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.
Rome Protocol
Seed Round in 2024
Rome Protocol is a blockchain project focused on enhancing the capabilities of layer-2 solutions by utilizing cryptocurrency as an auxiliary network. The company operates a Solana-based shared sequencer, which facilitates improved performance and security while also enabling liquidity between Solana and Ethereum. By providing shared sequencers and data availability services, Rome Protocol aims to assist blockchain developers in reducing their dependency on modular networks for managing the complex components and functions associated with virtual currencies. Through its innovative design environment, Rome Protocol seeks to create unique products that cater to the evolving needs of the blockchain ecosystem.
Usual
Venture Round in 2024
The new playbook for financial freedom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Swing.xyz
Seed Round in 2021
Swing.xyz is a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol that aggregates liquidity across blockchains to enable cross-chain asset exchange. It uses smart contracts, relayers, and cross-chain bridges to route assets across bridges, DEXes, and aggregators, providing access to liquidity for various crypto assets. The platform offers turnkey solutions that enable developers to launch cross-chain experiences, facilitating cross-network communication and broad asset variety. By connecting multiple networks and liquidity pools, Swing.xyz aims to capture value for traders through seamless cross-chain interactions across layer-1 and layer-2 ecosystems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.