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Sandeep Nailwal
Total Investments53
Infrastructure12
AI7
DeFi5
Web34
L13
L23
Gaming2
NFT2
Social Platform2
CeFi Yield1
Digital Identity1
Liquid Staking Protocol1
Trading1
DAO infrastructure1
| 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 | |||
| Self Protocol | 13 Nov 2025 | $9m | Seed | Digital Identity | Self is a digital identity and trust platform that uses privacy-preserving technologies like verifiable credentials and reusable KYC to verify identities without exposing sensitive data. It lets users control what they share while giving businesses instant, regulatory-grade verification for onboarding, authentication, age checks, and fraud prevention across fintech, Web3, and other digital services. | Greenfield Capital, Spearhead, Verda Ventures, Fireweed Ventures, Starup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund, Sreeram Kanan, Sandeep Nailwal, Julien Bouteloup, Jill Gunter, Hart Lambur, Casey Neistat | |||
| Tria | 14 Oct 2025 | $12m | Pre-Seed | Infrastructure | Tria is a self-custodial crypto platform that enables spending, trading, and earning from a unified balance without requiring gas fees, bridges, or seed phrases. It supports Visa card issuance in over 150 countries and over 1,000 tokens. Trades are executed via its AI-based BestPath engine, and idle assets generate yield to offset card spending. Tria’s BestPath AVS infrastructure is integrated across 70+ protocols and AI ecosystems including Polygon, Arbitrum, Sentient, and Injective | P2 Ventures, Aptos Foundation, Sandeep Nailwal, Ryan Nixon, Zero Seven One Labs | |||
| Defx | 13 Jun 2025 | $2.5m | Seed | DeFi | Defx is a DEX and L1. It’s perpetual futures offers up to 25x leverage in the regular markets, and up to 1000x in Degen mode. The L1 is built on tendermint’s consensus and is EVM compatible. Defx delivers a CEX-like experience without any usability trade offs | Pantera Capital, CMT Digital, gumi Cryptos Capital, Baboon VC, CoinShares, Robot Ventures, Cadenza Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal | |||
| Optimum | 15 Apr 2025 | $11m | Seed | Infrastructure | a decentralized, performance-enhancing memory layer for any blockchain | 1kx | CMT Digital, CMS Holdings, Sandeep Nailwal, Animoca Brands, NGC Ventures, Robot Ventures, SNZ Holding, Longhash Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, GSR, Finality Capital Partners, Reforge, Spartan Capital, Triton Capital | ||
| TAC | 11 Nov 2024 | $6.5m | Seed | Infrastructure | TAC is a TON network extension that allows the EVM community to access 950M users of Telegram | Hack VC, Symbolic Capital | Hoxton Ventures, Animoca Brands, Primitive Ventures, P2 Ventures, Karatage, The Spartan Group, Paper Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Ankr, CMT Digital, Sandeep Nailwal, Mentat Group | ||
| Cap Labs | 28 Oct 2024 | $1.9m | Pre-Seed | DeFi | CAP Labs is a DeFi protocol offering a stablecoin mechanism designed to generate high, sustainable yields | Kraken Ventures, Robot Ventures, Anagram, ABCDE, SBC Limited, Kain Warwick, Fernando Martinelli, Sandeep Nailwal | |||
| OpenGradient | 09 Oct 2024 | $8.5m | Seed | AI | groundbreaking end-to-end decentralized platform for secure open-source AI | a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, SV Angel, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Pragma Ventures, Foresight Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Canonical Crypto, Black Dragon Capital, Celestia Foundation, NEAR Foundation, Thanefield Capital | |||
| Fermah | 17 Sep 2024 | $5.2m | Seed | DeFi | Fermah, a developer of a universal proof generation layer | a16z crypto, Lemniscap | Bankless Ventures, Longhash Ventures, Public Works, ZKV, LambdaClass, Daedalus, Zero, Velocity Capital, P-OPS TEAM, Balaji Srinivasan, Mustafa Al-Bassam, Nick White, Sandeep Nailwal, Jaynti Kanani, Zac Williamson, Claire Kart, Daniel Lubarov, Sergey Gorbunov, Gregoire le Jeune | ||
| RISE Chain | 16 Sep 2024 | $3.2m | Seed | L2 | The Gigagas Layer 2 - Ethereum’s Broadband Moment | Finality Capital Partners | Orange DAO, Digital Asset Capital Management, Ether.fi, P2 Ventures, MH Ventures, Public Works, Vitalik Buterin, Stani Kulechov, Sassal.eth, Sandeep Nailwal, Scott Moore, DCF God, Sam Kazemian, Alex Svanevik | ||
| Hyperbolic | 30 Jul 2024 | $7m | Seed | AI | Open-Access AI Cloud | Polychain Capital, Lightspeed Faction | Chapter One, Longhash Ventures, Bankless Ventures, Blackdragon Capital, Nomad Capital, CoinSummer Labs, Third Earth Capital, Republic, Balaji Srinivasan, Illia Polosukhin, Casey Caruso, Tekin Salimi, Santiago Roel Santos, Aaron Buchwald, Saturnin Pugnet, Ansem, WSBmod, Alex Lin, Sandeep Nailwal, Shumo Zhu, Yi Tong, Sandy Peng, Haichen Shen, Victor Ji, Kenny Li, Homie Luo | ||
| ZAP | 25 Jul 2024 | $15m | Private | community-driven token distribution protocol | Rarestone Ventures, Cypher Capital Group, Sharding Capital | Presto Labs, Auros Global, Larry Cermak, Chelsea Jiang , Luca Netz, Tradermayne, Alex Kruger, RookieXBT, Bagsy, EllioTrades, Ivan on Tech, VirtualBacon, cubantobacco, Gate Labs, Panga Capital, Aspen Digital, Whitewater Labs, Oh-Hole! Studio, Jordi Alexander, Gabby Dizon, Sreeram Kannan, Mik Naayem, Cygaar, Sandeep Nailwal, Yaoqi Jia, Robinson Burkey, Regan Bozman, Ahttapon Vasiksiri, Muddy Water | |||
| Zircuit | 22 Jul 2024 | Private | L2 | zk rollup with parallelized circuits and AI-enabled security at the sequencer level | Binance Labs, Mirana Ventures, Amber Group, Selini Capital, Nomad Capital, Robot Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, DeFiance Capital, Alchemy, Contribution DAO, EthGlobal | ||||
| Openledger | 02 Jul 2024 | $8m | Seed | AI | The Sovereign Data Blockchain for AI | Polychain Capital, Borderless Capital | Finality Capital Partners, Hash3, HashKey Capital, TRGC, STIX, Mask Network, MH Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, Sreeram Kannan, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal, Kenny Li, Scott Moore, Chainyoda, Vyas Krishnan, Sebastien Borget, Paul Taylor, Alan Curtis, Trevor Koverko, Aniket Jindal, Dino | ||
| Prodia | 02 Jul 2024 | $15m | Seed | Infrastructure | distributed cloud computing platform | Dragonfly Capital | HashKey Capital, web3.com, Index Ventures, Symbolic Capital, OKX Ventures, EV3, Artichoke, TRGC, Folius Ventures, Tangent Capital, Southern Equity, Balaji Srinivasan, Sandeep Nailwal | ||
| Nuffle Labs | 13 Jun 2024 | $13m | Infrastructure | NEAR DA and Fast Finality Layer AVS | Electric Capital | NEAR Foundation, Lyrik Ventures, Fabric Ventures, Robot Ventures, Caladan, Canonical Crypto, BlackDragon, Bowen Wang, Defi Dad, Dovery Wan, Erica KAng, Jordi Alexander, Sam Kazemian, Mert Mumtaz, Sandeep Nailwal, Sreeram Kannan | |||
| Inference Labs | 08 May 2024 | $2.3m | Pre-Seed | AI | infrastructure and products for AI on web3 | Mechanism Capital, DACM, Delphi Ventures | Skynet Trading, Big Brain Holdings, Bitscale Capital, Stateless Ventures, ID Theory, Edessa Capital, Mozaik Capital, Metropolis VC, Newman Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Momentum 6, Algod Trading, Chris Cable, Dan Mgbor, Defi Dad, George Samman, Greg Osiri, Jason Morton, Lucas Konzinski, Richard Dai, Sandeep Nailwal, Santiago Roel Santos | ||
| Lava Network | 07 May 2024 | $11m | Strategic | Infrastructure | modular blockchain network Lava | Animoca Brands, Gate Ventures, Coingecko Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Ash Crypto, CryptoLark, Crypto Times Japan, Le Journal du Coin, The Rollup | |||
| Crestal | 03 May 2024 | $2m | Pre-Seed | L1 | LIF, Cogitent Ventures, Kyros Ventures, Veris Ventures, SMAPE Capital, MH Ventures, Layer Labs, Pragma Ventures, Builder Capital, NxGen, Artemis Capital , Quotient Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Loi Luu, Thomas France, Heslin Kim, Andrew Vranjes, Paul Taylor | ||||
| Inference Labs | 15 Apr 2024 | $2.3m | Pre-Seed | AI | Trustless Execution Layer of AI | Mechanism Capital, DACM, Delphi Ventures | Skynet Trading, Big Brain Holdings, Bitscale Capital, Stateless Ventures, Mozaik Capital, Metropolis VC, Newman Capital, Seed Club Ventures, Edessa Capital, Momentum 6, Algod Trading, Chris Cable, Dan Mgbor, Ana Andrianova, Greg Osuri, Jason Morton, Spectre, Lucas Konzinski, Omar Shakeeb, Richard Dai, Sandeep Nailwal, Santiago Roel Santos | ||
| Berachain | 12 Apr 2024 | $100m | Series B | L1 | DeFi focused EVM-compatible L1 built on the Cosmos SDK, powered by Proof of Liquidity Consensu | Brevan Howard Digital, Framework Ventures | $1.5b | Polychain, Hack VC, Tribe Capital, Samsung Next, Laser Digital, Hashkey Capital, Nomad Capital, Hypersphere Ventures, Arrington Capital, Cypher Capital, New Tribe Capital, Rubik Ventures, Bo Feng, Yat Siu, Antony Lewis, Sandeep Nailwal | |
| Lumoz | 08 Apr 2024 | $6m | pre-Series A | Infrastructure | zk-rollup as a service platform | $120m | OKX Ventures, HashKey Capital, KuCoin Ventures, Comma3 Ventures, Kronos Ventures, Kernel Ventures, Sandeep Nailwal, Gate Ventures | ||
| MadFi | 05 Apr 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 |