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Naval Ravikant
Total Investments46
DeFi10
L17
Infrastructure5
Web34
L22
Gaming1
Storage1
DEX1
Analytics1
Scaling Solution1
NFT1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystiko | 20 Mar 2024 | $18m | Seed | Infrastructure | ZK Layer of Web3 | Peak XV Partners | Samsung Next, HashKey, Mirana Ventures, Signum Capital, CoinList, Naval Ravikant, Sandeep Nailwal, Gokul Rajaram, Tribe Capital, Morningstar Ventures, Accomplice | ||
| smlXL | 24 Oct 2023 | $13.4m | Seed | Infrastructure | instrumented Ethereum Virtual Machine (iEVM) - a proprietary EVM client implementation geared towards simulating and instrumenting blockchains | a16z crypto, Greylock | Silicon Valley VC, Naval Ravikant, Robert Leshner, Elad Gil | ||
| Proof of Play | 21 Sep 2023 | $33m | Seed | Gaming | onchain game studio | a16z, Greenoaks Capital | Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Justin Kan, Justin Waldron, Immad Akhund, Nikil Viswanathan, Gabby Dizon | ||
| DeForm | 30 Aug 2023 | $4.6m | Seed | Web3 | web3 marketing | Kindred Ventures | Elad Gil, Scalar Capital, Next Web Capital, A Capital, Naval Ravikant, Marc Bhargava, Nader Dabit, Sep Kamvar, Scott Belsky, Patrick Collins, Charley Ma, Albert Hu, Sina Habibian | ||
| Ambient Finance | 11 Jul 2023 | $6.5m | Seed | DEX | Zero-to-One Decentralized Trading Protocol | BlockTower Capital | Jane Street, Circle Ventures, Tensai Capital, Naval Ravikant, Yunt Capital, Susa Ventures, Quantstamp, Hypotenuse Labs, Julian Koh, llllvvuu, Dogetoshi, afkbyte, Jai Prasad, Don Ho | ||
| Yoz Labs | 19 Apr 2023 | $3.5m | Seed | Infrastructure | Web3 notification platform | Electric Capital | Collab+Currency, Coinbase Ventures, Dapper Labs, Form Capital, North Island, Mike Krieger, Naval Ravikant | ||
| Proven | 09 Mar 2023 | $15.8m | Seed | Zero-Knowledge Proof of Solvency Solution for Crypto | Framework Ventures | Balaji Srinivasan, Roger Chen, Ada Yeo, Naval Ravikant | |||
| Chaos Labs | 21 Feb 2023 | $20m | Seed | Economic security and risk management platform for DeFi protocols | PayPal Ventures, Galaxy Digital | Uniswap Labs Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Naval Ravikant | |||
| Renegade | 20 Feb 2023 | $3.4m | Seed | On-chain dark pool | Dragonfly Capital, Naval Ravikant | Balaji Srinivasan, Tarun Chitra, Lev Livnev, Marc Bhargava, Lily Liu | |||
| Monad | 14 Feb 2023 | $19m | Seed | L1 | optimized EVM blockchain | Dragonfly Capital | Placeholder, Lemniscap, Shima Capital, Finality Capital Partners, Naval Ravikant, Cobie, Hasu | ||
| Blowfish | 30 Sep 2022 | $11.8m | Seed | Cyber Security | Paradigm | Dragonfly Capital, 0x Labs, Naval Ravikant, Will Warren, Nathan McCauley, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Hypershere, Steve Klebanoff, Francesco Agosti, Jeremy Welchel, Amir Bandeali, Patryk Adas | |||
| Sunscreen | 18 Jul 2022 | $4.65m | Seed | open source our fully homomorphic encryption compile | Polychain Capital | Northzone, Coinbase Ventures, Dao5, Naval Ravikant | |||
| Entropy | 10 Jun 2022 | $25m | Seed | DeFi | Self Custody | a16z | Dragonfly Capital, Ethereal Ventures, Variant Fund, Coinbase Ventures, Inflection, Robot Ventures, Komerabi Fund, Naval Ravikant, Sabrina Hahn, James Prestwich, FWB, Nomad, Tally.xyz, Violet, Centrifuge | ||
| OpenBB | 30 Mar 2022 | $8.8m | Seed | Analytics | Investment research platform | Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil | |||
| Chia Network | 24 May 2021 | $61m | Series D | Chia Network is building a blockchain platform based on Proofs of Space and Time. | a16z, Breyer Capital, Collab+Currency, Cygni Capital, DHVC, Naval Ravikant, Richmond Global Ventures, Slow Ventures, True Ventures | ||||
| Solidus Labs | 24 May 2021 | $20m | Series A | Solidus Labs is a crypto-tracking company that provides tailored compliance and risk monitoring solutions for digital assets. | 645 Ventures, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, Alex Acree, Avon Ventures, Daniel Gorfine, David Krell, Evolution Equity Partners, FTX, Hanaco Venture Capital, J. Christopher Giancarlo, Jeff Fagnan, Marc Epstein, Naval Ravikant, Sam Kassoumeh, Troy Paredes | ||||
| Risk Harbor | 28 Apr 2021 | $3.5m | Seed | DeFi | The only objective, transparent, and fully automated risk management marketplace for decentralized finance (DeFi). | Anthony Pompliano, Bain Capital Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, DCG, Framework Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Nima Capital, Seb Audet, Pantera Capital | |||
| Gitcoin | 14 Apr 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 | ||||
| SuperRare | 30 Mar 2021 | $9m | Series A | NFT | SuperRare is one of the marketplaces for non-fungible tokens. | 1Confirmation, 6th Man Ventures, Ashton Kutcher, Asia Alpha, Bossanova Investimentos, Chamath Palihapitiya, Collaborative Fund, Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Naval Ravikant, Samsung Next, Shrug Capital, Sound Ventures, Third Kind Venture Capital, Velvet Sea Ventures | |||
| Anchor Protocol | 17 Mar 2021 | $20m | DeFi | Anchor Protocol is a savings platform that provides crypto natives, fintech companies, and investors a stable, high interest rate finance. | Alameda Research, Delphi Digital , Dragonfly Capital, Galaxy Digital, Hashed, Jump Trading, Naval Ravikant, Pantera Capital | ||||
| Fei Protocol | 08 Mar 2021 | $19m | Series A | DeFi | stablecoin protocol | a16z, Framework Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Naval Ravikant, ParaFi Capital, Variant Fund | |||
| SIREN | 01 Mar 2021 | $4m | Seed | DeFi | SIREN is a distributed protocol creating a decentralized blockchain exchange for options trading on Ethereum. | 1kx, CMS Holdings, Edward Moncada, Jack Herrick, Mechanism Capital, Naval Ravikant, Robert Leshner, Rockaway Blockchain Fund, Santiago Roel Santos, Tarun Chitra, The Spartan Group | |||
| Radicle | 18 Feb 2021 | $12m | Web3 | p2p platform for coding collaboration | NFX, Galaxy Digital | Placeholder, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, Meltem Demirors |