Ask LlamaAI for free
Are we missing any funding round? Add it here!
Crypto Investments by Kraken Ventures
Total Investments39
DeFi7
Payments4
Infrastructure3
Stablecoin2
L12
L21
Liquid Staking Protocol1
Gaming1
Wallet1
Banking1
Trading1
CeFi1
Analytics1
Loading chart...
Loading chart...
Loading chart...
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpaca | Jan 14, 2026 | $150m | Series D | Trading | Alpaca is an API-first trading platform offering commission-free trading for stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies. It provides trading, brokerage, and market data APIs for fintechs and institutions to build scalable trading applications with real-time data and low-latency execution | Drive Capital | $1.15b | Citadel Securities, Opera Tech Ventures, MUFG Innovation Partners, Flat Capital, DRW Venture Capital, Kraken Ventures, Altered Ventures, X&KSK, Bank Muscat, Endeavor Catalyst, Portage Ventures, Horizons Ventures, Social Leverage, Unbound, Diagram Ventures, Derayah | |
| Legion | Aug 20, 2025 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Legion is a regulated, merit-based launchpad focusing on delivering compliant, decentralized fundraising | VanEck, Brevan Howard | Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Crypto.com, Bitscale Capital, Cyber Fund, Blockchain Builders Fund, GSR, Systemic Ventures | ||
| Rails | Jun 4, 2025 | $14m | DeFi | Rails, a hybrid perpetual exchange | Kraken Ventures, Slow Ventures, CMCC Global, Quantstamp, Round13 Capital | ||||
| 1Money Network | Jan 16, 2025 | $20m | Seed | L1 | Stablecoin payments network | F-Prime Capital, Galaxy Digital, Hack VC, Kraken Ventures, MoonPay, Bankless Ventures, Tribe Capital, Ethereal Ventures, KuCoin Ventures, Portage, CMT Digital, BitGo, A100x, Anagram, Generative Ventures, Ambush, Lvna Capital, Borderless Capital, Bing Ventures, gumi Cryptos Capital, Karman Ventures, CoinFlip, Pharsalus, Protagonist | |||
| Reown | Jan 15, 2025 | $13m | Series B | Wallet | Reown, formerly WalletConnect Inc., is an onchain UX platform offering tools like AppKit for seamless app-to-wallet interactions and WalletKit for enhanced wallet usability and security | USV, 1kx | GDA Capital, Shopify, Kraken Ventures, Crypto.com Capital, Figment Capital, Everstake Capital, BitGo, Fenbushi Capital, Notation Capital | ||
| Usual | Dec 23, 2024 | $10m | Series A | DeFi | The Usual protocol is a decentralized finance framework centered around USD0, a stablecoin designed as a liquid deposit token. It embodies the principle of redistributing value generated by users through a revenue-based token, USUAL. This approach enables users to access yields while simultaneously gaining exposure to the protocol’s growth and long-term success. | Binance Labs, Kraken Ventures | Galaxy Digital, OKX Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, Echo, IOSG Ventures, Fasanara Digital Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Amber Group, GSR, Psalion, Hypershere, Avid3, FunFair Ventures, LeadBlock Partners, White Loop Capital, PHAEDRUS, Krypital Group, JPEG Trading, M^0 | ||
| Sphere | Dec 11, 2024 | $5m | Strategic | Payments | Payments infrastructure for the next generation of the internet | Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Anza, Anagram, Pyth, Temporal | |||
| Schuman Financial(EUROP) | Nov 26, 2024 | $7.36m | Seed | Stablecoin | a fiat-backed stablecoin issuer dedicated to the European market | RockawayX | Kraken Ventures, Nexo Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, Gnosis DAO, Delta Blockchain Fund, Bankless Ventures, Daedalus, Archblock | ||
| Valantis | Nov 20, 2024 | $7.5m | Pre-Seed & Seed | DeFi | Building the Modular Exchange Protocol | SevenX Ventures, Cyber Fund, Kraken Ventures | Nethermind, Figment Capital, Semantic Ventures, Robot Ventures, Delphi Digital, Credibly Neutral, Very Early Ventures, Monoceros Ventures | ||
| Cap Labs | Oct 28, 2024 | $1.9m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | CAP Labs is a DeFi protocol offering a stablecoin mechanism designed to generate high, sustainable yields | Kraken Ventures, Robot Ventures, Anagram, ABCDE, SBC Limited, Kain Warwick, Fernando Martinelli, Sandeep Nailwal | |||
| Morpho Labs | Aug 1, 2024 | $50m | Strategic | DeFi | Lending | Ribbit Capital | a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant Fund, Pantera Capital, Brevan Howard, BlockTower Capital, Kraken Ventures, Hack VC, IOSG, RockawayX, L1D, Mirana Ventures, Cherry Crypto, Semantic, Fenbushi Capital, LeadBlock Partners, Robot Ventures | ||
| Usual Labs | Apr 17, 2024 | $7m | Strategic | Stablecoin | USD0, our new DeFi USD-stablecoin backed by RWAs | IOSG Ventures, Kraken Ventures | GSR, Mantle Network, Flowdesk, StarkWare, Avid3, Bing Ventures, Breed VC, Hypershere, Kima Ventures, Psalion, Public Works, 0x Ventures, LBank Labs, TRGC, Capsule Corp., Pleb Capital, Kalpha DAO, KaizenDAO, Primony, 0xSalazar, apolynya, HighStakesCap, DCF God, Nicolas Bacca, Sebastien Couture | ||
| Puffer | Apr 16, 2024 | $18m | Series A | Liquid Staking Protocol | decentralized and permissionless native liquid restaking protocol | Brevan Howard Digital, Electric Capital | Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Lemniscap, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, Mechanism Capital, Lightspeed Faction, ConsenSys, Animoca Brands, GSR | ||
| Agora | Apr 2, 2024 | $12m | Seed | Payments | next-generation payments and asset infrastructure | Dragonfly Capital | Hack VC, General Catalyst, Kraken Ventures, Wintermute Ventures, Galaxy, Robot Ventures, Rubik Ventures, Mantle Ecosystem, Foresight Ventures, ConsenSys, Flowdesk, Breed VC | ||
| Nibiru Chain | Feb 5, 2024 | $12m | L1 | general-purpose layer 1 blockchain | Kraken Ventures, ArkStream Capital, NGC Ventures, Master Ventures, Tribe Capital, Banter Capital | ||||
| Pontem | Jan 11, 2024 | $6m | Private | Infrastructure | product development studio building products with Move on Aptos and other L1s | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Faction | Pantera Capital, Wintermute Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Aptos Foundation, Shima Capital, Altonomy | ||
| Fiat Republic | Dec 19, 2023 | $7m | Seed+ | Banking | Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that bridges the gap between web3 and traditional banks | Kraken Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Arca, Inovo Ventures, Speedinvest, Credo Ventures, Seedcamp | |||
| CFX Labs | Nov 15, 2023 | $9.5m | Seed | Payments | Solana-Based Stablecoin Remittances | Shima Capital, Decasonic, Antalpha, CMT Digital, Corazon Capital, Kraken Ventures, New Form Capital, Metropolitan Capital Bank & Trust | |||
| Layer N | Sep 13, 2023 | $5m | Seed | L2 | rollup network designed to scale financial applications on Ethereum. | Founders Fund, dao5 | Kraken Ventures, Spencer Noon | ||
| Concordia | Jun 16, 2023 | $4m | Seed | DeFi | Decentralized credit protocol | Tribe Capital, Kraken Ventures | Cypher Capital, Saison Capital | ||
| BoomFi | Jun 13, 2023 | $3.8m | Seed | Payments | Crypto Payments Platform | White Star Capital | Passion Capital, Blockchain Founders Fund, Kraken Ventures, GSR, Aquanow, Mantle Network, MoonPay, Ramp Network, Transak, LayerZero, The Giving Block | ||
| Shield | Apr 20, 2023 | $2.1m | Pre-Seed | Web3 security | Kraken Ventures, Eterna Capital, Alchemy, MoonPay, Rob Behnke, MH Ventures, Quantstamp, Very Serious Ventures | ||||
| Senken | Jan 27, 2023 | $7.5m | Carbon credits platform | Obvious Ventures, Offline Ventures | Inflection Venture Partners, Kraken Ventures, Climate capital | ||||
| FrankieOne | Nov 29, 2022 | $15.4m | Series A+ | Identity & fraud deception platform | AirTree Ventures, Greycroft | Binance Labs, Kraken Ventures, Reinventure, Tidal Ventures, Apex Capital Partners | |||
| Kiln | Nov 28, 2022 | $17.6m | Series A | Staking as a Service | Illuminate Financial | ConsenSys Ventures, GSR, Kraken Ventures, LeadBlock Partners, Sparkle Ventures, XBTO Ventures, 3KVC, SV Angel, Alven, Blue Yard Capital | |||
| Hyperlane | Sep 22, 2022 | $18.5m | Seed | Messaging Protocol | Variant | Galaxy Digital, CoinFund, Circle, Figment, Blockdaemon, Kraken Ventures, NFX, Gate Ventures | |||
| Immortal Game | Sep 21, 2022 | $15.5m | Series A | Gaming | A play-and-earn take on the game of chess built on Immutable X blockchain platform | TCG Crypto | CASSIUS Family, Greenfield Capital, Sparkle Ventures, Kevin Durant, 35V, BlockWall Digital, Kraken Ventures, Spice Capital | ||
| Messari | Sep 21, 2022 | $35m | Series B | Analytics | Brevan Howard Digital | FTX Ventures, Morgan Creek Digital, Samsung Next, Point72 Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, Galaxy, Coinbase Ventures | |||
| Merkle Science | Aug 10, 2022 | $19m | Series A | Risk and intelligence | BECO Capital, Darrow Holdings, K3 Ventures | Republic Capital, Summer Capital, 500 StartUps APAC and US, Aspen Digital, Hashkey Capital, Coinhako, Kraken Ventures, DCG, Kenetic Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, Lucy Gazmararian, Libertus Capital | |||
| LimeWire | Apr 22, 2022 | $10.4m | Private token sale | Kraken Ventures, GSR, Arrington XRP Capital | SwissBorg | ||||
| Taki | Apr 8, 2022 | $3.45m | Seed | Social network | SuperLayer | Alameda Research, Coinbase Ventures, CoinDCX, Formless Capital, Gemini, Huobi Ventures, Luno Expeditions, Kraken Ventures, OKX Ventures, Solana Ventures, ROKA Works | |||
| Anchorage Digital | Dec 15, 2021 | $350m | Series D | CeFi | crypto platform for institutions | KKR | $3b | Goldman Sachs, Alameda Research, a16z, BlackRock, Blockchain Capital, Delta Blockchain Fund, PayPal Ventures, Kraken Ventures | |
| Blockchain Association | Nov 18, 2021 | $4m | Blockchain Association is dedicated to improving the public policy environment for crypto networks. | DCG, Filecoin Foundation, Kraken Ventures | |||||
| Merkle Science | Sep 28, 2021 | $5.75m | Series A | Merkle Science is a software company that offers predictive crypto risk and intelligence platforms for businesses and government agencies. | Darrow Holdings, Fenbushi Capital, Kenetic, Kraken Ventures, LuneX Ventures, Token Bay Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures | ||||
| Blockdaemon | Sep 21, 2021 | $155m | Series B | Infrastructure | Blockchain staking infrastructure | SoftBank | $1.3b | Morgan Creek Digital, Kenetic Capital, Kraken Ventures, Borderless Capital | |
| Messari | Aug 5, 2021 | $21m | Series A | Analytics | Messari provides market intelligence that drives high-conviction participation in the crypto economy. | Alameda Research, Ali Tamaseb, Blockchain Ventures, CMS Holdings, Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Kraken Ventures, Nascent, Point72 Ventures, Snow K, Thomas Glocer, Uncork Capital, Underscore VC, Winklevoss Capital | |||
| Prime Trust | Jul 28, 2021 | $64m | Series A | Prime Trust powers innovation in the digital economy by providing fintech and digital asset innovators with financial infrastructure. | Ayon Capital, Commerce Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Diverse Angels, Mercato Partners, Nationwide, Nevcaut Ventures, Samsung Next, s20 Capital, Seven Peaks Ventures, STCAP, University Growth Fund | ||||
| Wyre | Aug 3, 2020 | $3m | Series B | Wyre is a crypto and payment infrastructure company that develops a variety of payment APIs. | Boost VC, Fifth Era, Kraken Ventures, Nice Capital, OK Group, Pantera Capital | ||||
| Wyre | Dec 12, 2018 | $8m | Series B | Infrastructure | Wyre is a crypto and payment infrastructure company that develops a variety of payment APIs. | Boost VC, Fifth Era, Kraken Ventures, Nice Capital, OK Group, Pantera Capital, Seabed VC |
