Crypto & Web3 Startups

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

CoinGecko is the world's largest independent cryptocurrency data aggregator, providing comprehensive market data including price, volume, and market capitalization across thousands of cryptoassets. It serves millions of users globally with tools, research, and APIs for cryptocurrency market analysis and insights.

4 investors

Coinme offers an API-first Crypto-as-a-Service platform that lets fintechs, neobanks, wallets, payment apps, investment platforms, and banks add crypto capabilities such as fiat on/off-ramps, conversion, custody, liquidity, and compliance. It also provides a consumer app for buying, selling, and exchanging crypto with cash or debit card, and is licensed and regulated in the United States.

4 investors

Column provides software for automating and managing public notice publication and compliance across all U.S. states. It serves newspapers, government agencies, law firms, and businesses that need to publish legally required notices and generate affidavits.

4 investors

Commonware provides a library of primitives—reusable software components for consensus, cryptography, networking, and data structures—that developers use to build blockchains and decentralized systems. The library targets blockchain engineers and application developers seeking to customize and optimize specialized blockchain deployments.

4 investors

Conflux is a public blockchain platform using a Tree-Graph consensus algorithm and proof-of-work to offer high transaction throughput, a cross-chain asset bridge (ShuttleFlow), built-in staking, and a fee sponsorship mechanism. It serves creators, communities, and developers building decentralized and DeFi applications, centered around its native CFX token used for fees, staking, storage, and governance.

4 investors

Contango is a DeFi protocol that automates recursive borrowing and lending ("looping") into a single transaction, letting traders open leveraged positions on money markets and liquid (re)staking assets from the ETH and BTC ecosystems. It also supports leveraging Pendle Principal Tokens, farming points and airdrops, and arbitraging interest-rate differentials across lending markets.

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

Decent provides a framework for launching and operating crypto tokens with onchain contracts, warrants, regulatory compliance structures, and audited open-source smart contracts designed to protect investors. It serves web3 founders and tokenholder communities seeking transparent, compliant token launches.

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

DeFi Land is a play-and-earn blockchain game with a farming theme, offering gameplay such as fishing, shooting, harvesting, and idle pet care tied to NFTs. Players use Gen-0 NFTs (fishing rods, guns, harvesters, and animals) with rarity-based attributes to play and earn rewards.

4 investors

DeSo is a layer-1 blockchain built to decentralize social media and power storage-heavy applications, enabling developers to build social networks, NFT marketplaces, and creator monetization tools with on-chain data and user-owned content.

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

Earn.com let users earn cryptocurrency by replying to emails and completing microtasks from verified senders. The company began as 21 Inc, a Bitcoin mining and hardware startup known for the 21 Bitcoin Computer, and relaunched as Earn.com in 2017 under CEO Balaji Srinivasan. Coinbase acquired the company in April 2018, and Srinivasan became Coinbase's first chief technology officer.

4 investors

Edge Sound Research builds intelligent audio infrastructure based on patented technologies that capture, separate, and enhance sound, transform physical surfaces into sound emitters, and map audio into spatial experiences. It licenses these technologies to partners for applications requiring audio clarity, analysis, and real-time decision-making.

4 investors

El Dorado is a financial SuperApp built for Latin America, offering USD accounts, currency exchange/P2P, a card, crypto, and yield ("Earn") through a set of miniapps. It provides access to US dollars and stablecoins along with saving, spending, sending, and investing services for individuals and businesses across the region.

4 investors

Etherfuse offers tokenised sovereign bonds (CETES, Tesouros, US Treasuries, Eurobonds, GILTs) for corporate float, treasury allocation, and yield, plus USD-MXN conversion with instant settlement and government-backed collateral for cross-border payments. It serves fintechs, neobanks, remittance companies, and corporate treasuries, operating across blockchains such as Stellar, Solana, Monad, Base, and Polygon.

4 investors

EthosX is a blockchain-based derivatives trading platform that connects traditional finance and crypto markets, offering perpetual options, RWAs, and exotic derivatives with high leverage and transparent on-chain settlement. The platform serves both retail and professional traders seeking direct market access without intermediaries.

4 investors

Exponent is a yield exchange on the Solana blockchain that lets users trade interest rate swaps to lock fixed rates, hedge yield exposure, and provide liquidity across staking, credit, and other DeFi yield markets. It serves onchain investors and crypto asset managers seeking predictable returns and yield risk management.

4 investors

A marketplace platform for buying, selling, and borrowing against land properties across the United States.

4 investors

Faith Tribe is a decentralized platform for fashion designers, artists, and brands to collaborate, create, and transact using blockchain technology and 3D design tools. The platform facilitates peer-to-peer commerce and NFT minting among its community of creators and buyers.

4 investors

Fedi is a mobile wallet application that integrates messaging, financial transactions, and mini-apps within a community-controlled network powered by Bitcoin. It enables hyperlocal communities to manage money and communications through a decentralized architecture.

4 investors

Flashnet operates a non-custodial Bitcoin liquidity and orchestration layer that handles routing, bridging, and settlement against native Bitcoin liquidity, offering an API for teams to buy, sell, and move BTC and stablecoins. It serves wallets, exchanges, commerce platforms, payout providers, savings/DCA apps, and fiat onramps building Bitcoin products.

4 investors