Crypto & Web3 Startups

Web3Auth provides non-custodial authentication and key management to give users simple, secure access to digital assets and identity across multiple blockchain platforms and applications. It targets developers and Web3 applications seeking to reduce onboarding friction for digital ownership and identity.

4 investors

Wert provides payment infrastructure that lets web3 projects accept card payments and onboard non-crypto users, including a fiat onramp for buying utility tokens, gas and DeFi assets. It offers compliant, licensed building blocks that companies integrate into their web apps, mobile apps, dapps or platforms, with an offramp for spending crypto in fiat also in development.

4 investors

Woo provides AI-powered infrastructure for trading, automation, and onchain execution across blockchain networks, including crosschain swaps, earn vaults, and staking. Its products include WOOFi Pro, a gasless orderbook perpetual DEX with up to 100x leverage, and Starchild, an AI agent combining models, data, and app connectors for research and trade execution.

4 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.

4 investors

xTAO operates infrastructure on the Bittensor decentralized AI network, generating revenue through validator operations, staking rewards, and API licensing while holding TAO tokens as treasury assets. The company bridges Bittensor and traditional finance markets.

4 investors

Xterio is a Web3 gaming ecosystem and publishing platform that provides developers with tools for game development and distribution across mobile, PC, and consoles, including onboarding wallets, deployable smart contracts, identity/analytics/LiveOps tooling, and onchain AI agents. Backed by the XTER token, it bridges traditional and Web3 gaming.

4 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.

4 investors

Linera Markets is a crypto trading platform that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies, ETFs, and other assets with continuously running 24/7 markets. The platform features parimutuel-style resolutions with instant payouts and markets that can run for as little as one minute.

4 investors

Zero Hash provides API-based infrastructure for banks, brokerages, and fintechs to embed crypto trading, stablecoin payments, and tokenized financial assets into their platforms. It handles custody, compliance, liquidity, settlement, and blockchain connectivity as a regulated, embedded backend, operating across multiple jurisdictions.

4 investors

Gu3 develops content and services using blockchain, XR, and AI technologies, including a crypto asset called "OSHI" and prediction-related services. The company also invests in anime production committees to expand IP for its neo-media entertainment business.

4 investors

Lava provides instant Bitcoin-backed loans allowing borrowers to access dollar liquidity without selling their cryptocurrency or surrendering self-custody. The platform offers sub-second loan processing, fixed rates starting at 5% for loans from $100 to $1B+, and includes a Visa card for spending loan proceeds.

3 investors

4EVERLAND is a Web3 cloud computing platform that integrates DePINs and protocols to provide decentralized computing, storage, and networking services for developers and dApps. It offers a $4EVER token used for governance, services, and staking across the network, with support for chains and protocols such as Arweave, IPFS, Ethereum, Polygon, and BNB Chain.

3 investors

6thMan Ventures is a venture firm made up of operators, investors, and builders that partners with founders from an early stage, focusing on crypto, fintech, media, and technology.

3 investors

Aavegotchi is a blockchain-based gaming platform where players own onchain companion avatars that can be used across multiple games, customized with tradable wearables, and traded permissionlessly. Players level up their Aavegotchi through gameplay to earn rewards and increase the avatar's rarity and value.

3 investors

Acre is a Bitcoin-focused DeFi protocol offering auto-compounding vaults that let BTC holders earn yield through curated onchain strategies while retaining self-custody of their private keys. It uses ERC-4626 vaults with tBTC deposits and an acreBTC receipt token, targeting BTC-neutral yield accumulation.

3 investors

Aether Games develops story-driven games with a focus on strategy and world-building, with a flagship card game titled "Cards of Eternity: The Wheel of Time." It also produces animation and narrative-driven series, extending its worlds across multiple media platforms, and operates a $AEG crypto token.

3 investors

Airchains provides a modular zk-Rollup SDK and ZK Stack that lets developers, enterprises, and institutions build and run their own blockchain networks with configurable execution layers (EVM, Cosmos/Cosmwasm, Solana) and data availability layers (Avail, EigenDA, Celestia). The platform targets Web3 developers building dApps and NFTs with a focus on scalability, security, and low gas fees.

3 investors

Ajna is a decentralized protocol for peer-to-peer secured lending and borrowing of on-chain assets, operating without governance or external price feeds. It uses smart contracts where collateral pricing and loan parameters are set by market forces rather than governance.

3 investors

Alby provides self-custody bitcoin wallet software and infrastructure, accessible through web and mobile applications, enabling users to make payments and receive bitcoin via Lightning Network addresses without relying on centralized custodians.

3 investors

Alexandria Labs runs a platform for limited-edition collectible e-books and audiobooks issued as NFTs, letting readers buy directly from authors and publishers, read them, and collect or gift them. The books are stored permanently on-chain with tiered editions that can include unique covers, exclusive chapters, or author signatures.

3 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.

3 investors

Alliance is a selective accelerator and founder community for crypto and fintech startups, offering $500k in funding and a 10-week program (in-person onboarding in New York City followed by remote acceleration) to help teams reach product-market fit. It backs startups across all verticals and stages, including pre-product and pre-revenue, and connects graduates to a community of 700+ founders.

3 investors

AllScale provides a stablecoin payment platform that lets small businesses open global dollar accounts and handle invoicing, sales settlement, and payroll disbursement in USDT/USDC. It offers self-custody wallets, payment links, currency conversion, and automated KYC/KYB/KYT compliance for cross-border transactions.

3 investors

AlphaPoint provides financial infrastructure for digital assets, offering platforms for institutional treasury, trading, payments, and liquidity management. It serves institutions such as governments, banks, exchanges, and fintechs operating in on-chain and digital asset finance.

3 investors