Crypto & Web3 Startups

Globe (globe.exchange) is a cryptocurrency exchange where users can buy, sell, and trade digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. It offers spot trading, futures trading with up to 100x leverage, staking and savings products, copy trading, and mobile apps for Android and iOS.

2 investors

Circles is an open protocol on which money (units called Circles) is created by individuals rather than banks, one unit per hour of life, with value tied to a person's reputation and community relationships. It offers a Visa card for spending, community-based offers and votes, and a referral system, positioning itself as peer-to-peer money for individuals and their communities.

2 investors

Golem Network is a decentralized platform that lets users share their unused computing power or rent additional computational resources from others. It uses the Golem token ($GLM) as the medium of exchange between resource providers and requestors.

2 investors

Maestro offers Bitcoin-denominated structured yield vaults where users allocate BTC to earn yield from strategies such as secured miner credit, intent solving, and Bitcoin credit lines. It provides in-kind BTC yield with delta-neutral hedging and underwritten counterparties.

2 investors

Grass is a peer-to-peer network that monetizes unused residential internet bandwidth by connecting users with institutions that need data connectivity, compensating participants with points and tokens. Users earn rewards by sharing their idle internet connection while maintaining privacy and control over their data.

2 investors

Gridless installs Bitcoin mining operations at renewable, rural mini-grid sites in Africa, buying surplus power to help independent power producers become financially viable while improving grid stability and rural electrification. It also builds Gridless OS, an edge-based optimization system that coordinates Bitcoin miners in real time based on a mini-grid's operating conditions.

2 investors

GRIND manufactures portable basketball shooting machines and hosts community events that combine sports technology with STEM education for underserved youth. The company aims to connect basketball players with career pathways in engineering and tech fields.

2 investors

Grove, originally founded as Pocket Network Inc., built decentralized infrastructure including the Pocket Network protocol and the Grove Portal gateway serving blockchain data access. It later pivoted to a payment platform enabling humans and AI agents to pay creators directly for content using the x402 open payment protocol. The company is winding down.

2 investors

Guardrail provides real-time security for onchain finance, monitoring transactions across smart contracts, wallets, bridges, and mempools to detect threats and trigger automated protective responses. It serves DeFi-native teams, stablecoin issuers, and regulated institutions, offering runtime detection, compliance monitoring, and incident response across more than 30 blockchains.

2 investors

Halborn is a blockchain security firm that provides smart contract auditing, penetration testing, red team simulations, and advisory services for enterprises, financial institutions, and blockchain ecosystem leaders. Its work spans risk assessments, custody frameworks, compliance readiness, and security across blockchain, cloud, and application environments.

2 investors

Hanzo Industries develops AI-powered marketing and development platforms that help businesses scale through intelligent technology and data-driven decision-making. The company serves entrepreneurs and small businesses seeking to compete with larger enterprises using tools like AI code editors, marketing automation, and the Sensei mentorship framework.

2 investors

Haruko provides an institutional-grade platform for digital asset investment managers, offering real-time risk and performance monitoring across front- to back-office workflows on a single centralized system. It serves institutional investors and asset managers deploying capital in the digital asset market.

2 investors

Hashdex provides crypto-focused exchange-traded products, including the Hashdex Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF (NCIQ) and the Hashdex Bitcoin ETF (DEFI), for investors seeking exposure to crypto assets. It operates as an asset manager in the cryptocurrency investment fund category.

2 investors

Hashed is a venture capital firm that invests in and supports founders building companies in AI, crypto/blockchain, and frontier technology, with a focus on decentralized networks, apps, games, tools, and infrastructure. It operates a global network with offices in Seoul, San Francisco, Singapore, Bangalore, and Abu Dhabi and runs several subsidiaries covering emerging markets, incubation, data insights, custody, and research.

2 investors

HashQuark provides institutional-grade staking and yield services for professional investors, asset managers, and listed companies, including validator operation, fund security protection, and on-chain risk monitoring. It supports multiple blockchains with services such as staking, KYA/KYT monitoring, and AML support, operating primarily in Asia.

2 investors

Hashstack is a decentralized finance protocol that lets traders borrow against their crypto collateral, offering up to 500% leverage for trading and yield farming. It supports assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, and Starknet through supply and borrow markets.

2 investors

Hawksight collects trading signals submitted by a distributed community of contributors and runs analytics over them to rank and filter the results. Users receive a vetted set of signals to incorporate into their own decision-making. The product is aimed at individual traders and asset managers.

2 investors

Healthy Hip-Hop is a music and entertainment platform offering original hip-hop content designed for children and families. The service features culturally diverse characters and a music library accessible via an iOS app for home and classroom use.

2 investors

Heartcore is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in European founders from inception through Series A, including venture-stage companies and Web3 protocols.

2 investors

Hecto Financial is a South Korean fintech company (KOSDAQ 234340) providing payment and settlement infrastructure, including account-based payments, cross-border settlement, and USDC stablecoin-based global remittance via Circle's CPN. It also serves merchants and financial institutions and is developing AI agent payment infrastructure based on standards like x402 and Google's AP2.

2 investors

Hedgey provides onchain token infrastructure for crypto teams, including token vesting, investor lockups, grants, airdrops, and distributions for employees, investors, and communities. It also offers PreToken tools to help pre-token projects and DAOs plan token allocations and prepare for launches, and is now part of Anchorage Digital.

2 investors

Helicarrier operates two platforms: a remittance application for African diaspora members to transfer funds to family and friends in Africa, and a cryptocurrency exchange for buying, selling, and managing digital asset holdings.

2 investors

Helios is a decentralized cross-chain Layer 1 Bitcoin lending protocol that lets Bitcoin holders unlock liquidity and earn yield without selling, and borrow across blockchains without centralized bridges or wrapping. It also offers the Helios Reserve Card, virtual and physical Visa cards issued via Rain that allow users to spend against their crypto at merchants where Visa is accepted, serving individual holders, institutions, yield curators, and liquidity providers.

2 investors

Helix builds a modular, intent-driven orchestration layer and an omni-chain gateway (Helix Hub) for tokenizing and managing the full lifecycle of real-world assets (RWAs), connecting traditional finance institutions with DeFi. It offers DeFi users access to institutional-grade yield products such as money markets, private credit, and structured strategies, with a USHD stablecoin as the entry point.

2 investors