Crypto & Web3 Startups

Arf operates a liquidity platform for licensed financial institutions in the cross-border payments sector, offering on-ramp and off-ramp infrastructure and settling with real-world-asset-based digital assets such as stablecoins. The company serves regulated cross-border payment companies and emphasizes compliance with financial regulations.

6 investors

ARQ Finance (formerly DolarApp) is a digital financial platform that enables currency exchange to digital dollars and euros, international payments, and investment access to global markets. It serves individuals seeking low-cost cross-border transactions and international investment opportunities.

6 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.

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

BiLira operates a cryptocurrency exchange platform where users can buy, sell, and trade digital assets using Turkish lira, and issues TRYB, a stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the Turkish lira across multiple blockchains including Ethereum, Solana, Binance Smart Chain, Polygon, and Avalanche. It serves retail crypto investors in the Turkish market.

6 investors

Bio Protocol is a decentralized science (DeSci) platform where people can fund, develop and govern tokenized early-stage scientific research from universities, companies and researchers. It offers token-based fundraising, staking rewards, and a scientific AI agent framework, supporting an ecosystem of biotech DAOs focused on areas such as longevity, women's health, and rare diseases.

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

Bitquery provides blockchain data analytics products, including cross-chain analytics, DEX trading insights, and DeFi protocol APIs for businesses building on blockchain infrastructure.

6 investors

Skybox AI is an AI tool that generates skybox environments and HDRI assets for game studios and creative professionals. It provides production-ready assets with fast generation times, high resolution output, and integration with game engines like Unity and Unreal.

6 investors

Blockmate provides crypto infrastructure and compliance tools for banks and fintech companies, including portfolio management, payment integration, and AML compliance features accessible via a single API. The platform serves financial institutions and developers seeking to integrate cryptocurrency services and Web3 functionality into their applications.

6 investors

Blockworks operates a platform for onchain capital markets, connecting investors and businesses and providing data, research, and information to help investors underwrite crypto assets. It also produces market and crypto research and media content such as its "The Breakdown" series.

6 investors

Boba Network is a hybrid blockchain and Layer 2 scaling solution built on Ethereum that provides off-chain data and compute, letting developers build dApps that connect to off-chain APIs at lower transaction costs. It targets blockchain developers building scalable, hybrid decentralized applications.

6 investors

BounceBit provides a blockchain-based yield and credit platform that allows users to deposit cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, SOL, USDT, BNB) to earn yield and access interest-free credit lines. The platform targets cryptocurrency holders seeking passive income and liquidity solutions without forced liquidations.

6 investors

Breach builds regulated insurance products for cryptocurrency and digital assets, offering coverage to both individual holders and institutional clients. Its products protect crypto and NFT holdings, including embedded insurance for self-custody wallets.

6 investors

Busha is an SEC-licensed digital asset exchange app where users buy, sell, and convert Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, and 70+ cryptocurrencies with local funding and payout options. It also offers yield/earn features, collateral-based lending through licensed partners, USD accounts, and virtual/physical debit cards, serving over a million users across Africa.

6 investors

ChainStarters builds intelligent software and provides implementation services that help organizations adopt AI and digital finance technologies, including work automation, knowledge organization, and on-chain financial products such as tokenization and stablecoins. It serves organizations looking to integrate AI and digital asset infrastructure into their business systems.

6 investors

Clipper is a decentralized exchange (DEX) offering concentrated liquidity pools for cryptocurrency trading, designed to protect liquidity providers from impermanent loss, MEV bots, and sandwich attacks. It operates on multiple blockchain networks and generates returns for LPs through trading fees and arbitrage.

6 investors

Colony (Colony Lab) is a crypto project on the Avalanche blockchain offering a governance token (CLY), staking contracts, and an index token (CAI) built on Phuture. The site currently serves as an offline wind-down page with instructions for interacting directly with its verified smart contracts to redeem remaining funds.

6 investors

Cometh provides a single API for businesses and financial institutions to integrate DeFi services including custody, staking and yield, trading and liquidity, and payments. Registered as a DASP, it offers smart accounts, cross-chain abstraction, and a compliance-ready infrastructure stack for fintechs and enterprises.

6 investors

Compass Labs provides a single API that lets financial institutions build and launch onchain financial products under their own brand while using their existing custody. It focuses on blockchain infrastructure connecting assets, markets, and consumer-facing applications in the financial sector.

6 investors

Concordia is an adaptive risk layer for DeFi that uses an AI engine to manage collateral, liquidation, and market risk across protocols. It offers a modular framework for developers to build applications, drawing on risk management practices from TradFi, CeFi, and DeFi.

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

Crypto startup accelerator, formerly Chicago DeFi Alliance, that reorganized as AllianceDAO to accelerate Web3 startups.

6 investors

Delta Exchange is a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform offering Bitcoin and Ether futures and options contracts with INR settlement for Indian users. The platform provides 24/7 market access, margin trading, and profit/loss calculations in Indian rupees.

6 investors