Crypto & Web3 Startups

Wormhole offers Native Token Transfers (NTT), an open framework for token issuers to create, transfer, and customize tokens across multiple blockchains without relying on pooled liquidity. It serves crypto and DeFi projects seeking to make tokens natively multichain while retaining issuer control over governance and compliance.

10 investors

1Money builds a decentralized payment network for stablecoin and tokenized deposit transfers, designed for global financial settlements. The network emphasizes security, compliance, and transaction speed without smart contract vulnerabilities.

9 investors

Agora operates a stablecoin platform focused on institutional adoption of regulated stablecoin infrastructure. The company offers AUSD, a stablecoin product serving institutional clients seeking regulated digital currency solutions.

9 investors

Alpen Labs builds a Bitcoin layer-2 network that enables financial applications through a ZK rollup with optimistic bridge architecture. It allows users to borrow against Bitcoin, earn interest, and transact in dollars while settling transactions directly on Bitcoin.

9 investors

Ankr provides Web3 infrastructure through a decentralized network of bare-metal nodes, offering RPC API access to 70+ blockchains, blockchain scaling services (rollups and sidechains), and staking solutions for developers and enterprises. It also serves enterprise clients with customized infrastructure and engineering services.

9 investors

API3 operates a decentralized oracle network that allows DeFi projects to earn rewards (OEV Rewards) for participating in its data provision and consensus system. The platform serves decentralized finance protocols and projects building on blockchain networks.

9 investors

BENQI is a decentralized finance protocol on the Avalanche blockchain offering liquid staking of AVAX (via sAVAX), lending and borrowing of crypto assets, and tools for bootstrapping validators. It serves crypto users who want to earn yield, borrow against holdings, or run Avalanche validators without locking large amounts of AVAX upfront.

9 investors

Big Time is an action RPG set in a time-travel universe where players fight through colliding eras alongside characters from Evermore Academy. The game features a player-owned economy built on NFTs and the $BIGTIME token, letting players craft, collect, trade, and sell in-game cosmetic and SPACE collectibles via the Open Loot Marketplace.

9 investors

Bitstack is a mobile application that enables automatic, low-friction bitcoin savings through recurring purchases and round-up features linked to users' bank accounts. The platform serves retail investors across Europe seeking to accumulate bitcoin over time.

9 investors

Blockaid is a real-time onchain security platform for web3 builders, used to observe onchain assets, detect anomalies, and mitigate risk across blockchains, wallets, and connected web properties. It processes large volumes of signal to identify malicious tokens, addresses, transactions, and dApps, and combines its threat intelligence with customer-defined policies through an API and dashboard.

9 investors

Boost provides on-chain incentive campaign tools that let teams distribute token rewards to drive user transactions across Farcaster, World, and the open web. It offers a headless SDK and a drop-in RewardKit widget, with smart-account budgets, identity verification, and a dashboard for tracking metrics like cost per acquisition and retention.

9 investors

Coin Metrics provides market and on-chain data, reference rates, and indexes for crypto and digital assets, delivered to institutional investment teams via APIs. Its offerings support research, execution, risk management, and operations across the digital asset investment lifecycle.

9 investors

Connext provides xCall, a developer tool that enables applications to interact with users, tokens, and other applications across multiple blockchains. It serves developers building on multiple chains through a simple, code-first interface.

9 investors

Cross River is a bank that combines traditional banking safety and compliance expertise with technology innovation to provide end-to-end financial solutions for partner companies.

9 investors

DAWN is a decentralized broadband network that enables users to share internet capacity and operate as their own internet providers through a hardware node and protocol system. The platform allows individuals to earn rewards by contributing bandwidth to a trustless, on-chain connectivity network.

9 investors

Fun provides blockchain payment infrastructure that handles deposits, withdrawals, transaction routing, and multi-method checkout for fintech, DeFi, trading, and gaming applications. It serves companies building on blockchain rails, supporting 50+ payment methods across 100+ countries.

9 investors

Gitcoin operates a directory and knowledge base for funding mechanisms, platforms, and research in decentralized networks, Ethereum, and public goods. The platform documents quadratic funding, retroactive grants, and other onchain coordination mechanisms for distributing capital to open-source contributors and ecosystem projects.

9 investors

Hivemapper is a decentralized mapping network built on Solana that enables contributors to map the world in real time using cameras and apps while earning rewards through a token-based incentive system.

9 investors

Improbable is a venture builder and technology company that creates and scales ventures in AI, Web3, and the metaverse, drawing on over a decade of experience in large-scale multiplayer technology and virtual worlds. The company builds new ventures from the ground up and spins out internal teams into independent companies, combining capital, technical expertise, and operational support.

9 investors

Keep is a privacy-focused infrastructure project in the crypto sector that enables secure computation and data privacy for blockchain applications. The project is part of Thesis's portfolio and facilitates the upgrade of KEEP and NU tokens to the new T token.

9 investors

Kiln provides infrastructure for staking cryptocurrencies across multiple blockchain networks, letting asset owners earn rewards by securing networks and participating in protocol consensus. It acts as a staking aggregator serving crypto holders and enterprises through products such as an on-chain dApp, an enterprise dashboard, and validator services.

9 investors

Kontigo is a stablecoin-based neobank super app for emerging markets, offering a self-custody USDC wallet, an international USDC credit and debit card, a payment-acceptance product with local and global payment methods, and stablecoin infrastructure via APIs. It targets consumers and businesses in Latin America who want to save in USDC, invest, and pay in local currency.

9 investors

Koywe provides financial services and regulatory compliance solutions for companies across Latin America, with operations in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. The company serves as a strategic partner focused on building inclusive and accessible financial services in the region.

9 investors

Ledn provides bitcoin-backed loans and related financial services to individual clients globally, with over $10 billion in loan originations since 2018. It operates as a consumer-focused crypto lending platform in the digital asset industry.

9 investors