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Anthony Sassano
Total Investments20
DeFi9
L23
Infrastructure2
Analytics1
Gaming1
Zero Knowledge Industry1
Web31
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Othentic | Apr 22, 2024 | $4m | Seed | Infrastructure | a self-deploy infrastructure to spin up distributed systems with shared security | Finality Capital Partners, Breyer Capital | Coinbase Ventures, Collider, Bankless Ventures, Robot Ventures, Hashkey Capital, Everstake, PunkDAO, David Tse, Arik Galansky, Alan Curtis, Mike Silagadze, Anthony Sassano, Fan Zhang | ||
| Eclipse Labs | Mar 11, 2024 | $50m | Series A | L2 | Ethereum layer-2 using the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) | Placeholder, Hack VC | Polychain Capital, Maven 11, DBA, Delphi Digital, Fenbushi Capital, Bankless Ventures, Flow Traders, OKX Ventures, Barnabe Monnot, John Adler, Mert Mumtaz, Austin Federa, DCInvestor, Hasu, Cozomo de’ Medici, Meltem Demirors, ZachXBT, Anthony Sassano, Santiago Roel Santos, Jill Gunter, DeeZe, Eric Wall | ||
| Only Dust | Sep 15, 2023 | $3m | Seed | Web3 | coordination of open source contributions across Web3 | Fabric Ventures | Sam Benyakoub, Frst, Ergodic Capital, Stake Capital, Tim Beiko, Anthony Sassano, dcbuilder.eth, Nicolas Bacca, Benjamin Flores | ||
| Ethena | Jul 17, 2023 | $6m | Seed | DeFi | startup developing the first-ever ‘internet bond’ and a new Ethereum-based stablecoin secured by derivatives | Dragonfly Capital | Maelstrom, Deribit, Bybit, Mirana Ventures, OKX Ventures, BitMEX, Gemini, Lightspeed Faction, Huobi Ventures, Nascent, BlockTower Capital, Delphi Digital, Wintermute Ventures, GSR, CMT Digital, Tangent, Finality Capital Partners, No Limit Holdings, Cobie, Anthony Sassano, Julian Koh, Jai Prasad | ||
| Ion Protocol | Jul 13, 2023 | $2m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | CDPs for restaked assets | Portal Ventures, SevenX Ventures | Bankless Ventures, Maelstrom, Alexander Larsen, Ryan Watkins, Hash Capital, Foresight Ventures, Smrti Labs, Maelstrom Fund, Breed VC, Everstake Pool, Punk Ventures DAO, Builder VC, Picks and Shovels VC, Marc Weinstein, Anthony Sassano, Daniel Dizion, Catrina Wang, Defi Dave, David Gogel, Paul Kim, Ryan Selkis, Yuki Yuminaga, Daniel Cheung, Wilson Withiam, Jack Sun, Ahboyash | ||
| PWN | Jun 28, 2023 | $2m | Seed | DeFi | DeFi mortgage protocol | StarkWare, Nethermind, Safe Ecosystem Foundation, Dialectic, Next Web Capital, F.actor, Patricio Worthalter, Christopher Jentzsch, Danny Ryan, Tim Beiko, Alex van de Sande, Lefteris Karapetsas, Luis Cuende, Anthony Sassano, Eric Conner, Digital Finance Group, IQTEC | |||
| Taiko | Jun 8, 2023 | $22m | Seed | L2 | A decentralized, Ethereum-equivalent ZK-Rollup | Sequoia Capital China, Generative Ventures | IOSG Ventures, GGV Capital, GSR, Patricio Worthalter, Tim Beiko, Anthony Sassano, BAI Capital, KuCoin Ventures, Mirana Ventures, OKX Ventures, Skyland Ventures, Token Bay Capital, worthalter, MH Ventures | ||
| Intmax | Apr 13, 2023 | $5m | Seed | L2 | stateless zkRollup | Hashkey Capital, Bitscale Capital, B Dash Ventures, SNZ Holding, Antalpha Ventures, Scroll, Mask Network, Dorahacks, East Ventures, MZ Web3 Fund, Tané, SGverse Pte. Ltd., Hyperithm, Stacker Ventures, Cryptomeria Capital, WAGMI Ventures, Zephyrus Capital, Pragma Ventures, TRGC, Alchemy Ventures, Big Candle Capital, BreakOrbit Ventures, HG Ventures, Meteorite Labs, Justin Drake, Scott Moore, Balaji Srinivasan, Anthony Sassano | |||
| Scroll | Mar 6, 2023 | $50m | Zero Knowledge Industry | zkEVM-based zkRollup on Ethereum that enables native compatibility for existing Ethereum applications and tools | Polychain Capital, Bain Capital Crypto | Robot Ventures , Santiago Roel Santos, Anthony Sassano, Ying Tong, Carlos Aria, Gate Ventures | |||
| Phi | Feb 17, 2023 | $2m | Seed | Gaming | Web3 social gaming onboarding platform | Chapter One, Delphi Digital | Polygon Ventures, Stani Kulechov, Anthony Sassano, Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffmann, Kartik Talwar, Scott More, Tim Beiko, Makoto Inoue, 0xmons, Zefram | ||
| NiftyApes | Nov 1, 2022 | $4.2m | Seed | Liquidity protocol for NFTs | Variant, FinTech Collective | Robot Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, The Lao, Flamingo DAO, Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffmann, Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, Cyrus Younessi, DC Investor, James Young, James Duncan, Nadav Hollander, Brendan Forster, SuperRare, Rarible | |||
| Vesta Finance | Jan 4, 2022 | Angel Round | DeFi | CDP | Tetranode, DCFGod, Fiskantes, Not3Lau Capital, Sam Kazemian, 0xmons, Wangarian, OmniscientAsian, PopcornKirby, Nick Chong, Calvin Chu, Jae Chung, Anthony Sassano, Eric Conner, Mariano Conti, Shuyao Kong, Feir | ||||
| Element Finance | Oct 19, 2021 | $32m | Series A | DeFi | Element is an open-source protocol that offers BTC, ETH, and USDC at a discount for fixed and variable yield markets. | A.Capital Ventures, Advanced Blockchain, Alex Svanevik, a16z, Anthony Sassano, Cyrus Younessi, Darren Lau, David Hoffmann, Dean Eigenmann, Ethereal Ventures, Femboy Capital, Fernando Martinelli, Hart Lambur, Julian Koh, Kain Warwick, Marc Bhargava | |||
| XMTP | Aug 31, 2021 | $20m | Series A | XMTP is a communication protocol and network that connects communities, creators, protocols, applications, and users. | a16z crypto, Aaron Batalion, Alchemy, Alexander Taub, Alexis Ohanian, Alison Grigonis, Anthony Pompliano, Anthony Sassano, Atelier Ventures, Austin Rief, Balaji Srinivasan | ||||
| Euler | Aug 25, 2021 | $8m | Series A | DeFi | Euler is a capital-efficient permissionless lending protocol that helps users to earn interest on their crypto assets. | $50m | Anthony Sassano, Cluster Capital, CMT Digital, Danilo S. Carlucci, David Hoffmann, Divergence Ventures, DOUBLE TOP, Hasu Fl, Josh Buckley, Kain Warwick, LAUNCHub Ventures, Lemniscap, Luke Youngblood, Manu Andorra, Paradigm, Ric Burton, Ryan Sean Adams, Supriyo | ||
| Lyra Finance | Jul 26, 2021 | $3.3m | Seed | DeFi | Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum. | AllianceDAO, Anthony Sassano, Anton Bukov, Apollo Capital, Divergence Ventures, Framework Ventures, Jinglan Wang, Jordan Momtazi, Kain Warwick, Orthogonal Trading, ParaFi Capital, Robot Ventures, Ryan Sean Adams, Stani Kulechov, Tyler Scott Ward | |||
| Superfluid | Jul 13, 2021 | $9m | Seed | DeFi | Payment streaming protocol | Multicoin Capital | Delphi Digital , DeFiance Capital, Metacartel Ventures, MMC, Fabric Ventures, The Lao, DeFi Alliance, White Star Capital, Roble Venture Capital, Tiny VC, Divergence Ventures, BR Capital, Angel DAO, Stable Node, beToken Capital, Supernova Fund, ID Theory, Happiness Capital, Taavet Hinrikus, Sten Tamkivi, Ryan Selkis, Anthony Sassano, David Hoffmann, Julien Bouteloup, gmoney NFT, Jesus Perez Sanchez, Calvin Liu, Edgar.eth, Francesco Simoneschi, Ana Andrianova, Max Ament, Noah Jessop, Rezo Shmertz, Anthony Chen, Eli Krenzke, Ryon Nixon, Gustav Arentoft, Doo Wan Nam, Märt Kelder | ||
| Ethereum Push Notification Service | Dec 8, 2020 | $750,000 | Seed | DeFi | Ethereum Push Notification Service is a decentralized notification protocol. | $5m | 4RC, Balaji Srinivasan, Scott Moore, Mariano Conti, Anthony Sassano, DeFiDad, Ravindra Kumar, Preethi Kasireddy, Andrew Chen, DeltaHub Capital, Luka Sucic, Ben Lakoff, Auryn Macmillan, Danny Christ, Kenneth Ng, Ganeshram Gunalan, Thomas Kaseng Ao, Kathik Garg, The Lao, Metacartel Ventures, BlockRock Capital, LD Capital, D64 Ventures, Moonwhale Ventures | ||
| Dune Analytics | Sep 23, 2020 | $2m | Seed | Analytics | Dune Analytics is an Ethereum-centric analytics platform that makes on-chain crypto data accessible and consumable. | Alameda Research, Anthony Sassano, Calvin Liu, Coinbase Ventures, Coingecko Ventures, DCG, Dragonfly Capital, Hashed, Jake Brukhman, Jason Choi, Luis Cuende, Matteo Leibowitz, Multicoin Capital, Regan Bozman, Ryan Sean Adams, Semantic Ventures, Stani Kulechov, Stefan George | |||
| Zapper | Aug 27, 2020 | $2m | Seed | Infrastructure | Zapper is a fintech platform that manages all DeFi assets from one simple interface. | Anthony Sassano, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Coingecko Ventures, Framework Ventures, Kain Warwick, Libertus Capital, Mariano Conti, Meltem Demirors, Metacartel Ventures, Michael Dunworth, Scalar Capital, The Lao, Zee Prime Capital |