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Balaji Srinivasan
Total Investments84
Infrastructure15
DeFi11
Web36
AI4
Social Platform3
NFT2
Gaming2
DAO infrastructure2
L22
Analytics1
Stablecoin1
Zero Knowledge Industry1
DEX1
RWA1
L11
Payments1
Insurance1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenGradient | 14 Apr 2026 | $9.5m | AI | OpenGradient is a decentralized AI platform for hosting, deploying, and executing models. It provides tools like NeuroML for integrating AI with smart contracts and a model hub for secure, on-chain and off-chain inference | a16z crypto | Coinbase Ventures, Foresight Ventures, SV Angel, Pragma Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Near, Black Dragon Capital, Celestia Foundation, Thanefield Capital, Salt Fund, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Illia Polosukhin, Bruno Faviero | |||
| Project Eleven | 14 Jan 2026 | $20m | Series A | Infrastructure | Project Eleven is an applied quantum computing lab focused on protecting blockchains and digital assets from quantum threats. It develops quantum-resilient cryptographic tools, including Yellowpages, which links existing Bitcoin addresses to post-quantum keys without requiring on-chain transactions | Castle Island Ventures | $120m | Coinbase Ventures, Lattice Fund, Variant Fund, Nascent, Quantonation, Balaji Srinivasan | |
| Noice | 14 Oct 2025 | Social Platform | Noice is a protocol on Base that tokenizes social interactions using Farcaster’s programmable social layer. It enables micro-payments in crypto for actions like likes, follows, and comments. Farcaster creators can earn tokens from engagement without changing how they post. The system includes the $NOICE token, tipping, and automated rewards tied to user activity | Coinbase Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan | |||||
| Inversion Capital | 08 Sep 2025 | $26.5m | Seed | RWA | Inversion is a crypto-native private equity firm that acquires traditional companies to integrate blockchain infrastructure, and is building a bespoke Avalanche-based Layer‑1 chain to support on-chain operational transformation | Dragonfly Capital | VanEck, Lightspeed Faction, ParaFi Capital, Portal Ventures, Mirana Ventures, Volt Capital, Metalayer Ventures, HashKey Capital, Race Capital, Wintermute Ventures, Moonrock Capital, Breed VC, Topology, Balaji Srinivasan, Bodhi Ventures, Lvna Capital, Escape Velocity, Folius Ventures, Comfy Capital, DCF God, Mike Dudas, Bryan Pellegrino, Jason Yanowitz | ||
| Prime Intellect | 28 Feb 2025 | $15m | Infrastructure | aims to develop a peer-to-peer compute and intelligence protocol, building on their mission to make AI and computing resources universally accessible | Founders Fund | Menlo Ventures, Andrej Karpathy, Clement Delangue, Tri Dao, Dylan Patel, Balaji Srinivasan | |||
| Fluent Labs | 19 Feb 2025 | $8m | Seed | L2 | Fluent is an Ethereum Layer 2 network | Polychain Capital | Primitive Ventures, Dao5, MH Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Builder Capital, Nomad Capital, Public Works, The Rollup, Balaji Srinivasan, Gate Ventures | ||
| Fomo | 18 Feb 2025 | $2m | Angel Round | DeFi | Fomo is an onchain trading platform | Raj Gokal, Balaji Srinivasan, Bryan Pellegrino, Lucas Bruder, Smokey The Bera, Jeff D Feng, Vijay Chetty, Jordi Alexander, Nick Van Eck, Viktor Bunin, Amy Wu, Aaron Harris | |||
| OpenGradient | 09 Oct 2024 | $8.5m | Seed | AI | groundbreaking end-to-end decentralized platform for secure open-source AI | a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Pragma Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon Capital, Celestia Foundation, NEAR Foundation, Thanefield Capital | |||
| Fermah | 17 Sep 2024 | $5.2m | Seed | DeFi | Fermah, a developer of a universal proof generation layer | a16z crypto, Lemniscap | Bankless Ventures, Longhash Ventures, Public Works, ZKV, LambdaClass, Daedalus, Zero, Velocity Capital, P-OPS TEAM, Balaji Srinivasan, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Nick White, Sandeep Nailwal, Jaynti Kanani, Zac Williamson, Claire Kart, Daniel Lubarov, Sergey Gorbunov, Gregoire le Jeune | ||
| Level | 29 Aug 2024 | $3.6m | Private | Stablecoin | first stablecoin protocol backed by restaked dollar tokens | Polychain Capital, Dragonfly | Robot Ventures , Pier Two, EIV, Global Coin Research, Balaji Srinivasan, Julian Koh, Sidney Powell, Jeff Feng, MrBlock, GCR | ||
| Hyperbolic | 30 Jul 2024 | $7m | Seed | AI | Open-Access AI Cloud | Polychain Capital, Lightspeed Faction | Chapter One, Longhash Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Blackdragon Capital, Nomad Capital, CoinSummer Labs, Third Earth Capital, Republic, Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, Casey Caruso, Tekin Salimi, Santiago Roel Santos, Aaron Buchwald, Saturnin Pugnet, Ansem, WSBmod, Alex Lin, Sandeep Nailwal, Shumo Zhu, Yi Tong, Sandy Peng, Haichen Shen, Victor Ji, Kenny Li, Homie Luo | ||
| Openledger | 02 Jul 2024 | $8m | Seed | AI | The Sovereign Data Blockchain for AI | Polychain Capital, Borderless Capital | Finality Capital Partners, Hash3, HashKey Capital, TRGC, STIX, Mask Network, MH Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, Sreeram Kannan, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Kenny Li, Scott Moore, Chainyoda, Vyas Krishnan, Sebastien Borget, Paul Taylor, Alan Curtis, Trevor Koverko, Aniket Jindal, Dino | ||
| Prodia | 02 Jul 2024 | $15m | Seed | Infrastructure | distributed cloud computing platform | Dragonfly Capital | HashKey Capital, web3.com, Index Ventures, Symbolic Capital, OKX Ventures, EV3, Artichoke, TRGC, Folius Ventures, Tangent Capital, Southern Equity, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal | ||
| Agora | 01 May 2024 | $5m | Seed | DAO infrastructure | cross-chain governance platform | Haun Ventures | Seed Club, Coinbase Ventures, Sina Habibian, Balaji Srinivasan, Credibly Neutral, Packy McCormick, Tim Beiko, Dan Romero, Eva Beylin, Will Price, Liam Horne, Hasu | ||
| SendingNetwork | 16 Apr 2024 | $7.5m | Seed+ | a DePIN project that aims to decentralize communications by building a new transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) stack | Nomad Capital, Symbolic Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Web3.com Ventures, Galxe, SWC Global, Gabby Dizon | ||||
| Clique | 14 Mar 2024 | $14m | Series A | Infrastructure | Compute Coordination Network - enabling customizable heterogenous compute | Polychain Capital | Bankless Ventures, Robot Ventures, Santiago Roel Santos, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Cyber Fund , Offchain Labs, zkValidator, Calvin Liu, Scott Moore, Keone Hon, Eunice Giarta, Yi Sun, Uma Roy, Smokey The Bera, Sandy Peng, YQ, Cygaar, Niraj Pant, Gabby Dizon, Kenneth Ng, dcbuilder.eth, Defi Dave, Dabing.eth, David Ma, Yuki Yuminaga, George Lambeth | ||
| Stack | 04 Mar 2024 | $3m | Seed | Infrastructure | on-chain points infrastructure | Archetype | Coinbase Ventures, Scalar Capital, A.Capital Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Nadav Hollander, Henri Stern, Cooper Turley, Colin Armstrong | ||
| Avail | 26 Feb 2024 | $27m | Seed | Infrastructure | Web3 infrastructure layer that allows modular execution layers to scale and interoperate in a trust minimized way | Founders Fund, Dragonfly Capital | Nomad Capital, SevenX Ventures, Figment Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Sunny Aggarwal, Mudit Gupta, Amrit Kumar, Aschwin R. | ||
| Analog | 12 Feb 2024 | $16m | Seed | Infrastructure | cross-chain communication tools for developers | Tribe Capital | $120m | Near, Wintermute Ventures, Orange DAO, Benqi Finance, Quantstamp, Alumni Ventures, NGC Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Samara Asset Group | |
| Dinari | 24 Jan 2024 | $10m | Seed+ | DeFi | Securities Backed Tokens (dShares) | 500 Global, Balaji Srinivasan, Alchemy, Version One Ventures, Sancus Ventures | |||
| The Network State Company | 27 Oct 2023 | $2.5m | Web3 | Web3 societies | Tim Draper, Balaji Srinivasan, Aragon DAO, Sandeep Nailwal, Roneil Rumburg, Andrea Dusi, Max Merenti, Enzo Coglitori | ||||
| Fileverse | 17 Oct 2023 | $1.5m | Pre-Seed | Web3 | onchain space for collaboration | Gnosis, F.actor, Mask Network, Safe, Waterdrip Capital, Forward Research, Galxe, Daedalus, Formless Capital, West Ham Capital, Balaji Srinivasan, Eleftherios, Kenzi, Yoav, Pentacle, Vasilis | |||
| Ostium Labs | 06 Oct 2023 | $3.5m | Seed | DEX | Real World Asset perpetuals DEX | General Catalyst, LocalGlobe | SIG, Balaji Srinivasan, AllianceDAO |