Crypto & Web3 Startups

VegaX offers an AI-driven platform for digital asset investing, with tools to build backtested trading strategies without code (Architect) and to run AI strategies on connected exchange accounts or through discretionary portfolio management (Alpha). It targets investors in cryptocurrency and digital asset markets.

3 investors

Velora is an intent-based trading protocol for decentralized finance that enables crosschain swaps, limit orders, and gasless trading across multiple blockchains. The platform serves crypto traders, wallet providers, and financial institutions with advanced execution features and decentralized settlement infrastructure.

3 investors

Verdict Machine builds an AI-based cybersecurity platform that maps a financial institution's on-chain environment, evaluates proposed transactions against its policies before execution, and provides cyber risk assessment, wallet screening, and security posture monitoring. It serves banks, asset managers, and digital-asset infrastructure providers.

3 investors

Volmex Labs provides cryptocurrency indices and benchmarks, including volatility indices (BVIV, EVIV, SVIV, MVIV, XVIV) and interest-rate benchmarks (BVPR, EVPR, SVPR) distributed through major financial platforms and exchanges. The company serves institutional cryptocurrency markets with institutional-grade index methodology and data products.

3 investors

W3GG is a Web3 gaming hub in Southeast Asia where players compete in seasonal challenges, join guilds, and complete quests to earn rewards and on-chain assets. The platform serves gamers seeking to participate in competitive gaming, game testing, and community engagement with opportunities to earn cryptocurrency.

3 investors

Walapay provides API infrastructure for cross-border payments, letting businesses issue locally domiciled virtual accounts, move money across fiat currencies and stablecoins, and orchestrate settlement across multiple chains and rails. It serves fintechs, neobanks, payment service providers, payroll providers, and finance teams at SMBs and enterprises, with coverage across 60+ currencies and 180+ countries.

3 investors

Wavlake is a platform for musicians and podcasters to publish and distribute audio content across multiple platforms while receiving direct bitcoin payments from listeners. The service handles hosting, feed syndication, and universal distribution using open standards.

3 investors

Webacy provides risk intelligence for crypto assets, wallets, and transactions, offering products to screen tokens (KYA), wallets (KYW), and transactions (KYT). It serves exchanges, wallets, banks, and neobanks as a risk and compliance layer for pre-listing due diligence and real-time behavioral monitoring.

3 investors

Wingbits operates a flight tracking network that rewards contributors who use custom ADS-B hardware to collect aircraft signal data. The company builds cryptographically secure tracking hardware aimed at producing accurate, verifiable aviation data for the flight tracking industry.

3 investors

Witnet is a decentralized oracle network that supplies smart contracts and blockchains with external real-world data (such as prices, weather, and event results) using cryptographic and Proof of Stake mechanisms. It offers cross-chain compatibility, node staking with its native $WIT coin, and developer tools for building blockchain applications.

3 investors

Wivity creates and manages governance organizations for Web3 infrastructure projects, offering a framework that combines consortium practices with DAO mechanics. It serves companies across industries ranging from distributed energy to the metaverse.

3 investors

Wizarre is a blockchain-based fantasy game where players collect, breed, and battle NFT Wizards and use NFT Lands to summon new characters. It features a play-and-earn system that rewards players with SCRL tokens through gameplay.

3 investors

XLD Finance operates X, an EVM-based blockchain built on the OP Stack for commercial payment applications, using its native stablecoin xUSD to enable cross-border payments and settlement between digital assets and traditional finance. It offers DeFi applications for trading, yield, lending, and swaps, along with real-world uses such as virtual cards and cross-border settlement.

3 investors

Yearn is a decentralized finance protocol offering automated yield-generating vaults that allocate deposited crypto assets across DeFi opportunities to produce risk-adjusted returns. It provides an ecosystem of apps and integrations for DeFi users and partner protocols.

3 investors

Yield App is a digital wealth management platform that offers passive income and yield enhancement products for cryptocurrency investors. The platform provides access to yield-generating opportunities in the crypto market, prioritizing security and risk management.

3 investors

YieldNest is a decentralized finance protocol offering risk-adjusted restaking and DeFi strategies to both retail and institutional users. The platform uses AI-powered technology to provide high-yield investment options in a non-custodial manner.

3 investors

Yotepresto operates a peer-to-peer lending marketplace that connects individuals seeking loans directly with people who want to invest their money, aiming to lower borrowing costs and provide returns to investors. It is a Mexican crowdfunding (financiamiento colectivo) fintech regulated under Condusef.

3 investors

Young Platform is a fintech company founded in Turin that offers cryptocurrency investment services to individuals and businesses, aiming to simplify and secure access to digital assets.

3 investors

Zabio provides infrastructure for businesses in Latin America to integrate stablecoins into their operations, using existing physical retail locations such as neighborhood stores as cash-to-digital-money entry points. It offers a non-custodial solution aimed at connecting cash and digital money for local merchants and communities across LATAM.

3 investors

ZAR is a financial app that lets people in countries with volatile local currencies send, hold, and spend US dollars. It targets individuals saving, running businesses, or sending money to family across markets such as Argentina, Kenya, and Bangladesh.

3 investors

ZBD is a payment service provider focused on the gaming industry, offering a single integration that gives developers compliant access to players across the US and EU. It is a licensed Electronic Money Institution and crypto asset service provider serving gaming companies in regulated markets.

3 investors

Zeitgeist is a Layer 1 blockchain protocol for prediction markets, built on the Substrate framework and offering an SDK for others to implement their own prediction market technology. It introduces a governance model called futarchy and supports markets across areas such as sports, politics, cryptocurrency, insurance, and startups.

3 investors

Zeko builds a zero-knowledge (ZK) Layer 2 platform that optimizes ZK technology for global settlement, using off-chain compute to lower costs and improve user experience for ZK apps like private AI agents and DeFi. It targets enterprises needing to run AI agents securely, offering data privacy, permissions, sovereign rollups, and TypeScript smart contracts.

3 investors

Zentry builds a human-agentic operating system that integrates AI agents, gamified applications, and data infrastructure to enable human-AI co-evolution. The platform layers AI-native apps, agentic services, and aggregated data to create a programmable ecosystem where users generate and benefit from their participation and data.

3 investors