Crypto & Web3 Startups

Alethea AI builds at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain, introducing intelligent NFTs (iNFTs) and working on decentralized, user-owned AI systems and autonomous agents. The company develops and contributes to the AI Protocol, a permissionless framework for agentic AI.

6 investors

Alfred Pay provides cross-border payment infrastructure for Latin America, offering virtual local bank accounts, instant multi-currency settlement, and a developer API. It serves global crypto platforms, fintech companies, and trade and logistics businesses that need to send and receive payments across countries like Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina without setting up local entities.

6 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.

6 investors

FORTH DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization that governs the AMPL token and manages treasury assets through community voting, including protocol-owned liquidity and ecosystem grants in the elastic finance space.

6 investors

Analog builds an AI-powered cross-chain liquidity and execution layer that moves assets across EVM, Solana, and real-world assets without bridges, using its Timechain and General Message Passing (GMP) technology. It offers omnichain token minting, staking of its $ANLOG token, and the Analog Watch analytics tool for tracking TVL and liquidity flows, targeting DeFi and institutional users.

6 investors

Astar is a web3 collective built around Astar Network, providing onchain finance infrastructure including the ASTR token, dApp staking, governance, portfolio tracking, yield access, and risk monitoring for crypto and tokenized assets. Its ecosystem spans DeFi protocols, wallets, liquid staking, cross-chain bridging, and developer tooling, with a stated focus on Japanese enterprises.

6 investors

Aurora operates the Network of Virtual Chains, offering developers customizable, EVM-compatible chains that run as smart contracts on the NEAR blockchain. It provides pre-configured infrastructure such as validators, oracles, and onramps so developers can deploy their own chains and dApps without building traditional L2 infrastructure.

6 investors

Autograph is a platform that facilitates branded digital collectibles and experiences, typically NFTs, featuring collaborations with celebrities, athletes, and influencers from sports, music, and entertainment sectors.

6 investors

Axoni provides a distributed ledger platform for post-trade processing and settlement in financial markets, serving institutional clients in capital markets operations. The company focuses on blockchain technology applications for the enterprise finance sector.

6 investors

Babylon Chain provides trustless infrastructure enabling native Bitcoin to be used as collateral in DeFi protocols and participate in Bitcoin staking without requiring custody transfer, wrapping, or bridging to other networks.

6 investors

Bastion provides stablecoin issuance infrastructure with compliance and security features, enabling institutions to launch USD-backed stablecoins with customizable issuer models.

6 investors

BCB Group provides payment infrastructure and instant settlement for financial institutions operating across fiat and crypto markets, offering a unified platform to manage, pay, store, and trade fiat, stablecoins, and cryptocurrencies via UI and API. It reports reach across 50+ countries and is building its regulatory status in Europe.

6 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.

6 investors

Bitpanda is a European investment platform for retail investors to buy, sell and trade cryptocurrencies, stocks, ETFs and precious metals. It is licensed by financial regulators in Austria and Germany and operates in compliance with EU (MiCAR) standards.

6 investors

Canza Finance builds a decentralized financial infrastructure using Web3 and DeFi, working with local money market players to distribute financial data and transaction-based services. It offers a suite of products aimed at emerging markets and non-institutional users.

6 investors

Casa provides self-custody solutions for bitcoin and stablecoins, offering multi-signature security infrastructure for both individual and institutional users. The platform enables secure asset management through distributed key storage with dedicated expert support and inheritance planning features.

6 investors

Cedar is a cross-border payments platform that uses stablecoins to enable businesses to send and collect funds across Africa and global markets, with next-day (T+1) settlement, multi-currency support (USD, EUR, GBP, AED, and African currencies), and compliance tooling. It serves importers, exporters, digital commerce platforms, enterprises, and financial institutions handling international B2B payments.

6 investors

Cere Network is a decentralized data infrastructure protocol that uses edge clusters and AI agents to enable secure, real-time data automation for Web3 and AI applications. It is governed by the $CERE token and Cere DAO, and offers SDKs and tools that power use cases like Web3 gaming (CerePlay) and music/media (DaVinci).

6 investors

CertiK is a Web3 security platform that combines formal verification with smart contract audits, penetration testing, on-chain monitoring, AML/compliance tools, and incident response for blockchain projects, exchanges, and wallets. It offers products such as its Skynet real-time project evaluation system and SkyInsights transaction-monitoring and AML compliance suite for Web3 companies and VASPs.

6 investors

Chainflip is a decentralized cross-chain swap network that settles trades natively across chains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot without bridges or wrapped assets. It provides swap infrastructure, SDKs, and native cross-chain routes for developers, wallets, aggregators, and DeFi protocols, along with a JIT AMM for liquidity providers.

6 investors

ChainGPT builds AI-powered tools for the Web3 and blockchain space, including a launchpad and incubation lab for crypto projects. It offers services around tokenomics, fundraising, marketing, and product development for blockchain and DeFi startups.

6 investors

Clearpool is a decentralized finance protocol offering on-chain credit and yield products, including financing for fintechs, payment service providers, and institutions, short-term US treasury yield, trading yield strategies, and real-world-asset yield on Bitcoin, gold, and global currencies. It uses a governance and staking token (CPOOL) with an oracle pool for vault security.

6 investors

Composable Finance builds modular cross-chain infrastructure for DeFi, including Centauri (a cross-ecosystem implementation of IBC for trustless bridging), the XCVM orchestration layer, and its Picasso parachain. It targets developers and protocols building interoperable, cross-chain DeFi applications, and offers grants and engineering support through Composable Labs.

6 investors

Credora provides risk ratings for decentralized finance markets, including tokens, lending pairs, and vaults. The platform uses quantitative analysis methodology to assess and communicate DeFi market risk on a standardized scale.

6 investors