Crypto & Web3 Startups

human.tech provides a privacy-preserving identity and control layer for people, institutions, and AI, using zero-knowledge proofs and client-side cryptography built on W3C Verifiable Credentials and eIDAS 2.0 standards. It powers sovereign digital public infrastructure and citizen-held credentials for civic services, and enables crypto-native identity, verification, and wallet custody across multiple blockchains, currently live for the Barbados–Guyana travel corridor.

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HydraDX is a decentralized trading protocol built on an Omnipool that combines multiple assets in a single liquidity pool for capital-efficient, low-slippage swaps. It serves traders, liquidity providers, and project/DAO treasuries, offering features like time-spread trades, liquidity rewards, and peer-to-peer order matching.

3 investors

Index Coop is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that builds and maintains onchain structured products, including leverage tokens and automated "Smart Loop" yield strategies. It offers crypto market exposure products governed by its ERC-20 INDEX token on Ethereum.

3 investors

Inference Labs develops cryptographic verification systems for autonomous AI agents, robots, and other autonomous systems, enabling auditable and trustworthy decision-making through zero-knowledge proofs and verifiable computing. The company serves robotics, defense, financial institutions, healthcare, and autonomous vehicle operators.

3 investors

Infrared is a liquid staking protocol built on Berachain that offers liquid products for Proof of Liquidity, including liquid solutions for BGT and BERA tokens, node infrastructure, and PoL vaults. It serves users in the Berachain ecosystem seeking to interact with Proof of Liquidity.

3 investors

Integral is a crypto accounting and financial management platform built for web3 businesses, handling bookkeeping, treasury, tax compliance, and auditing for cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and other digital assets. It offers features like spam transaction filtering, a unified ledger, journal entry roll-ups, and auto-categorization to process high transaction volumes at scale.

3 investors

Intuition is a decentralized knowledge network with a native blockchain and token-curated knowledge graph for "Information Finance," turning facts, claims, and signals into verifiable, tradable data assets. It offers developers and end users tools (APIs, SDKs, identity, and data monetization via its $TRUST token) to own, curate, and monetize data and self-sovereign digital identities.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

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InvestaX offers advisory services for tokenizing real-world assets (RWA), providing guidance on compliance, legal, and cost efficiency throughout the RWA tokenization process. It targets issuers looking to launch RWA tokens to global markets.

3 investors

Ion Protocol is a lending and borrowing platform that lets users lend and borrow against staked and restaked crypto assets without price-based liquidation risk. It uses a zero-knowledge machine learning framework to underwrite credit risk by gathering consensus layer and validator infrastructure data.

3 investors

IOTA operates a layer-1 distributed ledger and Move-based smart contract platform, offering products for digital identity, real-world asset tokenization, notarization, and audit trails. It targets Web3 developers and enterprises building decentralized applications, DeFi liquidity, and trade finance solutions.

3 investors

Ironblocks provides blockchain security technology that separates security logic from business logic and proactively blocks threats during transaction execution. It targets Web3 and blockchain developers seeking to prevent smart contract hacks and exploits.

3 investors

Irreverent Labs builds AI-driven products spanning autonomous crypto trading agents, MMA combat sports analytics, and reinforcement-learning combat simulations. Its portfolio includes Boktoshi and supermodel.ai (autonomous DeFi/perpetual futures trading agents on Solana), FIGHT/DECK (MMA matchup analysis and predictions), and MechaFightClub (physics-simulated mechanized combat governed by reinforcement learning).

3 investors

Irys is a blockchain platform designed to store large volumes of data on-chain, enabling smart contracts to access it directly while providing proof of data persistence over time.

3 investors

Itheum is building trust layers and trust frameworks positioned as public-good infrastructure, aimed at making the definition of what and who can be trusted auditable and community-governed. The company focuses on trust and accountability for AI and autonomous machine transactions.

3 investors

iVendPay (IVPAY) provides crypto payment infrastructure for businesses, including payment terminals, a mobile app, e-commerce integration, vending machine solutions, invoicing, and a REST API. It supports over 40 cryptocurrencies with optional instant conversion to fiat and operates in more than 400 locations across 5 countries.

3 investors

Jambo builds on-chain mobile infrastructure, including the JamboPhone with a built-in multi-chain crypto wallet, hardware security, a dApp store, and gamified earning quests. It targets consumers in the decentralized economy across 128+ countries through local carrier partnerships.

3 investors

Januar is a regulated EEA payment institution offering operational IBAN accounts, crypto trading and storage, and embedded accounts for businesses. It targets crypto-native companies and firms using crypto for cross-border payments, providing banking and payment infrastructure in Europe.

3 investors

Kaiko provides crypto reference data for digital assets, including standardized asset identifiers, supply and market capitalization metrics, and derivatives contract specifications. The data supports trading, reporting, and investment workflows for financial institutions working with cryptocurrencies.

3 investors

Karate Combat is a full-contact striking league that combines live-action Karate with CGI environments built on Epic Games' Unreal engine, featuring elite black belts competing across eight weight divisions. Its events are streamed and broadcast to over 100 countries.

3 investors

Keplr is a multichain crypto wallet available as a browser extension, mobile app, and dashboard, letting users manage on-chain assets and activities across many blockchains without switching networks. It also offers products for validators, DAOs and teams (multisig), an open-source embedded wallet stack (Oko), and RPC/validator infrastructure, with support for EVM and Starknet.

3 investors

Khalani provides infrastructure for cross-chain and multi-provider transactions, enabling operators to define enforceable execution rules (price, latency, finality) that are automatically enforced across a network of solvers, market makers, bridges, and on/off-ramp providers. The platform atomically settles transactions across multiple counterparties, chains, and currencies, or refunds if conditions are not met.

3 investors

Kinetiq provides liquid staking solutions and perpetual futures markets on the Hyperliquid blockchain, enabling users to stake cryptocurrency while maintaining liquidity and trade derivatives across multiple asset classes.

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Kintsu is a liquid staking protocol on the Monad blockchain that lets users stake MON tokens and receive sMON liquid staking tokens usable across DeFi for trading, lending, and pooling while earning staking and MEV yield. It also offers superMON, a curated on-chain vault, and is governed by the Kintsu DAO through its KSU token and a decentralized validator registry.

3 investors

KIRA provides decentralized infrastructure for app development, offering customizable compute resources (CPU, GPU, disk, RAM) and native staking capabilities. The platform enables developers to build AI, streaming, and gaming applications without creating separate networks.

3 investors