| 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 |
| PIN AI | Sep 9, 2024 | $10m | Pre-Seed | AI | PIN AI is The Open Platform for Personal AI | | | | a16z crypto, Hack VC, Anagram, Blockchain Builders Fund, Symbolic Capital, Dispersion Capital, Alumni Ventures, Nomad Capital, Foresight Ventures, Illia Polosukhin, Lily Liu, Evan Cheng, DC Builder, Scott Moore |
| Hyperbolic | Jul 30, 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 |
| Compute Labs | Jul 3, 2024 | $3m | Pre-Seed | RWA | real-world asset (RWA) tokenization protocol focused on compute as its underlying asset | Protocol Labs | | | Blockchain Coinvestors, OKX Ventures, CMS Holdings, HashKey Capital, Amber Group, P2 Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Illia Polosukhin, Austin Federa, MH Ventures |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| KYVE | Jun 28, 2021 | $1m | Pre-Seed | | KYVE can store any data stream, with built-in validation by leveraging Arweave, we can permanently and immutably store this data. | | | | 4SV, Arweave, Ava Labs, Bering Waters Ventures, Christian Stroh, Compute Ventures, D1 Ventures, Emanuel Ferm, Farid Rached, Faris AlRashed Alhumaid, Hypersphere Ventures, Illia Polosukhin, Interchain Foundation, Kenneth Ng, Lemniscap, Mark Heus, Mechanism Capital, Near |
| Flux Protocol | May 20, 2021 | $10.3m | Seed | Infrastructure | Flux is a scalable open data protocol providing on-chain data for any asset, commodity, or event. | | | | Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Distributed Global, Figment, Flow ventures, Hack VC, Hart Lambur, Illia Polosukhin, IOSG Ventures, Jabre Capital, Jascha Samadi, Kjell Fischer, Maven 11, Reciprocal Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, Zee Prime Capital, Greenfield Capital |
| 1inch | Aug 11, 2020 | $2.8m | Seed | DeFi | 1inch Limited builds decentralized protocols and contributes to the development of the 1inch Network. | | | | Binance Labs, Divergence Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, FTX Ventures, Galaxy Digital, Illia Polosukhin, IOSG Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures, Libertus Capital, Loi Luu, Greenfield Capital |
