Across Protocol 4 Mar, 2025, 00:00 $41m Across protocol is a novel bridging method that combines an optimistic oracle, bonded relayers and single-sided liquidity pools to provide decentralized instant transactions from rollup chains to Ethereum mainnet
Paradigm
Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Multicoin Capital
Irreducible 30 Jan, 2025, 00:00 $24m Series A Irreducible accelerates zero-knowledge proof generation by operating FPGA clusters tailored for cryptographic computations, supporting blockchain protocols
Paradigm, Bain Capital Crypto
Fenbushi Capital, L2 Iterative Ventures, Robot Ventures
Variational 23 Oct, 2024, 00:00 $10.3m Seed Variational is a peer-to-peer trading protocol designed for perpetual and generalized derivatives
Bain Capital Crypto, Peak XV Partners
Coinbase Ventures, Hack VC, Dragonfly Capital, North Island Ventures
Celestia 23 Sep, 2024, 00:00 $100m OTC A modular consensus and data network that powers unstoppable applications with full stack customizability
Bain Capital Crypto
1kx, Robot Ventures, Syncracy Capital, Placeholder
Curio 6 Aug, 2024, 00:00 $5.7m Seed web3 game studio
Bain Capital Crypto, SevenX Ventures
OKX Ventures
M^0 5 Jun, 2024, 00:00 $35m Series A Decentralized money middleware that allows institutions to issue cryptodollars
Bain Capital Crypto
Wintermute, Galaxy, GSR, Caladan, SCB 10X
Flood
8 Feb, 2024, 00:00 $5.2m Seed Dex aggregator
Bain Capital Crypto
Archetype , Robot Ventures
Lolli 14 Dec, 2023, 00:00 $8m Series B bitcoin and cashback rewards application
Bitkraft Ventures
Sfermion, Prisma Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, Rahul Pagidipati, 2 Punks Capital, MZ Web3 Fund, Seven Seven Six, Pathfinder Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto, Serena Ventures, Logan Paul, Night Media
Aera 26 Oct, 2023, 00:00 $8m Seed Autonomous onchain treasury management for DAOs
Bain Capital Crypto
Jump Trading
Nocturne 25 Oct, 2023, 00:00 $6m Seed Usable on-chain privacy for Ethereum
Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Capital
Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures, Hack VC
Risc Zero 19 Jul, 2023, 00:00 $40m Series A RISC-V virtual trusted/trustless (it’s complicated) computer based on zero-knowledge cryptography, specifically zk-STARKs
Blockchain Capital
Bain Capital Crypto, Galaxy Digital, IOSG Ventures, RockawayX, Maven 11, Fenbushi Capital, Delphi Digital, Aglaé Ventures, IOBC Capital, zeroDAO, Alchemy
Worldcoin 25 May, 2023, 00:00 $115m Series C Worldcoin protocol is intended to be the world’s largest identity and financial public network
Blockchain Capital
a16z crypto, Bain Capital Crypto, Distributed Global
Scroll 6 Mar, 2023, 00:00 $50m zkEVM-based zkRollup on Ethereum that enables native compatibility for existing Ethereum applications and tools
Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Crypto
Robot Ventures , Santiago Roel Santos, Anthony Sassano, Ying Tong, Carlos Aria
Curio 21 Feb, 2023, 00:00 $2.9m Seed Blockchain gaming platform
Bain Capital Crypto
TCG, Formless Capital, Smrti Labs, Robot Ventures
OrbLabs 14 Feb, 2023, 00:00 $4.5m Seed cross-chain messaging protocols and omnichain applications
Bain Capital Crypto
Shima Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Modular Capital, SevenX Ventures
Ulvetanna 19 Jan, 2023, 00:00 $15m Seed Hardware Acceleration Platform for Next-Gen Blockchain
Bain Capital Crypto, Paradigm
$55m
Jump Crypto
Nucleo 22 Nov, 2022, 00:00 $4m Seed private, audit-friendly multisigs for on-chain orgs
Bain Capital Crypto, 6th Man Ventures
Aztec Network, Aleo, Espresso Systems
VenturePunk 2 Nov, 2022, 00:00 $1.5m Pre-Seed Web3 venture studio and builder community
PunkDAO, The Lao, Bufficorn Ventures, Erick Calderon, Devin Finzer, Bain Capital Crypto, ConsenSys, Polygon Ventures
Notebook Labs 27 Oct, 2022, 00:00 $3.3m Seed Privacy focussed Identity Protocol
Bain Capital Crypto
Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Abstract Ventures, Pioneer Fund, NFX
Celestia 19 Oct, 2022, 00:00 $55m Series A & B The first modular blockchain network to power scalable, secure Web3 app
Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Capital
Placeholder, Galaxy Digital, Delphi Digital , Blockchain Capital, NFX, Protocol Labs, Figment, Maven 11, The Spartan Group, FTX Ventures, Jump Crypto, Balaji Srinivasan, Eric Wall, Jutta Steiner, MH Ventures
Skip 22 Sep, 2022, 00:00 $6.5m Seed MEV Infrastructure
Bain Capital Crypto
Galaxy Digital, Robot Ventures, Jump Crypto
