Crypto & Web3 Startups

TONX builds on-chain finance infrastructure for the TON blockchain ecosystem, including liquid staking solutions (KTON), multisig wallets (TonKey), and a blockchain API for institutions and developers. The company operates in the Web3/crypto space with a focus expanding from Asia to the United States.

3 investors

Toucan builds blockchain infrastructure for the voluntary carbon market, tokenizing carbon credits on-chain so they can be traded and retired. It serves carbon project developers and market participants, integrating with carbon standards like Puro.earth to settle engineered carbon removal credits.

3 investors

TradeBlock is an independent platform providing detailed reviews of crypto exchanges and wallets, real-time market coverage, and educational guides for cryptocurrency investors and enthusiasts. The company conducts hands-on testing of platforms and publishes daily-updated research on exchange fees, security features, and regulatory compliance.

3 investors

Trever provides a Digital Asset Operating System (DAOS), a financial infrastructure platform that lets institutions trade, transfer, settle, and record digital assets across more than 40 pre-integrated venues within a single system. It targets financial institutions handling digital assets and tokenized securities, offering order and execution management, treasury and settlement, and bookkeeping and reporting.

3 investors

Tria offers a self-custodial crypto platform where users can spend digital assets via a Visa card in over 150 countries, earn yield through on-chain strategies, swap tokens cross-chain, trade perpetual futures, and cash in/out crypto. It also lets US citizens open US bank accounts and rewards users for referring others, serving retail crypto holders globally.

3 investors

TribeOne is an independent educational resource that explains DeFi lending, crypto borrowing, and NFT-backed finance through detailed guides covering collateral valuation, liquidation mechanics, yield sources, and platform risks. It serves people seeking to understand these financial systems before deploying capital.

3 investors

True Markets provides a single API and wallet infrastructure that lets fintechs, brokerages, and banks offer digital asset trading, custody, and multi-chain access inside their own products. Its platform abstracts stablecoin, gas, and chain complexity across networks like Bitcoin, Solana, Base, and Arbitrum, with built-in custody and compliance controls.

3 investors

True Markets provides an API and infrastructure that lets fintechs, brokerages, and banks offer digital asset trading, custody, and investing inside their existing products. Its offering abstracts stablecoin, gas, and multi-chain complexity across networks like Bitcoin, Solana, Base, and Arbitrum, and also supports non-custodial trading by AI agents.

3 investors

TruFin (TruYields) provides yield infrastructure for institutional participants in onchain markets, offering permissioned access to tokenised real-world-asset yield, liquid staking, and curated vault strategies. It integrates with qualified custodians and platforms and includes compliance, governance, and operational controls for institutional risk management.

3 investors

Virtua operates a Cardano-powered metaverse where users create avatars, race vehicles, and explore interactive environments, alongside Bazaa, a decentralized NFT marketplace built on the Vanar blockchain. The platform lets users buy, sell, and trade dynamic NFTs with on-chain utility across games and metaverse experiences.

3 investors

Twinstake provides non-custodial staking infrastructure for institutional clients in the digital assets space, including asset managers, hedge funds, and exchanges. The company delivers customized solutions that address staking across multiple protocols while prioritizing regulatory compliance.

3 investors

UMOJA DeFi is a US company working in decentralized finance and Web3. Its focus is on products that let Bitcoin holders generate returns on their holdings, with an emphasis on custody and risk considerations.

3 investors

Unblock provides banking and payments infrastructure for moving money globally, offering on/off-ramps, virtual accounts, and multi-chain stablecoin wallets. It serves FX operators and their customers with cross-border payments, currency conversion, and built-in KYC/KYB/AML compliance across 150+ countries via a single API.

3 investors

Unilend is a permissionless DeFi protocol that lets users create isolated dual-asset pools for lending and borrowing any ERC20 token, with on-chain governance. It also offers Lamaa AI for building and tokenizing modular AI agents with blockchain capabilities, and Numa Network for intent-driven programmable mempools.

3 investors

Universal provides a multi-chain trading platform that enables users to swap tokens and assets across different blockchains and connect traditional stock trading from a single application interface.

3 investors

Unlock is an open-source, community-governed protocol that lets developers, creators, brands, and platforms create time-based memberships represented as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It aims to help projects convert users into members and monetize online and offline memberships without a centralized intermediary.

3 investors

Unlockd is a decentralized finance protocol that provides instant, asset-backed loans using real-world assets (RWAs) and NFTs as collateral, with AI-powered asset valuation. It offers an SDK for developers and platforms to embed RWA-backed lending and access its liquidity pools.

3 investors

Allora Labs builds decentralized AI infrastructure that gives developers access to a self-improving collective intelligence network. The company operates at the intersection of crypto and AI.

3 investors

UXUY is a non-custodial, AI-routed trading protocol built on stablecoins, offering gasless, cross-chain swaps across networks including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Solana, Base, and TRON. Through a single account it provides spot and perpetuals trading, tokenized stocks, copy trading, yield, and stablecoin payments for global users.

3 investors

Valinor is a credit institution building infrastructure for "Open Credit," aiming to connect traditional credit markets with onchain finance. It offers capabilities across institutional capital, onchain finance, investing, capital markets, and advisory for borrowers and lenders.

3 investors

Valiu provides mobile banking services that give individuals and businesses in Latin America access to U.S. dollars and other stable currencies in markets where local money loses value or experiences high inflation.

3 investors

Valkyrie Investments is a financial services firm offering cryptocurrency and digital asset investment vehicles — including trusts, ETFs, SMAs, and hedge funds — primarily for institutional investors. The firm is based in Nashville and connects traditional finance with the digital asset and blockchain economy.

3 investors

Vara Network is a blockchain platform designed for building and deploying decentralized applications (dApps) with features including gasless transactions, persistent memory, and parallel processing. The platform includes AI-native capabilities through Vara Skills, enabling AI agents to automate dApp development and deployment.

3 investors

Vault12 offers a non-custodial mobile app, Vault12 Guard, that lets cryptocurrency owners back up their wallet seed phrases and private keys and pass them to designated heirs for crypto inheritance. It uses quantum-resistant cryptography and a decentralized peer-to-peer network of trusted Guardians rather than cloud storage, working across blockchains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana.

3 investors