| InfiniFi | Feb 11, 2025 | $3m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | On-Chain Fractional Reserve System | Electric Capital | | | New Form Capital, Axiom, Kraynos Capital, Defi Dad, Sam Kazemian, Overkoalified, Amplice, Alan Keegan, Justin Reyes, Billy Welch |
| Term Finance | Jul 9, 2024 | $5.5m | Strategic | DeFi | on-chain fixed-rate lending protocol | Electric Capital | | | Maelstrom, Arete Capital, Delta Blockchain Fund, Inception Capital, Blizzard Fund, Will Price, eric.eth, Mike Silagadze, Rok Kopp, Mckenna, Danish Chaudhry, Defi Dad, Nomatic, Joe Takayama, Steve Lee |
| 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 |
| Inference Labs | May 8, 2024 | $2.3m | Pre-Seed | AI | infrastructure and products for AI on web3 | Mechanism Capital, DACM, Delphi Ventures | | | Skynet Trading, Big Brain Holdings, Bitscale Capital, Stateless Ventures, ID Theory, Edessa Capital, Mozaik Capital, Metropolis VC, Newman Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Momentum6, Algod Trading, Chris Cable, Dan Mgbor, Defi Dad, George Samman, Greg Osiri, Jason Morton, Lucas Konzinski, Richard Dai, Sandeep Nailwal, Santiago Roel Santos |
| ether.fi | Feb 28, 2024 | $27m | Series A | Liquid Staking Protocol | Native liquid restaking on Ethereum | CoinFund, Bullish | | | Amber Group, Bankless Ventures, OKX Ventures, ConsenSys, Foresight Ventures, Fourth Revolution Capital, Punk Ventures DAO, White Star Capital, Relayer Capital, Collider Ventures, Lvna Capital, Draper Dragon, Arrington Capital, North Island Ventures, Chapter One, Version One Ventures, Node Capital, Stani Kulechov, Sandeep Nailwal, Defi Dad, Parallel, Will Price, leptokurtic, MrBlock |
| Cadence | Jan 22, 2024 | | Strategic | MEV | Intent-centric Perpetuals Aggregator | | | | Dewhales Capital, CSP DAO, FourMoons, Scott Lewis, Boz Menzalji, Aniket Jindal, Stephen Tong, Jasraj Bedi, Defi Dad, Nomatic, Bluntz Capital, Ryon Nixon |
| RISC Zero | Aug 9, 2022 | $12m | Seed | | zkVM | Bain Capital | | | Geometry, D1 Ventures, Cota Capital, Jinglan Wang, Meltem Demirors, Lucas Vogelsang, Marvin Ammori, Eva Beylin, Tegan Kline, Kain Warwick, Calvin Liu, Defi Dad |
| Ceramic | Feb 17, 2022 | $30m | Series A | Infrastructure | decentralized network for composable data | Multicoin Capital, USV | | | Placeholder, Reciprocal Ventures, CoinFund, Figment, Coinbase Ventures, Hashed, DCG, Variant Fund, The Lao, Dialectic, Zee Prime, Edge & Node, Dapper Labs, StreamingFast, Metacartel Ventures, Protocol Labs, Animoca Brands, Collab+Currency, BlockScience, ConsenSys, Polymorphic Capital, Red Beard Ventures, Gaingels, Distributed Global, DAOsquare, Bitscale Capital, Northzone, Venrock, Fenbushi Capital, Amplify Partners, Page One, The Fintech Fund, Animal Ventures, 6MV, Underscore VC, P2P Capital, Packy McCormick, Meltem Demirors, Roham, Illia, Brian Flynn, Alex Salnikov, Ryan Selkis, Dan Romero, Eleftherios, Stefan George, Suji Yan, Tegan Kline, Chase Chapman, David Phelps, Defi Dad, Vadim Koleoshkin, Yannick Folla, alisha.eth, Oaksprout, Daniel Heyman, sean.eth, Jeremysklaroff, aditi, Alan Curtis, Annika Lewis, 0xbilly, Blake Jennelle, Alessio Fanelli, chamm.eth, NiMA ASSYDD, Derek Yoo, Jad Esber, Joe Lallouz, Julia Lipton, Florian Hagenbuch, julz.eth, Kerman Kohli, Mason Nystrom, cjliu49, Rob Toews, Sari Azout, Zach Frankel, Jump Crypto |
| ClayStack | Jul 13, 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 |
| Syndicate | Mar 17, 2021 | $1m | Seed | Social Platform | Syndicate is a decentralized asset management platform and social network. | | | | Adam Jackson, Alexander Pack, Alicia Lau, AllianceDAO, Anil Lulla, Ash Egan, Avichal Garg, Brad Holden, Brandon Cook, CoinFund, The Crypto Dog, Curtis Spencer, Dan Elitzer, David Nage, Defi Dad, Delphi Digital, Delphi Ventures, Don Ho, Electric Capital, Eric Wu, Evan Feng |
