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Raises
Ashwin Ramachandran
Total Investments5
DeFi2
Trading1
L11
Infrastructure1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid | Nov 3, 2025 | $7.6m | Seed | Trading | Liquid provides a way to trade Bitcoin, ETH, and trending tokens with up to 40x leverage | Paradigm | General Catalyst, Ashwin Ramachandran, Eric Wu | ||
| Alpen Labs | Apr 10, 2024 | $10.6m | Seed | Infrastructure | Bitcoin rollup infrastructure | Ribbit Capital | Castle Island Ventures, Geometry Research, Village Global, StillMark, Paxos, Robot Ventures, Axiom, John Pfeffer, Charlie Songhurst, Ben Davenport, Ashwin Ramachandran, Charles Cascarilla, Waikit Lau, Eric Wall | ||
| INIT Capital | Feb 21, 2024 | $3.1m | Seed | DeFi | Building Liquidity Hook Money Market | Electric Capital, Mirana Ventures | Maelstrom, Robot Ventures, Nomad Capital, Tangent, Bankless Ventures, Selini Capital, Faction Ventures, Julian Koh, leptokurtic, Tai Panich, David Choi, Ashwin Ramachandran | ||
| Berachain | Apr 20, 2023 | $42m | Series A | L1 | DeFi focused EVM-compatible L1 built on the Cosmos SDK, powered by Proof of Liquidity Consensu | Polychain Capital | $420m | Hack VC, Dao5, Tribe Capital, CitizenX, Shima Capital, Robot Ventures, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Zaki Manian, Santiago Roel Santos, Joey Santoro, Spadaboom, Georgios Vlachos, DCF God, Brian Tubergen, Kevin Hu, Lawrence Diao, Ashwin Ramachandran | |
| Tracer DAO | Jun 26, 2021 | $4.5m | DeFi | Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world. | 0xMaki, Apollo Capital, Ashwin Ramachandran, Baires DAO, Danny Gilligan, Darren Smorgon, Digital Asset Capital Management, Distributed Global, Efficient Frontier, Emrin Nurovic, Framework Ventures, GSR, Henrik Andersson, James Simpson, Joe Flanagan |