Crypto & Web3 Startups

Shinkai is a decentralized AI platform that lets users build and run autonomous agents across multiple AI networks (local, cloud, and decentralized models) while keeping identity, data, and payments under user control. It offers a browser runtime and a desktop runtime with a unified agent builder, an AI network router, agent collaboration, tool integrations, and x402 decentralized micropayments.

6 investors

Solidus Labs provides compliance and market monitoring software for cryptocurrency and traditional finance. The platform monitors market events and detects risk typologies across 150+ markets for retail and institutional entities.

6 investors

Sound was a music platform for artists and collectors to mint and collect music onchain; the platform is now offline as of January 2026, with all collected music and metadata preserved on decentralized storage.

6 investors

Stablecore provides digital asset infrastructure for banks and credit unions, enabling them to work with stablecoins, tokenization, and blockchain technology. The company builds core banking infrastructure for financial institutions entering the digital asset space.

6 investors

Strike is a Bitcoin financial platform where users can buy, sell, spend, save, and borrow against bitcoin, with features including zero-fee recurring buys, Lightning Network payments, and free on-chain withdrawals. It also offers business accounts for building bitcoin treasuries, private client services for large orders, cross-border cash transfers, and a developer platform.

6 investors

t3rn is an intent-based cross-chain interoperability network that routes cross-chain orders through a permissionless solver network and settles them with atomic finality across 56 blockchains. It targets crypto users and protocol developers, aiming to make multi-chain transactions feel like a single-chain experience.

6 investors

Tezos is an open-source blockchain platform designed for Web3 applications and asset management, featuring self-amending governance, smart contract safety, and a native token (XTZ) for network interaction and staking. It enables decentralized applications and user-governed interactions without intermediaries.

6 investors

thirdweb provides a developer platform for building web3 applications, offering tools for creating and managing tokens, bridging and swapping across blockchain networks, and wallet infrastructure. The platform serves web3 developers building applications from games to creator platforms on EVM and Solana chains.

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Upstream is a no-code, full-stack platform for launching and managing decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), bundling voting, proposals, governance, chat, events, and a shared community treasury in one place. It provides blockchain-based tools including a community wallet for holding money, NFTs, and web3 tokens.

6 investors

Goldfinch Finance provides onchain access to private credit funds managed by established firms like Ares, Apollo, and Golub, offering exposure to senior secured loans across multiple industries. The platform is currently shutting down and no longer accepting new deposits.

6 investors

WeatherXM operates a community-powered decentralized (DePIN) weather network where owners deploy solar-powered weather stations and earn $WXM token rewards for contributing data. It sells hyperlocal weather data collected from its global stations to individuals, businesses, and research organizations through a B2B API.

6 investors

Wilder World is a blockchain-based open-world simulation game featuring the virtual city of Wiami, where players engage in racing, combat, missions, and asset ownership within a fully onchain economy. The game combines gameplay mechanics from multiple genres and incorporates faction-based competition.

6 investors

XDAO is a no-code, multi-chain framework for creating and managing DAOs, letting groups deposit crypto assets, run on-chain governance and voting, raise capital via crowdfunding, and interact with DeFi protocols through multi-signature treasuries. It serves venture funds, investment clubs, project treasuries, grant programs, gaming guilds, and other groups managing shared assets, and is available on desktop, mobile web, and as a Telegram Mini App.

6 investors

Zama provides a protocol that encrypts transaction amounts, balances, and commercial references on public blockchains while keeping addresses public, enabling confidential onchain corporate payments such as cross-border vendor settlement, marketplace payouts, and treasury flows. It targets financial institutions and enterprises, integrating with existing custody, treasury, ERP, and compliance systems while running in production on Ethereum mainnet.

6 investors

Addressable provides a data-driven marketing platform for Web3 and crypto companies, offering precision audience targeting, Web2-to-Web3 attribution, and on-chain and social activity insights. It helps marketers measure channel impact and acquire users for projects such as NFTs and gaming.

5 investors

Altius Labs builds customized, high-performance blockchain infrastructure for teams running onchain applications and financial workloads, letting them own their chain's gas fees, sequencing revenue, and governance. Its architecture combines an EVM L1 for settlement with a non-EVM specialized execution environment, targeting high-frequency transactions and onchain markets.

5 investors

Amberdata provides institutional-grade data, analytics, and infrastructure solutions for digital assets and Web3, covering market data, portfolio and risk management, compliance, and tax management. It serves financial institutions operating across spot, futures, options, and multiple blockchains in both centralized and decentralized markets.

5 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.

5 investors

Aperture Finance is a decentralized finance platform that uses AI-powered, intent-based architecture, letting users express financial strategies in natural language through a chatbot that translates them into a domain-specific language for execution. It offers gasless transactions and a solver network for pricing and execution, serving both traditional finance funds and DeFi users.

5 investors

Archway is a blockchain protocol that rewards developers who build decentralized applications by giving them a share of gas fees, network inflation rewards, and the ability to charge usage premiums on their smart contracts. It targets Web3 developers building dapps on its network.

5 investors

Automata builds a hardware-anchored verification layer for autonomous agents, using trusted execution environments (Intel SGX/TDX, AMD SEV-SNP, AWS Nitro) to enable onchain attestation of machine identity, state, and execution. It provides Rust and Solidity SDKs, a DCAP attestation dashboard, and TEE engineering for blockchain and AI workloads, serving developers and infrastructure teams such as rollups and decentralized exchanges.

5 investors

Autonomys (Subspace Network) provides permanent, verifiable decentralized storage for AI agent memory and data, using a Proof-of-Archival-Storage consensus protocol across independent nodes. Its Auto Drive product offers client-side AES-256-GCM encryption, one-time payment via AI3 tokens, and cryptographic proofs that let agents verify data integrity before use.

5 investors

Avail is a data availability layer and multi-chain protocol that enables decentralized applications to operate across multiple blockchains without requiring code changes. The platform provides unified liquidity routing, intent-based transaction execution, and infrastructure for DEXs, aggregators, and wallets through its $AVAIL token ecosystem.

5 investors