Crypto & Web3 Startups

Celestia designs and delivers custom, high-throughput blockchain chains for enterprises, separating compute and storage so each scales independently. It hands over production-ready infrastructure that clients own and control, targeting businesses building onchain payments, financial applications, and trading venues.

26 investors

EigenCloud is a developer platform providing cryptographic trust primitives for applications and AI agents through verifiable computation, inference, and data availability backed by slashable stake on EigenLayer.

26 investors

Ripple builds blockchain-based financial infrastructure to enable cross-border value transfer and payment solutions for enterprises, governments, and financial institutions. The company develops products and public blockchain technology (XRP Ledger) used by hundreds of customers across over 50 countries to facilitate payments, liquidity access, and financial inclusion.

26 investors

1inch develops decentralized finance (DeFi) technology and products aimed at giving users and partners secure, compliant access to on-chain financial tools. It positions itself around DeFi infrastructure and advocacy for compliant decentralized finance.

25 investors

Blockdaemon provides blockchain infrastructure services including staking, node deployment, APIs, and wallet management across 60+ protocols for financial institutions and developers. The company serves institutional customers globally with secure, scalable access to blockchain networks.

25 investors

Centrifuge enables investors to access tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) such as Treasury Bills, Asset Backed Securities, and Real Estate on a blockchain infrastructure. The platform provides legal, compliance, and portfolio management resources for traditional and DeFi-native organizations seeking alternative investment opportunities with improved liquidity and faster settlement.

25 investors

Stacks is a blockchain platform that enables smart contracts and decentralized applications to leverage Bitcoin as a secure base layer through a Layer 2 solution, offering developer tools and a programming language called Clarity.

25 investors

ethereum.org is a public, open-source educational resource and community portal for the Ethereum blockchain network, maintained by a core team and thousands of global contributors. The site serves as an onboarding portal and knowledge hub for developers, users, and those new to Ethereum and cryptocurrency.

25 investors

MoonPay provides infrastructure for buying, selling, and trading cryptocurrencies using standard payment methods such as cards and digital wallets, as well as tools for stablecoin management. The platform serves both individual users and companies seeking to integrate blockchain-based financial services.

24 investors

Mysten Labs builds infrastructure and tools for web3, focusing on making decentralized systems secure, reliable, and ready for mass adoption. The company develops foundational technologies for the decentralized web stack.

24 investors

Aave Labs is the original author and contributor to Aave, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol for lending and borrowing crypto assets. Launched in 2020 out of the earlier ETHLend project, it operates a multi-chain protocol and app used by everyday users to lend and borrow.

23 investors

Chainlink is an oracle platform that connects onchain applications with offchain data and external systems, serving major financial institutions and DeFi protocols with standards for data, interoperability, compliance, and privacy. The platform enables developers to build tokenized assets, cross-chain workflows, and institutional-grade blockchain applications across capital markets and decentralized finance.

23 investors

Lido is a liquid staking protocol for Ethereum that allows users to stake ETH and earn rewards while maintaining liquidity through the stETH token. It operates through a decentralized network of 900+ node operators worldwide and offers additional earn strategies through EarnETH and EarnUSD vaults.

23 investors

Morpho is a decentralized lending protocol that provides enterprise-grade infrastructure for launching lending products. It allows users to access yield on any asset, offer instant loans, and manage lending strategies across different risk profiles.

23 investors

Berachain is a Layer 1 blockchain network built around a Proof of Liquidity mechanism that directs block reward emissions as non-dilutive growth capital to ecosystem applications in exchange for revenue sharing with the network and tokenholders. It offers a DeFi product suite including trading, borrowing, and a native stablecoin (Honey) for crypto protocols and teams building on the chain.

22 investors

Ethena operates a crypto protocol offering USDe, a digital dollar, and sUSDe, a reward-accruing asset backed by collateralized assets with third-party attestations. It provides 24/7 minting and redemption, and integrates with platforms such as Binance, Aave, and Hyperliquid for trading collateral and yield products.

22 investors

ether.fi offers non-custodial crypto financial products, including staking, DeFi strategy vaults for ETH, BTC, and stablecoins, and a cashback debit card usable at over 100 million locations with no credit checks. It serves crypto holders looking to earn rewards on their assets and spend them for everyday purchases.

22 investors

Figment is an independent provider of staking infrastructure, offering non-custodial staking, reward tracking, API integrations, and slashing protection to institutional clients such as asset managers, exchanges, wallets, foundations, and custodians. It supports proof-of-stake digital assets including Ethereum and Solana within the Web3 ecosystem.

22 investors

0G (Zero Gravity) is a blockchain infrastructure stack for AI applications, combining an EVM-compatible Layer 1 chain, a distributed storage network, a compute network, and a scalable data availability layer. It targets developers building data-intensive AI workloads onchain, such as AI inference, model training, and data retrieval.

22 investors

Polygon provides blockchain-based cross-border treasury settlement using stablecoins, letting institutions convert between US dollars and stablecoins, move funds onchain, and pay out over bank rails like SWIFT, ACH, and RTP. It serves regulated financial institutions and corporate treasury teams handling international payments.

22 investors

Safe (formerly Gnosis Safe) develops on-chain smart wallet and multisig infrastructure for the crypto ecosystem, including a smart wallet SDK, multisig interface, recovery modules, and transaction builder. Its contracts are fully on-chain and open for builders, protocols, DAOs, and institutions managing treasuries.

22 investors

Anchorage Digital is a global cryptocurrency platform providing institutions with custody, staking, trading, governance, and settlement services, along with security infrastructure. The company operates through federally chartered and internationally licensed entities serving institutional clients managing digital assets.

21 investors

BitGo provides institutional-grade infrastructure for digital assets, including regulated custody, wallet services, prime brokerage (trading, financing, settlement), stablecoin issuance, and embedded crypto-as-a-service. It serves institutions, exchanges, ETF/ETP issuers, and enterprises operating in the cryptocurrency and digital asset market.

21 investors

Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that uses cryptographic proofs to distribute data across a global peer-to-peer network, offering an alternative to centralized cloud storage providers. The platform enables applications, archives, and data-heavy systems to store and retrieve data without reliance on centralized gatekeepers.

21 investors