Crypto & Web3 Startups

Venly provides blockchain developer tools including a Token API for creating, minting, burning, and managing ERC20 tokens without deep blockchain expertise. Its APIs serve developers and businesses building Web3 products across use cases like loyalty programs, supply chain tracking, real estate tokenization, gaming, and DeFi.

6 investors

Voatz develops a secure remote voting platform that uses hardware-based security, biometrics, and blockchain technology to enable voters to cast ballots from anywhere while maintaining election integrity through voter-verifiable audit trails.

6 investors

Wintermute is a digital asset trading firm that provides liquidity, OTC spot and derivatives trading, market making, and DeFi services for token issuers, protocols, and institutional market participants globally. It also runs Wintermute Ventures, investing in early-stage DeFi protocols, and offers algorithmic trading across digital asset markets.

6 investors

XDAO is a platform for creating and managing digital autonomous organizations (DAOs) across multiple blockchains, providing treasury management, governance tools, and infrastructure for groups to coordinate and pool resources without intermediaries. The platform serves organizations ranging from crypto treasuries to charitable foundations and community funds globally.

6 investors

XDEFI, rebranding to Ctrl, offers a self-custody crypto wallet available as a Chrome extension and iOS/Android apps. The wallet provides a unified multi-chain portfolio, gas fee abstraction paid from a single token balance, and social-login setup without seed phrases.

6 investors

Zcash is a cryptocurrency that uses zero-knowledge encryption to enable private, end-to-end encrypted peer-to-peer payments. It operates as a decentralized protocol available through digital wallets and exchanges for everyday private payments and savings.

6 investors

Zebec builds blockchain-powered financial products including payroll, cards, and payments solutions for individuals, businesses, and teams. The company operates a family of subsidiaries serving traditional and digital economies across payroll processing, compliance infrastructure, and fintech services.

6 investors

Zest Protocol is a self-custodial lending protocol for Bitcoin that lets users borrow stablecoins against their BTC and earn yield in BTC, using BitVM to keep collateral on the Bitcoin base layer. It operates a market on the Stacks Bitcoin L2 where users deposit assets like sBTC, STX, and stSTX to earn yield or borrow stablecoins, serving both retail and institutional DeFi users.

6 investors

Zoth is an onchain neobank offering RWA-backed yield strategies and DeFi products, along with cross-border stablecoin payments, cards, and an AI agent stack for corporate finance teams and CFOs. It targets users in the global south and the agentic economy, providing regulated money transmission and compliance infrastructure.

6 investors

Addressable provides a data-driven marketing platform for Web3 and crypto companies, offering precision audience targeting, Web2-to-Web3 attribution, and on-chain and social activity insights. It helps marketers measure channel impact and acquire users for projects such as NFTs and gaming.

5 investors

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.

5 investors

Alien provides a decentralized identity and blockchain platform that establishes proof of humanity and enables verification of AI agents. The network serves users seeking privacy-preserving authentication, human-only digital spaces, and transparent accountability for autonomous AI actions.

5 investors

Althea builds a blockchain-based settlement layer (Althea L1) for open-access telecom and infrastructure networks, enabling autonomous machines and community-owned internet service providers to operate. It works with ISPs, nonprofits, and cooperatives to deliver high-speed internet to rural and underserved communities in the US and abroad.

5 investors

Altius Labs builds customized, high-performance blockchain infrastructure for teams running onchain applications and financial workloads, letting them own their chain's gas fees, sequencing revenue, and governance. Its architecture combines an EVM L1 for settlement with a non-EVM specialized execution environment, targeting high-frequency transactions and onchain markets.

5 investors

Arch is a Bitcoin-native chain and execution environment (ArchVM) that lets institutions and users borrow, lend, earn yield, swap, and build financial applications that settle directly to Bitcoin without bridging, wrapping, or leaving self-custody. It uses threshold cryptography (FROST + ROAST) and Taproot wallet compatibility to make balance-sheet Bitcoin productive as collateral for capital markets products.

5 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.

5 investors

Artemis is building an AI-driven investing platform that brings together proprietary data, market signals, and LLM-powered tools so retail and institutional investors can research and decide what to invest in across equities, crypto tokens, and private markets. It also aims to create an investing network connecting retail investors, institutions, and companies.

5 investors

Ava Protocol builds decentralized, trustless automation for Web3, aiming to integrate automated interactions into everyday users' blockchain activity. The company focuses on private and composable automation tools within the crypto space.

5 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.

5 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.

5 investors

Azteco sells prepaid bitcoin vouchers that work like digital gift cards, letting customers buy bitcoin starting at $10 and redeem it in under a minute. The vouchers are also marketed as BTC or crypto gift cards for retail consumers.

5 investors

Azura is an onchain trading platform that lets users trade any onchain asset using USD without bridging, gas, or wallet management, at zero fees. It covers assets including commodities, equities, and memecoins, with data, analytics, and execution tooling for traders.

5 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.

5 investors

Bankless Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in Web3 and crypto startups. Its portfolio includes companies building blockchain infrastructure, protocols, and related tools.

5 investors