Warlock Labs
Seed Round in 2025
Warlock Labs develops a decentralized trading infrastructure that enhances the profitability and safety of blockchain protocols by maximizing Miner Extractable Value (MEV) recapture and redistribution.
KRNL Labs
Pre Seed Round in 2024
KRNL Labs operates a decentralized, node-based platform that enables developers to build and deploy smart contracts across multiple blockchains simultaneously. This is achieved through an open, multichain software registry, allowing for a more tailored and collaborative Web3 experience.
Apex Fusion
Funding Round in 2024
Apex Fusion is a technology company that specializes in developing interconnected blockchain networks. These networks, comprising layer 1, UTXO-based layer 2, and nexus, enable seamless asset transfer across different protocols. This allows businesses to conduct transactions efficiently with low fees, supporting decentralized finance, gaming, and financial applications. By connecting segregated UTXO and account-based networks, Apex Fusion unlocks the full potential of blockchain technology, facilitating growth and movement of assets across unified protocols.
Hemi Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Hemi Labs develops a modular blockchain network that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum, enhancing interoperability, security, and programmability. Co-founded by industry veterans Jeff Garzik and Max Sanchez, the company aims to create a unified 'supernetwork' for seamless asset transfer between these two leading networks.
Param Labs
Seed Round in 2024
Param Labs is a development studio focused on creating interconnected Web3 gaming ecosystems. It specializes in developing multiplayer blockchain games with AAA design and gaming technology, allowing players to own digital assets.
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 is a blockchain-based platform that connects the global financial supply chain through a decentralized, privacy-preserving protocol for exchanging financial documents and data. It enables businesses to transact in a peer-to-peer network while retaining ownership of their information, including company details, relationships, and transaction history. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco with a Berlin office, Centrifuge supports on-chain tokenization and management of assets, allowing the tokenization, management, and distribution of asset-backed products. The platform also enables third-party developers to build applications on top of its data, effectively serving as a decentralized operating system for the financial supply chain and facilitating global transactions while preserving data ownership.
Paeq develops a blockchain platform facilitating transaction infrastructure for a hyperconnected world. Its platform enables businesses across various industries to deploy and scale decentralized physical infrastructure networks, reducing costs, creating new revenue streams, automating processes, and enhancing system security.
Lumino
Pre Seed Round in 2024
Lumino is an AI infrastructure startup focused on making artificial intelligence accessible to all. It develops a platform designed to enhance the cloud computing process, specifically in the realm of AI. This platform facilitates the AI training process, providing tools for model development and ensuring accountability within production systems. By doing so, Lumino enables clients to lower the costs associated with machine learning training while effectively developing and training their AI models.
D2X Group
Series A in 2024
D2X Group operates a regulated cryptocurrency derivatives exchange designed for institutional investors, offering seven-day trading of cash-settled futures and options on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The exchange is based in the Netherlands and operates under a MiFID II regulated MTF licence. The platform emphasizes MiFID-regulated trading, collateral-efficient custody, and high-performance infrastructure to enable secure and efficient trading of digital asset derivatives. The company aims to support institutional adoption of crypto derivatives through regulated, reliable infrastructure and product liquidity.
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 develops a blockchain data cloud platform designed to simplify smart contract data access. Its application development and analytics technology enables businesses to bring relevant blockchain data to customers, DevOps teams, and executives at scale.
Talus Network
Seed Round in 2024
Talus Network is a pioneering blockchain-based platform that seeks to democratize artificial intelligence. It develops a decentralized system that merges blockchain technology with autonomous AI agents, fostering consumer-friendly on-chain AI applications, notably smart agents. These agents seamlessly integrate into everyday on-chain content, empowering developers to create more secure, transparent, and efficient decentralized, autonomous systems.
AltLayer offers a rollups-as-a-service platform that enables developers to deploy on-demand rollups for Web3 projects. The system provides highly scalable, application-dedicated execution layers whose security derives from an underlying base layer, delivering elastic and customizable scaling to transform blockchain infrastructure, speed up time-to-market, and support innovative deployment models for decentralized applications.
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 enhances transaction processing capabilities by implementing a technique known as dynamic state sharding. This innovative approach partitions the network into shards, allowing for an increase in transactions per second (TPS) with the addition of each new node. As more nodes join the Shardeum network, the platform's scalability improves while maintaining low gas fees, solid security, and true decentralization. This design enables organizations to prioritize their needs for scalability and security efficiently, making Shardeum an appealing solution for developers seeking to optimize 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 is a decentralized blockchain ecosystem aimed at mass adoption. It enables cryptocurrency payments and smart contract functionality, with planned coin distribution designed to give the community full control and safeguard the database. The platform seeks to address the scalability, decentralization, and security trade-offs with multithreaded technology to support fast, secure transactions while maintaining data integrity.
Gateway.fm
Seed Round in 2023
Gateway.fm provides decentralized blockchain infrastructure via its global multi-chain architecture node. It offers a multi-chain gateway and regionally dispersed enterprise architecture, allowing Web3 projects to scale efficiently without dedicating resources to server setup or maintenance.
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 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 develops a blockchain data cloud platform designed to simplify smart contract data access. Its application development and analytics technology enables businesses to bring relevant blockchain data to customers, DevOps teams, and executives at scale.
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 that specializes in liquid staking, enabling users to earn rewards effortlessly while managing their staked assets. The platform simplifies the staking process by allowing users to deposit their tokens, which are then managed by the Tenderize protocol, facilitating automatic reward generation. Users benefit from the flexibility of easily unlocking their staked assets without enduring lengthy waiting periods. Additionally, Tenderize offers liquidity pools through TenderSwap, enabling users to exchange their TenderTokens for underlying assets instantly. This innovative approach creates new opportunities for utilizing staked web3 tokens, as users can collateralize loans and trade tokens while still maintaining their staked positions, ultimately allowing for regular compounding of 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.
Minting NFT assets for real worlds value
Push Protocol
Series A in 2022
Push Protocol is a decentralized, blockchain-agnostic communication protocol for Web3 that enables notifications for both on-chain and off-chain activity. It supports the creation of notifications by decentralized applications, smart contracts, and backends, driven by configurable logic and triggered through various events. Notifications travel via an open network of push nodes and are tied to wallet addresses, allowing wallets, frontends, and infrastructure services to display them across supported chains in a gasless, platform-agnostic fashion.
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 facilitates direct purchases of cryptocurrency using fiat currency through its website or app. It offers various payment methods, cryptocurrencies, and fiat currencies, charging fees per user transaction.
Aleph.im
Venture Round in 2022
Aleph.im offers a distributed cloud platform that delivers serverless computing services, secure file storage, and database hosting.
ICHI develops a stable currency platform that enables non-custodial token creation and management. Headquartered in Japan.
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 focused on developing blockchain technology to support prediction markets and futarchy governance. It operates an open prediction market platform designed to facilitate decentralized, on-chain prediction activities. By leveraging blockchain, Zeitgeist PM enables businesses to gather and utilize decision-making signals derived from aggregated data, enhancing efficiency in their decision-making processes. The company's innovative approach aims to transform how information is predicted and governed, fostering a more informed and data-driven environment for organizations.
Polywrap
Seed Round in 2021
Polywrap is a development platform that simplifies the integration of Web3 protocols into applications across all devices and programming languages. It enables software to read and write data to Web3 networks, allowing developers to embed blockchain functionality directly into their applications without complex native code.
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 Web 3.0. Its primary objective is to create infrastructure that enables individuals to take ownership of their data, rights, and overall digital experience. The firm offers a multi-virtual machine smart contract platform that provides solutions for businesses looking to implement scalable products and technologies. By delivering blockchain technology that emphasizes scalability, privacy, and interoperability, Stake Technologies aims to address the challenges faced by enterprises in the evolving digital landscape.
Unbound Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Unbound Finance is a decentralized finance platform that focuses on 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 and facilitates a debt-free liquidity provision system. This innovative approach allows users to compound earnings while accessing liquidity from existing platforms, enhancing the efficiency and flexibility of capital in the decentralized finance ecosystem.
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 develops decentralized infrastructure for blockchain application development. Its platform enables users to connect applications to any blockchain via a coordinating node, streamlining the process of building and deploying blockchain apps.
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 focused on making decentralized data more accessible, particularly from Polkadot projects. The company aggregates and organizes data, delivering well-structured information that enables developers to streamline their projects without the need to create custom backends for data processing. By operating between layer-1 blockchains and decentralized applications, SubQuery allows teams working with Substrate and Polkadot to efficiently process and query their data. The platform is designed to support the growth of data protocols that serve the application layer, facilitating the development of improved decentralized applications. SubQuery’s services enable users to query and extract data from the Polkadot network quickly and at no cost, promoting ease of access and utilization for developers in the blockchain ecosystem.
Swing.xyz
Seed Round in 2021
Swing is a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that operates on both layer one and layer two blockchains. The company focuses on facilitating the exchange of cryptocurrency assets through the use of blockchain smart contracts, relayers, and cross-chain bridges. Swing's platform offers seamless solutions for developers, enabling them to create cross-chain experiences effortlessly. By intelligently routing assets across various decentralized exchanges, aggregators, and cross-chain bridges, Swing enhances liquidity for traders and supports a diverse range of crypto assets. Its innovative approach aims to simplify cross-chain communication and increase accessibility to liquidity across multiple blockchain networks.
Boson Protocol
Funding Round in 2021
Boson Protocol is a decentralized commerce protocol and network that enables metaverse and real-world transactions by selling physical products in the metaverse as non-fungible tokens. It provides a web3 commerce layer that tokenizes future trade commitments into NFT vouchers, governed by a dynamic game, allowing contracts to execute real-world transactions reliably and autonomously. The protocol aims to disrupt centralized e-commerce by removing intermediaries and charges, offering immediate interoperability with the broader NFT ecosystem and low fees. It is designed to be participant-owned, so value created within the system is shared among users, merchants, and buyers. Through its architecture, Boson Protocol supports building commerce applications that are trusted and widely usable, starting in the metaverse and expanding to broader decentralized commerce use cases.
ETHA Labs is a community-driven incubator dedicated to fostering innovation in the Decentralized Finance (DeFi) sector. The company aims to lower entry barriers for both institutional and retail users to promote mass adoption of DeFi solutions. Its ecosystem is structured into two main components: ETHA Lab (Build), which focuses on developing essential infrastructure and tools for DeFi, and ETHA Lab (Incubate), which nurtures new innovations and external DAO-based DeFi projects. Additionally, ETHA serves as a protocol-agnostic yield optimizer that utilizes Ethereum and Polkadot technologies to provide algorithmically optimal yields across various platforms. A significant feature of the platform is ETHA Lend, which is designed to maximize returns from DeFi liquidity pools while supporting a wide variety of digital assets. By simplifying access and reducing complexity, ETHA Labs seeks to empower users in optimizing their DeFi investments, with governance and operational functions facilitated by its native token.
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 platform that simplifies the creation of decentralized finance (DeFi) smart contracts. It offers users an intuitive dashboard to build contracts for various functions such as ERC20/BEP20/EDST token management, staking, yield farming, governance, and cross-chain bridging with real-time analytics. The platform also includes a gasless relayer feature.
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 company that specializes in developing a customer relationship management (CRM) ecosystem designed for data integration and collaboration. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CERE Network offers a platform that extracts customer data from various monolithic and disparate CRM and customer data platform systems. This platform provides an open micro-services environment that facilitates data collaboration and integration between businesses and vendors. Additionally, CERE Network utilizes blockchain technology to capture the entire customer journey, securely storing key user data such as purchases and achievements in user wallets. The company also introduces its own tokens, which are used for payment within its ecosystem.
Biconomy
Seed Round in 2021
Biconomy simplifies blockchain transactions by offering a multichain relayer protocol. Its platform enables non-custodial, gas-efficient meta-transactions at scale, smoothing interactions between decentralized applications (DApps) and end-users.
Polywrap
Seed Round in 2020
Polywrap is a development platform that simplifies the integration of Web3 protocols into applications across all devices and programming languages. It enables software to read and write data to Web3 networks, allowing developers to embed blockchain functionality directly into their applications without complex native code.
Razor Network
Seed Round in 2020
Razor develops a decentralized oracle network that securely provides external data for smart contracts. Its platform offers staking-based validation, dispute resolution, and scalability, enabling developers to access fast, reliable, and censorship-resistant data feeds.
Xend Finance
Funding Round in 2020
Xend Finance is a blockchain-based financial services company delivering decentralized finance solutions and digital banking capabilities. It started in Nigeria and serves credit unions and cooperatives, providing crypto and fiat savings with yields through staking and currency exchange, supported by an open Web3 infrastructure for developers. The platform includes a Cross-Chain High Yield Aggregator that scans multiple blockchains to help maximize returns. It positions itself as a global crypto bank offering access to savings yields and streamlined transfer and payment features across crypto and traditional currencies.
Centrifuge
Seed Round in 2020
Centrifuge is a blockchain-based platform that connects the global financial supply chain through a decentralized, privacy-preserving protocol for exchanging financial documents and data. It enables businesses to transact in a peer-to-peer network while retaining ownership of their information, including company details, relationships, and transaction history. Founded in 2017 and based in San Francisco with a Berlin office, Centrifuge supports on-chain tokenization and management of assets, allowing the tokenization, management, and distribution of asset-backed products. The platform also enables third-party developers to build applications on top of its data, effectively serving as a decentralized operating system for the financial supply chain and facilitating global transactions while preserving data ownership.
Reef Finance
Seed Round in 2020
Reef Finance LLC is a decentralized finance platform that operates on the Polkadot blockchain. Founded in 2019 by CEO Denko Mancheski, the company is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware. Reef Finance specializes in providing a liquidity aggregator and yield engine, facilitating trading by connecting users to liquidity from both centralized and decentralized exchanges. Its services include smart lending, borrowing, staking, and mining, all enhanced by an AI-driven personalized yield engine. As a pioneer in the Polkadot ecosystem, Reef Finance was notably the first project launched on Binance Launchpool, solidifying its position in the DeFi landscape.
Frontier
Seed Round in 2020
Frontier offers a secure web wallet for managing NFT collections, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized finance (DeFi) activities. Its non-custodial app enables users to track wallets and DeFi portfolios, participate in crypto exchanges, stake assets, swap assets, and provide liquidity.
Persistence
Funding Round in 2020
Persistence develops a decentralized liquidity platform that aggregates liquidity and facilitates cross-chain trading. It offers a Bitcoin decentralized exchange for low-slippage swaps and asset bridging across various blockchains.
Sifchain
Seed Round in 2020
Sifchain is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Cosmos SDK, facilitating cross-chain trading with efficiency. It combines aspects of liquidity pools and order books to optimize order execution.
KiraCore
Private Equity Round in 2020
KiraCore is a financial hub that connects decentralized Web3 applications, enabling value settlement between dApps and the largest interconnected networks in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. It offers a secure Layer‑1 platform for deploying decentralized applications and issuing digital assets, leveraging uncapped value from both real‑world and interchain sources.
DIA is a decentralized data and oracle platform designed for Web3, focusing on the aggregation and validation of transparent and verified data feeds. It enables crowd-sourcing of data related to asset prices, metaverse information, and more. By sourcing data at a trade level from a variety of on-chain and off-chain sources, DIA provides developers with reliable access to comprehensive data sets across multiple layer 1 and layer 2 networks. The platform serves as a crucial bridge between off-chain data and on-chain smart contracts, facilitating the development of diverse financial applications. DIA aims to create a fair and symmetric financial ecosystem by granting clients open-source access to crowd-verified financial data.
Covalent
Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Covalent Research & Development Inc. is a technology company based in Vancouver, Canada, focused on enhancing transparency and accountability in the cryptocurrency sector. Established in 2018, Covalent develops a data analytics suite that addresses significant infrastructure challenges obstructing blockchain adoption. Its offerings include on-chain data and analytics for the Ethereum network, as well as APIs that provide visibility and transparency across various blockchain networks. The company aims to bridge centralized databases with decentralized blockchain technologies, thereby facilitating adoption among enterprises and consumers. Covalent supports several leading decentralized finance protocols and is actively building tools like SafeKeeep, which aims to improve data availability and record-keeping in the DeFi space. The company’s team comprises industry veterans with extensive experience in database and distributed systems, underscoring its commitment to driving innovation in blockchain technology.
StakerDAO
Series A in 2020
StakerDAO, Inc. is a company that develops a platform for the decentralized governance of financial assets, ensuring security and compliance. Founded in 2019 and based in Palo Alto, California, StakerDAO focuses on creating products for on-chain governance, cross-chain synthetics, and tokenized real-world assets. The company offers STKR, a governance token that operates under a newly developed token standard, enabling holders to submit proposals and elect members of the Staker Council. Additionally, StakerDAO manages a collection of decentralized finance products, all governed through a structured decision-making process known as Staker Agora. The Staker Ops Team collaborates with the community to refine ideas into formal governance proposals, fostering a participatory environment for stakeholders while promoting innovation in decentralized finance.
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. It leverages a network of computing nodes to harness idle computational resources, enabling faster and more cost-effective AI training. By creating a distributed framework, Raven Protocol facilitates the training of deep learning models, making advanced AI development more accessible and efficient for its clients.
Alphaslot
Corporate Round in 2018
Alphaslot Lab Ltd, established in 2018 and headquartered in Central, Hong Kong, specializes in developing a blockchain-based computing platform tailored for commercial-scale gaming applications. The platform fosters connections among gaming developers, operators, and players, utilizing SLOT tokens and ALPHABOT avatars. It incentivizes user engagement and facilitates growth in the gaming industry by tokenizing rewards and enabling cross-blockchain connectivity. Gaming operators can contribute to network security by serving as validators, further enhancing the platform's functionality.