| Cabal | Feb 12, 2025 | $3m | | DeFi | Cabal is a yield-generating protocol built on Initia’s Layer 1 | | | | Hack VC, Delphi Digital, Nascent, CitizenX, Darren Lau |
| Mellow Protocol | Aug 25, 2022 | $2.75m | Seed | | Liquidity rebalancing | Robot Ventures, Arrington XRP Capital, ParaFi Capital | | | P2P Capital, Lemniscap, Focus Labs, Principle Ventures, Primitive Ventures, NEMO Ventures, Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, Santiago Roel Santos, Jamis Johnson, Igor Barinov, Ivangbi, Mariano Conti, Molly |
| Bastion | Mar 23, 2022 | $2m | Seed | DeFi | Bastion is the first and only major DeFi protocol with both Stableswap and Lending products | ParaFi Capital | | | Illia Polosukhin, 0xMaki, 0xrooter, Darren Lau, Jeffrey Kuan, Nick Chong, 0xSami, Peter Mitchell, Jasper De Gooijer, Matt Lockyer, 0xSisyphus, Statelayer, Ayush Menon, Tristan Frizza, John Wang, Fomosaurus |
| Katana | Mar 11, 2022 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Derivatives | Framework Ventures | | | Founders Fund, Electric Capital, Protofund, Coinbase Ventures, Solana Ventures, Amber Group, MGNR, Reverie, Alameda Research, CMS Holdings, QCP Capital, Jason Choi, Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, Chris McCann, Joey Santoro, SplitCapital, Armani Ferrante, SolBigBrain, Tristan0x, 0xrooter, davijlu, cindyleowtt, Joe McCann, Jason Shah, bernard chan, tony_intern, MF_Sutton |
| Nyan Heroes | Oct 30, 2021 | $2.5m | Seed | Game | Nyan Heroes is an NFT game built on the solana blockchain. | | | | Darren Lau, DeFiance Capital, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Jihan Wu, Kevin Lin, Mechanism Capital, Merit Circle, MrBlock, Sino Global Capital, SkyVision Capital, Solana Capital, Thomas Vu, 3AC |
| 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 |
| DeHorizon | Oct 11, 2021 | $8.5m | Seed | | DeHorizon---Cutting a new decentralized horizon | | | | Akatsuki, Animoca Brands, BitScale, Block Dream Fund, Bo Feng, Bybit, Darren Lau, Dialectic, Dragonfly Capital, Dragonfly Capital, Everest Ventures Group, gumi Cryptos Capital, The Lao, Yield Guild Games, Youbi Capital |
| ZenLedger | Aug 3, 2021 | $6m | Series A | Taxes | ZenLedger analyzes and simplifies cryptocurrency taxes to help investors and tax professionals in portfolio management. | | | | Accelerator Ventures, Bigg Digital Assets, Blackwater Capital, Bloccelerate, Borderless Capital, Castle Island Ventures, Centrality, COIND, Coingecko Ventures, Crowd Venture Capital, Darren Lau, Fourth Revolution Capital, G1 Ventures, Jon Staenberg, Karl Muth, Migration Capital, Vestigo Ventures, Radical Investments LP, Tor Kenz Capital |
| Nansen | Jun 29, 2021 | $12m | Series A | Analytics | Nansen is a blockchain analytics platform for crypto professionals and investors. | | | | Allen Day, Ana Andrianova, a16z, Bitscale Capital, Coinbase Ventures, Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, DoveyWan, imToken Ventures, Jeremy Kerbel, Joel John, Kabeelan, Kevin Hu, Mechanism Capital, QCP Capital, Skyfall Ventures, Vincent Niu, Will Price, YONATAN BEN SHIMON |
| Gearbox Protocol | May 1, 2021 | $2.3m | Private | DeFi | Leveraged Protocol | | $25m | | Variant Fund, 1kx, Lido Finance, P2P Capital, Focus Labs, E Girl Capital, Igor Barinov, Stani Kulechov, Anton Bukov, Sergej Kunz, LAUNCHub Ventures, Fiskantes, Zee Prime, Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, Degenscore, Sergey Blyudov, Elias Simos, Santiago Roel Santos, Larry Cermak, Encode Club |
| Babylon Finance | Mar 4, 2021 | $1.9m | Seed | DeFi | Indexes | | $10m | | Semantic Ventures, Joseph Young, DeFi Alliance, Harvest Finance, Meltem Demirors, Fomosaurus, Dialectic, Nick Chong, Tom Shaughnessy, Ryan Nixon, CoinList, Maple Leaf Capital, Luis Cuende, Konstantine Lomashuk, AngelDAO, Cluster Capital, Darren Lau |
