Crypto & Web3 Startups

Aevo is a decentralized options and perpetual futures exchange that combines off-chain matching with on-chain settlement on a custom Ethereum Layer 2, offering traders options, perpetual futures, and structured products within a single margin account. The platform serves cryptocurrency traders seeking decentralized trading with centralized exchange-level performance.

4 investors

Afropolitan is building a network connecting people across Africa and the diaspora spanning art, finance, tech, health, energy, sports, and media, with a focus on tech and crypto value creation. It onboards members into a community centered on the mission of enabling Africans to live abundant lives.

4 investors

Allium provides a data infrastructure platform that translates blockchain data from 150+ chains and 10,000 protocols into standardized formats for enterprises. The company serves businesses seeking to understand onchain activity, operationalize workflows, and build products through APIs, real-time data streams, and AI-native interfaces.

4 investors

Althea provides a payment layer and a hybrid EVM blockchain built for infrastructure and connectivity, and since 2018 has delivered blockchain-enabled internet access to homes across varied terrain. Its Liquid Infrastructure product lets users fund and tokenize networked utilities such as fiber optic cable and cell tower capacity.

4 investors

Anytype is a decentralized collaboration and note-taking platform that emphasizes data privacy through local encryption and peer-to-peer synchronization. It provides offline-first productivity tools with block-based editing, databases, and multiple visualization views for personal and team use.

4 investors

Zone is a regulated blockchain network that enables payments and acceptance of digital currencies, operating as a blockchain-based payment infrastructure company. It has carved out its original banking technology business into a separate company, Qore, which provides an operating system to power fully digital and automated banks.

4 investors

Arcana Network (operating as Avail Nexus) provides multi-chain infrastructure that lets decentralized applications operate across blockchains without rebuilding, including unified balances that combine tokens across chains and a verifiable data availability layer for high-throughput applications. It targets dApp developers, DEXs, aggregators, and wallets, and its $AVAIL token connects users and liquidity across multiple blockchains.

4 investors

Arch Lending (legal entity ChainFi, Inc) offers crypto-backed loans to U.S. borrowers and businesses, using digital assets as collateral. Its lending service, powered by Anchorage Digital Bank, provides loan agreements with terms, interest rates, and repayment schedules subject to state-specific availability.

4 investors

Arcium operates a decentralized network for confidential computing that uses Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to execute computations without exposing input data. It targets AI and blockchain developers, offering tools like the Arcis Rust DSL, a Confidential SPL-Token standard for Solana, and the $ARX network token.

4 investors

ArDrive is a cloud storage application built on permanent, blockchain-based storage that lets users upload, encrypt, manage, and access files with no upload limits and a one-time payment model. It supports file licensing, site and app hosting, content streaming, and version tracking, and is used for personal, business, and NFT project data.

4 investors

Arf operates a regulated liquidity and settlement platform that provides short-term working capital and on/off-ramp infrastructure for licensed cross-border payment companies, using real-world-asset-based and attested digital assets such as stablecoins. It serves licensed financial institutions and is regulated in Switzerland.

4 investors

Argument builds systems for verifiable computing by combining zero-knowledge cryptography, formal verification, and distributed consensus technologies. Its work targets blockchain interoperability and provable software execution.

4 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.

4 investors

Arrakis provides onchain liquidity and market-making infrastructure for crypto projects, covering token launches, liquidity design, and yield-bearing assets. It also publishes original research on decentralized exchange liquidity and onchain market dynamics.

4 investors

Artemis provides fundamental data and metrics for digital finance, covering crypto companies and protocols. It offers tools to pull data into spreadsheets and query Artemis data tables via SQL or Python through Snowflake Data Share or Hex, serving investors and companies.

4 investors

Asset Reality provides asset recovery and data security services for seized cryptoassets, with a focus on conflict-free management and regulatory compliance. The company is registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority for specific cryptoasset activities.

4 investors

Assisterr AI Lab builds and deploys task-specific Small Language Models (SLMs) and AI agents that automate domain-specific business workflows and integrate into existing infrastructure. It also offers Agent Tokenization as a Service (ATaaS), an 80/20 on-chain tokenization model for AI startups and agent builders to launch and monetize tokenized AI agents.

4 investors

Autopools provides automated DeFi vaults that optimize yield by rebalancing across major protocols and assets including ETH and stablecoins. It targets crypto investors seeking to maximize returns on their holdings.

4 investors

Autonomys provides permanent, verifiable decentralized data storage designed to keep AI agent memory auditable and tamper-proof. It uses sharded, erasure-coded storage across independent nodes with a Proof-of-Archival-Storage consensus protocol, offering optional client-side AES-256-GCM encryption and one-time payment for permanent storage.

4 investors

Ava Labs is a company building blockchain infrastructure and tools for creating and using finance applications. Its team spans computer science, economics, finance, and law, with a focus on decentralized finance technology.

4 investors

Avantgarde Finance structures RWA-backed looping strategies aimed at capital efficiency with conservative risk controls, built around real-world-asset collateral and on-chain risk management. It targets strategic partners and counterparties for early DeFi deployments involving lending, leverage, and yield optimization.

4 investors

Avantis is a decentralized derivatives exchange built on Base that lets users trade leveraged perpetuals on crypto, forex, metals, commodities, and indices directly from their wallets. It serves onchain traders and liquidity providers, offering features like loss protection, positive slippage, an SDK for builders, and the $AVNT utility and governance token.

4 investors

Axiom develops OpenVM, a zero-knowledge virtual machine that enables cryptographic verification of software program execution. The technology is designed for production use in high-assurance applications including derivatives exchanges, blockchains, and layer-1 scaling solutions.

4 investors

Bancor is a decentralized exchange protocol that provides automated market maker (AMM) technology and liquidity infrastructure for decentralized finance. The platform serves cryptocurrency traders and liquidity providers with innovations including bonding curves, amplified liquidity, and asymmetric liquidity mechanisms.

4 investors