| Neptune Protocol | Dec 10, 2024 | $3.9m | Seed | DeFi | Neptune Protocol is a decentralized borrowing platform native to the Eclipse ecosystem, powered by the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) | | | | Animoca Brands, CMS Holdings, Maelstrom, Infinity Ventures Crypto, Builder Capital, Bloccelerate, Wise3 Ventures, RockTree Capital, Veil, Stake Capital, Optic Capital, Relayer Capital, WAGMI Ventures, NxGen, Zephyrus Capital, Cogitent Ventures, Global Coin Research, Revelo Intel, MH Ventures, Meltem Demirors |
| Azura | Oct 22, 2024 | $6.9m | Seed | DeFi | Azura is a full-stack decentralized platform offering a non-custodial trading app for DeFi assets | Initialized Capital | | | Volt Capital, Winklevoss Capital, AllianceDAO, Meltem Demirors, Raj Gokal, Stephane Gosselin |
| t1 protocol | Sep 9, 2024 | $2.5m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | Building real-time proving to unify Ethereum | a16z | | | Benedikt Bünz, Sam Kazemian, Amir Bandeali, Jed Breed, Eric Chen, Danning Sui, Meltem Demirors, Erdal Tekisalp, Chua Zheng Leong, Kartik Talwar, Murat Akdeniz, Kubi Mensah, TokkaLabs, Andrea Canidio, Connor Howe, Ladislaus von Daniels, Oliver Hörr, Pnyx Ventures |
| Puffpaw | Sep 5, 2024 | $6m | Seed | DeFi | Vape-to-Earn on Berachain | Lemniscap | | | Volt Capital, The Spartan Group, Seed Club Ventures, Folius Ventures, Hypershere, Everest Ventures Group, Social Graph Ventures, Panga Capital, Meltem Demirors |
| Shogun | May 15, 2024 | $6.9m | Seed | DeFi | intent-centric DeFi protocol | Polychain Capital, dao5 | | | Arrington Capital, Maelstrom Fund, Build-a-Bera, Cobie, Ansem, Ser Shokunin, Meltem Demirors |
| Eclipse Labs | Mar 11, 2024 | $50m | Series A | L2 | Ethereum layer-2 using the Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) | Placeholder, Hack VC | | | Polychain Capital, Maven 11, DBA, Delphi Digital, Fenbushi Capital, Bankless Ventures, Flow Traders, OKX Ventures, Barnabe Monnot, John Adler, Mert Mumtaz, Austin Federa, DCInvestor, Hasu, Cozomo de’ Medici, Meltem Demirors, ZachXBT, Anthony Sassano, Santiago Roel Santos, Jill Gunter, DeeZe, Eric Wall |
| Root Protocol | Jan 19, 2024 | $10m | Seed | Infrastructure | Market Making - OTC Trading | Animoca Brands | $100m | | dao5, Shima Capital, Gate Labs, Digital Finance Group, Signum Capital, Ankr, Digital Strategies, CMS, Genblock Capital, Cypher Capital, Meltem Demirors, Tekin Salimi, Lucy Gazmararian, Evin McMullen, Ben Lakoff |
| Freatic | Sep 20, 2023 | $3.6m | Seed | Information services digital assets | decentralized information market | a16z crypto | | | Anachram, Archetype, Not3Lau Capital, Robot Ventures, Arweave, Stefano Bernardi, Meltem Demirors, Stephane Gosselin, Jutta Steiner, MacLane Wilkison |
| Metalink | Mar 15, 2023 | $6m | Seed | NFT | NFT, Real time Notifications | | | | Sebastien Borget, Balaji Srinivasan, Arrington XRP Capital, Sound Ventures, gmoney, Meltem Demirors, Gemini Frontier Fund, Dapper Labs |
| 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 |
| Blockade Games | Nov 24, 2021 | $5m | Seed | Gaming | Blockade Games is a Web3 game studio crafting immersive, enduring experiences | | | | 6th Man Ventures, Animoca Brands, Christine Moy, DIGITAL, Drew Austin, Flamingo DAO, Galaxy Interactive, Keith Grossman, Meltem Demirors, Roham Gharegozlou, xSquared Ventures |
| Meson Network | Jun 21, 2021 | $3.5m | | | Bandwidth marketplace built on blockchain | | | | Arweave, Bitscale Capital, Bixin Ventures, DHVC, DCG, Formless Capital, HashKey, Jack Herrick, Josh Hannah, Libertus Capital, Mask Network fund, Meltem Demirors, Permanent Ventures, Rarestone Capital, Sanctor Capital, Shima Capital, Youbi Capital, CMT Digital |
| XMTP | May 5, 2021 | $5m | Seed | | XMTP is a communication protocol and network that connects communities, creators, protocols, applications, and users. | | | | Alexis Ohanian, Anthony Pompliano, Betaworks Ventures, Dan Romero, Fernando Martinelli, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Josh Fraser, Kain Warwick, Meltem Demirors, Nascent, Offline Ventures, Robert Leshner, Roham Gharegozlou, Ryan Selkis, Scott Belsky, Sound Ventures, Stani Kulechov |
| Liquity | Mar 30, 2021 | $6m | Series A | DeFi | CDP | Pantera Capital | | | Nima Capital, Alameda Research, IOSG, AngelDAO, Bo Shen, Meltem Demirors, David Hoffmann, Calvin Liu, George Lambeth, Tomahawk VC, Lemniscap, 1kx, Greenfield Capital |
| saffron.finance | Mar 8, 2021 | $2m | Seed | DeFi | Saffron.finance is a protocol for DeFi that offers asset collateralization and customized risk. | | | | Brandon Chez, Coinbase Ventures, DeFi Technologies, Dragonfly Capital, Leo Cheng, Meltem Demirors, Multicoin Capital, Tegan Kline |
| 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 |
| Radicle | Feb 18, 2021 | $12m | | Web3 | p2p platform for coding collaboration | NFX, Galaxy Digital | | | Placeholder, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Meltem Demirors |
| Espresso Systems | Nov 30, 2020 | $3.1m | Seed | Infrastructure | Espresso Systems provides scaling and privacy systems for Web 3 applications. | | | | Alameda Research, Balaji Srinivasan, Coinbase Ventures, Gemini Frontier Fund, Meltem Demirors, Paxos, Polychain Capital, Terra |
| Polymarket | Oct 19, 2020 | $4m | Seed | DeFi | Polymarket is a platform for speculators to wager on the world's most hotly contested topics. | | | | 1Confirmation, Balaji Srinivasan, Calvin Liu, Electric Feel Ventures, Jack Herrick, Josh Hannah, Kain Warwick, Kal Vepuri, Marc Bhargava, Meltem Demirors, Naval Ravikant, New Form Capital, ParaFi Capital, Polychain Capital, Robert Leshner, Robot Ventures, Stani Kulechov |
| Zapper | Aug 27, 2020 | $2m | Seed | Infrastructure | Zapper is a fintech platform that manages all DeFi assets from one simple interface. | | | | Anthony Sassano, Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Coingecko Ventures, Framework Ventures, Kain Warwick, Libertus Capital, Mariano Conti, Meltem Demirors, Metacartel Ventures, Michael Dunworth, Scalar Capital, The Lao, Zee Prime Capital |
| Unstoppable Domains | Jul 1, 2020 | $1.73m | Series A | Infrastructure | Unstoppable Domains launches domains secured by blockchains and builds uncensorable websites. | | | | Andrew Rosener, Balaji Srinivasan, Boost VC, Coinbase Ventures, Meltem Demirors, Naval Ravikant, Protocol Labs |
| Blockdaemon | Apr 11, 2018 | $380,000 | Seed | Infrastructure | Blockdaemon is a blockchain deployment facilitator that manages nodes and payment rails for blockchain networks. | | | | Boldstart Ventures, Comcast Ventures, Genacast Ventures, Heavybit, Liquid 2 Ventures, Meltem Demirors, MState, Plug and Play |
