Whetstone Research 11 Feb, 2025, 00:00 $1.3m Pre-Seed building the future of onchain markets
Variant, Nascent, Credibly Neutral, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Ambush, Figment Capital
Hyperbolic 10 Dec, 2024, 00:00 $12m Series A Hyperbolic is an AI cloud platform that unites global compute resources to provide accessible, affordable, and scalable GPU resources and AI services
Variant, Polychain Capital
Lightspeed Faction, GSR, Bankless Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Chapter One, Vertex Ventures, Blockchain Builders Fund, Wintermute, Alumni Ventures, Ambush
Alluvial 12 Nov, 2024, 00:00 $4.3m Strategic a software development company supporting the staking standard Liquid Collective
Variant
Ethereal Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, F-Prime Capital, Nascent
Sapien 30 Oct, 2024, 00:00 $10.5m Seed Sapien, a startup that incentivizes people to supply all sorts of data for use in AI
Variant
Primitive Ventures, Animoca Brands, Yield Guild Games, HF0
Morpho Labs 1 Aug, 2024, 00:00 $50m Strategic Lending
Ribbit Capital
a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Pantera Capital, Brevan Howard, BlockTower Capital, Kraken Ventures, Hack VC, IOSG, RockawayX, L1D, Mirana Ventures, Cherry Crypto, Semantic, Fenbushi Capital, LeadBlock Partners, Robot Ventures
Farworld Labs 20 Jun, 2024, 00:00 $3m Pre-Seed web3 gaming studio
Lemniscap, Variant
Base Ecosystem Fund, Coinbase Ventures
Farcaster 21 May, 2024, 00:00 $150m decentralized social network
Paradigm
$1b a16z crypto, Haun Ventures, USV, Variant, Standard Crypto
Kiosk 2 May, 2024, 00:00 $10m Seed Farcaster client merging social and blockchain
Electric Capital
a16z crypto, USV, Variant
Turnkey 23 Apr, 2024, 00:00 $15m Series A secure, flexible, and scalable wallet infrastructure
Faction, Galaxy
Sequoia Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Alchemy, Figment Capital, Mirana Ventures, Anagram, TrueBridge, Asymmetric, Variant, Gemini
Delegate Labs 1 Feb, 2024, 00:00 $9m Delegate is building a cross-chain name service protocol named Clusters
Arrington XRP Capital
Electric Capital, Variant
Clusters 1 Feb, 2024, 00:00 $9m Seed Omnichain naming service protocol
Electric Capital, Arca, Variant, Collab+Currency, Arrington XRP Capital, Bloccelerate, Palm Tree Crew, Mask Network, Coinbase Ventures, Polygon Ventures, MetaStreet
Gevulot 29 Jan, 2024, 00:00 $6m Seed internet scale compute network for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification
Variant
RockawayX, Volt Capital, Staking Facilities
Modulus 1 Nov, 2023, 00:00 $6.3m Bring powerful AI on-chain with specialized ZK
Variant, 1kx
Floodgate, Inflection, Alliance DAO, Stanford Blockchain, GCR, Bankless Ventures
Blockaid 23 Oct, 2023, 00:00 $27m Series A web3 security
Ribbit Capital, Variant
Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts
Alluvial 11 Jul, 2023, 00:00 $12m Series A software development company supporting the enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol Liquid Collective,
Ethereal Ventures, Variant
Brevan Howard Digital, Avon Ventures, Nascent, a_capital, Robot Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, IOSG, Blockdaemon
Lens Protocol 8 Jun, 2023, 00:00 $15m Seed The Social Layer of Web3
IDEO CoLab Ventures, Variant, Blockchain Capital, Tencent, General Catalyst, Balaji Srinivasan, Hayden Adams, Hiten Shah, Delphi Digital, Dao5, Alex Atallah, Sandeep Nailwal, Kevin Owocki, Sebastien Borget, Maggie Love, pplplsr
Botto 16 Feb, 2023, 00:00 decentralized, autonomous artist governed by the people
Variant
Aztec 15 Dec, 2022, 00:00 $100m Series B privacy-first zk-rollup bringing confidentiality and cost savings to the Ethereum ecosystem
a16z
A Capital, King River Capital, Variant, SV Angel, HashKey, Fenbushi Capital, AVG
Shibuya 8 Dec, 2022, 00:00 $6.9m Seed Web3 content studio & creator platform
a16z, Variant
Joe Tsai, GMJP, Kevin Durant, Paris Hilton
Perennial 7 Dec, 2022, 00:00 $12m Seed DeFi derivatives protocol
Polychain Capital, Variant
Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, Scalar Capital, Robot Ventures
NiftyApes 1 Nov, 2022, 00:00 $4.2m Seed Liquidity protocol for NFTs
Variant, FinTech Collective
Robot Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, The Lao, Flamingo DAO, Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffmann, Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, Cyrus Younessi, DC Investor, James Young, James Duncan, Nadav Hollander, Brendan Forster, SuperRare, Rarible
