| Tare | Sep 16, 2026 | $13.25m | Seed | RWA | Blockchain-based private credit infrastructure that combines loan origination, servicing, financing, securitization and institutional credit-market operations on a shared onchain ledger | Blockchain Capital | | | Strobe Ventures, Janus Henderson, the Venture Dept, Neoclassic, Avalanche Foundation, Stani Kulechov, Phil Potter, Henri Stern |
| Karpatkey | Oct 22, 2024 | $7m | | DAO infrastructure | karpatkey, a leading provider of onchain treasury management solutions for DAOs and financial institutions | | | | AppWorks, Wintermute Ventures, Borderless Capital, Thanefield Capital, Stake Capital, Saison Capital, Zeal Capital, G20 Ventures, Stani Kulechov, Mark Zeller |
| RISE Chain | Sep 16, 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 |
| ether.fi | Feb 28, 2024 | $27m | Series A | Liquid Staking Protocol | Native liquid restaking on Ethereum | CoinFund, Bullish | | | Amber Group, Bankless Ventures, OKX Ventures, ConsenSys, Foresight Ventures, Fourth Revolution Capital, Punk Ventures DAO, White Star Capital, Relayer Capital, Collider Ventures, Lvna Capital, Draper Dragon, Arrington Capital, North Island Ventures, Chapter One, Version One Ventures, Node Capital, Stani Kulechov, Sandeep Nailwal, Defi Dad, Parallel, Will Price, leptokurtic, MrBlock |
| Llama | Nov 6, 2023 | $6m | Seed | DAO infrastructure | Access control and governance platform for smart contracts. | Founders Fund, Electric Capital | | | Stani Kulechov, Viktor Bunin, Elad Gil, Sandeep Nailwal, Amplify Partners, Reverie, Nathan McCauley, Sina Habibian, Will Gaybrick, FJ Labs |
| Orb | Sep 21, 2023 | $2.3m | Seed | Web3 | web3 social built for creator monetization | | | | Superscrypt, Founders Inc, Daedalus, Foresight Ventures, Aave Ventures, Social Graph Ventures, ArkStream Capital, Mask Network, LD Capital, Angelina Russell, Darren Li, Sandeep Nailwal, Albert Hu, Lion Goldenberg, Stani Kulechov |
| RedStone | May 23, 2023 | | Angel Round | Infrastructure | Modular Oracles delivering cost-efficient data for DeFi to EVM L1s&L2s | | | | Stani Kulechov, Sandeep Nailwal, Alex Gluchovski, Emin Gün Sirer, Coinflip Canada, Jacob Blish, Richard Ma, Be1garat, Patrick Dai, Justin David Reyes |
| Huddle01 | Apr 7, 2023 | $4.8m | Seed | Infrastructure | Decentralized infrastructure & network that powers cross-chain audio & video communication between users | Hivemind Capital Partners | | | Superscrypt, M31 Capital, Protocol Labs, East Ventures, Longhash Ventures, Good News Ventures, Balaji Srinivasan, Stani Kulechov, Dan Romero, Juan Benet |
| Phi | Feb 17, 2023 | $2m | Seed | Gaming | Web3 social gaming onboarding platform | Chapter One, Delphi Digital | | | Polygon Ventures, Stani Kulechov, Anthony Sassano, Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffmann, Kartik Talwar, Scott More, Tim Beiko, Makoto Inoue, 0xmons, Zefram |
| Catapult | Nov 30, 2022 | $5m | Seed | | Context layer for web3 communities | Blockchain Capital | | | Eden Block, Orange DAO, Reverie, Stani Kulechov, Ryan Berkun, Brevan Howard, Jenil Thakkar, Brandon Kumar, Raf Solari, Shreyas Hariharan, Shaun Ng, Simon Jones, Jack du Rose, Henri Stern, Jason Shah, Saad Rizvi |
| Request Finance | Jun 8, 2022 | $5.5m | Seed | DeFi | Salaries, payments, billing protocol | | | | Animoca Brands, Sebastien Borget, Michael Kong, XAnge, Jim Baldy, Balderton Capital, Julien Bouteloup, Stani Kulechov, DSHV, Lyrik Ventures |
| 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 |
| Hubble Exchange DAO | Mar 12, 2022 | $3.3m | Seed | DeFi | Multi-collateral/Cross-Margin Perps on Avalanche | Framework Ventures | | | Lemniscap, Blizzard Fund, GSR, Finlink Capital, Trader Joe, Stani Kulechov, Nick Chong, Wangarian, Farid Rached, Philip Liu Jr., Joe Ferrara, Adam Cader, Samneet Chepal, Mark Stanwyck, Sergei Chan |
| Rift Finance | Feb 7, 2022 | $18m | Seed | DeFi | DAO Liquidity Provider | Pantera Capital | | | Two Sigma Ventures, DeFiance Capital, The Spartan Group, Hashed, Do Kwon, Sandeep Nailwal, Stani Kulechov, Morningstar Ventures, Jump Crypto |
| Block Earner | Dec 9, 2021 | $4.5m | Seed | | Block Earner is a blockchain-powered fintech that provides the benefits of decentralised finance. | | | | Blizzard Fund, Coinbase Ventures, DeFi Alliance, Fernando Martinelli, Framework Ventures, Kain Warwick, Longhash Ventures, Luno Expeditions, Santiago Roel Santos, Stani Kulechov |
| Gelato Network | Sep 30, 2021 | $11m | Series A | Infrastructure | Gelato Network is a contract automation tool that automates smart contract executions on Ethereum and beyond. | | | | 6th Man Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, IDEO CoLab Ventures, Nascent, ParaFi Capital, Stani Kulechov |
| Lyra Finance | Jul 26, 2021 | $3.3m | Seed | DeFi | Lyra is the most complete decentralized crypto options trading protocol built on Ethereum. | | | | AllianceDAO, Anthony Sassano, Anton Bukov, Apollo Capital, Divergence Ventures, Framework Ventures, Jinglan Wang, Jordan Momtazi, Kain Warwick, Orthogonal Trading, ParaFi Capital, Robot Ventures, Ryan Sean Adams, Stani Kulechov, Tyler Scott Ward |
| Blocknative | Jul 14, 2021 | $12m | Series A | | Blocknative is a provider of real-time blockchain transaction management and monitoring solutions for public blockchain networks. | | | | Altonomy, David Hoffmann, Jordan Momtazi, Kain Warwick, Rho Capital Partners, Robot Ventures, Ryan Sean Adams, Stani Kulechov, Taylor Monahan |
| Zapper | May 17, 2021 | $15m | Series A | | Zapper is a fintech platform that manages all DeFi assets from one simple interface. | | | | Coinbase Ventures, CoinFund, Cooley, DeFiance Capital, Distributed Global, Framework Ventures, Kain Warwick, Libertus Capital, Longhash Ventures, Maven 11, Michael Dunworth, Nascent, ParaFi Capital, Scalar Capital, Sino Global Capital, Sound Ventures, Stani Kulechov |
| 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 |
| Gearbox Protocol | May 1, 2021 | $2.3m | Private | DeFi | Leveraged Protocol | | $25m | | Variant Fund, 1kx, Lido Finance, P2P Capital, Focus Labs, E Girl Capital, Igor Barinov, Stani Kulechov, Anton Bukov, Sergej Kunz, LAUNCHub Ventures, Fiskantes, Zee Prime, Darren Lau, Daryl Lau, Degenscore, Sergey Blyudov, Elias Simos, Santiago Roel Santos, Larry Cermak, Encode Club |
| Vega Protocol | Mar 18, 2021 | $5m | Series A | DeFi | Vega Protocol is a technology protocol for fully automated end-to-end financial product trading and execution. | | | | AllianceDAO, Arrington XRP Capital, CMS Holdings, CMT Digital, Coinbase Ventures, Cumberland DRW, Do Kwon, Eden Block, GSR, gumi Cryptos Capital, Loi Luu, Mona El Isa, Parachain Ventures, ParaFi Capital, SevenX Ventures, Signum Capital, Stani Kulechov, 3AC |
| Centrifuge | Feb 23, 2021 | $4.3m | | DeFi | Defi Lending | Galaxy Digital, IOSG Ventures | | | HK Trading Limited, Rockaway Blockchain Fund, FinTech Collective, Moonwhale, Fenbushi Capital, TRGC, HASH CIB, Mariano Conti, Stani Kulechov, Kain Warwick, Julien Bouteloup, Brian Crain |
| Opyn | Feb 3, 2021 | $6.7m | Series A | DeFi | Opyn allows users to earn a premium or take views on assets by trading options on ETH and ERC20s. | | | | Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly Capital, Kain Warwick, Paradigm, Stani Kulechov |
| Maple Finance | Dec 21, 2020 | $1.3m | Seed | DeFi | Maple Finance is a capital-efficient corporate debt marketplace. | | | | Alameda Research, Bitscale Capital, Cluster Capital, FBG Capital, Framework Ventures, Kain Warwick, One Block Capital, Stani Kulechov, The Lao |
| Swivel Finance | Dec 10, 2020 | $1.15m | Seed | DeFi | Swivel Finance is a decentralized protocol for fixed-rate lending and interest-rate derivatives. | | | | Alexander Pack, Ash Egan, CMS Holdings, DeFiance Capital, Divergence Ventures, Electric Capital, Imran Khan, Multicoin Capital, Qiao Wang, Stani Kulechov |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dune Analytics | Sep 23, 2020 | $2m | Seed | Analytics | Dune Analytics is an Ethereum-centric analytics platform that makes on-chain crypto data accessible and consumable. | | | | Alameda Research, Anthony Sassano, Calvin Liu, Coinbase Ventures, Coingecko Ventures, DCG, Dragonfly Capital, Hashed, Jake Brukhman, Jason Choi, Luis Cuende, Matteo Leibowitz, Multicoin Capital, Regan Bozman, Ryan Sean Adams, Semantic Ventures, Stani Kulechov, Stefan George |
| BarnBridge | Sep 11, 2020 | $1m | Seed | DeFi | Tokenized risk protocol | | | | Andrew Keys, Blockchain Companies LLC, Centrality, Fourth Revolution Capital, Kain Warwick, ParaFi Capital, Stani Kulechov |
