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Raises
Crypto Investments by Variant
Total Investments23
DeFi5
AI4
Liquid Staking Protocol2
Zero Knowledge Industry1
Payments1
Prediction Market1
Gaming1
Infrastructure1
Social Platform1
Smart contract security1
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| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tenor | Jul 22, 2026 | Seed | DeFi | Tenor is a non-custodial lending platform for asset managers and large borrowers providing access to fixed-rate onchain lending markets | Variant | Nascent, Prelude, Coinbase Ventures, Lattice Capital, Very Early Ventures | |||
| Infinia | Jul 9, 2026 | Series A | Payments | Infinia provides financial infrastructure connecting local banking and payment networks with stablecoin rails for cross-border money movement | Bain Capital, Variant | Y Combinator, Lattice Capital, Varrock, Reverie, Decacorn Capital, G2, Tekton Ventures | |||
| Derive | Feb 2, 2026 | DeFi | Trade options & perps. Earn yield with restaking derivatives | Variant | |||||
| Pye Finance | Dec 8, 2025 | $5m | Seed | DeFi | Pye is a Solana-based protocol that turns stake accounts into tradable liquid assets through “liquid staking bonds” (LSBs). It lets validators issue stake positions with customizable yield terms and enables users to trade staked assets, bringing liquidity and DeFi composability to Solana’s native staking layer | Variant, Coinbase Ventures | Solana Labs, Nascent, Gemini Frontier Fund | ||
| Melee | Sep 24, 2025 | $3.5m | Pre-Seed | Prediction Market | Melee is a next-generation, crypto-native prediction market platform introducing “Viral Markets”—permissionless, creator-powered markets that let anyone speculate on anything from sports and politics to internet culture | Variant, DBA | |||
| Project Eleven | Jun 19, 2025 | $6m | Infrastructure | Project Eleven, a firm focused on addressing the quantum computing threat to digital assets, particularly Bitcoin | Variant, Quantonation | Castle Island Ventures | |||
| Plastic Labs | Apr 10, 2025 | $5.35m | Pre-Seed | AI | Plastic Labs is a research-driven company on a mission is to solve identity for AI | Variant, White Star Capital, Betaworks Ventures | Mozilla Ventures, Seed Club Ventures, Greycroft, Differential Ventures | ||
| Hyperbolic | Dec 10, 2024 | $12m | Series A | AI | Hyperbolic is an AI cloud platform that unites global compute resources to provide accessible, affordable, and scalable GPU resources and AI services | Variant, Polychain Capital | Lightspeed Faction, GSR, Bankless Ventures, IOSG Ventures, Chapter One, Vertex Ventures, Blockchain Builders Fund, Wintermute Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Ambush | ||
| Alluvial | Nov 12, 2024 | $4.3m | Strategic | Liquid Staking Protocol | a software development company supporting the staking standard Liquid Collective | Variant | Ethereal Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, F-Prime Capital, Nascent | ||
| Sapien | Oct 30, 2024 | $10.5m | Seed | AI | Sapien, a startup that incentivizes people to supply all sorts of data for use in AI | Variant | Primitive Ventures, Animoca Brands, Yield Guild Games, HF0 | ||
| Farworld Labs | Jun 20, 2024 | $3m | Pre-Seed | Gaming | web3 gaming studio | Lemniscap, Variant | Base Ecosystem Fund, Coinbase Ventures | ||
| Gevulot | Jan 29, 2024 | $6m | Seed | Zero Knowledge Industry | internet scale compute network for zero-knowledge proof generation and verification | Variant | RockawayX, Volt Capital, Staking Facilities | ||
| Modulus | Nov 1, 2023 | $6.3m | AI | Bring powerful AI on-chain with specialized ZK | Variant, 1kx | Floodgate, Inflection, AllianceDAO, Stanford Blockchain, GCR, Bankless Ventures | |||
| Blockaid | Oct 23, 2023 | $27m | Series A | Smart contract security | web3 security | Ribbit Capital, Variant | Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Cyberstarts | ||
| Alluvial | Jul 11, 2023 | $12m | Series A | Liquid Staking Protocol | software development company supporting the enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol Liquid Collective, | Ethereal Ventures, Variant | Brevan Howard Digital, Avon Ventures, Nascent, A Capital, Robot Ventures, Fenbushi Capital, IOSG, Blockdaemon | ||
| Lens Protocol | Jun 8, 2023 | $15m | Seed | Social Platform | The Social Layer of Web3 | IDEO CoLab Ventures, Variant, Blockchain Capital, Tencent, General Catalyst, Balaji Srinivasan, Hayden Adams, Hiten Shah, Delphi Digital, dao5, Alex Atallah, Sandeep Nailwal, Kevin Owocki, Sebastien Borget, Maggie Love, pplplsr | |||
| Botto | Feb 16, 2023 | decentralized, autonomous artist governed by the people | Variant | ||||||
| Shibuya | Dec 8, 2022 | $6.9m | Seed | Web3 content studio & creator platform | a16z, Variant | Joe Tsai, GMJP, Kevin Durant, Paris Hilton | |||
| Perennial | Dec 7, 2022 | $12m | Seed | DeFi | DeFi derivatives protocol | Polychain Capital, Variant | Archetype, Coinbase Ventures, Scalar Capital, Robot Ventures | ||
| NiftyApes | Nov 1, 2022 | $4.2m | Seed | Liquidity protocol for NFTs | Variant, FinTech Collective | Robot Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, The Lao, Flamingo DAO, Ryan Sean Adams, David Hoffmann, Eric Conner, Anthony Sassano, Cyrus Younessi, DC Investor, James Young, James Duncan, Nadav Hollander, Brendan Forster, SuperRare, Rarible | |||
| Hyperlane | Sep 22, 2022 | $18.5m | Seed | Messaging Protocol | Variant | Galaxy Digital, CoinFund, Circle, Figment, Blockdaemon, Kraken Ventures, NFX, Gate Ventures | |||
| Koop Protocol | Aug 31, 2022 | $5m | Seed | 1confirmation, Variant | Palm Tree Crew, Day One Ventures, Ethereal Ventures, DeFi Alliance, Volt Capital, Cooper Turley, Balaji Srinivasan, Liu Jiang | ||||
| Morpho Labs | Jul 13, 2022 | $18m | Strategic | DeFi | Lending | a16z, Variant |
