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Ascensive Assets
Total Investments31
DeFi7
Infrastructure5
Gaming4
NFT3
Game2
Trading1
Metaverse1
DEX1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Switchboard | 28 May 2024 | $7.5m | Series A | Infrastructure | permissionless oracle network services | Tribe Capital, RockawayX | Solana Foundation, Mysten Labs, Aptos Foundation, Infstones, StarkWare, OtterSec, Ascensive Assets, Lemniscap, Arche Capital, Bixin Ventures, Breed VC, Block Builders, Mert Mumtaz, Joe McCann, Brian Long, Geoff Renaud, Danish Chaudhry, Rooter, Jack C Liu | ||
| StripChain | 28 May 2024 | $10m | Venture Round | Infrastructure | interoperability protocol enabling chain abstraction at scale | Sora Ventures | Mechanism Capital, Shima Capital, Hyperithm, Hypersphere Ventures, Ascensive Assets, Ryan Selkis, Stephane Gosselin, Santiago Roel Santos, Zee Prime Capital, Daedalus, FounderHeads VC, Wave Capital, 32-bit Ventures, Impossible Finance, Comma3 Ventures, Cherry Street, Not3Lau Capital, Aric Chang, Blake Gao, Jeff Wang, Ivangbi, The Crypto Dog | ||
| Stripchain | 22 May 2024 | $10.1m | Private | Infrastructure | intent-based interoperability protocol | Sora Ventures | Santiago Roel Santos, Stephane Gosselin, Ryan Selkis, Shima Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Mechanism Capital, Ascensive Assets, Hyperithm | ||
| Nest Wallet | 20 Feb 2024 | $3.6m | Seed | Infrastructure | multi-chain wallet built for traders | Inception, Ascensive Assets, SNACKCLUB, Orange DAO, gumi Cryptos Capital, INCE Capital, Steve Chen, Kevin Lin, Gabby Dizon, Sebastien Borget, Kun Gao, Patrick Lee, Jamie Lin, naniXBT | |||
| EthosX | 13 Dec 2023 | $1.8m | Private | DEX | decentralized derivatives trading platform | Y Combinator, Franklin Templeton, Ascensive Assets, Emurgo Ventures, Stacker VC, Sudo Research, Token Metrics Ventures, Cogitent Ventures, Asymmetry VC, Upsparks VC, Austen Allred, MH Ventures, Global DeVC, Crypto Times | |||
| zkLink | 04 May 2023 | $10m | Strategic | Infrastructure | multi-chain ZK-Rollup trading infra for DeFi & NFT | Coinbase Ventures | Ascensive Assets, SIG DT Investments, BigBrain Holdings, Efficient Frontier | ||
| Optix | 31 Jan 2023 | $1.8m | Private | DeFi | Altcoin options | Skynet Trading | $12m | Ascensive Assets, Arrington Capital, Morningstar Ventures, SkyVision Capital, Huobi Ventures, LVT Capital, Phemex | |
| Rysk Finance | 31 Jan 2023 | $1.4m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | On-chain market maker for DeFi derivatives | Lemniscap | Encode Club, Ascensive Assets, Starbloom, Yunt Capital, Manifold Trading, Hype.eth, Ivangbi, Windra Thio | ||
| LiquidFactory | 06 Dec 2022 | $1.25m | Seed | Privacy network with native encrypted cross-chain communication. unlocking new use cases for the blockchain ecosystem from DeFi, and GameFi to NFTs | Kucoin Labs, Republic Capital | Lapin Digital, AcheronTrading, IDG Capital, GDH, Ascensive Assets | |||
| Snackclub | 04 May 2022 | $9m | Seed | Gaming | Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) that changes how people consume games and the internet today | Mechanism Capital | Jump Crypto, Shima Capital, Ascensive Assets, Formless Capital, ROK Capital, Animoca Brands, OP Crypto, Third Prime Ventures | ||
| zkLend | 31 Mar 2022 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Lending | Delphi Digital | 4RC, StarkWare, Genesis Block Ventures, CMS, Metacartel Ventures, DCVC, Amber Group, TPS Capital, Ascensive Assets, D3Web Capital, SkyVision Capital | ||
| CyBall | 14 Dec 2021 | $1.8m | Seed | Game | CyBall is a football-themed (US: soccer), NFT-based paly-to-earn game that allows users can collect, trade, mentor CyBlocs. | Animoca Brands, Ascensive Assets, BITKRAFT Ventures, Coin98 Ventures, Foresight Ventures, GuildFi, Merit Circle, Raydium, SkyVision Capital, Yield Guild Games | |||
| BAYZ | 09 Dec 2021 | $4m | Seed | Gaming | BAYZ is a Play-to-earn gaming guild that helps members earn money by playing video games and being part of a global gaming community. | Aleksander Leonard Larsen, Arca, Arrington XRP Capital, Ascensive Assets, BITKRAFT Ventures, BitScale, Delphi Digital , Eden Holdings, Fabric Ventures, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Jeffrey Zirlin, Morningstar Ventures, ParaFi Capital, SkyVision Capital, Valor Capital Group, Volt Capital, Yield Guild Games | |||
| Ambire | 02 Dec 2021 | $3.2m | Seed | DeFi | Ambire is a product company that develops Ambire Wallet and the Ambire AdEx (previously AdEx Network). | Ascensive Assets, Danish Chaudhry, LAUNCHub Ventures, Maven Capital, Metacartel Ventures, Skynet Trading, Zee Prime Capital | |||
| Ignite Tournaments | 02 Dec 2021 | $3m | Seed | Gaming | Ignite Tournaments is the worlds first play-to-earn esports tournament organization and streaming app for mobile games with crypto payouts. | Arca, Ascensive Assets, D1 Ventures, Danish Chaudhry, Eden Holdings, Genblock Capital, Ghaf Capital Partners, Kieran Warwick, Mechanism Capital, MoonBoots Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Richard Ma, SkyVision Capital, Yield Guild Games | |||
| Structure | 01 Dec 2021 | $20m | Seed | Trading | Structure financial is a global trading platform that aims to facilitate crypto-based investing and lending for mobile users. | Ascensive Assets, Bixin Ventures, Kane & Rao Group, Polychain Capital | |||
| MetaMundo | 30 Nov 2021 | $2.7m | Seed | Metaverse | MetaMundo is a curated marketplace for 3D scenes and assets, enabling anyone to own high quality 3D NFTs for use across the open metaverse. | Animoca Brands, Ascensive Assets, Cryptomeria Capital, D1 Ventures, DCG, Hypersphere Ventures, Marshland Group, Metacartel Ventures, OP Crypto, Own.fund, Polygon Studios, Red Beard Ventures, Sfermion | |||
| zkLink | 22 Oct 2021 | $8.5m | Seed | zkLink is a cross-chain decentralized exchange that utilizes zero-knowledge rollups (zk-rollups) technology. | AllianceDAO, Arrington XRP Capital, Ascensive Assets, GSR, Huobi Capital, Marshland Group, Morningstar Ventures, Parachain Ventures, Republic Crypto, Skynet Trading, ZBS CAPITAL | ||||
| MonkeyBall | 21 Oct 2021 | $3m | Seed | Game | MonkeyBall is a Solana-based play-to-earn soccer game a kind of FIFA Street and Final Fantasy rolled into one fun monkey-themed game. | 6th Man Ventures, Ascensive Assets, Banter Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, CMS Holdings, Collider, iAngels, Joe McCann, Jump Capital, Longhash Ventures, MarketAcross, Youbi Capital, ZBS CAPITAL | |||
| Decentology | 19 Oct 2021 | $4.3m | Seed | Decentology operates as a block-chain startup. | Animal Ventures, Ascensive Assets, Autonomy Capital, Berezka DAO, Borderless Capital, Dapper Labs, David Phelps, Good News Ventures, Kae Huynh, Kosmos Ventures, Manta Ray Ventures, Meld Ventures, NOIA Capital, Portico Ventures, SevenX Ventures, Synapse, Unanimous Capital, X21 Digital | ||||
| Ardana | 15 Oct 2021 | $6.56m | DeFi | Ardana is a decentralized stablecoin and DEX liquidity pool built on Cardano | Ascensive Assets, cFund, Double Peak Group, Extra Watts, Faculty Group, iAngels, Justin Sun, Kosmos Ventures, Mechanism Capital, mgnr.io, Morningstar Ventures, Portico Ventures, Richard Ma, Selini Capital, Skynet Trading, Tenzor Capital | ||||
| Taker Protocol | 20 Sep 2021 | $3m | Seed | NFT | Taker Protocol is a cryptocurrency liquidity protocol for NFTs. | Ascensive Assets, DCG, Dragonfly Capital, Electric Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Sfermion, The Lao, The Spartan Group | |||
| ClayStack | 13 Jul 2021 | $5.2m | Seed | DeFi | ClayStack, blockchain-agnostic staking protocol that unlock the power of digital assets in the form of liquid staking derivative tokens. | Adam D'Augelli, Animoca Brands, Ascensive Assets, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, D64 Ventures, Defi Dad, DeFiance Capital, Genblock Capital, Hashed, Hillrise Ventures, Hypersphere Ventures, Illia Polosukhin, Jack Herrick, Jeffrey Veen, Jon Callaghan, Josh Hannah, Kain Warwick |