Crypto & Web3 Startups

Hashdex is a crypto-focused asset manager that offers exchange-traded products giving investors regulated exposure to crypto assets. Its funds include index-based and Bitcoin ETFs listed in the U.S. market.

7 investors

Hut 8 provides secure Canadian cloud, colocation, backup, and disaster recovery services for businesses with data residency, compliance, and uptime requirements. It operates five Tier III-grade data centers in Vancouver, Kelowna, and the Greater Toronto Area serving Canadian organizations.

7 investors

Immunefi is a crowdsourced security platform for Web3, offering bug bounty programs, audit competitions, invite-only programs, security audits, and PR reviews that connect protocols with security researchers to find and disclose onchain vulnerabilities. It serves web3 protocols and blockchain projects, and in 2025 launched Immunefi Magnus, a unified security operations platform for the onchain economy.

7 investors

IMPOSSIBLE is a research and advisory firm supporting Web3 projects across multiple blockchain ecosystems. The firm helps teams design token economies, raise capital, and build communities, while developing infrastructure tools like CURATED.

7 investors

Jetlore was a Palo Alto AI startup that turned unstructured retail product data into structured attributes so merchants could personalise what each shopper saw. Founded by Stanford researchers, it raised from Sierra Ventures, Alsop Louie Partners, Fenox Venture Capital, BRM Capital and Mercury Fund, and PayPal acquired it in 2018.

7 investors

Kotani Pay provides last-mile payout services that convert digital assets and blockchain-based funds into local payments, such as mobile money accounts, for end users. It serves businesses running blockchain operations that need affordable ways to disburse funds to recipients.

7 investors

Kusama is a blockchain network serving as an experimental platform for zero-knowledge technology and decentralized applications. It operates as a permissionless network where developers can test and deploy novel consensus mechanisms and cryptographic innovations.

7 investors

LunarCrush analyzes millions of social media posts in real time across networks like X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and news to produce sentiment and influence metrics for crypto assets, stocks, brands, and people. It delivers this social intelligence to individuals and teams through API access, MCP-based AI integrations, and a dashboard for use in AI workflows.

7 investors

Magic provides an API for embedded wallet creation, transaction signing, and onchain automation, serving developers and applications building on blockchain infrastructure. The platform enables user onboarding via email, social, passkeys, or SSO with wallet provisioning and transaction execution capabilities.

7 investors

Meanwhile is a licensed Bitcoin-denominated life insurance company whose policies collect premiums and pay death benefits in BTC, with premiums that grow at a guaranteed rate in Bitcoin terms and the option to take Bitcoin loans against policy value. It serves individuals and international clients seeking to pass Bitcoin to beneficiaries, operating under Bermuda insurance regulation.

7 investors

Mudrex is a cryptocurrency trading platform that enables users to buy, sell, and trade 650+ digital assets including Bitcoin, altcoins, and Web3 tokens in Indian Rupees. The platform serves over 3 million Indian traders with spot trading, futures contracts, commodity perpetuals, and stablecoin on-ramp/off-ramp services.

7 investors

Neon Labs develops technology to bridge Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) applications with the Solana blockchain, aiming to make Web3 transactions faster and cheaper. It operates as a remote-first company building infrastructure for blockchain and Web3 developers.

7 investors

Nixtla provides enterprise-grade forecasting and anomaly detection platform using AI/ML techniques like TimeGPT for time series analysis. The platform serves businesses across industries including logistics, retail, and technology sectors, deployable on premises or in the cloud.

7 investors

NYDIG combines bitcoin mining operations with financial infrastructure services, leveraging low-cost energy from its parent company Stone Ridge's natural gas assets. The company serves institutional and retail participants seeking exposure to bitcoin and financial services aligned with the modern economy.

7 investors

Optimum applies Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) to speed up blockchain data propagation, encoding transactions, blocks, and data blobs into resilient packets to reduce latency and bandwidth use. Its tools target Ethereum validators, node operators, and high-performance blockchains, with a network where operators run nodes to monetize bandwidth in a "latency economy."

7 investors

Opyn provides a permissionless decentralized finance protocol for deploying perpetual futures markets on any ERC-20 token pair, with features including automated market making vaults, portfolio margin, and support for linear, stable, and option-like perps. The platform enables users to trade leverage across various assets while maintaining true decentralization without custodial control.

7 investors

Orca is a liquidity protocol and trading platform on the Solana blockchain that enables users to discover, deploy, and manage yield strategies across decentralized liquidity pools. It provides tools for portfolio management, performance tracking, and capital-efficient market access for cryptocurrency traders and liquidity providers.

7 investors

Origin Protocol builds onchain yield products such as automatically-compounding ERC-20 tokens that generate staking and arbitrage returns, along with governance and yield-forwarding mechanisms. It serves DeFi users and liquidity providers within the Ethereum/crypto ecosystem.

7 investors

Pantera Capital is a US-based institutional asset manager focused exclusively on blockchain and digital asset investing, offering venture, token, and liquid/hedge fund strategies. It backs early- and growth-stage crypto companies and protocols for institutional investors.

7 investors

Pontem is a product development studio building blockchain products using the Move language on Aptos and other Layer 1 networks. Its offerings include a rollup suite, a multi-chain Web3 wallet, and developer tooling for the Move/Aptos ecosystem, serving end users, professionals, and developers.

7 investors

Predicate builds infrastructure for onchain financial products, offering programmable policy tools that handle regulatory requirements and risk controls for businesses operating in regulated markets. It aims to let users in regulated markets transact with each other on blockchain-based financial systems.

7 investors

Zenrock builds a decentralized custody layer for onchain assets, centered on zrChain, a purpose-built Layer 1 blockchain and a Decentralized Custody Token (DCT) standard that lets tokens be ported across chains. Aimed at institutions, its offerings include zenBTC, a wrapped Bitcoin on Solana that earns yield from protocol fees.

7 investors

Rocket Pool is a decentralized staking protocol offering liquid and node staking products for the Ethereum ecosystem. It serves ETH holders and node operators participating in Ethereum staking.

7 investors

RWA.xyz is a data platform that tracks tokenized real-world assets and the broader tokenization ecosystem, covering asset managers, tokenization platforms, and blockchain networks. It provides metrics such as asset values, holders, stablecoin data, network league tables, and investment opportunities for users following the crypto tokenization market.

7 investors