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| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenGradient | 14 Apr 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 | |||
| ORO AI | 16 Apr 2025 | $6m | Seed | AI | ORO is a decentralized AI platform designed to unlock access to premium, private data for advanced AI models | a16z crypto, Delphi Ventures | Ocular VC, Orange DAO, OG Labs, Near | ||
| Pond | 07 Nov 2024 | $7.5m | Seed | AI | a decentralized AI model layer with crypto-native AI models trained on on-chain data | Archetype | Cyber Fund , Delphi Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Anagram, Near, Comfy Capital, Presto Labs, PAKA, NxGen, Nonce Classic, Aquanow, web3.com | ||
| Analog | 12 Feb 2024 | $16m | Seed | Infrastructure | cross-chain communication tools for developers | Tribe Capital | $120m | Near, Wintermute Ventures, Orange DAO, Benqi Finance, Quantstamp, Alumni Ventures, NGC Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Samara Asset Group | |
| Calimero | 23 Jan 2023 | $8.5m | Seed | Infrastructure | private shard with built-in privacy features and confidential native WASM or EVM smart contracts | Khosla Ventures, Lyrik Ventures, Near | GSR, FJ Labs, Warburg Serres Investments | ||
| Orange DAO | 23 Aug 2022 | $80m | DAO infrastructure | investment DAO | Near, Algorand Inc. | ||||
| KYVE | 28 Jun 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 | ||||
| Covalent | 24 Mar 2021 | $2m | Infrastructure | Covalent is designed to address a problem that is frequently overlooked: read-scalability. | Ankr, Avalanche Labs, Binance Labs, Chorus One Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Delphi Ventures, Elrond, Figment, Hashed, Hypersphere Ventures, Moonbeam Network, Near, StakeWith.Us |