| OpenGradient | Apr 14, 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 |
| Rain | Mar 24, 2025 | $24.5m | | Payments | Rain is a blockchain-based card issuing and stablecoin interoperability platform designed for Web3 teams, DAOs, and protocols | Norwest Ventrure Partners | | | Galaxy Digital, Lattitude Capital, Thayer Ventures, Hard Yaka, Lightspeed Faction, Coinbase Ventures, Canonical Crypto, CompoSecure, Goldcrest Capital, BDMI |
| OpenGradient | Oct 9, 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 |
| Sahara Labs | Aug 14, 2024 | $38m | Strategic | AI | decentralized AI blockchain platform | Pantera Capital, Polychain Capital | | | Binance Labs, Samsung Next, Nomad Capital, Matrix Partners, SCB 10X, Canonical Crypto, Mirana Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Tangent Ventures |
| Nuffle Labs | Jun 13, 2024 | $13m | | Infrastructure | NEAR DA and Fast Finality Layer AVS | Electric Capital | | | NEAR Foundation, Lyrik Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Robot Ventures, Caladan, Canonical Crypto, BlackDragon, Bowen Wang, Defi Dad, Dovery Wan, Erica KAng, Jordi Alexander, Sam Kazemian, Mert Mumtaz, Sandeep Nailwal, Sreeram Kannan |
| Tensorplex Labs | Mar 21, 2024 | $3m | Seed | Infrastructure | infrastructure for decentralized AI networks | Collab+Currency, Canonical Crypto | | | DCG, Accomplice, Mechanism Capital, GoldenChain, Quantstamp, Amber Group, Fiskantes, Arthur Cheong, Jordi Alexander, Scott Moore |
| Sahara | Mar 5, 2024 | $6m | Seed | AI | decentralized AI network | Polychain Capital | | | Samsung Next, Matrix Partners, Motherson Group, Sandeep Nailwal, Sequoia Capital, dao5, Geekcartel, Nomad Capital, Canonical Crypto, Dispersion Capital, Alumni Ventures, Tangent, Coho Deeptech |
| Meso | Feb 20, 2024 | $9.5m | Seed | Payments | payment platform that brings digital assets and fiat currencies closer together | Solana Ventures, Ribbit Capital | | | Canonical Crypto, 6th Man Ventures, Chris Kalani, Bill Ready, Archie Puri |
| Concrete Protocol | Feb 15, 2024 | $7.5m | | DeFi | appchain built for on-chain debt and credit | Hashed, Tribe Capital | | | Portal Ventures, Salt, Kyber, Hypersphere Ventures, Lightshift, Awesome People Ventures, Kronos Ventures, Veris Ventures, Avalanche Labs, W Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Picks and Shovels VC, Terranove, Hyperithm |
| Hyperline | Jan 24, 2024 | $5.2m | Seed | | Web3 Data Lakehouse | Slow Ventures | | | South Park Commons, Script Capital, Canonical Crypto, Volt Capital, Picus Capital, Mischief, Maelstrom |
| Puffer | Aug 8, 2023 | $5m | Seed | Liquid Staking Protocol | decentralized and permissionless native liquid restaking protocol | Lemniscap, Lightspeed Faction | | | Brevan Howard Digital, Bankless Ventures, Animoca Brands, DACM, LBK, SNZ Capital, Canonical Crypto |
| Sentio | Feb 21, 2023 | $6.4m | | Infrastructure | Web3 observability platform | Lightspeed Venture Partners | $32m | | Hashkey Capital, Canonical Crypto, Essence VC |
| Tokenproof | Aug 30, 2022 | $5m | Seed | | | Penny Jar Capital | | | Corazon Capital, 6th Man Ventures, Canonical Crypto, Sebastien Borget, Mark Cuban, Keith Grossman, Patricio Worthalter, Dream Ventures, Cozomo de’ Medici, 6529 Capital, Eva Longoria, 2 Punks Capital, Brendan Mulligan, Randi Zuckerberg, Balaji Srinivasan |
