Wave Digital Assets, established in 2018 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is a registered investment advisor specializing in digital asset management. The company offers early-stage venture capital investments, asset management strategies, treasury management services, and strategic consulting within the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystems.
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Maestro
Seed Round in 2025
Maestro is a blockchain development platform focused on enhancing Web3 capabilities, particularly within the Cardano ecosystem. It offers a comprehensive suite of APIs and software tools designed to facilitate the development of decentralized applications (dApps) on the UTxO blockchain, which includes support for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Cardano, and Dogecoin. The platform provides essential blockchain infrastructure, including services such as ISPO-as-a-service, transaction management, market data feeds, and managed contracts, enabling developers to create innovative applications and solutions. Maestro aims to foster a decentralized and interconnected digital future through its cutting-edge offerings.
Crypto Valley Exchange
Seed Round in 2024
CVEX is a decentralized exchange that provides cryptocurrency holders with futures and options trading, using specific bid-offer dynamics to undercut other trading platforms.
HIFI
Seed Round in 2024
HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increase visibility, and combat fraud. Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.
Omega
Seed Round in 2024
Omega is a Web3 infrastructure supplier that makes it possible for idle bitcoin to be collateralized for DeFi yield production.
1Kin Labs
Seed Round in 2023
1Kin platform facilitates the discovery, distribution, and digital ownership of gaming assets.
Fluree
Series A in 2023
Fluree is a technology company that develops a data management platform designed to facilitate secure data sharing and power data-driven insights. Its platform specializes in organizing blockchain-secured data in a scalable semantic graph database, establishing a foundational layer of trusted data for connected and intelligent data ecosystems. This enables clients to make their data completely tamper-proof with a cloud-native architecture, harmonizing front and back-end development under a single source of data truth and reducing the need for custom code and API bloat.
IYK
Funding Round in 2023
IYK is a company that focuses on helping brands, artists, and creators connect the physical and digital realms through innovative solutions. It offers a tokenization platform that leverages near-field communication and blockchain technology to enable the verification and rewarding of customer engagement. By providing tools for launching Web3 activations, IYK enhances the interaction between clients and their audiences, allowing for increased social engagement and a seamless integration of physical items into the digital landscape.
JUICE Finance
Funding Round in 2023
JUICE Finance is a VC-funded DeFi application that empowers users to borrow and lend against both their Real World and Digital Assets. The company creates the middleware and infrastructure for the collateralization of fixed-income assets, enabling institutions the opportunity to enhance their yield through DeFi and on-chain lending activity in a capital-efficient and compliant manner. It was founded in 2023 by Wes Cowan and Eric Ryklin and is located in Miami, Florida.
Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences
Series B in 2023
Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences is a bioscience and genetic engineering company dedicated to addressing extinction and biodiversity loss through innovative gene editing technologies, primarily CRISPR. The company focuses on reviving extinct species, such as the woolly mammoth, while also working to protect critically endangered species and restore vital ecosystems. By employing advanced genetic techniques, Colossal aims to create solutions that not only facilitate the repopulation of ecosystems but also contribute to the sustainability of life on Earth. Through its pioneering efforts, Colossal aspires to tackle pressing environmental challenges and support the future of both ecological health and human necessities.
Origami
Seed Round in 2022
Origami is building the world’s most valuable DAOs. We help the most ambitious communities launch and grow their DAOs.
APY.vision
Seed Round in 2022
APY.vision is a data platform that serves decentralized finance (DeFi) investors and protocols by tracking liquidity pool gains and impermanent loss. The platform offers tools that allow users to monitor historical profit and loss across various protocols and blockchain networks. By consolidating the ability to find and assess liquidity pools, calculate their performance, and track yield farming rewards, APY.vision enables investors to make informed decisions on when to enter or exit liquidity pools or yield farms. This comprehensive approach helps users maximize their returns in the dynamic DeFi landscape.
MynaSwap
Seed Round in 2022
MynaSwap is an online platform designed for collectors to trade goods beyond their physical form. It enables users to engage in real-time trading of collectibles, such as unique sneakers and digital assets, without the complexities of managing logistics associated with physical items. Built on the Avalanche blockchain, MynaSwap supports transactions in both digital and fiat currencies, offering low latency and competitive fees. The platform aims to connect collectors globally, fostering a community where they can easily buy, sell, and trade their favorite items. Plans to extend support to additional blockchain networks like Ethereum and Polygon are also in development.
Optim Finance
Seed Round in 2022
Optim Finance develops a decentralized finance platform that offers investment tools designed to optimize yield on digital assets. The platform focuses on creating innovative passive investment solutions, allowing users to easily deposit and withdraw funds while enhancing liquidity for productive use. By providing smart contract infrastructure, Optim Finance enables unique financial primitives that facilitate new use cases, such as renting ADA delegation rights, which can be applied to SPO loans and initial bonds. This approach aims to streamline asset management in the blockchain industry, making it more automated and secure for users.
Punk DAO
Funding Round in 2022
Punk DAO offers community stewardship of CryptoPunks, an iconic collectible. Punk DAO's mission is to support, collect, invest in, and interact with various artists and entrepreneurs in the crypto ecosystem.
Coral.fan
Funding Round in 2022
Coral.fan rewards fans for supporting and promoting artists.
Blu
Seed Round in 2022
Blu is using big data and AI to underwrite the underbanked population in Mexico.
LayerZero
Series A in 2022
LayerZero Labs is a developer of a blockchain messaging protocol that enables decentralized applications to operate across multiple blockchains. The company's platform facilitates data exchange and interoperability by connecting disparate blockchains, offering a streamlined solution for cross-chain applications. Utilizing an on-chain light node for validation, LayerZero improves speed, security, and cost-efficiency, as it streams block headers on-demand through decentralized oracles rather than maintaining all headers sequentially. This innovative approach allows clients to efficiently implement low-level communication primitives necessary for cross-chain functionality.
Auto Legends
Funding Round in 2022
Auto Legends, headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, is a developer and publisher of an online gaming platform designed for car racing enthusiasts. The platform focuses on fostering engagement within the car culture community by offering a competitive environment for players. It specializes in providing a range of customization options, including licensed parts and accessories, allowing users to tune and personalize their vehicles realistically. Through its offerings, Auto Legends aims to create an authentic experience that resonates with auto enthusiasts.
Snickerdoodle
Funding Round in 2022
Snickerdoodle is a developer of an enterprise platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data economy focused on user privacy and equitable value distribution. The company aims to empower individuals by enabling them to take control of their data, allowing for secure ownership and monetization. By bridging the gap between Web2 and Web3, Snickerdoodle's platform facilitates a shift in how data is managed and utilized, ensuring that data owners can benefit from their information while maintaining privacy.
Lucky Trader
Funding Round in 2022
Lucky Trader is an analytics and content platform that serves as an essential resource for traders seeking to navigate the complexities of modern finance, particularly in the realm of alternative investments such as NFTs and decentralized finance. Founded in 2021 and based in Miami Beach, Florida, Lucky Trader offers a comprehensive suite of tools designed to assist users in making informed decisions about their investments. The platform provides real-time news, on-chain data, and analytics on NFT projects, enabling investors to monitor market trends and enhance their investment strategies. By connecting traders with crucial resources, Lucky Trader aims to empower them in the rapidly evolving landscape of finance.
NFT Now
Venture Round in 2022
NFT Now is an award-winning web3 media platform dedicated to empowering cultural creators and facilitating the mainstream adoption of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The platform aims to redefine the relationship between creators and their communities, fostering a new economic model that emphasizes shared value. It provides timely news, features, and analysis related to NFTs, helping users navigate the evolving landscape of digital assets. By focusing on community building and support, NFT Now plays a crucial role in enhancing understanding and engagement within the NFT space.
EigenLabs
Pre Seed Round in 2022
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.
UnicornDAO
Seed Round in 2022
UnicornDAO is a Russian platform focused on the NFT space, dedicated to empowering female and LGBTQ creators. It aims to redistribute wealth and visibility within the Web3 ecosystem by providing opportunities for initiatives led by these underrepresented groups. The platform facilitates the collection and incubation of creators, enabling them to access financial tools and resources in a decentralized and community-driven manner. Through its efforts, UnicornDAO strives to foster equality and support diverse talent in the evolving digital landscape.
Medallion
Seed Round in 2022
Medallion is a New York City-based company in the media and entertainment sector, launched in 2020. It has developed a blockchain-based platform aimed at connecting artists with their fans. This platform enables users to create digital environments and foster communities while facilitating the exchange of digital goods. By leveraging this technology, Medallion assists artists in enhancing fan engagement, gaining actionable insights, and maximizing their economic potential.
Stageverse
Funding Round in 2022
Stageverse is a virtual platform that facilitates connections among friends, communities, and brands within immersive 3D environments. By merging the physical and digital realms, Stageverse enables users to explore and share cultural experiences in a unique social metaverse. The platform emphasizes the importance of digital identity and culture, allowing individuals to interact and express themselves in a creative 3D space. Through this innovative approach, Stageverse aims to enhance social engagement and cultural discovery in a visually dynamic setting.
CXIP Labs
Seed Round in 2022
CXIP Labs is a developer of NFT infrastructure solutions for the web3 ecosystem.
Afterparty
Seed Round in 2022
Afterparty is a technology company founded in 2021 and based in Los Angeles, California, that focuses on enhancing the creator economy through a Web3 platform. This platform allows creators to directly monetize their work and foster relationships with NFT collectors and supporters. By offering tools for hosting token-gated experiences both in the metaverse and in real life, Afterparty empowers creators to connect more intimately with their fan communities. The company's mission is to provide a better model for the music creator economy, enabling clients to develop and sustain direct relationships with their audiences while effectively managing their monetization strategies.
NotCommon
Funding Round in 2022
NotCommon operates a digital wallet specifically designed for non-fungible token (NFT) collectors. The platform focuses on establishing identity and security systems that facilitate accessibility for users. By creating an all-in-one NFT profile, NotCommon enables artists and collectors to showcase their collections from various blockchains. Additionally, the platform allows users to link all their online presences, addressing the challenges posed by unmanaged social media namespaces that can lead to missed opportunities and risks of impersonation. Through this approach, NotCommon aims to enhance influence and income potential for its users in the evolving digital landscape.
Bright Opportunities
Funding Round in 2022
Bright Opportunities is a collective born from the IRL experiential DAO, Bright Moments. The company is collecting and commissions work by emerging artists in the gen art movement.
Nomad
Seed Round in 2022
Nomad is a novel approach to blockchain interoperability that leverages an optimistic mechanism to increase the security of cross-chain communication.
Portal Fantasy
Seed Round in 2022
Portal Fantasy is a blockchain-powered pixel adventure RPG that combines nostalgic gameplay with innovative mechanics. Players can assume the roles of Heroes and Architects, embarking on an epic journey filled with quests and challenges. As Heroes, players befriend and battle alongside Porbles while exploring diverse worlds. Architects, on the other hand, can create and design unique environments, maps, and quests for others to experience. The game incorporates a collection of tradable NFTs, allowing players to earn rewards through exploration and creativity. With its emphasis on community-driven content and interactive gameplay, Portal Fantasy offers a modern twist on the classic RPG genre.
Tessera
Venture Round in 2022
Tessera's mission is to curate the most extraordinary collective ownership experiences produced by the greatest creators, builders, and leaders. Tessera's vision is a world where anyone can have the opportunity to collectively own and govern things they value, without reliance on central gatekeepers to execute decisions and actions on their behalf.
Liqwid
Funding Round in 2022
Liqwid Labs is a decentralized finance protocol designed for the Cardano ecosystem, offering a non-custodial platform for peer-to-peer lending and borrowing. The protocol allows users to earn interest on their idle cryptocurrency assets while enabling them to borrow assets at competitive rates. By providing access to a global liquidity pool, Liqwid Labs facilitates seamless transactions for lenders, borrowers, and developers. Users can also benefit from multiple yield streams on their deposits, enhancing their potential returns. Overall, Liqwid Labs aims to empower customers to optimize their financial opportunities within the Cardano framework.
Diverge
Funding Round in 2022
DiVerge is a Metaverse fashion brand based in Los Angeles, California, focused on creating high-end wearables and immersive experiences for virtual realities. The company specializes in fashionable, iconic wearable NFTs, which are designed to have utility across multiple Metaverse platforms. DiVerge aims to introduce high-quality fashion aesthetics into the virtual space, allowing users to express their personal style within the evolving digital ecosystem. Its inaugural release, known as the "IT Bags of the Metaverse," achieved significant success by selling out within 24 hours and received recognition from notable publications such as Vogue Business and Hypebae as one of the leading NFT fashion projects.
Sports Lifestyle in Culture
Convertible Note in 2022
Sports Lifestyle in Culture offers the opportunity for creators and brands to freely create, distribute, and monetize their content. Sports Lifestyle in Culture is a digital platform, a production company, and a content studio that aims to deliver the best content and collaborations for the culture.
WingRiders
Seed Round in 2022
WingRiders is a British Virgin Islands-based exchange platform that leverages the benefits of Cardano to correct the issues plaguing DEXs on Ethereum.
Quantum Art
Series A in 2022
Quantum Art is the first platform focused solely on photographers and their work, curating and dropping NFT collections and making NFT photography accessible for both artists and collectors.
Mimicry
Funding Round in 2022
Mimicry is used to protect speculators from REKT by opening up illiquid markets.
OptyFi
Seed Round in 2022
The OptyFi app is a method for simply and automatically growing businesses. Using only a protocol, revenue generation on fully decentralized networks is automated and optimized. In order to find profitable yield strategies and DeFi pools, the company develops an AI algorithm that scans the DeFi market.
Atomic Form
Seed Round in 2022
Atomic Form is a comprehensive digital art and NFT platform that offers blockchain-based solutions for managing non-fungible tokens and Web media. Its multi-chain NFT administration tool, The Hub, allows users to share, discover, and control multiple Atomic Form devices from a single interface. The platform spans various applications, including art, collectibles, and video games, and integrates functionality for cryptocurrency-based hardware. This hardware features a rotatable low-profile wall mount that can be adjusted for both portrait and landscape orientations, providing a seamless experience for users seeking to manage their NFT assets alongside the necessary software solutions. Additionally, Atomic Form has incorporated Nifty Gateway to enhance its offerings.
Holograph
Funding Round in 2022
Holograph, founded in 2020 and based in Los Angeles, specializes in non-fungible token (NFT) technology that allows NFTs to be transferred across different blockchains while ensuring data integrity. The company offers a software platform that enhances minting standards for NFTs and secures cryptocurrency mining through a decentralized and encrypted ledger. Holograph's services include counterfeit prevention, carbon offsetting, and the implementation of secure smart contracts. Additionally, the company provides permanent storage for NFT metadata, continuous royalty payments, and copyright registrations, facilitating a comprehensive ecosystem for individuals to mine, trade, and manage digital assets efficiently.
Optim
Funding Round in 2022
Optim is a company focused on providing remote management and cloud device management services, aiming to simplify Internet usage for everyone. Founded with the mission to eliminate the need for specific IT literacy to access online resources, Optim envisions a world where the Internet is as effortless to use as breathing. The company develops a range of products and services designed to enhance creativity and convenience in digital interactions. Among its offerings is Optimal Biz, a service that facilitates cloud device management, remote management, and setup support. Through these initiatives, Optim strives to make online experiences seamless and intuitive, allowing users to engage with technology without needing extensive technical knowledge.
Few and Far
Funding Round in 2022
Few and Far is a next-generation platform focused on experiences in Web3, encompassing NFTs, decentralized finance (DeFi), and gaming. It provides a comprehensive suite of services to support NFT projects, including launchpad services, minting tools, and outbound marketing. By offering creators liquidity and opportunities to earn, Few and Far enables them to gain visibility alongside leading collections on the NEAR blockchain. The platform's advanced technology facilitates a marketplace for digital collectibles, enhancing functionality for various blockchain applications and reimagining aspects of rewards, creativity, and community engagement in the NFT space.
Quadrata
Pre Seed Round in 2021
Quadrata is a technology company founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng, based in Marina Del Rey, California. It operates a web3-based passport network that integrates identity and compliance into decentralized finance (DeFi) across public blockchains. The company's platform facilitates a permissionless DeFi ecosystem by allowing users to verify their KYC/AML status, country of residence, credit reputation, and accredited investor status. This innovative approach enhances access to financial services while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, thereby promoting a more secure and inclusive financial environment.
Victoria VR
Venture Round in 2021
Victoria VR is a blockchain-based virtual reality metaverse that combines multiplayer online role-playing games with entertainment and various activities. The platform is built on the Unreal Engine, ensuring high-quality graphics and immersive experiences across all virtual realities, games, and decentralized applications. Victoria VR aims to create a realistic metaverse where users can engage in diverse activities while being rewarded for their participation in the virtual environment.
Cub3
Funding Round in 2021
CUB3 is the first platform that enables businesses to control and reward any behavior in order to increase customer engagement and loyalty. The platform creates challenges to drive engagement and effect real behavioral change online and in the real world. The company was founded in 2022.
OnGO
Funding Round in 2021
OnGO is a software company that provides blockchain, web3, and crypto-based product design, as well as development services.
Silent Protocol
Funding Round in 2021
Silent Protocol is a developer of a decentralized finance platform that provides full-stack privacy solutions for Web3 applications and smart contract assets. It enables the integration of privacy features into existing applications while ensuring that liquidity and network effects are not disrupted. The platform is designed to facilitate the secure deployment of new applications and to maintain user anonymity, allowing for compliance with regulatory requirements in the decentralized finance market. By prioritizing both privacy and functionality, Silent Protocol aims to enhance user experience while supporting the evolving demands of the digital finance landscape.
Polymer Labs
Funding Round in 2021
Polymer Labs is building the fabric of web3. We're working on an IBC based multi-cluster routing/roll-up protocol providing E2E IBC connectivity across ecosystems.
CoinRoutes
Series B in 2021
CoinRoutes is a provider of trading software focused on cryptocurrency assets. The company has developed an algorithmic trading system that allows traders to access a unified view of various cryptocurrency markets and liquidity providers. This system enables users to execute trades across multiple exchanges in a single transaction, thereby enhancing efficiency. Additionally, CoinRoutes' platform filters out market noise to deliver a clearer perspective on trading conditions. Importantly, the system allows clients to maintain full control over their exchange keys and wallets, ensuring enhanced security and autonomy in their trading activities.
Symbiosis Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Symbiosis Finance is a decentralized multi-chain protocol that facilitates liquidity across various blockchain networks. Its innovative technology enables users to swap tokens seamlessly with a single click, while retaining sole ownership of their funds. This approach simplifies the often complex and time-consuming process of locating appropriate cross-chain bridges, allowing users to transact without the necessity of holding multiple native assets. By streamlining these operations, Symbiosis Finance aims to enhance user experience in the decentralized finance space.
SundaeSwap Labs
Seed Round in 2021
SundaeSwap Labs contributes to the SundaeSwap protocol, a decentralized exchange and automated liquidity provision protocol built on Cardano. The SundaeSwap protocol is an open-sourced protocol, governed by a decentralized autonomous organization.
Paribus
Funding Round in 2021
Paribus is an online platform that specializes in cross-chain borrowing and lending, allowing users to engage with digital assets across multiple blockchains. The platform offers features such as profit sharing through PBX tokens, liquidity provider staking, and metaverse integration. Additionally, Paribus provides NFT collateral-based loans, enabling users to unlock new opportunities for yield generation and effective risk management within the digital asset space. Through these services, Paribus aims to enhance the accessibility and utility of digital assets for its users.
Altered State Machine
Seed Round in 2021
Altered State Machine is a developer of artificial intelligence-based blockchain software that offers a decentralized platform for developers and NFT owners. The company enables users to create, train, and own AI agents, allowing for competition and interaction across various applications, including gaming, finance, and metaverse environments. By facilitating the creation and ownership of non-fungible intelligence, Altered State Machine aims to transform the NFT landscape, empowering individuals to develop and trade their digital assets in innovative ways.
Slope Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Slope Finance is a decentralized exchange and wallet platform built on the Solana blockchain, designed to facilitate crypto trading and management. It provides users with access to Solana Pay, decentralized finance features, and tools for visual management of non-fungible tokens. The platform offers a decentralized automated full limit order book, allowing for fast token swaps and transactions with near-zero fees. Users can create new wallets or import existing ones from Ethereum and Solana, enabling them to store and manage digital assets seamlessly. With its intuitive interface that resembles centralized exchanges, Slope Finance aims to enhance the user experience in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency market.
Mikomeda
Seed Round in 2021
Milkomeda delivers rollup technologies to leading Layer 1 ecosystems by offering the most popular smart contracting language, Solidity while enhancing inter-blockchain interoperability, user experience, and developer traction all at the Layer 2 level.
Hume
Funding Round in 2021
Hume provides a web3 record label creating music-driven metastars.
Blockware Solutions
Convertible Note in 2021
Blockware Solutions is a blockchain infrastructure company based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in bitcoin and cryptocurrency mining services. Established in 2017, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services, including hardware procurement, mining rig colocation, and professional mining and staking pool operations. Blockware Solutions assists clients in acquiring and selling mining rigs directly from manufacturers and through reliable peer-to-peer channels. Additionally, the company provides access to a network of commercial data center facilities across North America that specialize in hosting services for cryptocurrency mining rigs, ensuring guaranteed uptime and 24/7 monitoring of machines by experienced IT personnel.
Gallery
Seed Round in 2021
Gallery allows users to show their NFT collections to the world.
Nifty
Convertible Note in 2021
Nifty is a remote company. It is a NFT platform, and its easy-to-use interface enables communities to collect and trade digital art and other collectibles from their favourite brands and creators.
CXIP Labs
Seed Round in 2021
CXIP Labs is a developer of NFT infrastructure solutions for the web3 ecosystem.
Nifty
Seed Round in 2021
Nifty is a remote company. It is a NFT platform, and its easy-to-use interface enables communities to collect and trade digital art and other collectibles from their favourite brands and creators.
Runtime Vеrification
Venture Round in 2021
Runtime Vеrification is a dynamic software analysis technique to automatically detect bugs and errors in a software system. Founded in 2010, Runtime Vеrification is headquartered in Urbana, Illinois, United States.
Flare Network
Venture Round in 2021
Flare is a powerful new blockchain with the first consensus protocol for external data. Decentralized applications on Flare can therefore trustlessly acquire and use information from other blockchains and real world data sources, solving the oracle problem and opening the door to a new era of utility. > Fast, decentralized and fully-insured bridges can connect smart contract chains multilaterally, unifying rather than fragmenting liquidity. > Non-smart contract assets such as BTC, XRP and DOGE can be brought on to Flare, and put to work earning yield in DeFi. > Full cross-chain composability enables decentralized applications to use the value, liquidity and information of multiple blockchains via a single deployment on Flare. > Seamless decentralized integration with Web2 data powers trustless use of real world data sources in Web3 dapps.
dcSpark
Seed Round in 2021
DcSpark is a blockchain company founded in 2021 in Austin, Texas, by Nicolás Arqueros, Sebastien Guillemot, and Robert Kornacki. The company specializes in creating products and solutions that support crypto projects, focusing on building essential infrastructure for layer 1 Blockchains and their smart contract layers. By facilitating the development of decentralized applications (DApps) and wallets, DcSpark empowers clients to adopt decentralized technologies within their ecosystems. Its platform enables users to utilize peer-to-peer technology, ensuring access to critical infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading and enhancing the overall life-cycle development of blockchain solutions.
Holograph
Funding Round in 2021
Holograph, founded in 2020 and based in Los Angeles, specializes in non-fungible token (NFT) technology that allows NFTs to be transferred across different blockchains while ensuring data integrity. The company offers a software platform that enhances minting standards for NFTs and secures cryptocurrency mining through a decentralized and encrypted ledger. Holograph's services include counterfeit prevention, carbon offsetting, and the implementation of secure smart contracts. Additionally, the company provides permanent storage for NFT metadata, continuous royalty payments, and copyright registrations, facilitating a comprehensive ecosystem for individuals to mine, trade, and manage digital assets efficiently.
Vertalo
Series A in 2021
Vertalo is a digital transfer platform that facilitates the onboarding of investors and the management of capitalization tables while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. By connecting issuers and investors, Vertalo enables the tokenization of various assets, which can be stored in blockchain wallets and traded in real time according to smart contracts. The platform offers features such as cap table management, portable eligibility for digital assets, and keyless wallets, allowing investors to prepare their securities for trading on any compatible alternative trading system (ATS). Through its collaboration with issuers and a network of broker-dealers, Vertalo plays a significant role in the digital asset economy.
GlobeDX
Seed Round in 2021
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.
Coti
Series A in 2021
COTI Limited is a Gibraltar-based company that develops a blockchain protocol designed to optimize decentralized payment solutions for various users, including enterprises, merchants, and government institutions. Its white label wallet solutions facilitate the creation of advanced financial technology applications, supporting the use of stable coins and a range of payment methods. COTI’s platform incorporates a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) ledger, which addresses the limitations of traditional blockchain systems, allowing for secure and efficient financial transactions without lengthy clearing times. Additionally, COTI offers a unique dispute resolution system to safeguard users against errors and fraud. Its integrated payment solution, COTI Pay, accepts both online and offline transactions, including cryptocurrencies, credit cards, and merchant-specific coins, while also providing built-in financing options such as interest on deposits and business loans.
Propine
Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Propine is a Singapore-based company founded in 2018 that specializes in providing digital asset custody solutions for institutional investors. The firm develops regulated custodian and securities services that ensure secure management of blockchain-based digital assets. Its platform features a dual-layer multi-signature system that safeguards token holder rights and benefits, while also offering administration for token plans related to employees, partners, and investors. Propine’s services include segregated customer accounts, various withdrawal options, and comprehensive reporting capabilities, which encompass detailed transaction histories and notifications of corporate actions. This infrastructure allows institutional clients to effectively manage risk assets associated with tokens and enhances their overall asset management experience.
Occam.fi
Funding Round in 2021
Occam.fi is a suite of DeFi solutions tailored for Cardano. Designed to deliver market leading launchpad capabilities, DEX tools, and liquidity pools, Occam.fi is the first and most significant addition to Cardano's rapidly expanding DeFi. The first component of Occam.fi’s ecosystem is its decentralised funding platform, or launchpad, called OccamRazer. Through this launchpad, the next-generation of disruptive Cardano applications can undertake significant capital raises through OccamRazer's IDO capabilities.
Protego Trust Bank
Series A in 2021
Protego Trust Bank is a financial services institution based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2017. The bank specializes in providing regulated cryptocurrency services tailored for institutional investors. Its offerings encompass a comprehensive suite of digital asset services, including custody, trading, lending, and issuance, all facilitated through a vertically integrated platform. By leveraging distributed ledger technology, Protego Trust Bank enables clients to hold, trade, lend, and issue digital assets in a secure and efficient manner, positioning itself as a reliable partner for institutions looking to enhance their digital asset capabilities.
Power Finance
Funding Round in 2020
Power Finance focuses on risk management, consulting, and financial services through its innovative financial platform. This platform is designed to create and provide experiences tailored to the needs and values of its customers, including businesses, community groups, and fintech organizations. By offering various financial products that emphasize risk management, Power Finance aims to help financial institutions operate in a more equitable and cost-efficient manner, ultimately fostering stronger connections between organizations and their stakeholders.
Casper Labs
Funding Round in 2020
Casper Labs specializes in providing professional services and support for organizations utilizing Casper, an enterprise-grade blockchain. Their platform is designed to facilitate the development of secure applications through a layer-one blockchain, which addresses the scale and operational requirements of businesses. By leveraging widely supported tools and workflows, Casper Labs accelerates application development while ensuring transparency in business transactions. The company is dedicated to fostering the adoption of blockchain technology among enterprises, offering a reliable framework for building private, public, and hybrid solutions. Through its focus on open source principles, Casper Labs aims to empower developers and enhance operational efficiency for companies and governments worldwide.
Protego Trust Bank
Funding Round in 2020
Protego Trust Bank is a financial services institution based in Seattle, Washington, founded in 2017. The bank specializes in providing regulated cryptocurrency services tailored for institutional investors. Its offerings encompass a comprehensive suite of digital asset services, including custody, trading, lending, and issuance, all facilitated through a vertically integrated platform. By leveraging distributed ledger technology, Protego Trust Bank enables clients to hold, trade, lend, and issue digital assets in a secure and efficient manner, positioning itself as a reliable partner for institutions looking to enhance their digital asset capabilities.
Evertas
Funding Round in 2019
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.
SKALE Labs
Venture Round in 2019
SKALE Labs, Inc. is a blockchain scalability platform founded in 2015 and headquartered in Atherton, California. The company develops a decentralized, open-source network designed to enhance the performance of blockchains and decentralized applications (dApps). It provides a middleware layer that enables high-speed consensus, allowing dApps to execute smart contracts at a rate of millions per second across various blockchain platforms such as Ethereum and EOS. The SKALE Network operates as a fully decentralized peer-to-peer system, supported by SKALE Mining nodes and utilizing a utility token that is staked by dApps. This innovative protocol addresses the scalability challenges faced by blockchain technologies, facilitating optimized interactions between dApps and blockchains.
Vertalo
Series A in 2019
Vertalo is a digital transfer platform that facilitates the onboarding of investors and the management of capitalization tables while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. By connecting issuers and investors, Vertalo enables the tokenization of various assets, which can be stored in blockchain wallets and traded in real time according to smart contracts. The platform offers features such as cap table management, portable eligibility for digital assets, and keyless wallets, allowing investors to prepare their securities for trading on any compatible alternative trading system (ATS). Through its collaboration with issuers and a network of broker-dealers, Vertalo plays a significant role in the digital asset economy.
IQ.wiki
Funding Round in 2019
IQ.wiki is a decentralized knowledge platform focused on blockchain and cryptocurrency topics, functioning as an encyclopedia for a wide range of information within the crypto space. It allows users to create articles on any subject, provided they include proper citations, thereby fostering a collaborative environment for knowledge sharing. The platform aims to provide comprehensive access to diverse information sourced from various networks, supporting the development and investment in the future of knowledge. Through its user-driven approach, IQ.wiki seeks to enhance the understanding of cryptocurrency and related technologies.
Spring
Series A in 2019
Spring Labs is a developer of a decentralized network that facilitates the sharing and exchange of financial information. By utilizing blockchain technology, the company enhances security, scalability, transparency, and efficiency within the financial sector. Its network is tailored to meet the needs of financial institutions and lenders, offering them improved control over data and greater flexibility in managing credit systems. Spring Labs supports various industries, including healthcare and media, by providing robust data solutions that help enhance the protection and security of credit information.
GlobeDX
Venture Round in 2019
The startup, which has dubbed itself the “Coinbase for derivatives,” has built a cryptocurrency-derivative exchange that supports high-frequency trading. The platform allows crypto holders to trade global markets with bitcoin and grants users the same access to data leveraged by institutional investors.
Coti
Seed Round in 2018
COTI Limited is a Gibraltar-based company that develops a blockchain protocol designed to optimize decentralized payment solutions for various users, including enterprises, merchants, and government institutions. Its white label wallet solutions facilitate the creation of advanced financial technology applications, supporting the use of stable coins and a range of payment methods. COTI’s platform incorporates a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) ledger, which addresses the limitations of traditional blockchain systems, allowing for secure and efficient financial transactions without lengthy clearing times. Additionally, COTI offers a unique dispute resolution system to safeguard users against errors and fraud. Its integrated payment solution, COTI Pay, accepts both online and offline transactions, including cryptocurrencies, credit cards, and merchant-specific coins, while also providing built-in financing options such as interest on deposits and business loans.
Securitize
Series A in 2018
Securitize, Inc. operates a compliance platform designed for the issuance and management of digital securities. Founded in 2017 and based in Redwood City, California, the company facilitates various services for issuers, including digital security issuance, document handling, investor communications, and accreditation. For investors, Securitize offers features such as wallet management, an investor dashboard, and token distribution. The platform also includes support services like fiat and crypto escrow, along with custodial services. Securitize is distinguished as the only SEC Registered Transfer Agent integrated with multiple regulated U.S.-based marketplaces, enabling eligible investors to own, manage, and trade digital securities across sectors like equity, funds, fixed income, and real estate. The company's approach enhances transparency, liquidity, and efficiency in the tokenization process, while also providing KYC/AML and capital management services.
IQ.wiki
Funding Round in 2018
IQ.wiki is a decentralized knowledge platform focused on blockchain and cryptocurrency topics, functioning as an encyclopedia for a wide range of information within the crypto space. It allows users to create articles on any subject, provided they include proper citations, thereby fostering a collaborative environment for knowledge sharing. The platform aims to provide comprehensive access to diverse information sourced from various networks, supporting the development and investment in the future of knowledge. Through its user-driven approach, IQ.wiki seeks to enhance the understanding of cryptocurrency and related technologies.
Bling
Pre Seed Round in 2018
Bling operates a Bitcoin rewards gaming platform that allows users to earn loyalty rewards by engaging in casual blockchain-based games. Users can accumulate points through gameplay, which can then be converted into Bitcoin, effectively enabling them to earn digital currency while enjoying their gaming experience. The platform focuses on integrating earning opportunities within activities that users already partake in, making it a unique offering in the gaming and cryptocurrency landscape.
Strong Ventures
Funding Round in 2018
Strong Ventures, established in 2011 and headquartered in Los Angeles, California, is a seed fund that invests in and supports early-stage entrepreneurs, predominantly of Korean and Asian origin, but also globally. With a focus on SaaS, content, mobility, and other emerging sectors, the firm provides not only financial backing but also hands-on mentorship, strategic guidance, and network access to help these entrepreneurs successfully enter the global market.
Make Sense
Funding Round in 2018
Make Sense is an online tool that is free to use for labeling images in small computer vision projects. It supports output file formats like YOLO, VOC XML, VGG JSON, and CSV. Make Sense also provides multiple label types like rects, lines, points, and polygons.
Phunware
Series F in 2018
Phunware, Inc. is a software company based in Austin, Texas, specializing in a multiscreen-as-a-service (MaaS) enterprise cloud platform for mobile devices. Founded in 2009, Phunware enables brands to engage, manage, and monetize their mobile application portfolios through its comprehensive suite of software solutions. These include content management, location-based services, marketing automation, analytics, and audience engagement tools. The company offers its products as software-as-a-service and provides application transaction media services that support user acquisition and monetization strategies. Additionally, Phunware delivers data services for targeted marketing campaigns utilizing various technologies such as GPS and Wi-Fi. The company has also partnered with GAIN Innovation to pursue government contracts in Texas. Its primary revenue is generated within the United States, reflecting its focus on the domestic market.
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