Covalent
Venture Round in 2024
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.
Ondefy is a financial trading platform that lowers entry barriers to decentralized finance, providing users with the ability to swap tokens across any blockchain, generate yield, leverage assets, and access DeFi protocols from a single secure interface.
DeXe Protocol
Seed Round in 2024
DeXe Network is a decentralized financial services platform specializing in social trading and asset management. It operates under the governance of the DeXe DAO, utilizing the DEXE ERC-20 native utility token for various platform activities. DeXe Network aims to empower users by providing tools for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), social trading, and asset management, emphasizing community-driven decision-making and financial autonomy. The platform includes features like W2W Copying, allowing users to replicate the trades of successful traders for a fee, thereby democratizing access to trading strategies and enhancing user engagement within the ecosystem.
Polylastic
Seed Round in 2023
Polylastic develops a blockchain platform focused on secure, scalable, and instant transactions. Its platform combines blockchain scaling tools with a user-centric approach, aiming to enhance the usability of decentralized transactions and facilitate mainstream blockchain adoption.
Colexion
Seed Round in 2022
Colexion is a premium blockchain-based marketplace specializing in non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that allows users to discover, buy, sell, and trade exclusive digital collectibles featuring celebrities from various fields, including sports, entertainment, and art. The platform is curated by leading crypto artists, ensuring a high-quality selection of NFTs that appeal to collectors and enthusiasts alike. By focusing on the intersection of celebrity culture and digital ownership, Colexion provides a unique space for users to engage with and invest in the digital memorabilia of their favorite megastars.
Nitro League
Funding Round in 2021
Nitro League is a developer of a Play-to-Earn mobile racing game platform that offers an immersive experience in a hyper-realistic 3D environment. Known for its interplanetary hyper-racing events, Nitro League features diverse islands, cities, and vast landscapes, each with unique characteristics. The platform incorporates solid tokenomics and support for nonfungible tokens, allowing players to engage in revenue-generating opportunities while enjoying the game. By blending engaging gameplay with financial incentives, Nitro League aims to create a fun and lucrative metaverse for its users.
OnGO
Funding Round in 2021
OnGO is a software company that provides blockchain, web3, and crypto-based product design, as well as development services.
zkLink is a blockchain infrastructure company offering a multi-chain trading platform that unifies blockchain networks and addresses Ethereum fragmentation through aggregated rollups. Its solutions use zero-knowledge proofs to enable secure cross-chain transactions and to aggregate liquidity from isolated networks, supporting high-throughput decentralized applications. The platform provides customizable rollup architectures, including app-specific options, to unify tokens and liquidity across Ethereum Layer 2s and to give developers cost- and performance-efficient interoperability.
Mines of Dalarnia
Funding Round in 2021
Mines of Dalarnia is a blockchain-based adventure mining game and platform that combines single- and multiplayer modes. Players explore levels to mine relics and artifacts, upgrade gear, and progress through challenges. The game supports ownership of in-game land plots with a rental economy where plots can be leased to other players. Governance is enabled for token holders, who can vote on proposals related to land economy, miner policies, and other game development decisions. The platform also features an NFT marketplace for cosmetics and minerals and allows users to send, receive, and exchange digital assets within a single ecosystem.
Dtravel
Seed Round in 2021
Dtravel is a decentralized platform for the home-sharing economy that supports short- and long-term stays and accepts cryptocurrency alongside traditional payment methods. It operates without intermediaries by returning ownership, control and decision-making to hosts and guests through blockchain technology, promoting transparency and reducing fees in the home rental market. The platform aims to empower guests to shape their travel experiences while maintaining community transparency and trust.
Composable Finance
Venture Round in 2021
Composable Finance develops infrastructure to enable a multi-layer, multi-chain future for Ethereum and other Layer 1 blockchains. It builds cross-layer, cross-chain interoperability technology that connects Ethereum layer-two solutions and allows smart contracts from different Layer 1 networks to run together on a single parachain, enabling liquidity fragmentation and broader financial and creative freedom for developers and traders.
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.
Spherium.Finance
Seed Round in 2021
Spherium is a multi-chain incubation and grant program. They connect the two through a transparent, non-custodial, and user-friendly one-stop DEFI financial system. They access the decentralized ecosystem, such as decentralized exchanges, protocols, staking, mobile wallets, and cross-chain transfer systems such as Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, and Avalanche.
Automata Network
Seed Round in 2021
Automata Network is a decentralized protocol that offers middleware-like privacy services for decentralized applications across various platforms, including Ethereum, Polkadot, and Binance Smart Chain. Its focus is on delivering traceless privacy, which enhances user trust in computing systems by ensuring the authenticity of operations on-chain. By facilitating high assurance and frictionless computation, Automata Network aims to empower clients to maintain privacy while engaging in decentralized activities.
MetisDAO
Seed Round in 2021
Metis is a first of its kind, scaling and user friendly platform built to scale Ethereum and facilitate infrastructure development. The Metis Layer 2 is just the core component of the Metis Stack*, followed by the Reputation Power System, and the Decentralized Autonomous Company (DAC) Framework.
Royale Finance
Series A in 2021
Royale Finance specializes in providing cross-chain decentralized finance services tailored for the iGaming industry. The company develops a user-centric platform that facilitates Web 3.0 smart-backed liquidity, empowering iGaming entrepreneurs to foster innovation while ensuring security and transparency through blockchain technology. By enabling these entrepreneurs to access funding from a network of participants who are incentivized to contribute capital, Royale Finance enhances the financial landscape within the iGaming sector, promoting growth and sustainability.
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.
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.
Nexus Mutual
Seed Round in 2019
Nexus Mutual Limited is a London-based company that operates a decentralized insurance platform utilizing blockchain technology, specifically the Ethereum public blockchain. Founded in 2017, it offers a novel alternative to traditional insurance by enabling users to become members and collectively share insurance risks without the involvement of conventional insurance companies. Members can purchase coverage, and their decisions are governed by smart contracts, which ensure transparency and enforceability. Initially, Nexus Mutual launched with a product focusing on earthquake coverage, allowing participants to manage and mitigate risks collaboratively. The platform aims to recreate traditional mutual insurance models on a broader scale, providing an innovative approach to risk management in the insurance industry.
Polygon
Corporate Round in 2019
Polygon is a blockchain scalability platform designed to enhance the usability and convenience of decentralized transactions. By offering a structured and user-friendly environment for Ethereum scaling and infrastructure development, Polygon aims to address the slow, expensive, and complex nature of current decentralized systems. The platform combines various scaling solutions and development tools, prioritizing user experience to facilitate quicker and more secure transactions. Polygon's mission is to drive mainstream adoption of blockchain technology, enabling a more accessible and efficient decentralized ecosystem.