Crypto & Web3 Startups

WAX is a blockchain platform designed specifically for gaming and NFTs, offering carbon-neutral transactions, scalable infrastructure (3,000+ transactions per second), and interoperability bridges connecting multiple chains. The platform serves gamers, game studios, NFT collectors, and token creators with tools for creating, trading, and managing digital assets and communities.

2 investors

Freemarket is a cross-border payments and financial infrastructure company that serves banks, payment service providers, and other financial institutions seeking to optimize international money movement. The company operates regulated payment networks and platforms enabling financial services firms to manage payments and treasury operations globally.

2 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.

2 investors

Whetstone is a team of protocol and product builders working in the crypto and blockchain space, with backgrounds at projects including Uniswap, Primitive, and Aztec.

2 investors

WiFi Dabba builds wireless connectivity infrastructure and community solutions. The company operates in the telecommunications and digital inclusion space, with operations in India.

2 investors

Wildcat is a decentralized finance protocol that lets borrowers deploy customizable on-chain credit markets, setting their own interest rates, lockup periods, withdrawal cycles, reserve ratios, and lender access lists. It supports undercollateralized lending with direct borrower-lender relationships, optional off-chain legal agreements, and transferable debt tokens within the DeFi ecosystem.

2 investors

Woleet offers a blockchain-based platform for timestamping documents, verifying file integrity, and generating legally valid electronic signature proofs while keeping documents fully confidential. It targets businesses needing GDPR- and eIDAS-compliant document authentication and contract workflows, with tools that integrate into existing systems.

2 investors

Xend Finance is a DeFi platform, described as originating from Africa, that enables legal tokenization of tangible and intangible assets. Through its OAE system it supports uses such as asset-collateralized P2P loans, milestone-based project funding, real estate and agricultural land tokenization, co-ownership of luxury cars, and blockchain-based supply chain tracking.

2 investors

Xillions provides AI-powered tools for marketing teams to enable audience participation in brand co-creation, generating user-generated content and first-party data while maintaining brand consistency. The platform helps brands gather engagement signals, preference data, and conversion insights through collaborative content creation.

2 investors

XMAQUINA is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that gives members onchain exposure to humanoid robotics companies and related infrastructure across hardware, AI, power, and deployment, via its DEUS token. It operates in the crypto and robotics space, using DeFi marketplaces and exchanges for asset access, trading, and governance.

2 investors

XMTP is an open source, decentralized messaging protocol that uses quantum-resistant encryption to let developers build secure, programmable chat apps, mini-apps, and AI agents with native support for payments and digital assets. It serves developers and companies building messaging experiences, offering identity-agnostic connections and network-level spam consent without platform lock-in.

2 investors

XNET operates a decentralized neutral-host wireless network that boosts LTE/5G connectivity and provides carrier-grade offload in high-demand areas like stadiums, campuses, and city centers. It uses Passpoint (Hotspot 2.0) for wireless offload and rewards network deployers based on real data offloaded, built on the Solana blockchain as a DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure network).

2 investors

YieldPoint operates a multi-chain crypto yield platform whose first product, Unity ($UTY), is a dollar-pegged, tokenized market-neutral position that generates yield from crypto trading activity rather than price direction. It offers institutions and individuals daily transparency via a Proof-of-Reserves dashboard, regulated-partner connectivity, and composability across DeFi.

2 investors

Xternity is a platform that lets game developers integrate Web3 and blockchain functionality into their games across any coding language, handling tokenization, smart contract deployment, and related in-game asset features. It serves game studios in the Web3 gaming industry.

2 investors

Yakoa provides a platform protection service that detects copyright infringement, impersonation, and spam across images, video, and audio content using an AI-powered engine that scans billions of assets to prevent unlicensed use and fraud. The service is designed for Trust & Safety teams, development teams, and platform leadership to monitor and maintain content authenticity and community standards at scale.

2 investors

YOLO Games operates an on-chain gaming platform offering provably fair games and reward systems for crypto users. It positions itself as a venue for blockchain-based ("degen") gaming.

2 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.

2 investors

Yuma supports and accelerates projects building on Bittensor, a decentralized AI network, connecting entrepreneurs, developers, and businesses with resources to launch subnets. It also runs Yuma Asset Management, which provides institutional and accredited investors access to Bittensor subnet token strategies.

2 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.

2 investors

Zama provides encryption technology for onchain finance that keeps blockchain addresses public while encrypting transaction amounts and commercial references at the token level. Its protocol supports confidential corporate payments such as cross-border vendor settlement, marketplace payouts, treasury flows, and trade finance, while allowing auditors, sanctions screening, and ERP systems role-based access.

2 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.

2 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.

2 investors

ZeroDev provides smart account infrastructure for blockchain applications, enabling better onboarding, transaction flows, and user experiences through account abstraction technology.

2 investors

Zeta Markets is a decentralized exchange on Solana offering derivatives trading with up to 100x leverage. The platform serves crypto traders with fast settlement, deep liquidity, and advanced risk management features.

2 investors