Crypto & Web3 Startups

Turnkey provides crypto wallet infrastructure for coordinating payments across internal, custodial wallets, with policy controls over fund flows, limits, roles, and approvals. Its Payment Orchestration is aimed at company payment and treasury teams managing multichain operational wallets, gas sponsorship, and automated transaction routing.

13 investors

Agora builds a governance platform for crypto protocols, enabling onchain community coordination around protocol upgrades and ecosystem funding. The platform serves protocol communities like Optimism, ENS, Uniswap, and Nouns.

12 investors

ALETHIA AI builds AI systems at the intersection of artificial intelligence and blockchain, having introduced intelligent NFTs (iNFTs) and now developing autonomous agents and decentralized, user-owned AI. The company works with the AI Protocol, a permissionless framework for agentic AI, through research, model development, and on-chain deployments.

12 investors

Cookie3 uses blockchain and analytics to turn on-chain user behavior into marketing insights for brands while maintaining data privacy. It operates in the crypto marketing analytics space.

12 investors

DCG is an investment and operating firm focused on the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, managing over 200 equity investments, 50 fund investments, and 30+ token and digital asset holdings across 25+ countries.

12 investors

Forte provides a rules engine for managing on-chain token economies and compliance controls across blockchain networks. The platform enables developers and projects to define vesting schedules, transaction limits, sanction list validation, and other governance rules for virtual assets on Ethereum and Polygon.

12 investors

Gemini provides access to cryptocurrency trading and digital asset management services, bridging the traditional financial system with the emerging cryptoeconomy for individuals and institutions.

12 investors

IoTeX operates an open blockchain-based ecosystem for real-world AI, turning data from physical machine networks (DePIN devices) into collective intelligence for AI models. It offers infrastructure and builder tools, including a multimodal foundational model called Trio, for developers building physical AI systems and machine intelligence economies.

12 investors

Lava Network provides decentralized RPC access for interacting with blockchains, handling requests such as trading, swapping, deploying, and staking across multiple chains. It serves web3 users and node operators, and reports handling over 160 billion requests across 28+ chains for 1M+ weekly users.

12 investors

Layer3 is a crypto platform where users create wallets, discover protocols, complete onchain tasks to earn rewards (CUBEs), trade, and stake L3 tokens for governance and boosted rewards. It also lets projects distribute tokens and run cross-chain growth campaigns targeting both human and AI participants.

12 investors

Manta Network is a modular Layer 2 blockchain platform offering low gas fees and high performance for building decentralized applications. It provides a builder program, staking, on-chain governance, and hosts an ecosystem of Web3 dapps across its Manta Pacific, Manta Atlantic, and Calamari networks.

12 investors

ZKsync provides blockchain infrastructure and deployment services for enterprises, helping them build and launch production-ready solutions on the ZKsync network.

12 investors

Modern Treasury provides a payments infrastructure platform that enables businesses to move and track money across fiat and stablecoin rails through a single API. The company serves enterprises and financial service providers looking to streamline payment operations across multiple currencies, regions, and payment systems.

12 investors

Nexus Mutual provides insurance coverage for smart contract failures and on-chain risks to protect investors, protocols, and institutions operating in blockchain environments.

12 investors

Numerai runs a data science tournament where participants build machine learning models on obfuscated, regularized financial datasets and stake cryptocurrency on their predictions to earn or burn based on performance. The company operates a quantitative global equity market-neutral hedge fund for institutional and accredited investors, powered by the crowdsourced models.

12 investors

Velora is an intent-based decentralized trading protocol that offers crosschain token swaps, gasless trades, limit orders, on-chain RFQ, and yield optimization, aggregating liquidity from 160+ protocols and market makers across multiple L1 and L2 chains. It provides an API and public library for wallets, dApps, and financial institutions such as asset managers, banks, brokers, and custodians to integrate DeFi execution services.

12 investors

Paxos is a regulated blockchain infrastructure company that issues stablecoins and tokenized assets and provides crypto brokerage, custody, and stablecoin payment services for enterprises. Its products include the USDG, USDP, and PayPal USD stablecoins and the gold-backed PAXG token, operating under trust and payments licenses in the US and Singapore.

12 investors

Polychain is an investment firm that manages actively managed portfolios of blockchain-based digital assets, focusing on returns from the cryptocurrency sector.

12 investors

Pyth Network is a blockchain oracle that delivers real-time market data—prices for crypto, equities, FX, and other assets—on-chain for developers to integrate into decentralized applications. Its price feeds are sourced first-party from over 130 financial institutions including exchanges, market makers, and trading firms, and are used by DeFi protocols, exchanges, and derivatives platforms.

12 investors

Rainbow is a cryptocurrency wallet application that supports multiple blockchains, NFTs, and decentralized exchanges, offering both mobile and desktop interfaces with hardware wallet integration.

12 investors

Renzo Protocol provides liquid staking and restaking infrastructure along with reserve vaults that deploy capital into delta-neutral, RWA-backed, and basis/carry trade strategies. It offers multichain staking of assets like ezETH, ezBTC, and ezSOL, plus a gated enterprise suite with white-labeled treasury and fund deployment tools for institutions.

12 investors

RISC Zero provides verifiable computation technology that lets anyone cryptographically confirm a computation's output is correct without recomputing it, while preserving privacy. It targets use cases such as proving financial transactions are performed correctly and compliantly, and helping technology companies close trust gaps in software supply chains.

12 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.

12 investors

Xverse is a self-custodial Bitcoin financial platform, built on Bitcoin L1 and L2s (Starknet, Stacks, Spark), that lets users earn yield, borrow against their BTC, and spend or transfer money onchain without an intermediary. It offers a non-custodial wallet with hardware wallet support, virtual accounts, optional transaction privacy, and no identity verification requirements.</parameter> <parameter name="founders">[]

12 investors