| zkLend | Mar 31, 2022 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Lending | Delphi Digital | | | 4RC, StarkWare, Genesis Block Ventures, CMS, Metacartel Ventures, DCVC, Amber Group, TPS Capital, Ascensive Assets, D3Web Capital, SkyVision Capital |
| Float Capital | Mar 16, 2022 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Derivatives | | | | Alameda Research, Maven 11, Venture DAO, 6th Man Ventures, Contango Digital, Encode Club, Benqi Finance, Stani Kulechov, Ideo Colab, Metacartel Ventures, Paribu Ventures, Raba, Daedalus, Morningstar Ventures, FireEyes, NEMO, CVVC, Tendex GmbH, CJ Hetherington, Gengmo Qi, Sunil Srivatsa, Danish Chaudhry, Will Holt, Batu, Seref Beyerli, Sinan Koc |
| 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 |
| Azuro | Jan 20, 2022 | $3.5m | Seed | DeFi | Decentralized betting protocol | Gnosis, Flow Ventures, Polymorphic Capital | | | Ethereal Ventures, Arrington XRP Capital, AllianceDAO, Delphi Digital, Metacartel Ventures, Merit Circle, Clever Advertising, SevenX Ventures, CitizenX, BR Capital, David Post, Alex Wearn, Sergei Chan |
| Ambire | Dec 2, 2021 | $3.2m | Seed | DeFi | Ambire is a product company that develops Ambire Wallet and the Ambire AdEx (previously AdEx Network). | | | | Ascensive Assets, Danish Chaudhry, LAUNCHub Ventures, Maven Capital, Metacartel Ventures, Skynet Trading, Zee Prime Capital |
| MetaMundo | Nov 30, 2021 | $2.7m | Seed | Metaverse | MetaMundo is a curated marketplace for 3D scenes and assets, enabling anyone to own high quality 3D NFTs for use across the open metaverse. | | | | Animoca Brands, Ascensive Assets, Cryptomeria Capital, D1 Ventures, DCG, Hypersphere Ventures, Marshland Group, Metacartel Ventures, OP Crypto, Own.fund, Polygon Studios, Red Beard Ventures, Sfermion |
| Snapshot Labs | Nov 19, 2021 | $4m | Seed | | Snapshot Labs is an off-chain gasless multi-governance tool for crypto projects to poll their user bases. | | | | 1kx, Boost VC, Coinbase Ventures, Fire Eyes DAO, Gnosis, Kleros, Longhash Ventures, Metacartel Ventures, Scalar Capital, StarkWare Industries, The Lao |
| ReNFT | Oct 8, 2021 | $1.5m | Strategic | NFT | NFT Rental Protocol | Animoca Brands | | | Lattice Capital, Play Ventures, Metacartel Ventures, Scalar Capital, Longhash Ventures, SkyVision Capital, Fedora Capital, Maeve Ventures |
| Unlock | Sep 28, 2021 | $4m | Seed | | Unlock is an access control protocol built on blockchain that let creators monetize their content without relying on a middleman. | | | | Betaworks Ventures, Cherry Ventures, Cygni Capital, GMG Ventures, Metacartel Ventures |
| BlockArt | Jul 20, 2021 | $1m | Seed | NFT | BlockArt is the NFT protocol for creatives using the blockchain as material for data art. | | | | CoinFund, Divergence Ventures, Focus Labs, Metacartel Ventures |
| Superfluid | Jul 13, 2021 | $9m | Seed | DeFi | Payment streaming protocol | Multicoin Capital | | | Delphi Digital, DeFiance Capital, Metacartel Ventures, MMC, Fabric Ventures, The Lao, DeFi Alliance, White Star Capital, Roble Venture Capital, Tiny VC, Divergence Ventures, BR Capital, Angel DAO, Stable Node, beToken Capital, Supernova Fund, ID Theory, Happiness Capital, Taavet Hinrikus, Sten Tamkivi, Ryan Selkis, Anthony Sassano, David Hoffmann, Julien Bouteloup, gmoney NFT, Jesus Perez Sanchez, Calvin Liu, Edgar.eth, Francesco Simoneschi, Ana Andrianova, Max Ament, Noah Jessop, Rezo Shmertz, Anthony Chen, Eli Krenzke, Ryon Nixon, Gustav Arentoft, Doo Wan Nam, Märt Kelder |
| Connext | Jul 13, 2021 | $12m | Series A | DeFi | Connext is an interoperability protocol that enables fast, fully-trustless communication between blockchains. | | | | 1kx, Andre Cronje, Block Dream Fund, Coinbase Ventures, ConsenSys Mesh, eGirl Capital, Eric Conner, Ethereal Ventures, Hashed, Jinglan Wang, Larry Cermak, Metacartel Ventures, Scalar Capital, Zak Cole |
| Gitcoin | Apr 14, 2021 | $11.3m | | Web3 | Gitcoin is a platform that enables open source developers to monetize their work when it is used. | | | | 1kx, Balaji Srinivasan, Electric Capital, Ideo Colab, Metacartel Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Paradigm, The Lao, Zak Cole |
| Defiant Media | Apr 12, 2021 | $1.4m | Pre-Seed | Web3 | Financial Information Platform for Web3 | | | | Ideo Colab, ParaFi Capital, Blockchange Ventures, Metacartel Ventures, DeFiance Capital, Mechanism Capital, GBV Capital, Anthony Pompliano, Mariano Conti, Andrew Keys |
| Overlay | Mar 18, 2021 | $2.22m | Seed | DeFi | Overlay is a protocol that enables users to trade streaming data without the need for traditional counterparties. | | | | 1kx, Metacartel Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Polychain Capital, The Lao, MH Ventures |
| Ethereum Push Notification Service | Dec 8, 2020 | $750,000 | Seed | DeFi | Ethereum Push Notification Service is a decentralized notification protocol. | | $5m | | 4RC, Balaji Srinivasan, Scott Moore, Mariano Conti, Anthony Sassano, DeFiDad, Ravindra Kumar, Preethi Kasireddy, Andrew Chen, DeltaHub Capital, Luka Sucic, Ben Lakoff, Auryn Macmillan, Danny Christ, Kenneth Ng, Ganeshram Gunalan, Thomas Kaseng Ao, Kathik Garg, The Lao, Metacartel Ventures, BlockRock Capital, LD Capital, D64 Ventures, Moonwhale Ventures |
| PoolTogether | Oct 25, 2020 | $1m | Seed | DeFi | PoolTogether is a no-loss, audited savings game powered by blockchain technology. | | | | Kain Warwick, Metacartel Ventures, ParaFi Capital, Robot Ventures, Stani Kulechov, The Lao |
| Gelato Network | Sep 15, 2020 | $1.2m | Seed | DeFi | Gelato Network is a contract automation tool that automates smart contract executions on Ethereum and beyond. | | | | Christopher Jentzsch, D1 Ventures, Galaxy Digital, IOSG, Metacartel Ventures, Ming Ng, The Lao |
| 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 |
