New York City · Pre-Seed–Seed · 6 people tracked
Also known as DEFI ALLIANCE LLC
Investment thesis
Alliance operates as a selective accelerator for early-stage crypto and fintech startups, helping founders reach product-market fit. Its program combines a 2-week in-person onboarding in New York City with an 8-week remote acceleration phase focused on product building, growth, narrative refinement, and pitching. Startups receive funding, mentorship from experienced operators and angels, and access to a founder-only community of over 700 crypto and fintech founders. The program concludes with a demo day where founders present to leading VCs and angels, and graduates join the Alliance DAO member community. The firm emphasizes peer relationships, investor insights, and cross-ecosystem support.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 28, 2026.
Team · 6 people
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What they invest in
from 29 of 183 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×27Fintech ×20Data & Infrastructure ×7Cybersecurity ×5Developer Tools ×5AI & Machine Learning ×2SaaS ×2B2B Marketplaces ×1
HQs:United States×6Canada×1Switzerland×1Colombia×1Finland×1Singapore×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 14 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×72 founders×63 founders×1
Where their founders worked beforefrom 10 founders with career history
Imperial College London ×2
Portfolio companies · 183 tracked
alumni founders can tell you what the program is really like0x Labs builds 0x Protocol, the Swap API and Matcha, infrastructure for decentralized exchange of tokenized assets.
Passport Protocol is an MPC-based distributed key management network that distributes key shares among network nodes rather than between users and backends.
Crypto & Web3CybersecurityDeveloper Tools
Keon Kim(Founder)
Co-investorsSignum CapitalFormulate VenturesKommuneSoma Capital
Acala is a multi-token blockchain network offering the Honzon aUSD stablecoin protocol, a DEX and an EVM-compatible smart contract layer.
Accrue is a New York fintech offering brands a stored-value wallet that turns payments and refunds into customer loyalty.
Aevo is a decentralized options and perpetual futures exchange that combines off-chain matching with on-chain settlement on a custom Ethereum Layer 2, offering traders options, perpetual futures, and structured products within a single margin account.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesDragonflyNascent
Education technology company whose platform helps youth-serving organizations run after-school enrichment programs and enroll families.
Ajent is a San Francisco-based company building a task engine for AI agents, built on Solana.
Chennai-based data science firm building geospatial visual analytics products and solutions for enterprises and urban local bodies.
Allod is a stablecoin banking platform that lets businesses in emerging markets move US dollars instantly and cheaply.
Amihan Entertainment is a fully remote, venture-backed game studio founded by three former Riot Games developers.
Azura is a DeFi platform that unifies crypto wallets, blockchains, exchanges and protocols in a single trading interface.
Bagel AI is an Israeli product intelligence platform that links customer feedback and usage data to product and revenue decisions.
Basketball.xyz is a marketplace where basketball players are represented by tradable, performance-linked share tokens.
Blockcast is a Solana-based decentralized content delivery network that aggregates community-operated nodes for high-bandwidth streaming.
Bluefin is an orderbook-based decentralized derivatives exchange built for both first-time users and professional traders.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Ahmad Jawaid(Founder)in
Co-investorsAltonomyAmber GroupCompoundFBG CapitalHashedLedgerPrime+11 more
Bluvo offers a single API that connects centralized crypto exchanges to DeFi applications for balances and fund transfers.
Bullring Finance offers an API for local collections, stablecoin-based cross-border settlement and local payouts.
Rollups-as-a-service platform letting web3 teams deploy application-specific Ethereum layer-2 chains in one click.
Cartridge builds Dojo, an open-source toolchain, plus rollup and wallet infrastructure for fully onchain games.
Brooklyn, US
Tarrence van As(Executive Officer, Director)Calvin Dunwoody(Executive Officer, Director)
Chainflip is a decentralized cross-chain swap network that settles trades natively across chains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Polkadot without bridges or wrapped assets.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Co-investorsBlockchain CapitalCoinbase VenturesHypersphere VenturesMaven 11Pantera Capital
Chibi Clash is a Web3 fantasy gaming universe of interconnected strategy, survival and autobattler titles, acquired by Scrypted in 2025.
ClipStake is a pay-per-view marketplace where brands fund video campaigns and creators earn per 1,000 verified views.
San Francisco blockchain infrastructure company building a compute coordination network for on-chain and off-chain data.
CodeYam builds AI-assisted development tooling that designs, simulates and tests software as the AI writes the code.
Código Startup is a digital services firm offering AI training, process automation and custom software development.
Convallax is a derivatives protocol offering on-chain options and volatility surfaces on prediction market outcomes.
Covenant is a New York-based AI-powered law firm serving private market investors reviewing complex fund documents.
CreatorGen is an AI platform that generates realistic AI influencer video ads using licensed creator likenesses.
Crebit is a San Francisco stablecoin FX platform that lets businesses lock blockchain exchange rates for up to 180 days.
Cred Protocol provides onchain credit scoring, credit reporting and monitoring APIs for DeFi wallets and lending protocols.
Calgary-based carrier-neutral data centre and interconnection operator whose flagship DataHiveOne facility was acquired by Cologix in 2025.
Dataleap builds an agentic AI platform that lets enterprise business teams automate knowledge work without engineering help.
Nigerian stablecoin payments startup building cross-border payment and treasury infrastructure for African businesses.
deBridge is a cross-chain bridge and interoperability protocol for transferring assets and data between blockchains such as Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain.
Crypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Co-investorsArrington CapitalIOSG VenturesLemniscapMapleblock CapitalMoonhill CapitalNxGen+5 more
Deconflict is a case-deconfliction and crypto wallet intelligence network for law enforcement agencies and financial institutions.
DFX is an AI-native platform for private capital workflows, pairing fundraising and deal tools with an autonomous AI operator.
Dinari provides tokenized stocks and ETFs (dShares) that combine traditional equity securities with blockchain-based digital assets, serving financial institutions like neobanks, fintechs, brokerages, and institutional traders across 85+ jurisdictions.
Crypto & Web3FintechPalo Alto, US
Gabriel Otte(Executive Officer, Director)inAltay MalazgirtJake Timothy
Co-investors500 GlobalF-Prime CapitalHack VCSancus VenturesSilvermine Capital
Fantasy.top was a Blast-based crypto trading card game and social prediction market that shut down in 2026.
Fig Security is a cybersecurity platform that maps and validates the reliability of enterprise detection and response infrastructure.
FreedomGPT is a subscription AI aggregator that bundles access to 250+ third-party AI services—including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI, plus uncensored models—through a single interface for $5 a month.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerCybersecuritySaaS
Freeport is a self-custodial trading platform offering access to stocks, crypto, commodities, FX, and pre-IPO exposure, with market intelligence from social feeds and insider filings.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesCrypto & Web3FintechNew York City, US
Lihong Wang(Founder)inBryan Reed(Founder)in
Co-investorsY CombinatorInformed Ventures Advisors, Llc
Frontrun is an AI-native deal-sourcing platform that flags startups when tracked venture investors converge on them on X.
Genopets is a Solana-based free-to-play move-to-earn NFT game that turns real-world steps into in-game progression.
Co-investorsImpossible FinanceKonvoy VenturesNext VenturesPantera CapitalSamsung NextSWGI Ventures (SWISS GEM INVESTMENTS)
Givance is a San Francisco AI company turning documents and data into interactive charts and visual evidence for legal teams.
Batch ALL10 Alliance startup founded by David Vorick
Gluon Money is a non-custodial crypto finance app offering DeFi access and a Visa card spendable against wallet collateral.
GoBankless is a stablecoin-based cross-border payments startup serving small businesses in Mozambique and South Africa.
Goldsand is a US mobile savings app offering interest-free, Sharia-compliant returns of up to 7% funded by stablecoin payment fees.
Grease AI builds AI-driven origination, logistics and processing infrastructure for the circular economy.
Hadron Energy develops 2 MW light-water micro modular nuclear reactors for data centers, industry and remote sites.
Inco builds a modular confidentiality layer that adds privacy to smart contracts on existing blockchains such as Ethereum and Base.
Paris-based payment processor enabling cross-border payments for businesses and freelancers in emerging markets.
Congo-based Web3 startup building a "super app" that onboards African users to crypto via learn, play and earn.
Junction operates an API platform connecting healthcare companies to lab testing and data from 500+ wearables and medical devices.
Kairos is building a cross-platform trading terminal that aggregates prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket.
Kamino is a DeFi protocol on Solana that combines lending, liquidity provision, and leveraged trading in a single platform.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsFactionHack VCLongHash VenturesMulticoin CapitalParaFi CapitalPlaceholder VC+7 more
Kravata provides APIs and modules that let companies offer secure transactions, multi-currency global accounts, cross-border payments, and compliance-as-a-service, enabling conversion between fiat currencies and digital assets.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Co-investorsIOSG VenturesKoyamaki VenturesMagma Partners
Lava Network provides decentralized RPC access for interacting with blockchains, handling requests such as trading, swapping, deploying, and staking across multiple chains.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
YairGil
Co-investorsAlphaLab CapitalBlack DragonBreakOrbitCaladanDivergenceNIV+10 more
Blockchain game studio behind Legends of Venari, a browser-based creature-collecting RPG set in the world of Caerras.
Kenyan fintech offering privacy-focused multi-currency payment accounts and banking-as-a-service APIs across Africa.
Token operations platform, now offered as Coinbase Token Manager, automating vesting, lockups and bulk token distributions.
Robin Ji(Founder)in
Co-investorsIOSG VenturesMarin Digital VenturesNascentStruck CapitalVery Serious Ventures
Lucent is a San Francisco AI startup using AI to analyze user session replays and build behavioral datasets from real web interactions.
Lulubit builds crypto-to-fiat on- and off-ramps and card payments for consumers and businesses in Central America.
Manifest OS builds an AI operating platform for lawyers and incubates AI-native law firms under the Manifest Law brand.
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-investorsAdvanced BlockchainAZDAGGenblock CapitalHypersphere VenturesLongHash VenturesMentha Partners+5 more
MetaVoice develops voice AI for natural, emotionally aware conversations in therapy, coaching and sales.
Minteo operates an NFT marketplace and a $1M creators' fund and accelerator for Latin American NFT creators.
Modulus Labs built zero-knowledge proving systems for verifiable on-chain AI; its team joined Tools for Humanity in 2024.
London-based tech startup building data and campaign tools to counter online extremism, disinformation and other online harms.
Narya.ai builds smart-contract security tooling, including an invariant-testing engine and CLI for Solidity projects.
Niural is an AI-native global PEO platform handling payroll, benefits, compliance and payments for growing companies.
Ethereum-based DeFi protocol for borrowing and lending crypto assets at fixed rates and fixed terms.
New York City, US
Jeff Wu(Founder)inTeddy Woodward(Founder)inDiana Munoz(Executive Officer, Director)Omar Camargo(Executive Officer, Director)Persis Manfred Sarmiento(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investors1confirmationCoinbase VenturesIDEO CoLab VenturesNascentPantera CapitalParaFi Capital
Decentralized multi-chain trading platform offering a terminal-style interface with analytics and advanced order types.
Offline Protocol builds a mesh networking software and network layer that lets apps and devices communicate, authenticate, and coordinate when the internet is unavailable, using BLE and WiFi Direct with encrypted sessions.
CybersecurityDeep TechDefense TechDeveloper ToolsIoTRobotics
Satvik Sethi(Founder)
Co-investorsPortal VenturesDraper Associates
Company bringing dollar-denominated spending to Latin America, using Rain as a card program and compliance partner.
OpenCover partners with underwriters to offer insurance protecting individuals and institutions against onchain risks such as smart contract exploits, scams, and governance attacks.
Crypto & Web3FintechInsurTech
Jeremiah Smith, PhD(Founder)inYury Oparin(Founder)in
Co-investorsCoinbase VenturesNFX
Moroccan superapp operator offering food delivery, e-commerce, on-demand services and a mobile wallet.
Open-source native macOS harness that runs local AI agents on Apple Silicon and connects to cloud models when needed.
Ostium Labs builds a self-custodial onchain perpetual swaps protocol for equities, commodities, indices and FX.
OverHerd is an early-stage company founded by Sherpa, featured on the 11AM w/ Seed Club founder show.
Oversee Pay is a remittance app for sending digital USD from the EU, UK, Canada and UAE to recipients in Pakistan.
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.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Co-investorsBootNodeGenblock CapitalWintermuteWoodstock FundAlameda ResearchBlockchain Capital+2 more
Pawnfi is a decentralized liquidity protocol that lets holders of NFTs and other non-standard assets trade, borrow and earn.
Co-investorsCatcherVCCoinbase Ventures
Pendle is a crypto yield trading platform that lets users trade yield — including off-chain rates — with leverage, earn fixed yield, or take long positions on yield.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
TN Lee(Founder)
Co-investorsAndromeda CapitalBitDAOBixin CapitalBixin VenturesCVP NoLimitD1 Ventures+11 more
Pocket Universe develops security tools that protect Web3 and crypto users from breaches and threats.
Crypto & Web3Cybersecurity
Danor Cohen(CTO & Founder)Alex Katz(CEO & Founder)
Predexon provides a unified developer API for prediction market data, orderbook history and cross-venue trade execution.
PreStocks issues Solana-based tokens giving retail investors SPV-backed exposure to pre-IPO companies such as OpenAI and SpaceX.
Referenced as pump.fun (@pumpdotfun)
Qiro is a lending platform that uses stablecoins to let fintech borrowers tokenize their asset portfolios and raise debt capital, while stablecoin investors deploy capital into curated private credit deals.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Akshay Poshatwar(Founder)inNishikant Bahalkar(Founder)in
Co-investorsEv3 Ventures LlcGravityX CapitalDruid Ventures
Crypto startup from an Alliance batch that launched in the aftermath of FTX and later raised over $100M at a $2B valuation.
Raleon was an AI-powered retention and loyalty platform for e-commerce brands, acquired by Intuit Mailchimp in 2025.
Ratio is a San Francisco AI fintech platform that pays B2B technology scale-ups upfront on signed deals while buyers pay over time.
Renalta was a consumer app offering a 6% APY savings account with budgeting and planning tools; it is winding down in 2026.
Scout is a fintech company providing financial literacy, tax and investment tools to student-athletes and college athletic departments.
Crypto startup building private blockchain rails that let fintechs transact without exposing customer financial data.
Sherlock provides security services for blockchain protocols, including collaborative audits, bug bounties, and financial coverage to protect smart contracts and decentralized systems.
Crypto & Web3Cybersecurity
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesArchetypeCoinFundLattice CapitalMaven 11
Shipyard Software builds decentralized exchange (DEX) products, drawing on academic research in automated market making.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Mark Lurie(CEO)Abe Othman(Chief Scientist)
Co-investorsBR CapitalRe7 Capital
Sleepagotchi is a Cambridge, MA sleep-tracking mobile app that gamifies consistent sleep schedules and adds AI wellness agents.
Co-investorsEmoote
Co-investorsCollab+CurrencyEmooteFermionSignum Capital1kx6th Man Ventures
Snapchain offers zero-knowledge-rollup-as-a-service, letting developers configure and manage ZK rollups via a no-code console.
Solflare is a self-custodial crypto wallet for the Solana blockchain, letting users hold and control their own digital assets with a focus on security.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Vidor Gencel(Cofounder & Co-CEO)inFilip Dragoslavić(Cofounder & Co-CEO)Damjan Marković(Chief Operating Officer)
Co-investorsMarin Digital VenturesParaFi CapitalReciprocal Ventures
Blockchain protocol building a decentralized Bitcoin reserve and on-chain fund infrastructure, with SolvBTC as its native token.
Co-investorsF-Prime CapitalHyperithm
Space and Time provides blockchain indexing, secure offchain data, and zero-knowledge proofs for onchain financial applications.
Crypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Scott Dykstra(Founder)in
Co-investorsArrington CapitalDigital Currency GroupEterna CapitalF-Prime CapitalFactionHivemind Capital Partners+8 more
Spexi runs a decentralized network of drone pilots that captures and supplies ultra-high-resolution aerial imagery.
SpotPay is a San Francisco-based borderless neobank offering a stablecoin-powered global account and payment card.
Entertainment and influencer marketing agency connecting brands with celebrity talent and creators; acquired by W2O Group.
SYNQ is a London-based data observability and reliability platform, acquired by Coalesce in March 2026.
SZNS is a Web3 platform that lets groups collect and manage NFTs together as a DAO.
Timefun is a Solana-based creator token platform winding down in favor of a new crypto social app.
Timon is a stablecoin-powered travel and payments platform for globally mobile Africans.
Business intelligence platform for the global scrap and recycling trade, offering partner vetting, KYC reports and price data.
Tradevu is a stablecoin-based banking and trade finance platform providing instant financing to African SMEs.
Kuwaiti holding company Trendle builds technology ventures, led by MASAHA, an app digitising the GCC tailoring sector.
Turbo AI is an AI note-taking and study assistant that turns lectures, PDFs and videos into notes, quizzes and flashcards.
UnblockPay is a Brazil-founded, stablecoin-native banking and payments platform for business cross-border payments and FX.
Undeniable Health builds AI agents that work healthcare revenue cycle claims end to end, from charge capture to payment.
Uniblock operates a managed, single-API infrastructure layer giving developers access to 300+ blockchains and 55 data partners.
USD.AI is a DeFi protocol issuing a yield-bearing synthetic dollar backed by loans against GPUs and AI infrastructure hardware.
Vega Protocol built a derivatives-focused layer 1 blockchain whose chain and VEGA token were retired by community vote in 2024.
Velora, formerly ParaSwap, is a cross-chain DEX aggregator whose operations were consolidated under Laita Labs in 2026.
DeFi protocol offering leveraged long, short and perpetual futures trading on NFTs, memecoins and other long-tail tokens.
WeKruit runs an AI-powered mock interview platform that gives students personalized feedback reports on interview performance.
Wildcard is a San Francisco startup building an AEO/GEO platform that helps ecommerce brands get recommended by AI shopping assistants.
WootzApp licenses private enterprise codebases to build reinforcement-learning environments for AI labs.
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.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Ken Liao(Founder & CEO)
Co-investorsBitcoin FrontierDraper AssociatesEdessa CapitalFermionGossamer CapitalMitonC+7 more
Yakoa builds intellectual property fraud detection tools and an indexer that flag copied or infringing NFTs across blockchains.
Zabio is a Colombia-based provider of stablecoin payment, exchange and liquidity services for businesses in Latin America.
Zerion is a self-custodial, multichain wallet and data platform that aggregates assets and positions across 58+ blockchains in real time, offering swap routing, trading, and an API for wallet data access.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechSan Francisco, US
Evgeny Yurtaev(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBitDAODigital Currency GroupMantle NetworkMosaic VenturesPlaceholder VCPolymorphic Capital+8 more
Zynk is a cross-border payment infrastructure platform that provides APIs for instant global settlements, converting and moving assets across blockchains, banks, and currencies in real time without pre-funding or treasury management.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Prashanth Swaminathan(Founder)inAbhishek Pitti(Founder)inManish Bhatia(Founder)in
Co-investorsHivemind Capital PartnersPolymorphic CapitalCoinbase VenturesHivemind Capital LLCTranspose Platform ManagementTykhe Ventures
Ink Finance is a governance-centric DeFi protocol that lets organizations configure custom workflows, define operating roles, and manage isolated working environments.
Crypto & Web3FintechSingapore, SG
Tony Tang(Founder)in
Co-investorsAegis VentuesDraper DragonLucidBlue Ventures
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesPendle · pendlefi.substack.com · Aug 17, 2026
Solflare · manilatimes.net · Jul 30, 2026
Zerion · tradingview.com · Jun 30, 2026
Sherlock · bernews.com · Mar 24, 2026
Freeport Markets · trysignalbase.com · Jan 8, 2026
Kamino Finance · latamrepublic.com · Dec 18, 2025
Zynk · thepaypers.com · Nov 10, 2025
Qiro · aptosnetwork.com · Oct 10, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) made?
- Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) has 173 tracked investments.
- What stage does Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) invest at?
- Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)'s typical check size?
- Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) typically writes checks of $400K – $800K.
- What sectors does Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) focus on?
- Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Crypto & Web3, Fintech, Gaming.
- Where is Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) located?
- Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) is headquartered in New York City, US.
- Who does Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) co-invest with?
- Alliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance) most often shares deals with IOSG Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, ParaFi Capital, among 97 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
from their channelAlliance ALL16 Post Demo Day Livestream
Good Game Podcast
Q4 State of the Crypto Market | EP 76
Good Game Podcast
Launchpad Wars, Market Reversal, Trump Tariff Pause, and The State of AI | EP 75
Good Game Podcast
Trade War & The Markets | EP 74
Good Game Podcast
AI & Robotics Stealing Crypto's Thunder? | EP 73
Good Game Podcast
How Long Will This Bear Market Last? | EP 72
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