Crypto & Web3 Startups

CipherOwl provides AI-powered security and compliance infrastructure for institutional stablecoins and digital assets, automating screening, investigation, and regulatory reporting across blockchain networks. The platform serves banks, protocols, custodians, and public sector organizations managing on-chain risk and compliance obligations.

4 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.

4 investors

Cobre operates a payments platform for businesses in Latin America, offering local instant payments in Colombia and Mexico, cross-border payments, bank account aggregation, and stablecoin on-ramp/off-ramp and payouts over its own infrastructure. It targets companies needing multi-currency treasury, FX, and reconciliation across the region.

4 investors

Code4rena was a platform that organized security audits and bug bounties for decentralized finance projects, connecting security researchers with blockchain development teams. The company is closing after five years of operation.

4 investors

An AI agent that manages international trade operations for exporters and importers, including customs clearance, cross-border payments, and trade financing. Built by a Central Bank-licensed FX bank, the system handles regulatory compliance and reduces operational costs in cross-border commerce.

4 investors

Cogni is a mobile cryptocurrency wallet application that enables users to manage and control their crypto and digital assets across multiple blockchain networks in a single interface. The wallet provides self-custody features including private key management and supports NFTs and decentralized applications.

4 investors

CFX Labs provides wholesale infrastructure for programmable money services, including stablecoin issuance, wallet solutions that accept cash and wires, and real-time payouts across 220+ markets. It serves businesses building financial products and services.

4 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.

4 investors

CatchBack is a platform that links digital NFTs with physical Pokémon cards, letting collectors buy, trade, and own cards through digital-to-physical ownership. It features "Catch Packs," a $1 marketplace, Dutch auctions, lending protocols, and vaulting for card collectors.

4 investors

Cube is a cryptocurrency exchange offering a central limit order book with MPC-based custody, supporting trading of over 1,420 tokens. It uses implied matching across multiple order books to consolidate liquidity, provides co-located low-latency execution, slippage protection, and non-custodial vaults with built-in TWAP and DCA order types.

4 investors

CubeNexus builds a spatial-temporal data layer that unifies sensor, asset, and operational geospatial and time-series data across a company's existing warehouse and GIS systems. It targets enterprise analytics and industrial software teams in sensor-heavy domains such as aviation and oil & gas.

4 investors

Cybrid provides an API platform that orchestrates payments across stablecoins (USDC, USDT, Bitcoin, Lightning) and fiat rails (ACH, Wire, RTP, EFT, Interac), with built-in compliance (KYC, KYB, AML), custody, liquidity, and settlement tools. It serves fintechs, banks, and businesses handling cross-border remittances and B2B payments across the U.S. and Canada.

4 investors

Cypher operated a crypto-based platform including a consumer app, a business card platform, and the CYPR token ecosystem, offering crypto-linked payment cards with spend rewards. The company has been acquired by Nium and is winding down its platform.

4 investors

Dakota provides a regulated banking stack that lets companies launch neobanks with accounts, payments, and global settlement, plus stablecoin-backed debit card issuance under a single licensed compliance program. It offers developer tooling including typed SDKs, agent-ready documentation, KYC import from providers like Sumsub and Persona, and automatic payment-network routing.

4 investors

Decent provides a crypto trade-routing API that aggregates across 200+ blockchains to execute token swaps and convert any token back to fiat. It offers on- and off-ramp distribution for wallets, marketplaces, exchanges, and apps that move crypto, and is presented in connection with MoonPay Trade.

4 investors

Decred is a cryptocurrency protocol that uses a hybrid proof-of-work and proof-of-stake consensus system, emphasizing holder participation through direct voting rights and treasury-funded development. The network operates as a decentralized autonomous organization with optional privacy features, a peer-to-peer decentralized exchange, and Layer 2 scaling via the Lightning Network.

4 investors

Dialect provides infrastructure for Web3 user experiences, offering Blinks (embedded blockchain transactions) and Alerts (onchain notifications) that integrate directly into digital platforms without redirects. The platform serves crypto applications and DeFi platforms seeking faster blockchain interaction and user engagement.

4 investors

Diem is a search engine designed as a social platform where users can ask questions and engage with a community, resembling an intimate conversational space similar to Reddit.

4 investors

Digital Asset (DA) is the creator of the Canton Network, a privacy-enabled blockchain for global financial markets that supports tokenization of real-world assets and connects traditional and decentralized finance. It works with banks, exchanges, and other financial institutions to build, connect, and scale on-chain applications for capital markets.

4 investors

DEA is a blockchain-based company that develops Web3 and gamification solutions for social issue resolution and digital asset management.

4 investors

double jump.tokyo is an enterprise Web3 infrastructure company offering four solutions—corporate wallets, stablecoin payments, AI agent payments, and crypto asset accounting—for companies' authentication and payment needs. Its products include N Suite, an MPC-based enterprise wallet SaaS with approval workflows and audit logs, and RIKYU, a crypto accounting SaaS that automates profit/loss calculation, bookkeeping, and tax filing from on-chain assets.

4 investors

Drift is a decentralized trading platform on Solana that allows users to trade perpetual futures and spot markets with leverage up to 101x, earn yield on deposits, and access credit solutions. The platform serves individual traders and institutional investors seeking on-chain derivatives trading with optimized execution and risk management.

4 investors

Dymension is a decentralized layer-1 protocol that lets creators launch tokens and convert them into full blockchains called RollApps, with built-in DEX and rollup-as-a-service tooling. It supports custom VMs such as EVM and CosmWasm, along with governance, staking, and interoperability features.

4 investors

Eclipse builds an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) as its execution environment, combining Solana's high-throughput execution with Ethereum's liquidity and security. It serves crypto developers and users building and running onchain applications and DeFi across the Ethereum and Solana ecosystems.

4 investors