all users can withdraw their initial deposits without any loss. This innovative platform leverages smart contracts to ensure transparency and fairness, allowing users to save money without the risks associated with traditional lotteries. By utilizing blockchain technology, PoolTogether aims to make saving accessible and engaging for its users.

Unique Network

Seed Round in 2020
Unique Network, established in 2019 and headquartered in Gibraltar, is a venture capital firm specializing in investments within the blockchain infrastructure sector, specifically focusing on companies developing non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

Gelato

Seed Round in 2020
Gelato is web3’s cloud platform empowering builders to deploy their own Ethereum Rollups with a single-click. Designed to be super-fast, incredibly secure, and infinitely scalable, Gelato rollups allow anyone to build and deploy their fully serviced Layer 2 chains on Arbitrum, Optimism, Polygon, Celestia and Eigenlayer at a pace natively integrated with Web3's favorite tools and services like Gelato's industry leading smart contract automation & relaying services, Etherscan, The Graph, Pyth, Layer Zero and many more launching a production-ready web3 development environment.

Zapper

Seed Round in 2020
Zapper is a financial technology platform that simplifies the management of decentralized finance (DeFi) assets through a user-friendly interface. It caters to both newcomers and experienced investors by offering streamlined access to DeFi lending, automated yield farming, and liquidity provision through its unique shortcuts known as Zaps. The platform enhances cryptocurrency asset management by leveraging the principles of open finance, allowing users to efficiently deploy and manage their buy and sell positions while actively participating in the DeFi ecosystem.

Roll

Seed Round in 2020
Roll operates a blockchain infrastructure designed for social money, enabling users to mint branded digital tokens that are unique to their online presence. By utilizing the Ethereum blockchain, Roll allows artists and influencers to earn and redeem social money, incentivizing community contributions and facilitating the ownership, control, and coordination of the value they generate across various platforms. This innovative approach empowers users to harness their influence and creativity, fostering a new economy based on social interactions and contributions.
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