| Anvil | Oct 6, 2026 | $5m | Public token sale | DeFi | Anvil is an Ethereum collateral protocol that lets users reserve digital assets as verifiable guarantees for financial commitments such as payments and credit without requiring a loan | Founders Fund | | | Pantera Capital, Theta Blockchain Ventures, Bullish, Protoscale Capital, Robert Leshner, Rene Reinsberg, Mike Cahill |
| MadFi | Apr 5, 2024 | $1m | Seed | Social Platform | the monetization and rewards layer for crypto social | Palm Tree Crew Crypto, Avara, Social Graph Ventures | | | Robert Leshner, Orb.club, FWBtweets, Fire Eyes DAO, Refraction, Boys Club, Spencer Noon, Sandeep Nailwal, maggielove.eth, Jon Wu, Nader Dabit, Decentralised.co |
| smlXL | Oct 24, 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 |
| Goldsky | Sep 13, 2022 | $20m | Seed | | Data Infrastructure | Felicis, Dragonfly Capital | | | Elad Gil, Zach Perret, William Hockey, Zhuoxun Yin, Uniswap Labs Ventures, 0x Labs, Alex Xu, Robert Leshner |
| Porter Finance | Apr 8, 2022 | $5m | Seed | | DAO Credit Marketplace | | | | Kain Warwick, ParaFi Capital, Nascent, Robert Leshner, Buckley Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Sam Kazemian |
| Phantom | Jul 14, 2021 | $9m | Series A | Infrastructure | Phantom is a digital wallet reimagined for DeFi and NFTs. | | | | AllianceDAO, a16z, Garry Tan, Jump Capital, Robert Leshner, Variant Fund |
| 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 |
| SIREN | Mar 1, 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 |
| Vauld | Dec 30, 2020 | $2m | Seed | CeFi | Vauld enables customers to buy, lend, borrow, and trade crypto assets from one unified platform. | | | | Coinbase Ventures, gumi Cryptos Capital, LuneX Ventures, New Form Capital, Pantera Capital, Robert Leshner, Robot Ventures, CMT Digital |
| Flexa | Dec 21, 2020 | $6m | ICO | CeFi | crypto payments | | | | Robert Leshner, Robot Ventures, Barry Sternlicht, Volkert Doeksen, Douwe Lycklama |
| 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 |
| Reflexer Labs | Aug 5, 2020 | $1.68m | Seed | DeFi | Reflexer Labs is a new decentralized finance project aimed at softening volatility. | Paradigm, Robert Leshner, Standard Crypto | | | |
| Opyn | Jun 22, 2020 | $2.16m | Seed | DeFi | Options | Dragonfly Capital | | | 1kx, Version One Ventures, CoinFund, DTC Capital, Uncorrelated Ventures, A.Capital Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Robert Leshner, Linda Xie |
| Argent | Mar 9, 2020 | $12m | Series A | Infrastructure | Argent provides a smart wallet for cryptocurrencies and blockchain applications. | | | | Creandum, Firstminute Capital, Index Ventures, Paradigm, Robert Leshner |
| Blockfolio | Dec 15, 2017 | $3.15m | Seed | | Blockfolio offers mobile portfolio tracking and management for the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. | | | | 2L Investments Inc, Andrew Beal, Brad Flora, Cypher Capital, Dan Matuszewski, DCM Ventures, Jack C Liu, Jason Lau, Konstantin Othmer, Napoleon Ta, Pathfinder, Playground Global, Robert Leshner, Vinny Lingham |
