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StarkWare
Total Investments24
Infrastructure6
DeFi5
DEX2
Stablecoin1
L21
Zero Knowledge Industry1
Liquid Restaking Protocol1
NFT1
Web31
Trading1
EVM1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gevulot | 05 Dec 2024 | Zero Knowledge Industry | a leading zero knowledge (ZK) innovator building the ZkCloud | Alchemy, Gelato, StarkWare | |||||
| Cartridge | 05 Aug 2024 | $7.5m | Series A | Infrastructure | infrastructure provider for onchain games and autonomous worlds | Bitkraft Ventures | StarkWare, Fabric Ventures, Dune Ventures, Primitive Ventures, Ergodic Fund | ||
| SendBlocks | 02 Jul 2024 | $8.2m | Seed | Infrastructure | blockchain data management | Castle Island Ventures | Pitango, Illuminate Financial, Laser Digital, StarkWare | ||
| Switchboard | 28 May 2024 | $7.5m | Series A | Infrastructure | permissionless oracle network services | Tribe Capital, RockawayX | Solana Foundation, Mysten Labs, Aptos Foundation, Infstones, StarkWare, OtterSec, Ascensive Assets, Lemniscap, Arche Capital, Bixin Ventures, Breed VC, Block Builders, Mert Mumtaz, Joe McCann, Brian Long, Geoff Renaud, Danish Chaudhry, Rooter, Jack C Liu | ||
| Arbelos Markets | 08 May 2024 | $28m | Private | Trading | trading firm providing principal liquidity across crypto derivatives markets | Dragonfly Capital | Selini Capital, Breed VC, Room40 Ventures, FalconX, Circle Ventures, Paxos, P2 Ventures, Deribit, Chorus One Ventures, StarkWare, Immutable | ||
| X10 | 30 Apr 2024 | $6.5m | Seed | DEX | hybrid crypto exchange | Tioga Capital, Semantic Ventures, Cherry Ventures, StarkWare, Cyber Fund , Konstantin Lomashuk | |||
| Chakra | 26 Apr 2024 | Liquid Restaking Protocol | ZK-Driven Bitcoin restaking protocol | StarkWare, ABCDE, Bixin Ventures, Coinsummer, Cogitent Ventures, Trustless Labs, XingKong | |||||
| Usual Labs | 17 Apr 2024 | $7m | Strategic | Stablecoin | USD0, our new DeFi USD-stablecoin backed by RWAs | IOSG Ventures, Kraken Ventures | GSR, Mantle Network, Flowdesk, StarkWare, Avid3, Bing Ventures, Breed VC, Hypershere, Kima Ventures, Psalion, Public Works, 0x Ventures, LBank Labs, TRGC, Capsule Corp., Pleb Capital, Kalpha DAO, KaizenDAO, Primony, 0xSalazar, apolynya, HighStakesCap, DCF God, Nicolas Bacca, Sebastien Couture | ||
| Aligned Layer | 13 Apr 2024 | $2.6m | Seed | Infrastructure | decentralized ZK Proof verification layer for Ethereum | Lemniscap | Bankless Ventures, Paper Ventures, StarkWare, O(1) Labs, Sreeram Kannan, Daniel Lubarov, Weikeng Chen, dcbuilder.eth, Size Chad, Sam Benyakoub, Rushi Manche, Brandon Kase, Omer Shlomovits, John Zimmerebner, Ajit Tripathi, Lucas Kozinski | ||
| Bitlayer | 03 Apr 2024 | $5m | Seed | L2 | Bitcoin Layer 2 solution based on BitVM | Framework Ventures, ABCDE | StarkWare, OKX Ventures, AllianceDAO, UTXO Management, Asymmetric, KESTREL 0x1, Kenetic, Gate Labs, Web3Port Foundation, Pivot Global, GCR, Quotient, Kronos Ventures, Comma Ventures, Mindfulness Capital, NxGen, Faculty Group, Cogitent Ventures, Pragma Ventures, PAKA, Samara Asset Group, DuckDAO, CSP DAO, Dutch Crypto Investors, RPC Ventures, Dan Held, Ryan Selkis, Dan Mcardle, Loi Luu, MrBlock, Dyma, Thanh Le | ||
| Espresso Systems | 21 Mar 2024 | $28m | Series B | Infrastructure | Espresso Systems provides scaling and privacy systems for Web 3 applications. | a16z crypto | Polygon, Taiko, o1Labs, StarkWare, Offchain Labs, Injective, Frax DAO, Catalyst, AltLayer, Gelato, Fhenix, Alluvial, Synonym, Omni, Rarible, StackR, Gevolut, Socket, Fluent, Anoma, Obol, Eigenlayer | ||
| Taproot Wizards | 16 Nov 2023 | $7.5m | Private | NFT | Bitcoin Ordinals | Standard Crypto | Geometry, Collider Ventures, StarkWare, UTXO Management, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Masterkey, Newman Capital | ||
| Brine | 07 Sep 2023 | $16.5m | DEX | ZK-Powered DEX | Pantera Capital | $100m | Elevation Capital, StarkWare, The Spartan Group, Goodwater Capital, Upsparks Ventures, Protofund Ventures | ||
| Giza | 11 Jul 2023 | $3m | Pre-Seed | Web3 | A verifiable, extensible framework to superpower web3 & ML | CoinFund | Arrington Capital, StarkWare, LambdaClass, TA Ventures, Rand Hindi, Julien Bouteloup | ||
| PWN | 28 Jun 2023 | $2m | Seed | DeFi | DeFi mortgage protocol | StarkWare, Nethermind, Safe Ecosystem Foundation, Dialectic, Next Web Capital, F.actor, Patricio Worthalter, Christopher Jentzsch, Danny Ryan, Tim Beiko, Alex van de Sande, Lefteris Karapetsas, Luis Cuende, Anthony Sassano, Eric Conner, Digital Finance Group, IQTEC | |||
| Kakarot | 02 Jun 2023 | Pre-Seed | EVM | type 2.5 zkEVM written in Cairo | Vitalik Buterin, StarkWare, LambdaClass, Nicolas Bacca, Rand Hindi, Sami Ben, Gregoireljda.eth, Etienne Royole, Ramzi Laieb, Benjamin Flores , Gabin Marignier, Rudy Kadoch, Pol Maire, FuzzingLabs, HerodotusDev, Edi Sinovcic, Nathan VDH, Greg Gambatto, Abdouuu_la, Jason Delabays | ||||
| Carbonable | 21 Mar 2023 | $1.2m | Seed | DeFi | Ethereum-Based Carbon Tracker | Ethereal Ventures, La Poste Ventures | StarkWare | ||
| Nil Foundation | 19 Jan 2023 | $22m | Infrastructure | Marketplace for zero knowledge / non-interactive proofs | Polychain Capital | $220m | Blockchain Capital, StarkWare, Mina Protocol | ||
| Fordefi | 08 Nov 2022 | $18m | Seed | Lightspeed Venture Partners | Electric Capital, Alameda Research, Jump Crypto, Castle Island Ventures, Pantera Capital, Illuminate Financial, Paypal Alumni Fund, Nima Capital, DCG, DeFiance Capital, StarkWare | ||||
| Braavos | 31 Oct 2022 | $10m | Seed | Crypto wallet | Pantera Capital | Brevan Howard Digital, Crypto.com, Road Capital, Matrix Port, StarkWare | |||
| GammaX | 29 Aug 2022 | $4m | Seed | DeFi | derivatives exchange | StarkWare, Dexterity Capital | Alphanonce, Cobo, Genesis Trading, Kyber Ventures, Ledger Prime, Matrixport, Profluent, Uncorrelated Fund, 01Node | ||
| MatchboxDAO | 17 Aug 2022 | $7.5m | Seed | Gaming Ecosystem DAO | StarkWare, Big Brain Holdings, Geometry, Road Capital, Delphi Ventures, Bitkraft Ventures, 1kx, Fabric Ventures, Lemniscap, Mirana Ventures, Chapter One, Game7 DAO, NeonDAO, C2 Ventures, ReadyPlayerDAO, Matt Slater, Larry Cermak | $50m | |||
| Parallel Finance | 05 Apr 2022 | $5m | Strategic | DeFi | L1 | Coinbase Ventures, StarkWare, Section 32 | $500m |