Bain Capital Crypto — Full Portfolio

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

SASam Altman(Founder)ABAlex Blania(Founder)inMNMax Novendstern(Founder)inand Alex Bania(Founder)Alex Bania(Founder)

Co-investorsANAndreessen HorowitzBLBlockchain CapitalKHKhosla Ventures1C1confirmationA1a16z cryptoALAlphaLab Capital+24 more

AnchorZero helps founders and investors hold pre-launch tokens or founder shares in self-directed Roth IRAs to shield capital appreciation from taxes, with digital assets custodied by Anchorage Digital Bank.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Co-investorsMEMetalayerETEthereal Ventures Management Ltd.MIMischiefPAPascal CapitalRORobot VenturesSPSpark Capital

Bankless is a global community providing educational content and resources to help users navigate and understand cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.

Crypto & Web3Media & Entertainment

Co-investorsBABankless VenturesCOCoinbase VenturesANAndreessen HorowitzBRBrevan Howard DigitalCACapitalGCOCoatue Management+6 more

Bluesky is a social media platform built as a Public Benefit Corporation.

Developer ToolsMedia & EntertainmentSector AgnosticSocial

Jay Graber(Former CEO, now Chief Innovation Officer)inRose Wang(Founder)TSToni Schneider(CEO)in

BoardJack Dorsey(Founder)

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesBLBlockchain CapitalBLBloomberg BetaETEterna CapitalEXEx/AntePLPlus Ultra Capital Partners+8 more

Bluesky is a social networking application built on the AT Protocol (atproto).

ConsumerSocial

Jack Dorsey(Founder)Jay Graber(Founder)

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesAVAvalanche VCBABasecamp FundDADarkmode VenturesANAnthos CapitalBABain Capital Ventures+5 more

byFounders is a generalist early-stage venture capital fund focused on startups from the New Nordics region, typically investing as a founder's first investor.

Sector AgnosticCopenhagen, DK

Co-investorsASAspire11ELElmehøj VenturesWAWave VenturesANAntlerFAFarvatn VentureSKSkyfall Ventures

Celestia designs and delivers custom, high-throughput blockchain chains for enterprises, separating compute and storage so each scales independently.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureEnterprise Software

MAMustafa Al-Bassam(Founder)inNick White(Co-founder & CEO, Celestia Labs)inPreston Evans(CTO, Celestia Labs)SASarah Armstrong(CFO)inZLZach Leibowitz(General Counsel)inIsmail Khoffi(Founder)

Co-investorsADAdvanced BlockchainALAlphaLab CapitalBLBlockchain CapitalCACaladanCOCoinbase VenturesDIDigital Currency Group+23 more

KZKevin Zhang(Founder)inYijia Chen(Founder)

Co-investorsAVAvestria VenturesSESevenX VenturesCACalm/Storm VCDUDunbar CapitalEXExceptional Ventures

Ghost is a publishing platform that enables independent creators and professional publishers to build websites, publish content, send newsletters, and manage paid memberships.

Creator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSaaS

Co-investorsSPSpeedinvestCACathay Innovation

Gameplay Galaxy is a multi-game Web3 gaming company building mobile titles such as Trial Xtreme, incorporating token-powered economies, player ownership, and shared in-game economies.

Crypto & Web3Gaming

MGMaya Gurevich(Founder)inDBDmitry Burlakov(Founder)in

Co-investorsBLBlockchain CapitalHUHustle Fund

Ground News is a media analytics platform that identifies and visualizes stories with political bias disparities across news outlets, helping users see coverage patterns and stories they may have missed due to media polarization.

Media & EntertainmentSector AgnosticKitchener, CA

HKHarleen Kaur(Co-founder)inSukh Singh(Co-founder)inHKHarleen K.(Founder)in

Co-investorsTETechstarsCHChapter OneCOConsonant VenturesNANascentRORobot Ventures

Irreducible builds infrastructure for cryptographic computing, focusing on zero-knowledge proofs and trust mechanisms online.

Crypto & Web3CybersecurityDeep TechHardwareSan Francisco, US

DRDr. Radi Cojbasic(Founder)JPJim Posen(Founder)inRadisav Cojbasic(Founder)

Co-investorsPAParadigmBRBrendan FarmerFEFenbushi CapitalRORobot VenturesSISina Habibian

Jadu is building a consumer platform for spatial imagery — a new medium of volumetric captures that carry sound and can be explored in three dimensions rather than viewed as flat photos or videos.

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCreator EconomyLos Angeles, US

AJAsad J. Malik(Founder)in

Co-investorsALAlumni VenturesCOCoinbase VenturesCRCrit VenturesGAGaingelsGEGeneral CatalystJUJUMP Investors+9 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)inGreg Di Prisco(Founder)Joao Reginatto(Founder)Luca Prosperi(Founder)Oliver Schimek(Founder)

Co-investorsALAlphaLab CapitalCACaladanEAEarlybird Venture CapitalGAGalaxy VenturesGSGSRHAHack VC+14 more

M0 is a modular stablecoin infrastructure platform that lets developers launch application-specific, interoperable digital dollars.

LPLuca Prosperi(Founder & CEO)inGDGreg Di Prisco(Founder)in

Co-investorsA-A-Rod CorpARArrington CapitalBIBitcoin MagazineCICitizenX Crypto VenturesCOCoinbase VenturesCOCompound+19 more

Meanwhile is a licensed Bitcoin-denominated life insurance company whose policies collect premiums and pay death benefits in BTC, with premiums that grow at a guaranteed rate in Bitcoin terms and the option to take Bitcoin loans against policy value.

Crypto & Web3FintechInsurTechHamilton, BM

TBTia Beckmann(Chief Financial Officer)inMax Gasner(Founder)ZTZac Townsend(Founder)in

Co-investorsFRFramework VenturesFUFulgur VenturesGRGradient VenturesSASam Altman6T6th Man VenturesHAHaun Ventures+9 more

Nocturne is a protocol that enables onchain privacy for blockchain users.

Crypto & Web3San Diego, US

LTLuke Tchang(Executive Officer, Director)Sebastien La Duca(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsHAHack VCKIKira StudioPOPolychain Capital

Notebook Labs provides zero-knowledge identity verification for Web3, allowing users to prove personhood and aggregate credentials across wallets while maintaining anonymity.

Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

NMNathaniel Masfen-Yan(Founder)inSASolal Afota(Founder)inDMDhruv Mangtani(Founder)in

Co-investorsY Y CombinatorABAbstract VenturesNFNFXPIPioneerSOSoma CapitalVEVery Serious Ventures

Nucleo automates CT scan analysis for oncology care, providing AI-powered tools for tumor lesion sizing, body composition assessment, and lesion classification to support clinical workflows in hospitals.

AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US

AIAngelica Iacovelli(CEO)inLPLuca Pegolotti(CTO)inAngelica Iacovelli Luca Pegolotti(Founder)

Co-investorsY Y Combinator6T6th Man VenturesLOLombardstreet Ventures

Orb Labs builds an orchestration layer for onchain finance, offering infrastructure to make transactions gasless and bridgeless, restore stablecoin fungibility, and connect onchain accounts with offchain systems.

Crypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureFintechNew York City, US

FMFelix Madutsa(Founder)in

Co-investorsSYSyntax CapitalAVAves LairSHShima Capital

Pantera is an AI software company that builds autonomous digital workers to automate business processes.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

Co-investorsBVBVCANAnimoca BrandsCOCoinbase VenturesFAFalconX VenturesFOFounders FundKAKaratage+5 more

Puzzle is a crypto wallet for the Aleo blockchain, available on iOS, Android, and Chrome, that includes a native Arcade offering earning opportunities to users.

Crypto & Web3Fintech

Co-investorsFEFelicis VenturesGEGeneral CatalystKAKapor CapitalS3S32STSterling Road

RISC Zero provides verifiable computation technology that lets anyone cryptographically confirm a computation's output is correct without recomputing it, while preserving privacy.

Crypto & Web3CybersecurityDeep TechSeattle, US

Frank Laub(Founder)inBrian Retford(Founder)inJeremy Bruestle(Founder)in

Co-investorsBLBlockchain CapitalCOCota CapitalD1D1 VenturesDEDeep FutureFEFenbushi CapitalFIFigment+5 more

Haichen Shen(Founder)Sandy Peng(Founder)Ye Zhang(Founder)

Co-investorsA.A.Capital VenturesBIBixin CapitalBIBixin VenturesCACatcherVCIOIOSG VenturesOKOKX Ventures+9 more

Cosmos provides enterprise-grade blockchain infrastructure and products designed for financial institutions and governments to build, launch, and scale tokenization, payments, and digital currency systems with interoperability and regulatory compliance.

Crypto & Web3Enterprise SoftwareFintechNew York, US

Maghnus Mareneck(Executive Officer, Director)Edward Barry Plunkett(Executive Officer, Director)

Co-investorsBABain Capital VenturesFAFactionFIFigmentPIPicks and Shovels (Picks & Shovels)REReciprocal VenturesCACanonical Crypto

Tools for Humanity develops technology intended for people in the AI era, employing scientists, engineers, economists and creatives.

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechSan Francisco, US

MNMax Novendstern(Co-founder)inSASam Altman(Chairman)inABAlex Blania(CEO)inTSThomas Scott(Chief Legal Officer and Secretary)in

Co-investorsBLBlockchain CapitalA1a16z cryptoDIDistributed Global

Turnkey provides crypto wallet infrastructure for coordinating payments across internal, custodial wallets, with policy controls over fund flows, limits, roles, and approvals.

AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3CybersecurityData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsFintech

BFBryce Ferguson(Founder)inJack Kearney(Founder)Sam McIngvale(Founder)

Co-investors2020VCARArchetypeASAsymmetricFAFactionFIFigmentGAGalaxy Ventures+8 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)inLSLucas Schuermannin

Co-investorsALAlphaLab CapitalCACaladanDRDragonflyMEMetastableMIMirana VenturesNINIV+2 more

World Positive is a venture capital publication/platform associated with Obvious Ventures, sharing investment theses, portfolio company features, and essays organized around economic, human, and planetary health.

Co-investorsDEDesigner FundPAPantera CapitalSESelini Capital