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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 · 12 people
from the firm's website & curatedWhat they invest in
from 30 of 67 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×26Data & Infrastructure ×11Fintech ×10Developer Tools ×9Cloud Computing ×4Deep Tech ×4Robotics ×3AI & Machine Learning ×2
HQs:United States×5Switzerland×1China×1Germany×1United Kingdom×1Vietnam×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 15 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×53 founders×24+ founders×1
Investments · 67 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2022 · 12021 · 23 dated
Mobile app and cross-chain yield optimization protocol directing liquidity to DeFi protocols like Curve Finance.
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)inWilliam Jones(Founder)
Co-investors1k(x)1kxa16z cryptoAndreessen HorowitzArrington CapitalBig Brain Holdings+25 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.org is an independent open source informational resource dedicated to helping Bitcoin develop sustainably.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Satoshi NakamotoMartti Malmi
Co-investors0 Ventures1confirmationBedrockBollinger Investment GroupHyperchain CapitalInnovating Capital+8 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(Founder)inNick White(Co-founder & CEO, Celestia Labs)inPreston Evans(CTO, Celestia Labs)Sarah Armstrong(CFO)inZach Leibowitz(General Counsel)inIsmail Khoffi(Founder)
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalBain Capital CryptoBlockchain CapitalCaladanCoinbase VenturesDigital Currency Group+23 more
Composable Finance builds an interoperability layer for decentralized finance that enables cross-chain transactions and communication while preserving trustless, non-custodial properties.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech
Co-investorsBlockchain CapitalCoinbase VenturesD1 VenturesDigital Finance GroupFigmentAlameda Research+12 more
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
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+4 more
Platform helping Web3 communities design and manage rewards programs using on-chain and off-chain data.
Co-investorsWittington Ventures
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
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.
Co-investorsBAM ElevateCanaan PartnersEclipse VenturesRoot Ventures Manager, Llc
Laconic provides hosting and infrastructure solutions for Web3 applications, offering jurisdictional diversity through offshore hosting and a registry system that connects developers with service providers across different regions.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Developer Tools
Co-investorsDivergenceLemniscap
Light Protocol builds blockchain infrastructure and APIs that enable developers to scale applications on Solana using ZK Compression, an open-source technology that reduces token and account creation costs by up to 99% while maintaining blockchain security.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Co-investorsPolychain CapitalAsymmetricdlabHypersphere Ventures
Manta Network is a modular Layer 2 blockchain platform offering low gas fees and high performance for building decentralized applications.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Kenny Li(Founder)inShumo Chu(Founder)Victor Ji(Founder)
Co-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)AZDAGGenblock CapitalHypersphere VenturesImpossible FinanceLongHash Ventures+10 more
Maverick (mav.xyz) is a decentralized exchange protocol built around a Dynamic Distribution automated market maker.
Co-investorsCircle VenturesCoinbase VenturesCreative HQ — The IncubatorPantera Capital
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
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(Founder)inAlexander Skidanov(Founder)
Co-investors0 VenturesA.Capital Venturesa16z cryptoAccompliceAmbush CapitalAmplify Partners+42 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 GroupImpossible FinanceNxGenPuzzle VenturesRockawayXWintermute+5 more
Obol provides distributed validator infrastructure for Ethereum staking, enabling institutional operators to secure cryptocurrency assets across the blockchain network.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureZug, CH
Collin Myers(Founder)inOisín Kyne(Founder)inSchmiedt Mara(Executive Officer)
Co-investorsAmbush CapitalArchetypeCoinbase VenturesDivergenceFigmentMaelstrom+6 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 VenturesDivergencegumi IncVidenGreenfield+2 more
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 VenturesCoinIx CapitalCrit VenturesDelta BlockchainFOMO Ventures+15 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 VenturesJsquareTruth VenturesGreenfield
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 Bennin
Polkadot is an open-source proof-of-stake protocol that links independent blockchains for shared security and cross-chain messaging.
Gavin Wood(Founder)Peter Czaban(Founder)Robert Habermeier(Founder)
Co-investors1confirmationAngelONE CapitalArrington CapitalBig Candle CapitalBlock InfinityBlockchain Coinvestors+29 more
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 FundHomegrown CapitalIntel CapitalScottish Enterprise+4 more
Self-stabilizing decentralized exchange using game theory and community governance to incentivize fairness.
Co-investorsChronos Ventures
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 VenturesDigital Finance GroupJsquareSignum CapitalHypersphere Ventures
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
Co-investors1confirmationBaseTwoBloccelerate VCBollinger Investment GroupCollab+CurrencyDeepTech Ventures+22 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
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
Mauricio Z(Founder)in
Co-investorsGenerative VenturesArkStream CapitalBorderless CapitalLD CapitalvVvWaterdrip Capital
zCloak develops blockchain protocols designed for enterprise and DAO use cases, emphasizing privacy preservation, auditability, and deterministic governance in financial infrastructure.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintech
Xiao Zhang(Founder)in
Co-investorsARKN venturesBixin CapitalBixin VenturesDigital Finance GroupIOSG VenturesSancus Ventures
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
AOApricotApricot FinanceComposablefoundationElement FinanceEthereumForest ParkFractalIthilLaconic NetworkMaverickMekatekNakamoPendulumPermanent VenturesSentinel dVPNSilencioStela LabsTeneoVolumeVolume FinanceWarpWarp Finance
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Advanced Blockchain made?
- Advanced Blockchain has 67 tracked investments.
- What stage does Advanced Blockchain invest at?
- Advanced Blockchain invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed 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, Figment, among 173 tracked co-investors.
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