TRGC is a venture capital firm established in 2018 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The firm focuses on investing in digital assets, blockchain technologies, and companies related to these sectors. With a commitment to enhancing the global financial system, TRGC aims to support visionary teams and promising projects within the emerging technologies landscape. By leveraging its deep understanding of the ecosystem and extensive industry connections, TRGC efficiently allocates capital to foster the next generation of innovators in blockchain, Web3, and decentralized finance (DeFi).
Warlock Labs specializes in developing an omni-chain liquidation engine that enhances the safety and profitability of decentralized protocols. By recapturing maximum extractable value, the company's technology systematically removes intermediaries from the liquidation process. This approach allows miners to improve safety and efficiency while also increasing user retention and engagement with the protocols. Warlock Labs' innovative solutions aim to optimize the performance of decentralized finance applications, making them more secure and effective for users.
KRNL Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2024
KRNL Labs is a decentralized infrastructure protocol that makes smart contracts and develops an open, multichain software registry for the Web3 ecosystem. That allows developers to build dApps that can leverage multiple blockchains simultaneously.
Apex Fusion
Funding Round in 2024
Apex Fusion uses cutting-edge technology to connect segregated UTXO and account-based networks, unlocking blockchain's full potential by allowing for seamless asset movement and growth across various yet unified protocols.
Hemi Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Hemi Labs is a developer of a modular blockchain network that enhances the capabilities of Bitcoin and Ethereum by integrating them into a unified supernetwork. This innovative approach facilitates improved interoperability and scaling, enabling users to transfer assets seamlessly between the two leading blockchain platforms. Hemi Labs emphasizes security through a concept known as "superfinality," which is designed to surpass the security standards of Bitcoin. The company also focuses on increasing blockchain programmability and cross-chain portability, offering new opportunities for developers and users alike. Co-founded by Jeff Garzik, a former Bitcoin core developer, and Max Sanchez, the inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol, Hemi Labs is supported by a team of experienced blockchain engineers and strategic partners.
Param Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Param Labs is a development studio focused on creating a modular, interconnected Web3 gaming ecosystem that includes both games and the necessary infrastructure. It specializes in the development of multiplayer blockchain games, offering high-quality gaming experiences characterized by AAA design. The studio aims to enhance the gaming landscape by integrating player-owned digital assets, allowing gamers to have ownership of in-game items and assets. Through its innovative approach, Param Labs seeks to redefine the relationship between players and digital gaming environments.
Humanity Protocol
Seed Round in 2024
Humanity Protocol is developing Proof of Humanity, a novel feature designed to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms and give users complete ownership over their data and identity.
Usual
Venture Round in 2024
The new playbook for financial freedom.
Centrifuge
Series A in 2024
Centrifuge Inc. is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Berlin, Centrifuge offers a peer-to-peer protocol that facilitates the secure and privacy-preserving exchange of financial documents. This platform allows businesses to tokenize, manage, and distribute their assets on-chain, providing asset managers with new tools and investors with access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets. By enabling third-party service providers to interact with financial data, Centrifuge fosters economic opportunity and promotes efficient transactions while ensuring that businesses retain ownership of their data and validated company details.
peaq
Series A in 2024
peaq is a pioneering company in the blockchain sector, focused on creating a decentralized infrastructure for various real-world applications, known as DePINs. It operates a layer-1 blockchain that supports over 25 applications across 11 different industries, facilitating the connection of more than 500,000 devices, vehicles, machines, and robots. By offering a permissionless and borderless platform, peaq aims to democratize access to mobility, energy, connectivity, environment, agriculture, and digital infrastructure, ensuring that the benefits of advanced technologies reach a broader audience. The company's in-house developed blockchain hybrid technology operates under a software-as-a-service model, allowing large organizations to enhance efficiency by reducing costs, automating processes, and improving the security and speed of their systems. Through its innovative solutions, peaq is positioned to play a critical role in the evolving landscape of intelligent machines and the digital economy.
Lumino
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup focused on democratizing access to artificial intelligence for individuals and organizations. It has developed a platform designed to enhance cloud computing processes by streamlining the AI training process. This platform facilitates model development and ensures accountability within production systems. By doing so, Lumino aims to help clients reduce the costs associated with machine learning training while effectively developing and training AI models.
D2X Group
Series A in 2024
D2X Group is establishing a regulated cryptocurrency derivatives exchange based in the Netherlands, operating seven days a week. The exchange offers a range of cash-settled futures and options for Bitcoin and Ethereum, catering specifically to institutional investors. D2X Group employs a distinctive post-trade model that provides a capital-efficient alternative to central clearing, thereby enhancing the accessibility of digital assets for financial institutions. By adopting a regulatory-first approach, D2X aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the emerging digital asset market, helping institutions manage operational and regulatory risks while facilitating their entry into this evolving asset class. The company is supported by notable strategic investors, reflecting its commitment to fostering institutional adoption of cryptocurrency derivatives.
Syntropy
Seed Round in 2024
Syntropy is transforming the public internet into a secure and user-centric internet through a unifying layer where the encryption and optimized performance are built-in and automatically enabled for anything and everything connected to it.
Agnostic
Seed Round in 2024
Agnostic is a developer of a blockchain data cloud platform that simplifies access to blockchain information. The platform is designed to facilitate app development and analytics, enabling businesses to efficiently deliver essential blockchain data to their customers, DevOps teams, and executives. By removing layers of complexity, Agnostic allows organizations to query data from EVM-compatible blockchains at scale, enhancing their ability to leverage smart contract information effectively.
Talus Network
Seed Round in 2024
Talus Network is an innovative blockchain platform that aims to decentralize artificial intelligence.
AltLayer
Series A in 2024
AltLayer is a developer of a rollups-as-a-service platform focused on enhancing Web3 projects. The company offers a scalable application-dedicated execution layer system that derives security from underlying blockchain infrastructure. By providing an elastic and versatile scaling protocol, AltLayer aims to transform blockchain deployment, significantly improving time-to-market and allowing for customized application deployment. The platform enables users to utilize on-demand rollups, thereby benefiting from a flexible and scalable infrastructure tailored to their specific application needs.
LunarCrush
Series A in 2023
LunarCrush Inc. is a technology company that develops a platform focused on cryptocurrency analysis and market insights. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, LunarCrush employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide real-time data and insights for investors, exchanges, and funds. The platform simplifies crypto investing by offering tools that enhance research capabilities, incorporating social data to create informative dashboards. Additionally, LunarCrush provides APIs for real-time updates and trading charts, helping traders make informed decisions regarding buying, selling, or holding cryptocurrencies. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to support the cryptocurrency community and facilitate data-driven trading strategies.
Shardeum
Venture Round in 2023
Shardeum is a decentralized blockchain platform that focuses on enhancing transaction speed and efficiency through a technique known as sharding. By partitioning the network into multiple shards, Shardeum enables the processing, verification, and validation of transactions in parallel, which significantly increases the number of transactions per second as more nodes are added to the network. This innovative approach ensures that transaction costs remain low while maintaining a high level of security and true decentralization. Shardeum's linearly scalable architecture allows it to adapt to growing demand, making it an attractive solution for organizations that prioritize scalability, security, and decentralization in their blockchain applications.
Ryodan Systems
Seed Round in 2023
Ryodan Systems develops zkRollup to construct an infrastructure based on Ethereum encryption technology, achieving almost no gas costs and data sovereignty.
Massa
Venture Round in 2023
Massa operates a decentralized blockchain cryptocurrency ecosystem aimed at achieving mass adoption. The company focuses on addressing the challenges of scalability, decentralization, and security within its platform. It offers services such as cryptocurrency payments and smart contract development, along with a planned coin distribution model that empowers the community and enhances database security. By utilizing multithreaded technology, Massa enables clients to benefit from improved transaction efficiency and control over their digital assets.
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.
EigenLabs
Series A in 2023
EigenLabs is a blockchain infrastructure startup that enables the restaking of ETH across various decentralized applications. They also provide developers with access to the Ethereum staked capital base and decentralized validator set. Traditionally, staking requires validators to lock up ETH as a security deposit to engage in the network's consensus mechanism, earning rewards for contributing to network security and validating transactions. However, once ETH is staked, it is generally immobilized until withdrawn, restricting validators from utilizing these assets elsewhere. EigenLayer aims to tackle this challenge by allowing staked ETH to be restaked across diverse decentralized applications and services without removing it from the original consensus mechanism.
Sumi Network
Venture Round in 2023
Sumi Network operates in the blockchain, cryptocurrency, and virtual-currency industries. The company offers a decentralized storage system known as Sumi SILK (Storage Integrated Learning Knowledgebase), which converts data into efficient vector database files, facilitating faster searches. Additionally, Sumi Network provides a wallet-to-wallet messenger service, Sumi, which enables effective and powerful communication in the Web3 environment. The company also offers products like Sumi Notes and Storage, contributing to the blockchain service sector.
Evertas
Series A in 2022
Evertas is a crypto insurance company that specializes in providing regulated insurance and risk mitigation solutions for crypto assets. The company targets institutional holders, including exchanges, custodians, traditional financial institutions, funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. Evertas offers a comprehensive underwriting framework along with a tailored policy form and claims handling services. Additionally, the company provides compliance and audit services, risk assessments, incident management, and asset recovery to help businesses secure their crypto assets and minimize transaction risks.
Fuel Labs
Venture Round in 2022
Fuel Labs is a global decentralized group of passionate developers building the future of blockchain scalability technology. As the leader in blockchain scaling innovation, its engineers created the optimistic rollup design paradigm and have contributed to advancing the frontier of rollup, blockchain virtual machine, and safe smart contract programming language research.
Agnostic
Seed Round in 2022
Agnostic is a developer of a blockchain data cloud platform that simplifies access to blockchain information. The platform is designed to facilitate app development and analytics, enabling businesses to efficiently deliver essential blockchain data to their customers, DevOps teams, and executives. By removing layers of complexity, Agnostic allows organizations to query data from EVM-compatible blockchains at scale, enhancing their ability to leverage smart contract information effectively.
RedStone
Seed Round in 2022
RedStone is a next-generation cross-chain data oracle that specializes in providing pricing data for financial protocols. The company develops modular oracles that deliver data feeds compatible with both layer 1 and layer 2 blockchains, including rollups-as-a-service (RaaS) solutions. RedStone's offerings include liquid staking tokens and liquid restaking tokens, as well as an online decentralized finance platform designed to utilize blockchain's permanent storage capabilities. This platform supports cross-chain data services while ensuring an audit trail, which enhances transparency and reliability. Additionally, RedStone enables decentralized finance providers to implement automatic dispute mechanisms, bolstered by insurance through staking, thereby facilitating more secure and efficient transactions.
Tenderize
Seed Round in 2022
Tenderize is a web3 platform specializing in liquid staking, which allows users to stake their tokens and earn rewards without the constraints of unstacking periods. By depositing tokens into the Tenderize protocol, users can enjoy a straightforward staking experience, with the protocol managing delegations on their behalf. This enables them to unlock their staked assets promptly, avoiding lengthy waiting times. Additionally, through TenderSwap liquidity pools, users can seamlessly exchange TenderTokens for their underlying assets. The platform also serves as a yield aggregator, facilitating automated staking rewards and allowing users to leverage their staked tokens for various financial activities, such as collateralizing loans and trading, while continuously compounding their rewards.
Gasp
Venture Round in 2022
A ZK-rollup L2 with universal connectivity to L1s, enabling cross-chain liquidity of native assets. Powered by Starkware zero-knowledge technology and Eigenlayer's restake finality. In it's core, MEV minimization and gas-free swaps are out of the box.
Mintbase
Series A in 2022
Minting NFT assets for real worlds value
Push Protocol
Series A in 2022
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.
metameet
Seed Round in 2022
At FRUSS, we want to set a new standard for online meetings and social experiences. We believe that virtual online experiences should be fun and engaging, not boring and networking and socializing should feel as natural as it does in person. We believe that future of online virtual experiences is hybrid, allowing both virtual and in person attendees to seamlessly engage and mingle, making travel a choice, not a requirement. How we make it happen? By combining all available virtual engagement technologies (videoconferencing, instant messaging, webcasting, AI robo-advisors, VR experiences, collaborative online gaming) into one single easy to use and device agnostic platform for purposes of humans sharing knowledge with, connecting with and doing business with other humans.
Onramper
Seed Round in 2022
Onramper specializes in fiat-to-crypto onramp technology, allowing users to purchase cryptocurrency with fiat directly through websites or apps. The company integrates major fiat gateways into a single, decentralized solution, enabling businesses to access a wide range of payment methods, cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies. This comprehensive approach not only facilitates global coverage but also allows clients to earn fees on each user transaction. By providing a streamlined method for connecting users with services that convert fiat to crypto, Onramper enhances the accessibility and efficiency of cryptocurrency purchases for both businesses and consumers.
aleph.im
Venture Round in 2022
Aleph.im is a distributed cloud platform that offers serverless computing services, file storage, and database hosting. It is designed to securely access trusted off-chain data and computation through its blockchain-enabled application. The platform is open-source and operates on a decentralized network, allowing users to manage data storage and business logic without reliance on centralized services. Aleph.im enables customers to utilize a single identity, controlled by a single wallet, to read and write data across various supported blockchain networks.
ICHI
Seed Round in 2022
ICHI is a Japan-based company that develops a stable currency and economic stimulus platform aimed at enhancing cryptocurrency projects. Its software allows for the creation and management of in-house, non-custodial tokens, which are designed to maintain price stability through the scarcity of member coins. This functionality supports cryptocurrency communities by enabling them to conduct transactions for goods and services, manage expenses and taxes, and gain exposure to U.S. dollars within decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. Through its innovative approach, ICHI seeks to empower users and foster sustainable economic ecosystems within the cryptocurrency landscape.
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.
Zeitgeist PM
Seed Round in 2021
Zeitgeist PM is a company that operates an open prediction market platform leveraging blockchain technology. It specializes in decentralized, on-chain prediction markets tailored for the innovative governance model known as futarchy. The platform enables businesses to effectively utilize aggregated decision-making signals from data, facilitating informed choices based on collective insights. Through its focus on prediction markets, Zeitgeist PM aims to enhance the decision-making process by providing a reliable framework for forecasting outcomes in various scenarios.
Web3API
Seed Round in 2021
Web3API is a company that develops a toolchain to facilitate the integration of Web3 protocols into various applications. It aims to make Web3 as accessible and user-friendly as traditional web services, enabling developers to conduct GraphQL requests within their apps and download lightweight WebAssembly modules from IPFS at runtime. This toolchain is designed to enhance the developer experience and support multiple platforms, addressing the challenge of integrating Web3 protocols.
Waggle
Seed Round in 2021
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.
Redstone
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Redstone specializes in Intelligent Infrastructure Management (IIM) solutions, helping organizations implement effective infrastructure strategies while ensuring compliance with regulatory frameworks such as ITIL, MiFID, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Basel II. With over 4 million IIM ports implemented in the UK, Redstone is a leader in the rapidly expanding IIM sector. The company is unique in its ability to implement all major IIM systems and offers a full range of development services through its in-house software team. This integration facilitates end-to-end visibility of both physical and logical network components, enabling clients to meet their specific IIM requirements. Redstone's project and service delivery expertise ensures comprehensive support throughout the implementation process.
Stake Technologies
Initial Coin Offering in 2021
Stake Technologies is a company focused on developing essential decentralized protocols for Web3.0. Its primary objective is to create infrastructure that enables individuals to maintain ownership of their data, rights, and overall digital autonomy. The firm provides a multi-virtual machine smart contract platform, which assists businesses in implementing blockchain solutions that address scalability challenges. By offering systems that enhance scalability, privacy, and interoperability, Stake Technologies aims to support enterprises in effectively integrating advanced technologies into their operations.
Unbound Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Unbound Finance operates a decentralized finance platform that specializes in unlocking liquidity from automated market-making pools. By allowing users to utilize liquidity pool tokens as collateral, the platform enables the minting of synthetic assets while offering a debt-free liquidity provision system. This approach facilitates the compounding of earnings from liquidity pool tokens, enhancing the ability of users to access liquidity across various platforms. Unbound Finance serves as a treasury for these tokens, streamlining the process of unlocking capital tied up in existing liquidity pools.
Deep DAO
Seed Round in 2021
DeepDAO is a data analytics platform focused on decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). It offers extensive analytics and information gathering, presenting a main dashboard that enumerates and ranks DAOs based on key metrics such as membership and assets under management. The platform enhances discoverability and provides comprehensive insights into decentralized governance systems, enabling clients to conduct thorough research. By aggregating relevant data, DeepDAO serves as a valuable resource for those interested in understanding and navigating the landscape of DAOs.
Pocket Network
Seed Round in 2021
Pocket Network is a developer of decentralized infrastructure aimed at facilitating blockchain application development. The company's platform enables users to connect their applications to various blockchains by directing them to a node that manages requests across the protocol. This infrastructure not only streamlines the integration process but also allows developers to create custom plugins, thereby saving time and resources while acquiring knowledge and implementing blockchain technology.
LunarCrush
Seed Round in 2021
LunarCrush Inc. is a technology company that develops a platform focused on cryptocurrency analysis and market insights. Established in 2018 and headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, LunarCrush employs artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide real-time data and insights for investors, exchanges, and funds. The platform simplifies crypto investing by offering tools that enhance research capabilities, incorporating social data to create informative dashboards. Additionally, LunarCrush provides APIs for real-time updates and trading charts, helping traders make informed decisions regarding buying, selling, or holding cryptocurrencies. Through its innovative solutions, the company aims to support the cryptocurrency community and facilitate data-driven trading strategies.
BENQI Corpo
Funding Round in 2021
Developed by an experienced team of blockchain designers, BENQI is a protocol to unlock greater liquidity within the defi market. BENQI enables defi users to make their assets work harder to generate additional yield. Built on Avalanche’s high speed smart contract network, BENQI will evolve into a cross-chain defi hub that’s positioned at the heart of decentralized finance.
Benqi
Private Equity Round in 2021
BENQi is a developer of a decentralized finance (DeFi) liquidity protocol built on the Avalanche blockchain. The company focuses on creating a seamless platform for lending, borrowing, and earning interest on digital assets. By combining elements of traditional finance and decentralized finance, BENQi aims to democratize access to financial products, offering permissionless lending and borrowing options. The protocol is designed to be highly scalable and user-friendly, with an emphasis on low fees. Additionally, BENQi seeks to bridge multiple blockchain ecosystems, including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain, through Avalanche's subnets, positioning itself as a cross-chain DeFi solution that enhances liquidity and accessibility in the digital asset space.
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.
Swing.xyz
Seed Round in 2021
Swing.xyz is a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that facilitates the exchange of crypto assets across multiple layer one and two blockchains. The platform is designed for developers, providing tools to create cross-chain experiences through smart contracts, relayers, and bridges. By intelligently routing assets across various decentralized exchanges and aggregators, Swing.xyz aggregates liquidity across different networks, ensuring that traders can access the liquidity they need for a wide variety of crypto assets. This approach enhances cross-chain communication and captures value for traders, making it easier to conduct transactions in a diverse asset landscape.
Boson Protocol
Funding Round in 2021
Boson Protocol is a decentralized network facilitating metaverse commerce. It enables the sale of physical products in the metaverse as NFTs via its Decentraland space, Boson Portal. The protocol aims to disrupt traditional e-commerce by minimizing intermediaries, reducing fees, and democratizing commerce through a stack of specialized applications starting in the metaverse. Unlike centralized platforms, Boson Protocol is owned by its participants, sharing value created among them.
ETHA
Seed Round in 2021
ETHA Labs is a community-driven incubator focused on fostering DeFi projects to promote mass adoption by reducing entry barriers for both institutional and retail users. The ecosystem consists of two main segments: ETHA Lab (Build), which develops essential infrastructure and tools for DeFi, and ETHA Lab (Incubate), which encourages innovation in external DAO-based DeFi initiatives. Additionally, ETHA operates as a protocol-agnostic yield optimizer, utilizing Ethereum and Polkadot technologies to streamline access to optimal yields across various platforms. A key component of the platform, ETHA Lend, aims to maximize returns from DeFi liquidity pools while supporting a wide array of digital assets. Overall, ETHA seeks to simplify the complexities associated with DeFi investments, and its ecosystem is powered by the ETHA token, which plays a crucial role in governance and operational functions.
Gasp
Seed Round in 2021
A ZK-rollup L2 with universal connectivity to L1s, enabling cross-chain liquidity of native assets. Powered by Starkware zero-knowledge technology and Eigenlayer's restake finality. In it's core, MEV minimization and gas-free swaps are out of the box.
DeFi Wizard
Seed Round in 2021
DeFi Wizard is a decentralized finance platform that provides a user-friendly dashboard for creating smart contracts with minimal effort. It enables users to build contracts for various applications, including staking, yield farming, governance, and cross-chain bridges. The platform offers real-time analytics for developers, enhancing their ability to monitor performance and make informed decisions. Additionally, DeFi Wizard supports the creation of bi-directional bridges, vesting contracts, and token claiming dashboards, which facilitate efficient management of digital assets. By simplifying the process of smart contract creation and providing essential tools for monitoring and analytics, DeFi Wizard caters to both individual developers and larger projects in the evolving landscape of decentralized finance.
ChainGuardians
Funding Round in 2021
ChainGuardians is a player-driven platform that merges traditional gaming concepts with blockchain technology, utilizing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) within its ecosystem. The company offers an anime-themed battle game designed for entertainment, and supports multiple blockchain networks, allowing for greater accessibility and flexibility. Players can engage in a free-to-play NFT Mining platform and a role-playing game, where they can convert their time and efforts into real rewards. By incorporating these elements, ChainGuardians creates a unique gaming experience that empowers players and leverages the benefits of blockchain.
CERE Network
Venture Round in 2021
CERE Network is a blockchain-based customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem focused on data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company provides a platform that extracts customer data from various CRM and customer data systems. This platform facilitates an open micro-services environment for businesses and vendors to collaborate and integrate their data effectively. By capturing the entire customer journey on the blockchain, CERE Network ensures that crucial user information, including purchases and achievements, is securely stored in user wallets. Additionally, the ecosystem incorporates tokens that enable users to pay for services within the platform.
Biconomy
Seed Round in 2021
Biconomy is a developer of a multichain relayer protocol that aims to enhance the transaction experience in the blockchain ecosystem. By offering a simplified onboarding process for Web3 projects, Biconomy provides a non-custodial, gas-efficient infrastructure that facilitates meta-transactions at scale. The company's platform includes a software development kit (SDK) and a dashboard that help abstract the complexities associated with blockchain interactions, such as managing wallets, storing private keys, and handling gas fees. This innovative approach allows developers to create smoother and more seamless interactions between decentralized applications (DApps) and their users, ultimately reducing friction and enhancing accessibility in the blockchain space.
Web3API
Seed Round in 2020
Web3API is a company that develops a toolchain to facilitate the integration of Web3 protocols into various applications. It aims to make Web3 as accessible and user-friendly as traditional web services, enabling developers to conduct GraphQL requests within their apps and download lightweight WebAssembly modules from IPFS at runtime. This toolchain is designed to enhance the developer experience and support multiple platforms, addressing the challenge of integrating Web3 protocols.
Razor Network
Seed Round in 2020
Razor Network is a decentralized oracle network that provides essential data to smart contracts without relying on centralized servers. By automating the process of fetching external data, Razor enhances the efficiency of decentralized applications and mitigates risks related to disputes and censorship. Currently operational on the Rinkeby test network, Razor enables users to query the price of ETH/USD at no cost. This approach allows developers to build and operate applications with greater reliability and security, addressing common challenges associated with centralized data sources.
XEND Finance
Funding Round in 2020
Xend Finance is a decentralized finance platform based in Nigeria that caters to credit unions and cooperatives. The company operates as a global crypto bank, providing users with the ability to earn interest on their savings, offering rates of up to 15%. Its innovative platform allows members to exchange crypto or fiat currency for stable cryptocurrencies and stake them to earn interest. Xend Finance features a Cross-Chain High Yield Aggregator, which is designed to automatically identify and secure the highest yields across various blockchain networks. Additionally, the company has developed an online bill payment application that enables users to send money, pay bills, and manage transactions, even without internet access, thereby facilitating both online and offline payments with no fees. Through its comprehensive suite of services, Xend Finance aims to enhance financial accessibility and efficiency for its users.
Centrifuge
Seed Round in 2020
Centrifuge Inc. is a technology company that develops a decentralized blockchain-based platform aimed at enhancing the global financial supply chain. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, with an additional office in Berlin, Centrifuge offers a peer-to-peer protocol that facilitates the secure and privacy-preserving exchange of financial documents. This platform allows businesses to tokenize, manage, and distribute their assets on-chain, providing asset managers with new tools and investors with access to a diversified portfolio of high-quality tokenized assets. By enabling third-party service providers to interact with financial data, Centrifuge fosters economic opportunity and promotes efficient transactions while ensuring that businesses retain ownership of their data and validated company details.
Reef Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Reef Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that operates on the Polkadot network, focusing on cross-chain functionality. Established in 2019 by CEO Denko Mancheski, the platform provides a liquidity aggregator and yield engine that facilitates trading with access to liquidity from both centralized exchanges (CEXes) and decentralized exchanges (DEXes). It offers services such as smart lending, borrowing, staking, and mining, all powered by an artificial intelligence-driven personalized yield engine. Reef Finance was notably the first project launched on Binance Launchpool, emphasizing its innovative approach within the DeFi landscape. The company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.
Frontier
Seed Round in 2020
Frontier is a web wallet that offers security services for managing NFT collections, cryptocurrency, and decentralized finance (DeFi). The company has developed a decentralized finance aggregation platform that connects users with essential DeFi tools across various blockchain platforms. This platform facilitates protocol tracking and management, staking, asset swapping at competitive rates, liquidity provision, and the creation and monitoring of collateralized debt positions (CDPs). Frontier aims to enhance user experience and accessibility in the rapidly evolving landscape of decentralized finance.
Persistence
Funding Round in 2020
Persistence is a company that develops a user-facing application aimed at facilitating the borrowing of crypto assets, specifically stablecoins, by using real-world assets, such as invoices, as collateral. By bridging decentralized finance and traditional finance, Persistence addresses real-world financing challenges and enhances liquidity for users. The application focuses on improving the speed and efficiency of cross-border trade and financing, thereby helping to close the financing gap. Through its innovative approach, Persistence leverages the benefits of decentralized finance to offer a seamless exchange of value, catering to the needs of both crypto investors and lenders.
Sifchain
Seed Round in 2020
Sifchain is an innovative omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) designed to enhance liquidity across multiple blockchain networks, thereby reducing excessive fees and improving trade efficiency. Built on the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK), Sifchain ensures compatibility with various Cosmos Network blockchains, facilitating seamless transactions through the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. The platform combines the advantages of liquidity pools and order books, allowing for optimal order execution in trading. By focusing on cross-chain liquidity, Sifchain aims to play a pivotal role in the future of the blockchain industry, positioning itself to meet the evolving needs of decentralized finance.
KiraCore
Private Equity Round in 2020
KIRA is a financial hub connecting decentralized Web3 applications. As an integral part of the Web3 stack KIRA enables value settlement between dApps and largest interconnected networks in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Thanks to uncapped value at stake originating from both real world and interchain space KIRA provides secure Layer 1 platform for deploying decentralized applications and issuing digital assets.
DIA
Funding Round in 2020
DIA operates as a decentralized data and oracle platform tailored for the Web3 environment. It facilitates the crowd-sourcing, validation, and dissemination of transparent and verified data feeds, which include asset prices and metaverse information. By aggregating data from multiple on-chain and off-chain sources at a granular trade level, DIA ensures that developers can access reliable information across various layer 1 and layer 2 networks. The platform effectively connects data analysts, providers, and users, serving as a trustworthy conduit between off-chain data and on-chain smart contracts. This functionality empowers clients with open-source access to crowd-verified financial data, fostering a fair and equitable financial ecosystem.
Covalent
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Covalent is the leading modular data infrastructure layer dedicated to solving major challenges in blockchain and AI, including verifiability, decentralized AI inference, and Long-Term Data Availability. Its large reservoir of structured, verifiable data enhances decentralized training and inference, reducing the risk of manipulated or biased AI models. Additionally, the Covalent Network's Ethereum Wayback Machine ensures secure, decentralized access to Ethereum’s transaction data. Trusted by over 3,000 leading organizations, Covalent powers AI, DeFi, GameFi, and more with unfettered access to on-chain data from over 225 blockchains. Learn about the EWM: Technical | Non-Technical For more information, check out Covalent’s: Official Website | Twitter/X | Linktree
StakerDAO
Series A in 2020
StakerDAO is a platform focused on the decentralized, secure, and compliant governance of financial assets. Established in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, StakerDAO develops various products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. The platform features STKR, a governance token that enables holders to submit proposals and elect members of the Staker Council, thereby participating in decision-making processes. Additionally, StakerDAO offers BLND, a synthetic token designed to track a basket of proof-of-stake tokens. The governance framework is supported by the Staker Agora process, which allows users to contribute ideas and engage in discussions about project development. With a commitment to decentralized finance, StakerDAO's protocol provides a trustless method for bi-directional token transfers across different blockchain networks, facilitating broader access to financial services.
Shyft
Corporate Round in 2019
Shyft Network Inc, founded in 2017 and based in Barbados, operates a blockchain-based digital identity network aimed at enhancing regulatory compliance and data security. As a subsidiary of Bitfury USA, Inc., Shyft focuses on aggregating existing protocols to create a standardized approach to anti-money laundering verification. The network offers robust data protection and features such as a bridge watcher system to detect and deter threats. It provides users with granular control over their information, allowing them to decide what data to share, with whom, and for what purposes. Shyft also facilitates incentivized data exchange, enabling businesses to improve personal information security while accessing valuable compliance-satisfying data.
Kava Labs
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Kava Labs Inc. is a provider of interledger solutions, focusing on enhancing the interoperability of blockchains, wallets, and exchanges. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Kava operates a decentralized platform that offers a comprehensive range of financial services tailored for cryptocurrencies. As digital assets gain wider acceptance, Kava aims to fill the gap in traditional financial offerings by providing products such as money markets, loans, stablecoins, and high-yield accounts for crypto assets. By leveraging autonomous software, Kava's platform eliminates the need for intermediaries, allowing users globally to access financial services without incurring additional fees. This approach enables users to optimize their digital assets and generate returns in an evolving financial landscape.
Raven Protocol
Initial Coin Offering in 2019
Raven Protocol is a decentralized platform designed for the efficient training of deep neural networks. By harnessing idle computing resources from a network of nodes, it offers a cost-effective solution that accelerates the training process for artificial intelligence models. The protocol facilitates a distributed approach to deep learning, allowing users to leverage available compute power while minimizing costs associated with traditional training methods. This innovative model aims to enhance the accessibility and effectiveness of AI training, catering to the growing demand for advanced machine learning capabilities.
Alphaslot
Corporate Round in 2018
Alphaslot is a blockchain ecosystem focused on enhancing gaming entertainment and acquiring new players through innovative technology. The company leverages a tokenized motivation system to incentivize customer engagement, fostering growth in the gaming entertainment sector. Its distributed blockchain-based computing platform supports commercial-scale gaming applications and facilitates the connection of multiple blockchains, thereby broadening user access. Alphaslot allows gaming operators and the entertainment industry to utilize their servers as validators, which secures operations within the Alphaslot Chain. Additionally, the platform aims to apply the token economy and will gradually expand into the management and regulation of the digital asset market, enabling casinos to attract a wider global audience.
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