Crypto & Web3 Startups

Zircuit provides institutional-grade security and custody services with insured vaults for safeguarding digital assets at scale.

5 investors

Aark Digital is a non-custodial perpetual DEX built on Arbitrum, offering up to 1000x leverage across 25+ trading pairs with low trading fees, zero gas fees, and no KYC. It also provides a B2B SaaS layer that lets partners brand and distribute its trading engine, and plans to add stock and real-world asset perpetuals.

4 investors

aelf is a blockchain platform with a multi-dAppChain, cloud-native architecture and AI-enhanced features designed to support parallel transaction processing. It provides developers and creators with templates, SDKs, and documentation across languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Go to build, deploy, and manage decentralized applications (dApps).

4 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.

4 investors

Affyn operates a multichain metaverse ecosystem powered by its $FYN token, offering NFT collections, virtual land, and a world viewer that link virtual and real-world experiences. Its products include mobile games such as Nexus World and Buddy Arena.

4 investors

AID:Tech delivers international aid and payments using blockchain technology, with a focus on digital identity. The company enables individuals to own and control their self-sovereign identities.

4 investors

Aleph Cloud provides decentralized cloud infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications, including serverless functions, virtual servers, GPU instances, confidential VMs, web hosting, and distributed storage. It serves developers building Web3 and AI/ML applications on a decentralized network.

4 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.

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

Allora is a decentralized network for machine learning model development and inference, where developers deploy ML workers and models to topics that collectively generate predictions. The platform combines incentivized model training through competitions (Model Forge), research-driven protocol design, and a testnet environment for validation before mainnet launch.

4 investors

Alterya provides fraud detection software for financial institutions, fintech companies, and cryptocurrency platforms to identify and block scams that target their customers.

4 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.

4 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.

4 investors

Another-1 (AN1) offers a zero-code "phygital" toolbox that connects physical products to blockchain-based digital experiences using encrypted NFC tags linked 1:1 to NFTs. It serves brands looking to bring Web3 engagement — such as token-gated content, metaverse games, and IRL events — to their communities, with additional merchandise design, production, and fulfillment services.

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

ardrive is a permanent cloud storage platform built on the Arweave blockchain that enables users to store data indefinitely without monthly fees or centralized control. It serves creators, researchers, developers, and everyday users seeking censorship-resistant, user-owned storage with cryptographic proof of data provenance.

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

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.

4 investors

Arkis provides portfolio-level margin services for cryptocurrency trading firms, unifying margin, collateral, and risk management across centralized and decentralized finance venues. The platform replaces fragmented per-venue margin systems with a single governance framework that recognizes portfolio diversification and improves capital efficiency for institutional traders.

4 investors

Artemis Sheets is a financial data plugin for Excel and Google Sheets that lets users pull crypto token metrics and fundamental data via an =ART() formula. It targets investors and analysts building valuation models, comp tables, screeners, and portfolio trackers without writing SQL or code.

4 investors

Aspecta is a blockchain protocol and infrastructure that standardizes illiquid assets (such as pre-TGE shares, locked tokens, private equities, and RWAs) into ERC-20 credentials for on-chain price discovery and trading. It also provides reputation attestation (Aspecta ID) that turns GitHub commits, on-chain data, and work histories into credibility signals for developers and early-stage projects.

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