Crypto & Web3 Startups

Alterya is an AI-powered fraud prevention platform (part of Chainalysis) that connects fraud signals across crypto, digital wallets, and traditional bank accounts to detect and block authorized push-payment (APP) scams before funds leave a customer's account. It serves cryptocurrency exchanges, real-time payment platforms, payment processors, and banks for scam detection, mule/synthetic account identification, and fraud-loss reduction.

3 investors

Amboss provides data analytics and machine learning tools for the Bitcoin Lightning Network, offering routing optimization and risk management for merchants, consumers, and enterprise users. The company also operates Magma, a marketplace for buying and selling Lightning channels.

3 investors

Ammalgam is a decentralized lending exchange (DLEX) that combines trading and lending in a single DeFi protocol, letting users lend, trade, and leverage any asset without oracles through Dual Purpose Pools. It targets crypto users seeking capital-efficient position management, self-custody, and preconfigured trading strategies.

3 investors

Angle was a cryptocurrency protocol that issued stablecoin tokens (USDA and EURA) that could be redeemed 1:1. The protocol is shutting down with a redemption deadline of March 1, 2027.

3 investors

Anoma is a distributed operating system for blockchains, offering a unified interface that lets developers build one application that runs across any chain with native privacy, intents, and interoperability. It targets developers, enterprises, and institutions building consumer, enterprise, and institutional applications such as payments, trading, and tokenization of real-world assets.

3 investors

Arianee provides an open-source blockchain protocol for issuing digital product passports and dynamic NFTs, letting brands assign unique digital identities to physical products for traceability, ownership, and post-purchase services. It serves brands in sectors such as luxury goods, watches, and electronics to support product lifecycle tracking, resale, and circular business models.

3 investors

Arkhai builds open infrastructure for machine-readable, agent-driven markets, providing discovery, negotiation, escrow, arbitration, and settlement. Its initial product is a compute market handling seller discovery, bilateral negotiation, escrow-backed commitments, and provisioning, aimed at compute buyers/providers, developers, and research teams.

3 investors

ARO Network is an edge network infrastructure platform designed for AI agents to operate on local devices and residential networks using users' real-world resources. The platform enables individual users to earn cryptocurrency rewards by running nodes that provide computational power and bandwidth to support distributed AI agents.

3 investors

Artemis Analytics provides fundamental data and metrics for digital finance companies and crypto protocols, delivering analytics to spreadsheets and via SQL/Python through Snowflake Data Share or Hex. It serves investors and companies who need standardized on-chain and financial metrics without managing their own data infrastructure.

3 investors

AscendEX was a crypto-asset trading platform offering trading, swapping, staking, and lending services to retail account holders. The company ceased operations on 1 July 2026, citing regulatory developments including the EU MiCA regulation, and the site now serves as a wind-down status page for user offboarding and withdrawals.

3 investors

Kirha offers an AI-powered financial analyst tool that reviews lengthy filings such as 10-Ks and earnings calls to surface trends, risks, and opportunities. It builds AI agents connected to fragmented and unstructured data sources to support competitive analysis, market intelligence, and due diligence for financial professionals.

3 investors

Asymmetry Finance is a decentralized finance protocol that lets users borrow stablecoins (USDaf and AmpUSD) against BTC or stablecoin collateral at customizable fixed interest rates. It also offers auto-compounding staking vaults for yield and an ASF governance token managed through the Asymmetry DAO.

3 investors

Olas is a decentralized platform for AI agents that users own and control, letting agents perform tasks such as trading on prediction markets and managing portfolios while users retain custody of their funds. It operates a marketplace where AI agents offer and hire services and collaborate autonomously, with the OLAS token used for staking, fees, and token burns.

3 investors

Autopilot provides customizable cross-border payment infrastructure for global companies, covering flows from crypto to cash in a single platform. It targets finance teams at cross-border businesses that need to handle international payment complexity without building their own systems.

3 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.

3 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.

3 investors

Bipa is a Brazilian financial app that enables users to buy, sell, and manage Bitcoin and US Dollar holdings through Pix transfers and a branded credit card offering Bitcoin cashback. The platform supports recurring purchases, payments in Bitcoin and USDT, and automatic conversion of real-denominated transactions into cryptocurrency exposure.

3 investors

Birdai builds tools to measure, verify, and recover value lost between an order and its fill on onchain markets, using a single metric (β) to quantify execution quality. It serves traders, market makers, protocols/DEXs, and validators seeking transparent and verifiable execution measurement in crypto markets.

3 investors

Bitaccess builds Bitcoin ATM infrastructure for enterprises, enabling customers to convert fiat currency to cryptocurrency at their machines.

3 investors

Bitmama provides cryptocurrency-related financial products and services, offered in partnership with licensed money transmitters in their respective jurisdictions. The company operates under financial-institution compliance requirements, including account-opening identity verification (KYC).

3 investors

Blade Games builds on-chain, trustless games and a modular ZK game engine using a zkVM stack, along with an AI agent ecosystem for on-chain economies. Its projects include Dune Factory, a tower defense game powered by zkVM.

3 investors

Block Green operates a capital platform providing secured and unsecured lending in Bitcoin and fiat currencies, along with revenue hedging and revenue-streaming products, for Bitcoin miners and HPC data center operators. It connects data center operators seeking liquidity for expansion with fiat and Bitcoin investors seeking returns.

3 investors

Blockchain Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in crypto and blockchain companies across stages from seed to growth. Its portfolio spans DeFi, centralized finance, infrastructure, and consumer crypto applications.

3 investors

Blockscout is an open-source multichain block explorer for EVM-based networks, supporting over 1,000 chains including layer 1s, optimistic rollups, and zk rollups. It lets users and developers search blocks, transactions, accounts, and tokens, verify smart contracts, access APIs and developer tools, and interact with dApps through its DAppscout marketplace.

3 investors