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Vitalik Buterin
Total Investments8
L23
Zero Knowledge Industry1
Infrastructure1
Banking1
EVM1
DeFi1
| Name | Round | Category | Description | Lead Investor | Chains | Other Investors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Etherealize | Sep 3, 2025 | $40m | Banking | Electric Capital, Paradigm | Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum Foundation | ||||
| Rarimo | Nov 27, 2024 | $2.5m | Vision Round | Zero Knowledge Industry | Rarimo is a multi-chain protocol addressing liquidity, access, and interoperability for fungible and non-fungible assets | Vitalik Buterin, Keone Hon, Nick White, Daniel Lubarov, Zac Williamson, Stefan George, Brian Retford, Alex Pruden, Arnaud Shenk, Ariel Gabizon, Liam Eagan, Pavel Kravchenko | |||
| 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 | ||
| MegaETH | Jun 27, 2024 | $20m | Seed | L2 | real-time Ethereum, streaming transactions | Dragonfly Capital | $100m | Figment Capital, Folius Ventures, Robot Ventures, Tangent, Big Brain Holdings, Credibly Neutral, Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Lubin, Sreeram Kannan, Santiago Roel Santos, Cobie, Hasu, Mert Mumtaz, Karthik Talwar | |
| Polymarket | May 14, 2024 | $45m | Series B | DeFi | Polymarket is a platform for speculators to wager on the world's most hotly contested topics. | Founders Fund | 1Confirmation, ParaFi Capital, Vitalik Buterin, Dragonfly Capital | ||
| Nocturne | Oct 25, 2023 | $6m | Seed | Infrastructure | Usable on-chain privacy for Ethereum | Bain Capital Crypto, Polychain Capital | Vitalik Buterin, Bankless Ventures, Hack VC | ||
| Kakarot | Jun 2, 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 | ||||
| StarkWare | Jan 31, 2018 | $6m | Seed | L2 | STARK-Based Scaling Solutions | Pantera Capital, Naval Ravikant, MetaStable, Floodgate, Polychain Capital, Vitalik Buterin, Zcash Co., Arthur Breitman, Da Hongfei, Bitmain, Elad Gil, Fred Ehrsam, Linda Xie |