Berlin · Pre-Seed–Series A · 13 people tracked
Investment thesis
Advanced Blockchain AG focuses on the blockchain and Web3 ecosystem, operating across three arms: AB Capital (its investment wing providing capital to promising Web3 projects and gateway participation for shareholders), AB Labs (its innovation and incubation wing that builds, runs, and incubates Web3 projects), and AB Research (an in-house think tank analyzing industry questions and supporting portfolio companies). The firm emphasizes sustainable value creation, strong corporate governance, and positioning itself as a reliable partner bridging innovation with strategic execution in the Web3 space.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 13 people
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What they invest in
from 30 of 68 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×26Data & Infrastructure ×9Fintech ×9Developer Tools ×8Deep Tech ×4Cloud Computing ×3Robotics ×3AI & Machine Learning ×2
HQs:United States×4Switzerland×1Germany×1United Kingdom×1Vietnam×1
Investments · 68 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathMobile app and cross-chain yield optimization protocol directing liquidity to DeFi protocols like Curve Finance.
Computation environment backed by Arweave coordinating decentralized task execution and storage.
Co-investorsGenblock Capital
Crypto lending protocol offering best-in-class borrowing power with low liquidation penalties and advanced options.
Arweave is a decentralized ecosystem that offers grants and investment opportunities through various organizations including non-profits, DAOs, and venture studios to support projects and developers building on its network.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechLondon, GB
Sam Williams(Founder & CEO)
Co-investors1k(x)1kxa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzArrington CapitalBig Brain Holdings+22 more
Permanent data storage protocol creating the permaweb by rewarding those providing decentralized storage space.
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzCoinbase VenturesUnion Square Ventures (USV)
Mero (formerly Backd) was a DeFi protocol offering liquidity pools for assets such as DAI, ETH, USDC, USDT, and FRAX on Ethereum.
Crypto & Web3
Bitcoin is a decentralized peer-to-peer payment network and digital currency that operates without a central authority or banks, with transactions and issuance managed collectively by the network.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investors1confirmationBedrockBollinger Investment GroupInnovating CapitalJustin “3LAU” BlauLvna Capital+5 more
An informational page describing Bitcoin, a decentralized peer-to-peer digital currency that enables payments without a central authority using cryptography, proof-of-work, and a public blockchain.
Crypto & Web3
Co-investors1confirmationBlockchain AssetsDraper AssociatesInnovating CapitalNarwhal VenturesStandard Crypto+1 more
Celestia designs and delivers custom, high-throughput blockchain chains for enterprises, separating compute and storage so each scales independently.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEnterprise Software
Mustafa Al-Bassam(Chairman & CEO, Celestia Foundation)inNick White(Co-founder & CEO, Celestia Labs)Preston Evans(CTO, Celestia Labs)Sarah Armstrong(CFO)Zach Leibowitz(General Counsel)
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalBain Capital CryptoBlockchain CapitalCaladanCoinbase VenturesDigital Currency Group+18 more
Composable Finance builds modular cross-chain infrastructure for DeFi, including Centauri (a cross-ecosystem implementation of IBC for trustless bridging), the XCVM orchestration layer, and its Picasso parachain.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsBlockchain CapitalCoinbase VenturesD1 VenturesDigital Finance GroupFigmentRarestone Capital
DeFi protocol offering expirable futures without order books with physical delivery.
Co-investorsCogitent VenturesCoinbase Ventures
North Richland Hills, US
Jonny Rhea(Founder)
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesAndreessen Horowitz
Polkadot is an open-source proof-of-stake protocol that links independent blockchains for shared security and cross-chain messaging.
Co-investors1confirmationAngelONE CapitalArrington CapitalBig Candle CapitalBollinger Investment GroupCandaq Fintech Group+22 more
Open source DeFi protocol enabling users to seek high fixed yield income on the blockchain.
North Richland Hills, US
Jonathan Rhea(Chief Financial Officer and Secretary)William Shatswell Villanueva(President and Chief Executive Officer)
Co-investorsPolychain Capital
Energy Web builds blockchain-based infrastructure and a marketplace (Energy Web X) offering compute pools such as SmartFlow, Carbon-Aware, and GP4BTC for energy and sustainability applications.
CleantechCrypto & Web3Energy
Ed Hesse(Founder)
Co-investors1k(x)1kxBlackhorn VenturesFuture Energy VenturesMerkle Tree CapitalMoonlanding Ventures+2 more
Programmable blockchain introducing smart contracts and enabling decentralized applications across DeFi, NFTs, and DAOs.
Platform helping Web3 communities design and manage rewards programs using on-chain and off-chain data.
Co-investorsFINTOP CapitalWittington Ventures
Operating system for institutional lenders decreasing loan distribution duration and streamlining operations.
Forest Park Group offers LoanOS, a FinSec protocol and API-driven infrastructure that isolates lender data and gives credit platforms operational control over incoming and outgoing loan data across phases of the transaction process.
Data & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
Co-investorsIlluminati CapitalLBANK Labs
Interoperable gaming protocol on Polkadot enabling in-game asset transfers between games and community creation.
Co-investorsOutlier Ventures
Strategy hub enabling DeFi yield access across multiple chains and layers for comprehensive cross-chain growth.
DeFi platform with dynamic yield optimization engine using machine learning to maximize risk-adjusted returns across chains.
Web3 platform delivering context-rich and verifiable data to decentralized applications.
Light Protocol provides infrastructure and APIs based on ZK (zero-knowledge) compression to reduce the cost of scaling payments, privacy, and program-derived addresses (PDAs) on the Solana blockchain.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsdlabHypersphere VenturesAsymmetric
Manta Network is a modular Layer 2 blockchain platform offering low gas fees and high performance for building decentralized applications.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)AZDAGGenblock CapitalHypersphere VenturesLongHash VenturesMentha Partners+5 more
Maverick (mav.xyz) is a decentralized exchange protocol built around a Dynamic Distribution automated market maker.
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesPantera Capital
Decentralized leveraged trading platform with dynamic AMM offering seamless swaps and exotic derivatives.
Mekatek works on incentive and mechanism design for decentralized blockchain protocols, building tools and practices to align individual and collective interests within these networks.
Crypto & Web3Deep Tech
Blockchain governance tools using mechanism design to align individual and community interests in decentralized networks.
Protocol enabling reactive liquidity to trigger actions on user-defined events for loans and AMM trades.
Xoilac TV is a Vietnamese-language website that streams live football matches, covering international leagues such as the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and regional tournaments.
ConsumerMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsAt One Ventures
MYSO is a non-custodial decentralized application for writing on-chain covered call option strategies, letting users earn upfront stablecoin income on their crypto holdings while setting custom strike prices and tenors.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsBitDAOMantle NetworkMentha PartnersWintermute
NEAR is an open blockchain infrastructure powering the agent economy, providing cross-chain execution, confidential settlement, and private inference capabilities.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Miami, US
Illia Polosukhin(Co-Founder)
Co-investorsA.Capital Venturesa16z cryptoAccompliceAmbush CapitalAmplify PartnersAndreessen Horowitz+36 more
Neon Labs develops technology to bridge Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) applications with the Solana blockchain, aiming to make Web3 transactions faster and cheaper.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsGrand Cayman
Petrus Dorfling Basson(Executive Officer, Director)Marina Guryeva(Executive Officer, Director)David Charles Lloyd(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBollinger Investment GroupNxGenPuzzle VenturesRockawayXWintermuteIDEO CoLab Ventures+3 more
Panoptic is an onchain DeFi protocol for perpetual options — options without expiry dates — built on Uniswap liquidity, letting traders deploy leveraged options strategies and depositors earn yield through curator-managed vaults.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsBig Brain HoldingsCoinbase VenturesDivergenceGreenfieldgumi Cryptos Capital (gCC)SevenX Ventures
peaq provides a blockchain stack that lets robots and machines act as autonomous economic actors, enabling developers to activate, finance, and build omnichain applications around machines.
Crypto & Web3Deep TechRobotics
Co-investorsBorderless VentureCeras VenturesCrit VenturesDelta BlockchainFOMO VenturesGenerative Ventures+11 more
peaq provides a blockchain-based stack that lets robots and machines operate as autonomous economic actors, enabling them to be financed, transact, and function as investible assets.
Crypto & Web3IoTRobotics
Co-investorsBloom / Giesen Family OfficeBorderless VentureFOMO VenturesTruth VenturesGreenfield
Platform building AMMs to introduce scalable liquidity pools for fiat currencies and yield opportunities.
Pendulum is a Polkadot parachain providing blockchain infrastructure that connects fiat currencies with DeFi, offering a forex-optimized AMM, on-chain FX price oracles, and cross-chain interoperability for stablecoin swaps.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Meinhard Benn
Funding platform for decentralized applications designed to leverage blockchain technology for long-term resilience.
Polymer Labs is a blockchain infrastructure startup that raised a $23M Series A in 2024.
Bo Du(Founder)in
Co-investorsAmbush CapitalBlockchain CapitalCoinbase VenturesD1 VenturesDigital Currency GroupFigment+8 more
Decentralized app-chain for interchain asset management and multi-chain digital asset investing via IBC technology.
Co-investorsBlockchain CapitalFigmentMaelstrom
The page promotes Rikvip, an online card-game and gambling platform for Vietnamese players offering card games, live casino, sports betting, slots, and periodic online tournaments.
Gaming
Sentinel is a blockchain-based protocol and SDK for building decentralized VPNs, where node discovery, sessions, payments, and bandwidth run on-chain across a network of independent node operators.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityDeveloper ToolsReno, US
Co-investorsAmentum Investment ManagementGenblock CapitalWoodstock FundIntel CapitalScottish EnterpriseSFC Capital+3 more
Open-source decentralized VPN application providing military-grade encryption and transparent server operations.
Self-stabilizing decentralized exchange using game theory and community governance to incentivize fairness.
Co-investorsChronos Ventures
Noise data bank leveraging peaq infrastructure to map noise pollution through community-driven smartphone data collection.
Talisman offers a crypto wallet with integrated DeFi tools, letting users access stablecoin and DeFi yield strategies and track positions across multiple wallets, protocols, and chains in a single portfolio view.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsD1 VenturesSignum CapitalHypersphere Ventures
Decentralized data infrastructure layer providing real-time social media data via community-operated nodes.
ethereum.org is a public, open-source educational resource and community portal for the Ethereum blockchain network, maintained by a core team and thousands of global contributors.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsEdTech
Aya Miyaguchiin
Co-investors1confirmationBaseTwoBloccelerate VCBollinger Investment GroupCollab+CurrencyDeepTech Ventures+20 more
DeFi platform specializing in leveraged staking solutions to amplify staking yields with flexible leverage options.
tracebloc provides deployable workspaces that let teams train, evaluate, and benchmark machine learning models on their own infrastructure (MacBook, Linux, Windows, or GPUs).
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsBloom / Giesen Family Office
Co-investorsFigment
Treasury and DAO management platform providing on-chain tools for communities to fund projects and make decisions.
DeFi protocol allowing yield-bearing receipt tokens as collateral for stablecoin loans and enhanced yields.
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.
Crypto & Web3Deep TechRobotics
Co-investorsGenerative VenturesArkStream CapitalBorderless CapitalLD CapitalvVvWaterdrip Capital
Zero-Knowledge Proof as a Service provider for Polkadot offering privacy and scalability tools.
Co-investorsDigital Finance GroupIOSG VenturesSancus Ventures
zCloak Network is a blockchain-based financial operating system where business logic and interfaces run on-chain, offering enterprises self-custody, auditability, governance, compliance, and payments at the protocol level.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Co-investorsARKN venturesBixin CapitalBixin VenturesIOSG Ventures
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Bitcoin · cryptobriefing.com · Aug 21, 2026
Talisman · moroccoworldnews.com · Aug 20, 2026
TLX · stocktitan.net · Aug 20, 2026
DOT · aashtojournal.transportation.org · Jul 31, 2026
Arweave · kraken.com · Jul 13, 2026
Panoptic · news.todayindefi.com · Jul 10, 2026
Filament · beautymatter.com · Jun 4, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Advanced Blockchain made?
- Advanced Blockchain has 68 tracked investments.
- What stage does Advanced Blockchain invest at?
- Advanced Blockchain invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A stages.
- What sectors does Advanced Blockchain focus on?
- Advanced Blockchain focuses on Crypto & Web3, Fintech.
- Where is Advanced Blockchain located?
- Advanced Blockchain is headquartered in Berlin, DE.
- Does Advanced Blockchain lead rounds?
- Advanced Blockchain typically participates in rounds rather than leading them.
- Who does Advanced Blockchain co-invest with?
- Advanced Blockchain most often shares deals with Coinbase Ventures, D1 Ventures, IOSG Ventures, among 139 tracked co-investors.
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