AlphaLab Capital
Venture capitalPre-Seed–Seed
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Investment thesis
The firm believes blockchain technology holds significant untapped potential and aims to back founders building transformative products with it. It invests at the pre-seed and seed stages through both equity and token instruments, concentrating on areas where it has demonstrated expertise, including infrastructure, DeFi, and analytics. It seeks to leverage its technology and liquidity experience to support founders through a critical growth phase.
Source: firm website, verified Jul 28, 2026.
What they invest in
from 34 of 41 portfolio companiesCrypto & Web3 ×30Fintech ×19Data & Infrastructure ×11AI & Machine Learning ×10Developer Tools ×4Enterprise Software ×4Cloud Computing ×3B2B Marketplaces ×1
HQs:United States×9Singapore×2South Korea×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 25 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×112 founders×113 founders×24+ founders×1
Where their founders studiedfrom 30 founders with education data
Stanford University ×3Harvard University ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ×2University of British Columbia ×2University of California, Berkeley ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 28 founders with field-of-study data
Computer Science ×12Engineering ×8Economics ×4Business & Management ×2Finance & Accounting ×2Mathematics & Statistics ×2
Where their founders worked beforefrom 31 founders with career history
Bridgewater Associates ×2Facebook ×2Genesis ×2Goldman Sachs ×2McKinsey & Company ×2YPO ×2
3 founders hold a PhD · 1 hold an MBA (of 31 with degree data)
Investments · 41 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathAgora builds a governance platform for crypto protocols, enabling onchain community coordination around protocol upgrades and ecosystem funding.
Crypto & Web3GovTech
Yitong Zhang(Founder)Jarrah Kandeh(Founder)inNick van Eck(CEO)in
Co-investorsAlephCaladanDragonflyHack VCHaun VenturesInsight Partners+6 more
Kaito.ai is an AI-powered Web3 information platform combining crypto-native search, market intelligence and attention data.
Seattle, US
Yunzhong He(Founder)Yu Hu(Founder)in
Berachain is a Layer 1 blockchain network built around a Proof of Liquidity mechanism that directs block reward emissions as non-dilutive growth capital to ecosystem applications in exchange for revenue sharing with the network and tokenholders.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Smokey the Bera(Founder)
Co-investorsArrington CapitalBorderless VentureCaladanCVP NoLimitHack VCHash3 Capital+13 more
Bitlayer is a Bitcoin-focused blockchain infrastructure project offering YBTC (yield-bearing BTC), multichain support, and BTC deposit and trading functionality.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintech
Charlie Hu(Founder)inKevin He(Founder)in
Co-investors57Blocks CapitalABCDE CapitalBaseTwoCaladanNxGenOptic Capital+11 more
Caladan provides financial services or investment management, with a team drawn from finance, real estate, and creative backgrounds.
Crypto & Web3FintechSector AgnosticSingapore, SG
John GuNigel YoungEva WenginRemi ColinmaireinStephany Zooin
Co-investorsCollaborative FundLerer HippeauTwelve BelowWireframe Ventures
Cap is a three-sided onchain platform for USD yield, private credit and financial guarantees, headquartered in New York.
New York, US
Benjamin Sarquis Peillard(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsBreedCaladanFlowdeskFourth Revolution Capital (4RC)HyperithmPaper Ventures+5 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)inPreston Evans(CTO, Celestia Labs)Sarah Armstrong(CFO)inZach Leibowitz(General Counsel)in
Co-investorsAdvanced BlockchainBain Capital CryptoBlockchain CapitalCaladanCoinbase VenturesDigital Currency Group+18 more
Concordia is an adaptive risk layer for DeFi that uses an AI engine to manage collateral, liquidation, and market risk across protocols.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCaladanOptic CapitalSaison Capital
Seattle, US
Paul Kim(Founder)in
Co-investorsCaladanLongHash VenturesStruck CapitalWintermuteHashedRace Capital
Hyperdrive is a stablecoin money market focused on stablecoin lending, built on the Hyperliquid blockchain.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCaladanPharsalus Capital
Eulith offers technology and financial services that let asset managers and accredited investors access and manage capital on-chain, with a focus on security, risk management, and performance.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsCaladan
Doppel is an AI-native platform that protects organizations from social engineering attacks, AI-powered impersonation, phishing, and fraud through threat detection, infrastructure disruption, and employee security awareness training.
AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityEnterprise SoftwareCovina, US
Kevin Tian(Executive Officer, Director)inRahul Madduluri(Executive Officer, Director)inBobby Ford(Chief Security Officer)in
BoardZane Lackey(Director)inElliott Robinson(Director)in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBessemer Venture PartnersScript CapitalSozo Ventures9Yards CapitalNTT DOCOMO Ventures+7 more
Ethena operates a crypto protocol offering USDe, a digital dollar, and sUSDe, a reward-accruing asset backed by collateralized assets with third-party attestations.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Guy Young(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBitDAOBreedCaladanCVP NoLimitF-Prime CapitalFaction+17 more
Merlin Chain is a Bitcoin Layer 2 network that is EVM-compatible and uses ZK-Rollup technology, supporting Bitcoin protocols such as BRC20, BRC420, Bitmap, Atomicals, Pipe, and Stamp.
Crypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Co-investorsCaladanGenerative VenturesOnePiece LabsStratified CapitalKuCoin Labs
Fountain is a no-code automation platform for on-chain treasury operations, risk management, and trading execution, letting users build multi-condition workflows that interact with protocols and dApps.
Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintech
Co-investorsNathan McCauleyRene ReinsbergCaladanDCM
Kaia is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain focused on stablecoin settlement and onchain finance, targeting users and businesses across Asia.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsBlockchain CapitalCaladan1kx
Koywe provides financial services and regulatory compliance solutions for companies across Latin America, with operations in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
Crypto & Web3FintechMiami, US
Ignacio Detmer(Co-fundador & CEO)inGuillermo Acuña(Co-fundador & CTO)inIgnacio D(Founder)in
Co-investorsCaladanManutara VenturesNazcaStartupsTantaucoY Combinator
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-investorsAlliance DAO (ex DeFi Alliance)Black DragonBreakOrbitCaladanDivergenceNIV+10 more
M0 provides a modular platform for designing and issuing stablecoins, allowing users to independently configure token behavior, issuers, and other stablecoin stack components.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Gregory Di Prisco(Founder)in
Co-investorsCaladanEarlybird Venture CapitalGSRKraynos CapitalMouro CapitalPantera Capital+11 more
Monad is a high-performance EVM-compatible blockchain designed for fast, low-cost transactions.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Co-investorsAmbush CapitalArchetypeBankless VenturesBig Brain HoldingsBloccelerate VCBODL+23 more
More Markets is a decentralized trading platform building automated leveraged yield strategies on the Morpho lending protocol.
Altan Tutar(Founder)in
Co-investorsCaladanElectric CapitalFabric Ventures
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Nakamoto builds digital treasury management solutions with a focus on security, transparency, and innovation for financial institutions and organizations managing digital assets.
Crypto & Web3FintechMedia & EntertainmentNashville, US
David Bailey(CEO & Chairman)inTyler Evans(Chief Investment Officer)inAmanda Fabiano(Chief Operating Officer)inTeri Gendron(Chief Financial Officer)inLana Tkachov(Chief of Staff)inJohn Dalton(CAO & Controller)in
Co-investorsACTAI VenturesCaladanSora Ventures
0G (Zero Gravity) is a blockchain infrastructure stack for AI applications, combining an EVM-compatible Layer 1 chain, a distributed storage network, a compute network, and a scalable data availability layer.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Data & Infrastructure
Ming Wu(Founder)inMichael Heinrich(Founder)in
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesAnimoca BrandsBaseTwoBlockchain BuildersCaladanDelta Blockchain+14 more
Optimum applies Random Linear Network Coding (RLNC) to speed up blockchain data propagation, encoding transactions, blocks, and data blobs into resilient packets to reduce latency and bandwidth use.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeep Tech
Muriel Médard(Co-founder)inKishori Konwar(Co-founder)inKent Lin(Co-founder)in
Co-investors1kxCaladanGSRRobot VenturesTriton Capital1k(x)+2 more
Particle Network provides developer infrastructure for onchain applications, including Universal Accounts that let users access dApps with assets from any blockchain without bridging, account abstraction for gas sponsorship and removing signature popups, and social logins for one-click onboarding.
Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools
Pengyu Wang(Founder)in
Co-investorsArcane GroupBitDAOBloccelerate VCCaladanFOMO VenturesInception Capital (ex OP Crypto)+11 more
Perle provides expert-driven data services for AI teams, supplying credentialed specialists to handle data collection, labeling, quality assurance, evaluation, and RLHF/RLAIF for tasks that generic crowd-worker vendors can't judge.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Ahmed Rashad(Founder)in
Co-investorsACTAI VenturesBig Brain HoldingsBreedCaladanCoinFundPaper Ventures+2 more
Plume provides a platform for tokenizing and distributing real-world assets (RWAs) on blockchain infrastructure.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Eugene Y. Q. Shen(Founder)inChris Yin(Founder)in
Co-investorsA.Capital VenturesBreedCaladanHaun VenturesHyperithmReciprocal Ventures+8 more
Pontem is a product development studio building blockchain products using the Move language on Aptos and other Layer 1 networks.
Crypto & Web3Developer ToolsFintech
Alejo Pinto(Founder)inArman Manukyanin
Co-investorsCaladanPantera CapitalWintermuteWWVenturesAnimoca BrandsFaction+1 more
SF Compute builds data centers and GPU clusters and operates a cloud on top, offering VMs, bare metal, and managed Slurm to teams needing compute for AI workloads.
AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesCloud ComputingSan Francisco, US
Evan Conrad(Founder)inEthan Anderson(Founder)inEric Menees(Founder)inAlex Gajewski(Founder)Eric Park(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel Collective Opportunity FundCaladanDeep AcreElectric CapitalMoth FundPredictive VC+3 more
Treehouse builds fixed income infrastructure for digital assets, combining yield primitives, benchmark rates (such as the Treehouse Ethereum Staking Rate), and a participation layer.
Crypto & Web3FintechSingapore, SG
Brandon G(Founder)Brandon Goh(Founder)inBryan Goh(Founder)in
Co-investorsCaladanMirana VenturesWintermuteCrane Venture Partners
USD.ai offers a stablecoin-based platform for financing AI compute infrastructure, letting users earn yield or borrow to fund the machines behind AI data centers.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsBig Brain HoldingsBreedCaladanFramework Ventures
Vana is an open data infrastructure platform that enables individuals to control and manage the data they generate, with the ability to choose how it is used by AI systems.
AI & Machine LearningData & Infrastructure
Art Abal(Founder)
Co-investorsAbstract VenturesCaladanEarl Grey CapitalParadigmSCB 10XSymbolic Capital+7 more
Variational operates an on-chain derivatives trading protocol that lets users trade over 500 crypto, stock, commodity and index markets from a single account with up to 50x leverage and no fees.
Crypto & Web3FintechSaaS
Edward Yu(Founder)inLucas Schuermannin
Co-investorsBain Capital CryptoCaladanDragonflyMirana VenturesNIVPeak XV Partners+1 more
World provides a system for verifying that online users are real, unique humans, combining privacy-preserving proof-of-human identity with financial infrastructure and a digital token.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechSector AgnosticSan Francisco, US
Sam Altman(Co-founder & Chairman (Tools for Humanity))Alex Blania(Co-founder & CEO (Tools for Humanity))inMax Novendstern(Co-founder (Tools for Humanity))in
Co-investorsAndreessen HorowitzBain Capital CryptoBlockchain CapitalKhosla Ventures1confirmationa16z crypto+18 more
Zentry builds a human-agentic operating system that integrates AI agents, gamified applications, and data infrastructure to enable human-AI co-evolution.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3Gaming
Co-investorsAnimoca BrandsCoinbase VenturesDeFiance CapitalPantera CapitalSkyVision CapitalCaladan+2 more
Other
Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.
Exocore Liquid RestakingOmnichain & BTC DeFiWeb3 sub-account (ERC-6551) marketplace
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companies
Koywe · refreshmiami.com · Sep 9, 2026
Nakamoto · cryptobriefing.com · Aug 23, 2026
Ethena Labs · interactivecrypto.com · Aug 21, 2026
Optimum · finance.yahoo.com · Aug 14, 2026
plume.org PLUME · cryptobriefing.com · Aug 13, 2026
SF Compute · datacenterdynamics.com · Jul 27, 2026
World · beincrypto.com · Jul 25, 2026
Monad · crypto-economy.com · Jul 17, 2026
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has AlphaLab Capital made?
- AlphaLab Capital has 41 tracked investments, including 1 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does AlphaLab Capital invest at?
- AlphaLab Capital invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What sectors does AlphaLab Capital focus on?
- AlphaLab Capital focuses on Crypto & Web3, Data & Infrastructure.
- Who does AlphaLab Capital co-invest with?
- AlphaLab Capital most often shares deals with Caladan, Wintermute, Breed, among 156 tracked co-investors.
Media · Podcasts & interviews
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